Ep. 1933 - The New Ayatollah Of Iran Is Gay?

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is the new Ayatola gay.

Is he the guy gay at all?

It doesn't work.

It works when you spell it, G-A-Y, hyphen atola.

But it doesn't sound right.

There's a difference between the sound and the writing.

This is like when the Libs in the 2000s tried to write Fox News as F-A-U-X,

like faux news.

But because the sound is different from this way, it doesn't work.

So we're just going to have to say it bluntly.

No puns at all.

The Ayatola might be a homosexual.

Might be a little light in the loafers.

You know what I'm saying?

A couple fries away from a happy meal.

The kind of fella has a long handshake.

You know what I mean?

I'm saying he's gay.

According to the New York Post.

So New York Post exclusive report.

Not only is the new Supreme Leader Mojtava come in, he probably gay.

But apparently, President Trump thought that was very, very funny.

Trump could not contain his surprise and laughed aloud

when he was briefed on the interliquating resources.

Others in the room also found it, quote, hilarious,

and joined in the president's reaction.

Well, one senior official.

One senior official reportedly has not stopped laughing about it for days.

Said one person familiar with the briefing.

The shocking claim was described to the post by two intelligence community officials

and a third person close to the White House.

Now, when I first read this, I thought, look, it's funny.

But this seems to me like an op.

This seems to me like a demoralization tactic from our intelligence services

who certainly would never lie, and especially in the context of war, right?

However, when you look into Kamene's history,

he married relatively late for an Iranian cleric,

for an Iranian, the son of the Supreme Leader.

He married at age 30.

I think it was.

He reportedly had a little trouble functioning.

Downstairs had to go to the United Kingdom for some treatments.

Multiple times, I think on the third or fourth treatment,

he finally was able to produce a child.

So there's a little bit of evidence

that the ladies are not exactly his type.

In any case, I don't know that this really matters.

I mean, it's kind of funny and we're all giggling here.

Maybe it's true.

Maybe it's just a demoralization tactic.

I don't think it really matters, though.

Because after the giggles dissipate,

the question that we have is whether or not we will have gone in with a massive show force

to replace the angry Islamist leader of Iran, Ayatollah Kamene,

with an angrier Islamist leader of Iran, also named Ayatollah Kamene.

That's the issue.

I don't think that's a great idea.

I don't know how many of you've seen old Western movies and stuff,

but when you kill somebody's paw, he usually sets out for revenge.

Adding on top of that,

the Iranians have played their toughest card,

which is they closed the strait of Hormuz

through which 20% of the world's oil flows.

And so I look, there are many people who were skeptical of this war.

It myself included, as I've said many times, if I were on the NSC,

I would have argued against going in for this strike.

However, I trust Trump-unformed policies,

got the best record on it in my lifetime,

and so I'm willing to let him cook at least for the five weeks that he said it would take.

However, the dye is cast, whether you wanted to go in or you don't want to go in,

the dye is cast, we're there.

Aliyah Yakhda asked, so the question is, what does victory look like now?

And one of the real fears is, if you don't completely decapitate this regime,

if you don't keep just pummeling them and remove the new,

you know, I had told a Liberacci or whatever,

even really Liberacci, you know, kind of kept a lid on his alleged proclivities.

This guy, I don't know, it seems a little more out in the open according to the CIA.

In any case, if you don't get rid of the guy,

you could end up in a position where the situation in Iran is worse than when we started.

On top of that, if the Iranians feel that they were able to succeed

by closing the strait of Hormuz,

in other words, if the Iranians leave this conflict feeling that they played a game of chicken

with the United States and because they closed the strait of Hormuz, they won the game of chicken,

we have lost all of our leverage in Iran.

Now the regional situation is much worse than it was before we began.

All of that to say, you know, Trump still has my confidence on foreign policy.

He's very good at these things, you know, and he's demonstrated that over 10 years.

Now, however, two weeks ago, you might have said, well, it could just be some kind of limited

incursion into Iran and we can achieve some limited objectives. Now it would seem to me,

you really can't pull out until you pummel them, until you, until you demonstrate to them that

they cannot close the strait of Hormuz and get away with it. Until you demonstrate to them that

the regime must cooperate with the West. Not saying it needs to be a totally different regime,

I'm not, and I know it's immensely complex and maybe improbable to achieve these goals.

