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00:04:39.000But I want to get to one of the questions here.
00:04:40.000I received probably 10 or 20 emails about this.
00:04:45.000So it is this question here from Diane.
00:04:49.000Charlie, congratulations, love your show.
00:04:51.000You mentioned a couple times on your show that in the Bible, there's a particular verse indicating God holds a special place for those who want to be parents but unable to conceive.
00:04:58.000Being one of those couples, it would be great comfort to be able to refer to that verse periodically.
00:05:01.000If you could share that verse with me, it would be appreciated.
00:05:03.000So yes, there are several verses, actually.
00:05:06.000There's a couple in the book of Isaiah.
00:05:08.000There is one in the book of Luke, and I'll look at it in a second.
00:05:11.000One in particular talks about how God will continue your name forward even without having children.
00:05:18.000In fact, the biggest Holocaust remembrance museum in Israel, and they do great work there, is called Yad Veshem.
00:05:26.000And that literally comes from a verse in Isaiah, which means God sustains, that God sustains you beyond not having children.
00:05:35.000And actually talks that God comforts you.
00:05:37.000I'm going to look up some of these verses here in a second.
00:05:44.000I think it's very important that our audience understands that adoption is a moral, not a moral good, but it's a moral celebration.
00:05:52.000That if you are not given the ability to have biological children yourself, that adopting children is a beautiful thing and a necessary thing.
00:06:05.000So there's literally, there's just, in general, there's more people who actually want to, there's a lot of children out there and there's a lot of people who are unable to have them.
00:06:16.000And one of the great things that we have in America is the ability to take a child who is not yours and raise it as our own.
00:06:23.000And it's actually an underrated thing that is pretty distinct about America.
00:06:27.000You have a lot of countries where that's just not done.
00:06:32.000And in America, it's always been a more acceptable thing.
00:06:37.000It's really become a normal part of life here.
00:06:42.000And I think we should see that as a blessing.
00:06:45.000That is something that makes it easier to promote a pro-life worldview, that we see, that we are able to expand our understanding of the family beyond those who are strictly biologically related to you, that we can see the importance of adoptive family members.
00:07:02.000And I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but there's many thousands who do it every year.
00:07:08.000And it's a good path that people should be open to.
00:07:11.000And we should encourage making it easier because the biggest barrier to adoption right now is not a lack of interest from prospective parents.
00:07:19.000It's that it's an enormously expensive and difficult process to go through, which is a little insane to think about because all you're literally doing is saying, here is a child who is not able to be raised by its biological parents.
00:07:46.000He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children.
00:07:52.000There's other verses here where it says in 1 Corinthians 7:8, he exalts singleness as noble and minister, and from a ministry standpoint, advantageous lifestyle.
00:08:02.000There's also repeated verses in Isaiah and in Luke, and we'll be sure to post those in the show notes as well.
00:08:10.000So, very important that even if you're not able to have your own biological children adopting kids, it is beautiful, it's amazing, and it sustains the pro-life movement.
00:08:28.000Lisa says, This might be a question for you, Blake.
00:08:32.000In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, how was Luther Burbank, Alexander Graham Bell, etc., the fathers, the places of eugenics, how are they shared worldwide?
00:08:42.000Seriously, I always wondered how were they able to do that, even from their biographies in some instances.
00:08:47.000Do you think exposing them then would have been more difficult for the woke mob to get this poison in our culture today?
00:08:52.000Do you think celebrities, corporations, politicians, school boards of today will be able to bury this support of their transgender youth as easily?
00:08:59.000Eugenics, then as it is now, is a denial of the divinity of God's creation.
00:09:03.000Thank you, and God bless you, and God bless America.
00:09:05.000So, the question is specifically is the Carnegie Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, name a few.
00:09:09.000How are they able to bury their involvement?
00:09:19.000I think the place to start is: Lisa asks, Do you think that exposing them then would have made it more difficult for this poison to get around today?
00:09:29.000And something that's important to go is this was not a secret at the time.
00:09:35.000Eugenics and a lot of the spin-off ideologies of it were very much all the rage in the first about the first half of the 20th century.
00:09:45.000There were voices that warned against it, and they were often the unpopular voices, the more marginalized voices.
00:09:53.000G.K. Chesterton, who's a writer a lot of our viewers are probably familiar with, he wrote a collection of essays titled Eugenics and Other Evils.
00:10:02.000And he was not writing this from the perspective of I am stating the popular view and warning everyone about this secret thing.
00:10:10.000He was writing this from the perspective of this is the fad ideology of the moment, and I am going to speak against it because it is going to end really, really badly.
00:10:20.000And that very much is something you have to teach us ideological humility because everyone said eugenics is great, it'll make our lives more humane, it'll make the world better.
00:10:36.000And it was very much lonely voices stepping up to say, No, you're inherently devaluing people to the point that this is going to lead to horrible atrocities.
