Spencer Lindquist, journalist for The Daily Wire, joins us today to talk about the incredible collusion between Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Media, and Big Tech to push an ideology from which they are profiting. We also talk about Amazon spying on people and then punishing them based on what they said they didn't actually say. And then, we have the FBI trying to appeal to Taylor Swift fans. What in the world is going on?
00:00:00.000The National Institutes of Health is funding access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children, despite evidence showing that these things lead to permanent sterility for these children throughout their lives.
00:00:16.940This is being reported by Spencer Lindquist, who has done a lot of work to uncover the facts of this absolutely stunning and tragic story.
00:00:26.060And he is here today to explain what's really going on, this collusion between big government, these pharmaceutical companies, major corporations to push an ideology from which they are profiting.
00:00:39.720Also, we will talk about big tech, specifically Amazon, spying on people and then punishing them based on what they say or in the case that we're talking about today, based on what they didn't actually say.
00:00:54.300And then speaking of big brother, we've got the FBI trying to appeal to Taylor Swift fans.
00:01:39.300Your positive reviews are just so encouraging for our entire team.
00:01:42.460Also, just because I'm wearing it today, and I will mention this in the episode, too, in the middle of the episode, I've got my Do the Next Right Thing shirt on, Do the Next Right Thing.
00:01:52.720And then on the back, it says what we always say, which is, Do the Next Right Thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
00:02:00.180I didn't even get to remind you guys, I didn't even get to remind you guys of that on Monday, as I typically do, but just a reminder that that is sufficient.
00:02:05.540That is enough in every moment, whether you are lost, confused, scared, happy, up high on the highest peak, down low in the lowest valley, completely befuddled by your current situation.
00:02:18.860All you can do, all we ever can do is the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
00:02:24.260We've added something to a famous Elizabeth Elliot quote that she had written and said many times.
00:04:44.280If it's just research, what's the problem?
00:04:46.680So this is an interesting case out of the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
00:04:52.480We obtained these documents from Parents Defending Education, and it shows the potential risks and side effects of puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
00:05:03.260And it states in no uncertain terms that one of the potential risks is sterilization.
00:05:08.540It states that if a child does not go through puberty and then progresses on to hormone therapy, that children will never develop sperm or they will never have healthy eggs that are capable of being fertilized.
00:05:22.620So the NIH is funding a study at this hospital all about the efficacy, the potential risks of these treatments.
00:05:31.820But meanwhile, we know the risks, and the risks are present in these forms that we've obtained.
00:05:36.340Wow. And so here's something that it says that one of the parental consent or guardian consent forms says at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
00:05:48.480It's titled Puberty Blockers for Minors and Early Adolescents.
00:05:53.180If your child starts puberty blockers in the earliest stages of puberty and then goes on to gender-affirming hormones, of course, that means cross-sex hormones, they will not develop sperm or eggs.
00:06:04.780This means that they will not be able to have biological children.
00:06:09.940And you also report that the data shows that 98% of kids who go on puberty blockers do end up on cross-sex hormones and so therefore will be rendered sterile, right?
00:06:24.000We know that the available data right now says that the vast majority, like you said, some of these studies have found 98% of children who go on puberty blockers end up also going on these cross-sex hormone therapies.
00:06:36.700And we know that that combination, as it has been admitted by the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, we know that that combination results oftentimes in sterilization.
00:06:47.300We also had a recent original report here at The Daily Wire from the University of Virginia Medical Center.
00:06:53.120A very similar situation transpired there where these consent forms specifically highlighted the risk of sterilization.
00:07:00.040So this is not an isolated case, and we know that this is a present danger that we are currently aware of.
00:07:07.720And the federal government, under Biden's direction, is funding some of this stuff.
00:07:14.700The NIH is funding a wide array of different studies focused on transgenderism, particularly transgenderism in youth.
00:07:22.480We also uncovered a $3.26 million grant from the NIH to the Boston Children's Hospital, and it was all about, quote, expanding access to these, what they call gender-affirming care.
00:07:37.520Now, the entire idea behind this was to expand the workforce of those who provide this type of, again, what they call gender-affirming care.
00:07:46.360But it specifically was looking at those who are what they call TGD youth, that's transgender and gender-diverse youth, which it defined as those between the ages of 13 to 24.
