Ep. 1490 - Why Every Republican Must Stand Against Gender Lunacy Now
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There is now a battle over the bathrooms raging on Capitol Hill. After the first trans lawmakers elected to Congress, we ll discuss. Also, Republicans grilled ahead of FEMA over the agency s egregious discrimination against Trump supporters, and a commentator on CNN promises to physically block the National Guard from carrying out Trump s deportation orders. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Welch Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, there is now a battle over the bathrooms raging on Capitol Hill after
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the first trans lawmakers elected to Congress. We'll discuss also Republicans grilled ahead of
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FEMA over the agency's egregious discrimination against Trump supporters. And a commentator on
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CNN promises to physically block the National Guard from carrying out Trump's deportation
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orders. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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After Donald Trump's first successful presidential campaign back in 2016, it quickly became clear to
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everybody that Democrats and Republicans have very different approaches to getting things done in the
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world of politics. Democrats immediately launched criminal investigations of Trump's campaign.
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They started talking about impeachment before Trump was even sworn in. They united as a party to do
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what their voters wanted them to do, which was to sabotage the democratically elected president
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at every opportunity. They were coordinated and therefore effective. Meanwhile, many Republicans in
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Congress took the opposite approach. They decided to ignore what Republican voters wanted.
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They failed to repeal Obamacare. There were disputes over border wall funding and other aspects of the
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budget, as well as Trump's travel ban. This infighting wasn't particularly surprising. The Speaker of the
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House at the time, Paul Ryan, had publicly stated just a month before the election that he wouldn't
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defend Trump anymore. He abandoned his party's nominee entirely, which was unprecedented in modern
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politics. And that was the divide back in 2016. Establishment Republicans were very resistant
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to change, even as Republican voters wanted a lot of it. That's one of the reasons we should all pay
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attention to the drama that unfolded in Congress yesterday. It's one of the first clear signs we have
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that this time around, maybe things might be different. We now have a clear indication that Republicans
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finally understand what their voters are demanding and that, like Democrats, maybe they'll actually try to
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act on those demands. We have our first sign that Republican lawmakers are getting something
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resembling a spine. Finally, maybe. Now, admittedly, it was a rocky start. So at a press gaggle early in
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the day, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, Republican, was asked whether an incoming lawmaker
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from Delaware who uses the name Sarah McBride is a man or a woman. In case you're not familiar with
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this person, McBride is being touted as the first transgender lawmaker in Congress. He previously used the
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name Tim before he decided in college that he's really a woman. Now, in the vast pantheon of
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questions that Mike Johnson could have been asked, this one should have been pretty easy to dispense
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with for about a million different reasons. Here's three of them. Mike Johnson is a Christian. He
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understands basic biology. And he's familiar with the results of the most recent election, which showed
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that Americans overwhelmingly reject gender ideology across party lines. So by all accounts, in every
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respect, this was the biggest softball that could have been lobbed Mike Johnson's way. And yet,
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Mike Johnson whiffed. Watch. Mr. Speaker, is freshman elect Sarah McBride a man or a woman?
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Look, I'm not going to get into this. We welcome all new members with open arms who are duly elected
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representatives of the people. I believe it's a command that we treat all persons with dignity and
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respect. And we will. And I'm not going to engage in silly debates about this. There's a concern about
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the uses of restroom facilities and locker rooms and all that. This is an issue that Congress has
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never had to address before. And we're going to do that in deliberate fashion with member consensus
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on it. And we will accommodate the needs of every single person. That's all I'm going to say about that.
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Do you plan on bringing Nancy Mesa's transgender bill and putting that into the rules package?
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We're not. I'm not going to address the plans on any of that. I just told you what I'm going to say
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about the issue. I'm not going to engage in this. We don't look down upon anyone. We treat everybody
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with dignity and respect. That's a principle that I pursued my whole life. And we will take care of
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this, you know, issue of first impression for Congress as we will any other thing. We'll provide
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appropriate accommodation for every member of Congress. A truly terrible answer because it
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wasn't an answer at all. And the question is very, very easy. And there's no conceivable reason why
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you couldn't just say he's a man. No, nothing bad would happen from you just saying that. Nothing
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bad politically, nothing bad at all. You know, in a way, it's fitting that this spectacle took place on
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the same day that SpaceX was launching another starship into orbit. On the one hand, we have
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geniuses who are solving some of the most complicated physics problems known to man in order to change
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the future of humanity for the better. On the other hand, we have a prominent congressman who
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is too afraid to invoke maybe the most fundamental principle of biology, which is that men are not
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women. He just kind of smiles and delivers some platitudes about being nice to people. So as far as
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contrasts go, it's not a flattering one. Now, this kind of thing had happened back in 2016.
