Ep. 1202 - The Media Is Still Lying About Michael Brown 9 Years Later. Here's Why.
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On August 9th, 2014, a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed an 18-year-old black man named Michael Brown. The media and Democratic Party honored Michael Brown yesterday on the 9th anniversary of his death. Incredibly, they are still repeating all of the same lies about this case, even after their false narrative has been completely debunked. Also, pro-lifers suffer a major defeat in Ohio. Now, the left, even some on the right, are saying that abortion is a losing issue for conservatives. And CNN excitedly reports on a new study which allegedly shows cosmetic double mastectomies for transidentified women have a zero regret rate. I will debunk this ridiculous study piece by piece today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media and Democrat Party honored Michael Brown yesterday
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on the ninth anniversary of his death. Incredibly, they're still repeating all of the same lies about
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this case, even after their false narrative has been completely debunked. Also, pro-lifers suffer
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a major defeat in Ohio. Now the left, even some on the right, are saying that abortion is a losing
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issue for conservatives. I'll explain why they're wrong. And CNN excitedly reports on a new study,
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which allegedly shows that top surgery, which is cosmetic double mastectomies for trans-identified
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women, have a zero percent regret rate. I will debunk this ridiculous study piece by piece
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gold to depend on. Again, text Walsh to 989898. Yesterday was the ninth anniversary of the lynching
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of a police officer named Darren Wilson. On the morning of August 9th, 2014, Wilson tried to detain
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18-year-old Michael Brown, who had just robbed a convenience store and attacked the store clerk.
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And that's when, according to the Obama DOJ, quote, Wilson and other witnesses stated that
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Brown reached into Wilson's SUV through the open driver's window and punched and grabbed Wilson.
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Investigators made the determination by observing, quote, bruising on Wilson's jaw and scratches
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on his neck, the presence of Brown's DNA on Wilson's collar, shirt, and pants, and Wilson's
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DNA on Brown's palm. Brown then tried to grab Wilson's gun. Wilson shot him. Brown ran away,
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then turned around and charged at Wilson. And Wilson fatally shot Brown in self-defense.
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Now, the Obama DOJ did everything it could to find some way to charge Darren Wilson. Yet those
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were their conclusions. Wilson did nothing wrong, much to the dismay of those who wished to sacrifice
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him on the altar of racial justice. Now, despite media reports, not a single witness ever claimed
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that Brown said, don't shoot. And all the witnesses who claimed that Brown's hands were in the air
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were either contradicted by the evidence or later recanted their testimony or both.
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Those are the factual details. And if you're so inclined, you can read the full DOJ report online
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and see it all laid out. What you can find online is what exactly happened to Darren Wilson.
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His name is never mentioned in the media. It's as if he never existed. The handful of reports on Wilson
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in recent years suggest that he's living a life of anonymity in the middle of nowhere and that he'll
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never be able to work as a police officer again. His life was destroyed. Nobody who defamed him as a
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racist killer ever apologized. Nobody who took part in the destruction of an innocent man's life was ever
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held accountable for it. In a country that cared about police officers or the truth or both, that
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would be a national scandal. But we don't live in a country like that. So instead, yesterday, the only
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name you heard on this anniversary was Michael Brown. They canonized him all over again. Here's how one
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local news report talked about the case. Listen. Happening right now, a ceremony to honor Michael
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Brown. He's the teenager shot and killed by a police officer after a confrontation. The shooting
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happened nine years ago today. Brown's death sparked protests in Ferguson and all across the country.
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This is a live picture from Canfield Drive, where it happened. Dozens of people have gathered to
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remember him. Just moments ago, they held a moment of silence for four and a half minutes,
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representing the four and a half hours Brown's body laid on the street after the shooting.
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The prosecutor later announced a grand jury had ruled the shooting was justified.
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Charges were never filed against the officer involved.
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A ceremony to honor Michael Brown, the teenager shot and killed by a police officer after a
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confrontation. That's how a news station, quote unquote, is talking about a thug who attacked
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a store clerk and then tried to kill a police officer. They don't mention any of those facts that we just
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reviewed because they're inconvenient. Instead, the news station informs you that Brown's body laid in
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the street for several hours after the shooting, as if that's somehow incriminating or even relevant.
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Of course, they leave out the fact that the mob that gathered made processing the crime scene so
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difficult that Ferguson had to call in the SWAT team to control the situation. They don't mention
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all the lies that the supposed witnesses told the media, like the false claim that Michael Brown had
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been shot in the back. That never happened. It wasn't just one news station that decided to lie
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yesterday about this. They all did it. Here's how the local Fox station described what happened. Listen.
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Welcome back to the 9 a.m. Today marks the ninth year since the passing of Michael Brown Jr.
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And this tragic incident was sparked an uproar, not only in Ferguson, but across our nation for change
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against police brutality and injustice faced by African-Americans. Again, without mentioning any
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details of what Michael Brown actually did, we're told this case has something to do with police
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brutality and injustices faced by African-Americans. That intro was followed by a sympathetic clip with
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Michael Brown's family. Apparently, Darren Wilson's family wasn't available. Maybe they're in
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hiding. We really don't know. What we can say for sure is that there weren't any memorial events
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honoring Darren Wilson yesterday in St. Louis. Instead, the city put on a series of events
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celebrating the legacy of the thug who robbed stores and attacked a police officer. Watch.
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Today marks nine years since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The metro area is honoring his
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life today with two memorial events. And our Sidney Stallworth is live in Clayton with today's tributes.
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Good morning, Sidney. Good morning, Michelle Rennie. On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was shot and killed
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in the streets of Ferguson following a confrontation with a Ferguson police officer. Now, his death
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sparked outrage in this community and far beyond, leading to demonstrations and calls for police reform
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nationwide. And in just a couple of hours, our community is going to honor Brown's life and legacy.
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Now, organizers for these events in his honor are acknowledging that this painful moment of our past
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can hopefully usher in a new future for our community. The first tribute will be held on
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Canfield Drive in Ferguson, where Michael Brown was shot and killed. A four and a half minute of
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silence will be held there at 1115 a.m. to remember the four and a half hours his body laid in the street.
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Michael Brown was shot and killed following a confrontation, the reporter tells us. So there's that
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word again. It was a confrontation. It doesn't imply any kind of fault by one side or the other.
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It doesn't tell you anything. It leaves you completely in the dark, which is the exact opposite
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of what the news media is supposed to do. They just want you to know that the community came together
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to, quote, honor Michael Brown's life and legacy. They don't bother explaining why Brown's life and
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legacy deserves to be honored. What exactly is his legacy? These so-called reporters, they know exactly what
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they're doing. They're lying on purpose about something that anybody with a Google can prove
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is a lie in about five seconds. That's all it takes. But obviously, none of these people can
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think for themselves. So the question becomes, where are they getting the idea to do it? Well,
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we know that the Obama administration benefited from lying about Michael Brown all the way back in
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2014, just as they benefited from lying about Trayvon Martin and all the other race hoaxes.
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That's why the Obama DOJ investigated Ferguson's police department and many other police departments
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and claimed that they must be racist because they pull over more black people than white people.
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It didn't matter to the DOJ, apparently, that Ferguson is an overwhelmingly black town,
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which might be the reason why more black people are pulled over. They just ran with that reasoning
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because they knew the city didn't have the money or the PR resources to fight them. In fact,
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when the city publicly announced that it disagreed with the Obama DOJ's ridiculous reasoning,
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the DOJ called the city racist again, just for daring to challenge their narrative. So you're
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racist. And if you deny that you're racist, then, well, that's just more evidence that you're racist.
