00:09:26.280And as she reminded me indignantly, seals are black.
00:09:31.440But this argument fails because mermaids live on the ocean floor.
00:09:35.160And as you may recall in the original film, Ariel's trips to the surface are a source of great controversy in the mermaid community.
00:09:41.960They don't want her to go there at all.
00:09:43.440This means that mermaids do not need to surface in order to breathe air, as seals do.
00:09:48.320No, living on the ocean floor with flounders and evil octopuses clearly qualifies her as a deep-sea creature.
00:09:55.200She certainly lives deep enough where there wouldn't be nearly enough light penetration to necessitate high concentrations of melanin in the skin.
00:10:01.280Indeed, the lack of light penetration would create, as I argued, a translucent appearance.
00:10:06.400This would be both evolutionary and evolutionary adaptation, allowing for greater camouflage from predators, and a logical result of the lack of sunlight.
00:10:13.980So, do your mermaid research before you try to engage with me on this subject.
00:10:18.580You need to bring mermaid facts and mermaid logic to this conversation.
00:10:21.560By the way, I demand this level of accuracy out of every Disney film.
00:10:27.760It's one of the reasons I've always objected to Beauty and the Beast.
00:10:30.100For one thing, the story promotes bestiality, as Beauty begins to fall in love with what is essentially a large talking buffalo.
00:10:38.440For another, the servants, who turned into household objects and pieces of furniture, would in reality be so psychologically devastated by this transformation,
00:10:47.480they'd be in no mood to perform song and dance numbers for the Beast's female prisoners.
00:10:51.560Not to mention, they wouldn't have vocal cords or a musculoskeletal system that could facilitate that sort of physical movement.
00:11:00.980I am the beloved and revered LGBT author of Johnny the Walrus.
00:11:07.460I literally wrote a book about marine animals.
00:11:11.560Johnny the Walrus is not just a masterpiece of children's literature, but also the seminal scientific treatise on the subject of aquatic mammals.
00:11:19.340So, those who are questioning my statements are therefore not only engaging in homophobia and gay erasure,
00:11:27.140but also are refusing to listen to and trust the experts.
00:11:32.520This is dangerous and toxic behavior, not to mention an example of stochastic terrorism.
00:11:38.480As an expert in the field, and as an advocate for the translucent community,
00:11:46.060I will not allow myself to be silenced or marginalized.
00:15:59.280A Beaumont City Councilman is calling for state and national level change after what he describes as a horrific incident at Westbrook High School.
00:16:08.540Beaumont City Councilman Mike Getz said in a Facebook post,
00:16:11.720a student was brutally beaten in one of the boys' restrooms while other students washed.
00:16:15.840Councilman Mike Getz said he was asked to be a Beaumont ISD ambassador.
00:16:20.140The morning after the first night of the ambassador training, Getz saw a video that has since surfaced on social media.
00:16:26.600He said, my cell phone was blowing up with people sending me links to a horrific incident at Westbrook.
00:16:30.860The video, which 12 News has seen, appears to have been taken in the boys' bathroom.
00:16:34.780A teenage boy can be seen punching another boy who's on the floor in the face and had it at least 14 times before kicking him in the face.
00:16:41.560The boy on the floor tries to cover his face as he's hit multiple times.
00:16:45.720Other teens can be seen in the bathroom when the incident is taking place.
00:16:50.960Now, here's some important details about this.
00:16:53.820The boy who was seen punching and kicking the other boy was arrested and could possibly face robbery and assault charges.
00:17:01.840The councilman hopes he'll be prosecuted as an adult.
00:17:03.840But Getz said, quote, this is not his first rodeo.
00:17:07.100He has been arrested before, but current state and federal law allow these offenders back on campus after a relatively short stay at a juvenile detention facility.
00:17:18.020So that's what's happening in the school system right now.
00:17:20.560If you're wondering why you see these kinds of videos with increasing regularity, it's because the kids who do this end up back in the school system.
00:17:26.680A lot of times they're not charged at all.
00:17:27.860I mean, the fact that we're even talking about this hypothetically, oh, he could be charged with assault.
00:17:35.460If that's not criminal felony assault, I don't know what is.
00:17:38.340If that doesn't qualify, then what do you have to do?
00:17:40.720If punching and wailing on someone and kicking them in the head when they're on the ground doesn't count as felony assault, criminal assault that sends you to jail, then what does?
00:17:47.760And yet this kid has done this before and ends up back in school doing it again.
00:18:01.000First of all, we all know, obviously, that if you flip things around and it's a group of white kids beating a black kid, it makes national news.
00:18:44.080Well, so we're just going to accept it?
00:18:46.060I'm not saying that talking about it will solve the problem in and of itself, but I don't accept it.
00:18:52.060So I'm going to point it out every single time.
