Country star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/blake-shelton">Blake Shelton</a> talked about his relationship with wife, singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gwen-stefani-has-something-to-say-about-those-blake-shelton-divorce-rumors">Gwen Stefani</a>, and getting to be a stepdad to her three sons, saying it changed him in “every possible way.”
Speaking to <a href="https://www.etonline.com/blake-shelton-reflects-on-10th-anniversary-of-meeting-gwen-stefani-and-the-joy-of-being-a-stepdad?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0HwOaqIBRF1hHbIKBgWQi8AmwpnXhs1SQmjZcNZns-nT1evA09wq2WenE_aem_AdNXwG511oYXWlSVIauhcYeHf38mDDUErtNeM5s1qccbAcus1-Pj0Tk30gL5CumG7In0AC7DiBNtk09XNGcmTsmu">Entertainment Tonight</a>, the 47-year-old country singer recalled meeting Stefani on the reality competition series “The Voice” in 2014 and getting to be a stepfather to her three boys now &#8212; Kingston, 17, Zuma, 15, and Apollo, 10 &#8212; whom she shares with her ex-husband Gavin Rossdale.
“You would see her out at the red chairs if there was a production meeting or whatever and I feel like I got to know Pharrell [Williams] more that year than I did Gwen,&#8221; Shelton said of her first year on the show. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t until the season she came back, the next one, that the pieces were falling together.”
When asked what he would like the future to look like, he said a “repeat of these past 10 years” would be “perfect.”
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&#8220;Next month, we&#8217;ve got an 18-year-old, which it blows my mind that already happened,” Shelton said. “And in a couple of years, we&#8217;ll have another 18-year-old. And that&#8217;s &#8230; it&#8217;s gonna be I guess a lot more alone time, which I&#8217;m not mad about that either.&#8221;
“But we still have Apollo, so we have another almost 10 years before we can kick him out, so it should be a lot of fun,” he added.
The “Boys &#8216;Round Here” hitmaker said getting to be a stepdad to Stefani’s three boys has made him a better person.
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&#8220;I learned quickly, not because anything happened, but just, you know, reading the room, you’ve really got [to think], &#8216;I have to take a step back,'&#8221; Shelton said of the role of stepdad. &#8220;When people say it&#8217;s not about you anymore when you have a kid. &#8230; I think, if you&#8217;re doing it right, it&#8217;s not about you anymore. That&#8217;s true.&#8221;
In an interview in <a href="https://www.news24.com/you/celebs/international/blake-shelton-on-being-a-stepdad-to-gwen-stefanis-three-sons-ive-fallen-in-love-with-them-20220302">2022</a>, Shelton reflected on how his own late father raised his brother, when his dad married Blake’s mom Dorothy, who had Richie from a prior relationship.
“He [Shelton’s father] took Richie on and raised him from the time he was 1 year old, and my brother never thought of my dad as anything other than his dad,&#8221; Shelton said at the time.
&#8220;The example that my dad set for me was that [child] was not even a consideration [in a romantic partnership],” he added. “You got three boys? Awesome! My dad did it. My dad raised me. I could do this. I didn&#8217;t know what I was signing up for, but I was all about signing up for it. And every day I&#8217;ve fallen in love with the boys as much as I do with Gwen.&#8221;
The superstar couple started dating in 2015 and finally made their relationship official when they tied the knot at an intimate ceremony at Shelton’s ranch in Oklahoma on July 3, 2021.
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Kansas City Chiefs star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/patrick-mahomes">Patrick Mahome</a>s said he will keep playing in the NFL as long as it doesn’t “take away from my family time” with his two kids and wife Brittany.
<a href="https://time.com/6966732/patrick-mahomes-interview-time100-2024/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=time100&amp;utm_term=_&amp;linkId=398945906">Time magazine</a> named the Super Bowl-winning QB as one of 2024’s “World’s Most Influential People” and he opened up about his career and being a father to daughter Sterling, 3, and son Bronze, 1.
“I’ve looked, if I played until Tom [Brady]’s age (45), my daughter would be 19, 20 years old,” Mahomes said. &#8220;That would mean missing plenty of youth sporting events and other commitments.”
“I would love to play that long,” he added. “At the same time, I want to be there for my daughter. If I can do that, I&#8217;ll continue to play. But if I feel like it&#8217;s taking away from my family time, that&#8217;s when I&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s time to go.”
At one point in the piece, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-challenged-us-to-make-us-better-patrick-mahomes-credits-god-for-super-bowl-win" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mahomes</a> talked about his Super Bowl wins and disputed that he’s even close to a GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) like Tom Brady.
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“You have to build a consistency of a career,” Mahomes said. “You see that in any sport. I’ve had a great run. I think I’ve done a great job so far. But it’s hard to take away from what Tom [Brady] did for so long, what Peyton Manning did, or Aaron Rodgers.”
“There are so many guys, they were at such a high level for such a long time. In order to be in that conversation, you have to do that on a year-to-year basis,” he added. “You can’t take it for granted that you did it the year before. That’s something I’ll talk about when I’m done playing. Then people can make those decisions.”
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“At the end of my time, I just want to say that I didn’t leave anything out there,” Mahomes continued. “My family and football are the first things I want to be great at. If I can go out there and say that I gave everything I had on the football field, expectations are what they are and whatever is going to happen is going to happen. And I can be satisfied with that.”
Brittany and Patrick met in high school in Texas. They welcomed a daughter in 2021, and the couple finally tied the knot in 2022. In 2022, they shared news that they were expecting again and <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1348178/brittany-and-patrick-mahomes-welcome-baby-no-2">welcomed</a> their son later that year.
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There are a few things in life that if somebody tells you, you automatically know they are a grifter. They&#8217;re a con man; they&#8217;re trying to con you into something.
The most obvious sign of a con artist is somebody who&#8217;s telling you that a well-known, well-worn truth — something that is absolutely irrefutable — is not true. They know better.
They know better because they&#8217;ve seen through the matrix, they&#8217;ve seen through that truth; that truth is actually a mask for the underlying reality.
Now, there may be some widely held notions that are untrue, but in order to debunk those notions, you would actually have to show why your notions are better.
However, if someone suggests, for example, “Hard work is useless. I have a better way to earn you fast money without a lot of work, without getting yourself educated, without putting in the hours to develop a skill set,” that person is conning you. They are lying to you.
If somebody were to tell you there is an easy way for you to get fit with no exercise while eating trash, that person would be lying to you. That person would be conning you because, obviously, you need to eat healthy and exercise if you want to be in shape.
And the biggest one of all — and it&#8217;s held true by pretty much every grifter movement of the last couple of centuries — is the idea that you should not get married, that marriage is bad for you, that somehow marriage is going to ruin your life.
Now, there are a lot of problems with the current legal structure of marriage. I agree with the critique of the current legal structure of marriage. No-fault divorce is one of the worst things that ever happened to Western civilization.
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Marriage is a commitment. That commitment is lifelong. There should actually have to be a really good reason why you are divorcing. That is particularly true if you have children because marriage is designed as the fundamental building block of institutional society. It is the place where children are reared. It is the place where you produce children, and children require stability.
It is from those fundamental building blocks of civilization — “the little platoons,” as Edmund Burke called them — that you can actually build a functional, free civilization, which is why every grifter movement of the last couple of centuries has assaulted the family from the outside.
For example, Karl Marx was very big on assaulting the family. The Communist Manifesto famously suggests abolition of the family. Why? Because the family is a place where you might learn “bourgeois” values. It&#8217;s a place where you might be inculcated into responsibility, duty, or church. These are all very bad, according to the Marxist movement, which is why the Communist Manifesto <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>,
<blockquote>On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.</blockquote>
So blowing up the family would allow for a better world. Don&#8217;t get married. Fight the fight. Blow up the traditional institutions that actually support a functional society, and fight the fight.
The idea of the Left is that every single person is basically a malleable widget violating the strictures of the evil society. This is part of the big con, which is the idea that there are things like gender roles that are rooted in biology; however, if you can see through that immutable truth, then you will have destroyed the matrix. This is the perspective of the Left, and this is why they fight the family. This is also why children have become a tote bag to this group of people. It&#8217;s something you occasionally have in order to manipulate in a particular form or fashion.
But the attack on the family is not, unfortunately, restricted to the political Left. All grifters, all con men, have to take immutable truths and subvert those immutable truths in favor of something only they have uncovered — something incredible that you never knew about. And if you just take the red pill, then you&#8217;ll know it.
You&#8217;ll know it, and then you&#8217;ll be right. You won&#8217;t have to do hard work in order to be rich. You won&#8217;t have to be a good person in order to attract a good mate. You won&#8217;t have to spend the time raising your children in order to be a successful man. They&#8217;ve discovered the secret.
