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An American airman was shot down in Iran on Good Friday. The message that he radioed out to call for his rescue was God is good. He hid out in a 7,000 foot mountain, seven being the number of divine completion. And he was rescued seven hours after the start of the rescue mission before dawn on Easter Sunday, Good Friday, he goes down. Easter Sunday he's rescued. And the atheists will still say that that is all meaningless. We will get to this amazing mission as well as to President Trump's Easter message praising Allah and the undeniable Christian Ray Conquista of the popular culture on this very happy Easter Monday. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles. Welcome back to the show. ICE and Border Patrol have arrested and removed from America the niece and grand niece of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. The niece and grand niece apparently hated America, referred to America as Satan. They've now been deported, leading to the question how did General Soleimani's niece and grand niece get into America? What a joke. We were under Joe Biden and Barack Obama. First though, I want to tell you about Policygenius. Go to policygenius.com knowles k n o W L E S Folks, there is a lot in your life that you have to keep track of. You've got dozens of passwords stored in three different places. Your kids, school and sports schedules are a complete disaster. Your small business to do list is never ending. For all the stuff we remember, we forget 10 more things. What happens to your family financially if something happens to you? The responsibility of protecting your loved ones and planning for the future is heavy. Trying to navigate life insurance on your own can be a big Mess. Our sponsor, PolicyGenius makes that process dramatically easier by acting as an online insurance marketplace, not as an insurance company. 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But there was a weapons systems officer who was pretty seriously injured, but who was not found right away. And then the clock was ticking because the Iranians put out a $60,000 bounty on his head. $60,000 is 10 times the annual income in Iran. And so you had not just the IRGC and the Iranian military going after this guy, but you had locals, you had tribesmen, you had ordinary people who were trying to get the 60 grand. So everyone trying to get this guy, the Americans trying to keep the enemy forces off this guy, he hid out in a mountain, in a 7,000 foot mountain. This number seven is important because it's the number of divine completion. It takes God seven days to create the world. Seven days in a week. Seven is very significant. So he's hiding out in the Zagros mountains, climbs a 7,000 foot ridge, and, and he's hanging there for 36 hours with just a handgun for defense. Whenever the Iranians start to get within a couple of miles of where he is, apparently our drones were just zapping them. But nevertheless, that's pretty dangerous because if you keep zapping all the people around this guy, then that means the enemy forces know where the guy is. Which is why the CIA had to run a diversion op. They ran kind of like a fake rescue for this guy. They planted fake intel that he had already had been rescued, that he was being driven out of Iran. And then there was this daylight operation Sunday morning involving dozens of aircraft, MQ9 Reaper drones. They provided the protective perimeter and they get this guy out. And there were no US casualties during his rescue. So according to a US military official familiar with the operation, the US Air Force had to use multiple bombs to blow up all the aircraft they abandoned at the airstrip. The they created an airstrip just for this operation, then blew up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of American military equipment, all to get this one guy out. This guy who goes down on Good Friday, radios and says, God is good, goes up 7,000ft. Rescue operation initiated seven hours later. Easter Sunday, he's rescued. And atheists will still say that's all just a coincidence. The thing you have to ask yourself what is most interesting about this story to me is not the military prowess, though. It's amazing. We have the greatest military force ever in the history of the world. That's beyond dispute Even our enemies would admit it. What's most impressive to me is the significance. All those symbols that I just mentioned. And so the question I have to ask you is, is that really significant? Is it significant that the guy was shot down on Good Friday, the day of Christ's resurrection, and rescued, Sorry, the day of Christ's crucifixion and rescued Easter Sunday, the day of Christ's resurrection, is that significant? Does that mean anything? Does the fact that he radioed God is good when he was basically hopeless, does that mean anything? Does it mean anything? What modern people, even some quasi religious people are gonna say is, no, not really. No, look, that's a weird coincidence, isn't it? But no, the only reason it seems like it has meaning is because we impose meaning on it. These events happen and then we read into those events meaning. Really apply this to the rest of history. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two men who kind of hated each other, but they were also kind of. They were frenemies. The second and third president of the United States, men of the revolution were. They died on the same day, 50 years after the revolution. They died on the 4th of July. They died on the 4th Of July, 50 years after the Declaration of Independence. They died within hours of each other. Is that significant? Does that mean anything? Christ is born within the confines of the Roman Empire. He's known as the Son of God. He is born while the son of the divine Caesar Augustus is reigning on the throne. He's called the Son of the Divine because when Julius Caesar died, a comet that was flying through the air was understood to be Caesar being deified, going up to the heavens. And so Augustus was called the son of the divine, Filius Divi. Christ is called Filius dei, Son of God. Both are known as Prince of Peace. They inaugurate peaceful eras, the Pax Romana on earth and the eternal peace. Is that just mere coincidence? I don't think so. Probably in your own life you've had these little weird glimpses of what seems numinous, what seems like more than coincidence, what seems like providence. It seems like there's an order to the world. It seems like things happen for a reason. You've probably seen that, you know, a relative dies and some special thing associated with that relative pops up. Everyone has these experiences. In fact, we all act as though the world has meaning. So I guess my takeaway from this story, this amazing story that everybody's going to be talking about today, this unbelievable rescue of this pilot or of this weapons systems officer in Iran, if That has meaning, which it obviously does. That means that there is an intelligence that comes before our intelligence. That means that there is an order to the universe that is outside of us. That means that there is an objective truth that we should feel impelled to align ourselves with. It means that there's something more than our own will and our own desires. That is part of the miraculous part of the story, is what it tells us about our own lives. Really, really magnificent stuff. Okay, now, speaking of Iran and President Trump's operations, President Trump marked Easter by tweeting out. Do I have the tweet? Yes. Here's the tweet from President Trump. Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the effing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll all be living in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah. President Donald J. Trump. I love it. I am wearing. I'm in Washington right now. I'm gonna be at the White House Easter egg roll in a moment with my boys. Very exciting. And I'm wearing a little political artifact. This is a tie from the first Trump term. And if you can, if you look in really closely, it's little white houses and little Twitter birds. That's the. And it. The tweets really define the Trump era. And this is one for the history books. There are people on the right, putatively on the right, even sincerely on the right, who have a big problem with this tweet. Trump is threatening war crimes. How could he talk about Allah on Easter? He's lost it. He's out of control. Ten years in, they still don't get it. Look at this tweet again. Tuesday will be power plan day, meaning he's going to blow up the power plans. He's tried not to do that so far. He says, I only want to destroy the Iranian military, but I don't want to totally destroy their country because I want to give them the ability to rebuild once they either replace their regime or align their regime closer to American interests. Then he says, look, you don't wanna make a deal? Okay, Tuesday is power plant day and bridge day. I'm gonna blow up all your bridges all wrapped up in one in Iran. There's gonna be nothing like it. And then, in case you don't get what he's asking for, he tells you directly, open the effing. He says he doesn't just say effing, he says the real word. But this is a family show, so we don't open the effing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah. President Donald J. Trump. So this tweet is three things, and it's the opposite of what everyone's saying it is. People say, this isn't funny. This isn't funny. First of all, stop. Stop it. I don't care how much you hate Trump. I don't care how much you've been radicalized. It's very funny. This is very funny. This might be the funniest tweet ever sent. Even if you hate it, even if you think it's gonna bring on World War iii. Come on. It's hilarious. But then what they say is, this is Trump acting emotionally. He's a madman. He's a tyrant drunk with power. No, again, you could say, I don't like the tweet. I don't like the war in Iran. I don't like the threats. Now, we've now ended the five weeks of war in Iran. So obviously we're in week six. That's when people are starting to get concerned. Trump said it was gonna last about five weeks. Now we're in week six. They wanna wrap this up. Even if you hate the war, this tweet is not reckless. It's not impetuous. Obviously, this is a disciplined tweet. You know the proof that this is a disciplined tweet, that second to last line, praise be to Allah. So it sounds like, I'm going to blow this up. I'm going to blow that up, you effing dirty jerks. I'm going to blow you all up. You're going to live in hell. Praise be to Allah. The praise be to Allah is the signal that this was not written in a fit of rage. The praise be to Allah is a dry joke. He's not actually giving praise to Allah. He. He's mocking their religion. He's mocking even the kind of diction that you get out of Iran. Trump is, in this tweet, speaking their language. When the Ayatollah rip. When the Ayatollah used to say, you know, death to America, the great Satan will go down. The little Satan will be destroyed in Israel, and the great Satan will go down and destruction will rain down on