Ep. 1085 - Chronically Immature Millennials Are Keeping The Toy Industry Afloat
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Today, on the Matt Walsh Show, toy companies are thankful this Christmas for the rise of a new demographic they call kidults. Those are adults who still buy children s toys for themselves, and there are a lot of them out there.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, toy companies are thankful this Christmas for the rise of a new
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demographic they call kidults. Those are adults who still buy children's toys for themselves,
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and there are a lot of them out there we'll discuss. Also, four female track athletes
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challenging the policy of allowing males to compete against them suffer a defeat in court.
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The White House tries to explain what exactly it's been doing to address the border crisis.
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The answer is, of course, nothing at all. And a school in Maine begins a girl's gender transition,
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quote-unquote, while concealing it from her parents. Many such cases, and they're all
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outrageous. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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reading plan for free. You probably don't need any more reason to be frustrated as you wade through
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the holiday crowds to buy the cheap plastic toy gifts for your children that you know will all be
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lost or broken within three and a half hours of being opened on Christmas morning. But I will give
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you another reason anyway. So consider that, according to the latest data, a significant portion of
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the adults in that crowd are buying toys not for children but for themselves. In fact, if you're not able
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to find the exact Barbie play set or Batman action figure or whatever that you're looking for, it could be
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because some adult has already purchased the last one, not for his kid, but for himself. CNBC reports
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this morning about a new group of consumers that have been dubbed kidults. These emotionally
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stunted, intellectually shallow, overgrown adolescents, well into their 30s or 40s, and yet
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apparently still, I don't know, riding around on big wheels, drinking their juice boxes, may be
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destroying society, but they're doing wonders for the toy industry. So that's the good news. This is
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from the report. It says, there are two things keeping the toy industry afloat right now. Inflation
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and a consumer group known as kidults. These kids at heart are responsible for one fourth of all toy
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sales annually, around $9 billion worth, and are the biggest driver of growth throughout the industry,
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according to data from the NPD group. This cohort, which NPD defines as ages 12 and older,
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has been steadily contributing to the industry for years, but spending has accelerated in the wake
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of the pandemic, leading to year-over-year gains, despite tough comparisons. It's an industry moment
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for the toy industry. It's an important moment for the toy industry, too, with the holiday season
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upon us. While sales surged across the board for board games, puzzles, and play sets during the
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pandemic, the first nine months of 2022 saw a 3% decline in sales volume. Higher toy prices helped
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outweigh these losses, as sales revenue for the time period jumped 3%. NPD reported,
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kidults who tend to spend more on toys have a great fondness for cartoons, superheroes,
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and collectibles that remind them of their childhood. They buy merchandise such as action
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figures, Lego sets, and dolls that might typically be considered for kids. However, in recent years,
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toy makers have created product lines just for these consumers, realizing that demand is high
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for this generation of adults who still want to have fun. So, as the economy struggles and more
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and more adults drop out of the workforce entirely, adults are, at the same time, spending more money
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than ever on children's toys for themselves. I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but this is
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not a sign of a healthy society. Now, granted, if 12 years old is the cutoff, then some of these
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kidults are actually just kids. And the good news is that if your 12-year-old is still playing with
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Legos, that's a great sign, actually. He has his innocence still. And Legos are a hell of a lot more
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wholesome and productive than staring at screens all day, as most 12-year-olds do these days,
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unfortunately. So, that's fantastic, a 12-year-old playing with Legos. But the fact remains that a
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great number of the people in this demographic are, in fact, actual adults. Millennials and Gen Xers who
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refuse to let go of their childhoods, no matter what. The Today Show highlights some more of the
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people in this group. Let's watch. I don't want to grow up on a Toys R Us kid. They got a million
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Toys R Us that I can play with. Everybody knows the song. It's that classy 80s commercial for Toys R Us.
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And it turns out a kid can always be a kid. It's true. There's a growing trend that finds more and
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more adults buying toys for themselves. The group being called Kidults. And it's proving to be a
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very big business. And our kid at heart, NBC News Now anchored Joe Fryer is here with more. This is a
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thing, huh? Yeah, good morning. I don't want to grow up either. You know, new data is showing that
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people age 12 and older, those are kidults, 12 and older, they now make up at least a quarter of
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toy consumers. And the industry is cashing in with new products marketed specifically
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Toys of Christmas past are now revisiting many in their adulthood. From adult Happy Meals.
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To Barbie, who's starring in a new movie coming out next summer.
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Nostalgia is a driving force for a growing consumer group called the Kidults. CNBC reports
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that data from market research company NPD Group show adults who are young at heart spend about
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For the past two plus years, adults really started to gravitate towards toys and games,
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not just to spend more time with their families, which they were doing at home, but also for
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themselves to de-stress. Aaron Muterich is a former software engineer turned connoisseur
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of putty. He says grownups are stuck on reliving simpler times from their childhood.
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I think there is some level of nostalgia. Putty was introduced in the late 1950s to children. We've
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seen it time and again where adults maybe think it is for children, but then once they touch
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the putty that their children have, they want one for themselves.
