Every week, the left invents a new hero that we're all supposed to worship and admire. But their latest heroes are performance artists nearly as phony and fraudulent as Dylan Mulvaney. Plus, a new report suggests that over 60,000 babies will be saved this year because of Roe v Wade.
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00:02:06.580Rather, they're adept at inventing heroes, making them, fabricating them out of whole cloth.
00:02:11.500They can simply assign somebody the role of hero, put them on a platform, and instruct the rest of us to praise and admire them.
00:02:19.560You know, every society needs its heroes, its champions, its martyrs.
00:02:22.980But our traditional heroes in our culture have all been torn down, literally in many cases, as statues and monuments have been toppled.
00:02:30.740And now they're replaced by these new constructions.
00:02:33.600And the trouble with our new heroes, the ones that the left constructs for us, is that they are shallow, contrived, empty, and usually morally repulsive.
00:02:43.780So one relevant example from this week, Megan Rapinoe, speaking of repulsive, female soccer player, has long been elevated to the position of hero.
00:02:52.740She's courageous because when she's not being beaten on the field by high school boys, she's busy fighting for women's rights, or so we're told.
00:03:03.720You know, she spent many years raising awareness about the plight of underpaid female soccer players.
00:03:08.500Rapinoe herself is wealthy, but she could be a little more wealthy if only she was paid the same as male soccer stars.
00:03:14.960Now, granted, male soccer stars make more money because they bring in more money because the public is just more interested in, you know, seeing men play soccer and male sports in general because they're more fun to watch because the athletes are better.
00:03:28.480But this argument was not acceptable to Rapinoe, who insisted that her pay as a soccer player should be not at all tied to her financial worth as a soccer player.
00:03:36.460And eventually that argument won out and the men's and women's U.S. national team signed an agreement that agreed that there would be equal pay, which really just means that the men's team will have to be essentially the sugar daddies for the women's team subsidizing and keeping this equal pay scheme afloat because that's what female empowerment is all about, apparently.
00:03:57.500But, of course, the real threat facing women's sports is not that athletes are underpaid.
00:04:02.000It's that if the left has its way, women's sports will effectively cease to exist as a category in the first place.
00:04:07.080You're not going to make any money as a female athlete because there won't be female sports.
00:04:10.980And this is where the actual heroes are needed to speak up and stand against the intrusion of males into women's sports.
00:04:20.180Yet, faced with this actual threat to women's sports and the rights of women generally, the heroic Rapinoe surrendered immediately without even pretending to put up a fight, just like most other athletes did.
00:04:33.580This week, Rapinoe joined a number of other professional athletes in signing a letter condemning legislation that's been proposed by Republicans in Congress that would ban males from competing in female sports.
00:04:43.860Sports Illustrated reports, quote, a group of 40 professional Olympic and Paralympic athletes signed a letter regarding recent anti-trans sports bans sent to the House of Representative Legislative Directors on Monday.
00:04:56.000The athletes include Megan Rapinoe, recently retired WNBA star Sue Bird, and US WNT star Becky Sauerbrunn.
00:05:05.100The remaining athletes who signed the letter, organized by the LGBTQ advocacy group Athlete Ally, compete in various sports such as soccer, hockey, and rugby.
00:05:15.520The letter calls out the Republican-led Protection of Girls and Women in Sports Act, H.R. 734, which would ban transgender intersex girls and women from competing in sports across the country.
00:05:25.440If the bill passes, it would become part of the Title IX legislation.
00:05:29.580In explaining her stance, Rapinoe tweeted, quote,
00:05:31.660Today, politicians at D.C. are claiming to protect women's sports by pushing a trans and intersex sports ban.
00:05:37.180Call your congressional rep today to say women's sports needs protection from unequal pay, sexual abuse, and lack of resources, not from trans kids.
00:05:46.260Now, needless to say, the claims made here are total nonsense.
00:05:49.260There are no bills that would ban trans-identified people from competing in sports.
00:05:53.620There are certainly no bills that would ban intersex people, people with genital defects from competing in sports.
00:05:58.860Not one piece of proposed federal legislation, not one bill passed or proposed in any state,
00:06:05.440has ever had any language that would prohibit anyone from competing in sports based on their so-called, quote, unquote, gender identity.
00:06:13.360I wouldn't support such legislation if it was introduced, although it never would be,
00:06:18.020because I don't see any particular reason why a man who sees himself as a woman should be prevented from playing football or basketball or running on the track team or whatever if he wants.
00:06:25.780But his, quote, unquote, gender identity should not be some kind of special token that he can use to gain access to whatever team he prefers.
00:06:33.220Males should compete against males, females against females.
00:06:36.140And that's what these bills guarantee.
00:06:38.980Trans-identified people can still compete, but they have to compete against their own sex, same as everyone else.
00:06:45.880That's what equal under the law actually means.
00:06:48.640Megan Rapinoe, the supposed champion of women's sports, opposes this policy, which means that she supports the erosion and eventual demise of women's sports entirely.
00:07:00.460And that's not because she actually believes that male athletes who identify as women really are women and should be allowed on women's sports.
00:07:09.600She almost certainly doesn't believe it, because almost nobody born before the year, say, 2005, sincerely believes that trans ideology is true.
00:07:19.000Few of us were brainwashed early enough to actually believe it.
00:07:23.620If you want to get someone to believe something that insane, you have to get to them when they're very young,
00:07:27.860which is why the left is so focused on getting to the kids when they're very young with this stuff.
00:07:31.800But Rapinoe, like every other leftist, goes along with it because she thinks that it helps further her overall ideological agenda,
00:07:40.280and also because she lacks the courage it would require to take a stand in this case.
00:07:45.080It would legitimately be heroic for somebody in her position to defend common sense and reality in this case.
00:07:53.540It shouldn't require heroism, but it would, because she'd be ripped apart for it, excoriated.
00:07:57.640It should lose all of her friends and clout and media praise, and she's not going to be invited on late-night shows.
00:08:03.440She's not going to be on any red carpets anymore.
00:08:06.600It takes heroism to make that kind of sacrifice.
00:08:09.620And if there's one thing that this hero lacks, it's heroism.
00:08:13.080But there are other fake leftist heroes in the news this week.
00:08:15.140In fact, just in the last couple of weeks, we've watched as three new ones have been invented in real time, so very efficiently.
00:08:22.900The quote-unquote Tennessee Three, as the media has dubbed them, have been celebrated, basically deified,
00:08:30.360after getting kicked out of the Tennessee State House for staging an insurrection in the Capitol building.
00:08:36.680On Monday, one of them, Justin Jones, was sworn back in after the Nashville Metropolitan Council did an end run around Republicans in the legislature
00:08:45.660by voting to reinstate him as now an interim representative for the 52nd District.
00:08:52.480So he's back in the House, which means that, by the way, Republicans now have no choice, really,
00:08:59.220but to pass a law banning anyone who's expelled from the House from serving again in state government.
00:09:06.520They could pass that law, and they need to, and then once it's passed, expel him again.
00:09:11.440They have to play hardball here, or else take the loss.
00:09:14.980And taking the loss can never be an option.
00:09:17.700It would be a big, it's a big, you're taking a big loss if you take it here.
00:09:21.580Because then you will have, you will have given this guy all this attention, turn him into a martyr,
00:09:27.420only to have him back in the legislature anyway at the end of it.