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And yet you all come here. I can't help but notice in this terribly vicious diatribe by Wajahat Ali against white people and America, you know, the kind of founding stock of America generally. I can't help but noticing this vicious about why he hates every single thing about us and our country and our culture. I can't help but notice his parents came here and in fact, his whole argument is that all these other people are coming here as well. Wajahat Ali is a perfect example of the problems of immigration. I love this diatribe. It's a beautiful diatribe because on the one hand, Wajahat Ali, he does this. I'm a brown person and my parents are from Pakistan and I'm a brown, okay? But on the one hand, in many ways, Wajahat Ali is the perfect American lib par excellence. This is a guy who was born here. He was born in California. He graduated from UC Berkeley. He bloviates in a bunch of frivolous left wing outlets. He dresses like a slob. He is a perfectly assimilated American lib. And yet he expresses a deep hostility toward the native population of the country to which his parents fled from Pakistan. And it's not just a hostility in the general sense. It's a deeply tribal hostility. It's a hostility that comes from his race and his nation of origin, you know, homeland, I guess, you know, a generation back and culture. And what this suggests to me is that even in the best of circumstances, heritage is a part of identity that is enduring, that is complex, that is enduring. And that cannot simply be waved away by passing a multiple choice civics exam. We have this fiction as he even grants. He says, look, all of this mass migration, it started in 1965. I know we all pretend like America's a country of immigrants. It was all founded by immigrants. It was all just immigrants all the way down. But that's not really true. It really just started in 1965 when the Liberals opened up our immigration process and flooded the country with the third world. And everything's basically gotten worse ever since. But it's not only because of the immigrants, but it's both a symptomatic cause of many problems. But anyway, here we are now. And that's how it goes at that, Even under the best of circumstances, where you have a guy like Wajahat Ali who is as assimilated to American liberal culture as it is possible to be. Went to one of the exemplars of American liberal institutions and even there he has this deep tribal identity. Me Pakistani, me hate you. White honky American. That sounds like a complete knuckle dragging troglodyte, doesn't he? But with a kind of liberal twist to it. And what does this tell us? It tells us that the ancients and the medievals, and basically everyone before the 1960s was right about immigration. Our founding fathers who severely restricted immigration, everyone was right about immigration until us. St. Thomas Aquinas in particular comes to mind. I'll just get just a little bit from saying, you know, it wouldn't be an episode of the show without a little Thomas Aquinas. This is from Summa Theologia Prima Secunde, Question 105, Article 3. Man's relations with foreigners are twofold, peaceful and hostile. And in directing both kinds of relation, the law contained suitable precepts. For the Jews were offered three opportunities of peaceful relations with foreigners. First, when foreigners passed through their lands as travelers. Secondly, when they came to dwell in their land as newcomers. And in both these respects the law made kind provision in its precepts. For it is written, thou shalt not molest a stranger. And again, thou shalt not molest a stranger. Exodus 22:21 and Exodus 22:9. So that's the one we always hear. Well, you know, you were strangers in the land of Egypt, and therefore you must not. This is all obviously true, it's from the Bible. But it's taken and twisted and exploited by liberals to justify open borders. Okay, St. Thomas Aquinas goes on. Thirdly, when any foreigners wish to be admitted entirely to their fellowship. Speaking of the Jews and mode of worship, with regard to these, a certain order was observed, for they were not at once admitted to citizenship, Just as it was law with some nations that no one was deemed a citizen except after two or three generations. As the philosopher Aristotle says, the reason for this was that if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation, as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners, not yet having the common good firmly at heart, might attempt something hurtful to the people. So put a pause here. St. Thomas Aquinas is saying, look, look, here is how the Jews handled immigration in the Old Testament. Because the Old Testament prefigures Christ. The Jews as a people are a particular people that is the type of all nations, because God, who is the God of everything, is a God who also cares very much about the particulars. So much so that his only begotten Son, only begotten son is particularly incarnate in a particular place, in a particular time, to a particular woman, and is crucified by a particular governor, Pontius Pilate. And it's all particular. He picks particular apostles and a particular church he founds, in order to spread from the particular to the universal. So St. Thomas Aquinas says, okay, the Jews being a particular people who are the type of all nations, they didn't just like open up all their borders. They would sometimes admit people. It's not that immigration and assimilation is always wrong. Look at Ruth. Ruth was a Moabite who was brought in and said, you people will be my people and your God will be my God. She was brought in to the Jews and she's in actually the lineage of our Lord of Christ. However, the Jews were pretty careful about it. So he says, okay. And then he doesn't just cite the Jews in the Old Testament. He also cites Aristotle, wisdom, also from Greece. And he says, you know, you don't make them citizens all at once because it takes some time. It's