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But Trump hasn't quite yet ended the Ukraine, Russia war. However, he did something that is actually more difficult, which is that he got Volodymyr Zelensky, who's been wearing his pajamas for the past three years. He got the man to put on a suit, kind of. He. Here is Zelensky addressing this in the Oval Office with the reporter who dressed him down during the last Oval Office visit for showing up in his sweatsuit. President Zelensky, you look fabulous in that suit. I said, yeah, look, you look good. I said the same thing. Yeah, I said one that attacked you last time. See, that was. I remember that. I apologize to you. Look, you look wonderful. No, my first question for you, President Zelensky, in the sense, same suit. You see, I changed you. Maybe yours is much better. That's actually, that's a nice little response there from Zelensky. So the reporter pushes it again. This reporter who last time said, why don't you ever wear a suit? And they get into this sort of shouting match. And this time he says, that's a very nice suit. And Trump, who is a really skilled diplomat Trump comes in there, and in a very New Yorker way, hey, come on, we're all having a little fun roasting each other. He goes. He was like, hey, that one. Look him over. That's the one who attacked you last time. But I said it was a good suit. So he. Trump, you can tell, really doesn't want this Oval Office meeting to go south like it did last time. And Zelensky, rather than being offended and sanctimonious like he was last time, he just dishes it right back at the reporter and says, yeah, but you're wearing the same suit. I changed you. You're wearing the same suit, you cheapskate. You don't even. You probably only have one suit. Anyway. It was a nice. It was a nice little exchange. And it's significant. It's significant. Well, hold on. I'll tell you why this is politically significant in one second. First, though, I just have to. I don't want to be nitpicking too much. It wasn't really a suit in the sense that. Here's a picture of. He's getting off the airplane and it's some kind of weird jacket over. He is wearing a collared shirt this time. So that's an improvement. It's a black collared shirt. There's no necktie. I don't see a necktie in this picture. So, look, we like to encourage the improvement, but I couldn't help but notice when I look at the Ukrainian president that he looks very much like an Italian American going to junior prom. The black on black, the suit, and kind of a weird cut. Some of us who are former Italian Americans who went to junior prom, we did wear neckties, black on black on black. But it was a little. It's an improvement. And you can tell what Zelensky wants to do here is split the baby. And it's okay. It worked out all right. Had Zelensky shown up to the White House again in the sweatsuit, it would have signified that he learned nothing, because Americans actually don't like the. It's not that they don't like that he wears sweatpants. They think that he's artificial. They think that he is putting on a show for everybody, and they think that they're being taken for a ride. Whether those intuitions are true or not, that is an impression that Americans have of Vladimir Zelenskyy. They felt the last time he showed up to the White House, he acted in a way that was entitled and petulant and demanding and disrespectful and not putting on a tie to sit in the Oval Office, not putting on a jacket, even to sit in the Oval Office played into part of that. And so I think it was very smart of Zelenskyy this time to put on at least something that vaguely looked like a suit. Now, the reason that he wears the sweatpants is because he. He wants to portray to the world the image of a besieged leader during wartime who's always ready for battle. And I actually get that in principle, it's not the dumbest idea in the world. I get the PR strategy. It just hasn't always worked out. And sometimes he looks kind of ridiculous when he shows up in Europe with all these different leaders, all of whom are wearing their nice suits and he's there wearing his fatigues. It looks a little discordant, but I get the idea in principle. And so Zelenskyy actually had a tough job here, which is he had to maintain that image. The tough leader besieged. He didn't ask for this war. Russia invaded. He is constantly under threat of bombardment. Putin wants to kill him. And I'm showing respect to the United States. I am not owed money by the United States. The United States has not wronged me in any way. I am not the enemy of Donald Trump. I'm so very grateful for everything you've done, Trump and Vance, and more importantly, American people. Thank you. And I'd love to show you respect. And if you could please just maybe send me a few more missiles and a little bit more money, please. I'd really hit some bullets if you got him. That'd be really nice. So it is significant. And his attitude in this meeting was much, much