Ep. 1169 - The Shocking Truth About Canada's Euthanasia Program. It's Way Worse Than You Think.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Canada continues to expand its medical assistance in dying program, so that more and more of the undesirables are eligible for execution. Also, Ron DeSantis prepares to officially announce his candidacy for president, and Target is starting to back away from its pride celebration ever so slightly. Has Bud Light persuaded other corporations to think twice about shoving the rainbow in our face? In our daily cancellation, the media is very excited about a new wonder drug that can cure obesity, alcoholism, shopping addictions, and everything else apparently. But what is this drug and how does it work, and why isn t anyone asking these questions? We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walther Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Canada continues to expand its medical assistance in dying
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program so that more and more of the undesirables are eligible for execution. But the program is
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far worse and goes much further than you think. And worst of all, our country is now headed in
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the same direction. Also, Ron DeSantis prepares to officially announce his candidacy and he's
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announcing it on Twitter. Target is starting to back away from its pride celebration ever so
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slightly. Has Bud Light persuaded other corporations to think twice about shoving
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the rainbow in our face? In our daily cancellation, the media is very excited about a new
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wonder drug that can cure obesity and also alcoholism, shopping addictions, and everything
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else apparently. But what is this drug and how does it work and why isn't anyone asking these
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questions? We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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from you. You're just meeting this doctor for the first time. You're not sure whether she's a good
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doctor or a bad doctor. You can't tell if she has any morals or not. You're assessing things.
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And then the doctor tells you about one of the highlights of her year. With a smile on her face,
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she starts talking about one time, a few months ago, when she killed a clown. We're talking about
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a man dressed in full clown uniform, a red nose, who was giggling when he died. It was really important
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for him to be in his clown suit when he died, the doctor says to you. It was a wonderful thing.
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Now, at a basic human level, how would you react to that scenario? Would you run out of the doctor's
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office and call the police? Or would you congratulate the doctor because you're also
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a murderer who hates clowns? What would you do? At this point, you're probably thinking to yourself,
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well, what's with all the hypothetical questions? This is crazy. I mean, what are the odds I'm going
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to be sitting face-to-face with a clown-killing doctor? As it happens, if you live in Canada,
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it's not a hypothetical at all. Meet Dr. Stephanie Green. She's one of the country's leading physicians
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in the area of medical assistance in dying, or MAID. And she recently sat down for an interview
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in which she talks about the one time that she deliberately killed a clown. I want you to watch
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the interviewer ask her about this and listen to her response. Notice the grins on these people's
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faces as they describe the death of this poor clown. Watch. One of those I absolutely loved was,
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I mean, I have to admit to welling up several times while reading the book.
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About Ed, who was an amateur clown. And I think he was having, you were going to be administering
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his assisted death. And I think you must have left the room or something, or he left the room and
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came back dressed in his full clown regalia, including a red nose. And you asked him what
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that was about, you know, why was it? And he said that he wanted to go out laughing. And I just
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thought that was so charming. But it does lead into the fact that, from talking to you and other
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practitioners, it's become sort of socially accepted now that people are having assisted deaths.
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Everyone is so individual. And what's important to one person may not be as important or differently,
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you know, important to someone else. So for Ed, it was really important that he be in his clown suit
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and, you know, have this atmosphere, you know, with him at this final moment. And somebody else might
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find that ridiculous. But there's a real beauty in recognizing that for Ed, this was key. And it was
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such a wonderful thing to be able to facilitate this with Ed. You know, for someone else, like you
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say, it might be an event with champagne. A wonderful thing to facilitate with a clown.
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So usually when you talk about facilitating something with a clown, you're talking about
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inviting a clown to a birthday party, let's say. But in this case, she's talking about facilitating
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his execution. That's one of the creepiest videos you'll ever see, but it's the cutting edge of
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state-run medicine in Canada. They are killing people and they are celebrating it. Before we
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really get into things, let's review a few points. First, in Canada, doctors do not just execute the
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terminally ill, as awful as that alone would be. Thanks to a recent court decision and a new law in
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Canada, doctors can kill pretty much anyone. Watch the creepy clown-killing doctor explain the
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standard of care that determines who is actually eligible for execution now. Watch.
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Our law never required terminal illness. It never required a prognosis of six months. It always
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required, originally, that the patient be on a trajectory towards their natural death with no
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time limit around that, allowing more of a flexible clinical interpretation. But even that
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fact was challenged because that wasn't in our original constitutional decision by the Carter case.
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And so for three or four years after the law was passed, it was looked at in a provincial court and
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it was decided that that also needed to be struck out of the law. And with the removal of that, it opened
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up access to assisted dying for those who weren't necessarily dying.
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A trajectory towards death is already an incredibly permissive standard for euthanasia, given the
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fact that we as mortal creatures are all on a trajectory towards death. I hate to tell you.
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But even that vague limitation has been lifted. Now there's basically no limitation at all.
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And that's why last year, a Canadian doctor named Joshua Tapper was able to authorize the killing
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of a 23-year-old man named Keanu. And why was Keanu killed? Well, according to the substat,
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common sense, Keanu was depressed, he was diabetic, and he had lost one vision in one eye. And on top
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of that, he, quote, didn't have a girlfriend. On those grounds alone, the doctor authorized the
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state to kill Keanu. There are many more stories like this. There's Amir Farsud, who was approved
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for MAID because he was homeless. There's the army veteran Christine Gothier, who was told by the
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Canadian government to consider euthanasia rather than endure the wait for a stairlift in her home.
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And so on. Many cases like this. Now this is eugenics. It's the kind of thing the medical
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community thought long and hard about after World War II. Doctors wondered, you know, how do we make
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sure that medicine is never again used to kill the weakest and least desirable members of society?
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Well, doctors no longer asked that question. Eugenics is making a comeback. Why is that? If you look at
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this as a purely political issue, it makes sense. Several years ago, Canadian politicians realized that they
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had a big problem. The health care system, which they run, wasn't able to keep up with the need
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for organ donors. It's a big, big political problem. Thousands of people were dying, waiting
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for transplants. So the government set out to find new ways to get more organs. And that's when they
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passed the first law legalizing euthanasia. Now, if you think it sounds crazy to make this connection,
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well, the Canadian media drew this connection immediately. Here's a headline from the Ottawa Citizen in
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2020, a few years after MAID was legalized. Quote, medically assisted deaths prove a growing boon
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to organ donation in Ontario. Very quickly, Canada became the world's leader in harvesting organs from
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MAID victims. According to the American Journal of Transplantation, doctors in Canada perform almost
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half of the world's organ transplants from MAID. And they've done that over the past half decade.
