The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1286 - The Epstein Files Are Released But The Cover Up Continues

00:00:00.140 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the long-awaited Epstein files were released yesterday, but the cover-up continues.

00:00:05.240 In fact, this release is part of the cover-up. I'll explain.

00:00:08.020 Also, a new curriculum for schools plans to teach your three-year-old how to be anti-racist.

00:00:12.540 A defendant assaults a judge in court, and it's all caught on video.

00:00:15.720 And CLBC releases a documentary meant to promote the child-free lifestyle, but it unintentionally makes the opposite case.

00:00:21.220 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:41.520 Now, normally, the confirmation process to anoint a new secretary of labor isn't especially interesting.

00:01:47.560 We certainly don't learn anything new or scandalous most of the time, but in 2017, the confirmation process of Alexander Acosta was a very notable exception.

00:01:57.640 At the time, the Trump administration was vetting Acosta, and they asked him whether anything in his past might pose a problem during his confirmation hearings.

00:02:06.400 And that's when Acosta told Trump officials about his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein criminal case back when he was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida in 2007.

00:02:16.880 Now, Acosta recounted that he had agreed to give Epstein like the mother of all sweetheart deals.

00:02:23.140 He granted immunity not only to Epstein, but also to any potential co-conspirators, known or unknown.

00:02:28.800 Acosta also hid the existence of this non-prosecution agreement from Epstein's victims in violation of the law.

00:02:36.220 And as a result of the deal, the federal investigation into Epstein was shut down.

00:02:41.060 Epstein ultimately pleaded guilty to a state charge for procuring a girl for prostitution under the age of 18, and he was out of prison in a few months.

00:02:49.740 Now, all of that was known to the Trump team when they interviewed Acosta.

00:02:53.020 Now, these are the kinds of facts that could have killed his nomination to be Secretary of Labor, but Acosta offered an explanation for his handling of the Epstein case.

00:03:01.100 He told investigators for the Trump administration that he had been directed by U.S. intelligence agencies to let Epstein off the hook.

00:03:08.680 He was told that Epstein, quote, belonged to intelligence, that the matter was, quote, above his pay grade, and that he needed to, quote, leave it alone.

00:03:16.780 Now, when this news broke a couple years later, following Epstein's arrest, Acosta was asked about it, and he refused to say that it was false.

00:03:26.240 He gave maybe the most equivocal answer he could have possibly given.

00:03:30.260 This will go down in history as maybe one of the worst attempts to evade an answer that has ever occurred in a press briefing in Washington, which is really saying something.

00:03:37.820 Watch.

00:03:38.780 Mr. Secretary, were you ever made aware at any point in your handling of this case if Mr. Epstein was an intelligence asset of some sort?

00:03:46.780 Mr. So there has been reporting to that effect, so I'd love to say that.

00:03:49.240 Mr. So there has been reporting to that effect, and let me say there's been reporting to a lot of effects in this case, not just now but over the years.

00:04:01.320 And, again, I would hesitate to take this reporting as fact.

00:04:09.020 This was a case that was brought by our office.

00:04:12.640 It was brought based on the facts.

00:04:15.400 And I look at that reporting and others.

00:04:17.580 I can't address it directly because of our guidelines.

00:04:22.720 But I can tell you that a lot of reporting is just going down rabbit holes.

00:04:27.900 A few more questions.

00:04:30.140 Yes, there's been reporting to that effect.

00:04:32.560 But, you know, there's reporting to a lot of effects.

00:04:36.040 He actually said that.

00:04:36.780 And so that's an admission, obviously.

00:04:40.000 There's no other way to interpret what Acosta was doing there.

00:04:42.620 He's not a particularly good liar.

00:04:45.260 I mean, if it didn't happen, you know, then you just say, no, that's not true.

00:04:50.480 So the non-denial we can take reasonably as confirmation that, yes, Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset.

00:04:58.660 He was being used by the intelligence agencies.

00:05:01.920 And, therefore, he couldn't go to prison for amassing an army of child sex slaves. 0.55

00:05:07.500 And that's not all the help that Epstein and his associates received.

00:05:11.960 On July 6th and July 7th of 2019, shortly after Epstein was arrested on new sex assault charges,

00:05:16.600 FBI agents photographed a variety of evidence in Epstein's New York townhouse.

00:05:22.760 And they discovered binders with CDs and photographs lining the shelves inside a safe, which they opened with a saw.

00:05:31.020 The agents found photographs of pornographic photographs of children.

00:05:36.280 They also discovered even more CDs that had handwritten labels on them with the names, in some cases, of two individuals on some of the labels.

00:05:46.440 Now, it's not hard to conclude that this was probably blackmail material.

00:05:51.760 According to the official story, agents simply photographed all of these items.

00:05:56.680 But they claimed they didn't take them because they didn't have a search warrant.

00:06:00.240 And, incredibly, the agents left the property to get a warrant, which somehow took four days to acquire.

00:06:07.940 So, they went there to raid the property.

00:06:10.640 They found the stuff.

00:06:12.360 They said, oh, whoops, we never got a warrant.

00:06:15.160 And so, they left the stuff there for four days before they came back.

00:06:22.500 And this, by itself, is ridiculous, since in a high-profile case like this,

00:06:26.840 judges could obviously have approved a warrant almost immediately.

00:06:30.240 While agents remained on site.

00:06:32.820 But in this case, the agents left the property.

00:06:35.680 And they didn't come back until four days later.

00:06:38.600 And by that point, the materials they had photographed were missing.

00:06:42.800 Hmm, imagine that.

00:06:44.660 Now, supposedly, one of Epstein's lawyers later brought the property to the FBI.

00:06:48.460 But, of course, there's no way of knowing if the CDs that they brought to the FBI, if they even brought them,

00:06:54.560 are the same ones that were removed from the safe.

00:06:57.160 And we can be pretty sure that they weren't.

00:06:59.080 There's no way of knowing how much evidence was tampered with.

00:07:02.700 But we can assume, as reasonable people, that much of it was.

00:07:07.580 Now, given this history, there was really no conceivable way that we're ever going to learn the truth

00:07:11.900 about exactly what Jeffrey Epstein did and who his associates were.

00:07:16.520 But in 2017, the independent journalist, Mike Cernovich, did his best to get some answers anyway.

00:07:23.320 And, I mean, the kind of thing that you would think, like, the corporate media would be doing, but they have no interest.

00:07:28.920 Cernovich did.

00:07:29.520 He tried to force the government's hand.

00:07:31.280 He filed an intervening motion in an existing defamation case concerning Epstein.

00:07:34.860 And this motion, which went all the way up to a federal appellate court in New York, demanded that the government release information it possessed about Epstein.

00:07:42.880 And the courts ultimately agreed.

00:07:45.080 But just days before documents were set to come out, coincidentally enough, Epstein, and Epstein alone, the only one, was booked on the new sex assault charges by the federal government.

00:07:54.260 And so, coincidentally enough, that arrest delayed the release of the documents pending the prosecution.

00:08:01.180 And, of course, that prosecution never came because Epstein, quote, unquote, committed suicide.

00:08:08.240 The materials in his safe started to disappear.

00:08:11.200 And outside of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's associates evaded scrutiny.

00:08:15.760 And the legal documents containing the names of many Epstein associates, as well as transcripts of key witness depositions, remained redacted.

00:08:24.820 Now, last night, after many years of delays, we finally got a partially unredacted look at some of the documents that Cernovich has been seeking for the better part of a decade.

00:08:38.240 And more documents are expected to be unredacted in the coming days.

00:08:41.780 And so this is just the first batch.

00:08:44.440 But most of the material that we're now allowed to see, as you probably guessed, most of this material is not especially shocking.