The leader on this side of the movement is Andrew Tate, who got his start as a provocative reality TV star, then began a webcam business effectively grooming women into sex trafficking. According to his own admission, that&#8217;s how he made his money. Whether he says they were groomed or not, the reality is he groomed women into getting into the webcam industry and pornography.
This is Andrew Tate’s game. He&#8217;s considered entertaining because he “explodes the myths.” But the way that he “explodes the myths” is by playing a really stupid game for stupid people.
The game is like this. “I&#8217;m going to say two transgressive things, things that violate the taboos of the culture around me. One of those things is true, and one of those things is false. But because they are both transgressive and because people will oppose me on both of them — one for bad reasons and one for good reasons — I have somehow gotten under the skin of the matrix. Everyone opposes me, which is why I&#8217;m a rebel.”
That&#8217;s Andrew Tate&#8217;s entire game.
So he will say things like feminism has ruined men by usurping the male role and robbing men of their initiative. That is true. That is not politically correct to say.
But then he will say another transgressive thing that is absolutely false. For example, “Women love it when you treat them like garbage, and you should treat women like garbage; dominant men are the kind of men who treat women like garbage.”
That is not true. It&#8217;s transgressive. And it&#8217;s transgressive specifically because it&#8217;s evil. It is bad to say. It is bad to think. Women should not be treated like trash, and good women do not want to be treated like trash. Further, treating women like trash is not going to make your life better. And it is not going to make their life better.
But it is transgressive to say; it is taboo. Tate has violated many taboos, and he can get away with it because the rules don&#8217;t apply to him. He&#8217;s a “Nietzschean Ubermensch” because he is very buff and because he works out a lot and because he smokes cigars. And this means you should listen to him.
You should listen to him so much that you should pay him $49.99 a month to join Hustler&#8217;s University, where you will learn other secrets — secrets like how you don&#8217;t need hard work and initiative in order to really get ahead. You can learn his magical methods for making lots of money.
You can own a Bugatti, just like Tate owns a Bugatti. All you have to do is listen to his magical business advice, which explodes all of the matrices of truth, the immutable truths.
The reason I&#8217;m bringing up Andrew Tate is because he, again, is playing the game with two transgressive things. The true thing that he has said is, “I pray Christianity regains its strength and protects its societies against the pervasive and constant erosion of morality by the devotees of Satan. If you accept everything, you stand for nothing.” I agree with every word of that statement. Christianity ought to regain its strength and protect its society against the pervasive and constant erosion of morality by the devotees of Satan.
But then, Tate put out tweets like the one that he did yesterday. It comes up in the context of marriage. Yet again, he is saying an immutable truth must be exploded. That immutable truth is the fundamental good and necessity of family.
He stated, “Dear white men. You’re f***ed. You&#8217;re being replaced because none of you have children.” Even within this tweet, he is making a couple points: one true, one false.
One, Western societies are not reproducing at replacement rate. That&#8217;s very bad. But he goes further because his game is to say many transgressive things — some true, some false. <a href="https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/1780180832369402005" target="_blank" rel="noopener">He writes</a>: 
<blockquote>Dear white men. You’re f***ed. You&#8217;re being replaced because none of you have children. Even those of you bi***ing about the replacement online like little girls don&#8217;t find the gumption to f***. I see white men bragging about having 5 kids as if it&#8217;s an achievement. lol. Five? Lolol. Per year right? Ohhhh. All you white boys lost control of you’re (sic) women and now they won&#8217;t accept multiple wives anymore. 
Now they tell you they don&#8217;t want anymore kids. One’s (sic) enough. They don&#8217;t want to do their god given job anymore no, they want Instagram likes instead. So you’re (sic) genetic potential is stumped by the whims of some singular female. A female who takes 9 whole months to grow a single baby. Other races have multiple ovens for bread. We&#8217;re not cucked. Some **** is screaming at you about loyalty and you&#8217;re sitting there saying, “yes, baby” Jerking off to porn when she&#8217;s asleep or maybe cheating with a side***** (CONDOM ON!) Oh no I couldn&#8217;t get another woman pregnant my wife would kill me!!! Total f***ing losers. 
Soon your race will be nothing more than a few pages in a history book. A lesson on what happens when you f *** the female psyche so hard they&#8217;re obsessed with money and social media as opposed to being one of many baby factories for a king. 30 children minimum for the dons. White people? Go talk to your “best friend” wife about what to do this weekend. Maybe you can take a nice walk around the Ikea. Enjoy extinction. </blockquote>
So, one true thing, many false things. One true thing: People need to have more kids in Western civilization. But many false things: Marriage is bad. Loyalty to your spouse is bad. Society can be built on men running around having sex with 30 women and having 30 kids per year, and this is the true measure of a man.
And young men think, “Wow, that sounds amazing,” because the male sex drive looks for various women. That is just the way that mammalian biology is built. Men seek to impregnate many females. So that sounds great to a bunch of young men. Or getting off on Tate&#8217;s webcam business. It sounds amazing to them.
That&#8217;s also not how societies are built. But again, the idea is — and this is how you know it’s a con — marriage is bad. He&#8217;s actually saying marriage is bad because if you&#8217;re a “person who has five kids, lol.”
I have four kids. I’ve been married for 15 years. If you have four kids, double the replacement rate, you are doing your societal job. But that can only exist and can only create functional children, children who are going to propagate good values, if there’s a father in the home.
Here&#8217;s the thing. If you impregnate many ladies and then you leave, you have created a generation of young men who are incapable of raising themselves. The effects of single motherhood in the United States are very well known: high levels of drug use, of crime, of poverty, of suicidal ideation. It creates actual pathologies. 
That is what Andrew Tate is promoting because he is a con artist, and he&#8217;s conning you into doing something. He is conning you into giving away the only pathway toward actual societal success and personal success in favor of his vision of a Genghis Khan-like spreading of his seed.
The reason this is important is because a lot of young men are falling into this sort of treachery.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gwen-stefani">Gwen Stefani</a> had something to say about the rumors that she and husband country singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/blake-shelton">Blake Shelton</a> were divorcing, calling them &#8220;just lies.&#8221;
The 54-year-old singer and mother of three told <a href="https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/gwen-stefani-no-doubt-coachella-cover">NYLON</a>.com that, despite old insecurities that creep up sometimes, she and Shelton are very much in love.
&#8220;I had been going through those times where you&#8217;re questioning: &#8216;Oh my gosh, am I just getting older? Am I cute,&#8221; Stefani said of her thoughts the day she wrote their latest duet &#8220;Purple Irises.&#8221;
&#8220;In my own relationship, even though I know the truth of what&#8217;s happening today, you still create drama in your own mind about your insecurities and what might happen,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I was in that phase of the relationship with Blake and getting paranoid.&#8221;
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— ExtraTV (@extratv) <a href="https://twitter.com/extratv/status/1777839445460631601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;The truth is I am in love with my best friend,&#8221; she added, despite those old fears. “And all this s*** I&#8217;m thinking of in my brain, that&#8217;s all it is- I&#8217;m overthinking.&#8221;
The &#8220;Holla Back&#8221; girl said she and the superstar country singer just ignore speculation in the media that there’s trouble in their romance.
&#8220;But when you&#8217;re in love and have truly aligned values, nobody can get to us,&#8221; Stefani said. &#8220;You can say whatever you want to say about our relationship—I mean, a week ago we were getting divorced again or something. It&#8217;s just lies. The truth is the truth, and we know what that is.&#8221;
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Last year, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blake-shelton-talks-about-his-decision-to-leave-the-voice">Shelton</a> gave a sweet speech gushing about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gwen-stefani-thought-life-was-over-before-blake-shelton-god-just-put-us-together">Stefani</a> at her Hollywood Walk of Fame honor, calling her an amazing mother and performer.
During the 47-year-old country <a href="https://twitter.com/etnow/status/1715086570527797250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">singer’s speech,</a> Shelton talked about the first time he met her in 2014 on the reality series &#8220;The Voice.&#8221; He said she had her arms full with a baby and two little boys as he praised her for being a &#8220;mother first and foremost.&#8221;
&#8220;That was her number one job,&#8221; Shelton said, as Stefani started getting emotional. &#8220;And now standing here almost 10 years later after I first met her, I can say without question, that being a mother is still the most important thing in her life.&#8221;
Shelton and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gwen-stefani-thought-life-was-over-before-blake-shelton-god-just-put-us-together">Stefani</a> met while working on the reality series. At the time, both were married to other people. The pair went through separate divorces and in 2015, and started dating.
In October 2020, they finally got engaged, and a year later they made their relationship official during at an intimate ceremony in July. Stefani shares three children with her ex-husband singer Gavin Rossdale.

