On today's show, we're joined by Daniel Turner, founder and Executive Director of Power of the Future, to discuss a story about a small town in Nebraska that was told they were going to get a massive wind farm, and the people of the town are fighting back.
00:00:00.000Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to another exciting episode of ShimCastIR.
00:00:30.000I am Seamus Coghlan, filling in for Tim Pool, who is on a coming-of-age journey in theaters this November.
00:00:36.000In tonight's news, a California school district is going to have to pay $3 million for rejecting an LGBTQ curriculum covering Harvey.
00:00:44.000Milk, the Stanford Dean of DEI, resigns after supporting and encouraging a unruly student
00:00:49.000protest and Congressman Matt Gaetz introduces legislation to prohibit funding for the Department
00:00:55.000of Justice for being used for special counsel Jack Smith's probe into Donald Trump.
00:00:59.000We're going to get into all of that and more, but first hit that like button.
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00:01:40.000And I got a quick story for y'all before we do intros, and I'll be brief.
00:01:44.000A friend of the show who watches it, a guy named Trevor.
00:01:47.000I do oil and gas and fossil fuel advocacy issues, energy job.
00:01:52.000I battle the green groups for a living.
00:01:53.000A friend of the show, Trevor, is from a small town called Greeley, Nebraska, population around 500.
00:01:59.000And as the Biden administration is dumping out billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars for wind and solar, the small town of Greeley, Nebraska suddenly was told they're going to get this enormous wind farm.
00:02:10.000And they wanted many of the residents to sign 75-year leases, 75 years to turn over their land so that they could put up these wind farms.
00:02:17.000Trevor, friend of the show, was like, something doesn't feel right and saw me on an episode and said, we're doing a town hall, but we can't find people to talk about the other side of the issue.
00:02:47.000So when questions came up like, hey, this is tornado country.
00:02:51.000The tornado comes through and blows up this wind turbine and projectiles go in every direction and it goes through your house or your barn.
00:03:54.000I hope more people do and I'm looking at the camera.
00:03:56.000If your town's going through this with solar, with wind, if someone's coming in saying we're going to take over your land for our agenda and you're nervous.
00:04:03.000You know, find me on Twitter or DM me or find me, daniel.powerofthefuture.com.
00:04:09.000I want to thank all of you because you're all part of it.
00:04:11.000And I want to thank Tim for putting it together because when people like that, like you Trevor, buddy, when people like that get involved, um, we will stop all of the bad nonsense that's happening in society.
00:04:22.000Like you said, taking over culture, taking over, taking our rights back.
00:04:27.000Thank you to the folks in Greeley and thanks to this program and great to be on.
00:04:30.000Yeah, and again, it's great to have you back on, and it's always very encouraging to hear that there are audience members who are taking this very seriously and getting involved in trying to instantiate some change at the local level.
00:04:45.000It's awesome that you took the time to get out there, and I appreciate that you're Thank you.
00:04:48.000Willing to respond to your Twitter DMs and fly to Nebraska and help out, because that is kind of crazy that a company wanting to put wind turbines on your land just declines to talk to you.
00:04:58.000Not the start of a great relationship, in my opinion.
00:05:01.000No, and there's so much money in the Inflation Reduction Act and the infrastructure bill that this is going to happen more and more.
00:05:07.000And what does it do to the environment?
00:05:27.000I just wanna... And when you try to shut down, I know we're gonna get to shutting down debate, but when you try to shut down debate and conversation, boy, that should make people very nervous.
00:05:36.000Anyone who doesn't wanna answer questions and says stop asking them, oof, like you know where that person stands, right?
00:07:11.000Well, speaking of things that aren't so awesome, California's school is going to have to pay over $3 million after rejecting an LGBTQ curriculum.
00:07:20.000The curriculum covered Harvey Milk, who is the first openly gay elected official in the United States who was assassinated in 1978.
00:07:29.000He was known to have been preying on underage boys.
00:07:32.000He was in a quote-unquote relationship with a 16-year-old at one point when he was in his 30s.
00:07:38.000But, of course, children have to learn about him in school as if he's a hero.
00:07:42.000And this district, the school board, said, no, sorry, we're not interested in teaching our kids that.
00:07:46.000So, Newsom said, we're going to fine you $1.5 million and force you to pay another $1.6 million in shipping costs associated with the material that were sent to these schools.
00:07:57.000So, we're seeing stories like this all the time.
00:08:00.000I'm glad to see that the school board is fighting back.
00:08:02.000Look at Newsom, who claims to be the gatekeeper and the warrior for free speech when he's talking about book bans and the fact that all ideas need to be allowed in california telling people that they actually have to have this curriculum forced on them when their school board has said no we don't want this.
00:08:20.000There's a hill you have to die on and eventually uh... otherwise you keep losing and and i think again it's hard for it's easy for me to say this because it's not my school or it's not my my my three million dollars but the answer is no We're just not going to pay that fine and we're not going to teach it.
00:08:35.000Are you going to extort three million dollars from us?
00:08:37.000Are you going to shut down the school?
00:08:57.000Well, I mean, these people are all tyrannical, and it's so frustrating because you had Obama come out the other day and write this letter saying, oh, it's wrong to ban books.
00:09:05.000And of course, the books that are being banned here are generally pornographic.
00:09:09.000They contain materials that are scarring for children.
00:09:12.000And it's the parents who are saying, we don't want our children to see this content.
00:09:16.000The vast majority of these quote-unquote book bans are led by parental groups, and even opponents of that will acknowledge this, but they'll say, these are parents who are backwards religious fundamentalists, even though firstly, as far as I'm aware, I don't know that there's actually a strong religious component to it.
00:09:31.000I would imagine there is, just in the sense that we're in a country which is based on Christian values.
00:09:35.000But these people, I know some of the people who go up and fight these school boards, and they're not all religious people by any means.
00:09:41.000So, the left will try to smear these people, they'll try to smear the grassroots efforts to get this pornographic content out of schools.
00:09:49.000And the truth is, it's because they know that's the only option.
00:09:52.000They can't try to blame the usual actors, the big donors, any corrupt political class for this.
00:09:57.000They can tell this is coming from parents, this is coming from families who are saying, stop preying upon our children.
00:10:02.000And I think you'll see these tests going forward, this idea that you don't want this type of curriculum in your school for what seems to be legitimate reasons, and so you will have to pay a fine.
00:10:13.000So you feel guilty and so you feel like maybe we shouldn't do that, it's going to hurt our kids' education.
00:10:17.000These tests are going to be something that parents unfortunately face a lot.
00:10:20.000It reminds me a little bit of this story about the school district in Utah.
00:10:25.000A liberal parent said, well, I think you should ban the Bible because the Bible talks about sex and the Bible has pornographic scenes.
00:10:31.000But it doesn't have pornographic scenes, I should say.
00:10:34.000One of the state lawmakers who had been really pushing to keep LGBTQ curriculum—again, I should say sexually explicit curriculum—out of school said, well, if this is the price we have to pay, that's okay, because I would rather make sure that your kids are protected, even if that means they have to learn about the Bible at home.
00:10:52.000And I find it interesting that we're coming up against these tests pretty regularly right now.
00:10:56.000If we have to keep something out, what are we willing to do for that?
00:10:59.000I think a great tactic that I've seen a lot of parents do is they try to go to the school board meetings and they try to read the book out loud, and they're stopped.
00:11:07.000I think DeSantis did it at a press conference and all the networks had to go to commercial break, and that's just the most valuable tactic.
00:11:13.000If I can say this to you, and we're all adults here, if I said these things right now, YouTube would fine I mean, it wouldn't find me, so I guess I can go ahead and say them, right?
00:11:22.000I can drop the f-bomb, it's not my show.
00:11:24.000And Tim's not here, so Tim's not here, who cares?
00:11:29.000But I think that's such a valuable tactic.
00:11:31.000Like, show how vile these things are, and then stop hiding behind gay people to do it.
00:11:57.000It's really disgusting, and so genderqueer is one example of this.
00:12:01.000The other example we've brought up, because we actually have the book here, is this book is Gay, and this is a book that is in schools and school libraries, and it actually explains how to sign up for gay hookup apps.
