The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 838 - College Professor Wants To Destigmatize Pedophilia

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, we will expose the people who are openly trying to normalize

00:00:04.140 and destigmatize pedophilia. It's shocking, and you need to hear about it. Also, Dave Portnoy

00:00:09.260 goes on the offense after the media smears him with a Me Too hit piece. Plus, the media

00:00:14.020 runs cover for Biden after he uses some very un-PC language during a speech,

00:00:18.800 and a male rapper wears a dress to an award show, and we're still supposed to be shocked

00:00:22.580 and impressed by this kind of thing, I guess. Finally, in our daily cancellation, we'll deal

00:00:25.820 with the claim that the only way to save our planet is to stop having babies. All of that

00:00:30.180 and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:57.000 disturbing things that you don't want to hear and I don't want to talk about. But then again,

00:02:00.420 the show almost always consists of things you don't want to hear and I don't want to talk about.

00:02:03.720 So today it starts with the organization called the Prostasia Foundation. If it already sounds creepy

00:02:09.980 and dystopian, well, you don't know the half of it. It also has kind of a pharmaceutical ring to it,

00:02:14.440 which may or may not be intentional. I don't know. Prostasia has been around for a few years,

00:02:19.100 it would seem. And it bills itself as a child protection organization, quote unquote.

00:02:25.200 That might sound pretty good. Child protection organization, that's a good thing. Until you go

00:02:31.240 to their website and you spend 10 or 15 seconds, well, you will quickly see that this child protection

00:02:38.140 organization concerns itself with such causes as kink awareness and sex workers' rights and

00:02:45.760 decriminalizing sexting for children. That's one of the things they want to do. Prostasia insists that 0.89

00:02:51.980 there is a sex positive approach to childhood sexting. The organization is also right now planning,

00:02:58.840 and this is quoting now from the website, planning, quote, research into the use of fictional or fantasy

00:03:04.220 sexual outlets like sex dolls, cartoons, and fictional stories among people who have sexual

00:03:09.920 attractions to children. Now, as you may be clued into by now, this is not a child protection

00:03:16.640 organization, quite the opposite. But if you need to be further convinced, here's an introductory video

00:03:21.140 from their website. Watch this.

00:03:23.220 Prostasia Foundation is a new child protection organization dedicated to promoting laws and

00:03:28.940 policies that are both effective and constitutional.

00:03:31.540 We're a child protection organization and a human rights organization. We're actually

00:03:35.640 the first to bring mental health professionals, human rights activists, sex experts, and internet

00:03:41.000 platforms together.

00:03:42.140 Prostasia takes an evidence-based approach, based on preventing abuse before it happens.

00:03:47.120 I think we're living in a time when people are frequently willing to think that making policy

00:03:54.260 based on belief is a good idea. I'm not sure that's correct.

00:03:59.120 We don't shy away from controversy. For example, the idea that maybe we can change the behavior

00:04:04.880 of people with a sexual interest in children. Or the fact that the best-placed people to keep

00:04:09.260 minors out of sex work or the consensual kink community are sex workers and kinksters. 1.00

00:04:13.960 And so my thing when I encounter minors in kink is, first of all, that's great that you're interested.

00:04:20.600 Please come back when you're 18. Here are some books to read.

00:04:23.420 We believe that it's possible to protect children while upholding our society's most important

00:04:28.060 values, such as tolerance, diversity, and freedom. We are Prostasia Foundation.

00:04:33.900 So I have that mental filing cabinet open, and I'm going through all of the potential things I could

00:04:41.680 say to describe the people in that video that won't get me banned from YouTube. And I'm,

00:04:48.420 there's nothing. So we'll just, we'll just forge ahead. Yes, our society's most important value,

00:04:52.960 tolerance, they say. Now notice how she says that we have to protect kids, but we need to also make

00:04:58.400 sure that we're staying true to society's most important values. Now me, I would say that society's

00:05:03.520 greatest priority is protecting kids. But that for them is an afterthought in comparison to

00:05:08.620 tolerance. And what should we be tolerant of? Well, Prostasia makes it, makes it abundantly clear

00:05:13.000 through its website and videos that we should be tolerant of. We should de-stigmatize what it

00:05:17.420 refers to as minor attracted persons, otherwise known as pedophiles. And they're not waging this war

00:05:22.680 for pedophilia normalization alone. First of all, one of the men using the term very loosely here,

