Ep. 1381 - Elon Musk Says ＂Go F＊＊＊ Yourself＂ To Corporate Cowards
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As the left continues its organized assault on Elon Musk and Tesla, the owner of the only non-leftist social media platform has a message for those who would censor him: "Don't Advertize." And as part of that, the DOJ is demanding information on every single person who has ever interacted with Donald Trump's Twitter account.
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As the left continues its organized assault on Elon Musk and X,
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the owner of the only non-leftist social media platform has a three-word message for those who
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would censor him. There's a public perception that that was part of a apology tour, if you will,
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that this had been said online. There was all of the criticism. There was advertisers
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leaving. We talked to Bob Iger today. I hope they stop.
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If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money,
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But go yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is. Hey, Bob, if you're in the audience.
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In case there's any confusion, the guy has no idea what to say. And Elon is absolutely right.
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If the richest man in the world is not allowed to speak his mind, if the richest man in the world
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is not even allowed to let other people speak the truth as we see it, then why even go on pretending
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that we live in anything resembling a free country anymore?
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Welcome back to the show. This episode is brought to you by Good Ranchers. Head on over to
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of 10% off today on top of their December sale. Greta, Greta Thunberg has switched her activism away from
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defending the sun monster and saving the earth toward crushing Zionism, in her words. We will get to that
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in just one moment. First, though, I don't want to move off Twitter too quickly because while Elon Musk
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is resisting the private sector attempts to censor him through advertising boycotts to get him to fall
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in line and stop speaking his mind, at the same time, Elon is fighting public sector attempts to
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intimidate his users as well, all for the same purpose. And that is coming from Jack Smith. Jack Smith is
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this lawyer who is special counsel investigating Donald Trump for, I don't know, putting too much
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ketchup on his hamburger or something, whatever the latest DOJ attempt to put Donald Trump in prison
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is. And as part of that investigation, Jack Smith is demanding information on every single Twitter user
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who has ever in any way interacted with Donald Trump's Twitter account, which is to say every Twitter
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user. Is there, is there any account on Twitter that has not interacted with Trump on Twitter at some
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point? I'm not just talking about a private message. I'm not even just talking about a public
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message. I'm talking about anyone who's ever liked, retweeted, in any way interacted with his account.
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We're talking about millions and millions of accounts. We know this now because we've seen the heavily
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redacted search warrant, and that heavily redacted search warrant includes all associated accounts,
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the names of those accounts, as well as logs and metadata pertaining to those accounts.
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This is maybe the most expansive information grab from the DOJ ever. And what is the purpose of this?
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It's clear enough to me that the purpose of this request is, one, to figure out who the political enemies
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are, who the enemies of Joe Biden are. But two, it's to intimidate Americans. The very fact that the DOJ is
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making this request is going to intimidate people. It's going to tell people, goodness, I better stop
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interacting with these Republican accounts. I better stop amplifying them. I better stop responding to them.
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I better stop quote-tweeting them. I better censor myself. And this is one of the great tools of
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left-wing censorship. I talked to a couple guys yesterday who were swinging by the office,
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and I was speaking in a politically incorrect way. And I said something. I felt totally anodyne.
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But the guy said, hey, you can't say that. I said, what do you mean I can't say that? They said,
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well, what you said is very offensive. I said, I don't think it is. They said, oh, no, it is.
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You're not allowed to say that anyway. I said, oh, well, did I offend you? They said, well, no,
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you didn't offend me. I said, can you point to anyone that I did offend, any real person? They
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said, no. I said, so what's the big deal? They said, well, no, in theory, there's a hypothetical
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person. And so you got to refrain from saying that. And this is how the left works. Yes, there is the
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overt censorship. Yes, YouTube will take down an episode if you say something that's too politically
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incorrect if you contradict the woke agenda. Yes, it's true that Facebook will pull advertising or
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something if you contradict the woke agenda. But that's only a minor part of the censorship plan.
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The bigger part is when they intimidate you and harass you and make your life much more difficult
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when you contradict them so that you censor yourself. You don't refer to a man who identifies
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as a woman as he. Maybe you don't use any pronouns at all. You just don't want to talk about it.
