Minneapolis libs accidentally invent Border Patrol, the media ignore the ransacking of a Catholic school in California, and more Epstein fallout from the UK to Poland.
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Liberals in Minnesota have had it with the ICE raids and Border Patrol.
So they have decided to take matters into their own hands with a novel plan to keep the people that they don't want in their communities out.
We are literally creating a place that we know who's coming and going in and out of our neighborhoods.
In the middle of the road at 32nd and Cedar Avenue, a makeshift roadblock turned this intersection into a roundabout.
Cars slowed as drivers noticed, some honked, others asked questions, and one man brought food for the people standing watch.
Hi, sir.
Thank you so much.
How did it make you feel just seeing a community checkpoint in your neighborhood?
Well, you know, it felt fine.
I don't have any trouble with folks helping out.
Wade Haynes has been standing at this corner twice a day for one reason, to stand up against ICE activity and keep his community safe.
He chose this corner.
Others chose this intersection.
It's kind of inspiring.
I was like, wow, okay.
We've got folks out there who are kind of taking care of us, looking out for us.
That's good.
They've got people who are taking care of them, looking out for them.
Some might say policing their communities.
And the way that they're doing it is by erecting structures in the street, on the corners.
These are stopping points.
Some might call them borders, staffed by people who check to make sure that only the right people get into the community and the people they don't want there stay out.
Many, including people on the right, have questioned President Trump's tactics in Minneapolis, but you cannot argue with results.
And the results of the Minneapolis raids are that he got the anti-ICE liberals to invent Border Patrol.
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More Epstein Fallout.
Prince Andrew has been booted from Royal Lodge in the middle of the night into his exile.
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A lot more claims being made by the Prime Minister of Poland about who Epstein was, what he was doing, who he was working for.
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I love this Minneapolis story.
That's so beautiful.
Trump actually trolled the Minneapolis liberals into inventing border patrol, into inventing the wall, checkpoints, cops, ice, ice, basically.
We got to deport these ICE agents.
We need our own ice to deport these ICE agents.
This is what happens.
This is what always seems to happen when the hippies and the communists, who are similar, but the hippies are a little less, they seem a little less threatening, but utopians on the left of all stripes, when they dream up their perfect society, they say, you know, man, this society, it's no good, man.
We got markets.
We got people making money.
We got people here exploiting each other.
Got private property.
We don't want that, man.
What we're going to do, we're going to move to a commune, a farm in the middle of nowhere, man.
Imagine it's going to be beautiful.
Not like this city, not like this town we're living in here.
No, we're going to all live on a farm and a commune.
And you know what?
Some people are going to grow the food and some people they're going to bake the bread.
You know, some people, they're going to watch the kids.
And some people, it's going to be amazing.
We're going to, you're, we're going to have like what, like a diversity of labor?
We're going to have what?
Like, and you know, man, it's the people who grow the food, they're going to trade some of that for this for the services of the other people.
Oh, you mean we're going to have like a market economy?
Okay.
Yeah.
And, you know, we're all going to take care of each other, man.
You mean like you're going to be the police?
You're going to have a police force?
Yeah, man.
So you're just going to, you're just going to invent society as it always has been, but you're going to do it perfectly.
The problem with our society is we just didn't do it right.
Is that they invented border patrol?
It's so, so beautiful.
So I say take them at their word.
Yes, we do need people to keep our communities safe.
Yes, we do need checkpoints to keep the people we don't want out.
Yes, we do need to have a group of people that takes care of the community.
I think you're totally right.
Flood Minneapolis with even more ICE agents, Mr. President.
Thank you.
Speaking of Minnesota, Vice President JD Vance just sat down for an interview.
This, I guess, was with the Daily Mail, in which the VP was asked if he plans to apologize to the family of Alex Predi, the left-wing agitator who was tussling with cops who brought a gun to obstruct law enforcement, who ended up getting shot.
And take notes.
Get out a pen.
Get out your pen.
Get out your little notepad.
Take notes at how the vice president answers this question.
Should you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Predty?
For what?
For, you know, labeling him an Assash and with ill intent.
