Ep. 2069 - The Pope MOGS Modernity And Liberalism In France

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So there's still hope, even though things are looking a little rough right now, there is still hope that the Democrats are simply too crazy to allow themselves to win. I'm Michael Noles, just the Michael Noles show. Welcome back to the show and stop wherever you are whatever you're doing. Have you seen Run-Hide Fight Infidels yet? No, you have to watch it because it is somewhat farcical. They turn it up to 11. It's very wild. It's madcap. It's extremely entertaining. Only daily wire subscribers get to see it, dailyware.com/subscribe. But also, it might be a documentary. You could also call Run-Hide Fight Infidels the Democrat Slate for Senate and governors in 2026. You got the jihadis. You have the trans communists. You have the jihadi trans communists. Anyway, so go check it out, dailyware.com/subscribe. Really great news. Before we get into all the bad political news, there is some really good stuff. France, speaking of jihadis, France has had some troubles over the last 250 years. France, the eldest daughter of the church, also the site of one of the worst events in the history of the world, the French Revolution, France, which is just always gumming everything up, spreading secularism, inviting all of the Muslims to come and take over the country. It's France. We renamed French fries. That's how irritating the France became. And yet, even in that decadent, liberal, secular, riot-filled, increasingly Islamic France, the Pope shows up and everybody is filled with awe and wonder. The Pope shows up, he holds an open air mass on the Chancelis A, upwards of a million people showed up. I think it was like 700,000, maybe more people just lining the streets of France. And I know a lot of people are worried because they think that recent pontificates have been kind of liberal. They say, oh no, the Pope is going to go there and he's just going to talk about how we need to welcome even more Muslim immigrants. And we need to have even more liberal policies. And that's not what happened. The Pope, I'll just get through a few highlights of this brief official visit to France, the Pope takes square aim at an increasing scourge, a particularly left-wing policy, taking over the West. That is assisted suicide. I know that for some of you, because of particular illness, at times terrible pain, your horizon may appear dark, uncertain and without hope. But no human law should ever make you lose the certainty of your dignity. On the contrary, it is precisely in the name of this inalienable dignity of the human person, that we must reject the temptation to cause death under the guise of false compassion. It is impossible to regard causing death as something normal. What is legal is not necessarily moral. Beautiful. He goes on, those are just the highlights. He's talking about assisted suicide, which now kills 5% of the Canadians who die every single year in America's evil top hat, which has been legalized throughout Europe and which has led to that story we talked about. Even what was it? Four days ago, five days ago, medical assistance in dying, euthanasia against the patient's will. Euthanasia against the patient's will is called murder. You see, hear these stories out of Amsterdam, out of Belgium, of elderly people, mentally handicapped people, poor people, depressed people who are being killed. They're being killed by the state because the state doesn't want to pay for their medical care. We're told that the left, all they want to do is offer us free health care. The free health care is a lethal injection. And the Pope shows up and the Pope who is this little bit of a reputation as kind of a liberal. He shows up to France, this seat of European liberalism and he goes up and he says enough is enough. This is always immoral, always unacceptable. The intentional killing should never be considered a normal thing. In certain cases, it might be justified, like in the case of a just war, in the case of self-defense, in the case of double effect. But this should never be considered normal. And by the way, just because something is legal according to the civil law does not mean that it's moral. So he's taking aim at this positivist vision of law that says that if legislators put their name on a piece of paper that somehow something becomes illicit in the true sense. Beautiful, profoundly conservative, deeply Christian, very, very important. He's completely right when it comes to assisted suicide. He then, on the Champs Elysée, he decides to hold mass. And who does he choose to serve at mass? In the Catholic mass, we have altar servers. He chooses six people with Down syndrome. And why does he choose the people with Down syndrome? One, to affirm the dignity of every human being, including people with mental disabilities. But two, because not only is he taking aim at assisted suicide, killing the elderly mostly, along with the mentally handicapped and the desperate, but he's also taking aim at abortion. Because in France, 96% of people who have Down syndrome are murdered in the womb, by the people, by their mothers, with the sanction of the state. And so what does he do? The Pope shows up to France and he says, I'm choosing the survivors, the people who survived being murdered with Down syndrome. I'm going to choose them to serve at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The