Hamas declares a Global Day of Jihad, Henry Kissinger says mass migration was a “grave mistake,” and the GOP loses its top House Speaker candidate.
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Khaled Mashal, the former leader of Hamas, has declared today a global day of jihad, specifically throughout the West, after the terror attack last week on the State of Israel.
This is unfortunate, as later today I'm scheduled to travel to my old stomping grounds of New York City, which happens to be, by the numbers, both the most Muslim and the most Jewish city in the United States.
It is also, of course, the site of the worst terror attack in American history, also perpetrated by radical Muslims.
Lots of people throughout the West are changing their plans today.
Closing offices, closing schools, staying home.
And I'm all for prudence, but I am very much against worldly fear, which is why I'm not changing any of my plans today.
A good explanation of why not was once given by a sort of personal hero of mine, Richard Overton, who died five years ago at the age of 112.
Mr. Overton was at that time, and for some years prior, the oldest surviving World War II veteran.
He credited his longevity in part to smoking 12 cigars a day and putting whiskey in his morning coffee.
You can see why he was a personal hero.
Here is some advice that Mr. Overton had on war and life at the age of 109.
You see a soldier with a gun, you don't see him turn around and go back this way.
He may go sideways, but he ain't gonna turn around and go back.
Uh-uh.
Don't care how hot them bullies is, he ain't gonna go back.
So yeah, when you go in there, you just say, well, God's got me now.
See?
He's gonna take care of you.
If it's your time to go, that bully's gonna get you.
If it ain't your time to go, There are two kinds of fear relevant to the global day of jihad.
but God's the one keep me alive. - There are two kinds of fear relevant to the global day of jihad.
Worldly fear and fear of the Lord.
Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
It's a gift of the Holy Spirit, a reverent fear akin to awe that perfects our hope of remaining in God's grace.
Worldly fear is the opposite.
It's selfish, cowardly, and opposed to freedom.
Fear ye not them that kill the body and are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?
And not one of them shall fall on the ground without your father, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Fear not therefore.
Better are you than many sparrows.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show.
Breaking, shocking news.
Jada Smith and Will Smith have apparently been separated for six or seven years now.
Shocking, breaking, it actually is somewhat shocking because they said they wouldn't get divorced.
We will get into that because it actually has political ramifications.
First, though, the war is spreading.
The Israel Air Force struck Damascus International Airport yesterday in Syria.
They did this a day ahead of the Iran foreign minister's visit to Syria.
So they didn't take out the Iranian foreign minister, but they certainly sent a warning message.
And now the war is not only in the state of Israel.
It's not only in Gaza.
It's not only in southern Lebanon.
It's now also expanded to Syria.
What is the U.S. interest here?
The U.S. interest is to contain the war.
Other nations have other interests, such as the U.S.
Some nations might have the interest of regime change in Iran.
Some nations might have the interest of expanding the war beyond where it is already.
Some nations might have all sorts of interests.
This is the Holy Land we're talking about.
This is a very prized piece of real estate, and every even semi-major power on Earth has some interest here.
The U.S. interest is contain the war.
Obviously, to retrieve our hostages as well, I consider that almost a separate question.
But as a matter of war policy, you're going to hear a lot of voices clamoring for more war, regime change, bombing the malas, somehow attacking, trying to weaken Russia through this war and not merely through the war in Ukraine, China.
China is kind of sitting on the sidelines here.
They didn't quite come out and condemn the Hamas attack, or they sort of tried to do it.
There are going to be a lot of people calling for more and more war, including US senators.
That is not the American interest.
The American interest here, it's not to stay at home and put our heads in the sand.
The American interest is to contain the war as much as possible.
Speaking of foreign policy voices, some people are now asking how we got into the position where we could have a global day of jihad and have Americans, have the Brits, have the French, have all people throughout the West afraid of such a day.
The obvious answer as to how we got there was mass migration, and no less a foreign policy architect than Henry Kissinger.
Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State for Richard Nixon.
The man is 100 years old.
The man has been an influential foreign policy architect for well over half a century.
What now?
For something like 60, 70 years.
Henry Kissinger said the key, the big mistake here, mass migration.
Very politically incorrect.
mistake to let in so many people of totally different cultural and religious and concepts because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that.
Very politically incorrect.
You're not allowed to say that.
