Ep. 1512 - Joe Biden Threatens TikTok Guest As Mental Concerns Rise
Joe Biden threatens to toss a TikToker’s phone over an Israel question, a shocking "Worst Mom of the Year" contender is exposed for exploiting her young daughter on Instagram, and a judge orders the liquidation of Alex Jones's personal assets to cover a staggering $1.5 billion defamation ruling.
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President Biden attempted to buoy his flailing poll numbers with young voters on Friday by hosting a White House reception for social media influencers.
So naturally, it was only a matter of time before one influencer pressed him on his handling of the Israel-Gaza war, at which point the president threatened to throw the man's phone across the room.
And I know you're a typical press guy.
You're grabbing me in front of this all of a sudden.
I am.
And I trust you as far as I throw your phone.
I have a good arm, man.
Absolutely.
I can throw it a long way.
But my point is this.
- Yes, yes.
I have made very clear to the Israelis what they have to do in the near term.
If they don't, what's going to happen?
What's going to happen?
Is the U.S.
Is the US gonna cut off funding?
I can't because usually you tell me I have a nice suit and you didn't comment on my suit today, so I don't feel like I'm gonna go send it.
- No, no, no, I don't like it.
- Can you step back in, sir, please? - Thank you.
- That's not a great look.
I love, too, he says, listen, man, I know guys like you, I throw your phone across the room, I throw a punch in the face, I touch out the window, but let me be very clear.
He's silent for what seems like an eternity because he can't be very clear because he's got nothing.
The summit does not seem to have helped Biden's TikTok problem, which means since Biden can't win TikTok, his only option is to ban it.
You can't beat him, ban it.
Biden can't out-poll Trump in the crucial states, so his only option is to imprison him.
He can't assuage voters' legitimate concerns over election rigging, so his big tech influencers and enforcers have to censor them.
There are five months to go before this election.
Expect a lot more clampdowns between now and November.
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Happy Father's Day, belated Father's Day to all of the fathers out there.
Speaking of social media...
There's a story that shows us the flip side to Father's Day.
There's a mother who just had a big profile in the Wall Street Journal, and I would like to give her, having just skimmed this profile, I would like to give her the worst mom of the year award.
This is the most disturbing article I've read in the Wall Street Journal in a very, very long time.
I'm just going to give you the highlights, okay?
This is the very first sentence.
The mom started the Instagram account three years ago as a pandemic-era diversion away from her and her daughter, a pre-teen dancer.
Pre-teen, we're talking what, 12, 11, 10 years old?
To share photos with family, friends, and other young dancers and moms.
The two bonded as they posted photos of the girl dancing, modeling, Living life in a small Midwestern town.
I think you probably all know where this is going now.
I posted pictures of my 11-year-old daughter dancing and modeling for the public on social media, where there are definitely no creeps, right?
Social media is known for its total absence of creeps.
The mom, a former marketing manager, here we go.
Tale as old as time, a really dark stage mom oversaw the account and watched as the number of followers grew.
Soon, photographers offered to take professional shots for the girl.
Brands began sending free apparel for her to model.
The mom also began to notice a disturbing trend in the data that showed on the account dashboard.
Most of the girl's followers were adult men.
Okay, let's pause.
At this point, If you are not a totally depraved, selfish, fame-hungry monster of a stage mother.
What do you do?
You shut down the account, right?
Oh, my 11-year-old girl, or however old she is, my preteen girl, who I'm posting photos of her dancing and modeling for some reason, turns out most of her followers are creepy old pedophiles.
So, maybe I'm not going to do that anymore, right?
That's probably what you would do, if you had even made the grave moral error of posting those photos to begin with.
That's not what she does.
The mother discovers that men left public comments on photos of the girl with fire and heart emojis telling her how gorgeous she was.
Those were the tamer ones.
Some men sent direct messages proclaiming their obsessions with the girl.
Others sent photos of male genitalia and links to porn sites.
Sometimes the mom spent two or four hours a day blocking users and deleting inappropriate comments.
But, oh here's the big but, same time more sponsorship deals were trickling in.
Quote, it just kept growing and the brands weren't just dance brands anymore.
It was actually really cool.
That's really cool.
You know, I mean, she was getting all this money.
It wasn't like I was trying to push her to be a star, but part of me thought it was inevitable that it could happen someday.
She just has that personality.
This is every stage mother in all of history.
Oh no, my kid's a star.
I'm not, I'm not pushing this dream on my kid.
I'm not pushing.
No, no, no.
