Ep. 1567 - Why I Went To Speak In Front Of The California Assembly Yesterday
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As a country, we simply cannot agree on much, and we were not always like this. Not so long ago, presidential candidates like Nixon and Reagan could win 49 states, and it s hard to imagine that happening again in your lifetime. But despite this sea change in American politics, there are still some issues that remain uncontroversial, not many, but they do exist. And maybe the most important point of consensus is that, despite the relentless corporate propaganda to the contrary, Americans still believe that basic observable biology is indeed real. They have not fallen for the scam of gender ideology, at least not to the extent that many assumed they had.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, I testified in California yesterday in support of a bill that
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would keep men out of women's locker rooms and sports teams. We'll talk about that. Also,
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some female members of Congress banded together to demand that they be allowed to vote from home
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in defiance of the Constitution. And a prominent race hustler declares that every law written before
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1965 should be abolished because they were all written by white men. Plus, Cory Booker
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filibusters for over 24 hours. It was the longest filibuster in history. What was he filibustering?
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Why was he doing this? That still is not clear. We'll talk about all that and more today on the
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You won't find many instances in modern life where there is near unanimous agreement on anything.
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It doesn't really matter what the issue is. You're probably not going to find a consensus.
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There was a recent poll that supposedly showed that around a third of millennials believe the
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earth is flat, for example. So whatever explains this phenomenon, whether it's the internet or drug use
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or a large-scale mental health crisis or some combination of the three, it's hard to deny that
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it exists. As a country, we simply cannot agree on much. And we weren't always like this. Not so long
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ago, presidential candidates like Nixon and Reagan could win 49 states. Try picturing that happening
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again in your lifetime. It's very hard to imagine. But despite this sea change in American politics,
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there are still some issues that remain uncontroversial. Not many, but they do exist.
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And maybe the most important point of consensus is that despite the relentless corporate propaganda
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to the contrary, Americans still believe that basic observable biology is indeed real. They have
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not fallen for the scam of gender ideology, at least not to the extent that many people assumed that
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they had. Specifically, 79% of Americans do not believe that men should play in women's sports. And we've
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talked about that poll before. It was from the New York Times recently, which is of course one of the
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main proponents of gender ideology. But even the New York Times had to admit that Americans can see
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through the propaganda. According to the results, 67% of Democrats also agree that men, whether they're
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supposedly trans or not, should stay out of women's sports. And to put that number of context, you will
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not be able to get 67% of Democrats to agree that Donald Trump shouldn't be hauled before an Antifa
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firing squad and summarily executed without a trial. But on this issue, there's broad agreements
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across political parties. And that's why even Gavin Newsom is taking the side of the 67%
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of his own party. And that makes sense, of course, because in order to believe that men should be
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able to play against women in sports, you have to ignore what you can see with your own eyes. I mean,
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it's one thing to harass and intimidate millions of Americans into going along with the fiction
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that biological sex is meaningless and that men can become women in the abstract. Yes, it's an
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egregious lie, but it's also tempting for many Democrats to go along with it. After all, if we're
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just talking about words and pronouns, they might say, then what's the harm of affirming this, even if
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it's not true? This is the logic that many Democrats have internalized, in no small part because in many
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cases they know that they'll lose their jobs and their friendships if they don't. But it's an entirely
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different proposition to convince people that there's no issue with trans-identifying men playing
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sports against women. Because for someone to go along with that particular lie, it's not enough
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for them to fall victim to propaganda from the Human Resources Department or their university's DEI
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office about how gender is supposedly malleable and meaningless. They have to go a step further than
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that. They have to also pretend that high school boys' soccer teams can't actually destroy the
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women's Olympic soccer team, even though everyone can verify that that happened. They have to ignore
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the obvious strength differences between men and women that they see constantly in everyday
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life. They have to affirm, in other words, that what they're seeing with their own eyes
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is in fact a lie. They have to go full 1984. And it's very difficult to get a majority of people
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to do that, even if they're Democrats. What's remarkable is that despite this consensus among both
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conservative and liberal voters, politicians in the Democrat Party continue to insist on forcing
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women to play against men. They have continued to ride this 80-20 issue where they are on the 20
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side. They've continued to ram through their egregiously unpopular agenda, which is something
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that can only happen if people don't speak up. If 80% of voters want something and their elected
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representatives ignore them, then we can deduce that voters are not holding the representatives
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accountable. They're not showing up to hearings, making their opinions known. They're not ejecting
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anyone from office for defying them. They're staying silent in the face of an extraordinary
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rejection of basic biology that everybody knows is completely insane. And that's why yesterday I
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flew across the country to speak at a hearing in the California State Assembly. And this hearing
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concerned a bill that was proposed by Republican lawmaker Bill Assaylee. The bill would reverse
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California's current law, which allows males to compete against females from elementary levels all the
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way up to college, as long as the males claim that they're really women. That law has been on the
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books since 2013 in California and Assaylee's bill would overturn it, which again, is what the
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majority of voters want in the country, but also in California. But it was my turn to speak. Of course,
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I only had two minutes. That's why I decided to focus on the single most important aspect of this
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entire debate, which is actually not fairness or safety as important as those are. Here's what I told
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the California Assembly to watch. Today, I'm not going to talk about fairness, although it's certainly
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true that allowing men to compete in women's sports is deeply unfair. And I'm not going to talk about
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safety, although it's certainly true that allowing men into female sports teams and into their bathrooms
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is incredibly unsafe. I'll let others highlight those important points. I want to talk about something
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even more important and even more basic. It's the most basic thing of all. It's truth. You must keep men out of
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sports and out of their facilities for the simple reason that they are men. Men are not women. A man
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who claims he is a woman is still not a woman. So why shouldn't men play in women's sports? Because
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they aren't women. It isn't true. We should not allow men into women's sports for the same reason
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we shouldn't go around claiming that two plus two equals seven. It's just not true. It is a lie.
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The man who identifies as a woman is either deluded and confused, or he is a cross-dressing fetishist
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looking to play out his fantasies in public. In either case, the claim that he's making, the claim to
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womanhood, is not true. And compelling women to take part in this untruth is evil, perverse, and predatory.
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If you would use the force of law to compel young girls to use a changing room with a boy, you are
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yourselves predators. Transgenderism is a lie. It is, in fact, the most deranged lie that mankind has ever
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invented. In a free country, nobody should ever be forced to participate in a lie. As lawmakers,
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you have an obligation to the truth. It is a truth that I know you all recognize because every human
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who has ever lived on earth recognizes it, that men are men and women are women. It is that simple.