Henry Kissinger, look, I know some people hate Henry Kissinger, but I don't know.
Henry Kissinger has made some mistakes in his career.
I think the clearest example of a mistake Henry Kissinger made was that he was one of the biggest proponents of soccer in the United States.
He's credited with driving the increased popularity of soccer, so I'm not saying the guy always got things right, but he does have a lot of wise things to say, and he's totally right about this.
This is Something that all serious statesmen and political philosophers have known for all of human history, and yet today even conservative Republicans are not allowed to say it.
When conservative Republicans attack migration, or criticize it in any way, they have to say, well look, I support more and more legal immigration.
I think we should have endless legal immigration, but I'm opposed to illegal immigration.
Yes, illegal immigration is worse than legal immigration, but mass migration is the problem.
Over the last 60, 70 years, we have seen the largest movement of people ever in recorded history of people moving into the United States.
That's a problem.
When you mix groups of people that don't have very much in common, it creates conflict.
This is an observation that Dante hears in the Divine Comedy from his illustrious ancestor in paradise, in the canticle that is taking place in heaven.
Dante's illustrious ancestor Caccia Guida says, yeah, the problems really began in Florence when they started mixing people around who didn't have a whole lot in common.
You got a lot of conflict.
He is clearly right here.
This is something that the West needs to deal with.
The West right now has no limiting principle on migration.
The West has convinced itself that its culture is Totally open to everybody, that there are no requirements for becoming a part of this culture, that there's no legitimate reason to keep people out of your civilization, that there's no legitimate distinction between citizen and foreigner, that there's no legitimate distinction between nations and other nations.
The West has convinced themselves of that, obviously the left, but a lot of people on the right as well, self-styled conservatives.
And so here you have Kissinger coming in and saying, Even if he made some unwise decisions in his youth, the guy's a hundred years old, I think he's probably learned a thing or two.
He says, mass migration was a grave mistake.
Unfortunately, we're learning that a little bit late at this point, but it's a lesson that at the very least we should learn right now.
We got to talk about it.
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Speaking of our democracy, a whirlwind of news has occurred in the House of Representatives, and we haven't even really gotten to it because foreign events have It's been a little bit more interesting and a little bit more pressing, but you know that a handful of Republicans and a bunch of Democrats threw out the former Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.
Then there was a race for Speaker, and there were two guys who threw their hats in the ring.
That was Steve Scalise, who has been on the leadership track for a long time among Republicans, and Jim Jordan, who is terrific.
He's a favorite of many conservatives.
According to measures of candidates' conservatism and anti-establishmentism, Steve Scalise was certainly more the liberal Republican candidate, certainly more the establishment candidate.
And Jim Jordan is ranked much more conservative and much more anti-establishment.
And unfortunately, when the Republicans met behind closed doors, because this is not a popular election, this is an election for members of Congress, Steve Scalise won.
And it was somewhat close, it was 113 to 99, but still Scalise clearly won.
And this was viewed as an insult to Donald Trump because Trump backed Jim Jordan.
So this was played out in the media as, once again, Donald Trump loses.
Once again, the Republican Party not heeding what Donald Trump has to say.
However, to me, that shows that nothing has changed really since 2016.
It has always been the case, since 2015, 2016, up through the present, that most professional Republicans, Republican politicians, political commentators, GOP consultants, most of them have opposed Trump and the kind of candidates that Trump endorses.
What's been strange about that is that most Republican voters support Trump.
So there is a divergence between the professional Republican class, the professional conservative class, and the actual conservative voters who decide the elections at the ballot box.
when elections are decided at the ballot box.
That's what happened in 2016.
All of the, disproportionately, the Republican journalists, talkers, commentators, pundits, strategists, blah, blah, blah, electeds, they were against Trump.
Didn't matter.
Trump kept dominating in the primary.
Then in 2020, a lot of people who had opposed Trump sort of softened because they had no other choice and they would have been totally shut out of Republican politics, like Bill Kristol or David French or those kind of people, had they remained opposed to Trump's So they kind of softened on Trump a little bit.
But then 2024 rolls around and Many of the same people, if not all the same people, come out and oppose Trump again.
This is no surprise at all.
Now, you might say, well, I think it was a dumb idea to nominate Trump in 2016, or it's a dumb idea to nominate him in 2024.
