Ep. 1129 - Based Moms Strike Fear Into The Heart Of Woke School Boards
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The only political group on the right that is winning right now is moms.
It's not the GOP congressman.
It's certainly not the GOP senators.
Those losers are selling our whole political order down the river, as they made perfectly clear yesterday.
We'll get to that in just a minute.
We'll get to that in just a minute.
Those guys are useless.
No.
The only political group on the right, right now, that is scoring wins is moms at school boards.
Listen to this.
The Berkeley County School District in South Carolina just swore in its new school board members who were elected last week, six of whom were endorsed by the conservative group Moms for Liberty.
Within two hours, the new members replaced the board chairman with a solid conservative, fired the district's woke superintendent, fired the district's woke lawyer, banned critical race theory from the curricula, and set up a committee to round up all the idiotic and pornographic books from the school and set up a committee to round up all the idiotic and pornographic books Two hours.
Imagine what they could do in two weeks, two months, two years, two decades.
That's vision.
That's courage.
That is the right way to wield political power.
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Absolutely phenomenal stuff from the Moms for Liberty and the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina.
But you're seeing this around the country.
There was another mother.
She just showed up to a school board meeting in Texas.
She showed up to this school board meeting, and she just read from a book that is in the school library.
Listener discretion advised, if your kids are listening right now, maybe just skip ahead 30 seconds or a minute.
Listen to the way that the board reacts to the book that is in the school library.
What we fill our minds with matters.
Consider that as I read this from a current library book.
This one couple stumbled into my room and asked if they could use the room anyway with me still in it.
They closed the door and started kissing.
After a few minutes, the boy's hand went up the girl's shirt and she started protesting.
Pretty soon, he took off her bra and started to kiss her breasts.
And then he put his hand down her pants and she started moaning.
Thank you.
The boy pushed the girl's head down and she started to kiss his p***.
She was still crying.
Finally, she stopped crying because he put his p*** in her m*** and I don't think you can cry in that position.
I ask you why this book has survived two attempts.
Your time is up.
Thank you so much.
And there's a child in our boardroom, so I'd like for you to please stop reading that.
Did you see the child?
Okay.
Then your time is up.
Thank you.
So they cut off her microphone so you can't hear her response, but you can hear the people laughing in the audience.
She says, excuse me, ma'am, there's a child here.
You need to stop reading from the books in our school library.
There's a child here.
You hear the audience say, yeah, right, that's the point.
And the mother's there.
She goes, no, I didn't see the child, but that's the point.
What are you talking about?
Ma'am, that's very pornographic and obscene and not appropriate for children.
Stop reading the books that we put in our libraries.
Out loud.
Don't read the books that we're teaching your kids.
No, the real reason that the school board doesn't want that mother to read the book is not because a child might hear it.
It's because the other parents might hear it.
And the other parents might realize what insane radicals are running the schools.
So this is good stuff.
It's good when the parents come out there and expose this stuff.
It's good when the handful of people in the conservative media who will break through that kind of mainstream gatekeeper and actually tell you what's really going on.
It's good when that happens to expose these things.
That can't be the end of the story.
The end of the story cannot be, look at how crazy the left is.
Wow, they're hypocrites.
They, those guys, man, they're bad.
They say that they're good, but they're really bad.
That can't be the end of the story.
The end of the story has to be, yeah, it's bad.
We've exposed the problem.
We see the problem.
After that diagnosis, we need to take action.
The end of the story has to be, We elect new school board members, and they immediately fly into action, fire the crazy teachers, fire the superintendent, fire the chairman of the school board, kick all of them out, and start banning these pornographic books from schools.
You have to do stuff.
And the libs aren't going to like that.
And the libs are going to try to convince the conservatives that actually it's not very conservative to actually do anything.
This is what happened for the past 20 or so years on the right, is that the libs convinced the right to adopt this kind of weird, libertarian kind of shallow ethos where the conservatives convinced themselves that doing anything in politics is somehow immoral or unprincipled.