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God help us all. I mean, it's gotten to the point where adults who play video games all day are
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essentially this generation's version of a man reading a leather-bound book in his study while
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smoking a pipe. I mean, the gamer is mature and refined compared to a 40-year-old man who sits around
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playing with silly putty all day. Now, what's the problem here? Well, the situation already feels
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rather hopeless based on the fact that we even need to explain the problem. What's the problem
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with adults sitting around all day playing with toys? I mean, it should be self-evident that your
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society is not in tip-top shape when adults are spending billions of dollars on children's toys
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that they will play with themselves. Shows not only a catastrophic lack of maturity in the culture,
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but also a misalignment of priorities, a level of shallow materialism that is certainly unprecedented
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in the history of the world. I mean, this would all seem to me to be totally self-evident, but if I must
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flesh it out, then I would simply make the following observation. So first, nobody is saying that we
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should not have fun as adults. There's nothing wrong with fun and recreation. On the contrary, these are
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important parts of a whole and well-lived life. Yet everything must be done in the right proportion
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and in a way that is properly ordered. Our trouble is that recreation has become the primary, if not
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sole, focus of many people's lives. And what's more, their idea of recreation, their idea of fun
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has not grown or evolved over time. They have grown physically, but their tastes have not.
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This is one of the most glaring signs of emotional immaturity. And the thing about emotionally
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immature people is that if you ever talk about the problem of immaturity, they will laugh at you,
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which is exactly how you would expect an immature person to respond. Of course, if we lived in a
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culture that was filled with mature, interesting, competent adults, adults with useful skills,
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adults capable of having intelligent conversations, able to grasp and to express nuanced ideas, adults
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who eagerly accept the duties and responsibilities of adulthood, etc. If that was the case,
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and still many of these adults also happen to be obsessed with superheroes and cartoons and action
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figures, then we might just chalk it up to a weird sort of quirk or eccentricity in our culture and not
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really worry much about it beyond that. But that is not the sort of culture that we find ourselves in.
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Instead, we are surrounded by immature idiots who have the skill sets, reasoning skills, and ambitions
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and motivations of children. And they also happen to have the hobbies and recreations of children.
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And so we can conclude, I think logically, that all of these things are probably related. That the
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billions spent on the toys, the obsession with nostalgia, is both a symptom and a driver of the
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overall problem. And the overall problem is that the real business of adulthood is being delayed and
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sometimes shirked entirely. This is most obvious when we see the numbers of people refusing to start
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families and have kids of their own. I mean, it's no surprise that that's the case, given that they
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see themselves as kids, so they don't want to have kids. And since that's how they've chosen to live,
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they also don't realize that not only is it possible to have fun as an adult, like an adult,
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but you can even be a real adult and still enjoy the toys and games of childhood.
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Like, I'm not even saying that when you become an adult, you can never pick up a toy ever again.
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But here's the difference. You know, those childhood toys, you're supposed to be playing with those
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with your own kids. I was just playing with Batman action figures yesterday, okay? Just yesterday I
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was. But I was playing with my son. It was something I was doing with him. I wouldn't sit down
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on the floor by myself and play with Batman toys because I'm a grown man. And there was a time when
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a grown man sitting on the floor and playing with action figures by himself would be immediately seen
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as mentally handicapped and probably institutionalized for it. Yet, when you're
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playing with your children, it's a different story. I have indeed experienced, once again, many of the
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joys of childhood. But from the perspective of an adult who is now helping to introduce those joys to
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my own children. And the joy that I derive from it now is largely in seeing and being a part of
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their joy. This is supposed to be one of the hallmarks of a stable, functional, well-rounded
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adult, that you learn how to find happiness in helping other people to be happy.
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Now, another point here. I made the same observation when we were discussing the adult
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Happy Meals a few weeks ago. And we hear so much about how my generation is obsessed with
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nostalgia. This is like the millennial thing, always talking about their nostalgia, constantly
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pining for the innocence of their childhood growing up in the 90s. And there's nothing wrong with
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nostalgia, unless it totally consumes your life and becomes your entire personality. But also think
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about what they are nostalgic for. Their nostalgia is all tied to brands. Their nostalgia is a corporate
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invention. They're nostalgic for consumer products. They're nostalgic for entertainment franchises.
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It is a very particular, very modern kind of nostalgia that is easy for brands to exploit and
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monetize because they invented it. But it's not the kind of nostalgia that drives people towards
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better, more complete, and fulfilling lives. It just doesn't. Now, a nostalgia for experience,
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a nostalgia for family, a nostalgia for actual meaningful events that you went through and experienced
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as a child, that can drive you in a good and worthwhile way. So, you know, I find myself nostalgic
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for the family dinners that we would have when I was a child with my parents and my five brothers and
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sisters, and we would all sit around and have these big dinners. And I can be nostalgic for that.
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Well, guess what? Now I have six kids of my own, and I find myself back at the dinner table again
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with four of them because two are still unborn. But I find myself back at the dinner table again,
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recapturing that experience and passing it down to my kids, who I hope will pass it to theirs and so on.
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That's the sort of generational passing that we're supposed to be doing, not passing down
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entertainment franchises. I remember when I watched this franchise when I was a child,
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and it's experience, things that you did, things that meant something. That's what you're supposed to
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be passing down to your kids. The problem is that so many in my generation, they were latchkey kids
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who came home to empty houses and divorced parents and ate dinner on the couch watching TV.
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And so their nostalgia is not for the experience, but for the thing they were watching.
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Last point, you know, you notice the way that things have completely flipped upside down.
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We have these adults clinging to their childhoods, while at the same time,
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we rip the childhood away from actual children. So children have their innocence stolen by groomers
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in public schools, by early exposure to porn, and all of the debased and degraded things that
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kids are exposed to intentionally all the time. And it's this mechanism which is intended to
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corrupt children to destroy their innocence. And at the same time, when society is engineering this
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corruption, it is also beckoning towards adults, telling them to come back and become kids again.
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It's almost like we're trying to switch places. It's totally inverted and perverse.