most important thing, we Catholics believe, in the entire world, in the very presence of God himself, body, blood, soul, and divinity in the Blessed Sacrament. Beautiful, beautiful statement from the Pope. Then what you'd expect in modern France, you know, if you were to show up and do some kind of mosque service, if you were going to play that, you know, ah, cold to prayer, you'd expect that would fill the Chancelisei. But no, no, no, this was mass and all the people show up, almost a million people, as far as the I can see. If the Chancelisei were longer, there would have been more people. Then also on the Chancelisei, you have priests, not the Pope, but priests just showing up sitting on little blocks and chairs, hearing confessions and all these people coming up and giving their confessions. Who knows, some of these people might not have been to confession in months or years or decades for that matter. Going up, hearing their confessions, which comes from the gospel when Christ says, I give you the Holy Spirit, you have the power to forgive sins, who sins you forgive or forgiven, who sins you retain or retained. This is where the sacrament of confession comes from. And the priests are just doling out God's grace and God's mercy. Oh, in France, you never thought you didn't think this was possible to happen, maybe anywhere in the world today, but especially not in France. And then the cherry on top, cherry on top of the Sunday. The priest shows up and he prays at a staircase that commemorates the clergy, the religious, martyred by the French Revolution. So this guy, the Hutzpah, dishoved to France to say your policies are evil. They're completely immoral. I don't care if your legislature passes them. They're completely evil and immoral on abortion, unassisted suicide, not just France, but all of Europe. By the way, your revolution was evil too, which it was. The French Revolution was one of the most evil acts ever in the history of the world. So he goes and he prays at this staircase for the martyrs of the French Revolutionaries, those who were martyred by the French Revolutionaries, I should say, and the open air mass took place at the Place de la Concorde, which was the site of the executions by guillotine in the French Revolution. When the Catholic monarchs, the king and the queen were executed by the liberal revolutionaries, this, okay, what do we take from this? Even if you're not Catholic, what do we take from this? I can't help but notice that all of these empires have tried to destroy the church. The French Revolution was fought to destroy the church in no small part. The Anciel regime, which was taking aim at the monarchy, but also at the church. The people who sat on the right of the national assembly were the defenders of the monarch and the church. The people who sat on the left of the national assembly, it's where we get political right and left from. They were the ones who took aim at the monarchy and the church. And after that revolution, two, almost 250 years later, The revolutionary governments fell and fell and fell. How many republics have we had in France thus far, but the church remains firm. How about the other empires that tried to destroy the church, the Soviet Union and all of the Soviet Union satellites throughout the 20th century? They tried to destroy not just orthodoxy in Russia, but also the Catholic church. And guess what? They failed. The Nazis tried to destroy the Catholic church. They failed. Half a dozen Islamic caliphates over history tried to destroy the Catholic church. They failed. The revolutionary France, as I mentioned twice, really took aim at the church the first time around and in the third republic. All the descendants of all the liberal polities that came about because of the French Revolution. Let's go back a little further. The Roman Empire destroyed, tried to destroy the Catholic church. Guess what? The Catholic church remains. The Roman Empire is long gone. Spanish republicans, right? We call them the republicans. They were the communists in Spain that happily Francisco Franco defeated. The Spanish republicans were murdering priests, raping nuns, doing all manner of evil, trying to stamp out Catholicism. Guess what? They got stamped out instead. Several English monarchs, Oliver Cromwell, the Mexican revolutionaries, the Italian nationalists, on and on and on and on and on. How many political powers have said it's over? The church has done the age of mystery and mysticism and superstition. They call that's over. And now we have this enlightened form of government and guess what, they all met the dust and the church remains. There's really inspiring stuff. There's a lot of bad politics going on right now. And yet, you look at that and you say, "Goodness gracious." Maybe God actually does have a hand in history. Maybe he actually controls history. Maybe it's all going to end up all right despite a lot of trouble in the meantime. Okay. A lot of people have questions back. I mean, because Catholicism is really on the rise in France. Others are way, way up, year-over-year, 35 plus percent increases in baptisms year-over-year. It's happened. We're seeing this happen in the United States too, but especially in France. And so in the U.S., Catholicism also was dominating the headlines last week because of the beatification of Fulton Sheen. I mentioned him at the very end of