In the lead-up to the NCAA Women's Swimming Championships, Sports Illustrated has run a fawning cover story, hailing his courage and athletic prowess. I have a few thoughts to offer on that, and also an announcement that you're going to want to hear.
00:06:07.100First off, fresh off her final practice of the week, the most controversial athlete in America
00:06:11.680sat in the corner of a nearly empty Philadelphia coffeehouse with her back to the wall.
00:06:16.540Leah Thomas had done some of her best work this season while feeling cornered.
00:06:20.700On this January evening, her long torso was wrapped in a University of Pennsylvania swim and dive jacket.
00:06:26.460Her hair still damp from a swim, roughly three miles, staring at the black line on the bottom of the pool.
00:06:32.040Well, she looked exhausted. As college students across the country were digging into their Friday nights,
00:06:37.340Thomas was thinking about her weekend plans, sleeping, studying, and another grueling swim practice.
00:06:42.340This has been a season unlike any in her 22 years and unlike any in the history of her sport.
00:06:47.080The shy senior economics major from Austin became one of the most dominant college athletes in the country
00:06:52.500and, as a result, the center of a national debate, a living, breathing, real-time Rorschach test
00:06:58.080for how society views those who challenge conventions.
00:07:02.600Right. Well, that's, yeah, that's why he became controversial is because he was dominant.
00:07:08.680Well, how did that happen? I mean, how did this shy student become a dominant college athlete?
00:07:15.660Prior to this past year, he was ranked, I think, in the 400s, mediocre on his best day.
00:07:20.600So how did that happen? Well, in his fourth year at school, he grew his hair out and became a woman.
00:07:26.280Presto chango, just like that. Continuing, it says, quoting now from Leah Thomas,
00:07:30.400I'm a woman, just like anybody else on the team, Thomas says.
00:07:33.420I've always viewed myself as just a swimmer. It's what I've done for so long. It's what I love.
00:07:38.220She's not thinking about wins or records, she insists.
00:07:40.300I get into the water every day and do my best. Being trans, Thomas says, is an amazing and
00:07:46.120beautiful experience. I've been reinvigorated. I've been swimming for 17 years, but for only a
00:07:51.840short part of that time have I felt fully engaged. She's forever grateful for the kindness people
00:07:56.480closest to her showed during such a stressful time. She says she continues to appreciate the
00:08:00.640support of those people, how that love gives her hope for the life she'll someday make for
00:08:04.740herself. Quote, after coming out and being my authentic self, I can really start to see a future,
00:08:10.040she says. Before I came out, I couldn't visualize a future. Now, of course, the article presents
00:08:16.120Thomas as not only a courageous female athlete, but a martyr as well. We're told all about the
00:08:20.900hate mail and angry comments Thomas has received. All of this is chalked up to bigotry, though if it's
00:08:27.220bigotry against anything, it's against cheaters. And it seems, by the way, nearly certain that the
00:08:33.520writer of this article, Robert Sanchez, knows that this is all nonsense, because there's just no way
00:08:39.880that anyone has actually been convinced by the arguments in favor of allowing males and female
00:08:45.120sports, because there are no arguments in favor of it. The emperor has no clothes, or in this case,
00:08:50.000the emperor is a dude in women's clothes, and everybody can see it. But few will speak out against
00:08:56.420it. And next, Thomas will go to Georgia Tech for the NCAA Women's Swimming Championships,
00:09:00.220steal medals and records. And we already know that an audience there watching will applaud
00:09:06.560dutifully, even though they know that it's all a joke. And it's sickening. And that's why I will
00:09:13.060be showing up to Georgia Tech also. On March 14th, the same week as the championships, I'll be holding
00:09:18.480an event on campus to explain why men don't belong in women's sports, and why Leah Thomas is
00:09:25.160personally and specifically a cheater. Now, Thomas may be confused about his gender,
00:09:31.500but he still knows what he's doing. He is choosing to put his own feelings and desires and self-esteem
00:09:38.060above every woman on his team and every other team. You notice in this whole article,
00:09:45.140all the me's and I's, it's all about him. The other people on his team, they don't even factor
00:09:51.180into the equation. He's not worried about them at all because he's an entitled narcissist and he
00:09:57.140deserves all the condemnation that he gets. And in fact, he should be getting a lot more of it.
00:10:01.520So I'll deliver some of that on March 14th. One other note about this. After I announced this event
00:10:07.040yesterday, I was greeted with some familiar criticism. You know, the critics ask, well,
00:10:13.900why am I getting involved in this issue? Why am I pretending to care about women's sports?
00:10:18.300You know, is anyone supposed to believe that I actually care about women's sports this much?
