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Why the Pope Selection Matters to Everyone (Not Just Catholics) (Ep.187) · V

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Speaker 1: All right, we're going to delve into some fun topics today. First,
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the bitter Catholic Church divide
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Speaker 1: that is casting a shadow over the upcoming papal conclave
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Speaker 1: and why it matters to everyone, not just Catholics. Trump
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Speaker 2: My next guest is one of the most prominent Catholic
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Speaker 2: lawmakers in American history. Joining me now is the former
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Speaker 2: Speaker of the House, now Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. Thank
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Speaker 2: you so much for being here.
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Speaker 3: And now we will pray to him. He was a
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Speaker 3: saintly man, cared about faith, hope and charity and peace.
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Speaker 3: He was a blessing to the world and to the
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Speaker 3: Catholic faith. And he... Again, saying goodbye and happy Easter
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Speaker 3: and then going on to heaven. It's just so remarkable.
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Speaker 1: That was Nancy Pelosi, one of the most prominent Catholic
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Speaker 1: lawmakers in American history, according to CNN. And she was
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Speaker 1: reflecting on the death of Pope Francis. And a lot
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Speaker 1: of us are in the chat. We're scoffing like Nancy Pelosi,
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Speaker 1: one of the most prominent Catholic lawmakers in American history.
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Speaker 1: How can they say that? And, you know, actually, she
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Speaker 1: is one of the most prominent Catholic lawmakers in American history.
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Speaker 1: You might say, oh, she can't be Catholic. She doesn't
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Speaker 1: seem like a Catholic. And there's a lot of truth
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Speaker 1: to that. She doesn't really act very Catholic. I mean,
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Speaker 1: how could she as she opposes life and traditional marriage
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Speaker 1: and biological sex and she supports IVF and euthanasia and
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Speaker 1: like everything the Catholic Church is against. Nancy Pelosi is
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Speaker 1: for it. But it is actually true that that Nancy
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Speaker 1: Pelosi claims to be Catholic, and if you believe her,
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Speaker 1: take her at her word, she is one of the
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Speaker 1: most prominent Catholic lawmakers in American history. Other prominent Catholic
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Speaker 1: leaders in the United States include Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo,
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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, AOC. What is about to happen in Rome,
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Speaker 1: a papal conclave to elect the next pope, is going
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Speaker 1: to have a massive cultural global impact. who is the
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Speaker 1: Catholic Church? What does it mean to be Catholic? What
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Speaker 1: role do we have in leading the world and Christianity
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Speaker 1: at large? It's undeniable, whether you're Catholic or not, that
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Speaker 1: the Catholic Church plays a massive role in leading Christianity globally.
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Speaker 1: And the leaders that we've had so far have not
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Speaker 1: been very Catholic, especially here in the United States. And
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Speaker 1: I'm going to get into what could happen at this conclave.
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Speaker 1: Some of the people potentially who are being considered for Pope.
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Speaker 1: But I want to discuss first the legacy of Pope Francis,
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Speaker 1: who was part of why Nancy Pelosi is allowed to
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Speaker 1: be viewed as one of the most prominent Catholic lawmakers
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Speaker 1: in American history. I want you to take a listen
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Speaker 1: to the same interview. This is a little later in
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Speaker 1: the interview. CNN's Dana Bash explaining how, and also Nancy herself,
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Speaker 1: explaining how the Pope signaled Nancy Pelosi's advocacy for brazenly
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Speaker 1: immoral and evil policies still permits her to receive, however,
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Speaker 1: Holy Communion, which again, Catholics believe you can only receive
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Speaker 1: in a state of grace. So meaning you don't have,
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Speaker 1: meaning you can't have a mortal sin on you as
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Speaker 1: you receive Holy Communion. So Pope Francis is the reason
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Speaker 1: that she was allowed to receive communion. And he signaled
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Speaker 1: that essentially what she was doing, immorally, politically, policy-wise, is
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Speaker 1: I guess, okay, I guess allows you to stay in
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Speaker 1: a state of grace. Take a listen to this.
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Speaker 2: You received communion during a mass at St. Peter's Basilica
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Speaker 2: in 2022. And that happened despite the fact that the
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Speaker 2: Archbishop of San Francisco said that you couldn't receive communion
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Speaker 2: because of your support for abortion rights. What did it
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Speaker 2: mean for you to receive communion that day during the
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Speaker 2: papal mass?
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Speaker 3: Well, it was the Feast of St. Peter and Paul,
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Speaker 3: which in Rome is a holiday. It's a civic holiday.
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Speaker 3: And so all faiths come together in the Vatican in St. Peter's.
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Speaker 3: They placed us in the front row, and the front
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Speaker 3: row next to us was where His Holiness was seated.
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Speaker 3: But before them— and we had our family, we had staff,
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Speaker 3: we had the security, because— It was an official visit
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Speaker 3: that we were on before I went on to a
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Speaker 3: family visit. In any case, before the visit, before the Mass,
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Speaker 3: I mean, they asked Paul and me to go outside
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Speaker 3: to the vestibule or something before you go into the church.
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Speaker 3: And we were standing there, and then His Holiness came in.
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Speaker 2: He was in a.
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Speaker 1: Wheelchair, faraway door.
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Speaker 3: He stood up and walked over to us. Wow. And
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Speaker 3: we had a lovely private visit with him. And they
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Speaker 3: took pictures. You're not allowed to bring a camera. They
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Speaker 3: took pictures, which the Vatican released, which was at that
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Speaker 3: sensitive time with my own archbishop in San Francisco. And
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Speaker 3: then we received communion. I received communion right there in
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Speaker 3: that front row on.
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Speaker 4: The Feast of St.
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Speaker 3: Peter and Paul.
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Speaker 2: You were trying to send a message.
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Speaker 3: In the presence of the Pope.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So she's right. Francis was trying to send a message,
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Speaker 1: and the message has left the Catholic Church and really
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Speaker 1: global Christianity in an existential crisis. Pope Francis's death marks
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Speaker 1: the end of one of the most consequential and controversial
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Speaker 1: papacies in modern Catholic history. The first Jesuit, the first
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Speaker 1: Latin American pope, Pope Francis began his reign in 2013
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Speaker 1: with a dramatic call to Catholic youths. Agon Leo, make
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Speaker 1: a mess, he said. Twelve years later, it is clear
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Speaker 1: that he has done just that. His papacy ends not
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Speaker 1: with a tidy summation, but with a punctuation mark, a
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Speaker 1: question mark. There are two competing visions of how to
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Speaker 1: interpret Francis's papacy, but both camps, his admirers and his critics,
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Speaker 1: agree that the state of the church he leaves behind
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Speaker 1: is one that is more divided, more confused, and more
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Speaker 1: unstable than when he ascended the throne of St. Peter.
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Speaker 1: He was a pope who opened questions but often left
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Speaker 1: them unanswered, a pontiff whose governance unsettled both progressives and
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Speaker 1: conservatives alike. There are going to be a lot of
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Speaker 1: progressives out there saying, oh, Pope Francis, he was a
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Speaker 1: detrailed blazer, he was awesome, he was just this amazing guy.
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Speaker 1: This was Time Magazine yesterday. Pope Francis, the reform-minded Roman
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Speaker 1: Catholic leader whose papacy marked a number of firsts, not quite.
