From the Kitchen Table: The Duffys - The Left's Woke Policies, Losing The Hispanic Vote

Episode Date: July 15, 2022

On this episode, Sean and Rachel discuss Jill Biden's comments about the Latin American community, and the cultural rift between Democrats and Latinos.   Later, they talk about the declining birth rates around the globe, why the Left believes having more children is bad for the climate and how having more children has a positive impact on your life.   Follow Sean and Rachel on Twitter: @SeanDuffyWI & @RCamposDuffy   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At Mazda, we craft cars for those who choose to do more than simply move. So choose joy, choose the road, and choose to get out there. Choose your calling, choose to make memories, and choose more of what moves you. Mazda. Move and be moved. Hey everyone, welcome to From the Kitchen Table. I'm your host, Sean Duffy, along with my co-host and partner in life, the ever-hot, beautiful Rachel Campos Duffy. Thank you, Sean. You're better looking at our kitchen table than anywhere else. That's so nice, even without my fox makeup. Yes, even better without your fox makeup.

No makeup right now. Without my fox hair and makeup team. Little ponytail. If your husband still likes you in a ponytail, no makeup. Without my fox hair and makeup team. Little ponytail. If your husband still likes you in a ponytail, no makeup. Well, listen, there are so many hot topics this weekend. We want to talk about Elon Musk, who's been tweeting about how everyone should have more kids, which always interests us.

And we're going to get to that. But maybe he thinks his three wives or girls that have had babies for him also look good with no makeup and ponytails. He has nine kids from three different women. But he's definitely worried about not enough kids, which is the opposite of what the left thinks. We're going to get to that because they're worried that climate change is going to destroy the world. Yeah. There's going to be a great flood or something. And we shouldn't have kids. So we're going to talk about that because that's very interesting to us, obviously, with nine kids ourselves. Who knew we had so much in common with Elon Musk?

I know. We don't have the same amount of money, but we do have the same amount of kids. Yeah. Yeah. We're definitely not as smart as Elon, you know, Sean. But we'll get to that. But first, we have to talk about Jill Biden because Jill Biden called us, called me a taco this week, Hispanic tacos. She said, that's our strength, that we're tacos. And I guess we have nine taquitos, right? We have nine taquitos. So so she was in San Antonio. There was a Hispanic conference called U.S. or Unidos Unidos.

This is a Democrat organization that tries to get out the vote, et cetera, et cetera. She goes to speak by the way, this isn't the first time she's put her foot in her mouth because I have to go back to how, what she said. I think it was about a year ago. She was at some other event. I think it was Cesar Chavez's birthday or something. And she wanted to use, you know, Cesar Chavez is the one who said, si se puede, which means yes, we can. And but here's how how Jill Biden, Dr. Biden says, si se puede. What do you think? Say it with me. Si se puede. The future is ours. Thank you. I didn't think anyone could speak worse Spanish than you, Sean, but I think I found her.

I've heard that that phrase before, and I knew when I heard it from Joe Biden, it was not said right. That was not when I can't say things like, oh, could we just say like you spelled me phonically? Yeah. So so here's what she said at the Unidos conference in San Antonio. As distinct as the Bogota's of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami and as unique as the breakfast tacos

here in San Antonio. So first of all, yeah, this is our strength. The, I think she was trying to say bodegas, which are little small markets, but she said bodegas or something. And then she called us tacos. So I want to take this in two steps here. Okay. So first of all, I want to just talk about the bodegas, which are really bodegas, the small markets. So this is a party who saw a bodega owner or the father of a bodega owner who was working on a night shift in in in New York City. And he was some somebody came in, tried to buy chips with a welfare credit card that

was overcharged and anyway brought in her they refused to sell him that she didn't have the money he she brought in her boyfriend um the two of them stabbed him and he tried to defend himself and he stabbed the boyfriend and ended up killing him because he i guess stabbed him in the neck and he got sent to jail when he got he got charged with murder and and what's frustrating about that we'll get back to the to the taco point. But what's been frustrating about this whole story is you have liberal woke prosecutors who are letting truly violent criminals out back on the streets, reducing charges, not just not just for violent crimes, not for just burglaries, but also sexual assaults. People are let back out in the streets. But here you have a good citizen who's defending themselves

