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A CHILD IS BORN Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep987
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Thank you.
I want to argue that Biden's legacy can be seen through these despicable pardons And social media influencer and actor Brayden Sorbo joins me.
We're going to talk about his forthcoming new book.
It's called Embrace Masculinity.
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Today is Christmas Eve.
Hard to believe we're already here.
And tomorrow, of course, is the auspicious day.
Debbie and I were in the bank this morning, and we were talking to someone who goes, well, we celebrate in January, and we were a little startled, and then we realized we're talking to someone from Eastern Christianity, which is to say Orthodox Christianity, and it's a little bit of a reminder that Christmas is not celebrated universally on the same date, and in fact, we don't know The date when Jesus was born.
We know approximately when he was born, and we know quite precisely where he was born, but we don't know the exact day, either the month or the day.
But the 25th of December is an appropriate convention to celebrate it.
I want to focus here not on the circumstances of Christ's birth but on Christ Himself because that really is what we are celebrating is the entry of Jesus into the world and you have this remarkable figure of Jesus Christ And I'll say even apart from any sort of theological rumination, that there has never been anyone like him, nor will there ever be.
He's one of those figures that when you listen to what he has to say, it is so...
It is so distinctive.
It is so unique that no one else speaks like this.
And this is important to know because we often hear, you know, the religions of the world are kind of the same.
They all have the same teachings, the golden rule.
I mean, I hear this kind of thing quite frequently.
And look, it's not entirely wrong in the sense that the moral code of many of the great religions has a lot of similarities.
It's not identical, but you'll find sort of, if you look at some version of, let's say, the Ten Commandments, let's remember the Ten Commandments were from the Old Testament, you'll find that there are codes in sort of Hindu laws and codes as well in Islamic laws, and there are going to be some areas of overlap But with Christianity and with Jesus, you get something quite different.
In fact, something that on the face of it contradicts these other codes and systems of law.
So for example, let's consider...
Let's consider three statements that I want to briefly reflect upon.
One of them is, Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
A very remarkable idea.
First of all, the idea of forgiveness is itself remarkable because forgiveness appears to contradict the idea of justice.
When someone does something wrong, they should be penalized for it.
This is what our laws are based on, right?
You commit murder, you get a life sentence.
You steal, you have to give it back, and you're going to be incarcerated.
So you get your just desserts for what you did.
Freely and consciously.
And forgiveness appears to give you kind of like a get-out-of-jail-free card.
It appears to be, I'm gonna overlook what you did.
I'm going to ignore what you did.
I'm gonna pretend like you didn't do it.
It's important to realize that forgiveness is not really that.
Forgiveness is not a pretense that you didn't do it.
Forgiveness actually is recognizing that you did do it and fully conscious of the harm that has been caused.
I nevertheless voluntarily relinquish my claim to just desserts.
I refuse to enforce what I have every legitimate right to enforce, which is a kind of eye for an eye, and I forego, if you will, that benefit.
And frankly, all the consolation and joy that comes from that kind of retribution, I voluntarily give that up.
That's a very hard thing to do, and yet that is the essence of Christianity.
And notice the beauty of what Jesus says, he says basically that this great gift of forgiveness that God is extending to us is nevertheless We're expected to be matched by our own actions.
So we have to kind of do the same thing.
And in doing the same thing, by the way, we are not proving ourselves, quote, God-like, but we are at the very least attempting to act in imitation of Christ and in imitation of God's own great forgiveness of us.
And there are times in Scripture where these two things are not only connected to the other, but made conditional.
In other words, if you don't forgive other people what they have done to you, then how do you expect God to forgive you for what you did, for the wrongs that you have done to Him?
And I think this is a very powerful aspect of Christ's teaching.
Here's the second one, and the second and third one kind of go together.
The startling idea that if you have contemplated the sin, you have committed it.
This is so shocking at first glance that you almost have to give it a double take, because here is a case where Christianity appears to raise the moral bar so high that no one can reasonably be expected to climb it.
Why?
Because we are in ordinary life, really pretty much throughout our life, Hit many times with temptation.
What is temptation?
