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Elon Musk just gave a nonverbal ALS patient the ability to speak by sticking a computer chip in his brain.
Is the South African billionaire a world historic humanitarian, or is he, as others are suggesting, the Antichrist?
Also, Turning to Elon's more mundane task of cleaning up the government, have your tax dollars been funding George Soros' left-wing activism all around the world?
We got the receipts.
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An incredible story out of Neuralink.
That's Elon Musk's company that's going to give us a computer chip, plug us into the matrix.
That part seems kind of scary.
However, there's a guy who has Lou Gehrig's disease who cannot speak.
Who's got a family.
He's got a wife.
He's got three kids.
And this guy's in a wheelchair.
He's on a tube.
Physically, he's really messed up.
This guy now sounds like this and is able to communicate like this thanks to Elon Musk.
Hi, I am Brad Smith.
I'm the third person in the world to receive the Neuralink brain implant.
I'm also the first person with ALS and the first nonverbal, which means that I rely on it for all communication.
I am making this video using the brain-computer interface to control the mouse on my MacBook Pro.
This is the first video edited with the Neuralink, and maybe the first edited with a BCI.
This is my old voice narrating this video, cloned by AI from recordings, before I lost my voice.
Before Neuralink, I had to use an eye-gaze control computer for all communication.
It is a miracle of technology, but it is frustrating.
It works best in dark rooms.
So I was basically Batman.
I was stuck in a dark room.
Neuralink lets me go outside and ignore lighting changes.
The implant is in my motor cortex, which is the part of my brain that controls body movement.
The actual implant is the size of five U.S. quarters in a stack.
It goes on.
I encourage you to watch the whole video.
It goes on for minutes where he's just describing how Neuralink works.
He says, you know, it doesn't read my deepest, darkest thoughts.
Don't worry.
If you're in the market for a Neuralink, it's not going to just start blurting out what you think about that jerk.
You know, you're like your brother-in-law who you don't like or that, you know, your colleague who you think is hot or whatever.
You know, it's not going to start blurting that out.
It's controlled.
It's done in a more controlled way.
But it is this absolute.
Marvel of technology.
And it raises questions for people.
Is this ethical?
There are very, very serious questions about technologies like Neuralink, about transhumanist technology.
Very serious ethical questions that could compromise human dignity, potential abuses, ways in which this could be profoundly immoral.
However, I think it is pretty clear.
That this use of this technology is pretty morally sound.
And I'll have a real moral philosopher or theologian weigh in if I'm getting something wrong here.
But the key distinction would be, in this case, the technology is being used to rectify a defect.
So we all have various defects.
It's a fallen world.
We have imperfect...
Bodies, and we live in an imperfect society, an imperfect environment.
So, if you use the technology to rectify a defect, that is to say, to restore something, like your speech, to its proper functioning, that would be, generally speaking, morally licit.
Where it would become immoral is if you used this technology to augment human capability.
So if you use the very same technology, not to restore human powers that had been lost, but to surpass human powers, you get a computer chip in your head so you can reason a million times faster than the average human, where we cease to be Homo sapiens and become something like Homo Deus,
to use the language of the liberal writer Yuval Harari, the transhumanists who are looking forward to shuffling off this mortal coil and uploading our consciousness to the cloud or something.
That would be immoral.
That would compromise human dignity.
That would be terribly unethical.
However, in this case, if we use the technology to help people
are sick to restore their functioning as humans, Yes.
I think we're in relatively safe territory.
It's a little spooky.
It's kind of Brave New World, but that is just a marvel.
The ability for this man to communicate with relative ease with his family, with his own voice, not even the Stephen Hawking, like, beep, boop, beep, boop kind of voice.
That's pretty amazing.
The question is, do we have the moral guardrails anymore to prevent abuses?
Do we have the moral guardrails and discipline?
To say, all right, we will go this far, but no further.
We will go this far toward rectifying imperfections.
We'll go this far toward just treating people with Lou Gehrig's disease, for instance.
But we won't go further into augmenting human potential and seriously compromising human dignity.
Now, speaking of human potential, there's one story I have to get to very quickly because my producers are making me.
Would, in a fight, Would one gorilla defeat 100 human beings, or would 100 human beings defeat a gorilla?
