Ep. 1955 - This Is the Most Horrifying Video Michael Knowles Has Ever Seen
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Summary
A woman has been legally obligated to kill her baby in the third trimester, and the reason for this is the surrogacy industry. A new study out of the UK shows that the war between the sexes is also real, and it is the women who are the aggressors. Finally, a homosexual couple goes viral with a little baby for the most horrifying video I have ever seen in my entire life.
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Young men are returning to religion en masse. We've heard this anecdotally for years. That
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slogan is no surprise. But for years, it did not show up in the polls. So a lot of people said,
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oh, it's not real. You're imagining it. This is anecdotal. Now, the results are in and the social
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consequences are huge. Then, speaking of the difference between men and women, a new study
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out of the UK shows that the war between the sexes is also real. And it is the women who are
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the aggressors. Finally, a homosexual couple goes viral with a little baby for the most horrifying
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video I have ever seen in my entire life. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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welcome back to the show a woman has been legally obligated to kill her baby in the third trimester
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and the reason for this is the surrogacy industry we'll get to that momentarily first though
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I frequently mention weird sex stuff as one of the defining features of our decadent time.
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This is weird, sure, but this is real bad sex stuff.
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This shows you the very close relationship between weird and bad.
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it's dark, man. And I hope I'm a glass half full kind of guy. I hope that the silver lining in
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that storm cloud is that seeing just how bad the weird stuff gets and how quickly will maybe spark
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a conversion. The best news story of the day, speaking of conversion, is that young people
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generally are returning to religion, to all religion, especially traditional religion,
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especially Christianity, and actually, especially Catholicism.
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This shift is most obvious in young men, but it is, at this point, undeniable. The atheists can
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cope. The secularists can cope. They can bury their head in the sand all they want. This is
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real stuff. Coming out of Gallup, really great news. Importance of religion among US men and
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women by age. So you look not at the boomers, not at the Gen X, not even really the millennials.
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It's the Zoomers that are doing this, women and men.
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For the women, okay, you know, the numbers are not great.
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But the men have shot up in the last two years, two, three years.
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42% of men aged 18 to 29 now say that religion is very important in their lives.
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in 2022 to 2023, that number was just 28%. So this is totally undeniable. A 14 percentage point
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increase. A 14 percentage point increase, meaning a 50% increase among young men who in just two,
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three years say that religion is very, very important in their lives. Now, are they actually
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doing it? They could say that. There's the expressed preference, but is this coming up
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in the revealed preference of their actual behaviors? Yes. Monthly religious attendance
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among young men has jumped up to 40%. That's up from 33%. This is the highest level in over
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a decade. And it splits based on party affiliation. So for Republican men, the number is way up.
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Among Republican women, the number is up too. For Democrat men, it's not up. For Democrat women,
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same thing. So this really does split. And you can't map parties exactly onto religion because,
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as I've mentioned before, the very idea of the left and the right comes from the French Revolution
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when the religious people were all on the right and the irreligious, the anti-religious people
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were all on the left. So I think it is fair to say, if you are a religious person,
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you should be on the right. It doesn't map perfectly, but you should be on the right
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at a very practical level. If you are a religious person, today in the year of our Lord, 2026,
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you should be voting Republican. It's not that the Republican Party is perfect.
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The Republican Party is the worst party in the United States, other than the Democrat Party.
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You know, politics is imperfect, but there's really no excuse on the non-negotiable issues.
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Things like murdering little babies, things like marriage, the fundamental building block,
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things like recognizing a moral order. You got to be a Republican. And that's coming up in the
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data. This is not just me as a partisan trying to rally people to vote. This is just a fact.
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The religious surge is among Republicans, and specifically Republican men.
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Well, the women are going up a little bit too, not quite as much as the men.
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This makes perfect sense because men lead trends.
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One out of a thousand women is Margaret Thatcher.
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I'm not saying they can't be involved in public life.
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I'm not saying they can't change public opinion.
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But generally speaking, 999 times out of 1,000, it is men who lead at the individual level,
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at the family level, and at the political level, the polity being an extension of the family.
