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00:00:00.000The leftist culture war against traditional masculinity continues to gain steam as China takes a different path, and NBC News recommends you skip the turkey this Thanksgiving.
00:00:31.000I mean, this is obvious that the big tech companies, this is no longer a main priority.
00:00:35.000Which means they're handing over your data to people who shouldn't have your data.
00:00:38.000They're basically acting like a window, not a wall for your private information.
00:00:41.000You need to protect yourself in the way the big tech companies simply will not, and that is why I use ExpressVPN.
00:00:47.000If you ever wondered how free-to-access tech giants make all their cash, well, the answer is they track your searches, your video history, and everything you click on.
00:00:52.000By building a profile on you and then selling off your sensitive data.
00:02:02.000And once you make that stark division, Basically, your society is at an end because reality has certain dictates.
00:02:08.000Reality requires that you live within its boundaries.
00:02:11.000Reality means that you have to understand how the world works, how nature works, and then you have to adapt yourself to those realities.
00:02:19.000Instead, as a society, we have decided to use every means at our disposal in order to reshape the reality around us, or at least what reality can do to us, in order to prevent that reality from intruding.
00:02:30.000So when it comes to Everyday life we have set up systems whereby no one is allowed to criticize us if we are if we are criticized we get very Very upset and then we try to rig the system So no one can ever criticize us again if fact patterns emerge that threaten our view of the world we simply use the the bottlenecking Technologies at our disposal to prevent that sort of feedback loop from harming our interests and our narrative
00:02:54.000So if a case, if a criminal case goes the way we don't want it to go, we simply have people on the TV repeat back to us what we want to hear as opposed to the reality of the situation.
00:03:03.000When it comes to how we wish to live our lives, how we feel on the inside, this is supposed to matter an awful lot more than how reality matters.
00:03:09.000And we are now using technology as sort of the all-purpose wonder drug.
00:03:13.000So we're creating entire artificial realities where we can live completely free of reality itself.
00:03:19.000There is a philosopher named Robert Nozick.
00:03:21.000Robert Nozick is a libertarian philosopher and he once posited what he called the experience machine.
00:03:26.000He said that most human beings are interested in freedom in the real world.
00:03:29.000He said if you could be plugged into a machine, Where you spent all day experiencing the feeling that what you were doing was real, but where all of your activities simply resulted in success.
00:03:51.000I think that we have now created, if Karl Marx suggested that religion was the opiate of the mass, I think that we have created actual opiates in the form of online addiction, in the form of virtual realities, in the form of a media-created reality.
00:04:07.000And we feed ourselves this drug that separates us off from the reality.
00:04:11.000And we just have people reflect back at us what we want to hear.
00:04:14.000I think a lot of people would plug into that experience machine now, that Robert Nozick experience machine.
00:04:18.000They would give up their ability to affect real change in the real world in favor of a sort of solipsistic, drug-induced SOMA, virtual SOMA from Brave New World.
00:04:51.000We can construct artificial realities.
00:04:53.000We can create worlds in our own imagination.
00:04:56.000And we can occupy those worlds with others who also wish to live in their own imagination.
00:04:59.000We can all live inside Facebook's meta.
00:05:02.000But that is not going to change the reality that for billions of people around the world, most people throughout human history and most people right now, those virtual realities not only don't exist, they are seen as spiritually enervating, as spiritually emptying, as counterproductive.
00:05:15.000Civilizations that drug themselves into enervation lose.
00:05:18.000And that is what we are watching right now.
00:05:20.000According to the Washington Post, more U.S.
00:05:22.000adults who do not already have kids say they are unlikely to ever have them.
00:05:26.000This is according to a new Pew Research Study survey.
00:05:30.000Findings that could draw renewed attention to the risks of declining birth rates for industrialized nations.
00:05:34.000There's not a single industrialized nation in the West, I think the only exceptions are Georgia and Israel, that has a replacement-level birth rate, meaning at least two kids.
00:05:41.000In order for your population to maintain, every two-parent household has to have two kids.
00:05:46.000But in the United States, that number is more like 1-7.
00:05:49.000That means these populations are going to be dropping dramatically.
00:05:54.000According to the Washington Post, experts are concerned that the U.S.
00:05:57.000birth rate, which has declined for the sixth straight year, may not fuel enough population growth on its own to keep the future economy afloat and to fund social programs.
00:06:04.000Women between the ages of 18 to 49 and men between 18 and 59, who said they are not parents, were asked the question, thinking about the future, how likely is it that you will have children someday?
00:06:13.000In October, 26% of them said it is very likely, a six point drop from 2018, when 32% answered, very likely.
00:06:21.000Meanwhile, the share of Americans who answered not too likely in 2021 grew to 21% compared to 16% in 2018.
00:06:28.000So we now have near parity between the number of Americans who say that it is very likely that they will have kids and not too likely that they will have kids.
