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Ep. 1666 - Public Health “Experts” Want To Legitimize This Barbaric Practice In The Name Of Multiculturalism
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Today the Matt Walsh show the so called public health experts in the UK have decided that actually maybe incest isn't so bad after all. Welcoming the third world through mass migration means welcoming third world practices is just the latest example. Also, the government shut down and nobody noticed or cared. Pope Leo makes some very concerning comments about abortion and other topics and Netflix is getting the Bud Light treatment after their woke children's programming was exposed to it's way worse than you probably think. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh what started as an idea is now the podcast and business blasting through your earbuds. Launching your own business is pretty much on everyone's bucket list, but most people let it collect dust right next to learn a language and git Abs. Stop hiding behind lame excuses like I don't have the skills, I can't do it alone. Turn those what ifs into bold why nots. With Shopify backing your ideas, they've got the tools. 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And while this particular innovation isn't discussed very much, or at least it hasn't been discussed very much in recent history because we haven't had to discuss it, well, that's about to change. I'm talking about the Catholic Church's decision around the 6th century to ban marriages between first cousins. And once the Church banned first cousin marriages in the Middle Ages, along with marriages among step relatives in laws and godparents, the west began rapidly pulling ahead of the rest of the world. And make no mistake about it, the Church's influence was indeed the primary reason why Europeans stopped marrying their relatives. The other major religions were expressly endorsing all kinds of incestuous relationships. And the statistics bear this out. You can see it from this graphic which it's up on the screen now, which is from a paper in the journal Science called the Church Intensive Kinship and Global Psychological Variation. And for every 500 years that a country was under the influence of the Western Church, which evolved, which, you know, the Roman Catholic Church, there was a 90% reduction in marriage rates among cousins. The nuclear family began flourishing. Meanwhile, where the Western church wasn't dominant, incest was rampant. Persians were marrying their own siblings in addition to their own cousins. Even the Eastern Orthodox Church, which did ban incest, wasn't as strict as the Western Church. So what specifically were the consequences of banning cousin marriage? By the way, there's a reason we're talking about this we'll get to in a second. Intuitively, you could probably answer that question. If you have any familiarity with, say, Somalia, then you get the basic idea. Inbreeding lowers IQs. It results in many problems. Deformities, strange facial structures. It also results in dramatically increased rates of genetic abnormalities, including terminal illnesses. By common estimates, marrying a first cousin more than doubles your risk of severe disorders. It typically takes away 10 IQ points. One study from 2002 showed that Pakistani children accounted for one third of birth defects in the UK, even though they only made up 4% of all the births at the time in the country. A more recent study from 2013 found that more than a third of children born with birth defects in the UK came from first cousin marriages, which were primarily Pakistani marriages. And by one estimate, more than half of Pakistani marriages involved incestuous relationships of some kind. You probably learned the relevant biology in high school. Children get two copies of every gene from their parents, one from their mother, one from their father. And generally speaking, if one recessive copy of A gene is corrupted, then it's not a big deal, it won't affect the child. But if both parents carry a recessive copy of the bad gene, then there's a 25% chance that the child will receive receive both bad copies. First cousins, by definition, share grandparents, which means that they share roughly 12% of their DNA. So if one cousin has the recessive gene from a serious disorder and marries his first cousin who also has the recessive gene, there's a 1 in 8 chance that their offspring will have the disorder. And therefore, marrying your first cousin drastically increases the risk that your child will have a severe abnormality as compared to marrying a random member of the general population now. Nevertheless, in many cultures to this day, it's taboo to acknowledge any of this. Even when parents have a child who's clearly suffering because of inbreeding, they're often hesitant to say anything about it. This is from a documentary that aired in the UK a few years ago. It's some of those painful footage you'll see watch.
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Azmat Mahmoud lives in Nelson, Lancashire. He's 17 years old and lives with his mum, Parveen. God, I smell these medicines really bad. He has to take a powerful cocktail of medications to help him get through his day, sometimes as many as 11 tablets at a time. He has a rare genetic condition called propionic acidemia. He lacks an enzyme that breaks down protein in the body.
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You only have them in the morning.
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Azmat was diagnosed at 15 months old and was one of the youngest children in the UK ever to have a liver transplant. When Azmat was first diagnosed, his doctors told Perveen that his rare liver condition was hereditary. By marrying her first cousin, she and her husband increased the chances of passing the disease onto their children. Asmut's rare condition is progressive and his body is slowly deteriorating.
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This one like, this one's more weaker. It's just like wearing out. I don't notice if it is, but it started getting worse, like, you know, you have pains and stuff.
