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Go to CatholicVote.org America250 to get your tickets or to sign up to watch. The Trump administration has announced an historic campaign to denaturalize immigrants who currently have US Citizenship. I want to make sure you heard that correctly, that you understand what that means. In the immigration debate for most of my life, there were two positions you could hold. You could want more legal immigration but less illegal immigration, or you could want more legal immigration and more illegal immigration. Those were the two positions. Then Trump came around and changed the conversation. After 2016, there was a third option. You could want less illegal immigration and less legal immigration. That was a great improvement. What we're talking about here is something much further, a fourth option. You can now want to revoke the citizenship of immigrants who have already obtained it. And the Trump administration is actually pursuing that option. And this is exactly what I voted for. We will get into the specifics of how it will play out then. Nerdy girls in Silicon Valley are turning to prostitution as AI takes their jobs. And speaking of prostitution, Hunter Biden attempts a rebrand. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Smash the like button and subscribe. Also check us out on Spotify where you can download the full episode audio and video to watch or listen whenever you want without using your data. Do not miss an episode. A massive protest from the left outside of TPUSA's Young Women Leadership Summit. We will get to what that should tell us about the political order and the very robust future of TPUSA. First, I want to tell you about Hallow. Go to Hallow.comKnowles it's very, very important as we all prepare for vacation season. The kids are out of school, we still got all of our work responsibilities. It's very, very important to pay attention to our prayer life. 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The app makes it easier to incorporate prayer into daily life through guided prayers, scripture, meditations, rosaries, sleep content, catechesis, and challenges led by Catholic voices people already know and trust. I find when my prayer life is in order, life goes a lot better. And I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. And when my prayer life starts to fall out of order, life gets a little tougher. Download Hallow for 3 Months Free and join us for the heart of Jesus challenge. Hallow.comKnowles h a l l o w.comKnowles for three months free. This is so, so great. I love it. And already the naysayers and the whiners and the complainers, they're gonna say, well, they're not denaturalizing enough citizens. Well, yeah, look. Well, I know that Biden was letting in 3 million illegals per year on top of all the legal immigrants. And I know that Trump closed down the border and stopped those illegals, 3 million illegals per year from coming in. And I know he deported about 2 million illegals on top of that. And I know he's denaturalizing US Citizens who are immigrants because they defrauded the government on their immigration applications. But it's not enough. Yeah, okay, man, whatever. It's like just such a massive shift from even two years ago. Are you kidding me? And a massive shift from the last, I don't know, 60 years of immigration policy. Here is the vice president explaining the policy. Yeah, well, absolutely.
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And that's one of the angles that we're looking at, is the people who committed immigration fraud against our system and how do we denaturalize those people and send them back to where they came from? There's also, as you know, Will, under the Biden administration, there was a big blurring of the lines between illegal and legal immigration. The Biden administration would often take people who were coming in on fraudulent asylum claims, fraudulent refugee claims, and basically wave the magic wand of amnesty and say, we're not going to enforce the immigration laws against those people. The first thing, and maybe the most important thing that we did in the Trump administration is that we stopped that from happening. But then you still have a lot of people who benefited from that Biden administration amnesty program. We're trying to unwind as much of that as possible. We've already had some success, by the way, Will, despite the fact that that left wing radicals in the justice system, the court system, have tried to stop us, we have been able to denaturalize and actually unwind that temporary protected status. The good news is that we're stopping the fraud that's happening against the American taxpayer. The bad news is that my own children will never be able to attend school at the Quality Leering Center.
