Ep. 1273 - The 'DINK' Trend: Double Income, No Kids, And A Meaningless Life Of Consumption And Materialism
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Summary
There has been a major push this week to promote the so-called Dink Community. These are the dual income, no kids, childless by choice folks who all say that their lifestyle is superior because it makes it so much easier to buy things. Also, the Daily Wire files a major lawsuit in defense of free speech. Donald Trump sends the media into a frenzy after saying that he'll be a dictator on day one of his second term. Plus, Dylan Mulvaney draws a crowd of literally dozens for his speech at Penn State, and Democrats embarrassed themselves during a hearing on the question of whether boys should be allowed to participate in girls' sports. All that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, there has been a major push this week to promote the so-called
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dink community. These are the dual income, no kids, childless by choice folks who all say that
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their lifestyle is superior because it makes it so much easier to buy things. Also, the Daily Wire
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files a major lawsuit in defense of free speech. Donald Trump sends the media into a frenzy after
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saying that he'll be a dictator on day one of his second term. Of course, they're willfully missing
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the point in what he was saying. Plus, Dylan Mulvaney draws a crowd of literally dozens for
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his speech at Penn State. And Democrats embarrassed themselves during a hearing on the question of
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whether boys should be allowed to participate in girls' sports. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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taxnetworkusa.com slash Walsh today. About a year ago, we first talked about the growing community
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of people who call themselves dinks. Now, dink may sound like some kind of racial slur,
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but it's not. Well, I mean, it was technically. Some people used it as a pejorative term for the
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Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. It's also a term familiar to my fellow bass fishermen
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used to describe any game fish below 12 inches in length. But in this case, dink does not refer to
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either Asians or small fish. Dink is an acronym that stands for dual income, no kids. So these are the
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childless by choice folks, those who get married and could have kids, but choose instead to have a
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barren, sterile relationship focused entirely on their own superficial wants and desires.
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Now, the dinks are getting a lot of attention these days, especially over the past week.
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On Monday, Business Insider ran a piece titled, Meet the Typical Dink. They have over $200,000 in the
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bank and aren't paying for pricey childcare. The article tells us, quote, it seems like everyone wants to
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be a dink these days. Dink households that are double income with no kids are seeing their ranks
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grow, especially as a high cost of living and the climate crisis weigh particularly on people with
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children. There are variations on the dink or the sink, single income, no kids. You could be a dink
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wad, which means double income, no kids with a dog. Dink wads, who previously spoke to Business Insider,
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said that the lifestyle gives them financial stability, the capacity to travel, and the ability
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to dodge the ever-increasing cost of parenthood. And it's a lifestyle that's paying off as dinks
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emerge on top of a shaky economy. So who are the dinks of America? Their ranks are set to grow,
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they're making six figures, and they want to spend their money on their pets and traveling.
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Yes, dink wad if you have a dog, or I guess dink whack if you have a cat, or dink wop if you own a
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pony or a pig or a parrot, or if you're a big Cardi B fan. There are many variations, but they all boil
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down to the fact that you have decided to not have kids. And as the article details, this is a rapidly
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growing group. Quote, around 5% of the country's total population was cohabitating couples who do
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not live with a child under 18, and around 29% of the total population are married couples who do not
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live with a child under 18, according to the 2022 American Community Survey data. Among unmarried
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couples, that figure is slightly up from 2019, when 4.4% of the population was cohabitating couples not
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living with a child under 18. The U.S. Census Bureau also finds that the aging population is
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increasingly child-free. As of 2018, over 1 in 7 women were childless by the time they were
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between the ages of 40 and 44. That's higher than the 1 in 10 women who were in the same boat as of
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1976. A Pew survey found that 44% of non-parents ages 18 to 49 said that they were not likely or not
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at all likely to have kids at all someday, up from 37%. Okay, but what is the dink existence really like?
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Well, this week there has also been, for whatever reason, a sudden surge in TikTok videos promoting
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this lifestyle, and most of them kind of follow the same annoying format, which looks like this. Watch.
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We're dinks. We go to Trader Joe's and workout classes on the weekends. We're dinks. We get into
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snobby hobbies like skiing and golfing. We're dinks. We can go to Florida on a whim. We're dinks. We're
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already planning our European vacation next year. Dinks. We get a full eight hours of sleep and sometimes
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more. We're dinks. We get desserts and appetizers at restaurants. We're dinks. We can play with other
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kids and give them back. We're dinks. We still do it three times a week. We're dinks. We spend our
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discretionary income on $8 latte. We're dinks. We max out our 401ks, Roth IRAs, and HSAs. We're dinks.