00:05:28.960 one of the men affiliated with this organization is Noah Berlatsky. And he's a media

00:05:33.360 figure who has written for the Atlantic, the Washington Post, NBC. I mean, he's been all

00:05:38.260 over the place, mainstream publications. And he is, works with this organization that wants to

00:05:45.880 de-stigmatize pedophilia. Because openly supporting pedophilia will not preclude you from earning bylines

00:05:52.560 in major publications. Quite the opposite, it would seem. And there are others outside the organization

00:05:57.660 joining in this fight for pedophilia acceptance, including, of course, college professors. In fact,

00:06:02.440 just a few days ago, or last night, as Libs of TikTok on Twitter brought to our attention,

00:06:08.420 Prostasia's YouTube channel, they haven't been banned from YouTube, of course. I mean,

00:06:11.600 they're still on YouTube. They had an interview with a non-binary professor from Old Dominion

00:06:15.940 University by the name of Alan Walker. Alan Walker has just written a book available on Amazon,

00:06:21.840 hasn't been banned on Amazon, of course, arguing for tolerance of maps, minor attracted persons.

00:06:27.480 Here's Alan talking about the book and its arguments.

00:06:31.880 I use the term minor attracted person or map in the title and throughout the book for multiple

00:06:36.800 reasons. First of all, because I think it's important to use terminology for groups that

00:06:42.160 members of that group want others to use for them. And map advocacy groups like Before You Act

00:06:47.800 have advocated for use of the term map. They've advocated for it primarily because it's less

00:06:54.960 stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile. A lot of people, when they hear the term pedophile,

00:07:00.840 they automatically assume that it means a sex offender. And that isn't true. And it leads to

00:07:05.740 a lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors. I've definitely heard the idea that you

00:07:11.700 brought up, though, that the use of the term minor attracted person suggests that it's okay to be

00:07:16.260 attracted to children. But using a term that communicates who someone is attracted to doesn't

00:07:22.280 indicate anything about the morality of that attraction. You know, maybe once the FBI is done

00:07:28.480 investigating soccer moms at school board meetings, they might want to have a look at Alan Walker and 0.90

00:07:32.840 the Prostasia Foundation. If it isn't too much trouble, that is. This is all quite horrifying and

00:07:38.300 nauseating and infuriating, but we could learn something important by listening to the blood

00:07:43.040 curdling freak in that video. Now, Professor Them says that we should call pedophiles minor attracted 0.84

00:07:48.800 persons because it's polite. You know, it's what the members of that group have requested that we

00:07:53.180 do. We should allow groups to define themselves and we should use whatever language they assign to us.

00:07:59.520 The last thing we'd ever want to do, Professor Them says, is rather stigmatize them.

00:08:06.040 Now, you see here how the most hideous kinds of evil can be dragged up from the bowels of hell and

00:08:12.620 sanitized and normalized, all in the name of politeness and being respectful to communities.

00:08:21.540 That's step one, by the way. Once they start putting the label community on a group of people,

00:08:28.220 that's step one towards normalization. So now we're talking about the pedophilia community.

00:08:35.840 Much like maybe we talk about the serial killer community or the rapist community.

00:08:40.860 This is all under the assumption, of course, that groups and individuals should be able to define

00:08:46.680 themselves and that we should never stigmatize anyone, is what we're being told. Of course,

00:08:51.780 the people making this argument, they don't really believe it. I'm sure that if a white 0.99

00:08:56.060 supremacist group asked politely that they not be referred to as white supremacists,

00:09:01.000 nobody on Professor Them's side of the ball would care about respecting their group identity.

00:09:05.920 In fact, the left will stigmatize people who are not white supremacists by calling them white

00:09:10.200 supremacists, even though the people being labeled as such don't want that label and also don't

00:09:14.460 warrant it. So there's no consistency here, except in the sense that the left only applies this

00:09:20.200 de-stigmatizing rule to sexual groups. It turns out that they're big fans of stigmatizing things in

00:09:28.540 general. They stigmatize all manner of groups, people, ideas, beliefs, value systems. They stigmatize a

00:09:34.960 new thing every day. It's almost impossible to keep up. So the de-stigmatizing campaign is reserved

00:09:39.960 specially and exclusively for sexual behavior and orientations and groups. Pedophiles are a sexual 0.83

00:09:49.220 group in a sense, and it's always been only a matter of time before the campaign begins in earnest to

00:09:54.440 push for full mainstream acceptance of their quote-unquote lifestyle choices. I mean, the left has marched

00:10:01.700 under the banner of love is love, right, for years, and this is where that kind of slogan leads,

00:10:06.700 by design. Now, we'll be told that Prestasia and Alan Walker and their allies are fringe.

