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We don't know who they're with. We don't know what kind of situations they're in. A lot of kids who were let in under Joe Biden especially have been identified by ICE and are now in safety. Really, really big news. Tom Homan just did a press conference about it. We'll try to pull those clips. Cause this is happening in real time. Before we get to anything I want to tell you about Catholic match, go to catholicmatch.com this episode is sponsored by Catholic Match. February is here, the month of love and Valentine's Day. But while our culture celebrates with chocolates and roses, how many young Catholics celebrate are actually finding the kind of love that leads to sacramental marriage. I hear from young people about how hard it is to find other serious Catholics to date people who understand that marriage is a sacred vocation, not just a relationship status. And they'll say, michael, I've been to church, but you know, maybe at my parish the average age is 152. 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She has allegedly married her brother. She has been one of the most radical anti American members of the U.S. congress. And she's outdone herself. She's in rare form. She has now called to execute President Trump. Why? What started this? I guess it started when the United States stupidly let in a lot of Somali refugees decades ago. But then after the immigration fraud and the marrying the brother and getting elected to Congress, President Trump had this to say about Representative Omar. So you're going to still go after the whole waste fraud? Well, I am in Minnesota. Take a look at Minnesota. So we think it's at least $19 billion of fraud, medical, every fraud. Somalia has come in here. What they've done to our country, these people, they've come into our country and what they have done with that fake congresswoman. She's so bad. No, we're going to get to the bottom of it. We have. So there it is. Pretty light punch, actually, for President Trump. That was a little bit more of a jab. Just that fake congresswoman. And so Ilhan responds, says the leader of the pedophile protection party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files. At least in Somalia, they execute pedophiles, not elect them. So Ilhan Omar1 is insinuating that President Trump is a pedophile based on nothing. Based on absolutely nothing. Even by the standards of the nonsense they say about Trump, that he's Hitler, that he's this, he's. That this is particularly offensive. Calls the GOP the Pedophile Protection party, again, based on absolutely nothing, tries to link this to the Epstein files. As we pointed out yesterday, even mainstream news outlets, liberal establishment news outlets are reporting that President Trump was one of the first people to call the cops on Jeffrey Epstein. And Jeffrey Epstein, in as much as he had any partisan political alliance, was a Democrat, was a liberal Democrat. His allegiances were to the liberal parties in many, if not most of the states that he was even dealing with. He was hanging out with a lot more libs and a lot more Democrats than he was hanging out with Republicans, he was buddying up with Bill Clinton. Even when you look at Israeli politics, he was on the side of Ehud Barak, the liberal politician, not Bibi Netanyahu, the right wing politician. You see this all around the world. So if you're gonna say that one party is more inclined to the grooming and the weird sex stuff, especially with kids, it's the Dems. I mean the clearest example of this is they are actively grooming kids for aberrant sexual behaviors. The leading presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2028, Gavin Newsom, just recently came out and said, I want to see more trans kids. Freaky, sick, groomy stuff. So anyway, that's the premise that's totally insane for Milhan Omar. But then the real meat of the whole issue is that this woman, who really should not be in our country is calling for the execution of the President of the United States. And this isn't even a particularly idle threat because President Trump was nearly assassinated. He had a bullet go through his ear because of the grace of God and because of a last second head turn when the assassin, who we still know basically nothing about other than that he donated to Democrats when the assassin's bullet hit him. Trump could have had his brains blown out on that stage in Pennsylvania. Then there was another attempt to assassinate Trump. Democrats are still defending political violence against Trump and now Ilhan Omer is calling for him to be executed. And the question that we all have, I think if we want to get practical, we don't wanna just say these crazy libs or can you believe this? Or imagine if the shoe were on the other foot, whatever nonsense, impotent, vacuous nonsense some Republicans want to say about this. My very practical question is how much more are we going to put up with from this woman? How much more are we going to take? This woman has no right to be in the United States. This woman committed immigration fraud. She certainly, allegedly, I have to still have to say allegedly because none of this has been prosecuted. She, it would appear, it