00:08:51.320 In fact, before any of this was released, I said on the show a few days ago that if you're expecting them to actually release major, like, damning evidence implicating high-profile people beyond what we already knew,

00:09:07.560 if you were expecting that, then you have way more faith in the system than you should have.

00:09:16.260 And, you know, what I said at the time is that most likely when this thing comes out, it is not even going to come close to living up to the hype.

00:09:24.100 And it appears that I was unfortunately correct.

00:09:28.060 So we all knew, for example, that Bill Clinton had flown on Epstein's private jet, had been photographed with some of Epstein's victims.

00:09:35.460 So we knew about that.

00:09:38.700 I mean, he should already be in prison.

00:09:40.740 It's not ever going to happen.

00:09:42.960 What's new is unredacted testimony from Johanna Joburg, one of Epstein's victims.

00:09:47.900 And she was asked, quote, did Jeffrey ever talk to you about Bill Clinton?

00:09:52.120 In response, Joburg testified that, quote, he said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.

00:09:57.600 Now, it's not clear whether the testimony refers to underage girls.

00:10:02.520 We can assume it does.

00:10:05.440 But nor is this especially new information.

00:10:07.400 That's the main thing.

00:10:09.160 Neither is the fact that, according to one witness, Michael Jackson once visited Epstein at his home in Palm Beach.

00:10:14.600 And to be sure, there are more alarming accusations in these documents, although for the most part they aren't new.

00:10:19.500 There's the testimony from Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre that she was directed by Ghislaine Maxwell to have sex with Prince Andrew, for example.

00:10:27.600 As well as hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin.

00:10:31.260 So that's in the documents.

00:10:33.420 There are also renewed claims in these documents that Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz had sex with one of Epstein's underage victims.

00:10:40.200 Again, we've heard that claim before.

00:10:43.440 Going down the list, the billionaire executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels, Thomas Pritzker, has also alleged in these documents to have had sex with one of Epstein's victims.

00:10:50.620 Pritzker, incidentally, is related to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, as well as the Harvard board member Penny Pritzker,

00:10:56.340 who played a key role in promoting Claudine Gay to the Harvard presidency.

00:11:00.060 So just in case you thought this week somehow couldn't get any worse for Harvard, it just continues.

00:11:05.240 Now, there are some mildly interesting tidbits, all the same.

00:11:07.920 For example, the magician David Copperfield's name appears in these documents, and he appeared to be aware that Epstein was recruiting underage girls.

00:11:15.760 There's no direct evidence in the documents that Copperfield himself engaged in illegal activity.

00:11:22.480 There's also the news that Epstein wrote an email explicitly denying that Stephen Hawking had ever participated in an orgy at his island,

00:11:31.680 which is like a strange email to write.

00:11:34.820 You know, that's, yes, he's denying it.

00:11:37.160 That, in and of itself, seems pretty damning.

00:11:40.620 The only thing worse than being named in an email by Jeffrey Epstein as having participated in one of his orgies

00:11:46.500 is being specifically named as someone who didn't.

00:11:50.780 But regardless, this isn't exactly groundbreaking stuff, nor does it provide much clarity.

00:11:56.880 And there are still many more questions than answers.

00:11:59.060 If you go through the nearly 600-page documents that were released last night,

00:12:03.220 you'll still find a lot of very conspicuous redactions.

00:12:06.020 On page 497, for example, you'll find this question that was posed to Virginia Giuffre.

00:12:10.960 It says, quote,

00:12:11.780 Gisle Maxwell told you to go give a massage to Redacted, correct? 1.00

00:12:16.280 The name of the person is Hidden.

00:12:17.820 And by the same token, on page 502, you'll find this question to Giuffre.

00:12:20.800 Other than Glenn Dubin Redacted, Prince Andrew, Jean-Luc Brunel, Bill Richardson, another prince,

00:12:26.560 the large hotel chain owner, and the late MIT professor Marvin Minsky, 0.97

00:12:30.060 is there anyone else Gisle and Maxwell directed you to go have sex with?

00:12:32.900 Now, once again, there's a name missing from the list in that question.

00:12:37.220 And for some reason, we're still not allowed to know who that is.

00:12:41.200 Now, there could be good reasons for concealing some of the names.

00:12:44.880 Maybe some of the names are underage victims of Epstein, so are not being named.

00:12:49.000 That makes sense.

00:12:50.880 On the other hand, maybe it's someone with a lot of power

00:12:53.240 who's still under the control of the intelligence agencies.

00:12:56.560 We really have no idea.

00:12:59.160 And whatever the case, there are a lot more redactions like this.

00:13:02.100 You can download the documents and see for yourself.

00:13:04.540 What this means is that several years after Epstein's death,

00:13:08.480 we're still left to fill in the blanks of these court documents

00:13:11.900 that were supposed to be made public before Epstein died.

00:13:15.000 We're not entitled to know anything more than basically what we already knew.

00:13:18.920 And we're definitely not allowed to know what exactly was on those blackmail CDs

00:13:24.800 that disappeared mysteriously from Epstein's safe.

00:13:29.020 But most of what appears in the documents released yesterday leave plenty of plausible deniability for those named.

00:13:35.120 None of it amounts to actual solid proof of wrongdoing.

00:13:40.840 Again, raising more questions than answers.

00:13:42.860 But there's very good reason to believe that there exists out there somewhere,

00:13:46.680 or did exist at one point, actual, physical, direct proof

00:13:51.300 that a bunch of powerful people raped children on Epstein's island,

00:13:56.260 or on one of his other properties.

00:13:57.260 Like, we know that that exists or existed out there somewhere.

00:14:05.500 But that proof is not being released.

00:14:08.280 And nobody's ever been arrested.

00:14:11.380 It's a funny thing, isn't it? 0.92

00:14:12.580 Epstein was an international pimp and pedophile, 0.65

00:14:15.680 but apparently he had no clients. 0.99

00:14:18.960 An international pimp with no clients. 0.99

00:14:22.640 I mean, he was pimping out these sex slaves, but to who? 0.99

00:14:28.160 Apparently nobody. 0.98

00:14:30.400 That's what we're supposed to believe anyway.

00:14:32.640 But we can't believe that because it's nonsense.

00:14:35.500 Which means that the truth, the real truth, the full truth,

00:14:38.880 is still being kept secret from us.

00:14:41.800 And those are secrets, as Alexander Acosta said,

00:14:44.060 that are above our pay grade, quote, unquote.

00:14:46.600 And they will remain above our pay grade,

00:14:48.840 at least until the people Epstein was blackmailing step out of line.

00:14:53.300 Then we might see the names on some of those CDs.

00:14:57.260 Then we might learn the identity of at least some of the people

00:15:01.400 in those binders in his New York townhouse.

00:15:05.220 Otherwise, the feds will continue to stonewall, Cernovich, 0.98

00:15:07.620 and everyone else who's been seeking the truth.

00:15:09.400 And that's because more than four years after Jeffrey Epstein's death,

00:15:14.220 he still belongs to the intelligence agencies.

00:15:17.340 You know, the CIA has a term that maybe you've seen circulating over the last day.

00:15:22.960 It's a term called limited hangout.

00:15:26.100 And this is a tactic where some small portion of the truth,

00:15:30.160 and this usually happens when a cover is blown and people know something's up.

00:15:35.660 The tactic is to take some small portion of the truth and make it public,

00:15:41.100 while the most important details, the stuff that really matters,

00:15:44.820 the key information is still kept hidden.

00:15:46.860 And intelligence agencies do this in hopes that the stuff they release

00:15:51.640 will satisfy everyone's curiosity, and they'll stop asking questions.

00:15:58.060 These Epstein files appear to be exactly that.