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Speaker 1: I think a recent Atlantic essay by Matthew Walther offers
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Speaker 1: a progressive, but I think revealing and much more honest
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Speaker 1: interpretation of Pope Francis's legacy. Pope Francis, in Walther's view
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Speaker 1: and in my view, was complex, often inscrutable. And he,
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Speaker 1: and this is a quote from the piece, came to
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Speaker 1: bring not peace, but a sword, not to solve tensions
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Speaker 1: in the church, but to live among them. And Walther
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Speaker 1: argues that Francis left Catholics unable to agree about the
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Speaker 1: values of his words and acts or even their meaning,
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Speaker 1: baffling both the faithful and secular observers. And he quoted
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Speaker 1: radical feminist theorists while defending traditional teachings. He promoted climate
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Speaker 1: hysteria and economic collectivism. And then he simultaneously persecuted Latin
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Speaker 1: mass attendees. So this guy was very confusing for everyone
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Speaker 1: in the Catholic Church, whether you were a progressive or
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Speaker 1: a traditionalist. And this piece from the Atlantic concludes by
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Speaker 1: saying that perhaps Francis's real legacy is discord, not as
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Speaker 1: a flaw, but as a prophetic confrontation with modern contradictions. Now,
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Speaker 1: as a traditional Catholic, here is why I strongly disagree
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Speaker 1: with that assessment. I agree that he has legacy of
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Speaker 1: discord and the ambiguity and confusion that he sowed was
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Speaker 1: very bad. I do not think that it is some
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Speaker 1: sort of paradox to embrace. It's actually a crisis. It's
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Speaker 1: not something that was a positive reflection of the times
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Speaker 1: we're living in. It is truly a devastating fruition, his
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Speaker 1: entire papacy. Now, John Daniel Davidson in The Federalist, who
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Speaker 1: we've had on the show, he wrote that Francis did
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Speaker 1: not reform. He destabilized, pushing doctrine at far enough to
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Speaker 1: sow confusion on divorce, same-sex relationships, and communion. And Davidson
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Speaker 1: notes his legacy isn't bold reform. It also isn't some
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Speaker 1: really wonderful paradox for us to just sit in in
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Speaker 1: modern times. But questions that will now have to be
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Speaker 1: answered definitively by a future pontificate. So the result is
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Speaker 1: a Catholic church drifting toward relativism, moral relativism, where doctrine
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Speaker 1: blends and has really divorced from its context. Both honest
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Speaker 1: progressives and conservatives seem to agree that the next pope
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Speaker 1: inherits not just the keys of Peter, but a house
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Speaker 1: in chaos. Now, many of you know that I love
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Speaker 1: Latin Mass. The traditional Catholic liturgy practiced for centuries before
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Speaker 1: Vatican II with its Latin prayers, Gregorian chant, the priest
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Speaker 1: facing the altar. It embodies solemnity and transcendence. And for
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Speaker 1: traditional Catholics, it's not just beautiful, it is a spiritual anchor.
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Speaker 1: In 2021, Pope Francis required special permission to celebrate Latin
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Speaker 1: Mass in diocese. And he later tightened restrictions even further.
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Speaker 1: And a Latin mass parish that I attended every once
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Speaker 1: in a while in Chicago was actually shut down by
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Speaker 1: the Vatican and Cardinal Cupich, who, by the way, is
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Speaker 1: not a good cardinal. We've done shows on Cardinal Cupich.
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Speaker 1: This was not a reform. It was a targeted crackdown
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Speaker 1: on devout, traditional, minded Catholics. And for many, including myself,
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Speaker 1: it was a massive betrayal. And that's why a lot
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Speaker 1: of Catholics are praying for the selection of a traditional pope,
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Speaker 1: especially in this time of modern confusion and moral relativism
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Speaker 1: and just really chaos in the world. We need a strong,
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Speaker 1: clear-minded pope and Catholic church, and we have not had
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Speaker 1: that since Pope Francis. Everybody, progressive and traditionalist, agrees Pope
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Speaker 1: Francis has been a confusing, chaotic mess. A lot of
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Speaker 1: Catholics are hoping and praying for this election of a
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Speaker 1: man named Cardinal Serra. Cardinal Serra is from West Africa.
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Speaker 1: He's called for the abolishing of Latin mass. He's called
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Speaker 1: the abolishing of Latin mass diabolical, a diabolical move on
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Speaker 1: the part of Pope Francis. He's described radical Islam and
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Speaker 1: radical gender ideology as two apocalyptic beasts. And he would
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Speaker 1: know a thing or two about radical Islam. It was
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Speaker 1: not long ago that dozens of Christians were beheaded. by
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Speaker 1: Islamic radicals in the Congo. And Sarah and other Catholic
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Speaker 1: bishops from Africa and Madagascar in 2024 also rejected Pope
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Speaker 1: Francis's approval of the blessings of gay couples. And he
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Speaker 1: also likened mass immigration into Europe to an invasion, which
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Speaker 1: it is. And he fears that the West is dying
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Speaker 1: and that Europe has lost its roots. I want you
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Speaker 1: to take a listen to Cardinal Sarah talk just about
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Speaker 1: what's happening in Europe and immigration. This is a very
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Speaker 1: stark contrast from what we've been hearing rhetorically from Pope
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Speaker 1: Francis over the years. He says, what worries you? You know,
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Speaker 1: the biggest worry is that Europe doesn't want anymore or
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Speaker 1: has lost the sense of its origins. It has lost
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Speaker 1: its roots. Yet a tree without roots, it dies. And
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Speaker 1: I'm afraid the West is dying. There are plenty of signs.
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Speaker 1: You see plenty of signs. Not more.
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Speaker 5: Natally.
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Speaker 1: You are invaded still by other cultures, other peoples, which
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Speaker 1: will progressively dominate you by their numbers. and completely change
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Speaker 1: your culture, your convictions, your values. So I would wholeheartedly
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Speaker 1: agree with what he said there. We talk about it
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Speaker 1: all the time, the way that mass immigration is just
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Speaker 1: destroying the West. And it's not racist to say that.
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Speaker 1: It's not racist to have borders and leaders who care
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Speaker 1: about preserving the cultural identity of a people can care
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Speaker 1: about refugees and the poor, and also do it in
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Speaker 1: a way that does not destroy the homeland. This is,
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Speaker 1: this is actually Catholic teaching and, and he is truly
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Speaker 1: in line with Catholic teaching. Now, there are some really
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Speaker 1: bad options for Pope as well. Like I, I would
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Speaker 1: probably say out of all the names that are being
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Speaker 1: floated around, unfortunately, there's a lot more bad names and
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Speaker 1: good names. You have, uh, for Dolan and Bong and Bongo, the, uh,
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Speaker 1: Kinshasa Archbishop, who has told a bunch of African bishops
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Speaker 1: that Westerners will, quote, little by little disappear and we
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Speaker 1: wish them a good demise. So very different rhetoric from
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Speaker 1: this cardinal. And we could get Pietro Parolin, the Vatican
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Speaker 1: Secretary of State who created a deal with China that
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Speaker 1: allows the CCP influence to have influence over bishop nominations.
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Speaker 1: There's a potential candidate, Luis Antonio Taglia, who has argued
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Speaker 1: for the church softening its attitude toward divorce and gay marriage.
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Speaker 1: A very just progressive candidate. Here's what he sounds like.
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Speaker 1: Here's a little soundbite from him.
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Speaker 6: How many factory workers are being denied the right wages
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Speaker 6: for the God-called profit?
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Speaker 7: How many women.
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Speaker 6: are being sacrificed to the God called domination? How many
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Speaker 6: children are being sacrificed to the God called lust? How
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Speaker 6: many trees, rivers, hills are being sacrificed to the God
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Speaker 6: called progress? And how many poor people are being sacrificed
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Speaker 6: to the God of greed and defenseless people? sacrificed to
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Speaker 6: the God of national security.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Michael was asking where he's from. He's
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Speaker 1: from the Philippines. So listen, there's a lot of very
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Speaker 1: progressive options right now. And if you look at the
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Speaker 1: track record of Pope Francis, he very much seemed to
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Speaker 1: be an elitist pope. He was billed to us as
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Speaker 1: this very humble guy. He is from Latin America, and
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Speaker 1: he chose Pope Francis, who obviously chose this very impoverished
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Speaker 1: lifestyle and stripped off his clothes because he just gave
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Speaker 1: it all up for God. But he was inviting the
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Speaker 1: Clintons to the Vatican, and Pope Francis was very supportive
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Speaker 1: of the vaccines and climate hysteria, which of course has
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Speaker 1: a very progressive tinge to it. The worst thing for
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Speaker 1: the environment is poverty. And you have all of these
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Speaker 1: elites in the West preventing the third world from developing
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Speaker 1: because they say it's bad for the environment, that fossil
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Speaker 1: fuels are going to destroy the world. And really what's
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Speaker 1: destroying the environment is poverty. And we're purposely keeping the
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Speaker 1: third world in poverty. My point is that he seemed
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Speaker 1: to be a much more Davos-aligned pope than a pope
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Speaker 1: aligned with the faithful. And we don't need more of
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Speaker 1: that in the Catholic Church. That's the last thing that
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Speaker 1: we need. in this moment, another progressive, modern, reformer pope.
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Speaker 1: We need a pope returning to the traditions of the past.
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Speaker 1: This is what this time calls for. And we don't
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Speaker 1: know who's going to be picked. I gave you a
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Speaker 1: few names. There's a lot of other names being floated around.
