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We all remember when Jussie Smollett was viciously attacked in Chicago, had a noose placed around his neck, just barely summoned the fortitude to keep hold of his Subway sandwich during the assault.
Well, three years later, Smollett's attacker has finally been brought to justice.
He did not take the news well.
You are fined $25,000, which is the maximum fine.
And you will spend the first 150 days of your sentence in the Cook County Jail.
And that will start today, right here, right now.
Do you have any questions?
No, I would just like to say to Your Honor that I am not suicidal.
I am not suicidal.
Okay?
I am not suicidal.
I am innocent, and I am not suicidal.
If I did this, then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of black Americans in this country for over 400 years, and the fears of the LGBTQ community.
Your Honor, I respect you, and I respect the jury, but I did not do this.
And I am not suicidal.
And if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself.
And you must all know that.
I respect you, Your Honor.
I respect your decision.
Jail time.
I am not suicidal.
Okay.
The most surprising part of the sentencing was finding out that Jussie Smollett has incriminating information on the Clintons.
That I'm not suicidal was the cry of a man just waiting for Hillary to walk in with the pillow.
But the next most surprising thing about the sentencing was that Smollett is going to jail at all.
I had just assumed that he'd get off the hook, like every other well-connected, politically correct leftist who plays the right victim cards.
But Jussie will go to jail.
And he should.
Because his crime was not just against himself.
And his crime was not just against the Chicago PD. It was a crime against half of this country.
A crime against MAGA country, which he defamed as a racist lynch mob.
He perpetrated a fraud on one half of this country about the other half.
It's the same fraud that the liberal establishment perpetrates every day when it calls us deplorable and irredeemable.
Jussie Smollett just took it a little bit further and made the mistake of casting Nigerian homosexuals to play anti-gay white supremacists.
So he got caught.
And despite repeated attempts by the establishment to let him off the hook, now he's paying the price.
Good.
Justice for Jussie means just a teensy tiny little bitty bit of justice for the rest of us too.
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I really think, if you missed the show yesterday, go tune into it.
I had my friend Ethan Bearman on.
Ethan is a True, tried and true liberal Democrat from California.
But I wanted to bring him on to just understand the left's point on the parental rights and education bill in Florida, the one they're calling the don't say gay bill.
I invited on a number of liberals, pretty prominent liberals, some even not so prominent liberals.
None of them would come on.
They love taking pot shots on Twitter or on their YouTube channels, but none of them have the guts to actually come on the show and discuss the issue, even though I'm a very nice guy.
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I wanted an elevated discussion to just hear the best argument the other side could make.
Ethan gladly accepted the invitation and did it, and I give him a lot of credit for coming on.
I think we need a whole lot more of that.
Especially these days, where there's just so much disinformation, there's so much fake news, everyone's just playing the victim card.
I mean, for goodness sakes, people are getting attacked.
Leftist actors, black gay actors are getting attacked in the MAGA country of the south side of Chicago, so we are told.
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Speaking of disinformation, yesterday on the show, we covered this very weird story about the bio labs in Ukraine, or the bio labs that may or may not exist.
Initially, we were told by Ukraine and by the fact checkers over at PolitiFact and Snopes that there are no foreign, U.S.-run bio labs in Ukraine.
This after the Russians accused the United States of having these bio labs, not only in Ukraine, but in a lot of countries around the world.
China came out and made the same allegation.
So initially from the United States and Ukraine, you're no, there's no bio labs.
But the language was very particular.
Ukraine had said in the Kiev post, there's no foreign bio labs, but there might be Ukrainian bio labs that the Americans are very involved in, right?
PolitiFact said there are no U.S.-run bio labs.
Okay, well, maybe the labs are run by the Ukrainians, but we now know because of the testimony of Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, we now know there are bio labs.
The United States helped to build the bio labs.
The United States is still very involved in The Russian accusations are absurd.
They're laughable.
And, uh...
In the words of my Irish Catholic grandfather, a bunch of malarkey.
There's nothing to it.
It's classic Russian propaganda.
And if I were you, I wouldn't give it a drop of ink worth paying attention to.
Can you explain to us, has there been any relationship between the...
We are not, not, developing biological or chemical weapons inside Ukraine.
