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[email protected]/noles. Democrat Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sahed crossed the aisle to Fox News to assuage the fears of moderate Michigan voters that he might be too radical. So naturally, he compared castrating children to circumcision, acknowledged hating the Second Amendment, and endorsed Sharia law. Then, target comes under fire from the woke mob for featuring a black model in its Halloween costume selection, not, you're not allowed to hire black people, and the sent-a-millionaire owner of the San Francisco 49ers gets caught with a hooker in a trailer park. I'm Michael Noles, this is the Michael Noles show. Welcome back to the show, so much to get to, from mutilation, to circumcision, to hookers and Sharia law. First, though, I want to tell you about Bollum Branch. Go to BollumBranch.com/noles, there are two kinds of people in the summer. The ones who keep the thermostat at 72 and the ones who secretly turn it down to 65 in the middle of the night. That's my wife. 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I just think the government shouldn't tell you what kind of healthcare you should have, and if you're a minor, if you want to try and kill your parents. Now, if you disagree with that, if you disagree with that, if you disagree, that healthcare decisions need to be made by a doctor and their parents and a patient, then I just think we agree to disagree, but you know, you want to put government inside of you. So Abdul, you're a doctor, right? I am. So you think it's okay for a parent to slash his kids. You think that's okay? Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Yeah, yeah, but I mean, that's a personal question. Doctor, you probably should want to move on. You probably should want to move on. A circumcision's different than castration. I think it's a problem. It's a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor, and a patient. And I'm just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's dingling. So if you really want to bring that up, you can. I just think you guys are really selective about how I want to talk about these things. Abdul, Michigan's not going for that. That is sick stuff. Right off the bat, you know, this interview is going to be absolutely delightful. Mr. Olsiad, you know, people, they're a little worried about some of your radical policies. You don't really support castrating kids, right? Are you circumcised, Jesse? It's not whatever point you was trying to make. That is not the right rhetoric if you want to come off as normal, as unthreatening, as the kind of mainstream candidate. And the point that he's making is clever on the surface, but ridiculous underneath, which is true of so much of leftism. Jesse Waters brings up this big issue. And he says, Hey, your whole party has embraced lopping off the genitals of little kids, giving them cross sex hormones, permanently castrating them, damaging their bones, shortening their lives, pretending that a little boy is actually a girl. You don't support that, right? And Abdul Olsiad says, Well, have you taken part in a very mainstream widespread genital operation that does, I guess like technically speaking, a circumcision mutilates a genital, technically, but it's so different as to be not just different in degree, but different in kind, because circumcision is a religious practice of the Jews that was adopted by certain sects of Protestants, which is why it became popular in America. Most Christians in Europe are not circumcised, but in America they are. Good enough for our Lord, probably good enough for me. And what are the consequences of this? The consequences of circumcision are, I don't remember, but I'm sure it's a little painful when you're a little baby. And then the only other consequence is you're a little bit less likely to contract sexual transmitted disease. That's about it. And maybe it's a little easier to wash yourself. That's it. That is the consequence of circumcision, which is very widespread threat or culture for a very long time. The consequence of transiting a kid is that he will not go through puberty, he will become a eunuch, he will not be able to have children, and he will die earlier. So these are totally different sorts of things. Now, you got to give the devil his due. This might be the best answer that he has on this. So much of leftism is that. It's just trying to conflate unlike things such that you make this sort of false comparison, and you distract people from what is really an issue here. There is not a major movement against circumcision. We've had circumcision for a very, very long time, certainly in the Holy Land and then spread throughout the West. And that doesn't while up voters mutilating little kids and making them seem like the opposite sex that does. And so he's just trying to say, no, no, it's not that weird what we're doing. Even though these things are totally different in kind. Okay. So he doubles down on the least popular left wing position. Then Jesse hits him on the second amendment. You want to replace the right to bear arms with the right to health care. You don't want to replace the second amendment. Do you? Well, look, man, I think more people are more worried about whether or not they can see a doctor than whether or not they can have a gun. I'm just going to put that out there. I mean, you're dodging the question. Do