The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1650 - How Big Pharma Covered Up The Dark Truth About Birth Control

00:00:00.000 Today, the Matt Wall Show. For decades, Big Pharma has been pushing drugs onto the public

00:00:03.880 without having any idea about the side effects and downstream consequences. Trump is now calling

00:00:08.700 for accountability over COVID drugs, but a new study shows, again, that we need to be having

00:00:12.260 a similar conversation about birth control pills. Also, the longer that Jasmine Crockett is in 0.98

00:00:17.840 office, the more she loses her ability to speak proper English. It's a very strange phenomenon.

00:00:22.360 And Donald Trump calls out a contractor who did shoddy work at the White House.

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00:00:30.740 why did vegans lose? I think I know the answer. We'll talk about all that

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00:02:00.960 Here's a very unsettling and bizarre criminal case you almost certainly haven't heard of, even though

00:02:05.480 it should have been national news at the time. In 2021, an 18-year-old named Cora Vides was a senior

00:02:11.980 at Laguna Blanca School. And on Valentine's Day, Cora invited a longtime friend over to her family's

00:02:18.440 house. Everything was normal, right up until Cora declared, out of nowhere, that she was bisexual. 0.99

00:02:24.480 And then Cora told her friend to close her eyes, supposedly so that she could demonstrate a new

00:02:29.460 technique for meditation. But it was all a ruse. And after counting to three, Cora suddenly began

00:02:35.640 stabbing her friend in the neck. Now, the victim managed to escape, although she nearly bled to death

00:02:40.680 in the hospital. Her lung had collapsed. She needed surgery to reconstruct her larynx. At no point did

00:02:46.820 she have any idea why her friend had just tried to kill her. All she knew was that Cora had snapped, 0.84

00:02:52.400 entered some kind of disassociative state, and ambushed her violently. Now, at trial, Cora was

00:02:59.940 found guilty of attempted first-degree murder. But the jury also found that Cora was insane at the time

00:03:05.100 of the attack, meaning that she might not face any prison time at all. She'll spend a few months in a

00:03:09.360 psychiatric hospital instead, because that's how the legal system works in California. In reaching that

00:03:14.960 decision, the jury considered Cora's claim that she was non-binary, as well as the fact that she had been

00:03:21.140 diagnosed with various mental health conditions. But maybe the most important piece of evidence

00:03:25.880 concerned a hormonal birth control pill that Cora had been taking. Quoting from the Santa Barbara

00:03:31.640 Independent, defense attorney Robert Sanger said a new birth control medication Cora Vides was taking

00:03:36.960 was also known to cause significant side effects, including depression. Cora's older sister, 0.99

00:03:42.740 Maya, testified that a month before the stabbing, Cora told her that she was cutting herself. Maya

00:03:47.260 responded that she'd also struggled with self-harm and suggested that Cora try the same oral contraceptive 0.65

00:03:52.700 that she'd been prescribed, which helped balance her hormones. Cora did so, but complained to friends 0.88

00:03:59.140 that the pills made her feel even more off. Now, it wasn't just the defense attorneys who made this claim.

00:04:06.460 Dr. Brandon Yakush, a court-appointed forensic psychologist, asserted that the new birth control

00:04:11.340 medication was, quote, a major factor in how her depression got worse during that time. In other

00:04:17.200 words, because this person took hormonal birth control, she degraded her already fragile mental 0.96

00:04:22.040 state even further. But the doctor added that, as far as he knew, there wasn't much literature on

00:04:27.780 birth control's ability to affect the mind on a deeper level beyond causing depression.

00:04:32.100 This is one of the reasons that you rarely, if ever, hear about cases like Cora's. Now, yes,

00:04:37.980 media outlets don't like running stories that are critical of the pharmaceutical industry because

00:04:41.320 big pharma buys more advertisements than anybody else. And we all know, as we discussed last week,

00:04:46.780 that the non-binary slash transgender angle of the story also guaranteed that nobody would talk about 0.77

00:04:53.080 it. But it's also true when you look at scientific research that there isn't a lot of data

00:04:57.520 about hormonal birth control medication. They've been mass prescribed without much investigation

00:05:04.480 into the possible side effects. And this is something we talk about a lot with the pharmaceutical

00:05:10.400 industry because we see this a lot in the pharmaceutical industry, if you haven't noticed.

00:05:15.320 It was the same story with ADHD drugs and SSRIs and Alzheimer's medications, the COVID shot,

00:05:22.260 Ozempic, even over-the-counter decongestants and so on. In every one of these cases, miraculous drugs

00:05:29.800 supposedly have been marketed and widely distributed. And then many years or even decades later, we finally

00:05:36.380 get to see some hard evidence. And that hard evidence at a minimum dramatically changes the narrative

00:05:42.100 that big pharma has constructed around a particular drug. And that moment is now arriving for hormonal

00:05:49.800 birth control. For generations now, women who take these medications have reported psychiatric

00:05:54.720 side effects, but the specific nature of those side effects beyond mood swings and depression

00:05:59.500 hasn't been spelled out very clearly in medical literature, at least not often. And that's why a

00:06:06.480 new study from researchers at Rice University in Texas published in the journal Hormones and Behavior

00:06:10.920 has been getting some attention. In short, the researchers found that hormonal contraceptives affect

00:06:17.860 emotional processing and memory. And these effects haven't been disclosed to any of the tens of

00:06:24.420 millions of women who are currently taking these drugs, nor has anyone considered the broader

00:06:29.560 implications of these side effects, which are obviously significant. So to run this experiment,

00:06:34.860 the researchers at Rice showed positive, negative, and neutral images to two groups, the control group

00:06:39.900 that wasn't taking hormonal birth control and another group that was. And then in addition to administering a

00:06:45.180 memory test, the researchers instructed their test subjects to apply a variety of emotion regulation

00:06:50.000 strategies, including distancing, reinterpretation, and immersion. Now, in case you're not up on the

00:06:56.400 lingo, psychological distancing involves, quote, taking an objective third-person perspective to an

00:07:02.260 emotional event, while reinterpretation involves reframing or imagining a better outcome in the context of

00:07:07.960 the emotional event. Meanwhile, immersion means deeply engaging with the aspects of an emotional event

00:07:12.760 to increased effect, rather positive, either positive or negative. So anyway, this is all, you know, a lot

00:07:20.180 of meaningless psychobabble, but the basic idea is that they told the test subjects to work on their

00:07:25.600 feelings. And the end result, according to Rice, is that, quote, women on hormonal contraceptives