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And we need to flip things back around and set it right. Let the kids be kids. They're the kids.
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If you're going to be obsessed with nostalgia and childhood innocence, be obsessed with protecting
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the innocence of actual children. It's their turn to be kids now. We had our chance. It's over.
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You know, there's a reason why scripture says, when I was a child, I spoke as a child. I understood as a
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child. I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. It is time to do
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that. Well past time to put away the childish things. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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you, we were, speaking of childish things, we were all competing in this Daily Wire fantasy football
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tournament and it is official that I will be the ultimate loser. I did come in last place.
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My strategy of never updating my team or even looking at it one time, turns out that wasn't the
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best approach. That's not the best strategy. So it would seem that fantasy football leagues are
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not like, you know, say crockpot beef stew where you could just set it down and leave it and come
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back when it's finished. It doesn't work that way. So anyway, the consequence is that I'm a loser and
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I'm required now to go and attend a WNBA game. There's no way around it. There's no fine print.
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There's no legalistic maneuvers. I just have to do it and I understand it and I will. Okay, I will.
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In a way, I'm looking forward to it. That's a little bit too strong. I'm not, when I say looking
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forward to it, I mean that I'm dreading it like a condemned man dreads his execution. But there is,
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I do feel maybe honored is what I should be saying because I, as someone who admires pioneers and
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explorers, I feel honored that I will be the first human being to ever attend a WNBA game in person.
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I'm, in a way, I'm going to sort of be discovering the WNBA. So going where no man has ever gone before.
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Only question now is what to wear for the big day. And originally we had talked about wearing
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a free Brittany Griner shirt. A little redundant now because she's free. So now the thought is maybe
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I wear a shirt that says trade her back, which would be a little provocative. But if you're going
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to, if we're going to do it, if we're going to do this thing, if we're trolling in that WNBA game,
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then I think you got to go all the way. Okay. So we'll start with this from the Daily
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Wire. It says four female athletes who sued over Connecticut transgender sports policy lost their
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case in federal court on Friday. A three judge panel on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
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affirmed a lower court's decision to throw out the girls case, which was seeking to scrap a policy
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that allows biological males to compete on girls sports teams in Connecticut. The four track
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athletes, Selena Soule, who you may remember from, what is a woman? She appeared in that. Chelsea
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Mitchell, Alana Smith, and Ashley Nicoletti and their mothers had argued in their suit that
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Connecticut's high school sports authorities policy allowing transgender students to compete
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on girls teams just disadvantages female athletes and has caused them to lose out on opportunities
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and awards. Yes, they're arguing that because that is obviously the case. I mean, there's,
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it's not even really an argument. It's just a fact. You can look at the times and you can see
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that, you know, we could see which girls in particular lost out on what opportunities and
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what medals and what awards that they would have otherwise gotten because the field was crowded out
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by these, by these two males. They had asked for the court, the court for an injunction to erase the
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victories of two biological male transgender athletes who broke the 17 girls track, broke 17,
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get this right, they broke 17 girls track records. So these are records that were broken, 17 of them
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by boys. And so boys now own 17 girls records in track and field. And they also snagged 15 women's
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state track championship titles. In 2019, two transgender athletes finished ahead of Soule, causing her to
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miss out on a qualifying for finals and the opportunity to compete before college scouts.
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Mitchell has missed out on state championship title titles four different times because she finished
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behind transgender athletes. But the, the court said that just struck this down and, and they lost
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their appeal yet again. Now, the important thing to remember as always about these cases and like,
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not that this even matters that much, because the fact is that these boys did not belong competing
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against the girls no matter what, because they're not girls and that's it. That's all we need to say
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about it. But it is also notable that these boys were once again, not dominant male athletes.
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They were middle of the pack. And this is in a sport like track and field. It's really easy to see all this
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because it's one of the most, probably the most quantifiable sport in existence. It's very simple. You're just
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running and whoever gets their quickest wins and you have the times and all of that. So you can look at their
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times and you can see that against the boys with the times they're finishing in their races, they were middle of the
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pack. They weren't even qualifying for championship, um, championship matches. They weren't even get,
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they weren't getting to the States or anything like that. Uh, and then they go over to the girls and
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you take these middle of the pack, mediocre boys, put them against the girls and they are dominating
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nearly every single race that they run, taking 17 records.
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no better Testament, both to the insanity of this policy and also to the difference between girls
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and boys. And I'm still waiting. It's just, it is, it is a fascinating coincidence, isn't it?
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That we still have not seen a dominant male athlete discover that he's female. Isn't it just,
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you know, maybe, maybe, uh, we could get a study done on this or something like that. Why is it
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that there are plenty of male athletes who discovered they have women trapped inside them
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magically? So this seems to happen a lot, but they're always middle of the pack. They're
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always mediocre. It's never the ones at the top. Hmm. It's always the mediocre athletes who,
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and usually it's like they've been competing against the boys for a while. And then at some
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point they, they realized, well, you know what? I think I'm actually a girl turns out. What do you
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know? I mean, I don't know. Is it, is it because if you're racing against the boys or competing
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against the boys and you're dominating there that there, there's no incentive to want to race against
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the girls, you're already getting all the gold medals and you're getting it against tougher
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competition. And so you'll take that. You'd prefer those accolades, but if you have to choose between
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being a mediocre, nobody, uh, male athlete or a dominant pretend female athlete, you'll choose that.
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Could that be the reason? Who knows? In fact, everyone knows, um, who's honest about it.
