Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated in broad daylight outside of a public square. He was giving a speech when he was shot twice in the chest and near the neck by a man who was apparently in the Navy at one point. There is a lot of speculation as to the identity of the shooter, and the circumstances of his death remain a mystery. Abe was a divisive figure in Japan, who championed a muscular defense policy and championed a more muscular stance toward China. He was a member of the right wing, nationalist, and anti-China faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, and was a fierce opponent of the country s prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, who was a bulwark against the growing isolationism and isolationism Japan was trying to adopt in the post-World War II era. Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Get ExpressVPN for free, no credit card required, no fee, no pop-up fees, and no pop up fees. Use the promo code SHAPIRO to get 50% off your first month of coverage. You can literally do anything you want with ExpressVPN and get a FREE trial offer. Shaving is a great way to get an extra $5 or more of your favorite VPN service, and you'll get 10% off the first month! Get your very first month free when you sign up for ExpressVPN when you run your first bill! You'll get $5 and get $10 credit when you upgrade to $99.99 plus an additional $5 when you start getting $5, and a FREE 3-month credit plan when you become a year-only membership when you shop at ExpressVPN gets $35 or $99 or get $99, they get $50, you get $35, they offer you an ad-free trial, they'll give you $5.99 a year, they also get $25, you can get a maximum of $99 a month, and they'll get you 5-month and you get an additional 3 months of FREE. you get a complimentary 4-month trial. a year and a VIP membership starting at $99 and a 2-month VIP membership when they get your first year of the service starts after they receive $5-they'll get the deal, they won't get $49, they can get $24, they will get $29, you'll also get your choice of the deal. That's 4-months of free!
00:00:31.000First, the American public is getting pinched right now by incredibly dumb left-wing policies that have generated high costs for literally everything.
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00:02:19.000He was basically non-responsive at the scene.
00:02:22.000He was declared dead about five hours later.
00:02:26.000Doctors attempted a blood transfusion, but they were unable to stop the bleeding.
00:02:29.000There are serious questions as to exactly why Abe was shot at this point.
00:02:34.000A lot of speculation out there as to why Abe was shot.
00:02:38.000His legacy is pretty rich for a politician in Japan.
00:02:43.000Japan, of course, has had a pretty rough go of it over the past couple of decades.
00:02:47.000They had massive stagnation of the economy in the 1990s.
00:02:50.000Abe was famous for Involving himself in what he called Abenomics, which was essentially Keynesian stimulus packages.
00:02:56.000It was supposed to be combined with restructuring of the social security system because Japan has serious demographic problems.
00:03:02.000Their reproduction rate is well under one.
00:03:04.000It's a population that is rapidly aging.
00:03:05.000They don't have enough money to pay all of their bills.
00:03:07.000Abe never really got to that part of the economic plan.
00:03:10.000His Keynesian stimulus seemed to jog GDP growth, at least mildly, although that did not solve any of their underlying problems.
00:03:16.000But what he was most famous for in Japan, and at least in the region, was being very nationalistic.
00:03:20.000So for that reason, there are a lot of more right-wing politicians around the planet, including President Trump, who were very gracious about Abe.
00:03:29.000There would have been anyway, obviously, if he had not been a member of the right wing, but he was a more right-wing politician in terms of his nationalistic fervor.
00:03:37.000He famously attempted to pull Japan out of treaties that made it impossible for Japan to defend itself.
00:03:42.000After World War II, Japan was essentially disarmed by the Allied world, and Abe was attempting to rearm Japan, at least in the face of Chinese predations.
00:03:52.000According to the Wall Street Journal, he was a divisive figure who championed a more muscular military and wanted to revise Japan's pacifist constitution, but failed to win enough political support to do so well in power.
00:04:02.000He thought Japan shouldn't keep apologizing for its past colonization of other Asian countries.
00:04:06.000He emphasized close ties to the United States.
00:04:08.000He developed a friendship with former President Trump.
00:04:11.000He bolstered the nation's defense with new weapons and new amphibious forces and a law allowing Japanese forces to cooperate more closely with the United States outside of Japan's borders.
00:04:19.000He had a pretty fraught relationship with President Obama, but a pretty warm relationship with President Trump.
00:04:23.000After he stepped down as prime minister in 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal, Abe said that Japan should discuss the possibility of sharing nuclear weapons as is practiced by NATO.
00:04:31.000Challenging a nuclear taboo in Japan since the country was the target of U.S.
00:04:35.000Of course, the reason that he would want nuclear sharing is that he could deter any sort of invasion or predation from the Chinese government.
00:04:44.000Shinzo Abe was a very muscular defender of the idea of Taiwanese independence.
00:04:51.000In March of this year, he did a long interview at the Hudson Institute in which he talked about Taiwan.
00:04:57.000Abe said Xi Jinping is consolidating his power base.
00:04:59.000He's no longer hiding his ambitions toward Taiwan.
00:05:02.000By the way, as all of these tributes are flowing in from other countries to Abe, one place that has provided no tribute at all is China.
00:05:09.000China is not interested at all in Taiwan.
00:05:13.000Abe is worried that as Xi makes political gains in Beijing, according to the Hudson Institute, unification with Taiwan, either by force or otherwise, may not be far behind.
00:05:20.000This is a view also held by some who foresee a PRC invasion of Taiwan as possible within just a few short years, though a similar feeling of imminent invasion may not be held by those actually living in Taiwan.
00:05:29.000Disputed territories in the South China Sea or the Senkaku Islands may also be Xi's next target.
00:05:35.000And that's why, last year, American and Japanese officials underscored the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in a joint statement.
