Ep. 1817 - GOOD RIDDANCE: Jimmy Kimmel Off Air Over Charlie Kirk Lies

After Charlie Kirk's death, Jimmy Kimmel misled his viewers by telling them, based on nothing and in direct contradiction of all available evidence, that Charlie was murdered by one of his own political allies.

We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

In between the finger pointing, there was grieving.

On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism.

But on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this.

My condules on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk.

May I ask, sir, personally, how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir?

I think very good.

And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks?

They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years.

And it's going to be a beauty.

Yes,

he's at the fourth stage of grief, construction.

Demolition,

construction.

This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend.

This is how a four-year-old mourns.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

You get it?

Charlie Kirk was assassinated for having open debate.

And so, and that is, it's, it's,

is that funny?

It's fun.

Trump's reaction reaction is funny.

Anyway,

the weak punchline is not really the problem here.

The problem is that first part when he says, oh, you know,

those right-wingers, they were trying, they were spinning so hard to pretend like, like Charlie was assassinated by anyone who wasn't one of their own.

The shooter engraved far left-wing messages on the bullets that he used to kill Charlie Kirk.

And then he confessed, allegedly, everything that he did to his trans furry boyfriend.

Don't think he was a Berkeyan conservative.

It was a lie.

It was a lie that Jimmy told his audience.

That was a few days ago.

As of last night, Jimmy Kimmel doesn't have a job.

This is a great move by ABC.

And it follows many other very wise personnel decisions by major corporations this week in response to the many employees across the country who have minimized and even in some cases celebrated the assassination of a young man who only ever tried to talk it out.

If the message was not clear already, it should be clear as day to everyone on the left by now.

We have had enough, and the consequences will continue until behavior improves.

I'm Michael Knowles.

This is the Michael Knowles Show.

Welcome back to the show.

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Jimmy Kimmel was not fired merely for a bad joke.

Jimmy Kimmel was not fired merely because of pressure from the federal government, as some people are saying.

And Jimmy Kimmel's firing is a good thing, but let's just take each of those steps.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn't even permanently been fired yet.

He's been indefinitely suspended by ABC.

ABC made that decision.

If you had an employee who mocked the assassination of a political debater merely for stating his opinion and hearing out the other side, if you ran any corporation anywhere in the country and you had an employee who did that, it would be the right thing to do to fire that employee.

For all of the reasons that we've been discussing all week, because that would be an example of the thought that stops thought.

That would be the kind of thing that would

obstruct the operation of your business because you'd have all of your other employees sitting next to this person in the cubicle, wondering if that person were taking the steps to murder them.

He would openly celebrate their murder.

He would encourage their murder.

You can't run a corporation that way.

You can't run a hospital in which the nurses are credibly suspected of trying to kill the patients.

You can't run a restaurant if the customers think that the servers and the kitchen staff are trying to poison them.

It doesn't work.

You can't have a country with open debate and the free exchange of ideas

when some people in that marketplace of ideas are actively trying to murder the other people.

That doesn't expand the marketplace of ideas.

That actually restricts it.

It undermines the whole thing.

So if you ran any other company, you would be wise to fire Jimmy Kimmel just for that.

But that's not why Jimmy Kimmel was fired.

Jimmy Kimmel was fired for advancing a lie in contravention of all available evidence immediately after a major national trauma and tragedy.

And

he was not fired because of government pressure.

He was fired because of the wise decision of ABC, though that was done in concert.

with federal regulators looking into the misdeed that Jimmy Kimmel committed.

Here we have Brendan Brendan Carr,

the chairman of the FCC, speaking on Benny Johnson's show.

But frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.

These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there's going to be additional work for the FCC.

Again, there's actions that we can take on licensed broadcasters.

And frankly, I think that it's really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney and say, listen, we are going to preempt.

We are not going to run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out because we, we, licensed broadcasters, are running the possibility of fines or license revocation from the FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion.

Great, great point.

And here you're going to lose some libertarians and here you're going to lose some squishy types, but you shouldn't because what they're going to say is, well, ABC News is a private corporation and ABC News should have the right to let its comedians go on TV and lie and make jokes in poor taste.

And forget the joke for a second.

The joke in poor taste is a little bit of a red herring.

It's the lies that we're talking about here because these news networks are not merely private corporations.

