Ep. 1708 - White Lives Matter: The Austin Metcalf Tragedy

Speaker 1 we allowed to talk about the horrific murder of 17-year-old student Austin Metcalfe? He's the young man who was stabbed in the heart at a track meet for asking another student to get out of his seat.

Speaker 1 We will cover that awful story and the debate about the debate.

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Speaker 1 Horrific, horrific story out of Texas. This

Speaker 1 young kid or young guy, he's still a kid, a 17-year-old, Texas football high school star, looking forward to college, looking forward to his whole life, was stabbed in the heart and died actually in his twin brother's arms

Speaker 1 because he went up and asked another kid to move out of his seat. And the other kid said, make me.

Speaker 1 And the football star took his bag or something to move it out and the the kid sitting in the seat stabbed him in the heart

Speaker 1 this is the the victim's father speaking to local news

Speaker 2 died in his brother's arms they were they were twins identical twins and his brother was holding on to him trying to make it stop bleeding

Speaker 2 and he did and he died in his brother's arms

Speaker 2 And I rushed up there and I saw him on the gurney.

Speaker 2 And I could tell, they said he wasn't breathing. I could see all the blood.
I'm not trying to judge, but

Speaker 2 what kind of parents did this child have?

Speaker 2 What was he taught? He brought a knife to a track meet and he murdered my son by stabbing him in the heart.

Speaker 2 The son, the guy was in the wrong place, they asked him to move and he bowed up. This is murder.

Speaker 2 I don't know. I know they have someone in custody.

Speaker 2 And you know what? I already forgive this person

Speaker 2 already, already.

Speaker 2 God takes care of things, God's going to take care of me, God's going to take care of my family.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 now

Speaker 1 that reaction has elicited criticism from the internet. Some people say he shouldn't have forgiven this guy, he shouldn't have forgiven him so quickly, he shouldn't be speaking in this gracious way.

Speaker 1 One thing should be perfectly clear here:

Speaker 1 we don't criticize fathers one day after their sons are murdered. Okay? This guy is obviously in extreme shock, extreme grief.

Speaker 1 He certainly has not processed even one billionth of what has just happened to him. And he's trying to speak in a way that is Christian, and he's doing his best.

Speaker 1 What he is obviously trying to articulate here is the notion that revenge is mine, says the Lord, and I will repay.

Speaker 1 Their foot shall slide in due time. That's what he's trying to articulate here.
Okay? And so we don't criticize people whose sons were just murdered.

Speaker 1 There is nothing in

Speaker 1 that father's reaction,

Speaker 1 even to discuss the kind of way in which this murderer was raised that

Speaker 1 suggests, I don't know, letting him off the hook or something like that. Okay.
Obviously, the murderer should be

Speaker 1 at the very least imprisoned for life and possibly put down like a rabid dog by the state after due process.

Speaker 1 No question about that.

Speaker 1 But it doesn't mean that one cannot examine the circumstances that led to this point. And

Speaker 1 that is the part that has become a debate, a debate about this incident, because of the obvious fact that

Speaker 1 a black kid on a hair trigger murdered this white kid over essentially nothing. So there's a racial aspect to it too.
And a lot of people are saying, you know, we can't talk about this.

Speaker 1 We can't talk about it. When it's a black guy who murders a white guy, we can't talk about it.
And that isn't exactly true.

Speaker 1 The establishment media were not quick to pick up on this story. It mostly took off on the internet.
But the establishment media are talking about it now, and we obviously are talking about it.

Speaker 1 A lot of people are talking about it.

Speaker 1 If it were a white kid who murdered a black kid, it would be international news.

Speaker 1 There would be mass protests. Cities would burn to the ground.

Speaker 1 If it's a black kid murders a white kid,

Speaker 1 some people will talk about it.

Speaker 1 If it's a black kid who murders a black kid, no one will talk about it.

Speaker 1 If it's a white kid who murdered a white kid, that doesn't happen that often, but probably that wouldn't be all that notable.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 it is notable, and people actually are talking about it, including the establishment media,

Speaker 1 because a black kid murdered a white kid, and they're not really talking about the

Speaker 1 pertinent aspect of this story, what makes it newsworthy. and that is

Speaker 1 how many red flags in this kid's life were ignored and why?

Speaker 1 When the father of the victim says,

Speaker 1 you know, how was this kid raised? What were his parents like?

Speaker 1 He's suggesting, I think, with fair evidence, that the kid was raised in some kind of terrible home. 70% of black kids are born out of wedlock.

Speaker 1 I don't know if this kid was born out of wedlock, the alleged perpetrator, but

Speaker 1 it would be a good bet.

Speaker 1 How does a kid go off on a hair trigger like that? And how did no one know about it? I bet people did know about it. I bet there were teachers who saw this kid's behavioral problems before.