not that you say, all right, you have to have a certain amount of, a certain kind of blood in you or else you're not allowed into the nation. It's not quite that, but it says you need a little bit of time. You can't just come here and as we pretend today, pass a civics exam, like a five question civics test. And then we pretend you're as American as apple pie. That's not how it works. That is not how it works. Final point, it says, hence it was that the law prescribed in respect of certain nations that had close relations with the Jews, the Egyptians, among whom they were born and educated, the Idumeans, the children of Esau, Jacob's brother, that they should be admitted to the fellowship of the people after the third generation. Whereas others with whom their relations had been hostile, such as Ammonites and Moabites, were never to be admitted to citizenship, while the Amalekites, who were yet more hostile to them and had no fellowship of kindred with them, were to be held as foes in perpetuity. For it is written, the war of the Lord shall be against Amalek from generation to generation. Wow, man. Thomas Aquinas, as always, just like, right about everything. He says, it's not that you should never take immigrants in, but when you take immigrants in, you should do so very, very carefully. And you probably shouldn't grant them citizenship right away. You should wait maybe a generation, maybe two generations, maybe three generations. Cause it takes a while to be enculturated in all of the not totally rational, not totally articulable aspects of a political tradition. You know, to understand what fireworks and hot dogs on the Fourth of July are. To have a little bit of the George M. Cohan songs in your blood. To have your heart swell a little bit. When you hear about George Washington and Paul Revere, it just takes a little while. You gotta get it a little more in your bones. It's not just something you inject into your head or upload to the cloud. He says certain people, by the way, are more suitable for immigration. So immigrants from England, I mean, America comes from England. So English immigrants are probably gonna be a little bit easier to assimilate. Immigrants from Germany, a little less so. But there's a shared cultural patrimony. Let's not forget that the kings of England and Germany and even Russia were all cousins right in the First World War. So, yeah, Germany, yeah, you can bring in the Germans, a little tougher than the English, but you can do it. The Italians, racially liminal people, you know, a little bit North African, a little Tehrani. It's gonna. That's actually gonna be a lot harder than assimilating the English and the Germans. But, yeah, maybe you can do it. Obviously, there's a shared cultural patrimony. I mean, Rome, after all, is in Italy. How about Eritrea? How about Pakistan? Let's really come down to the brass tacks. How about Somalia? That's going to be a lot harder. I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm not saying that the Somalians are the Amalekites, that we're forever, you know, embattled with these people. But what I am saying is it's going to be a lot harder to assimilate them. It's going to be a lot harder to meaningfully make them American than it would be for an Italian or a German or especially an Englishman. And so then this raises the question, I think this was the question on a lot of people's minds, especially as we found out that Governor Tim Walz, the man who was the running mate with Kamala Harris, almost one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president, Tim Walls, was caught in a massive fraud scandal where taxpayer dollars from Minnesota were going to Somali schemesters who were sending it to a terror group in Somalia, raised a lot of questions to people about immigration, which is not just who do we have to let in? Through what procedures do we have to let these people in? It raised a question which is what do these people add to America? Why are we letting them in in the first place? We'll get to that in one second. First, before we get to President Trump calling Tim Walls a retard, I want to tell you about Row Nutrition. 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I really, I think he's just an absolute killer. So smart and a killer in the admin. And I love the idea of Scott Besant just, hey, just running intellectual circles around all of his liberal interlocutors. Okay, turning to Somalis, we're running out of time, so I'm gonna try to move quick on this. The short the TLDR President Trump called Governor Tim Walz retard. He actually called him seriously retarded in a Tolstoyan length truth social post for Thanksgiving. I'll skim it. A very happy Thanksgiving salutation to all our great American citizens and patriots who have been so nice in allowing our country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged and laughed at along with certain other foolish countries throughout the world for being politically correct and just plain stupid when it comes to immigration, goes on about the insane foreign born population, 53 million people, all of the yearly benefits that they're getting, all the welfare benefits that we're told the migrants don't really get all the how recent all this problem was. And then he says the seriously retarded governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst congressman or woman in our country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab and who probably came into the USA illegally and that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our country, our constitution, how badly she is treated when her place of origin is a decadent, backward and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of government. It goes on. We don't have time. We gotta get to it. Is Trump allowed to call Tim Walls retarded? That's the question. That's what people are debating. I'll tell you something in public. Sometimes people's Private speech is a little saltier than their public