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or a little more either libertarian or neoconny, they're going to say, well, we don't need another federal welfare program. Great, great news, because this is not a new welfare program. There is an existing program, which is the Child Care and Development Fund. And right now, that program goes to subsidize single mothers almost entirely. So it's a subsidy for mothers to pay for childcare so that they can go work in the widget factory, which is fine. That's all well and good. But what the Trump administration is doing, and apparently, this is being spearheaded largely by the vice president, JD Vans, what they're doing now is saying, okay, well, if we're going to be subsidizing single mothers to get childcare for their kids while they go out to the office, we should also offer some of this fund to mothers and fathers who want to stay at home and raise their kids themselves. This is really, really good stuff, and it's driving the left nuts. Because when the left says, you know, we just want to pay for medical insurance,

we just want to give people childcare. That's obviously not really what they're talking about. This goes down to the early days of Second Wave Feminism. This goes down to the heart of leftist policy. There was a famous debate, infamous debate in the 70s, between Simondabove War, the French feminist, and Betty Friedin, who's another leftist feminist, choose American. And during this debate, Simondabove War said, we cannot give women the option to stay home and raise their kids because if they have that option, too many women will take it. Betty Friedin, who was also wrong about everything and super live and feminist, Betty Friedin said, well, lady, that's crazy. If women want to stay home, they should be able to, shouldn't they? And Simondabove War said, no, feminism cannot succeed if women have the ability to stay home and raise their kids. So we currently have a fund that is paying for childcare for people who struggle with it. The proposal from the Trump administration is, okay, well, if we already have this fund,

can some of the money go toward mothers raising their own children? Rather than mothers going off to the office, being forced to go off to the office, and then sending their kids to go be raised by Mamdani and a bunch of his bureaucrats. There was a Gallup poll that came out. This was some years ago now. Now, somewhat recent, you know, maybe 2015, 2016 somewhere around there, which showed that 54% of working mothers wish that they could stay home and raise their kids, at least for a period of time. So the majority of working mothers want to be able to stay home and raise their kids. And the leftists and the feminists have said, no, we'll subsidize you to go work, but we're not going to subsidize you to raise your kids, even out of that same fund. This welfare program, as it currently exists, is basically just a subsidy for corporate America, and it incentivizes single parenthood. So what the Trump administration is doing is saying, we're not going to get rid of this welfare program. We're not going to enlarge this welfare program.

We're just going to use it in ways that incentivize marriage, that incentivize people raising their own kids, especially when they want to, which is the case for the majority of working women. This is great, great stuff. The left is going to go crazy here, and they can't even adopt it. As the left talks about affordability and the difficulties for people to raise their kids, they're not going to adopt this policy, because it cuts against the heart of leftism. The heart of leftism, which says, we want to separate parents from their kids. We view parents as an obstacle to the raising of kids. You know, these are our kids. It takes a village, and we trust parents to some degree, but really, we want them in kindergarten, actually pre-K, actually pre-pre-K, actually in Mamdani's New York. We want those kids in preschool starting at age two. And you know what? We're going to have parents night out, drop your kids off with city bureaucrats. Do it whenever you want. Less family time, the better. Really, really good stuff. The Trump administration should be commended for this. The best objection to the policy is we don't want to

enlarge the welfare state. This does not do that. This is certainly a no-brainer for conservatives. Even libertarians have proposed similar kinds of policies. It's just Trump and Vance actually had the guts to do it. I love this. It's awesome. I love it enough that I will interrupt my labor day for it. I'm Michael Nolson. It's the Michael Nolson show. The UK has its first deaf and blind doctor. This is being reported in the mirror as great news. You know, another barrier broken. It's this gal. Her name is Alexandra Adams. And Alexandra Adams has had a real tough life. She's got all these problems. She's deaf. She's blind.

She wanted to be an athlete. I think she competed in the Paralympics. Could be wrong about that. I thought I read that. She said from a young age that she wanted to be a medical doctor. Her teachers said, well, maybe not. Maybe you shouldn't because you're deaf and blind. She said, well, I'm going to do it anyway. She became a medical doctor. Then she got COVID. Apparently, the COVID was really tough on her. Now she wears an oxygen mask and an oxygen tank. Nevertheless, she is a medical doctor. I say, look, good for her. Isn't that great? She's had a really tough life and she's succeeded. That's really wonderful. I wish her all the best. This is emblematic of how we think about everything in our culture. It's totally backwards. He is every single person. Every single nice person is going to read the story and say, that's good for you. Isn't that wonderful? She's a deaf blind girl with respiratory condition and she's a medical doctor. Wow.

