The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1326 - The Radical Wokeness Of The Video Game Industry

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the video game industry has perhaps done more to indoctrinate

00:00:03.860 children into wokeness than any other industry, yet it largely escapes scrutiny in the mainstream.

00:00:07.980 We'll try to change that today. Also, Democrat witnesses at a congressional hearing are unwilling

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00:01:44.740 preborn.com slash Matt. So here's a statistic that, at least if you were born at any point prior to the

00:01:50.600 1990s, might be hard to believe. By revenue, the gaming industry is bigger than both the movie

00:01:57.460 industry and the music industry combined. And for the past several years, it hasn't been especially

00:02:02.260 close. The difference is consistently more than $100 billion per year. So video games are a massive

00:02:09.680 market, one that's mostly targeted at young people, of course. But despite those numbers, for the

00:02:14.160 most part, the games industry has avoided mainstream scrutiny. You'll see far more discussion about,

00:02:19.620 say, Sidney Sweeney or Taylor Swift than you'll ever see about prominent video game voice actors and

00:02:25.600 directors who pretty much no one knows anything about. Everyone's heard of Lionsgate or Paramount, but

00:02:30.940 almost no one's heard of studios like Don't Nod Entertainment, for example. And that's significant

00:02:35.660 because these no-name studios are behind the single most coordinated effort to indoctrinate

00:02:40.880 millions of children through entertainment that's ever occurred in this country. This effort is

00:02:45.740 maybe more powerful than the teachers' unions, if only because these propagandists mostly work in

00:02:50.580 secret. Even if you homeschool your children, they're not immune to it. You might have heard

00:02:55.140 something about one of the companies behind this indoctrination effort called Sweet Baby Inc.,

00:03:00.840 or SBI. And in a moment, I'll get into the details about what exactly that organization is doing and

00:03:06.420 who's helping them do it. But first, I want to get the good news out of the way, which is that if

00:03:11.180 there's any silver lining, it's that this effort to indoctrinate children is incredibly ham-fisted.

00:03:17.380 Some of the dumbest people in the world are behind it. So take that studio I just mentioned,

00:03:21.920 Don't Nod Entertainment. They're behind the very popular Life is Strange video game series,

00:03:26.580 which has been played by tens of millions of people. And to give you an idea of how overt the

00:03:31.160 propaganda is in Life is Strange, here's just one mercifully short sequence involving, what else?

00:03:37.140 A racist white guy. There's some backstory about how he kidnapped an innocent Hispanic kid or

00:03:41.380 something. And then this, watch. Gonna tell the police you kidnapped me. Nice try. But I know who

00:03:49.740 you are and what you did in Seattle. I saw it in the paper. Maybe I should call ICE to make sure you're

00:03:56.320 a citizen. Fuck you, hillbilly. I'm American. Watch it, punk. Whatever. You're going to jail for this.

00:04:10.580 Pretty sure the local police will vouch for me over a thug like you.

00:04:17.480 Where's my brother? Wish I knew. Little s*** took off. I'll find him. Don't worry. If you touch him-

00:04:25.320 You'd think I'd hurt a little boy. I guess you didn't have any second thoughts about leading him

00:04:29.820 out into the middle of nowhere, though. That's real safe for a little kid.

00:04:38.440 If he's lucky, he won't end up like his criminal big brother. Just let me go.

00:04:43.400 Please. You're the reason we need to build that wall. You hold tight.

00:04:49.400 Now, I guess I lied. I said that it was mercifully short, but that felt like

00:04:52.500 three hours long. And I will say also that, you know, this is neither here nor there. Well,

00:04:57.820 maybe it's not. But, you know, when I, obviously I don't pay much attention to video games. When I

00:05:01.200 started looking into the story we're talking about now and watching some of these videos, I was,

00:05:05.880 like, I sort of expected the graphics and just the overall quality to be better now

00:05:10.320 than it is because really low quality all around. But he says we need to build a wall. That's

00:05:17.740 according to the white racist Kidnapping the Innocent Hispanic Boy. And this is a game that,

00:05:21.980 if Wikipedia is to be believed, received generally positive reviews upon release,

00:05:26.200 critics praised the story. So we can conclude that the bar is incredibly low in this entire industry.

00:05:33.320 All the developers have to do is beat their audience over the head with rote left-wing

00:05:37.520 propaganda, and their game will be well-reviewed and well-received. The more recent game Suicide

00:05:43.100 Squad is another prominent example. They decided to write a story about Batman's toxic masculinity,

00:05:48.380 which ended with a girl boss shooting Batman. Spoiler. Apologize for that. Should have warned

00:05:54.320 you. Anyway, here's part of that sequence. You had a good run, Brucey. Flying around Gotham,

00:06:02.440 punching bad guys, cleaning up the streets, causing long-term mental and emotional damage to everyone

00:06:09.400 you knew. It's our turn now. After all we've been through. But you didn't think it'd be me at the end,

00:06:20.860 huh, Babs? Are we done with your bad stand-up routine? Almost. But you always gotta end on your best joke.

00:06:39.400 Yeah, that's, I can't watch any more of that. That's, okay, well, you can imagine just how many

00:06:47.320 purple-haired women must work at that studio. I mean, they probably provide the hair dye on tap

00:06:53.040 in their company. Now, I didn't play that game, obviously. I haven't played any of these games.

00:06:57.340 I'm not a video game fan or player, as most people, I think, know by now. But the point is that these

00:07:01.840 clips were all over the internet because of how awful they are. They're just terrible in every way,

00:07:05.140 even just from a quality perspective. Again, they're bad, even if you happen to agree with

00:07:09.640 their politics. But the fact remains that for children of a certain age, the propaganda doesn't

00:07:13.960 need to be subtle. All they gotta do is present it to children, and it can be effective. And that's

00:07:19.140 why some anonymous people using the games platform Steam decided to figure out exactly who's putting

00:07:24.640 this garbage in games and why. They found that the company I mentioned earlier called Sweet Baby Inc.

00:07:30.360 I have to say, no relation to the Sweet Baby gang. I swear off any association. I would file a lawsuit

00:07:37.140 for copyright infringement, if not for the fact that I don't have a copyright. And also, Sweet Baby

00:07:40.560 Inc. existed first, technically, but never mind that. Anyway, these people on Steam found that Sweet

00:07:46.240 Baby Inc. has contracted with major publishers to push the principles of DEI in video games as

00:07:52.220 aggressively as possible. Sweet Baby Inc., or SBI, worked with the developers of the game I just

00:07:58.700 showed you, Suicide Squad. And they've also had a role in several other major releases recently.

00:08:03.860 On their website, SBI boasts that they're committed to installing principles of diversity into games,

00:08:09.220 and they do it forcibly. In fact, the founder and CEO of SBI, a woman named Kim Belair,

00:08:14.020 recently spoke to game developers and instructed them to threaten their companies

00:08:17.560 unless they comply with Sweet Baby's DEI mandates. Watch.

00:08:22.600 And if you're in development and you are part of, like, that dominant voice, you're, like, a cis-hetero-white

00:08:30.320 dude or just adjacent to that, do not wait until the end to call your consultants. Bring them in at

00:08:37.220 the beginning, and instead of asking them, hey, is this very racist thing we did very racist, or is

00:08:42.460 this deeply offensive thing we did deeply offensive, are you hurt by it? Ask them what they want to see.