00:07:59.140And we hear, we've heard from specifically Rachel Levine, but we hear from activists, we hear from those in the medical community, even American Academy of Pediatrics, that this stuff is life-saving for kids who claim that they have gender dysphoria or who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
00:08:19.200That they need puberty blockers, they need these cross-sex hormones, that even if it renders them infertile, it's worth it because it saves them from suicide.
00:08:29.960Transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine said that the Biden administration gives its, quote, highest support to the transition of minors and that this is actually important for their mental health.
00:08:43.600When you were researching this, did you find any data that supported that assertion that these kinds of procedures or these kinds of medical prescriptions are saving kids from suicide?
00:08:55.500We didn't come across that data, but like you stated, that is exactly how these grants are justified.
00:09:04.060That is the alleged necessity behind these grants.
00:09:07.520This Transgender Health Guide, that's what they're calling this $3.26 million NIH-backed program.
00:09:14.500And they're specifically saying that this exists to address these mental health disparities that are experienced by youth who identify as transgender or non-binary.
00:09:24.160But we actually saw in one recent NIH-backed study that there were two individuals who actually ended up committing suicide.
00:09:33.460We haven't found out much about the details surrounding their deaths.
00:09:37.220We know that at least 11 others were reported to experience suicidal ideation.
00:09:42.520Now, this sparked some outrage from various different senators who wrote a letter to the NIH.
00:09:47.140But we keep hearing this claim that this is integral to the health, to the safety.
00:09:52.860It's a medical necessity for these children.
00:09:55.420And that is exactly how they justify these grants.
00:09:58.300Yeah, so it says, your reporting says that Republican members of Congress responded to the two suicide deaths,
00:10:06.520as you just listed, with a letter to NIH Acting Director Lawrence Tabak,
00:10:10.600citing grave concerns about the study while also pointing out that the researchers admitted
00:10:14.980that they were not able to properly establish causality between the administration of cross-sex hormones
00:10:20.740and improved psychosocial functioning because their study lacked a control group.
00:10:26.760And honestly, I haven't seen either in this research, in your article, or in any other journalism that I've seen,
00:10:35.480any data, any support to that claim that it's important for the federal government
00:10:40.860to back the sterilization of children for their mental health and to prevent suicide.
00:10:47.320This is an assertion, as you said, that is being made.
00:10:50.560But as far as I know, it's not backed by any fact.
00:10:53.540So I know that you're just dealing with the facts of the case.
00:10:58.480And so I don't want to ask for you to editorialize or ask your opinion.
00:11:01.580But just based on what you know, what does it seem like is motivating this?
00:14:38.300You're talking about the pharmaceutical companies.
00:14:40.620You're talking about these major hospitals.
00:14:42.840The entire medical industrial complex is now infiltrating curriculum in schools, groups in schools.
00:14:51.880I mean, it's hard to imagine how regular people can push back against something like this.
00:14:59.760Do you see within these entities, within the medical community, did you find any pushback, any whistleblower, someone sounding the alarm saying everything that's happening within this is not okay?
00:15:14.740There certainly is some degree of pushback.
00:16:03.840And it's actually a drug that's been used to chemically castrate sex offenders, interestingly enough.
00:16:09.300And then we also have Bayer, which also creates drugs that are used to manipulate the hormones of individuals who are trying to change their sex.
00:16:17.740So it certainly does pose this interesting question when we are seeing such a wide-reaching attempt.
00:16:24.580Big pharma understands gender and sexuality.
00:16:29.320Right, and man, it's connected to so many other things as well because they're creating not just patience for a little while while these children are supposed to be going through puberty or in adolescence.
00:16:43.180I mean, when you're talking about halting or stopping entirely the reproductive capacity of a person, if that person then wants to somehow parent a child, they then have to go back to the medical industrial complex and find typically some kind of technological or medical way to do that.
00:17:03.960And not going through puberty alone creates lifelong health issues for people.
00:17:09.220So they're making lifelong patients dependent upon the pharmaceutical companies.
00:17:15.100And so they have every profit interest to keep pushing this.
00:17:19.480And then, of course, again, big media, big government, they all work together.
00:17:23.900And kids are being placed on the altar of adults' narcissistic pursuits, which is really sad.
00:17:33.080I'm very thankful to you for uncovering this.
00:17:35.520Is there anything else, like anything else that stuck out to you in your supporting or in your reporting that you think that people really need to make sure that they know?
00:17:43.320Well, it's worth highlighting that last point that you made about the lifelong nature of these procedures and these interventions.