Well, it would be, you know, if we do anything, then that would make us no different from the left.
The left, you see, puts a bunch of weird porn in schools.
But if we take the weird porn out of schools, we're no different than the left.
No, we're totally different.
That's the opposite, actually.
You're saying if we wield political power, we're no different from the left?
No, I guess we would be similar to the left in that we would be actually participating in politics.
But we would be the opposite of the left because we would be doing the opposite things.
They want to make our country worse.
We want to make our country better.
They want to peddle falsehood.
We want to peddle the truth.
We want to reveal the truth and inculcate the truth in the minds, especially, of young children.
This is why education has become such a flashpoint.
Because for years, the conservatives, we threw up our hands, we retreated from the public square, we said, well, you know, you do you, but I'm out of here, okay?
I'm just going to go off to my own little island, and that's not going to work.
Because that just gives the political space all over to the left.
So now, conservatives have woken up.
This occurred during the Trump years.
This was really one of the consequences of the new Trumpian approach to politics, which is not really new at all.
It's actually a reversion to the old right.
It's a reversion to how conservatives rightly understood politics to be until about 20, 25 years ago.
And the moms started showing up to the school boards.
And then the moms started electing people.
And then the moms are the reason why Glenn Youngkin became the Republican governor of Virginia.
And the moms are the reason why Ron DeSantis has been so successful in Florida.
And what is one of Ron DeSantis' greatest pieces of legislation he's passed?
It's the Stop Woke Act.
The Stop Woke Act, which says, no, we are going to have standards.
We are going to have norms.
We're going to give parents rights in education.
We're not going to let these radicals just poison the minds of children.
And so now...
The Libs are relying not on the people.
The people love the Stop Woke Act.
The people hate it when the radicals try to poison our kids' brains with weird race stuff and transgenderism and all the rest of it.
So now the left is relying on the judges.
And the judges are trying to stop the parents from having a say over their kids' education.
This is what Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker just said as he issued a preliminary injunction to stop the Stop Woke Act.
By the way, it refers to stop wrongs to our kids and employees.
Politicians love a good initialism.
They do, or a good acronym.
So this is what the judge had to say about it.
The judge says that lacking explicit standards to circumscribe enforcement of objectivity, defendants can weaponize this term to further discredit the eight concepts in the marketplace of ideas, which now permits endorsement of only one side of the debate.
Accordingly, because this objectivity savings clause commands the entire statute, the IFA, this is another way to refer to the Stop Woke Act as the Individual Freedom Act, is impermissibly vague on its face in violation of the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Let me translate that gobbledygook into English for you.
The judge is saying that by kicking radicalism and transgenderism and critical race theory and all this nonsense out of our schools, that we're threatening the free marketplace of ideas.
Then we'll only have one side of the debates.
Now, two problems with this.
One...
Would you describe classrooms today as a free marketplace of ideas where all sides are heard and well represented?
Or would you describe it as an ideological echo chamber where only leftism thrives?
Obviously, it's the latter.
The idea that there is a free marketplace of ideas in our classrooms today is completely preposterous.
I don't think I need to explain myself.
You've all seen the videos of me and other people going to classrooms all around the country.
You've been to school yourself.
Your kids have been to school.
You understand what this means.
But second of all, Even if there were such a thing as a free marketplace of ideas in classrooms, there really shouldn't be.
Certainly not in elementary schools or middle schools.
Do you really believe a fourth grade classroom is supposed to be a free marketplace of ideas where new scientific discoveries are being made?
Of course not.
It's a place to learn your ABCs and two plus two equals four and boys are boys and girls are girls.
The problem is that these days, the kids in the schools are learning that two plus two equals five and that little Johnny actually can be little Jane.
Just don't tell your parents, head on down to the guidance counselor and he's going to give you some puberty blockers.
That's what's happening.
Of course, there's no free marketplace of ideas.
In early education, at the very least, there is coercion to learn a certain set of facts.
And if you get those facts wrong on your test, you're going to get a bad grade and flunk out.
