Ep. 1742 - British Mom JAILED After Supposed “Racist” Post
An English woman is in jail for a supposedly racist tweet, French President Emmanuel Macron gets slapped by his wife on video, and the New York Times admits President Trump has completely destroyed the Democrat Party.
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A British mother is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence in the UK over a supposedly racist tweet.
That is not exactly a Man Bites Dog story.
We have known for years now that the UK regularly tramples the speech rights of its citizens and prioritizes foreigners over its own citizens.
What is newsworthy about this particular case is that President Trump and his team are telling the UK's liberal prime minister to knock it off.
Or else?
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Or shoved in the face on camera by his wife, Brigitte?
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This story out of the UK is insane.
A woman is in jail.
For 31 months, for two and a half years, more than two and a half years, for sending a supposedly racist tweet.
Now, what's the context of this tweet?
The context is the Southport killings.
Do you remember that?
It was a little while ago.
A 17-year-old boy of Rwandan descent murdered a bunch of little British girls and seriously injured many more with a knife.
And then this woman, Lucy Connelly, tweets out...
Mass deportation now set fire to all the effing hotels full of...
Full of the jerks for all I care.
While you're at it, take the treacherous government politicians with them.
I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure.
If that makes me racist, so be it.
So the key to this tweet is the phrase for all I care.
Because you could say, well, the woman...
She said, go down and burn all the migrant hotels.
But she didn't say that.
She said, set fire at all the effing hotels for all I care.
For all I care.
Which modifies that statement and clearly implies you can go burn down all the hotels for all I care.
If she were saying, go burn down these hotels, she would be implying that she cares.
She would care for you to do this thing that she's instructing you to do.
That's not what the phrase, for all I care, implies.
The phrase, for all I care, says, you can do this, you cannot do this.
I don't care.
I couldn't care less.
So that's the phrase.
It's a little rude.
She uses some salty language.
Interestingly, the Southport killings were carried out not by a migrant, but by a descendant of migrants.
You know, a Rwandan kid.
He's not British.
The English people, rather, are the descendants of the Angles, the Anglos and the Saxons.
This kid is British, broadly, I guess, but he's Rwandan.
And so she confused him for a migrant.
Easy mistake to make, but she says, look, if that makes me racist, so be it.
Should you go to jail for two and a half years over a racist tweet?
The UK says yes, of course.
The US State Department says maybe not.
The State Department under Trump is saying that it is monitoring.
The case of Lucy Connolly.
And actually, Vice President J.D. Vance brought this up in front of Keir Starmer, the liberal prime minister of the UK.
I said what I said, which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the UK and also with some of our European allies.
But we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British, of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them, but also affect American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens.
So that is something that we'll talk about today at lunch.
We've had pre-speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom, and it will last for a very, very long time.
Certainly we wouldn't want to reach across US citizens, and we don't, and that's absolutely right.
But in relation to pre-speech in the UK, I'm very proud of our history there.
LOL.
Are you kidding me?
JD speaks very well there, and Starmer says, shoot, he's making us look bad.
Well, you know, we've had free speech in the UK for a very long time, yeah.
We defend our free speech rights, yeah, yeah.
I don't know why it sounds like Michael Caine.
But Keir Strom is saying, yeah, we defend our free speech race.
I mean, sure, we'll arrest you for praying in your head outside an abortion clinic.
Yeah, we'll arrest you for that.
You're not allowed to pray inside your head outside an abortion clinic.
You're not allowed to tweet that you object to the wholesale slaughter of little girls with knives.
You can't say that on Twitter.
That's racist.
You're going to go to jail for years for that.
But we support free speech.
Batman, we do.
Okay, do you?
Totally ridiculous.
Given the UK's clampdown, not just on free speech broadly, which, as you know, and as I write in my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, is a nebulous concept in the abstract because you've got to get down in the nitty-gritty.
Speech from people who have nothing to say is worthless.
