A conservative journalist has been arrested by the FBI for reporting on January 6th, and not only was he arrested, he was perp walked even after turning himself in to authorities. According to Steve Baker, his lawyers were assured by the government that it would be an in and out affair, and that they had no intention of detaining him. But since we all know how the FBI has been corrupted to target conservatives in recent years, this is particularly strange.
00:19:05.460But what that woman is articulating is a common misunderstanding of how desire works.
00:19:13.320Child sex dolls for pedos are repulsive and intrinsically evil.
00:19:17.960It is intrinsically evil for the pedos to do to the child sex dolls whatever they're going to do.
00:19:23.860Even if this woman wants to make some consequentialist argument that actually it will reduce predation on actual children if the pedos get to,
00:19:32.640it's just still intrinsically disgusting and evil for the pedos to do whatever they're going to do to the child sex dolls.
00:19:40.180But this is how many people think of desire.
00:19:42.040Probably this is how most people think of desire these days because we live in the wake of Sigmund Freud.
00:19:46.000And we live at a time when we are told that if you have any desire whatsoever, it's going to build up inside you like a steam engine.
00:19:56.400And that's why every so often, if you don't want to go crazy and explode, you've got to just blow off a little steam.
00:20:10.460And so they've got to blow off a little steam.
00:20:11.660And better they blow off the steam with the doll than with an actual child.
00:20:15.760The problem is that's not how desire works at all.
00:20:18.980That idea, which is associated with and comes from Freud, develops because of the technology of the time.
00:20:27.580Very often, we map our understanding of human nature and the human psyche onto the technology of the time.
00:20:34.060So today, we talk about the brain like it's a computer because the computer is the chief technology of our time.
00:20:39.560So we talk about uploading our consciousness.
00:20:42.200We talk about downloading information.
00:20:44.420We talk about how we just got to process information faster, just like a computer.
00:20:48.440But 100 years ago, 130, 40 years ago, the chief technology was the steam engine.
00:20:54.020And so we talk about how you've just got these desires building up in your mind, and you've got to just blow off a little steam or else you're liable to explode.
00:21:25.840I don't know, probably something just went terribly wrong in their lives.
00:21:30.180And there are huge associations with kids who were abused, later developing these kinds of extremely disordered desires.
00:21:37.780But I don't know, maybe let's just take this woman at a word and say there's some kind of innate inclination here or something like that.
00:21:44.140Even if that were the case, desire either deepens or begins to turn as a matter of habit.
00:21:53.820So the more you indulge a disordered desire, a perverse desire, the more disordered, the more perverse, the more intense it's going to become.
00:22:01.440And the less you indulge it and the more you cultivate other desires, the more virtuous and orderly your desire is going to become.
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00:24:35.900Speaking of liberal women speaking at public forum, there was a purple-haired mother who just showed up to a public hearing to describe how the issue of transgenderism is very, very dear to her because she has not one but two trans children.
00:24:55.980I have been a resident of Kansas for the last 20 years.
00:25:00.520I have four children, two girls, two boys.
00:25:04.700My oldest is my transgender daughter, and my youngest is an 11-year-old transgender boy.
00:25:12.080Both of my boys, both of my children have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, and both are currently receiving gender-affirming care.
00:25:20.140Through this care, my husband and my consent has always been required.
00:25:24.460They have asked my children what they envision their bodies looking like as an adult, and never once did they mention surgery to my children.
00:25:38.400We are well aware of what is going on with our children.
00:25:43.800It is not the government's job to decide on the best medical care for citizens.
00:25:48.860What are the odds that a woman who has green and purple hair would have transgender children?
00:28:49.840Do you think the people driving it are going to be the traditional family out in Palookaville with eight children who homeschool, who go to church on Sunday, who all eat dinner together?
00:29:00.660No, I think the incidence of transgender identity in those families is probably exactly 0%.
00:29:06.380And yet, when you look at the liberal families, especially on the coasts, but even in the middle of the country like that woman, with the mothers who have the crazy colored hair, who believe all sorts of BS, who have the little sign in the front yard.
00:29:25.420It's weird because in those families, in the divorced families, in the extremely sexually deviant families, it's weird that the incidence of transgenderism is so much higher.
00:30:58.340A culture that says that children actually can consent not only to sexual behavior but to permanent sexual changes like castrating themselves, like undergoing surgery and hormone therapy, quote-unquote, and pretending to be the opposite sex, shortening their lifespans.
00:31:10.340In that kind of culture where all the ingredients for this degeneracy are baked in and affirmed as positive goods, what do you know the consequences of all that occur?
