Ep. 1474 - Are They Trying To Get President Trump Killed?
A Democrat congressman tries to strip President Trump of his Secret Service protection, a non-binary patient from Florida undergoes "Barbie surgery," and the national IQ drops for the first time in a century.
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I've mentioned a few times over the past few months that as the Democrats' plans to foil Trump keep failing, sooner or later they might even try to kill him.
Spying on his campaign didn't work.
Impeaching him didn't work.
They might still imprison him, but after that, there's pretty much only one option left.
Well...
You know, I hate to say I told you so.
It seems that I have been proven right even sooner than I thought, thanks to Congressman Benny Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi who led the January 6th committee, who is now attempting to strip President Trump of his Secret Service protection.
Since 1901, the Secret Service has protected every U.S.
president.
And since 1965, just after President Kennedy was assassinated, that protection has been extended to former presidents and their wives for the rest of their lives.
The reason we have extended that courtesy to presidents and former presidents is that lots of people want to murder them.
According to the FBI, there is currently an Iranian assassin on American soil recruiting co-conspirators to murder Trump as revenge for Trump's killing of an Iranian general.
And for every Iranian hitman, there are probably a hundred, maybe a thousand deranged leftists trying to murder Trump every single day.
If that were not enough, Benny Thompson specifically wants to deprive Trump of Secret Service protection if he is convicted in any one of the Democrats' kangaroo courts and sentenced to prison.
Because no one's ever murdered in prison, right?
A Democrat congressman is currently proposing to strip a former president of his security detail for the first time in almost 60 years at precisely the moment that he is most likely to be murdered.
Which means that Trump is not on trial for whatever hodgepodge of financial and political crimes the Democrats are preposterously alleging.
The Libs are not just threatening him with life in prison.
They're threatening him with the death penalty.
President Trump is currently on trial for a capital offense.
The capital offense of beating the Democrats in 2016.
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The libs never give up on pummeling their enemies.
They never give up.
You would think the libs might have been deterred after spying on Trump failed, After imprisoning his associates failed.
After impeaching him failed.
After trying to impeach him again failed.
After so on and so forth.
They just keep pummeling.
It's not only true in regards to Trump.
It's not only true in the United States.
We're seeing this right now in Finland.
All the way over in happy Finland.
The Supreme Court of Finland We'll hear a case of a Member of Parliament who is being prosecuted for sharing a Bible verse.
This MP is Paivi Rajanan.
I don't know how to do it.
Seems like a nice lady.
Facing charges related to her sharing a 2019 tweet that included pictures of a Bible verse.
And a pamphlet on marriage that she wrote in 2004, which is obviously very politically incorrect now because back in 2004 people still believed things about marriage that everyone had always believed everywhere forever, which is different than right now when we are not allowed to believe anything about marriage that anyone believed anywhere ever before say 2015.
The charges had been dismissed by the district court And the Helsinki Court of Appeal doesn't matter.
They just, the state prosecutors are just still going after this woman.
They want to pummel her.
They want to punish her for sharing a Bible verse and for articulating the view of marriage that statistically everyone held forever.
They want to fine her tens of thousands of euro and they want to censor her.
She, another person, a bishop, Johanna Pohjola, not sure bishop of what church, will be tried at the same time on similar charges.
The charges were brought publicly, or were brought first, after Rosanna, again please apologies to the MP for my poor Finnish pronunciation, after she publicly questioned Why the church that she is a part of was sponsoring an LGBT pride celebration.
So for the crime, this was the inciting incident, the crime of asking why a church is celebrating Not only disordered sexual acts, which are condemned and prohibited many times in the Bible, and of course throughout the entire history of Christianity and the Church.
But furthermore, even put the weird sex stuff aside for a second.
Pride.
She's asking why is the Church celebrating pride?
Pride is the queen of all vices.
My friend Andrew Klaven points out it's now the vice of all queens.
And also it's the primordial sin.