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And the question before you is just as simple. The question is this. Will you side with the truth,
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a truth so basic that every toddler understands it, or will you disgrace yourselves by denying it?
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Now, after I spoke, a student who lives in Riverside, California, named Taylor Starling,
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testified about how her spot on the varsity cross-country team was stolen by a male student.
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Taylor worked very hard for her spot on the team. She lost it because of California's law.
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At no point did any Democrat on the committee express any sympathy for Taylor. They didn't care at all,
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of course. Instead, when it came time for the two Democrat witnesses to testify, they attempted to
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basically rebuke Taylor indirectly. So listen to these two activists and pay attention to the
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arguments they're making and the arguments they don't make. Listen.
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For well over a decade, California has allowed transgender student athletes to compete alongside
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their cisgender peers and to use the restrooms and facilities that best aligned with their gender
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identity. These policies have been working for years. The author of AB 844 frames this bill as an effort to
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protect women and girls. As the mother of a 21-year-old daughter, I worry about my daughter's safety
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constantly. Sexual assault and violence directed at women and girls is at epidemic levels. But that threat
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of violence comes largely from their coaches, intimate partners, and family members. There is no credible
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evidence to suggest that trans students are a threat to their classmates or their teammates. And this is
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why anti-sexual assault and domestic violence organizations denounce bills such as this.
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I'm also the proud mama bear for my daughter who is trans, and I'm here to make sure that you understand
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that everyone deserves to have equal access to facilities in alignment with their gender.
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I know we just talked a lot about sports, and the issue of sports and facilities is actually very
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tied together. My daughter has played soccer, baseball, roller derby, and hockey. And I have to say,
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I love it when she has a game or a practice. She comes home feeling grounded in her body. With her safe
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involvement in sports, she gets to stow off the sparkly, wonderful human that she is.
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By contrast, in spaces where she has not felt comfortable using facilities aligned with her
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gender, I've seen her physically uncomfortable with stomach aches that have sometimes kept her home from
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school. As you can hear, they offer a bunch of lame deflections that were geared towards the kind of
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testimony that Taylor Starling delivered. They implied that Taylor's emotions didn't matter because
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their so-called trans child was getting tummy aches when his gender wasn't affirmed at all times.
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Not being allowed to, into the, you know, girls changing room, was making his tummy hurt.
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That's what she just said. They suggested that trans identifying males aren't assaulting female
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athletes in locker rooms. Conservatives are making a big deal out of a handful of incidents.
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You know, girls are saying they don't want to be forced to change in front of boys, and the answer from
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these activists is that, well, the girls shouldn't complain because the boys aren't physically assaulting
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them, except when they do. Those deflections are morally deranged and, to put it mildly,
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unconvincing. But more importantly, they do absolutely nothing whatsoever to respond to the point that I
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was making, which is like the, again, the fundamental point. At no point did either of these witnesses
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actually defend the proposition that men can become women or that boys can become girls.
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The mama bear with the alleged trans child didn't launch into any kind of explanation of how sex is
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meaningless and how, you know, she was, she was really the one who was on the side of truth and
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basic biology. Instead, she talked about how sad her son felt whenever people didn't lie to him and say
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that he's really a girl. This is all the trans activists have because they know their underlying
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position is incoherent and also massively unpopular. My point is that the fundamental claim they're
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making, the claim that men can be women, is false. And none of them address that point at all, as if
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the truth or falseness of their fundamental claim is somehow irrelevant. As if to prove my point, or to
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prove this point in general, prior to my testimony, a California lawmaker named Rick Chavez-Zibor
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announced that everybody who believes in basic human biology is in fact a Nazi. So young girls
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who don't want to change in front of boys are morally indistinguishable from concentration camp
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guards, according to this maniac. He made these comments during a hearing for a similar bill,
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which would have banned male athletes from competing against women in high school in California.
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Really reminiscent to me of what happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. We are moving towards
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autocracy in this country. In Nazi Germany, transgender people were persecuted, barred from
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public life. Mr. Gonzalez. This is about this. This is about this bill. They were barred from
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public life. They were detransitioned. They imprisoned and killed in concentration camps. And the way that
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it started was the same kinds of things that are happening in this country by the Trump administration.
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Really reminiscent. So when this moron, when he sees a bathroom that says women, he looks at that and
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says, oh man, this reminds me of the Holocaust. Nazis weren't fans of transgenderism, he says. And
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therefore, if you don't believe in the lie of transgenderism, you're a Nazi. And if you're not
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familiar with basic logic or history, and if you have an IQ hovering around room temperature,
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then maybe this kind of reasoning is persuasive to you. But very quickly, it also leads you down a
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pretty unsustainable path. For example, you might come to believe that highways are racist,
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because after all, the Nazis created the Autobahn, and we wouldn't want to be like the Nazis.
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Therefore, you don't get to drive on the interstate. Which, come to think of it, I mean,
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Pete Buttigieg also says that highways are racist. So maybe we're starting to see a pattern here.
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Along the same lines, the Nazis banned many forms of animal experimentation.
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So if you think that's a good idea, well, then I got bad news for you. You're probably a Nazi.
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So this lawmaker is not making any kind of coherent argument, nor is he addressing the issue at hand,
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which is whether men should compete against women in sports. Even less is he addressing the
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fundamental issue underlying it, which is whether it's actually true that a man who says he's a woman
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really is a woman. He skips over all of that, instead accuses everybody else of being a Nazi.
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For his part, the chair of the committee, Chris Ward, was not much better. Here were his remarks
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towards the end of the hearing over the bill that we were testifying about.
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You know, it's been mentioned here that the basis for, I presume, both of these bills,
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but it was stated here for this bill, is that transgender women are not women, that they are men.
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Again, I do not agree with that. I'm going to go back to my own exploration as I came to realize
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that I was gay. Because in that era, as we know in the 90s, we were told that this is not biologically
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possible. It is not possible, nor is it normal for a man to love a man or a woman to love a woman.
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And many actually still agree with that here today as well. And we fought long and hard for the rights
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that we've gotten there, some of which are under threat today. Now, kind of flipping the coin on
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its head under this bill, a transgender boy would be forced to change in a girl's locker room,
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even though they might have a facial hair, they might very much express or look like a boy. And
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how uncomfortable might that be to girls who are in that locker room?
