The Ben Shapiro Show - Trans Mass Shooter Murders Children At Christian School

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00:00:08.000 Well, horrifying story out of Nashville, Tennessee.

00:00:12.000 Yesterday, a shooter who identified as a trans man, a 28-year-old woman, biological woman, shot three students and three adults at Covenant School in the Greenhills neighborhood of Nashville.

00:00:24.000 It's a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:00:29.000 Apparently, this person was a former student at the school.

00:00:32.000 On this show, we don't actually name shooters, because we believe that that gives glory to shooters, it gives them the attention they so desperately seek.

00:00:38.000 But the facts of the case are things that are highly relevant, so we are going to be discussing many things about the shooter that are highly relevant, especially given the politicized environment in which these shootings happen, and in which the media just decide to lie about the source of the shootings.

00:00:51.000 So, in this particular case, The Nashville Police spokesperson, Don Aaron, said police received the call of an active shooter at Covenant School, 10.13 a.m.

00:00:58.000 local time.

00:00:59.000 The suspect had entered the school on the first floor and then proceeded to the lobby area on the second floor, firing multiple shots.

00:01:04.000 Apparently, the shooter broke into the school.

00:01:07.000 The doors were not locked.

00:01:09.000 Aaron said that officers responding to the scene discovered the shooting occurred on the school's second floor and quickly engaged the shooter.

00:01:13.000 The suspect was dead by 10.27 a.m.

00:01:16.000 Unlike in other cases, officers actually did hear the gunshots and charged the shooter.

00:01:22.000 This immediately turned into a battle over narrative, which is what happens with every mass shooting in the United States.

00:01:27.000 The left immediately jumps to a series of narratives rooted in sort of left-wing storytelling.

00:01:32.000 And this happens with every single mass shooting.

00:01:34.000 You can tell before the shooting even happened.

00:01:37.000 If the victims of a shooting are X and if the shooter is Y, here's what the narrative will be.

00:01:42.000 If you have a mass shooting in the United States in which the shooter is white and the victim is black, then the narrative is going to be about both guns and racism.

00:01:49.000 If you have a mass shooting in which the shooter is black and the victim is white, it's going to be about guns and systemic racism and dispossession. 0.94

00:01:55.000 If the shooter is Muslim and the victim is gay, then it's going to be about Christian bigotry, which is exactly what happened in the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting. 0.94

00:02:02.000 If the shooter is Asian and the victims are white, as happened at Virginia Tech, then we're going to be talking about gun control. 0.95

00:02:08.000 If the shooter is trans and the victim is gay, as we'll discuss in a moment, we're going to be talking about guns and maybe about the virulent oppression of trans people in the United States. 0.90

00:02:18.000 If the shooter is trans and the victims are Christian, then it's going to be about guns and about Christian bigotry, which is the narrative that the media are taking away from this particular shooting, which is absolutely insane. 0.73

00:02:29.000 Because again, the details that have emerged suggest that the shooter, a former student, identified as a trans man.

00:02:37.000 Apparently, this person also left a manifesto.

00:02:40.000 Here's the national police chief confirming that the shooter was in fact a trans man, meaning a biological woman, and saying that there is a manifesto that sort of speaks to the politics of the shooting.

00:02:50.000 Does she identify as transgender?

00:02:54.000 She does identify as transgender, yes.

00:02:58.000 No motive at this point?

00:02:59.000 Anything discovered in the apartment or house?

00:03:03.000 No, we have a manifesto.

00:03:04.000 We have some writings that we're going over that pertain to this day, the actual incident.

00:03:11.000 We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.

00:03:16.000 There's right now a theory that we may be able to talk about later, but it's not confirmed.

00:03:22.000 And so we'll put that out as soon as we can.

00:03:25.000 Is there any reason to believe that how she identifies has any motive for targeting the school?

00:03:32.000 We can give you that at a later time.

00:03:33.000 There is some theory to that.

00:03:36.000 We're investigating all the leads and once we know exactly, we'll let you know.

00:03:40.000 So was this a targeted attack?

00:03:43.000 It was.

00:03:45.000 It was a targeted attack, which means that by any sort of stretch of the imagination, what we're talking about here is a trans-identified person shooting up a Christian school.

00:03:56.000 That would be, in any normal context, a hate crime.

00:03:58.000 If a Christian went to a very left-wing school and shot up the school on the basis of trans students being there, That would be a hate crime. 0.53

00:04:06.000 In the national news story, we've got the evils of the right wing and the quote-unquote anti-trans ideology that they push.

00:04:12.000 As we'll see, the media are going to try and push that narrative anyway, even though the story is actually the reverse.

00:04:15.000 This time, a trans-identified person shooting up a Christian school and murdering a bunch of very small school children. 0.95

00:04:22.000 One of the fascinating elements that emerged right after the shooting is the amount of quote-unquote misgendering that happened in the media.

00:04:27.000 So one of the things that we have been told by our mainstream media, our legacy media, is that you must never misgender ever under any circumstances.

00:04:33.000 Misgendering is super bad.

00:04:35.000 Misgendering is a practice whereby you speak the biological sex of a person as opposed to the sex to which they claim membership.

00:04:42.000 So a trans man, if I say that a woman just shot up the school, which is exactly what happened, then you're not allowed to say that.

00:04:48.000 This is apparently misgendering.

00:04:50.000 It's discriminatory in some way.

00:04:50.000 You're not.

00:04:53.000 And fascinatingly, the media engaged almost immediately in a bunch of quote unquote misgendering in this particular arena.

00:05:00.000 So you saw, for example, the Daily Beast put out a headline specifically misgendering the the shooter, saying that it was a woman.

00:05:09.000 You saw the Rolling Stones, a bunch of other publications.

00:05:13.000 CNN suggested that a woman had done it. 1.00

00:05:16.000 Daily Beast headline suggested that.

00:05:18.000 CNN said the shooter, a 28-year-old woman, who was once a student at the school, also killed three adults before responding officers killed her.

00:05:24.000 Now, again, in any other context, we're supposed to pretend that men who say they are women are actually women, but the media were having a real tough time with this one.

00:05:32.000 And the reason they were having a tough time with this one is because they don't want to acknowledge the narrative.

00:05:36.000 they actually go, they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they properly, biologically gender the person, the story is more accurate, but they have transgressed their own woke commandments. If, on the other hand, they do not do that, if in fact they they go with the transgender pronouns preferred by the shooter, then they are giving credence to the fact that a person who identified as trans and whose motivation likely had to do with that just shot up a bunch of And that cuts directly against the idea that victims can never be victimizers.

