On today's show, we discuss the Russian drone strike on the outskirts of Moscow, the growing problem of mental health in America, and the growing divide between conservatives and liberals when it comes to mental health. We also discuss Pride Month and the decline of the gay community in America.
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00:03:22.000You and I were talking this morning and we sort of didn't hit a very, very big story in the world of geopolitics, namely what Russian bloggers are calling The Russian Pearl Harbor.
00:03:36.000And of course, we're talking about the drone strike carried out by Ukrainian forces.
00:03:41.000They smuggled drones into the interior of Russia.
00:03:45.000And what amounts to a major escalation of that conflict, right as peace talks are ongoing in Istanbul, Trump has sort of thrown up his hands at both the Ukrainians and the Russians.
00:03:57.000And we're seeing that, unfortunately, for the world and for the prospects of World War III, Ending a war is extraordinarily difficult, and especially when you get dug in, when either side thinks that they're either being forced or asked to concede too much or concede too little,
00:04:17.000especially if you're Russia and you think you're winning this war, and Ukraine looking to make a punch Russia right in the eye, right in the face, to say, hey, we still have cards to play, echoing back to Trump's famous statements within the Oval Office with Vladimir Zelensky.
00:05:21.000And at least what they're publicly claiming they did is they were packaged in cargo containers that were designed to look like they were carrying prefabricated housing.
00:05:34.000The reason they did this is since it was prefabricated housing, they had a good excuse for why.
00:05:39.000Why do these cargo containers have solar panels on top of them?
00:05:43.000Well, they weren't for the roofs of housing.
00:06:33.000That is in central Siberia near Mongolia.
00:06:37.000And they hit two air bases closer to Moscow.
00:06:39.000So they really hit every single part of Russia with this attack.
00:06:44.000They claim they took out several dozen of these heavy bombers that Russia has.
00:06:50.000These bombers, they can be used for delivering nuclear weapons, but the reason they wanted to hit them was they're also used for delivering cruise missiles, other heavy ordnance.
00:08:28.000Are we escalating towards a potential World War III?
00:08:31.000That's been the risk with this conflict from the beginning.
00:08:35.000There's some news reports that are saying Vladimir Putin is being urged to consider nuclear weapons.
00:08:40.000And but even if he doesn't go that far, Blake, I mean, a ballistic missile, I've seen video footage of that in eastern Ukraine where they drop these.
00:09:01.000Those are devastating in and of themselves.
00:09:03.000Does this change Russian calculus of what they're able to do inside Ukraine?
00:09:07.000Well, it gets into, you know, the big picture, which is, you know, we've heard people who have been saying, you know, the war is three months from ending for, you know, three years now.
00:09:17.000And I think this is mostly a signal that, hey, like, Ukraine can still make things hurt a lot.
00:09:25.000They can cause a lot of embarrassment.
00:09:27.000There's a lot of ways this can damage them.
00:09:29.000And so in a sense, you could say that's actually a play for peace in that And I think a barrier to serious escalation that is helpful is Trump is so clearly in favor of getting a peace deal.
00:09:46.000With Biden, we had Biden saying Putin has to go.
00:09:49.000He's using this regime change rhetoric.
00:09:51.000He was showing no interest in negotiation.
00:10:09.000But I think that's a helpful barrier to this escalating too far.
00:10:14.000I mean, if Putin actually used nuclear weapons, I think that would very quickly turn almost the entire world against him because it would be so extreme and frankly so unjustified.
00:10:25.000So we have to hope that doesn't happen.
00:10:48.000Hard to know if that is, you know, brinksmanship or, you know, sort of the PR role of this.
00:10:56.000I'm going to take their word for it that they didn't know beforehand.
00:10:59.000All of this complicates a very high-wire act peace negotiation that's going in Istanbul right now.
00:11:08.000And another angle that is very important to emphasize here is this clearly is something we should worry about, too.
00:11:15.000It's a good point towards the need to secure the border and also just...
00:11:22.000America, we have tons of shipping containers coming into this country all of the time.
00:11:27.000And any country can afford drones like this.
00:11:31.000That's what's really crazy is North Korea, Iran, really poor countries could be developing these drones and ship them in quietly in a container and use them to hit things in the United States.
00:11:51.000And actually, you kind of remind me of the terror attack that happened in Boulder, Colorado.
00:11:58.000Tom Homan's warning that it's just a matter of time until we get more of that in the interior of the United States.
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00:13:01.000So, Blake, you were talking about the soft targets, vulnerabilities that we have to contend with here.
00:13:07.000This drone technology is really going to change the way that warfare is executed in many different theaters across the world, but definitely here in the United States, kind of makes me think of Golden Dome, kind of makes me think of hardening our own southern border, but there's that northern border, which is huge.
00:13:26.000People don't talk about it or think about it as much, but it is a vulnerability.
00:13:30.000Reflect on what happened in Boulder, Colorado, and dive deeper into what you're thinking there, Blake.
