Ep. 495 - Toxic Effeminacy
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AOC's boyfriend goes viral for castigating his fellow white people as hopelessly racist. We will examine the dangers of toxic effeminacy. Then squad member Ayanna Pressley whines on the floor of the house. And President Trump teaches us all a lesson when the media ask him what lessons he learned from impeachment. All that plus the mailbag.
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AOC's boyfriend goes viral for castigating his fellow white people as hopelessly racist.
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We will examine the dangers of toxic effeminacy.
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Then squad member Ayanna Pressley whines on the floor of the house.
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Elizabeth Warren takes money from a broke student.
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And President Trump teaches us all a lesson when the media ask him what lessons he learned
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Not going to give you a lot of hope for millennials, but maybe, maybe a lesson for our whole culture.
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I wasn't ever going to mention AOC's boyfriend,
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because, you know, you want to think that boyfriends and girlfriends and wives and husbands are off limits.
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Except sometimes, politicians decide to thrust their significant others into the political spotlight.
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She's just put her boyfriend on camera, on the internet, to parrot her political points of view.
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Trouble is, the points of view that she's having him espouse are not only wrong,
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they're absolutely humiliating for her boyfriend.
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Riley, what has been helpful to you in combating racism?
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I think it's helpful and important to talk to other white people about racism.
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And I think a lot of people, they don't want to be racist.
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But they also don't know some of the things that they believe or say are and can be racist.
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And I think one of the, like, effective ways is just to talk and kind of help teach them about why some of the things they believe or say or think are wrong.
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Not necessarily racist, but that they're wrong.
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And that'll sort of, like, chip away and, you know, contribute to some development in this area.
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But not necessarily take somebody from, like, being a racist to not being a racist in one conversation.
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And it's just always being open to learning about racist things that we may have said or done without judgment and defensiveness.
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If you couldn't, if you're listening, if you haven't seen this video, you could probably hear it.
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But AOC's boyfriend is, like, the whitest guy who has ever walked the face of the earth.
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And the irony here is that his thesis, which is really her thesis, I suspect, because she's sitting there filming him, waiting for him to say it, kind of nodding along when she approves.
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His thesis is that a group of people are flawed by their skin color.
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His idea is that white people are, by definition, racist.
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The ones who don't know that they're racist are probably the most racist of all and that you can't really fix it.
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He says you're not going to make someone not a racist overnight or over a few days.
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Meaning that no matter how much you talk to them, there will still always be this vestigial racism.
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And all you can do is try to help the problem along a little bit.
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The sadder part of the clip is that he's participating in this at all.
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The sadder part of the clip is that he is allowing his girlfriend to humiliate him in front of millions of people.
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To have your girlfriends holding a camera to her millions of followers and basically saying,
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And tell everyone how bad everyone who looks like you is.
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And tell everyone how they're never really going to get better.
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And when you say something I agree with, I'll nod approvingly.
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It's like a forced confession under a dictatorship or something.
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So we're doing once a month we read one of these great books and talk about it with people.
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The one that we're just about to film is the book of Genesis.
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And the book of Genesis actually has a lot to say about toxic masculinity and about toxic effeminacy.
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This video of AOC and her boyfriend is like a live action production of the third chapter of the book of Genesis.
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In the book of Genesis, God tells Eve after Eve and Adam have sinned and God is doling out their punishment.
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God tells Eve, as part of her punishment, her desire shall be for her husband.
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And what that statement means is that she will have a kind of appetite for her husband.
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I mean, think of like a praying mantis, you know, the female praying mantis devouring the male in the act of love.
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Then he tells Adam, as his punishment, that Adam will have to toil the earth.
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This tells you about two flaws categorically in men and women.
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That's the flaw for women in this chapter is that women will want to domineer.
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They'll want to, they'll have desire for their man.
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Actually, in, in that very chapter, when, when God is doling out the punishment to Eve,
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the punishment is you, your desire will be for your husband, but he shall rule over you.
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And some people reading this for the first time might say, oh, it looks like he's giving Eve a punishment,
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but Adam a reward because Adam gets to rule over Eve.
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Adam's desire here and the desire that is, is therefore being described of all men is not to rule over people.
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Actually, the, the real desire of men is to sit on the couch and eat potato chips and watch TV.
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And it's actually a punishment that he will rule over her.
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Obviously, in this clip, you were seeing this, this guy's girlfriend just totally domineer him, humiliate him, mock him on video.
