The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1357 - The Dastardly Right Wing Plot To Have Babies And Save Humanity From Extinction

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the media has uncovered the dangerous right-wing conspiracy to have babies and stave off human extinction.

00:00:07.020 We'll talk about this dastardly plot today.

00:00:08.780 Also, an activist at Columbia University gets himself expelled for calling for the death of Zionists.

00:00:13.480 But what do these activists even mean when they talk about Zionists?

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00:00:17.280 And Jerry Seinfeld says that comedy is basically dead and the extreme left killed it.

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00:01:55.400 Over the past few years, the biggest knock you've heard against the field of public health is that they completely mismanaged COVID,

00:02:01.660 mainly by exaggerating its impact.

00:02:03.360 They told us that it was a potentially civilization-ending epidemic, one that justified lockdowns, mandatory shots, etc.

00:02:08.960 And in the end, they were wrong, of course, and for that reason, nobody will ever trust one of these supposed experts again.

00:02:15.160 But the really extraordinary thing about the field of public health isn't really the epidemics that they fixate on.

00:02:20.220 It's the ones they ignore.

00:02:21.580 And in particular, there is one ongoing public health crisis that these experts really don't want to talk about.

00:02:27.640 Even though, if it continues for much longer, it will quite literally bring about the end of humanity.

00:02:32.860 I'm talking about collapsing fertility rates all over the world, which is a problem you really have to put in context

00:02:38.300 if you want to understand how dire things are.

00:02:40.240 So right now, Russia, China, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Ireland, Switzerland, Greece, Denmark, Australia, Canada, Qatar,

00:02:48.380 the UAE, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, the UK, Germany, and of course, the United States,

00:02:54.540 and many others, have birth rates that are well below replacement level.

00:02:58.600 The U.S. fertility rate, in particular, the fertility rate here in the United States,

00:03:02.080 is at its lowest point in nearly a century.

00:03:04.200 And what that means is that people aren't having enough children to sustain the population.

00:03:09.620 They are not replacing themselves with children, with a new generation.

00:03:14.000 But not every country is affected by this crisis.

00:03:16.700 There are countries where fertility is much higher than replacement level.

00:03:20.240 And they include such esteemed locations as Niger, one of the poorest countries on the planet,

00:03:25.240 Chad, Somalia, Angola, Tanzania, Afghanistan, Zambia, Cameroon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria,

00:03:31.480 and, of course, best of all, Haiti.

00:03:34.440 So it doesn't take a genius to see where this is heading.

00:03:37.200 Third world hellholes are reproducing, while first world countries, 1.00

00:03:40.280 the ones that sustain the global economy, that keep billions of people alive, are not reproducing.

00:03:46.180 And as this goes on, and third world inhabitants continue to pour into the first world, 1.00

00:03:49.960 the distinction between these two parts of the world continues to blur

00:03:53.000 until they have become completely irrelevant, basically.

00:03:57.740 Eventually, everywhere will be the third world. 1.00

00:04:00.240 There will be no third world, because the whole world is the third world. 0.99

00:04:04.700 This is not a new problem, of course, but to the extent political leaders have tried to solve it,

00:04:09.120 by and large, they have failed.

00:04:10.920 That's the really bad news here.

00:04:12.760 A decade ago, for example, China eased its barbaric one-child policy,

00:04:18.480 and they expected millions more births as a result.

00:04:20.780 But the following year, the country saw only an additional half-million births,

00:04:24.540 and the country's birth rate has remained below replacement level ever since.

00:04:27.680 Beginning in the 90s, Japan undertook its own effort to raise the birth rate,

00:04:31.540 including offering more parental leave, more child care services, etc.

00:04:35.900 The result?

00:04:36.940 Well, nothing has improved.

00:04:38.420 It's only gotten worse, in fact.

00:04:39.520 Last year, Japan's birth rate was the lowest on record.

00:04:42.720 It's the same story in Hungary.

00:04:43.960 Starting with Orban's government in 2010, Hungary doubled its spending on families

00:04:48.300 in many of the same ways and other ways.

00:04:51.100 And yet, last year, Hungary, like Japan, recorded its lowest number of births in history.

00:04:55.420 So, whatever the problem is here, it's clear that it cannot be resolved solely

00:04:59.480 through spending or government intervention.

00:05:02.600 Simply providing some ad hoc economic incentives isn't cutting it.

00:05:06.400 Although those policies are good, I think, they aren't sufficient.

00:05:10.240 So, what is the solution?

00:05:12.460 You could say that the broader economy needs to improve, which is obviously part of it.

00:05:16.440 But the declines I'm talking about have been in progress for decades.

00:05:19.400 Singapore's birth rate has been dropping since the 1980s, and their GDP per capita grew

00:05:24.240 dramatically in the new millennium.

00:05:26.320 It's a similar situation in Taiwan.

00:05:28.640 And birth rates in the U.S. were declining pre-pandemic for more than a decade beforehand,

00:05:33.120 in fact, even throughout periods in which median household income were setting new records.

00:05:38.240 So, what this means is that figuring out the root cause of this problem is more complicated

00:05:42.940 than looking at economic indicators alone.

00:05:45.220 It means analyzing culture, and in particular, taking a close look at prevailing attitudes

00:05:50.220 towards children and families and trying to change those attitudes.

00:05:54.160 That was the main goal of the NATO conference, which took place at the end of last year in

00:05:57.960 Austin, Texas.

00:05:59.260 And speakers from all over the country gathered together to assess what's gone wrong and how

00:06:03.880 to fix it.

00:06:04.520 One of them was Kevin Dolan, who's an organizer of the event.

00:06:07.300 And he made it clear that whether you personally like the idea of having kids or not, the collapse

00:06:11.520 of fertility rates will have a devastating effect on you and everyone you know one way or another.

00:06:18.340 Watch.

00:06:19.900 It doesn't matter if you already have kids, if you don't have kids, if you hate kids.

00:06:23.860 If you have a 401k or a mortgage or a social security card or a checking account, this question

00:06:29.040 is going to impact your life in a very direct way.

00:06:31.140 The entire global financial system, the value of your money and almost every asset you might

00:06:36.740 buy with money, is defined by leverage, which means its value is dependent on growth.

00:06:43.440 Every country in the developed world and most countries in the developing world face long-term

00:06:47.320 population decline at a scale that makes that growth impossible to maintain, which means

00:06:52.000 we are sitting on the bubble of all bubbles.

00:06:53.820 But in the aftermath of a collapse like this, the shrinking number of productive workers have

00:06:57.720 to support a growing number of older, sicker people, which in turn accelerates the economic 0.98

00:07:02.080 pressures that make it difficult to start families.

00:07:04.440 This problem isn't self-correcting, at least not within your lifetime.

00:07:07.420 It gets worse as it gets worse.

00:07:09.980 Now, whether you agree with him or not, and of course, everything he said there is correct,

00:07:15.300 so there's nothing to disagree with.

00:07:16.860 But one of the first things you notice one way or another is that Kevin Dolan is not a demagogue.

00:07:21.600 He didn't hold this conference to berate anyone for not wanting to have kids.

00:07:25.320 He's not some kind of cult leader who demands that everybody sign a pledge to create a certain

00:07:29.740 number of children or something.

00:07:31.760 He's a normal guy, and he's trusting, too, which is why he allowed a Politico reporter

00:07:35.740 to attend the event and write about it.

00:07:38.580 And how did that turn out?

00:07:39.400 Well, predictably, Politico published a hit piece a couple days ago that's so bizarre

00:07:43.240 and so totally disconnected from the event that it verges on self-parody.

00:07:47.140 Here's how Politico wrote about the conference on Twitter.

00:07:49.200 Here's the tweet.

00:07:49.720 Quote, the far right is so obsessed with making babies, they just held a whole conference about it.

00:07:55.320 Yes, you heard that right.

00:07:56.640 Politico has uncovered the sinister right-wing plot to have babies and ensure the survival

00:08:02.680 of the human species.

00:08:04.120 They caught us, red-handed.

00:08:05.600 You know, we are anti-extinction, much to our shame, apparently.

00:08:09.760 And then if you click through to the article, you'll find this sinister-sounding headline.

00:08:13.740 Quote, the far right's campaign to explode the population.

00:08:18.480 Now, it's not hard to see what Politico is getting at.

00:08:20.320 Basically, they're saying that anybody who wants Western societies to produce children,

00:08:24.820 which is to say anybody who wants Western societies to continue existing, must be far-right.

00:08:31.020 It's reminiscent of how, you know, the word freedom has become a dirty word in Canada.

00:08:35.680 The people who want to destroy Western civilization aren't doing a very good job of hiding it anymore.

00:08:40.580 And, well, they're not really trying to hide it.

00:08:42.220 They're being quite open and explicit about it.

00:08:43.880 But if you go online to the Natal Conference's website, you know, you can find a bunch of

00:08:48.200 speakers explaining very clearly what they think is happening in this country.

00:08:51.000 They talk about everything from divorce laws to common fears people have about parenting

00:08:54.760 and the impacts these considerations are having on fertility rates. 0.95

00:08:58.560 None of this is a right-wing conspiracy.

00:09:00.560 I mean, that is the familiar terminology that the left trots out whenever they know something

00:09:06.540 is happening and they want it to keep happening.

00:09:09.060 So they deny that it's happening because they don't want us to notice because they want it to

00:09:13.600 keep happening.

00:09:15.100 And, indeed, there's a very active antinatalism movement right now.

