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00:26:02.260Because, like, number one, if somebody sent you, like, a letter on paper and then you wanted to post a screenshot, it would look like you took a picture of the paper.
00:26:13.220Now, unless we're supposed to believe that she got this letter in the mail from Mary A., and then she scanned it to the computer and uploaded it and saved it and then posted it.
00:26:23.840But even if you did that, it still wouldn't look like that.
00:26:28.720And I guess, look, if you have not used a computer since, like, 1992, if your last computer was one of those computers with, like, a small monitor and a console the size of the International Space Station, and it's a black screen with green letters.
00:26:48.040You kids don't know anything about this.
00:26:49.080This is the first computer I ever had was this.
00:26:50.760We had Tetris on the computer, and you could write on it.
00:26:53.080And it was green letters, and that's all you could do.
00:26:54.660So if that was your last experience with a computer, then you might be fooled by this because you'd be like, I didn't know that you can do a font that looks like a little bit like handwriting.
00:28:00.540Like, you could just go into your email, you know, you could go to your internet machine, and if you want to send Nikki Haley an email, just type in Nikki Haley, and the internet will know where to send it.
00:28:08.940And then you got the whole thing, no subject lines.
00:28:12.800So we're supposed to believe that Nikki Haley is opening emails from people she doesn't recognize that don't have subject lines.
00:29:30.160Like, if you, if you're on Nikki, now I'm going to assume, I'm going to give Nikki Haley benefit of the doubt.
00:29:33.980I don't know why, but I'm going to assume that she, that she didn't do this, that this is her team.
00:29:41.280Her team came up with this, which just shows you that, you know, it shows you how incompetent, like the crisis of incompetence is nationwide at this point.
00:29:50.820And, and especially in politics, right?
00:29:54.320And yeah, Nikki Haley's presidential campaign is fake.
00:29:56.620It's not going anywhere, but still like it is a presidential campaign.
00:30:00.000And if you're in politics and you're working a presidential campaign, any presidential campaign, even if you're working Doug Burgum's presidential campaign, like you've, you've made it up the ladder a bit.
00:30:10.520So the people working her campaign have made it up the ladder a bit.
00:30:13.400And yet this is how stupid they are, that these are the ideas they come up with.
00:30:17.380But if you wanted to do this and you said, okay, we, we want to post some messages, uh, to Nikki, some positive messages that Nikki Haley was like, you can't find actual messages.
00:30:32.020I know that I, I say nobody likes Nikki Haley.
00:30:51.600So you would think if you wanted to post some positive messages, you could just go to your DMS, your email inbox and find some real ones.
00:31:00.300So I have to assume from this that they couldn't find any real ones.
00:31:03.140I have to assume what happened was they said, people don't like Nikki Haley, uh, you know, we need to show that Nikki Haley is more beloved than she really is.
00:31:46.520Let's, uh, let's move to some good news.
00:31:48.500Um, well, that was kind of good news too, cause it was hilarious, but, uh, this is from the New York post, a state mandated tampon dispenser inside a boy's bathroom at a Connecticut high school was ripped down 20 minutes after it was installed this month.
00:32:02.600According to the building's disgusted principal, he's disgusted.
00:32:06.520The dispenser was placed in the Brookfield high school boys bathroom at 9 30 AM last Wednesday.
00:32:11.200But by 9 52, it was torn from the wall, leaving tampons littering the floor.
00:32:15.660The school's principal, Mark Belanda said in a, um, in an email to students and staff obtained by CT Insider.
00:32:24.000Um, the, the, the fixture was put in the bathroom as part of a new state law that mandates each school must provide free menstrual products in women's restrooms, all gender restrooms, and at least a single men's bathroom.
00:32:36.500I am aware that the law says men's bathroom, but the actions today that led to vandalism and destruction of property were the work of immature boys, not men.
00:32:46.060Belanda stated, it just sounds like a Belanda, but you already know this guy's last name before I even read his last name.
00:32:52.560It was like last, his last name is probably Belanda.
00:32:54.940This is exactly how Belanda principal Belanda.
00:33:01.900He added, there have been other instances of vandalism in recent weeks in boys' bathrooms, but he found this to be the most egregious case.