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Ontario sets new records for organ donations every year. So that's one political problem solved.
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Just like China harvests organs from prisoners, Canada harvests them from homeless people and the
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elderly. Euthanasia also solves financial problems. Back in 2017, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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ran an article raving about all the money the country could save by simply killing sick people
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outright. You know, to take care of sick people is expensive, but if you kill them, then you save a
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bunch of money, it turns out. Quote, new research suggests medically assisted dying could result in
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substantial savings across Canada's health care system. Doctor assisted death could reduce annual
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health care spending across the country by between $34.7 million and $136.8 million. The
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savings exceedingly outweigh the estimated $1.5 to $14.8 million in direct costs associated with
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implementing medically assisted dying. The article goes on to explain that it's very expensive to
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provide medical care to sick people and elderly people. The more frugal option is to give them a
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lethal injection. Problem solved. Who cares about human life anyway when there's money to be saved?
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Money to be saved and money to be made. The euthanasia industry is booming in Canada with
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entrepreneurs finding new and creative ways to get in on the action. As the CBC excitedly reported
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funeral homes are expanding their brands to include medical assistance in dying, customers can now take
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the advantage, take advantage of the luxury sort of a full service option, which means that instead
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of going to a funeral home after you die, you can go there to die. Think of the convenience. Watch.
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Welcome, follow me. Funeral homes have been in Mathieu Baker's family for generations,
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but he recently expanded the kind of service he offers. So this is the room where you have the
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medical aid in dying. Yes, this is where it happens. People who are approved for medical
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assistance in dying can come here with their doctor and loved ones to end their lives at a cost of at
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least $700. It's a lot of organization on our part to really make it a respectful and meaningful
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event for that family. It's what Michel Brunel recently opted for. His family says he had emphysema
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and his quality of life had deteriorated, but he didn't want to die at home or in the hospital.
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They're using a room that they have already, decorated it very nicely,
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allowed us the time we needed to do what we had to do to say goodbye, let him get comfortable. It's
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just it's just a beautiful option. Suicide rooms in funeral homes. This is real. This is actually
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happening right now. You know, and if you really want to increase efficiency, maybe they can even
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allow you to commit suicide while laying in your casket. Saving time, saving money, making money.
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That's what eugenics has always been about. That's obviously not the entire explanation for what
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we're seeing. Every country has evil politicians who would kill innocent people for power, but Canada
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has much bigger problems. And its main problem is that it's a godless hellhole. One that's so far gone,
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the prime minister makes excuses for church burnings. Canadians, they don't believe in God
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anymore, at least not in the traditional sense. They believe that they are gods. They think that
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they can change their sex just by wishing for it. God doesn't choose whether you're male or female.
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You get to choose it. And you can change your sex in literally an instant. That's what they seriously
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believe. It's what everyone on the left believes. So it's only natural that a society like that would
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gradually assume more godlike powers, including the power to decide who dies and when they die.
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And just like with gender ideology, MAID is becoming a social media cult in Canada.
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Kids with obvious mental problems are posting TikToks with captions like,
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things my parents have had to come to terms with, their child choosing medical assistance in dying.
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Now, if we put the picture up on the screen and you just take a look at this person,
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your first reaction is that, you know, if you're a sane human being, your first reaction is that
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whoever that is, some sort of mental health intervention is obviously necessary for this
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person. But very quickly, that's becoming the minority position. Notice the 26,000 likes on that
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post. OK, this is a young girl talking about how she's going to kill herself and 26,000 people liked it.
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By the way, that girl who just yesterday set her TikTok account to private has posted many times
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about her intention to take advantage of the MAID program. She says that she has a chronic medical
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condition. Note, not terminal, but chronic. And she also says that she has three, quote,
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incurable personality disorders. So to be to be clear, doctors are going to kill this girl because,
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in part, her personality is disordered. There's many more social media posts like that.
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Here's a video of a woman celebrating that a physician is about to kill her grandmother. Watch.
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I came in quietly. Are you nervous? Are you excited? How do you feel?
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Looking forward. Just putting an end to being dependent, no control.
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So as the day approaches, is it something you're thinking about every day?
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Are you excited, Grandma, about your suicide? That was the question. And this is about as dark
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as it gets. And once again, these are not one-off videos. Millions of people support this,
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and not just on social media. More than 25% of Canadians in a poll now believe that the homeless
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and the poor should be able to access MAID. Nearly half of respondents think mental illness should be
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a justification for euthanasia. And that's about to be law in Canada. It's expected to be implemented
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in one year. NPR would like to see that happen. They just ran a segment on someone named John Scully
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who wants to die because of his mental illness. Listen.
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The expansion of medical assistance in dying to people with mental illness
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has been delayed by Canada's parliament for another year. The country already allows medically
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assisted death for some incurable illnesses. But as Emma Jacobs reports, mental health conditions
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are still up for debate. Please note, this story does include discussion of suicide.
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For John Scully, life has literally become a living nightmare.
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When I wake up, I go, oh God, I've got to stop it. I've got to stop it. I must find a way to stop it.
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Scully lives in Toronto. He was diagnosed with depression more than 30 years ago and suffers
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from work-related PTSD and anxiety. He says he has terrible, vivid nightmares.
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There is no way to stop it. And because of that, I'm also permanently sleep-deprived.
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He has been watching the progress of the expansion of medical assistance in dying,
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I actually physically got the paperwork for MAID. I have it right here.
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Canada's medical assistance in dying program was made legally available to some adults with
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terminal illness in 2016. In 2021, it was expanded to include those suffering with serious and chronic
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physical conditions. But for many, the plan to extend this to those suffering with solely mental
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illness raised concerns. We don't have very good ways of defining incurability for mental health problems.
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Did you catch that? So they just need to figure out which mental illnesses are incurable.
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And once they figure that out, then they'll know which one should be cured with suicide.
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This will be a reality soon enough. Suicide offered as a treatment for mental illness.
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Now, it used to be that you would go to a therapist to help you not kill yourself in Canada very soon.