If you believe that there is such a thing as sin, which, you know, is kind of an important concept for churches, then pride is a pretty big one.
Some would call it the original sin.
From which all the other sins spring.
So she says, isn't it kind of weird that a church is sponsoring something having to do with pride?
And for this, she is prosecuted.
She was accused of, quote, agitation against a minority group.
And where is this supposed offense listed?
It's listed under a section of, quote, quote, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Finnish law.
If you ask, hey, isn't it kind of weird that a church would celebrate the original sin and the queen of all vice?
You are committing a war crime or some other crime against humanity, according to the libs.
The case will carry on.
I hope this woman and I hope the bishop or bishopress or whoever this is, I hope they're all acquitted.
It's obviously insane.
The libs don't stop punishing their enemies.
The only takeaway from this story is that, well, two takeaways.
One, they hate Christianity.
They hate the animating spirit of our civilization.
They hate the truth.
They really hate that and they specifically want to punish you for believing in that.
In a way, that's almost secondary to the political observation in this story.
The libs never stop.
We stop.
We stop.
We go after the Clintons.
We don't like the Clintons.
We even try to impeach Bill Clinton, which we succeed at, but we don't convict him, and then we kind of just let him off the hook.
Then Hillary runs for Senate.
We kind of just let her have it.
Then she runs for president, and we oppose her.
She didn't even get the nomination.
We let her off the hook.
Then they raise tons and tons of money.
By selling American influence abroad and they take money from all sorts of shady characters around the world.
We don't really go after her for it.
In the 2016 race, Trump says, oh, we're going to lock her up.
If I'm president, you're going to be in jail.
We don't really follow through.
We just kind of let it go.
We let it go.
That's what we do.
And maybe that's a good thing.
I, for one, think it's bad to imprison our presidential candidates and former presidents.
So maybe it speaks well of our character that we let it go.
The libs don't let it go.
The libs will just pursue you to the very ends of the earth.
There is no limit to their wrath or their desire for revenge.
Now, this is a bad thing because revenge is mine sayeth the Lord and I will repay and their foot shall slide in due time.
We don't want to be like the libs, but we might consider acknowledging the political reality.
We might say, look, I don't really care about politics.
But politics cares about us.
We might say, oh, you know what?
I'm gonna leave the libs alone, the libs are gonna leave me alone.
Well, you might leave them alone, they won't leave you alone.
We have to be willing to act and wield political power, if not to punish our enemies, at the very least to circumscribe their ability to punish us, because they are not going to stop.
Now, the libs will not stop pursuing their enemies, but the one thing the libs are stopping, increasingly, Is transing the kids.
This is really great news.
Scotland has just announced that they are going to follow the broader British National Health Service and they're going to stop transing the kids.
This is after similar announcements have come out of France and other places around the world.
Scotland has stopped all new prescriptions of trans-affirming medication.
I'm putting this all in quotes because there's no such thing as transgenderism and the medications are horrific abuses that harm the patient rather than help the patient.
They're stopping puberty blockers for the trans-identifying kids.
They're stopping cross-sex hormones for minors.
There's only one youth gender clinic in Scotland, Sandyford in Glasgow, and it's operated by the Scotland NHS, and they said they're going to cut it out.
Even Liberal Scotland recognizes that this is barbaric, it's totally unsupportable, it Does not play in Peoria or whatever the Scottish version of Peoria is.
The people are really opposed to castrating little kids and giving them bone problems and shortening their life and not helping any of their psychiatric conditions and just lying about human nature and pretending a boy can be a girl.
It turns out the people don't like that and they're not getting on board so even Liberal Scotland is going to stop it.
America, full steam ahead.
Meanwhile, the President of the United States, supposedly moderate Joe Biden, full steam ahead, signing laws to expand the trans so-called therapies for little kids.
Signing these executive orders while flanked by sexually confused kids.
Really gross, really weird, really creepy, but this proves America is the outlier here.