00:12:24.000Why is there a guide on how to sign up for these apps in schools where minors can check them out?
00:12:30.000You don't put something in a book that a minor shouldn't know and then write, if you're under 18, don't read past this point, or this section isn't for you.
00:12:43.000We're just going to put it here and let you make your own decisions.
00:12:46.000I think that's the craziest thing that, you know, the argument that comes up and that I hear pretty frequently is, you know, people need to hear these things because we need to have a sex positive culture and we need to have a culture that, you know, these issues are life and death for some people because if you don't know, you don't feel firm, this, that, and the other.
00:13:04.000Then, uh, you know, you're in danger of all kinds of terrible things.
00:13:07.000And, of course, we want to live in a compassionate society.
00:13:10.000But does that mean minors need to read sexually explicit content in schools?
00:13:54.000How much of a pervert do you have to be to complain about the fact that there's not enough of it out there all the time?
00:13:59.000And should we be telling teenagers, your sexual identity is the biggest thing you should know and identify and think about all the time, right?
00:14:06.000Isn't there enough pressure as a young adult to come of age and to grapple with difficult life problems?
00:14:12.000Like, do we need to say, your libraries need to be stocked with this so you're thinking about it all the time?
00:14:16.000When really we should be encouraging them to pursue their intellectual passions, develop good moral character, right?
00:14:22.000There is no reason that this should be the number one conversation you have with your teens, no matter how you think their orientation will end up.
00:14:29.000Especially when you consider, and I hate saying this because I don't like to knock America, I love this country and I love the people in this country, but I will say it bluntly, especially when you realize how ignorant our young people are.
00:14:41.000You can say poorly educated and they are, you could just flat out and say dumb.
00:14:46.000These are subjects that A, we shouldn't broach them ever, But if all of our kids had straight A's and the school board was like, well, should we start thinking about other things?
00:15:16.000And any adult who, like, tells you they have this agenda, like, oh yeah, I want this child to be really accepting of a lot of different sexual things, like, okay, why?
00:15:24.000Because I've said this before on the show, but we ask this question as conservatives.
00:16:19.000I just want to mention one thing quickly.
00:16:21.000Even with what you're saying, when kids go through puberty and they start noticing the opposite sex, you're right that they have an interest there, but that's also why you need to be even more protective at that point and ensure that they don't end up seeing disgusting things that are going to pervert them.
00:16:33.000Because they'll end up going and seeking out material, and there's so much perversion online that they'll stumble into.
00:16:40.000The solution isn't like, well let's show them the weirdest, grossest stuff we can find.
00:16:44.000The solution is educate them on the dangers of looking at pornography.
00:16:47.000Talk to them about the fact that researchers are discovering a strong link between pornography and impotence.
00:16:52.000You tell young men that, I promise you that's going to alter their behavior, right?
00:16:56.000People need to be protected from these things.
00:16:58.000These things shouldn't be forced onto them.
00:17:00.000But again, I think we're all pretty clear on what the agenda is here.
00:17:02.000We know why there's an interest on the part of so many people in this system to get minors invested in this perverse content.
00:17:10.000And it's telling that the reason this school board rejected this content that California is trying to force on them is because it was covering the first elected gay politician in the country who's celebrated by the left and viewed as a martyr and who was exploiting and preying upon and abusing underage boys.
00:17:30.000Had a 16-year-old quote-unquote boyfriend when he was in his 30s.
00:17:47.000You know, and if you had a chapter of the 70s for 14, 15, 16-year-old kids and you talked about unrested in the 70s, famous people who were assassinated, you can go through the list.
00:17:57.000You can throw his name down, because he was famous and he was assassinated, but I would love to see the actual chapter.
00:18:34.000Yes, Liam Neeson played Alfred Kinsey in a film where they celebrate him as this heroic, self-sacrificing saint scientist.
00:18:43.000And, you know, he was just interested in studying sex in this puritanical society.
00:18:46.000Of course, what they leave out with the fact is that he was complicit in the sexual abuse of literally hundreds of underage boys, including infants.
00:18:54.000They don't mention the fact that in his published work, he said things that supported and endorsed pedophilia by saying that when a child is abused, what really traumatizes them is their parents, in his words, overreaction.
00:19:06.000to it as if you can overreact to something so horrible.
00:19:09.000It's disgusting, they celebrate disgusting things, it's great to see this school board pushing back.
00:19:15.000It's kind of like when the left talks about Margaret Sanger and they forget to mention that her purpose in starting
00:19:20.000this organization was to eradicate black people.
00:19:23.000And it's like, well, we just talk about it for women's rights.
00:19:53.000And I think that's one of the best parts about this is not only is it a local community really advocating for what they want and what their values are, but also saying, like, we aren't going to overlook this person's sordid past because you guys have refashioned him as a hero.
00:20:08.000And speaking with the problems that exist within modern education, Stanford Law's equity dean is booted out after stoking woke students' rude protest at a conservative judge who was invited to give a talk.
00:20:22.000So, a Stanford dean who was slammed for letting students heckle a conservative federal judge before berating him herself has left her role.
00:20:29.000Basically, what happened was this judge came to speak on campus, the students protested, He went to basically explain that it was unacceptable, that it was impossible to hear him because he was being spoken over, and she went on to berate him.
00:20:43.000So she has decided that she's going to be leaving her role as assistant dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:20:48.000What are they going to do without her at Stanford Law School to pursue another opportunity, the law school said in an email to its students Thursday.
00:20:57.000What do you guys think about this story?
00:20:59.000Do you think that they have more DEI coordinators at that school?
00:21:03.000Do you think she was the only one, or do you think Stanford has a couple?
00:21:06.000Well, I don't know if you know this, but there is a notorious shortage of DEI professionals in this country.
00:21:12.000We actually might run out of them, which is very frightening.
00:23:18.000This is what I have begun to call outlet theory.
00:23:21.000Basically what left-wing people will try to do to justify the normalization of bad behavior is they'll say, this bad thing is going to happen anyway, so we need to give it an outlet.
00:23:29.000And of course, what you end up doing is encouraging it to continue to happen and you get more of it.
00:23:34.000And I think it's not surprising that this is the excuse you went with because it actually fits into the framework of a left-wing worldview and the excuses they usually make.
00:23:41.000The only reason I was doing Bad Thing is because I wanted to give Bad Thing an outlet because I'm actually against Bad Thing on some level.
00:23:59.000You know, whatever happened, it's funny how, you know, when I was a kid, they would say, well, if you don't like it, turn off the channel, or if you don't like it, don't listen to that album.
00:24:07.000And now it's the right saying that if you don't want to go listen to this judge, just don't go to the lecture.
00:24:12.000It's not like he got surprised in a class that you had to be in, right?
00:24:16.000This was an event organized by the Federalist Society for him to come to that everyone probably knew it was going to be this guy, which is what made them want to go there, right?
00:24:24.000And I'm not against the concept of protesting.
00:24:26.000It just makes me crazy that the idea is that this person had to be completely shouted down rather than this institution supposed to be about learning and growth and having your ideas challenged.
00:24:35.000And this is manufactured protesting because we're all pretty smart, with the exception of this one.
00:24:43.000Right, like name another not Supreme Court. I can name them name a federal judge. I bet you none of us really could
00:24:48.000So what college student is like you're telling me judge duncan kyle is
00:24:53.000No, like this isn't a name that is like It's all manufactured because he was appointed by trump. It's
00:25:00.000all manufactured and I will say especially when you're in college
00:25:03.000Like who's actually reading flyers, you know, like I certainly wasn't reading them or going to those someone
00:25:09.000Manufactured this crisis and got all the kids whipped up and now the kids are all in a frenzy
00:25:13.000Which is sad how much of lemming the college students can be so?
00:25:17.000So it's interesting then that, of course, the students point out that Steinbach, this DEI administrator, sent out an email about this event.
00:25:25.000It's almost like maybe she was interested in there being a protest so she could have a nice viral clip moment.
00:25:34.000I will say, I think what I found the most interesting about the story, because it's played out over a couple months, is that at least two federal judges said, we're adding Stanford to our no-hire list.
00:25:45.000We will not take clerks from Stanford Law, which means that every student at Stanford is affected by this.