00:18:55.520The problem, though, with focusing just on the hypocrisy is that it lets us off the hook from actually dealing with the reality, with the uncomfortable reality, which is that in these videos, you know, we say that, well, if the races were reversed, it'd be national news.
00:19:11.520Okay, what's the unspoken part of that?
00:19:15.600Because most of the time you stop there, you don't keep talking.
00:19:18.340But the next sentence is, we never see videos in the reverse.
00:19:26.120Maybe there are a few examples, but we can assume that there probably aren't, at least not recently, because we wouldn't know about them.
00:19:31.520So that is the uncomfortable kind of unspoken reality is that in these kinds of videos, it's almost always a group of black kids mercilessly brutalizing a white kid.
00:20:55.160You see someone behaving that way, you can guarantee, and you're going to be right 99.9% of the time, that there's no father in the home.
00:21:06.260This is someone who does not have a strong masculine role model in the home.
00:21:12.040And we know that because they've never had masculinity demonstrated to them.
00:21:15.940So they're acting out in this way because no one has ever shown them how a man is supposed to act and how a man is supposed to harness his kind of masculine energy and aggression.
00:21:27.500Which is one of the crucial services that a father provides to his family, is to show the boys in that family what they're supposed to do with all of this energy that they have as a male.
00:21:38.140So we know that, and there's also just been no firm hand in the home.
00:21:45.960Someone who can draw a line and say to the kid, you're not going to behave this way.
00:21:53.240Everyone knows, it's a stereotype, but it's not a stereotype.
00:21:55.900It's also true that in most families where there is a mother and a father present, the kids tend to be better behaved around their dad.
00:22:03.980And, you know, if dad's at work and they're not behaving well, mom can use as a threat, we're going to tell your father about this when he gets home.
00:22:13.860And that's a threat that resonates with kids.
00:22:16.080In the reverse, you rarely hear about the reverse.
00:22:19.280Okay, like my wife will use that threat with my kids.
00:22:22.980We're going to tell daddy about this when he gets home.
00:22:53.600Perhaps when you demonize a group of people, as our society has done with white people, and especially with white men, white boys, white males.
00:23:08.760When you demonize them, when you paint them as the villains, and you drill this into people's head, you're giving license to others to treat them this way.
00:23:28.960Maybe there's correlation that also indicates causation in this case.
00:23:31.860Maybe when you take a group of people and you demonize them, you demonize them, you demonize them, and then you see this uptick in that very same group of people being treated in horrible and brutal and horrific ways.
00:23:43.340Yeah, maybe we can start drawing some lines here, connecting these dots.
00:23:51.800By the way, talking about this on Twitter a couple days ago, and I got a few messages from teachers talking about exactly this problem, the violence in schools.
00:24:21.940Often in the media, teachers get the focus, but no one is asking this.
00:24:24.840Did the principal who knew they had violent students on their campus get fired?
00:24:28.120Most of those administrators know about the violent students.
00:24:31.880This is, we're driving the good teachers out of the business entirely.
00:24:37.880Driving them out because what are they supposed to do about this?
00:24:42.060And when you have kids on the campus who are empowered to just do whatever they want, have no respect for authority whatsoever, what are you supposed to do with that?
00:24:49.940All right, this is from the New York Times.
00:24:51.160It says, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday that it would let stand for now a ruling that Yeshiva University must recognize an LGBT student group.
00:25:00.640The vote was five to four, with the majority saying that the university, a modern Orthodox Jewish institution in Manhattan, must first pursue challenges to the ruling in state court.
00:25:08.820Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the four dissenters, said that further challenges were pointless and that the majority had inflicted grave harm on the university's right to religious freedom.
00:25:17.500He wrote, a state's imposition of its own mandatory interpretation of scripture is a shocking development that calls out for review.
00:25:26.120The majority's order was brief, unsigned, and provisional, which is typical when the justices rule on applications seeking emergency relief.
00:25:32.280It criticized the university's litigation strategy, saying its lawyers had not asked a state appeals court to speed its appeal and had not properly sought to block the trial judge's ruling in the meantime.
00:25:41.500The order said, quote, if applicants seek and receive neither expedited review nor interim relief from the New York courts, they may return to this court.
00:25:51.120And so they were basically kind of punting it down the line a bit.
00:26:44.740So if we're being told by the left, and provisionally anyway, by the Supreme Court, that private Jewish institutions don't have the right to abide by their religious faith in their own institutions, then in what sense do we even have religious rights anymore?
00:27:06.420I always talk about the leftist sleight of hand trick.
00:27:14.220Because for so many years, they said, as they were driving religious people out of the public square completely, and driving them out and saying, you know, your religion is not welcome here.
00:27:30.780They said, well, you know, do that in your own churches and your own schools, okay?