That would have been part of my argument against going in because of the immense complexity,

the enormous complexity of this kind of operation. But we cannot now pull out and have the

Iranians thinking that they can just close the strait of Hormuz whenever they want to get what they

want to get. And even if they have a homosexual leader, supreme leader, you know, some jokes and

some funny articles in the New York Post about it are not a sufficient victory. As I said,

when this operation began, this is the riskiest thing Trump has ever done. If it works out,

it's the greatest foreign policy achievement of the last 30 years at least, maybe more.

It achieves a strategic objective that we've had for 70 years. But if it doesn't work out,

this is the biggest risk to his legacy we've ever seen. Now, the media are trying to exploit

some of the disagreements in the conservative movement, even within the administration,

allegedly, on the Iran strike. So they were basically trying to pry JD, the vice president,

off of Trump. And there's a big move right now. You're seeing it, especially from a lot of

never-trumpers, a lot of people who oppose Trump in 2016, a lot of people who oppose Trump in 2024,

who went over to Governor DeSantis' team. I love DeSantis. All the context decide DeSantis is

a great governor, but a lot of the never-trumpers were attracted to him, not even necessarily because

of his policies, but because he was not Trump. And so a lot of the people who have opposed Trump

consistently for the last 10 years are going after JD right now. And they're coming up with all

sorts of reasons to do it, but there's clearly a very coordinated op to a sideline president

Trump's hand-picked successor. And part of that op is to try to drive a wedge between Trump

and the vice president. And Iran seems to be the way to do it. So a reporter poses question to

the vice president of the Oval Office yesterday. Here's JD's response.

I know what you're trying to do, Phil. You're trying to drive a wedge between members of the

administration, between me and the president. But the president said consistently, going back

to 2015 and I agreed with him is that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. We have taken this

military action under the president's leadership. I think all of us, whether you're a Democrat or

Republican, should pray for a success and pray for the safety of our troops, that's the approach

that I've taken. Make it as successful as possible. There's no hesitation given your past

statements with the current operation. What do you mean there's no hesitation with my past statements?

Getting your skepticism or contrastism, you are critical of the global war on territory easily.

Well, I think one big difference, Phil, is that we have a smart president,

whereas in the past we've had dumb presidents. And I trust President Trump to get the job done

to do. Great answer, man. Great answer. The vice president. He's a good politician. And I think he

benefits from the same thing that Bill Clinton benefited from, that George W. Bush has benefited

from, that a lot of presidents have benefited. Reagan benefited from, which is that he is underestimated.

But this was a very good answer. JD Vance has come out pretty strongly against the endless wars

and the Neocon interventions and all the rest over the last 20 years. And so he's asked by the

reporters, says, well, hold on. How are you backing the president on this strike on Iran?

And he says, well, because Trump has been clear from the beginning that we're not going to let

Iran get a nuclear weapon. So that's a pretty good answer. But the reporter presses it, says,

well, don't you feel uncomfortable with your past statements? What makes you think that this war

in the Middle East, in a country that begins IRA, is going to turn out differently than that last

war in the Middle East, where the country that began with IRA, albeit one ending with a Q one with

an N. And JD gives us great answers as well, because we previously had dumb presidents and now we

have a smart president. It's just a great little way to flip it. It's a great little slogan here.

But it's not just a cheap slogan. It speaks to a really deep observation.

The problem with the war in Iraq or the war in Afghanistan for that matter is not that the United

States did not have a right to go in. It's not that the United States did not have an interest

in ousting the Taliban or even Saddam Hussein, who had we had been contemplating ousting since

the early 1990s, who had destabilized the Middle East, who had, well, who had led the United States

into war already one time. It's not, that wasn't the issue. The issue was that the war was bungled.

That was the problem. And so what Vance is saying here is, look, yeah, we obviously have a goal and

an interest in preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons, stopping Iran's ballistic missile

program, preventing Iran from attaining regional hegemony, which our Gulf State allies clearly

think Iran wants to do. We've had an interest in ousting this regime since 1979. Yeah,

whether or not we do it is contingent upon whether or not we can actually succeed at doing it.