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So, you know, great little singer there at the end. You know, unfortunately, Mike, we were just applying for the Somali Quality Leering center in Minnesota and. And we haven't heard back from them yet. This is really great news. It's really great for the vice president, the vice president who was put in charge of the fraud task force from the White House. And it's always dangerous for vice presidents because the White House will often put them in charge of things that they don't wanna deal with and then not give them the resources to do anything with it. So the perfect example of this is Kamala Harris under Biden. Biden said, hey, I'm gonna put you in charge of the border. You're gonna have to fix the border. But Kamala Harris was totally incompetent, totally of doing that. And the White House didn't actually want her to close the border anyway. The White House wanted open borders under Joe Biden. So in this case, they said, okay, we're gonna put J.D. vance, we're put the VP in charge of fraud. And you say, well, hold on, can the VP do that? Will the White house back the VP in doing that? And the VP's scoring big wins here, scoring major wins, unwinding a lot of that fraud. First of all, exposing a ton of the fraud, Working with the conservative journalists, including our own Luke Rosiak, Daily Wire's own Luke Rosiak, who exposed a lot of that fraud in Ohio to put a spotlight on that, and then unwinding a lot of that, unwinding a lot of the red tape and protections that Joe Biden had put into place. And now we're seeing actually denaturalizing US citizens who are caught up in the fraud. So according to cbs, the Trump admin is seeking to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens accused of immigration fraud. This is an, according to cbs, an unprecedented denaturalization campaign. I know a lot of people are gonna say 17, only 17. I wanna do 17 million. Forget about 17. Yeah, sure, but we haven't really seen this before. New York Times, cbs, all reporting. This is unprecedented. This is obviously a test run for a broader campaign. It's completely shifting the momentum on the immigration debate. It's expanding the Overton window of how we can even speak about immigration. For all the people throwing popcorn from the sidelines is how many people have you ever denaturalized? How many immigrants and illegal immigrants and fraudsters on temporary visas? How many of those people have you gotten out of the country? None. This is very, very impressive stuff. So federal law, according to cbs, has long allowed the government to try to denaturalize foreign born US citizens who have committed fraud. But the process has been historically lengthy, complex, seldom exercised, requiring officials to persuade a lot of judges. So sure, the federal government had this power, they basically never used it. Though Trump is putting this into overdrive, the Trump admin has sought to vastly escalate denaturalization efforts as part of its larger crackdown on illegal and legal immigration. I love this. I'm all for this. This was not even a view you could express on immigration for most of my life. But the problem with immigration is not just that people filled out the wrong paperwork. The problem with immigration is, is not just that they need to make sure they do it the right way. The problem with mass migration is that it frays social solidarity, radically changes the demographics of a country, destabilizes the political order and undermines sovereignty. That's the problem with mass migration. It's not even a problem with the migrants themselves. It's fun to beat up on the Somalis and the Somalis have committed a lot of crimes. It's fun to beat up on those Venezuelan gangsters and they've committed a lot of crimes too. But it's not even anything against Somalis as such or Venezuelans as such. It's just we have the highest foreign born percentage of the population ever and you can't sustain that. It's just not supportable by political order. So Trump is cracking down on all of it. Some of these 17 citizens targeted in the denaturalization campaign were convicted of violent or serious crimes, including sex offenses against children. Others were convicted of fraud crimes or accused of committing immigration fraud. So the political benefit of this too is you're now gonna put Democrats in the position of defending Chomos and pedophiles. That's what you're gonna do. And you're putting Dems in that position. And they'll do it, by the way. They will do it. They're gonna try to avoid the specifics, but then the conservatives can just smack em with the specifics and say, look, we're on the side of Americans who voted with the popular vote to get rid of a lot of the illegal aliens and the foreign born people broadly. And you Democrats are spending all of your political effort to defend chomos. So good luck. This is what I voted for. Love it, love to see it. Can't wait for this largest unprecedented denaturalization campaign to accelerate much, much further. Speaking of body counts, headline out of Forbes, the nerdy escorts cashing in on Silicon Valley's AI boom. It turns out that hookers who have an above average iq, at least above the average for hookers who have a little more book learning than most prostitutes are making bank in Silicon Valley, selling their courtesan wiles to tech oligarchs. I'll just read you