These news networks are licensed broadcasters.

They require licenses from the government.

They have a purpose, which is, in the case of news, to tell the truth, to inform the public.

That's why the government supports them in their mission.

When those news broadcasters are contradicting the truth, obscuring the truth, undermining the truth, the government has not only a right, but a responsibility to hold them to account.

They only exist.

They only receive their licenses to inform the public.

An honest mistake here or there.

Okay, that's understandable.

But to go out after a clear political assassination by a very, very clear assassin

and to flip the story on its head, to tell the opposite of the truth, merely to score political points or to pander to your left-wing political base, that is unacceptable.

And so Brendan Carr says we can do this the easy way or the hard way.

And ABC chose the easy way, it seems, and indefinitely suspended Kimmel.

But what's the hard way?

Pache

libertarians and squishes.

The hard way is not Mussolini showing in and beating his enemies into submission with a billy club.

The hard way is

regulating these industries as they are intended to be regulated.

The hard way is the government simply doing its basic job.

Explain to me, if this is out of line, what the FCC exists for in the first place.

Explain to me what a licensed news network is.

You would not be able to.

Brian Stelter, the former CNN journalist, I don't know who he's working for now, if anyone, he's another one who felt the consequences of his bad work.

He tweeted out, he says, I asked FCC chair Brendan Carr if he had any new comment now that ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel's show, and he sent me this GIF, and it's the office doing the raise the roof.

That's a beautiful response.

The consequences will continue until until behavior improves.

This national trauma, not merely the assassination of Charlie Kirk, actually more so, the

reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk from people in elite media, from professionals, from educators, from government officials in some cases, the reaction to Charlie's murder, the minimization of it, and in some cases, the celebration of it, marks, pardon the phrase, a turning point.

That's the second national trauma on top of the first one, watching this emblem of civil debate be murdered on stage for stating his opinions.

It's that second national trauma that has impelled, I think, some of the reaction here, because it's a recognition by half the country that the other half,

large numbers of people, including normal people in the other half, want to murder us.

And we cannot have a country that way.

We cannot have an open marketplace of ideas that way.

We can't do anything that way.

We want to have flourishing.

We want to have

open, healthy discussion.

In order to achieve that under these conditions, we must reestablish order.

Liberty requires order.

And order, in this case, means

suppressing the people who are undermining the whole system.

For example, the kind of people who celebrate the murder of an innocent man.

The rejoinder to this that you're going to hear from some libertarians and some squishes is that we should have let the free market do its work.

Jimmy Kimmel's ratings were suffering anyway.

He was talentless.

His show has been unbearable for years.

And so his ratings were going to drop and he was going to be fired eventually anyway.

So why immunitize the escaton here?

Why would we make him a political martyr when he was going to go away anyway?

I believe that that point of view, I understand it, I've heard it, I've probably felt it at times myself, I think that point of view makes the same laissez-faire error that

is made by the people who oppose the firings generally of those who celebrate murder.

It's this laissez-faire error that

doesn't merely appreciate the efficiency of free markets, for instance, that doesn't merely appreciate

the truth that can come about as a matter of open debate, but that actually makes an idol out of those things, that makes an idol out of the so-called invisible hand, the invisible hand of the free market, which is really just providence for atheists.

I think it makes that error because we've tried that for decades.

We on the right have tried that.

The left comes into power, wields power in a heavy-handed and unjust way,

and then we respond by winning elections and not wielding power at all, in neither a just nor an unjust way.

We just don't wield power at all because what we say following this argument is, well, we don't want to do anything because if we do something that will set the precedent for Democrats to do something against us in the future, and heaven forfend, we have that.

We are not going to address current real social problems and injustices because of some hypothetical injustice that might occur in the future.

that is actually already occurring now from the other side against us.

I think it's very, very weak.

I see no evidence that no matter how low the ratings got, ABC was going to cancel Jimmy Kimmel anytime soon.

And I see a lot of evidence that the lies, the fraud, the deceit that is being perpetuated by these people, not to say

the wrath that is ginned up by those who celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk, the immense damage done to the so-called free marketplace of ideas by the mere celebration of murder like this.

I see real problems occurring right now.

And we need to do something to stop those in accordance with justice and in the advance of the common good.