would strongly appear, I can say with a great deal of confidence she committed immigration fraud when she fake married her brother, probably committed bigamy cuz she was still actually married to her real husband. So she definitely committed immigration fraud. She definitely committed fraud with her oath of loyalty cuz she has no loyalty to the United States. She clearly hates it. She's said many times that her real loyalty is to Somalia and she said very, very nasty things about America and done very nasty things to America. But there is also a great deal of evidence that she committed immigration fraud when she was brought into this country decades ago. In any case, she should be denaturalized and deported. She's very bad for our country. She has no serious right to be here. And it would be much better for everyone involved if she left. Even according to her own nonsense, when she talks about how awful America is and how great Somalia is, well, great lady, how about we give you what you want? Now, of course, it's actually much better for her to live in America, but she says it's not. She speaks as though living in America is an awful burden and a curse, but she's awful for this country. She doesn't help us. She's undermining our political order. Now she's calling for the execution of the duly elected president who nearly was assassinated. It's easy for me to call for this because I'm not the one that actually has to do the prosecutions. However, it would behoove the Republican Party to get a little bit more serious for the people who are in elected office, for the people who, who are in prosecutorial positions. What if we just boot this woman out? I think we could do it. You plausibly could denaturalize and deport her and she's not gonna stop. And she's going to encourage more of this lawlessness, more of this political violence. So just boot her out. That would send a great message. I would love that. The law is a beautiful teacher, my friends. Okay, we have got. I think we have those clips from the White House. So we'll get to that. I also want to get to. Speaking of reaching our limit, I want to get to the funniest clip of any lawyer I think I've ever seen outside of Always Sunny in Philadelphia arguing for squatters rights. 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We've had enough of the degradation. I have reached my limit. Have you reached yours? I think we have. Case in point, in Maryland right now, some criminals just took over a house. The house was being foreclosed on. I guess it was owned by the bank and is in a nice neighborhood. This is A multimillion dollar house. I think it was worth $2.3 million. And these squatters just showed up. And the neighbors don't like it because they bring with them crime and volatility and danger. It's obviously lawless. So the squatters get dragged to court. This is their lawyer making their case for squatters rights. He spoke with Alex Webster about his client. Look, there's a question. It's really the number one question on everybody's mind. How would your client, Ms. D'. Amica. Good. Get inside a 2.3 million dollar property? Cut. I don't know if I can answer that. Allegedly. Can I cut? We're rolling. We're. Yeah, we're rolling, my friend. Yeah. Oh, no. He doesn't know what to do. He's just sitting there. All right, can you re. Ask the question? Okay, pause it, pause it, pause it. Think about every decision that led up to this moment. This guy goes to law school, I guess, goes to some law school. We need to look at the accreditation of the law school. He then takes on these clients. And look, some lawyers, they don't get to pick the top clients. Not everyone gets to represent Goldman Sachs. Okay, so, okay, he takes whatever client he can get. It's these squatter criminals. But then he agrees to the interview. I think that's the clearest malpractice here. So he agrees to the interview, and then he sits down, and the journalist goes, hey, how did you find yourself in this wacky situation? That's basically the question is, hey, give me the most basic defense that you would make before a judge and the lawyer who's wearing a funeral suit for some reason, black and black. A funeral for the case that he's trying to make. He sits there and he goes, cut. Like, no, no, no. You're the lawyer. You're not the director. You're not the producer. Cut. Okay, hey, we're gonna fix it in post. No, no, no. You have to answer the question. Can we cut? No, you can't cut. So at that point, he should have just walked out of the room, right? And say, I don't know why I agreed to this interview, but I finally came to my sense, and I'm a walker. But he doesn't. He sits there for ages, tries to figure out what he's gonna say. And now here is the argument for squatters rights. Number one question on everybody's mind is how your client, Ms. D' Amica Goode, got into a $2.3 million property. Well, Ms. Good did her research. She Found out that a certain property was under. Was under the control of a certain group and that there was a title issue. Due to the title issue, she was able to assume the property under squatters rights. So in Maryland, there isn't a particular squatter. Right. Am I missing something? Well, there's not a particular squatters. Right, but