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Nobody would have batted an eye. Everyone understood back then that congressional Republicans
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were following the Mitt Romney school of thought. The idea was pretty simple. Don't make Democrats
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angry. Whatever you do, don't hurt their feelings. If you don't make them mad, maybe they'll be nice
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to you. This was the genius political theory that animated the Republican Party for decades.
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It didn't matter that voters had just defied every poll in existence and sent Donald Trump to the
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White House. All Republicans cared about in 2016 was making sure the Democrats weren't going to call
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them bigots. So if Democrats wanted to deny basic biology and claim that men can become women,
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who are they to stand in their way? That was the prevailing sentiment. Well, that's not the
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political reality anymore. Now, when members of Congress try something like this, Republican voters
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don't let them get away with it. So within minutes of Mike Johnson's non-answer, there was significant
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blowback, both inside the Capitol and all over social media. And it was enough that about two hours
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later, Johnson called reporters back to deliver this clarification.
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I just want to make a statement for all of you here and be very clear. I was asked a question this
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morning at the leadership gaggle, and I rejected the premise because the answer is so obvious.
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For anybody who doesn't know my well-established record on this issue, let me be unequivocally clear.
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A man is a man, and a woman is a woman, and a man cannot become a woman. That said, I also believe,
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that's what scripture teaches, what I just said, but I also believe that we treat everybody with
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dignity. And so we can do and believe all those things at the same time. And I wanted to make that
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clear for everybody because there's lots of questions, but that's where I stand. I've stood there my whole
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life, and those are facts. Now, it's incredibly embarrassing that you have to call the reporters
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back two hours later after having given it some thought to clarify that, in fact, you do believe
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that biology is real. But still, it's good that he said that. And although it's still not a direct
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response to the original question, which is whether McBride is a man or a woman, Johnson could
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have come right out and answer that by stating the truth, which is that McBride is obviously a man.
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But as a basic statement of biological reality, what Mike Johnson said here is clearly correct.
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And it's a massive improvement over his original answer. And logically, it rejects any claim that
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McBride is a woman, even if he didn't want to just come out and say that, although he should.
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In other words, Johnson took the temperature and found out that he'd better plant himself firmly on
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the side of sanity. That is the winning political hand, and also the morally right one.
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Gender ideology is an affront to biology. It's an affront to Christianity. It's an affront
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to logic. It's an affront to common sense. So by standing against it, you can be on the side of
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truth, justice, common sense, and God Almighty, while also remaining on the winning political side.
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It's the best of all possible worlds. Or you can stand against all of that, all that is right and
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good in the world, and also against your own political interests. So it really should not
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be a difficult choice. There is literally no advantage at all to kowtowing to gender ideology.
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There is no benefit. It doesn't even require courage to stand against it anymore.
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It did maybe five years ago, but not now. Now it's the obvious play now. Also, again,
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it's the correct one. But just from a matter of pure politics, this is the smartest thing to do.
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Now, over in the Democrat Party, however, gender ideology is still a centerpiece of their whole
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agenda and worldview. And in fact, it's so potent on the left that it's the entire reason this
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incoming lawmaker, quote, unquote, Sarah McBride, has risen to fame in the Democrat Party. Like most
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trans activists, McBride is, among other things, rather one note. His entire political agenda and
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identity centers around being trans. It's the only thing he's really interested in. That's all,
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that's it. And on top of that, he's, of course, extraordinarily disingenuous. Here, for example,
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was McBride arguing against a bill that would keep boys out of girls' sports. And this was his
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line of questioning. So see if you can spot the logical fallacies here. Watch.
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The motive, the stated motive behind this legislation is to address a perceived competitive
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advantage within women and girls' sports. You know, one of the most significant competitive
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disparities that exists is based on family wealth and those who can afford private coaching and those
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who can't. And so I'm curious, this legislation does not forbid private coaching, correct?
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This legislation is aimed at fairness in women's sports. It's to protect women's sports and to
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protect women against injuries and protect them from losing opportunities for scholarships.
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Okay. So to that comment and to some of the comments that were made before, my understanding is
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that y'all are particularly concerned with a perceived biological or physiological advantage some
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students may have. So I'm correct that this legislation does not forbid competition between
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taller and shorter girls in basketball, correct? This legislation doesn't forbid competition,
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for instance, between girls with different cardiovascular capacities, correct?
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Okay. So the only difference between students of the same gender identity that this legislation
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singles out for exclusion is based on a student's sex marker on their original birth certificate,
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which specifically singles out those who are transgender.
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No. It singles out biological males and separates them out of the equation as far as who's allowed to participate in female sports.
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They're always so impressed with themselves when they make this argument, even though it's the dumbest argument known to man.
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McBride's argument is that, which you hear all the time from trans activists,
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is that because some women are better at sports than other women, there's no point in keeping men out of women's sports also.
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There's a form of inequality that already exists in women's sports, so why not destroy women's sports entirely?