One of those people would ever want to go see her as a patient. Not one person. Ain't no one who needs surgery who is worried about some kind of mark on their skin. Not anyone who stub their toe who is going to this lady to be a patient. Why the disconnect? It's because we view politics entirely through the lens of the individual and the individual overcoming limits. That is what liberalism is about. It is about transcending limits. I think the clearest liberal, liberal, libertarian, classical liberal, whatever in all of literature is Satan and Milton's Paradise Lost who is just trying to surpass all of the limits, natural, divine, biological these days. And so our liberal culture inclines all of us, even many people who consider themselves conservative. To celebrate the stories where people surpass and exceed limits. That is new. In the old way of thinking, in antiquity in the Middle Ages, that would have been considered quite bad. I was at the

rock of Gibraltar once, rock of Gibraltar, which in the Middle Ages was called the Pillars of Hercules. There's that pillar there at the tail end of the Aburant Peninsula, then another one in Africa. And the reason that Dante puts Ulysses in hell in the divine comedy is because Ulysses transgresses limits. Indeed, because he sales past the Pillars of Hercules, because he tries to go further than he is supposed to go. So what in the Middle Ages and antiquity was considered a vice, a terrible thing is now considered the great achievement, the great virtue in modernity, which is transgressing all sorts of limits. And what never comes into play in these kinds of stories is the patience. Look, the headline says, I'm the UK's first deafblind doctor, my disability makes me a better medic. But the article never really explains how. Obviously, a doctor would be better if he could see, or if he could hear, or if he didn't need an oxygen tank to move around. So that's just, it's a nonsense to say such a thing. But it's all

about the orientation. And in modern culture, the orientation is entirely toward the self and self actualization and self affirmation. Whereas in healthier culture, the orientation would be about the other person. Love is willing to good of another for his own sake. And ultimately, it would be oriented toward God. So it's like, I'm not only to knock on this girl in any way, but it's just so emblematic. And it seems it's a ridiculous headline because no one wants a deaf and blind doctor. Good for her. But what else could you do? And forget about her, what else could we all do in our lives? If we didn't just place ourselves at the center of everything and considered other other goods. Okay. Speaking of doctors, we get some more fraud coming out of California, go to tocovas.com slash noles, can it WLS? There are certain things to manch it own, a decent knife, a good hat. And if you are going to walk around pretending, you know anything about the American West, you should probably own a good pair of boots. That is where Tacovas comes in. I love my Tacovas. I have Tacovas cowboy boots or the only cowboy boots that I

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mansion in Hidden Hills, California, next to the Kardashian house. But the man who owns this property isn't a pop star or CEO. He's a respiratory therapist named Curtis, Kirkkova, and he got rich by building California's Medicaid system, more than $40 million. Nice work if you can get it, huh? Good stuff from Rufo. Chris is obviously just, he's just an absolute killer grom she and political operative for the right. We just, we love him. We love our Chris Rufo. And there are many such cases. We've uncovered a lot of fraud in Minnesota, in Ohio, in California, Newsom, quite crooked. These stories are really important to focus on because the Democrats are beginning this theme. They've tried it before. It laid dormant. Now it's back again for the midterms. And it will come up again a lot after the midterms. And that is, they're going to try to call Trump corrupt. And they're going to try to call Trump corrupt because he's a successful businessman. He lost a bunch of money in his first term as president. He made

a bunch of money in the interregnum when he was a private citizen. And they're going to say that this is corrupt. That he's trading off of the presidency. Never mind Hillary Clinton, never mind the Biden's, never mind any of that. Those people who are not serious businessmen, Trump obviously was. He's the richest guy ever to become president. Nevertheless, that's going to be a big, big focus. If the Democrats win the House, especially if they win the Senate, 100% of their effort is going to be focused on dredging up evidence of Trump's corruption. And that will be the basis of why they try to impeach him. So what's important here is to make clear what Trump has actually done. It doesn't seem that he's violated any laws, whether we're talking about his coins or his business interest or his hotels. He's had a hotel's a lot longer than he's been a politician. But we just don't just want to go on defense here. We have to go on offense. One, because it's politically sound, but two, because it's the right thing to do. There is a lot of corruption in America. There's a pure research. No, sorry, it's Gallup. Gallup report. I mentioned this in the show a couple days ago. Record high 89% in the US say that the government

corruption is widespread. Substantial majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and independence agree. This is really bad. The figure is up 10 points from last year, well above readings that were in the 70s from 2010 to 2025. So corruption is really, really bad. The question is where does the corruption line? Does the corruption lie chiefly in President Trump having meme coins or like Trump stores selling Trump watches or something like that? Were the corruption lies? Or does the corruption lie in Democrats in government, allowing specifically immigrant communities to build the taxpayer in exchange for political support, just like Democrats have been doing for 200 years, just like, Tamini Hall. And in California, where you get a guy who is theoretically a therapist, he looks like he's a rapper or a gangster and he's building the California taxpayer, which means building the federal taxpayer in Park is California gets federal funds for $40 million.