A stupid question.
A stupid internet meme.
And my producers are making me waste precious time on this show discussing apparently the most important question of the week.
But this is not a difficult question.
It hinges on...
Only one aspect of the hypothetical.
Do the humans get to use weapons or not?
If the humans use weapons, then you don't need a hundred men to defeat the gorilla.
You just need one man.
Really, a four-year-old could defeat a gorilla.
Look at Harambe.
Assuming in this hypothetical that the men are not allowed to use weapons, that is to say, human beings are not allowed to use our distinctive advantage, that is to say, our faculties of reason.
The very thing that makes us children in the image of God.
In the abstract.
Okay, if you took that away, I don't know why there's some stupid TikTok playing of a gorilla just wrestling men right now.
The degradation of this show makes me wonder if we've become gorillas ourselves.
Brutes without faculties of reason.
But, if the men don't have the weapons...
The gorilla would win every time.
It's not even close.
This should not be debated.
The strength differential between a gorilla and a human being is roughly the same as the strength differential between a human being and a dachshund and a little tiny 20-pound puppy, a little French bulldog.
So ask yourself, even me, I'm not exactly captain of the football team, if 100 dachshunds came at me, Would I defeat them or would the dachshunds rip me to shreds?
I would win.
Every time.
It's not like 80% versus 20% of the time.
It's not 99 versus 1. Every single time I would win.
Now the objection that's raised is, well, what if the humans coordinate?
Yeah, what if they do?
What if the dachshunds coordinate?
If they don't have tools and weapons, the things that make human beings strong physically.
We're like a reed.
I think it was Pascal.
I've been quoting Pascal a lot recently.
Pascal, one of the great geniuses of modernity in the Ponce, says we're interesting because we're like a reed, but because we have reason, because we're a rational creature, we're both the weakest creature and the strongest creature.
Well, yeah, if you take away our ability to use tools, then we're the weakest creature, and the gorilla would win every time.
This isn't really a debate.
Are you satisfied, producers?
I don't know.
Have I been able to penetrate your brow ridges?
Have I been able to get deep into your rational faculties, you as dignified creatures made in the image and likeness of God, to make it clear that this is a stupid debate?
The gorilla would win.
You are flattering yourself if you think you and 99 buddies could defeat the gorilla.
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Tax money has been used to fund George Soros.
George Soros, billionaire, hedge funder, broke the Bank of England.
George Soros is the most prominent left-wing donor on planet Earth.
He's got enough money of his own, and yet your taxpayer dollars have been used to fund his leftist organizations that have in turn used that money to destroy your country.
This is not my discovery.
This is the discovery of the Media Research Center.
Great work here.
Showing that the U.S. government has given $11 million directly to George Soros groups.
Not just indirectly.
Remember, when Elon went into USAID, Elon and Doge go in and they find a lot of corruption.
They see things like the U.S. government giving money to the Tides Center.
The Tides Center, which does work overseas, but the Tides Center also funds...
Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter in the United States, which then extorts money and political concessions from politicians and extorts corporations and burns your neighborhood down.
So there you saw a really clear example of the government taking your tax money, laundering it through some NGO, sending it right back into your neighborhood through the most radical, explicitly Marxist activists of BLM.
Burning your neighborhood down, screwing up your political order, taking more money from you so that they could do it all again, rinse and repeat.
Well, here, we don't even have an indirect link, we have a direct link to George Soros, 11 million bucks.
So, the Open Society Foundation, which is George Soros' big organization, is said back in February 12th, the claims that the Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, receive funding from USAID, or direct the funding of a multi-billion dollar U.S. government agency are manifestly false.
Okay, MRC looks into this, discovers that the State Department and USAID, USAID which is now part of the State Department, committed $11,091,856 to be precise in grant money from 2007 to 2014.
For the Open Society Institute and the Alliance for Open Society International, which is the legal operating name for Open Society Institute Baltimore, which later announced that it was closing down a couple years ago.
Over $8 million of that money was from the State Department to the Open Society Institute International for the purpose of administering the Muskie Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship Program, blah, blah, blah.
All these little grants, all these little programs, all these little upshot is.
Your tax money was going directly from a U.S. agency to George Soros.