00:05:42.000It's also why Taiwan has become a major focus for Shinzo Abe's vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific.
00:05:48.000His concern for Taiwan, according to the Hudson Institute, was not new.
00:05:51.000He saw his efforts to make a stronger Japan-Taiwan relationship as 28 years in the making, starting when he was first elected to the Japanese Diet in 1993.
00:05:58.000He said years ago, there were many people who had learned and were very literate in Japanese at the center of the political, economic, and social fabric of Taiwan.
00:06:04.000My view was that we need to be able to maintain this very pro-Japan atmosphere that is prevailing in Taiwan.
00:06:11.000So there's a lot of speculation that China may have something to do with all this.
00:06:16.000Of course, that is pure speculation at this point, and we don't actually know what the motive was for the murder of Shinzo Abe.
00:06:21.000But whenever an international leader is murdered this way, that is a shocking story, and we'll keep an eye on it, obviously.
00:06:31.000The social contagion that is gender ideology has begun to bear its hideous fruits.
00:06:35.000I mean, the confusion and the destruction of children, which isn't, of course, the goal of gender ideology.
00:06:40.000Gender ideology is not really even about building a utopian world for the collective.
00:06:45.000Marxist utopianism is about building a Marxist world utopia in which greater equality will usher in a new era of mankind when we will all change how we think.
00:06:53.000We'll think more collectively, more communally.
00:07:31.000Instead, gender ideology suggests that in order for you to live your best life, in order for your emotional well-being to be secured, everyone must celebrate you.
00:07:39.000And the problem is, for the gender ideologists, that adults who have the capacity to reason and have prefrontal cortexes are really, really bad at accepting this idea.
00:07:48.000Mainly because it runs directly counter to all evolutionary biology as well as reality itself.
00:07:53.000The notion that men and women are not different, that these categories are innately malleable, that people can identify as whatever they want to be, this is a pure fantasy.
00:08:03.000And it's an ugly fantasy at that, by the way.
00:08:05.000It undercuts the beauty of the difference between men and women.
00:08:08.000It undercuts the beauty of the heterosexual relationships that have kept society functioning and alive and reproducing for literally hundreds of thousands of years.
00:08:16.000Gender ideology is truly hideous, and it's truly narcissistic and selfish.
00:08:20.000And so, the essence of that is cramming this stuff down on kids.
00:08:24.000Because if you can't get adults to buy into it, because adults are too well-developed mentally to buy into the idea that a woman can have a penis, then all you have to do is get a bunch of kids to believe this sort of thing, and they will clap for you.
00:08:35.000And this is why you see so many TikTok videos of adult teachers talking about how they are so happy when their kids validate them.
00:08:42.000As I've said before, if you're looking for validation from a child, this means that you're a bad adult.
00:08:48.000Adults do not seek validation from children.
00:08:50.000They seek to guide and civilize children.
00:08:52.000Adults who seek validation from children have something wrong with them.
00:08:54.000If you're going around thinking, well, at least the seven-year-old really approves my sexual lifestyle, you have a problem that requires some sort of psychiatrist or psychologist to sort out.
00:09:26.000It's about setting rules and providing roles and providing stability.
00:09:30.000Kids without stability fall into chaos, depression and suicidal ideation.
00:09:34.000This is true whether you're talking about a society that approves widespread divorce, or whether you're talking about a society that approves widespread single motherhood, or whether you're talking about a society that foments the idea that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.
00:09:44.000Chaos is the enemy of the mental stability of small children.
00:09:48.000And yet we now have an entire society that is predicated on the notion that we must indoctrinate kids in this idea, so as to protect the gay kids, or to protect the transgender kids, when the reality is that there's no such thing as a gay 5-year-old, there's no such thing as a transgender 5-year-old, there are just 5-year-olds.
00:10:02.000There are five-year-olds, some of whom have mental dispositions in one way or another that have not fully manifest because they're five.
00:10:08.000And there are a bunch of five-year-olds who are just easily confused because they are five years old.
00:10:13.000But this attempt to protect the kids by burning down all the kids is having some pretty significant ramifications.
00:10:19.000And of course, the key cog here is that you must hijack parents into this.
00:10:25.000You must use social pressure via the media, via social media, via communal pressure, to tell parents that the best form of parenting is to teach their kids this crap, and then you call them bigots when it turns out they don't like that their little boy is coming home and telling them that he's a little girl.
00:10:39.000And you're starting to see people on the left realizing, oh wait.
00:10:42.000Oh, like liberal parents in liberal areas who have been told that the height of morality is not teaching your kids civilized values or Judeo-Christian tradition.
00:10:50.000In fact, that is hemming them in and ruining them.
00:10:53.000You have parents who have been taught that the height of morality is plunking one of those dumb lawn signs in their lawn.
00:11:13.000You actually have godlike morality handed down to you on high from GLAAD that explains to you that you are a more virtuous person if you cram this crap down on your kids.
00:11:22.000And then the parents look and they say, wait, my kid is confused.
00:11:38.000One is, all the gender ideologues who believe that their narcissistic sexual self-satisfaction is the only thing that matters on planet Earth, and that it amounts to the center core of their identity.
00:11:48.000Those people, they require the hijacking of the next generation.
00:11:54.000In order to make that happen, they have to cudgel other parents into doing their bidding for them.
00:11:58.000They have to get the parental consent in order to corrupt the kids.
00:12:01.000And so, to that end, they use all of the power that they have in the media, and with their liberal allies in the media, and people who generally dislike Judeo-Christian tradition in the media, which is a wide swath of them, to cram down social pressure on parents to teach their kids this stuff.