Well, again, I just described to you what I said about Alex Predi, which is that he's a guy who showed up with ill intent to an ICE protest.
But if it is a guy that's determined that his civil rights were violated by this FBI investigation, will you apologize?
So if this hypothetical leads to that hypothetical leads to another history, it's a real case.
I don't want to do a thing.
And again, like I said, we're going to let the investigator.
Okay, beautiful.
I just even right from the top, right off the top there.
Are you going to apologize to Alex Predi, to his family?
I guess not to him.
Are you going to apologize to his family?
And VP doesn't miss a beat.
This is exactly the right way to answer.
For what?
The question that he was asked, let me translate it into the generic form.
The generic form of the question is, Mr. Vice President, when you accept my bogus premise, will you do what I want?
When you accept my premise that has no basis in reality, the premise in this case being that JD Vance committed some injustice toward Alex Predty by describing the situation as it was.
When you accept my bogus premise, will you do what I want you to do?
Namely, apologize to Alex Predty and say that your administration is terrible and say that we shouldn't have ICE deporting illegals and say that we shouldn't enforce our immigration laws.
Will you do that when you accept my bogus premise?
Will you apologize?
And the VP totally gets it.
He goes, for what?
So he puts the onus back on the guy who's making the crazy claims to try to justify his claims.
That's how you do it.
JD Vance is not the first vice president to do this.
There was a great example.
I couldn't find the clip of it yesterday.
I was looking for it.
There was a great example of Vice President Dick Cheney doing this many, many years ago.
I think it was to Larry King.
Larry King said, Mr. Vice President, do you intend to bomb Iran?
And his answer was perfect.
It was actually verbatim the same answer.
He says, for what?
There was no reason to think that they were going to bomb Iran, but that puts the onus back on the questioner.
Well, I don't know.
Have him describe it.
What is it?
What is it that we're really talking about here?
And he says, well, you should apologize because maybe his civil rights were violated.
You hear the journal then goes to a conditional hypothetical question, hypothetical statement.
He goes, well, if it is determined that his civil rights were violated, will you then apologize?
And JD has the perfect answer for that, which is, oh, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.
That's basically what the VP says.
He says, if this hypothetical leads to that hypothetical leads to this hypothetical, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
If turnips were watches, I would wear one by my side.
And if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for Tinker's hands.
That's his answer.
That's the right answer.
For what?
You can't accept the premise.
Everything that the Trump, everything that the Trump administration has done in Minneapolis is justified.
The shooting of Renee Good, justified.
It's not even close.
She hit the cop with her SUV.
The shooting of Alex Predi, justified.
He showed up to obstruct law enforcement with a gun.
Even if there was some confusion on the scene, and I'm not saying that there was, the cops were entirely justified every step of the way, given the information on the ground.
Justified, justified, justified.
And this is what most Americans voted for in November of 2024.
They voted for mass deportations.
They voted for ICE-raiding cities, especially sanctuary cities, which hold up big signs that say this is where all the illegals are.
This is what people voted for.
I don't want to hear any counter signaling the administration on this.
I don't want to hear the squishes say, well, you know, really, they should have done it a different way.
They should have done it a different way.
How?
Should they have had fewer law enforcement officers?
Well, no, not exactly.
Should they have not arrested the illegals?
Well, no, not exactly.
Should they have worn different color uniforms?
What do you want them to do?
Wear a pink uniform, then you'd be happy.
Enough with this cowardice.
It's so ridiculous.
You know how I know that all of the Trump administration's actions in Minneapolis are justified?
The anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis are recreating ICE.
They're recreating Border Patrol.
They're recreating checkpoints and cops.
That's how I know it.
Everybody agrees, whether they want to admit it or not.
So very good answer from the vice president, which perhaps helps to explain why the president, Donald Trump, has just reaffirmed his endorsement, his quasi-endorsement for 2028.
We'll get to who and how he's endorsing.
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President Trump has just reaffirmed his endorsement, his quasi-endorsement for 2028.
Who's he going with?
Is he going with JD?
Is he going with Marco?
Yes.
