Ep 795 ｜ Why Children Don't Belong to the 'Village'
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have announced their re-election campaign. Also, Tucker Carlson has been fired from Fox News, and we talk about why it's a good idea to talk about fear mongering when it comes to politics.
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Well, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have announced their re-election
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campaign. Wow, wow, wow. And to kick it off, Joe Biden said yesterday that our children aren't
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actually our children. They belong to the nation. Also, an interesting development, according to
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Vanity Fair, about Tucker Carlson's ousting at Fox News. Before we get into all that, let me
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Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone's having a wonderful week.
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Halfway there. All right. First, we are going to talk about President Joe Biden announcing his re-election.
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Very, very exciting times. He's done such a good job so far. I feel that the country is in an
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incredible place. I've always wondered what it would be like to pay more for eggs than I can
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actually afford. I've always enjoyed things like inflation and just feeling generally unsafe when
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I go into a city. And now I get to experience that in real life. So thank you, Joe Biden, for everything
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that you've done for this country. I have always wondered what it would be like to have a president
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that sends much needed funds to Ukraine rather than using them here or who doesn't secure the
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border. And now I get to know. I've always wondered. And now Joe Biden has allowed my dreams to come
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true. So I am so excited that he and Kamala Harris, a brilliant rhetorical master of our age, just like a
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true sage. I'm just so glad that they are on the Democratic ticket for 2024. So here is part of
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Biden's re-election announcement video that he posted to Twitter this week.
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But, you know, around the country, maggot extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms,
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cutting Social Security that you paid for your entire life while cutting taxes for the very wealthy,
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dictating what health care decisions women can make, banning books, and telling people who they
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can love. All while making it more difficult for you to be able to vote. This is not a time to be
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I know we're good and decent people. I know we're still a country that believes in honesty and
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All right. So I'll say my honest feedback about it. The positive part is that it's a very well-made
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video. If it looked like it didn't flow together very well when you were listening or watching this,
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that's because we cut it up a little bit. We didn't want to play the whole thing, which I think is like
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two minutes or over. So it's very well-made, which is not surprising. I could see how it's
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compelling, especially to the average Democrat voter who just isn't really paying attention to
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his policies. I'm sorry, but I know some of these people who love Joe Biden, who say that they love
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what his administration is up to, who think that the state of the country is better than it was under
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Trump, and they live in a complete and total bubble. If you actually asked them to provide some
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concrete examples of things that President Biden has done that has benefited the country,
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has brought us together, has unified us in any way, or that has even just bettered their own lives,
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they couldn't tell you. They might repeat some talking points about Ukraine and democracy and
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empathy and compassion, but they couldn't actually tell you anything that he has done that is good for
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the country because they just don't know. It's just a bunch of fear mongering. Now, both sides do fear
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mongering. Both sides do fear mongering, certainly. And sometimes you do need to elicit fear when you're
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talking about the threat that a particular candidate or particular policy poses. Sure. But here in this
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video, and you can go watch the whole thing to fact check me on this, I didn't see a whole lot of
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positivity coming from Biden and saying, here's what we have accomplished and here's what we are
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going to accomplish. And again, when you're on the progressive side, you really don't have to. You
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kind of just have to give out general vibes. You just have to say things like equality, say things like
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progress, say things like freedom, say things like future. And you have to show some BIPOC trans people
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and put some sentimental music behind it and some cursive writing and some sepia filters. And then
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you've got yourself an effective and compelling campaign video that a lot of people, despite where Joe
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Biden has put us after this, how many years has it been? Three years, almost, I guess two, two and some
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change years that he's been president. Despite where we are now, economically, socially, despite
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the radical agenda that he has pushed on abortion, on gender ideology, the foreign policy that has just
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gotten us into mess after mess, whether you're talking about Ukraine and Russia or you're talking
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about Afghanistan, there will be people that will look past all of those things. There will be
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Christians. There will be people who were the evangelicals for Biden, who will watch this
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video, will be moved to tears and say, yes, this is the guy that I'm voting for in 24. They will have
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learned nothing. They won't look at the tangible consequences of his policies. They won't even
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consider how the things that he has pushed for actually align with what they believe to be good and
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right and true. They won't feel the effects of the liberal border policy, the dereliction of duty
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that he has represented there. They're not going to consider how the radical transformation of the
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definitions of sex and gender, male and female, affect them, affect women's sports, affect women's
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prisons, affect women's abuse shelters, affect their girls' safety and privacy. They won't even consider the
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evil that is supporting the idea that taxpayer dollars should fund abortions, the slaughter of children. That's
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something that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris support. They will just say, this feels good. This feels
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right. He feels harmless. He seems empathetic. They'll forget that Biden's DOJ has been weaponized
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politically against his political ideological opponents that basically sicked its own agents
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on parents whom they apparently consider domestic terrorists for showing up at school board meetings
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and actually caring about pornography being shown in schools. And you'll notice that he said something
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there. He said, oh, Republicans are banning books. And we never got into that whole Florida story
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that you saw some so-called unbiased influencers on Instagram talking about how Florida is banning books,
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how it's fascistic, how it's Nazi-like, how it's so terrible that there are restrictions being placed on
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what kinds of books can show up in schools and can show up in libraries. Look, there have always been
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regulations and restrictions around what books can be included in libraries, especially children's
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libraries and school libraries. You can't just have any book that's included. And so Republicans and
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Democrats are basically fighting over what those standards should be. Republicans rightly say,
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look, I don't think that we should have books that introduce sexually explicit images or topics
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to children. I don't think those should be included in the libraries. I don't think that that should be
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on the list of suggested reads. I don't think that should be presented in curriculum by teachers to
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kids. I don't think that kids should be learning about being able to mutilate their bodies
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and switch their genders. That's totally legitimate. There has always been a restriction,
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always been parameters around what books are appropriate for children, what books should be
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included in curriculum and libraries and things like that. But that's called book banning. That's
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called fascism by people who want to believe that there's no such thing as pornography in schools,
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which we've seen time after time there is. We've seen instance after instance of this,
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of parents going to these school board meetings, presenting the pornographic material that their
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children are reading in these readily available books in schools and the school board, shutting
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them down, saying that book is too, that content is too inappropriate for this school board meeting.
