Tucker Carlson exposes a globalist agenda aiming to destroy the family and sterilize humanity, citing Paul Ehrlich's population theories and modern trends like abortion tourism and egg freezing. He contrasts his father's sobriety at St. Giuseppe's Pizza with corporate efficiency, arguing elites promote career dependency over motherhood while neglecting children's parks. Carlson condemns no-fault divorce, Baby Boomer housing hoarding, and AI as threats to traditional roles where fathers provide, protect, and procreate, warning that abandoning these structures leads to societal despair and self-destruction. [Automatically generated summary]
Um, he's an amazing, he's the greatest, uh, non divine figure, uh, that ever existed, I would say, uh, besides Virgin Mary, obviously.
But, um, my dad started this pizza place, uh, to make more money, to provide for the family.
I think they had just had number five at the time, uh, which, you know, when you become a father, you really feel the economic pressures and the stress.
But before he opened the pizza restaurant, he was an insurance salesman and he worked at Prudential Insurance and, In the 80s, his parents got divorced.
He was a senior in high school and he became a party guy.
Uh, his dad was a bartender.
His mom also worked at bars.
They got divorced and it, it really adversely impacted his life.
And he experienced terrible things.
I, I don't want to get into that stuff because it's just, it's, it's actually kind of painful.
And, you know, they didn't, they didn't nearly have to sell crack that much.
They basically just said, You know, he smoked pot, right?
And so he was leaving a liquor store.
This is when you could buy alcohol at 18, but he was leaving a liquor store and the crack dealer said, Hey, you guys smoke weed?
And they're like, yeah, thinking he's going to sell weed.
He goes, you want something better?
And he gave him crack and crack is obviously one of the worst substances you can get addicted to.
People ruin their lives over it.
Only 5% of people that get addicted to crack end up ever getting clean.
Um, so my dad developed a crack addiction, uh, at the height of the crack epidemic and he was able to keep it at bay or at least keep it under control.
Um, but as part of the filming of this, I sat down with my mom to talk about the, her experience as the wife of a guy with a crack addict and, uh, of a crack addict.
And one thing that blew me away that I didn't remember from my childhood really, I knew he had a drug addiction when I was a kid and I knew it was a problem.
I knew he got clean, but she told me that there were days where he would go three days without ever coming home.
Um, he would go to work.
They'd go out drinking afterwards and then they'd go smoke crack and do drugs and they'd stay out all night.
Um, and then he knew he was in trouble.
So he wouldn't go home.
And he'd go right into work and he'd work.
And he, by the way, he was very successful at selling insurance.
He, I think he was ranked 225 out of 5,000 prudential agents nationwide.
So he's very effective, very productive, but he'd keep going out and drinking.
He wouldn't come home until the third night.
It really made me think about how these corporations in America, like my mom noticed when he wasn't home for three nights, but prudential insurance didn't care.
It is, it is a false dichotomy set up by industries and corporations so that you have to make a choice between your work and your private life.
We'll let you take more vacation time.
We'll let you have some paternity leave, you know, but you got to come back to work and produce value for the company.
Otherwise you're of no value to us.
And it is a way that they have monopolized our actual lives.
And in my, in my opinion, based on the experience with my dad, his life turned around.
When he integrated his work in his life, when the pizza shop came around, he was working with his sons.
He was working with his wife.
That was the center of our life the pizza shop.
And my dad absolutely got clean.
I want to be very clear about that.
So the breaking point was when my mom was pregnant with number four, right?
And Joseph is his name.
He's the one that runs the pizza restaurants now.
But she filed for a divorce when she was pregnant with number four after another three day bender.
And There was something really beautiful in all this that happened, which is if you go back, I mentioned I quit drinking during my wife's fourth pregnancy.
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And she sat down with my dad and said, I just want you to know, I'll always love you, always support you, but I never would have divorced your father if he asked me not to.
And that was the moment where my dad called my mom and said, I don't want to get divorced.
I want to get clean.
And I think at a deep level, he knew that his problems weren't just because he was a wild and crazy guy.
He was filling a major hole in his heart from his parents' divorce.
And so I, you know, I'm actually grateful that he developed that crack addiction.