That's what it really is.
Even the justification for a free marketplace of ideas is that, well, that will allow new discoveries to be made and advance the human race.
It's a dubious prospect in many cases, but let's say even that that were true.
Even if it were true, that's not happening in third grade.
It's just complete nonsense from the federal judge who is feeling threatened that leftism is not going to have its absolute establishment in the elementary schools and throughout education.
It's really not good, okay?
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Federal judge in Florida stopping Ron DeSantis' Stop Woke Act by claiming it threatens the free marketplace of ideas that doesn't exist, but also saying this.
He says, one thing is crystal clear.
Both robust intellectual inquiry and democracy require light to thrive.
Our professors are critical to a healthy democracy.
And the state of Florida's decision to choose which viewpoints are worthy of illumination and which must remain in the shadows has implications for us all.
If our priests of democracy are not allowed to shed light on challenging ideas, then democracy will die in darkness.
There's a federal judge writing this nonsense.
But the First Amendment does not permit the state of Florida to muzzle its university professors, impose its own orthodoxy of viewpoints, and cast us all into the dark.
Hold on.
The First Amendment does not permit the state of Florida to impose its own orthodoxy of viewpoints.
On the priests of democracy, which is how the judge describes the professors.
Do you see the problem there?
The judge is saying that the people of Florida, the people as represented by the state, have no right to have their own moral views.
They have no right to impose that orthodoxy into the classroom, and by impose it means set the standards for the community that is going to be taught to the children.
Instead, the priests of democracy have that exclusive right to impose their orthodoxy.
The people don't have the right to orthodoxy, to their beliefs.
It's the leftists.
They're the only ones with the right to their orthodoxy, which is evil and wrong.
I just, anytime someone tells you leftism is not a religion, please quote them Judge Walker's opinion on the Stop Woke Act.
He is admitting it is a religion.
The professors are the priests of that religion.
He then goes on to quote a slogan from a left-wing newspaper, the Washington Post.
Democracy will die in darkness.
I mean, this is really sad stuff.
Really sad stuff that a federal judge has the intellect and education that stops at the level of popular newspaper slogans.
Really pathetic how far our country has fallen.
But an important reminder that this is a religious battle.
And I know there's a lot of conservatives who say, I'm not all that religious.
I'm sort of agnostic.
Oh, come on, enough with the religion talk.
I didn't start the religion talk, okay?
The religion talk is all around politics because all human conflict is theological.
It's the left that is imposing the religion talk.
The religion of leftism.
The priests of which are the professors in the universities and the teachers and all the rest of the apparatchiks in this hierarchy of the church of leftism.
And the only way to fight that bad religion is with good religion.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Man is fundamentally a religious being.
We have ultimate questions that we have to answer, that inevitably we are going to grapple with.
What is death?
What is judgment?
Is there a heaven?
Is there a hell?
What am I for?
What is the good life?
Who made me?
What is life?
Those are questions that will not be answered by God.
History.
Or natural science.
Or, I don't know, chemistry.
They can't be answered by those things.
Those are questions that ultimately have to be answered by religion.
And they will either be answered by false religion, like the religion of Judge Walker here.
Or by true religion, by Christianity, by the religion that animates and built our entire civilization.
And you've got to pick a side.
If you stand in the middle of the road, you will be run over by a truck.
You're either with God or against God, is what it ultimately comes down to.
And I think the greatest trick the devil ever played is pretending that he doesn't exist.
And for a long time, the leftists have pretended that they're just secular.
You know, they're just secular.
They don't have this religion stuff.
That's all hooey from the dark ages or whatever.
No, they're admitting it.
They're admitting that they have a religion.
So you're either going to be part of their religion or you're going to be part of true religion.
I advise you to choose wisely.
As the Libs' awful sort of religion of leftism takes over.
Unfortunately, I'm sorry to say, many so-called conservatives are going along with it.
This was so pathetic yesterday.
Democrats in Congress just proposed a further destruction of the family.