00:07:30.740 showed stronger emotional reactions compared to naturally cycling women. When they used strategies like 1.00

00:07:36.680 distancing or reinterpretation, they remembered fewer details of negative events, though their general

00:07:42.080 memory remained intact. In other words, they could recall the overall event, but not all the

00:07:47.760 specifics. Now, the last part is especially interesting. You know, whatever you make of this

00:07:54.100 stuff about immersion and psychological distancing and whatever else, the impact of hormonal contraceptives

00:07:59.500 on memory has implications that nobody ever talks about. I mean, what happens when millions of women 1.00

00:08:06.520 become more forgetful and more emotional at the same time? And this happens at scale with millions of

00:08:15.020 women at the same time? Do these women vote differently? Are their relationships more unstable as a result? 1.00

00:08:23.200 I mean, being very forgetful and overly emotional, not a great recipe for relationships. Now, over at Rice

00:08:30.160 University, they're not concerned, apparently, with any of these possibilities. Instead, their researchers

00:08:34.480 described the potential for large-scale memory loss as, quote, exciting, saying that it might help women 1.00

00:08:40.760 forget about traumatic, unhappy experiences. Now, this is a logic that would not fly in any other

00:08:47.880 environment. Imagine if you're an engineer who makes passenger airplanes and you suddenly discover

00:08:52.800 that one of your safety features actually has a totally unexpected side effect. And it could be good,

00:08:58.320 could be bad. You're not entirely sure. Most likely in that case, your first response would be to shut

00:09:03.940 everything down until you figure out exactly what the risks are and what other risks there might be that you

00:09:09.920 don't know about. Yeah, it should be a response anyway. If Boeing had done that, then there's a good chance that

00:09:16.320 their MAX jets wouldn't have crashed on two separate occasions. But in medicine, the discovery of unintended

00:09:22.140 side effects that directly impact the human brain, the mind, we're told that that's really exciting, which is

00:09:30.700 complete nonsense. I mean, it's spin masquerading as science. In reality, what these researchers have

00:09:34.880 discovered is additional evidence that hormonal birth control has effects on the brain that no one,

00:09:41.300 including the self-described experts, actually understand. And this evidence is continuing to

00:09:46.880 pile up year after year. In 2023, for example, researchers in Montreal writing for the journal

00:09:52.980 Frontiers in Endocrinology discovered evidence that hormonal contraceptives shrink a portion of the

00:09:58.260 prefrontal cortex, specifically the portion of the prefrontal cortex that's involved in controlling

00:10:02.320 emotions, maintaining self-control, making decisions, and handling fear. This part of the brain

00:10:09.000 is called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Quote, we recruited healthy adults aged 23 to 35 who

00:10:15.140 identified as women currently using or having used oral contraceptives, as well as women who never used

00:10:22.620 any oral hormonal contraceptives. Compared to men, only current users of hormonal contraceptives showed

00:10:28.520 a thinner ventromedial prefrontal cortex. So I'll say that again because I'm stumbling over the harder

00:10:37.000 words, but only current users showed a thinner ventromedial prefrontal cortex. So the current users of the

00:10:44.180 drug are the only ones that had this thinner part of the brain. Now, admittedly, I don't understand what half of

00:10:49.300 those words mean, but the takeaway is still pretty clear. These drugs, at least while women are taking 1.00

00:10:54.140 them, have an observable effect on a critical area of the brain. And that's not a small thing.

00:11:03.480 Even the best neurologist in the world doesn't have a complete understanding of how the brain works.

00:11:09.740 That's what makes neurology a cutting-edge competitive field of medicine. And it's also what makes hormonal

00:11:14.140 birth control a far more uncertain and dangerous proposition than most women realize.

00:11:21.400 Again, you don't need to take my word for any of this. Writing in the European Journal of Neuroscience a year later,

00:11:25.960 the same researchers from Montreal observed that oral contraceptives are, quote,

00:11:30.440 generally used for years and often initiated during adolescence, a sensitive period where certain brain regions

00:11:35.780 involved in the fear circuitry are still undergoing important reorganization.

00:11:39.840 They stated that it's unknown whether these contraceptives cause, quote,

00:11:44.560 long-lasting changes in the fear circuitry. So they ran the following experiment to try to figure that out.

00:11:50.740 Quote, we collected structural MRI data in 98 healthy adult women and extracted gray matter volumes

00:11:58.480 and cortical thickness of key regions of the fear circuitry. Among women who initiated oral contraceptives

00:12:05.180 earlier in adolescence, the short duration of use was associated with smaller hippocampal gray matter

00:12:12.060 volumes and thicker ventromedial prefrontal cortex compared to a longer duration of use.

00:12:17.440 For both gray matter volumes and cortical thickness of the right ventromedial prefrontal cortex,

00:12:23.440 women with an early oral contraceptive onset had more gray matter at a short duration of use than

00:12:29.280 those with a later onset. Our results suggest that oral contraceptives use earlier in adolescence

00:12:34.140 may induce lasting effects on structures related to fear learning and its regulation. These findings

00:12:40.620 support further investigation into the timing of oral contraceptive use to better comprehend how it

00:12:45.640 could disrupt normal brain development processes. Close quote. Well, you know, that's an understatement.

00:12:53.360 The fact that these contraceptives can impact the size of the prefrontal cortex, according to these

00:12:58.300 researchers, supports further investigation. Yeah, you think? I mean, it would have been nice if this

00:13:04.860 investigation had commenced before tens of millions of women were given these drugs, which functioned by 0.82

00:13:10.720 tricking their bodies into acting like they're pregnant. This is the conversation that we should 1.00

00:13:15.480 have had at any point in the past half century, but I guess we're supposed to conclude that, you know,

00:13:20.400 it's better late than never. I don't know. Again, the impact on society at large is completely ignored.

00:13:27.160 I mean, what happens when we break the fear response in the brains of millions of women? 0.93

00:13:35.040 If we did something like that, could it explain perhaps why so many American women are petrified of 1.00

00:13:40.440 climate change or the plight of criminal illegal aliens, the prospect of losing the right to kill 0.96

00:13:47.280 their children, the fate of a tiny country in Eastern Europe that they can't even locate on a

00:13:52.020 map? If they don't have the correct fear response, does that explain why you have a lot of liberal

00:13:57.300 women who aren't nearly as concerned about, like, the things in their everyday life they should be 1.00

00:14:02.700 concerned about, like crime? Again, criminal illegals coming into your community. There's like a 1.00

00:14:09.620 disconnect with a lot of female voters on that. Could this explain part of that? Could it explain why

00:14:15.960 if only women could vote, then Kamala Harris would have won all 50 states? Could there be a connection

00:14:22.180 there? And while we're at it, what about the study published in the Journal of Computational Biology

00:14:27.820 showing that doses of hormonal birth control could be reduced by more than 90% while remaining

00:14:34.760 effective? And what about the study from Denmark showing that birth control pills affect the body's

00:14:39.500 ability to regulate stress? Let's put a quote from one of those researchers on the screen. This is a man

00:14:44.720 named Michael Winterdahl. And here's what he said, quote, our results are really important because

00:14:50.680 they indicate that people who use birth control pills do not experience the same reduced stress

00:14:55.360 hormone levels in connection with social activity as people who do not use the pill.