00:16:01.440 This is a limited hangout, a diversion meant to satisfy you

00:16:05.880 without actually telling you what you need to know,

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00:17:17.180 Daily Wire has a report, says, the title is,

00:17:20.040 Academics Call for Critical Race Theory to be Taught in Kindergarten,

00:17:24.420 Warn of Racist Three-Year-Olds.

00:17:26.760 Gotta watch out for those racist three-year-olds. 0.99

00:17:28.380 It says, academics and activists teamed up to create a guide to teaching critical race theory

00:17:33.860 to young children, arguing that kids exhibit racial bias from as young as three years old.

00:17:38.940 Titled Reflections on Children's Racial Learning,

00:17:41.940 the guide was created by a leftist organization called Embrace Race

00:17:44.780 and shares strategies to effectively inculcate liberal beliefs on race among young children.

00:17:49.340 It was written in part by professors at prominent universities,

00:17:51.440 such as the University of North Carolina and Wake Forest University,

00:17:53.580 who urged parents to have courageous conversations about race with their toddlers.

00:17:59.360 It says, quote,

00:18:00.060 children will naturally grow up to be non-racist adults only when they live in a non-racist society.

00:18:05.260 Until then, adults must guide children's anti-racist development.

00:18:10.380 The guide adds, quote,

00:18:11.660 We have far to go before the U.S. can be considered a non-racist society.

00:18:18.000 It also claims that, quote,

00:18:19.260 By about three to four years old, white children generally show clear pro-white biases.

00:18:25.340 Embrace Race, the organization behind the guide,

00:18:27.220 claims that children's racial sensibilities begin to form in infancy

00:18:30.380 and that kids develop racial and other biases by kindergarten.

00:18:34.480 Embrace Race bemoans that most racial learning doesn't take place until middle or high school

00:18:39.740 and exist to provide resources for early and elementary childhood educators.

00:18:46.880 Now, you notice a few things are interesting here.

00:18:48.880 You notice how, you know, they say we have far to go before we live in a non-racist society.

00:18:55.820 But as far as I can tell, they don't really give any indication of what a non-racist society would look like

00:19:00.880 or how we'll know when we achieve it.

00:19:04.380 You know, like if you're going to talk about a non-racist society

00:19:08.340 and we got far to go to get, okay, well, if we have far to go before we get there,

00:19:12.000 that means that we can get there.

00:19:14.040 And what does that look like? How do we know?

00:19:16.480 How do we know we're getting closer?

00:19:19.280 Well, they don't really explain that.

00:19:20.640 It's not because they have no vision of what a non-racist society would be.

00:19:24.800 They do have a vision of it.

00:19:26.100 Now, of course, in reality, a non-racist society is impossible.

00:19:32.160 A society without racism, that's like talking about a society without anger

00:19:36.320 or a society without hatred or a society without sadness.

00:19:41.300 You know, that only exists in crappy John Lennon lyrics.

00:19:46.260 In reality, we will always have all of those things to some extent,

00:19:50.440 and that will always exist in any human society.

00:19:55.660 But in fact, you know, we already came about as close to being a non-racist society

00:20:02.740 as any society could ever reasonably expect to come.

00:20:07.820 We were never non-racist completely.

00:20:09.880 Again, no human society ever will be.

00:20:12.440 But I think we came about as close as you can come.

00:20:15.520 I'd say America from about 1995 to 2008 was not non-racist completely.

00:20:23.800 You know, it was racism among all races of people.

00:20:27.000 But it was the most non-racist society that has ever existed on Earth.

00:20:32.640 I mean, like, easily.

00:20:34.220 There's not even a close second.

00:20:36.920 So we got as close to the non-racist utopia as you could possibly get,

00:20:42.080 although you can never get all the way there.

00:20:44.020 And that is until Barack Obama got into office

00:20:48.120 and set to work to deliberately provoke racial tension

00:20:52.460 and get the tribalism, you know, going again

00:20:55.660 and setting back race relations by about a century.

00:21:00.440 And he did it on purpose.

00:21:03.360 This was all intentional.

00:21:04.840 But before that, for, you know, before what certainly has already gone down

00:21:12.840 as the most disastrous presidency in American history,

00:21:17.060 which will be, if it's topped by anyone, it will only be by Biden.

00:21:20.480 But I think even Biden can't, probably can't beat that.

00:21:23.600 But before that, for about a decade before that, you know,

00:21:27.400 that was about as good as it's ever going to get racially in this country or any country.

00:21:35.320 But that's not what they're talking about when they say non-racist country.

00:21:39.720 For them, and this is why they won't spell it out,

00:21:43.220 for them a non-racist country is a country without white people.

00:21:46.920 That's what they mean.

00:21:48.060 So when they say non-racist country, they mean non-white country. 0.99

00:21:51.400 So get rid of the white people, and then you'll have a society without racism. 0.99

00:21:57.780 Which is nonsense, of course. 1.00

00:21:59.320 Like, non-white countries are by far more racist than white ones. 0.98

00:22:03.920 And, I mean, that's undeniable. 0.96

00:22:05.720 But that's what they're talking about.

00:22:07.960 That's what they mean.

00:22:09.780 And that's why they say that white kids show racial preferences at a young age.

00:22:13.720 They don't say anything about black kids. 1.00

00:22:14.840 This is supposedly a sickness that only white kids are infected with. 0.99

00:22:21.700 Which, by the way, you know, I actually don't deny, or I wouldn't doubt, 0.97

00:22:26.860 that white kids at the age of three or four show, in some sense, 0.51

00:22:32.200 like pro-white racial bias or preference or whatever.

00:22:36.280 Just like kids of other races do for their race. 0.98

00:22:40.180 I mean, I wouldn't doubt that. 0.98

00:22:41.800 I haven't looked at any of these dumb studies they've done, 0.97

00:22:43.840 but it wouldn't surprise me. 0.98

00:22:47.100 That doesn't mean that the kids are racist.

00:22:49.020 There are no racist three-year-olds running around.

00:22:52.260 That's not what's happening.

00:22:53.860 All that means is that a three-year-old is going to look at himself

00:22:58.220 and look at his family and look at his parents

00:23:00.100 and kind of naturally identify himself

00:23:02.960 and maybe feel safer with people who look like that,

00:23:07.560 who look like his parents.

00:23:09.100 And that's perfectly normal.

00:23:10.460 It's perfectly human.

00:23:11.180 It's not racism.

00:23:11.740 And if you find that kind of, you know, instinct,

00:23:18.560 you find it in children of all races.

00:23:21.520 And I don't even know what studies they've done to prove this. 0.98

00:23:25.180 I'm sure their studies are ridiculous.

00:23:26.740 But I would guess that if you did, I don't know, 0.97

00:23:30.700 some kind of study where you took a white three-year-old

00:23:34.640 and you, I don't know, you showed him a generic white woman 1.00

00:23:39.120 and a generic black woman, 1.00

00:23:40.360 and you let him choose which one would babysit him

00:23:44.560 while his parents are out for a few hours,

00:23:48.080 if he did something like that,

00:23:49.260 he probably would choose the white woman 1.00

00:23:50.700 because she looks more like his mom. 0.98

00:23:54.280 Do the same thing with a black three-year-old, 0.99

00:23:55.860 it's good to choose the black woman, 1.00

00:23:57.080 Asian, choose the Asian, and so on. 0.85

00:24:00.360 And so I'm guessing that their studies are kind of like along those lines,

00:24:04.160 but maybe not exactly that.

00:24:05.540 And all that would show is that people, you know,

00:24:07.820 initially gravitate towards those who look like them,

00:24:11.200 who look like their tribe, their family,

00:24:13.440 you know, the people that are closest to them.

00:24:14.720 Does that mean that you need some kind of re-education camp,

00:24:22.440 some kind of intensive curriculum to get rid of those instincts?