00:06:37.000When asked why they don't want to have kids, 56% of childless adults who said it is not at all or not too likely they will ever have kids said it's because they just don't want them.
00:06:46.000That's a change from 2018, when 63% of childless adults in those categories said it was because they had no desire for children.
00:06:52.000This time around, 43% cited other reasons, including medical issues, economic or financial reasons, lack of partner.
00:06:59.000The bottom line is that this is part of a broad-scale trend in the West.
00:07:50.000Which means the only people who are going to be having kids are the people who are not engaged in this sort of solipsistic, self-obsessed, navel-gazing, you know, where do I vacation with my small dog this week?
00:08:01.000The only people who are going to be having kids in the United States, and in the West generally, are religious people.
00:08:07.000Every religious community in the United States is reproducing at above replacement rates.
00:08:10.000Every secular, atheistic, agnostic community is having kids at below replacement rates.
00:08:16.000So if you're a fan of secular liberalism, I gotta ask you, what do you think your future is?
00:08:20.000Really, how do you think that that's going to reflect?
00:08:22.000Could it be that the secular liberalism, disconnected from the root values that created the space for liberalism to arise in the first place, has been self-defeating?
00:08:31.000Is it possible that when you cut off the roots of the tree, the tree just dies?
00:08:35.000When you get rid of the moral precepts that allowed for a sphere of freedom to emerge in the West, that the freedom itself kills the tree?
00:08:43.000Because that seems to be what we're watching in real time.
00:08:47.000That freedom, unbound from morality, unbound from reality, because morality and reality are related in this sort of teleological old philosophical sense.
00:08:55.000If you get rid of that, if you say that there's just fact patterns and freedom, all you end up with is libertinism.
00:09:54.000Adults in their 40s were far more likely than younger adults to say they're unlikely to have any or more kids in the future, which of course makes sense.
00:09:59.000The older you get, the harder it is to have kids.
00:10:01.000What's striking there is the lack of difference between men and women in their view of having kids.
00:10:06.000Typically speaking, you would imagine that women would be more interested in having kids than men.
00:10:11.000Just because, historically speaking, this has been the case.
00:10:14.000And by the way, when it comes to poll data, I'm still not sure that that is reflective of how normal people act.
00:10:20.000What I mean by that is there are a lot of people who say they don't want to have kids, and then women have kids, and then they want to take time out from the workforce to spend with their kids.
00:10:26.000How people act is very different than what they are asked in polls.
00:10:29.000However, what the demographic rates show is that we are a society in decline.
00:11:45.000Okay, it is to say that the fundamental root of civilization has to recognize the massive and important differences between men and women, or men will not be men, and civilization will fall, and women will not be women, and people will not reproduce.
00:11:58.000And that is what we are seeing right now.
00:12:32.000When I say reality's gonna win, I mean there are other civilizations that are not delusional United States is delusional.
00:12:36.000The way the Western civilization has decided to buy into the mass delusion of a sort of Cartesian duality between the genderless spirit and the sexed body.
00:12:55.000This belief that you are sort of a floating ghost in the machine has not been true forever.
00:13:01.000And it wasn't true when Descartes wrote about it.
00:13:04.000But we have convinced ourselves of this phantasmic chimera, and it is not going to end well for us.
00:13:11.000In a second, we'll get to some of the differences between men and women that are quite important, and then we'll talk about why it is that we are, as a society, failing.
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00:14:26.000A good paper by Yana Weisberg from the Department of Psychology in Linfield College and Collins Young, University of Minnesota Department of Psychology, Jacob Hirsch, University of Toronto.
00:14:37.000This is from a few years back, 2011, from Frontline Psychology, talking about the differences between men and women.
00:14:43.000There are these personality traits called the Big Five personality traits, and these are very durable psychological findings.
00:14:48.000There are major differences between men and women in many of the personality traits that are expected to be present in human beings.
00:14:57.000Neuroticism describes the tendency to experience negative emotion and related processes in response to perceived threat and punishment.
00:15:03.000These include anxiety, depression, anger, self-consciousness, and emotional ability.
00:15:07.000Women generally score higher than men on neuroticism, as measured at the Big Five trait level.
00:15:12.000Additionally, women also score higher than men on related measures not specifically designed to measure the Big Five, like indices of anxiety and low self-esteem.
00:15:34.000These on average differences make a very large difference in how we as a society treat maleness and femaleness.
00:15:40.000When it comes to agreeableness, women consistently score higher than men on agreeableness and related measures, such as tender-mindedness, which of course makes sense.
00:15:49.000This would be altruism, empathy, kindness.
00:15:51.000By the way, you can see this in job selection.
00:15:52.000Women tend to select jobs where they have interpersonal contact reliant on empathy.
00:16:00.000Because biologically speaking, women tend to be maternal in instinct, and men tend to be protective or aggressive in instinct.
