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00:01:53.000Which is the way all of these situations should end and God bless the folks from SWAT who put this guy down.
00:01:59.000And thank God that nobody innocent was injured in this process.
00:02:04.000Well, according to the local paper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the FBI on Sunday identified the hostage taker in the standoff at a Colleyville synagogue as a 44-year-old British citizen.
00:02:14.000By British citizen, they mean that the guy is a radical Muslim from Britain.
00:02:19.000I don't do the names of terrorists on this program.
00:02:21.000I don't do the names of mass shooters on this program because they are looking for notoriety, so we do not provide that.
00:02:36.000Authorities said Saturday that the hostage taker was killed in the shooting did not answer a question about whether he was shot by law enforcement or if the gunshot was self-inflicted.
00:02:43.000The man claimed to have explosives, according to statements he made on live stream videos.
00:02:48.000President Biden did call this an act of terror.
00:02:50.000He said there were apparently no explosives.
00:02:53.000This particular person was demanding the freeing of a woman who is a terrorist.
00:03:30.000In religious communities, particularly Islamic religious communities, this is just true in religious communities all over the place.
00:03:35.000People sometimes call each other brother and sister.
00:03:36.000It's not like it doesn't mean they're literally brother and sister.
00:03:40.000He apparently said, once I have my sister here, let me tell you, I will not take these four guys out, I swear by Allah.
00:03:45.000So, Islamist radical trying to free a terrorist.
00:03:48.000This person was trying to free a person named Afia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who attracted the attention of American law enforcement in the years after the September 11th attacks.
00:03:58.000Top FBI and Justice Department described her as an al-Qaeda operative and facilitator.
00:04:03.000At a May 2004 news conference in which they warned of intelligence showing that al-Qaeda plans an attack in the coming months.
00:04:08.000For years, supporters have called for the release of Siddiqui.
00:04:11.000She was a neuroscientist who's an MIT graduate.
00:04:13.000She's currently being held at a women's prison in Fort Worth.
00:04:16.000She was convicted in 2010 on charges related to the attempted murder and assault of US officers and employees in Afghanistan two years earlier.
00:04:24.000The hostage taker said a few times he didn't want anyone hurt.
00:04:27.000He said repeatedly he believed he was going to die.
00:04:30.000couple of his kids were just arrested in Great Britain.
00:04:33.000This person was apparently from the Blackburn area of Lancashire.
00:04:38.000A rabbi with the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a statement Sunday they believe the hostage taker was able to enter the synagogue by posing as a homeless man.
00:04:46.000They said OK come on in and then it turns out that he was in fact a hostage taker.
00:04:49.000Now what is amazing about this particular situation is that it is not particularly surprising.
00:04:54.000The reason that is not particularly surprising and the reason that synagogues all over the United States have security is because there are a lot of people who target Jews because they are anti-Semites, because It is not a giant, giant shock.
00:05:05.000And this particular hostage-taking shouldn't have been supremely surprising, at least over the issue of Afiya Siddiqui, because this has been a cause celebre in the Islamist community for a very, very long time, as well as among left-wing allies.
00:05:20.000National Review had a piece by Sam Westrop in September titled Islamists exploit Western progressives hand wringing to support their own.
00:05:29.000Siddiqui was known as Lady Al Qaeda and is supposedly a victim of the security state's cruelty.
00:05:36.000Siddiqui earned the moniker in 2004 after the FBI named her as one of seven senior al-Qaeda figures plotting attacks against the United States.
00:05:42.000FBI Director Robert Mueller described her at the time as an al-Qaeda operative and facilitator.
00:05:47.000Years later, Siddiqui was captured in Afghanistan.
00:05:49.000Upon her arrest, investigators found handwritten notes that referred to a mass casualty attack and that listed various locations in the United States, including Pluma Island, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, and the Brooklyn Bridge.
00:06:00.000Other notes in Siddiqui's possession referred to the construction of dirty bombs and discussed various ways to attack enemies, including by destroying reconnaissance drones using underwater bombs and deploying gliders.