00:13:36.000Well, so there's Boulder, Colorado, of course, where you just have a guy who came across the border and shouldn't have been in this country, and he was just a lunatic, thankfully.
00:13:46.000Went nuts, tried to kill people by setting them on fire.
00:13:50.000Thankfully, he was nuts and inept, so nobody died currently.
00:14:00.000We had this effectively open border with Earth for four years under Joe Biden.
00:14:06.000It wasn't just people coming from Mexico.
00:14:08.000It wasn't just people from Venezuela or Haiti.
00:14:11.000we had literally tens of thousands of people who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border who came from China and got in.
00:14:19.000And you hear wild stories like Chinese gangsters basically took over the illegal, Things like that.
00:14:29.000Another story I always find myself thinking of, you can Google this, in Fresno, California, the Chinese managed to build an entire illegal secret bio lab in like a warehouse in Fresno.
00:14:43.000And we don't really know what the purpose of it was, but someone built an illegal entire bio lab.
00:14:48.000That we only found months or years later.
00:14:51.000So if you're able to sneak that kind of thing in and pull it off, you can sneak in and pull off just about anything.
00:14:57.000And what we see overall is there's been a change in the nature of warfare.
00:15:04.000You think 100 years ago in World War II, what mattered was, what's your overall industrial output?
00:15:10.000Can you make thousands and thousands of very simple tanks and planes and guns and artillery and all of that?
00:15:27.000We could build these bombers that, you know, stealth bombers that could drop these extremely high tech bombs that we could pilot into a specific spot.
00:15:35.000And you could just blow anyone to smithereens and we could beat, you know, any country in a war with almost no casualties.
00:15:40.000Now what we see, though, is this rise of the power of war.
00:15:47.000That we can build a robot that, you know, for a few thousand bucks, you can build a robot that you can stick a bomb on, stick a gun on, and it can fly basically anywhere.
00:15:58.000Or go look at what Boston Dynamics is building.
00:16:00.000You'll be able to build a little robot dog-looking thing.
00:16:03.000And again, put a bomb on it, put a gun on it, and you can hide it anywhere, and it can attack anywhere, and nobody's life is at risk.
00:16:10.000You know, suicide attacks have always been possible.
00:16:14.000And the biggest barrier to them, frankly, is there's a limit on how many people are literally willing to kill themselves to fight for a cause.
00:16:22.000But now you're getting rid of that limitation.
00:16:24.000You can do fully autonomous attacks with robots, with drones, and suddenly suicide-style attacks can happen anywhere without having to sacrifice anybody.
00:16:35.000And really, the reason we don't see them in the United States is, thankfully...
00:16:45.000And thankfully, under President Trump, we seem committed to not getting into one of those wars.
00:16:50.000But I fear that if it were to happen, even against a marginal country like Iran, you could very quickly realize there are a lot of vulnerabilities in the United States that are shockingly easy to hit.
00:17:33.000In lieu of having the clip of that one scene at the southern border where it was just completely wide open and it was some sort of Muslim crossing the border.
00:17:45.000I don't know if you'd call him a jihadist.
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00:18:31.000This is a word that comes up all the time, but does anyone know what it really means?
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00:20:34.000So then we'll do two Black History Months in the same year, and then we'll have no Pride.
00:20:37.000And the Pride Month left to wait and become the shortest month.
00:20:39.000And he could do this, and I don't know if he can unilaterally do this, but he should try it and just see how that goes, see how people react, just like people's hair on fire.
00:23:45.000We should not be doing any of the trans stuff now.
00:23:47.000It's all mental health issues, and we need to start the empathetic, the compassionate position is to acknowledge that the trans contagion that's going on is very negative for families, is destroying families.
00:23:58.000And what it is doing is it is, I think, condescending to people who are mentally ill who need to be transcontained.
00:26:48.000And by the way, I would feel the same, Alex, if it was straight couples doing the same thing out in the middle of the street.
00:26:54.000There's no place for that in polite society.
00:26:56.000Yeah, I do think that the internet, which is not always right, but I do think that the internet sort of consensus that this is becoming, it's really about autogynophilia, where it's really about sexual perversion that you dressing as the opposite sex and impersonating the opposite sex is a sexual fetish.
00:27:12.000I think that's the vast majority of these things.
00:27:16.000I'm just saying that I think that's the vast majority of what's going on.
00:27:18.000And introducing this stuff to children, as PBS is doing with our tax dollars, is designed to usurp the family with a higher authority, which is the government in this case, to try to sow confusion and to sow chaos because it makes people much easier to control in that way.
00:27:36.000But I'll tell you, for these companies, Andrew, It becomes a corporate issue.
00:27:41.000If you look at the WNBA, and if you look at Major League Baseball, and you look at the Washington Capitals, and the Washington Commanders, and the Washington Nationals, and the New York Giants, these are all teams that did pride stuff this year.
00:27:53.000Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, New York Mets.
00:27:56.000They're just trying to pander, trying to sell more tickets.