It's not happening.
Now that second part of his answer to the reporter, that's the part that really raises eyebrows.
Because on the surface, it sounds like it's just a flat denial, right?
No, this is bogus.
It's not true.
As he said in the first part, it's malarkey.
Where have we heard that before?
From our very honest President Joe Biden.
When I hear that word malarkey, my eyebrow goes up too.
But the second part is the key here.
Because the reporter asks, has there been a relationship, it seems the next part will be, between the US and Ukraine and these labs developing either potential biological weapons or other hazardous biological material that may have nothing to do with any intention of creating weapons?
And John Kirby there, the Pentagon spokesman, cuts him off and he says...
The United States is not developing biological weapons in Ukraine.
It's not happening.
This is very weird phrasing because he's using the present tense.
Obviously, we're not doing really anything in Ukraine right now because Ukraine is being invaded by the Russians.
And apparently there were orders to secure these bio labs at the very beginning of the Russian invasion.
I think we're good to go.
in Ukraine or in Georgia or in any other number of countries around the world.
For the average listener who doesn't pay attention to propaganda and to the way that spokesmen speak, probably that's going to be good enough.
But for people who know that these statements are crafted with real precision and specificity, to me this denial sounds sort of like an admission.
Because if he could actually totally deny the program, I don't think he would have cut off the reporter and used this very particular present tense.
We are not doing this right now at this very moment.
I think he would have said, this has never happened.
This is completely bogus.
Forget about it.
Now, the Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin did a slightly better job of trying to answer this question because that's what I said yesterday.
I said, look, I don't believe Russian propaganda ever.
Russia has a long history of falsely accusing the United States of using bioweapons and then admitting, actually Russia has admitted in private missives that they sent, for instance, to Mao Zedong that they falsely accused the U.S. of bioweapons.
So I don't believe the Russian propaganda.
I don't believe the Chinese propaganda, obviously.
But likewise, I am skeptical of the deep state of my own government, and so I don't believe our propaganda either, and I want to get to the truth.
So Jennifer Griffin at Fox did a slightly better job, but not much.
In terms of Ukraine's bio labs, which have come under scrutiny tonight, those are Soviet-era bio labs that the U.S. has been engaged since 2005 in trying to help Ukraine convert the research facilities safely.
In Uzbekistan, for instance, the United States eliminated nearly 12 tons of weaponized anthrax from an island in the Aral Sea in 2001.
Here's a statement from the Pentagon.
Quote, On a daily basis, Russia propagates either...
Either directly through state-run media outlets or through the use of surrogates, disinformation aimed at BTRPs, the U.S. Biothreat Reduction Programs Laboratory, and capacity-building efforts in former Soviet Union countries.
The Lugar Center in Georgia and the Central Reference Laboratory in Kazakhstan are the primary targets, but more recent disinformation efforts have targeted laboratories in Ukraine.
Through these different disinformation campaigns, Russia falsely claims the United States is developing biological weapons in laboratories in these countries as well as killing local populations with purposeful release of biological agents.
Okay, so the official statement that she's reading, by the way, she's not reading her own reporting.
She's just reading the handout that the Pentagon gave her.
Which is, that's not reporting.
That's not journalism.
That's just repeating talking points from the people that you're supposed to be investigating.
But the official statement is, look, these are Soviet-era biolabs, and the U.S. is just in there to help Ukraine clean them up and get rid of all the bioweapons.
Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
How long does it take to clean up a biolab?
We only began the program in 2005.
That's a pretty long time to wait to clean up the Soviet-era bioweapons laboratories.
Okay, 14 years.
But even since 2005, it's been 17 years.
How long does it take to clean it up?
Well, now some people are saying, well, okay, they weren't just cleaning up.
They're trying to convert them.
They're converting the labs into ordinary scientific laboratories where we're working on totally ordinary normal things that have nothing to do with weaponry or the military.
Okay, fair enough.
Then why is the military still running it?
Why is that when you go to the U.S. Embassy in Kiev's website, when you go to their explainer on this program, they direct you to a.mil website, the military.
All the funding for this program comes from the Pentagon.
So, look.
The U.S. military does a lot of things around the world to ensure the security of the United States and global security.