Now, you're going to look at this and say, well, it's only 11 million bucks.
To some of us, 11 million dollars is still a lot of money.
But you say, well, for the U.S. government, that's not a lot of money.
You know, we live in the era of multi-billion dollar presidential campaigns.
So, 11 million dollars is not a lot of money.
What I'm pointing out here is, MRC...
Did one investigation into one agency and found $11 million going straight to George Soros.
You think that's it?
You think that's the whole story?
I think that's the tip of the iceberg.
I was having lunch with a friend of mine who is very intelligent, very well educated, very plugged in to political realities.
This was a week or two ago.
He says to me, Michael, I gotta know.
Do you think, are we just...
Are we just funding the Democrats our tax dollars?
I said, what do you mean by that?
He said, well, I just...
The Democrats have had a fundraising advantage at the presidential level since 2008.
Since 2008, Democrats have been out-fundraising Republicans by hundreds of millions of dollars every cycle.
Now, sometimes we win the election, 2016.
Some would say 2020, but certainly 2024.
Sometimes we win the election, sometimes we lose the election.
But the Democrats have been out-raising the Republicans every cycle by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Is it just that they have more billionaires than we do?
Maybe, but we have billionaires.
Is it just that they have more fired-up grassroots activists?
I don't think that's really it.
We won the popular vote this year, we the Republicans.
Or is there some funny business going on with the money?
At the time, I said, gee, I really don't know.
I mean, could be.
There's a lot of corruption.
There's a lot of graft, especially in USAID.
Elon just showed that.
But then I look at something like this.
$11 million just straight to George Soros?
George Soros, the biggest left-wing election funder on Earth, private citizen?
$11 million.
That is scandalous.
But the real scandal is the open question.
How much more of your taxpayer money?
Was going straight to the Democrats.
Now, speaking of Democrats taking money that they shouldn't, Nancy Pelosi has become a very wealthy woman while a member of Congress.
She's been a member of Congress since, I think, 1794 at this point.
And she's just making a public servant salary, but she's worth a ton of money.
How?
Well, because her stock portfolio seems to outperform some of the top guys on Wall Street.
That's amazing.
Nancy Pelosi, she picked the wrong career.
Why did she get involved in the government when she's clearly one of the shrewdest investors on earth?
Well, maybe her portfolio is performing so well because she's got a little bit of insider knowledge.
And maybe because the laws are a bit lax when it comes to Democrats, well, it comes to both members of Congress, both sides of the aisle, insider trading.
So, Senator Josh Hawley has just proposed Maybe my favorite, favoritely named act ever in Congress.
You know, members of Congress love a good acronym or initialism.
The Patriot Act, the SAVE Act, they always fill it in with some great acronym or initialism.
Well, in this case, Senator Hawley is proposing the Pelosi Act.
The Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act.
When I was in college, I didn't have a lot of money and I wanted the school to pay for my cigars.
So I started a club called the Society for Intellectual Growth and Reinvigoration, or CIGAR.
And this, the Pelosi Act really puts my acronym to shame.
The Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act, Pelosi Act, would...
Amend Chapter 131 of Title V, USC, to prohibit transactions involving certain financial instruments by members of Congress.
And this would go pretty far.
This would ban lawmakers and their spouses from holding, purchasing, or selling individual stocks for the duration of the lawmakers' time in office.
now seems from reading the summary of the bill that it wouldn't
Don't necessarily prevent members of Congress from being invested at all in the stock market.
That would seem too onerous.
Members of Congress deserve to have 401ks too, don't they?
They deserve to have some investments.
What it would prevent them from doing is holding, purchasing, or selling individual stocks.
So, okay, you buy a fund, you buy some index, you buy, okay, that's one thing.
But you don't want Nancy Pelosi going in there, buy, buy, buy, sell, sell, sell from the floor of Congress, because she just got some insider info and she wants to make another $50 million.
That seems quite reasonable.
This is really important because of the seriousness of public corruption.
What distinguishes good regimes from bad regimes is not necessarily the form of the government.
It's not that monarchies are bad and democracies are good, contrary to liberal popular belief.
It's not that...
Government by the many is better than government by the few, but worse than government by the single individual.
