The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2059 - Libs FREAKOUT: The Lindsay Clancy Lone Juror Was A BLACK GUY

Episode Date: September 14, 2026

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One of the jurors, you know, these ladies, they are blabbing all over the place about the Lindsay Clancy trial, anywhere that anyone will listen to them. They're going on TV and demonstrating the many flaws in their logic in the Lindsay Clancy case. infamous kind of stuff. I mean, the sort of thing that will go down in infamy to show the collapse of American judgment,

at least among liberal women, in any case. One of the jurors is on CBS Mornings, and she reveals a key fact about the identity of that lone giga-chat holdout juror who said we are not going to let Lindsay Clancy off the hook for murdering her kids. one person of color and then everybody else was white um a lot of the jurors had children uh-huh one person of color was a person of color a woman or a man a man a man is a holdout juror a person of a black man

yes a black man is a holdout juror yes well i have to sit with that for just a second I have to It's like a looney tunes reaction Like Wiley Coyote You know, jaw drops Oh Tong unfurls Hold on

And you could tell She had this trepidation This deep dread She said hold on Wait a second You said one of the jurors Was a black guy Yes

But it couldn't You're not saying No but we We've just been for a week Two weeks Please don't tell me It was the holdout jury. It was.

Oh, I need to sit with that. That was the punchline to the setup that came on the Oprah Winfrey show when they were discussing the Lindsay Clancy case and a black woman reacted to the case, not by saying that all women should stop murdering their kids. She said, you know, I just want to make sure that black women have the same right to murder their kids that a white woman like Lindsay Clancy has. And the other thing that I would just be remiss to not say is, I hope this never happens again. We know statistically it really will. It will. I want us to have the same passion for people who don't look like Lindsay, who don't have her same access. Yeah.

Yeah. Who don't have her same access and education, her melanin, her. her privilege. There are women of color sitting around this country in prisons for the same thing that we've never heard of. And I just want to remind us to have the pink shirts and the energy for them as well. Yeah. That's right. Yes. Preach. Preach. Preach, sister. Preach. It is the white supremacy of this country that is treating Lindsay Clancy with kid gloves. Well, the poor, oppressive. black women are not encouraged to murder their kids.

It's as if this woman, this black woman on Oprah, she calls up the, she says, I'd like to report a serious threat. White supremacy. White supremacy is stopping black women from murdering their kids. It's the, it's a horrible racist. And the, the operator interrupt says, ma'am, ma'am, the call is coming from inside the house. This is ma'am, the only black guy on the jury is the only person who was going to hold Lindsay Clancy accountable for this. Presidential Medal of freedom, please. Hello, hi, White House. Can I place an order for one presidential medal of freedom for this guy, this one guy with reason and accountability, that would be the one black guy in the jury. So it totally throws the liberal narrative for a loop. It reminds me, there was this one time some

liberal black lady was calling into the David Webb radio show, the conservative radio host, David Webb. and he started beating her on the arguments. And so she says, well, you're only talking out of your white privilege. Because she didn't know. She was a radio show. She couldn't see him. She didn't realize that David Webb is very much a black guy. So this is their immediate reaction.

That's their immediate boogeyman. And this is why on CBS Morning, as the host has to stop herself and say, oh, wait a second. The one black guy is the only person to insist that she's guilty. Yikes, I have to sit with that for a second. The reason she has to sit with that is because it forces her to reconsider all of her priors. So that is why, I mean, probably he won't get the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But one reason he should is not just holding this woman's feet to the fire for her horrible crime. Another reason he should is he has forced all of the liberals of America to reconsider all of their racial priors.