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Speaker 1: Many times the conclave will select a totally wild card
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Speaker 1: that no one even considered. No one thought that Pope
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Speaker 1: John Paul II would be picked. He was pretty much
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Speaker 1: unknown when he was selected. in the 70s. So I
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Speaker 1: think it's really important to pray. Miracles can happen. Anything
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Speaker 1: can happen. And a lot of you Protestants in the chats,
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Speaker 1: I'm seeing you, I worship God alone. Catholics are demonic. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I know you guys. I see you. I see what
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Speaker 1: you guys are doing in the chat. Protestants, I understand
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Speaker 1: why you may question, how does this matter? But if
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Speaker 1: you are a right-wing Protestant who values Christian civilization and
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Speaker 1: the papacy does matter. The Catholic Church is the world's
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Speaker 1: most visible Christian institution. When its leadership tilts left, it
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Speaker 1: influences the culture far beyond Catholicism. Like it or not,
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Speaker 1: this just happens. No conservative, Catholic or not, should want
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Speaker 1: a pope who champions open borders and hosts the Clintons
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Speaker 1: and marginalizes the traditionalists in the Catholic faith. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: just weaken the Catholic Church. It legitimizes the very forces
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Speaker 1: tearing down the Christian West. A strong Orthodox pope, one
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Speaker 1: who defends natural law, national sovereignty, and biblical morality, is
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Speaker 1: a crucial ally in resisting secularism, gender ideology, globalism, radical Islamic,
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Speaker 1: all these things. It is globalist. to have a good
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Speaker 1: Pope for everyone, irrespective of whether you're Catholic. Even for Protestants,
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Speaker 1: a principled Catholic church is not a rival, but a
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Speaker 1: bulwark in the fight to preserve truth, order, and the
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Speaker 1: moral foundations of the West. So we talked about the
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Speaker 1: replacements a little bit. When the Pope dies, the Catholic
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Speaker 1: Church enters a period known as this vacant seat and
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Speaker 1: during which the papal funeral is held and preparations for
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Speaker 1: the conclave begin. Now, what is the conclave? The conclave
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Speaker 1: is this very secretive, closed-door gathering of Catholic cardinals where
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Speaker 1: they elect the Pope following the death or resignation of
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Speaker 1: the previous pontiff. The conclave itself takes place in the
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Speaker 1: Sistine Chapel where only cardinals under the age of 80
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Speaker 1: may vote. Once the cardinals swear oaths of secrecy, voting begins.
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Speaker 1: Up to four ballots are cast daily until one man
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Speaker 1: receives a two-thirds majority. If the elected is not already bishop,
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Speaker 1: he must be consecrated before assuming office. Many of you
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Speaker 1: may not know this, but if the pope does not
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Speaker 1: actually have to be a bishop or a cardinal, or
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Speaker 1: even a priest, the only requirement is that he is
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Speaker 1: a Catholic. And upon accepting, he chooses a papal name,
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Speaker 1: he would just become a bishop, and white smoke is
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Speaker 1: released from the chapel chimney to signal his election. The
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Speaker 1: new pope is then dressed in white. He receives the
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Speaker 1: cardinal homage and prepares for his public appearance as the
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Speaker 1: vicar of Christ. Now that Pope Francis has passed, the
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Speaker 1: church again stands at this precipice, a moment that demands
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Speaker 1: not ambiguity, but clarity, not novelty, but tradition. This is
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Speaker 1: what we need for everyone in the Christian West. We
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Speaker 1: are living through an age of unraveling, where the family,
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Speaker 1: the bedrock of civilization is crumbling at a pace not
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Speaker 1: seen since the pagan world before Christianity. It's transhumanism creeping
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Speaker 1: in with its promise of artificial salvation while children are
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Speaker 1: sacrificed to ideologies that deny natural order and God. And
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Speaker 1: the world is not merely confused. It is an open
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Speaker 1: rebellion against creation itself. And in these times, the church
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Speaker 1: cannot afford to have a shepherd who speaks in riddles,
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Speaker 1: and purposely confusing statements, and then courts the favor of
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Speaker 1: the elites in Davos and not the faithful. We need
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Speaker 1: a traditional Pope, one who preaches timeless truth without apology,
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Speaker 1: who calls men and women back to their design, and
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Speaker 1: who lights the path of moral clarity through the chaos.
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Speaker 1: Now more than ever, we need Peter to be a rock.
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Speaker 1: So pray. Even if you are not Catholic, pray. The
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Speaker 1: conclave needs your prayers. All right, we're going to take
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Speaker 1: a quick break. When we come back, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: talk about a little more of the stakes here, specifically
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Speaker 1: what's happening to Christians in China because of the CCP.
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Speaker 1: This is some really disturbing stuff. Don't go anywhere. It
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Speaker 1: is not just the West that is at stake here.
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Speaker 1: I talked a lot about invasions in Europe and open borders.
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Speaker 1: It is not just the West. There is massive persecution
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Speaker 1: against Christians globally that many of us are not even
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Speaker 1: aware of. We don't pay attention to it. We're sort
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Speaker 1: of insulated. Americans tend to do this. We're thinking about
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Speaker 1: America as Americans. We are number one. But we have
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Speaker 1: to think about other countries sometimes, especially if you're a
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Speaker 1: Christian and you care about our brothers and sisters in
23:11
Speaker 1: Christ abroad. So starting May 1st, the Chinese Communist Party
23:16
Speaker 1: has announced it will severely restrict foreign missionary activity in China. Now,
23:23
Speaker 1: this is framed as a measure to combat supposed extremism
23:27
Speaker 1: and protect national security. And the rules ban preaching without
23:31
Speaker 1: government approval, prohibit missionary work among Chinese citizens, outlaw religious
23:36
Speaker 1: education and donations, and threaten violators with criminal charges. And
23:41
Speaker 1: this move reflects the CCP's broader campaign to suppress religion,
23:46
Speaker 1: particularly Christianity, which it sees as a threat to party
23:50
Speaker 1: loyalty and control. Under Xi Jinping, authorities have forced churches
23:55
Speaker 1: to display images of Xi Jinping, retranslated the Bible to
23:58
Speaker 1: align with socialist values, and shut down house churches. Minors
24:04
Speaker 1: are banned from attending religious services or learning about the
24:07
Speaker 1: faith and leading, this has of course led to widespread
24:10
Speaker 1: closure of youth ministries. And look, authoritarian regimes like the
24:16
Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party have always viewed Christianity as as a
24:19
Speaker 1: fundamental threat because it anchors human dignity and moral authority
24:23
Speaker 1: in something higher than the state. This is why making
24:27
Speaker 1: deals with the Chinese Communist Party on behalf of the
24:32
Speaker 1: Vatican is such a red flag. We need to be
24:36
Speaker 1: standing up for the faithful abroad. We need to not
24:39
Speaker 1: be making concessions to genuinely evil regimes who hate Christianity.
24:48
Speaker 1: In Christianity, allegiance belongs first to God, not to a
24:52
Speaker 1: party or a dictator or an ideology, which undermines the
24:56
Speaker 1: total control those regimes seek to exert over their people's beliefs, identities,
24:59
Speaker 1: and consciences. The propaganda in fear doesn't work on Christians.
25:04
Speaker 1: History bears this out. From the Roman Empire to the
25:07
Speaker 1: Soviet Union to today's CCP, tyrants instinctively recognize that a
25:12
Speaker 1: people who worship Christ cannot ultimately be owned or controlled.
25:17
Speaker 1: They can't. Again, this is why it matters to the
25:21
Speaker 1: Pope is he is a Christian leader globally. And what
25:26
Speaker 1: he will do signals whether we're standing up for the
25:29
Speaker 1: faithful abroad. And in many ways, we've abandoned them in
25:33
Speaker 1: various parts of the world. I mean, even think about
25:36
Speaker 1: what's happening in Congo and the beheading of Christians. There's
25:41
Speaker 1: not a strong push against radical Islam. from Pope Francis.
