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President Trump seems to have brought peace to the Middle East again, a second time, as he gets Israel and Hamas to agree to end the war.

New York's Democrat Attorney General gets indicted for actually doing the thing that she preposterously accused President Trump of doing some time ago.

But more important than any of that,

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Christopher Columbus obviously discovered the New World in 1492.

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I love this administration so much.

I don't have any quarter for people who criticize it.

Sorry.

I don't care what you think about about tariffs or immigration or whatever.

I know he's in the right on these questions, but I don't even care if he'd be in the wrong.

The man gave us Columbus Day back.

Okay.

And did you see how he did it?

Did you see how the administration announced that Columbus Day was back?

Because

we've had Columbus Day for a long time.

For depending on how you score it, either 130 years or at least 90 to 100 years in the American public consciousness, though it really goes back to 1891, 1892, that Columbus Day really enters the American mind as a celebration of the man who discovered America.

Then there was pushback within the last 10, 15 years.

They said Columbus was a murderer, a genocide, or a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And they tried to replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day, whatever that means.

And it wasn't just the Libs doing it.

There was even, I'm not going to name him because he backed off.

There was a Republican senator who proposed

replacing Columbus Day on the federal holidays with Juneteenth.

They were going to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.

This Republican senator said, ah, well, we don't want to add too many holidays and mess up the economy.

So let's just get rid of Columbus Day.

Who cares?

That was a Republican.

And I said that I would donate to whoever would primary that Republican if he kept it up.

But then he dropped it.

So now we're all good.

Okay.

Columbus has been getting it coming and going for like 10 years now.

And Trump ends it.

He says Columbus stays back, and the administration did so by referencing one of the great

Columbus scenes in recent popular media, Care of the Sopranos.

That's what he did.

He discovered America is what he did.

He was a brave Italian explorer, and in this house, Christopher Columbus is a hero.

End of story.

He was a brave Italian explorer.

Even the way the White House, the administration is announcing it.

Okay, and of course, Mr.

President, you know, Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean in 1492.

And the first time I heard it, I heard literally the verbatim phrase.

He was a brave Italian explorer.

He did this.

He did that.

Now,

I don't think upon re-listening, I don't think he said brave.

I think he said great, but it's assonant.

It's the same number of syllables.

It's obviously a reference to that well-known clip.

He was a brave Italian explorer.

And in this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero.

So true.

So, so true.

There's going to be a lot of introspection.

There are going to be a lot of stories told about what America is as we enter the bisesquicentennial, the 250th anniversary of the founding of America.

And

be on the lookout for this kind of stuff.

Because as I see it, there are three ways that we can tell the story of America.

There's the liberal story of America, which is America's always been evil.

You know, it was founded by this evil genocider, slave trader, Christopher Columbus.

Again, Christopher Columbus, a great man,

not only a great man, but a good man,

a devout Catholic, a brave Italian explorer, a man who is not guilty of half the nonsense they accuse him of.

On the witness of his political enemies, do we come up with this nonsense about Columbus?

Anyway, well, there will be more to say about Columbus later, but they say he was founded by, discovered by this evil guy named Columbus, and then it was settled by these crazy religious kooks, and then they killed all the Indians, and then we had slavery.

We basically invented slavery, and that was the original sin.

And then we oppressed women, And then we oppressed blacks.

And then we oppressed Hispanics.

And we're just so dirty and rotten and evil.

Then we oppressed homosexuals.

Then we oppressed the transsexuals.

And then we're just so dirty, rotten, and evil.

And this country sucks.

That's the liberal story of America that you're going to hear it next year in the 250th.

Then there's the squishy conservative story of America.

This is the liberal Republican story of America.

And what they say is, They say, yes, we were discovered by that at Columbus.

He was kind of a genocider, and he was bad.

He was really bad.

And yeah, you you know, the Puritans, they had a lot of problems.

And, you know, I mean, Washington and Jefferson owned slaves and so they weren't great.

And yeah, then we had slavery and we oppressed.

We did kind of oppress women and we did oppress

blacks and gays and trans and blah, blah, blah.

But look how far we've come.

Look how far we've come.

America, it's not like the left liberals say.

It's not that America is a bad country.

It's just as bad as we've always been.

No, no.

We can be a good country.

I mean, we've been very bad, but we've overcome all those evils and we're getting better by the day.