a little bit from this story. It's worth reading the whole thing. In 2024, Maida Marek, which is an online pseudonym, was a recent college graduate working an entry level finance job when she started doing the mental math that is fast becoming a rite of passage in such industries. What happens when AI can do this better than I can? I was just talking to a guy who said his kid graduated with a data science degree from a very good school and he can't get a job. He can't get a job because those sectors, actually a lot of sectors, are undergoing this massive revolution because AI is just gobbling up all of their jobs. So she says, all right, hold on I'm a college graduate. I've spent all my money on university education. I've got this finance job. But within a matter of weeks, perhaps, AI is going to take my job. So what can I do? Marek took inventory. She was intelligent and naturally supportive. She was good at talking to people. She likes futurist rabbit holes, AI, biohacking, cryptocurrency, the sort of topics that can turn dinner into a three hour debate. So she decided to turn that toolkit into a new career and became an escort. Man. However bad you think the economy is or is about to become, however unstable you think our political order is or is about to become, it's so much worse than that. You have got college graduates who might have hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, who have learned technically difficult skills. You have them becoming hookers because that's the best career option for them, at least in their own minds. It's going to be very easy to make fun of this woman or women like her. It's going to be very easy to make jokes. She is responding to market pressure. She is responding to market pressure to provide what AI cannot. That is real. Her observation and her entry level job. That AI is about to do her job better than she can. If it can already. That is real. She's right about that. Her realization that she needs to be able to do something that AI cannot do is real. She's not just making that up. And what has she realized that she can offer that AI cannot? Her body. She said, well, the one thing that AI does not have, that I do have, is a body. So I am going to sell my body. That is not a totally irrational conclusion to draw. It's still the wrong conclusion, but it's not totally irrational. She's getting at something that's true. She's just taken it down the totally wrong path. It is true that human beings have something to offer that AI does not. And it's not our ability to crunch numbers, and it's not our ability to do research necessarily. It's not our ability to be a lawyer or an accountant or anything like that. But what we have to offer is not just our body, it's our humanity. And for materialists, this is kind of hard to grasp that humanity is more than the body. For materialists, we're just big blobs of flesh. We're just meat puppets with pistons firing in our heads and blood going through our veins. But there's more to that. A human being is a composite of body and soul. And so the body's Very important to that. A lot of people have forgotten that in recent years. That's what the transgender phenomenon was about. But what does that mean? What can we offer that AI cannot? Are we all just doomed to become hookers? And for those of us who aren't Runway supermodels, does that mean we're just totally up a creek without a paddle? No. I was having a debate with a big proponent of AI And I observed that there is something that I can do that AI cannot do. And it's not that thing that this lady is doing in a bed with the Silicon Valley guy. The thing that I can do that AI cannot do is I can write a poem. AI can't write a poem. This has become a big debate among people who are looking at the future of AI. AI actually can't write a poem. The reason that AI Cannot write a poem is, is that in order to write poetry, you need two things, and they're connected, really. You just need one thing in order to write poetry. You need to be able to come up with fresh metaphors. Most of the language that we use is just dead metaphors. The words that we use in our everyday conversation began as poetry. Much more evocative kinds of language. Today I'll use one that people use often. Say he was hoisted with his own petard. Most people will use that expression. I guess it's a little bit of a fancy expression, but people will use it. Many other such expressions. They'll say, ah, so and so was hoisted with his own petard. But when people use that expression, it's not a fresh metaphor. They're using it as a dead metaphor. They don't know what a petard is. They just know that that's an expression. That means that he undermined himself, that the thing that he was doing that he thought was going to help him actually ended up hurting him. But that is a metaphor. We human beings can come up with new metaphors. The reason that we can come up with new metaphors is in part because we have senses. We have sensory experience. So we can take in visual information from the world. Colors through our eyes, smells through our nose, textures through