the. Trump is mocking that kind of dictionary, and he's telling you he's doing that by mocking their religion, basically saying, praise be to Allah. Open the strait or I'm gonna destroy your whole country. And then finally, the last thing that this tweet is, though we'll see how much it is, is effective. I don't mean that the tweet is gonna end the Iran war. I don't mean that the tweet is gonna open the Strait of Hormuz. It might. The reason that the tweet is effective is because you don't know if he's serious or not. That's the reason. The reason the tweet is effective is because people, including people who are putatively on his own side, think that he's totally lost it and he's going to start glassing Iran and nuking civilian centers. That's why it's effective, because Trump's greatest strength in foreign policy is unpredictability. Now, what we do know, this part is predictable, is the five weeks are up. People are starting to get concerned, including plan trusters, including people who are not panic insurance. They're starting to get concerned because they don't want this war to go on for two months or three months or through the midterms or for 10 years. They want this thing to be wrapped up. I think Trump probably wants this to be wrapped up. He clearly wants out. And so the question is, how's he gonna do it? How is he gonna get Iran to the negotiating table? He can bring people in the negotiating table, and if they cross him, he can kill them and move to the next guy. He's doing that, but he wants us to move faster. And so now he starts speaking their language. The tweet may or may not work to end the war, but it's very funny, it's very disciplined, and it's very effective as a negotiating matter, that part is beyond dispute. If you have a problem with that, man, I don't know. Politics just isn't for you. Okay? Speaking of tweets, Zoran Mamdani of New Yorkistan. Zoran Mamdani sent out an Easter tweet that was a lot better than his Good Friday tweet. And it tells you a lot about the big cultural news story. Which is? Which is that everybody is getting baptized. Now, speaking of baptisms, I want to tell you about Preborn. Go to Preborn.comKnowles A lot of good movements in the culture. We're seeing a return to tradition, a return to faith. But the odds are still pretty rough out there. Okay? The truth is often silenced in our culture. That silence has a cost. Right now, women facing unexpected pregnancies are bombarded with pressure and fear before they ever have a chance to pause, to breathe or to hear the truth about life and hope that is why. One of the many reasons why I stand with our sponsor, Preborn. At every Preborn Network clinic, a woman is welcomed with compassion and given a free ultrasound. In that sacred moment, she sees what she's never seen before. 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He says, today many people mark a day of sacrifice and they will. Some will abstain from food, some will abstain from speaking. Some will abstain from speaking. Is that a thing on Good Friday? You don't speak? I don't. Maybe for you pray, you go to church for a little bit. What are you talking about? I don't know. He didn't know. But it's a day of sacrifice. And I hated that tweet because that's not what Good Friday marks. You know what Good Friday marks? Good Friday marks the conquest of death on the cross by Jesus Christ, who is not a generalization. He's not an idea, he's not a vague sentiment. He's a man who also happens to be God. That's what Good Friday marks. It does not mark some vague generality that Zoran Mamdani can kind of ambiguously wave his hands at. It marks a real historical event and the most significant historical event in the history of the world. The turning point of history, when Christ conquers death on the cross, he is resurrected on the third day in accordance with the scriptures and as the sign that he has conquered death on the cross. But the cross is the axle on which the world turns. The whole cosmos turns. And it's a man who does it. A man who happens to be God. So I hated the Mamdani tweet. Some Christians said, oh, it's nice. He's kind of acknowledging the day. Not good enough. Sorry. Say nothing at all if you're not going to say what it's really about. But anyway, Zoran got the message because on Easter, he tweets out, happy Easter, New York. Today, millions of New Yorkers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the victory of hope over despair and faith over fear. Yeah, that's more like it. Zoron, do you remember there was that shooting at a church and I think. Was it Muslims were attacking the church? I don't even remember. There's so many of these incidents, but Hillary Clinton referred to the Christians there, the congregants, as Easter worshipers. They're Easter worshiper now. They're not worshiping Easter. They're worshiping Jesus Christ because they're Christians. They don't want to say that name. Zoron didn't want to say the name on Friday. Now he's saying it. Happy Easter, New York. Today, New Yorkers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Then he goes on. As the air warms and cherry blossoms begin to bloom, this holy day is a sacred time to pause and reflect on a season of rebirth. Good. Whether you spend this day singing in pews, parading down fifth Avenue, joining a processional guided by the bamboo trumpets of Haitian rah rah music, or hunting for painted eggs amidst the spring grass, I wish every New Yorker a joyous day. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What? Hold on. What did you just say? Oh, I just said, if you're parading down fifth Avenue. No, no, no, after that. Oh, no, I said, if you're painting eggs. No, no, no, before that. What was the. The Haitian rah rah? Bamboo. What? He can't help himself. He can't help himself. He has to get in some lib nonsense that no one's ever heard of. I googled it. It's some weird thing that Haitian slaves used to do before they launched the voodoo revolution and slaughtered all the white people on the island and became the worst country in the world ever since, just for. Just an absolutely cursed, awful country. Anyway, though some Haitians are good people. Bamboo trumpets of rah rah. Is that what you do on you remember? You think I've got my Easter bonnet, my bamboo, and my rah rah to have a Haitian parade? No, you never. You didn't do that. Whatever. Whatever. Whatever. He goes on. Let us all embrace this holiday's spirit of hope and renewal as we build the city and the world that we deserve. You know what I love most about that tweet? Zoran had to send it. He didn't want to send it. He was forced to send it. We know he didn't want to send it because we have his Good Friday tweet. Good Friday, the most solemn day in the Christian liturgical calendar about the day that Christ sacrificed himself to redeem mankind. He refuses to mention Jesus and then he changes his tune two days later. Why? Because of the outcry. Because of the pressure. Because it would hurt his political prospects if he didn't mention Christ on Easter. I don't want to be uncharitable here and read cynicism, but come on. I have the Good Friday tweet. I'm just being rational here. He got forced into it. And you know what? That's fine. Hypocrisy is a tribute vice pays to virtue. I'm cool with it. In fact, I'm happier about it because I don't look for Zoran Mamdani's soul. I hope that he is Christian. I hope that's good for him. But as a political matter, I don't really care about him sending the tweet out of the goodness of his heart or his true sentiment. I like that. The political conditions are such right now that Christianity is back. And if you want to be a successful politician, a successful public figure, it actually helps you to support Christianity. That was true for basically all of American history. But for the last 20 years, 25 years, that has not helped you. In fact, people had to downplay their Christianity. Christianity was seen as stupid and backwards and oppressive and all the opposite of what it really is. And now we're back. You know the proof. You want to know the proof positive of this? A true Easter miracle happened yesterday. Forget about the rescue in Iran. Google in the Google doodle referenced Easter. Do we have the Google doodle? We do now. Of course. There's no Christianity. There's no cross. There's no empty tomb. There's no. None of. Look, baby steps. It just said Google spelled out in little Easter eggs in little egg cups, little oofa la coc kind of cups. Google. Now, why should this be Easter? It's the most significant event of the Christian liturgical calendar. Surely Google puts up little doodles almost every day for some nonsense birthday that you've never heard of for National Pygmy Muslim Day in Zimbabwe. But they don't. Surely they would put something up for Easter, right? No. The last time that Google had A doodle that referenced Easter was 26 years ago. It was the year 2000. It was right after Google was founded. That was the last time because Google is extremely left wing and deeply anti Christian. So why are they putting up the Google doodle Easter eggs now? They would reference the craziest things on Christian holidays. Oh, today. Today was actually the birthday of the 24 year old Sumerian beat poet Click clack Abedngo say. I thought it was Christmas. No, no, no. The more important thing to remember is the slam poetry of mx. They them abadingo. That's what they would do like every year. And now they have to put up the Easter eggs. Why? Because the people expect it and the people demand it. Baptisms are up, Confirmations are up all over the country, specifically among Catholics. But it is a part of a broader religious trend. If you've been looking at social media, you've probably seen it, but it's backed up by data from specific parishes. Even CNN has to admit it. We'll get to that in a second. First I want to tell you about Leaf filter. Go to leaffilter.com knowles k n a W L E S Knockoffs are one of the great lies of modern life. We convince ourselves that the cheaper flimsy version is basically the same thing, you know. Hey mom, can we get leaffilter? Oh, don't worry son. We have Leaffilter at home. No you don't. No you don't. You're gonna get some cheap nonsense that's gonna screw up your house. It's not gonna keep all the gunk out of your gutters. It's gonna screw up your foundation. Your house is gonna collapse on you and won't you feel the fool? Do not cheap out when it comes to your gutters, okay? 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There's a new and somewhat unexpected story emerging inside American churches. Not decline, but growth. According to the New York Times, Catholic dioceses across the country are reporting a sharp increase in adult conversions, with some seeing their highest numbers in years. In Detroit, more than 1400 new Catholics expected this Easter, a 21 year high. In Washington, nearly 1800 will join, also up from last year. And it's not just happening in one region. The Times reports this trend is showing up in large and small diocese alike. Meanwhile, the Washington Post takes us inside one parish in New York City where attendance has jumped 20% in just the last six months, with services now so packed that people are turned away at the door. And this is not limited to Catholicism. According to another New York Times report, Orthodox Christian churches also seeing a surgeon with priests describing record numbers of new converts, many of them young men. So across different traditions, a similar pattern is emerging.