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/swayze">Patrick Swayze</a>’s widow, Lisa, said some fans were angry with her for getting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marriage">remarried</a> years after her movie star husband passed away.
Lisa Niemi Swayze married the “Dirty Dancing” star in 1975 and remained with him until his death from pancreatic cancer in 2009. She then married Albert DePrisco in 2014, a move that she says was met with a lot of criticism from devoted Swayze fans.
&#8220;Yes, I got a lot of flack — it&#8217;s like, &#8216;How dare you.&#8217; There are some pretty rabid Patrick fans out there who think I&#8217;m evil, just don&#8217;t like me because I was married to him,&#8221; Lisa said during a Monday appearance on the “<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/forever-dirty-dancing-with-lisa-swayze/id1719095006?i=1000651733436">Amy and T.J. Podcast</a>.” 
She added, &#8220;So there was a lot of flack that came on that, a lot of criticism, and you just learn to deal with it and move on. But it&#8217;s like — I was so tempted so many times to say, &#8216;Hey girlfriend, stand in my shoes, tell me about it. Go ahead — tell me just because I lost my husband that I don&#8217;t love him anymore.'&#8221;
&#8220;How could you say that? Ridiculous,” Lisa said.
The couple met during their teenage years, per <a href="https://people.com/patrick-swayzes-wife-got-a-lot-of-flack-after-marrying-again-following-his-death-8628335">People</a>. Lisa was also an actress and continued working alongside her husband after they moved to New York City together. 
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Lisa described how even though her husband of more than three decades is gone, she still believes their love is alive. 
&#8220;Patrick is still with me. I still have a relationship with him; he&#8217;s physically not here, [but] every day he&#8217;s with me and I feel him there,&#8221; she said on the podcast. &#8220;What was really unusual was&#8230; I really fell in love with Albert, and it didn&#8217;t affect — it was interesting to see how it didn&#8217;t affect my love for Patrick one bit.&#8221;
&#8220;Just because you lose a loved one doesn&#8217;t mean you stop loving, and you don&#8217;t have that love to give,&#8221; Lisa said. &#8220;And I think Albert and I were fortunate to find someone to give that love to.&#8221;
She said her relationship with DePrisco, who is divorced, came down to good timing. 
&#8220;If we had met before then, it wouldn&#8217;t have happened, but after three years we were about ready,&#8221; Lisa said. &#8220;We were introduced by longtime friends that we had both known for 30 years who vouched for the other person.&#8221;

