00:00:00.000It was a sad and somber day yesterday, sadly somber, somberly sad, another terribly sad and somber day when Nancy Pelosi signed the articles of impeachment and then posed for pictures and gave out commemorative pens because that's normal, right?
00:00:16.580That's what you do on a sad and somber occasion. You give out gift bags. You go to a funeral, they hand out gift bags, they do a pinata. Very normal stuff, what sad and somber is all about.
00:00:27.080And then very sadly and very somberly, the Democrats delivered the articles of impeachment to the Senate. They formed, the Democrats did, an actual procession, much like a procession you might see if you go to a Catholic mass and the priest processes in. Much like that, two by two, they marched the folder down to the Senate, down the corridors of the Capitol building. It's pretty hilarious.
00:00:55.240Now, I realize that House Democrats aren't necessarily in the best physical shape. I don't mean to body shame. And so I understand that. But do they really need nine people to help carry a folder? It can't be that heavy, can it?
00:01:09.680And I wonder how much organization went into this. That's all I can think when I'm watching this. How much organization, how much planning and prep went into this ahead of time? Did they rehearse it? Did they time their march so they'd be in the same rhythm as they were marching?
00:01:21.760How did they decide who to pair up with or who's in front? I mean, you know that thought went into this. And you see the woman in the back? Everybody's paired up two by two. There's a woman straggling behind in the back by herself.
00:01:32.820I'm guessing that she's sort of the nerd, the hanger on of the crew. And they tried to leave with leave without her. But then she ran. I was like, wait, guys, are you bringing the articles impeachment to the Senate? Yeah. Oh, I want to come.
00:01:45.980You could also tell that they really didn't know what to do with their faces or their bodies as they were walking. That's what made it awkward. It's hard when you're trying to strike a balance between sad, somber, and ecstatic with triumphant joy.
00:02:03.580It's a really hard, facially, that's a really hard balance to strike. And they, because those are just tough ingredients to find a harmony with. But they did their best with it. And hopefully the folder made it there okay. I just wish that for the next impeachment, here's my thought. Let's do a whole thing. If we want to do this, let's really do it.
00:02:24.680So the next impeachment, I think you should sign the articles down in Florida and then walk them up 95 for 1,000 miles. It'll take nine months. It'll be a journey, an adventure. We'll learn a lot along the way. Make some friends. It'll be great.
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00:04:07.560Okay. So, get ready for the most disturbing thing you've probably heard in a while.
00:04:18.680Somebody emailed this to me, brought it to my attention. Jordan was his name. He passed this along to me.
00:04:23.920It's a post on the Reddit forum Child Free. Now, if you're not familiar with the Child Free Movement, that's a group of people who advocate not just that people should have no children, but that they should kill the children they've already conceived.
00:04:42.420So, they're very pro-abortion, very anti-child, and very open about that.
00:04:49.560They really do hate children. Really, really hate them.
00:04:52.860This is not a small group either. There's a lot of these folks out there, and they're not just on Reddit.
00:04:57.600There are other forums on the internet. Facebook has child-free groups where these people come together, and they just talk about how much they absolutely despise children.
00:05:06.280So, I want to read this one post to you that Jordan passed along, and there are a few points I want to make about it.
00:05:16.100This is what it says from a user on Reddit.
00:05:19.860I'm on my way to Planned Parenthood to purge the two parasites that somehow implanted into my uterus despite me being on the pill.
00:05:27.420I can't effing wait to stop being nauseous and throwing up and being unable to keep water down.
00:05:32.160I can't wait to be rid of this hypermesis gravidarum that destroyed my Christmas and ruined my New Year's Eve and is ruining my life.
00:05:39.520I can't effing wait to be done with the anxiety of knowing these things are in my uterus and knowing that I will not have to birth dribbling horror goblins.
00:05:48.260Will not have disgusting, leaking blanks censored.
00:05:53.020Will not go home from the hospital in a nappy and with a stitched-up vagina.
00:05:56.660I will not have postpartum depression or be left disfigured with stretch marks.
00:06:00.400My relationship with my significant other will not be ruined.
00:06:03.500I am dedicating this double fetus purge to the anti-choice movement because no matter how hard you try, you will not force us to be your handmaids.