our fingers. We can take in that sensory information. We can combine them in our intellect, and we can come up with a fresh metaphor. And that's what poetry is. And an AI can't do that, because the language that AI Is built upon, it's all dead metaphors. It's all metaphors that have already been used before. And AI doesn't have senses. So AI can't really see, can't really smell, can't really touch. That's what we can do. And so this is kind of the question. It reminds me of the Pope's encyclical Magnificao Magnitas, which is technology is going to progress. We are going to go somewhere. We're not gonna be Luddites and just stop technology. The question is, are we gonna build the Tower of Babel or are we gonna build the walls of Jerusalem? Are we going to pursue technology in a way that degrades humanity and has us worshiping dumb idols like robots? Or are we going to pursue technology in a way that recognizes the dignity of humanity, that puts God at the center of it, and recognizes that God himself becomes incarnate as a man? Which is it? Are we gonna become prostitutes or poets? That's the question. Unfortunately, many people will choose the former. But you don't have to. You do have to respond to AI. You do have to respond to the fact that a lot of what you do in the economy is no longer necessary. But does that mean that we're gonna degrade ourselves merely to the level of flesh? Or are we going to recognize our composite hylomorphic nature? And I'm not saying you have to be a poet. Most people are terrible poets. But are you going to do something that is uniquely human that the robot cannot do? 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I don't think we do. I don't think we do. I think I want babies to live and you want to kill them. I think I want to preserve marriage as it actually is. I think you want to redefine it. I think I want to let kids be kids. I think you want to chop their genitals off. I think I want to defend our borders. I think you want to flood the country with foreign nationals. I don't think we want the same things. This is a popular line. I guess we all want the same things. Do we? When the left says that, look, we all want the same things. Notice they're just assuming we're gonna just go along with everything they want. We all want the same things. We just. I mean, forget about your views on abortion or marriage or immigration or patriotism or national sovereignty or law and order, or forget about your views on all these substantive matters. We all kind of want the same things. What does that even mean? He explains. He says, well, we're being divided on purpose by the Epstein elite oligarch class, because as long as we're at each other's throats, they get fat and rich off our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they're done. They love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. Hold on. Love your neighbor. I agree with be yourself. I don't agree with that. Hunter Biden should not be himself. Hunter Biden should be good. Hunter Biden was himself for a long time on skid row and with all the hookers and taking the money from Ukraine and taking the money reportedly, allegedly from China and doing all the crack. That was him being himself. He shouldn't be himself. He should be godly. He should be like Christ. He should endeavor to imitate our Lord. He should not endeavor to just be himself. So I totally disagree with that. Radical honesty. What do we mean by radical honesty? You should be truthful. You should live in accord with reality, but you should also have tact. You should also feel some shame for the sins that you commit. No Fs given, no Fs taken. No, I think you should give an F. I think if Hunter Biden gave an F when he was tempted to do the crack and take all the money for his personal enrichment to pass 10% up to the big guy while the big guy was vice president or president. I think massive corruption in the White House. I think it'd be better if he gave some more Fs. Everything else is just noise, but still F. Jake Brick, Tamlin Tapper on Any time. I guess he doesn't like Jake Tapper. Okay, the line here, that is just. It's just too much. I just can't. He's an entertaining character to some degree. Hunter Biden, it's sad because what is entertaining about him is the misery he's made of his life and the crimes that he's committed, including at our expense. But the line that's too much is the Epstein oligarch class. This has become the populist slogan, especially among the left. Even though Epstein started out as a Democrat political scandal, the libs have tried to twist it into a conservative or Trump scandal. Epstein oligarch class the phrase has officially jumped the shark. Hunter Biden was paid by literal oligarchs to sell out American influence. And then Hunter Biden took the money from the actual oligarchs, like Ukrainian oligarchs. He took the money to commit sex crimes, which is the most lurid centerpiece of the Epstein story. Hunter Biden is the poster child for the Epstein elite oligarch class. Everything he's ever gotten in his life is because his last name is Biden. Cuz