Ep. 838 - College Professor Wants To Destigmatize Pedophilia
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, we will expose the people who are openly trying to normalize and destigmatize pedophilia. It s shocking, and you need to hear about it. Also, Dave Portnoy goes on the offense after the media smears him with a Me Too hit piece. Plus, the media runs cover for Biden after he uses some very unPC language during a speech, and a male rapper wears a dress to an award show. And we re still supposed to be shocked and impressed by this kind of thing? Finally, in our daily cancellation, we ll deal with the claim that the only way to save our planet is to stop having babies.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, we will expose the people who are openly trying to normalize
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and destigmatize pedophilia. It's shocking, and you need to hear about it. Also, Dave Portnoy
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goes on the offense after the media smears him with a Me Too hit piece. Plus, the media
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runs cover for Biden after he uses some very un-PC language during a speech,
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and a male rapper wears a dress to an award show, and we're still supposed to be shocked
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and impressed by this kind of thing, I guess. Finally, in our daily cancellation, we'll deal
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with the claim that the only way to save our planet is to stop having babies. All of that
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disturbing things that you don't want to hear and I don't want to talk about. But then again,
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the show almost always consists of things you don't want to hear and I don't want to talk about.
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So today it starts with the organization called the Prostasia Foundation. If it already sounds creepy
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and dystopian, well, you don't know the half of it. It also has kind of a pharmaceutical ring to it,
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which may or may not be intentional. I don't know. Prostasia has been around for a few years,
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it would seem. And it bills itself as a child protection organization, quote unquote.
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That might sound pretty good. Child protection organization, that's a good thing. Until you go
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to their website and you spend 10 or 15 seconds, well, you will quickly see that this child protection
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organization concerns itself with such causes as kink awareness and sex workers' rights and
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decriminalizing sexting for children. That's one of the things they want to do. Prostasia insists that
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there is a sex positive approach to childhood sexting. The organization is also right now planning,
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and this is quoting now from the website, planning, quote, research into the use of fictional or fantasy
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sexual outlets like sex dolls, cartoons, and fictional stories among people who have sexual
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attractions to children. Now, as you may be clued into by now, this is not a child protection
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organization, quite the opposite. But if you need to be further convinced, here's an introductory video
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Prostasia Foundation is a new child protection organization dedicated to promoting laws and
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policies that are both effective and constitutional.
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We're a child protection organization and a human rights organization. We're actually
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the first to bring mental health professionals, human rights activists, sex experts, and internet
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Prostasia takes an evidence-based approach, based on preventing abuse before it happens.
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I think we're living in a time when people are frequently willing to think that making policy
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based on belief is a good idea. I'm not sure that's correct.
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We don't shy away from controversy. For example, the idea that maybe we can change the behavior
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of people with a sexual interest in children. Or the fact that the best-placed people to keep
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minors out of sex work or the consensual kink community are sex workers and kinksters.
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And so my thing when I encounter minors in kink is, first of all, that's great that you're interested.
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Please come back when you're 18. Here are some books to read.
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We believe that it's possible to protect children while upholding our society's most important
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values, such as tolerance, diversity, and freedom. We are Prostasia Foundation.
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So I have that mental filing cabinet open, and I'm going through all of the potential things I could
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say to describe the people in that video that won't get me banned from YouTube. And I'm,
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there's nothing. So we'll just, we'll just forge ahead. Yes, our society's most important value,
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tolerance, they say. Now notice how she says that we have to protect kids, but we need to also make
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sure that we're staying true to society's most important values. Now me, I would say that society's
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greatest priority is protecting kids. But that for them is an afterthought in comparison to
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tolerance. And what should we be tolerant of? Well, Prostasia makes it, makes it abundantly clear
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through its website and videos that we should be tolerant of. We should de-stigmatize what it
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refers to as minor attracted persons, otherwise known as pedophiles. And they're not waging this war
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for pedophilia normalization alone. First of all, one of the men using the term very loosely here,
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one of the men affiliated with this organization is Noah Berlatsky. And he's a media
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figure who has written for the Atlantic, the Washington Post, NBC. I mean, he's been all
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over the place, mainstream publications. And he is, works with this organization that wants to
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de-stigmatize pedophilia. Because openly supporting pedophilia will not preclude you from earning bylines
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in major publications. Quite the opposite, it would seem. And there are others outside the organization
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joining in this fight for pedophilia acceptance, including, of course, college professors. In fact,
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just a few days ago, or last night, as Libs of TikTok on Twitter brought to our attention,
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Prostasia's YouTube channel, they haven't been banned from YouTube, of course. I mean,
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they're still on YouTube. They had an interview with a non-binary professor from Old Dominion
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University by the name of Alan Walker. Alan Walker has just written a book available on Amazon,
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hasn't been banned on Amazon, of course, arguing for tolerance of maps, minor attracted persons.
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Here's Alan talking about the book and its arguments.
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I use the term minor attracted person or map in the title and throughout the book for multiple
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reasons. First of all, because I think it's important to use terminology for groups that
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members of that group want others to use for them. And map advocacy groups like Before You Act
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have advocated for use of the term map. They've advocated for it primarily because it's less
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stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile. A lot of people, when they hear the term pedophile,
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they automatically assume that it means a sex offender. And that isn't true. And it leads to
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a lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors. I've definitely heard the idea that you
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brought up, though, that the use of the term minor attracted person suggests that it's okay to be
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attracted to children. But using a term that communicates who someone is attracted to doesn't
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indicate anything about the morality of that attraction. You know, maybe once the FBI is done
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investigating soccer moms at school board meetings, they might want to have a look at Alan Walker and
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the Prostasia Foundation. If it isn't too much trouble, that is. This is all quite horrifying and
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nauseating and infuriating, but we could learn something important by listening to the blood
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curdling freak in that video. Now, Professor Them says that we should call pedophiles minor attracted
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persons because it's polite. You know, it's what the members of that group have requested that we
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do. We should allow groups to define themselves and we should use whatever language they assign to us.