That's like, that's the squish conservative view,

which accepts all the premises of the left liberal view, but instead of coming to the conclusion that we're evil today, they come to the conclusion that we're better today and we could be even better tomorrow.

But they're essentially the same story.

Then there is a third view, which I would recommend, and that's the conservative view, the actual patriotic view, which says, you know, a bunch of the stuff you're talking about is nonsense.

The things you say about Columbus, nonsense.

The things you say about the institution of slavery, vis-à-vis America, nonsense.

Not that slavery is not unique to America, far from it.

The unique thing about America is we ended slavery in a relatively short period of time.

But slavery is just a fact of human life.

It exists today in Asia and Africa, and there are gradations of servitude.

And there are moral and immoral ways to think about it.

But it's like, give me a break, guys.

That's not, you're trying to identify that as essentially American.

That's nonsense.

And, you know, you basically, your whole liberal history of America is just bunk.

A lot of the facts are wrong, but more importantly,

the relevance of those facts to the story of America is wrong.

All that stuff, it's basically irrelevant.

Even when you guys say something that is true, on the rare occasions that your invective against America touches on something that is factually true, it's unimportant.

This is a country that was founded by intrepid, brave explorers, starting with those brave Italian explorers down there, down there in the Caribbean.

And then the Puritans, not the Puritans, actually, the pilgrims on the Mayflower, the founding of America, Mayflower, a great cigar brand, by the way,

those guys had a vision, you know, for

a new Jerusalem, okay?

Actually, in Massachusetts Bay, John Winthrop understood that America would be a model of Christian charity.

And then the

founders and framers were asserting their rights as Englishmen.

And they said that the principles of Christianity are the principles on which independence was won.

And they said, thank Providence, thank God, that we come from a common stock and we have common beliefs and we have this common experience of the revolution.

And then we pushed through because we were not only a religious country, but we also had this entrepreneurial commercial aspect, you know, Plymouth and Virginia.

And we were building and we were, and we, we've had all of this amazing, intrepid innovation and discovery and bravery and audacity, and that's the story of America and tradition.

And at the same time, perhaps paradoxically, this great love of tradition.

We're in some ways the most avant-garde and the most conservative country on earth.

We're the revolutionary country.

We might be the last of the old regimes.

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We're this amazing country, man.

And all that stupid nonsense that the left talks about,

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Much less important than Columbus Day being back,

President Trump has secured peace in the Middle East again, it seems.

It seems.

You never know in the Middle East.

Trump has reached a peace deal in Gaza.

And everyone's going to be skeptical and say, well,

is Hamas really going to stick to it?

Are they going to uphold their end of the bargain or is this just a stalling tactic?

Israel, I think, probably will because Israel is more accountable to America.

And sometimes Israel undermines what America is trying to do internationally.

But here it seems like they, I think it seems like they're on board.

So the question is Hamas.

Hamas never honors anything, but who knows?

Maybe there might be the right incentives here.

Trump proposed this peace deal a week or two ago.

And I read through it.

We actually didn't have time to talk about it on the show, but I remember reading through it and I said, man, this is a good deal because

It not only is it

plausibly going to bring peace to the Middle East, again, for President Trump, don't forget, he had the Abraham Accords.

There was peace in the Middle East.

It was historic.

It was amazing.

Then the Democrats put Joe Biden into office.

Joe Biden screws up everything.

Major war breaks out in the Middle East.

Would not have happened had Trump been president.

Now Trump has to restore peace to the Middle East.

Again, it looks like he's doing it.

But what I love about this deal also is that it totally vindicates me.

You know, not to make it up, but we got to have priorities here.

Peace in the Middle East, that's good.

But me being right, you know, slightly more important.

You remember those Panicans

who freaked out when Trump said out of the blue, it seemed to freak out Netanyahu, frankly, when they were sharing a stage together.

He said, we're going to take over Gaza.

It's ours now.

I'm going to build a Trump casino there, basically, is what he was insinuating.

And we're going to send all the Palestinians away.

They're going to leave.

And who knows?

The Israelis were floating that the Palestinians would go to South Sudan, the one place on earth less pleasant than Gaza.

And everyone starts freaking out.

Some of the pro-Israel people were freaking out.

A lot of the anti-Israel people, the pro-Palestine people were freaking out.

Some of the kind of America-first guys who don't really want anything to do with the Middle East were freaking out.

