The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1831 - BREAKING: Over 200 Bombs Found At Church Before Apparent Left-Wing Attack

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

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When asked why he had all the bombs outside the church, the 41-year-old reportedly expressed. his disdain for Catholicism, makes sense, Judaism, the Supreme Court, and immigration enforcement. We will get into the latest apparent left-wing violence as America lurches one step closer to our own Spanish Civil War. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Knowles show. Welcome back to the show. Katie Porter, who is a Democrat member of Congress, leading candidate among the Democrats for governor of California, just freaked out, freaked out. a CBS News reporter for asking her questions. She's so unfamiliar with being asked any actual questions by a reporter that she lost it.

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Plus, get a free bottle of fiber and spice. That's balance of nature.com. Promocode Knowles. Are we heading toward our own Spanish Civil War? Do you know the Spanish Civil War? Are you familiar with the Spanish Civil War? The short version of the Spanish Civil War is that the Communists tried to conquer Iberia. So the actual Communists, I don't mean this figuratively.

Like actual communists backed by the Social Communists. Soviet Union tried to conquer Iberia, tried to conquer Spain, and they were rebuffed by this collection of right-winger, of conservatives, of traditionalists, of monarchists, of Christians, there were some fascists of so, you know, this people resisting the, the communists. And the war was particularly brutal, I think in part because of the clear ideological divide, You know, something like 20% of Spain's clergy was destroyed. I mean, nuns were raped and then murdered. Priests were murdered by these godless communists.

It was crazy. It was crazy how wickedly evil this attempted takeover was. And happily, though, the communists were defeated. And then after the Second World War, you have the Spanish miracle. And anyway, it kind of worked out. It was pretty brutal there for a while. And one fears. I'm not saying that we're on the brink of a civil war.

But if we are on the brink of a civil war, if we are lurching closer and closer toward a civil war, it doesn't seem to be like the American Civil War. It seems to be more like the Spanish Civil War. It seems to have this kind of deep religious basis to it. It seems to have a kind of the radical left seems to be really driving it. And I guess in this case, Spanish is involved because it's about immigration enforcement. So it actually would be the American Spanish Civil War if it's about. ice and all the illegals and espionel what happened in this particular this today's instance of left-wing

violence a guy is a few days ago it was on sunday a guy was arrested with 200 explosives targeting the supreme court and catholics and jews reportedly again this is according to his manifesto that was being reported in the washington post and elsewhere he also didn't like judaism that's a that's a hot topic now. The Jews seem to somehow be the targets of all manner of political fighting. And immigration enforcement.

Lewis Jerry, 41 years old, he's from Arizona and New Jersey, apprehended outside of Cathedral of St. Matthew. I've been there a number of times in Washington, D.C. During this big mass for lawyers and jurists and even the Supreme Court before the court's new term,

he had Molotov Cock He had nitromethane, which is a compound used in explosives. He had modified bottled rockets covered with aluminum foil, treated in a pyrotechnic solution. He just, he had bombs. He just had a bunch of bombs. He told the officers, quote, several of your people are going to die from one of these. And then he handed over a nine-page manifesto, which reportedly expressed his hatred for Catholicism, Judaism, and the Supreme Court justices and ICE. This is spooky.

not just because you're seeing a spike in left-wing political violence, though you are, not just because the mainstream left doesn't seem to care about it, doesn't really seem to disavow it, in some cases seems to celebrate it. In the case, we saw just a few days ago of Jay Jones running for the top law enforcement and official in Virginia, Jay Jones said he wants to murder Republicans and their children and he calls them little fascists and he says he wants them to die in their mother's arms. He doesn't lose a single Democrat endorsement. So it's not only the spike in the violence, obviously in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder,

but it's the fact that the mainstream Democrats seem totally cool with it, and it just seems to be ramping up. Thank God no one was killed in this would be attack. You could have had a Supreme Court justice or multiple Supreme Court justices assassinated in this attack. You could have had back in the day, it wasn't even just the Catholics who would go to this mass. The Supreme Court is divided between Catholics and Jews, basically. And occasionally, I think, isn't John Roberts an Episcopalian or something? You know, he's kind of like in the middle. But basically, it's Catholics and Jews, because both have a profound legal tradition to their religious tradition.