You have to do something about that.

Your invisible hand, your providence for atheists, is not always going to save you.

That's magical thinking

with very, very little evidence.

We have to have the moral courage to do stuff.

And conservatives have not had, it's not that conservatives have always lacked a moral vision.

Sometimes they have a moral vision.

What they lack is courage.

What they lack is resolve.

What they lack is fortitude, which is the prerequisite of all the other virtues.

Kimmel's indefinitely suspended.

That's a good start.

We will keep this up.

We have had enough.

We have seen enough.

We have had enough.

We will keep this up in a circumscribed, just, prudent way in advance of the common good.

We will keep this up until the behavior improves.

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Another great example of President Trump hearing this message, understanding the moment, and restoring order, the order without which liberty is not possible.

President Trump has just posted to Truth Social that he will be categorizing Antifa as a major terrorist organization.

Now, I want to get his words exactly right because this is a little bit confusing.

He says, I am pleased to inform our many USA patriots that I am designating Antifa, all caps, a sick, dangerous radical left disaster as a major terrorist organization.

I will also be strongly recommending that those funding Antifa be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I was just speaking to my father yesterday.

We're catching up on everything.

And I mentioned this.

I said, you know, something concrete that I really hope comes out of this is is that the federal government actually moves in to dismantle left-wing terror organizations, the most notable being Antifa.

I said, because it's the same problem as the people who think that the shooter was a Republican.

It's the same problem as the people who listen to the Jimmy Kimmels and the news networks and they believe lies.

People think that Antifa doesn't exist.

I can promise you Antifa exists.

Antifa has tried to blow me up before.

There's a person in federal prison right now

because he worked with Antifa to try to blow me up on a college campus.

Other such cases.

I'm surprised he is in prison because often left-wing violence goes unrecognized and left-wing terrorists go unpunished.

This is real.

Antifa stands for anti-fascist.

It's a collective of anarchists and communists.

They meet in bookshops.

They build bombs.

In fact, the Antifa operative who's in federal prison for trying to attack me

was caught multiple times with explosive material on him going through TSA and allowed to board the plane anyway.

We're not talking about some nerds who read Das Capital and talk about how much they love Herbert Marcuse or something.

We're talking about terrorists, people who train and build bombs to murder conservatives and who sometimes succeed.

They are an organization.

Now, they're anarchists, so it's not the most tightly run organization, but it is organized.

It is recognizable as a group with a collective identity, and it needs to be dismantled, and its members need to be ruthlessly prosecuted and suppressed.

They are profoundly antisocial elements.

They threaten the entire country.

They are, as President Trump says, terrorists.

There's a problem, though, which is that when we're talking about foreign terrorists like al-Qaeda or Trende Aragua, for that matter,

we can bring the full weight of U.S.

military might to bear to suppress them.

That is not true for domestic terrorists.

That is not true for domestic organized crime generally.

You don't send in the 101st airborne to take down the mafia or to take down the Ku Klux Klan or to take down Antifa.

That said,

we have taken down the mafia and we have taken down the Ku Klux Klan and we have taken down other terror groups.

The way you have to do it is a little bit different, though.

So President Trump here points to one way that it can happen, which is these guys do get money.

They get money through various NGOs trickled down from various extremely wealthy left-wing investors.

The sources of the money need to be investigated, and where appropriate, they need to be punished.

Furthermore,

you could bring a RICO charge.

There's a prospect of racketeering charges against these left-wing groups.

That's the way that the government took down the mob.

Furthermore, you could revoke the tax-exempt status of the liberal nonprofits and NGOs that fund these groups.

That's one way to take them down.

Furthermore, you could put informants into these groups and bring conspiracy charges against these people when they plan attacks on conservatives.

That's how they took down the KKK.

There are many.

mechanisms available to the government to take these people down.

I am extraordinarily gratified to see that the Trump administration is taking this seriously.

seriously.

How much more do we need to see?

When it was just Antifa showing up and making a ruckus outside of conservative speaker events on campus 10 years ago, I guess people look the other way.

When it was just Antifa burning people an effigy on the streets or defacing monuments or maybe occasionally punching some conservative, shoving some conservative, shutting down some conservative event, I guess people look the other way.

Left-wing ideologues have assassinated

the

most prominent emblem of civil debate on the right.