from Dominican Republic, defending themselves and their business from an aggressor. Right. This is self this is this is self-defense. And in that case, the book is thrown at them. They're getting charged to the fullest extent of the law by prosecutors who find reasons all the time to not charge people to the fullest extent of the law. And what it goes to show you is that if you're truly a criminal, you're going to get a break. But if you're a good citizen and you defend yourself, if you use self-defense, which they don't want you to use self-defense, they want you to rely only on the government. Don't defend yourself. You're not capable of defending yourself. Rely on us, the government. If you use self-defense, which they don't want you to use self-defense, they want you to rely only on the government. Don't defend yourself.

You're not capable of defending yourself. Rely on us, the government. If you do that, we're going to we're going to try to put you in jail for the rest of your life. Can you imagine her bringing up bodegas in the midst of this? I mean, the Dominican, the Hispanic community in New York City is in an uproar about this. They cannot believe a good citizen who's working a late shift like this is actually, he's being treated as the criminal instead of victim. So that was interesting.

And then of course she ends up, you know, comparing us to tacos. And let me tell you why she compared us to tacos. The reason why she's doing it is because if you don't share any values with Hispanics, if you don't care about the economy, the economy, if you don't care about school choice, if you're a radical pro-abortionist

as her and her husband are, if you don't care about, yeah, you don't care about issues of faith and religious liberty. If you are, you know, you name the topic, you name the value. Yes, exactly. You want to teach indoctrinated kids in school, teach them about, you know, gender fluidity, usurp the role of the parent. You go on and on and on. There are and the border Hispanics, Americans do not like what's happening at our border. There's open border policy that is causing, you know, an increase in sex trafficking and crime at the border and not enough resources for the communities that actually live there because

they're overwhelmed. Go on and on and on. And the other one is if you don't have the money to live in a gated community like Nancy Pelosi, you actually live in a neighborhood where there's not a lot of money and you don't have law enforcement and crime runs rampant and you want to defund the police and make sure there's more crime, or you don't want to prosecute the criminals who do commit the crimes, I'm not safe with my family any longer. So Democrat policies that you just mentioned, Rachel, have zero, they're not resonating at all with the Hispanic community.

They can't talk about, Jill Biden couldn't stand on that podium and talk about Hispanic values because her party and her and her husband do not share anything with the Hispanic community, which is about faith, God, family and an opportunity and hard work. They don't share any of that. And by the way, when I talk about hard work, I'm talking about Hunter Biden. You know, they say you didn't work hard. Yeah, no, no. No, selling your father no selling your father's selling your father's uh name to the chinese he worked at selling america down the river for sure

yeah he did yeah and and getting hookers so these are not family value people they don't share anything and so they have to talk about you know uh tacos and burritos and um bodegas that they don't even defend the bodega owners who work there. They talk about you remember when Joe Biden so cringingly last year played Despacito, he turned on his phone. It looked like he was struggling like all all grandpas with their phone. And then he played Despacito. They are pandering. They are infantilizing Hispanics and they have no connection and they're losing. They know it. The approval numbers for Hispanics on nobody is more disappointed and scores approval rating of 24% with the Hispanic community. The problem that they see that they have is that that's a huge voting block for them. So if you look at who is the fastest growing population in America, it's Hispanics, right? And Democrats didn't, they don't win the Hispanic vote like they do the African-American vote or the black vote,

but they still get a large percentage of that vote because again, there's, there, there's the Cuban, there's the Cuban Hispanics, the Mexican Hispanics, the Central American Hispanics, Puerto Ricans, right. There's a whole, there's a whole variety of different issues that come into play. It's, it's a very diverse community. And so, but they get, they get a large percentage of the vote when they've seen those numbers crater. What happens to the Democrat Party is they can't win. They can't rely on on turning Arizona red as purple right now. They can't flip it to red. They can't flip Texas.