00:08:47.780 Like, ask them what would thrill them, what would bring them joy. And if you have a team lead, put

00:08:51.940 that request to them very, very early. If you're a creative working in AAA, which I did for many,

00:08:56.800 many years, put this stuff up to your higher-ups. And if they don't see the value in what you're

00:09:02.520 asking for when you ask for consultants, when you ask for research, go have a coffee with your

00:09:06.920 marketing team and just terrify them with the possibility of what's going to happen if they

00:09:12.060 don't give you what you want. Hmm. So this is how DEI works in every industry, of course. The goal

00:09:17.700 is not to improve the company's product in any way. It's to blackmail companies and threaten them

00:09:22.320 into submission. And in this case, they're just saying it out loud. Pay the DEI tax or we will

00:09:27.480 destroy you. Only in the games industry, where everyone is dumber than they are in every other

00:09:31.800 industry, do they just come right out and say it as directly as that. Along these lines, as you might

00:09:36.800 have guessed, so-called games journalists are somehow even dumber than journalists in other

00:09:41.740 industries too, which, I mean, is really, really saying something. They're just completely unable

00:09:47.080 to hide their real goals or display any hint of subtlety whatsoever. For example, in response to

00:09:51.920 clips like this surfacing, games writers have produced several articles portraying SBI as the

00:09:59.040 victim of a harassment campaign, by which they mean people are noticing what SBI is doing. And we know

00:10:05.220 that on the left, the worst thing you can ever do is just notice. Noticing is the greatest crime of

00:10:10.180 all. People are noticing, and so that's harassment. It's harassment to notice. For example, here's how

00:10:16.380 a writer for the website Polygon, Joshua Rivera, has responded to people who are concerned about SBI.

00:10:21.980 Quote, he says, quote, in a just world, these clowns would have their Steam accounts turned off,

00:10:28.240 their PlayStations bricked, and get booted from any respectable social platform. So in the

00:10:35.080 games industry, the journalists just come right out and demand that you're deleted from the internet

00:10:39.660 if you dare to look deeper into their narrative or to question anything they say. So let's look

00:10:45.680 deeper into the narrative in that case. In a recent podcast, Kim Blair explains that her company's

00:10:50.560 mandate is to make every game political. There has to be diverse representation in all contexts,

00:10:56.220 even in, say, World War I. Watch.

00:11:00.220 A lot of the time, that kind of sensitivity work results in, you know, cuts of certain things or

00:11:05.480 slight changes. But what I prefer to do, and I don't really call it sensitivity read, but I think of

00:11:11.060 it as just, you know, bringing representation to something, is trying to build a narrative and a story

00:11:18.380 that include moments and elements custom made to bring representation and joy to people.

00:11:28.640 Because that's kind of, and so that's kind of where, you know, Sweet Baby lands on it. And I think it's

00:11:32.400 the same way when we put diversity into the past. People go, oh no, but that's, you're just putting

00:11:36.160 diversity in. They don't even feel ready because they've been exposed to so much, you know, whether

00:11:40.800 it's whitewashed, whether it's just, you know, colonized media, that they go, oh, there can't possibly

00:11:45.720 have been diversity back then. Because my understanding of it was that this was a homogenous

00:11:52.680 time. And so I think I look at it like that. Or they make excuses for it. Like, yeah, well, sure.

00:12:00.160 Okay. Maybe there were some women in World War I that were on the front lines, but it was only in

00:12:05.600 these specific situations. So we shouldn't show it in the game. Exactly. It's, you have so much of

00:12:11.580 that happening. And for me, there are so many leaps that we already take with history. There

00:12:17.740 are so many things that we decide are true. And so many of the protagonists that we choose for

00:12:22.720 our games are exceptional by their nature. So why not, you know, why not take that further?

00:12:31.420 So SBI wants to, quote, build a narrative and a story that includes moments and elements custom

00:12:36.460 made to bring representation and joy to people. And she uses the example of World War I. Well,

00:12:41.760 if you're familiar with the history at all, there were not a lot of women fighting on the front lines

00:12:45.880 of World War I, but they shoehorn that into their game anyway, because at every possible opportunity,

00:12:51.000 they need to minimize and demonize white men. White men cannot be the hero of anything,

00:12:56.320 even historical events where they were the heroes, like World War I and many other historical

00:13:01.900 events, by the way. White men have been the heroes of many historical events. But, you know,

00:13:06.220 that can't be allowed to happen in games, because they have to attack white men whenever possible.

00:13:10.300 We're seeing this at all levels in the gaming industry. Here, for example, is Dani Lalanders.

00:13:15.220 She worked, reportedly used to work at Sweet Baby Inc. just a year ago. And now she works

00:13:18.700 for a studio at EA, one of the biggest game studios on the planet. And watch as she explains

00:13:24.200 why she doesn't hire white people on her team, because apparently they commit all kinds of

00:13:30.200 microaggressions. Watch.

00:13:31.500 I have a team of 21 right now for Validate. It's a pretty big team. It's a crazy big team

00:13:38.460 for indie games. But who is your team? Validate has a team of mostly people, mostly all people

00:13:45.380 of color. We have no white people on our team. I did that because I wanted to create a safe

00:13:51.880 environment. And I know the best way for an environment to be safe is to be around people

00:13:56.540 who are just like me. And I'm not saying that white people in the industry are creating unsafe

00:14:03.500 environments. I'm not saying that. That is not what I'm saying. I am saying that sometimes it is hard

00:14:09.220 to work with white people because they think that something may be okay, but it was really

00:14:14.980 a microaggression. And no one wants to deal with that while they are trying to make a game

00:14:19.060 that they love. Now, notice that she doesn't say what the microaggressions were that these

00:14:24.740 terrible white people committed. We can imagine maybe those nasty white people said something

00:14:29.100 nice about her hair. Maybe they asked where she was from. Maybe they said, hey, cut that line of

00:14:34.960 dialogue about building the wall. It's a little too on the nose. Who knows? In any event, this is an

00:14:40.360 employee of a major game studio straight up admitting that she doesn't hire white people. And that's not

00:14:44.900 just unethical. It's illegal. You're not allowed to do that. And it's the kind of thing that's usually

00:14:50.940 left unsaid in major corporations, but it's standard practice in the games industry. Just come right out

00:14:55.660 and announce it. Because this is what makes people of color safe, which by the way, every time this

00:15:02.120 comes up, the people of color, quote unquote, people of color are unsafe against white people when

00:15:08.460 they're around white people. On top of everything else, it's just like factually, that's completely wrong.

00:15:15.560 A black person statistically is much more likely to commit an act of violence against a white person

00:15:19.980 than the other way. And that's just, there's no getting around it. It's just a fact.

00:15:24.500 But to give another example, also in response to the FBI story, a senior editor at the gaming site,

00:15:30.420 Kotaku, wrote, quote, hi, you can't be racist against white people. Thanks for tuning in.

00:15:37.220 Now, the people writing this garbage are true believers. They are the low IQ foot soldiers.

00:15:41.120 But the reason they're so well funded is more interesting. As the former games executive,

00:15:46.080 Mark Kern, explained this week, the cost of producing games is extremely high. It's higher

00:15:50.120 than it's ever been, in fact. So game studios are looking to raise money in any way possible.

00:15:54.520 And one way to get a lot of money is through ESG financing. Watch.

00:15:58.520 It's not that gamers are, you know, upset about, you know, oh, hey, we have some diversity in the game.

00:16:07.460 It's actually the way that they go about it with pure tokenism, with phoning in weak characters

00:16:14.720 instead of creating strong new characters. And more importantly, it's about a vindictiveness

00:16:20.740 to destroy the past, to destroy the IP, to ignore the source material, and to tear apart these beloved

00:16:28.220 characters in some sort of fitful rage that we don't understand and is very disingenuous.

00:16:34.420 And I think that is the tremendous reaction to Suicide Squad. And this is going to have an immense

00:16:39.080 financial impact. The way games are funded, you don't use your own money, even EA, okay?

00:16:46.560 Games are hugely expensive to make. They're upwards of, you know, $250, sometimes $600 million.

00:16:53.740 It's for certain live games. It's incredibly how expensive they are. And to do that,

00:16:59.880 your CFO is your best friend. You're counting on your CFO to get you tax breaks, to get you in,

00:17:06.400 to put studios in regions which are financially favorable, and you will borrow the cheap money.

