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00:00:28.000Well, folks, it's rare that there is a day in which we have news that is so big, so incredibly important that it trumps not only all the other news of the day.
00:00:38.000All the other news of the day, but all the other news of the year, the decade, the century, nay, perhaps the millennium.
00:00:48.000The most important event of our lifetime.
00:00:50.000Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged.
00:00:53.000I know, I too am flabbergasted, shocked, I am ecstatic.
00:01:00.000And today is a magical day in the history of the United States and perhaps all of Western civilization.
00:01:05.000And listen, I will admit when I'm wrong.
00:01:08.000Two years ago, when these two lovebirds began their relationship, I thought this was just another of Taylor Swift's relationships that would end with a breakup album in which she sang like a 17-year-old about how sad she was that she had been rejected, but don't worry, she doesn't need no man.
00:01:22.000But as it turns out, she does need her, a man, and that man is Travis Kelsey.
00:01:28.000And I have to say, like, unironically, I think it's great.
00:01:31.000I hope they have a wonderful marriage.
00:01:33.000I hope she sings lots of songs about being married and having kids.
00:01:37.000And all those songs are better than her normal songs.
00:01:39.000That's what I hope for her, because I think that would be a very good thing for the West, for America, for young women, particularly who have been taught for generations that a woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle, and that romance is somehow a kind of giveaway to patriarchal institutions.
00:01:56.000And it turns out, no, actually a core component of human happiness is finding a member of the opposite sex and getting married with them.
00:02:02.000This has always been a core component of human happiness, having babies with a member of the opposite sex in a long lasting relationship built on love and mutual commitment.
00:02:16.000I hope that they both live much happier lives.
00:02:19.000According to Variety, the couple shared the big news on Instagram with a carousel of photos in the caption Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.
00:02:28.000Put aside the idea that Taylor Swift would be a great English teacher.
00:03:04.000It's charming and I like and it is good.
00:03:07.000And I hope that many other people take advantage of the situation to get married and follow in their footsteps and then have long lasting decades long marriages filled with children and grandchildren.
00:03:20.000It is actually culturally significant.
00:03:22.000It's culturally significant because tacitly, just as naturally, there has been over the course of the last few decades a rebellion against normality, a rebellion against the very idea that men and women ought to get married to one another and that somehow all decisions that men and women make with regard to relationships are equally praiseworthy and equally useful and equally likely to lead to happiness.
00:04:07.000It's an aspiration that is natural to the human heart.
00:04:10.000And that is why people are happy for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey.
00:04:13.000The idea that romance, a traditional romance between, you know, the high school cheerleader and the high school quarterback, the reason that is sort of a platonic ideal in America is for a reason because that is the basis of the forwarding of civilization.
00:04:28.000Marriage is the fundamental bedrock institution of all successful civilizations.
00:04:34.000And so what this is tacitly is a cultural rejection of the idea that the actual ideal is non-marriage, that the actual ideal is prancing around like Madonna in your seventy years, being a faded pop star and trying to convince everybody that actually you are super duper happy waking up drunk in the mornings by yourself in a five-star hotel.
00:05:23.000For example, about Taylor Swift being a billionaire singer, that's fine, but she's very clearly a woman and he is a platonic football star.
00:05:32.000Hey, he is a good looking, large human who runs into other people for a living and knocks them down.
00:05:38.000It is, in fact, the English teacher and the gym teacher in a sort of cookie cutter kind of way.
00:05:48.000If you looked in a picture book for traditionalism and gender roles, what you would spot is Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey.
00:05:53.000And then they would get married and then they would have babies.
00:06:08.000It's spiritually fulfilling and awesome.
00:06:10.000And I hope many, many people who were heretofore anti marriage or ambivalent about marriage, ambivalent about baby making, I hope all of them decide that Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are right and then they follow the pattern.
00:06:25.000I think it's a good thing because there, listen, there are a lot of young people who are not going to listen to, you know, funny, duddy, old conservatives like me who have been preaching this for legitimately my whole life, but will listen to Taylor Swift or at least follow her example.
00:06:49.000What's going to be fascinating is to see what comes next for Taylor Swift, esthetically and musically.
00:06:54.000So we made fun of her album cover a couple of weeks ago on the program, a very kind of oversexualized album cover and we pointed out that she's been getting more and more sexual on her album covers.
00:07:04.000It's going to be hard to do that when you're married and when you presumably then go on to have kids that have quite the same sort of resonance.
00:07:11.000So what's going to happen to Taylor Swift?
00:07:14.000Well, I think that Taylor Swift happens to be a marketing genius.
00:07:16.000I don't know if she's a musical genius.
00:08:18.000This is a very exciting moment for me in my professional career because I get to announce that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged.
00:08:25.000As you're talking to Joe Lang, our lovely producer Gabby Ake texted me and said Taylor Swift's engaged.
00:08:31.000And you can see it right there on her social media.
00:08:34.000She put it up in that post that they got engaged with the caption Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married with a little dynamite.
00:08:45.000Olivia Rinaldi, by the way, is the White House reporter for CBS.