00:10:16.080 And if that were true, you know, if they were alone on the field fighting this battle to

00:10:20.000 normalize pedophilia and sexualize kids, you might not worry about it so much. It would be enough to

00:10:25.380 chalk them up to a small collection of disgusting anomalous dirtbags. And if we lived in a sane society, 0.99

00:10:31.040 they'd all be going to prison, and that would be it. But the problem is that they're not alone.

00:10:37.100 Just a few days ago, we played for you that news report out of Fairfax County, Virginia,

00:10:41.120 where adolescents and public schools are being asked explicit questions about their sexual

00:10:45.740 lives, their sex lives, which isn't even a thing that should exist for kids, being asked that by

00:10:53.460 other school for a survey. Yesterday, we had the video of a young boy in a dress and makeup paraded

00:10:58.480 around by his mother for applause, applause which she does indeed receive. We've talked about the

00:11:04.180 dramatically increased prevalence of LGBT identification among kids, trans identification

00:11:08.080 in particular, has skyrocketed in recent years. This is the result. This result has been engineered

00:11:15.040 precisely by sexualizing kids from a young age. And as you know from this show, the men who invented

00:11:20.820 the sexual revolution, who invented modern sex ed and the modern approach to these subjects, men like

00:11:27.100 Alfred Kinsey wanted to convince the public to see children as sexual beings. That was their goal. 0.87

00:11:33.980 Kinsey even worked closely with pedophiles in his research. He did experiments to study orgasms in

00:11:39.260 babies. And the Kinsey Institute still exists today and is very well funded. So fringe? No,

00:11:47.960 not at all. And beyond all of that, of course, there's pop music and Hollywood and so on. Altogether,

00:11:53.480 you see that the effort to sexualize kids and thereby to normalize the sexualization of kids

00:11:58.240 is already mainstream. If Prostasia and Alan Walker are unique, it's just that they have taken all of

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00:13:30.760 nice last night. We had a birthday. My son turned five. Thank God. Thank God he turned five because

00:13:38.520 I can tell you what, four, four is a battle. I mean, I've said before, we talk about the terrible

00:13:43.520 twos. Twos are, the twos are way overrated in terms of how difficult they are. Two-year-olds are really

00:13:48.800 easy. Four is when the real battle starts. So he turned five and we went to, and this is just a

00:13:57.800 recommendation that I give to parents. We took them, you know, it's his birthday dinner. We went to the

00:14:02.960 Rainforest Cafe. I don't know if you've ever been to a Rainforest Cafe or if you have them around

00:14:06.360 where you live. But we love the Rainforest Cafe. It's great. It's horrible. I mean, it's great

00:14:12.360 because it's hard. It's absolutely terrible. The food is awful. The service is awful. Everything

00:14:18.160 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

00:14:26.060 of a little dirty. And so, and so you, you feel comfortable sitting down there with, you know,

00:14:30.040 we got four kids, eight and under and sitting in a, there's like no pressure. You don't have to

00:14:34.420 worry about annoying anybody. You can barely even hear your own kids across from you at the table,

00:14:39.360 which is another positive, another bonus. And, um, and you just have to accept the fact that when,

00:14:45.960 you know, as a parent and you've got young kids, if, if for whatever reason, you're crazy enough to

00:14:52.700 bring them out to a restaurant, if this is not about you, you're not going to have a good time.

00:14:57.460 So that, this, that, that's off the table. So forget about that. Um, and this is all about

00:15:03.540 minimizing the stress and just getting through it. And as far as that goes, you go to a rainforest

00:15:08.060 cafe, it's just very loud. They've got, it's like, it's, it's the, it's, you've got these animatronic

00:15:13.100 animals all over the place and these animal noises. And, um, it's just, it's fantastic. All right.

