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April 22, 2025 - Tim Pool Daily Show
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SCOTUS Hears Case On LGBTQ Books In Schools As Nike FUNDS Trans Study
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libby emmons ▲ ● ▼
Hey guys, good to be back in the big chair while Tim is off at the White House doing really important things.
I'm going to be taking you through some news stories this morning.
It's a crazy day over at the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court is going to be hearing, I guess they've been in the middle of oral arguments for a little while now.
I think they start around 9.30 or 10. They're hearing a case out of Maryland about whether or not parents have the right to opt their children out of.
LGBTQIA lessons involving storybooks and things like that.
That's pretty interesting.
We have some declining birthrate stuff going on.
We knew about that already.
The New York Times, Michelle Goldberg has an opinion on that.
Apparently, she blames the patriarchy.
So, you know, that's new and exciting.
We also have...
Oh, wait.
I was going to go through...
Sorry, guys.
That was the wrong thing.
Anyway, I have a list over here.
We also have a...
Trans scientist working in Oregon who has teamed up with Nike to do essentially, you know, experiments on trans teens so that they can figure out scientifically if men are stronger than women, both after going through puberty and before.
So that's really exciting that Nike is funding that.
We didn't know that.
That came out in a New York Times piece that was basically a glamour puff piece about Blair Fleming, the trans San Jose state.
Volleyball player.
Drag stars are melting down in the UK about the Supreme Court ruling there that said trans women are not, in fact, women.
So that's interesting.
Nancy Mays had it out with a trans person.
We got to hear an incredibly low voice on that one.
It's interesting.
I don't know if you've seen that going around.
Colorado. Parents are worried because of a new law there that essentially prevents parents from knowing anything about their students' gender identity in schools.
A young woman spoke to her California school board and was in tears when they told her to wrap it up after she explained how unpleasant it was to get undressed in a locker room with a man watching her, which was one of her fellow students.
I have a political cartoon for you.
Political cartoons have been out of favor for a while.
We don't see them too much anymore.
I miss them.
I think we should all bring them back.
And then I want to talk a little bit about what's going on with Catholicism globally, especially in the wake of Pope Francis' death and what we have seen in America, which is largely a much more conservative Catholic population than what we see globally.
So Pope Francis was the first pope from the Americas.
I don't think we're going to see a Pope from the That would be pretty wacky, but there's a lot to unpack with that.
So we'll dive right into it.
I also want to thank Stephen Crowder for the Rumble Raid.
Very cool.
It's a nice community developed over on Rumble, and I'm glad to be part of it today.
So that's really great.
We can get started here with this Michelle Goldberg piece about MAGA proto-natalism is doomed to fail.
So we do have...
Lower birth rates in the United States, lower birth rates in developed countries.
We've seen that for a while.
As nations become more prosperous and there's more equality between the sexes and all of that stuff, we do see lower birth rates in part because people don't necessarily need children and they instead like to focus on themselves, right?
We create the God of the self and then we worship it and then we don't have kids.
Contraception, abortion, declining marriage rates, all of these things are big contributors.
And so what we've seen is...
The Trump administration came out with a plan, much like some of the nations in Europe that are seeing declining birth rates, and I think even China had a plan like this, where they essentially pay women, I think Russia, Hungary, essentially pay women to have children.
You know, it's like a child tax credit, except you get the cash up front instead.
So I don't know what you guys think of that.
I'm not really opposed to it because I think for too long the government aid has been giving a leg up to people whose marriages are destroyed, people who don't create a family.
And so why not try and reverse that trend?
Well, Michelle Goldberg over at the New York Times has her own perspective on it.
And, you know, she goes all through.
She hates Trump anyway.
But this is the part that I thought.
Where it was interesting.
Let's see, where did it go here?
She says, if Trump really wanted to arrest the decline in America's fertility rate, which reached a historic low of 1.62 births per year per woman in 2023, the best thing he could do was resign in concert with his entire administration.
The crude chauvinism his presidency represents is a major impediment to the creation of healthy families.
Okay, so Michelle Goldberg.
You know, can't put too much stock into anything she says.
But I do think it's amazing that she managed to come up with this perspective because what she's saying is Trump is the problem.
Of course, they think Trump's the problem for everything.
We already know that.
But she's saying that Trump is the problem and he's the reason people haven't been having families, even though, you know, this historically low birth rate, first of all, happened.
Under Biden, there was COVID, there was all of this other stuff, and it's been declining for some years.
So what is it that Michelle Goldberg thinks will happen if Trump were to resign or if, you know, J.D. Vance, if he runs in 2028, doesn't win the presidency?
What status quo is it that Michelle Goldberg really wants to see?
Well... We can get into it because it's what we've seen for the past few years.
She wants us to see probably this piece from the Post Millennial that I actually wrote last night because I knew I was doing this show today and I wouldn't have time to do it today.
You know, if there's any typos, it's entirely my fault.
But Nike and trans scientists have been working on a medical study on trans teens to see if men are stronger than women.
This is Joanna Harper.
Joanna Harper is a man.
Joanna Harper was speaking to the New York Times for an article about Blair Fleming, who is San Jose State's trans volleyball player.
Basically, what was revealed in that story was that Harper and Nike are working on this study.
So Harper said to...
Harper said to the New York Times that the current climate makes the study somewhat uncertain.
So the Times author, this was like a whole big magazine piece, said, I assumed she was referring to the Trump administration's cuts to the National Institutes of Health Research grants, but she said money was not the problem.
Of course, she, right?
Even though it's obviously, I mean, it's a man.
Harper said money was not the problem.
The study is being funded by Nike.