00:06:25.240Suffice it to say that the term she called babies dribbling horror goblins, but the term crotch goblin appears to be the generally accepted term among these people for babies.
00:06:34.960That's a term that pops up again and again.
00:07:40.840And writing it because that's how they feel and that's how they think.
00:07:45.340So these are real people who really feel this way and are expressing it.
00:07:50.000The fact that it's just Reddit or just Twitter or just YouTube or whatever is by no means an excuse for them, nor is it an excuse for us to not take it seriously.
00:08:01.520You know, we've decided that the internet, especially places like Reddit, are morality-free zones where atrocious garbage doesn't matter because it's just what people do there.
00:08:11.400Oh, you know, that's just what people do there.
00:08:30.180The most horrible things you can imagine, the most horrible thoughts being expressed, we've come to normalize and see as not that big of a deal if it happens on the internet.
00:08:42.660But think about how arbitrary and stupid that is.
00:08:47.740Think about how it would sound if you told me that you heard people saying this sort of stuff to each other in person at, let's say, Starbucks.
00:08:58.420What if you were at a Starbucks and there was a whole bunch of people sitting around a table talking about crotch goblins and bragging about killing babies, okay?
00:09:06.860And then you told me about it and said how horrified you were.
00:09:10.880And then I said, oh, that's not real life.
00:09:35.400This is completely real, I'm afraid to say.
00:09:37.400I hear this a lot as someone who spends a lot of time on the internet, unfortunately, and, you know, there have been, as it won't surprise you to learn, there have been, I have received my, more than, I think, my fair share of vile comments and emails and things from people.
00:10:00.340We get so used to it, we get numb to it, which is a problem.
00:10:04.460But I get numb to it and I get used to it.
00:10:06.480But every once in a while, somebody will send something to me and they'll say something that even as jaded as I am, it makes me go, wow, that's especially horrible.
00:10:14.720And then I'll tell somebody about it and they'll say, oh, yeah, it's just, you know, just the internet, just what people say.
00:10:31.000I do not see the distinction between saying something through this forum and saying it any other way, whether it's verbally, whether it's written on a loose-leaf piece of paper and left at your doorstep.
00:11:06.380The internet has provided a forum for people to, in the safety of anonymity, to air their most depraved and disgusting thoughts.
00:11:17.100And pretty soon these communities start to crop up, communities of people who have bonded together just by the fact that they all share the same depraved and disgusting thoughts.
00:11:44.660And the effect is that they encourage each other in it and they dive deeper into their own depravity together.
00:11:51.220And other people who've maybe had similar thoughts or close to similar thoughts see this and it's normalized for them and they think, oh, it's okay.
00:12:01.040Why? Because we are inclined as people to think, and I think this is part of the issue here, is that as people we are inclined to think that things are okay if other people are doing them or saying them.
00:12:14.280As much as we were told as kids by our parents, you know, just because your friends are jumping off a bridge doesn't mean you should too.
00:12:21.960So the fact is, if you see a bunch of people jumping off a bridge, you're probably going to think, well, I guess it's okay to jump off that bridge.
00:12:30.780And even with our most shameful thoughts, if we see, we go online and we see other people saying the same thing, we think, oh, it must not be that bad then.
00:12:41.260Now, in past times, a person would have a depraved and disgusting thought, would tell nobody because there'd be no safe place to divulge it.
00:12:50.220There'd be no way for them to say it anonymously, and so they don't say it at all.
00:12:54.560And they feel shame for their thoughts, which they should feel.
00:12:57.800And they suppress it, which they should suppress it, and maybe eventually they succeed in moving on from it.
00:13:23.680And if you go to this child free form, is it one of the other, I mean, if you, you can't spend a lot of time there, you just wouldn't be able to stomach it.
00:13:33.120But I was looking at a few other posts, and there's a lot of also parents who've actually had their kids and hate their kids' babies.
00:13:42.800I mean, I saw one post from a woman with a baby and talking about how much she hates her baby and wishes the baby was dead and she never had the baby.
00:13:51.100Now again, have there always been parents who felt this way about their kids?
00:14:35.080The third thing, to anyone tempted to think that what I just read is not representative of the pro-abortion movement, you are absolutely wrong.
00:14:43.540And as pro-lifers, I think pro-lifers can tend to be timid about a lot of things, unfortunately.
