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Joe Biden is appointing more judges to the federal bench, and you knew they would be bad.
But did you ever think they would be this bad?
Judge, on the far end, tell me what Article 5 of the Constitution does.
Article 5 is not coming to mind at the moment.
Okay, how about Article 2?
Neither is Article 2.
Okay.
Do you know what purposivism is?
In my 12 years as an assistant attorney general and my nine years serving as a judge, I was not faced with that precise question.
Senator Kennedy was not grilling these judicial nominees on some arcane, obscure aspects of federal law.
He was asking them about some of the most basic provisions of the fundamental American legal document.
This wasn't, what does U.S. Code, Section 27, Line 52?
It was, what's Article 5 of the Constitution do?
They didn't know.
And conservatives are now shocked and appalled.
But we should not be.
These libs don't need to know.
These judge nominees don't need to know.
Biden and his minions did not nominate these judges because they're experts on the Constitution.
He didn't nominate them because they love the Constitution.
They keep a pocket Constitution on them every day, and they want to do everything they can to uphold it.
It's the opposite.
Biden nominated these judges to continue the liberal project of upending our entire political order.
If anything, their blithe ignorance of the Constitution is likely a mark in their favor when you look at it from the perspective of the people who are putting them up for these jobs.
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Speaking of unimpressive Biden representatives, Hunter Biden, you know, has dipped his toe into the art world.
Hunter Biden's previous career was selling his father's influence in the American government to make oodles and oodles of money in Ukraine and China and from all sorts of nefarious and corrupt people who wanted to buy more influence in the American government.
Hunter, I think referred to this in one of those disclosures that came out from the laptop or some other conversation as the fact that he makes basically a bajillion dollars a year.
So that's how he previously made his money.
But then, when it all came to light, it was much harder for Hunter Biden to continue the Biden family corruption.
So he said, okay, the way I'm going to start making money now is by painting.
Hunter Biden, I don't think, had ever picked up a paintbrush in his life until about five minutes ago, and his painting is just a bunch of ridiculous doodles on a canvas that we were then told could sell for half a million dollars each.
This, another example, obviously, of corruption.
Nobody thinks that Hunter Biden's stupid doodles are high art.
Nobody thinks they're worth $50, much less $500,000.
But the art dealer selling Hunter Biden's work is insisting, no, this is not just corruption.
This is not just a way for people to pass half a million dollars into the Biden family without having to go through political disclosures.
This is not just another way to buy influence with the Bidens.
No, no, Hunter Biden's a great artist.
Hunter's dealer, George Berge, the owner of the eponymous art gallery in New York, He praised Hunter Biden's artwork, said, Hunter Biden will become one of the most consequential artists in this century because the world needs his art now more than ever.
In a world that beats us down, we need art in our lives that reminds of the unrelenting divinity within each of us.
And if you'll excuse me, I will get right back to the show.
I just need to...
Sorry.
Sorry.
Okay.
Now that I've emptied out my gut and stomach here...
From that absolutely nauseating and disingenuous praise of Hunter Biden, now we can go on with the show.
Why is he saying this?
Well, he wants to have a straight face.
He wants to say, no, this isn't corrupt at all.
This isn't ridiculous.
Hunter's doodles deserve half a million bucks.
Pay up.
Let's go.
Nothing wrong about this.
But I think the other reason that the art dealer and Hunter and the whole Biden family can get away with this is we don't have any power to stop it.
I read a statement like that.
I see judicial nominees put up who don't know the very first thing about the Constitution.
And I think, man, they're just rubbing our faces in it now, aren't they?
They're just lording their power over us.
And they're saying, oh yeah, we're going to pack the court full of people who have never looked at the law ever.
A bunch of just completely ignorant people who will do what we want them to do.
And you can't do anything about it.
Oh, you don't like that we've had some corrupt practices?
Okay, well, now the way we're going to make money is by selling my derelict son's scribbles on a canvas.
No, he's a great artist.
That guy, he's basically Michelangelo.
What are you going to do about it, conservatives?
Nothing.
That's what they're going to do.