Temptation really is, at least if I go back to my early sort of catechism in my very younger days, it's basically the bad guy or Satan whispering in your ear.
Why don't you think about this?
Why don't you do that?
Hey, here's an opportunity.
So a temptation is an alluring of you to choose the wrong path, to go against God's will, to violate the moral law.
These are temptations.
And usually, the temptation is mentally indulged in, at least to a point, like, oh yeah, that's right, I actually could do this.
Hey, there's a bunch of money, no one's really looking.
So, in other words, it is not...
It is very normal to intellectually accommodate the temptation, even if then you get steely determination and you go, well, of course, I'm not going to do it.
I'm not a bad guy.
I'm not going to succumb to it.
But nevertheless, you have entertained it in your mind.
And here's Jesus saying that if you've contemplated the sin, if you have thought about adultery, if you have thought about fornication, you know what?
You've actually committed the sin.
Why?
Because your intentions are what matter here.
And your actions are merely a carrying out of those intentions.
So if you've already had the intention, the sin in a sense has been committed.
Again, this is I think a, when I first encountered it, shocking and disturbing doctrine.
I know some of you watched my series with Professor Tour, the prominent chemist from Rice University.
When he came on the podcast for the first time and described his conversion, he conveyed how, as a Jew, when he was asked about Christianity and he discovered this idea, he thought, well, you know, I don't commit a lot of sins.
And when he discovered the idea that, from Jesus' own point of view, if you've thought about it, you've committed the sin.
This was something that forced him to examine his life in a completely new way.
So, yes, what Christianity does is raise the moral bar so high that you can't climb it.
But the good news, I think for us, and this is the good news of Christmas, is that we don't have to climb it.
We can't in any case.
So it's a great relief to hear that this gap between our abilities and God's great purity and God's great goodness is going to be crossed, not by us, but by God Himself.
And of course, that is the role of Jesus in the world.
And the third and final point I want to stress in terms of things sort of memorable sayings of Jesus that kind of have never left me is his very striking statement to the woman at the well which is go and sin no more.
This is a very important saying because particularly in our culture people try to interpret sin as something that Jesus somehow quote embraces.
Oh, the woman has five husbands.
Oh, she's living with someone who's not her husband.
Jesus is really okay with that because God is really love.
And it's important to see that while Jesus is very gentle with the woman at the well, he never yells at her.
He certainly doesn't demand that she be arrested.
He doesn't enforce any moral penalty on her.
He's very clear that he knows what she's doing.
What she's doing is wrong.
And he expects her to stop.
That's the meaning of go and sin no more.
In other words, there is enormous willingness to get people to improve their ways and change their ways.
But never should it be said that Jesus or God Himself has any kind of gentle feeling or love or tolerance towards sin, which remains a complete abomination in the eyes of God.
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I want to talk about two items in the news.
One of them is the special report, the ethics report, On Matt Gaetz.
And the other is these Biden pardons.
So let me start with Matt Gaetz.
There's clearly a hit job going on on Matt Gaetz.
And it's a hit job that is driven by the Democrats, but it is abetted by at least one Republican candidate.
on the Ethics Committee.
Why?
I say this because they had a vote about whether to release this report and they got a majority to release it.
Now, since Republicans are the majority in Congress, you can't get a majority in any committee without at least one Republican voting on the side of the Democrats.
Now, Matt Gaetz, as I have mentioned before, is A controversial figure even among his fellow or former fellow House members, largely because he led the campaign against Kevin McCarthy.
And so it's not surprising to me that there was at least one Republican, and maybe more, Who are very happy to try to plunge the knife into Gates.
And this report is being brandished by the media and by the left as a shocking, scandalous Matt Gates was not only a philanderer, but he was paying people to have sex with him, including an underage 17-year-old.
And so he was, according to the Descriptions of this report engaged in this elaborate sort of prostitution scheme.
And Matt Gaetz himself has acknowledged that in previous years as a younger man, he did live the kind of debauched partying lifestyle.
So he's not denying that part of it.
I think he even has admitted that he did drugs.
But it should be noted that these allegations are very dubious.
One of them, or some of them, come from a guy who was trying to blackmail or shake down Gates's family.
