A former student at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, shot and killed three people, including a male student who identified as a "trans man" and a female student who "identifies as a biological woman." What does this have to do with politics? Is this a hate crime, a mass shooting committed by a "pro-choice" or anti-choice lunatic, or is this a random attack committed by someone with a hate ideology that targeted a Christian high school? Is this an act of hate, or was this a targeted attack by a person with an anti-Christian ideology that the media are trying to push us to believe is the result of a "hate crime"? Today's Daily Wire takes a deep dive into the details of the case, including the identity of the shooter and the possible motive. Daily Wire's Host, STEPHEN SCARLATA BLANCHARD, discusses the case and the potential connection between the suspect and the alleged shooter, as well as the possible political motivation behind the attack. Subscribe to Daily Wire to stay up to date on all things going on in the world of law enforcement, politics, and the culture of today's society. Subscribe to our newscasts and get notified when we deconstruct the latest breaking news and trends in the happenings around the world. wherever you get your news and your favorite shows. Stay safe out there, and God bless! Blessings, Eternally. Eternally grateful! - EJ & Cheers, Eboni - Dailywire - Cheers. - Jon and Jon - - Evan & EJ ( ) - P.S. ( Copyright 2019 EJ. Copyright 2019 Dailywire) (c) 2019 Copyright 2019 Jon Eppler, Inc. (c. ) ( Used by The Daily Wire) All Rights Reserved (Copy and Transphrased by Copyright 2019 by Copyright ) (Good Morning America) - This Podcast is Copyright 2019 (R.E.com) ( Used Permission granted to use their use of this material used in this podcast) Thank you, EJ Good Morning America, Inc., Inc., LLC. ( ) ( ) is a copyright infringement? (Tokyo, Inc.) (Apostolicially Licensed under CC BY-SA, LLC) (TokTokTok) (Goodbye, John Doe)
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00:00:08.000Well, horrifying story out of Nashville, Tennessee.
00:00:12.000Yesterday, 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.
00:00:24.000It's a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:00:29.000Apparently, this person was a former student at the school.
00:00:32.000On 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.
00:00:38.000But 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.
00:00:51.000So, 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.
00:01:09.000Aaron said that officers responding to the scene discovered the shooting occurred on the school's second floor and quickly engaged the shooter.
00:01:16.000Unlike in other cases, officers actually did hear the gunshots and charged the shooter.
00:01:22.000This immediately turned into a battle over narrative, which is what happens with every mass shooting in the United States.
00:01:27.000The left immediately jumps to a series of narratives rooted in sort of left-wing storytelling.
00:01:32.000And this happens with every single mass shooting.
00:01:34.000You can tell before the shooting even happened.
00:01:37.000If the victims of a shooting are X and if the shooter is Y, here's what the narrative will be.
00:01:42.000If 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.
00:01:49.000If 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.
00:01:55.000If 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.
00:02:02.000If the shooter is Asian and the victims are white, as happened at Virginia Tech, then we're going to be talking about gun control.
00:02:08.000If 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.
00:02:18.000If 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.
00:02:29.000Because again, the details that have emerged suggest that the shooter, a former student, identified as a trans man.
00:02:37.000Apparently, this person also left a manifesto.
00:02:40.000Here'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.
00:03:45.000It 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.
00:03:56.000That would be, in any normal context, a hate crime.
00:03:58.000If 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.
00:04:06.000In the national news story, we've got the evils of the right wing and the quote-unquote anti-trans ideology that they push.
00:04:12.000As we'll see, the media are going to try and push that narrative anyway, even though the story is actually the reverse.
00:04:15.000This time, a trans-identified person shooting up a Christian school and murdering a bunch of very small school children.
00:04:22.000One of the fascinating elements that emerged right after the shooting is the amount of quote-unquote misgendering that happened in the media.
00:04:27.000So 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.
00:05:18.000CNN 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.
00:05:24.000Now, 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.
00:05:32.000And the reason they were having a tough time with this one is because they don't want to acknowledge the narrative.
00:05:36.000they 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.
00:06:06.000And 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.
00:06:14.000The misgendering aspect of this is fascinating.
00:06:15.000So 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.
00:06:23.000Later, of course, the New York Times would come back and then try to correct the record.