00:24:26.340 Does that mean you need to have difficult conversations

00:24:28.840 with your three-year-old about race?

00:24:31.440 I don't know about you,

00:24:32.140 but I've never talked to my three-year-old about race.

00:24:33.980 I don't even know what that would look like, okay,

00:24:36.360 because I'm not an insane person.

00:24:38.000 So I've never sat down with my three-year-old and said,

00:24:40.000 let's have a discussion about race.

00:24:43.460 It's never happened.

00:24:45.520 And I never will.

00:24:49.740 Because those instincts are not driven by animus.

00:24:54.360 You know, it's a basic survival instinct.

00:24:56.120 But if kids are around people of other races,

00:24:59.620 then naturally they start to make friends with those other kids,

00:25:04.080 and just everything will be fine.

00:25:07.320 You know, I had, growing up in that zone of, you know, 1995, 2008,

00:25:12.780 I had friends of all different ethnicities when I was a kid.

00:25:16.640 Never had any racial training, okay?

00:25:18.620 We never had any, I'm sure we had,

00:25:21.800 there were times when the guidance counselor would come in and say,

00:25:24.800 oh, you know, racism is bad, kids.

00:25:27.160 So I'm sure we had a little bit of that,

00:25:28.260 but we didn't have any kind of critical race theory,

00:25:31.300 intensive racial training.

00:25:32.420 Didn't happen.

00:25:32.880 And we just went to school and there were kids of all different ethnicities and backgrounds and whatever,

00:25:38.180 and we just made friends with kids and we didn't think much about it.

00:25:41.300 It was normal.

00:25:42.100 It wasn't a big deal.

00:25:42.900 If you don't make it a big deal, it won't be a big deal for kids.

00:25:48.200 Which isn't to say they don't notice.

00:25:49.720 Like, of course they notice.

00:25:52.060 You know, they notice that people look different.

00:25:54.740 It doesn't necessarily mean much to them.

00:26:00.060 Unless you make it a big deal.

00:26:01.920 You leave kids alone about the race stuff,

00:26:04.440 and everything is going to be basically fine.

00:26:08.780 But as we know, the racial education is meant to create racism, not to cure it.

00:26:16.420 And so that really is the point.

00:26:19.400 It's, you know, if you sit the kids down and you make them focus intensely on that,

00:26:27.580 because they're not focused on it.

00:26:29.060 They're not thinking much about it.

00:26:32.620 Which, if you really wanted to have less racism in society,

00:26:35.640 then that is the attitude you'd want kids to have.

00:26:38.280 You'd want them to just not really be that focused on it.

00:26:42.460 You make them focus on it,

00:26:43.800 and then you create exactly the sort of environment that these people want.

00:26:48.880 Speaking of creating racism, not curing it,

00:26:54.420 we've got another.

00:26:55.440 It seems like there's been a kind of revival of the statue-toppling brigade.

00:27:02.280 They never went away, but it's kind of,

00:27:04.140 they toppled all the statues, and they took a break, I guess, for a few months,

00:27:07.220 and now they're back at it again.

00:27:09.060 So, this is from USA Today.

00:27:11.600 Cruz removed a Confederate monument from a Jacksonville, Florida park earlier Wednesday morning

00:27:16.900 after years of debate and controversy over its removal.

00:27:19.900 Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan ordered the removal of the Tribute to the Women of the Southern

00:27:24.360 Confederacy Monument, which has stood north of downtown in Springfield Park since 1915.

00:27:32.100 Deegan said the monument was a divisive presence that had no place in a city park.

00:27:35.800 She said, quote,

00:27:37.460 Well, symbols matter.

00:27:38.560 They tell the world that we, what we stand for and what we aspire to be.

00:27:41.580 By removing the Confederate monument from Springfield Park, we signal a belief in our shared humanity,

00:27:46.080 that we're all created equal, the same flesh and bones, the same blood running through our veins,

00:27:50.320 the same heart and soul.

00:27:51.460 A crowd gathered on the sidewalk erupted in shears as Cruz took down two bronze statues,

00:27:57.320 one of a woman in robes carrying a Confederate flag and the other of a woman reading to two children.

00:28:02.160 Opponents of the removal, State Representative Dean Black, blasted the move as a stunning abuse of power by Deegan.

00:28:08.880 He said doing it without consulting city leaders or having a vote by the city council is another

00:28:12.820 in a long line of woke Democrats' obsession with cancel culture and tearing down history.

00:28:16.980 So once again, this was something that was done just like over Arlington National Cemetery.

00:28:21.440 I mean, they're doing this without any authority to do it.

00:28:25.420 They're just taking it upon themselves to do it.

00:28:27.020 But here's some photos.

00:28:28.800 I just want you to see photos of them taking down the statue.

00:28:32.600 So there they are.

00:28:35.680 I just want you to get a look at that statue.

00:28:38.400 Look how offensive that is.

00:28:40.960 Look how gross and offensive and objectionable.

00:28:47.020 I'm sure I'm glad they got rid of that finally.

00:28:50.860 I mean, look at that.

00:28:52.540 Just terrible.

00:28:53.360 You know, a woman reading to a child. 0.91

00:28:58.820 Very offensive stuff.

00:29:00.580 It's just gratuitous.

00:29:02.460 You can't have that in a park.

00:29:05.040 What will the children think?

00:29:06.420 What will the children think if they look at that statue of a woman reading?

00:29:12.360 Well, once again, you know what the children will think?

00:29:13.700 They'll think nothing.

00:29:14.660 Like, they'll think, oh, that's a pretty statue.

00:29:17.940 It'll be no big deal to them unless you make it a big deal.

00:29:25.580 You know, I was thinking about this the other day, you know, because they say that, I mean, and this one is a particularly egregious example, where they tear down a statue that, it's like, you look at the statue, and even you can read, in most cases, like the plaques and stuff.

00:29:41.200 But it doesn't look offensive.

00:29:44.320 Nothing about it appears objectionable.

00:29:47.400 These are, for the most part, not statues showing, like, a plantation owner beating a slave or something.

00:29:55.460 That's not what these statues are.

00:29:57.800 This one is a woman who's reading to her children.

00:29:59.960 But they say, well, even though they don't look offensive, they have to come down because of the intention behind them.

00:30:08.920 That's what they say.

00:30:10.280 And the claim is that the monuments went up during Jim Crow as a racist symbol, and so they have to be removed.

00:30:16.860 Now, I don't think that's true for most of them.

00:30:20.000 Many of them, including this one, did go up 100 years ago, which is all the more reason to keep it up, by the way, the fact that it's been there for 100 years.

00:30:31.180 That in and of itself, just because something is there for 100 years, in and of itself alone is not always a reason to let it stay there.

00:30:38.600 But that should always be a factor in its favor.

00:30:41.460 However, and I don't agree that these statues had racist intentions, but even if that was true, I mean, let's pretend that they had racist intentions in putting up the statues in some of these cases.

00:30:55.820 Well, first of all, why can't we give the statues a new intention, a new meaning?

00:31:01.540 You know, if the person who put up the reading statue was a racist engaged in a racist conspiracy, why can't we look at the statue and today and see it as, well, we could say, well, that might be what he intended.

00:31:16.580 But today we see it as it promotes motherhood and family, literacy.

00:31:23.660 And before you say that's ridiculous, you know, you say, well, we can't come up with a new meaning for a statue.

00:31:29.140 Well, this happens all the time. 0.72

00:31:34.700 Look at what happened with the N-word.

00:31:36.780 An actual racial slur was taken and turned into like this all-purpose word that appears five times per sentence in every rap song.

00:31:46.280 It's even used as a term of endearment.

00:31:49.580 And say what you want about that.

00:31:51.240 The point is just saying that, you know, a racial slur can become a greeting for the people who the slur was originally used against.

