The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1165 - Your Children Are Being Indoctrinated in School Whether You Realize it or Not

00:00:00.120 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a public school teacher declares that our parental rights don't exist when we send our children to public school.

00:00:05.720 It was a rare moment of honesty, and we can learn a lot from it.

00:00:08.500 Meanwhile, parents in a different school district were forced to file a police report against a teacher who distributed pornographic material to the middle school students in her classroom.

00:00:17.120 Also, the pro-life activist, whose home was raided by the FBI, is finally speaking out, and his story is quite harrowing.

00:00:22.920 John Fetterman struggles to string together even one coherent sentence.

00:00:25.640 And Kamala Harris, who also struggles in that regard, proves that although she is a proponent of gender ideology, she has no idea what it is. 0.99

00:00:32.900 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:00.040 The media this week has presented us with two tragic stories of teachers who've been targeted and set upon by mobs of book-burning conservatives.

00:02:09.280 These are teachers, the media says, who wanted nothing more than to increase diversity and representation in the classroom.

00:02:16.420 They are pure-hearted educators with the most innocent of intentions.

00:02:20.420 And now they've fallen victim to right-wing radicals, or so the story goes, anyway.

00:02:24.580 But as usual, if you read just a little bit deeper into the details, a very different kind of story emerges.

00:02:31.500 So let's start with the middle school teacher named Sarah Bonner, who has now quit teaching.

00:02:36.060 She's been chased out of the teaching profession altogether because of a controversy that began back on March 13th of this year,

00:02:43.640 when she decided to have what she calls a book-tasting.

00:02:48.060 This was a book-tasting event for her students, who, again, are all middle schoolers.

00:02:52.440 NBC reports, quote,

00:02:54.860 I wanted to give them a smattering of fiction and nonfiction to choose from on a day that we call Reading Monday,

00:03:00.100 Bonner42 told Today.com.

00:03:02.480 We just read and celebrate books.

00:03:04.480 One of those books was Juno Dawson's This Book is Gay.

00:03:07.920 It's a best-selling nonfiction book that's billed by its publisher as an entertaining and informative instruction manual

00:03:13.220 for anyone coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans.

00:03:17.180 Quote, by Wednesday, I received notice that parents had gotten a hold of pictures from the book

00:03:21.240 that their child had taken in the class.

00:03:22.960 Bonner says, by Friday, I was told that parents had filed a police report against me for child endangerment.

00:03:29.080 The notion that I was putting children in danger because of books, I didn't feel safe, Bonner says.

00:03:33.980 I knew I couldn't go back.

00:03:36.260 So she didn't feel safe.

00:03:38.940 She provided this content to kids.

00:03:40.780 Parents were upset about it.

00:03:42.020 And now she's unsafe.

00:03:43.400 She's the victim.

00:03:44.120 And she is now no longer teaching.

00:03:48.260 Her book, Tasting, featured the book called This Book is Gay, which is indeed an instruction manual. 0.83

00:03:55.500 But it's not just an instruction manual for anyone who wants to come out, quote, unquote. 0.99

00:04:00.240 It's an instruction manual on how to actually engage in gay sex. 1.00

00:04:04.980 It describes and encourages and teaches many different kinds of homosexual acts. 0.98

00:04:12.260 It is a how-to manual for the homosexual acts themselves. 0.99

00:04:16.540 In fact, it's so graphic that I can't show you the pictures or provide more details.

00:04:23.840 There's not a lot I can say to even describe what is in this book that was provided to middle schoolers.

00:04:30.280 And that's one of the advantages that the degenerate groomers have in this conversation.

00:04:35.320 It's that the stuff they're putting in front of kids is so disgusting that the rest of us, when we're talking about it, we either can't or don't want to go into detail.

00:04:46.180 And so then they, the groomers, can always say, oh, you're exaggerating.

00:04:49.700 It's not that bad.

00:04:51.540 I will mention only one specific item, which I think should give you an accurate impression of what the rest of the book is all about.

00:04:57.020 Now, this book is gay, provides a glossary, or as they put it, a cheat sheet at the end of the book. 0.64

00:05:03.280 And one of the helpful terms that they mention and define in the glossary refers to, and I quote here, eating poop.

00:05:13.000 So that's something that's covered in the book.

00:05:15.860 If you're wondering just how sick and depraved and graphic this thing gets, well, I think that should give you a pretty good idea.

00:05:22.240 And this is the kind of material that Sarah Bonner provided to her middle school students, which means the kids were somewhere between the ages of 11 and 14.

00:05:34.920 Now, was it reasonable for the parents to file a police report in response?

00:05:40.220 Yes, absolutely.

00:05:43.380 Exposing children to pornographic material is a crime, and that's what this book is.

00:05:49.240 It doesn't suddenly become less of a crime just because the adult is a teacher.

00:05:54.420 It doesn't become less of a big deal or less of a problem just because the adult who's providing the material is a teacher.

00:05:59.340 If anything, that only makes it worse, not better.

00:06:04.320 And all you have to do is imagine this kind of scenario outside of a classroom,

00:06:08.760 and you can clearly see that Bonner didn't just act inappropriately, but criminally.

00:06:13.720 So imagine, for example, a strange man coming up to your child on the playground with a bunch of drawings and diagrams trying to teach him about sodomy.

00:06:26.160 Okay, what if a strange man went up to your kid on the playground and had a notebook with all kinds of drawings and charts and everything 0.97

00:06:33.000 and wanted to talk to your kid about gay sex? 0.99

00:06:36.080 Would you be a closed-minded, book-burning Nazi if you forcefully intervened and said, 1.00

00:06:45.000 get the hell away from my child, you freak? 1.00

00:06:48.460 Who do you think you are? 0.99

00:06:51.660 And maybe there are some other ways for you to communicate that message to him as well.

00:06:57.400 Would you be in the wrong?

00:06:58.720 Well, no.

00:06:59.600 No, quite the opposite.

00:07:00.480 You would be neglectful and weak if you didn't forcefully intervene.

00:07:06.920 There is no difference between a strange adult broaching these subjects on the playground outside of the school or in a room inside the school.

00:07:16.400 There is no difference.

00:07:18.400 In either case, it is sexual harassment of a child.

00:07:21.500 It is grooming.

00:07:23.320 And it doesn't become less of a problem just because you do it in the classroom.

00:07:28.660 A little more from NBC.

00:07:29.760 It says, Bonner says that she understands parents know their children best and believes that both parents and educators have that love and care in common.

00:07:37.800 Quote, the difference is that I have that love and care for all students, not just a singular student, she adds.

00:07:42.940 In regards to the book that was challenged in my classroom, it was a message to the LGBTQ plus community in my room and in my district that they are less than. 1.00

00:07:50.660 Okay, first of all, it's important to say that, no, you don't as the teacher, we don't have, if my child is in your classroom, we do not have love for my child in common.

00:08:05.960 I love my child, okay, I love all of my children, I would die for them, okay, I would jump in front of a bus for them without hesitation.

00:08:15.040 I love them more than my own life.

00:08:20.220 That is not how you would feel about my children because they're not your children.

00:08:25.420 So, no, we don't have this, oh, yeah, we both love your kid.

00:08:30.880 No, that's, that's, that's, if that's the case, we are using the word love in the broadest and most meaningless way possible.

00:08:40.980 There is, at a minimum, you know, a distinct difference between the love that a parent has for his own child and the love that just people have for other people in general.

00:08:55.640 That's a kind of charitable love that we're all called to love people in general.

00:08:59.580 It's not the same as the love that I have for my child as a parent.

00:09:04.840 And that's an important point.