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The last thing we'd ever want to do, Professor Them says, is rather stigmatize them.
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Now, you see here how the most hideous kinds of evil can be dragged up from the bowels of hell and
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sanitized and normalized, all in the name of politeness and being respectful to communities.
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That's step one, by the way. Once they start putting the label community on a group of people,
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that's step one towards normalization. So now we're talking about the pedophilia community.
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Much like maybe we talk about the serial killer community or the rapist community.
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This is all under the assumption, of course, that groups and individuals should be able to define
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themselves and that we should never stigmatize anyone, is what we're being told. Of course,
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the people making this argument, they don't really believe it. I'm sure that if a white
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supremacist group asked politely that they not be referred to as white supremacists,
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nobody on Professor Them's side of the ball would care about respecting their group identity.
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In fact, the left will stigmatize people who are not white supremacists by calling them white
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supremacists, even though the people being labeled as such don't want that label and also don't
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warrant it. So there's no consistency here, except in the sense that the left only applies this
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de-stigmatizing rule to sexual groups. It turns out that they're big fans of stigmatizing things in
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general. They stigmatize all manner of groups, people, ideas, beliefs, value systems. They stigmatize a
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new thing every day. It's almost impossible to keep up. So the de-stigmatizing campaign is reserved
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specially and exclusively for sexual behavior and orientations and groups. Pedophiles are a sexual
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group in a sense, and it's always been only a matter of time before the campaign begins in earnest to
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push for full mainstream acceptance of their quote-unquote lifestyle choices. I mean, the left has marched
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under the banner of love is love, right, for years, and this is where that kind of slogan leads,
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by design. Now, we'll be told that Prestasia and Alan Walker and their allies are fringe.
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And if that were true, you know, if they were alone on the field fighting this battle to
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normalize pedophilia and sexualize kids, you might not worry about it so much. It would be enough to
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chalk them up to a small collection of disgusting anomalous dirtbags. And if we lived in a sane society,
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they'd all be going to prison, and that would be it. But the problem is that they're not alone.
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Just a few days ago, we played for you that news report out of Fairfax County, Virginia,
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where adolescents and public schools are being asked explicit questions about their sexual
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lives, their sex lives, which isn't even a thing that should exist for kids, being asked that by
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other school for a survey. Yesterday, we had the video of a young boy in a dress and makeup paraded
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around by his mother for applause, applause which she does indeed receive. We've talked about the
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dramatically increased prevalence of LGBT identification among kids, trans identification
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in particular, has skyrocketed in recent years. This is the result. This result has been engineered
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precisely by sexualizing kids from a young age. And as you know from this show, the men who invented
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the sexual revolution, who invented modern sex ed and the modern approach to these subjects, men like
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Alfred Kinsey wanted to convince the public to see children as sexual beings. That was their goal.
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Kinsey even worked closely with pedophiles in his research. He did experiments to study orgasms in
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babies. And the Kinsey Institute still exists today and is very well funded. So fringe? No,
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not at all. And beyond all of that, of course, there's pop music and Hollywood and so on. Altogether,
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you see that the effort to sexualize kids and thereby to normalize the sexualization of kids
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is already mainstream. If Prostasia and Alan Walker are unique, it's just that they have taken all of
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Rainforest Cafe. I don't know if you've ever been to a Rainforest Cafe or if you have them around
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where you live. But we love the Rainforest Cafe. It's great. It's horrible. I mean, it's great
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because it's hard. It's absolutely terrible. The food is awful. The service is awful. Everything
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about it is bad, but it's loud and it's obnoxious and it's tacky and it's, you know, it's like kind
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of a little dirty. And so, and so you, you feel comfortable sitting down there with, you know,
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we got four kids, eight and under and sitting in a, there's like no pressure. You don't have to
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worry about annoying anybody. You can barely even hear your own kids across from you at the table,
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which is another positive, another bonus. And, um, and you just have to accept the fact that when,
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you know, as a parent and you've got young kids, if, if for whatever reason, you're crazy enough to
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bring them out to a restaurant, if this is not about you, you're not going to have a good time.
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So that, this, that, that's off the table. So forget about that. Um, and this is all about
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minimizing the stress and just getting through it. And as far as that goes, you go to a rainforest
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cafe, it's just very loud. They've got, it's like, it's, it's the, it's, you've got these animatronic
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animals all over the place and these animal noises. And, um, it's just, it's fantastic. All right.
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It terrible, but fantastic. So we'll start with this. Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports
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continues to wage war against business insider, justified war, a just war, I would say for their
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me to hit piece. We talked about this last week on Friday. Um, right after the, right after the
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hit piece came out, man, I talked about it on the show and, and, um, and I, you know, I defended
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Dave Portnoy because first of all, he was accused. Well, I mean, he wasn't accused of rape or sexual
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assault, not in those words at all. He was not accused of that. This is a me too kind of
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what they did with the articles. They wanted to give the impression that he was a rapist
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and they wanted to give the impression that he'd been accused of rape by multiple women,
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but he hasn't been. And even in the article, which was of course, behind a paywall,
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which means that many people didn't read it. All they saw was the headline and the headline said
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something about Dave Portnoy had violent and disturbing sex. And I said to you last week,
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that's a big red flag. I mean, violent and disturbing sex, that sounds bad. But if, if,
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if he was being accused of rape, they would put that in the headline. They wouldn't describe it some
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other way. They would say Dave Portnoy allegedly, uh, you know, commits rape or alleged rape. They
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would put that in the headline. The fact that they didn't put it in the headline, they tried to find
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other words that sort of suggest it, but don't say it big red flag. Then if you actually read the
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article, you find that, yeah, um, they, they spent eight months digging through Dave Portnoy's life
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because they decided ahead of time, they want to take him down and they figure this is a single
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guy and he's successful. And he's very open about the fact that he has a lot of casual sex. So he's
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got, he has a lot of sex partners out there. And they said, we're going to, we're going to talk to
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all of these women until we find a few that will accuse him of a, of sexual assault. They couldn't
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find any that would accuse him of sexual assault. So they kind of went, I guess they went to their
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plan B, their backups. And they found women that, um, had sexual experiences with Dave Portnoy don't like
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him anymore and don't feel great about the experience, but they, but they don't say that
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it was rape. They say it was consensual. So they spent eight, eight, uh, eight months doing that.