He's from a very rich family.
Others come from a guy who's currently sitting in prison, a political operative who tried to make similar allegations against another political figure in Florida.
And Gates himself has been releasing excerpts of the conversations with these so-called prostitutes, supposedly.
And they're not prostitutes.
In other words, they are...
Girls, women, who apparently were involved in sexual relationships with Matt Gaetz, maybe with others as well, and Matt Gaetz apparently bought him presents, gave him stuff, in some cases gave him money, but did not give them, quote, a fee.
And you can kind of see this from the actual exchanges that are now publicized.
This whole topic, of course, is very sorted.
You said before that you got $400 from Matt Gaetz.
I did.
All right.
Will you promise that ahead of time or anything?
No, we never discussed money.
Well, this is not prostitution.
Here's another example.
This involves someone else.
So, the amounts charged did not depend on how attractive a guy was.
Is that fair to say?
Answer, I never charged anyone anything.
Like I said, it was just given.
That's not prostitution.
And there are other similar examples.
And I'll give just one more.
Were you escorting?
Working?
What were you doing?
I wouldn't consider it any of those.
There were a lot of times I didn't get paid for being there.
At that time, I thought a lot of these people were my friends.
So again, this is not a...
This is clearly a...
It's a troubling situation, but it is not different, unfortunately, from stuff that goes on in the male frat boy culture, in the locker room culture, in the culture of prominent athletes.
This is just a see-me-underside of American society.
The point is they're trying to make it sound like Matt Gaetz was doing things that were illegal.
And I think upon closer examination, you see that that is not the case.
Now, let me turn to the pardons of Joe Biden.
The latest is he commutes the sentences of 37 killers sitting on death row.
And he acts like he's doing this out of some great moral principle.
He says, I've got a principled objection to the death penalty.
First of all, that can't really be true because he didn't pardon everybody.
If he pardoned everyone in death row, he could say, well, I've got a principled objection.
But he doesn't.
He pardons these 37.
And it turns out these are some of the worst murderers of modern American history.
Brianna Morello, who writes on X, says, I've read through the court filings for all 37.
And then she just goes and gives the details on each one of them.
And I don't have to go through these.
They're just absolutely shocking, depressing.
They show complete depravity, no mitigating circumstances.
By and large, there have to be no mitigating circumstances for you to get the death penalty in the first place.
And so I don't really buy this Biden explanation that it was a matter of principle anymore.
If it was a matter of principle, he would have done it on day one.
He would have come into office.
The pardon power comes with the presidency.
You don't have to wait for four years to do this.
So I think that that is no explanation at all.
And I'll go even further.
I don't think that Biden is even doing this.
Why?
Because I don't think that Biden is doing anything.
Debbie and I have this conversation about who's really running things.
And regardless of whether or not we think Obama is the mastermind, I think it's pretty clear that you've got staffers, left-wing staffers, possibly part of the Obama circle or the Obama cadre.
And these are the people who are drafting these pardons.
I don't know if somebody is even holding Biden's hand as he signs them.
But Biden is nothing more than the complicit figure in an ideologically driven and corruption driven regime.
The reports that you see are really quite disturbing over what's been happening over the last four years because what they suggest is that even the cabinet is frozen out of Biden's decision making.
What the White House has done is create layer upon layer, obstruction upon obstruction, so even a figure, a prominent figure at the Federal Reserve or a cabinet secretary can't get through to Biden.
They talk to a White House staffer who refers him to another White House staffer and Biden is not available and Biden will get back to you and he never does.
So we have an absentee presidency.
We have had an absentee presidency for the most part the past four years.
And here's the really shocking thing.
They were going to try to voice this exact same absentee presidency on us for the next four years.
Had it not been for that Trump debate, Biden's incompetence would not be dramatized for all of America and the world to see.
The Democrats would not be forced to pull back on their scheme.
And their scheme was to try to drag Biden across the finish line.
And it might have worked.
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Visit ShareRight.org slash Dinesh that's ShareRight.org Guys, I'm delighted to welcome to the podcast a friend of ours, of Debbie's and mine, young Braden Sorbo.