00:10:24.120Well, I'll answer that question. I've been quite clear that my primary concern is not women's
00:10:29.160sports itself. Never pretended that it was. I don't watch women's sports and no, prior to men
00:10:35.360intruding into it, I didn't care that much about it. But I do care about the truth. And women's sports
00:10:42.540has become, not because I want it to be, but because the trans agenda made it so, an important
00:10:48.820battleground in the war for truth. I also care about justice. And it's not just, it's not fair
00:10:55.520for women to be treated this way, to be deprived of victories that they've rightfully earned.
00:11:01.200It's not fair. It's not just. That's why I care. But even so, should I be the one holding this event?
00:11:07.720I mean, should I be one of the loudest voices about this issue?
00:11:13.960Should I be one of the loudest people defending women's sports? No, I shouldn't. It would be best
00:11:20.060if some prominent athlete were to show up and stage this protest. Michael Phelps should be there
00:11:24.980speaking out. Think about how powerful that would be. That'd be much better. If Michael Phelps
00:11:30.020volunteered, I would say, oh, forget my event. I'll go to his. Or maybe one of those female Olympians
00:11:36.480whose records are about to be broken by a man. Maybe one of them. Think about how powerful they,
00:11:41.120that would be. If one of them showed up on campus the same week and held an event, calling this out,
00:11:48.200calling it what it is, which is cheating. That would be great. There's, and again, if someone
00:11:54.960were to do that, I would say, forget my event. I'll, everyone go, I'll go and attend it myself.
00:11:58.520I'll attend this one. There's a whole list of people who would be more powerful voices on this
00:12:04.240than me. The problem is they're not saying anything. They're silent. They're staying as
00:12:11.020far away from this as they can. And so I have to go. If you don't like it, don't blame me.
00:12:17.700Blame the cowards who should be standing up there, but aren't. Now let's get to our five headlines.
00:12:23.240Okay. So another campus that I want to, that I'd like to make an appearance on, we're trying,
00:12:38.140we're still trying to, trying to set it up if we can as University of North Texas. And we talked
00:12:42.260about that yesterday to start the show, the total satanic meltdown that ensued at University of North
00:12:49.380Texas. Um, because somebody showed up on campus and gave a talk about why children should not be
00:12:57.660castrated. Um, why it's, you know, why we shouldn't be butchering gender confused children. And it just
00:13:03.600so happens that the guy that was giving the talk, Jeff Younger, uh, is a father who's, who has been
00:13:08.800trying to rescue his own son from this barbarity and, but has been, has been prevented from doing that
00:13:15.620by the courts who have given, uh, custody over to the mom because the mom is gender affirming,
00:13:20.340which is to say the mom is going to go along with her kid being, being, um, abused and mutilated.
00:13:27.440And this was enough for the, for the people on campus to, for the kids on campus and the
00:13:31.700LGBT activists to lose their mind. I mean, it really did watching some of the footage and we
00:13:36.640played some of it yesterday. I have another clip we'll play again. We'll play here, but watching the
00:13:41.000footage, it really does remind you as I'm so often reminded when I see these kinds of temper tantrums
00:13:46.420from the left, um, it does kind of harken back to, to the exorcist. It's like this demonic, you almost
00:13:53.000expect to see their heads turning around 360 degrees, start vomiting green slime all over the
00:13:59.440place, levitating. Like you expect to see that because they're just filled with satanic rage
00:14:05.580at the idea that anybody would try to protect kids from being butchered. So before we have, um,
00:14:13.300an update here from the daily wire, here's one clip we didn't play yesterday. Um, and this is one,
00:14:19.360when it comes to liberal meltdowns, I think this is one that will, that will live in infamy. This
00:14:23.500is almost as good. You know, the, the, the most famous liberal meltdown of course, is that right
00:14:28.080after Trump was elected in DC, the, the, the infamous footage of the woman falling to her knees and
00:14:33.080shouting no up into the sky. Um, this is almost as good as that. Watch this.
00:14:36.960I don't know. What else can you do but laugh?
00:15:06.960You know, you see that it's, it's easy enough to see that and think, well, look, mental illness
00:15:11.120is a real problem in this country. And, uh, clearly this is someone who's mentally deranged
00:15:15.740and, and, and yes, that's, that's true. I'm not denying that. Um, these are not mentally stable
00:15:23.520people, but we have to realize that the, the mental illness, um, is not, you know, they,
00:15:30.640they weren't born with it. Um, this is something that has been, they've been conditioned into it.
00:15:35.620It's been implanted in their minds and through the, the conditioning, through the, you know,
00:15:41.960the, the gender theory, gender ideology conditioning, but also through, through this sense of
00:15:47.320entitlement that they've been, you know, conditioned into that they've, that they've grown up with.