Kind of like on abortion.
On abortion, even places we consider more liberal than we are, places like France, they have much stricter abortion laws than we do in America, certainly before Roe v. Wade was overruled, even today.
America is in the category of barbaric abortion that includes Canada, America's evil top hat, and also China and North Korea.
We are a far extreme outlier on the pro-abortion front, which we'll get to in a moment with Gavin Newsom trying to make us even more extreme.
Why is it?
Why is America the outlier on this issue, on the abortion issue, but also especially on the transgender issue?
We seem to be the only country that's not either Dismissing this crazy ideology out of hand, or at least restricting it a little bit, preventing kids from falling into it too quickly.
Why is this an American problem?
I gave a speech recently on transgenderism, America's problem.
I forget which school that was at, but if you just Google that speech title, you can find it on YouTube.
It was in the past few weeks.
I think it's because of the American ideology.
Love America, it's a great country, it really is a land of opportunity.
But great virtues can become vices if they're taken out of context, if they're removed from all of the other virtues and they're left to wander freely and madly.
And I think that's what's happened here.
There's an idea, because of America's unique founding, America's exceptional founding and development, that gives us the sense that we really can do and be anything we want in America.
It's true, we have a lot of opportunity, but we can't contradict nature, we can't contradict logic, we can't contradict reality.
A kid who was born poor to drug-addled parents with tough circumstances in the ghetto can, in principle, become the CEO of a big company, can become a U.S.
Senator, can become the President of the United States.
That can happen in America.
It can't happen in every country in the world.
But no man can ever become a woman.
Because it is not contrary to nature that a poor kid becomes a big success.
It's not contrary even to the...
Political tradition and institutions of America, that a kid from bad circumstances makes something of himself.
It is contrary to nature and reality that a man can become a woman.
It can happen.
But we've taken that ideology, that you can be whatever you want here, and we've taken it to an absurd extreme, beyond the confines and the limits of logic.
The results of that are tragic.
And the national results of that are that we look like complete lunatics on the international stage.
Because even some of the biggest Lib countries in the world recognize this is crazy.
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There is a patient from Florida Who I don't I actually don't know this person's sex He I mean he is the gender-neutral pronoun so we'll just say he he calls himself non-binary So he goes to a surgeon in Texas
A not even a normally depraved gender clinic as all of them are pretty much, but an especially depraved one that does all kinds of crazy Frankenstein surgeries.
And I mean, it's been it's actually been called Frankenstein's lab in Texas.
And this person had All of his genitals removed.
So it's called the Barbie surgery and I think you can probably use your imagination.
It means that you're just kind of flat.
You just become flat like a Barbie doll.
This procedure costs $10,000 up front.
It's described as a body modification journey that this individual hopes will transform him into a non-normative human.
Okay, and the Frankenstein Lab is more than happy to take the money because that's their whole shtick, is they just do these freak show sorts of surgeries, the sorts of things that doctors who have any kind of ethics whatsoever, who in any way seek to uphold the Hippocratic Oath that they have to take before they start practicing medicine, they won't touch this stuff.
So you got to go to the freak show.
Frankenstein lab in Texas to have it done.
This person did it.
These predatory doctors took this person's money and then they chopped his genitals off.
My question about this politically is, will the adults can do whatever they want crowd object to this?
I'm not worried about the libs.
The libs obviously support this because they support all sorts of perverse and downright demonic attacks on humanity and human nature.
I'm asking about the so-called political right.
I'm asking about the so-called conservatives or the libertarians.
I hold the view on this stuff that statistically everyone everywhere held for all of human history.
I use that phrase a lot because I don't mean to overuse it or make it cliche, but I think it's precise.
The view I hold on this is that a man can't really become a woman and that it's wrong to start just chopping people up and harming them under the guise of medical care.
That is an opinion that until about 10 years ago, basically everyone in the whole world held forever.
And yet I am called an extremist now because I continue to hold that view.