So this is a tweet from Jennifer Say, who is the founder of XXXY Athletics, who pointed this out, and that's where I heard about it and went digging and wrote it up, who said,
buried deep in today's article in the New York Times Magazine about Blair Fleming, Why is Nike funding this study?
Why is that at all a reasonable thing for the sneaker and apparel company to be doing?
Why do they want to make sure that prepubescent boys...
Boys are even with prepubescent girls when it comes to athletic competition.
Boys are typically stronger, right?
You have your, like, here and there, whatever exceptions that prove the rule.
But boys are stronger.
They're typically taller.
They definitely have more muscle mass.
Why is it that we're so obsessed with this?
It absolutely makes no sense that this is what Nike should be doing.
And Harper is clearly not the person to be involved in this study.
Harper says the idea of retained advantage, meaning the advantage that a man gets from having undergone puberty or being a man and then transitioning, the idea of retained advantage is something that has been postulated for maybe five years and is certainly true.
Then Harper says, the vast body of evidence suggests that men outperform women, but trans women aren't men.
Harper said.
And so the question isn't, do men outperform women?
The question is, as a population group, do trans women outperform cis women?
And if so, by how much?
So this hypothesis that Harper is bringing to the forefront of this study is already riddled with lies.
And yet Nike is funding that study.
So this is something that Goldberg would like to see continue.
We also have, in the UK, we have Drag Race Stars meltdown.
This is out of Fox.
Drag Race Stars meltdown over UK Supreme Court's landmark ruling on legal definition of woman.
So this is something, if you watched last week when I was on, we talked about this.
The UK Supreme Court said, you know, trans women are not women.
Men aren't women.
And you can't say that they are.
It's just not real.
They figured that out.
But these drag stars are really upset about it.
And they're in drag.
So they are men.
And they know they're men.
And they get all dressed up.
And they do whatever kind of entertainment.
I don't know if that's your kind of jam or whatever.
That's what they're doing.
And so they won season run season one runner up Davina DeCampo said the fight back starts today.
We will not go back into the shadows to make you comfortable F all the way off.
So having a bunch of men in dresses demand that women are not women and men are women.
That's another thing that I guess Michelle Goldberg wants to see upheld as the status quo.
She must be really into that because otherwise, you know, she wouldn't think that Trump is the problem.
One thing that I never understand is how the liberal writers who complain about Trump and the patriarchy don't realize that having a bunch of men tell women the definition of women, like, isn't that sort of much worse patriarchy than a guy coming home and being like,
hey, babe, what's for dinner?
You know, like that.
That seems far preferable to being told who you are and what you're about by a bunch of fellas wearing really rather excessive eye makeup, don't you think?
It's really a lot.
It's pretty extreme.
So that brings us to this next story.
I don't know if you guys saw this on Twitter.
This is from the Daily Mail.
Trans activist jaw-dropping voice change leaves Nancy Mace lost for words during heated.
So Nancy May, South Carolina congresswoman, was out there giving a talk.
She was approached by a trans person who wanted to tell her that using the T word that ends with a Y that I think we're not supposed to say.
Or can we say it?
You can't say it.
Okay, so I'm not going to say it either.
But anyway, using that word...
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On Rumble, it should be fine.
libby emmons ▲ ● ▼
Oh, are we on Rumble?
unidentified
Yeah, it should be fine, actually.
libby emmons ▲ ● ▼
Oh, thanks, Kellen.
Nancy May said tranny, which I guess you probably all figured out anyway.
Thanks, Rumble.
Thanks, Kellen.
So this is interesting.
We could just watch this clip and see for yourself.
This clip is shared by Sal Grover, who is a women's rights activist.
I think in Australia.
Yeah, definitely Australia.
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we go.
libby emmons ▲ ● ▼
So, a couple things about this.
One, I think Nancy Mace could have been a little more gracious to this constituent.
I think we should all be gracious.
We're all struggling all the time.
I mean, life is really, life is difficult, even when it's easy.
It's, like, not that easy.
So, you know, I think the congresswoman could have been more gracious and shown a little more Mercy in that moment, you know, every life on earth is an opportunity to experience God's grace, something that I fully believe.
But what's interesting is that this person went up there to tell the congresswoman, like, you know, you can't say words that I find personally offensive, and then evidenced in their own person that what Mace was saying, that men aren't women,
was, you know.
Accurate. So I just thought that was worth playing.
The voice drop is pretty wild.
And I don't know if Mace has gotten a lot of pushback on Twitter over this, but probably from Goldberg's perspective, the man in the sundress is the one who should be held up as the example as opposed to the congresswoman who has ended up being sort of,
you know, quite the advocate for...
Women not being crushed by, you know, whatever the opposite of Michelle Goldberg's patriarchy is.
The one that's actually out there.
This one is something, this next story I really want to get into.
The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments this morning.
If you've never listened to the Supreme Court's oral arguments, you can listen on their website.
There's a link there.
And it's fascinating.
They don't allow video in.
And they used to not allow any audio.
The only people who would hear the...
The arguments would be the people that were in court and that's why Supreme Court reporters were so important because they'd have to like show up and get there and sit in court for hours and hours and take meticulous notes and then write it up so we could all understand what was going on.
But now you can hear it.
I think it was in COVID that the court changed their...
Rules about that because they wanted to make sure that people could come in since they had all of those stupid masking, six feet limits, or what have you.
So you can actually listen to the court's arguments and you get to hear both sides.
So in this case, we'd get to hear the attorneys who are arguing in favor for the parents and you'd get to hear the attorneys that are arguing in favor for the school board and the school district.
And you get to hear...
The justice's questions, which don't always give you an adequate understanding of how they might rule.
And people are always trying to predict, obviously, like, oh, Thomas said this.
