The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1270 - Elon Musk Tells Our Corporate Overlords To F Themselves

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00:01:52.460 By now, you've probably seen footage of Elon Musk's remarks at the New York Times Deal Book Summit last night.

00:01:58.120 This is an annual summit that brings together business leaders, and several of them are interviewed on stage.

00:02:03.540 Now, normally, it's not very newsworthy.

00:02:05.640 Certainly not anything that I would pay attention to, or you would probably pay attention to.

00:02:08.540 Anytime you gather together a bunch of corporate CEOs and business owners, you typically get a lot of carefully choreographed language.

00:02:16.200 It's all very brand safe by design.

00:02:18.980 Nothing interesting is happening.

00:02:21.020 It's sort of designed so that nothing interesting will happen.

00:02:24.220 But this year's Deal Book Summit was unique mainly because of this one moment.

00:02:29.920 It came during Elon Musk's interview with CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin.

00:02:34.780 And Sorkin began by asking Musk about the ongoing advertiser boycott of X, formerly known as Twitter,

00:02:43.140 and whether Musk is desperate to win those advertisers back.

00:02:47.600 And he was certainly expecting to hear some kind of response about what Musk is going to do to get those advertisers to come back.

00:02:54.780 But instead, here's what Musk said in response.

00:02:57.880 And you're clarifying this now, but there's a public perception that that was part of an apology tour, if you will.

00:03:07.260 That this had been said online, there was all of the criticism, there was advertisers leaving.

00:03:12.380 We talked to Bob Iger today.

00:03:13.460 I hope they stop.

00:03:14.720 You hope?

00:03:15.560 Don't advertise.

00:03:17.180 You don't want them to advertise?

00:03:18.340 No.

00:03:19.340 What do you mean? 1.00

00:03:19.780 If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go f*** yourself. 1.00

00:03:30.920 But go f*** yourself. 1.00

00:03:35.580 Is that clear? 1.00

00:03:37.460 I hope it is.

00:03:39.500 Hey, Bob, if you're in the audience.

00:03:42.060 Well, let me ask you then.

00:03:45.060 That's how I feel.

00:03:46.900 Don't advertise.

00:03:47.640 Now, there's more to that clip, which we'll play in a little bit. 0.97

00:03:51.880 But for now, what you just heard is Elon Musk telling the CEO of Disney and many other CEOs, in no uncertain terms, to go f*** themselves.

00:04:00.580 And as far as Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, goes, this is the head of one of the most powerful entertainment companies on the planet.

00:04:08.100 And Bob Iger was apparently in the audience when Musk said that, which is awesome.

00:04:12.160 But Musk wasn't just talking to him, of course.

00:04:14.800 He was delivering the same message to every other corporate advertiser that has suspended advertising on X as a way to force him to restore the old censorship regime of Twitter.

00:04:24.960 And as of now, the list of advertisers boycotting the platform includes more than 100 companies, including some of the largest corporations on the planet. 0.53

00:04:32.320 And Musk was telling all of these corporations, which are now clearly trying to destroy him for political reasons, to go to hell.

00:04:40.840 Now, it goes without saying that nothing like this has really happened before, especially not at a summit like that.

00:04:46.960 And that's why Andrew Ross Sorkin, the journalist on stage with him, was completely shell-shocked.

00:04:52.700 He could barely get a word out.

00:04:54.400 In the business world, what Musk did is, like, unthinkable.

00:04:57.560 The owners of major corporations aren't exactly known for standing on principle, even when that principle could destroy the business model of their entire company.

00:05:05.880 It doesn't happen very often.

00:05:07.960 That's what Elon Musk did.

00:05:09.780 And also, mainstream journalists like Sorkin certainly cannot conceive of anyone actually standing up to corporations like Disney,

00:05:16.640 because these are all subservient, masochistic little weaklings who bow to our corporate overlords every day.

00:05:23.720 And they are shocked to see anybody do otherwise.

00:05:26.600 At the same time, what was even more interesting than Musk's remarks and what ultimately proved his point

00:05:31.840 was how the corporate news media responded to what Musk said.

00:05:36.820 They were universally outraged.

00:05:39.540 They didn't even try to hide their disdain, even though Musk was not addressing them specifically.

00:05:45.500 But they were offended on behalf of all the corporate advertisers, the dear, poor corporate advertisers that were just insulted in this way.

00:05:53.440 Now, it's kind of odd when you think about it, or at least it should be odd.

00:05:56.840 After all, these media outlets claim to be interested in reporting the news.

00:06:00.120 They claim that they're not simply vessels for corporate messaging.

00:06:04.000 That's what they claim.

00:06:05.640 But last night, they couldn't help themselves.

00:06:07.860 One after another, these outlets unloaded on Elon Musk in the most disparaging possible terms.

00:06:13.040 It was clearly personal for them.

00:06:15.780 Watch.

00:06:16.840 Just moments ago tonight, Elon Musk in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times Dealbook Summit,

00:06:21.780 saying this to advertisers who've left X over his endorsement of anti-Semitic content. 1.00

00:06:26.860 If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go f**k yourself. 1.00

00:06:37.440 But go f**k yourself. 1.00

00:06:42.100 Is that clear? 1.00

00:06:43.940 I hope it is.

00:06:46.440 Seems pretty clear.

00:06:47.500 Out front now, Dana Hall, Bloomberg senior reporter who covers Elon Musk.

00:06:50.960 So, Dana, the New York Times reporting that this anti-Semitic post could possibly cost X up to $75 million in lost ad revenue this year.

00:07:00.740 Meantime, Musk is warning that the advertising boycott could kill the company.

00:07:03.640 He's not happy about it.

00:07:04.900 It's fascinating for him to say that, of course, based on why the boycott happened.

00:07:09.820 Now, a number of advertisers have fled Twitter recently.

00:07:12.860 Not just Disney, but also Paramount, NBCUniversal, Comcast, Lionsgate, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a host of others.

00:07:21.040 Nobody wants to be around this toxic landscape at the moment.

00:07:24.100 And now you have Musk stepping up with this.

00:07:27.240 It's just a phenomenal thing for him to say, considering that advertising represents the bulk of Twitter's revenue still.

00:07:34.380 Moreover, Musk's plan is to move away from all of that revenue and try and get into more of a subscription model

00:07:40.500 in which he'd have an everything app.

00:07:42.940 Yeah, like people are going to trust him now.

00:07:44.640 And moreover, people would pay regular fees for different services.

00:07:48.540 Yeah, like people are going to give him their credit card numbers at this point.

00:07:51.720 You've got to wonder what he was thinking.

00:07:53.760 Caleb Silver, and this is so interesting because this is one of the first times that Musk has very directly taken on this issue

00:08:00.020 that has built and built over the last several weeks about these advertisers, these big companies,

00:08:05.000 these big corporations saying, wait a second, I don't want my content next to this anti-Semitic stuff

00:08:11.360 that Musk has allowed to be on the platform.

00:08:14.280 Yeah, and if you listen to the entire quote from that deal book interview, he said that several times.

00:08:19.980 Go after yourself several times.

00:08:21.180 And then he said, hi, Bob.

00:08:22.660 We can only assume he was talking to Bob Iger.

00:08:24.780 Bob Iger, head of Disney.