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Okay. Another report from the daily water system. The Supreme court has blocked the Biden administration
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from lifting title 42, the statute, which gives commanders in chief, the power to shut down
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immigration as an emergency action to keep communicable diseases out of the United States
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was last used by former president Donald Trump in reaction to the COVID outbreak.
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Family seeking asylum had filed a lawsuit in which, um, led to a federal judge ordering the
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Biden administration to lift title 42 by Wednesday. In order from chief justice, John Roberts,
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staying the ruling, stayed the ruling of the lower court. Greg Abbott said in response,
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Texas and other States are insisting that the court leave title 42 in place. Today's order is a step in
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the right direction. This helps prevent illegal immigration. So this was supposed to be lifted,
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I believe, uh, tomorrow. And now for right now, anyway, the order has been stayed. Um, if it does
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end, then the floodgates are going to open and even more than they already are. And it'll be even more
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of, of a disaster, especially for, uh, towns that are down on the border. Now the Biden administration,
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they've been hiding behind the fact that, that, you know, this was originally a court order that was
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supposedly telling them that they have to lift title 42. What they, what they don't want you to know
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is that they sought to lift it. This is what they wanted. As this surprisingly skeptical journalist
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pointed out to Karen Jean Perry yesterday, let's watch this. If you're saying that Republicans aren't
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doing the work, um, to get this done, and then you have someone like Joe Manchin saying, well, the
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president has the ability to ask for an extension. He should be asking for an extension because we're at
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this point where you've got a deadline and a crisis. Is that within the president's authority to do
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that? So look, we remain, we're, we remained under a court order to lift title 42. That is a court
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order. That is a quarter order that is telling us to lift title 42. And we're going to comply because
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we follow the rule of law. That is not to lift that is what it is a court order, but that is that
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It was a court order that has been provided to us. And so now we have to comply. And that is, we have
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to comply by December 21st. It is, it is a law that is, what I'm saying is that, what I'm saying
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that it is a court order that has been presented to us that we are going to comply with.
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It's always fascinating when these people decide to care about things like, uh, the rule of law.
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It never, it just, it always sounds awkward. Phrases like rule of law and also free speech
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coming out of the mouth of a leftist. It always sounds awkward coming because you, you, you, you
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know that they don't actually care about that. And, uh, it's the last thing that they want to have to
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talk about or rely on, you know, or fall back on. But in this case, it's the rule of law.
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Well, the rule of law also says that we have borders. The rule of law would stipulate that
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the borders be protected and that our immigration laws be enforced. That's also what the rule of law
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says. But the whole press conference on this subject was a disaster. She was also asked, um,
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what exactly Kamala Harris is doing on this issue? Because Kamala Harris is supposed to be,
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this is supposed to be her thing. You know, she's, uh, heading up the immigration response and
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she's dealing with this crisis. What is she doing though, Kamala Harris, besides laughing
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awkwardly and talking about Venn diagrams? What is she actually doing? Uh, Karen Jean-Pierre tried to
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give us an answer to that. The president, uh, tasked the vice president with studying and working on the
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root causes of some of these issues. I'm wondering if there's any update from this side of the White
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House on what she's been doing and what she will continue to do as we're expecting an influx at the
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border. Well, as you know, the president, uh, appreciates the partnership that he has with
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the vice president. You're right. That has been her charge to, uh, work in a diplomatic way on
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finding the root causes of, of, um, of migration. Uh, I don't have anything to lay out specifically
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on what that work looks like. Uh, but again, we appreciate her partnership. Uh, and, uh, I would
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probably, uh, refer you to her office on anything specific on the work that she's doing.
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It's been, it's been over two years. You don't have anything specific at this point with this
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work in any other context. Like, could you get away with that at your job with your boss? And we
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are allegedly supposed to, these are our, they're working for us supposedly. And so we're supposed
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to be the bosses. And, uh, when, so if we want to know, like, what are you guys doing about this?
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They should be able to give us some sort of answer. Uh, yeah, they can get away with this. You,
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you couldn't, you know, if your boss gave you a project and said, uh, here's what you need to do.
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This is the problem you need to solve. Two years later, you get called into the office. So, uh,
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give me the updates on that. Well, I don't have anything specific at this point. Um, I, but we,
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it's certainly something that we're moderate monitoring and we're, you know, I'm, I'm thinking
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quite a lot about it. Um, I've, I've made some Venn diagrams if you want to see them.
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Um, you can never get away with that, but they can. Um, meanwhile, Texas border towns,
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as mentioned, like El Paso are bracing. And, uh, here's a, an MSNBC report, which also maybe
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somewhat surprisingly is even talking about this issue, but here it is right now, as we speak,
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it is 30 degrees Fahrenheit. That's below freezing in El Paso, Texas, where hundreds of people,
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including children are sleeping on the streets after crossing the Southern border.
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The mayor of that city declared a state of disaster this weekend, saying asylum seekers are not safe
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with shelters and processing centers at capacity. And in just two days of Biden administration is
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ordered to stop using title 42, the border policy health policy. The U S has used to turn back
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two and a half million asylum seekers since president Trump enacted it in March of 2020. An appeals court
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denied the extension requested by 19 Republican States on Friday, clearing the way for the change,
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unless the Supreme court weighs in before the 21st. Humanitarian crisis. Yes. Well, you know,
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the, um, the mantra peace through strength is probably never more applicable than at the border,
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because if you want to stop this, do you want to stop it? Well, they obviously don't,
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but if you do want to stop this, you want to help these people. If you want to dissuade more of
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this, you want to end the humanitarian crisis, then there's a way to do it. You militarize the border,
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you round people up, people are coming across the border illegally. You round them up at gunpoint,
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um, just like they do in many other countries across the world. You know, if you try to sneak
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across the border in many other countries, countries that take their border seriously,
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uh, you're going to find you're going to, there's going to be guns pointed at you.
