00:08:09.040And what he said is that only a sociopath would think otherwise.
00:08:13.080Only a sociopath would think that babies are bad.
00:08:17.520He's not saying that only a sociopath wouldn't have a baby.
00:08:20.880He's saying only a sociopath would be opposed to babies in principle.
00:08:27.160Now, that is as uncontroversial a point as a person can possibly make.
00:08:32.600If you have an affirmative dislike for human children, if you think it's a bad thing that people are reproducing, then you have an extraordinarily anti-social and anti-human outlook.
00:08:44.940You're also probably incapable of understanding the joy that children bring to their mothers and fathers.
00:08:55.320If you are fundamentally opposed to children, you are a sociopath.
00:08:59.480You are a person who all of your opinions, none of your opinions mean anything anymore.
00:09:08.300We should disregard everything you think about everything if you are affirmatively opposed to reproduction.
00:09:14.820Now, you might respond, well, yeah, but just because someone doesn't have kids, that doesn't mean they're opposed to the idea of reproduction.
00:09:27.160So CNN completely misrepresented what J.D. Vance said.
00:09:30.000There's no argument that he was describing people without children as sociopaths, as they claimed.
00:09:36.100This is the name calling that Joe Manchin was referring to, and it's a complete fabrication.
00:09:40.660But CNN was not done lying, so here's the rest of the segment.
00:09:46.620Then in November of 2020, during a podcast appearance, he said this.
00:09:52.440There are just these basic cadences of life that I think are really powerful and really, really valuable when you have kids in your life.
00:09:59.740And the fact that so many people, especially in America's leadership class, just don't have that in their lives, you know, I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less mentally stable.
00:10:14.980And, of course, you talk about going on Twitter.
00:10:16.940Final point I'll make is you go on Twitter and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don't have kids at home.
00:10:25.160In August of 2021, in a fundraising email, CNN found he appealed to donors by mentioning the, quote, radical childless leaders in this country.
00:10:35.400And then he tweeted in 2021, quote, cat ladies must be stopped.
00:10:39.940So we're supposed to be outraged by this podcast interview, too, even though, again, there's nothing insulting or confusing about it.
00:10:48.180He's saying that on balance, societies are better off when people have children.
00:10:52.720For one thing, society can continue to exist, which is a pretty big net positive.
00:10:58.800In fact, there's you can't have that's.
00:11:02.340If you don't have that going for you, then there's there really is no second place.
00:11:06.620Right. If like for anything else good to happen in society, society has to at least exist.
00:11:12.940And the only way society continues to exist is by having kids.
00:11:18.800And as Vance said, having children generally makes people less narcissistic and less self-centered by necessity.
00:11:25.580Not always, but it generally has that effect.
00:11:28.920Parents are forced to consider the well-being of their child, which is obviously a fundamental and instinctual desire that's encoded in our DNA.
00:11:35.840Up until about 15 minutes ago, everyone understood this.
00:11:40.420It was not long ago that Barack Obama was giving speeches in which he described fatherhood as, quote, the greatest gift.
00:11:46.740That's from a speech in 2008 that he delivered at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago.
00:11:52.100And during that speech, Obama said, quote, if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father.
00:11:56.660And his whole speech was about how fatherhood made him less narcissistic, which really, well, in his case, it makes you wonder just how narcissistic this guy must have been before he had kids.
00:12:06.500But he continued, quote, when I was a young man, I thought life was all about me.
00:13:21.160But the premise behind his line of questioning that we return to again and again, and I was trying to sort of clarify for him, the premise behind the question, the questions he was asking, was totally confused.
00:13:34.640Because he wanted to know about the rise in pro-family rhetoric like the kind we hear from Vance and from me.
00:13:40.960And I tried to explain that our view is not some new political phenomenon.
00:13:48.700Our view is the one held by every reasonable person who's ever lived up until approximately last Tuesday.
00:13:56.080It's the anti-family view, the view that celebrates the child-free lifestyle that has recently arisen.
00:14:03.120It is the sudden and very modern phenomenon that he should be trying to explain.
00:14:07.640Again, that's what an art, you know, if you want to write an article about this, that's what you should be exploring.
00:14:13.080Now, of course, the idea of attacking the nuclear family isn't all that new.
00:14:19.100Karl Marx called for the abolition of the family in the Communist Manifesto.
00:14:23.620Friedrich Engels claimed that the family is founded on the open or concealed domestic slavery of the wife.
00:14:29.680Soviet schools taught children to report their own parents for wrong think.
00:14:33.740And in Hungary's Soviet government, which lasted only a few months, schools began indoctrinating children on various explicit sexual topics as a way of driving a wedge between the children and their parents.