he is trading on his father's political influence. Cuz his father was in the Senate starting in 1972. Hunter Biden has admitted this by the way he said this on camera. He said, yeah, well look, I can never divorce myself from my name. Yeah, that's probably why I got a lot of what I got in life and then dealt with actual oligarchs to take money to commit sex crimes. If Hunter Biden is not the Epstein elite oligarch class, there is no such thing. And now he's trying to rebrand on this pseudo populism. It's just so tedious. And this kind of phrase, this is what the left is really testing out right now. And I think some of our international adversaries are trying to push this. I don't wanna sound like a Lib in 2016, but no, even in 2016 the conservatives never denied that our foreign adversaries wanted to mess up American politics, tried to influence American politics. And the way they do it, by the way, is not just creating scandals, not generally, not just creating problems. It's by exploiting divisions that already exist. So when the Soviet Union was messing around in the civil rights movement, it's not that they invented racial tension. In the 60s and 70s there was racial tension in America. They just exploited it, they just exacerbated it. So you're seeing this combination of the left with our international adversaries trying to make this thing happen. Epstein elite oligarch and they make, as their leader for this campaign against the Epstein elite oligarch class, Hunter Biden, who is the face of the whole thing. Totally, totally ridiculous. Now, speaking of horseshoe theory, there is a professor, a former professor in New York City who wants to bring down the US Empire. Cad and a Palestinian kefia, arguing that we need to take down the American empire. And her comments have some resonance on the right. But what this shows us is that there is a danger. Being based is awesome. Being right wing is awesome. I was born, you know, I popped out of the womb with parted hair, smoking a cigar. I'M definitely a man of the right, but there is a fear, there's an irony that sometimes if you go too far right, you do end up being the most left wing of the libs. And we'll see how that is in a second. 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She says, this is having a huge toll on the capacity of the US Empire to impose its will. We need to bring the empire down by any means necessary. What I find interesting about this is not that there's some radical New York Left wing professor who wears the caffe who hates America. Obviously, that's not a man bites dog story. What's interesting, though, is that her comments will have some resonance on the American right. And the reason, by the way, is that the American empire has pushed a lot of nonsense. USAID was funding things like transgender ballets in the Philippines. The flag of the American empire is like that pride flag. We're putting it up on our embassies around the world. Some on the right, myself included, have referred to the global American empire or gay, because it pushes these decadent liberal values, which are really annoying and which we should not do. However, no conservative, no right winger really of any kind can seriously demand the end of the American empire as long as the conservatives and right wingers are American. That doesn't really make a lot of sense. No true conservative or American right winger can root for our adversaries to beat us in a war, even if in the war we're the ones pushing liberalism or secularism or what have you. All these problems that are attendant to liberalism. And even if our adversaries seem more based by some measure, whether it's the Iranians or the Russians or the Chinese, the reason for this is not just our patriotism. I hope you're all patriots. But the reason for this is when we side with countries on the basis of ideology, if we are. I've been tempted by this myself. If we were to look at Putin's Russia and say, you know what, they're pretty based. They're building cathedrals and we're building abortion centers. Happily, we're actually closing abortion centers right now, but we have built a lot of abortion centers. When we look at a foreign adversary and we say, or any foreign country and we say, you know, ideologically, I have more in common with them than I do with my own governing elites. Therefore, I want them to win. I don't want us to win. When we say that, ironically, we become the most liberal of the liberals. We outlib the libs. Maybe you learn this in school. Thomas Jefferson, when he was president, he was running against the Federalists, and the Federalists wanted more government power and the Jeffersonian Republicans wanted less government power. But then Jefferson does something ironic. He out Federalists. The Federalists because he makes the Louisiana Purchase on dubious constitutional authority to double the size of the United States. What an irony. Jefferson out Federalists. The Federalists. Well, the really based conservatives who look around at a place like Russia and they say they're building cathedrals, they look at a place like