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And, um, and then that's what they found. They found, I guess two, really, they found two women
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who felt icky about their dalliance with Portnoy. And they felt that he was, you know, a creep or
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whatever. Um, Portnoy has been on the offensive ever since then. He had a press conference yesterday,
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which was really more of a live stream where he went through the allegations. He dug up text
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messages that he's had with these accusers. Um, and he showed how they were in, in, in one case,
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one of the women accusing him. And again, I got to keep putting quotes around accusing because
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it's not even clear. What exactly are they accusing him of? That's never made clear.
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So, um, one of the quote unquote accusers, he showed how after the fact she was texting with him,
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all happy and flirtatious, and then later claimed that she was traumatized by the experience.
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Um, and, uh, the other accuser, the first one mentioned in the, um, and this is where the
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headline comes from a violent and disturbing. This is the woman who contacted Dave Portnoy
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and told him she had a, a rape fantasy. And then they set up that she was going to come
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to his mansion and they were going to have sex. And so she came for that reason. Um,
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Portnoy in his video shows how she, after this hit piece came out, she has been in public,
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I guess on, I think this is on her Tik TOK account. She has been saying publicly
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that she was not raped, that this was consensual. Let's, uh, let's watch some of that here.
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She met the, again, a random con. She messaged him, said she wanted to explore her rape fantasy.
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That's a fact. She came over. They did. We did not explore rape fantasy. We did not. Um,
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she is of age. She never said no. Sounds consensual to me. Uh, the creator, her,
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the article never said the sex wasn't consensual. I am getting crucified and dragged through the coals
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on a girl who is openly in the public being like, I never said it wasn't a consensual and it wasn't
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rape. Again, they keep stopping short because they know that's an investigation. And if it's
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something happened, please her, but whatever she's saying that she doesn't even know I'm looking at
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this by the way. So it's not like she's being provoked. This is, she's doing on her own, answering
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it. Um, we dig a little more like where'd this animosity come from? Exhibit 14.
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July 20th. So that is when she left. Dave Portnoy equals little b****. Again, doesn't sound like
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so you, I told you, we didn't get along. That's what you write when, when you don't get along with
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somebody. You do not write that, I don't think, I don't know when you've been assaulted. Like,
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little b**** is like, he's an a**hole. Um, exhibit 15, please. This is all dug up after the fact.
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That net worth, thanks to this b**** hit piece, is probably like half that s**t now. Uh,
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below it, that, so that's my celeb net worth. Thanks for the update. That's her. I don't know
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how she didn't delete that. Venmo at me. How much money I'm worth? Venmo. Okay. Interesting.
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Okay. So this is, this is really the, this was like the headline accusation that they made the
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Business Insider was from, apparently from this woman, Dave Portnoy says, and she has now said
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publicly that, well, this, this, this was, this was not non-consensual, which means it was consensual
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because it's either consensual or not. Right. Um, I mean, does anyone want it? Does anyone on the,
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on the left want to say that it's, that, you know, you could have, uh, that, that there's some in
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between, between consensual and non-consensual? No, it's consensual or, or it's, or it's non-consensual.
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This was consensual. So she's said that publicly. And then he, then he brings up how, again, after
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their, uh, after they had sex, she was tweeting at him. She put her Venmo up on his Twitter account.
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Like this is just a full on hit piece. That's all this is trying to destroy somebody. And I think
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there, there are two points to make about this, which both of them, I already sort of, sort of
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made, but I'm going to reiterate. Um, the first one is, okay, this, a lot of this is, this is hookup
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culture. This is the, what, what these women are experiencing to the extent that they're being
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honest at all about their feelings. And he goes on to talk about how that woman, the first one,
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you know, the reason why it didn't work out is because they're, they're in various different
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political sides of the, of the aisle. And, uh, so she's far, far left wing. And so for her, this,
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this, she might be motivated entirely just by politics, but to the extent that they're being
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honest about their feelings, what, what happened was they went for a consensual hookup and it was
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consensual as everyone agrees. That's the crazy thing about this that you've got, you know,
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you usually talk about a, he said, she said, well, in this case, you've got a sexual experience.
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There's only two people involved. Only two people were there. Both of them are saying it was consensual.
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And yet you've got the media and people in the, in the peanut gallery saying it wasn't
00:23:05.280
who weren't there and don't know anything about it. Um, so what really happened is they went,
00:23:10.940
they had a consensual experience and, um, and they didn't feel good about it the next day.
00:23:17.260
They had, they had regret. They felt used. She talked about in the article, she felt like she
00:23:21.400
was used like a sex doll. Well, yeah, I mean, she, she was, but, but that's also what she was doing
00:23:29.040
to him. That's what hookup culture is. You're using each other like sex dolls. You are, you are
00:23:35.820
using in hookup culture. You are using another human being like a glorified masturbatory aid.
00:23:42.700
Okay. That's what hookup culture is. It is sex with another human being reduced down basically
00:23:48.980
to the level of masturbation where, where, where you are, where the other person almost doesn't,
00:23:53.680
they don't exist as a human being. You're not worried about who they are. You might not even
00:23:59.460
hardly know their name. You don't know anything about them. You don't certainly don't love them.
00:24:03.500
You have no commitment to them. So you're not engaging with them as a, as a human. You're not,
00:24:08.560
you're not worried about their humanity and their deepest, uh, fears and worries and values and all
00:24:13.860
of that. You're just trying to get something out of them. You're trying to get this sexual experience
00:24:18.680
out of them. Um, and in a way it's like, they might as well just be a sex robot. That's how you're
00:24:24.920
treating each other. That's what hookup culture is. And yet you wake up the next morning and you're
00:24:32.000
feeling used while you were, but you weren't raped. And as I, as I always say, because we've,
00:24:39.060
we have gotten rid of all of the language to describe sexual morality, we've chipped it all
00:24:44.560
away. And all we have now is consent. That's the one sexual boundary that we have still left in place.
