Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
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The city of Los Angeles is going up in flames. The left claims it s a product of climate change, but that s because they don t want to talk about the real cause, which is incompetence, if not outright sabotage by the Democratic leaders of LA and California. Also, Joe Biden finally admits that he may not be capable of serving a second term. A new study finds that vegans are often depressed and miserable. And a Hollywood actor goes on Bill Maher s podcast and tries to defend sex changes for kids. It doesn t go well.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the city of Los Angeles is going up in flames. The left claims
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it's a product of climate change, but that's because they don't want to talk about the real
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cause, which is incompetence, if not outright sabotage by the Democratic leaders of LA and
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California. Also, Joe Biden finally admits that he actually may not have been capable of serving a
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second term. A new study finds that vegans are often depressed and miserable. I don't think I
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needed a study to tell me that. And a Hollywood actor goes on Bill Maher's podcast and tries to
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defend sex changes for kids. It doesn't go well for him. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall
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Normally, when a politician becomes the mayor of a major city, it's because they've supposedly
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spent their career working in the city and advancing its interests. Eric Adams became the
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mayor of New York after working in local law enforcement for more than 20 years. So did the
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mayor of Fresno, a man named Jerry Dyer. Meanwhile, the new mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie,
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helped ensure that the Bay Area would be the home of the Super Bowl 50 a few years back. So,
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now, it's not to say that these are necessarily good politicians. Many of them are not.
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But if you look through their careers, at the very least, you'll find that they
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had an interest in the city and the one that they would later represent as mayor. That's like
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the lowest of all bars, but at least they clear that. But the current mayor of Los Angeles,
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Karen Bass, is an exception. She doesn't even clear that bar. If you look at what Karen Bass has been
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talking about for the past decade, you'll find that by her own admission, she was never especially
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interested in California. Instead, again and again, she's talked about advancing the interests
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of Africa. Here's just a small selection of her appearances on African media. Watch.
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I say that our reason for coming as the contingent of the Congressional Black Caucus
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is really part of many commemorations taking place in the United States this year,
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commemorating the 400th anniversary for the arrival of Africans on the U.S. continent.
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I was involved in the 70s and 80s in the whole anti-apartheid struggle. Our history on the
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continent has not always been a great history. And so I think that there's things that we need to
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rectify. But at the same time, I would never want to tip it in the other direction and say that
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there's too many problems in Africa or Africa should be able to sustain itself. So let's cut off
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There also might be other ways that our country can support the African Union so that they can put
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some teeth behind that when that type of statement is made. I mean, for example,
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when the coup in Mali happened and there was the need for troops to come in, you know,
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the Malians had to call on the French. The African Union wasn't quite ready to intervene. And they
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certainly did come along. But I think there's a variety of ways that the United States can help
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to shore up the infrastructure and capacity of the African Union.
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So she seems pretty knowledgeable about issues in Africa, very invested in issues in Africa.
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The only problem is that she doesn't live in Africa and she doesn't represent Africa,
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supposedly. Again, this is an allegedly American politician who supposedly represents Americans.
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But in reality, she's doing the Ilhan Omar routine where she constantly promises to use America's
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resources to help the people she really cares about who aren't American.
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So it was fitting that as an unprecedented massive wildfire broke out in Los Angeles this week,
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Karen Bass was again in Africa, attending, in this case, the inauguration of Ghana's new president.
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Now, why is the mayor of an American city taking time off of work to attend the inauguration of a
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third world leader 7,000 miles away? Well, that's a good question. And the point is that this was not
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simply bad timing as you may have seen it portrayed in the media, it was inevitable. Democrats like
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Karen Bass spend so much time representing their real constituents, foreigners, that they're rarely
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in town when a disaster materializes back at home. Now, Democrats are able to get away with this
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betrayal because for the most part, the media lets them do it. So it must have come as a great shock to
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Karen when after she landed at LAX, she was immediately confronted by a reporter who grilled
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her about her many failures. This reporter named David Blevins is the senior Ireland correspondent at
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Sky News. And here's how this, well, it's hard to call it a conversation. It's rather one-sided,
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but here's how it went. Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were
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burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?
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Have you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
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Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position?
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Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this
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Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?
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I mean, it really is amazing and also amazing that this is a Irish correspondent for a foreign
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news outlet who appears to care more about what's happening in Los Angeles than the mayor of Los Angeles
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does. And by the way, total flying time from Ghana to Los Angeles is something like 18 hours. And that
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whole time, Karen apparently didn't prepare any kind of response to these questions, all of which
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were highly predictable. She didn't think about why she had slashed the fire department budget by
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$18 million just a few months ago. She didn't have any message for the thousands of displaced families
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that she supposedly represents. Instead, Karen Bass kept quiet until her staffers handed her some
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talking points to read. And then once she had those talking points, she promptly humiliated herself
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once again. Watch. Build stronger than ever. Right now, if you need help, emergency information,
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resources and shelter is available. All of this can be found at URL. Los Angeles together is how we
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will get through this through the heroicism of our firefighters.
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Apparently doesn't know how the Internet works. I mean, it would be impossible to script a more on
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the nose satire of Democrats priorities and total incompetence than what Karen Bass just pulled off.
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She abandons her constituents during a massive fire in order to pander to Africans. And then she
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transforms into Ron Burgundy when she belatedly returns. And in case you didn't catch it, she read
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the URL of the website as literally URL. So again, doesn't know how the Internet works. I mean, you know,
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maybe they don't have a great Internet connection in Africa. So that's where she's spending all of her
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time. So maybe we can't blame her for not knowing how that works. By Karen Bass's own admission,
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she needs to be removed from office immediately. And we know Karen Bass agrees with that because
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she wrote this post on social media when Ted Cruz infamously went on vacation during a disaster in
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Texas. Quote, Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part of a larger pattern of the
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GOP abandoning folks in crisis. We need to build a movement to kick them all out. Politicians like
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Bass are why climate change is such a common talking point on the left, because it's their
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get out of jail free card when their incompetence becomes extremely obvious. Bernie Sanders, for
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example, just put out a tweet claiming that the wildfires prove that climate change is real. Now,
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there are major problems with that claim, a bunch of them. But, you know, just the first one is that
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no one, even the alleged scientific experts, really thinks that that's true in this case.
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Michael Schellenberger just spoke to John Keeley, a researcher at the US Geological Survey,
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who's been studying fires like this for decades. Keeley assessed that, quote,
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I don't think these fires are the result of climate change. You certainly could get these events
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without climate change. Well, of course you could, because the thing driving the fires is wind,
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and wind is not a product of climate change. We've always had wind. For as long as we've had
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earth itself, there's been wind. And as for the origin of the fires themselves, well, that's a
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different question. We know what's making these fires spread so rapidly. It's the wind and all of the
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fuel that these fires have to burn. But what's starting the fires? Again, an important question,
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especially since we were promised just a few years ago that electing Joe Biden would effectively end
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wildfires in this country. Biden said it himself after the last big wildfire he pretended to care
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about. Watch. Donald Trump's climate denial may not have caused these fires and record floods and
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record hurricanes. But if he gets a second term, these hellish events will continue to become more
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common, more devastating and more deadly. So if he gets a second term, then we'd have all these
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wildfires. And the obvious implication there is that if we elect Biden instead, we won't have them.