00:06:09.000In the lead up to her trial, Siddiqui, who hated Jews, demanded that Jews be excluded from the jury, claiming the entire prosecution had been orchestrated by unnamed Jews.
00:06:18.000She was sentenced in 2010 to 86 years in prison, after the jury found that Siddiqui attempted to murder Americans serving in Afghanistan, as well as their Afghan colleagues.
00:06:27.000Since her conviction, a bunch of jihadist groups have demanded her release.
00:06:30.000Apparently, the Taliban offered to exchange Siddiqui for captured U.S.
00:06:35.000ISIS also offered to exchange prisoners, as did Al Qaeda.
00:06:39.000Indeed, the Pakistani regime has long been a leading voice in the call to release Siddiqui, with tacit support from elements of the regime, her jihadist group, such as the Taliban and Yaish-e-Mohammed.
00:06:49.000Siddiqui was linked to both groups' Pakistani Prime Minister, Yusuf Ghazi Gilani, once referred to Siddiqui as a daughter of the nation.
00:06:56.000Siddiqui was a beacon to Islamists everywhere.
00:06:58.000European jihadists tied charitable convoys to Syria, named vehicles after her.
00:07:02.000In 2018, one jihadist even attempted an attack on the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth in an attempt to free her.
00:07:09.000This is not the first time that somebody has attempted to free Lady Al-Qaeda by engaging in violent action.
00:07:17.000A wide variety of lawful American Islamist groups and clerics, many of whom have grown increasingly close to Pakistan over the past decade, also now campaign on Siddiqui's behalf.
00:07:26.000This includes a bunch of major American Islamist organizations.
00:07:31.000Okay, so this has been sort of a cause celeb among left-wing advocates as well as Islamist advocates for quite a while in the United States.
00:07:40.000And yet the narrative in the middle of this particular hostage-taking is that we had no clue what was happening.
00:07:45.000And in fact, anybody who suggested this might have to do with the innate anti-Semitism of Islamism is somehow Islamophobic.
00:07:53.000Now, this is a bizarre contention, because I was actually texting with a Muslim friend of mine on Saturday night, and he was saying that he was praying, obviously, for the freeing of the Jews who'd been taken hostage, because it turns out that a huge number of Muslims are not in favor of people taking Jews hostage in order to free terrorists.
00:08:10.000There are many Muslims who are not in favor of this, but For a very wide swath of the left-wing media, and for many of the Muslim voices promoted by the mainstream media, the idea that this has anything to do with Islamism, which is a radical form of Islam that unfortunately has many adherents around the world, that if you mention this sort of stuff, this makes you an Islamophobe.
00:08:33.000One of the people who was pushing the left-wing perspective was Wajahat Ali, who used to be on CNN.
00:08:37.000He tweeted, you're about to hear some ugly and vicious Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bigotry this weekend from elected officials, commentators, and even mainstream media.
00:08:56.000Islamophobia is obviously the thing we ought to worry about.
00:08:59.000And this has been a pattern in American public life with regard to a wide variety of crimes for a very long time.
00:09:04.000If you are identified by the left in the United States as a victim group, if a member of that supposed victim group perpetrates a crime, you're supposed to pretend that it is not a crime or that it is a mystery.
00:09:14.000We've had the same thing happening with regard to anti-Semitism for years in New York and New Jersey.
00:09:19.000When a black Hebrew Israelite attempted to murder a bunch of Jewish children in New Jersey, and actually did kill some people in New Jersey, it was treated as a not national story for more than about 25 seconds.
00:09:28.000When a white supremacist targets Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, that's a national story because there you have a member of a quote unquote not victimized group attacking Jews, where a more victimized group...
00:09:39.000Therefore, the intersectional hierarchy has been upheld.
00:09:55.000And if a Muslim attacks a Jew, that's also not a story.
00:09:57.000Because according to the left, for some odd reason, radical Muslims attacking Jews is somehow a story of the victimized group attacking the victimizing group.
00:10:07.000Now, just on a pure kind of global power level, you have to question why that would possibly be the case.