And one reason, and I totally grew this, I grew this 100%, one reason I'm not losing sleep at night

over this intervention is because Trump's got a good record. You know, the shorthand that the

vice president uses is we have a smart president now. We used to have dumb presidents, but it speaks

to a lot. Trump has a very good record on the Moab. He's got a very good record on killing

Soleimani. He's got a very good record in Venezuela. He's got a very good record in defeating ISIS.

He's got a very good record in preventing Putin from further invading a country, only president

in the last 25 years on whose watch Putin did not invade or further invade a country. Pretty good

record on wrapping up wars, pretty good record on preventing wars and on and on and on.

That's what Vance is saying. So what happens now? There is some leaked audio coming out of Iran

over whether or not the Iatola is even alive. And then talk about realignment, talk about

crazy restructuring on the right. You know, some of this, they talk about the never Trumpers and

the Neocons and this and that. It is certainly the case that the biggest cheerleaders right now for

President Trump's policy were never Trumpers in 2016. That is true. It's no question about it.

That is the case. And I think that irritates a lot of OG Trump supporters. That's true. And they're

pointing to that and they're saying Trump has betrayed MAGA or whatever, which I think is

basically impossible because MAGA is a movement that President Trump built in its current iteration.

America first is a movement and it's current iteration that President Trump built. So they're

pointing to that. They're saying, look, now it's all these guys who hated Trump in 16. Now there

is biggest cheerleaders on this specific action. Sure. However, you also have to look at the whole

context of Trump. Trump ran on for 10 years, not letting Iran get a nuclear weapon, intervening

in the Middle East, going in to beat the hell out of ISIS. That's what he ran on in 2016.

His policy has been pretty consistent on that. So even if you're, if me, I like co-illitional

politics. I like bringing as many people in as can be helpful, keeping the genuinely bad people out.

And going ahead and fighting the left and actually winning and not just fighting amongst ourselves

as the conservatives want to do every single day. However, for the people who are a little irritated

that some of the never-Trumpers now have the Presidents here, we also have to point out

this was Trump's vision. And if you voted for President Trump because you never wanted

intervention in the Middle East because you wanted to let Iran do whatever it wants because

this that or the other thing, you just weren't listening to Trump. Okay, they were clear.

And anyone who's trying to drive division in this administration, I don't like it. I don't like

people have very selfish reasons for doing that. But it is not conducive to political flourishing.

Okay. The President and the Vice President both on the campaign trail and

apparently in the Oval Office are in lockstep along with the Secretary of State,

along with the rest of the cabinet. People who want to drive division in the most unified and

effective Republican presidential administration that I've seen, I don't like that one little bit.

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there's an amazing situation unfolding in which one of the founders of the current

version of Neoconservatism, one of the great proponents of intervention and war in the Middle

East, is now coming out questioning some of the Iran strike and arguing that we really got

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yesterday or the day before on the bull work, which is that's Bill Crystal's outlet. Very few

people watch it, but this little clip was illustrative. Bill Crystal, formerly one of the grand

pubas of the conservative movement, and then he became a liberal because he got radicalized

by Trump. Then he supported Kamala and Joe Biden and he's abandoned every principle that he ever

had beforehand. He was interviewing Bob Kagan. Now, Robert Kagan is a foreign policy expert.

He was one of the co-founders with Bill Crystal, a project for a new American century,

which had a lot of influence on foreign policy in the late 90s and the 2000s. A lot of influence

over the Bush administration. There were a lot of George W. Bush personnel who were signed on

to project for a new American century, advocated regime change in Iraq long before 9-11. So

Bob Kagan has neo-conservative bona fides second to none. He is a serious scholar and is a serious

thinker. Bob Kagan just came out and suggested, not even suggest, kind of laughed about the fact that

our alliance with Israel is one of the, one of if not the main reason that we went to war in Iran.

I must say I find it a little bit, it's kind of a syllogism when people talk about a great ally.

Israel is, it is a great ally in defense of Israel. You know, I mean, which is fine. I mean,

they're entitled to put that first, you know, right? That's their great concern. Look, I mean,

let's face it, at the end of the day, Iran is a much greater threat to Israel than it is to the

United States. So when they say that people say that Israel is a great ally in the fight against

Iran, it's kind of like saying that South Vietnam was a great ally in the fight against North

Vietnam. You know, I mean, it was, but weren't we there to defend South Vietnam? You know, so,

I love this conversation because you can tell Bill Crystal doesn't quite know what to make of it.