00:15:20.440 It terrible, but fantastic. So we'll start with this. Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports

00:15:25.620 continues to wage war against business insider, justified war, a just war, I would say for their

00:15:31.920 me to hit piece. We talked about this last week on Friday. Um, right after the, right after the

00:15:40.520 hit piece came out, man, I talked about it on the show and, and, um, and I, you know, I defended

00:15:47.400 Dave Portnoy because first of all, he was accused. Well, I mean, he wasn't accused of rape or sexual

00:15:54.760 assault, not in those words at all. He was not accused of that. This is a me too kind of

00:16:02.320 what they did with the articles. They wanted to give the impression that he was a rapist

00:16:10.260 and they wanted to give the impression that he'd been accused of rape by multiple women,

00:16:14.560 but he hasn't been. And even in the article, which was of course, behind a paywall,

00:16:20.640 which means that many people didn't read it. All they saw was the headline and the headline said

00:16:26.100 something about Dave Portnoy had violent and disturbing sex. And I said to you last week,

00:16:32.640 that's a big red flag. I mean, violent and disturbing sex, that sounds bad. But if, if,

00:16:38.700 if he was being accused of rape, they would put that in the headline. They wouldn't describe it some

00:16:43.980 other way. They would say Dave Portnoy allegedly, uh, you know, commits rape or alleged rape. They 0.62

00:16:50.300 would put that in the headline. The fact that they didn't put it in the headline, they tried to find

00:16:54.040 other words that sort of suggest it, but don't say it big red flag. Then if you actually read the

00:17:01.300 article, you find that, yeah, um, they, they spent eight months digging through Dave Portnoy's life

00:17:08.140 because they decided ahead of time, they want to take him down and they figure this is a single

00:17:13.620 guy and he's successful. And he's very open about the fact that he has a lot of casual sex. So he's 0.92

00:17:19.000 got, he has a lot of sex partners out there. And they said, we're going to, we're going to talk to

00:17:23.280 all of these women until we find a few that will accuse him of a, of sexual assault. They couldn't

00:17:28.460 find any that would accuse him of sexual assault. So they kind of went, I guess they went to their

00:17:31.540 plan B, their backups. And they found women that, um, had sexual experiences with Dave Portnoy don't like

00:17:37.800 him anymore and don't feel great about the experience, but they, but they don't say that

00:17:42.900 it was rape. They say it was consensual. So they spent eight, eight, uh, eight months doing that.

00:17:48.780 And, um, and then that's what they found. They found, I guess two, really, they found two women

00:17:52.660 who felt icky about their dalliance with Portnoy. And they felt that he was, you know, a creep or

00:17:59.640 whatever. Um, Portnoy has been on the offensive ever since then. He had a press conference yesterday,

00:18:05.640 which was really more of a live stream where he went through the allegations. He dug up text

00:18:10.020 messages that he's had with these accusers. Um, and he showed how they were in, in, in one case,

00:18:16.540 one of the women accusing him. And again, I got to keep putting quotes around accusing because

00:18:20.420 it's not even clear. What exactly are they accusing him of? That's never made clear.

00:18:26.220 So, um, one of the quote unquote accusers, he showed how after the fact she was texting with him,

00:18:33.740 all happy and flirtatious, and then later claimed that she was traumatized by the experience.

00:18:40.460 Um, and, uh, the other accuser, the first one mentioned in the, um, and this is where the

00:18:47.640 headline comes from a violent and disturbing. This is the woman who contacted Dave Portnoy

00:18:53.680 and told him she had a, a rape fantasy. And then they set up that she was going to come 1.00

00:18:59.820 to his mansion and they were going to have sex. And so she came for that reason. Um, 0.81

00:19:06.740 Portnoy in his video shows how she, after this hit piece came out, she has been in public,

00:19:13.180 I guess on, I think this is on her Tik TOK account. She has been saying publicly

00:19:17.580 that she was not raped, that this was consensual. Let's, uh, let's watch some of that here.

00:19:23.220 She met the, again, a random con. She messaged him, said she wanted to explore her rape fantasy. 0.87

00:19:29.020 That's a fact. She came over. They did. We did not explore rape fantasy. We did not. Um, 0.95

00:19:34.140 she is of age. She never said no. Sounds consensual to me. Uh, the creator, her,

00:19:39.740 the article never said the sex wasn't consensual. I am getting crucified and dragged through the coals 0.99

00:19:46.760 on a girl who is openly in the public being like, I never said it wasn't a consensual and it wasn't 0.96

00:19:53.980 rape. Again, they keep stopping short because they know that's an investigation. And if it's

00:19:59.820 something happened, please her, but whatever she's saying that she doesn't even know I'm looking at

00:20:03.480 this by the way. So it's not like she's being provoked. This is, she's doing on her own, answering

00:20:07.400 it. Um, we dig a little more like where'd this animosity come from? Exhibit 14.