00:09:19.280 You spend any time on the darker corners of the Internet, you'll find quite a few people

00:09:23.180 who fully embrace depopulation as a positive good.

00:09:27.000 And it's pretty grim stuff, as you can imagine.

00:09:29.480 In fact, mainstream media outlets routinely run stories about young people who don't want

00:09:34.360 to have kids because it will hurt the planet somehow.

00:09:37.200 Watch.

00:09:39.060 As the climate crisis gets worse, it's fueling a wave of anxiety in younger generations.

00:09:45.380 Some say they're rethinking whether they want to start a family or even how they'll do it

00:09:49.720 in a world with a very uncertain climate future.

00:09:52.420 We're not sure that we're going to have kids because we don't want to bring our kids into 1.00

00:09:55.500 a world like this.

00:09:56.700 I don't have kids, but it has impacted my thoughts.

00:10:00.440 I definitely want to leave the world in a better place for my kids.

00:10:04.480 I want to make sure to raise children who are aware of this.

00:10:06.620 Now, according to a recent poll, almost a quarter of them say climate change is impacting their

00:10:11.080 decision to become a parent and people under the age of 35 are more likely to report climate

00:10:15.720 change as a reason not to have children compared to those born in the decade before them.

00:10:20.440 Millennials and Gen Z were born into the most rapid time of global warming.

00:10:24.100 Yes, I want to make the world a better place for human beings.

00:10:27.620 So I'm going to embrace the extinction of humanity in order to bring that about.

00:10:32.440 You know, that's the that's the more.

00:10:33.820 But what you saw there is the more socially acceptable form of the depopulation agenda.

00:10:37.800 And it's being promoted by corporate media quite openly.

00:10:40.440 But the anti-natalism movement gets more organized and more explicit the deeper you look.

00:10:46.020 One of the leaders of this depopulation agenda is a guy named Les Knight, who's the founder

00:10:50.060 of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.

00:10:53.240 And I want to show you footage of one of his recent conferences.

00:10:56.600 And as you watch this, compare Knight's presentation with the one you heard earlier at the natal conference.

00:11:01.540 You have the natal conference versus the anti-natal conference.

00:11:04.020 And just compare the two, just in terms of the general sanity of the speaker.

00:11:09.880 Watch.

00:11:11.560 But I would like to start with an acknowledgement of the first peoples of the land we're living on.

00:11:17.780 Noma, Wasco, Cowlitz, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin, Molala, and many others.

00:11:24.480 And I also would like to acknowledge the original inhabitants of this land.

00:11:29.700 The grizzly bear, the dire wolves, Harlan's ground sloth, and many others that are now extinct.

00:11:37.820 I think we need to honor them a little bit.

00:11:40.400 That red line is the one that is always left out in the articles.

00:11:44.300 They say, birth rate is down by this much.

00:11:46.960 Growth rate is down by this much.

00:11:48.660 It's the lowest it's ever been.

00:11:50.560 But what about the actual numbers?

00:11:53.480 They don't seem to remember to put that in.

00:11:56.720 Because it would give it away.

00:11:58.540 Like all the headlines for saying, oh, we've hit 8 billion, but the growth rate is falling.

00:12:07.280 And I saw ones for, we've hit 6 billion, but the growth rate is falling.

00:12:12.040 Same with 7 billion.

00:12:13.440 But the funny thing is, it took 12 years to add the two previous billions, but it only took

00:12:21.620 11 years to add this one.

00:12:24.640 So, it kind of gives it away.

00:12:28.460 You won't find that in the mainstream press.

00:12:32.660 Okay, so that's, by the way, the first land acknowledgement that I've heard anyway, that

00:12:38.500 just doesn't just acknowledge some of the tribes or whatever, but also acknowledges some of

00:12:42.840 the wildlife.

00:12:44.160 And does so inaccurately, by the way, because he says that acknowledging the original inhabitants

00:12:48.120 of grizzly bears and ground sloths.

00:12:50.980 Yes, we got to pay homage to the ground sloths.

00:12:53.880 But they weren't even the original.

00:12:56.140 I mean, I guess really you should be acknowledging single cell organisms and bacteria.

00:12:59.860 You know, they were, I guess, the original inhabitants before them.

00:13:03.280 So, this is as cultish and as creepy as it gets.

00:13:05.260 But you will not see Politico running any articles on this guy and how he's a representative

00:13:10.420 of the far left.

00:13:11.640 They're not smearing Les Knight.

00:13:13.180 Instead, quite the opposite.

00:13:15.020 New York Times recently published a glowing profile of Knight.

00:13:17.840 Quote, for the sake of the planet, Les Knight, the founder of the Voluntary Human Extinction

00:13:21.940 Movement, has spent decades pushing one message.

00:13:25.000 May we live long and die out.

00:13:27.620 Now, in that clip you just saw, you heard Knight mention that no one ever talks about

00:13:31.340 the fact that the world population is increasing, even as birth rates plummet.

00:13:35.140 But there are a couple of obvious explanations for this.

00:13:37.140 And one is that, as I mentioned earlier, not all countries are experiencing plummeting birth

00:13:40.920 rates.

00:13:41.180 The most dysfunctional countries on the planet are actually reproducing at extremely high

00:13:45.760 rates.

00:13:46.600 And additionally, just from a statistical perspective, it takes time for lagging birth rates to show

00:13:50.420 up in world population figures.

00:13:52.440 You know, there might be a lot of young couples now having kids in some places, but that doesn't

00:13:56.980 mean that those couples will still be around in 20 years having children.

00:14:00.340 Birth rates decline first, and then population declines after it.

00:14:04.280 When you get to the point where the population itself is starting to decline, that's when the

00:14:09.200 catastrophe has really hit.

00:14:11.040 So the goal is to prevent that from happening.

00:14:14.560 Reversing this decline should not be a right-wing project.

00:14:17.920 Yet there are very few prominent people outside of conservative circles who are willing to talk

00:14:21.440 about this at all.

00:14:22.660 Elon Musk is the only notable exception I can think of.

00:14:25.080 And in fact, it should tell us something that Elon Musk, one of the wealthiest, the most

00:14:29.020 powerful men on the planet, somebody who's thinking about big things like going to Mars

00:14:33.580 and all that kind of stuff, he considers depopulation to be the greatest existential threat we face

00:14:38.180 as a species, which again should tell you something.

00:14:40.980 And this weekend, speaking of Musk, I engaged in a back and forth with Elon Musk on Twitter

00:14:44.740 about the causes of this existential threat.

00:14:47.580 The conversation started when someone posted this chart on social media.

00:14:50.720 It shows the number of men under 30 who report having zero sexual partners since turning 18.

00:14:56.380 And that has increased from 8%, that number has increased from 8% in 2008 to 27%, according

00:15:03.600 to this chart, in 2018, which is obviously a striking increase and it demands an explanation.

00:15:09.900 And I responded by saying a lot of theories can explain this, but it's very likely, it's

00:15:14.440 very clearly like 98% because of porn.

00:15:17.840 That's what I said.

00:15:18.500 I made that observation because the iPhone and Pornhub were both born in 2007.

00:15:25.200 And if you look at the chart, male virginity rates skyrocketed pretty much from that very

00:15:30.000 moment as birth rates plunged in the opposite direction.

00:15:33.920 Now in reply to my tweet, Elon Musk wrote this, quote, it's not porn, which has been readily

00:15:37.760 available from the days of VHS tapes, but rather the general temptation of the online world

00:15:42.260 if you're going to blame it on anything electronic.

00:15:44.220 Sex is not what matters.

00:15:45.300 Lots of people are having sex that have no kids. 0.60

00:15:47.540 Population implosion is what will end civilization.

00:15:50.380 And what Musk is saying about pornography is obviously true.

00:15:53.000 Pornography clearly predates the year 2007, but it was nothing like the pornography that's

00:15:57.980 been available in the past decade or so.

00:15:59.980 So here's one small data point, okay, just to put this in perspective.

00:16:02.800 Playboy at its peak, at its absolute peak, sold around 7 million copies a month, which

00:16:07.320 is a lot for a magazine, okay?

00:16:09.140 And that was back in the 1970s, I think.

00:16:12.060 Pornhub, okay, just one site, gets something like 15 times as many visitors per day.

00:16:18.460 So, and that's just, again, one site.

00:16:22.960 So way more people are consuming porn today, way more often, starting at way younger ages.

00:16:27.620 And on top of that, the porn itself is way more graphic and debased.

00:16:31.580 And this isn't the whole reason that birth rates are declining, but it is a major plank

00:16:35.620 in the depopulation platform.

00:16:37.160 I think there's no question about that.

00:16:39.620 And that's a strong argument for continuing to ban young people from accessing online pornography,

00:16:44.040 which several states have already done.

00:16:45.800 And it's also a good reason for parents to limit or even eliminate their children's access

00:16:49.280 to electronics.

00:16:50.020 And that should just be the beginning of it.

00:16:52.500 And if all of this sounds drastic, it's probably because you haven't been fully informed about

00:16:55.740 the scale of the problem that Western civilization is now facing.

00:16:59.780 And that's by design.

00:17:01.480 Now, a few months ago, I did a whole monologue on the JAF memo and the origins of Planned Parenthood's

00:17:05.780 very comprehensive campaign to depopulate the planet.

00:17:09.040 Very powerful nonprofits and political organizations in this country don't want you to reproduce. 1.00

00:17:14.460 That's not conspiratorial.

00:17:15.580 It's just true.

00:17:16.360 You know, they've put it in writing.

00:17:17.320 This is an actual agenda they have to make sure the population declines.