But Bob Kagan's great. And actually, Bob Kagan's father was a professor of mine,

truly a giant among historians, Donald Kagan, the historian of ancient Greece. However,

all of this to say, the real political import of this conversation.

When you have two of the most prominent neo-conservatives in the United States,

not quite the OGs because neo-conservatism started in the middle of the 20th century,

but the OGs of the Second Wave, founders of Project for New American Century, having a conversation

about how Israel is only a great ally in as much as it helps Israel. And Bob Kagan mocking this

notion to people who cannot be criticized as anti-Semitic or anything like that, both of them,

you know, definitely members of the ancient nomadic tribe. This is a five alarm fire for the state

of Israel. This is a five alarm fire for Benjamin Netanyahu. So much Israel is so come to dominate

much of the online discourse about the right. I don't think at the matter, at the level of actual

ordinary voters. I don't think it actually matters that much, but from the commentary, especially

some of the podcast class, which has become deranged over the question of Israel,

it's really come to dominate. And the American right previously was almost wholly supportive

of the state of Israel. That has really weakened over the past several years.

To the point that many are now asking, well, what is the benefit of the alliance with Israel?

You say, well, Israel is a great ally in the Middle East. And you have someone like Bob Kagan,

who's laughing and saying, yes, South Vietnam was a great ally in the fight against North Vietnam.

But you know, the whole reason that we were in there fighting North Vietnam was for South Vietnam.

And because of what South Vietnam represented for American interests, so I'm not saying there

are no American interests here. But what this means is the state of Israel needs to make the case.

Netanyahu and defenders of the state of Israel and people who are not deranged by Israel on one side

of the other because they hate it so much. I think it's the worst thing ever or because they're,

you know, fanatically in favor of the Israeli government. Regardless, people who just kind of have

a more balanced view of Israel and who think that it's good for America to be allied with Israel,

they need to make the case that the alliance with the state of Israel benefits America

because there is a growing sense on the right, including among neo-conservatives that the Israeli

alliance really, chiefly benefits Israel. So you have to make that case to American conservatives

because also the state of Israel has already lost the American left. Part of the reason that I

find the anti-Israel activism so distasteful, part of the reason I'm just kind of repulsed by it

is because it's so left coded. You know, regardless of my feelings on the complexity of the Middle

East, I'm just, I'm not going to go march around with Greta Thunberg and Akefia. It's just not,

not my bag, man, no thanks. I don't want that. So the state of Israel already lost the left.

If the state of Israel loses the American right, they're in a real big problem because the state of

Israel relies, really, I think we would say, existentially on the power of the United States and

on the American empire. So they have to make this case. It's not enough to dismiss it anymore.

Now, who knows? I mean, I guess this is part of the risk even of the Iran operation,

which is if the Iran operation really works and you get Iran for the first time in 50 years,

to be relatively pro-Western and not be committed to the utter destruction of the state of Israel

and the genocide of everyone there. Maybe all those issues in the Middle East, maybe they abate,

maybe they decline in severity or not. Maybe it all gets worse. I mean, some of it will just depend

on tactics on the ground every single day. There's some audio that just came out from a top aid to

the former Supreme Leader Ali Kamehni, the heterosexual one, not the homosexual one, who's speaking to

the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. And this was obtained by the telegraph. Here's what he says.

God's will was that Mojtaba had to go out to the yard to do something and then return.

He was outside and was heading upstairs. When they struck the building with a missile,

I was it. Okay, that's it. That's all we got. He was outside. It does make you think. You say,

hold on. Was was the homosexual Mojtaba? Was he the one who ratted out his dad and all everyone

else? Was he? He just happened to not be in the room in the missile struck, but probably not.

It was probably just a quirk, a quirk of history that that missile, that is really missile could have

taken out all of them, including the guy who's now the Supreme Leader, but it didn't. And now we

need to figure out who the next leader is going to be. High stakes. High stakes for everybody. High

stakes for the state of Israel. High stakes for the United States. High stakes for the Trump legacy

in 2026 and 2028. About as high as the stakes could possibly be. Okay. Now, speaking of persuasion,

the administration needs to persuade the state of Israel needs to persuade one of the most

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I know Neil Neese Bonham were not supposed to say anything, but good about people who have just

died. And we can pray for this guy who just died because you know, even the very worst people

at a deep level don't know the error of their ways because we're born into the twin darkness of

ignorance and sin. However, this guy left a wake of death and destruction and catastrophe and

his wake. And most people don't know his name. His name is Paul Ehrlich. Here we have the New

York Times. Oh, bit for this guy. I write about Paul Ehrlich and some length in my book speechless,

controlling words, controlling minds. Paul Ehrlich, thank you. Paul Ehrlich, who alarmed the world with

the population bomb, dies at 93. His best selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines,

made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved

premature. Here we go. Big lie, 10,000 ponocchios from the New York Times. His predictions proved premature.