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Patrick Swayze’s Widow Says ‘Rabid’ Fans Think She’s ‘Evil’ For Remarrying After His Death

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Actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Sally Field</a> said she doesn’t think she’ll ever get <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marriage">married</a> again.
The 77-year-old two-time <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">Academy Award </a>winner discussed the topic on the season premiere of the “Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus” podcast, per <a href="https://people.com/sally-field-tells-julia-louis-dreyfus-she-can-t-imagine-getting-remarried-8620299">People</a>. 
“I was never really good at picking a partner for myself,” Field said of her history. When Louis-Dreyfus asked if Field had “any interest in getting married again in your life,” the “Mrs. Doubtfire” star laughed.
“I can’t imagine,” Field replied. “It would certainly all depend on meeting somebody I wanted to spend more than 37 seconds with. And I can&#8217;t imagine that either! So I don&#8217;t know.”
The actress was married to Steven Craig from 1968 until 1975, but the pair separated in 1973. They share two sons, Peter and Eli.
Field was in a relationship with actor Burt Reynolds from 1976 until 1980, but they never married. The couple starred in several films together during that time, including “Smokey and the Bandit,” “Smokey and the Bandit II,” “The End,” and “Hooper.” They dated on and off until 1982 before splitting permanently.
The Emmy Award winner married again in 1984, this time to Alan Greisman. They had a son, Sam, in 1987. Field and Greisman divorced in 1994.
Field said some of her past relationships had “red flag[s].” 
“Several people that I was dating, or around, would say, ‘Why can&#8217;t you treat me the way you treat your sons?’ ‘Uh, because you&#8217;re not my son!’” she said.
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“I&#8217;ve just never been good at picking a person, a partner, to be with who would be loving and know me and not want to change me and also be challenging to me,” Field explained.
Field also discussed how motherhood changed her perspective and encouraged her to focus on herself.
“Certainly as time went on, I was mothering myself,” the “Steel Magnolias” star said. “But I was so young. I was just 23 [becoming a mother].”
She said motherhood changed her outlook. Field said of having her son Paul, “There was something in me that felt so fiercely about him that I felt, ‘If I can take care of him, I can take care of myself. And g**dammit, I&#8217;m going to take care of him. I don&#8217;t care if I go down.’ So it started to connect with a fierceness in me that I didn&#8217;t recognize.”

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Sally Field Says She ‘Can’t Imagine’ Getting Married Again: ‘Never Been Good At Picking A Partner’

Sally Field Says She 'Can't Imagine' Getting Married Again: 'Never Been Good At Picking A Partner'

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breakups-are-never-easy-gisele-bundchen-reflects-on-tom-brady-divorce">Gisele Bündchen</a> finally responded to the rumors that she cheated on her ex-husband Tom Brady amid questions about the timeline of her romance with her jiu-jitsu trainer Joaquim Valente.
Speaking to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/style/gisele-bundchen-cookbook-diet-relationships.html">The New York Times</a>, the 43-year-old supermodel shut down speculation that she was unfaithful to the retired Super Bowl-winning QB before the couple announced their split in October 2022.
&#8220;That is a lie,&#8221; Bündchen told the outlet, &#8220;I really don&#8217;t want to make my life a tabloid. I don&#8217;t want to open myself up to all of that.&#8221;
&#8220;This is something that happens to a lot of women who get blamed when they have the courage to leave an unhealthy relationship and are labeled as being unfaithful,&#8221; she added. &#8220;They have to deal with their communities. They have to deal with their family. Of course for me, it just happens to be a little bit amplified.&#8221;
&#8220;No one really knows what happens between two people, only the two people in the relationship,&#8221; Bündchen continued.
In October 2022, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-brady-confirms-divorce-from-wife-gisele-bundchen-after-13-years-of-marriage">Brady</a> confirmed he and Bündchen were divorced after 13 years of marriage. That same day a court declared the couple&#8217;s marriage &#8220;irretrievably broken&#8221; and dissolved, <a href="https://people.com/gisele-buendchen-denies-cheating-on-tom-brady-speaks-about-new-romance-8619548">People magazine</a> noted.
Bündchen and Valente first began working together in December 2021, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/03/23/celebrity-news/gisele-bundchen-denies-cheating-on-tom-brady-following-speculation-about-joaquim-valente-romance/">Page Six</a> noted. Starting in 2022, the two were photographed out and about in Miami and Costa Rica, the outlet added. However, in March 2023, Bündchen shut down rumors they were ever anything more than friends, <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/03/gisele-bundchen-cover-story">Vanity Fair</a> noted.
&#8220;He&#8217;s our teacher and, most importantly, he&#8217;s a person that I admire and that I trust,&#8221; the supermodel said. &#8220;It&#8217;s so good to have that kind of energy, to have my kids around that type of energy.&#8221;
In June 2023, the two reportedly started dating, Page Six noted. And in February, a source told Page Six the couple are &#8220;deeply in love.&#8221;
Bündchen spoke to The Times and confirmed she and Valente are dating.
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After a very public divorce, a back injury and shoulder surgeries, Gisele Bündchen is reclaiming her strength. The supermodel opened up about life in Miami and her new cookbook, “Nourish.” <a href="https://t.co/hCGQkClw7o">https://t.co/hCGQkClw7o</a> <a href="https://t.co/1sGTUb5xhN">pic.twitter.com/1sGTUb5xhN</a>
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&#8220;It is the first time I am seeing someone that was a friend of mine first,&#8221; the model said. &#8220;It&#8217;s very different. It is very honest, and it&#8217;s very transparent.&#8221;
In February, a source close to Brady told the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13113881/Tom-Brady-Gisele-Bundchen-boyfriend-Joaquim.html">Daily Mail</a>, &#8220;If she [Bündchen] wants to have people think she has been dating Joaquim only since June, so be it, but they have been together longer and they aren&#8217;t taking it slow. Tom has accepted it.&#8221;
Brady himself a year earlier made a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-brady-posts-cryptic-quote-about-betrayal-after-gisele-bundchen-breaks-silence-on-their-divorce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cryptic post</a> on Instagram about the &#8220;betrayal of false friends,&#8221; which included three heart emojis, after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/giselle-bundchen">Bündchen</a> broke her silence on what led to their divorce.
In the March 2023 <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/03/gisele-bundchen-cover-story">Vanity Fair</a> article, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gisele-bundchen-breaks-silence-about-tom-brady-divorce-weighs-in-on-rumors">supermodel</a> responded to rumors that Brady&#8217;s refusal, at the time, to walk away from football had something to do with their split. Bündchen said that she and Brady ended their 13 years of marriage because &#8220;sometimes you grow together; sometimes you grow apart.&#8221;
Brady and Bündchen share two kids together.