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Asmat helps out in his mum's school and babywear shop when he's not at college. He works on the shop floor, deals with customers and mans the till. I'm very protective of Esme. He's like, more like, I would say a 14 year old than an 18 year old mentally, you know. Despite what Asmat's mom has been told about the cause of his illness, she struggles to accept it. I don't think there's anything wrong in fiscal managers because it's our culture and it's the norm really. But having said that, I want to. It did put me off having more to my ex husband now, but, you know, because I couldn't go through that again.
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Quote, I don't think there's anything wrong in first cousin marriages. She says that despite the fact that, you know, her child is mentally and physically disabled for life because she married her cousin. This is how entire civilizations developed when they didn't follow the guidance of the Church, even though they knew about the dangers of incest, how couldn't they? It's obvious they persisted anyway because, you know, that's their culture. And in the absence of Christianity, this kind of culture won out. And the results have been devastating. Here's one more example.
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Mahsen Akhter is 17 years old and lives with his family in Bradford. He's the second of six children. He's blind, he can't walk properly and needs round the clock care. Mahsin's younger sister Hena is 13. She's the Akhtar's fourth child. Her sister Zeyneb is 11. Both sisters have inherited the same disease as Mahsin. They can neither see nor hear. All three children have an extremely rare genetic disorder called mucolipidosis type 4. Their bodies cannot get rid of waste products, properly affecting everyday brain function from vision to movement. The potential consequences of first cousin marriages are tragic and devastating. My grandparents are first cousins. Five of their daughters died in childhood and three of my uncles were born deaf. At the time, no one knew why, because the facts were not known. Today, the medical facts are established, but the practice continues.
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Now, the Church put an end to this barbarism at scale. They saved millions of children from suffering a fate like this. That's not because they had access to studies or data as that report suggests. It's because they knew that incest was a great moral evil. Also, they had working eyes and ears and they could see the consequences. As a result, children were protected. But there were other important consequences of the Church's ban as well. Yes, many more Europeans were born without crippling genetic disorders. And that obviously benefited many Western nations for many generations. But there were other, more subtle benefits as well. In that paper I mentioned earlier from Science magazine, the researchers explained some of these benefits. Well, we'll put that up on the screen. Quote, countries with lower rates of cousin marriage are more individualistic and independent, less conforming and obedient, and more inclined toward trust and cooperation with strangers. Longer exposure to the Western church is associated with less intensive kinship, greater individualism, less conformity. And more fairness and trust towards strangers. In other words, when a lot of people are marrying their own cousins, society tends to be much more insular, collectivist, conformist, ultimately primitive. That makes sense when you're not intermingling with other people. When your marriages only take place within your own family, then family elders generally call the shots. It's less important to have a functioning government. People become suspicious of anyone outside the family, reducing cooperation and social cohesion. That's basically what the study is saying. The result is stagnation at both the genetic level and with respect to society at large. You look at countries in South Asia, like Pakistan, they see a highly disproportionate number of genetic disorders as a result of inbreeding. Their governments are also dysfunctional. They're failed states. Again, all this was conventional wisdom for a very long time. No one really talked about the dangers of inbreeding or the role of the Catholic Church in banning inbreeding simply because it was common sense. This was a conversation that we didn't need to have. But that has changed now, thanks to mass migration in some corners of the West. It's apparently not common sense anymore. Certain countries have now imported so many third World aliens, mostly from countries that practice inbreeding, that they're now openly endorsing the practice of marrying your cousin. Yes, in a decade where public health authorities have systematically discredited themselves in seemingly every way imaginable, somehow that bar has just been lowered even further. So in Britain, the government run National Health Service just published guidance about this. And, and what they were doing in the guidance was essentially promoting cousin marriage. This is from the Telegraph this week, quote, guidance published last week by the nhs, England's Genomics Education program says first cousin marriage is linked to stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages. The NHS guidance points out the practice has been legal in the UK since the 1500s as a loophole for King Henry VIII to marry Katherine Howard, his ex wife's cousin. Now, before we go any further with this article, I need to stop here for a second. The NHS is saying that because King Henry married his ex wife's cousin in the 1500s, therefore we should permit cousin marriage today. And there are, you know, two major problems here. First of all, King Henry had no genetic relationship with his ex wife's cousin. That's kind of important. The risk of passing along a genetic disorder due to inbreeding, therefore was not elevated. Secondly, even if King Harry had married a first cousin, it still wouldn't obviously justify endorsing the idea as a General principle. Half a millennia later. The only possible explanation here is that for political reasons, the NHS is scrambling to find some way to endorse, promote, rationalize inbreeding, no matter how dishonest it may be. After all, they have to appease all of their new constituents from the Third World. So presumably pretty soon we, you know, can expect some official guidance from the British government on how cannibalism isn't so bad. Ritual sacrifices, you know, maybe