00:17:12.200 You will get as cheap money to do it. Even EA does this. I work with EA. We were putting together a deal

00:17:17.360 where they were taking bailout money from the banks in the last financial crisis that we had,

00:17:24.520 and they were applying that cheap money towards games. Same thing with COVID money. They're applying

00:17:29.080 that cheap money towards games. And what has been the cheapest money while interest rates were still

00:17:33.680 low, you know, a couple of years ago? It was ESG financing. And so they're going to take this money

00:17:39.900 and they're going to put it into games.

00:17:41.860 So what ESG financing entails, Kern goes on to say, is that game studios have to agree to all kinds

00:17:47.320 of conditions, including hiring companies like SBI to diversify their games. In other words,

00:17:52.540 what's happening here is much bigger than SBI. It's about the companies that fund SBI. And that

00:17:57.620 includes a fund called Baby Ghosts, which is also run by anti-white managers who are proud of their

00:18:02.080 bigotry. It also includes the biggest institutional investors on the planet like Vanguard and BlackRock,

00:18:07.060 which own a substantial portion of gaming companies like Microsoft. And these entities

00:18:13.000 are creating the incentives. The only good news, as Kern points out later in that interview,

00:18:17.160 is that ESG financing is drying up, in part because interest rates are changing and there's

00:18:21.380 more exposure than ever to this propaganda, which makes it less effective. The U.S. government

00:18:25.240 appears to be aware of that, and they view it as a potential problem. They want propaganda to

00:18:29.560 continue. And we know that because on its website, a nonprofit called Take This labels all

00:18:34.620 criticism of SBI as harassment, and they're coordinating a response to it. What's Take

00:18:40.780 This? Well, apparently, according to their website, they are a mental health nonprofit that's funded by

00:18:45.440 the Department of Homeland Security. In other words, your tax dollars are paying for the defense

00:18:50.140 of propagandists targeting children in the video game industry. For some reason, DHS is involved.

00:18:57.720 And actually, it's worse than that. As The Intercept reported this month, quote,

00:19:00.820 gaming companies are coordinating with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to root out so-called

00:19:05.620 domestic violent extremist content, according to a new government report. Noting that mechanisms have

00:19:10.560 been established with social media companies to police extremism, the report recommends that the

00:19:14.600 national security agencies establish new and similar processes with the vast gaming industry.

00:19:20.960 So what this means is that the video game industry, without a lot of fanfare, has transformed into a tool

00:19:26.560 of both propaganda and surveillance. It's an effective way to indoctrinate children, precisely

00:19:32.900 because it hasn't received much attention, and also because children spend, many of them, hundreds of

00:19:38.980 hours a year, and that might be an undercount, a severe undercount, with this kind of content.

00:19:48.420 So it should get a lot of our attention. And now, finally, that attention is here. And it's yet

00:19:54.100 another reason to keep these games as far away from your children as possible. And if you do that,

00:20:00.080 games journalists, literally the lowest form of journalists on the planet, will accuse you of

00:20:05.480 harassment. And that's exactly how you'll know that you're doing the right thing. Now let's get to our

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00:21:04.500 So we'll start here. Health and science reporter Benjamin Ryan, who's written for the Washington Post,

00:21:08.740 New York Times, and other publications, has a report that he shared on Twitter. And interestingly

00:21:12.260 enough, this guy has gone after me many times in the past for being a transphobe or whatever, but

00:21:18.040 much to his credit, he reports this. Quote, study finds that the attempted suicide rate among

00:21:24.800 transgender women who received a vaginoplasty in California was twice as high during the period

00:21:30.360 after the surgery compared with the period before the surgery. And of course, as you know, transgender

00:21:35.600 women, we're talking about men who call themselves women who get a surgery to have a fake vagina

00:21:41.540 installed by mutilating their genitals. The investigators analyzed data on all 868 people

00:21:52.040 who received a vaginoplasty and 357 people who received a phalloplasty in California from 2012

00:21:56.760 to 2018. There were an average of two years of data before and after surgery. A total of 22% of the

00:22:03.400 vaginoplasty group and 21% of the phalloplasty group had at least one ER or inpatient psych encounter

00:22:08.520 during the study period, whether before or after surgery. If there was a psych encounter prior to

00:22:13.040 surgery, 34% of the vaginoplasty group and 27% of the phalloplasty group had a psych encounter after

00:22:17.640 surgery. Among those receiving vaginoplasty, the rate of suicide attempts was twice as high after

00:22:22.240 the surgery at 3.3% compared with before at 1.5%. Okay, so we're told that so-called gender-affirming

00:22:30.920 care prevents suicide. But of course, there was never any evidence to support that. It was just an

00:22:36.400 assertion. It was an assumption repeated as fact ad nauseum. And as I've had to remind everyone many

00:22:42.600 times up until now, you know, up until now, almost all factual claims about the benefits of these

00:22:50.220 procedures were and had to be speculative at best. Because these procedures had never until recently

00:22:59.620 been performed at a scale that allowed us to study it and come to any kinds of real, you know,

00:23:08.760 reliable conclusions. You know, you can't really study the effect of something on the population if

00:23:15.080 it's not happening or if it's only happening in vanishingly small cases. So you need it to happen

00:23:25.020 a bunch and then you can study it. So all we could do was make assumptions up until now. And of course,

00:23:32.740 the only logical assumptions were that sexual butchery would have dire physical and psychological

00:23:37.960 effects. You know, really, we didn't need to study it. We never should. It's not any, it's like you

00:23:43.680 should, someone tells you what a vaginoplasty is, even if you had no other information.

00:23:50.840 If you are a sane person, you hear that and you should, you don't need to say, well, let me see

00:23:56.420 the studies. Let me see what the studies have to say. You immediately know, well, I thought we can't

00:24:00.100 do that. We can't do that to people. You kidding me? It's just not the kind of theory you, we should

00:24:07.720 ever need to test out. We should just know as a society that it's a terrible idea and we should

00:24:13.300 never do it. But we have done it. And we've done it a lot at this point. So now we do have the

00:24:20.580 studies. And this is what they say. We were told that suicide rates would go down and instead they

00:24:27.360 went up. And of course they did. Of course they did. In fact, you know, I cannot imagine myself being

00:24:36.460 suicidal. But if I woke up one day and found that, uh, this had been done to me, uh, yes, I would be

00:24:44.680 suicidal. Like, in fact, I can't imagine not being suicidal if this was done to you. Um, because it's

00:24:53.340 such a, it's such a heart. It's like, it is the worst horror you can imagine. You're, and you're

00:24:59.800 trapping people in a mutilated, destroyed body. You're turning them into carved up disfigured versions

00:25:05.680 of themselves. Uh, of course that doesn't help their mental wellbeing. Um, and you probably

00:25:13.100 understand this already, but for anyone who doesn't, a vaginoplasty destroys the male genitalia

00:25:18.420 and creates in it, in its place, a permanent open wound. It creates something that the surgeon

00:25:24.020 will call a vagina, but that is not what it is. It will never have the function of female

00:25:31.500 genitals. It will not, it won't function as that. It won't, it won't look like that.

