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If you're in the country illegally, you got a problem. This is the point. So what I love Jesse's opening here, he says what we're hearing is that American citizens are going to be deported, which is obviously ridiculous. What we're hearing is that illegal alien medical doctors performing surgery. I'm not sure how many of those there are exactly, but they're going to be pulled out mid surgery. The patient's going to bleed out on the table because ICE is going to do raids of operating rooms. Yeah. No. So Tom Holman opens up. He says, now, first we're looking at the guys with face tattoos. Actually, first we're looking at the obvious criminals who have been convicted of crimes in addition to the crime of coming into this country illegally. But then he makes a really important point. He doesn't give up the negotiation or the art of the deal here. He says, hold on, we're going to start with the face. Tattooed criminals we're going to start with the Ms. 13 affiliates, the Trende Aragua affiliates, the people who are murdering Americans, raping Americans, committing violent acts against Americans. We're going to start there. But that does not imply that the illegal alien who does not regularly commit violent crimes can just stay here. That's not how it works. And he explains, it's a matter of incentives. If you tell people who've broken a basic law of America that they can just stay here, you're going to get more of that. And so the mandate from the American people across the aisle, including many Democrats, was we want to stop this illegal immigration. The only way you do that is if you can credibly threaten every illegal alien here and say, if you are in this country illegally, you could be deported. Obviously, we have to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. We don't want the Democrats to do what we know they're planning to do, which is once the deportations start to put up cute little children, little old grannies who are being thrown into boxcars or something. That's what the Democrats want to say this is about. They want to pretend that there's no such thing as MS.13. They want to pretend that the cartels don't control, control the border. They want to pretend that the open border hasn't led to the biggest mass poisoning in American history. They want to pretend all these sorts of. They want to pretend people like Lake and Riley don't exist. I guess Lake and Riley doesn't exactly exist anymore because she was murdered by an illegal alien. But they want to pretend that all these crimes are not real. So the Trump administration has to do two things, and Homan is doing this beautifully. First, focus on all the obvious cases. Force the media's hand. Show the media to be liars, actually take out the most imminent threats, but also maintain the law in principle. Carry out justice, which is what these guys have been given a mandate to do. Make it clear it's not just the face tattooed guys. It's anyone who has broken our most basic laws. They need to at least understand that they are liable to be deported. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to Hillsdale. Edu Knowles. Time is our most precious commodity. I've heard this from so many of our listeners who have asked for advice on how they can spend their time wisely and improve themselves and the people around them. I'm really excited that Hillsdale is offering more than 40 free online courses in the most important and enduring subjects. 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Edu Knowles Speaking of Trump nominees, President Trump has selected his pick for Education Secretary. That would be Linda McMahon. Linda McMahon, longtime Republican donor. She ran for Senate in the state of Connecticut, wife of the founder of the wwe. It is my great honor, President Trump writes, to announce that Linda McMahon, former administrator of the Small Business Administration, will be the United states education secretary. McMahon has recently served as chairman of the board of the America First Policy Institute, an important Trump associated think tank. And he says as a strong supporter of school choice and parental rights, there's no one better to expel the woke agenda in our education system and put our children first than Linda McMahon. Okay, that's great. That's cool. Like Linda McMahon, she's terrific. I sure hope she has a short tenure at the Department of Education though, because she's a terrific pick. I'm all for it, but I was told that the Department of Education is going away, so I hope that she's in there. In the meantime, before Elon and Vivek turn their red tape machine gun on that aspect of the federal bureaucracy. I hope she's able to restore some sanity, get rid of all the LGBT LMNOP mandates, try to fix up education in as much as she can. But then that department's gotta go away. It was founded in 1979 by Jimmy Carter. The purpose of it was to make American students better educated and smarter. It has manifestly failed at that. We have dropped down international rankings in education consistently and dramatically since that education department was founded. So we gotta get rid of it. When something doesn't serve its purpose, you got to radically reform or just get rid of that system. If I had a leftist tears tumbler here and I poured delicious leftist tears in it, but the leftist tears started pouring out the bottom. There's a big leak. And let's say a better analogy. There were lots of leaks all over the tumbler. I could barely keep a half inch of liquid in there at any given time. The tumbler just doesn't work. What would I do? Maybe you try to patch up the tumbler, but if it's really broken beyond repair, you just throw it out. It's good for