00:25:50.000Of course, I assume there are conservatives out there at Stanford Law.
00:25:54.000But it comes on the heels of a different, similar event at Yale Law School.
00:25:58.000So there are now a stack of law schools that there are judges, and I think this is great.
00:26:03.000They're saying, I will not hire from your school.
00:26:06.000I do not like your school and your student body's stance on free speech and diversity, and I do not like the way you're treating conservatives.
00:26:40.000If they're going to try to use their leverage against you to undermine civil society, you've got to push back.
00:26:44.000Daniel, you mentioned something earlier, how the left always used to say, if you don't like it, you can change the channel, and how they're hypocritical for not sticking to that.
00:26:50.000But I think what you're missing is what they were saying is, if you don't like it, you can change the channel.
00:26:58.000When I don't like it, you change the channel.
00:27:01.000It's always been about dominance, right?
00:27:03.000Evil calls for tolerance until it's in charge, and then it demands your submission.
00:27:06.000Yeah, remember when the riots were happening in the Summer of Love, and even, you can go back further, even the Trump inauguration in 2017, to go off your point, Seamus, when a lot of mayors said, look, we're just giving them space to protest.
00:27:18.000And you're like, well, you're letting them burn the city down.
00:27:20.000It's like, we're just giving them space to protest.
00:27:22.000That was what this diversity DEI coordinator was saying.
00:27:26.000I am just giving them a platform to express their ideas, and I partook.
00:27:30.000Of it because I wanted to try to control the violence and again if you give people a space to do, if you give bad people a space to commit bad acts, they will commit bad acts.
00:27:39.000And this is part of what's so hilarious just about how quickly they expose themselves as complete and total unprincipled hypocrites.
00:27:50.000I remember during the 2020 riots there were two things I kept hearing from left-wing individuals.
00:27:56.000First thing, writing is the language of the unheard.
00:28:05.000And then there was a second point that they kept making.
00:28:08.000Repeatedly, I saw this all over Twitter.
00:28:10.000I saw left-wing people I knew saying this.
00:28:12.000They were going, Well, you know, conservatives claim the point of, you know, 2A is to, like, fight back against tyranny.
00:28:20.000And why aren't they helping us as we are here trying to fight back against tyranny?
00:28:28.000So, literally, by the way, calling for insurrection, right?
00:28:31.000And then, just a few months later, on January 6th, when we had conservatives rioting, well, all of a sudden the response was to make sure they were as unheard as possible.
00:28:46.000Ban Donald Trump, the sitting president of the United States from one of the largest communication platforms in the world.
00:28:53.000You're going to tell me you thought rioting was the language of the unheard and the way you get rioting is by silencing people and then you silence the person who you believe...
00:29:02.000Who you believe is the figurehead in the voice of the people who were rioting.
00:29:08.000And then, all of a sudden, insurrection became a bad thing that we weren't supposed to be in favor of and weren't supposed to tolerate and were supposed to be very against.
00:29:15.000Meanwhile, just a few months ago, on May 29th of 2021, Left-wing radicals surrounded the White House, broke down the barrier, forced the President of the United States and his family into the presidential bunker, and the entire media laughed about it and said it was so mean that Donald Trump cleared those protesters out of there before they tried to burn down St.
00:29:46.000It's okay because we are on a moral high ground, right?
00:29:49.000So when we say, these people are writing because they're unheard, we are correct.
00:29:53.000And when we're saying, you guys are writing because you're evil and the devil, we are also right.
00:29:58.000There's no arguing there because there's no consistent logic and there's no consistent application of value.
00:30:02.000Yeah, it's funny that this decision came out today when there was that House hearing on censorship, and I'm glad there's hearings on censorship.
00:30:10.000There has to be more of a conversation about it, especially when you're in the college level, right?
00:30:13.000If you're encouraging this type of behavior on what is supposed to be an academic environment to look at all ideas and discover knowledge, etc.
00:30:22.000You're doing your students a great injustice.
00:30:54.000And what I'll also add is that the two go hand in hand, right?
00:30:58.000I think a huge part of why they want to erode these children's sense of identity and pervert them is, one, because, again, they want to reproduce themselves in some sense.
00:31:09.000They want to make other people's children into perverts.
00:31:12.000But on top of that, If you get a person completely inward-focused with their proclivities and their sexual tendencies, it actually dulls their intellect, and they're less interested in learning about the world and other people, and they become a lot less critical.
00:31:23.000Because they have to spend their life trying to justify something irrational, so they don't become well-practiced in applying rational principles to their life.
00:31:30.000So they become less interested in seeking the truth.
00:31:32.000I'm not saying that everyone who does anything bad ever is going to be completely unable to see any truth.
00:31:37.000I'm just saying that these kinds of actions make it more difficult for a person to see reality.
00:31:40.000Well, I think when you encourage anyone to be a narcissist, you dull their senses to do anything else, right?
00:31:45.000And if you tell people that smoking weed is the most important thing you could do or any other aspect, if you encourage narcissism in young people and you make learning, well, look at the subject, you know, the line that's very common now is, you know, your truth.
00:31:59.000Your truth, what is your truth, and so if that becomes your compass, then yeah, your senses are dull to any other objective learning or objective ideas.
00:32:37.000The question is, do you, like, rationally analyze the situation?
00:32:39.000One thing I'm really trying to promote here that we were talking about last night is the fact that the battle between good and evil runs through
00:33:04.000I think the hard truth is that conservatives believe in emotional regulation in a way that is not true everywhere, right?
00:33:12.000So if you have this idea that I need to be aware of your feelings, be respectful of them, but I don't have to change everything about myself to make you happy, right?
00:33:21.000That has evolved to be a very conservative way of thinking.
00:33:26.000And I think there is endless pressure in different circles to have other people's feelings at the forethought of everything you do, so much so that you are wired to seek approval from the group, right?
00:34:16.000I don't, again, I feel bad for all the Stanford law students who I'm just throwing under the bus with everyone else.
00:34:20.000But it is interesting that the idea that emotions come first and that compliance to the group and emotional satisfaction through that is, is the driving force.
00:34:30.000I mean, they're not doing a good job teaching law students how to interact with the judge, but continue.
00:34:34.000I was gonna say, well, how many Stanford Law students were whipped up to this much frenzy that not very far from their campus are thousands of homeless people who are defecating on themselves, totally stoned, sleeping on the floor, eating garbage, being stepped over by society.
00:34:49.000Have they ever been whipped into a frenzy about those policies?
00:34:53.000And you can make a list of all of this, and there are a lot of things that you could get whipped into a frenzy about in society.
00:34:58.000There's a lot that's going wrong in society, but yeah, to be whipped into this, This judge is gonna speak!
00:35:04.000This judge I heard of four minutes ago!
00:35:14.000One more point I'll make about this before we move on to our next topic, just to piggyback off what you said, Hannah-Claire, about these kids falling in line.
00:35:21.000It feels good to be part of an in-group, and so if you have spent your life habituating yourself towards doing what feels good, rather than what makes sense, which is what we're habituated to do, Uh, and what our educational system is actually promoting, then you're not going to think to stand up against the group.
00:35:46.000So there's a bit of a follow up on a story we told, I believe two days ago, where Trump is insisting that he's going to be arrested at some point because of this investigation.
00:35:55.000But Representative Matt Gaetz announced Tuesday he would be introducing legislation in the House of Representatives to defund special counsel Jack Smith's grand jury investigation into the January 6th Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
00:36:09.000I will be introducing legislation to defund Jack Smith's witch hunt against President Trump, Gaetz wrote on Twitter just hours after former President Donald Trump Confirmed on social media that he had been notified he was the target in an investigation and expected to face an arrest and indictment.
00:36:25.000They are attacking our democracy and engaging in election interference right now.
00:36:29.000The United States Congress has the capacity to stop this election interference and we must act immediately, Gates added.
00:37:24.000I don't want to see America devolve into chaos.
00:37:26.000But there are the mega movement is big and they're not going to be quiet about it.
00:37:30.000And so I think it's a first step of hopefully de-escalating what is otherwise an abuse of the DOJ.
00:37:36.000It's a clear violation, or it's a clear interference in the election.
