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What True Evil Looks Like | Ep. 346


Summary

Jodi Allard is back at it. After writing a piece essentially calling her sons complicit in rape culture, she has written a follow-up attempting to explain herself. She wants to explain why writing nasty things about her children is not abusive. She explains that people are misinterpreting the terms rape culture and toxic masculinity. She also says toxic masculinity only means that society has visions of masculinity that are toxic. Then she moves on to her explanation about why she would invoke her own sons in attacking these pernicious structures. She concludes, I am sure your sons will be very, very grateful for your clarification. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" on Fox News Radio. He is also a regular contributor on the conservative radio show "The View From The Top" and hosts a podcast called "Off The Record" on SiriusXM Radio. He is married to former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci and they have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, and a stepson, who is in the process of getting a new job at the White House. Thanks to Marshall, Marshall, for joining us on the show and for being a regular guest on The Weekly Standard and The View from the Top. Ben and Ben on The View. Thank you Marshall for being here! Thanks also to Marshall for helping out with the show. with the audio and editing, and Ben for the background music on this episode of The View From the Top with Ben Shapiro and the rest of his background music, and for making us feel the need to make us feel safe in the world. . And thank you, Ben, for all the love and support we get to know you, you're all so much more. -Ben Shapiro - Thank you Ben Shapiro - The View - Ben Shapiro, the host, the producer, the editor, the writer, the marketer, the listener, the reader, the whole thing, the guy who makes it all out there, the support we need it all, and all the good stuff, and so much love, etc. -- Thank you so much, Ben and all that good vibes -- thank you for being there, Ben is so much of it's so much support, Ben's back with the support, thanks to you, too, so much thanks, Ben and much more!


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00:00:00.000 Militant feminist Jodi Allard is back at it.
00:00:02.000 After writing a piece essentially calling her sons complicit in rape culture, after I offered one of her sons an internship, by the way, he sent a resume.
00:00:09.000 He withdrew it late last week for an internship for unspecified reasons.
00:00:12.000 Allard has now written a follow-up attempting to explain herself.
00:00:15.000 She wants to explain why writing nasty things about her children is not quote-unquote abusive.
00:00:19.000 First, she explains, people are misinterpreting the terms rape culture and toxic masculinity.
00:00:24.000 She doesn't mean that all men are potential rapists.
00:00:26.000 She only means that society promulgates the belief that women are to blame for sexual violence and misogyny, while normalizing sexual violence and aggression.
00:00:33.000 She also says toxic masculinity, it only means that society has visions of masculinity that are toxic.
00:00:39.000 Yes, that is much better, Jodi.
00:00:41.000 I am sure your sons will be very, very grateful for your clarification.
00:00:44.000 Then she moves on
00:00:45.000 To her explanation about why she would invoke her own sons in attacking these pernicious structures.
00:00:50.000 Here's what she writes, quote, Well, she did a little bit more than that.
00:01:01.000 Her original piece said this about her own sons, quote, According to Allard, though, she's just educating her kids.
00:01:06.000 In the pages of the nation's largest newspapers, she said,
00:01:31.000 Without shame?
00:01:32.000 In the pages of the Washington Post, she wrote, direct quote, my sons are part of the problem.
00:01:38.000 That is not education.
00:01:39.000 That is public shaming.
00:01:40.000 She then reiterates her central contention, that men always make women feel emotionally unsafe, which is kind of weird given the functioning relationships between billions of men and women in the history of the planet.
00:01:49.000 But Allard contends, quote, the heartbreaking part is that even good men can't be fully or completely safe for women, even when they're our own flesh and blood.
00:01:56.000 She concludes, quote, I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:01:58.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:02:20.000 So many things to get to today.
00:02:22.000 Weird things happening right before the show that we will have to discuss on air to the detriment of one of the new producers over here, a fellow named Marshall.
00:02:29.000 But we'll discuss all of that in just a few moments.
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00:03:57.000 I want to get to the Mooch.
00:03:58.000 This is, this is Scaramucci.
00:04:00.000 Anthony Scaramucci is the new press head, head of press, uh, over at the Trump administration.
00:04:05.000 He probably won't end up as chief of staff because Trump looks like he's getting ready to clear house.
00:04:09.000 I've heard from Marshall that he is very hot right now, or he's hot, or something.
00:04:13.000 Uh, I don't understand, I don't understand what in the world that was.
00:04:16.000 This morning, Marshall, who is new here, uh, turns to me and says, Mooch is hot, right?
00:04:21.000 And I was like, what?
00:04:23.000 Just, what now?
00:04:24.000 What?
00:04:24.000 What did you, what?
00:04:25.000 Hm?
00:04:26.000 I regret nothing.
00:04:27.000 I also want to get to Jared Kushner because Jared Kushner finally put out an 11-page
00:04:48.000 Statement he's supposed to give it before Congress today He's supposed to testify and it really does give the lie to a lie if what he's saying is true Then the media have been fibbing this whole time, which would not be a tremendous shock, but I want to start today With the situation over in Israel so over in Israel there has been been riots there was a situation over the weekend in which an evil 20 year old Palestinian Arab
00:05:11.000 Went into a Jewish home.
00:05:12.000 Broke into a Jewish home.
00:05:13.000 There were a bunch of five kids at home, I think.
00:05:16.000 And they were celebrating the birth of a newborn.
00:05:17.000 They were having what's called a Shalom Zahor, which is a celebration that you have when there's a newborn baby boy.
00:05:22.000 And people were over.
00:05:23.000 And after that, it was late at night, and the grandparents and the parents were sitting and talking, and this Palestinian Arab broke into the house and stabbed to death
00:05:35.000 We're good to go.
00:05:57.000 There are three Palestinians who invaded the Temple Mount with guns, shot two Israeli Druze police officers.
00:06:04.000 They weren't Jewish, they were Druze, which is a different religion, and killed them.
00:06:07.000 This was last week.
00:06:08.000 And Israel, in response, said, hey, we're going to put some metal detectors by the entrance to the Temple Mount.
00:06:14.000 That's what we're gonna do.
00:06:15.000 Okay, now we have metal detectors here in the United States everywhere, right?
00:06:17.000 We have them at the airport, we have them at ballgames, we have them at some offices, we have them at public schools now.
00:06:22.000 Have you ever heard of a riot over a metal detector?
00:06:24.000 Well, Palestinians decided it was very important to riot over the metal detectors.
00:06:27.000 Here's a poster of what they were saying, and you can see that they are cheering the
00:06:34.000 So-called uprising.
00:06:35.000 Hours before that murderous attack, Fatah encouraged Palestinians, Fatah by the way is the military arm of the Palestinian Authority, to rage and called for escalation and glorified death.
00:06:43.000 It says, if I fall, I will not be the first to die and not the last to die.
00:06:47.000 Hashtag rage.
00:06:48.000 Hashtag Friday of dignity.
00:06:50.000 This is the Palestinian government, okay?