you want to replace the second amendment? I'm just saying that more people are more concerned about seeing a doctor. If we had a right to health care in this country, they probably wouldn't. And I think that'd be a pretty good thing. Don't you? Here again, this is this isn't even more blatant version of his strategy from the first answer, which is just evasion. This is why I don't think, you know, we just want to give health care to people and I don't we don't really want to talk about the second amendment. We are and you say, well done. I want to talk about the second amendment. I just want to make sure that you, the United States Senator, if you become a United States Senator will not want to repeal one of my basic civil liberties and one of my basic constitutional rights. And he just filibusters. So we can we can take that, I think definitively, as proof that Abdul Al-Sahead would trans your kid and would take away your guns, take away your constitutional rights. But the craziest answer, the craziest answer actually was not the child and utilization answer. It was not asking the TV host if he had been circumcised, which it's also serves his kind of base purpose in that it's kind of winking at a little anti-Jewish rhetoric. You know, Jews are the main ones who do circumcision. So it's a little it's getting a little bit of that in for the anti-Jewish base of Abdul support. But the actually the craziest answer was when Jesse Waters asked him about his comments on Sharia law. We got back then. Okay, let's move on. You said getting rid of Sharia law was white supremacy. Let's roll the tape go. I don't have to tell you that the same exact forces that drove native peoples from their land two centuries ago destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago bombed the building decades ago and tried to ban Sharia law not a decade ago. Those forces are alive and well today. So getting rid of Sharia law's white supremacy, can you explain that one? Do you know, do you know what canon law is Jesse? I assume you're
Christian right yeah tell me all right so cannon law is the name for Christian law I don't begrudge you your right to practice your faith as you choose I don't know why the idea that I could practice my faith as I choose is a problem nobody is trying to push a real law on anyone else just like I hope nobody is trying to push cannon law on anybody else because we live in America where you should have the freedom of your religion and here we have it you thought the comparison of circumcision to castrating a little kid was crazy that is child's play compared to the answer on Sharia law he says well you know you're all worried about Sharia law but have you ever heard of cannon law well you know I mean we're not gonna get rid of cannon law so you know it's like shut up about Sharia law these also these are different types of law they come from religions that's basically where the similarities end it's not just that one is Christian one is Muslim they're different forms of the law cannon law is the law with which the church governs herself cannon law is prescriptions for how bishops administer sacraments cannon law for those who are not cannon lawyers out there which is statistically everyone cannon law says things like hey ministers when you are when you are administering a sacrament that involves oil the oil has to come from olives or similar plans and it has to have been recently blessed by a bishop that's what cannon law says Sharia law says that courts need to allow men to have four wives Sharia law says that the testimony of a woman is worth half as much as the testimony of a man Sharia law says men can initiate divorce women cannot in other words cannon law is an ecclesiastical form of law that is within the church Sharia law intersects with the civil law even in a confessional Catholic state on the order of the high middle ages the cannon law and the civil law are two totally different things but in majority Muslim states Sharia law just is the law it's just the civil law this is why in increasingly Muslim states we used to call them Christian states but then they became atheist they became liberal then they became atheist now they're largely Muslim in those states there are parallel systems of justice there's separate courts that go by Sharia law rather than the English common law or European law totally different absolutely apples and oranges and so I'm left with two conclusions from the interview one is Abdul El Sayed really is as radical as they say sometimes we Republicans we get high on our own supply we say that you know Joe Biden is the most radically leftist president ever and it's like effectively he is because he was just a rubber stamp for the radical left but he in his own person it doesn't really have any ideology at all he's pretty milk toast Abdul El Sayed however is really really radical and we've been talking on the show a lot about how Abdul has the schizophrenic campaign one day he's Chihadi Joe the next day he's like a Chippendale's dancer he's kind of playing up the gay stuff singing oh I want to dance with somebody like a musical theater kid and so you say well which one is he is he the gay millennial liberal or is he the the Wahabi soldier and the answer is apparently both apparently both because he is not gonna walk back transiting the kids one little bit then on top of that he has the regular wrote leftism of trying to get rid