Ep. 1128 - The Pride Flag Deserves Our Disrespect
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Summary
The government at every level is covering every square inch of the country in rainbow flags. Is this the worst hate crime in human history? Also, the Biden administration celebrates International Women s Day by recognizing 11 of the most courageous women in the world. Plus, Hillary Clinton worries that our coming climate change apocalypse will have a disproportionate impact on women. And in our daily cancellation, I must once again deal with a YouTuber who did his best to debunk my arguments against child gender transition.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the government at every level is covering every square inch of the country in rainbow flags.
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This includes the streets in our city, but one rainbow flag mural in the middle of the roadway of one city has been defaced with tire marks.
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Is this the worst hate crime in human history? Obviously. We'll talk about it.
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Also, the Biden administration celebrates International Women's Day by recognizing 11 of the most courageous women in the world.
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And one of those courageous women, of course, is a man.
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Plus, Hillary Clinton worries that our coming climate change apocalypse will have a disproportionate impact on women.
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Kamala Harris introduces a new phrase, climate mental health.
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And in our daily cancellation, I must once again deal with a YouTuber who did his best to debunk my arguments against child gender transition and obviously failed miserably.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Every country has its flag, every nation, its national symbols.
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Japan has the red dot inside a white rectangle.
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Mexico has the red, white, and green vertical stripes with its national coat of arms in the center.
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The Russian flag consists of white, blue, and red horizontal stripes, and many different flags across the world.
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And then we, of course, have our national flag, which is the gay pride flag, the rainbow.
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The pride flag was invented in the late 70s by a gay activist at the urging of his friend, Harvey Milk.
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And Harvey Milk, of course, is a San Francisco politician and bureaucrat who had a penchant for molesting drug-addicted underage boys.
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So it was his idea that he passed along to his friend, an activist, and that was a man named Gilbert Baker, who was a radical leftist and drag queen, who, for a time, was a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a blasphemous group of cross-dressing men who run around dressed like sexualized, sacrilegious nuns.
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It was a far, far-left political statement from the very beginning.
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And it still is, of course, which is why it's changed over the years to accommodate the political needs of the far left.
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Today, of course, the pride flag, which was always tacky and gaudy in appearance, now looks something like something that was maybe designed by a blind schizophrenic.
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It is, in appearance, as ugly and objectionable as the agenda it represents.
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The left continually defiles its own flag, adding clashing shapes and colors, making uglier what was already hideous in the first place.
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The flag defaces itself to symbolize what it seeks to do to the culture, essentially.
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You know, at one time, it was flown primarily at pride marches and far-left political rallies.
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Now, the leftist regime that controls our country, our cultural elites, have taken this unsightly banner and elevated it literally and figuratively.
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The flag of the United States of Gay, we might say.
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For the stars and stripes, what was supposed to be our actual national flag, we're meant to kneel, to turn away, to have a conversation about its problematic history.
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But for the pride flag, we're ordered to stand at attention, honor it, show it deference.
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That's why the pride flag now flies over our embassies abroad.
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It's why the White House has been lit up in its colors.
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It's why the flag flies over state houses and cabinet departments and the FBI headquarters.
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The government at every level, from local to state to federal, now waves this flag.
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But they don't always wave it, which should be clear, because sometimes they paint it in the street where it can't really wave.
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Many cities across the country have taken to painting enormous pride flag murals in the middle of their streets and intersections.
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Ironically, it is certain, I would say, that all of these cities that have painted these pride flags in the street,
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they've also issued various PSAs and put up signs warning about the dangers of distracted driving.
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And I know that because you find that in every city in America.
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Because it's, you know, it's really important to pay attention and focus while you're on the road
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so that you can be blinded by the rainbow landmine we've painted in the middle of the intersection.
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Most recently, the city of Fort Lauderdale paved essentially one of its entire streets in the clashing colors of the gay rainbow.
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Apparently, this mural, which again was painted directly on the road where cars drive, was defaced by tire marks.
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Almost as if cars had driven over it on the road, if you can imagine.
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Here's 7 News of Miami with the shocking story.
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Well, it's a brand new installation in the city of Fort Lauderdale, a pride flag.
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And it was already vandalized, not once, but possibly twice.
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Only on 6th tonight, it seems that a group of men on bicycles may have targeted the flag first.
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And police are now set to review this other incident.
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Well, police are now looking into that latest video.
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In fact, police, Fort Lauderdale police, were back out here just about an hour ago to pick up that new surveillance video.
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We're understanding that they're going to then review that video and look to see whether they believe that this was another intentional act of vandalism against this pride flag behind me.
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New video tonight raising even more suspicions after a new pride flag installation in the city of Fort Lauderdale was found defaced, left covered in skid marks.
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Fort Lauderdale police was already investigating the vandalism after surveillance video from the nearby Merriweather Resort showed a pickup truck on February 28th doing a blowout over the length of the flag, leaving dark tire tracks behind, all while the passenger of his car gets out and films.
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I just see people that just have time on their hands that are destructing property and spewing hate.
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Mary Jo Whitehurst, who manages the Merriweather, also found this surveillance video from a few days before that.
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Guests had mentioned bicyclists leaving behind skid marks.
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The new video, which she only discovered today, is still being reviewed by police.
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It shows at least three young men on bicycles circling the flag, leaving tire marks several times.
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Yes, how dare that guy in the pickup truck stop others from living their lives by leaving tire marks on the road?
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I mean, how exactly is anyone in the world prevented from living their lives or prevented from doing anything at all by tire marks on a gay pride flag in the middle of the street?
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The man says that the vandal has scuffed up someone's life.
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Did it cry out in pain as the kids on bicycles rode over top of it?