You can't flip it to blue. They can't flip Texas to blue. They might actually start to lose New Mexico. They might start to lose Nevada. Very heavy Hispanic states in the Southwest, they're going to have problems with. And they've done well in the past. They're going to start to lose those. But also North Carolina and Virginia are purple states that are starting to lean more blue. They could lose those because the big Hispanic votes there are flipping to Republicans.

Well, and the really scary part for them, Sean, and you're right to talk about the diversity of the Hispanic population. So, you know, the Cuban experience with with communism has always made Cubans a little more, you know, a lot more open to voting Republican. that has been solidly dependably Democrat are Mexican-Americans because Cubans and Central Americans, Venezuelans, even Colombians who live right next to Venezuela are very suspicious and anti of socialism. And they don't want that here in America of socialism, communism. So they're not as reliably Democrat. The Mexican-American vote has always

been dependably Democrat. There's a lot of union roots. My own family comes from a copper mining town in Arizona. Those are deep union roots. And they don't have the same experience with socialism that, say, Cuba has. So they have been able to capture the Democrat, the Mexican-American vote. The Mexican-American vote is, you know, 60, 70 percent of the vote of the Hispanic vote. So it's not a small sliver. It's not like the Guatemalan vote. Right. The Mexican-American vote is 60 percent of all the U.S. Hispanics. So now what they're seeing is Mexican-American women running for office.

They're seeing Mexican-Americans in states like Texas by the border where they were able to before, you know, really dominate these counties in the southern part of Texas and even Arizona. And now these places

are starting to flip. And this is so scary to them. And that's why Jill's taco comment is so damaging at this moment, because they're bleeding this vote, right? They're losing this vote. And they come out and she says something so stupid and so easy for everyone to mock. To mock, right. And especially you have a community that wants to mock her because, again, her and her husband have turned their back on the community. And we've seen recent polling, just to dive into this a little more, you're seeing white

college educated individuals trend to the Democrat Party. They're people who believe in gun control. They want more abortion. It's a white elite mentality. They're big on climate change. They don't mind the new higher prices in gas because- Because they can afford it. They can afford it.

By the way, Sean, to that point, I just saw a story about how more people are becoming vegetarians because they can't afford meat. In liberal world, that's a great thing in our world. It's like, what? We want to go back to being able to afford me. Everyone should be able to afford meat in America, not just the elites. They are becoming familiar with tofu, right?

Yeah, you can't have tofu tacos, right? My mom is kind of a green and a liberal. She would have tofu burgers when I was little. They were horrible. Too much information. But what you're seeing is the working class, the union workers of America go, you know what? A slow trend has been coming to the Republican Party. And it started with Donald Trump. But now you're seeing with inflation and the value of the dollar. Gas prices.

That's right, gas prices as well. And crime, you're seeing these communities in all colors, all backgrounds. Yeah, Asian, Hispanic. If you're a working American, if you put boots on, if you put an apron on, you're going to the Republican Party

and you used to be a Democrat. And so you're going to the Republican Party, and you used to be a Democrat. And so you're seeing this slow but seismic shift happen in American politics that are going to completely shake up maps. And we're starting to see that right now. And again, I think the Democrat Party is completely fine being the party of wealthy, rich liberals. If you look at big banks in America, I talk about this a lot, big banks in America, you hear Democrats go Republicans love big banks. Who do big banks support in America? The Democrat Party. hand in glove together because big business doesn't want to be challenged by the fresh new upstart, the aggressive new upstart. They get to keep their position at the top because government will help them keep it. They'll play the government game and they get to stay number one.

They don't want competition from, again, those upstarts in those states. They can rig the rules and the regulations to make it harder for new businesses to come up. And that's what I'm looking for. Community banks, Sean, who do they support? You know a lot about community banks. the rules and the regulations to make it harder for new businesses to come up. And that's what Democrats- Community banks, Sean, who do they support? You know a lot about community banks. Community banks don't like so many rules and regulations that they can't navigate, and they support Republicans. Republicans who go, listen, we understand in banking, you want rules. You need rules in banking because it can be cataclysmic if you don't.