I think that's the reason why anyway. And you would have Ruth Ginsburg would show up with Antonin Scalia at this red mass. So you could have had a branch of government wiped out by this attack, an attack that is specifically anti-Catholic, anti-law and anti-court, pro-invasion, pro-migration. I mean, this is as close an analog to the civil unrest you saw in the Spanish Civil War as there is. And it's going to come to it. That is what the battle will ultimately be if we are to have one. Now, I think there are ways to avoid serious civil strife. But as I've pointed out from the beginning, let's not be complacent here. Civil wars have started for less than this. We've seen this before in American history in the 19-teens and 20s,

You had radical leftist violence, a lot of anarchists in the 1960s and 70s, into the 80s, actually, attacks on judges, kidnappings, radical leftism, and a bombing of the U.S. Capitol, which all the libs seem to have forgotten after January 6th, when, you know, grannies were taking selfies in the rotunda. They forgot that they, the leftists, blew up the capital in 1983. Anyway, and multiple other times. Anyway, that's a topic for another time. It's not that we can't get close to the brink and then pull back.

However, we got to make sure that we pull back. And the only way to do that is to arrest these guys to investigate left-wing political terrorist groups to ruthlessly suppress them. President Trump has said he will do that in an executive order. But you have to do that because, and this is going to be hard for some people to hear, when you have disorder like this, when you have people who call themselves very liberal being eight times as likely as people who are very conservative to defend political. violence, when you have upwards of 30% of young liberals saying that political violence is justified, when you have attack after attack after attack from the left on the right, when you have the most prominent proponent of civil debate in America, Charlie Kirk murdered for debate by an

apparently ideologically motivated leftist. When you have all of these things, the choice is not between peace and violence. There is violence. There just is violence. When you have leftists in in cities and states, defending violence on the streets, defending gangsters, stopping federal law enforcement from arresting face-totued gangsters, cartel members, members of foreign terrorist organizations. You don't have a choice between peace and violence because in a battle, your opponent has a say. You don't get to decide everything. And the left has said, we will have violence. They've told us that every possible way they can. They are uniformly supporting for the top law enforcement official of one of America's most important commonwealths, a guy who explicitly

wishes for the murder of his opponents and their children. So if they want to say that, if they want to do that, we can't exactly stop them. The choice is not between peace and violence. The choices between state violence and private violence. That's it. State violence circumscribed by the law in accord with justice executed by the civil authority or private violence, which in this case practically is just leftists in the streets murdering us. But could, in principle, be right-wingerers in the streets murdering the left. That doesn't really happen, but it could be that in principle. But those are the choices.

So when President Trump comes out and he says, we are designated Antifa for a domestic terrorist organization, we're designating a lot of these illegal cartels. foreign terrorist organizations, we're bringing the federales in to Portland and Chicago to restore order because there are so many murders going on. People can't live safely. When Trump says that, when he says,

when he says, we're going to execute justice, we're going to prosecute the criminals, we're going to fill the prisons, when he says that, anyone who does not want a civil war should be applauding. That's the closest thing to the peaceful solution you're going to get. There's no kumbaya here.

When half the country is, embracing political violence and actually affecting political violence, you don't get the choice between peace and war. You get state violence within the confines of the law and justice, or vigilante violence, which is not just. Those are your choices. If you want peace, you should be applauding President Trump bringing down the full weight of the federal government to brutally crush the left-wing terror groups. You should say, thank you so much, President Trump. that is the most likely course to lead us to peace and order. The alternative, I promise you, is much, much worse.