one of the shows last week, but it's created a lot of chatter on the internet because of one of these kind of weird things that Catholics do and other more traditional flavors of Christianity. But Catholics are really known for it, which is we have a relic. So Fulton Sheen was a bishop. He had a TV show, life is worth living. Big, big hit TV show. He was the first hella evangelist. He died many decades ago and now he's been beatified. So that's another step on the way to being canonized to Saint. And as part of the beatification and the mass and ceremony, the church showed his jawbone. They took his jawbone from this dead archbishop and they put it in a reliquary and people venerated this relic and a lot of modern people say, this is freaky, man, it's weird. Some are accusing it of being idolatry or pagan or something, but others are at least saying it's kind of weird and but everybody's talking about it and we will get into why we venerate the jawbone of televanjolists. First though, I want to tell you about good ranchers. There's a lot more to say. First though, go to goodrangers.com/noles. The hamburger might be the most American food ever invented, which makes it a little bit ridiculous and increasingly the least American thing about your hamburger might be the beef and more likely to get American buns and cheese and mayonnaise and do you put mayonnaise on your burger? I do sometimes. It's kind of decadent. 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That's better for me because then that means there's more good ranchers for me. Now, your first order comes with a free four pound bundle of 100% American Angus ground beef at GoodRanchers.com/Noles. That's GoodRanchers.com/Noles. People are really weirded out. I'm not, but some people are really weirded out by the fact that at Archbishop, TV Star Fulton Sheen's Beatification, his jawbone, like his lower jaw was put on display and venerated as a holy relic. That makes sense for a guy who is best known for broadcasting and evangelizing and speaking and preaching that his jawbone would be the major relic that is put up for veneration. But a lot of people think it's really weird. They say it's a modern innovation. It's a tradition of men invented by the Catholics in the Middle Ages or modernity and it's freaky and it's pagan and it's whatever. I won't get into the whole story of it, but there's really a political point to pull out here, even beyond the religious aspect. Where do we get the idea of relics from? Where do we get the idea of relics from the Old Testament, the bones of a Lysha, which heals someone when he touches the bones? We get it from the New Testament where people are touching Christ's garment and they receive a kind of power where people are touching cloth to St. Paul and sending that out because they believed that the physical carries some kind of importance, some kind of significance even for our faith. Don't forget Christianity, unlike the pagan religions, unlike a lot of modern spirituality. Christianity is incarnate. One of the main things that distinguishes Christianity from all the other religions is we believe that the physical really matters. The central fact of our religion is the incarnation when God takes on flesh and dwells among us and is really crucified. The Muslims deny that Christ was crucified. They say in the Quran, they crucified him not. When Christ is bodily resurrected, Judaism says that Christ was not bodily resurrected. It's interesting that the two errors around Christianity that you get from Islam and from Judaism are both different aspects of the passion and the resurrection. One denying the crucifixion, one denying the resurrection, but they both have to do with the body. They say, "No, I cannot be the case that God has a body and that He died and then the body was resurrected." It's just not possible. And yet that is the central fact, the central claim of Christianity is that God shares in our human nature, that He comes to save us by taking on our human nature, alike us in all ways except for sin. And so the body really, really matters. And for people who are freaked out by Relic since I'm very relic-filled, I'm very pro-relic, but for those who are a little freaked out by it, you have to ask yourself, where does this come from? Does it come from some weird superstition in the Middle Ages? Does it come from a pagan practice? No, one of the earliest examples that we have available to us comes from the martyrdom of Polycarp. Polycarp was a disciple of John the Apostle of St. John. Polycarp is martyred in about 155 AD. And we have the text, the martyrdom of Polycarp that was written shortly thereafter. Here's what the martyrdom of Polycarp says, the earliest Christians, some of the very earliest Christians did after Polycarp was martyred, says, the centurion then, seeing the strife excited by the Jews, placed the body in the midst of the fire and consumed it. So the pagans cremate Polycarp. We'll get to cremation in a second because that also created some controversy. But the pagans cremate Polycarp and so else left his his bones. And we are told from the second century, earliest Christian communities. Accordingly, we Christians, afterwards, took up his bones as being more precious than the most exquisite jewels and more purified than gold and deposited them in a fitting place wither being gathered as opportunities allowed us with joy and