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00:01:51.000All righty. So yesterday, Attorney General Merrick Garland, remember, this was supposed to be a legal mind for the ages. And he wasn't just some sort of political hack who did the law.
00:02:07.000Remember, some of the alternatives that Joe Biden had been looking at were far more radical publicly facing than Merrick Garland was for attorney general.
00:02:14.000And there'd been talk about Doug Jones from Alabama as the attorney general of the United States.
00:02:18.000There'd been talk about bringing back some of the Obama holdovers.
00:02:21.000Instead, Joe Biden picked Merrick Garland specifically because Merrick Garland was supposed to not be a political hack, widely respected, almost made the Supreme Court.
00:02:29.000Instead, it turns out that pretty much every left-minded judicial appointee, if given the power of the Attorney General would turn into Merrick Garland.
00:02:39.000So Merrick Garland has been a very highly political Attorney General.
00:02:43.000And he was called in front of the Senate yesterday to talk about how the DOJ was targeting parents.
00:02:49.000Because remember, the DOJ put out an entire memo talking about how they were going to essentially sick the FBI on parents who had questions about how school boards were running.
00:02:59.000And they did so at the behest of a National School Boards Association which had claimed that there was a massive uptick in violence against school boards without actually demonstrating that that was in fact the case.
00:03:10.000So yesterday, Merrick Garland was called to the Hill, and he was asked questions about this.
00:03:14.000Because when the federal government is called upon by an outside source to start investigating violence, and then, on the basis of no evidence, starts to do that, this could have a pretty significant chilling effect on people who might want to get involved in, say, the local school board.
00:03:26.000If you found out that the FBI and DOJ were suddenly targeting your point of view and giving you a little bit of extra scrutiny because they had been told to by your political opponents, Might that not be somewhat chilling?
00:03:37.000So Merrick Garland was specifically asked about the fact that if this really was a pressing law enforcement issue that required the intervention of the DOJ, could he name any specific act of violence that had led to this large-scale announcement from the DOJ?
00:03:51.000Here is Merrick Garland saying, well, not so much.
00:03:55.000Just in my recollection I said that the impetus for the letter from my memorandum was that letter and also reports of this kind of activity.
00:04:07.000I said again that at the time that they were news reports that had been published and I think that some of the other senators here have described some of those news reports and we've certainly seen subsequently more news reports and more statements by board members of threats to kill them.
00:04:28.000But when Cotton asked him specifically about the memo that the DOJ put out, which included, quote, violence, threats of violence, as well as harassment and intimidation, Garland had no response, because harassment and intimidation are not quite the same thing as threats of violence.
00:04:44.000Because it turns out that if somebody disagrees with you at a school board meeting, that could be considered, quote-unquote, harassment or intimidation.
00:04:49.000This is something Mike Lee pointed out.
00:04:52.000So Merrick Garland then admitted that the original letter that caused the DOJ to start looking into parents did not include acts of violence in the letter.
00:05:03.000You didn't investigate the incidents in the letter, did you?
00:05:33.000And they would be protected by the First Amendment.
00:05:37.000Okay, so then the question is, if you did not have a pressing need to do this, why did you do this?
00:05:40.000And the answer, of course, is that this served the left-leaning agenda, suggesting that school boards everywhere are doing a wonderful job and parents who have questions about school boards are doing a terrible job.
00:05:49.000This led Tom Cotton to rip into Merrick Garland, telling him he probably should just resign his job.
00:05:55.000Do you apologize to Scott Smith and his 15-year-old daughter, Judge?
00:06:02.000This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful.
00:06:06.000Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court.
00:06:07.000entitled and protected by the First Amendment to protest to their school board about that. But he was cited by the School Board Association as a domestic terrorist which we now know that letter and those reports were the basis for your judgment. No, Senator. This is shameful. Judge, this is shameful. This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, Judge.
00:06:33.000Okay, and of course Merrick Garland was very upset because he said, well, it's not really the NSBA letter that caused It was just kind of the NSBA letter that caused us to do all this.
00:06:41.000Josh Hawley got in on the act as well, the senator from Missouri.
00:06:44.000He said that you guys are talking about using the language of domestic terrorism via the NSBA to apply to parents.