00:06:52.000 This is not a terrorist group.
00:06:53.000 This is the Palestinian government military arm.
00:06:55.000 And so when people say that Israel has a peace partner, that is absolute, absolute horse crap.
00:06:59.000 It is not true at all.
00:07:00.000 You want to see Israel's Palestinian peace partner?
00:07:02.000 Here is the mother of the 20-year-old who murdered a family for no reason other than because he had been whipped up to rage by his own government over the installation of metal detectors at a holy site that Israel allows Muslims to keep control of for no apparent reason.
00:07:17.000 Here's the mother.
00:07:19.000 Praise Allah!
00:07:21.000 I am proud of my son.
00:07:22.000 May Allah be pleased with him.
00:07:24.000 Okay, so she's praising her son, who was killed in the terrorist attack after murdering three innocent people.
00:07:29.000 Just horrific, all the way around.
00:07:30.000 And should be demonstrative of the fact that when it comes to this so-called cycle of violence, there's only one side that wants to engage in random violence and cheers it, okay?
00:07:37.000 The government of the Palestinians cheers this stuff.
00:07:39.000 There is no moral equivalence here.
00:07:41.000 Anybody who says there is, is lying to you.
00:07:43.000 You're looking at the face of evil right here.
00:07:45.000 Her son is an evil person, and the Palestinian government is evil as well.
00:07:48.000 It is just horrifying on every level.
00:07:51.000 Okay, so.
00:07:53.000 In other news, back in the United States, the important news today is that Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, is supposed to speak today before congressional committees, and his testimony
00:08:03.000 He explains all of his contacts with various Russian government-connected sources over the course of the campaign and the transition, and it's very plausible.
00:08:11.000 I mean, honestly, when I read it, I believe it.
00:08:12.000 Absent extra evidence, absent external evidence of malfeasance or bad action, I'm not seeing anything here that suggests to me anything nefarious between Kushner and the Russian government, for example.
00:08:24.000 There are apparently some financial relationships between the Trump organization and Russian government sources.
00:08:30.000 I'll talk about that in a second.
00:08:31.000 But Kushner's full-scale summary of what exactly happened here is worth going through because the media is giving you the headline, but they're not giving you the truth.
00:08:38.000 The media, as always, is exaggerating the Russia stuff.
00:08:40.000 So what the media headlines today say things like,
00:08:43.000 Kushner took four Russia meetings, says no collusion.
00:08:47.000 Okay, but that's not the full explanation.
00:08:50.000 I mean, the reality is that what he says that these meetings were basically big nothing.
00:08:53.000 So, for example, he says, when it became apparent that my father-in-law was going to be the Republican nominee for president as normally happens, a number of officials from foreign countries attempted to reach out to the campaign.
00:09:03.000 My father-in-law asked me to be a point of contact with these foreign countries.
00:09:06.000 These were not contacts I had initiated, but over the course of the campaign I had incoming contacts with people
00:09:11.000 This is the same meeting where apparently Jeff Sessions met the Russian ambassador.
00:09:15.000 Kushner said he met four ambassadors, including Sergey Kislyak.
00:09:26.000 I don't know.
00:09:49.000 There is the second meeting with the Russians, okay?
00:09:51.000 So, the second meeting with the Russians was the infamous Donald Trump Jr.
00:09:54.000 meeting.
00:09:54.000 That was the one where every Russian in the Western Hemisphere came to this meeting, and that was the one where Donald Trump Jr.
00:09:59.000 said that he was gonna, that he was hopeful that there'd be information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government.
00:10:04.000 But Kushner says, I had no idea what this was.
00:10:06.000 It was listed in my calendar as Don Jr.
00:10:08.000 Meeting.
00:10:08.000 I went there.
00:10:09.000 It was a big nothing.
00:10:10.000 They were talking about adoption by the time I got there.
00:10:12.000 And I even wrote my assistant an email that said, can you please call me on my cell?
00:10:16.000 Need excuse to get out of meeting.
00:10:17.000 So he thought it was enough of a waste of time that he faked a phone call to get out of the meeting, which is something that I do pretty much every day here at The Daily Wire.
00:10:24.000 And then finally, he says that there was a third contact from a rando emailer that meant nothing and he reported to Secret Service.
00:10:30.000 Then there was a meeting on December 1st at Trump Tower with Kislyak and Michael Flynn.
00:10:35.000 And this is the one that a lot of people are circulating around.
00:10:37.000 At that meeting, Kislyak said he wanted to address U.S.
00:10:39.000 policy in Syria and that he wanted to convey information from what he called his generals.
00:10:43.000 Kislyak told Kushner the generals couldn't make it over to the United States and wanted to use a secure line in the transition office.
00:10:49.000 Kushner said there was none and asked if they had an existing communications channel at the embassy we could use
00:10:54.000 Or they would be comfortable transmitting the information they wanted to relay to General Flynn.
00:10:58.000 So, as you recall, there was a big story about how Kushner wanted to set up a secret back channel to talk with the Russians from the Russian embassy, and it was such a weird suggestion that even the Russians were taken aback by it.
00:11:07.000 Well, apparently what this basically is, it sounds like Kushner's just an idiot, right?
00:11:10.000 Kushner said, they said to him, do you have a secure line?
00:11:12.000 He said, no, do you have a secure line?
00:11:13.000 And that was the extent of the conversation.
00:11:16.000 And so, does that sound like something nefarious?
00:11:18.000 No, it doesn't.
00:11:18.000 And then, finally, December 13th,
00:11:21.000 Kushner said he met with a person named Sergei Gorkov, who said he was a banker, at the request of Kislyak.
00:11:26.000 Here's Kushner's account of the meeting.
00:11:27.000 The meeting with Mr. Gorkov lasted 20 to 25 minutes.
00:11:30.000 He introduced himself and gave me two gifts.
00:11:32.000 One was a piece of art from Nivgrad, the village where my grandparents were from in Belarus, and the other was a bag of dirt from that same village, which is an awesome gift.
00:11:40.000 I've tried it with my wife.
00:11:41.000 I just go out to the garden, get a garbage bag, put some dirt in it.
00:11:43.000 I'm like, happy anniversary, sweetheart.
00:11:44.000 Any notion that I tried to conceal this meeting or that I took it thinking it was in my capacity as a businessman is false.
00:11:50.000 In fact, I gave my assistant these gifts to formally register them with the transition office.
00:11:54.000 That's got to be fun.
00:11:55.000 You walk in with the transition office, you're like, one bag of dirt.
00:11:58.000 After that, he told me a little about his bank and made some statements about the Russian economy.
00:12:02.000 He said he was friendly with Putin, expressed disappointment with US-Russia relations under Obama, and hopes for a better relationship in the future.
00:12:08.000 There were no specific policies involved.
00:12:10.000 At no time was there any discussion about my company's business transactions, real estate projects, loans, banking arrangements, or any private business of any kind.