00:08:48.000These are serious people, supposedly, who are super, duper, duper excited.
00:08:52.000In fact, the President of the United States was asked about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey getting engaged.
00:08:56.000Here's what President Trump had to say.
00:08:59.000Trax, Kelsey, and Taylor Swift are engaged in.
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00:11:36.000So pop as a medium is a teenage medium.
00:11:39.000It is a medium that is made for teenage girls and people, because we have now prolonged adolescence or in their mid-20s.
00:11:46.000You don't see a lot of 50-year-olds walking around singing pop.
00:11:50.000Not only that, pop music is based in certain tropes.
00:11:54.000You're being brokenhearted about your latest breakup or being F you about your latest breakup or something about your latest breakup like all of pop music is is basically rooted in sexual lust in terms of its lyrics and or emotional problems that is what pop music is about, which is why people age out of it.
00:12:14.000At the minute that women stop being sexually alluring, it's very difficult for them to be successful in the pop world.
00:12:20.000And women age out of that in the pop world pretty quickly, right?
00:12:23.000Katy Perry right now is the butt of enormous mockery online for her latest tour.
00:12:28.000She's considered to be too old for the game.
00:12:30.000Katy Perry is five years older than Taylor Swift.
00:12:45.000And so can you be a 43, 45 year old woman and singing about your latest breakup and how broken you are, the same way that you could when you were thirty?
00:12:54.000And is pop as a musical medium capable of carrying actual interesting messages about, for example, marriage and having kids?
00:13:03.000When I think of the sort of musical genres in which people sing about marriage and having kids, the only one that pops to mind is actually country.
00:13:13.000I would not be totally shocked if Taylor Swift's next album, she moves back toward country.
00:13:19.000That that would not be surprising to me at all because that actually is a medium where people frequently sing about this kind of stuff.
00:13:24.000And of course, country has now broadened out to include things like Beyonce's latest album.
00:13:28.000So it would not be shocking to watch Taylor kind of move back into that medium as opposed to the poppy, kind of drug induced, hazy Charlie XCX pop music that she's been doing for the last five or ten years.
00:13:44.000But again, my great hope here is that an entire generation of young people, particularly young women, who were, who were told by the feminist movement and by pop stars like Taylor Swift that relationships were bound to fail and they were all about this kind of teenage angst mature along with Taylor Swift, see this as unabashedly good.
00:14:02.000But by the way, again, you're not seeing a lot of blowback.
00:14:07.000Despite all the talk about how marriage is a patriarchal institution.
00:14:11.000Marriage robs women of their identity.
00:14:14.000Marriage and romance is simply a hallmark of our horrible sexist past.
00:14:21.000I've yet to see anyone, literally anyone on the left talking about why it's so terrible for Taylor Swift to get engaged and married.
00:14:30.000The sort of Gloria Steinem take on marriage is dead.
00:14:34.000And Taylor Swift may have just put a stake through it, which is really quite fascinating because it turns out marriage is a natural institution.
00:14:39.000Romance between men and women is a wonderful and natural thing.
00:14:43.000It turns out that women want, by the way, masculine men.
00:14:47.000You'll notice that Taylor Swift didn't end up marrying any of the sort of androgynous dudes that she dated.
00:14:54.000She ended up marrying, you know, the football player with his doofus brother who does a podcast.
00:15:00.000Like that's who she ended up marrying or getting engaged to.
00:15:04.000And he ended up marrying the, again, platonically beautiful cheerleader type.
00:15:09.000Like that's about as classic a story from 1955 as you could find.
00:15:15.000And that's got to be driving some people nuts, but they won't say it.
00:15:18.000Or maybe naturally they understand that, again, deep in the human heart, there is, in fact, a desire by women for masculine men and by men for feminine women and for both of them to get married and then have babies.
00:15:30.000So good luck to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey.
00:15:33.000Again, I think this is a very, very good thing for Western civilization.
00:15:36.000And if Western civilization needs more babies, hopefully this leads off the generation Taylor baby boom.
00:15:41.000Meanwhile, another very, very important cultural news, but let's be, let's be clear.
00:15:45.000Everything pales in comparison to this.
00:15:46.000It was like an asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs yesterday.
00:15:49.000The only thing anyone cared about was this engagement.
00:15:54.000And I and I do have to say it will be fascinating to see what the wedding is like because they could do an unexpected thing, which I think is probably what they should do.
00:16:01.000I think everybody expects them to have a $20 million wedding.
00:16:04.000I think what would be fascinating is if she kind of counter programs and does a low-key wedding in a church with Travis Kelsey, classic Americana, just family and friends.
00:16:15.000I think that would actually be a very good brand move for her.
00:16:19.000She's much better at this than literally anyone who's ever lived in the history of planet Earth.
00:16:22.000But I think that that would be counter programming, especially in an era where there are so many people who are worried about conspicuous consumption and and all of the rest.
00:16:34.000Travis Kelsey apparently has an ad for American Eagle.
00:16:36.000By the way, I gotta say American Eagle crushing it with the with the ads.
