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00:01:25.000Well, everybody is talking about monkeypox.
00:01:28.000Apparently, the WHO has now declared an international global emergency over monkeypox.
00:01:34.000By the way, this is super scientific stuff.
00:01:35.000When I say super scientific, I mean that apparently the head of the World Health Organization overruled a divided expert panel to issue the group's highest alert in order to do this.
00:01:46.000Okay, so that right there tells you that this is not actually a scientific question.
00:01:51.000Because again, the panel of the WHO was like, not a global health emergency.
00:01:55.000And because it's gotten so much media attention, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's Director General, overruled that panel.
00:02:04.000He said that this was instead a public health emergency of international concern, a designation the WHO currently uses to describe two other diseases, COVID-19 and polio.
00:02:12.000Well, you may have noticed that COVID-19 hit pretty much everybody on earth, and polio is widely transmissible outside of people having sex with each other.
00:02:22.000This particular disease, as we'll discuss in just one second, seems to be transmitted almost entirely by men having sex with men.
00:02:28.000Well, we actually do understand the mode of transmission.
00:02:30.000outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little, and which meets the criteria for a public health emergency.
00:02:37.000Well, we actually do understand the mode of transmission.
00:02:41.000It was apparently the first time the director general had sidestepped his advisors to declare an emergency. The WHO's declaration signals a public health risk requiring a coordinated international response.
00:02:51.000The designation can lead to member countries to invest significant resources in controlling an outbreak, draw more funding to the response, and encourage nations to share vaccines, treatments, and other key resources for containing the outbreak.
00:03:02.000Now, of course, there is a vaccine for monkeypox, but the FDA in the United States totally held up the development of enough vaccine until it was too late.
00:03:09.000Like, they are just now getting through the process of approving the vaccine that should have been available for monkeypox, because they had a vaccine, They basically allowed it to expire.
00:03:17.000All the vaccine got really old and therefore ineffective.
00:03:20.000And then the FDA didn't re-up on that.
00:03:21.000So, well done once again, administrative state.
00:03:25.000This is the seventh public health emergency since 2007.
00:03:36.000I mean, again, monkeypox is not exactly on the level of COVID-19.
00:03:40.000So far, the number of people who have died of monkeypox globally Five.
00:03:45.000Five people have died globally from monkeypox, which does not sound like a global health emergency to me.
00:03:50.000That sounds like a bad weekend in Chicago.
00:03:53.000Monkeypox has been a concern for years, according to the New York Times, in some African countries.
00:03:57.000In recent weeks, the virus has spread worldwide.
00:03:59.000Some 75 countries have reported at least 16,000 cases so far.
00:04:03.000Nearly all the infections outside Africa have occurred among men who have sex with men.
00:04:06.000This isn't me just saying this, this is the New York Times saying this.
00:04:09.000The outbreak has galvanized many in the LGBT community, who have charged that monkeypox has not received the attention it deserves, as happened in the early days of the HIV epidemic.
00:04:17.000Well, I mean, I feel like it's getting a bleep load of attention.
00:04:24.000And also, it seems as though the media are really going out of their way to pretend that this thing could affect pretty much anybody on earth.
00:04:32.000In the early days of HIV, that was not the case.
00:04:33.000So when it came to HIV, the early days of HIV, the media basically suggested correctly that it was between homosexual men that HIV was being transmitted, which was largely true.
00:04:45.000Then there was a harsh media push To the other side.
00:04:52.000This sexually transmitted disease was going to be widely spread throughout human society.
00:04:57.000And it turns out that, statistically speaking, that was not true.
00:04:59.000Well now with monkey pox, they're just starting from step two.
00:05:02.000They're just going right to anybody can get monkey pox at any time, even though we now know that virtually everyone who is getting monkey pox is a man having sex with another man.
00:05:10.000The WHO's declaration is better late than never, said Dr. Bhagumati Tandji, an infectious diseases physician at Emory University in Atlanta.
00:05:17.000But with the delay, one can argue that the response globally has continued to suffer from lack of coordination.
00:05:23.000Apparently, the outbreak is expected to infect maybe hundreds of thousands of people, depending on who exactly engages in this sort of behavior, and may have permanently entrenched itself in some countries, according to Dr. James Lowler, co-director of the University of Nebraska's Global Center for Health Security.
00:05:38.000Now, the real question about this is whether it is actually a virus that is widely transmissible in any serious way outside of men having sex with men, or whether it's just a new kind of STD.