Speaker 1 I'm just, I'm simply basing it off of this incident. I don't know anything about the alleged perpetrator other than that.
But I bet teachers saw that.

Speaker 1 I bet counselors at the school saw that. I bet members of the community saw that.
And I bet they looked the other way.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 if you ever punish people of a favored demographic, that could get you in trouble. I bet there were a lot of warning signs here that had to be ignored because we live in a culture that

Speaker 1 has a racial caste system, of course, and says that white people are terrible and all non-white people can do no wrong. We live in a culture in which

Speaker 1 the bad guys get away with a lot of bad things and the good guys are punished.

Speaker 1 The best example of this in recent memory is the Daniel Penny case, where you have some lunatic who gets on a subway in New York, threatens to kill everybody.

Speaker 1 This Marine, Daniel Penny, comes up and takes the bad guy down, protects the subway car, takes him down. And then who do the prosecutors go after?

Speaker 1 They go after the good guy for having the temerity to intervene and stop the bad guy.

Speaker 1 That's what makes this case notable.

Speaker 1 Beyond the mere tragedy of it, that's what makes this notable. What red flags were shown before?

Speaker 1 Because those people, those teachers, those members of the community, the members of the alleged perpetrator's family, they have blood on their hands.

Speaker 1 The culture which says that we can never criticize black people and we constantly have to criticize white people and we can never suggest that there are good modes of behavior and bad modes of behavior.

Speaker 1 The culture that says that it's none of your business if two people get married before they have children. You do you and I'll do me.
The culture that mocks the notion of the common good.

Speaker 1 All of those things have blood on their hands.

Speaker 1 That's what makes this a truly political story beyond a horrific local murder story. And that's the part that we should actually be talking about.

Speaker 1 It pertains to the racial angle, certainly without question, but it's not just the racial angle. It goes a lot deeper than that.

Speaker 1 That's the part we probably won't be talking about. Most of us won't.
Certainly not in the establishment media, even many who are commenting about this on the internet or on new media.

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Speaker 1 Speaking of social degradation, there's a Democrat Congress lady,

Speaker 1 Brittany Petterson, I think her name is, who is demanding, she walked up to the microphone on the floor of Congress with her fellow congressmen around her carrying a little baby, and she demands that Speaker Johnson violate the Constitution to permit proxy voting.

Speaker 1 So no longer required that legislators actually show up to cast their vote in the chamber, but they send someone else to do it.

Speaker 1 Because sometimes women give birth and they want to stay home with their mothers, but they still want to vote in Congress.

Speaker 1 And so we need to shred the Constitution, shred hundreds of years of norms, shred the legislative process, because this lady can't bring her baby into Congress except when she wants to showboat and make a point about how she doesn't want to show up to Congress.

Speaker 4 Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this rule, which restricts moms and dads from doing their jobs after welcoming a new child.

Speaker 4 Like so many of our colleagues, it's one of my greatest honors to be a mom. I have two little boys, a son named Davis, who's five, and my little guy here, Sam, who's now nine weeks old.

Speaker 4 It's also one of my greatest honors to have been elected by my constituents to represent them in Congress.

Speaker 4 And I can tell you, after being a mom here and being only the 13th member to have ever given birth while serving in Congress, voting member, I can tell you we have a long ways to go to make this place accessible for young families like mine.

Speaker 4 When I was pregnant, I couldn't fly towards the end of my due date because it was unsafe for Sam and you're unable to board a plane, and I was unable to actually have my vote represented here and my constituents represented.

Speaker 4 After giving birth, I was faced with an impossible decision. Sam was four weeks old and for all of the parents here we know that when our

Speaker 4 when we have newborns

Speaker 4 it's when they're the most vulnerable in their life. It's when they need 24-7 care when taking them even to a grocery store.

Speaker 1 That's true. So why are you taking them to Congress? Why are you even going to Congress and collecting all those germs and coming?

Speaker 1 She says she was faced with an impossible choice between caring for her newborn baby and flying to Congress to pursue her personal political ambitions.

Speaker 1 That's not an impossible choice. That's not a difficult choice at all.
At least it shouldn't be.

Speaker 1 Newborn babies need their mothers.

Speaker 1 Constituents need their legislators. We don't always feel like we need our legislators, but we do.

Speaker 1 That's how the government works. That's how we're supposed to make laws in this country according to the Constitution.
We do. People need government, actually.

Speaker 1 Both of those statements are true, and life entails limits and responsibility. A person cannot simultaneously do both of those things.

Speaker 1 To be a mother to a newborn baby, we're talking days-old baby,

Speaker 1 you need to be at home with the baby. You need to do what's best for the baby.
You need to put your own personal ambitions aside for a second, okay?