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And the parent, of course, then makes their point that, yes, I agree. And it is also too inappropriate
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for a school. Don't be fooled. I know the people listening to this podcast aren't fooled
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by this rhetoric by Joe Biden that he employed in the last election, too. You also hear Democrats
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like Gavin Newsom employing this kind of rhetoric, freedom, pretending that they are on the side of
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freedom. I actually saw Corinne Jean-Pierre, the press secretary. I mean, the fact that she had the
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audacity to say this, she said the other day from the podium that it's Republicans who are trying to
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defund border patrol and allow fentanyl to come into our country and addict our people and kill
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our people. That is actually Republicans who are trying to defund law enforcement and try to make
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our streets less safe. And so this is what you actually see both sides doing this right now.
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They're gunning for the middle. And so you'll see Joe Biden and Kamala Harris use this kind of
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language, this kind of freedom language, this kind of let's come together. Let's look toward
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the future. Let's make sure that liberty is secure. That kind of language, which is not to appeal to his
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leftist base, which is really his base. And that is the left wing of the Democratic Party. The far left
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is what directs his actual governance, his actual policymaking. But it's the moderate part of the
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Democratic Party and the independents that direct his campaign. That may also be true for some
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Republicans, although it's less true. I think when Republicans get in office, they still feel that
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they are beholden to the moderates much more than they are beholden to the actual conservatives.
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But you even saw with Nikki Haley yesterday, she gave a speech for the Susan B. Anthony pro-life
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organization in which she was gunning for the middle. She was gunning for independence. And she tried to play
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this, which, look, it's difficult to do. You're campaigning, you're campaigning to win. And so you
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have to be careful in your rhetoric. Now, this is not the strategy that I would take, but that's because
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I just wouldn't care. I would just want to say whatever I believed. But she tried to strike a
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balance between, look, I have a pro-life record. I was a pro-life governor of South Carolina. I have
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supported all pro-life legislation. The federal government has a place when it comes to abortion.
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But, but, and then she kind of gave her caveats that a lot of the Republican legislation that we're
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seeing in the way of protecting babies is not going to pass on a federal level. We're just way too far
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away for that to ever happen. She also said that we really need to make sure that contraception is more
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readily available. We need to make sure that we're helping women. And so she tried to kind of hedge.
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She tried to kind of make sure that nothing that she said was taken out of context or used against
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her in order to paint her as some kind of anti-abortion extremist. But here's what happened.
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Here's, here's what happened yesterday. The Washington Post, the New York Times, every left-wing
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rag out there, all of their headlines were about how Nikki Haley is lying about being a moderate on
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abortion. She's trying to appeal to independence, but it's just not true. She's an anti-abortion
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extremist. So this is what I think that a lot of conservatives and Republicans just don't
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understand. Look, they're going to call you an extremist anyway. They're going to lie about you
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anyway. They're not going to allow you to paint yourself as a moderate and get away with it. So you
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might as well just appeal to your base. You might as well just say what is true. You might as well
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just be strong and clear. Look, you're not going to get a glowing review in the Washington Post
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by pretending to be a moderate or saying you are a moderate or an independent or whatever,
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trying to strike a balance when it comes to abortion policy. I would, I personally would
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rather candidate just be crystal clear, especially when it comes to the primary. I mean, that's what
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you're running for right now. You're running for that, for that candidacy. You're running to be
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the nominee. And so right now I need, I need Republican candidates to appeal to me. I need
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them to say there is never a reason to kill an innocent human being. And of course that extends
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to babies inside the womb. End of story. And like, I would want someone to hear, look, if the government
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has any job at all, it is to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And without the right
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to life, there is no liberty or pursuit of happiness. And so of course the federal government
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has a role to play. Maybe you don't have to get into specifics right now, but that's what I want
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to hear from a candidate. But as I said, you see both sides, you see Biden, you see Nikki Haley,
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you see Donald Trump gunning for the independence, gunning for the middle. Donald Trump recently said
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that he doesn't believe that the federal government has a role to play when it comes to abortion
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regulation. Why not? I mean, that's, you're just conceding to the leftist side of things in which
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you believe that babies are a different class of human beings that don't have the same right to life
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as people outside of the womb. Because obviously we understand that murder against another person,
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like the government has something to say about that, right? The government has something to say,
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the federal government has something to say about murder, right? So why is abortion different? So
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you see this on both sides. It'll be interesting to see what Governor DeSantis does and any of the
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other candidates, how they deal with this issue of abortion.