I said, guys,

let him cook.

This is obviously a negotiation tactic.

It would not be just to ethnically cleanse this area and send 2 million Palestinians to Africa.

or anywhere else for that matter, to force them out.

This is a negotiation tactic to force Hamas to the table, to keep Israel in line.

What What Trump was proposing was the only thing that could irritate both the Palestinians and Israel

because Trump was saying,

we're going to kick all of you out of your homes.

It's obviously going to freak out the Palestinians.

And Trump seems crazy enough that he might do it.

And he said, and by the way, Israel, you're getting out too.

We're going to take over.

You're not going to annex it.

We're going to do it.

We're going to do what we want.

Maybe we're a little bit of a wildcard.

Freaks out Israel, too.

I said, it's a negotiation tactic.

This isn't going to happen chill.

And so what was Trump's plan?

Gaza will be de-radicalized, terror-free, so it doesn't pose a threat to its neighbors.

It'll be redeveloped for the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough, a recognition of the suffering in Gaza.

The war will immediately end.

Israeli forces will withdraw to an agreed-upon line to prepare for a hostage release.

During this time, all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment, will be suspended.

So that's a message to Israel, because you'll recall when President Trump was negotiating an end to the hostilities between Iran and Israel.

They negotiate an end to this, and then Israel just keeps bombing them.

And Iran, you know, Iran's not exactly a good faith player in this either, but he's saying, look, we got to stop.

Once we agree to this, immediate stopping of the aerial and artillery bombardment.

The Palestinians, good luck getting them ever to stop firing rockets.

Battle lines will remain frozen, okay?

Then within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting this agreement, all hostages, alive and deceased, will be returned.

That's where we are.

We're at number four right now.

Hamas and Israel have, in principle, agreed to

the first part of this plan.

Now we're in the 72 hours.

20 hostages or so are believed to be alive right now.

28 are presumed dead.

Israel, now to fill in the specifics of what was outlined here in the broad plan, In exchange for 20 live hostages, 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli jails will be released to Palestine, to Gaza.

1,700 detainees from Gaza

will be sent back.

So Israel's paying a high price for the hostages.

But Israel can afford to pay a higher price, is basically the thought.

This is all a very

live thing.

Will it work?

Has Trump brought peace to the Middle East a second time?

Not totally clear.

This is the most impressive advance.

toward Middle East peace since the last time Trump did it.

Even Barack Obama is is admitting it, though Obama won't give Trump credit.

Obama sent out some lengthy tweet last night about how great this is and wonderful for peace in the Middle East and everything.

He just forgot to put Trump's name in the tweet.

He said, there's just one person missing.

You know, this didn't just happen organically.

It didn't spring out of the ground like a Rutabaga.

It

was put together by the president who succeeded where you, Barack Obama, failed, who succeeded where your successor, Joe Biden, failed.

This is the best chance at peace in the Middle East since the last time Trump did it.

And

I'd love in this case to tell you that I told you so.

Now, other great news.

Letitia James in New York, the Attorney General of New York, you might remember her for campaigning on prosecuting Trump.

and holding Trump liable for all sorts of silly offenses, just trying to take Trump down, using the law.

Letitia James did her best.

She was part of the broad lawfare effort by the Democrats under Joe Biden to put Trump into prison because he was not only the predecessor, but also the leader of the opposition and obviously popular enough to become president again with the popular vote.

Letitia James

appears to have been hoisted with her own petard.

Letitia James has just been indicted and she hasn't been indicted for anything.

She's been indicted for actually doing the kinds of things she wrongly accused Trump of doing.

What did she accuse Trump of doing?

She accused Trump of falsifying business records to

get loans at more favorable rates

and to

over-inflate, for instance, the value of some of his homes.

That wasn't really true at the time.

They like sort of nabbed him on it, but it was preposterous, the sort of things that they were alleging and the sort of things that judges were finding.

But what was Letitia James indicted for?

She's charged with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution in connection with a home purchase in Norfolk, Virginia in 2020.

So

she buys a home in Virginia, and this home is supposed to be a residence of hers, but she was just going to use it as an investment property.

Here's some evidence for that.

She's the Attorney General of New York.

She's not living in Virginia.

She

clearly lied.

Clearly lied.

She also had an apartment building in Brooklyn.