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Maybe you don't raise questions about the efficacy of the COVID vaccine, the Fauci ouchie. Maybe you
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don't raise questions about the legitimacy of the 2020 election because you just don't want to hear
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it. And you don't want to come under the magnifying glass of the DOJ, which now is not so much
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investigating with a magnifying glass as with a gigantic fishing net to take all of those data in
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and look at all of us. This is not just happening in America. In Ireland, it's even sadder. So this is
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being reported by the BBC right now. There was a little bit of graffiti written on a wall in Ireland.
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It says Irish lives matter. Now, I don't like graffiti. I like that statement, though. I think
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Irish lives do matter. And according to the BBC, this is anti-immigration signage. Here's how the BBC
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is reporting it. Graffiti reading Irish lives matter was daubed on the wall of the Kennedy Center
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on the Falls Road overnight. People Before Prophets' Jerry Carroll said there was, quote,
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no place in our society for this kind of racist poison. Racist poison to say that the people of
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your country matter in any way. Racist poison. Sinn Féin MP Paul Maskey described the signs as
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disgraceful, adding that they had been erected in an attempt to create fear and intimidate people.
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Disgraceful to say that the people of your own country matter in any way.
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It's to intimidate people. Yeah. No. You know what's to intimidate people?
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That news report. That's to intimidate the Irish from in any way standing up for themselves
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and their culture and their history and their own interests and their own self-government.
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If it is a hate crime to write a little bit of graffiti that says the people of our country matter,
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then what that means is your country is no longer governed by or for the people of your country.
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Ireland is no longer governed by or for the Irish. The Irish have had a difficult history.
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The Irish have not always had the best political luck. John Lennon had a song which was,
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if you had the luck of the Irish, you'd be sorry and wish you was dead. If you had the luck of the
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Irish, you'd wish you were English instead. Well, it looks like their political situation has not
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improved at all. Now, of course, some of the MPs, some of these politicians look Irish. They've got
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Irish names. They've got lilting Irish accents, but they're not really Irish. They're not governing
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in the interests of Ireland. They're governing in the interests of some far distant imperial capital.
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They're governing in the interests of Brussels, for instance.
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They're governing as satraps for some imperial power, a liberal imperial power that does not
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have the interests of the nation first. This is why you're seeing a surge of nationalism,
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perhaps not in Ireland, certainly not among the political class. I guess among the people,
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you see a little bit. That's why they're spraying the graffiti. But it's why you're seeing a surge of
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nationalism in Britain through the Brexit, in Italy through the Maloney election, in Sweden,
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in the Netherlands, in the United States, all over the place. Why? Because we are being told
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all over the West that our nations are not only unimportant, but evil, wrong. To have any care
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for your own country and its history and its people is disgraceful and totally unacceptable.
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And people don't want to hear that. So you're now seeing an opposition, not so much between the
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left and the right, as between the people and the political ruling class, which is raising a much
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deeper governing problem than the usual battles between left and right, because it's raising a
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crisis of regime. It's causing people to ask, hey, do we actually govern ourselves? Does our government
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in any way have the interests of our country first? Does our government have the interests of our country
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preborn.com slash Knowles. Speaking of the British Isles, Meghan Markle. You know Meghan Markle. She was the
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Duchess of Sussex. Princess Meghan, sort of. She married Prince Harry. I've long had a conspiracy
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theory that Meghan Markle is a biological weapon constructed in America to get back at the British
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Crown for the War of 1812. We built her here. We assembled her perfectly to just go over to England
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and completely destroy the royal family and the monarchy. She's doing a pretty good job at it.
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Well, Meghan Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, they've come over here to America. It's a little bit
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like a boomerang, unfortunately. The weapon has come back on us. And reportedly, Meghan Markle has
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said she never wants to set foot in England again, which is a little awkward because her father-in-law
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is the king of England. The only reason I care about this story is not because, I do sort of like the
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royals. I'm a little bit anglophilic, but they can sort out their own politics. The reason that I care
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about this story is what it tells you about marriage. The state of modern marriage, not just among
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aristocrats and nobility and royalty overseas, but among everyone right here. Which is, did she not
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think of this issue before she married the prince? Did she not consider whether or not she wanted to
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ever step foot in England before she married the second most notable prince of England?