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Now, Joe Biden, in that video, didn't he really wasn't very moderate on that. He said Republicans are
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violating a woman's right to choose. That's how they're one way that they're infringing upon freedom.
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So, like, he understands, and this is true, that the majority of the country believes in abortion,
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believes in the legality of abortion through some stage of pregnancy. And so he doesn't have to really
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tiptoe around that as much as Republicans do. But, like, my advice, which take it or leave it, take it with
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a grain of salt. I've never run a campaign. I've never won an election. I've never run for office. So I could
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be wrong. But I'm just thinking for the Republican primary, just be strong. Just be strong and be
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clear, especially when it comes to abortion, when it comes to gender. Don't try to nuance it to the
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point where you're not even saying anything real anymore. Like, you got to get Republican votes
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first before you can even look at that independent, though, right? And so but don't don't be fooled,
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though. Don't be fooled by President Biden trying to cast himself as a moderate. He has proven
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over and over again that he is not a moderate. Kamala Harris is not a moderate. She was the
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most pro-abortion senator in the Senate when she was there. She was virulently pro-abortion when she
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was Attorney General of California. They have a radical record between the two of them. Not to
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mention that neither of them can talk. Like, literally, neither of them can form coherent sentences.
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It's like, shouldn't we have a standard for IQ when it comes to the president?
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Now, Donald Trump definitely had his eccentricities, but he's always spoken that way.
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Joe Biden, I'm sorry, but if you watch that, he looks he looks decrepit. All right. Like,
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it's already been cruel and sad enough to watch him try to, like, waddle his way through this
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presidency. And we've all already been wondering, how is Jill allowing this? Now,
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we're supposed to believe that he's going to be able to survive until 2028? Dude,
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honestly, like, he should probably be in assisted living. I'm not trying to be rude. I'm being
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serious. He can't form words. Now, Kamala Harris doesn't have the excuse of age.
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She did release a statement, which I'm guessing she did not write herself. But she said,
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for two years, we have made transformational investments. That's true. There has been
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transformational change in America, I would say, for the worse. To build a nation in which everyone
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can be safe and healthy. Wrong. Wrong. I mean, we know so much about the vaccine now. Remember when
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this administration forced companies to force their employees to get this vaccine, which we
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now know doesn't actually stop the spread of COVID and does have, for a lot of people, serious side
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effects and ramifications. We're not safe. Look at every city that's run by Democrats. It's not safe.
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No one wants to live there. People are moving out of Democrat cities and Democrat states to Republican
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ones. Find a good job, wrong, wrong, and retire with dignity. She says, in response, extremists have
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intensified attacks on basic foundational freedoms and rights. Which one? Like, you don't even believe
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that a girl has a right to go to the bathroom with only girls. Like, you don't even believe that a girl
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doesn't have, or that a girl has a right not to be sexually harassed by being flashed by a man who
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thinks that he's a girl in a locker room. What's more, what's more of a fundamental right than that?
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You don't even believe that some human beings have the right to life. And you want to lecture us
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about foundational freedoms and rights. What about the right to work without being forced to inject
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an experimental drug in your body? You don't believe in that right. She said, for example,
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they want to take away a woman's right to make decisions about her own body.
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They attack the sacred right to vote. Again, that's just a lie. That's just a lie. Even liberal
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outlets have fact-checked that. That Republicans, the voting integrity bills that have passed, do not
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restrict anyone's right to vote. And by the way, the right to vote is no longer sacred
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if it is not exclusive to citizens. And we understand that this administration, that the
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current Democrat Party believes that non-citizens, even that illegal immigrants, should have the right
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to vote. That means you don't have a country anymore because citizenship means nothing. Borders mean
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nothing. Sovereignty means nothing if the right to vote is not exclusive to citizens. And so the
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right to vote is not sacred to the left. We know it's not sacred to the left because we know the
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schemes that they put into place every election, the rampant and I think corrupt ballot harvesting
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that goes into place to ensure that their candidates win. So I wouldn't say that this is true
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either. They believe that the right to vote is sacred. Attempt to silence the voice of the people.
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Oh, like sicking the DOJ on parents who are concerned about what their kids are learning in schools
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by going after pro-life advocates and protesters, non-violent pro-life advocates and protesters
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federally simply because of their stance, like Mark Hawk in Pennsylvania.
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And they try to block common sense reforms to save lives and keep Americans
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safe from gun violence. You can show me the numbers on that. Show me the numbers. Show me how
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the policies that you suggest would have a tangibly positive impact on the number of lives lost to
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humans who are wielding guns. Because the vast majority of these gun deaths, especially those among
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adolescents and adolescents are happening in Democrat-run cities, it's mostly gang violence
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where the progressive Soros-backed judges and DAs simply are not enforcing the laws already on the
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books to protect these young people and to protect the victims. So tell me how taking guns away from
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innocent people, law-abiding people, is actually going to make the country safer. You're going to have
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to square that circle for me. And so this is filled with a lot of deceit. And unfortunately, as I said,
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as is true with all propaganda, with all well-edited videos, a lot of people are going to fall for it.
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So let's not just laugh at this and say, oh, President Biden, he's so geriatric, he's going to be easy to
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beat. That's not necessarily true. That is not necessarily true. He's not going to be easy to beat.
