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00:02:06.000What is the virtue that touches all the other virtues?
00:02:12.000What is the virtue that is seemingly absent and is so hard to find in today's time?
00:02:20.000So if you list the virtues, according to Aristotle, they have a hierarchy.
00:02:25.000If you list the virtues, they, in some ways, are separate, but others touch each other.
00:02:34.000So Aristotle would say the virtues would be that of benevolence, spiritedness, friendliness, wittiness, truthfulness, being generous, temperate.
00:02:45.000But the virtue that Aristotle said is the ultimate virtue because it touches all the others.
00:03:24.000So, for example, the warriors fighting for Vladimir Putin, they might exhibit something that would be categorized by the Russian government as courageous, but we would say it's foolish.
00:03:43.000In order to have something be courageous, it's not just having the right disposition towards pain.
00:03:50.000It's not just doing the thing that needs to be done when you don't know how it's going to work out, but you must have the proper end in mind.
00:04:02.000It is both a thinking and doing virtue.
00:04:05.000In the Nicomedemian ethics, Aristotle would say that courage is so absent that when you see it, it is an act of beauty, that which is perfected in being.
00:04:19.000Courage is hard to come by right now in America, but when we see it, we almost stop in awe.
00:04:26.000When we see a mom show up at a school board meeting fighting for her kids' curriculum against CRT, we stand and we point and we say, we like that.
00:04:35.000When we see truckers in Canada driving into Ottawa knowing that their entire livelihoods will be taken from them, we stand and we point, we say, we like that.
00:04:45.000You see, courage has become a spectacle because it is so rare, it's hard to find.
00:04:50.000Plato would say about courage, courage is knowing what not to fear.
00:04:56.000Not that you shouldn't be afraid, but it's knowing what not to fear.
00:05:02.000As there is this lack of courage in America and it seems to be spreading almost a pathogen of cowardice, when we see courage in the Republican Party, we should stop, we should platform it, we should talk about why it's there,
00:05:18.000why this person is seemingly unafraid of the things that are thrown at him, why other people in similar positions don't act the way that this person acts, and we should teach others why he is being courageous, because it's not that he's just standing up to the mob.
00:05:36.000It's not that this person is not just standing up to the most powerful forces, both in the media and the cultural space, in the movie-making space.
00:05:45.000He's fighting for something that is virtuous, that is beautiful.
00:05:50.000I'm, of course, talking about Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:05:55.000Now, Governor Ron DeSantis is a courageous leader.
00:05:58.000Now, mind you, courage is a lot easier when you have your priorities and your values properly aligned in the rightful hierarchy.
00:06:06.000We as Christians believe there is a hierarchy to virtue and value.
00:06:10.000For example, if faith is the most important thing in your life, you can more easily make the right choice when you know it may have a financial implication, that making money might not actually be the ultimate value.
00:06:22.000We do not believe it's the ultimate value on this program.
00:06:29.000Ron DeSantis does not believe power or political popularity is the highest value.
00:06:34.000In the hierarchy of good, in the view of Ron DeSantis, decisive action, despite the backlash that will be received, is protecting children is at the top of the hierarchy of what a person in political power needs to do.
00:06:50.000Even the most extreme, small government, minarchist, anarchist, libertarian can agree that the role of government would be first and foremost to protect those that cannot protect themselves, protecting children.
00:07:02.000This is not a controversial statement.
00:07:03.000Protecting the innocence of children is not just good for the children themselves.
00:07:12.000A nation cannot continue if the innocence of children is continually tampered with.
00:07:18.000If five, six, and seven-year-olds are learning things that 15, 16, and 17-year-olds shouldn't really be learning, then the entire social fabric will fall apart.
00:07:26.000And tyranny will be the only default setting for a generation's innocence who is lost because they're going to try to default.
00:07:34.000The default setting will be to somebody that could tell them what to do.
00:07:37.000When innocence is lost, it creates a widespread moral chaos.
00:07:43.000It creates a country that is in a state of confusion, hysteria.
00:07:51.000Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, had a choice to make.
00:07:54.000Now, mind you, I've spent a lot of time in Florida.
00:07:56.000Was formerly a resident of Florida before I came here to Arizona.
00:08:01.000Every state kind of has a lobby that the entrenched political class is afraid of confronting.
00:08:15.000When I get into Arkansas, when you land in Arkansas, it's well known that you could do whatever you want to do politically, but you do not cross Walmart.
00:08:25.000That all roads to political power in Arkansas go through Bentonville.
00:08:30.000That the multi-billion megaplex will control public policy all throughout Walmart, all throughout Arkansas.
00:08:41.000Every state has a couple employers like that.
00:08:44.000Every state has a couple of companies that basically run the whole state.
00:08:48.000In Washington, it's Amazon and Microsoft.
00:08:51.000In California, it's Facebook and Google.