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Please support our show and tell them that we sent you. Some Republicans, not all, far from all, but at least some Republicans in Washington are doing something about left-wing political violence. Here we have Senator Eric Schmidt calling attention to the problem that the left is denying, and promoting. And so, Attorney General, I do want to ask you a couple questions about that

because I feel like we have got to get a handle on this, despite the overwhelming evidence that the political violence threat right now comes primarily from the left. The media just won't do it. They won't go along with it. They cite a few ridiculous studies to say that right-wing political violence is the main problem. For example, one of those studies was written by an Antifa-affiliated professor and others count classes on prison gang,

and the others count classes on prison gang violence as right-wing political violence, but refuse to count anything from the 2020 summer of love. Antifa attacks, like the note ones that set off the explosive outside Michael Null's campus speech, we need good data. We need good data here. Will you commit to having the Department of Justice

and the FBI research and release a public report on left-wing political violence? Yes, Senator Schmidt. Thank you. Okay, so this is Senator Schmidt talking to the Attorney General, Pam Bondi. Really appreciate this. I say at a personal level, I appreciate him calling attention to this left-wing organized Antifa terror attack at a speaking event of mine at the University of Pittsburgh, that because of an intrepid FBI agent was eventually prosecuted,

but was not considered left-wing political violence or terrorism, even though it was. I appreciate him calling some attention to that because the liberal media tried to paper over these things. But more importantly, I appreciate him calling attention to the problem that that represents. The problem being this. The left cites all sorts of studies and reports from the government about how right-wingers actually commit most of the political violence in America. Seth Moulton, the Democrat congressman, said over 75% of political violence is committed by the right, rather. And it's the left only commits 4%.

That isn't true. The way that they arrive at those numbers is by not counting the left-wing political violence, like at the University of Pittsburgh, like the Summer of Love, BLM, so on and so forth, like the trans-shooting of the Christian school in Nashville, on and on and on. So what Schmidt is saying here is, hey, Attorney General, the studies that the government is citing, that the politicians are citing, are being written in some cases by Antifa-affiliated scholars. People who literally embrace Antifa themselves. So this is ridiculous propaganda. And what we need is good data to start, to start.

Then we need enforcement. But you need to establish the argument. And the left was so well organized. And I suppose continues to be so well organized that they just do this. There's so many steps ahead. They justify their enforcement, their crackdowns on the right, using these social scientific data that are false, that are lies. And so what we need to do is we need to suppress these left-wing groups.

We need to reestablish order. we need to punish the bad guys. We need just state violence in order to prevent the unjust vigilante violence. But in order to do that, we at least need to establish the facts first too. So can the government, now that we're in control of it, now that the people gave us uniform control of the government, which is one of the reasons that the left is blowing stuff up now, is because they can't deal with being out of power, can we at least establish the facts? The left is committing the violence, not the right. Pime Bondi says, oh yeah, we can do that. They have to do that. They have to do that. I don't want to pretend that all that matters is, you know, just white papers and ideas and studies and stuff.

But white papers and ideas and studies and stuff can be very, very effective. The left wields them very effectively. They get their Antifa professors to produce the studies that then serve as the predicate for the state to suppress right-wing groups unjustly. We can learn something from those tactics and we need to use them in a just way. because there's a lot of violence and we need to suppress it. Cash Patel over at the FBI just revealed how many gang members are currently on the streets of Chicago? How many would you guess? Before I play this, how many gangsters would you guess are on the streets of Chicago? You would say, look, Chicago, it's a pretty bad city. It's Chirac these days. People are getting killed there all the time. But what would you guess?

5,000. I don't know. If you asked me, I've already seen the number, so maybe I'm colored by this. I would have guessed 5,000, and maybe it's, I don't know, maybe it's more than that. Maybe it's really some crazy number. Maybe it's 20,000 gang members on the streets of Chicago. 20,000 gang members. I mean, that's an army. You have your number? You close your eyes.