There are a lot of programs that are secret that civilians don't know about and many that they really can't know about in order to protect the integrity of the programs.
That's fine.
The Russians have their thing.
The Chinese have their thing.
There's a lot of secrecy, a lot of people developing, lots of weapons and doing all sorts of clandestine activities.
But don't lie to me about it.
Because that's really what's disrespectful here.
That's really what's going to destroy the credibility of our own government.
The government here has a lot of answering to do, and they're not doing it.
They're just gaslighting us and calling us all crazy kooks and conspiracy theorists and Russian puppets.
I don't think it's Russian puppetry to ask basic questions about where our taxpayer dollars are going and what sort of activities we're doing around the world, especially at a time of global conflict that could frankly spur World War III. There's the threat of nuclear war.
We need to know what is the actual circumstance of what's going on that has led us to this point.
There's nothing...
There's nothing unpatriotic about that.
It's extremely patriotic and extremely rational for a free country and a free people to ask these questions of their own government.
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Speaking of war, there is some bad news for the West, for NATO, for the European Union, for Ukraine, for the United States, when it comes to what's going on right now with Russia in Eastern Europe, with this war in Ukraine.
The United States...
Has sent Kamala Harris to go and sort out the situation in Eastern Europe.
I am here, standing here on the northern flank, on the eastern flank, talking about what we have in terms of the eastern flank and our NATO allies.
And what is at stake at this very moment?
She couldn't even get the flank right.
They sent her to Poland.
Which is very much not on the northern part of NATO. That is on the eastern part of NATO. She didn't know where she was.
This is a similarity that Kamala has with Joe Biden.
They don't know where they are.
They don't know which end is up.
The speech only got worse from there.
Kamala Harris attempted to rally the troops.
You once had Ronald Reagan show up and say, he shows up to the Brandenburg Gate, Mr.
Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
You once had Winston Churchill speaking in America saying, An iron curtain has descended upon Europe.
From Kamala, you get this.
We all watched the television coverage of just yesterday.
That's on top of everything else that we know and don't know yet based on what we've just been able to see.
And because we've seen it or not doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
But just limited to what we have seen.
I defy anyone to explain to me what that meant.
I defy anyone to try to translate that gibberish into English.
You can't.
And what I mean, I mean this, I'm not really just joking about how inept Kamala Harris is.
I mean this sincerely.
This is really bad news for Ukraine because it means that Joe Biden thinks that Ukraine is already lost.
Joe Biden thinks that Ukraine already belongs to Russia.
because Kamala Harris is Joe Biden's point person on failure Joe Biden sends Kamala Harris to every lost cause To the southern border.
Okay, Kamala's going to be our point person on the southern border now.
That's going to work out great, right?
This is an issue that's impossible.
Nothing's going to happen with it.
And so here goes Kamala.
How's that come along?
Has she fixed that?
I don't think so.
He's sending her now.
Every issue that he doesn't want to deal with because he knows it's a lost cause, that's where he sends Kamala.
So this is unfortunate because as of now, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has gone much slower than a lot of people predicted that it would.
The world has rallied in a much more forceful way against Russia, I think, than Putin thought would happen.
There actually is a chance for at least a negotiated peace to maintain some semblance of Ukrainian sovereignty here.
But you're not going to get that with just abject weakness from Joe Biden.
And you're not going to get that with Kamala Harris showing up in Warsaw to say, we know what we saw and we didn't see.
And what we know we can do, we can do.
If we believe that we know that we can imagine, then we can do it here on the northern side of NATO in Poland.
You're definitely not going to get it there.
Putin already knows that the geopolitical strategy of the Biden administration is confused, to say the least.
But if he now knows that they don't even know where Poland is, you're in a really weak situation.
You need strength, not weakness.
Speaking of strength, you know on this show, it has been set, many people are talking about it, that sometimes we predict the future.
So yesterday or two days ago, after Ron DeSantis endorsed this parental rights in education bill, the CEO of Disney came out strongly against it to Begged DeSantis, do not sign this bill.
It's terrible.
He was going to donate to stop these bills around the country.
And I said, I can't wait for Mac Daddy DeSantis to lay the political body slam on this woke CEO. This is going to look great.
I don't think he's not going to cave like Asa Hutchinson.
