The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1666 - Public Health “Experts” Want To Legitimize This Barbaric Practice In The Name Of Multiculturalism

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00:02:18.940 It would be extraordinarily time-consuming, if not impossible, to even attempt to list all the ways that Christianity is responsible for the creation and development of Western civilization as we know it.

00:02:31.060 Christianity is why the West is literate. 0.95

00:02:33.940 It's why we had the Industrial Revolution.

00:02:36.120 It's why we have a functioning legal system.

00:02:37.920 All of these achievements, of course, trace to many different individual causes, contributions of many individual Christian nations, leaders, monasteries, universities, the Crusades, and so on.

00:02:50.480 But there was one Christian innovation that all by itself had a direct, observable, and enduring impact on the trajectory of Western civilization.

00:03:00.600 And while this particular innovation isn't discussed very much, or at least it hasn't been discussed very much in recent history because we haven't had to discuss it, well, that's about to change.

00:03:09.680 I'm talking about the Catholic Church's decision around the 6th century to ban marriages between first cousins.

00:03:18.300 Once the Church banned first cousin marriages in the Middle Ages, along with marriages among step-relatives, in-laws, and godparents, the West began rapidly pulling ahead of the rest of the world.

00:03:29.620 And make no mistake about it, the Church's influence was indeed the primary reason why Europeans stopped marrying their relatives. 0.92

00:03:36.960 The other major religions were expressly endorsing all kinds of incestuous relationships, and the statistics bear this out. 0.93

00:03:45.600 You can see it from this graphic, which is up on the screen now, which is from a paper in the journal Science called

00:03:50.980 The Church Intensive Kinship and Global Psychological Variation.

00:03:55.280 And for every 500 years that a country was under the influence of the Western Church, which, you know, the Roman Catholic Church, there was a 90% reduction in marriage rates among cousins.

00:04:10.220 The nuclear family began flourishing.

00:04:12.420 Meanwhile, where the Western Church wasn't dominant, incest was rampant.

00:04:18.420 Persians were marrying their own siblings in addition to their own cousins. 0.95

00:04:21.540 Even the Eastern Orthodox Church, which did ban incest, wasn't as strict as the Western Church.

00:04:26.360 So, what specifically were the consequences of banning cousin marriage?

00:04:33.360 By the way, there's a reason we're talking about this. We'll get to it in a second.

00:04:36.860 Intuitively, you could probably answer that question.

00:04:39.620 If you have any familiarity with, say, Somalia, then you get the basic idea.

00:04:45.020 In-breeding lowers IQs. It results in many problems, deformities, strange facial structures.

00:04:53.060 It also results in dramatically increased rates of genetic abnormalities, including terminal illnesses.

00:04:58.860 By common estimates, marrying a first cousin more than doubles your risk of severe disorders.

00:05:05.080 It typically takes away 10 IQ points.

00:05:07.340 One study from 2002 showed that Pakistani children accounted for one-third of birth defects in the UK,

00:05:14.240 even though they only made up 4% of all the births at the time in the country.

00:05:19.880 A more recent study from 2013 found that more than a third of children born with birth defects in the UK

00:05:25.380 came from first cousin marriages, which were primarily Pakistani marriages.

00:05:29.600 And by one estimate, more than half of Pakistani marriages involved incestuous relationships of some kind.

00:05:35.880 Now, you probably learn the relevant biology in high school.

00:05:39.780 Children get two copies of every gene from their parents, one from their mother, one from their father.

00:05:46.580 And generally speaking, if one recessive copy of a gene is corrupted, then it's not a big deal.

00:05:51.500 It won't affect the child.

00:05:52.420 But if both parents carry a recessive copy of the bad gene,

00:05:55.700 then there's a 25% chance that the child will receive both bad copies.

00:06:00.360 First cousins, by definition, share grandparents, which means that they share roughly 12% of their DNA.

00:06:06.320 So if one cousin has the recessive gene from a serious disorder and marries his first cousin who also has the recessive gene,

00:06:12.480 there's a 1 in 8 chance that their offspring will have the disorder.

00:06:17.040 And therefore, marrying your first cousin drastically increases the risk that your child will have a severe abnormality

00:06:23.080 as compared to marrying a random member of the general population.

00:06:27.320 Now, nevertheless, in many cultures to this day, it's taboo to acknowledge any of this.

00:06:33.680 Even when parents have a child who's clearly suffering because of inbreeding,

00:06:37.920 they're often hesitant to say anything about it.

00:06:40.720 This is from a documentary that aired in the UK a few years ago.

00:06:43.640 It's some of those painful footage you'll see. Watch.

00:06:47.280 Azmat Mahmood lives in Nelson, Lancashire.

00:06:50.160 He's 17 years old and lives with his mum, Parveen.

00:06:53.600 God, I smell these medicines really bad.

00:06:55.760 He has to take a powerful cocktail of medications to help him get through his day,

00:07:02.440 sometimes as many as 11 tablets at a time.

00:07:07.240 He has a rare genetic condition called propionic acidemia.

00:07:12.200 He lacks an enzyme that breaks down protein in the body.

00:07:15.240 Azmat was diagnosed at 15 months old and was one of the youngest children in the UK ever to have a liver transplant.

00:07:25.660 When Azmat was first diagnosed, his doctors told Parveen that his rare liver condition was hereditary.

00:07:32.320 By marrying her first cousin, she and her husband increased the chances of passing the disease on to their children.

00:07:39.520 Azmat's rare condition is progressive and his body is slowly deteriorating.

00:07:44.240 Azmat helps out in his mum's school and babyware shop.

00:08:00.120 When he's not at college, he works on the shop floor, deals with customers and mans the till.

00:08:04.840 I'm very protective over Azmat. 0.99

00:08:10.400 He's more like, I would say, a 14-year-old than an 18-year-old, mentally, you know.

00:08:16.580 Despite what Azmat's mum has been told about the cause of his illness, she struggles to accept it.

00:08:22.160 I don't think there's anything wrong in first cousin marriages, because it's our culture and it's the norm, really.

00:08:32.460 But having said that, it did put me off having more to my ex-husband now.

00:08:40.380 But, you know, because I couldn't go through that again.

00:08:44.940 Quote, I don't think there's anything wrong in first cousin marriages.

00:08:49.880 She says that despite the fact that, you know, her child is mentally and physically disabled for life because she married her cousin.

00:08:57.460 This is how entire civilizations developed when they didn't follow the guidance of the church.

00:09:02.360 Even though they knew about the dangers of incest, how couldn't they?

00:09:07.460 It's obvious.

00:09:08.380 They persisted anyway, because, you know, that's their culture.

00:09:12.160 And in the absence of Christianity, this kind of culture won out.

00:09:16.720 And the results have been devastating.

00:09:18.360 Here's one more example.

00:09:20.900 Marcin Achter is 17 years old and lives with his family in Bradford.

00:09:25.280 He's the second of six children.

00:09:28.020 He's blind, he can't walk properly, and needs round-the-clock care.