There's no substantive meaning to that kind of free speech.
And really what the UK does is clamp down on good speech, or at the very least defensible speech of its citizens, and defend the speech of people who are doing very bad things.
So Vance here, totally right.
And also highlighting a contradiction within the lib paradigm, the globalist paradigm.
He said, you see her, Keir Starmer, we wouldn't want to infringe on the American system.
We wouldn't want to stick our nose in your business.
Yeah, well, you would, first of all.
You people all do that.
But also, I thought the world was flat.
I thought we all lived in an interconnected global world.
I thought that was the big objection to Trump, is that Trump...
Not that one, and not nuclear, as President Trump mentioned, but national.
Nationalism.
Trump brought that up.
The globalists said, this is terrible.
We're all an interconnected world.
We all give up some of our sovereignty to international institutions, to big financial institutions.
We all sing kumbaya.
We all have something to say about each other.
But hold on, okay, well, we wanna criticize the way that you're jailing a British woman for a perfectly understood Then all of a sudden you're ardent nationalists and you say, get out of our business.
I don't think so, Buster.
Not going to work.
The globalists cannot have it both ways.
And and Starmer knows it.
OK, in fact, I don't mean to be too harsh on Keir Starmer because Keir Starmer to me is the bellwether here of where.
Keir Starmer, I played this on the show last week.
Keir Starmer, super-duper lib UK prime minister, a guy who denies that there is any concrete identity, even to the English people, famously did that on a podcast with Constantine Kislin.
Keir Starmer just came out against mass migration.
Let me put it this way.
Nations depend on rules, fair rules.
Sometimes they're written down.
Often, they're not.
But either way, they give shape to our values, guide us towards our rights, of course, but also our responsibilities, the obligations we owe to each other.
Now, in a diverse nation like ours, and I celebrate that, these rules become even more important.
Without them, we risk becoming an island of strangers.
Whoa!
Super-duper-lib-globalist Keir saying that if we continue to have mass migration, the barely-questioned policy of not only the left, but also the right in the UK and throughout the West for the past 30 years, if we continue to have that, we'll become an island of strangers.
That guy sounds like Pat Buchanan.
Okay, that guy sounds like Donald Trump.
More than Donald Trump, that guy sounds like an immigration restrictionist.
Why?
Because Keir Starmer reads the polls.
Because the liberals are reading the polls.
Because the New York Times just has a major, really, really interesting piece out about the polls which show that the left is dead on the operating table.
The right has been advancing steadily for a decade now.
And if the left-wing parties want to have any hope of a future, they need to change tune real quick.
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It's rare that I say there's a piece you have to read in the New York Times.
This is it.
This is from Shane Goldmacher, national political correspondent in the New York Times.
He says, one of the clearest ways to see how Trump has transformed the political landscape is to look at what we're calling triple trending counties.
Those that have steadily marched in each party's direction in the Trump era.
The results are stark.
And there's just one little graph, one little infographic that shows it all.
These are counties that...
Even though we say Trump won in 2016, we say Trump lost in 2020, we say Trump won in 2024, these counties kept moving in the direction of the Republicans and, alternatively, in the direction of the Democrats.
You look at the chart, it's all red.
For geographically, About 60% of the country, it's moving red.
The rest of the country, not moving blue.
The rest of the country just kind of empty.
You see a handful of tiny little pockets of the blue.
But if you were to overlay that with the red, the whole country just about is moving Republican.
And not just for one election cycle, for three successive election cycles, including one in the middle in which Trump...
We'll get to what best educated means in a moment.
All told, Mr. Trump has increased the Republican Party's share of the presidential vote in each election he's been on the ballot in close to half the counties of America.
1,433 counties in all, according to the New York Times.
It is a staggering political achievement, especially considering that Mr. Trump was defeated in the second of those three races in 2020.
I mentioned LOL at the top of the show.
Is it possible?
I don't know.
I think I'm allowed to suggest this now on YouTube.