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We don't use our kids or dog as an excuse to leave a party. We just leave.
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Yes, well, I'm a cisk single income six kids, and I can do you one better. I make no excuse to leave a
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party because I just don't go to parties in the first place. But I guess it has more to do with
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being aswik, antisocial with kids, which isn't much different from being aswok, antisocial without
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kids. But in any case, you may notice that most of the things they're bragging about besides the
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ability to leave social gatherings when they want to, which I guess they imagine for some reason is
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something parents aren't able to do. But most of the things all revolve around their increased
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ability to buy stuff. And this is a theme that runs through basically all of the dink propaganda.
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We're dinks. We're going to get asked daily when we plan on having kids.
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We're dinks. Of course, we're going to go out to eat every night after work.
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We're dinks. We don't have to ask our family for financial help or to watch our kid when we want
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We're dinks. We're going to go to Costco and buy all the snacks in bulk that we want.
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We're dinks. We have disposable income to spend on whatever we would like and don't have to spend
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We're dinks. I'm going to go to every football game and play 18 holes whenever I want.
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We're dinks. We're going to get asked at every single family event what we're doing with our life.
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Yes, we're dinks. We can buy things. We can consume. Look at all the consuming we do.
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We are such dedicated consumers. You dumb parents with your dumb children. You can't possibly devote
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as much of your life to buying and eating, which is literally the only thing we care about in this
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world apparently. And this is the message over and over again. Another example.
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We're dinks. We're going to be asked constantly by family, friends, and strangers when we're
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We're dinks. We're going to go to Costco and buy all the snacks we want.
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We're dinks. We're going to support our friends who have kids, even if we decide to never have
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We're dinks. We're going to have lots of disposable income to spend on whatever we like.
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We're dinks. We're going to get chastised by people on the internet because they're going to
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assume that we're just obsessed with material things, even though arguably you need a lot more
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We're dinks. We don't need to find a sitter or rope our family into babysitting when we want to go
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We're dinks. We're going to be told the only way that we'll ever be fulfilled in life is by having kids.
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We're dinks. We're going to book flights whenever we feel like it.
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We're dinks. We're still going to stick to a strict budget to meet our financial goals,
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no matter how much wiggle room we have in our finances.
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We're dinks. We're not going to make a life-altering choice just because everybody else is doing it.
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Now, as you're probably noticing, these people apparently have a weird preoccupation with Costco.
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They're making videos providing unsolicited lists of the things that make their lives fulfilling,
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We're kid-free, so we love to treat our furry babies just like children.
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We're kid-free. We always get a full night's sleep and sometimes a nap.
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We're kid-free, so obviously everyone's going to ask us,
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We're kid-free. We love our family and friends' kids, even if we don't want our own.
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Karen's are constantly going to tell us, aren't we afraid of missing out?
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What if you never feel fully fulfilled or unconditional love without them?
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Well, Karen, don't you think that's a lot of pressure to put on your kids?
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We're kid-free. There's only two mouths to feed.
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Okay, this Costco thing is really getting out of control, but let's just one more video.
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Well, I'm freshly married, and I'm going to talk about it.
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No shocker here, folks. Today we went to Costco.
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I mean, I like to buy cereal wholesale too, but I'm not going to make it my whole identity,
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Number one, are you really trying to take ownership of Costco as childless people?
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That's like saying that a benefit of being childless is that you get to go to the Rainforest Cafe.
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I mean, those places exist for us, for parents.
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And for the record, I buy whatever snacks I want for myself whenever I want them,
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My children do not prevent me from indulging in that way.
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The only difference is that if anybody asked me to provide a list of the things that I love most about my life,
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I wouldn't cite the fact that I can buy snacks for myself, okay?
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what's the greatest thing about being you, Matt?
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I wouldn't say that, not because I can't buy snacks,
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but because that's a rather banal detail that I would think is probably not worth mentioning.
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And yet, for dinks, snacks and Costco play apparently a central role in their lives.