00:33:09.500The state mandate was put in place so transgender intersex students could have menstrual products available if needed.
00:33:15.900Um, department of education spokesperson was very upset.
00:33:21.620Ridgefield resident Alex Harris, who's on Ridgefield, Connecticut Pride, uh, is on the Ridgefield, Connecticut Pride's advisory board, told the outlet that this sad incident is a perfect teaching opportunity for the school.
00:33:34.080Schools are charged with imparting knowledge and understanding of reality to our youth.
00:33:38.680Menstruation and trans or non-binary people are simple facts of reality that threaten no one.
00:33:43.760Now, the only thing about this story, the only sad thing, I mean, well, there are a lot of sad things about it, actually, but as far as the behavior of the boys, the high school kids, the sad thing is the implication that they've put these things up in other bathrooms, in other schools, and they haven't been torn down.
00:34:00.540That's the only thing about this that I find distressing, is that we can, uh, we can assume based on what's being reported that this is the first time this has happened.
00:34:11.640Um, and, and that's what worries me, um, because the idea that a tampon dispenser could be put in a boys' restroom in a high school and not be torn down and vandalized and destroyed within, within minutes, like, the idea that, that that wouldn't happen is the most disturbing thing to me.
00:34:33.200Like, like, I'm trying to imagine when I was in high school, you know, uh, 20 years ago, um, 22, 23 years ago, and they, they put a, a tampon dispenser in the, in the men's bathroom.
00:34:48.540Um, um, there's just no, it, it, it, it, like, all hell would break loose because of all the different ways people would want to, uh, you know, vandalize it and all the different things.
00:34:59.040Like, it, it, it's, it's just, it would not survive.
00:35:02.940Like, 20 minutes would be, there's no way it would make it even 20 minutes, 20 seconds at most.
00:35:07.320Um, and, and, and, and that's because kids who, who see something like this and they tear it down are doing exactly the right thing.
00:35:19.120That is a healthy, good, and moral response.
00:35:22.880So if my son went to this high school and was involved in tearing down the tampon dispenser and I was told about it, I would take him out for a nice dinner to congratulate him.
00:35:33.560I, I would, if the principal called me about it, I would laugh in his face.
00:35:37.480In fact, if this happened in my son's high school and I found out that it happened, I would call my son in to the room right away and I would say, mister, did you tear down that tampon dispenser?
00:35:49.660And if he said no, he'd be in trouble.
00:36:12.140And this is how, you know, you have a healthy, normal son.
00:36:15.620If he treats a tampon dispenser in a boy's restroom as a total farce, a complete joke, something hilarious and unserious, that is a sign of psychological and emotional health in a boy.
00:36:27.420But the problem is that we have gone way, way, way too far in the anti-bullying, you know, direction, right?
00:36:35.020We, we've obviously gone way too far in the sermons about tolerance and, and, and, and, and being nice and all of that.
00:36:41.460And we have at this point, many of us have, raised children who, who do not treat ridiculous things as ridiculous.
00:36:49.460Who do not mock things that should be mocked, who do not jeer at things that should be jeered at.
00:37:03.160Kids, but kids also naturally, at least historically, naturally have a real respect for authenticity, you know, and, and, and, and, and they can sniff out when something is ridiculous and inauthentic.
00:37:22.640They have a, they have a sense for that.
00:37:25.280And they can treat that thing as it should be treated.
00:37:29.620At least that's the way it used to work.
00:37:31.200But now we're brainwashing kids into treating inauthentic, ridiculous things with a seriousness that they don't deserve.
00:37:38.640You know, I've told this story before about the first time when we were out in public somewhere and we happened to see just walking down the street and a guy, a man dressed in women's clothes happened to walk by.
00:37:52.540And, uh, my, uh, uh, my daughter noticed it, noticed this and, and looked over and said, well, that man's dressed in women's clothes.
00:39:16.420Because despite what that, what the, the, the, the pride advisory board guy, whatever the hell the pride advisory board is, he said menstruation and trans or non-binary people are simple facts of reality.
