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Show coming up today. Brand new polling show, the Generation Z. Well, they don't actually like babies, but they do kind of like socialism. We will explain. Plus, Democrats continue to double down on protecting criminals and illegal immigrants. Not a smart move. But first, whatever plans you have tomorrow night, you should cancel them because we need you here with all of us to celebrate a decade of the Daily Wire with the live premiere episode of our new show, friendly fire at 7pm Eastern. We're not gathering to tell stories of the past. This isn't a nostalgia hour. There will be a little nostalgia instead, giving you a first look at what's coming next. New series, new projects, huge announcements, surprises. We have been holding back until this very moment. This is the start of our next decade. You don't want to miss a single moment. It is the live debut episode of Friendly Fire. All of us will be together to do what friends do, you know, argue, debate. Michael will probably smoke a few Mayflower cigars. I'm going to make fun of him, like a lot. Watch live tomorrow night at 7pm eastern@daily wire.com and on the Daily Wire plus app. Well, folks, the kids are not okay. We now have an enormous amount of poll data suggesting that Generation Z has some very serious problems. And those are problems that they didn't create for themselves. These are problems created by honestly, generations of bad parenting in the United States of America. There are brand new poll numbers out from NBC News and what it shows is basically young people not into getting married or having babies. Also kind of like socialism. This is not good. It is incredibly not good. So according to this NBC News poll results, among respondents aged 18 to 29, they were asked about 13 different options of top priorities. And this is overall and we'll get to sort of the political divisions in a moment which show the difference between Trump's America and Kamala Harris's America. But overall, people 18 to 29. For women, the number one priority, number one priority in life was having a job or career you find fulfilling. Number two, having enough money to do the things you want to do. Three, achieving financial independence for having emotional stability. And then if you go all the way down the list, all the way down the list, number 10, having children, number 11, being married. That's a problem. That is a massive problem. If young women between the ages of 18 and 29 believe that is a 10th priority to have kids and an 11th priority to get married. And their number one priority is having a job or career, that is a gigantic mistake when it comes to the purpose of life. How about for men? So for men, they agree. Number one, having a job or career you find fulfilling. And number two, they also agree with women having enough money to do the things you want to do. You have to go all the way down to number seven to get to being married. And number eight, having children. Again, massive, massive problem. Any society that does not make its number one focus, not number two, not number three, number one, getting married and having kids, is a society that is doomed to failure. Because that is in fact the priority of any society. You cannot pass your values on to the next generation if there is no next generation. Also, you can't pass your values on to the next generation if you have no values. And the reality is that central purpose in life comes from the book of Genesis. Leaving your father and mother, marrying a member of the opposite sex and having kids. And that's not just because it's in the book of Genesis. The book of Genesis has lasted ages immemorial. Specifically because that happens to be true. Any society that believes that earning for I, I suppose individualistic pursuits, because literally the number two priority here is having enough money to do the things you want to do. Any society that is focused on hedonistic personal fulfillment is a society that is doomed to failure. People will stop having kids, People will stop getting married. People will not be happy. And then when they are not happy because it turns out that the fruits of economics are not enough to make you happy, they turn on the economics themselves. Because you cannot fill that family shaped hole in the heart with cash. It is not possible to do it. You can't. The thing that gives fulfillment in life to human beings is getting married and having kids. And I know that in our radically individualistic society we're supposed to believe that all forms of familial formation, that all forms of sexual behavior are equally admirable and equally the target of aspiration for society. That is wrong and untrue. We should be teaching our kids that it is important to marry a member of the opposite sex and have kids with Those people. Now, will there be people for whom this doesn't apply? Sure, because for every rule there are exceptions. But if that is not the societal aspiration, what you end up with is people who are inward focused. Because the thing that chiefly takes you out of your own emotional narcissism is getting married and having children. I talk about this in the book, in Lines and Scavengers, I talk about this. But the. The word in Hebrew for love is ahava. The root, the word ahava is hav. To give. And it is that giving that is at the root of love. If you have no one to give yourself to, if you do not have, as it says in the Bible, aer connecto, right? Meaning a help meet is the way it's usually