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You would think that's the sort of thing you would consider. Did she not recognize that when she
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married a member of the royal family, a senior member of the royal family, that she might have
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some duties and responsibilities that go along with that? And then the moment that she encountered
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those responsibilities, she said, oh no, I want to go play pretend. I don't want to actually be a
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princess. I just want to go play a princess in Disney movies. I don't want to be the real thing.
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I just want to play pretend and then go off to my Malibu mansion, Montecito mansion, and I don't know,
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sip Shabli and not have any responsibilities. You don't have to agree on everything before you head
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into a marriage with somebody, but you do have to agree on what a marriage is. I get asked for marriage
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advice all the time from young people because marriage is unusual these days, because people
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are delaying getting married, because our stupid culture tells people don't get married. Put your
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career first. Put yourself first. Don't think about another person. Don't have children. For goodness
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sakes, children are a sexually transmitted disease. You need to use contraception. You need to have
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abortions. You need to put that off and freeze your eggs and maybe have a kid when you're 50.
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And this is not conducive to people's happiness. And so there's a crisis of marriage, a crisis of
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marriage because the Supreme Court redefined what marriage is in an absurd way. So we can't even answer
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that question. But that is the fundamental question of political society. What are we all doing
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together? What are we aiming at? What do we think is good? What are we pursuing here together?
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And at what level? There's the national level of government. There's the state level of government.
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There's the community level of government. And then there's the basic political unit,
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which is the family, which is a marriage. And when you get married, I don't think you need to have
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some clinical job interview kind of procedure. I don't think you need to sit across from your
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prospective wife and have a 10 bullet point checklist and say, okay, well, you check off
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seven of the 10. So I guess that's a passing grade. You can only get a C, but okay, close enough. Maybe
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we'll get married. No, that's not the most romantic thing I ever heard. You don't need to agree on every
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single thing, at least not when you first get married. Because by the way, over the course of
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marriage, you will grow together or you can grow apart. But if you have a real proper functioning
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marriage and you're spending time together and you're deferring to one another in their respective
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realms and you throw feminism at the window, then you're going to grow together, most likely.
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That's the question you have to answer. Not what are we going to have for dinner? Not whose house are
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we going to go to for Christmas? Not even what school are we going to send the kids to? You have to
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ask what is marriage? That should be the next Daily Wire documentary. We had the smash hit,
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what is a woman? Now we need something just as basic, which is what is marriage?
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And today, most people don't know. For Meghan Markle, marriage means live out a fantasy from a
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Disney movie. Have a little arm candy prince to accompany your handbag and your high heels.
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Prince Harry probably had a different understanding of marriage. The more traditional people have a
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different understanding of marriage than that. And it creates a big, big problem if you guys don't
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agree on that when you are going in. Now, speaking of foreigners, there's an unusual, unexpected story
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out of Argentina. The eccentric new president-elect of Argentina, Javier Millet, radical libertarian,
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populist candidate who won unexpectedly, according to the experts in Argentina.
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He's considering converting to Judaism. This is according to Bloomberg News.
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Why is he converting to Judaism? I don't know for certain. It's unusual to convert to Judaism.
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Judaism is not a proselytizing religion. In fact, it's very, very difficult. You have to go through an
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extensive process and try multiple times. But here's one potential explanation. Millet, who has all sorts of
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eccentric views on tantric sex and all kinds of unusual spiritual and even sexual topics. He said,
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the truth is, I did not get to know the Rebbe personally, a major figure in Chabad, Lubavitcher
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Judaism. But just in the last year, I had the privilege of visiting the Rebbe's grave twice.
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There, I asked for his holy blessing to be elected president of Argentina. And this blessing became a
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reality this week. So some are saying, well, he's just this kook mystic who thinks that because he
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visited a grave and said, I want to be president of Argentina, and then he got it, he now credits the
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Rebbe of Judaism with giving it to him. And so he's going to convert to Judaism out of gratitude for
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that. I think there's a much simpler explanation here as to why Millet would be interested in converting
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to Judaism. The answer is because he's a radical libertarian. And as such, Millet feels uncomfortable
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with the religion in which he was raised, and that's Catholicism. There are plenty of libertarians
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who are just fine in the Catholic Church. There's the Acton Institute. In fact, we've interviewed
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Father Sirico who runs the Acton Institute on here. There are libertarians among the Catholics. But
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Catholic social teaching does not totally accord with libertarianism. Libertarianism is a modern
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movement. Liberalism is a modern movement. And Catholicism is not modern. Whatever you want to
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call Catholicism, it ain't modern. Now, Judaism obviously is not modern either, but Judaism better
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accommodates itself to some of those modern movements. I was talking to a friend of mine
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one time. I said, why is there so much anti-Semitism? Why do people hate the Jews so much?