00:37:41.000And for the Biden administration to say, whoa, hey, look, this is just the DOJ acting autonomously and independently, and we have no comment.
00:37:48.000Karine Jean-Pierre is constantly saying, I haven't asked them about it.
00:37:52.000I think if this were happening in the Congo, we would laugh at it.
00:37:55.000When this happens in Russia and Vladimir Putin's opponents all suddenly disappear or get arrested,
00:38:11.000When I was reading the story today, I guess I hadn't totally put together that Smith is
00:38:15.000responsible not just for the January 6th investigation, but he's also the one leading the probe into
00:38:20.000the classified documents issue that led to the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
00:38:25.000You know, Trump just pled last month not guilty to 37 charges stemming from that investigation.
00:38:30.000I can't help but feel like there's some kind of conflict that this guy who's already leading an investigation that is going to trial was like, great, so now that we've got those charges under, we're starting another one.
00:39:08.000The power of the purse is not some intermittent thing that we wield every fiscal cycle.
00:39:13.000It's something that we have to wield in day in and day out to achieve victory for our people and stop this.
00:39:19.000I'm under no illusion that the Democrats will bring such legislation up in the Senate, but the American people deserve to know Where Congress members stand.
00:39:32.000The timing of this investigation is more than a little suspicious.
00:39:35.000The idea that, well, this is the DOJ and they just have no common interests.
00:39:38.000Look, the Department of Justice said after Roe was overturned that they were going to essentially dishonor what the court wanted.
00:39:44.000They were going to make sure that these procedures were as protected as they possibly could be.
00:39:49.000They were also going to increase their Vigilancy against violations of the FACE Act and what that ended up resulting in was trumped up charges against Mark Hauk.
00:39:59.000The idea that the left-wing political apparatus isn't collaborating with itself because it has so much respect for the idea of checks and balances within United States government when these people repeatedly say by any means necessary and that they're interested in the process and not the results isn't just hopelessly naive.
00:40:18.000They know why they're saying the things that they're saying and they're exploiting the American people's good faith.
00:40:22.000I remember back in 16 when there were all the Trump-Clinton things breaking, and there was Russiagate, and the PP tape and all that, and you saw the name Peter Stroke.
00:40:34.000And then there was Hillary Clinton, the 33,000 emails, and you saw the name Peter Stroke.
00:40:38.000And I remember thinking, does anyone else work at the DOJ?
00:40:41.000How come this one one guy, and that's what I think of with Jack Smith now, it's
00:41:06.000It's just a coincidence that he's probably not definitely being like, okay, but what's the next thing I can bring against Trump?
00:41:11.000How is it not suspicious to people that the man is continually investigated by people who hate him and every investigation up until this point has shown that he was innocent, that he was not guilty of the thing that they were alleging and they just keep launching new investigations into him and we're supposed to believe it's not politically motivated.
00:41:28.000I mean, there are a lot of cases of this right now where, you know, with this case it's DOJ, but there are a lot of attorney generals, and Trump has experienced this with Leticia James in New York, who will say, we think you did something wrong.
00:41:39.000Give us all your private information and confidential data and we'll go through it and then we'll decide what charges we're bringing against you.
00:42:33.000And instead they're just like, Okay, well, that's over, we don't know.
00:42:37.000It's funny, as that was coming out, I know we're devolving, but I had been in the West Wing a number of times when I was in the Bush administration, and at first they made it sound like it was in this public door that everyone walks through, and she kept saying, Christiane Pierre kept saying, it's a highly trafficked area, and then they narrowed it, narrowed it, and then when they finally confirmed where it was, you say like, you can't go, I couldn't go down there, right?
00:44:27.000Also, I mean, you just see how diametrically opposed the situation is with Trump and Joe Biden, or those two situations respectively.
00:44:36.000Trump has had every single element of his life turned upside down and had a flashlight shown on it, and we have not found any illegal activity.
00:44:46.000I was gonna say, he might be the most innocent person ever.
00:44:48.000I know, and this is the thing, when he first ran, I liked him because of who his enemies were, and he grew on me, but I wasn't gonna say, I know that this guy's innocent, I know these investigations are phony.
00:44:59.000When the Russiagate stuff first came out and they made these announcements, I went, maybe, I have no idea, let's see.
00:45:04.000But then as time went on, and I think I just assumed because he was running for office that he had legal skeletons in his closet because that seems to be a requirement in the United States, but as time went on and they kept launching these investigations, I went, oh my goodness, this guy's screwed.
00:45:22.000Now, with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, we literally have whistleblowers at the IRS coming forward, two of them at once, to say that the investigation into Hunter was slow-walked and that every effort was made to ensure that they weren't going to find anything and they weren't going to give him a conviction.
00:45:38.000We had Marjorie Taylor Greene yesterday at the House basically speaking with one of these whistleblowers.
00:45:45.000and alleging that Hunter was paying prostitutes with company money and then writing it off.
00:45:52.000I mean, you actually have red flags, you even have smoking guns here when you look at what's on the laptop,
00:45:58.000and there's not an investigation. Then when there is an investigation, the lightest possible charges, right?
00:46:03.000Yeah, well, I mean, we all knew something was up as soon as they announced,
00:46:30.000The other thing is, with the whistleblower yesterday, and I just have to say this and I'll let you go, my favorite part was when he was like, talking to Marjorie Taylor Greene, he was like, oh yeah, yes, we do believe at certain points he was paying for escorts and listening this way, and you know, there's a $10,000 golf club membership here.
00:48:14.000We know that if it was Don Jr., we'd see all of that and far more.
00:48:18.000And so, again, every effort is made to spare these people.
00:48:21.000Every single effort is made to ensure there's no accountability.
00:48:24.000When you have them trying to put this pornographic content in schools, whoever shows people that there's this pornographic content is now the bad guy.
00:50:15.000Some art, and he's gonna pay, and then her grandfather, the President of the United States, is gonna pretend that he doesn't have one more grandchild than he does.
00:50:46.000He said so many things that aren't true.
00:50:48.000The family of that truck driver has sued the Bidens to make him stop saying that because, and to this day, a lot of people say, Maybe someone else was drunk in that accident.
00:50:58.000But the truck driver, from the forensic evidence, and at least when the case was reported, was not the one at fault.
00:51:05.000Now, accidents happen, and that's tragic, but because Joe Biden is such a corrupt, morally corrupt person... To lie about something like that is just... To become sympathetic.
00:51:13.000He went from having hairy legs to, a drunk truck driver killed my wife and kid, because it makes him sympathetic.
00:51:19.000It's sad and horrible enough that that happened, but to lie... Well, I was going to say, to lie about this...
00:51:24.000This was when he was getting, he was sworn in, so he had three kids with his first wife, his daughter died, and then Bo and Hunter were both hospitalized, and there were images of him being sworn in for the first time in the hospital because that's how close this was to inauguration.
00:51:38.000You mean to tell me you had the eyes of the nation on you, I'm sure this story was everywhere, and you think decades later you can just make stuff up?
00:51:44.000You have such a low opinion of the American people.
00:51:46.000It's like, you know, so many stories he's made up.
00:51:49.000I don't know if anyone's kept the full list, but arrested going to see Nelson Mandela.
00:53:22.000Don't let strange kids rub lotion on your legs.
00:53:24.000Don't let strange men, don't let your kid rub lotion on a strange man's legs.
00:53:29.000But yeah man, that's definitely a bit of a black bill here.
00:53:33.000We have another story here which is, I think, Telling of some of the victory of Republican strategy in getting the left to change course on their values, which is also always a fun thing to see them forced into.
00:53:47.000As asylum seekers in cities care tops 54,800, Mayor Adam announces new policy to help asylum seekers move from shelters.
00:53:55.000Now, this is the way the media frames this when you are on their side.
00:54:04.000If it was a Republican doing this in a red state, the story would be about how he was a horrible man who's forcing families out onto the streets.
00:54:13.000New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced additional policies to help asylum seekers in the city's care move out of shelter and create critically needed space for arriving families with children seeking asylum.
00:54:25.000The city has made every effort to continue serving the more than 90,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in New York City since last spring, but with an average of 300 to 500 people still arriving each day and more than 54,000 migrants still in the city's care, New York City is at capacity, having responded in the absence of state or federal action.