Speaking of art, and speaking of one way conservatives have pushed back in the culture we played yesterday, James O'Keefe's excellent expose of an executive at Pfizer confiding in someone that he thought he was on a romantic date with, that don't tell the public, but Pfizer is secretly performing gain-of-function research to beef up viruses to work on new pharmaceuticals.
And the date says, what?
Pfizer's working on gain-of-function research?
And the exec says, yeah, I mean, we don't tell the public that, but we are working on that.
And then, just yesterday, James O'Keefe releases the footage of when he walks out like Chris Hansen, comes in, sits down, and he says, hey, I think I'm going to have a seat over here.
Do you work for Pfizer?
We've got you on camera admitting to.
And things go awry.
Hey there.
Is this seat taken?
You work for Pfizer.
My question for you is, why does Pfizer want to hide from the public the fact that they're mutating the COVID viruses?
Is this real life?
I'm literally a liar.
I was trying to impress a person on a date by lying.
This is absurd.
Please don't touch me.
Well, this is not, by the way, don't tell anybody.
This is someone who's just working in a company to literally help the public.
You f***ed up.
You really did.
Please read the post as soon as possible.
Can you please unlock your door?
Please unlock the door.
Give us our stuff.
Please unlock the door.
Please unlock the door.
You can't support me.
We're trying to get -- unlock the door.
Unlock the door.
*Sounds of the police* *Sounds of the police* That is the director of worldwide R&D, specifically on mRNA strategic planning.
Those are the people...
Who are behind the Fauci ouchie that has now gone into the arms of 5.5 billion people worldwide.
This lunatic who's out on what he thinks is this date, and then he just loses and starts getting violent, running around.
Oh my gosh, is this real life?
Oh my gosh!
And then what's his excuse?
This is my favorite part.
The minute James O'Keefe says, hey, we just got you on camera admitting that Pfizer's doing gain-of-function research.
He goes, I'm a liar!
That's his excuse.
I'm a liar.
I was lying.
And that's always what these guys do.
This was just a modern-day version of To Catch a Predator, the Chris Hanschen show that would get pedophiles.
This is just that, hey, what are you doing here?
Why don't you have a seat over there?
What are you doing here?
And instantly, what happens?
All the time, the guys on the To Catch a Predator show who want to sleep with underage girls, they say, oh, I wasn't doing anything.
No, I didn't come here to have sex.
No, not at all.
I was just lying in the chat.
Oh, no, all those logs you have of me talking to this girl about how I was going to come over and drive 12 hours and sleep with her, I was just lying.
It's the same excuse from the Pfizer exec.
No, I was just lying.
Well, the problem with that excuse is...
If you are a liar, if your best defense is that you are a liar, then obviously I can't believe you now.
And it's not just this Pfizer exec.
This was Fauci's excuse.
Do you remember Fauci initially said when COVID broke out, and the liberals at that time were downplaying it before they started overplaying it, Fauci said, there's no reason to wear a mask.
There is no reason when the virus is spreading around for you to wear a mask out in public.
Do not wear a mask.
And then five seconds later, he says, you have to wear a mask everywhere all the time.
Wear like three of them.
What changed?
Fauci admitted how he changed his mind.
Or changed his rhetoric, because he didn't change his mind.
He said, oh yeah, when I told you you didn't need to wear a mask, I thought there'd be a shortage and I wanted to save them for my friends.
But then I found out there wasn't a shortage, so I told you to wear them.
So Fauci's excuse was the same excuse as the Pfizer exec, was the same excuse as the pedos on To Catch a Predator.
I'm a liar.
I'm a liar, don't believe anything we say.
Okay.
Alright guys, if that's what you want, I'll take your word for it.
I have no doubt that you guys are big liars.
Speaking of virality and social media, big news.
I meant to get to it yesterday, we didn't have time.
President Covfefe, El Donaldo himself, is back on Facebook.
Meta, which is the parent company now for Facebook and Instagram and all the rest of it, They've announced, quote, we are bringing Mr.
Trump back in the coming weeks with certain guardrails applicable to any public figures suspended for certain violations during times of civil unrest.
