Republican Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is calling for a ban on porn.
And look, one of the only reasons why I think this is an important story to cover
is, well, Republicans consistently try to rebrand themselves as anything other
than Conservative dorks.
The fact of the matter is they've got nothing to offer you other than their
social conservatism.
And this is a perfect example of that.
No economic solutions, more bootstraps when it comes to those issues.
But they want to make sure that you're not watching pornography because
as JD Vance and other Republicans believe, it is a real public health issue,
not Covid, not all the guns and shootings that we're all dealing with.
Those aren't public health, not public health issues at all.
Pornography.
Okay, spanking the salami is the real public health crisis that we need to be
focusing on.
>> Chafing is an issue.
>> It could be, it could be you need to moisturize, you need to be careful, but
that's not what JD Vance is talking about here.
This was in the context of an interview that he did last year, but
it's being resurfaced now and again, I think it's important to emphasize that
this is really what conservative candidates and lawmakers are really about.
He told Crisis Magazine, which is apparently some religious magazine.
I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a lonely,
isolated generation that isn't getting married, they're not having families and
they're actually not even totally sure how to interact with each other.
Okay.
And apparently Americans are getting married or getting married less frequently
and having fewer children, he said, and we know that at least one cause of
this is that we have allowed under the banner of libertarianism, pornography
to seep even into our youngest minds through the channels of the internet.
Again, we made a political choice and the freedom to consume pornography
was more important than the public goods like marriage and family and happiness.
>> I do remember when we had that debate as a nation and we were like, well on
the one hand, the porn on the other hand, happiness, I really like the porn.
>> You know it's also a public good, life, living, being able to live, right?
But that's kind of hard to do when kids get gunned down in their own classrooms
and then you have Republican lawmakers and Republican candidates like JD Vance
jumping in immediately to provide cover for
gun manufacturers rather than the people who were victimized by those shootings.
We'll get to that later.
But John, I don't know, I feel like a lot of people aren't having kids because we
live in a country that provides zero support for families.
>> I think in theory they might want to have kids, but all the guys are just
perpetually bone dry from all the jacking off that they're doing from all this porn.
It's like they look at their wife and they think, I wish I could make it happen.
But I got nothing left.
It's like an empty tube of toothpaste and he is gonna fix it by getting rid of all
the porn that's, this support has been around forever, man.
It's been around forever.
It's better in many ways than it used to be.
But it's been around forever.
No, I agree with you about- >> It's better?
How is it better?
>> It's higher definition.
>> Okay, well, I mean it's easier to- >> I think that, look,
there's still issues but I think some of the profit models are a little bit more
equitable to the people who are actually creating it.
>> Fair, okay. I think there's some aspects of that,
the decentralization of it, I think can be good.
There's still a lot of work that needs to be done but-
>> And if you are a parent who's concerned
about your children accessing porn, you could do something, here's a novel idea.
You can parent and
make sure that your kids aren't accessing porn on your computer inside your home.
But I guess that would be too difficult.
And so now we have to violate the First Amendment rights of this industry
by banning porn, which by the way, ain't gonna happen.
It's never gonna happen.
It's nonsense.
It's another nothing burger issue that social conservatives, social conservative
politicians love to point too because they got nothing else to offer you.
>> Well, yeah, and also it's look, I think we have a few things that most of us might
point to and say that's pornography that's designed to turn you on.
But you can't just ban everything.
Lots of different people are attracted to lots of different things.
I mean, Tucker Carlson used to have the Green Eminem.
He's not turned on by it anymore, but for a while it got the job done.
Were you going to ban the M and M's mascots?
>> I mean, are you gonna ban like Victoria's Secret catalogs?
>> Maybe it's titillating if Ben Shapiro overseas,
he doesn't have a big problem with it.
And so what?
I'm not even, I can only think JP Mandel now I think of his name [LAUGH].
What's his real name?
Josh Mandel.
>> JD Vance. >> JD Vance.
>> Josh Mandel is the other one.
They're basically the same thing.
They're both dorks.