00:16:09.000When it comes to conscientiousness, there's no marked difference between men and women, or at least not a durable one, across cultures.
00:16:15.000When it comes to extroversion, assertiveness, sociability, positive emotionality, gender differences are small on the overall domain level of extroversion.
00:16:24.000Women typically score a little bit higher, but that's because women score higher on warmth, gregariousness, and positive emotions.
00:16:31.000Men score higher on assertiveness and excitement-seeking, right?
00:16:35.000This has been proved by pretty much every psychological study.
00:16:38.000Men, again, tend to be more aggressive.
00:16:40.000And when it comes to openness and intellect, which reflects imagination, creativity, intellectual curiosity, and appreciation of aesthetic experiences, there are no significant gender differences typically found on openness or intellect.
00:16:52.000Women typically score higher on aesthetics and feelings.
00:16:55.000Men tend to score higher on the ideas facet.
00:16:58.000Again, a lot of this seems stereotypical, but it is also rooted in biological difference between genders.
00:17:06.000The reason that all of this is important is because when we as a society sublimate reality in favor of a peculiar vision that all men and all women are genderless, what we end up with is a society that does not reproduce, that does not see responsibility in a serious way.
00:17:21.000We are not paving the way for true human flourishing.
00:17:24.000There's a lot of talk in philosophy about human flourishing, what that constitutes.
00:17:28.000What does it mean to flourish as a human being?
00:17:30.000So from the Marxist perspective, human flourishing, basically the predicate to it is material well-being.
00:17:35.000You have to make sure that you have enough stuff, you have to make sure that you're taken care of, and then we will all flourish.
00:17:40.000It is the notion that a Marxist society will breed a society of artists and innovators This is what Nancy Pelosi says when it comes to job lock, right?
00:17:50.000Get rid of job lock, create a better welfare state, and society will flourish forth.
00:17:53.000Then there's a vision of human flourishing that suggests that human flourishing is about the cultivation of particular individual goods, meaning you cultivate friendship or you cultivate virtue.
00:18:53.000There are some that are less sexed, and then there are some that are more sexed.
00:18:57.000To ignore gender differences in roles is to, as a society, defeat yourself.
00:19:01.000To pretend, for example, that men and women have an equal duty to serve in armed forces cuts against virtually all of human history and also basic biology.
00:19:10.000Not to suggest that female soldiers can't do an amazing job.
00:19:15.000But, if you are on a battlefield and you're about to fight a battle, what you would like is an army of- if you have to pick between an army entirely of men and an army entirely of women, you're gonna pick an army entirely of men.
00:19:24.000They have greater physical capacity, they tend to follow orders a little bit better according to sociological studies, and they tend to be more aggressive.
00:19:31.000Again, that's not to demean women in any way.
00:19:32.000There are things that women are much better at than men.
00:19:35.000But all of society rests on these foundational principles.
00:19:38.000And failing to recognize the true beauty and difference between men and women leads to a society where men are told that they don't need to be men, which, by the way, makes room for actual toxic masculinity, and women are told that they shouldn't be women in any way, which leads to a sort of genderless apathy about the future of the human race.
00:20:12.000They bring up those kids in healthier ways.
00:20:15.000And when I say healthier, I don't mean ways that we would approve of.
00:20:17.000I mean ways that propagate their societies, their civilizations.
00:20:21.000Healthier on almost an objective metric level.
00:20:24.000And when that happens, societies begin to crumble.
00:20:27.000That's what we're watching here in the West.
00:20:30.000I bring this up because there's an article in Politico today that's quite fascinating, all about why Republicans can't stop talking about masculinity.
00:20:37.000And the answer is, maybe when you tell men, young men particularly, they have no role in our society.
00:20:42.000When you tell a society that risk taking is bad, aggressiveness is bad, the meritocracy is bad, you end up undermining the society.
00:20:49.000And when you tell women, That women ought not have kids.
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00:22:22.000Okay, so, if my theory, and I think the theory of evolutionary biology is correct, that human flourishing rests in fulfillment of particular roles that human beings are good at fulfilling and that are durable across cultures.
00:22:32.000Roles like father, roles like protector, roles like mother, roles like empathizer.
00:22:56.000If we as a society boil ourselves, our identities down to one thing, We flatten out human existence and human flourishing becomes impossible.
00:23:03.000So if we boil ourselves down to, for example, just creators of economic product, that is one aspect of human flourishing.
00:23:09.000It is not the only aspect of human flourishing.
00:23:11.000And if that comes at the expense of us making the decisions that allow us to flourish in all these other ways, society falls apart.
00:23:16.000You can have really high GDP and also a crumbling society.
00:23:19.000Similarly, if we flatten ourselves out to only our sexual instinct, which used to be sublimated to role fulfillment, right?
00:23:26.000The sexual instinct used to be sublimated to a broader role.