00:17:22.000 They want fewer people on Earth.

00:17:24.640 And the good news is that this is one of the few problems in our society that pretty much

00:17:29.960 everyone can help solve.

00:17:31.680 It's maybe the single most solvable crisis in history.

00:17:35.860 They have to expend all this effort and push all this propaganda to discourage reproduction

00:17:39.420 because it's one of the most natural things a person can do.

00:17:44.300 But the propaganda is failing now, I think.

00:17:47.080 You know, because of, you know, conferences like the NATO conferences and efforts like it,

00:17:50.800 as well as Elon Musk and other prominent figures, there's more attention to declining birth rates

00:17:55.680 than there has been at any point in recent history.

00:17:57.680 And that's why Politico and left-wing activists are melting down about it.

00:18:02.340 There's nothing they want to see less than more children being born.

00:18:07.640 I mean, that's the last thing they want to see, which is why they mourn.

00:18:10.860 They mourn when we see children being born.

00:18:12.960 And that tells you everything you need to know about their ideology.

00:18:17.920 And it also tells you how to defeat it.

00:18:21.100 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:19:13.720 So you may have seen this video of an activist at Columbia University named Kaimani James.

00:19:19.040 He's one of the ringleaders of the homeless encampment on university grounds,

00:19:23.260 which has been allowed to continue by the university so that these spoiled,

00:19:28.640 wealthy kids can cosplay as revolutionaries, basically.

00:19:32.320 Anyway, this activist is very publicly called for violence.

00:19:35.560 Here's probably the main clip that's been circulating.

00:19:37.860 Maybe you've already seen it, but let's take a look at that.

00:19:40.720 If we can agree as a society, as a collective, that people, that person, some persons need to die

00:19:52.100 if they have an ideology that results in the death of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions. 0.98

00:20:02.020 If there are people like that who exist, shouldn't they die? 0.99

00:20:07.700 Zionists? 1.00

00:20:10.180 They're Nazis. 0.99

00:20:12.320 Zionists, a.k.a. 0.99

00:20:13.460 Nazis. 0.97

00:20:14.840 You know, carnivores, a.k.a. 0.66

00:20:18.520 vegans. 0.97

00:20:19.080 So he says that you need to die if you have an ideology that has resulted in the deaths of millions of people, 0.99

00:20:25.420 which, of course, by that logic would mean that every communist needs to die, by his own logic. 0.70

00:20:29.460 If you saw that, if you heard that phrase without any context, you would think, 0.99

00:20:32.960 oh, he's calling for the death of communists.

00:20:35.220 Given that, you know, communism has killed tens of millions of people, 0.99

00:20:39.520 it is the most destructive and murderous and oppressive ideology in the history of the world,

00:20:43.260 and it's not even close.

00:20:44.500 Like, there's not even a second.

00:20:45.340 There really is no second place.

00:20:46.880 It's pretty much that.

00:20:49.340 But that's not who he's referring to.

00:20:51.160 He's referring to Zionists. 0.99

00:20:53.080 And what does he really mean by Zionists?

00:20:54.440 Well, I've been explaining since all this began that when they talk about Zionists, 0.97

00:21:00.560 they really just mean white people. 0.92

00:21:01.680 And that couldn't have been more clear from, you know, Zionists, Nazis, white supremacists. 0.93

00:21:06.700 It's just that these are just words. 0.70

00:21:09.160 These are labels he's using to describe white people.

00:21:12.120 That's it.

00:21:12.640 And the fact that the labels are contradictory and make no sense,

00:21:16.040 like how can you be a Zionist, a Nazi, that doesn't, it doesn't matter.

00:21:22.660 Like, of course, it's contradictory.

00:21:23.640 It doesn't make any sense.

00:21:24.900 But even so, and to see the, you know, the war in the Middle East,

00:21:30.140 to see the war in Israel right now as one between whiteness and people of color,

00:21:38.100 like, that doesn't actually make sense, objectively speaking, but it doesn't matter

00:21:43.040 because that's how they see it.

00:21:44.520 That's just, that's why they care as much as they do.

00:21:48.920 To him, white people are just, every white person's a Zionist, 0.98

00:21:52.520 just like every white person's a white supremacist and every white person is a Nazi. 0.98

00:21:55.420 We're all those things together. 0.55

00:21:57.900 It has very little to do with Israel, in fact.

00:22:02.360 Like, that's not what this is about.

00:22:03.640 He doesn't actually care about that.

00:22:04.840 And to make that clear, here he is in 2021, talking about white people 0.61

00:22:10.220 and giving his feelings on white people.

00:22:14.040 Let's listen to that.

00:22:15.840 Our next speaker is Kaimani James.

00:22:18.920 Hello, everyone.

00:22:20.080 It's Kaimani James.

00:22:22.960 Yeah, I'm hearing a lot about bigotry and whatever the hell I just heard.

00:22:27.900 Let me start by saying that I cannot believe we even have to have this conversation in 2021. 0.99

00:22:32.120 This is pathetic and white people, both politicians and otherwise should be disgusted with themselves 0.99

00:22:39.560 that they even called for these two Latina women to be reprimanded and their character smeared 1.00

00:22:45.140 all because they expressed their feelings towards the racism and hurtful remarks they receive

00:22:49.900 from white people.

00:22:51.360 Saying I hate white people is not racist, period.

00:22:54.700 Is it prejudice?

00:22:55.760 Yes.

00:22:56.440 Racist?

00:22:57.060 No.

00:22:57.400 In order for white people to experience racism, they'd have to have socialized power structures 0.94

00:23:02.020 against them, which they don't. 0.63

00:23:04.220 White people are the creators of those socialized power structures, and they're specifically designed 1.00

00:23:08.860 to oppress black people and keep them from making their way into positions of power, let 0.99

00:23:13.500 alone create change. 1.00

00:23:14.860 To scream reverse racism is ignorant as hell and only exemplifies how you lack the metacognitive 1.00

00:23:20.460 skills and basic common sense. 1.00

00:23:23.420 Metacognitive skills.

00:23:24.360 Very impressive.

00:23:26.060 He looked that up in the nonsense thesaurus and pulled that one out.

00:23:31.020 So we get the cult definition of racism, the left-wing religious doctrine about racism,

00:23:37.460 which is that racism against whites is impossible because this is what the left does.

00:23:43.380 This is how they get around logical problems, and this is how they get around contradictions

00:23:48.860 and their ideology, they just redefine a word.

00:23:55.100 The fact that black people can be racist against white people and that racism is not something 0.61

00:24:00.300 that white people own, you could find racism all over the world. 0.95

00:24:04.300 In fact, you find a lot more of it.

00:24:05.640 You find a lot more of it in other parts of the world.

00:24:08.640 If you go to a non-white part of the world, there are a few basic assumptions you can make 0.91

00:24:14.880 most of the time.

00:24:15.700 And one of them is that there's going to be a lot of racism there.

00:24:18.820 And that's generally how it goes.

00:24:20.780 It's just how it goes.

00:24:22.120 And that is a problem for people like this.

00:24:25.200 And so what do they do about that problem?

00:24:26.600 Well, they say, oh, we'll just redefine the word racism.

00:24:28.520 We'll just come up with a new definition for the term.

00:24:31.560 And in our definition, automatically, whatever a non-white person is doing or saying, it cannot 0.99

00:24:37.160 be racist because white people are.

00:24:39.180 Now, how do you defend that definition?

00:24:41.200 Why should any of us accept that definition?

00:24:42.940 Why do you get to just come in and make up a new definition for this term?

00:24:47.260 Well, they don't have to explain that.

00:24:48.900 At least they don't feel any particular obligation to explain it.

00:24:53.860 They just, that's it.

00:24:54.580 That's it.

00:24:55.040 And because they own the institutions and they own the academic institutions in particular,

00:24:59.240 they can teach this definition and they don't have to explain it.

00:25:04.020 But you can glean two things from this and from all this. 0.99

00:25:07.960 And the first is that, once again, this guy hates white people. 0.99

00:25:11.440 Zionists, Jews, Israel, these are all proxies for white people and hatred of white people. 0.99

00:25:16.800 That's what this is. 0.99

00:25:17.640 That's what it's all about.

00:25:18.380 And that's also one of the reasons why, you know, there are some corners of the right

00:25:24.880 that have basically, you know, taken the side of these pro-Palestine protesters.

00:25:33.360 And what you should understand is that if you're on their side, especially if you're a white 0.65

00:25:38.940 conservative, they hate you. 0.99

00:25:40.680 They hate your guts. 1.00

00:25:41.660 They actually want you dead. 0.99

00:25:43.360 So you're linking arms with them, singing Kumbaya, because for you, it really is like you hate 0.98

00:25:50.860 Israel.

00:25:52.780 But you should know that they actually hate you, right? 1.00

00:25:55.320 They actually want you to die. 1.00

00:25:57.100 They would be happy if you died. 0.99

00:25:58.700 So you should know that.

00:26:01.980 And I don't need to perform any kind of deep psychoanalysis to arrive at that conclusion.

00:26:07.300 It's just, it's, it's, they're telling you.

00:26:11.720 You can listen to them.

00:26:12.560 They'll tell you.

00:26:13.460 They will tell you. 1.00

00:26:14.540 Yes, I want you dead. 1.00

00:26:15.580 They will tell you that if you ask them. 1.00

00:26:17.480 And the second thing you notice is just how weak and pathetic these left-wing revolutionaries 1.00

00:26:22.320 are. 0.99

00:26:23.140 I mean, this guy wants so badly to be militant and radical, but he is the softest,

00:26:27.960 least threatening, least imposing figure you can possibly imagine.