00:05:48.000According to the Jerusalem Post, the World Health Organization, after declaring the outbreak a global health emergency, Well, there are serious questions among doctors about why exactly this is not an STD.
00:06:00.000Dr. Roy Zucker, director of the Tel Aviv Swarovski Medical Center, Ichelove Hospital's LGBTQ Health Services, and a doctor at Clalit Health Services, said whether or not monkeypox could be designated as an STD is a quote-unquote great question.
00:06:12.000He said, we know from past data the virus can be spread by being in the presence of someone who's infected for a long time, say for three hours at a distance of two meters or so, or by simply coming into physical contact with them.
00:06:22.000But what we're seeing across the world and in Israel is that most of the patients were infected via sexual activity.
00:06:28.000So it appears as though this disease is transmitted sexually, and so we can begin to refer to it as another STD.
00:06:33.000But of course, everyone is afraid of calling it an STD because then, of course, they're afraid of the stigma that might attach to homosexual sex, which There must never be any stigmas with regard to any sexual activity, let alone homosexual sex, no matter the levels of transmission of STDs, which differ widely based on the kind of sex that people are having and with whom they are having that sex.
00:06:52.000If you don't have sex with strange men in high promiscuity areas, the chances of you getting monkey pox are significantly lower than if you do.
00:07:02.000Zucker said, it is not entirely certain that monkeypox will be classified as a new STD because, although it is less common, it can be transmitted via skin-to-skin contact in non-sexual situations.
00:07:11.000Okay, well, again, that may be true, but the main vector of transmission is, in fact, homosexual sex.
00:07:20.000According to Dr. Zucker, for those engaging in sexual intercourse, it's best to do so in places where visibility is good, rather than in dark places.
00:07:26.000I know that we're not allowed to talk also about the fact that you should probably know your partner, but kind of, you should probably know your partner.
00:07:30.000As we also know, the use of a condom lowers the risk of infection, especially of rectal infections, which are very painful.
00:07:36.000People need to be aware of this virus and go and get checked if they have any kind of skin lesion.
00:07:41.000He said, right now the cases are mainly found among men that have sex with other men.
00:07:44.000It's a disease that can easily be passed on to other populations.
00:07:48.000I mean, not that easily, because the research from the New England Journal of Medicine is showing that an overwhelming 95% of confirmed cases were likely transmitted via close sexual contact, unless there are other doctors who are very afraid that this is going to stigmatize the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign ampersand star percentage sign community.
00:08:08.000Dr. Itzhak Levy, director of the HIV AIDS Center and supervisor in the infectious disease unit at Shiba Medical Center said, I'm not sure if it's a sexually transmitted disease or a disease that is transmitted during sexual activity, which are two entirely different things.
00:08:19.000If it's the former, that means it's transmitted when there's penetration and things like that.
00:08:23.000If it's something that is transmitted during sexual activity, that means it's being spread during skin to skin contact.
00:08:28.000Okay, but it has to be apparently pretty heavy skin-to-skin contact because, you know, you just shaking hands with somebody is not going to give you monkey pox.
00:08:35.000Benjamin Ryan writes that over at the Washington Post.
00:08:38.000He says, quote, countless public health experts have uttered statements like this one.
00:08:42.000Anyone can get monkey pox in the past few months.
00:08:44.000Members of the media and politicians have parroted the message ad nauseum without stopping to dissect what it implies or obscures.
00:08:50.000This broad strokes maxim that everyone on earth is susceptible to this troubling infection might be factual on its surface.
00:08:55.000It is so egregiously misleading it amounts to misinformation.
00:08:57.000But this, by the way, is typical of the health community.
00:09:00.000And what we have seen in the past several years is that the health community is willing to lie to you.
00:09:06.000It is where they get to tell you that you are at tremendous risk of dying from X, Y, or Z. And thus, you must do exactly what they say.
00:09:12.000If you don't shut down the schools, your kid is going to die of COVID, even though the number of kids who died of COVID is exorbitantly low.
00:09:17.000Everybody is at risk of dying of COVID-19.
00:09:19.000Even very young, healthy 20-year-olds, you must get 20 times vaxxed because, after all, you could die of COVID.
00:09:27.000And I mean, technically, you could die of COVID.
00:09:28.000The chances are just extremely, extremely low.
00:09:31.000But what they do is they tell this platonic lie so as to get everybody to take the vaccine, supposedly to end infection, which it didn't end up doing.
00:09:37.000But says this columnist for the Washington Post, who's been covering infectious disease and LGBTQ health for two decades.