That's where the focus has to be because corruption is a big problem. We shouldn't minimize the significance of corruption. Corruption is like a measma in a political order. It just, it prevents you from trusting anything and it makes everyone feel icky. It's like it's like radon. It's like an odorless poison in the air that just slowly kills everything. So you have to root at corruption. But in order to root at corruption, you have to see where the corruption really lies. And here the corruption, you can point to individual Republicans and say that might have been a corrupt act and that may have been a little dodgy. I mean, this is politics that happens. But on the left, the corruption has been systematized. It's been institutionalized and it is being committed at a level that is orders of magnitude higher than most of anything that you're seeing on the right. Okay, now I want to get into the mail back. Go to cowboyclostrum.com slash noles, www.las. There are two kinds of health products, the ones that taste like you're being punished for making good decisions and the ones you're actually disappointed when you run out of.

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becoming primary caregiver for our two kids. It has to be this way, but I'm really struggling. I worked really hard to learn a trade and build a career so I could provide and she could say home. I've never been depressed a day in my life, but it's really getting to me, and even though logically I know the situation is out of my control, I still feel like I failed. How would you go about getting past this and making this role work as the man in head of household? How can I be supportive of my wife as she gets thrust back onto the workforce? What pitfalls should I look out for? On a side note, I also have a cigar question. Luckily, my health issues don't preclude me from adjoining cigars, which is great because they're some of my favorite things in the world. The bummers that with all this upheaval money is going to be tied for a while, so it's probably going to be a few years before I can justify putting them back in the budget. That being said, unfortunately, I only have one Mayflower Dust for boost I left, and since that's my favorite cigar of all time, I want to save it for a very special occasion. I usually keep my cigars in a small tupper door at 67% humidity. Just curious if you would suggest keeping it at 67 for long-term stores or dropping it down some. Thanks for all you do and God bless you and your family.

Okay, well, I'm sorry to hear about your problems. I'm sorry, you know, that you're going through this very difficult season right now. I'm sure it's brutal. You obviously have a good head on your shoulders as evidenced by your excellent taste in cigars. So on the relatively minor question here, the cigar question first, yes, 67%. In the tupper door is what we cigar guys call the Make Shift Humidor at a Tupperware, which is great. I have a lot of cigars actually in Zip Locks and that kind of stuff. That'll be fine. But onto the bigger question. You say this is tough because you learned to trade and you were injured and now, you know, right, you cannot continue in your trade. You can't pivot on a dime to start a new career. So your wife for a season is going to have to go out there and work. And this is tough. Now, I've, there's a lot of conservatives observe, and I've made it clear on the show many times. Yeah, the normal thing is for the guy to go out and work and for the wife to stay home. That's the ideal situation in our modern political economy. It's very difficult for women to stay home, even under the best of circumstances. But there are

exceptions. There is always the Margaret Thatcher exception. I know, I know people for whom it does actually make sense for the wife to go out and work and for the guy to stay home, whether it's because of an injury or what have you. There is, you know, it's a, it's a diverse and wonderful world. And there are, there is the, the Thatcher exception. However, you say this is not ideal and it really pains you. So I suppose one thing you can focus on is what would you like to do next? You have to balance two things. The obligations that you have right now, which is keeping the home and raising the kids and doing all of that, which you did not expect to do. And maybe you don't feel that you're as well equipped to do as your wife is. And your wife is going to go out there into the workforce and work for a little bit. And maybe she doesn't feel that she's the best equipped for that. And she didn't expect to do that. And, you know, life surprises us sometimes. So you have to do that job, which is a hard job for a woman. And it's going to be harder for you because you're not expecting to do it. So you're in for a very difficult go for a

sure period of time, at least. And then I would say you should balance that with, well, what would you like to end up doing? You know, you've never been depressed today in your life and you don't want to let you fall into despair, which is a sin. Okay, good. Well, what would you like to do? If you're a trade that you prepared for is now closed off to you, what's next? What would if you want to get back to a situation where your wife is able to stay home again and you're going to be the breadwinner? What could that even be in theory? And I'm not saying that you're necessarily going to get it, you know, man plans and God laughs. But at the very least, I think you need to have that in the back of your mind so that, you know, when you're working 12 hours a day to help take care of your kids and maybe cook and do all these things that you weren't ready to do, you do that for 12 hours a day. And then maybe you're preparing for another career for four or five hours a day. And that's hard, you know, it's going to be very hard. But I think that will help keep you grounded. Now, if you're just totally flat on your back and, you know, your chronic health issues or such