Something fundamentally has changed.

Add on top of that, the large-scale support for political violence from the left against the right, reflected not only in the media, not only on social media, but also in the public opinion polls that we've seen, for example, from YouGov in recent days, something fundamentally has to change.

The laissez-faire approach,

the idol of the invisible hand of the free market working everything out, that false ideology, which has always been false, but is now manifestly false, that has been proven to be a God that has failed.

And we must once again return to the actual American political tradition, which is self-government in defense of the unalienable rights with which we are endowed by our creator through representative government that really can wield power.

We have not only individual rights, but the political right to have a country in which the defense of natural rights is possible and in which flourishing is possible as well.

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A couple of days ago, the Republicans voted to get tougher on crime in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

is the federal district.

It is under the control of Congress ultimately.

And the Congress voted on a bill to to get tough on crime in D.C.

Now, what do we mean by tough on crime?

This isn't exactly Franco-Spain here, okay?

We're not talking about Xi Jinping's prison camps.

We're talking about a bill that would, for instance,

require

people who are ages 18 to 24 and commit crimes to be charged as adults.

You're probably scratching your heads.

I probably have to say that again.

The bill

would simply require adults, ages 18 to 24, when they commit crimes to be charged as adults.

Now, you're probably saying, well, what's happening now?

What's happening now is that in Washington, D.C., some gangster can go rape a woman, steal a car, and murder an entire family.

And if he's 24 years old, he could be charged as a minor in principle.

Because 18 to 24-year-olds can be charged as minors.

Does that make sense?

Is a 24-year-old a minor?

Is a 24-year-old a child?

I don't think so.

This bill would do that.

Slightly more controversially, the bill would lower the age at which someone can be charged as an adult for first-degree murder, sexual assault, armed robbery, or assault to, in some cases, 14.

Now, this, some people might say, well, 14-year-olds, they're so young.

Well, the problem is when you look at rates of crime in D.C.,

Teenagers, as young as 14, and specifically black teenagers, are committing these very, very serious crimes at very, very high rates.

And if they're merely charged as minors, you can't do anything about the problem.

It's a terribly unfortunate situation, but there are two paths forward, two options.

You can either ignore the problem and allow more people to be raped and assaulted and robbed and murdered in the hopes that The invisible hand of the free market or something will fix that problem in the end, eventually, through, I don't know, cultural changes or increased standards of living or something.

Or

you can get a little tougher on crime.

What do you think is going to help fix the problem?

Look the other way, bury your head in the sand, and hope for the best, or

use the police to arrest the criminals and hold them to greater accountability.

It's obviously the latter.

That's all this bill does.

Every Republican in Congress

voted to advance this.

There were two exceptions.

One didn't vote.

One voted no.

Who voted no?

The ever-principled Thomas Massey.

Thomas Massey.

Thomas Massey, probably the chief political enemy of Donald Trump within the Republican Party these days, but Thomas Massey, who has in recent months really opposed Trump, supposedly on principled grounds.

I have nothing against Thomas Massey personally.

Thomas Massey is wrong here.

And his defenders are going to say, well, he's so principled.

He's a principled libertarian.

And so

I guess his principled libertarian argument is that you shouldn't try teenagers as adults.

You should, if you want to prosecute them, you should increase the penalties for teenagers.

I don't know.

He hasn't spoken at length on this.

But let's just say that his views are principled.

I'm willing to admit that.

Or

I'm not willing to admit that.

I'm willing to entertain that possibility.

I think a lot of Massey's behavior is driven by the fact that Trump is his political enemy and he wants to gun after him before he's thrown out of office.

But

let's just say, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I got nothing against the guy personally.

Let's say that this vote came from his principles.

In that case, the problem is that his principles are wrong.

You can be very, very principled

and wrong.

Having principles and a buck fifty will get you a cup of coffee if your principles are useless.

And unfortunately, we've seen this with a handful of other members of Congress and even of the Senate.

They're so concerned with appearing politically pure.

that they never do anything.

They never do anything to advance the cause of good.

And sometimes they side with the bad guys to undermine good and advance evil based on principles.

That's not a good principle because the chief political principle is prudence.

That's the paramount political virtue.

Not at the exclusion of justice and

courage and temperance and all the other stuff.