00:09:44.000He says, those who make such statements don't intend harm.
00:09:47.000On the contrary, leaders at the CDC, the WHO, and elsewhere repeat them because they commendably want to combat the societal stigma faced by gay and bisexual men who have been disproportionately impacted by monkeypox.
00:09:57.000Again, I don't know what stigma you're talking about.
00:10:00.000Is the stigma that if you have promiscuous gay and or bisexual sex, That you are more likely to get an STD?
00:10:06.000Because that's not a stigma, that's just an actual health fact.
00:10:09.000And I don't know when our health directors became more concerned with lying to you about the health statistics than about, you know, preventing people from knowing the health statistics because it might cause them to societally stigmatize people who engage in promiscuous sex in bar restrooms.
00:10:25.000As far as this columnist is concerned, he says, as these public health experts know well, epidemiology is less concerned with whether someone could contract an infection.
00:10:32.000Instead, the much more vital questions focus on which groups of people are the most likely to be exposed to a pathogen, to contract it, and why.
00:10:38.000In public health stats, this is the study of relative risk.
00:10:41.000Here is what we can discern from data collected about monkeypox so far.
00:10:44.000This viral outbreak isn't just mostly occurring among men who have sex with men.
00:10:47.000The confirmed cases, at least to date, have consistently, almost entirely occurred among this demographic, which accounts for 96% or more of diagnoses where data are available.
00:10:58.000Per capita, the few monkeypox cases in women and children remain minuscule compared with the rate among gay and bisexual men.
00:11:03.000Of course, substantial transmission could always occur among other such groups.
00:11:11.000Researchers at the WHO and elsewhere have speculated the monkeypox reproduction rate will likely remain significantly lower in such demographics, meaning the virus will more likely hit transmission dead ends among them than among gay and bisexual men, because presumably gay and bisexual men have more promiscuous sex in general than the rest of the population.
00:11:28.000An uncomfortable truth, one documented in peer-reviewed papers, is that sexual behaviors in networks specific to gay and bisexual men have long made them more likely to acquire various sexually transmitted infections compared with heterosexual people.
00:11:38.000This includes not only HIV, but also syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hepatitis B, and sexually transmitted hepatitis C.
00:11:44.000Now of course, we used to have health classes in public schools, and they just would not teach any of this in health class in public schools.
00:11:51.000Because again, no stigma, all sexual activity is completely equivalent in a utilitarian sense.
00:11:57.000There is no better or worse way in terms of health.
00:12:01.000All that matters is that you have your own sexual sense of self-identity and that must trump everything including apparently health statistics.
00:12:07.000We have to obscure those health statistics so as to prop up the central tenet of left-wing thought socially in the West today.
00:12:15.000Global public health experts agree skin-to-skin contact in context of sexual activity between men has been the principal driver of the monkeypox outbreak at least so far.
00:12:24.000Such experts have also asserted the risk of monkeypox to the broader population remains very low.
00:12:30.000Assuaging fears of contagion will help fight unhelpful hysteria and prevent gay and bisexual men from being subjected to even greater stigma should they be painted as culprits of the spread of virus.
00:12:38.000If you're afraid of the stigma, then what was the worst stigma with regard to HIV?
00:12:42.000The worst stigma was, if somebody has HIV, you're going to shake their hand and get HIV.
00:12:47.000Remember, this was a big conversation when Magic Johnson got HIV.
00:12:49.000Would he be allowed to play in the NBA?
00:12:52.000Because it was generally transmitted through open wounds, for example.
00:12:56.000But there was this notion that if Magic Johnson sweated on you, you might get HIV, right?
00:13:00.000This caused actual real societal stigma.
00:13:03.000If I don't have to worry about monkeypox, I don't really care whether you are engaging in activity more likely to give you monkeypox.
00:13:09.000I mean, I would prefer you didn't, but if you decide to do so, that would be a you problem.
00:13:14.000Such enmity devastated the gay community during the height of the AIDS crisis, as this columnist says, when the CDC waged a long-running misleading public service campaign with variations of the slogan, anyone can get HIV AIDS.
00:13:24.000Because the same is true of the monkeypox outbreak, newly launched vaccination campaigns appropriately target this group, gay and bisexual men.
00:13:30.000In particular, those reporting multiple recent sex partners.
00:13:33.000Again, it is amazing that our society is so stuck.
00:13:35.000In this particular social rut of suggesting that all sexual activity is morally equivalent, we have to pretend that all sexual activity is also equivalent in terms of baseline health.