It's my kid.
That's why I pulled my kid out of school and drag him to all these auditions and milk him for money and then use their their saucy pictures to get pedophiles to give me even more money.
The mom was torn, the article says.
To reach the influencer stratosphere, the account would need a lot more followers, and she would have to be a lot less discriminating about who they were.
So they're admitting, yeah, we're gonna have to let these creepy old men follow her.
Instagram promotes content based on engagement, and the male accounts she had been blocking tend to engage aggressively, lingering on photos and videos and boosting them with likes or comments.
Running them off or disabling their comments would likely doom her daughter's influencer aspirations.
Correction here, her influencer aspirations for her daughter.
The money could help pay for college, she thought.
The mom said yes, and with that, she grew to accept a grim reality.
Being a young influencer on Instagram means building an audience, including large numbers of men who take sexual interest in children.
The mother is admitting this.
And then finally, I mean, the article goes on, and I recommend you check it out in the Wall Street Journal, but final point I'll mention to you is, quote, it's not that I liked it ever, ever.
It just is what it is, the mom said.
At times, she's questioned her decision to keep the account going.
The dashboard had recently put the number of male followers at 92%.
At one point, she offered Instagram subscriptions to users willing to pay a monthly fee for extra photos and videos.
Many of them were also men.
Social media is public.
You do not have the right to pimp your child out for likes from strangers.
That's deeply disordered.
Because what happens?
Let's say that social media ends up working out, like this woman views it as working out for her kid.
That means your kid becomes famous.
And we're talking about relative degrees of fame.
Maybe you get a hundred followers.
Maybe you get a million followers.
But your kid becomes famous.
You can never ask for that fame.
That fame is generally not good.
Especially if you're at a young age.
You have no right to do that.
And I know almost everyone does it.
Don't do it.
You are just gradations away from being this mother.
You don't know or you're denying what creeps are on social media and your kid has no say in it.
What's the point?
So that you can get likes from acquaintances and strangers?
Not worth it.
Do not, do not, and this is probably an unpopular opinion.
I don't care.
Do not post pictures of your little kids on social media.
It's weird and it can only lead to weird bad things.
Okay, now speaking of irresponsible women on social media.
Some sorority girls have gone viral.
This is from a Latina sorority.
It was non-black.
That's the important thing here.
This is a non-black sorority, Gamma Alpha Omega, a Latina sorority at University of Houston downtown.
They posted a video doing step dancing, a traditionally black urban dance, to a song called Nuck It If You Buck by Crime Mob.
This is it.
This is what social media is.
It's just women jiggling.
But ordinarily the popular culture says that's totally fine.
The problem here is These girls are not black.
Now, they're not white either.
If they were white, this would be an international incident.
But they're not white, they're just, they're not black, they're Latina, and they're being accused of cultural appropriation for jiggling to Mr. Mob's Nucket If You Buck Ballad.
Some of the comments, a lot of comments, are like this example.
S-H-I-T, like this is downright stealing.
There's no reason for a non-black sorority to be stepping.
This is cultural appropriation.
Okay.
The video is wrong, but there's nothing wrong with cultural appropriation.
That's how culture works.
Culture works through imitation.
Culture is the process of cultivating, or is even the consequence of cultivating, certain habits and traditions and behaviors and linguistic idioms and All sorts of aspects of social life.
And then when those are distinguished from other habits and cultures and customs and all the rest, then you have your own culture.
And we look at other cultures and we imitate parts of it.
You know, the necktie.
Comes from the word cravat, which comes from the word Croat, I believe.
And so that was, we observed some centuries ago, a practice of wearing little bandanas around your neck.
And then we, in the West, took it.
And you see this constantly because we are mimetic creatures.
Okay, it's okay to culturally appropriate.
In fact, that's what culture does.
The problem here is that this is not a culture worth appropriating.
Crime mobs, knuck it if you buck, is not the sort of thing you ought to imitate.
That's a very degraded and degenerate culture, and you shouldn't imitate it.
In fact, it should be discouraged in public life.
And don't, I know that the libs are just waiting there to say this is a hateful, anti-black rant.
How dare you deny the exalted character of Crime Mob's Nucket If You Buck symphony.
I'm not saying that we should never imitate any black people, but if you're going to culturally appropriate from black people, how about Duke Ellington?
How about Ella Fitzgerald?
How about Sammy Davis Jr.?
Sammy Davis Jr.
actually was a Satanist for a period of time, so maybe that was not the right example.
Although he was a great entertainer.