The family has been very weakened.
It's been weakened for 60 years now.
The left has done everything it can to weaken the family.
Now they're trying to deal a death blow.
And that would be through something they euphemistically call the Respect for Marriage Act.
The Respect for Marriage Act would codify the Obergefell decision, which invents a new definition marriage, completely contrary to the actual definition of marriage that has prevailed everywhere for all of human history.
And it would codify it and go further.
It would prohibit businesses from following their conscience, from being Christian or Jewish or Muslim.
Though, as a practical matter, they will only enforce this against Christians.
They would, This sort of law would make Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cake Shop illegal.
If you don't want to participate in a gay wedding, that will be illegal now if you're a business.
It's a radical, radical redefinition of the family, which is the fundamental unit of society.
So I'm not surprised that the Libs peddle this.
They hate the family.
They hate society.
And they want to destroy the country.
But I am disgusted that conservatives would go along with it.
And a dozen of them did.
These are the senators who went along with it.
There were a bunch of congressmen in the House when this passed a while ago.
And then the senators yesterday went along with it to advance this legislation beyond the filibuster, which puts it on a fast track to being passed.
Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, So Roy Blunt from Missouri.
Richard Burr from North Carolina.
Shelley Capito from West Virginia.
Susan Collins from Maine.
Joni Ernst from Iowa.
Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming.
It's too bad.
I actually like her.
But horrible, horrible judgment here.
Lisa Murkowski from Alaska.
Rob Portman from Ohio.
And of course, Mitt Romney from Utah.
Absolutely pathetic.
So these people, these conservatives...
Can't conserve anything.
They can't conserve anything.
We joke about how, oh, these conservatives, they can't even conserve the women's bathroom.
They can't conserve anything.
They can't conserve the basic unit of society.
They just are Democrats.
They just are liberals.
And they're radical liberals.
They're liberals further to the left of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in 2011, okay?
That's how radical they are.
What is marriage?
A lot of people just don't understand this anymore.
Marriage is the lifelong communion of a husband and his wife for the good of the spouses and for the sake of the generation and education of children.
That's what marriage is.
Why can't two people who love each other just get married?
Well, they can.
But not all love is the same.
And not all unions are the same.
I love my grandmother.
I'm not going to marry my grandmother.
I love my friends.
I'm not going to marry my friends.
I love my co-workers.
I'm not going to marry my co-workers.
What is marriage?
Marriage cannot be redefined because marriage is not merely a social construct or a sort of political contrivance.
Marriage is a natural institution.
This is defined by Aristotle, defined by St.
Thomas Aquinas.
The natural state of man, man is a pairing creature.
We are connubial creatures, even more than political creatures.
And we are drawn to propagate the species with our spouse and to help one another.
That's what marriage is.
So you cannot redefine it.
Sexual difference is at the very heart of marriage.
If you don't get that, you don't get anything as a conservative.
If you cannot conserve the natural institution, maybe one of the most fundamental aspects of human nature, you can't conserve anything.
So why did these people vote for it?
Why did they vote for it?
I suspect some because they're just absolute disgraceful sellouts like Mitt Romney, but some because they think, well, it's a lost cause.
It's a lost cause.
People support the redefinition of marriage now, so Michael, give up.
It's a lost cause.
That's what they told us about abortion for 49 years.
It's a lost cause.
Give it up.
Oh, come on.
It's a lost cause.
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One of the great Twitter people, DE, at TK Dillon, made a great point.
He said, you've got to talk about this on the show.
It's a quote from T.S. Eliot on lost causes.
And T.S. Eliot writes...
If we take the widest and wisest view of a cause, there is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause.
We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successor's victory, though that victory itself will be temporary.
We fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
Of course there's no such thing as a lost cause.
We know this because when we win something, we have to fight like hell to preserve it.
Because we know that that thing that we won is on the brink of decay at any given moment.
On the brink of collapse.
So if there are no one causes, there are no lost causes.
People say, well, move on.
Who cares?
It's just the definition of marriage.