00:16:39.000I mean, between Sydney Sweeney and now Travis Kelsey and having an ad to drop, like the day of a mind-blowing, universe-exploding announcement about Travis and Taytay, really good for American Eagle.
00:16:54.000Their branding department is doing an amazing job.
00:17:53.000Well, speaking of the power of advertising, I asked our friends and sponsorsors over at Comet, a project of perplexity, how much money is spent in the American advertising market and how much did American Eagle spend on marketing last year?
00:18:04.000Apparently, total advertising spending in the United States for 2024 was 354 billion dollars, a lot of money reflecting the ongoing strength and growth of the American advertising market.
00:18:17.000Obviously, a lot of companies spend a lot of money on advertising.
00:18:20.000American Eagle last year spent $206 million on advertising.
00:18:24.000I assume they're going to spend even more this year, but the Travis Kelsey ad.
00:18:28.000The Sydney Sweeney ad, it just shows that a good piece of advertising, much more valuable than just throwing dollars at the thing.
00:18:35.000So, you know, good on American Eagle for having signed up all of these talents ready to drop an ad at a moment's notice if, you know, the biggest marriage announcement in human history happens.
00:18:44.000But in other cultural news, the Cracker Barrel Wars have been fought and they have been won.
00:18:50.000Cracker Barrel has backed down and the old white dude on the Cracker Barrel billboards, he's back and he's better than ever with his creaky joints and his and his rocking chair.
00:19:01.000I'm making fun of this a little bit because, listen, do I think that it was like the most important thing in the world that Cracker Barrel tried to change its logo and then changed it back?
00:19:21.000So, do I think that the reams of paper and gallons of ink that have been spilled over Cracker Barrel's relatively mild rethink that that was deeply important?
00:19:34.000I'm not sure, but, but I understand that for many people this is a question of passion.
00:19:39.000Obviously, I don't operate in the Cracker Barrel world.
00:19:57.000And the president coming off the sidelines to suplex Cracker Barrel basically ended the Cracker Barrel resistance and he outflanked the Cracker Barrel woke forces and he broke them, broke them like a champion.
00:20:12.000He put out a post on Truth Social, Cracker Barrel should go back to the old logo and make a mistake based on customer response, the ultimate poll, and manage the company better than ever before.
00:20:20.000They got a billion dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right.
00:20:23.000Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity.
00:20:37.000Jonathan Capehart at MSNBC just last week was raging over MAGA voters, saying that he was sick of their outrage and all this stuff, but he loses, he loses and MAGA wins.
00:21:19.000So congratulations, Cracker Barrel, on changing your logo back to what it was.
00:21:22.000All your fans very much appreciate it.
00:21:26.000David Johnson, the CEO of branding strategy vision PR group, told BBC's US partner, CBS, the rebrand was a flop.
00:21:35.000The shares had nosed up by about seven percent following the announcement of the brand reversal.
00:21:41.000And now, presumably, you will see the brand shoot up to the stars, to the stars, to the moon because.
00:21:48.000Because the war has been won and the old man will still be leaning on that cracker barrel in their logo and the pegboards never went away, right?
00:21:56.000I mean, they still they still had all the Americana in the store.
00:21:58.000So again, do I think this was overblown some?
00:22:01.000But indicative of the winning streak of MAGA already coming up, a horrifying story out of Scotland that's becoming a meme and kind of iconic all about the Muslim migration problem across Europe.
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00:24:52.000I guess one of the prerequisites to being a part of Trump's cabinet is that you can go a very, very long time without ever stepping out to use the restroom.
00:25:00.000President Trump himself mocked Joe Biden's pressers after this three and a half hour presser that was longer than Godfather One.
00:26:08.000Good line there from the Secretary of State as well as the head of the National Library, the official janitor of the United States, the head of the NSC and about eight other jobs.
00:26:18.000So, you know, President Trump is having a good time.
00:26:20.000The Democrats are not having a good time.
00:26:22.000The Democrats are in serious, serious trouble.
00:26:23.000Harry Ensign over at CNN, he says the Democrats right now are about as popular as Cracker Barrel's rebrand attempt.
00:26:31.000The Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with the American voter as the Cracker Barrel rebrand has with the American consumers.
00:26:43.000What are we talking about here in terms of big party registration changes in the key swing states?
00:26:48.000Let's look at the key four swing states that in fact do keep track of registration by party.
00:26:53.000Look, the Republican Party is in their best position at this point in the cycle.
00:26:57.000since at least 2005 in all four of these key battleground states?
00:27:04.000Well, I mean, that is, I can't imagine why they're unpopular, except that you totally, totally can.
00:27:10.000Democrats have been wrongfooted by President Trump at every single turn.
00:27:13.000That is particularly true on the issue of crime.
00:27:15.000Crime is just a terrible issue for Democrats.
00:27:17.000It has always been and will always be a terrible issue for Democrats until they become tough on crime, which apparently they have decided never to do again in the wake of Black Lives Matter Summer 2020.
00:27:27.000Jimmy Raskin, representative from Maryland.