00:10:14.000There are well over a billion Muslims on planet Earth.
00:10:16.000There are a grand total, at current, of like 15 million Jews on the planet.
00:10:21.000Muslims are in control of some 57, 58 countries.
00:10:24.000On planet Earth, Jews are in control of one.
00:10:28.000Jews are a minority in every country, except for Israel.
00:10:31.000Muslims are a majority in a wide variety of countries.
00:10:35.000And yet, somehow, according to the left, whenever there is a conflict between Jew and Muslim, it must be the Jews who are the perpetrators.
00:10:41.000And if it's the reverse, then we have to pretend that it's not happening, or we have to downplay it.
00:10:45.000We have to pretend it's some sort of enigma wrapped in a mystery.
00:10:48.000Again, this has nothing to do with the idea that all Muslims are anti-Semitic or all Muslims are terrorists or anything remotely like that.
00:10:56.000What it does have to do with is the left's willingness to cover up crimes because it does not back the narrative that they wish to purvey, which is that in the intersectional hierarchy, Jews are the victimizers when posited next to Muslims.
00:11:06.000This also has to do, by the way, with the wild anti-Israel sentiment on the left that has now cropped up.
00:11:14.000There are a lot of people who wonder, why is it that the left is so radically anti-Israel these days, considering that Israel is significantly more in line with a lot of the social views of the left than the Muslim world is?
00:11:25.000In Israel, famously, you can live openly as a gay person in Israel.
00:11:29.000In Israel, women have tremendous amounts of rights.
00:11:32.000Israel is very liberal with regard to women's rights.
00:11:38.000Well, because, essentially, leftism is now a class conspiracy theory, whereby anybody who is successful violated somebody who is unsuccessful, which is how they got successful.
00:11:48.000Well, that theory sounds a lot like anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jews in control of the media, Jews in control of world finance, Jews in control of the power centers, and therefore Jews must have victimized somebody in order to achieve their power.
00:12:02.000The leftist narrative, as applied to Jews more specifically, is the same as the anti-Semitic narrative, which is why there is this stream crossing, and why we have to, the minute the Jews are taken hostage at a Dallas synagogue, a huge part of the media is immediately like, this is going to be about Islamophobia, isn't it?
00:12:19.000This is why the Democratic Party, when Ilhan Omar, who is a radical anti-Semite, when she says a bunch of Jew-hating crap, this is why the Democratic Party immediately has to pass a resolution condemning both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as though one can't be condemned without condemning the other.
00:12:35.000And unfortunately, this has bled up into the major institutions of American life.
00:12:39.000And anti-Semitism can only be taken seriously by the left when the person who is purveying the anti-Semitism is a white person.
00:12:46.000That is the only time it is worth noting.
00:12:48.000Which of course is bizarre since the vast majority of anti-semitism pervaded on planet Earth right now is not pervaded by white people.
00:12:54.000I hate to break it to folks but that is not the case.
00:12:58.000If there are white supremacists, they're incredibly dangerous.
00:13:01.000There are white supremacists who hate Jews, they're incredibly dangerous.
00:13:03.000I know this personally because the FBI arrested a white supremacist about four years ago who was targeting my family and that person is now in jail.
00:13:11.000But the vast majority of anti-Semitism on planet Earth right now is not being purveyed by white supremacists because that's a very small number of white supremacists.
00:13:18.000The vast majority of anti-Semitism in terms of hate crime, in terms of action, in terms of broad policy that is being purveyed, is being purveyed by radical Muslims.
00:13:30.000Or in domestic context, it's being purveyed by people of color.
00:13:35.000But you can't pay attention to that because antisemitism only matters when the people who are promoting the antisemitism are people that the left has decided are members of the power class.
00:13:45.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:14:49.000Okay, so the response from the federal government, the immediate response was bewildering to say the least.
00:14:54.000The FBI came out and they made a statement.
00:14:56.000See if you can spot the problem with this particular statement.
00:15:00.000We do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community.
00:15:08.000But we'll continue to work to find motive, and we will continue on that path.
