➡ Natalie Rupnow, a student, shot and killed a teacher and another student, and injured six others at a school in Wisconsin. She was influenced by the Columbine shooters and a German rock band, K-M-F-D-M, known for its nihilistic lyrics. Her social media posts and a manifesto she wrote revealed her deep anger and hatred towards humanity, which she blamed on her parents’ divorce and lack of love. The authorities are investigating the authenticity of the manifesto and her social media posts.
➡ The book “Get Married” defends the importance of marriage and family, debunking myths that suggest staying single is better and that marriage isn’t crucial for children’s well-being. The author argues that married individuals are generally happier, less lonely, and wealthier, and children from intact families face fewer issues. The book also highlights societal issues discouraging marriage, such as anti-marriage messages and a lack of maturity among young men. The author suggests countering these issues by promoting pro-family policies and countercultural beliefs.

Alright, and I want to talk a little bit about an update to what happened with the shooter. We now know the shooter’s name and age. Natalie Rupnow shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student, wounded six others at the abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. And as they start to look at motivation, they’re looking at our social media posts, they’re looking at a purported manifesto of sorts, which is kind of like a diary of complaints that she had. And in that, it turns out that she is, she doesn’t have the trainee demon, she’s got the Columbine demon.

That was what she was focused on. Very much focused on these Columbine shooters and other shooters, and following the same bands and wearing the same t-shirts that they did as a copycat killer. So, when you go back and look at what she was focused on, they said a post by her father shows her firing a gun at a shooting range, wearing the K-M-F-D-M t-shirt that you see pictured there. So that’s a picture of her that she put up on social media wearing that t-shirt, and next to that is her wearing that same t-shirt as she’s practicing on the firing range.

And those have been on social media, in addition to the document that is circulating. They said they don’t know about its authenticity, but some of the things that it said in there were later confirmed by the police, so that lends itself to it being credible. So what is this group, K-M-F-D-M? Originally known as K-M-F-D-M, loosely translates to no pity for the majority, a rock man from Germany. Well, it’s kind of interesting, you know, because I remember if you go to some of the Christian critics, you know, people like Nishi and everything, he hated the idea that Christians had pity, should not have any pity for anybody.

And that kind of nihilism is at the heart of their songs and other things, and it is at the heart of her manifesto as well, this kind of hatred and nihilism, self-hatred even. Lyrics to some of the K-M-F-D-M songs, Son of a Gun, Stray Bullet, Waste, have been posted on the website of Eric Harris, one of the Columbine killers. The band’s album, Adios, was released on the same date as the mass shooting. The band, K-M-F-D-M, published a statement, said first and foremost, we would like to express our deep and heartfelt sympathy for the parents, families, and friends of the murdered and injured children in Littleton.

We are sick and appalled. K-M-F-D-M are an art form, not a political party. Well, the problem is, is that they can say that their music has been a statement against war, oppression, fascism, and violence, but why does it appeal to these other people? And it’s the same type of thing that you hear from Hollywood all the time, right? Oh, well, we deplore gun violence as they use gun violence everywhere in their movies. Use guns irresponsibly. Show people more and more explicitly being blown apart by firearms and that type of thing. And then they say, we don’t have anything to do with that.

Who would think that when you saturate people with images and music of violence and nihilism, that it would affect them? And of course it does. We have to have the wisdom. You know, we always think that we’re not affected by advertising, don’t we? Oh, I’m not taken in by that, because Campbell’s soup commercials that I see all the time, and you go to buy soup, and what do you do? You go to buy Campbell’s, right? Or Jolly Green Giant or whatever. It might be silly. It might be preposterous, but your eye’s going to be drawn to the brand names that you’re familiar with, you know, the Jolly Green Giant or Mr.

Clean or Campbell’s Superway. That kind of stuff works, and it’s repetitive nature of it. It is the normalizing of it. It’s the same type of thing that they’re doing with the drone stuff, for example. These kinds of psyops and manipulation. And of course, you know, seeing this kind of stuff has an adulterating effect on our lives. It really does. You know, we talk about adultery. What is that? That’s adulterated sex. It’s got contamination impurities in it, other things that spoil it. And when we feast our eyes on all of this stuff in our ears, it adulterates our minds with violent, ugly, hideous things.

And what do you think about that? You know, we’re actually told. The Bible tells us. Whatever is pure and all that. Think on those things, right? Maybe you don’t listen to the nihilistic, I guess it’s heavy metal or whatever. The alleged manifesto. You know, what we see is that the left always wants to ban guns and everything, and of course, so does Biden. But now the things that he proposes, like a background check, going to make any difference with that. She’s 15 years old. She didn’t get that gun with the background check.

And guns have not changed. But what has changed are families and every other institution, whether it’s entertainment of any sort, but it’s also especially the families. A reporter with a gender-critical news outlet Redux.info, which frequently breaks news about transgender movement, published that the alleged manifesto did not have anything in there about her being transgender. As I said, it appears to be genuine because even though it’s rambling and incoherent, it did have some stuff in there that later was confirmed. She titled it A War Against Humanity. They call it nihilistic, but we already knew that.