00:06:06.000 And again, this is part and parcel of a broader left-wing rubric, which is that if you're a member of a victim class, we can never call you a victimizer, even if you are shooting schoolchildren.

00:06:14.000 The misgendering aspect of this is fascinating.

00:06:15.000 So apparently, that strict rule of construct, in terms of the left, that goes immediately out by the wayside, so long as it does not serve the narrative.

00:06:23.000 Later, of course, the New York Times would come back and then try to correct the record.

00:06:28.000 The New York Times actually put out a tweet saying, Well, at least we cleared that up.

00:06:30.000 Later on Monday about the gender identity of the assailant in the national shooting, officials had used she and her to refer to the suspect.

00:06:36.000 Well, according to the social media post and a LinkedIn profile, appeared to identify as a man in recent months.

00:06:41.000 So, well, at least we cleared that up.

00:06:42.000 At least we made sure that the trans shooter is granted the honor of identifying as a particular type of human being. 0.95

00:06:51.000 The media have to construct some sort of narrative here.

00:06:53.000 Now, normally, one of the things that would come up, what's the actual narrative here?

00:06:57.000 Well, one thing that we certainly should discuss is the fact that when you create crisis narratives, as I said before, rhetoric, I don't tend to blame it rhetoric for actual violent activity on any side.

00:07:07.000 When Donald Trump says stuff that's really heated up and then a deranged fan of Donald Trump goes and does something, I don't blame Donald Trump for that.

00:07:15.000 When Barack Obama says something that really heats up the temperature and then a Barack Obama follower goes and does something, I don't say Barack Obama's responsible.

00:07:22.000 When a Bernie Sanders supporter shoots up a congressional baseball game, I don't say that Bernie Sanders is responsible for that.

00:07:26.000 However, what everyone is responsible for are the words that come out of their mouth, and they're also responsible for these sort of doomsday scenarioing that leads vulnerable people to go and do deranged... The deranged person is still responsible for their own activities.

00:07:41.000 However, when you keep raising the temperature dangerously, this is going to have some predictable side effects.

00:07:47.000 The pot is going to bubble over.

00:07:49.000 You've seen this almost universal attempt across the West on nearly every issue to suggest that the apocalypse is upon us.

00:07:56.000 On the issue of people who have gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder or who claim that they are a member of the opposite sex, they are told over and over and over that they are on the verge of being genocided.

00:08:06.000 This is just a thing that is said over and over and over in the transgender community and by legacy media.

00:08:13.000 That people on the right are attempting to wipe them off the face of the earth.

00:08:15.000 They're in literal genocidal danger.

00:08:18.000 And this, of course, necessitates violence.

00:08:20.000 It's sort of the same thing that Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist from NYU, said about microaggression ideas.

00:08:25.000 When you keep telling people that they are being aggressed upon, that everything that happens to them, everything they are insulted by, is a microaggression, they tend to react with macroaggression.

00:08:33.000 And so if you keep telling people, over and over and over again, That they're about to be destroyed.

00:08:38.000 They're about to be wiped off the face of the earth.

00:08:40.000 And you shouldn't be all that surprised when deranged people take that message and then go do horrific, horrific things.

00:08:46.000 And one of the things that Luke Rosiak, reporter over at Daily Wire, was pointing out is that this is from March 6, 2023.

00:08:51.000 There was a call for a Trans Day of Vengeance.

00:08:57.000 Stop transgenocide. 0.99

00:08:58.000 Trans Day of Vengeance, April 1st, 11 a.m.

00:09:00.000 in Washington, D.C.

00:09:01.000 That was a group of transgender activists.

00:09:03.000 And this sort of language is, unfortunately, not particularly rare.

00:09:06.000 The national group's website for Day of Vengeance has, like the Stonewall Riots, the gays and lesbians were experiencing what the trans community is facing now.

00:09:12.000 The cycle of hate needs to end.

00:09:13.000 In fact, it must.

00:09:14.000 Allies, siblings, we need you now more than ever.

00:09:18.000 I was a radical revolutionist.

00:09:19.000 I still am a radical revolutionist.

00:09:20.000 I'm glad I was in the Stonewall riot. 1.00

00:09:22.000 I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, my God, the revolution is here.

00:09:25.000 The revolution is finally here.

00:09:26.000 Silvia Rivera.

00:09:28.000 You know, that sort of language, if we're... Remember, the entire media was willing to blame Sarah Palin for the shooting of a congresswoman by a deranged nut based on a map that targeted a congressional district. 0.99

00:09:41.000 Hey, that was not even close to a call for violence.

00:09:43.000 But here you have people who legitimately are calling for days of vengeance and days of rage, and you have people who are assaulting other people at rallies in New Zealand.

00:09:50.000 And the idea here is that this is all good and useful, but the media are complicit in this particular narrative, which means they have to come up with an alternative narrative.

00:09:59.000 And the alternative narrative is, wait for it, wait for it, you got it right.

00:10:02.000 Everybody who opposes the trans agenda is actually responsible for a trans person shooting up a Christian school. 0.90

00:10:07.000 The media have an incentive to cover up the actual source of shootings like this one, which is why, for example, you don't remember, like you literally do not recall the mass shooting that happened in Colorado in May 2019 at a school.

00:10:22.000 This is a report from ABC7, quote, a teenager who told authorities he launched a fatal shooting attack on his suburban Denver school last year with a classmate because he wanted them to experience trauma like he had experienced, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison plus 38 years with the possibility of parole after two decades behind bars.

00:10:38.000 The shooter apologized to the parents of Kendrick Castillo, who was killed as he tackled one of the gunmen in the attack at STEM School Highlands Ranch, and to each of the other eight students wounded in the attack, as well as those traumatized by it.

00:10:48.000 What exactly happened here?

00:10:49.000 Well, this was a person who says that he was mocked because he was transgender.

00:10:55.000 Quote, he wanted everyone in that school to suffer and realize the world is a bad place, an affidavit summing up his statements.

00:11:00.000 But that shooting got memory hold because, of course, that doesn't fit the narrative, which is that victims, supposed victims in American society, can sometimes be horrible victimizers.

00:11:10.000 Or perhaps you remember the Club Q shooting.

00:11:12.000 You remember that that shooter, it was a shooting at a gay club, and originally the entire legacy media apparatus decided This was an act of Christian bigotry against a gay nightclub.

00:11:23.000 In fact, it turns out that the shooter had a very dicey childhood, that his mom identified as gender non-binary, and that the shooter, in this particular case, identified as gender non-binary and used they-them pronouns as well.

