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President Trump has officially been back in office for 100 days.
And to celebrate, he completely owned a lib at a rally in Michigan.
It's so great.
What's the problem over there?
What's the problem?
Is that a radical left lunatic?
He's just a child.
Alright, get him out.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, ma 'am.
I thought it was a guy.
Thank you.
And she now has to go home to a mother who's a big Trump fan.
Her mother's watching.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I said he, and it's a she.
To keep my promise to the great state of Michigan...
It's like watching Mick Jagger play Satisfaction.
He gets up there, and who we have here?
Is that a radical left lunatic?
Woo!
Oh, yeah, look at him.
Oh, it's a she.
I said he, but it's a she.
Woo!
Guess what?
His mom's a fan of Trump.
You gotta just...
You gotta drink it in, kids.
You gotta drink it in.
1,360 days from now.
A mere 1,360 days from now.
President Trump's second term is going to end.
With any luck, the third term will begin, then the fourth and the fifth.
But assuming that the man is stuck with only two terms, then beyond the policy...
Just take a moment to savor.
Just take a moment so that you can remember how fun and funny and rejuvenating this period has been.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
This is Michael Knowles Show.
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It was a great rally.
Trump did his 100-day rally.
I guess it was technically on day 99, but it's so that we could all be talking about it on the 100th day of his second term.
And he played all the hits.
He played the radical left lunatics.
He played the gender ideology.
He played the...
Your family actually loves Trump.
People secretly love Trump.
Now Trump won the popular vote.
He also touted an important initiative he announced a couple days ago.
Christopher Columbus is back.
And you Italians are going to love me because just yesterday I brought back Columbus Day in America, especially for Italian-Americans.
Abolish term limits.
That's it.
Get rid of the 22nd Amendment.
That's what put me over the edge.
Because the Italian-Americans have been very poorly treated.
But it's not just the Italian-Americans who suffered because the Libs hated Columbus State.
It's all of us, because Columbus is the symbol of the modern West, of the West.
Reaching the peak of its power, the age of exploration, a devout Catholic, a brave Italian explorer who discovered America is what he did.
I just love it.
I love it.
And while people get lost in all the minutia of Trump's policies, I don't like this economic policy, or they deported this gangster who I really liked, or no, they shouldn't do this or that.
Just look at the imagery here.
Look at what Trump's broader political project is about.
It is actually about making America great.
Again, you see the USA signs behind him.
You see the red, white, and blue.
You see it's Trump hugging the American flag.
That's what it's about.
That's what people are cheering.
There are a lot of successful policies that go along with that message, but that's the message.
And the left has the opposite message.
The left's message on Columbus.
Columbus is crucial to this.
Is America's bad?
The West is bad.
Christianity is bad.
It's all oppressive.
It's all evil.
We've got to get rid of all of it.
We're bad.
Everything that we love is bad and we need to dispose of it as quickly as possible.
That's what the left is saying.
And Trump says, no, I'm going to hug and kiss the American flag.
That's what it's about.
You can love the individual policies.
There's a lot of good policy stuff.
But for me, politics is not just about policy.
It includes policy.
You want good policy.
But I'm not one of these nerds, one of these eggheads with spreadsheets who says, actually, all I care about is just policy.
I just want the government to be run by a bunch of bow-tie-wearing think tank scholars forever.
No.
I want Thumos, baby.
I want spirit.
That's what I want.
I want Trump making fun of the radical left lunatics.
And I want him talking about what a great guy Columbus was.
And how Italian-Americans in particular should be upset about the left going after Columbus.
I want to hug the American flag, okay?
That's what this is about.
You've got to drink it.
That's what I'm saying you've got to drink in.
We want to keep Trump's many executive orders.
We want the Congress to pass some of those at least into law.
We want there to be a successor to carry on the legacy.
We want to keep winning elections.
But I want that spirit.
I want to remember how rejuvenating...
Truly, in a deep sense of that word, how rejuvenating this is, America's 250 years old next year.
And we've got to feel young again.
We started to feel decrepit and old, and we want to feel young again, okay?
And that means we've got to really focus in on who we are.
The left has tried to change that.
So the left tried to replace the 4th of July, our Independence Day, with a new Independence Day called Juneteenth.
They did this under Biden.
The original Independence Day was to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the beginning of the American Revolution and this country that was founded on the recognition that God has endowed us with certain natural rights and an appeal to heaven and all the rest of it.