00:12:14.000And then, if the parents rebel, then you call them bigots.
00:12:18.000And shockingly, this is ending with the perversion of an entire generation of kids who are going to, the rates of suicidal ideation in this society are going to be extraordinary.
00:12:26.000They're already really, really high right now.
00:12:30.000In five years, the suicidal ideation, depression rates, the mental illness rates in this country are going to be just, they're going to be enormous.
00:12:37.000They're going to be, there is no way to avoid them being enormous.
00:12:39.000You have thrust chaos and insanity and overt denial of reality on a bunch of young kids And then you've celebrated them for that.
00:12:47.000And you've told everybody that if they resist, they will be steamrolled by the society, by corporate America, by the media, by their peers.
00:12:55.000Things are going to get really wild really quickly.
00:12:57.000And you're starting to see some liberal parents waking up to this, but they won't go all the way.
00:13:02.000They understand that what's happening to their kids is bad, but they've so bought into the idea that their virtue is tied up in repeating the idiotic nostrums of gender ideologists.
00:13:10.000And they're not willing to go all the way and just say, listen, I'm taking my kid out of this crazy progressive school in Brentwood and sticking him in a Catholic school.
00:13:24.000Instead, teach your kids that a boy can have a vagina.
00:13:29.000Clearly, one of those things is more damaging than the other.
00:13:31.000And it's the, you know, thousands of years old tradition that has fomented the rise of the greatest civilization in world history.
00:13:37.000That's the thing that's really, really dangerous.
00:13:39.000According to these folks, if you are given a choice between teaching your kids the values that have preserved and created Western civilization and teaching your kids a bunch of gobbledygook garbage developed in the 1960s by predators, you should probably teach the latter.
00:13:50.000Because you wouldn't want to damage the kids or anything.
00:13:52.000If all of this stuff is enough to keep you up at night, well, let me just explain one way where you can get the sleep you need.
00:14:01.000And you find yourself tossing and turning at night because the sheets that you got from that local gas station, because they had a high thread count, it turns out they suck.
00:14:07.000This is why you need great sheets, the best sheets.
00:14:09.000This is why I have only Bull & Branch in my home.
00:14:12.000Bull & Branch sheets aren't just buttery, breathable, and impossibly comfortable.
00:14:15.000They get softer with every single wash.
00:14:33.000One thing I like about the signature hem sheets, they actually fit your bed.
00:14:36.000The most irritating thing about other sets of sheets is that very often you put that fitted sheet on the mattress and then halfway through the night, like your face is directly on the mattress because it's pulled up off the, Bolling Branch doesn't do that.
00:14:47.000They cut the sheets exactly how they're supposed to be cut.
00:15:59.000That's because it is a social contagion.
00:16:01.000As Laura Lipman over at Brown University has pointed out, this is called Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria.
00:16:06.000Essentially what it means is that a bunch of girls who feel uncomfortable in their bodies, which by the way describes nearly all teenage girls, are told by society that if you feel uncomfortable with your body, particularly during puberty, when things get really dicey for young girls.
00:16:32.000Girls feel very uncomfortable in their own bodies very often.
00:16:34.000And they are taught by the gender ideologists that this means they might actually not even be a girl.
00:16:40.000So if you take a normal girl who feels confused by puberty, who feels confused by the development of her own body in new and extraordinary ways as she develops into maturity.
00:16:48.000If you take that girl and you say, listen, you feel like uncomfortable in body because of chubbiness or because you're menstruating or because hairiness or because all the things that are associated with puberty.
00:16:58.000When that stuff happens, the reason you probably feel uncomfortable And the reason you're feeling it is because of the hormonal rush that you get when you're now entering puberty.
00:17:06.000When all of this happens, it might be because you're a boy.
00:17:08.000And then you send these girls to some sort of gender clinic, where without any sort of screening protocol, they just give them testosterone, which, by the way, promotes aggressiveness and confidence.
00:17:18.000Then you have now convinced an entire generation of girls that they are boys, which is insane and damaging.
00:17:24.000And if you take it all the way, it leads to full-scale surgical mutilation and sterilization.
00:17:29.000There is no evolutionary biological basis for the proposition that suddenly a tiny percentage of the population, we're talking about 1 in 100,000 people who used to have gender dysphoria.
00:17:38.000Now you're talking in this class about one quarter of the kids.
00:17:43.000That'd be 25,000 in 100,000 saying that they have gender dysphoria.
00:17:49.000If you applied the rates of this classroom to the general rates of gender dysphoria at large, So according to this columnist, a quarter of the girls in my daughter's class identify as transgender, 7 out of 28.
00:17:59.000When I said that on Twitter recently, I was roundly attacked for being a TERF who makes up ridiculous stories to harm trans people.
00:18:04.000While I may be a TERF, I did not make this up.
00:18:06.000A quarter of the girls in my kid's class identify as boys.
00:18:09.000One of them has had four names this year, all from an anime series.
00:18:12.000I keep seeing people say, both on the health site Twitter and in the population media, that the trans population is a tiny minority, less than 0.1% of the population.
00:18:19.000If that is true, what is going on at my child's school?
00:18:22.000What has made the number of trans-identified girls in one year group grow from a constant zero pre-pandemic to 25% now?
00:18:28.000And by the way, it is, it is, as Bill Maher has correctly noted, but I've been noting for far longer, this is geographically ill-distributed.
00:18:42.000Which means that this has very, very little to do with biology because you do not have an evolutionary bottleneck in Los Angeles in which, like everyone who had a recessive gene for gender dysphoria suddenly reproduced in L.A.
00:18:53.000over the course of the last three years.
