00:01:04.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:32.000One of the individuals there, she asked, she said, you actually go here to learn.
00:01:35.000And not that I've heard anything that was totally new and profound, but I learned a lot at kind of where this generation is politically and philosophically.
00:01:45.000And yeah, I learned a lot kind of about some of the major sticking points there.
00:01:49.000And I do want to thank a couple people.
00:01:51.000I want to thank the students there that were there for all two hours and were respectful.
00:02:41.000Here I am complimenting that everyone had a great time and trying to be magnanimous, even though people said very bad things, but whatever.
00:03:19.000And they had a commitment to free speech, which is very, very important.
00:03:25.000So something that kept on coming up in our discussions today, which I found to be fascinating, not surprising, but it was fascinating to keep on hearing, which is, who are you to say what is right and wrong?
00:03:39.000I thought that that would be probably well understood by the time you get to college, but it shouldn't be a huge shock for those of you that are kind of consuming postmodern deconstructionist philosophy on an almost daily basis, which is who are you to say?
00:03:55.000And that really does ask the question of what is the purpose of college, right?
00:03:58.000where I think college should be, kind of what Hillsdale College has become, which is an exploration of the good, the true, and the beautiful, and what is right, what is good, what is, how should you as a human being properly develop.
00:04:11.000And, you know, it was a really interesting question where they said, you know, your beliefs should not be able to be imposed on somebody else.
00:04:52.000But it kind of goes back to that question of who are you to say?
00:04:55.000And boy, the founding fathers really thought deeply about that.
00:04:59.000And we are the beneficiaries of framers that gave us the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:05:05.000And I have to say, when I said that today, there were a lot of people gasping and booing, which is just such a shocking thing because that is as close to an objective fact of anything I could say here tonight, that you are the beneficiaries to live in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:05:37.000We have the longest waiting list of people that want to come into our country.
00:05:40.000Our ideals have been successfully replicated all across the planet.
00:05:44.000We're the nation that goes and fights wars for the freedom of other people, not perfectly all the time, obviously, but has an ethic within our history and within our background, something that is not an empire to try to gain lands, but in some ways, something greater than yourself.
00:06:00.000And I could go on from medical advancements to cultural impact.
00:06:03.000There's something very special about America.
00:06:05.000And I'm desperately afraid that we're losing it.
00:06:08.000And not only are we afraid of losing it, I'm afraid that people want it to be lost.
00:06:38.000And only spending an exhaustive amount of time in a lecture hall listening to someone who hates about America could you come to such a ridiculous conclusion as that, which, I mean, just the evidence in front of it is you look at America's greatness, which, again, I think we're losing through self-inflicted decisions, and you look through our history and you look at what we've been able to accomplish.
00:07:00.000There's just one fact that will tell you everything you need to know.
00:07:04.000America's the only nation on the planet where even those who hate it and they say they hate it, they refuse to leave.
00:07:10.000And so, and people, and they say, well, you know, where am I supposed to go?
00:07:19.000I said, I don't know you guys talk about Denmark all the time.
00:08:46.000But Thomas Jefferson writes, when in the course of human events, he's talking about all time, all human beings, all people, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have tied them to another, deriving the separate but equal power that goes on to equal station and goes on to say laws of nature and nature is God.
00:09:00.000What he's making is a moral argument that the people of this nation have something that is just that is even greater than reason and is even greater than touch and feel in the senses.
00:09:10.000And again, you could have your own religious views, but it's an arguable to say that the founders of the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, they believed you had a soul, and that's a very big deal.
00:09:19.000And if you believe you have a soul, then you must have a government that respects all human dignity, regardless of size, level of development, environment, or degree of dependency, including those in the womb or outside of the womb.
00:09:29.000That those beings are worthy of protection.
00:09:32.000And when you start to talk in that way, all of a sudden, natural rights start to come into the picture.
00:09:51.000Is that the government protects those rights, first and foremost, from government abusing those rights?
00:09:56.000And not only were they able to tell you what a human being is, they told you how human beings acted.
00:10:00.000And if there was kind of the big, one of the big lies, if you will, of American progressivism is that somehow human beings change just because technology changes with it.
00:10:14.000In fact, technology only makes it easier for us to do the bad stuff that would have been harder for us to do a couple hundred years ago.
00:10:19.000Said differently, the Constitution was not written for the times.
00:10:22.000It was written to stand the test of time.
00:10:24.000That it was an analysis of human behavior of every civilization that ever acted before, and they had some truths in it that all of us are able to enjoy today.
00:10:32.000The first and most obvious one is consent to the governed.
00:10:34.000You are the sovereign of the U.S. Constitution.
00:10:37.000And that is so easy to take for granted.
00:10:39.000And it only existed in a short little spurt in maybe Athenian democracy before that.
00:10:43.000And it's a big deal they put that into place.
00:10:45.000But it's important that it's not a democracy, though.
00:10:53.000In a democracy, the majority rules no matter what all the time.
00:10:56.000And I say, well, that's the way I want it.
00:10:58.000Well, if the majority wants something that is evil and wrong, shouldn't there be a check and balance against the majority?
00:11:02.000Shouldn't there be a process to slow it down?
00:11:05.000You see, a constitutional republic says there are things that are true that will always be true.
00:11:09.000Do you notice that the preamble to the U.S. Constitution has never had to be changed?