00:32:03.200And the one thing I can promise you is, whatever point they pick, there are going to be people who try to push it past the extreme.
00:32:10.600They're going to try to push it past that point.
00:32:12.560And what the liberals tell us is, this is an argument to get rid of all limits.
00:32:16.040We need to just liberate ourselves from all limits.
00:32:17.880I mean, even going on the weird, like, young people sex stuff, even going back to the 1960s, you can find articles in newspapers written by Bernie Sanders, who was a relatively coherent leftist.
00:32:28.680But this is a very prominent left-wing politician writing about how we need to get over all of our taboos over children doing sexual things.
00:32:37.900Otherwise, people are going to get complexes.
00:32:39.220What's funny, in these essays that Senator Sanders wrote, which were totally exemplary of the left-wing point of view on sex and liberation and even the age of consent, he said, you know, man, if we keep these taboos on young people doing weird sex stuff, that's going to give them a complex.
00:33:11.380It's going to get weirder and weirder and weirder, especially as new technology like AI allows people to create these images out of thin air.
00:33:19.620The more perverse, the better in many of their minds.
00:33:25.080So it has to – there has to be some limit.
00:33:27.760And the question for conservatives now is, are we going to follow the liberals down the ever-loosening line of just saying, well, okay, maybe we can get a little more liberal here, a little more liberal there, a little – we can lower the age.
00:33:43.480We can allow children to make certain sexual decisions.
00:33:52.820Look, I don't really believe in transgenderism, but you can't do it until you're 18, okay?
00:33:57.640You can't go under the transition until you're 18.
00:33:59.800Okay, you can't go under the transition until you're 16.
00:34:02.000Okay, you can't go under the transition until you're 12.
00:34:03.800Okay, you can't – there's just no end to it.
00:34:06.280So my point is, rather than following the liberals down this rabbit hole, why not just draw the firm limits much earlier and say, certainly at the very least, no one can do this stuff until 18.
00:34:17.880But really, look, transgenderism is fake, so no one should do it because it's bad for everyone.
00:34:22.520Why not even when it comes to something like pornography?
00:34:25.840I recognize there's political prudence here.
00:34:27.720There's always been some licentiousness and lust.
00:34:31.760I don't think that the natural law and the human law are identical.
00:34:34.680We talked about this last week on the show.
00:34:36.640St. Thomas Aquinas even makes a very good prudential argument that not everything that is immoral needs to be outlawed because not everyone is equally virtuous in society.
00:34:46.300And the point of the law is to encourage virtue and discourage vice, but you've got to do it gradually.
00:34:50.720You've got to kind of meet people where you are, or where they are, rather.
00:34:53.460You don't want them to just totally break like a child under a parent who's too strict.
00:34:57.160So, okay, maybe you tolerate certain seediness.
00:35:01.000But we used to do – in society, we used to tolerate this kind of seediness in the red light district.
00:35:05.720And we would prosecute it sometimes when it got a little too out of control.
00:35:26.540Okay, you'd put the – in the medieval manuscripts, you'd put the little weird elf guys with like seven different appendages making a weird smile.
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00:36:47.840My favorite comment on Friday is from Sammy Hager.
00:38:11.540The millions and millions of not even just Latin American, but Chinese, Middle Eastern, all sorts of people unvetted crossing our border, many of whom have very bad intentions.
00:38:23.180All of them working with criminal cartels, just like truly psychopathic, worst people on earth kind of cartels.
00:38:29.640They're just newcomers, according to talking points from the White House.
00:38:34.260So, this goes back to 2023, when Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of DHS, issued a memo that said they would not use the term illegal alien when speaking of these people.
00:38:49.480They used the term non-citizen, because that speaks to the importance of respecting the dignity of the individual.
00:38:56.560Now, I don't see why illegal alien doesn't respect the dignity of the individual.
00:39:23.360But rather than just stopping the same shameful thing, because the liberals want these criminals to come into the country, they have to just pretend it's not shameful.
00:39:31.320They have to pretend it's not criminal.
00:39:33.540Then earlier this month, they changed it.
00:39:36.480In the talking points, they said they were going to provide critical funding for shelter and critical services for newcomers in our cities and states.
00:39:43.900Not just the Californians who moved to Tennessee.
00:39:45.640No, we're talking about the Venezuelans who illegally moved to California and really more like Texas and a lot of other conservative states.
00:39:57.560In the talking points on the bill to preserve catch and release, the bill also includes $1.4 billion for cities and states who are providing critical services to newcomers and would expedite work permits for people who are in the country and qualify.