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So you hear his little spiel there. Now, throughout this entire hearing, the Democrats
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on the committee, including Chris Ward, refused to ask me any questions, nor did they ask Taylor
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or anyone else any questions. Instead, during the question period, they gave little speeches like
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this one, accusing those of us on Team Sanity of being Nazis and bigots. His bit there about
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there's been claims that trans women are not women. That's directly in response to what I said.
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In fact, he's looking right at me. But not, but making sure to not frame it as a question,
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because then I'd have a chance to respond. He didn't want to give any of us a chance to actually
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respond. They certainly didn't want to give, say, Taylor Starling also a chance to talk and to
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elaborate. I would have liked to see, you know, Chavez say to give Taylor, the young girl who,
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you know, doesn't want boys in a locker room with her or on her team, give her a chance to respond
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to his claim that she's apparently a Nazi. But that was not, there was no opportunity for that.
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And that all culminated in this moment when the assemblyman running the hearing looked right at
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me and claimed that trans women are indistinguishable from actual women, but would not allow any
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discussion of that point. Instead, he invokes the gay rights movement and comes up with a
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hypothetical about a tomboy in a girl's locker room and then moves on. Of course, it's not a remotely
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relevant hypothetical. It's pretty obvious that women would much rather have an actual girl in
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their locker room, regardless of what the girl looks like. Like no, no woman has a problem with
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that. Even if there's a tomboy or, or, you know, a more masculine looking woman, that's, that's not
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the issue. You'd much prefer that over a man who gains access to the locker room simply by claiming
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that he's a woman. Girls would also much rather compete against an actual girl, even if that girl
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somehow has facial hair, as he says. And the gay rights comparison makes even less sense because
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the point is that a trans identified male is not actually a woman. Claims to be a woman, but he
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isn't. We are denying the fundamental claim of transgenderism. On the other hand, nobody denies
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that gay people exist. Now what some of us, including myself, do deny is that quote unquote gay marriage
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can exist, but homosexuality itself is a thing. I mean, that, that exists. Um, transgenderism
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is not. Transgenderism is a, is, you know, an ideological claim that we reject.
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Now, the reason these lawmakers didn't engage with me or any of us in any way is that they know
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that they're on the losing side and on the indefensible side. They're on, they're on the side
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of total incoherence. And everyone who was in that room could see it immediately, which is why one
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thing I noticed as I, and anyone else who watched this could notice is that as each member of the
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public came up to voice their approval or opposition to the bill, in almost every case, you knew where
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they stood before they said anything. And there was a, this is the way they do it in California.
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Apparently you have the hearing and then there's a mat and then however many members of public want
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to come up and voice approval or opposition are allowed to do so. In this case, there were men,
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it was a very long line. There were probably, you know, probably over a hundred people. Um,
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and so you're kind of looking at this line and it was actually kind of a fun game to play in your head
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before each person spoke to, to guess what their position was going to be just by looking at them.
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And I was playing this game in my head and I was right probably 95% of the time because it was
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pretty simple. If a person looked normal and healthy, they look like the kind of person you
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wouldn't mind sitting next to on the subway. They were in almost every case on our side.
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If they look like the kind of people that you would rather stand and then sit next to,
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uh, they were almost in every case on the other side. So here's a few clips just to show you what
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I'm talking about. Here's what the, uh, the opponents of this bill, the, the pro-trans side
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Ari Critch Brinton, niece of a cisgender woman who had male characteristics and was cruelly denied the
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women's room throughout her too short life. I oppose this bill.
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Hi, Eve Banas representing the Sacramento LGBT community center and strong opposition.
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Hello. I am Lilac Fildre and I'm a college student and former student athlete. I oppose this bill.
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My name is Catalina Zambrano. I'm an out and proud trans woman. I'm the executive director
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of CalPride Valle Central and I'm in strong, oppose this bill.
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Hello. My name is Catherine Darrow. I'm an out and proud trans woman on behalf of the trans youth
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and of Sacramento and California. I vehemently oppose this bill. Thank you.
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Hello. My name is Sophia Usher. On behalf of the trans youth of California and Sacramento,
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My name is Dean Wild and I strongly oppose this bill. Segregation is wrong and we shouldn't have
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My name is Alex Judd and as a non-binary resident of Citrus Heights,
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My name is Jenny Antsir and I'm a voter from Rancho Cordova and I'm here to adamantly oppose
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Hello. My name is Jocelyn Wagner. I am with Bay Area Derby. I am a trans athlete and I strongly
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My name is Tiffany Thompson. I remain the mother of the slowest girl on her track team,
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my trans daughter. On behalf of her, her peers, and Sacramento Rainbow Kids,
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Hello. My name is Christina Lee. I'm a California voter and I strongly oppose this bill.
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On behalf of my trans elders and my queer community and the people who are here and occupy this on
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this stolen land long before you ever were, you get to decide whether or not you want to be here
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doing the work that we are doing or you end up having to, you know, be on the wrong side.
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I mean, you know, I'll take that as a position of opposition.
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So you see how easy this game was. It wasn't like I said, it was a fun game, but after a while,
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it's not fun because they make it so easy to guess who's going to be on what side.
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I was waiting for someone to throw us for a loop, maybe one person to get up there with a face mask
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and then be in support of the bill, but that didn't happen. Just to reiterate in case you missed it,
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here was one of the opponents of the bill that we just showed.
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This is, if you can't see it because you listen to the audio, that's a person decked out in a full
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mask and face shield in April of 2025. And this was not unusual. Without exception, every single
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person who wore a COVID mask this hearing ended up announcing that they were opposed to the bill.
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In fact, every single person who looked like a patient who just escaped from an asylum
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when they got up to the podium came out against the bill. And by contrast here, I'll just,
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we'll just show like a quick clip of this, but here's what the supporters, the supporters of the
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bill, meaning the sane people, the people that want to segregate sports by sex and locker rooms.
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Here's what they look like. And there were quite a few of them who showed up, but just a few here.
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Hello, my name is Sarai McCullough and I am also a Young Women for America ambassador and former
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multi-world champion in martial arts. And I played for over 10 years and I am in strong support of this bill.
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Hello, my name is Natalie Mendes. I am from Young Women for America as well. And I played basketball,
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softball and golf in high school. And I am in strong support of this bill.