00:11:13.000It's because it's always been true that we do ordain these truths.
00:11:17.000We do ordain this Constitution said differently.
00:11:20.000And so when we kind of look at all these different things that are kind of factoring in, I think it's important to note that the posture that I encourage you to have, and we can have obvious disagreements here, we're going to get to questions early tonight because boy, some of you guys wore me out today.
00:12:41.000What is the form of the structure of government?
00:12:44.000And there's a reason why that constitution has stood the test of time and the stress test at every single corner, despite opposition, foreign and domestic.
00:12:51.000It locates the sovereignty within you.
00:12:54.000And at the same time, the people are actually not running the administration of the government.
00:12:59.000It excludes the sovereign from the ordinary business of the government or the ordinary operations of the government, which in some ways is a check and balance on the people, which again shows that absolute power can corrupt absolutely.
00:13:11.000And it comes down to this fundamental question and this fundamental thing where it goes down to at some point, you have to agree upon what C.S. Lewis said, which is you have to come to some consensus of the Tao or the way.
00:13:22.000And this is what really troubles me about some of the things I heard today more than anything else when they say there's unlimited amount of truths.
00:13:30.000And I want you to understand the ramifications of what that looks like in society.
00:13:35.000And, you know, somebody said, you know, different cultures have different truths.
00:13:40.000Different cultures can have different diets and customs and attitudes.
00:13:44.000But is it really the case that if you believe that child sacrifice to Molech is okay, that's somehow something we should act as if that's not eternally wrong, regardless of where it happens?
00:13:55.000No, there's eternal principles that apply to all people, regardless of where they are on the planet.
00:14:05.000There's an unlimited amount of truths.
00:14:06.000Now, there could be lots of different shared experiences.
00:14:09.000But for example, if you have a car crash and there's five witnesses, everyone says, well, this happened and this happened.
00:14:13.000Eventually, you want to get to the truth of what ended up happening.
00:14:17.000You want to be able to get to the consensus of the matter.
00:14:18.000And when you design a government or you have a society and you raise a generation that says, you know what, anyone can believe whatever they want to believe about anything at any time.
00:14:27.000How on earth are you going to have a stable and civil society from that point?
00:14:31.000If everybody had a definition of what North is, good luck trying to orient everybody.
00:14:36.000So no, there's not an unlimited amount of truths.
00:14:38.000I believe there's one truth, but I think that truth that we could agree tonight is rather broad.
00:14:42.000I think that it's a road that is not too narrow and not too wide, as C.S. Lewis would say in the abolition of man.
00:14:50.000It's something that says, okay, within the maxims of liberty, we can agree that separation of powers, consent of the governed, independent judiciary, private property rights, these things are important to protect.
00:15:00.000And whenever there is a threat against those things, we're not going to put up with that.
00:15:04.000Like we're not going to say, you know what?
00:15:06.000Yeah, maybe you could believe that you're a platypus or that you could believe that you're actually six foot eight when in reality you're not.
00:15:13.000That your feeling is not as important as to what actual reality is happening in that exact moment.
00:15:20.000And the consequence of this, I could tell you, will end up being two things.
00:15:27.000If you don't have all these things, you have societal chaos.
00:15:29.000But we never talk about what happens after that, which is then you get totalitarianism.
00:15:34.000You see, as soon as you confuse everybody, there is no truth, you have your own truth, and you have all these different kind of bickering tribes, eventually people are going to want order.
00:15:43.000And that's when you get someone like Joseph Stalin that comes along, and all they care about is power, and they're good at it.
00:15:48.000And then all of a sudden, you could throw out all the stuff I've talked about, consent to the govern, separation of powers.
00:15:52.000Chaos is a strategy towards totalitarianism.
00:15:57.000And not everyone who's participating in it even recognizes or realizing it.
00:15:59.000They say, oh, we're liberating groups to be able to have whatever truth they want to have under any circumstance.
00:16:16.000And whatever that kind of fiction or whatever that might be.
00:16:20.000And so I'm very, very worried about the direction of the country currently and for a variety of reasons.
00:16:25.000And I think that the restoration has to start, has to kind of rest on all of you.
00:16:29.000Something I wish we could have talked about more in this, kind of in our time together on the quad, wherever we were, is kind of what's going on generationally.
00:16:39.000I guess you're all Gen Zers, is that right?
00:16:40.000If you're in college, I'm a millennial, so I have to thank you, by the way.
00:16:44.000I have finally found a generation boomers hate more than millennials, Generation Z.
00:17:04.000And I think both have something that we can glean from it.
00:17:08.000The first is the reality of the topic is that this is the most depressed, suicidal, alcohol-addicted, and drug-addicted, psychiatric, drug-addicted generation in history.
00:17:17.000Most likely to kill themselves, least likely to get married, least likely to have kids, most likely to believe that there is no God, no eternity, no reason or harmony for life.
00:17:27.000And for those of us that are not in Generation Z, we should pause and take time out and say, what is going on?
00:17:33.000That is a very troubling and sad thing.
00:17:35.000Now, I do believe that there is a direct connection between a lot of this postmodernist garbage that is being, you know, a lot of you guys are going into debt for to learn and the fact that all of a sudden you have something that could be best described as existential despair.
