Ep. 371 - Does Anyone Really Care About Impeachment？
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Elizabeth Warren is selling a coffee mug that makes fun of billionaires for $25, and she's charging more than three times what the market will bear. Impeachment hearings have started, but people aren't talking about it much.
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So a lot of people have called my attention to this. Take a look at it. It's Elizabeth Warren,
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her campaign merch, a billionaire tears mug, a mug for all those billionaire tears because
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she's making the billionaires cry. Of course, the headline here is that Warren has appropriated
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our idea at the Daily Wire. She has stolen the leftist tears Tumblr concept and made this with
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it. And now we know kind of how the Native Americans feel to be, to have Elizabeth Warren
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stealing from us and from our culture, if you will, in that kind of way. But that's not really
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the main point, in my opinion. The main thing is look at the price of this. $25. She's charging $25
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for a coffee mug, a coffee mug that makes fun of capitalists, and she's charging $25 for it.
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That is really perfect. I don't know if there's any better illustration of Democrat hypocrisy than
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that. A $25 coffee mug, making fun of capitalists. Down with capitalists. Look,
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we put it on a mug. Oh, cool. Can I have one of those? It'll be $25. And it's just for a mug,
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a little coffee mug. This is a $7 item at most. She's charging more than three times what the
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market will bear. It's one, you know, these little, the coffee mugs like that, you pour your coffee in
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and the coffee's cold in 90 seconds. Now you get yourself a tumbler. That's going to keep it piping
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hot for literally hours. Studies have proven, but don't quote me on that. But the irony doesn't
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stop here. Look at the bottom of the page. It says, powered by Shopify. Shopify. Hmm. Okay. Shopify.
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That's the company founded and run by, wait for it, a billionaire. So let's review here. Warren is using
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a billionaire's company to sell a mug, making fun of billionaire capitalists for a $25 a piece.
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And also some of that money is going to go right into the pockets of that evil billionaire. So if you
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want to really stick it to the billionaires, then buy some product from them. That's what's being said
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here. Glad we could get that all squared away. All right. Impeachment. The impeachment inquiry
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hearings have started and I am honestly not going to spend very much time on it. One, because you've
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probably already heard plenty of analysis, I'm sure. If you're interested in analysis, you've already
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heard it. But two, because if I'm being totally honest with you, I am really bored to death by
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the whole impeachment thing. I don't care that much. I think this impeachment is clearly a sham.
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It's clearly partisan, clearly motivated by a desire to remove a president that the Democrats
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have never accepted and have promised from day one to sabotage and impeach. And all the rest of it,
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I find uninteresting. Also, and this is completely anecdotal, I admit. And tell me if this is your
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experience. I'm interested to hear if this has been your experience as well. Here's my anecdotal
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experience. It seems like this impeachment story, which by all rights, if you look at it objectively,
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you would think be a huge story, everybody would be talking about. It's an impeachment of U.S.
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president. But it seems like people don't really care that much. It seems like people aren't talking
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about it. Twitter's talking about it. Cable news is talking about it. Political podcasts are talking
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about it. I'm sure if you're in D.C., people are talking about it there. But it seems that the folks
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out there in the country just aren't tracking this very closely and aren't discussing it,
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regardless of their ideology. The Clinton impeachment, that was all anyone talked about
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back in the 90s when that was going on. It was water cooler material, as they say.
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I was in elementary school, and it was water cooler material for us, which was bad news,
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considering some of the material that was discussed as part of that impeachment hearing. But
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it was everywhere. It really penetrated into the culture, into the public conscious, in a way that
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this impeachment really hasn't, it seems like. Now, like I said, that's anecdotal. I've been doing
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a lot of traveling recently. I'm in a hotel right now, as you can probably tell. I've been in a lot
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of airports, a lot of hotel bars. I've talked to a lot of people at various events that I've been doing,
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and impeachment just doesn't really come up. I've done a lot of, you know, fundraisers at various
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events, and I'm sitting around tables with people before I speak, and it's just talking about things
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in the news. People aren't talking about the impeachment. I was down in the hotel lobby this
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morning, getting breakfast, getting a massively overcharged, you know, too expensive hotel
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breakfast. And CNN was on in the lobby where people were eating, and CNN was talking about
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the impeachment. Nobody was watching. Nobody was watching the TV. Nobody seemed to be talking about
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it. Well, you know, of course, CNN was on in the lobby because the only thing keeping
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CNN in business are hotel lobbies and airports. So tell me if this is your experience. Are people
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talking about it at the water cooler, at the dinner table, at the bar? I'm interested to hear
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that. Though, in fairness, actually, of course, I've never worked at a place where people literally
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stood around a water cooler and talked about things. I'm not sure if that's actually even a
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thing, but it's just a, it's an expression. You get what I'm, it's a general expression, so you get
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the point. But that's been, that's been my experience anyway. Hey, before we move on,
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Okay. By the way, here's AOC drooling over a drag queen. Watch this.