It's kind of everything, isn't it?
Why won't you just give this up and move on?
Because if we cannot preserve the fundamental political institution...
We can't conserve anything at all.
And the tax thing doesn't matter.
Immigration doesn't matter.
I mean, kind of like nothing matters.
If you fundamentally reorder your society down to that atomic level, okay, then it's just a matter of time.
Do not do that.
I think, even for the conservatives who say, well, who cares about marriage?
I'm not with you on this one, Michael.
You crazy religious people.
You crazy Christians.
And Jews and Muslims and everybody for all, and virtuous pagans and everybody for all of history.
I just, come on, I don't see it.
Ask yourself, why don't you get it?
Have a little bit of humility, perhaps, and ask yourself, why is it that statistically every single person for all of history and 100% of the smart people for all of history have thought that marriage means one thing until seven or so years ago?
Including the leftists until about 11 years ago.
And now, I think that all those people were wrong.
Why?
Why is it?
And when people say, I just don't understand the issue of marriage.
Well, right, that's the problem.
And maybe have a little humility.
And do not take on a stance on this issue.
Do not destroy marriage until you understand why people thought the way they thought about it in the first place.
It's just Chesterton's fence.
Before you walk into the middle of a field, you see a fence.
The fence appears to have no purpose.
And you say, okay, I'm going to tear down that fence because I don't know what it's there for.
You've got to take a pause and say, hold on, it is not until I figure out what it is there for that I will tear it down.
Because I don't want to go into this thing ignorantly and potentially destroy society, which is what the people have done.
Now, a little bit of good news, better news coming out of the House of Representatives.
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And with great confidence in our caucus, I will not seek re-election through democratic leadership in the next caucus.
Nancy Pelosi is out.
I love that was a Daily Wire video of a superposition of Nancy Pelosi in a bar.
See, Nancy, she's gone.
So she's no longer going to be the Speaker of the House because she's not in the majority anymore, and she is not going to run for House Minority Leader, which means, in fact, she'll keep her seat in the House of Representatives, but Nancy Pelosi is done.
She is done as a major force in American politics.
She held on for a very long time.
Now she is done.
Now the Republicans are taking over.
What are the Republicans going to do?
Well, we've got an announcement from Representative James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, who says they are going to waste no time getting to investigate Hunter and Joe Biden.
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I want to be clear.
This is an investigation of Joe Biden.
Okay, so I like the way he frames this.
He says, this is not just an investigation of Hunter Biden, who nobody really cares about, but it's an investigation of Joe Biden, right?
We see on Hunter Biden's laptop, he says 10% goes to the big guy.
So is Hunter just off there on his own, making a bunch of money without any knowledge of his father, trading on his father's name, getting his father to potentially make some phone calls?
Or is this corruption that implicates Joe?
I like it.
I think it's important to investigate Hunter Biden.
I think it's important to investigate Anthony Fauci.
Even though Fauci now is quitting so that he hopefully doesn't get investigated, in his views, I hope he still does.
We need to do all of this.
However, I go back to those Moms for Liberty-backed candidates at the school board.
We need results.
Very often House panels don't do anything.
There's lots and lots of investigation and it amounts to nothing.
When the Democrats do it, there's the January 6th investigation that's not going to do anything.
And then there's the Benghazi investigation that didn't do very much.
And on and on and on.
We need results.
If this investigation is not going to end in Joe Biden or people very close to him in orange jumpsuits, then just don't do it.
Then spend your time on other stuff.
It's very frustrating to me that we spend a ton of money sending people to Washington, D.C. as conservatives, and they conserve basically nothing.
And as we saw this week with the Republicans in the Senate, they can't conserve even the basic fundamental political unit.
And then we spend very little money sending women to school boards.
And then they actually get things done that actually matter in Americans' lives and shape the minds of the next generation.
So when I'm looking at those two things, I'm thinking, okay, maybe I'm not going to write as many checks to the Republicans in Congress who don't do anything anyway.
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Hi, Michael.