rejoicing. The Lord shall grant us to celebrate the anniversary of his martyrdom, both in memory of those who have already finished their course and for the exercising and preparation of those yet to walk in their steps. So one of the earliest Christian texts that we possess, regarding one of the most important early Christian figures, who is a disciple to John the Apostle himself, describes the veneration of relics. And this confounds us because a lot of what passes from honor Christianity says this is wrong, that this is somehow idolatry, that this is weird, that it's pagan, that it's superstition. And yet the earliest Christians said exactly the opposite, said, no, no, there's nothing wrong with this at all. In fact, this is what we do to one of the very earliest martyrs. We gather up his bones as being more precious than jewels and we have celebrations around them. Not worship. We don't make idols out of them. We don't believe that the bones have some kind of intrinsic power in them. But we recognize that there is a significance to this physical relic, this physical remain of someone in whom we know very seriously dwelt the Holy Spirit, you know, very manifestly dwelt the Holy Spirit. We know that he's part of the body of Christ, and so we venerate that. So I guess my takeaway from this is both at the religious level and at the political level. I don't think that I understand Christianity better than polycarp did. I guess that's it. Even when the early Christians, they did some weird stuff, you know, they did some stuff that's kind of weird and confounds modern sensibilities. But I don't claim to believe as a lot of progressives do in politics, as a lot of modernists do in religion, I don't claim to be the wiser, smarter, purer, more orthodox Christian than the people who learned from the apostles directly. This is at the religious level. you have these people that sometimes say They say, well, yes, but those early Christians, they just, they were kind of too stupid and influenced by paganism and confused. And so it was only we enlighten people in the 19th century. We discovered the true form of Christianity. I don't buy that. Forget about the particular religious claims, I just, that's like the wrong epistemology. I just don't think that's how we come to know things. Same thing goes for politics. You hear this all the time from the Libs, especially in the left, but a little bit on the right too. They say, well, the founding fathers and the framers, they, they were a bunch of hypocrites and they were kind of stupid and they, they stumbled onto a basically good idea that all men are created equal and were endowed back together with certain unalienable rights. But they didn't really know what it meant. You know, they were a bunch of dummies and it took us 250 years later in our enlightened form of progressive liberalism. It took us to really understand what they meant. That's the same thing. It's just a form of progressivism, a form of modernism, applied alternately to politics and religion. You don't buy it. On the point of cremation, I got in trouble yesterday, then we'll move on from religion because there's some really, I want to stick on religion for a while because there's really brutal political news, but we have to get to it. But in any case, I mentioned with regard to some of this conversation about relics and all the rest, the importance of the body. I made this point yesterday on Twitter. They went really, really viral. And it was someone asking why the church historically has opposed cremation. Now as the influence of the church in our political order has waned, cremation is more popular. And I said, well, the reason is cremation mocks the resurrection of the body. We Christians believe in the resurrection of the body, not just the resurrection of the spirit, not just the resurrection of the soul, but the resurrection of the body that we're going to have glorified bodies someday. And cremation mocks that idea by burning the body and turning it to ash. Whereas burial or in two men or something, your body is still going to decay, but it shows a greater kind of reverence for the body. And on this point of cremation versus relics, relics, the veneration of relics, calls attention to the resurrection of the body. You call this attention to the importance of the physical, even in the eschaton, even in the New Heaven and the New Earth. That was the point. And a lot of people got really upset. They said, Michael, the church permits cremation. And that's true. In 1963, the Catholic Church has permitted cremation. But from the year '80, '33, until 1963, the church did not. You were not, except in the rarest of cases, you know, someone dies in a fire or someone dies in war, and it's difficult to recover the remains, but as a general rule, cremation was not permitted. And so it's permitted now. But to me, that is one of the aspects of modernity. The fact that in modernity, we have returned not to Christendom, but to paganism. And so much of what the Renaissance was about, and the modern era was about, was a rejection of the dark ages of Christianity and scholasticism, and a return to the supposedly brilliant ideas of paganism. And along with that came different pagan practices, including cremation, which you see here in the martyrdom of polycarb. Wasn't the early Christians who cremated polycarb? It was the Romans. It was the centurions who cremated