You have to admit, you know, when you go through these narcotics anonymous programs or any anonymous programs, you have to say, I'm helpless against this.
Rather than the people that blame everyone else for their problems, like I think a major problem in our world is that there's obviously narcissism and people obsess with themselves, but there's narcissism, but they blame everyone else for their problems.
The reality is you have no control over, oh, this is an interesting, you have no control over what other people do.
So a lot of people don't know this unless you've been in these anonymous programs, but my, my dad was in Narcotics Anonymous.
My mom, so there's a whole support system for the families of these people.
And my mom told this story about how her first meeting, she comes in and there's all these experienced women that have been dealing with alcoholic husbands or drug addict, addicted husbands.
She comes in, they go around the room.
It's just like an anonymous meeting.
And she's like, I just want to get my husband clean.
I'm willing to do whatever I have to do to get him clean.
And they kind of like patted her on the head.
Oh, that's very cute that you think you can change your husband.
You can't.
He's not going to get clean unless he wants to get clean.
And that was when I learned that from my mom, it was a major life lesson that you're better off doing self reflection about where you come short.
And if you really want to change things and make the world a better place, you have to start with yourself.
I think it's all you can do is, you know, take the plank out of your own eye.
I totally agree with that.
What's interesting, though, is that for a man with four kids to admit that he's addicted to crack, I do think for most men, that kind of breaks them at that point.
It's too much.
They can't sort of pick up the mantle of father, head of household again.
But your dad goes on to be successful and have six more kids, six more kids, and serve a term in Congress.
Well, and there was something really beautiful about my dad's life.
First of all, he got cancer in 2020.
And at what age?
He was 57 no, 56 when he was diagnosed.
He passed away the next year when he was 57.
And it was an advanced stage intestinal cancer, and they wouldn't have been able to pick it up, even if they did colonoscopies or endoscopies or anything like that, because it was on the outside of his intestines.
But the thing that was beautiful about it was I went out, I have a great organization, a great chairman, and a great president at the time, and they let me go take care of him in the last month and a half.
So I'm out there and I'm with all my siblings, and you just want to get out of the house and clean your head from everything that's going on.
So I took him all to Target and we're just getting snacks and stuff.
And I tell him, like, you know, you guys should just be really grateful that he, he's even alive now because he was, he had a real bad drug addiction and my younger siblings.
And these is, uh, these are numbers five, six, seven and eight.
Uh, and, uh, they're like, what are you talking about?
I'm like, well, that was addicted crack.
They had no clue because he had transformed his life so much.
And the thing is he was a public figure, right?
So he's a member of Congress.
I started speaking about his crack addiction.
As a way to bring people over, and he gave me permission on his deathbed to talk about it at the funeral.
And the political reporters from back home were astounded.
And there's actually a really interesting article where they're trying to call BS on me saying that he had crack addiction because they had never heard of anything like this about him.
Um, but that's how much fatherhood and faith transformed his life was my siblings didn't even know about it.
I mean, I knew there would be times I have very vague memories of my mom when I'm three.
Putting me in the back of the car and going and driving to the different bars in our area to try and find him.
Well, it's always going to be painful, but there was this moment like when he's literally taking his last breaths and, um, You know, before, let me go back, actually.
Earlier in the day, you could tell there was a, when someone's about to die that day, there's always like a big shift in, in, in them.
Um, they actually kind of get anxious.
They want to get up and move around.
It's, I don't know what it is, but it's, he started doing that.
And we got him back into bed.
He was in a lot of pain.
And my mom asked him, Oh gosh, uh, what can we do?
What, what can we do to help?
And he, he said, I just want my family and I want Jesus.
And that was his call to us to say, I want last rites.
And he wanted to receive communion.
And, um, so we got that and we got the whole family in there.
And, you know, Tucker, I look back on that day and he died with all 10 of us at his side.
And you've got, you've basically got a really corrupt system in America, which is.
On the left, you have people that just want to want anarchy.
They want to give kids sex changes.
They want the government to pay for it.
They want to put you in prison for having the wrong political beliefs.
They want you canceled.
But on the right, you have some of that stuff actually.
But even worse, they're slaves to corporate America.
They're slaves to the industries and the institutions.