00:08:26.200 The head of Disney, which was one of the big advertisers that pulled.

00:08:28.740 But you mentioned other advertisers.

00:08:30.000 We're talking about some of the biggest advertisers out there, including Comcast, the parent company of this network,

00:08:34.880 Warner Brothers, Apple, Coca-Cola, others have pulled their ads.

00:08:38.560 And he also said in that interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin, I wish they would stop.

00:08:42.420 I wish they would stop advertising.

00:08:44.500 And then he dropped the F-bomb.

00:08:45.820 So clearly putting his finger in the eye of the people that pay the bills to run X,

00:08:50.160 which is an advertising delivery mechanism or was until he bought it.

00:08:54.040 And now we don't know really what he's trying to do with it.

00:08:56.220 At the end of the clip, there's a disclosure that Elon Musk was calling out Comcast at the deal book summit.

00:09:03.160 And Comcast, incidentally, is the parent company of NBCUniversal.

00:09:07.240 And then NBC News just so happens to accuse Elon Musk of hating Jewish people.

00:09:11.880 And then there's the deranged segment from KTLA in Los Angeles, the flagship station of the CW television network, 0.97

00:09:18.240 in which the analyst explains that no one will ever trust Elon Musk ever again because he's such a horrible person.

00:09:24.480 He's created a toxic landscape.

00:09:27.640 They even suggest that Musk is going to try and steal customers' credit card numbers because he told off Bob Iger.

00:09:33.780 So not just attacking him for what he said, they're saying preemptively that if he pivots X to a subscription model,

00:09:40.640 that you shouldn't trust him because he's going to rip you off.

00:09:44.340 And this kind of demented coverage has been relentless.

00:09:47.180 It's been coming from every single corporate media outlet.

00:09:50.000 Fox News accused Musk of anti-Semitism last week, for example.

00:09:53.540 Just a couple days ago, ABC News ran a segment in which the anchor and panelists took turns trashing Elon Musk and the platform.

00:10:01.480 And the segment ended with ABC News urging the White House, as well as everyone in the ABC News audience, to abandon the platform.

00:10:08.820 They could not have been more explicit about their activism.

00:10:12.480 Watch.

00:10:12.720 Now, Musk facing some backlash here after he called a post on X repeating a common conspiracy theory about Jewish people.

00:10:21.580 Musk called it the actual truth.

00:10:23.820 And then that post prompted some major advertisers to pause their ads on X.

00:10:29.360 And also today, the mayor of Paris deciding to quit the platform, which she called a gigantic global sewer.

00:10:37.340 So, let's bring back our panel.

00:10:39.360 Yes, you have freedom of speech, but there are consequences for your freedom of speech when your freedom of speech causes harm.

00:10:44.960 And what we saw was that today, when he landed, he said a quote on X where he says, quote, action speaks louder than words.

00:10:53.040 For me, this is just a crisis management stunt, crisis management 101.

00:10:57.320 One, we can see clearly the reason why that he's doing it is to really short about advertisers.

00:11:01.900 If action speaks louder than words, I would actually challenge Elon Musk to really reevaluate and to bring back the content moderation department in full on X.

00:11:12.380 And by the way, we've asked the White House, we've asked the White House if they get rid of their X accounts, like the official accounts.

00:11:18.780 And they said nothing to announce.

00:11:20.160 But on that same day, the president did launch a Threads account.

00:11:23.060 So, you know, it's always worth asking the questions, I guess.

00:11:25.180 I was going to add, this is something the everyday person is just doing themselves.

00:11:31.080 They don't need a coordinated attack to go through corporate America to boycott.

00:11:34.340 If you're upset about what Elon Musk is doing, just get off of X.

00:11:40.120 Right, you take a little personal responsibility.

00:11:42.660 You have your own power, right?

00:11:44.580 Now, what's extraordinary about that clip beyond what you just saw is what they didn't talk about.

00:11:49.440 And if you watch all seven minutes of the full segment, at no point did ABC News disclose that the parent company of ABC News is the Walt Disney Company.

00:11:58.360 Somehow they didn't mention that their boss, Bob Iger, had suspended his company's ads on Twitter.

00:12:03.700 The conflict of interest that's really evident there never came up somehow.

00:12:08.120 They were too busy telling you to abandon Twitter at all costs because it's a quote-unquote sewer.

00:12:12.880 And for good measure, they're begging the White House to do the same.

00:12:15.400 Now, it goes without saying that ABC News never once mentions what Media Matters did in order to smear X as a, quote, sewer.

00:12:22.800 They don't talk about Musk's lawsuit against Media Matters for misleading the advertisers on the platform about this.

00:12:30.080 ABC News doesn't tell their audience that Media Matters went to great lengths to engineer a scenario that would put corporate advertisements near this objectionable content on their timeline.

00:12:39.180 So this is something that Media Matters engineer.

00:12:42.380 This is all invented by them. 0.99

00:12:44.400 You're just supposed to take it on faith that X is somehow the only platform where you could engineer a scenario like this, even as Instagram's algorithm has been shown to connect pedophiles with child pornography, which is something that, by the way, you would think would provoke quite a bit more outrage and advertiser boycotts and all the rest of it.

00:13:03.160 But really, it provoked none of that.

00:13:04.360 Now, what you can gather from the clips I've showed, and many more like them, is that the corporate news media understands, for good reason, that Musk's criticism of megacorporations is also an attack on them.

00:13:19.880 In some cases, that's because these media companies are directly owned by the corporations that Musk is attacking.

00:13:25.500 In other cases, it's because these media companies are completely beholden to these corporations for their own advertising dollars.

00:13:32.660 That's why what Musk said at the Dealbook Summit was important.

00:13:37.100 It wasn't just a cathartic declaration of war against corporate censors.

00:13:40.960 It also exposed many of these so-called journalists and news organizations that are completely beholden to these censors.

00:13:48.080 Which is why they're telling you not to trust Elon Musk anymore, because, you know, he was mean to Bob Iger.

00:13:54.300 Meanwhile, they're running endless advertisements for big pharma.

00:13:58.300 Again, despite that, you're supposed to trust them when they report on Ozempic or on the 10th version of the COVID booster.

00:14:04.740 You're also supposed to blindly trust their experts on disinformation, whom they've hired directly from the FBI and the CIA.

00:14:11.380 These are people who have lied to your face for years about everything, from Russiagate to the pandemic and everything in between.

00:14:18.740 And now they're trying to destroy Elon Musk for one tweet out of tens of thousands of tweets that he clarified almost immediately.

00:14:26.460 And he also apologized at the Dealbook Summit for his remarks being poorly worded.

00:14:32.000 Not that these people care about that.

00:14:33.680 Not that he owed any kind of apology at all.

00:14:35.300 In fact, if there's any real issues with anything that Elon Musk said at the summit, it's that he apologized, which he shouldn't have done.

00:14:44.820 But the truth is, they were never upset about what Elon Musk said about the ADL and other left-wing groups like it.

00:14:51.740 They're not even really pretending he's anti-Semitic anymore.

00:14:55.220 They seem to recognize that, you know, that would be an odd charge to make after Israel's prime minister rolled out the welcome mat for Elon Musk the other day.

00:15:03.380 So now they're back to old-fashioned mafia tactics.