00:25:36.160 The only people who, you know, so what that tells us is that the only people who undergo this procedure

00:25:43.020 and at the end of it won't be overcome with crushing despair are those who go into this procedure

00:25:50.820 fully understanding that they're not creating a vagina. They're not going to have a vagina. It's

00:25:57.220 impossible. And that really what they're doing is castrating themselves. And then they're going to

00:26:02.400 walk around for the rest of their lives with a festering wound between their legs. Yeah. So,

00:26:07.460 so the only people who potentially could come out on the other side of this,

00:26:12.200 not suicidal are those who know that going in. Um, and then in theory, maybe some of them won't be

00:26:22.200 disappointed with the result because they know that's what the result's going to be. But, you

00:26:27.100 know, obviously if there are any patients in that category, those are deeply sick, mentally, you know,

00:26:33.600 mentally, emotionally, spiritually, deeply sick people. And, uh, I mean, if you want that done to

00:26:39.640 your body and you understand what you're doing and you still want it done, then you are a, a very,

00:26:45.980 very sick person. And, um, and you need help with that. You need help with that mental sickness,

00:26:52.080 uh, that, that, that you're suffering from. The last thing you need is for this, uh, this,

00:26:57.240 this mutilation to really occur. Uh, the fact that you want it done is evidence of a deep, deep,

00:27:03.100 uh, problem. And yet the vast majority of men who undergo this procedure to turn their genitals into a

00:27:09.440 permanent open wound, they don't actually want that. That's not what they want. Um, they do in

00:27:17.280 fact want and think that they will be getting an actual vagina, actual female genitalia. Now, of

00:27:25.620 course, wanting that also is sick, uh, as a man, but, you know, for most of the people, this is like

00:27:34.320 that that's what they want. And they think that they will get it. And they, they don't understand

00:27:39.760 that they can never have that. Uh, they won't, they won't, they won't ever have it. Like they

00:27:46.420 will never have a female body. It doesn't matter how badly they want it. It doesn't matter how sad

00:27:50.680 it makes them that they don't have a female body. They never will ever. They get this one body in this

00:27:57.260 one life and that's it. And it will never be anything else. Um, and so the vast majority go into it

00:28:04.300 profoundly confused and delusional. And those people will wake up from the surgery horrified

00:28:09.700 and plagued with regret. And they will live their lives in despair for as long as their lives continue

00:28:15.220 after it. And for some of them, it won't continue very long, unfortunately. You know, I've used the

00:28:20.820 analogy before of a, of a man who, you know, goes to a surgeon, uh, asking for his arms to be removed

00:28:27.240 and replaced with wings because he wants to be a bird. And it's a very close analogy because

00:28:32.940 you know, even if his arms are removed and these weird wing-like extremities are put in its place,

00:28:43.920 he won't actually be a bird. He won't, and he won't even be able to fly. He'll be, he'll be stuck

00:28:50.440 instead with, uh, with these useless feathery flaps of skin. He'll no longer have human arms,

00:28:56.900 but he'll also be no closer to being a bird. He won't even be like one inch closer on the path to

00:29:03.260 birdhood after the surgery. Not any closer. He, after he gets the surgery, he will be as much

00:29:10.960 not a bird as I am or you are. Um, the surgery will not advance him towards that goal. And yet he

00:29:18.320 will still have sacrificed one of the defining physical elements of being human. So he's given,

00:29:24.980 he's given that up and received nothing in its place. Nothing but those big unmovable flaps that

00:29:31.460 don't even really look like wings and certainly don't function as them. So it's just, it's the

00:29:38.220 worst trade-off imaginable. You give up this, you know, something that is defining and very useful

00:29:46.440 and natural to you as a human being. You give that up and get nothing. So it's not even really a

00:29:55.700 trade-off. It is just a sacrifice on your part. You're sacrificing something that, and no one should

00:30:01.880 ever sacrifice and you're doing so needlessly and to, to no gain to you. So I guess that, that leads us

00:30:10.000 to the final point that, you know, they're saying the surgery, uh, suicide rate after attempted suicide

00:30:15.680 rate after surgery has doubled, but keep in mind that these were people who got the surgery, um,

00:30:21.860 from 2012 to 2018. Uh, you're going to see that rate of suicide double again and double and double,

00:30:29.100 uh, for that same group of people. Because even at 2012 to 2018, it's still, these kinds of procedures

00:30:36.380 were not as common even then, um, as they have been, you know, as they were in the, the, the five

00:30:41.600 years after that. Um, but also the longer that these men have to live with this new reality,

00:30:50.100 the more likely it is that they're going to become overwhelmed by despair. Um, meanwhile,

00:30:58.540 something related also want to mention daily wire has this report. England's national health service

00:31:01.920 announced this week that children will no longer be given puberty blocker prescriptions after experts

00:31:05.800 concluded that there were serious safety concerns. The NHS's decision comes after it commissioned

00:31:10.500 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to review the published evidence,

00:31:15.460 um, on, uh, this drug and, uh, also known as puberty blockers, uh, which prevent the body from making

00:31:21.900 sex hormones that are needed for an individual to, to, uh, grow and develop into a healthy adult.

00:31:27.700 And so now they're no longer going to be, uh, giving these prescriptions. And, you know,

00:31:35.220 there's never been a better example of the sunlight is the best disinfectant philosophy

00:31:39.680 than, than this, uh, because, you know, we never really needed to explain or to argue for the fact

00:31:48.600 that it's a bad idea to chemically castrate kids. We did explain it, right? We did make the arguments

00:31:55.660 against this practice, but the explanation arguments were never really the point. Uh, they,

00:32:01.960 they certainly weren't the tipping point. They aren't the reason why the child castration industry

00:32:07.080 is falling apart. Thank God. And it is falling apart across the Western world.

00:32:15.500 And, you know, I, I think in, in five to 10 years from now, I think there's a very good chance that

00:32:21.460 this just isn't happening anymore anywhere, um, to kids. Okay. It'll still be happening to adults,

00:32:29.740 which is also a problem we need to deal with because that shouldn't be allowed either.

00:32:35.260 But I think as far as, as far as the issue with kids goes, it's, you know, they, they are,

00:32:42.740 the child castrators are losing ground every day across the Western world and they'll continue to

00:32:48.180 lose ground. Um, and I don't think anything's going to reverse it. I don't. And call me, uh,

00:32:53.020 call me uncharacteristically optimistic on this point, but I don't think, I don't think anything

00:32:56.540 reverses this trend for them. I think they keep losing ground and losing, losing until there's

00:32:59.980 no ground left. And the reason is exactly, exactly what I'm talking about. That that's

00:33:04.040 like, there's nothing they can say now that everybody knows this is happening. There's

00:33:07.820 nothing they can say to change the fact that, that everyone recognizes that this is insane to do to

00:33:13.680 kids. Um, and that's the point we didn't need to, I won't even give us those of us who are opposed

00:33:21.440 to this and have been in the, you know, anti-gender ideology movement. I'm not even going to give us

00:33:26.940 credit for winning the argument because it wasn't about, it wasn't like we made brilliant arguments

00:33:33.500 and people said, Oh, you know what? I hadn't thought about it like that, but I think you're

00:33:36.540 right. That's not what happened. Our job actually was much easier than that. All we had to do was

00:33:42.280 make sure people knew we had to, we had to bring awareness. Like this is happening and it's happening,

00:33:48.060 uh, you know, all over the country and in other Western countries as well. And it's becoming more

00:33:54.140 and more common. And, and, you know, this is what it is. When you hear about puberty blockers,

00:33:59.260 this is what that means. Here you go. That's all we had to do because the wrongness of it

00:34:05.800 is immediately obvious to anyone who has a moral compass, at least better aligned than the moral

00:34:10.800 compass of say, uh, I don't know, Buffalo Bill from silence of the lambs. Like if you're at least

00:34:15.800 more ethically and morally balanced than that guy, you automatically understand that these puberty

00:34:21.580 blockers are poison that we shouldn't be giving to kids. As, as soon as you're able to understand

00:34:25.940 that this is happening. And as soon as someone tells you what a puberty blocker is, cause you

00:34:29.520 might not know that until someone tells you. Then once you have those two pieces of information,

00:34:34.180 this is what a puberty blocker is and they're being given to kids. And here's why they're being

00:34:37.540 given it. As soon as that information is out, almost everybody says, no way we can't,

00:34:44.120 no way you can't give that to kids. That's crazy. And so our movement has mostly been about making

00:34:49.520 sure people know this. And, and now most people do. Um, and you can't, that's, you know, that's the,

00:34:55.640 the, the quintessential sort of toothpaste that can't be put back in the tube. People know it,

00:34:59.600 they know what it is. You can't change that. And, uh, and most people are not going to tolerate

00:35:05.760 this. And that's what we're seeing. Okay. In a house armed services committee meeting yesterday,

00:35:10.700 a department of defense official had this to say about the coming Haitian invasion or the continued

00:35:17.480 or maybe increased coming Haitian invasion in the United States. Let's watch.