He's just 23 years old, but he is an actor.
He is an author.
He has a new book coming out.
Well, it's not out yet, but it'll be out in a few months.
It's called Embrace Masculinity.
Lifting men up in a world that pushes them down.
Really a fascinating topic.
Braden has acted in a bunch of films, by the way.
His dad and mom are both also actors and prominent in the movie industry.
One of Brayden's films called I Feel Fine.
You can follow him on x at Brayden Sorbo, B-R-A-E-D-E-N, Sorbo.
And keep an eye out for the book Embrace Masculinity.
Brayden, thanks for joining me.
And it's Christmas Eve, so Merry Christmas for tomorrow as well as Happy New Year.
And I hope it's going to be a big year for you.
Looks like it's going to be a big year for the country.
Since you're coming on for the first time on the podcast, tell people a little bit about yourself and why you undertook to write a book on this topic.
Man, well, that bio is so great.
It's almost as if I wrote it as an introduction.
That's right.
It's suspiciously close to something you might have written.
Yes.
So now I'm 20. I just turned 23 last August.
And I undertook this book about a year ago.
I decided that this is my second book.
The first book, The BS Guide to Politics, was a little lighthearted, kind of sarcastic, not necessarily that serious.
I wrote it when I was 18. And I decided I wanted to write something that had a lot more impact.
I am an advocate for men's mental health as well as men's physical health.
I strongly believe that the science also correlates the fact that a good mind, a strong mind is directly related to someone's physical capabilities.
So not necessarily lifting 500 pounds or, you know, squatting 300, you know...
Cars or whatever, but just being active, getting sunlight, doing things that are healthy for your body directly impacts and improves your mental capacity.
And so I decided to write this book because I've noticed that, like the secondary subheading reads, lifting men up in a world that pushes them down.
The world is very anti-man.
We have misunderstood what true masculinity is.
And so my goal with this book was to kind of Re-invite people into a discussion to understand that true masculinity isn't toxic, a lack of masculinity is.
Where true masculinity uplifts, toxic masculinity pushes down.
And so what men are called to do as husbands, fathers, Christians, or even just regular guys like me...
Is to lift up people who are around them.
And the biggest tenet of true masculinity is responsibility.
Not just for oneself, but for those that you love, care, and protect for.
And so I invite people with the book to kind of re-evaluate their lives, kind of understand where they're at, why God has put them in that position, and to do something about it.
Brayden, if we think about your message, it appears to be a 21st century defense of things that at one time never needed to be defended.
And what I mean by that is, in the ancient world, in traditional society, People took it for granted that men and women were fundamentally different.
They thought that men and women had in some ways different roles to play in society.
They assumed that masculinity and femininity are two different things, complementary, but not in any way identical.
And then in the 20th century you had a very vociferous feminist movement that sought to blur these differences, insist that, hey, women can do pretty much anything a man can do.
There may be like one or two exceptions, but by and large there's no reason to think that there is something different between men and women other than just the absolute bare bones of biology.
So For a confused world, let's just begin by asking you a simple question, which is like, what is the difference between masculinity and femininity in your view?
So masculinity is the driving force, right?
It's not necessarily, like you said, better or worse.
It is something that is supposed to be complementary, not competitive.
And so when God...
I like to tell people when God created Eve from Adam, he took her from his rib.
Not from Adam's head so that she would trample over and lord it over him.
Not from his foot so that he would walk over her, but from his rib so that she would be equal with him.
From under his arm to be protected by him and from next to his heart to be loved by him.
And so we have completely different roles.
The beauty of that is that the divine order that we have created or that God has created allows us to explore, embrace, and really grow as people when we honor those roles.
For example, Jesus is part of the Trinity.
He himself says that he is no better than God, but he submits to the will of the Father because he understands that there is a divine order in the universe.
In that same sense, we've discovered that when a wife submits to her husband, not that he is better than her or that he is, you know, stronger or more capable of doing things Sure, a man will be able to lift more weight than a woman will.
That's great.
A woman can give birth.
A guy can't.
We're not designed for that, right?
When we acknowledge these roles that we have been placed in, we not only thrive, but we flourish.