It's not that.
There are good monarchies, there are good aristocracies, there are good democracies.
What distinguishes good from bad government is whether the government is conducted for the common good or for the private interest.
That's what distinguishes monarchy from tyranny, that's what distinguishes aristocracy from oligarchy, that's what distinguishes democracy from mob rule.
So it's really important.
And we focus on all sorts of scandals in politics.
We love a good sex scandal, don't we?
Oh boy, that's juicy stuff.
That makes the front pages.
But Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress, though she's notable among them, get to engage in transparent public corruption for decades.
And no one seems to really shrug a shoulder at it.
Really important.
That's really, really, that is much more corrosive to the body politic.
than a sex scandal.
Sex scandals are bad, too.
But that kind of public corruption that rots the whole regime.
Great stuff from Hawley, and I hope it gets passed.
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Speaking of unpopular Democrats, there's a poll out here from The Economist and YouGov shows that most Democrats want Kilmar Abrego Garcia brought back to the U.S. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is that guy who is probably a member of MS-13 and has weird gang-looking tattoos and had a court-protected order filed by his wife because he beat her,
allegedly.
And, sorry, in the words of Democrats, he's just a Maryland dad.
Illegal alien, found by multiple judges to likely be a member of MS-13, has gang-looking tattoos, alleged to have beaten his wife.
Or...
As the mainstream liberal politicians are just a nice Maryland daddy, you know?
He's dropped out of the news because the leading Democrat politicians realize this is bad.
This is not a good issue.
Senator Chris Van Hollen from Maryland flew down, had a nice romantic lunch with this gangster in El Salvador, and it didn't play well in Peoria.
So the Democrats at the national level have dropped the Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia thing.
However, according to this poll, most Democrats want him brought back.
87% of Democrats want him brought back to the United States.
Only 6% say that he should not be.
Most Republicans, of course, say he should not be brought back to the United States.
Independents are split and 27% of them are unsure because they don't know.
The ones who believe what the establishment media have been saying about Kilmar Brigo Garcia, they're more on the fence.
Maybe he should be brought back.
The ones who know the facts of the case realize this gangster should be stuck in El Salvador.
Even if he hadn't beaten his wife, even if he hadn't been a member of MS-13, he's an illegal alien and he shouldn't be in the country.
But when you add in all these other factors, the guy obviously should stay in a prison in El Salvador.
So, where does that leave the Democrat politicians?
They're torn between what most people want, what common sense says, what the median voter says, and what their base wants.
The Democrats, they just have this problem.
They have lost the common sense.
Most people don't want husky fellas going into the girls' bathroom.
Most Democrats do.
And if you're a Democrat politician, you could say, it's very easy for Republicans and independents and moderates to say, well, look, obviously the Democrat should just do what most voters want and what common sense says.
But it's not so easy, because that Democrat politician has to answer to the donors, and he's got to answer to his base, and he won't get through a primary if he opposes.
The Democrats on issues like migration, on issues like crime, on issues like transgenderism, on issues like Israel-Palestine, which is another issue where the Democrat base is not where the median American voter is.
So the Democrats, I sympathize with them.
I'm glad they're in this terrible position.
They put themselves in that position by being part of a lunatic party.
But I do pity them a little bit.
Because it's not clear what exactly they should do.
Some of the more moderate Democrats, so-called, are saying, hey guys, let's stop defending the tattooed MS-13 wife-beating gangster.
Can we please, can we find a slightly more sympathetic figure?
Henry Quellar, a so-called moderate Democrat, has come out explicitly and said we should not focus on bringing this gangster back, this alleged gangster back.
This is not the right issue to talk about due process.
This is not the right case.
This is not the right person to be saying that we need to bring him back to the United States.
I understand the arguments about due process, but this is not the case to fight on.
Democrats should not take this issue.
Okay, so he's obviously right about this.
He's speaking on Brian Kilmeade's show.
On Fox News Radio.
So it's a show that has a largely conservative audience.
And he goes on some of the right-wing channels.
So he's considered a moderate Democrat.
That guy voted with Joe Biden 96% of the time.
Okay?
So, don't try to write this guy off as, oh, he's like Joe Manchin.
Joe Manchin, who also voted with Biden a lot of the time.