00:06:28.000The New York Times actually put out a tweet saying, Well, at least we cleared that up.
00:06:30.000Later on Monday about the gender identity of the assailant in the national shooting, officials had used she and her to refer to the suspect.
00:06:36.000Well, according to the social media post and a LinkedIn profile, appeared to identify as a man in recent months.
00:06:41.000So, well, at least we cleared that up.
00:06:42.000At least we made sure that the trans shooter is granted the honor of identifying as a particular type of human being.
00:06:51.000The media have to construct some sort of narrative here.
00:06:53.000Now, normally, one of the things that would come up, what's the actual narrative here?
00:06:57.000Well, 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.
00:07:07.000When 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.
00:07:15.000When 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.
00:07:22.000When a Bernie Sanders supporter shoots up a congressional baseball game, I don't say that Bernie Sanders is responsible for that.
00:07:26.000However, 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.
00:07:41.000However, when you keep raising the temperature dangerously, this is going to have some predictable side effects.
00:07:49.000You've seen this almost universal attempt across the West on nearly every issue to suggest that the apocalypse is upon us.
00:07:56.000On 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.
00:08:06.000This is just a thing that is said over and over and over in the transgender community and by legacy media.
00:08:13.000That people on the right are attempting to wipe them off the face of the earth.
00:08:18.000And this, of course, necessitates violence.
00:08:20.000It's sort of the same thing that Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist from NYU, said about microaggression ideas.
00:08:25.000When 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.
00:08:33.000And so if you keep telling people, over and over and over again, That they're about to be destroyed.
00:08:38.000They're about to be wiped off the face of the earth.
00:08:40.000And you shouldn't be all that surprised when deranged people take that message and then go do horrific, horrific things.
00:08:46.000And one of the things that Luke Rosiak, reporter over at Daily Wire, was pointing out is that this is from March 6, 2023.
00:08:51.000There was a call for a Trans Day of Vengeance.
00:09:01.000That was a group of transgender activists.
00:09:03.000And this sort of language is, unfortunately, not particularly rare.
00:09:06.000The 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.
00:09:28.000You 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.
00:09:41.000Hey, that was not even close to a call for violence.
00:09:43.000But 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.
00:09:50.000And 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.
00:09:59.000And the alternative narrative is, wait for it, wait for it, you got it right.
00:10:02.000Everybody who opposes the trans agenda is actually responsible for a trans person shooting up a Christian school.
00:10:07.000The 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.
00:10:22.000This 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.
00:10:38.000The 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.
00:10:49.000Well, this was a person who says that he was mocked because he was transgender.
00:10:55.000Quote, he wanted everyone in that school to suffer and realize the world is a bad place, an affidavit summing up his statements.
00:11:00.000But 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.
00:11:10.000Or perhaps you remember the Club Q shooting.
00:11:12.000You 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.
00:11:23.000In 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.
00:11:37.000That story disappeared from the headlines pretty quickly after that came out.
00:11:42.000Okay, so a new narrative has to now be created about this particular shooting.
00:11:46.000If 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.
00:11:53.000The new narrative that is being promoted by some members of the media is that the people to blame truly Are Tennessee Republicans.
00:11:59.000Tennessee Republicans, we here at the Daily Wire, we are the people to blame.
00:12:02.000Because after all, we are pushing the idea that you shouldn't trans the kids.
00:12:05.000That you shouldn't actually attempt to gender mutilate small children who are gender confused.
00:12:10.000You shouldn't give hormone treatments.
00:12:11.000You shouldn't shoot girls full of testosterone.
00:12:14.000You might not want to actually carve a fake flesh penis out of an arm.
00:12:19.000You might not want to do those things.
00:12:21.000Right, if we say that, then apparently we are somehow responsible for a trans person shooting up a Christian school.
00:12:28.000Yesterday, 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.
00:12:39.000The 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.
00:12:51.000The police chief also said that the shooter has been identified as 28-year-old female Audrey Hale.
00:13:00.000He said she's a former student of the school and confirmed that Audrey Hale identified herself as a transgender person.
00:13:10.000State 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.
00:13:27.000Ah, it was the drag show controversies you see.
00:13:30.000It's because of all the concerns about exposing children to perverse sexual material.
00:13:34.000Because of that, now you can see why this sort of thing might have happened.