Since we have all of these data, including being reported by the New York Times, that the country has moved consistently and decisively to the right from the beginning of the Trump political era all the way through the end.
And there are all these counties that continue, what, 1,433 counties, about half the country, continued to move to the right even in 2020.
Is it possible?
That maybe the 2020 election wasn't totally on the up and up.
I'm not saying anything about voting machines.
I'm just saying, is it possible that the way to explain Joe Biden's supposed victory in 2020 is, is it possible that that victory is better explained by the fact that Democrats in the weeks before that election
Is it possible that totally changing all the rules of the election to make it less secure in every single way might better explain?
The Biden victory than just a sudden shift in political winds.
Because according to the New York Times, there was no such shift.
The country continued to move to the right.
Specifically, the country continued to move toward Trump the whole time.
Just an idle thought.
By contrast, the piece goes on.
Democrats have steadily expanded their vote share in those three elections.
In only 57 of the nation's 3,100-plus counties.
Not 5,700, not 570.
57!
The scale of Mr. Trump's expanding support is striking, while roughly 8.1 million Americans of voting age live in triple-training Democrat counties.
So 8.1 million Americans of voting age live in the counties that have moved steadily to the Dems.
42.7 million live in Republican ones.
Whoa.
Five times as many, more than five times as many, living the Republican ones.
We are not currently in the position we were in in 2016.
This is not, oh, we just got to defeat the libs on some of the arguments and we got to show people that...
We won.
This is why, by the way, you see this reflected not only in electoral politics, you see this in political media, you see this in the intellectual circles.
We don't have to go out there anymore and have the really facile arguments in front of the millions of people on YouTube and on TV to totally own the libs.
We don't actually have to do that right now because we won.
We own them.
We own them currently.
They belong to us.
The 13th Amendment has effectively been abolished.
We own the libs.
They're our property.
Now the question is, how do we rebuild?
What are we going to do with the popular support that we have won?
We want it.
The New York Times points out there's this tiny sliver of the country that still trends in the Democrat direction.
It is their words.
The party's sparse areas of growth are concentrated almost exclusively in America's wealthiest and most educated pockets.
Now, even that Because what do you mean most educated?
You mean most likely to have a college degree?
College degrees are worthless.
There's a student at the University of Connecticut right now who graduated.
She is now suing her high school district because she graduated with honors and she's illiterate.
She's currently a student at the University of Connecticut, a prominent state school.
She is illiterate.
She can't read.
The university degree in itself means nothing.
Harvard students, supposedly among the best universities in the country, Harvard students, Now have to take remedial math courses.
The university, America's oldest university, had to institute a remedial math course because the supposed crème de la crème of American students can't do basic algebra.
The university degree in itself means nothing.
University education in principle is good, and I encourage it.
I'm one of the only conservatives who actually does encourage it, but I'm right about that.
But in practice, the university education today is meaningless.
And certainly the graduate degrees, the master's degree, all these people get master's degrees because they don't know what else to do.
PhDs even.
PhDs used to be, at least, that was a little rigorous.
Today, not so clear.
It's still an okay indicator that you can at least spell your name, but even that, even that is sus.
To me, what this report tells is...
They're the Democrats and all the unwashed idiot hoi polloi.
Those are the Republicans.
That's not what this means.
The crucial factor is not brilliance, but satisfaction with the status quo.
If you have graduated from colleges, universities, especially the elite universities, if you have graduate degrees, all this, what that says is you are cool with the status quo, the system.
Most people, the system is not working for them, at least in their perception.
There are more than eight times as many people saying the system is not working for me as there are people who say the system is great, I'm trending Democrat for 10 years.
We won.
We won the hearts and minds.
Now the question is, what do we do with that?
Where do we move these people?
And this is a tough question.
I was just yesterday reading the Aeneid.
I was going back to book six of the Aeneid by Virgil.
This is the political book, and it crops up.
I'm preparing a speech because I'm going to Hungary later this week for CPAC Hungary.