But, oh, he's a moderate Democrat.
Oh, he's a dino.
He's a Democrat name only.
This guy voted with Biden 96% of the time.
He just happens to realize that when a political party goes all in against the popular vote, goes all in defending a wife-beating...
Gangster, part of a group that's identified as a foreign terrorist organization, is probably not going to do well at the ballot box.
And yet, he's basically the lone Democrat admitting that in public.
You'll notice, after more information came out about this illegal alien, the Democrats suddenly stopped the cause celeb.
After Chris Van Hollen's disastrous romantic voyage to El Salvador to rub this guy's hand and caress his hair.
Democrats realized, okay, this isn't playing.
We're going to drop it.
But the base hasn't dropped it.
That's the problem.
The base still wants it.
So even during the election, I remember this on a little bit transgenderism, especially on Israel-Palestine.
Democrats were saying, yo, man, be cool.
Be cool on this issue.
It's not playing well with the mainstream electorate.
And what happened?
The Democrat activists, the base, throw on their keffias and they go into the wrong bathroom.
They just can't help themselves.
Which means that the Democrat mainstream politicians right now can't help themselves either.
Now, on the issue of deportations, mass migration, the Trump administration is in a tough spot too.
The Department of Homeland Security just released recent deportation numbers.
Since January 20th, DHS says that ICE has arrested over 151,000 illegal aliens.
And deported more than 135,000 illegal aliens.
Which is great.
That's more illegal aliens than I've ever arrested and deported.
But do the math.
If we're talking about 135,000 deportations, then we're talking, if you just extrapolate that to the rest of the year, this was the first 100 days of the Trump administration, if you multiply that by a little over three,
then we're talking about A little under half a million deportations per year.
Which means that over the course of President Trump's second term, you'll get a little under 2 million deportations in four years.
Which is between 12 and 18% of a conservative estimate of the total illegal aliens in the country.
There are an estimated 11 to 16 million illegal aliens in the country.
If you deport a little under 2 million of them, you've deported 12 to 18%.
It's not enough.
It's a lot.
I'm not knocking Trump for that.
It is hard to deport 135,000 people.
But it's not enough.
I do not point this out to suggest in any way that the Trump administration isn't doing enough.
The Trump administration is doing more than any administration, certainly in modern American history, maybe ever.
On all of these different fronts, doing more than I even expected them to do, and I've voted for President Trump three times now, and I expected a lot of them.
I mention it to show you the sheer enormity of the problem.
The sheer enormity of 11 to 16 million illegal aliens.
And the enormity...
Of one of the two major political parties in the United States crying and wringing its hands and gnashing its teeth when you deport even the very worst of them.
Chris Van Hollen is not flying to El Salvador to have lunch with sweet little abuela who's committed no worse crime than making nice tacos for her grandkids on Saturdays.
Chris Van Hollen is staying up at night, tossing and turning in his bed.
Because he can't stomach the fact that we've deported a tattooed MS-13 gangster who probably beat his wife, according to court filings.
Okay, that's the degree of obstruction and intransigence that you're talking about from one of the two major American political parties, which no longer has much popularity at all, but which does still have some political power.
So even with the Trump administration working as fast as it is possible to work, We're all cylinders firing here.
We're talking about half a million a year or less deportations.
There needs to be, you need to call, don't call the Trump administration.
They know what they want to do.
Don't call your Republican representatives, unless they're squishes.
Call your Democrat congressman.
Call your Democrat senators.
Say, we want many more deportations.
You are not deporting enough.
Call Chris Van Hollen's office.
Say, enough of the romantic lunches with the face-tattooed gangsters.
Deport these people at least at double the rate.
If you deported people at double the rate that we're seeing under Trump, you would still not be deporting even 40% of the illegal aliens who should not be in our country.
You might not deport 30%.
You might not deport 25% for that matter.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music.
I don't...
I actually didn't look at this, so this was selected by the producers today, and I'm already questioning their judgment because they made me do that stupid gorilla story.
So what is the comment?
They say, the party of men who wear dresses is criticizing Trump's blue suit.
Well, that figures.
Fair enough.
Okay, that's fair enough.
I'd be curious to see the other comments.