Really, really good stuff. Last point in the Lindsay Clancy jury, because they just keep talking. They just keep revealing how wrongheaded their thinking was. I mean, they're making all of us reconsider the legitimacy of trial by jury. The woman goes on and she says what Lindsay Clancy did was altruistic philicide. Was there any specific evidence that swayed you or, and I'm very curious about the evidence that he was opposed to? Let's talk about the evidence for you first. I think Dr. Resnick, his testimony about altruistic filicide was really.

impactful because all throughout the trial we had all the witnesses there had been nothing but good said about Lindsay and how amazing of a mother she was and how much she loved her children we saw that in every picture that was taken of the house on the night that this happened everywhere you look there was just love there was a big sign that said it's a wonderful life and you know there wasn't any that said she wasn't that, and then to hear somebody talking about a real reason why all of a sudden this could happen, that was really impactful. Altruistic philicide. George Orwell spins in his grave at the extent of the absurd manipulation of language, altruistic filicide. She just, clearly the jurors just began from the premise

that Lindsay Clancy had to be innocent. So they have to twist themselves into all sorts of knots to arrive at that conclusion from their false premise. So they have to concoct ideas such as altruistic philocyte, which again, I guess you could,

if one were in a state of complete psychosis, one could maybe kind of come to the conclusion that you were helping the kids by killing them, if it were some religious cult or something. There was actually a father who said he killed their kids because he felt that God was telling them to. But in the Lindsay Clancy case, there's absolutely no evidence of that.

It was all methodically planned out. She was not diagnosed with postpartum depression, and she was not on all the drugs people said she was on. And it's weak stuff, really, really weak stuff from the jury, and one lone holdout. Absolutely love him. Great job. The way you just know she was wrong from the outset,

she says, you know, it was really impactful, the testimony. Anytime you hear someone say the word impactful, you can basically disregard everything else they've said. Not to be too pedantic or sneering or preening about it. But that one drives me nuts. Of all the corporate jargon, synergy, all the rest of it, impactful drives me the craziest because it's very silly. Something is not full of impact.

I remember Obama used impactful. But it's just a bad word because it's a weak metaphor. It's just a filler that people use when they're not thinking clearly. They could use more precise words like significant. or powerful, but impactful. I think a thing can't be full of power. It can't be full of impact. But regardless, it's just, it's one of these signs that people are just, like George Orwell

said in politics in the English language, they're just, they're not going through the work of thinking for themselves. So they just open up their minds and allow these ready made phrases, these dead metaphors to fill in. And it's why there was one person with clear thought on that jury. And it was the black guy. Okay. Speaking of black people, Ilhan Omar is under investigation.

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I mean, if someone committed immigration violation, someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they're a congressman or not, no one's above the law. So I'll leave it at that. We'll let HSI, Homeland Security investigations, continue the investigation. Okay, so you're confirming that there is an investigation into Congresswoman Omar? I'm confirming that ICE is, yeah. Is there a denaturalization case that is being brought against her?

Look, you know, I've been around 40 years and we've done denat's cases. We have denaturalized citizens based on fraud, based on lying on their applications or lying through the process, misrepresenting themselves, or maybe risk representing organizations they belong to or beliefs they have. but denaturalization is a process. It's a very serious process. So if someone lies through that process to become a citizen and we can prove they, in fact, lied or misrepresented themselves. We can absolutely denaturalize them. We've done it before many times over the last 40 years I've been around.

So it's a process. Okay, so hold on. I'm not going to allow my hopes to get too high here. But Tom Homan, who is the borders are under Trump, and he's a very, very effective communicator of the, immigration policies. Tom Homan is saying, yeah, Ilhan Omar is under investigation. He's being very judicious, very prudential with his speech. And even when the anchor asks him, hold on, you are confirming she's under investigation, he starts to caution his language. But then he says, well, hold on. Yeah, no, that part's already public. Yeah, we're definitely investigating her.

And she says, okay, well, is it possible, let's say she's found guilty of immigration violations, is it possible that she, a U.S. citizen and a member of Congress could be denaturalized, lose her citizenship, and then be deported? And what does Tom Homan say? He doesn't miss a beat. He just says, well, I mean, that's what happens when you get denaturalized. And I've seen it over my 40-year career. So we're just going to let the investigation play out. This could be the greatest October surprise, maybe in any congressional election. ever. You know, the October surprise is what happens right before the election. Now, probably it has to be more of a September surprise because we have early voting because the Democrats changed all the voting