I'm not making any comment on the wisdom of doing that or not.
I'm just pointing out that there is today, as there was in 2016, as there basically always has been, a major disagreement between the professional conservatives and the ordinary conservative voters.
That is happening again, and it's playing out yet again in the primary.
Forget about the House race for a second.
It's playing out again in the primary because disproportionately the GOP consultants, the donors, the talking class, the pundits, they favor other candidates than Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, maybe Tim Scott, and disproportionately Nikki Haley, maybe Tim Scott, and disproportionately the voters, at least according to every single poll, favor Donald Trump over those other candidates.
That's just a disagreement among the GOP, and the people are going to say that the pundits are idiots, and the pundits are going to say that the people are idiots, but that is simply a fact, and when it comes to electoral politics and democracy, it's probably wiser, probably wiser to be on the side of the people. probably wiser to be on the side of the people.
Now, getting back to the House race, Steve Scalise, even though he got the Republican nomination, he just dropped out of the race because he didn't have the votes.
Thank you.
There were conservatives in the GOP caucus in the House that said, we're not going to vote for Steve Scalise.
And we've got such a razor-thin majority in the Congress, and Scalise is not going to get the votes of the Democrats.
So, sorry, Scalise, you're out.
Which means that Jim Jordan still could be the Speaker, which I'm really upset about.
Not because I don't think Jim Jordan would be a great speaker, I think he'd probably be the best speaker we've had in a long time.
But because I really like Jim Jordan, and I think he's a good guy, and I wouldn't wish that job upon him, because that job is the worst job in Washington, D.C.
Being the Republican Speaker of the House is, I would rather be cleaning out the Port-A-Johns on the National Mall, probably, than being the Republican Speaker of the House.
It's totally thankless, it's very difficult to succeed, it's like herding cats.
But, on the bright side, we could get a pretty good speaker!
Because it could be Jim Jordan.
Speaking of what's going on in Washington, D.C., this is one of my other reasons to keep Jim Jordan out of the speakership.
He would be great.
He would be so phenomenal.
He's a terrific guy.
But he does great work on the Judiciary Committee, and he's done a great job investigating Democrats.
And look at the stuff that we're getting right now.
Joe Biden has just been discovered to have exchanged 29,000 emails with family and business associates of the Biden family from his vice president email account.
So, you know, Joe Biden had a number of pseudonymous email accounts.
He came up with all these pseudonyms to conduct a particularly shady business while he was VP.
But among the, this is according to America First Legal, which does a great job on unveiling this kind of stuff.
He used his VP email account to exchange more than 29,000 emails with his son Hunter, with his brother Jim Biden, with their business groups, which directly contradicts claims that Biden made during the 2020 campaign.
And what's really strange about it is, it means that Joe Biden must have a lot of thoughts about the weather.
It's because Joe Biden initially said, I don't know anything about my son's business.
I don't even, I don't know what he's doing.
Then he said, okay, maybe I know a little bit.
Maybe I heard, had a few conversations, but I wasn't involved.
Okay, maybe I was a little bit involved.
Maybe I wrote some handwritten notes to his business partners.
Maybe I invited them to lunches with the leader of China.
Maybe, but I, you know, look, it's not like I was in these meetings.
Okay, I was in this meeting that was on more than 20 phone calls with Hunter's Business Associates, but this is what the excuse became.
I was only talking about the weather.
We were just exchanging pleasantries.
29,000 emails about the weather.
That's more emails about the weather than Al Roker has ever sent.
No one has that many thoughts about the weather.
I'm starting to think Joe Biden might have been conducting some shady business.
Now, speaking of troubled families, We've heard for years that Will Smith and Jada Smith have a little bit of a difficult marriage.
This came to a climax when, during the Oscars, Chris Rock made an anodyne joke about Jada Smith, and Will Smith got up there and smacked him across the face.
It was very, very strange.
But for years, Will and Jada Smith have been open about Cheating on each other and, you know, Jada Smith had some very young boyfriend and it just seems rough.
But they said, we're not going to get divorced ever.
Bad marriage for life, which was a play on bad boys for life.
And well, now Jada Smith has revealed to the Today Show that she and Will have been separated for seven years.
Why did the relationship fracture?
Oh, why a fracture, that's a lot of things.