00:14:44.980As the biographer of one Hungarian commissar put it, quote, special lectures were organized in schools and literature printed and distributed to instruct children about free love, about the nature of sexual intercourse, about the archaic nature of the bourgeois family codes, about the outdatedness of monogamy and the irrelevance of religion, which deprives man of all pleasure.
00:15:06.540Children urged thus to reject and deride paternal authority and the authority of the church and to ignore precepts of morality.
00:15:15.740We've obviously been seeing this same creeping influence in American politics for some time.
00:15:20.540Children are now instructing kindergartners about topics like gender identity.
00:15:24.500Children are receiving hormones that can sterilize them for life.
00:15:27.220California is hiding students' so-called transitions from their parents.
00:15:31.780In some cases, children are being removed from homes because their parents will not affirm their quote-unquote gender identity.
00:15:38.340The difference is that, unlike the Soviets, today's Democrats generally don't come right out and admit that they want to destroy the nuclear family.
00:15:45.960Now, yes, sometimes the mask does slip.
00:15:48.680At the height of the George Floyd hysteria four years ago, for example, BLM had this passage on their website.
00:15:54.720Quote, we disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families in villages that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
00:16:10.620Now, eventually, BLM had to take that down, not because it was posted in error, but because they said the quiet part out loud and people were sort of cringing at it.
00:16:19.640Now, suddenly, it's fine for Democrats to say that part out loud.
00:16:25.020Advocating for strong families is now prohibited on the left.
00:16:28.480They're saying that if a critical mass of people decide to stay single and self-serving for their whole lives, then that can't possibly have any negative ramifications whatsoever on society, even though it will mean the extinction of society.
00:16:39.580This is the view that Democrats push, and it's very much out of the mainstream of conventional thought in this country and across the entire world since the beginning of human civilization.
00:16:52.820Democrats are importing Marxist views on the family, and they're calling you weird for noticing what they're doing.
00:17:01.700The other day, New York Magazine ran a piece that, like CNN, completely misrepresented what J.D. Vance believes.
00:17:07.020Quote, conservatives have long staked out a claim to be the movement of traditional values, of families, of normal people, all in contrast to liberalism.
00:17:14.720The weirdness attack works so well because it flips the script and fights on important cultural terrain.
00:17:19.420It's weird to care about how many children people have.
00:17:21.480It's weird to treat women like incubators.
00:17:23.660It's weird to care about people being drag queens.
00:17:26.040It's weird to lose your shit because some people are trans.
00:17:29.300It's weird to obsess over alleged sex differences.
00:17:31.900Most people aren't like this and don't want to be like this either.
00:17:34.180The GOP has become the party of Internet poisoning, and it's important to say as much.
00:17:39.140Everyone likes to tell a freak to shut up.
00:17:42.520In other words, Democrats can give sterilizing hormones to children.
00:17:47.440They can make every single day on the calendar some kind of LGBTQ holiday, from Trans Day of Remembrance to International Pronouns Day to Gay Uncle Day to Pride Month and so on.
00:17:56.520They can pretend that basic biology is meaningless and basically doesn't exist.
00:18:03.500They can bring drag queens into the school to read to your kids.
00:18:08.060And if you complain about any of it, then you're the one who's making an issue out of it.
00:18:26.700Now, as with everything else that we see from these people, this is projection, and it's all they have.
00:18:34.340The only way they can accuse J.D. Vance of being strange is to tell you to shut up, which is why New York Magazine explicitly says shut up in the article.
00:18:42.760For good measure, like CNN, they also invent things that J.D. Vance didn't even say.
00:18:46.560For example, the article continues, quote, none of this is normal, and voters know it.
00:18:50.220Most parents don't have kids simply to own the libs or because they're worried about getting outbred by immigrants.
00:18:55.520People are childless for many reasons, and none of it is Vance's business.
00:19:00.440Of course, J.D. Vance didn't say that people should have kids to own the libs or that people should have to explain why they're childless
00:19:06.720or that people should have kids simply because they're worried about being outbred.
00:19:10.880None of that is tethered in any way to reality.
00:19:13.200The truth is, they're not attacking us for any of the reasons New York Magazine claimed.
00:19:19.260They're attacking us for promoting family life and parenthood as a positive good, which it obviously is.
00:19:25.080Everyone throughout history has recognized that.
00:19:28.440What we're seeing now is just part of their years-long campaign to demonize the nuclear family.
00:19:33.260If they're smart, Republicans will use this issue as an opportunity to remind voters about the Democratic attacks on parents and families, especially in recent years.