00:17:50.880That's something that the folks over at Do No Harm pointed out to us, that you're essentially getting people hooked on to, in their words, a medical subscription service, right?
00:18:01.000So if you have a child who starts out on puberty blockers when they're 12 or 13, they need those blockers through the rest of the duration of their puberty.
00:18:09.260And those hormones, you know, that's not something that you just take once.
00:18:13.140That's something that is taken monthly or on a semi-annual basis.
00:18:17.300So it is worth reiterating exactly that point that you made where big pharma does have a vested interest not only in pushing it socially but in profiting from these long-term medical interventions.
00:18:47.940I hope you guys enjoyed that interview.
00:18:51.100I mean, as much as you can enjoy hearing about a subject like that.
00:18:55.340But it's so important, actual journalists doing actual journalism to uncover the powers that be and how they're all working together to push such a harmful ideology.
00:19:07.240I know it might feel like you are powerless in the face of something like that, like it's too big for you to conquer.
00:19:18.660But really, the only thing that you can do is the next right thing.
00:19:23.040And you never know what flap of the butterfly wing you are.
00:19:27.720You never know what impact and effect you can have by speaking and living the truth in your own family, in your own community.
00:19:36.520If the only thing that you can do is simply disciple your children in the truth and affirm to them that which God says is good and right and true, that is sufficient.
00:19:48.060And then if God allows you to do the same thing in your school, within your friend group, within your community, maybe even on a larger level than that, then he can bless you with that kind of platform.
00:20:00.720But never take for granted your ability to fight back against the darkness by simply doing the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
00:20:18.060So here's a kind of random story that I saw circulating on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, and I sent it to my team and I was like, I want to talk about this at some point because I don't see this going viral.
00:20:37.840And yet I think it speaks to some really important and kind of frightening issues, very frightening issues.
00:20:43.000And so in our country today, like we were just talking about the collusion between the pharmaceutical companies and and big governments and then the media, they're all working together to push this kind of harmful and really physically, materially deleterious idea that you can switch genders.
00:21:02.940But it's not just gender ideology, it's really all progressive ideology that they are willing to employ every single power and resource that they have to enforce upon the public like you don't even it doesn't even matter whether or not you have the First Amendment.
00:21:20.260When you have corporations, when you have corporations, when you have these major institutions that are willing to infringe upon your free speech or freedom to hold the ideas that you have really on behalf of the government.
00:21:38.140So here's the story that I wanted to tell you guys about.
00:21:41.800This is via a Medium article, and then it was picked up by the Daily Mail.
00:21:46.860Well, Amazon devices turned off in a person's home after a quote unquote racist remark.
00:21:54.280So this is the this is a story that is being told by someone.
00:22:08.940This is a person telling something that he says happened to him.
00:22:12.280So Brandon Jackson, a software engineer and home automation enthusiast, wrote that the sequence of events began when an Amazon package was delivered to his house on Wednesday, May 24th.
00:23:12.740But he connected with the executive and the executive apparently, according to him, asked him if he knew why his account had been locked.
00:23:21.080When he said no, their tones turned somewhat accusatory.
00:23:24.920Brandon was told that the driver who had delivered his package the previous day reported that he received a racist remark from his video doorbell.
00:23:36.080So Brandon said that this was confusing for several reasons.
00:23:39.040This was the accusation that he said someone high up at Amazon alleged.
00:23:46.300And that was why they punished him to turn off his Amazon devices.
00:23:50.320So he was confused about this because he says he has multiple cameras recording everything on his property so he could verify the driver's claims.
00:23:57.580He and his family share the same race as most of the delivery drivers in this area.
00:24:03.320No one in his family was home at the time of delivery to have made those comments.
00:24:07.340So Brandon reviewed the footage and confirmed that no such comments had been made.
00:24:11.980The doorbell had issued an automated response.
00:24:44.560It wasn't until the following week that they decided to turn his Amazon devices back on.
00:24:50.640He says that if a person paid for a device, they own it.
00:24:53.500They should be able to use it on their property if it doesn't hurt anyone else.
00:24:56.960After a decade of loyalty to Amazon and utilizing their systems in his home, Brandon is considering discontinuing, considering, he says, discontinuing his Amazon devices and cautioning others to do the same.
00:25:06.600Amazon told DailyMail.com this in a statement.