00:09:07.520 Because this is a comparison, you know, they, they, they want to claim that, oh, yeah, I love your child.

00:09:10.980 Just as much as you do, if not more.

00:09:14.000 Which gives, which, which they think gives them the moral authority to, you know, do whatever they want. 0.95

00:09:20.100 So, according to this groomer teacher, the only way to treat the, quote, unquote, LGBTQ plus community equally is to sexualize and groom children. 0.65

00:09:30.920 Now, you notice something else, that there is no heterosexual person demanding this sort of thing on the other side, okay?

00:09:39.160 We're, we're, we're not, um, we're not asking for classrooms to provide graphic descriptions of straight sex or how-to manuals on the subject.

00:09:47.480 We're not asking for that.

00:09:50.220 LGBT activists claim that exposing children to pornographic content is the only way to ensure inclusion and equality.

00:09:57.380 But inclusion in what, equal in what way?

00:10:02.320 What we want is for all sexual instruction to be removed from the classroom completely.

00:10:09.980 Kids do not go to government educational facilities to learn how to have sex.

00:10:14.180 Or at least that's not why they should be there.

00:10:17.340 Human reproduction should be covered in biology class at the appropriate age.

00:10:21.220 But aside from that, um, none of this stuff should come up.

00:10:24.980 As I've said before, I don't even want abstinence taught in the schools.

00:10:28.200 I'm not advocating for an abstinence-only sex ed education because, now, that would certainly be much better.

00:10:34.300 That'd be a much better alternative to the left, to the left's preferred strategy of instructing children on the fine details of every sort of depraved fetish.

00:10:41.860 But it still would not be ideal because the most ideal scenario is that the schools teach neither how to have sex or how to not have it.

00:10:51.620 Okay, I don't want any of the how-tos.

00:10:53.200 These are not appropriate or relevant conversations for adults to be having with rooms full of children.

00:11:02.620 The other groomer controversy this week comes to us from Florida, where, as the media has it, a teacher is under investigation for showing a Disney movie to her class.

00:11:12.080 But it wasn't just any Disney movie.

00:11:13.700 She chose to show the one that revolves around a gay main character.

00:11:17.600 And the movie is called Strange World.

00:11:19.440 You probably heard about it when it came out because it's supposed to be a big deal.

00:11:21.740 It was the first Disney animated show or movie with a lead character who's gay.

00:11:27.840 And it was a massive flop in the theaters, thanks not only to the wokeness factor, but also due to the fact that it was a bad movie,

00:11:33.440 largely panned by critics who were sympathetic to its ideological leanings.

00:11:37.460 But even most of the critics had to admit it's just a bad movie.

00:11:40.240 It's not a good movie.

00:11:40.820 But that is the one that fifth grade teacher Jenna Barbie decided to show to her class in direct violation of state law banning instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity.

00:11:53.080 This clearly is a violation of that.

00:11:55.980 Now, we should note that she also violated her basic responsibilities as a teacher by wasting class time with a Disney movie in the first place. 1.00

00:12:03.080 And she's certainly not the first teacher to employ this method, which is which is yet another reason to homeschool.

00:12:08.460 OK, you'll be forgetting about the content of the films for a moment.

00:12:12.200 You'll be shocked to discover that kids actually don't need six hours a day of classroom instruction.

00:12:19.600 School only lasts that long because they fill half the schedule with busy work and movies and that kind of thing.

00:12:25.480 But the teacher Jenna Barbie appeared on CNN yesterday to defend herself and make her case. 0.99

00:12:32.060 And there's one moment towards the end of this clip that you should really pay attention to.

00:12:37.200 Here it is.

00:12:38.720 And Jenna, you said you feel that this is a targeted attack.

00:12:41.660 What do you mean when you say that?

00:12:42.720 Um, this that same school board member is currently going around right now trying to, well, along with, you know, the whole what DeSantis is doing, trying to get rid of all basically diversity elements out of schools completely.

00:12:56.040 Like they're trying to strip individuality and diversity to fit one common agenda.

00:13:00.660 And it's ruining everything.

00:13:03.980 It's not what America stands for.

00:13:06.140 I think let's let our viewers listen to what that parent said that complained about you doing this in a recent school board meeting.

00:13:15.000 Here it is.

00:13:16.060 It is not a teacher's job to impose their beliefs upon a child, religious, sexual orientation, gender identity, any of the above.

00:13:24.700 But allowing movies such as this assist teachers in opening a door.

00:13:29.680 And please hear me.

00:13:31.040 They assist teachers in opening a door for conversations that have no place in our classrooms.

00:13:37.920 We had played that for the viewers in the introduction, but I just want to give you a chance to respond.

00:13:43.080 Yeah, so that's what she's missing and what these parents are missing is they're not in the school system.

00:13:48.360 That that just shows me that she's ignorant and has not come and volunteered at all because are these conversations, these doors, they're open.

00:13:55.700 These students have one to one devices. 0.94

00:13:57.200 The amount of things that they're able to pull up that we have to shut down, these conversations, these doors that she's talking about, that's telling me I'm stripping her rights as a parent.

00:14:07.280 Those rights are gone when your child's in the public school system because there are students talking about these things.

00:14:12.740 It's where they get 90 percent of their socialization for the day.

00:14:15.540 And we can't shut down every conversation every child has.

00:14:19.700 Well, there it is.

00:14:20.920 Two revealing statements, actually.

00:14:22.220 First, she says that kids are already talking about inappropriate things, so the teachers might as well join in.

00:14:28.200 Now, she's, of course, ignoring the fact that the kids did not invent these concepts.

00:14:33.140 They didn't come up with gender fluidity and transgenderism and whatever weird fetishes and proclivities teachers like Jenna want incorporated into the curriculum. 0.99

00:14:41.780 The kids didn't come up with this stuff.

00:14:43.140 These things and ideas were invented before the kids existed, and then they were introduced to the kids by adults.

00:14:53.040 And if there's any particular kid who had a concept like transgenderism introduced to them by another kid, that certainly happens as well.

00:15:01.000 But where did that kid get it?

00:15:02.060 I mean, eventually this comes from the adults who came up with this stuff.

00:15:05.320 Essentially, Jenna is arguing that because the kids have already been sexually indoctrinated, she might as well continue sexually indoctrinating them. 1.00

00:15:15.680 And even if this did all originate with the kids themselves, which it didn't, this teacher would then be admitting that the inmates run the asylum.

00:15:25.160 That's her argument.

00:15:27.020 That, you know, the kids are in charge.

00:15:28.740 They, as the teachers, follow the lead of the kids that they're supposed to be teaching.

00:15:33.680 Now, I don't think that's what's actually happening here.

00:15:37.360 The kids are ultimately following the lead of the school system, which is where many of these ideas are introduced.

00:15:42.140 But even if she's right, it is not a great advertisement for the public school system.

00:15:47.180 Even worse advertisement is the last thing she said, where she said that your parental rights are gone when your child is in the public school system.

00:15:55.920 They're gone.

00:15:58.020 Rarely do we hear it stated so plainly or so accurately.

00:16:01.480 Because she is correct, of course.

00:16:04.500 Your parental rights are gone, or at least effectively gone, when your kid is in the public school system. 0.74

00:16:09.940 They are rendered impotent, useless.

00:16:12.400 They are defanged and declawed by the public school system.

00:16:16.520 You still have your fundamental natural rights as a parent.

00:16:20.820 Okay, I believe that those rights, that's a real thing that you have.

00:16:23.440 But you have no way of defending or enforcing those rights when your kid is in a government indoctrination center.

00:16:30.460 So you might have them.