The more moderate position now is considered to be, look, we shouldn't do this to little kids, but once they turn 18, it's okay.
Or even once they turn 16, it's okay.
Or who knows where that scale is going to end up.
So the Lib position, the left-wing position, is perform the Barbie surgery on any lunatic who wants it.
The conservative position is, hey, don't do that until you turn nine.
You know, hey, that's wrong to do if you're in third grade, but maybe in fourth or fifth grade, it's okay.
And then, I don't know, I guess my position is the far right-wing extremist, authoritarian, fascist, whatever nonsense word they want to use.
Because I say we shouldn't do this to anyone because it's harmful to the patient and totally contrary to medicine and to health and to reason and to logic.
And so my view, which was held by everyone forever until recently, that's totally fringe and extreme.
Well, where do you fall on?
This is a little bit of a gut check on your conservatism.
Because if you recognize that this is obviously awful and harmful to the patient, And predatory by the doctors and just contrary to the common good and to all sorts of charity.
Then you got to say that we need to ban transgenderism from public life entirely.
Then you have to say the point that I was pilloried for at CPAC two years ago.
Where I was defamed by the liberal media and they tried to cancel me.
And fortunately, because I think most people agree with me and also because there were some courageous politicians and public figures who defended me, they weren't able to succeed at canceling me.
That's the conclusion I think you gotta come to.
If the Barbie surgery at the Frankenstein Lab in Texas is wrong, then it means that transgenderism is not just a problem when it's done to kids.
It's wrong for everyone.
It's harmful to everyone involved in it.
And so for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.
Seems to me that is the inescapable conclusion.
Of one's reaction to this news story.
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Speaking of women's issues, Gavin Newsom, California governor.
Who is just dying to be the president, and he is waiting for Joe Biden to die so that he can possibly have become the president.
He's got a new ad out from some campaign pack that he's affiliated with.
Gavin Newsom's premonition for America's future.
Take it away.
We're almost there.
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Okay, so totally checks out everything you would expect from this ad.
The good people are racially diverse, neutral accent having, lib-dressed young women who could be from California.
Then the villain, he's a white man with a southern accent, the most evil villainous sort of person ever walked the earth.
Just the most odious creature.
Could you imagine a southern white man?
Oh, the horror, the nightmares such a thought gives me.
Classic Lib California Hollywood framing here.
And then, before we get into the political implications of this, I have to point, maybe I view, I guess I view this ad differently than the Libs do.
They're driving, and the one girl says, we're almost there, oh good, we're almost, whew, I'm just so happy.
They're driving to go murder her child.
We remember that, right?
That's the action that is being undertaken by the characters in this ad, is that these two women are going to murder one of the women's children.
That's not, am I the only one who looks at this and says, actually, that lady's not the hero.
But then it gets really crazy, Black Mirror, you know, what's the old version of Black Mirror, Twilight Zone kind of show, where the cop pulls the girls over and says, you need to step out of the car, ma'am, and take a pregnancy test.
So my question is, Who is proposing this?
Who is proposing that cops be armed with guns and pepper spray and billy clubs and pregnancy tests?
Has anyone proposed that?
Has anyone suggested that?
No, not one person in the whole country has suggested that.
Furthermore, who is proposing and trying to advance legislation that would punish women for having abortions?
You might say, well, you know, it's murdering a child and therefore it makes sense that... No one, no prominent Republican in the whole country is advancing legislation to punish women for having abortions.
In fact, the pro-life movement has taken a decisive and explicit stance against such a proposal.
The pro-life movement seeks to punish abortionists, seeks to punish the abortion industry, but the pro-life movement actually gives a lot of care and a lot of charity to women who find themselves pregnant, even to women who have just had abortions.
Any pregnancy center you go to in America, according to a pro-life pregnancy center, not the abortion mills like Planned Parenthood, you go to anyone They will have resources on hand for women who have just killed their babies, who have just had abortion, because they actually live up to their reputation of caring for babies and their mothers.