00:15:06.920 They're not hiding the fact that they despise him for exposing how corporate control of the media works.

00:15:14.160 That's why they're smearing him as someone who's going to steal your credit card.

00:15:18.380 That's why they're smirking about some random mayor in Europe leaving X as if that matters.

00:15:24.080 Their tactics are desperate and also obvious.

00:15:26.680 Now, a little while ago, I told you that I'd play some more of Elon Musk's remarks.

00:15:31.840 And this is the part of his comments that didn't get as much play on social media.

00:15:35.840 But it's just as important as what he told Bob Iger and the other advertisers.

00:15:39.660 Watch.

00:15:40.920 I mean, if the company fails because of an advertiser boycott, it will fail because of an advertiser boycott.

00:15:47.020 And that will be what bankrupt the company.

00:15:48.840 And that's what everybody on earth will know.

00:15:50.740 What do you think, then, of the idea of trust, though?

00:15:55.680 Then it will be gone.

00:15:57.000 And it will be gone because of an advertiser boycott.

00:15:59.720 But you recognize that some of those people are going to say that they didn't feel comfortable on the platform.

00:16:05.420 And I just wonder and ask you and think about that for a second.

00:16:09.120 Tell it to the judge.

00:16:10.760 But the judge is going to be...

00:16:12.540 The judge is the public.

00:16:13.440 And you think that the public is going to say that Disney is making a mistake?

00:16:20.760 Yes.

00:16:21.300 And they're going to boycott Disney?

00:16:23.160 They already are.

00:16:24.880 Well, there are some that are for lots of different reasons.

00:16:28.360 But you think that this is going to...

00:16:30.680 That you have the...

00:16:31.640 This goes to actually the interesting of power and leverage.

00:16:34.800 Let the chips fall where they may.

00:16:38.380 Let the chips fall where they may.

00:16:39.960 Well, it's not a moment that the major media outlets are going to play on loop. 0.90

00:16:43.640 They're going to fixate on the big F-bomb and try to portray Elon Musk as some kind of unhinged lunatic.

00:16:48.700 But this part of Musk's conversation with Sorkin was just as important, if not more important, than what he told Bob Iger.

00:16:56.920 Disney does not create anything of value.

00:16:59.440 In fact, they create negative value.

00:17:01.860 More people than ever recognize that now.

00:17:03.760 At the very same dealbook summit where Musk spoke, Bob Iger made that very clear.

00:17:09.580 As if to prove that point, here's a CNN headline summarizing what Iger said.

00:17:14.400 Quote,

00:17:15.140 Disney CEO Bob Iger says,

00:17:16.720 Number one priority is turning around Marvel acknowledges too many sequels after box office misses.

00:17:23.060 So that's Disney's top priority.

00:17:24.720 They're going to work on cranking out more Marvel movies flooded with left-wing propaganda that nobody's going to watch.

00:17:30.540 They're not attempting to launch rocket ships to Mars like Elon Musk is.

00:17:34.880 They're entirely focused on Marvel films and putting as much gay propaganda in children's content as they can.

00:17:41.960 And people are rejecting it.

00:17:43.880 Movies are bombing.

00:17:45.560 Disney Plus recently lost more than 10 million subscribers.

00:17:49.340 By contrast, here's what Elon Musk has been doing.

00:17:53.320 Watch.

00:17:54.680 And Tesla's gotten to where it's gotten with no advertising at all.

00:17:58.900 I understand that.

00:18:00.540 Tesla currently sells to twice as much in terms of electric vehicles as the rest of electric car makers in the United States combined.

00:18:10.460 Tesla has done more to help the environment than all other companies combined.

00:18:17.500 It would be fair to say that, therefore, as a leader of the company,

00:18:20.480 I've done more for the environment than any single human on Earth.

00:18:24.580 How do you feel about that?

00:18:25.660 How do I feel about that?

00:18:29.440 Yeah.

00:18:29.700 No, I'm asking you personally how you feel about that because this goes, we're talking about power and influence and...

00:18:34.280 I'm saying, I'm saying what I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it.

00:18:39.180 And what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil. 1.00

00:18:46.060 F*** them. 1.00

00:18:47.780 Okay? 1.00

00:18:48.080 I mean, he's right about that, even by the left's own logic.

00:18:52.640 I mean, he's done more to save the planet than any other person.

00:18:56.920 That's hard to dispute.

00:18:57.980 And given that these people would say that climate change is, like, the number one issue in the world

00:19:02.840 and the fate of the world hangs in the balance,

00:19:05.940 if they really believe that, then you would think that they would say, you know,

00:19:09.260 it doesn't matter what Elon Musk says or what he tweets.

00:19:12.860 He's saving the planet.

00:19:14.380 We should all support him, support everything he does.

00:19:17.800 None of Elon Musk critics have an answer to that.

00:19:20.080 He's accomplished things that help humanity, again, even by their own logic.

00:19:24.520 They're not doing that.

00:19:25.440 They're doing the exact opposite.

00:19:26.280 And these are the people that Elon Musk can't stand.

00:19:30.640 They're the people that we also should not tolerate.

00:19:34.920 What Musk did yesterday was to declare war against the executives responsible for debasing our culture,

00:19:40.840 force-feeding us a stream of lobotomized garbage while they play the role of censor. 0.97

00:19:46.560 He made the simple and obvious point that a CEO who's fixated on Marvel movies 0.90

00:19:51.360 should not be in charge of free speech in this country.

00:19:54.340 Entertainment executives shouldn't be telling everyone else what hate speech is

00:19:58.680 or demanding censorship.

00:20:01.120 No corporate CEO should have that power.

00:20:03.600 They should be worried about their own products.

00:20:04.980 That's it.

00:20:06.080 They shouldn't spend a second thinking about what you can say online.

00:20:09.600 This is not their role at all.

00:20:11.320 But for a very long time now, CEOs have had that kind of power to censor you.

00:20:16.580 They simply apply pressure to media organizations and social media companies, and they get what they want.

00:20:21.640 They use coercion and blackmail to effectively destroy the First Amendment.

00:20:26.340 And they can always claim that it has nothing to do with the First Amendment because these are private companies imposing these speech restrictions,

00:20:33.240 you know, on their own platforms or with their own money.

00:20:37.100 But the truth is that the distinction between the corporate world and the government has become increasingly irrelevant.

00:20:44.320 The Democrats use corporations to impose speech restrictions that they could not impose legislatively.

00:20:51.580 That's the way this works.

00:20:52.460 But Elon Musk has challenged the whole regime as explicitly as he possibly could.

00:20:57.540 And now, as he said, the chips will fall where they may.

00:21:00.640 If people don't want free speech, if they want the Marvel guy to tell them what to think, then free speech will die.

00:21:07.420 Twitter will collapse shortly afterward.

00:21:10.220 Your ability to say what you think on the Internet will go away as well.

00:21:14.960 Now, this is preventable, but it takes some work.

00:21:17.300 It takes people standing up and saying what they know is true, regardless of the personal cost they might face.

00:21:23.400 And that's been happening more and more.

00:21:24.940 It's happened with the gender debate. 0.98

00:21:26.180 It's happened with Target and Bud Light.

00:21:29.740 It's happened with Affirmative Action, which is now broadly unpopular in this country.

