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Mike Church Show Episode #2367

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HEADLINE: With 4,900 AI Data Centers, There’s Likely One Coming to Your Neighborhood by Mary Prenon

QUESTION: How many functioning dairy farms are there in the United States?

ANSWER: 23,000

• What do you get out of all these data centers?
• I am watching the interview between Sean Hannity and President Donald Trump and I was so offended by one of his answers.
• The Chinese exchange student question sent my blood pressure sky high.
• President Xi Jinping mentioned in his remarks to Donald Trump about Thucydides Trap.
• 16 incidents where a power was ascendent even thought the world thought it was in control it was actually in decline.
• You know what the 15th case was?

HEADLINE: Thucydides’s Trap Case File from Harvard Kennedy School

• The 15th was the US vs Soviet Union 1940-1980.
• China is on the rise as a result of this Iran war.
• There is no way the Russian Federation is going to lose that conflict in Ukraine.
• It is actually Russian restraint that is keeping from Putin invading Ukraine fully.
• Back to the Thucydides Trap –
• Ask yourself the question, why didn’t that happen with Iran?
• The neo-Cons would not allow it to happen.
• Israel would not allow it to happen.
• If you can negotiate your way out of a nuclear war confrontation, that is ALWAYS the way to go.
• This is going down in the history books for sure.
• The president is saying we need to import 500,000 Chinese students?!
• We currently have 352,364 people in New Orleans right now.
• That is more than a major city in America, does that sound like a good thing to you?

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SEGMENT 2

PRESIDENT TRUMP IN CHINA

• What if Joe Biden was talking about bringing in 500,000 Chinese students?
• I have a question for all the MAGA die hards out there, is this just another 4D chess move?

AUDIO/VIDEO: President Xi Jingping in China w/ Trump – The whole world is watching our meeting. Currently, transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the globe and the international situation is fluid and turbulent. The world has come to a new crossroads. Can China and the United States overcome the Thucydides trap and create a new paradigm of new country relations? Can we meet global challenges together and create new stability for the world? Can we in the interest of the well-being of our two peoples and the future of humanity build a brighter future? These are the questions vital to history, the world and the people. They are the questions of our times.

• He was speaking in FUTURE tense!
• He wasn’t speaking about the past Mr President.
• He invoked the Thucydides Trap NOW and in the future.

TRUMP ON TRUTH SOCIAL: When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, and on that score, he was 100% correct. Our Country suffered immeasurably with open borders, high taxes, transgender for everybody, men in women’s sports, DEI, horrible trade deals, rampant crime, and so much more! 

President Xi was not referring to the incredible rise that the United States has displayed to the world during the 16 spectacular months of the Trump Administration, which includes all-time high stock markets and 401K’s, military victory and thriving relationship in Venezuela, the military decimation of Iran (to be continued!) — Strongest military on earth by far, economic powerhouse again, with a record 18 trillion dollars being invested into the United States by others, best U.S. job market in history, with more people working in the United States right now than ever before, ending country destroying DEI, and so many other things that it would be impossible to readily list. In fact, President Xi congratulated me on so many tremendous successes in such a short period of time.

Two years ago, we were, in fact, a Nation in decline. On that, I fully agree with President Xi! But now, the United States is the hottest Nation anywhere in the world, and hopefully our relationship with China will be stronger and better than ever before!

• He keeps bringing up the stock market, middle America does not gain wealth from the stock market. The rest of the United States is in tears and suffering Mr President!
• He isn’t worried about anything other than the stock market.
• That does NOTHING to the average minivan mom who is transporting children from school to games to practices.
• It does nothing to help middle America.
• Do you think there is still $18 trillion in investments coming to America?
• If so where are these trillions going?
• Are they going to data centers?

HEADLINE: Court allows for access to abortion pill by mail for now by Amy Howe

• The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon issued an order that continued to block a ruling by a federal appeals court in Louisiana which had barred the mailing of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions – the most common form of abortion in the United States. 
• Thursday afternoon’s order by the court, which was not sent to reporters until 5:26 p.m., extended that pause once again, and allows mifepristone to continue to be sent through the mail while litigation continues in the lower courts.
• Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, arguing that the drug companies “cannot, in any legally relevant sense, be irreparably harmed by a court order that makes it more difficult for them to commit crimes.”
• Alito also dissented. He called the court’s order “remarkable,” and he contended that “[w]hat is at stake is the perpetration of a scheme to undermine our decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” the court’s 2022 decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion recognized in Roe v. Wade.
• Can we all agree fentanyl is illegal?
• Can you imagine a scenario where a doctor would prescribe it to a patient in a state where it was be classified illegal?