Then the new Independence Day that the Libs tried to foist on us four years ago says, actually, America's really racist and evil, and we've never really gotten over our original sin of slavery, and we need to get rid of all the stuff from the past so that black people can finally be free.
And black people are really just being used as an instrument for a broader narrative of the liberation from oppression, a kind of radical liberal leftist narrative.
Well, good news on that front.
At least one Juneteenth celebration is fallen by the wayside.
Indianapolis has canceled Juneteenth.
Indianapolis will not hold its Juneteenth parade.
I don't know how many times it has held a Juneteenth parade, but it's not going to hold it this year because of scheduling conflicts and other events in the city and just logistics, and I don't think that's why.
Juneteenth is a little more muted this year, not just in Indianapolis, but around the country.
Juneteenth, the Libs tell us, was to celebrate the emancipation of the black slaves.
That isn't true.
That's literally not what it celebrates.
It celebrates the day that a mailman finally arrived in Texas after the Emancipation Proclamation, but before the 13th Amendment, either of which events.
Could plausibly be pointed to as the day of emancipation, but it's really neither of those.
It's just a mailman got to Texas, pretty much.
And Juneteenth, or a celebration of emancipation, actually could not take place, according to the left's ideology, on the day of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Because then you would be saying that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, and we're not allowed to say that anymore.
The left will actually say, Abraham Lincoln did not free the slaves.
The slaves freed themselves.
It can't be that white man, that white savior who came in and freed the slaves.
It wasn't him.
Forget about Lincoln.
Likewise, for the same reason, you couldn't point to the 13th Amendment, which actually freed the slaves.
It has to be this contrived thing.
Juneteenth actually began, not to celebrate black people, and not to celebrate freedom, and not to...
Juneteenth...
Took off in earnest in the United States as an offshoot of the BLM movement.
That's what it's about.
BLM, which was not founded by American patriots.
BLM was run by radical Marxists.
And self-described Marxists.
I'm not reading into their psyches.
That's just what they say they are.
Juneteenth started to catch some steam in the 20-teens as the BLM movement was growing.
Don't forget, the BLM movement didn't start with George Floyd.
BLM movement started with Trayvon Martin.
And who was the one?
Michael Brown.
All of these hoaxes, these hoaxes where racial hucksters came out and said that poor, innocent...
Black children were being murdered execution style by racist white KKK members.
And then we found out actually in the case of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman was a Hispanic guy.
So then the liberal media tried to rewrite it.
They said, well, he's a white Hispanic.
I don't know what is a white Hispanic now.
Well, don't ignore that he's Hispanic.
He's a white guy.
And then actually the guy had bruises all over his head because Trayvon Martin was...
Pummeling his head against the ground.
Anyway, so that was that one.
And then with Michael Brown, that was even more preposterous because Michael Brown had just robbed a store and then was threatening a cop, grabbed the cop's gun, discharged the weapon.
The cop still let the guy go away, and then he started charging at the cop.
Then and only then did the cop shoot him.
All of these hoax narratives took off.
It reached its apotheosis during George Floyd, which was also completely misrepresented in the media.
That was the BLM movement.
And it is no coincidence that BLM really started to gain some national traction in 2017, 2018.
This is in the years following the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown incidents.
And then it was declared a National Independence Day.
When I say the purpose of Juneteenth was to replace Independence Day, the 4th of July, that's my evidence, is that when Joe Biden signed it into law, he called it the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act.
So now we have two independence days?
No, clearly this new one is supposed to replace the old one.
That was in 2021.
This is very recent.
It has nothing to do with true freedom.
It has nothing to do with any true dignity of black people.
This is a radically leftist feast day for a radical, liberal, liturgical calendar.
And it's falling by the wayside.
And it's very good that it's falling by the wayside.
And it's actually predictable that it's falling by the wayside.
Juneteenth lived by BLM.
It will very possibly die by BLM.
As BLM diminishes in people's estimation, as we begin to reevaluate that period, 2020-2021, the riots, the looting, the murders, the horror that the left inflicted on us after the George Floyd incident.
As that diminishes in people's estimation, so too will Juneteenth.
So too will the groups that promote Juneteenth, namely the BLM groups and the anarchist groups and the Marxist groups.
No surprise here.
It's a return to normal.
When you have a record number of black guys voting for the Republican, as happened in 2024 in the election for Trump, you realize there's been a shift in the racial narrative.
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Speaking of racial politics, Wanda Sykes.