00:21:33.320 It's happened with Ukraine funding and all kinds of issues.

00:21:36.280 And now, as Elon Musk said, people need to turn on these corporate censors who have silenced them for so long.

00:21:42.280 These companies need to suffer real consequences for what they are trying to do.

00:21:48.240 And for that to happen, Americans need to do what Elon Musk did last night and tell all these would-be overlords, in no uncertain terms, that they need to go F themselves.

00:22:01.700 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

00:22:03.120 We'll see you next time.

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00:23:23.340 Former President Donald Trump touted an endorsement from a former leader of Black Lives Matter on Wednesday, saying that he was very honored to have his endorsement, as well as BLM's support. 0.98

00:23:33.420 Mark Fisher, who Fox News reports is the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island, told the network that the Democrat Party was not for black people and that they were hypocrites.

00:23:43.940 Fisher said Trump had done more for black people than the Democrat Party has recently. 0.99

00:23:47.600 Secondly, the activist also said earlier this month that he endorsed Trump because everybody else sucks. 0.78

00:23:52.520 Trump responded to the BLM activists praised by praising him on social media and floating the possibility that he has done more for black people than any other president in history. 0.86

00:24:04.760 Trump said, quote, spoke with Mark Fisher yesterday, a great guy, very honored to have his and BLM's support.

00:24:11.360 I've done more for black people than any other president.

00:24:14.320 Lincoln?

00:24:15.540 In quotes, question mark.

00:24:16.680 Mark, what?

00:24:18.560 What does that mean?

00:24:19.300 Including 10-year funding for historically black colleges and universities, where they had none, opportunity zones, criminal justice reform, and much more.

00:24:26.680 Thank you to Mark.

00:24:28.160 Okay, so that's basically the story that Trump is thanking BLM, but BLM didn't really endorse him or support him.

00:24:40.120 And, in fact, Newsweek reached out to BLM Rhode Island and asked about this, and they said that Mark Fisher is no longer affiliated with them, that he's been terminated.

00:24:52.540 So BLM, the BLM group is saying we have not endorsed Trump.

00:24:57.080 And, you know, that has been the defense by Trump fans of this statement by Trump.

00:25:04.220 They're saying, well, BLM doesn't actually support Trump, so this is a non-issue.

00:25:09.880 Okay, except that Trump is claiming that BLM does.

00:25:14.420 He's thanking BLM for their support, which, whether they gave their support or not, that's not the point.

00:25:20.960 The point is that he's thanking them, which legitimizes them.

00:25:25.460 There's just no circumstance, there's no situation where it could ever be okay to thank BLM for anything.

00:25:31.820 It's like thanking Planned Parenthood or NAMBLA.

00:25:36.180 Okay, that's what it's like.

00:25:39.120 And, obviously, it goes without saying that if Ron DeSantis, if Ron DeSantis ever thanked BLM for anything, Trump fans would never stop talking about it.

00:25:52.800 I mean, they would never, ever, ever let DeSantis live that down.

00:25:58.800 Nor should they.

00:26:00.860 Because it's insane.

00:26:01.900 It's an insane thing to do.

00:26:04.160 You do not legitimize Marxist terrorist organizations like BLM.

00:26:09.660 And, if you're an honest person and a Republican thanks BLM, you'll start to ask yourself questions about what this person really stands for.

00:26:21.640 Here's what you should also ask yourself.

00:26:23.220 Is there any evidence, is there any reason to believe that Trump is going to fix the things that he did wrong in his first term?

00:26:33.940 I mean, that's the argument, right?

00:26:36.260 If you're supporting Trump in the primaries, you can't deny that there are some things he did in his first term that were bad.

00:26:42.380 And, but the argument is, well, give him another chance.

00:26:49.820 He's, you know, everybody makes mistakes.

00:26:52.240 He's learned from those mistakes.

00:26:54.600 Okay, and I can, true, everyone makes mistakes.

00:26:56.680 Nobody's perfect.

00:26:57.840 It's hard to be president.

00:26:59.220 People make mistakes.

00:27:00.320 Fine.

00:27:01.260 I can buy that.

00:27:04.860 But is there any reason to believe that any of this has changed?

00:27:09.460 Like, has there been any indication that he even recognizes?

00:27:12.380 What things he did wrong, much less intends to fix them?

00:27:17.240 You tell me.

00:27:19.540 And one of the things he did wrong was trying to pander for the black vote by doing things like releasing criminals from prison. 0.57

00:27:28.280 And he's still bragging about that.

00:27:30.120 It's amazing.

00:27:31.180 He's still bragging about criminal justice reform.

00:27:33.140 It was a disaster.

00:27:35.480 Releasing criminals from prison was the last thing that needed to happen.

00:27:39.800 We need to do the opposite.

00:27:40.820 It's criminal justice reform that puts more criminals in prison, not fewer.

00:27:44.820 And so it's one thing if you say, yeah, that was a boneheaded move.

00:27:52.860 Shouldn't have happened.

00:27:54.300 Trump gets in there again.

00:27:55.440 It's not going to happen.

00:27:56.260 He's going to go criminal justice reform the other direction.

00:28:00.020 The kind of reform we need.

00:28:01.380 Which is putting more people in prison for longer.

00:28:07.420 And, I mean, that's a good argument if it was true that Trump is.

00:28:17.200 But except that he's still.

00:28:19.660 I mean, forget about.

00:28:20.520 This is my thing.

00:28:21.000 In that tweet.

00:28:22.540 Well, that wasn't a tweet.

00:28:23.200 In the Truth Social post.

00:28:26.160 Thanking BLM is egregious.

00:28:30.180 But to me, that's not the most concerning thing.

00:28:33.460 To me, it's still going on about criminal justice reform.

00:28:39.260 As if it's still something that you should.

00:28:41.820 You're still touting that as some major achievement.

00:28:44.840 That is what troubles me.

00:28:52.020 You know, releasing criminals from prison.

00:28:55.360 Consulting with Kim Kardashian.

00:28:58.100 Giving pardons to rappers.

00:29:00.280 You know, like that sort of thing.

00:29:03.180 I would love to believe.

00:29:05.820 That those are mistakes that will be fixed.

00:29:09.000 But you can't fix a mistake until you first admit that it was one.

00:29:12.120 And I don't even need you to admit it out loud.

00:29:15.720 I mean, that would be nice.

00:29:18.480 Even if you recognize in your own head that, okay, we're not going to do that again.

00:29:22.700 There's no indication that he recognizes that.

00:29:24.360 Because he's still out there saying, oh, we accomplished criminal justice reform.

00:29:29.340 It is troubling.

00:29:33.520 Okay, from the Daily Wire.

00:29:34.720 Florida high school principal and other school officials have been reassigned amid an investigation

00:29:38.840 into whether they allowed a trans-identifying male player to play on the girls' volleyball team.

00:29:44.440 The alleged incident occurred at Monarch High School just north of Fort Lauderdale.

00:29:50.340 Principal James Cecil.

00:29:52.900 Assistant Principal Kenneth May.

00:29:54.480 Athletic Director Dion Hester.

00:29:56.680 And volleyball coach Jessica Norton were all transferred on Monday, according to local news.