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And then you eject them from the country. You know, you start using very harsh and immediate methods.
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You become absolutely ruthless in the defense of the border and of national sovereignty.
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You let people know that it's not worth it to come here. It's not worth it to try to invade the country
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this way. Um, it's not worth it to come here illegally. It's not worth it to, to, to, to try this.
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Not worth the risk. It's not worth the price you will pay.
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You do that. And it's the best thing, first and foremost, for American citizens, because you're
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defending American sovereignty, but also for the potential illegal immigrants. It is, it is the most
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humane and responsible thing. If you don't want to end up with, uh, illegal immigrants that are,
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you know, huddling around, lying on the street, lying on sidewalks and freezing cold temperatures.
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If you don't want people bringing kids across the border
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or even worse, giving their kids to human traffickers who bring the kids across, if you don't want that,
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is to not only round up the people that are here to stop them, but actually, but you know,
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that's, that's only one thing you can stop the people that are coming across. We're not even doing
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that, but you can do that. But then what do you do to stop people from wanting to come in the first
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place? That's the actual issue. That's what Kamala Harris is supposedly working on. What are the root
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causes? That, that, that is a good question. Not a difficult question to answer, but the root cause
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of, uh, you know, the fundamental root cause of people, you know, trying, you know, trying to
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sneak across the border in droves, not even sneaking, but just coming across. Fundamentally, it's because
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they believe that they can, they know they can, they know it's an option.
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You know, I always say this when we talk about illegal immigration, I don't, for me, it's, uh,
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it's, it's, it's nothing personal. Like, yes, I'm in favor of actually building a wall, uh,
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militarizing the border, rounding people up, being, being again, ruthless in defense of the border
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is nothing personal for me against illegal immigrants. If I lived in Mexico, I would not
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want to be in Mexico. I would all, I would want to be here. And, and I don't know if I live there,
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and I thought it was an option to just walk across the border. And I thought that I could
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do that. And then I'd be here and I wouldn't be there anymore. I'd probably do it. I understand
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why people do it. You look at the places that they're leaving. I wouldn't want to live in those
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places either. And if you believe that you can just walk across as simple as that, why not?
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Of course, they don't have any respect for our laws because they don't, they're not citizens
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here. Why would they respect them? I mean, I don't, I don't have a ton of respect for other
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countries' laws. I don't need to, I don't live there, but it's not. So yeah, I can, I can understand
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that, which is why it's nothing personal when I say that these people need to be rounded up and
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ejected from the country. It's just what needs to happen for their sake and for ours. All right.
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Here's a report. This is from a website called the MaineWire, MaineWire.com. Maine as in the state
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of Maine. A public school worker at Great Salt Bay Community School who coached a 13-year-old girl
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into a gender transition without telling her parents has only a conditional license to practice social
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work in Maine. The MaineWire has learned. Amber Levine, the mother of the young girl, revealed at a
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school board meeting on Wednesday that she discovered a chest binder in her daughter's bedroom several
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weeks ago. Her daughter told her that the binder was provided by a social worker at the public school
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who encouraged her to keep it secret from her parents. That's when Levine learned that the
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social worker and other school staff had started a social gender transition for the girl in October
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without her parents' knowledge or consent. Sources have confirmed the social worker in question is Sam
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Roy, a 26-year-old University of Maine graduate student who has a conditional license from the state of
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Maine to work as a social worker. Roy started working with the Damariscata School this fall.
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Roy is scheduled to graduate next year from the University of Maine with his master's degree in
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social work. So he doesn't even have the degree yet, but he has taken charge of this girl's
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quote-unquote social transition. Levine learned that the school had begun transitioning her daughter when
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she discovered a chest binder in the girl's bedroom. Chest binder is a device that flattens the
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appearance of a woman's breasts. They're sometimes used by individuals suffering from gender dysphoria
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or gender confusion. Unless worn properly, binders can cause or exacerbate health problems.
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Binders are typically used during social gender transitions and are considered a stepping stone
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to an eventual double mastectomy. Of course, surgery that removes healthy breast tissue.
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Although Levine knew that her daughter was seeing a social worker through the school,
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she did not know that her daughter was reassigned to Roy in October.
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However, she has never seen or talked to Roy. Okay. So this is, and this is not as unusual as we
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want to think it is. This is certainly not unprecedented. Where a school is, it's not even just that the
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school knows that a child identifies as the other gender and is not telling the kid, the parent about
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it. That's bad enough. That's already horrific. Uh, for the school, I mean, schools should not,
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a school should not know anything about your child that you do not know. There should be no information
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at all, none that the school knows about your kid that you don't know. Because when we talk about the
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school, the school is not some sort of amorphous, uh, entity, it's, we're talking about people.
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And so is there any individual person who works at the school who has a right to know information
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Obviously not. And that is especially the case when it comes to something like this. So that's bad enough
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if they're just concealing just, I mean, if they're concealing this kind of information, but in this case,
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they are actually facilitating this quote unquote transition themselves, took it upon themselves to
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do that. Of course, while not only not telling the parents, but actively concealing it from them.