SEGMENT 3

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GENERAL MICHAEL FLYNN ON X – Xi’s remark on the Thucydides trap is a classic piece of Chinese diplomatic signaling; polite on the surface, however, very sharp and pointed underneath. It’s a reminder to our president (and the world) that Beijing (Xi) sees itself as the rising power in a structural rivalry with a (supposedly) established hegemon (the U.S.), and that any failure to accommodate China’s ascent risks major conflict which the United States cannot afford (and there is practically zero support from the American people currently for more war and Xi knows it).

Xi is signaling that the U.S. should step back gracefully, especially on Taiwan (and never lose site of what Xi has already said about Taiwan; One (1) China, and he’s not backing down), checking trade & tech restrictions, and increasingly regional dominance, rather than the U.S. attempting to further impede China’s “rejuvenation” efforts.

Essentially, it was a veiled warning:

Push too hard (ie., on Taiwan or decoupling), and structural tensions could lead to an extremely dangerous place.

TECHNOLOGY

• So tired of using it, honestly I would rather sell every piece of equipment I own here in this station and buy a FM tower.
• I would be 100% happy with that.

SEGMENT 4

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OPPOSITE OF AMERICA FIRST

• We don’t need China!
• We don’t need their food.
• We don’t need their students.
• We don’t need their products made by child labor.
• WE DON’T NEED THEM!

CALLER ROBERT FROM IDAHO

• I was thinking about the whole cozying up to China thing.
• We are moving to the Philippines by the end of the year.
• Is this a military relocation?
• No the wife is depressed and she wants to go home.
• The Philippines is one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
• I think a lot of it has to do with being in a place that is prone to disaster, the people just ban together and they love each other. You rise together and you fall together.
• The move will happen a good 4 or 5 months.
• Remember Vonage? They have a partnership with a Philippine cellphone company.
• She just isn’t feeling it here in Idaho.
• More often than not everyone is talking about celebrating their diversity and you can only unite on your physical location.

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HEADLINE: Thomophobia by Mary Harrington

• But our whole culture is geared to noticing the exception, the signal. Mothering is the everyday, the normal, the noise. Why? I kept coming back to the same weirdly missing vocabulary, first on mothering, then on other cognate topics. I would find myself reaching for words to explain and defend the existence and value of human patterns that are normally the case: for instance, that mothers love their babies, and feel a visceral urge to protect and nurture them. Instead I’d find myself litigating whether or not anything at all about humans can ever be said to be normally true.

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AUDIO/VIDEO: Memphis Secession? by Brion McClanahan

• I bring this up in context about the piece from Mary Harrington.
• I haven’t spoken with Brion in a long time, about 11 years.
• In the course of Brion reading my substack to his audience, he says something to the effect that Mike Church, maybe you don’t know this he is a traditional, devout Catholic.
• That is the supreme compliment that you could pay to me.

8:50am

8:54am

HEADLINE: Thomophobia by Mary Harrington

• At that point I realized that the vocabulary I had thought was missing was not missing at all. It exists, but is little-known, except in circles such as this one. Few readers will be surprised by the big reveal—that what I’d been looking for was Aristotelian metaphysics, as adapted by medieval theologians, among whom the greatest and most influential was Thomas Aquinas. In his Summa Theologiae, Thomas reconciled Aristotle’s metaphysics with Christian theology. It is a remarkable achievement, which set the terms for serious inquiry into the nature of things pretty much from Thomas’s day to the seventeenth century. I’m not qualified to summarize the Summa, but I am indebted to Feser, and behind him the scholastics and especially Thomas, for three tools that speak to the concepts I’d found so frustratingly missing from my writing work, and from political discourse more generally.
• The first of these tools is the distinction between potency and act. Act describes what something is right now, whereas potency comprises all those things it could be, based on the kind of thing it is. Returning to my example of a baby, we might say she’s an infant in act, but an adult in potency. There’s a bit more to maturation than just ­potency—a point we’ll get into with the third missing tool. But in general we can understand “­potency” as the things something could become, given the kind of thing it is. A calf could become a bull, or it could become dinner, but it could not become a retractable pencil.
• So this is where you wind up with the transgender issue.
• A child is either in its nature a male or female.
• It is baked in, you can’t separate them.
• You can mutilate it, drug it but its nature will always be what its chromosomes tell it to be male or female.
• When you understand this and the simple tenants of how the world works, there is a created order of all things that were created by God.
• Read the entire essay it is wonderful.