You write it down on a sheet of paper. Here's the real number. Taking the juggernaut that is demolishing the weaponization of law enforcement and bringing into places like Chicago. When I was there today with Todd, we learned that the Chicago City streets have 110,000. thousand gang members. That's right. You heard me right. They had 1,200 shootings this year alone, 360 homicides. When politicians choose to side with those metrics and not their citizenry, thank God we have President Trump in this Department of Justice and this FBI going in there

and crushing violent crime. And President Trump sent us into these cities quietly to set the stage, to set up for the National Guard, to see the success that we saw in Washington, D.C., in Memphis. The FBI has been leading the charge in every single one of these streets because we know how to gather ground level intelligence, and we know how to put handcuffs on the bad guys, and we know that we have the backing of this administration. And most importantly, the agents at the FBI know that they have the backing of the American people and their government. So look, that's very helpful. Patel says, we're going to do something about this because the problem is much, much worse than you guys thought. 110,000 gang members on the streets of Chicago? A hundred ten thousand gang members?

Chicago is one of the great American cities, or at least it's supposed to be. I mean, listen, I guess they used to have Al Capone out that way. But then we would prosecute them. 110,000 gang members, that's a failed city. That's a failed state. Which is why the federal government has to go in. It's not just that J.B. Pritzker is wrong, that the federal government has no right to go in here. It's not just that the mayor of Chicago is wrong.

we're going to establish ice-free zones, ice-free zones where we will not allow the federal government to enforce federal law and to restore order, as if they could do that. It's not just that the federal government doesn't have, has the right to do that. The federal government has the responsibility to do that. We cannot permit this situation to continue. Because what are the options in Chicago? Chicago is a great example.

The options are state violence. Federal government goes in, big tough guys with big, tough guns ready to shoot the bad guys and arrest them and then execute state justice on them, keep them in prison for a long time or worse. It's either that, which some people, they don't want to hear about, even on the right, oof, I don't know, it seems so messy. Can't we just all get along? There's that. Big tough guys with big tough guns shoving the guns in the faces of the criminals and are arresting them, or 110,000 gangsters running roughshod over the city and brutalizing innocent people. Those are the only two options. You can't just politely ask the gangsters to go away.

They won't leave. Those are your off. Which side are you on? Which side do you support? It kind of gets down to some of the historical comparisons, too, with other civil strife. People don't want to be on any side of tough battles because they don't want to get their, you know, morally pure hands dirty in the yucky muck of politics. They want some option where they can just excuse themselves from politics. You can't excuse yourself from politics. Human beings have a natural inclination to live in society. We're a social creature. So you have to involve yourself, to some degree, at least, in politics.

The question is, what side you want to be on? You want to be on the side of Trump and state violence? Or on the side of the Democrats and private gangster violence? Those are you two options. Both are going to involve violence. Do you want the just kind or the unjust kind? Now, how are we going to restore the country long term? That's more of a spiritual question, but it looks like there's a spiritual answer.

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No, no, no, no, no. Let me talk. Most of the illegals are asylum seekers or are they economic rights? Wait, no. Wait, wait, wait, look at what you just said. I want to help you get late. Not me, Leo. Are you pro-in-cell? No. Well, welcome to Bar Fight. I'm Michael Knowles. I'm joined tonight by two guests. Wow, real sophisticated answer. I know.

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One of the most reasonable people ever to appear on Jubilee. That would be Cecilia Ray. You can watch it all now on the Michael Null's YouTube channel and on Dailyware Plus. This is a lot of bad news today, like for the first. half of the show. But here's some good news. We know that the decline in religion has stalled out. We've known that for some months. We know that maybe there's even an increase in religiosity, specifically Christianity, specifically Catholicism, actually, but other Christian traditions as well. Folks, do you know who's leading the way? This is a really good sign. It's young men.