Look, JD is fantastic, and Marco is fantastic.
How are they doing different?
And I do think this, it's a great question.
I think that's your most interesting question.
I would say one is slightly more diplomatic than the other.
I think they're both of very high intelligence.
I mean, they will do shows.
They will do Joe Rogan as opposed to the opponent not doing it because they couldn't handle it.
They will be able to do whatever they have to do.
I think there's a difference in style.
You know, you can see the style yourself, but they're both very capable.
I do think there's the combination of JD and Marco would be very hard to be beaten, I think.
But you never know in politics, right?
They say, in the age of Trump, you never know.
I love that point at the end.
In the age of Trump, past is not precedent necessarily, okay?
The models no longer exactly hold, but what he's doing here is reaffirming a quasi-endorsement.
Again, he's not saying, I am fully committed to a JD Rubio ticket for 2028.
He never seems to fully commit to any of those things.
He's loath to do that in politics.
However, this is basically that.
He's saying, yeah, I'm backing JD for president and Rubio for vice president.
And he's done that before.
He did that for the first time.
I think it was on Air Force One.
I think this is another third or fourth time he's mentioned this.
This is going to be very frustrating to some of the more factional activists in the right, which is always in a state of civil war, because some of the more factional type of people, and I've noticed this especially with the wing that was formerly never Trump, and then they opposed Trump in the primaries the next time.
And then now they seem to not like JD.
And I guess that makes sense because, you know, JD is the heir to MAGA, and some of these guys were never all that into MAGA, and they're always looking for an alternative.
So that makes sense.
There's always going to be a little division, especially on the right.
In many ways, that's one of the strengths of the American right.
So I don't even think that's necessarily a bad thing.
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We were doing this on Work from Home Wednesday where we would read an essay or a poem or a book or something to get a little deeper into a topic.
The thing that makes one a conservative, according to the British philosopher Michael Oakeshott, we were reading the essay on being conservative.
The thing that makes one a conservative is different than what makes someone a liberal.
Liberalism is a creed.
Liberalism unites around shared specific policies and a shared ideological creedal understanding of politics.
That's not really the case for conservatives.
Conservatives have all sorts of different views on policies.
You'll have hardcore conservatives who say we need to go bomb a lot of countries around the world and be a great big empire.
You'll hear people who also can sincerely claim to be conservative who say they never want to be involved in another war again.
You have people who say they're conservative, who hate protective tariffs.
You have people who claim to be conservative who say that conservatives need tariffs.
You know, they disagree on all sorts of policies.
So then is there anything that unites them?
Yes.
What unites conservatives is a disposition to prefer the real to the imagined, the limited to the unbounded, the practical to the utopian, present laughter to utopian bliss, in the words of Michael Oakeshott.
And so anyway, that's a long digression to say, yeah, there's always going to be this rancor on the right.
There's always going to be some divisions.
There's going to be a variety.
It's the spice of life.
And what Trump points out here is, well, you got two guys in JD and Rubio who really complement each other very well.
He says, you know, look, one of them is a little more diplomatic than the other.
No, yeah, yes.
The nation's top diplomat, Marco Rubio, is in many ways more diplomatic than JD.
Isn't that great?
You got Rubio, who speaks in a gentle way to just about everybody.
And then you got JD, who's a little blunter, who's a little tougher.
Well, good.
I want both of those things.
Both of them are highly intelligent, as Trump points out.
Both of them can hang.
Unlike Kamala Harris and Tim Wolz, who can't speak to themselves in the mirror, Rubio and JD can easily talk to Rogan for three hours, can really talk to anybody, and can do so intelligently.
Even physically, they kind of complement each other.
You know, Trump famously made fun of Marco Rubio for not being as tall as Trump and some of the other guys.
And JD is very, very tall.
But even there, there's a nice balance.
They even look kind of good together.
And crucially, it unites these factions.
The people who are a little bit more, I don't know, would you say, I don't mean this as a pejorative.
It's just part of the Republican coalition.
The people who are a little bit more moderate, the people who are a little bit more establishment, the people who are a little more opposed to Trump, I think Rubio makes them feel more comfortable.
