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Two months ago I watched an interview with Tucker Carlson and Javier Milei, who was at the time the candidate for the presidential election in Argentina. He came out of nowhere and possibly some of the reason why he became so popular, especially with the youth, is because he was a former soccer player and then a rock band player as well as an economist and a libertarian. But the reason why I wanted to show this video is because he has some interesting comments on his co-national Jorge Bergoglio, or Pope Francis. So I want you to take a listen and I'll get back with you with a few comments. I would think you're a Catholic, you said. You're just defending really the Catholic life principle. The Pope, the current Pope, is from Argentina. I would think he would support you. He has instead criticized you and you've called him a communist. Why the disconnect? Wait, I'm sorry, Raul Castro is a murderer. But the Pope, you believe the Pope has an affinity for Raul Castro? And he's also a descendant of the Venezuelan dictatorship. That is, he is a descendant of all the leftists, even when they are true criminals, which is a problem. But he is also someone who considers social justice a central element of his vision. And that is very complicated, because social justice, which is to steal the fruit of one person's work and give it to another. So it implies two things. One is a theft. And the problem is that theft is against what the Ten Commandments point out. That is, to endorse social justice is to endorse theft. Therefore, it is a problem that is violating the Ten Commandments. The other problem is that it is an unequal treatment of the law. And I don't think it's fair, let's say, for some to be rewarded and others to be punished from a position of power like that of the state, which has the monopoly of violence. You oppose abortion. Why? Well, because as a liberal, that is, a libertarian liberal, of course, because in English liberal is different. So I'm going to say it as a libertarian. We believe that liberalism is the unrestricted respect of the project of life of the neighbor, based on the principle of non-aggression and in defense of the right to life, freedom, and property. Therefore, adhering to the ideas of freedom, basically, one of the fundamental ideas is to defend the right to life. That is, philosophically, I am in favor of respecting the right to life. Then there is a justification from the point of view of natural sciences, let's say, which is the fact that life begins at the time of fertilization, and at that very moment a new being is generated in evolution, with a different DNA. That is, it is true that the woman has rights over her body, but that child inside the womb is not her body. That is, the child is not her body. Therefore, abortion is a murder aggravated by the bond and by the differential of forces, since it has no way of defending itself. And not only that, but there is also a question of mathematical nature. Life is a continuum with two discrete jumps, which are birth and death. And any interruption in the middle is a murder. How do certain human beings believe they are in a situation of deciding who lives and who does not? That is, it is like a maximum expression of fatal arrogance, where how a human being is going to determine who lives and who does not? That is what I want to make clear. Socialists have their hands stained with blood. All the time they have their hands stained with blood. Are you arguing that socialists commit bloodshed because they believe they are God? Because they believe they are God. That is, they are heretics. That is why Hayek, in his last book, called this fatal arrogance. That is, because to coordinate all these types of actions, the amount of knowledge that must be had, and that is linked to another article by Hayek called The Use of Knowledge in Society, where he gives a more scientific and profound form of the idea of the invisible hand, by Adam Smith. What he says is that in order to apply socialism, it is necessary that the people who do it must be omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. That is, they believe they are God. And I'm going to tell you something. They are not God. And I'm going to tell you something worse. They are so miserable and so traitorous, the politicians, and especially those on the left, who are also below the average people. Because only, who is going to pretend to be equal to the average? Only the one who is below. Therefore, it is the agenda of the envious. Envy is a capital sin. Nothing good can come out of that. Nothing good can come out of murder. Nothing can come out of theft. So, going back to Pope Francis, why does he defend an agenda that defends murder, theft, envy? It's strange, isn't it? That is to say, why does he? What's the answer? I think he should give it to him. That is to say, because in light of the debate, in light of empirical evidence, he is the one who has to give explanations as to why he defends an economic organization that leads to poverty, misery, violence, decadence, and that, if they were left alone, they would destroy the world. It would be an explanation. Let him explain it. I am not a socialist. I am a liberal libertarian. Well, I realize that there are many people praying for me. I am very happy to see many people who, for example, go to the Kotel, that is, to the Wall of Sorrows in Israel, and leave petitions for me. So, I feel good. I mean, but apart from that, I am convinced of what I am doing, so let's say, life without freedom does not deserve to be lived. That is to say, at some point they asked me if I would be willing to give my life for the freedom of the city, and I am willing to give it. So, a very interesting point of view on his part, and this is coming in in the shadow of the Pope firing Bishop Strickland about two weeks ago, and then last week removing the salary and the Vatican apartment from Cardinal Burke, also another conservative, that is speaking not much against the Pope, but much against the policy that seems to be becoming more and more secular instead of being directed by the Holy Spirit. On the Italian video, I actually cover baptism, because now transgender as well as gay can act as godparents to a baby at baptism, so that seems to be going against scripture as well. So, I am wondering what is going on, and Millais is covering anything from women's rights to social justice to climate change to economics, doing business with communism, actually not doing business with communists, and so on. Guys, have a great weekend. I'll catch you next week. Ciao.