And Thomas doesn't talk that much, even though he's one of my favorites.
But you don't always know what they're going to rule.
But it's interesting to hear how much they've dug into these cases.
So I'm told that the Supreme Court has read all of these books.
These books include Love, Violet, Born Ready, Jacob's Room to Choose, What Are Your Words, Intersection Allies, and Pride Pups.
These are all books that were part of the curriculum in a Maryland school district, and parents did not like it.
Most of these were religious parents.
You had some Catholic parents, some Orthodox parents, and some Muslim parents, which, interestingly, all these people teamed up and said, hey, these books go against the religious faith that I'm trying to teach my children.
You can't teach them in school.
We need an opt-out.
The school board was like, okay, sure.
We'll give you an opt-out.
Everyone was happy.
Then basically the next day, the school board came back and said, you know what?
Actually, we can't give you an opt-out.
It doesn't make any sense.
It's too messy and confusing to like...
Pull a kid out of class, and then just because we're teaching this book, plus we never know quite when these books are going to come up.
It could be any time.
They're just part of story time.
So, you know, because this is lower school.
So no, you don't get to have an opt-out.
So now it has landed at the ultimate appellate court, the Supreme Court, where these arguments are going to be heard.
It's actually, the parents brought this under, saying that it violated the free exercise clause of their religion.
I think that's pretty interesting, and I wonder what the Supreme Court is going to decide.
We're not going to hear anything for a while.
The court's going to hear all their arguments for a couple of months, and then...
You know, for their whole term, and then they're going to release arguments in June.
And I always think that's an amazing time in June because they announce, they say, this is when we're going to be releasing decisions.
They don't tell you what decisions are going to be released.
And so me and the staff at the Postmillennial, we're always like, oh, they're releasing decisions.
What's happened today?
We get very excited.
About what decisions they released.
There's a couple that were waiting on pins and needles.
This is definitely going to be one of them.
So if you want to be in charge of whether or not your children learn that sex is mutable and that you can just change your sex if you want to, this is definitely the case to watch.
I don't know.
I didn't actually get to listen to the arguments today.
I'm probably going to listen to them later, you know, while I'm making dinner or something.
But the justices have been reviewing these books and the parents had sued the school.
They said that to participate in instruction contrary to their parents' religious convictions violated the free exercise clause.
So I'm not entirely sure.
How this is going to go down, obviously.
But it does remind me of when I was a kid and we had a – there was a big debate.
This was the 80s.
This was a Massachusetts public school.
And there was like this debate over whether or not there could be prayer in school.
Now, of course.
That's been decided in the courts, whatever, whatever.
But at the beginning of the day, we had a moment of silence.
And prior to the moment of silence, it had been a moment of prayer.
And their question was, can there be a moment of prayer?
Eventually, the answer was no.
It had to be a moment of silence.
I remember getting into a disagreement with my friend Eva, whose family was from India, about this.
And I think her family was, I think they were Hindu.
And so we eventually, she and I agreed that a moment of silence seemed totally fair.
There was also disagreement about whether or not creationism could be taught in schools.
And so eventually, in my classes, we learned that Christians believe in creationism, and that's what this is.
And evolution is this other thing, and that's Darwin.
And once you start putting those all together in your head, it kind of makes sense.
You're like, oh, well, no one...
No one knows how God came up with his method and what he did, so who knows?
Anyway, I think it's interesting.
I think it's a similar kind of situation.
I also don't see any reason for books like these to be taught in schools.
There's so many good books out there.
There's so many books.
There's so many amazing things to learn.
If it were up to me, in lower school, as far as storybooks go, you'd be reading Grimm's Fairy Tales, the originals.
You'd be reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's books for children.
He had these short stories that were like retellings of old fables.
You'd be reading Greek myths.
I think that's what we should be studying.
And, you know, a lot of old British books because they did children's books really well.
Probably Michelle Goldberg would be really into keeping all of these books in schools because...
Trump is the problem, not the complete degradation of our values and moral structure as a culture at large.
What else do we have here?
Oh, this is fascinating, too.
We have Erin Friday, who is a woman from California who has been an activist in this space, and also Erin Lee from Colorado.
They went on and spoke with Harris Faulkner about what their...
What they're dealing with and this bill in California.
They call it a totalitarian bill on trans and it's been pushed through the Colorado State House.
And what happens is that if you misgender or deadname your child, you're going to be brought up.
on charges with the Child Protective Services.
They're going to come investigate you.
If you're going through a divorce, which we already know the family court in the United States is a total disaster, if you're going through a divorce and one parent affirms and the other parent is not on board, the judge will basically automatically give the child to the person who's affirming.
So Erin Lee said, this is giving the authority to our state.
So it's got huge ramifications for all parents, especially those in custody situations who are fighting with their ex-spouses to stop their children from being medicalized.
It opens the door for all parents to potentially have their children forcibly removed by the state if they're not willing to affirm their child's mental health distress.
I think this is something that all parents should be worried about.
what's going on here, and this has happened in California and some other places as well, is you have legislators redefining the very concept of abuse to include misgendering, to include calling your child the name that you gave them when they were
absolutely –
This is absolutely insane that this is going on.
And it's still going on under the Trump administration.
Trump has been very vocal about this, as has his administration.
They've been doing a really good job.
But you still have all of these states who are bucking back against it.
Why are they bucking back against it?
It's not logical.
It doesn't make any sense in actual reality.
But, you know, they just are so Trump deranged.
That they have to push back against every single thing.
I don't know if you guys saw, I think it was David Brooks.
Was it David Brooks?
And the Times last Friday.
And yes, I read the Times every day.