it's known as squatter rights. Thank you. I love it. This is the real life version. We haven't played it on the show in a long time. It's come up over the years. This clip has come up many times, but this is the most perfect real life analog. Life imitates art to Charlie Kelly, esquire. Let me handle this, Frank. It's not Boebert. He's making a few good points. Look, buddy, I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings. I'm well educated, well versed. I know that situations like this, real estate wise, they're very complex. Actually, they're pretty simple. The forms are all standard boilerplate. Okay, well, we're all hungry. We're gonna get to our hot plates soon enough. All right, but let's talk about the contract here. Sorry, I forgot. Where did you go to law school again? Well, I could ask you that very same question. I went to Harvard. How about you? Where? Yeah, I'm pleading the Fifth, sir. I'd advise that you do that. And I'll take that advice into cooperation. All right, now, let's say you and I go toe to toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor. You know, I don't think I'm gonna do anything cloud close to that. And I can see clearly you know nothing about the law. It seems like you have a tenuous grasp on the English language in general. Okay, well, filibuster. Yeah, yeah. Do you. Do you know what that word means? What's that? Yeah, that was the real life version of that. And yet we can make fun of this guy all we want. Not Charlie the lawyer in Maryland. But there are real politicians, there are real left wing activists and academics making the argument for squatters rights. Making the argument. Basically gussying up lawlessness in this fancy sounding language, the consequences of which are the same. Disorder, violence and erosion of our political order. And a country that decays. That's what this is really about. And so good on the journo there for saying, you know, actually, I don't think there's any particular squatters. Right. In Maryland. Right? Well, yeah, No, I mean, there's no. My case is based on squatters rights and there is no squatters right, in Maryland, but there's an idea of it, you know, and anyway, we can make fun of that guy for being unpolished and inarticulate or whatever, but when it comes to brass tacks, he's really not arguing for anything all that different than the top Democrats in this country are. He's really not. I mean, even take it to illegal immigration, the ultimate case of so called squatters rights, you have the top Democrats in this country who are defending the notion that you can totally ignore federal immigration law. You can totally ignore ice. You can try to hit ICE with your car, actually, you can hit these cops with your car, and you would be justified in doing so. And, you know, foreign nationals have some kind of right to be here and to participate in our country and SAP us dry. Those are not just arguments from some uneducated lawyer in Maryland, okay? That's being made at the top levels of the country. And so the fear is that those top politicians are gonna persuade Americans. The immigration fight has been the fight of the last, what, three, four months? Minnesota was the showdown. And there's this weird polling that's come out, which is that most Americans, at the height of the Renee Goode, Alex Preddy stuff, most Americans wanted ICE to pull back in Minnesota. And also most Americans wanted mass deportations. And those seem like they're in conflict or they are in conflict, in fact. But you're pulling the same Americans, they say, yeah, we want ICE out of Minnesota. ICE has gone too far. Also, we want mass deportations. So how do you resolve this? I think Tom Homan, the border czar, went a long way toward resolving this conflict. This morning, big news out of Minnesota. ICE has recovered thousands of unaccompanied illegal alien minors. In addition to taking public safety threats off the street, ICE here in this state have located 3,364 missing unaccompanied alien children, children that the last administration lost and weren't even looking for. That's because the leadership of President Trump, these children were located. Brilliant stuff. This is the culmination of President Trump's phone call to Tim Walz and then Trump taking out the guy who was in charge of the Minnesota operation, putting Tom Homan in there. And it was very unclear both sides were claiming victory here. Tim Walls said, we got the scalp of Bovino, the guy who was the commander at large for ice. We got his scalp, we won. We got Trump to back down. The Republicans came out and said, what are you talking about? You got Trump to back Down. They removed the guy that most of you never heard of and they put in the guy who's the face of the mass deportations. Back down. He's doubling down. What are you talking about? Which one was it? I always thought that the shift that occurred in Minnesota was not really about policy. The shift was about messaging. President Trump rightly saw that he was having trouble in the messaging war and so he put in a guy who's better at messaging, namely Tom Homan. And look what Homan does. Look at the messaging. It's funny, I'm not even focusing at first on the hard facts of the case, which