00:15:55.000They've, they've, these kids have been coddled to such an extent that for even one person
00:16:03.360to say something they disagree with, it isn't, it's, they, they can't handle it. They don't know
00:16:10.160how to handle it. They don't know how to handle someone disagreeing with them, but they could have
00:16:18.040done, I mean, that whole room was full of people on the other side of it. It was full of people
00:16:24.040disagreeing with Jeff Younger. So what they could have done is just not showed up and gone about
00:16:32.460their lives. And from the looks of it, you know, Jeff Younger would have been talking to an empty
00:16:36.680room mostly, but to eat the knowledge to, to know that there is someone in their vicinity
00:16:46.360saying things, expressing views that are not their own. Just the, the knowledge of that, they,
00:16:53.620they can't handle it. They're compelled to show up and they don't have any arguments to present.
00:16:59.940Obviously, all they can do is just scream in infantile rage at the idea that anyone is allowed
00:17:10.500to disagree with them. And as I said yesterday, you know, we, we like to comfort ourselves on the
00:17:16.460right. We've been comforting ourselves far too often. Speaking of being coddled, we've kind of
00:17:20.820tried to coddle ourselves a little bit and comfort ourselves by, by saying that, uh, you know, they'll,
00:17:25.760uh, these kids, they'll, they're in for a, for a rude awakening when they, you know, go out into the
00:17:31.900world and, um, they're going to encounter the real world and they're, they're going to, they're going
00:17:36.560to get over this pretty quickly. That's not the case, unfortunately, because they're going out into a
00:17:43.780world that they are also shaping. I mean, this is the next generation. They're, they're taking over.
00:17:50.600And so that sense of entitlement, all of it, it's, it's not going anywhere. It's just going to
00:17:58.720metastasize. Maybe for some of them, I hope there'll be, there'll be an awakening of sorts,
00:18:05.200but it's not going to be a necessary awakening. There's nothing about the quote real world right
00:18:10.960now that would require them to, um, awake from this stupor, from this self-centered narcissistic
00:18:20.280stupor. In fact, our entire culture is designed now to continue to coddle these people.
00:18:29.120That's a scary thought. Uh, it's a scary thought for a lot of reasons. One of them is that, um,
00:18:34.140you know, those, the kids in that, in that room there, if somebody had just gone up and shot Jeff
00:18:40.260Younger in the head, how do you think the kids would have responded? You think they would have been
00:18:45.180upset to see that? No, that kind of rage, it's because they want you dead. I mean,
00:18:50.700they think that you should be dead. And, and oftentimes they're, they're quite clear about
00:18:54.580that. They think that you should be dead for disagreeing with them. That's how they, they
00:19:01.940think that's what they believe. And they are taking that belief with them into the greater,
00:19:05.760into the outside world. All right. Um, speaking of which, this is from the daily wire. It says black cat,
00:19:13.560black clad protesters screamed and heckled at a college student and Jeff Younger, the father of
00:19:18.140a child, the center of a national disputes over transgenderism, um, forcing police to rush the
00:19:23.740student and Younger to safety. So this is the part that we, we didn't actually see in the clip that
00:19:27.080we played. We had them screaming, they were spitting and everything. Um, and then at some point,
00:19:31.680apparently the police intervene. And, um, this is the exclusive report from the daily wire. It says
00:19:36.780purportedly spurred on by anger over Texas's new transgender directive, which we know about, um,
00:19:41.760at least 70 black clad protesters milled into the young conservatives of Texas Wednesday evening
00:19:47.980event at the university of North Texas. Um, during the event, police suddenly entered the room and
00:19:52.880ordered student Kelly Knightert, who's was one of the people up there on, on, uh, you know, in front
00:19:58.280of the crowd trying to present her case. Um, and also Younger to evacuate the student described tense
00:20:04.560moments following the evacuation in which she hid in a janitor's closet with a policeman as screaming
00:20:10.140protesters ran through the halls of the building, searching for her. Knightert and Younger, who is
00:20:15.200the father of James Younger, um, say that, uh, said that the members of the university of North
00:20:21.380Texas police department, the Texas department of public safety and the Denton police department were
00:20:25.560present on Wednesday night. None of these organizations responded to the daily wires request for comments.
00:20:30.800Um, and so the Knightert talks about hiding in this closet as there are these black clad,
00:20:39.040call them protesters, but this is something more than that, patrolling the hallways, searching for
00:20:44.420her. What were they going to do if they found her? Remember what I said, they want you dead.