00:39:53.180The way the non-binary faithful obsess about intersexes and about the individuals who can't produce gametes amounts to a pathetic clutching at straws while they drown in postmodern affluent.
00:40:03.400Yes, some fish change from sperm producing male to egg producing female or vice versa.
00:40:08.080That very statement relies on the gamete definition of male and female.
00:40:11.540Ditto hermaphroditic worms and snails who can produce both male and female gametes.
00:40:15.340In any case, the existence of intersexes is irrelevant to transsexualist claims since trans people don't claim to be intersex.
00:40:22.620Also, as if it matters, humans are not worms, snails, or fish.
00:40:26.760Uh, the rare tetraamelia syndrome, babies born without limbs, does not negate the statement that homo sapiens is a bipedal species.
00:40:33.700The rare four-winged bithorax mutation does not negate the statement that drossophilia is a dipteran two-winged fly.
00:40:42.120Similarly, the occasional individual who can't produce gametes doesn't negate the generalization that mammals come in only two sexes, male and female, defined by gamete size.
00:40:53.040Sex is binary as a matter of biological fact.
00:40:56.760Gender is a different matter, and I leave that to others to define.
00:42:08.120Um, but in any event, as Richard Dawkins points out, um, we are, you know, you know, we are human beings.
00:42:17.780And there are biological realities of being a human being.
00:42:21.000And there are, uh, and, and, if you look at other species, like different moths and worms and snails, in some cases, they have different biological realities.
00:42:36.340So, you know, that's like the whole, the whole trans argument is based on pointing to intersex people, and they're, even though they themselves are not intersex.
00:42:45.240And then, like, snails and other species, even though you're not that species.
00:42:53.120The issue is that, uh, if you're Richard Dawkins, we needed you to say this, like, eight years ago.
00:43:01.900Okay, we needed guys like Richard Dawkins, biologists, uh, and Richard Dawkins is a, is a preeminent biologist.
00:43:12.280Um, even if I disagree with, you know, obviously, as we all know, he's an outspoken atheist.
00:43:17.600I'm not on board with him there, but he is, like, there's no denying, he's a, he's a, he's a, he's a biologist.
00:43:23.240He's an expert in that, in that, uh, in that field.
00:43:26.460So, we needed guys like Richard Dawkins to speak out eight years ago.
00:43:30.720And instead, because guys like Richard Dawkins were not willing to, because they were afraid, um, people, like, random people, like me, had to be the ones to step up.
00:43:39.920And we were all screamed at, and we were all told that we don't have the scientific credentials to be saying any of this.
00:43:45.700And that was always, uh, that was always a, a red herring.
00:43:48.500That was always, you know, ad hominem.
00:43:50.740It's like, you don't need scientific credentials to make some basic points about the physical reality that we all inhabit.
00:43:59.120But what makes it frustrating is that the people who had their credentials, like Richard Dawkins, were hiding in the bushes.
00:44:14.180And now that the coast is a little bit more clear, and we have kind of prepared the ground a bit, and we've already taken the brunt of the backlash.
00:44:24.700Now he comes in and says, hey, by the way, uh, by the way, all those things that those other people have been saying for years now, I don't, I agree.
00:45:34.320Like, you've got the, the so-called experts and the people that have supposedly have a lot of credibility and all these things.
00:45:40.520And they don't want to speak up first.
00:45:43.060They want to wait, they want to wait till there's sort of a critical mass that's already on their side.
00:45:47.540And then they'll come in at that point.
00:45:49.920And, um, because this is a pattern that repeats again and again and again, it happened with the trans issue, it will happen again with the next issue.
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00:47:31.160Safe in this case is relative, and it's like safer than, you could maybe set it up so that it's safer for your kid than the situation that other kids are in.
00:47:47.560Once you hand the smartphone with internet access to your kid, all you can do at that point is try to mitigate the harm that will definitely occur.
00:47:56.900There's no way to make this phone a positive tool in their lives.
00:48:04.060There's no way that the phone is going to enrich their lives.
00:48:06.940There's no way that the phone is going to make their lives better or make them better people in any way whatsoever.
00:48:11.380And I think, I don't think anyone would even deny that at this point.