00:20:14.600 July 20th. So that is when she left. Dave Portnoy equals little b****. Again, doesn't sound like

00:20:26.140 so you, I told you, we didn't get along. That's what you write when, when you don't get along with

00:20:30.800 somebody. You do not write that, I don't think, I don't know when you've been assaulted. Like,

00:20:35.660 little b**** is like, he's an a**hole. Um, exhibit 15, please. This is all dug up after the fact. 1.00

00:20:43.700 That net worth, thanks to this b**** hit piece, is probably like half that s**t now. Uh, 1.00

00:20:50.640 below it, that, so that's my celeb net worth. Thanks for the update. That's her. I don't know 0.98

00:20:57.520 how she didn't delete that. Venmo at me. How much money I'm worth? Venmo. Okay. Interesting.

00:21:04.960 Okay. So this is, this is really the, this was like the headline accusation that they made the

00:21:11.800 Business Insider was from, apparently from this woman, Dave Portnoy says, and she has now said

00:21:17.160 publicly that, well, this, this, this was, this was not non-consensual, which means it was consensual

00:21:23.200 because it's either consensual or not. Right. Um, I mean, does anyone want it? Does anyone on the,

00:21:29.280 on the left want to say that it's, that, you know, you could have, uh, that, that there's some in

00:21:33.640 between, between consensual and non-consensual? No, it's consensual or, or it's, or it's non-consensual.

00:21:38.680 This was consensual. So she's said that publicly. And then he, then he brings up how, again, after

00:21:43.720 their, uh, after they had sex, she was tweeting at him. She put her Venmo up on his Twitter account.

00:21:52.320 Like this is just a full on hit piece. That's all this is trying to destroy somebody. And I think

00:22:00.040 there, there are two points to make about this, which both of them, I already sort of, sort of

00:22:04.020 made, but I'm going to reiterate. Um, the first one is, okay, this, a lot of this is, this is hookup

00:22:11.320 culture. This is the, what, what these women are experiencing to the extent that they're being 0.86

00:22:19.620 honest at all about their feelings. And he goes on to talk about how that woman, the first one,

00:22:24.960 you know, the reason why it didn't work out is because they're, they're in various different

00:22:27.420 political sides of the, of the aisle. And, uh, so she's far, far left wing. And so for her, this,

00:22:32.060 this, she might be motivated entirely just by politics, but to the extent that they're being 0.54

00:22:35.480 honest about their feelings, what, what happened was they went for a consensual hookup and it was

00:22:44.180 consensual as everyone agrees. That's the crazy thing about this that you've got, you know,

00:22:50.360 you usually talk about a, he said, she said, well, in this case, you've got a sexual experience.

00:22:55.460 There's only two people involved. Only two people were there. Both of them are saying it was consensual.

00:23:01.700 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 1.00

00:23:29.040 to him. That's what hookup culture is. You're using each other like sex dolls. You are, you are 1.00

00:23:35.820 using in hookup culture. You are using another human being like a glorified masturbatory aid. 0.99

00:23:42.700 Okay. That's what hookup culture is. It is sex with another human being reduced down basically 0.99

00:23:48.980 to the level of masturbation where, where, where you are, where the other person almost doesn't, 0.99

00:23:53.680 they don't exist as a human being. You're not worried about who they are. You might not even 0.90

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:30:45.240 the humanity first. It puts humanity before race. And if you say colored person, then you're putting 0.99

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 0.83

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 0.88

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, 1.00

00:37:36.600 that it was a stupid thing to do. As I said, I would call that more courageous doing what you 0.99

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 0.84

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 1.00

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 0.64

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.

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00:47:57.080 Also Daily Wire's own Andrew Klavan is a brilliant suspense novelist and his newest book,

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00:48:25.480 anywhere you buy books today, just in time for Christmas. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:34.440 Today we cancel, uh, Population Matters, which is a charity, quote unquote, that campaigns for,

00:48:40.700 as it puts it, a sustainable human population, which is another way of saying that they want fewer

00:48:45.460 people on earth, right? Traditionally, you know, charities have focused on helping humans flourish,

00:48:50.580 but these days, especially in self-loathing, predominantly white Western countries,

00:48:54.940 we have charities with the exact opposite attention. Population Matters, just a few weeks after giving

00:48:59.920 an award to Harry and Meghan for pledging to limit their family size, um, they had a big presence at the

00:49:05.760 UN's climate conference where they unveiled a giant inflatable baby to raise awareness of the fact that

00:49:11.060 there are too many babies in the world, or at least in the West. You'll notice again, again, that,

00:49:15.660 that, that all of these organizations worried about overpopulation, they always focus on mostly white

00:49:21.100 countries. And that's not a coincidence either, but let's, uh, let's hear what they have to say.