Young men are leading the return to religion. Where's my? Let me. Let me. Let me. Let me. Let me see my chart here. Okay. So the blue is the men. I'll describe this to you if you're only listening. Blue here is the men. The red is the women. And if you look at the boomers, the, okay, so it's a percentage of U.S. adults by generation who say, I've made a personal commitment to follow Jesus that is still important in my life today. If you look at the boomers, women are leading. 66% of women agree with that statement. They're religious. 62% of men. Now, what's interesting here is from 2019 to 2025 among the boomers, the number, the percentage of women has declined. The percentage of men has increased, 53 to 62. For Gen X,

women are still leading, but women have remained exactly the same, 2019 to 2025. There dips and peaks in between there, but it's 66, 66, the men have increased, 57 to 64. Then when you start to get to the younger generations, there's where you see that shift. Women have increased, but men have increased by a lot more, by a lot more. And now it's 71% of men, 64% of women. And then for Gen Z, same thing. You got the women, 2019, the women were edging out the men by a little bit, but then it really splits off. 67% of men, 61% of women. Men are leading the way. This is a good sign. We want, we want the women to come along, too. It looks like women are doing all right to. But You need the men to lead the way.

And do you know why? Because men lead. Men lead in everything. Any social trend, any industry, any campaign, the men will lead and the women will follow. I know that that's not politically correct. You know I am as far from a misogynist as one can possibly be. This is simply a fact of the sexes. The men lead, the women follow.

Name me a great campaign in history. that was led by a woman. Can you think of one or two? So we will say, Joan of Arc. Okay, yes. Joan of Arc. Any,

do you have other examples? Not a lot. The fact that everyone says, well, what about Joan of Arc? It shows you, all of the, statistically every campaign in history,

led by men, not by women. Industries, pioneering industries. Who are the great female film directors of the 19, 30s. Can you name any? You can name some now, most of whom are terrible, but some are good, like Redik Irwig is pretty good. But they come way later. Political leaders, inventors,

artists, artists, I'm talking about leading ones. Not that there are no women artists, there are plenty of women artists, but the ones who are really leading, innovating. Science of social change. It's always the men. Men always lead. So, as men led the new atheism of the 2000s, so too, the fact that men are leading here is not just good for men, and it's not good that, you know, I don't know, the men are doing and not the women in itself. The reason it's good is, it signals the direction that things are going to go. Whichever way men are going, that's how society's going to go. And the men are coming back to Christ. It's just happening. And the men are moving to the right politically. It's just happening. And women are going to follow. Women already are following,

to some degree. Really good sign. You can be the most I am woman, hear me roar, you can think that men have all sorts of problems, but it's just what I'm describing as a social fact. And so if you like this outcome, if you like that men are getting more religious, you should be thrilled that it's,

or rather if you like that people are getting more religious, you should be thrilled that it's men leading the way because it means the whole culture is going to go further. Okay. Speaking of religion, President Trump, in his folksy way, in his typically

folksy way, just articulated a profound truth about not only America but about state craft and religion. And I felt for a long time

that, you know, if a country doesn't have religion, doesn't have faith, doesn't have God, it's going to be very hard to be a good country. You know,

there's no reason to be good. I want to be good because you want to prove to God that you're good so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me. I think it's really very important.

I love this. I love that statement. So beautiful. And I know I can already hear the objections. One from the atheists, one from the Christians. Here's the objection from the atheists. Yeah, Trump said that you can't be good if you're not religious. But actually, you don't need to have religion to be a moral person.

You can just like be a good person. Okay. I don't need my sky daddy to tell me not to murder people. Actually, you do because you guys increasingly support political violence. you support slaughtering babies, you support killing old people. So actually you do. But I don't need. I can be a good person without religion.

No, you can't. I'm afraid you can't. I'm afraid you can't. Emmanuel Kant tried to do this. And he's way smarter than you and he failed. And the project of Western philosophy since the Enlightenment or since before the Enlightenment has been to try to ground morality in something other than religious truth, including revealed religious truth, and you can't. You can't. It's always failed. You got nothing.

Look, hey, maybe you'll figure it out. Maybe you read it atheist with a fedora will figure out how to firmly establish morality without religious truth. Maybe you're smarter than Kant. I don't know. Maybe, I guess. Probably you're not. You can't have a good country if it's not religious, period. You just can't. Moving on to the Christian objection. The Christian objection is going to be, Trump said that you do good things to make God happy so that you can go to heaven.