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By the way, this article says that, uh, and I, and I want to make sure to note this. The article says
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that chest binders, unless worn properly, uh, can are damaging. Well, that's, that's,
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there is no proper way to wear them. They are damaging period. The whole point is to flatten,
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you know, um, the chest. It's there's, there's no healthy or proper way to do that. There are ways
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that are, you know, when, so when we, we talk about proper or healthy way of wearing a chest binder,
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what they really mean to say are here's the way to do it. That will supposedly mitigate some of the
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harm that this is going to cause the child, but there still will be harm no matter how you slice it.
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Um, and this is, this is one step towards the, towards the surgery. So when the left says that
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they're not, they're not performing these surgeries on kids, that's a lie. First of all,
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they are performing surgeries on kids. They're performing double mastectomies on girls as young
00:38:19.080
as 15, 14 years old, maybe even younger, but also the, the so-called social transition
00:38:27.140
that is about putting the child on the conveyor belt, which leads directly to the surgery. And most
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of the kids will stay on that conveyor belt all the way down, you know, till they get to the part
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where, with, with, with the saws and the blades, that's what it's about. And the schools, they don't see
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any problem with this because as far as they're concerned, it, these kids are theirs. The kids belong
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to them. And you should know that. So I'm always preaching about homeschool, but if you can't do
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homeschool and you feel like you have to send your kid to public school, it really should be the last
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resort. But if you're going to do it, then you should, you should just understand that you cannot,
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you cannot implicitly trust anyone there. You especially can't trust counselors, therapists,
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social workers. I mean, you can't, we're at a point now, sad to say, where you can't trust people
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in that field at all. I mean, that entire field is ideologically captured. It is hostile to you.
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And it just is, you cannot trust it. I would not send my kid to any of these people, period,
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especially not unattended. So if your kid does, you know, if you really feel like your kid needs
00:39:49.140
to see some sort of counselor, then you need to be in the room. But the schools, this is what they
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believe, that they, they own your kids. The kids belong to them. You are, talk about things being
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inverted. You know, you are, you're the, you are basically the hired help and they have ownership
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of your child. That's how they see it. All right. One other thing to get to, this is from The Sun.
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It says, Britney Spears' father last night defended the controversial legal order that sparked
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worldwide outrage, insisting she could have died without it. Speaking exclusively for the first
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time about the 13-year conservatorship, which controlled almost every aspect of the troubled
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U.S. pop star's life, Jamie Spears claims he is far from the monster he has been painted
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as in his first interview in more than a decade, Jamie, speaking ahead of a book by Britney's ex-husband,
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Kevin Federline, about fatherhood in the midst of public drama, said, quote,
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my God, where would she be without that conservatorship now? I ain't, I ain't gonna paint,
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you know, pretty pictures. That conservatorship was one hell of a time and without it, I don't know if
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she would be alive now. Jamie, 70, 70 years old, has endured slurs that claimed he wanted power over
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Britney, 41, to line his own pockets and micromanage her career. Even though he says all decisions under
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the order were taken jointly with a, quote, group of very good people, her fans saw him as a controlling
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puppet master. You know, this whole story is frustrating to me. He had this pitchfork mob
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that has assembled demanding that Britney be released from her conservatorship, despite having
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absolutely no idea what was going on behind the scenes. Okay, no idea. And I made this point at the
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time. It's like, you're calling free Britney. You don't, you have no clue what's actually happening.
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You don't know. You saw a Netflix documentary. It's all you saw. That wasn't even pretending to
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be objective. All they knew is that, is what Britney Spears told them. And surprise, Britney Spears
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doesn't think she should be under a conservatorship because every person who is in a conservatorship
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doesn't want to be in one. That's just assumed. That doesn't mean that automatically, like anytime
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you're forcing someone to do something, of course you have to force them, which means they probably
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don't want to do it. But the fact that they don't want to do it doesn't necessarily mean
00:42:10.080
that it's wrong. It could, I mean, it could be wrong, but it depends. Like there, there are people
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in the world who are a danger to themselves and others. Okay, whether Britney Spears is one of
00:42:25.300
those people, that's a different conversation, but those people exist. There are those people out
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there. And for people like that, these kinds of arrangements can be necessary because otherwise
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they're going to hurt themselves or hurt other people. Now as for Britney Spears, what do we know
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about her? Well, we didn't know a lot, but based on what we knew, she was a nutcase. She lost custody
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of her own kids in California. A woman lost custody of her own kids in California. Do you know how
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utterly disastrous of a mother you have to be to lose custody of your kids? In California, no less.
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So we knew that. We saw all the crazy stuff on social media. We saw how she rambles
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incoherently. Like even when she was defending herself and trying to explain why the conservatorship
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was terrible, she couldn't string together a coherent sentence. She's like incoherent.
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Does all of that mean, and now she's like posting 56 nude pictures every day. It's like naked,
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babbling incoherently. It's all the signs of a crazy person. Does all that mean that she actually
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is crazy? Well, I can't say that for sure because I don't see what's going on behind the scenes. But
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like it seems like all the signs are pointing in that direction and there are no signs pointing to
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her being actually sane. Does that make her dad a good guy? No, because he pimped his own daughter
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out to the music industry when she was like 15 years old. So he at a minimum consented at a minimum
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to having his teenage daughter turned into a, you know, into what she was turned into.
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So, you know, her first song, she was like 15, 16 when she performed that song.