translated. But that's not what it means, okay, when it says that God is going to create for Adam a helpmate, a help meet, aer connecto is. Is the term that is used in Hebrew. What that literally means is a helper against him. The point is that a woman completes a man and a man completes a woman. And yes, they do need each other. And that is not a bad thing. That is quite a beautiful thing. And when they come together, they have children, and that is the most beautiful thing. And any society that vitiates that purpose and treats that purpose as not only secondary or Tertiary, but 10th on the list of priorities is a society that is not only doomed not to have kids, but it is a society that is doomed for unhappiness. And then when that unhappiness materializes, people blame the economic system. These two things are connected. There's polling data, as we'll get to in a moment, showing that young people particularly are warming towards socialism. Why? The answer is if you can't get what you want in the form of economics, then you tend to blame the economic system. And it used to be that so long as you are able to earn for your family, that was the purpose of earning. To earn for your family, to be able to buy a house for your family, not just for you, for your family, to provide a better life for your kids. If you separate off family and kids from that purpose, no amount of money that you earn will ever be enough to have enough money to do the things you want to do. Because there are always new things that you want to do. Something that Adam Smith, the great proponent of capitalism, talked about. There are always new things you want to do with your money. That is not where fulfillment is found. And now there is a political valence to all of this as pointed out by Steve Kornacki. So according to the NBC News Decision Desk poll about Generation Z. And again, I don't blame young people for this. I blame their parents. Parents did not hand down the values that they were taught by their parents to their kids. We now have three generations in American life that have degraded the value of family and childbearing and rearing in favor of atomistic individualism that was supposed to provide a sort of libertine fulfillment. And you know what? It's just empty. It's just empty. And people are unhappy, particularly women, by the way, because, well, men, it is their responsibility to be fathers and have babies. The reality of the world is that it is women, traditionally speaking, and yes, naturally speaking, biologically speaking, who long to have children. This pretend nonsense, made up world in which women are taught that they ought not want to have children is unnatural. Like in the purest biological sense, it is unnatural. There's a reason why every study of rhesus monkeys shows that female rhesus monkeys, if you give them a truck, will literally take the truck and start cradling the truck. And male rhesus monkeys, if you give them a baby, the men will. The, the male Reese's monkeys will start hitting each other with it. Men and women different. When you tell women they don't want the thing that they absolutely do want, what you end up with is unhappy women. And when men can't fulfill their highest purpose because many women don't want to fulfill that purpose either, they get angry at women and they become counterproductive and bad citizens of society. So here's how this breaks down politically and it is fascinating. As I, as I mentioned, Steve Kornacki points this out. Among men who voted for President Trump, the number one priority, and it's still not high enough. But the number one priority is having children, 34%. Number two is financial independence. Number three is fulfilling job and career. And number four is being married, last on the list, tied for last, able to retire early and having emotional stability. And that's not because people don't want emotional stability. It's because that's not typically the way that men think. As a man, I tell you, we don't walk around, think, man, am I emotionally stable today? What? How am I feeling emotionally? That is just a non masculine attitude toward the world as a general rule. 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Emotional stability is not something you get by going to your therapist. The way that emotional stability is actually materialized in the world, realized in the world is by doing duty bound things every day that make the world better, make your family better, make your community better. That is where mental health lives. Mental health lives in getting off your ass and stopping with the navel, gazing and going and doing something productive with your day, something that is meaningful in the world. Performing a duty, helping your community, building social. Those are the things that make you emotionally stable. If you just have a goal of emotional stability, you're going to be tilting at windmills out there because no drug is going to provide you emotional stability in the deepest and truest sense and neither is any amount of therapy. The best those can do is act as palliatives against your depression, but they cannot actually stop solve your underlying malaise. A purpose filled life, a meaning filled life is the best counteractive to that malaise. Okay, so again, women who voted for Kamala Harris literally last on the list last is being married and having kids. Only 6% of women who voted for Kamala Harris said that it was important to a successful life to be married or have kids. That is simply the result of