But you want smart rules and limited rules. And that's what Republicans have stood for. But as we've seen, the more rules that have come on to small community banks, the more mergers you get and the larger banks become because you have to be bigger to navigate the rules. And what I like is it's hard for some small businesses then to get a loan and you start a restaurant or we're far off of tacos, but you want community banks in that community that knows the community that takes money from the community and lends in that community. We'll have more of this conversation after this. At Mazda, we craft cars for those who choose to do more than simply move. So choose joy, choose the road, and choose to get out there.

Choose your calling, choose to make memories, and choose more of what moves you. Mazda, move and be moved. Can I just make one side note on tacos? So this really hit home for Rachel because a few of our kids have a nickname for Rachel and they call her taco. She's shaking her head at me right now. But sometimes John calls me Rocco Rocco. And so they call me Rocco taco. So it's actually kind of funny for us that she's calling me taco.

Listen, I think that I think that they're nervous. I think that this mistake for Jill Biden is a big one at a really bad time. The timing couldn't be worse for them. By the way, can I also mention Hunter Biden? Don't don't don't answer it yet. I want you to talk about Latinx and what that means. Right. Yeah, that's that's important, too. so it's not just the it's not just the economic side the crime side calling you tacos the inflation the gas crisis latinx means for the community well right and what you're seeing now are democrats who are a little more savvy are trying to backtrack on the latinx so we in in the spanish language you are either i'm a latina and if sean was mex Mexican-American like me, he would be a Latino

or, you know, so you have gender. We have a gender. We have gender in our language. So everything is masculine or feminine. A table is masculine or feminine. You know, a chair, La Silla is a feminine, you know, you know, it comes off as a feminine pronoun. So anyway, we have that in our language. And part of that is that this is a culture that is very proudly masculine and feminine. The women like being feminine. We wear high heels and we like to, you know, we like to, we're a very matriarchal kind of, you know, society in that, in that culture, in that regard,

we're not afraid of being feminine. We don't think that that makes us any less. And we like our man, you know, that stereotype of the macho Latino man, my cheese, mom, right. I mean, these are, these are things that, you know, the family unit and the way it works where the sexes are, you know, helping each other. Um, they're not competing. One's not trying to be the other. That is part of who we are. But of course, this conflicts with the liberal agenda of a genderless society. And so they, some white people decided that, yeah, then they there, whatever. And they decided to take out the A or the O from Latino or Latina and put an X. And so they call Latinx or Latinx, Latinx, Latinx. I don't know. We can't say Latinx or Latinx and Hispanics are

like, what the hell is that? So white liberals. Yeah. You know, decided to change the language in Hispanics are like, yeah, listen, that doesn't work for us. You're actually offending us. They try. And people like AOC who have totally bought into the sort of white liberal, you know, progressive college mindset, they're down with it. But what it shows is a real lack of connection with real Latinos who work and raise a family and have no idea what the hell that is is coming out of, you know, Wesley college. So, so there's that. I just want to bring up quickly Hunter. I know you, you know, you think I'm obsessed with Hunter. I am, but you are,

but Hunter is an interesting part of, yeah, he's an interesting cat. He's an interesting part of this too, because the Hunter corruption stuff is so blatant. It's so in your face. It's the gift that keeps giving in terms of politics for the Republicans. But it also is very familiar to Hispanics. They have seen this kind of corruption and in Castro and Maduro and other authoritarian dictatorships in Latin America. So that corruption resonates and is very repelling to Hispanics as well. So anyway, Sean, I'm a taco. Our kids are taquitos.

And I married a taco. And I got nine taquitos myself. Jill Biden. I'm a white Irish guy, so I can't be offended by this, I guess. Yeah. Or I could be offended for you guys too, that you're called tacos.