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I thought it was amazing. It was incredible. It was fabulous. I'm like that Lady Gaga moment.
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She's like stunning, amazing, impeccable, genius.
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Yes. Can you believe it? From the revolutionary of our time. I love you so much. Thank you for being
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here. That was AOC reacting to a drag show that she just watched. And this is why, and this is what
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members of Congress do in the year 2019, the year of our Lord 2019, members of Congress go to drag shows
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and then take Instagram videos later with the drag queens. This is why AOC is a fake feminist.
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I'm more of a feminist than she is. Okay. I have more feminist credentials on my resume than
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because I would never describe as fabulous and amazing the appropriation
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of womanhood. That fella in the pink, in the pink dress there and the creepy alien makeup is making a
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caricature of femininity. He is degrading women, appropriating and stealing from them, turning
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womanhood into a cartoon. What you're seeing there, does any woman dress like that? Is that,
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that is his impression. But what you have to keep in mind with these drag queens, that is their
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impression of a woman. Would you consider, is that a, is that a complimentary impression?
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If you're a woman, are you, do you feel complimented by that or does it seem degrading?
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So, um, AOC, the fake feminist though, loves every minute of, okay, moving on. Do you know who
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Ellie Goulding is? She's apparently a pop singer. Um, just for frame of reference, here's a little
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And if it wasn't you, I wouldn't want anybody close to me. Cause I'm an animal, animal, like animal
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like you. And I don't want to be somebody without your body. Close to me.
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Now for some god-awful reason, this person was invited to perform at halftime for the traditional
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Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving game. Um, because when you think football, you think of that kind of
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music, right? Yeah. That's what you want to hear at halftime. Get your punk pumped up for the second
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half. Well, sadly, tragically, football fans may be deprived of the Ellie Goulding halftime show,
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which talk about people talking about things at bars. I can tell you what, that is one thing
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people have been discussing in my experience at bars, especially sports bars. You go to watch the game
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and everyone's been talking about it. They've been saying, have you heard about Ellie Goulding?
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Ellie Goulding is going to be performing in the halftime show. Really? Ellie Goulding?
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Oh gee, I'm so excited. It was a real conversation I had with someone. Um, but we may be deprived of
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it because the NFL has partnered with Salvation Army and Salvation Army is going to be kicking off
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its iconic red kettle campaign during the halftime of, of, um, during the halftime show of, of that
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game. The red kettle campaign, of course, those are the guys outside the grocery store with the red
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buckets and the bells and asking for money for poor people around the holidays. And, uh, that money
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goes to buying Christmas toys for poor children. It also funds various social service programs
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throughout the year. Goulding was on board with all of this and she'd even done some Instagram stuff
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where she'd been talking about working with Salvation Army and how excited she was.
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But then some of her fans told her that no, the Salvation Army is anti-LGBT.
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And immediately she just changed on a dime and now she's threatened to pull out of the show because
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of the Salvation Army. She's trying to blackmail the Salvation Army now. And she actually issued
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basically a ransom demand, which says, this is what she, the statement she, she, she published.
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Upon researching this, I have reached out to the Salvation Army and said that I would have no choice
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but to pull out unless they very quickly make a solid committed pledge or donation to the LGBTQ
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community. I am a committed philanthropist, as you probably know. And my heart is, could there be
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a more pretentious sentence than that? I am a committed philanthropist, as you probably know.
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And my heart has always been in helping the homeless, but supporting an anti-LGBTQ charity is
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clearly not something I would ever intentionally do. Thank you for drawing my attention to this.
