Ep. 2102 - My Most Unpopular Take: Surveillance States Are Good

There are two kinds of confession. One, the state force is out of a prisoner. The other, a man makes freely before God. Confession, written by the DailyWire's very own Ben Shapiro, is about a man in Stalin's Moscow caught between the two. Confession is now streaming only on the DailyWire, joined today to watch. This episode is brought to you by Good Ranchers. Good Ranchers partners with American Farms and Ranches and delivers the meat directly to your door. Go to goodranchors.com/noles. They're starting their Black Friday savings early. $120 off your first three orders, plus free meat with every order. Good Ranchers American meat delivered. The 2028 presidential race heats up just a week after the midterms as the knives come out from Marco Rubio. Corporate America scrambles to make nice with the Democrats, as even some of President Trump's biggest business supporters rebrand as progressive leftists. And you too can now manage your own surveillance state with the advent of the ring doorbell drone. Smile, I'm Michael Noles, it's the Michael Noles show. (bell ringing) (upbeat music) Folks, emergency warning, sit down, pull over if you're driving. Today is the last day to order your Mayflower cigars. To get them for Thanksgiving, you need a cigar on Thanksgiving. You certainly need a Mayflower cigar on Thanksgiving. That's like kind of the holiday that the Mayflower cigars are for. Go to mayflowercigars.com, you have to be 21 years older to order some exclusions of why. Do it right now, don't wait. I don't want to hear complaints that you don't have your Mayflowers for Thanksgiving. Also a great thing to watch while you're smoking a cigar is Ben Shapiro's confession. Out now exclusively on the daily wire, go watch it, it's terrific. Go do it, you must place your order. Right now, mayflowercigars.com, right now order it. Today's your last day. And then you can watch confession while you smoke. Okay, do you get the point? Do you get the point? I think you do. Now, speaking of companies, and we're talking about daily wire, we're talking about a tech company. Some of the biggest corporate supporters of President Trump are rebranding as essentially progressive. This coming from Palantir, Palantir, very, very important company in the United States. They've worked well with President Trump with lots of other governments. Obviously Peter Tiel, who's founder of Palantir, Peter Tiel has backed President Trump and Vice President Vance. And he's helped out all sorts of conservative causes. Anyway, Palantir wants to make very clear right now. They are not a conservative company. Alex Carp, co-founder of Palantir, has said that Palantir is essentially progressive. Here's a big, big headline story and business insider. Alex Carp says he's a lifelong Democrat and Palantir's project, products are essentially progressive. After the Blue Nami, Alex Carp is talking up his ties to the Democrats. The Palantir CEO once described "woteness is a thin, pagan religion and called Democrats irresponsible and childish." Meanwhile, he praised President Trump as a model for entrepreneurs. Well, in a Wednesday interview with Politico, which is a sister company, a business insider, I, he pointed out he is a lefty. I've been a Democrat my whole life, says Carp. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet. And I absolutely believe Palantir, all of our products are essentially progressive. Though he is an unhappy Democrat who does not love the mom Donnie wing of the party. Okay. So I'm in no way criticizing Palantir for this. Plenty of people are going to criticize Palantir. Alex Carp actually is a Democrat. And he played well with the conservatives for a while. Peter Tiel obviously is a more right wing person, but Palantir contains multitudes. If I were Palantir, I'd be doing exactly the same thing and it ain't just Palantir. It's all of corporate America is about to be doing this. This is just a sign of the shift in politics. The Democrats are promising. Jamie Raskin is promising to go after corporations that have in any way helped the sitting president of the United States. And so this is where I'm favorably inclined toward a company like Palantir. I'm obviously favorably inclined toward a company like X, Elon Musk putting his money where our mouths are to stop the left wingers from censoring all the conservatives in the public square. There are other companies I'm less favorably in tying toward. Some of the big tech companies have been brutal on conservatives and they had to be brought into line by President Trump. And yet, even if we're talking about Mark Zuckerberg who's company nearly destroyed the daily wire some years back. Even if we're talking about Google or any of the other big companies, I have a great deal of sympathy for them because this is the way American politics works now. It's worked this way at different points in our history, especially works this way now. Corporate America will be punished by the party in power, especially if it's Democrats, if they don't toe a line. So the political import of this for us is, for a long time conservatives said, politics is downstream of culture. And if that means that we need to produce good movies, so be it. But that's not a political truth that is eternally holding, because culture can be downstream of politics. We were very tough on some of the big tech companies at Google and Facebook in particular for going after conservatives. But in many ways, they were just doing what Elizabeth Warren, and a lot of Democrat politicians were making them do. What do you expect