She said, in order to get the loan, that the building had four units.

The building actually had five units.

This was not an idle mistake, a clerical error.

That was a very significant difference.

One, I don't think Letitia James is so stupid that she doesn't know how many apartment units are in the building she bought.

We're not talking about a 200 apartment high-rise.

We're talking about four or five.

I think she knows.

I think she can count to five, can't she?

Maybe.

Maybe I'm being too generous in my expectations.

I think she can count to five.

But if she had five units in the building, it would be a commercial building and she would get a less favorable rate.

If she had four units, she'd get the more favorable rate as a residential building.

And so she lied.

They got this woman dead to rights, allegedly.

I suppose I have to say allegedly, but

pretty clear from the facts that are being reported.

This woman lied.

She defrauded a financial institution.

What about the Trump case that she was driving?

In the Trump case,

even the liberal media acknowledge this was kind of ridiculous.

Even CNN,

even CNN obviously doesn't like Donald Trump, especially at that time was going very hard.

Real estate insiders questioned how Trump fraud judge valued Mar-a-Lago.

The argument in that case, and a judge found this, I'm a liberal judge, was that Trump had overvalued his Mar-a-Lago estate by 2,300%.

So he overvalued this in order to have more access to capital, and it was all a bunch of business fraud.

This was Judge Engeron.

But he based that on the presumption that Trump's Mar-a-Lago club was worth between $18 and $27.6 million,

which was always completely absurd.

There are private homes in Nashville today

that are listed for over $18 million, million, that are listed for probably around $25 million.

Do you think that some random home in the middle of Nashville is worth the same amount as Mar-a-Lago, one of the most prestigious, beautiful, sprawling clubs in Palm Beach, some of the most expensive real estate in the country with some of the most expensive, wealthy, well-heeled members?

And are you kidding me?

Not even close.

Not even close.

That was such a preposterous.

number.

Was he talking about some fraction of a fraction, some little plot of what, one, one room at Mar-a-Lago?

What was he talking about?

He based it on the Palm Beach County assessors appraising the market value.

But that was always absurd.

Everyone knows that the tax assessor valuation is less than the property would command.

And in the case of a private club like that, way, way less.

So anyway, total nonsense.

In that case, though.

We're not talking about, I think President Trump actually was right in his valuations, or roughly right, at least, but we're not talking about, ah, you know, I thought it was 10% higher than it it was, or 10% lower than it was, whatever.

We're talking about Letitia James saying, I'm going to live in that home in a different state while I'm Attorney General of New York.

That's a lie.

That's Letitia James saying, oh, yeah, actually,

it's four units, not five.

That's just a lie.

They got her dead to rights.

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and and here's her defense of letitia james

aside for the for a second what tish james and again, we're still getting the details, but if it's related to this mortgage issue, I mean, this is something that everyone in America, or many people at least, if you're lucky enough to be able to buy a house in America, you deal with this, right?

The federal government doesn't go after all of these people

for doing this.

Yeah, yeah.

Look, this is the sort of thing, I mean,

Americans all the time commit mortgage fraud, don't they?

I mean, all the time.

Who among us

has not lied to a financial institution about what state they're living in in order to get a more favorable mortgage rate?

Who among us?

Let he who has not lied about the nature of his investment apartment building cast the first stone.

Come on.

Who am I?

Is she telling on herself?

I don't know.

Should the Fed start investigating Casey Hunt, too?

I've not committed mortgage fraud.

Have you committed mortgage fraud?

You haven't?

No?

And again, we're not talking about like, yeah, I think I have $100,000 in the bank, but actually I only have $97,000 or I have $103,000.

We're not talking about that.

We're talking about like, I live in a different state kind of lying.

We're talking about there are a different number of units in the building I'm buying kind of lying.

Have you done that?

This is not even reaping and sowing.

Some people I think are going to present this as, you know, the Democrats,

while they're sowing,

They, oh, they're loving it, right?

Where they're sowing all this discord and political warfare.

They're loving it.

Woohoo.

Yeah, this is me while I'm sowing.

But then while they're reaping the fruits of their sowing, then they're really upset because it's coming back on them.

It's not even that.

This is just pure projection.

Trump really didn't do the thing they're accusing him of doing.

Mar-a-Lago is not worth $18 million.

It's worth a lot more than that.

Okay.

He actually didn't do the thing that they're accusing him of.