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Well, however it works, the police are on the case.
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This was, look, this was not some minor crime like armed robbery or murder or something like that.
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This was an act of disrespect against the regime's sacred symbol, and that cannot be allowed to stand.
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As the mayor of Fort Lauderdale has made clear, such blasphemy will not be tolerated.
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If they were sending us a message, I have a message to send back to them.
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This is basically the mayor's George Bush moment, standing atop the rubble of the towers, promising to bring the terrorists to justice.
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Although, of course, this is way worse than 9-11.
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To make matters worse, this hate crime committed against the road is not an isolated incident.
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Shockingly, many of the other pride flags painted on streets across America have also wound up with tire marks of their own,
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leading to manhunts to track down the culprits.
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Law enforcement in places like Reno and Atlanta and other cities have launched investigations into similar incidents.
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The cities paint rainbows all over the street and then wait for tire marks to end up on the rainbows.
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And then they send the police to go find who was the dastardly villain who drove on the street over the thing that they put in the street.
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Just a few months ago, elsewhere in Florida, a man was arrested for defiling a pride flag painted across an entire intersection.
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The culprit, as local media reports, Alexander Jarek, broke down in tears in court and pled for forgiveness as his lawyer in an effort to explain his actions.
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Because, of course, his actions were so heinous that they needed to be explained this way.
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His lawyer, according to the reports, compared him to the mentally disabled character from Of Mice and Men.
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The judge ultimately sentenced him to probation, community service, and mental health screening.
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Because if you make tire marks on a gay pride flag, if you disrespect a gay pride flag, then obviously you're crazy.
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And so you have to get a mental health screening.
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He also forced the guy to write a 25-page essay about the shooting at Pulse, which is the gay club in Orlando.
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Now, this is likely the harshest sentence ever given to anyone for the crime of making tire marks on a public street.
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But it wasn't enough for gay activists in the city.
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Nicholas Coppola, who's a board member of the Palm Beach County's LGBTQ Community Center, said that he should have been charged with a hate crime.
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In a very revealing comparison, he said that Jarek's actions were no different from desecrating a church.
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But Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Ehrenberg explained that the law would only allow hate crime charges if Jarek selected a specific victim based on sexual orientation.
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And as Ehrenberg clarified, and I'm quoting him now, the city has no sexual orientation.
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Yes, we've reached a point where that needs to be explained.
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Yes, it should be expected that anything painted in the street will end up scuffed and tire marked.
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But also, yes, clearly from the video, the tire marks on the Fort Lauderdale mural were put there on purpose.
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I mean, this wasn't an intentional act of vandalism.
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The guy was obviously doing that intentionally.
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Now, I'm not endorsing the destruction of public property.
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I certainly am not encouraging anyone to engage in such behavior.
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But what is it that the left said about the BLM rioters?
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You know, the ones that caused quite a bit more destruction of public property.
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It was they're speaking in the language of the unheard.
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Lots of unheard and powerless people are looking around at our country and noticing that this far left political symbol is being shoved in our faces everywhere we turn, including and especially by our governing authorities.
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And it's being elevated to a place of greater importance and status than the American flag itself, and these people are disgusted by it, and they're sick of it, and they are beyond frustrated, and they should be.
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Gay people in America, they already have a flag.
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It's the flag we all share or are supposed to share.
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The pride flag, which was invented by a far left activist drag queen, represents not a person or a people or a community, but an agenda.
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And today, nearly all of the most depraved and perverse attacks on children, on tradition, on decency, on common sense, are waged under this banner.
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The gay pride flag signifies drag queens dancing for toddlers, males invading women's bathrooms.
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It signifies castration drugs given to children.
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It signifies the destruction of the nuclear family.
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When government officials send that thing up the flagpole or paint its ridiculous colors in the street, that is what they're promoting.
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Not only should we refuse to salute it, but we should treat it with disdain.
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We should treat it as a hate symbol because that's what it is.
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They fly the flag, that flag, because they hate you and your values and what you believe and everything you stand for.
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And so we should respond in kind to this symbol.
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In other words, we should give the pride flag all of the respect that the left shows the American flag.
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The Biden administration, this is Daily Wire Report,
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Biden administration awarded a biological man an award for courage in honor of International Women's Day
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during a Wednesday ceremony at the White House.
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Alba Rueda, a man who identifies as a woman, received an International Women of Courage Award
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alongside 10 women from Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and First Lady Jill Biden.
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Rueda is Argentina's Special Envoy for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
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Special Envoy for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
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You need countries need an envoy for sexual orientation.
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Nobody knows what that means or what that actually entails, but that's what it is.
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And it's also the country's first trans-identifying politician to hold a senior government position.
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According to the State Department, the award is meant for extraordinary women from around the world
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who are working to build a brighter future for all of us.
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In Argentina, Alba Rueda is a transgender woman who was kicked out of classrooms,
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barred for sitting for exams, refused job opportunities, subjected to violence, and rejected by her family.
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But in the face of these challenges, she worked to end violence and discrimination
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against the LGBTQI plus community in Argentina.
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Only 11 women earned the International Courage Award.
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So these are supposed to be the most courageous women in the entire world, right?
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Billions of women, and we're giving the award to 11 of them.
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This is obviously, yet again, womanhood being appropriated, women being demeaned and excluded,
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And you know, of course, how I feel about that.
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But I've been, you know, I've been thinking about something else, too.
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Well, the whole month is Women's History Month,
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which is, of course, just another opportunity to celebrate men, but not men,
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because we can't celebrate men who identify as men.
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But we can celebrate men who identify as women.
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and we always talk about the appropriation of womanhood.