But I can't tell what and people make mistakes all the time they made mistakes here i get it um yeah i mean as a as a former politician i get it but i'm like but that's not a mistake that was a written speech for her somebody really stupid wrote that for her and she was stupid enough to read it she to deliver because she doesn't get it she has no no connection to the Hispanic community. They have no similar values. Hispanics, whether they know it or not, are conservatives, are Republicans. Oh, they are. And they are going to turn out the vote in November. And I think really they're going to speak their mind in the midterms. It's going to be shock and awe.

speak their mind in the midterms. It's going to be shock and awe. All right, Sean, let's transition from talking about tacos to talking about taquitos kids because Elon Musk on July 7th tweeted, I hope you have big families and congrats to those who already do. And then he followed up with doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. a collapsing birth rate, is the biggest danger civilization faces by far. So he's worried that we're not having enough kids. He's been following a different set of data than, say, AOC. Here's what AOC has to say about having kids and the dangers of having kids. Our planet is going to be a disaster if we don't turn the ship around. And so it's basically like there's scientific consensus that the lives of children are going

to be very difficult. And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question, you know, should is it OK to still have children? Who do you trust on this more, Sean? Well, I'll take Elon Musk over AOC. I think he's a bit smarter, been a little more successful. But this, this is not new. What AOC is saying, this goes back to the 1960s. You had these liberals who are using climate to, to bring in their progressive Marxist agenda. They've been talking about birth rates and the sustainability of a growing planet population-wise for humans as being a crisis for the last 60 years. And all the projections that they've been making haven't come to pass. We grow more food. We continue to innovate and create abilities to produce more

food. We find more oil, new technology like fracking to bring more oil out. And the planet has completely been able to sustain the population growth we've seen in the last 60 years. But progressives, they don't want immediacy. They actually have played the long game to get these ideas embedded into cultures to then make significant changes in regard to how people the population issue. But then all other kinds of issues pop up, like the Chinese want to have boys, not girls. So all of a sudden you have all these boys and no girls. There becomes real conflict when young men can't find a mate in China, right? We all want to find a spouse. We want to have our own families. That has disrupted this the the the the cultural norms of that society because of this one child policy and that's just china you've seen that's just one part of the policy i mean there were forced abortions there were little girls who were abandoned um uh to die

alone um after they were born because the woman wanted to have a boy. There were all kinds of human rights abuses that occurred because of that. One of the other proponents, it's not just AOC and other big cultural figures, pop culture figures, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, they basically publicly declared that because they love the planet so much, they were going to limit their fertility to two kids because that was really the responsible number, two kids. And I guess they were lucky they got one boy and one girl. And so that was their contribution to the planet. And for that, there are all these international organizations

that pop culture and all the media plotted them. But also there are all these organizations that, you know, bestowed all these awards on them. A group called Population Matters and the patron of this organization is Jane Goodall. We all know who she is. And basically when he received his award, you know, Prince Harry talked about how much he loved nature and the environment and that we borrow the environment and that we should leave something better behind. And the way that he could do that is by having a smaller family. Well, I would agree with that. So children that are indoctrinated with Prince Harry's philosophy- And Meghan Markle as a mom.

Meghan Markle as a mom. That's right. Maybe they should live in it. Maybe that is a contribution to society. I'll take that. But let me take a, we're talking about, so now we're talking about Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and Elon Musk. So if you believe that carbon, which these guys all do, has a negative impact on the environment,

who's having a better impact on the environment? Elon Musk, who has nine children, but has developed the Tesla, which runs on electricity, if you believe that. Well, Elon Musk has had a pretty big impact on the environment versus Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. I don't even know if I can call him Prince Harry anymore, Harry, who actually have only had two kids, but also fly around the globe on their private jets, right? I'm doing so much, only have two kids, but I don't really care that much about the environment that I'll fly with the rest of you plebes,

you know, on a commercial aircraft. I got to fly on private aircraft and emit massive tons of carbon into the atmosphere because I can't fly with the average folk. As he goes to environmental conferences. But here's the other thing. They have two kids, but they live in a giant mansion in Montecito, California. So the hypocrisy is just out of control with these two. But yet they're getting awards. But I think, you know, look, we can look at them and say, oh, they're hypocrites and laugh about them

because they really are a very laughable and unlikable couple. But what is the impact that they have? The combination of AOC, the media, the social media, big tech, information that's being pushed out to your kids. We have lots of climate alarmism that is scaring the crap out of kids. A lot of kids,

when you interview them, they believe that the planet is going to end. AOC said in 12 years, but many people believe that it's a negative thing. Really, having kids, I mean, we have a lot of kids. Having kids is a sign of optimism. Here, by the way, is Tucker Carlson talking to another climate alarmist who's saying, in fact, she has an organization, Sean, that's it's basically to put a strike on fertility to like basically she's saying the government's not doing enough. We individual women need to stop having babies in order to save the planet. And Tucker Carlson interviewed her. And here's his response to her.