00:06:54.000Several of my Democrat colleagues have today, just today in this hearing, multiple times have compared parents who show up at school board meetings, like Mr. Smith here, have compared them to criminal rioters.
00:07:04.000You think that a parent who shows up at a school board meeting who has a complaint, who wants to voice that complaint, and maybe she doesn't use exactly the right grammar, you think they're akin to criminal rioters?
00:07:33.000When it comes to the application of law, the Attorney General's Office, when it comes to the DOJ, the DOJ has to be a somewhat Honorable institution.
00:07:44.000Bill Barr got an enormous amount of flack when he was Attorney General because the idea from the left is that he was doing the bidding of Donald Trump routinely.
00:07:59.000He wanted Bill Barr to start initiating investigations of the election and Bill Barr wouldn't do that.
00:08:06.000This sort of stuff happened all the time under Donald Trump.
00:08:08.000Can anyone name a single time where a Democratic president has gone to his AG and said, I'd like to do X and the AG said no?
00:08:15.000See, this is the dirty little secret about the way that politics work at the presidential level.
00:08:20.000Pretty frequently, when there's a Republican president and he says something untoward, the people around him say, you're not allowed to do that.
00:08:26.000This happened with Trump all the time.
00:08:28.000Half of the things that Trump suggested on Twitter were then walked back by his own administration, and people around him said, we won't implement that, and then Trump just dropped it.
00:08:35.000But when Joe Biden says jump, the people around him say, how high?
00:08:39.000And this has some pretty deleterious effects on Americans' lives.
00:08:42.000And to take just another example, it is Merrick Garland who's been spending his days cracking down on police departments around the country while simultaneously the crime rate's been going up.
00:08:50.000Murder rates have spiked in nearly every major American city, but it was Merrick Garland who decided very early on that he was going to rescind the Trump administration's policies with regard to consent decrees with regard to local police departments.
00:09:02.000It was all the way back in April that CNBC reported that Merrick Garland had rescinded Trump-era limits on consent decrees, which the DOJ had used to enforce reforms in police departments accused of widespread misconduct.
00:09:15.000Garland said he would return to the traditional process in place before Trump's administration imposed sharp restrictions on the tool.
00:09:21.000Garland said in a memo, together we will continue the department's legacy of promoting the rule of law, protecting the public, working collaboratively with state and local governmental entities to meet those ends. That is not what consent decrees historically have been under democratic administrations. Consent decrees have been a way to force local police departments to tell cops not to do things.
00:09:40.000These consent decrees have largely been based on bad evidence.
00:09:42.000This is certainly the case with the Seattle consent decree under the Obama administration.
00:09:46.000It's been a way to cram down particular diversity-laden viewpoints that have nothing to do with the reality of policing.
00:09:53.000How the law is enforced matters an awful lot.
00:09:57.000And this also happens to be the case, I mean, Merrick Garland got rigged over the coals yesterday for having greenlit a settlement with former FBI acting director Andrew McCabe.
00:10:06.000You'll remember that Andy McCabe was fired because an inspector general found that Andy McCabe had lied in testimony, like he had lied to the FBI.
00:10:14.000And he leaked out information that he was not cleared to leak.
00:10:19.000And now the Justice Department agreed to pay McCabe and his attorneys over $700,000.
00:10:26.000During a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, Senator Chuck Grassley expressed outrage over the settlement, calling the move, quote, beyond incredible, noting that a DOJ inspector general review found McCabe to be lying to investigators on seven separate occasions.
00:10:39.000Garland's answer, quote, the McCabe settlement was a recommendation of the career lawyers litigating that case based on their prospects of success in the case.
00:10:47.000Garland said it involved a claim that he was not given the amount of time necessary to respond to allegations.
00:10:51.000The litigators concluded they needed to settle the case because of the likelihood of loss on the merits of the claim.
00:10:56.000Do you think that on principle, if McCabe had been a strong Democrat, that that would have been a thing that the DOJ decided to settle out?
00:11:07.000And once the DOJ becomes an overtly political tool, which it is under Merrick Garland, people start to lose trust in the institutions.
00:11:12.000And again, this didn't start with him.
00:11:14.000Janet Reno was a tool of the Clinton administration going all the way back.
00:11:18.000But it is worthy of note that this administration, which pledged to be a bipartisan unifying administration, is basically the soft face of authoritarianism.