00:40:09.860I did write a book about this called Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
00:40:21.160They were out a little bit too late on Sunday night.
00:40:23.720In any case, this is the point of the book, Speechless, is that the libs, because they can't win the debate, they have to rig the debate from the outset.
00:40:35.100They do this sometimes with elections, but they certainly do it with the public debates.
00:40:39.400They knew they couldn't win the debate on something like same-sex marriage because it doesn't make any sense.
00:40:45.700The argument to preserve what marriage has always meant everywhere for all of human history was not a hateful argument.
00:40:51.240It's not because we hate guys who are a little light in the loafers or we hate lesbians because we hate Subarus or I don't know what they think we hate.
00:41:10.180A circle in its very nature is not a square, and marriage in its very nature involves both sexes because marriage is the union of a man and a woman that is ordered toward the procreation and education of children.
00:41:22.800You can have the most effeminate-looking dude who really pulls off a pair of stiletto heels, but that guy is never going to be able to conceive a child with another man because they're both dudes, and that's just not how it works.
00:41:36.560They knew there was no argument for it.
00:41:37.980That's why even all the big Democrats were opposed to same-sex marriage, including Joe Biden, including Barack Obama, including Hillary Clinton, including all the currently biggest Democrat names.
00:42:06.680And then even then, it didn't totally persuade people, so the Supreme Court liberals just had to come down and contradict public opinion and common sense and the natural law, and that basically did the trick.
00:42:17.100But it took them a long time, and they could never win the debate.
00:42:22.800Most Americans oppose mass migration, legal and illegal.
00:42:26.280When you actually get down to the numbers and you poll people on how many immigrants they think should come into the country, most Americans want far fewer immigrants to come into the country than we currently have.
00:42:35.000And certainly, they oppose illegal immigration.
00:42:37.560So, they know they can't win the debate.
00:42:48.440But the problem is, as the Harvard professor Steven Pinker points out, the euphemism treadmill.
00:42:53.800When you just change words, when you change terms, ultimately, that doesn't really change the reality.
00:43:01.320So, the reality seeps through, and people begin to recognize the reality again.
00:43:05.180So, you've got to change the word again.
00:43:07.160That's why you've got to go from, well, not just illegal immigrant to undocumented immigrant, undocumented American future, American dreamer, newcomer.
00:43:15.640You've got to do it because people then just, even when they're dazzled for a few moments by the new term, they then begin to associate it with the realities of that, which is lawlessness, which is a spike in crime in certain places, which is the loss of American sovereignty, which is all these sorts of problems.
00:44:25.780This is Stephen Claude Radigan, 48, opened fire on cops from Metro Police on Valentine's Day when they were serving him an outstanding arrest warrant at his home related to a 2023 incident that was involving animal cruelty.
00:44:38.600They weren't even trying to arrest him because he's an illegal alien, they were doing it because he was torturing animals.
00:44:43.500DOJ says he was captured by a security camera beating one of his dogs several times in the face.
00:44:48.400Now, probably if you showed this story to most people, they would say, okay, deport this guy, even the liberals.
00:44:57.660And look, the cops came and they finally arrested him.
00:45:00.440We generally don't arrest illegal aliens who are in our country, even the ones who commit crimes.
00:45:03.860We often let those people who commit violent crimes just out that same day because of left-wing funded DAs who have been installed in our cities.
00:45:10.760But this one, okay, they arrest him and this makes some news and they probably will deport this guy.
00:45:56.300You want to send them back, these poor sweet doe-eyed little babes?
00:45:59.420First of all, it's basically all fighting-age men who were just coming here to make some money.
00:46:04.280And they're working with the criminal cartels to get here.
00:46:06.580So these are some of the last guys you want in your country, all right?
00:46:10.560Frankly, the only ones that I think it would probably be good to get into the country are the Cuban ones because they're right-wing generally.
00:46:17.680And they're fleeing an actual communist regime, and they make good cigars.
00:46:21.920So those are the – and we're going to have any kind of illegal immigration.
00:46:44.580We've got to put that same human face on it, the human face of the people who are murdered, who are raped, who are attacked, the human face of even of the guy who's torturing his dog.
00:46:57.560Now, speaking of things from Latin America, I have a story I really want to get to.
00:47:02.620It's going to be the most controversial story that I've covered in months probably.
00:47:05.760This is a story that some of you are not prepared to hear.
00:47:10.460So I'm just going to tease this, and maybe we'll get to it tomorrow.
00:47:15.600Marijuana, the old sin spinach, the devil's lettuce.