She did this.

It's just projection.

Once again, every leftist accusation is a confession.

Speaking of those leftists, Abigail Spanberger running for governor of Virginia,

she is endorsing Jay Jones, the attorney general candidate, the Democrat, who fantasizes about murdering his Republican opponents and their children and murdering cops.

Abigail Spanberger has stood by Jay Jones.

She refuses to pull her endorsement.

Not one Democrat has pulled their endorsement of him because they agree with him.

Well, good on the moderator at her debate with Winsome Sears last night.

She was asked, do you stand by the endorsement?

She tried to get out of it.

She tried to wiggle out, and the moderator kept up.

Here's her answer.

This is the end of her answer.

Ms.

Spamberger, I understand what you're saying about the voters, but for you yourself, do you still continue to endorse Jay Jones?

15 seconds.

Yes or no?

We are all running our individual races.

I believe my opponent has said that about her lieutenant governor nominee.

These are all stairs.

And it is all fair.

It is for every person to make their own decision.

I am running my race to serve Virginia, and that is what I intend to do.

Thank you, Ms.

Spamberger.

We just want to clarify, you know, what you're saying is that as of now, you still endorse Jay Jones as Attorney General.

I'm saying, as of now, it's up to every voter to make their own individual decision.

I am running for governor.

I am accountable for the words that I say

for the acts that I take, for the policies that I have put out.

Thank you.

I am responsible for the policies I put out and the work I will endeavor to do tirelessly

for the people

of Governor

Thank you.

Wow, it's brutal.

Because she's refusing to answer the question.

Very simple question, moderators on it.

That was after a minute of her flailing around.

And the question was, do you stand by your endorsement?

You endorsed him.

You explicitly endorsed this guy.

He fantasized about murdering Republicans and their children and called them, accused them of breeding fascists and fantasized about killing cops.

And do you stand by your endorsement?

And she said, Every voter has to make up his own decision.

That wasn't the question.

The question wasn't, do you think voters can make up their decisions?

the question was do you endorse him do you still endorse him you made up first of all you were telling voters to vote a certain way that's what an endorsement is

but stop asking about this i i remember i i just did this uh great show uh adam friedland's show he's this very left-wing guy it was very funny we had a great time uh in new york it's out now and uh really i really enjoyed going on but there was this one moment And actually,

I think he might have cut it out of the show.

Because I went, I don't know, I didn't watch the whole thing meticulously, but I actually think he might have cut this segment out of the show, which is kind of, kind of funny,

where

he was hitting me on the transgender thing.

And I said, well, do you believe in transgenderism?

You know, is it, do you really,

and we were kind of going back and forth on it.

Again, I'll see if I can find the clip.

It might have been left on the cutting room floor, understandably so, I guess, from his point of view.

But I said,

I said, look, do you believe in it?

He said, oh, you guys are asking this question all the time.

I said, no, no, it's not what is a woman.

It's do you, I just want to, do you you really believe in transgenderism?

Do you think a man really can be a woman?

And he said, well, I don't care.

I said, I didn't ask if you cared.

I asked what you think.

Do you think, what do you have a, you can, you can think just between us gals.

It's just us gals on the camera.

What do you think?

Do you think a man?

And he refused to, he couldn't answer the question, which I kind of get because his liberal audience would hate the answer.

If he were being honest, because we all know, you know, you can't be.

So I got to go back.

I got to see if that clip is in there, but it it might, it might have been cut out.

Kind of funny.

Well, that was the same thing Abigail Spanberger did.

The same exact thing.

Do you stand by your endorsement?

I don't.

I mean, I think everyone can make their decision.

That's not what I asked you.

I'm not asking you about everyone else.

I'm not asking you about decision-making.

I'm asking about a thing you did.

You endorsed him.

You can unendorse him.

Do you do that?

Can't answer.

Part of the reason she can't answer that is that the Democrats broadly agree.

That's what they showed us when Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

Speaking of democracy and liberal women who seem confused about things, Jane Fonda

raised the seriousness of an issue that no one's really talking about anymore.

But she's, you know, she's of a certain age.

Maybe she's stuck in the past.

She raised the existential crisis of climate change.

We're facing two

existential crises: climate and democracy.

And it's now or never for both.

They are very interconnected.

We have to solve them together.

We can't have a stable democracy with an unstable climate.