Even mothers who have done something egregious and awful, wittingly or unwillingly, with full knowledge or without full knowledge, with full consent or without full consent, of killing their kids.
Every single one.
I travel to a fair number of these organizations, every single one.
I've yet to come across one that does not do such a thing.
So the Democrats here are fear-mongering over something that is not happening that no one is proposing.
Meanwhile, Republicans fear-monger too.
We have our own scare ads.
But you'll notice we fear-monger over things that the Democrats are actually doing currently.
Republicans have advertisements about how the Democrats are trying to trans your kids, and put gay porn in the elementary schools, and take away your guns, and do things that the Democrats are actively doing, and defund the police, and open up the border, and destroy the economy.
All of our fear-mongering is not only grounded in things that plausibly could happen, that the Democrats are proposing.
Our fear-mongering is pointing out things that are occurring right now that are undeniable, and the Democrats still attempt to deny it.
So why do the Democrats have to fearmonger on this ridiculous issue?
It's a laughable advertisement that no one is doing and no one is even proposing because they got nothing else.
What are they going to attack?
Democrats have all the political power.
The country is going to pot.
Everyone knows it.
No one thinks that very few people think the country is going in the right direction.
So they just have to make stuff up.
That's what it comes down to.
And it tells you a lot about the Relative position and accomplishments of the two parties, that when Republicans want to hit Democrats, we hit them for things that they are currently doing, and when Democrats want to hit Republicans, they just make up a bunch of stuff that no one is even suggesting in the future.
Speaking of dumb stuff, did you know that IQ is dropping for the first time in a century?
We haven't measured IQ all that long, but it's dropping.
One of the strange facts about IQ, the intelligence quotient, is that it's been rising for, well, for a century now.
Doesn't matter the geography, doesn't matter the races that are being measured, doesn't matter.
There are disparities in IQ between different groups and different places and different backgrounds, but everyone's IQ had been increasing.
Now IQ is dropping.
Why?
Well, this is a report on Daily Mail, which has reviewed some studies on this, including reporting from Psychology Today, and the culprit, at least according to the experts who study this, is technology.
Technology is making us dumber.
Specifically, one innovation that they're pointing to is the loss of handwriting from classrooms.
Kids are, or until very recently, Had not been taught to write by hand for 10 or 15 years.
That was just dropped out of the curriculum around 2010.
Remember when you were in school you'd learn how to write in print and then you'd learn how to write in cursive or longhand and then they kind of dropped cursive a little bit.
Now I don't even think people write in print so much because they just have computers and tablets and smartphones and so they just they type more and more.
And this is apparently causing Deficiencies in learning.
Because when you write by hand, the consequence of that is not just a note card or a sheet of paper.
The consequence of that is your brain is working in a specific way.
You're forming neural connections that will help your brain to develop and will help you to think better as you grow older.
Not just about how to make like the really difficult Z letter in cursive or something, but how to think generally.
And now that's gone.
Now, all of a sudden, there are new bills in places like California and New York requiring students to learn cursive writing.
Some other states are hesitant to revert back, but the educators seem unanimous on this.
The loss of basic skills, like a fine motor skill such as handwriting, is causing kids to get dumber, and you're seeing this reflected in broader IQ trends.
Pull it out of the classroom for a second.
Extrapolate it beyond the cursive lessons.
This is a warning about what happens when you outsource your brain.
When you outsource your brain, you diminish yourself.
It's like the difference between watching a movie and doing a thing.
It's fun to go watch a movie every so often, but if you just watch movies all day long, you're just sitting there eating popcorn, watching movies, letting the glittering images in front of you just happen, you will ultimately feel worse.
You will atrophy.
Your brain will atrophy.
Your physical muscles will atrophy because you will be living in a way that is passive and not active.