00:23:29.000It wasn't just you had a sexual instinct.
00:23:31.000It was that sexual instinct was supposed to come in the context of a marriage that produced children and healthy upbringing and provided the impetus for you to become a protector for your family and to become a maternal influence with your mom.
00:23:45.000When you separate that off and you basically say your genitals are you, Or your genital pleasure is you?
00:23:51.000If you say that, you have flattened out humanity to its thinnest veneer.
00:23:57.000And as a society, human flourishing becomes nearly impossible.
00:24:00.000This is why masculinity and femininity matters.
00:24:03.000This is why it matters when you are told the lie, and when your kids are indoctrinated in the lie, that gender is entirely malleable, and that it's not important, and that if you mention that it's important, it's really bad.
00:24:13.000Hey, so there's an article in Politico today trying to take this on, okay?
00:24:17.000It's an article, a Q&A with historian Kristin Cobes-Dumez on Josh Hawley, JD Vance, and why manhood seems to be such a big topic on the right today.
00:24:25.000The answer is, of course, because you have millions of dispossessed young men who have been told they have no role in society.
00:24:56.000According to Politico, Republican lawmakers and hopefuls seem particularly interested in the idea of masculinity lately.
00:25:01.000In a TV interview earlier this month, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley claimed the left was telling men their masculinity is inherently problematic.
00:25:23.000It is true in all human societies of which I am aware.
00:25:27.000Holly's comments sounded similar to those of Representative Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, who went viral last month in a video calling on mothers to raise their sons to be monsters.
00:25:34.000What he meant by that, of course, was the sort of Jordan Peterson notion that men are monsters and you have to use that aggression in positive ways.
00:25:45.000In order to be aggressively evil, but that men are aggressive.
00:25:49.000That aggression can be channeled in defense of self and others, or it can be channeled in horrifying directions, which is what you've largely seen in American society.
00:25:56.000Men channeling their aggression toward violence, or channeling their aggression toward drug use, or channeling, or just being enervated completely because their mission has been taken away from them.
00:26:06.000Vance tweeted that the Rittenhouse trial filled him with indescribable rage, said we leave our boys without fathers, we let the wolves set fire to their communities, and when human nature tells them to go and defend what no one else is defending, we bring the full weight of the state and the global monopolist against them.
00:26:21.000According to historian, Cristian Cobes Dumez, this way of talking about masculinity has its roots in conservative evangelical spaces, but it's going mainstream.
00:26:30.000Dumez wrote a book last year called Jesus and John Wayne, how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation.
00:26:35.000About how the model of masculinity in evangelicalism went from emulating the qualities of Jesus to emulating those of the actor John Wayne, and how that has shaped culture and politics ever since.
00:26:44.000Well, who's to say that the values of Jesus and the values of John Wayne are in direct conflict?
00:27:12.000I'm sorry to break it to secular liberals, but masculinity is baked into the cake.
00:27:17.000That is not just a question of God making it that way.
00:27:21.000Although, as a religious person, I believe he did.
00:27:22.000I believe male and female, he created them.
00:27:24.000But I think that's a reflection of basic human biology.
00:27:27.000And by the way, all mammalian biology.
00:27:30.000But, says Cristian Cobes Dumez, when Hawley is talking about an attack on men and saying the left is attacking manhood and that they hate this country and don't believe in gender, all of that sounds very familiar.
00:27:38.000In white evangelicalism, this has been a refrain for decades now.
00:27:48.000I mean, I'm rather familiar with the first five books.
00:27:50.000The Bible has explicit bans on men dressing as women and women dressing as men, for example.
00:27:56.000says this quote-unquote scholar, in evangelical spaces, Christian manhood has long been equated, particularly in conservative circles, with a kind of rugged, militant quality.
00:28:04.000It's not just about rugged and militant.
00:28:10.000When you remove roles from men, and tell them the roles are bad.
00:28:13.000When you say marriage is bad, and fatherhood is bad, and you don't need a dad, and you don't need a, and you don't need protectors, and you don't need, soldiers are bad, cops are, when you say this sort of stuff, you remove all place for male aggression to go.
00:28:23.000By the way, male aggression is gonna go exactly those places in other societies.
00:28:40.000But says this scholar, this is a kind of reactionary masculinity that emerges in the 1960s and 70s in conservative evangelical spaces, and more broadly, in American conservatism.
00:29:04.000Then you have this disruptive moment in the 1960s, says this writer.
00:29:07.000You have the civil rights movement, which is particularly disruptive in the American South to the status quo.
00:29:11.000You have the early feminist wave and second wave feminism of the 60s, and very importantly, the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement.
00:29:17.000All of these are seen to destabilize the social order.
00:29:19.000Conservatives are particularly concerned.
00:29:21.000In all three of these cases, it's the assertion of white patriarchal authority or power that can restore order.