00:54:45.000So y'all probably know at this point that another part of Republican strategy recently, which has actually been very effective, has been Greg Abbott busing Yes, I agree with all of those things.
00:54:55.000Let's stop allowing that to happen at the southern border as well.
00:54:57.000Of course, as soon as they have to see the economic consequences, then it becomes a serious issue.
00:55:00.000and we don't have the resources to sustain them.
00:55:02.000Yes, I agree with all of those things.
00:55:04.000Let's stop allowing that to happen at the southern border as well.
00:55:08.000Of course, as soon as they have to see the economic consequences,
00:55:30.000Well, if New York can't afford to take care of these people, what about the impoverished border towns that are forced to?
00:55:36.000What do you guys think about this story?
00:55:38.000Well, it's a great example of making them live out their values, and when your values all are welcome, and we're a sanctuary city, it is just a matter of numbers, right?
00:55:49.000The productive members of society produce the tax revenue, and then the government spends it, and when that becomes out of balance, and it's becoming out of balance when you look at the exodus.
00:55:58.000You know, my whole family is still in New York City. I'm a proud New Yorker, although I live
00:56:02.000now on a farm in rural Virginia, as you all know, and I talk about all the time. But I mean, New
00:56:06.000York City will always be home and we're eighth generation, seventh generation New Yorker.
00:56:09.000But when you look at the exodus of people who are leaving, like myself, it's the producers.
00:56:17.000It's the people. And the people are, you know, they're trying to blame climate change,
00:56:20.000but they're going to Florida and Texas.
00:56:32.000There was an article today about how climate change is driving a lot of the migration of communities, but they're all moving to Arizona, Texas, and Florida.
00:56:40.000And you're like, well, maybe they want more heat, I guess.
00:56:43.000So it's kind of comical that that's the accusation they're making.
00:56:45.000But the producers, not to sound Ayn Randian, but the people who produce value, who produce in society, are the ones leaving, and the people who take As crass as that sounds, migrants who come here with nothing, all they can do for a while is take.
00:57:02.000They need homes, they need shelter, they need food, they need healthcare.
00:57:06.000When that equation falls out of balance, you have Mayor Adams, who ran his whole campaign about how he was a welcoming mayor, all are welcome, all are welcome.
00:57:15.000Ayn Rand put it the coldest, maybe, but it is a numbers game and New York is suffering that numbers game.
00:57:22.000Yeah, well I mean this is part of why what you just explained a moment ago about the fact that when people first come to the country generally they are going to be taking more than they're able to give.
00:57:29.000This is why we had a system in place, why we do have a system and why we're supposed to adhere to the system of sponsor families bringing people in and then that family can help that person while they're in the country.
00:57:39.000It's not all being paid for by taxpayers and then that person actually has an incentive to get out on their feet because you don't want to be an adult or a person with a family Living under someone else's roof, not contributing, and not being able to get out of that situation because you haven't found a job.
00:57:55.000There's a structure in place to create the proper incentives for people who come here to start producing as soon as possible.
00:58:01.000But in the United States, there are two fundamental positions when it comes to immigration.
00:58:06.000There's the position that we should have laws, and the position that laws are mean.
00:58:09.000And those are literally the only two positions, by the way.
00:58:11.000Within position one, Yeah, it comes down to emotions and rationale.
00:58:15.000different positions people have on what those laws should be, but the dominant view is it is
00:58:19.000mean to enforce those laws. How dare you suggest that they be respected? Yeah, it comes down to
00:58:24.000emotions and rationale. Yeah, for sure. Unfortunately, I think I have a family friend who's a
00:58:31.000Greek descendant and tells the story about how Greek communities used to send someone over and
00:58:39.000they would someone it started with someone opening a retail business.
00:58:42.000I think it was a grocery store or candy store or something.
00:58:45.000And eventually they were able to then bring over someone else from the small town in Greece where they were from and eventually that person was able to move farther out and start a store and there was a community support element so much so that she still attends a big family gathering.
00:59:00.000Now they're not all related but it's just sort of this community event of people who are descended from Literally one town in Greece.
00:59:08.000And I find it interesting that we had systems that believed in support and mutual benefit and instead our immigration policy has gotten so deranged that we are saying you should illegally cross the border because Eric Adams will say yes, I will help you so you will elect me and I will look good.
00:59:25.000But actually when it comes time, when push comes to shove, he is now saying Suburbs of New York, Orange County, you guys need to house single migrant men in your hotels.
00:59:35.000And if you don't do so, you're the bad guys.
01:00:39.000I always say if I'm elected president, there will be no immigration for like my administration.
01:00:45.000The president after me can change that, but we're going to go four straight years with no immigration.
01:00:50.000I think an immigration moratorium is a completely valid option because we are not just like struggling with this.
01:00:55.000We are really in crisis and that is not okay.
01:00:59.000I think this is, I mean I've said it before, I think the open border puts the men and women and children who are trafficked across in harm's way.
01:01:13.000I think ultimately we do a disservice by allowing immigration.
01:01:16.000I would be for an immigration moratorium.
01:01:18.000But I can understand when, if you don't really read about anything and you're not super political, you're not really into the news and you just hear sob story after sob story about how actually the people who say this stuff are racist and actually they are harmful to everyone.
01:01:31.000You know, I could understand where you would be misled and probably from a very sweet, nice place of compassion.
01:02:00.000I do know that we have had an unprecedented and unsustainable number of people pouring across the border.
01:02:05.000I think in an ideal situation, A country should be able to welcome immigrants who are coming to try to make a better life for themselves, but it's important for political leaders to do the hard work of maintaining the standard of living for the citizens who were born there and who live there, and not just allow anyone into the country when that is going to come at a tremendous burden for the population of that country.
01:02:29.000There's a hospital near Dulles Airport called, I think it's Stone Springs, that friends of mine who live in that area used to tell me they have a sign outside for the ER, five minute wait, four minute wait, but now we train or we fly multiple flights per day of illegals and we drop them off and the first thing they do is they go to the airport.
01:02:50.000And now the local community says, well now the ER has a 15, 18, 20, 25, and they're like, what's going on?
01:02:53.000excuse me, thank you, and now the local community says, well now the ER has a 15, 18, 20, 25,
01:02:59.000and they're like, what's going on? Well, that's the result of unchecked immigration. So,
01:03:05.000exactly. Hope you don't have diverticulitis or a heart attack because your services are
01:03:20.000There was one time, I think, where you could have the left, if they were remotely consistent or cared about the things they claimed to care about, you could even have the left making an argument for a moratorium.
01:04:30.000And I just think, you know, The fact is you can't have a logical conversation about immigration because people feel uncomfortable talking about implications of race or diversity or whatever else.
01:04:41.000But if you bear out the numbers, like one of the examples I was reading recently is that tech job salaries have been stagnant for a long time.
01:04:48.000And part of that is because we actually have an oversupply of workers because of H-1B visas.
01:04:53.000If we didn't have that, we would have an industry that becomes competitive again.
01:04:58.000I find it interesting that people can't bear out that like, Immigration has consequences for the population, and sometimes we have to say no, and it's not out of hatred, it's just out of protection for America!
01:05:11.000Everything else detached you immediately, like the basic human goodness and decency wants to be able to say, like what Seamus was saying, like, yes, we would like people to be able to come to this country like everyone did originally, and if you don't do it the right way, though, we can't possibly be able to Say, okay, well, how do we make that work?
01:05:30.000Because we don't have like the numbers in the balance sheet to make everything make sense.
01:05:35.000And if we have like, you know, it just we have to have numbers and stuff on that.
01:05:40.000And no one knows those numbers, right?
01:05:43.000This is a point that I made years ago.
01:05:45.000I remember I was out to dinner with a group of friends, probably about eight years ago now, and this was when a shooting had happened in Paris.
01:05:53.000There was a radical, theocratic, Islamic extremist.
01:06:07.000I looked at the article and I went, oh my goodness, this is horrible.
01:06:09.000And a girl that I was out to dinner with, with my friends, who I hadn't met before, she said, you're only upset about it because it's happening in the first world.
01:06:16.000And I said, Horrible things like this happen in the third world all the time.