What he wants is for all of these things,
either by the social media platforms, the website hosts or the government for
them to go in and ban all of this stuff. So if you are organizing for
an insurrection that can't be banned because that's a violation of
your free speech and it's cancel culture. But if you've got a booby,
then that should of course be banned by the government.
That is the cancel culture that they want,
how dare you show your ass or whatever? And in the meantime they're showing their
ass, they're a bunch of dorks. The issue is of course that we can
laugh about this and we will laugh about this, but
many people new to the experience of dealing with fascism, don't know
that fascism has always been lame. It's trying to appeal to lame unhappy
people. And
when they start talking about the need for greater purity and
everything, that is always a bad road. Getting rid of porn is very commonly
a part of it, actually.
>> Well, and the other thing that I'll say is, I do agree.
The one thing that I do agree with Vance on,
although his conclusions are ridiculous, and I don't agree with him on that,
is that people are feeling lonely.
Young men are feeling isolated.
People are experiencing a pretty overwhelming sense of despair in this
country, and we do see it manifested in incredibly violent ways,
certainly with some of these young men carrying out mass shootings,
not providing any kind of excuse or cover for them.
What they do is terrible, and
they shouldn't have access to the kinds of weapons they do.
But that point is accurate.
However, we don't, I shouldn't say we.
Right wingers don't actually look at the real causes of that, and
they don't propose real solutions for it.
So listen, people roll their eyes when I say stuff like this, but
it's how I feel, and you can take it however, you'd like.
Every time there is a school shooting in this country, I sit back and
I think to myself, thank God, I didn't have kids.
This is why I don't want to have kids.
I don't wanna deal with that fear every day after I drop my kids off at school.
Because I know our elected lawmakers don't care about them.
Don't care about protecting them.
They don't care about doing the bare minimum to keep them safe.
Okay.
When I think about what we're doing to the planet,
how it's going to be impossible to live on it.
That makes me not want to have kids.
But aside from that, okay, there's also, and I would argue that this is
a bigger part of the problem and why people are persuaded against having kids.
There's no economic support for families.
None. Zero, no mandatory paid family leave,
no affordable child care.
If you have a child and you need to work to provide for that child,
how do you do it if you can't afford childcare?
>> Yap. >> But these are not issues that are ever
brought up or addressed by massive social conservative dorks
like JD Vance's like, I think it's pornography.
By the way, let's talk about where most of the pornography is consumed in America.
All right.
It's the bible belt.
Okay, places like Ohio by the way have pretty high pornography consumption.
No hate.
I'm just saying, if you're worried about this, maybe take a look inward.
Why is it that these red states, why is it that the most conservative states in
the country seem to have an overwhelming obsession with consuming porn.
So let me give you a few examples.
There was one study published in the archives of sexual behavior in 2015.
They said the researchers for this study wrote in the abstract,
we examined associations between state level religion, religiosity,
conservatism, and anonymous interest in searching for sexual content online.
Using google trends, which calculates within state search volumes for
search terms across two separate years.
The control and controlling for demographic variables,
we observed moderate to large positive associations between one
greater proportions of state level religiosity and general web searching for
sexual content, meaning porn of course.
And two, greater proportions of state level conservatism and
image specific searching for sex.
Pornhub also conducted its own studies into this, multiple years in a row.
Here's one example,
the states with the highest percentage of gay views is in the South.
According to the numbers Mississippi, Louisiana and
Georgia led the South in gay porn consumption and the state with the highest
percentage of gay porn viewers in the nation is Mississippi at 5.6%.
I don't think there's anything wrong with gay porn.
I just think it's fascinating that the states that can contain the most people
who tut tut about porn all day, tend to be the states that watch the most porn.
And again, I don't think there's anything wrong with watching the porn, but
I also don't think banning porn is the solution for the very real issues
Americans are facing today and the very real difficulties family people have in
establishing families in a country that provides no support for them whatsoever.
>> Yeah.
And by the way, there's a couple of different issues here but,
the idea that porn is destroying people and
we don't as a society know how to have relationships anymore.