00:26:32.320 And that's because he's not a revolutionary.

00:26:34.400 He is a, he is a defender of the status quo.

00:26:39.120 He's a henchman for the establishment, for institutional powers.

00:26:42.980 He's not challenging powerful people.

00:26:45.120 He is, he is parroting them.

00:26:47.680 He's, he's saying what they want him to say.

00:26:51.820 And this is the problem for left-wing activists in general now is they want to preserve that

00:26:55.680 spirit.

00:26:56.200 They want to preserve the spirit, the flavor, the branding, let's say of revolutionaries,

00:27:00.480 but their parents and grandparents already won the cultural revolution and they seized

00:27:05.380 power.

00:27:06.200 And now these people are defending that power.

00:27:08.560 They are defenders of power.

00:27:11.240 The revolutionaries are the ones that they oppose.

00:27:13.980 They are fighting against cultural insurgents and they're doing that to protect their own 0.99

00:27:18.780 cultural power.

00:27:19.620 That's what's happening.

00:27:20.220 And which is why the only way that somebody like this will suffer any consequence whatsoever,

00:27:26.140 no matter what they say or do, is if they say or do something to cause embarrassment for

00:27:32.100 the, to the, the powers that be, um, that that's the only time that they'll suffer consequence.

00:27:38.220 They can say, say and do whatever they want to the other side, to conservatives, whatever,

00:27:42.200 it doesn't matter.

00:27:42.720 But if they do or say something that causes political inconvenience or embarrassment for,

00:27:47.060 um, the, the people that are facilitating all this and funding it, well, that's when it becomes

00:27:52.060 a problem, which is what happened with this guy.

00:27:54.680 Now he went a little too far.

00:27:55.800 He said a little bit too much, said the quiet part out loud, uh, a little bit too loudly and

00:28:00.480 publicly.

00:28:02.240 And, uh, that's what brings us to this update.

00:28:04.720 Here's from the daily wire.

00:28:05.700 The Columbia university student who was one of the most vocal students in the anti-Semitic protests

00:28:09.620 at Columbia university in recent days has been thrown out of school after the daily wire

00:28:13.380 unearthed video of him stating that Zionists don't deserve to live.

00:28:17.280 So that's, that's the update is that he's been, uh, he's supposedly been expelled, I guess.

00:28:22.280 And again, um, it's not because of what he said. 0.98

00:28:27.300 It's not because he, he said he doesn't like white, the bit about, I hate white people. 0.97

00:28:30.540 He said that, uh, three years ago. 0.95

00:28:33.180 So you can say that, you know, it's just saying it loudly enough and getting enough attention

00:28:39.320 where it becomes an embarrassment, where it becomes a political problem, uh, for the

00:28:43.380 powers that be.

00:28:43.940 That's the only time you suffer a consequence if you're in his shoes and that's why he's

00:28:48.180 suffering it.

00:28:50.120 All right.

00:28:50.580 Next, uh, Jerry Seinfeld is in the news.

00:28:52.340 He's, he's out promoting a new film.

00:28:53.760 It's a comedy.

00:28:54.480 The film is about, I think the invention of the pop tart.

00:28:57.900 And as I understand it, it's kind of a fictionalized retelling of the competition between the two

00:29:02.620 top cereal brands to come up with a breakfast pastry pastry.

00:29:05.960 Uh, and you know, which actually sounds like a funny concept for a film.

00:29:10.120 It's a, it's a little bizarre, but that's what makes it funny.

00:29:12.240 But I have no idea if it's going to be any good or not, but you know, it's a, it's a clever

00:29:16.380 concept.

00:29:17.160 Anyway, uh, people are talking about this clip from an interview he did with the New

00:29:21.140 Yorker radio hour where he talks about, um, which is something he's talked about frequently,

00:29:24.980 uh, the death of comedy and why, why don't we see very many funny movies or shows these

00:29:31.080 days?

00:29:31.540 Let's listen to that.

00:29:32.400 Nothing really affects comedy.

00:29:35.780 People always need it.

00:29:37.540 They need it so badly and they don't get it.

00:29:42.580 It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day.

00:29:44.680 Most people would go, Oh, cheers is on.

00:29:47.140 Oh, mash is on.

00:29:48.340 Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on.

00:29:50.020 All in the family's on.

00:29:51.640 You just expected.

00:29:52.840 There'll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.

00:29:55.240 Well, guess what?

00:29:56.280 Where is it? 0.98

00:29:56.800 This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending 0.98

00:30:03.500 other people. 0.95

00:30:04.520 When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups,

00:30:11.160 here's our thought about this joke.

00:30:13.080 Well, that's the end of your comedy.

00:30:14.240 They move the gates like in skiing culture.

00:30:17.700 The gates are moving.

00:30:18.900 Your job is to be agile and clever enough that wherever they put the gates, I'm going to make

00:30:24.960 the gate.

00:30:26.440 So he's totally correct, obviously, but we have to understand that the, and of course 0.63

00:30:32.260 we've heard this analysis many times, it's correct, but the PC crap, as he calls it, and

00:30:37.400 the wokeness and all that, that hasn't just made it.

00:30:39.400 I think when we talk about it, we make it sound like the problem is that people are afraid

00:30:47.560 to produce a funny comedy because they don't want to offend people.

00:30:50.660 Uh, like there's this barrier, wokeness is a barrier, and there are thousands of funny

00:30:55.980 movies and shows being held back by the barrier of wokeness.

00:30:59.880 And if only we could tear down that barrier, then all the funny stuff will come flooding

00:31:03.500 through.

00:31:04.380 And I think it's, that's not the case.

00:31:06.020 I think it's worse than that because the fact is that if wokeness went away tomorrow,

00:31:10.880 um, there still wouldn't be very many good comedies coming out this year or next year

00:31:15.980 or in five years from now and, or in 10 years, and that's because our culture has created

00:31:21.020 a generation of people, multiple generations of people who aren't capable of making good

00:31:25.620 comedy, even if they wanted to, even if there were no, uh, rules stopping them, even if

00:31:30.460 there were no, you know, social pressure rather stopping them, they still wouldn't be able

00:31:33.820 to do it because it's about the conditioning.

00:31:35.480 People have been conditioned this way and breaking conditioning is much more difficult than

00:31:40.360 breaking through a barrier.

00:31:41.680 And that's where we are now.

00:31:44.540 And also, by the way, it's not just wokeness.

00:31:46.680 You know, there's a, I think there's a perfect storm of factors getting in the way at the

00:31:50.520 moment.

00:31:51.160 A big part of it is the left and the conditioning and all that, but there are other problems

00:31:55.400 too.

00:31:56.100 Like the glut of content in general, there's just so much people are inundated with so much

00:32:01.360 stuff all the time that it's, it's hard for anything to be seen and to make an impact.

00:32:07.420 Um, people's attention spans have dwindled.

00:32:09.780 The audience is overstimulated, you know, all these, and these are all factors conspiring

00:32:13.900 against any one piece of content, not just comedy, but it is part of the picture.

00:32:18.120 You know, there's just so much stuff, way too much.

00:32:21.260 Um, you know, Seinfeld mentioned, uh, cheers and mash and merely Mary Tyler Moore in those

00:32:27.340 shows.

00:32:28.260 Well, back then, or even in the nineties when shows like Seinfeld were on, on air, um, back

00:32:35.200 then on a, on a Thursday night or whatever, I don't remember what, what day Seinfeld aired.

00:32:39.860 I think maybe it was Thursday, but on a Thursday night, let's say, uh, everybody was watching

00:32:45.960 Seinfeld because that's just what was on.

00:32:48.260 Like, that's what you did.

00:32:49.820 And Seinfeld was competing with a few other shows on a few other channels.

00:32:53.360 Even when cable came along, it was still, you know, there weren't that many options,

00:32:57.060 uh, at that time slot.

00:32:58.380 So that was the night that everybody, you know, they went home and they watched Seinfeld

00:33:03.000 because that, that's what, that's what was on or cheers or mash before Seinfeld.

00:33:07.720 And those shows were, they were a shared cultural reference point.

00:33:12.080 Everybody understood the humor.

00:33:13.820 They got the joke.

00:33:15.120 It was all understood in context.

00:33:17.840 And there's just so much stuff all the time now that there are no shared cultural reference

00:33:22.720 points anymore.

00:33:23.840 We don't share anything.

00:33:25.020 We don't have any shared, you know, uh, culture at all anymore, especially by, especially,

00:33:30.160 you know, we don't have it like everything's so fractured.

00:33:34.580 You break it down by generation.

00:33:35.700 You break it down by ideology.

00:33:37.300 How do you break it down?

00:33:38.180 It's like, everybody has their own, they all live in their own, uh, world, especially when

00:33:42.400 it comes to entertainment and culture.

00:33:44.180 And that's the stuff that they're consuming.

00:33:46.840 Um, there's not a lot of cross-pollination, which also means the point is that if somebody says

00:33:53.560 something supposedly offensive, you know, as a joke in a podcast or in a tweet or on a

00:34:00.380 show or in whatever context, most of the people getting upset about it have no idea

00:34:06.700 about the context.

00:34:07.640 They don't, they don't even know who the person is.

00:34:09.280 They don't speak the same language.

00:34:11.080 They don't understand the tone and the context of the humor.

00:34:14.800 So back in the nineties, yeah, people would get offended by Seinfeld on occasion.

00:34:18.340 There'd be an episode here or there that caused a little bit of a dust up.