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He should be, but he's not going to be. All right, let's move on to another statement that Joe Biden
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made. And that is, you know what, I won't even say what he said. I'll just play it for you. Here is Joe
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Biden on Monday in a ceremony honoring the Council of Chief State School Officers, 2023 Teachers of the
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Year. He gave an address where he said this. Rebecca put a teacher's creed into words when she said
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there's no such thing as someone else's child. No such thing as someone else's child. Our nation's
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children are all our children. Our nation's children are all our children. I saw someone else
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point out. It was lifenews.com. They said, so if you have an abortion, you just killed my child.
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Hmm, that's interesting. No, that's not true. Our children don't belong to the state. We don't
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share custody of my children, President Biden. And this is what those in charge would like you to
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believe. Democrat politicians, in particular, teachers, the teachers unions, not all teachers,
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but these activists, left-wing teachers and teachers unions, these bureaucrats, they want
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you to believe that they are just as interested in your child's well-being as you are. And therefore,
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they have authority. They have authority to determine what your child learns, the values that are instilled
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in your child. They might see it at best as some kind of equal partnership, that you get some time with
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them at home to talk to them about things. But really, you just need to be echoing what the
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experts tell them, how the experts teach them at school. You just need to echo what the government
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is telling them about things like gender and values and abortion and social justice and racial justice and
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critical race theory, oppresses versus the oppressed, the history of the United States. You just need to
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agree with those things as a parent. And your job is basically to facilitate the role of the experts at
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schools and in the government to shape your child into who they want your child to be. And they will
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convince parents that they're doing this from a place of love, that they're doing this from a place
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of compassion, that they're doing this because they know what's best for your child. And parents really
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don't. Parents really don't. Like if you hear some of these left-wing teachers, some of these teachers
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unions, some of these bureaucrats talk about parents, they really think parents are stupid. Like they
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really think that parents are just overly emotional, that they have no idea what they're talking about,
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that they're just naive, especially if they oppose any of the progressive stuff that's being pushed
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down the throats of these kids in schools. They'll say that parents are just, they're overreacting,
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they're overthinking this. They just don't know. They don't know what's best for their kids. So if
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they're honest, it's not even really that they think it's an equal partnership between schools
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and parents, but really that they think that they are the primary authority, the primary shaper,
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the primary influence and discipler of kids. But here's the truth, is that President Biden,
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no legislator, Republican or Democrat, knows your child's name. They don't care. They don't know your
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child's birthday. They don't know your child's favorite food. They don't know their strengths
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or their weaknesses, their capabilities or their inabilities. They would not shed a tear if your
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child got diagnosed with leukemia tomorrow and died next year. You could tell them that story.
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They would not care. They wouldn't be moved to sympathy. They probably wouldn't be moved to
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compassion. Now, maybe some of them would, but a momentary and fleeting feeling of sadness is the
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most that you could get. They do not care if they push gender ideology on your child and your child decides
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to transition, to mutilate their body, to become permanently sterile, and then one day realizes it
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was all a mistake, that they can never be happy, that they'll never be able to have children. They'll
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never have a normal body. Their brain will never be okay because they've ruined their development with
00:27:23.760
puberty blockers and they just are so desperate that they want to take their life. They will not be the
00:27:30.060
one to find your child in their room after they have died by suicide. And if you told them the story,
00:27:37.740
they wouldn't care. No, we don't co-parent with the government. Our children are not the nation's
00:27:45.820
children. The government doesn't care about your children. They don't care whether they live or die.
00:27:53.160
They don't care about their development. They don't care about their safety, ultimately.
00:27:58.360
They don't care what happens to them. That's just the nature of it. It's not supposed to. That's not the
00:28:04.060
role or the responsibility of the state. You can only care so much, but it's not their responsibility
00:28:10.380
to care for your children. Therefore, they should not have the authority to do so. They shouldn't have
00:28:16.520
the authority to decide what your child learns, the kind of person that your child grows up to be.
00:28:22.520
Remember, education is discipleship. So be very careful when you are deciding on what education
00:28:30.060
your child receives. The kind of education your child receives is the kind of discipleship they
00:28:37.660
are receiving. And remember what we've said in the past, whatever you consume, you then become.
00:28:45.040
So there's an agenda here. There's an agenda for the ownership of your child. There's an agenda for
00:28:50.380
to be the authority when it comes to your child's maturation and development, sexuality,
00:28:57.060
understanding of gender, understanding of themselves, understanding of their role and their purpose
00:29:02.500
in the world, understanding of really just the world in general. Understand that, that there's
00:29:08.480
something deep and dark behind a statement like this, and that it might sound nice that we have some
00:29:16.520
collective responsibility. And yes, we are supposed to love our neighbors, but we do not care about
00:29:25.860
other children the same way that we care about our own children. We don't have the same authority
00:29:29.760
over other children that we do over our own children. We're not supposed to. God created
00:29:35.520
the natural nuclear family to be a part of this hierarchy of authority, family, church, state.