00:17:50.000You feed a child a steady diet of Jock Derrida and Michelle Foucault and Herbert Marcuse without being anchored in absolute truth, or at least the kind of the inquiry of such, you're going to really mess with some kids' heads.
00:18:03.000But also, even deeper than that, and this is where I think some students would totally agree, especially those on the left and some adults would say not so fast, is I think that older generations did a massive disservice to this generation.
00:18:23.000The lockdowns will go down as one of the worst mistakes in American history where we decided to harm a generation for an awful reason.
00:18:32.000And this generation is still trying to climb out of it.
00:18:34.000We locked down a generation and masked them and forced mRNA gene altering technology on them by saying maybe you get kicked out of school or have your entire life ruined for a virus that did not significantly threaten them.
00:18:46.000And every single person in this room could tell you a story as someone that has been left aside.
00:18:51.000And we're here for you if you need help in any way possible of someone that is now in a very serious mental health crisis, someone that took their life.
00:18:58.000And I'm telling you, the lockdowns are a direct correlation to this generational carnage that a lot of young people are living through.
00:19:04.000And, you know, a lot of adults will say, oh, young people just need to work harder.
00:19:54.000Because now we see the results, right?
00:19:56.000And not to mention all of our insane fiscal policy is around this.
00:20:00.000And I say this to conservatives all the time.
00:20:03.000And I think that we could find some agreement with some people on the left here tonight, which is, you want to know why so many people on the left and younger that love socialism.
00:20:11.000Yeah, part of it, they want free stuff and they've been indoctrinated, all that.
00:20:44.000And good luck trying to buy a home if you're a young person right now with what, 6.6% interest rates and down payments out of reach.
00:20:52.000And this is something that is some conservatives reject this argument, but just hold on, which is some people that then embrace socialist ideas, at some point you have to wonder like, man, you can blame them a little bit, but did we create the conditions where they're ready to embrace free enterprise?
00:21:19.000But instead, they're too talking about race all the time and defunding the police and men becoming pregnant.
00:21:22.000If they were smart, if they were smart, they would say the very simple, which is very, really true, which is a 25-year-old is working harder and getting poor than any other time in American history.
00:21:32.000That's true, not American history, the last 50 years.
00:21:35.000And not only is that true, it creates a lot of anger in people, and it should, because you have a rule-following generation.
00:21:40.000That's what I call Gen Z and millennials, because they followed every single rule put in front of them.
00:22:22.000It's just talking very realistically, which is, do you think the hard economic left, which again, this is the great miscalculation of the American Marxists.
00:22:32.000And if there's a Marxist here now, I'd be happy to talk to you because the Marxist, you're giving advice to Marxists, right?
00:22:37.000It's quite a thing, which is they decided to go all in on this race Marxism garbage, which actually was the best gift for those of us that are conservatives because they decided to show their true colors that they're actually not about economics.
00:22:47.000They're about dividing people based on skin color and tribes and going against straight white men and all that sort of nonsense that they're doing.
00:22:53.000When every single one of their arguments of like, oh, we need to confiscate wealth and all total and complete garbage, obviously, being a free enterprise guy has kind of gone by the wayside in a way where you have a legitimate economic anxiety amongst the younger generation.
00:23:09.000And so the question is, how are conservatives going to respond to that?
00:23:12.000Well, I mean, I think our response needs to be, of course, rooted in market principles and rooted in consent of the government constitutional ideas.
00:23:18.000But I have to even say beyond that, it's we should also as conservatives be defenders and we should be pushers of things that would give this generation that currently is telling us they're in misery by every metric possible, things that would give them meaning, make it easier to marry and have children in our country, make it easier to be able to buy a home, to have a little bit of investment in that very same American dream.
00:23:39.000You want to de-radicalize a generation?
00:23:42.000Have them experience the same sort of growth that many of you experienced, adults in the room, in the 1980s.
00:23:48.000Your politics get very de-radicalized when you're getting wealthier and you start having kids.
00:23:53.000You want to know why this generation has radicalized politics?
00:23:56.000Because they're getting poor and they're not having children and not getting married.
00:23:59.000It's the perfect kind of raw material for every single one of these awful ideas to kind of go in and metastasize.
00:24:08.000I tell young people work harder, apply yourself more.
00:24:10.000At the same time, as someone who's kind of a bridge between generations, being 28 years old, I think there needs to be a national recovery plan.
00:24:18.000I don't know what that means, but I've said this before.
00:24:20.000I would much rather see money go to help kids be able to own homes and have families and send it to Ukraine.
00:24:27.000I think that is a much more important priority for our leaders.
00:24:34.000That's not a popular position in every room.
00:24:36.000Obviously, it is here, but I think there's a moral obligation to defend your citizens.
00:24:40.000So, but yeah, this look, for those of you that are Gen Z and you're here tonight and you don't know how you stand politically welcome, by the way, we're glad you're here.
00:24:48.000It's more important where you ask yourselves the question: how am I going to be able to live a life of contribution and meaning and purpose?
00:24:54.000And I guess I'll close with this and we'll do some questions, which is it could be very depressing and very dark when you watch the news and all this, but I just want to be able to tell you that there is a beautiful life that is ahead of all of you.
00:25:07.000There are things that give your life meaning that you might be told on a daily basis you shouldn't do.
00:25:12.000Getting married, having children, having a job that you believe in, being able to serve your country, your church, your community, whatever those things might be.