So let me go back to book six of the Aeneid.
There's a great line there.
That Aeneas is told.
Aeneas wants to go down and talk to his dead father.
And Aeneas is told, you know, the road down to the underworld is easy.
You'll have no problem getting down there.
It's just, it's a lot harder to get back up.
That's where you'll need all the favor of the gods to get back up.
It's easy for civilizations to come crumbling down.
And it's even relatively easy for people to realize that the civilization has come crumbling down.
That's all the normies, all the people in the middle, the ones who have moved to the right in recent years.
They're recognizing that.
Shoot, man, these liberal policies have really screwed up my country.
Yeah, I was bad.
Okay.
How do you get back up?
That's the question.
That's where the real debate is right now.
Now, speaking of these moral issues, speaking of rebuilding, Here's another report out from the AP.
We got the New York Times, now we got the Associated Press, something strange is in the air.
The AP admitting that U.S. children of divorce do much worse in life than the kids of married parents, a mommy and a daddy joined together in matrimony forever.
U.S. children of divorce have reduced earnings, increased chances of teen pregnancy, and jail.
What does that mean?
Why are we coming to these conclusions?
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The Associated Press, which, you know, this wire service is now reporting to ABC News, all the big lib outlets, admitting U.S. children of divorce have reduced earnings, study says.
Increased chance of teen pregnancy and incarceration.
I'm not going to read the whole article.
But it's specifically focusing in on kids whose parents divorce when they are five years old or younger.
They have a statistically significant lower earnings and increased chances of teen pregnancy, doing jail time, and death.
This is a study out of the University of California, Merced.
The way that the researchers are explaining this is because Divorce at a young age is typically tied to loss of financial resources, a decline in neighborhood quality tied to a loss in financial resources, and missing parental involvement because of distance or even just because of an increased workload required to make up for the lost income.
They say that accounts for 25-60% of the impact divorce has on children's outcomes.
Now, that means there's 40-75% that's not explained by purely economic factors, which we all know is explained by social factors, moral factors, basic anthropological factors.
How many kids does this affect?
Almost a third.
Almost a third of American children live through their parents divorcing before they reach adulthood, according to the study.
I'm not surprised.
I'm a millennial.
The millennials were the first real generation to have to live through the divorce of their parents.
Zoomers have dealt with the same thing.
Gen Alpha, to a lesser degree, is dealing with that.
But in part, the slightly lower divorce rate now is just explained by the much lower marriage rate.
So fewer people are getting married in the first place.
And we've redefined marriage, so there are all these fake kinds of marriages, like two fellas and two chicks and all the rest of it.
What do we take away from this study?
For most of human history, divorce was understood pretty much universally to be bad.
In fact, just universally it was bad.
Even in places that permitted divorce, divorce was permitted as the consequence of a bad thing.
You hear our Lord when he is explaining in great detail what marriage really means.
He says, yes, Moses allowed you to divorce because of the hardness of your hearts, but from the beginning it was not so.
Everywhere, not just even in Christian civilization, but everywhere, divorce was understood to be basically bad.
Then, starting in the 1960s, in our neck of the woods, peaking in the 1980s and 90s, we convinced ourselves that divorce was good, and we would hear these stupid lines, like, oh no, it's actually better for the kids.
To be raised where the parents aren't fighting all the time.
It's really better for the kids for their parents to get divorced because then their parents will be happy.
First of all, the parents won't be happy once they're divorced because there's no such thing as divorce.
You still have to deal with the ex-spouse.
You're just in a very bad marriage, effectively, which is a Christian insight.
But two, it won't be better off for the kids.
That's just complete cope.
And three, if you're saying, well, the alternative is, you know, either the kids can grow up in a broken home or they can grow up in this home where the parents are yelling at each other all the time and fighting.
Hey, how about you just not fight?
How about you just not yell at each other all the time?
How about you act like civilized people and be normal?