00:29:26.000And to understand, the revolutionary forces that want to tear down gender, what she's saying, the implicit understanding of what she's saying, the revolutionary forces that wish to destroy the institutions of the United States, are focused on tearing down masculinity as a pathway to doing so.
00:29:44.000Because if you have men who are willing to defend those institutions, then the institutions won't fall.
00:29:51.000So she says that the assertion of traditional masculinity would have been against, for example, the Civil Rights Movement.
00:29:56.000That's weird, because it seems to me that there are plenty of good, powerful, strong men who are standing up in favor of the Civil Rights Movement.
00:30:03.000I was unaware that it was enervated hippies who were leading the Civil Rights Movement, as opposed to strong, powerful men and strong, powerful women, all of whom were gendered at the time, because we're talking about the 60s, not the 1990s and not the 2010s, who were leading that movement.
00:30:17.000The inherent Feminization of powerful civil rights movement is pretty astonishing.
00:30:22.000I mean, I think you'd be very hard pressed to make the case that either Martin Luther King Jr.
00:30:31.000But says Dumas, I think that this language is becoming more useful in the wake of the Trump years.
00:30:36.000There's a lot of history, particularly of Republicans unfavorably comparing Democratic men and masculinity against a stronger, more rugged American manhood.
00:30:42.000It kind of had a resurgence during the Obama presidency.
00:30:44.000It was very popular for Republicans to impugn his masculinity and to question his manhood and his strength.
00:30:50.000Okay, well, I never questioned Barack Obama's manhood.
00:30:52.000He's a father with kids, which to me is the mark of a true man.
00:30:57.000I questioned his assertiveness in foreign policy.
00:30:59.000I questioned his policy priorities, which seemed to me not to foment the kind of aggressiveness and masculinity and risk-taking that you need as a natural society, which brings us to where we are in terms of policy today.
00:31:11.000Because it's not just a question of degrading men to the level of the genderless.
00:31:16.000It's also a question of, as a society, do you get rid of masculine values like risk-taking?
00:31:19.000Risk-taking tends to be a more masculine value.
00:31:22.000Do you get rid of those values in favor of a broader value of empathy as a society?
00:31:28.000And if you do, what does that do to society?
00:31:31.000And the answer is, it destroys your society.
00:31:33.000Because when you get rid of the risk-taking, when you get rid of the innovation, when you get rid of the harsh realities that both provide the incentive for risk-taking but also punish stupid risk-taking, then you end up with a society that is completely stagnant.
00:31:46.000Which is why, for example, the University of California is now deciding that in favor of empathy, they're going to get rid of standards, and innovation, and risk-taking, and reality.
00:34:07.000These are characteristics that, by the way, again, have been seen in every society since the beginning of time.
00:34:11.000And this is not to deny that there are women who can be more masculine and men who can be more effeminate.
00:34:16.000It is to say that, on average, there are differences in quality between male and female, as everyone understands, and that these qualities are very important in a society and should be pressed forward, fomented, and fostered by a society that remains healthy.
00:34:30.000In other countries, by the way, they're not doing this.
00:34:32.000In other countries, opposing civilizations, they're not playing games with any of this stuff.
00:34:38.000They've decided that they are going to prevent people from living in a sort of miasmatic genderless space where all of their desires are reflected back at them.
00:34:48.000There's a good piece by a person named Hobby Zhang in the Wall Street Journal today, a doctoral student in political science, talking about the coddling of American children.
00:34:56.000Quote, as a Chinese doctoral student raising a young son in the United States, I'm mystified by how American elementary schools coddle students.
00:35:03.000In China, schools are run like boot camps.
00:35:04.000What do the therapeutic comforts America showers on its youth portend for a growing competition with China?
00:35:10.000I recently registered my son in the third grade at a New Jersey public school.
00:35:13.000Hattie had recently finished two years of elementary school in Chengdu, China, where he trotted off to school each day with a backpack stuffed with thick textbooks and materials for practices and quizzes.
00:35:21.000Here, he leaves for school with little in his backpack other than a required healthy snack.
00:35:25.000The first day, he came home with a sheet of math homework.
00:35:29.000On the second day, he was asked to write 328 in different configurations.
00:35:32.000He first wrote down 300 plus 20 plus 8 following the prompt, and then 164 times 2, 82 times 4, and 656 divided by 2. My son is not a genius, but he started studying math at an early age.
00:35:46.000It is a core belief in Chinese society that talent can be trained, so schools should be tough on children.
00:35:51.000Chinese students score at the top of international math and science tests.
00:35:53.000We've got the UCs removing the SATs and ACTs because, God forbid, too many Asian students get in.
00:36:00.000And at the same time, you've got Chinese schools that are basically saying, no, no, no, you guys are going to be forced to learn, you're going to be provided the opportunity to learn, and you're going to be expected to learn.