00:10:46.000And basically, then the Nazis come along and they vindicate all of those warnings.
00:10:51.000They kill the disabled, they label entire ethnic groups as unworthy of life, they exterminate them in this horrible industrial manner that is just unfathomable.
00:11:02.000And yes, after that, they basically were able to-I don't know if I want to say cover it up, but they just sort of shrug and pretend it didn't happen.
00:11:12.000And now we see it all happening again, where the transgender fad was a fad, a ton of people believed in it, and it's lonely voices initially saying this is going to lead to atrocities, this is going to destroy thousands of people's lives.
00:11:27.000And thankfully, I think we're learning the truth faster than we did with the eugenics movement, but it is happening.
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00:13:22.000Fewer people does give a break for the earth and doesn't strain our natural resources.
00:13:25.000Ooh, which I see as the concern for having only 1.7 kids per family is the pressure it puts on our Ponzi scheme called Social Security, which in my opinion is not a valid reason to want to have children.
00:13:41.000I just want to understand the comments of why having less children is a crisis and why our society will collapse, which will take decades or a century.
00:13:48.000Okay, well, first of all, this mythology that it puts a strain on our natural resources is just that.
00:14:28.000They're less likely to invest in society, less likely to conserve.
00:14:31.000Blake, what does this mean numerically?
00:14:33.000Why is it a big deal to have fertility rates go down?
00:14:36.000Well, what's especially a big deal is not merely that they're down.
00:14:39.000I think if it was, if we had 1.9 fertility worldwide, the population would be going down, but it wouldn't have this feeling of like society is ending.
00:14:49.000What really stands out is we didn't just go from slightly above growth to slightly below.
00:14:55.000We've just sort of crashed and it's just kept crashing down.
00:14:58.000So South Korea was a rapidly growing country 50 years ago, and today I think their fertility rate is 0.7.
00:15:06.000So that is two-thirds of your population just vanishing each generation because they don't want to perpetuate themselves.
00:15:14.000And we see a lot of countries are getting into this death zone where they're at 0.9, 1, 1.1.
00:16:09.000And I just, I hate to overplay this word, but it seems at every turn, our elites want to see the suicide of beautiful things through mass migration, through the mass money printing.
00:16:23.000And when you don't have children, your entire country is slowly committing suicide.
00:16:32.000And remember, human beings are a blessing, not a burden.
00:16:34.000If you come at it from that perspective, you want more of us, not less of us.
00:16:38.000Blake, you make an interesting point in the chat, which is that we need to think bigger, which is that we're living under this really sad, just malaise where people are, I think very, I think COVID damaged the soul and the spirit of the West more than I think we could ever recognize or realize.
00:16:55.000But so if we're overcrowding Earth, then settle Mars, Blake.
00:17:00.000It's like, it's a poverty of ambition.
00:17:02.000You see this a lot with environmentalists.
00:17:05.000It's always, if your obsession is with like shepherding everything you have and being as efficient as possible, it's understandable that that mentality can exist.
00:17:14.000Humans have existed in very dire circumstances before.
00:17:19.000But we've always had the greatest achievements of humanity when we've been ambitious, when we've dreamed big.
00:17:27.000If you read about the 1800s in America or Europe, are they obsessed with, oh, we have too many people and we're consuming resources too much?
00:17:35.000No, they're thinking, we're going to settle that wilderness.
00:18:23.000And so what we should be looking to do is, no, we don't want to just try to get rid of fossil fuels and get rid of people because they're exhausting the planet.
00:18:33.000We should be thinking, we want more energy.
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00:25:43.000However, I'm in deep blue trenches of Oregon.
00:25:45.000And in light of that, my sincere question is how important is it to get people to vote?
00:25:48.000I'm very passionate about saving our country, but is dedicating a lot of time to get out of vote in Oregon worth it since we are a solid state, not a swing state.
00:25:54.000Yes, of course it is for other things such as house races, state races, county races.
00:26:45.000Then in a midterm, you get the more conservative, more consistent voters.
00:26:49.000A lot of that was Republicans were really stronger with older people, and older people were really consistent about voting every single election, no matter what.
00:26:58.000But especially post-Trump, we've seen this revision.
00:27:01.000A big cause of that revision is Trump appeals more to working class voters who were lower propensity overall.
00:27:11.000He appeals a little bit more to Hispanic voters who they have lower turnout overall.
00:27:16.000And now in this election, it seems he's appealing much more than past Republicans to young voters who are lower propensity overall.
00:27:23.000And what you've seen on contrast is, you know, Democrats are still competitive.
00:27:26.000And a big reason they are is think about who Trump is really unpopular with.
00:27:31.000He's really unpopular with urban professional class.
00:27:35.000This used to be a more competitive demographic.
00:27:38.000That's kind of why in 2016, Trump lost the popular vote by quite a bit, but he wins the election.
00:27:45.000It's because he's less competitive in a lot of these places that are always going to vote blue, but past Republicans used to be a little more competitive.