polycarb. It's the pagan religions of the east. They tend to engage in cremation a lot more. You see this on the banks of the Ganges or whatever. That's not the Christian idea. And so, and anyway, people were all sort of fighting about all of this. And this once again gets to a political take away, but it applies to religion and culture and all manner of, all fields of knowledge, which is, do you think you're smarter than polycarb? Do you, forget about smarter? Do you think that you understand that the things that polycarb especially understood better than polycarb did? Do you think that we in modernity, that we've just discovered that the church was totally wrong about something for the first 1,963 years of its existence and that we figured it out? Because if you believe that, if you think that just everyone who came before us was totally wrong, just profoundly wrong and we figured everything out. That is a mark of liberalism and progressivism in everything applied to religion, applied to family dynamics, applied to the political order, applied to immigration, applied to economics, applied to whatever. That's it. And so, I would just encourage people who are really freaked out by things that are very ancient and very traditional. That is not only ancient, but that have endured for a very long time. If you're really freaked out by that, there are two dispositions you're going to have. You can either respond to that by saying, man, they were nuts. I'm glad that we live in the modern times where we're not so dumb anymore. Or you can ask yourself, okay, why did they do that? Is it possible that they understood something that we do not? I think, I mean, bring it just full circle. The fact that we get back to the Pope's visit to France and all these modern ideologies. To two thousand years, all these different religions and sysms and empires and the fact that they've all fallen and the ancient faith throws almost a million people to the Champs Iliseux doing all the old things, talking about all the old issues with all the old doctrine. That is a great consolation for conservatives. Now, a bad thing for conservatives is that right now the polls show we are going to get absolutely obliterated in the midterms. I think there is a few things we could do to turn it around. We'll get to that in a second. First, though, speaking of the faith, I want to take about Roonwood Rosaries. First, they'll go to RoonwoodRosary.com, use code nulls. One of the reasons St. Peter is such a compelling saint is that Christ, our Lord, did not choose someone who looked all that impressive on paper. He chose a fisherman and not always the most reliable fisherman. I don't know if you're much the reading type, but the story, Peter has a few stumbles there. 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He's really, he's one of the greats, he's one of the great pitchers, and it was the end of his career, and he pitches his last pitch, and then this happened. He's out there, okay. That was it. That was my last pitch. When he looks off, he looks off to the dugout, what happens? His daughter comes running onto the field, look at the awe, isn't that sweet. He starts crying, shoulders shake, and he starts crying. You see the pitcher comes up, you know, a bunch of the guys from the team coming over. He's hugging his daughter. It's bad for us. Right. He's crying. This is it, the end of 21 years, one of the great baseball careers. Wow. Okay. All right. Tears in his eyes. Little girl. Cute little girl, hugging her dad. Oh yeah. Hugging the manager. Hugging everybody. Hugging the coaches. Okay, great. All right. Okay, you get. He's crying. Oh yeah. All right. He's trying to get his act together. Tips his cap, goes into the dugout. Everybody loved this. This was so sweet. I did not love this. I didn't. I didn't love this. I'm judging by the responses to my opining on it. I'm the only person in the United States who actually didn't like this display. But here's why. Here's why. To quote John Updike, "Gods do not answer letters." That's what John Updike wrote when Ted Williams retired. Ted Williams. Ted Williams, one of the all-time great baseball players ever. He hits a home run for his last played appearance. That's it. His career is at one of the greatest players ever. The crowd is going crazy. They want a speech. They want something. They want whatever. He runs the bases, goes into the dugout. They say, well, at least come on out of the dugout, tip your hat to us, right? He won't do it. Ted Williams, forget about he didn't cry. He didn't have his daughter run up on the field. He didn't do this. He didn't do that. He didn't. He wouldn't even tip the cat. No. He's just a man doing his job. Just like you do your job. So, everybody else, you go. He does his job. He does a good job. And the reward is the work itself. Baseball is the last sport that does that. All the other sports have this third world nonsense where everybody starts doing crazy dances in the end zone and wearing a bunch of bling and behaving like emotionally incontinent toddlers. And baseball was the last sport where they keep, they just kind of keep it together. You hit the grand slam until recently. Now, even, even my beloved New York Yankees are doing this where they're getting a little too, they're getting a little too frivolous, a little too self-indulgent. They're making weird hand gestures. Jazz Chisholm, who's a