00:35:23.040 So what's the difference between Haiti and a failed state? It's telling, right? We can't really

00:35:27.700 identify them because the gangs are in charge. The government has been thrown out. And as a Florida

00:35:32.880 man, I'm deeply concerned about this wave of people that we're about to have, that we are having

00:35:37.960 coming from Haiti and it will accelerate because I've gone to Opelaka and I've spent time with the

00:35:42.220 folks that are engaged in Operation Vigilant Century. And they say the number one push factor

00:35:47.340 that drives these Haitians into Broward County, Palm Beach County, where they don't disperse

00:35:51.460 throughout the country, they stay in Southeast Florida, that, that, that driving factor is the

00:35:56.380 deterioration of conditions in Haiti. So what are we doing to prepare for that wave and to ensure

00:36:04.020 that these people are not paroled into the United States as the administration has done with people

00:36:08.820 on the southern border, but instead are repatriated back at the dock at Port-au-Prince?

00:36:14.580 Congressman, we're doing a number of things to ensure that we're keeping track of the situation

00:36:18.800 and we're prepared. At the moment, we have not yet seen large numbers, what we would characterize

00:36:23.280 as a, as a maritime mass migration. But we are alert to that.

00:36:27.760 We are, we are alert to that possibility. I think you're right that the, the driving conditions in

00:36:34.480 Haiti could very well press more people. So we've recently approved some additional assistance that

00:36:41.280 we can provide to the Coast Guard. I, I, I think that that has now fully been approved. We'll be

00:36:47.120 providing notifications if we haven't already to provide additional shipboard assistance.

00:36:51.680 Because I've talked to the Coast Guard and what they say would really support them would be more

00:36:56.140 naval vessels would be DOD support. And because I think you correctly said that there is an

00:37:02.540 anticipated mass migration here, there are specific legal authorities that we can access that I would

00:37:07.960 implore you to access. Specifically, George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13276. And in that Executive

00:37:16.620 Order, there is the ability for any president to designate an anticipated mass migration and that get

00:37:23.620 gray hull naval vessels into the Straits of Florida to deter that migration and then to reach,

00:37:30.020 patriot those people before they get to Florida. Okay. So they are anticipating this mass migration

00:37:36.700 from Haiti, which as is covered there, it, I mean, of course it is a failed state. I mean,

00:37:42.520 if Haiti doesn't count as a failed state, then what, then what the hell does? It's in every literal

00:37:47.880 sense. It's a, it's a, well, unless you would argue it's not a failed state because it was never

00:37:53.020 really a state to begin with, uh, at least not anytime in the last two centuries, but no, it's

00:37:57.780 a failed state. And, and so there's, there's going to be, uh, a renewed rush of illegals, quote unquote

00:38:05.280 refugees coming from Haiti. And my view on this and, and, you know, of course it'll be called cruel,

00:38:10.960 but I don't really care. My view is that I don't think we should take in any Haitian refugees. Um,

00:38:17.280 because we've already taken enough and we can't afford it anymore. And it's just not possible. Like

00:38:23.480 it, it, it, it is a country that is, as we heard overrun by violent gangs and whether those violent

00:38:32.720 gangs are also engaging in cannibalism or not. I mean, the fact that's a question at all in the first

00:38:38.480 place tells you something, whether or not they are, uh, we know that violent gangs run, run the

00:38:43.960 country and you start bringing in hordes of people from Haiti. There's just no way to know. I don't

00:38:48.720 care what anybody says. I don't care what they claim about the vetting that supposedly goes on.

00:38:52.400 There's no vetting. There's no way to vet it anyway. What are you going to vet? What are you

00:38:54.980 going to check the references? There's no way to know. So there's just no way to know. And if you're

00:38:59.580 bringing in, you know, uh, shiploads of Haitians, you know, for a fact that at least some of them

00:39:06.440 are in this criminal violent element and we're shipping them into this country, that's reason

00:39:10.920 enough to not do it. But, but also we just can't afford it anymore. Uh, I think, I think we just

00:39:17.600 can't. And there's an entire globe with 190 other countries on it. Um, and we need to turn to them

00:39:28.820 and say, okay, your turn guys, you can step in here, your turn. It's like, we, we can't take

00:39:35.680 everybody all the time. The rest of you guys can help out. There's no reason why United States

00:39:41.960 of America needs to be the hub where the entire third world comes and we can't afford it anymore.

00:39:48.700 And it's killing our country and it's not right. It's not right to us. And there's no reason for it.

00:39:54.260 We should even have to justify it. We shouldn't even have to explain like make everyone, make all

00:40:00.460 the other countries explain. Why aren't they, why aren't you guys taking them in? And that should

00:40:04.180 be, and that should be the answer. So when I say that I don't think we should bring in any of the

00:40:08.900 Haitian refugees, I'm not saying that I think that they should be, that they should be stuck in Haiti.

00:40:14.540 Uh, not saying anything like that. I'm saying there's a whole other, there's an entire world

00:40:17.900 that they can go to. It doesn't need to be us. And when it comes to, uh, illegal immigrants or

00:40:26.660 asylum seekers or refugees, whatever label you want to put on it, we are at capacity.

00:40:32.100 We're far above capacity. So no room at the end, no vacancy. Um, there's a whole other world out there,

00:40:39.880 a lot of other countries. So they can step in. And if they won't, then why is that not like,

00:40:47.160 why do we have to defend ourselves and justify us not wanting to bring anybody else in? Why

00:40:53.800 doesn't the rest of the world have to justify their own refusal? Stay on the same, similar

00:40:58.320 topic. There was another, a different committee hearing yesterday. This is the Federalist Report

00:41:02.060 says none of Democrat witnesses in a congressional hearing Tuesday could say resolutely that they

00:41:08.960 believe only citizens should be able to vote in a federal election. During a Senate Judiciary Committee

00:41:13.400 hearing on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee asked the

00:41:18.760 question, uh, asked the witnesses to provide a basic yes or no answer to a series of questions

00:41:23.260 about non-citizens voting. And I was looking for the video of this moment. I couldn't find it.

00:41:29.040 Maybe it's out there somewhere. It didn't look hard enough, but, um, here's the description of it

00:41:33.020 from the Federalist. Lee asked each of the witnesses, do you believe that only citizens of the United

00:41:37.360 States should be able to vote in federal elections? Now, before we get to their answers,

00:41:43.300 it's one of those really easy questions, not a trick question. It's a yes or no question,

00:41:47.440 not a trick question. It's not like one of those unfair yes or no questions where,

00:41:52.780 yeah, you could say yes or no, but you kind of need to say more than that.

00:41:55.620 Like a yes or no doesn't suffice. You need to be able to explain it.

00:41:59.180 This is not one of those questions. Should foreign citizens who are not citizens of the country be

00:42:04.620 able to vote in our elections? No, of course not. Obviously not. But that's not the answer that he

00:42:12.340 got. Um, executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law, uh, Damon T. Hewitt

00:42:17.940 said, quote, we don't have a position about non-citizens voting in federal elections. We believe

00:42:23.140 that's what the current laws are. And so we're certainly fighting for everyone who is eligible

00:42:27.740 under current law to vote. We don't have a position. And by the way, not having a position on

00:42:34.480 whether citizen, non-citizens should be able to vote is having a position on it.