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And Biden became the president, as you may remember. And what do you know? We still have
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wildfires. So it took less than four years for this particular climate change prediction to blow
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up in their faces like they all do. We've gone from Biden will end wildfires to Biden will use
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wildfires as an opportunity to make personal announcements about his family, which is what he did
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yesterday. Watch. We got notification yesterday. We're home is probably burning from today.
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The good news is I'm a great grandfather, as of today.
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I have a granddaughter, a baby girl, a baby boy.
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Now, yesterday, officials offered one possible explanation for why these fires are now wildly
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out of control. They stated that there's a shortage of firefighters in Los Angeles. Watch.
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And then additionally, we heard repeatedly fire crews requesting help back up and not having
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enough crews. Were you guys prepared enough for this? Do we have enough resources to fight these
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fires? Thank you. No, L.A. County and all 29 fire departments in our county are not prepared for
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this type of widespread disaster. There are not enough firefighters in L.A. County to address
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four separate fires of this magnitude. Now, why might there be a shortage of firefighters?
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Well, it turns out that's not a great mystery either. Just a few years ago, Los Angeles officials
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celebrated the suspension and termination of more than 100 firefighters because they wouldn't take
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the COVID shot. Watch. 113 L.A. City firefighters have been suspended without pay for defying the
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city's vaccine mandate. In November, firefighters who had not submitted their vaccination status or
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requested an exemption were informed they would face suspension and termination.
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Now, a few months after terminating all these firefighters for not taking the COVID shot,
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a new chief took over at the Los Angeles Fire Department and this new chief doubled down on
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DEI hiring. She went out of her way to diversify the ranks of the L.A. F.D., meaning she wanted to
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hire fewer white men and more lesbians like herself. Watch. I am super inspired. She took time out of her
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already busy schedule to tell us about her vision for the department's future, one that includes a three
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year strategic plan to increase diversity. People ask me, well, what number are you
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looking for? I'm not looking for a number. It's never enough. Out of 3,300 city firefighters, only 115 are
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women right now. She's already looking at ways to change that. She's quick to point out that doing so has a
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greater purpose, attracting the best and brightest for the job. They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part of a
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cohesive team. The chief also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this
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department. She's a proud member of the LGBTQ community. That just kind of opens the door of
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people that thought, wow, I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me.
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Oh, she checks the boxes because that's the thing that they, I mean, literally, when we say that DEI
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is only concerned with box checking, literally, that's the case. You just heard it there. And
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you know, the thing is, when you decide that we want to have fewer men as firefighters and more
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women, what you end up with in the end is fewer firefighters in general. Why is that? Well, because
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the vast majority of people who are interested in being firefighters are men. That's the case.
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That was the case yesterday. It's the case today. It's going to be a case forever.
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And on top of that, if we could all just be honest about it, not only are the vast majority of people
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who are interested in being firefighters men, the vast majority of people who are qualified to be
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firefighters are men. The people that you want responding in a situation like this when your
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city is on fire are men. You want male firefighters. We call them fire men. That's what you want. You
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want fire men showing up. And everybody knows that. Everybody knows that. But we're supposed to
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pretend otherwise, like we don't. We're supposed to pretend that men and women are equally capable
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of responding in a situation like this when your city is on fire. But this was the fire chief's top
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priority and was just getting more women in there, which is to say getting more people in who are less
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qualified to do the job. That's what it means. And she got to work immediately, creating a DEI bureau
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within just one year. Watch. Every day, the LAFD is called upon to respond to crises, and today it is
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taking a step to resolve one of its own. The department's first ever diversity, equity, and
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inclusion bureau will launch in January, one year since its first ever female fire chief, Kristen Crowley,
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was appointed. So by creating this new bureau, our diversity, equity, inclusion bureau, now we actually
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have the staff to do the work when it comes to doing a deep dive in regard to how we do business,
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how we take care of one another in the fire stations and in our work environment.
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This stuff is so infuriating. I mean, here's a question, and this is something that unfortunately
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is playing out right now in Los Angeles over the city probably. But if firefighters are responding
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to a scene and their house is on fire and there's someone inside the house who's incapacitated,
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passed out, smoke inhalation, and that person is a man. Let's just say it's a man about myself. Let's
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say it's me. I'm the one that's in that building. I'm not a huge guy, slightly above average height
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and all that. It's not like I'm Dwayne Johnson, but just a man. How many female firefighters
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would be capable of picking me up and carrying me out of the building? How many of all the female
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firefighters, what percentage of them could even do that? I'm going to say maybe zero percent.
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But they're doing the work at the Los Angeles Fire Department, whatever that means.
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Now, to be fair to this fire chief, a month ago, she did send a letter to the mayor explaining
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that her department would struggle to respond to wildfires because of the funding cuts.
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And here's what that letter looked like. You can see it. The fire chief states that
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Bass's budget cuts had, quote, severely limited the department's capacity to prepare for, train for,
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and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires. What's particularly strange about these
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budget cuts and the fire department's focus on DEI is that it's been widely known for years that a
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massive, devastating wildfire was potentially imminent in Los Angeles. Insurance
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insurance companies have known that, which is why they tried to raise rates on disaster coverage
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for homeowners in recent years. But instead of responding to the risk, Democrats in California
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banned the insurance companies from raising rates, and then they fired the firefighters for not taking
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the COVID shot. So the insurance companies dropped thousands of California residents from coverage.
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Meanwhile, California's leaders also took down a massive dam just to ensure that emergency
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personnel would have as little available water as possible in the event of something like this
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happening. Watch. These dams are coming down and it's about dam time. Governor Kate Brown,
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Governor Gavin Newsom, U.S. Secretary of Interior, Deb Haaland, and tribal leaders all coming together
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to celebrate the world's largest dam removal along the Klamath River Thursday. The groups meeting at
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Iron Gate Fish Hatchery in Hornbrook last month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the
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final approval of the historic plan to remove four dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon.
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So they redirect rainwater to the ocean and shut down the dams to save the fish and appease the
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tribal elders. And now they're apparently out of water to fight these fires. Firefighters are using
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traffic cones to scoop water now, as you can see in the footage here. Now, these are images that
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are going to be remembered many years from now. As the mayor of Los Angeles hangs out in Ghana
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and the fire department leadership pushes DEI hiring and the politicians empty the reservoirs and remove
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the dams and the brush remains uncleared, the rank and file firefighters are reduced to scooping water
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into traffic cones. This is what Donald Trump warned about just a few months ago on Joe Rogan's
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podcast. In fact, he's been warning about it for years. And now it's happened. In case it's not
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clear, it's necessary to scoop water into traffic cones because no water is coming out of the fire
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hydrants. The businessman, Rick Caruso, called into local news to make that observation. Watch.
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My heart goes out, obviously, to the people with their homes. And I'm watching the small businesses
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around us go up in flames. You know, this is people's livelihoods. So it's devastating.