But in this case,

if your principles are leading you to vote against a bill to get a little tougher on crime in D.C.,

which has descended into third world chaos,

I think you ought to rethink your principles.

But then I don't share those principles because I'm not a libertarian.

Speaking of principles, the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, has just come out swinging against wealth inequality.

Now, you know,

the terms left and right are relatively modern terms compared to the history of the church.

The church is 2,000 years old.

The terms left and right in politics are 230 years old.

It comes from the French Revolution.

The atheists and the libs sat on the left side of the National Assembly.

The monarchists and the Christians sat on the right side.

So

sometimes popes seem like they're a little bit on the left.

Sometimes they seem like they're on the right.

Even Pope Francis, who was notably more liberal than many of his predecessors, On the one hand, he would talk about climate change, and then in the next breath, he would say that gay marriage is a machination of the father of lies that seeks to deceive and confuse the children of God.

On the one hand, he would promote mass migration.

On the other hand, he would

say that transgenderism is a lie and that abortion is like hiring a hitman.

So

the politics don't map neatly.

But in this case, especially with Pope Leo XIV appearing

much more traditional, much more like a normal pope, I'm really...

gratified by the early days of his pontificate and I'm really excited about it.

But there are going to be some people who say, okay, well, here comes the left-wing stuff.

Here's the Pope complaining about wealth inequality.

Here we go.

I can't wait for President Trump and the American conservatives to shoot that nonsense down.

What does President Trump have to say?

He's worried about polarization.

Do you share that concern?

Well, I do say there's a big gap.

I do say that.

Don't forget, forget, I'm a popularist.

There is a big gap.

Mr.

President.

What?

What?

No, hold on.

Trump is the Republican president.

He's a conservative.

He's a billionaire on top of that.

He's supposed to smack down the Pope for bringing up a problem brought about by wealth inequality.

He's supposed to own him with facts and logic.

The Pope comes out.

His direct...

words were, yesterday the news said that Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire in the world.

What does that mean and what's that about?

If that is the only thing that has value anymore, then we're in big trouble.

It says there's a problem if what we primarily value is money, if that's all that we value.

And if you have this massive inequality, Trump, you say you

agree?

Yes, of course.

Of course.

And why he says, because I'm a popularist.

I love that.

I like that change.

Not just a populist.

He's a popularist.

It's true.

He's very popular, too.

But this is right.

He's right.

And the Holy Father makes a good point.

Because

we like free markets.

Pope John Paul II said this in Centesi Musanus, which is an encyclical to celebrate 100 years of Re Rum Navarum, which was an encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, from whom Pope Leo XIV took his name.

And in it, the popes criticize socialism immensely, criticize communism.

In Centesi Musanus, Pope John Paul II says that free markets are the most efficient way to allocate goods and services around an economy.

Certainly true.

But we are not merely a political order and political community serving an economy.

We're not making an idol out of this thing.

We like the forces that move about in market economies, generally speaking, but we don't serve them.

We don't make an idol out of the invisible hand.

We don't make an idol out of the market.

We don't flip our society on its head to say that we are not merely citizens who benefit from markets, but rather we are slaves to the all-knowing, all-powerful free market.

Nah, nah, nah.

Can't be doing that.

And Pope Leo is pointing out

there are corrosive effects to massive wealth inequality, to the individual, to the individual accruing massive wealth, divorced from the political community, because it makes us avaricious, avarice being the beginning of ills in the city forever.

And it makes us consider ourselves simply as individuals with private interest rather than as social creatures in pursuit of the common good, who benefit from the common good.

That's one reason.

And because it leads to social unrest.

And it reminds me of a line.

I feel so vindicated, man.

I said this about Trump

when Trump was talking about sending in the troops to go fix the cities.

I said, the libertarians and the individualists and the Chamber of Commerce Republicans, they're going to say, don't let that happen.

Let New York City burn.

Let Oakland burn.

Let Chicago burn.

Who cares about them?

That's them.

I'm going to be here in my nice red rural area.

I say, that's not the right attitude.

Because one, it abandons major cities.

These are my cities.

These are American cities.

We have a right to those cities to some degree.

And

it tells a lot of your countrymen who maybe don't have all the resources, the financial resources, the political resources.