00:42:40.420 President of Southwest voter registration education project, Lydia, uh, Camarillo said,

00:42:45.200 that's a decision of the state law, but I want to emphasize. Then Lee interjected his decision

00:42:50.880 of state law as to who should vote in federal elections. States decide who gets to vote in

00:42:54.460 various elections. And in federal elections, I believe that we should be encouraging people

00:42:57.540 to naturalize and then vote. And then Lee pressed, okay, but you're saying that the federal

00:43:01.580 government should have no say in who votes in a federal election. Camarillo responded,

00:43:05.840 I don't have a position on that. And they went to the next person who's, uh, ACLU's voting rights

00:43:11.200 project, Sophia Lynn Lakin said, uh, also didn't have an answer on whether or not they should be

00:43:16.280 able to. All they did was kind of fall back on, well, you know, the current law is, but they

00:43:21.140 couldn't say that they don't want non-citizens to vote. And, and, and the reason why they couldn't

00:43:25.480 say that is because of course they do want non-citizens to vote. And, uh, as they say,

00:43:30.100 the mask is, is off now and has been off for a while. Okay. Finally, I want to mention this

00:43:35.180 briefly. Wall Street Journal has this headline. What's it like to work for a Gen Z boss?

00:43:41.920 Very different. If the early managers are any indication, the workplace will be less hierarchical,

00:43:46.900 more informal, and a lot more focused on mental health. Uh, and then we get into the article where

00:43:52.640 talks about the experiences of, you know, as, as Gen Z has come of age and, and, uh, now,

00:43:58.060 you know, you've got people in Gen Z who are in their, uh, I guess, mid to late twenties at this

00:44:02.580 point and are now getting to positions of, uh, of management and even ownership and companies.

00:44:08.280 What's that like? I mean, it's working for a Gen Z manager. I can only imagine it's like a,

00:44:15.180 it's a horror beyond comprehension. It's not something that I would ever, that I would wish on my worst

00:44:21.260 enemy. Well, it's not true. I'd wish that on my worst enemy, but I certainly wouldn't wish it for

00:44:25.600 myself. Uh, but we get, we get some information about what that's like. And here's a little bit

00:44:31.180 of what it says at a New York startup company called August employees enjoy mindfulness Fridays,

00:44:36.580 a more relaxed work day for deep focus without meetings. The company, which makes menstrual care

00:44:41.320 products also has manager driven quarterly heart checks to see how direct reports are feeling about

00:44:46.440 how hard they're working and how much they're paid. It's a work style introduced by Gen Z co-founders

00:44:52.620 Nadia Okamoto and Nick Jane, who graduated from Harvard and Princeton respectively during the

00:44:57.500 pandemic. Uh, Okamoto says we talk a lot more than most places about how to prevent burnouts.

00:45:04.460 Apparently Okamoto was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder two years ago and speaks

00:45:08.980 openly about it. One of the things I've learned the most is to slow down. The self-described fast

00:45:14.640 based entrepreneur who published a book with a while sophomore, uh, says that, uh, she's fast

00:45:19.560 moving, but she doesn't expect her employees to move fast, uh, setter and so forth. Mental health

00:45:24.660 is very important. Then we get to this part is my favorite part. Research shows that Gen Z workers

00:45:29.860 can be challenging to work alongside a survey of 1,344 managers by resumebuilder.com found that

00:45:35.860 74% believe Gen Z is more difficult to work with than other generations. Generations do in part to

00:45:41.360 lacking skills as well as motivation. In another resume builder survey that interviewed hiring

00:45:46.380 managers who assessed a Gen Z candidate, 58% said Gen Zers didn't dress appropriately. Uh, 57% said

00:45:52.900 they struggled with eye contact and 47% said they asked for unreasonable compensation. But those

00:45:59.620 weaknesses might be in the eye of the beholder. What older Americans see as workplace liabilities,

00:46:06.140 others see as signs of potential leadership strengths. Okay. That's so just to review,

00:46:12.560 um, says the wall street journal, uh, it may be a leadership strength to struggle with eye contact,

00:46:20.900 be unreasonable, um, be to dress inappropriately and to lack skills and motivation. This is what they just

00:46:31.420 said. That those qualities, they may seem bad, but that may be a leadership strength. Now, how in the world

00:46:39.920 could that possibly be a leadership strength? So just imagine like a, a person not, not motivated,

00:46:46.840 walking around slumped over, not making eye contact, right? Completely unreasonable, dressed like a slob.

00:46:55.800 Oh, that's a leader. That right there. That's a leader in the making is what we're being told.

00:47:01.640 Um, how could that possibly translate to good leader? That's the opposite. That's, that is,

00:47:07.520 that is right down the line, like bullet point by bullet point, the opposite of good leadership.

00:47:13.740 That is the, in, in every way, the opposite of what a good leader is supposed to do and how they're

00:47:19.260 supposed to carry themselves. Um, so how could that be good leadership? Well, that brings us to like

00:47:25.040 the greater point here, which is that, you know, what you really find in the sort of Gen Z transformation

00:47:32.920 of the workforce is an intense focus and exclusive focus on the self, right? On what I need and what

00:47:42.560 I want. Now, obviously Gen Z not invent that. They didn't invent the, the, you know, the habit of being

00:47:49.780 selfish and self-centered and self-focused, uh, that's always existed in the human species. And in

00:47:56.380 particular, you know, since the advent of modern culture to wherever you want to, you know, wherever

00:48:00.840 you want to place that, but modern culture did not start with Gen Z. Uh, it has been, you know, that,

00:48:05.080 that has been the, the, uh, defining feature of modern culture for as long as we've had it is this

00:48:14.100 intense focus on the self. But with Gen Z, it's just kind of reached its full, this, this, this

00:48:21.120 poison fruit has reached full bloom, we might say. And now you have a generation of, uh, of people who

00:48:26.620 largely just like cannot see anything but them. So they, they cannot look outside of themselves.

00:48:31.220 They just can't, or at least they're unwilling to. Um, and so that's the nature of this transformation,

00:48:38.300 which, which is why like, and you continue down the article and you read it and, and some of the

00:48:44.200 things that these Gen Z managers are doing on the surface are, could be good. Like we read in the

00:48:52.080 first paragraph that, um, during these mindfulness Fridays, uh, they, they, they don't have meetings.

00:48:59.100 Okay. Well, that's good. Like cutting meetings out is always a good thing. 95% of meetings that

00:49:06.260 happen in every company everywhere could, could be erased. Okay. You could, you could cut out at

00:49:13.380 least 95% of your meetings. In some cases you probably get cut out all of your meetings and

00:49:17.460 you'd be fine, but certainly at least 95% you could go to 95% of meetings are a total waste of time. So

00:49:21.880 if you're cutting out meetings, that's always good. That's a good idea. Cut out meetings.

00:49:27.640 Uh, it's just that the reason for doing it. So even when they stumble on a, a sort of correct

00:49:33.980 conclusion or they stumble on a good idea, they stumble on something that, that, you know,

00:49:39.320 that might actually help with productivity. It might actually help with employee morale,

00:49:44.420 employee morale matters because it, it, it feeds into productivity. Um, and it makes people happier

00:49:53.300 and it may shock you to learn. I actually believe that it's good for people to be happy. You want

00:49:57.480 people to be happy in general. You want them to be happy when they're working for you, but also just

00:50:01.020 in general, cause that's a better way to live. Um, so even when they stumble on something like that,

00:50:08.100 it's all, it's always for the wrong reason though. And it's because they're focused on the wrong

00:50:12.840 things, which is why they may stumble on a correct conclusion every once in a while. But most of the

00:50:17.120 time the conclusions are wrong too, because you're starting from the wrong premise. And what we're

00:50:23.380 hearing now is that, you know, in every facet of life and even in the workplace too, especially in the

00:50:28.480 workplace, all that really matters is me, right? All that matters is me. All that matters is how I

00:50:35.120 feel. How am I feeling in this moment? So, and as I walk through, as I go throughout my day and every

00:50:39.460 task I have, I'm constantly doing an inventory to see how do I feel right now? How do I feel about

00:50:43.860 doing this? How is this making me feel me, me, me, me, me. And if I discover that there's something

00:50:48.340 that I'm doing that, that, that in this moment, I don't like doing, it's making me feel bad that I

00:50:52.300 should just stop doing it because all that matters is me, which is exactly the wrong approach.