00:11:37.000 That story disappeared from the headlines pretty quickly after that came out.

00:11:42.000 That had to be memory-holed.

00:11:42.000 Okay, so a new narrative has to now be created about this particular shooting.

00:11:46.000 If you can't memory-hole what exactly is going on, a quote-unquote trans man shooting up a Christian school, you have to come up with a new narrative.

00:11:53.000 The new narrative that is being promoted by some members of the media is that the people to blame truly Are Tennessee Republicans.

00:11:59.000 Tennessee Republicans, we here at the Daily Wire, we are the people to blame.

00:12:02.000 Because after all, we are pushing the idea that you shouldn't trans the kids. 0.98

00:12:05.000 That you shouldn't actually attempt to gender mutilate small children who are gender confused.

00:12:10.000 You shouldn't give hormone treatments.

00:12:11.000 You shouldn't shoot girls full of testosterone.

00:12:13.000 It might be bad for them. 1.00

00:12:14.000 You might not want to actually carve a fake flesh penis out of an arm. 0.98

00:12:19.000 You might not want to do those things. 1.00

00:12:21.000 Right, if we say that, then apparently we are somehow responsible for a trans person shooting up a Christian school. 0.90

00:12:28.000 Yesterday, in one of the most insane clips of the day, ABC correspondent Terry Moran tried to blame Tennessee Republicans and Christians, apparently, for a shooting at a Christian school by a self-identified trans person.

00:12:39.000 The police confirming six dead, three children, one eight years old, two nine years old, and three adults, including Catherine Koontz, who is the head of the Covenant School.

00:12:51.000 The police chief also said that the shooter has been identified as 28-year-old female Audrey Hale.

00:13:00.000 He said she's a former student of the school and confirmed that Audrey Hale identified herself as a transgender person.

00:13:10.000 State of Tennessee earlier this month passed and the governor signed a bill that banned transgender medical care for minors as well as a law that prohibited adult entertainment including male and female impersonators after a series of drag show controversies in that state.

00:13:27.000 Ah, it was the drag show controversies you see.

00:13:30.000 It's because of all the concerns about exposing children to perverse sexual material.

00:13:34.000 Because of that, now you can see why this sort of thing might have happened.

00:13:39.000 And we are now making excuses for people who shoot children.

00:13:41.000 It's apparently the way this works.

00:13:43.000 Now, it is the push to protect children on an ideological level from indoctrination into a gender cult.

00:13:50.000 That is now the excuse for shooting actual children.

00:13:57.000 The logic boggles my mind, but I guess when you have a narrative to push, and the narrative is that the right is always somehow responsible for a school shooting, even a school shooting in which a trans person murders a bunch of Christian kids, then you have to go with it.

00:14:06.000 You have to go with it.

00:14:07.000 That wasn't even the worst take of the day. The worst take of the day came courtesy of Ben Ryan, who has been going after the Daily Wire with a rhetorical hatchet for weeks now, suggesting of course that the Daily Wire basically runs Tennessee, which would that it were so, but that is not in fact the case.

00:14:22.000 Ben Ryan tweeted out as an NBC reporter, quote, NBC has ID'd the Nashville school shooter as the person, 28, who identifies as transgender and had no previous criminal record.

00:14:33.000 Nashville is home to The Daily Wire, a hub of anti-trans activity by Matt Walsh blog, Ben Shapiro and Michael J. Knowles.

00:14:41.000 So just to get this straight, if a person does violence against a trans person, and none of us have called for violence against the trans person, we are all responsible for that.

00:14:48.000 Also, if a trans person does violence against Christians, we're responsible for that too. 0.97

00:14:52.000 I feel like it almost doesn't matter what happens, you just say that we're responsible for the violence.

00:14:57.000 Meanwhile, you have Newsweek pushing a similar sort of story.

00:15:02.000 Newsweek had an entire tweet.

00:15:04.000 It said, This is the other alternative take.

00:15:11.000 The other alternative take is, why are you even focused on things like protecting children from LGBTQ indoctrination?

00:15:17.000 Focus on the guns, man.

00:15:19.000 This is the Jon Stewart take that we saw a couple of weeks ago, where he's asking Republican legislators, why aren't you banning guns if you're trying to protect kids?

00:15:26.000 And it's like, well, maybe I don't think banning guns protects the kids.

00:15:28.000 And also, I don't see why men dressed as women should be gyrating sexually in front of children and what that has to do with school shootings, precisely.

00:15:38.000 But this is the going line as well.

00:15:39.000 Alejandro Caraballo, who is a trans person, Well, here's the thing.

00:15:50.000 They weren't shot up by just an AR-15 randomly.

00:15:53.000 It is truly amazing how when the left does not wish to, for example, blame certain groups of people or certain ideologies for an idea, they just blame the instrument.

00:16:03.000 So when a radical Muslim terrorist drives a car over a bunch of Israelis, then the car did it. 0.96

00:16:09.000 And when a trans man shoots a bunch of Christian schoolchildren, the gun did it. 0.99

00:16:16.000 The shift in narrative is absolutely clear and absolutely odious. 1.00

00:16:20.000 Narrative number one that the left has tried to promote is the pathetically stupid narrative that people who don't wish to see children mutilated or indoctrinated into a gender cult are responsible for a trans person shooting up a Christian school. 0.97

00:16:31.000 That's narrative number one, which, by the way, is actually a narrative that helps foment the ideological insanity that contributes to stuff like this. 0.98

00:16:40.000 If you keep saying that there is an existential threat to trans people in the world when you just say that boys are boys and girls are girls, and then people take that seriously and they go out and they say, OK, well, you know, I'm just going to attack anybody who says that, because after all, I'm an existential threat.

00:16:58.000 Then you're actually using this shooting as a platform in order to push forward a narrative that actually makes similar events more likely statistically.

00:17:09.000 That's insane.

00:17:11.000 But the secondary narrative that the left always has on these ones is guns, of course.

00:17:14.000 So Joe Biden, yesterday, Our incoherent president, he came downstairs and he began his press conference.

00:17:21.000 He apparently already knew that the shooting had taken place.

00:17:23.000 He randomly started talking about ice cream, which was very strange.

00:17:26.000 He came down and started talking to the press about ice cream before he even got to his assault weapons ban call.

00:17:31.000 Here was Joe Biden talking about ice cream.

00:17:33.000 My name is Joe Biden.

00:17:36.000 I'm Dr. Joe Biden's husband.