nothing. That's the Department of Education. So, of course we need someone in there. Power goes to the people who will wield it. So if there is such an administration, Trump needs to put a pick in there. But the Trump administration has to do multiple things at the same time, and it's tricky. That's just how corrupt our system is. Now, Trump has his work cut out for him. There's no question about it. But we should not be seduced by the notion that we can just wield the Department of Education for our own ends. So that's true of certain government agencies of this one. I just don't think that's how it works. I think so long as there is a federal Department of Education, it will ultimately redound to the benefit of the left. And so we just got to get rid of it. And I can't wait till Elon and Vivek get there. Okay. Speaking of education, the Texas Board of Education is very close to some wonderful action that is to approving the Bible in schools, sort of. I'm a strong proponent of the Bible in schools. I'm a strong proponent of the Bible of schools for a couple reasons. One, because I believe that the Bible is the inerrant, inspired word of God. But even put that aside, let's say you don't believe that you're an atheist or an agnostic or Zoroastrian, whatever. The other reason, even if you're not religious, that you should support the Bible in schools is that the Bible is the most important book ever written. It is a book without which we can't understand anything else about our civilization. It is the book that has formed everything else. You can't read William Faulkner without understanding the Bible. You can't read the modern scientists. You can't read Isaac Newton or Galileo without understanding the Bible. I mean, you can read them and you can try to glean some insights from them, but it won't make sense. The Bible forms the basis of our entire education, or what could be our education. If you take that out, if you take out the key piece, nothing really seems to make sense. So that's why we need the Bible in schools. Also. If you want to pursue truth, but you insist that we take God at the source and summit and the actual identity of all truth out, then you're not going to have a very good run of things. But just even at the most basic normie level, you can't understand the Western canon without the Bible. What Texas is doing, though, is not even insisting on putting the Bible in schools. As you're going to hear from the left. A majority of the Texas board of Education's 15 members, they signaled their support for something called Bluebonnet Learning, which is an elementary school curriculum that just includes certain Christian teachings and biblical references. That's it. That's according to the Texas Tribune. The majority of the school board signaled their support for an elementary school curriculum that includes references to the Bible. That's it. I don't know how much more modest a proposal you could get. So if you say I oppose murder and I think you should love your neighbor, love God above all things and your neighbor as yourself. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If you say that you are referencing the Bible, we gotta get that out of schools, too. Hey, you probably shouldn't steal. That's a reference to the Bible. That's a reference to the Ten Commandments. Hey, it's probably a good idea not to covet your neighbor's ox. That actually usually is not taught in elementary schools, but it's a good rule too. You can't. Basic aspects of even the natural law. Can you not teach them because they do in fact reference the Bible. Certainly in our culture. I don't know. Pretty modest. Here's what an opponent would say. This is Mary Lowe, co founder of Families Engaged for an Effective Education. Some super lib group. I am a Christian, she says, and I do believe that religion is part of our culture. But our nation does not have a religion. We're unique in that. Put a pause there. You're telling me that the nation that has in God we trust on all of our money, the nation for which in our national anthem we say conquer we must, when our cause it is just and this be our motto and God is our trust. That nation doesn't have a religion. A nation for which it was refounded by Abraham Lincoln doing his own riffs on the King James Bible that are that that nation so devoted, so consecrated, language straight out of the Bible that that's not a religious nation. Our nation where our first president celebrated Thanksgiving giving thanks to God. Our nation that was Founded by pilgrims on the Mayflower and then later by Puritans who said that we would be a model of Christian charity in a shining city on a hill. We don't have a religion. You know why she's saying that? Because in the First Amendment it says we will not establish a church at the national level. Do you know why we have that provision of the Constitution? Because there were already established churches at the state level that persisted for decades after ratification. So she's just wrong about this. She says it's not. Even though she says I hate religion. I can't argue with her about hating religion exactly. If that's her subjective preference. De gustibus non dispetandum est. But that's not what she's saying. She's saying, I'm a Christian. I think religion is part of our culture. But we don't have a religion, and that's just not true. We're a Christian country. Nobody really before the middle of the 20th century would have said with a straight face that we don't have a religion. Then she goes on, digression aside, she says, I do not think that our school districts should imply or try to overtly impress to young, impressionable children that the state does have a religion. Okay, so then certainly the school shouldn't tell children