00:16:32.020 It might be a right that you have.

00:16:33.940 But you're over here, and the kid is inside that building for six hours a day, five days a week.

00:16:41.480 And so you can have all the rights that you want.

00:16:43.660 There's a disconnect.

00:16:47.120 Okay, there's been a severing has happened between you and your kid.

00:16:51.780 Your parental rights exist in the abstract.

00:16:54.160 They exist as a concept, as a spiritual reality, I guess.

00:16:57.160 But in all other ways, you effectively forfeit them by handing your child over to the government for his moral and intellectual formation,

00:17:05.020 which is what education is.

00:17:07.740 Education is moral and intellectual formation, or deformation, as the case may be.

00:17:13.740 She couldn't be more right about that.

00:17:15.560 I agree 100%.

00:17:16.720 And I'm very glad that she said that particular quiet part out loud, because we all need to hear it.

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00:18:44.320 So there was a story told at a House Judiciary Committee meeting yesterday that I think everyone needs to hear.

00:18:53.960 And you've probably heard me mention it a time or two.

00:18:56.360 But when we talk about miscarriages of justice, we talk about the federal government,

00:19:01.500 federal agencies being weaponized against their political opponents.

00:19:04.960 There are some really egregious examples of this that we discuss, many of them targeting Donald Trump.

00:19:11.120 But this story, I think, is arguably worse than all of that.

00:19:17.220 Daily Wire reporting, acquitted Catholic pro-life activist Mark Houck in front of a House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday

00:19:23.700 revisited the moment when federal and state law enforcement authorities raided his home with guns last year

00:19:29.080 on accusations that he blocked others from entering an abortion clinic.

00:19:33.340 Houck, who leads a nonprofit group that counsels women outside of abortion clinics in Philadelphia,

00:19:36.920 testified in front of the subcommittee members during a hearing to revisit the implications of the FACE Act,

00:19:42.880 which is a federal law prohibiting people from blocking others from entering abortion clinics,

00:19:47.020 and also to examine recent attacks on pregnancy centers, pro-life facilities,

00:19:50.220 and the Biden administration's use of the federal statute.

00:19:53.540 Now, Houck was acquitted in January after federal authorities threatened him with 11 years in prison

00:19:58.060 for allegedly violating the FACE Act, a federal crime making it illegal to injure, intimidate,

00:20:02.560 or interfere with anyone due to their status as a reproductive health care provider.

00:20:07.320 Months before a jury acquitted the pro-life activists, FBI agents, and 15 vehicles raided his residence,

00:20:11.980 quickly surrounded the house, began pounding on the door and demanding they open up.

00:20:16.680 Rather than reading more from this, let's listen to this testimony.

00:20:21.100 I want to start with this, which is Houck describing the incident outside of the abortion facility,

00:20:27.460 the abortion clinic, the abortuary, as he calls it, which I think that's the best term for it.

00:20:33.180 So describing the incident that eventually led to 15 FBI vehicles pulling up on his property,

00:20:39.840 guns drawn, dragged out of the house, you know, early in the morning.

00:20:43.380 But here is what actually happened.

00:20:45.680 Listen.

00:20:46.840 I want to bring you to October 13th, 2021, where I was with my son, 12-year-old son,

00:20:54.380 praying in front of an abortuary in Philadelphia.

00:20:58.360 On that day, a couple women walked out of the facility. 1.00

00:21:03.660 I began to offer them literature, as I always do, with compassion, love, and great respect.

00:21:09.740 In fact, I was 50 feet away from the entrance of the building.

00:21:13.040 I proceeded to walk with those women across the street, 1.00

00:21:17.640 making me about 100 feet away from the entrance to the building,

00:21:20.120 to a crisis pregnancy center, pregnancy resource center, which is about six feet away from me.

00:21:25.660 At that time, an escort in the building decided to run over,

00:21:30.960 impede my progress, and get in the way of me ministering and talking to the women

00:21:36.140 that had left Planned Parenthood, 12th and Locust Streets in Philadelphia.

00:21:40.160 At that point, we exchanged some words.

00:21:42.200 We went back to where we were praying, and I continued to pray with my 12-year-old son.

00:21:46.000 About 20 minutes later, the escort, his name is Bruce Love, I've known him for years,

00:21:51.300 I've known him for 20 years, came out of the building.

00:21:54.560 He made a direct line towards my son, stood right next to my son.

00:22:00.680 Again, we're about 50 feet from the entrance to the building.

00:22:03.620 Stood right next to my 12-year-old boy, who was a little intimidated and scared by this.

00:22:07.220 I asked him if he could please give him some space.

00:22:10.220 He did not.

00:22:11.200 He has a right to be there.

00:22:12.420 We just continued to pray.

00:22:13.480 He continued to talk to me and offer insults to me, which, of course, he's done before,

00:22:21.940 and it was never a problem for me, and I just, I didn't listen to it.

00:22:25.600 But then he started to begin to talk to my son.

00:22:27.360 Now, he's talked to my son before.

00:22:30.060 In fact, I believe he taught my son the F word.

00:22:32.100 I'm a homeschool dad, and that's the reality of it.

00:22:35.320 Nonetheless, he begins to talk to my son and badger my son,

00:22:38.680 and starts telling my son how evil his father is and how his father doesn't want to help women.

00:22:45.920 I instructed him to step away and to go back to where he normally stands in front of the building,

00:22:52.300 which he did not.

00:22:53.540 He continued to badger my son.

00:22:56.060 After a repeated quest not to complot, not to stand next to my son,

00:23:00.260 I escorted him back to where he normally stands, which he did comply.

00:23:06.400 I turned around to face my son and go back to pray,

00:23:10.120 and he turned around and began to badger my son again.

00:23:13.940 At that point, I became a dad on the street, concerned for my son.

00:23:17.900 I did push the man.

00:23:19.260 He did fall down.

00:23:20.100 Okay, so that's it.

00:23:23.620 That's what happened.

00:23:24.300 He was being a protective dad.

00:23:25.840 He was just being a normal dad. 1.00

00:23:27.600 He was being a good dad, and he shoved a jerk who was harassing his son. 1.00

00:23:31.080 So what? 1.00

00:23:33.640 This guy, first of all, this guy clearly deserved it.

00:23:38.000 You go up and you start harassing a 12-year-old boy with his dad standing right there,

00:23:41.500 getting shoved.

00:23:43.000 You're lucky to get off just with a shove.

00:23:46.120 It could be a lot worse than that.

00:23:47.360 But even if you are somehow of the opinion that Mark Hauke overreacted

00:23:55.720 and should have been a little bit nicer to the man that was cussing out his 12-year-old son,

00:23:59.480 is this, do we need federal agents?

00:24:01.340 Is this a federal crime?

00:24:03.880 Is this something that rises to that level?

00:24:07.500 And by the way, this dynamic here is very, very common.

00:24:11.500 Okay, so if you're not familiar with pro-life activism,

00:24:13.800 you haven't been around pro-life activists,

00:24:15.320 and you get your impression of them from the media,

00:24:18.540 and I would hope that you'd be smart enough to know that you can't trust that impression.

00:24:22.240 But if that is where you get it,

00:24:23.300 then you probably imagine that usually the situation is reversed.

00:24:28.980 Because in this case, Mark Hauke and his son,

00:24:31.460 they're there peacefully and quietly, and they're praying. 1.00

00:24:33.940 And then you've got this belligerent moron, 1.00

00:24:36.060 this Bruce Love guy, 1.00

00:24:37.660 who's the volunteer escort.