You ever think about that?
This reminds me of the Chris Rock bit.
Chris Rock has this bit.
It's a very famous bit, but you probably can't do it on the show.
It's where he talks about the difference between black people and niggas.
We'll say ninjas.
We had the Kanye West song a couple weeks ago, so we'll say.
And he says, you know, one thing I hate about this particular group of people is when they say, you know, they say things like, you know, I take care of my kids.
You're supposed to!
What do you want, a cookie?
You don't get plaudits.
You don't get a pat on the head.
We're doing things you're supposed to.
Well, it's better to have a broken home than to have parents fighting all the time.
Yeah, how about you not fight?
How about you be normal and behave?
Good grief.
So what happened?
What happened?
Everyone, pretty much everywhere, for all of history, understood that divorce is bad.
And sometimes it's been tolerated, but it's been understood to be a not ideal thing.
Then from the 60s to the...
We convinced ourselves that divorce is good, actually.
It's liberating.
It should be expanded and liberalized in the law.
That divorce, actually, man, what does marriage even mean, you know?
Divorce can't really be all that significant if marriage isn't all that significant.
You know, man, it's like, whatever, you do you.
You follow your bliss, man, blah, blah, blah, whatever.
And now we're realizing that actually everyone for all of history until the 1960s was right.
And I think that's what we're going through.
I think that's what we're going through on migration.
You want to know what people have thought about migration for all of history?
Go read Aristotle.
Go read Plato.
Go read Dante.
Go read anyone who basically universally says, yeah, you got to watch out for when you have a bunch of foreigners in your country because it's going to create dissensions and social problems.
Then, apparently, And now we're realizing that people of every race are saying, actually, you know, that's not good to have just unfettered entry of foreigners into our country.
Something just happened.
In the middle to late 20th century.
And we all lost our minds for a little bit.
Call it the Age of Aquarius.
We all just went a little bit kooky.
And now we realize that the gods of the copybook headings are still there.
We're realizing that things that we always understood to be true are still true.
Now, speaking of longstanding traditions and truths, a small point, because of the holiday filming of the show, Vice President J.D. Vance got in some hot water with some people.
I think it's a small number of people.
Because when he flew out to meet the new Pope, first American Pope, he shook the Pope's hand and did not kiss the ring.
You can see the picture.
Where is it?
Do we have the picture?
Maybe we don't.
Here we are.
It's a picture of the Pope.
Shaking hands with J.D. Vance.
And many people are going to look at that and say, well, there's nothing all that strange about that.
Except that J.D. is a Catholic, and Catholics, generally speaking, when they meet the Pope, they're supposed to kiss the ring of the Pope.
Now, I knew exactly what was going on the second I saw this.
But a handful of people objected.
They said, well, this is improper from J.D. He's not prioritizing his faith.
There are all sorts of criticisms.
Here is the Vice President explaining why he shook the Pope's hand.
Okay, so I am a Catholic.
I believe that he, meaning Pope Leo, is actually the shepherd of 1.4 billion Catholics.
And so there are things like bowing before him, kissing the ring, that are signs of respect for a spiritual father, okay?
But on the world stage, I'm not there as J.D. Vance, a Catholic parishioner.
I'm there as the Vice President of the United States and the leader of the president's delegation to the Pope's inaugural mass.
And so, it was interesting, some of the protocols about You might respond to the Holy Father purely in your capacity as a citizen.
So I knew this was his explanation the minute that I saw him shake the hand.
Not surprised at all.
Some people, even if they did understand that, they're giving JD a lot of grief over this.
And I think this is a little bit misplaced, okay?
It's as if to say that people are discovering for the first time that there is a tension between the modern world order and Christian civilization.
That's basically what they're saying.
Hold on!
Why didn't he kiss the ring?
Because he's here as a representative of the United States, a country that historically has not been all that friendly to Catholics and was founded in a kind of an anti-Catholic way, though actually at a deeper level, I think the country was founded on the principles articulated by people like St. Thomas Aquinas and Alexei de Tocqueville thinks that America will trend Catholic or atheist over time, and there are all sorts of arguments.