of your second amendment rights and then on top of that he's fully committed to Sharia law but the everyone's complaining about this guy and everyone's talking about crazy is and how insane it is and this will probably turn off a lot of voters I'm sure it will you do have to give him a little bit of credit for the political strategy even though he's bringing up circumcision all this kind of crazy stuff this is the best they have unless he is gonna have a sister soldier moment and say you know the radicals in my party have lost it and woke woke was crazy and specifically this is what I'm in a disavow of wokeness and I'm not a hardcore Muslim and Sharia law is bad and we should not implement it in Muslim majority communities in the United States what what a dear war Michigan unless he's gonna do that the best pitch he can make to voters is to hide what he believes and he did that somewhat successful is successful as he possibly could have but he's he's running the Abigail Spanberger campaign that's that's all this is the only the only difference between Abdul and Abigail Spanberger is a beard and a slightly duskier shade of skin there's a lot more to say first they're gonna policy genius dot com slash noles canter w l e s folks I want to tell you about policy genius at this point you can barely buy a toaster without being offered a protection plan we ensure phones flights concert tickets practically every minor purchase imaginable what about you have you insured you people regularly postpone protecting the income that pays for all of those things life 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twenty twenty three you thought it was over woke one was crazy you thought we're back in twenty twenty three we're chopping off kids genitals were canceling people in corporate America for alleged race crimes that don't even exist so this story is that target was selling a Halloween costume the real crime here by the way is selling a Halloween costume in august that is off that should be illegal according if if sharia law says that's illegal i'm going to vote for Abdul nevertheless they they're doing all these things earlier and earlier they put up the Halloween costume and let's see the Halloween costume the Halloween costume is like a jackal lantern kind of thing it's just like a black and orange generic Halloween costume this was racist how was it racist well because the the mob said that it it looked like a minstrel costume you know minstrel scene minstrel shows is this 19th and early 20th century form of entertainment where the way the popular story goes white people would put on black face dress up like sambo and do a song and dance routine making fun of black stereotypes and that's part of the story I mean you get al jolson one of the great performers in American history when the great movies al jolson comes out there says you know I love to sing about the moon and the june on the spring I'm going to get canceled for doing my al jolson impression but that's part of the story the other part of the story is that black performers were in minstrel see as well we'll get to that in a second regardless it's not a minstrel costume what about the they put up this picture of a minstrel performer with his hands in the air and they say see look the black the black kid who's modeling the costume and the minstrel performer are both doing the same hand gesture you say well the hand gesture has nothing to do with the costume the costumes are totally different they say no well but the minstrel performer looks black and so does the kid in the in the advertisement so okay so hold on your issue isn't with the costume you're not actually alleging that the costume is racist you're taking issue with the fact that target hired a black model that was the issue it's not the costume so you say okay target hired a black kid to and the black kid was waving his hands and this is somehow irredeemably racist so you say okay so the conclusion I have to draw is that corporations should not hire black people to model clothing they say no no no because if the corporation didn't hire black people to model the clothing that too would be racist if you hire the black person it's racist because of something and if you don't hire the black people as devilary racist because you're discriminating against the black people okay so then what's race is it that the hand gesture you're not allowed to wave well hold on I went on the target website I look at the other Halloween costumes we have we have a bunch of them that there are plenty of other costumes where the model is has his hands in a similar position they have one for the the flash they've one for spider-man they have one for a strawberry not a watermelon that would not be considered racist but a strawberry and spider-man's white last I checked the flash I think I think is white I don't so what's the issue the the issue is that woke is coming back and a lot of us predicted this we thought woke was totally defeated really by the 2024 election and it's not it's just laying dormant and aOC proved it when she said woke one was crazy but she wouldn't specify how so the left still believes all of that stuff and the left has the wins at its back right now because the Republicans control the whole government and the Democrats are very likely going to win the midterm elections so combine those two
