A public school teacher declares that our parental rights don t exist when we send our children to public school. Meanwhile, parents in a different school district were forced to file a police report against a teacher who distributed pornographic material in her classroom. Also, the pro-life activist whose home was raided by the FBI is finally speaking out, and his story is quite harrowing. 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. All of that and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
00:00:00.120Today 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.
00:00:05.720It was a rare moment of honesty, and we can learn a lot from it.
00:00:08.500Meanwhile, 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.
00:00:17.120Also, the pro-life activist, whose home was raided by the FBI, is finally speaking out, and his story is quite harrowing.
00:00:22.920John Fetterman struggles to string together even one coherent sentence.
00:00:25.640And 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.
00:00:32.900All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:00.040The 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.
00:02:09.280These are teachers, the media says, who wanted nothing more than to increase diversity and representation in the classroom.
00:02:16.420They are pure-hearted educators with the most innocent of intentions.
00:02:20.420And now they've fallen victim to right-wing radicals, or so the story goes, anyway.
00:02:24.580But as usual, if you read just a little bit deeper into the details, a very different kind of story emerges.
00:02:31.500So let's start with the middle school teacher named Sarah Bonner, who has now quit teaching.
00:02:36.060She's been chased out of the teaching profession altogether because of a controversy that began back on March 13th of this year,
00:02:43.640when she decided to have what she calls a book-tasting.
00:02:48.060This was a book-tasting event for her students, who, again, are all middle schoolers.
00:03:48.260Her book, Tasting, featured the book called This Book is Gay, which is indeed an instruction manual.
00:03:55.500But it's not just an instruction manual for anyone who wants to come out, quote, unquote.
00:04:00.240It's an instruction manual on how to actually engage in gay sex.
00:04:04.980It describes and encourages and teaches many different kinds of homosexual acts.
00:04:12.260It is a how-to manual for the homosexual acts themselves.
00:04:16.540In fact, it's so graphic that I can't show you the pictures or provide more details.
00:04:23.840There's not a lot I can say to even describe what is in this book that was provided to middle schoolers.
00:04:30.280And that's one of the advantages that the degenerate groomers have in this conversation.
00:04:35.320It'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.
00:04:46.180And so then they, the groomers, can always say, oh, you're exaggerating.
00:04:51.540I 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.
00:04:57.020Now, this book is gay, provides a glossary, or as they put it, a cheat sheet at the end of the book.
00:05:03.280And one of the helpful terms that they mention and define in the glossary refers to, and I quote here, eating poop.
00:05:13.000So that's something that's covered in the book.
00:05:15.860If you're wondering just how sick and depraved and graphic this thing gets, well, I think that should give you a pretty good idea.
00:05:22.240And 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.
00:05:34.920Now, was it reasonable for the parents to file a police report in response?
00:05:43.380Exposing children to pornographic material is a crime, and that's what this book is.
00:05:49.240It doesn't suddenly become less of a crime just because the adult is a teacher.
00:05:54.420It 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.
00:05:59.340If anything, that only makes it worse, not better.
00:06:04.320And all you have to do is imagine this kind of scenario outside of a classroom,
00:06:08.760and you can clearly see that Bonner didn't just act inappropriately, but criminally.
00:06:13.720So 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.
00:06:26.160Okay, 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
00:06:33.000and wanted to talk to your kid about gay sex?
00:06:36.080Would you be a closed-minded, book-burning Nazi if you forcefully intervened and said,
00:06:45.000get the hell away from my child, you freak?
00:07:00.480You would be neglectful and weak if you didn't forcefully intervene.
00:07:06.920There is no difference between a strange adult broaching these subjects on the playground outside of the school or in a room inside the school.
00:07:29.760It 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.
00:07:37.800Quote, the difference is that I have that love and care for all students, not just a singular student, she adds.
00:07:42.940In 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.
00:07:50.660Okay, 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.
00:08:05.960I 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.
00:08:20.220That is not how you would feel about my children because they're not your children.
00:08:25.420So, no, we don't have this, oh, yeah, we both love your kid.
00:08:30.880No, 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.
00:08:40.980There 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.
00:08:55.640That's a kind of charitable love that we're all called to love people in general.
00:08:59.580It's not the same as the love that I have for my child as a parent.
00:09:14.000Which gives, which, which they think gives them the moral authority to, you know, do whatever they want.
00:09:20.100So, according to this groomer teacher, the only way to treat the, quote, unquote, LGBTQ plus community equally is to sexualize and groom children.
00:09:30.920Now, you notice something else, that there is no heterosexual person demanding this sort of thing on the other side, okay?
00:09:39.160We'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.
00:09:50.220LGBT activists claim that exposing children to pornographic content is the only way to ensure inclusion and equality.
00:09:57.380But inclusion in what, equal in what way?