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Taller women have an advantage over shorter women in basketball, therefore, let's end women's sports.
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And, of course, McBride delivers this line of questioning with total confidence and sincerity.
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And it might be a compelling argument if you don't understand the concept of sports at all,
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and if you've never watched any sort of sporting event in your entire life.
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But for everybody else, the problem is pretty obvious.
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The entire idea of competition is to establish a category and then explore the variation and skill within that fixed category.
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Otherwise, the competition is unwatchable and one-sided.
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That's why we have heavyweight and welterweight divisions in boxing.
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It's why NFL teams don't compete against high schoolers.
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Sex differences are, by far, the most predictive factor to consider when you're trying to maximize competitiveness within a category.
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That's why the moment a group of so-called trans men, quote-unquote, otherwise known as biological females,
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otherwise known as just females, decided to form a soccer team in Spain to play against actual men,
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It's why when two male athletes decided to compete in women's track in Connecticut,
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they promptly broke 17 track records and won 15 state championship titles.
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It's why a team of boys under the age of 15 soundly defeated the women's national soccer team by a score of 5-2.
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Everyone intuitively knows what's going on here.
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Men inherently are stronger and faster and therefore more competitive in athletics than women.
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And now, because Democrats insist on denying this, Republicans are going to have to codify the truth.
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And this shouldn't be remotely necessary, but it is necessary now.
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Congresswoman Nancy Mace of South Carolina has just introduced a rule,
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which is what they were talking about with Mike Johnson there,
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that would keep males like McBride out of women's bathrooms on Capitol Hill.
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This rule would affirm that men and women are not the same thing,
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and that women deserve to have privacy in the bathroom.
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It was only a question of which Republican lawmaker would be smart enough to seize the moment here
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and take this stand, and it turns out it was Nancy Mace.
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Is this effort in response to Congresswoman McBride's coming to Congress?
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if someone with a penis is in the women's locker room, that's not okay.
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I have PTSD from the abuse I've suffered at the hands of a man.
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And I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces.
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So I'm absolutely, 100% going to stand in the way
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of any man who wants to be in a women's restroom,
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I will be there fighting you every step of the way.
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Now, you'll notice, of course, that all the left-wing activists who are behind the Me Too movement
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None of them care that she was raped and that she's worried about being assaulted again
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If you needed more evidence that the Me Too movement was a complete fraud, well, there it is.
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which is advancing the interests of the Democrat Party.
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So now it falls to Republicans like Mace to actually advance the interests of women here.
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Now, later on, a reporter with ABC News tried to, again, shame Nancy Mace into backing down.
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Reporters kept trying to badger her into changing her mind,
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tried to badger her into agreeing to use the bathroom with a man.
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Congresswoman Mace, can I ask you a question as you walk here?
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So, the question is, with your piece of legislation about banning women from using...
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You have said that it was created in response to Congresswoman-elect McBride.
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But should legislation be created targeted at one specific person?
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It doesn't mention anyone in the legislation, but I'm not...
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I'm not going to allow biological men into women's private spaces.
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I will stand in the brink and stand in the way of anyone on the radical left who thinks
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that it's okay for a penis to be in a women's locker room or a bathroom or a changing room.
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And the Speaker said it would be in the House rules package.
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If it's not, I'll be ready with a motion, a privileged motion, to force a vote on this.
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I'm a survivor of rape, I'm a survivor of sexual abuse, and I'm not going to allow any
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And by the way, I'm getting death threats from men pretending to be women.
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Why is it that these crazy people, the insanity, the radical left, are willing to kill women
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over a man's right to be in a women's restroom?
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Speaker Johnson has said, Speaker Johnson has said, he wants to treat every new member
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Forcing this congressperson to go into a male restroom, is that dignity and respect?
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Forcing women to share private spaces with men is not dignity and not respect.
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Oh, you're going to force him to use the men's, like every other man, is, quote, forced?
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No, of course, Nancy Mason is correct, that dignity, in this case, dignity and respect,
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that it goes the other way, that the onus is on McBride to treat his female colleagues
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with dignity and respect and respect their desire for privacy.
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That's, that's, that the onus is entirely on him.
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Now, they keep hitting Mace with this claim that her bill is targeting a particular member
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A bill can be motivated by the actions of one person without targeting a particular person.
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Yeah, this, this person is, is, is who necessitated this bill.
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That doesn't mean that the bill targets, quote, unquote, that person.
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And these reporters all know that, or at least they should know it, but because they're all
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reading from the same talking points from the DNC, they just keep repeating the same
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And Nancy Mace keeps demonstrating that they have no idea what they're talking about.
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By the way, when she mentions death threats, she's talking about social media posts like
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this one, where trans activists openly threatened to murder her.
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Watch this video goes out to Congresswoman Nancy Mace.