00:20:50.360They really do. She told the daily wire quote, initially when we were first let out of the
00:20:55.680building to evacuate, I felt like everything was going to be under control. But after I was chased
00:20:59.700into the building with a police officer, when we were in this janitor's closet, I honestly was very
00:21:03.920scared, uh, for good reason. This stuff has never really seemed scary to me. I guess I don't really
00:21:11.640care about the backlash I received, but when I was literally hiding in a janitor's closet with a police
00:21:15.780officer and the lights off with these people running in the hallway screaming, I mean, at this point I
00:21:20.500was pretty scared for my life. Yeah. For, for good reason. You know, these, um, the, the lawmakers on
00:21:29.240January 6th were supposed to feel a great amount of sympathy for them. I mean, they, they're all
00:21:35.140martyrs. They're survivors. None of them have a tale as harrowing as this. And she was also totally
00:21:43.180outnumbered. Um, and they're patrolling the hallways looking for her. Again, what were they going to do if
00:21:49.220they found her? You know, they want you dead for disagreeing with them. But the other thing is
00:21:55.680they've been told repeatedly, and this is part of the conditioning. They've been told that,
00:22:01.280you know, opposing viewpoints are violent, are a threat to their very existence. We hear this all
00:22:08.900the time. And this is especially true when it comes to anything related to LGBT, trans.
00:22:17.060If you're at all critical of the trans agenda, then you are, your viewpoints are a threat to the very
00:22:22.960existence of trans people. And these kids have been told that their whole lives.
00:22:30.200Now they've never stopped to think about it. They've never stopped and actually asked themselves,
00:22:34.060well, how is my existence threatened? Because this guy disagrees with me.
00:22:38.500They just believe it. And that alone justifies violence. They could go and kill you and say,
00:22:45.400well, self-defense, you were threatening my existence.
00:22:47.020That's how the stage is being set and very intentionally so. All right. Let's move over
00:22:54.800to this. Nancy Pelosi sent out a tweet a couple of days ago that didn't attract a lot of attention
00:23:01.040when she first posted it, but we'll put this up. It says, the Congress remains unwavering and
00:23:05.980resolute in our support for the people of Ukraine. We are committed to providing humanitarian and
00:23:10.320security assistance to Ukraine as Russia wages unprovoked and premeditated war.
00:23:14.440So, okay, that's pretty standard talking points there. But then you zoom in and you see all the
00:23:22.200lawmakers, you know, dozens of them anyway, standing on the steps of the Capitol and they're holding a
00:23:29.480flag. And then you get the zoom in and you see there, it is a, an American flag and a Ukrainian flag,
00:23:36.300which has been combined. And so part of the American flag has been colored, you know, yellow and blue
00:23:43.440and adorned with Ukrainian symbols. In other words, the flag has been desecrated.
00:23:50.900So we are now at the point where we are desecrating the American flag to own Putin.
00:23:56.980That's, that's what that is. That's, that's the desecration of the flag.
00:24:00.180And all these smiling and you see Dan Crenshaw, he's there smiling along.
00:24:08.600What is this supposed to prove exactly?
00:24:12.400The day before this, they were taking their American flags off to go to the state of the
00:24:17.580union, putting on the Ukrainian lapels. And now they're desecrating a flag, an American flag.
00:24:23.660So this, this is, and this is all part of the, this is all part of the hype and the, and the,
00:24:30.820the war fever, which is only getting worse, by the way, because desecrating the flag is pretty bad.
00:24:37.940That's a pretty bad tweet. Not as bad as this though. This is a Lindsey Graham yesterday tweeted
00:24:42.880this. And I think he also went on Sean Hannity and, and, and made this case. So he's very,
00:24:47.200he's very proud of this. This wasn't something that he said in the heat of the moment or something
00:24:50.220and regret saying now. He put this out there. He says, is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a
00:24:56.140more successful Colonel Stoffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody
00:25:01.240in Russia to take this guy out, meaning Putin, of course, you would be doing your country and the
00:25:06.280world a great service. Okay. So no big deal there. Just one of our most prominent elected officials
00:25:14.960openly and publicly calling for the assassination of the leader of a, a, a nuclear armed country.
00:25:25.420Now there, there are two issues here. Okay. The first is that assassinating Putin would actually
00:25:33.400probably be a terrible idea because then you end up with a power vacuum. You end up with a power
00:25:39.560vacuum, um, in this, again, nuclear armed superpower country. And who, who, who steps in there? Who
00:25:47.880takes his place? Someone's going in, whoever, however, whoever steps in and sees his power. Are they
00:25:55.580likely to be, uh, more pro America and pro West after we've just called for the assassination of, of,
00:26:03.640of, uh, of, of Putin? I mean, we we've seen this play out over the last many decades that when we
00:26:13.560create power vac vac vacuums, somebody steps into it. And most of the time it's somebody worse.
00:26:23.480Yeah. We saw that in, we we've, we've seen that in the middle East and, and it's hard for me to see,
00:26:28.500especially right now of all times, how creating that kind of instability, destabilizing Russia.