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And so if men are leading, just like men led the way out of religion,
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so too men are leading the way back into religion.
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One thing about the polls, one thing about religion.
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For years now, we've heard this cope from the libs and the secularists, which is that, oh yeah, you keep saying, you guys on the right, you keep saying that religion's coming back up.
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Yeah, sometimes polls lag what's actually happening.
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Because polls reflect social phenomena that have already happened.
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there's really two levels here one is people will say yeah you're only seeing a surge in religion
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among people in prominent fields in politics in media you're only seeing it in certain cities
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you're only seeing it among people who are very online very plugged in very but that's not
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reflected broadly yeah okay that can be true for a while but all political movements are led all
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By political, I mean lowercase p, social, things happening in public.
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They're always led by a determined small group, but that group influences other people.
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So yeah, the return to religion might have been led by some nerdy guys in Washington,
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D.C. or New York or whatever, but that has downstream effects because of influence.
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And now that is showing up in society, and therefore now it is showing up in the polls.
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We talked about this, what was it, yesterday or two days ago, on the Israel issue, which is related because it's the Holy Land.
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We said, for years we've been seeing this crop up online in certain influential circles that there's a turning against the nation state of Israel.
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You had Harry Anton on CNN just a few days ago saying that support for Israel has collapsed.
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It had already substantially collapsed on the left.
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Now it's showing up as collapsing among moderate and non-liberal Democrats.
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They said, well, the Republicans, the right wing, that's the holdout for massive support
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That has collapsed too, especially among young people.
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I'm not even making any normative judgment about that.
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You can, in fact, believe your eyes when you're seeing things happening around society.
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It won't always be reflected en masse until a little bit later, but it often is reflected.
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And so regardless of what you think about Israel or Palestine or whatever,
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on this separate issue, on the return to religion,
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I think anybody of goodwill would have to say this is a good thing.
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How can people still follow their sky daddy and this old book that was written 2,000 years ago
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or more? How could they possibly believe this? Folks, religion survived the French Revolution.
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The French Revolution was a revolution against the king. Obviously, they killed the king and
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the queen, but it was a religion against the ultimate king, the king of kings. It was a
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revolution, rather, against the King of Kings. They went in and they desecrated churches.
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They took out statues of the Blessed Mother. They put in statues of the goddess Reason.
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They tried to prohibit Christianity. They persecuted priests.
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It was an all-out assault on religion. And guess who won? Who won, the Jacobins or God?
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God won. Religion survived the communist revolutions, not just the revolution in Russia,
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which 100 years after the Bolshevik revolution is building cathedrals again.
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It survived all the other communist revolutions. Religion survived Darwinism. Darwinism,
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which said that there really is no fixed human nature. Darwinism, which was interpreted to mean
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that there is no such thing as sin. There's no such thing as providence. There's certainly no
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such thing as an active God, pure act sustaining all being. He said that's just made up. Guess who
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won? Darwin or God? Guess who won? God won. Two world wars, the disillusionment that came out of
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two world wars. Surely that would have finished off religion, right? How could a good God permit
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such suffering? Who won? Gavrillo Principes, who killed the Archduke Fran Ferdinand, kicked off
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World War I or God? God won. Who won? Hitler or God? God won.
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Fast forward to today, the liberal decadence that we're in and another challenge to religion.
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We got it so good. We've got maximum individual autonomy. We've got iPhones. We got money.
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We got more food than could be imagined. We have technological innovation
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beyond the wildest dreams of our grandparents. Who won? Liberalism or God?
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God won. Are you noticing a trend? Even if you're not that religious, though odds are you're
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becoming more religious. I'm just reading the polls. But even if you're not, if you were just
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a gambling man, you should not bet against God. I've made this point before. Betting against the
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Holy Spirit is a very, very bad idea. Why is religion surging? I think I know. Right now,
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there are different reasons why religion would surge after different conflicts,
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after the French Revolution or the Communist Revolution or the World Wars or what have you.
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But I think the reason that religion is surging right now, especially among young men,
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is a realization and a recognition that the world does in fact have meaning.