rules in order to cheat and rig the elections. But in any case, because we no longer just all vote on election day, a lot of people vote earlier, the October surprise has to come a little earlier. But the surprise is supposed to be the thing that at the last minute totally turns the momentum in the race and doesn't give the target enough time to respond. In this case, saying that the person who is running for office, in this case an incumbent, is going to lose citizenship and be deported, that's as good as it gets. Yeah, they always do some sex scandal or something. This is a sex scandal because one of the reasons for the investigation is that Ilhan Omar illegitimately married her brother in order to help him commit immigration fraud, allegedly, with a lot of evidence. And so there actually is a weird sex scandal in here. It's not the only incest sex scandal. of the Democrat races this cycle, because the Democrat Senate nominee up in Maine also fathered two children with his cousin, but that's neither here nor there. We're focusing on Ilhan Omar. If she gets deported, that would be a great October surprise, but two, it would show that the administration

is really going all the way. The administration has done a good job on deportations, a much better job than they're getting credit from their opponents on the right. What's the number? The foreign born number of population, a foreign number in the population has gone down. by two and a half million or thereabouts over the last year and a half. So that's actually pretty impressive. It's the first time that you're seeing a decline of the, of those foreigners in the country since what, the 1930s or something like that. So it's very, very impressive. Nevertheless, though, people are saying, hold on, there could be 20 million. Some people say there are more illegal aliens in the country, and the foreign-born percentage of population is even higher than that.

So, you know, there are people saying, no, you have to increase the mass deportations. And a lot of people are going to get off the hook. So if the previous debate was, do we only deport the face tattooed criminals, or do we also deport Abuela and the gardeners and the other people who are otherwise peaceable despite having broken the law, that was the previous kind of debate. Now we might be getting to the debate of do we only deport Abuela or do we also depart members of Congress? That's really impressive. I'm not totally holding my breath. It'll be very hard and there's no way that it'll happen before the election itself. But depending on what stage of the investigation we're at, There is a chance that we could get new information about a potential denaturalization case on Ilhan Omar.

If I were Ilhan Omar, I'd be pretty worried because she pretty obviously committed immigration fraud. Okay. Now, turning from Ilhan Omar, but we're going to stick with people who still giggle about al-Qaeda, we turn to the Fairfax County Public Schools. Fairfax County Public Schools have been revealed to have this lesson plan for the 25th anniversary and commemoration of 9-11. and one of the most important points of this lesson plan in Fairfax County, Virginia, right near the nation's capital, is that we stop Islamophobia. I kid you not, they go, do, spend time familiarizing yourself with the complexity of 9-11. Actually, wasn't that complex. Muslims who had already attacked the World Trade Center before and who had been waging war on our civilization for 1,400 years, they attacked the same place they already attacked.

and killed thousands of people. Prioritized students' safety and wellness. What? Okay. Judging by our immigration policies of the last 25 years, I don't think we've done that. Design instruction around your students' needs and experiences. They need to know the truth. So, okay, I don't know if you're doing that.

Design for accurate, inclusive representation. Inclusive representation. We included so many people that we got the 9-11 attacks. Emphasize humanity, hope, and unity. Okay. What are the don'ts? Don't create an emotionally stressful learning environment for any student. Well, that's kind of hard when you're learning about mass terror attacks.

Assume students' feelings and experiences based on their identity. Don't assume their feelings. Okay. Yeah, that's fair. Like, don't assume that Muslims support 9-11. Ignore statements rooted in bias, hate, and racism. What does that even mean? And then here's the key one. Don't associate the 9-11 attacks with Islam or Muslims. Don't associate the 9-11 attacks with Islam or Muslims. In other words, don't teach about 9-11. on the 25th anniversary of 9-11, the worst terrorist attack in American history, don't teach about 9-11. The Fairfax County Public Schools don't think that 9-11 had

anything to do with Islam. It'd be like saying, hey, teach about the Vatican, but don't teach that the Vatican has anything to do with Catholicism. Teach about the state of Israel, but don't teach that the state of Israel has anything to do with Judaism.

Don't... The 9-11 attacks were perpetrated in the name of Islam and then were celebrated in Muslim countries. Whatever other thoughts, concerns, questions you have about 9-11, there is no question that Islamic terror groups took credit for the attacks and then Muslims around the world celebrated it. There were Muslims who didn't celebrate it. There were Muslims who condemned it. But there were videos of Muslims around the world celebrating it. And it was done in the name of Islam. And I can't just blame the Fairfax County Public Schools because you know what?