that there's no way you can do that, well, then you're going to have to double down on, you know, this new role that you find yourself in. But it doesn't quite sound like that's the situation. So I would balance those two things and it's going to give you the the grid of actually working, which is good for us. But it's also going to give you a kind of a terrestrial hope for what comes next. And, and, you know, it's a, it's a tough period. And one consolation that Christians have that people of other faiths don't necessarily have is we believe that suffering can be sanctifying. That suffering is, you know, deeply unpleasant a lot of the time, but it can be sanctifying and we can kiss it up to God and it can teach us something about ourselves and, and even improve us. So best of luck, you know, I obviously, I'll we can all pray for you. I encourage the show audience to pray for you in that in that tough time. And I look forward if we interact at some point in the future in person, I look forward to having that cigar. Okay, next one. Hey, Michael, it's Isaac. I still think Trump is doing a strong job overall. I ran is the one call I wrestle with, but I trust his judgment more than the people yelling from the sidelines.

Tucker is in a different place. In June, he said he was out of the Republican Party over the war. Last week, he said a president who is considering nuclear first use should be removed immediately. And he asked why that effort isn't already underway. Vance still won't draw a line. At the RJC on Monday, he was asked about Tucker by name and talked around him. This is Trump's party. If Vance is the guy who is supposed to carry that project forward is refusing to push back on Tucker coalition management, or is it a sign he's building something else? What's your read? Keep up the good work, man. Thank you very much. Good question. I don't know. I mean, I guess my read is probably coalition management, right? Is I mean, I don't really even totally understand what Tucker's after. There was seem like he might start a new party, but then that was sort of a fake out. And you know, his views have changed on things, but I don't know. I mean, Tucker's a very clever media personality. So I don't even know exactly what what Tucker's after. But down to the basic question, if Tucker says the Trump should be removed from office and JD Vance is the vice president, and he's obviously

supporting President Trump's initiatives. And he obviously, I mean, we just saw this the other day. Tucker said he would he would never vote for Mike Rogers in Michigan. And he essentially is endorsing Abdul-Alsade. And JD Vance comes at and he says it's like crucial that Mike Rogers wins. They the two guys obviously have major differences of opinion. And then on the removal from office point, JD Vance is the guy who could do that. If JD Vance were on team Tucker when it comes to removing Trump from office, he would be the guy to do that to, you know, call for the 25th amendment, you know, to be exercised. And he's not not doing that. So I don't know. It seems like a truism to me that that JD Vance is on team Trump. And he is clearly the heir apparent to Trump and Trump is him and Maga. So at least in Trump's mind, you know, at least in the mind of the administration. So I don't know. I see the trepidation, but this is always an issue. I mean, Charlie Kirk faced this issue of coalition management with all sorts of voices that, you know, there's a lot of dispute over who do you totally kick out of the tent and who do you keep in and try to modify and

try to keep them, you know, bring them closer to the center of the team. And so that's a very, very difficult job. It's not an enviable job, but it's an essential job in politics. So the fact that JD Vance seems to want to do it. I think that's a good thing. You know, better him than a lot of the rest of us. But no, I don't, I don't think JD Vance is going to try to remove Trump from office or anything like that. Okay. Now we do have some written mailback questions. I'm very excited to get to. This is from Braden. Says, I'm Michael. I recently saw a video talking about how Christians don't talk enough about mail modesty. I hadn't heard any of the things in the video before, but the biggest was that it's bad for men to be shirtless or post shirtless picks in the same way. It's wrong for women to wear revealing clothing in public. Personally, I don't think it's the same because the mail and female upper body are not the same. I'm curious about your thoughts on this. Uh, yeah, no, I don't. No, it's not. It might be wrong for men to post shirtless picks on Instagram, because that's kind of gay and vain and like ridiculous, but it's not, no, it's not the same thing