00:15:13.000What did it have to do with the Jewish community?
00:15:15.000It's part of a broader anti-Semitic conspiracy theory held by radical Muslims that Jews are in control of all the levers of power.
00:15:21.000Lady Al-Qaeda literally said it at her trial.
00:15:23.000She literally said the Jews are behind this.
00:15:25.000So is it a giant shock that a radical Islamist decided to invade a synagogue and hold Jews at gunpoint, saying that somehow they had the magical weather-controlling power to free terrorists?
00:15:35.000I mean, it's not a surprise in any sort of way.
00:15:38.000But we have to pretend that we don't know.
00:15:40.000By the way, it doesn't just apply to Jews, this sort of logic.
00:15:42.000Remember that the military for years denied that the Fort Hood Massacre, which was carried out by a radical Islamist, that that had anything to do with radical Islam.
00:15:50.000They said that it was sort of a, they called it a workplace violence incident.
00:15:53.000Because for the left, anytime there's a member of a victimized population who commits a crime, we cannot, we cannot acknowledge the hatred implicit therein.
00:16:03.000Because to do so would recognize that sometimes the quote-unquote victimizing group is actually the victim group.
00:16:11.000He said, you know, we kind of know why he targeted the synagogue, but at the same time, then he buys it back because this is what Joe Biden does.
00:16:17.000Do you know why he targeted that specific synagogue?
00:16:22.000I don't think there is sufficient information to know about why he targeted that synagogue, why he insisted on the release of someone who's been in prison for over 10 years, why he was engaged, why he was using anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments.
00:16:58.000If it had been a white supremacist who had gone into a synagogue and shot a bunch of people, do you think Joe Biden would be there like, we don't know enough to know his motive?
00:17:04.000He'd just say he's a white supremacist.
00:17:19.000The guy bought the gun illegally, by the way, as Joe Biden acknowledges.
00:17:22.000Joe Biden acknowledges this guy literally bought the gun off the street.
00:17:24.000He didn't walk into a gun shop and then buy it just over the counter.
00:17:28.000The idea of background checks are critical, but you can't stop something like this if someone is on the street buying something from somebody else on the street.
00:17:36.000Except that there's so many guns that have been sold of late, it's just ridiculous.
00:17:41.000And it's because of the failure of us to focus as hard as we should, and as consistently as we should, on gun purchases, gun sales, ghost guns, and a whole range of things that I'm trying to do.
00:17:52.000Okay, that would have nothing to do with stopping what happened in Collieville.
00:17:58.000That's a ridiculous, ridiculous statement by Joe Biden.
00:18:02.000He does not want to acknowledge the reality.
00:18:03.000Meanwhile, the New York Times didn't even put this on their front page.
00:18:05.000So the New York Times front page the day after has a lot of stories, including a woman killed after a shove in the subway, and Vladimir Putin could cause trouble not just in Ukraine, but in the West.
00:18:16.000But nothing on the front page about the attempt to kill four Jews in Dallas after a 12-hour standoff.
00:18:31.000Now, what's amazing about all of this, from a Jewish perspective, you know, as an Orthodox Jew and someone deeply ensconced in the Jewish community, one of the things that is perfectly obvious from all of this is that there are so many Jews As a commentary to some of my Jewish brothers and sisters, there are a lot of Jews who think that by dissociating from the Jewish community, or who think that by ripping on Israel, that somehow they're going to buy the love of anti-Semites all over the world.
00:18:55.000I'm not saying that you have to take a wildly right-wing position on the same issues that I do.
00:18:59.000I'm not saying you have to mirror my perspectives.
00:19:01.000All I'm saying is that for anti-Semites, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew.
00:19:03.000And it does not matter how much you say that Israel is bad or quote-unquote apartheid, no matter how much you fib about that or lie about that, no matter how much you attempt to buy the love of leftists who supposedly will treat you decently, the minute that you are victimized by somebody who is higher than you on the totem of intersectionality, on the totem pole of intersectionality, the minute that happens, you become baggage.