00:17:40.000 And I ate Jenny's ice cream, chocolate chip.

00:17:44.000 I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream.

00:17:48.000 By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs.

00:17:50.000 You think I'm kidding.

00:17:51.000 I'm not.

00:17:54.000 No one thinks you're kidding.

00:17:55.000 We all think that you're essentially a small school child in a president's body.

00:18:00.000 You have the brain power of some lower-end mammals, is pretty much where we are at this point.

00:18:06.000 He then launched into his call for an assault weapons ban, of course.

00:18:10.000 And we have to do more to stop gun violence.

00:18:14.000 It's ripping our communities apart, ripping the soul of this nation, ripping at the very soul of the nation.

00:18:20.000 And we have to do more to protect our schools so they aren't turned into prisons.

00:18:25.000 You know, the shooter in this situation reportedly had two assault weapons and a pistol, two AK-47s.

00:18:33.000 So I call on Congress again to pass my assault weapons ban.

00:18:37.000 It's about time that we Began to make some more progress.

00:18:42.000 Oh, well, I mean, he's already got the answer ready to go with school shootings.

00:18:46.000 And of course, you have the regular sort of cultural leaders out there suggesting that gun control is the answer.

00:18:52.000 Peter Frampton, another cultural leader, he tweeted out, you know, there was a school shooting in the 1990s in the UK, and they called for a massive gun buyback and registration and seizure program.

00:19:02.000 There haven't been any school shootings since.

00:19:04.000 I would just like to note at this point that there were no school shootings before.

00:19:07.000 The school shooting in Scotland that happened in, I believe, 1996.

00:19:13.000 That school shooting was, I believe, the only recorded school shooting in all of the UK in decades.

00:19:18.000 So you're taking a sample size that does not exist, and then you are suggesting that the addition of an independent variable now changed the sample.

00:19:25.000 I mean, if you have zero in the 40s, zero in the 50s, zero in the 60s, zero in the 70s, zero in the 80s, one in the 90s, piece of legislation, zero in the 2000s, zero in the 2010s, I'd like to suggest that it might not have been the gun legislation that actually changed that when you have a sample size of one, that is very difficult to draw any sort of serious data-based conclusion.

00:19:44.000 But again, the left doesn't need data.

00:19:46.000 The left has a do-something mentality, and the do-something is always take the rights of normal Americans who aren't the problem.

00:19:54.000 So, for example, you have Karine Jean-Pierre, world's worst press secretary, out there saying, doing the, how many people have to be murdered routine.

00:20:00.000 And let's be real about this.

00:20:01.000 If Democrats really took this seriously, you know what they would have done?

00:20:04.000 They might have tried to push this sort of assault weapons ban, gun control routine.

00:20:06.000 They might have tried to seriously push that when they controlled both branches of Congress and the presidency, which was, last I checked, about 35 seconds ago.

00:20:13.000 Here's Karine Jean-Pierre doing the, what if I get very emotional about gun control, to push this.

00:20:21.000 In his State of the Union, the President called on Congress to do something to stop the epidemic of gun violence tearing families apart, tearing communities apart.

00:20:31.000 How many more children have to be murdered before Republicans in Congress will step up and act to pass the assault weapons ban?

00:20:44.000 I mean, do something is not an actual plan.

00:20:48.000 You know what would be an actual plan?

00:20:50.000 I'll name you a few things that would be an actual plan.

00:20:51.000 The Democrats have rejected all of these, by the way, so far as I'm aware.

00:20:54.000 Addition of school security at all schools.

00:20:57.000 You know, Jewish day schools are guarded like bangs, and they should be, because there is a high level of suspicion that if there's going to be a target of attack, that you need somebody there in order to stop it. 0.96

00:21:06.000 Better school lockdown procedures, obviously.

00:21:08.000 I should have to lock the outer doors, which didn't happen in this particular scenario.

00:21:12.000 But we're not going to do that.

00:21:13.000 We're going to do the do-something routine.

00:21:15.000 Here is Jill Biden doing that. 1.00

00:21:18.000 I hate to say what I'm going to say next because, you know, you're so enthusiastic and with so much energy and hope and I feel it.

00:21:28.000 But while you've been in this room, I don't know whether you've been on your phones, but we just learned about another shooting in Tennessee.

00:21:37.000 A school shooting.

00:21:42.000 And I am truly without words.

00:21:46.000 And our children deserve better.

00:21:48.000 And we stand, all of us, we stand with Nashville in prayer.

00:22:02.000 Well, she's allowed to say it in prayer, by the way.

00:22:04.000 People on the right are not allowed to say it in prayer.

00:22:06.000 Joe Biden's allowed to say it.

00:22:08.000 I'm sorry, but do better is not actually a legislative proposal.

00:22:11.000 It is likely to result in anything useful.

00:22:13.000 But it's not about useful.

00:22:14.000 It's about what you can demagogue off of, apparently, which presumably is why Barack Obama's former education secretary, Arne Duncan, tweeted out, at what point do we consider a national boycott of schools until our children are safe to learn there and our adults are safe to teach?

00:22:26.000 How many lives need to be lost before we actually decide to do something and keep everyone safe?

00:22:31.000 A national boycott of schools.

00:22:34.000 Genius level stuff there from the actual former education secretary of the United States of America.

00:22:39.000 Just don't go to school anymore.

00:22:42.000 Wonderful.

00:22:43.000 Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, he's doing the same routine.

00:22:45.000 He says it's hard to sit with the Republicans because they're the ones who are at fault for this.

00:22:48.000 Which is weird because there's an actual shooter who did an actual thing.

00:22:51.000 It had an actual personality, an actual description, an actual agenda.

00:22:55.000 But apparently it's just generalized Republicans.

00:22:57.000 Dead Kids didn't work in Newtown.

00:22:59.000 Dead Kids didn't work in Sandy Hook.

00:23:01.000 Dead Kids didn't really work in Uvalde.

00:23:03.000 The NRA works.

00:23:05.000 Their political power, their money that they make, gun manufacturers' money, that's what pushes the NRA. 0.73

00:23:15.000 It's horrific to think that the Congress people won't adjust their thinking and do anything better than thoughts and prayers.

00:23:22.000 That's what we've heard from people. 1.00

00:23:23.000 Right now in Congress, it's pathetic. 0.94

00:23:27.000 It's hard for me to serve up there now with some of the people that I've had to serve with. 0.97

00:23:32.000 I mean, they're part of the danger.

00:23:35.000 I mean, they could go.

00:23:36.000 I'm not going to get into that, but it's just that they are so attached to guns.