00:32:01.660 And yet a statue of a woman reading to a child can't be interpreted or seen in any way beyond how it was allegedly intended when it was erected 100 years ago.

00:32:10.260 And again, I'm not agreeing that it had a racist intention.

00:32:14.760 I'm saying for the sake of argument.

00:32:17.840 But here's the more important point.

00:32:19.660 It's if.

00:32:21.400 If the alleged intent behind the statue is what matters more even than like the statue itself.

00:32:28.860 Then so does the intent behind removing it.

00:32:32.100 And this has always been my argument all along.

00:32:34.020 Or one of my arguments anyway.

00:32:38.740 No matter how you feel about these statues in a vacuum, what you have to remember is the intent, the people who are taking it down, why are they doing it?

00:32:51.020 And what message are they trying to send?

00:32:55.560 You can claim that the statues were not intended to be unifying.

00:32:58.820 But you removing the statue is also not intended to be unifying.

00:33:05.360 None of this is about racial unity or healing or anything like that.

00:33:12.940 And it never has been.

00:33:15.860 This is part of a radical left-wing campaign to erase history and to rewrite it.

00:33:24.960 I mean, that is the intention.

00:33:27.220 That's what they're trying to do.

00:33:28.820 Which is why if you're a smart person, even if you tend to feel yucky about these statues for whatever reason, you should still say.

00:33:41.580 And even if, as I said all along, some of these individual statues, you might look at some of them individually in a vacuum and say,

00:33:49.780 Yeah, you know, for that particular one or this one, I can see an argument for taking it down.

00:33:55.600 Even if you said that to yourself, you should still be smart enough to realize that, okay, yeah, I can see an argument in a vacuum, but we're not in a vacuum.

00:34:03.240 And even if there's an argument for taking this particular statue down or that statue down, it should not be taken down like this. 0.98

00:34:09.100 It should not be done as part of a moral panic in response to the drug overdose death of a scumbag criminal. 0.96

00:34:21.740 You know, that's not, even if I don't like the statue, you can find a statue that I don't even like. 0.98

00:34:29.240 And if you had this mob coming to tear it down, I would say, no.

00:34:32.580 You know what?

00:34:34.840 Now I'm a fan of the statue because not you people.

00:34:37.620 You're not going to be the ones to do this.

00:34:39.300 And not for this reason.

00:34:45.020 That should be how we look at these things.

00:34:46.460 Yeah, one other thing here that this video has gone viral, pretty disturbing and kind of certainly shocking.

00:34:57.080 KTNV in Las Vegas has a story.

00:35:01.320 Channel 13 has obtained video of a Clark County District Court judge being violently attacked by a man during a hearing on Wednesday morning.

00:35:07.840 The man involved in the attack is, it looks like his name is Debra.

00:35:16.540 Deobra?

00:35:17.940 D-E-O-B-R-A. 1.00

00:35:21.480 You give birth to a son, you name him Debra?

00:35:27.920 It's probably not Debra, it's probably Deobra or something like that, but it's too close to Debra.

00:35:32.240 Anyway.

00:35:34.280 I mean, that's really not the point at all.

00:35:35.980 The man involved in the attack is Debra DeLone Redden, who is being sentenced for aggravated battery with substantial bodily harm prior to the attack on Judge Mary Kay Holthus.

00:35:46.520 He entered a guilty plea in a previous hearing.

00:35:49.720 The video shows Judge Holthus denying Redden's request for probation due to his criminal history and preparing to sentence him to jail time.

00:35:58.800 So, this is a very interesting case because of, along with being disturbing,

00:36:04.100 as we have talked about plenty on this show, we have a real serious crisis in this country of violent criminals being released from jail,

00:36:16.580 given probation, allowed out on bail, paroled, whatever the case may be.

00:36:22.100 You know, they are allowed to avoid jail time or they're released from jail,

00:36:25.320 even though they are still violent criminals, like they are violent people. 0.63

00:36:34.020 And so, in this case, you had at least one judge in Las Vegas who said,

00:36:39.300 no, you know what, you committed a violent crime, we're not just going to let you go free.

00:36:44.380 You have to go to jail.

00:36:46.240 And right in that moment, this guy, this criminal, decided to prove exactly why that judge was correct in making that decision.

00:36:57.500 Let's watch the tape.

00:36:59.320 I appreciate that, but I think it's time that he gets a taste of something else,

00:37:03.080 because I just can't with that history.

00:37:05.680 In accordance with the laws of the state of Nevada, this court is...

00:37:07.240 No, no, no, no, no.

00:37:37.240 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:37:44.220 Hey, get off her. Get off her. Get off her. 1.00

00:37:46.660 Oh, man.

00:37:46.980 You're good. You're good. Stop.

00:37:48.600 Don't do this.

00:37:49.840 Please, please, please.

00:37:52.080 Hey, where's Mary Kay? 1.00

00:37:54.060 All right.

00:37:54.660 She okay?

00:37:56.280 So apparently the judge, from what I understand, the judge was basically uninjured, thank God, in the attack.

00:38:02.300 Somebody, there was another injury, though. Someone else was injured.

00:38:07.240 And somehow the guy, now, I mean, personally, they spent, and that video goes on, I mean,

00:38:15.420 they spent at least a minute, they spent at least like a full 60 seconds trying to pry

00:38:22.020 this guy off of the judge in the courtroom that he was assaulting.

00:38:27.860 You know, one question I have is like, why does he get 60 seconds?

00:38:32.200 I'd give him like zero seconds.

00:38:34.840 I mean, from the time when the assault happens to when you pull your gun, there should be

00:38:42.200 like one second that elapses.

00:38:43.880 Now, it might be the case that they weren't able to do that because if they had done that,

00:38:47.960 depending on what was happening, maybe the judge, you know, you'd end up harming the judge

00:38:52.000 in the process.

00:38:52.460 So that might be why.

00:38:55.540 But if there's ever a time to use lethal force, it's when someone is physically assaulting a

00:39:02.520 judge in a courtroom.

00:39:04.840 There are many other times to use it too, but that should be one of them.

00:39:10.640 And now, the articles about this attack all mention that this guy is expected to face

00:39:17.360 additional charges.

00:39:18.540 Well, yeah, I'd certainly hope so.

00:39:21.820 And the additional sentence, like, he should go to jail for 100 years now.

00:39:24.980 They should pass down a sentence of 100 years in prison, which obviously means you're going

00:39:31.740 to die in prison.

00:39:34.580 Because this is, you cannot allow this.

00:39:38.160 I mean, for all we hear about protecting the integrity of our system and all the rest of

00:39:44.100 it, you need to make an example of this guy.

00:39:47.720 So he was upset because he was going to, it probably would have been a relatively small

00:39:51.860 amount of jail time, given the charges.

00:39:55.720 Now you come back and you bring him in in chains this time. 1.00

00:39:59.480 You bring him in chained and you say, hey, guess what, scumbag? 1.00

00:40:03.500 Now you're going to jail for 100 years. 1.00

00:40:04.960 Good job.

00:40:05.800 Your life's over.

00:40:06.440 Your life's over because we don't, you know, society, we don't need you.

00:40:11.400 You'll never be in society again. 0.64

00:40:13.080 You're going to suffer in a cage for the rest of your life.

00:40:15.760 Congratulations.

00:40:17.800 That's what should happen.

00:40:18.580 If you're serious about defending the integrity of our justice system, what little of it is

00:40:23.160 left.

00:40:24.740 If you want to see a lot more of this kind of thing, then come back with an additional

00:40:28.620 charge and put him in jail for like a year because of it, if you want to see more of this.

00:40:31.680 But again, I mean, this, this is exactly why, you know, she, she unfortunately was made to

00:40:39.840 pay a price for it, but this, this proves exactly why this judge made the right decision.