00:15:01.620 And then there's the possibility that birth control affects the kinds of men that women want to be

00:15:06.320 around. In fact, I mean, we know that there's tons of studies about this, and this is obviously true.

00:15:10.720 After all, in normal circumstances, male testosterone is reduced when they're around pregnant women. 0.98

00:15:16.680 And if these drugs are making most women seem pregnant, then it stands to reason that men around 0.93

00:15:21.460 them will have lower testosterone. That explains the dating scene in most of California, Oregon, 0.94

00:15:26.400 New York, Virginia, so on. And we could talk for the next month about studies like this, most of which

00:15:32.780 are never discussed on the national news. No matter where you stand on the issue in general,

00:15:37.560 you have to admit that there are a lot of unknowns and a lot of red flags that are mostly just being

00:15:42.800 ignored. No one in any position of authority is interested in addressing any of these questions

00:15:47.240 or the issue of fraudulent medicine more generally. And that said, there are some signs that there could

00:15:53.440 be changes in the near future if you're the optimistic type. The other day, as you might have seen,

00:15:57.720 Donald Trump suggested that he's going to push for more accountability in this particular domain

00:16:02.540 of medicine and big pharma. Here's part of what he wrote. Quote, it is very important that the drug

00:16:08.060 companies justify the success of their various COVID drugs. Many people think that they're a miracle

00:16:12.580 that saved millions of lives. Others disagree. With the CDC being ripped apart over this question,

00:16:17.340 I want the answer and I want it now. I have been shown information from Pfizer and others that is

00:16:22.400 extraordinary, but they never seem to show the results to the public. Why not? Now, this is obviously

00:16:28.460 not a post about birth control, but it gets at the same kind of underlying question, which needs to

00:16:32.980 be resolved as quickly as possible. The largest pharmaceutical companies in the country have

00:16:37.560 been hiding data or outright lying about it for a long time now. Just in case you've forgotten just

00:16:43.740 how overt and shameless this propaganda was during COVID, here's a couple of clips from just a few years

00:16:49.120 ago in which Pfizer reports that its vaccine is 100% effective for children. And then CNN and MSWC

00:16:56.700 dutifully repeat that talking point. Watch. And today Pfizer is out with potentially incredible

00:17:03.040 news for parents and children. The drug company released the first findings from its child vaccine

00:17:08.260 study and found it's both safe. And here is the big headline here, 100% effective in preventing COVID-19

00:17:15.960 in kids ages 12 to 15. We should note that these are early findings and have not yet been peer

00:17:22.120 reviewed. So stay tuned for that. We do have some breaking news. Drug maker Pfizer just announcing the

00:17:28.600 results of its vaccine trial for adolescents. It says its coronavirus shot was 100% effective at preventing

00:17:36.300 infection and sickness among 12 to 15 year olds. This could be a major game changer for reopening schools

00:17:43.540 across America. But we all know how that turned out. Eventually, we learned the truth about the COVID shot.

00:17:48.800 And by that point, for millions of Americans, it was already too late.

00:17:52.120 And in the same way today, we're now finding out very slowly, piece by piece, the truth about the various

00:17:57.660 effects of hormonal contraceptives on the brain. Now, this is not how science is supposed to work. It's not how

00:18:04.840 public health is supposed to work, but it's the way things operate at the moment. And before you or someone

00:18:10.760 you know takes one of these pills or any other pill that's handed to you by a doctor with the promise of correcting

00:18:16.780 some alleged deficiency in the human condition, you have to recognize this simple fact, none of the

00:18:23.500 people involved in the production or distribution of that drug really have any idea what it will do to

00:18:29.420 you, especially if it affects your brain and your mind. They have no clue how that happens or why or what

00:18:37.960 the ultimate effect will be. And if they claim they know they're lying. But like the friend of Cora

00:18:44.820 Vides in Santa Barbara, you might nevertheless find out one day in a very painful and tragic manner

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00:21:21.080 Let's start off the week, an abbreviated week, by checking in with our dear friend Jasmine Crockett.

00:21:27.980 What is she up to these days? What is she thinking about right now? That's what you're wondering.

00:21:33.440 That's what I was wondering. Well, the answer is not much. The inside of Jasmine's head is a dark and

00:21:39.900 hollow cavern. It's an empty tunnel going nowhere. And that is very obvious when you hear her speak.

00:21:49.700 And yet it's this really strange phenomenon where the longer that Jasmine Crockett spends in public 0.99

00:21:55.980 office, the dumber she sounds. Based on the way she speaks and the things she says, it appears that 0.97

00:22:04.380 she's losing brain cells at a really alarming rate. I mean, she'll be Joe Biden in a manner of a couple

00:22:13.000 of months at this point. I don't know how this is happening. I don't know if she's going home and

00:22:17.620 just like banging her head against a brick wall 14 times before she goes to bed every night. I don't

00:22:22.580 know if that's part of her nightly routine. I'm not sure. But in any case, this is what she sounds like

00:22:29.580 now. Listen to this. Maybe because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how

00:22:35.180 Christian they is. Yeah. I don't know how many of them on that side are getting divorced because 0.98

00:22:40.180 they getting caught up sleeping with their co-workers, staffers, interns, all the things.

00:22:45.240 Yeah. You ain't got to believe me. Just go Google. You'll find some of it. I'm telling you. And the

00:22:49.580 wives is being messy and petty. They putting it in the divorce. I'm like, oh, that's got to be true 1.00

00:22:54.640 because your lawyer would know that they're going to lose it if they... Baby, because these people, 1.00

00:22:59.800 they are crazy. These people, you know, the D there, because they are, they always talk about how 0.59

00:23:07.280 Christian they is. This is a, this is a sitting member of the United States House of Representatives.

00:23:19.040 How Christian they is. They always talk about, they always talk about how Christian they is.

