Transgenderism is on the decline in South Dakota, which is good news for the people of that state, but also bad news for leftist ideologues who believe that politics is exclusively and eternally downstream of culture. Also, the final Iowa polls are in, and it's not looking good for DeSantis.
00:00:00.000Gender dysphoria diagnoses have spiked in 49 out of 50 states between 2018 and 2022.
00:00:07.980The only state that did not see a jump in boys thinking they're girls and girls thinking they're boys
00:00:13.040was South Dakota, which actually saw a 23% decrease in gender dysphoria diagnoses.
00:00:20.200So what gives? Is there something in the water in 47 out of the lower 48 plus Alaska and Hawaii?
00:00:27.320Is there something special in the water in South Dakota?
00:00:31.500Or is transgenderism not actually a medical reality, but rather an ideology and social contagion?
00:00:39.620There is no evidence of any major differences in the water between South Dakota and the rest of the country,
00:00:44.600but there is a difference in the laws.
00:00:47.020South Dakota has not gotten on board with trans ideology.
00:00:50.840In fact, last year, the state formally restricted trans medical mutilations for children.
00:00:57.320A number of other states have issued similar bans, but unfortunately leftist activists on the courts and elsewhere
00:01:03.160have prevented the bans from being enacted in most of them.
00:01:07.220This is great news for the people of South Dakota.
00:01:10.240Gender dysphoria, gender confusion, is a terrible condition that leads to all sorts of psychological problems.
00:01:16.400And the supposed treatments are even worse.
00:01:18.620Not only do the supposed gender-affirming treatments not resolve the psychological problems—depression, anxiety, suicidality—
00:01:27.160but they add to them a whole host of physical problems that can leave patients sterile, crippled, and at risk of early death.
00:01:34.840The story is bad news for the alternately misguided and perverted people peddling trans ideology.
00:01:41.880But the story is also bad news for the well-meaning lowercase-l liberals who believe that politics is exclusively and eternally downstream of culture.
00:03:04.700Also, the other reason we couldn't take the show off today we had to broadcast is because a Zoomer girl has gone viral whining about getting fired from her job.
00:03:14.760And so that's the sort of news that you've got to.
00:05:23.300Now, in the meantime, speaking of Trump and Vivek, the knock on Vivek for a lot of this campaign is that Vivek has been nothing but a stalking horse for Trump.
00:05:33.240Vivek, he's been coordinating with the Trump campaign.
00:07:15.700This is exactly what happened to Senator Cruz in 2016.
00:07:22.240What happened in 2016, you'll recall, all the never-Trumpers and the libs and the whiny people, they spent all their energy complaining about Trump.
00:07:31.760And Trump picked them off one by one, very easily.
00:07:35.780The one candidate who did not really go after Trump or who went after him in a fairly moderate way, in part probably because he agreed with a lot of Trump's newly articulated conservative positions, was Senator Cruz.
00:07:49.940But when it got down to the end and Cruz looked like he was maybe a real threat to Trump, Trump went for the jugular at Cruz.
00:07:58.120He wasn't going to give Cruz a pass just because Cruz had been nice to him.
00:08:00.820And the same thing is happening here with Vivek.
00:08:05.440There is no evidence, no evidence, that Trump ever goes easy on people who challenge him in any way.
00:08:15.500A lot of people thought it might happen.
00:08:17.020Remember, Mitt Romney thought he was going to get Secretary of State under Trump.
00:08:20.000And there was that infamous photo where they're having dinner and Romney just looks so uncomfortable and embarrassed.
00:08:25.080And there's Trump eating his steak like just a complete animal, just loving every minute of it.
00:08:29.600And even Christie, you know, Christie ran against Trump and then Trump brought Christie into the administration.
00:08:34.600But he discarded him relatively quickly.
00:08:37.620I think the same thing is happening to Vivek here.
00:08:41.640Vivek has run a campaign that is pretty well aligned with Trump issues.
00:08:56.860If you ever criticize the man, if you ever challenge him, even in a fairly moderate way, 8% in Iowa versus 48%, even that, he's going to hit you eventually.
00:09:08.680And I think that's what's happening here.
00:09:11.020Vivek is playing it as well as he possibly could.
00:09:25.920And he's demonstrating that yet again in Iowa.
00:09:28.320And we'll see if the voters respond to that.
00:09:30.320One issue I think we should all agree on, especially on the right, because we've had so many great wins, in large part because of Donald Trump, but in large part because of all of the great work of pro-lifers for 50 years, is to defend innocent life.
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00:09:52.500I was just kind of like, Lord, if this is, you know, if this is the way, you know, let me know.
00:09:58.600If this is not the way, give me a sign, you know, before I walk through these doors.