00:29:46.560
And anytime we try to cross those lines or pervert that, the most vulnerable people are always
00:29:53.040
victimized. Always children. But this is kind of just a part of the left-wing communist playbook and
00:30:11.680
has been for a very long time. It's really a totalitarian playbook, whether you're looking at
00:30:15.780
fascism or communism, to try to recruit child soldiers, to try to win children over to your
00:30:24.740
ideology and to your regime, and to activate them to accomplish your purposes. And this statement
00:30:34.060
actually reflects the crux or one key tenet of Marxist ideology. And the Heritage Foundation has done a lot
00:30:42.460
of research on this, and so I'll summarize some of what they say. But in the Communist Manifesto of
00:30:48.200
1848, Karl Marx called for the abolition of the family. He believed that communism would then ensure
00:30:55.820
that children would be educated by the state and not by their parents. Part of the motivation for him
00:31:01.220
saying this is because Marx believed that religion was a scourge, that religion was the opium of the masses,
00:31:08.840
and it stopped people from being enlightened when it came to the beauties and the wonders
00:31:14.480
of communism. And it also inhibited them from wanting to be controlled and taken care of by the
00:31:21.940
state. It granted them a sense of autonomy and stability outside of the state that was a detriment
00:31:28.480
to the goals of communism, which is total control. They believed that under capitalism, children were a heavy
00:31:34.460
and unbearable burden on the family. But the Communist Society would come to the aid of parents
00:31:39.060
to provide free education, health care, clothing, whatever was needed for the children. All of this
00:31:43.220
was to show that the responsibility for the child was passing from the family to the collective. You
00:31:47.880
actually hear left-wing activists say things like this today, again, that children belong to everyone.
00:31:54.060
There is a communist, she's a professing communist author who talks about the abolition of motherhood
00:32:01.980
and forced surrogacy, how all childbearing should actually go from egg donor to gestator, and then
00:32:07.680
their child should just be owned by the collective or owned by a community, owned by some kind of
00:32:12.700
facility, how that would free women, that would actually liberate children. Remember, queer theory,
00:32:17.900
as we talked about with James Lindsay, also views any kind of hierarchy, including parental hierarchy
00:32:23.180
and parental authority as a form of oppression, as a form of entrapment. And children actually need to be
00:32:30.280
liberated, not just from the gender binary, not just from age of consent laws, they would say, but also
00:32:36.360
from the oppression, the protection, the provision of the parents, which tend to stand in the way of that
00:32:43.260
kind of so-called liberation, which we would call, of course, perversion. The Soviet Union's first
00:32:50.980
people's commissar for welfare, Alexandra Kollontai wrote, the old family narrow and petty, where the
00:32:57.220
parents quarrel and are only interested in their own offspring is not capable of educating the quote
00:33:02.280
unquote, new person. And what he meant by new person is by the communist, the new creation that
00:33:09.480
communism would create would be someone who is not just concerned with his own nuclear family, but is
00:33:14.800
concerned with the quote unquote, collective. The members of the family do not need the family either,
00:33:19.820
because the task of bringing up the children, which was formerly theirs, is passing more and more into
00:33:25.360
the hands of the collective. The mother need no having need have no anxiety about her children.
00:33:33.020
The worker state will assume responsibility for them. The women of the working class, therefore,
00:33:37.160
need not worry over the fact that the family is doomed to disappear. They should, on the contrary,
00:33:41.880
welcome the dawn of a new society, which will liberate women from domestic servitude,
00:33:46.120
lighten the burden of motherhood, and finally put an end to the terrible curse of prostitution.
00:33:52.720
Now, the only thing that I agree with there is that prostitution is a terrible curse. And so maybe
00:33:59.300
he actually thought that there was some virtue in what he was, what he was saying. But really,
00:34:05.600
he believed and we can already see this manifesting itself in very kind of natural developments here in
00:34:12.380
the United States and in the West. They envisioned a world in which all men and women worked, worked
00:34:18.660
together for the collective and the children were then taken care of. I don't know by whom,
00:34:24.220
by different workers, by people who apparently cared about them all equally. And we've kind of seen the
00:34:31.720
development of that in the United States under the guise of feminism, under the guise of liberation.
00:34:36.300
We wouldn't have called it communism. But I mean, we very often do. We very often see that in the
00:34:42.700
United States, the kind of outsourcing of parenthood to another entity so that everyone
00:34:48.760
can be liberated. Everyone can be a worker working toward the collective or working to help the market,
00:34:54.900
whatever it is. Now, I'm not saying, I mean, I think we do see biblical precedence for women working
00:34:59.900
in some ways and being productive in a lot of ways, being industrious and being entrepreneurial. But of
00:35:06.400
course, the priority of motherhood, the priority of your children falls on the parents, not on someone
00:35:13.160
else, because that's how God created us. That's why communism always fails, because it goes against
00:35:17.660
human nature. I mean, we see the importance of private property to God in the very beginning,
00:35:25.240
in the Ten Commandments. It's not just thou shall not steal, but also thou shall not covet. So private
00:35:32.120
property is totally legitimate. It's totally valid. It is a part of any functioning and structured
00:35:37.460
society. It absolutely must be protected. This idea that the state should own all private property is
00:35:44.380
not biblical whatsoever. But then also this idea that the family is an impediment to total state power,
00:35:51.000
the family is an impediment to communism, is completely anti-biblical. God actually creates
00:35:56.240
the family. First chapter of Genesis, we see it reiterated throughout scripture, honor your father
00:36:01.440
and mother, for example. God created us to care first about our family. Yes, we should love our neighbor.
00:36:09.000
Yes, we should care about the city in which he has providentially placed us, Jeremiah 29, 11.