00:08:54.000Every state has a couple massive companies where you just kind of back off and say, all right, I'm not going to sign that bill.
00:09:00.000I'm going to do whatever is necessary.
00:09:04.000Well, in Florida, that company is Disney.
00:09:07.000Not just because of the multimedia component, but of course, Disney World, which basically runs Orlando.
00:09:15.000Now, Ron DeSantis stared Disney down, one of the largest employers, one of the most powerful special interests in the state of Florida, and won.
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00:10:29.000One of the strategies of the left is to make something that is non-controversial seem controversial so that when even more dramatic reform that would be good for the country actually wants to be pushed forward, they can actually put the fight towards something as non-controversial as the Florida law.
00:10:49.000So as we talk about courage, we talk about Ron DeSantis, it's important that we dive into the specifics.
00:10:57.000So Ron DeSantis was given an opportunity.
00:11:00.000Disney, one of the largest employers in the state of Florida, in fact, I think it is the single largest employer in the state of Florida.
00:11:08.000We can get a fact check on that, but I believe it is.
00:11:22.000It is a parental rights bill and an anti-grooming bill to protect five and six-year-olds from learning about sexual activity with men and men, women and women.
00:11:34.000All those topics, according to the bill, are off limits for four, five, and six-year-olds to be learning and to be consuming in public classrooms in Florida.
00:11:47.000Now, because of that, Disney completely lost its mind.
00:12:16.000Tens of thousands of people work at Disney World alone.
00:12:21.000It basically runs the greater Orlando area.
00:12:24.000So when they came out against the bill, that was them saying, hey, Ron DeSantis, you don't want to pick a fight with the state's largest employer.
00:12:34.000Now, again, this is like picking a fight with Coca-Cola in Georgia.
00:12:40.000It's like picking a fight with Boeing in Chicago.
00:12:44.000Or it's like picking a fight with Ford Mortar Company, Chrysler, and GM in Detroit.
00:12:49.000It's like picking a fight with the oil industry in Houston.
00:12:56.000It's like if the banks came after you as a New York mayor or New York governor, that's the line you don't cross.
00:13:03.000So when they came out, Bob Chepik, the CEO of Disney, and said he's going to spend all this money and he was threatening Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis had every excuse out there to back away.
00:13:16.000The largest employer in my state, or one of the largest employers in my state, are telling me not to sign the bill.
00:14:56.000Either he was going to stand with the voters of his state and the mission and the promise he made to protect children, or he was going to pander to the major corporation, the number one employer in Florida, and all of the alphabet mafia cartel that was pushing against it.
00:15:26.000It's against teachers to use their positions of power to communicate extremely radical, graphic, and inappropriate material to five, six, or seven-year-olds.
00:16:28.000Remember, you could be bold for the wrong cause.
00:16:32.000The warriors of Mao Seitong were bold that they ran into the machine gun fire.
00:16:36.000The warriors for the Emperor of Imperial Japan were bold on their side of Iwo Jima, but they weren't courageous because their end was not correct.
00:16:48.000Ron DeSantis is both bold and courageous.
00:16:52.000His end is to value the innocence of children above corporate donations, above Hollywood approval, and above Disney's liking of him.
00:17:08.000And so we will continue to recognize that in the state of Florida, parents have a fundamental role in the education, health care, and well-being of their children.
00:18:13.000He said, I care more about protecting children than my approval rating, even though his approval rating is going to go up because he's protecting children.
00:18:24.000Disney came out aggressively again, and they said, quote, Florida's HB 1557, also known as the Don't Say Gay Bill, should never have passed and should never be signed in law.
00:18:45.000And we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that.
00:18:51.000We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of the LGBTQ members of the Disney family as the LGBTQ community in Florida and across the country.
00:18:59.000I mean, have you read the bill, Disney?
00:19:02.000And the answer is no, or maybe they have, but here's the thing: Disney and Bob Chapik, they're held hostage by their gay employees.
00:19:14.000And I'm not accusing them of this, just the way it is.
00:19:16.000They're in the arts and entertainment, and there's a disproportionate amount of gay people that work in that community.
00:19:22.000And so they're making a huge mess of it.
00:19:26.000And so Disney is pandering to their employees because they don't want more employee walkouts.
00:19:30.000They still need to keep their movie production on time.
00:19:33.000And they know, I mean, it would basically be like Remington, or it would be like any major ammunition manufacturer basically not coming out against an anti-gun bill.
00:19:47.000Again, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it.
00:19:49.000Disney has a lot of gay people that work for them.
00:19:53.000Now, for whatever reason, these gay people feel really motivated, the employees of Disney, that six-year-olds need to learn about their incredibly graphic sexual activity.
00:21:04.000The automatic applause of the clamoring cultural class, even though nothing in the bill is around that.