better. You are beginning to see a softening of the reflexive anti Ukraine attitude that had started to set in about six months ago. Now Trump is speaking in a way that's a little tougher on Ukraine. And we'll get to exactly what happened in this meeting in a moment. But he's getting a little bit tougher on Ukraine. You know, you're seeing a softening even among the GOP base. I'm talking about the hardline GOP base starting to warm up a little bit to supporting Ukraine not as a matter of sweet liberal democracy in Eastern Europe, but as a matter of American empire opposing hostile interests. So what happened in the meeting? According to a Putin advisor, Trump and Putin spoke for 40 minutes on the phone. So Trump meets with Zelensky, Trump meets with the European leaders, and then he just calls up Putin and Trump and Putin speak for 40 minutes on the phone. Mind you, that big Alaska summit on Friday was only 90 minutes. The actual meeting between Trump and Putin on Friday was 90 minutes. He spoke for almost half that time by phone. After this Zelensky meeting, the Friday summit in Alaska, they ended that early. They didn't even stay for lunch. And they had their press conference and it was confusing. And Putin said they had an agreement, and Trump said they didn't have an agreement, but they were kind of nice to each other and they didn't get the things that they set out to get when they walked in there, but they continued the negotiations. And really what yesterday's meeting in the Oval Office was was simply a continuation of the Friday summit. I think what happened in the Friday summit is Trump and Putin found themselves in a place where they got what they actually expected out of that summit. And then it became a question of, okay, we'll propose this, that and the other thing to Zelensky, propose this, that and the other thing to Europe. And they got out of there because they could just hurry this along and move. The fact that this took place at the White House so soon after the Alaska summit, to me, it's all the same summit, and they are working not merely on a ceasefire, but on a peace deal. And some evidence for this is Trump being caught on a hot mic talking to French President Emmanuel Macron, I believe it was, and giving his candid impressions of the Putin meeting. I think he wants to make a deal for me. You understand that as crazy as it sounds. Just sit down. Sit down, everybody. I think we'll let. It's a little hard to hear. He says, I think he wants to do a deal with me, as crazy as that sounds. Now, two things are going on here. One, he's conveying a little bit of surprise. Hey, hey. Why are all the European leaders, and why is Zelensky coming to the White House on such short notice today? Because Putin is more eager for a deal than I thought he was. That's the first thing. So assuming Trump is being totally sincere and totally candid here, he's saying, yeah, I flew to Alaska, we achieved not what we were telling the press that we were demanding to achieve, not what we were signaling to each other to play a game of chicken that we wanted to achieve, but I got what I wanted, and I'm now convinced he actually wants a peace deal. And so we got out of there, and that's why I called you guys in. Crazy as that sounds. Yeah, you didn't expect that. But crazy as it sounds, that's what happened? The second thing that's going on here is Trump is talking like a deal maker. The message he's trying to convey to Macron and to Europe and to Zelenskyy is, hey, guys, don't worry, I got you something that's really good for us. I don't know if it's so good for Vladimir. Yeah, guys, you're not gonna believe it. This is crazy. As it sounds, he's offering us a lot of good stuff. We're just gonna. Who knows? He didn't get into specifics here, but the insinuation could be he only wants us to give him the Donbas region. You know, he only wants us to give him Luhansk and Donetsk. You know, guys, this is pretty good. He's not even gonna demand those other two eastern regions. And he's gonna be okay with Western security guarantees in Ukraine and actually, guys, this is pretty. We better make a deal quickly. This is what it's about. It's clear as day to me. Trump wants a deal quickly. And the reason he wants a deal quickly is when it starts to take a long time to cut a deal, people get cold feet, people get big for their britches, people lose interest and it goes away. So he wants to make this happen fast. That's what this language, this to me, explains a lot of Friday. Okay, Vladimir, you're broadly open to a peace deal. You're not making totally crazy demands. You're open to Western security guarantees. Great, I got what I need. Save your filet mignon. I gotta go back and talk to Macron and Meloni and Keir Starmer and Zelensky, and we're gonna get that done. This is full steam ahead, full steam ahead. And what is the likelihood that we could end this now, 11 year war quickly? Well, what was the likelihood that Zelenskyy was ever gonna take off the sweatsuit and put on a suit? I don't know. I feel pretty good about it now. There's other stuff going on in our nation's capital, namely ice. Agents are mocking the weight and appearance of leftist protesters. It's a charming clip. We'll get to that momentarily. First, I wanna tell you about good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com use promo code knowles. I had some friends over for dinner on Sunday, as I do every single week, and as I do many weeks, we cooked delicious good ranchers steaks, the New York strip and the ribeye, and they were magnificent. 