00:34:21.840 But for the most part, if there was a joke or a plot point on Seinfeld that today would

00:34:29.260 upset people, well, back then you saw that and you said, oh yeah, that's Seinfeld.

00:34:34.500 You know, that's, that's their humor.

00:34:35.920 That's what it's like.

00:34:36.760 We get it.

00:34:37.160 We understand the joke.

00:34:38.400 We understand in the context with, we all understand what this is.

00:34:42.640 Um, and we just don't have that anymore.

00:34:45.260 You know, it's like when that dumb controversy happened with Shane Gillis a few years ago and

00:34:49.760 he got fired from SNL before he even started because of, I think it was some jokes on a

00:34:53.580 podcast.

00:34:54.980 And, um, and I think there were, I don't remember the jokes, jokes about Asian people.

00:34:59.100 I think we're a few in there and other things too.

00:35:01.500 Now, everybody that knew Shane Gillis at the time, they, they were saying, guys, it's Shane

00:35:06.220 Gillis.

00:35:06.580 Like this is his type of humor.

00:35:08.300 What are you, really?

00:35:09.020 Are you serious?

00:35:09.640 You're taking, he doesn't actually hate Asian people.

00:35:11.900 Okay.

00:35:12.180 This is his humor.

00:35:13.020 He, like, you don't understand, you don't listen to him.

00:35:16.440 Um, but most of the people in the outrage mob never even heard of the guy before that.

00:35:21.940 And, and, and that's something I think we don't quite grasp really, or we don't quite

00:35:27.120 appreciate that.

00:35:29.920 That also is such a new, uh, dynamic that, that didn't really exist prior to the internet.

00:35:37.980 Like you would never have a national outrage at somebody that the majority of the nation

00:35:48.600 had never heard of before the outrage, right?

00:35:52.580 So, so people being upset because someone said something, I can't believe you said this.

00:35:57.700 And then if you ask them, well, who, who is that?

00:35:59.240 I don't know, but I can't believe you said that like that before the internet, that would

00:36:01.940 never happen.

00:36:03.140 I'm sure people would get upset if someone said something sometimes, but everyone at least

00:36:07.320 knew who the guy was.

00:36:08.280 Like they understood the context.

00:36:09.440 And now, um, it, it's this, it's this very strange dynamic where, because everything lives

00:36:18.740 in these little buckets, right?

00:36:20.860 Everything is so fractured.

00:36:22.640 It's like the only thing, one of the only things that can break you outside of that bucket

00:36:25.900 and make you sort of known to people that are paying attention to other buckets is if

00:36:30.280 you say something supposedly offensive.

00:36:33.060 And now everybody else from their other buckets are going to chime in, even though they have

00:36:36.180 no idea what's going on over here in this bucket.

00:36:39.180 Um, you know, similar things have happened to me all the time where people get, uh, people

00:36:45.060 get, uh, upset or offended by some dumb joke, something I said that I say, and then people

00:36:51.840 who are an audience of the show, they're doing the same thing where they're saying, are you

00:36:55.720 guys serious?

00:36:56.200 Like he's clearly kidding.

00:36:57.400 This is the kind of jokes about this stuff all the time.

00:36:59.920 But the problem is that most of the people that are pretending to be offended have no

00:37:03.920 idea and they don't care, right?

00:37:06.620 Because we don't have that, there's that cultural reference point.

00:37:09.900 All right.

00:37:10.300 Here's something a little, here's something fun.

00:37:12.060 The NFL draft happened over the weekend, uh, starting on Thursday.

00:37:15.620 Um, my Baltimore Ravens had a solid draft.

00:37:18.020 I thought, by the way, filled some big positional needs.

00:37:20.680 Would have liked to see them grab a wide receiver earlier. 0.80

00:37:22.800 They didn't grab one until think of the fourth or fifth round.

00:37:25.360 Overall, I thought they did well.

00:37:27.280 That's neither here nor there.

00:37:28.460 But if you're one of the five people wondering, uh, how I felt about that, now, you know, anyway,

00:37:32.760 there was destined to be at least one draft related hot take to go viral.

00:37:37.280 And, uh, we got it from a guy named Boyce Watkins, who apparently is an author or something.

00:37:43.500 Um, I don't know exactly what he does for a living, but I do know that he has a PhD and

00:37:47.300 I know that because he's the kind of guy who puts PhD in both his Twitter handle and in

00:37:52.600 his bio.

00:37:53.040 So, um, he just wants you to know he has a PhD.

00:37:57.200 He works it into everything.

00:37:58.120 I assume he works it into every conversation.

00:38:00.580 If he's at Applebee's ordering his meal, he'll probably work it in there.

00:38:04.300 Yeah, can I get the whole lot of bacon burger?

00:38:06.060 Um, and also, by the way, I have, I have a PhD.

00:38:08.340 I want you to know, just so you know, do you have any specials, any specials for somebody

00:38:12.660 with a PhD, any PhD specials?

00:38:14.620 Did I mention I have a PhD?

00:38:15.980 I got a PhD.

00:38:16.660 Did you know that?

00:38:17.240 Did you know that?

00:38:17.760 So he wants you to know he has a PhD and, uh, his PhD is indeed proof of something.

00:38:23.560 It's proof that PhDs mean nothing at all these days, because here was the hot take that Boyce

00:38:29.840 Watkins PhD, uh, offered up.

00:38:31.660 He said this, the NFL draft is a lot like a slave auction, except the slaves aren't working

00:38:37.460 for free, uh, you know, in a similar way, you might say that, um, the ocean is a lot

00:38:53.040 like a box of cereal, except you don't eat it for breakfast and it doesn't come in a box.

00:38:59.520 Uh, a doorknob is a lot like an elephant, except it's not a large land mammal.

00:39:05.760 Um, you know, non sequiturs are a lot of fun.

00:39:08.920 Uh, and Boyce Watkins PhD is saying that the draft is just like a slave auction, except

00:39:15.280 for the one single thing that makes a slave auction, a slave auction.

00:39:19.960 So if you take out the one defining feature of slavery, which is that people are being forced

00:39:24.640 to work for free, if you take that out, then suddenly like everything is like slavery.

00:39:29.540 Um, even an event where teams hire athletes and pay them millions of dollars to play a

00:39:36.900 game, athletes who, they don't, not only do they volunteer to be there, but actually they've

00:39:41.340 been working their whole lives to be there.

00:39:45.160 Uh, even that event is like slavery.

00:39:48.040 Um, an event that is in many ways actually the opposite of slavery.

00:39:53.180 If you were to ask me to show you something that is the opposite of a slave auction, just

00:39:57.680 so I get an idea, like, what is the opposite of that?

00:39:59.800 Uh, I would, well, the NFL draft is the opposite of a slave auction. 0.99

00:40:04.180 And the thing is, as stupid as this hot take is, um, you realize that Boyce Watkins PhD is 0.99

00:40:10.580 not alone. 1.00

00:40:11.240 Uh, infamously Colin Kaepernick has made the same comparison and you kind of hear this every

00:40:16.460 year.

00:40:16.700 And I'm perfectly happy to see the race hustlers continue to go back to this.

00:40:21.140 Well, I think, I think it's great that they do, um, because it's the kind of thing that 1.00

00:40:27.020 not only does it make them look so stupid, but it makes people just kind of throw up their 0.99

00:40:29.880 hands and stop listening to these frauds. 1.00

00:40:31.500 Because if we're at the point where black men are being victimized, even when they're 0.51

00:40:36.160 paid tens of millions of dollars to play a game they love, even when they're given the

00:40:40.880 kind of life that most people would kill to have, um, if even that is a form of oppression,

00:40:45.880 well then, I guess there's nothing we can do about it.

00:40:49.080 Like this, so there's no way to solve it, apparently.

00:40:52.940 I mean, we don't even need to argue about the premise anymore.

00:40:55.580 Um, we could just say, okay, fine, they're, that's oppressive too.

00:40:58.220 Well then, okay, well, I, we can't, then I guess they're just going to be oppressed.

00:41:01.780 I don't know. 0.94

00:41:02.260 I guess black people will just be oppressed forever. 0.73

00:41:04.120 If even that, if we can't solve this by giving them millions of dollars, even that, like,

00:41:09.800 and you can do, you can have a great life and you can have a job that like 0.01% of

00:41:16.260 people on earth can have, but 99% of people would love to have, if that's oppressive too,

00:41:21.100 then, then I think rather than us saying it's not oppressive, we could, we should just say,

00:41:25.380 okay, well, all right.

00:41:27.740 Uh, I mean, sorry about your luck then.

00:41:29.380 I don't know.

00:41:29.900 I, we can't do anything then about it.

00:41:31.340 It's just, it's just the way it's going to be.

00:41:32.580 We might as well move on.

00:41:33.980 Um, it's, it's, you have told us it is a totally unsolvable problem.

00:41:37.760 Not one single thing can make it better.

00:41:39.520 And so let's just stop trying to make it better then.

00:41:42.240 We just have to move on.

00:41:44.160 Um, and, uh, and I guess, thank God, the rest of us can thank God that we're not, uh, black 1.00

00:41:49.520 people who have been oppressed with millions of dollars playing a game.

00:41:54.720 Um, and that's, that's it.

00:41:57.620 Like no reason to worry about it.

00:41:59.180 If you can't change it, if it's something that you cannot be changed, no matter what,

00:42:04.340 then in a lot of ways, those are the problems that are, uh, that you should worry about the

00:42:10.160 least because there's nothing you can do about them.