I just found out that I am having a boy.
I'm pregnant with my first child and I am a hairstylist, so I've been excitedly announcing that to people.
But I had an encounter today where one of my clients was less than thrilled about my news and she was telling me how We would have to basically untrain my son from the patriarchy and how he was going to be privileged and just born that way.
I feel like I didn't know what to say and I didn't really defend him and I feel like maybe I should have.
My husband said I did the right thing by not making a big encounter with someone who I'm trying to be professional with.
I wondered if you had any thoughts about how to handle...
I think your instinct is probably more correct than your husband's, but it depends on how the woman said it.
Did the woman say, oh, you're having a boy.
Oh, you know, he's going to have that patriarchy.
You're going to have to train him to be a good little feminist.
Hee hee hee.
And then you can say, oh, hee hee hee.
I think he'll be just fine.
Don't worry.
Hee hee hee.
Tee hee.
And you can all be laughing.
If the woman was more serious about it, if the woman actually said, oh, boy.
And I know people like this.
Oh, boy.
It's too bad you didn't have a girl.
Boys are terrible.
Ugh.
You're going to have a hard time.
You're going to have to train him.
I would tell her to leave my shop.
This is your kid.
I mean, your kid's alive.
Right?
That's a real kid in there.
It's not just an image of a kid.
It's not just a fantasy of a kid.
It's a real kid in there.
This is your real son.
That's fighting words from this woman.
So, you know, you'll have to use your judgment in how this woman really means it.
But if she is really insulting your son...
I try to keep it clean.
I don't go blue too often, but I probably would in that case.
I'd probably have a couple words for that lady that were not happy birthday.
I'd at the very least tell her to leave my shop.
If she's jokey-jokey, then you can be jokey-jokey too, but I would still be firm about it.
Say, no, my kid will be just fine.
Don't worry.
I'm going to train him in the patriarchy.
Then he's going to grow up and he's going to put feminists like you in their place, actually, lady.
See if she laughs at that.
Next question.
Hi, Mr.
Knowles.
Thank you for being the best DW commentator out there.
My question for you is, is it possible to be anywhere as a conservative and be an emotional person?
Because I look at guys like you, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew Klavan, and Jordan Peterson, and it seems like you guys are thinkers.
You guys just have these qualities more associated with being a thinking person.
Me, I base the majority of my decisions on my emotions.
And I've noticed that the left likes to do that all the time based every single decision or opinion that they have based on their emotions.
So is it possible to be anywhere near the right and be an emotional person or is the right just reserved for the thinkers?
Thank you for taking the time to hear my question and I can't wait to hear your answer.
Thank you.
Listen, you clearly have excellent taste in your choice of podcasts and hosts, but your question raises another question, which is, what do you mean by emotional?
I consider myself very emotional.
I mean that.
I'm not joking.
My wife might disagree.
She might think of me as a block of sort of stoic obsidian that has no feeling whatsoever.
But I consider myself very...
I'm moved emotionally very easily by books, by films, by a butterfly floating next to a flower.
I... I feel lots of things.
But I don't allow myself to be blown away by my emotions.
So I think a conservative has to be emotional.
A conservative has to have a sort of feeling with his fellow man.
The left often doesn't, though the left allows themselves to be blown away by their emotions.
They often won't allow themselves to actually have compassion with their fellow man.
They say that half of the people are just awful, evil, terrible fascists.
There's a great story recounted in Whitaker Chambers' book Witness.
Back when Chambers was a communist...
Before he left communism, he was walking with a fellow communist and a derelict came up to him on the street and begged for some pennies or for some food.
And Whitaker Chambers gave him a couple coins.
And the other communist turns to him and says, you shouldn't have done that.
We can't feel anything for them.
It dulls the revolutionary spirit.
And Chambers obviously felt a natural kind of human...
Natural human compassion.
But you have to bring your emotions into line under your reason.
You have to bring your base passions and your unruly emotions into line underneath your rational will, which mediates between the appetite and the divine will.
