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Lost Debate

Squatter Hysteria, Youth Political Divide, Dying with Dignity

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

As discourse around squatting reaches a tipping point, Stephen Kent returns to the pod to talk with Ravi about whether squatter incidents are growing, or if this is a manufactured phenomenon. The Economist recently published a comprehensive look at why young women are now more likely to identify as liberal and young men are more likely to identify as conservative. Ravi and Stephen debate the findings and speculate over the reasons behind this gender divide. Finally, Ravi and Stephen delve into the controversial topic of euthanasia, or medical aid in death. They react to the increasing number of U.S. laws surrounding the practice and how the domestic debate compares to other countries. Squatter Hysteria - 0:01 Youth Political Divide - 21:38 Dying with Dignity - 33:50 Voicemail - 53:07 Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 Subscribe to our feed on Spotify: http://bitly.ws/zC9K Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Follow The Branch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebranchmedia/ Follow The Branch on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebranchmedia Follow The Branch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebranchmedia The Branch website: http://thebranchmedia.org/ Lost Debate is also available on the following platforms:  Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-debate/id1591300785 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vTERJNTc1ODE3Mzk3Nw  iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. Today we'll talk about squatters rights, whether they're really a thing. The right-wing media says they are. Left-wing media says it's overblown. Then we'll talk about the growing political gender divide between young men and young women. And then we'll talk about euthanasia and whether a growing series of laws in the United States are a good or bad idea.

0:24.1

And joining me today, welcoming back Stephen Kent.

0:28.2

Previously from Rightly, he's at the Consumer Choice Center.

0:32.6

And he had just been on.

0:33.7

We were talking about the TikTok legislation, among other things.

0:37.2

Stephen, welcome back to the podcast.

0:39.3

Happy to be here, Robbie. All right. So you and I have mentioned we both seen a lot of these

0:44.5

articles about the so-called squatters rights. I want to play a clip for our audience just to give you a

0:50.5

sense of the tenor of how this is being covered in the media right now.

0:55.3

Let's go to this clip.

0:56.2

Some resentful miscreants are taking matters into their own hands by squatting in other people's homes.

1:02.0

This is an epidemic throughout the country, and now we're being called to have the epidemic

1:05.9

be furthered by the millions strewn across the southern border.

1:09.3

It's hard to imagine a more fundamental right than homeownership.

1:13.7

And people struggle to buy a home and to have that be their domain.

1:19.4

This is so appalling.

1:21.4

Biden's letting migrants break into the country and then break into your bedroom.

1:24.7

You might go out to dinner, go see a movie, and come back to a bunch of illegal sitting in your living room. Bottom line, squatters' rights are alive and well. Right here in New York, if you are a squatter, you've been in an uninhabited home for over 30 days. You just get to hang out in the house. When one boundary goes, so goes another. The border between countries is gone. That's a boundary. What follows is the boundary

1:44.8

between your home and the chaos outside, which is caused by the other boundary, the border.

1:50.5

Stephen, how would you rate this sort of phenomenon? Do you think this is a real phenomenon or an

1:55.7

invented phenomenon or somewhere in between? This is fascinating to me because I'll answer your question straight forward.

2:01.8

I think it's a little bit of a media phenomenon and a narrative that is being driven for a bunch of

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