00:25:19.000Those are very beautiful and important things.
00:25:22.000And so we're kind of going through this massive thing where they say, you know, we have this mental health crisis on our hands.
00:25:27.000And there's a lot of different reasons for that.
00:26:04.000And I think that's a lot more important for conservatives to talk about than tax cuts.
00:26:08.000But it also goes into this, which is one of the main strategies is if you get a generation to no longer believe in the history and the story of that nation, then why wouldn't they just tear it all down?
00:26:18.000And that's one of the reasons why I'm such a defender of the American Republic and our history, which is a beautiful history.
00:26:24.000It really is the great American story.
00:26:33.000It's a place of applied success and meritocracy, and we have to get it back.
00:26:37.000And that starts here at this campus and spreading the truth and having debate and dialogue and reason and hearing each other's ideas out.
00:26:44.000But I'll tell you right now, it's a massive crisis because I look at the next generation and I'm very afraid that we're going to be talking about a country that used to exist.
00:27:32.000I'm sure that all of us are so excited that you're here finally.
00:27:36.000So before I ask my question, I just got to say this.
00:27:38.000We need you to come to Texas AM University.
00:27:41.000I know that we're here at UT, but I'm not the only person that thinks that.
00:27:44.000Okay, so I don't remember if it was at SAS 2022 or at AmericaFest, but I remember you saying that UT Austin is the most leftist university you have ever visited.
00:27:55.000It's been a few years since you've been here.
00:27:57.000So, and I mean, you can elaborate on this.
00:29:16.000They're totalitarians and they should bother you too.
00:29:18.000Instead of having debate or dialogue, they resort to force or they try to intimidate you with threats or they try to play music while you talk.
00:29:24.000So there's a difference between liberals and leftists.
00:29:27.000And I hope UT at least remains liberal and never becomes leftist in that regard.
00:29:43.000I have a question that's a little bit more political about transgenderism.
00:29:46.000As a parent yourself, what would you say to maybe a teacher who's pushing this agenda onto students, maybe even your daughter one day?
00:29:54.000Yeah, that person is a groomer who is a pervert and should not be in teaching to use their position in education to put forward radical, baseless, perverse gender queer theory on a five, six, or seven or eight year old.
00:30:11.000That is a, I mean, I used the right descriptions, right, when I said that.
00:30:14.000Not only does it have no place in education, the implications of that are quite obvious.
00:30:19.000And evidence after evidence after evidence is surfacing of parents telling kids not to, I'm sorry, teachers telling parents, teachers telling kids not to tell their parents, right?
00:30:28.000Teachers coming in and saying, you know, do not repeat this.
00:30:31.000And if we're at a place in society where we can't remove pornographic images from kids' textbooks, then we got a serious problem.
00:30:55.000The innocence of children is very important because they never get it back.
00:30:58.000And that period of childhood development where they are quote unquote as innocent as they can be is important for them to find out their values, grow close to their parents, find out what's right and wrong.
00:31:09.000You know what ends up happening when the innocence of children is robbed?
00:31:12.000They're less likely to take risks and fail and learn who they are.
00:31:18.000When a child's innocence is quote unquote robbed, you could use whatever graphic example you could imagine, then all of a sudden, are they going to be as likely to, you know, there's a great, there's an old Hebrew proverb, which is, someone who's afraid of being embarrassed will never learn.
00:31:36.000It's a great Hebrew proverb, isn't it?
00:31:38.000Which is they're going to be less likely to ask, quote unquote, the dumb question, maybe more likely to be in their shell.
00:31:43.000I think there's something really fun and exciting of a five, six, or seven-year-old that asks the wackiest questions you could imagine because they're trying to explore truth.
00:31:52.000Once it's gone, there is no reversing it.
00:31:54.000And I think that's a very special thing.
00:31:56.000I think every, you know, the kind of the beauty of what the West has been able to do is saying that those of us that are older and those of us that have some form of strength need to use that strength, I mean strength more collectively, not physical strength, use that to protect children that can't protect themselves.
00:32:12.000And then once they become to an age of informed consent, we basically have that age around 18, then obviously they can, you know, make more decisions themselves.
00:33:28.000But I mean, I'll just, I'll prove it to you.
00:33:30.000So the war thing aside, I mean, how many people in this room know someone that committed suicide or seriously harmed themselves in the midst of the pandemic just by a show of hands?
00:33:52.000Not to mention young people then re-entered an economy where everything was twice as expensive because we created a bunch of money because of the lack of productivity in the lockdowns.
00:34:00.000And so I think it's just unarguable that the lockdowns played a huge role, a massive role in really depriving a generation of the ability to congregate and to communicate.
00:34:29.000But that's just my personal perspective.
00:34:31.000I think there are far more worse things that my generation has been exposed to than the lockdown and the inflation that you have cited during the lockdown.
00:34:40.000That's arguably not the fault of the current standing president if you do believe that it is the fault of the current standing president.
00:34:46.000I mean, first of all, Biden created $5 trillion new dollars, not created, but he approved $5 trillion new dollars that was hyper, hyper-inflationary.
00:34:53.000But I'll even give you that the other COVID relief funds never should have been approved.
00:34:57.000But look, it's not just the suicide issue.
00:35:13.000It's from, if you talk to any psychologist or child psychologist, they do not have the bandwidth to be able to even facilitate the amount of kids.