00:19:27.000This particular congregation is a very far-left congregation, politically speaking.
00:19:33.000The rabbi at this congregation is a guy named Charlie Citron Walker, and he's a very progressive dude.
00:19:39.000According to Forward.com, He was a person who was constantly holding iftar dinners and he arrived at Beth Israel in 2006 shortly after his ordination from Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion.
00:19:54.000He was the Small Reform Congregation's first full-time rabbi.
00:19:57.000He is the kind of person who took his wife's name as like a hyphenated name.
00:20:02.000He's a very Left-leaning guy, for sure.
00:20:05.000And his wife works for a group called the Multicultural Alliance.
00:20:08.000The couple has two daughters, the younger of whom became Bat Mitzvah during the pandemic.
00:20:13.000Before starting rabbinical school, he worked at Focus Hope, a civil and human rights organization in Detroit, and at a soup kitchen and food pantry in Amherst, Massachusetts.
00:20:21.000There's a lot of talk about his positions with regard to Israel, which are extremely progressive.
00:20:27.000And this is not to say that he has to hold the same positions that I do.
00:20:29.000There's a lot of diversity in the Jewish community about this sort of stuff, no matter how much I think that certain perspectives are wrong, and in some cases even anti-Judaic.
00:20:38.000The point that I'm making is when it comes to anti-Semites, they do not care.
00:20:41.000Anti-Semites don't care, neither does the left.
00:20:43.000It wasn't like Joe Biden was like, well, he attacked a progressive Jewish synagogue.
00:20:46.000Therefore, this is anti-Semitism and we should really pay attention to the deep levels of anti-Semitism that paint all Jews with the same brush, et cetera, et cetera.
00:21:12.000Because again, when it comes to which group is a victimized group and which group is a victimizing group, which is the only question that matters from the progressive left, Jews are the victimizing group.
00:21:21.000They somehow moved from being the victimized group to the victimizing group when they became wildly successful and highly educated, and when Israel became a successful state in the Middle East.
00:21:30.000When that happened, all sympathy went out the window for all of this, and so it won't be on the front page anymore.
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00:23:38.000Nearly 75% of those surveys said they felt America was doing somewhat or very badly in a general sense.
00:23:43.000A majority of people said they disapproved of the way Biden was handling the economy, immigration, race relations, crime, inflation, policing, and Afghanistan.
00:23:52.000Only 49% of Americans even said he was doing a good job of handling COVID.
00:23:56.00051% said he was doing a bad job handling COVID.
00:23:59.000Only 45% of Americans said they believed that Joe Biden cared about people like them.
00:24:03.00054% said they had serious doubts about all of this.
00:24:09.000Now, by the way, this is still a group of people who are widely favorable to Democrats generally.
00:24:15.00061% told CBS News they felt Democrats were concentrating on issues they cared about.
00:24:21.00053% said they even liked Biden's Build Back Better plan.
00:24:25.000They just think that Biden is a bad president who is bad at his job.
00:24:28.000So naturally, instead of focusing in on the things that Americans actually care about, Joe Biden and company continue to focus in on things that nobody cares about.
00:24:35.000Namely, this lie that they keep promoting that if they do not rig all the voting procedures from the top down federally, that Republicans are going to steal every election from here on in.
00:24:44.000The problem is they don't even have the support of their own party.
00:24:46.000James Clyburn Are the election reform bills dead, do you think?
00:24:51.000congressional politics. He said these voting bills are now on life support.
00:24:56.000Are the election reform bills dead, do you think?
00:24:59.000No, I don't. They may be on life support. But, you know, John Lewis and others did not give up after the 64 Civil Rights Act. That's why we got the 65 Voting Rights Act.
00:25:15.000So I'm going to tell everybody, we aren't giving up.
00:25:18.000We're going to fight and we plan to win because the people of goodwill are going to break their silence and help us win this battle.
00:25:29.000Yeah, well, I mean, he's not going to win.
00:25:30.000He started ripping on Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
00:25:33.000You know they're desperate when they start ripping on their own party.