What was predictions? His prediction was that if the population grew any more, you would have wide

spread famine because the earth could not sustain all those people. And therefore his prescriptions were

that we had to stop having kids. We had to sterilize people. We had to use the government to

reduce the population. The policies that this led to were the one child policy in China,

forced sterilizations in India. This guy is not single-handedly, but pretty close responsible

for the population depopulation crisis that we face today. And they said his predictions proved

premature. Since he made his prediction that inevitably at this point, we would face

mass starvation because the population was growing too much. Since that time, the world population has

doubled and global malnutrition has cut in half. There are twice as many people as when he made his

prediction and we are fatter than ever. It's not that his predictions proved premature. They were

completely wrong. His predictions were totally wrong. The New York Times is lying in its obituary

to cover for this guy who did more evil than almost anybody in the 20th century. And the consequences

of his stupid predictions and his prescriptions, because he prescribed policy to governments

was a mass evil. The consequences of this led to mass death, sterilization, the violation of

basic rights, and he never led up on it. Here is Paul Ehrlich in the 70s discussing the problem

as he saw it. First thing the government should do is try and take the pressure off to reproduce.

Young couples, if they don't have children, people say, gee, they must be sterile. They never say,

gee, maybe they like a good wine and going to the theater and so on, they prefer that to scraping

diapers. So there's pressure to have children. So the first thing that should happen is that the

president ought to say, from now, here on out, no intelligent patriotic American family,

ought to have more than two children preferably one. You can move to giving women bonuses for not having

babies. That almost certainly would do the job. If that didn't have the effect, then you can move

to changing the tax structure so that people who had the money and had the children paid for the

children. In other words, you would increase taxes on people with children rather than decrease.

Since they have the children, they require more services. If that doesn't work, then you'll

have the government legislating the size of the family. People say, oh, that's impossible. Government

can never intrude and tell you how many children to have. Well, I got news. It intruded a long time

ago and told you how many wives you can have. There's not the slightest question that if we don't get

the population under control with voluntary means that in the not-too-distant future, the government

will simply tell you how many children you can have and throw you in jail if you have too many.

So God tells you, in the book of Genesis, be fruitful and multiply. This anti-Christ figure comes

out in the 1970s and he says, do not have children. It's unpatriotic to have children. It's funny

because patriotism comes from the word potter. It's an extension of filial piety. It's an extension of

the family and he's saying that the pro-family thing to do is to destroy your family.

He says, first, we're going to incentivize people. We're going to encourage him

by discouraging them. We're going to say, you know, having kids is bad. You should just drink

good wine instead. All these kind of liberal arguments today. Don't you want to go to brunch? Don't

you want to travel and have experiences? Don't have kids. And if that doesn't work, you know what we're

going to do? We're going to pay people not to have kids. We're going to give women bonuses. We're

going to subsidize feminism. We're going to say if you, instead of having kids in a nice family,

if you just go work at the widget factory for Dr. McGillicutty and you do spreadsheets, we're going

to give you some money. Don't have kids sell your kids for money, money, money. Oh, that's not

going to work. We tried to bribe you with booze and entertainment and money. Okay, I tell you what,

now we're going to punish you. Forget about the carrot. Now we're going to use the stick. If you

have kids, we're going to tax you. We're going to make you pay more money to have kids for the

license to have a kid. Oh, and you know what? If that doesn't work, we're just going to stop you

from having kids. What does that mean? Well, what that means in practice, because China put this

guy's policy into effect, what this means is a campaign of forced infanticide. The one child

policy led to forced abortion. So the government would just come in and kill your kid. You want to

keep your kid? Mama wants to keep. No, please let me keep my kid. No, government's going to come