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If you were only listening, she's a little overweight. I don't like to make fun of women's appearances. I think that's wrong, actually. I think it's very ungentlemanly. This ICE agent did not feel the same compunction. He turns to her and he says, yeah, and you could eat a salad. So now, hold on. I'm not defending the comment per se. This is not the sort of thing one should say to a woman ever, even if the woman is awful. This is. I'm not defending the comment per se. I am however, defending this general approach to the protesters, let's put it that way, is that diplomatic enough? I can't knock this ICE agent because this approach to the protesters is what every single law enforcement official in D.C. and I think really throughout our country, certainly from the federal government, should be doing. What he is doing here is establishing authority. He is rather reminding this petulant woman of where the authority really lies. Law enforcement is not supposed to be done by committee or by struggle Sessions. Law enforcement does not need to beg and plead and ask the permission of civilians to enforce the law and arrest criminals. That's not how law enforcement works. Okay? The people, all the civilians, have a say in how law enforcement works. That say is at the ballot box. And in November, the people, through their representative, through the Electoral College, also just the people in the popular vote, elected Trump, who was running. It was almost the top issue on mass deportations of illegal aliens. That ICE agent does not have to answer to that woman or to any of the other leftist hecklers. This is the right response from law enforcement. When these people are heckling, when they're trying to impede them, when they're trying to obstruct them, including Democrat elected officials who are trying to obstruct them. The correct answer is shut up. Shut your trap. We don't care what you have to say. Don't care about your opinion. Doesn't matter to me at all. We're gonna go round up all of the illegals, and you can whine and cry about it, but it's gonna go in one ear and out the other because you have no say in this. You have no say in this. You had to say in November. Your side lost. Thank goodness your side lost. And now we have a mandate, not merely from the Constitution, from federal statutes, from the legislature, from the courts. We have a mandate from the people to go enforce the law. And so you can whine and cry, but I just want you to know, just for your own good, shut your trap. You're wasting your ear. Is that too harsh? I don't know. I wouldn't. As I said, I would never make fun of someone's appearance, necessarily. But this attitude, I would love to see this attitude from all of federal law enforcement. This is dad re establishing authority in the home. When the kids get a little bratty, when they get a little out of control and daddy has to come in and say, zip it, knock it off. One more word, you get a timeout. Two more words, you're getting a belt or something. I don't know, I don't know. We don't want to belt the leftist protesters unless they commit crimes, but this is good stuff. We're just gonna do it, and then the people are gonna thank us. And culture is often downstream of politics. Now, speaking of DC again, maybe this is the nitpicky show. Why didn't Zelensky wear a tie? Here's my. I got a little nitpicky in dc. I'm very happy to see that Trump is taking control of the Federal district, as is totally his right, by the Constitution and by the D.C. home Rule Act. And I'm glad to see that they're helping to get some of the homeless off the street. The situation's better than it's been. There's still crazy homeless people, shirtless, running around, muttering to themselves, but it's gotten a lot better. And the crime on the street has apparently improved dramatically. And so that's great. But I'm walking right by the White House. I was in D.C. to emcee an event for the Department of Education that was done in collaboration with Brave Books, Kirk Cameron's company. And it was wonderful. Great deal of fun. I'm walking around by the White House. I look up and I see the Pride Progress flag. You know, the Pride Progress flag? That's the one that's like the terrorist pride flag. It's the one with the black and the brown and the. That one. It's still hanging up in dc. And