them to do? The political order is setting the tone and then the culture-making institutions were in many ways following it. It's not that these guys, most of the people in corporate America, are not all that ideological. But when they get misiffs coming in from the government that say you need to hire according to DEI policies, you need to increase diversity in your HR departments and the way that you run your hiring. You need to debank some conservative. I remember Jamie Diamond making this point. Jamie Diamond says, look, I don't want to debank anybody. I run a bank. I want to keep banking people. But when the government threatens to charge me billions of dollars if I don't debank so and so or so and so, I'm just going to comply. I have a business to run here. So this is unfortunate. We need to pay close attention to this because it signals the return of woakness. Woakness is already back. It's not that there's a threat that woakness will come back when the Democrats take their seats in January or if they win the 2020 presidential race. Woakness is back. And you will be seeing it in your media, in your products, in hiring practices. It's, it just is back. Okay. And people, I think people took for granted that a lot of that stuff went away with the election of Trump in 2024. They're about to get a very unfortunate reminder. Now, speaking of big tech companies, the surveillance state is coming to your home even more than it already has. Ring has just unveiled what many people are viewing as a dystopian product. And that is a personal drone. Maybe you have a doorbell camera. Maybe you have some, other security cameras in your home. Now you can have your own drone, which means you and all your neighbors and everyone is just on camera all the time. We'll get to what that means because this might be my actual least popular opinion. 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Of course, he's like a mostly white guy. Like every, every burglary commercial. It's always the one white burglar who's ever existed. Anyway, the drone comes up. When the alarm goes off, the drone is flying room to room. It can fly outside. It can fly at night. It can film everything. Your whole neighborhood. It's just going to be swarms of drones catching all of the exclusively white burglar. Sorry, I know I keep harping on that, but it's just so preposterous. And it's, been true. It's like every single burglary is a white guy. It's so funny. There are more white burglars in this commercial than there have ever been in the United States. But put that aside for a second, but I told you, a wokeness was back in advertising. Just focus on the drone for a second. This is dystopian. You're walking around your neighborhood at night. And not only are you on camera because of all of the security cameras, every now, they're just swarms of drones, monitoring your every action, peeking into your window, everything you do, every argument with your wife, walking around the house half naked out of the shower, whatever it is, you're on camera. And yet you already kind of are. You carry these portals to hell in your pocket all the time, which are constantly monitoring your voice and potentially recording you on video, every building you walk by in any city in many towns is going to have some camera picking up what you're doing. Your TV is spying on you. Your Alexa, if you have one is spying on you, your refrigerator might be spying on you. So it already kind of exists. The drone just brings it home. And this is where the unpopular opinion comes in. Because a lot of people, especially on the right, were predicting this many years ago and saying we're going to live in this kind of big brother dystopian society where every action that we ever take is captured on camera. And everyone hates that, right? The implication of that fear mongering is that this would be a hellish sort of society to live in. I kind of like that basically anything I do at any time of the day is being recorded. I kind of like it. When I was a teenager, when I was a libertarian, I hated that. I remember the first time I went to London. I was flipping the bird at the CCTV cameras. I just hated it. I was rebelling against the surveillance. Now I'll tell you what. I actually, I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great thing. Channel your hate into the comment section. It's fine. Then to let it out, I know it's I'm concerned about the people who have those data. I'm concerned about who exactly is spying on me and who has access to those just, yeah, yeah, sure. I kind of like that we're always being recorded all the time. You know why? Because it makes me behave better. I know, just put the hateful comments into the put it into the comment section. Let me explain myself while you're while you're writing. I noticed this when I started to get a little bit of a public profile. I'm not Brad Pitt, but I have a little bit of a public profile. You know, people come up and say, Hey, when I'm out of that town, when that first started happening, it was quite shocking. You say, Oh, my goodness, people are paying attention to me. Even as I'm sitting eating my lunch or whatever in a restaurant, I better not yell at my kids or I better not make an untoward remark or better not. I don't be rude to a waiter or something. I thought, huh, that's probably good because I shouldn't just yell at my kid at a restaurant. And I should I should never be mean to waiters. And I should, if I'm being watched all the time, I ought to behave. In many ways, this dystopian political turn of events is a reminder of a spiritual reality that is always