The penalties and potential restrictions that we've put in place are a deterrent and Trump could face another suspension if he keeps breaking the rules.
Why are they letting Trump back?
It's been years at this point.
It's been two years.
Why does he get to come back now?
Elon put him back on Twitter, even though Trump isn't using his Twitter yet, probably because he has contractual obligations with Truth Social.
But Elon put him back on, so maybe that puts a little pressure on Facebook.
Trump is now a declared candidate for the presidency.
I think that probably puts a little pressure on Facebook.
But probably the biggest factor here is that the January 6th narrative fell apart.
The reason that Trump was banned from social media, the reason that these oligarchs in Silicon Valley who work with but not totally through the government, they're this awful blobby public private kind of partnership that does the bidding of the government, the government's dirty work they can't do for itself, but they're this awful blobby public private kind of partnership that does the bidding of the government, the
The whole argument for banning Trump was that this guy led a violent insurrection, a near coup d'etat on January 6th.
And that didn't happen.
We know, because we've had two years of investigations into this, they told us Trump incited the insurrection.
Well, we have the video.
Trump says, be peaceful, be peaceful, don't be violent, go home.
Okay, there goes that one.
Well, nevertheless, the followers of Donald Trump, they were so violent, they killed people.
They killed police officers.
That's not true.
The only person who was killed in political violence on January 6th was Ashley Babbitt.
She was a Trump supporter in the Capitol, shot by a trigger-happy cop.
What about Officer Brian Sicknick?
Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes.
After the January 6th riot, he did not die in any violence on January 6th, nor did any other cop.
Well, nevertheless, even if they didn't kill anybody, even if they weren't particularly violent, even if Donald Trump never incited anything, they were still leading an insurrection.
Okay, then how come none of them were charged with insurrection?
How come they were charged with trespassing?
I mean, the prosecutors threw the book at these people.
They threw them in solitary confinement for long periods of time.
But they couldn't get a charge of insurrection because it didn't happen.
So the whole thing just fell apart.
The whole thing fell apart.
So now they let Trump back on.
I think there is one ulterior motive here, beyond that the libs couldn't quite withstand the pressure of still with a straight face saying that Trump couldn't be on Facebook.
I think the other ulterior motive is the libs want a bloody GOP primary.
And the thinking...
Back when they were trying to keep Trump off the ballot in certain places, back when they were trying to throw Trump in prison, I guess they're still trying to do that, back when they were keeping him totally ostracized from social media, the prevailing view was that Donald Trump, if he ran for president in 2024, would clear the Republican field.
So there would be no challengers.
He would be the nominee automatically.
And so the Libs were throwing everything they had at him.
That no longer appears to be the case.
Ron DeSantis, among others, seems to be building a pretty strong campaign for president.
It's still Trump's race to lose.
Trump is still way up in the polls, but...
DeSantis is posing a real challenge to Trump right now.
Other people are saying they'll run too.
Mike Pence is saying he's very interested in running.
Nikki Haley says she's very interested in running.
Tim Scott says he's very interested in running.
So it just, no matter what you think of those people or Trump, Trump did not clear the field.
And so now the Libs strategy has to switch.
And they're going to want a more bloody GOP primary, which means they're probably going to be much more interested in allowing Trump We're good to go.
But now, Facebook is on the side of Ukraine fighting against Russia.
And so the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and the Azov Battalion is one of the most powerful regiments in the Ukrainian military.
And so Facebook says, okay, never mind, they're not Nazis anymore.
Or even if they are, they're like the good Nazis.
Okay, we're going to let them back on Facebook.
Why?
So that they can attack Russia.
Almost certainly there's a similar principle operating here with the social media companies allowing Trump back on.
But we're not...
We're not quite there yet.
We're not at a 2024 nominee yet.
We're not even totally into the primary yet.
First, what has to be decided is who's going to lead the Republican Party, meaning the party apparatus, meaning the RNC, the National Committee.
There's a fight right now between Ronna McDaniel, who has run it for about a dozen years now, And Harmeet Dillon.