So what makes me so sad is this is a metaphor for the broader West's loss of the will to live, which is so obvious everywhere you turn. I wonder, though, did it occur to you and I'm not disagreeing with your forecast that there are bumpy times ahead? that there are bumpy times ahead. That's obvious. But wouldn't it be a mark of defiance, maybe part of the solution to have a bunch of smart, decent children who might solve these problems? Aren't the kids the answer in terms of the innovation? Like you talked about Elon Musk. That's right. Well, the alarmists of the 1960s, the fact that no one was listening to them at that point and we still had more kids, it was those kids that developed the ability to have new fertilizers and new growing techniques that have produced more food that allowed us to think through how do we frack and get more oil out of the earth to make sure we have plenty of oil to meet the demands and needs of a society

and a global country too. Yeah. And so I think that's really important. And when I listened to this one AOC in the first clip we played was talking about science and the science is saddled. Well, listen, after the pandemic and all the science that they've talked about, which was all lies. It's political science. It's not real science. That makes me laugh, number one. But the second thing is when I look at liberals, not all of them, but a lot of them, they're unhappy. They're angry. They almost have a sourpuss look on their face, not just when I see them on the streets, but when I watch them on TV as well, not happy people. And I think one of the streets, but when I watch them on TV as well,

not happy people. And I think one of the things, and you've talked about this recently, Rachel, is what gives you joy in life? What makes you happy in life? What is the purpose of life? It is our faith, but it's our families. And actually the sacrifice that comes from being a parent, the sacrifice of giving of yourself to raise another little human being gives great joy. One, the child's a winner, but the parents are winners as well in the sense of the bond and the connection and the rearing of another life, giving to another life. And at the end of life, Rachel, you've talked about this and I've heard the same thing. That was my response to Elon. I replied to Elon Musk's tweet. And you said what? What's your point? Well, I replied and said that I had, obviously,

it was much pithier in my tweet, but essentially I've had lots of conversations with doctors who deal with people at the end of life. And what they have told me is that the number one thing that people say at the end of life as a regret is that they didn't have more kids. And they say that people who are dying, who are surrounded by a lot of children and family are the most at peace as they basically transition into the other life. And I think that says a lot to what you talked about, about what is the meaning of life. I always tell young- On that one, it's two things. It's the family, but also people of faith have so much more peace about their passing

versus people who have more faith. It's not over in this life. They are. That's true. The agitation that happens with that. But yeah, you're right. The families matter. And I tell a lot of young women often come to me and talk to me and they want to talk

about work-life balance and what they should do with their careers and their personal life. And I always tell them, companies can't love you. You really need to prioritize. That's not just for girls, it's for men and women, but you need to prioritize. It's important to have a career and do things you love. You and I clearly love our jobs. I don't think I ever met anyone who loved being a congressman more than you, Sean. You exuded that joy. You loved doing it. I love my job on don't start prioritizing it, there reaches a point where biology takes over and you might not be able to have children. If you wait too long or it becomes really complicated and difficult or expensive. think that this whole feminist idea of that children are a burden, that it's sort of that whole abortion mentality that we're hearing now where this lie that you can't pursue your dreams and have children, that it's just a lie. Wait right there. We're going to have more of that