00:19:41.240With J.D. Vance, for the first time, a major Republican politician has done exactly what BLM did inadvertently four years ago.
00:19:49.360He told the truth about Democrats' efforts to destroy the nuclear family, which is the foundation of all civilization
00:19:55.100and also the solution to so many problems that Democrat-run cities are suffering from right now.
00:20:01.880Strong, stable families are the way to fix all of it, which is obvious to almost everyone.
00:20:07.240But what's become clear over the past week amid the left's obsession with their dumb talking point
00:20:13.580is that they'd rather watch the population of this country wither and die out than admit what everyone knows,
00:25:18.680So she's running as, suddenly, someone, you know, more conservative on immigration than Republicans were prior to Trump.
00:25:27.400The ad you just saw there is, that's a more right-wing immigration ad than what, you know, George Bush would have run in 2004 or something.
00:25:39.040And this is not the only issue where she's pulling this trick.
00:25:41.600She's running to the right on crime also.
00:25:43.540She knows that the defund the police, empty the prisons approach, which is her actual position, she knows that's poison.
00:25:52.480That's the political equivalent of drinking bleach at this point.
00:25:57.520So instead, she's running as the tough prosecutor who's cracking down on crime and all that kind of stuff.
00:26:03.560So there are multiple issues where Kamala Harris, rabidly left-wing, full-blown leftist, right, is nonetheless trying to go to the right.
00:26:17.180On every issue, just about, she has switched course to at least some extent.
00:26:22.080She's abandoned her positions on everything except abortion.
00:26:25.120That's the only one where she's basically taking the same position she's always taken, which is to be extremist, you know, kill all the babies.
00:26:35.660But everything else, like in the blink of an eye, she has abandoned and taken a new position and done it with no pushback at all of any kind.
00:28:07.040And you hear the stomps, and you see the crowd of people running towards you.
00:28:11.980You don't run past them and go towards the sound of the giant stomps, unless you want to get squished by the monster.
00:28:19.500So the Godzilla, in this case, is the American electorate, which is righteously pissed off and tired of having their country stolen out from under them.
00:28:26.440Tired of living in crime-infested communities.
00:28:31.480And the Democrats are fleeing as fast as they can to avoid getting stomped.
00:28:35.800All Republicans need to do is hold their ground.
00:29:05.580Now, the politicians who are trying to avoid getting trounced, politicians like Kamala Harris, were trying to run in and pretend, yeah, let's protect the border.
00:29:28.900That's all the Republicans have to do on this thing.
00:29:35.140She's the one who has to triangulate and has to try to pull off this crazy sleight of hand trick where she goes in an instant from being full open border radical to being, you know, a proponent of protecting the border and enforcing the law.
00:29:53.040She's the one who's trying to pull off that trick.
00:29:55.340And all you have to do is, as I said, just say, nope, can't do it.
00:30:05.300I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this issue because I'm very late to it.
00:30:08.220And you've already heard everything there is to hear about it probably.
00:30:11.020But I do want to just kind of cover this space to make one point because, I mean, I was just as repulsed as the rest of you when I saw that blasphemous opening ceremony in Paris last week.
00:30:21.580I didn't really talk about it because I was off on Monday.
00:30:26.460And as we know, that nothing is relevant for, you know, more than a day.
00:31:36.180The interesting question to me is whether the people responsible for putting on this display, whether they knew that the display would provoke as much anger as it did.
00:31:47.300And if you didn't know any better, you would think that they must have known that.
00:31:53.480I mean, you staged a drag queen Last Supper.
00:31:56.040You used one of the holiest images in Christianity.
00:31:58.580And by that, I mean the Last Supper itself.
00:32:01.320Not just the painting of it, but the biblical image of the Last Supper.
00:32:05.680You used that as a forum for mocking and belittling and committing sacrilege against a religion that two and a half billion people in the world follow.
00:32:17.240Of course, you know, they would know that it would upset people.
00:32:30.580Okay, these people are demonic, just reprehensible scumbags, deserve all the condemnation that they received and more.
00:32:38.260But I think they truly didn't know, did not anticipate that this would actually upset people.
00:32:44.520And that's why there's been all this scrambling after the fact, taking down the videos, apologizing, you know, some are doubling down.
00:32:49.700It does not appear that they, you know, knew that there would be backlash and they were ready for it and they had their responses ready to go.
00:33:04.120It tells you what kind of bubble they live in.
00:33:07.800The leftists in the Olympic Organizing Committee, just like the leftist elites in Hollywood, academia, government here in the U.S. and across the world, really,
00:33:15.800all of them live a life that is totally divorced from the experiences, the existence of normal people.