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But the flaw, you're also seeing that same masculine flaw in, in his performance because he's just going along with it.
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He's, he's allowing himself to be humiliated because he doesn't want to stand up for himself.
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Compare that video to a video of our president.
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President Trump was asked during a press conference yesterday, I believe it was, what lessons he had learned from impeachment.
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This is a question being asked by the media, assuming a Democratic and anti-Trump Republican premise, which is that Trump needed to learn a lesson.
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And so they don't even say, did you learn a lesson?
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They jump right past accepting the premise into saying, what lesson did you learn from impeachment?
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Lisa Murkowski earlier said that you shouldn't have gotten involved with the Roger Stone.
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Some Republicans have said they hoped you would learn a lesson from impeachment.
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And that my poll numbers are 10 points higher because of fake news like NBC, which reports the news very inaccurately, probably more inaccurately than CNN, if that's possible.
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People, uh, MSDNC and your MS, uh, and, and if you take a look at NBC, no, I think they're among the most dishonest reporters of the news.
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Thank you, Mr. Trump for showing us how to shove this right back in their face.
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He, the, the question that's being asked more or less is, Hey, Mr. Trump, when did you stop beating your wife?
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It's, it's a question where any way you answer, you're accepting the premise and it makes you look bad.
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The premise being you needed to learn a lesson from impeachment because you made a big mistake.
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And he just says, no, I'm not taking your premise.
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Here's the lesson I learned is you people are all corrupt.
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You people are all absolute hacks and you're incompetent too, because you tried to take me out and instead my poll numbers are 10 points higher.
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That's standing up for yourself, shoving it right back at them, not allowing yourself to be humiliated and cowed on national television.
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An important lesson, and it, I guess one way to recognize that there can be a virtue to manliness too, just like there can be toxicity to effeminacy, is to realize that there are some toxic women out there too.
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There's some toxic men, there's some toxic women.
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There's racism from one race, there's racism from other races too.
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We don't hear about the other side of it very much.
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So I wanted to highlight a toxic woman who also went viral yesterday.
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She's the Ringo Starr of the squad, Ayanna Pressley.
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She took to the floor of the House of Representatives to wine.
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The great poet and pioneer of righteous rage, Audra Lorde, once said, quote, I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when our shackles are very different from my own, end quote.
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The year is now 2020, and here we women are still in so many ways not fully free, still shackled.
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Today, I rise to affirm the humanity and the dignity of all women.
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I rise in strong, unapologetic, righteous support of H.J.
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Res. 79, which will strike the arbitrary deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, an amendment that should already be the law of the land.
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The American Constitution is sexist by its very design.
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First of all, she begins, she says, quoting Audra Lorde, the pioneer of righteous rage.
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By the way, when people refer to themselves as righteous, that's usually a good clue that they are being unrighteous.
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But she's coming out and saying, I'm full of rage.
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She's just describing this, this vice, this awful temptation.
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And then she goes on and says, America's sexist from the very core, and women have no rights in America, and everything's terrible.
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This while, she's standing on the floor of the House of Representatives.
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This while, she's one of the most prominent members of the Democratic Party, only by virtue of her association with three other people, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib.
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All women, by the way, who are much more prominent faces of the Democratic Party, some of the most prominent politicians in America.
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But she's angry and furious anyway, and willing to denounce her whole country for it.
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It's got a really nice sounding name, but it's a horrible, terrible idea.
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This was a dumb law that was defeated decades and decades ago, mostly by women.
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One woman in particular, a conservative pioneer named Phyllis Schlafly.
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And then it's come back in recent years, and it's gaining some popularity on the left.
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It would force women to be drafted into the military.
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It would absolutely abolish same-sex restrooms and same-sex schools and any kind of same-sex facility.
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And it would enshrine into law the right to kill babies through abortion.
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On the larger point, what these radicals are saying is that any suggestion that men and
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And you know, by a very narrow definition of sexism, I guess that's true.
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What is sexism is to discriminate, to be discriminating, to see differences between men and women.
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It's not injurious to recognize that men and women have biological differences.
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For these radicals, absolutely, that has to be abolished.
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If a man had gone down to the floor and given that speech, he would be rightly mocked for it.
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This brings us to another toxic woman, Elizabeth Warren.
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Elizabeth Warren's campaign in recent days for president has just collapsed, absolutely.