He's not going to cave like Kirstie Noem before she reversed course because it was sinking her political career.
I said, I think he's going to stand firm.
Governor DeSantis, take it away.
The chance that I am going to back down from my commitment to students and back down from my commitment to parents' rights simply because of fraudulent media narratives or pressure from woke corporations, the chances of that are zero.
I also think that if you have companies, like a Disney, that are going to say and criticize parents' rights, they're going to criticize the fact that we don't want transgenderism in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, if that's the hill that they're going to die on, then how do they possibly explain lining their pockets with their relationship from the Communist Party of China?
Love it.
That's the answer.
And this is an important lesson in leadership.
I don't just bring it up because it's very satisfying to finally see a politician smack down some woke CEO. This was a real political problem for Ron DeSantis.
Ron DeSantis is the governor in Florida.
Disney is a very big company in Florida.
Disney World is a very important place in Florida.
So the CEO of Disney...
Could cause a lot of problems for Ron DeSantis.
And so there's a world in which what Ron DeSantis wants to do is keep his position and set himself up to run for president.
Simple as that.
And there's a world, I can understand the thinking, that would lead you to believe, okay, well look, I can tick off all the other CEOs.
Disney, this could create a lot of problems.
Alright, maybe I'll try to come to a compromise.
Okay, it'll be that you can't teach radical sexual education to...
Students, first grade through second grade.
But kindergarten and third grade, they're still fine.
How about that?
We'll split the baby.
We'll split the baby down.
Half will be boy, half will be girl.
We're going to split the baby on transgenderism.
Maybe that'll do it.
No.
That would, rather than saving Ron DeSantis' political career in Florida and America, it would have completely destroyed it.
The only argument for Ron DeSantis, for governor and for president, is this guy's tough, this guy's got moral clarity, this guy's not going to back down.
The second he gives an inch on something like this, he's dead in the water.
There's no reason to elect him to anything.
DeSantis knows that sometimes the best defense is a good offense, so he goes on the offense.
Instead of, oh, I'm going to meet with the Disney CEO and I'm going to shake his hand and glad hand him and smile at him.
No, I'm going to go out there and I'm going to say, screw you!
You're trying to abuse children.
You hate parents.
I'm never going to back down defending parents.
You're a monster.
I hate your guts.
And you can go pound sand, buddy.
That's not only a good offense, it's a good defense, too.
Because now you've got the Disney CEO back-footed.
You've got him on his heels.
What's he going to do?
He's probably going to back off.
Also because the parents are on DeSantis' side.
Also because Disney's supposed to be a family company.
And the families are on the side of Ron DeSantis.
It's a very small minority of families or Disney customers for the theme parks and the movies and the merchandise.
It's a very small percentage that support radical transgender theory in first grade.
So what DeSantis has done is not tried to just massage everything and make everyone happy.
He's just put himself in a very strong position.
Maybe Joe Biden could learn a lesson from that.
Maybe the United States could start doing that on the world stage.
Rather than, for instance, in Ukraine, giving Vladimir Putin direct access to the European oil market and hoping that that keeps him happy enough not to invade Ukraine.
Rather than literally inviting him to invade just the eastern part of Ukraine and then hoping he'll stop there.
Weakness is going to breed more violence and chaos.
But if you have a little strength, if you've got credible threats, that is going to breed a lot more peace.
And you're seeing this, by the way.
You're seeing the Florida model.
The Florida and Virginia model on the social issues, on transgenderism, on critical race theory, on the social issues, is now being adopted in a lot of other states.
Georgia is now adopting the Don't Say Gay bill, like a parental rights and education bill.
Idaho is going even further than that.
So the absolutely wonderful, great news coming out of Georgia is that Georgia's SB 613 bill says, quote, no private or non-public school or program to which this chapter applies shall promote, compel, or encourage classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in or encourage classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not appropriate for the age and developmental stage of the Almost point for point, the same as the Florida law, Good stuff.
Again, just for conservatives and Republicans broadly across the country, It's going to be a lot easier to get these kind of totally common sense laws put into place if a lot of states start doing it.
If it's only Florida, then the Democrats and the libs and the radical transgenderists are going to focus all of their efforts on just killing it in Florida.