00:12:17.000 At the end of the short meeting we thanked each other and I went on to other meetings.
00:12:20.000 It's interesting here, the one thing he doesn't say is that there was no talk about Trump's investments because Gorkov leads up a bank called VEB, which is a Russian bank under scrutiny by US investigators that financed a deal, according to the Wall Street Journal, that financed a deal involving Trump's one-time partner,
00:12:35.000 I mean, if it's so innocent, then why wouldn't Kushner just come out and spill this, right?
00:12:37.000 All these stories came out months ago.
00:12:38.000 He could have just said, that meeting with Kislyak?
00:12:40.000 Here's what I said.
00:12:40.000 Not a big deal.
00:12:41.000 Calm down.
00:13:04.000 Instead, they let this simmer and rage for months at a time.
00:13:08.000 And again, there's been too many updates in the recent past about things that Trump and his team have said for us to take everything at face value.
00:13:16.000 But this is a very plausible story.
00:13:18.000 I don't see anything here that looks suspicious.
00:13:20.000 And again, there's no evidence that Kushner, at least, was colluding with the Russians.
00:13:24.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is feeling more and more under siege.
00:13:26.000 And you can see that.
00:13:27.000 He's very angry because he feels like people are not defending him enough.
00:13:30.000 Now, it's hard to defend the president and his son after his son says things to the Russian government like, I love it, in an email exchange in which they offer support to him.
00:13:39.000 It's hard to defend Trump from that.
00:13:40.000 It's hard to defend Trump when Trumpcare falls through.
00:13:43.000 I mean, these are things that are hard to defend.
00:13:44.000 It's hard to defend him on Syrian policy.
00:13:46.000 I'm happy to defend him where I think he's doing the right thing or where I think that the media have been lying about him.
00:13:51.000 So that's why I'm defending him on the Kushner stuff because I see no evidence that Kushner is lying.
00:13:55.000 And so the media's attempt to play that
00:13:57.000 As Kushner is some sort of nefarious Russian source, I think is a bunch of nonsense.
00:14:01.000 That's not stopping Trump though.
00:14:03.000 He's tweeting out how he feels really under attack.
00:14:06.000 I don't like the whiny stuff from the president.
00:14:08.000 He's the most powerful man on earth.
00:14:09.000 He has a bully puppet at his disposal that no person in the history of mankind has had.
00:14:13.000 Okay, that's fine.
00:14:14.000 That doesn't bother me.
00:14:14.000 This is the part that bothers me.
00:14:16.000 Okay, first of all.
00:14:32.000 The idea that it is Republicans' job to quote-unquote protect the president when it is his job to tell the truth about things does not seem to me correct.
00:14:41.000 Also this idea that Trump carried people over the line.
00:14:43.000 There's legitimately maybe one guy in the United States he carried over the line electorally, maybe Roy Blunt in Missouri.
00:14:48.000 Every other race, Trump ran behind Senate candidates and congressional candidates.
00:14:52.000 In fact, Trump was a drag on the ticket a little bit.
00:14:54.000 That's just the statistical fact.
00:14:56.000 So this idea that everybody should be very grateful to him for their jobs is just not true.
00:15:00.000 And again, it's whiny.
00:15:01.000 Like, if you have something that you want to say, just say it.
00:15:03.000 He says, it's hard to read the failing New York Times or the Amazon Washington Post because every story opinion, even if it should be positive, is bad.
00:15:10.000 Again, I agree with all this stuff, but it's getting boring at this point.
00:15:13.000 I think that, you know, the fact is that all these newspapers have always been against Republicans.
00:15:17.000 And finally, he says, if Republicans don't repeal and replace the disastrous Obamacare, the repercussions will be far greater than any of them understand.
00:15:24.000 Yeah, I don't even know what that means.
00:15:25.000 I don't know what the repercussions are supposed to be, and he hasn't proposed a plan.
00:15:28.000 So, again, Mr. President, please buckle down to business and stop with the world's tiniest violin routine.
00:15:35.000 One of the things that I said when they appointed a special prosecutor on all this Russia stuff is, now would be a good time to shut up.
00:15:40.000 Just stop.
00:15:41.000 Just stop talking, right?
00:15:42.000 Now would be a perfect time for you to sit back, let the investigation take place.
00:15:45.000 You can say, listen, it's moving forward.
00:15:47.000 I'm not at liberty to discuss it.
00:15:48.000 Nobody's at liberty to discuss it.
00:15:50.000 He's doing what he's gonna do.
00:15:51.000 It'll be what it's gonna be.
00:15:52.000 End of story.
00:15:53.000 Instead,
00:15:54.000 It continues to foment and it continues to foment because Trump insists on doing stuff like this.
00:15:59.000 For people who think that this is the sort of fighting back that we need, let me just ask why this is productive.
00:16:03.000 Like, his base, I understand, is very enthusiastic about all of this, but I don't understand why this is productive in forwarding his point of view.
00:16:09.000 Like, we all understand where he stands on this stuff, right?
00:16:11.000 We all get it.
00:16:12.000 But Trump is starting to create an administration that is solely designed around guarding him personally and guarding his ego personally, and that's not how things are going to get done.
00:16:20.000 For people who want things to get done, who want him to be a good president, and yes, things have to get done in order for him to be a good president, he's going to need to focus less on defending his own ego and more on promulgating policy that people like.
00:16:31.000 He's doing some good things.
00:16:32.000 I mean, I talked about this last week.
00:16:34.000 The regulatory cuts, the fact that there's a 16 to 1 ratio between regulations that are being cut and new ones that are being imposed, that's a really good thing.
00:16:42.000 More of that.
00:16:43.000 More judicial appointments.
00:16:44.000 More cabinet appointments.
00:16:46.000 More tax policy.
00:16:48.000 There are lots of things that Trump could be doing right now.
00:16:50.000 More religious freedom legislation.
00:16:52.000 There's lots of good things that are very important that Trump should be doing right now.
00:16:54.000 They're not getting done because Trump is engaged with Trump.
00:16:58.000 And I think the Scaramucci appointment is some of that for sure.
00:17:02.000 I'm going to discuss the Scaramucci appointment in just a second.
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00:18:37.000 Anthony Scaramucci is the new White House Communications Director.
00:18:39.000 Sean Spicer is out.
00:18:40.000 That broke very late breaking news on Friday.
00:18:43.000 And so here are a few things you need to know about Anthony Scaramucci.
00:18:46.000 And this is indicative of where the administration is going to go.
00:18:48.000 Anthony Scaramucci gives lots of money to Democrats.
00:18:51.000 Now, that's not a shock.
00:18:52.000 Trump gave lots of money to Democrats.
00:18:53.000 But until 2010, he maxed out for Obama in 2008.
00:18:56.000 He gave money to a bevy of Democrats.
00:18:59.000 He is a Wall Street hedge fund manager.
00:19:01.000 He's sort of mini-Trump.