speech, and I think that's good. It's good to have more decorum in public. It's good always to speak in a moral way, but in terms of the particulars of turns of colloquial phrase, it's good to maybe have more decorum in public than in private. One of the real popular things about President Trump, though, is he is by all accounts, the exact same guy in public as he is in private. And at a time when our political order is so dishonest, when people are not merely a little more polite in public, a little more refined in public, but when people are actually hypocrites, when people say one thing and do the exact opposite in private, in that kind of political order, it's quite refreshing. Trump's the same guy. He wears the same suit with the same tie. He speaks with the same accent. He says exactly the same things in every circumstance to every group of people. He doesn't pander to anyone. He is exactly the same guy with every single person. He makes Muslim jokes on truth social about Ilhan Omar. He makes Muslim jokes to the Al Qaeda leader of Syria to his face. Hey, I got some perfume for your wife. How many wives you got? I never know with you people. You people, you know, you guys. He's the same guy. So the question is, is he allowed to use the word retard? Because I think in public, people generally don't use that word. Why? Well, not because it isn't funny or. No, because it's like the worst word you could possibly use, but because I actually can't say that we all know retarded people because abortion has killed so many retarded people. It used to be that we all knew retarded people, and we love retarded people. And people. There are varying degrees of mental retardation, and many people have mentally retarded people in their families. And so we don't want to be offensive, needlessly offensive to people. However. However, I can't help but notice that it's many people on the right who are willing to say the word retard or retarded in a pejorative, vulgar sense. And the people on the left, they won't do that. The people on the left, however, will openly advocate and actually carry out the murder of every retarded person in the country, whereas the people on the right feel moral horror at even contemplating that thing. A buddy of mine has put it pretty succinctly. Yeah, I'm willing to say Retarded, but at least I don't wanna kill them. I think that's a pretty fair assessment. And so beyond whether or not Trump's allowed to say retarded, let's get to the real political point here. You realize why he said retarded, right? You realize why Trump called Tim Walls retarded? Because Trump has poetic diction. He has an extremely good grasp on language. I've said this since 2016, since he used the phrase make America great again, which is a beautiful Saxon, evocative, poetic phrase. He actually, in many ways, does have the best words in our political environment. And sorry if you disagree, but it's why he is the biggest political success ever of any of our lifetimes. So the word retarded here serves a similar poetic and rhetorical function. Retard is the bait. Retard is the bait. In this truth social post. Okay, and then the switch. Here's the bait. The switch is. Now we're all talking about Somalian immigrants. If he just said what happened under Governor Walz's administration is completely reckless and irresponsible, and the welfare fraud that took place because of the refugees from Somalia is just. Sorry, was anybody talking about anything at all? I'm sorry. Hold on. Let me try that again. Hey, Tim Walls is a big, fat, stupid retard. You see what he did with those Somalians? Which one are you more likely to pay attention to? So people can quibble over his public use of the word retarded. But now, note, we're not talking about. I kind of. In many ways, I wish we would talk about retarded people and why we shouldn't kill them through abortion, which is actually the chief political relevance of that word. But maybe that's a conversation for another time. At the very least, we're talking about the massive immigration fraud scandal specifically regarding Somalis in Minnesota. So what is the scandal? What is the scandal? The scandal is that Tim Walls, under his leadership, allowed Somalis to defraud the welfare system in all sorts of housing programs, food programs, all these kind of programs. Take the money, send it back to Somalia, in many cases funding the terror group Al Shabaab. As Chris Ruffo reported, even the New York Times has had to admit this. How fraud swamped Minnesota's social services system on Tim Walz's watch. Minnesota health service employees. This is a group of actual health service employees in Minnesota. MinnesotaDHS says Tim Walls is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. These are bureaucrats in Minnesota who worked for Tim Walls. We Let Tim Walls know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership and stopping fraud. But no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walls systematically retaliate whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. On and on and on. Okay. So then the question becomes, okay, you've imported these massive schemers, these fraudsters from Somalia who have a foreign religion, who support actual terror groups materially with taxpayer money, who are kicking Christians and the native population out of various towns in the United States. Not just the Somalians, but Muslim immigrants generally. Dearborn, Michigan, probably the clearest example of this. See, why are we doing this? What are they adding to our country? What are Somalians adding to our country? I have nothing in particular against Somalians. They're children of God. I hope they all convert to Christianity. I hope that their lives improve and we can help their lives improve. In some ways, they add nothing to our country. Nothing good to our country comes from Somalians at all. At all. You can't even. With some groups, you say, well, look, they bring crime and drugs and breakdown of social