An alleged comedian.
She made some splash about 15 or 20 years ago.
She was kind of a known thing.
She hasn't done a lot recently.
But Wanda Sykes was on the Stephen Colbert Late Show, and she insisted that white people ought to be embarrassed over Donald Trump.
So, it's just embarrassing.
Actually, the whole administration is just embarrassing, incompetent, corrupt.
I mean...
I mean, I have to say, white people, y 'all really should be embarrassed by this.
You really should be.
Y 'all really need to do something.
Seriously.
Because this is embarrassing.
And I know you say, well, Wanda, why is it a white?
Because we tried to tell y 'all.
We tried to tell you.
We tried to tell you.
Y 'all didn't want to listen, so now this is your problem.
It's just so tired.
It feels dated.
When I point out that Wanda Sykes...
Kind of made a splash 15, 20 years ago.
Hasn't done a lot recently.
I don't mean to take a pot shot at her or anything like that.
Plenty of comedians have a moment and then they go away.
But this is part of the reason why.
This is a joke from 10 or 15 years ago.
The joke doesn't make sense when a record number of black guys vote for the Republican.
Say, well, listen, we black people, we tried to tell you.
We tried to...
No, you didn't.
You voted for him.
You didn't.
That might have been true under, I don't know, during the Mitt Romney election, during the John McCain election, but that actually isn't true for Trump.
He got a record number of black guys to vote for him, so it doesn't...
Oh, well, forget about the black people.
Just we, racial minorities, we tried to tell you.
No, you didn't.
You voted for him.
46% of Hispanics voted for the guy.
Oh, well, we...
Huh.
It just doesn't work.
The reason that...
The reason the joke doesn't work is not that it's a left-wing joke.
The reason that the joke doesn't work is because it's not grounded in reality and it's easily refuted by the exit polls.
And it's not just why the joke doesn't work, it's why Democrat campaign tactics don't work right now.
Because the ground has shifted under the Democrats' feet.
The Democrats had leaned so far into ideology through things like the BLM riots.
The gender ideology, the radical candidates.
It had lost its footing anyway.
Then the ground shifted underneath the feet of the Democrats, and now the Dems are trying to do the same song and dance that they've been doing for 20 years, but there's no ground for it.
The tap shoes aren't clicking on anything.
And so they're flailing around.
And Stephen Colbert's audience of SEALs might clap for that, but the American people don't really.
It's passé.
And Trump...
He is capitalizing on the Democrats being off-footed.
The biggest win he got in yesterday, Trump was in Michigan, and he was celebrating the funding of a National Guard base, Selfridge Air National Guard base.
So he's in Michigan.
Governor of Michigan is a huge Democrat, Gretchen Whitmer.
Some call her Whitler because she's a very extreme and unpleasant politician.
He shows up there, and a lesser Republican politician would ignore her.
A lesser Republican politician might take a pot shot at her.
Trump, realizing the moment, realizing what time it is, having a good instinct for comedy and for show business and for politics, all of which are really tied in together, he decides, no, he's going to praise her.
I'm not supposed to do that.
She's a Democrat.
They say, don't do that.
Don't have her here.
I said, no, she's going to be here.
She's done a very good job, frankly, and she was very much involved with the Republicans.
They worked together on saving it, and it was not easy.
So I want to thank you very much, Gretchen.
Good job.
Thank you.
Thank you.
There she goes, no, come on, Gretchen, come on, give some remarks.
Do I have to?
Well, I didn't plan to speak, but on behalf of all the military men and women who serve our country and serve so honorably on behalf of the state of Michigan, I am really damn happy we're here to celebrate this recapitalization at Selfridge.
It's crucial for the Michigan economy, it's crucial for the men and women here, for our homeland security and our future.
So, thank you.
I am so, so grateful that This announcement was made today, and I appreciate all the work.
Thank you.
I am so grateful that, and she's looking at Trump, and she doesn't know how to finish her sentence.
I am so happy that Trump did this, that Trump funded this, that Trump announced this, that I can't put Trump in the sentence.
I'm so grateful that this announcement was made today.
Made by whom, Gretchen?
That's an odd use of the passive voice.
Why?
I thought you wanted to use an economy of words and strong rhetoric.
Why would you put that?
I am so glad that this thing was said.
I'm sure you're very glad that this podcast was produced and that this news was heard and that your iPhone was held and your AirPods were inserted.