Speaker 1 And to pass laws, you actually can't really do it just by texting from your couch.

Speaker 1 And you really can't do it just by appointing someone else to be a legislator in your stead. That's not what your constituents signed up for.
That's not what the Constitution demands.

Speaker 1 You do have to go to Washington and you got a wheel and you got a deal and you got to form relationships and you got to do that job. And the baby has needs and the constituents have needs.
And

Speaker 1 you can't do them both at once. What are we going to do? Are we going to install a delivery bed in the cloakroom?

Speaker 1 Well, we can't have that's if we follow the Constitution and do not permit proxy voting, that's the logical conclusion. Because what if there's a vote while this woman's giving birth?

Speaker 1 She needs to be able to vote, right?

Speaker 1 So we could install a delivery bed in the cloakroom, or we could ignore the Constitution.

Speaker 1 We could just make it a regular rule of the U.S.

Speaker 1 Congress that you don't actually have to show up to vote or even to wheel and deal, to come to negotiations, to try to form coalitions, to do the actual work of a legislator. You can just do it.

Speaker 1 You can just do it from your couch. And look, maybe we should just raise the whole Capitol building at that point because you don't need to show up.
You just do it virtually.

Speaker 1 We can zoom in to our legislative process, right? We could do that. Or,

Speaker 1 or, hear me out. Here's my crazy idea.
Maybe

Speaker 1 people who are about to become new mothers can wait until the kids are out of diapers at least before pursuing their own personal political ambitions and prioritizing that over the other things that they want in their life, like raising a family.

Speaker 1 Just an idea.

Speaker 1 Maybe our legislators, at the very least, can recognize that life requires one to make some choices and respect some limits and fulfill one's. responsibilities.
That should not be a tough choice.

Speaker 1 Some people are really mistaken about this. They come out and they say, oh, how good it is that there's a baby in Congress.
You know, it's really normalizing babies.

Speaker 1 And we need more babies in America. And we do need more babies in America.
Our birth rate has collapsed. Family is a good thing.

Speaker 1 Our popular culture speaks of babies as though they were some kind of sexually transmitted disease to be avoided at all costs. So that's true.
We do need to normalize babies,

Speaker 1 but not everywhere.

Speaker 1 Babies should not be raised on the floor of Congress.

Speaker 1 It is not appropriate appropriate to bring babies to Congress.

Speaker 1 Congress is a good thing, for all of its flaws, it's a good thing that we have a legislative body. And babies are certainly a good thing, but they don't always belong together.
I love babies.

Speaker 1 I have three of my own. I hope to have many more.

Speaker 1 I also love cigar bars.

Speaker 1 I don't take my baby to the cigar bar. It is not appropriate to bring babies to every place.

Speaker 1 There are different spaces for different aspects of your life, okay?

Speaker 1 Different parts of this complex, beautiful tapestry of human life.

Speaker 1 And no,

Speaker 1 being the mother to a newborn baby does not mix with the work of being a legislator. There's a reason that only 13

Speaker 1 voting members of Congress have ever given birth while serving in that body. Frankly, I'm shocked the number is so high.
But this woman, she wants to have it all.

Speaker 1 She wants to have it all.

Speaker 1 And so she's teamed up not only with other Democrats, but actually with a Republican, a supposedly conservative Republican legislator, to whine to CBS News about how those sexist Republicans won't let mommy simultaneously take maternity leave and be a constantly active, doesn't miss a vote member of Congress.

Speaker 4 Historically, it's been much more wealthy, you know, older men who serve in Congress. This isn't designed for young families and for young women, especially.

Speaker 3 Congress was designed and built for old white men to represent themselves. And, you know, we've made a lot of progress since then.

Speaker 3 We get into it because we're public servants and we care about representing our community. But there should be some accommodations for family things that come up, like the birth of a child.

Speaker 3 It's not like I'm faking, you know, to go partying cabo, right? Like I'm actually trying to A, recover, but then B, also care for a newborn.

Speaker 1 That woman, that's Anna Paulina Luna, right? That's a Republican, a supposedly conservative member of Congress who is sitting there.

Speaker 1 Well, one of her colleagues says, you know, this body, Congress, is just really, it's only, it's only ever been for those terrible old white men. I hate those old white men.

Speaker 1 And then we've got a Republican legislator sitting there smiling during that statement with Republicans like this who needs Democrats.

Speaker 1 And then she says, well, look, it's not like I'm partying in Cabo.

Speaker 1 You know, the reason that I'm missing votes is because I'm giving birth to my kid. Well, that's good.
It's good to give birth to your kid. I'm glad you're doing that.
But

Speaker 1 then you need to prioritize that. You need to go get, this is not like the kind of job that you need to do to feed your family.