Harmeet Dillon has been on the show.
I don't think Rana, I think we invited Rana on, but Rana hasn't come on yet.
Harmeet Dillon is challenging Rana, saying enough's enough.
Rana's been there long enough.
Now I'm going to take over the RNC. Trump has endorsed McDaniel.
Now, finally, Ron DeSantis has weighed in as another rising star in the GOP. He endorses Harmeet Dillon.
Right now, the RNC is meeting in Dana Point, California, and there are some questions of who should lead the RNC and whether it should be Rana for a fourth term or go a different direction with Harmeet Dillon.
What are your thoughts on this?
Well, we've had three substandard election cycles in a row, 18, 20, and 22.
And I would say of all three of those, 22 was probably the worst, given the political environment of a very unpopular president and Biden, Huge majorities of the people think the country's going in the wrong direction.
That is an environment that's tailor-made to make big gains in the House and the Senate and State Houses all across the country, and yet that didn't happen.
And in fact, we even lost ground in the US Senate.
And so, you know, I think we need...
I think we need to get some new blood in the RNC. I like what Harmeet Dillon has said about getting the RNC out of D.C. Why would you want to have your headquarters in the most Democrat city in America?
It's more Democrat than San Francisco is.
Notice, Ron DeSantis, he's a very adept politician.
He's asked about the RNC, where do you stand on the race?
And he gives something of an answer.
He says, well, Ron is not getting it done.
We need fresh blood.
And I like Harmeet Dillon's idea about getting the committee out of D.C. So it's not quite, it's not a full, explicit endorsement of Harmeet Dillon.
But practically speaking, it is.
And why is it?
I suspect, well, one, it might be just that Ron DeSantis sincerely believes that all of the things that he's saying.
But in politics, there's always another layer, too.
And I think the other layer here is, Ron McDaniel is a Trump person.
Ron McDaniel is very closely tied to Trump, ran the RNC during Trump's presidency.
Trump has endorsed Ron McDaniel.
And so, what does Ron DeSantis get if he endorses Ron McDaniel?
Nothing.
Nothing.
The big dog in the fight has already endorsed her, so that puts DeSantis in a position of being number two.
What does Ron DeSantis get if he endorses Harmeet Dillon and Harmeet Dillon wins?
Now, not only does Ron DeSantis have a friend running the national committee...
But Ron DeSantis has also racked up a W against Trump, which has been the narrative that's taken place since the midterms.
The narrative since the midterms is Trump, he just couldn't pull us over the finish line.
Trump, he had an unimpressive performance.
I'm not saying this is a fair assessment.
I'm just telling you this is the narrative that has taken hold.
And then when you compare that to the incredible success in Florida, undeniable success, DeSantis and the Republicans in Florida did a great job turning out the vote and getting themselves elected and re-elected.
That is being considered a W for DeSantis and an L for Trump.
And so if Harmeet Dillon can beat Ronna McDaniel in the RNC leadership race, that's going to look like another victory for DeSantis over President Trump.
Is this going to matter for the nomination?
Maybe not, but the race to the nomination is every single day.
And if you win enough days, you win the nomination.
That fight picking up right now.
But we're not fighting each other.
We are not ultimately fighting each other.
Some people prefer Trump.
Some people prefer DeSantis.
Some people prefer Ted Cruz.
Some people prefer Nikki Haley.
But ultimately we're fighting the libs.
Ultimately we conservatives have a lot more that unites us than...
We have that divides us, especially when you look at how crazy the libs have gotten.
And I sometimes forget it, because increasingly I spend my time around conservatives.
I come from a liberal place, I've lived in liberal cities, I've got liberal friends, going back many, many years.
But I do spend a lot of time with conservatives.
I sometimes forget how crazy things get.
And then I read the Associated Press trying to ban the word, the.
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The word the is cancelled, according to the Associated Press.
The AP, which through its style book that sets the tone for a lot of journalism and public writing, has become more and more woke in recent years.
The AP says, quote, The disabled.
The college educated.
Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses.
And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.
As a style point, this is bad writing style.