00:26:36.400It's hard for me to see how that makes the world safer, but even if it did, like, even if you could
00:26:43.300argue that taking Putin out would be the best move, you know, you don't say it publicly. You don't
00:26:50.660tweet it out. What's that supposed to accomplish? All that does is, I mean, the, the, the people,
00:26:58.500of, of, of Russia from, as far as we can tell, not that we're getting a lot of, you know, this is not
00:27:02.240information that Russia's eager to publicize, but for what we've seen, this war is not popular in
00:27:08.180Russia. You know, the, the, the very first day that it broke out, uh, there were mass demonstrations
00:27:14.360in Russia against it. So the people are largely on our side when it comes to this war anyway.
00:27:23.240If you're trying to think of ways to turn them against us and, and, and have them rally around
00:27:29.980Putin, I think calling for the assassination of their political leaders is probably the way to do
00:27:35.420it. So whether or not it would be a good idea and would be for the best for Putin to be taken out,
00:27:43.200which I don't think it would be for the best, certainly saying it out loud is not the way to do
00:27:47.800it. Is that also, isn't that, I'm pretty sure that's a violation of, uh, this is lower on the
00:27:55.020list of priorities here, but isn't that also a violation of Twitter's terms of service? You can
00:28:00.980actually call for a person's assassination on Twitter and you're not violating any, uh, any rules
00:28:05.800there. These are the people we have leading us. I mean, for Lindsey Graham, this is, um, you know,
00:28:15.060I asked the question, why did he, what was the point of, of, of posting that? However you feel
00:28:18.660about assassinating Putin, what's the point of saying it? Well, the real point is that it's just,
00:28:23.480uh, you know, it's, it's a way to get attention. It's a, it's like a very odd form of virtue signaling.
00:28:30.360You can see where we've gotten to in our culture when, uh, calling for someone's assassination is a
00:28:35.100virtue signal, but that's what it is. Desecrating the American flag is also a virtue signal.
00:28:39.900And so for him, it's all, it's all just a joke. It's, it's nothing
00:28:45.620because if we get into a world war, he's not going to be the one going over there to fight it.
00:28:54.020Same for Adam Kinzinger who, uh, tweeted this yesterday. He said, this is a good moment to
00:29:00.280renew my call for a no-fly zone at the invitation of the Ukraine government. Oh, well they invited us.
00:29:05.400So, okay, well that's, that's all that matters. As long as they invite us, as long as Ukraine has
00:29:09.140invited us to get it, to get ourselves involved in this and risk American lives and start a world
00:29:14.280war, if they've invited us, well then we should certainly do it. He says, I fear if this continues,
00:29:18.740we will have to intervene in a bigger way. Now, a no-fly zone, just to be very clear about this,
00:29:24.680um, a no-fly zone is an act of war. Okay. You are, the moment you start shooting at
00:29:33.560Russian planes or Russian, um, military, that's an act of war. So Kinzinger is calling for us to
00:29:41.960get involved in this war. And I'll tell you, I, my position is very simple. I'm, I feel sorry for
00:29:52.700Ukraine. Um, I think it's bad what's happening to them. I wish that it was not happening. Um,
00:30:01.360I think that what Putin is doing is very wrong to invade the country this way and, and, and start,
00:30:06.940um, shelling the cities and everything. I think that's all wrong, but I would rather Russia take
00:30:15.520over Ukraine than see American lives lost in defense of Ukraine. I would rather that. Those
00:30:24.000are two bad outcomes. No question about it. But for me as an American, the worst outcome
00:30:31.140is that Americans end up losing their lives by the thousands or the millions potentially.
00:30:39.240Given that we would be getting involved in a war with again, a nuclear superpower,
00:30:42.180a country that has 6,000, I think nuclear weapons. All right. Here's something on a guest on CNN said
00:30:49.620that I thought was kind of interesting. This is one of those moments when, you know, this isn't,
00:30:54.820this isn't, this isn't CNN, but who can tell the difference anymore? Um, this is a, this is one of
00:30:59.140those moments when someone on the left says something and it provokes, I get, you know, some outrage and
00:31:03.180condemnation from the right, but, uh, but it's honest and I kind of prefer the honesty. So let's listen to
00:31:08.300this. Now in your book, allow me to retort, you reframe politics and the constitution by kind of
00:31:15.840breaking down how it all impacts voting rights, like you mentioned, uh, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights,
00:31:21.620the list as you know, goes on and on. So are you arguing that the constitution needs to be scrapped
00:31:28.260altogether? Sure. But I don't think that's going to happen. Like if we could throw that out and start
00:31:37.200over with a new document that was more inclusive of everybody that was written by everybody at no
00:31:42.400point have black people, brown people, or women had a say in actually writing the constitution or
00:31:48.400the amendments to that constitution. If we could throw that out and have a delegation of all Americans
00:31:53.260to write a new one, I would be all for that. That's what they did in South Africa. You know,
00:31:57.520when they got, when they got rid of apartheid, they didn't like tax and amendments onto their
00:32:01.400apartheid constitution. They threw their apartheid constitution out and they started over. I don't
00:32:05.820think that's going to happen here. Um, and so instead of that, what I'm really advocating for is that we
00:32:10.860interpret our constitution so that it, so that we extend justice and fairness and equality to all,
00:32:18.200as opposed to whatever the heck we do now.