00:23:41.000 And this, of course, is part of a broader attack by anybody in the press and on the left, on anybody who actually likes guns. 0.92

00:23:51.000 So, for example, it's hard to come up with the dumbest headline of the day because there are just too many of them. 1.00

00:23:56.000 It's just a firehose of stupidity. 1.00

00:23:58.000 So between Steve Cohen suggesting that he can't serve with people who are pro-gun because they're responsible for a trans person shooting a bunch of Christian school kids. 1.00

00:24:06.000 And the Washington Post, which printed this actual headline, GOP congressman from Nashville district heartbroken by shooting.

00:24:12.000 But Democrats gun control advocates highlighted a 2021 Christmas photo showing representative Andrew Ogles and members of his family with firearms.

00:24:20.000 So just to get this absolutely clear, the GOP congressman is not allowed to be heartbroken by a shooting in his district.

00:24:29.000 Because he and his family held guns in a Christmas photo in 2021.

00:24:33.000 They are responsible.

00:24:36.000 The wild misdirection.

00:24:37.000 The insane misdirection.

00:24:39.000 It really is almost too much to take.

00:24:42.000 Meanwhile, there's a study out from the Wall Street Journal that is just fascinating and has some real consequences to it.

00:24:49.000 It came out yesterday.

00:24:50.000 And what it found is that America, American values, they're basically dying, generation over generation.

00:24:56.000 Here is what the Wall Street Journal finds.

00:24:57.000 Patriotism, religious faith, having children, and other priorities that help define the national character for generations are receding in importance to Americans, according to a Wall Street Journal NORC poll.

00:25:07.000 And the findings of this poll are just astonishing.

00:25:11.000 And the poll asked some pretty simple questions like, do you have faith in the economy?

00:25:16.000 Do you think that it's excellent or good?

00:25:17.000 Eighty percent, by the way, say that the economy is poor or not so good in the United States.

00:25:22.000 Asked if they think that their kids are going to live a better life than they do, a huge number of Americans say that they think it'll be actually worse for their kids than it is right now.

00:25:30.000 But what is really quite fascinating about this Wall Street Journal poll is it shows that central values to social cohesion are completely fading away in the United States.

00:25:40.000 So, for example, patriotism.

00:25:44.000 In 1998, 70% of Americans said that patriotism was a very important value to them.

00:25:48.000 70%.

00:25:48.000 Which would Obviously imply significant bipartisan agreement that patriotism is pretty important.

00:25:54.000 But if you live in the United States, you should be pretty excited about living in the United States and you should believe in American exceptionalism.

00:25:59.000 By 2019, that number had dropped some, but not entirely radical, to 61%.

00:26:04.000 By 2023, that number had dropped to 38%, like off a cliff.

00:26:06.000 that number had dropped to 38% like off a cliff.

00:26:12.000 So between 2019 and 2023, that number dropped from 61% to 38%, Americans who think that patriotism is important.

00:26:19.000 Religion.

00:26:20.000 62% of Americans said in 1998 that religion was important to them.

00:26:24.000 48% said religion was important by 2019.

00:26:27.000 Today, it's at 39%.

00:26:29.000 So, less than 4 in 10 Americans say that religion is very important to them.

00:26:33.000 How about having children?

00:26:36.000 In 1998, 59% of Americans said that having children was an important value to them.

00:26:39.000 By 2019, that was down to 43%, and today it is down to 30%.

00:26:43.000 Less than 1 in 3 Americans say that having children is a very important value.

00:26:48.000 This one is kind of fascinating.

00:26:49.000 Community involvement.

00:26:50.000 And you need to be involved in your community.

00:26:51.000 47% of Americans said that it was very important to be involved in your community in 1998.

00:26:56.000 That jumped to 62% in 2019.

00:26:59.000 I can only assume that people meant politically because by 2023, that number was down to 27%.

00:27:06.000 Again, less than one in three Americans at a quarter of Americans believe that community involvement is actually an important value.

00:27:12.000 The only area in which Americans said that they had more interest in this as an American value than anything else than since 1998 is money.

00:27:21.000 When it comes to making money, that is now considered very important.

00:27:26.000 By 43% of Americans, it was 41% of Americans in 2019, it was 31% of Americans in 1998.

00:27:33.000 And this breaks down pretty significantly by age.

00:27:38.000 The number of people who say, for example, in the 18 to 29 age group, that patriotism is really important to them, is slightly over 20%.

00:27:49.000 Less than a quarter of people between 18 and 29 say having children is important to them.

00:27:55.000 Barely 30% of young people say that religion is very important to them.

00:27:59.000 And even only 61 and 62% of 18 to 29 year olds say that hard work is important to them right now.

00:28:07.000 There's a massive partisan breakdown in all of these questions.

00:28:10.000 When it comes to, for example, patriotism, 59% of Republicans say patriotism is important compared to 23% of Democrats.

00:28:17.000 When it comes to religion, 53% of Republicans say religion is important compared to 27% of Democrats.

00:28:21.000 Having children, 38% of Republicans say it's important compared to 26% of Democrats.

00:28:27.000 When it comes to community involvement, this one's kind of shocking.

00:28:29.000 Democrats say that they believe more in community involvement to the tune of 32%.

00:28:32.000 Republicans now say only 25% say that they believe in community involvement as an important thing, mainly because the nature of what community involvement involved in, say, 1998 is very different from what we mean today.

00:28:45.000 In 1998, if you'd said community involvement, people immediately would have said, oh, you mean go to church.

00:28:48.000 Today, community involvement means go to a protest march or something.

00:28:53.000 Where there is no gap at all is when it comes to making money.

00:28:55.000 When it comes to making money, 45% of Democrats and 45% of Republicans say that making money is a priority.

00:29:02.000 When it comes to other values like transgenderism, massive gap between Republicans and Democrats.

00:29:09.000 When it comes to schools and universities using affirmative action, massive gap between Republicans and Democrats.

00:29:15.000 But here's the real thing that is happening right now.

00:29:19.000 All the values that used to be the quote-unquote unifying values are dying away.

00:29:22.000 They're falling apart.

00:29:24.000 And the reason they're falling apart, I think, is pretty obvious.

00:29:28.000 The centralizing institutions in American society, the intermediate institutions in American society have completely disappeared.

00:29:35.000 These were the things that allowed us to live together.

00:29:39.000 Churches, local schools, Social clubs, all the arenas, family, all of these things, all these arenas that used to actually allow us to unify, all of those have fallen away.