00:09:32.360 Marcin Achter's fourth child.

00:09:42.040 Her sister Zainab is 11.

00:09:44.160 Both sisters have inherited the same disease as Marcin.

00:09:48.460 They can neither see nor hear.

00:09:52.160 All three children have an extremely rare genetic disorder called mucolypidosis type 4.

00:09:58.440 Their bodies cannot get rid of waste products properly, affecting everyday brain function from vision to movement.

00:10:08.040 The potential consequences of first-cousin marriages are tragic and devastating.

00:10:18.300 My grandparents were first cousins.

00:10:20.540 Five of their daughters died in childhood, and three of my uncles were born deaf.

00:10:25.100 At the time, no one knew why, because the facts were not known.

00:10:28.360 Today, the medical facts are established, but the practice continues.

00:10:31.840 Now, the church put an end to this barbarism at scale.

00:10:35.180 They saved millions of children from suffering a fate like this.

00:10:39.260 And that's not because they had access to studies or data, as that report suggests.

00:10:43.580 It's because they knew that incest was a great moral evil.

00:10:47.800 Also, they had working eyes and ears, and they could see the consequences.

00:10:51.480 As a result, children were protected.

00:10:56.660 But there were other important consequences of the church's ban as well.

00:10:59.940 Yes, many more Europeans were born without crippling genetic disorders,

00:11:03.140 and it obviously benefited many Western nations for many generations.

00:11:06.020 But there were other, more subtle benefits as well.

00:11:09.300 In that paper I mentioned earlier from Science Magazine, the researchers explained some of these benefits.

00:11:14.880 We'll put that up on the screen.

00:11:16.220 In other words, when a lot of people are marrying their own cousins,

00:11:41.580 society tends to be much more insular, collectivist, conformist,

00:11:45.780 ultimately primitive.

00:11:47.480 That makes sense.

00:11:49.140 When you're not intermingling with other people,

00:11:51.380 when your marriages only take place within your own family,

00:11:53.880 then family elders generally call the shots.

00:11:56.100 It's less important to have a functioning government.

00:11:58.480 People become suspicious of anyone outside the family,

00:12:01.840 reducing cooperation and social cohesion.

00:12:03.860 That's basically what the study is saying.

00:12:05.560 The result is stagnation at both the genetic level and with respect to society at large.

00:12:10.600 You look at countries in South Asia like Pakistan.

00:12:12.740 They see a highly disproportionate number of genetic disorders as a result of inbreeding.

00:12:16.920 Their governments are also dysfunctional.

00:12:19.140 They're failed states.

00:12:21.140 Again, all this was conventional wisdom for a very long time.

00:12:24.140 No one really talked about the dangers of inbreeding

00:12:26.780 or the role of the Catholic Church in banning inbreeding

00:12:29.960 simply because it was common sense.

00:12:33.020 This was a conversation that we didn't need to have.

00:12:35.920 But that has changed now, thanks to mass migration.

00:12:41.880 In some corners of the West, it's apparently not common sense anymore.

00:12:46.740 Certain countries have now imported so many third world aliens, 1.00

00:12:50.540 mostly from countries that practice inbreeding, 0.97

00:12:52.940 that they're now openly endorsing the practice of marrying your cousin.

00:12:57.000 Yes, in a decade where public health authorities have systematically discredited themselves

00:13:01.160 in seemingly every way imaginable.

00:13:04.200 Somehow, that bar has just been lowered even further.

00:13:09.420 So in Britain, the government-run National Health Service

00:13:12.560 just published guidance about this.

00:13:16.640 And what they were doing in the guidance was essentially promoting cousin marriage.

00:13:21.300 This is from The Telegraph this week.

00:13:22.900 Quote,

00:13:23.040 Guidance published last week by the NHS England's Genomics Education Program

00:13:29.320 says first cousin marriage is linked to stronger extended family support systems

00:13:35.380 and economic advantages.

00:13:37.540 The NHS guidance points out the practice has been legal in the UK since the 1500s

00:13:42.380 as a loophole for King Henry VIII to marry Catherine Howard, his ex-wife's cousin.

00:13:49.320 And before we go any further with this article, I need to stop here for a second.

00:13:52.180 The NHS is saying that because King Henry married his ex-wife's cousin in the 1500s,

00:13:58.500 therefore we should permit cousin marriage today.

00:14:00.980 And there are two major problems here.

00:14:02.920 First of all, King Henry had no genetic relationship with his ex-wife's cousin.

00:14:07.400 That's kind of important.

00:14:08.260 The risk of passing along a genetic disorder due to inbreeding, therefore, was not elevated.

00:14:13.160 Secondly, even if King Henry had married a first cousin,

00:14:16.700 it still wouldn't obviously justify endorsing the idea as a general principle

00:14:20.860 half a millennia later.

00:14:22.180 The only possible explanation here is that for political reasons,

00:14:26.740 the NHS is scrambling to find some way to endorse, promote,

00:14:33.800 rationalize inbreeding, no matter how dishonest it may be.

00:14:38.460 After all, they have to appease all of their new constituents from the third world. 1.00

00:14:41.940 So presumably, pretty soon we can expect some official guidance from the British government

00:14:45.960 on how cannibalism isn't so bad.

00:14:49.240 Ritual sacrifices, you know, maybe not such a bad thing.

00:14:52.740 That's where this is headed.

00:14:54.720 Well, let's continue with the Telegraph's report on the NHS's guidance

00:14:57.900 because the logical fallacies keep on coming, as you might expect.

00:15:00.700 The document mentions that marriage between cousins has long been the subject of scientific discussion

00:15:06.320 based on the slight increase in the risk of inheriting diseases.

00:15:10.660 It also adds that there are other things that increase the risk of this, too,

00:15:13.640 such as alcohol, smoking, and parental age, none of which are banned in the UK.

00:15:17.680 Say, genetic counseling, awareness-raising initiatives, and public health campaigns

00:15:21.760 are all important tools to help families make informed decisions

00:15:24.760 without stigmatizing certain communities and cultural traditions.

00:15:29.780 The guidance reads,

00:15:32.140 According to the Daily Mail, the NHS guidance also states that,

00:15:35.720 quote, in the general population, a child's chance of being born with a genetic condition

00:15:39.820 is around 2% to 3%.

00:15:41.500 This increases to 4% to 6% in children of first cousins.

00:15:45.060 Hence, most children of first cousins are healthy.

00:15:50.260 That's really what they're arguing.

00:15:52.520 They're implying that doubling the risk of genetic abnormalities is no big deal

00:15:57.380 because, after all, it's apparently legal to smoke and drink while you're pregnant in the UK.

00:16:02.160 But that is obviously not an argument for allowing first cousin marriages.

00:16:05.420 It's, if anything, an argument for not allowing people to smoke and drink while they're pregnant.

00:16:10.160 What we're seeing here from the NHS is something that's become very common in recent years.

00:16:16.060 Organizations that are supposed to focus on public health and only on public health

00:16:21.060 are making political arguments instead, and legal arguments.