00:49:26.720 So Population Matters is here in Glasgow at COP26, and you can see we've got a big baby who's just

00:49:33.760 been inflated. And we're drawing attention to the fact that in a rich developed country, like the UK,

00:49:39.720 like Scotland, like England, choosing to have a smaller family is the best thing you can do to 0.67

00:49:45.120 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 1.00

00:49:55.120 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

00:50:07.080 and for their well-being, but it's also great for the well-being of the planet, it will save more

00:50:12.280 carbon dioxide than all onshore and offshore wind power combined. It's the number two solution to

00:50:18.840 climate change. And yet we've hardly heard population talked about at COP26, other than

00:50:26.200 from Population Matters.

00:50:27.440 Right, so let's go through a few points here, both in response to Population Matters and to

00:50:33.880 the overpopulation myth generally. First of all, overpopulation is indeed a myth. This all hinges

00:50:42.100 on the obviously absurd notion that the Earth has some sort of max capacity for human life,

00:50:47.060 and we've almost reached it or already exceeded it. The overpopulation myth was invented out of thin

00:50:52.480 air a few decades ago, around the time that environmentalists and eugenicists were telling

00:50:56.000 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

00:51:12.000 into Texas, and enough resources to feed them all three times over. It's not a coincidence that articles

00:51:17.740 and news stories about overpopulation, they always come accompanied by images of people in

00:51:22.600 Manhattan or Tokyo, all crammed together in a train or on a sidewalk. For some reason, they never show

00:51:28.840 you the vast swaths of empty land where nobody currently lives. They never show you like North Dakota or

00:51:34.660 rural China. It's our choice to mostly not live in North Dakota. Perhaps our cities might have a population 0.96

00:51:42.540 limit, and even that limit is quite flexible, but the Earth is enormous and ancient and resilient, and it can

00:51:49.160 handle all of us. This goes for the climate too, by the way. The Earth has endured massive swings in

00:51:56.060 temperatures, highs and lows, ice ages, warm periods. The Earth has been hit by asteroids the size of

00:52:01.300 cities. There have been super volcano eruptions, cataclysm after cataclysm. The idea that it could be

00:52:07.060 crippled, brought to its knees because we're having too many babies, is ridiculous. Also, let's keep in mind 0.99

00:52:13.960 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.

00:52:24.840 Which isn't to say that the climate change doesn't exist. Of course it exists. Of course the climate is

00:52:29.500 changing. It always changes. The Earth has warmed very slightly over the past century and a half. It's now

00:52:36.580 mostly stopped warming, and there's no real evidence that human beings contributed to it in any significant

00:52:40.620 way. It's probably for this reason that there really is no, there isn't any scientific consensus on

00:52:45.700 climate change. It never was. Second thing, human beings are not commodities. Even if it could be

00:52:52.540 proven that an excess of children may lead to this or that problematic outcome, it still would not be

00:52:58.040 morally justified to treat children as if they can be in excess. Either we believe that human life is

00:53:04.300 sacred and each life holds infinite value, or we don't. And if we don't, then I'm not sure why we're

00:53:09.320 having this conversation or any conversation. Life is meaningless. Therefore, the polar bears and the trees

00:53:14.400 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 0.99

00:53:23.880 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 0.68

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

00:53:47.100 forward with that understanding, we must agree that each life is worth the trouble that it may

00:53:50.900 supposedly potentially cause. Life is not a thing that can be measured, counted, rationed,

00:53:56.220 even by an activist standing in front of a giant inflatable baby. Third thing, speaking of which,

00:54:02.560 why hasn't that dude removed himself from the equation? It's fascinating to note that those who

00:54:10.560 worry about overpopulation, they never seem to put themselves in the over category, right? As I think

00:54:18.100 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 0.92

00:54:40.820 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.

00:55:00.780 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 1.00

00:55:18.920 pandas to have sex. We're so desperate to keep them around. Why? I mean, they emit carbon too, 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.82

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 1.00

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

00:57:15.760 do it for us today, and the week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you next week. Godspeed.

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