Trans activists never saw this coming. Also, GOP donors are now trying to push Glenn Youngkin into the race to save the day. And Britney Spears was freed from her conservatorship thanks to the Internet mob. Now she s falling apart in front of our eyes.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, a major victory for Team Sanity this week as a judge upholds Tennessee's ban on child gender transitions.
00:00:06.860Trans activists never saw this coming. We'll talk about it.
00:00:09.680Also, GOP donors are now trying to push Glenn Youngkin into the race to save the day.
00:00:14.060I'll explain why that's a horrible idea.
00:00:16.160And Britney Spears was freed from her conservatorship thanks to the Internet mob.
00:00:19.500Now she's falling apart in front of our eyes. Good work, guys.
00:00:22.440In our daily cancellation, a woman explains her parenting strategy, which involves giving her child literally everything he wants all the time.
00:00:27.840We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:00.460Last night was a big night because it marked the single most crushing legal defeat that trans activists and corrupt civil liberties organizations and big law firms and big pharma have suffered in years.
00:02:11.980Less than 24 hours ago, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, issued a point-by-point refutation of every substantive argument that proponents of transgenderism have made over the past decade.
00:02:26.120And this was not a ruling on technicalities.
00:02:28.500This was a well-articulated takedown of their claims in every dimension, medical, legal, logical.
00:02:35.260And given the makeup of the Supreme Court right now, we can be pretty confident that this ruling is going to cause some major problems for trans activists for the indefinite future.
00:02:44.320It's hard to see the Supreme Court right now overturning this ruling.
00:02:47.920And the upshot is that the bans on child gender transitions in both Tennessee and Kentucky will stand.
00:02:54.900So both are immediately going into effect.
00:02:57.440You know, when our ban was passed in Tennessee, trans activists gloated that they would easily get it overturned in court.
00:03:06.800Now, in a moment, I'm going to get into specific details about this ruling and what exactly it says and the context for it.
00:03:12.380But one of the first takeaways is this, that no matter how often you're smeared as a bigot, no matter how often you're told to believe a lie and to just trust the experts, quote-unquote, you have to maintain your convictions.
00:03:22.980Like, if you know that what you're saying is true, then you stand by that.
00:03:26.960And if you do that, eventually you'll win.
00:03:29.600I mean, the truth really does prevail eventually.
00:03:32.940And in this case, the lives of millions of children are better off because of it.
00:03:36.680Now, you may remember that it was just about a year ago that we ran a series of video clips from Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee.
00:03:43.260And these clips showed that medical professionals at Vanderbilt were pushing experimental operations on young people, including children, who claim that they were transgender and born in the wrong body.
00:03:53.500And in one case that we uncovered, a physician at Vanderbilt admitted that operations like this were a big moneymaker for the hospital.
00:04:01.940And, in fact, she said that that was one of the ways that she convinced the hospital to get into this business is by pointing out how much money there was in it.
00:04:09.300And in this footage and many other clips and news reports along these lines were a big part of the reason that lawmakers in this state were spurred to take action.
00:04:17.460In March of this year, the state of Tennessee enacted a, quote, prohibition on medical procedures performed on minors related to sexual identity.
00:04:24.800And this law banned health care providers from administering or offering to administer any, quote, medical procedure to a minor for the purpose of either enabling a minor to identify with or live as a purported identity inconsistent with the minor sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor sex and asserted identity.
00:04:43.400Basically, this bans cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers, which is castration and sterilization of children.
00:04:50.200Among the procedures that were outlawed in Tennessee were operations that involved surgically removing, modifying, altering, or entering into tissues, cavities, or organs, and prescribing, administering, dispensing any puberty blocker or hormone.
00:05:04.980In fact, this was a total ban on what the media loves to call gender-affirming care for minors, which is really a form of castration and mutilation and sterilization.
00:05:16.020Shortly after this bill was signed into law in Tennessee, a judge by the name of Eli Richardson, who, by the way, was appointed by Donald Trump, blocked the law.