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It may work the other way. And when you consider that 20% of adults supposedly have a mental illness,
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according to the people who are in charge of determining these things anyway, you begin to see how bleak
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this picture really is. If mental illness is a legitimate reason to execute somebody, then pretty soon
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we're all going to be eligible. Now, it's been easy for many people in this country to ignore MAID,
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because for the most part, it's happening in Canada. But euthanasia is growing in popularity here, too.
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In fact, just this month, the US got its very first suicide tourism state. The Republican governor of
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Vermont signed a bill allowing euthanasia customers to come from anywhere in the country to be killed.
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They'll start putting that in their tourism ads. Hey, you want to kill yourself? Come to Vermont and
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do it. As always, culturally, we're on the same track and on the same train as Canada heading over
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the same cliff. We're just maybe a few train cars back. As I said on Twitter the other day,
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I should not have to explain, nobody should have to explain why it's bad for doctors to put human
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beings down like dogs. This is something that everybody should understand intuitively. If you
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don't understand it intuitively, there's something wrong with you and you need to think about that.
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Because whatever you think of suicide, and if you have a soul, then what you should think of suicide is
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that it's bad, and we should try to stop people from doing it. The point with euthanasia is that
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doctors are prescribing death as a treatment. It is a total inversion of the medical field. It is
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medicine doing literally the exact opposite of what it is meant to do. But medicine has been inverted
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in this way in our society for a long time. Euthanasia is just the latest iteration.
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Some of us have noticed this trend. Some of us, the so-called social conservatives,
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have been screaming about it from the rooftops for a long time, and we've been right all along.
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We have been right on every major cultural issue, from abortion to gay marriage to gender ideology.
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And we're right about this too. Euthanasia is a dystopian abomination. It is a war on human life.
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It is a cancer. And like any cancer, it will never stay contained. It will never stop. It always
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spreads. It starts with euthanasia for the terminally ill, and very quickly it becomes
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euthanasia for 19-year-old girls with personality disorders. This is inevitable. It will always be
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this way. If you accept medical assistance in dying in principle, you are accepting everything
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that comes with it and everywhere that it leads. How long until MAID is mandatory for certain undesirable
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populations in Canada? How long until it's mandatory here? Now you can laugh at that slippery slope
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Daily Wire reports the Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is officially entering the 2024
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presidential race this week during a special event with Twitter owner Elon Musk. The conversation
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between DeSantis and Musk will take place on Twitter at 6 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday today.
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According to multiple reports, the conversation will be moderated by Republican donor David Sachs,
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who was a supporter of DeSantis and a close ally of Musk. Musk seemingly confirmed the report on the
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platform by retweeting a Fox News reporter who shared the news. A source close to Musk told NBC News
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that Musk believes that former President Donald Trump is not capable of winning the White House in 2024,
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that DeSantis is. The person said, quote, he's interested in the future and he's interested
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in winning again. So he's going to announce it officially on Twitter. And I think this is a
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brilliant idea. I mean, it's obviously a good idea. It accomplishes a few things. It's, number one,
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it's newsworthy because it's different. It's interesting. Just giving a speech, typically for
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announcing a presidential campaign, we get what we got from Tim Scott. We played the clip yesterday.
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Say, give a speech at a rally and say, I'm running for president and then give you a little stump
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speech. And that's fine, but it's not interesting. It's not different. It would still make the news
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because he's announcing that he's running for president, but this is a bigger deal. And this
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is what we need from Republican presidential candidates. We need them to, and Republicans in
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general and conservatives in general, we need them to do new, different, interesting things.
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And second, the other reason this is a good idea is because it goes around the mainstream media.
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And this is the major point. Okay. If you do a rally to announce your candidacy,
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then you're really doing an event for and with the mainstream media because you need them to cover
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it. Because obviously you're not just announcing your candidacy to the people that are in the room
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with you. You need to get the word out. And so you need the media to amplify your message.
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But here DeSantis is going around the media completely. It's newsworthy, so they will cover
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it, but he doesn't need them. It's an end run around the media. It's going around them and right
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to the people. And that is a, that's a very good idea. And that's exactly what we should be doing.
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And Twitter, given that it is the most powerful and arguably the only free speech platform,
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certainly the only relevant free speech platform on the internet. And it's run by someone who has
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shown that he does believe in, in free speech. Given that fact, this, this is a, a really potent,
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really powerful tool that we all need to start thinking about how we can utilize it better.
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And it makes sense for political campaigns too. The DeSantis camp also put out a short video
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leading up to the announcement. Let's watch that.
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They call it faith because in the face of darkness, you can see that brighter future,
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a faith that our best days lay ahead of us. But is it worth the fight? Do I have the courage?
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Is it worth the sacrifice? America has been worth it every single time.
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Solid. I like it. And the thing I like most is that, and it has a little bit of a kind of,
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it's a little different in that it has somewhat intentional, vaguely kind of ominous tone,
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which I think is good because the left is terrified. They are, they are peeing their pants
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in fear because of Ron DeSantis. They've seen what he's done in Florida. They're absolutely petrified
00:23:55.020
that he might accomplish the same thing nationwide. And they'll, they'll tell you that. They'll tell
00:23:59.300
you that they're afraid. And their fear is the best sign of all. Lots of headline headlines like
00:24:04.360
this one from The Roots. This was their headline yesterday. Should black people be afraid now that
00:24:09.420
Ron DeSantis plans to announce his presidential bid on Twitter? Should they be afraid?
00:24:14.180
Yep. I, I, you know, I guess so, because if Ron DeSantis is on Twitter, then that, from what I
00:24:20.200
understand, it means that people who are members of allegedly marginalized groups and, uh, you know,
00:24:25.740
black people, if they are on Twitter at the same time, they will actually, uh, scientifically,
00:24:31.000
they'll actually, they'll spontaneously combust is what will happen. So yeah, it's, there's much,
00:24:37.520
many reasons to be afraid, but really the fragility is just off the charts. These are,
00:24:42.960
the most fragile people in the world. And they're used to getting their way because of it,
00:24:48.520
wielding their hysterical emotions like a battering ram, but they're finally coming up
00:24:53.540
against a faction of the right that won't be manipulated that easily. Um, and we'll have more
00:24:59.780
on that in a second, but there's more news on Twitter. Axios had the exclusive yesterday,
00:25:04.480
quote, the daily wire, a conservative media and entertainment company plans to put its entire
00:25:08.020
slate of podcasts, which are almost all recorded as videos on Twitter beginning May 30th.