01:06:21.000And when they start happening in the first world, which is anomalous in the sense that it is the first time in history we've had this much wealth, this much peace, this much strength in terms of law and order, at least in certain countries we did.
01:06:34.000And when we chip away at that, it doesn't make the third world better.
01:06:39.000It just means there are now fewer places in the world where people aren't being killed by these rogue theocrats.
01:06:45.000And so what leftists will do is they'll say, okay, well, you know, your country is very wealthy and you're upset about these bad things happening in your country, but you're not concerned about what's happening in the migrants' country or why they need to come here.
01:06:59.000If the way of life that we have here is eliminated, it's not going to come back.
01:07:04.000It's very likely that I won't come back for a very, very long time, and it's not gonna make life better for the people in these countries that they're trying to escape.
01:07:12.000There's just gonna be nowhere left to run to.
01:07:15.000You brought up a great point, and I agree with everything you say.
01:07:17.000I'm just impressed at your kindness, because my answer to that is yes.
01:08:15.000This is Love Doctor with Seamus Coghlan.
01:08:17.000But what I'm going to say is, this girl, who you were at dinner in a group with, turned to you and said this because she feels as though she has to knock you out of bed.
01:09:00.000Anyway, so, the left... I'm so excited you're going to set shapes up with someone.
01:09:03.000The left has a law and order problem, and...
01:09:07.000They have a law and order problem when it comes to people entering the country illegally, when it comes to people committing violent crime, when it comes to groups that they consider to be marginalized or oppressed, but then they become proponents of ruling with an iron fist whenever it comes time to prosecute somebody on the right or who has done something that the left views as a threat to their power.
01:09:28.000So a judge has denied a bid by Q Shaman to toss out his January 6th conviction.
01:09:35.000A federal judge Thursday denied a bid by January 6th rioter Jacob Chansley, better known as the Q Shaman.
01:09:48.000To vacate his conviction in light of footage from the Capitol that day aired by ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson Chansley, who stood out from the January 6th crowd for wearing face paint and a horned headdress.
01:10:09.000During the riot, pleaded guilty to obstruction and was sentenced in November 2021 to 41 months.
01:10:16.000Now, this is something I want to mention.
01:10:17.000I was obviously being a little tongue-in-cheek there.
01:10:19.000What happened on J6 was on one side of the building, you did have people who broke through the window
01:10:23.000and broke in, and the other side of the building, the police literally opened the doors and let people in.
01:10:27.000So you had just a lot of regular people who were there as protesters, who were walking through
01:10:30.000and were catching charges because of it.
01:10:33.000There was actually a judge who had to let somebody off because the footage that they had of the event
01:10:37.000proved that he basically went and told, spoke to a police officer,
01:10:40.000and he wasn't told that he couldn't leave.
01:10:42.000In order to charge someone with trespassing, they can't think that they're allowed to be there.
01:10:47.000But, of course, we know that the left, they don't care about law and order at all, and that goes in two directions.
01:10:51.000That goes, A, in the direction of not prosecuting people who are breaking the law, and, of course, prosecuting people who didn't break the law, and refusing to exonerate someone, even when footage comes out showing that they were not guilty of the crime of which they were accused.
01:11:06.000Now, that said, in this particular story, I can't give you all the intricacies and details.
01:11:11.000It's possible that they still had something on him.
01:11:15.000But overall, with the pattern that I've seen with these hearings, they're all too willing to be as harsh as possible on people who really either have a very good excuse or actually didn't break the law at all.
01:11:26.000And there are some people who were genuinely violent who should be locked up.
01:11:30.000But again, we don't see any of the people who Broke down the barricades at the White House, being arrested.
01:11:35.000There was not an investigation into the 2020 riots, despite a majority of the American population wanting investigations.
01:11:42.000According to polling data, far more people than wanted investigations into January 6th, because the J6, you know, investigations were not about protecting the American people or our democracy.
01:11:51.000They're about protecting people in power and having you ignore the fact that cities were literally set on fire and allowed to burn for several months at a time.
01:11:58.000Well, it is a crime to withhold exculpatory evidence, and that's what the J6 committee did.
01:12:04.000And if that had been extended to other famous cases, you think of Hands Up, Don't Shoot, you think of Kyle Rittenhouse, right?
01:12:13.000When evidence comes out, different angles, different cameras, different footage, And you get to paint the whole picture.
01:12:19.000It somehow changes the verdict a little bit because the jury sees everything.
01:12:24.000There was no jury, obviously, in the J6 trial, but the fact that they withheld all of this, and obviously this footage wasn't brought into Jacob Chansley's, it's shameful for the judge, right?
01:12:35.000And it's shameful for Benny Thomas and the entire J6 committee and all the people who partook of it.
01:12:40.000That's why the Republicans turned so much on Liz Cheney, why they turned so much on Madeleine Kinzinger.
01:12:47.000Not because they were part of J6, but because they knew that they were
01:13:28.000Yeah, he gave his prayer, thank you Lord God Almighty for the United States Senate, thank you for the Capitol Police who are keeping us safe, and then they walked him out and he went home.
01:13:38.000So again, people can say, well he still broke the law by being there, but that really changes things a little bit from the narrative that they showed at J6.
01:13:47.000Well, yeah, I mean, it's hard to say that somebody is a trespasser when police officers literally walk them through the building and tell them that they can be there.
01:13:54.000I mean, you would have thought if he was doing something illegal, they would have perhaps been the one to notice it.
01:15:32.000Because we are not carrying out justice for the people.
01:15:35.000We are carrying out justice for these corporations and the administrative bloat that says we did the right thing and we will prove it to you with our own tools.
01:15:42.000Well, even the whole narrative surrounding January 6th and the idea that it's an insurrection is so unbelievably ridiculous.
01:15:48.000These people were grasping at any straw they can possibly grab out to try to indict and criminalize.
01:15:54.000Donald Trump or prosecute Donald Trump make him out to seem as if he was trying to subvert our democratic process when in reality they were doing that with this fraudulent nonsensical investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and his collaboration with them.
01:16:09.000When you actually look at the narrative, what they're effectively saying is that Donald Trump, the commander-in-chief, The President of the United States, the most powerful person on the planet, with all of the resources available to the executive branch at his fingertips, wanted to overturn a fair and free election, and his genius plan to do so was by dog-whistling to a bunch of boomers to go inside of the Capitol and not do anything violent.
01:16:44.000He literally said, go have your voices heard.
01:16:48.000He didn't tell them to be violent, he told them to be non-violent, he told them to go protest!
01:16:52.000Not break in, but even so, if he had some kind of secret dog whistle that only the other conservatives could hear, and that's why they went in there, It seems like a pretty lame thing to dog whistle when you're trying to overthrow the United States government to get it to get a group of people.
01:17:08.000I mean, it's the most really was a mostly peaceful insurrection.
01:17:11.000It was the only person who was harmed.
01:17:13.000The only person who was harmed was one of the protesters poor Ashley Babbitt.
01:18:12.000But it is interesting because people did suffer because of these riots, and the representation is that they were all armed and dangerous and crazy, and Donald Trump sent them there.
01:18:22.000And meanwhile, the video showed these supposed leaders saying, no one go in!
01:18:39.000And especially because we did not see the same kind of vicious pursuit of people who really did burn businesses in the summer of 2020.
01:18:48.000How can you say that this is worth spending, I'm gonna go back to our first story, millions of dollars investigating, right?
01:18:57.000How come we don't have a system of justice that represents people outside of Washington?
01:19:02.000If you were an American voter and you had a business that burned in Minneapolis or in any major city and you know that they just said we're gonna let them go, They didn't feel for it, and it's okay.
01:19:11.000But because it happened to us, the federal government, we are going to use the full weight of our purse strings to go after these people.
01:19:17.000It's so crazy how fast it shifted focus from, like, everything else they were going after Trump for, and then all of a sudden, like, I was watching it live, and I'm like, okay, so now this has happened, everything else was forgotten about, essentially.
01:19:29.000And the main focus and a show trial on this for the next however many years, and all for what?
01:19:38.000Well, one thing OLHC over there mentioned that I want to touch on was that there were people who passed there and what ended up happening is there were people who didn't die at January 6th but died later?
