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The world's most famous living atheist, Richard Dawkins, one of the four horsemen of the New Atheist Movement 20 years ago, is now calling himself a Christian.
Sort of.
Here's why.
Well, I must say I was slightly horrified to hear that Ramadan is being promoted instead.
I do think that we are culturally a Christian country.
I call myself a cultural Christian.
I'm not a believer.
But there's a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian.
And so, you know, I love hymns and Christmas carols.
And I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos.
I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense.
It's true that statistically the number of people who actually believe in Christianity is going down, and I'm happy with that.
But I would not be happy if, for example, we lost all our cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches.
So I count myself a cultural Christian.
I think it would matter Certainly, if we substituted any alternative religion, that would be truly dreadful.
If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I'd choose Christianity every single time.
I mean, it seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion, in a way that I think Islam is not.
I find that I like to live in a culturally Christian country, although I do not believe a single word of the Christian faith.
For an intelligent guy, Richard Dawkins sure seems to miss some pretty basic aspects of life and logic.
20 years after creating the modern atheist movement, he is shocked and horrified By the inevitable consequences of his movement's success.
The man holds multiple degrees from Oxford, where he went on to teach for many years.
And yet, for all that education, Dawkins never seemed to learn the basic lesson known as FAFO.
That's the polite way of putting it.
So, for Professor Dawkins, and anyone else who might have missed it, here's a refresher.
Today we're going to talk about how we can find out and how much we can find out and what it takes to get there.
So first we have to decide how much do we want to find out.
So let's say in this case I want to find out at a level of seven.
Okay so I find that level on my graph and I come horizontally to my gradient line where it intersects with my gradient line.
I'm going to come straight down to where it intersects with my The more you f*** around, the more you're going to find out.
And also, if you stayed on here and you never f*** around, you'll never find out.
So I hope this lesson is helpful.
You should see the more you around, the more you're gonna find out.
And also, if you stay down here and you never around, you'll never find out.
So I hope this lesson is helpful.
Thank you. - Very simple, very helpful.
I wish more people had learned that lesson and taken it to heart, but they didn't.
And now we're all finding out that when you spend decades eradicating, or at least attempting to eradicate, the spirit that animated your entire civilization, that civilization is not liable to survive for very long.
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The president of Guyana just destroyed the BBC on climate change.
You know, sometimes things take a little longer to make it from America to the rest of the world.
So maybe, you know, six, seven, even ten years ago now, Shapiro destroys, even I say in all humility, Knowles destroys, Walsh, whoever, you know.
With facts and logic.
Well, now it's made it to Guyana, baby, and this president of Guyana totally destroyed the liberal journalists on climate change with facts and logic.
We'll get to that in one moment.
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Speaking of religion in politics...
Generally speaking, every time we bring up a story about religion and politics, it's kind of a downer.
You know, that religion is on the decline, there's some scandal within the church, there's some lack of courage.
It's unfortunate.
Today we have some good news, which is that the Cardinal of Washington, D.C., Wilton Cardinal Gregory, who is known as a rather liberal prelate, Just went on CBS News Face the Nation and called out President Joe Biden for saying that he's a very devout Catholic while undermining important aspects, non-negotiable aspects of the Catholic faith.
I would say that he's very sincere about his faith, but like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts.
There's a phrase that we have used in the past, a cafeteria Catholic.
You choose that which is attractive and dismiss that which is challenging.
Or, as Thomas Aquinas would say, you You allow your conscience to guide you.
Is there something on the menu he's not ordering, in your view?
Well, I would say there are things, especially in terms of the life issues, there are things that he chooses to ignore or he uses the current situation as a political pawn.
Rather than saying, look, my church believes this.
This is really, I know it seems, maybe if you're not Catholic, if you're kind of looking at this from the outside, it seems as though Cardinal Gregory here is being very measured, even perhaps a bit restrained.
This is a brutal challenge to the president who makes his Catholicism an important aspect of his political persona.