00:42:12.500 So that's the silver lining, I guess.

00:42:17.600 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:43:33.960 First, Kevin says, when my teens talked about getting tattoos, I said, picture a shirt with

00:43:37.580 a picture on it that you wore 10 years ago.

00:43:39.560 Now imagine wearing that same image on your skin for the rest of your life.

00:43:42.500 They got my point and thus avoided the visual mess we saw in the video.

00:43:48.260 Yeah, it's a good analogy.

00:43:49.740 You know, I like to think of it, I think of tattoos more like bumper stickers.

00:43:54.200 They're kind of human bumper stickers that you're putting on your skin.

00:43:57.080 And it is possible, like, and I feel the same way about tattoos at this point.

00:44:05.000 Again, even though I have two of them myself, I feel the same way about tattoos that I do

00:44:08.740 about bumper stickers.

00:44:09.860 It is possible to put a bumper sticker on your car that isn't embarrassing and that isn't

00:44:14.640 too terribly tacky.

00:44:16.020 You could put a little Jesus fish on your car or whatever, and that's fine. 0.95

00:44:19.100 You know, it's fine.

00:44:20.240 It doesn't add much.

00:44:22.120 It doesn't achieve much.

00:44:23.220 No one's going to be evangelized by your bumper sticker, but it's fine.

00:44:26.900 It's not a problem.

00:44:27.700 It's not going to cause any issues.

00:44:29.200 And again, it's not embarrassing to you.

00:44:31.160 And that's kind of how I look at tattoos, even my own, that, yeah, you can have a tattoo

00:44:35.880 that's just fine.

00:44:36.600 Like, it's okay.

00:44:38.540 Now, is it worth putting something on your skin forever when the best you can hope for

00:44:43.400 is that it'll just be fine and that you won't be embarrassed about it in the future?

00:44:47.340 Probably not worth it.

00:44:48.320 But that's, I think, the strategy that works.

00:44:53.120 The problem, going back to the bumper sticker analogy, is when you're peppering your car

00:44:57.960 with dozens of bumper stickers, and you're putting bumper stickers on that are ugly and

00:45:02.440 tacky, and it's like, make no sense.

00:45:05.660 And, you know, sometimes you see the bumper stickers somebody has on their car, and you

00:45:08.800 think, really?

00:45:09.340 What made you think I need to put this permanently on my car?

00:45:13.360 Like, why that?

00:45:14.440 What about that made you think, I want everyone who's behind me in traffic, for as long as

00:45:21.420 I have this car, I want everyone to see it?

00:45:23.900 Because when you have a bumper sticker on your car, what you're saying to everybody behind

00:45:26.440 you in traffic is, hey, guys, look at this.

00:45:28.200 Look at this.

00:45:28.600 Look at this thing.

00:45:29.560 Look at this statement that I've put here.

00:45:33.580 And many times you see bumper stickers where you think, like, why do you want, what is it

00:45:37.920 about that, that you want everyone forever to see it?

00:45:40.260 I don't get it.

00:45:41.180 Or the worst is when it's a bumper sticker that, you know, one of those sassy bumper

00:45:51.100 stickers that kind of insults the people, playfully insults the people behind you in

00:45:55.960 traffic.

00:45:57.280 And that one, too, it's like, do you want, I get it's a joke as a bumper sticker, but

00:46:02.880 do you want, really, you want to say that to everybody behind you without even knowing

00:46:06.960 who they are?

00:46:07.600 Is that a smart move?

00:46:10.740 So bumper stickers become tacky kind of in the same way that tattoos do.

00:46:15.300 It's like you put too many on and they're just kind of weird and they don't make sense.

00:46:21.060 And, you know, it's like maybe you see a bumper sticker that in the moment is kind of funny

00:46:28.260 to you, but and you put it on your car.

00:46:30.700 Is that still going to be hilarious to you two years from now when it's on your car and

00:46:34.980 you can't take it off?

00:46:38.060 Same thing with tattoos.

00:46:40.420 All right.

00:46:41.080 Next time it says, your tattoos are bad, but mine's OK because it's in a different place.

00:46:46.720 Matt Walsh.

00:46:47.400 OK, that's supposed to be a quote of me.

00:46:49.860 That's not exactly what I said.

00:46:51.800 Love you, Matt, but hypocrisy much?

00:46:53.720 I'm a devoted Catholic and I have a great job.

00:46:55.760 Thank goodness.

00:46:56.420 And you know what?

00:46:57.180 I've got over 80 tattoos, including my whole bald head and neck.

00:47:04.580 Yeah, I guess, you know, I am saying that mine's OK and yours aren't.

00:47:08.540 I guess that is what I'm saying.

00:47:09.440 I think that I think it's fine.

00:47:12.140 My tattoos are fine and yours are like not totally fine.

00:47:15.140 I mean, it's not I'm not saying it should be illegal like you have them.

00:47:19.260 You should I'm not saying you shouldn't go out in public.

00:47:21.380 You should hide your head in shame.

00:47:22.340 But I wouldn't I think I wouldn't recommend anyone ever doing that to themselves.

00:47:25.900 Never.

00:47:26.380 I think I think it's I think it's ill-advised to do that.

00:47:29.400 I think in all cases, it's ill-advised.

00:47:31.080 It will not add to your life in any way to cover your entire neck and head in these images.

00:47:37.960 I'm glad that it hasn't gotten the way of you getting a job.

00:47:40.100 And I'm glad that you apparently are still happy with them.

00:47:42.060 But I would 100 percent advise anyone against doing that.

00:47:50.660 And your argument seems to be that.

00:47:53.860 If I think one or two tattoos in a not very visible location are OK, 0.96

00:47:58.820 then I must automatically be in favor of dozens of tattoos all over your body or else I'm a hypocrite. 0.76

00:48:04.400 Is that what that your argument? 0.92

00:48:06.660 Isn't that like saying that I can't judge your diet of fast food if I also have a diet of some kind? 1.00

00:48:16.200 You're a hypocrite. 1.00

00:48:17.100 You judge what I eat. 1.00

00:48:18.340 Yet you also eat food.

00:48:20.700 Curious.

00:48:22.580 Look at that.

00:48:23.320 I got you now.

00:48:24.100 But yeah, because the point is not simply the fact of eating food in general.

00:48:29.740 It's what you eat and how often you eat.

00:48:32.660 And I think with tattoos, now tattoos are not necessary to continue living like food is,

00:48:38.720 but it's a similar kind of thing.

00:48:40.140 It's not necessarily so much the fact of getting one.

00:48:43.020 It's where you get it, how many you get, all that kind of stuff.

00:48:46.120 Finally, I was like that kid in the 80s about video games.

00:48:51.300 It causes me some old pain to hear the slight disrespect for video games and kids playing them in your comments.

00:48:58.000 Today, I'm a well-known concept artist in the video game industry, and I have worked on many famous games.

00:49:03.880 OK.

00:49:05.820 Look, guys.

00:49:09.420 I really need you to stop being so sensitive.

00:49:13.440 I just need you to try to not be so sensitive.

00:49:17.040 It's at the point where I can't say anything that relates to video games at all without people getting their feelings hurt.

00:49:26.000 You think I'm exaggerating.

00:49:27.360 If I just simply say the term video games and then move on and say nothing else about them, I will get angry comments just for saying it.

00:49:34.060 I'm not kidding.

00:49:35.500 And if you think that I'm kidding, keep in mind that a few weeks ago, there was a whole massive outrage cycle against me.

00:49:42.640 And YouTube videos and everything.

00:49:44.420 People did.

00:49:45.480 There were gamers doing, like, two-hour-long shows about something I said about video games.

00:49:51.020 When all I did a monologue, maybe you remember this, where I was talking about wokeness in video games, just like I've talked about wokeness in movies and TV shows and music.

00:50:00.800 Like, I've talked about it in every area of culture.

00:50:03.040 And I talked about it in video games.

00:50:04.380 And I was taking a position that conservative gamers agree with.

00:50:09.640 And yet, I still had gamers vehemently criticizing me for daring to talk about the subject at all.

00:50:15.760 In fact, I was really told that.

00:50:17.140 Multiple times, I was told that I shouldn't talk about it at all.

00:50:20.080 I am not allowed to talk about it because I've been critical in the past, so I'm not allowed to talk about it.

00:50:25.320 But, which is just, like, imagine someone taking that position with TV shows or movies.

00:50:31.740 Like, someone telling you, well, you can't talk about movies at all.

00:50:35.160 You've been critical of some movies.

00:50:36.520 And so you, no, you can't talk about it.

00:50:38.960 Never mention the movies ever again.

00:50:40.580 It's like, look, in this case, you know, you say in your comment that video games can be a passion in some cases that lead to a career.

00:50:52.100 Okay, I said exactly that in the segment that you're responding to.

00:50:58.820 I made exactly that stipulation.

00:51:03.940 I said that.

00:51:05.720 So I don't know, did you tune out for that part or what?

00:51:09.820 I'm not sure.

00:51:10.540 But my whole point was that, talking about parenting, especially parenting of boys, that you should help your son find his passions.

00:51:23.000 And we were using the video of the kid at the tractor convention, and he's really into farming, and he knows everything about farming.

00:51:29.060 Just a great, like, you could tell just from a 90-second video.

00:51:31.500 It's a great kid.

00:51:33.020 Any parent would be proud to have a kid like that.

00:51:35.520 And so how do you end up with a kid like that?

00:51:37.140 I mean, everybody would like to have a son.

00:51:38.200 It doesn't mean that every son has to be into farming.