25:49
Speaker 1: And in fact, he's been an advocate for open borders
25:52
Speaker 1: and globalism, destroying the West while also implicitly condoning this
25:58
Speaker 1: kind of evil from radical Islam. We have to be
26:01
Speaker 1: standing up for the faithful abroad. And we have not
26:03
Speaker 1: had a Catholic leader who's been willing to do that
26:06
Speaker 1: for a very long time. I think this is why
26:09
Speaker 1: the authoritarian Biden admin hated Christianity as well because they
26:15
Speaker 1: were authoritarian. Never was this more overt during Easter, during
26:19
Speaker 1: the Biden admin. Biden actually declared Easter Sunday, Transgender Day
26:24
Speaker 1: of Visibility. Do you guys remember that? Remember how absurd
26:28
Speaker 1: that was? He also purposely had the White House Easter
26:32
Speaker 1: celebration before actual Easter. So he had it during Lent,
26:36
Speaker 1: just sort of to spite the faith. Easter is not
26:39
Speaker 1: about Christianity or the actual Jesus Christ rising from the dead. No,
26:44
Speaker 1: we're just going to do it before actual Easter. So
26:47
Speaker 1: we do it during Lent because it doesn't really matter
26:49
Speaker 1: the timeline here. It's just an Easter season. This is
26:53
Speaker 1: what Joe Biden did on purpose. I want you to
26:57
Speaker 1: take a listen. to President Trump yesterday, and pay attention
27:03
Speaker 1: to the stark contrast from this last admin.
27:06
Speaker 4: Speaking of special, Easter is special, and it's one of
27:10
Speaker 4: our favorite days. It's one of our favorite periods of time.
27:13
Speaker 4: We're honoring Jesus Christ, and we're going to honor Jesus
27:17
Speaker 4: Christ very powerfully throughout our lives, all throughout our lives,
27:21
Speaker 4: not just now, all throughout our lives. We're bringing religion
27:25
Speaker 4: back in America. We're bringing a lot of things back,
27:28
Speaker 4: but Religion is coming back to America. That's why you
27:31
Speaker 4: see the kind of numbers that you see, the spirit
27:34
Speaker 4: and the kind of numbers that you see.
27:37
Speaker 1: While President Biden chose to mark Easter Sunday, the holiest
27:40
Speaker 1: day in the Christian calendar, by proclaiming it Transgender Day
27:44
Speaker 1: of Visibility, Trump used the occasion to call for a
27:47
Speaker 1: national return to God and religious revival. It is a
27:51
Speaker 1: striking juxtaposition. One leader, aligning the nation with a radical
27:56
Speaker 1: ideology that denies biological reality and undermines Christian moral order,
28:00
Speaker 1: and the other calling America back to the faith that
28:02
Speaker 1: has shaped its soul. This isn't just political posturing. It
28:05
Speaker 1: is a window into the spiritual crisis of our time.
28:09
Speaker 1: One vision seeks to erase the sacred, meaning Easter, and
28:13
Speaker 1: replace it with a celebration of identity politics, and the
28:16
Speaker 1: other seeks to restore God and his rightful place at
28:18
Speaker 1: the center of American life. My family was at the
28:21
Speaker 1: White House yesterday. They had an amazing time. It was
28:25
Speaker 1: so beautiful to see them all dressed up. I wish
28:28
Speaker 1: that I could have been there. I have a job,
28:30
Speaker 1: so I couldn't have been there. Can we throw out
28:31
Speaker 1: those pictures, Michael? All the kids, yeah, they were, my
28:35
Speaker 1: parents read my mom's book, Paloma Wants to Be Lady Freedom,
28:38
Speaker 1: which is about my little sister. Oh yeah, there's Valentina. Oh,
28:42
Speaker 1: she's so cute. I mean, it was just, the photos
28:44
Speaker 1: were just so adorable, so gorgeous. They all look so good.
28:49
Speaker 1: And our family looks so big there. And me and
28:51
Speaker 1: my brother are not even in the photo. So they're
28:54
Speaker 1: missing kids. And that's how many they have. They also
28:57
Speaker 1: took a picture with all of the, yeah, they're there
28:59
Speaker 1: with Carolyn Levitt and her baby, my two sisters, Paloma
29:01
Speaker 1: and Lucia. So my sisters, my brothers and sisters took
29:06
Speaker 1: a photo with Pete Hexeth's children, which is a lot
29:10
Speaker 1: of kids. Like how many are there, Michael, if you
29:12
Speaker 1: can count them? A lot of children. I think he
29:14
Speaker 1: has seven children. And, and we're, we're another seven because
29:19
Speaker 1: two of them are missing. So 13. Okay.
29:22
Speaker 8: Yeah.
29:22
Speaker 1: So this is just, this is just, just a sign
29:27
Speaker 1: of how much the Trump admin is a family oriented family.
29:33
Speaker 1: They really are just numbers wise. You can see it
29:38
Speaker 1: laid bare. Um, how this is an admin that cares
29:41
Speaker 1: about the future of the country because they actually have children.
29:45
Speaker 1: They are not people who are single or have maybe
29:48
Speaker 1: one kid or don't have any. This is a truly.
29:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's 14.
29:55
Speaker 4: All right.
29:55
Speaker 1: Yes, because two of ours are missing, so there's seven
29:58
Speaker 1: Hexeth kids. So My siblings and Pete's kids have been
30:02
Speaker 1: friends for a very long time. Our parents, of course,
30:05
Speaker 1: were both hosts of Fox and Friends Weekend. And I
30:08
Speaker 1: wanted to bring this up because Pete has been under
30:12
Speaker 1: fire recently. And I know him. I know his family.
30:15
Speaker 1: I know his kids. I babysat all of them. I
30:18
Speaker 1: babysat them in Wisconsin when they came up and visited
30:21
Speaker 1: us at the cabin. I was watching 12 kids under
30:25
Speaker 1: 12 with water. That was just crazy. You're at the water.
30:29
Speaker 1: It's dangerous. Most of them can't swim. It was a disaster,
30:33
Speaker 1: but it was a lot of fun. I love this family.
30:35
Speaker 1: Pete Hex is this great guy. Of course, he could
30:38
Speaker 1: not enjoy this day without the media coming after him
30:42
Speaker 1: and trying to ruin this time he had with his
30:45
Speaker 1: family at the White House. For some context, before I
30:49
Speaker 1: show you the media coming after Pete Hex at the Yesterday,
30:52
Speaker 1: some alleged leakers were recently fired from the Pentagon. And
30:56
Speaker 1: then over the weekend, probably not coincidentally, the New York
30:59
Speaker 1: Times reported that Pete created this supposedly improper signal chat.
31:05
Speaker 1: So here are the facts. And by the way, just
31:07
Speaker 1: so everyone's clear, this is a separate chat from the
31:10
Speaker 1: one where the Atlantic reporter was added in. And there
31:15
Speaker 1: was this whole scandal around it, old signal gate. This
31:17
Speaker 1: is a different signal chat. So in January of Pete,
31:20
Speaker 1: I guess, starts this chat. It's titled Defense Team Huddle.
31:26
Speaker 1: And it includes his wife as well as other members
31:28
Speaker 1: of his professional inner circle, such as top advisors and aides.
31:33
Speaker 1: And Pete reportedly used his private phone instead of a
31:36
Speaker 1: government-issued phone to access the Signal chat. The separate Signal
31:41
Speaker 1: chat was apparently created to discuss routine scheduling and administrative information.
31:47
Speaker 1: no classified information was shared in this chat. And this
31:52
Speaker 1: has been confirmed by Carolyn Levitt. But of course, the
31:55
Speaker 1: media still accosted Pete over this. They're trying to create
31:58
Speaker 1: another Signalgate scandal. And here they were yesterday confronting him
32:03
Speaker 1: at the White House Easter celebration. Take a listen.
32:10
Speaker 9: You know, what a big surprise that a bunch of, uh,
32:13
Speaker 9: A few leakers get fired and suddenly a bunch of
32:15
Speaker 9: hit pieces come out from the same media that peddled
32:18
Speaker 9: the Russia hoax. Won't give back their Pulitzers. They got
32:22
Speaker 9: Pulitzers for a bunch of lies. Pulitzers for a bunch
32:25
Speaker 9: of lies.
32:26
Speaker 1: And on hoaxes.
32:27
Speaker 9: Time and time and time again. And as they peddle
32:31
Speaker 9: those lies.
32:32
Speaker 1: No one ever calls them on it. See, this is
32:34
Speaker 1: what the media does.
32:36
Speaker 9: They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees and then
32:40
Speaker 9: they try to slash and burn people.
32:42
Speaker 5: And ruin their reputations.
32:44
Speaker 9: Not going to work with me. Because we're changing the
32:47
Speaker 9: Defense Department, putting the Pentagon back in the hands of
32:50
Speaker 9: war fighters, and anonymous smears from disgruntled former employees on
32:54
Speaker 9: old news doesn't matter. So I'm happy to be here
32:56
Speaker 9: at the Easter Egg Roll with my dad and my kids. Because,
33:00
Speaker 9: you know, this is what we're doing it for. These
33:02
Speaker 9: kids right here. This is why we're fighting the fake
33:05
Speaker 9: news media. This is why we're fighting slash-and-burn Democrats. This
33:08
Speaker 9: is why we're fighting hoaxsters.