00:25:35.000At this point, they're not even trying to woo Manchin and Sinema.
00:25:36.000They're just like, those are bad people.
00:25:38.000Good luck running against your own party in a congressional election in about 11 months here.
00:25:43.000I know that these two Democrats have decided that it is much more important to them to protect the voting rights of the minority on the Senate floor than to protect the voting rights of minorities in this great country of ours.
00:26:03.000This great country, the minorities that made it possible for them to be in the position that they're currently in.
00:28:51.000Ralph Northam, the outgoing governor, in contrast, he says that anytime you mention critical race theory, it's because it's a dog whistle.
00:28:57.000So, Glenn Youngkin is like, we'll teach them all the history, good and bad.
00:29:00.000And Ralph Northam, who used to dress up in a KKK outfit or blackface, he's like, yeah, you know, whenever you mention CRT, it's because of racism.
00:29:09.000And Jonathan Capehart at MSNBC is just nodding along, of course.
00:29:13.000Critical Race Theory is nothing more than a dog whistle.
00:30:48.000Arlington County Public Schools essentially said it was going to ignore the order.
00:30:52.000Is there anything you're going to do to make that school system comply?
00:30:55.000Well, first of all, we wrote the order specifically to give all of the school systems basically eight days to get ready to listen to parents.
00:31:06.000And the fact that that tweet came out from Arlington County within minutes of my executive order, what that tells me is they haven't listened to parents yet.
00:31:13.000And if there's one thing that hopefully everybody heard in November is it is time to listen to parents.
00:31:27.000Because everybody sort of understood that parents needed the ability to raise their own children and that you did not get to control and take away kids from their parents and then indoctrinate them and use them as little social experiments.
00:31:39.000And then the left like went completely overboard in every available arena.
00:31:43.000And the further left these folks push, the worse the backlash is going to get.
00:31:47.000Jen Psaki over at the White House, she tweeted out there.
00:31:49.000There's no data that kids are dying in outsized numbers from Omicron.
00:31:52.000Don't believe you are, Glenn Youngkin, but correct me if I'm wrong.
00:31:54.000Thanks to APS Virginia for standing up for our kids, teachers and administrators, and their safety in the midst of a transmissible variant.
00:32:01.000There is no data that kids are dying in outsized numbers from Omicron.
00:32:08.000By the way, there's still not a single study that demonstrates that schools that masked had a better record with regard to Delta than schools that did not mask.
00:32:16.000And that was the Atlantic that reported that.
00:32:20.000And yet you have Jen Psaki still pushing this.
00:32:23.000According to Julie Gunlock, who is a co-host over at WMAL, she says, in Alexandria, ACP officials are making the mask requirements more strict That's Alexandria.
00:32:36.000Alexandria City public school officials are making mask requirements more strict in light of Glenn Youngkin's executive order.
00:32:58.000They're all fine because they're all children.
00:33:00.000It turns out that children are made of child and children are generally not hurt by this virus and have not been the entirety of the pandemic.
00:33:08.000But they really think that the more they control your kids, the better things are going to be.
00:33:13.000And then they wonder why they're unpopular.
00:33:15.000By the way, we can also see the writing on the wall when it comes to the left and this sort of stuff, because if you thought it was bad with critical race theory and trying to teach racial essentialism to your children, what they're about to try and do, the radical left in the United States, because they're doing it in Canada already, to teach your children gender theory and try and pervert your kids, it's insane.
00:33:33.000Canada just passed a law that they're calling an anti-conversion therapy bill.
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00:37:30.000So again, what Glenn Youngkin ran on in Virginia and what he's going to govern on is the idea that parents ought to have control over how their kids live their lives, at least up to the point where the kids are age of majority.
00:37:46.000That used to be just how everyone thought.
00:37:48.000It is incredible to me that there are so many folks on the left in this country who believe that the right is fighting the culture war.
00:37:53.000You guys declared a war and then we just said no.
00:37:57.000And you can see that the march toward the progressive left continues apace in radical fashion.