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But what is most concerning to me is our first responders and our firefighters who are trying
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to battle this. There's no water in the Palisades. There's no water coming out of the fire hydrants.
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This is an absolute mismanagement by the city. It's not the firefighters' fault, but it's by the city.
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And I'm going to be very honest. We've got a mayor that's out of the country.
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And we've got a city that's burning. And there's no resources to put out fires. So if you look at
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your pictures, you don't see the firefighters there because there's nothing they can do.
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And it looks like we're in a third world country here.
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This is obviously an extremely damaging piece of information for local officials.
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That's presumably why an anchor at the local Fox affiliate tried to fact check Rick Caruso and
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imply that he was wrong about this. And then he was immediately fact checked by a Fox reporter on
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the ground who confirmed that, indeed, the firefighters are out of water.
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Former L.A. mayoral candidate and real estate developer Rick Caruso
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criticizing the city's response to the windstorm and fires. He says officials should have been
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more prepared. The real issue to me is twofold. We've had decades to go remove the brush in these
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hills that spread so quickly. And the second is, you've got to have water. And my understanding
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is the reservoir was not refilled in time and in a timely manner to keep the hydrants going.
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So that's a failure, whether on DWP's part or another city agency. But this is basic stuff.
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This isn't high science here. And it's all about leadership and management that we're seeing a
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failure of. And all of these residents are paying the ultimate price for that.
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Despite what you have heard from Caruso, no firefighters have told us that they are running
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out of water. And let's go out to Gigi Graziat. She is live in Pacific Palisades. I know your
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signal's not the best, but Gigi, what can you tell us?
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Well, firefighters have told me they have no water on this block and you may be able to make out the
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ember storm that we're in the middle of right now. This house is going to be a total loss.
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They have no water to put on this fire. They are standing by because they're trying to save
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the home that is next to it. So this is one of the most basic factual issues of this entire
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disaster. And the local media obviously has no idea what's going on. Neither do the people who
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are supposedly running the state. Yesterday evening, CNN asked Gavin Newsom about why there was no water
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coming out of the fire hydrants. And he had no answer to the question.
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What is the situation with the water? Obviously, in Palisades, it ran out last night in the hydrants.
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I was trying to fire fire on this block. They left because there was no water in the hydrant here.
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Local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean, just when you have a system where it's not
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dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large scale fires, whether it be pipe electricity,
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whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system. I mean, those hydrants are typical for
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two or three fires, maybe one fire. You have something at this scale. But again, that's going to be
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determined by the local. Now, shortly after that interview was shot, another fire began in Hollywood
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Hills. Arson obviously seems like a strong possibility to explain a lot of this because
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California is a lawless state where no one, even arsonists, are prosecuted. Additionally, late last
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night, someone shot footage of what appears to be arson attacks taking place in the city. This is from
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We're at 302 Pico and people are lighting fires now. You can see that lit a fire. These guys,
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not all the people there, but some of those guys lit that fire and they're actually, the trees caught
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fire and then the palms are catching fire. So civilians are now lighting fires down in the so-called,
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you know, flats around Santa Monica, Venice. So be safe out there. Fire department's been dispatched.
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We don't have enough water to put this thing out, but we're supposedly on the way.
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Now, based on that footage and the sheer number of separate fires, it seems more likely than not
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that we're dealing with a series of arson attacks here. But, you know, not spontaneous combustion
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caused by climate change, but people setting these fires. But at the moment, we don't know for sure.
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What we do know, as this catastrophe continues to unfold in Los Angeles, is that no one is buying
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the climate change narrative anymore. The people running the state of California are simply too
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incompetent, too incoherent to pull it off. Now, yes, it's too late for the people living in the many
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destroyed areas of Los Angeles, which are becoming more numerous by the hour. But the rest of the country
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now understands exactly where climate change derangement leads. Along with DEI and the rest
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of the equity agenda, it leads to destruction and blame shifting and ultimately total unmitigated
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apocalyptic disaster, which is what we're seeing happening in a major American city. And as an entire
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enclaves and left-wing cities burn to the ground, the reality is now simply too obvious, even for the
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00:27:36.260
you might be thinking, is this guy really losing his voice again? Didn't that just happen like two weeks
00:27:40.000
ago? What is wrong with this sickly bastard? And yes, it did just happen and it is now. And I blame
00:27:48.760
my kids, you know, like any, I believe in accountability. So I blame my kids. We had a
00:27:54.820
round of whatever cold virus is going around right now. We had a round of that. And then apparently
00:27:59.560
we went back for seconds because my kids started coughing again. Now it's ripping through the house
00:28:03.840
a second time just around and around and around because look, you know, it goes without saying,
00:28:09.780
I love my kids to death. My family's the greatest thing in my life, but they're also, let's be honest,
00:28:15.960
little Petri dishes. They, they, you know, they're little buckets of disease, a cute little buckets,
00:28:21.260
adorable, but kids are just constantly bringing viruses and bacteria into the house and they have
00:28:26.220
no sense of personal space either. So they, so that combination just means that whatever they have,
00:28:31.180
you're going to get, you know, you're sharing it as a family. The other day, my, my two-year-old
00:28:35.020
sneezed directly into my face, like, like this close. Got up almost, it was intentional. It seemed
00:28:41.780
intentional because there's no reason for you to be this closer. Got up point blank range,
00:28:48.260
all the shrapnel. I absorbed it all. And, um, and so here we are. That's the way it goes.
00:28:55.120
Uh, here's this from the Daily Wire. President Joe Biden voiced uncertainty when asked whether he
00:29:00.400
believed he could serve another four-year term in the White House if he did not drop out of the
00:29:04.200
2024 race. On Wednesday, USA Today published a transcript of an interview that its Washington
00:29:09.760
Bureau chief, Susan Page, conducted with the 82-year-old Biden over the weekend. Uh, Page
00:29:14.500
asked, do you think you would have had the vigor to serve another four years in office? The president
00:29:18.420
said in response, I don't know. That's why I thought when I first announced talking to Brock about it,
00:29:24.720
I said I thought I was the person. I had no intention of running after Bo died, for real,
00:29:28.480
not a joke. And then when Trump was running again for re-election, I really thought I had the best
00:29:32.540
chance of beating him. But I also wasn't looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years
00:29:37.440
old. And so I did talk about passing the baton, but I don't know. Who the hell knows? So far, so good.
00:29:44.780
Really? So far, so good. But who knows what I'm going to be when I'm 86 years old? Uh, you know,
00:29:51.980
it's, it's kind of incredible. You almost have to laugh. Almost. Um, Biden was asked whether he
00:29:58.720
could actually perform the duties of the presidency in a second term. And his response now is who the
00:30:04.580
hell knows? Keep in mind, I don't think I have to remind you, this guy was running for a second term.
00:30:12.360
Now he admits that he has no idea whether he could even do the job.