Otherwise, you will be just blown away on gusts of appetite and passion, and you won't be able to get anything done.
So really, if you want to be a conservative person, If you want to be a sort of educated person, period, you should heighten your feeling of emotion.
Not just to some narrow kind of childish feeling of passion, but to the whole host of human emotions.
All the way up to gazing up at the sky and being moved in the way that men have been moved for millennia.
All the way up to longing for the love that moves the sun and the other stars.
And, you need to cultivate your reason and your rational will to direct those desires into their proper place.
Next question.
Michael, good morning.
Braden here.
How you doing?
My question relates to Twitter.
Do you think Elon Musk should give Trump his access back?
That's my first question.
Second question.
If he does give Trump his access back, do you think he should do it before the midterms?
My argument is no, because I don't want Trump to mess anything up.
Curious your thoughts.
Thanks.
Obviously, I guess that voicemail bag came in last week before the midterm elections.
Uh, Yes, Elon should give Trump his Twitter back.
It will be great.
It will be awesome.
I don't care.
I'm not of the opinion that Donald Trump, he's ruining everything for the Republican Party.
The Republicans are ruining everything for the Republican Party.
The squishes and the losers and the morally vacuous, spineless jellyfish in Washington are ruining the Republican Party.
Mitt Romney is ruining the Republican Party.
Take his Twitter account away.
I don't want Mitt Romney to have a Twitter account.
I want Trump to have a Twitter account.
So yes, he obviously should get it back.
He should get it back because when Twitter took it away from him, that was a major assault on our political system.
That was a billionaire in Silicon Valley saying, or really just the sort of deputy to a billionaire in Silicon Valley, saying that she ought to be able to control the public square, which in a self-governing republic means control the political order, much more than the people and the duly elected sitting president of the United States.
So yeah, he should get his Twitter account back.
Also, it will be super funny.
Also, Trump is much better for the Republican Party than 99% of Republicans.
Next question.
My name's Will.
Like you, I come from the fabulous Democratic People's Republic of New York, and like you, I've gone from the edgy atheist in my teen years to the path of Catholicism now in my mid-twenties.
This has brought up a question, though.
As a Catholic, how do you reconcile the current Pope's views on things like supporting same-sex marriage and his apparent support of the Chinese Communist Party when he should be holding up the views of his faith?
I'm still new to my church, so I don't want to go and ask these kinds of questions to anyone there, because...
I feel like I'd be the newcomer questioning things he doesn't know anything about.
Thanks for your time.
Love the show.
And God bless you and everyone there at The Daily Wire.
Thank you very much.
God bless you as well.
And your intuition is correct.
You would, in this case, be the newcomer who doesn't know what he's talking about.
Because the Pope certainly does not support gay marriage.
This Pope has made lots of confusing statements.
And I will be the first to ask questions about those statements, and I have many doubts about things that he's said.
But he has been crystal clear on gay marriage.
In fact, when he was Cardinal of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis, then Cardinal Bergoglio, said that He was then asked later on,
this was fairly recently actually, If Catholics, they obviously can't have gay marriage because that doesn't exist, but can they have blessing ceremonies for homosexual unions?
And the Vatican, this is Pope Francis, said no because God cannot bless sin.
God blesses people who sin and Namely, all of us.
We all sin.
But God does not and cannot bless sin itself.
So the Pope has been absolutely crystal clear on that.
As for what the Pope has done with the Chinese Communist Party...
Yeah, it's unfortunate.
Throughout the history of the Church, the sovereign pontiff has made certain deals with different governments that one hopes are, in his view, for the good of the Church.
And Pope Francis has done all sorts of things in China that are dismaying and worrying.
But I... That would be much more of a political matter, I think, than something on the, you know, faith and morals, which was alluded to in your first point.
I see why you got the impression that Pope Francis is in favor of gay marriage or something, but that's just because the newspapers lie, you know, because the newspapers always lie, so you definitely should not believe everything you read in the papers.