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I hope that one day I do find you in that woman's bathroom and I grab your ratty looking
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hair and drag your face down to the floor while I repeatedly bash it in until the blood's
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I hope that Nancy Mace receives this message well.
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Extremely common, by the way, with these trans activists, violent fantasies.
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This is one of the primary ways that they communicate their political views is through
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So this person, you know, this person is not praying in front of an abortion clinic, which
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is usually how you get noticed by Merrick Garland's DOJ, but he does seem pretty unstable
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and he's making a clear threat to murder a sitting Congresswoman.
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So hopefully someone at the DOJ takes a look into this, but of course we can't count on that.
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There was an industrial grade paper shredding truck outside of the DOJ yesterday, so they
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As you can see, the DOJ is apparently focused on destroying as much evidence as they can before
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the new administration discovers what they've been doing for the past four years.
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So maybe all the people threatening Nancy Mace just aren't a priority right now.
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Now, obviously this person is unhinged, but the truth is he's not that far removed from
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how trans activists normally behave and communicate, and everybody knows that.
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Without exception, proponents of gender ideology are aggressive, unhinged, unstable, and as
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Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed out in response to yet another hostile inquiry from the media,
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And this time around, Republicans in Congress are going to hopefully honor what their voters
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I support a resolution that keeps all biological men out of women's bathrooms, locker rooms,
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Not only here in the Capitol complex, our office buildings, but all taxpayer-funded facilities.
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How does one, I guess the logistics question would be, how does one check if someone is
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qualified to use a ladies' room then in that case?
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Obviously, there's a new openly transgender member of Congress.
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So he is not allowed to use our women's restrooms, our women's gym, our locker rooms, and our spaces
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And should they make, I guess, like gender-neutral bathrooms?
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And he has a bathroom in his office, just like all of us do.
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And that's where, you know, I use the restroom most of the time in my office.
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If he has a bathroom, that'll be, you know, designated for him.
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But, you know, men need to, they need to respect our spaces.
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This was a mandate from the American people that are not only fed up with the open borders,
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they're fed up with inflation, they're fed up with the economy, but they're fed up with
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the left shoving their sick trans ideology down our throats and invading our spaces and
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So, sorry for the uncomfortable question, but I'm giving you the direct answer.
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So, you see, you hear the question to start there, just more disingenuous bullcrap about,
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well, how are we going to, how would you check?
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How would you know if somebody was a man or not entering the women's room?
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As if it's not completely obvious, like 99.9% of the time.
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You always get this, well, what are you going to check, people?
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How do you know if it's a, 99.9% of the time, it's not, it's pretty, it's obvious.
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Okay, we all know, it's not hard to tell, all right?
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And by the end of the week, every single reporter on Capitol Hill will have asked an indignant
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They're all outraged that women would possibly want to exclude men from women's bathrooms.
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They can't articulate why, but they're outraged by it.
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And one by one, they're being told the truth, which is that Americans want this insanity to
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Several Republican members of Congress, in addition to Nancy Mason, Marjorie Taylor Greene,
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Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett, for example, wrote on X, quote, he's a dude in the dress,
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And of course, Burchett says he'll support Mace's rule banning men from entering women's
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This should be the baseline expectation for every member of Congress going forward.
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Any Republican who doesn't support a measure to keep men out of women's bathrooms should
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be shamed, humiliated, and voted out of office at the earliest opportunity.
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Every Republican must be on board, no exceptions.
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This is a question of whether the incoming Congress will operate within the bounds of
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reality, or if they're willing to suspend reality for the sake of catering to the most
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The correct choice is clear and obvious, and it's time that every Republican made it.
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As I've outlined many times before, you know, the alternative is disastrous.
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Once you agree that reality is subjective, you have no basis to object to anything, you
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forfeit all of your rights, you can't make any kind of rational argument, you have to
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accept the whims of left-wing activists who will do whatever they can to destroy you and
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I mean, that's always what's been at stake here.
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This week, we learned that a California judge has apparently given the go-ahead for the castration
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of the 12-year-old son of a man named Jeff Younger, who we've talked about on the show
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Younger's ex-wife moved with a child from Texas to California, a so-called sanctuary state
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And now Younger has lost all parental rights and access to his son, all because he wouldn't
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This is where all the supposedly humanitarian arguments in favor of gender ideology always
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They lead to the most inhumane, authoritarian outcomes possible.
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But even if they didn't, even if there were no consequences whatsoever to embracing this
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demented ideology, it would still be wrong to embrace it because it's fundamentally untrue,
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One of the many reasons to be optimistic about the next four years is that finally, even Republicans
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Let me tell you about a looming threat to our constitutional republic that the mainstream
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The radical left is plotting a Supreme Court coup, and they're not even hiding it anymore,
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It's a blatant power grab to get the outcomes they want.