Yeah.
And I think by the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying.
I think we were both kind of still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.
Jada says she considered a legal divorce, but could never go through with it.
I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce.
We will work through whatever.
And I just haven't been able to break that promise.
Good.
That's good.
I know everyone's going to attack Jada Smith because she seems just absolutely awful in most ways, but I tell you, that is a really redeeming statement that she just made.
She said, even though we have this terrible relationship, and even though it's Hollywood, so everyone gets divorced, and even though we've been living separate lives, and even though we've been cheating on each other, and even though we've been doing this and that and the other thing, I can't bring myself to get a divorce because I made a vow and it just seems wrong.
And even me, living in Hollywood, being a big lib, doing all this crazy stuff, even me, I know it's wrong and I don't want to do it.
Good.
Good.
Follow that voice.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a self-help book coming out.
He just came out and explained that he doesn't want to talk about the explosion of his marriage anymore because that is the biggest failure he's ever had.
He said, I blew up my family.
No failure has ever felt worse than that.
Darius Rucker from Hootie and the Blowfish, he just split with his wife after 20 years of marriage.
He said, you feel like a failure.
You try to express those feelings, and it's hard to say, and it's hard to put that on paper.
You try to do it as real as you can.
I'm not a big talk to you guy, but I can sit down and write a song about it.
That stuff hurts.
You feel like a failure.
But we're still a family.
A piece of paper is not going to change that.
We're still a family, and that's all because Beth is awesome.
She knows what's best for the kids.
She's a great human being.
Okay.
You see, really big people here.
Really big, successful, lauded, praised people saying divorce is the biggest failure I've ever had.
In some cases saying divorce is such a scary failure I can't bring myself to do it even though we're separated.
Some people saying I did get divorced and I'm rich and I'm famous and I'm powerful and I'm this and I'm that.
I was the governor of California and it's the biggest failure ever.
Even huge stars are claiming that the biggest failure they could possibly have is divorce.
Jada Smith saying, even with our awful marriage, I can't bring myself to do it.
And then Hootie and the Blowfish over here, Darius Rucker, makes an even more insightful point.
He says, we're still a family.
He says, even though we've been divorced, we're still a family.
We got this piece of paper that says we're divorced, but we were still involved in each other's lives.
We can't pull away from one another, which is an observation that some of us have been making for years.
Divorce is, practically speaking, almost always impossible, especially when there's kids.
So, you know, the Church says, the Christian view, is that divorce is not possible.
What God has joined, let no man separate.
Certain Christian denominations accept divorce, but the vast majority do not, and for the vast majority of the history of the Church, divorce has not been recognized or accepted in any way, and obviously the Catholic Church still holds to that.
Even if you don't believe in God or Christianity or religion or anything like that.
The point expressed perfectly by the church that divorce is not a possibility, what God has joined no man can separate, is expressed by Darius Rucker in this really practical way, where he says, you know, just practically speaking, we still got the kids, we still see each other, we still talk, we still have to interact with one another, so you actually just can't do it.
It's not possible.
And I hate to give Hollywood some credit here, but they deserve a little bit of credit, which is The people who seem most likely to divorce these Hollywood stars, they're warning people about the reality of that.
They're saying, don't fall into the same thing that I've fallen into.
It's not pleasant.
It's not even really possible.
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My favorite comment is from Devin Rossi, 5966, who says, if climate control is the greatest threat we face, then the thermostat in our homes is a greater weapon than we could have ever guessed.
You make such a good point.
The greatest threat that we face is the sun monster ticking up the temperature like one one hundredth of a degree every thousand years.
And so what that means is you need to arm yourself.
Not with a gun.
Not with a nuclear weapon.
no with that little thermostat and the one just go okay problem solved we're good we're good now do you work for skunkworks or something Are you working for some very clandestine weapons development realm of the US government?
Because that was a brilliant observation.
Speaking of Hollywood, Gwyneth Paltrow just revealed where she stores her Oscar, and I love it.
And what a beautiful Academy Award!
My doorstop!
It works perfectly!
I love it, and it's a sort of a tee-hee-hee, ha-ha, like we're filming this little take on Gwyneth Paltrow's home, and oh my goodness, outside she's got her Oscar as a doorstop!
Oh yeah, it's a great doorstop.
I love this.