Speaker 1 No one says, you know, golly, it's the bills are getting harder to pay these days, so I have to take a second job as a member of Congress.

Speaker 1 This is a purely elective, pun intended, position that one takes to pursue one's own political ambition. It's public service.
It's supposed to be a sacrifice.

Speaker 1 You're supposed to be giving up some of your personal ambitions, giving up some money that you could make in order to do this job.

Speaker 1 You got to make sacrifices. And when you're a new mother, you need to make sacrifices for your child,

Speaker 1 not...

Speaker 1 for your constituents in the best view of Congress and for your own political ambition in the other view.

Speaker 1 You got to pick some things, okay?

Speaker 1 I don't care, if I'm a constituent of one of these members, I don't care if they're missing votes because they're partying in Cabo or because they're nursing their sweet little baby.

Speaker 1 A job has to be done, and

Speaker 1 you cannot do everything at once.

Speaker 1 A person might like scuba diving and a person might like playing the ukulele.

Speaker 1 But it's not a matter of injustice that a person can't play the ukulele while scuba diving. It just doesn't make sound underwater, okay?

Speaker 1 It's just not going to, it's just, those things just don't go together.

Speaker 1 To hear this line, you know, as these legislators are complaining to CBS News, the Congress isn't designed for young families. Yeah, you're right.
You're right. It's not.

Speaker 1 So I'm not, look, to me, if the choice is between having a family and being in Congress, pick the family every day. Congress isn't that cool.
I've spent plenty of time around Congress.

Speaker 1 It's not great. Okay, that is such an easy choice.
But Congress is not supposed to be designed for young families. The irony is Congress actually has a very, very extensive daycare system.

Speaker 1 But okay, you don't want to drop your kid in daycare. You certainly don't want to drop your newborn daycare.
Good. I don't blame you.
I wouldn't want to do that either. But

Speaker 1 then don't be in Congress. Okay, there are plenty of other people who could do this.

Speaker 1 It's so I guess the thing that's really triggered me about this story is that it's not just a Democrat complaining about this. We've got supposedly Republican conservative legislators.

Speaker 1 I mean, Ana Paulina Luna quit the House Freedom Caucus over this issue because her colleagues didn't think we should shred the Constitution and turn the floor of Congress into a daycare

Speaker 1 when there's already a daycare in Congress.

Speaker 1 Oh, good grief. This is.

Speaker 1 It's making me realize that we talk about the right and the left, but really the debate between the right and the left these days is just between the extreme super duper duper far left and the slightly less extreme super duper left.

Speaker 1 Is there any? Are there any conservatives left? Is there anybody with common sense left in the country? I don't know. There's so much more to say first, though.
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Speaker 1 who says, Trump and his press secretary also made it very clear that these tariffs are not a negotiation tactic. That's true,

Speaker 1 but that's also the kind of thing you would do if you were negotiating.

Speaker 1 So it's true. I grant it is true that they've said this is not a negotiation tactic.
We're serious. We believe in tariffs.
But if you're negotiating, that's the kind of thing you say as well.

Speaker 1 Speaking of President Trump, President Trump has just unveiled the gold card. You've heard of the green card that gives you permanent residency.
Trump has now unveiled the gold card.

Speaker 1 This is a card from our federal government, except it's got Trump's picture on it and his signature. It says the Trump card.

Speaker 1 And the premise of the card that is driving the liberals crazy is that, well, we have all these debates about immigration and who should come in and who gets deported. If you give 5 million bucks,

Speaker 1 if you're willing to invest millions and millions of dollars in America, you just get to stay.

Speaker 5 $5 million.

Speaker 5 For $5 million, this could be yours.

Speaker 5 That was the first of the cards. And then, do you know what that card is? Gold card card.

Speaker 5 It's the gold card. The Trump card, gold card.

Speaker 5 Who's the first buyer? Me.

Speaker 1 I'm the second.

Speaker 5 I don't know, but I'm the first buyer. It'll be out in about less than two weeks, probably.

Speaker 5 Pretty exciting, right?

Speaker 1 This is Trump speaking aboard Air Force One, and he says, This is the gold card.

Speaker 1 And it was a little confusing because it looks like this is merch from the campaign or from his personal collection or something like that. But it's not.
This is the new version of a green card.

Speaker 1 And the libs are going to lose their minds. And they're going to say, This is terrible.
Trump's allowing people to just buy their way into staying in America. And this betrays his principles.
And

Speaker 1 we should instead allow only peasants from third world countries that are more likely to vote for Democrats, not these people who are investing millions of dollars. However,

Speaker 1 this is common sense. When you hear your

Speaker 1 lib friends and even some of your conservative friends criticizing this initiative, perhaps remind them that similar immigration plans already exist in

Speaker 1 Austria, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada. The list goes on and on and on, but there's one on there that we should also include.
America.