00:24:51.540
And so when someone wakes up the next day feeling bad about what happened, the only
00:24:58.600
language that they have, the only boundary they recognize is consent. And so they figure,
00:25:05.460
well, I guess consent was violated because they think that as long as sex is consensual,
00:25:11.500
then it's supposed to be good and I'm supposed to feel great about it. And if I don't feel great
00:25:15.280
about it, then it, then I guess it wasn't consensual. Um, and the second thing of course
00:25:24.660
is poor noise showing how to respond to cancel culture, which is, which is really important.
00:25:29.880
It's really important lesson being falsely accused, staying on the offense. He's going
00:25:36.700
after business insider. He's, he is addressing this directly. He's not like apologizing for anything
00:25:42.560
cause he didn't do anything. He didn't do any, he didn't do anything wrong. Um, except to engage
00:25:48.580
in, in, in, in hookup culture, which I would say is morally wrong, but that's, that, that is,
00:25:53.660
that, that was equally wrong on both ends. And that's also not why he's being attacked by business
00:25:59.980
insider, unless business insider wants to put out a, you know, wants to wage some campaign against
00:26:05.080
hookup culture in general, but you better, you better, you better throw a bunch of other people
00:26:08.120
into that pot with Dave portal. He's certainly not the only one. So he's not apologizing. He's
00:26:14.500
defending himself. You know, he's, he's going after business insider. He's putting these text
00:26:19.800
messages out there and that's exactly what you need to do. And another benefit I think is that he's
00:26:28.520
kind of indirectly and unintentionally putting pressure on the next guy who is me too'd in a
00:26:36.360
dishonest way like this, because the next guy now, now really, if this happens to you
00:26:41.580
and you do what so many other men have done and just clam up and start apologizing
00:26:46.500
while not exactly admitting guilt, but you clam up, you don't say anything.
00:26:51.140
People are going to say, well, wait, why, you know, Dave Portnoy came out and he was aggressive
00:26:54.200
about it. Why aren't you, what are you doing? Are you guilty? And hopefully that will push people
00:27:00.280
to say, no, do, do the exact same thing. Get out in front of it, defend, defend yourself.
00:27:06.360
Look at what happened to Aziz Ansari. I mean, there's so many examples. Aziz Ansari is one
00:27:11.380
example. It was a very similar sort of thing where he was, there was a Me Too hit piece on him.
00:27:17.920
He wasn't really accused of sexual assault. It was, it was never clear exactly what they're even
00:27:22.660
accusing him of, except that they were trying to sort of gin up the impression that he committed
00:27:28.540
sexual assault without saying it, which is exactly what they're doing to Dave Portnoy. And Ansari's
00:27:34.240
response was kind of, you know, he didn't say much and then he sort of apologized and then he kind of
00:27:39.100
went away. And, uh, and now he's, and, and, and so this label has just stuck on him rather than
00:27:46.220
coming out aggressively head on and, uh, and, and meeting this as you should as an innocent person.
00:27:52.880
Okay. Um, so we have to play this just for fun. Here is Joe Biden using, well, maybe I'll just play
00:28:01.580
the clip and then, uh, and then, you know, we'll talk about how to interpret this. Go ahead.
00:28:05.140
You know, I've adopted the attitude of the great Negro at the time pitcher in the Negro leagues went
00:28:13.840
on to become a great pitcher in the pros into the major league baseball after Jackie Robinson.
00:28:22.760
His name was Satchel Paige. Yeah. The, the great Negro at the time. That's what he said.
00:28:28.340
Now the media has been running cover for Biden on this, of course. So they've done,
00:28:34.440
you know, already we get the fact checks. I'm sure, I'm sure Snopes is already on the case and
00:28:38.200
they've done the fact checks. And, uh, I bet this is something where already, if you were to put
00:28:44.300
something on Facebook saying that, uh, Joe Biden used the word Negro, you know, Facebook would fact
00:28:52.180
check it probably. So they're, they're running the fact check. They're running cover for Joe Biden.
00:28:58.340
On this, but he did, you know, and we, he did say it and we know, of course, no doubt whatsoever
00:29:06.440
that if, if, if Donald Trump had said exactly that those words verbatim, this would be headline
00:29:14.140
news everywhere. And they would, they'd be talking about for the next 10 years, they'd never shut up
00:29:18.680
about it. Um, and it would be, there would be probably marches in the streets and it would be
00:29:23.540
a crisis of the president's arrest. They would probably impeach him. I think, I think he would have
00:29:27.140
gotten impeached a third time if he had, uh, if he had said something like that. But in reality,
00:29:33.620
of course it is, I'll admit it is a little, even though we know they would do this to Trump,
00:29:39.220
the attack on Biden here from the right, it's a little cheap. I mean, I think, I do think he meant
00:29:43.900
to say great Negro league pitcher originally. And then he kind of, cause he's Joe Biden and he
00:29:48.760
stumbled over his words. Uh, so that's, that's three out of it. And also it's all arbitrary
00:29:55.240
anyway. Why exactly is Negro, uh, politically incorrect, but you could still say Negro league.
00:30:03.480
So that, that exists. I mean, that's, that's the name of something. So you can't, but you can't,
00:30:06.800
you can't, so that's okay. But in any other context, you can't use that word. It's just like
00:30:12.800
person of color versus, uh, colored people. I love that one. That's the most arbitrary switch
00:30:19.700
in PC language. It's actually pretty funny. You say colored people. Whoa, that's, that's racist.