00:13:47.000Which, by the way, underscores so much of the sexual ethos of the left.
00:13:50.000The sexual ethos of the left is that because they wish all activity to be considered morally equivalent, Also, we have to pretend that men are women, women are men.
00:13:59.000We have to pretend that all forms of sexual activity should be equally recognized by the government as meaningful, healthy, and useful to society.
00:14:07.000This is their... This is the propaganda point.
00:14:10.000And so we're going to obscure fact, and thus make it more likely, by the way, if you think that everybody's equivalently likely to...
00:14:17.000You are more likely to engage in particularly the type of activities that give you monkeypox if you're a member of a subpopulation, because you're gonna think, well, you know, why should I worry about it?
00:14:25.000It's the same as my straight neighbor next door.
00:14:27.000I mean, that's just the simple fact of the matter.
00:14:29.000If you don't tell people how they get a disease, people are more likely to engage in the behavior that leads to the disease.
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00:16:58.000Which is why you have a piece in the New York Times over the weekend about an amazing wedding that took place during the San Francisco Pride March.
00:17:15.000There is no reason why we should value, as a society, say, male-female heterosexual partnerships that produce children and then raise those children in the context of their biological parents.
00:17:42.000Melody Sage was queer, and Roscoe Kickingstone, a transgender man, wed before the Trans March during San Francisco Pride on the day Roe versus Wade was overturned.
00:17:52.000I mean, this is, when the Bible talks about a man shall leave his mother and father, and he shall cling to his wife, and they shall become a family unit.
00:17:59.000This is exactly what they were talking about, right?
00:18:01.000It was a queer woman and a transgender man getting married on the day of the apocalyptic overruling of Roe vs. Wade.
00:18:06.000That's exactly what the Bible is talking about.
00:18:08.000Anyway, the New York Times says, and this is precise, all relationships are the same.
00:18:13.000They're all equivalent because all of them are just the expression of your inner sense of sexual well-being.
00:18:17.000And that is the only thing that matters in life.
00:18:53.000These two things are not completely separate.
00:18:55.000In fact, all of human propagation relies on the formation of male-female heterosexual dyads that then create children.
00:19:03.000I don't know why this is... We've now pretended that all of this stuff is mysterious and we don't understand why tradition has held this.
00:19:09.000No, this is one of the more understandable elements of human tradition and human culture passed down for thousands of years in literally every society ever to be documented is the importance of male-female dyads in raising children.
00:19:20.000Like, it's insane to me that the entire West has decided not only is it not understandable, we should completely explode the basis of forget human, all mammalian reproduction.
00:19:29.000In order to reestablish the Freudian sense of sexual self-worth that lies at the root of happiness.
00:19:35.000So here's the New York Times on this, on the, just a beautiful marriage, a beautiful marriage, just like your marriage, just like my, just like any other marriage.
00:19:42.000Quote, while dancing around a bonfire to the rhythms of a drum circle in May, 2013, Melody Christine at Tancamire, who goes by the name of Melody Sage, felt a tingling rush of energy course through her body.
00:19:52.000It was at that moment when she turned around and caught sight of Rocco Kickingstone Siragusa, who goes by Roscoe Kickingstone, The two introduced themselves, but Ms.
00:20:00.000Sage could only manage a short conversation with Mr. Kickingstone before she danced away.
00:20:04.000I was overwhelmed, she said, describing the sensation as such a strong feeling that I had never experienced.
00:20:09.000Both were camping in southern Oregon, where they had traveled for a week-long celebration of Beltane, a pagan festival also known as Celtic May Day, hosted by the Radical Fairies, a countercultural group that for decades has maintained rural communities catering to LGBTQ residents.
00:20:25.000The day after the bonfire, their paths crossed again.
00:20:27.000Sage said that Mr. Kickingstone, who had jumped out of a tree and broke his foot just hours before they met, was not difficult to track down.
00:20:34.000I joked that he was easy prey, she said.
00:20:36.000Their second conversation lasted a lot longer.
00:20:39.000She told him about her pirate radio show, Xicas Unidos, which featured female guests discussing a range of issues.
00:20:46.000He talked about his participation in groups including Food Not Bombs, which distributes free vegan and vegetarian meals, and the Occupy Movement, born from the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest in Lower Manhattan.
00:20:57.000From there, they spent most of the festival in each other's company, with Miss Sage often procuring meals for an injured Mr. Kickingstone.
00:21:02.000Activism, each learned, was not their only common bond.
00:21:05.000As teenagers, both had come out as queer.