solidarity. But G Willikers, I love their food. Somalians don't even have food. What do they add to the country? Nothing. So why do we bring them in? So that they can defraud taxpayers and fund Muslim terror groups overseas so that they can commit murder and rape. So why are we bringing them in? Let's zoom it out again. Let's bring it all the way back to what we were talking about at the top of the show. DHS had a great little rundown, a horrifying little rundown, but great in its clarity on what the Afghan refugees have been up to. Here are the Afghanis. Zabahla, Mama, Nuamma, Whatever. An Afghan national who was settled in Montana by the Biden administration was charged in the rape of a teenage girl in a Missoula motel room. So he was resettled in Montana. Sure. He blended in marvelously there. And he was just charged with the rape of a teenage girl. So we bring this Afghan in and he rapes an American. Okay. Or rapes a girl. I don't know if it was an American or not. Either way, quite horrible. Certainly in America. How about Abdullah Hajid Zada and Nazir Ahmed Tawidi, both Afghan nationals given legal status by Joe Biden. They were arrested and prosecuted for plotting a terror attack in Oklahoma City on election day 2024. I think that's what the vice President was talking about earlier. They had hundreds of rounds of ammunition, pledged their allegiance to isis. How about Mohamed Karwin, another Afghan national who was on the terror watch list? Border Patrol got him in 2024 and then released him back. He was on the terror watch list. Border Patrol gets him under Joe B. And then just releases him back into the country. Then he was arrested again. He had been living at large in the US for over a year. Then we got Barulla Nouri. He's an Afghan evacuee. He was arrested at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor, using force, and three other counts of engaging in a sex act with a minor. So Barola Nouri raped a kid. At least one kid. This is our strength. This is the cultural enrichment. As I pointed out earlier, citing St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle and others, I am not totally opposed to immigration in principle. I do not think that assimilation is impossible or necessarily harmful. Look at Ruth, the Moabite joining the Israelites. However, immigration is a very, very big problem. Thinkers from Plato and Aristotle up to Dante all the way up to thinkers today have observed that immigration, in many ways more than any other political issue, can cause real social problems in a polity. So you gotta be very, very careful about can introduce confusion, it can introduce crime, it can break down social solidarity. Why do we have to tolerate this? Why? Why did we bring those Afghanis to America? I'll tell you why. It's not because we like their food. We don't know what their food is. No one eats Afghani food. It's not because we can be enriched by their culture and religion. We can't. It's not because we love their cultural practices. Like pederasty is a notable Afghan cultural practice referenced in one of those criminal descriptions. We did it because we feel guilty. We did it because we. Because Afghanistan harbored Islamic terrorists who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. And then we went to war in Afghanistan first, then Iraq. But Afghanistan, we were there for 20 years. And the war, like so many wars waged by Washington bureaucrats, was overly broad, kind of aimless, didn't really achieve a lot of ultimately what it hoped to achieve. It was unclear even what the objectives were. And then we left and we felt kind of bad about it. So we took some of them in and now they're killing us and they're raping people and they're committing terror attacks. But we felt bad. That's it. We felt bad because things didn't work out in the war that we had to engage in after they waged war on us. And we felt kind of bad. Why do we take the Somalis in in Minnesota? Because we feel bad for them. I get it's good to feel for people. I like feeling for people. Charity is good. But liberalism is a perversion of Christianity. Broadly, all modern ideologies are just thin, abstract, rationalized perversions of true religion. And in the case of liberalism, it takes certain virtues and divorces them from the others. So it takes, I don't know, it takes some mercy, generosity, and it totally divorces it from prudence and self defense. So now you have a situation where you say, well, we have to bring in these people who are gonna kill us and murder us, shoot up our Christmas markets, rape our girls, commit terrorist attacks, kill our National Guardsmen. We have to do it. And we're gonna. We won't even pretend that they're adding a lot to the country or that we like their food. We have to do it because, you know, come on. Those poor people. But we have an obligation to defend our own country. And frankly, it's not even really good for them ultimately if we do it, because all we'll do is destroy this country and then they'll have nowhere to even aspire to go to. Do we have to live like this? I don't think so. There's so much more I want to get to. There's so much that happened. There's a trans professor at University of Oklahoma who gave a Christian student 0 points out of 25 points on a paper because she cited the Bible on gender issues. Oh, I have so much to say about it. Cause everyone's getting it wrong, but we gotta wait until tomorrow. How do you like that for a tease? Oh, by the way, Pope Leo, the Holy Father, prayed the Pater Noster in Latin in Constantinople with the Eastern Orthodox and called for a communion, a full communion for all baptized Christians. We're like reuniting the east and the West. Everything's going on, but we got to get to it tomorrow. Oh, the FDA admitted that Covid killed kids. Anyway, we got to get to it all tomorrow because today's Music Monday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles Canada, WLAS at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.