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It's basically what the DOJ said. And again, that document is online if you want to read it.
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But it still doesn't answer the question of why now. I mean, why is the media still lying now,
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nine years later, about this shooting, when everyone knows they're lying?
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Well, it could be that they're still taking orders from the Democrat Party,
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which somehow has not given up on this lie. Squad benchwarmer Cori Bush tweeted yesterday,
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quote, today is the ninth anniversary of Mike Brown's killing. He would be alive today if the
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institutions of racism and white supremacy were eradicated. He should be alive today.
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We will never forget. We will continue to fight for justice and accountability.
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Of course, Ben Crump and various left-wing groups said more or less the same thing.
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But it's not just a couple of race-hustling lawyers and politicians from Missouri who are
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lying about Michael Brown. The Biden administration, at the highest levels, is also
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portraying Michael Brown as a hero. Again, even now, they're still doing it.
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This was the State Department's new equity representative speaking yesterday as Tony
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I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge that today is also the anniversary of the killing of
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Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black teenager whose death in Ferguson, Missouri,
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sparked a national outcry. His killing, two years after that of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin,
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was a pivotal moment in our country, prompting the need to affirm that black lives matter.
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A slogan that has gained global resonance, not only for people of African descent.
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Well, that's interesting. The State Department, which uses coordinated disinformation campaigns
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to inspire color revolutions overseas, with the express goal of overthrowing foreign governments,
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is now deliberately lying about a police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, from nine years ago.
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They're telling you that an unarmed black teenager was just murdered by a cop for no reason
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nine years after that narrative was completely and totally debunked.
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So why are they doing that? They know exactly how destabilizing that lie has been over the past
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decade. So take a look at this chart. It shows the rate of violent crime in Ferguson over the past
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few decades. And that's the red line that you can see on the chart. It also shows you how many cases
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police have solved in the city over the same period of time. And that's the green line. So you might
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notice some trends there. It's kind of hard to miss. You see a big bump in violent crime around 2014
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when the U.S. government decided to pretend that Michael Brown was a hero, while the number of
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violent crime cases actually solved goes drastically in the other direction. And you can find similar
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charts from every major American city that there is. I mean, in recent years, police were either
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defunded or scared away. No cop wants to be lynched for doing his job after all, and understandably so.
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And so predictably, cities got much more dangerous. A lot of people died.
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And it started with the Ferguson lie, which was the genesis of the modern BLM movement.
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Now, to the left, all those deaths were collateral damage. They think it was all worth it because the
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rise of BLM meant more political power for them. They recruited a mob of enforcers who could literally
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set entire communities on fire with impunity as a message to the rest of the country. They were able
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to demonize local police departments and power the FBI, which they controlled. And for the corporations
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who bankrolled Democrats, the rise of BLM was also a welcome diversion from rising populist sentiments
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in both parties. The lying about Ferguson, in that sense, isn't so remarkable. The State Department
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and the Democratic Party are pushing for an internal revolution here for the same reason they push for
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color revolutions elsewhere. They want to tear down the system of government that we have in this
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country. In our rule of law, in our traditions, they want to tear it all down. And they want to
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replace them with something very different, something equitable, as they would say, with them in charge,
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of course. So far, their strategy is working, we have to say. And it's a perfect example of how the
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left plays the long game. Okay, they've obtained total narrative control. Now, sure, their whole
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narrative was debunked when it comes to Michael Brown, when it comes to many of these BLM cases,
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completely debunked. But what do they care? They'll just keep repeating the lie year after year after
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year until eventually the other side gets tired of correcting it. And then what happens? Well,
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their version makes it into the history books. It does make you question how much of the stuff that
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you find in history books can actually be trusted. You know, if Cori Bush and the State Department and
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the entire media and Democrat Party can lie about something that we all remember,
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what happens when there's nobody left who remembers it? The unfortunate reality is that
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historical lies gain more power and momentum as time goes on and we move further away from the event
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they're lying about. The truth, however, doesn't have that kind of advantage. It doesn't benefit from
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been messaging me about and saying, why are you talking about this? Huh? Are you afraid to talk
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about it? Are you afraid? Which look, I mean, you can say what you want about me, throw whatever
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insult you want. I don't care. But you really can't accuse me of being afraid to talk about
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things. I, you know, I think at least I should get credit for that. If nothing else, I'll talk
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about anything. I'll tell you exactly what I think about any topic for better or worse. You'll,
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you'll just know how I feel about it. I think I've more than demonstrated that by now. So
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here's the story that I'm afraid to talk about. It's a major defeat for the pro-life movement
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in Ohio this week. Here's the APs. I'll read you the, the APs absurdly partisan report on this,
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um, story says Ohio voters resoundingly rejected a Republican backed measure that would have made it
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more difficult to change the state's constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the
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nation's latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide
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protections last year. The defeat of issue one on Tuesday keeps in place a simple majority
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threshold for passing future constitutional amendments rather than the 60% supermajority
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that was proposed. It's supporters said that the higher bar would protect the state's foundational
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document from outside interest groups. Voter opposition to the proposal was widespread,
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even spreading into traditionally Republican territory. In fact, in early return, support for the
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measure fell far short of former president Donald Trump's performance during the 2020 election
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in nearly every county. President Joe Biden hailed Tuesday's results, releasing a statement saying,
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this measure was a blatant attempt to weaken voters' voices and further erode the freedom of women to
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make their own healthcare decisions. Ohioans, uh, spoke loud and clear and tonight democracy won.
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While abortion was not directly on the special election ballot, the result marks the latest setback
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for Republicans in a conservative leaning state who favor imposing tough restrictions on the
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procedure. Ohio Republicans placed the question on the summer ballot in hopes of undercutting the
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citizen initiative that voters will decide in November that seeks to enshrine abortion rights
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in the state. Other states where voters have considered abortion rights since last year's Supreme Court ruling
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have protected them, including in red states such as Kansas and Kentucky. Okay, so, uh, this issue was about
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the procedure for amending the state constitution, but really, as everyone on both sides understood,
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it was really about abortion. And the defeat here means that, uh, it'll be much easier for abortion
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advocates to enshrine the right to baby murder in the state constitution in the future. And that fight
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will commence, well, now. I mean, it already has commenced. And yes, this is the latest in a series of,
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of, uh, referendums where voters in various states have come down on the side of killing babies. That is
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absolutely the case. So the dominant narrative now, which you hear on the left and the right
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is that ultimately the overturning of Roe is a disaster for conservatives because it has rallied
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the pro baby murder factions and sort of made this into a mobilizing issue for that side, just like the
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pro-life side, just like the pro-life issue used to be, used to be, they say, uh, a mobilizing issue
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for conservatives, but it isn't anymore because of, uh, of Roe v. Wade. I mean, this is the narrative
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anyway. And then of course the, the GOP's, uh, underperformance in 2022 is blamed on the Roe decision.