And the people who are a little bit more populist, the people who are a little bit more inclined to the new political coalition that Trump helped build, which is what propelled the Republicans to victory, I think they kind of feel a little more comfortable with JD.
I think JD seems a little bit more, I don't know, avant-garde or something in that way.
Wouldn't it be great if you can bring those guys together?
You know, in many ways, it just seems like a better version of Reagan Bush, Reagan Bush, which existed to pull together two big factions for the Republican Party, the more populist, avant-garde, kind of, you know, hardcore wing and the more establishment, you know, clubbable country club type.
You bring them both together.
Well, I think Trump sees something here that's quite real.
And more to the point, what are the alternatives in 2028?
Who seriously could at the end of this decade-long era of Trump, who seriously is going to challenge really, it's Vance and Rubio at this point.
Okay, all the better if we could already unite, have some momentum.
I love it.
And Rubio's backed this up himself.
Vance has said very nice things about Rubio.
Rubio has endorsed Vance, basically.
Great.
Love it.
I know it's very odd to have unity on the right, but I'll take it.
Now, that ticket, I hope, is going places.
Speaking of going places, the MTA has gone viral for reserving a seat on its buses in New York for Rosa Parks.
There's a kind of an irony to this, isn't there?
Because the people who take the buses in New York are disproportionately black.
White people who take public transit in New York, they tend to take the subway.
The people who take the buses tend to be disproportionately black.
And the first seat at the very front of the bus right now, if a black person goes to sit there, the bus driver is going to say, hey, hey, get to the back.
You can't sit there.
That's reserved for this poster board or the ghost of Rosa Parks.
We'll get to that and what that means in a moment.
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The MTA holding a chair for Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks, who died some time ago.
Do we have the, where's the picture?
Where'd my picture go?
They took my picture away of the MTA chair for Rosa Parks.
There we go.
There it is.
In honor of Rosa Parks and National Transit Equity Day, please consider keeping this seat open.
We already mentioned the practical irony of this, which is now the buses in New York are not exclusively, but disproportionately for black people.
And now a black person will not be able to sit at the front of the bus.
They'll have to go to the back.
That's pretty funny.
But at a deeper level, what does this mean for New Yorkers, for what liberals believe?
This is a religious ritual.
This is a religious ritual that has been seen before.
If you've ever been to or heard about a Passover seder, what do the Jews do?
The Jews hold a chair for Elijah, just in case Elijah wants to show up.
Christians, we certainly are awaiting the return of someone.
Namely, we're awaiting the return of our Lord in the second coming.
And liberals hold a seat on a bus for the ghost of Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks, who, despite her virtues, of slightly less stature than the prophet Elijah or our Lord, who is God, Jesus Christ.
No surprise here.
The liberals take the traditional liturgical calendar where, you know, throughout the year we have feasts, we celebrate saints.
They get rid of that and they replace it with secular saints.
So we just recently celebrated the sacred feast, the high solemnity of Martin Luther King, peace be upon him.
The legend of these people has relatively little to do with who they actually were.
John Doyle over at the Blaze recently had a pretty good rundown of Rosa Parks and the whole stunt.
Because the stunt, not even taking away anything from Rosa Parks, the stunt was a stunt.
It was organized by activists.
And so it's not like she just, you know, her legs retired that day or she just walked onto the bus and said, I'm, you know, I've had it with this indignity, as the myth that cropped up around her would suggest.
No, no, no, this was planned.
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This was organized.
There were multiple attempts at it, actually.
And finally, she wound up getting arrested.
And then Rosa Parks went on to march with Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam at the Million Man March.
And she seemed to have some associations with communists.
And anyway, she was a radical left activist, no question about it.
But the point is just deeper than that.
I assume most people these days think that black people should be able to sit wherever they want on a bus, including in the chair reserved by the poster board of Rosa Parks.
But is this really going to be our religion?
This isn't my religion.
Liberalism is not my religion.
I don't, whatever virtues and vices Martin Luther King had or Rosa Parks had or any of these guys, any of the secular saints, that's not my religion.