And Cardinal Gregory is basically saying, yeah man, you are contradicting very important elements of the faith.
How dare you call yourself a practicing Catholic?
You're actually a cafeteria Catholic.
That's a brutal phrase.
I have to address that ridiculous Episcopalian priestess woman because it's so, I almost couldn't even pay attention to the rest of the clip where Cardinal Gregory is making this really important point in a very charitable way, but he's still making it clear.
And then this mouthy Episcopalian priestess lady masquerading as a prelate comes out and she says, well, you know, actually, maybe he's just going to let his conscience be his guide to quote St.
Thomas Aquinas.
Lady, you're quoting Jiminy Cricket.
What are you talking about?
How dare you?
Get St.
Thomas's name out your mouth.
How dare you?
That is, I don't know where in the summa.
This woman, well I don't know, I guess this woman, her reading of the Summa Theologiae must be a little bit off base if she thinks that she can become a bishopress or whatever she's pretending to be.
But I don't know where she got that actually the way to practice the faith is to just always let your conscience be your guide, but that's actually not how we do it.
We also submit To the authority of the priests and the bishops and the Supreme Pontiff.
We also submit our own sometimes defective wills to the Magisterium, the Deposit of Faith, obviously Sacred Scripture.
And you don't get to just make up your own religion, lady.
But anyway, I digress.
Sorry, gets me a little hot under the collar.
And I'm not wearing a collar like this woman is inappropriately wearing.
But then Cardinal Gregory, he kind of dismisses her ridiculous point.
And then he says, look, I'm sure Biden is sincere.
Maybe he's trying to be sincere at least, but whatever he's doing, it's not Catholicism.
This is not from some right-wing bishop or something, which the media sometimes try to paint as being opposed to Pope Francis.
No.
This is a well-known and broadly reputed to be liberal bishop.
And Biden's devout Catholic shtick is running out.
It's played out.
Biden tries to make that a key aspect of his campaign because he's trying to contrast himself with Trump.
He says Trump is undignified, Trump is demeaning the office of the presidency, and I, Joe Biden, I'm gonna restore dignity to the Oval Office.
I'm gonna make America good again, okay?
America's back, baby.
And what Gregory's saying is, actually, man, you're promoting infanticide on a mass scale.
You're doing all sorts of things that are really contrary to your faith.
I guess you can pursue whatever you're going to pursue, but don't try to pretend.
Don't try to slap this patina of moral legitimacy on it because it ain't really there.
Biden, I think now is indisputably very far afield of the Catholic faith, which even moderately attentive observers already knew.
Biden's real faith is liberalism.
And a man cannot serve two masters.
So when the two don't seem to conflict, he can pretend to be a practicing Catholic.
But when they do conflict, he's a liberal.
On questions of life, on questions of human nature, on questions of marriage, on all sorts of questions.
Whenever there's a conflict between the two faiths that he is inclined to profess, he's going to choose liberalism.
So how's he going to win over votes?
If he's even losing the relatively liberal prelates of his own church.
How's he going to win over votes?
He's going to try to win over Nikki Haley supporters.
He's just run a big ad seeking support from the angry, disappointed Haley voters.
Birdbrain.
I call her Birdbrain.
Nikki Haley has made an unholy alliance with rhinos, Never Trumpers, Americans for no prosperity.
She's sitting there like...
She's gone crazy.
She's a very angry person.
She's not presidential timber.
I don't need votes.
We have all the votes we need.
She's gone haywire.
There aren't that many Never Trumpers anymore.
How do you bring these Nikki Haley voters back into the tent?
I'm not sure we need too many.
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What is this about?
The shallow interpretation of this is going to be that this is about Biden appealing to the moderates, appealing to the centrists.
This isn't really about moderation though.
This is about anti-Trump.
That's what it's really about.
Donald Trump has done a pretty good job of bringing in people who have moderate positions.
The moderate position on, say, entitlement reform, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, is currently held by Trump.