I read the Washington Post every day as well as the Daily Mail and the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post and whatever else comes my way, a whole bunch of newsletters.
But yeah, we had, I think it was David Brooks calling for an uprising against the Trump administration saying, go after him in every conceivable way.
There are over 100, I think it's over 100 cases currently against the Trump administration for all kinds of things, including trans sports in different states.
You have Maine, California.
New York, Minnesota, all of these places allow this.
And the Trump administration is going hard against it, as well they should.
And meanwhile, they're trying to run the world.
You know, fancy that.
And you have Democrats going after Pete Hegseth, which, honestly, you look at their reasoning, they just really want to get a scalp.
And kudos to Trump and Caroline Leavitt and the rest of them for not giving them that scalp.
And I hope they...
Stick with Hegseth because the numbers, the recruitment numbers are up.
Pride among military members is up.
And these are people in whom we should all be proud.
And we should want them to be proud of their service.
Because our lives all pretty much kind of depend on it.
So, you know, I think that's a good thing.
We can jump into this next story as well.
And I want to show you guys this.
This is a young woman who was...
At a school board meeting in California.
And it's pretty...
I'll let her tell it in her own words here.
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Hello, my name is Celeste Deist.
I am 17 years old, a junior and track athlete at AGHS.
Most importantly, I am a woman advocating for the renewal of female rights, which recently has been overlooked and disregarded.
I implore all of you to help put an end to this current injustice.
Recently, I went into the women's locker room to change for track practice, where I saw at the end of my row a biological male watching not only myself, but the other young women undress.
This experience was beyond traumatizing.
I must add, he is not changing in our locker room, because he's in his track clothes dressed and ready to go to practice at the beginning of the day.
Therefore, there's absolutely no reason for him to be in any locker room, let alone the women's.
Adults like yourself made me and my peers feel like our own comfort was invalid, even though our privacy was and still is being completely violated.
The individual who identifies as female has XY chromosomes biologically Please, this makes him a male.
Because females have XX chromosomes.
This is basic biology.
Okay, please wrap it up.
libby emmons ▲ ● ▼
Please wrap it up!
That's crazy!
unidentified
I just want to ask, what about us?
We cannot sit around and allow our rights to be given up to cater to an individual that is a man who watches women undress in a stripping away female opportunity that once was fought for us.
Sadly, we have to try and regain our rights again.
I hope you put effort into the restoration of our school's safety.
thank you for thank you
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She got a big round of applause there, and I have a lot of respect for her going before the school board to say that.
Could you believe that they told her to wrap it up?
I just think that that is just totally beyond the pale.
I can't even believe that they did that.
And that these girls are still having to fight this fight, even though Americans gave Trump a mandate on this stuff.
You remember the video?
Campaign video that the Trump administration put out was like Kamala Harris is for they, them, Trump is for you.
I don't know how these people still don't have it through their heads that reality exists and you can't just change reality because you wish it to be true.
That's something that we all should have learned in lower school and instead these people want to teach the exact opposite of all of that.
This young woman is fighting against this, and I don't know.
I don't know if she's going to win or lose.
We're going to have to see what happens.
But yeah, how can you say that Trump is the problem, Michelle Goldberg, when everything that's going on that is status quo is hurting our kids, it's hurting our country?
And it's making it more difficult for families.
Trump isn't making it more difficult for families.
All of this nonsense is making it more difficult for families.
We can jump into this next story.
Meanwhile, America is a really lonely place.
And most places across the world, MAP reveals the loneliest countries in the world and America's shocking standing.
This is from the Daily Mail.
I was looking at this this morning.
In a lot of places around the world, the elderly are the ones who are the most lonely.
But here, it's middle-aged adults, 50 and up.
That's basically like your Gen X crowd and a little bit older than that.
But that's what we have going on.
We have created a society where family doesn't matter, where people primarily move away from home.
We have created a society where it's routine for people to cut their parents off.
We have an elderly generation at this point, the boomers, who are still finding themselves.
They're still running around the world trying to figure out who they really are.
They don't care that much about their kids.
They probably didn't really enjoy parenting.
And they gave us a whole bunch of divorces, you know, as someone who's, let's see, my parents are both divorced multiple times.
My grandparents were all divorced.
Sadly, I ended up divorced.
None of these are, these are not good things.
You know, this legacy of chucking it all in when things are really difficult, no matter how difficult.
I mean, some things are difficult enough you have to chuck it in, but like, it's kind of at the point.
We are creating a situation where all of us are just living alone in our little spaces.
We don't have any kids.
We are disconnected from our families and parents.
How many people live within walking distance of their cousins?
I think about that and that seems kind of like paradise.
I would love to live within walking distance of my cousins.
Of course, they're all 12 years younger than me, which makes that a little difficult too because I was 12 when they were all getting born.
But anyway, I think it's really a shame.
That we're creating this loneliness.
We're creating this dissociation.
And this is all for a generation, 50 and up.
What did they tell us when we were all kids?
Follow your dreams.
Follow your heart.
But what they didn't tell you is that it'll lead you to be entirely by yourself with everyone separated and all over the world.
No real connection to where you came from.
None of us really have any roots.
I'm sure some of you do.
And like, you know, that's awesome.
But where are we even from?
You know, if I were to say like I want to go home for Christmas other than my house, there's nowhere that is like the home where I would see everybody.
There's a couple different places.
I'd have to go to California to see one brother, Boston to see another brother.
I'd have to go, you know, different places in New England to see family.
And there's family that I don't even really know anymore, so he even knows we're there.
It's loneliness.
Scientists from Emory University in Georgia studied loneliness rates across 29 countries among individuals 50 to 90 years old.