00:14:48.840Not all pro-lifers, but this is a problem among some pro-lifers, is timidity.
00:14:55.580And I think it's been a fatal problem for the pro-life movement for a long time.
00:15:00.480And some pro-lifers get timid about this, too.
00:15:02.720They don't want to use examples like this.
00:15:04.740Because they say, yeah, but that's not, no, I don't want to paint with a broad brush.
00:15:08.820I mean, of course, yes, this is representative of the pro-abortion movement, what I just read to you.
00:15:13.520And that's the real value of a forum, for us anyway, the value of a forum or a community like this, is that you see the pro-abortion movement without the mask, without the makeup, without the euphemisms and the sanitary language.
00:15:28.28060 million babies have been killed in this country.
00:15:31.340Okay, do you really think the abortion movement can administer a slaughter of that degree and can rack up that kind of body count without a lot of people in the movement feeling exactly this way about babies?
00:15:44.500Of course, many of them feel this way about babies.
00:21:55.980If you remember, we talked about a few days ago, Stephen King was on the verge of cancellation for having the gall to suggest that maybe awards like, you know, Oscars should be given out based on merit and based on the quality of the work and not based on diversity quotas.
00:22:15.040Here's what he said, actually, a few days ago.
00:22:16.620So he said, as a writer, I'm allowed to nominate in just three categories, best picture, best adapted screenplay, and best original screenplay.
00:22:26.360For me, the diversity issue, as it applies to the individual actors and directors anyway, did not come up.
00:22:31.620That said, I would never consider diversity in matters of art, only quality.
00:22:36.740It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.
00:22:40.860Okay, and you just knew what was going to happen next.
00:22:59.540It took, well, it took less than a day for Stephen King to come back and start groveling.
00:23:07.900And then he said, only, you know, hours later, he said, the most important thing we can do as artists and creative people is make sure everyone has the same fair shot, regardless of sex, color, orientation.
00:23:20.160Right now, such people are badly underrepresented and not only in the arts.
00:23:24.380You can't win awards if you're shut out of the game.
00:23:59.420That's, that's, I don't, I don't see that as a, you're going to have to actually, rather than just asserting that, you're going to have to actually prove that.
00:24:07.840If somebody wants to take the time to tabulate this, then go ahead and do it.
00:24:13.380But I think if you, if you do that, what you're going to find is that actually it's probably about where it should be in terms of representation.
00:24:21.520And, and it seems like, especially on TV, on network TV these days, I mean, pretty much every show has at least one gay character.
00:24:28.460So probably there's over-representation where you consider, consider how many gay people are actually are in America in terms of percentages.
00:24:34.620And then how often you have such characters on TV, it's at least going to be proportional, but probably I would think over.
00:24:44.660There might, there might, there might even be some over-representation.
00:24:47.620But in the end, it doesn't matter, of course.
00:24:51.500The point of an award is to, is to give an award to the, to the, based on merit, based on quality, as Stephen King originally pointed out.
00:24:59.660And also, you know, you've got storytellers who are telling the stories that they want to tell.
00:25:08.560If you think that there should be more stories that feature women or gay people or whatever, then, then you tell that story.
00:25:17.900You, I mean, what, what is the implication here?
00:25:19.680I saw, um, there was someone, some, someone in media, I think, not just this one person, but there was a tweet that went semi-viral from a woman complaining about 1917.
00:25:33.500And saying that, saying that, you know, I don't, I don't have a problem.
00:25:39.520Uh, you know, I, I understand that, that in World War I, we're talking about trench warfare.
00:25:44.480There weren't a lot of women down in the trenches.
00:25:46.420And so this is going to be a movie about, about men.
00:25:49.200But she said, I don't understand why we have to keep telling these stories.
00:25:53.040Well, maybe we're telling these stories, if by these stories she means, like, war movies.
00:26:00.080Because these are some of the most consequential moments in history.
00:26:04.440And these are moments full of drama and heroism.
00:26:08.180And so these are stories that speak to people and always have for thousands of years.
00:26:12.640We've been telling stories about battles and battles that have been fought and wars that have been waged for that reason.
00:26:18.080But besides which, what are you, what are you saying exactly?
00:26:25.780Are you saying that, you know, Sam Mendes made that movie, which again is a great movie, if you haven't seen it.