true, which is we are always being watched, you know, God, the angels and the demons like spiritual creatures and the one true God are always watching us. And we are held to account for the things that we do, even when we think that they're not on camera or not being seen. What is that old aphorism? Character is what what you do when you think nobody is watching, but someone is always watching, at least God is always watching you. And so this is the ubiquity of the cameras and the weirdo drones in your home. That will be very offensive, specifically to a liberal or libertarian disposition or view of the world. But I'm not I'm no longer a libertarian. I never really was a liberal. And so is that such a bad thing? Why should I be look, I'm not saying I would have prescribed this. I wouldn't have gone about and invented the cameras on everyone's doorway and we all do stupid things sometimes. And especially for young people, that's really awful because it can ruin your life. We saw those girls getting caught on a doorbell cam making goofy monkey sounds probably ruined that girl's life. So there are plenty of potential downsides. I'm just saying for you, especially if you're watching the show and you're an adult and you should know better and you fully matured, what are you worried about with the cameras? What are you worried about? Is it some vice? Is it some bad habit that you fear might be caught? Wouldn't it be good to stop doing that thing? It's like people who text, people text, all sorts of nasty things. There's always a political scandal now is just when they leak the trove of texts between this person or that person. This is the one scandal I promise you I'm never going to get caught in because I don't text anybody. I don't text anybody. I'll start text. I barely text people back. I barely call people. But some of the old political advice was never put into an email, the sort of thing you wouldn't be comfortable reading on the cover of the New York Times. I'm maybe the one conservative who kind of likes the surveillance cameras. Okay. But you put your nasty comments below. Meanwhile, speaking of the surveillance state, who might be running our country? The presidential race is on. That was already sort of beginning before the midterms, but day after the midterms, that's the beginning of the 2028 presidential primary. There are plenty of people who are going to run. The vice president, JD Vance, is the heir apparent. I think he's the obvious front runner without question. But there are other people, especially after the rubbing in the midterms, who are starting to look good. The Santa's looks like he's going to run. Senator Cruz has indicated that he's going to run. Rand Paul has suggested that he might run, certainly in the libertarian lane. There was one candidate who said that person is not going to run. But Rubio has been this big figure. Will he won't he? He has already endorsed JD Vance. He said he doesn't want to run. I think there's a lot of evidence. He doesn't want to run. Plenty of people want him to run, especially donors. So how do we know that the race is on? Because there's finally a hit piece on him. Washington Post ran this, I think, ridiculous hit piece on Marco Rubio. Post piece says that Rubio has been flying to football games at the University of Florida. Rubio's son is at the University of Florida. Do we have the article? Yes. Flying by pricey military jet, Rubio rarely misses a Florida football game. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who's required to travel by government plane defended his trips to his alma mater to see his son play. So his son is on the football team at UF. Rubio is currently working like five jobs for the federal government. He's not being paid all that much relative to the work that he's doing. And one of his indulgences is to see his family a little bit more by flying to the football game. And I'm sure he would fly Southwest, but he's not allowed to, because America's adversaries want to kill him. So he has to fly by government plane. And that's the hit piece, very weak hit piece, totally ridiculous. But if Marco Rubio does want to run for president, this is a good sign because it means people are beginning to really take him seriously as a potential presidential candidate. The other reminder here, though, is I think a lot of people are beginning to talk about all these other prospective candidates. So maybe DeSantis will run, maybe they'll convince Rubio to run. They're saying, ah, there's too much negative press about JD Vance, who is the heir apparent. People are getting the order of things wrong here. There is a lot of negative press about JD Vance from all these liberal outlets, because he is the presumptive nominate. And there probably will be a primary. And I don't think it'll just be a coronation, but that's why. It's not that JD Vance might not be the nominee now, because there's all this negative press. There is negative press because he's the presumptive nominate. And whoever becomes the nominee or whoever even starts to get close to possibly being the guy is going to get a ton of negative press too. That's the argument, especially from the donor class, between this hypothetical Vance Rubio primary. They say, well, we need to do Rubio because there's too much negative stuff on Vance, but there's no negative stuff on Rubio. He's like the Golden Boy. This is the Amuse Bush folks. There's going to be horrifically vicious monster of negative stuff on anyone who gets close to the Republican presidential nomination. Did you see what they did to Brett Kavanaugh? Brett Kavanaugh is like a Boy