00:24:40.400 And what that means is that his whole job that many of these people do for free

00:24:45.660 is they go up and they show up on Saturday mornings and early mornings at abortion clinics,

00:24:49.820 and they escort women into the abortion clinic. 0.98

00:24:53.240 And their whole job is to make sure that those women are not exposed to any kind of literature 0.59

00:24:59.680 or any conversations or any information that will tell them more about what they're going to do.

00:25:04.940 Because that's all that, you know, on the other end, we have the sidewalk counselors,

00:25:08.240 pro-life sidewalk counselors.

00:25:09.500 All they want to do is they're not running up and screaming at the women.

00:25:13.600 They're not cussing them out.

00:25:14.720 They're not telling them you're burning hell.

00:25:16.880 All they want to do is provide them with information.

00:25:19.320 Like, okay, this is what an abortion is. 1.00

00:25:21.200 This is what you're about to do.

00:25:23.480 Here's information about that.

00:25:24.940 And here are other, there are other options.

00:25:28.020 So they want to give information and inform them of their other options.

00:25:32.860 The clinic doesn't want that.

00:25:35.120 Clinic doesn't want any of that. 1.00

00:25:36.100 They want these women coming in scared and ignorant 1.00

00:25:38.800 and thinking that they have no other choice, that they have to do it, right? 1.00

00:25:42.680 They want them scared, ignorant, and helpless. 0.58

00:25:44.520 And the clinic escorts are there to assist in that.

00:25:47.760 Now, why would someone volunteer their time to this?

00:25:52.200 You know, volunteer your time, you know, on a Saturday morning 0.99

00:25:55.980 to escorting women into an abortion clinic to kill their babies? 0.82

00:26:01.020 You're volunteering your time to make sure that women are not informed 1.00

00:26:06.060 about these kinds of decisions?

00:26:08.800 That just shows you the fact that somebody like this other guy,

00:26:12.540 that they're that passionate about abortion,

00:26:15.180 just shows you how evil they are.

00:26:17.440 And so it shouldn't surprise you to learn that this is normally the way that it goes.

00:26:21.560 The pro-life activists who are on the scene at these abortion clinics,

00:26:26.720 vast majority of cases, they are peaceful, they are quiet, they are respectful.

00:26:32.840 Okay, I've been around a lot of these people all over the country.

00:26:35.680 And this is, in almost every case, peaceful, quiet, respectful, prayerful.

00:26:41.420 The belligerence, the violence, the aggressiveness is almost always coming from the other side.

00:26:47.640 And that's what happened here.

00:26:51.260 And that led to eventually the FBI getting involved.

00:26:54.540 Before the FBI got involved, another important thing to keep in mind

00:26:57.880 is that local prosecutors and Philadelphia,

00:27:00.860 not exactly a friendly environment for pro-lifers.

00:27:04.960 The DA, I'm not sure who was the DA at the time,

00:27:07.220 but we can assume not someone who's on the same side ideologically as pro-life activists.

00:27:11.980 But they found that they were not going to file any charges.

00:27:19.840 They weren't going to press charges because they didn't see that there were any charges to press.

00:27:25.580 Sometime later, the feds came back around and decided they wanted to get involved.

00:27:30.520 And that's what led to this.

00:27:32.680 On September 23rd, my home was raided by 10 unmarked and marked units,

00:27:38.780 state troopers, federal law enforcement personnel.

00:27:42.700 I had five federal agents on my doorstep at 6.30 in the morning

00:27:46.300 with long guns pointed at me and my seven children.

00:27:50.780 They banged on the door and they said, open up.

00:27:52.900 They did not even declare who they were that day.

00:27:55.320 They didn't even ask me, could you please open the door with the FBI?

00:27:58.580 They just said, open up.

00:28:00.360 I went to the door, I was up.

00:28:02.960 I said, who is it?

00:28:04.180 They said, it's the FBI, open up.

00:28:06.420 So I opened up the door peacefully.

00:28:07.840 I said, please stay calm.

00:28:09.780 I have seven babies in here.

00:28:11.160 They pointed M-16 guns at me and my wife.

00:28:13.620 My wife comes down and says, do you have a warrant for his arrest?

00:28:17.500 They said, we're taking him with or without a warrant.

00:28:21.820 My wife said, you can't do that. 1.00

00:28:23.600 That's kidnapping.

00:28:25.100 We proceeded to go into a four and a half month trial that, as you know,

00:28:29.480 and have said previously that we were acquitted of.

00:28:32.180 But I was facing 11 years in prison, and I had every prospect in my heart that I would

00:28:37.300 be in federal prison away from my seven children.

00:28:42.140 Yeah, they want, this is what Biden wanted.

00:28:44.260 Biden, it didn't work out for him, but thank God, didn't work out for Biden.

00:28:49.280 But what he wanted was this guy hauled away in handcuffs in front of his terrified children.

00:28:55.840 He got that part of it.

00:28:56.760 And then he wanted him in prison for a decade.

00:28:59.380 He wanted to take this man away from his kids for a decade because he shoved,

00:29:04.300 because he shoved someone who was accosting his 12-year-old son.

00:29:08.980 As I said at the beginning, there are many examples of miscarriages of justice,

00:29:17.140 of government agencies being weaponized against political opponents.

00:29:21.280 We talk a lot about the cases that involve Trump, and for good reason.

00:29:26.680 However, this is one of the worst cases, and this man's name should be well known.

00:29:33.780 I mean, this should be like a household name among conservatives.

00:29:36.800 And it is a potentially very terrifying glimpse into the future.

00:29:42.520 Because it's not like they're done.

00:29:44.000 You know, it didn't work out.

00:29:44.960 They weren't able to get him in prison for 11 years like they wanted to.

00:29:48.760 But they're not going to stop.

00:29:53.900 And remember, they went looking for this case.

00:29:57.080 Okay, it happened.

00:29:58.420 The local prosecutor said, we're not going to press charges.

00:30:01.440 Everybody moved on.

00:30:02.600 As far as we know, everyone kind of moved on.

00:30:06.700 And months and months later, the Biden administration went looking.

00:30:09.920 It was like, let's find somebody who we can make an example of under this face act thing.

00:30:15.120 And they found him.

00:30:16.700 And by the way, the fact that they were looking to send a message to pro-lifers to intimidate them, try to make an example out of somebody.

00:30:28.520 And the fact that they had to choose Mark Houck only goes to show how peaceful pro-lifers always are.

00:30:41.400 Because from what the media tells us, you would think that there would be many examples of pro-lifers violating the face act.

00:30:47.700 And, you know, running into the abortion clinics and causing a scene and all the rest of it.

00:30:52.800 But the fact that they had to go for him, that this was the case, they had to try, I think shows you everything.

00:31:05.940 All right.

00:31:06.520 John Fetterman is out of the hospital, but his brain is not.

00:31:12.000 I mean, his brain is still somewhere else.

00:31:13.280 It's not in his head.

00:31:14.080 His brain is hooked up to tubes and wires somewhere.

00:31:16.040 Here he is yesterday during a hearing trying to ask a question, and he's having a lot of trouble with it.

00:31:24.780 Let's listen.

00:31:26.380 Is it staggering?

00:31:27.900 Is it a staggering response of responsibility that the head of a bank could literally crash our economy?

00:31:36.320 It's astonishing.

00:31:37.060 That's like if you have, I mean, like, and they also realize is that now they have a guaranteed way to be saved by, again, by how, you know?

00:31:53.320 So it's, you know, isn't it appropriate that those kinds of, this kind of control should be more stricter to prevent this kind of thing from going?

00:32:04.400 Or should we just go on and start bailing and sailing whoever bank, regardless of how their conduct is?