00:13:39.000And we are now making excuses for people who shoot children.
00:13:43.000Now, it is the push to protect children on an ideological level from indoctrination into a gender cult.
00:13:50.000That is now the excuse for shooting actual children.
00:13:57.000The 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.
00:14:07.000That 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.
00:14:22.000Ben 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.
00:14:33.000Nashville is home to The Daily Wire, a hub of anti-trans activity by Matt Walsh blog, Ben Shapiro and Michael J. Knowles.
00:14:41.000So 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.
00:14:48.000Also, if a trans person does violence against Christians, we're responsible for that too.
00:14:52.000I feel like it almost doesn't matter what happens, you just say that we're responsible for the violence.
00:14:57.000Meanwhile, you have Newsweek pushing a similar sort of story.
00:15:19.000This 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?
00:15:26.000And it's like, well, maybe I don't think banning guns protects the kids.
00:15:28.000And 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.
00:15:39.000Alejandro Caraballo, who is a trans person, Well, here's the thing.
00:15:50.000They weren't shot up by just an AR-15 randomly.
00:15:53.000It 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.
00:16:03.000So when a radical Muslim terrorist drives a car over a bunch of Israelis, then the car did it.
00:16:09.000And when a trans man shoots a bunch of Christian schoolchildren, the gun did it.
00:16:16.000The shift in narrative is absolutely clear and absolutely odious.
00:16:20.000Narrative 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.
00:16:31.000That's narrative number one, which, by the way, is actually a narrative that helps foment the ideological insanity that contributes to stuff like this.
00:16:40.000If 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.
00:16:58.000Then you're actually using this shooting as a platform in order to push forward a narrative that actually makes similar events more likely statistically.
00:17:55.000We all think that you're essentially a small school child in a president's body.
00:18:00.000You have the brain power of some lower-end mammals, is pretty much where we are at this point.
00:18:06.000He then launched into his call for an assault weapons ban, of course.
00:18:10.000And we have to do more to stop gun violence.
00:18:14.000It's ripping our communities apart, ripping the soul of this nation, ripping at the very soul of the nation.
00:18:20.000And we have to do more to protect our schools so they aren't turned into prisons.
00:18:25.000You know, the shooter in this situation reportedly had two assault weapons and a pistol, two AK-47s.
00:18:33.000So I call on Congress again to pass my assault weapons ban.
00:18:37.000It's about time that we Began to make some more progress.
00:18:42.000Oh, well, I mean, he's already got the answer ready to go with school shootings.
00:18:46.000And of course, you have the regular sort of cultural leaders out there suggesting that gun control is the answer.
00:18:52.000Peter 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.
00:19:02.000There haven't been any school shootings since.
00:19:04.000I would just like to note at this point that there were no school shootings before.
00:19:07.000The school shooting in Scotland that happened in, I believe, 1996.
00:19:13.000That school shooting was, I believe, the only recorded school shooting in all of the UK in decades.
00:19:18.000So 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.
00:19:25.000I 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.
00:19:44.000But again, the left doesn't need data.
00:19:46.000The left has a do-something mentality, and the do-something is always take the rights of normal Americans who aren't the problem.
00:19:54.000So, 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.
00:20:01.000If Democrats really took this seriously, you know what they would have done?
00:20:04.000They might have tried to push this sort of assault weapons ban, gun control routine.
00:20:06.000They 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.
00:20:13.000Here's Karine Jean-Pierre doing the, what if I get very emotional about gun control, to push this.
00:20:21.000In 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.
00:20:31.000How many more children have to be murdered before Republicans in Congress will step up and act to pass the assault weapons ban?
00:20:44.000I mean, do something is not an actual plan.
00:20:48.000You know what would be an actual plan?
00:20:50.000I'll name you a few things that would be an actual plan.
00:20:51.000The Democrats have rejected all of these, by the way, so far as I'm aware.
00:20:54.000Addition of school security at all schools.
00:20:57.000You 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.
00:21:06.000Better school lockdown procedures, obviously.
00:21:08.000I should have to lock the outer doors, which didn't happen in this particular scenario.
00:21:18.000I 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.
00:21:28.000But 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.
00:22:14.000It'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?
00:22:26.000How many lives need to be lost before we actually decide to do something and keep everyone safe?