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Hello, Mark Escobel, dad talk today and national family justice. I would just like to
00:24:17.820
back up both the claims here by my gentlemen, Asalie and Matt Walsh. They are a hundred percent
00:24:25.980
correct. My name is Mariam. I'm here on behalf of Women Are Real and Cause, Californians for sex-based
00:24:31.640
evidence in policy and law. Males can never be females. I'm in full support of this bill. Thank
00:24:36.640
you. Thank you. My name is Emmett Adams. I am 18 years old. I am a newly registered Democrat.
00:24:43.960
I am a gay man. And according to assembly member Rick Chavez, I am also a Nazi because I support this
00:24:49.060
bill. Thank you. Hi, my name is Jean Chadbourne. I'm from Oakland, California. I'm a lifelong Democrat.
00:24:59.460
Just everyone that just looked like a normal person, they were all in favor of the bill.
00:25:04.100
And I'm not pointing out the differences here in order to get laughs or make a cheap point
00:25:07.460
or just to mock these people, although that is also fun. This is not just an incidental observation.
00:25:13.580
The point is that the dividing line in our culture is increasingly a line between normal people
00:25:17.960
and people who despise normalcy. Ironically, at one point, one of the members of the public
00:25:23.080
went up to the microphone and took a shot at me. He pointed in my direction and said that he didn't
00:25:28.140
realize the circus was in town. I'm supposed to be the circus, apparently. But as he made that
00:25:33.560
comment, there was an entire line of circus clowns behind him, and they were all on his side.
00:25:40.040
Crossdressers, hypochondriacs, and face shields, bearded women, all on his side. Yet the circus,
00:25:45.700
in his mind, is all the normal, well-adjusted families who don't want their daughters to be
00:25:50.620
forced to change in front of boys. These people are so bizarre, so abnormal, that they see normal
00:25:55.880
as abnormal. They hate normalcy, and that, again, is the dividing line. Now, fortunately, contrary to
00:26:02.540
what you may have heard or assumed, the normal side is actually pretty well represented in California.
00:26:08.680
A huge number of people showed up in favor of the bills, and from talking to some of the lawmakers
00:26:12.940
and staffers, they tell me that California voters are pretty firmly in their camp on this issue. It's
00:26:17.660
an 80-20 issue in California also, just as it is across the country. But at the moment, this consensus
00:26:23.520
is not reflected in their state assembly, which is why both bills to re-segregate sports based on sex
00:26:29.180
were voted down 6-2 yesterday. The Democrats won't even let the bills make it to the floor for a full
00:26:34.820
debate. And as a result, in California, males will continue to compete against females, even though
00:26:39.280
no one, including the state's government, can explain why that makes sense. As a result, the
00:26:43.980
Trump administration, which is already investigating the state of California for violating federal law
00:26:47.620
in this area, should terminate funding to the state's education department. That's roughly $15
00:26:52.040
billion in funding. The state is openly defying both the federal government and its own voters,
00:26:56.720
and there should be consequences for that. And in the meantime, more voters in California and every
00:27:00.760
other state with demented legislation that forces women to compete against men should attend hearings
00:27:07.020
like this one. And if that happens, then very quickly, these cowards will realize that they're not
00:27:12.200
anywhere near as powerful as they think they are. And this could not be more important or more urgent
00:27:17.020
than it is. Acknowledging the truth is the basic prerequisite for a functioning society. But the leadership
00:27:24.220
of the state of California, along with several other states, has established that they're not concerned
00:27:28.600
with the truth or even with what their voters want. They're committed to a path that will lead
00:27:33.120
inevitably to absurdity, authoritarianism, and ultimately destruction. And yesterday, we made
00:27:40.260
our position very clear on that point. The Democrats plugged their ears and pretended they couldn't hear
00:27:44.720
us. So we'll keep going until sanity reigns supreme again. Let's get to our five headlines.
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Okay, NPR reports, two moms brought business on the floor of the House of Representatives to a grinding
00:29:08.740
halt on Tuesday over their push to allow remote voting for new parents. Representative Brittany Peterson
00:29:14.520
or Peterson said, we don't F with moms. She said that on the steps of the U.S. Capitol alongside
00:29:22.660
Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican. We worked as a team, Luna said, and I think that today
00:29:29.040
is a pretty historical day for the entire conference and showing that the body has decided that parents
00:29:32.540
deserve a voice in Washington and also to the importance of female members having a vote in
00:29:36.500
Washington, D.C. Luna and Peterson have been working to pass legislation that would allow new parents
00:29:42.680
to vote by proxy for 12 weeks around the birth of a new child. So there's a lot of procedural stuff
00:29:51.220
going on, but it all boils down to business and Congress being shut down for the sake of trying to
00:29:56.280
force through a rule that would allow moms of young children in Congress to vote from home for a period of
00:30:03.720
several weeks. So they don't have to show up to Congress. They can just cast their vote through
00:30:08.840
Zoom or something. And here is what Representative Brittany Peterson holding her newborn, making her
00:30:15.680
point as dramatically as she could. But here she was arguing in favor of this.
00:30:22.500
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this rule, which restricts moms and dads from doing
00:30:27.980
their jobs after welcoming a new child. Like so many of our colleagues, it's one of my greatest honors to
00:30:33.280
be a mom. I have two little boys, a son named Davis, who's five, and my little guy here, Sam, who's now nine
00:30:39.900
weeks old. It's also one of my greatest honors to have been elected by my constituents to represent them in
00:30:45.520
Congress. And I can tell you after being a mom here and being only the 13th member to have ever given birth while
00:30:54.400
serving in Congress voting member, I can tell you we have a long ways to go to make this place accessible for young
00:31:00.880
families like mine. When I was pregnant, I couldn't fly towards the end of my due date because it was unsafe
00:31:09.020
for Sam and you're unable to board a plane. And I was unable to actually have my vote represented here
00:31:15.880
and my constituents represented. After giving birth, I was faced with an impossible decision. Sam was four
00:31:22.540
weeks old. And for all of the parents here, we know that when we have newborns, it's when they're the
00:31:31.340
most vulnerable in their life. It's when they need 24-7 care, when taking them even to a grocery store
00:31:38.460
is scary because you're worried about exposure to germs and them getting sick, let alone taking them
00:31:44.720
to an airport on a plane and coming across the country to make sure that you're able to vote and
00:31:50.560
represent your constituents. Yeah, yeah. So, okay. So, no, this is a no. Sorry, no. We cannot have our
00:31:58.460
elected representatives voting from home. They are constitutionally obligated to come and vote in
00:32:03.660
person. And that's what taxpayers deserve. We deserve to have representatives who show up to work.