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So this really is, this is like a ransom demand.
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If the Salvation Army, if they want me to perform, I'm going to need $6 million in unmarked bills
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in a bag of cash. And on the bag, it should say, to the LGBTQ community.
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You can meet me in a parking lot by the metro station at 12 a.m. Come alone.
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Now, first of all, this threat only works if anybody in the world actually gives a damn about
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seeing her perform at halftime. And of course, all jokes aside, we don't.
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So the fact that she thinks she can threaten, she can threaten everybody. If I don't get what I want,
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I am not going to perform during the NFL game. What does she, how does she think we're all going
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to react? No, Ellie, please, please. I've been looking forward to this for years.
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Second, what does donate to the LGBTQ community even mean?
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What do you mean donate to the community? How do you donate to a community?
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So you want them to take money away that was supposed to go to poor children around Christmas
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time and, and, and, and poor families and instead give it to the gay lobby. That's what you want.
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So do you want to decide, Ellie Goulding, which of those poor children are not going to get Christmas
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presents this year because we needed this symbolic donation to be made to the LGBTQ community?
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Are you going to come in and decide that? Which ones are going to be deprived of that?
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Third, of course, this is just totally obscene. Goulding is a multimillionaire celebrity. She lives
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in a $6 million mansion in South London. She's as privileged as it gets. And here she is trying to
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hold a charity organization hostage, trying to boss people around who give food and clothing to the
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desperately poor all across the world. Just think of the arrogance, think of the, the narcissism and
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privilege. Well, you're going to say, I, I, I demand that this charity organization conform to my
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ideological preferences. Yeah, they help the poor, but it's more important that they agree with me.
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How absolutely gross is that? And this just goes to show again, that the left is completely owned by
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the LGBT movement. They have to march to the LGBT drum. The demands of the LGBT come before even the
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needs of the poor. Think about the fact that she was going to do this show. She was on board. She was
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excited to work with the Salvation Army. And after a few Twitter comments or Instagram comments, just
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immediately she backtracks. All it took was someone saying, but they don't like gay people. Oh, they
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don't? Nevermind. Nevermind. Nevermind. No, no, no, no, no, no, nevermind. Utterly terrified of, of
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upsetting the LGBTQ community. What are these people so afraid of? What, what do you think they're going
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to do to you? Who cares if a few of them are upset? You're, you're helping poor people. What does it
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matter? If there's some people in the LGBTQ community who are mad that you're helping the
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poor, that's their problem. Why should that matter at all to you? And the fourth thing we should
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mention here is that the charge made against the Salvation Army is bogus. Of course, the Salvation
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Army serves and helps all poor people, regardless of orientation. Uh, that doesn't even come up when
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they're helping people. They're not asking them, are you gay or are you straight? That, that question
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doesn't come up. The only reason they're accused of being anti-LGBT is because they're a Christian
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organization that affirms the biblical view of marriage. And, and also in their shelters, in the
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shelters affiliated with the Salvation Army, from what I've read, biological men are required to bunk with
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other biological men. And this is supposedly anti-trans, but actually it is pro-women. This is
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protecting women by not putting men in with, with women and girls at a, at a homeless shelter.
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That's protecting women, which is something that Ellie Goulding should support and be a fan of,
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but apparently she's not because it's all about just conforming to the whims of the LGBTQ community.
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And let me say this, the fifth thing in, in, you know, not, not that I really care that much,
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but in, in terms of optics, the LGBT community, the gay lobby, in terms of optics, this kind of
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thing is just awful. This is awful branding. When you're going after a charity organization on the,
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as we, as we get ready for the holidays and Christmas time, and all they're trying to do is
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give toys to, to poor kids and you're going after them, you know, you come off as arrogant,
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So I want to give you the latest on the Daleiden case. This is a reading now from a report in the
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Daily Wire says the judge in the baby body parts trial of activist and journalist, David Daleiden
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was ordered, has ordered the jury to find him guilty of trespassing at Planned Parenthood conferences
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and clinics before the jury retired to consider the verdict. So the judge has ordered the jury to find
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Daleiden guilty of trespassing. Planned Parenthood is suing Daleiden and his colleagues after they were,
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after they released secretly recorded videos of executives haggling over the sale and price of
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baby body parts from abortions in their facilities, Daleiden is contesting all the charges. However,
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Judge William Orrick told the jury that he has decided to find Daleiden guilty of trespass during
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his undercover journalism. Daleiden previously lost an attempt to have Judge Orrick removed from the
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case, alleging he was biased against the defendants. He said, I have already determined that these
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defendants trespassed at each one of these locations. Because I determined that these defendants
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trespassed, the law assumes that Planned Parenthood has been harmed and is entitled to an award of nominal
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damages. The Planned Parenthood originally sought $20 million in damages for trespassing, fraud,
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and RICO conspiracy against Daleiden. The judge reduced potential damages to $600,000,
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which is still an enormous amount. Now, here is the important point, important note in the article.