00:30:02.160 And they were transferred out, apparently, because of this incident where male players were allowed on the female team. 0.85

00:30:13.440 Now, obviously, it's great that these administrators were kicked out of school for allowing boys to play in girls' sports. 0.92

00:30:21.280 And this is also something that, even like three years ago, it would have been fairly unthinkable.

00:30:26.820 Not unthinkable that boys would play in girls' sports three years ago.

00:30:31.340 That was certainly happening three years ago.

00:30:33.240 It had been happening for a while at that point.

00:30:36.140 But the thing that would have been unthinkable is that school administrators would suffer consequences for allowing that to happen.

00:30:43.440 But this just goes to show how much we have won on this issue as conservatives.

00:30:50.200 This is an issue where we have, I mean, we are fully winning on this issue.

00:30:57.660 And we're winning on the issue, you know, I think on the issue of gender ideology broadly.

00:31:03.040 But especially when you look at these sort of narrow lanes, something like women's sports. 1.00

00:31:10.220 We're winning, not even necessarily because we've convinced people that actually it's a bad idea to let boys who pretend to be girls compete against girls.

00:31:21.020 Because I don't think we've convinced that many people.

00:31:25.360 Because most people didn't need to be convinced.

00:31:28.840 They always knew that this was wrong.

00:31:30.620 Because it's like obviously wrong.

00:31:33.100 They can, intuitively, you recognize that it's wrong.

00:31:36.500 So the vast majority of people never needed to hear an argument that would convince them.

00:31:41.620 The vast majority of people have not had a moment where they said, oh, you know, that's a good point.

00:31:45.540 So it was never about convincing most people.

00:31:52.300 It was about, well, it wasn't about convincing them of the rightness of our claim.

00:31:59.740 It was about convincing them to not be afraid to speak the truth and to acknowledge the truth.

00:32:17.580 It was about mobilizing people, all these people who always recognize the truth, but were too afraid.

00:32:22.700 It was about mobilizing them and empowering them.

00:32:25.020 And that's why our success has come.

00:32:27.100 And I think we'll see more evidence of that when our new Daily Wire comedy, Lady Ballers, premieres tomorrow night at 8 o'clock.

00:32:33.800 And the response to the film has already been huge.

00:32:36.560 I think it's on its way to becoming, you know, one of the most successful and talked about comedies in years.

00:32:42.960 Or, I mean, really the most.

00:32:45.800 And that's also partly because there haven't been any real comedies in years.

00:32:51.000 And, you know, and that's partly because people are starved for good comedy and also partly because people are sick of this gender ideology madness. 1.00

00:32:59.060 And they're ready to laugh at it and ridicule it, which is what this film does.

00:33:04.320 And speaking of which, I did finally see the movie last night at our red carpet premiere.

00:33:08.740 It was my first time seeing it.

00:33:10.860 As I think I've already complained about, they wouldn't let me see it ahead of time.

00:33:13.260 And, in fact, most of the scenes in the film, I wasn't even there when it was filming because my character only shows up a few times here and there.

00:33:22.720 So I went into this almost like any other member of the audience.

00:33:26.820 And I also, except that, I went into it ready to rip it apart in my mind and be hypercritical because, you know, that's how I am with any creative project that I'm involved in.

00:33:36.940 But I'm happy to report that it is, the movie is very funny.

00:33:41.660 It works as a satire of gender ideology, of course.

00:33:45.840 But it also stands on its own as a comedy.

00:33:48.640 And that was one of the things I was watching for.

00:33:50.440 It's like, yeah, it makes the point.

00:33:53.000 Makes the point very effectively.

00:33:55.240 So we want to do that.

00:33:56.080 You want to make the point satirically, which the film does.

00:33:59.540 But aside from the message, aside from the point, is it just funny on its own?

00:34:06.200 And I'm happy to say that it certainly is.

00:34:09.120 And it also, and I mean this as a compliment, but the movie is much weirder than I thought it would be.

00:34:17.540 It's some very weird and kind of random elements in the film, which I like because I have a kind of absurdist, dark sense of humor.

00:34:26.380 So I love that about it.

00:34:28.060 Really, I think the whole movie comes across like we were trying to entertain ourselves while making it.

00:34:36.100 And entertaining everybody else is kind of a byproduct of that, which is sort of how it went.

00:34:41.360 So you can tell that we're having fun making it.

00:34:42.960 And I think that that makes it more enjoyable for the audience as well.

00:34:46.700 And speaking of weird stuff that we did mainly to make each other laugh, there's my character.

00:34:51.000 And I actually have been given permission to play for you an exclusive, a world premiere exclusive clip of my character's introduction in the film.

00:35:01.820 And in the film, I'm playing a character named Chris, who is the woke boyfriend of Jeremy's character's ex-wife.

00:35:12.680 So it's a whole thing.

00:35:13.700 I told you it's weird.

00:35:15.060 Anyway, here's how that is first introduced in the film.

00:35:18.540 Let's play the clip.

00:35:21.000 Let's play the clip.

00:35:51.000 How are you?

00:36:02.140 You had a good time?

00:36:02.920 Yeah.

00:36:03.420 Daddy was okay.

00:36:04.320 Was he late?

00:36:05.180 He was nearly late.

00:36:06.120 Okay.

00:36:06.520 Okay.

00:36:07.060 Hey.

00:36:11.620 We need to talk.

00:36:13.580 Thank you for picking up Winnie, Robert.

00:36:15.700 We're married for 15 years, Darby.

00:36:17.920 You can call me Rob.

00:36:19.020 Darby.

00:36:20.160 And, uh, Robert will do just fine.

00:36:22.200 Coach Rob.

00:36:23.060 Oh, good.

00:36:24.020 My lover's former lover.

00:36:26.520 Okay.

00:36:29.880 Okay.

00:36:30.520 I got it.

00:36:31.820 Yep.

00:36:32.800 Okay.

00:36:33.480 Look at us.

00:36:34.200 One big, unconventional family.

00:36:37.680 Lover, I think your transition into divorce would be smoother if Coach moved in with us.

00:36:42.480 Absolutely not.

00:36:43.380 Never gonna happen.

00:36:44.520 Well, Coach, now that we're basically co-dads, I was wondering if you'd like to help me train

00:36:48.860 for the Nashville runs.

00:36:53.040 $5,000 prizes.

00:36:55.000 My body's a sacred temple.

00:36:56.580 I'm all about physical fitness.

00:36:58.420 Uh, bug-based foods, mRNA vaccines, equitable and inclusive hiking.

00:37:02.680 There it is.

00:37:03.420 My lover says you were a great coach back in the day.

00:37:06.200 Honey, why don't you go, uh, help Winnie with her homework? 0.99

00:37:11.720 Light and love, Coach.

00:37:13.600 Light and love.

00:37:24.340 Lady Ballers, streaming exclusively on Daily Wire Plus, December 1st.

00:37:33.780 There it is.

00:37:34.840 There's the Oscar-winning performance.

00:37:37.880 Um, not the last hug that I give in the film, I can tell you.

00:37:43.240 And, uh, there's a, there's a working theory here at the Daily Wire that, uh, Jeremy conceived

00:37:50.060 of this whole film just as a, an excuse to get me to hug him.