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Even CNN is admitting that religion is on the rise, specifically among the youth. And do you know why? Because the gods of the Copybook headings come back. You know that poem? I think I read it on the show before. This is by Rudyard Kipling. The poem goes. As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the gods of the marketplace. Peering through reverent fingers, I watch them flourish and fall. And the gods of the Copybook headings, I notice, outlast them all. We are living in trees when they met us, they showed us each in turn that water would certainly wet us as fire would certainly burn. But we found them lacking in uplift, vision and breadth of mind. So we left them to teach the gorillas while we followed the march of mankind. Goes on. It's a little bit longer. I'll just get to the last little bit here. Then the gods of the market tumbled. Look at these false gods that we followed. The gods of preference and desire and public opinion. They tumbled and their smooth tongued wizards withdrew. And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true that all is not gold that glitters and two and two make four. And the gods of the Copybook headings limped up to explain it once more, as it will be true in the future. It was at the birth of man. There are only four things certain since social progress began that the dog returns to his vomit and the sow returns to her mire. And the burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the fire. And that after this is accomplished and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, as surely as water will wet us, as surely as fire will burn the gods of the copybook headings with terror and slaughter. Return what this is about. Lest you need just a little English class on this, though I think most people will get the meaning. Is that those little moral maxims you used to write in your notebooks, people used to be taught. They're not even taught that in school anymore. Those aren't just sentiment. Those aren't just social constructs. Those aren't just the fads of any given age. Those are the eternal moral rules. Those are the eternal facts of life. And we try to pretend they don't matter. And we try to reinvent the world, we try to change the world, and it doesn't work because the reality reasserts itself in the end. And so we're talking about the gods of the copybook headings. These are these lower gods of the kind of natural laws, moral laws. God himself returns. Do you know why? Because man is a religious creature. And man has a natural longing for God. And. And God is ultimately our only satisfaction. God is our only satisfaction because we're physical creatures in part. So water satisfies us. Mayflower cigars satisfy us. Candy satisfies us. Sex satisfies us. We have these natural longings, but we're also immaterial. We're also souls. We're also mind. We're also rational cognitive power. And because of that, material goods can't satisfy that. So it's this. The libs kind of view this as a curse. We desire more than we can possibly have. Oh, isn't this the curse? The tragedy of mankind. We desire eternal life, but we die. We desire the infinite, the eternal, but we're fixed in the finite. Oh, cursed existence. What a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Signifying nothing. Notice that from Macbeth. Signifying nothing. We're talking about what if there's meaning in the world, there's meaning in that rescue. But the libs are totally wrong about everything, but especially about this, because God does exist, because he has offered us eternal life. That's the sign of Easter. You know, Christ says in the Gospels, a wicked generation seeks a sign, and to that generation no sign will be given. None but the sign of Jonah. The sign of Jonah is Jonah going down in the belly of the whale for three nights and being resurrected. Christ going down harrowing hell, being resurrected on the third day. That's the sign you can have eternal life. That's the sign you can do it. There is a satisfaction. Young people in particular are getting this right now. Older people are getting this to some degree. CNN is scratching its head. It doesn't, can't figure it out, but does at least acknowledge that it's happening. The eternal questions remain. And there are eternal solutions too. You just have to acknowledge their existence, okay? You have to acknowledge their existence and then cooperate with God's grace to achieve them. Speaking of related shifts, really, really good news. Gen Z women want to be tradwives. They just do. They just want to be trad wives. And the libs are very upset about this. Here is Vice magazine, kind of hipster lib magazine. Gen Z women are obsessed with becoming trad wives. According to Edu Berdy. Here's how Gen Z women rank their dream lives based on four popular role models, including trad wives. So I'll just read a little bit of it. It's a really good article, worth reading. Very satisfying. The millennials were the girl boss era. And it's very sad because I'm a millennial. Many of my friends, many of my best friends are millennials. Even millennial women. And millennial women really screwed