China, they say they're keeping weird gay stuff out of movies. They look at a place like Iran, they say they don't really have quarter for feminism. There's. That's awesome. Ironically, when we allow our ideology to have us feel more affinity for our adversaries than we do for our own country, we are outliving the most liberal Americans. Because liberalism is based on ideology, based on abstraction, based upon a notion that what really unites us and forms political communities is. Is something in the realm of ideas and in the forms floating above the practicality of a political community. And that's just not true. That ain't how Russia views it. That ain't how China views it. That ain't how Iran views it. We have to be on our own side. There's that famous Robert Frost line. It says a liberal is one who cannot take his own side in a quarrel. And the irony is, again, I'm not exempting myself from it. I felt this temptation myself. The irony is when we say America's liberal and Russia, China, Iran, whoever else, they're a conservative society by their own standards. Therefore I'm kind of on their side. We are not taking our own side in a quarrel. We are abstracting politics above the political community into the realm of ideas. We're being huge libs. We're out gaying the global American empire. It's a real challenge because we cannot, we have to be aware that we ourselves are in many ways the products of this liberal society. And sometimes our own priors can lead us to very, very strange places. If you find yourself agreeing with the radical left wing New York City professor wearing the keffiyeh, you've taken a wrong turn. Speaking of the libs, a lady on BBC, Sarah Wakefield, the head of the Green Party in the UK has just perfectly epitomized liberal millennials. 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Probably many such cases on BBC while I was in the UK, while I was actually booked to be on BBC, Sarah Wakefield, the UK's Green Party candidate, just had a debate with the right wing reform parties, Rob Kenyon, and she has gone viral for her inability to understand what the Conservative is saying. The idea of blaming our housing crisis on immigration is absolutely wild to me. Actually got an extra 10, 20 miles. People come in the country all the time. Do you think that if. Do you think that, did you not
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I know it might sound. He's really good at explaining things like this, isn't he? He is really good at explaining things. I love this setup. Not even for the substance of what's being said, which is simple enough. We have a housing crisis in this country, we have a housing crisis. We got price of housing's going really high up. And then the Conservative says, well yeah, cuz you flooded the country with foreigners. And then that breaks her brain. And she doesn't really say much of anything. She just does that look, that look of the liberal millennial women that, huh, like this kind of goofy, mocking, condescending, can you. And he's very calm. He says, well no, here's how supply and demand work. When you have a limited number of goods, like houses, and you're not scaling houses, one new house for every new migrant that comes into your country. When you have this limited number of goods and then you flood the country with demand for that good, the cost of the good increases. Pretty simple. You don't need a PhD in economics for that one. And she doesn't have a response to this. So she tries to deflect. She goes, so you're saying that if we just stopped mass migration, all of our problems would go away? He says, I'm not saying that, I've never said that. I just said that when you flood the country with migrants, the cost of housing goes up. And she just does this face. This epitomizes millennial liberalism. This woman's only political power is not understanding things. That is indeed the only political power of the millennial liberals. Broadly. The women epitomize it more or exemplify it more. But the men, to some degree, too. It's like that meme that goes around social media. So much of discourse is liberals pretending not to understand things, thus making true discourse impossible. That's what this is. She's so desperate to defend mass migration, which she likes for whatever reason, because she thinks it'll give her an electoral majority, because she's a masochist, because she hates her own country for whatever reason, because she thinks that she has more of a responsibility to people she's never met on the other side of the world than she does to her own people. Or whether it's for the CS Lewis point in Screwtape, when the demon is writing in Screwtape and says, hey, your patient that you're working on to try to send him to perdition, he's going to have some feelings of love, but it's okay. Just make sure that he directs his feelings of love away from the people immediately around him, away from his family and his friends and his neighbors. Make sure he just directs that love to an abstract sort of person on the other side of the world that he's never met. That way he can be awful and terrible