00:38:03.000If you just want to see where the left is going to go, don't look to just California or New Jersey, look to Canada.
00:38:07.000So, Canada just put into effect a law banning so-called conversion therapy.
00:38:11.000Now, all these laws on conversion therapy in places like California or New Jersey, when you hear conversion therapy, you probably think of what used to actually be called conversion therapy, where you would actually, like, tape electrodes to people and then electrocute them if they demonstrated any sign of same-sex sexual attraction, right?
00:38:28.000You used to think of, like, a form of torture.
00:38:29.000That's what most people think of when they think of conversion therapy.
00:38:31.000They generally don't think of a person who goes into a psychologist and says, I'm struggling with my sexuality.
00:38:37.000And the psychologist says, let's talk about that.
00:38:40.000But that is actually what is banned in places like New Jersey and California.
00:38:43.000You're supposed to only just affirm that the person has an alternative sexual orientation.
00:38:59.000But, this is what the left would like when it comes to how parents are able to parent their kids.
00:39:03.000With the new law, according to the New York Times, Canada's criminal code will prohibit forcing someone to undergo conversion therapy, taking a minor abroad to take part, so you can't even take your kid down to the United States to visit a psychologist, and profiting from promoting or advertising the practice.
00:39:17.000Violations can draw sentences of up to five years in prison.
00:39:21.000The law was the Canadian government's second attempt last year to bring an end to the quote-unquote widely discredited practice, and it's third since 2020.
00:39:28.000By widely discredited, do they mean talking to a psychologist?
00:39:30.000Because again, there's a difference between a kid coming to you and saying, I'm struggling with my sexuality, and you talking to the kid, and taping electrodes to the kid.
00:39:37.000Okay, but the attempt to conflate all conversion therapy with like the actual horrible evil conversion therapy that used to be practiced is ridiculous.
00:39:45.000Here's what the Canada law actually says.
00:39:47.000Because you'll see how insane this is.
00:39:51.000They define conversion therapy, which is now banned and punishable by five years in prison.
00:39:55.000It means a practice, treatment, or service designed to change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual.
00:40:03.000Change a person's gender identity to cisgender.
00:40:07.000Cisgender means that your gender aligns with your biological sex.
00:40:11.000So in other words, if you have a kid, and your kid says, you know, I think I might be a girl, and your kid's a boy, and you take them to a therapist, and the therapist says, let's talk about this because you're actually a boy.
00:40:21.000That therapist could now be in violation of Canadian law and go to jail for five years.
00:40:28.000If you bring a confused adolescent in, who's struggling with sexuality and confusing thoughts, and you say, you know, you might be straight and you might grow out of this, that could be conversion therapy.
00:40:38.000Notice, by the way, that it only works one way.
00:40:40.000If you go to a therapist and you say, you know, I'm confused about my sexuality, I think I'm straight, but I'm having some same-sex sexual attraction, and the therapist says, you're gay, just let it, you're gay.
00:40:50.000Then that is not conversion therapy under the Canada law and not punishable.
00:40:52.000But if you do the opposite, if the person says, I'm confused, you say, you know what?
00:40:59.000If conversion therapy, it means to change a person's gender expression so that it conforms to the sex assigned to the person at birth.
00:41:06.000So if a kid comes in, we're talking about children now.
00:41:09.000If a parent brings a child in and the child is cross-dressing at the age of eight, and the therapist says, you know, you might want to think about wearing sex appropriate attire.
00:41:19.000For a variety of reasons, including your own mental health.
00:41:20.000This is now conversion therapy punishable with jail time in Canada.
00:41:26.000If you get any therapy in Canada that is, quote, designed, a practice designed to repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behavior.
00:41:41.000Which, by the way, is what most parents do with their kids when they don't let them watch pornography, right?
00:41:47.000Like, reducing sexual behavior in your, like, you're not allowed to attempt to reduce Non-heterosexual behavior?
00:41:57.000I mean, I do that with, like, most parents do that with heterosexual and non-heterosexual behavior in their teenagers.