00:25:12.960
Um, a company executive told Axios last month, outspoken daily wire host, Matt Walsh said YouTube
00:25:18.660
removed his right to monetize his videos over his comments about transgender influencer Dylan
00:25:22.560
Mulvaney. The daily wire then, then began putting the Matt Walsh show on Twitter. Walsh said he was
00:25:27.200
making a hundred thousand dollars monthly on YouTube. Um, and so that's the lead up to it.
00:25:31.700
And now the daily wire is, well, that's the news. Anyway, I guess I could have just told you that
00:25:34.560
I need to read the Axios report about it. Uh, but we're going to be putting all of our podcasts
00:25:38.200
on Twitter. It started with my show and now all the shows are coming to Twitter. Tucker's show
00:25:42.320
will also be on Twitter. That was the news, uh, last week or two weeks ago. This is exactly what
00:25:46.780
I was hoping for when we made the decision to bring my show to the platform a few weeks ago.
00:25:52.720
And, uh, I remember suggesting it in a, in a meeting right after we got demonetized by YouTube.
00:25:58.360
And it was one of those kind of light bulb moments in that it's a really obvious move.
00:26:02.300
And you wonder why you didn't, why you didn't think of it earlier, like this is clearly the
00:26:06.700
right thing to do. Um, a massive platform with hundreds of millions of daily users.
00:26:13.980
And, you know, they're, they're increasingly trying to ramp up their, um, the video element
00:26:21.640
of the Twitter experience. And so why not take advantage of that in a place where imagine that
00:26:28.620
you can post your content and talk about things and express your points of view.
00:26:35.480
And that's it. You just, you don't have to worry about being censored or having it's,
00:26:41.960
they're not going to come around and say, well, that, that point of view is a little offensive.
00:26:46.160
So that's not going to be allowed. Um, I have an opinion. You have an opinion. We express those
00:26:51.660
opinions. Nobody is harmed in the process. Maybe they get their feelings hurt, but that's as far as it
00:26:57.880
goes. That's what's happening on Twitter. And I think it's a obviously great news. New York post
00:27:03.760
has, uh, some, some, some news. That's also, I think pretty good target on Tuesday said the retail
00:27:09.380
giant will pull some LGBTQ friendly kids clothings from its store after facing customer backlash just
00:27:16.080
days after the company's top executive dismissed the social media uproar. The Minneapolis based chain
00:27:20.800
said, uh, one of the main factors of the nationwide adjustment ahead of pride month was because some
00:27:25.500
customers had violent confrontations with workers. A target spokesperson said, quote,
00:27:30.620
since introducing this year's collection, we've experienced threats impacting our team members
00:27:34.220
sense of safety and wellbeing at work. Given these, these, uh, volatile circumstances,
00:27:38.680
we're making adjustments to our plan, including removing items that have been at the center of the
00:27:42.840
most significant confrontational behavior. Target declined to say whether it will remove its tuck
00:27:48.620
friendly women's swimsuit that allows trans women, quote unquote, who have not had gender affirming
00:27:53.320
operations to conceal their private parts. Okay. So target is of course, blaming this decision,
00:27:59.480
uh, on violence and confrontation. And they're making all that up. I mean, that that's not happening.
00:28:05.000
Go. Okay. Nobody's going to target and assaulting the employees. Um, the real reason target is doing
00:28:11.700
this obviously is that they're getting major pushback from their customers. Many of their customers,
00:28:16.820
as it turns out, don't want to walk into target and be accosted by a gay rainbow explosion. As soon as
00:28:24.120
they walk through the door, they don't want their kids seeing that they don't want satanic merchandise,
00:28:30.600
uh, in the store or sold online. So target is trying to deemphasize the pride stuff by moving it to the
00:28:41.820
back of the store to satiate the customers that they've upset. While at the same time, they're also
00:28:46.960
defaming those customers and accusing them of endangering the safety of their employees. So
00:28:51.740
they're trying to have it both ways and we absolutely should not let them, uh, which is why
00:28:56.120
the boycott is still on target must be crushed for this. But the fact that they, that they are moving
00:29:03.360
the merchandise and making up these excuses, that's a good sign. Um, it shows that our, our pushback is
00:29:09.360
working again, just like it did with Bud Light and target is obviously, uh, there was another report
00:29:16.480
quoting unnamed sources that target doesn't want to be the next Bud Light
00:29:20.020
because they seen what happened with Bud Light. And this, this is why from the very beginning,
00:29:25.660
those of us who were pushing the, the, the Bud Light, uh, boycott, this is one of the reasons why it was
00:29:32.060
so important. This is the point we were trying to make is that it's not just about Bud Light. Yes. Yes.
00:29:37.220
There, there are many companies that have done things that are far more egregious than what Bud Light
00:29:41.660
did, but, uh, we can make an example of them. Okay. That's what it's about. It's about mounting a
00:29:49.660
trophy on the wall as a, as a, a sign to others. So we want other corporations to go and look at that
00:29:57.620
and say, wow, I don't want that to happen to us. You know, the pride month stuff, this is all about
00:30:04.280
just, uh, this is supposed to be branding and this is about, um, signaling our, our, our, our virtue.
00:30:11.560
This is, this is virtue signaling. This is about scoring some woke points, but I don't want to lose
00:30:16.460
money. Those are the kinds of calculations we want these corporations to start making.
00:30:22.720
And I think that now they are, um, the ultimate goal. And I want to flesh this out a little bit more
00:30:29.020
tomorrow as we really, you know, get, uh, as we really get into the weeds on this, but, you know,
00:30:35.200
we have to look at, I know that a lot of conservatives that are, uh, dreading pride month
00:30:42.180
and complaining about it already. And that's, that's understandable, but I'm not dreading it.
00:30:46.920
Okay. I'm looking at pride month as an opportunity. And we've got, we've got a few surprises in store
00:30:53.280
for you. Come pride month. We've got, we've got a few things we're planning. Uh, we're going to make
00:30:57.320
it a big month, but also it's, it's, it's an opportunity for us to fight back against this.