That's a very strange use of the passive voice.
She's so off-footed by this.
And Trump, it's just so delightful.
Because he gets up there and goes, look, I'm not supposed to do this.
They all told me.
Don't do this, Trump.
Don't be nice to the Democrat.
But I said I have to.
And then what does he do?
He looks down at his paper to read the pre-written remarks verbatim.
In other words...
They didn't tell him not to say nice things about Whitmer.
This was planned.
He said, no, I'm definitely going to say nice things about Whitmer because that's the best way I can shiv this woman.
And he doesn't call her Governor Whitmer.
Oh, Gretchen.
It's his bosom buddy there.
Oh, hey, Gretch.
Hey, Gretch, I just really want to thank you.
A lot of people don't know this.
Gretch worked with all the Republicans.
Oh, yeah, she's great to work with, actually.
We Republicans love her, and she loves us.
Good old Gretchy.
Go to Wayne Gretschke, we call her.
She's so good at working with Republicans.
She's so talented.
Oh, yeah.
Anyway, Gretsch, get on up here.
She's so angry.
Please don't do this to me.
Why are you doing this to me?
I didn't plan to speak.
Great stuff.
Now, all of that to say, this is not necessarily bad for Whitmer.
Moderating, seeming like you're friends with some of the Trump people, that is actually a political strategy that certain Democrats who want to be president are consciously undertaking.
Gavin Newsom is doing that.
Gavin Newsom started a podcast so that he could try to befriend Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon and other people in the Trump orbit, so that he can move to the middle, so he can take some ownership of MAGA, because MAGA was elected by popular vote, and if you want to become the nominee of your party, it really helps to run against your party, as Trump showed.
As Obama showed, as these guys are trying to show.
So it's not, don't oversimplify this.
It's not that it is necessarily bad for Whitmer to be tied to Trump.
It's that it's a risk.
If the Trump administration is a big success, and it's hard, at the end of two terms, we don't know about non-consecutive terms because that's unusual, but at the end of two terms, presidents are usually not that popular.
If the Trump administration is a success, if Trump is popular, then looking like you're chummy-chummy with MAGA world, even as a Democrat, will be helpful.
If the Trump administration is unpopular, then looking chummy-chummy with Trump is fatal to her.
She will not have a political career after that.
So it's a risk.
The Trump calculation here is not that I'm going to completely destroy Gretchen Whitmer.
It's that I'm going to tie her fate to mine.
I'm going to realign incentives for people like Whitmer, for people like Newsom, such that if I succeed, they have a chance to succeed.
They need to want me to succeed.
But if I go down, I'm taking all these people down with me.
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A really, really sharp way of talking.
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Speaking of Democrat undulations, competing tactics and strategies for the Democrats, the Democrats might toss out their vice chairman, David Hogg.
David Hogg is that young man.
Who attended a school that was the location of a school shooting, and he saw his chance for fame, and he immediately decided to make himself the spokesman for these students, go on as many liberal news networks as possible.
Ended up getting admitted to Harvard for that, didn't seem to have the academic qualifications, but he was really good at getting plaudits from elite liberals, which is one of the main things.
One of the main things that Harvard looks for and one of the main things that people look to get out of Harvard.
So it was a natural fit.
He was admitted to Harvard.
And then he ran for and won the vice chairmanship of the DNC.
And David Hogg wanted to shift the strategy of the Democrat National Committee to push young, progressive, leftist candidates so much so that he was willing to upend tradition in the DNC and raise money David Hogg said he was going to spend $20 million primarying more moderate,
there are no conservative Democrats, but more moderate, normal-sounding Democrats, and trying to install younger leftist Democrats.
Now, that is not the role of the National Party.
The National Party exists to help the nominees of that party beat the Democrats in general elections.
So David Hogg was really, but he said, doesn't matter.
We need change.
We got routed in the election.
That's why you guys elected me.
Not so fast.
According to David Weigel at Semaphore, the DNC is considering voting to oust David Hogg.
They're going to hear a challenge next month by, get this, a Native American DNC member who lost the vice chairman race and wants a new election because this person says that the DNC ignored fairness.
In the complaint, which a Democrat shared with Semaphore, this person said she lost a, quote, fatally flawed election that violated the DNC charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates asking for two new vice chair elections.
They have to say chair because they can't say chairman anymore because even though man is the gender neutral noun to refer to human beings.
In the beginning, God created man.
Both male and female created he them.