00:35:20.000And I know that you have an obviously exception experience, but that is the exception, right?
00:35:24.000I mean, it is self-evident that these lockdowns were unusually cruel.
00:35:29.000And you know who they were most cruel to?
00:35:53.000I mean, would you at least agree that for one of your passionate causes, which is billionaires getting wealthier, billionaires got $600 billion wealthier?
00:36:16.000Like the loud minority, I would say, are the ones that make you get the impression that we're not against big business.
00:36:22.000Yeah, I promise the ones I actually read are.
00:36:24.000Excuse me where I'm a little cynical about that, just to be honest, where I have to hear they're against big business while they mandated a Pfizer-AstraZeneca Moderna vaccine of publicly traded transnational corporations.
00:36:35.000And see, that's more of like, in my eyes, a neoliberal concept.
00:36:41.000Okay, but I mean, it was find me one left-wing senator that opposed that and it just didn't exist.
00:36:46.000But I think you're coming at this from an honest perspective.
00:36:49.000And I just, I'm, I'll just close with this.
00:36:52.000This is what drives me nuts about kind of the fixation on race all the time and all these other issues that I would prefer not to talk about is that I think there's actually agreement on kind of how things went wrong last couple of years.
00:37:04.000You blame capitalism, I blame more cronyism and big government intervention over a lot of different things.
00:37:09.000But I'm afraid that a lot of what we spend our time talking about are some of the more superficial issues rooted in race Marxism.
00:37:24.000As a leftist, you know, why is it that the American left, why is the American left allowing the conversation to be controlled by white liberals that just want to stay rich?
00:37:52.000So abortion seems to be like a big topic these days.
00:37:55.000And I was actually at your booth earlier.
00:37:57.000I was just listening in, and that was a big topic there, too.
00:38:00.000And so I guess I just had a question about that because at the booth, like whenever you were, whenever someone was asking you why revalling the fetus, it kept coming back to human life.
00:38:10.000And like, I didn't really understand what you meant by that because when you say human life, human life by definition is an organism or a being that has human DNA.
00:38:22.000And so when the fetus only really has that connection with, you know, like fully grown adults or just like born children, what entitles the fetus to violate the property rights of the mother over her own body or to have the government do so on her behalf?
00:39:02.000So then my position is that being that begins at conception is worthy of constitutional rights and protection.
00:39:08.000What moral value does simply having being an organism, even if it's just a single-celled organism that has human DNA, what moral value does it mean?
00:40:26.000Well, yeah, but I'm not coming from an argument of rationality.
00:40:29.000I'd come from more of like a self-ownership type perspective.
00:40:32.000And I simply don't believe that an organism that is inherently dependent, like on the on like violating another person's property rights in order to survive.
00:40:51.000Obviously, like, the seven-week old depends on like for practicality and living.
00:40:55.000But if we're talking about a moral perspective, right, just the capacity to have rationality, why does that give it moral value?
00:41:02.000Okay, but we're talking about two different things.
00:41:04.000I guess the question is, do you believe just because something is dependent on another, is that a reason that you could be able to eliminate that being?
00:41:12.000If that being has to violate someone else's moral rights in order to do so, yes.
00:42:07.000Morality that built the West and the morality that I'm going to defend tonight is that one week old can't defend themselves.
00:42:14.000So stronger, bigger people not in the womb need to insert themselves to make sure that one week old is not terminated by people that are just happen to be older and bigger than them.
00:42:25.000Is that regardless of size, as soon as that life begins, which you agreed, it starts at conception, that being deserves constitutional rights, uniquely and fearfully made.
00:42:33.000And it's the question of the morality of a society, what we're willing to do when that being comes into existence.
00:42:57.000Okay, so I guess I would just believe that the only types of, I mean, at least the only types of humans that can have moral rights are ones that act as moral agents.
00:43:08.000And a single-celled organism that's living in a womb or a multicellular organism that's living in a womb.
00:43:13.000Can you explain what you mean by moral agents?
00:43:17.000So if you don't have moral agency, then you could be up for elimination.
00:43:22.000If you don't have, I mean, if you don't have moral agency, if you don't have like the ability to like, if you don't have ownership over your own body yet.
00:43:28.000Yeah, so by the way, that is babies until they're about 18 months old do not have ownership of their own body.
00:44:07.000I guess I probably just need to clarify that what I mean by like self-ownership or moral agency, because that organism or that human, whatever in the womb is still inherent, like in order to like survive, it's inherently biologically dependent, even if it does nothing, right?
00:44:25.000It's biologically dependent on the mother.
00:44:27.000And so if we talk about like late term, like just, I mean, like, I guess I don't want to go into that territory just like right now, right?
00:44:36.000So like if we just talk about like early term like abortion, I simply don't see, I don't have, like, and I don't think that generally people see a moral value that is similar to even that of a newborn baby in something that is just conceived.
00:46:19.000Don't you think that the fact that in your world that this false vaccine has been distributed so like widespread throughout not just the United States, but the world demonstrates that the United States is a failed country?
00:46:32.000No, but I don't personally don't believe that the United States is a failed country.
00:46:36.000I like living in the United States, but I have faith in our institutions enough to say that distributing a vaccine to 300-something billion people in the United States, that is false or that it's not safe to use.
