In the wake of the worst wildfires in a century, hundreds of people are dead or missing in Hawaii, and yet the media is giving Joe Biden a pass. Also, a child psychologist declares that some children are gender minotaurs, and a Catholic university bans me from campus unless I, quote, "change my ways." And right wing media claims that the ban queen is the latest victim of cancel culture, but they have the story completely wrong.
00:11:05.760So rather than provide any estimate whatsoever, the mayor threatens to end the press conference.
00:11:09.880He starts fighting with the reporter. What that tells you is that the estimates are dire.
00:11:14.560The governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, is undoubtedly aware of that.
00:11:17.600So like the mayor of Maui County, he's been dodging questions.
00:11:21.780When asked recently why the sirens didn't sound on the island to alert its residents that the fires were happening,
00:11:28.020the governor started talking about climate change instead.
00:11:31.760We've been discussing, there are now a lot of questions about all of the policies and procedures.
00:11:36.960You know, the National Weather Service had issued a fire watch for your state August 6th, a few days before the fire hit.
00:11:45.300With the siren system, you said to CNN on Monday and again on Tuesday that you believe some of the sirens were broken.
00:11:53.900When did you learn they weren't fully functional?
00:11:56.080We assess every siren across the state on the first of the month, and then we ask people to update them and fix them to their abilities.
00:12:06.100You know, I, of course, I, as a person, as a father, as a doctor, I wish all the sirens went off.
00:12:13.440Like, the challenge that you've heard, and it's not to excuse or explain anything, the challenge has been that historically those sirens are used for tsunamis.
00:12:23.820That's when I came to Hawaii 23 years ago, was told when I was living down near the shore.
00:12:29.500So Josh Green is saying that the problem isn't really Josh Green or Richard Bisson or Joe Biden or even the electric company.
00:12:36.420It's not their fault that Maui is burning.
00:12:38.860Sure, the sirens didn't go off, but, you know, the real problem is that you made the world a tenth of a degree hotter.
00:12:44.380If you hadn't done that, none of this would be happening.
00:12:46.700That's the excuse we're hearing from the media.
00:12:48.160That's what we're hearing from the Democrat Party.
00:12:57.920He's the deputy director of the state's Commission on Water Resource Management.
00:13:01.540On August 10th, the West Maui Land Company sent a letter to Khalil complaining that his commission had held up a request to free up more water to fight all the fires.
00:13:10.900And according to the land company, they had tried to expedite water diversion from streams to fight the fires.
00:13:16.760But in the letter, the land company complains that Khalil's Water Commission had held up the request for several hours on various technicalities,
00:13:23.140saying that they needed to consult a local farmer first, obtain permission from the fire department, all this red tape.
00:13:29.440The delay could have cost people their lives.
00:13:32.680It's hard to say at this point how many.
00:13:36.020It's also hard to say, hard to know why Khalil's commission held up the water request.
00:13:41.260You may have seen this clip from well before these wildfires started.
00:13:53.380The commission is responsible, per our authorizing statute, to protect and manage all water resources in the state.
00:14:02.500One water is like taking it and looking at it from a holistic system perspective.
00:14:06.360And that's not any different than how Hawaiians traditionally manage water.
00:14:10.960You know, in essence, we treated, Native Hawaiians treated water as one of the earthly manifestations of a god and a kua, kane.
00:14:19.580And so that reverence for a resource and that reciprocity in relationship was something that was really, really important to our worldview and well-being, right?
00:14:31.700And living in an island isolated from other, you know, civilizations.
00:14:36.360And so I think where it shifted to today or over time is that we've become used to looking at water as like something which we use and not necessarily something that we revere as that thing that gives us life, right?
00:14:54.760I mean, to me, it's a shift in value set.
00:14:56.700And, you know, if we can start to really look at how we as humans in an island can reconnect to that traditional value set.
00:15:08.380So really, my motto is always like let water connect us and not divide us.
00:15:12.380Like we can share it, but it requires true conversations about equity.
00:15:18.980So that was the guy in charge of the water as the island burned.
00:15:22.640Now, does this mean that Khalil withheld water from firefighting efforts for the sake of equity?
00:17:57.000But none of them paid any real price for it.