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well, this is not the right time for me to get married, or this is not the right time for us to have a kid. We're not ready yet for this step. And that has not been our philosophy on life. We got married at a not opportune time, inopportune. I was in law school. I had no money. Based on the ring that you wear on your finger, you see I have no money when I bought you my ring. Sean's original ring actually broke in half. It was so thin. And I had to get a new one at one point. We kept the same stone, but we got a new ring. But that's, yeah, right. I mean, this was not a great time. And if I was going, what's the right timing? We wouldn't have got

married. Or if we said, well, let's have a kid at the right time, we would have had none of these kids. I mean, one of them was born in the middle of a campaign. We found out I was pregnant two weeks before you were going to announce. No, no, no, no, no. We found out that you were pregnant like a month and a half after I announced. And I'm like, I can't go back and not announce. It's like, I'm going to, we're going to do this campaign and we're going to have a baby. It's like, shoot me in the head. This is crazy. And you know what? With every baby we've been, they've been, they've been giving us gifts. Um, as you say in, in, in Spanish, we have a saying that says every baby comes with a loaf of bread under their arm. And I have to say, every time we've had a baby, we've had really

great luck. Something wonderful happened. And so I think to the point is just listen, live your life, enjoy it. It'll all work out. Right. And it does work out. And it has for us. And we've been blessed. We haven't planned nine kids. We've had nine kids and it's been wonderful. nine kids. We've had nine kids. And it's been wonderful. And what I look back to when you were starting, I was a DA. I made you move to Northern Wisconsin, but that's a time when the internet's coming online and there's far better connectivity. And you're like, I'm going to try to do work from Northern Wisconsin. You started to write. And so I can be engaged from a rural town in Wisconsin and still keep myself active. Well, that's the Stone Age. I mean, today you have the ability to live in so many different places and have great jobs. Governor Kristi Noem talks about South Dakota and people

are moving there and they love the freedom and the space in South Dakota and they can still work a job like they live in New York City. This is happening in the choices that you can then make as a mom and a dad and have a family. It's definitely not the same. It's not the same at home. For example, if you choose to be an at home mom as I was for 14 years, it's not the same as it was 50 years ago when your mom was. If you wait for perfection for marriage and children, you'll never get married. You'll never have children because it's never perfect.

The time is never perfect. I saw your mom yesterday when we went to go visit her, Sean, and she was telling me that her prayer these days is she keeps saying to God, God, your plan is perfect. Let me just, you know, sort of submit to it. God, your plan is perfect. Let me just sort of submit to it. God, your plan is perfect. And it's true. The more we try and plan things, it just doesn't work out as well as we plan. We end up being disappointed. And in any case, I think that there's a hopefulness about having children. I think people ought to think about what makes you happy in the end, as we talked

about the end of life and during life and during life? Yes. We talk about how many kids when we're older do we want to have at our Thanksgiving dinner around our table? Yeah. Don't plan the amount you want right now because it can seem overwhelming. Think about how many kids you want around your Thanksgiving table 20 years from now. I want to burst at the seams. You know, I want I want I want I want a card table set up by the big table because there's so many people at our house. I love that. And AOC would say that was an environmental crime. You're a terrorist. You're an environmental terrorist, Sean. Guilty as charged. I'm an environmental terrorist. You know what? I drive a Suburban, a Ford F-150. I have nine kids. God love America. We need to get

back to fracking if you're going to continue this lifestyle. But I said, I'll consider an electric car for the technology, not for the electricity. I said no. Mama says no. She's to the right of a televahan. You know, I love my Ford F-150 and I will not let Joe Biden tell me what kind of car I'm going to have.

And I'm just going to I'm going to I'm going to bite the bullet on the gas prices until we get back to making America great again and making American energy work again. Elon Musk, I love that he's promoting families. You want to reproduce because, listen, it's not just the smart kids that come next, but it's also you need a group of people in your society that work and you can't just have old people. You need young people, which gives you vibrant culture and economies is what you want. And if you don't have young kids, you don't have that. And by the way, there's an interesting phenomenon. If you don't have children in America, let's just use America, for example, you don't have children here,

you're not going to have a labor force. So what do you have to do? You have to bring in labor immigrants. Migrants have to come in. They are coming, Sean. To meet the demands of your economy. But then you also have, so liberals want to bring in more migrants. They don't want you to have kids. They want to bring in more migrants.