00:21:07.000Miss Sage grew up in Santa Cruz, California at 18 years old, and Mr. Kickingstone, who was raised in San Diego at 15.
00:21:13.000Four years later, at 19, Mr. Kickingstone, whose mixed ancestry includes indigenous American and Mexican roots, came out as a transgender man.
00:21:20.000Coming out so young, how both learned to live and be comfortable with ourselves, said Mr. Kickingstone, who also identifies as two-spirit, a term that refers to gender non-conforming indigenous Americans.
00:21:29.000Before the end of their week in Oregon, Ms.
00:21:58.000Sage left Seattle, Mr. Kickingstone visited her in Santa Cruz in June 2013.
00:22:02.000While there, they went to the San Francisco Pride Celebration, during which they participated in the Trans March supporting the transgender community, an annual event they have since attended regularly.
00:22:13.000Though they saw other people in the months that followed, the two continued to grow closer, keeping in touch by phone and via text message and visiting one another when they could.
00:22:21.000We were so much on the same wavelength spiritually, emotionally, physically, Mr. Kickingstone said.
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00:23:52.000Okay, so the New York Times story continues.
00:23:56.000That December, the pair went to Mexico, where they spent a month backpacking in Chiapas and Oaxaca.
00:24:01.000At the end of the trip, Mr. Kickingstone was ready to take the next step with Ms.
00:24:10.000Sage, a graduate of Mills College in Oakland, moved back to that city to attend a manicuring program at the International College of Cosmetology.
00:24:19.000When Mr. Kickingstone broached the subject of moving there himself, she at first was skittish, telling him she didn't want to be the only reason for his move.
00:24:31.000That April, he moved to Oakland, into a house with nine roommates, one of whom was Ms.
00:24:35.000Sage, who found out he was moving in when other housemates told her Mr. Kickingstone was their preferred candidate.
00:24:41.000Three months later, ahead of construction on the property, Kickingstone moved out and into another house.
00:24:46.000Once living in the same city, he and Ms.
00:24:47.000Sage decided to stop seeing other people.
00:24:49.000They remained monogamous for the next year and a half, before opening up their relationship again in October 2015.
00:24:53.000Their period of monogamy was a way for the two, who had both previously been in polyamorous relationships, to establish trust, Mr. Kickingstone said.
00:25:01.000As someone who's really flirtatious and had hurt people in the past, I didn't want to hurt him, as I loved him so much.
00:25:41.000We queer people have never been seen as fully human as the romance developed, though Mr. Kickingstone became more convinced what they had was worth celebrating.
00:25:49.000We have to build our own families often because our own don't accept us or are not emotionally available to be the support we need, said Kickingstone.
00:25:55.000I always wanted a primary partner to build a family with, even though I don't agree with the whole marriage system.
00:26:24.000Sage could become entitled to the health benefits offered by Mr. Kickingstone's job, and so she could make his doctor's appointment for him.
00:26:31.000On June 18th, the couple held a symbolic ceremony at Fern Cottage on the grounds of the Kennedy Grove Regional Recreation Area in El Sobrante, California, led by a friend that included a blessing with crystals and the pagan ritual of invoking the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water.
00:26:45.000At a reception that followed, they and 50 guests sang karaoke and enjoyed salads and agua fresca from Understory Oakland, a worker-led kitchen and restaurant, along with a spread of charcuterie and cheeses.
00:26:55.000Less than a week later, the two were married at the Helen Diller Playground in San Francisco's Mission to Loras Park, just before the Trans March kicked off as part of the city's 2022 Pride Celebration.
00:27:05.000They both wore white denim vests, customized with gold studs, rhinestones, rainbow-colored patterns.
00:27:09.000By the way, this several thousand words is being dedicated by the New York Times to this, because this is the ideal.
00:27:14.000This is the building blocks upon which... These are the little platoons upon which society is formed, as Edmund Burke notes.
00:27:21.000Those little platoons are a gay woman and a woman who believes she's a man.
00:27:26.000Getting married at a crystal ceremony celebrating earth, air, fire, and water.
00:27:31.000It's just... Ahead of the ceremony, Ms.
00:27:33.000London, this is the person who is presiding, Annie Rose London, acknowledged the indigenous Oakland people, the first inhabitants of the land now known in the Bay Area, before reminding the roughly 30 friends of the couple in attendance for the reason they had gathered that day, so Ms.
00:27:47.000Sage could get Mr. Kickingstone's health insurance.
00:27:49.000You see the building blocks of society built upon who can get whose health insurance.