00:19:03.000 He ran a capital group called Skybridge Capital.
00:19:07.000 It has underperformed the market, but he's really big in the press and he likes to talk big on TV.
00:19:12.000 He's known as being a media savant.
00:19:14.000 He's known as the Mooch, which is always a great nickname.
00:19:18.000 He has described his politics as being socially inclusive and fiscally responsible.
00:19:21.000 So, he has tweeted out a lot of things that are very much to the left.
00:19:25.000 He tweeted out in 2012, quote, We the USA has 5% of the world's population, but 50% of the world's guns.
00:19:31.000 Enough is enough.
00:19:32.000 It is just common sense.
00:19:32.000 It applies more controls.
00:19:35.000 So he wants more gun control.
00:19:37.000 He's also said that he is for gay marriage, against the death penalty, and pro-choice.
00:19:44.000 So there's that.
00:19:45.000 He says he favors a plan that provides universal health care.
00:19:49.000 But better than Obamacare.
00:19:52.000 He was critical of Trump in 2015.
00:19:53.000 He had to apologize to Trump actually.
00:19:56.000 And now he's become a very ardent supporter on Trump.
00:19:59.000 Over and over he has defended Trump.
00:20:02.000 So he's a Trump kid.
00:20:04.000 That's basically his job.
00:20:05.000 His job is to praise Trump and to look like a Wall Street guy while doing it.
00:20:10.000 My own assessment of his hotness is that, as Marshall was asking, my own assessment of his hotness
00:20:15.000 Is that, as someone online said, he looks like an extra from The Wolf of Wall Street who wouldn't stop badgering Leo DiCaprio for a selfie.
00:20:21.000 That's sort of the feeling that you get from Anthony Scaramucci.
00:20:24.000 He did a good job in his first press conference because he's much smoother than Sean Spicer.
00:20:27.000 He certainly reflects Trump a lot better than Sean Spicer.
00:20:30.000 And he is not afraid to kiss a little Trump ass.
00:20:33.000 That is for sure.
00:20:34.000 So this is an astonishing clip.
00:20:36.000 So this is Scaramucci from the press conference on Friday.
00:20:39.000 And here is Scaramucci praising Trump in terms that would make Kim Jong-un blush.
00:20:43.000 But here's what I tell you about the president.
00:20:45.000 He's the most competitive person I've ever met, okay?
00:20:47.000 I've seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire.
00:20:50.000 I've seen him at Madison Square Garden with a topcoat on.
00:20:53.000 He's standing in the key and he's hitting foul shots and swishing them, okay?
00:20:57.000 He sinks three-foot putts.
00:20:59.000 I don't see this guy as a guy that's ever under siege.
00:21:02.000 This is a very, very competitive person.
00:21:04.000 Obviously, there's a lot of incoming that comes into the White House, but the president's a winner, okay?
00:21:08.000 And what we're going to do is we're going to do a lot of winning.
00:21:15.000 I've seen this guy.
00:21:16.000 I mean, it does sound like a Kim Jong-un promo.
00:21:18.000 Like, for a while, in North Korea, they were saying that Kim Jong-un held the lowest score ever in golf.
00:21:22.000 That he had scored an 18 in golf.
00:21:24.000 That he had 18 holes in one.
00:21:26.000 Like, this is part of the legend of Kim Jong-un.
00:21:27.000 He has a unicorn lair and he scores 18 in golf because every hole is a hole in one.
00:21:32.000 That's basically Anthony.
00:21:32.000 I've seen him throw a spiral right through a tire.
00:21:34.000 I mean, he just goes out there like Brett Favre in his Wrangler jeans in his off days.
00:21:38.000 I mean, the man can throw it 70 yards on a dime.
00:21:41.000 Boom!
00:21:41.000 Hit the guy right in the hands.
00:21:43.000 It's unbelievable.
00:21:44.000 And when he plays basketball, I mean, he's got a hook that would make Kareem just blush.
00:21:48.000 He's incredible.
00:21:49.000 You see him on the offensive glass pounding those boards?
00:21:51.000 Incredible.
00:21:52.000 Have you ever seen him in baseball?
00:21:53.000 He throws 173 miles an hour.
00:21:55.000 And that's his curve.
00:21:57.000 He's unreal.
00:21:59.000 Okay, it's just like, what?
00:22:01.000 What now?
00:22:02.000 So I understand that this is, that basically every time anybody from the Trump administration is on TV, they're on TV for Trump, right?
00:22:08.000 I mean, that's what they do for a living.
00:22:09.000 It's not about getting out Trump's message, per se.
00:22:12.000 It's more about getting out a message to Trump that you are loyal to Trump.
00:22:14.000 And so now Trump is surrounding himself with lots of loyalists.
00:22:17.000 That said, Scaramucci is much better at his job because apparently he has no shame.
00:22:21.000 I mean, if you can get on TV and say stuff like that with a straight face, good for you, dude.
00:22:24.000 I mean, that's pretty impressive.
00:22:26.000 I do love this, though.
00:22:27.000 He obviously scorns the press.
00:22:28.000 He obviously dislikes... He's willing to slap the press a little bit.
00:22:32.000 This was the end of his little presser on Friday.
00:22:38.000 It blows them a kiss.
00:22:39.000 It blows them a kiss at the very end, which is pretty amazing.
00:22:43.000 So that's pretty incredible.
00:22:44.000 So Scaramucci is in.
00:22:46.000 What this means is that he's going to parrot the worst excesses of Trump.
00:22:49.000 So basically this Trump administration so far
00:22:52.000 The concessions that Trump has made to the conservative wing have been pushed out of him, I would say.
00:22:57.000 They're not coming from the heart.
00:22:59.000 I think it's hard to say that Trump is, in his guts, a conservative person.
00:23:03.000 On regulations, I think you don't have to push him very hard because, as a business person, he's suffered with regulations for his entire career in real estate.
00:23:09.000 But, I think that when it comes to things like Obamacare, when it comes to things like Judge Gorsuch, I don't think these are things he cares about particularly much.
00:23:16.000 And so he sort of delegated them out.
00:23:18.000 The people who force him to the right are the ones who are now on the outs with him, because every time Trump feels like he's being mobilized for a policy, he feels like he's being used and he doesn't like being used.
00:23:27.000 And so his new shtick is to surround himself with people who agree with him and who are going to pat him on the back.
00:23:31.000 That's not really good for his administration.
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00:25:15.000 So this morning, President, when I say that Trump is looking to make some changes in his administration, there are rumors today that Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State, is going to be out by the end of the year.
00:25:24.000 That would be a good thing, because Rex Tillerson sucks as Secretary of State.
00:25:26.000 He was a crappy pick in the beginning.
00:25:28.000 I opposed his pick in the beginning, and so that would be a good move.
00:25:30.000 A bad move, however, would be getting rid
00:25:33.000 Jeff Sessions.
00:25:34.000 So the fact is that Jeff Sessions is one of the more conservative members of his administration.