00:36:13.380
But he has given us, our children primarily to steward. Like that love that you feel, whether you
00:36:20.700
adopted your child. So the moment that you got your child after the adoption process was completed,
00:36:27.260
or that indescribable moment when the doctor lays that baby on your chest, when you know that you would
00:36:35.460
die a thousand deaths for that child, you would endure any pain for that child, the love that is
00:36:39.740
totally overwhelming you. It really is like your heart walking around your body every day that
00:36:45.500
you're alive. You can't even describe just how profound and how heartbreaking and how painful and
00:36:51.280
how amazing and how joy-inducing that love is for your child. God gave that to you. You don't have that
00:36:57.760
love for other children. You just don't. You can't. God didn't give you that capacity. You can love them
00:37:02.920
in a way. You can seek their best interest in a way, but only up to a certain point. And yet you,
00:37:09.760
the love that you have for your child is unlike the love that you have for anyone else that is
00:37:14.260
purposeful. The state cannot have that. Your neighbor cannot have that. The collective cannot
00:37:19.740
have that. And so you know what happens when the collective or the state or the nation equally cares
00:37:25.860
for children? Children are exploited. They're abused because they don't have anyone that really,
00:37:32.120
innately, and strongly cares about their well-being. That's also why we have such a disaster in our
00:37:38.720
foster care system, even though there are so many wonderful people who are a part of it.
00:37:42.540
But these children are without a continuous loving caretaker to make sure that they are protected from
00:37:49.800
predation. And so it's the most dangerous thing that you can think of. The children belong to the
00:37:55.840
collective, that they belong to the state, that they belong to the nation. Remember all those people
00:38:00.720
saying, no, I care about your child just as much as you do. Let's partner in parenting your child.
00:38:06.180
Look, they don't ultimately care about your child. They don't know your child. They're not going to
00:38:11.420
wake up in the middle of the night when your child is crying because they had a bad dream.
00:38:16.860
They weren't there when you met your child for the first time and were overwhelmed with that tidal wave
00:38:22.620
of love that God placed in your heart, and they won't be there through your child's trials and
00:38:28.480
struggles and successes and failures. You will be. You are the parent to your child. And yes, we can get
00:38:35.700
help. We should get help from our friends, from our community, from our church, from our parents,
00:38:40.260
and all of that. But at the end of the day, that's your child. The love and the care that you have for
00:38:44.540
your child, the desire for their best interests rests in you and their parent alone. That's also
00:38:51.440
why the whole surrogacy and sperm and egg donation thing is so messed up. It messes up that whole
00:38:58.040
natural structure that God has put in place for our good, and especially the good of children who are
00:39:04.300
voiceless and vulnerable and need parents to stick up for them. So no, President Biden.
00:39:09.420
My children are not yours. In fact, I wouldn't even allow my children to be alone with you for five
00:39:29.580
Okay, so my friend Lila Rose of Live Action, I saw her highlight this on Twitter, and I just thought it
00:39:34.820
was really interesting. She posted a screenshot of emails that she had received, those spam marketing
00:39:40.740
emails from several companies, basically kind of apologizing for celebrating Mother's Day, but
00:39:49.620
saying, look, you can opt out of our Mother's Day emails if you want to, which I've never seen for
00:39:55.100
anything else. I've never seen a company say, hey, if you want to opt out of our Pride Month emails,
00:40:02.220
you can totally do that. And yet when it comes to Mother's Day, these companies are saying, oh,
00:40:07.980
we understand that this might be really sensitive, and you might not want to, you might not want to
00:40:14.480
receive these emails. So here's from DoorDash. A note about Mother's Day. We understand that Mother's
00:40:19.740
Day may be a difficult time for some. Click the button below if you'd prefer to be removed from
00:40:23.480
additional emails and push notifications this year. This is from Fry's. We know Mother's Day and
00:40:30.920
Father's Day can be sensitive times for some. If you'd like to opt out of our emails and push
00:40:34.460
notifications for these holidays, please tap below. From Mac. Hi there. We understand that
00:40:39.320
Mother's Day can be a difficult time for some of us. If you'd rather not receive emails about the
00:40:42.580
holiday this year, let us know by following the link below. Levi's. Hey there. So Mother's Day is
00:40:48.680
just around the corner, and before we start bombarding you with mom-related content, we just wanted to
00:40:53.040
check in first. We know motherhood and all the associated feelings, emotions, and memories can be
00:40:56.780
tricky, and even triggering for some. You can opt out of our Mother's Day content by clicking here.
00:41:02.800
All right. I'm interested to hear what you guys think about this, because I can see differing
00:41:07.820
perspectives. I mean, sure, if you just had your mom die, or maybe you've been struggling with
00:41:12.720
infertility, maybe you just went through a stillborn birth. Maybe there are a lot of reasons why celebrating
00:41:17.840
Mother's Day is really hard for you. I don't want to discount that, because I think that's true.
00:41:21.660
And actually, to me, it shows just how important the connection to our mother is and the connection
00:41:28.380
to our father is, that apparently these companies feel that they have to issue a statement like this.