But if it pops up in Florida and Georgia and Idaho and all over the country, they're not going to be able to aim all their guns, their ideological and financial guns at Florida.
They're going to be spread out.
You're going to have a lot better chance of these laws remaining in place all over the country.
Idaho's done even better.
Idaho just voted to make transing the kids a felony.
Idaho's house just passed HB 675, Really important to look into this.
It was passed by a vote of 55 to 13, so not even close.
And it would make providing...
On the liberal side, they call it gender-affirming care to trans teens a felony with a life sentence.
What does it really mean?
It means pumping confused little kids full of hormones and potentially mutilating their genitals...
It defines that as child abuse and a felony with a potential life sentence.
Absolutely.
Frankly, a life sentence is a little lenient, if you ask me, for mutilating a poor little confused child's body.
Yeah, I think that's absolutely right.
This is more of what we need to see.
The way that conservatives have run the cultural game for years is always on the defensive.
We're always negotiating against ourselves.
Instead of saying, hey, I want abortion banned.
It's killing babies and it should be illegal.
We say, well, what if, could we maybe just, could we ban it at 20, 26 weeks?
Would that be fine?
Or...
And maybe 25 weeks?
No, and then that's where the Overton window sits.
That's where the negotiation begins.
Trump kind of showed us this with the art of the deal, right?
You always ask for as much as you possibly can.
As much as you can possibly credibly ask for.
Maybe you go even a little further than that.
And then, wherever the negotiation ends up, it's going to be much more favorable toward you.
Great law being passed in Idaho.
I want to see more of that.
In every conservative state in the country, I want to see that law being passed.
The other side of the ideology is just really weird and creepy.
We just got a video of this, of Chastain.
Chastain is Pete Buttigieg's partner, and he is...
Pretty outspoken, obviously, on some of these social issues if you're associated with Mr.
Buttigieg, who tries to make every single thing he's doing, every time he passes some mundane regulation at the Transportation Department, he tries to make it seem like he's the most radical social reformer in America and set himself up for president.
Well, Buttigieg's partner, Chasen, a clip just came out of him running a gay camp With bizarre, cultish overtones.
All right.
I pledge my heart to the rainbow of the not-so-typical gay camp.
One camp full of pride, indivisible, with affirmation and equal rights for all.
Watch your heads.
And then he waves the rainbow flag.
This stunt that he pulled is extremely unpatriotic and extremely sacrilegious.
And I still find this guy more likable than Pete Buttigieg.
Somehow.
Pete is just that unlikable.
But what he did here is really unpatriotic.
You're asking people to pledge their, not just their allegiance, pledge their hearts to the gay flag.
He rewrites the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag and takes out the American flag and takes out God and replaces under God with full of pride, not only a deadly sin, but the deadliest of the seven deadly sins.
It's commonly been called the queen of vice.
Now, some people say it is the vice of queens.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I've just heard that.
It's quite an inversion.
But he says, you must pledge your heart full of pride to the rainbow flag.
This is a lot more than just a boy who likes another boy.
Okay, this is a lot more than just a sexual desire.
And this is a lot more than even pursuing a sexual desire that might be unusual.
This is a radical ideology.
I've said it for a long time.
LGBT, LMNOP, and it goes on and on.
They're selling this to you as though it were just a way to be nice to people with sort of unusual sexual desires.
Sex is almost secondary to the thing.
It is a full-on political, cultural, religious worldview that replaces America with your own Why isn't it celebrating love?
Why isn't it celebrating individuality?
Why pride?
There's always these sort of strange religious overtones to it.
Do you know who unearthed the clip?
It wasn't some homophobic, right-wing, anti-gay.
It was the Log Cabin Republicans.
It's the gay Republican group unearthed that clip because there were a lot of guys who were attracted to other guys who looked at that and said, whoa, man, whatever that is, I'm out.
Count me out of that, please.
I don't want to be a part of that.
The cultural battle that we are seeing right now, especially in these laws in the schools in Florida, the rule in Georgia and Idaho, in Virginia, for that matter, with the governor's race with Glenn Youngkin, the two sides are Hey, maybe don't trans the kids, and Chasen and Pete Buttigieg.