There's a general perception that people get lonelier as they age, but the opposite is actually true in the U.S., where middle-aged people are lonelier than older generations.
I just, you know.
I think that's really sad, and I hope that this is a kind of trend that we can reverse.
I certainly do not wish that upon my son or his friends, all of whom are, you know, kind of great kids.
We can jump to this next story.
This is a woman who is definitely fighting loneliness as best she can.
Australia's most sexually active woman, Annie Knight, keen to bed hundreds of American men with her move to Hollywood.
I read this story this morning.
I'm sorry to admit it.
I read the whole story.
She's engaged.
So she's engaged to this guy who's like, oh, that's just what she does for work.
That's great, babe.
I don't think that's great.
And I think that this plan to come to the United States and sleep with as many men as possible, it just feeds into this horrible situation that we have going on.
How many of these 50-year-old guys who are super lonely are just going to line up for this kind of service?
Would you call it a service?
Anyway, here she is.
She wants to join those other two British ladies.
Oh, there they are.
Bonnie Blue and Lily Phillips.
Oh, they want to have sex in space.
Thank you, Daily Mail.
That's sad.
And her boyfriend gave her a diamond ring worth $120,000.
I just...
She's not worth it.
That's not a woman who is worth a $120,000 diamond ring.
She's definitely cheating on you already.
What kind of mother is that?
Why is this the woman you want to bring in?
I just don't understand.
I don't understand.
I'm sorry.
It's just...
This is the status quo.
This is the status quo.
Women traveling around the world to be as super slutty as possible while trailing along some, you know, some pathetic man who thinks that he's like the apple of her eye when, I mean, the truth is, that's just not the truth.
Anyway, that's enough.
That's enough with that one.
I don't even know how we can, yeah.
Oh, here's the political cartoon.
Where is it?
Here it is.
Yeah. I don't know if you can see this.
Can you guys see this one?
Anyway, the hill they're dying on.
We have the donkey, the Democrats, with their big D symbol.
CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, ABC, CBS, Washington Post, all propping them up.
And what is he standing on a pile of?
He's standing on a pile of bones, endless wars, MS-13, censorship, all kinds of horrible things.
I wish the bottom was clear.
Open borders.
All the rest of it.
How is it that this is what the Democrats think the thing is?
How do they think that this is what is good for all of us?
That this is what is good for the country, the world, themselves?
I mean, we know they don't have any children, so I guess they're not worried about that.
But like, this isn't even good for your endless mimosa brunch.
You know, you're going to have criminals wandering around stealing your handbags like they did to Kristi Noem the other day.
At Easter.
Did you guys hear about that?
Three grand.
She had three grand in her purse.
I don't know why.
My grandfather was from New York, and he always said he wasn't in the mob.
Anyway, I don't think he was, but he's my grandfather, so why would I think that?
But he eventually...
He used to carry cash around all the time and he would carry like a grand around with him all the time.
And then he got mugged one day and that's when he stopped carrying cash.
That was in something like, I want to say like 89. I think he was coming out of the trade centers way back in the old days.
So, yeah.
But I think that's a good comic.
I think it really nails it.
And I would love to see more political cartoons.
If anyone out there is a political cartoonist and wants to run political cartoons, reach out.
Because I would totally run political cartoons at the Postmillennial if there was a good cartoonist who was able to work in some good ideas on that.
And then, finally, what I wanted to talk about was some Catholicism.
We had the Pope die.
He experienced his final Easter.
Died the next day.
You kind of feel like he just willed himself to get through the final Lent and the final Easter.
And now there's going to be a conclave.
He was a very progressive pope.
He has appointed, I think he appointed 108 of the 130 cardinals that will be in the conclave to determine who the next pope will be.
Which is a really good indication that there definitely won't be an American pope.
I wonder if there'll ever be an American pope.
But it's unlikely that they'll pick someone who's particularly conservative.
But conservatism and conservative religious practices is what a lot of Catholics are looking for.
And it's what a lot of Christians are looking for these days.
And this is something I was talking to my dad about the other day.
I went to a service.
Last week at my church, and it's called Tenebrae, was the service.
I'd never experienced anything like this before.
The priest had announced it the previous week, and I thought, oh, now I'll check that out.
And it was a service that involved Gregorian chanting.
So, I mean, that's already a huge plus.
It had a youth choir doing Gregorian chanting, and the kids, like, took turns who was conducting.
They're already learning music and Latin and acapella and chanting.
I mean, come on.
Like, so many wins already.
But the service was, they call it canticles.
It's like the singing part.
And in between each thing, there were a huge amount of candles.
In between each thing, one of the altar servers would put out a candle until eventually the entire church was in darkness.
Then there was this huge, loud sound to represent the crucifixion.
Of Jesus.
And this is like this ancient thing.
This is this medieval ceremony that was done in the old churches.
Now, in Catholic churches, there's a lot of things that are medieval, like when they ring the bell, that was essentially to wake everyone up in medieval times, to keep people paying attention.
There's a lot of that kind of like little stuff, the incense, you know, that's all part of it.
It's ancient stuff.
But this is what...
People who are religious are looking for.
And this is what even people who are coming to faith now are looking for.
And you see the numbers, and you've heard a lot of people talking lately about this resurgence of faith.
And then the detractors, you know, probably Michelle Goldberg would say something like, well, it's not like the numbers were in the 60s and 70s.
We're still not like that.
But in those decades, people forced their kids to go to church.
That's a much smaller number of people now who get forced to go to church, you know?
I force my kid to go to church, but there's not that many people that do that.
I'm the only one of my friend group that forces their kid to go to church.
Yeah, yeah, I'm literally the only one of my friend group that forces their kid to go to church.