00:05:24.900And Richardson held that the voters of Tennessee don't have a right to overrule the medical experts who say that minors need cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.
00:05:34.480There is a constitutional right, Richardson ruled, for parents to dictate the medical treatment of children, as long as major medical associations concurred that the treatment is necessary.
00:05:44.940Which means that, according to him, there is effectively a constitutional right that parents have to castrate and sterilize their children.
00:05:53.340This is very confusing because you might go and look at the Constitution and try to find that right, or anything that resembles it, located in that document, and you won't find it.
00:06:02.020It was a, to put it mildly, bizarre decision, and I outlined this on Twitter at the time, there were a lot of obvious holes in Richardson's ruling.
00:06:12.400He cited cases that didn't support his argument, for example, and he put a lot of faith in activist doctors and quacks, like the ghouls working at WPATH, who constantly changed their minds about these so-called standards of care of trans patients.
00:06:25.020And they're constantly expanding those standards of care, so that they can include more and more people and get more and more people sterilized and castrated.
00:06:33.740But the end result was that Richardson issued an injunction against the state of Tennessee.
00:06:38.980He prevented the law prohibiting childhood castration from going into effect, even though this law was passed by democratically elected politicians.
00:06:49.560But within days, in an extraordinary move, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals put out a preliminary opinion that rejected Richardson's opinion and overturned his injunction.
00:07:00.600The Sixth Circuit allowed the Tennessee law to go into effect and promised to issue a final ruling on the injunction by September.
00:07:09.120And that ruling is everything that parents and anyone else who actually cares about children could have possibly hoped for.
00:07:17.580I mean, it goes far beyond the tepid, wishy-washy, kind of down-the-middle approach that we so often see in so many courts related to this issue.
00:07:26.460For one thing, the court completely rejects the argument from the ACLU and trans activists that, quote-unquote, experts and medical associations and big pharma should be able to just unilaterally overrule the will of the people.
00:07:42.380And you hear this argument all the time from these people.
00:07:45.540They tell you that you have to ignore common sense and ignore all that, ignore your own rights as a parent, and celebrate the butchery of children because the experts know best.
00:07:55.740And if the experts say that this is what you're supposed to do, then just do it.
00:08:01.580But last night, the appellate court ruled that if a majority of voters in Tennessee or any state think that kids shouldn't be castrated, then their judgment is what matters.
00:08:12.900That's supposed to be the whole point of living in a democracy, after all.
00:08:16.900Quoting from the decision, it says, quote,
00:08:18.280As long as it acts reasonably, a state may ban even longstanding and non-experimental treatments for children.
00:08:23.960In other words, unless voters are doing something that's clearly going to kill children, then they get to override these so-called experts.
00:08:34.120They noted that the experts, you know, as far as that goes, haven't even come close to proving that these gender-affirming treatments, quote-unquote, do anything productive.
00:09:05.240Now, the court was especially harsh on the quacks at WPATH, which is the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
00:09:30.820This is the group that creates the, quote-unquote, standards of care for trans-identifying patients.
00:09:36.740And then pretty much every major hospital just takes that as gospel.
00:09:41.300Whatever WPATH says, it goes, as far as the hospitals are concerned.
00:09:46.000The court noted that WPATH first said that puberty blockers and hormones should be used on children about a decade ago.
00:09:53.020But before that, the court noted, quote, its guidance documents from 1979 to 2000 generally disfavored using puberty blockers or hormones for minors.
00:10:02.740And only in 2012 did it abandon age limits for cross-sex hormones.
00:10:07.140And even now, the court observed WPATH concedes that data on long-term consequences of these hormones are limited.
00:10:13.940Which is an understatement, but even WPATH admits that the data supporting these procedures is limited.
00:10:21.660And yet they turn around and say, well, you know, we don't have a lot of data saying that this is okay to do, but do it anyway.