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It says, Planned Parenthood is not suing Daleiden for defamation or slander, and the organization's
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lawyers did not state that the videos were inaccurate or exaggerated. Now, I think that's really important,
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and that is a point that even as I've talked about the cases involving Dave Daleiden, that I don't think
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I've emphasized enough, that what is Planned Parenthood claiming as they are pursuing in various states
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these legal repercussions against David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress? Well, they're not
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saying that, hey, you came in and you made up these videos and you deceptively edited them and you
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made it seem like we sell baby body parts when really we don't, and that's defamation and that's
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slander and all the rest of it. If that's what Daleiden had done, then they could very easily prove it,
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and that's what they would be suing for, and they would have a great case. But instead, what they're
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saying is, no, it's not that what you discovered is untrue, it's that we're taking an issue with the
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means that you used to discover it. So that's their problem, right? And I think that's important
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because back in whenever it was, 2015, when these videos first started coming out, Planned Parenthood
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claimed the phrase they kept repeating over and over again, like an incantation, was deceptively
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edited, deceptively edited, deceptively edited. They claimed that basically this is all fraud,
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this is all made up, fake news, deceptively edited, and all the rest of it. But they're
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not saying that in court, though, because they know they can't get away with it because they know
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that these videos were not deceptively edited, that these videos do reflect the truth, that these
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were actual conversations that Dave Daleiden and the other people at Center for Medical Progress
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had with Planned Parenthood officials. They know that. And we know they know it because actually
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back in 2015, they did their own forensic investigation of the videos, hired a third
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party to come in, look at the videos, and find the deceptive edits. And wouldn't you know it,
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they didn't find any deceptive edits. They said in their own report that it was not substantially
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edited in a deceptive way. Obviously, it was edited for time. You've got hours and hours of footage
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being condensed down to a 20-minute YouTube video, even though Daleiden did also release the raw
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footage you could go look at. But he also had the 20-minute, well, sort of, here's the main point,
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this is the headline here. But other than that, no, they didn't stitch things together to make it seem
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like Planned Parenthood was selling baby body parts. They actually were. Planned Parenthood has
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admitted that, essentially, implicitly admitted it by the fact that if you look at what they're
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actually suing for. So this is a case that should be, as I said, getting a lot of our attention,
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you know, if you're a conservative pro-lifer. I think David Daleiden, being that he's done the
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most important undercover journalism of the century, he should be a household name, at least for
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conservatives. But he's not. A lot of conservatives still have never heard of him or don't know the
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name. Because for some reason, his plight just has not gotten a lot of attention or coverage
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when this is real undercover journalism that he did. And this is why you have undercover journalism,
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because if you suspect that a powerful organization is engaged in criminal or unethical
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behavior, yeah, you could ask them. You could just go and say, hey, by the way, are you guys selling
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baby body parts for profit and changing your abortion techniques so that you can preserve the
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most profitable parts of the body to then sell for scientific research? Are you guys doing that?
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Well, no, we're not. Oh, well, then never mind. That's not journalism. That's how the mainstream
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media conducts journalism, especially when it comes to the abortion industry. But real journalism is
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saying, well, let me go and try to get to the truth. And that's what they did. And there's a
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long history, a long tradition of undercover journalism where, yes, you are using tactics where
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you are falsely presenting yourself in order to gain access and get the truth. There's a long history of
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that. That's what undercover journalism is. And if they're saying, Daleiden can't do that,
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or he's going to face legal penalties, what they're actually saying is you're not allowed
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to do undercover journalism anymore. So this isn't just an attack on the pro-life movement. This is
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an attack on the First Amendment. This is an attack on journalism, a real attack on journalism.