You have an American left that has not learned a single lesson since the height of woke in 2022, 2023, and You have the Democrats and the brink of regaining political power Put those two things together and woke his back and you're already seeing corporate America Anticipating this, you know, there was a tweet from JD Vance that was people were posting a little bit yesterday that said Guys, Trump won we don't have to do this anymore and this was in reference to a prior controversy. This wasn't even about target And that's how a lot of us felt. We said oh, Trump won we don't need to worry about woke anymore. Yes, we do We obviously do in fact even beyond the politicians the markets are already anticipating the return of woke That's what that's what target Giving in on this says I mean here's targets apology and Apology from us. We pulled an offensive Halloween costume that should never have been part of our assortment It is no longer for sale as a company we got this wrong and we are deeply sorry We know this is especially hurtful for our black guests capital B Team members and partners removing this costume is an important first step And the company is looking closely at how this happened and what needs to change to ensure this won't happen again Notice what's missing from the apology. They don't explain what was wrong with it Well, it's wrong with it. I even saw some conservatives. I've been spoke to a conservative yesterday a pretty prominent one Who said oh, yeah, that costume was really bad is how? What's wrong with the costume? Can I give you my deep take on this actually? Can I give you the just before woke fully comes back? Maybe this is what we'll finally get me totally canceled Obviously the view that this is offensive and minstrelsy that's ridiculous There's another view which says no, it's not offensive because it's not minstrelsy But can we go to the deeper the deeper view is? Minstrelsy is a very important part of the American theatrical tradition. Am I allowed to say that? Minstrel shows are a very important part of the American theatrical tradition They were enacted by very talented black performers pretty frequently one comes to mind in particular is Billy Kursans Billy Kursans was this brilliant comedic performer from the the minstrel era up through the Raleigh Vaudville era He created the character of Antrimima, which also got canceled You will recall but that was Antrimima. It was so crazy when Antrimima got canceled That was a black character played by a black actress written by a black comedian But it was all canceled by liberal white people And then I'll go even further by the way in my defense of the place of minstrelsy and the American theatrical tradition It still exists and is considered totally fine and is actually applauded this to me This is the this is the deep level of what's so wrong about this target non-triversy Minstrel shows still exist. They're called Tyler Perry movies and that's not even just my opinion That is also the opinion of Spike Lee who was attacking Tyler Perry because he I won't use the exact phrase that Spike Lee used But he effectively accused him of promoting minstrel shows The same the same accusations were made of The Jefferson's which another phenomenal show or Sanford's son or good times or if he still exists and it's fine No one boy cuts Tyler Perry movies And no those have a much more plausible claim to minstrelsy than anything targeted so anyway All right, I'm getting getting off my soapbox. I'm getting down from my you know my love to sing it with my soft shoe and all that just pointing out the key aspect of this cancellation is the capriciousness That's the key here It's that it's arbitrary It's based on nothing the costume is completely innocuous The rule about what models you can hire. It's a damned if you do damned if you don't situation This is the market anticipating that the woke mob is coming back and they're coming back with a vengeance and The Democrats are very likely to win the House in the midterms and It's going to get bad and what are Republicans doing to stop it? We're fighting with each other. We're ignoring the threat It was ever thus. Okay speaking of kids I Have to get to this woman who went viral for Broadcasting her kid On social media in light of the Lindsey Clancy case. 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I would have been anticipating a blow up to be yelled at and berated But she remains calm Okay Rowing in her face she watches me work to regulate and watches for instruction She knows that she has nothing to fear and then no matter how frustrated I am I will always do blah blah blah She waits for instruction once I finish cleaning up We reconnect Far from perfect, but I'm doing much better than I was taught my parents are so bad, but I'm so good Okay Okay So do you notice the first thing wrong with this? On its face this is a good video because in the wake of the Lindsey Clancy trial this mother did not murder her kid So she's really good. That's the whole the whole thesis of the video is I'm a really good mom My kids spilled my coffee and I didn't murder her so I'm a really good mom and not only did I not murder her I didn't yell at her. I didn't I hit her. I didn't I regulated myself I and my daughter learned this and she's learning much better than I did because I had terrible parents and hate you dad Hate you dad. That's which is what all of liberalism boils down to and look at what a good mom I am Because I didn't kill