00:16:26.680 The NHS should not be in the business of crafting gotcha arguments to justify inbreeding.

00:16:35.020 Which is also something that I, like, these are all things that shouldn't need to be said.

00:16:38.800 This whole conversation, we shouldn't need to have it.

00:16:41.960 But we do.

00:16:43.380 We do.

00:16:43.940 What they should be talking about is science and data, and that's it.

00:16:51.520 And by the way, when it comes to inbreeding, the science and data are very clear.

00:16:55.320 It's just, there's no, there's nothing to talk about, or there shouldn't be.

00:16:59.900 But because incestuous marriages are common in many of the cultures that the UK and also the US

00:17:06.100 import by the millions every year, the NHS has decided to publish political propaganda instead.

00:17:11.300 They've decided that their job is not to warn about the dangers of this disgusting practice,

00:17:17.220 but instead to find some way to justify it, defend it, rationalize it, normalize it.

00:17:24.760 They've apparently pulled, this guidance that we're talking about, after all the backlash

00:17:29.420 that you would anticipate, they've apparently pulled it now from their website.

00:17:34.300 But we all know the British government hasn't changed its mind or its goals.

00:17:38.260 Because as mass migration continues, we will be pulled further backwards into the kinds 1.00

00:17:43.040 of primitive practices that our ancestors abandoned millennia ago.

00:17:49.320 That is inevitable.

00:17:52.360 In fact, in this country, several states, including California, Vermont, and Massachusetts, still

00:17:56.400 permit first cousin marriages.

00:17:57.820 In Connecticut, they're just getting around now to outlawing it.

00:18:01.580 This is a news report from just a few days ago.

00:18:03.740 Watch.

00:18:03.980 Believe it or not, you are allowed to marry your first cousin in Connecticut, but only

00:18:08.300 for 12 more days.

00:18:09.600 On October 1st, a new law goes into effect, banning saying, I do, to your first cousin.

00:18:15.360 It's something Democrat and Republican lawmakers agreed on earlier this year.

00:18:19.040 Your reporter, Dylan Fearon, explains why.

00:18:22.640 She's getting married today.

00:18:24.080 Tom Kelly is bringing home flowers to both his wife and sister, who's getting married today

00:18:29.160 in Southington, not to her cousin, though.

00:18:32.060 And in less than two weeks, no one will be able to marry their first cousin.

00:18:36.480 It's pretty wild.

00:18:37.520 I mean, I would have never thought about marrying my first cousin.

00:18:40.160 It didn't really enter my mind.

00:18:41.640 But, you know, hey, whatever floats your boat.

00:18:43.480 You've still got a few days.

00:18:44.600 I've still got a few days.

00:18:45.640 I did get married, not to my cousin, though, last year.

00:18:48.460 Hi, honey.

00:18:48.840 In a world where political parties seem to disagree on just about everything, the bill

00:18:54.660 to not keep it in the family passed unanimously this year.

00:18:58.820 Governor Lamont signed it into law.

00:19:01.160 The reason, procreation between first cousins increases the chances of birth defects.

00:19:06.840 It's just so wrong because of the birth defects.

00:19:09.560 Starting October 1st, you won't be able to marry your first cousin.

00:19:14.460 That's good.

00:19:15.000 Now, notice that everyone they interview in Connecticut, including the random guy that

00:19:19.280 they conduct an extended interview with, who's forced to clarify that he's not marrying

00:19:23.740 his cousin, has exactly the same opinion on incestuous relationships like this, that

00:19:29.500 they all oppose it.

00:19:31.220 And this is an overwhelmingly left-wing state.

00:19:34.180 As you just heard, for now, this is a rare topic in this country where there is unanimous

00:19:39.600 bipartisan agreement.

00:19:41.040 Now, the only way that will change is if, like the UK, we continue to import foreigners, 1.00

00:19:47.720 third-worlders, until our country is unrecognizable. 0.99

00:19:51.400 There's a very strong argument, as we've discussed, that banning incestuous relationships is one of

00:19:55.980 the primary reasons that the West evolved while the rest of the world stagnated.

00:20:01.340 That's why the enemies of Western civilization want to legitimize first cousin marriages at 1.00

00:20:05.400 the moment.

00:20:05.660 That they know it will cement Western decline, just as surely as the bans on incest allowed

00:20:11.600 us to succeed in the first place.

00:20:15.220 And that's why I'll say, for the first time in the history of this show, that the federal

00:20:20.000 government should follow Connecticut's lead.

00:20:23.400 We need a federal ban on first cousin marriages universally before the practice takes hold in 1.00

00:20:28.860 in the various foreign enclaves in this country.

00:20:33.100 A federal ban would protect children from suffering and dying from terrible genetic conditions.

00:20:38.740 And it would communicate very clearly that, unlike the UK, the United States is still interested

00:20:43.680 in preserving and defending Western civilization.

00:20:46.260 This is not an 80-20 issue.

00:20:47.600 This is a, you know, 99-to-1 issue.

00:20:51.600 And the 1 doesn't even belong in the country.

00:20:53.440 So whenever the federal government is open and operational again, this is a no-brainer.

00:21:00.180 Admittedly, there aren't many countries left in the world that would pass a ban like this.

00:21:03.060 But if the U.S. is going to survive where so many other nations have failed, we need

00:21:07.920 to be one of them.

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00:22:17.840 So, you know, one of the hardest things about having this job, about being in political media,

00:22:21.780 one of my great struggles is that every year or multiple times a year, there will be a news

00:22:29.180 cycle about a government shutdown.

00:22:33.720 There will be a very hysterical news cycle about a government shutdown, about either the

00:22:40.380 government shutting down or an impending government shutdown.

00:22:44.240 And, you know, if you're in my position as someone who does a political commentary show,

00:22:48.460 you're supposed to pretend to care about it.

00:22:51.780 And, you know, this is supposed to be, as they used to say in the radio business, topic

00:22:58.080 A is a government shutdown.

00:23:02.180 That's what everyone's talking about.

00:23:03.220 But I don't care.

00:23:04.480 And I've never cared.

00:23:06.320 I find these news cycles incredibly boring.

00:23:09.760 I really do.

00:23:11.020 Yet here we are again.

00:23:12.340 Fox News reports, the federal government is officially entering a partial shutdown on

00:23:15.180 Wednesday after the midnight funding deadline passed with Democrats and Republicans failing

00:23:18.260 to agree on a funding bill.

00:23:19.400 An early attempt by Senate Republicans to pass a short-term extension of fiscal year 2025

00:23:23.580 called a continuing resolution was sunk by Democrats who were furious about being sidelined

00:23:28.460 and shut down negotiations.

00:23:29.400 The bill, which would have given Congress until November 21st, passed the House largely along

00:23:35.460 party lines of September 19th.

00:23:38.200 And blah, blah, blah.

00:23:39.620 Okay.

00:23:39.900 So the government is shut down only partially, unfortunately.

00:23:43.920 Unfortunately, only partially.

00:23:45.280 Democrats are calling it the Republican shutdown.