00:11:24.820A person who is transgender is someone whose internal sense of their gender, being a boy, girl, or something else, doesn't match their physical body.
00:11:36.380People who feel this way sometimes feel anxious when they begin to reach puberty and their body starts to change in ways that don't match their internal sense of their gender.
00:11:47.380If you feel you want more time to explore how you feel about your gender before your body starts to change, it's important to talk with a parent, counselor, therapist, or doctor about the feelings you have regarding your gender.
00:12:00.640After some discussion and counseling, you may be referred to an endocrinologist.
00:12:05.680Endocrinologists specialize in hormones, and they are the most likely to prescribe puberty blockers for someone who wants them.
00:12:12.200Puberty blockers are medications that will stop your body from changing.
00:12:15.640They are usually given as an injection or an implant.
00:12:19.360They block the production of hormones to stop or delay the physical changes of puberty.
00:12:24.280The effects of the medication are only temporary, so if a person stops using puberty blockers, the physical changes of puberty will begin again.
00:12:33.440So typical trans propaganda there, which is to say deceptive and absurdly misleading.
00:12:38.140There's no discussion in that clip of the potential harms that puberty blockers might cause.
00:12:44.120That, I mean, in fact, not even might.
00:12:47.180I mean, what the puberty blockers are doing to the body in the first place is disrupting.
00:12:51.840They are intended to disrupt the natural processes of the body, which you might define as harm already.
00:13:00.560So, like, by definition, they're doing harm.
00:13:02.800And those harms are immense and widespread.
00:13:05.520And among the harms is the psychological damage that they can cause.
00:13:10.900There's also the psychological damage.
00:13:12.840And the psychological damage is really important to point out because the whole point of the puberty blocker supposedly is to mitigate psychological harm.
00:13:23.640Now, data on this point about psychological harm has been out there for more than a decade, but scientists and researchers have not disclosed it.
00:13:31.440Back in 2011, researchers in Britain published a highly influential study claiming that, quote, overall patient experience of changes on puberty blocker treatment was positive.
00:13:41.380We identified no changes in psychological function.
00:13:45.700Now, those findings and similar reports became gospel among trans activists.
00:13:49.740In fact, when they go around and they say that it's all good, but, you know, it helps all the kids and there's no problem with puberty blockers.
00:13:59.740If they're getting it from anywhere other than their imagination, they're probably getting it from this study.
00:14:04.220The idea was that, on average, puberty blockers either help kids or at least don't harm them.
00:14:10.420No peer-reviewed paper was allowed to contest those findings or the data they referenced.
00:14:14.820But a couple of weeks ago, a retired scientist by the name of Susan McPherson decided to circle back around and double-check that data from that study.
00:14:24.380And she uploaded her research to a pre-print website, which doesn't require peer review and therefore isn't censored.
00:14:30.160So she was able to just show everybody what her findings were.
00:14:34.240McPherson found that the original research from the UK was highly misleading.
00:14:37.960Specifically, McPherson determined the research methodology obscured the fact that the mental health of many children on puberty blockers had deteriorated in just 12 months.
00:14:48.980By relying on group averages instead of individual data, the researchers in the UK had managed to hide this fact.
00:14:54.220They hide the fact that although they're claiming that it worked out great for everybody, in fact, for a lot of these kids, they suffered psychological damage.
00:15:04.460Essentially, McPherson estimated that in reality, this number of children who suffered adverse mental health responses to puberty blockers could have been as high as one-third of children who were on those blockers.
00:15:16.260And of course, that number would have likely grown if the researchers had continued monitoring these children past one year.
00:15:23.080Already, that's enough reason to basically discount the findings.
00:15:27.140Because when we're doing something to a child, that's going to have drastic effects to their body and their mind and their mental health and their emotional effects.
00:15:38.000What we want to know is what are the long-term?
00:15:41.460Let's check back in with those kids five years from now, seven years from now, ten years from now.