And it needs to change.
And one thing I wanted to share with you I was a 2021 Lincoln Fellow at Claremont with Charlie Kirk.
And I got to know him a little bit.
You know, there was like 12 people total.
It's 10 days.
We were in Las Vegas.
Charlie didn't gamble or drink, and I lost all my money on the first day.
So I got to talk to him quite a bit.
But it was there was a fascinating discussion where he was debating with another girl, a woman named Robbie Smith, who's one of the best people I've ever met.
They were arguing about the lack of marriage and family formation in America.
Who was to blame, men or women?
And Robbie was saying it's obviously the men.
They're smoking pot, they're watching porn, they're all distracted, they don't want to get married.
I have all these.
Good girlfriends that want to get married, they can't find a guy.
Charlie said, No, no, no.
It's the girl bosses.
It's women wanting to get college degrees and putting off getting married.
They don't want to get married.
And Charlie turns to me and he says, Terry, you're the guy that works on family policy.
What do you think?
And I have a bad answer and I hate the answer I gave him, but I said, You know, I think it's the men because, you know, biblically men are the head of the household.
So it's our job to win women over and to form our households.
I mean, it's the elites in corporate America that set the HR policies that, you know, after Dobbs passed or after Dobbs' decision came down, corporate America was tripping over itself for abortion tourism.
We'll pay for you, your flights to go and your accommodations to go to California and secure abortion.
We'll freeze your eggs.
What is that?
Well, I'll tell you what it is.
It is corporate America saying if these women have babies, they'll leave the workforce.
And there'll be fewer people.
We'll have to pay people more money because there are fewer workers in the workforce.
Because if these women have babies, they'll become moms.
And then they'll maybe have another one.
Then they'll have less time to be efficient and effective.
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By the way, if women leave the workforce, then men will once again make more than women, and then people will get married, and the cycle will harden because when women make more than men, they don't get married because women don't want to marry men who make less than they do.
Sorry.
That's not an attack on women.
That's what women self report in survey after survey after survey.
So when women make more than men, the marriage rate collapses.
Well, there's this interesting thing where, um, You look at communist China, right?
In the 1950s, they institute the one child policy and a bunch of different programs that incentivize sterilization.
Their birth rate in 1960, I think, was 4.45 per woman.
By 1997, they got it down to 1.53 after coercive and harsh, tyrannical policies that really hurt and killed a lot of people.
When the Brits gave up control of Hong Kong in 1997, the same year, Their fertility rate under the loving, gazing eyes of the Western world, Hong Kong's birth rate was at 1.13.
With all the prosperity, right?
That's even lower.
And over that time, we have increased efficiency by 90% across our industries.
We're almost double as effective and efficient as we were back in 1960.
But more of our money goes towards the existential stuff.
It was 50% of your income in the 1960s.
went to your mortgage, your car, your insurance, all the things you need to live.
Today it's 80%.
So we're more efficient.
We're producing way more goods than we've ever produced ever, but we're making less money.
We need two incomes to make it in America today.
And people are buying homes with two incomes.
So when you lose your job, you go into foreclosure.
This is all industry driven.
Well, why is it?
Why, why do we allow people to buy homes with two, with two incomes?
Why are you allowed to get a mortgage with two incomes?
I don't, all that's done is it's jacked up the, the price of housing in the good school district because There's only a few good school districts in the country.
And if, if they're, if the incomes have doubled, you're in a bidding war now.
And we have sacrificed our lives for business, for industry, for efficiency.
And I think the ultimate example of what a man is is Christ on the cross.
Right.
Like, here's a guy.
That is literally giving up everything.
And if you actually read the passion, he's fighting all the way up until the final moment, right?
These people are kicking him.
He's falling.
He's been beaten and scourged.
He's bleeding profusely.
He, they, they ripped out.
I mean, I saw the episode where you were talking about that and it had, it was way more impactful than the passion.
I'll tell you that.
But you look at the passion of Christ, he was fighting and struggling to get to Calvary the whole time.
It was not a, it was a submission to God's will.
But he had to work for it.
He had to push himself to get up every time and he did it for us.
That is what we're called to be as fathers, self-sacrificial.
You never, I also think that fathers are merciful, but they're just, right?