00:23:49.320 Republicans are calling it the Democrat shutdown.

00:23:51.520 That's the level of discussion right now.

00:23:57.700 That's the level of commentary.

00:24:00.160 So everyone on the left saying, this is the Republican shutdown.

00:24:02.800 And the Republicans are saying, nah, nah, it's the Democrat shutdown.

00:24:06.240 And, you know, that's the same song and dance every time.

00:24:11.400 And meanwhile, if you're a normal person, you would never know that the government shut

00:24:16.660 down.

00:24:16.900 That's why, that's why they have to scream about it from the rooftops because otherwise

00:24:21.020 you wouldn't know.

00:24:22.960 If you weren't, if you, if you weren't told about it, you wouldn't know.

00:24:25.660 Like going about your daily life, there would, you wouldn't encounter anything that would

00:24:29.740 make you say, huh, the federal government must be in a partial shutdown right now.

00:24:34.900 Hmm.

00:24:35.900 Wow.

00:24:36.280 I've just encountered this obstacle or inconvenience.

00:24:38.640 This can only be because of the federal government is in a partial shutdown.

00:24:43.100 You would never know that.

00:24:45.660 You can go about your life for six months and the, there'd be a partial shutdown of the

00:24:49.520 federal government.

00:24:49.880 And you would never know if nobody told you.

00:24:52.540 Uh, it would not impact your life in the slightest unless you're a federal bureaucrat, but for

00:24:58.360 everybody else, this has no impact on anything.

00:25:00.960 Your daily life is not impeded in the slightest.

00:25:03.800 And yet every time this happens, we still get the same panic as if we haven't already been

00:25:09.180 this through this before, as if we all have amnesia, which I guess a lot of people do these

00:25:13.400 days.

00:25:16.540 Um, and that's obviously why they're so panicked over a shutdown because they don't want you to

00:25:20.500 notice that you don't notice when the government shuts down, because then you'll realize that

00:25:26.180 there are wide swaths of the federal government that we can do without, um, not only do without,

00:25:32.920 but we, we won't even feel their absence.

00:25:36.460 They don't want you to realize that.

00:25:37.960 And that's the only reason they freak out.

00:25:40.560 Otherwise this story doesn't matter.

00:25:42.060 And, um, also it's not interesting.

00:25:45.360 I just don't, I don't find it interesting.

00:25:48.180 I think it's boring.

00:25:48.900 So, uh, moving on.

00:25:52.120 This one is more interesting in all the wrong ways.

00:25:54.920 So the Archbishop of Chicago, uh, Cardinal Cupich plans to give a lifetime achievement award

00:26:04.520 to Senator Dick Durbin and Senator Dick Durbin is a rabidly, he was a Democrat.

00:26:12.560 And I was going to say he's a rabidly pro-abortion Democrat, but that's, uh, redundant.

00:26:17.560 He's a Democrat.

00:26:18.540 So he's rabidly pro, they don't make any other kind of Democrat these days.

00:26:22.120 So he's a rabidly pro-abortion Democrat.

00:26:24.600 And that's raised a lot of concern, justified concern, outrage, justified outrage among Catholics.

00:26:31.800 Why are we awarding this guy?

00:26:35.640 I mean, it's bad enough when the, when, when the Archbishop refuses to loudly condemn somebody

00:26:41.440 like Dick Durbin, that's what should be happening.

00:26:43.680 You should be rebuking him publicly, repeatedly.

00:26:48.860 Not only do we not get that, but instead you're going the other direction.

00:26:51.800 You're going to give this guy an award.

00:26:55.200 So the Pope, Pope Leo was asked to weigh in on this and I still haven't quite, it's still

00:27:01.040 surreal to me that, uh, that, you know, the, the, the Pope can be asked a question now and

00:27:07.560 we in America can listen to the answer and understand what he's saying without a translator.

00:27:13.060 So it's the first time in history when that's been the case and it's good.

00:27:17.540 Uh, it's a very good thing.

00:27:19.960 And it's good because now we don't have to, you know, during, uh, Pope Francis, the reign

00:27:24.840 of Pope Francis, he would often have these conversations with reporters and, but we, if

00:27:31.940 you're, if you only speak English, you couldn't understand what he was saying.

00:27:34.460 And so we would always, we were always be relying on translation and he would say all

00:27:39.140 these things.

00:27:39.760 And often the things that he would say would be, um, you know, sort of, he would seem

00:27:46.760 to be saying things that as a believing Catholic, you would find objectionable, but there was

00:27:52.360 always, and it's, it's like a little bit obscure and so you were never quite sure.

00:27:59.180 And they could always say, well, I was lost in translation.

00:28:02.760 We don't have that problem this time.

00:28:03.960 We can just listen to what this Pope, what Pope Leo was saying, which is good, but what's

00:28:11.000 not so good as what he was actually saying.

00:28:13.720 So let's listen to that.

00:28:15.180 I just wanted to ask one thing that has become a bit of a divisive subject in the U.S.

00:28:21.180 right now with Cardinal Cupich, um, giving an award to, um, Senator Durbin.

00:28:28.240 Some people of faith are having a hard time with understanding this because he is pro, uh,

00:28:33.740 or rather he's for legalized, um, abortion.

00:28:37.140 How would you help people of faith right now?

00:28:40.080 Decipher that, feel about that.

00:28:41.700 And how do you feel about that?

00:28:44.440 I'm not terribly familiar with the particular case.

00:28:47.780 Um, I think that it's very important to look at the overall work that a Senator has done

00:28:55.280 during, if I'm not mistaken, 40 years of service in the United States Senate.

00:29:00.760 I understand the difficulty and the tensions, but I think, um, as I myself have spoken in the

00:29:06.680 past, it's important to look at many issues that are related to what is the teaching of

00:29:11.680 the church.

00:29:13.000 Someone who says I'm against abortion, but says I'm in favor of the death penalty is

00:29:17.240 not really pro-life.

00:29:19.020 So, uh, someone who says that, uh, I'm against abortion, but I'm in agreement with the, uh, 0.99

00:29:25.700 inhuman treatment of immigrants or in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.

00:29:30.300 So they're very complex issues.

00:29:32.460 I don't know if anyone has all the truth on them, but I would ask first and foremost that

00:29:38.100 there'd be greater respect for one another and that we search together both as human

00:29:43.860 beings, in that case, as American citizens or citizens of the state of Illinois, as well

00:29:49.540 as, as, uh, Catholics to say, we need to, you know, really look closely at all of these

00:29:54.740 ethical issues and, and to find the way forward as church church teaching on each one of those

00:29:59.920 issues is very clear.

00:30:01.960 Well, that is a really bad answer.

00:30:06.460 That's a bad answer.

00:30:07.620 And it's not bad in some kind of semantic way.

00:30:11.360 Okay.

00:30:11.840 As a Catholic, I wouldn't sit here and be pedantic and pick the Pope apart just to prove that

00:30:18.400 I'm smart or something.

00:30:19.520 Okay.