00:27:35.000If you want to be in your home, in your own private religious schools, your own churches, or synagogues, as the case may be, you know, you can have your religious freedom there.
00:28:35.200You know, if you don't agree with Orthodox Jewish people on the issue of homosexuality and gay marriage and gay rights and all the rest of it,
00:28:47.820if you don't agree, then don't go to an Orthodox Jewish school.
00:28:52.780This is why I also told you this is what's going to happen with the federalization, the codification of gay rights on the federal level,
00:29:05.200which many Republicans are now supporting.
00:29:06.780That they're going to use that to go after the churches too, just like we talked about yesterday.
00:29:12.100Because once they establish, once they have codified into law this notion that gay marriage or, quote, gay rights are, you know, it's a human right issue.
00:29:24.920And they've also defined gay rights as just like if you're a gay person, you have the right to organize and you have the right to, you know, behave in any way you want, anywhere in any context.
00:29:39.880Because that's what they mean when they talk about gay rights.
00:29:44.240So once they've codified that, then it's a pretty simple maneuver for them to go to the churches and say, well, no, you can't do this.
00:29:50.720You could still have your religious freedom, but you can't infringe on human rights, for goodness sake.
00:29:54.140All right, next, Jill Biden has some thoughts on what books should be allowed or what books should be available in libraries.
00:31:08.260Okay, so at the very end that we get to the part that I wanted, the rest of it, who cares about?
00:31:13.120Because it shows the absurdity of the leftist claim that, you know, books are being banned by conservatives.
00:31:21.440There's some sort of crisis, this book burning that goes on.
00:31:25.140And, of course, as we know, the actual book burning and, you know, the banning of books and the banning of ideas, deplatforming, almost all of that is a leftist thing.
00:31:36.040And they also are the only ones with the power to do it because they control the institutions, which can then pass these rules down.
00:33:08.000But we are united in our support for women's right to choose.
00:33:11.620Okay, so Nancy Pelosi, again, like every other Democrat, we went through a bunch of clips yesterday.
00:33:17.500She is taking the gift that was given to her by Lindsey Graham, who I am convinced is intentionally trying to sabotage Republican chances in the midterms.
00:33:26.120You know, who put forward this abortion ban, this federal abortion ban right before the midterms.
00:33:31.640And we already went over why that is only a political move.
00:33:35.740It's not anything else because the bill obviously has no chance of being signed into law or passing or even getting a vote.
00:34:30.920And at 15 weeks, now, you don't have unborn babies who are viable in the sense of, when we say viable, meaning you can take them out of the womb and they can survive completely on their own.
00:34:42.800But they are developed, like, recognizable human beings.
00:34:46.840You look at the ultrasound at 15 weeks and you will see little babies there.
00:34:53.420So it's a moderate bill, but Democrats are taking the gift that they've been given.
00:34:59.620And painting it like this extreme attack on, quote-unquote, women's rights.
00:35:36.720So another way we could put it, we always say life begins at conception.
00:35:40.600Maybe a simpler, more direct, clarifying way of putting it is that life begins at existence.
00:35:47.700That's what we should be saying from now on.
00:35:51.740Not life begins at conception, even though that is accurate.
00:35:56.040Better way of putting it is life begins at existence.
00:35:59.140And when you put it that way, you are now putting the pro-lifers people in the position of trying to argue that life begins sometime after existence.
00:36:09.480That somehow, you know, human life and human existence are these two separable things.
00:36:16.720And first, a human being comes into existence, and then at some other point in the future, they have life.
00:36:23.120And then those two things come together.
00:37:39.860But he refused to say who alerted Boston Police Department, telling me it was part of the investigation file.
00:37:46.740Then Ruffeau continues, I've submitted a public records request asking for a transcript of the communication alerting Boston Police Department about the bomb threat.
00:37:55.160The Washington Post jumped to conclusions without substantiating the facts.
00:37:57.640The public has a right to know what happened.
00:37:58.800It's entirely possible the official narrative is correct, but we need answers to a few questions.
00:38:03.200Who alerted BPD about the bomb threat?
00:38:12.860We know that other outlets such as Axios have made claims of harassment against a children's hospital without reviewing or providing any evidence.
00:38:20.840Journalists need to have a higher standard than this.
00:38:23.440And then he wraps it up and says, again, it's entirely possible that the Washington Post narrative is true, but there are claims that need to be substantiated and questions that need to be answered.
00:38:33.000Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Police Department should provide the evidence to the public.
00:38:36.480So just the way that they are, and it hasn't just been Chris Ruffo, I've been in communication with other people on the right in media that have been doing this too, have been trying to track down answers about this bomb threat.
00:38:50.380It was the biggest story everyone was talking about for about five minutes a couple weeks ago.