00:51:41.160 It's just a boy that is really passionate about something, very knowledgeable, able to converse about it in an intelligent way, very positive.

00:51:50.820 And how do you end up with that?

00:51:52.040 How do you help your son be like that?

00:51:54.640 And the answer is, one of the big answers, as I said, is helping them find what they're passionate about.

00:51:59.600 And every boy has something, and it might change over time, but there's something there that if you were to sort of, and sometimes they'll find it on their own, and sometimes they need some help finding it.

00:52:11.820 And they find it just, it's the thing that lights their soul on fire, just the thing that makes them, it just clicks.

00:52:18.380 And you want to find that for them.

00:52:22.280 And I said that in most cases, right, if you don't help your son find his passion, he's going to substitute entertainment.

00:52:32.040 And he's just going to watch, and that's what a lot of kids do.

00:52:34.240 The screen becomes not really a passion.

00:52:38.460 You can't call it a passion, because for most kids, when they're looking at the screen, it's a very, it's a hypnotic, very sort of depressive state, where they're sitting sort of slack-jawed, staring at it.

00:52:49.200 It's not a passionate activity.

00:52:52.700 But if you don't help a kid find a passion, that's what it becomes.

00:52:54.980 That becomes the substitute.

00:52:56.080 And I said that in most cases, entertainment is not going to be the lifelong passion that will lead to a career, and a lifestyle, and a, you know, make him a good, well-rounded person.

00:53:08.440 It doesn't mean that they can never engage in entertainment, or that they can never watch TVs and movies and play video games.

00:53:13.220 It just means that that can't be the focal point of your child's life, because it will not be the focal point of a productive, happy adulthood, right?

00:53:24.400 And you want to help them focus on the things that will, later in life, lead them to having good lives and being good people.

00:53:31.140 But, as I said, sometimes it will.

00:53:34.540 Like, there will be cases where entertainment, let's say video games, actually are a real passion.

00:53:42.600 And that, like in your case, in the case of the person leaving this comment, they'll go on to be a concept artist in the video game industry.

00:53:49.040 Fantastic. Wonderful.

00:53:50.160 Wonderful. And you probably look back at your childhood spent playing video games, and it's not a waste to you, because it led to something that it became your art.

00:53:58.640 Great. I think that's great.

00:54:01.980 My point is that most of the time it won't work that way.

00:54:04.800 And just like, same thing with movies and TV.

00:54:08.560 Okay, I don't, I get accused of singling video games out.

00:54:12.160 I don't. I don't single them out, okay?

00:54:14.440 I get singled out whenever I bring them up.

00:54:17.520 I just lump them in.

00:54:18.820 It's just like movies and television.

00:54:20.520 It's the same thing. Movies, TV, streaming, video games, all the same kind of thing.

00:54:24.040 It's digital, screen-based entertainment.

00:54:26.480 I'm not against it, like, across the board.

00:54:30.600 Of course not.

00:54:32.440 But most of the time, it should be consumed in moderation.

00:54:37.040 And same thing with movies and TV.

00:54:39.540 Now, there are a lot of kids that if you let them, they'll sit around watching TV and watching movies and binging, you know, streaming and stuff.

00:54:50.400 They'll do that all day, every day, if you let them.

00:54:52.200 But for a small fraction of those kids, a small fraction, like, 0.001% of those kids will actually, it will be a passion of theirs.

00:55:03.280 And they'll go on to become film directors.

00:55:05.080 And they'll work behind the camera.

00:55:07.260 And they'll be actors.

00:55:08.520 And they'll actually work in the entertainment industry.

00:55:11.060 In which case, great.

00:55:12.020 Like, for those kids, that was not wasted time.

00:55:15.260 But most of the kids won't.

00:55:17.920 Like, they're not going to go on to have a career in the business.

00:55:20.700 They're not going to go on to do anything with it.

00:55:23.400 It just will be a distraction.

00:55:26.820 It will just be, you know, it'll just be an amusement.

00:55:31.140 And nothing more than that.

00:55:32.820 Nothing wrong with an amusement.

00:55:34.780 But an amusement should not be the focal point of your child's life.

00:55:42.180 Right.

00:55:43.580 So, I await the anger comments, finding something wrong with what I just said, no matter how reasonable it might be.

00:55:51.140 Sunday, May 12th, we here at The Daily Wire are setting out on a new journey with our first-ever animated series, Mr. Burcham.

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00:58:00.840 Christy Dome, the governor of South Dakota and potential Trump running mate for 2024, though not anymore, I guess, has found herself in the middle of what meteorologists would call a massive epic storm.

00:58:17.820 And it all begins with a revelation offered up freely by Dome herself in her forthcoming book about how she killed her dog.

00:58:24.620 The Guardian had the report, quote,

00:58:26.280 By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Gnome says she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave.

00:58:43.220 Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds, and having the time of her life.

00:58:48.960 Gnome describes Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control.

00:58:53.080 Nothing worked.

00:58:53.580 And then on the way home after the hunt, as Gnome stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Gnome's truck and attacked the family's chickens,

00:58:59.440 grabbing one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.

00:59:04.680 Cricket, the untrainable dog, Gnome writes, behaved like a trained assassin.

00:59:08.480 When Gnome finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog whipped around to bite me.

00:59:11.800 Then, as the chicken's owner wept, Gnome repeatedly apologized and wrote the shocked family a check for the price they asked

00:59:18.760 and helped them dispose of the carcasses, littering the scene of the crime.

00:59:21.500 Through it all, Gnome says, Cricket was the picture of pure joy.

00:59:24.580 I hated that dog, Gnome writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself untrainable, dangerous to anybody she came in contact with,

00:59:30.800 and less than worthless as a hunting dog.

00:59:33.360 Okay.

00:59:33.720 Now, Gnome then tells us about how she decided that she had no choice but to put the dog down.

00:59:38.540 So she led the dog down to a gravel pit and she shot it. 0.92

00:59:42.520 And this, again, I remind you, is a story that Christy Gnome chose to tell in her own book.

00:59:48.640 Nobody would know about the tragic demise of poor Cricket if not for Gnome writing about it in her book.

00:59:54.200 Why did she tell this story?

00:59:55.580 Well, in subsequent public statements, she has explained that this was meant to be a story about how she's a tough woman

01:00:01.400 who isn't afraid to make difficult decisions.

01:00:03.980 Here's what she tweeted on Saturday, or rather on Sunday.

01:00:06.160 Quote,

01:00:36.160 Now, this defense, as you might imagine, has not been persuasive to the vast majority of the public.

01:01:04.080 And over the past few days, after this excerpt from the book was made public,

01:01:08.260 Gnome has faced immense backlash from all corners of the political world.

01:01:12.060 Left and right have blasted her relentlessly and ruthlessly.

01:01:15.720 Just to give you some idea, the tweet that I just read to you with her, you know, defending herself,

01:01:23.180 has, as of last night, it had 22,000 comments underneath it.

01:01:27.060 And basically all of them, including many from prominent conservatives, and of course a great many leftists,

01:01:32.000 are condemning her in no uncertain terms.

01:01:34.120 I scrolled through the first 100 comments, just for reference, and not a single one of them, not one, was sympathetic to her.

01:01:42.800 It's 100 to 0 against her right now is the verdict.

01:01:47.140 And she's been trending now for days, and she's been discussed on every major news show. 0.99

01:01:52.700 And all of the commentary has agreed that not only is she a dog-murdering psychopath, 0.99

01:01:57.480 but she's also killed her political career just as surely as she killed poor old cricket. 1.00

01:02:02.020 And we can honestly say, without the slightest hint of exaggeration,

01:02:07.160 that no politician in modern American history has ever been this widely condemned for anything.

01:02:15.180 I mean, ever.

01:02:16.840 Think of an example of any politician ever being this roundly.

01:02:21.460 Maybe Anthony Weiner is the other example I can think of.

01:02:26.700 And so Anthony Weiner and Christy Nome.

01:02:30.340 What do we make of that?

01:02:32.740 Well, for one thing, we can say for certain that Christy Nome has the political intelligence

01:02:38.400 and political instincts of a cantaloupe.

01:02:41.400 Anybody with a passing familiarity with modern American culture can tell you

01:02:45.620 that the very last thing any politician with national ambition should ever do

01:02:50.780 is admit to killing a dog.

01:02:53.520 You would be better off confessing to anything else. 0.98

01:02:56.740 I mean anything, including killing a person. 0.93

01:02:59.720 And we'll get back to that in a moment.

01:03:00.680 And she could confess in that book that 20 years ago she got really mad at her neighbor

01:03:08.900 and walked over and shot her neighbor in the face. 1.00

01:03:11.700 And I promise you there would be less outrage over that than the dog.

01:03:18.380 Promise you.

01:03:19.920 But from a purely political perspective, this is the most egregious unforced error we have

01:03:25.020 ever seen in our lifetimes.

01:03:26.280 And all for the sake of proving that she can make tough decisions.

01:03:31.300 I mean, does she not have any other anecdotes that could make that point?

01:03:35.620 Like, is that really, that's what you go with?

01:03:38.780 It's like if you went to a job interview and the interviewer asked, like, what are your greatest

01:03:42.740 strengths?

01:03:43.340 And you said, well, you know, I'm really good at setting stuff on fire.

01:03:48.880 Now, even if you meant that in a positive way, like even if you only ever set things on fire

01:03:52.640 for good reasons, it's just a bizarre fact to offer into evidence in that context.

01:03:57.380 Like, choose something else.

01:03:59.720 Don't, don't choose that.