00:30:27.300
Well, what am I supposed to say? People of color. What, what possible difference is there between
00:30:33.180
those two things? You're just flipping the words around. And if you ask somebody that, what they'll
00:30:39.180
tell you is that, uh, well, well, uh, you know, people of color is, is, is better because it puts
00:30:45.240
the humanity first. It puts humanity before race. And if you say colored person, then you're putting
00:30:51.340
the race before humanity, but that's why you want. And that's why, and that's why, that's why it's
00:30:55.960
better. That's why one is hardly racist and the other is, is the most PC thing to say. Well then,
00:31:03.500
but what about black person? I can say that can't I? Well, and that's put it in, that's putting race
00:31:12.420
first. So it doesn't make any sense. It's entirely arbitrary. And the real reason though, anytime you
00:31:19.500
do this with the left, when it comes to PC language or anything else, and you're trying to understand,
00:31:23.820
well, why is that the rule though? Like explain to me, because you can't tell me it's putting humanity
00:31:28.880
first, because as I've already proven, that can't be it. So really why, why can you say one, not the
00:31:35.360
other? Honest question. I think it's a, it's a perfectly valid question. The real answer is from
00:31:41.940
the left. Most of the time, the real answer is the same answer I give to my kids. Um, when I'm annoyed
00:31:48.700
with their questions, the classic parent answers, because I said so. And that's actually the answer
00:31:54.740
from the left on this or on so many other things, but especially when it comes to the words you're
00:31:59.040
allowed to use versus the words you're not allowed to use. And they might try to come up with some kind
00:32:05.960
of justification or rationale for their arbitrary declarations. But when it comes down to it, the
00:32:10.880
real answer is because I said so, because the left said so, that's it. We said it and that's why you have
00:32:16.920
to do it. All right. Um, more from the media here. The media basically realizes, I think at this point
00:32:24.920
that Rittenhouse is innocent. Um, they're not going to come out and say that directly, but they realize
00:32:30.600
it and they realize that, uh, he should be acquitted and, you know, it's pretty good likelihood that he
00:32:34.760
will be. So now they're looking for a different narrative. Um, a way that their priors on this case
00:32:43.240
can still be confirmed, even if everything they said about Rittenhouse is wrong. And Chris Hayes,
00:32:48.560
in his monologue the other night, he thinks he's stumbled on, on what the, what the narrative should
00:32:53.080
be. That's the message that was being pushed to a 17 year old Kyle Rittenhouse, a child.
00:33:01.240
He heard warnings about the boogeyman of Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
00:33:05.440
And he took this illegally acquired assault weapon, which he admits not for hunting or for home defense,
00:33:12.100
and he throws himself at the fray in Kenosha and he kills two people.
00:33:20.620
The boy who killed people, the boy who killed people is then celebrated by the same pro-gun law
00:33:29.460
and order culture that produced him as a hero and a martyr. And he's bailed out with the help of right-wing
00:33:34.920
activists. And he poses for a photo grinning in the t-shirt of a long gun themed coffee company.
00:33:42.100
That then courted controversy from the right when it distanced itself from this person,
00:33:46.880
this boy who'd killed two people accused of homicide.
00:33:50.080
There's a legal question before the jury right now of Kyle Rittenhouse's guilt or innocence. It's
00:33:57.420
being determined, will be determined. From what I've seen, I think it's pretty likely he'll be
00:34:03.200
acquitted, honestly. But there's also the broader question of what kind of society we want to live
00:34:09.160
in the Second Amendment. Ask yourself that. If you're watching this and you're a gun owner or someone who
00:34:14.320
considers yourself a defender of the Second Amendment, abstractly, right? Ask yourself, do we want a society
00:34:21.960
in which political conflict is settled on the streets between people with guns?
00:34:25.940
Right. So predictable. I mean, there are nothing, nothing if not predictable, but predictably
00:34:31.700
this becomes a case of a gun culture gone wrong. And this is, this is what this is really about. And
00:34:38.780
he says in that monologue, he acknowledges that there's pretty good chance he's going to be acquitted.
00:34:44.680
And he doesn't say because he's, because he's innocent, but that's, you know, he, he realized
00:34:50.740
that they all do. There's no getting around it. And so now we're going to have a conversation about
00:34:55.540
gun culture and why, why was this boy there in the first place? Now, by the way, now he gets to be a
00:35:03.060
boy again. Did you notice that? Now he's a kid. So for a while, he was like a grown man when they
00:35:08.200
thought they could, they could hang the murder charge on him. He was a grown man. And that's what,
00:35:11.980
that's what it is. But now that they want to make this about guns specifically, now that they've
00:35:15.680
moved, now that they realize that they're not going to get the murder thing. And now they want
00:35:19.460
to make it about guns. Now it's convenient for him to be a boy, a child again, because why does this
00:35:23.560
child have a gun? So you notice how that switch has happened. Um, and they, they want to make it a,
00:35:31.360
a discussion about gun culture when of course it isn't. But if you want to talk about culture as it
00:35:40.340
relates to the Kyle Rittenhouse case, well, we could do that. Um, like the culture in America
00:35:48.040
and in our cities now that allows for rampant lawlessness and rioting, I mean, that is what
00:35:55.080
actually led to everything that happened that night. As I said, from the beginning, you know,
00:36:01.200
you want to put anybody on trial for, for what happened in Kenosha, aside from all the rioters who
00:36:09.340
should be in jail and almost none of them are, almost none of them were convicted or, or even
00:36:12.320
charged with anything. But how about the mayor of the city and the governor of the state who allowed
00:36:17.520
this, this, this to happen? That's what they, we keep hearing how Kyle Rittenhouse wasn't supposed
00:36:28.180
to be there. He shouldn't have been there. What he was, what was he doing there?
00:36:31.020
And, uh, we're just supposed to accept that all of the rioters rampaging through the streets,
00:36:41.280
burning down buildings. Okay. So they're allowed to be there.
00:36:47.000
Why was Kyle Rittenhouse there? I mean, why was he actually there? Because Kyle Rittenhouse had
00:36:52.020
determined that, um, law enforcement was not going to do his job or was not going to be allowed to do
00:36:59.800
his job. You know, law, law and order had been in Kenosha, like in many cities in, in, uh, in the
00:37:07.200
summer of 2020, law and order had been abandoned, had been officially abandoned, had been basically
00:37:11.880
canceled. It was the purge. And we're not going to have law and order. And we're just going to let
00:37:16.680
these, these animals run through the street and do whatever they want. And there were some people who
00:37:25.180
felt called, they felt like they had a responsibility to step into that void.