00:23:58.000So 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.
00:24:06.000And the Washington Post, which printed this actual headline, GOP congressman from Nashville district heartbroken by shooting.
00:24:12.000But Democrats gun control advocates highlighted a 2021 Christmas photo showing representative Andrew Ogles and members of his family with firearms.
00:24:20.000So just to get this absolutely clear, the GOP congressman is not allowed to be heartbroken by a shooting in his district.
00:24:29.000Because he and his family held guns in a Christmas photo in 2021.
00:24:50.000And what it found is that America, American values, they're basically dying, generation over generation.
00:24:56.000Here is what the Wall Street Journal finds.
00:24:57.000Patriotism, 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.
00:25:07.000And the findings of this poll are just astonishing.
00:25:11.000And the poll asked some pretty simple questions like, do you have faith in the economy?
00:25:16.000Do you think that it's excellent or good?
00:25:17.000Eighty percent, by the way, say that the economy is poor or not so good in the United States.
00:25:22.000Asked 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.
00:25:30.000But 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.
00:25:48.000Which would Obviously imply significant bipartisan agreement that patriotism is pretty important.
00:25:54.000But 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.
00:25:59.000By 2019, that number had dropped some, but not entirely radical, to 61%.
00:26:04.000By 2023, that number had dropped to 38%, like off a cliff.
00:26:06.000that number had dropped to 38% like off a cliff.
00:26:12.000So between 2019 and 2023, that number dropped from 61% to 38%, Americans who think that patriotism is important.
00:26:59.000I can only assume that people meant politically because by 2023, that number was down to 27%.
00:27:06.000Again, less than one in three Americans at a quarter of Americans believe that community involvement is actually an important value.
00:27:12.000The 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.
00:27:21.000When it comes to making money, that is now considered very important.
00:27:26.000By 43% of Americans, it was 41% of Americans in 2019, it was 31% of Americans in 1998.
00:27:33.000And this breaks down pretty significantly by age.
00:27:38.000The 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%.
00:27:49.000Less than a quarter of people between 18 and 29 say having children is important to them.
00:27:55.000Barely 30% of young people say that religion is very important to them.
00:27:59.000And even only 61 and 62% of 18 to 29 year olds say that hard work is important to them right now.
00:28:07.000There's a massive partisan breakdown in all of these questions.
00:28:10.000When it comes to, for example, patriotism, 59% of Republicans say patriotism is important compared to 23% of Democrats.
00:28:17.000When it comes to religion, 53% of Republicans say religion is important compared to 27% of Democrats.
00:28:21.000Having children, 38% of Republicans say it's important compared to 26% of Democrats.
00:28:27.000When it comes to community involvement, this one's kind of shocking.
00:28:29.000Democrats say that they believe more in community involvement to the tune of 32%.
00:28:32.000Republicans 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.
00:28:45.000In 1998, if you'd said community involvement, people immediately would have said, oh, you mean go to church.
00:28:48.000Today, community involvement means go to a protest march or something.
00:28:53.000Where there is no gap at all is when it comes to making money.
00:28:55.000When it comes to making money, 45% of Democrats and 45% of Republicans say that making money is a priority.
00:29:02.000When it comes to other values like transgenderism, massive gap between Republicans and Democrats.
00:29:09.000When it comes to schools and universities using affirmative action, massive gap between Republicans and Democrats.
00:29:15.000But here's the real thing that is happening right now.
00:29:19.000All the values that used to be the quote-unquote unifying values are dying away.
00:29:24.000And the reason they're falling apart, I think, is pretty obvious.
00:29:28.000The centralizing institutions in American society, the intermediate institutions in American society have completely disappeared.
00:29:35.000These were the things that allowed us to live together.
00:29:39.000Churches, 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.
00:29:51.000The intermediate institutions of American society have died away.
00:29:54.000This is something that Robert Nisbet predicted in the Quest for Community back in the 1940s.
00:29:59.000He suggested that over time, as the political state became more and more important, all those intermediate institutions would be removed.
00:30:05.000And all that would be left, essentially, was a tutelary state at the very top of American society and a bunch of atomized individuals.
00:30:11.000Those atomized individuals still have individual economic interests.
00:30:16.000They're all still interested in making money on the personal individual level.