00:27:30.000He said, you know, we keep focusing too much on crime, but crime has always been a part of American history.
00:28:02.000In DC, for example, it's at a 30-year low.
00:28:07.000Crime has always been a part of our history is a really, really bad argument to the person who just got carjacked.
00:28:12.000You know, you should just acknowledge crime has been a part of American history forever.
00:28:17.000In fact, murder goes all the way back to Cain and Abel.
00:28:20.000It's always been a part of human history.
00:28:21.000So the fact that your family member was murdered in front of you on a street in Washington, DC, just understand that's always been a part of human history.
00:28:29.000Good luck with this particular attempt.
00:28:31.000Meanwhile, the DNC summer meetings are going swimmingly for the Democrats.
00:28:34.000By swimmingly, I mean they are totally psychotic.
00:28:36.000I mean, I don't know what they are doing.
00:28:58.000Migrant crime, car jackings, the really lurid, awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual.
00:29:04.000Don't take the bait, because most Americans are more worried about how are we going to address mental health issues, the visible homelessness that we see on streets, and how do we deal with mental health and other issues that drive the sort of random incidents that scare all of us.
00:29:21.000That's what you should be talking about.
00:29:39.000Apparently, the Democratic National Committee has decided that their chief pitch to other Democrats is the worst things happening in America are that criminals are going to prison and or being deported.
00:29:49.000Here, for example, is DNC member Millie Herrera crying about Alligator Alcatraz, which is just a holding facility in Florida for illegal immigrants, many of whom have committed significant crimes in the United States.
00:30:01.000This is just unbelievable, unbelievable to a lot of us that have experienced persecution in other countries that have fled to the United States thinking that we were protected here by our constitution.
00:30:15.000So we are all together in this, and I really appreciate all the support, and I'm getting emotional, I'm sorry, all the support that immigrants are receiving from our party, because the Democratic Party is the party of immigrants, the party of working class, the party of women, the party of LGBTQ, disabled, everybody.
00:31:01.000I don't even know where you buy these, but apparently they're available maybe at Amazon or something in favor of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged human trafficker.
00:31:41.000That is when you're not standing for Hamas and their friends in Gaza.
00:31:45.000So the Democratic Party has decided they're just on the side of Hamas, period.
00:31:49.000Whatever they can do at this point to preserve Hamas, they will do.
00:31:51.000If that means telling lies about genocide, they will do it.
00:31:54.000If that means telling lies about mass purposeful starvation in Gaza, they will do it.
00:31:58.000If it means telling lies about what Israel is doing or how the war started or anything else, they will just they will just continue to humor this kind of crap.
00:32:05.000And so you end up with DNC chair Ken Martin yesterday saying that the crisis in Gaza is the thing that democrats should be most worried about.
00:32:11.000By the way, that crisis is going to end in the very near future because Israel is going to finish off the war by either taking over Gaza City or Hamas is going to engage in some form of surrender and give up the hostages it currently holds.
00:32:22.000Again, this war could have been over literally October 6 by never starting or it could have been over at any time by Hamas surrendering, disarming, going into exile and surrendering his hostages.
00:32:48.000This resolution is focused on the humanitarian crisis and makes clear that it must be addressed as the emergency that it is.
00:32:56.000As I've always said, we have to center humanity in this conversation.
00:33:01.000Thousands and thousands of innocent lives have been lost in this conflict.
00:33:07.000It has now become commonplace, unacceptably, to accept civilian lives as a casualty of conflict.
00:33:20.000One innocent life lost is one too many.
00:33:25.000My resolution calls for the secure and unrestricted flow of aid to Gaza, which is absolutely essential and is the position of 44 Senate Democrats who signed a letter recently calling for a large-scale expansion in aid.
00:33:44.000Okay, the key word there would be secure.
00:33:46.000If you give the aid to Hamas, then Hamas uses the aid.
00:33:52.000Right now, there is no starvation in Gaza.
00:33:54.000You can see pictures from Gaza right now of the supermarkets.
00:33:57.000There are, in fact, markets in Gaza that are fully stocked.
00:34:00.000People who are going to the aid stations are leaving behind items, which is not something that starving people actually do.
00:34:06.000And when he says secure, what he means is that he wants the UN back in charge so Hamas can continue to fight on.
00:34:11.000And when he says one civilian dead is too many civilians, I mean, of course, in an ideal world, no civilians would ever die.
00:34:17.000In an ideal world, Hamas would not be in charge of an entire swath of territory murdering people who attempt to get aid, taking civilians hostages, attempting to build up military capacity again and running.
00:34:32.000the entirety of the Gaza Strip as a hellhole Sharia law tyranny.
00:35:07.000We're actually dropping them right now.
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00:37:52.000We don't really know exactly what the what the story here is.
00:37:56.000The Economic Times reports that the video shows two teenage girls confronting a man who reportedly asked for their phone numbers and proceeded to grope one of them as per western standard, but I don't know what that site is.
00:38:06.000The older girl is then shown brandishing a knife and a hatchet while telling the man filming to stay away from her and her sister.