Scout. He's one of the most wholesome guys we've ever seen in government. They called him a rapist, like a gang rapist based on nothing, based on this totally contrived account from a lunatic, no evidence whatsoever. So anyway, that's it. A sign that the 2028 race is well underway. Assign that anyone who gets close is going to be smeared. I mean, this Rubio thing is totally absurd. And ultimately, I think probably a good sign for JD Vance because there's so much of the negative attack on him already, it's hard to see what else people are going to come up with. I'm sure the left will come up with something, but it's a little hard to see. Okay. Now, speaking of presidential candidates, one candidate is not running in 2028. That is Drumroll, please, Nikki Haley. You know, I am not running in 2028, but I will continue to talk about the things that I care about. I will continue to push good policy. I will continue to support good candidates. And we want a strong America. And whatever we have to do, I think every one of us has an obligation to try and continue those move in the ball forward. Okay. So Nikki Haley's flirted with a run. She was running last time. She, Senator Cruz named her his vice presidential candidate, like his running mate in the final days of the 2016 presidential race. So she obviously has presidential ambitions. She was on very good terms with Trump in the first term and they kind of had it falling out and they kind of made friends again. Anyway, you know, it was a soap opera, but she's not going to run. And this actually does have some relevance for the state of play in the race because what it means is that Senator Cruz Lane, Senator Cruz's Lane remains decisively his. There are all these different lanes in the race. I think JD is the heir apparent. I don't think Marco Rubio runs. Ron DeSantis would run as the better version of Trump, probably as he ran last time. So you got two kind of Trumpism candidates, one who, who I think has a very strong claim to be the heir or the other one, who is kind of the alternate reality version of what Trump ism could have been. You know, if only we'd picked DeSantis in 2024, you know, that's, that's how you ran in the 2024 primary. That means that there's the Reaganite lane. The lane of the people who claim the mantle of Reagan who are most likely to invoke the legacy of Ronald Reagan, not even saying that that's exactly the same thing as what Reagan actually did. That's how it is understood in the present political climate. I think Senator Cruz dominates that lane right now. And so then you got the Libertarian lane, which is usually held by a member of the Paul family, like very specific, it's either Ron Paul or Rand Paul. I think Rand Paul dominates that lane, probably over at Thomas Massey. I think Massey is just alienated himself way too far out of the mainstream. Nikki Haley could have tried to run in the Reaganite lane, but I anyway, I think that's your slate right now. Expect many, many more hit pieces. Okay. As woke as him is returning as, you know, nature heals and the American political order returns to decay and decadence, there is a professor at the University of Michigan who's going viral for her lesson in which she sings show tunes about how awful America is. Most grounded professor at a major American university is this lady. You will get to her and what it means first though, I want to tell you about preborn. There's a lot more to say first, they'll go to preborn.com/noles, can it WLES? $28 may not sound like much, but to a scared mother considering abortion, it can help provide something incredibly important, a real opportunity to pause and see her baby for the first time today. 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She is teaching as seminar at SW505, engaging social justice, diversity, and oppression in social work. She has a PhD in social work and anthropology from University of Michigan, 2018. She also has an MSW, whatever that is. Is that master of social work probably, and an MA from University of Michigan? She's a lecturer in the University of Michigan School of Social Work, okay? Her bio notes this. She enjoys writing and performing musical comedy, because making fun of the world is another way to transform it. She has received awards. She has received the 2024 Distinguished Lecturer Award. So this is not some weirdo, just graduate student, say, who was doing kind of her own thing. No, no, no. She's got her PhD. She has a job at this school. She got an award for her lecturing, and she is singing. She is indulging some weird thwarted dream of hers. She is singing specifically about how terrible the past was and how terrible the present is and how terrible the country is. And this is what students are paying for. I love that guy. That guy is just the voice of his generation. He's like, I'm paying. This is supposed to be a real school. And it's certainly not. The thing that I hate the most though about this whole look, I like a nice acoustic guitar in the right, that's not the appropriate space for it. I like to play in the ukulele singing along. I hate the degradation of the University. I hate that these fake fields even exist at University. I hate everything about the lesson plan, but even down to this woman's approach to education. She says that her purpose is to transform the world, make fun of the world, and therefore transform it. That is the opposite of what education is supposed to do. Education is supposed to have you not make fun of the world, not mock it from the standpoint of pride. You're supposed to begin with humility in education. Then rather than make fun