But why has it got to be, knock it if you buck?
Why?
That's wrong.
You should appropriate really high culture.
You should endeavor to appropriate high culture.
Turn up the acceleration on cultural appropriation by 300%.
Just make sure the culture you're appropriating is a good culture that will be conducive to your flourishing in this world and conducive to your sanctity for the life of the world to come.
Not Nucket if you buck.
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Speaking of appropriating stuff, the authorities were about to appropriate Alex Jones' personal assets.
You know Alex Jones, longtime legendary radio host, has some eccentric views, though frequently his eccentric views are proven correct.
He was right about the gay frogs.
Everyone made fun of him for saying, they're turning the freaking frogs gay.
And then there was a study conducted by, I think it was the EPA and Yale University, And Connecticut found out that there were chemicals in the ponds in Connecticut that were not only turning the frogs EA, they were actually turning the frogs hermaphroditic.
They were turning the frogs trans.
So Alex Jones says a lot of crazy sounding things.
A lot of them turn out to be correct, but they caught him on defamation.
Because according to the courts, he said something that was really, really beyond the pale and too far and defamed the families after the Sandy Hook shooting.
And so what was the judgment against him?
Like a bazillion dollars.
And then that was finally talked down to one and a half billion dollars in a defamation ruling.
And now the judge has ordered that his personal assets be liquidated.
So not only is Alex Jones going to shut down his business, And maybe try to protect some of it through bankruptcy.
No, he's losing everything.
They're going to come and take his couch.
Now, maybe Alex Jones committed defamation.
I'm not saying he didn't commit defamation, but I got to wonder, when are the liberal journalists who regularly defame conservatives going to be held account at all?
Alex Jones, if the judge has his way, is not going to be able to feed himself or his family.
What about all the journalists who weren't at just an eccentric podcast or radio show, but who were at the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, all the liberal journalists who said that Donald Trump urinated on prostitutes in Moscow and that it was on video, who reported on that.
When are they going to be held to account for their defamation?
Ever?
What about every outlet broadly that called Trump a Russian asset based on fake, cooked-up Nonsense by a Democrat campaign and the federal government that was in on it.
When are those defamation suits going to go through?
Never.
Let's take it away from Trump for a second.
He's a very public figure.
I'm a less public figure.
When I spoke at CPAC a couple years ago, And I said that for the good of society, especially for the good of the poor people who fall prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology at every level.
Rolling Stone came out and defamed me.
Rolling Stone came out and said that I had called for genocide.
And it wasn't just Rolling Stone, the Huffington Post called my rhetoric genocidal, and then a bunch of liberal outlets after that.
And I was lucky in that very serious constitutional lawyers, Mike Lee, a member of the United States Senate, also a constitutional lawyer, came out and said, this is outrageous, this constitutes defamation.
They really came to my defense, and so eventually Rolling Stone and the Huffington Post had to change their headlines a little.
But, you know, this always happens.
You get the defamation on page one, and then you get the retraction ten weeks later on page 2000 that nobody sees.
The damage had been done.
When is Rolling Stone going to pay up?
When is Huffington Post going to pay up?
That kind of defamation was really, really hideous.
I guess that's the worst thing you can accuse anybody of, is genocide.
They're never going to pay up for that.
None of the liberal outlets are.
Which just shows you that the whole Alex Jones case is about nothing more than shutting him up.
It's not about defamation.
Look, I wish we could enforce defamation laws more strictly in this country.
I wrote a whole book called Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds about how we need to enforce standards and norms and taboos.
And prosecute things like obscenity and defamation.
I'm all for that in principle, but I can't help but notice we never prosecute it when it's the left doing it, and the left is the one side of the political aisle that's doing it pretty much all the time.
And then one time you get Alex Jones saying some eccentric comments on his show, which is known for being eccentric, and you're going to liquidate his personal assets for one and a half billion dollars?
That's not justice.
That's just revenge and censorship during an election year against someone that the liberal establishment fears is going to pose a problem for them.
That's what that's about.
Not a drop of justice there.
They're going to send Alex Jones to St.
Helena if they can, too.
He's going to be on the ship right after Trump.
Not to give justice to anybody.
It's about making an example and censoring not only him, but all of the rest of us, too.
Speaking of law fear, they're trying to censor Trump, and they're trying to get Trump To stop criticizing the FBI.
Because, remember, they're prosecuting Trump now on three fronts.
It was four fronts, but they've now convicted him of 34 felonies, even though they can't explain what the underlying crime was.