00:30:20.000But they don't have any of the militating institutions in life that actually give people meaning and purpose.
00:30:25.000It's no coincidence that at the exact same time, more and more Americans are saying that they are disconnected from American values.
00:30:36.000A huge number of Americans are now unhappy.
00:30:39.000A huge number of Americans believe their kids are not better off.
00:30:42.000A huge number of Americans believe that America is in serious trouble.
00:30:45.000That 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?
00:30:53.000That overarching political infrastructure used to be a reflection of common values that we share, but now those common values are basically gone.
00:31:00.000And it's not as though this is, you know, some sort of giant mystery.
00:31:04.000Going 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.
00:31:16.000Here'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.
00:31:20.000Here's what de Tocqueville says, quote, I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world.
00:31:25.000The 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.
00:31:36.000Each of them living apart is as a stranger to the fate of all the rest.
00:31:39.000His children and his private friends constitute to him the whole of mankind.
00:31:42.000As for the rest of his fellow citizens, he's close to them, but he doesn't see them.
00:31:45.000He touches them, but he doesn't feel them.
00:31:46.000He exists only in himself and for himself alone.
00:31:49.000If his kindred still remain him, he may be said, at any rate, to have lost his country.
00:31:53.000Above 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.
00:31:59.000That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild.
00:32:03.000It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that parent, its object was to prepare men for manhood.
00:32:07.000But it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.
00:32:09.000It is well-content that people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing.
00:32:15.000For their happiness, such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness.
00:32:20.000It 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.
00:32:29.000What remains but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living.
00:32:32.000Thus it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent.
00:32:36.000It circumscribes the will within a narrower range and gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself.
00:32:41.000The principle of equality has prepared men for these things.
00:32:44.000It has predisposed men to endure them and often to look on them as benefits.
00:32:47.000After 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.
00:32:54.000It 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.
00:33:03.000The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided.
00:33:05.000Men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting.
00:33:08.000Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence.
00:33:11.000It 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.
00:33:20.000I'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.
00:33:33.000Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in 1836.
00:33:36.000Again, remove all of the actual institutions and roles and rules that shape us.
00:33:40.000And 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.
00:33:51.000And then we're shocked when there is additional mental illness.
00:33:54.000And we are shocked when there is additional depression.
00:33:56.000We are shocked when there's additional suicide.
00:33:58.000We're shocked when people are anxious and scared for the future of the country and feel nothing in common with their neighbors.
00:34:04.000When 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.
00:34:15.000The attack of the radical individual on the small community church school.
00:34:21.000The 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.
00:34:32.000The left likes to use particular shootings, to use particular violent incidents as sort of metaphors for broader American society.
00:34:40.000If we're talking about the metaphor of broader American society, that would be a pretty solid one.
00:34:46.000All 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.
00:34:56.000According 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.
00:35:06.000Netanyahu 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.
00:35:13.000Here he was with Piers Morgan explaining why exactly he was seeking judicial overhaul in the first place.
00:35:19.000Right now you have a situation where 15 unelected members of the Supreme Court effectively govern Israel.
00:35:25.000They can decide things that affect our military, our economy, our foreign relations, our battle with terrorism.
00:36:09.000The 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.
00:36:19.000They shut down the airports yesterday.
00:36:21.000They used extra legal means in order to try and threaten the government into not pursuing this judicial reform.
00:36:28.000So to suggest that that's a democratic movement is sort of bizarre.
00:36:31.000You 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.
00:36:40.000And then you have people mobbing in the streets, supposedly in defense of democracy, but trying to overthrow the will of a democratically elected majority.
00:36:49.000Okay, now, that's not the whole story because the truth is that There are serious sort of underlying political issues here.
00:36:56.000The left looks at the right and what they see is a coalition of some people who actually want some procedural changes for good reasons.
00:37:01.000And 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.
00:37:10.000But Netanyahu did the right thing yesterday.
00:37:20.000And what they found out is that the extra-governmental levers of power in Israel are quite... are quite dynamic.
00:37:29.000They'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.
00:37:38.000And so that split was sort of exposed, which means more incrementalism and more compromise.
00:37:42.000That's exactly what Netanyahu pledged yesterday.
00:37:44.000Out 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.
00:37:51.000I 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.