my kid. Do you see the the first thing wrong with this the first thing wrong Is that she's filming her kid? Why is the camera? Why is the camera watching this scene? Did she just set her kid up to make a mistake so that she could do a performance for social media of how she didn't Hit her kid or something Was it all a setup? Let's say it wasn't all a setup. Let's say this woman is just a millennial white lady And she just films herself all the time Lot of red flags there, but let's say and they've happened to catch the daughter committing this heinous crime of spilling the coffee Why is she filming her kid? I have a I'd like to have an intervention with all of the women of all the different races and all the different ages But definitely among the millennials where this seems to be a big problem Stop filming your kids stop stop it stop filming your kids Stop taking pictures of your kids and then posting them to social media. It is I would say wrong Statistically 100% of the time to post photos of your kids to social media period But we'll get to what she did in a second posting pictures to a public forum of your little kids is wrong. Hey, sorry to be so judgey today I don't know. Maybe I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. That is wrong. Don't do that You should care more about the privacy of your child than you care about getting the updates from some weirdos and social media There are a lot of weirdos You know, there are a lot of people who are sick freaks and perverts who are gonna be looking at pictures of your kid Don't why would you give them that opportunity That's a crazy thing to do. I'll tell you why she gave them the opportunity because she wanted to be a movie star in a narrative about her heroism in her role as a mother So she is manipulating this daughter She's she's casting this daughter as the unwitting participant in this movie about what a good mom this lady is she's manipulating the girl's emotions All to get likes and updutes from some friends, I guess, and ultimately strangers on the internet It's just so disordered This is a woman who is mortgaging trust with her kid To get the adulation of anonymous crowds This is a woman who is trading the high-good of
of what would benefit her daughter for the very low good of applause from the mob. This is like all vice, I guess, really just about trading higher goods for lower goods. That's really what this is about. Even vice is not entirely just about bad things. When a guy goes to a hooker, and we'll get to that story in a second, 'cause the owner of the 49ers just got caught with a hooker in a trailer park. When a guy goes to a hooker, there's a lot of vice involved in that, a lot of addiction and commoditizing of human life and instrumentalizing human life and all the rest. But there is at least some kind of kernel of good there, which is the desire to love, albeit in this very perverse way. The desire to connect to another human being, albeit in this perverse way. There is something there, and it's not that there's no good instinct, it's just perverted and it's made decadent and vicious. Well, same thing here. Yes, it's good to have the love of a community, but the love of your daughter is more important than the love of a stranger. And to manipulate your daughter in this way, we always talk about stage moms. Are these the poor Hollywood kids, whose parents trot them around like circus animals and make a lot of money on them, usually steal their money? You feel really bad for the kids. Now, every mother with a cell phone is a Hollywood stage mom. 'Cause they're all, they're using their kids for content. So anyway, after I get off this soapbox, I was on a previous soapbox, now I'm on this one. If your wife is doing this, you need to confiscate her phone. And if you, for the ladies out there who are watching and listening, if you were doing this, a lot of people are tempted to do this. Oh, my kid looks so cute. That is like a good, that is a good inclination that is just being used for a bad purpose. You say my kid is really cute, and I wanna share this with the world. And maybe it'll show what a good mom I am, and maybe it'll show what a luxurious life I lead. It's like when millennials were younger and they just took pictures of their food at a nice restaurant, you do that, and you say, oh, actually, but that's not a good idea, 'cause I should protect my kids' privacy. I should protect their safety. They didn't ask to be famous. They didn't, maybe this is an embarrassing moment for them. Maybe I'm not, don't do that. Don't do that, stop doing that. Also, if you're a woman or a man, but it's mostly women, you're just constantly posting like selfies of your, that's a bad sign. What are you doing that for? Who's attention do you want? And for what purpose? Really, really bad. Just a totally, totally disordered loves. If Sharia Law bans this, if Sharia Law bans mothers filming their kids in emotionally manipulative situations, I'm gonna vote for Abdul. Abdul has my vote, okay. Now, speaking of cultural tension, a French conservative politician, Alec Zemou is going viral for telling a migrant that she's not welcome in France. Before we get to Alec Zemou, my favorite comment yesterday is from Marshall Kafer 238, who says that German politician is taking screwing your constituents to a whole new level, that's true. Yeah, the nudist German who wants orgies with his constituents, that's