00:23:24.640 Uh, this is a, this is a member of the United States. This is a Congresswoman. In case you

00:23:30.420 forgot, this is a person who goes to work in the sacred halls of Congress. At least the halls they

00:23:37.320 told us were sacred on January 6th. Remember we heard all about how sacred everything is.

00:23:42.460 And I'll say this, Jasmine Crockett simply existing as a Congresswoman is a greater attack on Congress 0.99

00:23:48.020 and on the dignity of our system of government than January 6th ever was. Okay. Jasmine Crockett's

00:23:53.400 whole political career is like a million January 6th is every day. Every day she goes to work. It's a, 0.99

00:23:59.180 it's a January 6th times a million. Um, nobody who speaks like this should be allowed to hold a seat

00:24:05.280 in Congress. Uh, it just should not be allowed. If you can't speak basic English, uh, not even

00:24:11.040 because you're fluent in another language. I mean, that also shouldn't be allowed. If you can't speak 1.00

00:24:15.100 English because you're fluent in another language, you know, uh, cause it's not, if you can't speak

00:24:18.840 English because it's not your first language, you should not be allowed in Congress. Even worse 0.54

00:24:23.500 though, is if you don't speak another language, English is your only language and you still can't

00:24:28.260 speak it. You're not fluent in the one language that you allegedly speak. So you are, you are,

00:24:34.040 you're not bilingual. You're no lingual. You're zero lingual. You have no, you have no, you have 1.00

00:24:38.860 no lingual at all. You can't speak. Um, you, you're not fit for Congress at that point. And

00:24:44.540 that shouldn't be controversial to say. Now you'll, you'll hear it claimed that she can, 1.00

00:24:50.020 she can speak English, that this ghetto act is just a put on she's pretending. 0.94

00:24:54.740 And that may be true, but whatever the reason behind it, if you speak like this, you should not

00:24:58.920 be allowed to serve in public office at any level. And I know that when I say this, I'll be accused

00:25:04.860 of being racist. I was making fun of Jasmine Crockett's that Jasmine Crockett clip on X yesterday.

00:25:09.480 And, uh, and I had a bunch of people saying, oh, now you're just being openly racist,

00:25:15.000 openly racist, making fun of, um, well, this has nothing to do with race to be very clear.

00:25:20.800 I think that any person who can't speak proper English, regardless of race should not be allowed 1.00

00:25:25.800 to hold public office in this country. If we want to be a serious country run by adults, 0.99

00:25:30.520 then any, any human who can, who is a citizen of this country cannot speak proper English should 0.99

00:25:38.560 not be allowed. I don't care. Black or white doesn't matter to me. Speaking our own language 1.00

00:25:43.020 fluently and coherently should be a prerequisite for holding public office, white or black. 0.71

00:25:51.220 This is not about having an accent, uh, or even using slang. Okay. This is about not speaking English.

00:25:58.840 Day is how Christian day is. That's not, that's not English. I'm sorry. It's not, 0.78

00:26:04.020 that's not how English is spoken. English is a, is an actual language and that's not,

00:26:08.560 they is, is not, uh, that's not, that's not English. That's not our, that is not actually

00:26:13.880 English. And needless to say at this point, because you know, that, you know, you know,

00:26:20.100 my take on, on the right to vote, uh, which is that I'm not a big fan of it, uh, for most people,

00:26:25.960 I'm not a big fan of the right to vote for most people. I think most people should not have the

00:26:29.920 right to vote. Um, but, uh, so, so it doesn't even need to be repeated at this point, but I will

00:26:38.180 that, that anyone who would vote for a woman like this should not have, uh, the right to vote anymore.

00:26:43.560 Uh, you are, you are not fit to exercise that right. You're not fit to exercise the right of

00:26:48.640 self-determination. If you would vote for Jasmine Crockett, this country doesn't work. 1.00

00:26:55.240 No country works at all. Nothing works. So long as you insist on giving equal say to the sorts of

00:27:01.180 people who would vote for Jasmine Crockett, the sort of person who would see that clip that we just 0.99

00:27:05.640 played and go, yeah, that's what I want. I'm going to vote for that person. I want that person

00:27:10.560 representing me in Congress. Yeah, I want, yep. She's the one of all the possible people that I got.

00:27:15.500 Yeah. Let's, let's have her. Anyone who would say that shouldn't have the right to vote.

00:27:23.900 Um, and you know, everything starts to make more sense when you realize this, when you realize and 0.99

00:27:28.140 accept that it's just impossible to have a functioning country when you allow the dumbest, 1.00

00:27:32.560 most gullible, most hopelessly deluded and stupefied morons to vote. You just, it doesn't 1.00

00:27:38.360 work. Like it it's, it just doesn't work. You can't do that. You cannot have a functioning

00:27:44.140 country that way. Um, so it's almost like all the, all of our debates, political debates are

00:27:49.920 sort of pointless. As long as we're allowing the dumbest, most clueless people to steer the ship, 0.99

00:27:57.280 it can't, nothing can work. And, um, which is why you would never do this in any other context. 0.98

00:28:05.520 You would never leave any other important decision to a Jasmine Crockett or a Jasmine Crockett voter.

00:28:12.500 I mean, if you bought a piece of property and you'd build a house on it, you wouldn't take a poll

00:28:17.380 of the general population to figure out the design and blueprints of your house. If you wanted to get

00:28:23.020 the engine fixed in your car, again, you wouldn't just take a general poll, like no qualifications or

00:28:28.300 anything. It just, Hey, I want to know just, just, I'll just, I need to get my car fixed. I'll stop a

00:28:33.560 thousand random people on the street. It doesn't matter who that matter. No, no qualifications,

00:28:37.460 just a thousand random people. And, uh, whatever they say I should do to my car, I'll do that to

00:28:43.280 the car. You would never do that. It's crazy. You would never do that. Nothing can work that way.

00:28:51.620 You cannot have a functioning anything. If it works that way, there is no important decision in your

00:28:58.540 life. Not a single one that you would leave up to a vote of just like the general public with no

00:29:04.080 qualifications and with weighing everyone's voice the same. And yet we think it's possible to maintain

00:29:11.080 a country this way. It it's not, it's just not, which is why, uh, it was never actually supposed

00:29:20.560 to work this way. It was never supposed to be that just like, yeah, everyone, everyone gets to say

00:29:25.700 the right to vote is this, uh, sacred right that we just give to anyone at all. Don't have to be

00:29:31.980 citizens either. Like just anyone. If you're here, you get a say. Doesn't matter if you're citizen 1.00

00:29:38.120 doesn't matter. You know, increasingly it's like, they won't even matter what, what, how old you are.