We grow together, and that is what we were created to do.
And so this 21st century and the 20th century even, feminism that has kind of ravaged the world has destroyed what it means to be a man and to be a woman.
We've blurred the lines and it's almost too late to turn back.
I mean, this election was truly a gift because we are at the point where every other society in the history of the world has collapsed.
And so if we want to save this country, we have to make drastic changes and we have to do it quickly.
Do you think, Brayden, that we're dealing with a problem that is unique to America and the West, or is it a worldwide problem?
And then second, related to that, a lot of young people appear to have been raised by their parents, who are probably themselves a product of that feminist era, and I have been raised in very confused circumstances.
And so it's almost like young people today have to discover truths in a fresh way that they haven't learned in the sense that earlier generations just learned them by picking them up, not just from your parents, but also from the surrounding community.
These were like codes that you were just expected to follow, and they were enforced not just at home, but also on the street.
Are you hopeful that young people today are going to be able to see some of the things that you say and comprehend the truths that you're describing and embrace them for their own lives?
100%.
Generation Z is overwhelmingly conservative and young people are returning to Christianity in droves because we feel that there is something missing.
And the government and everybody in charge is telling us, it's nothing.
Go be yourself.
Go do this.
Go live for your own pleasure.
And we're feeling empty because of it.
And so rebelling, ironically, is turning back to traditionalism.
And that's what we're seeing in massive, staggering numbers.
I mean, frankly, to me, it's...
Pretty uplifting.
I mean, my testimony is I used to struggle with pornography and so I do a lot of public speaking for young men to get out of it.
I mean, one of the biggest factors of the decline in the West has been the sexual revolution where people can go sleep around, they can do whatever they want.
Pornography has basically told men To start comparing themselves to other people that if you're not doing this, if you're remaining celibate, if you're staying a virgin until marriage, you're weak, you're pathetic, you're useless because you can't get laid, or you're an incel which is involuntary celibate.
And so people in society will make fun of these younger generations for these things which are supposed to be good.
And it's gotten to the point where the attacks have been so visceral and so hate-filled that people are just flat-out ignoring them and this is why we're seeing this return to Christ.
It seems like what you're saying, Brayden, because clearly there is a...
And I think this is probably what distinguishes today from, say, earlier eras.
In earlier eras, a traditional way of life was accepted.
It was taken for granted.
it didn't have to be defended.
It needed no defenders because it had no critics.
You might have one or two weirdos who kind of broke ranks with everybody else, and then they were seen as eccentrics.
But by and large, there was a norm for society.
I mean, I think it's fair to say that we don't really have a norm that could be taken as prescriptive across the whole society.
And you just pointed out a moment ago that you've got people who are very hostile to the kind of traditional lifestyle that you're describing.
How do you think that this new traditionalism, even if it takes root, is going to coexist with these pathological haters of Christianity and all the fruits of Christianity?
I'll answer that really simply.
It won't, because Christianity will stomp it out.
God said to the serpent in the garden, he said, I will stomp on your head.
And that was a prophecy for the book of Revelation to happen.
And we're not living in the end times.
I'm not here saying that, oh, well, the Antichrist is here and all this.
But...
Christianity exists to spread light to the world and darkness cannot survive in the light.
And so you have all these people turning back to traditionalism and you have all these people turning back to God and really embracing the roles that they have been created for.
What that's going to result in is this negativity this evil is going to be flushed out I mean Satan can't create all he can do is distort and the biggest distortion he had is the sin of the sexual sin I mean in first Corinthians Paul writes and he says every sin is bad But the sin of sexual sin is a sin that a man commits to his own body whereas every other sin a man commits to somebody else and so the devil has done a really good job of turning around and This beautiful thing that God created and making it for Satan.
But young people are waking up and realizing that it doesn't belong to the devil, that it belongs to God.
And so starting by taking that back, we're going to see this return to traditional values and there will not be any sort of cohesion.
There will not be sort of like a meshing of these two different...
The light is going to overpower the darkness.
It's just a matter of time.
What I like about what you're saying, Brayden, is that you are highlighting problems that are quite endemic and that affect a lot of people.