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And yet, if you notice, we rarely, if ever, talk about the appropriation of manhood.
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Because after all, there are plenty of females transitioning the other way, right?
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In fact, that is more common, at least among kids, among adolescents.
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And I don't know, across the board, including kids and adults, you know, how it all balances out.
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But certainly, in the coming years, given this deluge, this just tidal wave of adolescent girls
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who are, quote-unquote, transitioning, if the scales have already tipped in that direction, they will.
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So, got a lot of girls and women, females, who are transitioning to, you know, to try to appear as men.
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Yet, we aren't concerned, really, about manhood, about masculinity being appropriated.
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I'm concerned about how masculinity is treated in society, degraded, cheapened, shamed, etc.
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But the great threat isn't really women becoming men, or pretending to.
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It doesn't seem to be as much of a threat that direction as it is the other direction, when men become women.
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And I think it's because the motivation to transition tends to be very different for males than it is for females.
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So, females, especially adolescent girls, infected by this social contagion,
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they transition as an act of rejection of their femininity, of their femaleness.
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And that's why you see that often, they take the hormones, they have the breasts chopped off.
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But they don't always make, and oftentimes, they don't make any serious attempt to actually appear as men.
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Instead, they end up settling as kind of defeminized females.
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And that's a lot of the transition, quote-unquote, that we see of girls.
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It's not becoming boys, or trying to become boys, but becoming a defeminized female.
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There's a reason why you don't see many girls fully embracing the kind of masculine cartoon stereotype,
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as men do when they try to transition to become women.
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But girls, they're not trying out for the football teams.
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Because they aren't actually interested in trying to be boys.
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On the other hand, the men who transition, and this is especially the case for men, the adults,
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often they're motivated by a fetishizing of femininity.
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And they don't want to fully reject their manhood.
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There's a reason why, quote-unquote, bottom surgery for men is still relatively rare.
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It's more common now than it used to be, but it's still relatively rare.
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So a huge number of these men who go around identifying as women,
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they haven't gone through the surgical transition.
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That's because they don't reject their manhood completely.
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They just want to absorb womanhood in order to satisfy their desires.
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This is not a blanket statement that covers everyone.
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There's plenty of self-loathing among men who identify as trans.
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There's perhaps some fetishizing of manhood by women who try to become men.
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But I think that this is a trend or a noticeable pattern that we should be investigating more.
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So two clips that may seem unrelated, but they're really not.
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First, here's Hillary Clinton talking about climate change.
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And finally, I'm so glad that Elena Zelenska is here because women are...
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Women and children are the primary victims of conflict and of climate change.
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And there is no place that unfortunately, tragically shows us that more dramatically than Ukraine today.
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But there are a lot of other conflicts, a lot of other challenges that we have to take into account
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the persecution and oppression of girls and women exercising their freedom of choice in Iran and so many other places.
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Women are primarily affected by climate change.
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But, you know, that's why we shouldn't have destroyed gender roles, Hillary.
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Because if we still had gender roles, we still had concepts like chivalry,
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then women would be guaranteed first crack at the lifeboats when the ice caps melt and the whole world is flooded.
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But you got rid of the gender roles, so that means we're all drowning now.
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Or it's just going to be a mad rush for the lifeboats and whoever's strongest makes it in.
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And so in that way, women are the most affected.
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But, be that as it may, she says women are the most affected by climate change.
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Here's Cori Bush pulling kind of a similar move in a different context.
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You described that the price increases had a disproportionate effect on black, brown, and low-income families.
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How did the administration's actions and the ensuing drop in gas prices, how did it help those same families?
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And while there are a number of factors that affect the price of oil,
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in an interview with Oxford, I believe, Dr. B did concede that the strategic use of SPR did have an impact.
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It's hard to quantify and hard to tell, but it definitely had an impact in the price of oil.
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We need to focus on making more public investments to lower our energy demand
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by taking actions such as expanding public transit and installing energy-efficient technology like electric heat pumps.
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Mr. Drummer, how does making investments in people through safe energy systems
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and people benefit climate justice and energy security?
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What are the exciting things from the Inflation Reduction Act?
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So you have climate change, the world's coming to an end, women most affected by that,
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and then gas prices increase, and black and brown people are the most affected by the increase in gas prices.
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Now, I've never seen at the gas station, like, different prices listed, depending on the color of your skin.
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And so if you have darker skin, you've got to pay more.
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If that exists at any gas station, if Cori Bush has encountered that at a gas station,
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I do not believe in racialized pricing for gas.
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But I don't think that that actually exists anywhere.
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So what that means is that the gas price is increasing, and it affects everybody the same.
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If you don't drive, then I suppose you're not as affected by it.
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But if you drive around, you're affected by it.
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But what you notice is that these people on the left, they can't even pretend to care about everyone.
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They put on a little bit of an act to pretend that they were concerned about all people and all Americans and all citizens.
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Any kind, any problem, whatever the problem is, they need to find a way to position the problem as an attack on the marginalized,
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quote-unquote marginalized groups, their favorite groups, in order for them to pay attention to it.
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They have to justify paying attention to any problem at all by making an argument that this problem disproportionately impacts their favorite groups.
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And if they can't find a way to do that, if they can't find a way to argue, if you take any problem at all, whatever the issue is, whatever the problem is,
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even if it's a made-up problem like climate change, if they can't find a way to claim that this is really, you know, in some ways inherently racist or sexist,
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And that's how you explain the reaction by the federal government to the Ohio train derailment,
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or rather the lack of reaction until they were forced.
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Eventually, they were forced to pretend to care, but it took them about three weeks.
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Because they looked at it and they said, well, you know, this is a working-class town in Ohio.