00:32:19.340 You know, I'll give you an example.

00:32:22.120 The Republicans want to give a work requirement for SNAP.

00:32:25.180 You know, for a hungry family has to have these, this kind of penalties or these some kinds of working requirements.

00:32:35.400 Shouldn't you have a working requirement after we sell your bank with billions of your bank?

00:32:39.240 Because they seem to be more preoccupied when, then SNAP requirements for works for hungry people, but not about protecting the tax papers, you know, that will bail no matter whatever does about a bank to crash it.

00:32:58.520 Jerry?

00:32:59.600 I can't even, that's hard to watch.

00:33:01.580 Um, it's, I, I can only say that I feel bad for, I'm not sure who was being questioned there exactly, but whoever it was, I feel bad for that person that you're put on the spot and you, because the guy being questioned, he's not sure what the question is or if it's been asked yet.

00:33:19.080 It is like, no idea.

00:33:20.060 He's got to try to make sense of it.

00:33:21.640 You have Fetterman babbling incoherently and then pausing.

00:33:25.560 And the other guy like, uh, what?

00:33:28.740 Yes.

00:33:29.700 I'll say yes.

00:33:30.460 I don't know.

00:33:32.120 Um, this is, there are many signs of the decline of Western civilization, but this is one of them.

00:33:40.960 When you, when you, when you have people like this who, who don't have functioning brains at highest levels of government and the fact that it's known, right?

00:33:51.860 The fact that we know it makes all the difference.

00:33:54.360 I mean, there, there, there have probably been, in fact, we can be pretty certain that there have been, uh, politicians before that have had brain damage or have been senile and we're still in office.

00:34:05.240 But in this case, it's like, we, it's out in the open.

00:34:07.880 We all know it.

00:34:09.240 And it's not just Fetterman.

00:34:10.660 It's Fetterman.

00:34:11.840 Uh, it's, uh, Biden.

00:34:14.640 Dianne Feinstein's another one.

00:34:16.320 They just rolled, they, they, uh, rolled her back and, and, um, back to Capitol Hill a couple days ago.

00:34:23.100 And she's, uh, you know, she was in the hospital and she was out and she's like in her late 80s, I think.

00:34:28.880 And she's completely gone.

00:34:30.600 I mean, she's a vegetable. 1.00

00:34:31.720 And there was an interview she did with, with, uh, one of these media outlets where she did, it became apparent that she didn't know that she'd been gone for 10 weeks.

00:34:42.340 She thought that she'd been here the whole time voting on legislation.

00:34:47.200 Um, and that's one that, you know, the, on the left, they're actually very upset about that.

00:34:51.920 And they want her to resign and they want her to resign because they know they'll replace her with someone who is a lot younger and even more leftist than she is.

00:34:58.740 So, uh, politically, the best thing politically is in that particular case for her to just stay where she is because whoever they bring in after her will be worse. 1.00

00:35:09.240 But even so, uh, the fact that we have people at the highest levels of government who are in charge of things, the ones pulling the strings and they are, and they are not mentally present at all is, uh, not a good sign to say the least.

00:35:25.860 Speaking of not being mentally present, let's listen to Kamala Harris, try to engage, uh, or pretend to engage with the criticisms of gender ideology. 0.86

00:35:35.520 And this is kind of interesting because gender ideology, that's a, that's a term that I use all the time.

00:35:40.380 It's a term that people on the right will use.

00:35:43.480 Um, you know, you can kind of use it interchangeably with trans ideology, gender ideology, same kind of thing.

00:35:47.940 Um, you don't, you don't normally hear anyone on the left use the term gender ideology, um, but Kamala Harris does. 0.99

00:35:57.780 And let's listen to what she says about it.

00:35:59.640 And most recently they even want to eliminate classes that teach quote gender ideology.

00:36:08.140 Well, so what are we talking about here classes that teach women's history, women's equality, the study of the fact that there are still only 25 women in the United States Senate in a body of 100. 0.98

00:36:27.700 Uh, so either she's incredibly stupid and doesn't understand what gender ideology is and what it refers to. 1.00

00:36:35.700 And she somehow has missed the plot here completely, or this is a really bad attempt at a straw man or, or, you know, probably some combination of both of both of those things. 0.99

00:36:46.020 But to clarify for the benefit of Kamala Harris, uh, no, that, that is not what gender ideology means. 1.00

00:36:53.320 That is not what gender, gender ideology has nothing to do with that.

00:36:56.680 Actually, it is because of gender ideology that it doesn't make any sense to teach kids about women, quote unquote, women's rights and women's issues and, uh, the great female pioneers of history and all that.

00:37:12.200 But it's because of gender ideology is what makes those conversations irrelevant. 1.00

00:37:20.400 Because gender ideology erases the existence of women. 1.00

00:37:25.240 It erases the distinction between men and women.

00:37:30.120 So you can actually, there's a lot more you can do in the realm that she's talking about if you get rid of gender ideology.

00:37:36.800 I'm explaining this.

00:37:37.860 I'm not sure if she needs it explained or not. 0.99

00:37:39.360 Um, it's, it's, it's, it's always a game of trying to figure out, is this, is this, uh, is this person stupid or are they just pretending to be? 0.98

00:37:48.220 And as I said, with Kamala Harris, it probably is very often kind of both. 0.96

00:37:52.240 NBC News has this, uh, article.

00:37:53.860 New York City police are seeking the public's help as it searches for a man suspected of defacing two LGBTQ pride flags.

00:38:00.720 The unidentified man, um, entered a location in Manhattan's Tony Upper West Side neighborhood and defecated on one of the rainbow pride flags and then took a second pride flag and wiped his backside with it, according to a statement released Saturday by the NYPD.

00:38:15.800 So he, uh, he defecated on one of the flags and then there was a second one there that he used, uh, essentially as toilet paper.

00:38:23.580 The aggravated harassment, which reportedly took place on the morning of April 15th, is being investigated by the, uh, police department's hate crime task force.

00:38:35.220 Aggravated harassment.

00:38:36.220 Well, who is he harassing?

00:38:38.500 The flag itself is harassing the pride flag?

00:38:42.400 While no video surveillance of the actual incident was released to the public, the New York Post obtained and published a video that appeared to show the same unidentified man, uh, relieving himself on pride flags located in the dining shed of a restaurant located at the same Upper Side West Strat where police said the incident took place.

00:38:57.700 So is that, are those additional pride flags that he was relieving himself on or are they, are we talking about the same ones?

00:39:03.520 It's not exactly clear to me.

00:39:06.220 But my only point is, uh, I, I don't know what the problem is here.

00:39:10.120 You know, it's a homeless guy, you know, took a dump on a pride flag, but he, this really, he was a lovable street performer.

00:39:19.860 This was an unhoused man, a lovable street performer, and, and we, we should be defending him.

00:39:27.280 Where is AOC on this one?

00:39:29.600 We're going to try to persecute this unhoused street performer. 0.98

00:39:34.160 Just like Jordan Neely.

00:39:36.420 I want, I want to know where AOC is on this one, defending this guy.

00:39:41.260 But in his case though, you know, she'd be perfectly fine with this guy going, going to prison for 25 years.

00:39:48.080 Absolutely.

00:39:49.180 You defaced a pride flag, you go to jail for 25 years.

00:39:51.720 This is not going to be one of those cases where they, uh, where they finally arrest him and then let him go and they don't charge.

00:39:57.340 They'll, they'll, they're going to come down on him.

00:39:58.800 He's going to go to prison.

00:40:01.120 However, if you're Jordan Neely and, uh, rather than defacing pride flags, you're doing things that are a lot less serious.