00:15:59.200A third of children on these puberty blockers suffered deteriorating mental health in the first year.
00:16:05.300A failure rate of over 30% in the first year is astonishingly high for a medical procedure.
00:16:12.800And it doesn't even tell anything close to the whole story.
00:16:17.480But again, the whole point of drugging the kids in the first place and altering the natural development of their bodies is allegedly to improve their mental health.
00:16:27.280This is supposedly the reason doctors are reducing the bone density of young children, giving many of them early-onset osteoporosis.
00:16:48.400They chose to use a method of data analysis which allowed them to simply claim that, overall, the treatments were helpful.
00:16:54.340This proves, once again, that there's no data that actually justifies giving children puberty blockers, much less cross-sex hormones, or administering surgeries.
00:17:02.420It also proves that doctors and, quote-unquote, experts have been lying about the data.
00:17:06.600Thanks to the Sixth Circuit's ruling, these experts can say whatever they want.
00:17:14.220None of their half-baked studies provide any legal justification to overturn the will of the voters as the court ruled.
00:17:20.340And if they had just stopped there, that would have been a major win for children already.
00:17:24.820But the appellate court didn't simply reject the bunk science behind puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
00:17:30.020They also went after other common arguments from trans activists, including this idea that they're a marginalized group that deserves special legal protections.
00:17:38.840Here's how the court responded to that claim.
00:17:40.500So this is them going beyond where they really had to go, but this is fantastic.
00:17:43.660Quote, the President of the United States and the Department of Justice support the plaintiffs.
00:17:48.080The major medical organizations support the plaintiffs.
00:17:50.520And the only large law firms to make an appearance in the case all enter the controversy in support of the plaintiffs.
00:17:56.020These are not the hallmarks of a skewed or unfair political process.
00:17:59.840In other words, when every lawyer, medical organization, and government agency is on your side, you are not marginalized.
00:18:06.600This is an obvious point to make, but as far as we can tell, this is the first time that any appeals court in this country has made it.
00:18:12.520Trans activists and politicians get a lot of mileage out of their false claims of victimhood while they're busy punching everybody else in the face.
00:18:21.200And they've been using that tactic in court also, and it's been very effective.
00:18:27.980For good measure, the Sixth Circuit went on to reject the argument from trans activists that we should always defer to what parents want.
00:18:34.020I mean, you often hear trans activists and many Democrats trot this line out.
00:18:37.400Half the time, they're saying that kids should be able to hide their alleged sexuality and gender identity from their parents because the parents don't matter.
00:18:46.160And the other half of the time, they're saying that parents know best and we should always just defer to their judgment, even if they want to castrate their kids.
00:18:53.320Well, here's how the court responded to that latter argument.
00:20:02.680But what happened last night is the clearest sign yet that they're not going to win ultimately.
00:20:06.900Last night, Americans who believe in self-representation and in the well-being of children prevailed over demagogues pushing oligarchy and child butchery.
00:20:18.260This is a win that trans activists didn't see coming.
00:20:20.380It's a win that many on the right didn't see coming.
00:20:23.560And I think many more victories like it are on the way.
00:20:26.600As the court noted in its decision last night, 19 states have passed similar laws.
00:20:30.660What we need now is for appellate courts in those states to uphold all those laws.
00:20:34.200And if they don't, then we need to take it to the Supreme Court.
00:20:37.980The Sixth Circuit's ruling is a clear sign, maybe the best sign yet, that our work is paying off.
00:20:45.180And all that's left to do is take this work to its conclusion and ban this barbarism nationwide.
00:21:43.320Some of the biggest Republican donors in the country will converge next month at the historic Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach for a two-day meeting to rally behind Governor Glenn Youngkin.
00:21:51.720The closed gathering, named the Red Vest Retreat after the Fleece-Youngkin War during his 2021 campaign, will begin October 17th and be focused officially on the Republican effort to win full control of the General Assembly in Virginia's upcoming elections.