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I think the defining feature of decadent liberalism in our age is the claim that the
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world has no intrinsic meaning. Your life has no intrinsic meaning, but the meaning that you give
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it. So it is incumbent upon us to create our own meaning. We are self-owning, self-actualizing
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individuals. And if our life is to have meaning at all, it is we who imbue the world with meaning.
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That's the claim of our present stage of modern decadent liberalism.
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And the reason religion is surging right now is because we all know that isn't true.
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We all know that things have meaning beyond our feeble capacities of reason, beyond our feeble control.
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We know that the world itself does in fact have meaning.
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We are recognizing that there is a kind of a divine logic to the universe.
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which is indeed the very first verses of the gospel of saint john in the beginning was the
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logos translated by saint jerome as verbum in latin translated into english as the word which
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is a fine translation but it doesn't encapsulate the the the fullness of the the original word
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logos, which is divine reason, rationality, meaning. In the beginning was reason, order,
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logic, meaning. And the logos was with God and the logos was God. We recognize that.
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And so the attempts to recreate our understanding of the world, the attempts by Karl Marx,
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the attempts by Nietzsche, the attempts by Hitler, the attempts by decadent liberal moderns,
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the attempts by whomever, are less persuasive. They ultimately don't fulfill the longings of
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our heart, and they don't fulfill the understanding of our intellect.
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So people are saying, oh, I guess that didn't really work out. You know what? Maybe I'll go
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back to that one institution, the only one that has survived in our civilization from modernity,
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from antiquity through modernity. Maybe every smart person for all of human history
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statistically was right. Okay. Speaking of our decadent age, a video went viral yesterday
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that is, and I say this without one iota of hyperbole, the most horrifying video I have
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ever seen in my life. It's not graphic exactly. It's not pornographic. It's not violent,
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obviously. It is a kind of a violence, but it's not visually violent.
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And it encapsulates in less than 60 seconds the horror of the supposedly enlightened,
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quite an addictive chemical. A video has gone viral. I won't say viewer discretion advised
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just yet. I'll just tell you what happens in the video. You can determine if you have the
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fortitude to watch this. It's two guys, two homosexuals who apparently went out to the
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baby store, custom ordered a baby, picked an egg from one woman, bought it, picked a womb from
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another woman, rented it, went to a perverse, unethical doctor, scientist, and said, okay,
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here's my money. Give me a baby now. I want to order a baby with the intent to deprive that child
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of his mother. The two fellas get the baby, and then you'd say, well, that's horrifying,
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but we know that that happens a lot. Then the guys film one of the guys bouncing the baby
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when the baby calls out for mama. And then the homosexuals mock the baby
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for wanting his mama, mock the baby who then begins to cry. With that preface,
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if you want to just fast forward for a minute, close your ears, close your eyes if you can't
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take it. I think it's important to watch this kind of thing because I think it's important to see.
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We can argue all day. We can read essays all day. I'm reminded of Joseph Conrad in the
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introduction to Negro of Narcissus, who says that the scientist deals in facts and the thinker deals
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and ideas, but the artist wants you to see something, and art can be very persuasive,
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if you can stomach it, you should see this video.
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If I said what I really think watching this video,
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if I said what I really felt watching this video,
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and I might be prosecuted and I would certainly have to go to confession if I said what I really
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think, what I really feel watching that video. And I suspect many of you feel the same way.
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So we don't want to give total vent to maybe the deeper and darker reactions that we have
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to that kind of video. However, it is perfectly right to feel angry looking at that video.
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In fact, it would express and reflect a defect in our character if we did not feel angry looking at
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that video. A little baby wants his mama. And a couple of men mock the baby, laugh at the baby,
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and said, you don't get a mama. If the baby had lost his mama because the mama sadly died,
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as happens, it's a fallen world and sin and death pervade the world. If the baby had lost
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his mama through accident, chance, the brokenness of this world, we would feel really sad.