01:20:27.000I think it was, and I remember this feeling, so the night of all of this, I was actually working on an old house that I was flipping, and I remember, I have such a vivid memory of listening to this on my phone and throughout that day, because I was new to hanging drywall, and I was doing the thing where you put up the joint compound on the tape, and you have to scrape it off, and I'm not great at it.
01:20:47.000But I remember listening to this and just thinking, The hysterics that went on in Congress afterwards thinking like, you guys didn't care when this happened to your constituents.
01:21:57.000I don't know if it's censure, I don't know if it's... But when you foment hysteria and you pile on and you say, I was almost killed on January 6th, and you say, well, you're only doing that to throw fuel to the fire, and that's dangerous.
01:22:09.000But our politicians do this all the time.
01:22:11.000Well, again, when Trump and his family, when the literal president of the United States and his family were forced into the presidential bunker, that was hilarious.
01:22:19.000It was actually really, the only condemnation we got was the condemnation of Trump for actually clearing the protesters away and then going to the historic St.
01:22:28.000John's Church and having pictures taken.
01:23:30.000No, I don't expect anything better, but sometimes it's fun to read these articles so that we can not only give people the truth, but show them how the media lies.
01:23:37.000It's been an exercise of sorting through the nonsense.
01:23:39.000Right, and no one can claim that we only use one side, because this is your bizarre article.
01:23:43.000That's right, put that in my dating profile, Anna Claire.
01:23:45.000Baton Rouge, Louisiana's Republican-dominated legislature overturned Democratic government John Bel Edwards' recent veto of a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors on Tuesday.
01:23:55.000Louisiana, where the ban is scheduled to go into effect on January 1st, 2024, will join 20 other states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care, which includes puberty blockers, hormone treatment, And gender reassignment surgery.
01:24:43.000One article I saw about this, and I see this periodically whenever Republicans do literally the only sane thing you possibly can do and say don't mutilate children, is Republicans are trying to restrict transgender youth from receiving health care, as if the Republicans are going, You want your kidney removed and replaced?
01:25:11.000I would love to ask John Bel Edwards, the governor who tried to overturn this, who vetoed this law, and I'm glad he was overturned, I just have a quick question.
01:25:20.000Since you are not up for re-election, actually the gubernatorial race is happening already in Louisiana, he's served his two terms.
01:25:31.000John Bel Edwards has been fairly conservative Democrat, but now is he auditioning for a role, hoping that Biden wins re-election?
01:25:39.000Does he want to be a cabinet secretary?
01:25:41.000Is he auditioning for ambassadorship somewhere?
01:25:44.000I mean, he's clearly looking for his next gig, and he says, well, heck, I'm a Democrat.
01:25:48.000I have to start doing Democrat things, because if you ask the people of Louisiana, I think their legislators represent them.
01:25:55.000Louisiana is a fairly conservative state, very red state.
01:25:58.000America is a fairly conservative country.
01:26:41.000Unless he's going to try and run for Senate, which I don't think he could get elected from, from Louisiana, there's no room to go except to join The Biden administration, if there is a second term of the Biden administration.
01:26:52.000You know, I love these stories because I like to see our laws at work, right?
01:26:56.000Like, it is interesting that Louisiana's lawmaker said, no, we don't want this.
01:27:02.000And he was like, I'm going to do it anyways.
01:27:04.000And I think that that must be a real victory for the residents of Louisiana who voted for their state leaders to come up and be brave, because it is not an issue Even in red states that people typically want to talk about that feel comfortable rejecting because, again, the language around it is so much like you are voting against giving trans children orthodontia.
01:27:31.000Until you read the second paragraph and it's like, oh my god.
01:27:36.000And I think that's like the strangest thing, which if I were to say to you, conservatives voted to protect at-risk youth from undergoing unnecessary medical procedures, you'd be like, oh wow, cool, that seems like it could be good.
01:27:51.000Mentally unstable youth from permanently scarring, yeah.
01:27:54.000Vulnerable populations, which you tell us over and over and over again, are subject to all kinds of mental health risks that other people are not, should not be experimented on.
01:28:06.000If I told you that, you would agree with me.
01:28:08.000But as soon as I tell you I'm a conservative and I'm against letting minors undergo hormone and surgery, Then you're against it.
01:28:19.000Remember how you just said you died with COVID, you died of COVID, and they consumed everyone with COVID, and you died with January 6 and died of January 6?
01:28:29.000Since all the data shows that minors who have this mutilation done to themselves, their suicide rate goes up.
01:28:37.000Should they be considered died of trans surgery or died with trans surgery?
01:28:42.000So I've looked, there's a bunch of different studies that I've seen on this and some of them will claim that oh when you do these interventions you actually see a decrease in suicide rate.
01:28:55.000I've looked into those studies, the ones that I've seen are pretty nonsensical.
01:28:59.000There's a study that I won't even get into, well maybe I will.
01:29:03.000So there was a survey done in 2015 of like 27,000 transgender people, but the way it was done was by reaching out to advocacy groups and then having those groups find people to answer these questions.
01:29:16.000So Rachel Levine was interviewed in this.
01:29:19.000Yeah, so basically what ended up happening was this data was parsed through by Jack Turbin of Stanford University and they released this statement about, they released this study based on this data just I think a year or two ago and they said, look, this study proves that health outcomes and life outcomes get better for people because what we actually were able to do with this study was measure trans youth who got health care, and I hate that term trans youth, that's like...
01:29:50.000Yeah, and we saw the ones who could get the hormones and puberty blockers and those who couldn't.
01:29:58.000And we found the life outcomes were better for the people who were able to get these puberty blockers.
01:30:01.000Well, there's several issues with that, which is firstly, one of the reasons a person won't qualify for these treatments is because they have significant mental health issues to the point where that doctor doesn't feel comfortable giving it to them.
01:30:11.000So in the group of people who weren't able to receive the treatment you would already expect for there to be worse mental health outcomes and none of that was normed for them.
01:30:19.000And also what the study did is they took men taking estrogen and women taking testosterone and lumped their results together as if that's the same kind of treatment.
01:30:29.000So, what they did end up finding was that one of those groups had their suicide rate go up after they started taking hormones and the other didn't, but then they just squished it all together to hide that and make it seem like taking those hormones is better for you.
01:30:41.000There's also a bunch of other issues with that survey.
01:30:43.000There's a bunch of other issues with the other studies they claim.
01:30:46.000There have been, I think, the most credible and reliable studies that have come out about this.
01:30:50.000And again, I'm not basing this on liking the results, but I'm talking about studies that have, like, looked through actual Medical data in Nordic Europe have found that there's actually an increased suicide rate once you get far enough out from the surgery, about 10 years, you see a massive spike.
01:31:09.000Even the studies that purport to show that suicide rate or life goes down or life outcomes increase will show it occurring to like a very marginal degree that doesn't even put that person in line with the rest of the population.
01:31:23.000So you end up engaging in this mutilation for a very slight, even negligible benefit.
01:31:28.000But again, that's a slight or negligible benefit within like a year or two, often based on small sample sizes and poorly collected data, that doesn't go all the way out to that 10-year mark where more credible studies have shown the suicide rate really increases.
01:31:41.000It's very hard also to survey people who committed suicide.
01:31:50.000There was a study out of Sweden that went over hundreds and hundreds of different people's medical histories, and they compared people who had been diagnosed with dysphoria who received treatment for You know, dysphoria, or in other words, I shouldn't say treatment for dysphoria, who had these mutilating interventions, those who didn't, and then the general population.
01:32:07.000And what they found out just by looking at those medical records was that hospitalizations for suicide doubled among the people who had received the intervention.
01:32:16.000So we're going to go to Super Chats now.
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01:34:16.000I thought it was a great interview with him.
01:34:18.000Satosha Catergater, oh boy, she said, finally I have a chance to tune in to TimCast this week.
01:34:24.000While I made a public apology to Seamus for accusing him of stealing spoons, Michael Knowles convinced me this morning that Seamus is at least stealing something.
01:34:34.000Yeah, apparently a lot of free rent out of your head.
01:35:43.000People will talk about the fact that In Europe, the drinking age is much lower.
01:35:48.000I think in a functional country, you can and do have a lower drinking age.