the most honest way of a politician screwing his constituents. Maybe that's something to recommend that, I guess. Okay, Eric Zemou, we turn from Germany to France. He's asked by, I guess, a migrant woman, if in his vision for France, people like her will be able to come and seek a better life. It's not possible. No. Zianse is no, and then actually Zemou reposts us. I don't know when this exchange took place, but he just posted it yesterday. He responds and he reiterates in text. He goes, Zianse is no. This calls to mind the answer of Pope Francis when that female journalist asked him if women can ever become priests. And Pope Francis had a reputation as pretty liberal, pretty progressive. Comes from Latin America, Jesuit, and all that. And so probably the female journalist thought there was a good shot, he'd say yes, and he just looks at her, takes a beat. And no. And no, no female priests, no, sorry. Can people like me come here to seek a better life? Zemou says no. This seems harsh. This will seem harsh even to many conservatives. They say, well, no, how could you say that to a person? No, they don't have a right to come here for a better life. Zemou is a very serious French politician. He didn't even win. He ran for president in 2022. He didn't, he didn't come in in first or second. But he is the head of a French political party. He's an important voice in France. And his answer is totally right. And here's why it's right. Even if, even if you don't literally believe that a nation should be totally closed off to anyone coming to it to seek a better life. Right now, the norm is migration. Right now, the norm is open borders. The exception is deportation. Even when you get a popularly elected president with unified government who was elected on a program of mass deportation, even under those circumstances in the United States at least, you can have one random federal district judge out of 700, put a halt to that program. It's so hard. It's hard to deport the violent criminal illegal aliens. It's hard to deport the Haitians here on temporary protection that expired 14 years ago. It's so, so hard to deport anybody. And so obviously, what we have to establish is the reverse of that situation. The norm has to be closed border. The norm has to be no migration. The norm has to be if you are here illegally or even if you're here legally, but you commit a crime, you are deported like 37 seconds later. That has to be the norm. Even if you want, especially if you want a situation where an exceptional case can come through. If you want that situation, you have to establish a norm of no. So it might seem harsh when Zimor says, no, sorry. But it's refreshing, I think, for a lot of people who see the situation with political clarity. And it underscores how difficult the immigration issue is. Even as we realize, we have the highest foreign-born percentage of the population ever. The very best of many of these immigrant communities are criminals, like we talked about yesterday in Minnesota. The guy who won the Somali Refugee of the Year Award from a Minnesota agency was a major fraudster. He was just indicted on eight felonies and maybe a sex trafficking ring. So it's just, the whole system is full of such corruption that you have to say, no, no, nobody gets in. And maybe just maybe there will be some exception. Based upon whoever happens to be the political ruler at the time, based upon the sovereign, I suppose. Okay, before we go, there is a story I have to get to speaking of men and women. The owner of the San Francisco 49ers. This is a very wealthy guy who's worth about half a billion dollars. He's run the 49ers for a long time. He owns the 49ers. He just got caught going to see a hooker in a trailer park in Ohio. The details are, he didn't even really contest it. He literally didn't contest it. He pled no contest. Now, he didn't plead no contest to doing whatever with a hooker. He pled no contest to lesser charges of disorderly conduct and possession of criminal tools. 'Cause he had his phone on him and I guess he had arranged this hookering counter on the cell phone. And then the disorderly conduct was was playing down this, this charge of prostitution. According to the report, he quote responded to an ad on a known prostitution website in Columbia on at County, Ohio, an arranged sexual activity with a female in exchange for 140 bucks. Now, just a slight digression. We've had a lot of discourse on affordability. You know, the Democrats have made a big deal about affordability in the midterms, talk about the price of burritos. 140 bucks seems pretty cheap. I don't know. I don't know the going rate for prostitution period. And I certainly don't know the going rate in a trailer park in Ohio. But that, for, I don't know the specificity of the acts, that seems like a pretty reasonable price for vice and crime. Anyway, sidebar that much as it does not be who've leftist politicians to bring up circumcision when they're talking about general mutilation. Probably it doesn't be who've anyone to bring up hookers when it comes to affordability. Nevertheless, he admits he did this. The guy that owner of the 49ers goes to the meeting location in East Palestine, Ohio, which was the site of that terrible spill. Remember a few years ago, I think he was taken into custody and he had his cell phone, so they caught him. Okay, what everyone thinks right off the bat is, why would he do that? Why would he do that? He's the man who has everything. He's rich. He is successful. He's kind of famous. He, why would, that is the last thing that a rich, successful, kind of famous guy should be doing. He has everything, but he doesn't have a hooker in a trailer park in Ohio. The question that they ask is, who in his shoes would do that? And the answer, the very uncomfortable answer that we should all recognize is basically everyone under the right circumstances. That's who. Drew has this great line that he's used for years, which is that every man is