00:38:11.000The man was shouting, show the knife, show the knife.
00:38:13.000And then the man appears to speak in Arabic.
00:38:15.000So that, of course, leads a bunch of people to believe that he is a Muslim migrant.
00:38:20.000Now, there's no question that there has been a massive uptick in sex crimes by foreign nationals across Europe.
00:38:46.000That, of course, is connected with the decades-long cover up of the sexual molestation of underage girls by rings of Muslim men.
00:38:54.000The so-called grooming gang scandal in England.
00:38:58.000The attempt by the authorities and by the media to bury that and pretend that it had nothing to do with Islamic immigration.
00:39:03.000It had nothing to do with Muslim men who were abusing white girls in England led to nationwide scandal as it should have.
00:39:12.000Politician after politician covered it up.
00:39:14.000In June 2025, Yvette Cooper, who's the Labour Home Secretary, explained that they had done an investigation, but then downplayed the impact of Pakistani men.
00:39:25.000South Asian is the euphemism that's used in England for Pakistani or of Middle Eastern or Muslim descent.
00:39:33.000Mr. Speaker, I warned in January that the data collection we had inherited from the previous government on ethnicity was completely inadequate.
00:39:42.000It was only collected on 37% of suspects.
00:39:46.000Baroness Casey's audit confirms that ethnicity data is not recorded for two thirds of grooming gang perpetrators, and she says it is not good enough to support any statements about the ethnicity of group-based child sexual exploitation offenders at the national level.
00:40:06.000Frankly, it is ridiculous and helps no one that this basic information is not collected, especially when there have been warnings and recommendations stretching back 13 years about the woefully inadequate data on perpetrators, which prevents patterns of crime being understood and tackled.
00:40:26.000Ignoring the issues, not examining and exposing them to the light allows the criminality and depravity of a minority of men to be used to marginalise whole communities.
00:40:38.000The vast majority of people in our British Asian and Pakistani heritage communities continue to be appalled by these terrible crimes and agree that the criminal minority of sick predators and perpetrators in every community must be dealt with robustly by the criminal law.
00:40:59.000Now again, the reason that the grooming gang scandal was covered up in the first place had to do with the fact, and journalists openly acknowledged this at the time, it had to do with the fact that there was a widespread feeling among members of the left and the intelligentsia in England that if they acknowledged that there were large grooming gangs of Muslim men preying on white girls, that would somehow benefit the British National Party that would help people like Tommy Robinson, which is insane.
00:41:24.000You're going to cover up the grooming of girls because it helps your political opponents.
00:41:30.000Maggie Oliver, who is one of the police officers responsible for covering up the grooming gang scandal and really pursuing it to its end.
00:41:36.000She slammed Yvette Cooper after Yvette Cooper gave this whole speech about how we can't marginalize people and ethnic data is not available and all the rest.
00:41:49.000I've heard this afternoon just more political point scoring, empty words, an apology for something that up until today they didn't care about.
00:41:59.000And I'm not a party political person, as I say.
00:42:02.000This is successive governments who have turned a blind eye, who have ignored decades of abuse of very vulnerable children because it was a political hot potato.
00:42:14.000Child abuse comes in all forms, in the home, in the church, in football.
00:42:20.000But these predators in the groom, so-called grooming gangs, we're now calling them rape gangs.
00:42:26.000They are predominantly Pakistani Muslim men.
00:42:39.000But you'll recall back in January 2025 when the mayor of London suggested there was nothing to acknowledge about the grooming gang scandal at all.
00:42:47.000I asked you this question last week and you found every which way but not to answer it.
00:42:53.000Just how many grooming gangs have we got in London?
00:42:57.000To avoid any misunderstanding, can she define what she means by that?
00:43:10.000Well, we know in London there are issues about exploitation of young people, but they're not as defined by the member in her definition of what those types of gangs are.
00:43:21.000So are you saying we haven't got the same sort of gangs that are in Rotherham, Bradford and lots of other places in the country?
00:43:41.000So this case of this Scottish girl who's holding the knives, this has of course gone viral because it has meme potential online.
00:43:47.000We're still waiting to hear all the details.
00:43:49.000And so before jumping to a conclusion that we know exactly what's happening here based on the tape, I'll wait to hear more of the details from what it appears to be.
00:43:57.000Obviously, if we are now living in a situation in which the authorities refuse to protect British citizens from the predaitions of Muslim men because of political correctness, this is why Europe is dying.
00:44:10.000A Europe that refuses to defend itself is a Europe that will bow.
00:44:14.000It is a Europe that will surrender to the forces of darkness.
00:44:16.000We've seen this all over the continent.
00:44:19.000in England, it's a problem in Germany, it's a problem in France.
00:44:23.000Michelle Halleback, famous novelist, who wrote a book called Submission about what would happen in France if it ever gave over to Sharia law and why that would happen.
00:44:31.000It's a fascinating look inside the kind of post religious modern mind in Europe.