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It would be very difficult for us to argue that this train derailment right outside of a white working-class town
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disproportionately impacts black people or women or, you know, trans people.
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And because they couldn't figure out a way to make that argument,
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Because they don't care about all Americans and they're done even pretending that they do.
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Speaking of the climate, here is Kamala Harris with a new leftist buzz phrase that you can add to your dictionary now,
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I mean, one of the young leaders was talking to me about climate mental health.
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I said, tell me what's going on with your peers.
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And she talked, I said, I think I understand that, but unpack it for me.
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And she talked about how her peers are thinking about it.
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One example is, you know, whether when they're ready, could they start a family?
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They were talking about it in terms of their peers trying to figure out, you know,
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they're going to have to get a job and they're going to have to make a living,
00:29:31.800
but what can they do and how can they adapt the education that they're having now to their activism?
00:29:42.520
We've heard about climate sexism when the climate, you know, is racist or sexist.
00:29:48.400
And now there is climate mental health that she is going to add to the lexicon.
00:29:52.980
And aside from, and of course, she only is able to speak in buzz phrases and buzzwords.
00:30:02.020
Which is why you hear even there, climate mental, we have to unpack that.
00:30:06.780
That phrase alone is already nails on the chalkboard.
00:30:11.740
It's even worse than when someone says lean in.
00:30:14.720
Let's lean into this issue and really unpack it.
00:30:16.680
And then she throws climate mental health in there and it's simply too much to bear.
00:30:24.200
But also every time I hear about this, about these kids that are, their mental health is being affected
00:30:30.840
by what they hear about the climate, about worries that the world's coming to an end
00:30:35.380
and that all the coastal cities are going to be underwater by the time that, you know, these kids are old enough.
00:30:40.020
And I hear this and my first instinct is to assume that it's completely made up.
00:30:50.200
I mean, not that what they're claiming is going to happen with the climate is made up.
00:30:54.720
But to assume that these stories about kids that are devastated by it and are like up at night and anxious
00:31:03.100
and stressed out and they're depressed because they're worried about the climate.
00:31:07.060
But every time I hear that, my instinct is to say, well, that doesn't exist.
00:31:15.560
And I assume that because, you know, my own kids, I'm only around normal kids.
00:31:31.540
And among normal people, this is not a thing, okay?
00:31:34.840
You go, like normal people, you take your kids out, you go to a playground in some just neighborhoods, suburban neighborhood.
00:31:42.660
And normal people out at the playground, normal kids.
00:31:47.000
The kids aren't sitting on the jungle gym lamenting the fact that the climate is changing and everyone's going to die.
00:31:58.700
But then I realize that these people, they have, some of them anyway, have kids of their own.
00:32:05.700
A lot of these leftist climate chicken littles, they do have kids.
00:32:11.100
And so they are actually creating, this is intentional, they're creating a generation of kids, trying to create a generation of kids, who really are up at night worried about the climate.
00:32:27.820
So I would much prefer to think that this is made up and it's a lie and they're making this up and these kids don't exist.
00:32:33.220
That there's no kid that's actually feeling burdened by the weather.
00:32:41.140
But I think the situation is much worse than that and there are some kids, probably a lot of them, who actually are having their mental health affected by this.
00:32:51.960
But their mental health is not being affected by the climate.
00:32:54.080
Their mental health is being affected by what they are told about the climate.
00:32:58.000
They're being told by the adults in their life that the world's coming to an end.
00:33:07.500
The future you're going to grow up in is going to be terrible because of the climate.
00:33:10.680
Yeah, I would think that if you do tell kids that and you hammered into their heads, yeah, that probably would affect their mental health, I would think.
00:33:23.380
Nick Cannon is infamous for having lots of kids.
00:33:28.460
And I say infamous not because there's anything wrong with having lots of kids.
00:33:31.680
I, you know, as a father of six, I wouldn't be able to claim that.
00:33:35.120
But because he has them by a bunch of different women who he isn't married to.
00:33:39.600
And now his penchant for creating fatherless homes has led to, or maybe has led to, this show.
00:33:52.520
Kevin Hart and Nick Cannon are coming to E! for the mother of all game shows.
00:34:04.400
You're going to get some contestants that want to have your baby.
00:34:22.260
Who's having my, so contestants competing to see who can have Nick Cannon's baby.
00:34:29.940
We are, we're at the point now where people in charge of this stuff, they just, they watched
00:34:35.160
the movie Idiocracy and they took it as a, they took it as a, as a, as a plan, you know,
00:34:40.040
as a, they, they saw it not as a warning of the future, but as goals to achieve.
00:34:46.340
Now I have seen, I've, so I've seen conflicting reporting on this and some outlets have reported,
00:34:51.140
I think Variety, for example, reported that, um, that this is a real show, that they really
00:34:55.900
Now other outlets are saying that it's fake, Daily Wire reports that it's fake, uh, that
00:35:00.660
it's some kind of skit for something else they're doing, which maybe it is, I'd like
00:35:04.960
to think that it is, but either way, it's, it's disgusting either way, because the whole
00:35:13.080
The joke is that this deadbeat, Nick Cannon, this scumbag deadbeat has lots of kids that
00:35:23.120
Look, I'm creating fatherless homes, isn't that hilarious?
00:35:35.380
Copulating with whoever is willing and, and creating lots of offspring that you don't raise.
00:35:44.840
That's, that's, that's, this is one of the things that's supposed to separate us from animals
00:35:50.560
Now that may come as news to you, Nick, but as, as human beings, we create children and
00:35:59.300
So there's really nothing, really nothing funny about it.