01:04:00.760 It's too much baggage with that, right?

01:04:02.360 Why choose that of all things?

01:04:05.060 And the context in this case is a book that exists purely to lend her noem, that is, some

01:04:11.240 legitimacy on the national stage and earn some easy publicity.

01:04:16.840 Every politician writes a book like this if they're running for national office or if they

01:04:20.520 expect that they might be nominated for vice president.

01:04:23.120 Nobody ever actually reads these books.

01:04:25.660 They'll sell 12,000 copies in the first month and then they're forgotten and not a single

01:04:29.800 additional copy is sold and nobody remembers that it was written.

01:04:33.340 You're not supposed to actually make news with these books.

01:04:37.020 You're not supposed to say anything legitimately noteworthy.

01:04:40.700 And by all accounts, Noem's book is dutifully boring and pointless, full of Republican cliches

01:04:47.040 and boilerplate with this one story about killing a dog and another about killing a goat, apparently,

01:04:53.920 randomly dropped into the middle of it.

01:04:55.880 This is the only interesting thing that has ever been written in a politician's memoir.

01:05:02.320 So, I mean, I guess you could say that much in her defense.

01:05:05.520 Like, at least, there have been many books like this and it's the only time that any politician

01:05:10.820 has ever read anything that made you go, oh, really?

01:05:14.240 Only time.

01:05:14.880 But now we see why they usually avoid writing interesting things in their memoirs because

01:05:20.660 it doesn't go well for them.

01:05:22.320 But even if it was politically suicidal for Noem to reveal herself as the anti-John Wick,

01:05:29.300 was she actually wrong for what she did?

01:05:31.480 That's the question.

01:05:32.780 Like, was it actually wrong to pull an old yeller on cricket? 1.00

01:05:37.120 Well, I'm not much of an animal rights activist myself.

01:05:39.160 You know that.

01:05:39.520 I don't expect that my PETA membership card will be arriving in the mail anytime soon.

01:05:44.380 But even so, you know, I would say that, yes, Noem was wrong to kill her dog in that situation.

01:05:52.300 You know, and look, if you've lost me on the topic like this, you're in trouble.

01:05:56.240 Yeah, if I'm not on your side, that's rough.

01:06:00.300 You're in rough shape.

01:06:03.480 Now, granted, life on a farm is not like life in the suburbs.

01:06:07.120 Animals are kept for utility.

01:06:08.380 They have to pull their weight.

01:06:10.480 And anyone who is not a vegetarian eats food every day that was once a defenseless animal,

01:06:17.820 put down much like cricket was, and then butchered and consumed.

01:06:21.640 Okay, which presumably cricket wasn't, although she doesn't say.

01:06:25.200 And you might be squeamish about it, but that's the way it works.

01:06:27.380 And that's where your food comes from.

01:06:28.640 And you should be an adult about it when it comes to how things go on farms.

01:06:31.880 Because again, that's, this is where you, this is, the world would starve to death if

01:06:36.360 we didn't eat animals.

01:06:38.160 And so in general, we need to understand that about farm life.

01:06:42.880 But that does not let Noem off the hook in this case, because it sounds like cricket was

01:06:47.580 poorly trained.

01:06:48.920 At 14 months old, it doesn't sound like enough time was devoted to properly training her

01:06:52.840 to be a useful animal on the farm.

01:06:54.860 You can't just kill a dog because you're annoyed with it. 0.66

01:06:57.580 I mean, if I killed every animal that annoyed me, I would be like the Genghis Khan of Christine

01:07:02.740 Ohms.

01:07:03.200 But I haven't killed any animals, for the record, because taking a life, even an animal

01:07:07.820 life, requires greater moral justification than that.

01:07:11.520 These are God's creatures after all.

01:07:13.300 So Christine Ohm was wrong for killing the dog, even if plenty of other animals were killed 0.99

01:07:18.140 in her farm for perfectly justifiable reasons, which they probably were because it's a farm.

01:07:22.320 This one does not seem to be justified, in my opinion.

01:07:24.800 And if I could go back and rescue Cricket from her cruel fate, I would.

01:07:29.780 Although if I did, she'd still be dead at this point because this happened like 20 years

01:07:32.620 ago.

01:07:33.160 Still, I am opposed to the killing.

01:07:34.740 I think it was wrong.

01:07:37.280 And so I agree with the thrust of the criticism of Christine Ohm.

01:07:43.080 Yet the reaction is still absurdly overblown.

01:07:46.520 I mean, this amount of outrage over a dog killed on a farm two decades ago is a bit excessive,

01:07:56.040 especially when you contrast it with politicians who have publicly confessed to killing people,

01:08:02.400 not just people, but their own children.

01:08:06.040 Consider the fact that several prominent national politicians have in recent years admitted to

01:08:10.680 getting abortions.

01:08:11.420 And one example is Representative Pramila Jayapal, who wrote about her abortion story in the Washington

01:08:16.660 Post in 2019.

01:08:18.260 And according to Jayapal, her first child, who now supposedly identifies as non-binary and

01:08:22.480 who Jayapal refers to as they throughout the article, had a difficult birth and wound up

01:08:27.380 in the NICU for a few months.

01:08:30.120 Eventually, Jayapal divorced the father of her child and met somebody else.

01:08:34.760 And then she conceived another child with a new man, but decided that she was going to kill 1.00

01:08:38.640 the child because she didn't want to potentially go through another difficult birth.

01:08:42.740 And you might find some similarities here in the reasoning.

01:08:44.900 Christine Ohm killed her dog because it was difficult.

01:08:47.660 Jayapal killed her child because she thought the child might be difficult.

01:08:51.940 And you probably don't remember this story about Jayapal because there wasn't much outrage

01:08:56.560 in response to it.

01:08:58.400 She didn't trend for days on end.

01:09:00.200 She wasn't condemned by both sides of the political aisle, or even one side, really.

01:09:04.160 There was nothing like the anger and vitriol being directed at Christine Ohm. 0.98

01:09:08.760 The public, to include conservatives, have proven to be far, far, far, far less accepting

01:09:14.280 of politicians killing dogs than of politicians killing their own human offspring.

01:09:21.080 In fact, Jayapal was celebrated by many of the people now screaming at Christine Ohm.

01:09:24.820 So it's not just that people are less upset by the murder of children than by the murder

01:09:28.280 of dogs.

01:09:29.040 It's that many people are actively in favor of the former.

01:09:32.660 And those not in favor still can't muster the kind of disgust and visceral revulsion

01:09:38.440 in the face of it that they can for a dead dog.

01:09:40.840 Look, this is a sign of a truly sick society, one that will not and cannot survive so long

01:09:48.060 as it prioritizes, you know, dogs over people.

01:09:52.000 There has never been a human society that valued dogs over its own children.

01:09:58.200 We are the first.

01:09:59.980 This is a form of moral dementia that we are pioneering.

01:10:03.280 Now, whenever we have conversations like this, I'll be accused of hating animals.

01:10:11.240 But the truth is, I don't hate animals.

01:10:13.560 How could I?

01:10:14.280 Animals are not moral creatures, first of all.

01:10:16.980 They aren't capable of committing acts of evil.

01:10:18.940 So there's nothing to hate.

01:10:21.560 But just as they're not capable of committing evil, so too are they incapable of performing

01:10:25.120 acts of virtue.

01:10:25.900 It is because human beings can be evil that they can also be virtuous.

01:10:30.280 And it is virtuous to treat animals with kindness and love.

01:10:34.540 It is good to love animals.

01:10:37.340 But we are called to love and protect human children even more.

01:10:41.960 This is the kind of thing that shouldn't need explaining.

01:10:44.820 It should come instinctively to every person.

01:10:47.980 And for nearly all people who have ever lived on earth, it has come instinctively.

01:10:52.320 Only in our culture do we systematically murder hundreds of thousands of human children every

01:10:57.140 year while elevating dogs to the status of children.

01:11:01.260 Indeed, many of the very same people who kill their children are also elevating dogs in this

01:11:06.180 way.

01:11:06.380 They are actually quite literally replacing their kids with dogs.

01:11:11.820 So look, if you are pro-life and you fight against the murder of the unborn and you have 0.97

01:11:18.300 the appropriate emotional reaction to stories of mothers killing their own children,

01:11:22.320 and you love and protect human children above all, and you also happen to love dogs, and

01:11:27.460 you cherish them because they are God's creatures too, then that is great.

01:11:31.220 You have your priorities exactly in order.

01:11:32.960 You should be commended.

01:11:33.780 I have no issue with you whatsoever.

01:11:35.200 You are exactly right when it comes to this.

01:11:36.940 Fantastic.

01:11:38.740 But we all know that you, sadly, are not representative of the majority.

01:11:43.640 The majority of Americans are either in favor of or indifferent to the mass slaughter of human

01:11:49.220 children and either implicitly or explicitly value dogs and other four-legged creatures

01:11:55.080 above humans, including children, including even in some cases their own children.

01:12:00.780 And that, to me, is the real scandal.

01:12:04.200 I feel bad for poor Cricket.

01:12:06.680 I feel worse about the approximately 20 million human children murdered in this country since

01:12:12.280 Cricket's demise.

01:12:13.020 And that's why those who are outraged far more by the death of one dog than the 20 million

01:12:19.920 human deaths since then are today canceled.

01:12:24.600 That'll do it for the show today.

01:12:25.460 Thanks for watching.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 29, 2024

Ep. 1357 - The Dastardly Right Wing Plot To Have Babies And Save Humanity From Extinction

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