Those are the two polls.
It's, hey, let's not tell my five-year-olds that maybe he's actually a little girl, versus pledge your heart full of pride to the rainbow flag.
Huzzah, huzzah.
What do you think is going to win?
What do you think is more popular?
What do you think is...
A more normal, stable, attractive view of the individual and of society.
I think it's probably going to be the don't trans the kids side of things.
This is a full ideology.
But before we get to the mailbag, the Democrats had to rush through their last minute legislation the last few days because House Democrats had to make it to a retreat to be entertained by a drag queen.
Not a joke.
This is being hosted by DCCC Chair Sean Maloney.
The DCCC is the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee.
This retreat they all ran off to included a musical performance by a drag queen named Lady Bunny.
Lady Bunny is actually a pretty funny fella because he's not just totally on board with the Democrats.
He's apparently made lots of jokes about Hillary Clinton and how terrible she is.
As far as drag queens go, I kind of like Lady Bunny, but still...
House members should not be going on retreats to watch entertainment by drag queens.
And then it got me thinking, what's the difference between a drag queen and a transgender person?
On the surface, they're exactly the same, right?
Men who identify or pretend to be women and dress up like women and present themselves as women to the world.
Except one group knows that they're men, and the other group is pretending that they're not men.
The difference is self-awareness.
The difference is one knows that they are engaging in a kind of virtual reality when they put on the lipstick and the stilettos.
The other one believes that virtual reality is real.
They think that virtual reality, that what we're being sold, and our lives are increasingly virtual, right?
We're spending our lives scrolling.
Increasingly, we're spending our lives on our computers.
We can work from home.
We don't need to be connected so much to the physical world.
Well, that...
That is the shift.
It's that self-awareness.
And we're losing a lot of that self-awareness.
We talk about disinformation, whether it's coming from the Pentagon, whether it's coming from the Russians, whether it's coming from the Chinese, whether it's coming from Jussie Smollett.
The more detached you are from the physical world, the easier it is to fall prey to that kind of disinformation.
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First question up from Mike.
Hello, fellow name bearer.
Mike writes, I am looking for some advice on making decisions.
Not what should I have for dinner decisions, but work or life decisions.
I get into analysis paralysis and have an extremely difficult and emotional time deciding.
I've heard all the platitudes, just flip a coin, just figure it out, make a pro and con list.
But none of those things give me any clarity when it comes to making a choice.
Do you have any advice to help decision making to make it a little less painful?
I'm with you.
I am exactly the same way.
When I have to decide...
I'll give you a great example.
I was repainting my dining room.
I... This process dragged on for months.
Sweet little Elise and I were in disagreement.
Do we want green?
No.
Or do we want red, as all dining rooms should be painted?
So we're going back and forth.
We're getting other people's opinions.
I ask friends.
I ask people whose aesthetic opinions I trust.
We go on and on.
Finally, we decide red.
Then we've got to decide what red.
I get a thousand swatches.
Not really a thousand.
I probably got, I don't know, 20 or 30 swatches.
None of the swatches worked.
I said, no, we've got to get this swatch.
We've got to get this swatch.
Right at the very end, I was about to pick one and I heard about a different kind of paint from a different company.
I went, we ordered another one.
We finally got that one.
I said, this I think is the perfect one.
Let's go with it.
And it was the right color.
This took months and months and months.
With some decisions, you can do that because it doesn't really matter what color your walls are painted and when you paint them.
Some decisions are more urgent.
Hey, what job am I going to take?
Hey, am I going to get married?
Hey, what even sort of what car am I going to buy?
Your car is breaking down.
You got to pick a car.
The way that I would...
Look, for some decisions, take your time.
Who cares?
It doesn't really matter.
But for the ones where you really need to decide quickly, just know that as long as you're not doing something immoral, as long as you're not doing something unjust, and they're both certified, you just have to pick.
Because sometimes indecision...
Is worse than the wrong decision.
There's this poem by Robert Frost.
Do you know that it's probably the most famous poem by Robert Frost?
And it's completely misunderstood.
The poem is The Road Not Taken.
People think it's called The Road Less Traveled, but it's not.
It's called The Road Not Taken.
The poem goes, two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other as just as fair and having perhaps the better claim because it was grassy and wanted wear.