generations of propaganda directed at liberal women. That's all. That's all. Because convincing women that their magical superpower, which is to be able to actually grow another human in them and then to nurse that human toward maturity and saying to women that Actually, that's the last. That's the last thing that you're about. That's the last. No, it actively is not. It truly fundamentally is not. And when you alienate women from the thing that is their magical superpower and you tell them that's the thing they shouldn't want, what they actually should want is to be more like the men working 2200 billable hours at a law firm. What you're going to end up with is an enormous amount of unhappiness on both the part of women who have now been alienated from a central purpose in life, the central purpose of life, and men who actively would like to form families with women and then fulfill their central purpose in life. Okay, how about women who voted for Trump? So amazingly, even for women who voted for Trump. And again, I think that, that a lot of this is just the result of a feminist movement that has degraded childbearing and rearing, truly degraded it. Even women who voted for Trump put getting married and having kids lower on their priority list. Their number one in terms of having a fulfilling life is financial independence. Number two is fulfilling job and career. Number three is owning their own home. Only 26% say having children. Only 20% say being married. This is a failure. It is a gigantic societal failure, a massive societal failure. And it is not unconnected with our broken politics. Because if you find fulfillment in your family, in your home, in your community, you're significantly less likely to then start searching for shadowy reasons why you're unfulfilled, blaming, quote, unquote, the systems for your personal lack of fulfillment, for the fact that, yeah, you got that job at the law firm and you're working 2200 billable hours and you're making a really good solid living and you're still unhappy. And so what you do is you start blaming. The systems have created more prosperity than any system in human history. Free market capitalism, These two things are not disconnected in any way, shape or form. There's another poll that is out from Gallup. Do you have a positive or negative view of socialism? Positive. 39%. Negative, 57%. OK, fine. So the views of capitalism are down. Right now, capitalism only has a 54% approval rating as opposed to 42% negative rating. And that is really low. And frankly, that's because people simply do not understand that their wealth, their prosperity and their freedom are reliant on a private property system in which you are freely able to alienate your labor. That's all. People don't understand free markets because they don't take the time to understand free markets. People have a general belief that prosperity is the natural state of the world and that anything that strays from that natural state is. Is the system. That there's some sort of Edenic paradise where you could pick fruit off the tree and everything grew wild and you were rich. And then capitalism intervened. This sort of Rousseauian view of the state of nature, which is total trash. Not true at all, either factually or theoretically. Just stupidity. Okay, but fair enough. Americans like capitalism more than socialism. But you get to the younger generation and things start to go pretty haywire. Ages 18 to 34, 49% of Americans 18 to 34 are positive about socialism. 46% are negative about socialism. How about capitalism? Age 18 to 34, simple. 43% positive about capitalism, 54% negative about capitalism. These two things are not unassociated. If you go looking for meaning in all the wrong places, you are likely to not find meaning. You are likely to find grievance and anger and rage at the system. The Marxist materialist view of the world, which is that happiness is simply a result of material prosperity or material distribution, and that you are generated by your economic system, is a lie. It is not true and it can't be solved. The problems with the human heart cannot be solved by the government cutting you a check or by the government taking money from Elon Musk and handing it to you. It doesn't solve the problem. Now, what this really does do is it puts free market capitalism on extraordinarily shoddy footing. Why? Because in any system that has a vibrant social fabric where you have healthy families and healthy kids and healthy communities and healthy churches, the economy is going to go up, economy is going to go down. But the root of your happiness lies in that. In that relationship with your family and with your community, and yes, with your country. In a society where all those bonds are broken, you end up relying on material prosperity as the thing that is going to buy you happiness. And so if the economy goes down, you wish to wreck the entire system. Right. If there's a. If there's some sort of economic depression, you end up with a massive political crisis in which all of the actual machinery that provides all of the prosperity upon which the entire social welfare state relies, because social welfare states do not function in nationalized economy countries, they don't, because they, they don't generate enough prosperity. Basically, social welfare systems are the weight that gets to live at top, the foundation of actual free market capitalism and commerce and trade and innovation and risk Taking and all the rest and the creative destructive process that is free