00:19:58.000That's the worst thing you can say about somebody is that they're a prude.
00:20:01.000If you say somebody is a prude, this is akin to suggesting that they are a Puritan who burns witches.
00:20:05.000So if you suggest that traditional sexual values are good, that men and women exist, that the proper place for sex is within a healthy marriage, that bearing and rearing children is a good thing, this now makes you a prude.
00:20:15.000And if you don't actively teach this to 11-year-olds, then you have to deny that you're a prude.
00:20:21.000Because we wouldn't want anybody to think you're judgmental now.
00:20:29.000Boys and girls should be taught that gender roles are good and that boys and girls exist.
00:20:32.000They should be taught that heterosexual relationships are a good thing that leads to the reproduction of the species and that the most important thing they will do in life is to bear and rear the next generation of children.
00:20:44.000These are all good things and the fact that we even have to say them Demonstrates that our society has run not only off the rails.
00:20:50.000Our society is that train at the end of Back to the Future 3.
00:20:52.000It is now suspended in midair over Eastwood Ravine.
00:20:57.000The third issue is with how the school is approaching the kids coming out.
00:21:09.000Their official policy seems to be to just go with whatever the kids say without informing the parents.
00:21:13.000If a child says they have a new name and pronouns, the school just rolls with it.
00:21:15.000They create a scenario in which an already distressed child ends up cycling through four names in six months.
00:21:20.000I say it seems to be the policy because this policy is nor written down or official.
00:21:23.000My child's name and pronouns were changed by the school without my knowledge.
00:21:26.000We didn't get so much as a phone call.
00:21:27.000When we have been at the school for years, we know the teachers well.
00:21:29.000We've been active members of the school community.
00:21:32.000None of this would matter if it was just about flags and fun identities, but it is not.
00:21:35.000For my daughter, the name and pronoun change, which we foolishly went along with on the advice of a therapist, was a tipping point into depression and self-harm.
00:21:50.000And that when you identify more, when you cause kids to identify as those identities, that this, you know, radically changes their suicidal ideation rate.
00:22:00.000When I spoke to the school about the harm they are doing, they would not hear it.
00:22:03.000They told me they celebrate all identities, that they pride themselves on being inclusive.
00:22:07.000They cannot see the transgender issue as anything other than fun flags and inclusivity and respect.
00:22:11.000They do not see the dark side we parents do.
00:22:12.000We're trying to protect our kids from bone-crushing puberty blockers, from taking cross-sex hormones when they're too young to have had sex, from having radical surgery on their developing bodies.
00:22:20.000Some days, it feels like we're holding back a tsunami.
00:22:22.000I guess in the 90s, a lot of us were in anorexic friend groups, said one mother.
00:22:26.000I think the similarities are striking, but there's one major difference.
00:22:28.000In the 90s, no medical professionals were encouraging these groups of girls in their skewed perceptions of their bodies and their self-harm.
00:23:58.000When it comes to progressive schools around the nation and progressive parents around the nation, they're so damned afraid of being labeled judgmental.
00:24:05.000I mean, God forbid, you might be labeled a Republican or a conservative.
00:24:08.000You might be labeled a traditionalist or a bigot.
00:24:11.000Well, that means that you must sacrifice your child on the altar of your own virtue signaling.
00:24:15.000It's really important that you usher your kid into an area of self-harm and oppression and complete life chaos.
00:24:22.000So that you feel good about yourself, so that the media and your peer group treat you well.
00:24:26.000God forbid you should pull your kid from that progressive group.
00:24:28.000I mean, if you had to send that kid to a school that suggests that there is in fact a hierarchy of superiority when it comes to sexual relationships, that sexual relationships are not all created morally equal or more or have similar utilitarian benefit.
00:24:41.000If you send your kid to a school like that, my God, that would be even worse than a school teaching your daughter that maybe she should have a penis sewn to her.
00:24:50.000And that's how... You want to talk about radical politics?
00:24:55.000Your politics are so radical you would sacrifice your child on the altar of gender ideology in order to secure your own feeling of political well-being.
00:25:05.000And this is, again, from Substack, which is one of the last places you're allowed to talk about this.
00:25:11.000On December 30th, 2021, a mother made her second post to the 17,000 members of the Trans People and the Allies Who Support Them Facebook group.
00:25:17.000The post was about her 7-year-old daughter's excitement in receiving children's books for Christmas about young girls who transition into boys.
00:25:24.000She used the hashtag allies, and in a comment, makes it clear that she and her daughter are not trans, we are just allies.
00:26:10.000No, what's driving that is massive confusion.
00:26:15.000Confusion that is attendant and coordinated with depression and suicidal ideation.
00:26:21.000As it turns out, even areas that are wildly accepting of transgender ideology like San Francisco have extraordinary rates of suicidal ideation and mental illness and depression that are coincident with LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign identity.
00:26:33.000Okay, so, January 30th, one month later, this same parent posts this, quote, in need of a little advice, my daughter, seven years, just came to me and said she thinks she wants to be a boy.
00:26:42.000Now, we are strong LGBTQIA plus allies, and I have always taught her there's absolutely nothing wrong with those feelings.
00:27:00.000How about you stop worrying about how the world perceives you on Facebook and you start worrying about whether you are screwing up your kid for life?
00:29:17.000And if you refuse to go along with the cult, if you refuse to go along with the fiction, if you refuse to take your own child and trans the kid without any evidence and usher them into this truly confused and, when it's targeted kids, purely evil movement, if it's targeted kids, it's evil.
00:29:35.000Anything that is targeted to confuse and destroy the notion that boys and girls are different things, and you're directing that at small kids, that is an act of evil.