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She is doing anything she can to try to remain relevant.
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She told a story on MSNBC last night about how she's on the campaign trail and a young girl comes
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up to her and says, listen, I'm completely broke, but I've given you what little money I have so
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Elizabeth Warren believes this is some sort of inspiring story.
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There are so many people who are in this fight for all the right reasons.
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You know me, did the speech and then afterwards did a selfie line and we were there for over an hour.
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People are coming through and they're saying thank you or they're giving hugs and talking
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Young woman came up by herself and she said, I'm a broke college student with a lot of student
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And she said, I checked and I have six dollars in the bank.
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So I just gave three dollars to keep you in this fight.
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We've got to stay in this fight with people who are counting on us.
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This is about fighting for the America we believe in.
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The poor girl has only got six dollars in the bank and you, a very, very wealthy woman,
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Harvard professor, took half of her money, three dollars?
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Elizabeth Warren has a little bit of a difficult relationship with the truth, difficult relationship
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with her DNA, lies about her DNA for decades to get professional advantage, lies about being
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fired because she was pregnant, lies about sending her kids to public school.
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But even beyond the story, even the points she's making in it are not true.
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She says this race is not about fighting other Democrats.
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A primary campaign is when you battle people of your own party and then one of you gets
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nominated and then you battle the people of the other party.
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Also, almost certainly untrue is that the girl had six dollars in the bank.
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Because very few people have six dollars in the bank.
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Now, some people are broke, but they don't have six dollars in the bank.
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Some people, maybe they have, I don't know, two hundred dollars in the bank or a thousand
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dollars in the bank and they got a ton of debt.
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So they're, they're broke, but they have more than six dollars in the bank.
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Some people are overdrawn on their bank accounts, right?
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But very few people have six dollars specifically in the bank.
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That seems like it was a number that was constructed to tell a, well, ultimately not very convincing
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If the story is true, Elizabeth Warren should not have taken the money.
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First of all, her campaign is over, more or less.
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After her dismal performance in New Hampshire, it's probably not going on very far.
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Liz Warren is not some messianic religious figure, okay?
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I mean, the story that she's telling is sort of like the story of the widow's might in the
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Christ talks about how this, this widow, this poor widow gave what little she had and, and
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gave it as an offering and that this was worth so much more than what the wealthy people
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had given because she'd given so much of what she had.
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This isn't a sacrifice that you're offering to God.
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It's, you're making a donation to some political campaign and in this case, one that's going
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But that is how Elizabeth Warren is portraying it.
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It's so filled with rage to use Ayanna Pressley's term.
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What we're seeing here from AOC's boyfriend to Ayanna Pressley to whatever, to Liz Warren
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to, what we're seeing specifically though among men in this country is all the worst characteristics
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associated with women with none of the good characteristics.
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What we're seeing here is that leftism is intrinsically effeminate.
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All the worst characteristics of women, none of the good characteristics.
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What it is, is overbearing and desirous of dependency.
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Now there's a bad kind of masculinity too, right?
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Men have bad tendencies as well as good tendencies.
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And when you take all the bad tendencies and just make them all go together, that's toxic.
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But our threat in our culture is not from toxic masculinity, all right?
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Our culture does not suffer from being too masculine.
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The threat here is really from toxic effeminacy.
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And you can see that toxicity in certain women, but you see it in certain men too, who are willing
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to take all of these awful, awful characteristics and none of the good ones.
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There's one last example of this that really shoots down all of the claims that AOC's boyfriend
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There's this video just came out of UVA and it's, it's from the Multicultural Student
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The Young America's Foundation obtained the video.
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This is of a young gal, a woman of color who stands up there and says that this is the
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Multicultural Student Center and therefore you can't have that many white people here.
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Now you might think multicultural means all different kinds of cultures, all different
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She's saying more or less we need to have a segregated student center and white people
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If y'all didn't know, this is the MSC and frankly, there's just too many white people in
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So just be really cognizant of the space that you're taking up because it does make some
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of us POCs uncomfortable when we see too many white people in here.
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It's only been open for four days and frankly, there's the whole university for a lot of y'all
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So if racism has a definition anymore and the left has pretty much degraded that word
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down to nothing, but if racism has a definition, that is racist.
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You don't hear that description in the AOC boyfriend video, do you?