00:25:41.000 There's a reason Tucker Carlson and Ann Coulter are working on President Trump on this and trying to get him to back off of Sessions.
00:25:48.000 But Sessions is a great case in point of what Trump is doing, right?
00:25:51.000 Trump is angry at Sessions not because he thinks he's doing a bad job.
00:25:54.000 I think Sessions is doing a bad job on asset forfeiture, on civil asset forfeiture, which is this idea that
00:25:59.000 If you are picked up on a crime, the government can just seize your property, which is a crazy, crazy law.
00:26:03.000 But, Sessions has ramped that up.
00:26:06.000 That, however, is not why Trump is angry at him.
00:26:08.000 Trump is angry at him because he's not protecting him from the Russia stuff.
00:26:11.000 So, he tweeted this morning, about four hours ago, quote, Okay, first of all, our beleaguered Attorney General is mostly beleaguered by Trump at this point.
00:26:18.000 And this idea
00:26:27.000 That he should be looking into crooked Hillary's crimes and Russia relations.
00:26:31.000 President Trump is the one who pledged that Sessions would not do that if he was appointed.
00:26:34.000 Plus Sessions works for him, so he could just call him into the office and say, I want you to investigate this or I'm going to fire you.
00:26:40.000 But he's basically just trying to push Sessions out at this point.
00:26:43.000 He's angry at Sessions, as he said to the New York Times, because Sessions recused himself on the Russia stuff.
00:26:47.000 Sessions is one of the more conservative members of the administration.
00:26:50.000 Sessions is on the out.
00:26:51.000 Bannon, apparently, is on the outs.
00:26:53.000 Reince Priebus, the Republican lackey who's the chief of staff, he's on the outs.
00:26:56.000 There's talk about Scaramucci basically taking over.
00:26:59.000 Over the weekend, Scaramucci was on one of the weekend shows and he said that if he finds leakers in the White House, he doesn't just mean in the communications office, anywhere in the White House, I'll fire them.
00:27:07.000 That's the language of the chief of staff.
00:27:08.000 So you've got this career Democrat, Scaramucci, who only in the last seven years started campaigning with like Romney and then Jeb Bush.
00:27:15.000 He is now going to be the chief of staff, I think is the direction this is moving.
00:27:20.000 As I say, a lot of the conservative influences like Sessions are going to be out.
00:27:24.000 There was a rumor this morning that Rudy Giuliani would be nominated for the post, another New Yorker.
00:27:28.000 This is going to be the most New York administration in human history.
00:27:30.000 I like Rudy Giuliani, but putting Giuliani in is just another person surrounding Trump
00:27:34.000 Who is going to not stop Trump from his own excesses.
00:27:39.000 Scaramucci himself clearly is not going to do that.
00:27:41.000 I mean he was on one of the Sunday shows and here was Scaramucci saying, I mean this is just incompetence actually, this is Scaramucci saying that somebody told him that the Russians didn't hack and then when pressed he gives an answer.
00:27:53.000 Somebody said to me yesterday, I won't tell you who, that if the Russians actually hacked this situation and spilled out those emails, you would have never seen it.
00:28:02.000 You would have never had any evidence of them.
00:28:04.000 Meaning that they're super confident in their deception skills and hacking.
00:28:08.000 My point is, all of the information isn't on the table yet, but here's what I know about the president.
00:28:13.000 Wait, wait, wait.
00:28:14.000 Anthony, Anthony.
00:28:15.000 Let me finish.
00:28:15.000 You're making a lot of assertions here.
00:28:18.000 I don't know who this anonymous person is that said that if the Russians had actually done it, we wouldn't have been able to detect it.
00:28:24.000 How about it was the president, Jay?
00:28:27.000 Okay, it's the consensus of the intelligence community.
00:28:30.000 He called me from Air Force One, and he basically said to me, hey, maybe they did it, maybe they didn't do it.
00:28:37.000 Insane.
00:28:37.000 Insane.
00:28:38.000 Okay, so he starts off that conversation with, I'm not going to tell you who it is.
00:28:43.000 Okay, there's a problem with doing this.
00:28:44.000 Okay, number one, it was an actual Russian talking point.
00:28:47.000 The Russians are now confirming, and so are people in the room, that Putin actually said to Trump, if we had hacked, you wouldn't know about it because they'd be so good at it.
00:28:53.000 And now Scaramucci is saying that Trump is repeating those talking points to Scaramucci.
00:28:56.000 I understand that Trump is frustrated with the Russia stuff.
00:28:59.000 Shut up, dude.
00:29:01.000 It's not worth it, okay?
00:29:02.000 Just pursue your agenda.
00:29:04.000 You've got the Republican Party behind you.
00:29:05.000 That's as much as you're gonna have behind you at this point.
00:29:07.000 You struggling like this is not going to be helpful.
00:29:09.000 Scaramucci saying that he's humoring the president when the president says that there was no Russian hacking.
00:29:13.000 Okay, the four top intelligence agencies, the DNI, the FBI, the CIA, all these places, right, say that there was Russian interference in the election.
00:29:22.000 Not hacking election machines.
00:29:23.000 It's not Russian election hacking.
00:29:25.000 But there was a hack on the DNC perpetrated by the Russian government and disseminated by the Russian government.
00:29:29.000 In order to damage our electoral system.
00:29:31.000 Okay, Scaramucci is like, how is that helpful?
00:29:34.000 Trump has spent the last several months battling this rumor that he doesn't actually think this happened.
00:29:38.000 And so he's not taking the Russian threat seriously.
00:29:40.000 And then Scaramucci goes out there and says, well, somebody said this to me.
00:29:43.000 And Tapper goes, well, who?
00:29:44.000 And he goes, Trump.
00:29:46.000 Is this the mark of a brilliant communications strategist?
00:29:48.000 I don't think so.
00:29:49.000 And you see this permeating the communications team, is that there are the people who want Trump to say the right thing, and then there are the people who are just going to repeat whatever Trump tells them.
00:29:59.000 So you have Scaramucci coming out and saying that he may not actually support the sanctions bill, and then you had Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying that Trump
00:30:08.000 Does support the sanctions bill.
00:30:09.000 You had Scaramucci saying, we talked about pardons.
00:30:12.000 Then you had Jay Sekulow saying, pardons are not on the table.
00:30:15.000 Right?
00:30:15.000 I mean, like they're contradicting each other.
00:30:16.000 Sekulow is his lawyer.
00:30:17.000 So Sekulow is trying to protect him from himself.
00:30:19.000 Here's Sekulow talking about the pardon issue.
00:30:22.000 I think so.
00:30:42.000 And pardons are not on the table.
00:30:44.000 With regard to the issue of a president pardoning himself, there's a big academic discussion going on right now, an academic debate.
00:30:51.000 You've got Professor Tribe arguing one point, you've got Professor Turley arguing another point, and while it makes for interesting academic discussions, let me tell you what the legal team is not doing.
