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It's from the great Thomas Soul. He said, 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:08.840 There's no such thing as solutions, only trade offs. Conservatives 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.000 understand this. Progressives do not. Progressives look for their utopian 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.680 visions and they seek to achieve them. Conservatives understand that 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.240 in life, there are no such thing as solutions. There 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:23.680 are only tradeoffs. It's true with everything. Do I buy this, 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.080 do I not buy this? Do I go here or 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.480 not go there? Invest in this, don't invest in that. Well, 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.280 there's no such thing a solution. It's only a tradeoff. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.799 Life's full of them NonStop all day. Life's also full 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.760 of risks, and we calculate those risks all the time. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.760 Driving a car is very risky, but you gotta get 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.920 to work, so you calculate it. Is it worth it? Yeah, 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.000 it's worth the risk getting an accident, got to get 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:51.119 to work. We are doing a poor job of risk 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.840 calculation with COVID on this March thirtieth, twenty twenty one, 0:02:54.919 --> 0:03:00.080 racting like a March thirtieth, twenty twenty We're calculating risks 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.960 as if millions of people haven't already taken one of 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.120 these soon to be five vaccines that we have in America, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:08.919 which is amazing because for a while we weren't sure 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.160 if there would ever be a vaccine. And we're not 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.239 taken into effect into account that millions more now natural 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.480 immunity because they got COVID and recovered. We're not properly 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:23.440 calculating risk analysis, and this is what's leading to the 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.920 vaccine passport that's being thrown around, and that is a 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:35.720 very very bad idea. When you drive a car, there's 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.839 a certain risk you're gonna get in an accident and die. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:44.000 Imagine if I told you, hey, Charlie, I have impending 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.720 doom of your driving today. Don't do it. I'm scared 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.880 you'll die. You have so much promise, so much potential 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:56.320 in life. Don't do it. Don't drive today. That emotional 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:00.560 plea would would screw up your calculation, your risk calculation, 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.040 and lead you to make a not proper analysis and 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.880 a not good decision. We're still doing that with COVID 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.720 very specifically. This is the head of the CDC. Head 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.600 of the CDC. She's getting all emotional when she's saying this. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.640 She says, I'm going to reflect on the recurring feeling 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:20.120 I have of impending doom. We have so much to 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.640 look forward to, so much promise and potential of where 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.160 we are, and so much reason for hope. But right 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:30.080 now I'm scared. Lady. This is not helpful. That is 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:36.200 feelings over facts. How is this helpful to the American 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.560 people to have this woman of science say I'm I'm 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.240 gonna go off script and I'm going to reflect on 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:47.040 the feelings I have of impending doom. Why are you 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.560 unloading your feelings on us. I'm not interested in feelings, 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.760 I'm interested in facts. What are the facts? Now? You 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.599 don't have to sugarcoat things to me. I'm an adult. 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.120 Give me the reality of the situation. But you also 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.360 don't have to start to cry and try to emotionally 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:05.440 manipulate me. But she got her headlines, she got our attention. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:13.440 And for what, oh to usher in the fear that's 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.159 necessary to keep you masked, keep you controlled, keep you 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:21.560 shut down, keep you locked down, keep you scared until 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.000 we can get the vaccine passport, and that will save today. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.720 The government once again coming in to save the day, 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.279 rescue us on their white horse that is a super 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:38.560 dystopian vaccine passport. Jim Treachery said, if despair is a disease, 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.240 the CDC is doing a crappy job of controlling it. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.880 It may be the main spreader of it. So it 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.520 was Biden yesterday saying we got to keep the mask mandates, 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.200 keep locking down, keep our kids out of school, keep 0:05:53.240 --> 0:06:02.760 everyone scared. So let's talk about this vaccine passport. A 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.240 stunningly horrific idea. So right now, he says, they're gathering 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.360 ideas on how this passport. What it would look like 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.960 and how it would work. But it looks like it'd 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.080 be something like an app on your phone that you 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:18.320 would use. You know, your papers, your health papers, to 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.520 show that you've been vaccinated so that you can go 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.680 on an airplane, or eat at a restaurant, or go 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:30.200 to a concert. I can't. First of all, it's not necessary. 