00:10:02.380And I was, as I was getting ready to walk up the steps and touch the doorknob, you know, a guardian angel.
00:10:08.000And he just told me, he was like, baby, you don't have to go in there.
00:10:11.080And he was like, I know someone that can help him.
00:10:12.980Just to see the development of a baby that small.
00:10:15.920And I say baby because, I mean, he had little arms and legs.
00:10:18.920And, I mean, you know, it was actually a human, you know.
00:10:22.880And to see that and to have that physical and that contact once you look at that, I think it just pulls on your heart a little.
00:10:30.740Thank you to everyone who made this possible.
00:10:32.680Let's celebrate these precious babies.
00:11:41.960Impossible for Trump to be president again.
00:11:44.300This is a neck and neck race and no one feels very comfortable on the Democratic side of things that Donald Trump isn't going to be the next president.
00:11:52.820Well, I don't think that nobody feels.
00:11:55.140I think many of us know that it is impossible for him to be the president again.
00:12:01.660Well, because when you're talking about what he's talking about now is more tax cuts for corporate America, taking them down so low to the detriment of our budget and meeting the needs of people.
00:13:22.840If public sentiment matters, then you should say it's impossible that Trump won't be president again if he's the nominee against Joe Biden.
00:13:31.620Well, no, it's because all this stuff he's talking about with corporate tax cuts.
00:17:35.120Even though, as an exoteric message, as the actual plot of the story, from what I gather, never saw the movie, every single romantic relationship is heterosexual, I agree that the story itself is gay.
00:17:52.060It gets to actually something that she talks about directly, but it gets to why sodomy is condemned traditionally in all the theistic religions and throughout our entire civilization.
00:18:06.880I think today people think it's because people are just prejudiced or bigoted or we think the gays are icky or something like that.
00:19:47.160The reason suicide is worse than that is because it's violence against yourself, which is even more contrary to nature than killing your neighbor.
00:19:56.700And the reason Dante puts even his beloved teacher, Brunetto Latini, who he says is a sodomite, lower than that is because that is more contrary to nature still.
00:20:07.840And it's more contrary to nature because it totally divorces the sexual act from the telos of the sexual act, the end of the sexual act.
00:20:17.880This is why in Dante, the punishment is these guys have to, well, they all walk around like a bunch of naked dudes walking around, which is probably not a punishment in the minds of a lot of these guys.
00:20:26.520But where they're walking is on this burning hot surface, like the hottest desert surface you can possibly imagine, which is a symbol of the sterility of the act.
00:20:39.660And so if you were to put Dante aside for a second and you think of the way that Christians thought about this through the height of our civilization, you would take it even further.
00:20:50.080You would say that the act being so contrary to nature would mean that maybe the worst sexual thing you could do is when it's not even between two people, is when it's even, you know, that thing that people do individually when they look at their computers and look at porn.
00:21:10.660This is why the pornography epidemic is ultimately so terrible.
00:21:17.340And so getting back to Twilight, I think the reason why Kristen Stewart is making this point, I mean, she's making a point every bit as condemnatory of an identity that she holds for herself as St. Thomas Aquinas or Dante would, is for that very reason.
00:22:08.980It's an actual inversion of reality, totally, totally contrary to nature.
00:22:13.480And it has all sorts of bad political effects, too.
00:22:17.980Because if, you know, people are not fruitful and multiplying, then the political community dies.
00:22:22.880You know, then people just aren't replacing themselves.
00:22:24.680This, you know, I don't want to even go as far as Kristen Stewart is going here in her condemnation of the LGBT community.
00:22:34.700Because the real way of taking this sexual ethic, which today seems so crazy, but was the sexual ethic that informed our civilization for 2,000 years, actually even longer than that.
00:22:47.120The way to take it to its logical conclusion is to point out that the real extreme of it is the guys just looking at porn.
00:22:56.420You know, completely divorcing the ends of sex from sex itself.
00:23:02.860A form of violence, not just against your neighbor, not just against yourself, but against nature and against art and against God.
00:23:09.080Let all who have ears to hear, let them hear.
00:23:11.820It's going to be me and Kristen Stewart and Dante making this point.
00:23:16.600And modern culture probably will not want to hear it.
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00:24:29.880Speaking of liberal women, Jill Biden has come out to attack all those nasty, mean, terrible Republicans.
00:24:36.900She says what we, writ large, are doing to poor Hunter, you know, holding him accountable for his many, many crimes, which are personal and drug-related and sex-related, sure, but more importantly, involve corruption, involve selling American influence, involve taking millions and millions of dollars from corrupt oligarchs around the world with implicit, maybe explicit promises of American state support as a result of this.
00:25:04.140It's just total corruption. She says it's cruel.
00:25:07.480How have you been coping personally with the onslaught of accusations against your husband and your family, including and especially Hunter?