00:31:04.000
And the ultimate goal is to make pride toxic for these brands. We're going to make it toxic for
00:31:12.300
them. Or I should say, we're not making it toxic. It already is. It is toxic. Okay. Promoting, um,
00:31:20.280
this kind of stuff, promoting gender confusion, uh, you know, trying to sexualize kids, all this,
00:31:26.080
that this is already toxic and we are bringing that to fruition. You know, on the left, they have
00:31:36.080
this concept called problematize. And for them, when they say they want to problematize something,
00:31:40.840
it means that they want to take something that is not a problem and they want to turn it into a
00:31:44.380
problem. Well, we need to take a page from that book and we're problematizing things too. But in our
00:31:49.260
case, we are, we are, we're not taking something that isn't a problem and making it a problem.
00:31:52.620
Um, we are taking something that is a problem and we are pointing out that it is a problem.
00:31:57.940
And so, yes, we, we can't, we can't, uh, and I know this, this is the response from conservative
00:32:03.860
skeptics who say, well, what are we going to do? Boycott every brand that does the pride?
00:32:06.800
No, we can't boycott all of them. We can pick out certain ones. We can make examples of them.
00:32:10.780
And for all the rest, you know, we can do, we can't boycott all of them. That's correct. Correct.
00:32:14.200
We can problematize pride. We can make it, we can make sure that it's divisive and controversial.
00:32:19.960
We can make the brand start thinking, is it really worth it? Okay. Yeah. If you're a brand
00:32:26.700
and you go this direction, I'm not going to sit here and promise that every, every brand that does
00:32:31.160
the pride thing is going to go bankrupt. Obviously not. But what I can say is that the winds are
00:32:38.620
changing and you're dealing with a faction of the right that, um, plays a little tougher than what
00:32:47.260
you're used to. And what that means is that now you're not going to go bankrupt if you do the pride
00:32:54.040
thing, but it's, it's going to be an issue. Okay. You're wading into a choppy waters and you need
00:33:03.600
to really think about whether it's going to be worth it. Uh, for so long, you know, the reason that these,
00:33:10.820
these companies have done this and it's gotten to the point that it has is because they could,
00:33:16.600
they could do it. They could shove this stuff in our face. They could express their hatred for their
00:33:21.560
own customer base. Okay. They could do all of that and they would get woke points from the left
00:33:27.720
and on the right, it would be nothing. We'd be a little annoyed about it, but we'd still
00:33:31.700
continue shopping. We wouldn't say anything about it. We just cooperate. And so it was a win-win for the
00:33:35.980
I was like, why not do it as far as they're concerned? Um, for them, it's a, it's a win all
00:33:41.880
around, especially a lot of these companies are run by far left wackos. And so they can use their
00:33:46.640
company as an opportunity to promote this stuff, promote their ideology. They can win some points
00:33:51.600
with their own side. The other side buys from them anyway, everything's fine. Um, but that's changing
00:33:59.220
now. We aren't, we aren't just going to sit quietly and go along with it. All right. Post-millennial
00:34:05.840
has this report. A trans identified male student athlete will be moving on to compete in
00:34:09.680
California's track and field state tournament next week after placing second in the women's
00:34:13.960
1600 meter race, beating out female competitors that will no longer get the chance to compete for
00:34:17.940
a state title. Athena Ryan, a biological male will be advancing to the California Interscholastic
00:34:22.700
Federation state track and field championships after become, after placing second in the girls
00:34:27.140
varsity 1600 meter race on Saturday, finishing behind, uh, Hanny Thompson of Montgomery and ahead of
00:34:33.120
Ellie Buckley, uh, Fox news reports, Ryan have been competing on this Sonoma Academy's boys track
00:34:39.360
and field team until he transitioned into a female in 2021. And by transition into a female,
00:34:45.420
we mean that he grew his hair out and put it in a ponytail. And like, that's what we mean.
00:34:49.760
That's that's transition. Look, I'm a female. Now my hair is longer. Um, but there were,
00:34:55.700
there was some pushback, uh, quote security removed women from the field seen holding signs in
00:35:00.560
support of girls in the sectional meet. Many parents were completely unaware. There was a
00:35:03.900
boy competing in girls races. Others were appreciative that they were there. The protesters
00:35:08.380
were there. Um, when they themselves felt silenced, the group wrote on Twitter, sharing photos of
00:35:13.240
women with a banner that reads protect women's sports. Uh, the women holding the banner belonged
00:35:17.640
to a group called women are real and said that they received praise all evening with members of the
00:35:22.260
crowd, uh, coming up to them and giving them fist bumps and high fives. Of course, when this first,
00:35:27.340
uh, started happening with males competing in female sports, we were assured that the guys,
00:35:32.640
you know, that, uh, that it would never happen that we're just going to allow, uh, the, the boys
00:35:38.660
who are experiencing real gender dysphoria, the ones who are quote unquote, actually trans,
00:35:44.440
whatever that means. Uh, we're going to allow, it's only going to be them. They're going to be the
00:35:47.500
only ones who we allow to compete. And it's, it's, it's not like you're gonna end up with a bunch of
00:35:50.700
guys who, um, aren't even gender dysphoric in the first place. And they're taking advantage of this
00:35:55.500
because they can't hack it against the guys. And so they're taking advantage of an opportunity to
00:35:58.660
win some trophies and medals. They wouldn't otherwise win. We were sure that that would
00:36:02.040
never happen, but of course, that's exactly what happened. It was always going to happen.
00:36:06.100
Mediocre male athletes who can't win anything against the guys are switching over to the girls
00:36:10.340
teams. That's what's happening. And I will say that I'm very happy about, uh, to read in the
00:36:16.380
article about women who showed up to protest this because that is what is needed. Now, you know that
00:36:22.840
I've never been one of, one of the people that claims that, you know, the fight to protect women's
00:36:27.400
sports and women's privacy and womanhood generally, that the fight is a woman's fight entirely. You
00:36:34.880
know, that it's, it's up to them to deal with. And as men, we don't have to worry about it. Um,
00:36:40.540
I've never believed that I've never said that, which is why I've been in this fight for years myself,
00:36:44.740
but it is true that women need to step up. They need to step up and defend their own spaces.
