Hi everyone-
I have a brand new podcast, and I'm super excited about it. It's called The Pod Millennial and it's a chance for me to dig into the cultural issues that are my super favorite things to talk about. In the first episode, which you can listen to here, I talk to conservative culture commentator Michael Knowles about Dylan Mulvaney playing Ann Boleyn, the Antifa propagandist Oscar-nominated One Battle After Another, and what's going on with American arts and letters. I also talk to The Post Millennial's Roberto Wakerell-Cruz about conditions in Canada. I hope you listen and like it and listen again! We'll be dropping shows every Tuesday.
I'm in Florida for a few shows on Timcast this week. I had a great time on the show last night announcing the new pod, and he's already said he'll come on my show one of these upcoming episodes. Jack Posobiec has also agreed to come on, so you can see we're starting with some amazing guests. I also hosted the morning show yesterday, and I'm doing that again this morning, and it's been a wild ride for a few days before I head back north. If you're around this morning at 12 pm you can come find me talking about all things news, and if you'd like to check out yesterday's show, you can do that here.
There's a lot still going on in Minneapolis—Kristi Noem met with Trump about it for two hours in the Oval, she's being hauled before the House Judiciary Committee, and she might be facing an impeachment effort by Dems. Trump talked to Tim Walz and said "It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength." He also said he talked to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, saying, "I just had a very good telephone conversation with Mayor Jacob Frey, of Minneapolis. Lots of progress is being made! Tom Homan will be meeting with him tomorrow in order to continue the discussion."
But while that's all happening, on the culture front, the left is continuing to push this crazy narrative. One of the craziest is podcaster Jennifer Welch, who had the audacity to say Christians are not under fire in the US while saying that Christians are the worst people around. Speaking to her friend, whom she calls "Pumps," she said:
"So when you think about the Erica Kirks, the Life Church, the Joel Olsteen of it all, and their desire to accumulate wealth while hoodwinking their flock into thinking they're super moral—this is a cancer. White, evangelical Christianity is a cancer. These are the worst of our country. These are the worst people in our country because they use their religion in two ways, as a weapon and as a shield.
"They weaponize it whenever they want to, and say, we're on the moral high ground. You're a lesbian. You deserve to die. You're a lesbian. The cops shouldn't have revived you. Oh, your parents are Mexicans, and they brought you over here. Yeah, you should go to jail and eat worm food, and then when you call them out on it, oh, my God, 'they're after the Christians. How dare they? How dare they? We're so oppressed. White Christians are so oppressed in this country.'
"And they want it both ways, because in the religion that duplicity is taught, you can be morally duplicitous. You thrive in cognitive dissonance. And so this is just a massive, massive problem, and it should come as no surprise to anyone that of this cult that I'm talking about, white evangelicals, over 80% went and voted triple Trumped."
Are there hypocrites in every demographic and religious persuasion? Of course. But Welch, who grew up Christian and somehow must still hate her parents even though she's in her early 50s, apparently and should be well passed that by now, takes out her frustration over her own upbringing on everyone around her. Even if you disagree with the tenets of a person's religious faith, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, whatever, that's no reason to hold it against them.
Libby