00:32:20.060So he's in favor of just getting rid of the constitution and, uh, writing something else. And I am not in
00:32:28.600favor of that. I don't agree with that, but I am quite happy to hear. I would prefer that the, that people
00:32:33.420on the left make that argument and just come out and say it. Because one of the reasons why, um, our debates
00:32:41.580never get anywhere is that people aren't really being honest about what they actually think. And pretty much
00:32:47.780every debate has had in bad faith. And that's especially the case when we start talking about
00:32:53.600constitutional issues where both sides, including the left, you know, usually pretend that what they
00:33:00.840really care about is protecting the constitution and all that. It's, of course, completely bogus.
00:33:06.080Yeah. You want to, you want to rip up the constitution. You want to burn it, throw it in the incinerator.
00:33:11.380That's, that's very clear because everything about our country and its history, you hate everything.
00:33:17.420Come out and say it. It's already obvious, but the more you say it, I think the better.
00:33:21.400Um, all right, let's go here. So there was a, a protest, a pro mask protest in New York city.
00:33:28.080These are people that gathered to protest in favor of masking. And let's, let's check in with that.
00:33:33.680Mask for loved ones. Mask for friends. It's not about you. Also not hard to do. Just because we're tired doesn't mean it's over. Mandate masks. That's our ass. Mask for seniors. Mask for kids. It's not about you. Also not like a clue. Just because we're tired doesn't mean it's over. Mandate masks. That's our ass.
00:34:00.900That is, that is so sad. I think I prefer the screaming satanic ones over that. Uh, this, this somehow is an even more pathetic display. And what are they protesting for exactly? You know, they're, they're, uh, all of their signs and everything said, masking, masking for all. Well, go ahead and mask. No one's stopping you. There, there are no laws being put in place, especially not in New York city, saying that you can't wear the mask.
00:34:29.100Outlawing it. Now, if it were up to me, I would probably put that law in place. I think actually there should be laws, um, against masking, not just taking the mandates away, but putting a mandate in the other direction.
00:34:43.320That you can't just walk around in a mask all the time, unless you have a real reason. And one of the reasons for a law like that, by the way, is, um, it would put a, it would put a stop to a lot of the looting that we're seeing.
00:34:55.600Because before everyone lost their minds with minds with COVID, it was generally understood that you can't have a bunch of people going into stores and establishments covering their faces.
00:35:09.220When, when people walk around in anonymity every single day, bad things happen.
00:35:16.260But that's, that, that's not happening, especially not happening in New York. So what are they protesting for? They can still wear the mask.
00:35:21.760Well, because it's not good enough for them to wear it. They need everyone. So they're, they're protesting, asking for a mandate from the government, asking for the government to mandate them to do the thing they're already doing anyway.
00:35:34.700Because it's not about them. It's about you. They also want to control what you do.
00:35:40.460All right. Finally, I want to play this before we get to the comment section. A mom on, um, TikTok is getting ready to deliver her baby.
00:35:47.060She's not going to deliver the baby on TikTok. At least I hope not, but you never know anymore.
00:35:50.560And, uh, she's come up with a written list of rules, uh, about the birth and basically governing the way that her friends and family can behave and what they can do.
00:36:02.280It's pretty extensive. We can't play the entire thing. It goes on for like three minutes. So she's listing like 50 rules, but let's, let's play some of this.
00:36:10.040My husband and I made a list of guidelines for our friends and family for when I go into labor and we have our first daughter.
00:36:17.220Our first baby is due March 14th. I'm currently 34 weeks pregnant.
00:36:20.560So we, um, being first time parents and being a little extra, I decided to come up with this list called 2319 for people to kind of know what our expectations are and what we're comfortable with.
00:36:31.180So the first guideline is that if we tell you I'm in labor, don't announce baby's arrival.
00:36:36.360Don't post that I'm in labor until I've posted. I don't know if I'm going to want to post immediately that she's here or give it a whole week.
00:36:42.920Um, so we're just asking that people don't do that. Um, also please don't inform other people unless we ask you to, because we don't want to be bombarded with texts.
00:36:51.260Um, number two kind of goes off of that. When we tell you that we're in labor, we will be sending updates, but we're going to be sending updates that we're comfortable with.