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On their deathbeds, while they're lying there alone with no one to mourn them
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or care that they're dying or remember them when they're gone,
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if the hospice nurse, who's the only person who's going to be in the room with them,
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asks them to pass along a final piece of wisdom,
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they will look up and with their final dying breath,
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See, a person's life has to revolve around something,
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it's clear that when people choose to be childless,
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their lives inevitably revolve around pure, self-centered, unadulterated,
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Any one of these videos where these childless people talk about the benefits of being childless,
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Is that, think of all the consumption we can do.
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Now, of course, it's true that the same is the case for many parents in the modern world.
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they will at least say that the thing that gives them purpose and joy
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is their relationship with their children and their spouses.
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They will talk about their families as the foundation of their lives.
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that they are aspiring to something higher and greater than themselves.
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Whether or not they actually live up to their own aspirations is a different story.
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But the dinks don't even aspire to the transcendent.
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For them, there is no meaning in life except in their ability to sleep and eat and buy stuff.
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And this is what makes the rise of the dinks so catastrophic.
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That is, aside from the more immediate and obvious fact that this is a community which,
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if it reaches critical mass, would actually bring about the end of mankind.
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Which, by the way, is a pretty good indication that you're making a bad lifestyle choice.
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If your lifestyle is one that, if adopted by a majority of humans,
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then that is a very powerful sign that there is something seriously wrong with your lifestyle.
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But aside from that, if it's possible to put that detail aside,
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the rise of the childless by choice demographic is the rise of a group that has, in principle,
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given up on finding any meaning in life beyond the multiplication and satisfaction of desire,
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They're so dedicated to this calling, so intent on consumption,
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that they are willing to end their own bloodlines to pursue it.
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They are willing to commit a sort of ancestral suicide,
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Now, just consider specifically that overweight male dink in the video
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Well, one of them anyway, because they all were.
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But take one of those guys and just put them in your mind.
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His ancestors fought and struggled and persevered and pioneered and bled and suffered
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And he stands now at the end of a procession that stretches back into the ancient past.
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A line of people who made his very existence possible,
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who migrated thousands of miles and fought wars and tamed wildernesses
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And he turns back to those people, to his ancestors, to his blood,
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You know, I'm going to end the bloodline right here.
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I'd rather have some extra spending cash to buy Doritos, I've decided.
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Though, of course, I realize that this man would be totally mystified by the notion
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that he has any responsibility at all to his family, his ancestry, his bloodline,
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He's thought only about his own immediate happiness.
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But in pursuing happiness above all, happiness through luxury, happiness through consumption,
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And fulfillment comes from doing that which you are made to do.
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It comes from finding your place in that ancient ancestral struggle,
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from building the next generation so that the fight can go on.
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Happiness comes from fulfilling your purpose in life.
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It comes from pursuing the transcendent, not the transactional.
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So, the dinks will grow in number, but they will also grow in misery.
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They will live superficial lives, and they will die anonymous deaths.
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And if they have their way, they'll take down all of civilization with them.
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But at least they'll get to spend more time at Costco.
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All right, big news to start with from The Daily Wire and also related to The Daily Wire.
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It says, as the article on the homepage right now,
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The Daily Wire, the Federalist, and the state of Texas joined on Tuesday in a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department
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alleging that the government agency funded censorship technology designed to bankrupt domestic media outlets
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The State Department is tasked with foreign relations and has no authority over domestic affairs,
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yet it took a government office designed for countering foreign terrorist propaganda,
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and unleashed it against the Americans engaged in what it claimed was disinformation,
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according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas,
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one of the most audacious, manipulative, secretive, and gravest abuses of power and infringements of First Amendment rights
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by the federal government in American history, said the suit,
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which also names the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and five other officials as defendants.
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The lawsuit asks the judge to declare the State Department's attempt to interfere with domestic speech illegal
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and to permanently bar it from developing, promoting, or encouraging others to use technology
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to de-amplify, shadowban, or restrict the lawful speech of the American press and Americans.
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GEC was founded in 2011 as the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications
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and tasked with countering propaganda of foreign terrorists like al-Qaeda.
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In 2016, it was renamed but kept the same counterterrorism mission.
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In 2017, Congress has made it clear that none of the funds authorized for the entity
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shall be used for purposes other than countering foreign propaganda.
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Nevertheless, GEC turned its focus on Americans.
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The complaint alleges using taxpayer funds to finance the development and promotion of censorship organizations
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such as NewsGuard, which we've talked about on the show,
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and the Global Disinformation Index, which regularly targets conservative media outlets
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such as The Daily Wire and The Federalist with the stated goal of limiting ad revenue.