00:36:50.580
And it's also true that these spaces have all been compromised because women by and large have
00:36:56.360
not stepped up by and large. Now there are exceptions to that. There are notable courageous
00:37:02.100
exceptions and they're all, all the more courageous because they are exceptions, but by and large,
00:37:09.480
women have allowed this to happen and we, we need them now. You know, other, others have made this
00:37:17.760
point. I think it's an important point that going back to Bud Light, um, why is Bud Light being
00:37:23.700
absolutely crushed right now? A bunch of reasons for it. But one of them is that Bud Light caters to
00:37:30.460
a mostly male demographic. And so when this stuff was brought into a male space, okay, like the,
00:37:38.000
the beer cooler, uh, at the liquor store, that's generally a male space. And when it was brought there,
00:37:44.480
many men said, uh, no, that is what we don't want this stuff here. Get this out of here. What are you
00:37:51.060
doing? Um, that has not been the response when it's brought into female spaces. Okay. That's why
00:37:59.620
all these cosmetic companies and clothing companies, I mean, like every, the companies that are the worst
00:38:04.900
with the pride stuff and pushing transgenderism, all the companies that are the worst with it for the
00:38:09.620
most part. These are the companies that have primarily female, predominantly female customers
00:38:14.720
because the women again would are allowing it to happen when it comes to target. You know,
00:38:24.100
if a target boycott is really going to have an impact, if it's really going to work,
00:38:27.760
that's going to come down to the women. Now, when we talked about this a few days ago,
00:38:32.740
I admitted that boycotting target is harder. It's harder than boycotting Bud Light.
00:38:36.760
Bud Light requires no sacrifice, no change in lifestyle or behavior at all. Really just grab
00:38:44.040
for a different beer. Easy enough to do. Uh, Bud Light is a, it's terrible anyway. There are plenty
00:38:48.860
of beers that are just as bad, uh, and that are just as cheap if that's what you want to go for.
00:38:54.340
Target is different. You know, it's not one product. It's a, that's a, it is a store that sells a bunch
00:38:59.320
of, a bunch of products. And, um, oftentimes it could be the most convenient option. It could be the
00:39:04.300
cheapest option depending on what you're going for. And so to boycott, it requires a little bit
00:39:08.900
more sacrifice, not much, not much, but a little bit more sacrifice and effort. Um, but the other
00:39:14.360
part of that is that, um, in, in, in most cases, like if, if somebody needs to make a target run in my
00:39:21.980
house, 99 times out of a hundred, it's going to be my wife making the target run. It's not me. And
00:39:26.940
that's the way it goes in most, most homes. So it's going to be up to the women to actually make
00:39:31.480
this work. Um, and I think that this is in many ways, target is a good test case. Have we gotten
00:39:40.260
to the point where the women in America are now drawing a line and saying enough is enough. We
00:39:46.360
don't want this anymore. Um, and if that happens, okay, if that happens, the woke cult is going to
00:39:54.440
have a real problem on their hands. All right, let's get to the comment section.
00:40:12.340
Rogue Conservative says, I'm going to the university that fired people for the pronouns in the fall,
00:40:16.780
and I'm proud of them. You should be proud of them. And as you know, I'm highly skeptical of
00:40:21.400
the university system. And, uh, I, I generally think that college proves to be a waste of time
00:40:27.000
and money, but if you are going to go, then, uh, you, it's, this is a, this is a good place to go.
00:40:33.480
Uh, let's say I'm at university. I think it was Hoag's, Hoag's university, right?
00:40:37.400
So Houghton, Houghton university, Houghton university. Uh, and I know nothing else about this university,
00:40:43.500
except for the fact that they fired two of their employees for putting pronouns in their bio.
00:40:47.620
So that honestly, that tells me everything I need to know. Like I, I already know that this is a
00:40:52.200
extremely solid university. One of, one of the only good ones in the entire country.
00:40:58.220
And, um, it kind of, it, cause it works in, it works in the reverse too, that if somebody puts
00:41:03.320
pronouns in their bio, we know everything we need to know about them. Just that one simple act
00:41:08.240
tells you every last necessary detail about that person. Uh, but it goes the other way also.
00:41:14.280
So river parish says, I don't think this can be said enough. You can't run a conservative
00:41:21.100
media organization with a headquarter in New York city, period. Media staffers skew hard left
00:41:25.940
NYC skews hard left. The mathematics just don't work. You get a bunch of employees sneering at their
00:41:30.980
own product. That's it. And I agree. And that's another reason why the excuses for Fox news don't
00:41:36.260
wash. Uh, this, the excuses that I've heard even from as always some conservatives saying, well,
00:41:42.740
yeah, they have all of these, uh, pro trans policies written into their handbook. They have,
00:41:48.620
they have in their handbook, they have LGBT terminology that they define and they encourage
00:41:53.660
the use of, um, they give males the right to use women's restrooms and vice versa. If it aligns with
00:42:00.600
their quote unquote gender identity. Yeah, they do all of that. Yes. They have a perfect score.
00:42:04.560
Fox news has a perfect score with the human rights campaign. Um, but it's because they have to,
00:42:11.620
they're just following the law. That excuse does not work because number one, just following orders
00:42:17.500
never works as a, as an excuse to engage in immoral behavior. And also, well, if, if, if, uh,
00:42:26.180
being headquartered in New York in a place in New York, like New York city requires you
00:42:30.160
to be a woke corporation and you don't want to be, then move, go somewhere else. We did it with the
00:42:38.440
daily wires. Why we're here in Nashville. So that's, that doesn't work. And then there's also
00:42:44.260
the fact that as we reviewed yesterday, much of what Fox is doing, they are doing of their own
00:42:49.240
volition. Okay. They're, they're editorial guidelines that require reporters and commentators
00:42:56.120
apparently to refer to people by their preferred pronouns, all the rest of it, you know, putting out
00:43:00.100
stories, promoting the transing of kids. Um, that's not a, that's not a legal requirement.
00:43:04.620
Now I think on the left, they'd like to make that a legal requirement, but at this point it's not.
00:43:09.500
So they're doing that completely on their own. Um, Russ Bly says being banished from Fox should be
00:43:15.300
considered a badge of honor. What Fox CNN and MSNBC have not yet figured out is they're going the way
00:43:20.400
of the buggy whip. Google pictures of downtown New York in 1900, then look at New York in 1915.
00:43:25.980
Today, the metamorphosis is even faster. In the next few years, cable news will just be a memory.