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And, but obviously the mass media is not covering it. I think at least conservatives should be paying
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attention to this, especially considering what Daleiden and his, uh, and, and, and, and, and the
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others at, at the CMP, what they achieved and what they were able to reveal. It's just stunning.
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Okay. I've been meaning to mention this. I was in Chicago last week. I went to, um, I was speaking
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in Chicago and I went to the hotel restaurant and tried to order what I thought was a sandwich.
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The description made it sound like a sandwich. In fact, I actually asked the bartender what the
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thing was because I was a little unclear, but based on the description and she said, it's basically a
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sandwich. Okay. So then they brought it out and, and here's what they brought to me. This is what it
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looked like. Just look at that thing. That is French toast, powdered sugar, jelly, cheese,
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and Turkey. Now I'm told that this is a Monte Cristo. That's what it's called. Traditionally,
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I'm told the Monte Cristo. Um, I had gone my whole life without ever being exposed to this monstrosity.
00:25:22.380
Unfortunately, the good Lord had protected me until this fateful day. I guess, I don't know if this
00:25:27.000
is a, on the East coast, I don't think we really have Monte Cristo's. I never heard of it before.
00:25:32.580
Apparently people like these things. So is this a Midwest thing or, or what is this? Is this what
00:25:38.120
you people eat? My God, it was revolting. It was a crime. It was a disgrace to sandwiches. First of all,
00:25:45.580
this is like something that a drunk person would dream up at 3am. And I know that sounds like a
00:25:49.600
compliment maybe, but it's really not this, this is not, this is not food. You can't just slap a
00:25:55.820
bunch of crap on a plate and call it a dish. I can't, I couldn't go and scoop scraps out of my
00:26:01.240
garbage disposal and put it in a bowl and give it a fancy name and call myself a chef. This is an
00:26:07.240
abomination before God where lucky he doesn't send another flood in, in retribution for this.
00:26:12.640
How dare you Chicago? How dare you? First, you try to pass lasagna off as pizza. You put lasagna on,
00:26:22.120
on crust and you call it pizza. Something that has to be eaten with a fork and you call it,
00:26:28.360
you have the gall to call it pizza. And now this revolting, offensive.
00:26:34.080
I mean, I know this comes to maybe as news to people in the Midwest, but you really can't put
00:26:44.780
cheese on everything. I like cheese as much as the next guy, but you can't just throw cheese on,
00:26:50.540
on everything. So putting cheese, well, meat on French toast is, but cheese on French toast,
00:26:58.500
you got, you got to cool it. Okay. And heart disease is a thing too, by the way.
00:27:07.760
Fortunately, I was able to, fortunately I, I, there was a Chick-fil-A right across the street. So
00:27:12.120
I was able to salvage the day by tossing that garbage in the garbage can where it belongs
00:27:19.020
and going to Chick-fil-A. Okay. Let's go to emails. MattWalshow at gmail.com. MattWalshow
00:27:25.480
at gmail.com. Uh, this is from Surinjin, uh, says, dear Matt, what is your stance on tipping
00:27:31.780
for food delivery when the restaurant charges a mandatory delivery fee? Also, why do you not
00:27:36.220
join, join Clavin, Knowles and Shapiro for the daily wire backstage episodes? Sincerely helping
00:27:40.720
to one day have a beard, even as half as, even half as magnificent as yours. Um, okay. Second
00:27:47.700
question. First, as for the backstage, I get this question a lot. I would love to do them more.
00:27:51.640
The main issue is just one of geography. They're all in LA at the studio. I'm hiding in my cave on
00:27:57.480
the East coast and I, I like my cave on the East coast, but sometimes I, I do feel a bit like, you
00:28:04.820
know, if you, if you move across town or something, and now you go to a different high school from your
00:28:10.360
friends and you're still friends, but they're all making memories without you. And they have all these
00:28:15.200
inside jokes. And when you hang out on the weekends, they bring up the jokes and you don't really get
00:28:21.980
the context, but you, you want to, but you want to fit in. So you laugh. You say, Oh, that's, that's
00:28:27.100
a good, that's great. And they say, Oh no, you weren't there for that. You weren't there. And you
00:28:32.300
say, Oh yeah, I know. I was just, I was just, yeah. And then you start crying internally. So that's,
00:28:38.880
that's sometimes the situation I'm in, but it's fine. You know, I don't feel, I don't feel left
00:28:45.200
out. Anyway, what was your other question? Um, the, uh, yes, mandatory delivery fees.