00:11:27.000They're constantly doing authoritarian things via powers delegated to them by a feckless and incompetent Congress over the course of decades.
00:11:35.000And they're just doing what they will with it.
00:11:57.000We need to spend trillions of dollars so Joe Biden can go to Europe, to Glasgow, and talk with the international community about climate change.
00:13:20.000We should definitely formulate our policy around what Kenya thinks about climate change.
00:13:25.000Really important to find out what the Swedes think about climate change.
00:13:28.000Frankly, if Greta Thunberg is disappointed in me, I'm willing to pay trillions of dollars just to prevent that.
00:13:33.000Because if this now-adult-who-I-can-make-fun-of person stares at me angrily and tells me that as an adult she's disappointed in me, I know that that sears me down to my soul.
00:13:46.000It sears me to the point where I am perfectly willing to allow Joe Biden to spend trillions of dollars we don't have, inflate the economy, and completely dissuade people from going back to work in order so that Greta Thunberg sleeps better at night on her yacht.
00:14:03.000So according to CBS News, we have now reached... It's funny, I'm not sure how many turning points there can be before you're just all the way around in a circle, but they keep talking about how every climate summit is going to be a turning point.
00:14:16.000Most global warming is already baked into the cake.
00:14:19.000The reality is that any measure that dramatically harms the global economy on behalf of lowering carbon emissions is a fool's errand.
00:14:28.000You are much better off taking some of that potential gain and using it on mitigation efforts and adaptation efforts rather than attempting to completely remake the world economy to stop carbon emissions altogether considering a huge percentage of the world's population still lives in abject poverty burning dung for fuel.
00:14:45.000Carbon emissions are not the specific problem in the long run.
00:14:49.000The specific problem is how human beings deal with carbon emissions.
00:14:55.000All the catastrophic nonsense about how billions of people are going to be living in basically a Mad Max universe if global warming continues.
00:15:43.000How can we impact great systems of climate by also taking control of the great systems of economics?
00:15:50.000A civilization whose primary worry is whether there is going to be global warming over the course of the next hundred years that causes some people to move from their homes and causes, if the estimates are correct and the economy continues to grow as it has done for the past century and a half, It will cause a few thousand deaths over the course of a century.
00:16:12.000This is according to the estimates from Bjorn Lomborg over at the Copenhagen Institute.
00:16:16.000The notion that hundreds of thousands or millions of people are going to die from global warming is just based on the fact that human beings adapt to their environment and adapt to the climate.
00:16:25.000The notion that you're going to sink the world economy on that basis, that is a rich people thing.
00:16:31.000And there's a reason that this is a rich people conference.
00:16:34.000Everybody's taking private jets to these climate change conferences because if you don't live in a rich country, this is not a major concern to you.
00:16:39.000Your first concern is, how do I make sure that my kids live through the next year?
00:16:43.000Not, what is the climate going to be like in a hundred years?
00:16:47.000And so if we, who are looking long-term, wish to protect the human species from whatever vacillations and vicissitudes of climate fall upon us, we ought to be looking at things like building seawalls, maybe geoengineering, Maybe painting the roads white.
00:17:03.000There are things that we can do that are designed to mitigate the effects of climate change.
00:17:08.000Human beings are really good at adaptation.
00:17:09.000We really, really suck at completely changing entire systems of how we live in order to prevent long-off costs that we still don't know will materialize in the way that the UN keeps saying they will materialize.
00:17:22.000But this means that every climate summit is hailed by our brilliant media as the turning point for civilization.
00:17:29.000According to CBS News, President Joe Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement on his first day in office, but Senate Democrats are still fighting over new climate legislation that would give Mr. Biden something to brag about as the U.S.
00:17:39.000attempts to reassert itself as a leader at next week's Global Climate Summit.
00:17:43.000I don't care whether the European CS is a leader.
00:17:45.000We are the leaders and they're just going to have to deal with it.
00:17:47.000And the fact is that Europe is a dying continent.
00:17:50.000It's been a dying continent for quite a long time.
00:17:52.000If we wish to follow Europe down the primrose path, we can.
00:17:55.000But to pretend that we are subject to the moral whim of a continent responsible for two world wars, responsible not only for those world wars, but for a lack of growth, a spineless embrace of a of an innervated future.