00:32:09.160
They don't work that many days. They work like nine or 10 days a month. I think in the week of April,
00:32:15.620
they're going to be in Congress for like, yeah, nine or 10 days. So, yeah, you need to show up for
00:32:23.200
that. It's only nine or 10 days and we need you there, not on Zoom. We already have a huge problem
00:32:30.740
of a lack of accountability, a lack of transparency in government. This makes it worse. All of that
00:32:35.640
becomes worse if you have lawmakers like doing the business of Congress, not even in person.
00:32:41.900
And anyone who thinks that this would stop at mothers of newborns is just a fool. I mean, you let
00:32:48.360
them do this and within a couple of years at the latest, they're going to have all kinds of exceptions.
00:32:52.320
We all know that. All kinds of other life circumstances that would allow them to not come
00:32:57.380
to work in person. And I say hell no to that. Just absolutely hell no. There were some conservatives
00:33:05.420
kind of rallying around this, I think, because, you know, Representative Luna was involved, who's a
00:33:13.280
Republican. And it's like kind of mind boggling that you have conservatives rallying around the
00:33:20.420
notion that members of Congress, that the work obligations for members of Congress are too onerous
00:33:27.120
and we need to make it easier on them. Like what? What? Um, if you cannot juggle being a politician
00:33:37.620
and a mom, then stop being a politician. Prioritize your child, resign from your position
00:33:46.120
and let somebody else take over. You could do that. You should do that. It would be better for your child
00:33:51.940
to be better for the country. And, uh, this is what makes this story, I think, kind of relevant
00:33:57.200
on a cultural level beyond DC, because it's another example of the, of the feminist have my cake and eat
00:34:04.440
it to approach. They insist that women are superheroes who can do everything. They can be a mom and have a
00:34:10.620
full-time job and be politicians and leaders of nations and do all of that at the same time.
00:34:15.740
But pretty quickly, we find out that actually they can't do all of that.
00:34:21.100
They can't do everything and be everything. So they start demanding accommodations. And in many cases,
00:34:25.800
they demand that we upend rules and laws and customs and policies that have been in place for centuries.
00:34:32.280
All so that they don't have to choose between one thing or another. So these women want to be mothers.
00:34:41.020
They don't want to leave their children with babysitters, which of course is, I mean, that's,
00:34:46.140
that's always an option, but they don't want to do that. Um, they also want to be in Congress.
00:34:53.520
So they want to be mothers, don't want to use babysitters, but they do want to be in Congress.
00:35:00.320
They want all of that. Well, guess what? You can't have all of that. Okay. It's like people are
00:35:07.840
allowed to tell, you know, you can't just have it's well, but I want all of that. Well, but you
00:35:12.480
can't. Okay. Yeah. We would all like to have everything all the time, but you can't, you have
00:35:19.040
to choose. You have to make hard choices. That's part of leadership and their inability to make a
00:35:24.840
hard choice right now just proves all the more that they're not good leaders. This is leadership.
00:35:29.620
One-on-one is making hard choices, trade-offs. I know this is scandalous news to a feminist,
00:35:35.740
but you can't actually always have everything you want. You have to make choices. You have to
00:35:39.580
make hard choices, make a choice and stop trying to drag us into your indecision. You want to be in
00:35:45.160
Congress? Well, then you'll either have to forego having kids or you'll have to use childcare.
00:35:52.960
Um, you'll have to start hiring childcare. We know what you people get paid. We know that you work
00:35:57.160
part-time hours and you get paid and we know what you get paid. You get 180,000, 200,000,
00:36:02.680
whatever it is for part-time hours. So we know, so we know you can afford childcare. You can't claim
00:36:06.540
you can't. We know we're paying you. We know what your salary is. So, um, so if you want to be in
00:36:13.900
Congress, those are your options. You could have, you just not have kids or, uh, and I think it's
00:36:20.540
great to have kids, obviously as someone with six of them, or you can have childcare. Um, but if you
00:36:27.440
want to be a mother and not rely on childcare, well, then you can't be in Congress. There's a
00:36:34.100
million other things you can do. You just can't do that. Sorry. You just can't do that. But I want
00:36:38.760
to, well, I don't care what you want. You can't do that. There are, there are policies in place here.
00:36:44.340
What, see what the taxpayers want is more important than what you want. You can't be everything and do
00:36:52.580
everything. You have, you, you have to choose. And this is the kind of messaging that women hear all
00:36:57.360
the time. You hear people say this all the time. They say, well, women can have it all. Why should
00:37:01.420
they have to choose? Women can? No, you can't. Okay. Nobody can have it all. Not women, not men.
00:37:09.000
Life is about trade-offs. And it's just that you want everyone else to make the trade-offs. You want
00:37:15.080
everyone else to make the adjustments and the changes so that you don't have to. You want us,
00:37:20.120
the taxpayers to make the trade-off here. Okay. You want us to throw out, uh, what has been the
00:37:26.600
policy in this country since it's inception. You want us, so we have to sacrifice that so that you
00:37:32.840
don't have to sacrifice. No. Again, the fact that you're even demanding that proves that you are not
00:37:41.740
a leader fit to be in Congress. You can't have it all. You can't, you do need to choose. And, um,
00:37:51.920
and that's it. And I don't care if there are, the fact that there's a Republican representative
00:37:55.200
behind this doesn't mean that all of a sudden, oh, you're not, you're not loyal to the MAGA agenda.
00:38:00.020
If you don't, so we have to agree with everything. So, so if a politician comes along and shouts MAGA,
00:38:05.400
now we have to agree with everything they say about everything. Now we have to get on board with
00:38:09.760
this ridiculous idea that the work requirements for Congress members are too onerous, that it's
00:38:15.200
too much to ask them to show up to work for 10 days a month because they wear a MAGA hat. Give me a
00:38:21.760
break. Um, all right. Here's something else absurd. Ellie Mistles, the, uh, he's the overweight race
00:38:31.700
hustler who you probably don't know by name, but when you, when you see this guy, you'll think,
00:38:35.640
oh yeah, that freaking guy. So he has a new book out called bad law, which is apparently all about
00:38:40.800
the laws that he thinks are bad and, uh, that we should get rid of because he says that a lot of
00:38:46.120
laws are racist and misogynist. So we should just do away with them. But which laws exactly, which
00:38:51.820
law should we get rid of? Well, here he appeared on the view where, you know, is a great, great place
00:38:55.720
to have these kinds of, these kinds of legal conversations in depth, in depth legal analysis
00:39:00.640
this is what you turned to the view for. And he gave his answer there. Let's listen.