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who, you know, he is pilloried universally today by the Democrats and by the Republicans. The Republicans are probably harsher on him today than the Democrats are. And I think George W. Bush had a very tough job. He was president at a very tough time. He made some big mistakes. There's no question about it. But he did a lot of good things, too, and I think he did his best. And I'm actually a little softer on George W. Bush than a lot of my fellow Republicans are.

But there is one error that he made that he is doubling, tripling, 25 timing down on on this anniversary. And this is the notion that Islam has nothing to do with 9-11 and that Islam, in fact, is a religion of peace. I want you to talk about a couple of those events. You talked about going to the Islamic Center and trying to make sure that our Muslim American citizens knew that we didn't blame them for what had happened. I also made it clear that Islam was a religion of peace, not a religion of war, and that these people subverted their religion. So he's doubling down on this, which he said 25 years ago, he says, you know, Condi, it's not just that we don't blame American Muslims for 9-11, which, you know, that may, that may.

have been a good thing to do. You certainly wouldn't blame all Muslims, but some of them were celebrating, but some of them were not. Some of them were condemning it. So, okay, that might be a good thing to do. Condoleez-Rice here pitching this in the right way. George W. Bush comes out, he says, well, you know, the other thing I said was that Islam is a religion of peace, that these terrorists had subverted their religion. And I stand by that statement. That is not true. That is not true today. It was not true 25 years ago. It has never been true in the whole history of Islam. And I get why he said it. he said it because he didn't want to go to war with like billions of Muslims. That's why that's why he said it. He didn't want to alienate our allies among the Muslim countries, among the Gulf states. I get it. I understand the geopolitics of trying to downplay the intrinsic violence of Islam. But there are other ways to do it. You could say Islam doesn't always have to be violent. There are many peaceful passages in the Quran. You can could say that, but to say that Islam is a religion of peace, and these people had subverted their

religion is just preposterous. If Islam were a religion of peace, Islam would be confined at most to the Arabian Peninsula. How do you think Islam spread? Islam spread from the very beginning through the sword. And then Islam spread throughout the Levant and North Africa by the sword. And then Islam spread up through Iberia across the Strait of Gibraltar up through Iberia, all through Greek islands, Sicily, up to about 150 miles outside of Paris, through the sword. And it would have kept going north, if not for Charlemagne's grandpa Charles Martel turning them back at the Battle of Tours. That's the way Islam has always spread. It is a carnal religion. Whatever other good things you want to say about Islam, it is a carnal religion. It offers people

carnal delights. I forget, was it Chesterton who made that observation? I think it might have been Chesterton. Any any fun quote you can basically just attribute to G.K. Chesterton. But notice, Christianity is actually a religion of peace. Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire, not by killing other people, but by allowing themselves to be killed by the pagans. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. It's an actual peaceful religion. The instances, I know in our modern revisionist history, we try to claim that Christianity is a terribly violent religion just isn't true. The number of times that you can actually count Christian polities converting people through the threat of violence, it's like two at most. I guess you could say a little bit under Charlemagne and Alquin of York, his theologian told him to knock it off.

And you could argue the Spanish Inquisition under the Spanish crown, but even there, it's a little more complicated than that. But let's even grant that. Okay, those are like two instances ever. Islam has only spread by the sword. You just, so I guess this is my frustration with George Bush. He had an impossible task before him, a very difficult task before him as the president on 9-11. He was trying to manage the Muslims in America and our Muslim allies abroad, and he was trying not to go to war with the whole religion and started crusade. But he lied. And maybe he really believes it. So maybe he just got it fantastically wrong. But it's just so false. It's just so obviously false. And it plays into a liberal view of rhetoric, of speech, of thought, which is that lies can be

liberating. That's what liberalism ultimately kind of comes down to, is that lies can be liberating. If we just lie, if we deny reality, if we just try to change reality through our will, if we just lie enough, if we tell the man that he's really a woman, if we just lie enough, that will be liberating and good for at least some people and maybe everybody. But that isn't true. If you're a Christian, you believe that lies are sinful and wrong and the wages of sin are death, and you believe that the truth will set you free. So you can't, you're not going to fix the problem. Do you know 25 years after 9-11, the number of mosques in the United States has doubled? It's actually more than doubled.