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.200 Let's just start there. It's just not necessary. We never 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.080 did this for the flu. Disney World, Disneyland never shut 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:42.240 down for flu. This is a disease COVID that once 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.880 we get hurt immunity. I'd argue, we're already there. It 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:49.840 barely spreads. Remember, Israel right now has a ar not, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.440 which is how fast the disease spreads. If it's over one, 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.280 it spreads. If it's less than one, it doesn't. The 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:58.120 ar not in Israel's point seven. Okay, so it's not spreading, 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:04.080 it's not growing. So if you get it, most people 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:05.920 don't even get sick. Most people don't even know you 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.680 get it. Very few people need medical treatment. We have 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:14.800 new drugs out there that eliminate death, that just finished 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.400 their phase three trial, that just yesterday finish their phase 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.240 three trial. They're getting emergency authorization from the FDA right now. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.239 This is completely unnecessary. Two weeks to flatten the curve 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:28.760 to prevent hospitals from being overrun. Talk about moving the goalposts. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.680 This is a different stratosphere of goalposts. It's completely unnecessary. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.160 We've never done this for any flu, We've never done 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:35.920 this for any other illness. There's no need to start now, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:40.240 because I guarantee you once a passport health vaccine passport 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.960 starts now, they're never going to get rid of it. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.960 They will only add more things to it. And if 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.520 you can't see that by now in your X number 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.280 of years of life and watching government and watching this country, 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.440 I don't know what could possibly convince you of that. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.760 It must be stopped now. It cannot start. Once it starts, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:02.240 it will never stop. Thank goodness for Rhonda Santis, Governor 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.080 of Florida, taking the lead on this. He says, we 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:10.480 always said we wanted to provide the vaccine, provide the 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:15.160 vaccine for all, but mandate it for none. While it 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.200 was advised to take, particularly if you're vulnerable. We're not 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.600 going to force you to do it. It's completely unacceptable 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.880 for either the government or the private sector to impose 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.320 upon you the requirement that you show proof a vaccine 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:37.160 to just simply participate in normal society. New York Cities 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.679 started they called the Excelsior Pass. Excelsior is the motto 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.000 of the state, the Excelsior ever upward. So you need this, 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.680 You need your vaccine pass, your Exalsior Pass, to be 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.360 able to I hate these people, these branding of this 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.520 right just in the HR one, not to sidetrack HR one. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.360 It's this horrific voting reform acting past the House in 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.240 the Senate. It's called the for the People Act. Goodness, 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.520 if you are the four the people act like, you 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.760 better be throwing red flags on the field. That's like, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.480 oh not buy that nice tride flag on the fields. 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.640 What's this bill really about? Same thing with Excelsior pass. Oh, everybody, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.320 this is the Excelsior Pass. Nope, don't like it. What 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:16.520 do you mean you don't like it? It's called the 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.960 Excelsior Pass. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, you're hind something. What 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.920 is it? Really? You need it in order to get 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.600 into Madison Square Garden in the Barclays Center for Events 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:29.080 and other arts and entertainment venues. So in order to 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.040 live your life. You need you need your papers first 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.359 of all. So again first point, I should say unnecessary. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.240 Second point, what about equity? Oh what about equity? All 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.640 of a sudden, equity doesn't doesn't mean it. What about 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:47.079 lower income people who don't have smartphones? They can't download 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.160 the app? What are you gonna do with them? You're 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.240 gonna You're gonna prevent them from ever going to an 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.839 arts event. Oh, how racist of you, we're told. At 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.679 the same time, you know, Georgia passed SP two o 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.800 two it requires an ID to vote. We're told, how 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.560 t horrible and oval and evil and Jim Crow two 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.880 point zero and Biden called it sick to require someone 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.400 to show government idea to vote, just to show that 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.800 you're a real person in order to vote. That's the 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.600 worst thing ever. If you if you support that, you're 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.480 the grand words of the KKK. But a vaccine passport 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:21.679 to be able to go inside a building full steam ahead? 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:27.959 How could you possibly be against that? Wasn't that inequitable? 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.920 If if listen, the people who are against that Georgia bill, 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.640 they're the ones who say black people are too stupid 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.240 or poor to get a government ida. I don't say 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.160 that that'd be horribly racist. They're the one saying that. 