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And he said, one theory I've got as to why people hate the Jews so much is that the Jews uniquely
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have been able to thrive in modernity while still maintaining their culture and their traditions
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and their heritage. And no other group has really been able to do that. It's usually one or the other.
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Either you thrive in our modern material society and give up your whole culture,
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become totally deracinated. Or you go off into the woods and you, you know, you become Amish or
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something. But you get to maintain your culture, but you're not particularly financially successful.
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And the Jews, perhaps uniquely, have been able to do both at the same time.
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Catholic social teaching says that one can't just be a radical libertarian. One doesn't want to
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eradicate the state. One doesn't want to just completely dismiss any kind of social welfare
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program out of hand. And Millet hates that. He's accused the Pope of all sorts of terrible things
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and the church of all sorts of terrible things. And I know a lot of people aren't thrilled with the
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Pope. And he's said, certainly, he's made questionable declarations about politics. But I think this goes
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to a deeper philosophical issue, which is, if one is a true, perfectly doctrinaire, radical libertarian,
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then the traditional teachings of Christendom with regard to political economy don't quite work.
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And it reveals that libertarianism, while there's much to recommend it on the right,
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also is kind of a left-wing movement. It doesn't fit exactly on the left-right political spectrum.
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Now, speaking of the Jews, Greta Thunberg wants to crush them. We'll get to that in one second.
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Greta wants to crush the Jews. Here is Greta Thunberg in Stockholm shaking up her usual climate
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activism, doing a rain dance and screaming at the sun monster to do some other kind of dance
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and scream at the Hebraic people. So I can't quite make a Swedish either, but apparently the chant
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there is Krosasinoismen, which means Sionismen, which means crush Zionism. This was at a pro-Palestine
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rally, which leads me back to one of the only points I've made as this war broke out, because
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there are high passions about this war in the Middle East. Some people have a strong connection
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to Israel. Some people have family members in Israel, for instance. Some people have spent a lot
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of time there. Some people believe in the theological premises of Zionism. This includes Jews. This even
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includes certain evangelical Christians. Some people on the flip side have strong affinities for the
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Palestine liberation cause, mostly on the left, but a little bit on the right. And I'm not all that
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interested in those nuances of the conflict. I want to protect innocent people. I want to avoid
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World War III, but that's about where my interest ends in that there are a lot of conflicts all
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around the world. I have an interest in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and
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Azerbaijan. We have an interest in the Ukraine-Russia conflict also because we don't want to go into
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World War III, but there are a lot of different conflicts. How does one make any sense of the
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Israel-Palestine conflict, which has gone on for a long time in its present form for a hundred years
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and in some form or other for centuries and millennia even? And the answer is, my little
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rule of thumb is, if Greta Thunberg is on one side of an issue, I'm probably on the other side. Just
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as a rule of thumb, okay? If Greta Thunberg hates something, then that's probably a pretty good
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recommendation of it. One of the arguments I've heard from people trying to take a more pro-Palestine
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side here is, not the Greta Thunbergs, not the Ilhan Omars, not the Rashida Tlaibs, but sane,
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normal people, is they say, well, I just don't agree with the way in which the Israeli state was
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established because the Israeli state, the modern Israeli state, was established as a consequence of
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the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which is a way for the British Empire to curry favor and win some
00:25:34.080
support from Jews around the world and to support the political project of Zionism, which had predated
00:25:39.080
it by some decades. And then after World War II, because of the atrocities that happened to the
00:25:45.180
Jews as a result of Nazi Germany, then there was even more political impetus for the official
00:25:50.460
founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and it received a UN charter. But as a result of that,
00:25:54.880
it displaced a lot of people and it created a new entity on the map and no one had any right to do
00:25:58.600
that. And that's just a kind of imperialism. And I've heard all of the arguments. I totally agree.