00:36:06.800
Now, somebody has lots of kids and they marry the woman that they, that they make the kids
00:36:14.040
with and they raise the kids and we want to have a fun time with the fact they have so
00:36:24.020
But creating a bunch of fatherless homes, not exactly funny.
00:36:28.740
But I did find this part of the Daily Wire report about this.
00:36:32.880
So that the whole, the whole idea of like having fun with the fact that he's creating a bunch
00:36:37.240
of fatherless kids who are going to suffer the consequence that that's not funny.
00:36:40.740
This is the part that's, I think it's not supposed to be funny.
00:36:42.460
Um, so Daily Wire lists the kids that, uh, that this guy has and let me just read this
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Nick Cannon shares twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey, sons Golden Sagan
00:36:59.240
and Rise Messiah Cannon and daughter Powerful Queen with Brittany Bell, twins Zion Moxeliden
00:37:08.540
and Zillion Air, that's Zillion, one word, H-E-I-R, Air, Zillion Air, and daughter Beautiful
00:37:16.720
Zeppelin with Abby De La Rosa, then also son Legendary Love with Brie, uh, TC and then daughter
00:37:28.340
Those are the names that he's given these kids.
00:37:31.260
I like especially Zion Moxeliden, which sounds like some kind of prescription drug.
00:37:37.300
He was up late one night and some, one of the, some commercial for an antidepressant
00:37:41.180
came on and he decided to give that name to his kids.
00:37:43.780
I don't know what this is, but, uh, this also actually isn't really funny on Second Thought
00:37:49.420
because these are kids who not only are fatherless, but now they've been given these ridiculous
00:37:54.460
Maybe this is kind of the, the boy named Sue strategy deployed on a massive scale where
00:38:00.280
you're not going to be there to raise the kids.
00:38:01.560
So you give them a ridiculous name to try to toughen them up because you know they're going
00:38:05.540
I don't know if that's what he's going for, but, uh, that would be my theory anyway.
00:38:11.080
One other thing before we get to the comment section, New York Post, uh, has this headline.
00:38:18.980
Woke moviegoers say cocaine bear, not for kids.
00:38:23.820
The article says woke moviegoers saw the new cocaine bear and they think it's way out
00:38:29.520
Cocaine bear has been getting rave reviews, raking in $8.65 million on its opening night, according
00:38:35.200
to IMDb's box office mojo, but not everyone is so fond of the movie.
00:38:38.800
Some woke viewers complained that the new, the new film is encouraging drug use and is
00:38:43.760
The movie, which is rated R for bloody violence and gore, it's loosely based on a true story.
00:38:48.100
In 1985, a bear was found dead in the Georgia woods after consuming a drug smuggler stash
00:38:55.220
To say that this was even loosely based on a true story, that is, uh, I mean, the word
00:39:00.520
So the only similarity between the movie and the real story is that there was a bear a long
00:39:05.480
time ago or decades ago that apparently consumed cocaine and died.
00:39:08.940
Uh, in the movie, the, the bear consumes cocaine and becomes this super, becomes like this, uh,
00:39:15.180
supernatural monster and then hunts down and viciously gores and mutilates and, and, uh,
00:39:28.420
Some moviegoers were not satisfied with what they saw as extreme movie enthusiast that I am.
00:39:33.780
I found this movie was lacking some soul and desire.
00:39:35.920
One viewer criticized, um, and then, uh, some other ones were saying that it wasn't appropriate
00:39:44.200
Here's the only point I want to make about this.
00:39:45.820
Obviously moviegoers should not be surprised that a movie called cocaine bear has drug use
00:39:52.020
I mean, the title of the movie is basically a bear does drugs, the movie.
00:39:57.640
So it shouldn't surprise you when you sit down and you watch and say, this bear is doing
00:40:02.000
That said, can we not do this with the term woke?
00:40:09.960
Because being concerned about drug use in a movie is not woke.
00:40:15.480
Being worried that a film is not appropriate for children is not woke.
00:40:19.800
It's silly in this case because the movie isn't made for kids and the content is not hidden.
00:40:28.340
It's one of those movies that, uh, you know, just based on the, it's like snakes on a plane
00:40:32.360
kind of based on the title alone, you know, everything you need to know about the film,
00:40:40.060
I see this happening a little bit where this is what's happening with the term woke.
00:40:44.140
It's being expanded in this way to the point where if anyone has any kind of like moral
00:40:51.180
concern or especially when it comes to entertainment, anyone who says that any kind of entertainment
00:40:56.960
isn't appropriate or, or it has some problems automatically, it becomes a woke.
00:41:05.340
Woke is bringing your kid to a movie with drug use and inappropriate content and not caring.
00:41:11.440
Woke is, is intentionally exposing your children to inappropriate material.
00:41:18.920
Being, being overly concerned about inappropriate, uh, material for kids.
00:41:27.740
And I wish that was our main problem as a culture.
00:41:30.840
I wish we still lived in a culture where you could even claim that, uh, people are a little
00:41:40.060
I wish that was the case, but that's not the case here at all.
00:41:45.620
If you're a man, it's required that you grow a bid.
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Jordan says, I love how Matt makes fun of plushies while having a walrus plushie in the
00:42:50.800
background on the left-hand side of this video.
00:42:53.980
That's completely, that's a different sort of thing, Jordan.
00:42:57.360
Okay, because, yeah, I make fun of adults who buy plushies or have plushies unless it's
00:43:04.680
Okay, that, so I take a, I'm a man of principle and I'm also a capitalist.
00:43:12.580
You absolutely should not own plushies as a grown adult unless you're buying it from
00:43:20.540
Um, and you can go to dailywire.com slash shop right now and get your own walrus plushie,
00:43:28.800
Kyle says, never apologize for the Valentine's Day massacre.