This is a really healthy attitude when it comes to something like fame.
There was a Famous journalist, magazine editor, and Catholic priest, who in his home, he kept all of his pictures with statesmen and prominent people in the bathroom.
And a friend of mine once asked this man, why are they all in the bathroom?
He said, because that's exactly where the glories of this world belong, is in the bathroom.
This is a healthy attitude when it comes to something like fame.
Especially Hollywood, which is so rotten, where nothing really is as it seems, where so much of Hollywood is a facade, and just beneath the glitz and the glamour, you have decay, and you have the collapse of families, and you have people selling their bodies to get parts, and it's just pretend.
I mean, the whole place is just pretend.
And so, when you're faced with something that is Pretend, ephemeral, really fleeting, then that's a good way to treat those glories.
That would not be a healthy attitude, however, when it comes to something that really matters, like family, like honor, like dignity, like piety, like sanctity.
Then you would not want to treat that as just something to be left out in the rain to stop up your gate outside or anything.
Then you would want to cherish that.
You would want to treat it very well.
And one of the big problems in the modern world is we totally flip it.
So, in the modern world, we treasure fame and notoriety and clicks on social media.
We treasure that as our most dearly held possession.
We would never leave that out in the rain, stopping up a door.
No, we spend our efforts, we spend our time, we spend our love on that.
And we let things like, you know, family, honor, dignity, modesty, we forget about that stuff.
You don't need to be a Hollywood star to recognize this.
How many people sacrifice their family on the altar of career?
Or on the altar of professional ambition?
Or on the altar of fun?
On the altar of hedonism?
On the altar of selfishness?
We do that all the time.
This is real.
Some people are going to look at Gwyneth Paltrow and say, she's totally crazy.
She's being disrespectful to the Academy and to Hollywood by this top professional achievement she's just throwing.
No, that's where it belongs is out in the garden.
It belongs out there stopping up a door.
We need to cherish the things that are worth cherishing.
We need to keep in proper perspective the things that might seem glittery and pretty in this world, but will not last.
Speaking of health, only 2% of Americans have received the new COVID booster.
Have you gotten your latest Fauci-ouchie?
Have you gotten your latest experimental jab?
Only 7 million Americans have received the updated versions of the COVID jab.
That's compared to 56.5 million people who received last year's version.
My reaction to this news is, it's crazy that that number is so high.
Absolutely crazy that that number is... How is it that 7 million Americans, after being lied to, With lies that have been disproven time and time again in really practical ways.
Like they tell you, if you get the COVID vax, you will not get the virus.
And then you get the COVID vax and you get the virus.
They say, well, no, no, okay.
If you get the COVID vax, sorry.
If you get the COVID vax, then you will not spread the virus.
And then what happens?
You get the COVID vax, you get COVID, and then you spread the virus.
Well, all right, hold on here.
If you get the COVID vax, you will not suffer any side effects.
It is totally 100% safe.
And then what happens?
People get nerve damage.
People get blood clots.
People die to blood clots.
People get myocarditis.
People get pericarditis.
Young people who faced very little risk from the coronavirus were getting these jabs and facing consequences because of it.
Very negative health outcomes.
Okay, well, the jab is not effective, and ultimately they had to promise that the jab was, the way you knew it was effective is, trust us, it would have been worse if you didn't have it.
The jab didn't accomplish any of the things that we promised you it would accomplish, but trust us now, it's going to accomplish a totally unfalsifiable thing, because it's going to be a hypothetical.
It's going to be, well, hedginaka, it would have been a lot worse.
So we have no evidence that the jab was effective at doing anything at all.
And we know for a fact that the jab wasn't nearly as safe as they told us it would be.
And then the next thing they said was, yeah, so you got to get another one.
And what was amazing was a ton of people got another one.
And then you know what they said after that, when that wasn't effective either or particularly safe?
They said, yeah, actually, you got to get another one, actually.
You got to get a couple, you got to get like two or three more.
And then they did it.
56 and a half million people got last year's version.
And, you know, it's like, fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, hey, the point is you're not going to fool me again, to quote George W. Bush.
Fool me three times, fool me four times, fool me five times.
And yet again this year, even after all this stuff was just totally debunked, the social distancing rules, that was proven to be just completely arbitrary.