The extreme of this, speaking of movies, is the Matrix, where we just, if we live in the Matrix world, we just plug our brains in to some computer and we just passively receive pleasure, but we don't actually do anything.
And so you don't really have any skills.
That is not going to make you happy in the long run.
It's certainly not going to make you smart or productive in the long run.
Now, there have been fears about technology such as this since antiquity.
Even the fears in ancient Greece that, you know, the development of writing and scrolls would diminish people's ability to memorize.
Which is true, actually.
It probably did diminish people's ability to memorize.
And that's true with the development of technology like scrolls and books.
And so, you know, does that mean we shouldn't have scrolls and books?
No, not exactly.
But we have to figure out some way to be active, to live in the world in accordance with reality, which means the physical world.
This is the real deal.
It's not that computers are just bad per se and we should throw them out, though I would like to spend less time on computers and screens.
It's that we have, there's just a fact that we have bodies and the world is physical and we move through time and space and history.
So you got to engage that.
And if you just, if you just let your body atrophy, I'm one to talk, I never exercise, I probably should.
If you let your body atrophy, if you ignore the physical world, that is not going to conduce to your flourishing.
Do not outsource your brain.
Speaking of work and sitting at a computer all day, there is a guy who's gone viral and there's actually a series of videos that have gone viral demonstrating normal life and causing people to recoil in horror.
Here is one such video.
He's a guy, got a mustache, says life after college, 28 year old with a 9 to 5.
Drives to work, gets out of the elevator, he says 9 to 5 is really 7 to 4.
Spends mornings checking his email, then he takes lunch at 11.
Gets his lunch, some quesadillas.
Takes it back to his desk.
Sits there, has a little break.
Washes his hands.
Goes and does some more spreadsheets.
Then he, you know, gets some water.
He's got a mug that says, normalize the norm.
Then he leaves, goes to his car, picks up some groceries, grocery store on the way home, some fruit, some milk, you know.
Cliff bars, I can't really get into that.
Goes back home, changes into workout gear, says normalize the norm.
Then he goes and works out outside.
Then he makes one of these protein shakes that the, you know, the athlete type guys do.
Then he goes and walks his dog.
And the commentary on social media, mostly from spoiled little children, is that this is horrifying, this is the worst way to live, could you imagine this awful existence?
A life of quiet desperation, as some have said.
Seems fine.
When the Zoomers and some of the catastrophists are looking at this and they're saying, this is horrible, this is a life of quiet desperation, what a boring, awful way to live.
I side with the Boomers and Gen X and the Millennials who say, you know, listen, kid, You know, go to work and quit your belly aching.
I understand their point and I do agree with that.
But the Zoomers have a point.
The people who are looking at that video and saying, this is awful, what a terrible life, I don't want to do that, it looks so boring, it looks so soulless.
I sympathize with them.
I empathize with them.
I've had kind of a crazy career.
So I actually did reject that sort of life of predictability and normality.
Though I've later on come into it because I've come to learn that normality is a good thing.
The point that the Zoomers and the critics of this video have is that life must be about more than this.
And the point that the Millennials and the Gen X and the Boomers have is a life that looks like that at work can also be about more than that.
Because what's missing in that video is the guy's wife.
I think he's got a wedding ring on in the video.
So he's married, it's just not in there.
The thing that's missing is kids.
The thing that's missing is the family reunion.
The thing that's missing is his civic association that he joins.
The thing that's missing is his going to church.
The thing that's missing is his going to the school board meeting.
The thing that's missing is his taking a drive through the country.
The thing that's missing is all the rest of the stuff of life.
This is just a narrow little sliver of what this guy does.
The spoiled Zoomers who are criticizing this, the reason they're criticizing it is because they don't have much sense that you need material prosperity in order to serve the basic necessities of life.
But you do need that.
You gotta work.
And work is work sometimes.
Even if you have a really fun job, I have a fun job.
But sometimes work is work.
Even for me.
Even if you're doing the thing that you totally want to be doing.