00:44:37.000But the basic thesis of the book, which is that secular leftism leads to an emptying out of the spiritual strength necessary to combat the extremism of radical Islam, that part cannot be in dispute at this point in Europe.
00:44:51.000And that is why you're seeing so many people are glumming onto the image of a young girl having to defend herself with knives allegedly from older men touching her who happen to be from parts of the earth where they simply do not recognize the primacy of women's sexual consent in the same way that people in the West do.
00:45:10.000That is just the incompatibility of certain cultures with other cultures is a reality.
00:45:14.000Refusing to acknowledge that reality is one of the reasons why the left is now in a state of serious political crisis all around the West.
00:45:22.000And meanwhile, speaking of refusals to acknowledge reality, yesterday we reported.
00:45:27.000This shocking story about the AMA exposed the president of the American Medical Association, Dr. Bobby McCamala, for his incompetence and his election of evidence-based medicine.
00:45:35.000In nearly every case, the AMA has abdicated its duty to do no do no harm over and over.
00:45:39.000Dr. Bobby made it clear that the AMA deferred to the experts.
00:45:42.000That's after the AMA has spent nearly two decades lending its credibility to the entire fraudulent industry of trans medicine.
00:45:48.000As it turns out, it only took a brief call with the head of the AMA for their house of cards to come tumbling down.
00:45:53.000Here's what it sounded like in yesterday's show when Dr. Bobby Makamala was confronted by Dr. Eitan Haim and Representative Brad Paquette.
00:46:01.000Again, I don't read the science about someone's broken femur, but when the ortopedic surgeons come to me and they say that what they are dealing with to get someone's femur fixed is not adequate and they need X, Y and Z to help take care of patients with their broken femur, I defer to their expertise on a broken femur.
00:46:20.000When people that specialize in transgender care tell me that they're having a hard time taking care of their patients with this 50 to 70 percent suicide rate and they need X, Y and Z as policy, then I defer to them because they're the ones that do patient care and I help them to get their patient care done.
00:46:35.000It almost seems like you're intentionally staying away from these issues because I stay away from the science because I didn't do a residency in anything related to the science.
00:46:46.000But thanks to Representative Paquette, the AMA kindly introduced the expert of their choice, Dr. Jesse Grecorian.
00:46:51.000Their conversation was, as you might expect by now, an unmitigated disasterter for the AMA.
00:46:56.000Dr. Krikorjan is a primary care physician at the University of Michigan.
00:46:59.000According to the Daily Wire Zone investigation, Dr. Krikorjan is transgender herself.
00:47:04.000She began going by Jesse and taking male hormones as recently as her bachelor career at Swarthmore College, only a few years before applying for medical school.
00:47:12.000Dr. Krikorjan is a family medicine PCP.
00:47:14.000That's the kind of doctor that you go to for an annual checkup or to get your child a physical to enroll in a competitive sport.
00:47:20.000She also happens to be a family physician.
00:47:22.000Neither she nor Dr. Krikorjan possess expert knowledge about transgenderism or gender identity disorder or the use of puberty blockers in children, let's talk adults.
00:47:30.000And yet, this was the person the AMA used as their expert.
00:47:33.000It makes perfect sense that the AMA's handpicked expert on trans medicine is one, trans herself, two, has no specialized training in psychology, endocrinology or plastic surgery, and three, seems to have been in practice for like three to five years.
00:49:06.000Well, doctor Krishcorian has no solid answer.
00:49:08.000If anything, Krishcorian seems to admit that infertility is a problem and recommends that patients bank their sperm or buy some sperm from Miranda later on.
00:49:15.000Meanwhile, yesterday we heard the MA outright dismiss Dr. Haymes' concerns about reversibility and infertility.
00:49:22.000No other medical field works like this, by the way.
00:49:24.000You don't go from being a primary care physician to an expert in brain cancer just because you personally had a brain tumor.
00:49:28.000You don't become more qualified And as an anesthesiologist because you might enjoy taking sedatives, but suddenly with gender affirming care, the most prominent expert the AMA could offer is a trans person who is a family physician.
00:49:42.000Dr. Krecorian is not the only trans expert with this conflict of interest.
00:49:46.000Also, Dr. Krecorian sent representative Paquette a study written by Dr. Johanna Olson Kennedy, a California pediatric and adolescent medicine specialist who is married to, wait for it, a trans spouse.
00:49:57.000Dr. Olson Kennedy is well known for burying a study on puberty blockers after she realized it didn't produce the results that she actually wanted.
00:50:03.000Dr. Olson Kennedy was also infamously caught on video explaining, it's not a huge deal if you cut a girl's breasts off because she can go to and get breast implants later on if she wants.
00:50:11.000You know, it's kind of like a mister Potato head.
00:50:13.000Just take the body parts on, take them off, the whole deal.
00:50:17.000But so what we do know is that adolescents actually have the capacity to make a reasonable, logical decision.
00:50:24.000And here's the other thing about chest surgery.
00:50:27.000If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them.
00:50:33.000Well, Dr. Krecorian clearly shares Dr. Olson Kennedy's belief that children can make these kinds of major decisions.