00:31:02.000 We're not researching the issue because the issue of pardons is not on the table.
00:31:05.000 Okay, so he says when the legal team isn't researching it, we're not really looking at it.
00:31:09.000 Here's Scaramucci yesterday.
00:31:12.000 Let's cut through it all, okay?
00:31:14.000 You and I right here, let's cut through it all.
00:31:16.000 You're basically saying that that tweet is suggesting that the president is going to pardon himself and every one of his family members.
00:31:22.000 What are you suggesting?
00:31:25.000 He's not going to do that.
00:31:26.000 I am suggesting one thing.
00:31:29.000 The president tweeted about pardons, and I'm asking you, who is he thinking about pardoning?
00:31:33.000 That's all I'm suggesting.
00:31:34.000 So why wait?
00:31:36.000 The President's thinking about pardoning nobody because it has been coming up a lot.
00:31:41.000 There's an undercurrent of nonsensical stuff.
00:31:43.000 Because he has asked advisors about it.
00:31:46.000 No, come on, Jake.
00:31:48.000 He's not allowed to.
00:31:49.000 This is the problem with the whole system.
00:31:50.000 He's the President of the United States.
00:31:52.000 If I turn to one of my staff members at Skybridge, I ask them a question, they run out to the news media and tell everything that I'm thinking about.
00:31:58.000 Is that fair to the President?
00:32:00.000 Okay, so you're basically saying that Trump is talking about pardons.
00:32:02.000 So, again, this is not—get your communication strategy in order, guys.
00:32:06.000 And I think that the Trump administration—again, if you want it to be successful, you need him to hem it in, but that's not what's happening, right?
00:32:13.000 Kellyanne Conway—everybody is now auditioning.
00:32:15.000 It is The Apprentice.
00:32:16.000 I mean, it really is.
00:32:17.000 Everyone who's auditioning for a White House job is more interested in pleasing Trump on TV than in actually making sure that he implements policies that are going to make him worthy of re-election.
00:32:25.000 Kellyanne Conway yesterday, he says you should be super, you should be so happy that he's tweeting.
00:32:28.000 I mean, come on, like it's great that he's tweeting.
00:32:31.000 But he also tweets a lot about television.
00:32:35.000 So?
00:32:36.000 You should be happy about that.
00:32:37.000 He also tweets a lot about television.
00:32:39.000 You should be happy that we have such an engaged president.
00:32:41.000 But, you know, 99% of what the president does and says is not on Twitter.
00:32:47.000 It's done in the Oval Office.
00:32:49.000 It's done in his cabinet meetings with different cabinet members.
00:32:52.000 Okay, that's fine, except for the fact that when she says you should be happy, he's so engaged.
00:32:56.000 This is what Trump tweeted this morning, quote, Okay, so far, so good.
00:33:06.000 And you're spending all of your time watching him on TV, tweeting about it.
00:33:09.000 Like, why is this useful?
00:33:10.000 This is just not useful.
00:33:12.000 Again, I would like to see some victories.
00:33:14.000 Come on.
00:33:15.000 Okay, I was promised winning.
00:33:15.000 Let's hear the winning.
00:33:16.000 Where's the winning?
00:33:17.000 Come on, let's do it.
00:33:17.000 Okay?
00:33:19.000 And I don't mean winning like he stands there in his top coat and he makes shots from the top of the key.
00:33:22.000 I mean like actual conservative wins that we can put our finger on and say this is why we elected Republicans to high office.
00:33:28.000 And look, not all that's his fault.
00:33:30.000 Congress isn't doing its job.
00:33:31.000 Congress is incompetent.
00:33:32.000 This is why presidential leadership is necessary.
00:33:34.000 Congress knows that there is no risk to them in avoiding Trump at this point, in just bucking Trump.
00:33:40.000 Trump has to make it risky.
00:33:41.000 Trump has to go out there and make the case for his agenda, and then he has to go out there and say to Congress, if you buck my agenda, there will be consequences.
00:33:48.000 Okay?
00:33:48.000 Obama did this.
00:33:49.000 Even Bush did this.
00:33:50.000 Trump isn't doing that right now, and it's very frustrating because he's letting Congress off the hook, Congress is letting itself off the hook, and Trump is more focused on surrounding himself with people who are going to agree with him.
00:34:01.000 So Kellyanne Conway is spending time talking about Robert Mueller.
00:34:03.000 Again,
00:34:04.000 Unless Trump is going to fire Robert Mueller, this is a waste of time.
00:34:07.000 So maybe he will fire Robert Mueller, but if he fires the special counsel, all hell is going to break loose.
00:34:10.000 Because that special counsel, that will look like a cover-up.
00:34:12.000 When you start firing the special counsel, before the special counsel even comes up with anything, I mean, this is not good.
00:34:18.000 And you can see the White House already paving the way for this.
00:34:20.000 Here's Conway doing this routine.
00:34:22.000 Why doesn't the president just want Mueller to prove that Trump is right, that Russia was a hoax?
00:34:26.000 Why doesn't he just want Mueller to go ahead and confirm that for him?
00:34:29.000 Well, isn't Mr. Mueller and his band of Democratic donors doing that?
00:34:33.000 Aren't they trying to do that?
00:34:35.000 Okay, so she's obviously claiming that Mueller is biased.
00:34:37.000 Again, President Trump considered him for FBI director.
00:34:41.000 Okay, so it's a waste.
00:34:44.000 Why does this matter?
00:34:45.000 Why can't I just be happy?
00:34:46.000 Why can't I just sit here and be happy?
00:34:48.000 The reason I can't be happy is because the Democrats are sitting over here just waiting.
00:34:51.000 The Democrats don't have to do anything.
00:34:52.000 All they have to do is sit over here and wait for Trump to implode all over himself.
00:34:56.000 They are waiting in the wings with a policy that is going to be so horrible that is going to destroy everything that Trump is supposedly trying to build.
00:35:03.000 Okay, so here is Chuck Schumer yesterday talking about what comes next for Obamacare.
00:35:07.000 This is the Senate Minority Leader who, if he gets lucky, could be the Senate Majority Leader by 2018 and certainly has a very good shot at it by 2020 if things keep going this way.
00:35:15.000 Here's Chuck Schumer, one of the world's worst leftists, talking about what the Democrats are going to do if they take power again.
00:35:22.000 Then we're going to look at broader things.
00:35:23.000 Single-payer is one of them.
00:35:25.000 So that is on the table?
00:35:26.000 Well, sure, many things are on the table.
00:35:29.000 Medicare for people above 55 is on the table.
00:35:32.000 A buy-in to Medicare is on the table.
00:35:34.000 Buy-in to Medicaid is on the table.
00:35:37.000 Okay, so they're talking about a full-scale nationalization of the healthcare system, essentially, getting rid of insurance companies altogether, and instead, everybody would just work for the government, basically, and the government would decide what people are paid.