00:25:09.280We work hard to provide customers with great experiences while also ensuring drivers who deliver Amazon packages feel safe.
00:25:15.920In this case, we learned through our investigation that the customer did not act inappropriately, and we're working directly with the customer to resolve their concerns while also looking at ways to prevent a similar situation from happening again.
00:25:32.180I mean, according to DailyMail, an Amazon representative is saying to DailyMail, yeah, we did that.
00:25:38.000This is ensuring our drivers are safe.
00:25:39.960So what if he had said something racist?
00:25:42.140What if he had said something that was caught on camera or caught on the recording that the driver interpreted as racist?
00:25:52.280Maybe it wasn't meant to be racist, but maybe it was some like, I don't know, if the driver was black and the person in the home said like, hey, what are you doing here?
00:26:22.300Like, even if this person did say something completely egregious, is that part of the terms of service for Amazon's devices?
00:26:30.560Like, think about all of Amazon's devices that they own.
00:26:37.580They own a thermostat called the Nest.
00:26:41.580And so tell me, in the middle of the summer, if you have a Ring doorbell, which, right, Amazon also owns Ring.
00:26:47.660If you have a Ring doorbell and you're getting an Amazon package delivered and they claim, the Amazon driver claims that they heard you say something, maybe it wasn't, maybe they said it's not racist.
00:27:24.180I think we can just consider, like, what kind of consequences could possibly come from this?
00:27:29.220And there was an interesting thing also reported by Daily Mail.
00:27:32.900In 2018, Amazon came under fire when thousands of Amazon Prime customers discovered that their accounts were deleted.
00:27:39.520They took to social media to figure out the issue.
00:27:42.400Amazon issued a statement to those customers explaining that accounts had violated Amazon's policies around posting reviews for commercial purposes.
00:27:50.780Amazon bans users from publishing reviews in exchange for things like discounts or gift cards.
00:27:56.100As part of Amazon's terms and conditions that list, the firm can terminate your Prime membership at our discretion without notice.
00:28:02.680So that's the important part of that story, that they can just shut off your account for any, I mean, for any reason that they deem necessary.
00:28:11.400Maybe it's somewhere in the fine print that, hey, if you say something through our devices, like through our ring devices, we can shut off your account, shut off your thermostat, maybe.
00:28:26.100Maybe we should think twice before handing over all of our stuff to these major corporations.
00:28:32.520And look, I'm someone who shops at Amazon.
00:28:35.580I try not to as much as I used to, but I have used Amazon for, you know, those things that I'm like, oh, my gosh, I, you know, need this tomorrow or whatever it is.
00:28:46.020I need this quickly and I don't have time to go to the store.
00:28:49.420And so, I mean, we're all guilty of this and it's for the sake of convenience.
00:28:56.520There are a lot of things that I do for the sake of convenience where I'm probably supporting entities that hate me or that hate free speech anyway.
00:29:07.540And, of course, someone's going to listen to this and be like, that's a justification for racism.
00:29:12.740You're saying that it's fine to say awful things to minorities.
00:29:18.700It's no justification for anything like that.
00:29:22.760Like, let's just think in principle just for a second.
00:29:27.000Like, would you like Amazon to be policing the words that you say in your own home and then punishing you based on the interpretation of things that you said or did not say?
00:29:46.120All of those dystopian movies and books that you've read.
00:29:48.960It's like we're living in them at least partly.
00:29:52.480So I just wanted to highlight that story.
00:29:54.880Again, maybe we think twice before we buy all of these devices.
00:29:58.740Like, if you don't think that these companies will weaponize the private conversations that you have in your home against you when it's convenient for them,
00:30:06.300when it's politically convenient for them, when it's advantageous for their profits, you are kidding yourself.
00:30:47.940On Monday, July 10th, the FBI's Washington, D.C. field branch issued a mock Speak Now, Taylor's version, album cover reminiscent of the album art,
00:30:58.080encouraging people to submit tips regarding possible criminal activity.
00:31:52.060It gives very much how-do-you-do-my-fellow-kids vibes.
00:31:57.060In place of a real track list, we'll put the picture up, by the way, on YouTube, Speak Now, FBI's version, that's terrifying in itself, includes nine song titles detailing what sort of offenses they're looking for.
00:32:11.840Terrorism, cybercrime, counterintelligence, civil rights, public corruption, weapons of mass destruction, organized crime, violent crime, and white collar crime.