00:27:53.000This is the meaning of marriage, folks.
00:29:03.000And he says, you know, we're not, we on the left, we're not starting the culture wars.
00:29:06.000So right now the left is pushing through the House.
00:29:08.000They just pushed through the House with a bunch of Republican votes.
00:29:10.000A bill that gets rid of the Defense of Marriage Act and essentially enshrines in law Obergefell, which is the Supreme Court case saying that same-sex marriage is purely legally equivalent to heterosexual marriage in every single way.
00:29:22.000It goes a little bit further than that, actually.
00:29:25.000But again, it essentially makes the law of the land that you're a bigot if you believe that heterosexual marriage is in any way different or superior to homosexual marriage.
00:29:33.000And people just say, we're not declaring the culture war.
00:29:37.000And just because the left has been winning the culture war doesn't mean that if you continue to push that you're going to continue to win the culture war.
00:29:43.000Everybody is pretty tolerant up until the time you start suggesting that they get to teach your kid, that you get to teach their kids your particular form of anti-traditional morality.
00:29:53.000Here's Pete Buttigieg, who apparently is, he's very fond of speaking up on everything except for transportation policy. When it comes to actually, you know, fixing the supply chain bottleneck, then he's completely uninterested in the job.
00:30:03.000When it comes to speaking about gay marriage, then of course he is first on the, he's Johnny on the spot. Here's Pete Buttigieg yesterday.
00:30:08.000In the work that we're doing, we have found that not everybody is prepared to hear about justice and equity in the context of transportation. As if transportation is somehow uniquely immune to the impacts of patterns of exclusion and racial injustice that have touched every other part of our society.
00:30:28.000So I just want to make clear, we're not the ones looking for culture wars.
00:30:32.000We're just trying to do what's right, healing the broken places in our country.
00:30:38.000They're not looking for culture wars, except for how every single day they're looking for culture wars, right?
00:30:42.000Of course, in the stretches Not just from issues of marriage, it also stretches to indoctrinating your kids in radical gender ideology.
00:30:51.000It extends to extending abortion to all stages of pregnancy.
00:30:57.000And Kamala Harris, the vice president of the United States, yesterday, she was trying to talk about the GOP and abortion, suggesting that, again, there's only one priority when it comes to abortion, and that is the autonomy of a woman over her own body.
00:31:09.000Forget about the countervailing interest of a child in actually living and not being killed.
00:31:12.000That apparently does not exist, according to the vice president of the United States.
00:31:16.000We must stand and say, it is wrong-headed and intended to harm.
00:31:28.000When you pass laws that deny a woman a right to make decisions about her body, when you pass laws that suggest there's not even an exception for rape or incest, You know, I personally prosecuted cases Involving child sexual assault.
00:31:47.000It's an uncomfortable topic, people don't want to talk about it, but it's real and it happens.
00:31:51.000And that child and that woman should not have to endure an act of extreme violence and then not have the ability to have agency and autonomy to decide what happens next.
00:32:05.000They always use the edge cases, like a 10-year-old gets raped and then wants an abortion.
00:32:09.000By the way, Very likely, if a 10-year-old gets pregnant, that she's going to need an abortion in order to live, because the simple fact of the matter is that 10-year-olds are generally not capable of bearing children.
00:32:17.000But, Kamala Harris, there's a key phrase that she uses there.
00:32:24.000And the same thing from Pete Buttigieg.
00:32:25.000If you oppose anything in Pete Buttigieg's agenda, it's not because you have disagreements over the societal standard that ought to be applied to human behavior.
00:32:35.000This is part and parcel of a broader leftist rubric, whereby if you disagree with them, you're not just the culture warriors, you are the people who are putting the country on the brink of disaster.
00:32:45.000And then, if you notice this, if you say, guys, you're tearing the country apart, that is when the media jump in and they say, well, you're the ones who are provoking.
00:32:53.000So if you push to the left, push to the left, if you greenlight riots in the middle of 2020, If you, like Vice President Harris, try to bail out rioters in the middle of riots in 2020, if you push on the idea that children can be boys or girls and they should be taught that boys can be girls and girls can be boys, if you suggest that all forms of human sexual relations are morally equivalent and that that must be taught at every level and enshrined in every area of American law, if you suggest that any restriction on abortion whatsoever is an attack on a woman,
00:33:23.000Then the idea is that they're the ones who are starting the civil war.
00:33:26.000And this is how you end up with a piece by Dave Weigel in the Washington Post titled, On the Campaign Trail, Many Republicans Talk of Violence.