00:30:21.060 I don't, I don't want to, well, actually the Pope, well, actually Pope Leo, but actually,

00:30:29.900 let me tell you, um, just kind of smug, you know, correcting someone.

00:30:35.640 I, I, I don't, I don't want to do that.

00:30:38.920 I wouldn't do that.

00:30:41.240 But what he said, his answer is just fundamentally bad.

00:30:46.860 It's fundamentally bad and wrong and it's potentially deeply confusing for a lot of people.

00:30:53.940 So it needs to be addressed.

00:30:56.400 It just has to be, I know there are still, there, there are some Catholics, some, you

00:31:03.880 know, very conservative Catholics.

00:31:04.960 I'm one of them.

00:31:06.440 So these are people I relate to in so many ways, but for some very conservative Catholics,

00:31:11.480 Catholics, they take the view that as a Catholic, like myself in the public eye, I just should

00:31:17.840 not be publicly, uh, criticizing the Pope at all.

00:31:22.740 It's not appropriate to do that.

00:31:24.280 That's the, that's the view of some, some very conservative Catholics.

00:31:28.160 And I disagree with that.

00:31:30.420 I mean, it's, it's a, I don't like doing it.

00:31:32.660 It's sad to, to have to do it.

00:31:36.560 But when you have the Pope saying stuff like this.

00:31:41.480 Well, we're just going to, we're just going to let it sit out there.

00:31:44.200 We're going to let it, you know, just like, let it go unopposed.

00:31:47.320 We can't, you can't do that.

00:31:51.160 This is, it's scandalous.

00:31:52.740 People are scandalized by this.

00:31:56.440 Uh, led astray.

00:31:58.580 Now it would be one thing if we could rely on, um, church leadership a little bit farther

00:32:06.000 down the ladder to speak up in these scenarios and offer clarification.

00:32:13.000 Um, but we can't.

00:32:15.220 And so it relies on just normal people to speak up and say, this is wrong.

00:32:21.080 And this is just wrong.

00:32:23.040 It really is.

00:32:24.260 Like it's outrageously wrong.

00:32:27.840 He says that if you're against abortion, but in favor of the death penalty, then you

00:32:31.200 aren't really pro-life.

00:32:33.440 Okay. 0.98

00:32:34.400 That is again, wrong and ridiculous. 0.99

00:32:37.960 I mean, first of all, God himself prescribes the death penalty in the Bible. 0.98

00:32:43.320 Is God not pro-life?

00:32:46.520 I mean, this is why you cannot, as a Christian, take the position that the death penalty is

00:32:50.860 fundamentally or inherently immoral or inherently, you know, anti-life, which is the same thing

00:32:56.640 as being fundamentally immoral.

00:32:58.180 You can't take that position.

00:32:59.260 That position is ruled out.

00:33:00.520 It's off the table.

00:33:02.440 God ordains it.

00:33:03.440 He prescribes it.

00:33:04.240 So if you believe the death penalty is fundamentally wrong or anti-life, you're either saying that

00:33:07.840 God is guilty of a moral crime, or you're saying that the Bible does not accurately record,

00:33:13.480 uh, God's commands.

00:33:16.420 And both of those claims are themselves inadmissible for a Catholic.

00:33:20.340 You know, Pope Francis said infamously that the death penalty is inadmissible.

00:33:26.980 What is actually inadmissible is to call it inadmissible for the reason I just described.

00:33:32.520 You can't get around that.

00:33:35.960 Now, you can argue the death penalty shouldn't be used anymore.

00:33:40.460 You can argue that things have changed, that you can argue that our circumstances are different.

00:33:48.200 I wouldn't agree, but you can argue that.

00:33:51.380 But to make any kind of fundamental moral claim about the death penalty itself is to offer

00:33:56.040 a moral critique of God.

00:33:58.460 And there is no way around it.

00:34:00.260 There just isn't.

00:34:02.760 And saying, well, that was the Old Testament.

00:34:05.400 Well, if that's your answer, then you just don't.

00:34:07.200 Like, this is, like, basic Christian teaching you don't understand.

00:34:12.260 You don't understand the basics of, like, how to read the Bible.

00:34:16.220 It doesn't work that way.

00:34:20.040 That the stuff in the Old Testament is just like, ah, it doesn't count anymore.

00:34:22.760 That doesn't count.

00:34:23.520 That's all, that was all wrong.

00:34:26.420 Uh, no.

00:34:28.180 No.

00:34:28.540 The Old Testament is also the Word of God.

00:34:34.220 And God, again, prescribes the death penalty in the Old Testament.

00:34:40.140 Which means that, like, again, you can make a lot of arguments.

00:34:43.380 It doesn't, like, that in and of itself, by itself, is not, uh, does not prove that necessarily

00:34:54.760 that we should have the death penalty, you know, in our country today.

00:35:01.440 Because you could try to make the, again, you can make the argument, well, the circumstances

00:35:04.260 and all that.

00:35:04.760 But what you can't do is say that it's morally inadmissible, that it is, which is what Pope

00:35:13.700 Francis said, that it, it, it, it, it contradicts human dignity, which is what he said, that

00:35:20.040 it's anti-life, because these are, these, that's not a circumstantial argument about the death

00:35:24.560 penalty.

00:35:25.040 You're talking about the death penalty fundamentally.

00:35:27.000 You're making a fundamental argument about the death penalty itself.

00:35:30.400 Which would mean that that would have applied thousands of years ago, too.

00:35:37.900 Which would mean that you're making a moral critique of God, and it's just, that's, like,

00:35:40.860 theologically incoherent.

00:35:43.860 Uh, and you just can't do that.

00:35:48.760 Um, so, that's, and also, by the way, when Pope Francis came along a few years ago and

00:35:56.900 said, actually, the death penalty is inadmissible.

00:35:58.500 He was not only contradicting the word of God, but he was also contradicting 2,000 years

00:36:02.740 of church teaching.

00:36:04.000 I mean, for 2,000 years, that was not the teaching of the church for 2,000 years.

00:36:08.440 And then Pope Francis came along, you know, approximately 12 and a half seconds ago and

00:36:12.200 said, nah, actually, actually, I've decided the whole thing is wrong.

00:36:15.740 Actually, the whole, 2,000 years of church teaching was wrong.

00:36:18.680 The Bible was wrong. 0.99

00:36:19.800 God's wrong.

00:36:20.380 Everybody's wrong.

00:36:21.360 I'm right.

00:36:22.060 That's what Pope Francis, that's what he did.

00:36:23.620 That's what he did.

00:36:25.600 And, uh, it's indefensible.

00:36:28.500 Um, and even putting all that aside, to, to draw a moral equivalence between executing

00:36:39.520 a convicted murderer after a fair trial, and then on the other hand, dismembering a child

00:36:47.260 in the womb, is, is madness.

00:36:50.540 I mean, that's flat-out moral madness.

00:36:53.980 Okay, these things, even if you're against the death penalty, clearly, these are not on

00:36:59.140 the same moral plane.