00:29:45.000When you do that, any parent who doesn't go along with this is now going to be targeted for destruction.
00:29:51.000By the way, again, we're all supposed to pretend that there are no costs to any of the things that the gender ideology movement is engaged in.
00:30:02.000Fascinating piece by a woman named Yvonne Penrose.
00:30:04.000Over at Reality's Last Stand, talking about how she is a woman who has had same-sex hormones for replacement therapy.
00:30:12.000And she talks about how, because she had premature ovarian failure, she was given hormone replacement therapy.
00:30:19.000And she talks about all the various risks.
00:30:21.000She talks about cancer, blood clots, heart attacks, stroke.
00:30:24.000And she needed to take this medication for 25 to 30 years at a dose higher than is given to her average granny, just to mimic what my body should have been producing naturally.
00:30:33.000Infertility can be treated, but never cured.
00:30:35.000She talks about all of the costs of hormone replacement therapy.
00:30:38.000And now you're saying that if you take a normal, healthy girl and you pump her full of testosterone, that's going to have no long-term impact?
00:30:46.000It's just an incredible act of propaganda.
00:30:54.000And you must also ignore the fact that so many of these adults who are seeking validation from kids, some of them, a subset, are actively engaged in wanting to have sex with children.
00:31:07.000This is not even your majority of people who are engaged in gender ideology.
00:31:10.000I would say most of these people are either confused or have decided in their own narcissistic self-satisfaction that it's important to generate the next generation of supporters by essentially indoctrinating them.
00:31:18.000But there is a small subset who, in fact, Engage with kids because they want to have sex with them.
00:31:32.000If the media is allowed to suggest that there's a massive scandal inside the Catholic Church because there are a lot of priests who are molesting little boys, we are allowed to mention the fact that there seem to be a spate of LGBTQ youth activists who are promoting gender ideology to small children and are then getting arrested for things like child pornography.
00:31:49.000A drag queen performer and LGBTQ youth advisor, according to Daily Wire, has been charged with 25 counts of child pornography, allegedly in possession of dozens of photos and videos of nude underage boys sometimes performing oral sex.
00:32:01.000Bryce Williams, who uses the drag name Anastasia Diamond, allegedly downloaded 49 photos and 25 videos of child pornography between May and December of 2020, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office.
00:32:11.000Court documents say the sexually explicit images showed genitalia in boys performing oral sex and were connected to Williams' email address and phone number.
00:32:21.000PennLive, a news source serving Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, gushed over the now-charged drag queen last year for being a local activist who spreads pride all year long.
00:32:30.000Williams, who uses both masculine and feminine pronouns, is HIV medical case manager at Keystone Health Center in Chambersburg, but this month will join GLOW Harrisburg, a center that offers a safe space for LGBTQ plus youth of color.
00:32:41.000I feel like that's not the safest of spaces.
00:32:44.000This doesn't seem like a person who is providing a safe space for the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign youth.
00:32:52.000And again, if you refuse to go along with this ideology, that right there is actual grooming.
00:32:57.000But when we talk about political grooming, that's the bigger problem.
00:33:01.000If identity, if all personal things are political, and if you shift the personal, you shift the politics, and this is what the left has realized.
00:33:09.000And so they must cudgel and beat everybody in the culture into the idea that if you do not just repeat and believe, then you are some sort of terrible person.
00:33:18.000The latest example of a malice struggle session that is happening is of course Macy Gray.
00:33:23.000So Macy Gray made the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad comment that women and men exist.
00:33:33.000So she was in an interview with Piers Morgan and she said that a woman can be defined as a human being with boobs and a vagina.
00:33:43.000She also agreed with Piers Morgan that transgender women should not compete in sports She said, I will say this, and everybody's gonna hate me, but as a woman, just because you go change your parts doesn't make you a woman.
00:33:53.000Like, if you want me to call you a her, I will, because that's what you want, but that doesn't make you a woman, just because I call you a her.
00:33:59.000She said, being a girl is a whole epic book, and you can't just have that because you want to be a woman.
00:34:09.000So her original response to the Twitter insanity Well, she posted all of you coming on my page, threatening me and calling me names just because I said something you don't agree with.
00:34:23.000Well, yes, but then someone came to her and informed her that she would be subjected to an unending bout of recriminations and accusations, and that the media would cut her off at the knees, and so she had to do the obligatory Malice Struggle session on Hoda and Jenna.
00:34:37.000We have to go on daytime TV, on the Today Show, and explain she just didn't know that some women have penises.
00:34:44.000She just didn't know, and now she's learning, and now she's becoming, and now she's growing into an And by an ally, we mean somebody who will repeat the broadcast nonsense and the abject silliness that men and women are the same.
00:35:00.000And who will now become... It's not enough for you to approve the agenda.
00:35:03.000You have to become an active champion for the agenda.
00:35:05.000At the expense of everything, up to and including small kids.
00:35:08.000Here's Macy Gray apologizing for the biologically correct view that she holds about men and women.
00:35:14.000There was a question about trans women, and this was what you said in part.
00:35:20.000As a woman, just because you go change your parts doesn't make you a woman.
00:35:23.000If you want me to call you a her, I will, because that's what you want, but that doesn't make you a woman.
00:35:29.000Just because I call you a her, just because you've got a surgery, you can call yourself whatever you want.
00:35:35.000There was a wave of backlash that came as a result.
00:35:39.000Just tell me where you are right now on that statement.
00:35:42.000Well, I never, of course, meant to hurt anybody with what I said.