00:30:15.480
I would have respected him more if he was, if he had said that during the campaign,
00:30:20.560
at least the honesty I would have respected, obviously wouldn't have voted for him, but
00:30:24.740
I would have liked it back in May when he was still in the campaign. If someone is like,
00:30:30.580
are you sure you can do this job at your age? Look, man, who the hell knows? I mean,
00:30:34.520
I'm old. Let's be honest. Like, what do you, what do you, you know, I could be dead tomorrow. I mean,
00:30:38.620
what do you want me to tell you? Um, I wish he had just said that at least there would have been
00:30:42.340
some honesty to it. And, um, obviously this is not a revelation. We aren't learning anything here.
00:30:48.240
The only thing this reveals, if it reveals anything, because I mean, this also shouldn't
00:30:53.480
be a newsflash, but, uh, it, it, it, it is that Joe Biden himself was and is aware of his own mental,
00:30:59.380
uh, deficiencies. You know, it's not like he ran again or tried to run again because he was
00:31:05.380
actually unaware that he was losing his mind and really thought that he could do the job. No, he,
00:31:09.900
he, he knew he couldn't do it. He knew that he was, uh, falling apart and he was going to put
00:31:15.360
the country in that position. Anyway, he was going to deliberately put the country in the position
00:31:20.520
that the president of the United States would become fully, fully, fully mentally incapacitated
00:31:25.320
while in office. He was going to march us right into that scenario. Um, it's really no different than
00:31:34.140
like a, you know, a drunk driver. I mean, this is, um, kind of the presidential equivalent of a DUI
00:31:40.520
because the drunk driver knows that they're drunk. You know, he knows he's getting behind
00:31:45.800
the wheel of a car in a state where he's not equipped to operate a vehicle safely. That's why
00:31:50.560
drunk drivers deserve incredibly harsh penalties because they're intentionally putting other people
00:31:54.360
in harm's way. Uh, they'd rather potentially kill someone than call an Uber. And with Biden,
00:32:02.620
it was, uh, the exact same thing. Um, exact same thing, which is why I, as I said all along,
00:32:08.380
I have no sympathy for this guy, uh, in almost any other scenario where you've got an old guy
00:32:14.220
losing or old woman, uh, uh, losing their mental capacities and going senile in almost any other
00:32:23.140
scenario. I would have nothing but sympathy for someone in that position. Uh, and it's, it's a,
00:32:28.740
it's a position that almost all of us are going to be in, or we're going to die before we're able
00:32:36.500
to be in that position. Um, but that's, that is the direction that we're all heading, you know,
00:32:43.920
regardless. So it's, it would behoove us all to be, to have sympathy, but not in this case,
00:32:51.020
not in this case, because you're, you are intentionally trying to inflict this on the
00:32:55.140
country. Um, here's something a little different getting out of politics for a moment. There's
00:33:02.640
just a really interesting article in the Atlantic that you should read. It's called, um, the, the
00:33:07.800
antisocial century. And, uh, I just read it this morning. I thought it was interesting. Um, and sad
00:33:13.840
and troubling. It's about the increasing trend in American culture towards solitude. You know,
00:33:20.140
people are spending more time alone than they ever have before the writer, Derek Thompson,
00:33:25.180
you know, he opens the article with a little, um, anecdote about how a small Mexican restaurant
00:33:32.460
near his house that he, you know, he goes there with his wife and daughter and, uh, sits down
00:33:38.300
at a table place is totally empty. Nobody else is sitting down and eating. And yet the business is
00:33:44.920
still open and doing well financially because over near the bar or what was once the bar are a
00:33:50.040
whole bunch of Brown bags that are just sitting there because everyone orders to go now. And so
00:33:54.980
he watches the, the, the, the, the train of people come in, walk over to the bar, grab their bag and
00:33:59.760
leave. And there isn't any conversation or greeting of any kind. Like they don't even have to interact
00:34:04.280
with a cashier anymore because everyone orders online. You pay online and, uh, you just walk in,
00:34:09.560
you grab your food. You don't say anything to anybody. You go home and eat. And, uh, of course,
00:34:13.580
this exact scenario can be observed everywhere in the country. And, um, and, uh, many, many
00:34:18.820
restaurants. Now this is where they do all their business. People just don't eat in restaurants
00:34:22.620
anymore. They take their food and they go home while these people are eating alone. I mean,
00:34:26.520
it's, it's the same thing in the, the movie business, the, the, the, the theater business,
00:34:30.540
as we know, is declining because everyone's watching movies. Now it's not like people aren't
00:34:34.600
watching movies anymore. They're watching more movies than ever had before, but they're doing it at
00:34:37.940
home and usually alone. And the article goes into the data. It's, it's, uh, very clear that
00:34:44.220
Americans are more alone now than they've ever been. Um, this is a civilizational shift and there's no,
00:34:54.840
uh, precedent really for it. There's nothing to compare it to. Uh, people are spending less time
00:35:03.020
socializing, less time going out with their friends, less time going out in general.
00:35:08.720
And on top of that, it's, so everyone's kind of like staying in their homes and also more people
00:35:13.160
are living alone in their homes than ever before. These are all trends that stretch back decades.
00:35:18.200
They didn't start with the COVID lockdowns, but which is something that a lot of people like to
00:35:21.980
point to that as kind of the beginning point of all this isolation and solitude, but, uh, it didn't,
00:35:27.880
you can trace these trends to, to way before that, that certainly added fuel to the fire.
00:35:32.520
And of course the number one data point. And one of the major things that's also contributing to it
00:35:40.300
is that fewer people are getting married and starting families. So that's where the isolation,
00:35:45.260
the solitude begins for a lot of people. Um, I don't really have a grand sweeping point about
00:35:51.460
this. I think it's just an interesting article. And this is an issue that I think we should be
00:35:55.980
focused on quite a bit more than, than we are because we're watching as like the very idea
00:36:03.580
of what it means to be living in a human society is changing and devolving. I think the grading,
00:36:14.760
um, obviously the internet is the thing that more than anything else is driving this. People have
00:36:19.940
replaced human interaction and human connection with, uh, the distraction and stimulation of the
00:36:25.260
phone, social media, and so on. And when we talk about isolation and solitude, you know, that means
00:36:31.240
something very different now. It's a kind of, because it's a kind of distracted solitude. It's,
00:36:36.700
it's hard to call it, um, solitude at all. It's isolation. Yes, but not really solitude.
00:36:43.680
And maybe that's the way to put it. This is, uh, what people are experiencing now is isolation
00:36:48.960
without solitude, which is to say that it's isolation without any of the potential benefits
00:36:57.240
that you might get from isolation. And it's not good generally to be isolated for long periods of
00:37:02.760
time, but, uh, if you're going to be, at least that could be an opportunity for reflection, thought,
00:37:10.440
rumination, you know, um, contemplation, prayer, solitude is, or should be, could be contemplative,
00:37:21.880
but there's no contemplation when everyone is at home staring at screens, right? So that's kind of
00:37:29.740
the caveat here is that everyone is alone. They're at their homes, but they're not, but they're,
00:37:33.420
what are they spending their time doing? They're just staring at screens the whole time.
00:37:36.940
So now there is, yes, a lot less in-person interaction and a lot less community,
00:37:44.880
but there's also a lot less solitary contemplation and reflection. So we've kind of lost both.