00:40:46.540 You can hear what she said prior to passing down the sentence.

00:40:50.520 She said, no, you know, this based on the charges you get, you need a taste.

00:40:54.540 I think she said, you need a taste of something else.

00:40:56.160 You need a taste of justice is what you need.

00:40:57.680 And prior to that, this guy was making a, he was given the normal sob story.

00:41:04.240 Oh, I'll never do it again.

00:41:05.580 I'm a chair.

00:41:06.140 I've changed my ways.

00:41:07.280 Your honor, I'm a different person.

00:41:09.820 You see, I've, I've, I've, I'll never, I'm, I'm, I'll never do it again.

00:41:13.700 I'm, I've been reformed.

00:41:16.000 And how many times do judges get this sob story?

00:41:18.340 And for whatever reason, they believe it.

00:41:21.960 And they send the person back out on the street until something heinous happens.

00:41:26.060 And this guy's, this guy switches in like 30 seconds from, I've changed my ways to leaping

00:41:32.620 over the judge's bench and assaulting the judge in the courtroom.

00:41:35.700 Tells you everything he needs to know.

00:41:37.560 Let's get to what's well strong.

00:41:42.900 First comment says, Matt, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree that enjoyment of making

00:41:46.620 people uncomfortable is a sign of sadism.

00:41:48.740 All during pride month, I wore a shirt that read, I don't care about your pronouns. 0.92

00:41:52.020 In addition, I have a punk rock patch jacket I made myself.

00:41:55.820 And one of the patches I made reads, it's a child, not a choice.

00:41:58.860 Both of these statements are true, but they make many people uncomfortable.

00:42:02.120 They don't cause discomfort because they're wrong or perverted or because I'm a sadist,

00:42:05.600 but because society has become wrong and perverted when it comes to sex binary and the value of

00:42:10.300 human life.

00:42:11.240 I enjoy and delight in the discomfort and seething rage I supplant in feminists. 1.00

00:42:15.800 When they read my clothing and pray for the day, one of them decides to challenge me so

00:42:19.060 I can further burst their comfort bubble by asking them, what is a woman? 1.00

00:42:23.920 Yeah, well, I think that that is joy that you are taking really in the truth and in telling

00:42:29.700 the truth.

00:42:30.440 And there's nothing wrong with that.

00:42:31.300 I also take joy of that.

00:42:35.120 What we had from the, who was going to be the new director of Star Wars yesterday, is saying

00:42:40.940 that she takes, she takes, she enjoys just making men in general uncomfortable, which 0.99

00:42:49.000 I would put, I would put an entirely different category.

00:42:53.960 And all you, to understand how sadistic that is, that's a statement like, I enjoy making

00:42:59.480 men uncomfortable.

00:43:00.060 All you have to do is imagine what it would sound like.

00:43:04.880 I mean, you said, yeah, I like making the feminists uncomfortable when I say truthful things around 1.00

00:43:08.440 them.

00:43:09.760 But imagine a man saying, not feminist, but a man saying, I enjoy making women uncomfortable. 0.98

00:43:16.540 Imagine a man saying that. 0.95

00:43:19.480 You hear that, you think, well, this guy's like a predator.

00:43:21.740 That's, you, you enjoy making women in general uncomfortable?

00:43:25.640 You enjoy it?

00:43:28.400 You should be, you should be on a registry somewhere.

00:43:33.480 Um, and it's just as disturbing and creepy when a woman says it. 0.98

00:43:39.280 And in this case, it's going to be the woman of, who's directing the next Star Wars film, 0.98

00:43:43.580 which are still films that it's like a vastly majority male audience that goes to see these

00:43:48.200 Star Wars films.

00:43:48.700 I don't know why.

00:43:49.360 I don't know why men still go see Star Wars.

00:43:51.240 I don't know why anyone still goes to see Star Wars.

00:43:52.880 I mean, people still go see Star Wars films, even though we all, everyone acknowledges that

00:44:01.640 if there was ever a good Star Wars movie, the last one was in like 1983 or something.

00:44:08.300 And people still go see them.

00:44:11.760 Now, of course, as you know, my, my opinion on this, there has never been a good Star Wars

00:44:16.480 movie at all, but if there ever was one, uh, it's been like 40 years since, since there's

00:44:22.680 been a good one.

00:44:25.180 And people still go, I think, I think at this point from what I can tell, uh, you know,

00:44:31.960 people still go see the Star Wars films one, because it's just like a, it's a compulsion

00:44:37.580 or something.

00:44:38.860 But also I think it's this weird, like, like Star Wars fans now being a Star Wars fan from

00:44:43.860 what I can tell is as much about enjoying Star Wars as it is about like complaining about

00:44:50.340 the new ones.

00:44:51.540 And so it's a whole new, the next Star Wars movie, everyone knows is going to be terrible.

00:44:56.700 And yet the fans will go see it so they can see how terrible it is and then complain about

00:45:03.100 it.

00:45:05.080 So they'll still make a billion dollars just on that alone. 1.00

00:45:08.040 I can't believe Matt repeats the idiotic claim that the world isn't overpopulated because 0.99

00:45:11.880 I don't know, every human on earth could fit in the Grand Canyon. 1.00

00:45:16.100 Every problem we have is only made worse by more people and our way of life is already

00:45:21.080 tottering.

00:45:22.700 Another one says the world is overpopulated.

00:45:24.360 It's not just about how many people can fit in an area.

00:45:26.700 It's about the resources that are needed to sustain all the people.

00:45:29.960 Nature is out of balance because we are using and destroying far too many natural resources.

00:45:34.680 Learn some science, Matt.

00:45:37.560 Yeah, it's good to know science.

00:45:40.320 Part of knowing science is like understanding the basic facts of the world that we, this planet

00:45:48.380 that we live on and how vastly enormous it is.

00:45:52.460 And I don't just mean in terms of the amount of space, but also in the resources that it

00:45:59.440 produces and can produce.

00:46:01.460 I mean, the fact of the matter is that we are obviously nowhere close to running out of

00:46:06.820 space.

00:46:07.400 We're also nowhere close to running out of resources.

00:46:12.160 We're not even, we're not close to it.

00:46:15.060 And adding more people doesn't mean, it doesn't mean that we all have less resources to split

00:46:20.240 among us.

00:46:20.600 It doesn't work that way.

00:46:21.260 And one of the ways you know that is, I mean, look back 300 years ago.

00:46:28.500 There were far more people living in poverty 300 years ago than there are today.

00:46:35.040 And yet there's a fraction of the population.

00:46:39.540 That's interesting, isn't it?

00:46:40.740 Now, yes, there are plenty of people living in poverty today as well.

00:46:47.200 And there are plenty of people who live in places where they don't have access to some

00:46:52.720 of these basic resources like food and clean water.

00:46:56.400 But that's not because there are too many people around.

00:47:00.520 You know, that's a problem with corrupt governments.

00:47:02.520 That's a problem with the lack of infrastructure.

00:47:05.020 That's a, you know, that's what it comes down to.

00:47:07.440 Political corruption, infrastructure, all these things.

00:47:13.080 But if you were to go into those areas where they're into, I don't know, Somalia or something

00:47:22.880 where there's just dirt poverty and people without access to basic resources and you were to erase

00:47:30.760 half of the people who live there, guess what?

00:47:34.820 The half that still survive, they're going to be in the same spot they were.

00:47:37.760 Because it's not about there being too many people.

00:47:44.300 And it's not a problem that can be solved by reducing the number of people or having population

00:47:49.660 or the population trends reverse.

00:47:51.700 And I can guarantee you that.

00:47:58.060 You're going to be hard pressed to find me an example of a civilization that began to thrive

00:48:06.960 as populations declined.