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You know, we've already seen their playbook, made up ethical attacks on justices, illegal
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Last week, we discussed the bombshell report from the Daily Wire revealing that a FEMA official
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had directed her subordinates to avoid homes with Trump signs while they were on the ground
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The official was fired, but has since gone around claiming that contrary to what the head
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of FEMA, Deanne Criswell, has said, she's claimed that actually she was not a lone outlier
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telling people to avoid Trump-supporting homes.
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And this is according to the woman who did this and was fired for it.
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Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee brought Criswell in and grilled her about all of this.
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And I want to go through and play a couple of clips from the hearing.
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The House Oversight Committee chairman, James Comer, revealed during the hearing that he
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had made contact with a new whistleblower who had more information.
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During the recess for votes, my staff made contact with a new whistleblower who provided a credible
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account that a FEMA contractor visited the home of an elderly disabled veteran's family
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around October 10th following Hurricane Helene.
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While there, the FEMA contractor recommended that the family remove Trump campaign materials and signs from both their house and their yard.
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He warned the family that his FEMA supervisors do not take kindly to Trump supporters
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The elderly homeowners were so frightened by this and afraid that they would not recover their loss that they removed all Trump materials and signs.
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Nevertheless, FEMA has not returned to their residence.
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This took place not in Florida, but in Georgia.
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Administrator, we're happy to provide you with more information on this.
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But we and the American people want to know what FEMA is doing to ensure that political discrimination is not dictating how the American people are receiving aid following a disaster.
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So that directly lines up with what the fired FEMA official said.
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You know, as I said, when the story was first reported, there's no way that some lone official for for at FEMA operating entirely on her own would casually put in writing these instructions to avoid homes with Trump signs.
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That doesn't happen unless this really is a standard practice.
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And therefore, she had no fear or thought she had no reason to fear that this would ever come out and blow back on her.
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But nonetheless, Deanne Criswell is sticking to her story.
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Administrator Criswell, is Miss Washington lying to us?
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And I'm kind of trying to figure out who's not telling the truth.
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The actions that Miss Washington took were unacceptable.
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Now, they remain anonymous, but I think one of my colleagues pointed this out earlier.
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A FEMA official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Miss Washington likely received, quote, very clear guidance from her supervisors.
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I have not received any evidence outside of the screenshot that Miss Washington directed.
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We are currently investigating this issue and bringing in the IG.
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You said this is isolated, reprehensible, hasn't happened.
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The part about avoiding the Trump homes, that's not a best practice.
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And I can't speak to the motivations behind what Miss Washington did.
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Have you talked to him to find out if he knew this was happening?
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I understand that he was in her chain of command.
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Have you talked to, there's 13 people on this text message.
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Have you talked to all 13 of those individuals?
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We know how investigations work when it's done inside the agency.
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I'm asking, did you talk to the 13 people on this best practices text message?
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The Office of Professional Responsibility has taken this,
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and they are following appropriate protocol to investigate.
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Is the Inspector General looking at it as well?
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And I have asked the Inspector General to take a look at this.
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Any idea when they're going to talk to these 13 people since you have it?
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I have an entire team that focuses on this investigation,
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Okay, so Criswell has not talked to any of the people who received the text message
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She also repeatedly says that the incident's still under investigation,
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yet she declared that it's not a systemic problem and that it's isolated.
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then how do you know that it's a lone incident?
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It's almost like this investigation has already determined its conclusions ahead of time.
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is going to be a sham when it's an agency investigating itself.
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What a shocker that the investigation that Deanne Criswell is directing,
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that that investigation will not turn up the results that tell us that Deanne Criswell is at fault.
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Deanne Criswell is going to do an investigation which will tell her that Deanne Criswell didn't do anything wrong.
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which is why we need to make sure this goes beyond hearings.
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And that's the part where Republicans historically have failed to follow through.
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Usually they do the hearings and we enjoy the hearings and they, you know,
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they give their speeches to the person and say how terrible they are.
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The part where people actually held accountable and punished,
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And she very clearly did not want to talk about this.
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She didn't want to find out any more about this scandal.
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She was desperate to run cover for Deanne Criswell and FEMA.
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And I'm going to ask you if this is true or not.
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And I apologize that I even have to ask you some of these things.
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But I think it's important for the American people to see in a setting like this,
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that we see officially on the record that these things are not true.
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The first being that the suggestion that FEMA assistance was only a $750 loan that would
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And if not, FEMA would seize the homes of everyday people who may not be able to make
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But was it in your assessment, and did you see lots of people believing this on the ground
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I was on the ground for over three weeks in North Carolina.
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And I did hear from people on the ground asking me, is this real or is this not real?
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Another one that I also saw very widely circulated, that FEMA did not have enough money to provide
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relief services because that allocation of funds went to either undocumented immigrants,
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aid to Ukraine, or even aid to the Israeli government.
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Is that correct, that FEMA's funds were allocated away to those causes?