00:43:32.180
What was said about Mulvaney is spot on and needed to be said.
00:43:35.600
I like that we're calling it that monologue, the, the Valentine's Day massacre.
00:43:39.800
I don't know if this is a thing that's caught on, but I, but it should.
00:43:42.760
Let's let it, let's forever refer to it as that.
00:43:45.900
Um, and it, and it, you know, Valentine's Day massacre, when it's just a monologue about
00:43:52.480
something that may seem a little bit overblown, but I have been told that it was a murderous
00:43:58.480
They were just words, but they were murderous and genocidal.
00:44:00.940
And so I think Valentine's Day massacre actually is appropriate.
00:44:05.060
Bad Mr. Frosty says, I could not imagine being lucky enough to work somewhere as cool as a
00:44:10.460
Can you imagine actually being able to work there and quitting?
00:44:13.740
If you guys have anything I could do remotely from here, please let me know.
00:44:17.720
It is, I mean, I have to admit it is pretty great.
00:44:20.480
And, and also it's, it's like, it is the best game in town.
00:44:24.860
Um, if you want to do anything, it's like in conservative and media, you want to have an
00:44:34.860
If you want to do anything like that, um, where else are you going to go?
00:44:40.640
So we talked yesterday about the daily wire employee who left because we don't have to
00:44:43.620
rehash all that, but in part, because she was upset about some of the things that I've
00:44:47.480
said, some of the things Michael Knowles have said, has said about, uh, about gender ideology.
00:44:50.600
We're too mean, we're too, uh, you know, blunt to whatever the divisive, I think in our
00:45:03.680
Um, burning the bridge as you leave, not a smart move.
00:45:06.380
So it's not, it doesn't help us in the cultural fight.
00:45:11.800
Like, I really can't emphasize that enough, by the way, for, for any young people, if
00:45:14.760
you're listening to this, uh, whatever, whatever job you have, whatever you, it doesn't matter
00:45:18.780
if you're in media or not, whatever your job is, um, if you're young right now and you're
00:45:22.840
working a job, you're probably not going to be there for the rest of your life.
00:45:25.320
You're going to, you're going to, you're going to quit.
00:45:28.120
You're probably going to quit and leave a whole bunch of jobs, uh, before maybe you finally
00:45:34.840
And it is just, there, there may be very rare exceptions.
00:45:41.820
If you're at a place and something, something illegal is happening or, you know, people are
00:45:49.220
There's something, something seriously, seriously unethical is happening behind the scenes.
00:45:52.620
And so, but now you feel like you have to expose it.
00:45:55.600
Then you're in the position of being like a whistleblower.
00:45:58.520
So there, there could be a situation where it's, it's, it's, it's, you were called upon
00:46:05.740
That's different from quitting and burning a bridge.
00:46:08.400
So putting those kinds of situations to the side, I really cannot urge you enough that
00:46:14.000
to, to, to understand this, that if you're leaving, it is just not a good idea to burn
00:46:20.360
the bridge on the way out, to publicize your complaints about the place where you worked
00:46:26.140
Like, keep it to yourself for your own sake, keep it to yourself.
00:46:29.980
I know we have the internet and we're all, I know I, just like I am, we're constantly
00:46:34.900
talking and broadcasting our every opinion and, and everything on the internet, but that
00:46:45.520
And there are actually things that can happen in your life that you, that you don't, you
00:46:52.880
Um, you really stand to gain nothing from it, but you stand to lose quite a bit because
00:47:00.220
also remember that when you, when you burn the bridge and you attack your former employer,
00:47:02.960
yeah, you've burned the bridge with everyone, with, with the employer and everybody works
00:47:06.540
there, but also other employers saw you do that.
00:47:10.980
And they're going to keep that in mind when you come to them and say, Hey, can I work
00:47:15.620
They're going to, they're going to think, well, uh, you worked at that other place for
00:47:19.480
a few months and then left and, uh, and, uh, insulted your colleagues on the way out the
00:47:26.340
I hear this all the time from, from, uh, from, uh, people that do, you know, work in
00:47:31.500
HR departments and they do interviews and stuff.
00:47:33.200
And they say that even when it's not a public complaint, you know, I've heard, I've heard
00:47:37.820
many times that a big red flag when, uh, for someone, for the, for the interviewer is when
00:47:45.180
And one of the first things they do is start complaining about their former employer, even
00:47:51.140
When the interviewer hears the interviewee going on and on and on about how much they
00:47:58.060
That means that that application, that resume, it's going right in the circular filing bin.
00:48:02.500
This, this interview is over as we're not interested in you.
00:48:06.020
So just something to keep in mind, a little bit of career advice.
00:48:10.420
Um, Mr. Jake, the cat, the confrontational jerk community.
00:48:19.000
It's, it is, it's, I guess we need an acronym, CJC, confrontational jerk community.
00:48:26.080
Maybe we can, you know, so we're our own victim group now, as soon as we have the acronym.
00:48:32.180
Jillian says, Matt, do you ever wonder why Dave Chappelle, who was one of the funniest
00:48:36.520
people on the planet, suddenly lost all his talent, darkened his skin color, lost two inches
00:48:40.800
in height, and went from having long skinny fingers to short pudgy hands?
00:48:45.600
I, is this an actual conspiracy theory that, is this, is this a thing that, are you making
00:48:51.520
Is this a conspiracy theory that you are, is this the, uh, the birth of a new conspiracy
00:48:56.480
If I went and Googled it, would I find a bunch of Reddit posts and all these other forums
00:49:02.580
The theory is, what, that Dave Chappelle has been replaced by a body snatcher?