The COVID gazillion people death count, that was debunked too.
That number was extraordinarily artificially inflated.
And still, 7 million people have gotten the updated version of the COVID jab.
This, this is why democracies can't have nice things.
This is, that's bad.
7 million, who knows?
Let's see how many more people get it.
Before we go, Andrew Tate is in the news yet again.
Andrew Tate, you know, is something of a favorite among a certain segment of young right-wingers.
He's also an OnlyFans pimp who's a criminal in Romania because of his pimping.
Because pimping ain't easy and it also ain't legal in a lot of places.
And Andrew Tate is also a convert to Islam.
So, I guess that's better than being an atheist.
But, I don't know, his version of Islam doesn't seem even like the best version of Islam.
And Andra Tate's reaction to the Hamas terror attack on the State of Israel, and now the ensuing war is, there is but one certainty in this mess, there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad, P-B-U-H, what is, oh, peace be upon him, is the messenger of Allah.
That was his take.
Right after the terror attack.
That was his take on October 7th.
And these are, in some quarters, probably not as much anymore, but in some quarters, a conservative icon.
This reminds me of a good rule of thumb.
You are known by the friends you keep.
You are actually known by the friends you keep.
The kind of circles that Andrew Tate is moving in.
Actually, I do have a couple of friends of mine who are friends with Andrew Tate, but broadly that would be the exception to the rule, I think, because they were friends for a long time.
Of the people that Andrew Tate is cavorting with now, you know, the pimps and the prostitutes and the radical Muslims, and that doesn't, generally speaking, you know, you look at that and you say, that's not, he's probably not in agreement with me on a lot of things.
And then you look broadly at the pro-Hamas argument, and the pro-Hamas argument is being joined by BLM.
BLM is totally crazy.
It's being joined by the radical leftists, it's being joined by Harvard students, but I repeat myself.
And you look around and you say, huh.
I don't want to be totally prejudicial here, but generally you are known by the friends you keep.
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Hey, Dirty Mike, Mr. Reality here.
I had a question for you on the potential of World War III breaking out.
A lot of people say that because we have nuclear weapons, Russia has nuclear weapons, China has nuclear weapons, all these major powers have nuclear weapons, there would never be another World War.
My thoughts are no one's going to actually use their nuclear weapon unless they're about to be utterly destroyed.
Because, for example, say the United States invades part of China.
Is China really going to launch nuclear weapons and destroy all of China in our retaliation immediately?
Or are they going to fight at the border and only use the weapons if there's no other choice?
So, my thoughts are the nuclear weapons are a defense against total annihilation of a country, but not against a world war itself.
What are your thoughts on that?
Thanks.
Yes, the nukes, we're seeing this happen right now, the nukes are not deterring regional or multi-regional or at what point do we call it global conflict.
But I'm not agreeing with your point that the nuclear weapons would not be used except in some kind of existential situation.
We haven't seen it yet, we haven't seen tactical nukes exactly, but people have this idea that nuclear weapons, you know, the moment you set one off, basically the whole world explodes.
And that's not really true.
That's not really how nuclear weapons work.
Nuclear weapons are very scary and it's not a good thing to use.
But we've set off a lot of nuclear weapons, especially when we were testing the nuclear weapons.
Forget about use in war, obviously at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But we've set off a lot of nuclear weapons that didn't end the world.
The fallout and the blast zones and everything are significantly smaller than a lot of people think for most nuclear weapons.
I'm not quite so placid that they won't be used in some war, in some tactical way.
Maybe not one of these, you know, nuclear weapons that blows out a city, but some kind of nuclear weapon, I'm not convinced that could not be used, just because they haven't been used in 70 years.
70 years is a pretty short time.
Next question.
Hello Michael, Lacrimafix Maximus.
If you don't mind, I would like to ask your opinions about one of the contentious topics of the Catholic Church's history, That being the fabled female Pope, Pope Joan.
Do you believe her story to be that one of truth, fiction, or a little of calm A and a little of calm B?
Love to hear your response this Friday, and wish the best for you and your family, especially given your recent comments about Biden.
Thank you very much.
Good question.
For those who don't know, Pope Joan is this legendary Fable, you know, as you say, female Pope from I think the 9th century and then this was, you see, is it in Siena Cathedral?