These are not really the people I venerate.
Certainly don't worship them as the libs seem to do.
We got to get down to first things.
Liberalism as a derivation of and perversion of Christianity just creates its own replacement kind of Christianity, but it's just going to be weaker.
That's not enough to hold up civilization.
It's not enough even to maintain order on a city bus.
Okay.
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He was taken out of Royal Lodge, which is where he had been living because of the Epstein scandal.
You know, the guy ended up getting fired by his own mother.
So he lost his royal duties.
He's no longer a working royal, but, you know, he doesn't exactly have transferable skills.
So they've been trying to figure out what to do with him.
Now in this latest Epstein batch, it's come out that there's a picture of him crouching over some young woman, I think, maybe a teenage year old.
She might be a woman in her 20s or 30s or something.
Anyway, he's crouching over her at a dinner.
It's weird.
He doesn't look the most sober in that picture.
It's not good.
So he loses his status.
He's a laughingstock.
He loses everything, practically, in the world.
There are other scandals.
There are always other scandals, but there are other scandals going around being talked about involving impropriety, affairs, morally unpleasant behavior.
I mention all of this.
I won't get into any of those specifics, but Prince Andrew, this pretty much global news.
I mention all of this, not because it's salacious, not because I even want to delve all that much into Andrew's relationship with Epstein.
We'll get to Epstein in just a moment.
I mention this because it is a reminder that virtue and sanctity are practical concerns.
This is the real talk.
This is rubber meets the road kind of talk, all right?
We tend to think in modernity that virtue and sanctity, look, they're probably imaginary.
They probably don't even exist.
But if they do exist, you know, those are more abstract concerns.
We got to talk about what's practical.
You know what's practical?
You hear this on the left?
You hear this on the right, even from some of the hustler kind of guys on the right.
You know what's practical?
Making money and sleeping with chicks and getting yours and looking out for number one and just doing whatever you want to do.
That's what's practical, man.
You know, isn't that practical?
This other stuff is really abstract.
No, no, no.
Au contraire, mafrère.
Virtue and sanctity are eminently practical matters.
Had Prince Andrew not been palling around with Jeffrey Epstein, his life in every practical way would be much better today.
He would still have his house.
He would still have his job.
He would not have been disowned by his family.
Perhaps he would still have his marriage intact.
He would be able to make more money, for goodness sakes.
His life practically would be better in every way.
This is not to say that virtue and sanctity will go out and make you rich and get you a private jet or something like that.
No, no, no.
You will be hated.
If you really are pursuing a path of sanctity, you will face serious adversity.
Our Lord tells us, you know, they're going to hate you for my sake, but don't worry, they hated me first.
However, at a real practical level, I'm speaking even below the level of revealed religion.
I'm speaking even just of like the natural law and virtue, morality, the world order.
These are practical things.
When you do bad stuff, and sex stuff is the most obvious because it's so central to what it means to be a human.
It's such a powerful appetite.
But it's even beyond the sex stuff.
It can be, you know, the pursuit of money.
It can be vainglory, pride, envy, all the rest.
When you do bad stuff, it will practically make your life a lot worse.
Do not listen to the materialists and the hustlers and the cynics.
And not only are they wrong from the eternal perspective, they're even wrong from the temporal perspective.
Beware, beware.
Use Prince Andrew and others as a warning, as a real lesson.
Okay, now I want to get into Epstein.
Now I want to talk about the latest from Epstein because the Polish prime minister is making a real claim about Epstein that has raised some eyebrows.
I also want to get into the Catholic school that was just vandalized in SoCal that basically no one's talking about.
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My favorite comment of the day yesterday.
You know what it was?
I don't have one.
You know why?
Because in the morning, the producers send me the comments that they picked, and they'll pick five or seven comments from all the many, many comments on YouTube the day before.
And I looked at them today and I said, these comments were terrible.
Just terrible.
They just not terrible.
They weren't like offensive or wicked or evil.
They just were weak.
And so now I'm torn.
Are they weak because of the producers?
Did they just lazily pick random comments that weren't that good?
Or were they weak because of you?