00:26:02.820
I totally agree that it's a complicated issue. Sorry, I don't agree with all of the arguments
00:26:06.860
that people make, but I certainly agree it's a complicated issue. But what are you going to do now?
00:26:13.340
Even if you think that the establishment of the modern state of Israel was questionable,
00:26:17.960
it was established. What are you going to do? What on earth are you supposed to do? What is
00:26:23.220
Greta Thunberg's answer here? What is Rashida Tlaib's answer? What is Ilhan Omar's answer?
00:26:29.320
Seems to me pretty clear the answer is just wipe the place off the map and then things are not going
00:26:34.320
to work out very well for the present occupants. But they don't really have any answers. Just like
00:26:39.460
the Libs on other issues don't really have any answers. They just want to tear things down.
00:26:43.280
They just want to scream and yell. And even they apply this to America. They say we need to give
00:26:49.660
the Black Hills of South Dakota back to the Lakota Sioux. That's your answer. We're going to give away
00:26:56.480
an area of the United States that has four U.S. president's faces carved into it. Mount Rushmore.
00:27:03.660
We're going to give away an area of the United States that has a quarter million Americans living
00:27:06.340
on it. To who? To the Lakota Sioux. We've had the land longer than the Lakota Sioux have.
00:27:13.280
And by the way, the Lakota Sioux stole the land from the Cheyenne. Why don't we give it to the
00:27:16.320
Cheyenne? Who did the Cheyenne take it from? I discussed this topic in a speech a couple nights
00:27:20.880
ago at Vanderbilt, which you can get on the YAF YouTube channel. So I don't just want to own
00:27:25.260
the Libs here. I don't just want to have a nice pithy zinger. My question is, what are you supposed
00:27:29.300
to do? What's your answer? These people don't have any answer. They just whine and scream and pretend
00:27:35.100
to be so much more virtuous than the rest of us. Now, speaking of political polarization,
00:27:38.660
conversation, this story, man, this is our, this is the weird sex stuff segment of the day. And this
00:27:45.760
one, man, there's sex stuff. And then there's weird sex stuff. And then there is whatever the
00:27:55.880
Washington Post is writing about in this article. Washington Post publishing a leather mask of a
00:28:05.140
donkey with chains and spikes and stuff and a leather mask of an elephant. And it says,
00:28:11.240
in the world of sexual fetishes, crossing the political aisle is a kink. Does a forced vote
00:28:20.060
for the other side get your pulse racing? There is a dominatrix for that. And so I'm going to cut out
00:28:27.640
some of the more lurid details here where they talk about all sorts of sexual objects.
00:28:35.140
And fetishes. They say a fetish is an inanimate object, technically. Say stiletto shoes,
00:28:41.740
a body part, feet, for example, or situation required for sexual arousal. Though it's frequently
00:28:46.280
used interchangeably for the broader term kink, which includes pleasurable if unorthodox role
00:28:51.500
playing and you name it. And these are all sorts of fantasies. Well, put aside those somewhat more
00:28:58.700
common fetishes and fantasies. The new one, the big one, is a political sexual fetish.
00:29:08.940
Guys who want their sexual partners to make them vote for the opposite party.
00:29:16.920
Guys who are, and this is, I assumed this was a fake thing. No, the Washington Post details,
00:29:21.260
in lurid detail. All these different groups online and on various sex social media sites.
00:29:29.340
Thousands of people joining these groups to say, yeah, I'm a liberal, but I want a Republican
00:29:34.380
to just call me a dumb idiot leftist. So here's just one paragraph. This is one of the
00:29:41.340
more wholesome paragraphs in an otherwise truly degenerate article.