00:46:50.000Well, so what do you know about the VARES, the government database of VARES, the vaccine adverse event reporting system?
00:46:55.000But I can go on the system and report whatever I want.
00:46:57.000Well, no, actually, it's a very long, exhaustive process that takes 45 minutes to an hour.
00:47:01.000Under penalty of perjury to go to jail if you followed a false report.
00:47:04.000And if you talk to them in a hospital, they say it's underreported.
00:47:07.000According to the government's website, 31,330 people died because of the vaccine.
00:47:12.000According to the government website, 179,806 people were hospitalized.
00:47:16.000136,000 people were in urgent care, 16,100 with Bell's palsy, 10,064 with anaphylaxis, and over 207,576 doctor office visits, 5,000 miscarriages, 16,000 heart attacks, and 52,000 events of myocarditis and pericarditis.
00:47:32.000That is not a safe or effective vaccine.
00:47:35.000Do you think that if we compare those numbers to the total amount of people who got the vaccine, that it makes it...
00:48:08.000So the Florida Surgeon General said the following.
00:48:11.000This analysis found that there's an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related deaths among males 18 to 39 years old within 28 days following the mRNA vaccination.
00:48:21.000That's the Florida Surgeon General that has come out.
00:48:23.000Pfizer came and testified today, and they said, we never tested the vaccine to be able to prevent the spread of the virus.
00:48:30.000Pfizer has admitted the booster shot was tested on eight mice.
00:50:43.000My concern, though, and I want to hear your perspective on this, is here in Texas, we have the strictest abortion ban in the whole country.
00:50:51.000There's no exception for rape or incest or for the life of the mother after six weeks.
00:50:57.000My concern is that the government is mandating that people carry out their pregnancies even when it goes against their own life and their own well-being.
00:51:07.000I can take an example of if somebody is threatening to harm you, you have a right to self-defense.
00:51:13.000Why not have the same, give the same autonomy to people who are pregnant?
00:52:01.000Even with a choice, let's say you invite someone into your home and they still decide to assault you.
00:52:07.000Does that mean you not have a right to self-defense against them?
00:52:10.000Well, no, I think that, for example, if you have a bunch of teenagers over to your home and they start wrecking everything, you shouldn't be shocked when all of a sudden you wake up the next morning and things are a little awry.
00:52:19.000But we're not just talking about wrecking a home.
00:52:20.000We're talking about wrecking your own body, your own personality.
00:52:40.000They made a choice to have consensual sex, and now they want to be able to use scientific medical technology to crush a being that is not them, is a different person out of convenience.
00:52:53.000Let's say you have a child who needs a kidney transplant and you are the only one who can supply it and you consensually allow them to use that kidney.
00:53:25.000Sir, even if you consent to, say, taking care of your child through the, you know, transfusing blood or whatnot, should the government mandate that you have to continue that consensual blood transfusion?
00:53:37.000Again, under the unrealistic hypothetical, and I reject the whole premise of this.
00:53:40.000The question is, let me answer it more broadly.
00:53:43.000Do I think the government should step in to protect and preserve human right if by be it by mandating, especially when the question is termination or not?
00:55:27.000All right, I had another question coming up here, but I really, the bait is there and I have to take it.
00:55:34.000So I am also pro-choice, and I was wondering how, like, you said to the previous dude back there that the government, in cases where human life is at risk, should step in through any means necessary, be it through mandates, be it through bans, things like that, right?
00:55:57.000Again, that was a hypothetical answer.
00:55:59.000I think the government has a moral obligation to protect innocent life when confronted with the question of someone intervening to end that life.
00:56:06.000So if a police officer is standing idly by and he sees someone on the side of the street and someone is going by to about to kill them, the police officer being an agent of the government has a moral right to intervene.
00:56:29.000The cowardice that happened at Uvalde is the cowardice we allow to happen when there's a million abortions in our country every single year.
00:56:46.000And the analogy that I usually use, or the question that I usually ask pro-life people, is, do you believe that the government should mandate organ donation, even in cases of like things like donating your kidney?
00:57:01.000Or right now we have a policy where even after death, if you have like religious things where you, you know, your whole body has to be intact in order for like burial rights and things like that to happen, we say that you shouldn't have to donate your organs, but the pro-life case seems to extend to the idea that even people who are living should have to give up their kidneys to people in hospitals, maybe, who need kidneys?
00:58:48.000I'm going to argue that different forms of birth control have different forms of effectiveness, and someone could be potentially on birth control using those control methods, and it fails.
01:01:06.000My question concerns the hope and love we can have for America.
01:01:10.000I mean, we live in a country that has allowed for 63 million deaths through the abortion industry.
01:01:16.000And we have multiple industries and institutions that are built on lies and lusts.
01:01:21.000And it seems as if the majority of American citizens either don't care or even approve of all of this.
01:01:27.000So where do you think we can go, the individual people, the church, and the government, to where can we go from having hope and love for our country at this point?
01:01:51.000You're secular, you could be apathetic and cynical.
01:01:53.000You're Christian, I'm not going to put up with it because you know how the story ends, and you have a great hope, and you should always be working towards a great end.
01:02:12.000Yeah, pray for your leaders by name because they're counselors to the king.
01:02:15.000And so, look, I think we have a lot of hope, and the hope is not in the institutions.