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Their predicted, uh, landslide defeats across the country in 2024 are also being blamed ahead of time
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on, on, on the same. Uh, what do I make of all this? Well, a few points. The first and most important
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is that even if overturning Roe, uh, v. Wade has had this cascading effect, and even if you can,
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if you can, if you can blame every conservative or Republican defeat, uh, over the last year and a
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half or so, if you can blame it all on the overturning of Roe, like, even if it was valid to do that,
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um, it, it would still be worth it. I mean, obviously worth it. Like, there's nothing to
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think about. So if you could convince me that all these things, it's all because, uh, Roe was
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overturned. And then you would ask me, well, are you still happy Roe was overturned? If you could go
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back and do it again, if you could, if you could, uh, you know, go back and change history, would you
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do it so that it wasn't overturned? Um, no, I wouldn't change history. Yes, I'm, I'm happy that it
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happened. Of course I am. Okay. Because we're saving babies from being killed. And that obviously
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takes priority over any other consideration, including political considerations. And this
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is really what it comes down to. Conservatives who are lamenting that Supreme Court decision now
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have only revealed that they are actually fundamentally pro-abortion themselves. So every
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single conservative that you see who is, uh, is, is, you know, openly lamenting it,
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this is what happened now because Roe was overturned and making it so much harder for Republicans.
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Those are all pro, even if they don't admit it, they're pro-abortion conservatives because,
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which is actually not possible to be pro-abortion conservative. Because if you aren't pro-abortion,
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if you're actually pro-life, then you believe that unborn babies are people,
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people like you and me. And so obviously you want to overturn a court decision that enshrined
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the murder of these people as a constitutional right. Obviously you do that and you let the
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chips fall where they may, but there's no question that you do it. You have to do it.
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Um, you do whatever you can to save these children.
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And if you believe they are children, right? Apparently lots of conservatives have bought into
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the clumps of cells thing. And there's also no question by the way, that, that thousands of
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lives have been saved by the overturning of Roe. You can, you can listen, even as on the left,
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they celebrate, uh, these victories and they say, ah, you see this, this, this is all backfiring on you
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at the same time. They will also, so one minute they're pub, there's a headline about how this is
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all backfiring on Republicans. And it's actually a great boon for, uh, for the left and for liberals and
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Democrat party. But then the next minute they'll publish a headline, uh, talking about, uh, in very
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apocalyptic tones about how, Oh my goodness, more babies are being born now. And there's all these
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women to give us all these horror stories about women who, uh, didn't have access to quote abortion
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care. And so now they, they, uh, uh, dear God, they had to have their baby rather than killing the
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baby. And now the baby is alive rather than dead. So even they will acknowledge that there are lots of
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abortions that would have happened and did not because Roe was overturned. That's just not,
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that's not even, uh, debatable. Like thousands of lives have been saved. Thousands of children's
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lives have been saved by the overturning of Roe. Any cost is worth it. It's hard for me to think of
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a cost that wouldn't be worth it. When, when you are, when you are, um, doing something that certainly
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doesn't end, but greatly, uh, reduces a Holocaust. Okay. This is a Holocaust of children that has been
00:22:32.840
happening in our country for decades. It's the Holocaust of the unborn. And again, if you believe
00:22:40.380
that these are actually people, which of course they are, because what else could they be if not
00:22:46.600
people, then whatever needs to be done to prevent it is just must be done. Starting of course with
00:22:55.800
overturning that, uh, absurd decision. Now, second, I don't buy that every Republican defeat ties back
00:23:04.160
to the Roe decision. Uh, we lost in 2022 because there were a lot of bad candidates who ran bad
00:23:10.640
campaigns and Republicans didn't stay on message. They didn't even know what their message was.
00:23:15.920
Did Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania lose because of Roe? The guy's pro abortion. Is that what,
00:23:20.800
is that why he lost? No, he lost because he's a bad candidate. One of many. And if the Republicans
00:23:26.640
nominate bad candidates again, then we're going to lose again. That's why I say we should be single
00:23:31.180
issue voters in the primary, because the only thing that matters is whether the candidate can beat
00:23:35.160
the Democrat in the general. Everything else is irrelevant. It's a moot point. If he's not going to
00:23:39.380
actually get into office third, and here's the really important point, abortion is a winning
00:23:49.140
issue for conservatives, but you have to know how to argue it. Okay. It's not automatically a winning
00:23:57.520
issue. No issue is automatically a winning issue. It all depends on how you argue it, how you fight for
00:24:02.700
it. So as an example, as an analogy, for a long time, you probably will recall this, for a long
00:24:13.640
time, we were told that all things LGBT, right? LGBT, trans, all that stuff, gender, for a very long
00:24:21.520
time, we were told that those are all losers for conservatives. That whole territory, okay? The whole
00:24:28.240
territory that is claimed under the rainbow, the ever expanding and getting uglier rainbow flag,
00:24:33.980
that whole territory is, you can't, don't go anywhere near it because you're going to lose.
00:24:38.980
You step onto that territory, you're going to lose that battle every time. That's what we were told
00:24:42.640
for years. Nobody says that anymore. In fact, now it's the opposite. Now the left complains that
00:24:50.580
conservatives are using the pride flag and using LGBT issues because it's just so easy for them. It's red
00:25:00.160
meat, which is a very interesting complaint because it was the opposite of that for years.
00:25:07.600
For years, it was the opposite of red meat. It was like, you don't touch it. It's toxic, toxic meat.
00:25:11.540
And so we were told that it's a loser. And now we've seen that it's not. Fighting back against
00:25:22.160
the LGBT cult is not a loser for conservatives. You just have to know how to fight it. And so
00:25:27.760
conservatives were fighting the wrong way. They didn't know how to fight it. They were too afraid
00:25:32.040
to fight it the right way. And so they lost. I mean, they lost mostly because they weren't even engaging.
00:25:36.800
So it's the same with the abortion issue. You have to fight on the abortion issue the same way we do
00:25:45.220
with the LGBT stuff. And here's how you do it. I'll tell you how. You expose the other side as
00:25:54.460
incoherent and extreme. That's how you win. How do you do that? Well, I'll tell you. Abortion comes up
00:26:03.800
in a debate. Say it's a political debate, a candidate debate. And you want to expose the
00:26:10.380
other side as incoherent and extreme. This is exactly what we've done with LGBT, trans.
00:26:15.860
We've exposed it as incoherent and extreme to the point where that's how it's branded now in most
00:26:21.940
people's minds. They see the pride flag and they think this is an incoherent, extreme thing. That's
00:26:26.520
what they think. And it is and it always was that. And we expose that. How do we do that with the
00:26:32.840
abortion issue? Well, it's very simple. You only need to ask three questions.
00:26:37.940
So you throw these three questions at your opponent if you're in a debate.
00:26:42.320
One, is an unborn child a person? Two, what is a person? And three, should it be legal to abort a
00:26:54.020
child five seconds before the child is born? Those three questions are all you need.
00:26:59.200
Because your opponent, if he wants to protect the right to an abortion,
00:27:05.180
will have to answer no to the first. He'll have to say, an unborn child is not a person. It's a
00:27:10.600
fetus. A fetus is not a person. He's going to have to say that. And then you ask him, okay, well,
00:27:16.520
then what is a person? So he's not a person. How do you define person? He won't be able to give you
00:27:21.880
an answer to that question. Nobody on the pro-abortion side can tell you what a person is.
00:27:27.760
So you see, there's a very familiar strategy being used here. But that's because it works.
00:27:34.280
And when there's a fundamental incoherence in your opponent's viewpoint, sometimes the most basic
00:27:39.440
questions can expose it. And so for LGBT, it's what is a woman? For abortion, it's what is a person?