00:35:48.000I'm actually a huge... I think it takes a lot of courage to be yourself, to go out in the world and be honest about who you are.
00:35:57.000And so I think anyone who is in the LGBT community is a hero and sets an example for all of us with that, you know?
00:36:22.000We struggle sessioned her into compliance.
00:36:25.000We just have to put like a sign around her neck saying, I am an LGBTQ ally, and then we can actually have her stand out there in front of a massive crowd of people who are chanting shame at her and just reenact fully the Malice Struggle Sessions.
00:36:36.000Among the other people who are now engaging in Malice Struggle Sessions, Friends co-creator Marta Kaufman, who's a wild liberal.
00:36:41.000I know because I actually interviewed her for my book, Primetime Propaganda.
00:36:44.000She's very much on the left, Marta Kaufman.
00:36:46.000Marta Kaufman was one of the groundbreaking TV writers who started pushing same-sex weddings, for example.
00:36:53.000There's a same-sex wedding in Friends very, very early.
00:36:56.000So Marta Kaufman is now apologizing for not being sufficiently woke when she made Friends in the 90s because there were jokes.
00:37:03.000I know there were jokes about Chandler Bing's dad because Chandler Bing's dad was a transgender woman played by Kathleen Turner who went by Helena Handbasket and headlined a drag burlesque show in Las Vegas.
00:37:16.000And she is now expressing her regret and her remorse.
00:37:18.000She's very bad because she didn't take the time machine back to 1996 when she wrote these episodes.
00:37:22.000Her regret, she says, is that throughout the run of the show, whenever Helena was mentioned, she was routinely described as Chandler's father and referred to with he-him pronouns.
00:37:30.000One episode was even titled, The One with Chandler's Dad.
00:37:34.000She said, quote, we kept referring to Helena as Chandler's father, even though Chandler's father was trans, noting that mother might have been more appropriate.
00:37:40.000Pronouns were not yet something I understood.
00:37:42.000So we didn't refer to that character as she.
00:37:50.000The entire media infrastructure, the entire institutional infrastructure of this culture is directed at promoting lies.
00:37:56.000And those lies must be, again, the goal is to cram it down on the kids.
00:37:59.000And so, it's not a byproduct, it's not like an accidental byproduct that more kids are now identifying as LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign.
00:38:09.000When you subsidize something, you shouldn't be shocked when there is more of it.
00:38:11.000And parents who decide that their own sense of personal, political value is so tied up in their ideology, they're willing to sacrifice the mental and physical health of their children to it, Man oh man, you have chosen the God that you worship and it is not a pretty one.
00:38:25.000Alrighty folks, it's that glorious time of the week when I give a shout out to a Daily Wire member.
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00:40:40.000Meanwhile, according to Breitbart, Joe Biden is jumping full scale into the battle for trans ideology.
00:40:50.000We know that already because he has his entire HHS militarized in favor of transing the kids.
00:40:57.000Well, now apparently, according to Breitbart, an army training slide instructs soldiers to shower with transgender members of the opposite sex, even if they've not undergone a surgical transition.
00:41:05.000The training slide offers a vignette instructing soldiers on what to do if they encounter a female soldier who identifies as male, according to the Department of Defense's personnel tracking system, known as the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System, but has not surgically transitioned and still has female genitalia.
00:41:19.000So if there is a woman who says she's a man and she's showering with the men, well, you're supposed to basically ignore that.
00:41:25.000And presumably, this also happens to be the same in reverse.
00:41:28.000If you have a bunch of women who are showering, and a man walks in, fully disrobed, a la Leah Thomas in the pen locker room, then you're just supposed to treat it as normal.
00:41:38.000Soldiers should be, quote, respectful of the privacy and modesty concerns of others, but transgender soldiers are not required or expected to modify or adjust their behavior based on the fact that they do not, quote unquote, match other soldiers.
00:41:49.000This administration is so unbelievably radical.
00:41:53.000Okay, so what are the answers to things like this?
00:41:55.000One of the answers to things like this...
00:41:58.000is to, on the school level, immediately get kids out of these public schools.
00:42:03.000So there are so many public schools that have been taken over by this.
00:42:05.000I've talked about progressive private schools that promote this kind of crap in Brentwood, but it's not just progressive private schools.
00:42:10.000It's being taught at nearly every public school for young kids in California.
00:42:14.000It's literally part of law in California that you have to teach LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign history and propaganda to kids aged K through 12.
00:42:24.000So, we need more school choice, which is why I'm excited that Governor Doug Ducey has now signed the most expansive school choice legislation in history.
00:42:35.000Apparently, the money is now going to follow the kids as opposed to following the school.
00:42:40.000So the idea here is that every family in Arizona should have access to a high-quality education with dedicated teachers, as according to Doug Ducey, ensures that all Arizona K-12 students will now be eligible for scholarship funds to access the education that best fits their unique needs.
00:42:55.000House Majority Leader Ben Thomas said, in Arizona, we fund students, not systems, because we know one size does not fit all students.
00:43:01.000So massive school choice is definitely one solution to this.
00:43:04.000The other solution is just one iota of courage, folks.
00:43:07.000One iota of courage to put your kids before your own sense of political well-being with your peers.
00:43:13.000Because that's what they're going to ask of you.
00:43:16.000And I understand that we're a culture that has basically decided that children are secondary.
00:43:21.000When I say that we've decided children are secondary to sexual narcissism, what I mean is that our entire culture, for example, on the abortion issue, has decided that the most important thing that women have is the ability to have sex with as many men, presumably, if you're worried about procreation, as they want, without the possibility of getting pregnant, or if they do get pregnant, being able to dispose of the baby as quickly as humanly possible.