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Gisele Bündchen Finally Responds To Rumors She Cheated On Tom Brady

Gisele  Bündchen Finally Responds To Rumors She Cheated On Tom Brady

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A couple years ago, I produced a few segments in which I answered viewers’ questions about dating. Rightly so; it’s a hot-button topic. I have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-do-you-know-theyre-the-one-candace-owens-answers-questions-on-dating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said it before</a> and I will say it again: Dating does not have to be as difficult as people make it out to be if you know what you are looking for in a significant other. So, I am revisiting some questions I have received over time to answer and give my thoughts.
<h4>Q: What are your thoughts on saving kissing for marriage?</h4>
My husband and I did not kiss until after we were engaged; however, that was mainly because of logistics and how quickly we got engaged. I don’t think kissing before marriage is a problem, and I don’t think it’s wrong to kiss someone before you get married. Ultimately, I would never expect someone to save kissing for marriage.
<h4>Q: What are your suggestions for a relationship in a rut with a lot of frustrations?</h4>
Some of the greatest words of wisdom I ever heard about being in a relationship was: When you’re dating someone, that is as good as it’s ever going to get. Many people believe if your relationship gets in a rut, marriage will be the solution to get out of that rut. They think <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-important-message-to-women-everywhere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">once you get married</a> and once you have children, the relationship will magically turn into “happily ever after.” (Women in particular hold this perspective, thinking that as soon as they get the ring, things will get better.) But that’s just not true. When you’re dating, you experience an emotional high, the relationship is fairly smooth, and you’re genuinely excited. If you start to see that taper off before you’re married, pay attention to those signs. You may not have found the person you’re meant to do life with.
<h4><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e9N_e6L7Xk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: Candace&#8217;s full segment on dating</a></h4>
<h4>Q: As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-vulnerability-that-will-plague-generation-tiktoks-future">a Gen Zer</a>, I wonder where I can find masculine men?</h4>
This problem is in large part due to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-a-story-all-about-how-the-fresh-prince-did-not-become-a-king" target="_blank" rel="noopener">culture telling men</a> to be more effeminate — and I’m sure that’s super frustrating. <a href="https://store.dailywire.com/products/make-men-manly-again-t-shirt?_pos=1&amp;_sid=4ee384564&amp;_ss=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(Make men manly again.)</a> But what you will find is that the more effeminate men live in city bubbles, but when you move into the rest of America, you will run into farmers, rangers, men who are working with their hands, and masculine men. Masculine men do exist.
<h4>Q: Do you keep in touch with or follow any exes?</h4>
Absolutely not. I am incredibly conservative when it comes to this issue. If you are in a relationship with another man, it’s super disrespectful — especially in a marriage — to maintain a relationship with a previous partner. I have never gone along with the “it used to be more but now we’re just friends” bit either. This is a definite no for me.
<h4>Q: I seem to be more mature than guys my age which makes it hard to date and find someone who will commit. Any tips?</h4>
This is fairly common. Men take a bit longer to mature than women, but, on average, they seem to mature somewhere in their mid-twenties. There are always exceptions, but as a general rule, younger men just tend to be a little more immature than younger women. There are likely some biological aspects to this because, for example, women likely mature quicker because we have to carry children on a biological clock’s dictations. But even little girls like playing with dolls while little boys like to rough house. Men do, however, eventually grow into being ready to commit and in a serious relationship.
<h4>Q: What is the best place to meet <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-new-years-resolutions-for-women-on-the-internet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quality women</a> who aren’t fickle?</h4>
This answer is short and simple: church.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/candace" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: Candace Owens</a></h4>
<h4>Q: I have been with the same man for eight years. I called off our engagement because he’s still not ready, but we can’t seem to leave each other. Advice?</h4>
Leave. I knew two girls who went through a similar situation (relationships of about ten years each), and they both ended poorly. These women gave these men their best years. Meanwhile, men tend to age like fine wine — plus, they don’t have to worry so much about their reproductive vitality. That’s not the case for women. So, if you are giving someone years to make a decision and his decision is still “I don’t want to make a decision,” you are, unfortunately, a placeholder. He will likely meet another girl, get engaged quickly, and you will be left wondering what happened to the last decade of your life. I feel so terrible for women who have gone through this. But in both cases with the two women I knew, they knew they should have left earlier, but they didn’t muster the strength to do it. Have the strength to do it. Leave. Don’t be someone else’s placeholder.
<h4>Q: There is a girl I like, but I’m nervous to ask her on a date. How should I ask?</h4>
Just ask her. The worst thing that can happen is that she says no. And while you’ll have a bruised ego for a couple of days, you will have done something manly in the long run. Girls are missing men asking them on dates — men who hold doors and have the confidence to ask women on dates rather than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-everyone-hates-online-dating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hiding behind apps</a> of Instagram DMs. Ask her to grab lunch or see a movie. If she says no, you’ll move on and find someone else to ask out.
<h4>Q: What is a good at-home date night idea?</h4>
I think cooking together is fun. My husband is also a good cook, so we enjoy doing that together. We also love to watch shows together. Granted, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kids-entertainment-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we have children</a> so we stay in more these days, but we love a good at-home dinner-date night.