As I pointed out the other day on Arrows on Piers Morgan's show, I asked the Lib, who went on TV, it was the Lib's job to defend the verdict.
I said, can you even tell me what the crime was?
And the Lib couldn't do it.
Because none of them can.
Because Alvin Bragg, the DA, can't.
Because none of these people can.
So, they're going after him on three fronts now, including at the federal level.
including prosecuted by the DOJ and the FBI, FBI which went in, knocked down his doors, raided Mar-a-Lago, and Trump is told he's not permitted to criticize them.
So the Trump lawyers are arguing that, quote, Quote, this motion is a naked effort to impose totalitarian censorship of core political speech under threat of incarceration in a clear attempt to silence President Trump's arguments to the American people about the outrageous nature of this investigation and prosecution.
Of course.
The FBI.
Let's just rewind a little bit further.
Forget about this case and Jack Smith and Garland's prosecution as an apparatchik for Joe Biden of Biden's chief political rival.
Let's just go back to 2016.
The FBI, we now know for a fact, no one denies this, the FBI colluded with the Hillary Clinton campaign to destroy Donald Trump's campaign, to smear his campaign, to defame his campaign, and then to use that defamation to plant stories in the press that would defame him, and then use that as the predicate for spying on his campaign to further undermine that campaign.
We know the FBI did that, but Trump is not allowed to criticize the FBI.
Why's that?
Why's that?
Because... Like, it's like when a guy gets caught in a lie.
What's he, what's he gonna do?
He can either come clean, and that's gonna be kind of painful, or he can dig himself in deeper.
It's like in the mob movie.
You know, the mob movie, I don't know, a guy steals from someone.
And then, rather than come clean, he's got to kill the person who saw that he stole from someone.
And then, rather than come clean there, then he's got to kill the whole family of the guy that he killed, so that everyone stays quiet, so that his crime is never discovered.
And eventually, it's just so deep, the corruption has run so wide, that he'll do anything to protect himself.
I think that's pretty much where the liberal establishment is here.
They have behaved improperly for so long that they are willing to do whatever it takes to protect this edifice of lies and deceit.
They can't let Trump criticize the FBI.
Why?
Because we know the FBI did wrong.
You gotta go further.
You gotta censor him even further.
You gotta imprison him.
You gotta banish him.
You gotta ostracize him.
Anything you can.
You can't let him speak.
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This isn't an ultrasound.
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In a Petri dish?
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Speaking of the DOJ, DOJ's just announced, you're gonna be shocked, pull over if you're driving, sit down if you're standing, the DOJ will not prosecute Joe Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland after the House held him in contempt of Congress.
That's so weird because Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's rather, now I'm sounding like Joe Biden, Steve Bannon, who's Trump's former White House chief strategist, is going to go to jail because he was held in criminal contempt of Congress.
Peter Navarro, Trump's trade advisor, is currently in jail because he was held in criminal contempt of Congress.
Merrick Garland was just held in contempt of Congress, but he's not going to go to jail.
Why?
Because Merrick Garland's department looked into it, investigated him, and decided, no, he's not going to go to jail.
Why?
Because the DOJ is asserting executive privilege, and the DOJ has directed the Attorney General not to release materials That were requested by the House.
The failure of which delivery has resulted in Garland being held in contempt.
So they looked into it and they don't want him.
The DOJ also looked into Steve Bannon.
They want him to go to jail.
And the DOJ also looked into Peter Navarro.
They want him to go to jail.
But it's when Republicans defy congressional subpoenas and are held in contempt, then they go to jail.
When Democrats do it, that's actually the rule of law.
Garland and the DOJ are making the exact same defense that Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon did, but they're Republicans, so it doesn't work.
Surprise, surprise.
We all knew this would happen.
So my recommendation here, you're not going to get Garland.
The DOJ is never going to let Merrick Garland go to jail for defying Congress.
That's only something Republicans have to deal with.
And they're going to say, he's the active Attorney General.
He's the Attorney General right now.
We're not going to send him to jail.
Okay, Congress should go after Eric Holder.
Eric Holder was found to be in contempt of Congress years ago.
He was Barack Obama's Attorney General.
Even thought that he would spend a single day in jail for it.
Well, he's no longer the Attorney General.
If the argument that the Democrats want to make is, look, Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, they're not actively in the government right now because the Trump administration's out, Biden's in, so we're going to throw him in jail, it's not as big a deal.
Okay, do the same with Eric Holder.