00:18:16.000What makes us subject to the Europeans?
00:18:18.000They've been hanging on our coattails for well over a century at this point.
00:18:21.000Why exactly would I care what the French think about our climate policy?
00:18:25.000Considering, again, that the United States is actually reducing its climate emissions and, by the way, is the basis for all global growth in the economy.
00:18:36.000Why would that make a difference to me?
00:18:37.000There's a great book out right now by David Harsanyi.
00:19:17.000The countries that adopted the Paris Agreement in 2015, now nearly every country in the world except Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, are to meet every five years to update their ambitions.
00:19:25.000The summit was delayed last year because of the pandemic.
00:19:27.000I love that they update their ambitions.
00:19:29.000Because remember, the Paris Accords were not binding.
00:19:32.000The Paris Accords said, we are going to try to do X in five years.
00:19:36.000We're going to try to lower our emissions by this percentage in 10 years.
00:19:39.000Okay, so people get together and they make a pinky swear.
00:19:43.000They're going to lower their emissions.
00:19:45.000And most of the time, they don't hit any of those targets, but they all feel real good about themselves.
00:19:48.000And then the media talk about how we have finally achieved world peace.
00:19:52.000This year, the goal is to prove that countries take the priorities seriously and are working on issues such as methane emission reduction, enacting a global carbon market and weaning countries off coal production.
00:20:05.000Seriously, America is historically the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases and still the world's leading producer of fossil fuels.
00:20:11.000However, Mr. Biden and Senate Democrats are deadlocked trying to negotiate a deal that would invest hundreds of billions in climate policies.
00:20:18.000West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has opposed the price of the package, a clean electricity performance program, and a carbon tax.
00:20:24.000Data show that without those policies, the U.S.
00:20:26.000will fail to meet their goal of lower emissions, and therefore, global temperatures.
00:20:30.000By the way, the United States could go to zero emissions tomorrow.
00:20:32.000The change in the climate trajectory would be a fraction of a degree Celsius over the course of the next century.
00:20:38.000Saying just about the United States, China is by far the world's leading emitter.
00:20:43.000Developing countries emit as they develop.
00:20:45.000Before the Paris Agreement, the global economy was on track to, by the year 2100, warm the planet at least 3.7 degrees Celsius above 1900's pre-industrial levels.
00:21:49.000We need like trillions of dollars, which of course is true.
00:21:51.000The third pillar is born by climate envoy John Kerry.
00:21:56.000Kerry's been traveling the world for the past 10 months, meeting with world leaders on the climate crisis, vocalizing America's commitment to the issue, pressuring others to do the same.
00:22:04.000Domestically, Kerry has worked with the private sector to get corporations to agree to lowering their emissions, which could bolster America's reputation.
00:22:38.000So, the UN is now also attempting to push... So the UN, which can't control anything of note around the world, the UN is a garbage organization filled with garbage countries, and the UN Which cannot stop full-scale atrocities happening across the globe, can't stop Chinese enslavement of the Uyghurs, can't stop massacres in Myanmar, can't stop anything.
00:23:00.000But they can preach to us about climate change.
00:23:03.000They can do so using a cartoon dinosaur.
00:23:06.000Not Barney, which would at least be amusing.
00:23:08.000No, they actually created a computer-generated dinosaur to lecture us about climate change.
00:23:13.000Now, call me crazy, but I don't take my climate change advice from a cartoon extinct species.
00:23:21.000And I certainly don't take my advice from something far worse, the United Nations, which is the most eyesleeve international politics, a hive of scum and villainy.
00:23:29.000Nonetheless, here is the UN pushing the climate change agenda.
00:24:06.000The people living in poverty, you think they care deeply about the climate change policies?
00:24:10.000Is this like their number one... As I point out, the great escape from poverty is generally based on carbon-based fuels.
00:24:17.000And by the way, the notion that if you send foreign aid to impoverished countries, that the usual dictators and thugs who run impoverished countries, because there's a high correlation between horrible governance and impoverishment, that those people just take that foreign aid and they hand it out to the people.
00:24:49.000If you can't see this, there's a bunch of people that are now sitting in wheelchairs because they've so weakened themselves in striking against the sun.