00:43:30.420
So Matt, in essence, you've been booted from a horse and buggy. Enjoy the high performance ride of
00:43:36.400
the future. Uh, that is, that is true. You know, it's, that's true with a caveat, which is that cable
00:43:45.660
news is becoming irrelevant. Um, and that's, it's just a numbers game. Like the only people that are
00:43:53.100
sitting down and watching cable news or watching cable in general are people that are over the age of
00:43:56.420
65 in my generation. I don't know anybody who has cable. Like I, I'm not sure I've met anyone
00:44:02.740
recently in my generation actually has cable. Um, when I, when you go to a hotel or something and
00:44:08.840
they, and they have like basic cable, if you go to a, you know, a mid range hotel that has still has
00:44:14.060
basic cable, uh, and you're flipping through and you have to flip. I was just at a hotel like this
00:44:19.100
recently and I'm sitting there and I have to, I have to flip through the channels to see what's on.
00:44:24.520
Like I want to know what's on TV. I have to actually pick up the remote and flip through
00:44:29.260
the channels. And then if I want to watch something, I have to watch it from the, from the
00:44:33.500
beginning. I have to schedule my night so that I can watch it when it starts. And if I come in 15
00:44:40.760
minutes late, then I'm, I'm just late. I mean, this is, this is, this is like ancient stuff.
00:44:45.460
It's like, it's, it's, even though I grew up with this kind of, uh, this is, this is the,
00:44:49.400
the situation I grew up in. Now it feels very foreign and bizarre. So that's how it's headed.
00:44:56.580
Uh, and in the next 10, 15, 20 years, certainly 20 years from now, cable news will not exist.
00:45:02.940
In the meantime, though, it, it, it is still relevant and cable news and these, uh, and,
00:45:08.880
and the cable news, uh, and the media, the mainstream media in general still has
00:45:14.100
a lot of power and they have the ability to drive the narrative and they have the ability
00:45:19.720
to influence and sway elections. Um, so that is currently still the case, but it won't be for
00:45:28.620
long. Um, Michael says you were not banned from Fox. You were just uninteresting. Now I was definitely
00:45:36.140
banned and I still am. But my other question is, why would you think that being uninteresting
00:45:41.300
would mean that I wouldn't get on Fox? That's like, if anything, that's, that's one of the
00:45:47.140
things they're looking for. Have you, have you, have you watched Fox recently? You think that if
00:45:51.360
you're not interesting, they don't want you on? That's explain a lot of the content that you see
00:45:57.260
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Speaking of the mainstream media, it's hard to imagine this today, but there used to be a time
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in this country when people took the Washington Post seriously. They probably shouldn't have,
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you know, they certainly shouldn't have. The country would have been better off if they hadn't,
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but they did. And yet to be fair, this was, this was long before the Post hired theater kids to make
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TikToks, before Russia Gay, before Taylor Lorenz. So let's go back to the dark ages of the early
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1990s, when everyone got their news from papers like the Washington Post. That's when the Post ran
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a deep dive into a question that the whole country was asking at the time. Here's the headline,
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quote, is Prozac really the wonder drug for depression? The answer, according to the Post's
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rigorous reporting in that piece, seemed to be yes. The science was settled. Depression happens when
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you don't have enough serotonin. So if you give people more serotonin, they're happy. Plus,
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there were other benefits too. The Washington Post reported at the time, quote, while other
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antidepressants have been linked to weight gain, Prozac has been associated with weight loss,
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an advantage for some depressed people. What a breakthrough. Thanks to Prozac, you can stop
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wondering if you're sad and obese because of your life choices. You can get rid of both problems with
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just one pill. It took 30 years until we learned that from a medical perspective, none of that was
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true. Studies show that nearly half of patients gained significant weight on Prozac, and it turns out
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that Prozac didn't do much about depression either, which was supposed to be the point of the drug.
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Compared to 30 years ago, when 45 million Americans weren't taking Prozac, we had fewer suicides,
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fewer mass shootings, fewer overdoses back then. Why exactly didn't Prozac work as advertised? Well,
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it took until last year, which is a long time since the early 1990s, until we got some kind of
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explanation. Turns out that scientists had no clue what Prozac was doing in the first place.
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One of the leading journals in psychiatry determined that, quote,
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the main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association
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between serotonin and depression. That should have been a blockbuster story, but it was out of the
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news in less than a week. Who cares if we don't know what SSRIs do? They tell you, just shut up and
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take them. And give some to your kids too. That's their actual argument as of today. They lied about
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how it works, and there's no evidence that it does work. Take it anyway. And tens of millions of
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Americans are still doing just that. What explains that? Like, why are people still taking it? With opioids,
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there's a clear explanation. People became addicted based on lies from drug companies and doctors.
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But with Prozac, it's a lot less clear. Why are people of their own volition taking SSRIs to solve
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all their problems when even the pharma companies admit that the SSRIs don't work as advertised?
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These drugs have serious side effects, by the way. SSRIs can cause birth defects. They can kill your sex
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drive. They can make you agitated. And yet people are still taking them for no apparent benefit. Why?
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Whatever the answer to that question is, maybe people are desperate. Maybe they're badly
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misinformed by the billions of pharma ad dollars. Maybe it's something else. Maybe it's a combination.
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This is not an issue that's going away. Big Pharma's grift is now expanding far beyond SSRIs like Prozac.
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Consider the current wonder drug named Ozempic. You've probably heard the jingle. If you haven't,
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I'm not going to sing it for you. Ozempic began as a diabetes drug when it came to market a few years ago.
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Recently, though, Ozempic has transformed, in the words of NPR, into a blockbuster diet drug because
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people taking it noticed that they lost a lot of weight. This February, nearly 400,000 Ozempic
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prescriptions were filled. That's an increase of more than 100% from the previous year.
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According to NPR, that means Ozempic has had a rise to superstardom. They say it's a hot commodity.