00:37:33.880
Now you could say that they shouldn't have done that, that they, that, that, you know,
00:37:36.600
that it was a stupid thing to do. As I said, I would call that more courageous doing what you
00:37:43.400
think is the right thing, doing the right thing. Even when you know you're putting yourself in harm's
00:37:48.680
way. I mean, we used to call that courageous. They used to be considered brave to do that,
00:37:52.140
but no matter how you describe it, the problem is that that void existed in the first place.
00:38:00.560
The people who created that void, they're the ones that we should be blending.
00:38:04.720
Um, here's a, something I want to just mention briefly, uh, from the New York Post is a 16 month
00:38:08.960
old Alabama boy who weighed less than a pound when he was born at 21 weeks. And one day is set a world
00:38:14.180
record being named the most premature infant to survive. According to Guinness world records,
00:38:17.940
Curtis means and his twin, uh, CSA had a less than 1% chance to survive after they were born to
00:38:25.740
Michelle Butler at UAB hospital in Birmingham in July of 2020. A full-term pregnancy is usually 40
00:38:31.840
weeks, making the siblings about 19 weeks premature. Um, sadly the, uh, the twin sister died the
00:38:39.820
following day, but her brother who weighed a mere 14.8 ounces at birth, uh, has survived. And he set a
00:38:47.320
new world record. So this was a child born at 21 weeks and survived.
00:38:57.500
Now we, we, we shouldn't need to connect the dots here and spell this all out. But, you know,
00:39:03.600
if a child can survive at 21 weeks, well, that maybe that should tell you something about the
00:39:12.840
people who want, you know, they, they tell us, well, we could, we could have an abortion at 21
00:39:16.980
weeks. It's just a, it's just a blob of cells, a clump of cells. Yeah. This child was delivered at
00:39:23.600
21 weeks. Is he still a blob, just a blob of cells or did that magically change upon delivery? How does
00:39:28.760
that work exactly? And the thing is, as medical science progresses and progresses, um, the,
00:39:38.340
the idea of viability, you know, that the threshold is going to go down and down and down, it's going
00:39:45.580
to be lowered. So anyone who tries to, you know, draw lines by, in terms of viability to support
00:39:55.100
abortion, well, that, you know, medical science is making that very, very difficult.
00:39:58.760
And you also see how medical science has only vindicated every day, more and more the pro-life
00:40:05.580
position. Every medical advancement in this realm has only shown more and more, has only,
00:40:15.360
has only continually affirmed the humanity of the unborn. All right. Kid Cuddy, uh, got up to some
00:40:20.980
antics at the CFDA fashion awards this week. Now, most likely the majority of that last sentence
00:40:25.520
means nothing to you. That's okay. You don't need to know much about it. Only that Kid Cuddy is some
00:40:31.520
kind of rapper, I guess, and the CFDA fashion awards are fashion awards. And, uh, Mr. Kid decided
00:40:36.840
to attend this prestigious event. I assume it's prestigious. I don't know. Wearing a dress,
00:40:43.260
a wedding dress specifically, complete with a veil and everything. And, uh, his date was a man in a
00:40:47.800
tuxedo. And you could see the pictures there. And this, of course, being celebrated by, by the media.
00:40:54.680
I think it was Vogue. So this is a bold fashion choice. And you see this kind of thing and it's
00:41:00.260
just, I mean, you look at this guy. It's just, it's kind of sad and awkward and weird because there's
00:41:08.980
nothing at all even unusual about this anymore. About a guy dressing up like a girl. Nothing,
00:41:15.060
certainly nothing revolutionary about it. Like they always want to pretend each, each time this
00:41:20.940
happens a million times. And every single time we're talking, it's a revolutionary act. It's
00:41:25.320
certainly not revolutionary. It's not even unusual. Every single award show. Now there's like 50 men in
00:41:31.220
dresses, all competing for attention on the, uh, on the red carpet. And because it doesn't have any of
00:41:38.780
that, doesn't have any of the, the novelty, it just becomes even more obvious how kind of sad and
00:41:45.680
awkward it is. It's just like this sad, awkward guy. And it looks like a sad, awkward guy in his
00:41:51.700
sister's clothes begging for attention, which of course is all he is. Very revolutionary there. Good
00:41:57.300
stuff. Okay. Now let's get to our comment section. Timmy shoe says, Matt, you're missing the
00:42:14.740
significance of the dislike button. They're trying to stop people from having a voice and they want
00:42:19.740
to make you feel like you're alone. Go to trending, click on a CNN video. And the dislike ratio is major.
00:42:25.020
People think I can't stand CNN. Everyone agrees with me. Same reason why Netflix removed the star
00:42:29.700
rating system. Um, Amy Schumer special was one starred. Yeah, that of course is, is, I understand
00:42:37.280
in reality, you know, I was talking yesterday about how they're getting rid of the dislike button
00:42:40.420
for YouTube creators. And I really appreciate YouTube as, as a YouTube creator myself, I appreciate
00:42:47.720
YouTube looking out for my feelings, but I realized I'm not, I'm not that stupid. I realized they don't
00:42:52.320
care about my feelings. It's not me that they're looking out for. Um, it's, they're trying to
00:42:56.400
save, yeah, CNN and all these left-wing accounts who get a lot of dislikes because people don't like
00:43:03.060
the, the content. And, um, and it's not even so much that they want to protect the feelings of the
00:43:12.180
left-wing content creators. I mean, that's part of it, but as you point out, you know, they don't
00:43:18.900
want other, they don't want you to know as a viewer that you are not alone in disliking this content.
00:43:25.880
They don't want you to know how many of you are out there. And so that's why they get rid of it.