00:10:02.320What we want is for all sexual instruction to be removed from the classroom completely.
00:10:09.980Kids do not go to government educational facilities to learn how to have sex.
00:10:14.180Or at least that's not why they should be there.
00:10:17.340Human reproduction should be covered in biology class at the appropriate age.
00:10:21.220But aside from that, um, none of this stuff should come up.
00:10:24.980As I've said before, I don't even want abstinence taught in the schools.
00:10:28.200I'm not advocating for an abstinence-only sex ed education because, now, that would certainly be much better.
00:10:34.300That'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.
00:10:41.860But 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.
00:10:51.620Okay, I don't want any of the how-tos.
00:10:53.200These are not appropriate or relevant conversations for adults to be having with rooms full of children.
00:11:02.620The 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.
00:11:40.820But 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.
00:11:55.980Now, 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.
00:12:03.080And she's certainly not the first teacher to employ this method, which is which is yet another reason to homeschool.
00:12:08.460OK, you'll be forgetting about the content of the films for a moment.
00:12:12.200You'll be shocked to discover that kids actually don't need six hours a day of classroom instruction.
00:12:19.600School only lasts that long because they fill half the schedule with busy work and movies and that kind of thing.
00:12:25.480But the teacher Jenna Barbie appeared on CNN yesterday to defend herself and make her case.
00:12:32.060And there's one moment towards the end of this clip that you should really pay attention to.
00:12:42.720Um, 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.
00:12:56.040Like they're trying to strip individuality and diversity to fit one common agenda.
00:13:31.040They assist teachers in opening a door for conversations that have no place in our classrooms.
00:13:37.920We had played that for the viewers in the introduction, but I just want to give you a chance to respond.
00:13:43.080Yeah, so that's what she's missing and what these parents are missing is they're not in the school system.
00:13:48.360That 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.
00:13:55.700These students have one to one devices.
00:13:57.200The 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.
00:14:07.280Those rights are gone when your child's in the public school system because there are students talking about these things.
00:14:12.740It's where they get 90 percent of their socialization for the day.
00:14:15.540And we can't shut down every conversation every child has.
00:14:22.220First, she says that kids are already talking about inappropriate things, so the teachers might as well join in.
00:14:28.200Now, she's, of course, ignoring the fact that the kids did not invent these concepts.
00:14:33.140They didn't come up with gender fluidity and transgenderism and whatever weird fetishes and proclivities teachers like Jenna want incorporated into the curriculum.
00:14:41.780The kids didn't come up with this stuff.
00:14:43.140These things and ideas were invented before the kids existed, and then they were introduced to the kids by adults.
00:14:53.040And if there's any particular kid who had a concept like transgenderism introduced to them by another kid, that certainly happens as well.
00:15:02.060I mean, eventually this comes from the adults who came up with this stuff.
00:15:05.320Essentially, Jenna is arguing that because the kids have already been sexually indoctrinated, she might as well continue sexually indoctrinating them.
00:15:15.680And 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.
00:15:27.020That, you know, the kids are in charge.
00:15:28.740They, as the teachers, follow the lead of the kids that they're supposed to be teaching.
00:15:33.680Now, I don't think that's what's actually happening here.
00:15:37.360The kids are ultimately following the lead of the school system, which is where many of these ideas are introduced.
00:15:42.140But even if she's right, it is not a great advertisement for the public school system.
00:15:47.180Even 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.
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00:30:16.700And 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.
00:30:28.520And the fact that they had to choose Mark Houck only goes to show how peaceful pro-lifers always are.
00:30:41.400Because from what the media tells us, you would think that there would be many examples of pro-lifers violating the face act.
00:30:47.700And, you know, running into the abortion clinics and causing a scene and all the rest of it.
00:30:52.800But the fact that they had to go for him, that this was the case, they had to try, I think shows you everything.
00:31:37.060That'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?
00:31:53.320So 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?
00:32:04.400Or should we just go on and start bailing and sailing whoever bank, regardless of how their conduct is?
00:32:22.120The Republicans want to give a work requirement for SNAP.
00:32:25.180You know, for a hungry family has to have these, this kind of penalties or these some kinds of working requirements.
00:32:35.400Shouldn't you have a working requirement after we sell your bank with billions of your bank?
00:32:39.240Because 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.
00:33:01.580Um, 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.
00:33:32.120Um, this is, there are many signs of the decline of Western civilization, but this is one of them.
00:33:40.960When 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?
00:33:51.860The fact that we know it makes all the difference.
00:33:54.360I 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.
00:34:05.240But in this case, it's like, we, it's out in the open.
00:34:31.720And 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.
00:34:42.340She thought that she'd been here the whole time voting on legislation.
00:34:47.200Um, and that's one that, you know, the, on the left, they're actually very upset about that.
00:34:51.920And 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.
00:34:58.740So, 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.