00:37:01.340 On the one hand, you are convicting someone who has committed a heinous crime in a country

00:37:10.300 where that person knows that that penalty exists.

00:37:12.940 They have volunteered themselves for this punishment by committing a crime that they knew had that

00:37:19.260 punishment attached to it.

00:37:20.480 And then this is being, this, this penalty is being carried out by eight, by, by, you know,

00:37:28.240 authorized authorities on one hand.

00:37:32.820 On the other hand, you have a child in the womb who has committed no crime, is guilty 1.00

00:37:38.060 of nothing, there has been no trial, there has been nothing at all, and they are summarily

00:37:43.940 executed in a clinic by someone claiming to be a doctor.

00:37:49.640 To draw any kind of equivalence between those two things is, you know what it is? 0.82

00:37:55.100 It's like Reddit-tier nonsense.

00:37:57.140 And in reality, the death penalty is pro-life.

00:38:03.600 Okay, the death penalty is pro-life.

00:38:07.320 The death penalty is something that you do because you cherish and value the lives of

00:38:12.480 the innocent people who fall victim to these heinous, barbaric, animalistic predators.

00:38:19.600 Okay, that's, it's pro-life.

00:38:22.300 If you really value, if you really truly value the lives of these innocent people, then, then

00:38:32.660 you would call for the ultimate penalty for anyone who takes someone's life, takes the

00:38:42.700 life of an innocent.

00:38:43.740 What else does it say?

00:38:44.480 It says that someone who says I'm against abortion, but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment 0.90

00:38:48.240 of immigrants who are in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.

00:38:52.300 Well, what?

00:38:55.480 Who, what do you, who, who ever made that argument?

00:39:00.800 Who in America is arguing for inhuman treatment of immigrants?

00:39:04.420 What do you mean?

00:39:07.340 You know, I've never heard anyone argue for inhuman treatment of immigrants.

00:39:13.140 No one's making that argument.

00:39:14.320 I've never heard a single person say, you know what, we should treat, we should treat immigrants

00:39:18.580 in an inhuman, inhumane way.

00:39:20.340 No one's arguing.

00:39:22.400 So what sort of inhuman treatment is being inflicted on illegals?

00:39:27.160 I think you really need to explain that.

00:39:30.440 You can't just come out and say, well, there are people in America that want to do inhuman

00:39:33.760 treatment of illegals or of immigrants without explaining like what, what exactly?

00:39:38.800 What, what treatment are you referring to?

00:39:41.980 Are you talking about deportations?

00:39:44.020 Are you saying that deporting an illegal immigrant is morally equivalent or even similar at all

00:39:48.240 to killing a human child?

00:39:50.600 Is that it?

00:39:54.720 And finally, I think the most disturbing part is when he says that these are complex issues.

00:39:58.680 I, these are very complex issues.

00:40:00.200 I don't know if anyone has all the truth on them.

00:40:04.860 What?

00:40:06.540 What do you, no one has all the truth.

00:40:08.480 Yeah, we do.

00:40:09.320 I mean, on abortion, we don't have all the truth.

00:40:13.000 No, we definitely have all the, we have all the truth on abortion, all the truth.

00:40:16.220 There's no other truth to the abortion that we're waiting to find out.

00:40:19.140 It's, it's, we know it all.

00:40:20.520 That's it.

00:40:20.920 It's a human being who's being killed.

00:40:22.760 And that is a great moral evil.

00:40:27.540 It's a grave sin.

00:40:29.840 What do you mean?

00:40:30.460 We don't have all the truth.

00:40:31.840 What other truth is there that that is the truth of abortion? 0.90

00:40:34.420 That's the entire thing.

00:40:35.560 It's like the truth of two plus two is that it equals four.

00:40:38.460 That's it.

00:40:39.200 That's the entire truth of it.

00:40:41.600 Um, and, and, and just, and it's just as obvious and, and inevitable to say that, uh,

00:40:48.440 killing a human child in the womb is a moral evil.

00:40:52.480 That's all the truth.

00:40:53.260 So like, what does that mean that we don't have all the truth?

00:40:56.260 And anyway, what does any of this have to do with the matter at hand?

00:41:00.080 Even if everything that the Pope said in that statement made sense, that still wouldn't answer

00:41:07.040 the question.

00:41:08.220 Should the Archbishop of Chicago be giving an award to a guy who has spent 40 years in office

00:41:17.480 advocating for promoting and funding the murder of the unborn? 0.51

00:41:24.100 That's the question.

00:41:24.900 All the other stuff, like what does immigration have to do with it at all?

00:41:27.840 What does the death penalty have to do with it?

00:41:30.580 It's totally irrelevant.

00:41:31.740 I mean, what are you, what are you trying to say that like, well, other people are bad

00:41:37.000 too.

00:41:41.360 This is the Archbishop of Chicago giving a lifetime achievement award to a guy who has spent his

00:41:47.400 lifetime funding and promoting the mass slaughter of babies.

00:41:54.580 Why is it hard to say, no, we certainly should not be giving an award to that person.

00:42:01.740 I mean, he, this is someone who should be just excommunicated.

00:42:06.800 That's what should be happening.

00:42:08.040 But if you're not going to do that, then why is it hard to say, well, obviously we're not

00:42:11.680 going to give an award to them.

00:42:12.840 Clearly not.

00:42:16.440 I mean, if you fund and facilitate the murder of one baby that should disqualify you from

00:42:21.800 ever beginning a lifetime achievement award from the Catholic church, but fund and facilitate

00:42:27.800 the murder of like hundreds, thousands, well, I, of course, what other thing could he have

00:42:35.320 possibly achieved that would override that?

00:42:40.960 And the only thing we hear as well, he's been in office for 40 years.

00:42:43.860 Who?

00:42:44.400 So 40 years doing what exactly?

00:42:47.540 Since when is that, would you use that defense of what, like Pol Pot?

00:43:03.000 Well, Pol Pot, you know, he served for, served for many years. 0.95

00:43:08.780 He served for many years, Pol Pot did. 1.00

00:43:10.840 So who's to say, who's to say, who, who are we to condemn?

00:43:16.920 Who are we to condemn?

00:43:22.460 You know, you might want to condemn genocide, genocide and, and, uh, in Cambodia, but if you're

00:43:32.000 in favor of impolite treatment to illegal immigrants, then, then who are you?

00:43:37.320 I mean, you're just as bad.

00:43:41.400 This to me is, it's just infuriating. 0.53

00:43:43.640 I'm sorry.

00:43:44.080 It just is.

00:43:47.860 Um, and we just can't, you just, you can't have it.

00:43:52.900 We, we, you can't allow that to just stand unchallenged.

00:43:56.320 Unchallenged.

00:43:59.800 And you also can't, because even worse, you have some Catholics who they, they, and again, 1.00

00:44:05.540 I'm always talking here about conservative Catholics because the liberal quote unquote

00:44:08.880 Catholics, I don't, they're not really Catholic.