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we wouldn't necessarily feel angry we feel really sad though but this is different because these two
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men did that to the baby they abused the baby in that way there is no other way to describe this
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it is child abuse i'm not saying that those men beat the baby i'm not saying that those men want
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to harm the baby those men might be motivated by what is at least in its kernel a very good instinct
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which is we want to have children. We want to procreate. We want to raise children. We want
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to educate them. But the perversions of their desires and their own selfishness have led them
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nevertheless to abuse that baby, which is now fully expressed in their mockery of the baby
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and their filming of the baby while the baby is crying out for the mother that those men have
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intentionally deprived the baby of having. And I don't know why the men are doing it.
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maybe it's a kind of defense mechanism. Maybe it's because deep down, they know they've done
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something wrong. Deep down, they know something is really disordered here.
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Regardless, this should obviously be illegal. Obviously. The only person who can be said to
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have rights in the matter of procreation, it's not the homosexual guy who really wants a kid,
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but he finds women icky. It's not even the single parent who doesn't want to go out and get married
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or was not able to go out and get married, so then goes to the store to buy a baby anyway to
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deprive the baby of the mother or the father. It's wrong to deprive the baby of a father too.
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Especially though for a little baby, it's really, really wrong to deprive the baby of a mother.
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Notice while that man is mocking that baby, crying out for his mother,
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at no point does he take the baby and hold the baby next to him on his chest rub the bill that'll
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be okay goochie goochie it's okay because that's what mothers do fathers don't always do that
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even heterosexual married fathers don't always do that we don't we relate to babies differently
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than mothers do that's why babies need mothers and fathers and especially little babies especially
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you need money. And this is very, very wrong. Horrifying. I've seen, I said, this is the most
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horrifying video I've ever seen. I said, the most horrifying, Michael? Yeah, the most horrifying.
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Well, Michael, have you ever seen a video of war? I have. I've seen a lot of videos of war. I've
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seen videos of people getting killed. Yup. I've seen videos of violence and crime, graphic,
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like horrible, terrible videos. This is worse because this represents a kind of a perversion
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of the will, a degree of selfishness and blithe cruelty that boggles the mind and certainly the
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heart. And we have arrived here because of lots of social errors. It's not entirely the fault of
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those two men. This is a social phenomenon. Those two men were told growing up that men and women
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are basically the same. They were told that by feminism, and then they were later told that by
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the gay rights movement. Those two men were told by liberalism that the most important thing in
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the world is not reason or charity, but our own individual autonomy. Those two people were told
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by capitalism that markets are the be-all and end-all, that we ought to serve the invisible
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hand of the free market. Those two men were told by communism that the family doesn't really matter,
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that really we're all just one big kind of amorphous blob in a national polity.
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There is a lot of blame to go around. I'm not blaming those two guys. Those two guys might
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have gone out and bought that baby and intentionally deprived him of his mother
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for what in their minds were very good reasons.
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feel at least a little bit tempted to violence.