00:18:00.220So what we're seeing, it's more complicated than a left-right partisan split where Republicans take heat during disasters and Democrats get a pass.
00:18:08.640But the reason Democrats are able to avoid any accountability during catastrophes also has a lot to do with one of the main functions of a bureaucracy.
00:18:17.580Why they exist in the first place, which is to diffuse responsibility.
00:18:21.100Because when everyone is responsible for disaster, nobody is.
00:18:26.060They can blame you for making the planet hotter instead of admitting their own failures.
00:18:30.380They can make up stories about kitchen fires instead of doing anything productive.
00:18:34.70018 years after Hurricane Katrina, this total failure of leadership, it's not enough to destroy a presidency anymore or even damage a political party.
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00:20:07.720We'll begin with this from the Daily Mail.
00:20:09.540It says, a chief psychologist at a California children's hospital has claimed that children can identify as gender minotaurs.
00:20:16.640Dr. Diane Aronsaft is the director of mental health and chief psychologist at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Gender Development Center.
00:20:26.940Her research focuses on the effect of puberty blockers and hormones on children.
00:20:30.680First reported by Fox News, Aronsaft has made claims that children can identify as gender hybrids, which include gender minotaur.
00:20:37.840The minotaur in Greek mythology was a creature which had the body of a man but the head of a bull.
00:20:43.320In a list of terms published by Aronsaft in a paper titled The Gender Affirmative Model,
00:20:48.520she refers to different ways in which children have described themselves.
00:20:51.100And one of these included gender minotaur, which is described as being a descriptor for a child who sees themselves as one gender on top and another on their bottom half.
00:20:59.960Other claims made by the psychologist include what she describes as a gender prius.
00:21:06.700This is all science, by the way, what you're listening to.
00:21:17.160This label is said to have been explained to her by a child who looked like a boy at the front but had a long braid tied in their hair with a pink bow.
00:21:24.540Okay, so if you're a boy with long hair, you're not just a boy with long hair, you're a gender prius.
00:21:32.060According to the paper, the child said, you see, I'm a prius, a boy in the front, a girl in the back, a hybrid.
00:21:37.180Because, by the way, that's definitely how children speak, right?
00:21:41.560You see, I'm a prius, a boy in the front, a girl in the back, a hybrid.
00:21:46.440Yeah, it sounds just like a child, doesn't it?
00:21:48.120Other terms included a gender smoothie, which is described as a, well, the worst possible menu item at Smoothie King, or it's the variation of being gender fluid.
00:22:00.620So the same thing as being gender fluid is gender smoothie.
00:22:03.000One teenager described it to Aaron Saft as, you take everything about gender, throw it in the blender, press the button, and you've got me, a gender smoothie.
00:22:10.400Another term shared by Aaron Saft is gender Tesla, which she described as a transgender state some children reach after being gender hybrid.
00:22:20.840Aaron Saft is previously told a 2018 talk held at the San Francisco Public Library, quote,
00:22:25.160I totally agree we're in the midst of a gender revolution, and the children are leading it.
00:22:29.700It's a wonderful thing to see, and it's also humbling to know that children know more than we do about this topic of being gender expansive.
00:22:37.160Okay, so it goes without saying, well, it goes without saying by me and to an audience of rational people that this is all insane,
00:22:45.760and this is why I am so incredibly cynical about psychologists, especially child psychologists,
00:22:51.660the whole psychology industry, you know, mental health, so-called mental health professionals.
00:22:59.260This is why I'm so cynical about them and so critical and skeptical is because this is what we get from these people, gender minotaurs.
00:23:07.300And somehow that's not even the most concerning part of this story.
00:23:11.480The most concerning part is her claim that we so often hear that children are leading and that we should follow them
00:23:18.980because they know more about this subject than we do.
00:23:22.760A little kid who says gender minotaur, that is a sign that they know more than you do and you should just listen to them.
00:23:31.100And let me explain why that's concerning.
00:23:34.720Well, there's the obvious reason that children are not meant to be leaders of anything.
00:27:53.320And we know that's the case because there's just no way in hell that any kid would come up with gender minotaur.