00:50:57.100 And the way to be a healthy person and a happy person and a productive person and also a good,

00:51:05.480 you know, worker on top of just being a good person is, is, is, uh, to be thinking about things

00:51:12.660 beyond yourself. You know, the first question you should be asking is, is not how do I feel about

00:51:17.100 this? But in any context, it should be like, how is this working? You know, uh, is this, is this

00:51:23.820 making me a better person? Is this making me a better family man? Is this making me a better

00:51:28.240 citizen? Is this making, is this making me a better employee? Is this making me a better worker?

00:51:32.460 Am I being a better team player? Like those should be the questions you ask. That should be the

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00:54:36.440 Ben Shapiro was trending all day yesterday on social media. And as we know from years of experience

00:54:41.520 at this point, nobody ever trends for a good reason. You're not going to trend because everybody

00:54:45.140 is listing their top three favorite things about you. You'll never click on someone's name on the

00:54:49.460 trending list and find that the majority of tweets about that person all agree that the person is

00:54:53.420 wonderful and intelligent. It would be nice to live in a world with that kind of internet, but

00:54:57.860 that's not the internet we have. And so Ben was trending because lots of people, including a huge

00:55:01.440 number of people on the right, were very mad at him based on a clip that Media Matters posted to

00:55:06.820 Twitter. And the clip now has 11 million views with the majority of those 11 million people

00:55:10.500 agreeing that Ben is a very mean and terrible person. In the clip, Ben is talking about the

00:55:14.860 retirement age in the United States and expressing his point of view that providing a taxpayer funded

00:55:19.480 retirement to everybody starting at the age of 65 is not sustainable. Here's part of that clip. Watch.

00:55:27.140 And let's be real about this. It's insane that we haven't raised the retirement age in the United

00:55:30.400 States. It's totally crazy. Joe Biden, if that were the case, Joe Biden should not be running for

00:55:34.620 president. Hey, Joe Biden is 81 years old. The retirement age in the United States at which you start to

00:55:39.340 receive Social Security and you are eligible for Medicare is 65. Joe Biden has technically been

00:55:44.460 eligible for Social Security and Medicare for 16 years, and he wants to continue in office until

00:55:49.180 he is 86, which is 19 years past when he would be eligible for retirement. No one in the United

00:55:55.380 States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you

00:56:00.200 have some sort of health problem. Everybody that I know who is who is elderly, who has retired is dead

00:56:05.520 within five years. And if you talk to people who are elderly and they lose their purpose in life by

00:56:09.940 losing their job and they stop working, things go to hell in a handbasket real quick. But put all of

00:56:15.420 that aside just on a fiscal level and on a logical level. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt established 65

00:56:22.180 as the retirement age, the average life expectancy in the United States was 63 years old. Today, the average

00:56:28.280 life expectancy in the United States is close to 80. It's totally insane that you believe that you should be

00:56:33.640 able to work from the time that you are essentially 20 to the time that you are 65, which is a 45 year

00:56:39.340 period. Pay in and then you will receive Social Security benefits sufficient to support you and

00:56:46.580 your family, you and your wife or whatever, for like another 20 years. That's crazy talk. That is not

00:56:53.200 fiscally sustainable. OK, now Ben responded to this posted clip with a follow tweet saying, quote,

00:56:59.080 yes, if you're mentally and physically healthy, taxpayers should not pay to retire at 65. When Social Security

00:57:03.140 was created, life expectancy was 64. Today it's 78. Also, people require purpose. If you can retire

00:57:08.400 and find purpose, go for it. For many, that's a bad idea. So his primary point is about the

00:57:13.140 sustainability and fairness or lack of fairness of the Social Security system. His argument that most

00:57:18.940 people shouldn't retire at 65 because it removes purpose from their lives is an aside, which is why

00:57:23.700 he says leave that aside. Not really relevant to the main point. As far as that goes, as far as that

00:57:28.740 aside goes, of course, the reality, and I don't think Ben disputes this, is that some people

00:57:33.700 need to retire at 65 or even before that because of health reasons. Other people want to retire around

00:57:40.400 that age so they can invest themselves in something else that gives them greater purpose.

00:57:46.180 You know, there's plenty of people who work a job and they hate it and they work it for decades

00:57:51.060 to provide for their family, even though they don't find a lot of purpose in it, which, by the way,

00:57:56.780 is very, very noble. It's a noble thing to work a job and work it reliably and provide for your

00:58:01.440 family, even though you don't enjoy it. That's the position that a great many people are in,

00:58:06.460 if not most. And people like that, when they can retire, they want to retire as soon as they can.

00:58:11.720 Totally understandable. And if you're in that boat and you want to retire and you can find something

00:58:21.940 else to do with your life that will bring your greater joy, again, fantastic. Now, some people,

00:58:26.600 on the other hand, retire and have nothing else to do and they fall into despair and kind of a

00:58:32.820 listlessness and they're dead a short time later. So the point is that unless you're very sick,

00:58:38.720 it's not a good idea for anyone of any age to have nothing to do and no real objective or purpose to

00:58:44.400 get them through each day. That doesn't always mean that you have to have a job. I mean,

00:58:48.540 they're stay-at-home moms who never have jobs outside the house, although they have plenty of

00:58:52.500 work to do, and yet have plenty of purpose and meaning in their lives. And Ben obviously doesn't

00:58:57.760 disagree with that. So, you know, it's a mixed bag as far as retirement goes. But the basic point

00:59:01.940 that people need to have purpose in their lives or reason to get out of bed in the morning

00:59:06.100 is undoubtedly true. It's also undoubtedly true that having a job can very often be a part of that,

00:59:12.800 though not always. It doesn't have to be and isn't necessarily in all cases. Now, let's leave

00:59:19.320 that aside as Ben says himself in the clip. That's not really the point. The point is tax-funded

00:59:25.000 retirement. Okay, if we're not talking about tax-funded, then it's just like do whatever you

00:59:30.360 want. You know, if you're able to afford to retire, if you want to retire, if you can.

00:59:33.960 If you can retire at 35 and you want to and there's something else you want to do with your life,

00:59:38.020 I mean, go for it. We're talking about tax-funded retirement, the Social Security system. That is

00:59:45.900 the real topic here. And most of the debate, which has not been a debate so much as a chorus of people

00:59:51.980 screeching hysterically, has been centered around the question of Social Security. As I said, a huge

00:59:58.560 number of people attacking Ben and valiantly defending the Social Security system have been

01:00:02.100 conservatives, including prominent ones. So let's deal with that. But before we get into this Social

01:00:07.660 Security question, I must also say again that if you are attacking a fellow conservative based on

01:00:13.180 a Media Matters clip, you are a traitor to your people and you should be ashamed. I mean, this

01:00:18.600 should be one basic rule of engagement that we all recognize on the right. You never go after one of

01:00:23.820 your own publicly using a Media Matters clip as fodder. You especially should never take their framing of

01:00:31.240 the clip as gospel and assume that whatever is in the clip is all that person had to say on the

01:00:35.520 subject. Like you should know how Media Matters functions by now. You should know how they work.

01:00:40.440 And if you're a conservative joining forces with Media Matters to attack somebody on the right,

01:00:45.060 you are automatically wrong. Automatically. It doesn't matter what the subject is. You are wrong.