33:11
Speaker 1: Hoaxsters.
33:12
Speaker 9: This group, no, no, this group right here, full of
33:15
Speaker 9: hoaxsters that peddle anonymous sources from leakers with axes to grind,
33:20
Speaker 9: and then you put it all together as if it's
33:23
Speaker 9: some news story. And when we know it, we know
33:26
Speaker 9: exactly what it is. So I'm really proud of what
33:29
Speaker 9: we're doing for the president, fighting hard across the board,
33:32
Speaker 9: and I'm going to go roll some Easter eggs with
33:35
Speaker 9: my kids. Thank you very much. Have spoken to the president,
33:40
Speaker 9: and we are going to continue fighting on the same
33:42
Speaker 9: page all the way.
33:43
Speaker 1: Michael, say that in the mic again. I'm pretty sure
33:48
Speaker 1: those are the kids that were killing each other in
33:50
Speaker 1: the sand dunes at our wedding. Yeah, the Hexeth kids
33:54
Speaker 1: were at Michael and I's wedding, and they were a
33:57
Speaker 1: little bit of a trouble. They were troublemakers, and they
33:59
Speaker 1: were dragging the Duffy kids into all the troublemaking.
34:02
Speaker 2: That's not true.
34:04
Speaker 1: Both of them were causing problems, the.
34:06
Speaker 3: Duffys and the Hexeths.
34:06
Speaker 1: Okay, I was the bride. I was a little bit
34:08
Speaker 1: checked out, but I heard about it after. There was
34:10
Speaker 1: some naughtiness happening, but it's okay. They were a lot
34:13
Speaker 1: of fun, and I'm glad that there was a lot
34:14
Speaker 1: of kids at our wedding. People that don't have kids
34:16
Speaker 1: at their wedding, why wouldn't you want to have kids
34:17
Speaker 1: at your wedding? I don't get that. I loved it.
34:20
Speaker 1: I loved having all these kids at my wedding. Let's
34:22
Speaker 1: talk about this soundbite. So Sean Davis tweeted this yesterday.
34:26
Speaker 1: We know more about Pete Hegseth's signal chats than we
34:29
Speaker 1: do about Trump's would-be assassins. And this is a large
34:35
Speaker 1: part of the media. It is so interesting that they
34:38
Speaker 1: choose to investigate and then not investigate certain things. This
34:43
Speaker 1: chat was created before the whole signal gate thing with
34:47
Speaker 1: the Atlantic. The White House has said it was a
34:49
Speaker 1: mistake to use Signal because not as secure, but it's
34:53
Speaker 1: crucial to note that nothing shared in this chat was classified.
34:57
Speaker 1: Nothing was classified. They keep trying to make this a story,
35:02
Speaker 1: and it just isn't a story. While the media obsessively
35:05
Speaker 1: fixates on Pete Hexeth's Signal chats, looking for a scandal
35:09
Speaker 1: that doesn't exist, they ignore the real threats and explosive revelations.
35:13
Speaker 1: Their selective outrage is the story. They pounce on any
35:16
Speaker 1: excuse to smear conservatives while running cover for actual corruption,
35:21
Speaker 1: weaponizing journalism as a tool of narrative control. This isn't
35:25
Speaker 1: investigative reporting. It is regime propaganda. Where are the sources?
35:30
Speaker 1: Who are these people? Where are you getting information from?
35:33
Speaker 1: It's really interesting that we fire a bunch of supposed
35:36
Speaker 1: leakers and now you have these stories come out about
35:40
Speaker 1: Pete Hexess in proper signal chat. This is how this goes.
35:44
Speaker 1: And you have a lot of moles. And this is
35:48
Speaker 1: the problem with taking over a hostile government. This is
35:51
Speaker 1: why Trump is still waiting for information on his own
35:54
Speaker 1: assassination attempts. Trump wants that information out. Of course he does.
35:59
Speaker 1: But what we're dealing with are people on the inside
36:02
Speaker 1: who are very hostile to the administration. And it becomes
36:07
Speaker 1: very difficult to do your job when you have that.
36:09
Speaker 1: And you have a media apparatus that that is more
36:12
Speaker 1: than willing to be the propaganda arm of these hostile
36:15
Speaker 1: forces within the federal government. By the way, yesterday, Trump
36:19
Speaker 1: also made fun of the Easter Bunny having to lead
36:23
Speaker 1: Joe Biden away because Joe Biden is, of course, senile
36:26
Speaker 1: and was confused at the Easter egg roll back when
36:29
Speaker 1: he was president. Take a.
36:33
Speaker 10: Listen.
36:34
Speaker 1: This is in 2022. You see the Easter Bunny like
36:36
Speaker 1: trying to get Joe's attention, like waving at him. and
36:39
Speaker 1: just leading him away. And then Joe's looking around. He's confused.
36:42
Speaker 1: He's pointing. He doesn't know where to go.
36:44
Speaker 4: Do you remember the bunny with Joe Biden?
36:47
Speaker 3: Remember?
36:47
Speaker 4: Do you remember when the bunny took Joe Biden out?
36:53
Speaker 9: He's not going to take, he's not taking Trump out.
36:56
Speaker 4: Anyway, that was a good, that was a beautiful moment
36:59
Speaker 4: when the bunny saved Joe Biden.
37:01
Speaker 1: Trump is so funny. Like, of course he had to
37:03
Speaker 1: bring that up. And it's true. Like we can't forget again,
37:06
Speaker 1: what the media did to cover up for Joe Biden's senality.
37:10
Speaker 1: Nobody is allowed to get away with this. I'm sorry,
37:12
Speaker 1: you just can't. Elizabeth Warren was recently asked about how
37:17
Speaker 1: she lied and said Biden was mentally there when he
37:21
Speaker 1: clearly wasn't. I want you to take a listen to
37:24
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren, a.k.a. Pocahontas, just get absolutely cornered and have
37:29
Speaker 1: to actually answer for the way that she but also
37:31
Speaker 1: think about this as all Democrats lied about the mental
37:35
Speaker 1: acuity of this clearly senile man.
37:40
Speaker 7: Do you regret saying that President Biden had a mental acuity?
37:44
Speaker 7: He had a sharpness to him. You said that up
37:46
Speaker 7: until July of last year.
37:49
Speaker 1: I said what I believe to be true.
37:51
Speaker 7: And you think he was as sharp as you?
37:57
Speaker 1: I said I had not seen decline.
38:02
Speaker 3: And I hadn't at that point.
38:04
Speaker 7: You did not see any decline from 2024 Joe Biden
38:06
Speaker 7: to 2021 Joe Biden? Not when I said that. You know,
38:08
Speaker 7: the thing is, look, he was sharp.
38:18
Speaker 1: He was on his feet.
38:19
Speaker 4: I saw him.
38:20
Speaker 1: Live event. I had meetings with him a couple of times.
38:24
Speaker 7: Senator, on his feet is not praise. He can speak
38:30
Speaker 7: in sentences is not praise.
38:32
Speaker 9: Fair enough.
38:33
Speaker 1: Fair enough. He can speak in sentences is not praise. No,
38:37
Speaker 1: it's not. And she lied. And this is what she
38:40
Speaker 1: kind of agreed. She said fair enough at the end.
38:42
Speaker 1: She didn't fully own up to it. But we all
38:44
Speaker 1: know the truth that she lied and they all lied.
38:47
Speaker 1: But this is what they do. They lie. The Democratic
38:52
Speaker 1: Party is in desperate need of reform. They had a
38:56
Speaker 1: senile man leading the way. They are desperate for reform.
39:02
Speaker 1: And there's been some massive shakeups at the DNC in
39:06
Speaker 1: order to prevent another Joe Biden from ever happening again.
39:09
Speaker 1: A purge of Joe Biden like swamp rats, if you will.
39:13
Speaker 1: So newly elected DNC Vice Chair David Hogg is now
39:17
Speaker 1: planning to spend $ 20 million primarying older establishment Democrats in
39:25
Speaker 1: safe house seats in 2026, something the DNC has never
39:29
Speaker 1: done before. If you have a Republican in office, you don't,
39:34
Speaker 1: as a Democrat, challenge them in a primary because you
39:39
Speaker 1: want to keep that seat. You want to keep that vote.
39:41
Speaker 1: You're not going to hurt your own. Here is David
39:44
Speaker 1: Hogg making his case.