00:27:47.280
They can't define it. They will not be able to. They're not going to be able to come up with a
00:27:53.260
coherent, non-arbitrary definition of person that will successfully exclude every person in the womb.
00:28:02.400
They can't do it. But then, of course, well, okay, so you said a fetus is not a person,
00:28:07.560
but you don't know what a person is. So how do you know the fetus isn't a person?
00:28:11.340
So according to you, actually, so you don't really know. Obama famously said years ago that it's above
00:28:16.740
my pay grade to answer that. So it's above your pay grade. You don't really know. So even according
00:28:20.200
to you, the quote unquote fetus could be a person, is what you're saying, because you don't know what
00:28:25.080
a person is. And it's above your pay grade, and you're not really sure, and it's up for debate.
00:28:29.320
So even by your own logic, abortion could be the mass slaughter of 60 million people.
00:28:38.400
That's as far as you can go with your argument. You can't even deny that it's the Holocaust
00:28:43.160
of 60 million people. You can only say that, well, it might not be, or it might be.
00:28:49.800
And then finally, the last question, you know, can you abort a quote unquote fetus five seconds
00:28:54.840
before birth? He's going to have to say yes to that, because if he says no, well, no,
00:29:01.480
you're not five seconds before. Okay, what about 10 seconds before? What about 10 minutes before?
00:29:05.620
What about 10 days before? So how far does this go back, and where do you draw the line?
00:29:09.420
And so he understands that. If he says, well, no, you can't abort a child five seconds before birth,
00:29:16.240
that raises all kinds of other questions he doesn't want to answer. And so he has to take
00:29:20.940
the position, as almost everybody on that side of the issue has taken by now, that yes, abortion
00:29:26.200
should be fine up to the moment of birth, and sometimes far beyond that.
00:29:31.060
So just with those three questions, we've exposed the movement as incoherent. They don't even know
00:29:35.620
what a person is, yet they're sure that a fetus is not a person. How does that make sense? And also
00:29:40.040
extreme, they think it should be okay to kill a baby, fully developed, that can easily survive
00:29:47.880
outside the womb five seconds before birth. So why do, just to summarize this lengthy discussion,
00:29:57.220
why do Republicans appear to lose on this issue? Well, it's because very rarely do they do what I
00:30:09.060
just described. When's the last time, and it's not like it's never happened, but how many times can
00:30:14.640
you remember in a debate with a Republican where they do exactly what I just said, where they turn
00:30:20.240
to the other side and say, hey, I got a few questions for you. Can you answer these basic questions?
00:30:23.040
Almost never happens. Instead, here's what happens. They allow themselves, like idiots,
00:30:29.480
to get backed into a corner, to be in the defensive position, and they allow for the entire conversation
00:30:35.580
to revolve around hard cases, rape, incest, life of the mother, and the entire discussion becomes about
00:30:40.540
that. They never manage to find a way to get out of that, get out of the corner, get back on the
00:30:49.880
offense and say, hey, okay, you want to talk about the 1% of all cases, the extreme cases? We can talk
00:30:54.260
about that. But before we talk about the 1%, let's get to the 99% issue, okay? Let's talk about that
00:30:58.140
first. So I'm not going to say a word about the 1% cases until you answer a few questions about the
00:31:02.600
99% of cases. How about that? You answer these questions, we can go right back to the, you want
00:31:06.920
to talk about rape, incest, life of the mother? We can do that, perfectly fine. Before we do that,
00:31:11.660
I need you to answer some really basic questions about the issue itself. You almost never see
00:31:18.320
Republicans doing that. And the reason they don't do it is because they're, you know,
00:31:23.900
a lot of Republican politicians, frankly, aren't smart enough to even think of these things. And
00:31:27.080
second, they're so terrified of the issue that they just want it to be over. It was just the
00:31:31.920
same thing with LGBT for so long. The moment that it came up, you could tell they're so terrified of
00:31:36.000
it, they just want it to be over. You could tell they're just, it's the moment it comes up in a
00:31:39.420
debate, a discussion. They, you know, curl up in a fetal position and pun not intended, but they
00:31:49.000
curl up into a fetal position and they just want it to be over so they can move on to something they're
00:31:53.520
more comfortable talking about. All right. Tragic situation in Hollywood. TV line reports the SAG-AFTRA
00:32:02.900
strike is already putting a squeeze on actors' finances, even for an Emmy winner. Billy Porter,
00:32:08.640
who shot to fame and won an Emmy on the FX drama Pose, now says he has to sell his house due to the
00:32:14.360
financial strain of the strike. I have to sell my house, he tells the UK's Evening Standard,
00:32:18.980
because we're on strike. I don't know if that quote was really necessary. It just literally
00:32:22.820
restates exactly what we said in the sentence before. So this is bad writing, but it doesn't
00:32:25.880
matter. For an artist like Porter, quote, until you make FU money, which I haven't made yet,
00:32:32.520
life is still paycheck to paycheck, he says. I was supposed to be in a new movie and on a new
00:32:36.640
television show starting in September. None of that is happening. This is a tragic story.
00:32:41.660
Billy Porter, I mean, this is the face of the tragedy unfolding in Hollywood right now.
00:32:48.980
Okay, while you continue on with your lives, totally ignoring this horrific tragedy that is
00:32:56.900
happening right now in Hollywood, and you have men like, excuse me, thems like Billy Porter,
00:33:02.160
whatever he identifies as, who are, were supposed to be in a movie in September, and now the movie's
00:33:11.300
been delayed. Terrible, terrible stuff. Porter also took a shot at the anonymous Hollywood
00:33:17.480
executive who told Deadline that the goal was to drag out the strike until writers and actors were
00:33:21.600
forced to sell their homes. Quote, so to the person who said, we're going to starve them out until they
00:33:27.520
have to sell their apartments. Well, you've already starved me out. He's not putting himself in the best
00:33:33.640
negotiating position here. And he goes on and says, to hear Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, say that our
00:33:45.100
demands for a living wage are unrealistic while he makes $78,000 a day, I don't have any words for it,
00:33:50.580
but F you. That's not useful, so I have to keep my mouth shut. I haven't engaged because I'm so
00:33:55.560
enraged. Yes, Billy Porter just wants a living wage. So now we're being told that Billy, that an
00:34:01.800
Emmy-winning actor is not making a living wage, according to them. For those who don't recall,
00:34:10.240
here's what Billy Porter looks like. I think we have the, let's put that picture up. So that's just
00:34:14.160
what he looks like. Uh, this guy's not making a living wage, he tells us. So maybe if he spent
00:34:19.800
less money, you know, dressing up like, uh, the evil queen from Narnia, uh, maybe he'd have enough
00:34:25.560
money to pay for his home. Maybe he could pay his mortgage if he wasn't spending it on whatever the
00:34:30.720
hell that is. Just a thought. But there are a lot of stories like this, these tales of woe,
00:34:35.360
uh, that are coming out of Hollywood. And the problem for these Hollywood actors and writers
00:34:40.940
as the, as the strike, uh, lingers on and, you know, it's going on for many months now.
00:34:48.820
And in many of these reports, they're kind of complaining that there's not like nobody cares,
00:34:52.760
but no one's paying attention to them. And the reason for this was two reasons. First of all,
00:34:57.440
so this is, this is all self-inflicted. You've chosen to, uh, you've chosen to go on strike.