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:44.520 But they are requiring everybody to get a vaccine passport 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.080 in order to do anything with their life. But what 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.480 about that same percentage of people also, This is the 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.040 same people who don't care about the tens of thousands 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.800 of people streaming across our border without any actual passport 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:01.400 or paperwork. But Americans need passports in order to live 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:05.800 our normal lives in America. What is it going on? 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:13.880 Who could possibly before this? It's so bizarre, like people 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.160 are still thinking, they're still operating, like we're living in 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:22.040 this dystopian world where people are dropping like flies, like 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.240 it's the plague. Have you ever read about the plague? Oh, 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.600 my goodness, you get it. There's a sign that you 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.160 have it and you're dead in two days. And parents 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:32.840 would have to make these horrific decisions like what to 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.040 do with their kid who had the plague? Do you 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:38.040 just abandon the kid to die alone and or do 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.040 you stay with them and you risk getting it and 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.560 dying immediately afterwards? There is nothing anymore. It's like a harrip. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.120 People are living like that's what that's what we're doing. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.120 People are still living based off what we thought COVID 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.319 was not what it is, especially with vaccines and all 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.240 the rest. Yes, people are still gonna get it. People 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.319 are still gonna get sick. You can't make any COVID 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.040 or any illness down to zero. Life is a trade off. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.840 There's no such thing a solution, only trade offs. I'll 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:06.280 end on this. Think of it as four baskets. There's 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:10.040 four baskets of health. The left only thinks of physical 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:11.840 health and they want to make sure no one ever 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.680 gets COVID ever again. But there's other baskets. You have 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:20.600 emotional health, spiritual health, economic health, and physical health. And 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.840 you have a hundred balls, and you decide how many 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.720 balls you want to put in each basket. Some put 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.920 more in the physical health basket. Fine, I put more 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.280 in the spiritual health basket. I think churches should be 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:37.520 open in California. They're still not. And everybody's got to 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.319 come up with their own decision on how many balls 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.080 to put into each of these different baskets to find 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.360 the best balance of emotional, spiritual, economic, and physical health. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.920 It's also worth noting that these baskets are underneath this 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:55.400 umbrella of freedom, and no illness is worth giving up 0:12:55.440 --> 0:13:01.199 our freedom, no illness, especially something as my old as COVID. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:10.200 People still acting like it's the plague. We should be 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.800 a country that's celebrating the end of COVID right now, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.760 and instead we're just we're debating dystopian vaccine passports, insanity. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.040 We're not rats in a cage. Stop treating us like 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:26.160 we are. Mike Slater filling in for Buck Sexton. Mike 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.520 Slater out locals dot COM's by the word, it's going on, 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.959 Team Buck. Mike Slater in San Diego, filling in for 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.559 Buck Sexton. Thanks for let me be here these last 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.480 few days. Buck will be back tomorrow. Mike Slater out 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.400 locals dot Com is our website. We can stay in 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.079 touch until next time. Um, this is maybe a good 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:40.600 time to talk about it after I got a little 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:46.960 a little heated COVID lockdowns and masks and the vaccines 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:52.680 and the whole thing. It's taken on a religious fervor, right, 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:59.160 there's a religious fervor to it. Comply or you're excommunicated 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.600 from the church. If you don't get a vaccine, you 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:10.000 are impure. Right. We mentioned this from time to time 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.040 on my local show. We probably have over the last 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.400 couple of days. Even in passing, people are less religious 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:20.000 than ever in America. But we are designed by our 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:25.320 creator to worship. So if you don't worship him God, 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:33.800 you will worship something. Most people worship themselves. That's why 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.640 a lot of people say, I'm not religious, I'm spiritual. 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.000 Would you saying, as you worship yourself, you just making 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:42.080 up your own religion and you worship you, And a 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:46.240 lot of people worship politics. So as we leave church, 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.200 we've entered this different church. As we leave the Church 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.520 of God, we've entered this different church of politics. And 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:56.200 there's no longer political parties. We are now warring denominations. 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.320 God is no longer the center of our lives or 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.360 the center of our culture, the God who can unite 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:07.440 us all. Nope, we all have our own idols and 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:14.480 we pray at the pagan altar of politics. Politics doesn't have, 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.440 you know, this nice, little proper place in our existence. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.800 It for many people is the center of our existence. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:26.680 And that is unhealthy. There's an article in the Economist. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.320 It's unhealthy for individuals, and it's unhealthy for a country. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:36.040 The economist says, the evangelical culture warriors on the right 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:44.080 that's me take on the Democrats new Puritans. So they 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:45.960 started off talking about how Biden is such a great 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:50.040 Catholic who you know, supports gay marriage, an abortion, and 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.400 how Americans are more likely than ever now to claim 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:59.360 no religion as their religious preference. But we're no less devotional, 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.440 no less devotional. We just worship new things, the self 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.880 first and foremost, and then politics. And this article mentions 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.200 this God sized hole in your heart, and that's what 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.280 I want to talk about here for the remaining two 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:19.400 and a half minutes. The God sized hole in your 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.200 heart that's left when you remove God, and it can't 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.080 be filled with anything else. The entirety of human history 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:31.520 proves that it cannot be filled with anything else. This 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.160 is why one of my favorite genres of documentary and 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.760 one of my favorite genres of story are celebrities who 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:43.720 thought that fame and fortune would give them everything, and 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.320 it doesn't, and we'll never learn. My wife and I 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.160 we recently watch this Paris Hilton documentary. It's on YouTube. 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.680 She is absolutely miserable. And she said growing up that 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.960 when she makes a million dollars, she'll be happy, and 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.920 then she said, when she makes one hundred million dollars, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.240 she'll be happy. And then she said in the documentary 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:05.920 that if only she made up billion dollars. She's traveled 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.560 the world, she's never left her hotel room. She has 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.960 no friends, no one she can trust. At one point 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:12.720 in the documentary, she's met at the airport by a 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.080 bunch of fans. He's in Japan or something, and these 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.440 two fans come up to her and they say they've 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:17.840 drove a couple of hours to see her, and they 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.119 take us selfie. And then later that night in the 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.840 hotel room, she's super depressed and miserable, and she says 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.520 that she has no friends that really love her. And 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.359 she says, yeah, I have no friends that really love me, 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.400 you know, except for Sophie and Katie. And I'm thinking, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:38.320 who's Sophie and Katie? What it would oh? Oh, those 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.000 are the two girls that she met at the airport 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:48.320 for thirty seconds, and the documentarian says, do you have 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.080 anyone who cares for you? And Paris Hilton looks off 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:52.840 in the distance and she looks confused, and she says, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:18:01.240 what does that mean? She thought there are other things 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.200 that could feel that God's size tole in her heart 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:09.600 and there's there's nothing else. That expression. It comes from 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:13.000 this seventeenth century philosopher and theologian. His name is Pascal. 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.240 He's the guy who also said, all of humanity's problems 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.760 stem from our inability to sit quietly in our room, 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.520 which means you're just you're not at peace, you're not 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:29.400 at peace with yourself. So Pascal, here's the full quote. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.960 He said, what else does this craving and this helplessness 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:38.359 proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness. 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.040 There was once in man a true happiness of which 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.240 all that now remains is the empty print and trace. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.879 What does it prove? What does it proclaim? That he 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.920 tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.800 in things that are not there the help he cannot 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.320 find in those that are. None can help, since this 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.720 infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:08.240 immutable object, in other words, by God himself. That's where 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:14.200 the expression God's sized hole comes from. This is, by 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.320 the way the Puritan Church today of the woke left 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:21.120 absolute purity, no deviation, no forgiveness, no grace, no grace, 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.800 no redemption. If anyone is going to drown witches today 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:32.000 it's the woke left. This is not good because now 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.200 real churches are actually going to split along political lines 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.919 as well. This is very bad. God should be a 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:42.439 uniting force, the good news, the Gospel should unite, and 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:47.119 we're letting politics divide. And you know who loves it, 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:53.640 Satan and the politicians. But I repeat myself. Mike's later, 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:55.479 filling in for Buck Sexton, spread the word. It's going 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.119 on Team Buck. Mike Slater and San Diego filling in 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.160 for Buck for one more day. Buck, We'll be back tomorrow. 