00:21:12.000Randy Whitgarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, said, quote, Today, Governor DeSantis signed Florida's Don't Say Gay Bill.
00:21:18.000While the governor's intent is political, the non-political consequences are very real and very damaging.
00:21:55.000This is why what Ron DeSantis has done is so extraordinary.
00:21:58.000Not only did he stand up to the largest employer in Florida, but he has now differentiated himself amongst other Republican governors across the country.
00:22:09.000Now, remember Asa Hutchinson, the governor of Arkansas, very unimpressive corporate shill that calls himself a Republican.
00:22:18.000Remember when he was arguing that children need to have the right to get chemically castrated in the state of Arkansas?
00:22:25.000This was largely and was suspected, but never quite proven, but we know it.
00:22:29.000We know what happens because Walmart started to interfere with the legislative process in Arkansas.
00:22:38.000If you're going to oppose a big bill that the big employer in your state, Walmart in Arkansas, Coca-Cola in Georgia, Amazon in Washington, so on and so forth, then you're going to have to experience the wrath of that corporation and most governors back down.
00:22:58.000Remember this when Arkansas governor defended the veto of the transgender bill, said it was overly broad and extreme.
00:23:04.000This is what, this is how most Republican governors act.
00:23:10.000And let me emphasize that I would have signed a bill that simply prohibited sex reassignment surgery for those minors.
00:23:19.000But this went much further than that into restricting hormonal treatment with a parent and the doctor's consent or agreement that that is the right plan.
00:24:09.000And Ron DeSantis doesn't believe that either.
00:24:13.000And so, but this is the new normal, is that most governors, like the spineless governor of Indiana, Governor Holcomb, vetoed a bill banning transgender people from competing against girls in sports.
00:24:27.000Governor Holcomb stands with what lobby would actually be the pro-trans lobby?
00:24:34.000Not just the Alphabet Mafia, but the pharmaceutical companies.
00:24:38.000Pharmaceutical companies stand to make billions of dollars administering puberty blockers.
00:24:43.000Where do people get their puberty blockers filled?
00:24:46.000Oh, sometimes maybe at a Walmart pharmacy in Arkansas.
00:24:50.000Do you see all that all might be connected?
00:24:53.000Or how about the Utah governor, Spencer Cox, who recently has come out in the last couple of weeks and he vetoed a bill protecting women's sports and how state Republican lawmakers were able to override his veto.
00:25:31.000Now to the state of Utah enacting an anti-trans sports ban after lawmakers voted to override the governor's veto.
00:25:38.000GOP lawmakers in Utah yesterday pushed through new legislation that bans transgender athletes from playing on girls' teams, overriding a veto from the governor.
00:25:48.000I just love how they say it's anti-trans.
00:26:15.000Arkansas, Indiana, North Dakota, and Utah are states where I'm just guessing, we can get it fact-checked, that on average, Trump won by 15 to 20 points.
00:26:24.000North Dakota, Utah, Indiana, and Arkansas are some of the deepest red states in the country.
00:26:30.000And yet Ron DeSantis, in a state where fact has more registered Democrats than Republicans, signs a bill that Asa Hutchinson, Holcomb, Burnham, and Spencer Cox wouldn't get near in touch.
00:26:42.000Now, they're separate bills, but they're all in the same sort of family of bills.
00:27:21.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
00:27:23.000They recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their total number of happy customers in the next year.
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00:28:36.000And it's a beautiful thing to hear because there's a spiritual component to this, which is I am elevating what is good over what feels good.
00:28:45.000I am elevating what is right for my voters over for what might give me comfort and pleasure.
00:28:52.000The Washington Post has come out with a lengthy defense of Spencer Cox from Utah.
00:28:59.000Washington Post comes out and says, on transgender kids and sports, Spencer Cox puts the whole GOP to shame.
00:29:05.000See, the Washington Post has great things to say about Spencer Cox in Utah.
00:29:11.000And what does the media say about Ron DeSantis out yesterday?
00:29:16.000How Ron DeSantis is emulating Vladimir Putin.
00:29:20.000So teachers are starting to speak out in Florida.
00:30:11.000It scares me to death that I am not going to be able to have these conversations with my children because they're going to ask me what I did on the weekend.
00:30:19.000I don't want to have to hide that my partner and I went paddleboarding this weekend.
00:31:20.000There's even people in Hollywood that are opposed to providing protections for parents and enforcing parents' rights.
00:31:28.000One thing I'll say about that is: if the people who held up degenerates like Harvey Weinstein up as exemplars and as heroes and as all that, if those are the types of people that are opposing us on parents' rights, I wear that like a badge of honor.
00:31:49.000In a bill that should not be controversial, now proven by this weirdo on MSNBC who's like really worried his kindergartners won't be clued in to his like gay paddleboarding sessions all over like Melbourne, Florida.