Sometimes you just gotta grind through it and work.
But if that is all your life is, which is presently, unfortunately, in a lot of people's minds, that life is just about going to work and, you know, getting stuff and then going home and being alone and not having family and just kind of then you wake up and do it again, then your life will be miserable.
Then that will be a desperate life.
Not because you're working a stable job that provides you a decent income, but because you have no idea what to do with that income and you have no idea what to do with the leisure time that that ultimately will afford you.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music.
I don't look at the names of the commenters.
I just pick the comment.
It just happens.
The Drummer's Workshop, Norman's Music.
He pops up a lot.
To quote Joe Biden's uncle, Joey, it's simple.
Those men were hungry.
It's a great comment.
For those of you who don't, they always say nothing's funnier than explaining a joke.
You might recall Joe Biden made up some story about how he when he's in 1950s Delaware or Scranton.
He's driving up, he sees a couple of dudes making out with each other in the middle of the street, and Joe Biden's father... Joe Biden was born in the 1940s.
Joe Biden's father, born, what, in the 19-teens or something, supposedly turns to Biden and says, Joey, those men, they just love each other.
Joey, it's simple.
They just love each other.
Now, that story did not happen.
If we're actually talking about 1940s Delaware, Joe Biden's, you know, blue collar Irish father probably would have run the men over.
I don't mean to besmirch the memory of Joe Biden's father, but give me a break.
OK, Joey, they just love each other.
So you're right.
That's the sequel.
Joe Biden's uncle gets eaten by New Guinea cannibals, Joey.
Joey, those men, they were just hungry.
They were just come on, Joey.
You got to see things from their point of view.
Joe Biden was raised by Atticus Finch, I think.
Speaking of the youth and working, millennials, according to a new poll, are supporting a four-day workweek.
Okay, I amend my previous point.
The grouches who say, quit your bellyaching and just work, I guess that's just the boomers in Gen X. I guess the millennials are on Team Zoomer, whining about doing any actual work.
But, they kind of have a point too.
They kind of have a point, okay?
I'm sorry, I can't just identify with the Boomers and the Gen X, because they're missing a really important gripe that the Zoomers and the Millennials have.
The Zoomers are expressing this by the horror of mundane living, absent the things that make life really, really special and worthwhile.
The Millennials are expressing their dismay with work by calling for a four-day work week.
There's a recent poll conducted for Newsweek by Redfield & Wilton Strategies found that of all people, of all generations, Millennials are most in favor of reducing their weekly work hours.
Apparently, the poll found that 63% support, 63% of voters support transitioning to a four-day work week.
46% believe it will make workers more productive.
So, a clear majority of people want to work less.
Less than half of them say it will actually make workers more productive.
They don't, but they just want to work less.
Now millennials, of all the groups, nearly three-quarters of them say that they want to reduce their working hours.
44% are strongly in favor of that shorter work week.
An additional 30% generally support the idea.
Only 8% of millennials oppose the idea of this four-day work week.
Okay, so what do we think about it?
The Grouch Boomers and Gen X will say, you spoiled brats, you should be working seven days a week.
When I was a young man, I walked uphill in the snow both ways to go to work.
And I worked 26 hours a day to provide for my family.
The Millennials and the Zoomers say, I don't want to work.
I don't want to work.
What do I think about this?
I support the four-day workweek in principle.
In principle, I support it.
Well, look, we used to have a six-day workweek.
Then, in recent decades, or at least the last century, we got a five-day workweek.
We could have a four-day workweek.
I guess we could have a six-day workweek again.
I don't know.
It's somewhat arbitrary.
It's social norms.
We could have a seven-day workweek if we want to ignore the Sabbath.
So we could, yeah, you could move it.
In principle, I support it.
In practice, I do not.
In practice, I don't think that the problem in America right now is that we're all working too hard.
I don't, I don't really, I, there is a problem that we don't know what to do with our leisure time, but that's not for lack of time.