00:29:51.000 The intermediate institutions of American society have died away. 0.69

00:29:54.000 This is something that Robert Nisbet predicted in the Quest for Community back in the 1940s.

00:29:59.000 He suggested that over time, as the political state became more and more important, all those intermediate institutions would be removed.

00:30:05.000 And all that would be left, essentially, was a tutelary state at the very top of American society and a bunch of atomized individuals.

00:30:11.000 Those atomized individuals still have individual economic interests.

00:30:16.000 They're all still interested in making money on the personal individual level.

00:30:20.000 But they don't have any of the militating institutions in life that actually give people meaning and purpose.

00:30:25.000 It's no coincidence that at the exact same time, more and more Americans are saying that they are disconnected from American values.

00:30:34.000 More and more Americans are unhappy.

00:30:36.000 A huge number of Americans are now unhappy.

00:30:39.000 A huge number of Americans believe their kids are not better off.

00:30:42.000 A huge number of Americans believe that America is in serious trouble.

00:30:45.000 That is because, as you remove those intermediate institutions, we're supposed to have some sort of abiding faith in an overarching political infrastructure, but why should we?

00:30:53.000 That overarching political infrastructure used to be a reflection of common values that we share, but now those common values are basically gone.

00:31:00.000 And it's not as though this is, you know, some sort of giant mystery.

00:31:04.000 Going all the way back to Alexis de Tocqueville, De Tocqueville suggested, quite correctly, back in like 1836, exactly what would happen in Western societies, the rise of soft despotism.

00:31:16.000 Here's a quote from Alexis de Tocqueville, and if this doesn't sound like modern American society to you, I'm not sure what to tell you.

00:31:20.000 Here's what de Tocqueville says, quote, I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world.

00:31:25.000 The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives.

00:31:36.000 Each of them living apart is as a stranger to the fate of all the rest.

00:31:39.000 His children and his private friends constitute to him the whole of mankind.

00:31:42.000 As for the rest of his fellow citizens, he's close to them, but he doesn't see them.

00:31:45.000 He touches them, but he doesn't feel them.

00:31:46.000 He exists only in himself and for himself alone.

00:31:49.000 If his kindred still remain him, he may be said, at any rate, to have lost his country. 0.99

00:31:53.000 Above this race of man stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratification and to watch over their fate.

00:31:59.000 That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild.

00:32:03.000 It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that parent, its object was to prepare men for manhood.

00:32:07.000 But it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.

00:32:09.000 It is well-content that people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing.

00:32:15.000 For their happiness, such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness.

00:32:20.000 It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances.

00:32:29.000 What remains but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living.

00:32:32.000 Thus it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent.

00:32:36.000 It circumscribes the will within a narrower range and gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself.

00:32:41.000 The principle of equality has prepared men for these things.

00:32:44.000 It has predisposed men to endure them and often to look on them as benefits.

00:32:47.000 After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the Supreme Power then extends its arm over the whole community.

00:32:54.000 It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate to rise above the crowd.

00:33:03.000 The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided.

00:33:05.000 Men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting.

00:33:08.000 Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence.

00:33:08.000 Uh, yeah.

00:33:11.000 It does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.

00:33:20.000 I've always thought that the servitude of the regular, quiet, and gentle kind which I have just described might be combined more easily than is commonly believed with some of the outward forms of freedom, and that it might even establish itself under the wing of the sovereignty of the people." Uh, yeah, that.

00:33:33.000 Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in 1836.

00:33:36.000 Again, remove all of the actual institutions and roles and rules that shape us.

00:33:40.000 And what you end up with is people who are completely disconnected and pursuing their own version of what they think of as happiness, but restricted in that happiness from engaging with the things that actually make life meaningful.

00:33:51.000 And then we're shocked when there is additional mental illness.

00:33:54.000 And we are shocked when there is additional depression.

00:33:56.000 We are shocked when there's additional suicide.

00:33:58.000 We're shocked when people are anxious and scared for the future of the country and feel nothing in common with their neighbors.

00:34:04.000 When you abandon all of those institutions, that's how you get... This is how that national shooting, in some ways, on a symbolic level is... It says a lot on a symbolic level.

00:34:15.000 The attack of the radical individual on the small community church school.

00:34:21.000 The idea of the person who is freed from all rules and roles, and who must attack a source of rules and roles, and attack children in that way.

00:34:32.000 The left likes to use particular shootings, to use particular violent incidents as sort of metaphors for broader American society.

00:34:40.000 If we're talking about the metaphor of broader American society, that would be a pretty solid one.

00:34:46.000 All righty, meanwhile, in other news, Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel has now suspended the judicial overhaul that chaos was causing serious shutdowns in the state of Israel.

00:34:56.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday suspended a controversial judicial overhaul plan in an attempt to pull the country back from the brink after mass protests and strikes rocked the nation.

00:35:06.000 Netanyahu yesterday, he both explained what he was doing in terms of judicial reform and then he also explained why he was temporarily delaying the judicial overhaul.

00:35:13.000 Here he was with Piers Morgan explaining why exactly he was seeking judicial overhaul in the first place.

00:35:19.000 Right now you have a situation where 15 unelected members of the Supreme Court effectively govern Israel.

00:35:25.000 They can decide things that affect our military, our economy, our foreign relations, our battle with terrorism.

00:35:31.000 Is that democratic?

00:35:31.000 Is that right?

00:35:32.000 No, it's not democratic.

00:35:34.000 You don't say that those other democracies are somehow tainted, are somehow not democratic, because they have a better balance of power.

00:35:34.000 You want to correct it.

00:35:43.000 Okay, so that obviously is pretty uncontroversial.

00:35:45.000 And here's the thing, even in Israel, that's relatively uncontroversial.

00:35:48.000 Both the right and the left, many in the center, agree there has to be some reform of the judicial system.

00:35:52.000 The real battle in Israel, as I was explaining yesterday, the real battle is not really over judicial reform.

00:35:57.000 The real battle is over the future of the country.

00:35:58.000 So basically what happened in the last election cycle is that the right won a fairly solid victory in the polling.

00:36:05.000 They ended up with a 64-seat majority in the Knesset.

00:36:07.000 That allowed them to govern.

00:36:09.000 The left does not like the right one, and so the left decided to deploy to the streets in order to essentially shut down all of the major mechanisms of the Israeli economy.

00:36:18.000 They blocked highways.

00:36:19.000 They shut down the airports yesterday.

00:36:21.000 They used extra legal means in order to try and threaten the government into not pursuing this judicial reform.