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.040 I'm as grateful as you are. I can't wait for 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:08.400 to hear a Buck again. Mike's later dot locals dot 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.520 com if you'd like to follow us there. Mike's Later 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.600 dot locals dot com. That's our website. Getting off big Tech. 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:19.840 The Great Wilfred Riley's a professor at Kentucky State. He's wonderful. 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:23.760 I think he's the next Thomas soul. I want to 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:25.719 quote a bit from his latest piece and then we'll 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.359 go through it in detail. It's like, well, it's about 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:34.440 race relations in America. He says. This picture, which we'll 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.399 get to. This picture perfectly sums up the dualistic nature 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.320 of racial relations in America today. The real picture itself 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:46.480 is quite favorable if we can just manage to clean 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.920 up all the throne muck off the canvas long enough 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.760 to get a good look at it and appreciate it. 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.080 So his argument is, and my argument is, that race 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.680 relations in America are better than ever and actually great. 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.080 There just happened to be a few race baiders out 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:12.840 there who have this absolute mega microphone or mega megaphone, 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:18.919 who get way too much attention and way too many accolades, 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:25.000 and have like way disproportionate amount of institutional support, way 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:31.560 too much power and control in the media, news, TV, music, everywhere. 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.720 I wonder if, I wonder if ever such a small 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:42.719 group of people have had so much institutional power, and 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.080 because they do, they paint this picture for their own 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:47.760 power and prestige, and it's easy for the rest of 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.600 us to get wrapped up in it and to have 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:56.239 these people change your perception of reality. They have so 0:21:56.359 --> 0:22:00.360 much control over your kids too, and your kids now 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:03.919 don't have a proper perspective of what reality is. We 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:06.280 mentioned yesterday. I think that if you ask any kid 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.159 today in high school about slavery, they'll tell you that 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:14.600 it's a uniquely white man sin that only white people 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:17.840 have enslaved black people. And they'll tell you, many will 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:22.199 tell you that it's a uniquely American evil, which is preposterous, 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:26.000 but that's what they're told. And there's all these race 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:30.840 baders in schools that are telling kids that being black 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:34.000 is a disaster. Being black is a death sentence in America. 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:36.159 You'll never get ahead, Lebron James saying he's scared to 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:38.880 go outside. It's open season. They're hunting black people. You'll 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:41.119 never make anything out of yourself. You have no chance, 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:44.720 you'll never be successful. You have it no better than 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:49.280 the slaves, maybe even worse. Your life is hopeless. That's 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:53.359 the message that's being spread. And all you have to 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:55.200 do is buy this book so you can see how 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:58.399 bad you have it, and hire me to do your 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:01.640 diversity seminar at your work so that I can tell 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:08.280 white people how terrible they are as well. It's grifting. 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:12.119 It's for money, it's for power, it's to make themselves 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:15.159 feel better, and it's not true. So let's look at 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:20.520 some data, shall we. First, you've heard the income gap 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:23.120 between white and black people. You've heard of that before, right, 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.200 White people on average earned sixty five thousand dollars a year. 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:30.280 Black people on average earned forty three thousand dollars a year. 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:35.399 That's a gap. Now, a Marxist were. A Marxist worldview 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:39.400 looks at everything through the blends of oppressed versus oppressor. 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:43.080 So anytime there's a disparity or an inequality, they put 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:45.720 it through that framework of oh, well, here's the oppressed 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:53.320 people and here are the oppressors. Conservatives look at a 0:23:53.359 --> 0:23:58.119 disparity and say, okay, well, what are the cultural factors 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:02.320 at play? Slash the individual choices that people make that 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:06.879 have led to a disparity. Very different. So if you 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:09.960 take that conservative approach and you look at, okay, well 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:12.640 what's going on here? Why why do black white people 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:14.879 earn sixty five thousand is on average? And you know 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:17.399 that's a faulty metric two because it's a lot of 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:20.760 people here, but sixty five thousand white people forty three 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:25.040 thousand from black people. What's happening here? Okay, Well, first 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:34.679 we have to account for age, who generally has more money. 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:36.920 If you lined up a fifty eight year old and 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:38.760 a twenty seven year old, which of those two people 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:40.159 are going to have more money in a higher net 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:43.479 worth a fifty eight year old or twenty seven year old. 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:46.320 The fifty eight year old, they've been working longer, working longer, 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:49.240