market capitalism, that's what generates all the wealth. Ain't no socialist program ever generated wealth. All socialist programs can do is try to redistribute the wealth. And typically that also means over time, quashing innovation, destroying risk taking, and making the general economy significantly worse. But if you are looking at your life situation and you basically your philosophy is now, if line go up and to the right, happy. If line go down into the right, sad. Then if the line goes down into the right and you find your meaning somewhere else, outside of church or family or having kids, the only thing you care about is your job. That's like your biggest thing. And then you lose your job. What do you do? What, what do you feel about the system? You start to blame capitalism in general and you start hoping for a great savior, a great socialist savior from the sky who is going to descend Zar Momdani like and fix all of your problems. And that's when free market capitalism really is in trouble. And if free market capitalism dies, so do millions of people. That is the history of communism. That is the history of socialism. This is why I've been saying, and I will continue to say, the single greatest risk to the Trump era is a sinking economy. It is why good economic policy is really, really, really important, because we are now living in an extraordinarily high risk era, a truly high risk era. It used to be that economies could survive vicissitudes. Free market capitalism could survive vicissitudes because again, people didn't find their chief level of meaning in the economy. The economy mattered an awful lot. It will always matter an awful lot. Of course, material prosperity and conditions matter, but the way that you found your personal meaning in life when you got up in the morning was your wife or your husband and your kids and your church and your community. And as that's gone away, as that's been exploded over the course of the last 60, 70 years in this country, what you end up with is line go down into the right. I hate the system. Let's tear it all down. Bernie Sanders or one of his acolytes ought to run the country. And that's why that line better keep going up and to the right. So the Trump administration has now apparently released a report, or is going to release a report laying out alleged shortcomings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs data. This is according to the Wall Street Journal. The report takes a critical look at the BLS and lays out a historical Overview of the agency's jobs data revision. This, of course, comes amid President Trump's move to fire the BLS. Commissioner Erica McIntarfer is now nominated longtime BLS critic E.J. antoni to run the agency. So here is the rule. The last couple of labor reports have been extremely weak. Hiring seems to be slowing or even in decline in the United States because of all of the uncertainty surrounding things like tariffs, surrounding AI, surrounding interest rates and all the rest. Well, if you are arguing with the ref, the rule goes in sports, you are losing. If you're arguing with the bls, you're losing. Presidents who are, who are presiding over growing, healthy, burgeoning economies are not arguing with bls. They're just not wasting their time there. That doesn't mean that Trump is wrong about BLS or the stats. He may very well be right. But the idea that basically if you jerry rig a new system of numbers, that that really is just a problem in the measurement technique. That's not what people feel. It's not what people feel. Meanwhile, according to the Wall Street Journal, falling lumber prices are sounding an alarm on Wall street about potential problems on Main Street. Wood markets have been whipsawed of late by trade uncertainty and a deteriorating housing market. Futures have dropped 24 since hitting a three year high at the beginning of August and ended Monday at 526.50 per thousand feet of board. That price drop might have been greater, but two of America's biggest sawyers said last week that they would curtail output, slowing the decline. Well, the crashing wood prices are troubling because they're an indicator that there is a slowing housing market as well as slowing in the broader economic activity. This is a problem. Scott Bessant, the Treasury Secretary, has been deployed to virtually all of the Sunday shows in order to promote the economy, suggesting that things are strong and growing and he is in fact very competent. But the whipsawing around tariffs, the bizarre sort of statism implicit in taking stakes and ownership in particular companies, sponsorship in particular ownership in companies, none of that is likely to lead to short, mid or even real long term growth. It just isn't. And so the question becomes if you screw around with the free market, and this is the history of the anti free market movement in the United States, typically what happens is the free market works pretty well and every so often there's a crash. And typically the free market does a pretty good job of getting us out of a crash. Go look up the non existent depression of the 1920s. There was a vast stock market crash in 1920, 21. And it healed within months because the government basically stayed out of it, unlike 1929, when after the stock market crash, we got the most interventionist public policy from both the Hoover and FDR administrations in American history, by far. Or the gigantic failed recovery of Barack Obama, the slowest economic recovery in American history because of his vast statism