00:36:28.000 So to suggest that that's a democratic movement is sort of bizarre.

00:36:31.000 You have an elected coalition that is attempting to pursue a more democratic policy, which is taking power away from an unelected branch That is using that power in bad ways.

00:36:40.000 And then you have people mobbing in the streets, supposedly in defense of democracy, but trying to overthrow the will of a democratically elected majority.

00:36:49.000 Okay, now, that's not the whole story because the truth is that There are serious sort of underlying political issues here.

00:36:56.000 The left looks at the right and what they see is a coalition of some people who actually want some procedural changes for good reasons.

00:37:01.000 And then they also see some people who they believe are simply trying to grab the levers of power and to prevent any checks and balances from obtaining in the state of Israel at all.

00:37:10.000 But Netanyahu did the right thing yesterday. 0.70

00:37:12.000 He said, we have to slow this down.

00:37:13.000 We have to be more incremental in how we approach this, which is, in fact, the right solution.

00:37:17.000 The right moved forward too fast.

00:37:18.000 They drove enormous opposition.

00:37:20.000 And what they found out is that the extra-governmental levers of power in Israel are quite... are quite dynamic.

00:37:29.000 They're able to literally shut down pretty much the entire country because, again, a lot of the economic and even military power in Israel is not necessarily on the side of the government.

00:37:38.000 And so that split was sort of exposed, which means more incrementalism and more compromise.

00:37:42.000 That's exactly what Netanyahu pledged yesterday.

00:37:44.000 Out of a desire to prevent the conflict among the people, I have decided to condemn He's trying to avoid a rift within the people.

00:37:51.000 I decided to suspend the second and third reading from the law in this Knesset tenure in order to give time to get a broader consensus.

00:38:01.000 So they'll go back to the drawing board, which is probably what they should do.

00:38:04.000 It is worth noting, yesterday there was a massive counter-protest in Israel, probably 100,000 people minimum, in the middle of Israel.

00:38:12.000 Who are on the side of Netanyahu.

00:38:13.000 So the media only covered one side and suggested this was sort of a rising up against a totalitarian dictatorship.

00:38:17.000 That's a lie on every level.

00:38:19.000 And again, the suggestion that it is a one-sided issue, it is not.

00:38:22.000 There will be discussions.

00:38:23.000 Presumably some sort of judicial reform will eventually get done.

00:38:26.000 But compromise and conciliation are going to be the path forward right there.

00:38:30.000 I will say at this point that I think that this is a good indicator that there are just tons of people out there who are constantly seeking an end-of-the-world apocalyptic scenario to talk about.

00:38:41.000 On all sides, this is the last election.

00:38:43.000 If we don't get X done, the country will be over.

00:38:45.000 Civil war.

00:38:46.000 People are saying that in Israel.

00:38:47.000 You'll see that with every election in the United States.

00:38:49.000 That is not only bad politics, it is bad policy.

00:38:52.000 It may be good politics in the short term because you're allowed to get people in the streets and get people all ramped up, but if you actually wish to effectuate change, it's a real problem because it stands in the way of the actual constructive dialogues that we can actually have with one another in order to forward policy.

00:39:06.000 And instead, it just makes politics a series of reactionary swings from one side to the other.

00:39:10.000 One side says it's the apocalypse, and maybe they win.

00:39:13.000 Then the other side says, well, the other side won.

00:39:14.000 That's the apocalypse.

00:39:15.000 And then they win.

00:39:16.000 And then you never actually get to any effectuated change.

00:39:18.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:39:21.000 So, things that I like today.

00:39:23.000 Well, you can see the backdrop.

00:39:24.000 I haven't mentioned it the whole show, but we are actually in Rome today.

00:39:27.000 I'm filming with my friend Jordan Peterson.

00:39:30.000 We have a new series that's going to be coming out very soon in which we visit some of the world's great places and talk about the history and philosophy of Western civilization.

00:39:39.000 It really is fantastic.

00:39:39.000 Behind us, for those who don't know what we're looking at, is St.

00:39:42.000 Peter's And St.

00:39:45.000 Peter's obviously is the center of Catholicism, the most powerful church institution in the history of the world.

00:39:53.000 It's an astonishing building.

00:39:55.000 The city of Rome is absolutely incredible.

00:39:57.000 The history of Rome is fascinating from the actual sort of Rome of HBO, the swords and sandals Rome that was all about Senatorial power versus dictatorial power, democracy, republicanism, the people versus the elite, and all the rest of it, to the rise of Christianity in the aftermath of the New Testament.

00:40:21.000 Obviously, Rome, central to the identity of Western civilization.

00:40:24.000 I can't wait to bring you that series.

00:40:25.000 It really is quite amazing.

00:40:27.000 We couldn't resist actually doing Doing a shoot up here, because I mean, if you can shoot with this backdrop, why wouldn't you do that as opposed to shooting in a darkened studio somewhere?

00:40:36.000 Other things that I like today.

00:40:38.000 So, when you talk about rebuilding those local institutions, obviously, church is a major local institution that needs to be rebuilt, and that requires some actual forward-thinking leadership from people who are in the religious sphere.

00:40:51.000 That means that religious leaders should stop being so shy about what they believe and they should say it out.

00:40:55.000 They should speak out on what they believe rather than attempting to allow secular morality to essentially steer the boat.

00:41:01.000 It also means that we need a government that allows for the thriving of local institutions.

00:41:05.000 And so I'm very excited that in the state of Florida, the state of Florida has now passed universal school choice.

00:41:11.000 The money now follows the students, does not follow the schools, and that means that every kid will have the ability in the state of Florida to get a credit of something like $8,000 in order to pursue a private education if they so wish.

00:41:22.000 Here was Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida.

00:41:24.000 This is a win for him.

00:41:26.000 And so people have said, wait a minute, if you give parents a choice, if you let parents take scholarship and go to the school of their choice, somehow that's going to hurt education performance.

00:41:37.000 And in Florida, we're proof positive that that's just the opposite of what actually happened.

00:41:42.000 The fact of the matter is our school districts perform better because they've embraced choice.

00:41:48.000 Our charter schools perform better because they have to compete.

00:41:51.000 Uh, for individual students.

00:41:53.000 They're not entitled to get anybody as a charter school.

00:41:56.000 And of course, uh, having private schools that can service the needs of parents so that a parent will take that scholarship and say, you know what?

00:42:03.000 I want to go to this particular school because of what they're offering.

00:42:07.000 All that has created a very positive feedback.

00:42:12.000 It's gonna be great.

00:42:13.000 And this makes Florida the fourth state to actually adopt universal school choice.