And we can't have a stable climate unless we have a democracy.

And so we have to fight both together.

Okay, the first part I kind of get.

We can't have a democracy if we don't have a stable climate.

I guess that's true.

You know, if like asteroids are hitting the earth and volcanoes are erupting and the atmosphere dissipates, then it's true, you can't have a democracy.

You can't have life.

You can't have human life either, but

if you can't have human life, you can't have democracy.

QED.

Okay, I get that.

And

you can't

have

a stable environment if you don't have a democracy.

That part

is a little more suspect to me.

Because there have been democracy.

There was democracy in ancient Greece, though the liberals today would not recognize that as democracy because it involved a lot of slaves and things like that.

But

they had democracy then.

And then

for like most of the history of our civilization, we've not had democracy,

anything resembling what we would call democracy today.

And the founding fathers even, the framers of the Constitution, were very, very skeptical of democracy, even as they gave us a government that had a huge democratic element to it.

We had a stable environment for all that time.

In fact, to Jane Fonda's point, when we didn't have democracy, which is for most of the history of our civilization, by her own arguments, by the climate change hysterics, the climate was fine.

And actually, it's only since we've had democracy, and specifically only since we've had real hyper-democracy, not the democracy of the 18th century, but the greater spread of democracy in the 19th and especially into the 20th century, well, that's when all the climate change increased.

So it's kind of

not only is what she's saying kind of babble, you know, we can't have democracy without climate, without a good climate, we can't have a good climate without democracy.

Good luck, lady.

But it's actually,

according to her own premises, what she's saying makes no sense at all.

If

the climate change is really dependent on the nature of democracy, the state of democracy, we need to abolish democracy to save the climate.

We have to, which is the only way we can get democracy, according to Jane Fonta.

I don't know.

Not much of a political philosopher, that one, I think.

Okay, before we go, and speaking of Hollywood celebrities, Jimmy Kimmel, after his temporary cancellation, has identified the real victim of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

He felt like your initial comments had been mischaracterized.

I didn't feel like it.

They were.

It was intentionally and I think maliciously mischaracterized.

Yeah.

He's lying again.

He lied about Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Then he lied about what he said.

Now he's lying about what we said about what he said.

He hasn't learned a single lesson.

What did he say?

He came out.

He said, these MAGA, but Charlie Kirk was murdered.

He made light of Charlie Kirk's murder.

He then put on the crocodile tears after he got uncanceled when he could audition for his show again.

But he didn't have any crocodile tears when he was initially talking about it.

Shortly afterward, he said, yeah, Charlie Kirk is murdered.

And these MAGA people,

they're trying to just pretend like he, the shooter, was anything other than one of them.

They're doing anything they can to say he wasn't one of them.

The guy was a far leftist, engraved Antifa slogans on the bullets and confessed his left-wing ideological motivations, reportedly, to his transferry boyfriend.

Don't think he was a MAGA Republican.

So he lied.

He just lied on TV.

And then he lied about lying.

I never meant to say that.

And now he's lying about our reaction.

He said, oh, no, these people, they knew, not only was I not lying, they knew I wasn't lying and they maliciously smeared me.

And I'm the real victim.

I'm the victim.

He learned nothing.

He learned nothing.

And it's a great pity that he got his show back.

It's a great pity.

We should have held the line more firmly.

And if we don't, if we don't enforce standards and if we don't punish people with social consequences and sometimes political consequences if they violate the law, if we don't ostracize people who remain stubborn in their antisocial behavior, we're not going to have much of a society.

And these guys are going to run roughshot over us.

And then the minute they get power again, they are going to send us to the gulags.

Very, very unfortunate.

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Hi, Michael Knowles.

I'm listening to your podcast, and you don't seem to believe that Mamdani is a devout Muslim Muslim or a practicing Muslim.

However, when I listen to other Muslims talk about Mamdani, they say that he's practicing

Takiya.

Takiya is the art of lying to gain the upper hand over an enemy and the art of lying to non-believers.

So have you ever considered that?

And have you ever considered that the threat of these Muslims, when when you call them our friends, is more dangerous than you are willing to say on your podcast?

Thank you.

I have considered that, and I am not persuaded by it.

Yes.

First of all, I've never called Mamdani my friend.

There are certain kinds of Muslims not going to be our friends.

Some others who vote against Joe Biden, you know, or Kamala Harris in 2024,

we like those guys.