to all the people that are around him. So his hatred and contempt will be wholly real, but his love will remain abstract and for the most part, fictional, illusory. That's liberal Millennial. So for whatever reason, she really wants the mass migration and so she can't grant the basic economic premise. And the best they have is, uh huh. You think that we shouldn't chop off the genitals of children? That's it. That's what the libs did to us for years here. You think that Somali fraudsters are committing fraud in Minnesota and Ohio? You really. Yeah, I really think that. Because that's what all the evidence shows. You think that boys can't become girls? Yeah, I think that. So anyway, I think that might be coming to an end and there will be some kind of new leftism that replaces it. Whatever Gen Z leftism is, probably it will be more militant and more full of conviction. But the Millennials. I think in many ways what defines the Millennials as a political community on the left, and even maybe on the right, is a lack of conviction. We were raised in this fetid stew of subjectivism and relativism. We were told that we can't ever really know anything for certain. We were told that we have to be really nice and we just all need to be smiley, smiley and not offend anyone. We were raised as a generation shaped by political correctness that then flowered into wokeness. And so we can't ever have a direct sort of debate generationally. Obviously individuals within the generation can, but we can't do that. So it's all just based on consensus. It's all just based on. You don't. It's not that you try to prove that your opponent is wrong. It's that you try to prove that your opponent is weird. And that's what she's doing. And she's making herself look rather weird herself. Speaking of mental deficiencies, my favorite headline, my actual favorite headline of the last two weeks from Sci Post says mental health might be emerging as a source of political identity. Study finds. This is perfect. This is. Talk about political correctness. This is perfect euphemism. Writing mental health might be emerging as a source of political identity. What does that mean? Just close your eyes and think about what that means. That is a fancy way of saying that the libs are crazy. That's what that means, mental health. Let's just open up the article. It's an analysis of the 2022 Cooperative Election Study. Data found that mental health is emerging as a source of political identity, particularly among Gen Z and more liberal Americans. Meaning the people who go out there and say, you know, Look, I'm on SSRIs, I have anxiety, I have depression, I have. Even the one that the right participates in is autism. The right likes to claim autism, even though it's just people who are a little quirky. A lot of the time they say, I'm so autistic. So even we use this clinical language of mental health. But it's mostly the libs, as the study even finds it's emerging as a political identity. No, you're just saying that you're a little crazy. And what's amazing is that the recognition, the self awareness that you're a little bit crazy leaves you two options. You could either say, I'm crazy and that's not good, I should fix my craziness. Or you can double down on it and say, I'm crazy and I demand my rights. I'm crazy and I'm gonna get even crazier and you're gonna cater to my craziness. And that's what the left has argued for five years now, at least. I'm not gonna fix the problem. You see it? I mean, not to beat a dead horse, but the perfect example of this is the transgender ideology where you say, hey, I think I'm the opposite sex. I can either correct myself, you know, I can either. I realize that That's a little bit weird. And so I can either try to persuade myself of reality or I'm gonna double down and I'm gonna. And you're all gonna cater to me that it's beautiful. I wanna frame it. Tell this to your normie voter, tell this to your median voter. Say there is a one to one correlation of craziness to voting for the left. Who you gonna vote for in the election? Okay. Speaking of mentally ill leftists, this is a story from a couple days ago, but I wanna make sure we get to it. TPSA had the Young Women Leadership Summit which they've had for many, many years now. It's a very, very successful event. It continues to be very, very successful. And there were protesters outside. Here are the protein. We got a Palestine flag, we got a bunch of hippies, dirty looking people screaming random. Looks like any liberal protest that you've seen on these college campuses for years and years and years. The same sort of people who threatened TPSA speakers and who ultimately killed Charlie Kerr. Okay. Furthermore, there weren't just the dirty hippies waving their little signs. Antifa showed up. So actual left wing militants who train as terrorists. So you can see them. Cops have to take some of these guys down to the ground. The antifa are getting very, very violent. We know, we've seen antifa at a lot of our events. Obviously at my event at Pittsburgh a few years ago, they burned me an effigy and threw an explosive