00:25:16.140It's the focus of a House Oversight Committee hearing, holding him in contempt, obsessing over him, showing pictures of him during vulnerable moments in his battle with addiction on the floor of the house.
00:25:55.820That's it. That's it. I'm just so concerned, you know.
00:25:59.100Sure, I would be concerned if I were a Biden, because it wasn't just Hunter.
00:26:03.960It was Hunter's uncle, Joe's brother. It was Hunter's other uncle, Joe's other brother.
00:26:09.280It was the whole rest of the family. Hunter was the bag man.
00:26:14.980Hunter made payments to other members of the family.
00:26:17.900So did Joe's brothers, and these guys made payments to Joe, and we have the receipts.
00:26:27.440And Hunter wrote in his laptop and in text messages, yeah, I'm giving 10% to the big guy.
00:26:33.280At one point, he suggests that he had to give 50% of the money he made to the big guy, the big guy being Joe Biden, as Joe Biden's brother pointed out.
00:26:41.240What is Jill doing here? She's playing her part in the PR strategy.
00:26:48.480There, obviously, is a very formal crisis communications campaign underway to rehabilitate Hunter to make him less of an issue for Joe in 2024.
00:26:58.720That's why Hunter showed up to the Capitol.
00:27:00.500He wouldn't go testify before Congress in the closed-door session, as he was called to do by the Congress of the United States.
00:27:06.200He gave a press conference on the steps of the Capitol and talked about how he's just a poor guy who had a run of bad luck, and he deserves sympathy from everyone, and everyone's being so mean and cruel to him.
00:27:20.300And then what did he do? He finally shows up, but he makes a big show of himself in a public hearing.
00:27:25.520He won't go to the private hearing to answer basic questions about his business.
00:27:28.740And then Joe comes out, and she does the same thing.
00:27:31.580It's a very well-laid-out, very particular PR strategy.
00:27:36.360I just don't think it works in this age that we're living in where everyone films everything.
00:27:42.240Hunter Biden didn't just commit the crimes with some receipts where we kind of heard about it, where we have good evidence that he did it.
00:28:10.300Now, Hunter Biden, had he not taken a ton of money from crook oligarchs overseas, had he not been conducting business with the Chinese Communist Party, maybe they'd let it go.
00:28:23.040So speaking of doing business with communists, the Holy Father has raised some eyebrows because Pope Francis has welcomed a group of Marxists and talked about how wonderful it is to have dialogue between Christians and Marxists.
00:28:41.320It is not in my job description to criticize the Holy Father.
00:28:51.820I'm pleased to welcome you, the representatives of Dialope, who for many years have been committed to promoting the common good through dialogue between socialists slash Marxists and Christians.
00:29:05.140Commend to you three attitudes that I consider helpful to your efforts.
00:29:07.660First, have the courage to break the mold, to be open in dialogue to new ways.
00:29:11.280Instead of rigid approaches that divide, let us cultivate with open hearts discussion and listening and not exclude anyone at the political, social, or religious level.
00:29:19.760Second, concern for the less fortunate.
00:29:23.680Dear friends, I thank you for your commitment to dialogue.
00:29:25.900Okay, I'm a little confused here because many, many popes for nearly 100 years now, coming up on it, have in no uncertain terms condemned communism and socialism and said that Christianity can have nothing to do with socialism and Marxism.
00:29:48.240Blessed Pope Pius IX and qui pluribus in 1846, all the way back, said communism as it is called is a doctrine most opposed to the very natural law.
00:29:58.260For if this doctrine were accepted, the complete destruction of everyone's laws, government, property, and even to human society itself would follow.
00:30:04.040Well, you might say, that's just one pope, right?
00:30:06.680Pope Leo XIII in 1901 says, a harvest of misery is before our eyes and the dreadful projects of the most disastrous national upheavals are threatening us from the growing power of the socialistic movement.
00:30:18.440Okay, Pope Benedict XV, 1914, it is not our intention here to repeat the arguments which clearly expose the errors of socialism and of similar doctrines.
00:30:26.760Our predecessor, Leo XIII, most wisely did so in truly memorable encyclicals.
00:30:31.000And you, venerable brethren, will take the greatest care that those grave precepts are never to be forgotten.
00:30:38.020Not even in 2024, when people forget a lot of things.
00:30:41.660Pope Pius XI, no one can at the same time be a good Catholic and a true socialist.
00:31:01.960Pope John XXIII, who is a liberal pope, at least that's how he's considered, says no Catholic could subscribe even to moderate socialism.
00:31:08.900Pope Paul VI, considered a liberal pope, said much the same thing.
00:31:11.940Pope John Paul II, constantly invading against socialism and communism.