It was not held by Nikki Haley.
It was not held by people like Paul Ryan.
It was not held by the Tea Party, for instance.
Trump has a much more moderate position on entitlements, the biggest driver of the debt and deficit.
Joe Biden has a kind of extreme view on entitlements, which is just keep running them up.
Joe Biden, or Donald Trump rather, is saying that we're not going to cut any of these entitlements, but we're going to try to get budget cuts elsewhere.
And I'm not weighing in on the merits of that as public policy.
I'm just pointing out Trump has the moderate position there.
When it comes to things like foreign policy, Trump has a relatively moderate position.
Other people in the Republican Party Not naming names, but other people seem a lot more hawkish, a lot more willing to just use military force and bomb everyone all over the world.
want to invade countries.
You think of the Hillary Clinton set, which never found a country they didn't want to invade.
Or they're the radical, you know, don't ever use military force, ever give peace a chance, kumbaya stuff.
Donald Trump's foreign policy is sometimes use military force, sometimes don't.
Speak softly, carry a big stick, or speak loudly and don't wield the big stick, but be a little bit unpredictable.
And so one day we're going to drop the Moab, one day we're going to kill the top Iranian general, The next day we're going to refuse to go to war.
We're going to draw down some troops.
We're going to decrease the tensions.
We're going to try diplomacy with North Korea, for instance.
Trump has the moderate views.
And I know that the M word is a bad word, but moderation is a virtue.
You don't want an incoherent policy, which a lot of people in the Republican and Democrat camps have, but you want some degree of moderation.
Moderation is a virtue.
Trump has that.
What this is really about is not about Biden agreeing with Nikki Haley on any particular political issue.
It's about both of them hating Trump.
I'm not even saying the individuals.
I'm saying the voters for both camps.
They hate Trump.
So come on over here.
Join us.
Sure, you're a lifelong Republican, you hate everything Joe Biden stands for, but you supported Nikki Haley, she lost, you really hate Donald Trump, okay, vote for us to get revenge.
That's what this appeal is about.
And that's really what the whole Biden campaign is about, because there's nothing he can campaign on.
He can't campaign on foreign policy, he can't campaign on immigration, he can't campaign on the economy, he can't campaign on anything.
It's all just fallen apart.
It's turned to ash, everything the man has touched.
So it's got to be anti-Trump.
And so naturally, you would make the appeal to the faction of the GOP that really, really hates Trump.
And you're not going to make it.
Notice there was no issue in that campaign ad.
It wasn't, hey, if you agree with us on occupational licensing reform, Well, then you should come on over here.
We share your views.
No, it was just, hey, that guy, that Trump guy, he hates you.
Yeah, he hates you.
And we hate him, huh?
Yeah, he's bad.
Anyway, come over.
So we're on the same team, right?
Issues?
Who cares about issues?
We just hate that orange guy.
And if I were the Biden campaign, I'd probably be running the exact same ad because it's sad, but it's probably the best they've got.
Now, speaking of Trump, Trump Is wealthy again.
Remember a week or two ago?
The Libs said that Trump was broke.
It was trending all over social media.
Trump is broke.
He can't even pay the half a billion dollar civil judgment that we've unjustly levied against him for no reason at all.
Ha ha, he's totally broke.
No one on earth, by the way, could pay that in cash.
450, 460 million dollar civil fraud judgment for total cooked up nonsense.
But they said, oh Trump is broke, he's broke.
Well, per a new report from Bloomberg, Trump is back up among the 500 wealthiest people on the planet.
Why is that?
That's because his new Trump media group, after the acquisition of Truth Social, trading as a DJT on the Nasdaq, Jumped up and boosted his net worth by billions of dollars.
Now, you probably saw the headlines, if you search this sort of thing, yesterday, that actually Trump's stock plummeted.
Oh, it plummeted.
All right.
And in a way it did.
It launched at a very, very high price.
And it's volatile in the first few days after it went public.