00:37:56.060 So, I don't know if that's true or not, but I've already said, you know, if this movie

00:38:01.040 costs $7 million to make, I would have just given the hug for, like, $3 million.

00:38:04.300 I would have, half that is all you had to pay.

00:38:08.160 Uh, so there it is.

00:38:09.580 The, the, the whole film is, uh, is, uh, very much worth watching.

00:38:13.780 And you can watch it tomorrow when it premieres at, uh, at 8 o'clock.

00:38:17.620 And, uh, I don't want to give anything away, but, you know, anyone that you've ever seen

00:38:24.680 associated with the Daily Wire will show up in this film at some point.

00:38:28.180 I can tell you that.

00:38:29.900 Very much a team, a team, a group effort.

00:38:32.720 Okay, I want to mention this.

00:38:33.580 This is from Yahoo.

00:38:34.720 It says, diabetes and obesity are rising among young adults in the United States, an alarming

00:38:39.200 development that puts them at higher risk for heart disease, according to a study of

00:38:43.320 13,000 people between 20 and 44 years old.

00:38:46.080 The authors of the study published in March in a major medical journal warn that the trends

00:38:51.320 could have major public health implications, a, uh, rising generation dying prematurely

00:38:56.500 of heart attacks and other complications, and black and Hispanic people, particularly

00:39:00.460 Mexican-Americans, would bear the brunt. 0.90

00:39:04.040 Goes on to say that, um, of course, as always, marginalized, so-called, uh, marginalized people

00:39:10.300 are at greater risk of, uh, of developing heart disease and, and of, uh, developing, uh, obesity.

00:39:18.460 And then they tie that to poverty as well. 0.54

00:39:20.580 So it's that whole thing.

00:39:22.120 Two points about this.

00:39:23.080 Really, really quick and simple points.

00:39:25.840 Uh, one, this idea that, that poverty inevitably leads to obesity, which is the explanation that

00:39:35.080 we often get now, but it's, it's of course an absurd idea because this is not something

00:39:42.260 that you find outside of the Western world, outside of the modern Western world, you actually

00:39:49.420 find the opposite, that, that, um, being underweight is something that you would associate with poverty.

00:39:56.560 You know, this issue of having poor people who are morbidly obese does not exist anywhere

00:40:06.160 else outside of the Western world.

00:40:10.060 Um, and so I think that what, what that tells us is that it's, no, it's not, it's not poverty.

00:40:17.140 It's really not, it's not, in this country, it has nothing to do with poverty.

00:40:19.460 It's nothing to do with your financial situation, whether you become obese.

00:40:23.100 It's just, are you taking in too many calories and not getting, getting enough exercise?

00:40:29.660 It's as simple as that.

00:40:31.700 Now, yeah, a lot of the cheap food options are, uh, are, uh, are not good for you and are

00:40:40.240 going to make you fat, but eating at home is always cheaper.

00:40:47.440 Even with, uh, inflation and grocery prices, like you can still make food at home and it's

00:40:52.760 going to be cheaper than eating out all the time.

00:40:55.020 It's just that you have to take the effort because, and this is really the second point,

00:40:59.620 which is that, uh, obesity is not a complicated problem to solve, right?

00:41:06.380 There's a, there's a, there's a, now it's not complicated.

00:41:09.940 It is simple, but that doesn't make it easy.

00:41:13.780 And these are, these are categories of things that we often get confused.

00:41:20.240 Um, you know, we see that solving a problem is hard and then we immediately assume that

00:41:28.080 that means that it must be complicated, but hard and complicated are not necessarily the

00:41:33.080 same thing.

00:41:34.120 There are lots of problems that we face individually in our lives and also in society that are very

00:41:40.180 simple problems, but they're also, but they are also hard and eating healthy and, uh, living

00:41:46.840 a healthy lifestyle and losing weight.

00:41:50.020 If you're overweight, that is a difficult, it's a hard thing to do.

00:41:54.080 It's difficult, but it is not complicated.

00:41:57.680 There's no, there's no comp.

00:41:59.180 We don't need a whole bunch of studies about it.

00:42:02.160 Um, there's no complicated formula.

00:42:04.440 It's actually very simple.

00:42:05.500 Just eat less food and exercise more hard, hard, but not complicated.

00:42:13.660 So it works out.

00:42:15.440 Let's get to it.

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00:43:17.120 Caitlin says, I'm with you 100%, but a few weeks ago you were with Vivek on firing 50% of

00:43:23.600 the FAA at random.

00:43:25.160 If we want to argue that we should fire diversity hires, I'm here for that. 1.00

00:43:29.280 However, most of the FAA does good work preventing airplane disasters and incidents.

00:43:35.140 Fair point.

00:43:36.720 Yeah, I think that the FAA should be exempt from the indiscriminate 50% cuts that I have

00:43:45.160 endorsed.

00:43:45.760 So that's a fair point.

00:43:48.380 Instead, I would do discriminant cuts.

00:43:50.400 So I think for most of the federal government, you can do indiscriminate cuts, 50% just to

00:43:55.740 start with.

00:43:57.540 And, you know, because you've got to start somewhere.

00:44:00.980 You know, we have to narrow this down quite a bit before you start making the surgical

00:44:05.680 cuts.

00:44:06.300 There are a few areas of government, a few agencies where you might want to be a little

00:44:11.280 bit more targeted in the initial cuts.

00:44:14.380 And somewhere like at the FAA and air traffic controllers, sure, I would agree with that.

00:44:20.400 But Mr. Reality says, you have a lot more confidence than I do that the government will

00:44:26.620 actually correct its diversity initiatives after people die in a plane crash.

00:44:31.360 More likely, they will first cover it up like the train crashes we constantly have.

00:44:35.960 Then they will say that there's nothing they can do like the blue city crime waves.

00:44:40.180 That's another one where I think you're right.

00:44:43.860 So I guess I was, I have been, I have been corrected twice in this segment.

00:44:49.600 I think you're actually right about that.

00:44:51.040 So when we talked yesterday about the Obama administration lowering standards among air

00:44:56.540 traffic controllers 10 years ago in order to diversify the ranks, one thing I said is

00:45:02.720 that, you know, well, number one, this is, this is going to lead to a terrible disaster.

00:45:07.700 And a lot of people are going to die.

00:45:09.100 It's going to happen.

00:45:10.620 We've come very close many times recently.

00:45:13.660 And you don't hear about those things because the media has no interest in reporting it.

00:45:17.060 And also, you know, if it bleeds, it leads.

00:45:19.480 And a near miss means that nobody's bleeding.

00:45:22.260 So they're going to wait until it actually happens.

00:45:24.260 That is going to happen.

00:45:25.480 Um, and then I said that what, only when that happens, will there be any changes made, but

00:45:33.640 you're probably correct that once it does like to make those changes would require them to

00:45:39.380 admit that these diversity initiatives contributed to the disaster, which they probably will never

00:45:44.420 do.

00:45:45.340 Finally, Rob says everyone is qualified that is hired.

00:45:48.420 Everyone has to pass the exam.

00:45:50.480 Diversity has nothing to do with it unless you're trying to imply that non-whites aren't

00:45:54.220 qualified.

00:45:55.720 No, I'm not implying that non-whites aren't qualified to be air traffic controllers or

00:45:59.540 aren't qualified for any other position.