in and kill your kid. That's what that guy advocated. It's going to lead to policies like we saw

in India where India would go to starving people and say the only way that we're going to give you

coupons for food and water and electricity is if you sterilize yourself. That happened because of

that guy because of that guy's book and that guy's ideas. He said in the population bomb in the book

that kicked it off, the battle to feed all the humanity is over in the 1970s and 80s, hundreds of

millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon. Now at this

late date, nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate. Totally wrong could

not have possibly been more wrong. We must have population control at home, hopefully through

changes in our value system, but by compulsion of voluntary methods failed. He didn't just

misspeak on that talk show. This was his thesis. He described population growth as a cancer,

the cancer of population growth, which must be cut out.

What population growth is just a euphemism. Population growth refers to more people.

So if more people is a cancer, then people are the tumor. People human beings are a disease.

The left has held on to that view for a very, very long time. And this is where the

truly wicked origins of leftism, which endeavors to invert reality and began during the French

Revolution as an assault on the church. This is where the real satanic Luciferian character

of liberalism really begins to show itself. One of the fruits of liberalism is the view that human

beings are a disease that must be cured, that must be eradicated from the earth.

And now this guy is eradicated from the earth. And it's sad. Every man's but death diminishes

me because I'm a human. No man's an island unto himself. So we should pray for this guy.

We should really pray for this guy because he led a very, very evil life. And so we should

really, really pray for him. In many ways, he probably didn't know what he did. Christ on the cross

says, Lord, forgive them. Forgive them. They know not what they do. That's how we have to think about

him. But we can't just think about him. We have to focus on the institutions.

This guy, Paul Ehrlich, got everything wrong. His chief thesis was not only a little off. It was

perfectly wrong. He never paid a price for it. He continued to have great academic jobs. He

continued to win awards. His policies were implemented by governments around the world,

led to the deaths of millions of people. It led to millions of people not being born and led to

the deaths of millions of people. That guy, he never paid a price for it at all. The institutions

backed him up. And now one of the chief cultural institutions, the New York Times,

is continuing to lie on his behalf, continuing to carry water for him to say, these guys,

this guy's anti-Christ policies. I mean, I don't usually use really, really extreme provocative

rhetoric. I don't know how else you describe this. This guy's profoundly evil policies.

We're just a little premature. Little premature. They were totally wrong.

Really bad stuff. And you know, a reminder too. On this point of, Lord, forgive them. They know

not what they do. This is a point I was discussing with a friend of mine just yesterday. He said,

if you mentioned this publicly, and I said, I actually haven't, but maybe I should. Right now,

at every level of the political order, things feel precarious, feels like things are just getting

really, really tough. The stakes are being raised by the administration, the war in Iran. You've

got wedges being driven within the administration. You've got the apparent collapse of the conservative

movement because of the podcast wars and because of all sorts of infighting. But genuinely,

just malicious, terrible things flying all around in the culture. This, with more terrorist

attacks, it just seems like it's getting a little rougher, doesn't it? It seems like there's

more injustice. It feels, I don't know, the last month or so has felt that way, to me at least.

And I think probably to you too. And I explained it to someone. I thought it was common sense,

but he didn't really think of it that way. It's lent. It's lent. And for the Christians in the

audience, you're probably going to get this immediately. For people who are not really that religious,

you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this. But I have noticed this pretty much every year,

during lent, which is the period in which we walk with our Lord in the desert where he's tempted

by the devil, where the devil really has apparently free reign. During this time of lent,

spiritual attacks increase dramatically. Temptations increase dramatically. Ranker,

strife increases dramatically. I've seen it year after year after year. And then after Easter,

things all kind of go back to normal. I'm not saying this is soft soap or wishful thinking,

so that you say, oh, the present troubles, they'll just magically disappear in a couple of weeks.

I'm not saying it for that reason. What I'm saying is, if you believe that spiritual realities

are real, if you believe that there is a meaning to history, that there is a rhythm to the liturgical

calendar, it is no surprise that everything seems to be falling apart right now. Everything seemed

to be falling apart in the desert. Everything seemed to be falling apart at Calvary when Christ

was crucified. Everything seemed to be falling apart. My Lord said, oh my God, my God, why have

you forsaken me? And when He also says, Lord, forgive these people, they know not what they do.