00:48:15.680I just don't, I don't think anyone with a straight face, certainly, I don't think any parent, maybe a kid would, but I don't think any parent with a straight face would look at me and say that, you know, no, I think my, you know, my kid became a better person and happier and more fulfilled when I gave him the iPhone.
00:49:55.320But there's a certain level of risk that we're willing to take because it's necessary in order to, you know, raise a human being and let them have experiences and let them enjoy life and let them gain skills and knowledge and all of that.
00:50:13.940But also, it's, the risks are, you know, are pretty minimal.
00:50:21.640And at the same time, allowing him to go out in the woods and build forts and do all these things that he wants to do and be out in nature, that will make him a better person.
00:50:30.700Like, that is a positive, that will have a positive impact on his life.
00:50:34.260And there's just no, I know for a fact that my son, when he's my age, is not going to look back on his childhood and regret all the time that he spent out in the woods.
00:50:57.340So that's the way, you know, the way that I judge it.
00:51:00.500It's like, you are, there's a certain amount of risk that you have to be willing to accept.
00:51:06.220But if it's all risk, you know, if it's all risk and there's no benefit that attached to that, it's all downside, no upside for your child, then why?
00:51:24.360Another one says, I've had conversations with many other parents about ADHD.
00:51:27.460And every time I suggest simply turning off all the screens in the house for two weeks to reset the kid's dopamine system, the resistance to this idea is fascinating.
00:51:35.320Many parents can't imagine a world without screens.
00:51:40.640You've heard me rant about ADHD before.
00:51:43.200And given my feelings about things like depression and anxiety and how I don't see those as mental illnesses, it would shock no one that I certainly don't see ADHD as a legitimate mental illness.
00:51:55.280And especially these days, like, how can you as a parent be confused about the fact that your child is easily distracted when he's surrounded by distraction all the time?
00:52:12.420So you could raise a kid who's just surrounded by screens and lights and noise and sounds and messages and, you know, stimulation from the screens and the shows and the advertisements and everything all the time.
00:52:28.780It's like everywhere he goes, there's screens and lights and messages and sounds and noise blaring at him from all directions.
00:52:59.860Like, why is it that now, it was an epidemic, millions of kids of ADHD, millions of kids are distracted all the time at a moment in history when their lives are surrounded by distraction.
00:53:15.080And the fact that we would ignore that obvious cause of the problem in favor of drugs is crazy.
00:53:23.000And so then what ends up happening is that you give the kids the drugs and keep them on the screens.
00:53:29.760So you keep the distractions there, but you just put them on drugs to sedate them.
00:53:34.840It's just to sedate them and make them more cooperative.
00:53:40.460And speaking of the screens and being easily distracted, you know, there are exceptions to that because it also amazes me that I'm told about, I hear someone tell me, oh, my son has ADHD.
00:53:50.180You don't understand, you can't sit still, you can't pay attention.
01:07:09.280Now, I don't mean to be the party pooper here.
01:07:11.060And, of course, it's not like me to be cynical usually.
01:07:14.080But that interaction, 1,000% scripted, obviously.
01:07:17.400The problem is that young women on TikTok don't realize that almost all of these cute couple moments on TikTok or any other social media platform are scripted.
01:07:25.980So they go into their own real-world relationships with false expectations.
01:07:30.600There's just no way in reality you're going to get a response like that when you tell your husband that you're hungry.
01:09:36.800They feel disrespected, as well they should.
01:09:39.340And if he goes along with it, which he shouldn't, it's only because he wants to avoid conflict.
01:09:43.860It's not because of his deep love for you.
01:09:46.420But deep down, he knows he's being manipulated and he hates it.
01:09:49.940Okay, men hate nothing more than being manipulated.
01:09:53.480So, ladies, you may not hear this fact from your favorite TikTok influencer, but take it from me, a man.
01:09:59.960If you want to make your boyfriend dump you or your husband resent you, the quickest way to do that is to manipulate him, even in small ways.
01:10:09.400Now, fortunately, this hasn't been an issue in my own marriage.
01:10:11.220My wife's a very straightforward person, so am I.
01:10:13.940You know, we say what we mean to each other.