00:29:46.540
He said he came up with the idea for the group after he received messages from a handful of users
00:29:52.380
all asking for the same thing. Quote, I'm liberal leftist and proud, but I really want to be
00:29:58.380
dominated by a conservative. Nearly all of the group members merely want to text their fantasies
00:30:04.080
to him, not act them out. One man who wanted to meet up, but changed his mind, described his fantasy
00:30:09.860
as wearing a Trump dog collar sold on Trump's campaign website. So apparently that's actual Trump merch
00:30:15.620
and being walked by Wright makes mites, which is one of the users, I guess, around Walmart to pick
00:30:23.500
out a dog bone. So I'm going to leave it there. If you want to read the rest of the article, I got
00:30:29.160
to hand it to the Washington Post. This is the single most entertaining piece of journalism I have read
00:30:35.280
in a very long time. It's very, very funny. It's definitely revolting. But the reason that I mention it
00:30:43.040
on the show is because there clearly is a deeper significance to this. And the deeper significance
00:30:50.680
is a lot of what the author details as kink or fetish, right? Fetish, by the way, the basic meaning
00:30:59.900
of that word is an idol. So you could have a pagan tribe that has its fetishes, disconnected largely
00:31:09.000
or totally from sex, but it's just the idols that the people worship. And so it's applied to all these
00:31:14.200
kind of weird sex things. And so at that deeper level, what you're seeing is a kind of taboo.
00:31:22.240
What is a taboo? A taboo is a separating of something that is either extremely sacred or extremely profane
00:31:29.720
or just something you don't want to touch. It's something, it's something taboo. And in our culture
00:31:36.520
now, the taboos are not just some bizarre fringe desire you ever heard of. The taboos are political
00:31:45.540
disagreement. You're not allowed to do that anymore. That's naughty. It is naughty to disagree with Joe
00:31:51.060
Biden. It is naughty to have any independent political thought. It is naughty. It's shameful.
00:31:56.580
You got to whisper it in the back alleys and on weird sex sites if you in any way break from,
00:32:02.460
not even just the liberals, from your political tribe. It does appear to be mostly the liberals
00:32:06.800
here though, who are signing up for this stuff, who want the conservatives to smack them around or
00:32:10.520
something. That is the sign not only of an unhealthy psyche, that is the sign not only of an unhealthy
00:32:18.700
libido and sexual desire, that's the sign of an unhealthy society, of an unhealthy political order.
00:32:25.960
But of course, this is the case. If you're a conservative now, if you're a pro-lifer,
00:32:29.800
the FBI might come knocking on your door. If you're lucky, they'll knock. They might just kick
00:32:33.200
the door in. If you're a Catholic, the feds might be shown up to your mass to spy on your mass,
00:32:38.800
to try to infiltrate your church. If you're a totally peaceful protester on January 6th,
00:32:46.080
the worst day in the history of the world, you could have a US marshal show up to your house,
00:32:49.340
arrest you, throw you in solitary confinement for voicing your questions about an obviously
00:32:55.280
very dubious election. Which means that political discourse is taboo. And for some people, that's
00:33:05.820
sexy. For some people, it's terrifying. For these guys, it's probably both because they appear to get
00:33:12.420
a kick out of things that are terrifying or disgusting or revolting or, broadly speaking,
00:33:18.540
taboo. Yikes. When political disagreement is enough to titillate you and get your rocks off because it's
00:33:25.400
so naughty, then our culture is effectively no longer a free republic. Now, speaking of finding
00:33:33.960
significance in otherwise shallow things, there's going to be a course taught at Harvard by a transvestite
00:33:41.800
on Taylor Swift music. Stephanie Burt, I don't know what his real name is, probably Stephen,
00:33:49.100
is a man who identifies as transgender. And he's going to be teaching a course called Taylor Swift
00:33:54.500
and Her World. The class will include some details about Taylor Swift's current highly publicized
00:34:02.980
romance with that football player. And Professor Burt says it's a literature course. And it has a lot of
00:34:09.600
songs and songwriting. It's going to be focused on Taylor Swift's lyrics and creative composition
00:34:14.740
and how they're connected to other page-based poets and authors. This is how you know that this course
00:34:19.920
is going to be awful. The notion that a poet needs to have the distinction page-based added before his
00:34:26.640
title. The other kind of poet, according to this person, would be a slam poet, which is the absolute
00:34:33.040
death of art. And if you think the slam poetry is anything even resembling an art form, then you
00:34:38.180
certainly shouldn't be shaping young minds. But this person is. It says, you know, William Wordsworth
00:34:43.100
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote some of their poems in the Lake District, which Taylor has visited
00:34:48.080
and has a song about. Look at all these literary connections here. Oh man, this is so pathetic.
00:34:53.860
But this is nothing new. This sort of stuff has gone on at elite schools for a long time.