are very important. I just want you to focus on the messaging for a second. Previously, the Democrats were able to say that these raids in Minneapolis were a show of brute force. That they weren't only focused on the face tattooed Venezuelan gangsters, they were taking out abuelas, they were taking out your gardener. They were even leading to the deaths of crazy white liberals who were either driving their cars into the agents or obstructing law enforcement, assaulting law enforcement vehicles. Regardless, they were able to make the argument that the ICE raids had gotten out of hand and they weren't just focusing on the very worst of the criminals and that they were the extremists. What does Tom Homan do? He says, hey, you know what ICE just did? ICE just recovered over 3,000 children who were brought in and lost under the last administration, who were probably victimized in lots of different ways, who the last administration didn't even wanna focus on. We just saved a bunch of kids while you guys were out assaulting law enforcement, driving your cars into cops, we were just saving kids and kids that the other administration was neglecting. By the way, the big lurid, titillating story that's in the news is the Jeffrey Epstein issue. So everyone's talking about child abuse and Tom Homan comes in there, the White House comes into Minnesota and says, hey, we just secured one of the greatest wins for the protection of children in any of our lifetimes. Thousands of minor children just in this one place have been recovered by ice. You wanna paint ICE as the bad guy cuz they shoot a lady when she drives her SUV into him. Okay, how do you think about ICE when ICE goes and saves all of those foreign children, the children that you pretend to care about, all those foreign children who were trafficked into this country by Joe Biden who are being abused with the aid and cooperation of Democrat politicians. Who's the good guy? Who's the bad guy? Now on the substance of it, it's obviously a very, very good thing what ICE just did. This is great for the cause of justice for these vulnerable kids. So kudos to ICE and Tom Holman and President Trump and the whole White House. Also, though this is a show that focuses on politics, this is a masterful shift in communication. I want to hear the Democrats answer that. I want to hear the Democrats defend the rampant child trafficking and abuse that they have aided and abetted for years. I wanna hear the Democrats tell me why I should be more concerned about violent leftists driving their cars into cops than I should be about innocent little kids who are being abused because of their policies and their politicians. Brilliant, brilliant shift from the White House here. Okay, I think we have another clip of Tom Homan too. Is this right? This is kind of happening in real time. Okay, we'll get to that momentarily. First though, wanna tell you about Van Man. I want to talk about your teeth. You gotta go to Vanman Shop Knowles. Have you ever tried to read what is in your toothpaste? Fluoride, sls, glycerin, foaming agents, A chemical cocktail that you are putting in your mouth twice a day. 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All right, Mr. Homan, Mr. Deportation. Anything else? I'm very pleased to report that this surge operation and our work here with state and local officials to improve coordination and achieve mutual goals, as well as our efforts to address issues of concern here on the ground have yielded the successful results we have came here for. As a result of this surge operation, we have greatly reduced the number of targets for enforcement action and many criminal aliens have been arrested and taken off the streets, including murders, sex offenders, national security threats, gang members and other violent criminals. So this, this is the other messaging win. Really smart stuff. Minneapolis was a success for President Trump. Previously, the polling showed that Minneapolis was not a success. I always thought Minneapolis was justified. I didn't lose a moment's sleep over the actions of law enforcement. Even in the cases of Renee Goode and Alex Preddy think the cops were justified. However, the public did not think that. The public supported the broad aims of the administration, but they didn't like the images they were seeing on their phones and on their computers. And maybe some people still watch tv. So what does Homan do? He comes in and he gains the cooperation of law enforcement and he says this was a success. And what's the pinnacle of the success? We saved thousands of kids. You gonna object to that, you jerks? I don't think so. This was the intelligence behind Trump's phone call to Tim Walz. Tim Walz had just come out, said the ICE is the Gestapo, Trump is Hitler. I'm gonna call up the Minnesota National Guard and we're gonna fight the federal troops like it's 1863, except we're gonna be on the other side. Except in this case, we're the confederates. But anyway, he didn't think that far ahead. But he was directly threatening insurrection and, and he was calling the federal officers Nazis. Then Trump calls him. Who knows what he threatened him with the day after that. Walz says, yeah, they might be Nazis, but I'm a Nazi