And actually, that's the Pelagian heresy. And Pelagianism was condemned in antiquity. And that's the salvation by works. And can you please? Can you please? And I say this very respectfully. And with a great deal of patience. Can you please shut up?

Can you please just shut up for one second? and just take the dub, take the win. Yes, it is certainly the case that you cannot earn heaven and that our good works do not impress God for their goodness. None is good, no, not one. The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. God saves us. The grace of God comes down the mountain.

And we, if we do anything at all, we can cooperate with that grace, but we do not save ourselves. We are not the cause of our salvation. Yeah, of course. But like, come on, man. We try to be good because we know that God wants us to be holy. And when we do cooperate with God's grace, we recognize, as St. Thomas attributes to St. Augustine,

that God made us without our participation, but he will not save us without our participation. And we know that it's better to be good than not to be good. And we strive toward virtue. And that's fine. And sometimes we seek religion, not merely because we love God in a perfect way, and we have perfect contrition, and we repent of our sins because they offend God. But sometimes we do it because we dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell. Christians have known that for 2,000 years.

That's one of the reasons that our Lord gives us the sacrament of confession and the act of contrition that we say in confession. That's why he gives to his apostles and to their successors the power to bind and to lose, to forgive sins and to retain sins, is because, yeah, we don't have perfect contrition. And sometimes we do, we don't sin really just because we want to go to heaven and not just not because we are truly cooperating with God's grace and a perfect right. Yeah, of course, of course. but like yes also we we we like we try to be good because we know god wants us to be good that's okay it's okay trump is just politically right not saying he's a theologian just saying he's politically right on both counts you can't have a good country without religion and you you want to make god happy and it makes god happier when you try to be good than when you when you do bad stuff all true

all true. And you want to see a country without religion. Wait till you hear how the New York Times is reporting on Gen Z getting divorced. Father Time comes for us all and those hip-cool youths, those gen, those zoomers who make fun of the boomers and the Gen Xers and even the millennials. There's a lot to make fun of with millennials. But the zoomers are getting a little long in the tooth themselves. You know that? Not only have some of them kind of gotten married, they're also getting divorced now.

And if you thought Boomer divorce was bad, man, wait until you hear about Zoom or divorce. Every time the Libs try to censor us, we get louder. On Thursday, October 16th, we are turning the volume all the way up. Take a look at the Daily Wire's new live uncensored show, Friendly Fire. October 16th, we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Daily Wire. 10 years of Leftist Tears. New shows, big moves, bigger targets. And first up is our newest show, Friendly Fire.

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Hey, here's a lollipop. You want a lollipop? All right, boys, bring in the guns. Bring in the tanks. Let's go round up the. Sorry, we're sorry. sorry, we're, sorry, little boy, we're going to do our jobs. We're going to do what we are entitled to do and what we have to do.

But you can keep doodling on your sign. That's really good. I like those colors you picked. Those are nice crayons for no ice here. Me no like ice. That's good. You would say, I don't like ice. That's the subject.

That's okay. Hey, good job. Hope you like that lollipop. Okay. You want to look at a country without religion? That's what we've come to in recent years. and it's not great. A lot of people, you will notice this, a lot of people who leave religion, because, you know,

they realize they don't want to be religious anymore, they're going to be spiritual. Okay, they have a spirituality, but they're not religious. People say, I don't want that organized religion. I like the more, I like more, what, disorganized religion? Yeah, I don't like the rules, especially, you hear this especially when people leave the Catholic church. it's often not that they leave the Catholic Church because they disagree with some dogma or doctrine. They have a sudden epiphany that they disagree with ecclesiology or something.

Often, and they might come to that. They might ex post facto come up with all these sorts of things that they supposedly disagree about the Catholic Church. But if you look at the timeline of when they leave, often it's because they get divorced. often. And it's hard because you're not allowed to get divorced in the Catholic Church. And so there will be justifications for it afterward. But if you just look at the timeline, it's often like Sally, you know, left the Catholic Church and joined some other religious group.