that a boy can really be a girl because a person's true identity has nothing to do with their body. Right? The school shouldn't. That's obviously a religious, occultish concept. School shouldn't do that. Right. School shouldn't say it's okay for two men to get together and call it marriage. That would be a moral teaching, an anthropological teaching, even all the way down to religion. School couldn't do that. Right. A school shouldn't tell children that it's wrong to commit murder or wrong to steal. A school shouldn't punish a student for stealing or for smacking another student or for killing another student, because that would imply a moral teaching. And we're not making seminaries here. Elementary school is not supposed to be catechism. We don't want to have a state religion, do we? We can't have laws that have any reference to the moral law, can we? Well, no, that would imply a state religion. I mean, in a way, it does imply religion, but that's what all states have to do, because that's what law is. My only problem with this Texas proposal, it's not even a law yet. It's not even a vote. It's just. And insinuation of support for this particular curriculum that sort of references the Bible. My only problem with it is it's far too modest. Far too modest. You gotta teach the Bible in schools. If a kid graduates from school, if a kid graduates from 12th grade, if a kid graduates from 8th grade having not read the entire Bible or thereabouts, the kid cannot claim to be educated. I'm not saying you gotta profess your faith in Christianity to graduate high school. No one's suggesting that. But you don't know it. You're not familiar with the Bible. You don't know who Noah is. You don't know who Moses is. You cannot possibly call yourself an educated person at even a basic level if you are not thoroughly familiar with the Bible, no matter what religion you say you have. There's so much more to say. First though, go to PureTalk.com knowles have you ever thought about what charities and causes, the brands that you give your hard earned money to support? You give your money to all sorts of companies and then what do they give some of that money to charities, some of which are really awful and contradict your values? Well, Pure Talk is a little different. 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Switch to a qualifying plan. Get one year free of DailyWire Plus Insider. Speaking of the Utes, we have a Dailywire exclusive story here which is that there's a children's hospital in Philadelphia that leads the nation in so called sex change procedures. This hospital, I can't believe it's the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. I guess Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, or is it Pennsylvania? Well, it's one of the two. It doesn't matter because the letter would be the same. The hospital is known as chop, the hospital that is devoted exclusively to the care of children that has programs developed to help children to investigate their gender identity. According to the advocacy group do no Harm leading the nation in offering life altering sex related interventions for minors. That hospital is called chop. It's really dark. It's really gruesome. I don't mean to make light of the fact that there are evil people trying to castrate children and successfully castrating children in America, but that's pretty wild, right, Chop? It reminds me of that Alexander Pope quote, all nature is but art unknown to thee, all chance direction which thou canst not see. That is a pretty heavy handed little wink from Providence. It's called chop, guys. Obviously terribly evil needs to be done away with. This stuff needs to be banned. Probably this place needs to be shut down if they are castrating little kids. And Republicans need to lead the charge on this. I made this point yesterday. We talked to Nancy Mace, a member of Congress who has a spine. In our age of people missing anatomical features, this woman has a spine. She's leading the charge to say, hey, no on Capitol Hill. We're not going to force women to use the bathroom with men. We're not going to allow the fantasies of disturbed men to over overwhelm the legitimate rights of women. I said, as a matter of justice, the Republicans need to take up this charge. But also as a matter of politics, this is an easy, this is a winner. This is the issue that flipped Virginia Red for Glenn Youngkin. This is the issue that helped Ron DeSantis win a massive reelection in Florida. This is one of the big issues that propelled Trump, that got a lot of Democrats center left people to come over, say, you know, look, I'm a lifelong Democrat, but I just think pretending that little boys are little girls, castrating little kids, that's too much for me. I know multiple people who say, look, I'm still a liberal, I'm a Democrat, but this is too much. And I say, look, I'm not a liberal, I'm not a leftist, I'm not a Democrat, but I'm happy to have your votes. You're right, your party's going so insane, you should come on over this sort of thing. Every Republican in the country should be jumping on shutting this down as a matter of justice. Sure. But even if the Republicans can't muster courage or moral clarity, this is shooting fish In a barrel. Guys, this is going to be your easiest, most popular political move to date. If I can't convince you to do it as a matter of right and wrong, at the very least, do it as a matter of political expediency. You will be applauded for it, you will win more votes, and coincidentally, you'll be doing the right thing. Speaking of easy pickings for Republicans, there's a Democrat member of Congress with whom I was previously unfamiliar. This woman, Jasmine Crockett, who just went on a viral invective against white men.