00:29:41.960 They want to drop the voting age. Doesn't matter if you, uh, are literate. Doesn't matter if you have

00:29:48.180 a job. Doesn't matter if you have any stake, any skin in the game whatsoever. Doesn't matter if you're

00:29:53.300 a functioning person. Doesn't matter if you have any clue what's happening in the world. Doesn't matter

00:29:58.640 if you even know what system of government this is. Doesn't matter if you can name the branches

00:30:03.000 of government. Doesn't matter if you can even name who the vice president is. None of that matters.

00:30:07.440 Just everyone, everyone. Yeah. Everyone has a say throw, throw your vote in the, in the hat here.

00:30:12.440 And we'll figure out, yeah, we'll, we'll, uh, whatever, whatever all these people say,

00:30:16.600 that's what we'll do. Doesn't work. It obviously doesn't work. It cannot work.

00:30:23.500 So, uh, so much of what we're dealing with in this country is just a, is just the inevitable

00:30:29.340 result of this insane system that is, that is by the way, again, very new. This is not,

00:30:36.100 this is, this is not ever how it's actually supposed to work. Um, where there are no qualifications

00:30:42.900 to vote whatsoever. Okay. That's, that's, uh, anyone who acts like that's like, it's,

00:30:51.340 you know, it's like self-evident that this is how voting is supposed to be. Well, of course,

00:30:57.060 there should be no qualifications. Everyone should just vote. Anyone who acts like that,

00:31:02.040 it's like, that's, uh, well, these are the people that shouldn't be allowed to vote. They're

00:31:06.440 just incredibly stupid. Uh, okay. It, it just, it should not be possible for someone like Jasmine 1.00

00:31:14.160 Crockett to get into office. When you see Jasmine, you watch that clip and you see Jasmine Crockett 0.80

00:31:19.700 and he's like, okay, well, she was elected. Well, we got a major systemic problem. There, there's,

00:31:25.460 there's a major, major problem that it's even possible for someone like this to hold office.

00:31:31.680 Um, but you know, I've been beating this drone forever. This is, it's, uh, it's unfortunately,

00:31:42.200 it's like, I don't know how you fix it because, um, I understand as a politician, it's very hard.

00:31:51.580 Well, the politicians are not interested in, most of them are not interested in

00:31:55.120 shrinking the voting base. They want a bunch of morons to vote 1.00

00:31:58.320 because obviously if you're a politician, it works better for you. 1.00

00:32:03.200 There's a lot less accountability when morons are voting. Uh, but even if there was a, uh, 0.99

00:32:08.660 a politician that was, had the integrity to want to change the system, that's a, that's a hard pitch

00:32:14.580 to the voters is to come out and say, Hey, um, I think like a huge number of you shouldn't have a

00:32:21.900 say anymore. And so that's what, that's the, yeah, I think that's where, I think that's where we want to,

00:32:26.220 I think that's where we want to head. That's a tough pitch. I understand that, but someone's

00:32:33.240 got to make it because this just isn't working. All right. New York post has this president Trump

00:32:38.920 called out a stupid white house subcontractor Saturday who says damaged stonework in the 1.00

00:32:44.540 Rose garden during a renovation, uh, who he says damaged stonework in the Rose garden during 1.00

00:32:48.440 renovation to the outdoor area. The commander in chief shared security camera footage of the

00:32:52.640 alleged incident on truth, social calling foul on workers. So he says caused a huge dash in custom

00:32:59.140 stonework in the vaunted garden. Trump wrote surfaces are very important to me as a builder.

00:33:05.100 As everyone knows, the Rose garden is completed and far more beautiful than ever. Uh, anyone ever

00:33:10.180 had in mind when it was conceived of decades ago, three days ago, while admiring the stonework,

00:33:14.280 I happened to notice a huge gash in the limestone that extends more than 25 yards.

00:33:17.880 Uh, it was a deep and nasty gash in the stonework. In the post, Trump shared security footage of the

00:33:26.260 stupid people employed by an unnamed subcontractor who cracked the stonework while transporting a 1.00

00:33:31.200 shrubbery on a steel cart. Trump also blasted the worker's boss who was watching in sunglasses 1.00

00:33:36.180 as the beautiful stone was cracked. I love and respect great workers and contractors, but something

00:33:41.480 like this should never happen. Now I'll replace the stone, charge the contractor and never let that

00:33:45.960 contractor work at the white house again. We caught them cold, make America great again. 0.89

00:33:54.100 So Donald Trump sent out this post publicly shaming a contractor who did shoddy work. And a lot of

00:33:58.740 people thought that this was very petty and inappropriate and beneath the dignity of the office.

00:34:04.380 But I have to tell you, I kind of, I kind of love it. I I'm sorry, but I just do. I, I, I kind of love

00:34:11.300 it. Uh, it might, it might actually be all of those things. It might be petty, inappropriate

00:34:16.080 and be beneath the dignity of the office, but I still love it. And a lot of other people also loved

00:34:21.520 it. And you know what, you know why that is? It's because we're all just tired of the terrible

00:34:27.820 service that we get everywhere. This awful half-assed work that's done everywhere. We're tired of it.

00:34:34.440 It's an epidemic. It really is not just with contractors, although certainly with contractors

00:34:39.140 too. Uh, we've hired many contractors over the years at my house and in our experience, they,

00:34:46.160 they almost always go over budget. They almost always take longer than they said they'd take.

00:34:51.240 And often, not always certainly, but often the final product just isn't satisfactory. That's why

00:34:56.140 contractors rank at the top or near the top, um, in terms of, uh, you know, for categories of,

00:35:04.220 for consumer complaints. And that's true year after year, like 40% of homeowners are dissatisfied

00:35:10.920 with the work that their contractors do. I saw another poll that said 25% of homeowners

00:35:15.340 regret hiring their contractor, which is a very high number, still probably a conservative estimate.