You know, we can bring them along.

It'd be nice if they converted to Christianity, but we'll see.

Politically speaking,

politics is the art of inclusion and the art of the second best.

As for Mamdani, yes, I'm familiar with the concept of takiyah, dissimulation, the notion that when one, especially when one is threatened by a non-believer, one can deceive if you're Muslim.

I'm familiar with that.

He'd be playing a real long game, I think, Mamdani, because

the two thoughts on Mamdani are: Mom Dani is secretly Osama bin Laden, but he's pretending to be a wimpy, you know, New York millennial who marches along with all of the alphabet people.

But he's secretly, you know, a Wahhabi who would chop off all of their heads at the first moment and give them all a tour of the rooftops when he kicks them all off the moment he gets power.

That's one thought of it.

The other thought is

he is

a millennial leftist

steeped in who happens who also happens to be Muslim, but those things aren't in conflict because to be a millennial leftist is to be steeped in all kinds of anti-Americanism.

The weird sex stuff and the radical open borders stuff and despising American history and opposing the religions that built America and therefore supporting other religions with whom we've been at war.

I remember I was in

middle school.

I was in middle school during 9-11, then I was in high school.

And the liberal teachers were really favorable in their teaching of Islam.

So even I made a joke one time, I was in, I was in like ninth grade or something like that.

I made a joke that the first terrorist was Muhammad, and my teacher got really angry at me.

My teacher was very liberal.

So you'd say, on the one, how can these liberals who support LGBTism support Islam, which would kick all of those people off of rooftops?

How can those, and the common thread is just a reflexive anti-Americanism?

That's what I see in Mamdani.

He is a communist, like an actual communist.

He talks, he openly promotes communist ideas.

He is radically pro-LGBT and has called for queer liberation explicitly.

And he seems favorable to the Muslim issues, the pan-Muslim issues.

But so is Greta Thunberg.

So what is it?

Is it Zawahiri?

Is it Saeed-Qutib?

Or is he just like a typical whiny New York liberal millennial?

I don't know.

To me, the evidence is all on the ladder.

I have no illusions about the threat of Islam.

I note frequently that we've been in conflict with Islam for 1400 years.

We celebrated the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto just a few days ago, but that ain't Mondami.

In some ways, it would be a recommendation of Mandani if that were the case.

Okay, next one.

This weekend, our family of five is entering the Catholic Church, no small part because of you, Michael.

So thank you for all your work.

I've been getting regular emails from the Vatican, and today, October 1st, there was an article in one of the Vatican's emails about how all Catholics should pray for the abolishment of the death penalty.

You and Matt Walsh have talked a lot about how the death penalty is a good thing, especially in light of Charlie Kirk's assassin.

But then it pointed me to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and paragraph 2267 talks about how the church should be seeking to abolish the death penalty worldwide.

I want to believe in everything the Catholic Church has to teach, and I have such open hands to listen to it, but I just don't agree with this.

Can you please help me catechize me?

How should I believe?

What should I think about this

as a Catholic now?

Yeah, I would love to hear your thoughts about that.

Yes, really, really good question.

And the short version is, the Catechism of the Catholic Church is great.

The Catechism, as we know it, is a document from the early 90s from John Paul II.

There have been other catechisms over the years, the Baltimore Catechism, the Catechism of St.

Pius X, many other catechisms going all the way back to to antiquity and the D-Day.

And

the one that we refer to is from the early 90s, and then Pope Francis gave it an update.

And the one in the early 90s included this odd prudential insertion that while the death penalty is not intrinsically evil, practically speaking,

it shouldn't be practiced generally.

And then Francis took that to a greater extreme and said it's morally inadmissible.

Curiously, though, he couldn't say it was intrinsically evil because the church has

robustly, vociferously, defended the death penalty for two millennia.

And some popes have carried it out, including Blessed Pius IX, who personally oversaw the execution of 500 prisoners in the Papal States.

So is there a conflict here?

No.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church is a great teaching tool, but it's not as if the Catechism is an infallible pronouncement of the Pope on faith and morals cathedra.