39:47
Speaker 10: So we are energized and there are people out there.
39:48
Speaker 10: And what I'm trying to do with this effort right
39:50
Speaker 10: now with the primaries in particular is do two things
39:53
Speaker 10: at once. One, make sure that we're handling, you know,
39:56
Speaker 10: the conflicts within our own party productively in seats that
39:59
Speaker 10: do not risk us losing the majority, while also making
40:02
Speaker 10: sure that we make Hakeem Jeffries the next speaker of
40:04
Speaker 10: the House by rallying our base and giving people something
40:07
Speaker 10: to vote for. We cannot just be the party that
40:09
Speaker 10: is against Donald Trump. We have to be a party
40:11
Speaker 10: that doesn't have a 27 approval. 27% approval rating from
40:15
Speaker 10: our own base. That is not a survivable future. And
40:18
Speaker 10: the way that we change that is making sure that
40:20
Speaker 10: we have some different characters. We talk in democratic politics
40:22
Speaker 10: all the time about it's the messaging, it's the messaging,
40:25
Speaker 10: it's the messaging. You can have Shakespeare write the best
40:27
Speaker 10: script in the world. If you have bad actors, it
40:29
Speaker 10: doesn't matter.
40:30
Speaker 5: So let me just follow up for a second, because
40:32
Speaker 5: you're talking about this effort that you're leading. It's going
40:35
Speaker 5: to include going after Democratic incumbents. You say in safe, safe,
40:39
Speaker 5: safe seats because it's time to get. We have this
40:41
Speaker 5: seniority politics. You're trying to get some fresh blood into
40:46
Speaker 5: the Democratic system. You heard Hakeem Jeffries. He actually seemed
40:49
Speaker 5: a little irritated with you or with the effort. He's like,
40:52
Speaker 5: I think we should focus on beating Republicans, not on
40:55
Speaker 5: beating Democrats.
40:56
Speaker 10: I think it's going to be a hell of a
40:57
Speaker 10: lot harder for us to defeat Republicans with a 27
41:00
Speaker 10: percent approval rating where we cannot simply go out there
41:03
Speaker 10: and say, look, guys, we're not Donald Trump.
41:04
Speaker 1: Vote for us.
41:05
Speaker 10: So we are energized.
41:06
Speaker 1: OK, so Democrats are indeed living through an existential crisis. Clearly,
41:12
Speaker 1: like approval ratings are in the tank for Democrats. And
41:16
Speaker 1: David Hogg is right. The Democrats cannot have a future
41:20
Speaker 1: where those old guard Democrats are running the show. They're
41:24
Speaker 1: responsible for some of the most unpopular candidates in American history.
41:26
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton. And
41:29
Speaker 1: they're being led by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. And
41:32
Speaker 1: the whole thing is a disaster. And young people are
41:35
Speaker 1: furious with the Democratic Party, not to mention the Palestine issue,
41:39
Speaker 1: which is, of course, very divisive. Old guard Democrats still
41:43
Speaker 1: are kind of supportive or at least implicitly supportive of Israel.
41:49
Speaker 1: Young leftists, like rabidly anti-Israel, river to the sea, they
41:54
Speaker 1: are just completely not on the same page. This has
41:57
Speaker 1: been very, very divisive. So I'm not sure that primarying
42:03
Speaker 1: Democrats is going to be the best long-term and certainly
42:05
Speaker 1: not the best short-term strategy for Democrats, if I'm thinking
42:08
Speaker 1: as a Democrat. This is probably going to hurt Democrats electorally.
42:12
Speaker 1: Maybe Democrats can rebrand. But then you have to ask how.
42:16
Speaker 1: Because the point of this is to say, we're going
42:18
Speaker 1: to get out the old guard. We're going to bring
42:19
Speaker 1: in the new. We're going to bring in the people
42:20
Speaker 1: who actually are energizing for Democrats, for leftists. I don't
42:28
Speaker 1: see that actually being something David Hogg is capable of orchestrating.
42:32
Speaker 1: Certainly he can primary people. But David Hogg is just
42:36
Speaker 1: as radical on social issues as Biden and Kamala. Only
42:40
Speaker 1: difference is he actually believes in it. He's that dumb.
42:42
Speaker 1: He's not a dimension-ridden empty vessel. He actually believes these things.
42:46
Speaker 7: So what I'm trying to.
42:47
Speaker 1: Say is that the masculinity crisis, the abandonment of the
42:50
Speaker 1: working class, the absurd gender theory and DEI, and this
42:55
Speaker 1: anti-working class, anti-normal people, climate hysteria, is not going to
43:02
Speaker 1: change with these candidates that are young and radical that
43:06
Speaker 1: David Hogg is supporting. He isn't suggesting we shake up
43:10
Speaker 1: how insane the Democratic Party is. He's actually saying, let's
43:13
Speaker 1: be more crazy, just younger. More crazy, but younger. So
43:20
Speaker 1: he can primary these guys all he wants, but I
43:22
Speaker 1: just don't see the vision here. And I'm speaking as
43:24
Speaker 1: just somebody looking at the Democratic Party objectively. They have
43:27
Speaker 1: abandoned the working class. They've abandoned the middle class. They've
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Speaker 1: embraced this radical gender theory, radical climate hysteria, all these things,
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Speaker 1: open borders, things that Americans don't really care about. And
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Speaker 1: he's saying, my solution is just to bring more of
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Speaker 1: that in, but they won't be as old. I don't
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Speaker 1: see the vision. I think it could be a strategy
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Speaker 1: if he had a different, a real authentic rebrand of
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party where they were going to embrace left-wing
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Speaker 1: populism divorced of the modern identity politics and gender hysteria
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Speaker 1: and open borders and were just really focused on the
44:06
Speaker 1: economics here, like populist collectivism. If they could do that,
44:11
Speaker 1: then I could see the vision and perhaps there'd be
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Speaker 1: benefit to primarying some of these people who have been
44:15
Speaker 1: in office for a long time and have done nothing
44:17
Speaker 1: for Democrats. But he's not suggesting that. And so it's
44:22
Speaker 1: great for Republicans, if you're a conservative, because this isn't
44:25
Speaker 1: going to work. This is just going to utterly fail
44:28
Speaker 1: because you can't just replace people and not have a
44:30
Speaker 1: vision for the future. It's kind of like when the
44:32
Speaker 1: CIA just instigates all these regime changes across the world.
44:36
Speaker 1: And then they do it. They overthrow whatever government they
44:40
Speaker 1: want to overthrow. They're 100% success rate on that. But
44:43
Speaker 1: then they have no plan for the future, and the
44:46
Speaker 1: result ends up being a way worse regime for the
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Speaker 1: people who actually live there and, of course, for the
44:52
Speaker 1: world abroad because the instability is bad for everyone. So
44:57
Speaker 1: you can't just overthrow things and make massive changes and
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Speaker 1: not have a plan for the future. or at least
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Speaker 1: have a plan that's not any different from what you've
45:05
Speaker 1: been doing before that has been so unpopular with the
45:09
Speaker 1: American people. All right, by the way, just more evidence
45:12
Speaker 1: that this party is in crisis. After LeBron James endorsed
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Speaker 1: former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election campaign, Kamala,
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Speaker 1: we learned this this week, reportedly paid LeBron James' company $ 50, 000
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Speaker 1: for campaign event Now, LeBron did not make an appearance
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Speaker 1: for any campaign event, but he did post a 75-second
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Speaker 1: video on social media leading up to the election in
45:45
Speaker 1: order to endorse Kamala Harris. And on X, LeBron James wrote,
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Speaker 1: When I think about my kids and my family and
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Speaker 1: how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me.
45:55
Speaker 1: Vote Kamala Harris. I'm going to play for you guys
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Speaker 1: this $ 50, 000 video. You tell me if this seems like
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Speaker 1: it's worth $ 50, 000. All right.
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Speaker 8: Heck yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's a cool black guy. That's one of my buddies.
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Speaker 8: We had fun.
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Speaker 1: We carved watermelons together. It was awesome.
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Speaker 4: No, I'm not a racist. They're taking black jobs now.
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Speaker 7: The whole country is going to be like, it'll be
46:26
Speaker 7: like Detroit.
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Speaker 1: A lot of it's about the genes, isn't it?
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Speaker 4: Don't you believe? They're poisoning the blood of our country. Troublemaker.
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Speaker 4: These are troublemakers.
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Speaker 1: Look.