00:36:08.000This is not a philosophy shared by American schools, says this writer.
00:36:11.000On Friday night, my son came home announcing in bewilderment he didn't have any homework.
00:36:15.000In China, students tend to receive twice as much homework on the weekend, given the two days to complete it.
00:36:19.000How will America compete with a China determined to train the best mathematicians, scientists, and engineers?
00:36:23.000Unfolding now are two Maoist cultural revolutions, one in the East and the other in the West.
00:36:29.000The former is a jingoistic nationalism enforced by party loyalties and ubiquitous secret police.
00:36:34.000The latter is an anti-Americanism enforced by progressive mobs seeking to defund the police.
00:36:39.000Both are about limiting expression, controlling thought, and regulating behavior.
00:36:42.000Xi Jinping has been cracking down on everything from finance to entertainment to whip his country through a national rejuvenation.
00:36:48.000America, China's nationalism is explicitly anchored in Maoism, with Mr. Xi representing a new cult of personality.
00:36:54.000Meanwhile, woke America, which consciously or not deploys Maoist tactics, is destroying the core traditions of Western civilization with identity politics.
00:37:02.000In both countries, control must extend to the very young to mold them in the image of the official ideology.
00:37:08.000In fall 2020, Chinese pupils returned to school with a new requirement to study Xi Jinping Thought.
00:37:13.000Across the ocean, American pupils are taught that white America is inherently racist regardless of individual intention or action.
00:37:19.000Chinese education pushes the young in directions that serve the party and the state.
00:37:23.000Youths are trained to be skilled laborers ready to endure hard work and brutal competition.
00:37:27.000American education is supposed to be about opening minds but appears not to fill them with much.
00:37:31.000Worse, young Americans are not prepared for the demands of being an adult.
00:37:35.000American education right now is geared toward teaching people that the things that matter about you are your mutable racial characteristics and your sexual proclivities.
00:37:43.000And those sexual proclivities can span the entire gamut of human existence.
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00:39:51.000Societies that have confidence in themselves stand up for their centralized values and for their heroes.
00:40:01.000Well, meanwhile, societies like the United States, we removed Thomas Jefferson statues according to the New York Post.
00:40:06.000Thomas Jefferson is no longer in the room where it happens.
00:40:08.000Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate on Monday.
00:40:12.000After a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation's third president from City Hall, where it resided for nearly two centuries, because he owned slaves.
00:40:20.000About a dozen workers with martial fine arts spent several hours carefully removing the painted plaster monument from its pedestal inside the city council chambers and surrounding it with sections of foam and wooden boards.
00:40:30.000They then lowered that massive structure down the stairs, leading to the building's first floor rotunda with a pulley system ushered the founding father out the back door.
00:40:37.000It's going to be on long-term loans to the New York Historical Society, which plans to have Jefferson's model survive in its lobby and reading room.
00:40:44.000Kerry Butler, executive director of the Public Design Commission that voted to banish the statue, at first tried to block the press from witnessing the removal.
00:40:50.000Butler relented after members of the mayor's office and city council intervened.
00:40:54.000So, there are now pictures of Thomas Jefferson's statue being removed.
00:40:57.000Very important to get rid of the guy who wrote the Declaration of Independence because history is filled with people doing bad things.
00:41:03.000And so we have to make sure that's gone.
00:41:04.000We need a George Floyd statue in there because truly what signifies America is the victimization of black Americans, not the great and good founding principles that allowed for the end of slavery in the United States, the end of Jim Crow in the United States, and the vast thriving of vast numbers of black Americans in the United States, particularly in the post-civil rights era.
00:41:23.000Hey, this is all of that is irrelevant.
00:41:26.000The really relevant thing is that human beings suffer in the United States because we are a system that has decided that we are bad and we are very, very bad.
00:41:35.000Meanwhile, the Teddy Roosevelt statue at the Museum of Natural History is going to be moved to North Dakota.
00:41:40.000The Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation, set to open in 2026, said in a statement it had entered into an agreement with the City of New York for the long-term loan and reconsideration of the equestrian statue designed by James Earl Frazier, this is according to the New York Post.
00:41:52.000That announcement came five months after the New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously to relocate the brand's effigy of the nation's 26th president amid claims it symbolizes colonial subjugation and racial discrimination.
00:43:07.000History is also filled with institutions built before you were about.
00:43:10.000And the belief that the world will end spinning when you are here and thus you are the great moral arbiter of the universe and get to reshape the universe in line with all of your thinking is destroying the country.
00:43:20.000It's throwing everything from history to race to sex in the United States.
00:43:27.000If we wish to survive against the forces of nature that exist outside of us, we're going to have to come to terms with the fact that reality does exist.
00:43:37.000The reality that your singular choices in life make a very large-scale difference in how your life turns out, that's a reality that exists.