in government interventionism. But the history of America's feelings about capitalism is if there is a crash and if the government is responsible for that crash, and then if the government gets very involved, capitalism gets blamed, that is a problem. The economy must continue to move forward on solid footing. Otherwise, the socialists are waiting. They are. And what they are waiting for is something really, really, really bad. The Bernie Sanders movement is waiting in the wings. I know that everybody on the right, that we are all very optimistic. I know Donald Trump won the last election. Republicans have been pretty effective in getting through vast policy priorities, and that's wonderful. But things reverse quite quickly in this country, particularly upon economic stagnation. And so I would just warn everybody, don't get high in your own supply. The reality is that things can change very quickly. And being foolish about policy out of a sort of misplaced optimism that the left will never recover ignores the history of all American electoral politics literally ever. Okay, that doesn't mean that the left can't find a way to blow it. They certainly can. And right now, the momentum is certainly with the right. But with that said, the economy is pretty much everything right now. The Trump economy already coming up. Democrats continue to defend criminals and illegal immigrants, led by people like Zoran Mamdani. Again, they want to make this guy the hero of the story, and he absolutely is the villain. First, I used to think grocery shopping was simple. And then I learned that over 4 billion pounds of meat was imported into the US last year and can still be labeled as product of the usa. 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So if you go a couple layers deep, it turns out that it's Thomas Jefferson's fault that a deranged homeless man who is black stabbed an innocent Ukrainian woman on a on a light train in Charlotte. That seems to Be the leftist case. This is why you hear dumb comments like we can't incarcerate our way out of this. No, absolutely we can incarcerate our way out of crime. And actually there's a very long history of people incarcerating their way out of crime. See when when people commit crimes and you put them in jail, you know what they can't do? Commit crimes against people again on the streets because they're in jail. In any case, we now have new details about the murder suspect in this horrifying case in which a young Ukrainian refugee was murdered in cold blood sitting there. According to the New York Post, that arranged homeless man charged with butchering a 23 year old Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte train was was free on cashless bail after a magistrate released him with just a written promise to show up for court. Despite a nearly two decade history of violence and mental illness. And only public policy insanity can can be to blame for this. I mean, insanity is actually a way of getting people off the hook. It actually is public policy evil. If you are giving cashless bail to people who are violent schizophrenics and letting them off onto the street, that is not an act of insanity. That is an act of ideological evil. Truly, that is evil. Freeing violent criminals onto the streets out of a misplaced sympathy for them is cruelty to the innocent. The suspect in this case to Carlos Brown, was arrested at least 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault and firearms possession to felony robbery and larceny dating back to 2007. His own mother told a local TV station her son was schizophrenic and should never have been allowed to roam the streets. But Brown was a free man right up until the moment the cop said he viciously stabbed Irina Zarutska in an unprovoked and cowardly sneak attack as she rode the train home from her job at the local pizzeria. Again, the system failed Zarutska at every turn. The killing has exposed major safety flaws on Charlotte's mass transit system. Apparently Brown was a fair beater. He took both the bus and the Lynch Blue Line train without ever paying a cent. So again, even a basic sort of broken windows theory, a turnstile policy, have stopped this from happening. It turns out local cops don't even police the Charlotte area transit system. Instead, everything was outsourced to professional security services since last December. Again, this is truly ridiculous. The mayor of Charlotte person named by ly issued a tone de statement demanding compassion for people with mental illness and then put out a statement Quote, As I reflect on the tragic murder of Arena Zarutska, my heart continues to go out to her family and our community as we try to make sense of this horrific and senseless loss. This is a tragic failure by the courts and magistrates. Our police officers arrest people only to have them quickly released, which undermines our ability to protect our community and ensure safety. We need a bipartisan solution to address repeat offenders who do not face consequences for their actions and those who cannot get their treatment for mental illness and are allowed to be on the streets. That is true. I'm glad that you got it on second try, Mayor. Again, Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes released him with a written promise to appear for his next court date. The guy couldn't even promise to take his drugs for schizophrenia. Totally ridiculous. President Trump yesterday issued a statement giving his love to the family of the young woman who was stabbed to death.