00:27:53.000So maybe Mitt Romney, he does okay in Northern Virginia.
00:28:01.000He does okay in some other like rich metro areas, but he still loses the election overall.
00:28:08.000Now you see this huge swerve where the urban professional elites who see Trump and they think he's really icky, they think he's dumb and his supporters are dumb.
00:29:13.000They follow up on stuff, which matters a lot.
00:29:16.000They're the ones who don't just demonstrate for something, but they nag their lawmakers about it over and over again, and they read blogs like keeping up on what's going on.
00:29:26.000None of this is to say that this doesn't exist on the right.
00:29:29.000Obviously, a lot of our fans are people like that, but it's more common on the left.
00:29:37.000Is that, for example, an average Democrat who lives in downtown Chicago and they're earning $280,000 a year, $500 a month spread amongst five Senate candidates is not a ton of money for them, right?
00:29:53.000So, and politics becomes a consumption hobby for them.
00:31:26.000And it's something we're just going to have to learn it on the fly because we are used to a reality where a high turnout race is something that's just going to be disadvantageous to us.
00:31:35.000It's something that the Democrats liked and we kind of disliked.
00:31:39.000We were fine with, oh, let's keep the election low-key.
00:31:50.000Like, we want to understand, yes, if we go out there and nag this low-propensity person and, you know, make, you know, do the work, get them registered, get them a ballot, make sure the ballot is turned in, this can produce a much bigger return for us in the past.
00:32:06.000So, kind of to circle back to Hannah's question, one reason you really want to do this is we just might be surprised.
00:32:13.000There's always that race that's not expected to be close, that is close, or even goes the way you don't expect.
00:32:20.000Another factor is, remember, there's a national popular vote, and Democrats will always justify every power grab they want to do by saying, oh, we won the overall popular vote, or this or that landslide justifies us doing it.
00:33:13.000I also just want to say, though, it's good that our side cherishes things more than politics.
00:33:18.000That family and business and relationships should matter more than your congressman.
00:33:25.000However, the more when the decent people start to care about politics as much as the indecent people, good things are going to start to happen.
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00:35:04.000If you don't win elections, you are not able to get those things done.
00:35:08.000Yeah, it's just, it's like, imagine if you're in baseball or something, and you think the rules of baseball favor pitchers too much over hitters, and you think the way our team would be better is if it favored hitters more.
00:35:21.000Well, you play the game by the rules that exist, and you can try to change the rules in whatever way you want.
00:35:27.000And in America, as it happens, the only way that you can change any election rules is by winning elections and then being in power and changing the rules.
00:35:36.000And the rules right now are it's a very turnout-driven race.
00:35:42.000It's a race where there are easy absentee ballots.
00:35:45.000It's a race where, unfortunately, the election lasts about a month.
00:35:48.000So, accepting that the election lasts about a month, how do we compete?
00:35:53.000Well, it would probably be good to copy what Democrats have done because it has won them elections that it seemed like they were not going to win.
00:36:01.000So, you can either call us grifters and go back to losing, and then after we lose, complain that it's all because the thing is rigged and that we should have paper ballots, or you can go do the thing that might allow you to get paper ballots.
00:36:17.000Yeah, if you don't have political power, you can't change it.
00:37:32.000And if you are interrupting them, your mic won't be on.
00:37:36.000So I suppose maybe they would hear it in like a muffled way because there will be other microphones, but it'll be, you won't hear it clearly for sure.
00:37:44.000And so I think what the Biden team might be counting on or hoping for is that Trump will be, he'll just go back to old habits and he'll be pretty aggressive and combative and he'll try to butt in with side comments while Biden is saying something.
00:38:00.000But it'll be muffled and it'll make him look bad.
00:38:03.000It'll make him look like a sort of angry clown and it won't be as decisive.
00:38:07.000And I think they're hoping that that occurs.
00:38:09.000So I think for Trump, if Trump could shock them by showing up and actually playing mostly by the rules of the debate, this is just a guess.
00:38:20.000All predictions wrong are your money back.
00:38:21.000But if he just stands there and he's like, okay, Biden, tell us your thing.
00:38:37.000If you watch the 2020, the first 2020 debate, the one that Trump, I think by consensus, didn't do great in, what Biden would do is he'd start talking.
00:38:45.000Trump would be really aggressive and wouldn't interrupt him.
00:38:47.000And Biden would just look very dismissive and he'd just be going, you're the worst president ever.
00:38:54.000He would just look like this angry, disappointed father figure.
00:38:59.000And if instead you're just saying, oh, Biden, give us your pitch and we're not going to interrupt you, suddenly you're stuck with this is a confused 80-year-old man who doesn't have a good track record.
00:39:09.000And he's just going to try to talk about.
00:39:21.000In his debate prep, he has to be ready for the, oh, and you know I beat you last time, Donald, you know, something like that that could just set him off.
00:39:29.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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