Feminists don't like that.
So you can't say man anymore.
You have to say chair man or chair woman.
But the gender binary is also offensive now to Democrats.
And woman still has the word man in it anyway.
So one person suggested some decades ago that it would have to be woe per son.
But son is still male, not female.
So it would have to be whopper daughter.
The chair whopper daughter.
Well, that's a little too long.
So now they say chair.
So now a human being has to try to run to become an inanimate object sat on by other human beings.
It's all very silly and pathetic.
Please excuse the digression, but that drives me crazy.
He's running for chair.
No, you're a man.
You're a human being.
Anyway, the Democrats can't even agree on that, much less who should occupy the chair.
So, now they might have a new election.
What does this show?
Does this show?
Some people are going to say, This shows that the Democrats realize that they have to moderate.
The Democrats realize this is not playing in Peoria.
The extremes that they've held, even in the early days of Trump, you know, that Democrat senator going down to have a romantic lunch with the gangster from MS-13 in El Salvador.
That doesn't play.
People don't like that.
Okay, we've got to moderate, right?
Except the candidate who might replace David Hogg.
This doesn't really seem any more moderate than David Hogg.
The candidate seems just as radical, just differently radical.
In fact, the candidate's objection to David Hogg is not explicitly that David Hogg wants to primary Democrats.
The objection is that he's a white man.
The objection is that we need a black woman or an Indian woman or some other kind of woman or some non-gendered amorphous hermaphrodite eunuch to occupy the chair.
In some ways, ousting David Hogg It is a signal that the Democrats need to go further left.
So what does this represent?
What this is really telling you is the Democrats have no idea what they're doing right now.
The Democrats have no political vision whatsoever right now.
The Democrats can't agree about anything.
And the reason for that is Trump screwed everything up for them.
The Democrats knew how to run against John McCain.
The Democrats knew how to run against Mitt Romney.
The Democrats had figured out how to run against the Bushes.
Even though the Bushes actually had a lot of success at presidential politics, they figured it out.
It was set.
We're going to attack the Republicans because they're going to throw Granny off a cliff with entitlement reform.
We're going to attack the Republicans because they're belligerent and militaristic in the Middle East.
We're going to attack the Republicans because they're heartless and they don't care about the poor.
They knew it.
And then Trump comes in.
And just messes all that up.
So they say, you want to throw granny off a cliff with entitlement reform?
What are you talking about?
Trump just said he'll never touch Social Security and Medicare.
Oh.
Yikes.
Hmm.
Well, Trump wants to bomb the Middle East.
Actually, no.
Trump is much more dovish on foreign policy than you are.
Huh.
Trump hates the poor.
Really?
Because he just...
Got rid of taxes on tips, and he wants to eliminate the income tax entirely, if possible, for people making less than $200,000 a year.
Actually, you're kind of the party of the rich now.
Huh, what do we do?
What do we do?
They don't know.
They're just really confused.
And you would think they would get their sound footing eventually, but they haven't yet.
They don't know what they want to be.
Should we become friends with Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, or should we call those people Hitler?
Should we appear at the Trump event?
Should we not appear at the Trump event?
Do we like free trade?
Do we like tariffs?
Do we want face-tattooed illegals in our country?
Do we support borders?
What do we want?
They're befuddled.
They're befuddled by elements of public life as simple as wearing a cross necklace.
The New York Times has this piece out.
It's a good piece, actually.
a hot accessory at the intersection of faith and culture.
Seen on influencers, pop stars, and White House staff, cross necklaces are popping up everywhere.
here.
They can't understand people wearing crosses.
This is one of the most ancient symbols in our civilization.
And it is the most basic symbol of...
The pivotal event, the central event in history, which is the crucifixion, the resurrection.
The axle, the cross being the axle on which the entire cosmos turns.
They don't get it.
Why are people wearing the crosses?
Now, part of the reason they're seeing the crosses more now is because the Republicans are back in town.
I even notice this myself.
I've been to D.C. probably six times since the election, or more.
I've probably been to D.C. six times this year, since January 1st.
I wasn't in D.C. a lot during the Biden administration.
I wasn't even conscious of this.
But I was in D.C. a lot during the first term.
I was in D.C. I don't know.
It seemed like every other week or certainly every month on average during the first term.
Because the Republicans are back in town.
And these guys being beltway, coastal, elite Democrats, they only really encounter Republicans during these kinds of...
The New York Times is on to something real, which is that popular Christianity is making a comeback.