But I checked yesterday evening.
The DJT stock was still trading at something like $45 a share.
That's crazy, man.
That's crazy.
The real sophisticated financial analysts were expecting this thing to debut at like $14 a share.
And in early trading, it was in the 40s, then it jumped into the 50s.
At one point, I think it peaked around $71, $72.
Then it fell a little bit down to $66 or so.
Now, as of last night, it was back down at $45 or thereabouts.
That's still unbelievable.
It's just amazing.
And it's yet another example of this guy pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
Now, of course, he still will face a cash crunch if the New York civil fraud case demands that he pay up a bunch of cash, a bunch of extortion payments to the New York Attorney General.
But in any case, it seems to me that this whole episode, which would have destroyed any other Political candidate.
Any one of the prosecutions, or the civil case, or the other civil case, remember there was the other civil case with the gossip columnist lady who said that Trump ravished her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 55 years ago, or whatever, 30 years ago.
Any one of those cases would have destroyed any ordinary political candidate.
And so I don't want to seem like I'm giving undue adulation to Trump here.
I don't think it's undue.
I'm pointing out the man can make $3 billion in one day, and then lose a billion dollars, and then be threatened with 700 years in prison, and then be charged half a billion dollars, and then have that reduced to $150 million, and he just keeps on keeping on.
We are talking about a presidential candidate who is playing at a level of public life that we are largely not familiar with in America.
Whether you love him or hate him, the man might be a world historic figure.
Okay, he is at the very least an American historic figure.
We have not seen anything like him.
And so all of the analysis, well, actually, you know, this other senator or governor, he actually would be better at this thing.
And if only we had realized that, and here's what the Democrat playbook should be based on past races.
No, that stuff is out the window.
That is all out the window.
We are dealing with, simply, a different kind of beast.
That is how he was able to take over the Republican Party on a whim, having never held public office before.
And that is why he cannot be dislodged from the leadership of one of the two big parties in the United States.
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Speaking of presidents...
This is the one to clip.
This is the one that's going to go viral on TikTok.
And who's the new viral star?
It's not some hot new 22-year-old female influencer.
It's the president of Guyana.
Who just destroyed the BBC with facts and logic.
According to many experts, more than 2 billion tons of carbon emissions will come from your seabed from those reserves and be released into the atmosphere.
I don't know if you as a head of state went to the COP in Dubai.
Let me stop you right there.
Do you know that Guyana has a forest forever?
That is the size of England and Scotland combined?
A forest that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon?
A forest that we have kept alive?
A forest that we have kept alive?
Does that give you the right?
Does that give you the right to release all of this carbon?
Does that give you the right?
To lecture us on climate change, I am going to lecture you on climate change.
Because we have kept this forest alive, that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon, that you enjoy, that the world enjoys, that you don't pay us for, that you don't value, that you don't see a value in, that the people of Guyana has kept alive.
Are you in the pockets of those who have damaged the environment?
Are you in the pockets, are you and your system in the pockets of those who destroyed the environment through the Industrial Revolution and now lecturing us?
Are you in their pockets?
Are you paid by them?
He keeps just going at this guy.
The BBC doesn't have very much to say, but it's an important point that he's making.
He's saying, hold on, you Brits, you are After, what, a century and a half?
Two centuries of industrialization?
About a century and a half, I guess.
Of industrialization.
Spewing pollution into the atmosphere.
You are now, you've woken up after this has led to a lot of wealth and material prosperity for your country.
You have decided, okay, actually, now that we got our bag, this is kind of bad for the environment.
So we're going to tell all the poor countries that are developing right now and that are beginning to see the fruits of that material prosperity, we're going to tell them to stop.
Because we got ours, and now we don't want all that pollution.
And Mr. Guyana over here says, hold on.
We have a forest, just one forest, that is bigger than your country and Scotland, so a large portion of the whole United Kingdom combined.
We could start using those resources.
We could start spewing carbon into the atmosphere.