up their lives. And they were led into delusion by their teachers and in some cases by their parents. They were told to not have families, to have casual sex, to go just follow a career, to ignore most of the things that really matter. And Gen Z, they're not the girl bosses, according to Vice. While the girl boss era might not be fully over, it's shifted a bit, especially among Gen zers who have redefined the meaning of success. In fact, a new study by Edu bertie found that 47% of Gen Z women would choose a stable, traditional life over luxury, money and fame. 47%, which is not a majority, but it is a plurality. That's the largest grouping of women in that cohort, around 23% still want to be girl bosses, according to the study. They aim for independence, success, even fame. And they will prioritize their careers over relationships or marriage. But here's the key. Here's the part of the article most people are going to miss. Gen Z simply measures power differently by how much you can afford to not hustle, Alex Cinco states, one of the people interviewed here. Therefore, traditional wives and girl bosses are not so far removed from each other these days. Their core values are Often similar. So first of all, first of all, the fact that women want to be trad wives, this is understood to be some shocking claim. My family members and friends said this is shocking. I can't believe this. That women want to be trad wives. Our generation fought against that to liberate women from being. This is so weird. It's not weird. It's not weird. This is what women naturally want. I'm not saying all women. There are exceptions. There's the Margaret Thatcher exception. I know women like this. I know women who are really not best suited to be trad wives, but there are very few of them. Margaret Thatcher is the exception, not the rule. She's an exceptional woman, but she's the exception, not the rule. Most women, wannabe wives and mothers, it's just natural. Think about this, think about if it were flipped. If men were told for decades that they should really want to be stay at home dads, they shouldn't wanna go out to work, they shouldn't wanna bring home the bacon, they shouldn't wanna go lead in public life, they should just wanna be stay at home dads. Gucci gooing their babies and feeding them their bottles and changing their diapers and keeping home, managing the home economy, even cooking, cleaning, nurturing. When the wife come home from work, you say, oh, honey, let me get you your pipe and your slippers. I don't know, I know I'm mixing up eras, but let's say men were told that that's what they should want, that that's what they need to want for decades. Would you be surprised if 20, 30 years later, men started to say, you know what? This really isn't for me. I don't really, I don't feel like I'm that good at this. I don't naturally want to do this kind of stuff. I'd really like to go out and like hunt or work or bring home the bacon or like go, I want to go do something. I'm not that nurturing. I don't totally. Would you be surprised? No, of course not. You say, yeah, I was crazy to try to get the man to wear an apron again. Sometimes it happens. Just like there's the Margaret Thatcher exception, there is the stay at home dad exception. Friends of mine have done that in rare instances. That can work. But the general rule is what we see. And the key part of this article, which you get there at the very end, is that this isn't even really a battle of desires so much as it is a misunderstanding of how to best attain Desires. Think about the girl boss and the trad wife. What do they want? Do they want totally different things? It seems like they do, but what do they really want? Seems to me the girl boss wants financial security. You go out and make some money, she wants financial security, so does the trad wife. They just get it in different ways. You know what the girl boss wants? The one who wants to go out, be a big star, be an influencer, or even just be really good at business. Do you know what the girl boss wants? I think she wants to be loved. Certainly that's what the influencer wants. That's what the movie star wants. That's what the woman hooking up with three guys a week in New York while she's doing her 100 hour a week job, that's what she wants. She wants to be loved, but she's trying to be loved in a way that most of the time is a mistake. The trad wife wants to be loved. What else do they want? I know what the girl boss wants. She wants to leave a legacy. That's it. I don't want to just live in the obscurity of the home. No, I want to leave my mark. I want to leave a legacy. I want people to remember me. You think the trad wife doesn't want that? What do you think the trad wife is doing? The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. Ironically, the trad wife is much, much, much more likely orders of magnitude more likely to leave a legacy, to be remembered, to have her name echo throughout history than the girl boss. That's the irony of it. And it's the tragedy really, of specifically the millennial women is these women who forego marriage, who forego kids, who just pursue the career, who just want to be a girl boss. The things that they desire, they're actually usually giving up. This is what a Faustian bargain is. They're actually. They're not even getting the things they think they're getting in exchange for the massive sacrifice that they're making. And they're figuring that out. Gen Z is looking to the poor millennial women saying, shoot, it didn't work out for you. I don't want to make the same