00:40:05.880 Like, you know, uh, punching old ladies in the head and trying to kidnap seven-year-olds and trying to throw people on the train tracks and harassing and threatening whole train loads of people.

00:40:14.240 Well, then that's, uh, yeah, that's, those are all minor violations, of course.

00:40:19.380 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:40:20.880 The one-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned is coming up.

00:40:37.880 And since then, the left has completely lost their mind.

00:40:40.580 Pro-life efforts, which are more important now than ever, ever are booming.

00:40:44.660 Uh, you heard that right.

00:40:45.460 Despite the narrative, pro-lifers didn't go away.

00:40:47.960 They have only increased in number.

00:40:49.560 However, 40 Days for Life is changing hearts and minds in the most blue pro-abortion states.

00:40:54.320 They've had a record number of locations since Roe was overturned.

00:40:57.420 And, uh, they've grown in both volunteers and locations.

00:41:00.720 Again, that's ever since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

00:41:03.140 With about one million volunteers in 1,500 cities, they hold peaceful vigils outside of abortion facilities.

00:41:08.560 This success has come with new, unwanted attention from the federal government and the DOJ in regards to free speech.

00:41:13.860 As one of the largest pro-life organizations in the world,

00:41:16.320 no one is in a better position than 40 Days for Life to end abortion in each state in a post-Roe America. 0.98

00:41:21.840 You can help them fight the ongoing legal battles of protecting free speech for their volunteers,

00:41:26.020 including Mark Houck, uh, the 40 Days for Life volunteer who had his house raided by the FBI that we talked about today.

00:41:31.540 You can help them defend free speech by giving a tax-deductible gift of any amount at 40daysforlife.com.

00:41:37.260 That's 40daysforlife.com.

00:41:40.300 H.L. Mills says,

00:41:41.620 I wish it were easier to buy only at places that didn't do the pride crap, 1.00

00:41:45.420 but even Walmart has a pride display in June.

00:41:48.020 Mom and pop stores are falling by the wayside.

00:41:50.020 It's taking a lot more of an effort not to support these organizations, but I'm making an effort.

00:41:54.920 Um, yeah, that's, that's true.

00:41:57.160 And when it comes to the big box retailers,

00:41:58.880 it probably would be difficult to find one that doesn't, um, at least throw a, you know,

00:42:03.460 doesn't, doesn't, doesn't do some kind of pride month, the virtue signaling thing.

00:42:08.000 They all, they all, uh, they all do something,

00:42:11.180 but that's why we have to, again, be strategic and you pick your targets.

00:42:16.120 And, um, maybe, maybe one target is target, but you pick, you pick something and you make an example out of that.

00:42:24.020 Um, and it, and that means that there are gonna be a whole lot of other companies that did things that are the same or maybe even worse,

00:42:32.740 but we know that we can't, you know, we, we, we cannot boycott every company.

00:42:38.100 That's not just, that's not something that we can do.

00:42:40.720 It won't happen.

00:42:42.580 And so we can choose either.

00:42:44.220 We can throw up our hands in that case and say, well, we can't do anything.

00:42:46.380 It doesn't matter.

00:42:46.880 Give up.

00:42:47.220 Or we could be targeted and intentional and strategic about the companies we decide to, um, boycott.

00:42:57.980 And I think the target is, should be, uh, considered very eligible for that spot,

00:43:03.460 given that what they're doing is, um, is far more egregious than some of the other virtue signaling that we, that we see go on.

00:43:12.580 Colton says, whenever I try and do something for a holiday, my wife ends up disliking what I do anyways. 1.00

00:43:17.220 So I just let her do it the way she wants.

00:43:19.780 And, uh, so that way I'm not working on something that she'll just change to be her way anyway.

00:43:25.240 That's why it's best to stick with physical gifts.

00:43:27.500 You know, I think, um, that was, that was another question I had is daily cancellation.

00:43:31.620 Yesterday we were talking about these, uh, videos posted by this woman who was upset that her husband hadn't done enough to plan a big, uh, Mother's Day dinner or whatever.

00:43:40.760 Um, I did have the same kind of question of like, do you, do you really expect that you want your husband to plan events for you?

00:43:50.320 My wife would never, that's, that's, if I volunteered and I said, maybe Christmas is coming up.

00:43:57.440 I said, let me plan, let me plan all the Christmas stuff this year.

00:43:59.340 I'll take, I'll take over.

00:44:01.660 Uh, she would never in a million years trust me to do that.

00:44:03.820 And she shouldn't.

00:44:05.880 So, it, it makes the most sense.

00:44:07.940 So let the women plan things. 1.00

00:44:09.760 They're better at that sort of thing anyway.

00:44:11.940 As men, just stick with physical gifts.

00:44:13.840 Go out and buy her something, like a physical thing, and give it to her.

00:44:17.420 And that's all you have to do.

00:44:20.200 Um, Secret Squirrel says,

00:44:23.160 I think it's possible to have a discussion surrounding the ethics of using sex to market inherently non-sexual products without launching a marketing campaign, wagging your finger at consumers for wanting that and absolving yourself for using that strategy in the first place.

00:44:36.440 Yeah, I totally agree with you.

00:44:37.680 And this was a, this was something I heard from some conservatives yesterday about the, uh, the Miller Lite ad campaign now where they're, um, lecturing beer companies and beer consumers for in the past, you know, using women in bikinis and that sort of thing to market the products.

00:44:53.460 So really, the, the lecture is targeted at beer, uh, you know, ostensibly at the beer companies, but also at the consumers who enjoy those advertisements and bought, you know, and, uh, purchased, uh, beer from those companies because of them.

00:45:10.060 Um, and what I, I did hear this from, from, from some conservatives saying, well, you know what this, but this is good.

00:45:14.680 This is not a woke thing, uh, because we don't want to objectify women. 0.96

00:45:18.240 And this was like overly sexualized stuff in the first place.

00:45:21.620 And we're supposed to be opposed to that.

00:45:23.180 And so, uh, why is this woke?

00:45:24.940 It's not a woke thing.

00:45:27.140 Well, but it is, it is woke.

00:45:30.440 Because for one thing, they're framing this all.

00:45:32.940 This is not, this is, this is not Miller Lite defending, you know, human dignity or something like that.

00:45:38.600 This was all framed in this kind of you go girl feminist mentality that also doesn't make any sense.

00:45:45.920 Like when the left does this, it doesn't make any sense.

00:45:48.920 It's, it's incoherent and inconsistent because as I, as I said yesterday, uh, yeah, they have a problem with bikini.

00:45:54.660 They don't like bikini models, uh, being involved in any kind of advertisements.

00:45:58.700 They don't want that, but they'll be the first to say that only fans, women on only fans, that that's empowering.

00:46:07.140 Quote, unquote, sex workers empowering.

00:46:09.100 So it's a, um, it's inconsistent and it's incoherent.

00:46:16.520 Um, but if we could all agree that we're not going to engage in sexual, um, and we're not going, we're not going to objectify people sexually.

00:46:26.060 If we can agree with that, and that includes like pornography is bad.

00:46:30.340 Women shouldn't be doing only fans, all the rest of it. 1.00

00:46:32.480 If that's what we're all agreeing, then great.

00:46:34.060 But, but I don't think we agree on that.

00:46:36.520 And, uh, Melvigan says, my heart breaks for that poor husband whose wife put him on blast like that in front of the whole world.

00:46:42.640 He deserves so much better.

00:46:43.780 I truly hope he divorces her and gives their children a stepmother whose first priority is not salivating for pity on TikTok. 0.98

00:46:51.160 Gross. 0.58

00:46:52.020 I agreed with you up until the divorce part.