Speaker 1 We already have this. This plan already exists.
This is called the EB5

Speaker 1 immigration procedure. And EB5 just means, as of now, that if you are willing to invest between $800,000 and a little over a million dollars in America, you get permanent residency.

Speaker 1 So really all Trump is doing is he's vastly raising the threshold, the gold card.

Speaker 1 $5 million bucks, you get to stay. And Trump's argument is 5 million bucks pretty soon.
You know, you add 5 million up a relatively small number of times.

Speaker 1 All of a sudden, you're at half a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars. Now, all of a sudden, you can start to fund the government.
You can start to pay down national debt, even potentially.

Speaker 1 This is a great example of one of these stories. It's going to be a big headline, crazy Trump idea, terrible, violating all of our principles.
What happened to America?

Speaker 1 And then you realize, oh, we already have it.

Speaker 1 Trump is just taking a policy that already exists in many countries on earth, including America, and making it smarter. Easy.
Very easy.

Speaker 1 Now, speaking of Trump taking pre-existing policy plans and just doing them in his own way,

Speaker 1 I know that all you're hearing today at the water cooler is about how terrible these Trump tariffs are and how this is a betrayal of America. It's the dumbest thing ever.

Speaker 1 You know, Trump didn't come up with this idea.

Speaker 1 This idea has been articulated by plenty of people

Speaker 1 in in relatively recent history, and not only Republicans. Got to give a hat tip to Maze here for finding this video of one Nancy Pelosi from 1996.

Speaker 6 How far does China have to go?

Speaker 6 How much more repression?

Speaker 6 How big a trade deficit and loss of jobs for the American worker?

Speaker 6 And how much more dangerous proliferation has to exist before members of this House of Representatives will say, I will not endorse the status quo.

Speaker 6 As I mentioned, it's about jobs, proliferation, and human rights. And there are those who say we shouldn't link human rights and trade and proliferation and trade.
I disagree.

Speaker 6 But if we just want to take up this issue on the basis of economics alone, indeed, China should not receive most favored nation status

Speaker 6 for several reasons that I'd like to go into now. I'd like to call the attention of our colleagues to this chart on the status quo that the business community is asking each and every one of you,

Speaker 6 each and every one of us, to endorse today.

Speaker 6 Right now, we have a $34 billion trade deficit with China.

Speaker 1 Right there. Right there off the top.

Speaker 1 Pelosi says there are humanitarian reasons that I don't think that we should give China most favor nation status and we should be a little tougher on trade with China. But forget about that.

Speaker 1 I'm just going to talk about the economic reasons. Okay, you wait for her to talk about the economic reasons.
And the first thing she starts out with

Speaker 1 is something that the Democrats are now mocking Trump for talking about, namely trade deficits. Right now, the Democrats and the more squishy Republicans are saying trade deficits don't matter.

Speaker 1 This is stupid. Trump's focusing on an economic measure that's just totally irrelevant.
Well, hold on.

Speaker 1 You guys were talking about it back in the mid-90s. And in fact, that's the first thing she leads with.
$34 trillion trade deficit, which she says is a bad thing.

Speaker 1 And then she goes on to the ways she wants to remedy it.

Speaker 6 The 1999

Speaker 6 figure, it will be over $40 billion for 1996. Since the Tiananmen Square Massacre, this figure has increased 1,000%

Speaker 6 from $3.5 billion then to about $34 billion now. In terms of tariffs, I think it's interesting to note that the average U.S.
MFN tariff on Chinese goods coming into the United States is 2%,

Speaker 6 whereas the average Chinese MFN tariff on U.S. goods going into China is 35%.

Speaker 6 Is that reciprocal? On exports, China only allows certain industries into China, of U.S. industries into China, and therefore only 2% of U.S.
exports are allowed into China.

Speaker 6 On the other hand, the U.S. allows China to flood our markets with a third of their exports, and that'll probably go over 40%.

Speaker 6 And it's limitless because we have not placed any restrictions.

Speaker 1 Put a pause here.

Speaker 1 This could be a Trump speech. Every word of what Pelosi is talking about here could be a Trump speech, even down to the word reciprocal.
He goes, my favorite word is tariffs.

Speaker 1 My second favorite word is reciprocal.

Speaker 1 Right out of the horse's mouth. Is it the horse's mouth? I don't know.
Keep going.

Speaker 6 Of jobs. This is the biggest and cruelest hoax of all.

Speaker 1 Then it moves on to jobs. We don't have enough time to get into the whole speech.
It's worth looking at, though. Kind of makes me think, maybe the parties really do switch sometimes.

Speaker 1 You know how the Democrats say for years, the parties switched. Whenever it's convenient to claim the the Democrats, we claim them.