It tells them, hey, we're going to go live in our gated communities where we don't have to deal with crime,

where we can send our kids to good schools.

We don't have to deal with any of that stuff.

We're going to be here.

We're not telling you to code to our gates, but you guys fend for yourselves.

And if your families die from fentanyl and gangster bullets, you know, that's too bad.

Fix it yourselves.

And Trump comes in.

He says, no, no, we're not going to be two nations like that.

We're not going to be two nations of haves and have-nots.

We're going to have one nation, one nation Trumpism.

So one nation conservatism is a phrase from the British politician Benjamin Disraeli, who had another great observation.

And this is the key to it all.

This is a really practical key to it all.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

This is why you have to have a sense of community, a sense of belonging.

You have to have care, emotional and spiritual care, and also some material care from the privileged classes, from the blessed classes, from the hardworking, fortunate classes, however you want to call them, to the people who haven't done quite as well.

for any multitude of reasons.

You have to be wise about this.

You don't want to create perverse incentives.

You don't want to increase resentment among people

against the wealthy.

You need to have a political community.

You need to be smart about that.

There is a big delta.

What did President Trump say?

Yeah, there is a big gap.

And you know me, I'm a popularist.

How are elections decided in this country?

Are they decided by the invisible hand of the free market?

No, they're decided by votes.

We have to take people seriously.

Okay.

Speaking of religion, horrifying scene from Dearborn, Michigan.

One that

if this is aired,

if this is seen by every voter in the country, Democrats are never going to win another election.

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My favorite comment yesterday is from satirical siren.

So I never thought I'd see an actual applicable give us Barabbas moment in my lifetime.

I was wrong.

I don't know exactly what this is in reference to.

It might be in reference to Luigi Mangioni when the judge in New York said that he was going to drop the top two charges against Luigi, and there was a crowd outside the courthouse, and they cheered.

They were so happy.

For Luigi Mangioni, a cold-blooded murderer, a guy who murdered an executive in cold blood, simply because

he didn't like the executive's ideology, putative ideology.

It's not even clear what the executive believed, really because of the murderer's ideology, which was one of resentment and envy.

He didn't like that the executive had some money.

But I guess it's my favorite comment because I'm surprised by that statement.

I never thought we'd see a give us Barabbas moment in our lifetimes.

We see them every day.

I always expect the Give us Barabbas moment.

Give us Barabbas is what the crowd of Jews shouts to Pontius Pilate when Pilate offers, as a matter of clemency, to give the crowd either Jesus, an innocent man, or Barabbas, a political revolutionary and killer.

And the crowd says, give us Barabbas.

But that's what all human beings do.

It's not unique to antiquity.

We do it in modernity.

It's not unique to the Jews.

Every people does it because the Jews are the type of human nature in the Old Testament.

Barabbas means son of the Father.

Jesus Christ is

the true son of the true Father, the God of all creation.

And of course, the people want the false, carnal, material, terrestrial son

concerned with merely political, temporal revolution, rather than the true son of the true father, whose revolution conquers death and gives us eternal life in the true kingdom, which is in heaven.

People do that all the time.

All the time.

I would be much more surprised, I would be shocked if the crowd outside the courthouse

lamented

the injustice.

That's just not how it works, especially in the political realm,

which is governed by principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places, especially when it comes comes down to envy and resentment, money and avarice, avarice, the chief vice of the cities.

That's how it goes.

That's how it goes this side of heaven.

Okay, speaking of religion,

in Dearborn, Michigan, which is now a Muslim town,

in Dearborn, Michigan, the mayor and the council decided that they were going to name a street after a Hezbollah fighter.

Now, Hezbollah is a terror organization that has attacked not merely our allies, but has attacked the United States,

hit U.S.

Marines in Beirut.

A Dearborn, Michigan resident, just a normal-looking white guy, shows up to the council and says that this doesn't seem like a really good idea.

The mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hamoud,

says that that resident is not welcome in Dearborn.

I mean, Hezbollah,

you know, bombed the embassy in Beirut, including many Americans.

So I just feel it's quite inappropriate.

You are an Islamophobe.

And although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here.

And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city.

Because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence.

You don't believe in coexistence.

You don't believe in tolerance, which is why you need to leave this city.

Because you object to

Hezbollah.

You object to honoring a man whose organization

murdered Americans.