00:50:38.000In fact, Dr. Krecorian says that children have a stable sense of gender identity at the age of three.
00:50:46.000Developmentally, kids generally have a pretty stable sense of gender identity starting around the age of three.
00:50:53.000They may not tell us unless we ask, but it's generally there around that age, just developmentally, that's when that comes in.
00:51:00.000And as I said, with the folks who are really young, with the elementary school age kids, we're not doing any medical interventions.
00:51:10.000We're making sure that mental health is okay.
00:51:13.000If it's relevant, then we'll have them talk to a therapist or do some family therapy so they have a safe space to discuss what they're feeling.
00:51:26.000Often, when I'm talking to kids who are thinking about starting these hormones, often they do talk about, like, well, I can always, you know, adopt if I decide I want a child.
00:51:39.000Which is true, although it's a little more complicated than just saying, Oh yes, I want to do this.
00:51:46.000But we make sure that they've considered it.
00:51:49.000We've made sure that they've had the conversation.
00:51:52.000Well, folks, in other words, according to Dr. Krecorian, cross sex hormones don't sterilize kids, but even if they do, it's okay because these kids can plan to adopt or buy some other's sperm one day.
00:52:01.000That, of course, is insane and dystopian.
00:52:04.000My kids don't even know what they want for lunch, let alone make a decision about adopting a child of their own in 20 years.
00:52:09.000Dr. Krikorian does not rely on any objective data or research.
00:52:12.000Instead, Krikorian explicitly rejects representative Paquette's studies, including the CAS review in the UK, the Health and Human Services report here in the U.S., both of which show that gender-affirming care is experimental and often dangerous.
00:52:51.000I read sections of it and I read the executive overview.
00:52:55.000Because it relates exactly to your field and what's going on.
00:52:58.000And so, it's pretty wild to call the HHS report politically motivated and then admit you haven't actually read the report.
00:53:06.000This is the level of rigor the AMA's hand pick expert is capable of.
00:53:09.000So here's for the record, the HHS report's top line conclusions one, the gender affirming model of care includes irreversible endocrine and surgical interventions on minors with no physical pathology.
00:53:19.000These interventions carry risk of significant harm, including infertility, sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret.
00:53:32.000Meanwhile, systematic reviews of the evidence have revealed deep uncertainty about the supposed benefits of these interventions.
00:53:37.000Meanwhile, again, Dr. Krekorian is the AMA's foremost expert on trans medicine and has no answer to any of this at all.
00:53:44.000Krekorian parents the same talking points as Dr. Bobby McCamala, citing a low regret rate erroneously making false statements about the reversibility of puberty blockers.
00:53:53.000The bone density aspects of puberty blocking drugs.
00:53:56.000How it's off-label FDA stuff like that.
00:53:59.000Like, Kids are taking these things and it's like there are ramifications for taking these drugs, right?
00:54:06.000Every drug has side effects, for sure.
00:54:12.000So you stop them, you go through puberty.
00:54:16.000There is when you're going through puberty, you have an increase in bone density.
00:54:22.000So when you're on a puberty blocker, you don't have that increase.
00:54:26.000But they do catch up as soon as they go through puberty, whether that is by stopping the puberty blocker and going through whatever puberty their body would have normally gone through, or whether that's by starting cross sex hormones.
00:54:43.000Now in the HHS report, a systematic review found that when puberty blockers are followed by cross sex hormones, which happens over ninety percent of the time in studies, a critical developmental window for bone density accrual during adolescence could be missed or shortened.
00:54:54.000The HHS report notes no studies have followed patients into middle age or late adulthood.
00:54:59.000Precorian's omission or ignorance of that information is either fraud, a pathetic degree of malice or gross negligence.
00:55:04.000At this point, there is no higher authority to whom to speak about this.
00:55:07.000The AMA's facade has collapsed between their arrogant president, Dr. Bobby Makamala, and their top trans expert who is literally transgender herself.
00:55:14.000If any of these people actually cared for the well being of children, they would reach the point of being transgender.
00:55:16.000They would read every single study that suggested these procedures might cause harm cover to cover.
00:55:20.000They'd come prepared to meetings like this one with detailed arguments for why studies like the CAST review, the HHS report and the bombshell of the WPAT files were all wrong.
00:55:28.000But the AMA, their handpicked expert, didn't do any of that.
00:55:31.000Instead, they mocked the side effects, dismissed the data, shut down conversation by writing off all concern as a political intrusion.
00:55:37.000At this point, the AMA is indistinguishable from other activist left-wing organizations like the Human Rights Campaign or the ACLU.
00:55:44.000They're not interested in protecting patients.
00:55:46.000They're a lobbying arm for quacks and a mouthpiece for leftists who prey on children.
00:55:51.000Well, joining us online to discuss this unbelievable story is representative Brad Pik Paquette, he of course is a state representative elected to the Michigan State House in 2018.
00:55:58.000He was the one who facilitated the conversation between the AMA and Dr. Haim.