Speaker 1 But whenever it's inconvenient to claim the Democrats, like on the Ku Klux Klan or whatever, then we're going to say that was actually the Republican Democrats. And because the parties switched.

Speaker 1 But I don't know, maybe it's not that the parties switch. They don't really just switch.
They don't all gather up one day and say, all right, you're going to be the Republicans now.

Speaker 1 We're going to be the Democrats. It's that the parties

Speaker 1 evolve. They grow.
They develop. They're responding.
to

Speaker 1 different inputs. So back in the 90s, the Democrats were much more in tune with labor.
The Republicans were not. Republicans were kind of like rich uncle penny bags.

Speaker 1 And so they were flattering labor a little bit. Also, the Democrats are constantly prattling on about human rights.

Speaker 1 So Nancy Pelosi, even though she says off the top, forget about the human rights, let's just talk about the economics, she's obviously concerned about the human rights.

Speaker 1 It's pretty much the first thing she talks about there.

Speaker 1 That would motivate the Democrats. to support getting tough on China.
At the time, Republicans were all about opening up China. The Republicans now, we're not totally concerned.

Speaker 1 I mean, we're a little concerned with the slave labor in China, but it's also just we feel like we're getting ripped off and we feel like China's a rising power.

Speaker 1 In the mid-90s, China was not a huge threat to American hegemony. America had unrivaled hegemony.
Now it's a bigger problem.

Speaker 1 So even Republicans and conservatives who are concerned about America being strong and great and all the rest of it, now we're about to get tough on China. In other words,

Speaker 1 There are deeper motivations here that do transcend political eras, that do form a through line, line, even if it looks sometimes like the parties are switching.

Speaker 1 But at the very least, we can say the arguments

Speaker 1 just on the policy, the arguments that the Democrats are making right now against Trump's policies, they would not have made in the mid-90s because in the mid-90s they were making Trump's arguments.

Speaker 1 So, Democrats, if you want to attack Trump for this, get some better arguments. Before we go, I know I'm running late.
I don't care. I've got to get to this Disney show.

Speaker 1 I told you off the top, it's breaking news. Pull over your car.
Disney is putting more gay stuff in their shows. This one from Win or Lose.

Speaker 5 I'm leaving it to you.

Speaker 1 Okay. Well, I haven't watched this whole show.
This is a, I got to give a hat tip here to Alana Mastrangelo from Breitbart for finding this clip.

Speaker 1 Apparently, there's this gay janitor character in the show, and I don't know, he's got a thing for the guy who was at home plate, and whatever.

Speaker 1 In this show, win or lose, according to reports, they already pulled a trans storyline.

Speaker 1 So Disney wanted to have a trans storyline in there, and after all the blowback Disney's gotten for all the woke stuff, They pulled that one out.

Speaker 1 And in this show, they actually included a Christian storyline. Apparently, there's a prayer that is at least vaguely reminiscent of a Christian prayer.
So that's great.

Speaker 1 However, people don't like the insinuation here of a gay romantic plot line.

Speaker 1 Okay, and I totally get that.

Speaker 1 However, conservatives are going to be tempted to criticize this by saying, we, you know, it's not that we're anti-gay or anything.

Speaker 1 It's just that we shouldn't have any of these kinds of romantic storylines in kids' shows.

Speaker 1 But that's obviously not true. There are always romantic storylines

Speaker 1 in kids' shows and stories and fairy tales. There have to be because romance is a key part of the human experience.

Speaker 1 It's really close to our nature. So, yeah, you know, it's not going to be explicit, it's not going to be obscene, but you know, the prince charming is going to kiss Snow White.

Speaker 1 That's going to happen. There is going to be romance.
Boys like girls and girls like boys, generally speaking.

Speaker 1 So, if you criticize this, the inclusion of a gay romantic storyline in any kids' program or book or anything.

Speaker 1 Just realize you have to be specifically discouraging homosexuality.

Speaker 1 And that feels icky to a lot of people because, you know, I'm not saying you got to go like get up on a rooftop and throw them off the top of the roof or something like ISIS.

Speaker 1 You don't have, no one has to do that. No one has to have animus.
No one has to have any particular hostility to any group of people. But you have to be willing to say, no, no, no, we will permit

Speaker 1 wholesome and respectful heterosexual romantic storylines in kids' programming, as has always existed and necessarily does, because that's just part of human life.

Speaker 1 Even when you're a little kid, you have a crush on the girl in your class or whatever. We were willing to include that.
We are not willing to include the gay stuff

Speaker 1 because of the specifics of that stuff, not because it involves romance or attraction or anything like that. And a lot of people, they don't want to say that.