collaborator. We're gonna work with them. So they get buy in from state and local law enforcement days after they were threatening insurrection. And now by all accounts, the Minnesota surge operation, specifically what Oman's talking about, was a success. Smart stuff. That guy Homan is clearly good at law enforcement. He's clearly good at arresting and deporting people. But even beyond all of that, if I were running for office, I'd wanna hire that guy to be my communications director. That guy is very talented. Smart. Smart stuff. Okay, speaking of illegal immigration, you are being gaslit by the libs. The Democrats have so shifted the political conversation that, that the moderate option now is to supposedly to allow some of, not just the illegal aliens, not just the minors, not just the dreamers, not just even the low level criminal offenders. But you know, some of the rapists and the murderers, they should be allowed to stay, especially if they have children, especially if they've been here a long time. It would be wrong. It's extreme. It's Intemperate, immoderate to. To arrest these people. Want to remind you that not all that long ago, the very Democrat politicians who were most recently at the heights of political power, Joe Biden, spoke about immigration in a very different way. Hat tip to Maze here for finding this one. This is Joe Biden on Meet the Press or no Hardball with Chris Matthews. Can you scare an employer in this country, whether he's an agricultural worker or a housewife, into not hiring an illegal because the punishment so high that if you get caught. Yes. It's a huge embarrassment to your family and you may just get hit with a fine that'll kill you. Yeah, absolutely. You can do. And that's what we should do. Well, I think we should do that because you can't catch everybody. No, no, no, you can't. And the last part of this is that the Democratic position also recognized. You got 11 million illegal aliens here. They have to have a way to earn their way into the deal. This is an amnesty. They're required to take 11 years worth. They pay a fine. They got to learn to speak English. They got to pass. Yeah, I like the way if we want the problems of Canada right now, keep encouraging people to keep their foreign language. English is going to unite this country potentially. It always has an effect. I can't think of a country that has two languages as their accepted languages that is doing all that well, including Switzerland and. Or Canada. It divides us. He's these illegals. He's dirty rotten illegals, Jack. They gotta work. They gotta earn. So we're not giving them anything. They don't have rights to anything. They gotta learn English, Darn it. No country can possibly exist if it has two national languages. That was Joe Biden not that long ago. I get it. Chris Matthews was fired some years ago. Joe Biden wasn't exactly a kid in that video. How old was he? He was in his 60s, at least. Joe Biden, I think his views had formed inasmuch as he had serious views. Don't let them gaslight you into thinking that the right is extreme in any way on immigration, as the cop was shooting Renee Goode or Alex Preddy. Not even those actions qualify as anything close to extreme. The Republican view is that Congress has passed laws that pertain to immigration, including in accordance with our constitutional order, which distinguishes the United States from other nations. And the Republican view is that we should enforce the laws duly passed by Congress, the representatives of which were elected by the people in accordance with our Constitution. That's the Republican view. The Democrat view is that we shouldn't. The Democrat view is we should ignore the law, therefore we should ignore Congress, therefore we should ignore our democracy. We should ignore our borders generally, and we should shred the Constitution. To put it bluntly, that's the Democrat view. And now the Democrats are saying, you know, look, we need to maybe be moderate here. There is no moderation between those views. There's no moderation between we uphold the law or we ignore the law. There's no moderation between Congress has the right to pass laws or forget about Congress. There's no middle ground between the people have a right to govern themselves under our Constitution and forget about the people. If they don't do what I want, then they're illegitimate. There's no moderate via media there. You just kind of have to pick one now. I guess the way to have an extreme version, if the Republicans were actually extreme, they would load all of the illegal aliens up on boxcars tomorrow and ship them out within 24 hours to Bukele to see whatever happens in El Salvador. That would be a more extreme view because it would be, I don't know, more efficient or something. That's not what the Republicans are doing. Far from it. The Trump administration formally deported a little over half a million people last year, which is good. It's better than we've seen in the past. But there's like 20 million illegals in the country. The only moderation here is from the extreme end of what is being done by the Republican politicians. Okay, now, speaking of the degradation of our political culture and Congress in particular, a very depressing