not such a bad thing. That's where this is headed. Well, let's continue with the Telegraph's report on the NHS's guidance, because the logical fallacies keep on coming, as you might expect. Quote the document mentions that marriage between cousins has long been the subject of scientific discussion, based on the slight increase in the risk of inheriting diseases. It also adds that there are other things that increase the risk of this too, such as alcohol, smoking and parental age, none of which are banned in the uk. Genetic counseling, awareness raising initiatives and public health campaigns are all important tools to help families make informed decisions without stigmatizing certain communities and cultural traditions. The guidance reads. According to the Daily Mail, the NHS guidance also states that, quote, in the general population, a child's chance of being born with a genetic condition is around 2 to 3%. This increases to 4 to 6% in children of first cousins. Hence most, most children of first cousins are healthy. That's really what they're arguing. They're implying that doubling the risk of genetic abnormalities is no big deal, because, after all, it's apparently legal to smoke and drink while you're pregnant in the uk. But that is obviously not an argument for allowing first cousin marriages. It's, if anything, an argument for not allowing people to smoke and drink while they're pregnant. What we're seeing here from the NHS is something that's become very common in recent years. Organizations that are supposed to focus on public health and only on public health are making political arguments instead, and legal arguments. The NHS should not be in the business of crafting gotcha arguments to justify inbreeding, which is also something that I like. These are all things that shouldn't need to be said, not this whole conversation shouldn't. We shouldn't need to have it, but we do. We do. What they should be talking about is science and data and that's it. And by the way, when it comes to inbreeding, the science and data are very clear. There's just, there's, there's no, there's nothing to talk about or there shouldn't be, but because incestuous marriages are common in many of the cultures that the UK and also the US import by the millions every year, the NHS has decided to publish political propaganda instead. They've decided that their job is not to warn about the dangers of this disgusting practice, but instead to find some way to justify it, defend it, rationalize it, normalize it. They've apparently pulled now this guidance that we're talking about. After all the backlash that, that you would anticipate. They've apparently pulled it now from their website. But we all know that the British government hasn't changed its mind or its goals. As mass migration continues, we will be pulled further backwards into the kinds of primitive practices that our ancestors abandoned millennia ago. That is inevitable. In fact, in this country. Several states, including California, Vermont and Massachusetts, still permit first cousin marriages. In Connecticut, they're just getting around now to outlawing it. This is a news report from just a few days ago. Watch. Believe it or not, you are allowed to marry your first cousin in Connecticut, but only for 12 more days.
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On October 1st, a new law goes.
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Into effect banning saying I do to your first cousin. It's something Democrat and Republican lawmakers agreed on earlier this year. Your reporter Dylan Fearon explains why she's getting married today. Tom Kelly is bringing home flowers to both his wife and sister, who's getting married today in Southington. Not to her cousin, though. And in less than two weeks, no one will be able to marry their first cousin. It's pretty wild. I mean, I would have never thought about marrying my first cousin. It didn't really enter my mind. But, you know, hey, whatever floats your boat. Still got a few days. I still got a few days. I did get married. Not to my cousin though, last year. Hi, honey. In a world where political parties seem to disagree on just about everything, the bill to not keep it in the family passed unanimously this year. Governor Lamont signed it into law. The reason? Procreation between first cousins increases the chances of birth defects. It's just so wrong. Because of the birth defects, starting October 1st, you won't be able to marry your first cousin. That's good. Now, notice that everyone they interview in Connecticut, including the random guy that they conduct an extended interview with, who's forced to clarify that he's not marrying his cousin, has exactly the same opinion on incestuous relationships like this. They all oppose it. And this is an overwhelmingly left wing state, as you just heard. For now, this is a rare topic in this country where there is unanimous bipartisan agreement. Now, the only way that will change is if, like the UK we continue to import foreigners, third worlders until our country is unrecognizable. There's a very strong argument, as we discussed, that banning ancestral relationships is one of the primary reasons that the west evolved while the rest of the world stagnated. That's why the enemies of Western civilization want to legitimize first cousin marriages at the moment. They know it will cement Western decline just as surely as the bans on incest allowed us to succeed in the first place. And that's why I'll say for the first time in the history of this show that the federal government should follow Connecticut's lead. We need a federal ban on first cousin marriages universally before the practice takes hold in in the various foreign enclaves in this country. A federal ban would protect children from suffering and dying from terrible genetic conditions and it would communicate very clearly that unlike the uk, the United States is still interested in preserving and defending Western civilization. This is not an 8020 issue. This is a, you know, 99 to 1 issue. And the 1 doesn't even belong in the country. So whenever the federal government is open and operational again, this is a no brainer. Now admittedly there aren't many countries left in the world that would pass a ban like this. 