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Now in the AOC boyfriend video, it's only white people who can ever be racist, who can
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ever harbor bigotry and white people can never get rid of it and nobody else could have
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If you, I think there's this idea that comes out of this toxic effeminacy that you've just
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You've just got to give away any backbone you might have.
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If you're straight, you're bad and your opinions are invalid and you can't say anything.
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And this is based on a theory of historical injustice and, and present victimhood that
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comes together in the left-wing ideology called intersectionality.
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He just says, I, I just talked to white people.
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You don't see AOC make a similar acknowledgement.
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And maybe I should look into myself and convince my fellow congresswomen or my fellow women,
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whoever, that, that we've got stuff to work on too.
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I mean, obviously if, if a white student stood up at any center on any university campus and
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said, Hey, we, we don't really like that there are so many non-white people here.
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So just for, this is a space for white people and everyone else has to leave.
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You'd have the UN investigating it or something, but, but in this case, it only goes in one
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I think if you want to restore a sense of justice to the country, then you've got to, you've
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got to, you can't let it get to an extreme like that.
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You can't, I don't think there's anything wrong with acknowledging that there are some
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And if that's all that toxic masculinity means, okay, that's fine.
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But likewise, you've got to recognize that there is toxic effeminacy.
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If you're going to say that one group can harbor racial biases, then you have to acknowledge
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that other groups can harbor racial biases as well.
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But unfortunately, that's not the situation we see because, because of leftism, because
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It's so desirous of consuming everything in its wake.
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The irony of that UVA video is that it's at the multicultural student center.
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The theory of multiculturalism is that you're going to bring everybody together and you're
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The practice is actually increasing racial division, actually increasing the bigotry.
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The idea of feminism is that everybody's going to be equal and kumbaya and come together.
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It's division, rancor, rage, as Ayanna Pressley is describing it.
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We have to restore some balance and you need to see where the threat really lies.
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how they compare to the two major extant political parties, on which issues would Whigs and Republicans
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clash, on which contemporary issues would Whigs and modern Democrats clash.
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So now we have two major parties, the Democrats and the Republicans.
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Before the Republicans, you had two major parties, the Democrats and the Whigs.
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The problem with trying to draw an exact line or analogy between these parties is that politics
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This is one of the struggles of the Trump era is you have some kind of boomer Republicans
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being really upset that political positions ever adjust to changing circumstances.
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So they'll say, no, we used to have this policy, but now, 30 years later, we have this new policy
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So broadly speaking, you could say that the Republican Party was the successor to the Whig
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Party, that the Whigs were the forerunner of the Republicans, but there were some, there
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were some similarities and there were some differences.
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So the, the Whig Party broadly was founded as a kind of nationalist party.
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In that way, I guess they have a similarity to the current Republican Party.
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They had a lot of support in the North, but they actually, the Whigs did fairly well in
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The Whigs were founded on preserving tradition.
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The Whigs were founded on, in many ways, they were the successor of the Federalist Party,
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which was the kind of founding party of America and wrote the, they defended the Constitution.
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The, the Democrats accused the Whigs of being the successors to the Federalist Party.
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And so in that way, they, there's a real similarity to the Republican Party.
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Now, maybe a difference would be that the Whigs were very pro-tariff.
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And if you thought about the Republican Party from say 1950 to 2015, you would say they were
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But even that doesn't tell the whole story because the modern Republican Party from the
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Abraham Lincoln said, you give me a tariff, I'll give you the greatest nation on earth.
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Then in the middle of the 20th century, it became very anti-tariff.
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Now it's kind of pro-tariff again under President Trump, or, or at least it's unclear.
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You can't tell if he just wants to use tariffs as a strategy or if he thinks, or as a tactic
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rather to negotiate, or if he thinks that it's actually good for the economy.
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But what I, I really want to show you here is that political parties are not so simple
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They don't stay, remain exactly the same as they always were.
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This is why the Democrats say that the Republican and the Democratic Party switched.
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Of course, no one came together one day and said, hey, from now on, you Democrats are going
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to be Republicans and we Republicans are going to be Democrats.
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They didn't really switch on their core principles either.
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The Republican Party was founded to defend freedom.
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It was founded on the issue of slavery and they've taken that principle throughout the course
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The Democratic Party has become far leftist and that irritated people who were slightly
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And so some of them, especially in the South, became Republican.