We don't.
We don't do that.
We do more to conserve the natural environment without any thanks, without being told to by you.
Then you guys have ever done.
But what we want is a little bit of economic development.
You're telling us, no, now we can't.
And think about how offensive that is at an even more basic level.
What the people in Guyana, just like the people in India in particular, India now the most populous country in the world and a lot of the West is telling India not to develop because this could be bad for Mother Gaia and the sun monster might, you know, send more harmful rays at us if the Indians continue to develop.
Well, what these nations are saying is, hold on, we have people here.
Forget about the Delta smelt for a second.
Forget about the sun monster, you know, melting the ice caps, which isn't even really happening.
We have people here who are hungry, who want to feed their families, who want to flourish.
And you're telling us that your abstract concern for the polar bears in the Arctic on the other side of the world is more important than the immediate concern that we have and the responsibility we have to provide for our people.
Your fantasies about unconscious life On the other side of the world is more important to you than our people.
How deeply offensive is that?
But it's the natural consequence of a kind of environmental cult which upends the way that we traditionally understand the natural order.
Which is that human beings are made in the image and likeness of God.
We know this not merely through revelation, but through reason.
We are the rational animal.
We have rational souls.
We can even think about things like abstract justice or the delta smelt on the other side of the world.
And because of that, we bear a resemblance to the creator of the universe.
We share in intelligence, and the world is intelligible to us.
And we are therefore stewards.
We have a responsibility for the irrational parts of the created world.
And so we try to take care of these things, but we do it, in large part, for us.
Not because the Delta Smelt have some abstract rights.
What these guys say, the environmentalists say, is no.
Actually, we are lower than the smelt.
Actually, we are lower than the polar bears.
We're not rational at all.
We live to serve the rocks and Mother Gaia and the sun monster.
And if that means that some people in Guyana aren't able to feed their families, well, too bad.
If that means that Indians are going to have to die of starvation, well, you know, we're just going to have to do that because we want to make sure that the polar bears have a bigger ice float.
Even though the ice isn't necessarily really melting, does that sound good to you?
The Guyana guy is looking at me and says, have you lost your freaking mind?
It actually ties in with what we were talking about at the top of the show, which is Richard Dawkins.
These people, specifically the Brits I guess in this case, I don't want to be too harsh to the motherland, but They've thrown out the religion that built our whole civilization.
They've done worse than throw it out.
They've inverted it.
They've turned it into some bizarro kind of cult of the self, but then not even the self.
It's not even just pure selfishness.
It's kind of an abolition of the self, which could be expected because when man finds his identity in the source and summit of all being in God, then he knows who he is.
We know where we fit in with things.
When we just make an idol out of ourselves, we abolish humanity.
We lose our connection to the source and summit of all being.
And so then what?
We say, oh, we're worse than the smelt.
We're worse than the rocks.
We don't matter at all.
And then we lose, as Richard Dawkins fears, the cathedrals.
We lose the parishes.
We lose political sovereignty, we lose our charity for our fellow men, and we tell the people in Guyana, go, sorry, you're going to have to starve for some reason.
Why?
Why?
The BBC can't quite explain it.
Like any bizarro pagan tribe, they fear the reprisals of the sun gods.
I wonder if the new atheists saw that.
I know they didn't see that coming.
Obviously, they're lamenting now the logical and inevitable consequences of their own quasi-intellectual movement.
Very, very unfortunate.
Speaking of Western pathologies, new study out.
You don't really need a study for this news story, but it turns out that loneliness is on the rise.
This research, according to one poll commissioned by Zumba, polled, the Brits again, I don't know why the Brits are so in the news this week, found that 40% have gone at least three days without a face-to-face conversation with another person.
28%!
This is even worse.
So, 40% go three days without a face-to-face interaction with another person.
That is horrifying.
I guess the one consolation here is, if this has happened to you, you're not alone.
You are alone, and that's the problem that you're dealing with.