01:02:18.000It's not in the FBI, it's not in the DOJ, it's not in the CIA, it's not in Facebook, it's not in Google, it's not in Goldman Sachs.
01:02:23.000My hope is in the energy and the spirit and the optimism of you.
01:02:26.000I mean, what I get to see in the American people traveling the country, hosting a national radio show, hosting a podcast, I'm nothing but hopeful.
01:02:33.000The spirit in the grassroots of the American people right now of all ages and backgrounds is so awe-inspiring.
01:03:10.000My hope is in people that are starting to speak boldly.
01:03:12.000My hope is in parents showing up to school board meetings and challenging what is being taught in these local public schools.
01:03:19.000My hope is parents that are homeschooling.
01:03:23.000My hope is in our turning point USA chapter leaders that are starting these chapters, that are in the grassroots, that are on high school and college campuses, leaning in.
01:03:52.000I'm Jamie, and I'm actually from New York, and I was one of the only conservative people in my school.
01:03:56.000So it's really cool to see you talk here.
01:03:59.000My question is, since we live in a world where big tech and digital tracking of payments and information dominates the avenues to being social, attaining many jobs and being in academia, do you think in my lifetime we'll see a world where cash is obsolete and how do I protect my privacy of personal information such as vaccine status while still being able to stay social and attain a corporate job and perhaps also enjoying other luxuries in which releasing this information is required?
01:04:26.000Yeah, well, that's a great, great question.
01:04:28.000So let me kind of tell you, it's hard to do all those things, right?
01:04:31.000It's going to be hard to keep a corporate job and also keep all of your kind of medical information private because for whatever reason we decided to throw out HIPAA and ask everyone for their personal medical information about the vaccine, which never should have been allowed in my personal opinion.
01:04:44.000But look, as far as the currency question, it's a very important question.
01:04:48.000What PayPal announced and then what PayPal attracted should just scare everyone regardless of political affiliation, where PayPal came out and they said that if you engage in their definition of disinformation, they're going to take $2,500 out of your account on violation.
01:05:05.000Now, they backed away from that, but this is a company that did $25 billion in revenue.
01:05:10.000How on earth did they ever get this approved through, you know, how did this get on a press release?
01:05:29.000I don't care what you think of Kanye West.
01:05:31.000To be able to shut somebody's banking system off because you don't like them or because they say something that you deem to not be appropriate.
01:05:39.000And so there's something very troubling about that.
01:05:44.000I don't think it's the end-all be-all.
01:05:45.000I don't think it's a solution to everything, but I am a big fan of cryptocurrency.
01:05:48.000I think that blockchain properly employed can be a great hedge against tyranny.
01:05:53.000I think that the federal government is trying to make us cashless soon.
01:05:57.000And we have to resist, and I'm telling you, resist very loudly against the federal government trying to put forward a federal digital currency.
01:06:05.000It hasn't gotten a lot of focus on it, but a federal digital currency is a very big issue.
01:06:10.000We've already seen the intentional debasing of our currency.
01:06:13.000I don't agree with libertarians on a lot of things, but the one thing I'm 100% on is the destruction of our money.
01:06:19.000I have to tell you, the Federal Reserve intentionally coming into our money system and creating money out of thin air and making you poor year after year after year through quantitative easing is something that we should all be very concerned about.
01:06:30.000I'm afraid they're trying to get us closer to a currency reset.
01:06:34.000And so part of it is just owning assets that assets that can be moved quickly that are transparent.
01:06:39.000That's one of the things that excites me about Bitcoin.
01:06:41.000Again, I'm not telling you to buy Bitcoin.
01:06:42.000If I did, I could get in trouble like Kim Kardashian did.
01:07:35.000So, I'll give one speech where I tell everyone to go move to Red States.
01:07:39.000And then I'll give another speech where I say we can't have all the people leave Red State, blue states, because we still need red-thinking people, if you will, in those states.
01:07:47.000And so, I contradict myself on that all the time because I see it both ways.
01:07:51.000I know I grew up in Illinois, and I'm glad I don't live there anymore.
01:07:56.000And part of me feels bad that I left, but also I think life is so important.
01:08:00.000You should try your best to live in a free society.
01:08:03.000And there's still some great states, Texas being one of them, that I think gets it.
01:08:49.000I'm not a fan of our digital pacifiers that have seemed to permeate our entire society.
01:08:55.000I really believe that we are participating in the largest and most cruel open-air drug experiment in human history, which is to give these devices to 12, 13, and 14-year-olds.
01:09:06.000There's some really great thinkers on this, not political.
01:09:12.000You can go read Andrew Huberman, who I think is really smart.
01:09:15.000He spends a lot of time here in Austin.
01:09:17.000And they're very fair and they're very well-cited and researched.
01:09:21.000And they just talk about the neurological damage that staring at a phone will do, especially at a young age.
01:09:27.000And I look at it no differently than giving kids drugs.
01:09:30.000And so, the one thing, and I wish that Marxist, I don't know if you're the leftist was here, and I wish he would have said it.
01:09:35.000I would also say, and this is, if you want to talk about one of the great hockey stick correlations and not get too ahead of yourself, if you look at suicide and depression, or just kind of what would be a kind of like a basket of how you would define mental health, and like how you say, okay, good or bad, it went up like a hockey stick in 2013 as the iPhone was widely distributed.