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And you know, that's this, this is supposed to be, as they used to say in the radio business, topic A is government shutdown. So what everyone's talking about, but I don't care. And I, I've never cared. I find these news cycles incredibly boring. I really do. Yet here we are again. Fox News reports the federal government is officially entering a partial shutdown on Wednesday after the midnight funding deadline passed with Democrats and Republicans failing to agree on a funding bill. An early attempt by Senate Republicans to pass a short term extension of fiscal year 2025, called a continuing resolution, was sunk by Democrats who were furious about being sidelined and shut down negotiations. The bill, which would have given Congress until November 21, passed the House largely along party lines of September 19 and blah, blah, blah. Okay, so the government is shut down only partially. Unfortunately. Unfortunately, only partially. Democrats are calling it the Republican shutdown. Republicans are calling it the Democrat shutdown. That's the, that's the level of, of, of discussion right now. That's the level of commentary. So everyone on the left saying this is the Republican shutdown. And the Republicans say, nah, nah, it's the Democrat shutdown. And you know that's the same song and dance every time. And meanwhile, if you're a normal person, you would never know that the government shut down. That's why, that's why they have to scream about it from the rooftops. Because otherwise you wouldn't know. If you weren't, if you, if you weren't told about it, you wouldn't know. Like going about your daily life there would, you wouldn't encounter anything that would make you say, huh, the federal government must be in a partial shutdown right now. Wow, I've just encountered this obstacle or inconvenience. This can only be because of the federal government is in a partial shutdown. You would never know that. You could go about your life for six months and the, there'd be a partial shutdown of federal government and you would never know. If nobody told you it would not impact your life in the slightest, unless you're a federal bureaucrat. But for everybody else, this has no impact on anything. Your daily life is not impeded in the slightest. And yet every time this happens, we still get the same panic as if we haven't already been this, through this before, as if we all have amnesia, which I guess a lot of people do these days. And that's obviously why they're so panicked over a shutdown, because they don't want you to notice that you don't notice when the government shuts down. Because then you'll realize that there are wide swaths of the federal government that we can do without. Not only do without, but we, we won't even feel their absence. They don't want you to realize that. And that's the only reason they freak out. Otherwise this story doesn't matter. And also, it's not interesting. I just don't, I don't find it interesting. I think it's boring. So moving on, this one is more interesting in all the wrong ways. So the Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cupich, plans to give a lifetime achievement award to Senator Dick Durbin. And Senator Dick Durbin is a rabidly. Was a Democrat. And I was going to say he's a rabidly pro abortion Democrat, but that's redundant. He's a Democrat, so he's rabidly pro. They don't make any other kind of Democrat these days. So he's a rapidly pro abortion Democrat. And that's raised a lot of concern. Justified concern. Outrage. Justified outrage among Catholics. Why are we awarding this guy? I mean, it's bad enough when the, when, when the archbishop refuses to loudly condemn somebody like Dick Durbin. That's what should be happening. You should be rebuking him publicly, repeatedly. Not only do we not get that, but instead you're going the other direction. You're going to give this guy an award. So the Pope, Pope Leo was asked to weigh in on this. And I still haven't quite. It's still surreal to me that, that, you know, the, the, the Pope can be asked a question now and we in America can listen to the answer and understand what he's saying without a translator. So this is the first time in history when that's been the case. And it's good, It's a very good thing. And it's good because now we don't have to. You know, during Pope Francis, the reign of Pope Francis, he would often have these conversations with reporters and, but we, if you're, if you only speak English, you couldn't understand what he was saying. And so we would always. We would always be relying on translation. And he would say all these things, and often the things that he would say would be, you know, sort of. He would seem to be saying things that, as a believing Catholic, you would find objectionable. But there was always, and it's like, a little bit obscure, and so you were never quite sure. And they could always say, well, it was lost in translation. We don't have that problem this time. We can just listen to what this Pope, what Pope Leo is saying, which is good, but what's not so good is what he was actually saying. So let's listen to that.
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Has become a bit of a divisive subject in the US Right now.
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With Cardinal Cupich giving an award to Senator Durbin, some people of faith are.
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Having a hard time with understanding this because he is pro, or rather he's for legalized abortion. How would you help people of faith right now decipher that feel about that? And how do you feel about that?
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I'm not terribly familiar with the particular case. I think that it's very important to look at the overall work that a senator has done during, if I'm not mistaken, 40 years of service in the United States Senate. I understand. Understand the difficulty and the tensions, but I think, as I myself have spoken in the past, it's important to look at many issues that are related to what is the teaching of the Church. Someone who says I'm against abortion but says I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro life. So someone who says that I'm against abortion, but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States. I don't know if that's pro life. So they're very complex issues. I don't know if anyone has all the truth on them. But I would ask first and foremost that there be greater respect for one another and that we search together, both as human beings, in that case, as American citizens or citizens of the state of Illinois, as well as Catholics, to say we need to. To, you know, really look closely at all of these ethical issues and. And to find the way forward as church. Church teaching on each one of those issues is very clear.