00:22:04.100But unofficially, several donors say it will be an opportunity for them to try to push, if not shove, Youngkin into the Republican presidential race.
00:22:12.260Others say they'll be busy prodding Youngkin and his allies in phone calls from afar.
00:22:18.380Thomas Peturphy says, quote, he appears to be leaving the door open.
00:22:22.640This is a billionaire who's already given millions of dollars to Youngkin's PAC.
00:22:26.280So it continues, and if Republicans win in Virginia, maybe we can talk him into it.
00:22:30.500He obviously wants to see what emerges, what the state of play is.
00:22:33.540And then other donors have said that these big billionaire donors have said they want to push Youngkin's.
00:22:40.420We've heard rumors about Youngkin getting into the race for a while now, and now the rumors are heating up.
00:22:46.540And I have to say this is a terrible idea.
00:22:49.800To put Glenn Youngkin, for Glenn Youngkin to enter the race is a terrible idea.
00:24:26.260You would think that, you would think, if you didn't know any better, if you're very naive, you would think that billionaire political donors would have some political insight, would understand these basic things.
00:24:41.640At least would understand them better than I do.
00:24:54.520Who are the Trump supporters at this point who don't like any of the 50 other options that are currently available to them, including Ron DeSantis, but would abandon Trump for Glenn Youngkin?
00:25:15.200I mean, you would think, looking at the other options, you would think that anyone who is willing to abandon Trump either already has, or maybe if they can be persuaded in the future, they can be persuaded by someone else in the race, namely Ron DeSantis.
00:25:31.560It's like, it's hard to imagine significant support that has not peeled off already, peeling off for Glenn Youngkin.
00:25:40.740So does he take the support from everybody else?
00:25:44.500Well, even if he does, I mean, even if he jumped into the race and he took all of the support from Ramaswamy, Haley, Penn, Scott, Christie, the guys that no one's ever heard of.
00:25:54.980If he came in and all of them dropped to zero, because all of them went to Youngkin, that still puts him at what, like 20%?
00:26:05.660The math isn't there, especially with DeSantis in the race.
00:26:18.580Look, the reality, we can all see the reality in front of our face here that as long as Trump is massively ahead, of course, his chances of becoming the nominee are very, very high.
00:26:34.700The only chance of that possibly changing is not if more people get into the race, but if people start getting out.
00:26:51.840We had a whole bunch of people in the race.
00:26:53.840You know, you had 19 candidates, something crazy.
00:26:56.420And almost all of them claimed that, you know, Donald Trump should not be the guy.
00:27:00.780Yet they all stayed into the race to the very bitter end so that the non-Trump vote could never, never had a chance to coalesce around any one particular person.
00:27:09.680It was just broken up into all these little pieces.
00:27:12.440So the only chance of Trump not being the nominee, the only chance, and even then it's a relatively small chance, but the only chance is if almost all of these people drop out.
00:27:23.660Well, really all of them but DeSantis because he's the only viable candidate who's not Trump.
00:27:53.380And same for Yonkin, if Yonkin gets in there.
00:27:56.960Okay, moving from politics to pop culture.
00:27:59.980Britney Spears went viral this week for all the wrong reasons, which is the only reason that she ever goes viral anymore these days.
00:28:06.820And of course, she's always, you know, she's always on Instagram posting videos of herself, dancing half naked or fully naked, rambling incoherently.
00:28:14.060Just coming off like a very disturbed person, she recently got divorced from her husband after 12 seconds, and he claimed that she abused him.
00:28:23.120I don't know if that's true or not, but we do know that she, it was definitely not the first time that somebody close to her said that she is volatile and dangerous.
00:28:30.460This has been what most of the people close to her have been saying for a long time.
00:28:34.580Anyway, the video this week that went viral was her dancing with butcher knives, and she claims that the knives were fake.
00:29:56.060And it's even sadder because we're watching this woman fall apart in front of us.