Obviously, Eric Holder will never spend one second in jail.
But make the Democrats show how corrupt the system is.
The reason the Democrats were thrilled that Hunter Biden got convicted on the lowest level crimes of any that he's even being accused of, the reason they're pretty happy about it is one, he's almost certainly not going to spend a day in jail, but two, it allows them to justify the Trump prosecutions.
They say, see, look, we're going after Trump, but we're also going after Biden.
You know, come on, it's fair.
And it's a smoke and mirrors show, but it gives them that opportunity.
Well, let's press it a little further.
OK, you really want to show us how fair the justice system is?
Throw your former attorney general into jail.
He was found in contempt of Congress, the same thing you're jailing the Republicans for, so put him in jail.
And they're going to say no, and then the obvious conclusion is going to be that this thing is rigged against Republicans, as it is.
Now, speaking of Joe Biden, Joe Biden made even more unpleasant headlines for himself over the weekend when he nuzzled the Pope.
At the G7.
G7 Summit was in Italy.
It was in Puglia, the heel of the boot of Italy.
And he just walks up to the Pope, who's now in a wheelchair, and he just nuzzles his forehead against his.
And what's funny, you can see the leader of Argentina, Javier Millet, watches this happen, kind of recoils.
He thinks it's a little bit weird.
I have a very unpopular view.
But you know, look.
You don't tune in to be flattered.
I am not a flatterer, okay?
You tune in to hear the truth unvarnished as I see it.
So I'm going to tell you of you even though it's deeply unpopular.
I find Joe Biden's nuzzling of the Holy Father to be Weird, for sure.
Improper.
This is not how one should approach a Pope.
One should kneel and kiss the Pope's ring, a symbol that he is in the line of St.
Peter, the fisherman's ring.
He should do that.
It's definitely exceedingly boomer.
It's a very boomery, you know, hippy-dippy kumbaya church kind of move to nuzzle the Vicar of Christ.
However, I found it kind of wholesome and endearing.
I'm sorry.
Joe Biden is in a state of grave mortal sin, it would appear.
He is persistently opposed to key aspects of the faith.
In his public role, he encourages infanticide, he denies the reality of marriage, he encourages the mutilation of children.
He is in a really bad way spiritually, so much so that even ostensibly liberal prelates of the church have called on him to repent and confess his sins and return to the conformity of the teaching of the religion that he ostensibly practices.
So he's in a bad way, no doubt.
I think the nuzzling of the Pope was probably sincere.
I know people like this.
Who were raised Catholic and they prefer another religion.
They prefer the religion of liberalism.
They probably took a lot of wrong conclusions from the Second Vatican Council and the liturgical tumult that followed the Second Vatican Council.
And they think that dogmatic teachings and key aspects of doctrine in the Magisterium are optional now.
And so they kind of go along with the you-do-you church of liberalism, but who have nonetheless a deeply ingrained draw to the faith.
And I believe Joe Biden sees the guy, he says, this is the vicar of Christ, and I just want to be near him.
I just want to touch his garment, nuzzle his head in the weird Joe Biden way.
And so it's not to say, okay, it's all happy and good.
If you look at the expression on the Pope's face, he seems a little taken aback by the whole exchange.
I'll take it as a start.
You know, I really would like for Joe Biden to repent and stop promoting all the evil things that he's encouraging and, you know, get right with the Lord and end up in heaven someday, probably sooner than later, because he's about 150 years old.
I would like that for him.
I don't want Joe Biden to burn in hell.
I don't want him to persist in all this grave sin that he's engaged in.
And so if he's got, if he still has some basic instinctual affection for the Pope, That's a start.
I find it a little bit wholesome.
Sorry, sorry, I know it won't be a popular view.
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Now, speaking of the Pope, the Pope himself made headlines and controversy over the weekend because It was reported that he said it's okay to laugh at God.
It's okay to laugh at God?
Excuse me?
What happened?
He invited 100 comedians from 15 countries to, I guess, a comedian summit in Rome.
Says, quote, divine wisdom practiced your art for the benefit of none other than God himself, the first spectator in history.
He points out that God delighted in the works that he had made.
Remember this, when you manage to bring intelligent smiles to the lips of even a single spectator, you also make God smile.
This is a really beautiful and precisely worded statement.
He's not saying when you bring buffoonish guffaws to people's mouths, you make God smile.
Probably that does not make God smile.
When you bring intelligent smiles to the lips of even a single spectator, you make God smile.
God has made the universe intelligible and he has endowed us with intellect so that we can make sense, to some degree, of his creation.