00:33:27.080And for these elites, Christianity is just a joke.
00:33:31.800It's not something they even pretend to take seriously among themselves.
00:33:35.160In their world, Christianity is a religion, first of all, which automatically makes it dumb and frivolous.
00:33:44.960And they associate it with white people.
00:33:47.240Now, even though the majority of Christians are not white, but to them, you know, they see it as a white person religion.
00:33:54.220They associate it with Western civilization and they associate Western civilization with whiteness.
00:36:51.260Well, as I've said a million times, for one thing, you refocus the conversation on the radical extreme positions that the Democrats hold on this issue.
00:37:02.000And Trump is pretty good about doing that.
00:37:03.440He did a nice job of doing that in the debate against Biden, to the extent that we can call it a debate at all.
00:37:10.600But, you know, this is a pivot that he makes pretty instinctually.
00:37:14.180He just immediately pivots to the fact that, hey, they want to kill fully developed babies a second before they're born.
00:37:27.740It's like, it's true that that is the more relevant thing to talk about.
00:37:30.580Before we talk about the hard cases, the 1% cases, the rape, life of the mother, those kinds.
00:37:36.060Before we talk about these very, very, very rare situations, we have the much more common scenarios where you have abortion being used purely as birth control,
00:37:47.060where you have babies later on in the development cycle being killed in very brutal and gruesome ways.
00:37:53.920So we need to talk about that before we talk about anything else.
00:41:53.240I mean, I can't, I mean, maybe it's happened.
00:41:56.140If someone has an example of this being asked by, you know, in a debate or of a Republican politician, you know, pulling this reverse card on a Democrat,
00:42:06.880putting him on the spot and saying, well, do you think human life is a intrinsic value?
00:42:09.300If anyone has an example of that happening, I'd love to, like, send me the clip, because I've never seen it.
00:42:33.780If you're, if you're a politician running for office, for national office, and you also want to protect the, quote, right of abortion through every stage of pregnancy.
00:42:44.180If somebody says, well, do you think life has an intrinsic value, inherent value?
00:45:59.920I think a lot of it really comes down to, it's like a larger animal.
00:46:04.860And we just tend to think of larger things as having more value.
00:46:07.800In fact, you know, I bet if there was a, if there was a honey, I shrunk the kids scenario where people were shrunk down, like fully grown people were shrunk down to the size of a pea.
00:46:16.620It would be hard for a lot of people to see those pea-sized humans as being fully human, even though in this case they have the same intelligence.
00:46:25.560But, you know, the fact that you can crush them with your shoe without noticing them, that you're doing it, it just like seems to mean that they're not quite as important as normal sized people.
00:58:59.800None of them want to be perceived as sitting on the sidelines when there's a, quote-unquote, woman of color running for president.
00:59:06.000So if you thought that Obama ran a celebrity-fueled campaign in 2008, well, you ain't seen nothing yet.
00:59:13.120So what can Republicans do about this?
00:59:17.960Let's talk about what they shouldn't do first.
00:59:20.040They shouldn't do what, to some extent, they've already done and are doing right now,
00:59:26.740which is to counter the Democrat star power by scrounging together a ragtag group of washed-up and obscure entertainers that nobody cares about.
01:00:57.760Trying to get into a celebrity tit for tat when we have like seven people and none of them have had a hit album or movie this century,
01:01:05.820and the other side has literally everyone else is not going to accomplish anything except making us look sad.
01:01:14.740So here's a perfect and very recent example of this dynamic.
01:01:17.900Yesterday, while Megan Thee Stallion was performing, some conservatives on social media were frantically sharing a tweet from a rapper named Sway Lee who came out against Kamala Harris.
01:01:31.060And I don't even think he endorsed Trump, but he did come out and say, you know, don't vote for Kamala Harris, do your own research.
01:02:47.220But you undermine it if you make fun of Megan Thee Stallion.
01:02:50.640And then two days later, you start fangirling over some third-rate celebrity endorsing Trump.
01:02:55.540The messaging has to be consistent on this.
01:02:57.380And the good news is that there are plenty of voters who are extremely repulsed by twerking rappers at a presidential campaign rally.
01:03:05.200There are many voters, including the precious independents and moderates, who are not impressed by celebrities and don't like it when politicians rely on them.
01:03:13.400You know, there are enough voters in that camp to win, more than enough.
01:03:20.860But that means we absolutely cannot respond to left-wing celebrities by saying,
01:03:24.960oh, yeah, well, here's our much less famous entertainer performing an equally obnoxious but much less popular song.