00:37:54.540
We've lost the best things about being communal and, uh, the best things about solitude
00:38:03.320
all at the same time is that that's kind of the shift that we're observing. Um,
00:38:10.480
all right, here's another one just running for you through a few of these, not going to spend a lot
00:38:16.400
of time on this, but wanted to mention it. Actually it, it relates to the first topic here in the five
00:38:20.620
headlines. Um, this is from the website study finds. It says every morning across America,
00:38:28.400
millions of senior citizens grab their car keys and head out to doctor's appointments, grocery stores,
00:38:33.000
and social gatherings. For most, these routine drives maintain their independence and connection
00:38:37.360
to the world. But beneath this everyday scene lies a troubling reality. Nearly one in six older drivers
00:38:42.080
experience mild cognitive impairments and our healthcare system lacks a reliable way to determine
00:38:48.160
who among them should no longer be behind the wheel. With 48 million licensed drivers over 65 in the
00:38:54.340
United States, approximately 17% of seniors experience at least mild cognitive impairment.
00:39:01.640
Um, so that's 17% of 48 million is, is the number of cognitively impaired drivers on the road.
00:39:11.420
Um, numbers painted sobering picture in 2020 alone, motor vehicle crashes led to 7,480 deaths and nearly
00:39:19.360
150,000 non-fatal injuries among drivers over 65. As the research notes, with approximately 17%
00:39:25.760
of people older than 65 experiencing mild cognitive impairment, um, it's critical to have a healthcare
00:39:30.700
system that appropriately evaluates and addresses driving safety, safety, uh, among older adults. Now,
00:39:36.880
here's why I find this interesting. Um, you know, there are a lot of problems in life.
00:39:43.060
This country has a lot of problems. Can't solve them all, but you can solve, or at least significantly
00:39:50.360
mitigate some of our problems. And many of these solvable problems would actually be very easy to
00:39:58.120
solve, uh, or to at least address in a significant way. I mean, if we had a giant checklist with all of
00:40:06.060
the solvable problems, and there are 10,000 problems on it, I think like 9,000 of them could
00:40:15.400
be solved pretty easily and simply, but just nobody does it. Now there might be like a thousand of the
00:40:23.780
10,000 where the solution, where there either is no, you know, where the solution is much more
00:40:28.300
complex, but for many of them, it's actually a really simple solution. So this is, this is one of
00:40:34.920
those solvable problems. It's a problem. It's a real problem. There are elderly people on the roads
00:40:40.560
who shouldn't be there. There are old people driving who shouldn't be driving. They're cognitively
00:40:45.940
impaired and they're piloting, you know, these, these giant heavy hunks of metal down the highway.
00:40:54.400
It's, that's a problem. So it's on our checklist. It's on our checklist of, of problems. It's not at the
00:41:00.320
top. It's not the number one problem, but it's, it's, it's also not at the bottom. I mean, people
00:41:05.620
are hurt and killed every day because of this problem. And, you know, we sit around debating
00:41:11.380
it. I mean, we actually don't debate it. We don't really talk about it, but whenever it comes up,
00:41:14.900
it's debated. Like, what do we do about it? Even in this article, they say, well, it's a, it's a
00:41:19.460
difficult, it's a complex. It's a, how do you, how do you measure? How do you, how do you determine?
00:41:24.780
And now it's not difficult. Here's the solution. I think everyone recognizes like this is what we
00:41:30.460
should require that everybody retake the driver's exam. Once they hit the age of 70, let's say,
00:41:37.560
you can say 65, but let's just, we can just say 70 and then take it again every three, three years,
00:41:43.960
at least, uh, until you die. Now this would obviously not completely erase the car accidents
00:41:51.700
caused by elderly drivers, but it would greatly, greatly, greatly, greatly reduce them.
00:41:57.700
And there's no argument against it. Like, why don't we do that? How is that not the law in every
00:42:03.080
state already? Of course you should read the idea that you should take a driver's exam once ever in
00:42:09.680
your life. And so if you passed it when you were 17, the implication is that 70 years later,
00:42:16.780
it still counts. What? You might as well not even have a driver's exam at that point.
00:42:24.740
If you're going to have it at all, then it should be something that comes up again in life.
00:42:33.640
There's no argument to get. The only argument you ever hear against having elderly people retake the
00:42:38.540
exam is that, well, if you take their license away from the elderly person, they'll become depressed
00:42:44.340
and isolated, which I get that. You know, I know I don't, that's tough. That's a tough thing.
00:42:50.800
But that argument admits that there are a lot of elderly people on the road who wouldn't be able
00:42:55.960
to pass the driver's exam. So you're admitting that. And what we're saying is that for the sake
00:43:00.960
of elderly people maintaining their independence, people have to die. Like younger people have to die
00:43:08.180
on the roads every year so that old people can feel happier and drive around, which is madness.
00:43:17.560
You know, and anytime you talk about something like this, people are always like, well, hey,
00:43:21.500
why are you talking about it? That's not the biggest problem in the world right now.
00:43:25.100
California's on fire, whatever. You know, it's like, yeah, I know. It's not the biggest.
00:43:30.520
So let's just cross this off the list. Let's just, let's just go down and all these problems that
00:43:35.600
aren't the biggest problems, but are solved. Just cross them off the list. Let's just do it.
00:43:39.440
Let's deal with this problem. It could be easily done with a solution that there is no
00:43:45.940
coherent argument against. And, and we don't do it. So this is one of those things. One of many
00:43:52.660
things where we look at this problem and people are dying because of it. And we say, well, you know,
00:43:57.060
what are you going to do? Well, I know what we could do. We could do this. It would totally work.
00:44:01.680
Oh yeah. Yeah. But we're not going to do that. Why aren't we going to do that? We're just not,
00:44:06.480
we're just, we're just not going to, we're just going to, yeah, we're just going to continue
00:44:10.100
forever. We're going to continue forever allowing 85 year olds who can't see drive. It's, it's crazy
00:44:19.960
to me. I don't get it. All right. I've had this one also in the, in the, on deck. I should mention it.
00:44:31.680
This is from Yahoo. It says vegans could be more likely to be depressed because they drink
00:44:36.800
plant-based milk, according to a recent study. And we know we, I talk a lot, a lot about milk
00:44:41.820
issues on this. Um, it's, it's become a, it's become part of my brand is, is discussing all
00:44:47.180
different kinds of milk, milk related issues. I get involved in a lot of, um, milk centric
00:44:52.860
controversies. And so I saw this and I said, well, this is, this is about milk. So this is,
00:44:56.960
but I, I, apparently this is my, this is my wheelhouse. Uh, data collected for more than
00:45:02.320
350,000 participants enrolled in a UK biobank study found that those who drank semi-skimmed
00:45:07.020
cow's milk were at a lower risk of both anxiety and depression compared with plant, uh, milk drinkers.
00:45:13.340
Scientists from the Southern Medical University in China, um, found that, uh, followed so many
00:45:20.720
people. So on, it doesn't matter. Um, those who consume plant-based milks, such as soy and almond
00:45:26.940
were found to have a 14% increased chance of depression. So there's the, that's the thing.