00:43:29.520
I, I do understand that. Um, and then a bunch of Kayla says, sorry, buddy, 109 dislikes on this
00:43:37.760
video. Still visible. And a lot of comments like that, apparently. So you could still, at least on
00:43:42.400
my videos, you look down there right now, you can still see, I guess the dislike button and that,
00:43:48.840
that will be, will be funny. This is how it all turns out that they, they, they only disable the
00:43:52.820
dislike button for certain accounts, but for me, they'll keep it on there. 109 people disliked my
00:43:58.200
show yesterday. You bastards. Um, let's see. Bryce says the IVF story from today is a pro-choice
00:44:06.320
contradiction, isn't it? If the baby simply became a human upon birth, then whoever carried it would
00:44:12.600
have to be the mother. A statement that says a baby can belong to someone other than the woman
00:44:16.980
carrying it implies that the baby is a distinct entity prior to its birth. Very good point. I wish
00:44:23.840
I had drawn that connection, made that point. Very well done. Um, I should have just pretended I
00:44:30.300
didn't read that comment and made the point on my own and claimed it for my own. Sean says,
00:44:33.920
if Kyle was fake crying, give him an Oscar. Um, yeah, that's, that's the other, the claim that
00:44:40.400
people don't understand. I think how the fact that the fact that most people are very bad actors,
00:44:45.780
like acting is, is, is actually a rare skill. Um, and so when you see Kyle Rittenhouse on the stand and
00:44:53.580
you see him having a panic attack and crying, well, you, you know, it's genuine because of what
00:44:59.960
he's going through and how any human would react that way. Um, but also that's not something you
00:45:06.580
can't fake that unless you're a trained thespian, you, you can't fake that. That is raw human emotion.
00:45:12.120
Uh, no, no way around it. Um, Eric says you're wrong. The prosecution doesn't need to prove Kyle
00:45:19.960
shot three people that was stipulated by the defense. The burden of proof is on the defense
00:45:24.560
to prove an exception to the murder statutes, which is self-defense. Please do some research
00:45:30.420
before creating your videos. Thanks. The burden of proof is on the defense. Uh, no, Eric, that's
00:45:36.040
true. You, you, you're, you're, you're extremely confused about the basic facts of our legal system.
00:45:42.240
As I always stipulate, I'm not a lawyer. I don't claim to be a legal expert,
00:45:46.160
but I do know this at least the presumption of innocence is like the foundation of our legal system.
00:45:55.760
It's the most fundamental thing. Uh, it's, it's, it's perhaps the most fundamental principle of our
00:46:02.600
legal system is that you have the presumption of innocence as an accused person. So no,
00:46:06.920
the burden of proof is not on the defense at all. It never is. At least it's not supposed to be.
00:46:11.680
That's not how it's supposed to work. Uh, yeah, we know that Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people.
00:46:17.800
Guess what? Shooting people is not against the law. There's no law anywhere that says you don't shoot
00:46:24.800
people. Um, killing people also isn't against the law. It depends on the reason and the motivation
00:46:31.560
and the circumstance. You know, self-defense is legal everywhere. So the, the presumption of the,
00:46:41.340
if there's a presumption of innocence, then the presumption has to be that it was self-defense.
00:46:47.200
It's up to the prosecutor to prove otherwise. And they didn't. So little, uh, little legal,
00:46:54.940
legal one-on-one for you today. Quick, uh, quick trip into law school. Glad I could do that for you.
00:46:59.660
You know, last week, the Daily Wire filed a lawsuit against the federal government for the
00:47:03.040
unconstitutional mandates that the Biden administration is forcing on large employers
00:47:06.100
and their employees. Uh, this isn't something we enjoy doing. No one likes being involved in a
00:47:10.620
lawsuit, but we're happy to do it to see that, um, and be able to apply pressure and create change.
00:47:16.300
It's already working. The fifth circuit court of appeals issued a temporary stay preventing Biden's
00:47:20.260
mandate from going into effect, citing grave statutory and constitutional issues. Um,
00:47:25.320
that's a good first step step, but this is not over yet. Not by a long shot. Uh, really the fight
00:47:31.100
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Today we cancel, uh, Population Matters, which is a charity, quote unquote, that campaigns for,
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as it puts it, a sustainable human population, which is another way of saying that they want fewer
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people on earth, right? Traditionally, you know, charities have focused on helping humans flourish,
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but these days, especially in self-loathing, predominantly white Western countries,
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we have charities with the exact opposite attention. Population Matters, just a few weeks after giving
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an award to Harry and Meghan for pledging to limit their family size, um, they had a big presence at the
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UN's climate conference where they unveiled a giant inflatable baby to raise awareness of the fact that
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there are too many babies in the world, or at least in the West. You'll notice again, again, that,
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that, that all of these organizations worried about overpopulation, they always focus on mostly white
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countries. And that's not a coincidence either, but let's, uh, let's hear what they have to say.