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Run out and get your prescription today if you want to lose weight. Now, it's worth pausing for a
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moment to consider the irony of NPR, which runs a segment every day about how fat people are healthy
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and beautiful, now telling you to buy some Ozempic because, in truth, being fat is a disease that
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needs to be cured. The entire mainstream media tows this line. Being fat is good, and also being fat
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is a disorder that happens to you, and you have no control over it. Of course, both approaches are
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wrong. Fat positivity is a cult that kills hundreds of thousands of people, many of them probably NPR
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listeners. And being fat is obviously a choice, not an identity. You chose to be fat by eating too
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much. It's not something that happens to you like scoliosis or spina bifida. So what's really going
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on here? You know, anytime the media outlets spin two contradictory narratives at the same time,
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it's worth looking into a little bit further and figuring out why they're doing it. So what's the
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real reason they're promoting Ozempic? Keep in mind that Ozempic is not some anodyne substance that
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anyone can try out for a few months without a problem. It can kill you. This is straight from
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the Ozempic website. Quote, Ozempic may cause serious side effects, including possible thyroid
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tumors, including cancer. Spend five minutes on Reddit, you'll hear all kinds of stories from
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Ozempic patients about some of the other terrible side effects. One user wrote, quote, it made my burp
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smell and taste so ungodly disgusting. Think straight sulfur plus an outhouse at a NASCAR race in summer at
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the end of a race weekend. I'm not exaggerating that it was complete projectile vomiting out of my
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nose and mouth. It was an absolutely ungodly, horrible experience. Anna Toonk is a podcaster
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told one news outlet that she had a similar story on Ozempic. Quote, I had no energy, constant nausea,
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and what I call power puking. Now you wouldn't think a drug that induces power puking would be
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promoted by every media outlet in the country, but this one is. Just like Prozac, every day we're
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hearing about the miraculous Ozempic. The Atlantic is out with a new piece explaining that the wonder
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drug doesn't just cure diabetes and obesity, it also cures credit card debt and every other problem
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you can think of. Did scientists accidentally invent an anti-addiction drug, The Atlantic asks.
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According to the piece, quote, people taking Ozempic for weight loss say that they have also stopped
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drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting. Basically, it solves everything, but maybe acne.
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All her life, Victoria Rutledge thought of herself as somebody with an addictive personality. Her first
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addiction was alcohol. After she got sober in her early 30s, she replaced drinking with food and
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shopping, which she thought about constantly. She would spend $500 on organic groceries, only to have
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them go bad in her fridge. I couldn't stop from going to that extreme, she told me. When she ran errands
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at Target, she would impulsively throw extra things, candles, makeup, skincare products into her cart.
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Then this woman started taking a version of Ozempic, and suddenly, according to The Atlantic,
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all her problems went away. Quote, her food thoughts quieted down. She lost weight. But most surprisingly,
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she walked out of Target one day and realized her cart contained only the four things she came to buy.
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Another woman, Mary Marr, reported similar results. Marr said that she hopes to stay on Ozempic forever.
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Quote, it's incredibly validating, she told The Atlantic. It's incredibly validating.
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Medicine meant to affirm and validate. You know, there's a lot of that going around these days.
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Now, to be clear, there's no scientific basis that explains what, if anything, is happening here.
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Ozempic releases a hormone that tricks the pancreas into releasing more insulin, which sends
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signals to the brain that we don't fully understand. The Atlantic admits that, quote,
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the exact mechanism of weight loss is still unclear. Most intriguing, it also seems to reach and act
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directly on the brain. Now, the piece quotes a biologist saying that Ozempic's pseudo-hormones,
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quote, appear to actually bind to receptors on neurons in several parts of the brain.
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Prozac, it's supposed to solve a bunch of problems all at once, but no one's really sure how.
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Before Ozempic, Mary Marr and Victoria Rutledge just couldn't resist putting unnecessary garbage in
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their shopping cart at Target. Now they no longer have those inclinations, those thoughts.
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Those thoughts. Their thought process has been changed by a drug, and nobody seems interested in
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asking any questions about that. Like, how does that happen? What are the long-term effects of people
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flooding their bodies with Ozempic for 80 years? What other effects is this having on these users'
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personality or day-to-day interactions with other people? No one has any idea. There haven't been
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any long-term studies on this, just like there were no long-term studies on Prozac or cross-sex
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hormones for children. Ozempic might make people's lives worse in many ways, as Prozac did. We don't
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know. All we know is that people who are desperate for validation, for assurances that they're not
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responsible for their own actions, which is what they want validated, are welcome to load up on
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Ozempic. Take the pill. It'll make you feel better. Don't think about it. That's the pitch from Big Pharma.
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Now let's think about the implications of this for a moment. Assume that Ozempic works, just as
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The Atlantic is describing. If this drug stops people from shopping too much, then it has somehow
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mitigated the desire to shop. But that desire is a conscious thing in the mind, which means that
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the drug is, in a literal sense, manipulating people's thoughts. And of course, this is nothing
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new. All psychiatric drugs do this. But the mind itself is still, in many ways, a mystery to science.
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Like, the doctors that are prescribing things that affect your mind, they can't even tell you what
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exactly the mind is, or where it comes from, or how it works. Which means the doctors who prescribe
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this stuff don't know exactly how the drugs work, or what it means. And they can't grasp the full
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implications. We're treating people like machines, incapable of changing their own behavior, or engaging
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in self-control. And that's exactly how the system wants you to see yourself. You cannot fix this problem
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yourself. You know, if you're Victoria Rutledge, somehow, was Victoria Rutledge incapable of going
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to Target and only buying a couple things? Like, she couldn't, physically impossible? Or did it just
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require a little bit of effort and self-control that she didn't feel like generating? Think about
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every drug, and there are many of them, that warn about suicidal thoughts as a side effect. Ironically,
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Prozac, which is supposed to cure depression, has been known to drive people to suicide instead.
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This means that a drug is, a drug, here's what it means, that a drug is putting self-destructive
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thoughts into a person's mind. Suicidal people are not mere animals acting on instinct. They are,
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again, are conscious agents responding to thought processes. These drugs are in some way causing these
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thought processes. How does that work? How can a pill make a person want to kill themselves?
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How can a pill put in a person's mind the thought you should kill yourself? Nobody really knows.
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And yet they churn out the pills and the prescriptions anyway. You know, in ancient times,
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before medicine was more about marketing than healthcare, physicians knew to stay away from
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false panaceas like this. One expression was, leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the
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patient with food. Well, that's ancient wisdom. It's gone now. Now we heal patients' food problems
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with drugs from the chemist's pot. And we heal their shopping problems and their drinking problems
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too. 30 years from now, we might learn what we're actually doing to these people. But for now,
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Ozempic is canceled. And that'll do it for this part of the show as we move over to the members
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block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.