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So he's obviously not a good guy, which is why if people had been arguing that someone else should
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have control over the conservatorship, then that would be one thing. But instead they said free
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Brittany and just free her entirely. And now she's probably going to be dead of a drug overdose
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within a couple of years. And all of her fans that called for this, like this is going to be partly
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on them. This, this is, this is what you wanted. Like she, does anyone think she's going to live
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to 50? Does anyone think that? Does anyone see that happening? Seems very unlikely. All right,
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my ex grew up in a religious home, but still got exposed to porn at the age of 12 while at a friend's
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house. His friend said to him, hey, you want to see something cool before he knew it? He was viewing
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this material for the first time on his friend's desktop. His parents had zero clue this experience
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turned into a full-blown addiction as one of the contributing factors to our breakup. Point is,
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this smut needs to be outlawed. Yeah, this is, and there are so many stories like this. I mean,
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millions of stories just like this of people who were exposed to this. And in a way that,
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like the person you're talking about, did he have bad or neglectful parents? Maybe he did,
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but there's no indication from the story you just told that he did.
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Given that this stuff, and this, I'm assuming was several years ago at least,
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So it would have been difficult enough, like in the early days of the internet being a sort of a
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household item. Even back then, it would have been very difficult, would have been difficult for
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parents to hide, you know, to shield their kids from this kind of content. But back then, at least,
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the internet only existed on desktop computers. And so it was much more contained. Now everyone is
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walking around with devices in their pocket that can access pornography. And so it's just,
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you can do a lot to shield your kids. And there's a lot that parents could be doing that they're not.
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But there's only so much you can do, given that this stuff is everywhere.
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And we have just made it impossible for parents, which is why I said yesterday,
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I just get, I get so frustrated when I hear people say, oh, these parents, you know,
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it's all about the parents. Okay, easy for you to say, as a childless person who has no stake in
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the future of this country, who has no responsibilities at all, you know, you just,
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you were just that target in the toy section, buying more Spider-Man action figures. So it's
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easy for you to say, parents today, you're not doing anything. You have no idea what you're talking
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about. Okay, you're still living as an overgrown child. But those of us who have kids, we understand
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that we have been put in an extremely difficult situation. We live in a culture that is absolutely
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hostile to children. And there are booby traps laid out everywhere. And so when we say, hey,
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can we get a little bit of help here? What we get in response is, hey, this is your problem.
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And why do we hear it? Like, why is that? Why the hostility? It's again, because these people,
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they don't want any hindrance or any inconvenience at all in their pursuit of masturbation material.
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And they are willing, they're willing, I mean, there are people today, many people,
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they would be willing to sacrifice the innocence of a billion kids just to
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make it slightly easier for them to masturbate to pornography.
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And if that sounds like a, like you have to be a sociopath to, well, yeah, we're surrounded by
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sociopaths. Let's see. Lena McCune says, it's scary how they expect parents to keep their kids
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off porn, but also increase the amount of work expected to be done on the internet. I'll keep
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my child off the internet as much as humanly possible, but I don't feel confident that she
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won't see something inappropriate. Another perfect example. This is what I'm talking about. Not making
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it any easier on parents. So while we say keep the kids off the internet, more and more of the schools
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are saying you have to be on the internet. We're structuring life around the internet.
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Becky says, I know someone who has been addicted to pornography since he was eight, eight. He's
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married with two kids now, one on the way, and his marriage is suffering. Porn is absolutely evil
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for children, obviously, and adults. Eight years old. I mean, kids are being exposed to this stuff.
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This is, it's bad enough if you had a healthy childhood and you were introduced to
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human sexuality in a healthy way, and then you find pornography. So that's bad enough. But in this
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case, you're taking kids and this is their introduction. It's not like a biology lesson. It's
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not anatomy class. It's not a birds and the bees talk from their parents. Their introduction is
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whatever you find on Pornhub. This is the gateway in. So from the very beginning, like this goes all
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the way to the root for them. From the very beginning, their concept of human sexuality and
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the sexual act and all of that has been totally shaped by what they see on the internet.
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And Kaizo Kudo says, if you've ever wondered what Christmas cards from this man would be like,
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well, death is inevitable. Merry Christmas from Matt Walsh. That is, you know what?
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to your Christmas shopping today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
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Today for our daily cancellation, I must circle back to something from last week. You may recall
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early the previous week when Elon Musk got himself into trouble with the woke brigade for making fun
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of the preferred pronoun ritual. And we discussed the issue on this show. And I explained, as I have
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many times in the past, that it's not only valid, but necessary to mock preferred pronouns because the
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whole concept of preferred pronouns is fundamentally nonsensical. And that's not just because men are
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demanding that incorrect female pronouns be used for them and vice versa, but because the entire
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concept of a person having a preference when it comes to pronouns, the idea that they can have a
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pronoun at all is incoherent. And I made this same point on Twitter where I posted, quote,
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nobody has pronouns. You can't have a pronoun any more than you can have a preposition or an adverb.
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The concept doesn't make any sense. Pronouns are not things you can own. They aren't pets or accessories.
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They are parts of speech. That's it. You don't get to customize them. So that's what I said.
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My point, pretty basic, self-explanatory, hard to misinterpret. You would think.
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Now, it will surprise you to learn that this, surprise you to learn this probably, but I've
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been trying to spend a little bit less time on Twitter recently. So I never checked to see
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how people responded to that tweet. And I didn't know that it had gone relatively viral and the
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left had seized on it and they were trying to dunk on it. I was oblivious to all of this and they were
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dunking for days and I didn't even know like the proverbial falling tree. They were dunking in the
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forest, but nobody was there to see them. So did they really dunk at all? That's a philosophical
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question. But then this weekend came and I was flying back and forth from Phoenix and I was bored
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on the plane. And so I went back and I stumbled upon these responses. To summarize, basically, the
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leftist on Twitter had apparently decided that my argument was hilarious and ridiculous and stupid
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because, as so many pointed out, I was using pronouns while tweeting against pronouns. Yes,
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they had decided that I was making an anti-pronoun case. I'm against pronouns as a concept. I'm opposed
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to anyone using pronouns for any reason, they decided. And so it's very funny that even while
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telling people not to use pronouns, I was using them myself. Checkmate, they got me. Now, one example
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of this rebuttal came from a woman named Jessica Piper. Her response caught my eye in particular
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because she is apparently a teacher, an English teacher, and she's also a former political
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candidate. But it's her status as a teacher that makes the following response from her quite troubling.