00:36:59.760And on our schedule, we won't be responding to requests for update updates outside of that.
00:37:05.600So that way my husband doesn't have to juggle 30 people texting him. Okay. Hey, what's the latest news or whatever.
00:37:12.520Number three is pretty simple. Don't post pictures of baby until we do. And please ask permission.
00:37:19.660Okay. We can stop. We can stop that. So those are all her rules for, uh, for when, when she gives birth, you know, we've had four kids.
00:37:26.580We didn't post any rules at all. Uh, we didn't, we didn't think to do that, but it's part of this trend now with, um, you know, people like they, they, they, they do something that billions of other people have already done in history.
00:37:41.260But now when they do it, like in her mind, right, this is the first significant birth that's ever happened on earth.
00:37:49.620Well, the second, because the first was her own and, um, and now, and now this billions of people have gone through this, have given birth, have been born.
00:38:02.060They need any rules. They need to make a big, huge show out of it, but no, this is different because it's her now.
00:38:12.300And it's the same thing. It's why people, you know, she, I guarantee she was the bride Zillow when she got married, assuming she is married,
00:38:19.360which maybe I can't assume that, um, I think she did say husband. So same deal there. I'm sure. Can you imagine if this is, if this is the rule she's putting in place,
00:38:27.120now she's acting when she gives birth, can you imagine what she put her, her friends and family through when she got married?
00:38:33.920Because that's the other thing that people, you know, they get married and many people have, and getting married is a wonderful thing.
00:38:38.760And, uh, I wish it happened more often. In fact, there should be more marriages, but, but still you're doing something that billions of people have already done.
00:38:44.300But now that you're doing it, you think it needs to be, you need to be treated like royalty and you can pass, pass all these rules down.
00:38:49.360And treat everybody around you like garbage. And yet she still has friends and family at the end of that, which is, uh, which is maybe the most impressive thing at all, of all.
00:39:47.280You know, I, I don't know if you, this is a, well, so this is a man giving a gift to the woman in his life.
00:39:52.560I don't know if they're married or not.
00:39:54.860And she, he, he gave her the sweet baby t-shirt, um, which is, uh, not only a beautiful gift, also kind of, frankly, kind of an expensive gift as well.
00:40:05.440And, uh, and she, she throws it aside.
00:40:08.380Look, I, I just said, I, I think marriage is a wonderful thing.
00:42:44.040So there's, I got that comment a lot, um, after the, after the show yesterday, we played the footage of, uh, what happened to the Jeff Younger event and they were, you know, cussing him out and screaming at him and chanting, you know, whatever they were chanting.
00:42:55.940And you could see an adult standing up there and clapping along.
00:42:58.900And a lot of people thought, Oh, is that, is that a teacher or professor clapping along with the, um, with the chanting animals?
00:43:05.080And no, that was Jeff Younger himself, who was like chanting along with his own, with, he was like going along with the people jeering him and, and chanting along with it.
00:43:16.240Um, which is not the best way to respond in a situation like that.
00:43:21.340Um, but then again, I mean, what you have to keep in mind with, uh, especially with Jeff Younger is that, you know, he, it doesn't seem to me that this is a guy who ever wanted to be a public figure.
00:43:32.320He just didn't want his son to be castrated.
00:43:37.360He didn't want his son to be raised as a girl.
00:43:40.420And, um, he's had no choice, but to take it, you know, he tried to stop it in court.
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00:46:45.540Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.
00:46:46.740So a few days ago was Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting, sacrifice, and repentance leading into Lent, a liturgical season of solemn and prayerful preparation before the holy celebration of Easter.
00:47:01.420Ash Wednesday is, as you might expect, not quite as popular these days as what comes before it, which is Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras, which traditionally was a time of feasting before the period of fasting.
00:47:11.500But in our culture, we prefer to take the feast without the fast.
00:47:15.740You know, Fat Tuesday leads to Fat Wednesday, followed by Fat Thursday, and even Fatter Friday, and so on.
00:47:21.900As Christianity declines in America, so too do our religious observances.
00:47:25.820As for that decline, you know, there are many Christians who mourn the fact that our numbers are dwindling, and they are, and fewer people are taking part in our traditions.
00:47:34.760The rise in religiously unaffiliated and atheist self-identifications is often lamented by believers.
00:47:40.840And I lament it too, but I also much prefer that unbelievers declare themselves as such, declare themselves unaffiliated, renounce their faith openly, and align themselves with some other belief system.
00:47:53.760I prefer that than the other approach, which is to continue identifying themselves as Christians, even while rejecting nearly every essential aspect of Christianity.
00:48:03.160In other words, I'll take apostasy over heresy any day of the week.
00:48:06.800Better to renounce your faith and leave than remain in it, destroying it from the inside.
00:48:13.020But there are a lot of heretics in our society today.