And, you know, now she's explaining all the terrible heresies of the Catholic Church supposedly. But if you look at it, it's like Sally gets divorced in 2017. She comes to her religious epiphany in 2018. You know, and you say that timing is a little suspect. It's off. It's not that sexual sins are the worst sins. It's that they're so common.

It might be the most common. And they're so human because sex is so much a part of who we are that the sexual sins often lead us astray. This has been true of heretical and seismic groups going back to antiquity. The Gnostics, the various cults, even in their own weird way, the Albigensians. So they had almost too rigorous view. view of sexuality. But a lot of the other schismatic groups and heretical groups,

there was a lot of weird sex stuff going on. You see this especially in the East, a lot of weird freaky sex stuff. It just, that's how they get you. So, Gen Z has been engaging in a lot of freaky weird sex stuff. They think they're the opposite sex, and they engage in polyamory and polycules, and so, okay.

Turns out it's not always, roses when you engage in freaky weird sex stuff. Some of them are finding that they're actually going to get divorced. Some of them are finding the gods of the copybook headings are reasserting themselves. What does the New York Times say about this? I've lost my headline. When this printed it, actually didn't give me my headline. I'm sorry that I can't point you to the article.

Gen Z divorce. Just a couple paragraphs. In 2021, Kira Benson, a violinist living. in Seattle knew it wasn't time, knew it was time to get a divorce. Ending there two-year lavender marriage wasn't an easy decision, but the musician had a supportive ally. Now, ending there, it's unclear if the there refers to the couple or if it refers to the individual, because sometimes the producers are now telling me what the headline was. If you want to look at it, what does Gen Z divorce look like? Ending there two-year lavender marriage wasn't an easy decision,

the musician had a supportive ally quote if you have to dump your ex-husband mix benson said mix not mr not miss not miss not mrs mix that's like the androgynous prefix i guess i don't know mix benson said if you if you have to dump your ex-husband co-dump him with his mistress before the breakup mix benson 27 who uses the pronoun they okay that answers my question checked in with their therapist who said a divorce would be a good choice. Some therapist. Yeah, you should get divorced. You know the basic element of politics?

You know, the fundamental social unit, the lifelong union between a man and a woman. Yeah, yeah. You should get rid of that. Okay, that's therapists for you. Imagine a therapist who says, hey, who tells a man that he's not a woman, that therapist would lose his license because that's conversion therapy. but the therapist who tells Mix Benson to get a divorce because that's a good choice. That therapist gets zillions of dollars, I'm sure.

Out of queer solidarity, they informed their husband's mistress. This was kosher in Mix Benson's arrangement. Here's the killer line, which was not a legal marriage, but a domestic partnership about their shared partners troubling behavior. Divorce Gen Z style is so disordered that it pertains to couples that are not even married. talk about talking about getting everything wrong. I don't want to take shot in Freddy here.

I love the zoomers in many ways. They're leading all these great social trends and the young guys are becoming right wing and Christian. But some of them, man, when the zoomers, well, it's kind of like the Spanish Civil War. You know, the right winger is a really right wing and the left wingers are real left wing. The left wing zoomers are like chop their

body parts off left wing. And so they think that they're going to reinvent the wheel. They're going to reinvent society. It's going to be so great. We're going to reinvent sex and marriage and gender and this and stuff. And they end up, what do they end up with? They end up with the evil of divorce. And they never even had the good of marriage.

Isn't that ironic? This is like every Faustian bargain. You make a deal with the devil because you misvalue things. Your priorities get out of whack. You make a deal with the devil. And you trade something valuable for something that. it's much less valuable. And then, ironically, in the Faustian bargain, you don't even get the thing that's not valuable. You gave something of inestimable value away for nothing.

The night of the breakup, Mick's Benson and the mistress spent a cozy evening together. We were eating a lot of comfort food, playing a lot of animal crossing. Is that a video game or I don't know what that is? Who could have guessed? Who could have guessed that that wouldn't work, changing your sex, redefining marriage, pursuing polyamory. I mean, the early Christians wrote about this.