You know, in other words, when we talk about cultural issues in the country today, there's a lot of focus, for example, as you know about the trans issue.
And it is true that we are subject to this major freak show in our society, drag queens, bathroom controversies, you know, biological men and women sports.
But nevertheless, this trans issue, although disturbing because of its attempt to kind of erase the boundaries between male and female, is nevertheless, in terms of the actual number of people, probably relatively small.
But when you talk about things like pornography, sexual sin, you're now talking about stuff that affects a lot of people in society.
And particularly with, you know, porn at one point used to have to hide behind the brown paper wrapper, you know, but now it is so easily accessible to people.
Say a few words about why it is so bad, because I'm sure there are some people who think, well, gee, I mean, I'm not really doing anything.
I'm just kind of looking at this stuff and, you know, what's so bad about it?
I think it is bad, but say why.
So, it is a direct affront and an attack on God.
Alvin Goldstein is known as one of the fathers of the pornography industry, and he said, all of us who are in this are in this because we hate Christ.
So, porn inherently hates Christ and what he has created.
And the problem is, a lot of these young girls are being influenced because God created women to submit and men to lead, and so these young girls are thinking they're going off and branching and doing their own thing, but they're really submitting to evil men when they create their OnlyFans and they do pornography and they do these things.
And it destroys their soul, just like it destroys the soul of the man partaking, watching, or in any way, shape, or form, you know, seeing it.
And so what I've realized is, as men, we have to take all of the responsibility, every single piece of it, for improperly leading the daughters of God.
This is not how the Father in Heaven would want his daughters to be treated.
And when we realize that, we can start to turn things around.
A lot of young men see this because it's easily accessible.
It's just right there in front of them.
But what it does is it destroys your soul.
You feel a little bit of guilt eventually.
I like to say it's three stages.
You firstly have godly sorrow, where you see something and you feel bad, so you kind of turn and you pray and you ask for forgiveness.
Then you feel a little bit of guilt.
You feel guilty about it.
You're kind of less likely to pray.
And the third stage is where the devil fully has you, and that's shame.
That's when you turn your back on the Lord, and that's what porn does.
It puts you in a stage of shame, where eventually you feel so bad about it, you can't help but look, but you also refuse to seek help, change, repent, and move on.
And so, what the pornography industry has done, which is so absolutely powerful, is they have taken, like you said, the accessibility, and they have mainstreamed it.
I mean, you have it in movies, you have it on billboards, you have it on YouTube even, where it's widely accessible.
Pornhub actually is pulling out of Florida, where I'm from.
And the reason they're stating is because of the age verification laws that Florida just instituted.
Now, why would a company...
Have a problem with an age verification where users would have to prove that they are over the age of 18 to access their website.
That to me is a problem.
This tells me that these industries are trying to target young people because it physically and mentally and spiritually destroys them.
Yeah, this is great stuff, Brayden.
I'm really excited about the book.
We just got it.
Debbie's already reading it.
This is an advanced copy, of course.
I'm excited to read it as well.
Let's close out by just posing a final question.
It seems like you are anchoring your case for masculinity on a kind of biblical or scriptural or Christian foundation.
Is there something in the book for people who are looking for, let's just say, A secular defense of traditional values in which they go, show me, Brayden, that these things are just good to have me live a more stable and balanced life, but don't draw your arguments necessarily from the Bible.
Is there something in it for that type of reader?
Without a doubt.
And while I do quote the Bible in it, I also use plenty of scientific studies to back it up.
I talk about the order in the universe, and even before we bring in the fact that God created it, people were inherently happier.
I mean, you look a hundred years ago, and you could see all of the studies that when families were together, when there were a mother and a father influencing their children positively, not even just with Christianity, but in a positive, uplifting manner.
They were loving their kids, taking care of their kids.
The father provided for the house.
The mother honored.
The father, they loved each other.
The kids saw that statistically, people were happier.
Statistically, everything was better off.
It's not just one or two things, but children performed better in schools.
Children were less likely to become addicted to drugs or wind up in jail or commit crimes.
But now you have this fatherless epidemic going on in America today and, frankly, around the world.