scene unfolded yesterday in Congress when Representative Becca Bailint. Maybe I'm mispronouncing her name. A Democrat Congress lady screamed and huffed and puffed as if the conversation between the witness and this member of Congress were the most absurd argument you ever got into with craziest girlfriend when you were in high school or college. Hey, do you have the Daily Wire plus app? Did you do it? I've been telling you to do it for days now. For more than days, for a very long time. If you haven't, download it on your phone, on your tv, on your typewriter, whatever. Because you know what's trending right now on Daily Wire Plus? Real History with Matt Walsh. Episode one is about slavery. It debunks a lot of the nonsense that you, frankly, were probably taught in school and you were definitely taught by Hollywood. Go check it out, Mr. Walsh. Taking a sledgehammer to the nonsense. You gotta get it on Daily Wire. That Means you gotta go to the daily wire app. That means you gotta follow Michael. Forget about the other guys. Who cares? Go watch it right now. The favorite comment of the producers yesterday. I did not pick this one. I will see if this is actually the best one. It's from ustanothermusicnerd. XO says we need common sense. Trans control. Yeah, okay. It could have been worded more artfully. It's a little blunt. It's a little red meat. But yeah, the point I basically agree on, that's true. We need to control the crazy people, not deprive Americans of their legitimate rights. Yeah, I agree with that. Okay, turning back to capital. That's okay. You get a B minus. The producers get a B minus on that comment. We turn to Congress where this scene unfolded between Attorney General Pam Bondi testifying before Congress and Representative Becca Bailand. Didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein, not once when he was weak sauce. And also, I want the record to reflect that, you know, with this anti Semitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution condemning. I just want to be clear. Do you want to go there, Attorney General, or do you want to go there? Are you serious? Talking about anti Semitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust? The committee will be in order. Talk to Jared Wise about anti Semitism. The ranking member knows that. I'm going to. Can I get like 30 seconds back? You know, yeah, I've been. Are there any doctors on Capitol Hill who can treat that Democrat Congress lady for her obviously advanced case of hysteria? Can we get some, I don't know, fainting couches perhaps for the Democrat Congress ladies of Capitol Hill? Can we get Cher to show up and shake them and say, get a hold of yourself, woman. Get a hold of yourself. What are you doing here? A person who behaves in that way, as that Congress lady did, obviously should not be in Congress. She's not capable of that. She doesn't have the ability to regulate her emotions and to control herself. That is required to be a legislator or a statesman of any kind. That is not a serious person. That is not a person who has been educated. By educated, I mean both the intellect and the will. That is not a person who is capable of doing the job which requires calmness. It requires patience. It requires the ability to dispassionately hear opposing views. She doesn't have that. She's a histrionic, hysterical lunatic who, if not in an insane asylum, should at the very least be placed in private life. She should not be in Public life. Then the fact that, like a shrieking little toddler, she just storms out of the hearing. That kind of behavior should not get you elected to U.S. congress. That should get you a timeout. Her husband or father should come up and say, listen, Becca, is that how we behave? Becca. What? I just can't. I know. How did you. Are you serious? Are you gonna storm me? Becca, look at me. Becca, is that how we behave in the US Congress? You sure don't understand. Pambondi's not something. I got it. Becca, I know you don't like Pam Bondi. She was a little. She actually wasn't that mean to you. But whatever. You don't like Pian Bondi. But is that. Becca, we've talked about this. Is that how we behave in the US Congress? No, I guess that's not how we. Right. That's not how we. That's not how we should behave. So what are we gonna. What are we gonna say to the woman who's testifying, Pam Bondi, and your. And your colleagues in the Senate and to the American people? What are we gonna say? I'm sorry, that's what. That's basically. That's best case scenario of how this plays out with this petulant little toddler, this person who should have no place in the government. Caligula, according to. I think it was Suetonius. Caligula joked about making his horse a consul of Rome, and he never actually did it. Some people say he did it. He didn't actually do it, but he joked about doing it to express his contempt for the Senate. To say, the Senate has been so degraded, I am going to make my horse a consul of Ro. And I get it. I didn't really get it before. We all make jokes about Congress. Boy, these people are kind of wacky. And in years past, there have been certain incidents, like the caning of Sumner, where you say, wow, things really got out of hand here. This is different