00:28:02.680That is not a concept that some crazy, abusive, you know, 52-year-old child psychologist comes up with.
00:28:16.680That's not something a seven-year-old says.
00:28:19.040The whole idea of being, oh, I'm one gender on top and one gender on the bottom.
00:28:24.860Again, that is not something that a kid, that's not a concept a kid comes up with.
00:28:29.760The idea of, like, dividing yourself into two and seeing yourself not as one holistic whole person, but as, like, somehow a combination of two different things.
00:28:40.800And that's not a natural insight that anyone comes up with, at least of all, a child.
00:29:02.620So, adding this extra layer of, well, you could be one, you're one half this, you're one half that, you're like a mystical being, a creation.
00:29:16.120That doesn't mean, I mean, it doesn't mean anything to anyone because it's nonsense.
00:29:19.800But it's especially not, it's not something that a child would invent.
00:29:26.820Even if they did, you don't go along with it.
00:29:28.940You tell them that, no, that doesn't make any sense.
00:29:30.780But this is entirely, again, the adults that have come up with this.
00:29:43.920The University of San Diego, a Catholic institution, is refusing to allow its conservative student organization to host Matt Walsh for a campus lecture this fall,
00:29:51.620claiming that the Daily Wire personality's so-called grossly offensive common-sense beliefs would create an unsafe environment for different populations of people.
00:29:59.080Last semester, members of the USD College Republicans filed a request for funds from the student government that would allow them to cover expenses associated with the proposed lecture.
00:30:10.740Members of the student government unanimously voted to deny the request in full.
00:30:15.480Isabella Sevilla, a leftist student senator, said, quote,
00:30:18.300But as a Catholic institution, I do think it is one of the most important things that we hold our Catholic faith first.
00:30:22.720And if he does not align with the values of the Catholic Church, then that is something we should consider regarding allocating funding.
00:30:29.060Claiming that I, my views don't align with the Catholic Church.
00:30:31.800When these are proponents of transgenderism, you know, abortion, same-sex marriage, all of which are entirely repudiated by the Catholic Church.
00:30:46.940And people who promote these things by Catholic teaching are guilty of mortal sins and in danger of the fires of hell if they don't repent.
00:31:03.420It just is the teaching of Catholic Church.
00:31:06.040But yet, no, I'm the one who's denying Catholic teaching, not those people.
00:31:09.240Senator Jacob Aragon cited baseless calls by the leftist medical organizations for Walsh to be prosecuted by the Department of Justice as a consequence of speaking out against gender ideology as his rationale for voting against the lecture.
00:31:21.380Another student government member's ridiculous argument was that conservative free speech and expression should not be allowed on campus because that may lead to those on the left being too uncomfortable to express themselves.
00:31:31.480Quote, you say that you value freedom of expression, but do you really think people would feel comfortable to express themselves with someone who is known notoriously for what is a woman?
00:31:39.240And also for being the recipient of the Transphobe of the Year 2022 award.
00:31:42.720So what they're saying is that my mere presence for a couple of hours on campus would infringe on the freedom of expression of everybody else on campus because even if they're not there, their knowledge that I am there makes it impossible for them to express themselves somehow.
00:32:00.180Now, which, I mean, look, all I'm going to say to that is there's only been a few times that I've gone to a college campus and before starting my lecture, I go around campus listening for people who are expressing themselves and saying things I don't agree with.
00:32:22.420And then I physically assault them for it.
00:32:37.440Well, but normally what happens is I just go and I and I say my point of view in one specific location and then you can have a different point of view somewhere else and nothing is not there's not going to be in fact, you got a different point of view in the room with me and tell me that point of view.
00:33:08.420And once again, there's only been a few cases where someone has expressed themselves differently from me and I physically assaulted them on the spot there in the room.
00:33:28.940Finally, Jennifer Lee, director of student activity, said that Walsh would need to denounce his transphobic beliefs and change his ways before stepping on campus, which she doesn't think will happen.
00:33:47.960Not necessarily permanently, because if I denounce my beliefs or I think she means renounce them, if I renounce my beliefs and give up the transphobic beliefs,
00:33:56.440if I change my ways, then I could be I could give a talk on campus.