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That is why occasionally political parties collapse like the Whigs and new parties come up to address
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When arguing religion with someone the other day, they challenged me to prove Jesus was a real
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My question to you is, other than religious texts, is there any proof that Jesus was a
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I think it's kind of silly to say, hey, ignore the most famous texts about this person that
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rely on 500 eyewitnesses, which is what we're talking about when we're talking about the
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But even so, there are non-Christian sources that attest to the existence of Jesus.
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Most prominent is probably the Jewish historian Josephus, who wrote an account of Jesus within
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60 years of the crucifixion, so within a lifetime of the crucifixion.
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Josephus knew people and spoke to people who had seen and heard Jesus, so he was exposed
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The historian Tacitus, writing about 80 years after the crucifixion, wrote an account of Jesus,
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This was also around the same time that the Roman governor, Pliny the Younger, wrote about
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Jesus, and also around the same time that the historian Suetonius refers to Jesus.
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So there are multiple non-scriptural sources of the existence of Jesus.
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And because of that, certainly because of that, but even on its own, I would then say you shouldn't
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be so quick to dismiss the New Testament accounts because the New Testament accounts are written
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by people who had seen Jesus, who had heard Jesus, and who knew Jesus.
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From Paige, hey Michael, when I was growing up in Central Texas, my father worked for a
00:34:48.580
large company that had at least one family-oriented activity a year.
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My husband and I work in a major tech company that has numerous employee activities.
00:35:00.740
During your shows, you guys were talking about nuclear families and how they've changed
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Why do you think companies have shifted to not include the employees' families?
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Do you think it has something to do with the cultural shift of having kids later in life?
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My husband also points out how almost nobody wants anything to do with their co-workers
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The reason that family-oriented events have fallen apart at companies is because the left
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left has given us political correctness and the left has attempted pretty successfully to destroy
00:35:42.180
And those two have to go hand in hand because now it's considered politically incorrect to
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If you assume that somebody would have a wife or husband, you're assuming their sexual preferences.
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You're assuming that they don't want to remain single for their whole lives.
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You're assuming a moral order that is traditional that we can all participate in.
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The left has attacked the family by redefining the family, right?
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For all of human history everywhere in the world, sexual difference was fundamental to the
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And then within the last seven or eight years, the left completely obliterated that.
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Now we don't really know what the definition of marriage is.
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They've redefined it to just be monogamous unions of either people who are the same sex or
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Now there are laws being considered in this country to legalize polygamy.
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Now there are throuples, including from members of Congress who are in kind of unconventional
00:36:50.520
So that definition has just completely broken down as conservatives predicted that it would.
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The other aspect of this though, by breaking down the moral order and by breaking down traditional
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social mores is it's all been in pursuit of a hyper individualism.
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It might seem counterintuitive because the left also loves collectivism.
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Basically forcing everyone under the federal government, forcing everyone into these collectives.
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But the first step to bringing anyone under a collective is to destroy all the barriers
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to that, namely local attachments and the most local attachment, which is the attachment
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So that then you get a society of just atomized individuals who have no relation to one another
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And then they can all be brought together again under a collective.
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So now you have a lot of employee events because we're all just viewed as individuals and we
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can never presume that anybody's got any sort of attachments to anybody else.
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I mean, Justice Anthony Kennedy, when he was writing the Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision,
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he said that the Constitution gives us a right to define reality as we see fit.
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I don't know where in the Constitution he found that, but that's, that's, I think the end of
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the leftist dream is that we want to redefine reality itself.
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And it would make you mad if you, if you didn't have any reality to grab onto, if you were just
00:38:20.620
kind of swimming in your own head and your own fantasies, that would truly drive you insane.
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But I guess it has for many people on the left.
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And that's why you're not going to see it anytime soon.
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It's also why conservatives need to recognize that the cultural issues are the most important
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ones and the political or economic issues fall downstream of that.
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If we don't defend traditional institutions, if we don't defend our cultural inheritance,
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if we don't defend the family itself, then all those other things that we want are, are
00:38:51.540
going to be meaningless because the left will have won the decisive battle.
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My sister and brother-in-law recently contacted my wife and I to let us know that my 15-year-old
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And after going to group counseling for a while, they're going to support her.
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I have many thoughts on this and I do feel comfortable approaching my sister about that decision.
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She's not my child, so it's not really my place, but she is my niece.
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And I've heard stories of increased suicide rates for trans teens.