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Well, that is a really bad answer. That's a bad answer, and it's not bad in some kind of semantic way. Okay. As a Catholic, I wouldn't sit here and be pedantic and pick the Pope apart just to prove that I'M smart or something. Okay. I don't, I don't want to. Well, actually, the Pope, well, actually, Pope Leo. But actually, let me tell you this kind of smug, you know, correcting someone, I, I, I don't want to do that. I wouldn't do that. But what he said, his answer is just fundamentally bad. It's fundamentally bad and wrong, and it's potentially deeply confusing for a lot of people. So it needs to be addressed. It just has to be. I know there are still there, There are some Catholics, some, you know, very conservative Catholics. I'm one of them. So these are people I relate to in so many ways. But for some very conservative Catholics, they take the view that as a Catholic like myself, in the public eye, I just should not be publicly criticizing the Pope at all. It's not appropriate to do. That's, that's the view of some, some very conservative Catholics. And I disagree with that. I mean, it's, it's a, I don't like doing it. It's sad to, to have to do it. But when you have the Pope saying stuff like this, well, we're just going to, we're just going to let it sit out there. We're going to let it, you know, just, just like let it go unopposed. We can't. You can't do that. This is, it's scandalous. People are scandalized by this, led astray. Now, it would be one thing if we could rely on church leadership a little bit farther down the ladder to speak up in these scenarios and offer clarification, but we can't. And so it relies on just normal people to speak up and say, this is wrong, and this is just wrong. It really is. Like, it's outrageously wrong. He says that if you're against abortion but in favor of the death penalty, then you aren't really pro life. Okay, that is, again, wrong and ridiculous. I mean, first of all, God himself prescribes the death penalty in the Bible. Is God not pro life? I mean, this is why you cannot, as a Christian, take the position that the death penalty is fundamentally or inherently immoral or inherently, you know, anti life, which is the same thing as being fundamentally immoral. You can't take that position. That position is ruled out. It's off the table. God ordains it. He prescribes it. So if you believe the death penalty is fundamentally wrong or anti life, you're either saying that God is guilty of a moral crime, or you're saying that the Bible does not accurately record God's commands and Both of those claims are themselves inadmissible for a Catholic. You know, Pope Francis said infamously that the death penalty is inadmissible. What is actually inadmissible is to call it inadmissible for the reason I just described. You can't get around that. Now you can argue the death penalty shouldn't be used anymore. You can argue that things have changed, that you can argue that our circumstances are different. I wouldn't agree, but you can argue that. But to make any kind of fundamental moral claim about the death penalty itself is to offer a moral critique of God. And there is no way around it. There just isn't. And saying, well, that was the Old Testament. Well, if that's your answer, then you just don't like this. Is this like basic Christian teaching? You don't understand, you don't understand the basics of like how to read the Bible. It doesn't work that way. That the stuff in the Old Testament, just like it doesn't count anymore. It doesn't count. That's all. It was all wrong. No, no. The Old Testament is also the word of God. And God again prescribes the death penalty in, in, in, in the Old Testament, which means that like, again, you can, you can make a lot of argument. It doesn't like that in and of itself, by itself is not, does not prove that ne necessarily that we should have the death penalty, you know, in our country today. Because you could try to make the, again you make the argument, well, the circumstances and all that, but what you can't do is say that it's morally inadmissible, that it is, which is what Pope Francis said, that it contradicts human dignity, which is what he said, that it's anti life. Because these are, that's not a circumstantial argument about the death penalty. You're talking about the death penalty. Fundamentally, you're making a fundamental argument about the death penalty itself, which would mean that, that would have applied thousands of years ago too, which would mean that you're making a moral critique of God. And it's just, that's like theologically incoherent and you just can't do that. So that's a problem. And also, by the way, when Pope Francis came along a few years ago and said actually the death penalty is inadmissible, he was not only contradicting the word of God, but he was also contradicting 2,000 years of church teaching. I mean, for 2,000 years, that was not the teaching of the church. For 2,000 years. And then Pope Francis came along, you know, approximately 12 and a half seconds ago, and said, nah, actually, actually, I've decided the whole thing is wrong. Actually, the whole 2,000 years of church teaching was wrong. The Bible was wrong. God's wrong, everybody's wrong. I'm right. That's what Pope Francis. That's what he did. That's what he did. And it's indefensible. Um, and even putting all that aside to, to draw a moral equivalence between executing a convicted murderer after a fair trial and then on the other hand, dismembering a child in the womb is, Is madness. I mean, that's flat out moral madness. Okay? These things, even if you're against the death penalty, clearly these are not on the, the same moral plane. On the one hand, you are convicting someone who has committed a heinous crime in a country where that