00:34:00.860But she doesn't think that will happen.
00:34:02.180And all I'm going to say, Jennifer Lee, is why do you think that that won't happen?
00:39:08.980Now, I think for most people, you hear that someone has COVID, it's like, okay, it's like hearing, okay, they had a cold, they had a flu, right?
00:39:28.980So they're going to need something new.
00:39:30.280They're going to need something that's not COVID.
00:39:31.840You know, they're going to need a new virus, a new something.
00:39:34.640And I'm sure they're working on that in a Chinese lab somewhere.
00:39:41.360All right, finally, a couple of weeks ago, we told you the story of the face-peeling aliens down in Peru who've been detected by Peruvian villagers and proven to exist.
00:39:51.880This story is 100% proven true, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
00:41:11.280The mysterious attacks began on July 11th.
00:41:13.460Strange beings, locals said, visiting an island indigenous community in rural Peru at night, harassing its inhabitants and attempting to kidnap a 15-year-old girl.
00:41:36.280Jairo Avila, a local leader of the indigenous Iquitu group living in the northwestern Mayanus province, told Peruvian radio station RPP on August 1st.
00:41:46.040First, we're frightened by what is happening in the community.
00:42:02.620News of the alleged extraterrestrial attackers quickly spread online as believers, skeptics, and internet sleuths around the world analyzed grainy videos posted by members of the Iquitu community.
00:42:11.560The reported sightings came on the heels of U.S. congressional hearings about aliens, as we know.
00:42:17.220Okay, now let's get to the, so that's what happened.
00:42:20.780And you hear all that and you think, okay, well, so there's flying aliens in Peru.
00:42:31.280Members of the Peruvian Navy and police traveled to the isolated community, which is located 10 hours by boat from the Minas provincial capital of Iquitos, to investigate the strange disturbances in early August.
00:42:43.440Last week, authorities announced that they believe the perpetrators were members of illegal gold mining gangs from Colombia and Brazil using advanced flying technology to terrorize the community.
00:42:55.140Carlos Castro Quintanilla, the lead investigator in the case, said that 80% of illegal gold dredging in the region is located in this river basin where the Iquitu community is located.
00:43:07.500And we're being told that they were using state-of-the-art technology like thrusters that allow people to fly.
00:43:12.540He said that after looking the devices up on Google, he believed that they were jetpacks.
00:43:18.120Okay, so this is what they're going with, if you can believe it.
00:43:22.500They aren't aliens, they are gold miners with jetpacks, which, first of all, I don't even know where to begin, but why would gold miners need jetpacks?
00:43:36.440Okay, bringing a jetpack into a gold mine, it's like bringing your scuba gear when you're skydiving.
00:43:45.040And second, why would illegal gold miners call attention to themselves in this way?
00:43:49.620Why would they say they're mining gold illegally?
00:43:52.940Like, why would they say, let's put on this enormously visible display to call all this attention to ourselves, all for the sake of freaking out some Peruvian villagers?
00:44:04.660And third, where does the face peeling come into play here?
00:44:09.580This whole article, I read the whole thing, they don't even mention it.
00:44:12.280This whole detail, you know why, because it's an inconvenient detail for the skeptics.
00:44:17.620So they just pretend that that's not part of the story.
00:44:20.440So are the gold miners peeling faces also?
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00:47:15.260Most people, you know, most people do whatever is considered acceptable in their day and age.
00:47:21.300And that doesn't make it objectively right, of course, but it does mean that most people aren't in a position to judge others from other time periods.
00:47:28.620Who simply followed the tide of their culture, because that's what most people today are doing.
00:47:34.800And, you know, people in 1930s were racially insensitive, let's say, and basically everyone was.
00:47:44.620And you may not be racially insensitive these days, but there are probably a whole host of behaviors, a whole host of things that you do and say and think are acceptable and don't even question.
00:47:55.280Because everyone does, everyone else does and says them and thinks they're acceptable.
00:48:00.620And a lot of those things, you know, people from the 1930s could see that.
00:48:04.080It's like, especially with entertainment.
00:48:06.520So we look at that, someone in blackface, oh, that's a horrible entertainment.
00:48:09.640That's crass and offensive and outrageous.