But I think it was Arthur Schlesinger who said anti-Catholicism is the deepest-rooted American prejudice.
And so JD is saying, yeah, well, as the Vice President of the United States, I didn't kiss the ring.
Because you know, had he kissed the ring, he would have had all this kind of anti-Catholic nonsense in all of the headlines.
And so it was a little bit of damned if you do, damned if you don't interaction.
But I would just point out here.
Going all the way back to 1795, we have an oath of allegiance in the United States for people to become naturalized American citizens.
The oath of allegiance reads, I hereby declare on oath that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince potentate state or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.
One could argue that.
I know this has been resolved in a way that does not prohibit Catholics, but I'm just pointing out the vice president is dealing with political tensions that he is inheriting, and he's doing his best, and I think he's doing a good job of it.
Okay, and I think that some people who defend tradition and order and hierarchy and faith and everything— I think this is true to a lot of conservatives.
We sometimes, we insist upon clutching defeat from the jaws of victory.
We have the first ever practicing Catholic American vice president.
Take the W, guys.
Take the win.
That's a good thing.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Asclepius Press, who writes, Hi, Michael.
When I was a minor, I was groomed into delinquency by the PSL.
I'm not surprised to hear a member became violent.
It is extremely dark.
I will confess, when I first read this comment, I thought PSL referred to pumpkin spice latte.
I was nearly groomed into delinquency by pumpkin spice lattes, too.
I could have gone broke.
They're so delicious.
They're so sugary.
I might have gotten diabetes.
But no, it refers to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which is the party that the alleged shooter who murdered the Israeli diplomats in D.C. That young couple, one of them is a Christian at least, that he was a member of.
So, yes, there are radical groups that can groom you into delinquency.
It's true, and we need to clamp down on those groups, as far as I'm concerned.
Get me another Joe McCarthy.
That's my kind of right wing.
But you can be groomed into delinquency by pumpkin spice lattes, too.
Take my word for it.
Don't mess around with that stuff, kids.
Speaking of religion, big, big news story.
There is a UFO in Colombia.
Did you hear about this?
It was getting a zillion views on social media.
So here's the UFO.
Allegedly.
So it's amazing how these UFOs are always caught on really grainy, weird footage.
And this one, I don't know about you.
I mean, it's very difficult to detect fakes these days because of AI and because of deep fakes.
This doesn't look that real to me.
But for those just listening, it's a sphere.
Just a sphere.
Floating around.
Doesn't have any wings or anything.
It's just floating.
It's in pretty regular patterns.
It's not doing any of the weird stuff like the 90 degree turns or anything like that that we hear about from the Tic Tacs and some of the testimony from Air Force pilots.
But that's it.
Just floating around.
Looks super duper fake to me.
Wait, I'm trying to look and see if there's Bigfoot cropping out of the bushes behind it.
And then we get a picture of the UFO.
And the picture looks like the fakest thing I've ever seen in my whole life.
It looks like a soccer ball with some weird Sumerian text on it.
Looks like it was chiseled by a butter knife at home.
I mean, it just looks ridiculous.
Comes out of Colombia.
There are a lot of hoaxes of this sort in Latin America.
So, in a piece about this from Newsweek, Julia Mossbridge, who is, she's a PhD, I don't know, she's sort of a random PhD that was picked by Newsweek to be interviewed for this.
She says, bugosphere, that's what they're calling this thing.
I really suspect it's a piece of artwork.
It looks so human-made to me.
Yes, it looks very human-made to me, too.
I think that governments need to think more about the psychosocial positive aspects of these kind of mysteries because self-transcendence is often ignored as a motivating factor in people's behavior.
When people start focusing on something that's bigger than us, it really powerfully changes behavior for the better.
And then, final point, it seems to me we could use the mystery and the humility.