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And other things that we've seen as well, that it's standing policy for FEMA to politically
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discriminate, we know that that's not true, correct?
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And there was an incident, we see, but that individual was fired and that this is not
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Now, we know that these are important pieces, very large and influential pieces of disinformation.
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Okay, so AOC runs through some irrelevant claims.
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And rumors about FEMA that have nothing to do with the subject at hand.
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And then she finally gets to the actual topic they're supposed to be investigating.
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And then even says that we know, we all know that it's not a policy for FEMA to politically
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How do we know that FEMA doesn't politically discriminate, even though it's just been confirmed
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AOC can't explain how, but she knows that we know.
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She never asks Criswell a single question about it.
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She just says, we know that this stuff isn't true, that we're right, correct, correct.
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And, you know, I guess maybe in keeping with the theme of the show so far, people not doing
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things that would be even politically expedient for them.
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Like, this doesn't, AOC's approach here doesn't even make sense politically.
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There's no political reason why she needs to jump in front of the train to protect some
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awful FEMA bureaucrat who's going to be fired soon anyway.
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Nobody is claiming that AOC herself had personally had anything to do with this.
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I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if she did, but that's not what anyone is expecting.
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So AOC doesn't need to debase herself this way.
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In fact, this is an easy political win for her.
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She could have gotten up there and actually questioned Criswell in a serious and skeptical
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She could have acted like she cared about political discrimination.
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She could have given a little speech about how Trump supporters are, you know, deserve to
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And then ripped into Criswell and interrogated her and made kind of a show of it.
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She makes the Democrat Party look good, makes it look like they had nothing to do with this.
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And you're just throwing this woman under the bus.
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If she had just gone up there and said, this is unconscionable.
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I disagree with Trump supporters on many things, but they deserve to be treated equally by the government.
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She can't stomach even pretending that she cares about Trump supporters.
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President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed on a social media network that he plans to use the U.S. military to carry out a mass deportation of undocumented migrants.
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On Monday, he posted true in response to a conservative commentator who wrote that Trump would declare a national emergency and use military assets to lead a mass deportation program.
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A campaign event Trump repeatedly pledged to mobilize the National Guard to assist immigration and customs enforcement.
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The federal agency tasked with carrying out deportations.
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And he plans to mobilize the National Guard to help with the deportations.
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And the left, of course, is not happy about it.
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In fact, one commentator on CNN is so unhappy that she pledged to physically prevent U.S. troops from carrying out these orders.
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I promise you, with every fiber of my being, because I'll probably be one of those people, that if anybody comes to these people and tries to drag them out by force,
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there will be protests of people like me, American citizens, who are going to stand there and do everything possible to prevent these women and children,
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I can tell you they are women and they are children.
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But what I'm telling you right now, practically speaking, is that there will be people, American citizens,
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who will prevent these little kids from being dragged out of these shelters.
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What is going to happen to the military when the military opens fire on us?
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So that's Julie, or whatever her last name was, CNN commentator.
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And just, you know, ignoring the fact that, pretending that all of the huddled masses that are coming to America,
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Which, by the way, you know, as a Democrat, it's always funny when Democrats still try to use that line.
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Children, okay, you don't know what a woman is, and you think children should die in the womb.
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So you're not really qualified to be using the women and children card here.
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But regardless, she says that she's going to physically, she's going to stand in front of the military.
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So, first of all, Julie, you ain't doing, okay, so, yeah, you're not going to throw yourself in front of a tank.
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Not that Trump's going to use tanks to deport immigrants.
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And also, by the way, not to get into semantics here, but we keep hearing about it.
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We heard it from Julie there that the illegal immigrants are going to be dragged.
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You're going to drag them out of their shelters and their homes.
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Well, in the vast majority of cases, they're not going to be dragged.
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They're going to be escorted into vans, and they're going to be taken to planes and or
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taken to buses and transported to their home countries.
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I mean, in the vast majority of cases, it's going to be a very orderly thing.
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You know, the authorities are going to show up, and they're going to say, okay, time to go.
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If they're dragged, it's only because they're refusing to leave.
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And in that case, you have no choice but to drag them.
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When you go to enforce your immigration laws, you say, well, we got to take you back to your
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Well, okay, well, if you don't want to, then never mind.
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No, well, yeah, in that case, you do have to drag them.
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But I think that most, it won't come to that in most cases.
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I actually think that in most cases, the scene will not be nearly as dramatic as the CNN
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Mass deportations in practice will actually be, for the most part, pretty boring.
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You know, it's, it's, it's, it's not going to be this big dramatic scene.
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And if it does become that, it's going to be the fault of the illegal immigrants who are not
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When a country that they have not, they have illegally entered tries to simply enforce its
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Will there be mass protests against these deportations, as is also being predicted?