In one of the cathedrals there's actually a bust of Pope Joan, you know, this legendary female pope, though that was removed pretty quickly after it was put up and in 1600 or 1601, the then Pope said, it's fake news.
the then Pope said, it's fake news.
It is fake news.
I don't see any evidence that Pope Joan existed or that Pope Joan was actually a woman.
I've Probably the fable comes from a polemical attack on one of the Pope Johns from the 8th or 9th century, maybe 10th century I guess.
But no, it's a kind of a fun story.
I like these fun stories.
I like legends.
The thing about legends is while legends are not true, they often have some semblance of truth.
Even legends about the saints that probably did not literally happen tell you something about the character of the saints.
And so, as a polemical attack on one of the actual male popes, it seems to make much more sense than a woman just secretly becoming pope.
Next question.
Hi, Michael.
I'm going through what's called the Quiet Martyrdom of the Virtuous Woman, and I'd like to have your advice on it.
Basically, what this is, is that when a virtuous, good Christian woman is younger, guys don't want to be with her because she's virtuous.
She won't do things on dates.
You know, she waits for marriage.
And now that we're older, in our 30s, Good virtuous men don't want us because we're in our 30s, even though we've already been through the trial in our 20s.
So you have advice for us, these women looking for her vocation as a wife and a mother in her 30s, and seems like nobody wants us.
Thanks, Michael.
Great question.
You are truly One of the chief victims of the sexual revolution, probably your group in particular is the chief victim, because the sexual revolution says forget about all the old rules, forget about honor and chastity and modesty and sexual ethics, sleep around if it feels good, do it.
And some women don't want to do that, but men come to expect it.
And then men, maybe they sow their wild oats, and then they decide to settle down and get married, but they don't want to.
Then they find some, you know, hot young thing or something, 22-year-old.
I'm not saying you're not a hot young thing, too.
But, you know, as you point out, you're though perhaps hot, somewhat older than the 22-year-old girls.
And so you find yourself in this pickle where, you know, you've done the right thing in your 20s, and now you say, well, now nobody wants me.
I think that latter part, though, is just not true.
I have many friends in their 30s who are in the same spot as you.
And even friends who were not totally chaste in their 20s, but they're still in the same spot as you.
Because the problem is just so much broader.
The delaying of marriage for everyone is screwing things up, for women in particular.
My advice though is there are a lot of men who are in the same position.
I get this question from men probably just as often as I get it from women.
We're saying, hey I'm in my 30s and I just haven't met a girl who likes me and I don't know how to go on dates and I don't know how to do anything.
So my advice to you would be go where the men are.
My advice would be go to a traditional Latin Mass because everyone's pretty young and is on the same page as what you're talking about, and they're interested in getting married and having like a thousand kids.
So, I don't know if you're Catholic or not, I don't know what your circumstances are in that way, but you've got to go where the men are.
And I would be a little forward because you're saying, oh, these men don't want me and I'm unlovable and I'm undesirable, but you're giving the men too much credit.
You're thinking that these men are all Lotharios and Don Giovannis, but they're usually not.
The men are just as awkward.
And incapable of interacting with the opposite sex as you, I think, maybe mistakenly think yourself to be.
The sexual revolution just blew up sexual relations.
It's, you know, not just one sex or the other.
So I would recommend going where the men are in real life, in real person, joining clubs, going to the right kind of a church, you know, this, that, and the other thing.
And I'd approach the men and say, hey, you want to go get a cup of coffee?
I know it's weird.
I know it's weird, but sometimes, you know, when the culture has gotten so completely crazy and chaotic, you've got to be a little unconventional to get back to normal.
Next question.
Hi Michael, my name is Mallory.
I'm a 20-year-old college senior and I'm also a cradle Catholic.
Last week you had a few segments on your shows talking about SSRIs and other mental health drugs.
I just wanted some advice.
I have been on SSRIs for about a year and I've struggled with major depressive disorder my whole life since I was probably about six or seven, and I can't imagine going back to my life before I started these drugs because they have helped me.
But I wanted to know your advice from a faith standpoint on things that I could do to improve my mental health through God.
Thank you so much.
I love your show.
Thank you so much, really great question, and I'm not saying that these drugs can never be helpful, at least for a short period of time.
I'm not saying they can be helpful, but I'm not saying they can never be helpful.