so, look, I know that the federal officials are. They're busy. They have to arrest illegal aliens and the carjackers and the murderers and the rapists. Whenever you get a minute, could you please tear down all of those banners? Can you please tear them down? I don't wanna look at them. And I don't care if the residents of D.C. wanna look at them. It's not their city. It's my city. That city is different from other cities. Washington, dc. And this is the message of the federal takeover of the Federal District. Washington, D.C. is different from New York and LA and Chicago and Oakland and San Francisco. Washington, D.C. does not belong to the residents. They have a stupid license plate in Washington, D.C. they shouldn't even be allowed to have that. It says taxation without representation. Because the residents of Washington, D.C. don't really have representation in Congress because they're not supposed to, because they don't live in a state. If they want to live in a state, they can go move to a state. There are a lot of states right around dc. There's Maryland, there's Virginia. There's West Virginia. They can go move to one of those if they want. If they want to live in the Federal District, they don't have congressmen there because you can't give the nation's capital to one state. That's the whole reason the Federal District was made in the first place. So it's not. I know there are going to be some squishes and libertarians and whatever who say, well, if the D.C. residents want to have Pride flags on their streets, if D.C. residents want to have BLM square to laud and exalt drug dealers and murderers, that's their right. It's not their right. They don't have any right to that. That's my district. That district is now run by Donald Trump and the Republican Congress. And I think it would be a great sign of who really runs the Federal District to rip down those signs because also they put them up, I guess for Pride Month, it went from Pride Day to Pride Week to Pride Month. It's August. It's August, guys. It's August. We are now fully in Pride quarter. And guess what? There's another Pride Month coming up. Cuz October is LGBT History Month. We are now at Pride third of the year. Get those flags down and burn them, please, if you wouldn't mind. I don't. I'm not demanding you burn them, but that would be a good, that would be a good thing. I would support it. Now, speaking of lgbt, a homosexual man has just described in perfectly illustrative terms his process of purchasing children through ivf. And it is maybe the clearest look at what IVF really is, necessarily is that I've ever heard by way of TikTok and social media. We'll get to that one Second, first, I want to tell you about Shopify. Go to shopify.com knowles Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e commerce in the US we even use it for our own daily wire shop to make sure things are running smoothly and efficiently so you can get the goods. Now, you might be asking Michael, what if I can't design a website? What if I'm worried people haven't heard of my brand? Not a problem. Shopify's got you covered for from the start with beautiful ready to go templates that match your brand style and helps you find customers through easy to run email and social media campaigns. 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Quick recap. We're having two babies. We bought 40 frozen eggs from our egg donor. 28 of those eggs survived the thawing process and then were fertilized. Twelve of those fertilized eggs did not develop into usable embryos. So that makes 16 embryos that were sent to PGT testing. And we just got in those PGT testing results. Starting with Joshua's side. His one embryo that was rated good to average came back as chaotic. Which checks out. That one is no longer usable. This one, which was originally graded good, came back. Aneuploid chromosome 13 only had one in the pair on my side. The one that was originally graded as bad indeed came back aneuploid. Its chromosome 13 also only had one in the pair. This one, which was originally originally graded as good, came back with no DNA detected, so that's no longer usable. This one too, which was also originally graded as good, came back. Aneuploid chromosome number four only had one in the pair. Lastly, this one, which was originally graded good to average, came back as high. Mosaic chromosome number two had three when it was supposed to have two. All in all, we're so happy that we decided to purchase as many frozen eggs as we could.