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And we know the left is very good at ginning up protests on fraudulent grounds.
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They're very good at, you know, using hoaxes and using out of context things to, to gin up protests.
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They're going to be looking for their kind of George Floyd of illegal immigrants.
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They're going to be looking for an illegal immigrant George Floyd moment.
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They are, they are fantasizing about it right now.
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We also know the left's good at not only ginning up protests, but also they know how to pay for them.
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If, if, if they can't get people to protest, you can always pay to have people come out and protest.
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But I don't think that there will be a kind of popular uprising against deportations.
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I think that most Americans will, will be perfectly fine with it.
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Because most Americans have their own problems.
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These are people that are not supposed to be in the country anyway.
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The law is being enforced in a, in a fair and orderly way.
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And that's just not the kind of thing that's going to infuriate most Americans.
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But I'm going to go out and protest because the law is, because a basic law that every country has and every country enforces, that that law is being enforced.
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We're supposed to suspend our laws, abolish our national sovereignty for the sake of these people.
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This is what most Americans are going to say to themselves.
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But they're not, no one's spending the law for me.
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I think that will be the calculation that most Americans make.
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And that's, and that's why mass deportations are actually, have popular widespread mass appeal and, and approval on both sides of the aisle.
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And I don't think that's going to, everyone, I think there are a lot of people that think, well, that's going to change once they start actually doing it.
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And we have these visuals, these very upsetting visuals.
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Like I said, why would the visuals be upsetting?
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I think, I think there'll be wonderful visuals.
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Because they're, they are visuals of the law being enforced and our national sovereignty being restored.
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So I think that's where most people are on this.
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We began the show by talking about how Republicans in Washington are finally getting serious about
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rejecting the idea that men can become women and vice versa.
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Nancy Mace introduced legislation that would keep men out of women's bathrooms on Capitol
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Hill, in part because it's necessary to protect women.
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It's also common sense because biologically, men and women aren't the same thing.
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Of course, it's not just Capitol Hill that's wrestling with this issue.
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Nancy Mace is using the same logic that just a few years ago led a Korean spa near Seattle
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to come up with a policy of only allowing entry to, quote, biological women.
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This spa called Olympus Spa is fashioned after something called jimjilbang, probably pronouncing
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that wrong, but apparently an exotic term that means that patrons have to be nude, I guess
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Facilities at the spa include, quote, a bath area containing multiple whirlpools, a traditional
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Korean body scrub service area, standing showers, sit-down showers, a steam room, and a dry sauna.
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So it's a full service spa, apparently, and every single one of these stations requires some
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degree of nudity in keeping with the principles of that word I can't pronounce and won't attempt
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Therefore, because people's bodies were going to be exposed at various locations within this
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full service establishment, the spa decided that men shouldn't be allowed inside the spa.
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Now, just to be clear, before we go any further, I should note that Olympus Spa is distinct from
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the WeSpa, which you might remember from this viral clip involving its own policies on biological
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WeSpa, unlike Olympus Spa, had no problem allowing men into women's spaces, a policy that ultimately
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WeSpa is an agreement with men that just say they are a woman and they can go down there
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with their penis and get into the women's section.
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So women can go into the men's with their breasts.
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You got a man with his penis talking about, he's a woman.
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Actually, I'm a woman who knows how to stand up and speak up for my right.
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As a woman, I have a right to feel comfortable without a man exposing himself.
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Again, that's WeSpa, which is distinct from Olympus Spa.
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But it does give you a sense of how common this issue is and how women feel about men invading their private spaces.
00:52:19.380
Now, for its part, Olympus Spa asserted a variety of justifications for its women's only policy, including the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, also common sense.
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They stated that, quote, women are in a vulnerable position when they're unclothed and or having treatment while unclothed, and we seek to ensure that they feel their privacy and rights are respected.
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To that end, the spa specifically denied entry to men, as well as any self-identifying transgender women, quote, unquote, who had not undergone bottom surgery.
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Now, already, you may have noticed that there are some obvious issues with the spa's policy.
00:52:52.780
In particular, it doesn't go nearly far enough.
00:52:55.660
I mean, for one thing, there's no distinction between a biological woman and a woman.
00:53:01.040
If a woman isn't a biological woman, then she isn't a woman at all.
00:53:04.640
And that's determined at a fundamental chromosomal level.
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Also, no amount of bottom surgery changes that.
00:53:11.360
Just because a man has had his genitals cut off doesn't mean that he should be allowed in a private, confined space with naked women.
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If anything, it gives women even more reasons to be uncomfortable with his presence.
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In any event, the reason for the policy, such as it is, is pretty clear.
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Naked women don't want to be around naked male strangers.
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That's why Olympus Spa reports that in recent years there have been very alarming incidents
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in which males have, quote, penetrated the interior of an Olympus spa facility.