Though as for that, the passing there had worn them really about the same.
And each that morning equally lay and leaves no step had trodden black.
I kept the first for another day, but knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted that I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
People think this is a poem about individuality and how you have to go do your own thing and the thing that most people aren't doing.
It's not.
There is no road less traveled by in the poem.
They equally lay and leaves no step in trodden black.
They're about equally traveled.
He just picked one.
And then he later on was longing and thinking about the decision that he didn't make.
And then he creates this narrative for himself about how it was so important to make the decision that he did make.
But it was just...
Chance.
It was just fortune.
It was just life.
He just made a decision.
And so I hate to come back to that first bit of advice there, but when it comes to urgent matters where you actually need to move on and you can't wait to paint your room for six months, just make the decision.
And somewhere ages and ages hence, you can say with a sigh, I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
From Tegan.
Hey, Michael.
Me and my wife were discussing the recent phenomenon of women not taking the last name of their husband after marriage.
They keep their maiden name.
The reason for this is because they want to break tradition, fight against the patriarchy, and keep their own identity.
My question is, how do I explain why it's important for women to take the last name of the man after they get married with your famous wisdom?
You're the reason I subscribe to The Daily Wire.
Thanks for all the work you do.
Here's how you explain it to them.
Ask these women where they got their last name.
Where it...
They got their last name from their fathers.
The patriarchy wins again.
Now, maybe you're talking to a really young woman.
A Zoomer who's lived in political correctness and is several generations in now to this kind of woke, politically correct world.
Maybe she got her last name from her mother.
I don't know.
It's rare, but it happens.
Ask that young woman where her mother got her last name.
From her mother's father, because the patriarchy wins in the end.
The decision is not between becoming subservient to the man and girl power when you're deciding whether to keep your maiden name or to take on your husband's name.
Either way, you've got a man's name.
The question is, am I going to identify primarily in this new family that I am creating through my marriage, or am I going to identify primarily by my old family before the marriage?
And what does that say about the marriage and the family that I am in now?
That's the question.
A lot of people get tricked into this by feminism.
Feminism is very wily, but it's really pretty simple.
You're not choosing between me, the girl power, or my husband.
You're just deciding, okay, who do I identify with more, my husband or my daddy?
From Jen.
Hey Michael, or shall I say Noel Stradamus, thank you.
I love that you've become the love guru of the Daily Wire.
My question is about being friends with someone who shut down a romantic relationship, but kind of offered friendship instead.
Is it ever worth it to be friends with someone that you have a crush on, though it is unrequited?
especially if you weren't friends before but enjoyed hanging out with them.
Thanks and praying I won't have to settle like you slightly hint that women of a certain age should do.
Maybe.
I'm not saying it's impossible and maybe you and he really hit it off in some platonic way and you'll enjoy playing bridge together and never long for anything more.
But if you are a single woman, you're interested in this guy romantically.
You're saying that you're, I think you're implying in your question that you want to settle down and get married and start a family.
Why would you waste your time on this guy who's not interested in you?
Well, the only reason would be because you think that you can persuade him to be interested in you romantically in the long run.
And maybe you can and maybe you can't, but that's quite the gamble.
You don't have infinite time.
You're probably working or studying.
You've got other commitments in your life.
You've got other people to see.
And so in those precious few hours that you have to yourself where you can look toward finding a boyfriend or fiance or husband or settling down, why would you waste it on some dude who says, no, I pretty much just want to play Pinochle with you forever until we go our separate ways?
I wouldn't do that.
I probably would not do that.
I'd go find a hunk if I were you.
From Andrew.
Michael, always enjoy your show.
Thanks for doing what you do.
Another dating and relationship question.
Why not?
How many dates should I give someone before deciding there isn't really any chemistry and moving on?
I tend to go on at least two or three, but most of the time, the more I get to know a girl, the less interesting and attractive she seems to me.
Never a good sign.
Having said that, I also recently turned 36, so I also can't discount that I'm the problem.
Too picky, unrealistic expectations, etc.
My general thinking was that attraction should be something that grows naturally.
But do you think that I'm not giving women enough of a shot for a relationship to develop?
Signed, the crotchety millennial.