00:41:35.020
This just kind of goes to show what we were just saying in the last segment, that, I mean,
00:41:39.320
parenting is a matter of the heart. The family runs really deep. The emotional and spiritual
00:41:45.880
and physical implications of all of those things are very, very profound, to the point where they
00:41:52.080
can have something like Father's Day or Mother's Day can have a very positive or negative effect on
00:41:57.600
you. I still, I personally think that this is odd. While I understand that these days can be hard for
00:42:03.720
people, and I can really appreciate that. Again, I don't, I've never seen this before. Am I wrong to say
00:42:10.780
that this is not normal? I've never seen a company tell me that I can opt out of certain kinds of
00:42:15.980
emails, like Pride Month or Day of Transgender Visibility. Or, I mean, some people might want
00:42:22.960
to opt out of Black History Month. I got an email the other day saying something, which I have debunked
00:42:28.000
many times on this podcast, saying something about institutional racism is the cause of Black
00:42:35.220
maternal death in this country, which is not true, which is not true. We've talked many times how
00:42:41.720
the number one cause of Black women dying in the first year after birth is actually being killed
00:42:47.280
by the father of their child or the boyfriend. So that bothered me, but I didn't get the option to
00:42:54.080
opt out. No one said, hey, do you want to hear more about this? I've never seen this before. So I do think
00:42:59.900
it's interesting that there is hypersensitivity when it comes to Father's Day and Mother's Day that
00:43:07.240
I've never seen around anything else. I can't even, if I have, like on my calendar, if it tells me that
00:43:14.940
it's, I don't know, some holiday that I don't celebrate, Ramadan, I can't even take that off my
00:43:20.900
calendar. They're like, no, you will recognize that it is Ramadan. You will absolutely recognize it. We will send
00:43:26.920
you an alert to remind you that today is Ramadan. I can't opt out of that, but I can opt out of my
00:43:33.000
Levi's Mother's Day emails. I don't know. I just think it's odd. This is not something that I'm going
00:43:38.160
to be super dogmatic about. Like, if you think that this is great, this is like a step towards,
00:43:43.280
I don't know, truth-filled compassion, I'm willing to hear that. But I guess I am a little sensitive
00:43:49.900
about any kind of anti-Mother's Day sentiment. Everyone in the world has a mother and a father,
00:43:55.840
whether you are raised by a mother and a father, that's a different question,
00:43:59.680
but everyone in the world has a mother and a father. So if anything, I mean, if Mother's Day
00:44:05.380
is a difficult day for you, and again, I can appreciate and understand why it would be for
00:44:09.280
so many reasons, take it as a day, I would say, to recognize that if you are a Christian,
00:44:15.560
you belong somewhere. You are a part of a family. You are a son or a daughter of God. You are
00:44:22.080
a co-heir with Christ and the most magnificent and glorious and eternal family that exists,
00:44:31.000
and you belong. You have a purpose. You are seen. You are known by the God of the universe. You are
00:44:36.420
forgiven through Christ. Your identity is in that. If you had a mother who didn't love you,
00:44:40.860
if you don't have children to love yourself, understand that you are fully loved and fully
00:44:47.080
known by the God who made you and saved you through Christ. So if nothing else, it is at the
00:44:51.940
very least a day to celebrate that. But I'm interested to know what y'all think about that.
00:45:08.260
All right. Last thing I just wanted to discuss is this is a follow-up from yesterday,
00:45:13.340
which I thought was an interesting development. And this is about the Tucker Carlson oust at Fox
00:45:20.300
News. Go back and listen to or watch yesterday's episode if you want a breakdown of that. But this
00:45:26.080
is very, it's perfect for what we talk about. It's the nexus of what we discuss so much. So Tucker
00:45:33.820
Carlson's prayer, Tucker Carlson's prayer talk may have led to his ouster, reports Vanity Fair. So
00:45:41.580
Vanity Fair, of course, is going to be left leaning, as almost all outlets are, especially
00:45:45.980
female outlets. However, I do find some very fair reporting in Vanity Fair. They surprise me a lot.
00:45:54.540
Like they have a lot of articles that I'm like, okay, that was actually pretty fair and pretty
00:45:59.040
objective. So a lot of times I actually appreciate them. So Tucker Carlson's prayer talk may have led
00:46:04.860
to his ouster. What they're referring to is his speech last Friday at the Heritage Foundation's
00:46:10.720
50th anniversary gala. Like I said, I was I was a part of the Heritage Foundation celebration last
00:46:17.120
week. I wasn't able to stay for his talk. And I wish that I had because so many people have talked
00:46:21.240
about it. We played a little clip yesterday where basically he argues that, look, we're not really in
00:46:26.820
a political debate anymore, which listeners to relatable like, yes, we will say yes and amen,
00:46:32.600
because we have also been talking about that for a long time. This is not really politics. Like
00:46:35.940
we're talking about morality. We're talking about differences between true truth and lies between
00:46:45.480
good and evil. Like that's really the fundamental battle at play here when you're talking about
00:46:50.960
something like castrating the next generation, which is exactly what Tucker Carlson spoke about,
00:46:56.620
that policy papers cannot account for what the left is advocating for right now. And so while he
00:47:05.840
himself didn't offer like a bunch of theological advice, he even made a joke about that. I mean,
00:47:11.860
he did evoke some spiritual language. You have to when you're talking about all of this. But apparently
00:47:19.500
Fox Corporation chair Rupert Murdoch is a 92 year old media mogul. Apparently he did not like that.
00:47:26.620
He doesn't like the spiritual talk, said a source while some are crediting his departure, Tucker's
00:47:31.900
departure to the 787.5 million dollar Dominion settlement and others to the lawsuit filed by
00:47:37.300
former Fox producer Abby Grossberg. As Megan Kelly has said, she doesn't think either of those are the
00:47:42.440
real reason why he was ousted. Vanity Fair argues that neither of these reasons fully add up. And
00:47:53.340
they say, according to a source, Murdoch found Carlson's speech, which was laced with religious
00:47:57.960
overtones, too extreme. That stuff freaks Rupert out. He doesn't like all the spiritual talk.