So they're, they're, uh, someone described this to me, uh, Pat, uh, Fagan, uh, amazing guy who does a lot of pro-family policy, but he told me the difference between the devil and Jesus, which is amazing.
He said, you know, the devil always deviates from the law, but he shows no mercy when you break the law.
Christ never deviates from the law, but shows infinite mercy when you apologize.
And I think that's the rule of a father is to not stray from the law, not stray from the rules, but be merciful to your children, right?
I think that they're, you know, you hear horror stories about how some fathers behave, but I think if you're really doing it right, you're spending a lot of one-on-one time with each of your kids.
I believe it or not, even though I have eight kids, I make time for each one of them individually.
And it doesn't have to be hours at a time.
You can do a five, 10 minute trip to 7-Eleven, get some snacks.
Your kids will open up to you.
You get to, You have to have that one on one time with your kids.
But I would say that if you were to boil it all down, it's sacrificing yourself for your children and your wife.
It is being merciful and it's also making sure your kids know the rules and don't make these mistakes.
Discipline, right?
These are the things that are the most important thing when it comes to being a father.
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How do you keep fathers from not breaking?
I've seen it many, many times where a father loses his job, he feels like a loser, and then he starts behaving like a loser.
And then his wife and children are unimpressed.
And so he becomes even less impressive and just like cycles out of life, either literally or just falls apart with booze or other assorted self destructive activities.
China's one child policies, he didn't go over and advise them, but they read his books.
They used his course.
He wanted to sterilize people forcibly.
He wanted to have paid tax incentives for people that did sterilize themselves.
He wanted to have limits on how many kids.
He supported forcing people to get licenses before they could have children, right?
These are crazy ideas that I don't know why they took off.
But the irony about Paul Ehrlich is that he made all these predictions about devastation and chaos in the world if we didn't address the population bomb.
None of them came true.
Literally, none of his ideas came true.
The only one that got close to coming true actually was he predicted that in 2000, the year 2000, that the UK would fall.
They're debating about who the best order is in terms of Catholic priests.
And the Jesuit says, Well, we were founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, and we were the most academic, we're the smartest, and we were founded to combat the Protestants.
And St. I'm sorry, the Dominican priest says, Well, I think we have you beat.
We were founded by Saint Dominic, who founded us to destroy the Albigensians.
Who are the Albigensians?
When's the last time you've heard of an Albigensian?
Well, you would think so because you haven't heard of them, but their ideas are everywhere.
The Albigensians were a 12th century heretical cult of Christianity.
They basically believed that the soul was perfect and pure.
But that the body and the physical world were corrupted.
And so they started punishing people, uh, for getting married.
They started encouraging people not to have children.
Like the worst thing, any, anything pleasurable.
If you enjoyed good food, that was a sin for the Albigensians.
If you had sex with your wife, that, that having a baby was like the biggest sin you could commit for the Albigensians because they were against Marlboros and SUVs too.
All of these anti human, anti God ideas manifest as some slightly different ideology depending on the period, whether it's the Albigensians or the Marxists or the Green Party.
All of those look antique, kind of now, especially even the climate people.
We sort of gave up on that in exchange for building data centers.
So, data centers are incompatible with green politics because they're such a massive energy draw.
So, you need all forms of electrical generation in order to power these data centers.
But what's the point of the data centers?
It's to create something called artificial intelligence, which I'm beginning to wonder.
I'm not against all AI, I guess, but I'm beginning to wonder if the agenda there is very different.
I mean, it does seem like replacing thinking with the judgment of a machine.
How is that different from what you're describing?
It is at the heart of the entire AI industry the belief that human beings need AI.
That they need some type of overlord above that that's way smarter that can process data.
Tucker, that is, that's I think the worst thing.
So, uh, Francis Bacon, uh, was another guy that we've discovered and he basically believed he was the art of modern science or the father of modern science, but he basically believed that human beings could solve anything that nature was actually meant for us to completely alter and mess with.
I think you're with me.
I think nature exists.
I think it should be respected.
There are rules.
Uh, you shouldn't have sex outside of marriage.
Uh, you should be open to life.
You, you shouldn't steal.
You shouldn't cheat.