That's for lack of education.
The point of education.
Is not to train you to do a job.
The point of education is to train you to make good use of your leisure time.
It's not vocational training.
It's training for leisure.
It's to cultivate interests and habits and culture.
It's for culture, right?
So that you can make sense of your freedom.
That's why we call it liberal arts.
People don't have that now.
People have free time.
Even when I'm working a crazy week, there's a little bit of free time somewhere.
And even I, what do I do with my free time?
I'm someone who takes this really seriously.
I really have tried to cultivate interests to make good use of my leisure time.
And yet, what am I doing most of the time?
Probably doom scrolling.
That's what I'm doing.
I'm probably squandering that leisure time.
Americans are much less likely to get married now.
We're having many fewer children.
We're less involved in our communities.
We're politically very disengaged.
And this is more and more pronounced the younger you look.
We're religiously increasingly disengaged.
So what are we going to do with those three days off?
We're not even making good use of the two days off right now.
That's a big problem because idle hands are the devil's playground.
So I have no problem with people working a little bit less if we're going to make good use of that time, if that's going to serve the community, if that's going to help individuals to prosper and flourish and become the best version of themselves.
But I see no evidence that that's the case.
Probably right now, if you gave people an extra day off, what they would do is doom scroll more, look at porn, and blow money on frivolous brunches.
Probably is what would happen.
Now, the brunch would be the most productive and defensible thing that people would do.
Thank you.
So I'm totally happy to have a conversation about a four-day workweek, but first we need to make sure that that would actually help people and lead to their personal growth and flourishing and the growth of strong families and strong communities rather than harm them, which I suspect exactly what would happen now.
Speaking of making bad use of your free time, there was a major protest at Columbia University Uh, led by, I guess, the Hamas faction of the, you know, student Democrats.
Uh, this anti-Jewish protest that took place in New York City on the Columbia campus.
Well, here's the sort of things they were saying.
Uncultured.
A-S-S-B-I-T-C-H-E-S.
Go back to Europe.
You have no culture.
All you do is colonize.
They're waving the Palestine flag.
They're wearing keffiyehs around their heads.
I like the Palestinian keffiyeh.
They're screaming Yehudi at the Jews.
Stop killing children.
Go back to Poland, I think was one of the lines. - Yes.
And so, I don't know, I guess the Jewish kids go back.
And then they chant, oh Hamas, oh loved one.
Then there's the translation, ya Hamas, ya Habib, hit and strike Tel Aviv.
That's not great.
Now, this protest should interest even non-Jews.
Because maybe you don't really care about the Jews.
Maybe you don't really care about the State of Israel.
Maybe you don't care about anything other than yourself.
I don't know.
Like, I suspect you have broader interests in charity and stuff like that.
But let's say you're a non-Jewish white guy and you don't care about any of this stuff.
You only care about yourself.
One cannot help but notice that all of the attacks that the Hamas faction of Columbia University are levying against the Jews Or the same attacks that they throw at non-Jewish white people.
You're a colonizer!
Go back to Europe!
You're oppressing people!
This is our land!
Go, you know, all sorts of insulting names.
This is the same stuff.
You might have all sorts of reasons why you don't like Israel or you question the actions of Israel or whatever, and fine, all well and good.
Whatever, you know, conversation you want to have about that, we can have that at some point too.
But it is simply a fact.
Much of the vitriol against the state of Israel right now, much of the reasoning as to why we got to stop supporting the state of Israel, Is being levied by the political left along the exact same lines of logic and argumentation that they attack non-Jewish white people, that they attack Europe, that they attack the United States.
We'll get to my own beloved alma mater descending into, descending into, you know, I know Yale some years ago launched a satellite campus in Singapore.
I don't know, perhaps we'll launch a satellite campus now in Raqqa or something.
I don't know.
We'll launch, we'll do a split with, you know, the University of Hezbollah or something.
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