Okay, let's get to some written mailbag, the old school way, from Jarrett.
Hey, Michael, my wife, who I've been married to for three years, informed me her father has been taking hormones and believes that he is transgender for some time now.
We have a 10-month-old child, and we don't feel it'd be right to cut his grandpa out of his life.
However, we believe the transgender movement is possibly the biggest threat to youth in this world.
I am so angry at the world's approach to this situation, as well as the people who knew this was going on.
Rather than getting him help, they decided affirming was the best thing to do.
I want so badly to get him help, but fear he is too stubborn and too far gone to reason with.
Any advice that you have, whether relating to how I approach getting him help or handling this with my own son and the possibility of having a transgender grandparent?
I appreciate the time.
Thank you.
Awful position that you are in.
You say that you think it would be wrong to deprive your child of his grandfather.
Your child's grandfather is the one who is depriving the child of his grandfather.
Because the grandfather is the one who is renouncing his position as a grandfather and pretending to be, I don't know, a grandmother or something else.
So it's your grandfather who's doing this.
Because he's either mentally ill or taken up in a social contagion of gender ideology or both.
Either way, though, I would approach the relationship in the same way you would with any other person who is mentally ill, which is, you know, you try to get them help.
You should not affirm this stuff.
The way you phrase it, you say, you know, it was decided that they would affirm this.
No, well, I don't know who they are and I don't know what it was decided means, but you should not affirm this.
Your wife should not affirm this.
This would be very, very confusing for your child.
And so I would proceed with great caution.
And I would make it clear when you do see your grandfather, or whatever, the child's grandfather, I would make it clear that, you know, Grandpa has a mental illness and we need to treat him with pity and compassion.
But this is not right.
This is not right.
This is not good.
And even that...
I don't know.
Exposing a child to that kind of madness, that close, could be very detrimental to the child.
So I would proceed with great caution.
And I wouldn't feel guilt about you making the decision to deprive your son or daughter of a grandfather.
The grandfather made that decision.
And the family that enabled that made that decision.
So I'd be very, very cautious.
All right, let's see.
Take one more from Brian.
Greetings, Nostradamus.
My question could be addressed to any of the Daily Wire hosts, as I can imagine.
All of you spend countless hours poring over the mainstream liberal media in preparation for your shows.
How do you spend so much time in mainstream liberal media, yet keep your sanity?
I feel confident in my conservative beliefs, yet I don't want to trap myself in an information silo.
Whenever I attempt to watch liberal sources, I find myself becoming angry from the obvious lies.
How would you recommend individuals like me pursue both sides of political issues?
Thank you, Brian.
again.
Well, I would do so from a position of amusement and as a kind of investigation and training.
One great thing about reading a lot of liberal press is that you learn the tricks.
You learn how they do things.
The most basic example would probably be when Democrats have a scandal, that's not how it's reported.
When Republicans have a scandal, the headline is, Republican has a scandal.
When Democrats have a scandal, the headline is, Republicans pounce on Democrat scandal.
And I don't think, as some people say, that you should spend equal time reading the conservative news and the left-wing news.
I don't think that's true at all.
Why would you waste so much of your time reading falsehood?
I would read the true stuff, and then I would sprinkle in the liberal stuff.
I do consume a decent amount of liberal media.
That's my job.
But...
I've never watched a full episode of The View.
I watch little clips of The View.
I've never watched a full episode of CNN, certainly not in the last 20 years, but I'll watch little clips of it.
I'll read a column or two.
I don't read the New York Times every day.
I read a column or two, maybe.
So I would sprinkle that in.
But surround yourself with the truth.
You don't need to give equal weight to truth and falsehood.
That is a lie and a great error of our modern age that too many people on the right have fallen into.
You don't.
You can pick.
You can choose.
As Bill Buckley pointed out very wisely at God and Man at Yale, skepticism has utility only when it leads to conviction.
You know, the rest of the show starts now.
We have got really important stuff today.
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Ben Davies is so upset because I keep guessing the fake headline.