mistake. I want all the things you want, but I actually want to get them. Okay, speaking of liberal women, speaking of wives, Gavin Newsom's wife. We have to. Something has to be done about Gavin Newsom's wife. The potential next first lady of the United States, folks. Daily Wire plus members can now chat live with the show, no longer are you just here to watch the conversation. We want you to be a part of it. Ask your questions right now. Get answers right here as we go. If you're not a member, go to dailywire.com subscribe. You have to be a member. It's the rule. Okay, thank you. My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummers Workshop Norms music. Who says Ketanji Jackson is a few eggs short of an Easter basket? That's a better way to put it. I said I was trying to speak euphemistically. I don't really want to be too harsh. I don't want to detract too toughly. Is that an adverb? I'm Ketanji Jackson. So I said she's not the brightest bulb in the candelabra, but no. Drummers Workshop Norms music. You're right. She's a few eggs short of an Easter basket. No doubt about it. Gavin Newsom's wife is getting a lot of attention. I think she was an actress. I think so. Nice looking lady. But she's made these videos over the years offering her opinions on social issues and the whole right has been mocking her. And I've tried to lay off. I've tried to lay off because I said, look, this woman, she's not a Rhodes scholar. She's not a political genius. This is not Machiavelli or Count Von Metternich. This is a nice looking blonde lady who has made videos to support the latest thing. Her politics, such as it is, is just liberal sentiment. It is all emotion and passion. It has no reason to it whatsoever. And so I'm not gonna pull up the old videos of her supporting Black Lives Matter or even Trans. Maybe I don't. Those were back then. Maybe she'll learn as her husband runs for president, she'll just learn to kind of smile, you know, keep the old yapper a little bit more on the closed side of things. And then we don't need to make fun of her too much. But she can't do it. And so I'm watching. I'm saying, okay, she's not learning. She's not. There's a real chance that Gavin Newsom becomes the president, which means that this woman could become the first lady.
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Trust me, I'm not a fan of Pam Bondi nor Kristi Noemi, but I need to call out that it's no surprise to me that the first two prominent people pushed out of this administration were women. Let me explain. The conservative women that Trump hand picks who align themselves with an agenda that controls women, restricting our rights, limiting our autonomy, and pushing us back into this straitjacket of femininity that is only in service of men. There's a familiar pattern here. Women are brought in packaged, mar a lago stack style and lift it up as long as they commit to wholeheartedly serve the interests of the patriarch at the top. Now, it looks like power or proximity to power with a big title, but it never comes with job security and protection. There's no secure place inside this handpicked patriarchal body that systemically disrespects, devalues and discriminates against women and girls. And this is where complicity comes in. Because when you align yourself with that power value system, with a leader who has publicly devalued women, degraded them, and been found liable of abusing women, well, guess what? You're going to be the first to go. So while you're in a perceived position of power in this system that regularly diminishes and devalues other women, even if
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you just stop it. Just stop it. I can't. I can't. I thought it was going to end sooner, and I just can't take it. I just can't. I can't take that tone for four or eight years. I just can't take it. Forget the ridiculous substance. It's the condescending, know it all feminism, which ironically doesn't know a damn thing about the world whatsoever. Now she's defending Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi, who President Trump, I think, had a lot of patience with and let them last a very long time in their jobs. They, despite many calls for them to go, they were in particularly tough jobs. But they also were the source of most of the criticism of the Trump administration during the first year. The Epstein stumble, that was a stumble out of the AG's office, okay? And Trump, I think, was very patient with her. The DHS operations were very, very tough to conduct. But basically the biggest criticism he got, at least on an immediate matter, not the longstanding Epstein thing, but an immediate matter, was because of the handling of Minnesota's deportations under Kristine Ohm. We can tell you why they got fired and they got fired much later than a lot of people were calling for them to. To say, this is about women. She's. And, you know, and the patriarchy and our rights, and we all gave. And get to kill babies. I can't. Give me Hillary Clinton. Give me Hillary over that woman any day of the week. Hillary might be. I don't Know that she's the devil. She might be a lesser demon incarnate, but thank goodness at least the woman's smart, she's articulate. I know what she wants in terms of policy. But this woman, she's pretty, she seems kind of nice. And it's frankly probably a more radical and more leftist kind of feminism than anything Hillary's ever offered. Please give me Hillary. Can I say another. This is a little tangential, but I was saying that I was lying on the couch last night with sweet