00:25:00.000And they're holding signs that say things like, Hunger-striking for a good job.
00:25:05.000Well, if you're hunger-striking for a good job, you could, you know, like, eat and then go get one, considering there are 10 million open jobs.
00:25:10.000This one says, hunger-striking for my future children.
00:25:12.000We'll get to that in a second, about how we are a civilization that is dying, because we 100% are.
00:25:17.000Then one person has a sign that says, hunger-striking for my community.
00:25:22.000I feel like you could do better things than not eating for your community.
00:25:25.000Anyway, here is one of these activists talking about this.
00:25:28.000When there's a big flood, when that finally comes, or the big hurricane, or the catastrophe that we can't totally see coming yet.
00:25:37.000Like, where is our family going to meet up?
00:25:40.000I don't ever want to have conversations like that.
00:25:42.000Okay, and then it says, one activist was hospitalized because of the strike.
00:25:48.000They are all now using wheelchairs to keep steady.
00:25:50.000That future, where we don't ever have to have a family meeting place, where I can just live.
00:25:59.000I can be with my future wife and my kids and have that garden.
00:26:50.000Because what I'm finding from this administration and from a huge percentage of the American population is that our priorities don't line up with reality.
00:26:56.000They spit directly in the face of reality, actually.
00:26:59.000The realities of climate change are pretty obvious.
00:27:05.000I'm fully willing to accept the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC.
00:27:11.000All of that can be said, and still, the mitigation and adaptation measures that they are recommending can be fully idiotic in every respect.
00:27:18.000Hey, the exaggerations by the media can be fully idiotic in every respect.
00:27:21.000But again, the reason this is a top priority for people is because it distracts them from the underlying realities, which are that you need resources in order to maintain life on this planet.
00:27:30.000You need to actually allow civilizations to grow.
00:27:34.000And human adaptation is a better strategy than undermining the key institutions of the society.
00:28:46.000All the institutions associated with biological sex have to go.
00:28:48.000We'll get to that in a second because the State Department has some very, very stringent priorities.
00:28:53.000The priorities are abandoning women to the Taliban in Afghanistan and making sure that if you're a non-gender If you're a gender non-binary person, you can put an X on your passport.
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00:33:05.000That means the population of the United States declines unless you bring in immigrants, which is what the United States has been doing for quite a while.
00:33:14.000Okay, the fact is that if you look at the fertility rates across a wide variety of Western countries, there's literally not a Western country, a European country outside of Georgia, like the country of Georgia, that has fertility rates above 2.
00:33:31.000The only other quote-unquote Western country, and it's not quite Western because it's in the Middle East, Israel has fertility rates above 2.
00:33:36.000Every other Western country, European country, America, all of them have fertility rates below 2, which means they are not reproducing at replacement rates.
00:33:46.000When you don't reproduce, it is very difficult to see how your civilization has a future.
00:33:49.000Just materially speaking, it's very difficult to see how that's the case.
00:34:14.000It's like every country in the West is now not reproducing.
00:34:18.000Instead, we are focused on how do we basically live out our last days as a civilization in comfort.
00:34:24.000And one of the ways that we live out our days as a civilization in comfort is by lying to ourselves about fulfillment being found not in building.
00:34:42.000Which is why the State Department has now decided it's very important that we issue the first third gender passport for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming Americans.
00:34:49.000Now, you might think to yourself, wait a second.
00:34:52.000It is one thing for you to write on a college essay that you are non-gender conforming or that you are non-gender binary or some nonsense.
00:35:00.000It's one thing to write that in your little Facebook profile.
00:35:04.000It's another thing for a governmental document, which is specifically designated in order to help determine who you are, to have you put that, because that's a subjective metric, right?
00:35:13.000It's like putting on your passport that you're a Bon Jovi fan.
00:35:18.000There's no way to tell whether that's true or not, nor is it relevant.
00:35:22.000Your interior feelings have no relevance to the question of how the government ought to identify you for purposes of knowing who the hell's in the country.
00:35:29.000But the State Department now feels it's very important for you to look at your passport and feel that your passport reflects your innermost feelings.
00:35:36.000We're a society that now treasures the inner subjectivity of feelings over the identification within reality.