00:43:44.000Because absolutely, and under any circumstance, not even quickly, I mean late in the pregnancy if they want, the most important thing is that sense of sexual freedom.
00:43:52.000That is the most important thing, which is why you have people like Meghan Markle, who's just the worst.
00:43:56.000Meghan Markle is now promoting a woman power necklace to support Planned Parenthood.
00:44:00.000The necklace is both hideous and directly on the nose.
00:44:04.000The necklace appears to depict a hand reaching into a uterus and crushing a baby.
00:44:31.000Because never miss an opportunity to market yourself off the death of unborn children.
00:44:38.000The necklaces are going to be, the woman power necklace is 140 to 150 bucks.
00:44:42.000It was worn by the Duchess of Sussex during the 2021 Vax Live event.
00:44:48.000All proceeds will be donated to Planned Parenthood.
00:44:52.000She says that this cause is close to her heart.
00:44:54.000She said, quote, we have to band together and not wallow.
00:44:56.000What happens with our bodies is so deeply personal, which can also lead to silence and stigma, even though so many of us deal with personal health crises.
00:45:04.000The more we normalize conversation about the things that affect our lives and bodies, the more people are going to understand how necessary it is to have protections in place.
00:45:15.000By the way, I am enjoying that this brand also She has necklaces that pay tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which is pretty hysterical because if Ruth Bader Ginsburg had actually retired when she was supposed to, then it's possible Roe vs. Wade would still be on the books.
00:45:30.000So I do love the idea that they are wearing around like a Saint Christopher medal of Ruth Bader Ginsburg that neglects the fact that it is because she refused to step down that you ended up with a Republican Supreme Court in the majority.
00:45:47.000Meanwhile, by the way, there are things that you're not allowed to say in public culture, which is why Andrew Schultz, the comedian, had his anti-woke special pulled from Netflix.
00:45:56.000He made some jokes that seemed to be pro-life.
00:45:59.000Here is Andrew Schultz commenting on this.
00:46:02.000Basically, my special was with a streamer and then we sent the streamer a finished version of the special and they kind of freaked out and they said, you know, we can't put this out.
00:46:12.000You know, these jokes are wild and we don't want to deal with the backlash.
00:46:19.000So you're gonna have to edit some of these jokes or just cut some of these jokes out entirely.
00:46:23.000Long story short, I took my life savings and I bought my special back.
00:46:30.000I think people like real authentic comedy.
00:46:34.000And I think that they would prefer that than some watered-down corporate boardroom bullshit.
00:46:44.000I feel that way because I perform in front of thousands of people every single night, and they seem to really enjoy these jokes that are too offensive or could cause too much backlash.
00:46:56.000By the way, culturally, too offensive for Andrew Schultz to tell jokes.
00:46:59.000I've seen the jokes that he's talking about on abortion.
00:47:01.000And yeah, there are some that are pretty pro-choice, and there are a bunch that are kind of pro-life.
00:47:17.000But Netflix definitely cannot have Andrew Schultz on making jokes about how when women go to an abortion clinic, they are killing an unborn human being, which is Precisely what they are doing when they go to an abortion clinic.
00:47:28.000Other aspects of the culture that apparently are totally fine.
00:47:30.000So Coldplay, which I am informed is a band of some notoriety.
00:47:35.000Coldplay did a concert recently at which apparently they paid tribute to Louis Farrakhan, who is one of the world's worst anti-Semites.
00:47:42.000This made pretty much zero national news because after all, you can be Roger Waters and pay tribute to basically Hamas and it's totally fine.
00:48:18.000Yes, ours is a society with standards.
00:48:22.000We must force people who wrote sitcoms in the 1990s to apologize for mentioning that men are not women, like Marta Kaufman.
00:48:28.000And we must force Macy Gray to apologize.
00:48:31.000But we must definitely make sure that no one is ever met with any cultural consequence for, you know, overtly approving of wild anti-Semitism.
00:48:41.000Okay, meanwhile, in other news, Apparently Joe Biden has now signed some sort of executive order that is meant to make abortion pills more available.
00:48:52.000The executive order doesn't really do all that much in practice.
00:48:55.000It's mostly just a It's mostly a symbolic attempt to say to his base, leave me alone.
00:49:00.000According to CNN, Biden is expected to sign the executive order during a Roosevelt Room ceremony Friday morning.
00:49:05.000VP Kamala Harris is scheduled to attend as well.
00:49:08.000There's no action the president can take to restore the nationwide right to abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, because there was never a right to abortion that was made up by the Supreme Court in the first place.
00:49:17.000Democrats and advocates have been pressuring the White House to take a stronger stance to codify abortion access.
00:49:22.000Friday's executive order will prompt Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to take steps to ensure access to abortion, including FDA-approved medication abortion, and expanded access to the full range of reproductive health services, according to an administrative fact sheet shared with CNN.
00:49:35.000Those services include emergency contraception and long-acting, reversible contraception, like IUDs.
00:49:42.000So, the HHS can't really do much, but it's the White House signaling other signals that the White House is giving.
00:49:46.000Apparently, for a long time here, we have been paying, like you and I, the taxpayers of the United States, have been paying to transport illegal immigrants who are pregnant across state lines to have abortions.
00:50:03.000Last week, calls from Texas began flooding into a national abortion assistance hotline with Spanish language operators.
00:50:08.000One woman called, afraid to fly to New Mexico because of her immigration status.
00:50:11.000Another woman said she'd have to keep her pregnancy because she feared deportation if she crossed state lines.
00:50:16.000A third worried she'd be detained by immigration authorities if she used public transportation to travel.