00:39:05.800
My premises for the book is that every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should
00:39:11.460
be presumptively unconstitutional, right? Because before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were
00:39:16.680
functionally an apartheid country. Not everybody who lived here could vote here. So why should
00:39:21.260
I give a, about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s, like the Immigration and
00:39:27.340
Nationality Act? Um, okay. So I'm pretty sure he just said my premises for the book. Did he just say
00:39:36.640
that? Did I hear that right? Not my premise, but my premises. Anyway, this is an author, uh, illiterate.
00:39:44.820
No, no big deal. No reason why you can't write a book just because you're illiterate. So every law
00:39:49.300
before 1965 is presumptively unconstitutional, man, get rid of all of them, he says. This is
00:39:54.740
the nuanced in-depth analysis that you get from a guy who describes himself in his press release for
00:39:59.280
his book as a brilliant legal mind. This is the brilliant legal mind at work. Every law written
00:40:04.400
by old white guys should be abolished. They are presumptively unconstitutional. Well, maybe if
00:40:11.860
you're smarter than Ellie, which is to say, if you're smarter than a sofa cushion, you, uh, you,
00:40:19.020
who, you know, he has the intelligence of a sofa cushion, but also the physique of one.
00:40:24.560
Um, but if you're smarter than that, you may have already pinpointed one major issue here.
00:40:29.360
Calling them unconstitutional obviously assumes that the constitution itself is valid,
00:40:34.900
but the constitution was written long before 1965. And it was also written by white guys.
00:40:42.860
In fact, our system of government was invented by white guys. Democracy is an invention of white guys.
00:40:49.340
You know what else white guys did, Ellie? They passed the laws abolishing slavery. So
00:40:56.040
I've got some bad news, Ellie. If we're abolishing every law made by a white guy before 1965,
00:41:03.300
well, you just put slavery back on the menu, apparently. In fact, you've abolished every good
00:41:08.760
law that's ever been passed in this country. I mean, you know, and, and, and if you're rejecting
00:41:13.800
everything that white men did in general, then you're rejecting Western civilization itself, which
00:41:17.800
of course, someone like him, he'd probably say, well, yes, I do reject it. Um, but so what he's
00:41:24.460
actually rejecting is everything that gives his life, that makes his life enjoyable and meaningful
00:41:28.020
and free, you know, he's rejecting all of that. And look, I've given this speech a million times
00:41:32.780
and, um, I'm sure that I'll give it a million more times, but I'm not, I won't give it right now.
00:41:41.800
The whole, the whole speech about how white men deserve gratitude for being the driving force
00:41:46.320
behind basically all the best things about this country and Western civilization.
00:41:49.820
But this is the reason why I give the speech as often as I do, because I'm very tired of this
00:41:57.860
just casual disdain towards white men. There's no embarrassment. They're not embarrassed by,
00:42:04.520
there's no shame, no hesitation. You can just go on national TV and say, yeah, everything that white
00:42:09.340
men did, it was all crap. It was all terrible. You know, it was damn white men. And for a long time,
00:42:16.960
we have responded to this sort of thing defensively. Um, the response, if there is a response at all,
00:42:24.440
the response has been, Oh no, white men aren't that bad. Come on guys. But that's not good enough.
00:42:30.800
That response is not good enough. What we need to say is, Hey, you ungrateful brat. Why don't you say
00:42:37.220
thank you? Why don't you say thank you to the white men who gave you this country? How about that?
00:42:42.660
Okay. No, that's what I want to hear out of you is thank you. Um, I think that needs to be the
00:42:49.660
response. All right. Well, let's touch on this briefly. We've, we've dealt with a lot of,
00:42:55.160
dealt with a lot of fake news on this show, but, but sometimes the fake news is so fake that you
00:43:00.020
have to stop and almost admire it. And that's how I felt about this headline from CBS news.
00:43:05.020
The headline says one out of every 15 American adults have been at a mass shooting according
00:43:11.240
to university of Colorado study. Now it's a shocking statistic, isn't it? One out of every 15
00:43:17.260
adults in this country have been at a mass shooting. That's about 7%. There are something
00:43:25.300
like 260 million adults across the country. So do the math. That means that around 20 million adults
00:43:29.980
have 18 to 20 million adults have been at a mass shooting. Now, what does that mean? What does
00:43:37.900
been at me mean? It's like an odd way of phrasing it. Been at a mass shooting. It's like, it's like,
00:43:46.320
hey, ever been at a mass shooting? Um, it's just a weird way of putting it. Does that include people
00:43:53.000
who've been at the site of a mass shooting after the fact? Are we including everybody in the city or state
00:43:59.880
where a mass shooting occurred? Is that how we're getting to these numbers? Well, we can find out if
00:44:05.360
we skip the CBS article, we just go right to the study itself. We see that the respondents in this
00:44:09.720
survey, 10,000 respondents, uh, I think the respondents were asked if they were physically
00:44:15.040
present on the scene of a mass shooting. And it was clarified that physically present means you were
00:44:20.420
in the immediate vicinity of where the shooting occurred while it was occurring such that the bullets
00:44:26.620
were flying in your direction or you could see the shooter or you could hear the gunfire. That's how
00:44:31.160
it's all defined. So yes, this study is claiming that 20 million Americans were actually there at a
00:44:38.420
mass shooting while the bullets were flying, which is insane. Obviously this is totally insane. Okay.
00:44:46.180
Unless they were polling only the residents of downtown Chicago, uh, then these results are totally
00:44:52.460
bogus. And this is why I don't trust studies. Studies are a fake science. If you can use a
00:44:58.160
supposedly scientific method to achieve any preordained result that you have in your mind,
00:45:03.500
then it's fake. It's a fake method. So how do they get these results? Well, I don't know.