Speaker 1 They don't, they don't, it's kind of like the Democrat in Congress. They don't want to make decisions.
They don't want to come down and

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Speaker 7 Hi, Michael. I am an Italian, Irish, traditional Catholic who loves cigars and is also named Michael.
So I think it was my destiny to listen and love your show.

Speaker 7 My question is: do you think it is easier for women to be holy than it is for men?

Speaker 7 My points would be that

Speaker 7 women are naturally more relational

Speaker 7 and are receivers more naturally.

Speaker 7 And those are two very big parts of pursuing holiness is receiving God and just general relation with Him.

Speaker 7 Another thing would be that men tend to struggle more with greed, impurity,

Speaker 7 extreme violence, and things of that sort.

Speaker 7 And the last point would be that there are more females, saints, that have had the stigmata than there are men.

Speaker 7 That's my question. Thank you for your time and consideration.
God bless.

Speaker 1 Interesting. I hadn't considered that last part.
I suppose I'll have to look into that. But broadly, no, I don't think it's easier for women to be holy than men.

Speaker 1 There might well be more holy women, a greater number of women who are holy than men. But I don't think it's easier for women

Speaker 1 to be holy.

Speaker 1 I'm getting tripped up in my language here. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Maybe it's easier for women to speak than it is for men. Maybe for me this morning, that's true.

Speaker 1 The reason is you say, look, men struggle more than women when it comes to lust lust or when it comes to greed. And yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 But women usually struggle more than men when it comes to things like vanity. Women are, in my experience, more easily persuaded and swayed than men are out of their views.
Women,

Speaker 1 well, we all struggle with pride. Women struggle with pride in their own way.

Speaker 1 Women...

Speaker 1 can sometimes be more practical than men. I think they often are more practical than men.
And so they're more focused on the quotidian aspects of life and not on the high ideals of life.

Speaker 1 Men tend to be more given, I think, to flights of fancy, actually. Then women are a little bit more, and we take care of the kids.
We, you know, got to get the next meal on the table.

Speaker 1 We got to, hey, come on, buddy, get your head out of the clouds. We got to go really focus on

Speaker 1 practical stuff. So, but because of that, sometimes it means that women are maybe more in tune with the practical aspects of religion, but maybe not as much with the

Speaker 1 abstract or idealistic aspects of religion. So, no, I think

Speaker 1 women have certain special gifts that allow them to be holy that men don't have, but they have certain temptations also that men generally don't have.

Speaker 1 So, men and women can be holy, or they can go very, very wrong, and they need to help each other to get there. You know, this is the point of a marriage.

Speaker 1 I think this is what Blessed Carl, Emperor Carl, and Empress Zeta of Austria-Hungary said when they got married. So, now we have to help each other get to heaven.
Next question.

Speaker 8 Hi, Michael.

Speaker 8 In a recent episode, you mentioned that we ought to talk to AI and ChatGPT rudely, or at very least, not like a human being, to help us remember that it is a tool and not an actual human being on the other side.

Speaker 8 However, we are creatures of habit,

Speaker 8 and my concern is that if we are treating these chat bots, which interact with us for all intents and purposes the way that other people do,

Speaker 8 that we will start to treat other people like robots rather than just treating ChatGPT like a robot and humans like humans.

Speaker 8 So a better way to go about it is just to treat everyone that you interact with and everything that you interact with with courtesy and politeness.

Speaker 8 Kind of how we interact with others in the comments with politeness as we do in real life.

Speaker 8 Yeah, just curious for your thoughts on this. Thanks so much.

Speaker 1 I'm open to the point you're raising.

Speaker 1 However, you lost me at the end we have to treat everything with politeness do i have to treat my car door with politeness do i have to treat my computer my cell phone do i have to treat my baseball with politeness i can't hit my baseball then no no no you say we have to treat everyone with politeness but there i think you're falling into the the the thing that we're warning about which is you're treating the the dumb idol of ai as though it were a human person.

Speaker 1 And that's a bad idea. But I'm with you in the sense that the point, I actually didn't even really make the point.
It was my friend Spencer Clavin who made the point that

Speaker 1 we should be rude to AI.

Speaker 1 However, we are creatures of habit and we're mimetic creatures. And so if we're rude to this thing that we're already treating as a human being, then we might be rude to human beings as well.

Speaker 1 So the key is not in the rudeness, but in the recognition that AI is not a person.

Speaker 1 And whatever gets you there to recognizing that AI is just a dumb machine, that you could go, you could take out your pistol, you know, rack it and just blow its face off, and you would not be doing anything immoral in any way.

Speaker 1 I mean, you might be destroying, you'd be destroying property. There'd be something kind of unfitting about that, but there would be nothing wrong with that.
It's just a dumb machine.

Speaker 1 It's not a person. Whatever you need to do to remind yourself that, do it.
Next question.

Speaker 9 Good morning, Michael. This is Arun.