of the world, you are supposed to understand the world. Take the world seriously. And then rather than transform the world, change the world, there's whatever graduation speaker tells you to do these days, you're actually supposed to make sense of the world so that you can live within it in a way that is in accord with reality and nature and the truth and so that you can be happy in this world, that's your natural end, and be happy in the world to come, because this is a contingent world, and so it implies the physical world implies a metaphysical reality, which we also should understand. That's the purpose of education. The purpose of education to put it very simply is happiness, but the way to be happy is not to hate the past, hate the present, feel resentment all the time, try to change reality, you're not going to succeed. Reality is going to win in that battle. That's all of that is totally contrary to happiness. And so at this point, this woman's video convinced me we need to just bulldoze the universities. We just need to bulldoze them all, defund them all. I used to be more of a reformer, this woman is making me think it. She won an award. She's not even going to be punished for that. She won an award for it. Okay, speaking of insufferable leaders, did you know, I mentioned this a little bit at the end of the show yesterday, all governors and border states will be Democrats next year. This is leading not only the governors, but the mayors of cities and border states to declare that they will no longer cooperate, the ICE here is the mayor of Houston. This morning I have directed the chief and HBD through an executive order that we will change our policy in regarding contact with ICE. I do this to begin a healing process, reduce fear and anxiety across our community. Okay, so this is obviously in response to the midterms, Democrats come back into power at the national level, obviously, Democrats flip Texas, they say we're going to change our relationship with ICE. No law has changed. The leadership of ICE or the DHS, that has not changed. The immigration enforcement should continue, unabated federal government runs immigration law. I don't care if you got a new Democrat governor, I don't care if you got a new Democrat mayor, they have no say in that. Ultimately, because of the supremacy clause, the federal government controls these things, but you see the same reaction here that you're seeing from the corporate America, which is now the Democrats now have taken substantial power back and they are going to terrorize anyone who opposes them. So who do we have? your besieger governor. California, Katie Hobbs, remains governor of Arizona, Deb Haaland in New Mexico, Gina Hinojosa in Texas, goodness gracious. This is tough because you think, ah, we had that unified government. We had, we had practically the popular vote. We had all the wins at our sales and it goes away so fast. We deported to an F million illegals. That's great. A million immigrants total out of the country. Great. But we only had two years. I wish we had deported five million. I wish that we had done better in the midterms, which was led in part by the Iran war. Ah, it goes so fast. And there were conservatives during those two years. So we need to slow down. There were conservatives working against the immigration crackdown. Just remind, just an important thing to remember in politics. The next time we find ourselves in power, if we find ourselves in power, if the democrat governors and legislatures don't pass the national popular vote concord, which then would essentially, if it survived legal challenges, prevent Republicans from winning the presidency ever again, because you would have California, New York and possibly been Texas, just electing the president from then on. Next time that we have power, next time that we have the opportunity, I don't want to hear a peep from any conservative, even moderate right winger. It says, well, maybe we should slow down. Maybe we, hey, you got two years to do this stuff, even just to enforce the basics of the law. And now that opportunity is gone. Okay. Speaking of leaders who generally support immigration, turned to Pope Leo. He's caught a lot of flak for being kind of a lib. That's what people have accused him of. Pope Leo just said something. A lot of people missed it, but it's, it's another signal from his pontificate that he is much, much more conservative than liberals and conservatives seem to be giving him credit for it. First though, before we talk about that, I want to talk about purtalk. There's a lot more to say, first though, go to puretalk.com/noles, can it? We have a developing story in the American economy. A company has apparently decided to charge its customers less money. I know it's shocking, extraordinary. Usually companies announce they're improving your experience, doing new features, making everything more convenient than they quietly raise your bill 15%. 