00:35:43.000According to ABC News, four months after announcing it would allow a third gender option for U.S.
00:35:47.000citizens on their passports, the State Department said Wednesday it has issued one.
00:35:50.000It's the first of its kind, denoted with an X for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming U.S.
00:36:27.000But to have an accurate passport, one that doesn't force me to identify as male or female, but recognizes I am neither, is liberating, Zhijun said in a statement.
00:36:36.000The agency is still preparing to make the option widely available for passports and other documents, such as the Consular Report of Birth Abroad.
00:36:42.000So it's not just for Americans, by the way.
00:36:45.000It's people who are green card holders, who hold a U.S.
00:36:46.000passport, pretty much anybody trying to get in the country.
00:36:50.000I want to reiterate on the occasion of this passport issuance that the State Department's commitment to promoting the freedom, dignity, and equality of all people, including LGBTQI persons, said State Department Spokesperson Ned Price in a statement.
00:37:07.000We're just going to ignore the objective reality or what ID is supposed to do so that you feel better about yourself.
00:37:14.000The State Department, meanwhile, is saying that they are pursuing an end to gender-based discrimination with policies like this.
00:37:19.000I mean, not gender-based discrimination in Afghanistan, where women are literally forced into bags and then into the basement, but gender discrimination, like, you know, for example, being asked to say whether you are biologically male or female on a passport.
00:37:32.000President Biden and Secretary Blinken have made clear it is the policy of the United States to pursue an end to violence and discrimination on the basis of gender, of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sex characteristics.
00:37:44.000The Department of State is committed to promoting the freedom, the dignity, and equality of all persons, including, of course, intersex persons.
00:37:57.000Now, is this, again, is this the mark of a civilization that is on the decline or the mark of a civilization that is on the mend and ready to grow?
00:38:05.000And if you're worried about people getting married, having babies, a basic, basic thing that is necessary is understanding that men and women exist.
00:38:13.000That sexual dichotomy exists in mammals.
00:38:16.000If you refuse to even acknowledge this, it makes it a lot more difficult to convince people that it's important to get together and have kids in stable families.
00:38:23.000But we as a civilization have decided to abandon that on behalf of higherfalutin ideals like can we make sure that no carbon ever enters the atmosphere or at least pretend to?
00:38:33.000We have to make sure that gender fluidity is prized above the survival of civilization.
00:39:23.000You know, Diamond says cheerily, I never expected to be the poster child of sterilization.
00:39:28.000On the Aspiring Actress TikTok, one finds short funny videos about Diamond's job working the register at a cafe near Union Square, and updates on her rescue pitbull, Rue, who has anemia.
00:39:37.000Mixed in are clips extolling her child-free life.
00:39:40.000They have titles like Sterilization Attempt No.
00:39:42.0003 and Being Child-Free, We Do Know What We're Missing.
00:39:45.000It's been five months since she had her fallopian tubes cut, not tied, and she has 64,000 followers.
00:39:51.000Growing up near Hershey, Pennsylvania, Diamond always assumed she'd have a family of her own.
00:39:55.000Then came college at Arcadia University, her political awakening away from her conservative roots and toward progressivism, and a therapist, who she then found online a few months after graduation, who made her realize that being spanked as a child was deeply traumatic, and that it made her fear authority figures like her father.
00:40:11.000She decided she never wanted to be one herself.
00:41:59.000A nationally representative study of adults in Michigan found over a quarter of adults are child-free by choice.
00:42:05.000So basically we have decided that all the hallmarks of being an adult, all the hallmarks of adjusting to reality and building a civilization, have been thrown over in favor of a false pursuit of gender identity and hedonism.
00:42:19.000The trade is you get to have a good time in the moment and feel morally self-righteous as your civilization dies.
00:42:24.000By the way, there are other civilizations out there.
00:42:26.000So you can pretend that our civilization dying is somehow a good thing because of all of our historic excesses and all of the problems with our civilization.
00:42:33.000Just understand, there are other people out there who are waiting to take over and they are far, far worse than our civilization in virtually every way.
00:42:40.000But our civilization is now socially suicidal and this has massive consequences for the future.
00:42:47.000It means that the economy slows, for example.
00:42:49.000It means there's no one there to pay the bills.