00:33:32.000In both swing states and safe seats, Republican candidates say that liberals hate them personally and may turn rioters or a police state on people who disobey them.
00:33:39.000I wonder why people might have that thought.
00:33:41.000I wonder why people might have the radical thought that there are people on the left who hate their guts.
00:33:47.000Why would they think that after listening to the Vice President of the United States say that if you're pro-life it's because you have intent to harm?
00:33:55.000Why might they think, after listening to Pete Buttigieg suggest, repeatedly, that you're a bad person if you disagree that homosexual marriage and heterosexual marriage are morally equivalent?
00:34:10.000It's all a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
00:34:12.000When they listen, To people on the left suggest that disagreement amounts to a form of violence and that they are about to overthrow the country.
00:34:21.000Why do you think people might feel a little bit threatened?
00:34:22.000For example, Al Gore, he's back out of the woodwork now because it's really hot.
00:34:25.000Every time it gets hot during the summer, we call Al Gore out of the woodwork to fly his private jet into the green room at CNN and explain just why things are so bad.
00:34:33.000Al Gore over the weekend suggested that people who disagree with him on the climate are like the Uvalde officers who allowed a mass shooter to murder children in a classroom while doing nothing.
00:34:44.000Here is Al Gore, who's gotten extremely rich being a green advocate while raking in the green.
00:34:52.000You know, the climate deniers are really in some ways similar to all of those almost 400 law enforcement officers in Uvalde, Texas, who were waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred.
00:35:11.000They heard the screams, they heard the gunshots, and nobody stepped forward.
00:35:17.000And God bless those families who've suffered so much.
00:35:20.000And law enforcement officials tell us that's not typical of what Law enforcement usually does.
00:35:27.000And confronted with this global emergency, what we're doing with our inaction and failing to walk through the door and stop the killing is not typical of what we are capable of as human beings.
00:35:50.000So Malcolm Nance, he and I appeared together on Bill Maher where he suggested that every Republican was complicit in January 6th and wanted to overthrow the government and that we were at the moment when democracy was going to be overthrown by these people.
00:36:00.000But if you notice that that's extreme radical rhetoric that bores on the civil war type of rhetoric that Yeah, has been common throughout American history, unfortunately.
00:36:12.000If you note that, then that's because you want this award.
00:36:14.000Here's MSNBC's Malcolm Nance predicting that there will be no more elections ever if Republicans win, which, by the way, is kind of a Civil War-like call, right?
00:36:23.000The suggestion is, if your opponents win, it's the end of the country.
00:36:26.000What choice do you have but to use every tool at your disposal to stop them from winning?
00:37:05.000And Kamala Harris and getting rid of people or expanding the Supreme Court, whatever it is they think they can do, even though some of it's crazy.
00:37:13.000First thing that they said, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert said, we will criminally prosecute every person who took part in the January 6th investigation.
00:37:24.000Guys, if we don't stop those evil, evil people who disagree with us, they're going to burn down the country.
00:37:28.000So we'll use every means at our disposal.
00:38:17.000Sometimes they are villainized and or arrested.
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00:38:23.000If you want to fully protect yourself and your loved ones, you have to be prepared for the mental, physical, and legal ramifications of self-defense, which is why I am a member of the U.S.
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00:40:14.000So with the left on the march through our societal institutions ripping apart pretty much all of the things that traditionally have been the foundations and pillars of that civilization, the media are noticing that Republicans are getting mad about that and are feeling under threat.
00:40:33.000And why should they feel under threat?
00:40:34.000After all, we're only threatening them.
00:40:37.000Dave Weigel has a long piece of the Washington Post discussing this quote.
00:40:40.000In both swing states and safe seats, many Republicans say liberals hate them personally and may turn rioters or a police state on people who disobey them.
00:40:47.000OK, so first of all, by polling data, a lot of liberals hate conservatives personally.
00:40:51.000I mean, let's just point out that when it comes to which people say that they have friends on the other side of the aisle, many, many more conservatives than liberals say they have friends on the other side of the aisle.
00:41:12.000To pretend that this isn't happening is to stick your head in the sand, but of course, Weigel works for the Washington Post, so of course, he's going to pretend like, why are they so worried?
00:41:21.000Referring to the coronavirus and 2020 protests over police brutality, state delegate Stan Cox in the state of Maryland He said, quote, Wait, I'm waiting to hear the part that's controversial.
00:41:33.000Seriously, I don't understand the controversial part of that.