00:35:04.400
You don't have to, but you did. Um, well, really three reasons. Second reason is the obvious one
00:35:10.100
that many of these people that are on the picket line are like millionaires. So it's a little bit
00:35:14.500
hard to feel sorry for them. And then, and then third, you're asking for sympathy from people
00:35:20.080
who have never received any from you. Um, because when have any of these people shown any concern
00:35:28.600
for our wellbeing? I saw someone, you know, bring up this point on Twitter. I don't remember who, but
00:35:33.660
it would be very interesting to go back and I'm sure we could, and I don't know if Billy Porter,
00:35:40.300
I'm going to assume that Billy Porter is probably part of this, but it'd be very interesting to go
00:35:44.640
back and find these actors that are complaining because they want more money or whatever. And
00:35:49.800
they're asking for everyone's sympathy and find what they were saying during the COVID lockdowns
00:35:55.200
and how many of them were in, uh, doing PSAs when they were telling us all to, well, just stay home,
00:36:02.800
give up your job. It doesn't matter if you're not making money. We're all in this together.
00:36:06.500
Remember, we're all in this together. And they said that while they continued working the entire time.
00:36:15.480
And now they come to us begging for sympathy and, uh, there's just not much
00:36:19.060
that we can provide, unfortunately for them. Daily Wire has this report. Monique Worrell lashed
00:36:24.960
out on Wednesday morning after Florida Republican governor, Ron DeSantis suspended her from office
00:36:29.580
as state attorney for the ninth judicial circuit for dereliction of duty and incompetence.
00:36:35.360
Uh, DeSantis said that Worrell, who was backed by a group tied to Democrat billionaire George Soros
00:36:39.640
has allowed murderers, other violent offenders and dangerous drug traffickers to receive extremely
00:36:44.160
reduced sentences and escape the full consequences of their criminal conduct.
00:36:47.860
The policies and practices mentioned in the executive order that led to her suspension
00:36:51.860
include, uh, avoiding minimum mandatory sentences for gun crimes, avoiding minimum mandatory sentences
00:36:57.580
for drug traffic offenses, allowing juvenile offenders to avoid serious charges and incarceration
00:37:02.040
altogether, avoiding valid and applicable sentencing enhancements, limiting charges for child
00:37:08.260
pornography, and seeking, uh, withhold of, uh, adjudication in situations not permitted under Florida law.
00:37:15.720
And that's why she was, um, suspended from office by DeSantis. But she's not happy about this,
00:37:23.780
as you can imagine. And she said at a press conference following her suspension that her office did,
00:37:27.680
did things unconventionally, quote unquote, they're being unconventional, you know, not prosecuting
00:37:33.280
criminals, uh, sending dangerous people back on, back on, out onto the streets so they can kill and
00:37:38.900
maim more people. They're just, it's just an unconventional, unorthodox approach is all.
00:37:45.560
You know, being lenient on child pornographers, that's a, just an unconventional approach.
00:37:51.900
Which of course, by the way, it's also these days not unconventional. It's actually quite
00:37:56.620
conventional in these major cities and, and by these, uh, Soros DAs. Um, she claimed that DeSantis
00:38:04.060
was a dictator who has implemented tyranny and has single-handedly destroyed democracy in the state
00:38:09.260
of Florida. Worrell said that while her legal team is prepared to fight her suspension through the
00:38:13.980
legal system, but did not believe that she would be successful because the courts have been assembled
00:38:18.400
by the governor, the legislature has a supermajority in favor of the governor. Uh, so she's very upset,
00:38:24.340
but she's been kicked out of office, uh, because she wasn't doing her job.
00:38:27.720
And that's great news. And this is not the first time that DeSantis has done this.
00:38:34.700
And, and I would hope that no matter who you support in the primaries, um,
00:38:41.040
everyone should be looking at this and saying, yes, this is good. This is what we need all
00:38:48.040
Republicans to be doing. This is what every Republican governor should be doing. So we should
00:38:52.000
be turning to every other Republican governor in, in the country and saying, okay, how many Soros
00:38:57.700
DAs have you suspended? And if the answer is none, well, we better find out that there are no
00:39:03.920
Soros DAs in your entire state. Uh, and it, and, but there almost certainly are because they're all
00:39:10.100
over the place. It's an infestation. And, uh, so if there are, and you haven't suspended any,
00:39:16.060
well, that's a problem. And we need, we need to be turning to other Republican presidential candidates
00:39:22.420
and saying, this is what we need to see from you. This is what you need to promise to do.
00:39:26.720
This is what you need to actually do. If you're lucky enough to become president, you need to
00:39:31.740
start firing people, like rooting out the corrupt people within the bureaucracy and getting rid of
00:39:38.840
them. Lots of them sending them on the unemployment line so that they are, they are, and we should
00:39:46.060
know that you're doing it. And we will know that you're doing it when you do it, because they're
00:39:48.640
going to, they're going to, there's going to be a bunch of press conferences where they're going
00:39:51.560
to complain and they're going to cry and they're going to say, this is terrible. It's tyranny.
00:39:56.640
This is what we need to see. This is what draining the swamp actually looks like.
00:40:02.420
Okay. It's not just a slogan, or at least it shouldn't be.
00:40:07.320
Because when we talk about the swamp, we are referring to actual people in positions of power.
00:40:13.880
In many cases who were not, who were not voted into those positions. Sometimes they were,
00:40:19.680
sometimes they're not. But in your bureaucracy, you get both. And, but these are actual people
00:40:26.020
who are corrupt, who are abusing their power, misusing their power. And the way that you drain
00:40:32.440
that swamp, whether it's a swamp in Florida or, or in DC, whatever level we're talking about
00:40:38.560
is by identifying those actual human beings and getting rid of them, firing them.
00:40:50.740
All right. Finally, this is kind of petty, I admit, but it does raise some questions for me.
00:40:56.220
Some questions I find perplexing. Mike Pence, who is also running for president,
00:41:00.600
put out an ad where he hits Biden over gas prices. So far, so good. Makes sense.
00:41:05.700
Well, they decided they wanted to get Pence on film at the gas pump. And that's where things get a
00:41:12.240
little bit confusing. Let's watch this ad. Hey, everybody. Mike Pence here. Remember $2 a gallon
00:41:19.260
gas? I do. And then Joe Biden became president of the United States and launched his war on energy.
00:41:26.160
Since that time, gasoline prices are up 60%. Electricity prices are up 25%.
00:41:32.040
Joe Biden's war on energy is causing real hardship for working families, small businesses and family
00:41:38.100
farms. But we've got a plan to relieve all of that. We just unveiled the Pence Energy Plan that'll not
00:41:43.860
only put our country back on a path to energy independence, but by 2040, we will reclaim America's
00:41:50.520
role as the leading producer of energy in the world. Join us in the fight for American energy leadership
00:41:57.360
leadership by going to MikePence2024.com. We can lead the world once again to a more prosperous and a
00:42:04.700
secure future for America with energy independence and American energy leadership.
00:42:11.900
OK, well, Mike Pence about to drive down the road and break down when he runs out of gas because he
00:42:16.900
didn't pump any gas there. And I don't mean to get tentacle, but that's just not how pumping gas
00:42:21.480
works. You heard the beeping in the background the entire time because that's the pump beeping at him
00:42:25.360
saying, you got to pay first. You got to pay first, you bum. You can't, you got to pay for this.