You shouldn't lie.
But these, These guys want to kill the innocent.
You can't kill the innocent.
You can't sterilize the innocent, right?
The, they believe that they are their own gods.
I had a Dominican priest.
I had to go back to the Dominicans when the whole sex changes for kids thing took off.
I went to a very dark place.
Um, I just couldn't believe that it was happening.
And I kept seeing these pictures and these stories are all horrific.
So I call my friend, uh, Tim, uh, from Franciscan University.
He's a Dominican priest now.
And I'm lamenting all this.
I can't believe they're sterilizing kids and they're mutilating their bodies.
And he broke it down.
He said, uh, what we're dealing with right now with this issue is, is two things.
One, it's very, very old.
And two, it's very, very new.
The old is the garden of Eden.
It is us trying to become our own gods and shape all of, all of everything about us, even reject the, the biological sex that God assigned to you, you know, um, that God gave you.
Um, but he said that the new is the technology, you know, previous societies did not even understand hormone levels.
Uh, so we have these new technologies.
And that is the Francis Bacon effect the new technologies and conquering nature and reshaping it to something darker, something that they can control and manipulate.
And you can, you know, change your sex, I guess, but you can't change the need to be at 98.6 at all times before you die.
So it's like, it's such a great reminder.
I wonder, though, as it relates to fatherhood, like, The description of a good father, because fatherhood is part of nature, can't be that different from era to era, right?
No matter what we, in the moment we're living in, describe as a good father, there is a kind of absolute standard for good fatherhood.
There has to be, because there is in the natural world.
Procreate and procreate and discipline and teach rules.
Be merciful.
Teach your kids.
You know, there are a lot of new studies that have been coming out over the last 10 years about fatherhood and how it impacts and shapes the individual and how it impacts and shapes the kids.
One thing that was very interesting to me was I think it was in Reason Magazine, of all places.
They wrote about how fathers are actually the ones that instill empathy in their children.
And how they explained it was that fathers and men are naturally concerned about themselves.
Like we're kind of in our own heads and we're always thinking about what we need to do for our lives.
And so, like, when your kid breaks your $400 drill, you're going down and lecturing them and saying, you know, hard I had to work for that $400 drill.
I can't believe you use it without my permission.
You know, you're not supposed to do this.
We get kids to think about other people.
Whereas like the moms are always going to be like, Oh, don't worry about it.
Your dad will just get another one.
Don't feel that bad.
So moms now, moms build self-esteem.
Moms still play a pivotal role.
There's a, there's a use to.
Teaching your kids not to be suicidal or breaking a drill, right?
Women are more empathetic, of course, or we think of them that way, but societies in which there are very few fathers, matriarchal societies are far less empathetic, far less empathetic than patriarchal societies.
And you know that because they're like massively high crime rates in all societies run by women.
They're hard to understand, especially if you're a guy.
Um, but there's a whole nature of that.
And I think that one of the ways that our elites have really screwed us over, um, Is convincing women that having a career, having a good job is the basis of a good life and not becoming a mother.
The, the people that put their careers first and that, you know, are going along with this lie.
Cause like, look, they might not believe it, but they're doing it, right?
And they're living it.
And what they're missing out on, the, the work is the what, right?
It's what you do.
The family is the why.
You get a job and you work hard at it so that you can provide for your family.
That the idea that you have a job so that you can build a legacy for yourself is not.
Right.
Not correct.
It's not going to happen.
No one will remember you, especially the company you work for.
The company that you work for, if you're a woman that is planning to never get married, that company is the day you die, the day you leave the company, they are going to immediately start preparing to replace you.
Your children can't do that.
Your children won't do that unless you're a bad mom or a bad dad.
I mean, first of all, you work so your wife will be proud of you.
Just to put it in one, you know, your father works so hard.
That's right.
That's why I say grace at the table.
Because I work so hard.
No, I mean, that's like, this is actually nature.
And I just feel like the program that we have sold to young people in our country is so unnatural and like bizarre and would make no sense to any so called backward country.
They'd look at this and be like, what?
And they'd, I've Spend a lot of time in backward countries, and they do look at it like, What?