00:41:34.000I was in Los Angeles, and the Black Lives Matter rioters were allowed to burn cop cars all the way down Melrose Avenue.
00:41:40.000That's why we have the Second Amendment.
00:41:41.000Okay, wait, I'm waiting to hear the part that's controversial.
00:41:45.000Seriously, I don't understand the controversial part of that.
00:41:47.000I was in Los Angeles, and the Black Lives Matter rioters were allowed to burn cop cars all the way down Melrose Avenue.
00:41:53.000Rioters hit the Walgreens about half a mile from us in one direction, and a footlocker about half a mile in the other direction.
00:42:00.000And the police officers with whom I was friends were telling me that they were getting active orders from the top downs who allow this sort of stuff to happen.
00:42:08.000Yes, people need guns in order to protect themselves when the police are told to stand aside by the politicians.
00:42:14.000I don't know what is remotely controversial about this, but again, the idea is that Republicans are the aggressors here for noticing.
00:42:19.000The rhetoric is bracing, if not entirely new.
00:42:22.000Liberal commentators made liberal use of the word fascism to describe Trump's presidency.
00:42:25.000The baseless theory that Barack Obama was undermining American power as a foreign agent was popular with some Republicans, including Trump, who succeeded Obama in the White House.
00:42:32.000Many Democrats saw the backlash to Obama as specific to his race and saw Biden as unlikely to inspire mass opposition to Trump in the presidential election.
00:42:39.000But many Republicans also portray Biden as a malevolent figure, a vessel for a hateful leftist campaign to weaken America.
00:42:45.000Again, why is this like a top news story at the Washington Post that a lot of people who are conservative see Biden as an empty vessel for a movement that does not have the best interests of the country at heart?
00:43:00.000Every story from the media is Republicans' pounds.
00:43:02.000No matter how far left the left moves, no matter how dangerous their rhetoric, it's Republicans' pounds.
00:43:06.000It doesn't matter, by the way, if a person tries to assassinate a gubernatorial candidate in New York.
00:43:11.000The Republican nominee for governor, Lee Zeldin, was attacked by a person wielding a sharp implement who is trying to hurt him and kill him.
00:43:20.000This lasted in the media for less than a day.
00:43:24.000As Lee Zeldin pointed out, the attacker was telling me, you're done.
00:43:28.000If I were a Democrat, don't you think this would be a top national news story for like a year?
00:43:33.000Here was Lee Zeldin pointing this out over the weekend.
00:43:36.000Now the way that I'm wired, when I see somebody wearing a hat that says that they're a veteran, my guard couldn't possibly be more dropped.
00:43:44.000But at the same exact time, I noticed he had a weapon in his hand.
00:43:49.000And it had two holes where he had two fingers through the holes.
00:43:52.000It had two sharp dagger-like edges on it.
00:44:01.000Okay, again, would this be a top news story if it were the other way around?
00:44:04.000Of course it would be a top news story, but it wasn't a top news story when a Bernie Sanders acolyte shot a bunch of Republican congresspeople at a congressional baseball game.
00:44:12.000That wasn't news for more than a week.
00:44:14.000So, yeah, I mean, you wonder why Republicans feel under threat.
00:44:18.000According to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, quote, it's purposeful.
00:44:20.000It's all about the fundamental transformation of America.
00:44:23.000You only fundamentally transform something for which you have disdain.
00:44:27.000According to Dave Wagle at the Washington Post, that argument has been dramatized in ads that show, for instance, one armed candidate appearing to charge into the home of a political enemy and another warning of the mob that threatens ordinary Americans.
00:44:39.000So if you say that there are a lot of people on the left, Who fundamentally do not like the principles of the United States, which they say, they openly say they don't like the Constitution.
00:44:46.000They openly say that the principles upon which the United States is based, that those principles are malevolent and bad.
00:44:53.000That those principles are rooted in racism and bigotry and power dynamics.
00:44:57.000I mean, this is mainstream politicians on the left who say this sort of stuff.
00:45:01.000But if you notice this, then this puts you in the same category as like Eric Greitens, who cuts an ad bursting into a guy's house with a gun, who's in his own party, by the way.
00:45:10.000So the goal of the left-wing media is to link all of this together.
00:45:37.000The people who suggest that you are a threat to the Republic are saying that if you notice that they say this and you feel threatened, then this is because you are the extremist.
00:45:45.000This is the little game that they love to play.
00:45:48.000That game isn't going to work because again, we all have eyes and we all have ears.
00:45:52.000Alright, we'll be back here later today with additional content.
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