When you bring in more migrants, we've had this idea that we should have assimilation. We should have a big melting pot, but we all assimilate as Americans. They don't like the melting pot anymore. They want a big salad, they said. Libs do not want anyone to assimilate. they want you to keep your own culture here which gives you a divided nation which is absolutely contrary to the idea of america which is again we leave our

we leave our past in the past we bring our culture with us in our food with us and probably our language but we're americans we want people to embrace the American idea and Democrats and liberals don't want that. Again, it is a recipe for disaster. So thank you, Elon Musk, making cool electric cars that are really fast with great technology. Thanks for saying, you know what? It's great to have families and good for him for doing it. I don't know that I would say having it with three different women and how he's done it, whatever, that's his choice. He's picked a unique path, but kids are beautiful. And that's the point of what Elon Musk is saying.

So here's some good news. Over the pandemic, more people had babies, Sean. Love it. I think they were locked up in their houses and bored. And in Wisconsin, that happens over the long winters as well. The top three countries with the highest birth rates right now are Nigeria. Top three countries with the highest birth rates right now are Nigeria. Average birth rate is 6.8 kids. Somalia, 6 kids. And the Congo, 5.8, which is why Africa is one of the youngest continents, you know, with the youngest population.

Europe, the United States, those are older populations. The countries with the lowest birth rates are South Korea, which is at 0.9, Puerto Rico at one. I was really surprised to hear that about Puerto Rico, which is tied, by the way, with Hong Kong, Malta, and Singapore at 1.1. Those are the three bottom ones there. And what you need is 1.5 for replacement, Sean. No, it's 2.1 as replacement. Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. 2.1 is replacement. America is at 1.5.

Right. So we're at below replacement rate. That's what Elon Musk is talking about. Yep. And so if you listen to this podcast, have some babies. Or if you're grandparents, tell your kids to have some babies. And when you have those babies, send them to good schools. Yeah, take care of them.

Get them out of public school. All rally together and get them into a classical school so they're well-educated and grow up to be America-loving patriots who are smart. Can I say one thing before we go, Sean? There are countries that are doing the right things. They're trying. They're actually saying we need more kids and they're coming up with really great policies to encourage kids. So some of them are offering tax breaks. Others are giving women one year maternity leave, which, you know what? I really like that idea. I really like that idea. Yeah, I don't know.

So you give women a maternity leave and they'll have to go, well, it can't just be women because men can have babies too. So we have to deal with that. But then they're going to go, well, the men- I do think we should limit it to actually women who give birth.

The men also need to have a year off as well, which is crazy because we've had babies. It's like, listen, we just kept working. No, but I mean, I needed time off. I mean, I'll just say this this in the middle of a supply chain crisis that we're still dealing with the ramifications of Pete Buddha judge took more time off than, than I did. I think with Valentina that I got a hundred percent.

And he did four months and people notice when you're not, he's not nursing. He's not, you know, dealing with, you know, you know, when you have a baby, your body does have to recover. And nursing is a full-time job. Obviously, I don't think him and his husband were nursing.

I think they were bottle feeding as, you know, I would have to think that. And so I don't understand why he needed that. We're not quite sure with how biology. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. I doubt that he needed more time than me with the C-section on my last baby, but that's what happened. And you're right. That is the slippery slope. If we do what's right, right, what makes sense, which is giving as much time off to women so we can encourage families

and encourage women to have babies and bring back our population, the men like Pete Buttigieg want to jump on the bandwagon. 100%. All right. Well, good conversation. Good tweet, Elon. It ended up sparking a whole podcast from the kitchen table. From the kitchen table.

Nine babies. Listen, we challenge you. Have a few. You don't have to have as many as us. It's four and six. Have faith. and God provides and you'll take care of them you'll multiply

isn't that what it said alright so like again when we talk about the kitchen table which we're about to close out grow your kitchen table get little seats

around that table expand it put leaves in the table make it bigger by having kids yep and you can have a lot of taquitos

around that table a lot of taquitos around that table. A lot of taquitos. We had tacos last night, by the way. We did actually have tacos last night. Thank you, Jill, for the idea of tacos last night. And thanks for joining us on The Kitchen Table. If you like our podcast, you can rate, review, subscribe, wherever you get your podcasts.

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