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Purchased, usable, good to average. His words. Those are not my words. His words describing his babies. Potentially his babies. Well, his babies, I guess. But he'll probably kill most of them. In fact, he's admitting that he'll kill most of them. His words are not we conceived, we made love, we begat. These things are not really possible for him or not in his current lifestyle. So we purchased. I'm so happy. We purchased 40 embryos. We purchased and some of them were usable. Are children to be used? Some people think children are to be used. Are children to be purchased? Oh, they were purchased by, I don't know, the Ottoman Empire. They were purchased by slave traders. They were purchased and became janissaries in decadent and terrible cultures. Do we think children are to Be purchased and to be used. And then do we grade our babies? If you are a normal person, not like him. If you're a normal person and your wife gives birth and the baby comes out, do you look at the baby and you say, you know, I guess I would give him a grade of good to average. He's not. I don't know. I wouldn't say he's an A plus. I would say that my son is. He's a B minus, you know, and do I. Do I really want a B minus? Kids are expensive, you know, Cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to raise a kid age 18. Do I really want. I don't know. You know what? Let's just. He's not gonna be usable for us. Nurse. Nurse. This one I think is below average, and he's not gonna be usable. So we would like a refund. And if you're not. Will, I know, maybe you're not willing to give a refund on this one. So whatever. He's not, we're gonna have to discard him. We're gonna. We're gonna try again. Luckily, we purchased as many embryos as not even. We purchased as many eggs as possible. That would be screwed up enough. We purchased as many embryos as possible. What's an embryo? An embryo is a very small person. Sick, sick stuff. Now, two points. One, I'm Catholic, as you might know, and Catholics and some other more traditional Eastern Orthodox and even maybe some traditional Protestant denominations venerate relics. What is a relic? This is an ancient Christian practice, goes all the way back to the apostolic age. A good example is when Polycarp D and early Christians gathered together his bones and venerated them as part of their religious rites. You know, if you go to churches in Rome or in the east, you'll see, you know, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas or the chains that held St. Peter or a piece of flesh or a piece of bone of some great saint. It is not legal to sell relics. It's not legal to sell relics because they're their human bodies. That's why it's ill. You can't do it. Canon law also forbids the selling of relics, but like regular civil laws forbid that because it's body part and you're not even take the relics out of it for a second. You're not allowed to just sell bones and skulls and human body parts in general. You get arrested for that. If you try to sell a human skull on ebay, the feds will show up at your door and arrest You. But we can sell a living person. I'm not allowed to sell a tiny little fragment of a bone of a man who lived 1500 years ago. I'm not allowed to do that. But I'm allowed to sell 40 living. Not just even living human cells, but like whole persons with, like, full DNA that will develop into full people that are still alive. I can sell 40 of them to this deviant, horrid man. How is that possible? Now, the next thing people are gonna say is, well, Michael, look, this guy should not be buying babies. Cause he's homosexual. And we don't like that. And we don't think two fellas should raise a kid, or we don't think two women should raise a kid. But we do think that a husband and a wife who are struggling with infertility. And I know the struggle. It's a tough struggle. We do think that a husband and a wife should be able to do this. Okay, well, you still have the problem of purchasing the babies, considering the babies usable or not usable, discarding most of, the. Killing most of the babies, grading your children, treating human beings as commodities to be bought and sold at market for higher or lower prices, rather than as human beings, proper subjects who are not merely to be discarded, destroyed because they're a little too short or a little too fat or something. You still have that same problem. And just on top of that, as long as IVF exists, it will serve the cause of homosexual and single adoption. Because that is a market demand that it actually meets, that it reliably meets. And because we live in a culture, at least for now, in which marriage has been redefined out of reason and out of existence, and in which individuals are understood to have precisely the same rights as married couples, actually married couples. So you're always going to have that. There's always going to be greater demand for IVF among people who in principle will not conceive over normal couples who are just maybe struggling a little with infertility. And IVF being a marketplace will always commoditize human life in some ways. I gotta give this guy some props because he's just describing, honestly what IVF is. He is just revealing. He's saying the quiet part out loud because most people don't want to admit what the process necessarily is. But it's horrifying. That's what it certainly necessarily is. Okay, speaking of weird sex stuff, a top Israeli official has reportedly been arrested in Nevada for participation in a child sex operation. And then he was released on bail and fled to Israel. We announced she joined the Daily Wire. You've seen her on our shows. Now Isabel Brown has important news to share. Watch this. Isabelle Brown. Isabel Brown. Isabel Brown. Isabel Brown.