I am quite convinced that One in eight Americans should not be on these drugs.
And when you take men out of the picture, when you just look at women, the numbers are even crazier.
I'm convinced of that.
I don't think that we should be pumping powerful psych drugs into a huge proportion of our population, including very young people.
But maybe on the rare occasion, maybe it does something to help you along the way.
You raise this question at the end, you say, do you have any advice regarding faith that could help my mental health question?
So I guess I would need to know where you're starting from.
Because obviously, you have not perfectly identified the source of your depressive problems.
You're saying that these drugs work, so that's why I'm glad you're feeling better than you did before, and you've had this from a very young age.
I would just wonder if maybe some cognitive behavioral therapy might be helpful here, if maybe some spiritual counseling with a priest might be helpful here, because is it the case that, you know, your parents got divorced at age six and then you got depressed at age seven and never got over it?
Many such cases.
Well, in that case, I would work through that issue.
Is it that a loved one died when you were six or seven, and that spurred your depressive episode, which has persisted for a long time?
Is it that your family had a crisis of faith at six or seven, and that has led, over time, to depressive episodes?
I just don't know.
So, I'd try to identify that problem.
And to give you a really blunt answer on faith, it is in fact the case that one ultimately cannot be happy without a healthy attitude and direction toward God.
It is not possible.
We've known this since the good old ancient Greeks, up through modernity, and as the modernity has turned away from God, people have gotten miserable.
To quote Andrew Klavan, I would live as though God exists for 60 days.
Just pray and go to church and act as though God exists and see what that does to you.
And then I would try to identify, if it is possible, I'm not saying it is, maybe it's just a quirk of your brain, but if it is possible, try to identify what might be underlying your depressive condition.
Because more often than not, I think, there is a reason that one can point to that is not just totally random.
Last mailbag question you get to before we get to the mail block.
We have a really important mailbag, or a really important member block segment today.
But mailbag question, mother-in-law drama.
Michael, I had a question regarding a situation with my mother-in-law.
This woman is not the kindest person.
One day she'll smile at you, the other she's sending my kids handwritten letters about how much of a piece of work I am, while also sending angry text messages to me.
Regardless of all this, my wife still likes to have her visit, and this year I decided I would leave during the time she's visiting.
When my wife picked me up from the airport, she started to cry and go on about how she needs me home when she visits because it's too much without me there.
She states that as her husband, I should support her while her mother is there.
My question to you is part of me says I should be there, but after close to 20 years of this, I'm at my boiling point.
And if I see her, I will say all the things I've held back.
What would be the best way to go about this?
I feel like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Yeah, you let this go on too long.
So there's no way to fix the past.
But for instance, if your mother-in-law sends letters to your kids dissing you, that is when you calmly call your mother-in-law and say, hey, you're out.
You're out.
We're not going to see you for a little while and you're going to need to fix your behavior and you're going to apologize to the children for doing this and scandalizing them.
And if you don't do that, we're never seeing you again.
And because I'm the head of my household and this is my family and you're not going to threaten it.
Even you, to whom I owe some modicum of respect, that's why I'm calling you respectfully, but you can't do this.
This is my family and I'm the head of my household.
You know, that would have been a good thing to do 20 years ago.
I guess now it's a little bit late for that, probably.
I don't know how old your kids are.
Maybe you had kids later on in your marriage.
So, it's in the little things that the rot begins, to quote the butler on the crown, so it, you know, these things fester and fester, and you say, now I'm at my boiling point.
I think you're right, though, you shouldn't flee when your mother-in-law comes to town, okay?
It's your house, you're the head of the family, so you actually do have a responsibility to be there, you know?
You have a responsibility to your wife and to your family to do that, and to keep yourself in composure, and to be patient, but to be firm, too, you know?
I just wouldn't accept these kinds of things.
I mean, I know it's very hard.
I love my mother-in-law.
I have a lovely mother-in-law.
I know people who have had very bad mother-in-laws.
I know mother-in-laws who have destroyed Marriages.
Luckily, you're not at that point yet.
But I generally agree with your wife and I think that you've got to be firmer, but do not lose your cool.
A man does not fall out of control.
You know, part of being a man is being in control.
But I would be firm and clear.
Recognize that you're in charge of your family.
Your mother-in-law is not the head of your family.
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