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The woman has also gone viral. This is from Olivia Mowrell,
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giving a little light into the surrogacy industry. Because what I think most people think of when
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they think of IVF and the surrogacy industry is this is a way to help infertile couples achieve
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their dreams of having a family. And isn't that good? What could be wrong about this? It's more
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babies. Isn't that pro-life? Where are you pro-lifers? Why would you oppose this? This is great,
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right? Now, a lot of the time that the IVF stuff, it goes to homosexual guys and you see those,
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or lesbian women or single parents, and you see those videos that we just saw. You say,
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well, okay, that's pretty bad. But what about, you know, come on, what about the ordinary,
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you know, just married couples, they're infertile, doesn't work. What's wrong with them going out
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and buying an egg, renting a womb, and creating a child? Well, here's one of the legal problems
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that comes about as a result. In the surrogacy contrast, it's just normal to have abortion
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causes. So the commissioning parents have the choice, if they wish, to demand an abortion
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from to the servant so there was this case where a surya mother was pregnant she was in her third
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trimester and the baby after the ulcer cell was found for missing two fingers and the commissioning
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carrots did not want a child missing two fingers so they asked the surya mother to perform an
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abortion she was in her third trimester i have to say full-grown baby and indeed and so she refused
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she wanted to keep the baby she refused she said no unfortunately she received a letter from lawyers
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of the commissioning parents saying that the contract had to be enforced and that she had to
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get a divorce or else she would not receive the money and imposed that she would be sued
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so she was forced to abort this baby just because he was missing two fingers
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yes okay so question you got to ask yourself try to try to prioritize your reason and your
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intellect here beyond your visceral reaction which is probably one of anger listening to that story
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and you see cases like this litigated all around the country all around the world this is not a
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one-off event but you have to ask yourself why shouldn't the commissioning couple be allowed to
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Sue. Why not? If the baby is a commodity that customers have purchased and the product comes
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out defective, again, I know you might say missing a couple of fingers, that's a pretty modest
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defect. It's like you go out and you buy a coat and a couple of stitches are off. That happened
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to me. I bought a nice coat and a couple of stitches were off. I thought about returning
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it. I said, nah, it's okay. I'll just wear it. It's no big deal. But some people would say,
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I don't want the stitches off. I'm going to go exchange it. I'm going to go. They'll destroy
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that coat. They can't sell it. And I'll buy another coat. So if the baby is a commodity,
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why shouldn't the commissioning couple, like you commission a painting, you commission a car.
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Why shouldn't, it's expensive too. It's more expensive than most cars to buy a baby.
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Why shouldn't the couple be allowed to say, we don't want it, destroy that product and sell me
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a new one. Why not? I can't come up with a reason if the baby were a commodity. But we all know
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the baby's not a commodity. No human being can be said to be a commodity. A human being is a
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rational creature made in the image and likeness of God, which itself bears rights. The very rights
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that we claim when we talk about the commodities that we buy and own. So then you get to the
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inescapable conclusion. If the baby is not in fact a commodity, then you should not be able
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to commission and buy and return the baby. And I know I have sympathy. I have less and less
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sympathy over time, but I have sympathy for people who didn't think through this all that well.
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for people who say, well, if not for IVF and surrogacy, I wouldn't have my niece or my nephew
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or my kid for that matter. You're telling me I shouldn't have my kid. I'm not telling you that
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at all. Kids are great. Kids are goods in themselves. But not every means to produce a
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child is morally justifiable because the ends don't justify the means. Good ends do not justify
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immoral means. You can make a kid through rape, and the kid who is conceived as a result of rape
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is good. It's good that you have your kid. I know people who were conceived as a result of rape.
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I certainly don't think they should be killed. I certainly think they have exactly as much moral
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worth as any other person. That does not therefore justify rape, doesn't justify the immoral ends.
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With the IVF and surrogacy industry, it's a little more abstract because there are markets
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and there are vendors and there are scientists and lab coats. And so it's easier to convince
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ourselves that this is somehow not immoral. But the couple gets to sue to kill the kid if the kid
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doesn't come out the right way, because the customer's always right in markets, because the
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kid has been defined wrongly, enormously wrongly, as a commodity, which he is not. And if the kid's
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not a commodity, then we shouldn't have a market for kids. We shouldn't have stores for kids.
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we shouldn't have custom order catalogs for kids. That's the inescapable conclusion. That's
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going to be a hard conclusion for some people. Show me the flaw in my reasoning. You can't.
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You can't. So you can't write an essay showing me the flaw in my reasoning. You can't produce
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a logical syllogism showing me the flaw in my reasoning. And crucially, you can't watch those
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two videos. You definitely can't watch those two videos and show me the flaw in my reasoning.
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so do we have the political courage to do what we all know is right that's the question speaking
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of men and women there's a new study out of the uk this is being reported in the new statesman
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where is it where's my study it shows that women and men are in fact at loggerheads we are real
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confused about the sexes. Obviously, a theme of the show today. But for years, we've been told
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that this war between the sexes is being driven by angry young men, misogynistic, angry young
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incel men who hate women. And what this has found is that it's exactly the opposite.