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The gift that you have as a woman to create life is the most badass punk rock incredible thing that you could possibly do. This is an active culture war that we are still fighting. And it's vitally important that we fight now harder than ever. To the nerds meeting the President of the United States and the vice President and now meeting our new American Pope. This is crazy. Freaking out. I am so psyched to be bringing you guys along on this journey. Let's jump in.
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The Isabel Brown show premieres September 8th on DailyWire. Plus, be here for the debut, for every new series and documentary and for every piece of breaking news. And right now, save 40% on new annual memberships with code summer@dailywireplus.com do not miss what's next. My favorite comment is from Zacharyhens2108 says, As a musician, hearing Michael Knowles sing the jazz standards Someone to Watch Over Me made my day. It's a great song, isn't it? You know, it came to me when I was, we were talking about that clip of the Mormon girl on the dating show and she didn't get picked. Cause she said, I wanted someone to go scuba diving with me and I want someone to be my buddy and I want someone to, you know, go mountain climbing with me. And I said, you know, that's not, she's a nice girl. I'm sure she'll be fine. But what a guy wants in part is to hear the girl say, you know what? I want someone to watch over me. So true. They also, speaking of jazz standards, they also probably want to hear about making whoopee. Am I right? Am I right? Okay, speaking of weird sex stuff, crazy story, an Israeli official, here's the headline. I didn't even believe this headline when I saw it. An Israeli official is arrested in Nevada on child sex charges. So first thing I thought was, okay, this is some low level Israeli, maybe he works for the government, maybe he probably doesn't. But if he does work for the government, he's probably some really low level guy. And I Don't know. What did he do? He went to a brothel or he got caught and a girl might have been a little underage and maybe that was it. Right? That would be horrible enough, but it's a lot worse than that. A top cybersecurity official for the Israeli government, this guy, Tom Alexandrovich, was arrested. This is according to reports facing felony charges of luring a child with a computer for a sex act. According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. According to the department press release, a multi agency operation targeting child sex predators led to the arrest of eight individuals over the last two weeks. That includes 38 year old Tom Artyom Alexandrovich, who is the executive director of the Israel Cyber Directorate. So what is the Israel Cyber Directorate? Is that just some random nonprofit that's not his? No, it's apparently reportedly a government agency that operates under the office of the Prime Minister. What you think of every way this story might be slightly less bad than it seems. Maybe he was at a. He's in Nevada. Maybe he was at a strip club. There are plenty of those there. Or a brothel, I think that's legal in Nevada. And maybe, I don't know, they say it's underage. Maybe. The girl said she was 18, but she was actually 17 and three quarters. That'd be bad. But it was an accident. Maybe it was a misunderstanding. No, the guy was, according to the charges, luring a child with a computer for a sex act. And he was a top Israeli cybersecurity official. The way you know this guy was important is that Netanyahu's office issued a statement. And this is where it gets really weird, because Netanyahu's office. 1. For Netanyahu's office to issue a statement at all means this guy matters. But then the statement not only pled his innocence, the statement denied that the man was arrested at all. So the Prime Minister's office said a state employee who traveled to the US for professional matters was questioned by American authorities during his stay. The employee, who does not hold a diplomatic visa, was not arrested and returned to Israel as scheduled. The Guardian is reporting that he was arrested and charged with a felony. You heard the statement from the Las Vegas Police Department. Even. Okay, so the Netanyahu office says he was questioned by American authorities. Well, how do you get questioned by American authorities if you're not arrested? And then why is the Guardian reporting that he was charged with a felony? A very, very serious felony. Netanyahu said, no, it was no big deal. Then he goes back to Israel and that's that. Okay, I don't