00:46:01.240 That's not me implying that.

00:46:03.620 I'm not applying anything.

00:46:04.780 Anyway, I'm, I'm, I'm stating that the Obama administration lowered the hiring standards

00:46:10.560 for the FAA in order to get more non-whites involved.

00:46:15.320 That's what they did.

00:46:16.240 That's a fact.

00:46:16.800 And then it's also a fact that once they did that 10 years ago, the number of near misses

00:46:22.960 has doubled over that span.

00:46:26.280 And by near misses, we mean, of course, planes that have almost collided into each other

00:46:29.860 on the runway or in the sky.

00:46:32.100 So those are all facts.

00:46:33.400 It's not me implying anything.

00:46:34.760 It's just me stating.

00:46:35.400 If anyone's implying anything, it's, it's, you know, the people who say that we have to

00:46:44.020 lower standards in order to get more racial minorities involved.

00:46:49.800 They are the ones who are implying that racial minorities are not otherwise qualified or are

00:46:57.100 somehow deficient.

00:46:59.140 So they cannot be held to the, uh, to the standards that have been in place historically.

00:47:08.080 So if, if there is any, uh, insulting implication here, it's coming from the people who are lowering

00:47:14.080 the standards, which is the whole point.

00:47:16.060 You've been hearing me talk about the Daily Wire's first ever full-length comedy, Lady

00:47:21.020 Ballers. 0.64

00:47:21.900 And yes, it's premiering tomorrow night at 8 p.m.

00:47:24.140 Eastern exclusively on Daily Wire Plus.

00:47:25.980 You've probably heard me bring up the fact that, uh, I had not yet seen the movie, even

00:47:29.340 though, yes, I'm in Lady Ballers.

00:47:31.000 But lo and behold, after weeks of my pleas falling on deaf ears, the powers that be at

00:47:35.660 the Daily Wire finally decided that it was time, uh, for me to see the movie along with

00:47:39.600 everybody else.

00:47:40.180 They even rolled out a massive red carpet premiere last night, which I can only assume was done

00:47:44.620 exclusively for me.

00:47:46.060 Even though walking on a red carpet and taking pictures is like my nightmare.

00:47:49.380 So, but anyway, so after all this time, waiting to see myself in Lady Ballers, I took very

00:47:54.620 valuable time out of my schedule to give my fans an accurate, unbiased review of my performance.

00:48:00.940 The first question in everybody's mind, am I the star of Lady Ballers?

00:48:04.780 Short answer is yes.

00:48:06.760 Uh, I am basically the star.

00:48:08.620 I'm the main attraction.

00:48:10.040 Long answer is absolutely.

00:48:12.380 Yes, again.

00:48:12.880 To say that my performance is a masterclass in acting, uh, might really be an understatement.

00:48:19.520 The authenticity that I brought to this incredibly complex character, uh, I mean, it'll leave you

00:48:27.100 speechless when you see it.

00:48:28.000 In all honesty, I barely recognize myself on screen due to my chameleon-like acting abilities, my very

00:48:34.620 method approach to the art of acting.

00:48:38.560 Will I be getting an Academy Award?

00:48:40.740 Most likely not.

00:48:42.180 Should I be?

00:48:43.340 Well, see for yourself tomorrow night.

00:48:44.780 The movie that Hollywood wouldn't make, so we did.

00:48:47.320 It's Lady Ballers. 0.88

00:48:48.200 Premieres tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Eastern exclusively on Daily Wire+.

00:48:52.380 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:01.400 Well, I've got a holiday gift idea that's sure to make you the hero of the season.

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00:50:12.900 Today for our Daily Cancellation, we turn to The New Yorker and its recent write-up of two books

00:50:18.280 that both, quote, consider the ethics of procreation in the age of man-made climate change.

00:50:24.500 Now, the title of the article puts it in even more dramatic terms.

00:50:28.280 Quote, the morality of having kids in a burning, drowning world.

00:50:33.580 The question of how you can burn and drown at the same time is never answered.

00:50:36.780 Instead, what follows is a long meditation of the ethical quandaries of choosing to have children

00:50:42.760 in a world that is supposedly hurtling towards ecological Armageddon.

00:50:47.440 The writer of the article, Jessica Winter, begins by recounting the time when she read a newspaper article

00:50:53.460 with a, quote, an apocalyptic 50-year climate forecast and resolved in that moment to never have any kids of her own. 0.69

00:51:01.580 But she soon confesses that she did end up having kids, two of them, who are now nine and six.

00:51:07.220 And she now seems to be plagued with doubt and guilt because of her choice to have kids,

00:51:11.760 a decision that she insists is ethically complex.

00:51:15.920 She tells us about the two recent books revolving around this question.

00:51:19.760 One of them is called The Quickening, and it was written by a journalist

00:51:22.520 who spent some time with scientists in Antarctica.

00:51:25.500 And she reports that the ice in Antarctica is melting,

00:51:28.780 and we're all going to die soon, or something.

00:51:31.480 Reading from the article, quote,

00:51:33.460 Antarctica is nature's egg timer, poised to tell us when we're fully cooked.

00:51:38.300 But for Rush, the author, the continent presented a different kind of threshold,

00:51:42.300 a prologue to a personal transformation.

00:51:44.760 Quote, the year I go to Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica

00:51:48.320 is also the year that I decided to try to grow a human being inside of my body, she writes,

00:51:54.240 in The Quickening.

00:51:54.860 The central paradox of The Quickening is the private urge toward the creation of human life

00:51:59.860 coexisting with intimations of its imminent destruction.

00:52:04.380 Quote, should I have a child, their greenhouse gas emissions will cause roughly 50 square meters

00:52:09.040 of sea ice to melt every year that they're alive, Rush writes.

00:52:12.460 Just by existing, they will make the world a little less livable for everyone, themselves included.

00:52:18.000 Now, the idea of making your own life less livable by living in the first place is, of course, totally nonsensical.

00:52:27.880 But there isn't a lot of time to reflect on that bit of nonsense.

00:52:30.820 The article continues, quote,

00:52:32.000 Now, admittedly, this is something that you hear from women all the time. 1.00

00:52:56.180 I can't tell you how many times my wife, during her four pregnancies, said to me,

00:53:00.320 you know, man, I feel just like the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.

00:53:04.420 This is something women say all the time. 1.00

00:53:06.620 Now, we go from there, we get more reflections on the moral complications of having children.

00:53:10.840 Quote,

00:53:11.400 Having a child is at once the most intimate, irrational thing a person can do.

00:53:15.920 Prompted by desires so deep, we hardly know where to look for their wellsprings.

00:53:19.720 In an unavoidably political act, according to Meehan Crist, who wrote in the London Review of Books in 2020,

00:53:27.360 that essay, Is It Okay to Have a Child?, the title paraphrases a question posed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

00:53:33.560 a congresswoman from New York, in an Instagram live stream,

00:53:36.660 is the lodestar of a growing body of commentary that debates the morality and ethics of procreation in this burning, drowning world.

00:53:44.280 Quote,

00:53:44.540 It seems increasingly clear, Chris continues, that we are living in a time of radical destabilization of life on Earth,

00:53:51.600 which complicates the act of bearing children in ways that society has yet to grapple with.