for most people, the only time, the first time they ever heard the phrase Islamophobia was after 9-11, when the big concern was that we were going to, that we were going to have an undue reaction against the Muslims. This is the Norm MacDonald joke. And I have this horrible fear that a Muslim terrorist were getting a dirty bomb detonated over a major city killing tens of millions of people because the blowback against peaceful Muslims would be terrible. It's a reminder to all of our elected officials. Yes, have nuance. Yes, manage coalitions. Yes, you know, do your best in the art of the possible, in the art of inclusion. But don't lie. The lies are not going to help you. Okay, speaking of civic education, President Trump has a proposal for the Smithsonian that I absolutely love. We will get to that, and then we'll get to the latest ravings of James Tala Rico, who right now is slated to become the next senator from Texas. President Trump, posted an essay, an absolute essay, to True Social, on history, on the kind of history lesson that George W. Bush kind of wants to deny, I guess. But this specifically focuses on George Washington.

Trump writes, I'm calling on the Smithsonian Institution to honor the life and legacy of George Washington, America's greatest hero, with a five-year exhibition at the National Museum of American History, beginning now, continuing through February 22nd, 232, the 300th anniversary of Washington's birth. It's a great idea. Three hundredth anniversary of Washington's birth. You think, hold on, wait, the Smithsonian wasn't going to do... The Smithsonian should have an entire wing of the Smithsonian just permanently dedicated to George Washington. You're telling me, we don't really have many, if any, exhibits on him at all. And you weren't planning something for the 300th anniversary of his birth? That's crazy. The whole point of the Smithsonian is to promote

American history. To promote America, they do the opposite. And then he says, I'm calling on the Smithsonian to erect a 30-foot colossus statue of the father of our country outside the museum to replace the so-called infinity sculpture that stands there today. That strange modernist sculpture tells visitors nothing about America, inspires no one and honors none of our great American heroes. I don't know if we have the picture. If we have the picture, no, maybe we don't. There's, the current statue outside the Smithsonian is some weird obelisk with like a doodily-do on top. I think that's this specific technical name is a doodily do. It's this weird, like, little squiggly thing on top of an obelisk. That's the best we can do. Trump says, no, let's replace it with a colossus statue, like a big, giant George Washington.

Right now, he says, the sculpture doesn't honor our great American heroes. George Washington does. He's easily America's greatest hero. Fact check true. Without him, our country and our freedoms would not exist. Yet during our nation's 250th anniversary a year, the museum has failed to give George Washington and our other founding fathers the celebration they deserve. And then he goes on to talk about Washington's crossing the Delaware in 1776, the Battle of Trenton, both of which Simon Knowles, actually, who does have a statue in Washington, D.C. now, I'm very happy, very grateful for. He was on both of those voyages and those battles. But you don't see a lot about it. You see instead from the Smithsonian the Center for Restorative History, a decolonization plane, all this stuff that's contrary

to promoting America. And so Trump is totally right about this. I can't read the whole thing. But for the people who say that Trump is just, you know, he kind of shoots from the hip and he just, he's all emotion and he's not that thoughtful. This is pretty thoughtful. This is a full essay on the significance of George Washington in American history and why our institutions need to promote him. And this stuff can be really enduring because I like a tax cut as much as the next guy. Putting up a big statue of George Washington at the Smithsonian is actually more important than a tax cut. I know that the policy wonks and the materialists and the economists are going to want. crying over this, but it's true. A beautiful building in our nation's capital, a big statue of an American hero is actually more important for the nation than a tax cut or then ticking GDP up a little bit. I'm not, I don't mean to totally minimize economic and material prosperity. That's important too. But the soul of the nation matters. A nation is more than just GDP. A nation is more than just a marketplace. This is why when you replace all the people in a country, you get a different kind of country. That's a lot of our demographic debate right now. If you have a country where we have

relative material prosperity, but we all hate ourselves, you're going to have a bad country where we don't valorize our great heroes, where we actually tear them down instead. You're going to have a bad country. You're going to have the kind of country that ends up electing socialists, and you're going to end up undermining even your material prosperity. You have to focus on the spiritual, the historical, the spirit of a people, what we mean, what the political community is as such. Really, really good stuff. Very, very important. And I look forward to the Smithsonian getting in line. Okay, now let's turn to Tala Rico, one of those awful politicians that we may very soon elect. Before we get to that, though, my favorite comment on Friday is from hard-boiled entertainment says, Napoleon or not,