And for me, with a Christian view of the world, especially with the Catholic view of the world,

which is rich in symbolism, which is a very semiotic view, I can't help but notice that it's very

fitting that all of this anxiety, all of this angst comes up during lent. Maybe not through any

accomplishment of our own. Maybe through the grace of God, it will soon dissipate too. Maybe the

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My favorite comment yesterday is from Aunt Dello, 5286, who says,

Good Show Today, Michael. On a personal note, I woke up around 28, 28 years old. I'm so glad I

met my hubby and had my two boys. Oh, yeah, I think that's in response to this, you know,

women regret having kids nonsense in the New York magazine. Yeah, I feel for some of my friends

because it's a major problem for especially for millennial women who relied to their whole lives

and who were therefore trained in habits and tastes and desires that are not conducive to their

happiness. And then usually around 30 or mid 30s, it kind of hits them that this is bad.

And end, that culture has created a situation where it's actually very hard then to go meet a

husband, have kids, start a family because the culture is just trained on all these perverse

incentives. So anyway, I'm glad you woke up from feminism and hope other people do.

Hope they hope it can work out. Okay.

Forget about Iran. President Trump is now looking ahead to Cuba.

You know, all my life I've been hearing about the United States and Cuba. When will the United States do it?

I do believe I'll be the honor of having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor.

Taking Cuba. Taking Cuba in some form. Yeah, taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it,

I could do anything I want with it. You want another truth. They're a very

weak intonation right now. They work for a long time. Very violent, very violent leaders.

Castro is a very violent leader. His brother is a very violent leader. Extremely violent.

That's how they governed. They governed with violence. But a lot of people would like to go back.

It will be my honor to take over Cuba. People are playing this and they're saying he's gone mad.

The king has gone mad. Now he's just hopping around the globe, gobbling up whatever he can.

The king has gone mad. Notice what he's saying. As always, you have to listen to what Trump is

really saying. Not just not just go by your gut reaction to some clip you saw on Twitter.

He's saying it will be my honor to be the one to take Cuba. In other words, some president was

going to take Cuba at some point. This has been the policy of the United States. I was going to say

since Eisenhower, really, it goes back even to the very earliest part of the 20th century. We've

already controlled Cuba three times. Then we had a regime in there that was basically fine,

and then it started to go south. Eisenhower planned the Bay of Pigs invasion to stop the Cuban

revolution. It flopped. Then Kennedy was stuck in the Cuban missile crisis. He levied an

embargo on Cuba. We'd been trying to get rid of Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, for many decades,

and then Raul Castro his brother. Now there's this new guy, Medellin Diaz Canal, who no one

really cares about. After President Trump's well-executed strike on Venezuela, Cuba is being

sort of choked off. Now finally, what you're seeing is not Trump saying, give me Cuba.

That's mine, mine, mine. What Trump is saying is, oh, well, some US president was going to take Cuba,

and I'm honored that I guess I'm going to be the one in the Oval Office when this happens.

This is. It is not overstating it to say this is actually a statement of presidential humility,

because he's not saying I'm the one, you know, instituting this policy. He's saying,

oh, yeah, looks like Cuba's pretty weak right now, and I guess I'm going to be the one to take it,

because that was always going to happen. You have this country that's been hostile,

that was a foothold for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

That's ridiculous. We are going to have a good relationship with Cuba. According to reports,

we are already in pretty high-level talks with the government of Cuba. One word of caution though

on this, Cuba has just come out and said it is open to economic investment from Cubans abroad.

So this is, they're pitching this as similar to the perestroika policy in the Soviet Union at the

end of the Cold War. You know, we're going to start to open up a little bit economically,

and that will stabilize the regime. Now, what happened in the Soviet Union, the way it was

carried out under Gorbachev, is it totally destroyed the regime, and it was over very quickly.

But in Cuba, from what I am reading, the actual policy is they're asking Cubans abroad to give

them money to invest in the island, and that's it. Well, hold on, hold on. That's not going to work.

They're very desperate. Cuba is starving right now. The electrical grid is down. They don't have

any oil. So really what they're saying is, hey, can we please have money from anyone who will give

it to us? But there's no guarantee of legal rights. There's no guarantee of government reform.

There's no guarantee that Cuba will cooperate with the United States in the future.