00:27:58.000But you can make them feel a little pain over this.
00:28:01.000If you go over and say, we're not doing this, particularly if they've got the trans stuff going on.
00:28:05.000If you're doing the trans stuff, I'm not going to bring my fans.
00:28:09.000Well, I think we are making progress, Alex.
00:28:38.000And, you know, LGBTQ organizations across the country are reporting substantial cuts in funding, thanks in large part to the Trump administration ending DEI programs.
00:28:50.000So there are actual cultural wins that we're putting up.
00:28:54.000I mean, but again, let me restate, I am for just getting rid of Pride Month altogether.
00:28:59.000Like, we should just not acknowledge it.
00:29:03.000I mean, we're still having to talk about it right now, because as you said there's still companies There's still sports teams that are posting about this, local high school teams, all the things in the middle.
00:29:13.000So we still have to sort of talk about it.
00:29:32.000So this is where, do you remember the latter stages of COVID when the last, you know, 10% of people were still wearing masks?
00:29:39.000I like that because you would know who all the weenies are based off of who's wearing the mask.
00:29:43.000Like, the last people wearing the mask, they're just announcing themselves.
00:29:45.000I definitely don't want to talk to you at the T-ball game, and I'm definitely not going to have a donut and coffee with you after church because if you got that mask on, I know you're nuts.
00:29:54.000Like that's what's gonna happen with the pride stuff.
00:29:56.000The last few people celebrating, we're just gonna know that's their signal, stay away So I think that's where this thing is going.
00:30:03.000And so we just got to get it down to that level.
00:30:16.000And, you know, while we're on the topic of mental illness, Alex, a new study came out, and actually Nate Silver is behind it, talking about which party, a little political leaning.
00:30:30.000You will never guess, Alex, who is reporting better mental health.
00:31:32.000This is a list of NFL teams that did not, Alex, publish the Pride stuff.
00:31:38.000NFL teams that did not, that would be the Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Indianapolis Colts, Las Vegas Raiders, New Orleans Saints, which is a little surprising, Tennessee Titans, Kansas City Chiefs, and Philadelphia Eagles.
00:31:54.000Those teams did not publish statements or social media posts acknowledging Pride Month, according to The Spun.
00:32:05.000One of our producers is like, Cowboys celebrate Pride year-round so they don't have to post about it.
00:32:31.000The important point I think to make about that is that you have to withhold some business from these people or they're not going to stop this.
00:32:36.000If they don't feel the pain, then you're not taking it seriously that you want to stop.
00:32:40.000If you want the pride pandering to stop, you want the trans pandering to stop, if you don't want the trans stuff in pro sports and NFL sports, then you either have to at least vocalize it on social media or whatever to these groups of people, or you need to withhold some business.
00:32:53.000I'll tell you, when all these companies that I would patronize put up the black square during the George Floyd farce, I would not buy their stuff.
00:33:02.000If you're serious about trying to make progress here, Andrew, you absolutely cannot continue to do business at the same level with these people who are engaged in normalizing trans grooming of children, which is what all this is.
00:34:22.000But I'm glad it's here, because sometimes the data, this is an old Dennis Pragerism, Andrew, which is that the data tends to either confirm what you can observe with your own two eyes and kind of back it up, or it's BS.
00:34:34.000So this is one where it does kind of confirm what you can back up with your own eyes.
00:34:37.000And it's funny, I had flagged this from Charlie's Twitter.
00:34:40.000Charlie tweeted this, and I had flagged it to talk about it on my show, The Alex Marlow Show, today.
00:35:01.000Obviously, if you are someone who does not get all of your values from TikTok and from social media and you get them from the Bible, for example, you get them from your family, you get them from deep thought and reading, and you can commune with nature, you touch grass, you go to the gym, of course you're going to have better mental health.
00:35:21.000And who's going to do those things I listed?
00:35:23.000Of course it's mostly going to be conservatives.
00:35:25.000And I'm not saying that there aren't people, I'm sure, with excellent mental health on the left and with terrible mental health on the right.
00:35:30.000But as a pattern, the things that conservatives do to occupy their time is going to make you a more balanced person and a more satisfied person who's leading a more meaningful life.
00:35:39.000If you are a secular leftist, you're probably leading a life with less meaning.
00:35:58.000You know, liberals and progressives, they use politics and their grievances and their sense of injustice in the world to fill an existential void in their soul.
00:36:29.000Joy is provided by the things that conservatives value, the things, the values that we promote, the ideas we promote.
00:36:36.000And of course, that's family, community, country, faith.
00:36:39.000All of those things, the eternal things in life will give you more pride, more joy, less pride.
00:36:45.000We can have pride in our country, but that's not what we're talking about in this segment.
00:36:49.000But nevertheless, I think this is one of the most telling polls, Alex, simply because it shows – and actually, here's the tie-in.
00:36:58.000Nate Silver was bringing this up because this is one of the reasons he believes that there's a disconnect between men and the Democrat Party.