00:35:21.500 So it's a big problem, but it goes well beyond that industry. This is a problem,

00:35:25.080 uh,

00:35:26.140 that you find everywhere. Laziness, sloppiness, bad service. You know, we, we know how bad things are

00:35:32.480 in the customer service and food service worlds. It's just, it's just God awful. In fact, I just

00:35:39.240 had an experience the other day. I took my kids out to a restaurant and, uh, the food took 90 minutes

00:35:44.820 to come out. And after about, cause I'm, I'm, you know, you'd be surprised. I'm surprisingly patient

00:35:52.020 in these kinds of situations. A lot of other kinds of situations. I'm not so patient, but

00:35:56.120 in this kind of situation where it's, uh, you know, with like a, a certain, at a restaurant

00:36:01.940 and it's busy and I can look around and other people are, it's taken forever for their food

00:36:05.780 also. So, you know, and everyone else is already complaining. So I kind of feel like I, why do I

00:36:10.880 need to chime in and say, excuse me? I'd also like to complain. But after about 80 minutes,

00:36:14.900 uh, I was like, okay, well, it's been too long. And so I said to the waitress, I just said, Hey,

00:36:22.320 you know, it's been almost an hour and a half. The food's not out yet. And she said, this was

00:36:27.220 her response. This is what she said. Yeah. That was it. Just, yeah. There was no, sorry, no

00:36:38.660 explanation, nothing, no offer to make it right. Hey, we'll take the app off and we'll, uh, we'll

00:36:46.140 give you a free dessert or whatever. None of that. Now, later a manager came out and did,

00:36:51.540 and did do that. But with the waitress, it was just, Hey, the food's been waiting 90 minutes.

00:36:56.380 Yeah. Then she walked away. So, um, and you hardly get mad about it these days because

00:37:04.120 just, this is what you're used to. This service is awful. Every, it's just so bad everywhere you go.

00:37:11.620 And, um, I liked the fact that Donald Trump had enough of it and he took action. And, uh, I sort of

00:37:17.900 find myself living vicariously through him on this point because, uh, I would never do that.

00:37:23.220 You know, I would never publicly shame someone who provided bad service. Even now I'm not saying

00:37:28.020 the name of the restaurant. I'm not, you know, I'm not going to do that. Um, I don't, I don't have

00:37:31.820 that in me. I I'd feel bad. I just feel bad doing that. In fact, I'm ashamed to say this, this is

00:37:39.820 pathetic, but even after that bad service, I still gave a tip because I just feel bad. I feel bad if I 0.70

00:37:47.260 don't. And so many other contexts, I can, I can be a hard ass, but with this, in this situation,

00:37:52.540 I'm like, all right, I'll just give the tip. I just feel, I feel bad about it, but I respect the

00:37:57.320 fact that Trump doesn't. Trump is the president of the United States. And he's like, you know what?

00:38:01.120 I'm going to put this, I'm going to put this video out for, I'm going to shame this person in front of

00:38:05.820 the entire world. I'm going to shame them on a global level for this terrible service they provided.

00:38:12.920 it. And I couldn't do it, but I respect that, uh, that Trump did. I'm glad, I'm glad he's doing it.

00:38:21.060 There needs to be, there needs to be an uprising of sorts against the terrible service everywhere.

00:38:28.300 I would say, uh, Greta Thunberg set sail over the weekend for Gaza again, and she was bringing, uh,

00:38:37.200 aid into Gaza on a flotilla. And here she is giving a speech before she sets sail. Listen.

00:38:44.480 But this story is also about a global uprising, about how people are stepping up when our governments

00:38:53.400 fail to do so. For every politician that is fueling the genocide, further environmental and climate

00:39:01.620 destruction and further colonization and fascism, there will be people escalating the resistance

00:39:09.340 against that. So it appears that Greta went to the hair salon and told the lady at the salon to

00:39:15.100 make her look exactly like the bad guy from no country for old men. She wanted that, uh, Anton Chigur 0.99

00:39:20.980 hairdo for some reason, either that, or what Jeff Daniels and dumb and dumber was maybe her inspiration. 0.96

00:39:28.380 I'm not sure, but we could spend all day trying to figure out why her hair looks like that. Um, 0.97

00:39:34.060 it, it is, it is kind of mind boggling. I'm not one to normally notice those sorts of things, but

00:39:39.720 it is like, why, why would you do that? And you know that you're a publicity whore. And so you're 1.00

00:39:47.600 going to be on, on camera, you know, why, why did you make your hair look like that? It's, I don't get

00:39:54.180 it, but we won't spend a lot of time on that. Let's move on, um, from that. Here's the update

00:39:59.220 from the New York post. Greta Thunberg's aid flotilla was forced to turn back to port after 0.99

00:40:04.380 hitting stormy weather just hours into its journey. Uh, the 22 year old eco warriors, one of 20 boats

00:40:11.220 that set off from Gaza for Gaza from Barcelona on Sunday on what they call the largest solidarity

00:40:16.620 mission in history with Israel threatening to arrest her in harsh terrorist level conditions.

00:40:21.880 But then she turned around. So there you go. They made a big dramatic show of sailing into

00:40:26.180 Gaza, but then turn back after about 20 minutes. And that was that. And there's no surprise there 0.99

00:40:32.240 because obviously this is all for show. If she actually cared about getting aid into Gaza,

00:40:37.420 you know, she would just do it. I mean, if you claim that Gaza needs aid and that they're being

00:40:43.680 genocided right now, then why would you call the press and give a big speech and announce it as a,

00:40:51.580 Hey everybody, we're going to, we're getting on this big flotilla here. We're going to bring some

00:40:54.280 aid in. Why would you do that? You, you, you set off with trumpets blaring. That doesn't make a lot

00:41:00.820 of sense. Wouldn't you just sail there under the cover of darkness and try to be as discreet as you

00:41:05.380 possibly can be and alert nobody about the operation until maybe after it's completed.

00:41:12.720 That's what you would do if you were not a scam artist like Greta Thunberg,

00:41:15.780 who just jumps from one hot topic to another. And that's the funny thing about,

00:41:19.640 about Greta Thunberg, because she has completely bailed as many people have noticed. I'm certainly

00:41:23.980 not the only person to remark on this. She's completely bailed on the climate hoax. 0.73

00:41:30.780 I mean, I mean, notice that she just moved on from, from that. And now she's joined the

00:41:34.740 Palestinian resistance. But the problem is, even if you agree with her about the Israel Palestine

00:41:41.120 issue, how is that commanding any of her attention? Why waste so much time on the plight of Gaza,

00:41:47.560 when the entire world hangs on the brink of destruction because of climate change?

00:41:54.920 I mean, even if you succeed in freeing Palestine, whatever that would mean, 0.97

00:41:59.180 aren't all the Palestinians going to die anyway because of climate change? Isn't that, 0.98

00:42:03.900 if you claim there's some kind of global catastrophe

00:42:06.220 that's about to destroy the lives of billions of people,

00:42:10.640 people, it really makes no sense to pivot from that to talk about anything else.