00:30:01.220And it just seems very likely that in the not too distant future, she's going to do something drastic and really hurt herself or worse.
00:30:08.520And it's like we all, it's a slow motion train wreck and we all know that's going to happen.
00:30:13.800I think we all kind of understand she's what, in her early 40s now, the chance that she, that Britney Spears turns 50 seems to be pretty low.
00:30:34.040And I said back during the whole Free Britney movement, you may recall, and I got a lot of flack for it, a lot of flack.
00:30:42.240But I said at the time, when everybody was demanding that Britney Spears be freed from her conservatorship, and why were they demanding it?
00:30:47.900It's because they saw some documentary on FX or whatever, and most of them didn't even see the documentary.
00:30:52.900They just, they just, other people saw it.
00:30:54.540And then it was trending on Twitter, hashtag Free Britney.
00:30:57.780And so, a bunch of people jumped on the bandwagon.
00:31:00.780And I said at the time, okay, people don't get conservatorships placed on them for no reason.
00:31:26.060But we can use our heads and we can figure out that you don't lose legal rights to make decisions over your own life for no reason.
00:31:38.340Now, of course, everyone claimed that it was a conspiracy by the people who wanted Britney's money.
00:31:42.680Britney, okay, well, once again, use your head.
00:31:47.740There are a lot of rich celebrities out there.
00:31:52.140There's a lot of rich female celebrities out there who probably have people in their lives who covet their wealth, and yet they're not under conservatorships.
00:32:04.680Could it be because Britney very publicly had a mental breakdown and repeatedly revealed herself to be a danger to herself and those around her, including her children?
00:32:18.240Britney, a wealthy, famous woman, lost custody and lost visitation rights.
00:32:24.720She lost visitation rights and custody over her kids in a court in Los Angeles.
00:32:32.280Do you understand how difficult that is to do?
00:32:37.860You're a woman, you're in Los Angeles, and you're rich and famous, and you lose total custody over your kids and you can't even visit them?
00:32:48.840Do you know how hard it is for a woman to pull that off, even if they're not rich and famous, even if they're not in a Los Angeles court?
00:34:50.220And whether the subject is Britney Spears or anybody else, when you jump on into an internet mob without thinking straight, you know, that's, it's not just, I know people like to say, oh, Twitter, it's not the real world.
00:35:39.780If she's incompetent and she's a danger to herself and others, then that doesn't become less the case or less relevant just because there's a reason why she ended up that way.
00:35:48.620Like, guess what, every, every bad person, every deranged person, every dangerous person, every crazy person, every incompetent person has a reason why they turned out that way.
00:35:59.500You take anyone who falls into any of those categories and you can be pretty sure that their childhood probably wasn't great.
00:36:04.440Like, there's probably stuff that happened to them, you know, in the past that was pretty bad.
00:36:08.900But that doesn't change the reality of the current situation.
00:36:12.980And also, I have to say that if a man is judged to be a danger to his own kids, if he barricades himself in his house with them, has a standoff and all of that, nobody is going to be saying that we should be sympathetic because of how he was raised.
00:36:30.500Like, men lose custody in court all the time.
00:36:32.700They lose custody of their children all the time.
00:36:35.120It's a lot easier to do if you're a man.
00:36:37.160And in many cases, they lose custody for bad reasons, for illegitimate reasons.
00:36:41.440Sometimes they lose custody for good reasons.
00:36:45.420But you rarely hear anyone giving a damn one way or another about their upbringing.
00:36:50.900So it doesn't usually work that way, including also with plenty of dysfunctional, you know, celebrities out there who are, whatever, going out and being self-destructive and all that.
00:37:02.660Usually, if it's a male celebrity, nobody says, well, think about how they were raised.
00:37:07.800Everyone says, like, this person's a lunatic.
00:37:09.820So although the narrative is trying to make Britney Spears into some sort of victim of the patriarchy, it's actually completely the opposite.
00:37:17.700You know, if everything's exactly the same with Britney Spears, but she's a man, no one cares.