00:56:03.000Representative Paquette, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:56:06.000Hey, thank you for having me and putting a spotlight on this.
00:56:10.000So first of all, what drove you to facilitate this conversation in the first place?
00:56:16.000Well, I'm a teacher and I got to say that it's an exceptional experience to be able to watch, you know, a young person grow up.
00:56:22.000You feel old, but when your young people in ninth grade and middle school become adults, it's quite the thing to see.
00:56:30.000And so I've been really deliberating on this since about 10 years ago, had a student in ninth grade who wanted to change her name in class.
00:56:37.000And so now in elected office, I become very convicted because the more you learn about gender theory in particular and how embedded it's become in our sex ed curriculums and in our culture, it becomes very unnerving that young people are being taught that they can be born wrong.
00:56:54.000And that's contrary to me as a teacher.
00:56:57.000What I believe is that young people are marvelously made and wonderfully made and that they need to be able to accept what they've been given and utilize their talents accordingly.
00:57:08.000And so that's really what has driven me.
00:57:10.000And then the more that I've pushed on this and the more that I've inquired, the more people said, well, we trust these experts, you know, trust the science.
00:57:17.000And I was elected in 2019 and 2020 came along and I raised an eyebrow around the trust the experts phrase.
00:57:26.000And so I started really digging into this and came to find that a lot of people opposed my bills for no good reason.
00:57:32.000And a lot of folks said, well, you're not a doctor, Brad, even though I talked to a lot of them.
00:57:38.000well the ama supports this and so i went to the ama and started to talk to their experts and came to find that they have no idea what they're talking about So, you know, what was the most shocking point in the conversation?
00:57:53.000We played a bunch of parts of the conversation that took place between Dr. Haim and Bobby Makamala, who is the head of the AMA.
00:57:59.000What was the thing that shocked you the most about that conversation?
00:58:03.000So with the president of the AMA, you think that they would be really knowledgeable on, you know, evidence-based medicine, especially these things that they tout.
00:58:10.000And Bobby was just completely far removed from any type of real understanding of evidence-based medicine in this regard.
00:58:20.000And so the way that he demeaned Dr. Haim and the way that he pushed back on him and, you know, put his hand up and did this really, really kind of inflamed my sense there when he just had those talking points that I've heard so many times.
00:58:47.000So what do you plan on doing in the state of Michigan?
00:58:50.000Obviously, you're in the state legislature over there.
00:58:52.000What do you think the federal government ought to do?
00:58:54.000What's a corrective to what the AMA has been doing with regard to its propagandizing on behalf of the fraud that is trans quote unquote medicine?
00:59:03.000Yeah, so I think that as public opinion.
00:59:06.000begins to delve into this, this is what is most important.
00:59:09.000This is why I chose to be on oversight committees this term because I've got a Democrat controlled Senate and Governor Whitmer and my bills stopping these things aren't going to move there.
00:59:18.000The Democrats, my neighbors across the aisle, don't want to touch this with a ten foot pole.
00:59:22.000They won't even let me go into their forums to advocate for my bills.
00:59:26.000They say, you know, these, these sayings that I make people uncomfortable, love over hate.
00:59:32.000And I'm not even able to make my case to my colleagues.
00:59:35.000Some are sympathetic behind the scenes.
00:59:37.000So, you know, the federal mandates, the EOs, what Trump is doing is phenomenal, but after Skermetti, this comes down to the states and we have to make our case.
00:59:44.000And how can we make our case if people won't entertain and talk about these situations in real time?
00:59:50.000I asked my hospitals, well, how many kids are on puberty blockers?
00:59:58.000So we've got subpoenas geared up just to gather that information.
01:00:00.000They'll tell me how many knee replacements that they're doing, but they won't tell me how many kids or even an increase as to how many kids are wanting puberty blockers being prescribed here in the state of Michigan.
01:00:11.000So we're in a predicament and it comes down to exposing that these people have no understanding., no grounding in evidence-based medicine.
01:00:17.000So that's what we're trying to do this term.
01:00:21.000Well, that is Representative Brad Paquette.
01:00:23.000He is in the Michigan State House doing an amazing job on this particular issue, among others.
01:00:27.000Representative Paquette, thank you so much for the time and folks, the full video and petition, you can see it all at amaexposed dot com dot That's amaexposed dot com dot Thanks.
01:00:38.000Unless the AMA is held to account before licensing boards, ethics committees, maybe even Congress, they need to testify.
01:00:44.000The trust of millions of Americans has been lost.
01:00:46.000Not only has unthinkable harm already been inflicted on a ton of kids, but physicians in this country des deserve much better representation than what the AMA is providing.
01:00:54.000Every shred of institutional trust we have left in this country needs to be cherished and preserved at this point.
01:00:59.000But when some institutions are shown to be corrupt through and through, as we've seen with the AMA this week, they cannot continue on as they are without some serious reform.
01:01:06.000Sign the petition over amaexposed dot com comma so we can stop the left from transing the kids for good and restore America's trust in our health care providers.
01:01:13.000Alright, folks, the show is continuing for our members right now.