00:35:09.240But 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.
00:35:25.860Speaking 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.
00:35:35.520And this is kind of interesting because gender ideology, that's a, that's a term that I use all the time.
00:35:40.380It's a term that people on the right will use.
00:35:43.480Um, you know, you can kind of use it interchangeably with trans ideology, gender ideology, same kind of thing.
00:35:47.940Um, you don't, you don't normally hear anyone on the left use the term gender ideology, um, but Kamala Harris does.
00:35:57.780And let's listen to what she says about it.
00:35:59.640And most recently they even want to eliminate classes that teach quote gender ideology.
00:36:08.140Well, 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.
00:36:27.700Uh, so either she's incredibly stupid and doesn't understand what gender ideology is and what it refers to.
00:36:35.700And 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.
00:36:46.020But to clarify for the benefit of Kamala Harris, uh, no, that, that is not what gender ideology means.
00:36:53.320That is not what gender, gender ideology has nothing to do with that.
00:36:56.680Actually, 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.
00:37:12.200But it's because of gender ideology is what makes those conversations irrelevant.
00:37:20.400Because gender ideology erases the existence of women.
00:37:25.240It erases the distinction between men and women.
00:37:30.120So 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.
00:37:37.860I'm not sure if she needs it explained or not.
00:37:39.360Um, 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?
00:37:48.220And as I said, with Kamala Harris, it probably is very often kind of both.
00:37:53.860New York City police are seeking the public's help as it searches for a man suspected of defacing two LGBTQ pride flags.
00:38:00.720The 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.
00:38:15.800So 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.
00:38:23.580The 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.
00:38:38.500The flag itself is harassing the pride flag?
00:38:42.400While 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.
00:38:57.700So is that, are those additional pride flags that he was relieving himself on or are they, are we talking about the same ones?
00:40:01.120However, if you're Jordan Neely and, uh, rather than defacing pride flags, you're doing things that are a lot less serious.
00:40:05.880Like, 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.
00:40:14.240Well, then that's, uh, yeah, that's, those are all minor violations, of course.
00:40:19.380All right, let's get to the comment section.
00:40:20.880The one-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned is coming up.
00:40:37.880And since then, the left has completely lost their mind.
00:40:40.580Pro-life efforts, which are more important now than ever, ever are booming.
00:42:47.220Or we could be targeted and intentional and strategic about the companies we decide to, um, boycott.
00:42:57.980And I think the target is, should be, uh, considered very eligible for that spot,
00:43:03.460given 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.
00:43:12.580Colton says, whenever I try and do something for a holiday, my wife ends up disliking what I do anyways.
00:43:17.220So I just let her do it the way she wants.
00:43:19.780And, uh, so that way I'm not working on something that she'll just change to be her way anyway.
00:43:25.240That's why it's best to stick with physical gifts.
00:43:27.500You know, I think, um, that was, that was another question I had is daily cancellation.
00:43:31.620Yesterday 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.
00:43:40.760Um, 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?
00:43:50.320My wife would never, that's, that's, if I volunteered and I said, maybe Christmas is coming up.
00:43:57.440I said, let me plan, let me plan all the Christmas stuff this year.
00:44:23.160I 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.
00:44:37.680And 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.
00:44:53.460So 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.
00:45:10.060Um, and what I, I did hear this from, from, from some conservatives saying, well, you know what this, but this is good.
00:45:14.680This is not a woke thing, uh, because we don't want to objectify women.
00:45:18.240And this was like overly sexualized stuff in the first place.
00:45:21.620And we're supposed to be opposed to that.
00:45:30.440Because for one thing, they're framing this all.
00:45:32.940This is not, this is, this is not Miller Lite defending, you know, human dignity or something like that.
00:45:38.600This was all framed in this kind of you go girl feminist mentality that also doesn't make any sense.
00:45:45.920Like when the left does this, it doesn't make any sense.
00:45:48.920It's, it's incoherent and inconsistent because as I, as I said yesterday, uh, yeah, they have a problem with bikini.
00:45:54.660They don't like bikini models, uh, being involved in any kind of advertisements.
00:45:58.700They don't want that, but they'll be the first to say that only fans, women on only fans, that that's empowering.
00:46:07.140Quote, unquote, sex workers empowering.
00:46:09.100So it's a, um, it's inconsistent and it's incoherent.
00:46:16.520Um, 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.
00:46:26.060If we can agree with that, and that includes like pornography is bad.
00:46:30.340Women shouldn't be doing only fans, all the rest of it.
00:46:32.480If that's what we're all agreeing, then great.
00:46:34.060But, but I don't think we agree on that.
00:46:36.520And, uh, Melvigan says, my heart breaks for that poor husband whose wife put him on blast like that in front of the whole world.
00:47:49.000Yeah, 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.
00:47:55.220But, 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.