I don't know if it's my favorite, but it's fine.
It's a good point.
It's a good point.
Folks, as the air softens, the days stretch into golden hour.
There is no finer companion than a beautiful, delicious, peerless Mayflower cigar.
Mayflower's Four Cigar Robusto Sampler is absolutely beautiful.
You can have the dawn.
You can have the dusk.
I prefer the dusk, actually, but for people who are not smoking cigars all the time, the dawn is a little bit lighter on the palate, but they're both really beautiful.
Spring is a time for renewing.
Time to think about.
What this country means.
The birth of our country.
The development of our country.
To just enjoy beautiful country outdoors.
Speaking of America, great stuff from the White House.
President Trump posted to Truth Social, I'm bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes.
The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much.
They tore down his statues, put up nothing but woke, or even worse, nothing at all.
Well, you'll be happy to know Christopher is going to make a major comeback.
I am hereby reinstating Columbus Day under the same rules, dates, and locations as it has had for all of the many decades before.
And then the White House tweets out.
Just put a nice fine point on it.
Christopher Columbus is so back.
With applause.
Christopher Columbus.
It's one of my hobby horses.
I was radicalized.
To the right, in part because of the left's attack on Christopher Columbus, this great man, this man who discovered our country, this man who's a hero, he's a brave Italian explorer, one of the great geniuses of his age, who made it across the ocean using nothing but dead reckoning on his first voyage,
who is not guilty of even a fraction of the crimes that his enemies accuse him of, his enemies who are totally ignorant of that man's amazing life.
That man who was a devout Catholic, who landed when he discovered the first little island in the New World.
He called it San Salvador, Savior.
For goodness sakes, his voyage discovered cigars, because the Taino Indians smoked cigars.
They smoked them up the nose, which I don't encourage with your Mayflowers.
I think you should puff them in the mouth.
In any case, very, very important man.
Great man.
He deserves to be honored in the United States.
He deserves his day.
I say this not just because I'm a child of the Mezzogiorno from Italian extraction, but as an American, he deserves his day.
He deserves respect.
He might be the single most important political figure for us to defend.
It might be more important for us to defend Christopher Columbus than it is to defend Washington or Lincoln or Adams or Jefferson or anyone else, Reagan or Trump, because Columbus is the link with the old world,
first of all.
So he's that link with our civilization, the old civilization.
We come, we discover.
America is not a break with our civilization.
America is the flourishing of our civilization.
We still have those roots.
Columbus was a deeply religious man.
Carol Delaney, the historian, argues that his purpose in establishing this new trade route was actually to fund another crusade to retake the Holy Land.
Very good goal.
He's an important figure, too, because he represents our confidence.
One of the stanzas of our national anthem is, Conquer we must, when our cause it is just, and this be our motto, and God is our trust.
Columbus, some of the people who came after him, some of the people who took political power from him, were rather cruel to the natives.
Columbus said, don't be cruel to the natives.
Don't take advantage of them.
I mean, we're going to explore.
We're going to establish colonies.
We're going to be great.
But we want to be just.
We want to be fair as well.
And that's what we say.
We're not little wallflowers, okay?
We're not just going to shrink back.
We're going to pursue our interests.
We're going to be great.
We're going to grow.
We're going to be strong.
We're going to do what we want to do.
We're going to make sure, best we can, that it's in accord with justice.
But we're not going to be ashamed of our civilization.
The attack on Columbus is the Trojan horse for us to be ashamed of, for us to deride our whole civilization.
Because the man in himself kind of represents the whole thing in modernity.
The gumption, the exploration, the religion, the political order, all of it.
The scientific achievement.
The technological prowess.
He's got all of it.
You lose Columbus, you're going to lose a lot.
You might lose your whole civilization.
Now, speaking of great people, Jennifer Coolidge.
She's the lady.
She's very good on White Lotus.
She's been in a bunch of other TV shows and movies and things.
Jennifer Coolidge just raised some eyebrows by claiming that gays are superior people.
Well, how's the gay fanbase different than any other fanbase?
What do you love about having them love you so much?
I think it's just sort of...
I think maybe heterosexual people are more self-conscious.
Gay men and gay women just let loose and have a blast.
They know how to have a really, really fun time.