00:45:32.560
It's no surprise. You know, I'm sure that people who drink fake milk, who drink, uh, as you know,
00:45:38.900
as we know, almond milk is not milk. It's nut juice. It's juice from nuts is what it is. Uh,
00:45:44.340
and I understand why we don't want to put that on the container, but, but that is what it is.
00:45:48.600
Uh, but I'm sure they're depressed, but I don't think it has anything to do with whatever is in
00:45:53.820
the fake milk or with the nutrients they aren't getting from real milk. I think it's just that
00:45:57.860
the experience of being vegan makes you depressed. You are depriving yourself of the basic
00:46:04.280
elemental joy of a good meal. I mean, not, not just of milk, but if you're vegan, you can't have a
00:46:12.860
good meal. If you're a vegan, you can, you can never have a good meal. You can have a meal that
00:46:19.100
is good in comparison to all the other crappy meals that you have, but you can't have an actual
00:46:23.040
good meal. If you're vegan, it's, it's impossible. It doesn't exist. So they don't know what a good
00:46:28.120
meal is. They don't even understand that food can be good. They don't know that like a vegan,
00:46:35.380
especially if they, a vegan that's been the God forbid is conditioned to be a vegan from childhood.
00:46:39.180
This is someone, it's like someone who's blind from birth. They don't even know what, like they
00:46:45.740
don't know what a rainbow is. They don't, they can't even conceive of it. And if you're a vegan,
00:46:51.740
especially vegan your whole life, you don't even know the fact that food can be a good experience.
00:46:56.680
It can be enjoyable to eat food. You don't even know that you've never experienced it. And to you as
00:47:02.940
a vegan, food is a necessary evil. It's a thing that you suffer through. So being a vegan,
00:47:09.040
it's like being, it's like being in a, you know, kind of a goblin in a cave underground who never
00:47:17.260
experiences sunlight. And no offense to vegans. I don't mean it as an insult to say that you're all
00:47:24.240
a bunch of goblins. I don't mean that you look like goblins. Well, a lot of you do, but that's not
00:47:31.040
my point. My point is about the basic joys of life that you're not experiencing. And then again,
00:47:36.200
this may be confusion of, uh, of chicken and the egg kind of thing. Uh, what I mean is are vegans
00:47:42.060
depressed because they're vegans or are they vegans because they're depressed? Maybe depressed,
00:47:49.140
self-loathing, miserable people are more likely to become vegans as a way of punishing themselves.
00:47:55.100
And then being vegan makes them be more depressed. I think it's probably something like that. It's a
00:48:01.020
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00:49:40.520
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00:49:45.940
And there were a lot of, uh, in response, you know, we did the show yesterday. I talked about,
00:49:49.260
um, well, there's purchasing Greenland. There's taking, taking, uh, possession of the Panama Canal
00:49:57.220
are plans potentially on the agenda for Trump, but there's also this thing about conquering Canada.
00:50:05.900
And so I talked about, you know, waging a conquest of, of, of Canada. And for some reason,
00:50:11.580
a lot of Canadians in the audience were upset about it. And, uh, I got a lot of comments like
00:50:17.380
this saying, well, how could you say that you wanted a car? Well, I look, I, I understand that
00:50:22.380
not everyone in Canada is a far left wacko. And like I said, I, I appreciate the conservative
00:50:29.780
Canadians. I really do. And I'll, I will, I will make sure that you have comfortable common
00:50:36.120
accommodations in labor camps. Um, I'll get, make sure you have the best cells, um, out of anyone.
00:50:42.320
You get the easiest jobs. I mean, they're going to be a hard backbreaking jobs. You're not going to get
00:50:46.460
paid for them, but, uh, you know, so, so no reason to be so upset is what I'm trying to say.
00:50:53.300
Uh, let's see. Porn is terrible, but you can't ask for a smaller government and then continue
00:51:00.560
passing more and more laws rather than asking the government to make sure your children are not
00:51:05.420
watching porn. Perhaps it's the parent's responsibility to make sure, to make sure I know
00:51:09.980
it's a crazy concept now. Okay. Well, I'm not asking for a smaller government because smaller
00:51:18.960
doesn't mean anything. Okay. The, the, the whole, uh, and I know conservatives have been saying this
00:51:24.580
forever and it never, have you noticed that never happens? Conservatives have been chanting forever,
00:51:29.640
small government, and it literally never happens. The government has only grown ever. It's,
00:51:35.040
it's all it's done for a hundred years. Um, and so maybe that tells us that this slogan
00:51:41.000
is not very effective. And one of the reasons it's not effective is because it doesn't mean
00:51:45.080
anything. What do you mean? Smaller, smaller than what? Smaller in what way is like, so we just solve
00:51:50.540
all our problems by just making it smaller. That doesn't solve anything. What I want is a more,
00:51:58.100
among other things is a more efficient government and efficient means that you're being productive
00:52:04.960
and you're not wasting a lot of effort and money. So yes, efficiency does often mean that, that,
00:52:10.500
that, you know, in effect that the operation becomes quote unquote smaller because you're getting a lot
00:52:15.380
of getting rid of a lot of the dead weight and a lot of the wasted effort and all the rest of it.
00:52:20.560
But the goal is not smallness itself. The goal is efficiency and efficient, you know, means in other
00:52:28.940
words that you, you are good at doing the things you're supposed to be doing. There's a very broad
00:52:33.880
definition of efficient, but that's what I want from the government. And so that requires us to first
00:52:39.520
determine what the government is supposed to be doing. There are a lot of things that it shouldn't
00:52:46.940
be doing that it is doing. And I want it to stop doing those things. And yet there are still things
00:52:53.600
that it should do. Now, this is an important distinction. And I would say that putting some
00:53:00.420
laws in place to prevent the multi-billion dollar porn industry from preying on millions of children
00:53:06.660
is the kind of thing that the government should be doing.
00:53:10.680
protecting kids is the kind of thing that the government should be considering. Now,
00:53:18.940
there's lots of things the government could do in the name of quote unquote protecting kids that are
00:53:23.780
bad. They can use that as a cover to do things that actually have nothing to do with protecting kids.
00:53:29.900
I understand that. But putting laws in place to put some kind of insulation, some kind of filter
00:53:40.140
system, some kind of shield in between this massive behemoth, hardcore porn industry and our kids,
00:53:48.280
that actually is about protecting kids. And it's a kind of basic level of protection that
00:53:57.660
not only is it appropriate to provide kids, but kids have a right to it. We have an obligation to
00:54:06.260
provide it. Yes, starting with parents, but not just parents. At a societal and political level,
00:54:15.880
there is an obligation to do something, at least to try to protect these kids from this
00:54:23.660
satanic industry. Another comment says, I did not expect us to bring back Manifest Destiny.