00:35:47.000 This would completely destroy the American healthcare system as we know it, and they are talking about doing this openly now, because Trumpcare has failed, because Trump can't make the case, and I'm sorry, firing off a few tweets and riding around in a firetruck is not going to do it.
00:35:59.000 When your real focus is on Mueller, and Scaramucci, and the TV, and if somebody's on TV praising you in terms that are sycophantic enough for your liking.
00:36:09.000 Please, Mr. President, focus.
00:36:11.000 Please, for the love of the country, for the love of the country, please focus on pressing your agenda.
00:36:17.000 I didn't vote for you, but you can prove me wrong.
00:36:20.000 You proved me wrong with the election.
00:36:21.000 You can prove me wrong again.
00:36:23.000 Prove that you can do this job.
00:36:25.000 Prove that you are capable of gaining the sort of wins that we were told you would gain.
00:36:29.000 Not cursing at the media, anybody can do that.
00:36:31.000 It's not a hard job.
00:36:33.000 Contrary to popular opinion, it's a very easy job.
00:36:36.000 All I'm asking is that you give me some reasons to praise you because I would like to do so.
00:36:40.000 You're my president, okay?
00:36:41.000 You're all of our presidents, even the people who don't like you.
00:36:44.000 Okay, before I get to things I like and things I hate, I first want to say thank you to some new sponsors.
00:36:49.000 So, why do we have states, countries, taxes, wars?
00:36:52.000 When did globalization start?
00:36:54.000 Why does history matter?
00:36:55.000 Wondery has a brand new podcast out from PhD historian Patrick Wyman.
00:36:59.000 It's called Tides of History, and it is really fascinating.
00:37:02.000 I've listened to the first three episodes, I believe, the intro and the first couple episodes.
00:37:06.000 It's really well done, and he takes on some issues in history that haven't really been covered too much.
00:37:10.000 So he takes on the period 1350 to 1650, and he talks about why the roots of the modern world start there.
00:37:16.000 Like, why are there states in the first place?
00:37:17.000 Why aren't we just a bunch of separate fiefdoms?
00:37:19.000 How was it that states became the predominant way of doing business?
00:37:22.000 Why is it that there's free trade?
00:37:24.000 How did these trade routes get started?
00:37:25.000 How did capitalism begin?
00:37:26.000 Where did globalization start?
00:37:28.000 All of the forces that shape our modern world begin in that post-medieval era, during the Renaissance era and just before the Enlightenment.
00:37:37.000 And that's the period that he takes on in Tides of History.
00:37:39.000 Really well-researched, interesting stuff he makes.
00:37:42.000 Well, it could be very dry history, very interesting.
00:37:44.000 Go listen to the first episode of Tides of History by searching for Tides of History on your podcast player or Google Tides of History today.
00:37:50.000 Go to the link on the screen and listen.
00:37:54.000 You can listen, you can learn, you can subscribe to the podcast again.
00:37:57.000 It's called Tides of History, and it's really good.
00:37:59.000 You should go check it out at iTunes, SoundCloud, wherever you get your podcasts.
00:38:02.000 Subscribe and give it a listen.
00:38:04.000 I love history, and this is really good history.
00:38:07.000 Even if I disagree with some of it, it's really informative and interesting.
00:38:09.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:38:12.000 So, things that I like.
00:38:14.000 I've started reading this book, Heavy Reading.
00:38:17.000 I've been doing some heavy philosophy reading in the recent past.
00:38:20.000 This is a book that was recommended to me, actually, by Professor Jordan Peterson.
00:38:25.000 Over in Canada when I was up there giving a speech and he was talking about philosophy and the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of God and he recommended this book The Metaphysical Club A Story of Ideas in America by Lewis Manand.
00:38:38.000 It won the Pulitzer Prize
00:38:41.000 And it is a really interesting read.
00:38:44.000 Relatively easy read, actually.
00:38:46.000 It's about four real thinkers at the beginning of the 20th century.
00:38:50.000 Oliver Wendell Holmes, who of course is a Supreme Court Justice.
00:38:53.000 William James, who's the father of modern American psychology.
00:38:56.000 Charles Sanders Peirce, who's been largely forgotten, but was a logician of the first order.
00:39:02.000 And John Dewey, who is sort of their intellectual heir and the father of the progressive movement.
00:39:07.000 The reason this is important is because you can see how deeper philosophy
00:39:11.000 is siphoned into what the left philosophy is today.
00:39:14.000 John Dewey was the father of progressivism in the United States.
00:39:17.000 He can't understand the modern-day Barack Obama Democratic Party without reading about John Dewey and his ideological forebears and why it is that the natural law, the natural law philosophy of our founders was cast aside in favor of the legal positivism of people like Oliver Wendell Holmes and the
00:39:37.000 Progressivism of John Dewey so you can check it out the metaphysical club really good read okay other things that I like this I thought was just a beautiful video so there's a stepson who he was adopted who you know his mother married a stepfather
00:39:51.000 Took me to my first day of school Brought me Brought my first bike Taught me how to ride
00:40:28.000 You taught me how to count.
00:40:30.000 You corrected me when I was broke and picked me up when I was down.
00:40:35.000 You gave me more than what I need.
00:40:38.000 I know that we were supposed to be father and son.
00:40:43.000 People even say I look like you.
00:40:45.000 Dad, I have been your child and loved since I'll remember.
00:40:50.000 But I want to be your son illegally.
00:40:53.000 Will you please adopt me?
00:41:03.000 That's just awesome.
00:41:04.000 And it does show, you know, honestly, one of the things that's been missing in so many communities, black and white, all over the country now, is the presence of a father figure in people's lives.
00:41:12.000 And that's just beautiful.
00:41:13.000 And it shows you that fathers cannot be replaced.
00:41:15.000 Okay, I understand that we're now a society that thinks that sexes have no differentiation, and that two women is the same as a man and a woman, or that a mother can do the same thing as a father.
00:41:24.000 You can do both.
00:41:25.000 Not true.
00:41:25.000 Okay, fathers are necessary.
00:41:27.000 I know this from my own children.
00:41:28.000 I know this from my own father.
00:41:29.000 Okay, fathers are necessary.
00:41:31.000 And if a child is lucky enough to have a wonderful father, there's nothing that can replace that.
00:41:36.000 It's just incredible.
00:41:37.000 So, it's just a beautiful video, and it's wonderful that they were able to catch that on tape and that we could all experience it, because that's just a wonderful thing.
00:41:44.000 Okay, time for some things I hate.
00:41:46.000 So on the flip side...
00:41:50.000 On the flip side of this beauty is utter stupidity.
00:41:54.000 So, Huffington Post had a tweet yesterday.
00:41:59.000 They tweeted that this tweet, this picture, will show you that... I want to get the exact tweet if I can find it.
00:42:06.000 They said that this picture will show you that periods are not just for women.