00:35:01.560
The gut class is where every kid in this class is going to get an A. They're not going to learn
00:35:05.300
anything. They're going to listen to some Taylor Swift music and try to put some kind of academic
00:35:10.040
patina over it, but it's going to be pretty shallow. But this has gone on for a long time because it is
00:35:16.200
still hard to get into these schools. It is actually hard to get into Harvard, but it's very easy to
00:35:22.760
graduate. It's much harder to get in than it is to graduate. You have to have decent test scores,
00:35:28.320
at least for now, or you have to be reasonably accomplished in school and be able to check a
00:35:33.460
bunch of politically correct intersectional identity boxes. But once you're in, you're in.
00:35:40.080
I was once told by my alumni interviewer for college that it would take an act of violence for
00:35:45.360
me to get thrown out of school. The grade inflation is so rampant because it doesn't really matter what
00:35:50.160
these kids learn. The purpose of the schools right now is a credentialing institution and a finishing
00:35:56.340
school to channel you into consulting, law school, finance, investment banking, these sorts of
00:36:04.900
Washington, D.C., the State Department, the deep state. That's what it's for. It's a finishing school
00:36:10.860
for the would-be political elite. But our political elite, as we all know, they don't really know much
00:36:17.100
of anything at all these days. And they don't have to. In fact, it's better for the ideologues if
00:36:24.460
they don't really know very much of anything. Because when you know things, when you have a
00:36:26.900
proper education, then you can think for yourself and you can see through shallow ideologies.
00:36:31.880
So what do they do? They got to fill their time. The kids have to take some classes in these schools.
00:36:35.700
So what do they learn? They go and they sit and they listen to Taylor Swift music and they all
00:36:40.400
rock back and forth and then they get their degrees and then they run the world. That's what they do.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Kaylee Ann, 1994. Lady Ballers has to be the funniest
00:38:22.580
sports comedy since basketball. The fact that you guys got Ted Cruz to make a cameo appearance nearly
00:38:29.320
sent me into shock. I cannot wait to watch. And we have many other great cameos there.
00:38:35.420
You know, I spent much of the night with all of the stars of this, including Senator Cruz. But with
00:38:43.340
all the stars of this movie, everyone was ecstatic about how this thing turned out. We had hundreds
00:38:48.720
of people in the movie theater for the premiere. Maybe two or three of us had ever seen the movie
00:38:52.960
before. Jeremy and I don't know, maybe one of us had ever seen the movie before. And universally,
00:38:58.560
we were all thrilled that we cannot wait to share with you. That will be tomorrow. Now, speaking of
00:39:03.660
the universities, you're gonna be shocked to hear this is breaking news. Stop the presses. Graduate
00:39:09.640
students are complaining. Here's why. We're PhD students. Of course I have an emotional support
00:39:16.080
animal. We're PhD students. Of course I'm on prescription anxiety medication. Of course I
00:39:20.880
question my decision to do more school every day. I got a 38 on my last midterm and I don't even care
00:39:25.980
that much. We're PhD students. Of course I care more about disappointing my advisor than my own
00:39:30.860
parents. My entire self-worth is based on how this next experiment goes. I have no idea what my
00:39:35.400
expected year of graduation is. We're PhD students. Of course every single major life milestone is on
00:39:40.940
hold. I don't know what a 401k is. We survive off of Costco frozen meals. We're PhD students. Of course
00:39:47.180
I get offended when people think I'm an undergrad. We're PhD students. You will be calling me doctor
00:39:51.560
when I graduate. We're PhD students. Of course I spend every day googling the jobs that I'll have
00:39:56.440
after graduation. We're PhD students and their salaries which are looking pretty good compared
00:40:00.920
to what I'm getting paid right now. We're PhD students. I want to get an advanced degree and
00:40:04.200
then go into academia and make zero money. Of course I use Wikipedia to teach myself the things I need to
00:40:09.560
know to read papers. I have a list of papers that I should read but I'm never going to. We're PhD students.
00:40:15.560
Of course I just use a calculator and add two plus two. We're PhD students. Of course we're gonna cry in our
00:40:20.520
advisor's office. I have no idea what I'm doing with my life. Okay. They're PhD students but not in
00:40:28.680
comedy. They're studying something else. Part of this is a little self-effacing. We're PhD students.