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Speaker 4: I love the old days, you know? Do you know
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Speaker 4: what they used to do to guys like that when
46:43
Speaker 4: they were in a place like this? They'd be carried
46:45
Speaker 4: out on a stretcher, folks. Like to punch him in
46:50
Speaker 4: the face, I'll tell you. Now, if you had one
46:53
Speaker 4: really violent day, like one rough hour, and I mean
46:57
Speaker 4: real rough, the word will get out and it will
47:00
Speaker 4: end immediately. But we're going to indemnify police officers and
47:06
Speaker 4: law enforcement from being destroyed by the radical left. You're
47:10
Speaker 4: changing history.
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Speaker 6: You're changing culture.
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Speaker 4: Of course I hate these people. And let's all hate
47:16
Speaker 4: these people because maybe hate is what we needed.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so.
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Speaker 1: That was just a crazy. The ad is all about
47:25
Speaker 1: Trump being a racist. If you're listening, Trump's a Klansman.
47:28
Speaker 1: He wants to bring back segregation. He loves the Confederacy.
47:33
Speaker 1: And he somehow was responsible for the death of Emmett Till.
47:36
Speaker 1: The whole thing was just utterly absurd. Just like massive
47:40
Speaker 1: Trump derangement. The whole thing made no sense. And just
47:44
Speaker 1: you guys know the drill. Like just a ridiculous ad
47:47
Speaker 1: about Trump being this rabid racist who hates black people.
47:51
Speaker 1: The entire thing was completely whack. And I might add
47:55
Speaker 1: something that my husband, Michael Alfonso, could have made in
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Speaker 1: a couple of hours. And that's the real point of
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Speaker 1: me playing this video. Obviously, it was deranged.
48:04
Speaker 11: I'll make videos like that for 50 grand.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be great. Let's just quit this job, Michael.
48:10
Speaker 1: We'll just make videos for the Kamala Harris campaign for $ 50, 000 each.
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Speaker 1: This is insane that she paid $ 50, 000 for this ad.
48:21
Speaker 1: That ad is not worth 50 grand. Absolutely not. Insane
48:26
Speaker 1: thing to say, to argue. The logical conclusion here is
48:33
Speaker 1: just that LeBron James is one more person, like Beyonce
48:35
Speaker 1: and Oprah and Kamala, who Kamala paid to endorse her.
48:39
Speaker 1: And it's a reminder that despite raising over a billion dollars,
48:43
Speaker 1: this woman totally crashed and burned. She couldn't organically get
48:49
Speaker 1: this celebrity support and love that Obama did. It was
48:54
Speaker 1: all astroturfed. It was all fake. It was all just contrived.
49:00
Speaker 1: And of course, Harris ended up in debt after November 5th,
49:03
Speaker 1: and apparently she's still soliciting donations after her loss. If
49:06
Speaker 1: you're a Democrat, embarrassing if you donate to Kamala Harris
49:11
Speaker 1: and victory and saving democracy or whatever, fighting the oligarchy,
49:15
Speaker 1: because that money is going to pay off the Kamala
49:17
Speaker 1: Harris debt, clearly this party needs help. Everyone is incompetent.
49:22
Speaker 1: They're terrible with money. There was no energy around this
49:25
Speaker 1: campaign because it was all astroturfed and fake and paid for.
49:30
Speaker 1: And they're now about to annihilate their own seats in Congress.
49:32
Speaker 1: They are in absolute ruin. So it's looking good for
49:36
Speaker 1: the Trump admin. I'll just say that. By the way,
49:39
Speaker 1: we are not going to let go of how the
49:42
Speaker 1: Democratic Party abused the entire country during the COVID hysteria. Yesterday,
49:47
Speaker 1: House Oversight Chairman James Comer criminally referred former New York
49:52
Speaker 1: Governor Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice, accusing him
49:55
Speaker 1: of lying to Congress about his role in covering up
49:59
Speaker 1: COVID-19 nursing home deaths. And according to the Oversight Committee's statement,
50:03
Speaker 1: Evidence and witness testimony gathered suggests Mr. Cuomo knowingly and
50:07
Speaker 1: willfully made false statements to the select subcommittee on the
50:09
Speaker 1: coronavirus pandemic on numerous occasions about material aspects of New
50:13
Speaker 1: York City's, about New York's COVID-19 nursing home disaster and
50:18
Speaker 1: the ensuing cover-up. Specifically, Cuomo allegedly misled Congress during an
50:23
Speaker 1: interview when he denied being involved in the drafting of
50:27
Speaker 1: a July 6th report that downplayed the death toll in
50:31
Speaker 1: New York nursing homes. The report was billed as an
50:35
Speaker 1: independent assessment, but the committee says Cuomo's denial was false
50:38
Speaker 1: and part of a broader effort to suppress accurate death
50:42
Speaker 1: counts and silence state health officials. The criminal referral accuses
50:47
Speaker 1: Cuomo of giving false statements in what appears to be
50:50
Speaker 1: a conscious, calculated effort to insulate himself from accountability for
50:55
Speaker 1: the nursing home scandal. And what makes Andrew Cuomo's actions
50:59
Speaker 1: especially horrific is not just the cover-up, although this is,
51:02
Speaker 1: of course, very corrupt and horrible. It is the human cost.
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Speaker 1: Thousands of elderly New Yorkers died isolated and alone in
51:10
Speaker 1: nursing homes, forbidden from seeing their loved ones in their
51:14
Speaker 1: final moments because of the anti-science lockdown policies that Cuomo enforced.
51:20
Speaker 1: Families were barred from saying goodbye, holding hands, or offering comfort,
51:25
Speaker 1: all while Andrew Cuomo forced COVID-positive patients back into those
51:29
Speaker 1: same facilities, accelerating the death toll. These were human beings,
51:34
Speaker 1: discarded by a system, not concerned with lives, but concerned
51:40
Speaker 1: with optics. And it's disgusting, and I'm glad that he
51:43
Speaker 1: was referred to the DOJ. We also found out yesterday
51:47
Speaker 1: that Dr. Anthony Fauci's personal fortune boomed during and after
51:51
Speaker 1: the COVID-19 hysteria, according to newly released records. Fauci's net
51:57
Speaker 1: worth doubled from about $ 7. 6 million in early 2019 to
52:01
Speaker 1: nearly $ 15 million by the end of 2023, and the
52:05
Speaker 1: financial details come from a 141-page disclosure obtained by the
52:12
Speaker 1: watchdog group Open the Books, which showed that Fauci made
52:15
Speaker 1: more than $ 3. 5 million in 2023 alone. his first year
52:19
Speaker 1: in retirement. Now, the post-retirement wealth stems from a mix
52:24
Speaker 1: of lucrative speaking engagements, a multi-million dollar book deal, and
52:28
Speaker 1: continued ties to, of course, elite institutions. And records show
52:34
Speaker 1: that he earned six-figure payments throughout 2023 for appearances before
52:39
Speaker 1: influential organizations like America's health insurance plans, while also securing
52:43
Speaker 1: a $ 5 million advance from Penguin Random House for his memoir.
52:48
Speaker 1: In July, he joined Georgetown as a distinguished professor, adding
52:53
Speaker 1: academic prestige to his portfolio. And all this is for
52:56
Speaker 1: the guy who covered up the lab leak theory because
53:00
Speaker 1: he was in charge of the organization that funneled taxpayer
53:03
Speaker 1: dollars into the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci is at fault, arguably,
53:11
Speaker 1: for the entire pandemic because he was funneling American taxpayer
53:15
Speaker 1: dollars into Virology. EcoHealth Alliance, this organization that was then
53:19
Speaker 1: funneling funds into the Wuhan Institute of Virology for coronavirus
53:24
Speaker 1: research on bats, using gain-of-function research, which is actually very
53:29
Speaker 1: dangerous to do. So what you are witnessing with this
53:35
Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci now being wildly wealthy situation is the revolving
53:38
Speaker 1: door between public health bureaucrats and big pharma, a closed
53:42
Speaker 1: ecosystem of where accountability disappears and failure is rewarded. Millions
53:47
Speaker 1: of Americans suffered under harsh lockdowns. They got expelled. They
53:50
Speaker 1: got fired for refusing the vaccine. They lost businesses. They
53:52
Speaker 1: missed funerals. Had loved ones who died alone. And the
53:56
Speaker 1: architects of those policies got richer and more respected and
54:00
Speaker 1: more entrenched in elite institutions. There has been no COVID reckoning.
54:06
Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci is a rich guy and he's walked free.