01:00:50.160 You're wrong by default. But in this case, you're also wrong on the substance because Social Security

01:00:56.040 is without a doubt, without a shadow of a doubt, an unsustainable, unfair, morally atrocious,

01:01:01.940 an economically insane system that is only defended by both parties because it is politically

01:01:06.580 unpopular to be honest about it. But I'm not a politician running for office, so I can be honest

01:01:12.960 about it. The system is a farce and it should be abolished, obviously. That doesn't mean we should

01:01:18.700 abolish it overnight. It doesn't mean we should leave elderly people high and dry with no safety net.

01:01:23.320 All it means is that the current system is a disaster on every level and we should be looking

01:01:29.080 for a way out. The conversation should be, how do we get out of this boondoggle without harming people?

01:01:35.500 But we can't have that conversation because most politicians on both sides have declared that this

01:01:39.480 awful, insane, unsustainable, self-destructing system must be kept entirely intact and untouched

01:01:45.740 and allowed to continue exactly as it is until it all falls apart anyway. Again, that is not a position

01:01:51.800 that anyone has taken because they think it's the right position. It's a position taken out of pure

01:01:57.620 cowardice and cynicism. So let's clarify a few things here. First of all, when you receive

01:02:06.180 Social Security, you are not getting the money that you paid into the system. The money you receive

01:02:12.360 is not your money. That money, your money, is gone. The government has spent it. It is gone.

01:02:18.540 The government is not taking Social Security from you and your paycheck and keeping it in a special box.

01:02:24.580 It was at the lockbox, I think is what Al Gore said. And, you know, keeping it there to give to

01:02:29.960 you when you retire. That's not the way the system works. No, the system is a giant state-run Ponzi scheme

01:02:37.340 where current beneficiaries are paid out of the contributions of people who are currently working.

01:02:42.860 So you are not funding your own retirement with the Social Security that you pay. You are funding the

01:02:46.980 retirement of currently retired people. It is, again, a Ponzi scheme and one that becomes less and

01:02:52.640 less sustainable with each passing year. Not only because people are living much longer past

01:02:57.380 retirement, as has been observed, but also because people are having fewer kids, which is the bigger

01:03:02.140 problem here. Fifty years ago, there were many more workers available to support each retired person.

01:03:08.080 That number is dropping exponentially by the decade, which creates a system that becomes weaker and

01:03:12.520 more top-heavy and inches closer to inevitable collapse as it continues. And everybody knows that,

01:03:17.800 but nobody wants to do anything about it. Meanwhile, the workers propping up the system are much poorer

01:03:23.920 than the older people they're supporting. In fact, the net worth of people 65 and older is, on average,

01:03:31.000 more than double the net worth of people in their 30s and 40s. This is a system that takes thousands of

01:03:36.440 dollars every year from working-class families and gives it to people who are, on average, wealthier than

01:03:41.220 they are. In fact, millions of Social Security recipients are literally millionaires. Millionaires

01:03:47.520 who, again, are not receiving the money that they paid in because that money has already been stolen.

01:03:51.460 That's gone. It's been gone for decades. They are instead receiving money directly out of the paychecks

01:03:57.360 of working-class families with young children to feed. And it's not a small amount. We're talking about

01:04:04.340 thousands of dollars every year that working-class families who have children to feed,

01:04:07.880 who have college tuitions to pay, who have car payments and mortgages and everything else.

01:04:14.060 That money is stolen from them and given to people, some of whom need it, and some don't.

01:04:23.380 And on top of that, everyone understands that Social Security, one way or another,

01:04:27.120 probably won't exist in its current form when the 35-year-old working-class person

01:04:31.220 today is eligible for it. The system will collapse and future generations will be left holding the bag.

01:04:37.080 And instead of trying to do something to avoid that catastrophe, the current approach is for

01:04:41.460 everyone to just get everything they can out of this insane system. And then I guess just let your

01:04:46.220 children and grandchildren deal with the consequences when they're dead. When you're dead, let your

01:04:51.660 children and grandchildren deal with it. I want to get mine and screw them. They'll deal with it later.

01:04:56.860 I'm not going to be here. That's the mentality. And it is, to put it mildly, a selfish way to

01:05:03.520 approach this issue. Social Security is a bad investment. And I mean, it's not really an

01:05:09.320 investment at all because, again, it is a Ponzi scheme where the money invested today is immediately

01:05:14.260 pilfered. There's no investment at all. But if you want to call it an investment, then you cannot deny

01:05:19.460 that it is a very bad one. It's an investment that yields no return. If you were to take the thousands

01:05:24.560 of dollars a year stolen out of your paycheck for Social Security and actually invest it, invest it in

01:05:29.400 in any other way, really, you would have two, three, four, five times as much, if not more,

01:05:35.380 by the time you hit retirement. If you simply put all that money in a high-yield savings account

01:05:39.460 and you just kept it there, you would be in a much better situation come retirement.

01:05:44.540 Not only that, but if you kept your own money, and this is a point I rarely hear anyone make,

01:05:50.700 if you kept your own money, saved it yourself, invested it, whatever you want to do with it,

01:05:54.420 it's your money. That also means that when you die, if there's any leftover, you can pass it down

01:06:00.460 to your children and grandchildren. But with Social Security, if you pay in for 40 years and

01:06:05.680 then you receive checks for two years and then you die, all the rest of what you're owed is kept by

01:06:10.700 the government. It doesn't go to your children. It does not become generational wealth. See, this is

01:06:17.120 the theme with this system, if you haven't noticed. Rather than pass down wealth to our children,

01:06:22.220 which is what we should be doing, it requires our children to pass their wealth to us. It is

01:06:28.620 exactly backwards. And the only people who really benefit, I mean the people who really profit from

01:06:35.220 this, are the corrupt politicians who keep the system going. And they don't keep it going because

01:06:41.800 they're concerned about grandma, okay? That's not why they do it. They do it because of the power

01:06:48.240 and control it gives them over all of our lives. Now, we should and do still have programs to help

01:06:57.180 elderly people who are in need and impoverished. And there are plenty in that category. Now, again,

01:07:02.660 every time we talk about Social Security, all we ever do is we talk about the poor elderly people who

01:07:07.380 need it, which we should talk about that. But we totally ignore the fact that there's a whole category

01:07:12.820 of older people who are rich and don't even need it. And yet we're taking money from people who have

01:07:20.600 like a fraction of their wealth. It's crazy. But as far as the elderly people who are actually poor

01:07:27.400 or in need, nobody thinks that grandma should be kicked out on the street to die. But if you think

01:07:33.520 that this state-run Ponzi scheme is the only way to ensure that grandma is okay, then you have been

01:07:39.060 brainwashed by those corrupt politicians. They have used fear tactics to get you to agree to a system

01:07:44.340 that is hurting you. The tale is old as time. The truth is that ending the Social Security scam

01:07:50.860 would be an enormous win for the American people, and especially for the middle class.

01:07:54.440 Each paycheck would increase substantially. I mean, you could save or spend your money as you choose

01:08:00.520 instead of having it stolen and squandered by the reptilian scumbags in D.C. It would be,

01:08:06.320 I cannot think of a single thing that could be done that would transform people's lives

01:08:10.460 at that scale that quickly. And yeah, you know, while we're at it, we can abolish all foreign aid.

01:08:18.100 We can take a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy. I'm all in favor of that. I advocate for it all the

01:08:23.140 time. And all of this would result in a drastic increase in prosperity for working people everywhere

01:08:29.880 immediately overnight. And that's exactly why none of it will ever happen. And it's also why few

01:08:36.520 politicians will even pretend that they want it to happen. And that is why, even if it's not really

01:08:42.800 canceled, and never will be, as far as this shows go, this show is concerned, Social Security is today

01:08:49.340 canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

01:08:54.160 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 13, 2024

Ep. 1326 - The Radical Wokeness Of The Video Game Industry

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