Because a general rule in writing is it is better to use fewer words than more words.
Cut out unnecessary words, close up space, and generally speaking, your prose will improve.
Political correctness tells you to use lots of extra needless words to use euphemisms instead of clear language and confuse everybody.
But clear writing says be succinct, be concise, be precise.
I don't know.
Everyone's covering this as an example of political correctness run amok, which in part it is.
But there is something deeper going on here behind the move to take away these group categories.
The poor, the disabled, the college educated.
And it's something that infects...
It's a mind virus that has infected the left particularly, but it has infected the right as well.
Which is that this is a consequence of liberalism.
This is an attack on group identity per se.
This is a logical extreme of the liberal idea that we are all fundamentally individuals, not members of a group.
I know that a lot of conservatives and self-described conservatives, particularly of the last 50 years, have grounded their political views in individualism.
But that is not a conservative idea.
That is a liberal idea.
You could say, well, it's more of a classical liberal idea.
Some people would say it's actually much more of a modern liberal idea.
The classical enlightenment liberals who talk about the sovereignty of the individual or the modern progressive liberals who talk about how we have ownership of our body and if we want to chop off our body parts, that's all right, because we're individuals.
We can't be defined by our social mores or our laws or our customs or even our families.
No, by golly, we can't be defined even by our biological sex.
No, siree, we're individuals.
Well, all that obsession with individualism, that is a lib thing.
The conservatives believe, with the ancients, with Aristotle, with Christianity, with the greatest thinkers of all time, that man is not fundamentally individual, but man is a social animal.
Man is a political animal, that we find our identity in society with other people.
That we find our identity in our families, in our communities, in our duties and our obligations and our role in the world.
The French, the college educated, the disabled suggests that people can be categorized in groups.
Obviously that's true.
Obviously there are distinctions between groups of all types of groups.
The liberals don't want to admit that.
They don't want to admit that there are such things as group characteristics, group behaviors, group dynamics.
But obviously, there are.
And you see it reflected.
I mean, this is the entire point of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available now, number one national bestseller.
Where is it, guys?
Get on the stick!
Okay, fine.
Good grief.
We've got producers sleeping over here today.
This is the whole point of my book, Speechless, is that...
The way that the libs win the culture, most effectively and most consistently, is not by passing big laws and not by having big flamboyant campaigns.
It's by subtly changing our language to make us accept their incorrect premises before we even begin a debate.
So if we say, okay, we're not going to use the anymore to refer to people, we are accepting the premise that people are fundamentally individuals, that groups have no shared characteristics, that groups are not a real and politically illuminating category.
But of course, that is not the case.
Speaking of journalism, great story right now out of BuzzFeed that has really...
Proven old Nolstradamus, more and more correct, every day this week, which is that we started off talking about how AI passed a business school test, business school exam.
And that was the big headline.
An AI chatbot passed a Wharton business school exam.
Wharton is probably the best business school in the country.
And I said, you know, it's not just going to be business school.
You're going to see this for lawyers.
You're going to see this for doctors.
What happened?
The very next day, headline, the AI chatbot Passes or gets very close to passing bar exams and medical licensing exams.
Okay, and I said, the takeaway from this is that the elites are going to tell you that automation and artificial intelligence and technology, that's going to get rid of lots of jobs.
It's going to render whole segments of the population useless.
The way that someone like Yuval Harari and others associated with the World Economic Forum describe this is they'll say, oh, these useless people, these blue-collar workers, these unskilled workers, we're just going to ply them with drugs and video games, make them go away because technology is going to make them irrelevant.
And I said, that's not true.
In some limited cases, that might be true.
But the real people that technology will render jobless, it's actually white-collar workers.
It's actually managers who would go to business school.
It's actually accountants.
It's actually some lawyers, some doctors for certain basic programs.
And now we're finding out that the people who need to go learn to code or go get another job, it's going to be journalists.
Because BuzzFeed has just announced that it will start using artificial intelligence to To create content.
Not just to curate its page and algorithms, but actually to create the articles that you look at on BuzzFeed.