Probably you are the problem.
and potentially the places you're looking to find women are a problem too.
You say that you become consistently less attracted to these women.
That's probably because what is attracting you in them is not really in them.
It's not really love.
It's a sort of infatuation.
It's just a hologram that you are superimposing over these women, which is your own fantasy of what a woman should be.
And I don't know why that is.
Lots of different behaviors.
Dating lots of women can do that.
Looking at porn can do that.
Creates unrealistic expectations.
Reading certain books can do that, too.
But then when you get to know the actual woman, you like them less and less and less.
So I'm not here just to scold you.
You should figure out what it is that is not attractive about these women to you.
And then stop seeking out women who have those qualities.
There are plenty of women that I know who physically are very attractive where I think I'd probably take a walk to the rickety stool store if we ever ended up getting married because I just couldn't bear it.
We're just not compatible.
We don't really go together very well.
So don't pursue those women.
Are you meeting those women in bars?
Well then stop meeting women in bars.
Maybe try to find a woman...
And through a mutual friend, through a family member, through a friend of a colleague, maybe you meet this woman in church, maybe you, I don't know, whatever.
But clearly you are doing something wrong.
If you've made it this far and you still find these women unattractive, then something, not just about you necessarily, but about your strategy is wrong.
And also I would, when you find a woman to go on a date, maybe you're going on too many dates for that matter.
Women are not just cheap disposable things.
In our swiping right culture, it's very easy to think of them that way.
Maybe you're getting a little too frisky too soon with some of these women.
And so it's easier to see them merely as vessels for your pleasure rather than actual dignified creatures made in the image of God with whom you could share your life and become one flesh.
So if that is the case, perhaps wait to go on a date until you find a woman who Who actually has a quality about her that you find attractive and is not merely a convenient way to spend a Wednesday or Thursday night.
From Jake.
Hello, one who sees the future and turns it into an ad segue.
In my friend group, there have been more and more debates regarding porn, specifically only fans.
There was an article saying that one in five women in New York are considering doing it to pay rent.
Oh my goodness.
They all said the typical, it's their body, so it's their choice, or as long as she is not being forced to, it's fine.
Just don't watch it if you don't like porn when we are debating it.
How can I, as a conservative, destroy these fools with facts and references to Cardinal Manning?
Thanks very much.
Oh, well, you just say it's wrong.
The whole my body, my choice thing is just fake.
You don't have the right to do whatever you want to your body.
Everyone understood this in America until about five minutes ago.
This is why we have laws against drugs.
Not even just laws against driving while on drugs or being in public while on drugs.
We also have laws against those things.
But we also have laws just against possessing certain drugs.
Because you do not have total autonomy to do whatever you want with your own body.
Suicide is against the law.
In a lot of places.
Actually, in some places it's legal now.
But traditionally it's against the law.
Why?
Because you don't have the right to do whatever you want with your own body.
Because you don't have the right to do things that are wrong.
And it's wrong to sell yourself like you're just a meat puppet, and it's wrong to consume those sorts of things, and to trade in those sorts of things.
And we still have laws against all of that in this country, and they're enforced sometimes, and other times they're not enforced.
But it's not good for these women.
Well, they need it to make money.
No, they don't.
No, they don't.
I know.
Look, I'm a New Yorker.
New York's a very expensive place.
I know it takes a lot of hustle to make it there.
You don't need to sell your body.
You don't need to become a prostitute to make it there.
And if you do, move to Brooklyn.
If you do, Hoboken's really nice.
It's not worth it.
It's really not worth it.
It's going to really mess up your life.
It's going to mess up your relationships.
It's going to mess up your sense of yourself.
Do not...
It's not worth it so that you can have that really nice 500-square-foot studio apartment in Hell's Kitchen.
I promise you.
Probably you're not even going to afford that.
You're probably going to afford a small one-bedroom apartment with four roommates.
That glitz, that dream ain't worth it.
How do you convince people that it's wrong to treat their bodies like they're just purely flesh?
Because you're not purely flesh.
Because we're talking.
Because we have reason.
Because we can communicate.
Because we have longings and loves and desires and joys.
Because we're more than our bodies, we're also our souls.
And we need to make sense of that too.
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