little Elise. I have the family here in D.C. i was lying on the couch and an old picture came up of Hillary. Like law School Hillary, College Hillary, something like that. And can I say something? Because I know now she's a woman of a certain age. Can I say something? Law school Hillary, not a bad looking woman. Can I say it? Can I say it? Look, this can be clipped out and I don't. But law school Hillary. Look, Bill, he has taste and he saw something in her. And this lady, she sounds nice. You know, Newsom's wife. And she looks nice, certainly. But I can't take this. This would be a return to the Obama era. This would be right back to Obama. I can't. Please, please don't do. We must do everything we can to stop Newsom. I don't care about his policies. The biggest issue is don't bring me back to that. Please, frankly, make him the nominee. That. That message from that wife. That is why men shifted so much, especially young men shifted so much to the right in recent years. We can't have that. Okay, Speaking of female relatives of terrible political leaders, the niece and grand niece of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani were just deported from the United States. Follow up question. Why were they in the United States? Now? You might say maybe they defected. Maybe they were very pro America. No, they weren't. They hate America. They were. I think Marco Rubio has sent out a tweet about this. They called America the Great Satan. They celebrated attacks on Americans. They had legal status. How did these people get into the country? How did these people get in? I don't know. Speaking of removing women, one story I want to get to came out at least a few days ago, but it's really worth pointing to. In Providence, Rhode island, there is a mural that's gone up of Irina Zyrutska. You remember Irina Zyrutska. She's a woman who was savagely murdered on a train. This woman was almost everything the libs love. She was an immigrant. She's A single woman. She's from Ukraine, for one. She was certainly a victim. But here's the rub. She was white. And she was a victim of a black guy. A black guy who, after he murdered her, made a comment about how happy he was that he killed a white woman. And so the libs want to take the mural down. Multiple people. The mayor wants to take the mural down. Representative David Morales had this to say. Ultimately, we want to make sure that every community member that calls Providence home feels safe. And we can both agree that this mural behind us does not reflect Providence's values, nor does it reflect the creativity that we want to see in our city. The mural doesn't reflect the creativity that we want. So, okay, the main takeaway that I've seen everyone observe about this is the Democrats hate white people. Yes, they do. Yeah, we got it. The liberals hate white people. The main takeaway I've seen from a lot of conservatives is can you imagine if the shoe were on the other foot and the roles were reversed and the positions were. Can you imagine the Democrats are the real racists. Yes, yes, sure. Okay. The funnier aspect of this, to me, it's kind of like how with the rescue story in Iran, the thing that's most interesting to me is what it means for all of us. If there is meaning in the world, it's like one level deeper. The whole story is so astounding. And it's just we should give thanks to God for it. But think about it. If there's meaning in the world, that radically changes everything about how you engage in the world, doesn't it? That radically shifts, like your whole life. If you can actually accept that there is meaning in the world, well, it's the same thing here. What is interesting to me about this is not that the Democrats hate white people or they want to let criminals, especially black criminals, off the hook. It's not that. Notice how quick the libs are to regulate art. There's this thing that the libs have been pushing for almost 100 years now, which is that art should have no limits. Art should have no limits. Anything can be art. If we take a photograph of a crucifix in urine, that's great art. That's a real work of art. Someone called it piss Christ. Horrifically blasphemous work of so called art. But it was defended. We can never regulate art. You know, Marcel Duchamp puts a toilet in a museum and he says, it's art. Someone tapes a banana to a wall, that's art. Even the Most vile, blasphemous sort of things. Oh, no, that's art. But the only reason the libs will tolerate blasphemous art is because it's art that blasphemes a God that they hate. Like God himself. Christ. But when art blasphemes a false God, like the false God of race in this case, saying that a black guy can commit a crime, saying that a white lady could be a victim of a crime, that's a sort of blasphemy for the false religion of liberalism. So they won't allow that. There's this slogan which was. It's put in Latin. But it's not an ancient Latin slogan. It's just a new slogan put into Latin. Aris gratia artis. Art for art's sake. It's the motto of MGM Studios. Art for art's sake. Art shouldn't be for a purpose. It shouldn't have an agenda. Art is just for art's sake. Everything can be art. You know, we never want to except for this. Look how quick they want to regulate art. So where did the abstract Expressionism go? Where did the free spirit. Free spirit go? I don't know. It's gone. It's gone. I don't know. All right. Good standards are coming back to art. Fine by me. Let's put some real standards in, okay? Speaking of art, today's Music Monday. 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