00:28:53.060
How, uh, and how does that affect your tip? Well, obviously a mandatory delivery fee is going to
00:28:57.280
affect the tip, but the degree to which the tip is mitigated will depend on the, on the delivery fee.
00:29:05.120
So if for instance, you're ordering $35 worth of pizza and there's a $3 delivery fee. Yeah. You're
00:29:11.460
going to throw a few dollars on top of that. You don't get out of the tip just because there's a
00:29:15.140
little bit of a delivery fee. Now, if we're talking about room service, where there's a $5 delivery fee
00:29:23.420
and a 20% tip top on top of it. And, uh, after all the fees and everything are counted, you're paying
00:29:29.680
$87 for a $7 sandwich. Well, in that, and then they still leave room. They still leave room for
00:29:36.360
additional tip. It's like taxes, you know, additional fees, room service, uh, uh, somehow
00:29:44.400
like room service and delivery fee are two separate things. And then also 20% gratuity. Oh, here's,
00:29:51.420
if you want to give more to, I don't have anything left. What else can I give? You want me to donate
00:29:56.380
blood? Give an organ? Let me rip out my organ. That's what I'll do next time. I ordered room
00:30:01.120
service. I would just rip out my spleen and put it on the receipt. Here you go. You happy now?
00:30:08.480
I mean, really you shouldn't be ordering room service at all. I only do it because I'm lazy
00:30:13.800
and antisocial. And also I can just charge it to the daily wire anyway. So what difference does it
00:30:19.940
make? Don't tell them I said that. Okay. Let's go to, um, the next one is from Daniel says,
00:30:25.860
dear Matt, I'm a daily listener to your show and a big fan. I have to admit these past few days,
00:30:29.700
I've begun to question your credibility. I've been watching your show with great interest this
00:30:33.580
week as you, as you've expertly taken the left to task over important issues, such as the
00:30:37.640
sexualization of children, the defense of convicted rapists, law enforcement, gender identity, family
00:30:41.580
relationships, and religion. But Matt, I am shocked, even a little appalled that you have
00:30:45.200
completely and entirely ignored the biggest news story of our time. It has been two whole days,
00:30:50.140
Matt, since great American hero, Sean Spicer was voted off of dancing with the stars and your
00:30:53.700
silence on this national tragedy is deafening. I know this is a tough time for all of us,
00:30:58.300
Matt, and I'm sure you're truly heartbroken like the rest of us. But if there was ever a moment in
00:31:02.100
which the country needs your leadership to heal and unite us, that moment is now. Well, Daniel,
00:31:07.840
I was trying to observe a respectful silence. I didn't want to gloat in the wake of what to some
00:31:16.620
people is tragedy. I know nerves are a little bit raw, but as you know, I was a staunch opponent
00:31:22.960
of Sean Spicer's dancing. I believe he set white people back decades. So I celebrate his ultimate
00:31:31.600
defeat. It didn't come soon enough, but I thank God it did. And may God have mercy on his soul for
00:31:39.920
what he has done. And may God have mercy on all of us for what we have done in allowing this man
00:31:47.920
to make it as long as he did on dancing with the stars. One other thing. People have asked me,
00:31:55.920
why did, why did I care so much about Sean Spicer on dancing with the stars? Why did I take it so
00:32:01.900
personally? Well, I'll tell you why. Because dancing is my passion. It's my life. It is the
00:32:12.920
thing that I cherish the most. It's basically my second language. It's how I express myself.