00:42:30.100
That's what the pump is saying. You can't just get right out of your car and then grab the pump and
00:42:34.960
put it in and expect anything to happen. You got to do your credit card. You got to hit all the
00:42:38.340
buttons and all that. And then when you do pump the gas, you actually have to, you need to hold the
00:42:41.300
lever down in order to pump the gas. Otherwise, there's no gas that can come out and it's not going to
00:42:45.740
work. So here's what I'm trying to figure out. This is, again, a little pedantic, but you decide you want
00:42:54.320
to get a video. You're in the Pence campaign. You want to get a video of Pence doing something normal
00:42:59.780
so that voters will resonate with it. Hey, he pumps gas like I do. He's at a gas pump. I've been to a
00:43:05.220
gas pump. He puts gas in his car. I put gas in my car. He should be president. And I don't really
00:43:12.400
get it. I don't think this is the kind of thing that works. I don't think voters think this way.
00:43:17.660
Donald Trump has probably never pumped gas in his entire, can you imagine Donald Trump at a gas pump?
00:43:21.720
He's probably never pumped gas in his entire life. And his supporters don't care about that.
00:43:27.500
I think people don't care that much about that in the end.
00:43:30.780
Anyway, I think the relatability is maybe one of the biggest fallacies in politics. I actually don't
00:43:36.560
think that, especially when it comes to presidents, that people care about relatability. They don't need
00:43:40.740
to feel like they relate to the person. They got to feel like this person is a leader. This person
00:43:44.380
could take care of these problems. And that doesn't mean being able to relate to them.
00:43:49.420
So, but still, I mean, campaigns have often think that they need to do this. And so Pence is doing
00:43:56.760
that thing. But then the Pence campaign makes the same mistake that many campaigns make when they
00:44:01.960
have the candidate do the normal thing, but then they don't bother making sure that he's doing the
00:44:06.760
normal thing correctly. So it's like the thing where the candidate's at a grill. Hey, you caught me
00:44:13.420
here just barbecuing for the family and having a little barbecue. And then you look at the spatula and
00:44:17.780
the price tag is still hanging off of it. And there's still crease marks in the apron because
00:44:22.080
you could tell they just bought it from, from, you know, from Lowe's three hours ago. And the
00:44:29.260
meat's not even sizzling on the grill because they didn't heat it up before they put the meat on
00:44:33.280
and all that. So it's like, you're going to do this at least just a little bit of effort to make
00:44:37.840
it look believable. Otherwise, what's the point? It's just the same thing here. How is there nobody in
00:44:42.560
the Pence campaign? There's at least a few people involved in this ad, I would think.
00:44:47.040
And nobody said to him, hey, well, let's just, you know, like, let's go through the whole process.
00:44:50.660
You put the credit card in, pull the gas out. We're not going to have that beeping sound in
00:44:54.340
the background in that case. Actually pump the gas. I just, I don't get it. These basic mistakes
00:45:01.640
that campaigns make. And I am no, I'm not suggesting anyone should hire me to be on their campaigns.
00:45:09.420
Not that I'd ever want to be on anyone's campaign. I'm not going to pretend that I'm some sort of like
00:45:14.360
political whiz kid, but these basic things I understand at least. So if you're going to do
00:45:21.640
the relatability thing, just make sure you're doing it correctly. That's all I'm asking. Okay. That's
00:45:39.420
Okay. So yesterday, one of the things we talked about is there's a video of a woman who's still
00:45:45.480
very terrified of COVID, but she wants, she's in a little bit of a quandary. She's in a,
00:45:49.620
she's in a pickle because she wants to see the new Barbie film because she's a great feminist,
00:45:54.280
she says. But at the same time, we're still in a pandemic after all. And so she decided that she's
00:46:01.120
going to rent out an entire theater and invite only a certain number of people so they can socially
00:46:04.760
distance and everybody's going to wear N95s and you can't scratch your nose and you have to leave
00:46:08.940
the theater to scratch your nose during the movie and all the rest of it. So we played that video
00:46:12.320
and some comments are related to that. Sir Greedy says, strongly disagree, Matt. This isn't fear of
00:46:19.240
death. These people are control freaks. I think it's an interesting comment because you say that as if
00:46:25.480
these two things are mutually exclusive, which of course they aren't. Being a control freak,
00:46:31.940
I think, not to get too psychological here, but I think being a control freak is very often rooted
00:46:37.900
in a fear of death, especially when it comes to things like COVID. The kind of control freak thing
00:46:42.560
that we've seen with COVID and for these people who are still clinging onto it, yeah, they're control
00:46:48.740
freaks and they're also power hungry, but why are they that? Like, what do they get out of that? And I
00:46:56.200
think ultimately, so maybe not entirely this, but ultimately it's a fear of death.
00:47:01.940
People like this, that's why all the stuff like the putting up the plastic dividers, I mean,
00:47:11.520
all these things during COVID that looking back on it now look insane. And in fact, looking at it at
00:47:16.400
the time also looked insane. It was insane the entire time. So all these sort of things, it was all
00:47:22.060
about feeling like you had control over the situation, feeling like you could control things you really
00:47:29.460
couldn't. And so when they require that you put on a mask, even if they put on a cloth mask and
00:47:36.920
everyone knew that this is not really doing anything, but you feel like you're taking control
00:47:41.780
of the situation. Another comment says, it's really concerning that we still live in a society where
00:47:46.960
there are people that still insist on wearing masks. I'm just utterly speechless when it comes to
00:47:50.980
the U.S. anymore and how far we've come and where we are now. Just astonishing, really.
00:47:56.320
Yeah, I kind of go back and forth on this because I don't know, is it more concerning
00:48:01.720
that some people wear masks or that so few people do? And let me explain what I mean by that. I'm not
00:48:12.240
saying that people need to start wearing masks. What I mean is, I assumed, I think like a lot of people,
00:48:17.480
I thought that all the, with all the masks mandates going on, you know, and during that
00:48:22.840
whole time, and I often said how it's broken people's brains and you see people walking around
00:48:27.300
outside with masks on and driving in the cars with masks and all the rest of it. And I thought that
00:48:31.740
when the mask mandates went away, that many more people, which I thought that like half the country
00:48:38.100
would keep wearing masks because their brains have been broken by this. And they would, the hypochondria
00:48:43.120
and everything, it's not just going to go away because the mask mandates went away. And so that's what I
00:48:47.040
thought was going to happen. And that hasn't happened. I mean, certainly half the country
00:48:50.240
is not wearing masks. And at one level, that's good because I don't want to walk around and see
00:48:54.080
a bunch of idiots wearing masks. But at another level, to look at it like from the pessimistic
00:48:59.600
angle, you know, to see the black cloud within the silver lining, which is my specialty, what that
00:49:05.780
means is that all these people were wearing masks, not because they'd been convinced that they
00:49:12.160
really needed to in order to save their lives. I mean, that would make them gullible,
00:49:17.360
but they were wearing it out of pure obedience. And so the moment they were told you take it off,
00:49:24.560
everyone just took it off. Pure obedience. It was like, no one was even convinced by this.
00:49:29.020
It was just obedience. And they needed the, you know, it's like at airports, you know, airports and
00:49:34.740
airplanes were the, one of the last holdouts when it came to the masks. And I'd walk around here,
00:49:41.880
you know, it's true on an airplane. Like you had to just wait, they would kick you off the plane.