00:44:11.200 Uh, they don't count, but the conservative Catholics, even worse, some of them will feel 0.76

00:44:17.420 the need to be fair.

00:44:19.320 I haven't, to be fair, I haven't seen this yet with this, but I'm, I'm, I'm pretty sure

00:44:22.500 it's happening because it happened all throughout Pope Francis.

00:44:25.440 You're going to have conservative cats, some who feel the need to, to pretend that this

00:44:31.320 is not exactly what it sounds like.

00:44:34.420 They're going to feel the need to like, look you in the eyes and lie to you and tell you

00:44:39.000 that, no, he wasn't really, that's not what he was really saying.

00:44:42.360 They think they have to lie, that they're like morally called to lie and pretend that this

00:44:52.020 is not what it actually is.

00:44:55.200 Um, and, uh, I'm not going to do that.

00:44:58.740 I just refuse to do it.

00:45:01.920 Well, Joy Reed was, uh, I'm not sure where she was.

00:45:04.920 She was doing some kind of interview somewhere.

00:45:07.760 Doesn't matter.

00:45:08.540 Anyway, it's good because it finally gives us some detail.

00:45:13.260 You know, we constantly hear from Democrats about fascist, fascism, the fascist agenda

00:45:17.480 of conservatives and MAGA.

00:45:19.140 Never hear them explain what that means.

00:45:22.660 What does fascism mean?

00:45:24.020 Well, in this short clip, she finally kind of fleshes it out.

00:45:27.940 So here is Joy Reed talking about what our fascist agenda actually is. 0.99

00:45:33.120 Listen to this.

00:45:34.420 Is that if you go back before the 20th century, there were no income taxes.

00:45:38.780 There were no regulations on business.

00:45:40.880 You could earn as much money as you want, leave a hundred percent of it to your children

00:45:44.120 with no taxes.

00:45:45.340 That's the world they want back.

00:45:46.720 And to get it back, they need society to change.

00:45:49.460 They need people to be less modern.

00:45:51.240 They need people to want fewer things.

00:45:53.960 Oh, it's pretty dark stuff.

00:45:55.100 So the fascists, their evil plan, our evil plan is to let people keep their own money and

00:46:02.040 then pass it down to their children.

00:46:03.340 We're the first fascists in history, in the history of fascism, to conspire to take power

00:46:11.100 away from ourselves.

00:46:13.200 You know, because the income tax is a source of immense power for the government.

00:46:17.220 It's probably their primary source of power right now.

00:46:26.240 And I mean, it certainly is when you have the ability to just go and like dip into the

00:46:32.780 paycheck of every working American and take whatever you want.

00:46:37.600 And that there's nothing, nothing comes close.

00:46:40.420 And so fascists, say Joy Reid, says Joy Reid, they want to remove that power.

00:46:45.760 They want to abolish it.

00:46:47.940 Really terrifying stuff.

00:46:50.860 Now, of course, that makes no sense.

00:46:53.440 All she's done is admit that the fascism claim is totally bogus.

00:46:58.580 And that's because fascism, obviously for the left, is not the use of government power in

00:47:06.680 an authoritarian or oppressive way.

00:47:09.000 It's not using the government to oppress people.

00:47:13.740 That's not what fascism is.

00:47:16.320 It's not what they mean when they use the term.

00:47:19.020 It's what they're implying.

00:47:20.460 It's what they want you to hear.

00:47:22.640 But it's not what they mean.

00:47:23.980 What they mean when they call you fascist is simply that they disagree, that you disagree

00:47:29.500 with them.

00:47:30.780 That's it.

00:47:31.480 That's all.

00:47:31.860 So to disagree with the Democrat platform is fascism by definition, by their definition,

00:47:39.520 anyway.

00:47:41.860 So when we accuse the Democrats of using this term but not having a definition for it, now

00:47:46.500 they have a definition for it.

00:47:47.780 It's just not one that they want to say.

00:47:49.080 They're not going to come out and say this.

00:47:50.420 They're not going to say that anyone who disagrees with us is a fascist, but that is what they

00:47:56.280 mean. 1.00

00:47:56.920 And that's how Joy Reid can justify saying something as inane and stupid as that. 1.00

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00:48:55.920 When the left attacks, the answer is not silence.

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00:49:24.260 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:25.460 While Netflix has had a difficult week, thousands of people, including Elon Musk, are canceling

00:49:36.600 their Netflix subscriptions after Libs of TikTok posted a particularly disturbing clip

00:49:40.080 from a Netflix children's show.

00:49:41.820 Before we play the clip, keep in mind that this show is several years old.

00:49:44.580 It's been on Netflix's platform apparently for about four or five years.

00:49:48.020 This is not something that just appeared last week.

00:49:49.700 So children have been exposed to this for years before anyone noticed.

00:49:53.140 Uh, and this is from a show called Dead End Paranormal Park, which is rated Y7, meaning

00:50:00.500 that it's supposed to be appropriate for kids at the age of seven and up.

00:50:04.940 So watch.

00:50:06.300 It's not the park.

00:50:08.020 It's, it's me.

00:50:10.820 I'm trans, Norma.

00:50:12.320 And everyone at school knows and everyone at home knows.

00:50:15.480 And being here, it's like a whole new place.

00:50:18.820 I can just be Barney and I can choose if and when I tell people I've never been happier.

00:50:24.680 And that's saying something when I spent a day chased by terrifying zombie mascots.

00:50:29.260 Pugsley reminded me how important it is to live your life without apology.

00:50:33.920 Now that's bad enough, but you know, this is one clip that's gone viral.

00:50:38.180 It's not as though the trans angle was mentioned just that one time.

00:50:43.000 The entire plot revolves around it.

00:50:44.680 The protagonist is, according to Wikipedia anyway, a quote, gay trans teen boy.

00:50:50.300 And the protagonist's best friend in the show is a bisexual, autistic, Pakistani-American

00:50:55.500 girl with social anxiety.

00:50:57.280 So they really checked all the boxes.

00:50:59.440 The creator of the show is someone named Hamish Steele, who lists his pronouns as he, they.

00:51:05.740 And it won't surprise you to learn that Hamish attacked Charlie Kirk only a day after he was

00:51:09.000 shot, calling him a Nazi.

00:51:09.940 So this is a delusional and deranged extremist producing content for seven-year-old children 0.83

00:51:17.480 to watch.

00:51:18.020 And Netflix is happy to provide a platform for it.

00:51:20.960 This is far from the only show of this type on Netflix.

00:51:23.740 Lives and TikTok has posted several other similar examples over the past couple of days.

00:51:28.120 More trans propaganda, gay weddings featured in children's cartoons and so on.

00:51:32.580 Everything you would expect.

00:51:33.400 For example, here's a clip from a show called Ada Twist Scientist.

00:51:37.980 And again, this is targeted at seven-year-olds.

00:51:40.780 Here it is.

00:51:41.480 Are you excited for your big day?

00:51:43.440 I can't wait to kick things off.

00:51:46.160 Yeah!

00:51:47.620 Thanks for making our special day happen.