00:49:05.600
There's some sort of, he was killed and there's a body double now pretending to be Dave Chappelle?
00:49:22.240
Following the arrival of the Sweet Baby album tease, uh, Sweet Baby Spirit and the Notorious
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SBG, a new style is taking the culture by storm.
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Sweet Baby grunge, Sweet Baby gangster rep, whatever you want to call it, it's here.
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And in honor of its, uh, continued success, I'm happy to introduce the latest collectible
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00:50:13.780
Also, what if I told you that there's one book that has done more for literacy than any
00:50:18.860
It has shaped literature, art, culture, government, and countless lives.
00:50:24.220
Uh, you know who else has had an influence on, uh, this book's had influence on?
00:50:28.700
In addition to his Exodus series, Jordan has a documentary called Logos and Literacy, where
00:50:32.440
he traces the Bible through history to show you the impact it's had on the Western world.
00:50:38.640
I was very much struck by how the translation of the biblical writings jump-started the development
00:50:51.460
The pastor's home was the first school, and every morning it would begin with singing.
00:51:00.200
Probably 80% of scripture memorization today exists only because of what is sung.
00:51:06.060
Here we have a Gutenberg Bible, a Bible printed on the press of Johann Gutenberg.
00:51:12.260
Science and religion are opposing forces in the world, but historically that has not been
00:51:22.000
From Shakespeare to modern education and medicine and science to civilization itself.
00:51:30.300
It is the most influential book in all of history, and hopefully people can walk away with at
00:51:40.100
Well, this is the part where I would normally tell you that Logos and Literacy is only for
00:51:43.920
Daily Wire Plus members, but we're making it available for free for everyone, and this
00:51:47.800
doesn't happen very often, but you've got to go to dailywireplus.com.
00:51:51.540
It's only for a limited time, so you can watch Logos and Literacy today, anyone can,
00:52:05.840
He's apparently a YouTuber and Twitch streamer with a moderately large following, though I'd
00:52:10.840
It came to my attention thanks to a clip posted at Twitter by Addison Smith of OAN.
00:52:17.700
And what came to my attention is that Hunter posted a lengthy video to his YouTube channel
00:52:21.020
reacting to my testimony in front of the Tennessee House Committee about their now-passed legislation
00:52:26.780
Hunter is apparently a big fan of child castration.
00:52:34.040
And so, as we'll see, he doesn't like me very much.
00:52:40.040
Wait, giving kids the puberty blockers after they've been confirmed gender dysphoric and
00:52:52.460
they've consented and their therapists have consented and their doctors have consented
00:52:55.520
and their parents have consented and they've been persistent in gender dysphoria for a minimum
00:53:05.020
Well, we all know that no child would outgrow a phase after six months.
00:53:12.340
I have never seen my own kids be interested in something or go through a phase that lasts
00:53:19.780
I mean, six months, this is their identity now.
00:53:26.360
I mean, we could do exactly what we had already been doing for all of human history up until
00:53:31.240
We could just let kids go through their phases, let them grow out of it instead of locking
00:53:35.120
them in place and turning an awkward moment into a lifelong identity crisis.
00:53:40.760
But before we get too far in addressing Hunter's points, we should be fair and get the entire
00:53:45.020
I had a little bit of a back and forth with him on Twitter yesterday where he fleshed out
00:53:50.500
He explained that children can consent to these, quote, treatments because the parents
00:53:57.960
I asked, well, how does the consent of the adults somehow validate the consent of the
00:54:02.920
In other words, if a child cannot consent to making permanent life-altering decisions,
00:54:07.160
how does the consent of the adult around the child change that?
00:54:11.500
And he responded that he's only talking about puberty blockers, not the cross-sex hormones
00:54:15.980
In fact, he clarified that hormones and surgeries should wait until the child turns 18, according
00:54:21.880
But puberty blockers are different because they are a life-saving medical intervention,
00:54:27.300
He also noted that I am an ape and I should go F myself.
00:54:30.940
Now, when I asked how it could ever be appropriate to chemically castrate a child, which is what
00:54:34.820
the puberty blocker does, he answered this, quote, firstly, too much Tylenol can kill you.
00:54:41.060
Puberty blockers can be detrimental if given in large doses, but beneficial when given in proper
00:54:45.040
Why is this so hard for your chimp brain to grasp?
00:54:52.300
He later insisted again, smaller doses of puberty blockers are not chemical castration.
00:54:57.860
Surgery and hormones shouldn't be given until, unless 18 years or older.
00:55:02.120
Go back to being the creepy dude hanging outside the high school, you degenerate scum.
00:55:07.040
I had to ask about three or four times for any evidence that puberty blockers are life-saving,
00:55:11.780
And finally, after furiously Googling for whatever random studies he could find, but
00:55:16.460
certainly not read, he responded, quote, sure, I've attached some evidence below.
00:55:21.360
Since you're too retarded to read yourself, firstly, here's a cohort of trans people over
00:55:25.560
40 plus years showing that no increase of suicide was present after transition.
00:55:29.640
Although the suicide risk remained higher, this was due to social issues, not transition.
00:55:33.820
Secondly, here's a study which found that puberty suppression and affirmation care was correlated
00:55:50.820
First of all, you appear to be about 13 years old, but as far as I know, you're actually
00:55:54.780
a full-grown man technically, which means that you should understand by now that a weak
00:55:58.540
argument doesn't become strong just by tacking an insult onto the end of it.
00:56:02.660
Actually, that makes your weak argument look even weaker.
00:56:05.720
And it makes you look like a child in the process.
00:56:08.400
And this is a special problem for you since you already look like a child.