00:43:45.000And if we just decide that we're going to blind ourselves to that reality, well, we can wander around blindly until we stumble directly into the fire of reality, and it is going to burn.
00:43:53.000It's going to burn an awful, awful lot.
00:43:56.000Speaking of the fire of reality, so this situation in Waukesha, Wisconsin continues to percolate.
00:44:05.000We still do not know why the person, the 39-year-old black male who decided to drive a car into a crowd of children, why he did that, we don't know.
00:44:15.000And we probably will never find out, because we are not allowed to ask such questions.
00:44:19.000Because to ask such questions might reveal that certain ideologies are not, in fact, good.
00:44:25.000Sun, the suspect in the Christmas parade rampage that killed five revelers wrote an anti-Donald Trump rap and declared, F the pigs, according to songs posted online.
00:44:33.000One of his songs includes the lyrics, they're gonna need a cleaner for the bleep we did.
00:44:36.000All my killers at Gacy wear them bodies hid.
00:44:39.000Here's a little bit of his, uh, of his brilliant rap.
00:44:44.000This that Malcolm X s**t, revolutionary.
00:44:48.000This for my n****s in the can, eatin' convosary.
00:44:51.000For every ghetto in America, I know they waitin'.
00:44:55.000This that f**k Donald Trump flow, and whoever had s**t.
00:45:01.000So, both untalented, incoherent, and has a terrible philosophy.
00:45:05.000Well, we're not supposed to investigate any of that, though.
00:45:07.000If Andy Ngo posts anything about his philosophy, the journalists among us will shield us from the vicious reality that maybe this guy believes a lot of really bad stuff.
00:45:16.000By the way, you know that if there had been a white guy who drove a car into a crowd filled with children, and they had found on his Facebook page a bunch of white supremacist garbage, that would immediately be the leading motive that was suspected.
00:46:45.000And an entire community is struggling, struggling to cope with the horrific act of violence.
00:46:51.000Last night, the people of Waukesha were gathered to celebrate the start of a season of hope and togetherness and Thanksgiving.
00:47:00.000This morning, Jill and I and the entire Biden family, and I'm sure all of us pray, That that same spirit is going to embrace and lift up all the victims of this tragedy.
00:47:13.000Okay, so glad that Joe Biden could be bothered to emerge and say these things.
00:47:17.000It is also true that we know, at least from a policy perspective, why this happened.
00:47:22.000According to CBS 58 in Wisconsin, the Waukesha Police Department is referring five counts of intentional homicide for the man accused of ramming his SUV into the Waukesha Christmas Parade.
00:47:32.000Those charges carry possible life sentences.
00:47:34.000There's the possibility more charges will be filed as the investigation progresses.
00:47:39.000This was not the first time that this suspect, and again, I don't use names for people who do this sort of stuff because I don't like people being glorified for this.
00:47:46.000I don't think they should become famous because of this.
00:47:48.000I think that they should be thrown in jail to rot and then forgotten because that's what they deserve.
00:47:52.000This was not the first time this suspect allegedly ran someone over with his car.
00:47:56.000Just three weeks ago, he ran over a woman he had a child with.
00:48:00.000But at the time, his bail was set at just $1,000.
00:48:04.000Now, the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office is conducting an internal review into why the bail was set inappropriately low.
00:48:12.000Justice Jeanine Gieske, who is on the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 93 to 98, explained, quote, there are hundreds and hundreds of cases in Milwaukee County.
00:48:18.000Even the backlog of full homicides is tremendous at this point.
00:48:21.000Judge Justice Gieske said the district attorney's office recommends the bail amount to a court commissioner before it's approved by a judge.
00:48:28.000It's not unusual for a court commissioner to be setting 30, 40, 50 cases of bail on a day.
00:48:32.000The bail amount is supposed to consider a person's prior record, character, whether they might flee, whether they might commit a crime while out on bail.
00:48:48.000It was released November 11th, 10 days before the Waukesha parade.
00:48:52.000The DA's office now says in a statement, quote, the bail recommendation in this case is not consistent with the approach of the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office toward matters involving violent crime, nor was it consistent with the risk assessment of the defendant prior to the setting of bail.
00:49:11.000Yesterday, we talked at length on the show about the fact that Chisholm was made nationally famous for his approach to low bail.
00:49:17.000He put out a statement saying, quote, the state's bail recommendation in this case was inappropriately low, and they're conducting an internal review.
00:49:24.000Yeah, no bleep, you're conducting an internal review.
00:49:37.000It's funny how this works, by the way.
00:49:38.000If it's white guy in SUV runs down black kids, it's white guy in SUV runs down black kids.
00:49:43.000If it is, in fact, a black guy in an SUV running down white kids, then the SUV is the problem.
00:49:50.000Look at the way that the media report these headlines, right?