00:45:10.360
I mean, it doesn't really matter. Maybe they rigged the sample size. Maybe they only polled people in high
00:45:15.940
crime areas. Maybe they're, maybe people are just liars. Maybe the, maybe the real headline is that 20
00:45:20.600
million Americans are unrepentant liars. I don't know. Who knows? What I do know is that mass
00:45:25.960
shootings are not nearly so common or so widespread that, that, that, uh, that 20 million adults in
00:45:32.620
this country have been physically present for one. Now, if you told me that 20 million adults have
00:45:38.980
been present for a mass shooting and 19 and a half million of them live in the inner city, maybe I'd
00:45:43.860
believe that. If you grow up in the inner city and live there for years, your chances of at least
00:45:48.800
being in the vicinity for a shooting where four or more people are injured or killed seems relatively
00:45:55.100
high, probably, probably still not high enough to get to those kinds of numbers. But, um, if that was
00:46:00.860
the claim, it'd be a little bit more credible. That's not the claim though. They're trying to claim that
00:46:05.740
this is a widespread national problem so that if you get a hundred random people in a room, it's likely
00:46:13.220
that seven or eight of them have been at a mass shooting. That's the claim. And, um, I just don't
00:46:21.540
believe it. And, and academia has tried to make us susceptible to this kind of ridiculous propaganda
00:46:27.060
by convincing us that we cannot trust our intuitions. We cannot trust our common sense.
00:46:33.280
There's been one campaign after another where our supposed intellectual betters say, yeah, well,
00:46:38.380
you think this doesn't make any sense, but that's because you're uneducated. You can't trust your
00:46:43.140
common sense. They did that, did that with COVID. They did that with the vaccine. They did that with
00:46:47.460
all the trans stuff and on and on and on. The goal is to break us down to the point where we don't trust
00:46:52.880
our gut level instincts. They want to get us to the point where basically we don't have gut level
00:46:58.600
instincts anymore, where we are these little baby birds with our mouths open, ready to guzzle down
00:47:04.660
whatever they regurgitate unthinkingly. And so that's where you get this game where they make
00:47:09.300
some kind of outlandish claim. And then you say, you know, I don't know. That doesn't really make
00:47:12.500
sense to me. And they say, oh yeah, well, here's a study that says that it's true. This is science.
00:47:18.640
Stop questioning science, you science denier. And you're supposed to throw your hands up and say,
00:47:24.900
okay, well, if the studies say that, then I believe you. But we need to get to a point. I think many of us
00:47:31.020
are already at this point where we say, I don't give a damn what your study says. Okay. That's
00:47:35.960
nonsense. I know nonsense when I hear it. And that's nonsense. Oh, well, have you looked into
00:47:42.360
the methodology of the study? No, I haven't. I just know that's not true. I know 20 million
00:47:47.820
Americans are, have not been present at a mass shooting. I just know that's not true. I don't
00:47:52.020
need to look into it. I don't need to find some other study that prove it. I just know it's not true.
00:47:56.520
It's nonsense. I just know that because I have common sense. And, uh, and, you know, that's,
00:48:06.380
that really is the only response to this kind of, uh, this kind of nonsense. Let's get to the daily
00:48:11.000
cancellation. Well, let's face it. Current handgun storage options are like choosing between two
00:48:22.020
flavors of terrible. Either your weapon is locked up tighter than Fort Knox, completely useless in
00:48:27.140
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lately that Gavin Newsom is running for president in 2028. He's got a podcast where he talks to
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conservatives. He's been making half-hearted attempts to moderate some of his more insane
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positions. He's also one of the few Democrats who's capable of speaking coherently in public,
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which immediately vaults him to the status of a presidential contender. Even if he let entire
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neighborhoods in Los Angeles burn to the ground, it's still easy to tell that he's a frontrunner.
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That's how thin the bench is. But while the bench may be thin, it's not entirely empty,
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as it turns out. Beginning on Monday night, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey decided to announce in his
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own very theatrical and flamboyant way that he plans to run for president in 2028. But unlike Newsom,
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Cory Booker didn't make this de facto announcement with a podcast. Instead, he decided to turn the Senate
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floor into his own podcast by launching into a filibuster. Now, as you probably know, the filibuster
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is a tactic that involves speaking for a very long time in order to delay or prevent some kind of
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action in the Senate. A decade ago, Rand Paul spoke for 13 hours to block a vote on CIA Director John
00:50:48.260
Brennan. Huey Long filibustered for 15 hours to protest legislation from the New Deal, read a bunch of plays
00:50:55.060
by Shakespeare as well as oyster recipes to pass the time. Back in the 50s, Strom Thurmond filibuster
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for 24 hours in an attempt to block the Civil Rights Act. In all of these cases, there is a point
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to the filibuster. There's an objective. At no point in the history of this country has anyone imagined
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that a Senate senator would engage in a filibuster for no reason at all. But that's exactly what Cory
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Booker just did. Beginning on Monday night around 7 p.m., Booker announced that he intended to
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disrupt the business of the Senate without explaining why. He just rattled off a bunch of
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complaints, none of which had anything to do with any legislation before the Senate. There was no
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clear message or theme to any of it. So here's just a few clips from his filibuster extending from
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I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long
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as I am physically able. I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis.
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We are not solving the deficit in what they're proposing here. They're cutting and cutting and
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cutting things that make no sense to cut. And they're doing it for a tax breaks which disproportionately
00:52:11.380
go to the wealthiest. Placing tariffs on our biggest trade partners is beyond unfair. This drives the
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cost of goods up and the consumer is the one who ends up paying the increase. Even with universities
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got too woke and had too excesses, the antidote to that isn't to try to shut down the thought of the
00:52:30.380
left. It's to try to make a fair, more competitive marketplace for ideas from all around the political
00:52:35.920
spectrum. Now, one of the problems here is that just a few years ago, Cory Booker wrote on Twitter,
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quote, the filibuster has been abused to stop reform supported by the vast majority of Americans from
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background checks to protecting the right to vote. We must stop this abuse of power. That was back
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when Democrats had control of the Senate. They wanted to pass a federal law requiring that mail-in
00:52:55.100
ballots become a permanent nationwide feature of our elections. In other words, they wanted to make
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voter fraud easier and the filibuster stood in their way. But now the filibuster is good again.