00:42:50.000It means that on foreign policy, more people suffer, broadly speaking.
00:42:55.000It means that growth rates globally come to an end.
00:42:58.000It means that all the nice things that you think are natural to life, start to collapse.
00:43:03.000Because when institutions that created those things collapse, so do the things.
00:43:08.000Virtually every westernized, every western country is now experiencing massive drops in births.
00:43:15.000It's happening pretty much everywhere, according to Pew Research.
00:43:18.000In Italy, Japan, France, Belgium, they're among the nations that have reported sudden drops in births about nine months after the start of the pandemic, compared with the previous year.
00:43:26.000Some worry that a baby bust will create societal age imbalances and strain healthcare and retirement systems, while also eventually stripping the economy of young workers who tend to drive innovation and growth.
00:43:37.000Meanwhile, you can tell, by the way, that these have been dying civilizations for a while, considering how many kids are now being born out of wedlock.
00:43:44.000One of the fundamental institutions of society is marriage.
00:43:50.000Marriage was designed to civilize men.
00:43:52.000It was designed to allow women to grow up in intact, to allow children to grow up in intact homes and therefore have healthy lives and then become productive members of civilization themselves.
00:44:03.000Marriage was a civilizing institution.
00:44:36.000If you think that has no relationship with the number of people who are on social assistance, you're out of your mind.
00:44:43.000If you think this is a healthy way for society to grow, you're crazy, but maybe this is a society with a death wish.
00:44:49.000Maybe this is a society that has decided to sacrifice truth, logic, and decency in favor of the notion that we are bad, and we deserve to go this way.
00:44:58.000After all, we are a scourge on the earth.
00:45:01.000I think there is a strong reason why, when you look at the actual reproduction rates in the United States, they are heavily associated with religion.
00:45:43.000As a society becomes more secular, as a society decides that the future doesn't matter, and starts to undermine its own institutions, and starts to embrace fictional nonsense, on behalf of the subjective feelings of a few, the society begins to crumble.
00:45:57.000It also leads to absurdities like this story from BBC News.
00:46:01.000Quote, I've had someone saying they would rather kill me than Hitler, says 24-year-old Jenny.
00:46:05.000They said they would strangle me with a belt if they were in a room with me and Hitler.
00:46:08.000That was so bizarrely violent just because I won't have sex with trans women.
00:46:13.000She says she is only attracted to women who are biologically female and have vaginas.
00:46:17.000She therefore only has sex and relationships with women who are biologically female.
00:46:21.000Jenny doesn't think this should be controversial, but not everyone agrees.
00:46:24.000She has been described as transphobic, a genital fetishist, a pervert, and a TERF, a trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
00:46:31.000Jenny, who lives in London, says there's a common argument they try and use that goes, what if you met a woman in a bar and she's really beautiful, and you got on really well, and you went home and you discovered she had a penis?
00:46:42.000Yes, because if someone seems sexually attractive at first, you can go off them.
00:46:45.000I just don't possess the capacity to be sexually attracted to people who are biologically male, regardless of how they identify.
00:46:52.000According to Carolyn at Lowbridge, over at BBC News, I became aware of this particular issue after I wrote an article about sex, lies, and legal consent.
00:47:00.000Several people got in touch with me to say there was a huge problem for lesbians who are being pressured to accept the idea that a penis can be a female sex organ.
00:47:07.000I knew this would be a hugely divisive subject, but I wanted to find out how widespread the issue was.
00:47:12.000Ultimately, it has been difficult to determine the true scale of the problem because there's been little research on the topic.
00:47:17.000Only one survey, to my knowledge, however, those effective have told me the pressure comes from a minority of trans women as well as activists who are not necessarily trans themselves.
00:47:26.000So apparently, this is now a major issue among lesbians, is that because of the stupidity of suggesting gender fluidity, lesbians are being told that they must have sex with biological men.
00:47:37.000Because if they don't have sex with biological men, this means that they are apparently straight, because some biological men are women.
00:48:21.000So if we just ignore those difficulties, if we restructure society around the idea that we can get rid entirely of reality, Then we can put off the nightmares.
00:48:32.000We can put off having to adjust to civilization.
00:48:37.000And then, you know, later if the civilization falls apart, you know, I'm pretty sure, well, you know, we did our best.