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This is a story published called Angry Young Women by Emily Lawford and Scarlett Magg,
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published in the New Statesman. I'll just read you a little bit because I know we have to get to
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the mailbag. The literary conversation was winding down. They're describing this event
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at a feminist society. The literary conversation was winding down. I asked the table how they felt
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about the young men they knew. I don't care for them, said a girl named Ruby imperiously.
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She had red hair and lots of silver jewelry. They're not bad people, but they refuse to call
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out their friends who make other girls uncomfortable. They'll laugh at jokes that
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are sexist, racist, homophobic. They don't care about political issues. I don't think they like
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women a lot. If a man is attracted to you, she said, he might talk about things like toxic
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misogyny. If he doesn't fancy you, he won't bother. I feel like a lot of it is quite sexually
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motivated with men. I don't like these men. So then the author writes, I asked if they'd consider
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dating a man with different politics. They all immediately said no. I don't think I'd even be
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friends with one, said one girl. They don't see you as human. No, I don't know. I'm a man with
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different politics or quite distinctly different politics than these feminist women. I think women
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are human. In fact, I think I view them as much more human than they view themselves,
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much more accurately human than they view themselves. Only one woman, Evelyn, admitted
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to having male friends, though she was worried this made her a pick-me, trying too hard for
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male attention. It also didn't feel like students just trying on radicalism for funds. This didn't
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feel like just a passing fad. There is a real set stratification of different groups under 30.
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the internet has pushed young men and women further apart, and the people they interact
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with on the internet reinforce their beliefs. In a vicious cycle, the femisphere, not the
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manosphere, the femisphere, both reflects young women's dissatisfaction and perpetuates it
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radicalizing them further. So first of all, we all should have realized this. Yes, there's tension
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between the sexes. We used to say there wouldn't be a war between the sexes because everyone's
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sleeping with the enemy. Then when they stopped sleeping with each other, that should have been
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our first clue. Okay, maybe there is a war between the sexes. Ancient wisdom, the gods of the copy
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book headings coming back. But we should have realized that it was the women who were angry at
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the men more than the men angry at the women. Because for decades, the media told us the
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opposite. And whatever the liberal media say is wrong, not just a little bit wrong, but usually
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perfectly wrong. And so they've told us about these angry young men for a decade. The opposite
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was true. I'll tell you why. It's very simple. I'm not saying there's no misogyny. I'm not saying
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that men don't make jokes about women, or in some limited cases, men genuinely don't like women.
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But here are the numbers. It was published in the study. Overall, do you have a positive or
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negative view of the opposite gender? Men, 72% say positive because we like ladies. They're great.
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They're a little frustrating sometimes, but we like them. They're one of the top things that
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we like? Cigars, ladies, sitting. I don't know. I'm just describing myself here. The Yankees.
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I don't know. But ladies are higher than all of them. I don't know. The cigar, even more than
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cigars, I would say. 72% positive. 21% neutral, 7% negative. For women, only 50% say they have
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a positive view of men. 29% say neutral. So a little higher in the neutrality than men.
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and then 21% say negative. Women are three times as likely to view men in a negative light than
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men are likely to view women in a negative light. Why? What is it? What's up with the girls? I'll
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tell you exactly what it is. For decades now, women have been told to compete with men.
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that's what changed for all of human history until 57 seconds ago men and women were told
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that they're complementary they go together like a yin and a yang they're great
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what's how's the song go man needs a girl and girl must have his mate no i'm screwing up the
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lyrics but that's the idea we're made for each other but then feminism came in and said no no
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you're not made for each other. Women and men, you're actually the same. You're basically the
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same. You look a little different sometimes, but you're practically speaking entirely the same.
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Therefore, you need to compete with men. You need to go in there, get that job from that man.
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You need to go in there, take that spot at the university from that man. You need to go in there,
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get what's your, get those legal licenses and rights, so-called, from men. You got to compete
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with them. Men were not really told that about women in as much as they were told that they
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didn't believe it. Because men don't have to compete with men. Men and women compete in a
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race. Guess who wins? The man. Men and women compete in the job market. Guess who wins?