know what the real story is here. I think we should get to the bottom of what the real story is here. And I think the United States should insist on extradition. And this is where things get a little weird, because certain countries will extradite criminals back to the United States and certain won't. You think of Roman Polanski. Roman Polanski is wanted for statutory rape in America, and he fled to France, and he's lived the rest of his life there and has made movies since then. And didn't he win an Academy Award since then? Anyway, certain countries won't extradite Israel according to treaty obligations, does extradite criminals to the United States. So we say, okay, well, that's good. Let's get this guy to come to the US Then. Because this is a serious crime. Problem is, there is domestic legislation in Israel that says that they will not extradite Israeli nationals. So the domestic laws are contradicting the treaty obligations. And there are certain exceptions to extradition in Israel, like if a person in the government is wanted for a political crime, but this isn't a political crime. I don't think this is a weird sex crime. As I say, my opinion on geopolitics, on not just the state of Israel, but on foreign aid generally and support of other nations and alliances is. It's probably the least satisfying view in the public life today, because it's the most prudential view in public life, because it's the least ideological view in public life, because it happens to be correct. But my view is, if an American ally, let's say, England, some English official comes to America and he. I don't know what he does. He gets a speeding ticket. We just let him off the hook. If an American official gets into a bar fight, or, sorry, if an English official gets into a bar fight, even, you know, it's like we're talking about assault here. We're talking about something that could bring criminal charges. But look, he's an ally. We're talking a guy who's here maybe in a diplomatic role, and we just brushing that sort of thing under the rug to maintain political alliances. I get it. I see it. I have really no problem with it. Luring a child for a sex act with a computer by our greatest ally in the Middle east that we fund to the tune of a bazillion dollars a year. And I don't think so. By all rights, this guy should be extradited, put on trial. If he's Convicted. He should be drawn and quartered, though, to even, to temper that a little bit. The reason not to give a child sex predators the death penalty is because then it just takes away an incentive for them not to murder their victims. So actually, even in a prudential way, you don't. But this is really bad. And the Prime Minister's office saying, oh, no, he wasn't arrested. Nothing to see here. Move along, move along. I don't think so. This is not a bar fight. This is not jaywalking. This is not speeding. This is about as terrible a crime as you can imagine. And this story cannot go away. And this guy should probably be extradited and he should probably face charges in America. And is that going to happen? I want an explanation. I want an explanation from the state of Israel. I want more information from the Las Vegas Police Department. We don't let this go under the rug. If an Israeli wants to come here and run up a big casino tab in Vegas and not pay his tab, you know, whatever. If he wants to come here and, I don't know, crash his car into a telephone pole and I don't know, litter and do, I don't know, commit any manner of low level crimes, I don't know, smoke a joint on, that's probably legal now. Whatever, I get it. But a crime like this, we don't, we can't let people off the hook for this. And if a supposed ally of ours is not willing to take, forget about extradite, if he's not willing to take this seriously, if the strategy is just deny till you die, oh, that's not the right behavior and that needs to be re examined at the top level. Okay, Speaking of the Holy Land, really good news. There's a chart that was going viral. Estimated adult conversions to Catholicism in the U.S. you know, listen, I'm a mackerel snapper. I'm a papist. There's no doubt about that. I don't always talk about that as the story, like every day for most of this show's existence. That's not like the main story. But Catholicism right now is becoming a really big news story. This is in part why my docu series, the Pope and the the Secret Vatican Files of World War II is doing well on Daily Wire plus right now. And you can watch it exclusively on DailyWire plus if you subscribe. There's just something happening. We can feel it in the air. But a lot of people are converting to Catholicism and to a lesser degree, Eastern Orthodoxy and to a much lesser degree returning to mainline Protestant. But there's just a resurgence in faith, in particular Catholic faith. There's this chart. Estimated adult conversions to Catholicism in the US 2000-2025 chart goes from 180,000 down to 40,000. And here you have 2,000, right