That UAP produce.
UAP is the new term for UFOs.
They changed it because UFOs sound kooky because they are.
So they had to change it to unidentified aerial phenomena, but it's the same kooky thing.
Producing people who see and experience them.
We could use that as a way to bring countries together that are currently not together.
So this tells me the whole thing is just extremely fake.
And what her good insight tells me is that all the UFO stuff, all the ET stuff, is just fake religion.
And it's fake religion made by people who view religion as fake and therefore don't know what religion is.
They think that religion is just a helpful social tool to bring people together and get them to cooperate.
It's not real.
You know, look, here, where's my fedora?
Where's my Reddit account?
There's no, it's not, religion's not real, okay?
God doesn't exist.
But it's a helpful tool.
To convince idiots to do what we want and to cooperate and not kill each other.
So we're going to kind of encourage it, but we know.
We're really smart.
We have Fedoras and we have Reddit accounts.
We know that religion is not real.
Now, that's not real religion.
So then, if you're going to create a fake religion, that's the attitude that you're going to have going in.
And your fake religion is not going to work either.
As I have said for many years now, Aliens are angels and demons for libs.
We're seeing all sorts of replacement religions.
AI.
AI is becoming a kind of god for libs and for secularists.
But it's just fake.
Because real religion, by the way, real religion can get people to behave in a good way because of morality and because of our accountability to God and because of divine grace.
But it doesn't necessarily get us all to be kumbaya.
I'm a Catholic.
Catholic means universal.
I believe in the universal church with jurisdiction over the whole earth, the head of which is the representative of Christ himself.
I believe in that, but that's different from liberal globalism.
Christianity is not just about an artificial peace.
Christianity also comes with a sword and divides mother from son and divides brother from sister because of the truth.
Christianity does bring peace and does bring unity around the truth.
Not around some artifice, not around some social construct, some merely social construct, as the libs would have religion.
It's got to be around the truth or it's nothing.
So you'll see people say, well, look, we used to have a religious society and things went better.
Now we don't have a religious society and people are losing their minds.
So we need some of the mystery and humility that UAP produce in people.
We need the holy fear of E.T. That's not going to work.
That's not a holy fear.
That's silly.
I agree.
We could all use a little awe and wonder.
Chesterton said, the world does not suffer from lack of wonders, but from lack of wonder.
We could all use a little wonder and humility.
The only way that that will be real and sustainable is before the true God.
Speaking of little green men, Kermit the Frog just gave the commencement address at the University of Maryland.
Take a listen.
Dreams are how we figure out where we want to go.
And life is how we get there.
So graduates, I see you.
I see you out there.
And I know that you will find your people.
I know that you're going to take big leaps.
And I know that even though you're about to throw your caps in the air, good luck finding them again, I know that you will stay connected.
To your families, your friends, and your dreams.
Because life's like a movie.
Write your own ending.
Keep believing.
Keep pretending.
You've all done just what you set out to do.
And you're just getting started!
That is so depressing.
That is so bad.
This is what modern education is worth.
All these kids, laughy, clappy, smiling at Kermit the Frog.
This is what modern education is worth.
It leaves you with exactly the same intellectual capacity you had when you were three years old.
When you were watching Sesame Street and The Muppets when you were three years old, you've not grown at all.
You could have a degree from a major state university.
It will leave you exactly the same as you were before.
Some will say, Yeah, Jim Henson died 35 years ago.
If Jim Henson were giving the commencement speech, that would probably not be great either, but it'd be vastly superior to a cartoon puppet frog.
That's really sad.
Really sad.
If I were a graduate of the University of Maryland after that, I would demand a refund.
That is pathetic.
But this is true everywhere, just about.
You can't really say it's all that much better at Harvard, as President Trump pointed out, when he just ramped up his war on Harvard.
Look, part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31%, almost 31% of foreigners coming to Harvard.
We give them billions of dollars, which is ridiculous.