00:32:20.260
Even in my home, when my wife comes into the room, ask me a question. Oftentimes I will dance
00:32:25.700
in response. I'll say nothing. I'll just start dancing. And then my kids will come in and they'll
00:32:31.660
say, what is daddy doing? I'm scared. And my wife will say, I'm sorry. You had to see this again,
00:32:35.500
kids. The point is Spicer was especially an insult to people like me, you know, people in the dance
00:32:42.780
community. And I know it doesn't surprise you to learn that I'm a big, a big dancer. When you see
00:32:47.480
me, the first thing you think is professional dancer and you're right. So that is why one of
00:32:52.360
the reasons why I took it so seriously. This is from Jim says, Matt, first of all, I just want to say
00:32:59.480
that I'm a huge fan. I really appreciate your strong moral convictions on social issues. I hope you
00:33:03.600
take this as a compliment. It's meant to be when I say that I think of you as this generation's
00:33:08.340
Dr. Laura, is there any chance? Well, I first time I've gotten that, I have to say, is there any
00:33:15.860
chance that the daily wire would give you a second show where listeners can call in and you dispense
00:33:19.820
advice to help solve their moral dilemmas? Second, and more importantly, what is your opinion on the
00:33:25.140
existence of Bigfoot? Is there an as of yet undiscovered species of giant upright walking apes living and
00:33:31.020
hiding in the vast forests of North America? Or is that just an old wives tale? First of all,
00:33:37.380
the phrase old wives tale is patriarchal and sexist. How dare you? Second, uh, didn't the guy who, who the
00:33:43.220
guy, the original guy who had that photo of Bigfoot, didn't he admit it was a scam? Wasn't there like a
00:33:49.980
deathbed confession or something? Am I making that up? I might be partly making that up, but I'm pretty
00:33:54.120
sure the original Bigfoot guy basically admitted that he made it up either way. Uh, I know, I don't
00:34:00.640
believe that there's an undiscovered species of man-apes hanging out in the forests of North
00:34:04.760
America. Apes who, even in the year 2019, are only ever spotted by people with cameras from the 1860s.
00:34:13.380
That, that's my problem. Every person who has ever seen a Bigfoot has, has basically, has, has basically
00:34:19.040
had the same camera they used at the Gettysburg Address. And, and, and that makes me suspicious. So
00:34:24.540
I don't believe it. I want to believe it. It'd be cool if it was true, but, uh, I don't.
00:34:32.480
From Aaron says, dear Matt, my name is Aaron. On today's show, you argue that you're saying, uh,
00:34:36.480
you argue that saying you are in the wrong body doesn't work according to the secular worldview,
00:34:39.980
because without a soul, you are your body. Playing devil's advocate here, I would respond that I am my
00:34:44.960
mind, not my body. And I was born with a body not compatible with my mind, which said, which would
00:34:49.940
mean it's a birth defect. And so it can justifiably be corrected surgically. How would you respond to
00:34:56.000
this argument? Thanks for everything you do. Huge fan. Love the show. Yeah, Aaron, but what is the
00:35:02.300
mind? Again, this is from a secular naturalistic worldview, right? From that perspective, what
00:35:08.180
would you say your mind is? Well, I'll tell you what it's not. It's not some immaterial, incorporeal
00:35:14.520
entity that transcends your body. This is material worldview. You don't believe in that. That's the
00:35:19.880
point of being materialist. Um, it isn't like some kind of speech bubble, um, hanging over
00:35:27.660
your head, right? Uh, so your mind is not that your mind is not, uh, you know, it's, it's,
00:35:36.760
it's, it's not some kind of thing that hangs out inside your head behind your eyes, the way
00:35:43.280
we sort of perceive it. No, from a materialist worldview, your mind is really
00:35:48.880
it's not anything on its own. It's, it doesn't exist. It's more of an illusion as its own
00:35:57.720
entity. Our, our, from this perspective, our, uh, sensation or experience of having a mind
00:36:09.060
as if it is some separate thing that would be an illusion. If you're a materialist, uh, the
00:36:15.800
way I've heard it compared when materialists are talking about their philosophy of the
00:36:20.820
mind, I've heard it compared to digestion. Okay. So because the mind is something that
00:36:27.200
your body does, it is a function of your bodily organs. The digestion is a function of your
00:36:32.740
body. It isn't a separate thing. Your mind is a function of your body. So from this way
00:36:38.580
of thinking, saying that your mind is female and your body is male is like saying that your
00:36:42.520
digestion is female and your body is male. It doesn't make any sense. So what would that
00:36:46.780
be? If you get bloated a lot, you're going to say, Oh, I have a female digestion. No,
00:36:52.120
it makes no sense. It's uncoherent. There's no way to make sense of that. So it seems like
00:36:56.900
that you'd have to say, if you want to be a materialist and try to make the transgender
00:37:00.440
theory work, you'd have to say that you have a female brain inside a male body, but that doesn't
00:37:07.940
work for a number of reasons. Number one, the left would certainly deny in any other
00:37:11.700
context that there is anything like a female brain. Number two, your brain is part of your
00:37:17.840
body. It's not a separate thing that gets plunked in there afterwards. It is your body.