But you are not alone in your loneliness.
40% of 2 in 5 people have experienced the same thing.
But then this is even more distressing.
28% of people report feeling lonely while at a social event.
25% of people feel isolated in their workplace.
This pains me.
Nothing... I'm gonna reveal myself.
I know you think I'm a big tough guy.
I'm gonna reveal a little bit of how I can become a softie.
It really pains me when people are lonely, when they feel alienated and alone.
It just... I don't... It just... Call me!
Soft, but it really bothers me.
And around one in four people now report feeling that way when they're at a social event, when they're in their office, which is the social event that they're at every single day.
They feel, even though they're around people, they still feel alone.
And then 40% of people go three days without seeing anyone face to face.
How did this happen?
I frequently mention a fundamental error in liberal modernity on this show, and I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I mention it so frequently because it's not just mamby-pamby stuff.
It has very practical consequences.
I say that the fundamental error, among the fundamental errors, of liberal modernity is that we have decided that people are basically individuals.
Which is not true.
Our real identity is not as individuals, it is as the social creature, the political animal.
It's the difference between Enlightenment liberalism and classical political philosophy.
And where the two disagree, the Enlightenment liberals are wrong, always.
And the classical political philosophers are right.
Not to oversimplify it too much, but especially on this point, is man fundamentally just an atom floating in outer space, or is man a social creature?
The left and the right in modern liberal life.
Say that we're individuals.
And the left expresses this through their embrace of weird sex stuff and the defense of killing babies and just doing whatever you want, you know, to pursue your own will, regardless of the moral reality to it.
But the right feels this way too when it comes to money.
You know, I don't owe you my money.
I'm not my brother's keeper.
I'm not, you know, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
I'm an individual.
We're not.
We're not.
Your identity Comes from the first community that you're born into, which is your family.
Your identity, it would be unthinkable to even say that you have an identity outside of your family.
That's where you get your name.
It's where you get your behaviors.
It's where you get your patterns of speech.
You just imitate it.
From mama and dada.
It's where you even get your desires.
We sometimes mention Rene Girard and the mimetic theory of desire, that your very desires come from imitation of the other people, and the first people you imitate are that first community that you're born into, and then your neighborhood, and then your schools, and then your churches, and that's where it comes from, okay?
So, in liberal modernity, because we deny this, it has very practical political consequences.
We engage in public policies.
We enact policies that diminish the family, that define the family out of existence, that take away protections that would support the family, that divvy people up in society.
We encourage expressive individuality.
We encourage a political order that speaks primarily of rights and entitlement rather than obligations and duties that we have one to another.
We deny any kind of common good.
Or communal endeavors that we engage in.
This wasn't always the case.
We still had a sense of community even 50 years ago.
But that has seriously eroded.
And the upshot of all of it is not just some abstract political philosophy.
The upshot of all of it is that 40% of people now go three days without seeing people face-to-face.
That is bad.
It's bad for them.
It makes people very unhappy.
We think that we can just live our lives and do our jobs on computers.
Our relationships can be mediated by screens.
We don't need to get married.
We don't need to have children.
We don't need to see one another.
We don't need to go to family reunions.
But we do.
We do.
And if you don't do that, you're going to be really miserable and sad.
And then, this is the scariest part, even when you do come together, You're not going to know how to relate to one another, so you're going to come together and then one in four people at a party is going to feel alone.
One in four people at their office, surrounded by people, you're still going to feel alone because you've allowed the muscles of your social nature, which is essential to your nature as a human being, you've allowed those muscles to atrophy.
You won't even know how to do it when you are melded up together, and you will continue to be unhappy.
You know, other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
It's an important lesson to take to heart.
It has very practical, deleterious effects on your life.
And you need to take very practical steps.
You need to make a point to see people in person.
You need to show up to that family reunion.
You need to date and get married.
You need to have children if you can have children.
You need to, if you are single, if you're celibate, if you're...
You need to make sure that you're around other people and engaged in their lives.