very talented ball player, but he's like dancing all over the bag. I don't want to see that. I want to see, I want to see Nolan Ryan. He pitches out at a batter. A batter comes running up to him as he's going to charge them out. Nolan Ryan puts him in a head like punches him in the head six times. The batter gets thrown out of the game. Nolan Ryan just gets back up on the mound like nothing happened. I want to see Lou Garreg. Lou Garreg, who is one of the one of the greatest baseball players ever would have had an amazingly even longer career, but he gets struck down by one of the most torture inducing painful illnesses ever. So horrific. They named the disease after him. Lou Garreg disease. What does he do? Does he get up to the microphone? He says, today, I consider myself just really emotional. No, he gets up there. He says, today, I consider myself one of luckiest guys in the face of the earth. Okay. All right. Bye. Thanks. Thanks, everybody. I'm real lucky. That's it. I'm reminded of Tony soprano talking to his therapist. Let me tell you something. Nowadays, everybody's got to go to shrinks and counselors and go on Sally Jesse Rafael and talk about their problems. What ever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong silent type. That was an American. He wasn't in touch with his feelings. He just did what he had to do. So they didn't know. Once they got Gary Cooper in touch with his feelings, that they wouldn't be able to shut him up. And then it's dysfunctionist. And dysfunction addict. And dysfunction my fungal. There's functionless and dysfunction that he totally right. Tony is totally right about this. And do you know what it's not? It's not just the Tony's being a contrarian. It's not even just machismo. You know, look, I'm a man would never cry and meant it's it's deeper than that. The key here is that the emotion can be more beautifully conveyed with restraint. Think about the great poems or the great poems, the free verse, weird slam poetry. Yeah. And then my dad said pop. And I had to go hop, hop, hop. And I cried and I'm gay. And I'm this and I'm that. You know, it's like every slam slam poetry performance. No, the great poems are restricted. They're limited by meter in verse. Generally speaking, the great baseball players. He's great moments. The the poignancy of Luke Eric saying, yeah, I'm about to die in torture and and the one of the greatest baseball careers is going to be cut short because of the disease eating away my insides and entrapping me in my own body. But you know, I'm a lucky guy. Okay, thanks everybody. The great career Ted Williams. Just yeah, I did my job. No, I'm not even going to tip my cap. Sorry, thank you. Bye. That there is so much more vitality. There is so much more meaning it chokes you up more almost as the audience when the performer does not allow himself to get carried away with the emotion. So again, I don't mean to be too tough on Verlander. It's it was nice. It was very sweet. It's not you know, I'm a father of four kids. It's very as lovely to see, but I want to see that. I don't want to say I especially don't want to see that from baseball. One of the last redouts of emotional restraint and confidence in this entire freaking country is we become incontinent is we become a country that no longer has the strong silent types. It's not going to we're not going to just get in touch with our feelings and live in a sort of happy age of Aquarius. We're going to be a country of of winers and we're going to be a country of complainers. We're going to be a country of people that can't get our act together. And more serious countries are going to take us over. Congratulations to just a Verlander. Okay. Okay. All right. Speaking of retirement, Darling Graham, the Republican senator in South Carolina not looking good for reelection. I've put it off as long as I can. We got bad news for Republicans and a short period of time to turn it around. First though, I want to take about rabbit air. There's a lot more to say first. They'll go to rabbitair.com. 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Well, no, they're looking rough everywhere. I guess we can see especially clearly how rough they're looking because of the South Carolina race. Darlene Graham. Lindsey Graham's, the late Lindsey Graham sister was appointed to fill out the rest of his term. This is not uncommon. Sometimes when a senator dies in office, his wife is appointed to fill out the rest of the term. Lindsey Graham was not married. Person who was closest to his sister, Darlene, whom he helped raise. And so Darlene was appointed to fill out the rest of his term. I think that was a nice thing to do. Perfectly reasonable, good move from Trump. Then she decides she's going to run for reelection. So not just to fill out Lindsey Graham's term, she's going to run for her own term. I was a little more controversial, yet some other decent candidates who were going to throw their hat in the ring, but whatever. She wins the primary. Now she's looking rough. There's a new poll out from Trafalgar Group found that Darlene Graham is leading her opponent, Annie Andrews, by just one point. So certainly within the margin of error, margin of error is three points. There's 8% undecided, so it's anybody's race, but it's statistically a tie right now. Now you might say, like I want to say, well, that's just one polling for her. Maybe Trafalgar just