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So Population Matters is here in Glasgow at COP26, and you can see we've got a big baby who's just
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been inflated. And we're drawing attention to the fact that in a rich developed country, like the UK,
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like Scotland, like England, choosing to have a smaller family is the best thing you can do to
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take the heat off the planet. And also, of course, we have choice here, whereas hundreds of millions
00:49:50.220
of women across the world don't have that choice, don't have that right. And we want to draw attention
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to that, because if we can meet that unmet choice and right for safe modern family planning, for the
00:50:02.060
number of kids you have, when, whether you have kids, that is also not just brilliant for people
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and for their well-being, but it's also great for the well-being of the planet, it will save more
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carbon dioxide than all onshore and offshore wind power combined. It's the number two solution to
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climate change. And yet we've hardly heard population talked about at COP26, other than
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Right, so let's go through a few points here, both in response to Population Matters and to
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the overpopulation myth generally. First of all, overpopulation is indeed a myth. This all hinges
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on the obviously absurd notion that the Earth has some sort of max capacity for human life,
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and we've almost reached it or already exceeded it. The overpopulation myth was invented out of thin
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air a few decades ago, around the time that environmentalists and eugenicists were telling
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us about the imminent ice age, which apparently came and went and destroyed mankind without
00:51:00.240
anybody noticing. In reality, the Earth really has no carrying capacity, or if it does, we'll never
00:51:05.860
get close to it. As it stands, we have enough room on Earth to fit the entire population of the world
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into Texas, and enough resources to feed them all three times over. It's not a coincidence that articles
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and news stories about overpopulation, they always come accompanied by images of people in
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Manhattan or Tokyo, all crammed together in a train or on a sidewalk. For some reason, they never show
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you the vast swaths of empty land where nobody currently lives. They never show you like North Dakota or
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rural China. It's our choice to mostly not live in North Dakota. Perhaps our cities might have a population
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limit, and even that limit is quite flexible, but the Earth is enormous and ancient and resilient, and it can
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handle all of us. This goes for the climate too, by the way. The Earth has endured massive swings in
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temperatures, highs and lows, ice ages, warm periods. The Earth has been hit by asteroids the size of
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cities. There have been super volcano eruptions, cataclysm after cataclysm. The idea that it could be
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crippled, brought to its knees because we're having too many babies, is ridiculous. Also, let's keep in mind
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always that climate change was supposed to have already brought about the extinction of the human race
00:52:18.660
several times by now. It hasn't, probably because climate change isn't that big of a deal.
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Which isn't to say that the climate change doesn't exist. Of course it exists. Of course the climate is
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changing. It always changes. The Earth has warmed very slightly over the past century and a half. It's now
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mostly stopped warming, and there's no real evidence that human beings contributed to it in any significant
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way. It's probably for this reason that there really is no, there isn't any scientific consensus on
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climate change. It never was. Second thing, human beings are not commodities. Even if it could be
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proven that an excess of children may lead to this or that problematic outcome, it still would not be
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morally justified to treat children as if they can be in excess. Either we believe that human life is
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sacred and each life holds infinite value, or we don't. And if we don't, then I'm not sure why we're
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having this conversation or any conversation. Life is meaningless. Therefore, the polar bears and the trees
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and all the fish in the sea are also meaningless. Therefore, the Earth is meaningless. Therefore,
00:53:18.820
we may as well kill ourselves and escape this painful nothingness of existence. Certainly, if human
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life has no intrinsic value, then we shouldn't bother ourselves by worrying about, you know, silly
00:53:29.220
things like murder and rape and so forth. Who cares what one worthless accidental clump of matter
00:53:35.060
does to another? It's all the same in the end. It's only possible and sensible to continue this
00:53:40.460
conversation if we agree that life has value and that its value is inherent. So if we're moving
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forward with that understanding, we must agree that each life is worth the trouble that it may
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supposedly potentially cause. Life is not a thing that can be measured, counted, rationed,
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even by an activist standing in front of a giant inflatable baby. Third thing, speaking of which,
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why hasn't that dude removed himself from the equation? It's fascinating to note that those who
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worry about overpopulation, they never seem to put themselves in the over category, right? As I think
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it was G.K. Chesterton observed that a hundred years ago. But if a person truly believed that the
00:54:23.660
surplus of humanity on Earth has become a moral crisis, is that person not morally obliged to minimize
00:54:29.540
that surplus in the only way he really can? Yet the overpopulation crusaders continue to breathe,
00:54:36.160
live their lives, annihilating another polar bear family as we speak, refusing to lead by example. It's
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unconscionable. Now let me stipulate that I am not sincerely advocating suicide. I'm only demonstrating
00:54:46.240
the insincerity of their position. Four, I hate to beat a dead horse or bear, I suppose, but why are we still
00:54:54.020
trying to save the pandas? To go back to that for a second, because I can't make sense of this.
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On the one hand, environmentalists tell us that carbon emissions are destroying the planet
00:55:04.460
and we have to have fewer children to address the epidemic. But on the other hand,
00:55:08.020
they say that we must do everything we can to stave off the extinction of pandas and koalas and
00:55:12.780
other effectively useless species who seem to want very badly to die off. We're basically forcing
00:55:18.920
pandas to have sex. We're so desperate to keep them around. Why? I mean, they emit carbon too,
00:55:22.860
don't they? Why are humans the ones who need to embrace extinction? If there are too many
00:55:28.340
biological creatures on earth, and if we need to curb the expansion of this horrid disease called
00:55:34.640
life, why wouldn't we start with the creatures who are near extinction anyway and who have less value
00:55:41.200
than human beings? All I'm saying is that don't tell me to have fewer kids while you're out there
00:55:46.180
artificially inseminating koala bears, for God's sake. Fifth point, speaking of sustainability,
00:55:52.860
what's the long-term plan here? As our birth rate slows and Western countries dip below replacement
00:55:59.540
level, the population is thrown out of balance. You end up with a population that grows older and
00:56:05.860
older on average with fewer and fewer younger people, and that's the whole idea, of course. But
00:56:09.560
then who takes care of all these older people? See, throughout human history, the plan has always
00:56:14.800
been for people to have kids, more than one kid, lots of kids preferably. And as they grow older,
00:56:20.700
they have a whole expanding family tree to lean on for support. But our trees in the West are
00:56:28.580
decaying and becoming top-heavy, and once they collapse, what then? Who's going to care for all
00:56:33.840
of these childless millennials as they grow old? Well, the government, of course. And that's the plan,
00:56:39.220
anyway. Breeding dependence on government is the point, in the end, of really all of this. Yet the
00:56:45.780
government can't take the place of family, much as it may claim otherwise. And it certainly can't
00:56:50.140
save you from dying alone, unmourned and unloved, if you take the advice to forego having children
00:56:56.100
for the sake of the climate or the planet. But I suppose you'll have the climate there to keep
00:57:02.480
you company at the end, at least. And that's why we have to say that population matters, and really
00:57:08.080
the entire overpopulation myth, which is again, once again, a myth, is today canceled. And that'll
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do it for us today, and the week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you next week. Godspeed.
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