00:46:54.220 You know, I don't think we want to encourage people to get divorced.

00:46:55.860 I think you want to encourage that this is a man who needs to stand up for himself.

00:46:59.600 And I get the impression that he hasn't, that he's allowed himself to be, you know, walked over.

00:47:04.940 So he needs to put his foot down and stand up for himself and communicate to his wife that this is totally inappropriate behavior.

00:47:11.320 It is not acceptable.

00:47:12.900 Okay.

00:47:13.160 You're not going to go on the internet and take our private business and use it as content for the public.

00:47:19.480 Um, and throwing me under the bus in the first place so that you can use me as a pedestal to elevate yourself in front of the world.

00:47:25.240 Like that is not going to happen.

00:47:27.780 He needs to have that conversation.

00:47:29.160 But, uh, but you don't want to give up on the marriage either.

00:47:31.960 Finally, Jerry May says, Matt Walsh and others created a monster.

00:47:35.340 Today, transgenderism is growing by leaps and bounds.

00:47:37.800 If you tell people they can't, they'll prove they can.

00:47:40.240 The war on alcohol, epic failure.

00:47:41.720 The war on drugs, epic failure.

00:47:43.320 The war on guns, epic failure.

00:47:44.820 The war on LGBTQ, epic failure. 0.99

00:47:49.000 Yeah, well, this is, if you are not aware at all, I mean, if you just woke up yesterday, if you've been in a cave all this time, then maybe this criticism makes sense.

00:47:55.220 But, uh, if you, uh, have, have been even slightly conscious and aware over the past several decades, then you would know that this, uh, gender ideology, you know, exploded onto the mainstream.

00:48:07.800 But it didn't, it didn't originate there.

00:48:11.980 Okay.

00:48:12.420 It existed.

00:48:13.080 These were ideas and concepts that people came up with decades ago.

00:48:17.260 And conservatives did almost nothing to oppose it.

00:48:20.180 We, we ignored it.

00:48:21.460 And we ignored it.

00:48:22.460 And we ignored it.

00:48:23.120 And we ignored it.

00:48:23.800 Um, until one day we couldn't ignore it anymore, but we're way behind the eight ball on the issue.

00:48:30.980 That's usually the way these things go.

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00:49:04.340 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:09.680 Today for our daily cancellation, we have another viral TikTok video, which has garnered millions of views, thousands of comments, lots of discussion.

00:49:15.940 It's the kind of video that on first blush, you might think that I would hate.

00:49:19.180 And I sort of do, but it's not all bad.

00:49:22.220 Here we have a Gen Zer, a Zoomer by the name of Kat, complaining about how much harder it is for young people today than it was for her parents and her grandparents' generation. 0.88

00:49:31.980 And this message has, as you might expect, resonated quite a bit with her fellow Gen Zers on TikTok.

00:49:38.320 Let's listen to some of this.

00:49:39.280 I'm about to graduate in May.

00:49:41.600 A lot of the conversations I've been having with my parents lately have been surrounding what I'm going to do when I graduate, where I'm going to go.

00:49:47.420 So my mom works for a company that's just, like, huge.

00:49:50.200 And she said something to me yesterday that makes a lot of sense in regards to why it's so hard to find a job.

00:49:55.180 Or even to find a salary right now that would be livable as someone who's, like, fresh out of college.

00:49:59.320 She said that a lot of the people who are in charge of hiring there commonly say things like, college grads expect way too much, or I didn't have that much when I graduated.

00:50:07.520 Then she says, yeah, when I first started, I made $36,000.

00:50:11.620 And I was like, $36,000 today or $36,000 in 1980?

00:50:16.260 So she made $36,000 starting off entry-level bank teller in 1980.

00:50:20.900 Right now, out of college, I want to make $24 an hour.

00:50:24.020 That would put me at $50,000 a year, which is equivalent to having a $16,500 salary in 1982.

00:50:30.840 So I did some research.

00:50:31.740 The average college grad in 2022 was making $55,260.

00:50:36.100 In 1982, the average college grad was making $102,200 right out of college.

00:50:41.500 So today, $26,50 an hour is 1982's $49 an hour.

00:50:45.260 So this sentiment being held by boomers of, oh, well, they're just expecting too much. 0.95

00:50:49.960 I just don't think they know what numbers they're talking about.

00:50:52.680 Like, I think in their head, they're like, oh, I made $36,000 in 1980, and you're asking for $50,000 now?

00:50:59.500 So then I dug a little deeper, started looking at housing, apartments.

00:51:02.980 In 2022, the median selling price for a single-family house was $507,800.

00:51:08.360 In 1980, that same price is equivalent to today's $223,202.

00:51:13.060 In 2022, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment was $1,900.

00:51:17.700 In 1982, that same number was equivalent to today's $737.

00:51:22.300 Like, I actually think that boomers just can't conceptualize how vastly different these numbers are.

00:51:28.080 Okay, so we'll pause it here to acknowledge that she's basically correct about everything that she's said so far.

00:51:32.540 There's simply no denying that money had more value, more purchasing power 40 years ago than it does today.

00:51:37.740 Jobs generally paid more when measured in today's dollars, and things didn't cost as much.

00:51:43.460 In fact, by nearly every conceivable measure, economically, societally, culturally,

00:51:49.000 the boomers inherited a better country than they'll leave behind for their children. 0.99

00:51:55.640 They inherited prosperity.

00:51:57.180 They leave stagnation and decline and debt and bankruptcy.

00:52:00.280 They inherited a vibrant and patriotic culture.

00:52:02.800 They leave us one that is rotten and degenerate.

00:52:04.980 They inherited strong nuclear families, and they leave behind a long, sad trail of divorce and broken homes. 0.97

00:52:12.060 As a generation, they failed to do the one single thing that every generation is supposed to do, 0.99

00:52:17.240 which is to create a better world for their children.

00:52:19.740 It doesn't have to be a utopia.

00:52:21.080 It will never be that.

00:52:22.540 But it should be better.

00:52:24.140 A generation's only legacy is the country it leaves behind. 0.95

00:52:27.280 And judging by that one and only real metric, the boomers have catastrophically failed. 0.90

00:52:33.180 And they're not done either.

00:52:34.860 They're still clinging to their positions of leadership in D.C. and media and corporate America.

00:52:39.560 They've made for some of the worst political leaders this country has ever seen, and they refuse to go away.

00:52:46.240 They refuse to ride off into the sunset and let us clean up the mess.

00:52:48.940 And this is a problem.

00:52:51.300 It's all absolutely true.

00:52:52.680 There's no getting around it.

00:52:53.620 Boomers generally don't take this kind of criticism well, but that doesn't stop them from complaining bitterly about millennials and Gen Z. 1.00

00:53:02.140 What they like to ignore, or maybe have somehow forgotten, is that millennials and Gen Z are their children and grandchildren.

00:53:09.020 That's all part of their legacy.

00:53:11.340 The millennial generation, my generation, we didn't sprout from the ground randomly like fungus.

00:53:16.560 We didn't fall out of the sky like snowflakes.

00:53:18.820 We were conceived and birthed and raised.

00:53:21.960 And in many cases, raised poorly.

00:53:25.680 In fact, raised may be an overstatement.

00:53:27.800 Many millennials were less raised than they were merely sustained with food and toys and television and then sent out into the world with no moral or spiritual formation whatsoever.

00:53:37.920 Now, I'm speaking in generalizations, of course, but they are accurate generalizations.

00:53:42.960 And anyway, millennials fall victim to generalizations all the time.