around 170,000 adult conversions annually. And then it just goes down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down even more, more, more down, down, down, down, down, down, down to 20, 23 and then spikes up like a hockey stick. Now way, way up, way up, back almost to where we were in 2000, which again is not great. You know, people are still leaving the church. People who were baptized as infants are still leaving the church. So there's all sorts of problems. But the adult conversions spiking like crazy. So you look at the other chart. Annual additions to the U.S. catholic population, births from infant baptisms. Okay, going down. And legal immigration is flat. And illegal immigration jumps it up a little bit. But you're seeing a really interesting spike in adult conversions. What's this about? I will tell you, or rather Alexei de Tocqueville will tell you, because there are people who are saying, this is crazy, man. Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves. They were all hardcore Protestants. And sure, on my line, you know, I have a line going back to the Mayflower in this country, Mayflower, which is an excellent cigar company. And they were hardcore Protestants. Very, very anti Catholic, very puritanical. But Alexei de Tocqueville, who is the greatest observer of the American political dynamic probably ever, wrote his famous book Democracy in America in the 19th century. And he said in a little discussed passage in volume two, two things must here be accurately distinguished. Equality inclines men to wish to form their own opinions. But on the other hand, it imbues them with the taste and the idea of unity, simplicity and impartiality in the power which governs society. Men living in democratic ages are therefore very prone to shake off all religious authority. But if they consent to subject themselves to any authority of this kind, they choose at least that it should be single and uniform. Do you understand what he's saying? He's saying, look, I know America is really Protestant and really anti super duper, Very, very religious in the Protestant religion. Protestant, but very, very democratic. So very, very religious. Very, very Protestant, but very democratic. Which means that over time, America is going to incline in two directions. It's going to become less religious generally, but where religion is preserved and increases, it's going to become more Catholic. This is the crazy prediction of Alexei de Tocqueville so over time, America's going to either give up religion or it's going to become very Catholic. And so the founding religious view is actually, that's the least stable thing. And why is it? Because in an age of equality and democracy, people are going to want to shake off all religious authority. But if they do want religious authority, they want it to be equal, single and uniform. Not. This group is Methodist, and this group is Presbyterian, and this group is Baptist, and this group is Anabaptist. And this group is. They don't. They don't like that religious powers not radiating from a common center are naturally repugnant to their minds, to the democratic mind, and they almost as readily conceive that there should be no religion as that there should be several. I think this is a brilliant observation from Tocqueville, who's a very brilliant observer. I think that is what's happening. I think there's more to it. There's also that new atheism from the 2000s is just so lame, and it was always contrived and fake, and so that's falling away. It was just too shallow to last. Also, Covid, I think you have to look at Covid here. The isolation, the despair of COVID I think sends us right back into thinking about the eternal things and especially into a sacramental theology that involves the physical world. We were talking about relics earlier, but sacraments too. That's there. And one last explanation, which not a lot of people have talked about. The change happens in 2021. What happened in 2021? What year did Father Mike Schmitz launch? Bible In a year, which became the number one podcast in the world. What year was that? It was 2021. Podcasting the new democratic form of mass media. Father Mike Schmitz puts just the Bible. He's just reading the Bible and then talking about the Bible a little bit each episode. That's where the turn happened. And it's adult convergence. So it's people who could listen to podcasts who could take this seriously. A recognition that the new media plays some role here. And the new media are very much part of the democratic spirit. And I think Tocqueville was right. Today's Tee Hee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans. De la vuelta clases de Amazon Amazon gas domenos son riemas. It's been so long. How have you been? Hello. I'm doing well. Dave, why are you talking that way? Please say one for a compliment or two for a question. Yeah, this is weird. I think I'm gonna go Talking with.
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