01:09:56.000And again, I'm not a big causation correlation guy, but it's like, come on, what else could you possibly attribute?
01:10:00.000Like, what has changed the most in our day-to-day interaction at a restaurant in the last 10 years?
01:11:26.000I'm far from an expert, but if you read Dr. Anna Lemke's book, Dopamine Nation, you will have a picture into how horrific the damage we're doing to give these kids devices.
01:11:46.000But there's like this whole new genre of scientific thinking that I think is legit science, by the way, of people that are a little ahead of the curve diagnosing what I think is going to be 10 years from now.
01:11:58.000We're going to look back and be like, what were we doing giving all these kids devices?
01:12:01.000So you still have the power to turn off your phone.
01:12:03.000I know it's hard, but it's doing huge damage to young people in particular.
01:12:15.000I'm actually the editor-in-chief of our conservative paper on campus at Texas Horn.
01:12:24.000So you'd expect me to agree with most of what you said, and I do, but there's one area of disagreement where I really feel need to push back, and that, of course, is on the vaccine.
01:12:32.000So I'd like to talk about your Florida study, which said an 84% in heart problems among young men who took the vaccine.
01:12:40.000So I was interested in this report, and I actually just Googled it.
01:12:43.000And if you look in the chart on page six of the report, see that the basis period is 17 deaths before due to these heart palpitations among men 18 to 34, whatever it was.
01:12:55.000So an 84% increase from 17 deaths is bad, but it is nowhere near the 20 million plus who have been killed due to COVID.
01:13:04.000So I just like to hear how you weigh that from an 84% increase from 17 deaths against 20 million plus killed by COVID, more, if not for the vaccine.
01:13:14.000So, and I'll repeat the VARES data, right?
01:13:16.000The vaccine adverse event reporting system from the government, right, where it says there's 52,896 incidents of myocarditis and pericarditis.
01:13:24.000But let me ask you a let me ask you differently where I think we could come to a quick conclusion.
01:13:28.000Do you agree that myocarditis and pericarditis is increasing dramatically?
01:13:36.000Well, I mean, obviously, the vaccine is the prime suspect.
01:13:40.000But if you have a very rare disease and it increases by a slight amount, then you have to make the trade-off and say that something which is killing millions of people is worse.
01:14:08.000I asked my audience, I said, how many people in our podcast audience have instances of people that got the vaccine and mysteriously died or had heart attacks?
01:14:16.000We have like 10,000, 15,000 emails, one after the other.
01:14:19.000And I would just encourage you, go look at Dr. Peter McCullough, one of the nation's large, you know, leading cardiologists who has spoken out about this, right?
01:14:26.000Dr. Robert Malone, and also previously uninterested in this topic, who I just think is great, Dr. Brett Weinstein, who hosts the Dark Horse podcast.
01:15:00.000Because, I mean, that kills it all entirely.
01:15:02.000There's so many families that want to adopt kids.
01:15:04.000And if you see a show like Long Lost Family, you see these people that reunite with their biological parents 20, 30 years after they're born, and they live wonderful lives, and they have two sets of parents, and it's a wonderful thing.
01:15:16.000So, if this whole discussion on, oh, the mom is going to be, you know, live a terrible life, she can't afford to have the child.
01:15:23.000But there are, I think, something like 30 families per every one child that's adopted that want kids.
01:15:28.000I think it needs to be pushed stronger, you know?
01:15:32.000And, you know, I want to shout out my friend who runs a great clinic in San Antonio, does a phenomenal job for the pro-life movement.
01:15:39.000And by the way, I know we don't like the term crisis pregnancy center, right?
01:15:43.000It's not our favorite term, but Dave McCaw does such a great job.
01:15:48.000And I got to tell you that the people that are on the front lines of this deserve a lot of credit.
01:15:53.000Elizabeth Warren says she wants pregnancy crisis centers to be shut down, which is unbelievable.
01:15:57.000But I'll say this, and I think you're right.
01:15:59.000And I didn't make this point clearly enough earlier at the table.
01:16:02.000If we are going to advocate an end to abortion using the state or government, then we have to be there to make sure that every single child is taken care of through charity, through churches, and through resources necessary.
01:16:21.000Because if you read Peter Zion's book, I mean, China's population is going to collapse in the next 20 years just because of the one-child policy.
01:16:58.000So let's agree that abortion should be banned, and this is the government's right to protect the rights of kids and whatnot.
01:17:07.000And so we see a lot of statistics where kids going into foster care homes or things of that nature tend to be abused or sexual abuse to a certain extent.
01:17:15.000So what would you say is the government's solution and role in this whole situation?
01:17:19.000Yeah, I'll piggyback on the kind of question previously, which is we have to change the way we do adoption in our country.
01:17:24.000I would, again, a lot of people find this to be terrible, but I will lean on this.
01:17:28.000I think we have to lean on the church who has the infrastructure and essentially these parachurch ministries, and they have the willingness to be able to do this and to support adoption.
01:17:38.000There are 2 million people right now that want to adopt in America.
01:19:01.000The people that are saying that we should have value on skin color and not content of character, that's racist.
01:19:08.000And so I'm just exhausted about talking about it all the time, honestly, because I feel as if when you focus on those issues, like, man, we're just constantly talking about what divides us, right?
01:19:19.000And I think you understand my heart in that way.