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Now, there's a lot more to this. I'm not going to read the entire thing.
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It's a long article from Luke Rosiak, but you should go to The Daily Wire and read it
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because it's a very important, very significant free speech case.
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I don't think that this lawsuit from The Daily Wire and The Federalist and others
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is going to get a ton of press, certainly not from the corporate press for obvious reasons,
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but even by other conservatives, I don't think it's going to get a lot of attention
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because it's not sexy, right? It's not flashy or showy.
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Instead, it is a smart and necessary and effective and substantive way
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and we know that very oftentimes the smart, necessary, substantive, effective things
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are the things that don't get a lot of attention.
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They aren't appreciated as much. Be that as it may, this is extremely important
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because this is how censorship works in the modern age.
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So for the most part, the government is not coming in and saying,
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We haven't had the government show up at The Daily Wire offices and say,
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here are things you're not allowed to say anymore.
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They haven't sent federal agents into the office to raid our offices
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and cart me and Ben and Michael and Candace away in handcuffs.
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They haven't done that yet. It may come to that point.
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It may well come to that point, but it hasn't happened yet.
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If Joe Biden wins a second term, I would not be surprised.
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In fact, I would, if Joe Biden wins a second term
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and the country is run by his handlers for a second term,
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I would be surprised if we didn't get to the point
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where they were actually doing federal raids of, you know,
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prominent conservative media outlets and putting people like me in jail.
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Where we are now is it's a more underhanded approach.
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And the approach instead is to conspire to label us misinformation
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and to use that as a pretense to make our content less accessible through algorithms
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which, in the long term, is supposed to have the effect of shutting down our businesses.
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And, you know, that's what makes the whole thing less sort of dramatic,
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because, you know, it's one thing if we came to you and we said,
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the government is telling us we're not allowed to say this thing.
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the government is trying to label our content misinformation
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and make it less accessible through social media algorithms
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Like, when you say that, people's eyes start to gloss over a little bit.
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But they shouldn't, because it is effectively the same thing.
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and point guns at us and say, stop saying that.
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And they're using all these different, you know,
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agencies and programs that were set up for other,
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And they're doing it all under the guise of, quote-unquote, misinformation.
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The people who believe that men can have babies
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these are the ones who are deciding what is misinformation.
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their judgment on what qualifies as misinformation,
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far I've only presented the left's arguments. They're so self-discrediting and so embarrassing that I don't need to play any of the testimony from the witnesses called by the conservatives, witnesses including Riley Gaines, who all, by the way, made eloquent and powerful arguments. They did a tremendous job making the Democrats look like fools. They did an even better job making themselves look like fools. This is the way it goes. The trans argument is so absurd that it quickly becomes self-parody. And at one point in the hearing, Congressman Eric Burleson and Riley Gaines made that exact observation. Watch.
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I just want to say, you know, I just want to say, you know, I just want to say, you know, I just want to say, you know, to Mrs. Gaines, what happened to you is tragic. I mean, what, you were robbed of your, the glory, you were robbed of your opportunity to, um, to be clearly the victor. And it's, if, if it weren't so tragic, it would be comical. I mean, and I understand there's a movie being made, the comedy about this very issue, um, that's on the Daily Wire that I can't wait to see.
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I encourage everyone to watch it. Um, and truthfully, I think that's what's needed. Uh, because what we're seeing again, what myself and my teammates and my competitors saw was a mockery, a mockery of women. Uh, and I believe it's time we mock the mockery through comedy because you're right. It's objectively funny. Uh, it's inherent to, to almost look at this and laugh because it feels like satire. Uh, but watching that movie, uh, to which I watched, uh, it didn't feel like satire.
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It's a documentary of what, again, myself and girls around the country continue to go through.
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And that's the main reason Lady Ballers is so successful is that transgenderism is so incoherent that it's comical. You don't have to exaggerate what these people believe. You don't need to lie about it. Really, all you got to do is take what they're saying to its logical conclusion, put it on camera, and, uh, you get a comedy.
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Put a microphone in front of these lunatics, give them some space, and, um, hilarity naturally ensues as well. That's what we did with Lady Ballers.
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And unfortunately for trans activists and their allies in the Democrat Party, it's exactly what the House Oversight Committee did yesterday. And we all got to see it once again.
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And it's why the Democrats on that committee, and everywhere else in the country, are today canceled.
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That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.