01:35:53.000You're an adult at 18, you should be able to drink.
01:35:55.000However, we don't raise virtuous adults who can handle anything, let alone their liquor today.
01:36:00.000So I kind of understand why it's at 21.
01:36:01.000Well, and I think our 18 year old limit It's weird, like a lot of European countries have a graduated system, so you could drink beer when you're younger, right?
01:36:11.000Like when you're with parents, you can drink at home, things like that.
01:36:13.000And I think that encourages a culture that has alcohol be a part of it and you learn to drink in a calm way, you learn to drink, you know, at meals, socially.
01:36:24.000I always reference this, but there was a group of university presidents led by the president of Dartmouth University, I believe, who said, we want to lower the drinking age to 18 because we want people to not come to college campuses and start binge drinking.
01:37:20.000So when you have 18-year-olds telling 21-year-olds you can't have a beer, but you have 18-year-olds sending them to war, I have a problem with that.
01:37:28.000So if I am old enough to vote, I'm old enough to do Interesting.
01:37:41.000Just because historically, you couldn't vote until you were 21, but people were basically on their own providing for
01:37:47.000themselves from the time they were 16.
01:37:49.000So you had a couple years under your belt of like learning about what the world was before you were able to, you know, you'd paid rent before or built a house, lived on land.
01:38:45.000Yeah, I just want to quickly finish my point though.
01:38:47.000I was going to say that I think the responsibility is hugely important.
01:38:50.000I think that's what everyone's talking about here.
01:38:51.000If you boil it down, you're talking about responsibility to say like, oh, well, yeah, alcohol does this to me and I can restrain myself from drinking too much of it.
01:38:58.000I went to high school in Singapore and the drinking age is 18 there.
01:39:01.000And, you know, like at some point when all the seniors in high school are turning 18, You're able to drink and you're still going to school.
01:39:08.000You're still expecting people to control yourself and handle yourself.
01:39:10.000Like you said, when you came to school in Texas, right?
01:39:52.000Biden claiming to grow up in a black church is like the real-life version of Steve Martin's character recounting his life in the movie The Jerk when he said, I was a small black child.
01:40:00.000He's a classical dishonest lawyer from an era when you couldn't be fact-checked.
01:43:35.000I think I could maybe work most of that into an article.
01:43:37.000There is an obligation with language to like, when we're writing, to like not give in to the left bias, right, the gender affirming care, but also not lean so far verbose that you're also just leaning into a different echo chamber.
01:43:52.000It's definitely an interesting suggestion.
01:43:53.000I tend to say, and it's really awkward, medical gender-related intervention services or something like that.
01:44:04.000And the thing is, it makes these types of articles very difficult.
01:44:07.000It doesn't feel like my best writing because it's the most awkward phrasing of all time.
01:45:05.000I also feel like I could do better talking to people who have Strong arguments for immigration because more and more, and maybe this is just the sphere that I'm living in, but people who I think of as moderate, even lean, slightly progressive, are much more open to restricting immigration than I feel like they ever were in my lifetime, you know?
01:45:22.000And I think that should tell you how bad it's getting.
01:45:27.000We have from Jason Hutchinson, taxation is theft, Hunter Biden is... and then he compliments him here.
01:45:33.000I'm not going to read it out loud because I'm not ever going to have a compliment to Hunter Biden come out of my mouth so that it can be clipped as if I'm complimenting Hunter Biden.
01:45:39.000But the words, the next words he said, you go ahead, I'll say Hunter Biden is...
01:46:09.000When your dad is a career politician and the president, it's pretty based to abuse that privilege.
01:46:14.000So I'm going to read this next super chat just to let people know that I do give voice to opposing opinion, and if people say things that are incorrect, I'm willing to hear them out.
01:46:24.000So Sobby Vet says, first super chat for Shimcast.
01:46:29.000I'm loving Shimcast, but I'm still amazed Tim would leave a Spoon Thief in charge, give the people what they want.
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01:49:31.000I really enjoyed the conversation with him, and I think he went way deeper on his answers to the questions we gave him than any other presidential candidate I've ever heard speak on those issues.
01:49:45.000He really cut into the spiritual core of the matter, and I was very impressed.
01:49:50.000And that's great that he did it, and for the length of time he did it, because most presidential candidates, and having worked on several presidential campaigns, will do their fake town halls where the questions are pre-scripted, and the person gets up there and says, Carter, good morning.
01:50:03.000My name is, and they know exactly who you are, and they tilt their head and they say, that's a great question, Carter, thank you.
01:50:09.000I always wondered how they knew their names.
01:50:10.000Thank you for asking me that, and let me just say that, and it's all scripted.
01:50:14.000So to sit in this type of forum, where you get not only super chats, but you get each other, all of you, that's hard.
01:50:20.000And that's why candidates don't do it.
01:50:22.000And I keep advocating for this, my last little plug, that I think is so important.
01:50:27.000Before the days of COVID, our politicians, especially our congressmen and women, used to do that in their districts during the summer.
01:50:34.000And then COVID happened, they were like, we can't have town halls, because no one has brought that back.
01:50:39.000Because no one who runs for Congress wants to stand in the high school gym and say, Carter, what's your question?
01:50:48.000So they hide behind the COVID and they're not bringing it back.
01:50:51.000The best thing you can do to get involved with democracy at the local level is force your politicians to stand there with a microphone in the gym and answer every damn question.
01:51:01.000And you will see whether or not they are worthy of the job.
01:51:44.000I think I probably asked you this last time, Ron, but how did you get interested in the energy industry?
01:51:49.000I hated the lies of the environmental left.
01:51:52.000So to take on their lies, I had to learn this issue and I hated the damage the environmental
01:51:58.000left was doing just the way the COVID people, the damage they did to 14 year old girls committing
01:52:05.000suicide at what was it, 10 times the average rate.
01:52:09.000And the damage that we do to people for an agenda, that's what got me involved in it, because the damage they do to rural America.
01:52:16.000West Virginia cold towns are not very far from here, and when you see the state of what we've done to those communities and the poverty we've left them in, it made me very, very angry.
01:52:43.000And by mild-mannered, I don't mean like...
01:52:46.000Like, you speak your opinion, but you don't get angry with people when they challenge you, I've noticed, and I'll also say righteous indignation is very valuable, and an important point about that, about Jesus driving the bankers out of the temple, is you can do that, you can yell at people, if you're also willing to die for them.
01:53:01.000That's another part of the story people forget.
01:54:35.000And it shows the true pernicious nature of this movement.
01:54:38.000Well, and I think this is so interesting because it's the same people who are saying, you know, we have to have higher standards, we need to not allow child labor, but they won't demand that manufacturing jobs come back to the US, where we could oversee this, right?
01:54:55.000As long as they get their stuff cheap and they don't have to think about what's happening to children, and they could just say that conservatives are being mean to transgender-identifying minors here, and they don't have to think about the lives that go into the cheap products they buy from Target, then it doesn't matter to them.
01:55:12.000If you really believed in protecting children, you would bring back manufacturing jobs.
01:55:16.000Well, you know, it's also interesting because I mentioned earlier that what the left will do is they'll say, this really horrible, objectively evil thing is something people are going to do anyway, so we just have to let it happen so we can do it responsibly or have it done responsibly.
01:55:28.000And then what always happens is more people do it, and they're always wrong.
01:55:32.000The one area where you actually can make that argument is when it is something that isn't objectively evil.
01:55:38.000So with mining, for example, which is not objectively evil, there are evil ways of doing it, and people are doing it in evil ways, and we're just letting them do it that way instead of doing it ourselves and driving them out of the market.
01:55:49.000That is actually one instance where us doing something could prevent people from doing it in an irresponsible way by reducing market demand for what they're doing, and we refuse.
01:57:44.000Trying to figure out how... Someone had said, and I want to give them credit, I wanted to give them credit, but they were basically saying that I didn't do anything wrong, and you... So the evidence was withheld, and the evidence was withheld in my case, is all I'm saying.
01:58:03.000Seems like you were looking for the positive... No, I saw one, and someone whipped it away from me.
01:58:43.000The fact that they made that joke means that they're racist against me, and in spite of their racism, they were still willing to acknowledge that I had done nothing wrong.
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