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Generally, the men. Because women have kids. Because women are more nurturing and they want
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to stay home with their kids. They're biologically different. Because women are a little more
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emotional sometimes, I think we would say. Couldn't we say that? I'm like, will I get in
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trouble for saying that? Probably. But it's true. Men just have certain advantages in professional
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life, in political life, in business life that women don't have. But women have advantages that
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men don't have as well. Bringing us all the way back to the top, women are much more nurturing.
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Women are necessary. Women are the hand that rocks the cradle as the hand that rules the world.
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So anyway, women are told they must compete with men.
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And therefore, they don't like them at a much higher rate than men don't like women.
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This is, you pay your ticket and you take your seat.
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Couples who share a surname most likely have lower divorce rates overall.
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When women take the name of their husband and there's one name for the whole family,
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that family is less likely to break up than when women insist on keeping their father's name.
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They're always going to have a man's name, but they want to have their father's name instead of their husband's name.
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The women who keep their last name are more likely to break up.
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spouses who don't share a surname divorce at about a 50% higher rate than those who do share
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a surname and their divorces come about 30% earlier in their marriages. Yes, of course.
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But it's not just the surname. There are a few instances where women keep their surname for
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professional reasons or whatever. Again, I don't think it's great, but I'm not saying there's
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never a reason, but generally 999 times out of a thousand, women should take their husband's
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last name because they're part of a family now. And if they don't do that, then they're hedging
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their bets on the family. I feel this way about shared bank accounts. One out of 1,000, maybe the
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husband has a gambling problem. Maybe the wife has a drug addiction. Maybe there's some reason
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to keep bank accounts separate. But 999 times out of 1,000, when couples don't have shared bank
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accounts, they're hedging, aren't they? It's a hedge to say, well, if I want to get out of this
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marriage, at least it'll be easier to do so. Prenuptial agreements are the same thing. The
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church, the Catholic church does not allow prenuptial agreements. You cannot have a prenuptial
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agreement getting married because it's a hedge. And they say, well, the sacrament is for life.
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If you get a prenuptial agreement, you're hedging. You are acting as though you might leave the
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marriage. Therefore, you're not buying into what the sacrament really is. And guess what? They're
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more likely to get divorced. I don't recommend it. If you're going to do it, do it. This is what
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our Lord tells us about being lukewarm. Be vomited out of the mouth. If you're going to do it,
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if you want to get married, get married. But we've redefined marriage to be not just a lifelong
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union between a man and a woman for the purpose of procreation and the education of children,
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a good of which then is also the mutual support of the spouses. Now it's just two people who live
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together or don't live together. Of any sex, could be two fellas, could be two women,
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leads to a lot of social confusion, leads to a lot of dissatisfaction, and that should change too.
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My favorite comment yesterday from Diane C9456, who says, thanks for defining mogging, Michael.
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I guess I'm old. Yeah, you're not, you know, look, you're not a hip, young, cool zoomer like me.
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Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles today to switch to America's wireless company.
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This is Daily Listener, McDonald's employee Abel from Hungary.
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And I really liked your coverage of the Hungarian elections on Monday.
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He's an absolute degenerate half-gay sex freak sociopath
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And the good Hungarians will fight and not give up.
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I'm always so happy when I get notes and hear voicemails
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from people who are listening all around the world, and especially this week from Hungary.
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Because there's this huge op underway to say, actually, the guy who kicked out the most
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conservative leader in Europe, the last stand against mass migration and the predations of
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the European Union, actually, it's fine that that guy lost. And the new guy is even better.
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The guy that the EU and Alex Soros and Hillary Clinton and Gavin Newsom were all thrilled won
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the election, he's actually secretly way more based than Orban. And I thought, I don't really
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buy that. And I have traveled to Hungary a few times in the last, for different reasons in the
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last few years. And that was not the impression that I got. It seemed to me pretty clear that
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the European Union knew, the libs, the globalists, call them what you will. They knew they couldn't
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win with a leftist in Hungary, in post-Soviet Hungary. They knew that wasn't going to fly.