Well, you weren't really, I don't think the crisis was as big of a deal or it wasn't as apparent how urgent the family formation crisis was or that we were prioritizing putting women in the workforce over family.
I mean, I was in high school from 2001 to 2005.
And Family was the center of everyone's life.
And maybe it was the part of the country I grew up in.
Maybe the Quad Cities is just better than all these major cities or East Coast or West Coast stuff.
But family was very much the center of everyone's life.
Like you, and you learn that from talking to people at the pizza shop.
And, but one thing, one big change that I've noticed in our society is public parks.
Public parks are interesting because they're in major cities and space is finite.
So when you decide to put an area up as a public park, you're basically telling people what your top priorities are.
50s, 60s, all that, when we had the massive expansion of parks throughout our country, Uh, over the last century, uh, up until recently, they were all kids' parks.
When you say, I'm going to go to the park, you immediately envision, um, playgrounds and swings and, and merry-go-rounds, all of that.
But today, if you go to the inner cities, dog parks are, are outranking kid parks.
The kid parks are empty.
Uh, I went to a dog park and I talked to some of the people there and one girl, I asked her, uh, you know, how many dogs she has.
She had two, but she's a dog walker.
I love dogs, by the way.
I, I don't want to attack dogs.
But the, I talked to another guy.
He said, I asked him if he was ever planning getting married and having kids.
He said, well, I've got all these international weddings I have to go to.
And that's not the main point.
We're developed.
We're directing all of these resources to dog runs and dog parks and not kid parks.
Uh, in, um, in Hong Kong, it's actually a bit worse.
Uh, you know, in a way, the parks, uh, are actually for senior citizens.
They're, they're low impact exercise machines like, uh, hip twisters and all of that.
And it's, They don't have children.
Their birth rate is like under, I think it's under one, it's like 1.09 or something.
It's devastating.
But these people either direct the money and the, the, the resources towards dogs or the elderly.
If you look at federal spending on welfare and entitlements, it's five to one welfare benefits going to people 65 and up.
We need to start reversing that back to young people and families to get them a more stable life.
We're setting what we're telling the world and our citizens what our priorities are every time we build a dog park.
I gotta think so that your breakdown of federal spending, I do think it's an indictment of a specific generation.
I'm not gonna name them boomers, but I think that generation and the last year it was 1964, the year after the Kennedy assassination, they're on their way out.
The youngest are 62, the oldest are 80.
Once that generation, which has completely destroyed America, not all of them, but most, don't you think there will be change?
So, like, I'm not again, you know, I'm totally very anti Nazi, want to be clear, but like, if that's the founding myth of our country, that winning that war was such a win, then.
But this is what we're experiencing with the boomers they are Absalom.
They weren't disciplined.
They didn't have to go without.
My great grandmother, it helps being from a big family because the eldest, I got to know my great grandmother.
She was 64 when I was born.
She lived another 31 years.
And the stories I would hear from her, I was always grateful, right?
I think that the greatest generation.
At least for me, instilled gratitude.
Um, and I, I don't know why it didn't translate to their children because their children are only entitled and there's, and you said it earlier, there's a lot of good ones out there, but, um, the majority, I think, are very self-centered.
Uh, they, they were the generation that gave us all of this nonsense.
There are so many, we give so much more resources, you know, in the big, beautiful bill.
I liked most of it.
They give $6,000 checks to senior citizens.
They don't need money.
They have all the money.
They have all the homes.
They're not selling them.
It costs $750,000 in like to get a townhome in DC.
Families can't afford townhomes are for families.
They're for new families, actually.
And they're supposed to be affordable, but now they're $750,000 because the boomers aren't selling their multiple homes.
You know, in California, there's this interesting dynamic where, uh, there was a lawsuit that was challenging whether or not you could do, uh, Property tax freezes for senior citizens.
They were arguing, the people that were challenging it were saying this is age discrimination.
You can't allow them, give them a different set of rules than the rest of us.
And the courts obviously ruled in favor of the boomers because the judges are all boomers.
But it's insane that we are freezing property taxes for these boomers who got their homes for eight raspberries and a blueberry and a horse.
They've had so much appreciation in the value of their properties, it's skyrocketed.
Why do they get tax relief when working families?