00:31:16.640I mean, the man is considered an anti-communist hero of the 20th century.
00:31:20.820Pope Benedict XVI, who was the most recent pope before Francis, said the state which would provide everything, absorb everything into itself,
00:31:28.500would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy and capable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person, every person needs,
00:31:59.280I just quoted a handful of the—I could fill up many shows talking about what the Catholic Church has said about condemning Marxism and socialism.
00:32:11.600In charity and to give Pope Francis the benefit of the doubt, I suspect that he's drawn in to this kind of a dialogue in the way that a lot of good people are drawn in to want to have a dialogue with Marxism and communism.
00:32:27.360Because you actually do have a care for the common good, and you care for the poor, as Pope Francis said, and you care for those who have been left out, and you want rule of law, and you don't want the predations of a totally untethered liberalized regime of laissez-faire capitalism where no one cares at all about anyone else,
00:32:45.160and everyone's just avaricious and trying to pursue his own personal interests to the exclusion of a common good.
00:33:53.660I think what Marx was after was total liberation.
00:33:59.820That's the utopia at the end of Marxism, is a world of total freedom.
00:34:05.220Freedom, not in the traditional sense of order and responsibility toward the natural order and natural hierarchies and man's natural ends and doing what you ought to do.
00:35:07.280Radical collectivism and radical individualism are both revolutionary programs.
00:35:11.280That pour acid on all of the institutions of society that are both equally opposed to the family and to tradition and to everything that has come before us.
00:35:26.840And so, ironically, what I think all those past popes were warning about was that.
00:35:32.420In Catholic social teaching, there's plenty of concern about laissez-faire capitalism going too far, about individualism going too far, which is why you need protections of the common good, which is different than collectivism.
00:35:45.160You know, the collectivism that the left talks about is this kind of bizarre, modern, clinical utilitarianism where we determine the common good by figuring out, I don't know, the most pleasure for the greatest number of people, where we ignore individual rights.
00:36:02.420Where we say, well, you know, if 50% plus one benefit from something, then screw the minority.
00:36:10.220The true common good is everyone's individual good as well.
00:36:14.500And it presupposes that we can know our own good.
00:36:18.400That our own good is not just whatever you wake up desiring that morning, but that the good of man can be known objectively through the use of reason.
00:36:26.440We were talking earlier about the natural law.
00:37:11.080Because what the left and some libertarians objected to in my speech was that understanding of the common good, which is totally opposed to Marxism, but also totally opposed to radical individualism.
00:37:24.220I said that we can know for a fact that a man can't become a woman.
00:37:28.660And so because of that, allowing a man who thinks he's a woman to chop himself up and to call himself Sally and to use the little girl's room is not only bad for society.
00:37:38.740It's also bad for him because it's contrary to his good, which we can know.
00:37:46.460We don't want an overweening state with all sorts of crazy revolutionary theories to just force its will on everybody, but we can learn from tradition.
00:38:00.060We can look to the wisdom of the ages.
00:38:01.380We can use our own eyes and see that a man is not a woman.
00:38:03.660And we can know that sometimes people have defects of reason that we can't indulge because it isn't good for anyone.
00:38:10.720That's a good kind of common good, and that's the only way that you can actually protect true, legitimate, individual rights.
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00:44:00.680Why would you obliterate your private life like that?
00:44:05.380Well, you know, actually, just occurs to me, it gets back to what we were talking about earlier with Twilight and Kristen Stewart saying all those homophobic things,
00:44:14.460even though she's, I guess, kind of a lesbian.
00:44:17.100And it's a total upending of the natural order.
00:44:30.440Part of the reason that Dante puts his teacher, Brunetto Latini, in the circle of the sodomites,
00:44:35.380it's not, I don't know what the guy did in his private life.
00:44:37.680It's not even really necessarily about that.
00:44:39.520It's because Brunetto Latini was a very famous poet who sought immortality in fame
00:44:48.280and whose poetry, Dante seems to accuse, was disconnected from true ends.
00:44:58.680It was totally self-indulgent and sterile and not fruitful.
00:46:06.500That all has to be in service of something else.
00:46:08.600And it was in our society for a while.
00:46:11.260And even when people would do all sorts of sins for all of history, it's a fallen world.
00:46:15.420But we at least had the right sense of that.
00:46:18.300We had the right sense that the natural way to have immortality is to have a family.
00:46:23.960And the supernatural way given to us by supernatural grace to have immortality is to follow God and follow the only begotten son of God who is incarnate and who is crucified and is resurrected on the third day and redeems us of our sins.
00:46:41.560And if we have faith in him, we might not perish but have everlasting life.
00:46:44.760That's how you actually get immortality on the natural and supernatural level.
00:46:47.820But we get distracted all along the way.