So it would be a major mistake, I think, to give into this policy right now. I don't read that

policy as an about face from the Cuban regime. I read that policy as the last desperate gas

of the regime. I'm sure I'm not telling the administration anything it doesn't know.

But this is not the moment to say, okay, great, we'll take it. This is the moment to push much,

much harder, and get me some tobacco for the new blends of Mayflower cigars. Okay, before we go,

one last smack from the Oval Office. I mentioned it at the top of the show. I can't miss it.

President Trump is hitting Gavin Newsom as unqualified for President of the United States

because he has a learning disability. That's how crazy it's gotten with a low IQ person.

You know, because Gavin Newsom has admitted that he is learning disabilities.

Honestly, I'm old for people with learning disabilities, but not for my president.

I think a president should not have learning disabilities, okay? And I know it's highly

controversial to say such a horrible thing. The president of the United States, Gavin Newsom

admitted that he is learning disabilities, dyslexia, everything about him is dumb.

But then he looked at the audience and said, well, I'm smarter than you or something like that.

That was pretty silly. So now, on top of everything else, I call him a racist because it happened

to be a black audience. I will tell you this. I think it was the worst interview I've ever seen

of any human being in my life. I love him. I love him. Trump, not Newsom. He goes, he says, look,

he just keeps going deeper. He goes, look, Newsom, he said he has a learning disability.

So he can't be president. He has a low IQ. I'm for people with learning disabilities,

but he can't be president because no, he said, well, hold on, we have friends who are dyslexic

or this is that have learning disabilities, reading disability. No, I'm for people with learning

not for president, okay? He's dumb. I know I can't say it, but he's dumb. He's racist too because he

said he's dumb, but he's smarter than blacks. Anyway, it got me thinking, one, does Newsom actually

have dyslexia? This is a new disability. We didn't know about this one before. He just kind of came

up with this one. It was actually because Ted Cruz called him historically illiterate. He said,

how dare you call me historically illiterate? I have dyslexia. He said, well, now not only are you

historically illiterate, you're semantically illiterate because you don't even know what Cruz was

saying about you. He wasn't saying you can't read you. He was saying you don't know history.

But regardless, there's a way you have dyslexia. I have to have dyslexia my whole life. It was kind

of like Joe Biden's speech impediment. Remember that Joe Biden had a stutter. Joe Biden's been in

the Senate since the 70s. He's been in national public life for 50 years and then only five minutes

ago, do we learn that he had this disability? Came out of nowhere, but apparently they just tried

to gaslight us and pretend that he had this whole life. It was kind of like that. So then you go back

through Gavin Newsom's old pictures and it's pictures of him reading books, big stack of books,

him reading books, but he said he can't actually can't read because he's dyslexic. He never reads

the speech, but he's a big reader of books. So I don't know if I believe him at all, but regardless,

even if this is totally made up, which knowing Gavin Newsom it probably is, he picked a bad disability.

The thing, the reason it was clever for him to claim a disability like Joe Biden did

is because he's a white guy. He's a handsome white guy. And so according to the Democrats,

he's the scum of the earth. He's so privileged. He doesn't have any victim points. So the only way

for him to make himself a victim is to pretend to be gay, which is tough because he has,

he's actually been married multiple times and both of his wives were quite beautiful. So I don't

think he's going to convince people that he's gay or he can say he has some disability that you can't

really see. But whereas Joe Biden picked a stutter, which is really just a way to cover up for his

dementia, but he picked a stutter, which is a clever disability to pick, because stutters can make

you sound kind of dumb, but it doesn't mean that you're dumb. It can make you sound a little bit slow,

but it doesn't mean that you have trouble processing information. The one that Gavin Newsom picked

actually does undercut his ability to do the job. Not because it means if you're dyslexic,

it doesn't mean that you have a low IQ. It doesn't necessarily mean that you're dumb, but it

doesn't mean that you will have a far greater difficulty processing information. You do have to

read if you're president. That is one of the job requirements. There aren't that many job

requirements, but that's one of them. And so he picked this disability, which he was probably

faking, that actually undercuts his argument to be president. And that's what Trump was exploiting

there. Like, look, it's one thing. If you, you know, you got a little bit of a limp or you've got

a stutter or something, but this guy says he can't read. Yeah. I like presidents who read. Okay.

I like presidents who are literate. Okay. Much, much more to get to. I want to get to the

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