as a woman posting a shirtless pick because men and women relate to sex differently and men and women relate even to visual images differently. This is why men are much more aroused by the visual and for women, it's a little more emotional and a little less tangible. That's just, yeah, we're different, you know, the Viva Difference. Okay, question here from no one who says, Michael, this isn't normal to me to mail in, but I wanted to ask since you seem pretty sound in your faith, I believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. However, I think I still struggle with the idea that there's a heaven or that I will someday be there. I'm only 26 and I'm sure it might just be normal, but I often find myself thinking about getting old and dying tomorrow, missing out on many things and the lights just going out in an instant. I can't tell if it's a lack of conviction or faith that's getting me. I was raised non-denominational, not baptized, but I'm trying to find structure and stability in my faith. I'm not against the Catholic or Orthodox, as I quite enjoy their structure and piety. I just can't convert grapple yet with the difference in canon, which

justifies a lot of the tradition they both follow. Thank you for your time, sorry for the long question, if it makes sense out. Okay, no, it's a long question, but I think it's a relatively simple answer. You say you believe Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. However, you struggle with the idea that there's a heaven. Well, if you believe that Jesus Christ is your Lord, not to mention your Savior, even just your Lord, if you think he is God, if you think he speaks from authority, he says there's heaven. So either you must believe in heaven or you must not believe that Christ is Lord, because he says that there's heaven. And in terms of your being in heaven someday, either you believe that you will be in heaven someday or you don't believe that Christ is your Savior, but you can't simultaneously hold both opinions. So it's going to be one or the other. Then let's say you believe in Jesus, you say you're worried about getting old and dying. Yeah, okay, I think that's fair. I mean, Christ weeps from Lazarus dies five seconds before he raises Lazarus from the dead. Death is bad. Death is not good. Christianity is not a suicide cult. There have been offshoots and

heretical versions of Christianity over the years like Catholicism, albogenciness, that have been death cults, but Christianity is not. So yeah, you can recognize that death is a bad thing. And that is all the more reason to be so grateful to God Christ for saving us from eternal death. Then you say you are not baptized. Again, if you believe that Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, he tells you to be baptized. Baptism is so important in fact that he is baptized. He is baptized, raising baptism from a ritual or a sacramental all the way to a sacraman. So if you believe in him, you should be baptized. Then you say you're not against Catholic Orthodox, but you grapple with the difference in canon, which justifies a lot of the tradition. Again, I don't think that's true. I think it's a little bit of a cope to say that the fact that the Catholic and Orthodox and Coptics and Ethiopian Christians and all these people have more books

in the Bible or something than traditions that emerge out of the 16th century, no. I don't think that the core elements of the Christian faith as practiced by Catholics and Orthodox and Coptics and Ethiopians and Syriacs and all the rest, I don't think that those come from the Deuteronautical books exactly. The Eucharist comes from the Gospel of St. John, John 6, when Christ says, whosoever eats the flesh of the Son of Man and drinks his blood has life in him. If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. This is a hard saying and the Jews dispute this and other disciples, they go away, but Peter does not go away. He says, why do you not go away? He says, because you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Christ says, well, only my father could have revealed this to you and you are no longer Peter, your Simon, sorry, you are no longer Simon, your Peter, Petros, rock, and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. So the Eucharist is from the Gospels, it's not from the Deuteronautical books and it's

instituted then very clearly at the last supper and you see it again, the first post-resurrection after the road to Emmaus walk at the dinner table. So you have all of that. You have Christ saying in the Gospels, I give you the power to forgive sins, who sins you forgive for giving your sins, you retain or retain. That's a sacrament that is not from the Deuteronauticals, it's from the Gospels, on and on and on. One thing that will be helpful to you, I think, is reading some of the very early church fathers and Christian writers, guys like Justin Martyr, Euroneus, Ignatius, Fantioch, On and On, who are describing a faith is very similar to the one that you seem to be seeking. So anyway, I don't want to be too pedantic about the whole thing, but if you believe it, if you say that you have this sort of kernel here of faith where you say, I believe that Jesus Christ is my learned savior, well then you're going to believe the other stuff too, you're going to believe in heaven and you're going, I think you would be baptized and I think, if you believe that, if you can get yourself to the point where you say, I believe

in Jesus, well then you should keep this commandments, that's what he tells us to do. Okay, I'm out of time, so I'll see you next time, I'm Michael Knowles, this is Michael Knowles Show. Every significant movement in history started with protesting. You know a traitor. Uncle Todd? This is our generation civil rights. I have no idea what the protest is about. Bingo, given the current climate, should have figured as polarizing as place sounders, he would be allowed on campus. Okay, hear me okay. Sounders is a close personal friend of chance with Freeman, this is a decision I cannot fight. Islam will conquer the West. Some more than you. I'll be paying attention. They've taken over the building, they're downstairs and they've blocked the doors. I seek forgiveness from Allah, the Almighty. We cannot run and hide. Muhammad is the messenger of God. There is no God but Allah. What do you say? We turn those

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