Our industry will expand beyond AI-powered curation feeds to AI-powered creation content.
AI opens up a new era of creativity where creative humans like us play a key role providing the ideas, cultural currency, inspired prompts, IP, and formats that come to life using the newest technologies.
The coming industrial revolution.
We sometimes hear this from the World Economic Forum types.
Klaus Schwab, he'll say, we are in the fourth industrial revolution.
And this is supposed to make all of us unskilled, useless people, the regular, the hoi polloi, who don't prance around the Alps at Davos.
This is going to make us all irrelevant.
If there is a coming industrial revolution that throws people out, it's going to affect the white-collar people.
And they're going to have to learn to code or learn something else.
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Nostradamus, my knowledgeable lord of all things conservative, Italian, and or cigar related.
I have a question about role models.
Does the type of person people look up to matter even if they speak on subjects like traditional masculinity?
One example I thought of was Andrew Tate and Jordan B. Peterson.
Both speak up for men, relationships, and mentality.
However, Tate is surrounded by a number of women, materialism is more aggressive, while Peterson is a family man, psychologist, and is very careful in his delivery.
So does the type of person that people look up to matter, even if they preach positive messages?
I'd love to hear your stance on this.
Now I'm going to put speechless, controlling words, controlling minds in my shopping cart.
I hope I get a bell.
Are we going to get a bell?
Hello?
Hello, everybody?
There we go.
Okay, good.
I'm glad to hear that.
Great question.
Yes, role models matter.
Role models matter because human culture comes from imitation.
This is one of those rare points on which the ancients and the moderns, the philosophers and the scientists, the Wise people and the atheists all agree.
See what I did there?
Plato, René Girard, Richard Dawkins all agree human culture comes from imitation, a process called mimesis.
The little baby learns to smile because the little baby is feeding and looks up at mommy and mommy looks down at the baby and mommy smiles and then the little baby mimics that smile.
This is how we learn to speak.
This is how we learn to think.
This is how we are educated and learn to behave.
This is how we develop personalities.
We see people, see things that we admire and we try to imitate parts of that.
And Ultimately, if we want to have a good, holy, virtuous life, we want to imitate the highest good, goodness himself.
Christianity sees this not even in only an abstract God far away from time and space, but in the incarnation, and so Christians strive to imitate Christ.
Human beings are not just disembodied heads floating around in the ether.
Human beings are disembodied.
Souls and bodies, hyalomorphic beings moving around in time and space, real beings.
And so it's not enough to just listen to a little snippet and say, oh, that Andrew Tate fellow, he said something that was almost broadly true about this one narrow topic.
No, when we have role models, those are models to imitate.
And we imitate people not just in certain ideas that they espouse, but in the way that they live their lives.
Next question.
Good morning, Michael Knowles.
My name is Nicholas.
I just wanted to see if this terminology correlated with your perception as well.
It seems like the center left and the center right are distinguishable by the central left having much more of a grounded foundation in their ideology and certainly the way that their vote Because even if they're presented with a strong argument on the right,
they're much more likely, much more often, to remain stable in their central leftist perspectives.
A central rightist perspective, if they're given, in their interpretation, a strong argument from the left, a way that they Really
good question.
I'll try to break it down this way.
We think of politics as left versus right.
But you raise the issue of these people in the center.
The center left and the center right.
And then we just tend to put those people in the categories of either left or either right.
That's why you refer to them as center left or center right.
But the people who are center left or center right, I suspect, have much more in common with one another.
Certainly than they would with people on the right, the conservatives.
And perhaps even a little bit more in common than they would with people...
On the left.
Though the center left and the center right are closer to the left than either is to the right.
You can think of the people on the right as the conservatives.
You can think of the people in the center, center left and center right, as the liberals.
And I think you can think of the people on the left as some shade of commie, Marxists or some more radical leftist ideology.
The commies and the liberals share a lot because communism, Marxism, all those shades of socialism come out of liberalism.
So they've got a fair bit in common.
The conservatives, the real conservatives, reject not only communism but liberalism.
Not just in certain policies, but they actually reject the premises of liberalism.