Everybody, oh no, my one friend also, but she has four kids and she's Protestant, so you know, who even knows what's going on there?
Anyway, she's great.
My point is, people are looking for more conservative religious practices.
Catholics in the UK are set to exceed Anglicans for the first time since the Reformation due to younger churchgoers.
There's a quiet revival in UK Catholicism, especially among those age groups referred to as Generation Z and younger millennials.
We've seen polling.
This is something Charlie Kirk has talked about as well and has been very instrumental in his college tours.
We've seen that the younger generations are skewing more conservative.
And they're skewing conservative before they get married, before they finish college, before they have kids, before they have a mortgage, which are all usually indicators of a person moving more conservative.
But they're doing this ahead of that.
They're sick of all this stuff.
They don't want it anymore.
They don't want pride puppies shoved down their throats.
They don't want to know their teacher's pronouns.
They don't want to hear about how they have to take a step back and let go of their ambition because someone else is more deserving of it based on their skin color or economic circumstances or whatever.
They don't want to hear about how the world is going to end in 12 years since the last time you told them that.
It, you know, it totally didn't happen.
They're sick of it.
They don't want it anymore.
They're giving it up, and they're moving.
Back to faith.
Why? Because it's one of the only things that can actually really give you solace in this brutal world.
Our report, says Dr. Rhiannon McAleer, our report does not challenge the well-established fact that fewer people in England and Wales are choosing to identify as Christian.
However, it is the first large-scale study to concentrate not on self-declared Christian identity, but on actual Christian practice.
By this measurement, the church is an exciting period of growth and change.
So whoever comes in as the new pope is going to be heading a church with a new batch of people who are leaning more right, who don't want this progressive agenda.
As part of their lives anymore.
Ideally, they want to have families, reverse some of these birth rates, create family units, create roots, put down roots, be part of a place.
Maybe it's possible to follow your dreams where you are.
Maybe you don't have to roam the continents until you figure out who you really are on the inside.
Maybe you can find out Who you are on the inside by being part of where you're from and by making that place your home.
I kind of hope that that's true as someone who lacks the roots that I thought I would have.
You grow up and you think like, oh, when I grow up, I'll have a house and I'll be married and I'll have a dog and whatever else.
And it turns out those are the hardest things.
To achieve.
Those are the hard things, you know.
Getting a master's degree, that's comparatively very, very easy.
So, you know.
This is out from the Wall Street Journal.
As Catholic Church enters new era, conservative U.S. members push it right.
J.D. Vance is new to Catholicism.
He's pushing things a little more to the right, personified
Vance, who was baptized in the cabin.
He met with the Pope on Sunday, just one day before his death, which is actually kind of, I feel weird about that, you know.
Personified by Vance, who was baptized in the Catholic Church.
Also, I guess it's a blessing.
In 2019, at age 35, adherents to this conservative style are reviving old practices, including the traditional Latin mass and women wearing veils.
While their numbers may still be small among the universe of Americans who identify as Catholic, they are increasingly influential, say observers, in the struggle for the church's future and the nation.
The conservatives are more likely to be kneeling in pews on Sunday and managing parish affairs while others stay home.
Their worldview has found purchase in the Trump administration's policies, be it the introduction of sweeping terrors, blah, blah, blah.
I don't know if y'all are churchgoers, but at my church there's definitely more women wearing veils.
Veils were necessary.
They were like what was worn when my mom was a kid and went to church.
She's like very anti-church now.
But she said she preferred mass when it was in Latin and you had to wear veils.
And now that that's coming back, she still hates it.
So I think that was just some kind of excuse to not go under the reformations of Pope John Paul II.
But I think it's interesting.
It's like...
After all of this freedom, right, the boomers with their whole hippie vibe, do whatever you want, free love, you know, it's all whatever, vibe together, garbage.
We want boundaries.
We want restrictions.
Within restrictions, you can find freedom.
A great example is the Shakespearean sonnet, right?
You have a sonnet or different poem structures.
And now, like, you have a poem.
It's just like, it's whatever.
It doesn't have to rhyme.
It doesn't have to have any meter.
It just has to be like a little bit ephemeral and like then you get to call it a poem.
But more traditional forms, iambic pentameter, sonnets, you know, even a haiku, these things have guidelines.
And so you have to express yourself within given boundaries.
You know where those boundaries are and you're not all over the place.
You don't, you know, it's like...
It's like if you're baking a cake, you follow the recipe, and then, yeah, you can do whatever you want in how you decorate it, but if you don't follow that recipe, you're not going to end up with a cake.
You're just going to end up with a whole giant mess, and you're not going to be able to put icing on it because it's going to be all over the place.
I don't know if that's much like the church, but it's no wonder, given the conservative angle.
That the Catholic Church and Catholics in the United States are taking.
It's no wonder that we saw
Joe Biden an FBI that was targeting Catholics, targeting conservative Catholics who like to go to Latin mass and saying these people are extremist.
If it's extremist to believe in a family unit, if it's extremist to put your faith in God and try your best to not be a total degenerate, then I guess all Catholics
are pretty extremist.
but yeah,
I think we're going to see a new era in the church, and I definitely...
It's definitely a turning point.
So Pope Francis' funeral is on Saturday.
And shortly after that, I guess, I don't know when the conclave starts.
I know that we're covering that at human events today.
But I don't think...
I don't think we...
I don't think we wrote it up yet.
But you can check back and you can see.
So that's pretty much everything I got for you today.
And we can go through the chats.
Is that what we do next, Kellen?
Talk about the chats?
unidentified
Yeah, we've got about 12 minutes.
So yeah, we can interact with the chat for the rest of the time.
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Let's do that.
I mean, unless you guys want more stuff, I can go find more stories.