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I'd hate for something like that to happen and for me to have said nothing that may have
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You should say that boys cannot magically become girls.
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You should say that the ideology that is behind transgenderism is extraordinarily new and it's
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changing all the time and it's internally contradictory.
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Because on the one hand, we're told that gender is nothing.
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On the other hand, we're told that gender is so innate, so important, so essential that
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we've got to go through expensive and painful mutilations to try to make our bodies fit
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You should show your family that the idea of gender and sex being different doesn't make
00:40:20.880
any sense because the ideology tells us that sex is biological.
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But of course, if that were true, it'd be much easier just to change your mind, right?
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Because it's a lot simpler to change your mind than it is to go through these expensive
00:40:41.560
Except when you tell that to people who push this gender ideology, they then completely
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People who are born with, who are, have a male sex but a female gender, their brains actually
00:40:57.480
But if you say, okay, if it's in the brain, that's physical then.
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And then this distinction between sex and gender completely breaks down.
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And then on the most personal level, what you should tell them is that the pioneer of
00:41:11.020
the transgender surgery, Dr. Paul McHugh at Johns Hopkins, head of psychiatry at Johns
00:41:15.520
Hopkins, started the gender clinic there and he shut it down.
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He shut it down years later because he realized it was medical malpractice because he realized
00:41:27.560
that what you cite, those high rates of suicide among teenagers with gender dysphoria, which
00:41:32.120
is a real condition, those high rates of suicide did not go down after the surgery.
00:41:38.460
Rates of stress, anxiety, depression, even suicidality did not go down.
00:41:46.800
We're now seeing huge rates of regret of people who have transitioned, so-called, or
00:41:54.740
And you should tell them that 15-year-olds are not in the position to make these kinds
00:42:01.040
of decisions that could, that will inevitably affect the rest of their lives.
00:42:07.940
If you, if you're a 25-year-old guy and you sleep with a 15-year-old girl, you'll go to
00:42:15.160
jail, rightly, you'll go to jail because 15-year-olds are deemed not able to make those sorts of
00:42:21.320
decisions that could affect the rest of their lives.
00:42:24.600
But what on earth does a one-night stand compare with fundamentally mutilating your body and
00:42:30.700
going on hormones and stopping puberty and making yourself infertile?
00:42:34.180
I mean, it's a one-night stand is as far less permanent deleterious effects than doing something
00:42:44.660
So by any standard, by any measure, what, what the gender ideology movement is doing to teenagers
00:42:52.280
is criminal, it's immoral, it is indefensible, and it is ruining lives.
00:42:57.300
And you should at least present that kind of information to your family, if really so that
00:43:04.180
you can try to help your niece, but if for no other reason, so that you can rest easy
00:43:07.860
and let your conscience go easy, that you did what you could to stop this terrible idea.
00:43:12.940
All right, from Anonymous, I was reading AOC's profile on Wikipedia and it says she graduated
00:43:18.700
from Boston University with honors in international relations and economics.
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I find it very difficult to believe that AOC has a degree in economics.
00:43:26.960
Is there any way to confirm that she has a degree in econ from BU?
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It would appear that she does have a degree in economics from BU and perhaps you shouldn't
00:43:40.840
The real problem is not just at BU, but at universities all around the country.
00:43:44.480
Standards have fallen so dramatically and grade inflation has gotten so rampant that you can
00:43:50.060
graduate, you can graduate now from Yale with a degree in English summa cum laude and not
00:43:59.460
That is a problem at universities overall and it means that maybe when you're thinking about
00:44:05.500
which school your kid's going to go to, you're going to have a much harder issue than just
00:44:15.820
The issue is my girlfriend doesn't approve and said it's either her or the cigars.
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With all the extra money I have now, which cigar brands should I stock up on?
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You should stock up on Tatuaje and Padron and Flor Dominicana.
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You obviously have the right idea on this and it's an idea that I think you have received
00:44:42.000
from the great poet Rudyard Kipling who wrote a famous poem on this called The Betrothed.
00:44:47.300
It's one of my favorite poems and it's about how a guy has to choose between his fiancee
00:44:56.780
His fiancee Maggie has given him an ultimatum and he's got to choose.
00:45:09.060
A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke.
00:45:12.760
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Light me another Cuba, I hold to my first sworn vows.
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If Maggie will have no rival, I'll have no Maggie for spouse.
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In the meantime, I am going to go smoke a cigar.
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