Chapter 1: What shocking claims did a congressman make about UFOs?
A sitting member of Congress claims the US would be unglued and the world on fire if we knew what the government knows about UFOs. And that congressman is coming on this show momentarily. Tucker's latest guest claims that Christianity is actually socialist. And a Canadian member of parliament drops a new weird sex initialism. LGBTQIA plus is out. M-M-I-W-G-2-S-L-G-B-T-Q-Q-I-A-plus is in.
I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, has just discussed one of the craziest weapons you've ever heard of, which was apparently used in that rescue mission, the Good Friday to Easter Sunday rescue mission in Iran. We'll get to that momentarily.
Chapter 2: Why does a guest argue that Christianity is actually socialist?
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Chapter 3: What is the new LGBTQIA+ initialism introduced in Canada?
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So anyway, we'll get to that claim in a moment. First of all, I am so pleased to be joined by Tim Burchett, congressman and man of the hour, a very popular US congressman, but also one of the congressmen who's focused on some of these UFO, UAP, extraterrestrial claims. First of all, Congressman Burchett, thank you very much for making time to come on the show.
Thank you for two things. One, having me on the show, and two, for saying my name right. You will not make my highlight film on people that have said my name wrong.
Congressman, I have noticed for 10 years now, I go on TV shows, podcasts, whatever, and people cannot pronounce my name either.
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Chapter 4: How does financial stress affect Americans today?
They say, Michael, it's like they have marbles in their mouth. So I totally empathize, and I'm glad that I was able to articulate your name properly. I Congressman, I've been watching all of your clips, all of these interviews you've been doing. I'm pals with some of your colleagues on the UFO panel in the House of Representatives. I've been following this for a long time.
And then your former colleague, Matt Gaetz, came out. And he said that there is a human... extraterrestrial hybrid breeding program. And I said, you know what? Look, I've gotten along great with Matt Gaetz over the years, but this is completely bonkers. I don't buy it. I don't believe in aliens. No way, no how.
But then you've been making the rounds saying some of these claims are not as crazy as they might appear.
That's true. Matt was actually briefed by a member of our military in uniform on that subject. But I've heard a lot of wild things. I've been in Let's just say I've been briefed by a lot of high-ranking officials. And the thing I want to warn people about is there's a word called PSYOP, or two words, I guess. And these agencies, a lot of them are just chasing dollars.
And they would laugh at me when I would talk to them about UFOs or UAPs, which is a complete distraction. I just go UFOs. And now they've seen that the polling... of the population of this great country believes that we are not alone and there is something extra out there. And so now they see the dollars. And so now all of a sudden, a lot of these alphabet agencies are putting stuff out.
I would warn people, If you don't see it with your own dadgum eyes, don't believe it. And to me, it's not about little green man or flying saucers. It's about what are we spending tens of millions, if not billions of dollars researching something? And why do they say they don't exist? But yet every dadgum department, except the IRS, maybe they do, I don't know.
But I don't want to get the IRS ticked off at me just yet. It's getting close. Why are they all investigating this this object that doesn't exist? And why do I sit in a secure briefing and this little punk with a man bun comes in and tells me that he has no data points on something? I said, well, let me give you an example. And I gave him an example of a.
nuclear facility that that shut down literally after they saw these ufos flying over it it's a documented case you can go on news reports if i mean legitimate news people have talked about it so you know it's a uh it's a phenomena and we need to get to the bottom of it i talked to the president about it and you know and also one other thing that ought to it's kind of a chilling effect to me is when i'm talking to one of these little gutless bureaucrats that's not elected
And they tell me the president is on a need-to-know basis. That should scare you right there. But I have seen some things and talked to some people about this issue that would keep you awake at night.
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Chapter 5: What does Congressman Burchett say about UFOs and government secrecy?
So like Ford Motor Company, I want to find out, you know, why are they going off on something else? You know, why are they doing electric? I could FOIA them, but they're not going to respond. They don't have to respond. But say the FBI or somebody else, they generally have to respond at some point. So what they've done is
They've gotten this material or a craft or a humanoid or whatever it is, and they put it off on these government contractors. So there's probably five or six of them that we know. They're the major, the big boys.
Raytheon, that sort of thing.
Yeah, the war pimps, the industrial war contractors. Or I call them war pimps, which they don't like it when I do that, so I'm calling them war pimps because I don't care. I'm over it. They're all a bunch of portfolio warriors, and I got an 18-year-old daughter, and I don't want to see her going overseas fighting any dadgum war.
But they do this, and it's so compartmentalized that nobody really knows what the other one's doing. Case in point, I knock on doors. That's how Tim Burchett gets elected. The big boys don't shower me with money to get elected. They always support me the day after the election. And I get $25 in a Bible verse from a sweet little lady. That's the people that elect Tim Burchett, and I dig that.
So I'm knocking on doors. That's how I get elected. And I'm out in the Farragut community, which is west of Knoxville. In Knox County. And this guy comes to the door and he's got his flag out. I said, were you a veteran? And he kind of said, no, no, I really wasn't. And I said, and he was sort of acted like he was almost ashamed. And I said, is it really because you're an older gentleman?
I said, what'd you do during the war? And he said, well, actually, I worked at Oak Ridge. And I said, you know, my daddy was on Okinawa and they thought they were going to invade. Daddy fought on Pelew in Okinawa. He's in the Marine Corps. He said they thought they were going to have to invade Japan. I said, and if he were here, he'd hug your neck. And thank you.
And the guy said, you know, the funny thing is, and this is what I go back to the UFO thing. He says, my wife worked with me at Oak Ridge as well on the nuclear project. And because, you know, the nukes, if we hadn't dropped the nuclear bomb, we would have, the nuclear bombs, we would have had to invade Japan and my dad probably would have died. And so, and my life would be totally different now.
But my point in this is that his wife, who worked with him at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he was married to at the time, he did not know what she did. It was that compartmentalized. And that is exactly what you're seeing now. But now everybody's got a book, gonna do a book deal. They got a computer, they got a web page or something and they leak it out.
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Chapter 6: What are the various perspectives on the existence of extraterrestrial life?
You see this reaffirmed by John Paul II in Centesimus Annus on the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum. Capitalism, which is just to say private property and markets, can be a good thing. John Paul II said that free markets are the most efficient way to allocate goods around society.
And Pope Leo XIII went further to say that people have a right to their private property. The socialists and the communists say you have no right whatsoever to your private property. Leo XIII says, no, you do have a right to private property. However, this is the crucial part. It is not an absolute right because of something that Christians call the universal destination of goods.
That is to say that created goods are for, ultimately, humanity. However, it is important as a matter of dignity, as a matter of the efficient allocation of resources, as a matter of functioning societies that we have private property. But it's a conditional right. It's conditioned on the notion that there is, in fact, a universal destination of goods.
So what we would say is not three cheers for capitalism. We would say two cheers for capitalism. Capitalism is good, but we don't want the tail to wag the dog. We're not a society. We're not human beings living in service of an economic market. However, the economy is to be arranged in such a way that it is conducive to human flourishing. Socialism gets no cheers.
Socialism is wicked, evil, totally contrary to the Christian faith. People who think Christianity is socialist just don't get it. They're not going to make it. However, there are critiques of pure capitalism, laissez-faire capitalism, hyper-individualist capitalism that are legitimate from a Christian perspective.
But folks, let's not be so contrarian that we're going to pretend that socialism goes along with Christianity. Quite the opposite. Socialism and communism arising from false premises about human nature, have been enemies of the church from day one. Okay, speaking of Christianity, great news. Conversions way, way up, and the libs fighting Christians tooth and nail.
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