00:26:31.400Are you saying that he, he, he really wants to tell this story and it's an important story, but he shouldn't tell it in order to be fair to women?
00:35:18.960Dr. David Reardon noted that less than a third of the 3,000 women who were offered the chance to make $50 by participating in the study
00:35:28.800actually stuck with it, with more dropping out with each round of interviews.
00:35:34.000As studies go, 1,000 participants isn't a huge number, even when it's controlled to be representative of the country, as the turn away study is.
00:41:52.520Now, as it turns out, the school has indicated that there have been a series of what they call lifestyle violations.
00:41:57.420From what I saw, the school won't confirm that this really was, that this rainbow cake was the last lifestyle straw that broke the camel's back, as it were.
00:42:10.040So, we have to, you know, so we don't know.
00:42:14.760We have to remember that schools are often at a disadvantage in cases like this because they can't talk openly about disciplinary issues involving students.
00:42:23.440Whereas the student and the family can say whatever they want.
00:42:26.060But legally, and for liability issues, the school is not as free to talk about it and justify the decision they made.
00:42:36.480And that's, so that's, you know, they've got a hand tied behind the back in that case.
00:42:41.940So, you know, I don't know, is the answer.
00:42:49.480I just think there's probably more to the story than this.
00:42:54.080If there's not, okay, well, then this school should be totally ashamed of itself.
00:43:00.940If there is, then we would have to know what the rest of the story is.
00:43:04.600I do believe, as a general principle, private schools have a right to admit whoever they want and kick out whoever they want.
00:43:14.320And especially if they have rules and they lay it out in the handbook and they say, these are our rules.
00:43:19.840If you sign on to those rules, no matter what the rules are, if you sign on to them, then you sign on to them and it's up to you to follow them.
00:43:27.220You can't sign on to the rules and then decide a few years later, oh, you know what, actually those rules are stupid.
00:43:34.520Oh, you can decide that, but then it's up to you to just leave the school and go somewhere else.
00:43:37.860So that's a general feeling I have about controversies like this, especially when it comes to Christian schools who, you know, it's every once in a while we get these stories about, usually, though, it's a Christian school, you know, fires a teacher or something because they find out they're in a gay relationship or whatever it is.
00:43:55.660But again, if that's part of the rule, if they're trying to maintain this certain identity and they believe it's important for everybody involved in the school to live according to and believe biblical teachings, which I think is reasonable for a Christian school to want that, just like I think it'd be reasonable for a Jewish school to want everyone there to be devout Jews and for a Muslim school to, you know, want a similar thing in respect to Islam.
00:44:28.700Now, kicking someone out over a cake would not be reasonable.
00:44:32.700If there's something in the handbook that says, you know, thou shalt not eat from a rainbow cake, I mean, that'd be a silly rule, but if you signed on to it, I guess it's up to you to follow it.
00:44:42.780But I kind of doubt that that's the case.
00:44:49.840You and I, as outsiders who are not involved in this, who probably live states away from where it happened, don't know anybody involved, don't know the family, don't know the girl, don't know the school, for you and I, we'll probably never know who was in the right and who was in the wrong or what really happened or what the whole story is.
00:45:09.540And that's okay, because we don't need to know.
00:45:14.520And another of the problems with the internet is that there's no such thing as a local story anymore.
00:45:22.140If it goes viral, if a small local little incident goes viral, now it's national news, and everybody's talking about it, and everybody's concerned with it.
00:45:33.860And that's an issue because there are a lot of things that happen that are not really suited for national consumption.
00:45:45.300There's no way that we could, you know, our contributions or our opinions cannot have any value whatsoever because we have no idea what's going on.
00:45:55.680The issue is too remote, and it involves people and things that we don't know anything about.
00:46:05.260But, you know, because we're all on social media, we think that we have to have an opinion about everything.
00:46:10.660When sometimes maybe we should just say, yeah, I don't know.
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00:47:19.260A giddy Nancy Pelosi pretends to be somber while signing the official impeachment resolution against President Trump and simultaneously doling out souvenir pens to her jackal colleagues.
00:47:30.560Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin moves to consolidate power in yet another blow to representative government in Russia.
00:47:36.260We will examine why and how democracy fails.
00:47:39.760Then Trump wins big on the trade war with China.