at the building, seriously injured a cop. And then the most distasteful of all, you have a guy dressed up as Charlie Kirk with a mask on cause he's a coward dressed up as Charlie Kirk. Outside of an event that is being hosted by Charlie's widow Erica, mocking Charlie's assassination by a trans furry leftist. He goes, he's dancing around in the Charlie Kirk mask and then he ends up lying on the floor as if he's been shot. So amid all of this just absolutely revolting display, you have this magnificent speech by Erica. There will be a day 10 to 15 years from now when my children will look back on this season of life that a through you're going through. And they won't remember it fully because they're so young, but they will see everything. They will see how this world talked about their father, their mother, even themselves. They will be able to read every headline, every accusation, every lie. And my prayer is their focus isn't on all that noise, but rather on how their mother showed up and how she handled it. Here, here, here. Absolutely beautiful. Spot on. Also, why, from the beginning of all of this, from the moment Charlie was killed, I made a point which is that I consider Erica to be a national hero in all of this. And some people, even people who really like Erica, they've said, oh, Michael, you're overstating it. She's going through an immense grief. She's. She has suffered something very, very difficult. But why would you say she's a national hero? She's not a national hero because her husband was killed. She's a national hero because of how she's responded to that, as well as the awful attacks, some of which have come from the right. Obviously, maybe the loudest ones have come from the right, but the most consistent ones have come from the left. And the way that she's responded to it has showed an immense, almost unfathomable amount of grace. And she has tuned out a lot of the noise. Very important, very important lesson to follow. And she has focused on what is good and what matters. She's kept the religion at the center of her life, and she's proceeded with a great deal of magnanimity and grace from Charlie's funeral, which many of us were at, all the way on through the present. On this matter of the attacks, which have come from all sorts of places, it's important to look at what's going on outside of that venue for the Young Women's Leadership Summit, because what this reminds us of is something that I suspected from the very beginning, and I think I was proven right. In the real world, look at what side the attacks are coming from in the real world, in the physical world, in the world beyond social media. Yes, there are attacks that have come from the right. We've talked about them, and we try not to focus on them too much. There are attacks coming from the right and from maybe foreign bots pretending to be from the right, which is absolutely rife on social media. Those are all terrible. They should all stop. Of course, no one really seemed to be able to stop them, but nevertheless, yeah, yeah, that's all awful in the social media space, but don't get psyoped here. Don't get distracted. Don't think there's any confusion or any equivalence between the left and the right. In the real world, the people who are showing up, who are getting violent, who are disturbing the events, who are mocking Charlie and who are mocking his death in front of his widow, those people are uniformly from the left. That's where the political threat really lies. And so how do we respond to this? Well, I'd be happy to regulate much of social media and try to get some of the foreign interference out. And I'm all for speech standards and all the rest. Obviously, I wrote a whole book about that. But in the real world, what do we do? We should exclude the extremely violent left from the public square. The ones on the left who have really embraced political violence and threats and all that. We should arrest and seriously imprison antifa the people who are actually threatening us. In the real world, we need to focus on what is good. We need to persuade people of the absolute perfidy of our political enemies. We need to continue to win. We need to continue to show up. We need to continue to hold power and we need to advance our agenda. That's what we need to do. That, that takes a great deal of courage, takes a great deal of magnanimity. No one has exemplified that better than Erica. And despite the best efforts of the violent, disgusting left, the Young Women's Leadership Summit went off without a hitch. Okay, speaking of violence, there are new details in the Carmelo Anthony case. You know, Carmelo Anthony was this young black guy who just murdered in cold blood. Murdered this guy, Austin Metcalfe. Allegedly, I have to say allegedly, because he hasn't been convicted yet. Austin Metcalfe at a track meet, a high school track meet. A lot of new details emerging. We don't have time to get to them all today. But the story is somehow even worse than we all originally thought. On that chipper note, today's TE Tuesday. 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