00:42:03.000Like, they don't want their teens having sex, but if you attempt to reduce the sexual behavior in your therapist, this is conversion therapy.
00:42:11.000Repress a person's non-cisgender gender identity.
00:42:13.000So, okay, so what this assumes is that all of gender theory is not only factually based, it is biologically ingrained.
00:42:20.000So if you're gay, it's absolutely biologically ingrained.
00:42:23.000Also, if you're a man in a woman's body, that's biologically ingrained.
00:42:26.000But being a man is not biologically ingrained.
00:42:29.000And being straight is not biologically ingrained.
00:42:37.000If you attempt to repress or reduce a person's gender expression that does not conform to the sex assigned to the person at birth, for greater certainty, this definition does not include a practice, treatment, or service that relates to the exploration or development of an integrated personal identity, such as a practice, treatment, or service that relates to a person's gender transition, and that is not based on an assumption that a particular sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression is to be preferred over another.
00:43:01.000By the way, it doesn't just apply to the therapist.
00:43:04.000Everyone who knowingly causes another person to undergo conversion therapy, including by providing conversion therapy to that other person, is guilty of an indictable offense and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years or guilty of an offense punishable on summary conviction.
00:43:36.000And now the reason I bring this up is because the left in the United States wants exactly this.
00:43:40.000This is what the left in the United States would like.
00:43:42.000Because this is the natural outgrowth of their belief that biology somehow applies to both sex and gender, but gender is non-biological and also sex is non-biological.
00:44:13.000Okay, and again, this will happen in the United States sooner or later in states like California.
00:44:18.000And then you wonder why people like Glenn Youngkin are getting elected in Virginia saying that parents should have power to raise their own children.
00:44:23.000This is all part of the broader cultural milieu in which we live.
00:44:26.000You guys declare a culture war where you declare that biological sex is not ingrained and that sexual orientation is utterly unchangeable and unchanging under all circumstances.
00:44:36.000Except if it moves in the direction of straight-to-gay, or straight-to-bisexual, or bisexual-to-gay.
00:44:41.000You say all of those things, and then you say that is enforceable by law!
00:44:44.000And then you wonder why parents are like, I'm not trusting my kid with any of you people.
00:44:48.000I'm not trusting you on race, where you say that racial essentialism is a fundamental feature of life.
00:44:58.000And I'm not going to allow you to control how I raise my kids.
00:45:02.000This goes back to the general belief of the left That they care about your kids more than you do because they know how to raise your kids better than you do.
00:45:09.000Which is a unique thing because I've yet to see people who raise their kids this way with, I would say, highly well-adjusted kids on average.
00:45:16.000This does not seem like a recipe for the success of the mental health of your child.
00:45:20.000To raise them gender neutral and suggest that all sexual behavior is equally worthwhile.
00:45:28.000I've yet to see how this is a healthy way of raising children.
00:45:30.000But apparently it's so healthy it needs to be mandated by law in Canada and punishable by fine if you violate it.
00:45:37.000Man, the parental backlash in this country is gonna be so strong, and it is well-deserved, and it is absolutely coming.
00:45:52.000Okay, meanwhile, the president of the United States continues to flounder when it comes to Omicron.
00:46:01.000So Omicron continues to rush through the United States, On average, it's not killing all that many people, because the infection fatality rates for Omicron are pretty low.
00:46:09.000But now, you have the CDC recommending that everybody wear N95 or KN95 masks forever.
00:46:16.000The level of control these folks wish to cram down on you truly is an amazing, amazing thing.
00:46:21.000And the way that they're going to do this is they're going to try and scare you.
00:46:23.000I'm not sure why their strategy to scare you is worthwhile, but they are going to try to scare you.
00:46:28.000The Associated Press says, get ready to learn more Greek letters.
00:46:31.000Scientists warn that Omicron's whirlwind advance practically ensures it won't be the last version of the coronavirus to worry the world.
00:46:37.000Every infection provides a chance for the virus to mutate.
00:46:40.000Omicron has an edge over its predecessors.