And they're...
They're really original.
You know, they come up, they're, I don't know, just a superior group of people.
They're superior.
Even the specific claims she's making here are not true.
She says they're just less self-conscious.
That isn't true.
Self-identified gay men and women are much more likely than heterosexuals to report anxiety and depression and suicidality.
So even that claim isn't true.
The notion that gays are so original.
Sometimes.
Sometimes they're just derivative carbon copies of Paul Lind, okay?
They're just kind of performing a stereotype of what people think a gay guy is.
That's how they get the voice.
So it's not, this is taking it too far.
This is like when a white guy, instead of just saying, oh, I don't hate black people.
Yeah, some of my friends are black.
Instead of saying that, when they say, oh, I actually...
The white liberals would do this a lot.
I actually much prefer black people to white.
I hate white people, actually.
Black people are much better than white people.
You don't need to say that black people are worse than white people, but you also don't need to say black people are better than white people.
You can just be normal if you want.
When it comes to the LGBT LMNOP, you don't need to throw them off rooftops.
You can be kind of chill.
You don't need to send the purity police to their homes.
You can be normal.
And just recognize some people, sometimes they act a little light in the loafers.
There is such a thing as San Francisco and the United Kingdom.
Okay, people behave in weird ways sometimes, and whatever.
You don't need to be the Taliban, but likewise, you don't need to say it's good.
You don't need to say, this should be encouraged.
Ah, yes, there is no greater way of life than to go down to West Hollywood or the village every night and go to gross bars.
No, I don't think so.
You can just say, hey, we're just going to be normal.
We're going to have moral standards.
We're going to have some degree of tolerance and a little bit of levity in life, but you don't need to.
It's just this constant.
No, whatever is normal, that's bad.
And anything that is aberrant or subverts normality, that is good and superior.
Lady, come on.
Can't people be normal?
Now, speaking of people who are overstating things a little bit, it might be just a bit odd.
The internet is asking if some weirdo is the Antichrist.
This guy...
I don't know why he's going viral now.
It's like the gorilla versus the hundred humans thing.
I don't know why this is going viral right now, but some guy who's been leading a cult for many years at this point, who calls himself Abdullah Hashem Abba Al-Sadiq, has people asking all over social media if this man is the Antichrist.
I am Abdullah, the successor of Imam Al-Mahdi, the successor of the Comforter Ahmed, the successor of Simon Peter, the successor of Muhammad, the successor of Jesus Christ.
I am the true and legitimate Pope.
I am the proof upon the Christians.
I am the son of the Muslims through my father and the son of the Christians and the Jews through my mother.
I am the son of the East through my father and the son of the West through my mother.
I am like Sul Karnain with one horn in the East and one in the West.
And I am the inheritor of all that lies between.
I am more knowledgeable than any false pope, and I am appointed by name and the will of the prophets.
My name is also on the tongue of Isaiah, who prophesied of the righteous servant, and he said he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
So, is he the Antichrist?
No.
No, I'm pretty sure he's not.
I think he's just a kind of an odd, syncretic Muslim.
But he's not the Antichrist.
Because the Bible tells us, some of the early Christian writers tell us what they think of the Antichrist.
The Antichrist is only addressed in the Johannine epistles.
I think it's four times in the scripture.
So there's not much directly written about the Antichrist.
Some of the early Christian writers, and later Christian writers for that matter, have written about what he will be like.
But there is a consensus that he will be really popular.
This guy has like four followers.
There is a consensus that he will be anti-Christian, that he will oppress the church.
This guy is just, I think, a kind of syncretic Muslim.
There is a consensus that he will work miracles and wonders.
This guy doesn't even have high production quality for his videos.
Just to quell two major internet debates today.
No, a hundred men without weapons would not defeat a single guerrilla.
And no, this random, weird kind of Muslim guy is not the Antichrist.
Elon Musk has a greater likelihood of being the Antichrist.
I'm not saying Elon is the Antichrist.
I also don't think that.
But I'm just saying it would be much more a person like Elon Musk than this random, eccentric Muslim guy.
Ridiculous.
You know what else is ridiculous?
Some of the jokes on Tee Hee Hee Tuesday, which is coming up right now.