00:38:54.380And people like myself and Chris Ruffo himself and lives at TikTok and others had been, you know, accused of maybe calling in the bomb threat ourselves or at least of encouraging others to do it, even though none of us ever encouraged anything like that.
00:40:57.020When information is being kept from us, and we're being given intentionally vague answers, then it's not our fault that we have to speculate.
00:41:10.240So I feel perfectly free offering speculations.
00:41:13.000I'd like to have something better than speculation, but they won't tell us.
00:41:17.220And so my speculation, my theory of the case, is that this was not a conservative or a critic of gender ideology who called it a threat to Boston Children's.
00:41:48.360Even aside from the fact that it's obviously a morally wrong, atrocious thing to do, but if you're the kind of person that you don't care about that, so the morality of it doesn't mean anything to you, or from a basic strategic perspective also, it makes no sense.
00:42:08.460Anytime you hear about something happening, and it's very vague and speculative, we don't know exactly what happened, the first question you should ask yourself is, who benefits from this?
00:42:19.060Does the right benefit from a bomb threat to Boston Children?
00:42:27.040The left reaps all the benefits here, because they can use this to de-platform or try to de-platform people like myself, which is exactly what they did and have been doing.
00:43:01.620So, we have people with a habit of using hoaxes for ideological and political reasons, self-serving reasons, and it also just happens that these are the only people who benefit from this thing.
00:43:13.260And we're not being given any information about it.
00:43:28.280If you're a man, it's required that you grow a beard, hey, we're the sweet baby gang.
00:43:35.480Jack Walsh says, no relation, I think, anyway.
00:43:41.560I remember being in public school in the early, mid-2000s, and sex ed was taught by our PE coaches.
00:43:47.800We had one teacher who tried to actually teach abstinence during the course, and I distinctly remember the vast majority of my classmates thinking he was weird and creepy because it was so different than literally everything else taught by all the other teachers.
00:44:00.640I don't know if this is still the case, but they had the gym teachers teaching sex ed, which is already strange, but it's strange for anyone to do it.
00:44:09.520I agree with the classmates who think that it's weird and creepy to have some teacher up there, whether it's the gym teacher or the health teacher or anybody else, teaching them about abstinence.
00:44:23.360Now, it's a lot weirder and creepier to be teaching the kind of sex ed that we talked about yesterday on the show, to be teaching the kind of sex ed that the left wants.
00:44:33.220That's a hell of a lot creepier and weirder.
00:44:37.160But it is also weird and creepy to be talking about abstinence at public school because this is just a subject that should not be discussed at all.
00:44:45.180Now, I don't want public school teachers teaching kids about how to use pornography, teaching about masturbation and all these things that you hear about in these sex ed classes.
00:46:58.940It didn't grow out of the ground like a tree.
00:47:02.640It is, in many ways, one of the least natural things you can possibly imagine.
00:47:06.700Ken says, I'm totally on board with the bicycling thing.
00:47:12.100I have to drive on a road exactly like you described on my way home from work.
00:47:15.120And there's always tons of people biking on these extremely dangerous roads right at the time that people are trying to get home from work.
00:47:20.060It's inconsiderate and rude, not to mention dangerous.
00:47:23.000There are plenty of bike paths and other designated biking areas that they could be using.
00:47:28.620Yeah, they do seem to especially choose the worst roads to bike on and the worst times.
00:47:40.100So, you know, if you're in the cyclist community, you could at least make it a little bit easier on everybody.
00:47:44.480By choosing times like middle of the day when it's not during a commute and at least choose roads that people can pass you without having to drive in oncoming traffic and get into a head-on collision.
00:48:10.140You know, this week, Obama economist Lawrence Summers said that we have a serious problem with inflation, which is a direct quote.
00:48:17.860But Joe Biden has refused to see it that way, calling the economy fast and strong.
00:48:22.360If only we had his eyes and his brain.
00:48:25.080Well, I don't want his brain, but his eyes anyway.
00:48:26.760Well, we thought we'd give the old man the benefit of the doubt and applied his fiscal policies to our Daily Wire merch sale to see if it gave you a better deal.
00:48:33.960After crunching the numbers, we quickly realized no one wants to pay 8.3% more for anything.
00:48:40.800So instead, we're going with our gut and we're going to do what makes sense to us.
00:57:00.260But people who are really successful, that's what they do.
00:57:03.920No matter what their line of work is, they go into their job and they're looking actually to make the job harder.
00:57:09.340They're looking for more challenges, more things to do.
00:57:12.600They want to challenge themselves at the job.
00:57:16.040And if that sounds mind-boggling to you, you can't even imagine someone doing that, well, it's why you are not as successful as you could be.
00:57:23.140If you sit around all day, you know, dwelling on the difficulties of your work and trying to avoid them, you will languish in mediocrity forever.