And that is a link between us and his creation.
In intelligibility, in the beginning was the Word, the Logos, the divine logic of the universe, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
And then the Word becomes flesh and dwells among us, takes on humanity, a human nature, in addition to divine nature, and is an intermediary and an intercessor between us and God.
God, who is three distinct persons in one divine unity.
Makes sense of that.
Good luck.
It does make sense, but our limited capacity for reason It means that there is more to life than just our own ideologies.
When you can bring an intelligent smile, ah, that's good.
Francis says, this is what got him in trouble, it's okay to laugh at God, we play and joke with people we love.
So, I think what he's saying here is not that we should mock God, I think it could be sinful to laugh at God.
Laughing is very near to the heart of our human nature.
Aristotle makes this point in Parts of Animals.
Aristotle observes that man is the only animal that laughs.
I have the quote somewhere here.
Man alone is affected by tickling.
This is Aristotle describing all these different parts of animals.
I guess it's right there in the title.
He says, man alone is affected by tickling, and this is due firstly to the delicacy of his skin.
You know, we feel stuff.
And secondly, to his being the only animal that laughs.
So, in the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle points out there is a difference between the jocularity of the gentleman and that of the vulgarian.
And this is why the Pope says, an intelligent smile.
You don't want it to be just a bunch of bawdy, disgusting, you know, scatological jokes or something that a bunch of drunk ruffians are guffawing at.
It's the jocularity of the gentleman.
Another part of humor theory is that humor involves a declaration of superiority over the thing that we're joking about, which is viewed to be inferior.
That would be obviously very sinful if we laughed at God in that way.
But if we just laugh, I'm trying to think, have I ever laughed at God?
Yes, in the sense that sometimes When a real jarring coincidence hits me, because there are no mere coincidences in the Christian view of the world, because the Christian view of the world is that history is governed by providence.
So when a coincidence hits you, a real jarring one, and sometimes we'll look up at the sky and say, ah, that was a good one, you know, you got me.
That's a good thing, because one's relationship with God should be a relationship of love.
And love has some levity to it.
There's another great Chesterton.
Chesterton has a great line on this.
Chesterton says, alone among the animals, he is shaken with the beautiful madness called laughter.
That's man.
As if he had caught sight of some secret in the very shape of the universe hidden from the universe itself.
Absolutely right.
And that relationship can involve some levity.
You know, Chesterton also said, the angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
If you've not heard, Jeremy Boring, God King of This Year Daily Wire, held a live town hall last week where he announced an exciting partnership with Angel Studios to bring you a brand new movie called Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trot.
It's coming to theaters this 4th of July.
You might know Angel Studios from their movie, Sound of Freedom, which made a profound impact last year by shining a powerful light on the child trafficking crisis.
Well, now Angel Studios is back, continuing their fight for kids, and Daily Wire is joining with them.
Sound of Hope is the true story of 22 families from a rural church who adopted 77 kids from the foster system, sparking a movement to save vulnerable children everywhere.
We have a trailer so you can get a feel for what this movie's all about.
Take a look.
Are you sure these people want us?
I know they do.
You can call me mama.
It's hard to feel like I'm the only one who sees these things.
70% of the people who are in the world 70% of the kids in the system are there because of neglect.
The other 30% are put through hell.
We need your help.
Can you imagine our kids on their own?
We can't just look away.
The state ain't no family.
Are you sure these people want us?
I know they do.
You can call me Mama.
Oh, Lord.
No!
No, no, no!
If we wrap our arms around the most vulnerable, Noise!
And the children can't take the noise anymore.
This is something that we must do.
22 families want to adopt.
The whole town wants kids now.
That's about right.
What's happening with Possum Trot could mean a huge change for the system.
We want the ones that nobody else wants.
Who hurt you, baby?
I'm not giving up on you.
You can't give up on me either.
What we gonna do?
Everybody's falling apart.
I'm doing the best I can!
A real world hits hard.
I don't wanna be here!
I can't give him back.
We gotta work on this together.
We your people now.
and love never gives up i watched the movie and It is incredibly moving, and it places strong family values at its core.
It's more than just a movie.
It's a call to action.
Right now, there are over 100,000 children in foster care.
They need homes.
They need our help.
Raising awareness is how you can help today.
Best way to do that is by seeing Sound of Hope in theaters.
This is exactly how we start a movement to change culture.
Sound of Hope is coming to theaters July 4th.
Tickets are on sale now.