person knows the death penalty exists. They have volunteered themselves for this punishment by committing a crime that they knew had that punishment attached to it. And then this penalty is being carried out by authorized authorities on one hand. On the other hand, you have a child in the womb who has committed no crime, is guilty of nothing. There has been no trial. There has been nothing at all, and they are summarily executed in a clinic by someone claiming to be a doctor. To draw any kind of equivalence between those two things is, you know what it is? It's like Reddit tier nonsense. And in reality, the death penalty is pro life. Okay? The death penalty is pro life. The death penalty is something that you do because you cherish and value the lives of the innocent people who fall victim to these heinous, barbaric, animalistic predators. Okay? That's. It's pro life. If you really value, if you really truly value the lives of these innocent people, then, then you would call for the, the ultimate penalty for anyone who takes someone's life, takes the life of innocent. What else does he say? He says that someone who says, I'm against abortion, but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States. I don't know if that's pro life. Well, what, who, what do you. Who, who ever made that argument? Who in America is arguing for inhuman treatment of immigrants? Do you mean, you know, I've never heard anyone argue for inhuman treatment of immigrants. No, no one's making that arg. I've not heard a single person say, you know what? We should treat, we should treat immigrants in an inhuman, inhumane way. No one's arguing so what sort of inhuman treatment is being inflicted on illegals? I. I think you really need to explain that. You can't just come out and say, well, there are people in America that want to do inhuman treatment of illegals or of immigrants without explaining, like, what. What exactly what treatment are you referring to? Are you talking about deportations? Are you saying that deporting an illegal immigrant is morally equivalent or even similar at all to killing a human child? Is that it? And finally, I think the most disturbing part is when he says that these are complex issues. These are very complex issues. I don't know if anyone has all the truth on them. What? No one has all the truth? Yeah, we do. I mean, on abortion, we don't have all the truth. No, we definitely have all the. We have all the truth on abortion. All the truth. There's no other truth to the abortion that we're waiting to find out. It's. It's. We know it all. That's. It's a human being who's being killed, and that is a great moral evil. It's a grave sin. What do you mean we don't have all the truth? What other truth is there? That. That is the truth of abortion. That's the entire thing. It's like the truth of two plus two is that it equals four. That's it. That's the entire truth of it. And it's just as obvious and inevitable to say that killing a human child in the womb is immoral, evil. That's all the truth. So, like, what does that mean that we don't have all the truth? And anyway, what does any of this have to do with the matter at hand? Even if everything that the Pope said in that statement made sense, that still wouldn't answer the question. Should the Archbishop of Chicago be giving an award to a guy who has spent 40 years in office advocating for promoting and funding the murder of the unborn? That's the question. All the other stuff, like, what does immigration have to do with it at all? What does the death penalty have to do with it? It's totally irrelevant. I mean, what. What are you trying to say? That, like, well, other people are bad too? Th. This is the Archbishop of Chicago giving a lifetime achievement award to a guy who has spent his lifetime funding and promoting the mass slaughter of babies. Why is it hard to say no? We certainly should not be giving an award to that person. I mean, he. This is someone who should be just excommunicated. That's what should be happening. But if you're not going to do that. Then why is it hard to say? Well, obviously we're not going to give an award to them. Clearly not. I mean, if you fund and facilitate the murder of one baby, that should disqualify you from ever beginning a lifetime achievement award from the Catholic Church, but funded. Facilitate the murder of like, hundreds, thousands. Well, I. Of course. What other thing could he have possibly achieved that would override that? And the only thing we hear is, well, he's been in office for 40 years. Who. So 40 years doing what exactly? Since when is that. Is that. Would you use that defense of what, like Pol Pot? Well, Pol Pot, you know, he served for. Served for many years. He served for many years. Pol Pot did. So who's to say? Who's to say who. Who are we to condemn? Who are we to condemn? Yeah, so you might want to condemn Genesis, genocide, and, and in Cambodia, but if you're in favor of impolite treatment to illegal immigrants, then. Then who are you? I mean, you're just as bad. This, to me is. It's just infuriating. I'm sorry. It just is. And we just can't just. You can't have it. You can't allow that to just stand unchallenged. And you also can't because even worse, you have some Catholics who. They, they. And like, I'm always talking here about conservative Catholics because the liberal quote, unquote, Catholics, I don't. They're not really Catholic. They don't count. But the conservative Catholics, even worse, some of them will feel the need to be fair. I haven't. To be fair. I haven't seen this yet with this, But I'm. I'm. I'm pretty sure it's happening because it happened all throughout Pope Francis. You're going to have conservative cast, some who feel the need to. To pretend that this is not exactly what it sounds like. They going to feel the need