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My favorite comment yesterday is from Adi, who says, I do not appreciate this level of inappropriateness at all. It's not okay. So I did not know what this referred to. I didn't know if this was semi-ironic. Can we, Mr. Davies, are you there? Yep. And what, what does this comment refer to? It refers to the ring cam girls from Ole Miss. That's what I thought. There's a lot of people online kind of making edits of them and enhancing it, making it pop a little bit more. Make it, well, I'm making it pop. What kind of euphemisms are we talking about here? You know, you're scrolling just making sure it's your eyes catch it. Catch it. I don't know what the it. Are we, how are they enhancing the girl and the, is it what I think? Here comes Professor Jacob. You should, given me, let me see the receipts. What is the people are thinking we're trying to, like, thirst trap click, but actually under further investigation, I found out that it's not the case. This is an actual screenshot that Jacob took. You're saying, how do I clean this up for a family show? You're saying in the video that went viral, that was the subject of the show yesterday, the young gals endowment was prominently displayed, which I did not see. I don't see the thumbnails, Jenna, but then apparently that's where they were first. So then they accused you of sort of enhancing that. Yes. Okay. But now maybe look, I'm actually with the commenter on this. I'm with the commenter on this. Even if it's, I'm not even going to show it on camera. Even if that's a totally natural unenhanced picture, we should not be showing that. Guys, this is a family show. And Jacob is sitting there in his office, grok. Oh, can you clear up that image for it? Can you blow it up to like a seven foot by 10 foot? Can I print this out for the wall? And that's fine. Professor Jacob could do whatever he wants in his office. But I agree with the commenter. I don't need that. I want custody of the eyes. All right. I was, I was recently a confession. I don't need this. I don't need anything going on in my, but it is, he is, you are exonerated on, you did not, you didn't change the size of anything. Read the second page. What's the second page? Yeah. No, he's trying to, he's, he's, he's, he's really trying to get out of this right now. But even if it's, there's enough obscenity in just regular pictures. I don't, and now we're going to have the ring drones everywhere. We got to, we need to alter the images to make them more modest. I don't, yeah. Some people on the internet are altering the images to make them more obscene and sexual. I want to alter reality and make it more modest. Okay. I'm with the commenter. I'm, I'm with you. I feel you're paying. I agree. I agree. Okay. Let's get speaking of morality. Let's get back to Pope Leo. Pope Leo has just issued a signal, and very few people have picked up on this, that he is much more conservative than a lot of people seem to think that he is. He was really sad. After a few or many years of having said yes to the master, we may have grown accustomed to things that would have once troubled us, such as harshness towards others, resistance to being corrected, rivalries, attachments, sins, or clinging to things that gradually rob us of our freedom, something even more serious can happen, that we learn to justify everything, finding personal reasons, or communal or personal motives for doing what we know is wrong. We also fail when we do not do the good that is required of us. Okay. So a lot of people are going to be listening to this, especially non-catholics, but even Catholics, and they, they, they won't be familiar with the kind of inner lingo of the modern Catholic church. Just the, you know, every, every community has lingo, yeah, marriages, you know, husband and wife have their own kind of dialect. And so some of them are not going to be clued into what he's saying here. The keyword is pastoral, that phrase pastoral reasons. So he says, you know, we become accustomed to harshness and bad things. And for a lot of people, what the Pope says is going to sound like, you should be nice and not to be mean. He doesn't have an Italian accent because he's American, but he's speaking other language. You should do good things and not bad things. It sounds like it's very basic and almost mundane. But the key phrase, there is pastoral reasons. He says, we should not tolerate all these bad things for purely pastoral reasons. The left wing factions within the Catholic church and within the Catholic hierarchy, the reformers that followed the second Vatican Council that did quite a lot to deform a lot of traditional Catholic teaching and practice and liturgy. Their favorite word is pastoral. Because they contrast pastoral with dogmatic, a dogmatic council, a dogmatic pronouncement would declare something about dogma or doctrine or something about, you know, about the truth of the faith. Whereas a pastoral message or pastoral council or what have you is just talking about prudence, practicality, implementation. So you say, no, no, we uphold the perennial truths of the faith, but, you know, we should talk about them a little differently. We should emphasize this and de-emphasize that and whatever. This is what, again, left-right political paradigms don't map on directly to the Catholic faith, the Catholic faith, which long predates the left-right dichotomy and also that let's not forget that the left are right or rose in the French Revolution and the Catholics were sitting on the right and the atheists were sitting on the left. So it doesn't map on. But in as much as there's a left-wing Catholic faction, they love that word, pastoral. Oh yes, we need to go soft on LGBT stuff for pastoral reasons. Oh yeah, we need to, we should try to get women priests, even though the popes have consistently, all the way up through Pope Francis and I assume Pope Leo said, no way we're getting women priests. No, we need, for pastoral reasons, we should talk about ways to try to make it seem like women are priests. Oh, divorced and simply remarried Catholics who, you know, contrary to 2000 years of church teaching, no, we should, we should regard that as basically fine and say that they're totally up into the sacraments without confession and