And so you need to leave.

I'm the mayor and you need to leave.

The nativism will increase.

I said at the top of the show that the consequences will increase until behavior improves.

I think the nativism is going to increase too.

I think the recognition of America's fundamentally Christian identity is going to increase too.

I think the demands for immigration restriction and deportations are going to increase too.

I think Republican victories are going to increase too, if

that clip and others like it are played in the lead up to the midterm elections.

People look at that.

They look at that clip.

And the inescapable conclusion, if your brain hasn't totally turned to mush, is, how did we get here?

Hold on.

Put ideology aside.

Put my vaunted principles aside.

Let me just, I'm just observing that political situation.

A Muslim mayor of a town

tries to rename a street after a terror organization that has murdered Americans.

An ordinary American resident of the town shows up and objects, and the Muslim mayor says, if you don't support Hezbollah, you're not welcome here.

Whatever we did to get to this point, we got to undo it.

That's what any ordinary person would conclude.

And so then they start thinking, well, what got us to this point?

Mass migration, religious indifferentism that tells us that all religions are basically the same.

This language of phobias that suggests that it's irrational to object to certain ideologies and heresies.

The notion that religion has nothing to do with public life, I think the Muslim residents of Dearborn have just thrown that out.

The notion that anyone can be an American just by virtue of coming here and maybe passing a test.

All those things getting thrown out.

The notion that diversity is our strength.

Is Dearborn stronger today than it was 30 years ago?

Who would conclude that?

All of those things are going to be thrown out.

I said this about the LGBT movement.

Remember, I said,

leading up to 2023, 2024 call-up,

there was this steady advance of the LGBT movement, which reached its apotheosis in the transing of little kids, in castrating little kids, shortening their lives, giving them bone problems, pretending that little boys were little girls as young as elementary school.

And I said,

that's too far.

That's gone too far.

And it's on the campaign trail, Republicans ran on that and they won on that issue.

I said, what the left is going to be desperate to do now is to

stop the boomerang going in the other direction.

Because that idea that led to transing the kids started with feminism in the 1970s, which said men and women are basically the same, which led to the LGBT movement, which said that men and women are basically the same, which led inevitably to redefining marriage because men and women are basically the same.

So why are two men any different than a man and a woman?

Which led to the transgender ideology of men and women are basically the same, then why can't a man be a woman?

Which led to transing the kids necessarily, because if a man can really be a woman, if you can be born in the wrong body, then that would be true from the moment of your birth, and then little kids could be trans.

You see, those ideas inevitably lead under the weight of their own illogic to that final point.

And once you realize that the final conclusion is absurd,

then you start going back in the other direction.

And you say, wow, hold on.

We've made a lot of errors along the way.

We need to correct those.

And it's very difficult to stop that momentum in the other direction, just as it was when it was advancing.

The same thing is going to be true on immigration, on religious indifferentism, on American identity.

You're seeing that play out.

Play that clip.

Every Republican, clip that out, play that in your district.

Democrats won't have a chance.

The same thing is going to be true.

when it comes to standards and the free marketplace of ideas and the terms of engagement in debate.

They assassinated Charlie Kirk.

They celebrated his murder.

Something has gone wrong.

And we need to take concrete actions very quickly to remedy the many errors that led to that moment.

The many errors that they can't just dismiss, that they can't just brush under the rug, that they can't just say, well, it was just some kook, some lunatic.

No, no, no.

It was...

It was the American left, people who identify as very liberal, being eight times as likely as people who are very conservative to celebrate the death of their political opponents.

It was the

outpouring of minimization and celebration of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

It was the lies that were told on the networks that are licensed by the government.

It was all of these things.

It was the normie on Facebook.

It was your cousin.

It was your coworker.

who was happy that Charlie Kirk was killed for merely stating the things that all of you believe, that probably was stating a more moderate version of the things that many of you believe.

That's a change, and that's created a reaction moving back in the opposite direction, which is very, very good.

We need to keep that momentum going.

I have much more to say

because on this topic of immigration, oh, good grief, Jasmine Crockett, the new AOC,

is now comparing ICE immigration enforcement to slave patrols.

which is

exactly the opposite of what they are.

Anyway, we don't have time.

We will get to that tomorrow because now it's time for the membran segmentum.

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