00:49:45.180
If you wanted to be on an airplane, you had to wear the mask. Otherwise they would just kick you
00:49:47.440
off and you wouldn't be able to fly. But in airports, I did a lot of traveling all throughout COVID.
00:49:52.620
And, um, and in airports, you had to, technically they had a policy saying you had to wear masks.
00:49:58.880
I never did wear it in an airport. And I was only, only, I only got yelled at once. And I just
00:50:04.780
ignored that person and kept walking because they were working at like a, someone working at a
00:50:08.240
Cinnabon or something and yelled at me. You have no control. You have no power here. Cinnabon guy.
00:50:13.220
Um, so you didn't even like in these contexts where you could have, yeah, technically there was a
00:50:17.640
policy saying you had to wear it, but you could have just not worn it. And I didn't, a lot of people
00:50:23.060
didn't, but all these people did, they, they needed, they needed someone in a position of authority
00:50:28.640
to say, okay, it's okay for you to not wear it now. And then they just stopped. So again,
00:50:35.500
it's good. People are wearing it, but the fact that people were able to switch that flip so quickly
00:50:42.660
just shows that rather than have they having been officially brainwashed, it's in fact that people
00:50:49.180
were simply being unthinkingly obedient. And I'm not even sure if that's more encouraging. I think,
00:50:57.800
uh, I'm not sure how to make sense of it all. All right. Uh, and finally, of course,
00:51:04.540
we have to throw this comment in it as well. Ghastly Cretan says, how can you be so concerned
00:51:10.080
about getting a flu, but at the same time, eat yourself into morbid obesity? Um, and that was
00:51:14.480
the point about that video that I don't even think I said out loud because it felt, yeah, it's just like,
00:51:18.760
we're, we're so used to that by now, is it the, the, all throughout COVID and even now people that
00:51:24.100
are, the people that are still, the people that are still hanging onto the masks. And then you look
00:51:28.580
at them and you say, well, there are so many other, if you're concerned about your health, good, good to
00:51:32.520
be concerned about your health. There's so many other things that are threatening you right now
00:51:37.220
that are not COVID. I mean, COVID's like number a million on that list and things that you could
00:51:43.300
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There are many ways to spread a lie. You can simply tell people things that aren't true. You
00:52:51.340
can deny things that are true. Lies come in many forms, but if you want your lie to be accepted
00:52:55.420
as gospel and reported by every mainstream media outlet, then the best way to tell it
00:52:59.400
is through a study. And if you listen to the show, you know that I've spent a lot of time trying
00:53:04.240
to explain why you can't blindly trust the results of a study just because it calls itself a study.
00:53:09.940
But this is what many people do. As long as they, as long as the study confirms what they already
00:53:13.500
believed ahead of time, then they will just accept the study uncritically. And this uncritical
00:53:18.120
willingness to believe and cite studies almost always without reading them, which means without
00:53:22.660
knowing its methodology and limitations, means that any alleged researcher with an agenda can rig his
00:53:28.160
research to say whatever he wants it to say, assured that nobody will notice or call him on it.
00:53:32.000
If he wants it to say exactly what the media and other powerful institutions want it to say,
00:53:37.200
then he can be even more assured that his results will be accepted without skepticism by a bunch of
00:53:41.480
credulous partisan hacks who see science not as a method for understanding the physical world,
00:53:45.960
but as a shiny gloss to cover their preconceived ideological beliefs.
00:53:49.900
In other words, I am not always impressed with studies. And today, my skepticism has been vindicated
00:53:55.540
yet again. CNN reports excitedly about a new study which finds that, quote,
00:54:00.940
transgender and non-binary patients have no regrets about top surgery. No regrets at all. None.
00:54:09.300
Which would mean that top surgery, a cosmetic double mastectomy to remove healthy breasts,
00:54:14.660
stands alone as the one single human decision that nobody ever regrets, ever at all.
00:54:20.640
Already, this is starting to feel just a tad bit dubious, but let's continue. CNN reports, quote,
00:54:28.900
some arguments in favor of laws that restrict gender-affirming care claim that patients may
00:54:32.940
someday regret any irreversible or semi-irreversible part of their transition. But a small new study found
00:54:38.860
that satisfaction with one such surgery is significant, even over the long term. The study
00:54:43.220
published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery shows that people who had a gender-affirming
00:54:47.360
mastectomy, sometimes called top surgery, had extremely low rates of decisional regret and
00:54:52.880
extremely high levels of satisfaction with their decision to have the procedure. The results are,
00:54:57.780
quote, overwhelmingly positive compared to other medical and non-medical decisions, the study said.
00:55:02.320
Now, we're then told that the, quote, median satisfaction with decision scale score was five
00:55:08.160
on a five-point scale, indicating the highest possible level of satisfaction. The median decision regret
00:55:13.700
scale score was zero on a 100-point scale, meaning not a single patient regretted their choice to have
00:55:20.220
the surgery. Later, CNN notes that some studies differ slightly from these results. They admit that.
00:55:26.980
One review of multiple studies they tell us finds that the rate of regret is one percent. So it's either
00:55:33.100
zero percent or one percent. Imagine that. To put this into perspective, you will find higher rates of
00:55:41.800
regret among women who get double mastectomies for breast cancer, like actual life-saving procedures.
00:55:49.220
The number of people who regret getting tattoos is more than 10 times the number who supposedly regret
00:55:54.100
having their healthy breasts removed. You would be extremely hard-pressed to find any medical procedure,
00:55:59.940
even ones that are actually life-saving, where only zero or one percent of patients regret it.
00:56:05.420
You'll be hard-pressed to find any decision of any kind in any context of life
00:56:09.780
that just zero or one percent of people regret. Even if a decision is healthy and reasonable and good,
00:56:17.300
you'll still have a certain number of people who regret it, because that's human nature.
00:56:22.260
We're expected to believe that top surgery, quote-unquote,
00:56:25.720
somehow transcends human nature itself, that it's a true magic bullet.
00:56:29.840
Everyone who does it is happy. Not just happy, but perfectly happy. A five out of five on the
00:56:37.860
happiness scale. Now, you might be asking, how could they have possibly arrived at this conclusion?
00:56:44.360
Well, let's find out. For that, we must do the thing that I often do on this show, but that no media
00:56:50.020
outlet ever does. We have to read the study. And I read the entire study, and I took notes, and here's
00:56:55.300
what I found. First of all, this is a survey of 139 mastectomy patients from one hospital who had
00:57:02.460
their procedures between two and 20 years ago. This is not, in other words, a representative
00:57:07.620
cross-section of the country. It's not that. And it relies entirely on self-reported data, which
00:57:13.200
already means that the whole thing is tainted and basically useless. In order for a respondent to report
00:57:18.460
regret, she would need to first feel regret, obviously. Second, be willing to admit to herself
00:57:25.860
that she has regret. Third, be willing to admit to a third party that she has regret. And fourth,
00:57:31.700
be willing to accept the political and social implications of admitting to regret in a study
00:57:36.440
like this. What this means is that a study finding no self-reported regret doesn't mean that nobody
00:57:43.720
experienced regret. It could mean that, technically. Or it could mean that nobody was willing to report
00:57:50.460
their regret in the context of this study. And what that means is that the study is, again, useless.
00:57:58.260
There are simply way too many factors, psychological, social, cultural, political, standing in the way.