got the numbers wrong. There's another poll. Insider Advantage poll was released earlier this month. Had Darlene Graham leading the race by just two points. Now there was another survey in mid August, impact research, which was sponsored by the Democratic campaign. So take it with a grain of salt. That showed the candidates were tied. But okay, you have one candidate survey, but then two non-candidate surveys coming out. Trafalgar's fairly conservative leaning poll firm, all showing that it's a tie race. This should not be a tie race. This is South Carolina. What are we doing? I am not a panacam. All these people, they worry themselves. I'm speaking of the Catholic faith. I'm with Padre Pio. Pray hope and don't worry. But I like to be realistic too. Things are looking very, very tough. All these people now they're turning on Trump. I'm not turning on Trump. Trump is the best president of my lifetime. I love Trump. I think he's great. I think the GOP has done a lot of great stuff, really mostly because of Trump in the administration. We've gotten a lot of wins even in the last year and a half, but that is not how the voters are perceiving it at this juncture. Voting is happening. Early voting in California begins in seven days. Mail-in voting has already begun. Right now the Democrats are winning. The Democrats are winning because they are making this race a referendum on the Iran War, which is unpopular. Iran was polling at about 32%. And President Trump, even when he launched the most recent Iran war, he didn't launch it in the way that Bush launched Iraq saying this is so important and great and we're going to remake the whole world and the Middle East is going to be like a Madisonian democracy. He didn't do that. Trump was way more realistic. He said, look, we got to take a little detour because we have this existential threat from Iran getting a nuclear weapon. You can disagree on the prudence of how to read the intelligence and the most practical course to remedy the situation. you can do that all you want. But I'm just was pointing out, President Trump launched the war on the grounds of prudence and practicality too. It was not some wild ideological crusade. And the trouble is having launched that war. The Democrats are now seizing on it as an opportunity to channel all of the voter frustrations for the midterm elections. They're blaming the economy on the Iran war with a little bit of justification, but not a ton. They're blaming the neglect of domestic issues that Democrats would only make worse, but they're blaming that on the Iran war. They're on and on and on. They're just focusing it on the Iran war. There's a temptation among Republicans to then answer those attacks and say, no, the Iran war actually was good, or the Iran war was defensible, or the Iran war isn't chiefly responsible for inflation. Because yes, well, diesel is over $6 a gallon right now. Actually, the price of Brent crude has been relatively low for the last five months. And actually, the cause of inflation was all of the inflation under the Biden era, which came down a lot, but it doesn't actually reduce the cost of goods in most cases, except for maybe in the case of eggs. And actually, it's monetary policy that is surely responsible for inflation because of the interest rates of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Quote our friend, our old dead friend Ronald Reagan, who is venerated as a saint by many conservatives, when you're explaining you're losing, you can't do that. The Iran war could be the most just brilliant war ever. It actually could turn out well in the long run. It's not going to turn out well in the short run, but in the long run, it actually could turn out well. And if it does turn out well, it'd be the greatest stroke of grand strategic genius by a president in the last 30 years. But in the short run, none of that matters. There is no way for the Republicans to talk about the Iran war without giving something to the Democrats. Some people don't understand a lot in politics, but it's like the difference between a reporter and an editor at a newspaper. The reporter talks about the facts of the story. The editor decides what stories to talk about. And there are certain stories that are just bad for you, even if in an objective sense they're justifiable, even if you can explain to everybody, it doesn't matter. So that's the Iran war for the Republicans right now. What could the Republicans focus on? They can focus on immigration. They can focus on the fact that Democrats have flooded the country and promised to continue to flood the country with millions and millions of illegals and President Trump has gotten rid of two and a half million illegals. And almost three million of the foreign-born percentage of the population in just a year and a half. That's very impressive. That's free popular. That's the sort of issue that could win the popular vote in 2024. We could talk about violence. We could talk about the fact that the left not only has tried to murder the president of the United States multiple times, not only succeeded at murdering our most prominent conservative activist, but continues to justify the murder of conservatives that the leading Democrat thought leader, Hassan Piker, openly calls for the murder of senators, wants to kill ordinary Republicans for being to the right of Hillary Clinton. We could talk about further predations