You have to make an effort to do that or you will be miserable even when you try to create the simulation of social life.
You want people to do it.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Ekis25.
I'm 67.
My wife is still beautiful.
Grumpy, but beautiful.
I love that.
That's in response to Jolene, I think, where we say, you know, over time, your wife is going to have a harder time physically competing with young, little, hot Jolene, which is why the Dolly Parton version of Jolene is a good song, and the Beyonce Girlboss version of Jolene is a bad song.
But the point you've made is very important, which is, If you grow with your wife, you're going to fall more and more in love with your wife.
Even though it is objectively the case that she will be less physically hot, that is an undeniable fact, you will still find her beautiful because There is more to attraction than merely physical beauty.
Now, because I'm still young, my wife is still young and both physically and spiritually very hot, I don't need to worry about that.
But there are so many other aspects even beyond that, you know, sweet little Elise is a hot little tamale.
This morning, I'll give you an example.
I wake up, it's a Tuesday morning.
I sit down to breakfast.
I have homemade sourdough waffles, nice thick little Belgian waffles, and a nice beautiful omelet, and there's strawberries and syrup on my waffle, and there's nice little sausage links with my espresso cup.
And I think this is a Tuesday.
There are people, in their lives, they don't get a breakfast like this.
In their lives, on the nicest Sunday brunch they've ever gone to, they don't get a breakfast like this.
I get it on a Tuesday in the middle of the week.
That kind of thing.
Even if Elisa weren't a hot little, you know, hot-to-trot little nice-looking lady.
Just that.
How does one resist but fall completely in love?
I can't imagine.
Now, speaking of social alienation, there is a new identity group that has just dropped.
A new victim group.
You know, it started out, it was the racial groups.
And then it was the sexual groups.
And then it started to get like really weird with the sexual groups.
It wasn't even just, you know, a guy who's lighting the loafers or a lady who plays softball or something.
It was a man who thinks that he's a woman and then they started to try to normalize Pedos, remember, with the minor attracted persons, and there was that professor who went viral for trying to normalize this, and then, well, now we've just gone all the way, and there is an effort to normalize sociopaths.
Like, actual, just, sociopaths.
I read an article by this woman in the Wall Street Journal on the show a few weeks ago.
It was really quite interesting.
She's got a book that she's releasing and she's gone viral on TikTok for explaining the plight of the psychopaths.
Hi, my name is Patrick Gagne, and I'm here to talk to you about my book, Sociopath.
In the last 20 years, sociopathy is believed to have doubled, particularly among adolescents.
And considering how little testing is available for this personality type, there's no way that that number isn't much, much higher.
I'm trying to teach people what sociopathy is and isn't, because I'm talking about a really complicated subject that doesn't have to be complicated.
There are a lot of facts and research behind this personality type, And I found that taking that research and wrapping it up in a personal story allows people to digest it.
I might well read this book.
It seems kind of interesting, but I don't know that we need to make sociopaths the new victim group.
It's the logical conclusion of the victim politics, but I don't know.
What is a sociopath?
What's a psychopath?
The terms are often used interchangeably.
Some people will pedantically try to find a distinction between the two.
I've never been able to discover one.
It's people who don't really have feelings.
You know, they don't, they can harm other people and they don't feel remorse for that.
And she writes about this in her essay, presumably in her book as well.
There's a lot of diversity in this fallen world.
I'm not surprised that this group exists and has always existed, this pathology in psychology.
What is concerning, though, is what she insinuates at the top, which is that it's not just that sociopathy exists, but it's on the rise.
It's underestimated.
It seems to be more pronounced now.
Why is that?
Well, I know that we're not allowed to suggest that people's personality types or their desires or their feelings are in any way changeable or mutable.
If we were to suggest that now, it's called conversion therapy or whatever.
It's very, very bad.
But obviously, it's the case.
I mean, when you have something like 30% of Gen Z now identifying as LGBTQ, then either there's something in the water turning the frogs gay or These desires and identities are somewhat mutable.