Speaker 9 So it's been over five years now since the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020, and it seems that no meaningful steps have been taken to ensure our civil liberties against another such emergency, either real or perceived.

Speaker 9 What do you think about the following constitutional amendment, which I think could get some bipartisan support in America?

Speaker 9 I believe we should amend the Constitution to include the words, the right to indoor public dining shall not be infringed for any reason whatsoever. I'm curious as to your take on this proposal.

Speaker 1 I really like that proposal. That's pretty good.
First,

Speaker 1 there are some other constitutional amendments we're going to have to work on first. Obviously, repealing the 22nd so that Trump can serve his third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh terms.

Speaker 1 There are a few other 17th we would definitely get rid of.

Speaker 1 Maybe some amendments in between. I don't know.

Speaker 1 But that's a good one. Okay.
We'll put that on the docket. We've got what, three and a half years left.

Speaker 1 That's a good one. I'm into it.
Legislators who are listening. State houses that are listening.
Keep that in mind. Next question.

Speaker 10 Hi, Michael. I really appreciate your ministry.
I thank you for it. I pray for you almost daily.
My question today is regarding Lent.

Speaker 10 Why is it that you boast for a doctrine of demons? Lent has pagan roots from the weeping of Tummuz,

Speaker 10 the son of Ishtar. Ishtar, which in cuneiform texts says, I am a man, I am a woman, the spirit of transgenderism, basically.
And I'm just wondering

Speaker 10 what your thoughts are on that. Why is it that the Catholic Church in general is responsible for so many doctrines of demons that aren't biblical? Praying to Mary, for example, confession to a priest.

Speaker 10 I just am curious as to

Speaker 10 your thoughts on this. I really appreciate all you do.
I love your show. I've watched it daily, and I thank you for it.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Okay. Well, thanks for watching, and I appreciate the questions.
But I think there's a little confusion in the premises. Lent is not a,

Speaker 1 certainly not a demonic

Speaker 1 or in any way pagan

Speaker 1 ritual.

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 1 a habit of penance in the 40 days leading up to Easter to mirror Christ's temptation by the devil in the wilderness for 40 days. So it's directly biblical.

Speaker 1 And it's, in fact, directly uh mirroring the experience of Christ to draw us closer to Christ with voluntary penances and abstention from meat and things like that.

Speaker 1 So nothing pagan, certainly nothing demonic about it, other than the fact that what we are mirroring is when the Spirit leads Christ to be tempted by the devil in the wilderness.

Speaker 1 We're mirroring that exactly.

Speaker 1 There's nothing demonic or anything like that about

Speaker 1 asking for the intercession of Mary, you know, for Mary to pray to God for us. In fact, that comes from the first miracle, the first public miracle that our Lord works is at the wedding at Cana.

Speaker 1 The miracle that comes about specifically because of Mary's intercession, because the guests at the wedding run out of wine.

Speaker 1 And so Mary, our Lord's mother, comes to our Lord, and our Lord, being a good son, who loves his mother and listens to his mother, says, what is it, woman? What is it between you and me?

Speaker 1 You know, my hour is not yet come. And then what does he do? He does what his mother asks of him.
And what does his mother say? He says, do whatever my son tells you.

Speaker 1 This is beautiful, beautiful example of how the miracle works.

Speaker 1 Nothing demonic about that. Our Lord gives to all of us his mother as our mother when he says to John the apostle when he's on the cross, this is your mother.
And he's speaking to all of us there.

Speaker 1 That's how Christians have always understood that, going back to the earliest days of the church.

Speaker 1 Confessing sins to priests, that's also from the gospel, when our Lord gives to Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven and breathes the Holy Spirit on the apostles and says, I give you the power to forgive sins, whose sins you forgive or forgiven, whose sins you retain or retained.

Speaker 1 That is

Speaker 1 a specific power that as far as I can see, couldn't possibly be clearer.

Speaker 1 It's not even a kind of vague power, the notion that, you know, if we just preach the gospel to people, that will, in this abstract way, forgive sins.

Speaker 1 He says specifically, breathes on them specifically, and he says, you have the power to forgive sins, not only to forgive sins, but to retain sins.

Speaker 1 So obviously, it can't just be this general kind of abstract forgiveness of sins because they also have the power to retain sins.

Speaker 1 That is to say, the power to loose and to bind when our Lord says to St. Peter, what you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.

Speaker 1 So anyway, it reminds me of this old line from Fulton Sheen, who said, there are not, I'm paraphrasing and I'm probably saying it less eloquently.

Speaker 1 There are not a million people who disagree with the Catholic faith. There are not a hundred people who disagree with the Catholic faith.

Speaker 1 But there are many millions of people who disagree with a mistaken notion of what they have come to believe the Catholic faith to be. Okay,

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