I'm sure we've published a lot more stuff at the Post Millennial.
Wait, let me just check real quick and see if we have any breaking news.
I'm going to check our Slack.
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Right at the end, we'll be rating Russell Brand.
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Oh, cool.
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So we'll be sending everyone listening over to Russell Brand in about 10 to 12 minutes.
libby emmons ▲ ● ▼
Okay. I'm just going to tell you guys a couple other things because I did go off on the thing that I found most interesting this morning.
But there is some other news.
The Trump administration has reversed course on Biden's student debt relief.
Only 38% of borrowers are current on payments right now.
So Trump is going to be expecting people to...
Jump back in.
I know that I felt like a complete fool when I kept making my student loan payments, and then they kept talking about getting rid of student loans altogether.
I was like, oh, good.
Well, at least I wasted a ton of money.
Carmelo Anthony's an advocacy group for him.
He's the guy who said that he stabbed Austin Metcalf at that track meet in Texas.
He's been moved, apparently, to an undisclosed location with permission of the judge because of Death threats.
In Canada, Carney's liberals have a seven-point lead over the conservatives.
Harvard has sued the Trump administration over the frozen federal funding.
And that Minnesota state employee who was arrested for Tesla vandalism is going to be avoiding jail time through a diversion program.
So that's lucky for him.
And also, illegal border crossings across the U.S.-Canada border have dropped.
By 95%.
Most of the illegal border crossings between the U.S. and Canada are between like, I think they call it the Swanton sector, and it's like Vermont, Maine, New York, that sort of area.
That's also, I think, the most populated area in Canada.
Yeah, okay.
That's all I got for new news.
I don't see any other new news.
What's everyone doing?
Well, I guess I'll figure that out.
Oh, a Brazilian woman was charged with killing her ex-boyfriend's son with poisoned Easter eggs.
that's great.
unidentified
Thank you.
Okay. Let's talk chats.
libby emmons ▲ ● ▼
Hey, chats.
It goes so fast, you know?
People are talking to each other.
That's cool.
Someone says Jesus was a practicing Jew.
Yeah, for sure.
Why not?
Justice is dead.
Those attacking Teslas, no jail time.
I think that's a little dodgy myself.
But he, of course, worked for the state of Minnesota, which is also a little dodgy.
Harvard is a giant paperclip individual thinker.
I don't know what that means, but that's cool.
Libby, you rock on your own.
Well, thanks.
Paul Blart, 270, got student loans, can't find a job.
A thousand resume submissions.
That sucks, dude.
You know, that sucks.
Someone says, cigar mode says, get a Bible and go to Mass.
Your soul needs it.
That's literally true for all of us.
The grace is there for all of us.
Look at me proselytizing from Tim Pool's chair.
That is not usually his jam.
Sorry, guys.
Canadians, Canada's parasitical cities, G-D-M-F-S-O-B.
Someone asked if I was really the host of Post Malone.
Well, you know, it's not a...
I know that that's sarcasm, but I'm the editor.
Christianity didn't start until the Holy Spirit came to rest on the disciples and they went out and spread the word of Jesus.
That is...
Danny 066.
Yeah, that's a pretty marvelous thing, Pentecost.
Libby, get married and have more babies.
There are no more babies in my future.
Maybe grandbabies.
Which, my goodness, that is my number one prayer.
It's like, please, God, give me grandbabies.
Not soon, necessarily, but I wouldn't say no.
Let's see.
Prosecute the colleges and lenders for defrauding minors, says Midnight in Exile.
Yeah, that's a great point.
I think that, too.
The The more money the federal government Gave to Students in terms of borrowing And taking out student loans The more money the government gave students The higher the colleges raise their tuition Absolutely
I mean, my parents went to college and then they went to law school and they could like afford it.
They afforded that.
My high school was like thousands and thousands of dollars a year and then so was my college and then my grad school.
Like, totally stupid.
I mean, I was, you know...
I have this idea.
I had a very academic-focused sense of self.
But, you know, it's predatory to have a tuition, like $60,000 a year.
And then you're asking 18-year-olds, like 18-year-olds want to go so bad and they write their stupid diversity statements and their student essays and they work really hard to get into the school.
Then it turns out their parents have to, you know, there's limits on financial aid.
There's limits on scholarships.
You're not always going to get it.
You take out these huge loans.
And then before you know it, you're trying to pay off a mortgage but with much higher interest rates and you can't get a job like this guy said in the chat.
Like, that is such crap.
Colleges and universities are for something with a bunch of asterisks in it, says GuitarMG.
I assume that's derogatory.
And you're probably right.
The Trump-like Australia Party is saying they will give free university, but that just means taxpayers, right?
Says SensitiveSoul29.
Yeah. Yeah, that was the whole Joe and Dr. Jill thing, right?
Free college for everyone.
And it's like...
How stupid do you feel if you took out a bunch of student loans and then not only do you have to pay your student loan back, but you can't get a job.
You can't pay a mortgage.
You can't even get a mortgage.
And now your tax dollars are going for somebody else to get a free university degree.
And the thing is, once you have universities that are free, that degree is worth nothing.
It's not worth anything.
Like, it's pointless.
I remember when...
College started being more widespread and, you know, you'd go to try and get a job and they're like, oh, you want to work at McDonald's?
You must need a college degree.
And then after everyone had a college degree, it was like, you must need a grad.
You have to have a graduate degree now.
And it's like, okay, all right.
So now I've bought two houses with borrowed money and I can't pay it back.
Absolutely, absolutely so bad.
Individual thinker.
I saw Seattle go down crap hole during Obama.
And the Libs pretending it's all normal, man.