00:49:52.000There's a headline today From CNN breaking news, quote, five people have died and more than 40 are injured after an SUV plowed through a holiday parade in Waukesha.
00:50:02.000Well, you know, that's unfortunate when the SUVs just sort of run out of control all by themselves this way.
00:50:06.000Meanwhile, the left continues to foment the exact same garbage policy that led to this in the first place.
00:50:11.000So, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez literally put out a message to legislators today, asking for bail reform.
00:50:22.000She put out a tweet that was sent out within 24 hours of Waukesha, quote, chairman of the committee on oversight and reform, and representative Jamie Raskin, two New York City's five district attorneys requesting information on excessive bail in the New York City court system.
00:50:38.000When prosecutors seek excessive cash bail, it results in increased rates of incarceration, particularly for low-income defense.
00:50:44.000Well, we wouldn't want criminals in the prisons.
00:50:48.000We need them out on the streets, obviously.
00:50:50.000You know the level of blindness, and honestly, self-confidence you have to have to make a statement like this in the immediate aftermath of Waukesha?
00:51:01.000And like within 24 hours, she and the rest of the Democratic Party, apparently are releasing a statement calling for low bail.
00:51:08.000Condemning thousands of individuals to languish in an environment plagued by persistence overcrowding and mounting violence as they wait trial is not acceptable and risks violating their federal civil rights. If these conditions are not addressed, federal intervention may be necessary to protect detainees from additional harm.
00:51:24.000Excessive bail amounts are leading to unnecessary pretrial detention. Oh, do you?
00:51:29.000And by the way, if you think these people are in any way tethered to reality, they are not.
00:51:34.000Perhaps the funniest clip of the day, Jonathan Swan of Axios, who is basically like Jon Stewart now.
00:51:40.000He just interviews people, and he asks them really obvious questions, and they have no idea how to answer them.
00:51:46.000I can't tell you how many of these almost parodic videos Jonathan Swan has put out at this point, where he asks someone a very obvious and clear question, and they have no idea what to say about it.
00:51:55.000So he was interviewing the execrable Rashida Tlaib, one of the worst members of Congress, She's just terrible.
00:52:12.000To what extent have you wrestled with any potential downsides of releasing into society every single person who's currently in a federal prison?
00:52:21.000Yeah, again, I think that everyone's like, oh my God, we're going to just release everybody.
00:52:26.000That's not what I'm... That's what the facts is!
00:52:27.000Yeah, but did you see how many people are mentally ill that are in prison right now?
00:52:31.000No, I know, but the act that you endorsed actually says release everyone in ten years.
00:52:35.000But in ten years, but think about it, who will release you?
00:52:38.000But there are like, human traffickers... Oh, I know!
00:52:40.000Child sex... So, but you're saying, do you mean that you don't actually support that?
00:53:53.000For the seventh consecutive year, homicides in Philadelphia reached 496 on Sunday.
00:53:57.000That's 14% higher than this time last year.
00:54:03.000Officials in the district and across the country say there's no simple explanation for the increase in deadly violence.
00:54:08.000District leaders have offered many possible reasons, including the proliferation of illegal firearms, their use in seemingly minor disputes, and pandemic-induced disruptions.
00:54:16.000Um, well, it's... I have an answer for you.
00:55:13.000brain dead human being has run for president of the United States.
00:55:15.000You have some people who are pretty close, but but I'm not sure that we've ever had a person whose mind has has actually turned to mush running for president of the United States again.
00:55:39.000By the way, Joe Biden says that he's going to run in 2024 and he brags that he has a jobs presidency and a small business presidency.
00:55:46.000Let me remind you that right now he's attempting to force every small business with more than 100 employees in the United States to vax their employees.
00:55:54.000that he wants all of these employees apparently out of a job or to obey him.
00:57:15.000And if you continue and combine the wage increases we've seen with the direct relief my administration has provided to middle class families, the typical middle class family's disposable income has actually gone up 2% this year, even after accounting for higher prices.
00:57:42.000I mean, even Janet Yellen is concerned about it.
00:57:43.000She says, yeah, we're on a strong growth spurt at the moment.
00:57:45.000They're just going to try and talk their way through this one.
00:57:47.000Here is Janet Yellen, who is just terrible at her job.
00:57:51.000If the Fed acts quicker to taper, pare back its stimulus and acts quicker to raise interest rates, does that risk a recession or choking off the growth?
00:58:08.000We have seen over 500,000 jobs a month since President Biden was elected, and I think that's going to continue into next year, driving down unemployment.
00:58:41.000I know that is the staple of the Thanksgiving meal.
00:58:44.000However, some people think turkey is overrated and so it tends to be the most expensive thing on the table.
00:58:50.000Maybe you do an Italian feast instead.
00:58:52.000And I will say this, if you tell everyone you're having a Thanksgiving without turkey, some guests may drop off the list and that's a way to cut costs too.