that they want to go in and spy on your churches and treat parents and churchgoers and Christians as domestic violent extremists as we saw under Joe Biden. We could talk about how they want to send CPS to your house to take your kids away if you don't want to trans your kids. Let's talk about transing your kids. That's a major social issue. Let's talk about the LGBT indoctrination in kindergarten. Let's talk about all of those issues that we went on. Those are the 80/20 issues. Those are the 90/10 issues. And in as much as we have to address the Iran war, we just point out this is the Iran war was a matter of prudence and practicality on which reasonable minds might disagree and the Democrats are harping on it out of pure convenience, out of pure cynicism, and they're blaming a bunch of unrelated things on the Iran war. If you look at two issues, immigration and the Iran war, and you say, hey, what is raising the cost of your goods? What is raising the cost of your rents? What is raising the cost of your healthcare? What is raising the cost of your housing? It is 999 times out of 1,000 immigration. The kind of mass migration that the Democrats want to make worse. It is not the Iran war. Whatever bad things have come about as a consequence of the Iran war, it ain't that. It's migration. Focus on those kinds of issues. One little, I don't want to leave you to doomer, to black pill down the midterm. So the one silver lining we might have here is that Hassan Piker, the leading left wing thought leader, such as it is, who campaigns with all the big Democrat candidates who is embraced by all the big Democrat candidates, who is platformed by the New York Times multiple times approvingly. That guy, this guy who says he fantasizes about murdering Charlie Kirk and then two days after Charlie Kirk has murdered the New York Times turns to him for his wisdom, platformed by all the elite left wing institutions. Hassan Piker has an argument for the Democrats in 2026, and that is you need to talk more about how much you want to trans the kids. We should not seed the framing to the right just because it has been deployed oftentimes by the right. We are the normal ones. It is less normal to constantly freak out about transgender people than it is to just let trans people live. Okay. Most people, most people partially because of law and order SVU. Let's do a call back to that. Okay. Actually don't care about trans people existing in society. Okay. But on the internet, that's the only thing that the Republicans dial in on and they make it seem like being transgender is abnormal. You know what's abnormal? Constantly worrying about children's genitals. That is the most weirdo freak of all time. Okay. Okay. So right there he snuck that low claim and he goes being transgender is totally normal. Okay. Now hold on. Whatever you want to say about the trans issue. It isn't normal, right? You could say it's acceptable. It should be tolerated. You could even say it's good to say it's normal. Shows you how to out of touch this guy isn't how out of touch his old party is. But then listen to his argument. His argument is that it is not the left that is forced to transgender ism on our kids. That is weird. It is the conservatives who object to it. And they do this all the freaking time. But what he is saying as a practical matter is trans people should just be allowed to live. Well, no one's calling them murderable. We're just saying that the fellas should get out of the women's bathroom and get out of the women's sports and stop, you know, working in front of our five-year-olds at the public library. I think that's a pretty modest ask, wouldn't you say? And the conclusion of this is that some big mentally ill pervert goes into a little girl's changing room at the public pool. He says, "Hey, kids. Isn't it great being a lady? Okay. Look at my nude hairy body." That's what the guy does. And then you, the parents say, "Hey, man. Get out of there. Don't do that." And his son, Piker, comes rushing and he says, "Hey, hey, hey. Leave the trans hairy men stripping in front of your daughter. Leave him alone. Why are you such a weirdo? Why are you so obsessed with this issue?" So I'm not obsessed with this issue. I don't want to talk about this issue either. But we had for approximately all of history everywhere. We had a society that didn't tolerate this. And then about 10 years ago, you changed it. And you said we have to tolerate this. And then you shoved it in our faces all the time in the locker rooms and the kindergarten classrooms in everywhere. And now you're complaining that we're talking about it. I'll tell you what, I'll make you a deal. Let's go back to how things always were everywhere for all of time. And we'll stop talking about that weird thing you did. But they won't take that deal. The son Piker says, "We had a lean into it. We Democrats. We got to make this election about transiting the kids." Great. Please, Hassan, lead your people. You are the most prominent left wing thought leader, such as it is. Please lead your people, Democrats. Listen to your leader. Make this election about transiting the kids. And we'll win South Carolina and we'll win Michigan and we'll do a lot better than people who are predicting right now. Okay. Today's music Monday, the rest of the show continues. Now, you do not want to miss it. 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