You out on YouTube, you out there.
I don't know.
I don't want to point fingers yet.
Whose fault was it?
Whatever it was, the comments were not entertaining.
I did not like them.
Okay.
The Polish prime minister has just come out and alleged that Jeffrey Epstein was probably a Russian spy, a Russian spy.
We've heard he was Mossad.
We've heard he was CIA.
We've heard he was MI6.
The Polish prime minister comes out and says, no, no, no.
I think he was a Russian spy.
Donald Tusk told a government meeting he was going to establish a team to look into the numerous mentions of Putin and other indications of Russian links.
He says, I don't need to tell you how serious the increasingly likely possibility that Russian intelligence services co-organize this operation is for the security of the Polish state.
This can only mean that they also possess compromising materials against many leaders still active today.
Okay, so he says that it's the Russians.
Now, the Poles really hate the Russians for good reason.
If I were Polish, I would really hate the Russians too.
Okay.
So he says, well, I think it was the Russians.
And you know what?
There is some evidence from the files linking Epstein to Russia.
He may have been Putin's money manager.
He at least would meet with Putin.
Was he a Russian spy?
Now, there's other information in the files linking Epstein to Israel.
So this is according to a confidential human source.
So here, you know, maybe a little less authority than the prime minister of Poland.
This is just some anonymous source.
Could be true, could be false.
Remembered Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard professor who was the lawyer for Epstein, telling Alex Acosta, who was the U.S. attorney who was prosecuting Epstein in Florida and who later was labor secretary under Trump, telling him that Epstein belonged to both U.S. and allied intelligence services.
What are allied intelligence services?
Well, that's MI6 in the UK.
That's Mossad, that's others.
Alan Dershowitz was a Harvard law professor who the document says, quote, influenced many students from wealthy families, including Jared Kushner, who is the son-in-law of Donald Trump.
The document continues, CHS shared phone calls, CHS confidential human source, shared phone calls between Dershowitz and Epstein during which he slash she took notes.
After these calls, Mossad would then call Dershowitz to debrief.
Epstein was close to the former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, and trained as a spy under him.
Barak believed Netanyahu was a criminal.
So you have the former prime minister of Israel who hates the current prime minister of Israel.
So you see division even within the Israeli government.
No longer can we even say he worked for Israel.
It would have to be for part of Israel.
Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates are allied against Qatar, Turkey, Iran, and Syria.
One of the confidential human sources, Blank, who presumably worked blank, it's a long clear, asked the confidential human source a lot of questions about Epstein.
CHS became convinced that Epstein was co-opted as a Mossad agent.
Okay, so we've heard a lot of that before.
It's a little less solid if it's just this confidential human source, but maybe, I mean, there's evidence linking Epstein to Mossad and evidence linking Epstein to the CIA and evidence linking Epstein to Russia and evidence linking Epstein to MI6, I guess, and evidence linking Epstein to the Arabs.
And the evidence seems to suggest that Epstein was a spy in some sense for like everyone.
And I think this is what people don't quite seem to get.
I came out when I saw these files and I said, you know, there's no real big revelation here.
People say, what do you mean there's no revelation?
I mean, there's nothing in the new files that we didn't already kind of know or seriously suspect before.
He was working with this government or that government or might have been working with this government or that government.
The only real revelation to me comes from that interview with Steve Bannon in which Epstein doesn't seem that smart.
Now, you don't need to be super smart to be a trader on Wall Street, but he just doesn't, he doesn't seem that sophisticated when it comes to finance or science, which he was apparently interested in.
Now, what he was probably primarily is an influence peddler.
And so even when we call him a spy, probably it's more likely to call him spy-ish.
Do we think this was Agent Epstein reporting for duty, you know, trained in an underground lab?
I don't think so.
Because then it's unclear why he was working with these other intelligence agencies.
Probably he was an influence peddler who brought a lot of people together, who was useful to intelligence, who just kind of greased the wheels and kept things going, did favors.
So they're all going to look into Poland hates Russia.
They're going to call, they're going to accuse him of just being a Russian guy.
People who hate Israel, they're going to say he was just Mossad.