00:48:09.780 Okay, show me an example of a civilization where prosperity went this way and population went

00:48:17.040 that way.

00:48:18.640 Can you show me that?

00:48:20.960 Population decline is civilizational decline.

00:48:24.260 Economic decline is decline in every sense.

00:48:26.180 So I would say, you know, maybe learn not just science, but also just basic facts like the history of the world

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00:49:27.820 You know, I try not to repeat myself on this show, but I don't try very hard,

00:49:35.440 which is why I end up repeating myself all the time.

00:49:37.340 So the subject of so-called dinks, childless-by-choice couples who have a dual income and no kids,

00:49:42.480 hence the acronym, is one that I have revisited on multiple occasions.

00:49:46.320 And in fact, you might think that I have said every last thing one could possibly say on the subject,

00:49:51.760 which is undoubtedly the case.

00:49:53.780 I've made my point about the dinks and that there is, you know, 1.00

00:49:56.660 there's not much else that needs to be added.

00:49:58.240 But then over the weekend, CNBC decided to release a mini documentary about the dinks. 0.99

00:50:04.480 It's titled Why More Americans Are Going Child-Free.

00:50:07.600 It already has over half a million views on YouTube.

00:50:09.640 And I watched the video and it is, as expected, so perfect for the daily cancellation,

00:50:16.700 so seemingly tailor-made for this segment that I have no choice but to come back to this well one more time.

00:50:22.100 So we'll go through some of the clips from this little video, this documentary.

00:50:26.760 But before we do, before you see a single frame of it, I should tell you that the video focuses mainly on one young married couple from Massachusetts

00:50:38.460 who self-identify as dinks. 0.54

00:50:41.280 Now, just as a fun exercise, I want you to imagine what a millennial dink couple from Massachusetts might look like. 1.00

00:50:49.620 Conjure an image with your imagination.

00:50:53.580 What does the dink wife look like? 1.00

00:50:55.660 Most importantly, what does the dink husband look like? 1.00

00:50:58.840 Draw a picture in your mind.

00:51:01.040 And now we'll watch the video and you will see that the image in your mind is exactly correct.

00:51:06.080 You have used your psychic powers to see this couple before you actually saw them.

00:51:11.300 Watch.

00:51:11.820 We got married fairly young and we both just decided for many reasons we didn't want kids.

00:51:19.740 And then at some point we heard the acronym dink and I think just really fell in love with it. 0.95

00:51:28.080 Okay, first of all, I mean, that's exactly what you pictured, isn't it?

00:51:30.540 You might have been slightly off on the wife.

00:51:32.140 That was a little ambiguous.

00:51:32.820 But the husband, I mean, you had figured out.

00:51:35.880 The long hair, the nose piercing, all of it just screams dink. 0.99

00:51:39.980 I mean, it screams the kind of man who would confess to falling in love with the name dink.

00:51:46.840 Which, how is that possible?

00:51:50.600 How is it that you heard dink and you're like, wow, I love that. 1.00

00:51:53.120 That is great.

00:51:54.460 That's what I am.

00:51:55.840 It resonates.

00:51:57.740 It's a name.

00:51:58.360 It sounds like a name that was invented by someone like me to make fun of you.

00:52:04.040 But instead they came up with it themselves, apparently. 1.00

00:52:07.120 Because they're a bunch of damned dinks. 1.00

00:52:09.980 So, let's continue. 1.00

00:52:12.740 There are more Americans that are deciding not to have children and it's purposeful. 0.99

00:52:19.540 This new trend has led to the rise of a new type of household, more commonly referred to as dicks. 0.96

00:52:25.480 Dual income, no kids. 0.82

00:52:27.440 Oh yeah, dual income, no kids.

00:52:28.900 That's perfect for us.

00:52:30.660 That's absolutely right.

00:52:32.460 Children are the death of net worth.

00:52:34.240 Pretty crude, but honestly very true.

00:52:36.880 This household configuration of dual income partners, living alone without children, is on the rise.

00:52:45.600 In 2022, it was around 43% of households.

00:52:49.700 And that's about a 7% increase from a decade previously.

00:52:53.780 In 2022, 43% of Americans surveyed said they'd want to get married.

00:52:58.300 But just a little more than a quarter said they were sure about wanting children.

00:53:02.860 The term dink is becoming more prominent now because of financial challenges.

00:53:08.040 And they see children as just another financial challenge that maybe they don't want to take on.

00:53:15.020 Of course, they have a dog too.

00:53:17.020 It looks like a dog.

00:53:19.340 It looks like a dink dog. 1.00

00:53:20.380 It looks like a dog a dink would have. 1.00

00:53:22.400 Everything about it.

00:53:24.920 Their house, everything.

00:53:27.640 They say children are just another financial challenge.

00:53:31.260 That's all they are.

00:53:31.860 The word just is quite telling because there's apparently nothing else to say about new human life other than the fact that it's an economic burden.

00:53:40.500 A child is a bill and nothing more.

00:53:43.540 The idea that there may be more to life, that some things transcend material concerns, that not everything has a price tag, that there is more to life than the bottom line.

00:53:53.520 None of that is taken into consideration at all.

00:53:56.060 Let's continue.

00:53:56.440 According to a 2023 survey of DINX, finance played a major role in their decision to not have children.

00:54:05.020 More than a quarter of respondents said they simply aren't able to financially support a child at the moment.

00:54:11.160 When we advise clients about having children, we honestly don't even give them the full real details and the real numbers.

00:54:18.920 It's one of those things, if you actually see the math of it all, it might make you decide to not have children.

00:54:25.200 It costs the family an estimated $310,605 to raise a child born in 2015 to age 18, adjusted for higher future inflation.

00:54:35.700 And that doesn't even include the cost of college.

00:54:38.980 Okay, now this really isn't the point I want to focus on, but it should be noted that everything you've just heard is nonsense.

00:54:45.220 33% of the DINX say they can't afford a child. 0.96

00:54:48.180 Now, I believe that 33% said that in a survey, but what they're saying is ridiculous.

00:54:52.980 I mean, there are families with significantly less financial means who are managing to raise multiple children and can still live perfectly comfortably and care for their children and themselves without the risk of starvation.

00:55:05.740 Now, as a general rule, if you have decided that something is financially impossible for you, but then you look around and you see that literally billions of people throughout the history of the world have done this impossible thing with less financial means than you have at your disposal, that's a good indication that the problem isn't really your finances.

00:55:28.100 Also, okay, I mean, you hear these figures all the time, it costs, it costs $87 million to raise a child for one day.

00:55:38.520 Like it, no, it doesn't, it does not cost $310,000 to raise a child to the age of 18.

00:55:45.240 It doesn't, that's almost 20 grand a year.

00:55:47.500 Okay, by that logic, I should be spending $120,000 a year just on my kids.

00:55:54.360 I assure you, I am not.

00:55:56.980 In fact, when we had our twins, I was making $44,000 a year.

00:56:00.820 This was 10 years ago.

00:56:02.820 Now, granted, this was 10 years ago.

00:56:04.200 Okay, this has been inflation, but that would still mean that nearly all of my income was going to my kids.

00:56:10.340 I mean, we would have been homeless and starving, but we weren't.

00:56:14.560 I mean, it is more than possible to raise a child on significantly less than $20,000 a year.

00:56:21.420 It just might mean that you're driving a less fancy car and you're buying a less fancy TV and you're going on less fancy vacations.

00:56:29.420 And you're learning how to actually make meals from scratch at home instead of ordering DoorDash five nights a week.

00:56:34.580 I mean, there are ways to raise children without spending over a quarter of a million dollars to do it.

00:56:38.980 I know there are ways because, again, literally billions of humans since the dawn of the species have figured out how to do it.