There's a social fad aspect to it.
One wonders if sociopathy is changeable too.
In an age that is more charitable, that recognizes community, that recognizes that man is social and that is more sociable, I would strongly suspect that degrees of sociopathy would be suppressed.
And in an age such as ours, where everybody's pretty much Patrick Bateman, we're living in the American psycho stage of history, probably sociopathy is going to be a little bit more pronounced.
So what do we do?
Do we need to go out there and say, we need to protect sociopaths' rights.
We need a sociopath day of visibility where we can feed cats to ATM machines or something.
No.
In honor of sociopath visibility day, we're going to play Huey Lewis and the News on, no.
Or do we need to say that there's a problem?
Little bit of a social or an antisocial contagion, and we're going to try to fix it through our culture and through our political order.
We're going to try to make a political order that's a little less antisocial, that's a little bit less alienated.
People from other people, maybe people from their own bodies and their own identities, and we're going to order the necessary, inevitable pressure valves of society and politics, we're going to order them toward good and healthy things, rather than, as they are presently ordered, toward really unhealthy things that are making sociopaths of us all.
You might notice An implicit connection there to the transgender movement.
We did just celebrate Trans Day of Visibility.
We are now in trans visibility tide.
That will continue, I think, for the rest of the week.
I don't know what new liberal holiday will end that.
Then we'll move into the next rainbow-colored liturgical season.
But when it comes to Trans Day of Visibility, we are still getting a lot of fake news.
So I mentioned Joe Biden inaugurated Trans Day of Visibility as an American political matter a few years ago, and then this year he decided to hold Trans Day of Visibility to declare the day on Easter Sunday.
And he actually chose to announce it on Good Friday, which is the most solemn day of the Christian liturgical year.
Well, we got a big fact check.
This is from Newsweek.
Here's the big fact check.
Fact check!
Did Joe Biden create Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter?
False!
Totally false.
A billion Pinocchios.
What is their exact?
Their exact verdict is false.
While Biden did officially acknowledge March 31st to be Trans Day of Visibility, he also did so in 2021 when Easter fell on April 4th of that year.
Therefore, false.
A million Pinocchios.
How is that false?
The question was, did Biden create Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter?
False!
I mean, he did, but other years he did it on a different day.
Well, that doesn't mean false.
That means true.
It means true, but he did something else in the years prior.
They argue that Transgender Day of Visibility was created in 2009.
That's not really true.
I mean, I'm sure some people He celebrated this new liberal feast day in 2009-2010, but it is not really a federal holiday.
So Joe Biden has to create it anew every single year.
That's why he had a proclamation this year.
That's why he did it last year.
That's why he did it the year before.
If it were a federal holiday, he wouldn't have to do it again every year as a matter of executive order.
So he did.
He created it again this year, and he chose to do it this year on Easter Sunday.
That is just a fact.
And what the fact check is saying here is, well, yeah, that's a fact, but here's a bunch of extraneous and irrelevant information, so we're gonna say that your fact is no longer a fact, it's false.
And it's particularly silly with the Trans Day of Visibility on Easter, because we all know that Biden did it, because we saw it, it happened, he said he did it.
On this day, I declare this to be Transgender Day of Visibility.
But this is true, just a little reminder, this is true of virtually all of the fact checks.
The fact-check columns.
It's a left-wing phenomenon.
When the right wants to articulate our opinions, we just do it through traditional opinion pieces and podcasts and speeches and things like that.
The libs, though, because they're extremely scientistic and dishonest, they...
They do not allow themselves to articulate their view as an opinion, because they think that contrary opinions are totally illegitimate.
So they have to present everything as a purely scientific, irrefutable, incontrovertible fact.
So they have the fact checks.
They're just left-wing opinion columns that are dishonestly presented.
And a great many more of them are.
Ridiculous and dishonest than merely the Trans Day of Visibility.