no, it's all for pastoral reasons. And what Pope Leo is saying is, hey, knock it off. Do not contradict the truth of the faith and use pastoral reasons as an excuse. This is a key sign. I'm not saying he's going to become like an immigration restrictionist or anything overnight, though Pope Leo. contrary to what his critics suggest, has said the nations have a right to borders, they've a right to determine who comes in, the immigrants ought to follow the law. He has said things like that, but nevertheless, just from Catholic ease, the kind of lingo of the modern Catholic church, that is a signal, hey, knock it off with the lib stuff. Let's get back to basics, which we have seen signaled all the way back to Pope Leo's selection of the name Leo, darkening to his rather conservative predecessor, probably of the 13th. Okay. Now, turning from the spiritual authority to the temporal power, here's a story I wanted to get to a couple days ago, and I'm glad we have a little bit of time to get to it now. This is a minor story. It seems to have escaped most people's notice. President Trump just turned the Oval Office into a national monument. And I think people haven't covered it because it's kind of a head scratcher. It seems unimportant and weird. Like I assume the Oval Office is a national monument. What does that mean? I assume the White House should be considered a national monument. But now, this is a formal legal official designation. President says this is establishing the Oval Office National Monument. The White House declares today President Donald J. Trump signed a proclamation establishing the Oval Office as a national monument to ensure its preservation, proper care, and management. What this is all about is acknowledging that the Democrats are about to try to destroy everything. The Oval Office, Trump declares the Oval Office a national monument in order to protect it from the Democrats destroying it. Because when something is officially a national monument, that creates certain limitations and barriers and processes for how that thing can be changed. President Trump has gone on at length about how he got to the White House and its physical condition was just really, really bad. Obama had allowed the place to crumble. This has happened really many times over the years since the construction of the White House, especially in the early 20th century, under one a major, major renovation that basically gutted it. It goes through ebbs and flows over the years, but it had gotten pretty bad and Trump spruces up the joint because he has made buildings. That was his career. Especially the Oval Office, some people don't like it. They think it's too gold and ornate and European. It doesn't have that sterile, whitewashed American Republican virtue. I like the redesign of the Oval Office, but what he's saying is the Democrats just won the Congress. They might win the presidency next time, and they're going to try to destroy everything. So the signal here is much of the next two years and certainly of the next two, three months before the Democrats actually take their seats in Congress, is going to be about protecting everything from the onslaught of destruction that inevitably will come, whether we're talking about policies, whether we're talking about agencies, whether we're talking about the physical reality of the White House and the government and the country. This is all about creating as many roadblocks to the retribution that we are about to see in the form of the Democrats. Okay. Speaking of Democrat power, we haven't followed up on this too much. There are still counting ballots in the Mississippi center race. We'll see if they've declared by the time the show airs on all of the other platforms. But as of now, the Democrat is still leading. It's about a 2,600 vote lead. So a million votes counted 97% of the votes in a fraction of hair sliver right now separates it, but the Democrat is leading, which means the Democrat is almost certainly going to win, which means that the Democrats will have picked up eight Senate seats. That brings it to parity with the 1994 midterm elections, which were a tsunami in favor of the Republicans. This obviously in favor of the Democrats. Republicans still picked up more seats in 94 than the Democrats will have picked up this time. But votes are coming in Lauren Bobert, friend of the show Lauren Bobert, unfortunately lost her seat and we're in for a bumpy ride. As I said, I don't want to flatter you. I don't want, I don't want to put on rose glasses. I don't want to overly doom, but we are in for a bumpy, bumpy ride. Okay. No member block today because I have something very, very important to do. Very spiritually important, important for the family and anyway, no member block, but I'll make it up to you soon. I'm Michael Nilsis, and Michael Nilsis, I'll see you tomorrow. I cannot feel anything here. They take me out my bed and they brought me here and they tell me nothing. What have I done? Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity. That's all I know. They have to deal with so many enemies of the state, all of whom claim they're innocents, who protest, who cry. There are no answers here. Other than the ones they put in the mouth, they will break. Today is your opportunity to demonstrate your loyalty to the people. I'd like to know why I'm here, of course. But you're already now, don't you? You must believe in something greater than the party. You will remember your duty. I told you I know nothing. The ground, like a fair all-man. You stink of failure. You want me to lie. Still a drunk damn you! They all break. Maybe.