from the eccentricities of Congress in the past. These people are deeply embarrassing. And you can't. More to the point, you can't have a good country with these people. We focus a lot on ideology. Does this person check the right boxes? Ideologically stand for the right policies. The wrong policies, that's important. But you cannot have a good country if your leaders lack intelligence, knowledge, virtue and decorum. And decorum, too. It's not that we always need to play by the Marquess of Queensbury rules in every aspect of our lives, but you need to comport yourself in a way that is Tasteful, that has some class. If you want to live in a country that is delightful, if you want to live in a country that is pleasant to be in, you have to comport yourself in a way that is conducive to pleasantness. And they're not doing this. They don't do that. Think of a neighborhood. Think of that neighborhood where the squatter showed up and took the $2 million house. And now the neighbors are all concerned because it's gonna bring crime and disorder. Think of a neighborhood. You could have the nicest house architecturally. It could cost a million dollars. It could cost $3 million, $10 million. You could have the nicest streets in the nicest part of town, on the right side of the tracks with a nice, beautiful view. If all the people who live in your neighborhood are stupid, ignorant, vicious and petulant, you're gonna have a bad neighborhood. And it's not gonna matter how nice the brick is, and it's not gonna matter how nice the roads are. They won't be nice for very long. And it's not gonna matter which side of the tracks you're on. If the people who have inherited, who have come into what is supposed to be a nice neighborhood, if they behave in ways that are unbecoming of the neighborhood, your neighborhood is gonna collapse like that. That's what's happened to our country. The US Capitol building is still beautiful. It wouldn't be if these people built it. It would be hideous. It would be like probably one of those dumb modernist cube buildings that you see in live neighborhoods in cities across the country. It would be Washington, D.C. for all of its swampiness, has a great deal of beauty to it. That is not because of any of these people that were pointing at right now. Trump actually wants to make federal buildings beautiful again. That was a great executive order from the first term, and they're working on it. But most of these people don't want that. They have inherited something. They've inherited something like a nice neighborhood, but they're not fit for the neighborhood. And so the neighborhood's gonna go to pot. There goes the neighborhood. As long as we have people like this ridiculous woman or like Ilhan Omar, another ridiculous woman, or some of the men, too. I don't mean to just pick on the women. There are plenty of men in Congress who are degraded as well. As long as we have these people operating our government, our country will degrade. The ideologies are wrong. But it's also the intelligence, it's also the knowledge. It's also the virtue and it's the decorum. If you want to live in a nice neighborhood, the people need to act in a nice way. Simple as. Speaking of unseemly officials, Zoran Mamdani very, very upset because the federal government has reportedly removed the Rainbow Gay Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument. Zoran says, I am outraged by the removal of the Rainbow Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument. New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement and no act of erasure will ever change or silence that history. Our city has a duty not just to honor this legacy, but to live up to it. I will always fight for a New York City that invests in our LGBTQ community, defends their dignity, and protects every one of our neighbors without exception. So this would be a mark, first of all, a vindication, because I pointed out when everyone was saying that Mamdani was gonna bring Sharia law to New York, they were saying he was some kind of Islamist terrorist. I said, you know, would that it were so simple, in some ways it would be preferable if he were a serious Muslim. At least you can kind of talk to a Muslim. I think it's worse. I think he's just a far leftist. I think he's a millennial leftist who plays up the Muslim thing because of identity politics and because it'll help win over some immigrants and because there's a radical left and Muslim alliance. Cuz they have a common enemy, which is America and the church and white men, whatever, you know, the usual enemies of the left. And so that's. I said, but if the push comes to shove, he's gonna side with leftism over Islam. Just like when push comes to shove, Jo Biden says he's Catholic and he's liberal, but when push comes to shove, when there's a conflict between the two, he always picks liberalism, he never picks Catholicism. So his real faith is liberalism. And that was my argument with Mamdani and I think I'm totally vindicated in that. In any case, he's very upset cuz Trump took the pride flags away from Stonewall. What is Stonewall? Stonewall Inn was a filthy, truly degenerate, disease ridden mafia run bar. It was a hive of crime, decadence and debauchery in