00:54:36.120
Well, why not? Well, why wouldn't we take it? I mean, it's funny people talk about Manifest Destiny
00:54:40.780
now like it's some clearly objectively bad thing. Manifest Destiny, of course, is the belief in the
00:54:46.020
19th century that it was America's destiny, its calling, its vocation to stretch itself west
00:54:52.220
across the continent to the Pacific. And it was this belief that drove the pioneers and explorers
00:54:57.520
and settlers to do exactly that. And now we're told that Manifest Destiny was bad and it was racist
00:55:05.180
and all this kind of stuff. But wasn't it obviously our destiny? When the people talked about Manifest
00:55:13.300
Destiny in the 19th century, isn't it clear that it was in fact our destiny? Was it not obviously our
00:55:20.380
calling to do exactly what we did? To expand, to claim new land? What if we hadn't? What then?
00:55:27.940
What if we hadn't done that? If there was no Manifest Destiny, what does the world look like
00:55:33.360
right now? Now, if you're a really naive moron, you, I guess, would think that if America had
00:55:38.800
just consigned itself to one coast, then everything west of the Mississippi would have remained in the
00:55:45.700
control of warring bands of Stone Age tribes, as it was at the time. And even if it had worked out
00:55:51.440
that way, that would not be good. Okay, that would be absurd. Imagine in the year 2025 that we have our
00:55:58.520
highly advanced society, our highly advanced civilization. But if you go in the woods, you'll
00:56:03.800
run into an Apache warrior who wants to peel your scalp off your head and wear it around his neck as a
00:56:09.180
trophy. Okay, that it's clear that that would not be an improvement. That's not what we want.
00:56:15.980
But that's not even what would have happened. Okay, what would have happened? This is an important
00:56:21.680
fact of American history that most people don't seem to understand when they talk about the
00:56:26.500
how terrible it was that America expanded and took all this land from Native Americans.
00:56:32.460
I've addressed that so many times to talk about why this conquest of the wilderness was not a
00:56:39.140
bad thing, but in fact, a great thing. But another aspect of that
00:56:42.160
is that if we hadn't done it, it would not have just, this land would not have just remained in
00:56:54.100
the hands of these warring bands of Indian tribes who were living 5,000 years in the past.
00:57:00.560
No, that's not what would have happened. Other countries would have laid claim to it. They already
00:57:04.740
had Great Britain, Spain, France, Russia. Eventually, China would have gotten in into the mix.
00:57:10.960
So if not for manifest destiny, it would be the United States on the East Coast and then like
00:57:17.300
Europe part two on the West, which is to say the United States wouldn't exist in that scenario.
00:57:24.760
I mean, if the United States had never expanded, it would not exist in the year 2025.
00:57:29.480
Um, so all of that, I would think vindicates the idea of manifest destiny. And yet we still talk
00:57:37.480
about it. Like it's, it's, yeah, it's the reason you exist right now. You understand that you exist
00:57:44.480
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Today we cancel the actor John Cryer, who is of course the
00:58:29.720
former star of the sitcom Will and Grace or may have been two and a half men. I didn't bother to
00:58:33.880
check, but in any event, Cryer appeared on Bill Maher's podcast this week where he offered his theory
00:58:40.260
on why Donald Trump won much. I think the whole country, even unless you're like stupid woke,
00:58:49.660
I hope you're not, but you know, it is Hollywood somewhat stupid. Okay. Uh, the whole country was
00:58:56.180
like, I mean, I think the biggest issue for the election, one of the biggest ones was Democrats
00:59:02.180
pointlessly, totally just punted on immigration and let anybody who wanted to walk in for three and a
00:59:09.740
a half years did. And you know, I think they would probably disagree that people walking in
00:59:15.520
probably felt like it was a little harder. No, no, no, no, actually, actually, there's a great 60
00:59:20.280
minutes piece on it where the border, I mean, you don't get 8 million people here by making it
00:59:25.520
difficult. Um, but there's watch, they just, I mean, you see, they're walking through and that
00:59:30.600
border guys are just watching them do it. They're just watching them walk past. You never saw that?
00:59:36.020
I did not see that. See, that doesn't get in the liberal media. That's the problem is the
00:59:39.360
bubbles we live in. I think I had it right. Like that kind of stuff is what lost the election
00:59:45.800
for the Democrats. It's in all- Maybe part of it. I don't know. I think a lot- They have polling on
00:59:50.280
it. It's- Well, I think it's inflation. I think Americans hate inflation. They hate inflation. They
00:59:56.360
hate riots and they hate black women. And they hate trans people. Dude, they just spent hundreds
01:00:03.500
of millions of dollars humanizing trans people. And that's disgusting. Yeah, we shouldn't talk
01:00:09.820
politics. Okay. We shouldn't. We shouldn't. Great. I don't, we don't have to.
01:00:16.520
Now, what makes this stupid is, is, well, everything about it, but let's narrow it down
01:00:21.140
a bit. Uh, Crier gets the first part of the answer right. He says Trump won because Americans hate
01:00:27.260
inflation and riots. That simplifies and condenses the issue quite a bit, but it's basically correct.
01:00:31.780
Americans were tired of our wrecked economy and our lawless cities. Um, they wanted economic
01:00:37.960
stability and law and order. But then Crier throws in the claim that Americans also hate black women.
01:00:43.760
So apparently his theory is that Americans correctly associated Kamala with economic decline
01:00:49.000
and lawlessness, but would have still voted for her if not for the fact that she's black.
01:00:54.240
We would have said, well, you know, we really hate inflation and crime, but she's white. So
01:00:57.760
we'll take it. Nevermind the fact that Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the first run,
01:01:01.120
who is last I checked, not black. Now, of course, this is all part of the mythology that woke idiots
01:01:05.560
like John Crier subscribe to. It's a mythology that as we know, claims that America is racist.
01:01:11.440
And according to this mythology, black women in particular get the harshest treatment.
01:01:16.060
Black women are reviled and persecuted more than anyone else. They say, nevermind the fact that,
01:01:20.740
you know, Oprah is one of the wealthiest and most popular figures in the country. So as Beyonce,
01:01:25.520
we were constantly told during the race that Michelle Obama's approval ratings were higher than any
01:01:30.000
candidate or any potential candidate on either side. Now, I don't think any of those people
01:01:34.720
should be popular, but because not because they're black, but because they're all pretty awful in their
01:01:40.180
own ways. But they do cause some problems for the America hates black women narrative. In fact,
01:01:45.440
here's the funny thing. Nearly all of the people who claim that Kamala lost because she's sort of a
01:01:51.540
black woman would also say that Michelle Obama would have crushed Trump, even though Michelle Obama is
01:01:57.520
blacker than Kamala. Now, things took an even more ridiculous turn when the conversation moved to
01:02:02.640
the trans issue. Listen, you're asking too much often to rewrite like the idea that when someone is
01:02:11.060
born, there is a default setting for humans, male and female. Not everyone is. Now, a real conservator
01:02:18.460
would say, no, everyone is. I would never say that. I think what a liberal says is yes, there's a default
01:02:27.020
setting, but then there's a whole other section, and that's great, and we should protect those people.