Trump's speech was certainly dynamite. Do you get it? I said that Trump was our Napoleon, which people, they didn't know how to interpret that. Because they're good aspects to that, they're bad aspects to that. It's a kind of ambiguous observation. Trump is our Napoleon. He's the child of the revolution, but he's the undoing of the revolution. But he's our Napoleon. He's this world historic figure.

But I'm a sucker for a good pun. Napoleon or not, the speech was dynamite. Am I right? Okay. There's a lot more to say first, though. Go to Bolandbranch.com slash Michael, M-C-H-A-E-L. People spend a lot of time making the rooms guests see look nice. The living room, the kitchen, the dining room. Meanwhile, the room where you spend

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Because at the end of the day, aren't we all just really big kindergartners? Okay, what is he? This is the kind of stuff. so I don't want to this is the kind of stuff pedophile say I'm not accusing him of being a pedophile I'm really not but this is the kind of

hey we're all hey kid I'm just like you I'm just like a big kindergartner it's weird it's creepy and I'm actually not accusing him of any literal perversions here I know he's got a girlfriend she lives in Canada

she goes to another school I know she's speaking of schools but regardless this way of thinking is is perverse. I'm not saying it's sexually perverse. I'm not saying it's literally, I'm saying it's perverse in a more figurative way. One, if he says we should run our country like we run a kindergarten classroom, what that suggests is that our political leaders should have absolute total control over us in loco parentis. Like they should have the kind of control over

us that a parent has over a little child, like a five-year-old, which is scary. That is for all all the people that talk about Trump's authoritarian and supposedly tyrannical kind of rhetoric, that is more tyrannical rhetoric than anything we've ever heard from Trump. But beyond that, I hate this type of self-conception. Because even if Talarico here is just imprecise with his words and is considering himself to be like a kindergartner too, not just like the kindergarten teacher, but like a kindergartner, I hate that. We're not just big kindergartners. We shouldn't be surprised or delighted when we find ourselves adulting to use that phrase from the millennials.

This is really, I don't feel like a kindergartner. I don't know about you. I don't feel like a kindergartner. I feel like a grown man. When I was a child, I did the things of a child. But when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. Who said that? Was that, I think it was a very wise man

a long time ago writing to the Corinthians. Now, we don't, it's a little confusing in the Bible because our Lord calls on us to be child-like. We should be childlike in that we should have innocence. We should pursue innocence. Even people who have traded away their innocence and gotten involved in a lot of vice. You actually can regain your innocence. That is possible. Don't let the devil get you down on that. You actually can do that. So that's one thing our Lord is calling on us to do, is to be innocent and to be humble. We don't want to be just so puffed up with ourselves and, you know, look down on everyone and every other thing in the world. So we want to have a childlike quality. But we don't want to be just so puffed up with ourselves. We don't want to have a childlike quality. But we don't want to be just so we don't want to be just so we don't want to be child-ish. Child-like, it's all the good features of a child, the wonder of a child, the humility of a child, seeing the world through the eyes of a child. But child-ish, it's all the bad qualities of a child. It's the temper tantra. It's the ingratitude. It's the ignorance. It's the lack of discipline. We don't want that. And that is exactly what the Democrats are selling us.

We're all like big kindergartners, aren't we? No, I'm not. I'm not like that. I don't want to live in a country like that. The Democrats want us to live in a country like that because it makes us a lot easier to control. Meanwhile, Tala Rico more recently than that older video, Tala Rico is doubling down on God as non-binary. There he was acquitted by the Senate, but I want to move on to our next question for you. In 2021, you said God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary. Do you still stand by that? I was being provocative with that statement. I get that. What I was trying to say is that you can't use human categories to define God. And that's not controversial, theological. Okay.