Get yours at angel.com slash Michael, M-I-C-H-A-E-L.
Make sure you use angel.com slash Michael so I get the credit and not Shapiro.
That would be great.
My favorite comment on Friday is from John Bloggart, who says, The British Conservative Party is the oldest political party in the world.
It is impossible to describe the energy in Britain right now.
Yeah, I mentioned last week that the Tories, the Conservatives in the UK, are on the brink of collapse.
There's this new right-wing party by Nigel Farage called Reform UK that's taking on issues that Conservatives actually care about.
Basic stuff.
Immigration, for instance, maybe first and foremost.
And the Tories don't want to do that.
They want to be liberal-lite.
And so they might get blown away.
Even the oldest extant political party in the world.
If it can happen there, it can happen to the GOP in America, and Republicans ought to watch out.
Now, speaking of fathers, family values, there is a man known as the Sperminator.
I'm sorry, I'll try to keep this PG.
The Sperminator Has just welcomed his 165th child into the world.
I'm only on number three.
Number three coming very shortly.
But 165, there's a long way to go.
He says, according to reporting from the New York Post, I have 10 women currently pregnant in the US, Canada, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Zimbabwe and Long Island are due in July.
Israel and Queens are due in August.
One of his baby mamas, who's a woman in France, could pop at any moment, maybe has already given birth.
Now, he says that when he's not, you know, impregnating these women, he wants to, quote, try to be a better father to my 175 children, 34 of whom he hasn't met yet.
I guess he's just got so many buns in the oven that it's now, he's awaiting He's at 165, but 175 are already in the works.
And he says, on Being a Better Father, he says, I'll never be able to be as good of a dad to my kids as my father was to me.
He grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home in Monsey, upstate New York, alongside his two sisters and four brothers.
So he's not gonna be as, he grew up in a pretty normal, traditional environment, sounds.
Orthodox Jews, what, seven kids, And so something went truly wrong in his upbringing, in his life, and now he's just impregnating women all over the world.
And he's not doing it the old-fashioned way.
He's doing it through clinics, and he's not actually sleeping with these women.
So one presumes a lot of the time this is...
Lesbian couples who go out and purchase sperm because we now commoditize children more than we ever have in history.
It could be single individuals who don't want to get married but want to raise a kid anyway.
Does he play a role in their lives?
He says, some moms don't want me to play a role, but I leave them the option if they change their mind, and most do once the kid gets a little older and starts asking questions.
These kids, you know, once they start figuring out that their upbringing is very disordered by design, that it's intentionally really messed up, they start asking questions like, hey, where's my daddy?
Why didn't he stick around?
Why doesn't he love me?
Why do I have two mothers?
And that doesn't actually produce a child.
Hey, what's going on?
And so apparently then sometimes these mothers We'll call him up and ask him to, you know, send the kid a birthday note or something.
Apparently, to that end, the man keeps a spreadsheet with names, birthdays, addresses, and phone numbers of each of his offspring.
He also has pictures of the kids around his office in Kingsborough, and the photos cover nearly every inch of the room.
All sorts of little pictures.
He's in some of them, I guess, but not a lot of them because some of the kids he hasn't even met yet.
So this guy, Treats kids like Pokemon cards.
That's what the kids are to him.
He's gonna go out, you know, he's gonna commit an act that is intrinsically sinful to get the, you know, sample so that he can give it to these other women.
And then he's just gonna have kids out there, and I don't know, that tickles some fancy of his.
And he doesn't really think about the kids.
Obviously not.
You know, he's going to condemn these kids to growing up without a father in all sorts of disordered circumstances.
He's not responsible to any of them.
He admits that he's broke.
He doesn't have any money, so he's not really supporting the kids at all.
But, you know, it's okay because he gets a thrill out of it.
A reminder in the wake of Father's Day.
Being a father is more than just a single act.
That act is particularly fun and enjoyable, but it's about a lot more than that.
It's about raising the child.
And this is why the traditional view on marriage and sex and kids is that a child has the right to be the product of the specific conjugal act of his parents who are joined together in holy matrimony A man and a woman joined together forever.
The purpose of that union being the procreation and education, education, the raising up of children and as a secondary matter, the mutual support of the spouses.
That's the old-fashioned teaching.
I know it's considered old fuddy-duddy and old fogey in our modern enlightened age where we've We have now attempted to redefine marriage at the level of the Supreme Court, and we have now pretended that children are a commodity to be bought and sold at the IVF clinic, on the surrogacy market, from the sperminator when he goes and visits Zimbabwe.