Where a majority of kids are being raised in kind of broken homes, whether the father is there, but he's not actually present.
He's more physically there, but he's emotionally and spiritually distant.
I mean, without even bringing in religion, we can see the downfalls in society today.
And so the book kind of points, and it definitely shows, hey, the religion aspect helps.
But it uses more than just, well, here's a Bible verse.
Because if someone isn't Christian, a Bible verse isn't going to help them at all.
And so I completely agree with you.
And it honors both the different roles.
I mean, Peter talks about how women are the weaker vessel.
And he says weaker is in the term more delicate, right?
Women are an iPad and men are a shovel.
So I tell men, you're a shovel.
You can be dropped.
You can be dinged, beaten up, all of those things.
But you don't dropkick an iPad.
It has a very, very valuable special purpose.
But you're not going to dig a trench with it.
And so I tell men, since you're a shovel, you're a garden tool, you'll never be the man that you've been created to be unless you turn away from sin and turn towards Christ.
Brayden, we count on a 23-year-old to give us the analogy of the shovel and the iPad.
Not something I would normally have thought of.
But guys, this sounds like a fascinating book.
It's Embrace Masculinity.
It's by young Brayden Sorbo.
Follow him on X at Brayden.
Brayden, thank you very much for joining me.
We'll have you back.
Thank you.
Drawing on my book, The Big Lie, I'm now in a section that is looking at some surprising parallels between things that are going on in Nazi Germany and things that are going on or had gone on In the Democratic Party.
And I'm showing that these things are not only connected conceptually, they resemble each other, but that the Nazis were consciously borrowing ideas, concepts, plans, blueprints from the Democrats.
So, on the Democratic side, we're talking about Indian removal, We're talking about genocide, which is to say large numbers of Indians perishing as a result of these broken treaties and democratic organized relocations.
We're also talking about slavery, which is a concept that greatly appealed to Hitler and he wanted to apply in a different context.
We're talking about segregation, racial terrorism.
So all of this Democratic Party stuff that was going on starting when the party was founded, the 1820s and early 30s, and continuing well into the 20th century, All of this is mirrored by things the Nazis are doing.
So what are the Nazis doing?
Let's look at their side.
Lebensraum, which is basically conquest, an attempt to gain more living space, this was kind of modeled on Indian removal.
And then we have concentration camps.
And I'm going to argue, and this may surprise some people because you probably haven't heard it before, concentration camps are very similar to slave plantations.
Why?
Because if you think about what a slave plantation is, it's essentially a work camp.
Right?
Slavery means owning people for free.
Making them work for you for free.
So a slave plantation is a labor camp.
You're not allowed to leave.
You're in captivity.
This is forced labor.
So there is a rather...
Direct parallel between a slave plantation and a Nazi labor camp.
Think about Nazi Nuremberg laws and segregation for the Jews.
That, as it turns out, we'll find out more about this in detail, modeled on democratic segregation laws.
And then finally, genocide.
A practice that, as I mentioned, has occurred, at least in some form, in America with the Indians.
Through Democratic Party policies.
And then, of course, the Nazis became specialists in the art of genocide.
Now, we're going to spend the next few minutes learning more about things on the Nazi side because they're not as well known as things on the Democratic side, which I think you're probably familiar with through my earlier books, books like Hillary's America, Death of a Nation, and also the corresponding films.
Now, when we talk about genocide, we need to distinguish genocide from the Holocaust.
Because a lot of Jews will say the Holocaust is a unique event, it's a singular event, it can't be compared to something else.
And I suppose that as Holocaust, that's true.
I agree with that.
But while Holocaust is a singular event, the idea of genocide is not.
Genocide simply means killing large numbers of people.
The United Nations has a kind of manual and also a definition of genocide, and they give the example of the Nazis, but they point to other genocides in the world, the genocide in Rwanda, the genocide in other places as well.
So, genocide is a broader concept and Holocaust is something a little more specific.
Now, When we compare slave labor camps to concentration camps, we need to make an important distinction here because the concentration camps were, in fact, work camps.
They are not the same as death camps.
So the Nazis really had two separate types of camps.