00:42:11.000 Okay, and this is a picture of a woman who has a butch haircut, and you can't really see it, but at the bottom of the photo, she has bled through her pants.
00:42:21.000 And it said, periods are not just for women.
00:42:23.000 Hashtag bleeding while trans.
00:42:25.000 No, it turns out periods are just for women.
00:42:28.000 Okay, I'm sorry that you think you're a man, but it turns out that you are in fact a biological woman, and that is why I cannot have my period today, nor can Mathis, nor, I believe, can Marshall.
00:42:39.000 So, all of this is just a bunch of nonsense, and it's so stupid.
00:42:44.000 I saw that there's this amazing conversation online.
00:42:47.000 It's just incredible how stupid everyone has become.
00:42:50.000 There's this amazing conversation online with some sort of trans advocate,
00:42:53.000 Where somebody said okay, so if I'm a dude, and I have sex with a trans woman Am I is that a gay sexual act right cuz a trans woman still has the male parts and says no that is straight sex Only if you were a woman and you had sex with the man with the male parts who thinks he's a woman would that be lesbian?
00:43:13.000 Okay, then all righty, that's kind of Okay This this person who put up this picture a cast Clemmer
00:43:22.000 Posted a picture of herself bleeding from the crotch and posted a poem.
00:43:25.000 It said, y'all know I'm trans and queer, and what that means for me all around is something that's neither there nor here.
00:43:30.000 Oh, it's poetry.
00:43:31.000 It's a happy, scary middle ground.
00:43:33.000 So when I talk gender inclusion and I wrote these rhymes to help you see, I'm not trying to bring up something shallow.
00:43:38.000 Periods are honestly pretty traumatic for me.
00:43:41.000 See, my life is very clearly marked, like a red border cut up a nation, a time before and a time beyond, the mark of my first menstruation.
00:43:49.000 Is she now comparing this to, like, the Civil War?
00:43:52.000 A red border cut up the nation?
00:43:54.000 So let me take you back to the details I can still recall of the day I gained my first period.
00:43:58.000 Oh no!
00:44:01.000 And the day I lost it all.
00:44:02.000 I was 15 and still happy.
00:44:03.000 Running around, all chest bared and buck.
00:44:05.000 Climbing trees, digging holes, and no one gave a single bleep.
00:44:08.000 I think, I mean, I think my ma was worried, so I went and grew out my locks, a sign I was normal, still a girl, and painted a neon sign for my gender box, so the day I got my period, my god, a day so proud, this little andro f'd up kid had been bestowed the straight cis shroud.
00:44:23.000 Okay, I'm sorry that you're mentally ill.
00:44:25.000 I mean, like, really.
00:44:26.000 Please seek help.
00:44:27.000 I mean, it really is sad and it makes you kind of sick to your stomach, honestly, that somebody is living in this much pain, because obviously this person is living in serious pain.
00:44:33.000 You are not a man, and pretending that you are a man is going to bring you nothing but misery.
00:44:36.000 Okay?
00:44:37.000 Believing you're a man, this is something that requires... I don't know that there's a great treatment available, but society pretending that you are a man having a period is not the solution to your problems, nor is it the solution to the problems of many gender-confused kids who are younger than 15 years old.
00:44:52.000 Look, do what you want, okay?
00:44:53.000 It's your life, do what you want.
00:44:54.000 But don't, if you insist that periods are not just for women, you are doing a grave disservice to both women and young boys who are believing things that are biologically incorrect.
00:45:03.000 It's just, it's just, come on.
00:45:06.000 I mean, the idea that this is not an imposition on society, of course it's an imposition on society.
00:45:10.000 As I say, go do what you want.
00:45:11.000 No one really cares.
00:45:12.000 But, when you start tweeting out things like, periods are not just for women, and you're featured at the front page of the Huffington Post, requiring that everyone who agrees with basic biology is somehow
00:45:22.000 Forced to agree with your lie that you are a man that it's just no no Okay, other things that I hate this final thing that I hate so Richard Dawkins who is an atheist?
00:45:33.000 Is a he's now been banned from Berkeley, California there is a benefit event for KF for a KPFA which is a listener funded station and
00:45:42.000 In Berkeley, California, tickets were snapped up ahead of the Anti-Theist Plan talk on August 9th.
00:45:47.000 They cancelled the event because it turns out that he said some mean things about Muslims.
00:45:50.000 They're fine with him saying mean things about Christians, but as soon as Richard Dawkins said some mean things about Muslims, it was all over.
00:45:55.000 And KPFA cancelled the event.
00:45:57.000 They say they emphatically support Syria's free speech, but we do not support abusive speech.
00:46:02.000 He's criticized religion publicly for decades, and he's been no-platformed.
00:46:07.000 He says he has strongly condemned
00:46:10.000 Misogyny, homophobia, and violence of Islamism, of which Muslims, particularly Muslim women, are the prime victims.
00:46:15.000 But he is too conservative for Berkeley, so he must not be allowed at their radio station.
00:46:19.000 He is a far leftist, by the way, Richard Dawkins.
00:46:21.000 He is not even close to a right-winger.
00:46:23.000 He's a militant atheist who hates religion and is, I believe, a socialist on politics.
00:46:27.000 So this idea that, I mean, you talk about the left eating their own.
00:46:31.000 Okay, I lied.
00:46:31.000 There's one more thing I have to show because it's just, it's an important thing.
00:46:34.000 So Charlie Gard, his parents finally gave up on their appeal to the courts today.
00:46:38.000 The court said that the kid deserved to die, which is just horrifying.
00:46:42.000 They said that the kid has a right to die, essentially.
00:46:46.000 And so this is his parents.
00:46:49.000 We tried to get him over to the US.
00:46:51.000 I reached out to a few Congress people.
00:46:52.000 We were trying to get him citizenship so we could extradite him from the UK.
00:46:56.000 They gave up their appeal because at this point it doesn't matter anymore.
00:46:59.000 He's basically brain dead.
00:47:01.000 And this is the parents reading their announcement.
00:47:05.000 His body, heart, and soul may soon be gone.
00:47:08.000 But his spirit will live on for eternity, and he will make a difference to people's lives for years to come.
00:47:13.000 We will make sure of that.
00:47:14.000 Okay, so, uh, just, uh, I hope that they do.
00:47:18.000 I hope that they keep fighting for the right to life, uh, and the right for the family to make decisions that the government should not be making.
00:47:23.000 Uh, but this, this notion that death with dignity means that you have to die in a hospital rather than striving to live, it's one of my pet peeves.
00:47:31.000 You know, when people have cancer, you hear very often, oh, he's a fighter, he'll make it.
00:47:34.000 Okay, whether you live from cancer or not has very little to do with whether you're a fighter.
00:47:38.000 I know a lot of fighters who have died of cancer and I know a lot of people who don't seem like particularly strong people who lived through cancer.
00:47:43.000 This idea that health problems are some sort of indicia of moral character, it's stupid and it's also immoral and it's immoral to suggest
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