00:53:56.840 Activists have attempted equally radical responses to the moment.

00:54:01.440 The women of the short-lived birth strike movement, which garnered attention at the end of the 2010s,

00:54:06.480 renounced having children on account of the ecological emergency,

00:54:09.380 although their message was often misconstrued as a Malthusian appeal for population control.

00:54:15.340 Now, we're then told about the plummeting birth rates across the Western world,

00:54:18.640 although the writer says that it's unclear, all in all, precisely how much correlation exists

00:54:23.240 between rising awareness of the environmental crisis and steady declines in the U.S. birth rate,

00:54:28.220 which dropped for six consecutive years through 2020, reaching a historic low.

00:54:32.800 This is a question taken up by the other book, The Parenthood Dilemma,

00:54:36.640 in which the author, quote,

00:54:38.000 portrays her own ambivalence towards becoming a mother,

00:54:40.600 and the ambivalence among millennial and Gen Z women, more generally,

00:54:44.160 as the result of a complex and extremely familiar interplay of factors.

00:54:48.180 Now, one of the major factors for the author, Gina Rushton, is climate anxiety,

00:54:52.100 although there are other concerns that have led her to be, quote-unquote, child-free,

00:54:55.140 including the, quote,

00:54:55.880 Now, by the end of the article, we're not given any final clear verdict on whether we should have kids or not.

00:55:08.000 I read all the way to the end, eagerly hoping that I would find out for sure

00:55:11.780 whether I should feel racked by guilt for having six kids

00:55:15.260 and perhaps single-handedly melting what remains of the Thwaites Glacier, whatever that is.

00:55:19.880 Instead, we're left with uncertainty and a doubt and a lot of ruminating about the complexities

00:55:25.960 and nuances of producing our own little carbon dioxide machines.

00:55:30.900 It's a very complicated question, we're told, very difficult to discern.

00:55:35.380 Who can say for sure whether we should have kids or whether we should stop having them

00:55:39.360 and voluntarily embrace the extinction of our own species?

00:55:43.980 Well, maybe New Yorker writers and feminist authors can't say for sure, 1.00

00:55:47.880 aren't able to answer that question.

00:55:49.880 But I can.

00:55:51.200 And the answer is that we should have kids, and we should have lots of them.

00:55:55.720 And I don't think we need to spend a lot of time here pointing out

00:55:58.080 how climate alarmists have been prophesying the apocalypse for decades,

00:56:02.040 and yet every forecasted doomsday has failed to materialize.

00:56:05.740 What they're claiming about the climate is not fundamentally true.

00:56:10.180 Whether global temperatures are going up or staying the same or going down,

00:56:14.020 it doesn't matter.

00:56:14.860 We are not heading towards the apocalypse.

00:56:17.080 The world is not ending anytime soon.

00:56:20.480 Or, I mean, I guess I can't say that for sure.

00:56:22.020 Who knows when it's going to end?

00:56:23.100 If it does, it likely won't be because you drive an SUV to work.

00:56:28.320 The world will end when it ends.

00:56:30.520 And there probably isn't anything you can do one way or another about that fact.

00:56:34.620 What should concern you more, what you should spend more time thinking about,

00:56:38.980 is that your world, you yourself, will definitely come to an end in a relatively short amount of time.

00:56:44.220 The Earth and the human species will most likely still exist 100 years from now,

00:56:48.520 but you will not, and that's something you should consider.

00:56:52.740 And as I've argued in the past, I think paradoxically that people focus on the climate apocalypse

00:56:57.900 because they don't want to think about their own personal death.

00:57:01.620 They're taking the anxiety over their own mortality and kind of funneling it into this broader concern

00:57:08.380 about the fate of the planet, and then they start advocating for policies and laws

00:57:13.260 and various political and economic solutions that might prevent this apocalypse.

00:57:17.380 And they do that because there's no political solution to your own mortality,

00:57:22.500 and that's what makes it scary to think about.

00:57:25.840 But there are political solutions to the climate apocalypse that they've invented in their heads,

00:57:30.240 which is why they prefer to think about that instead.

00:57:32.700 But this is all somewhat beside the point, because no matter what's happening with the planet,

00:57:38.660 we should still have kids either way.

00:57:41.600 And it's not a complicated question.

00:57:43.260 The other option, as an alternative to procreation, is extinction.

00:57:49.180 If we did all make the ethical choice to not have kids, that would be the end of all things.

00:57:55.680 It would be the death of humanity itself.

00:57:58.220 We will have allegedly saved the planet by removing the reason that the planet exists.

00:58:03.960 Because what makes this planet special, what makes it unique in our entire solar system,

00:58:08.540 is that it is host to advanced, rational, self-aware creatures

00:58:12.560 who are capable of creating civilization.

00:58:15.660 The planet has value because we value it.

00:58:20.220 We cannot preserve that value by getting rid of the people who give it value.

00:58:26.540 And more than that, having kids is what we're made to do.

00:58:30.760 You know, it's always funny to me that the people who are always trying to, quote-unquote,

00:58:35.940 problematize procreation, these are almost always liberal atheists.

00:58:39.860 And yet, from an atheistic perspective, we are nothing but Darwinian biological machines.

00:58:47.060 And in that case, literally our sole purpose on Earth is to procreate.

00:58:52.640 That's the only reason we exist.

00:58:54.720 If you are an atheist and you decline having kids,

00:58:58.180 then you have rejected the only reason that you exist on the planet.

00:59:02.260 So your life is now quite literally pointless by your own view of things.

00:59:09.160 It is only on a theistic view of life that you can find deeper purpose beyond the propagation of the species.

00:59:15.940 And yet, on that view, the correct view,

00:59:18.420 still one of our deepest and most central duties as people is to bring up the next generation.

00:59:23.200 Be fruitful and multiply is the first command given in the Bible for a reason.

00:59:26.080 Which means that either way, no matter how you slice it,

00:59:29.340 the idea that we shouldn't have kids is not only wrong,

00:59:32.540 but it is so absurd as to be basically incoherent.

00:59:36.060 It's like saying that a tree has a responsibility to not grow,

00:59:39.360 or a bird is duty-bound to not fly.

00:59:43.260 That's what they're made to do.

00:59:45.580 And of course they should do what they are made to do.

00:59:48.980 That's not even a question.

00:59:50.540 Certainly it's not a useful or worthwhile question.

00:59:52.700 So yes, go have kids.

00:59:56.380 Add more human life to the planet. 0.93

00:59:58.900 Eventually you'll die and your kids will die.

01:00:00.900 And probably very long after that, the planet will die. 0.88

01:00:05.000 That's the way of human existence.

01:00:07.860 Which should not be seen as an argument against human existence.

01:00:13.580 Which should be pretty obvious.

01:00:16.800 And that's why, really, anyone worried about the morality of having kids in a burning, drowning world

01:00:22.420 is today cancelled.

01:00:26.000 That'll do it for the show today.

01:00:26.900 Thanks for watching.

01:00:27.460 Thanks for listening.

01:00:28.440 Have a great day.

01:00:29.520 Godspeed.

01:00:29.880 Thank you.

01:00:35.580 Godspeed.

01:00:40.120 Godspeed.

01:00:48.560 Godspeed.

01:00:52.900 Godspeed.

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