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And in one instance, according to a federal court, an individual with male genitals was roaming around the spa.
00:53:45.140
This turned out to be a trans-identifying customer.
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And ultimately, several customers requested refunds and left the spa.
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There have also been situations in which patrons, quote, noticed male genitals exposed in locker room and or pool areas.
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And as a result, experienced, quote, humiliation, trauma, and rage.
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Those patrons apparently demanded refunds and never returned.
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But in Washington state, gender activists don't see any problem with any of this.
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And to that end, a trans-identifying man using the name Haven Wilvich tried to access the spa in defiance of its women-only policy, was rejected.
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And then, of course, promptly complained to the Washington State Human Rights Commission.
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Yes, because this is a human rights issue in 2024.
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The commission then ordered the spa to open their doors to men, regardless of how they identify or what kind of surgery they've had.
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Then a federal district court in Seattle sided with Haven Wilvich and the Human Rights Commission.
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They decided that there's nothing unconstitutional about forcing the spa to serve both naked men and naked women.
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After that, the spa appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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And this week, the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in the case.
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And those oral arguments produced this soundbite, which may be the most remarkable quote from a federal judge that perhaps you've ever heard.
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Watch as this judge, whose name is Margaret McCown, explained that the spa's women-only policy is basically equivalent to Jim Crow.
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Can a transgender female enter the spa before they change the language?
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Only women, biological women, or transgender women who have had bottom surgery could enter the spa.
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If you have a law that says white applicants only, this is biological women entrance only.
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You see the guy in the middle who can barely lift his head up?
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These judges are 155 years old and they're still sitting on the bench destroying America?
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And they want to get every last moment they can on earth to destroy this country.
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Anyway, this is one of those brilliant deductions that you can only find in a federal courthouse on the West Coast.
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You couldn't find anyone else to come up with logic like this anywhere in the country.
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Something that's profoundly nonsensical could only come from an appellate judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Yes, banning men from entering a women's space is parallel to banning all non-whites from the spa, says the federal appellate court judge.
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Of course, to believe that, you'd have to overlook all of the reasons why it's not remotely the same thing.
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You'd have to overlook the very rational reasons why women don't want to be in an isolated environment where they're completely exposed to men,
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which relate pretty well to pretty well established facts about human sexuality and biology.
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You'd have to overlook the fact that men can rape women, for starters.
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That has nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with biology.
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But the lawyer arguing for the spa, amazingly enough, didn't make this argument.
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Instead, he tried to make the case that the spa was just encouraging women to enter the spa rather than prohibiting men from entering it.
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Then the judge immediately sees through it because that's not at all what's happening.
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If I could address the whites-only language in FAIR.
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In that, first, it said whites applicants only.
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And if I could draw a parallel to employment recruitment.
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It says it is legal for an employer, government or otherwise, to say persons with disability, military veterans, racial minorities are encouraged or welcome to apply.
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So if you were to leave that on the website, biological women welcome, and then a transgender female shows up at the spa, there's also this same admissions policy, right?
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If she doesn't have bottom surgery, then the answer is no.
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Well, it's not really biological women are welcome.
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Non-biological women is the phrase we just heard from a judge sitting on the bench.
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But in this case, the judge is right about this one point.
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That the spa is denying entry to men, as it should.
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And the lawyer probably should have just defended that policy instead of watering it down.
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There's no reason to shy away from defending the spa's policy.
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Yes, they are denying entry to men, to males, to quote-unquote biological males, if that's the phrase you want to use.
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There's no need to rely on technicalities when your position is so clearly the correct one.
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But right now, it's hard to see exactly how this case will end up at the Ninth Circuit.
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Fortunately, the spa has some heavy hitters writing briefs on its behalf already.
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One of those briefs was written by Kara Dansky, who made this argument, quote,
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over on Reddit, which is normally very supportive of trans activists who go to court.
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But they're not as supportive in this case, which is interesting.
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One top comment on the Seattle subreddit reads, quote,
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Trans advocates are making a big case taking up, a big mistake taking up this case.
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This is going to go to SCOTUS, where it will get overturned and set precedent against them.
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Any sane-minded trans woman will make sure they're respectful and discreet when using women's spaces
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I cannot describe how embarrassed I would be having that part of my body exposed in that way.
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And beyond my own embarrassment, that's wildly inappropriate and disrespectful to other people in that space.
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It's infuriating to see the trans community attached to this.
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Now, when trans activists have lost Reddit, they know they've messed up.
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As Republicans in Washington finally find their backbone on the trans agenda,
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trans activists on the West Coast are vastly overplaying their hand.
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They're equating rational, common-sense, pro-woman, pro-privacy, pro-sanity policies to Jim Crow.
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they're almost certainly hastening the end of their deranged and untenable agenda.
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And that is why the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
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along with the trans activists who are trying to force a spa to allow men to stare at naked women,