00:48:07.800But it didn't, it didn't originate there.
00:48:50.100It's about embracing masculinity and feeling like a real man.
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00:49:04.340Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:49:09.680Today for our daily cancellation, we have another viral TikTok video, which has garnered millions of views, thousands of comments, lots of discussion.
00:49:15.940It's the kind of video that on first blush, you might think that I would hate.
00:49:19.180And I sort of do, but it's not all bad.
00:49:22.220Here 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.
00:49:31.980And this message has, as you might expect, resonated quite a bit with her fellow Gen Zers on TikTok.
00:49:41.600A 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.
00:49:47.420So my mom works for a company that's just, like, huge.
00:49:50.200And she said something to me yesterday that makes a lot of sense in regards to why it's so hard to find a job.
00:49:55.180Or even to find a salary right now that would be livable as someone who's, like, fresh out of college.
00:49:59.320She 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.
00:50:07.520Then she says, yeah, when I first started, I made $36,000.
00:50:11.620And I was like, $36,000 today or $36,000 in 1980?
00:50:16.260So she made $36,000 starting off entry-level bank teller in 1980.
00:50:20.900Right now, out of college, I want to make $24 an hour.
00:50:24.020That would put me at $50,000 a year, which is equivalent to having a $16,500 salary in 1982.
00:52:53.620Boomers generally don't take this kind of criticism well, but that doesn't stop them from complaining bitterly about millennials and Gen Z.
00:53:02.140What they like to ignore, or maybe have somehow forgotten, is that millennials and Gen Z are their children and grandchildren.
00:53:25.680In fact, raised may be an overstatement.
00:53:27.800Many 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.
00:53:37.920Now, I'm speaking in generalizations, of course, but they are accurate generalizations.
00:53:42.960And anyway, millennials fall victim to generalizations all the time.
00:53:47.200So perhaps it's time for some other generations to get a dose of that medicine.
00:53:49.980I 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.
00:54:02.740And 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.
00:54:16.320You 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.
00:54:26.380Of course, the boomers no more created selfishness than did millennials or than did Gen Z.
00:54:31.380But they did create a culture that encourages and breeds this stuff.
00:54:37.200They created this culture by prioritizing material wealth and personal comfort and rapid gratification over everything, basically.
00:54:44.740They 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.
00:54:51.540If 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.
00:55:02.760A strong nuclear family is such a thing.
00:55:06.240But the boomers, who sent the divorce rates skyrocketing into the stars, largely failed to give their kids the necessary foundation of a nuclear family.
00:55:14.100And they certainly didn't invest their kids in the church or faith or spirituality.
00:55:19.320Entertainment and material possessions served as replacements for both of those things.
00:55:24.500But entertainment and material possessions are self-serving by design.
00:55:28.300They will not help a child come out of himself.
00:55:30.480They'll only send him spiraling deeper and deeper into the abyss of his own ego.
00:55:36.020Now, I have at this point strayed rather far from the point that the girl on TikTok was trying to make.
00:55:41.060But it's all related, and these are all valid points.
00:55:43.960But from there, she kind of goes somewhat off the rails.
00:56:08.620Literally just don't know what the f*** I'm going to do when I graduate.
00:56:11.360And any time I talk to my parents, both of which are boomers, they're like, stop having such high expectations.
00:56:17.300Also, I don't want to see any comments about, well, you should have majored in computer science, or you should have majored in medicine.
00:56:23.020I think that if you go to college, you deserve to be able to make enough to live comfortably.
00:56:27.220I think if you don't go to college, you should be able to make enough to live comfortably.
00:56:30.660Regardless your major, regardless if you chose to go to college or not, you deserve to live comfortably.
00:56:35.760So 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.
00:56:44.140Okay, we were doing so well, but then the Gen Z-itis kicked in and she started babbling about what she deserves.
00:56:51.280Now, I honestly don't know what a statement like, I deserve to live comfortably means.
00:56:56.780To deserve something is to earn it, it's to be worthy of it.
00:57:00.860Are we all worthy of a comfortable life?
00:57:03.040Have we earned it just by simply existing?
00:57:06.060And 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?
00:57:14.660You can cry all you want about what you think you deserve, but to quote Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven and also Snoop from The Wire,
00:57:20.840deserve ain't got nothing to do with it.
00:57:23.520Now, maybe we all deserve to skip through fields of daffodils while gumdrops fall from the sky,
00:57:28.480but that's not what life has presented us, okay?
00:57:37.200You can't manifest what you think you deserve just by talking about it and making demands to the universe.
00:57:45.400So 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,
00:58:47.500They decide to essentially drop out of the dating scene and give up on romantic relationships and marriage and family and everything.
00:58:53.280They retreat behind phones and screens.
00:58:55.340And this is just not the way to solve any of these problems.
00:58:59.080It'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.
00:59:08.040But 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.