00:58:04.320
And even without those factors, still the study would be flimsy at best because self-reported data
00:58:08.640
in general in any study is infamously unreliable. This is well known in science. It's called the
00:58:15.220
Hawthorne effect. When your subjects know that they're being observed, and especially know why
00:58:20.500
they're being observed, they will inevitably modify their responses and behavior. This is the reason why
00:58:26.940
there's no such thing as true reality TV, because nobody acts real when they know the camera's on.
00:58:33.540
And it's also why you can't ascertain true levels of regret simply by going up to somebody and saying,
00:58:39.320
hi, I'm doing a study to find out if people regret making the kind of life-altering decision that you
00:58:43.540
made. What say you? Don't worry, we'll record whatever answer you provide, and we'll just assume
00:58:47.640
that you're being honest with yourself and us. Second, 139 people in one region of the country from
00:58:53.900
one hospital is an absurdly small sample size already, but it's even worse when you consider that
00:58:57.960
the survey was actually sent out to 235 patients. Only a little more than half actually responded.
00:59:05.780
So to conclude that nobody regretted the surgery, you must assume that the 40-plus percent who didn't
00:59:11.080
respond also feel no regret. But is that assumption warranted? Well, obviously not. I mean, common sense
00:59:18.680
would tell us that patients who do regret the procedure are far less likely to participate in a
00:59:23.840
study that forces them to relive that experience. In fact, the whole narrative about extremely low
00:59:29.860
levels of regret and detransition, it's entirely based on the fact that very few patients who
00:59:35.440
detransition actually announced their detransition officially in a context that would result in it
00:59:42.120
being recorded statistically. And you don't have to take my word for it. Here's an actual detransitioner
00:59:47.960
explaining this point. Listen. Hey, I'm about to testify this morning, so I don't have a lot of
00:59:53.900
time. But I just wanted to let you guys know that detransitioners do not go back to the gender
00:59:59.080
clinics which harmed them and report that they're detransitioning. My paperwork, as far as the numbers
01:00:04.520
go, still says that I'm happy and trans. So when you guys are like, only 1% of people detransition or
01:00:10.900
2%, you don't know that. You're making that up. And the numbers you have about how many happy trans
01:00:16.080
people there are, that's wrong too. Because again, my paperwork says I'm happy and trans.
01:00:21.000
I did not go back to the gender clinic, which harmed me. And when I tried to ask for my records,
01:00:25.700
they ghosted me. So. I'd say it's pretty mind-blowing to watch a video featuring a woman
01:00:30.160
who, according to this recent study, doesn't exist. But assuming she does exist, her point is pretty
01:00:35.800
obvious. Most of these detransitioners do not go back to these clinics or consult with researchers
01:00:40.380
and announce and say, hello, I'm detransitioning. Please change your records accordingly.
01:00:44.220
Of course, even if they do announce it this way, we have to trust that the clinics and the
01:00:48.420
researchers will go against their own ideological, political, and financial interests by honestly
01:00:52.840
recording that information. And we can't trust that, obviously. But it's a moot point because
01:00:57.540
most detransitioners don't go through that process. And if two could play at the study game,
01:01:02.380
then I can tell you that a 2021 study by the Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria Research
01:01:06.200
found that as many as 75% of detransitioners do not report their detransitions.
01:01:10.340
So you have your self-reported data. I have mine. If you like, we can just throw out both
01:01:15.500
and fall back on common sense. And that's perfectly fine with me.
01:01:19.640
But we're just getting started. Third, if you read a little further into the study,
01:01:23.020
you'll find this very interesting tidbit. Quote,
01:01:26.720
13 individuals had strong discordance among their satisfaction with decision and decisional
01:01:31.540
regret scores. The satisfaction with decision scale was ordered first, and these 13 participants
01:01:36.340
were noted to have high satisfaction and high regret, suggesting a possible error due to item
01:01:42.820
order. What does that mean? It means that 13 of the participants actually did report high levels
01:01:49.560
of regret, but their responses were thrown out. The researchers decided that the self-reported regret
01:01:55.420
contradicted other answers on the survey, which meant that they had the right to ignore
01:01:59.000
those answers completely. Now, it's possible, as they know, that these respondents didn't read the
01:02:04.160
survey correctly or made a mistake in filling it out. That's what they just assumed. Well,
01:02:08.680
these ones said they had regret, and so they must have made a mistake. This is a paperwork error.
01:02:12.960
They obviously didn't know what they were doing. Okay, yeah, that's possible. It's also possible that
01:02:19.380
they feel deeply confused and conflicted about the procedure, which is why they at once claimed to be
01:02:23.920
satisfied with it and also regretful of it. This kind of inner turmoil is to be expected. It makes
01:02:30.260
sense, and in fact, it makes a lot more sense than all the respondents who rated their satisfaction
01:02:34.600
as a neat and clean 5 out of 5 and their regret at a 0 out of 100. As I've already explained, life doesn't
01:02:42.360
work that way. There's almost nothing in your life that you truly have 100% satisfaction with and 0%
01:02:49.660
dissatisfaction with. That doesn't exist on this side of heaven. Yet those are the answers that the researchers
01:02:56.940
found most credible, while the answers reporting high levels of dissatisfaction along with high
01:03:02.160
levels of satisfaction were deemed somehow illegitimate when those actually reflect human
01:03:07.440
nature, and that speaks to something that might actually be going on honestly in a person's mind.
01:03:13.980
Fourth, if you go all the way to the end of the study, you finally get to the section that
01:03:17.040
acknowledges its limitations, and it's a rather long section. That's where you're going to read this
01:03:22.140
fascinating passage. Quote, this study had several limitations. Although this study includes robust
01:03:28.420
long-term data surrounding regret and satisfaction with decision following gender-affirming mastectomy,
01:03:33.180
the cross-sectional nature of this study and variation in follow-up time among participants
01:03:36.800
pose the possibility of recall bias. The association of time elapsed with regret specifically is unclear,
01:03:42.220
with systematic review suggesting that regret may increase over time. Ah, well, okay then.
01:03:48.860
Zero patients regret top surgery, quote-unquote, but also, the authors note, regret actually might
01:03:55.560
increase over time. So the real number, we're being told, is either zero or something higher than zero.
01:04:04.940
That's what the study ultimately determines. Either nobody regrets their cosmetic double mastectomies,
01:04:09.940
or a certain number of people do regret them, and that number might be high or low. This is what
01:04:14.840
they've determined. This is what the study actually says. So, to review, zero people regret top surgery
01:04:22.020
so long as you assume that a survey of several dozen people from one hospital represents the entire
01:04:27.480
country, and so long as you assume that the respondents who actually did report high levels
01:04:31.820
of regret accidentally filled in the survey wrong and didn't mean to say that, and so long as you assume
01:04:37.200
that the 40% who didn't respond at all would have said that they had no regret if they did respond,
01:04:42.000
and so long as you ignore the many problems with self-reported data and the personal and political
01:04:46.400
biases that would skew the results, and so long as you pretend that the women who have publicly
01:04:50.940
testified to the regret actually don't exist or are lying. So, if you assume all of that,
01:04:56.580
then the answer is clear. Chopping your breasts off is the key to happiness, and everyone who has ever
01:05:00.840
done it is now living in a state of unending bliss. And if you believe that, then I've got an invisible
01:05:06.820
unicorn in my backyard I'd like to sell you. And if you believe that, you probably work for CNN.
01:05:13.040
And you are today, for all those reasons. Canceled. That'll do it for this portion of shows. Move
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over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.