00:37:22.360There's none of the free Britney movement.
00:37:27.220Everyone just assumes that she or he, in that case, you know, is crazy, and that would be the end of it.
00:37:34.900So the only reason that Britney was freed is because she's a woman, which ultimately, when she winds up dead, and the chances of that, again, are very high, that's what taking down the patriarchy gets you, I suppose.
00:37:47.760All right, one other thing that I think is very, very important that we have to talk about is that Disney just dropped a trailer for a new film.
00:38:00.440And this is funny to me because they hope that it'll be their next big hit, which would be their first big hit in a while.
00:38:39.920And one of the things that the studio is excited about and the people behind the film, you know, they talked about in interviews, is that this movie will see the return of the classic Disney villain.
00:38:50.000So this is not what we see recently in Disney movies.
00:38:52.280This is not a tragic villain or an unintentional villain like in whatever Frozen or something.
00:38:56.680This is like a classic Disney villain, just an evil person who's evil for the sake of it, like in the old days.
00:39:03.720Straightforward bad guy who is voiced by Chris Pine.
00:39:06.580Because, of course, you already know that if Disney is putting an actual villain in a movie, it has to be a white guy.
00:39:12.840It's the most predictable result ever.
00:39:17.680When you hear that Disney's got a real classic villain in there, oh, it's a white guy.
00:51:29.800You could find out actually what they think if you just put them in an environment where they have to speak for more than a minute at a time.
00:51:39.840And 15 seconds, I meant to remark on that in that clip we played yesterday where Haley goes after Vivek Ramaswamy
00:51:48.900and goes after him on the issue of TikTok and the fact that originally Ramaswamy said he wanted to ban TikTok.
00:52:44.080I know we live in the soundbite culture.
00:52:48.540But you can't say anything worthwhile in 15 seconds.
00:52:51.180You can't even say anything worthwhile in a minute.
00:52:53.960Especially on, you know, it's one thing if we're looking at, if this is an ESPN panel of football analysts talking about the games last weekend.
00:53:03.500And, okay, yeah, you should be able to say everything that needs to be said in 30 seconds, 30, 45 seconds.
00:53:08.540We're talking about real substantive issues.
00:53:13.860You need to give someone, I don't know, 10 minutes to lay out their whole, you know, to lay out their perspective and defend their point of view.
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00:54:30.280That parenting is harder today than it ever was in the whole history of the human species.
00:54:35.040And I don't think that that statement is hyperbole.
00:54:37.460Now, granted, life is easier today in a number of very important ways.
00:54:40.420If I was parenting six kids in the 1700s, for instance, the chance that all of them would make it to adulthood would be pretty slim.
00:54:47.200So for that extremely significant reason alone, I am happy to be living today rather than back then.
00:54:52.820But when it comes to the actual act of parenting, of trying to raise your children to be competent, well-adjusted, decent, functional, virtuous human beings in the world,
00:55:02.800we parents in the modern age have to navigate around certain enormous obstacles that did not exist until very recently.
00:55:09.260The biggest challenge is that while we're raising our children, civilization is decaying all around us.
00:55:14.060We live in a decadent, depraved, morally insane culture, one that actively wants to steal our kids' minds and souls and turn them into hollowed-out husks of human beings.
00:55:24.440Now, of course, people have lived and parented in degenerate societies before.
00:55:28.440This, unfortunately, is a common experience in the history of human civilization.
00:55:32.200The difference now is that it's nearly impossible to escape the degeneracy.
00:55:37.480And homes today are filled with devices that become access points, places where our debased culture can reach in and grab a child and make him its prisoner.
00:55:49.240A child can be lost to the culture before he graduates elementary school.
00:55:55.420And he doesn't even need to leave his house.
00:55:58.720And when I say lost to the culture, I mean lost in ways previously unheard of.
00:56:02.680His entire sense of his own identity, his grasp on reality itself, may be destroyed.