00:48:05.540
Now, that is hard for me to believe. Now, it's not hard for me to believe that he's not a Christian,
00:48:10.760
that he's not spiritual himself, Rupert Murdoch. So it wouldn't surprise me that he doesn't like it,
00:48:16.160
but that that would be the reason for it. That's a little surprising to me because this speech was
00:48:22.720
very Tucker Carlson-esque. He talks about this stuff. He talks about faith a lot on the show,
00:48:27.540
or at least he brings guests on who talk about faith on his show. Maybe this was a little deeper
00:48:32.720
than usual. Maybe it was more than just a few minutes of talking about this kind of stuff. And so
00:48:39.200
maybe that's what made him uncomfortable. But that's surprising to me. I mean, he's given similar
00:48:43.660
speeches in the past. So like I said yesterday, I think it had to be more than one thing or one big
00:48:50.940
thing that none of us really know about yet. I'm sure that we'll get more information as time goes
00:48:58.080
on. But here's an interesting here's an interesting part of this. Rupert Murdoch, Vanity Fair says,
00:49:03.580
may have been unnerved by Carlson's religious talk because it echoed the end times worldview of Murdoch's
00:49:08.660
ex-fiancée, Anne Leslie Smith. The source said, Anne Leslie Smith would have been Murdoch's fifth
00:49:14.440
wife. Murdoch recently called off their engagement after two weeks, partly because Smith had told
00:49:21.600
Carlson, told people that Carlson was a quote unquote messenger from God. Murdoch had seen
00:49:27.260
Carlson and Smith discuss religion firsthand at a dinner in March. During dinner, Smith pulled out a
00:49:32.240
Bible and started reading passages from the book of Exodus. Love it. Rupert just sat there and stared,
00:49:38.320
the source said. A few days later, Murdoch and Smith called off the wedding. And so this was an
00:49:42.940
interesting part. I thought this was a very interesting sentence in this article. By taking
00:49:46.860
Carlson off the air, Murdoch was also taking away his ex's favorite show. Interesting. So many layers
00:49:55.900
there. Now, we don't know. That's a theory. To me, it's not a super compelling theory. But it's
00:50:05.380
interesting if it is true. Just the anti-Christian sentiment from the most influential places in our
00:50:13.780
culture, it continues. And it has a very serious effect on people. Now, God is bigger than Rupert
00:50:20.780
Murdoch. He actually laughs at the people who think they have power and authority here on earth to try
00:50:26.420
to thwart his will because they don't. They don't. They can act in a way that they think will solidify
00:50:34.560
their power or will perpetuate their ideology or whatever. But ultimately, they will come to
00:50:40.080
nothing. We read Psalm 37 a lot. And I'm not saying that Tucker Carlson is some messenger from
00:50:46.820
God. As I said yesterday, Tucker Carlson, I want you to get your ESV study Bible and start in the book of
00:50:52.640
John. Also Rupert Murdoch, if you would like to as well. But this is like this is such an interesting
00:51:00.200
revelation about the ideology that pushes Fox, because as we said yesterday, they have become
00:51:06.860
more liberal. Bruce slash Caitlin is now like a key contributor. They have segments glorifying child
00:51:13.800
transition as they did last summer on Dana Perino's show. Again, I like Dana Perino, but it was an egregious
00:51:19.240
segment. They're definitely liberal in a lot of ways. Not every host, of course. But I think a lot
00:51:25.340
of the people behind the scenes, a lot of the people at the top, I mean, they're definitely more
00:51:28.780
liberal than than you and me, for sure. And so Tucker seemed to kind of push the envelope on that.
00:51:35.420
It's interesting, though. But then you've got other Christians there. I mean, I think Shannon
00:51:39.160
Bream is amazing. She's a Christian. She's outspoken about her faith. On Fox Nation, they do have like
00:51:44.460
some Bible study things that go on. But I don't know, maybe that's okay, because it's kind of
00:51:51.260
contained to the Bible study, the Bible study space. And it's not something that seeps into the rest of
00:52:00.240
the content. But I mean, Fox and Friends does like church type stories and things like that. I don't
00:52:09.200
know. But there was something definitely more theological and spiritual about Tucker's speech.
00:52:16.340
I don't know. I'm thinking about this. I'm still going to be considering this. And we're going to
00:52:20.120
follow up on this story next week. And I'll be interested because apparently, like I said yesterday,
00:52:26.080
I don't know him personally, but I know a lot of people who know him personally and who text with
00:52:30.820
him on a regular basis. From what I've heard as of this point, he has not texted any of them back
00:52:35.920
saying anything. And I still think that he should be on a private jet with his spouse going to some
00:52:41.560
private island just fishing for a month. Why not? Just ignore everyone. But eventually, we will hear
00:52:46.880
more about this. I'll be interested to see who he gives his first interview to. You think it's going
00:52:51.120
to be relatable? It's probably going to be relatable, right? No, I bet it'll be. Hmm.
00:53:00.020
Ooh, I was gonna say Megyn Kelly. We'll have to see. I don't know. You can tell me what you think
00:53:05.020
in the comments or in a message on Instagram. All right. That's all we got time for today.
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Guess what, guys? Tomorrow, Rosaria Butterfield is on the show. And I'm so, so excited. I'll link
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the past episode that I did about her recent article so you can catch up on that if you
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haven't already. All right. See you guys back here then.