You can see it in memes.
You can see it in social media.
You can see it in the way public figures are speaking.
You can see it in...
Crosses and fashion accessories.
You can see it in liturgy.
You do see it everywhere.
Why?
Why is Christianity making a comeback?
Well, basically, at the most fundamental level, because it's true, because the crucifixion and the resurrection are historical events, because God entered into history, and he lives.
Our Redeemer lives.
That's the actual reason.
And I know they're going to be...
Atheists and secularists and agnostics and people with other religious views who don't like that or who don't agree with that, that's fine.
Okay?
Well, it's not fine, but you should agree with that.
But I understand where you're coming from.
I'm just telling you, that's the basic reason why the political authority can never exterminate the church.
They've tried many, many times, and it doesn't work.
Okay?
But at a more pop culture level.
Why is Christianity making a comeback?
Why are people putting on their cross necklaces?
Because Christianity is once again a subversive force against a corrupt political order.
The dominant political order hates Christianity.
The dominant political order tries to get rid of Christmas displays in public and on your coffee cups.
The dominant political order takes prayer and the Bible out of schools.
Even the Bible, which is the basic book without which you cannot possibly be an educated person, they take that out of schools.
The dominant political order permits satanic rituals in state houses just within the last couple of years.
The dominant political order slaughters a million-plus babies per year through human sacrifice called abortion.
The dominant political order makes a mockery of marriage, inverts marriage, distorts it beyond recognition.
The basic political order and the symbol of Christ's love for his church.
The dominant political order doesn't like Christianity.
That hasn't...
Always been true.
We've had periods where the political order is very pro-Christianity, but we're just at a period right now where the dominant liberal political order really doesn't like Christianity.
So, if you want to be subversive, if you don't like the status quo and you want to upset the status quo, the cross is a symbol of that.
much as Christianity was a symbol of subversion of corruption, not of political order per se, but a subversion of corruption and the wicked principalities and powers that so often have control in this world.
Just as that was true in the ancient Roman Empire, that is true again today.
We'll have trouble in this world, but Christ has overcome the world.
And when there are popular movements to push back against the corruption of those dark powers that exist.
It's going to be the cross.
The cross is coming back.
I hope the New York Times watches this segment.
I hope that helps them.
Not just in their political understanding, but maybe their spiritual understanding, too.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from John Rutherford, 1975, who says, it is so hilarious that the people claiming that he's the Antichrist, either that random guy on the internet or Elon or whoever, the people who are claiming that he's the Antichrist don't even believe in Jesus Christ.
That is true.
That is amazing how many people...
Let's say, so-and-so is the Antichrist.
And you say, you don't believe in Christ, but you believe in the Antichrist.
And actually, it's funny, it's kind of silly when you think about it, but it can be helpful too.
Just as God in providence turns even bad things to his purposes, because God is sovereign, there are a lot of people, there are many, many people who would say, I don't know if God exists.
Definitely, I'm not religious, I don't even know if God exists, but I know evil exists.
And that's understandable.
Because we can become so corrupt and our intellects can become so dark and through sin and vice that we are not really conscious of the good.
But everyone's experienced some evil.
You kind of know that.
So this is a kind of funny subversion of the devil.
The more prominent the devil becomes, The clearer he points to God.
Because if evil exists, good has to exist.
And if the devil's real, if even the devil's real, I guess that means God is real.
The more corrupt society becomes, oddly enough, the more one recognizes, wait, it's not supposed to be this way.
Well, maybe there's an alternative.
Hmm.
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Speaking of religion, President Trump has weighed in on who the next pope should be.
As pope?
I'd like to be Pope.
That would be my number one choice.
No, I don't know.
I have no preference.
I must say we have a cardinal that happens to be out of a place called New York who's very good.
So we'll see what happens.
This is a great way to get around term limits.
You see, because the 22nd Amendment is still the law of the land, it limits Trump to two terms, even non-consecutive terms.
There's no constitutional amendment that says that a president can't become the Pope.
Now, he would have to become Catholic.
You know, judging by some Popes in history, you wouldn't know that the Pope had to be Catholic, but the Pope has to be Catholic.
But listen, Trump could become Catholic.
What about that Pope?
Donaldus Magnus?
That's not a bad idea.
But he says, look, I don't really care who the Pope is.
We have preferences.
Catholics have preferences.
But he says, I don't really care.