00:53:47.200 So perhaps it's time for some other generations to get a dose of that medicine.

00:53:49.980 I think it's important to speak about the cataclysmic failures of the boomer generation and to hold them accountable for instilling in millennials every negative trait that they now so eagerly complain about. 0.97

00:54:02.740 And that's important to point out, not to simply cast blame, but because it's not just or honest to give your children a destroyed culture, a bankrupted country, and then immediately blame them for it.

00:54:16.320 You know, if we're ever going to break this cycle and really combat the diseases of entitlement and materialism and selfishness, then we have to inspect the origins of the problem.

00:54:26.380 Of course, the boomers no more created selfishness than did millennials or than did Gen Z. 0.86

00:54:31.380 But they did create a culture that encourages and breeds this stuff.

00:54:37.200 They created this culture by prioritizing material wealth and personal comfort and rapid gratification over everything, basically.

00:54:44.740 They relied on the schools in Hollywood to take charge of their kids while they amassed the kind of financial security their kids will never know.

00:54:51.540 If a child is going to grow to be unselfish, you must learn to be a part of something bigger than himself, something that requires effort and self-denial and active sacrificial love.

00:55:02.760 A strong nuclear family is such a thing.

00:55:05.060 The church is such a thing.

00:55:06.240 But the boomers, who sent the divorce rates skyrocketing into the stars, largely failed to give their kids the necessary foundation of a nuclear family. 0.99

00:55:14.100 And they certainly didn't invest their kids in the church or faith or spirituality.

00:55:19.320 Entertainment and material possessions served as replacements for both of those things.

00:55:24.500 But entertainment and material possessions are self-serving by design.

00:55:28.300 They will not help a child come out of himself.

00:55:30.480 They'll only send him spiraling deeper and deeper into the abyss of his own ego.

00:55:36.020 Now, I have at this point strayed rather far from the point that the girl on TikTok was trying to make.

00:55:41.060 But it's all related, and these are all valid points.

00:55:43.960 But from there, she kind of goes somewhat off the rails.

00:55:47.840 So let's keep listening.

00:55:49.680 And I think boomers just have such a hard time conceptualizing this because they never had to fight for jobs. 0.57

00:55:54.320 They were at the upswing of technology.

00:55:56.220 They were at the upswing of big business.

00:55:58.540 Capitalism was booming.

00:55:59.720 And then they look at us, and they're thinking, entitled.

00:56:03.580 And I'm not saying anyone's, like, in the right or in the wrong.

00:56:06.160 It's not their fault.

00:56:07.080 Like, they just don't know. 0.73

00:56:08.620 Literally just don't know what the f*** I'm going to do when I graduate.

00:56:11.360 And any time I talk to my parents, both of which are boomers, they're like, stop having such high expectations.

00:56:17.300 Also, I don't want to see any comments about, well, you should have majored in computer science, or you should have majored in medicine.

00:56:23.020 I think that if you go to college, you deserve to be able to make enough to live comfortably.

00:56:27.220 I think if you don't go to college, you should be able to make enough to live comfortably.

00:56:30.660 Regardless your major, regardless if you chose to go to college or not, you deserve to live comfortably.

00:56:35.760 So anyone who says that your path to success should have looked differently, they're probably just not able to conceptualize the reality of today's job market and the reality of how much it costs to go to school nowadays.

00:56:44.140 Okay, we were doing so well, but then the Gen Z-itis kicked in and she started babbling about what she deserves. 0.99

00:56:51.280 Now, I honestly don't know what a statement like, I deserve to live comfortably means.

00:56:56.780 To deserve something is to earn it, it's to be worthy of it.

00:57:00.860 Are we all worthy of a comfortable life?

00:57:03.040 Have we earned it just by simply existing?

00:57:06.060 And even if we have, even if we do all deserve comfort, whatever that means, what good does it do for you to just talk about how you deserve it?

00:57:14.660 You can cry all you want about what you think you deserve, but to quote Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven and also Snoop from The Wire,

00:57:20.840 deserve ain't got nothing to do with it.

00:57:23.520 Now, maybe we all deserve to skip through fields of daffodils while gumdrops fall from the sky,

00:57:28.480 but that's not what life has presented us, okay?

00:57:30.780 That's not the reality.

00:57:32.900 So maybe you deserve something other than the reality?

00:57:35.660 I don't know what that means.

00:57:37.200 You can't manifest what you think you deserve just by talking about it and making demands to the universe.

00:57:45.400 So for all the younger people who lament the state of things and the fact that in many ways it would have been easier to have been born 40 years ago,

00:57:54.960 we might just put it this way.

00:57:57.020 You're right.

00:57:58.400 You get a raw deal.

00:58:00.140 It's not fair.

00:58:02.400 I don't think you deserve a comfortable life necessarily.

00:58:05.460 Life is simply an uncomfortable thing much of the time.

00:58:08.260 But you do deserve a better country and a better culture and a better economy than the one that you're getting.

00:58:13.340 Okay, now what?

00:58:17.040 We've established that, okay?

00:58:19.640 It shouldn't be this way.

00:58:21.560 This should not be the culture that you are inheriting.

00:58:24.820 It shouldn't be.

00:58:27.360 But, okay, what's your next move?

00:58:30.460 What do you do now?

00:58:32.320 The problem with people in the younger generations is that they correctly diagnose many of these issues,

00:58:36.980 and then they use that diagnosis as an excuse to give up before the game even starts.

00:58:44.060 They decide not to put in the effort at work.

00:58:46.140 They decide not to work hard.

00:58:47.500 They decide to essentially drop out of the dating scene and give up on romantic relationships and marriage and family and everything.

00:58:53.280 They retreat behind phones and screens.

00:58:55.340 And this is just not the way to solve any of these problems.

00:58:59.080 It's the same kind of criticism that I have of the red pill manosphere types who correctly point out all the ways the system is stacked against men. 0.96

00:59:08.040 But then they offer no real solution except for a full-scale retreat recommending that men give up on family life, marriage, legacy, their own bloodline.

00:59:16.820 And that's not a strategy.

00:59:19.440 That's despair.

00:59:21.220 And you can't give in to despair, especially at a young age.

00:59:27.000 So, yes, you may graduate from college and realize that you wasted a lot of time and money on a useless degree.

00:59:35.860 You got scammed into going to college when you really didn't need to go.

00:59:39.720 And you plunged yourself into debt for something that might not do you any good at all.

00:59:44.800 Well, that's also really unfair.

00:59:47.080 It shouldn't have happened, but it did.

00:59:50.380 You may struggle to attain financial security.

00:59:53.680 You may not be able to afford a house or many of the things that your parents could afford at your age.

00:59:59.320 All of that may be the case.

01:00:01.520 These are the obstacles that you face.

01:00:04.000 Every generation has its own.

01:00:05.840 It's not perfect for anybody.

01:00:07.660 And these are yours.

01:00:09.540 The goal is to succeed and thrive in spite of them.

01:00:12.740 That must be the goal.

01:00:15.440 Otherwise, there is no point.

01:00:18.300 You have to get to work either way.

01:00:20.560 And obsessing over how unfair everything is and how you aren't being handed what you think you deserve will not accomplish anything.

01:00:29.100 You have to work for it one way or another.

01:00:31.340 Otherwise, you are today canceled.

01:00:34.720 That'll do it for this portion of the show.

01:00:36.000 Let's move over to the members block.

01:00:36.940 Hope to see you there.

01:00:37.660 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 17, 2023

Ep. 1165 - Your Children Are Being Indoctrinated in School Whether You Realize it or Not

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