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A Q&A On Dating: Stop Making It So Difficult

Candace Owens

Dating

Gen Z

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You know, some people say that Americans are politically divided. And sure, that’s true in some ways, like the fact that we’re on the brink of civil war. But that doesn’t mean we can’t all get along. Because in fact, when it comes to the far-Left and the far-Right, they really have a lot in common.
Now of course the far-Left and the far-Right are in different situations. The far-Left owns the presidency, the senate, the deep state, the news media, Hollywood, and academia or as they call themselves, “the resistance,” so they’re trying to figure out whether to destroy the country by polluting the minds of children with sexual deviance, or by printing so much worthless money it&#8217;s cheaper to start World War III than to buy a loaf of bread.
The far-Right owns the comment section at InfoWars and some really cool Star Trek memorabilia, so they’re trying to figure out how much Fortnite they can charge to their mother’s credit card before she catches on.
But once you get past these superficial differences, the two sides are so similar they really should be the best of friends. For instance, they both hate Jews. The far-Left hates Jews because Jews won’t allow their race to be exterminated in order to put an end to genocide. Also, Jews have been oppressed by racism more than any other people yet they use education and intact families to thrive without government assistance which would be disastrous for the Left if blacks ever caught on.
The far-Right hates Jews because they have big noses and rub their hands together while chuckling in a sinister manner before unleashing their space lasers on Hollywood, plus they’ve enlisted hundreds of eminent historians to perpetuate the myth of the Holocaust with photographs and documentation, whereas you only have to read one article by a hate-filled lunatic to realize the whole thing was faked. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it, because you’ve only read one article.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1171-fantasy-land-is-burning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Andrew Klavan Show</a></h4>
The far-Left and the far-Right both hate marriage. The far-Left hates marriage because it leads to happy independent families who don’t need the government to build well-run lives that uplift the financial and moral standards of everyone around them thus foiling the Left’s brilliant plans to build a state-run paradise of perversion, crime and despair.
The far-Right hates marriage because it’s for simps who get lured into becoming simp husbands and simp fathers by conniving women with their sneakily alluring bodies who then suddenly divorce the simps just because they caught them having computer sex with a 13-year-old Korean prostitute who was actually a 45-year-old fat man manipulating a deep fake video, and then the divorce laws destroy the simp man’s life because we’re living in a matriarchy, which is also a 45-year-old fat man manipulating an AI video, so if simps avoid marriage they can become alpha men, or lonely schmucks.
The far-Left and the far-Right both hate democracy. The far-Left hates democracy because at any moment some guy who doesn’t even live in New York City can express any opinion he wants and then vote for someone who’ll destroy democracy, which Left-wingers love as long as it’s not the democracy with voting in it because Left-wingers hate that democracy which threatens to destroy their democracy which is the one where everyone who disagrees with them goes to jail.
The far-Right hates democracy because they want a powerful strong man to put all the Communists and homosexuals in prison while Zionist NGOs cry boo hoo hoo just because a few rights have been violated because the Zionist NGOs are also simps who don’t like powerful strong men with their bulging muscles and sweaty smell which the far-Right loves because they’re alpha men and there’s nothing alpha men love more than being dominated by powerful sweaty strong men who hate homosexuals.
And more than Jews, marriage and democracy, the far-Left and the far-Right hate each other. Because whenever they look at each other it’s like looking in a mirror. And looking in the mirror is what the far-Left and the far-Right hate more than anything else.
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Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1171-fantasy-land-is-burning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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It Turns Out The Far-Left And The Far-Right Really Have A Lot In Common

Andrew Klavan

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In his tear-filled <a href="https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/jason-kelce-retirement-speech-transcript" target="_blank" rel="noopener">farewell speech</a>, Jason Kelce brought his 13-year NFL career <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greatest-gift-jason-kelce-celebrates-being-a-father-in-retirement-announcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to a close</a> by underlining what really mattered in life: marriage and family. The longtime Philadelphia Eagles player, who made the NFL Pro Bowl in each of the last five seasons after getting married to his wife, Kylie, in 2018, said in his retirement speech: 
<blockquote>It’s no coincidence I have enjoyed my best years with Kylie by my side. She has brought the best out of me through love, devotion, support, honesty, intelligence, and a swift kick in the ass — from time to time. She has also given me three beautiful girls and a life that increasingly brings me more fulfillment off the field than it does on.</blockquote>
He went on to say that he has seen his job as a father as of paramount importance:
<blockquote>I think one of the best things a person can be in this world is a father. A father who is present, devoted, and loving is the greatest gift a child could ask for in our society.</blockquote>
In the emotional retirement speech, Kelce acknowledged that the family he built was one of the most important things in his life. Kylie Kelce was his saving grace. Being a father brought renewed purpose to Kelce’s life. Kelce learned from his two married parents. 
 
Today, our culture tells us two myths. The first myth is that the path to happiness runs away from family, rather than towards it. Controversial cultural figures, like Andrew Tate or Pearl Davis, view marriage as a bad deal for men and are broadly skeptical of, in their eyes, selfish women. In a <a href="https://twitter.com/pearlythingz/status/1716646554801426626" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent post</a> on X, Davis said, “I am anti-marriage as it is today. I think it’s silly to think marriage is a good deal for most men today.” Tate agrees, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0X9YoorKh0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> “I don’t think many men actually benefit from marriages or relationships anymore.”
The second myth is that father-present homes are of no great importance to our kids. Harvard University’s Christina Cross in The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/opinion/two-parent-family.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argues</a> that “&#8230;living apart from a biological parent does not carry the same cost for black youths as for their white peers.” Pamela Braboy Jackson in The Atlantic <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/09/how-build-three-parent-family-david-jay/616421/">contends</a> that “it’s the quality of the relationship that matters, and the handling of communication and conflict, and the number of people in the household is not really the key” for children.
Jason Kelce readily dispatched both of these myths in his retirement speech, and he’s right. 
 