00:42:16.120 And that is, of course, unless you never believed any of that climate change stuff to begin with,

00:42:20.220 if it was all nonsense, if it was all a scam, or maybe she did believe it at one point,

00:42:23.920 but has now realized that it was a lie. But instead of admitting that,

00:42:26.960 she just pivots to the next big cause. 1.00

00:42:28.860 And now she folds the climate stuff into this broader narrative,

00:42:33.920 which actually is worse. That's in some ways worse than just simply dropping the climate change

00:42:38.080 narrative outright. Instead, she folds it into this broader narrative as if global apocalypse

00:42:45.120 is merely one facet of a larger issue. So in the speech we just heard, she blames unnamed politicians 0.55

00:42:53.640 for fueling genocide, environmental destruction, fascism, and colonization.

00:43:00.440 So she just kind of throws it all in. One big, mushy, intersectional stew. But again, I ask,

00:43:07.260 why are you worried about fascism and colonization if the entire world is about to end?

00:43:13.960 How could the destruction of the planet be just one threat alongside fascism and colonization?

00:43:20.900 That's like if a guy is drowning in the ocean and you stand on the shore and say,

00:43:28.120 well, it seems like this guy has really three problems. High cholesterol, skin cancer,

00:43:35.780 and he's drowning. Now, I would think that that third thing is really the only thing that would

00:43:42.400 matter in that moment. The other two aren't going to have a chance to kill him if he drowns in the

00:43:49.240 next 30 seconds. And yet Greta Thunberg claims that the entire world is drowning. The entire world 0.59

00:43:55.380 is on the verge of certain death. But here she is focused on Gaza and the problem of fascism and

00:44:02.740 colonization. And that's because it's all a scam. I mean, all this stuff is a scam and these people

00:44:08.440 don't believe any of it. They don't care about any of it. And it's just one big con. And Greta Thunberg

00:44:14.700 has been one of the preeminent con artists on the globe, really, for a long time. So it's

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00:45:13.160 After four years, countless arguments destroyed and millions of liberals triggered,

00:45:17.300 Ben Shapiro returns to do something that he's obnoxiously good at. He's written a new book.

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00:46:04.140 Today for our daily cancellation, we have an article in the Financial Times from a vegan writer by the

00:46:09.560 name of Henry Mance. Henry is trying to deal with a question that for him is quite woeful and tragic.

00:46:14.500 For the rest of us, it's cause for celebration, or at least maybe laughter. The headline,

00:46:20.700 Why the Vegans Lost? As you can see, the headline is accompanied by a little cartoon of a balding man

00:46:26.780 on a park bench cuddling with a bottle of milk while a carton of oat milk looks on sad and dejected

00:46:33.140 because apparently this anthropomorphized carton of oat milk wants to have its insides poured out

00:46:37.940 and consumed by the bald guy, which raises all kinds of strange psychological questions that

00:46:43.140 we're not going to get into. But the question of concern is the one in the title. Why did veganism

00:46:47.900 lose? Even the vegans are now willing to admit that they lost the battle. Veganism failed.

00:46:54.120 Nobody wants to be vegan. Nobody likes vegans. Why is that? Henry Mance of the Financial Times

00:47:00.040 shares his theory of the case. And if you were expecting even an ounce of self-awareness or

00:47:04.340 serious self-reflection here, well, then you apparently don't know vegans.

00:47:08.500 Reading on, A few weeks ago, I sat next to a former England footballer at lunch.

00:47:13.460 She had suffered a serious ankle injury in her early 30s. After researching how to recover,

00:47:17.760 she decided to turn vegan. Medical staff were skeptical until her statistics proved better than ever.

00:47:23.220 Today, her only regret is not changing diets sooner. Such stories have become rarer.

00:47:27.700 Veganism was once the biggest food trend. Now the zeitgeist is elsewhere. Google searches for the

00:47:32.420 word vegan rose steadily after 2010, peaked in early 2020, and have dropped since. Sales of beyond

00:47:37.560 meat and impossible foods, which make arguably the best vegan burgers, are failing too. Falling too.

00:47:44.200 11 Madison Park, the high-end New York restaurant, which went plant-based after COVID-19,

00:47:48.500 is reintroducing meat to its menu. One high-profile vegan crypto entrepreneur,

00:47:53.820 Sam Bankman-Fried, is in jail. Another New York mayor, Eric Adams, turned out to like eating at

00:47:59.160 fish restaurants. What went wrong? Actually, this understates the problem for veganism. Sales for

00:48:05.280 plant-based alternatives aren't just falling. In fact, reports suggested that the company Beyond Meat

00:48:10.220 is going bankrupt. Now they've since denied those reports, but the fact remains that things are going

00:48:14.680 very poorly in the world of disgusting plant mush shaped to look like delicious meat products.

00:48:20.700 Why are they going poorly, though? The question was just posed, what went wrong? Well, the writer

00:48:25.360 spends precisely one sentence on the fact that vegan food products perform poorly in blind taste tests.

00:48:31.700 Then he moves on from that and starts complaining about fickle food trends and the fact that, quote,

00:48:38.360 governments never intervened to help plant-based diets. Well, that really gives the game away,

00:48:45.460 doesn't it? Vegans knew that they could never entice us to drink liquefied nut juice when real milk is

00:48:52.020 readily available. They knew that we would never be tempted to eat pink plant slime instead of actual

00:48:57.260 ground beef, so they hoped that governments would intervene and just jam their vegan sludge down our

00:49:03.840 throats at gunpoint, which tells you everything you need to know. And the thing is, even if that had

00:49:09.280 happened, it still wouldn't have worked. Most of us would rather die than eat a tofu chicken breast.

00:49:17.160 Consuming a vegan meal is a fate worse than death for most of us. So even if the governments of the world

00:49:22.980 had, as the vegans hoped, rounded us up and put us into vegan concentration camps and served us a diet of cashew

00:49:29.020 milk and vegan sausages, it still would not have been enough to convince any of us to actually eat

00:49:34.720 it. We would all rather starve than put that poison into our mouths. But why are we so opposed to vegan

00:49:41.200 food? Well, Henry Mance of the Financial Times finally settles on the real answer, quote, even with

00:49:46.740 all the above, the retreat of veganism wouldn't have been possible without another ingredient, the decline

00:49:52.020 in idealism. Not long ago, liberals in particular were prepared to make sacrifices in the hope of a

00:49:57.720 better society. Faced with overwhelming bleakness, COVID, Ukraine, high energy costs, Donald Trump's

00:50:02.940 reelection, Gaza, they've lost faith. They understandably wonder if small changes matter. They want to escape 1.00

00:50:08.720 to the things that bring instant joy, meat, cheese, long haul holidays. Veganism wasn't meant to be like other

00:50:15.040 food fads. It was intended to benefit not just the individual, but society as a whole. Eating less meat would

00:50:20.140 reduce greenhouse gas emissions and animal suffering. The evidence is clear, but right now we can't be

00:50:25.100 bothered. But concerns about climate and animal welfare are the bedrock of veganism, the reasons

00:50:29.500 that will keep people feeling good about eating less meat, and that can get governments involved.