But, you know, I love that the New York Cardinal, Cardinal Dolan.
And, frankly, we could do a lot worse than Dolan.
There are some candidates who are popopily who would be a lot worse than Cardinal Dolan from New York.
But it seems unlikely that it will be an American who will become the Pope.
There are some leading candidates who are viewed as being a little bit more liberal, modernist, who probably...
Just in my limited capacity of reason, it seems to me, would not be great for the church.
There's some really good ones, really strong Poppili, who could be wonderful for the church.
And there does seem to be, if you believe the reporting coming out of Rome, some of the same, similar forces that you're seeing in politics here, a revulsion against liberalism, leftism, ideology,
modernism, innovation.
Hyper-individualism.
Those same kinds of natural and, I think, correct reactions, you're seeing that play out with the laity in the church.
Even among some of the prelates.
You say, you know, when someone dies, we only say good things.
We only focus on the good.
We don't lie, but we only focus on the good things.
As the legacy of Pope Francis is evaluated over history.
There are going to be a lot of things that people look to and say, you know, that wasn't great.
Maybe that was misguided.
Maybe that didn't help the church.
Maybe that's true of almost any pope, and especially, I think, a controversial pope like this.
I think there is going to be a push to restore some normal, even to the Vatican.
But we'll see.
Speaking of religious visions...
The modern ideology, which is an anthropology, which has religious aspects to it, of transgender ideology.
I've said that issue.
I'm done talking about it.
It's tedious.
It's over.
It was defeated, I think, decisively.
I think we won.
I think that transgenderism is now in the process of being eradicated from public life entirely, as well it should be, because it's a false account of human nature, and it helps no one, and it hurts a lot of people, hurts basically everyone it touches, and we just need to get rid of it.
The UK would seem to agree with me.
You know, the UK put out that CAS review, which seriously called into question the efficacy of the transgender procedures for kids.
Then the UK is stopping the transmutilations.
Other countries are too.
France is looking at it.
Sweden.
It's on its way out.
Well, the UK NHS, National Health Service, is now planning to test all trans kids, quote-unquote, for autism.
I was clued into this a few years ago.
I was speaking at a school, and a girl came up to me and she said, Michael, I want to thank you for speaking out on the transgender ideology because I fell into it.
I thought I was a boy, and thankfully I had good parents and good teachers and good doctors and good priests even.
And they said, I don't think you're a boy, and they tested me for other issues, and it turns out I had undiagnosed autism, and now they're treating me for autism, and my gender dysphoria has greatly abated.
So, well, that's good news.
I'm glad they didn't start chopping up your body and sterilize you and make your bones brittle and lead you to an early death instead of just actually treating the condition.
Well, now they're going to apply this insight broadly.
Previously, on certain social media platforms, you were not even allowed to observe the scientific evidence that trans identity Frequently coincides with autism.
And rather than treating the autism, they pretend that a boy can be a girl and they would screw up these poor kids' lives even further.
Now, even the left in the UK, even the left-wing Guardian, liberal newspaper, a couple years ago pointed out that books about the trans procedures at the most infamous trans clinic in the UK, the Tavistock Clinic,
quote, It reads like a dystopian novel.
There is a consensus on this.
This is bad.
So the thing you've got to ask yourself, if you are somehow on the fence about the transgender issue, and you still think it's nice to affirm people in their delusions, and you think it's cruel to tell people the truth or whatever, just ask yourself, what is more likely?
Try to take your ideology out of it for a second and just ask yourself, what is more likely that these kids who in the last five years Seemingly came out of nowhere and said, hey, I'm the opposite sex.
I'm actually...
The account of human nature that we've had for all of history everywhere is wrong.
Actually, you can be born in the wrong body and I can't explain to you how that's possible and if I do try to explain to you, I'll give you mutually contradictory explanations that it has to do with the brain or it has nothing to do with the brain or it has to do with the soul or we actually don't have a soul or whatever.
Regardless...
I look like a boy, but I'm actually a girl.
What's more likely?
That that's true?
That everyone everywhere for all time has fundamentally misunderstood how human nature works?
Or that these kids have a touch of the tism?
What do you think is more likely?
Because the UK, including libs, the UK is a liberal country, libs are admitting, okay, maybe...
If you believe something that is so obviously contradicted by all of our sense perceptions, maybe the likely answer is that you've got a problem with your perception.
Rather than everyone everywhere for all of history has been wrong about the most basic aspects of who we are.
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