00:48:13.640Why do you think, some of the 1930s, like, they might not feel that way about blackface.
00:48:16.940But they're going to look at a lot of the things that we find entertaining today and say, what the hell is wrong with you, savages?
00:48:44.880Real Wally says, putting on makeup and a wig to look like another race is something a lot of people pretend to find offensive, even though they don't care at all.
00:48:51.040Everyone needs to stop letting others tell them what they should be offended by.
00:52:20.780We have a court system that is made to do it.
00:52:22.640It might do it imperfectly and terribly in many cases, but you look at all the different factors surrounding that individual
00:52:29.460and those circumstances to determine not whether the thing was wrong, we know that, but how culpable they are for it.
00:52:36.280And when we're talking about some of these things that were done in history, the day and age, the time period really does factor in in a major way towards culpability.
00:52:49.500Finally, conservative grifters won't cancel blackface, but when DEFCON 3 cancellation of Bud Light for sending beer to a guy in a dress, make this make sense.
00:52:58.400Well, I'll make it make sense for you.
00:52:59.760That's because the guy in a dress is a million times more objectionable than blackface.
00:53:03.940You know, approximately, really more than a million times.
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00:54:14.620Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:54:20.160Cancel culture is a real phenomenon and a dangerous one.
00:54:48.640And you can always earn cheap applause by saying cancel culture is bad.
00:54:53.180This doesn't mean that we should stop saying it or that we should stop fighting cancel culture.
00:54:56.260But it does mean that when someone claims that something or someone is being canceled, we should stop and take a moment to scrutinize those claims.
00:55:04.000Because, you know, the fight against cancel culture, because it makes for a quick Fox News segment, and because there is applause to be earned by pretending you're a part of the fight,
00:55:12.860that means there's an incentive to pretend that you are the victim of cancel culture or that something else is the victim of cancel culture when, in fact, that isn't true.
00:55:20.080Now, the good news is that it only takes a little bit of critical thinking, a little bit of digging, to sort through all this and get to the truth.
00:55:26.560And that brings us to the latest alleged cancel culture victim, the 70s rock band Queen.
00:55:32.460The headlines started pouring in fast and furious yesterday.
00:55:38.480Specifically, one Queen song called Fat Bottom Girls has fallen prey to political correctness, we're told.
00:55:43.640As the Independent reports, quote, Queen fans left fuming as Fat Bottom Girls left off Greatest Hits release.
00:55:50.540The Sun declares, Queen drops classic track from Greatest Hits due to woke cancel culture.
00:55:57.320The Daily Mail says, classic Queen song Fat Bottom Girls is mysteriously dropped from the group's new Greatest Hits collection.
00:56:03.980The conservative website The Federalist had this headline,
00:56:06.940Amid era of body positivity, Queen's Fat Bottom Girls gets canceled.
00:56:11.080Meanwhile, the New York Post in an editorial pleaded,
00:56:14.500Don't stop Fat Bottom Girls from making the rocking world go round.
00:56:19.140Right on cue, social media was flooded with posts lamenting the cancellation of Queen and their classic song about girls with fat bottoms.
00:56:25.840The topic was trending on Twitter all day long, and nearly everyone seemed to agree that this cancellation was outrageous, ludicrous, Orwellian.
00:56:33.580Many conservative pundits, including ones that I like and respect, expressed their outrage over this.
00:56:38.240And, of course, Fox News got in on the action.
00:56:41.560In their article, they claim that, quote, legendary rock band Queen's 1978 classic Fat Bottom Girls has become cancel culture's latest victim.
00:56:50.000And here's how they, how Fox News, covered the issue in a segment yesterday.
00:57:00.960That's the headline in the Daily Mail as Queen's classic song, Fat Bottom Girls, mysteriously goes missing from the group's new Greatest Hits collection.
00:57:10.800I mean, you watch that movie, Robbie Malick, and it was a great portrayal of Queen and how they came to be one of the biggest bands of the 70s.
00:57:21.680And they were politically incorrect at the time.
00:57:24.580You remember, their producers wanted them to play it safe as far as what songs they released and Bohemian Rhapsody.
00:57:31.140How could you possibly even do a song like that?