to, like, look you in the eyes and lie to you and tell you that, no, he wasn't really. That's not what he was really saying. They think they have to lie, that they're, like, morally called to lie and pretend that this is not what it actually is. And I'm not going to do that. I just refuse to do it. Well, Joy Reid was. I'm not sure where she was. She's doing some kind of interview somewhere. Doesn't matter. Anyway, it's good because it finally gives us some detail. You know, we constantly hear from Democrats about fascist, fascism, the fascist agenda of conservatives. And MAGA never Hear them explain what that means. What does fascism mean? Well, in this short clip, she finally kind of fleshes it out. So here is Joy Reid talking about what our fascist agenda actually is. Listen to this, is that if you go back before the 20th century, there were no income taxes, there were no regulations on business. You could earn as much money as you want, leave 100 of it to your children with no tax taxes. That's the world they want back. And to get it back, they need society to change. They need people to be less modern. They need people to want fewer things. Oh, it's pretty dark stuff. So the fascists, their evil plan, our evil plan is to let people keep their own money and then pass it down to their children. We're the first fascists in history, in the history of fascism, to conspire to take power away from ourselves. You know, because the. The income tax is a source of immense power for the government. It's probably their primary source of power right now. And I mean, it certainly is when you have the ability to just go and like, dip into the paycheck of every working American and take whatever you want and that there's nothing, nothing comes close. I mean, that's. And so fascists say Joy Reid, says Joy Reid. They want to remove that power. They want to abolish it. Really terrifying stuff. Now, of course, that makes no sense. All she's done is is admit that, that the fascism claim is totally bogus. And that's because fascism, obviously, for the left is not the use of government power in an authoritarian or oppressive way. It's. It's not using the government to oppress people. That's not what fascism is. It's not what they mean when they use the term. It's what they're implying. It's what they want you to hear, but it's not what they mean. What they mean when they call you fascist is simply that they disagree that you disagree with them. That's it. That's all it means to disagree with. 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Join now and get it all with four 40% off new Daily Wire plus annual memberships. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Well, Netflix has had a difficult week. Thousands of people, including Elon Musk, are canceling their Netflix subscriptions after Libs of TikTok posted a particularly disturbing clip from a Netflix children's show. Before we play the clip, keep in mind that this show is several years old. It's been on Netflix's platform apparently for about four or five years. This is not something that just appeared last week. So children have been exposed to this for years before anyone noticed. And this is from a show called Dead End Paranormal park, which is rated Y7, meaning that it's supposed to be appropriate for kids at the age of seven and up. So watch. It's not the park. It's it's me. I'm Trans Norma. And everyone at school knows and everyone at home knows. And being here, it's like a whole new place. I can just be Barney and I can choose if and when I tell people I've never been happier. And that's saying something. When I spent today chased by terrifying Zombie mascots. Pugsley reminded me how important it is to live your life without apology. Now that's bad enough, but you know, this is one clip that's gone viral. It's not as though the trans angle was mentioned just that one time. The entire plot revolves around it. The protagonist is, according to Wikipedia, anyway, a quote, gay trans teen boy. And the protagonist's best friend in the show is a bisexual, autistic Pakistani American girl with social anxiety. So they really checked all the boxes. The creator of the show is someone named Hamish Steele, who lists his pronouns as he, they. It won't surprise you to learn that Hamish attacked Charlie Kirk only a day after he was shot, calling him a Nazi. So this is a delusional and deranged extremist producing content for seven year old children to watch. And Netflix is happy to provide a platform for it. This is far from the only show of this type on Netflix. Lives of TikTok has posted several other similar examples over the past couple of days. More trans propaganda, gay weddings featured in children's cartoons, and so on. Everything you would expect. For example, here's a clip from a show called Ada Twist Scientist. And again, this is targeted at seven year olds. Here it is. Are you excited for your big day? I can't wait to kick things off. Thanks for making our special day happen. We can't wait for all our family and friends to visit our favorite place in the world. We all wanted to help. Even Professor Flower Bomb.
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I couldn't miss Sensei Dave's big day.
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He taught me how to really smash stuff. Oh, now let's get ready.
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Ready to romance.
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I can't wait for my mom to feast her eyes on this. I haven't seen her in way too long now. In case you're wondering, Netflix does not save its LGBT indoctrination for kids 7 and older. That would be bad enough. They also had plenty of preschool LGBT programming. Here's a show called Gecko's Garage, aimed at two year olds, featuring a in one episode, gay pride parade.