Associate with each other, well which is the political ideologies that's trying to
batter down everyone's self expression, their discovery of who they are,
what their gender is, what the orientation is.
We want that to be an open thing that people can talk about.
Perhaps come together around, learn about themselves.
>> Right. >> They don't want that.
They want that to be just knock that all out, don't talk about it,
don't think about it.
You'll be totally well adjusted, you'll be totally fine after that and you can go off
and have a happy family that you won't regret entering into and all that.
It's a terrible idea.
He's not the first to think of it.
Ted Cruz has talked about banning porn.
>> Josh Hawley.
>> Exactly.
Ted Cruz types of, a bit of legislation a bit and
then he goes back to his tab of his MILF, like voyeurism, porn.
>> That he accidentally liked on Twitter.
>> Exactly, I am, everybody fears that it happened to him, he was the one.
But anyway, it's BS.
All of these guys consume porn.
Not because they're conservative but
because they're humans and humans like pornography.
>> Bingo.
All right, well we got to take a break when we come back a little bit from
right wing Rogan on lazy workers.
And later in the show, we'll talk about the multi year plan that Republicans have
been hatching to basically steal elections, moving forward, insane.
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Mickey See the silver haired dragon says the,
Uvalde cops did what cops always do when their screwups kill people.
They lied, then lied again and again.
They're hoping that if they throw enough lies out there,
people won't be able to figure out what's the truth.
Just the usual covering their asses.
I think you're right about that.
>> Yeah.
Colorado Blue Blazer Regular says Bose afternoon clip was devastating when he
talked about encountering a teacher shooting.
I'm sorry teacher shopping for a first aid kit,
able to treat gunshot wounds to children.
We put our teachers through way too much.
I mean they get defamed as groomers, they get defamed for
wanting to protect themselves and children during the Covid pandemic.
They're underpaid, underappreciated.
I just, I feel terrible for the way that we treat our educators in this country.
It is disgusting.
>> It's a miracle when someone decides to become one.
>> It is a miracle, I was thinking about that the other day.
>> I don't necessarily understand why.
I like that you did it but- >> You have to really want to be
an educator to go through what public school teachers
go through in this country.
>> Yeah, if they were respected and compensated in the way that they should,
I think a lot of people would want to.
I would want to be a teacher.
I missed teaching back when I was in grad school.
I taught classes, I wish I could do it again.
>> I love teaching.
>> But it's such rough.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> All right.
So, Relax says, according to active shooter training,
the school should have been placed in lockdown at the first sound of gunshots.
Law enforcement should have flooded the area immediately.
Monica says, I can't help but wonder if the fact that this town was majority
Latino, had anything to do with the police response.
It seems ridiculous to consider.
But police also shot a 26 year old pregnant black woman with her hands up
this week.
So I think anything is possible.
Kabuki Dragon writes in and says, nothing says party of the people like
crashing your new Porsche on the way back home to your personal vineyard.
I know right [LAUGH].
Did you see that story about Pelosi- >> That's Pelosi husband yeah.
>> 82 year old getting sloshed and then going behind the wheel and crashing.
>> Yeah, that's the part where being 82 and getting drunk I like but
not the driving.
>> If I'm still around at 82, definitely gonna get sloshed.
Let's get some self driving cars so we can get drunk and elderly [LAUGH].
>> Yeah.
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So Pitchforks Dragon says they need to disband the Uvalde Police Department and
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Also TYT needs a later show that targets the west coast where
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Mickey 3343 says, before we go back to the good guy with a gun argument,
remember that Colorado PD killed John Hurley in November of 2021 after
he stopped a gunman.
That's right.
And it goes back to what I was saying about concealed carry.
How do cops decide or figure out who the good guy with the gun is?
Right?
JS There 40 Master of Ships says, I've seen some stories that
the shooter was able to finance the gun, like afterpay payment thing.
I don't know if that's true, but I mean those guns are expensive,
they're like A couple $1,000, a couple $1,000.
How does an 18 year old afford that?
You know that's part of the investigation I think because I we should know