I want to say it was I want to say it was St. Jerome or St. Athanasius, but I don't want to attribute this to an early Christian writer specifically, but writing about the difference between the Christians and the pagans. I said, the Christians share everything except their wives, which is the only thing the pagans share.

You know, it's amazing. It's like a mirror image, the Christians and the pagans. And this is it. Because this is paganism. Sometimes the left, they'll recoil when you call them pagans or something. They'll think that's antiquated language, kind of ridiculous. They'll laugh at you. But I'd say, why would you laugh?

They say, well, you're being so silly. You're being so ridiculous. How could you? You're not taking us seriously. And I guess my response to that is you're not taking paganism seriously enough. Because paganism is not just some crazy thing that they used to do in the past. Paganism is a way of life. It is a set of ideas.

It's a conception of the human person. And it's existed in every age and in every place. And so the zoomers who were, you know, in the Thruple quasi-marriages, changing their gender and doing weird stuff like this. They're just pagan. That's just there were plenty of people who did that stuff in ancient Rome and ancient Greece and the Far East and all over. Yeah. And it didn't work out then and it doesn't work out now. And it's funny, having seen this a little bit up close, because the millennials did this to some degree too, but the zoomers took it to another level. When it was happening, this is 10, 15 years ago. And they were saying, actually, you can change your sex. And we don't need to be monogamous. And I don't need to get married and I'm going to delay getting married. And I don't want kids. And I don't mean, me, me, me, I'm going to reinvent the world. Everyone who ever came before me was a big dumb idiot. But me, I'm really smart. And you look at it. And at the time you think, I don't know, maybe. it's very avant-garde. Maybe it'll work out. It won't. And now, now that everyone's a little bit older, including the zoomers, now everyone's got a few more wrinkles on them. It's just really sad. All those

avant-garde, hip, really cool people who thought they were leading a revolution in liberty and compassion. Now they just look kind of sad. Now they're just kind of like fatter, sadder, kind of divorced eunuchs playing video games with their mistresses as their ex-wives divorce.

It's just sad, man. And I don't mean to beat up on them too much because you can always repent. It's never too late. You can always turn your life around,

but you have to turn it or turn toward the truth. You have to, you know, the first step in personal development is recognizing when you've done something wrong

and repenting of that. You know, who could have gotten? this wouldn't work. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together, but often that eludes us. And so the Zoomer conception of sexuality is aging like milk. And now the way they're talking, we will come to view the way that younger millennials and Zoomers talked about sex, the same way that we now view boomers talking about Woodstock. We were doing, meh. You know, they're all like, brains are turned to mush from decades of drug abuse.

And they're all divorced. And they're all just like, they're kind of dirty. they're all, but they say, man, you know, we were on the verge of the age of Aquarius, man. Yeah, we'd go to these like festivals and whatever, man, and all, like do a bunch of drugs. It's like, poor Brian Wilson, you know, of the Beach Boys, a pop music genius who just got one-shoted by a tab of LSD. He did many, many multiples, the tolerable dose of LSD. He turned his brain to mush. And you just think like, well, yeah, who could have seen that one coming?

You take a bunch of bathtub poison and it screws up your. brain. You and artists who relies on your brain to create music? Yeah, wow, gee, who could it's sad. It's sad. It's sad. You feel for the guy. Well, same thing with these guys. Oh, who would have thought? You inject yourself with a bunch of hormones that are not proper to your sex, and then you cultivate all sorts of completely bizarre, deviant sexual behaviors, and you lose your discipline, and you constantly deny the truth and divorce yourself from reality. And, oh, you're unhappy, and your life is in shambles. Gee, who could have seen that coming? You know, reality reasserts itself.

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I wish that we could, we had the time to get to the apotheosis of all of this, which is Katie Porter, the leading Democrat in the California governor's race, freaking out. It's not quite the apotheosis, but it's up there. It's on the way. Freaking out at a CVS reporter. We don't have time. That's going to be my tease. You know I'm a tease. I'll be the tease for tomorrow.

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