00:56:13.260
And if you are going to go the insult route, you probably don't want to throw terms like
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Remember, you're the one in this conversation passionately defending the right of a doctor
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to give a child the same drug they use to chemically castrate sex offenders.
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I'm on the anti-child castration side of the discussion.
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So you're free to stake out that ground if you want, but you are unfortunately precluded
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from ever calling anyone else a degenerate ever again in your entire life.
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Second, I'm afraid that I'm not impressed by the ability to Google a study that confirms
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whatever conclusion you'd already landed on and then fling it at the other side after
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You don't just go to Google, studies that confirm what I already believed.
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The problem with the study food fight is that two can always play at that game.
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I have, for example, the most thorough study ever conducted on this subject, which spanned
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30 years and found that suicidality is highest for trans people 10 to 15 years after medical
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You, on the other hand, have one study that focuses on people who transitioned as adults,
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not as children, and which, according to you, found that there was no increase in suicide
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Not that there was a notable decrease, but that there was no increase.
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And that the suicide rate was still much higher than the general population.
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Now, you blithely declare that this higher rate of suicide was due to, quote, social issues,
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Because, what, you somehow know why all these people killed themselves?
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And whatever the reason for the suicides, the fact remains that the rate, the suicide rate,
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And so that would seem to be a pretty good indication that the transition meant to prevent
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And this is a study you provided to prove your point.
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You also give another study, which claims these findings, and I'm reading now.
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Quote, in this perspective cohort of 104 trans and non-binary youths aged 13 to 20 years,
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receipt of gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones,
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was associated with 60% lower odds of moderate or severe depression and 73% lower odds of suicidality.
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Okay, well, at least this one pretends to actually prove your point, rather than directly refuting
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But do you know anything else about this study?
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How did the researchers guard against things like selection bias?
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Do you understand how infamously unreliable self-reported data is?
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A 70% decrease in suicidal thoughts, how do you quantify that to begin with?
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Of course, you haven't considered any of this, but it doesn't really matter because there's
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Well, there's a lot, but let's just focus on one.
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And it's the same one shared by nearly every study claiming to prove that gender-affirming
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And you would know this if you read the thing that you Googled, which next time you should
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Okay, they report that these kids, 12 months after beginning the transition, say that they
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I am not surprised that kids who have been told that transition will solve their problems
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would then report shortly afterwards that it has indeed solved their problems.
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If you gave a 13-year-old a really ugly tattoo, it's pretty certain that he'd still think
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And if the 13-year-old gets a tattoo and then at 14 says, I still like this tattoo, it would
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be very stupid for you as an adult to say, well, look, see, it turns out getting the tattoo
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See, the question is not how the 13-year-old feels at 14.
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The question is, how will he feel five years from now, 10 years, 20 years?
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How does the adult version of the same child feel now that he has to live with the consequences
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Regret is not likely to set in within the first year, though it very well might.
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And you'll notice that many of these studies, they stop doing the follow-ups with the patients
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at precisely the moment when the regret might really start setting in.
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What we need are long-term follow-ups with people who transitioned as children.
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But as I'm constantly having to explain, there aren't any reliable studies like that because
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we just started doing this to children on this scale very recently.
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I asked for evidence that puberty blockers are life-saving.
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It should be a relatively easy thing to quantify.
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There was no such thing as a puberty blocker until recently.
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And if these blockers are life-saving medications, then that would mean that billions of children
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lived at a time historically when the life-saving medication was not available to them.
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And that would mean that a great many children died because they didn't have access to it.
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Who died due to a lack of access to this life-saving drug?
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That should mean that many, many children have died because they didn't have access to it.
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How many children died because there were no puberty blockers available?
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We should be able to see in history this enormous wave of child deaths due to a lack of chemical
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I mean, I could quite easily point to deaths that happened because penicillin hadn't been
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So where are the historical deaths that we can pin on a lack of puberty blockers?
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Now, it is interesting, though, that you can't bring yourself to endorse cross-sex hormones
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At first blush, this would seem to make you slightly more reasonable than the other child
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But upon further evaluation, it actually makes your position even more incoherent, if that's
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After all, the very medical establishment that you trust implicitly when it comes to puberty
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blockers also says that hormones and surgeries can be life-saving medical interventions for
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So why do you trust them on the blockers but not on the hormones and surgeries?
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If they're lying, or let's be very generous, catastrophically mistaken, about the latter
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two, doesn't it stand to reason that the same would apply to the first?
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Blockers hormone surgeries, they're all part of the same process of medical, quote, affirmation.
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What you're saying is that you agree with step one, but you think they're wrong about steps
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This might not be an insurmountable logical problem for you, except that the only reason
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you agree with step one is simply because you're taking their word for it.
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They claim that puberty blockers save lives, and you believe them.
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But why don't you believe the rest of the story they tell?
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And if you don't, then have you considered that your skepticism should be more consistently
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Third, finally, have you thought about just using your common sense?
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You want to appeal to authority, except that even you can't figure out whether you should
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You don't know which way is up, which way is down.
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Maybe consider applying your own mental faculties to this situation.
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Does it make sense to you, does it actually make sense, that a young boy might, in some sense,
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be a girl somehow, necessitating the use of chemical castration drugs to suppress some
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of the physical effects of male puberty, does that proposition make sense?
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Does it make sense to take a boy who is male and try to alter him in some way in an effort
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to make him into, or make it appear as though he has been made into, something he can never
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Does it make sense to medically affirm the boy's confusion, rather than trying to treat and heal
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I think you're smart enough to know that it doesn't.
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At least I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt on that point, a benefit that
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Though you have earned your turn today being, of course, canceled.
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And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block.