00:50:21.000While concerns are rising among many women in the wake of the Roe vs. Wade overruling, women with uncertain immigration status face additional barriers, and everyone from abortion providers to U.S.
00:50:29.000government agencies have been scrambling to determine what will happen going forward.
00:50:46.000officials who requested anonymity to discuss the government plan told Reuters, Many federal shelters for unaccompanied children are apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border are located in Texas.
00:51:35.000The medal of freedom has basically just become, I have some friends, what if I pretend that the United States wants to give them a medal?
00:51:41.000And that's essentially what most of these are.
00:51:43.000Some people deserve the medal of freedom who get them, and then some people, yeah, not so much.
00:51:46.000So Joe Biden decided that it would be worthwhile to give a medal of freedom to the most privileged human being who has ever walked the earth, Megan Rapinoe.
00:51:53.000I mean that Megan Rapinoe went to a private school.
00:52:02.000She pretends that she's underpaid for, again, playing a sport no one cares about, and in which she would be beaten by a bunch of junior high boys, and has been beaten by a bunch of junior high boys.
00:52:10.000And then she bitches about being discriminated against.
00:52:15.000That's pretty much the Democratic Party in a nutshell right there.
00:52:18.000Here's Joe Biden giving a medal to Megan Rapinoe for the great sacrifices she's made on behalf of never having made a sacrifice in her entire life about anything meaningful.
00:52:29.000World Cup champion, Olympic gold medalist, named the world's best women's soccer player, Megan Rapinoe is one of America's great athletes.
00:52:38.000Known for her creative play and leadership, she also leads with a fierce will off the field.
00:52:43.000A champion protecting the rights of fellow LGBTQI plus Americans.
00:53:52.000And this is why she's getting a Medal of Freedom.
00:53:55.000According to the New York Post, she received her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine December 14th, 2020, after the Trump administration pushed out vaccines through Operation Warp Speed.
00:54:03.000So actually, she got her dose under Trump.
00:54:05.000She went on to get her second shot January 4th, again, before Trump left office.
00:54:11.000And apparently this was some sort of, because why?
00:54:18.000She was picked obviously because she was the first person to get the shot.
00:54:21.000But this seems like a giant messaging fail.
00:54:24.000The reason it seems like a giant messaging fail is because either it was a tremendous gift to get the first shot or she's a heroic person who sacrificed her body in the name of science.
00:54:33.000We were told that the vaccines are safe and effective.
00:54:36.000Which means that actually she should be paying the government to have been the first person to get the shot.
00:54:53.000Either it's heroic to receive the vaccine because it's actually risky to get the vaccine, or it's not only not heroic, it is something you should actively seek because it's actually good for you, the vaccine.
00:55:02.000So I'm not sure why, like, again, she seems like a very nice person.
00:55:07.000There are lots of nurses across the country, did a lot of wonderful work during COVID.
00:55:10.000But the reason she was picked is not because she's a nurse.
00:55:12.000The reason she was picked is because she got the first COVID vaccine.
00:55:14.000I don't know why you get a medal for getting the COVID vaccine.
00:55:17.000Hundreds of millions of Americans have gotten the COVID vaccine at this point.
00:55:20.000And again, it was supposed to be not risky, but good.
00:55:23.000So if your messaging is that the vaccine is good, it's not heroic to receive it.
00:55:27.000And if your messaging is that it's heroic to receive it, then it's not good.
00:55:31.000So again, giant messaging fails on behalf of the Biden administration.
00:55:33.000But of course, Joe Biden is no longer with us.
00:55:35.000So Joe Biden gave a Medal of Freedom to John McCain.
00:55:38.000Again, the goal here is to pretend that Joe Biden is some sort of wonderful bipartisan actor.
00:55:42.000So here is Joe Biden talking at length about John McCain and how John McCain was the best.
00:55:47.000He seems to have forgotten the fact that he ran directly against John McCain in 2008 and suggested that he was an angry old man who shouldn't be president because he was bad.
00:55:55.000We used to argue like hell on the Senate floor.
00:55:58.000But then we'd go down and have lunch together afterwards, as you remember.
00:56:04.000We ran against each other, which I didn't like, on tickets to the highest office in the land.
00:56:08.000I was the candidate for vice president, he was the candidate for president.
00:56:12.000I never stopped admiring John, never said a negative thing about him in my life, because I knew his honor, his courage, and his commitment.
00:56:23.000He never said a negative thing about him in his life.
00:56:26.000Quote, you can't call yourself a maverick when all you've ever been is a sidekick.
00:56:31.000Also, he suggested that John McCain was an angry man.
00:56:34.000Again, this is all stuff that he said in 2008.
00:56:37.000I mean, he never said a bad thing about John McCain, like ever, ever.
00:56:42.000Yeah, this presidency, what a success.
00:56:45.000There was one other attendee that we should mention here at the Medal of Freedom award ceremony, and that was the greatest living American, Hunter Biden, the smartest person that Joe Biden knows.
00:56:54.000Now, to be fair, we don't have footage of Hunter Biden at this particular event snorting Parmesan cheese off the carpet.
00:57:01.000Nor do we have actual footage of him attempting to take bribes while he's actually in this room.
00:57:07.000But the fact that Hunter Biden, who is apparently currently under federal investigation, is just hanging out here is such a tone-deaf... A tone-deaf would characterize this administration for sure.
00:57:17.000Here is a little footage of the greatest living American, Hunter Biden.
00:57:33.000By the way, Joe will answer no questions as to what he knew about Hunter's business activities, despite being caught on a voicemail talking about Hunter's business activities.
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