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And we're not just talking about a procedural filibuster here. This is the real deal. The
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talk until you can't kind of filibuster. Only there's no point to this one. He's not blocking
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a law on mail-in ballots or anything else. There's no law or anything he's trying to block. He's just
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talking. So there's not a whole lot to be gained from watching this particular filibuster. Even if for
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some reason you're interested in seeing a random politician speak for 24 hours so that you can
00:53:29.700
observe his physical and mental decline in service of some kind of morbid fascination or whatever,
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then you probably still won't be satisfied with this footage. That's because Booker, as we all know,
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is the classic theater kid turned politician. His goal is to seek the spotlight, which means that
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any anguish he demonstrates is probably fake. He did the same thing during the Kavanaugh hearings when
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he supposedly risked expulsion from the Senate with his little Spartacus moment. Nothing about him is
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genuine. But just for the record, here's how Cory Booker was acting early Tuesday afternoon, around
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17 hours into the filibuster. He's either losing it a little bit or he's doing his best impression of
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the drifter at your local gas station. You decide. To call to the conscience of this nation to say I
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will not stand for another American to lose their health care for a billionaire. I will not stand for
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another veteran who's dedicated to stopping the suicide of other veterans to lose their job. I won't stand
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for the air quality in my community to make worse because we're letting polluters pollute more.
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I won't stand for the collective assaults on the Constitution by a man who even the highest judge
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in our land, a Republican-appointed judge, said stop threatening and bullying other branches of
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government. When is it going to be enough? My voice is inadequate. My efforts today are inadequate
00:54:50.800
to stop what they're trying to do. But we, the people, are powerful. We are strong. We have changed
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history. We have bent the arc of the moral universe. And now is that moral moment again. It's the moral
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moment again. God bless America. We need you now. God bless America. If you love her, but I'm begging
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people, don't let this be another normal day in America. Please, God, please, God, don't let them
00:55:21.500
take Medicaid away. Well, mission accomplished there. It's definitely not a normal day in America.
00:55:28.060
The question is, why isn't it a normal day? What exactly is Cory Booker doing? Why is he doing it?
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What is he trying to achieve? I went looking through the accounts of various Democrats and Democrat-aligned
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politicians, and I still have no idea how to answer this question. For example, DNC Vice Chair David Hogg wrote,
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quote, Cory Booker is a legend. The official account of the Democratic Party posted, quote,
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thank you, Senator Booker, for standing up for the American people. Meanwhile, Senator Lisa Murkowski
00:55:54.200
wrote, quote, whether you agree with him or not, the past 24-plus hours was what most people think
00:55:58.880
a filibuster actually looks like. Congratulations to Senator Booker for his historic feat while staying
00:56:04.100
on his feet. Now, at no point do any of these people tell us what he's filibustering or why he's
00:56:10.220
doing it. Even Booker himself refused to explain what exactly is going on here, what he
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hoped to achieve. Booker wrote, quote, I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again
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and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent. We must speak
00:56:23.860
up. What's most clear to me tonight is that this is just the beginning, that Americans across this
00:56:27.620
country, no matter their title or party, are ready to be heard. I believe that history will show
00:56:31.680
we rose to meet at this moment. It will show what we did not let the chaos and division go
00:56:37.080
unanswered. It will show that when our president chose to spread lies and so fear, we chose to come
00:56:41.800
together, to work together, and to rise together. Close quote. Okay, but still not answering the
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question. You're filibustering something. So you're filibustering what? On the Senate floor,
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the Democrats' leader, Chuck Schumer, led a round of applause for Booker. He said everybody was proud
00:57:02.040
of him, but again, he didn't explain why. Watch. Would the senator yield for a question?
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Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no.
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I just want to tell you a question. Do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud
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this caucus is of you? Do you know how proud America is of you?
00:57:34.500
Now, just to add to the surreal humor of the situation, while the applause was ringing out
00:57:39.340
in the Senate to recognize Cory Booker's filibuster of absolutely nothing, one of Booker's staffers was
00:57:44.080
being arrested because of a crime that Booker himself facilitated. Apparently, the staffer is
00:57:48.700
one of Booker's bodyguards, and as Fox News reports, quote, a congressional staffer for
00:57:52.480
Senator Booker was arrested for carrying a pistol without a license after being escorted into the
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U.S. Capitol by a member of Congress and allowed to bypass security by the New Jersey Democrat himself.
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Booker led the aid around the U.S. Capitol Police Security Checkpoint on Monday night,
00:58:06.340
later resulting in the arrest. Capital police officers are required to check aides and others
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at checkpoints, regardless if they're with a member of Congress or not. Close quote.
00:58:13.620
So, why did Booker sneak this guy in, and why was the staffer slinking around the Capitol
00:58:19.720
building with a gun while he wasted everybody's time? Nobody knows. At the moment, all we know is
00:58:24.900
that none of this seemed to bother Democrats in the Senate. For once, they didn't pretend to care
00:58:29.340
about gun crime. Instead, as Booker spoke for 25 hours and five minutes, they assisted his
00:58:34.500
filibuster by asking him fake questions to pad the time, and then when Booker finally gave up,
00:58:42.760
The ideals that others are threatening, let's get back to our founding documents,
00:58:46.640
that those imperfect geniuses had some very special words at the end of the Declaration
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of Independence. It was one of the greatest in all of humanity declarations of interdependence.
00:58:56.740
When our founders said we must mutually pledge, pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes,
00:59:03.660
and our sacred honor. We need that now, from all Americans. This is a moral moment. It's not left
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or right, it's right or wrong. It's getting good trouble. My friend, Madam President,
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Theatrical performative, as always, from Cory Booker. He never disappoints in that regard.
00:59:44.400
You always get a performance out of this guy. And to recap, so far this week, Cory Booker rambled
00:59:51.200
for more than 24 hours about nothing in particular. He didn't accomplish anything in that period,
00:59:55.700
except for helping a staffer commit a crime. And now, after these monumental achievements,
00:59:59.860
all of Cory Booker's colleagues are celebrating him as a hero. You will not find a better
01:00:04.620
encapsulation of the modern Democrat Party than this. I mean, it's perfect right down to the fact
01:00:09.500
that the stunt took place on April Fool's Day. Democrats in Congress have a national approval rating
01:00:14.160
of around 20%, and they're spending their time talking about nothing for no reason at all,
01:00:19.480
while they're aiding and abetting criminal activity. The good news for Democrats is that
01:00:24.200
Cory Booker has finally stopped talking. The bad news for them is that everyone has a chance to
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listen to what he had to say, or more accurately, what he didn't have to say. Democrats have no ideas,
01:00:34.680
no substance, no coherence. They can only utter complete nonsense for the sake of it, as Cory Booker
01:00:39.600
has so clearly demonstrated for the entire world. And that is why Cory Booker and the leadership of the
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Democrat Party that has embraced his degrading and pointless filibuster are today canceled.
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That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.