They reject some of the high-flying nonsense that comes out of the Enlightenment.
They say, no, actually, society is not fundamentally secular.
There's no such thing as a neutral ground.
Man is not fundamentally an individual.
Tradition is an important thing.
We shouldn't rely on our unfettered reason.
We shouldn't recreate the world anew.
We don't want to constantly have revolutions.
So that's kind of a different thing.
The center left is always going to be more influenced by the left than the center right is by the right.
And the center right is always going to be more influenced by even the center left than they are by the right.
The outliers, I suspect, in all of this are...
We talk about how the conservatives are the silent majority of Americans.
I don't know that that's the case.
I do think that a lot of people do have common sense.
That's something really working for the conservatives.
And I do think that the actual commies and pinkos are a relatively fringe margin.
The Antifa weirdos who chop off their body parts and dye their hair all crazy colors.
That is fringe.
There's more conservatives than that group.
But because that group has a lot in common, even with the liberals, and because the center-right is actually part of the liberals, overall, they can wield a ton of influence on society.
That is why they squish.
Because the squishes share the fundamental principles of the left, not of the right.
We call them center-right because they agree with us on some issues.
But they're, at the foundational level, we're pretty far apart.
Next question.
Hey, Michael.
I've got a question about family planning.
So my husband and I have three small children, and we're really not ready now or possibly ever to have a fourth.
Just financially speaking, the dynamics of our family, etc.
So we're looking into our options.
I've kind of come to the conclusion that the birth control pill is not quite biblical.
I mean, it seems like once the sperm and egg come together, life is already starting to happen, and now you're preventing it from implanting.
So I went off of that months and months and months ago.
But I mean, I feel like I'm rolling the dice every month here.
So I'd love to look into vasectomies.
But I was wondering what your thoughts are on that.
You know, are vasectomies fair game since Technically, you're not even letting a sperm meet an egg in that instance.
Yeah, just love your thoughts, Michael.
Thanks.
Well, certain forms of contraception do not merely prevent the implantation of a sperm and an egg that have come together to create a new person, but just prevent ovulation.
That's probably the dominant form of contraception anyway.
In the dominant forms of contraception, whether you're talking about from the men or from the ladies, the contraception prevents this sperm in the egg from meeting.
So your bioethical concern here that the primary problem with contraception, as opposed to forms of abortion and abortifacient drugs, is that you're preventing a fertilized egg from implanting, that's not quite it.
It often starts earlier.
It's still wrong.
But it's not wrong because you're ending a human life.
It's wrong because you're supposed to be open to life.
Three kids, that's great.
I can't wait till I get three kids, God willing.
But, come on, keep going.
Why stop?
Three?
The only real envy that I feel is, I was talking to another friend of mine who feels the same way, is for people who have just a billion kids.
Because it's great.
It seems great.
Yeah, you don't sleep.
Yeah, it's definitely harder on the wife.
But then, you know, you look someday and you got all these kids and all these grandkids and it seems really, really nice.
So be open to life.
You say it's expensive.
It is expensive.
I'm not downplaying that.
But in terms of investments, in terms of any way you can use your money, a kid seems like a pretty good investment.
It seems more important than probably anything else you're spending your money on.
Beyond food to keep you alive and shelter to keep you warm.
Those are pretty necessary.
The rest of it is not better than another kid.
And then in terms of the vasectomies, there's a reason that men don't go bragging about their vasectomies.
There's a reason that men don't have vasectomy parties, unless there's some weird libs in Brooklyn or something, is because men feel that it's kind of emasculating.
Men feel that it's kind of, if not shameful, then something they don't want to write home about.
And I think for good reason.
It's not quite the same as just castrating a guy, but it kind of looks the same.
It makes a man feel that he's lost something of his potency.
And so, I wouldn't do it.
I think it's wrong.
Just don't do it.
I know a lot of people have done it.
A lot of people, probably most people today, practice some form of contraception.
But, come on.
You've got a limited time on this earth.
Be fruitful and multiply.
Kids are great.
Have more kids.
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Hi, Michael.
It's Elise again.