And we could see from the very beginning, you know, where this stuff is about nihilism. It was a nihilistic and despairing document. Rupp now seems filled with anger at her parents who were divorced. She refers to them as scum, claims that they did not want her, did not love her. She writes that she had initially planned to commit suicide, but decided instead to perpetrate a school shooting because it was, quote, better for evolution rather than just one stupid, boring suicide, unquote. Humanity is filth, and I don’t like filth nor want to live in it, nor should anyone else.

And I know it follows me and how it has followed me and will follow me because of how the world is runned. And that’s the way she wrote it there. No family to ever trust and never trust society, she said. The hatred of humanity really is satanic. It really is demonic. She said, my so-called family never included me because I was too weird for them. My parents divorced quite a few times, which didn’t help me at all, but it did really affect me. It just made me a little lonely because nobody was there for me and I and never really has been.

My mother tried overdosing when I was around 12 or something. She returns again and again to her father stating that, quote, he will never love me like he loved his ex or her kids or even alcohol. But that doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter anymore because nobody heard me out and just made fun of me my entire life and I’m sick of it. She spent a lot of time online researching mass killers on the internet. And she cites the guy in Finland who killed eight people in November 2007. So I was born two years after him.

Another killer, a neo-Nazi who stabbed five people outside of a mosque in Turkey earlier this year. She called him an ultimate saint. And then she talks about Vladislav Ruslyakov, who killed 20 people and wounded 67 in a shooting bomb attack in Crimea in 2018. The manifesto, they said, lacks any discernible, overarching ideology. Well, I think that’s your ideology right there. It’s a satanic ideology that hates humanity. And unfortunately, we see that in people like Bill Gates, who doesn’t shoot and kill people with a gun, but he does it with needles. You know, there’s a hatred for humanity that manifests itself throughout Planned Parenthood and a lot of what the left does.

She comes off as a bitter lost soul who turned to the internet and found herself inspired by figures who were representative of hatred. As LifeSite News finishes up, they said, now she’s dead and has left behind her only grief. Well, on the other side of this, World magazine has an article about a book. It’s called Get Married by Brad Wilcox. And they said, it busts today’s anti-marriage myths. They said it’s the 2024, one of the 2024 books of the year, according to them, in general non-fiction. It is, they said, a rigorous defense of family life.

Consider this. You know, we look at the different generations, and of course, these generations, when we talk about silent generation, these are terms that were coined by Strauss and Howe, who the book that immediately preceded the fourth turning was called Generations. And so they talked about the silent generation and Generation X and Y and Z. Millennials, they coined that term as well. 81% of the silent generation were married between the ages of 23 and 38. That number dropped to 53% for Generation X. And in 2020, for Millennials, it was only 44%. From 81% to 44, people getting married between the ages of 23 and 38.

That those numbers represent a social revolution is obvious. That they also have led to a marked decline in well-being for adults, children, and society itself, is what this book is about. Get married goes strongly against the grain of a culture that tells young people to remain single and as long as possible. The author’s strong defense of the foundational institute of civilization, Families, at a time when that institution is eroding. It makes Get Married World’s 2024 Book of the Year in general non-fiction category. Wilcox punctures certain myths about marriage that our culture has conditioned young people to think of as intuitive.

And they have the power to do that with media, entertainment, and schools. They are the ones who hold our children’s minds in their hands. And they’re destroying them, if we let them do that. To be counter-culture, you’re going to have to counter that culture. You’re going to have to counter those voices that are constantly screaming nihilistic hatred of themselves and each other. Nihilistic hatred of families and children. Telling people the exact opposite of what is good for them. To the idea that men and women will be better off if they remain single, the flying solo myth, Wilcox shows that married men and women are happier, less lonely, and wealthier than the unmarried.

And it’s often because they are married. To the idea that marriage isn’t important for the flourishing of children, the so-called family diversity myth, he points to data showing that children from intact families have fewer problems in school, are less likely to be abused, are less likely to go to prison as adults, less likely maybe to shoot their classmates. Wilcox shows that the happiest Americans are those who are married with children. Married with children. Take that, Fox. You know, they used that stupid sitcom to denigrate families and children. Beyond getting married, he outlines the countercultural beliefs and practices that can make couples more likely to remain married.

He says there’s four different groups that are doing pretty well at this. Asian Americans, conservatives, faithful Christians, and a group he calls Stryvers. And so to wrap this up, because we have Katherine Austin-Fitz is ready, and I really want to talk to her about what she sees coming up this next year, about her take on money and the rest of this. But he says he’s encouraged by an idea that’s put forward by J.D. Vance to eliminate the marriage penalty and the earned income tax credit and pay for it by ending the credits for electric vehicles.

How about that? Let’s stop honoring electric vehicles and honor families. That would be an interesting change. He says there’s some big problem areas for young Americans, a dating culture, rather, that fails to steer them towards marriage, a lack of maturity among young men, and a radically progressive view of marriage among young women. The rise of Andrew Tate and similar podcast voices is especially alarming, he said. The Left has been articulating for a long time messages that are anti-marriage to women, and we see this. Women now are less likely to want to get married, less likely to want to have kids than men are, less likely to attend a Christian church or something like that as well.

But he said now we’re starting to see this rise, this message, being shifted toward men as well. They want us at war with each other. This is not a battle of the sexes. This is a total divorce from reality and the blessings of God. Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at the DavidKnightShow.com and David is giving a 10% discount to listeners from now until 2025. At that price, you should be able to buy me several hundred. Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful. I’d wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.

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