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So they needed a guy who was plausibly right-wing, but just not Orban. And they got their guy.
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Obviously, he won in a pretty big election, but yeah, I didn't buy it.
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Just for me, a rule of politics, pretty simple.
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If Hillary Clinton and van der Leyen and Gavin Newsom and Alex Soros and all those people are on one side of an election, I'm probably going to be on the other.
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So glad to hear that affirmed by a Hungarian.
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So I am a practitioner of the Second Amendment for personal safety reasons, but the principal
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objective of 2A is not personal safety. Rather, it is corporate safety. The idea is that the
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government should fear its armed citizenry and should therefore avoid tyranny. Yet in 2020,
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we saw that that didn't seem to be effective. The government enacted harsh lockdowns,
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preventing people from so much as going out to eat at their favorite restaurant or having a
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bunch of friends over for a party. And you didn't see any citizens with AR-15s rushing the local
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McDonald's demanding to dine in. So my question is, why did the Second Amendment fail when we
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needed it most? Thank you, as always, for your insight. Good question, Arun, as always. Why
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didn't people take up arms and start shooting cops during COVID is basically the question that
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you're asking. And the reason I think comes from the Declaration of Independence. Declaration of
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Independence reads, after it describes the predicate for the war, before it describes
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all of the offenses. Don't forget, most of the declaration is specific offenses
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that the king has committed, really meaning parliament has committed against the American
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colonists. But in the first draft written by Jefferson and in the final draft of the declaration,
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they do take on the argument against revolution. And they say, prudence indeed will dictate the
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governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes.
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And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils
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are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object events as
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a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off
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such government and to provide new guards for their future security. So in the case of COVID,
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It was very, very heavy-handed, but it lasted for a relatively short period of time.
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Don't forget, revolutionary sentiment in the colonies had been building for a decade.
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If we were still under the COVID regime today, there would be a stronger argument for a political revolution.
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Jefferson, who's drawing on wisdom from Protestant sources, who themselves were reading Jesuit
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sources, who themselves were reading St. Thomas Aquinas, who himself was reading the long
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tradition of political revolution, thoughts on the regime, God's providence in ordaining the
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regime versus the rights of the people to overthrow bad rulers. And he says, look,
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you need to be really cautious here. And it is better to suffer evils of a regime in most cases
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than it is to actually engage in a political revolution,
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which might leave you worse off than you were when you started.
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But when things just go on, look like they're going to go on forever,
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Jefferson would say you have a right to revolution.
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At the very least, you might say you have a license to it.
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So we seem to be on a similar life path at the moment.
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I have a four-year-old, almost three-year-old, and almost one-year-old.
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And we were pregnant with our fourth and just found out it's a little girl.
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So I'm not sure if you're having a girl or not, but I am curious to hear your thoughts.
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What do you think would be the differences in parenting rambunctious, very aggressive, active little boys versus potentially very sensitive but super sweet and sassy little girl?
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I just don't know what to expect and would love to hear your thoughts.
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Some of you, I haven't made a big announcement about it,
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but some of you know sweet little Elisa is indeed pregnant.
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This became public because I was at CPAC and Matt Schlapp decided to tell everybody in the room
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I thought for now many years that I was incapable of producing a daughter
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So I just kept producing sons because of my, I don't know, my high T levels,
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my kind of metaphysical masculinity. I don't know what it was, but I'm very pleased to say
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that the new one is a girl. So I'm very, very excited about that. And I've thought, okay,
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well, how will this be different? And of course, the most obvious difference is that I will now
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be able to do favors for criminals on the day of her wedding. So I can't, you know, you don't do
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that on your son's wedding day, but on your daughter's wedding day, you can have big fat
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Italian criminals come up to your office in your home, which is hosting the wedding,
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and you can promise to do crimes on their behalf to then incur their favor and win their loyalty
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and then force them to commit crimes on your behalf down the road.
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So that to me is the biggest difference, of course.
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Though I will say, Drew Clayton gave me this advice when our first kid was born.
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And I'm increasingly persuaded by the power of genetics,
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