00:56:49.680 We're the only ones.

00:56:50.940 It's like five minutes ago, we all looked around as a species and said, this is too expensive.

00:56:55.400 We can't do this anymore.

00:56:57.660 What do you mean we've been doing it the whole time?

00:56:59.060 What do you mean it's too expensive?

00:57:02.100 Makes no sense.

00:57:04.320 Let's continue.

00:57:05.200 Seeing our friends really struggle with that balancing act has, I think, made me appreciate the flexibility that we have financially because we don't have children.

00:57:21.700 Yes, that dude is reading a book titled Hot and Unbothered.

00:57:26.780 Okay.

00:57:27.500 I looked it up and apparently the full title is Hot and Unbothered.

00:57:30.900 How to think about, talk about, and have the sex you really want. 0.82

00:57:35.240 So, yes, behind the scenes here, okay, the CNBC crew came to this Dink's house. 0.99

00:57:41.940 They wanted to get some B-roll of this couple sitting on the couch and pretending to read together, which is something they've probably never done even once in real life, okay?

00:57:49.620 They've never sat on the couch and read together.

00:57:52.080 They're just on their phones all the time, not even looking at each other.

00:57:54.920 But they wanted to get this.

00:57:56.300 And so this guy decided to pull Hot and Unbothered from the shelf for the scene.

00:58:01.880 That's the kind of book that if you have it, you take it down from your shelf and you hide it under the couch when the film crew comes.

00:58:10.460 It's not a book that you deliberately showcase. 0.95

00:58:13.700 But then again, these are obviously not people who have much of a capacity for shame because they're Dinks. 1.00

00:58:20.000 We'll watch one more clip, and I think that will be enough. 0.87

00:58:22.120 Here it is.

00:58:23.360 Besides saving on child care, Dinks can also fully reap the benefits of combining their finances. 0.95

00:58:29.160 To look at both of our incomes coming in and see how we're able to handle all of that because we don't have extra finances with a child, it's much more comfortable.

00:58:39.540 We get to focus more on the things that we want to do and saving a lot of that money for the future and worry less about the day-to-day finances of the house and our bills.

00:58:51.420 Money isn't the only expense that Dinks can save on. 1.00

00:58:54.800 The free time is actually one of the biggest things for me.

00:58:58.300 So we built me a little office slash bedroom out here.

00:59:02.840 We definitely have some more expensive hobbies.

00:59:05.740 I build mechanical keyboards, like computer keyboards, in my spare time.

00:59:11.140 And just parts and stuff for that can be very expensive.

00:59:14.240 Not having children has given us the freedom to pursue other things.

00:59:18.880 Remodeling our home.

00:59:20.740 I'm a beekeeper.

00:59:23.400 I'm really handy, and I like doing stuff around the house.

00:59:26.560 I wouldn't have the time to just do that after work, if I feel like it, if I had, you know, a child to care for.

00:59:36.260 Fewer expenses leave Dinks with more disposable income to play with. 1.00

00:59:41.300 Disposable income is power, it's stability, and for many couples, it's security.

00:59:47.740 The security that having, you know, six months of income saved for emergencies gives you.

00:59:57.360 Okay.

00:59:59.280 They got all this extra time and money, they can't even update their kitchen.

01:00:02.220 But let's review a few things here.

01:00:05.720 First of all, I have more than six months saved, and I have six kids.

01:00:09.380 We've also remodeled multiple homes.

01:00:11.180 I've even kept bees, okay, all with kids.

01:00:13.680 So they have not listed one single thing that people with kids can't do.

01:00:16.800 They haven't listed one single thing that I myself haven't already done or am not currently doing.

01:00:21.520 Besides building keyboards in my spare time.

01:00:25.020 I haven't done that.

01:00:25.900 I also don't have a separate bedroom from my wife, as this guy apparently does.

01:00:30.560 I mean, because he's absolutely determined to fulfill every single last demeaning stereotype of a male millennial dink that he can think of. 0.93

01:00:37.820 So when you hear this anti-natalist propaganda telling you about all the things you can't do when you have kids, it's always important to remember that it's a lie.

01:00:49.140 I mean, again, there is nothing that these people can do that I can't or that you can't if you have kids.

01:00:56.320 Now, in some cases, it may take more effort.

01:00:57.840 It may take more planning.

01:00:58.800 It may take more sacrifice.

01:01:01.340 But it can be done.

01:01:02.920 You can save money.

01:01:03.740 You can plan for the future.

01:01:04.680 You can have free time.

01:01:05.980 You can be financially secure.

01:01:08.420 You can even build keyboards if you want for some reason.

01:01:10.720 You can do that, too.

01:01:12.260 Now, you may suffer misfortunes or setbacks that may make those things more difficult.

01:01:17.440 But that can happen and will happen in one form or another, whether you have kids or not.

01:01:21.740 But all that is beside the point.

01:01:23.100 You know, arguing the case on financial terms is playing right into the dink hands, which is never good because you never know where their hands have been. 1.00

01:01:31.140 Even if financial security and prosperity is perfectly possible and attainable for families with children, and it is, it is still true that your life will be easier financially if you don't have kids.

01:01:42.380 I mean, that is true.

01:01:43.120 I don't deny that.

01:01:44.680 Kids don't cost or don't need to cost $310,000 to raise, but they do cost something.

01:01:50.140 I mean, it ain't cheap.

01:01:51.100 There's no question about that.

01:01:54.180 So, yes, in the end, it's true that the dinks will avoid certain financial difficulties.

01:02:01.920 For now, anyway.

01:02:03.620 You know, until they're old and the money runs out and they end up alone in a nursing home because they don't have any kids to care for them or support them.

01:02:10.520 But for now, it will be easier.

01:02:12.960 Sure.

01:02:13.120 And that is the only selling point.

01:02:17.020 You'll notice that every time we get this kind of advertisement for the dink lifestyle, the only thing they ever want to talk about is the finances. 1.00

01:02:24.820 The supposed benefits of being a dink all fall into one bucket. 1.00

01:02:31.040 That's it. 0.66

01:02:32.420 And even in that bucket, the benefits are greatly exaggerated.

01:02:36.180 But the point is that they don't have anything to say outside of the money.

01:02:43.340 They never even bother claiming that being a dink will give you a more purposeful life or a more exciting and interesting life. 1.00

01:02:49.600 They never say that it will bring more meaning into your life or more love into your life. 0.92

01:02:53.820 They don't even try to claim that the dinks have greater opportunities for joy or fulfillment. 1.00

01:03:00.040 They certainly don't mention anything about legacy.

01:03:02.340 You know, joy, meaning, love, legacy, purpose.

01:03:05.220 These aren't even part of the sales pitch.

01:03:08.740 Which really tells you what you need to know.

01:03:11.600 Yes, some aspects of life will be easier for a while if you don't have kids.

01:03:15.560 But why are you living a life in the first place?

01:03:18.660 What is the point of it?

01:03:20.380 What should you be doing with your life?

01:03:22.200 What gives life meaning? 0.80

01:03:24.820 These are questions that the dinks in that video don't seem to have asked themselves. 1.00

01:03:29.360 They're too busy reading self-help sex books in their separate bedrooms. 0.98

01:03:34.520 Gloating over how easy their lives are while never stopping to consider what life is.

01:03:39.560 Or what they are meant to do with it.

01:03:42.140 Or what will make it meaningful.

01:03:45.880 And that is why they are today, once again, canceled.

01:03:51.280 And that will do it for the show today.

01:03:52.480 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:03:53.480 Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow.

01:03:55.160 Godspeed.

01:03:55.560 We'll be right back.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 04, 2024

Ep. 1286 - The Epstein Files Are Released But The Cover Up Continues

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