People who hate America are going to say he was just CIA.
Probably he was a spy for like everyone.
Okay.
Speaking of criminals.
Speaking of criminals, there's this terrible scandal in SoCal that no one's really talking about.
This is a Catholic school in Southern California was just attacked and seriously vandalized.
You had, where's the story?
Yeah.
Local news, KTLA, a statue of the Virgin Mary was defaced.
The tabernacle was defaced.
I mean, this is really, really bad.
It's a pretty traditional school, I think.
I think they have traditional Latin Mass.
And you're not reading about it all that much.
Local news report, you're going to hear it on this show.
You're not hearing about it in many places.
And it got me to thinking that anti-Catholicism might be the last acceptable prejudice.
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It's not that attacks on Catholics are the worst.
Well, I mean, personally, I find it to be the worst.
But it's not that they're the most prevalent.
The attacks on Catholics, however, are the least reported.
When there's an attack on a synagogue, there might be more attacks in synagogues proportionally.
But when there's an attack on a synagogue, it's reported everywhere.
When there's an attack on a mosque, it's reported everywhere.
Attacks on Catholic churches or schools, you just don't really hear about.
In Canada, in 2021, there was a 260% rise in anti-Catholic crimes.
It was not mentioned in the major news outlets, not mentioned.
CBC, Globe, Globe and Mail, despite all this general coverage.
It's not that they're the most prevalent per capita, the anti-Catholic crimes, but they do receive proportionally less media coverage.
Okay.
Speaking of schools, a school board member has just freaked out over an unacceptable slur being used for bums.
I'm personally offended by what was presented on so many different levels.
one thing i would like to see updated is the word homeless to unhoused i'm i'm not i'm not done can i I just don't want Mr. Berman to for this to be on him.
That's the way our state of California, that's the language that they use.
And that's their.
That doesn't mean that's the language we have to use.
Those are their entire statements.
And I just want to make sure that.
What's the problem here?
First of all, when this office holder says, you know, well, just because the state of California uses this language doesn't mean that we have to use this language.
First of all, you kind of do.
You really should because you're an office holder within this government structure.
But second of all, what I've heard this before, that the term unhoused is to be preferred to homeless.
In what way is unhoused any better?
I know there's this euphemism treadmill that Steven Pinker describes, which is that use a word for something, but if the something that's being described is defective or Unpleasant or undesirable as an attribute, then whatever the new euphemism is just takes on all of those negative qualities.
Then it seems to be offensive.
Then we have to come up with a new term.
In this case, though, when we moved, I mean, I'm old enough to remember when homeless was the politically correct term.
The old term was bum or vagrant or indigent.
And then they said, it has to be homeless, the homeless person.
But now they say, you can't say homeless.
You have to say unhoused.
Those are literally synonyms.
Bum and homeless are also synonyms, but they connote different things.
They have a different flavor to them.
They, you know, homeless just describes you as having been deprived of something, whereas bum implies moral agency.
But homeless and unhoused are both adjectives that both describe a state of deprivation with respect to the very same thing, namely a home.
They're identical.
So really, I think what the left means when they say, don't say homeless, say unhoused.
Or don't say, what they're really saying is don't talk about it.
Because in five minutes, unhoused is going to be unacceptable too.
Okay, there's so much more I want to talk about, but I don't have time because I have to get to Theology Thursday with my friend, special guest this week, Kirk Cameron.
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What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
Is that who you think I was alone with?
Maradin, I knew your father.
I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
All men know of the great Taliesin.
You are my father.
Are the gods war for my soul?
Princess Garris, savior of our people.
I know what the bull got offered you.
I was offered the same.
And there is a new pirate work in the world.
I've seen it.
A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.
We are each given only one life, singer.
No.
We're given another.
I learned of Yezu the Christ, and I have become his follower.
He's waiting on Earl, and I think you can give him one.
Trust in Yezu.
He is the only hope for men like us.
Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Life.
Great light, great darkness.
Such things mattered to me then.
What matters to you now, Mistress of Lies?
You, nephew.
The sword of a high king.
How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield.
So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.