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Come on, Red. You can do it. I'm so, so proud of you all.
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Let the carnival continue. Now, as I often point out, and can't help but point out again, these are. These are among the many other problems. These are ugly shows. That's before you even get to the wokeness and the gay stuff. The animation is ugly. It's totally lifeless. It's dead. There's no artistry here, just bright colors and noise. Nobody, nobody, nobody involved in producing these shows has any respect for Their audience, their audience of children. Nor do they take any pride in their work. They have gay pride, but they don't have any artistic pride. You know, there's no charm to it. It's just, this is not art. It's dull, it's empty, it's worthless. And that should be reason enough to prohibit your children from watching it. Just looking at that show before you even see the pride flags and you look at the way that it's animated and everything, and that should be enough when you look at that to say, no, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna have my kids watch this. It's the audio and visual version of like giving your kids soda and potato chips for dinner. Why would you do it? As for the messaging, as a parent, you have to understand that, that, and I think most parents at this point do understand that wokeness is not a rare pitfall that a few kids shows stumble into. I mean, Lumen's TikTok has been the last two days just posting clip after clip from all kinds of Netflix shows. It's like the whole platform, this stuff is totally pervasive. It's everywhere. The majority of children's programming is like this. It is the rule, not the exception. Which means you can either be hyper vigilant and aware and exercise strict control over what your children watch and the kind of media they consume, or, or they will ingest a steady diet of LGBT propaganda starting before they can talk. Those are your two options. So called, you know, helicopter parents get a bad rap. But when it comes to media, you're either going to be a helicopter parent or a neglectful one. There really is not much room in between. You can either hover over your children and very closely monitor what they're watching, or you can entrust them into the hands of weird degenerates like Hamish Steele. Again, that, that, that is, there is not any moderate compromise here. And the stakes, I don't need to tell you, are very high. This is not a small or superfluous issue. I know there are some people on the right who treat this kind of issue like it is. So it's like, well, why are you talking about woke? Why are you talking about children's programming? What does that matter? Are there more important things happening in the world? There's some more important things happening, but this is very, very important because the goal of this kind of propaganda and the reason they put it in shows aimed at kindergartners is obviously to normalize what, what they're showing on screen. The great obstacle that LGBT activists face is that all the things they're pushing, transgenderism, gender fluidity, gay weddings, all that stuff, all of that is abnormal. And a person's immediate gut level reaction when they see something that is abnormal is to recoil. So LGBT activists are pushing against not just human nature, but thousands of years of human history. The campaign to normalize transgenderism in particular only really began in earnest on a national scale about 10 years ago. So for most adults in this country, it, it, it was just too late, you know, and we're noticing that now. It's a hopeless battle for the trans activists. You can harangue and harass and threaten a lot of people in the hopes of coercing them into going along with your agenda obediently, but you can't fundamentally convince them that it's normal and not weird for a man to walk around in a dress. This is the problem that trans activists are facing. It's why they've lost most of the cultural ground that they gained over the past decade. It's because the propaganda doesn't stick. You know, they gained a lot of ground mostly by coercing, threatening, harassing people. Cancel culture, all the rest of it. But that, you know, this, the fear mongering, the scare tactics, they, they lose their sting after a while. And then what these transactors found is like that's all they had. Because when you don't have the scare tactics, people just revert back to their natural state, which is when you see a guy in a dress, it's, it's weird. Like you can't take it seriously. And that's what they're up against. But what if you start younger? What if you start much, much younger? Can you essentially change the factory settings on the human mind by exposing children to these bizarre concepts almost as soon as they emerge from the womb? Can you construct basically an alternate reality for children and keep them in it, one that is totally divorced from reality itself? Can you essentially override that gut level instinct that causes human beings to naturally recoil from things that are unnatural and disordered? That's the, the gambit. And the thing is that in a world where we're surrounded by media all the time, where the average person spends nearly every waking hour consuming media in some form or another? It might actually be possible. If you start young enough and they're totally consumed by this stuff, it might be possible, it might be possible to create a generation of humans who don't even, who actually don't instinctively recognize that a guy in a dress who says he's a girl, that there's something wrong there. They don't even instinctively, like, they really don't even recognize that as a problem. Instinctively, you might be able to create a generation of people like that. That's the experiment that these people are running right now. And, and it's why this stuff is everywhere in kids programming, because they're running this experiment on our children, on your children. Netflix is running this experiment and they're one of the worst offenders, which is why we should all say that Netflix in both a literal and figurative sense. Is today canceled. I'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, President Trump unveils an extraordinary plan for the Gaza Strip that actually has buy in from Israel, Arab countries and the United States, but not yet Hamas. A government shutdown looms as Democrats shilly shally and Democrats still can't shake their radicalism. All that on today's Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.