00:48:15.180We have one in the White House, actually.
00:48:17.180Joe Biden calls himself a Catholic, a devout Catholic, in fact.
00:48:20.660And yet his devotion to Catholicism does not include the fundamental moral teachings of Catholicism.
00:48:25.940He's devoted to everything but that, which is like saying you're totally devoted to your wife, except when you're cheating on her.
00:48:38.380The church says that abortion is murder, an atrocity, an intrinsic moral evil.
00:48:43.640Biden says that it's maternal health care.
00:48:45.400And he was asked about this particular, this disconnect on Wednesday, right after he emerged from church with the ashes on his forehead for Ash Wednesday.
00:49:17.780Now, that answer is nonsense for many reasons, not least because Biden clearly loves nothing more than to judge people.
00:49:23.560He judges unvaccinated people, parents at school board meetings, Trump supporters, conservatives, anyone who disagrees with him about anything, anything.
00:49:30.440Like any leftist, he's constantly making moral pronouncements and judgments.
00:49:35.520Pretty much the only thing he will not judge is the murder of infants.
00:49:39.080But we can judge that, and we should, because it is, as the church says, an intrinsic moral evil.
00:49:46.860Contrary to popular belief, we as Christians are not, we're not only permitted to make judgments, but we're actually required to.
00:49:53.800So, when you hear someone say, Christians shouldn't judge, that's simply someone who calls himself a Christian, and there are many of these, but has never actually picked up the Bible and opened it.
00:50:06.820It would be, you know, of course we are supposed to make judgments.
00:50:10.540It would be rather difficult to apply any of the moral teachings in the gospel if we aren't allowed to make any moral judgments to begin with.
00:50:17.320Yeah, this kind of confusion is common now, largely due to the work of heretics like Biden.
00:50:22.660Speaking of heretics, we go back to Ash Wednesday.
00:50:25.500Remember that Ash Wednesday is supposed to be a time of repentance, of mourning for our sins, of remembering, as we're reminded when the ashes are applied, that we are dust, and to dust we shall return.
00:50:36.100That's what Ash Wednesday has always been.
00:50:38.100But in recent years, the heretics have been making some slight alterations to it.
00:50:41.640This week across the country, a number of churches held services not for regular old Ash Wednesday, but for Glitter Ash Wednesday.
00:50:49.040Glitter Ash Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, but with a little gay flair.
00:50:53.660One of these demonic perversions of a previously solemn and sacred observance was held at Michigan State University.
00:51:00.600And there was a local Fox reporter there who interviewed a female pastor, because of course it's a female pastor, from an Episcopal church, because of course.
00:51:11.640So, on campus, Canterbury MSU, which is the Episcopal campus ministry, is once again, we did this right before COVID, we again are offering Glitter Ashes on campus.
00:51:25.600So, this is a program that has come out of a national organization called Parody that seeks equality for LGBTQ plus folks.
00:51:35.080And Glitter Ashes is a way to recognize the ways in which the church has too often failed to recognize, much less include, LGBTQ folks.
00:51:44.740And so, for the Glitter Ashes, the traditional Ashes that we use, the same that we'll use the rest of the day on Ash Wednesday, get mixed with a little bit of glitter as a sign of reconciliation and love and inclusion.
00:51:58.340Not just for LBGTQ folks, certainly for that, but also, of course, if we include anyone, we're widening the circle for everyone.
00:52:06.100If you're someone who has felt excluded from the church, maybe your home church or maybe the church in general, and that's painful for you, and you're looking for a way to acknowledge that, to acknowledge maybe faith that you feel somewhat exiled from, this might be a way to do that.
00:52:23.320And that would certainly be our hope, that anyone who has felt like the church has not made a place for them, that this is a sign that, in fact, there is a place for you.
00:52:32.020And if the church has failed to say that, it's the church is failing, not yours.
00:52:36.600So, Glitter Ash Wednesday is just like Ash Wednesday, except the exact opposite of it.
00:52:43.480At Glitter Ash Wednesday, rather than being told that they are dust, and to dust they shall return, observers are told that they are special and wonderful in every way.
00:52:52.300Rather than being called to humility, they're called explicitly to pride.
00:52:57.360Rather than recalling the sins they've committed, they recall the alleged sins committed against them.
00:53:04.460Rather than focusing on Christ, they're encouraged to focus on themselves.
00:53:08.420This is not Christianity. This is Satanism.
00:53:11.240It's the worship of self, which is what Satanism is.
00:53:14.820So we see that, although Christianity may be losing ground in the West, it's not really being replaced by secularism.
00:53:21.500So, here religion is not taking the place of religion.
00:53:25.080Instead, a new religion is gaining ground.
00:53:26.980We are still, really, a deeply religious culture, as we've always been.