We do grants, which we're probably not going to be doing much grants anymore to Harvard.
But they're 31%, but they refuse to tell us who the people are.
We want to know who the people are.
Now, a lot of the foreign students we wouldn't have a problem with.
I'm not going to have a problem with foreign students, but it shouldn't be 31%.
It's too much because we have Americans that want to go there and to other places, and they can't go there because you have 31% foreign.
Now, no foreign government contributes money to Harvard.
We do.
So why are they doing so money?
Number one.
Number two.
We want a list of those foreign students and we'll find out whether or not they're okay.
Many will be okay, I assume.
And I assume with Harvard, many will be bad.
And then the other thing is they're very anti-Semitic.
Everybody knows they're anti-Semitic.
And that's got to stop immediately.
Do you see what Trump is doing?
I think you probably do, but for those who haven't quite figured it out yet, Trump is Trump is really, really good at this.
Trump is very good at getting his enemies to defend the indefensible.
So Trump will go out and make his enemies defend paper straws.
He had the EO about paper straws.
Everyone hates paper straws.
Everyone in this country hates paper straws.
He goes out, he says, ah, we're banning paper straws.
He makes the Democrats defend paper straws.
All the trans stuff, that's what that was about.
Everyone knows a fella shouldn't be in the girls' bathroom and locker room.
Trump goes out.
He makes the Democrats defend that.
Now he's making them defend Harvard.
Democrats have a problem identified by the New York Times, which is that they only appeal to wealthy people from elite institutions, and most Americans view them as totally out of touch and uncaring about their problems.
So what does Trump do?
He puts the Democrats in a spot where they have to defend Harvard, the icon of out-of-touch, elite, rich, coastal, and he's going to make them defend that.
And he's going to sprinkle on a little defense of anti-Semites in there.
He says, okay, hey Democrats, here's what we're going to do for the midterms.
We're going to have you defend Harvard University.
We're going to have you defend 31% Foreigners coming to this country and being subsidized by Americans, most of whom don't even go to college, don't even graduate from college, and we're going to have you defend anti-Semites.
How does that sound?
And you know what the Democrats are going to do?
Because they can't win for losing?
They're going to say, ah, sounds great, Donald.
We love Harvard.
Great.
The guy's a genius.
Okay.
Just briefly before we go.
Emmanuel Macron.
We're speaking of foreigners anyway.
I have to get to that.
Emmanuel Macron.
President of France.
Caught on camera, getting slapped, pushed, shoved, scratched by his wife on an airplane.
Take a look.
Okay, hold on.
That's not a slap.
For those of you who are only listening.
He's standing there.
And you see these hands of his wife.
Hands push his face away.
And then Macron's pushed back a little bit.
He looks out.
He sees the door is open on the airplane.
And he sees cameras there.
And then he does a little like, smile, wave.
Now he starts walking down first in front of his wife.
They're not holding hands.
They're not arm in arm.
What's going on?
The French government has said this was just a playful little shove.
And that happens.
At least he'll do that.
Get out of here.
Get out of here, man.
Come on.
What are you doing?
But was it, I need to see it again.
It doesn't look like he's expecting the show.
It doesn't look like they're all guffawing and smacking their knee and they're having a little...
It doesn't seem all that playful to me.
I mean, it looks really bad because he's so shocked when he sees the cameras.
However, Notice, that was not a manly slap.
Not even in the way that gay guys slap.
It wasn't like that.
It was a womanly shove.
I know there have been some questions about...
We're not getting into those here.
I don't know.
I'm not that I've never really been persuaded by that.
But listen, if you are wondering...
She's like a zillion years older than him and was preying on him when he was a teenage boy and her student.
But, regardless, we're going to put that aside for a second.
To me, this is some evidence.
Whatever weird dynamic in their weird French...
This is the French, let's not forget.
Not known exactly for their sexual propriety and order.
Whatever you think about it, that looked like the shove of a woman to me, okay?