00:50:33.460 In Germany, where support for climate action remains strong, sales of plant-based food have kept

00:50:37.860 growing. Elsewhere, vegans will regain the momentum if the public regains a sense of possibility.

00:50:45.200 So that's it. We're not idealistic enough.

00:50:47.200 And we're depressed about Ukraine. We all look at that, at the, you know, the, the, the fake 0.99

00:50:55.240 vegan hamburger. And we say, you know, I would eat it, but I'm just so depressed about Ukraine. 1.00

00:51:03.020 If not for the fate of Ukraine, I would, I would, I'd have this vegan. That's true. When I go to a

00:51:07.800 restaurant, I say that all the time, I'm looking at the menu. And I, oh, I always say to the waitress,

00:51:11.920 you know, you got this, uh, you got this impossible meat, uh, burger here. This vegan, I would, I would

00:51:17.380 eat it. I would eat it. But you know, this thing with Ukraine, it's just, it's so depressing. I can't, 1.00

00:51:23.400 I can't, I, I need, I need the comfort of a, of real beef to make me feel better about Ukraine. 1.00

00:51:30.840 Um, and then also we've lost our sense of possibility and, and in a way that's true. You know,

00:51:36.280 we do not believe that it's possible for a vegan alternative to ever taste like anything, 0.97

00:51:40.720 but steaming hot garbage. And with every new vegan alternative on the market, our lack of faith

00:51:45.860 is further justified because in reality, there are two key reasons why the vegans lost. It's got

00:51:52.020 nothing to do with anything that was in the arc. And the first and biggest reason is simply this.

00:51:57.020 Your food tastes like crap. Your food doesn't even taste like food. It tastes like you're eating 1.00

00:52:02.780 random household objects. Vegan cheese is like eating a candle. Tofu is like you ordered something

00:52:09.400 fragile on Amazon and then ate the styrofoam packaging that it came in. Vegan bacon is like,

00:52:14.620 if you then ate the cardboard box, vegan beef tastes like soggy rubber that someone heated up

00:52:20.580 in a microwave. Vegan chicken tastes like a piece of yoga mat folded up with sawdust inside. It's

00:52:26.560 rancid, nauseating, offensive. Vegan food is so bad that it's upsetting on an emotional level. The last

00:52:32.980 time I tried a vegan product, I got so sad that I almost cried. I didn't, but I almost did. And that

00:52:37.920 would have been an approved reason for a man to cry. That's how bad vegan food is. And that's

00:52:42.720 the main reason that veganism failed. It's a dietary fad, but the diet is so repugnant that

00:52:47.640 its adherents need the government to intervene on their behalf. Okay? That's the problem.

00:52:54.640 The other problem is philosophical. And the philosophical problem is that veganism is morally

00:53:01.440 incoherent. You know, I won't even get into the fact that if you think meat is murder, it makes no

00:53:06.680 sense to sell food that's supposed to look and taste like murder. Like, if I wanted to make the

00:53:12.240 point that cannibalism is bad, I wouldn't sell food that's made to look and taste like human flesh.

00:53:19.020 Cannibalism is bad, so try our new human thighs. You'll never believe that you're not consuming an 0.98

00:53:23.900 actual human limb. It just, it seems like a bizarre sales pitch if you morally object to the thing that

00:53:31.640 the food is imitating. But more importantly, veganism hinges on the idea that human beings are

00:53:38.520 not superior to animals. They say that we are animals ourselves, no better than any other animals

00:53:43.760 in the animal kingdom. But animals in the animal kingdom eat each other. That's what animals do.

00:53:49.480 The majority of animals on the planet are carnivores. About 30% are herbivores. And those are mostly

00:53:54.180 animals that can survive by eating grass, leaves, vegetables. We cannot survive on that kind of diet.

00:54:00.420 I mean, if you just eat grass, you'll die. If you just eat leaves, you'll die. If you just eat

00:54:03.800 vegetables, you will die. Biologically, human beings are omnivores. And so, animals that need

00:54:11.820 to eat meat, as we do, eat meat. Like, in the animal kingdom, if an animal needs to eat meat,

00:54:17.260 they'll just eat meat. They have no compunction about it. They don't debate the ethics. They kill

00:54:21.280 and they eat. Many animals even start eating their meal before it's all the way dead.

00:54:27.260 This is the way of life. It's how nature works. And if we are but animals ourselves,

00:54:32.920 shouldn't we be a part of this natural process? Isn't that the most organic thing we can do?

00:54:39.660 Is to just be a part of the cycle of life? If we're not superior to animals, how can we be held

00:54:45.040 to a higher moral standard? It makes no sense. Veganism claims that we're superior and not superior

00:54:50.160 at the very same time. We shouldn't eat animals because we are animals, just like any other animals.

00:54:54.740 But also, we shouldn't eat animals because we are not animals, just like any other animal. Which is

00:54:59.520 it? Well, vegans ultimately answer the question the same way that the rest of us do. I mean,

00:55:04.120 that's really what they believe. Even if they don't want to say it out loud, they believe that

00:55:08.560 human beings are superior. That's the only way to justify holding us to some kind of elevated and 0.53

00:55:13.520 highly unnatural moral code. They expect us to act in a way that is distinct from every other species

00:55:19.200 on the planet because they believe that we are distinct from every other species on the planet.

00:55:23.020 And ultimately, as is so often the case, they went in a big circle and they ended back at

00:55:29.320 a basic biblical truth. Man was made in the image of God and given dominion over the fish

00:55:34.760 of the sea and the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth. But if that's

00:55:39.880 true, then it's all the more reason why we have the moral right to eat animals. Hamburgers 0.79

00:55:46.360 don't just taste good, they are also ethically good. And maybe that's why vegan food tastes so

00:55:52.760 horrible. They want it to taste like beef or chicken, but instead it just tastes like moral

00:55:57.440 confusion. And ultimately, that is why vegans are, by their own admission now, today, canceled.

00:56:06.980 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.

00:56:09.740 Have a great day. Godspeed. Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, anti-American and pro-Hamas forces

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00:56:25.620 and a federal court strikes down the Trump tariffs for now. That's today on the Ben Shapiro Show. Give

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