The data tell us that no group of men are happier than married fathers. Based on data from the 2022 General Social Survey, 35% of prime-aged, married men with children report being “very happy.” Barely 14% of prime-aged, unmarried men without children could report the same. The happiness premium for married fathers is significant and worth promoting. Luckily, Kelce did just that in his retirement speech.
<div id="attachment_707043" style="width: 335px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-707043" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-707043 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/image002.png" alt="General Social Survey, 2022. Institute for Family Studies. Men's Happiness by Marital Status and Children, Ages 18-15. https://ifstudies.org/blog/who-is-happiest-married-mothers-and-fathers-per-the-latest-general-social-survey#:~:text=Indeed%2C%20the%202022%20General%20Social,who%20do%20not%20have%20children." width="325" height="198" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/image002.png 325w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/image002-300x183.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px" />Institute for Family Studies. General Social Survey, 2022.</div>
The data from my new book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/get-married-brad-wilcox?variant=41546330636322">Get Married</a>,&#8221; also shows that children who grow up in intact families are much more likely to graduate from college and steer clear of trouble. In fact, 38% of young men from intact families graduate from college compared to 15% of their peers in households headed by a single mother. A greater share of women in intact families (49%) graduate from college, compared to 24% of women from households headed by a single mother. The data are clear: children raised in intact families have a far greater likelihood of graduating from college.
<div id="attachment_707047" style="width: 353px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-707047" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-707047 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/image003.png" alt="Source: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. Prison or College Graduation for Young Men and Woman, by Family Structure." width="343" height="271" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/image003.png 343w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/image003-300x237.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px" />Source: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997.</div>
Jason Kelce’s story dovetails perfectly with the data. He is a happily married father in his prime, albeit out of his sporting prime, raising his daughters in a stable two-parent home – exemplifying the benefits of marriage and family. In other words, a good family man.
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Brad Wilcox is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, author of &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Get-Married-Americans-Families-Civilization/dp/0063210851/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3SPI0PRSVLJYF&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.sIBLtVf9xLb7r8TITnP4vQXSThzFuVWwjNtyFI89s-ua-IcoR2v_4RB-hohzoVBZ3AtqZahRyDxRCclII6iP2J2e82102xQbp5X_FzWDaVD8QpPuOHJknS6-IuyGHbmhfoq8zNoxb3NJ93bBrHjhhICtRhdc7kNUa2IbD2yIgENdluYn9YpwGV0edbpvyDX6VNsrZ6Adup6jxTQ1pa7yvKXV_2Hv-WVtWwfSSPrfpSU.9LvfWxUMAu91Nyn2eqUxyD0hcVrgUFogTMcZWDuenB4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=brad+wilcox+get+married&amp;qid=1709585997&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C59&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization</a>.&#8221; Follow him: @BradWilcoxIFS
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Jason Kelce Announces Retirement from the NFL

Jason Kelce, Family Man

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This is a portion of a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pdm3riVNJ4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> delivered by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> at CPAC on Thursday, February 22, 2024.
The decline of religion in America has eroded our identity at every level — from national politics all the way down to the basic unit of society: the family. Marriage, after all, is nothing other than a symbol of God’s love for his people. It’s no wonder, then, that many people today don’t even know what marriage is. Many people today seem to think that marriage can be whatever we want it to be. 
They sound like Humpty Dumpty, who tells Alice in Wonderland that when he uses a word “it means just what” he chooses “it to mean — neither more nor less.” When Alice asks Humpty Dumpty “whether one can” really “make words mean so many different things,” Humpty Dumpty responds, “The question is which is to be master — that’s all.”
We’re living through the looking glass and that is precisely the way the liberals think. They really believe that they are masters of the universe. They think they’re gods, who can create the world anew through the power of their words. But they aren’t and they can’t. They can’t really turn men into women. They can’t really turn a couple of men, or a couple of women — or three men and a billy goat, for that matter — into a marriage.
That’s just not what marriage is. No disrespect intended to anyone. Some people don’t want to get married. Okay, there’s no obligation. Marriage is not for everyone. But marriage has a meaning. Marriage is and always has been the union of a man and a woman ordered toward the procreation and education of children. If you don’t like that, don’t blame me. I didn’t make the rules. It wasn’t the mean old conservatives who invented marriage. Marriage is a natural institution. It just is what it is.
The Left will slander us as “hateful” for observing this fact. But there’s nothing hateful about it. There’s nothing hateful about reality. Quite the opposite, the truth sets us free. I’ll tell you what’s hateful. What’s hateful is to live — and to force others to live — according to lies. Liberals can rewrite the definition of any word they please, but they can’t make men give birth, they can’t make women conceive children on their own, and they can’t ultimately change reality.
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So they tell more lies. They claim today that individuals have a “right” to a child. But of course no one can ever have the “right” to a child because children are people. And no one has the “right” to another person — because those people have rights themselves.
In our national identity crisis, we no longer recognize those rights. We no longer recognize people. Increasingly, we treat people as objects. We treat children as commodities to be bought and sold — designer babies to be purchased on the open market of the surrogacy industry so that adults can live out their fantasies. But those fantasies come at a cost — they come at the cost of creating children intentionally to deprive them of their natural mothers and fathers.
Absolutely ghastly but not surprising. We’re talking about people who claim the right to kill babies when the babies are inconvenient. If we have the right to kill babies, surely we have the right to buy and sell them too. If we have the right to give and take innocent human life, then we have the right to do anything — we’re as free as God himself.
But we aren’t God and increasingly we aren’t free. We’re less free today than we’ve ever been in this country. Because there’s no such thing as freedom without limits. Everything in this life comes with a tradeoff. It comes at a cost. People gain the “freedom” to get rid of babies they don’t want; the cost is that babies lose the freedom to live. Men gain the freedom to use the women’s bathroom; women lose the freedom to have their own bathrooms. Foreigners gain the freedom to enter our country as they please; Americans lose the freedom to make our own laws. Drug addicts gain the “freedom” to shoot fentanyl on the sidewalk; citizens lose the “freedom” to walk their sidewalks in safety and peace.
The “freedom” liberals offer is the dubious freedom of the drug addict. It’s the “freedom” to follow our lowest appetites, to deny our reason, and ultimately to destroy ourselves. It’s the “freedom” of Satan in “Paradise Lost” to make “a Hell of Heaven” and “a Heaven of Hell.” It’s the “freedom” of abject slavery, and it has made a hell of our country everywhere it’s taken hold.
The “freedom” the liberals promise is liberation from all limits: liberation from borders, from laws, standards, norms, family — even from biology. It’s a false freedom — a siren song. To liberate a nation from its borders is to erase the nation. To liberate a people from its family and its laws and customs is to erase the people. To liberate a man from his body is to kill the man.
True freedom is not the license to languish alone in ever-stranger fantasies but rather the right to flourish — all of us together — in reality. True freedom, to borrow another <a href="https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/time-choosing-speech-october-27-1964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">phrase</a> from Ronald Reagan, is a “national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.” How do we know what’s morally right? Because we have brains — even the liberals. They don’t always use them. But they have them. (Most of them do. I think.)
We have reason, and we have moral conscience. We know the difference between truth and falsehood, right and wrong. We know the difference between a man and a woman. We know the difference between an American and everyone else. Our problem is not so much one of confusion as cowardice. If we lose our identity, the fault will lie with our refusal to acknowledge our convictions and act on them.
Governor Bradford and <a href="https://pilgrimhall.org/william_bradford.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the earliest</a> Americans faced a similar crisis of identity. So they left a world of charming comforts and false freedom because, “they knew they were pilgrims, and looked not much on those things, but lifted up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country, and quieted their spirits.”
Our forebears knew who they were. The moment we once again follow in their footsteps is the moment we will remember who we are too.