New York City. And then when the cops raided the filthy illegal mafia run bar. Not illegal by the way, because it was permitting gay stuff. Exactly. Illegal for many other reasons. When that happened, a bunch of sexual deviants, including famously a trans identifying guy, started like chucking bricks at the cops. And as a result of this, we now side with the gay mafia bar attacking cops. That is the thing that we've exalted as a national monument. But it's a national monument, which means the federal government has a say over it. And Trump has come out and said, look, you can fly the US Flag at federal properties. You can fly certain military flags, like missing in War, prisoner of action flag, but that's basically it. You know, the flag of the army or the Navy or something where that's appropriate. But that's it. We're not doing the BLM flag. We're not doing the gay flag. We're not doing the trans flag. We're not doing the terrorist trans flag, which is where it's the rainbow and the trans and the blm. For some reason. It's all, you know, the one with the arrow. And anyway, I call that the terrorist gay flag. So they said, we're not doing that. And then it asks the question, why do we have a national monument to Stonewall in the first place? Why do we have a national monument to weird sex stuff? And why is a liberal New York politician the. The most prominent left wing New York politician? Why is he all of a sudden so concerned about tearing down monuments? The left has spent 10 years tearing down monuments to all of the men who built this country. Monuments to Christopher Columbus. Big push for that in New York. Constantly defacing the Columbus Monument. In New York, in Columbus Place or Columbus Circle, rather, there is the attack on even Abraham Lincoln, on U.S. grant, on Thomas Jefferson, certainly on Robert E. Lee. So all these gu. We gotta tear down all these monuments, and the only monument we have to keep up, the only monument we can't tear down is the weird sex flag on the weird sex place, which was actually a bar run by the Mafia. Before Republicans get two on our high horse, before conservatives get two on their high horse, I just wanna point out what the libs are doing is destroying history and tearing down the traditions and fabric of our country. In some cases tangibly, which is. Which is bad. But we want to tear some things down too. Maybe not in as blunt a way as the libs do, maybe not in as blunt a way as the Taliban does for not blowing up the Buddha statues. Okay, but we want to tear things down in the way that you prune a garden, not the way you blow up a Buddha in Afghanistan, but the way you prune a garden. I do want to get rid of the Stonewall National Memorial. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous that we have a monument To a mafia run gay bar. That's ludicrous. Best known for assaulting police officers. Okay, Crazy. Best known for, like, diseases running rampant in the bar. We should not have a monument to that. That's degrading to our country. You can be nice to people who have some weird sexual behaviors. You can be nice to them. You can be somewhat tolerant to that without putting up a freaking monument to the mafia gay bar. That's insane. Not only should we be taking the pride flag away from that, we should be removing that as a national monument. I guess the only practical reason to keep it as a national monument is so that when Republicans are in power, we can exert some control over it. But yeah, we do want to pull down some of that stuff. I don't want monuments up to people like Malcolm X or Angela Davis, okay? Even if they're figures from American history, they represent bad stuff. I don't want monuments up to the Rosenbergs who were communist spies, okay? I don't want a monument up to someone like an Alger Hiss. I don't want monuments up to people who are bad for this country. Once again, this is the point I made with my book, Speechless, controlling words, controlling minds about speech. Thank you. I haven't done one of those in a while. The false dichotomy when we were talking about free speech was between free speech and censorship. When really the real battle is between competing sets of standards. Because all societies have standards. Same thing here. The real debate is not between do we tear down the statues or do we keep up all the statues. The real question is who's worthy of a statue? Who's worthy of a statue? Who's worthy of a monument? Who's worthy of venerating as a political matter and on this point, great story. We don't have time to get to today, but maybe I'll tease it at least. President Trump is putting up a new statue at the White House, reportedly, and it is apparently going to be of one of the great men in this country's history, in this hemisphere's history, in world history, and that is Christopher Columbus. We'll have to get to that tomorrow because today's theology Thursday, rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code knowleskandawlas at checkout for two months free on all annual plans. What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with? Martin? I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not so of this world. 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