00:42:17.000 More of this.

00:42:17.000 This is how you rebuild local institutions, give power back to parents to re-congregate in their communities instead of using the power of government to break up those communities.

00:42:24.000 Alrighty, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:42:30.000 So, we've already seen the bolderization of Roald Dahl, and the public generally didn't like that, and so they walked it back a little bit.

00:42:37.000 This is the attempt to remove words like fat from Augustus Gloop's descriptors in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

00:42:42.000 Well now, CNN reports that the novels of Agatha Christie are the latest works to be revised to remove racist references and other language considered offensive to modern audiences.

00:42:51.000 According to the UK's The Telegraph, publisher HarperCollins has edited some passages and entirely removed others from its new digital editions of some of Christie's detective mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

00:43:01.000 I'm a big Agatha Christie fan.

00:43:03.000 I really enjoy Hercule Poirot.

00:43:05.000 The amendments to the books?

00:43:07.000 Include changes to the narrator's inner monologue.

00:43:09.000 For example, Poirot's description of another character as a Jew, of course, in Christie's debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Stiles, has now been stripped out of the new version.

00:43:15.000 Now, as a Jew, of course, I can say that I don't find that particularly useful.

00:43:20.000 I think that actually understanding the biases of authors when they're writing is quite useful and historically interesting and necessary in order to actually understand the books that you are reading.

00:43:29.000 If you strip out all the stuff that we find offensive today from the books, you're missing half of their context.

00:43:35.000 Throughout the revised version of the short story collection, Ms.

00:43:37.000 Marple's final cases, and two other stories, the word native has now been replaced with local, which doesn't change anything.

00:43:42.000 A passage describing a servant as black and grinning has been revised, and the character is now simply referred to as nodding, with no reference to his race.

00:43:51.000 Also, you're not allowed to refer to Nubian people in Death on the Nile.

00:43:54.000 And none of this is going to... 0.95

00:43:56.000 Yeah, make the books better in any way, and it's not going to prevent people from taking offense at Agatha Christie's original verbiage, but it is a great way to demonstrate your fealty to the woke idiots who have decided that it's necessary to rewrite all of history in order to appease their modern sensibilities. 0.98

00:44:12.000 Well, meanwhile, speaking of woke idiots who are attempting to appease modern sensibilities and, yeah, attacking parents in the process, the inexpressibly foolish Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she, yesterday, was suggesting bad timing here. 0.99

00:44:26.000 She said that predatory cisgender and straight men are the ones after your kids. 1.00

00:44:29.000 This is a hell of a take. 0.97

00:44:32.000 Many of these disgusting and insinuating attacks on trans and LGBT people are actually projections of what predatory, cisgender, and often straight men do when left alone in the presence of women, or sometimes horribly, children.

00:44:47.000 So instead of getting you to challenge the patriarchy, they're trying to get you to challenge the very gender expressiveness that challenges patriarchy.

00:44:56.000 Don't get it twisted, because a lot of people attacking drag are projecting.

00:45:00.000 Oh, it's all projecting.

00:45:01.000 So now men gyrating, sexualized around kids. 0.64

00:45:06.000 If you object to that, it's because you wish to sexualize kids in some fetishistic way. 1.00

00:45:11.000 Oh, the utter insanity and stupidity of this point of view. 1.00

00:45:14.000 But again, none of it is designed for the benefit of the children. 1.00

00:45:17.000 It's all designed to make a particular constituency feel better about itself.

00:45:21.000 That's all this really is.

00:45:22.000 Okay, final thing that I hate.

00:45:24.000 So this would be, again, major national news story if the parties weren't reversed.

00:45:27.000 According to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, he confirmed on Monday that a member of his staff was brutally attacked on the streets of Washington, D.C.

00:45:33.000 over the weekend.

00:45:34.000 He said in a statement this weekend, a member of my staff was brutally attacked in broad daylight in Washington, D.C.

00:45:38.000 I ask you to join Kelly and me in praying for a speedy and complete recovery and thanking first responders, hospital staff, and police for their diligent actions.

00:45:47.000 Apparently, the person sustained life-threatening injuries.

00:45:50.000 A suspect was arrested with an assault with intent to kill using a knife.

00:45:55.000 Apparently, it was a repeat stabbing.

00:45:57.000 Again, if a Democrat had been attacked in a Republican area, that of course would be worthy of note, but it's a Republican being attacked in a Democratic area, so obviously that is not worthy of note whatsoever.

00:46:06.000 It is completely irrelevant to everyone.

00:46:07.000 Okay, final thing that I hate today.

00:46:09.000 Worst take of the day.

00:46:10.000 We were in search for the worst take of the day with regard to this shooting.

00:46:13.000 The worst take of the day actually came courtesy of a person named David Pakman, who is a left-wing podcaster, I believe.

00:46:19.000 And he tweeted this out, quote, Well, that's a hell of a take right there.

00:46:32.000 Is that probably they needed to... They were praying wrong.

00:46:35.000 The kids were praying wrong.

00:46:36.000 So, you know, that's probably why that happened.

00:46:38.000 Or, obviously, he's attempting to mock the idea of religion at all.

00:46:42.000 Isn't prayer supposed to protect you?

00:46:44.000 Well, I mean, behind me, as I mentioned before, is St.

00:46:47.000 Peter's.

00:46:48.000 What if I told David Pakman there's an entire religion predicated on the idea that the Son of God was killed by humans?

00:46:56.000 What if I told you there's an entire religion predicated on the idea that there are people that they call martyrs and there are a bunch of statues of them right over there.

00:47:03.000 You can see them.

00:47:04.000 And they prayed super hard and also died as martyrs.

00:47:07.000 What if I told David Pakman that?

00:47:10.000 One of my favorite things is when atheists pretend that their questions about theodicy are like the first questions that have been asked about this matter. 0.63

00:47:16.000 Oh my God, you're saying that bad things happen to religious people?

00:47:19.000 Well, doesn't that debunk your entire religion?

00:47:21.000 No, actually, let me just explain. 1.00

00:47:22.000 It does not debunk any of my religion or any of any religion because that's the stupidest fake of all time. 0.98

00:47:28.000 Sometimes God doesn't answer prayers in the way that we wish him to answer our prayers because God isn't us. 0.97

00:47:33.000 But that does not change why people pray.

00:47:36.000 It's so ugh.

00:47:39.000 All righty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

00:47:41.000 You're not gonna wanna miss it.

00:47:42.000 We will be jumping into the mailbag here from Rome.

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