So he's trying to weasel out of the statement that he has been pilloried for, the statement that God is non-binary, that he's applying a radical gender ideology to God, much as he used, he tried to instrumentalize the Blessed Virgin Mary in order to promote abortion. I mean, really satanic stuff. but he has a pretty good answer, at least in the first part. He says, look, I was being a little provocative with that statement.

I'm aware. But the point that I was making is that you can't apply human categories to God. And that's not theologically controversial. He said about the religion, the central fact of which is that God becomes a man. This to me, I don't see anybody talking about this. But if you read James Tallerico in the worst ways, then he is like the Antichrist, basically. But if you try to read him in the absolute most charitable way,

he's also kind of like the Antichrist. If you try to read him even in the most charitable way, he knows absolutely nothing about theology, about the Christian religion. He's not a Christian in any meaningful sense. I mean, don't forget, James Telerico has previously come out, and he said that all religions are equal paths to God, not just that all religions can in some ways, in partial ways, point to God,

which is a statement that I agree with. I do think that's true. I think natural paganism and Judaism, even to some degree Islam, can point to God. Even the non-theistic pagan religions sort of can in some ways. But he says, no, they're all equal paths to God.

So right there, that is a statement that says, I don't, I'm not a Christian. I don't really believe in Christianity. But then to come out and say, you can't apply human categories to God. How about the categories like father, son, man, taking on flesh and dwelling among us?

What about, I mean, the central mystery of the Christian faith is the Trinity, which is that God is three distinct persons in one divine unity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost being the bond of love between the Father and the Son. And the central fact of the Christian faith is that God becomes a man. He doesn't become a they, them. He doesn't become a she, him, he, her. God has pronouns and he asks us to respect them. He's just wrong in every way about every single thing.

No candidate drives me crazier. I'll take 100 Abdul al-Sayevs over one James Talarico. It's not even close. We got to hope. The one thing that's starting to give me hope in the midterm elections is that candidate quality will save us here because he's just awful. Okay. Last little bit here on Mr. Tala Riko.

Tala Rico, as he is, according to the Kalshi markets, ahead, as he's leading in the polls, as he's, he's actually, he's looking pretty good. I think Ken Paxson is a better candidate that people give him credit for, but Tala Rico's looking all right. Tala RICO trots at these endorsements by Republicans. He says, Republican leaders endorsing James Tala RICO. I'm just going to read some of the names here. James Edge, Jimmy Don Aycock, Steve Bartlett, Dorothy. Burton, Ryan Davenport, Donna Halstead, Deborah Hankinson, Kimberly Phrast, Johnson, Susan Lewis, King, Adam Kinsinger, David Maxwell, Shane Phelps, Tom Phillips, Bennett, Ratcliffe. Have you heard of any of these people? Have you heard of any of these people? Yes, you've heard of one of them. The person you've heard of is Adam Kinsinger. You've only heard of him because Trump made him cry. There is no wave of Republicans endorsing James Talleyko. There is no moderation whatsoever. In other words, there is no cross-party appeal to these Democrat candidates. If the Democrats win the House in the Senate, they will win the House in the Senate because the Republicans have been demoralized. There are no crossover voters. There is no one who voted for Trump in 2024 who is now voting for,

James Tala Rico God is non-binary, who is now voting for Abdul al-Sayed, who is now voting for any of these people. All the people campaigning with the San Piker who says that America deserve 9-11 and he wipes his rear end with the American flag and that we should murder Republicans. There is no crossover vote. It is simply a question of motivation. Right now, the Democrats are super motivated to go out and endorse these lunatics. and the Republicans are feeling slightly demoralized because of the historical situation of being the first midterm election after the Republicans won unified government, in part because they don't like the Iran war, in part because economic challenges persist, even though a lot of economic good has been done during the first year and a half of the Trump administration compared to the Biden administration. Nevertheless, it's not enough for a lot of people. And the question for the Republicans is not, how do we pull over the people who are now going to go vote for Democrats? The question. is simply how do we motivate our guys to go out and vote? It's not that the coalition has flipped. It's just it's just potentially gotten smaller. Okay. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member use code. Noles Kenna W. LAS and check out for two months free on all annual plans. Every significant movement in history has started with protesting.

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