00:38:01.000So they'll go back to the drawing board, which is probably what they should do.
00:38:04.000It is worth noting, yesterday there was a massive counter-protest in Israel, probably 100,000 people minimum, in the middle of Israel.
00:38:23.000Presumably some sort of judicial reform will eventually get done.
00:38:26.000But compromise and conciliation are going to be the path forward right there.
00:38:30.000I 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.
00:38:41.000On all sides, this is the last election.
00:38:43.000If we don't get X done, the country will be over.
00:38:47.000You'll see that with every election in the United States.
00:38:49.000That is not only bad politics, it is bad policy.
00:38:52.000It 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.
00:39:06.000And instead, it just makes politics a series of reactionary swings from one side to the other.
00:39:10.000One side says it's the apocalypse, and maybe they win.
00:39:13.000Then the other side says, well, the other side won.
00:39:24.000I haven't mentioned it the whole show, but we are actually in Rome today.
00:39:27.000I'm filming with my friend Jordan Peterson.
00:39:30.000We 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.
00:39:55.000The city of Rome is absolutely incredible.
00:39:57.000The 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.
00:40:21.000Obviously, Rome, central to the identity of Western civilization.
00:40:24.000I can't wait to bring you that series.
00:40:27.000We 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?
00:40:38.000So, 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.
00:40:51.000That means that religious leaders should stop being so shy about what they believe and they should say it out.
00:40:55.000They should speak out on what they believe rather than attempting to allow secular morality to essentially steer the boat.
00:41:01.000It also means that we need a government that allows for the thriving of local institutions.
00:41:05.000And so I'm very excited that in the state of Florida, the state of Florida has now passed universal school choice.
00:41:11.000The 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.
00:41:22.000Here was Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida.
00:41:26.000And 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.
00:41:37.000And in Florida, we're proof positive that that's just the opposite of what actually happened.
00:41:42.000The fact of the matter is our school districts perform better because they've embraced choice.
00:41:48.000Our charter schools perform better because they have to compete.
00:41:53.000They're not entitled to get anybody as a charter school.
00:41:56.000And 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?
00:42:03.000I want to go to this particular school because of what they're offering.
00:42:07.000All that has created a very positive feedback.
00:42:17.000This 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.
00:42:24.000Alrighty, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:42:30.000So, 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.
00:42:37.000This is the attempt to remove words like fat from Augustus Gloop's descriptors in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
00:42:42.000Well 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.
00:42:51.000According 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.
00:43:07.000Include changes to the narrator's inner monologue.
00:43:09.000For 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.
00:43:15.000Now, as a Jew, of course, I can say that I don't find that particularly useful.
00:43:20.000I 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.
00:43:29.000If you strip out all the stuff that we find offensive today from the books, you're missing half of their context.
00:43:35.000Throughout the revised version of the short story collection, Ms.
00:43:37.000Marple's final cases, and two other stories, the word native has now been replaced with local, which doesn't change anything.
00:43:42.000A 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.
00:43:51.000Also, you're not allowed to refer to Nubian people in Death on the Nile.
00:43:56.000Yeah, 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.
00:44:12.000Well, 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.
00:44:26.000She said that predatory cisgender and straight men are the ones after your kids.
00:44:32.000Many 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.
00:44:47.000So instead of getting you to challenge the patriarchy, they're trying to get you to challenge the very gender expressiveness that challenges patriarchy.
00:44:56.000Don't get it twisted, because a lot of people attacking drag are projecting.
00:45:24.000So this would be, again, major national news story if the parties weren't reversed.
00:45:27.000According 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.
00:45:34.000He said in a statement this weekend, a member of my staff was brutally attacked in broad daylight in Washington, D.C.
00:45:38.000I 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.
00:45:47.000Apparently, the person sustained life-threatening injuries.
00:45:50.000A suspect was arrested with an assault with intent to kill using a knife.
00:45:57.000Again, 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.
00:46:06.000It is completely irrelevant to everyone.
00:46:48.000What if I told David Pakman there's an entire religion predicated on the idea that the Son of God was killed by humans?
00:46:56.000What 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.
00:47:10.000One 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.
00:47:16.000Oh my God, you're saying that bad things happen to religious people?
00:47:19.000Well, doesn't that debunk your entire religion?