And there are separate books that talk about each of them.
There's a book, for example, by Mark Bugln.
It's called Slave Labor in the Nazi Concentration Camps.
And if you read the descriptions of those, they had barbed wire fences surrounding the concentration camps.
They had work schedules.
Obviously, people were fed, but not fed very well.
They were fed really just enough to enable them to work.
They were routinely whipped if they didn't conform.
So all the ingredients that you'd find in a slave plantation, here we go, in the Nazi concentration camps as well.
The death camps were different.
First of all, the concentration camps were all over Nazi Germany, and there were thousands of them.
I think, ultimately, scholars say between 15,000 and 20,000 concentration camps, so camps small, camps large, all over the place.
The death camps, there was not a single one in Germany.
The Nazis didn't want the German people to find out about them.
So these are the extermination camps.
Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzac, Chelmno.
These were just death camps.
Nothing that was going on in there except killing people.
And a lot of Jews were sentenced to death camps.
A lot of Jews never set foot in a concentration camp because Hitler's idea was not to put the Jews to work.
But rather to put the Jews to death.
Now, there were a lot of other captive peoples who were stuck in the concentration camps and made to work.
So places like Dachau, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Flossenburg, Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbrück.
These are concentration camps.
These are work camps.
And in fact, this is important to realize because you remember the scenes where after the war, American troops went into Dachau.
they dragged out all these poor emaciated people and they and the world was like oh my gosh look at these people who have been in near starvation conditions the point is if this was a death camp they'd all be dead they would all have been gasped they'd all be finished off there wouldn't be lots of people to drag out of these camps those are the workers those are the people who are in forced labor and of course they became thin and emaciated they weren't properly fed
they were were ignored toward the end of the war when the Nazis were just focused on their own survival.
So these were concentration camps.
Now there were, Auschwitz and Majdanek were both concentration camps and death camps.
So there was a concentration camp kind of work side to the camp, and there was a death side to the camp.
And the people in the death side were simply marched off to the end of their life, whereas the people in the work camp were put to work.
So this is important because the comparison that I'm making is not between a death camp and a slave plantation.
Slave plantations were not death camps, but slave plantations were, in fact, concentration camps, and that's the difference that I am highlighting.
The Jews who were killed in the death camps, most of them, interestingly enough, were not even from Germany.
This will surprise many people because people think, well, of course, Hitler killed all the Jews in Germany, but no.
What happened was that because Hitler had these discriminatory policies against the Jews, resembling the state-sponsored discrimination of the American South, cheered by the Democratic Party, Hitler also had racial terrorism cheered by the Democratic Party, Hitler also had racial terrorism directed at the Jews.
This was the night of the broken glass.
Many of these sort of Nazi pogroms or modern versions of the pogroms against the Jews, this resembles the Ku Klux Klan, for example, in America, another, you know, a noted arm of the Democratic Party.
But because the Jews in Germany knew that they were under siege, a lot of them realized, we better get out of here.
And so a lot of Jews fled Germany in the early years of Hitler's regime.
And certainly by the time that World War II started, the Jews were like, okay, that's it, we're gone.
And many Jews, some of them quite notable, Jews, Jewish scholars, Jewish scientists, prominent figures in philosophy and science and music, took off other parts of Europe, and some came to the United States and, of course, In fact, some even ended up in the United States nuclear program to defeat Nazi Germany.
So the point I'm trying to make is that Hitler couldn't have killed six million German Jews because there weren't six million German Jews to kill.
But there were a lot of Jews in Poland.
There were a lot of Jews in some of the other Eastern European countries, and those are the Jews that were regrettably dispatched to the death camps.
So we see here a really remarkable analogy between, on the one hand, Indian removal by the Democrats in the 19th century in America And Nazi, quote, removal through conquest of other captive peoples in Europe.
And we see a second analogy between the slave plantations that were established and sustained and defended by the Democrats in the 19th century all the way up to the Civil War on the one hand and Nazi slave labor camps on the other.
This is not an analogy that is often made.
It is rare to find this even alluded to.
But when you start doing a comparison between the two sets of practices, you see that they are recognizably similar.
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