It is not the case that

we're hyper-ultramontanists, where if the if the pope tells us that we have to eat whoppers we can never eat a quarter pounder again pope benedict 16 of blessed memory a recent pope observed that unlike on certain issues um abortion say

uh where there's really no question about catholic teaching going all the way back to the d dot cay in the earliest days of the church on the death penalty reasonable minds might disagree so that's that's how i would think about it i would take it with a little bit of a mediterranean nonchalance and recognize that not every pronouncement of a pope is of equal significance.

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Hello, Michael.

My question revolves around Catholicism and fulfillment in life.

Can a Catholic devotee their life to celibacy even without being part of holy orders?

I'm a 23-year-old Catholic trying to focus more on creating a fulfilling life, and that involves understanding my faith more, training myself to be a boxer-like fighter, and educating myself to be like one of the autodidacts of history.

From my perspective, finding a wife or pursuing the family life would get in the way of my education and training.

I know I'm still young with more life ahead of me, but best I ask the question than stay conflicted.

So can a Catholic swear to celibacy even if they have no intentions of becoming priests, monks, bishops, or deacons?

Thank you for your time.

And Professor, stop crashing your Camaros and get back to work.

Quit gallivanding with your girlfriend.

You got a job to do.

That's nice.

Very smart man on many fronts.

Short answer is yes.

Yeah, of course.

Not everyone is called to marriage.

In fact, just from the perspective of the Catholic Church, if you're a certain type of member of Opus Dei,

which is a Catholic order from

starts out in the Spanish Civil War when the Bolsheviks, which we were talking about the other day when the Bolsheviks were trying to destroy the church and killed 20% of clergy in Spain,

there are lay members, not clergy, lay members of Opus Dei who are

celibate.

And there are people who are celibate also.

But whether you get married or whether you're celibate and a lay person or whether you take holy orders,

the key is it has to be for God.

So I wouldn't be celibate just so that you can make an extra dollar.

I wouldn't be celibate just so you can paint an extra painting.

I think your opinion could change over time.

When, you know, look, I'm pretty career focused myself.

I spent a lot of time thinking about work and working and, you know, pursuing my career.

But

practically speaking, the greatest thing in my life is my family.

And I, you know, I don't know that in my early 20s, I would have imagined that, but that is the case.

In terms of the practical, tangible, day-to-day human stuff, obviously one's faith is the most important thing, but it ends up being the family.

That might surprise you.

But regardless, maybe you're called to celibacy.

But if so, it's just,

your marriage has to be a symbol of Christ's love for his church.

Your celibacy has to be for God.

Obviously, your holy orders would be for God.

So just make sure it's in the right place.

Okay, I know they want me to go to the membrane segmentum.

I want to get to the last question.

Hey, Michael.

So I'm headed to the Nashville Dance Fest this weekend because I recently took up Western swing dancing to help me meet people.

And it's been really great for me, honestly.

I've made a lot of friends.

Granted, the women tend to be crazy.

I'm not really sure if it's because they're dancers or just because they're women.

But I was wondering if there's any other activities that you would recommend to help me be more social because I'd really like to branch out.

Thanks.

Yeah, that's a great one.

That's a really great one.

And yeah, look, they're probably a little crazy for both of those reasons.

Maybe the dancing part's kind of eccentric, but maybe that exacerbates the kind of natural level of craziness common to the gentler sex.

But

I would go for other stuff like that.

I often say, look,

you can meet a girl in church.

That's great.

Isn't that great?

Or you meet a girl in school.

I think in some ways that's almost better because you're often younger.

You're kind of looking to date in high school or something.

And I don't know, worked out for me.

I recommend that.

But

at work, it's a little dicier.

You don't, you know, sometimes people, they eat

one place and they defecate, you know, ideally at another place.

It is not good to

do those two things at the same place, you understand?

But I don't know, what's like swing dancing?

I don't know.

You could take, you could join

the symphony.

Depends on how kind of pretentious you want to be, fancy and sophisticated.

But you could go, there are all those kind of groups.

Like if there's, if there are artistic groups there, you obviously have an interest in the arts.

So I don't know, you go join the local symphony or ballet or some theatrical kind of thing.

You could join that.

They're always young supporters of those groups.

Or you could go, I don't know, you could join a kickball league.

I mean, that's like another version of it.

You are doing something that is artistic and athletic.

So you could kind of go either way.

But I think those are kind of fun.

And the people who join those things are doing it

because they want to meet people.

You know, so it's not, it's, there is an intentionality to that that might make it a little easier to ask a girl out.

Okay.

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