54:10
Speaker 1: This is the disease of our modern government. career bureaucrats,
54:15
Speaker 1: and unelected officials who operate with zero transparency, insulated from consequences,
54:21
Speaker 1: and incentivized to serve special interests rather than public good.
54:25
Speaker 1: COVID just exposed it in high definition. Whether it's a
54:29
Speaker 1: NIH doctor, a Pentagon consultant, the pattern is always the same.
54:33
Speaker 1: Lies spin and payouts. The corruption isn't a bug. It
54:38
Speaker 1: is a system. It is the system. We have some
54:45
Speaker 1: news on gender insanity that I want to get to. Today,
54:48
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court is set to hear a high-stakes case
54:51
Speaker 1: on whether public schools can compel young children to participate
54:55
Speaker 1: in lessons that promote views on gender identity and sexuality
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Speaker 1: that conflict with their family's religious beliefs. Muslim, Catholic, and
55:03
Speaker 1: Ukrainian Orthodox parents from Maryland filed the lawsuit after the
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Speaker 1: school district mandated the use of LGBTQ-themed storybooks, such as
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Speaker 1: Pride Puppy and Jacob's Room to Choose, without allowing parents
55:18
Speaker 1: to opt out. And these books introduce concepts like gay romance,
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Speaker 1: transgender ideology, and Pride Parade's two elementary school children. And
55:27
Speaker 1: while the district initially promised opt-out notifications, it reversed the
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Speaker 1: decision in 2023, stating no notice or opt-out would be
55:35
Speaker 1: allowed moving forward. The parents are arguing that This violates
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Speaker 1: their First Amendment rights under the Free Exercise Clause, asserting
55:43
Speaker 1: that they should not be forced to surrender religious authority
55:45
Speaker 1: over their children's upbringing simply by using public education. And
55:49
Speaker 1: the petition to the court points to a lower court
55:52
Speaker 1: ruling suggesting public school enrollment forfeits a parent's religious oversight,
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Speaker 1: something the parents say contradicts American tradition and constitutional precedent.
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Speaker 1: You have dozens of organizations, 25 state attorneys general, filing
56:08
Speaker 1: amicus briefs, supporting the parents. The Trump admin has done
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Speaker 1: the same, arguing that the school's policy burdens parents' constitutional rights.
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Speaker 1: And this is sort of a soul of the country moment, really.
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Speaker 1: It pits the authority of parents, rooted in faith, tradition,
56:23
Speaker 1: natural law, against an increasingly aggressive state that seeks to
56:27
Speaker 1: impose a new moral orthodoxy on children. This is not
56:32
Speaker 1: just a legal battle over classroom materials, but of course
56:36
Speaker 1: a deeper conflict over who shapes the moral imagination of
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Speaker 1: the next generation. Is it families or is it bureaucrats?
56:43
Speaker 1: When public schools strip parents of the right to shield
56:46
Speaker 1: their children from ideologies that violate their religious convictions, it
56:49
Speaker 1: signals a regime shift, one where the state claims ownership
56:53
Speaker 1: over children's minds and souls. And this case then is
56:56
Speaker 1: about whether America remains a place where faith and parental
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Speaker 1: rights are honored or whether it has fully surrendered to
57:01
Speaker 1: a technocratic post-Christian order. It's really a question of American identity.
57:06
Speaker 1: Who are we? Who are we? This video from a
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Speaker 1: school board meeting last week in California tells you everything
57:14
Speaker 1: you need to know about the spiritual battle that we
57:17
Speaker 1: are in. This is a heartbreaking testimony.
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Speaker 5: Take a listen.
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Speaker 1: Do we have that, Mikey?
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Speaker 11: Hello, my name is Celeste Deist. I am 17 years old,
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Speaker 11: a junior and track athlete at HHS. Most importantly, I'm
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Speaker 11: a woman advocating for the renewal of female rights, which
57:34
Speaker 11: recently has been overlooked and disregarded. I implore all of
57:37
Speaker 11: you to help put an end to this current injustice. Recently,
57:41
Speaker 11: I went into the women's locker room to change for
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Speaker 11: track practice, where I saw at the end of my
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Speaker 11: row a biological male watching not only myself, but the
57:49
Speaker 11: other young women undressed. This experience was beyond traumatizing. I
57:54
Speaker 11: must add, he is not changing in our locker room
57:57
Speaker 11: because he's in his track clothes, dressed and ready to
57:59
Speaker 11: go to practice at the beginning of the day. Therefore,
58:02
Speaker 11: there's absolutely no reason for him to be in any
58:05
Speaker 11: locker room, let alone the women's. Adults like yourself made
58:09
Speaker 11: me and my peers feel like our own comfort was invalid,
58:13
Speaker 11: even though our privacy was and still is being completely violated.
58:18
Speaker 11: The individual who identifies as female has XY chromosomes. Biologically,
58:24
Speaker 11: this makes him a male. Because females have XX chromosomes.
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Speaker 11: This is basic biology.
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Speaker 7: Okay, please wrap it.
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Speaker 1: Up.
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Speaker 11: I just want to ask, what about us? We cannot
58:40
Speaker 11: sit around and allow our rights to be given up
58:43
Speaker 11: to cater to an individual that is a man. who
58:45
Speaker 11: watches a woman undress in a stripping away female opportunity
58:49
Speaker 11: that once was fought for us. Sadly, we have to
58:51
Speaker 11: try and regain our rights again. I hope you put
58:54
Speaker 11: effort into the restoration of our school's safety. Thank you
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Speaker 11: for speaking with me.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys caught that toward the end,
59:02
Speaker 1: but the school board president steps in and says, wrap
59:06
Speaker 1: it up. Therefore, a teenage girl to undress in front
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Speaker 1: of a male. No matter how he identifies, this is
59:18
Speaker 1: state-sanctioned trauma. That this student broke down in tears while
59:23
Speaker 1: recounting the experience should be a wake-up call. We are
59:26
Speaker 1: abandoning our girls at the altar of ideology. It is predatory.
59:30
Speaker 1: It strips them of their rightful expectation to feel secure
59:33
Speaker 1: and seen and unseen by the opposite sex in a
59:37
Speaker 1: vulnerable setting like a locker room or a bathroom. The
59:39
Speaker 1: whole thing is profoundly anti-woman. It communicates to girls that
59:45
Speaker 1: their discomfort, their boundaries, and even their tears mean nothing
59:49
Speaker 1: compared to the feelings of a male who claims he's female.
59:53
Speaker 1: It's identity and ideology above all, and the chilling message
59:56
Speaker 1: is that women must silently endure indignity for the sake
59:59
Speaker 1: of inclusion. How is this anything but regressive? These are,
1:00:06
Speaker 1: of course, people who detest biological reality, detest the truth.
1:00:11
Speaker 1: In a Christian nation, as the Founding Fathers intended, with
1:00:13
Speaker 1: a moral order grounded in biblical truth, the recognition of
1:00:16
Speaker 1: the unique roles of men and women is essential to
1:00:18
Speaker 1: preserving both social harmony and and divine design. The founders
1:00:24
Speaker 1: understood that liberty could not be sustained apart from virtue
1:00:27
Speaker 1: and that virtue rests on natural law and God's revelation.
1:00:33
Speaker 1: The differences between men and women are not oppressive. They
1:00:36
Speaker 1: are ordered and dignified and deeply meaningful. A society that
1:00:39
Speaker 1: honors those distinctions flourishes. A society that erases them invites chaos.
1:00:44
Speaker 1: The Roman Empire did that right before its fall. Gender-bending madness.
1:00:49
Speaker 1: It's a pattern that we see throughout human history. To
1:00:53
Speaker 1: reject the uniqueness of men and women is not only
1:00:55
Speaker 1: rebellion against biology, it is civilizational suicide. And this is
1:01:00
Speaker 1: why it matters that we have strong leaders, strong Christian leaders,
1:01:04
Speaker 1: like perhaps Cardinal Serra or somebody else leading the Catholic Church,
1:01:09
Speaker 1: leading global Christianity, because we have so much confusion right now.
1:01:14
Speaker 1: Just brazen insanity that is putting the lives and the
1:01:25
Speaker 1: well-being of young people at risk in this country. It
1:01:29
Speaker 1: is sowing confusion. It is destroying the family. And we
1:01:33
Speaker 1: will not survive much longer like this. It is sincerely
1:01:36
Speaker 1: civilizational suicide. So it's imperative that we have better leadership
1:01:42
Speaker 1: in this country globally, both politically and religiously. The time
1:01:49
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