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She said, quote, they aren't sending their brightest, are they? The first word in this rant against
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pronouns is a pronoun. Laughing face emoji. She continues, grammar check. How many pronouns are in
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this message against using pronouns? She then includes an accompanying TikTok video where she circles
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all the pronouns in my tweet with the Curb Your Enthusiasm music in the background because aren't
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I such a dummy for being anti-pronoun even while using pronouns? Now, if you have better reading
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comprehension skills than our friend Jessica, you've already made note of the problem here.
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I, of course, never said that we shouldn't use pronouns. I'm not against pronouns. I have not taken
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an anti-pronoun stance. I'm saying that, I'm saying not that pronouns can't be used, but that they can't
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be possessed. They can't be owned like a pet. Pronouns are not fashion accessories. You don't have
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pronouns. People use pronouns. They use pronouns to refer to you. But the pronouns that they choose
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when referring to you are not meant to reflect your preferences or your self-image. They are not
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borrowing your pronouns so that they can use them. It's not the way it works. Excuse me, sir, if that's
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what you are. May I borrow your pronouns? That's not how it works. It's grammar. And they are meant
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to reflect physical reality. That's my point. You can disagree with it, I suppose. You'd be wrong if
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you disagreed with it, but you're free to be wrong. What you cannot do is invent an entirely different
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argument I never made and then think that you've defeated me by tearing down the argument
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that I didn't make instead of the one that I did. Otherwise known, of course, is making a
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straw man. Now, I made this observation to Jessica and she responded, quote, the fact that Matt Walsh
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is quote tweeting me on the topic of grammar, a subject which I have a whole ass degree, I bet he's
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fun at parties. Now, I'm not sure what part of this is my favorite. Is it that she's bragging about
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having a degree in grammar, even while revealing that she has the reading comprehension skills of a
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toddler? Or is it the fact that she has a degree that uses phrases like whole ass? Or is it the fact
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that she sent three tweets and made a TikTok video in reaction to my statement and yet is now taking
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offense at the mere fact that I would dare respond to her at all? Or is it the implication that being
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fun at a party means agreeing with Jessica about whatever nonsense she happens to be spewing? Now, I very
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much doubt that Jessica is getting invited to parties, but if she is, she has ironically revealed
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herself to be exactly the sort of person that you avoid at a party at all costs. So take your pick
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of the litter there, I suppose. This only goes to show what sort of bind the left finds itself in.
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They cannot defend their position on pronouns or on gender ideology as a whole.
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Jessica, as an English teacher, cannot begin to articulate an argument as to why
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the pronouns we use to refer to someone should depend on how that person happens to be feeling
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that day rather than being based on our own perception of physical reality. She can't explain
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why we should have our own preferred pronouns and not our own preferred adjectives and prepositions,
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which everyone else is required to affirm and to use in reference to us. She can't do that. In fact,
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she can't explain why this pronoun customization only applies to certain pronouns in certain situations.
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So what if I were to make the following statement? What if I were to say this? I was talking to
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Jessica Piper about pronouns. We believe that preferred pronouns are nonsense. Now, Jessica would
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probably object. She would say, no, we don't believe that. You believe that. And you're just you.
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You're not us. It would be no use then for me to clarify that my preferred pronouns are I, we,
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and us. Those are my preferred pronouns. So anytime you talk about me, you have to say I, we, or us.
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Indeed, Jessica would flatly refuse to use my preferred pronouns in that case. She would say
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that though I get to choose my own, I can't choose those. Why can't I choose those? Well, because it
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doesn't make any sense for me to insist that other people say the word we when referring to me, given
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that I am just an individual. I'm not everyone. In other words, she will declare that in this conflict
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between physical reality and my perception, physical reality wins out. In this case, but not in others.
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I'm betting she would say the same if I told her that my pronouns are me, I, and myself. Those are
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my only pronouns. Therefore, when you refer to me, you must say me or I when talking about me, which
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means you'll be talking about yourself because I identify as you and also me. I identify as everyone.
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Your identity has been collapsed into mine, according to me, and it's how I identify.
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Now, she probably wouldn't respect that either. She would say that, well, that makes no sense.
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You can't identify that way. And even if you do, you can't, I'm not going to affirm it.
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So it turns out that I can't just choose any pronoun I want. It turns out that there are still
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some rules here. And those rules, when they are applied, are based on physical reality. They are
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based on a need to be coherent. At times, a basic level of coherence is required, but not at all
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times. So I can't have, it would be too incoherent for my pronouns to be I, me, or we. But if my pronoun
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was Z, Zer, and Zim, literal gibberish that doesn't mean anything, that's okay. So who decides when
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a physical reality trumps self-perception? Who decides when it's necessary to be coherent and
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when it's not necessary to be coherent? Well, I guess Jessica Piper decides. Her and people like
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her. Those are the real rules of grammar now. That's what they're going to be teaching the kids
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in English class. The rule is they decide what the rules are and when they're applied and to whom.
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That's the logic we get from English teachers these days. And that is why she and all the rest
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of them are today canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the
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members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.