01:02:34.300
But don't pretend there isn't also a default setting. And you can't rewrite the world so that every baby
01:02:40.860
is just a jump ball. Oh, it could be anything. No, if it's got a dick, it's probably a boy. And if it's not,
01:02:47.580
we'll deal with that. We'll deal with that in a compassionate way. But we'll also be apprised
01:02:53.260
of the idea that children don't know about anything. Yes, sometimes it is obvious, and we
01:02:59.100
should address it that way. But I mean, kids, so mighty. I mean, the idea that I would, as a child,
01:03:07.100
would have had to have dealt with something like this. Well, again, the people that go through it
01:03:12.300
don't say this is the life I want. No parent wants to be in the midst of those choices. It's
01:03:17.340
terrifying. Some kids these days actually just do want to be trans. I don't agree. It's cooler,
01:03:20.940
John. I don't agree. It's a thing. Nope. Oh, come on. I don't agree with Bill. I know.
01:03:26.540
That's the name of the show tonight. Well, your eyes are not open to that, I think. Okay. Well,
01:03:31.260
okay. There are some kids, especially, why is it like so much more prevalent like here than Indiana?
01:03:37.180
Well, are they suppressing it there? Maybe a little. Yeah, there's a societal suppression,
01:03:41.420
but it's like left-handedism. Being left-handed was suppressed for thousands of years amongst
01:03:48.620
human beings. But it was apparently in the 30s, scientists basically said, left-handedness
01:03:56.300
doesn't actually do anything bad. Left-handedness shot up. People just stopped training themselves to
01:04:02.300
be right-handed. And this has happened societally before, and that's the closest analog that I can think
01:04:09.900
to go. Now, there are many problems with this. To start with, Bill Maher is presenting the
01:04:14.700
weakest possible case for team sanity here. He says that male or female are the default settings
01:04:19.180
for most humans, but not all humans, which is, of course, incorrect. It's not most humans. Every
01:04:23.900
human who exists on the planet, who has ever existed, will ever exist, either falls into the
01:04:27.420
category of male or female. There are no other categories. Those are the only two. So Bill's given
01:04:32.220
up far too much ground to the other side at the outset of this conversation. And any amount of ground
01:04:37.900
given up is too much. You know, give them nothing because they deserve nothing and their ideas have
01:04:43.100
no merit and no value. So John Cryer takes the ball and runs with it. And he compares being trans to
01:04:49.420
being left-handed and says that left-handedness was suppressed for thousands of years. And once the
01:04:55.260
suppression stopped, left-handedness exploded. And he claims, you know, it's a similar thing that's
01:04:59.180
happening with transgenderism. The explosion in trans identification is not because of social
01:05:03.100
contagion. It's because the thousand year campaign of suppression has come to an end.
01:05:09.020
Now, there are a number of issues with this. First of all, left-handed people were not suppressed
01:05:14.460
and persecuted for thousands of years. John seems to think that there was some kind of global effort
01:05:20.860
lasting millennia to oppress and subjugate the left-handed people of the world. That never happened.
01:05:26.940
Maybe it should have. Left-handed people are freaks who shouldn't be trusted,
01:05:30.620
but it didn't happen. In fact, some ancient societies revered left-handed people. Some societies
01:05:38.700
associated the left hand with wisdom. And at any rate, even if we had been rounding up and imprisoning
01:05:44.380
left-handed mutants for hundreds of centuries, that still would do nothing to prove the point with
01:05:50.060
transgenderism. They would do nothing to prove John's case. Actually, rather than proving it, the
01:05:55.260
left-handed analogy undermines his case. Because left-handedness is a preference. It's not some
01:06:01.580
kind of innate state of being. Is John admitting that transgenderism is the same kind of thing,
01:06:08.460
a mere preference? Also, and this is very important, a left-handed person does not cut off their right
01:06:16.540
hand because they're left-handed. One does not affirm one's hand preference by having the opposite
01:06:23.500
hand amputated. Everyone would agree that we should not be making permanent life-altering changes to
01:06:29.820
anyone's body, least of all child's body, based on their dominant hand. So even if we bought his analogy,
01:06:36.060
it would not lead us all the way to his conclusion. It wouldn't even get us halfway there.
01:06:40.460
This is the problem for the proponents of gender ideology. Analogies are an extremely useful tool
01:06:48.780
in making and explaining an argument. I use them all the time. But the gender ideology proponent is
01:06:54.700
not able to make any analogies. Every analogy backfires. They cannot say, human beings can choose
01:07:03.980
whether they're male or female, just like X. Or they can't say, we should make permanent changes
01:07:10.380
to a child's body if they say they're trans, just like we do X. Because these are things that have
01:07:16.860
no analogy. In order to defend their position, they're using logic that they would not accept
01:07:23.980
in any other area of life. They're making the kinds of arguments that if applied to literally anything
01:07:29.900
else in any other circumstance, everyone, including them, would reject. There's no logical precedent
01:07:36.540
for their position because it is not logical. Now, compare that to team sanity. We don't have this
01:07:43.500
problem. We are overflowing with analogies. Our cups runneth over. We can say, human beings can't
01:07:51.580
choose their sex, just like they can't choose their race, or their height, or their natural hair color,
01:07:58.620
or their genetic composition, their DNA. In fact, it turns out that we have no say over any of the
01:08:06.300
fundamental components of our physical identities. We can also say, we shouldn't make permanent changes
01:08:13.260
to a child's body if they say they're trans, just like we don't let children get tattoos,
01:08:19.180
or cosmetic procedures, etc. That's because our position on transgenderism is entirely consistent
01:08:25.660
with our position on everything else. On the other hand, the defense of gender ideology exists in this
01:08:31.580
kind of logical vacuum. It requires you to make the kinds of arguments that you would never make
01:08:39.340
otherwise. It requires you to contradict yourself, which is the very definition of an illogical position.
01:08:47.180
And it is why John Cryer, from whatever show he's from, is today canceled. That'll do it for the show
01:08:55.820
today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
01:09:05.740
I've often said that gender-affirming care is health care, it is mental health care,
01:09:10.140
and it can actually be suicide prevention care. I think I'm gonna take some medicine,
01:09:17.100
so I can kind of like, transform into a boy, get surgery. After the surgery, I didn't really feel
01:09:23.980
any better. When it stopped being a thing for adults, and it started to be a, let's teach this
01:09:29.500
to kids. Total lie. Manipulation. It's gaslighting. Please stop. He's a boy, not a girl. How could she do
01:09:35.900
this to my son? What they're talking about is hormonal therapy or sex reassignment surgery
01:09:41.900
on children. I thought fixing me externally would fix me internally, but of course I was wrong. The
01:09:48.700
fact that the state thinks that they're more important and have a better say in what happens
01:09:52.780
to your child over the actual parent's opinion is egregious. Puberty blockers, surgeries, big money
01:09:58.060
makers for hospitals, for physicians. All I want to do is hold my son.
01:10:02.140
Are you asking me to lie to parents? And he said, yes.
01:10:08.140
This is a weaponized use of a parent's sympathy and caring and concern by the left to destroy your
01:10:16.060
child. Let's tell kids that maybe they can be the opposite sex. Maybe they actually are the opposite
01:10:22.140
sex. It is an evil thing to tell children that happiness lies on the other side of puberty blockers
01:10:29.340
or double mastectomies. The left so badly wants to blur these lines.