00:37:22.140
Number three. So what you're saying is I have a female body inside a male body. Number three,
00:37:27.580
by this way of thinking, male and female are just biological physical terms, which really
00:37:31.980
by any coherent way of thinking, they are biological physical terms. So the only sensible
00:37:35.940
definition of female brain is a brain existing in a female body. That is by definition, what
00:37:41.700
a female brain is. So saying I have a female brain in a male body, it'd be like saying I
00:37:47.080
have female hands on a male body, which, okay, maybe you have girly, small, smooth hands, but
00:37:53.880
they're not really female hands because they're attached to you. So they're yours and you're a man.
00:37:59.700
Um, now you could say I have feminine hands, uh, which I really don't, I'm proud to say, but
00:38:08.700
some people do, um, you could say I have feminine hands, just like you could say someone has a more
00:38:14.860
feminine personality, but they're still a man. Number four, I go back to the same issue I've
00:38:22.280
raised a million times, even if it did make sense to talk about male brains and female brains,
00:38:27.660
and even if they could be mismatched and, and, and, um, and all of that, how would you know
00:38:32.900
that you have a female brain in your, in your male body? Nobody has ever, ever sufficiently
00:38:38.520
answered that question for me. And they can't answer it without either a falling back on gender
00:38:44.840
stereotypes, i.e. I have a female brain because I feel sensitive and I like pink things or B using
00:38:52.220
circular reasoning. I had, i.e. I have a female brain because I have female feelings and I know
00:38:57.320
that they are female feelings because I have a female brain and they go around in a circle.
00:39:01.020
It doesn't work. So I don't think there's any way to justify that without either circular
00:39:05.240
reasoning or going into the gender stereotype thing, which, which we're supposed to be getting
00:39:09.140
away from those I thought. Um, so it seems to me that in order, if you want to even have a chance
00:39:19.340
of making this work where somehow there's a mismatch and you are somehow mystically, even though you
00:39:27.480
appear to be a man and you've got all the man parts, you're really a female. You can't do that
00:39:32.680
without introducing some concept of a soul or a spirit. You really can't. But the problem is you
00:39:39.880
can't really introduce soul and spirit without introducing God. Um, and if you introduce God,
00:39:48.080
then, and he's a creative entity that's created all these things. So that makes him at the very least
00:39:54.240
extremely powerful and extremely smart and wise at a minimum, right? Um,
00:40:01.980
and now you're suggesting that that being accidentally put a female soul in a male body.
00:40:10.440
Does that make any sense? I mean, what, what would be more likely that God made a mistake and put a
00:40:19.340
female brain or female, uh, soul in a male body by accident, or that you're making a mistake and you
00:40:25.760
just think that you're a female soul in a male body, but really you're not what, who's more likely to make
00:40:31.580
a mistake in this scenario. So that's the problem you run into if you're going the, uh, the, you know,
00:40:37.460
supernatural route. And so it doesn't work there, but then if you try to turn around and go, okay,
00:40:43.720
now I'm going to go nat the natural route, the naturalist naturalistic route, it doesn't work
00:40:47.080
there either. So it seems like it just doesn't work. Uh, the, the whole transgender idea, left-wing
00:40:52.720
gender theory, it, it does not work at all. No matter what road you go down eventually,
00:40:57.460
and it won't take that long, you're going to run into, you're going to go right off a logical cliff
00:41:03.320
and you're going to be floating on a cloud of nonsense.
00:41:10.040
And, uh, but thank you for the question. And I think we'll leave it there. Thanks everybody
00:41:12.860
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