00:51:49.920 We can't wait for all our family and friends to visit our favorite place in the world.

00:51:54.260 We all wanted to help even Professor Flowerbomb.

00:51:56.800 I couldn't miss Sensei Dave's big day.

00:51:58.940 He taught me how to really smash stuff.

00:52:01.280 Now, let's get ready to romance!

00:52:04.660 Wow!

00:52:05.400 I can't wait for my mom to feast her eyes on this.

00:52:08.500 I haven't seen her in way too long.

00:52:11.240 Now, in case you're wondering, Netflix does not save its LGBT indoctrination for kids seven 1.00

00:52:17.080 and older.

00:52:17.740 That would be bad enough.

00:52:20.120 We also have plenty of preschool LGBT programming.

00:52:22.680 Here's a show called Gecko's Garage, aimed at two-year-olds, featuring a, in one episode,

00:52:29.900 gay pride parade.

00:52:31.280 Come on, Red. 0.98

00:52:44.580 You can do it.

00:52:49.560 Woo-hoo! 1.00

00:52:50.260 i'm so proud of you all let the carnival continue

00:52:58.000 now as i often point out and can't help but point out again these are these are among the

00:53:05.900 many other problems these are ugly shows and that's before you even get to the wokeness 0.54

00:53:10.640 and the gay stuff the animation is ugly it's totally lifeless it's dead there's no artistry 1.00

00:53:17.940 here just bright colors and noise nobody nobody involved in producing these shows has any respect 0.95

00:53:22.980 for their audience um their audience of children nor do they take any pride in their work they have

00:53:30.160 gay pride but they don't have any artistic pride you know there's no charm to it it's just this is 1.00

00:53:36.560 not art it's dull it's empty it's worthless and that should be reason enough to prohibit your 0.80

00:53:42.000 children from watching it just looking at that show before you even see the the pride flags

00:53:47.940 and you look at the way that it's animated and everything and that should be enough when you

00:53:53.040 look at that to say no i'm not gonna i'm not gonna have my kids watch this it's the audio and visual

00:53:58.320 version of like giving your kids soda and potato chips for dinner why would you do it as for the

00:54:04.500 messaging as a parent you have to understand that that and i think most parents at this point do

00:54:09.140 understand that wokeness is not a rare pitfall that a few kid shows stumble into i mean lube's

00:54:17.280 tick dog has been the last two days just posting clip after clip from all kinds of netflix shows

00:54:21.740 it's like the whole platform this stuff is totally pervasive it's everywhere the majority of children's

00:54:27.540 programming is like this it is the rule not the exception which means you can either be hyper

00:54:33.060 vigilant and aware and exercise strict control over what your children watch and the kind of media

00:54:39.120 they consume or or they will ingest a steady diet of lgbd propaganda starting before they can talk

00:54:45.600 those are your two options so-called you know helicopter parents get a bad rap but when it comes to

00:54:52.300 media you're either going to be a helicopter parent or a neglectful one there really is not much room

00:55:00.060 in between you can either hover over your children and very closely monitor what they're

00:55:05.100 watching or you can entrust them into the hands of weird degenerates like hamish steel 0.95

00:55:12.460 again that that that is that there is not any moderate compromise here

00:55:17.400 and the stakes i don't need to tell you are very high this is not a small or superfluous issue

00:55:24.740 i know there are some people on the right who treat this kind of issue like it is

00:55:29.580 so it's like well why are you talking about woke why are you talking about children's programming

00:55:34.860 what does that matter are there more important things happening in the world

00:55:38.660 there are some more important things happening but this is very very important because the goal of

00:55:46.920 this kind of propaganda and the reason they put it in shows aimed at kindergartners

00:55:51.120 is obviously to normalize what what they're showing on screen the great obstacle that lgbt activists face

00:55:59.860 is that all the things they're pushing transgenderism gender fluidity gay weddings all that stuff all of that

00:56:09.020 is abnormal and a person's immediate gut level reaction when they see something that is abnormal is to

00:56:19.300 recoil so lgbt activists are pushing against not just human nature but thousands of years of human history 0.94

00:56:27.100 the campaign to normalize transgenderism in particular only really began in earnest on a national scale

00:56:34.160 about 10 years ago so for most adults in this country it it was just too late

00:56:41.140 you know and we're noticing now it's a hopeless battle for the trans activists you can harangue and harass 0.97

00:56:47.120 and threaten a lot of people in the hopes of coercing them into going along with your agenda obediently

00:56:54.560 but you can't fundamentally convince them that it's normal and not weird for a man to walk around and address

00:57:03.560 this is the problem that trans activists are facing it's why they've lost most of the cultural ground

00:57:09.100 that they gained over the past decade it's because the propaganda doesn't stick you know they gained a

00:57:15.020 lot of ground mostly by coercing threatening harassing people cancel culture all the rest of it but that

00:57:21.680 you know this the fear mongering the scare tactics they they lose their sting after a while and then what

00:57:27.600 these trans activists found is like that's all they had because when you don't have the scare tactics

00:57:31.880 people just revert back to their natural state which is when you see a guy in a dress it's it's weird 0.98

00:57:38.680 like you can't take it seriously and that's what they're up against but what if you start younger

00:57:48.120 i mean what if you start much much younger can you essentially change the factory settings on the

00:57:56.220 human mind by exposing children to these bizarre concepts almost as soon as they emerge from the womb

00:58:03.100 can you construct basically an alternate reality for children uh and keep them in it one that is

00:58:10.500 totally divorced from reality itself can you essentially override that gut level instinct that

00:58:16.560 causes human beings to naturally recoil from things that are unnatural and disordered that's the the

00:58:23.220 gambit and the thing is that in a world where we're surrounded by media all the time where the average

00:58:30.560 person spends nearly every waking hour consuming media in some form or another it might actually

00:58:36.680 be possible if you start young enough and they're totally consumed by this stuff

00:58:42.820 um it might be possible it might be possible to create a generation of humans who don't even

00:58:51.020 who actually don't instinctively recognize that a guy in a dress who says he's a girl that there's

00:58:57.720 something wrong there they don't even instinctively like they really don't even recognize that as a

00:59:01.160 problem instinctively um you you might be able to create a generation of people like that that's the

00:59:08.000 experiment that these people are running right now and and it's why this stuff is everywhere in kids

00:59:15.460 programming because they're running this experiment on our children on your children 0.57

00:59:22.620 netflix is running this experiment and they're one of the worst offenders which is why we should all

00:59:31.440 say that netflix in both a literal and figurative sense is today canceled that'll do it for the show

00:59:39.980 today thanks for watching thanks for listening talk to you tomorrow have a great day godspeed

00:59:42.960 today on the ben shapiro show president trump unveils an extraordinary plan for the gaza strip that

00:59:53.840 actually has buy-in from israel arab countries and the united states but not yet hamas a government

00:59:58.660 shutdown looms as democrats shilly-shally and democrats still can't shake their radicalism

01:00:03.180 all that on today's ben shapiro show give it a listen

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