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Daily Wire host Michael Knowles&#8217; speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has outraged the Left for the second consecutive year — this time for his remarks on marriage.
Knowles took the CPAC stage on Thursday, where he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-takes-stage-at-cpac-says-democrat-led-invasion-of-southern-border-worsened-americas-identity-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave a speech</a> focusing on America&#8217;s &#8220;identity crisis&#8221; and illegal immigration, among other topics. The speech came a year after his remarks at CPAC <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-knew-the-libs-were-going-to-run-with-it-knowles-says-call-to-eradicate-transgender-ideology-cornered-left-wing-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">triggered backlash</a> from leftists when the Daily Wire host said that “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life.” Some media outlets falsely reported that Knowles called for the eradication of trans-identifying people when the host had instead <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-to-eradicate-transgenderism-from-public-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focused his speech</a> on ridding society of trans ideology.
During his speech this year, Knowles touched on another social issue and once again sparked the leftists&#8217; rage.
&#8220;They can&#8217;t really turn a couple of men or a couple of women, or three men and a billy goat for that matter, into a marriage,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;That&#8217;s just not what marriage is. No disrespect is intended to anyone. Some people don&#8217;t want to get married — okay, there&#8217;s no obligation, but marriage has a meaning.&#8221;
&#8220;Marriage is and always has been the union of a man and a woman, ordered toward the procreation and education of children&#8221; Knowles continued. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t like that, don&#8217;t blame me. I didn&#8217;t set the rules. It wasn&#8217;t the mean old conservatives who did this; we did not invent marriage. Marriage is a natural institution.&#8221;
&#8220;The Left will slander us as hateful for observing this fact,&#8221; Knowles added.
Shortly after Knowles made the comments on marriage, President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign team posted on X: &#8220;Top Trump advocate at CPAC echos MAGA’s Project 2025 plan to go after marriage equality during a second Trump term: Marriage is a man and a woman.&#8221;
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Top Trump advocate at CPAC echos MAGA’s Project 2025 plan to go after marriage equality during a second Trump term: Marriage is a man and a woman <a href="https://t.co/uEn3uBnGjE">pic.twitter.com/uEn3uBnGjE</a>
&mdash; Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1760804455283298476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) also <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1760881126371995732" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the Daily Wire host&#8217;s remarks, writing, &#8220;The <a class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/GOP">@GOP</a> are telling us who they are. We should listen.&#8221;
Knowles responded to the Biden campaign on X, pointing out that then-Sen. Biden said in 2006 that &#8220;marriage is between a man and a woman.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m just paraphrasing you, Mr. President!&#8221; Knowles wrote.
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I’m just paraphrasing you, Mr. President!
“Marriage is between a man and a woman.” —<a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> <a href="https://t.co/xw4iqCPa1L">https://t.co/xw4iqCPa1L</a> <a href="https://t.co/u7fzToT5Qg">pic.twitter.com/u7fzToT5Qg</a>
&mdash; Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1760822588714946681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Knowles also <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1760888599271047286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot back</a> at Newsom.
&#8220;The GOP is telling you that we believe what the Democrats and everyone else for all of history believed until ~2015. You should, in fact, listen!&#8221; he said.
Biden&#8217;s view on marriage appeared to change drastically following the Supreme Court&#8217;s Obergefell v. Hodges decision in 2015, which ruled that a union of same-sex couples is protected as a marriage under the Constitution. While running for the White House on the ticket with Barack Obama in 2008, Biden <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/elections/2008/president/debates/transcripts/vice-presidential-debate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a debate against Sarah Palin that he didn&#8217;t support gay marriage.
&#8220;Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage,&#8221; Biden stated.
By December of 2022, Biden had completely flipped on the issue. Before signing the &#8220;Respect for Marriage&#8221; Act, which requires the federal government and all 50 states to recognize a same-sex union as a marriage, the president <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/12/13/remarks-by-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-at-signing-of-h-r-8404-the-respect-for-marriage-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Deciding whether to marry, who to marry is one of the most profound decisions a person can make,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Marriage — I mean this with all my heart — marriage is a simple proposition: Who do you love, and will you be loyal with that person you love?  It’s not more complicated than that.&#8221;

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