The burden and the tax burden and the onus is all on young families.
And we need to start reversing this.
If we don't start reversing this, young people are not going to get married.
They're not only did their parents divorce, but their parents' parents divorced.
And so, you know, I went into my marriage under the belief that this is the most sacred of all the agreements I'm ever going to sign in my life, right?
I can sign contracts with corporations, I can sign business deals, but this is the one I can never break.
It has to come before everything else.
But this whole no fault divorce situation basically said, no, your marriage is actually the least important of all the agreements.
It's obviously, you know, not treating the human person as a child of God, right?
They're treating us like cogs in a machine.
That's what the elites, uh, in all the industries view us as is pieces to play on the field that can make our products and do our services.
They don't look at you as a dad.
They don't look at you as a husband.
They, they want you back in the workforce for maximum efficiency.
And by the way, you're reading all about these artificial wombs and egg freezing and IVF and all of that stuff.
I don't, I don't judge or attack anyone that's gone through IVF except, you know, if you buy a baby, uh, um, as like a gay couple or something, I think that's really messed up, but I think that makes you a conservative leader.
But the, no, those are, no, I know, it's, sorry, sorry, sorry.
But it's, it's the commodification of the human person.
And that is ultimate.
You know, you, I love your actual, I, I kind of love it.
I'm not endorsing it specifically.
I need to do more research into it, but not paying your credit cards sounds like a great way to get these, you know, credit card companies to stop preying on.
Well, how about, but my idea was like, let's have a, hey, let's not pay our credit card party where that's the, that's the only like bullet point on the agenda is we all agree not to pay our credit.
And just to negotiate.
terms, like, cause Trump is always bragging about how, well, you know, if you take a big enough loan from a bank, they have to negotiate with you.
Like, you're in charge cause they're exposed cause it's just too much money, which I get.
I'm not criticizing it, but like, why not create a union to do the same for the entire public?
Like, stop sending credit card solicitations to kids.
Stop charging 20% interest.
Like, that should be illegal.
That's ridiculous usury.
That's ridiculous.
The mafia used to go to jail in Dorico for that, but it's okay for Citibank.
Well, this is what really annoys me about Republicans.
And, you know, they're so corporate centered.
They're so like free market centered.
When Trump mandated that credit card companies couldn't go over 10%, all these libertarian right wing think tanks started criticizing him as an enemy of the free market.
If that's an enemy of the free market, then consider me one.
He one time, uh, my you know, we work in the pizza restaurant, you get tips that when you clean out the tables and all that.
Well, my brother is just weird and he keeps his dollar bills like rolled up.
I'll never forget, my dad was like topping it down to see if there's any coke in it, and it's like, Dad, I'm not doing coke, but that was actually him loving us because he was thinking, Well, I did crack, so it's not impossible.
And he was at the time, you're offended, like, how could you ever possibly believe I would do coke?
Kids are so offended, but he was a crack addict.
I think one of the benefits of having a crack addict as a father, like people hear that and they're like, oh my gosh, that must have been so terrible.
I'm grateful for it.
And it prepared me for the world we live in today, which is like Gen Zers are all being raised by these women on amphetamines and SSRIs and Xanax and all of that.
So it helps me relate to them and actually connect with them to know what they're going through.
They brag about the drugs that they're on, the pharmaceuticals.
And, you know, Tucker, I just want to say that the, the industries have monopolized our time so much and taken over our lives that these poor women and men at this point have to take Adderall to have the energy to do their job every day.
But then they have to take the anti-anxiety medication to combat that.
And then they're taking all these other pills.
You take a pill, then you have to take pills to combat the side effects of it all.
That is what these industries have done through this fake concept.
Known as the work life balance, they've monopolized our lives and taken over where we need pharmaceutical drugs just to exist and be happy.
No amount of room service or carnival cruises or weekends in St. Bart's could approach the deep joy and satisfaction of sitting at the head of a table of your descendants.
Well, the single life is just as innocuous or innocuous.
It is.
It doesn't seem threatening.
It actually seems you're told by every corner of our society, by the elites, that being single and child free is actually prosperity, is actually human flourishing.
So these poor people have been lied to.
They've been manipulated into serving the state and their corporate masters.