I have a question for you regarding yoga.
I have noticed that a lot of the parishes in my diocese are now offering a rosary yoga class, and it's kind of popping up everywhere.
My parish isn't doing it, but I wondered if you had any suggestions about if I should say anything.
I feel like as a Catholic, this is a really disturbing trend.
I'm not sure if other areas are noticing this, but I'm not really sure what I can do as someone who's not a member of those parishes or if I should do anything, but maybe just speak to the people that have brought this up to me.
So I'd love to hear your thoughts, and thank you so much.
Are those churches that you're talking about, are those parishes also hosting Catholic hages to Mecca?
Are those parishes hosting the Catholic Jihad?
Are they hosting the Catholic sacrifice of goat demons to the Greek and Roman gods?
Are they also doing that?
Why?
These things don't go together.
Yoga is a Hindu ritual.
It's a Hindu religious ritual.
It is not Christian.
It is not monotheistic.
It is not at all compatible with Christianity.
I know a lot of Christians go to yoga classes.
And they say, well, I like it because it stretches my body out and it makes me feel good.
Okay, that's what you can do Pilates.
You can go stretching.
You can go to a gym.
I'm not suggesting that.
But yoga is not purely a physical exercise.
Yoga is a spiritual ritual.
It's a religious ritual.
That's why you do the ohms and you salute the sun and you do all that.
And depending on how hippy-dippy your yoga teacher gets, you engage in explicit religious rituals.
So if you're going to engage in religious rituals and you really love yoga and it's your favorite thing, then just admit that you're Not interested in practicing Christianity.
You are interested in practicing another religion, probably Hinduism or Buddhism.
And then you're going to go do that.
At least be honest with yourself.
But don't pretend that this sort of syncretic religious practice is Catholic.
It's not.
It would be just as crazy as saying, I'm going to go on a Catholic jihad.
I guess we had some of those.
It was called the Crusades.
But it's different than jihad.
It's just different.
You wouldn't say, I'm a Catholic Muslim.
I'm a Catholic Buddhist.
You're not.
That violates the law of non-contradiction.
Those religions make mutually exclusive claims, and you've got to pick one.
You certainly don't want to be lukewarm.
If you are Christian, you might have read what our Lord tells us about being lukewarm in the scriptures.
Not great.
All right, let's take one on paper before we get to the member block.
From Christine.
Dear Michael Knowles, do you have any suggestions on where a young woman can meet a nice Christian conservative man?
I tend not to frequent bars very often.
That's probably good.
Instead, I prefer to attend church, the gun range, and the grocery store.
Bestow my beating heart.
I'm off the market, but you sound great.
I'm 30 years old.
I feel like an old maid.
You're not an old maid.
I unfortunately work from home.
I frequent the office as much as possible, but unfortunately not many of my colleagues like to work in person.
It's frustrating.
Thank you for all that you do.
It's not a huge problem.
In the old days, if you weren't married by 30, that was a huge issue socially.
These days, if you get married before 35, you're like a child bride.
The culture has changed in very strange ways.
But I sympathize with your problem.
It's hard to meet people, especially these days as we're increasingly living in virtual reality in the metaverse and we don't actually meet people in public.
So I would be a little more...
I'm not totally opposed to the dating apps.
I've never been on them.
I kind of missed that era.
But I'm not totally opposed to it in principle.
I know people who have met their spouses on dating apps, and that's kind of the way people date these days.
So I'd consider that at least.
And then you could do it the old-fashioned way, which is...
To have your friends and family set you up.
Maybe ask your co-workers to set you up.
And it can be a little embarrassing to say, Hey, Sheila, you know any good guys?
Hey, Cousin Jim, do you have any buddies that you think I should go on a date with?
I wouldn't just wait around forever for a man to come in riding on a white horse, knight in shining armor, and sweep you off your feet.
If ever that were the norm, it certainly isn't today.
So you'll have to be a little bit more intentional.
But I wouldn't lose hope.
Certainly by the standards of our culture, you're doing just fine.
You still have plenty of time.
You just have to get a little more intentional about it.
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