We have now inverted the actual order of rights and obligations, and we now pretend that adults have the right to a child, which is the really evil and insidious premise that lies at the heart of the IVF and surrogacy industries.
And it leads to stuff like this.
This should be illegal.
It should be illegal because it's so abusive to children to sell your sperm.
I'm not allowed to sell my blood.
I'm not allowed to sell my kidneys.
I'm not allowed to sell my lungs.
In really evil countries that sort of thing happens.
And usually even that is black market organ trades.
We don't do that.
We rightly recognize that Not everything ought to be governed by market forces.
We shouldn't be able to chop off our hands and sell it on the black market to voodoo witch doctors, okay?
We are human beings.
We're not merely products and commodities.
We're proper subjects and the market exists for our flourishing, not the other way around.
We certainly shouldn't be able to sell our body parts and secretions that lead to the creation of children, because then you're commoditizing children.
And that's wrong, and you're condemning them to live a life, and you're condemning them to an upbringing that is, from the standpoint of social science, putting them at a great disadvantage, and that we just know—forget about social science—forget about social From the viewpoint of morality and ethics and anthropology, that this is wrong.
This is contrary to their success.
Very, very abusive, but very, very common.
And in our modern day and age, you might say, wow, that's Sperminator.
He went too far.
165, 175 kids.
Wow, that's too far.
But if you support The industries that commoditize kids and allow people to just go and buy sperm and buy eggs and rent out wombs.
If you support that, then this is what you're supporting.
This is the logical conclusion of that.
And everyone says, oh, well, no, it's so why isn't it so wonderful that Johnny and Jack, you know, they couldn't have children biologically together because they're two dudes, but we've pretended that marriage is something other than it is.
So isn't it so beautiful that they can have children?
By purchasing eggs from one woman and then renting out the womb of some other poor woman and then condemning kids to not have a mommy, ripping a little kid away from his mommy, one of the worst things you can possibly do to a human being.
Isn't that so wonderful?
Nice, nice, feel good, love is love, it's Pride Month.
A lot of people, even a lot of conservative people, will support that.
Well, this is what you're supporting.
So if you're going to support it, at least look it in the face.
Now, speaking of young people growing up, this is a little coda of a story, but I do want to get to it because the Libs are going after my friend Charlie Kirk, and they're going after him.
They always go after him.
It's okay.
He's a big boy.
He's got thick skin.
But they're doing it in Probably the stupidest way they can.
This past weekend was the Turning Point Conference, and I was supposed to go there, I was supposed to go speak at the big Turning Point Conference.
It's probably the biggest single event for young right-wingers in the country.
But the problem with the event is, for the second time now, they've decided to hold this event, as I am, hours or days away from having another child.
So, I couldn't go.
I said, hey, Charlie, there's only, pretty much only one thing that could prevent me from showing up to the conference, and it's the birth of my child, which is now imminent.
But, in the lead up to this conference, NBC News decided to take a shot at Charlie, and they said, Charlie Kirk once pushed a secular worldview.
Now he's fighting to make America Christian again.
In 2018, Kirk urged conservative Christians to respect the separation of church and state.
Today, he calls that foundational principle a fabrication.
So, he's saying, Charlie, you know, Six years ago, said one thing about, you know, he promoted a more secular, maybe a more libertarian view, but now he's promoting a more Christian conservative view.
Ha ha!
What a hypocrite!
Ha ha!
What a maniac!
Charlie Kirk, who is one of, if not the most influential, young Republican conservative activists in the entire country.
This guy entered national politics at the age of 18.
He is still, in my mind, Charlie is still like 12 years old, okay?
He's very young, he's accomplished a lot at a very young age.
He's got the biggest young conservative activist events and organization.
And the big hit piece on him is that between the age of 18 and whatever he is now, he's 30 or something.
Is it 12 years in politics, he's developed his views somewhat.
Yeah, that's called education.
I hope that this guy, one of the most influential conservatives in the country, Doesn't just believe exactly what he believed at 18.
That would mean he was never educated.
And that's the other thing they try to say.
They say, oh, he's uneducated because he didn't go to college where, you know, he didn't get a gender studies degree.
Well, no, clearly he did get educated.
Clearly, Charlie has read and considered and become educated.
Even though he entered politics at a very public level at a very young age, he has become educated and he's deepened his views and he's deepened his conservatism and he is now articulating conservative views.
In a much more profound way.
He was impressive as a kid, but he's more impressive now.