two drinks and a wink away from ruining his life. The other great drew line on this, as he tells this joke about the guy who wants to have an orange for a head, I won't recite the entire joke, but the point is about the absurdity and depravity of human desire. Under the right circumstances, every single guy would go visit a hooker in a trailer park in Ohio. Even though that seems like basically the grossest thing you could possibly do, and it's so reckless, and you'd be giving away, so this guy's married, I think he's got kids. You know, this is gonna ruin all their lives. And yet, people do it. Remember Hugh Grant got caught with a hooker? Hugh Grant, at the height of his fame, darling of romantic comedies, gets caught with some hooker in a car. And apparently he got caught because he was pushing the brake too much, and the cops saw the lights going on and off. Just the stupidest behavior gets to something we were talking about on the show yesterday, which is that sin darkens the intellect. It delves the mind. St. Thomas' observation that there's no such thing as a smart sinner. The more you sin, the dumber you get. And so the political take away from me, I haven't even said this guy's name, 'cause I really feel bad for this guy that he ruined his life this way. You gonna look it up. I mean, it's a pretty big news story. But I just use him as an example because it gives us the political principle that if we're all kind of depraved, and we all have these disorder desires, some more than others, some differently than others, but we all got him to some degree, then the way to avoid his fate is to stop the vice before it sets in. That's the real issue. I promise you that this guy looks at a ton of pornography. I promise you that this guy does not have the most robust religious life. Not even to sound holier than now or superpious or anything. But at a very basic level, religious discipline, generally speaking, keeps you a few steps away from this. For a guy who never looks at any porn, controls his thoughts, averts his eyes when a woman is immodest, a guy who recognizes that idle hands of the devil's playground and he's going a daily mass, and for a guy who's doing all of these things, it's not that he could never end up in a trailer park in Ohio with a hooker. But the odds are much, much lower than they are for the guy who drinks a lot, who doesn't sleep very well, who rarely sees his family, who doesn't take his moral views very seriously, who doesn't ask God for grace, who all of those things are going to make it much, much more likely that you're going to engage in that. And so then the final point on this is there's obviously a role for the church here. There's a role in the community and impelling people to go to church and take their family live seriously. And but there's also a role for the government. If the government had shut down the hooker websites, this guy would not have found this hooker who was actually a cop. If we clamp down, if not outright outlawed, but clamp down a little bit on things like prostitution, that would not exist. If, I think most importantly, in this case, if we regulated pornography, so that guys weren't engaging in the stuff in these temptations in the first place. If we did all of that, the 49ers guy's life would be much better. His wife's life would be better. His kids' life would be better. The trailer park would be better. The whole political community would be better. And the only two forces that are stopping us from doing that are the left on the one hand, which supports all manner of vice, especially sexual vice. And the squishy right, which says that, you know, as long as he's not hurting anybody and he's not, you know, making me pay for it, he can go visit any hookers and any trailer parks he wants, you know, that kind of laissez faire neutral liberal view. But then we can't act surprised when this happens. And by the way, if you have a country filled with people who are going to hookers in trailer parks in Ohio, you're gonna have a bad country. 'Cause those people do not possess the wisdom, they do not possess the clarity of vision, and they don't possess the moral discipline to have self-government. That is almost explicitly the warning of our founding fathers and the framers of our constitution. Pity for that guy, so we should pray for him, you know, everybody involved his whole family and everything. But we should also do something about it politically. Okay, so much more I wanna get to it, but I don't have time. So, I will be back. You can see here, I wanna thank my friends at the Conservative Partnership Institute for hosting me here, I was in DC for an event, but I'll be back in studio tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael Nalsus, the Michael Nalsus. See you then. (upbeat music) [BLANK_AUDIO]
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