00:40:36.200
We need a calculator to say that two plus two equals four. Sure. Some of it I suspect is real which is
00:40:43.000
when they say yeah I'm looking at the job market and I'm not going to make a lot of money and I don't
00:40:48.060
make any money now and I've got all this work and I don't get any credit for it and some of it's kind
00:40:54.480
of hard and boring and I don't even want to read the papers that I signed up for and it's just a kind
00:40:58.060
of a miserable life. Which raises the question. Why are you PhD students? We do not suffer from a
00:41:08.300
national shortage of PhD students. We have plenty. We have so many fake academic departments now.
00:41:14.860
We have such a glut of PhD students and the standards have been so lowered in recent decades.
00:41:20.500
We don't. We have plenty. And we know that the job market for professors is absolutely brutal and
00:41:24.960
a lot of these people will never get jobs in academia. So you don't need to do it. Why do you
00:41:29.180
do it? You become a PhD student and then you become a scholar because you are one of the really weird
00:41:35.900
people who wants to dedicate your life to sitting in a small room reading books and not making a lot
00:41:41.340
money but you care so much about the great conversation taking place in our civilization
00:41:45.180
that you want to and you believe you can contribute to it. Very few people can actually do that
00:41:53.380
and will thrive doing that. The people for whom that is not the best path are going to be miserable.
00:42:02.340
It's a really, really hard life. But no one's making them do it. A lot of people do this because
00:42:07.840
they've been conditioned for their whole lives to think that this is all that they can do
00:42:11.560
and because they think that after they graduate from college, this is an easy enough next step.
00:42:18.800
And some of them want to be perpetual students. They say, I don't have no idea when I'm going to
00:42:21.320
graduate. And a lot of them are in no rush whatsoever. They'll just keep deferring,
00:42:25.860
entering the workforce, they'll keep deferring adulthood.
00:42:28.600
It gets to a theory that Antonin Scalia got in trouble for bringing up in a Supreme Court
00:42:37.660
opinion once, which is the theory of mismatch. We are told today that everything is for everyone
00:42:44.400
and everyone is perfectly well-prepared to do every single thing. And if you ever suggest otherwise,
00:42:49.900
then you are not equitable. You are unjust. You're probably a racist and a sexist and a thisist and a
00:42:55.840
sadist. But it's not. Not everything is for everyone. Not every school is for everyone.
00:43:02.020
And not only will the admission of people who are not up to snuff into these schools harm the
00:43:09.380
other students because it'll reduce standards, it'll harm the students who are admitted because
00:43:13.080
they're not going to do very well and they're either going to flunk out and be in debt or they're
00:43:18.560
going to waste a lot of time. Or what they're going to do is they're going to stay in the schools
00:43:22.420
and the schools are going to create fake departments to accommodate them because they can't
00:43:25.660
hack it in certainly not physics or mathematics, but probably not history or English either. So
00:43:32.280
they're going to have some fake critical studies department and they're going to get their A's in
00:43:35.400
it and they're going to graduate not really knowing anything. And because there's no job for a gender
00:43:40.280
studies major, they're probably going to go to graduate school because the only job really for a
00:43:43.860
gender studies major is to teach gender studies. Maybe you can work in some DEI office or something
00:43:50.380
like that. But in any case, you're likely going to go on to graduate school and then you're going to
00:43:55.560
be miserable. Not everything is for everyone. Now there's a story I really wanted to get to today.
00:44:02.640
This is an important social issue. It's a crisis. And the crisis is that people, you know, you get a
00:44:08.000
water bottle, like a plastic water bottle and you drink it and then maybe you leave a little bit in
00:44:11.640
it and you leave it somewhere. Maybe you throw it out. Well, there's a woman who has gone viral for
00:44:17.520
saying that this is going to deplete all the water of the earth because that water will never escape
00:44:23.480
and we will all die of thirst. I don't have time to get to this today because I've got to turn to a
00:44:29.880
very dear friend of mine who is seeing firsthand the craziness going on on our campuses. He's seeing
00:44:37.060
it firsthand at Yale University. That would be my friend Rabbi Shmuley Hecht and that will happen in
00:44:43.100
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