9:06am

9:16am

SPECIAL GUEST

MAHGDALEN ROSE

Political Affairs Contributor

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AUDIO/VIDEO: Rep Thomas Massie on Cincinnati Public Radio – The whole swamp has come down on me. It’s not grassroots, it’s not MAGA, it’s predominantly 3 billionaires that are upset I vote against foreign aid and wars. these billionaires are funding a super PAC called MAGA Kentucky. There will be $6 million spent this week on TV and mail. Fox News, they’ve got a monopoly on the screens in a lot of Republican houses, particularly people between the ages of 65 and 75. For the last 18 months, they’ve not invited me on a single show. They have blacklisted me to keep their special access to the White House. I can’t get on TV’s in the living rooms of the people that vote in this election unless I can buy TV ads.

• I don’t know what that Trump access would benefit anymore he says the same 5 things every day.
• This is not 2017, people need to be worried about what they are going to do POST Trump.
• You wanna talk about rigged elections this is one Trump is TRYING to rig and NO MAGA person is willing to say so.
• Thomas Massie didn’t betray us the American people. They just don’t like Massie even though the people he represents have sent him over and over and over to Capitol Hill.
• The idea that everyone should or must be grateful to Donald Trump for life is getting old.
• You can and should be able to disagree with him and not fear for your entire livelihood to be demolished.
• There are people who have legitimately betrayed Donald Trump but Massie is not one of them.
• I think going forward I’d love to have someone elected that isn’t a mini-cult leader, that would be great for the Republican party.
• Sierra Dante a wonderful listener of ours for years, she told MTG to go onto my show…but she can’t Bannon won’t allow it.
• I wonder, because MTG doesn’t like to be told what to do, will she respond?
• She should come on and if she wants to be a TRUTH fighter, what does it matter if you come on the Mike Church Show?
• Steve Bannon is playing this weird middle game with Thomas Massie. He won’t come out and say Trump is being ridiculous.
• He could do this same tactic in a democratic stronghold instead it is a vendetta and he hates Massie so he is attempting to out a strong Conservative.
• This isn’t cut and dry.
• He will become the most vengeful former Republican out there if he loses this race.
• Young men and women will come out in strong support of him from other states.
• The Mises Institute, he Massie loses this and the leadership race is still open, don’t be surprised if he becomes the main guy in the Libertarian party.
• You have the Koch brothers that lean Libertarian, you also have the Dunlop Foundation,
• And Libertarians have also started having a lot of children too.
• When or if Massie loses Trump will take his victory lap on Truth Social and Catturd will repost it but it will push the Libertarians to be vindictive and come out against Republicans.

AUDIO/VIDEO: President Donald Trump w/ Sean Hannity in Beijing – Chinese Students – Look it’s not that I love it but you want to see farmers drop, take that out of the market. They have owned a lot of land for a long time. As far as the students, it’s 500,000 students that come, they are good students. If I say no students it is a very insulting thing to a country to say that. They will immediately start building universities all over China. We say no green card to them and other countries. You want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it. The top schools will be fine but the lower schools will die. I frankly think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, not everybody agrees with me. And it doesn’t sound like a very conservative position. I’m more of a common sense guy. MAGA is common sense. They do things to us and we do things to them. It’s a fine line the whole thing with students. You will see bankruptcies on the lower end. It is something I am looking at. It is a very insulting thing that you tell a country you don’t want them to use your schools. School systems don’t want that to happen.

• What is happening here?
  Based off his position if we take Chinese students out, mid-level schools will be the only ones to suffer? Of course the larger higher schools will absolutely suffer. They will be the ONLY ONES that suffer. Chinese parents don’t send their kids to America to go to Idaho University.
• By filling up top spots in our high standing Universities with Chinese that hurts US not China!
• If you are looking at this and saying ‘it isn’t that deep’ you will rethink that when they unchecked try to take over Cuba because that’s next.
• They are raiding Tulsi’s office, they don’t invite her to the Situation Room, so if you are Tulsi are you going to quit? She quit the DNC when they did what they did to Bernie Sanders.