Yeah, and that was after, what was it, the Battle of Seattle where they busted up the Starbucks for, you know, being anti-globalist.
And now those same groups that were anti-globalist, what was that, like in the 90s or whatever?
The anti-globalist groups.
Who were saying all that stuff, they have now morphed into being the globalist group and they complain that USAID isn't funding everything in the whole world anymore because now they think that's what you're supposed to do because, you know, they own nothing and they're unhappy,
but I guess they want the rest of us to be unhappy too.
I'm from Oregon and California and Washington.
I used to love Seattle.
It's so sad to see what happened to my old city, says Freight Shack R55.
I kind of feel that way about New York, even though I still love it.
Vocational schools.
Yeah, that makes sense, too.
Because it's like that.
Was it a South Park?
Where it, like, fixed the oven door?
Do you remember that one?
Anyway, I think it was South Park.
I'm sure I'm wrong.
But it turns out they can't fix anything on their own, and they need to call in the handyman.
And the handyman rolls up in this limo, and that was the episode where my son was like, Mom, maybe I should be a plumber.
And I was like, you know, that's not bad.
He also, it didn't hurt that he saw me have to write a fat check to the plumber when we had like a whole problem at our house and had to fix it.
And he was like, damn.
And I was like, yeah, for real.
Definitely, we need the vocational people to do the things that the rest of us are too foolish to do.
It's like Jasmine Crockett's out there saying we done picking cotton.
Well, we're not done, you know, fixing toilets.
Unpopular opinion, says Seamus.
Seamus, I guess.
Seamus? But that's not how you spell Seamus.
Maybe it's how you spell your Seamus.
Unpopular opinion.
Forgive all the student loans and cut taxes to zero for people who already paid.
The infusion into the economy and turning of voters would be huge.
That's an interesting idea.
All the churches are teaching false religions.
Well, you know, you're going to ask Satan.
That's the kind of answer you're going to get.
What else?
Don't forgive loans.
Forgive the interest.
Yeah, it's not unreasonable.
Also, I like the idea of making the schools and their giant endowments pay.
Harvard has a $53 billion endowment.
Columbia has a big endowment.
Plus, Columbia has a huge amount of property in the Morningside campus and all around.
Huge amount.
I mean, billions of dollars worth.
And I see no reason.
I see no reason why they shouldn't pay this stuff off.
They're the ones who got everyone to come to school with the promise of their gender studies and arts degrees and whatever else, speaking as someone who has an arts degree.
And then it turns out it's not just that you can't get a job in your field.
That's not the issue.
The issue is there aren't any jobs in your field.
getting students to borrow thousands and thousands of dollars in loan money so that they can study something for which there are no jobs.
A lot of these people, the only jobs that exist in their field are academic.
You can go teach somewhere else.
And now you're just more part of the problem.
And now you're siphoning off money.
So basically, I guess what I'm saying is the university system is a pyramid scheme.
I think that's probably true.
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libby emmons ▲ ● ▼
I don't know what you're talking about, but...
Sure. Loan forgiveness is not a thing.
The debt just gets paid by someone else.
Yeah. Namely, the taxpayer says, Cancun me now?
Is that what that is?
You guys go so fast.
It's too bad the Catholic Church doesn't adhere to God's word.
Blah, blah, blah.
Sure. I mean, religion is made by mankind.
It's never going to be perfect.
But that doesn't mean anything bad about God or faith.
Student loans don't require collateral.
That is a thing.
Yeah. Libby, Tim, most female speakers.
I don't know what that means.
It's not the salesman's fault for selling you a stupid degree, says Huey Casey.
Well, sure.
Where's Tim?
Tim is at the White House.
Tim is at the White House doing stuff.
I believe he's interviewing Kristi Noem.
Yeah? Yeah, that's pretty cool.
That'll be very interesting.
I hope you guys all tune in when that airs.
No, he's not on vacation.
He's doing other work.
And so I get to annoy you guys.
unidentified
If you guys want to see behind the scenes, just go on the Timcast News X account or Tim's X account.
See what they're doing today.
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Yeah, you should totally do that.
I'm going to do that as well.
I'm excited to check it out.
And I'm glad to help out while Tim wants to, you know, pursue even bigger projects, which I think is great.
And that can only help you guys because he'll bring more people here, more interesting people.
Definitely worth it.
I don't have a beanie.
I look weird.
I do.
But I look weird in a beanie.
So I tend to only wear it when it's cold.
You know?
Yeah. How old am I?
I am old enough to not answer that question, XMusic2001.
Did he find her purse?
I don't know.
Noam? I did say Noam.
It's Noam?
Like, Noam?
Oh. Well, you know, color me shocked.
I got that wrong.
But yeah, says Seamus, keep writing checks to every foreign project.
Well, okay.
I love that you guys all have such feisty opinions.
That's great.
Stop welfare.
I think we're done.
unidentified
Wait. Yeah.
I'll get this raid started if you want to give it your outro.
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Yeah. Do we throw to...
unidentified
Russell Brand.
libby emmons ▲ ● ▼
Russell Brand.
Raid Russell Brand.
Go watch Russell Brand.
And then you'll have a great rest of your day.
I don't know what you guys are doing if you're sitting at your job doing stuff.
That's what I used to do.
I used to watch podcasts and listen to them while I sat at my day job.
Have a great day, guys.
unidentified
Where can they find you?
libby emmons ▲ ● ▼
You can find me at Libby Emmons on Twitter.
Thanks, Kellen.
And for the rest of the day, I'll be at thepostofmillennial.com and humanevents.com.
And also, I'm going to be on Jack Posobiec's Human Events Daily at 2.15.
So I gotta hustle.
Get out of here.
Thanks, guys.
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