Ep. 941 - The Biden Administration Uses ‘1984’ As An Instruction Manual
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The Biden administration takes its cue from Orwell, setting up its very own ministry of truth. Plus, Joe Biden continues to mentally decay on camera, Ilhan Omar speaks out for student loan forgiveness, and we'll examine a video which purports to scientifically prove the validity of transgenderism.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Biden administration takes its cue from Orwell,
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setting up its very own ministry of truth, we'll discuss, and a judicial nominee admits
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during a confirmation hearing that her previous claims about police violence were untrue,
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but made anyway for rhetorical purposes, she says. Plus, Joe Biden continues to mentally
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decay on camera. Ilhan Omar speaks out for student loan forgiveness. And in our daily
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cancellation, we'll examine a video which purports to scientifically prove the validity of
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transgenderism. I'm skeptical, but I'll hear him out. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall
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reason for that. Well, there's two reasons. One is that 1984 is one of about three books that the
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average American has actually read all the way through. The other two are Harry Potter books.
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But the second reason is that so much of what we're experiencing today really was prophesied by
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Orwell in 1984, and even more so, in my opinion, in his allegory, Animal Farm. Things tend to happen
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that even a more widely read person cannot help but compare to one of those two works.
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And what else are we supposed to do when the Biden administration, as they did this week,
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literally creates a ministry of truth? Sure, I mean, they aren't calling it that, of course. Instead,
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they've come up with an even more Orwellian name than what Orwell chose. Their name is the
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Disinformation Governance Board. Now, this new board will exist within the Department of Homeland
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Security, a department that shouldn't exist and which has, since its conception, been responsible
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for many of the federal government's most insidious civil rights abuses. Yet another reason to thank
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George W. Bush for his contributions to massively expanding the federal government. The head of
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this new board is a leftist ideologue and activist named Nina Jankiewicz, who proudly announced her new
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position in a tweet yesterday, which you can see here. She posted,
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Here's my official portrait to grab your attention. Now that I've got it, a huge focus of our work,
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and indeed one of the key reasons the board was established, is to maintain the department's
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commitment to protecting free speech, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. And then for whatever
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reason, she includes a photo of Quentin Tarantino. The interesting thing to note about this Nina
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character is that she's not only a leftist, but also, and these two things often come together as a
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package deal. Of course, completely insane. As evidenced by this video, which has been making
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the rounds since Tucker Carlson played it on his show last night, but if you didn't see it,
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I think it's worth watching because this, again, this is a woman who's going to be at the Department
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of Homeland Security in charge of disinformation. And here's what she's all about.
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Information laundering is really quite ferocious. It's when a huckster takes some lies and makes
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them sound precocious by saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet. So disinformation's origins
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are slightly less atrocious. It's how you hide a little lie. It's how you hide a little lie. It's
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how you hide a little lie. It's how you hide a little lie. When Rudy Giuliani shared that in town
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from Ukraine, or when TikTok influencers say COVID can cause pain, they're laundering disinfo and we
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really should take note and not support their lies with our wallet, voice or vote. Oh!
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This is perhaps not quite as embarrassing as the BDSM dog fetishist that Biden tapped for a federal
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post a few months ago, but it's pretty close. Not surprisingly, Nina is also a proponent of the
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words are violent school of thought. She has a book coming out apparently called How to Be a Woman
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Online. Don't ask her to define what a woman is though. I mean, she's just the information's are.
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She's not a biologist. And she tweeted this excerpt from the book, quote, men burst violently into your
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mentions and your life like the Kool-Aid man demanding your attention, hawking opinions that they
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believe are unarguably manifestly correct and indispensable. Violently. Yes, men are committing
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violence by responding to your tweets. Sounds a bit like Taylor Lorenz. This is a common theme.
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And this is men, of course. Just men. Men, men, women never do this. But men also commit the sin of
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thinking their opinions are correct. Now, never mind that literally every human on earth thinks
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their opinions are correct. This is an accusation made against me all the time. Oh, Matt, you always
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act like you think your opinions are correct. Well, of course, if I didn't think they were correct,
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they wouldn't be my opinion. By definition, it's something that I think is correct.
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Perhaps most importantly of all, though, Nina, who will be in charge of identifying and censoring
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disinformation, has already made clear what the term disinformation means to her. It means any
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information that is politically inconvenient to Democrats, which is why she labeled the Hunter
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laptop story disinformation back in 2020. She was one of like every other Democrat saying that that
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was disinformation. Turns out it was 100% true. That point about the Hunter Biden laptop story was
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made to Jen Psaki during the White House press briefing yesterday. And here's how she responded
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to that. Listen. She had previously called the Hunter Biden laptop a Trump campaign product,
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seeming to discredit its validity or validity of reporting surrounding that.
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How can you assuage concerns of people who are looking at this person who's been appointed to
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this position and wondering if she's going to be able to accurately judge misinformation now that
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a lot of that reporting has been proven to be factual in some ways?
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Well, I don't have any comments on the laptop. But what I can tell you is that it sounds like the
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objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in
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a range of communities. I'm not sure who opposes that effort.
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She doesn't have any comments about the laptop angle, which is that's the question, right? So I
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love that from Jen Psaki when someone asks a question and her response is, well, I don't have
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any comments about the question you just asked. So instead, I'll make a point that's irrelevant.
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She says the board will prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country
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in a range of communities. And she's not sure who opposes that effort. Well, many of us do.
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And let me explain why. First of all, note how they are calling it. I think this is important.
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OK, they are calling it the disinformation board and not the misinformation board.
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Now, even that small nuance is significant because it adds an extra layer of editorializing.
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Misinformation is simply information that's wrong. Disinformation is wrong is information that's
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wrong intentionally. So all disinformation is misinformation, but not all misinformation is
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disinformation. Disinformation is when there's an intentional there's a there's an intent to deceive.
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The government now has claimed the authority not only to be the arbiter of which information is
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correct and incorrect, but also of the motivations behind the people spreading the alleged incorrect
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information. When you call something disinformation, you are claiming to know both that the information
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is wrong and also why it's wrong. This is the power the Biden administration is claiming for itself,
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and it can't end well. I mean, it's designed to not end well. It never does end well when a government
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declares itself the final judge of truth, which is not the government's job. It's also not the
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government's job to control the spread of information. It's supposed to control other things and the
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spread of other things like immigration, crime. Those are the two big ones that it should be trying to
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control. But this regime has little interest in that. To this regime, the greatest enemy is not crime,
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not anything like that. It's information. And because we live in the information age, when the
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average person processes more information in a day than previous generations may have encountered in
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a year or a decade, that means that the efforts to control and stifle information will have to be
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far-reaching and severe and oppressive. Just think about what tyrannical regimes in the past have done
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to control the flow of information before the internet, before modern media.
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Now think about what this one will have to do, given how ubiquitous information is.
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Now, the truth is that they will not be able to staunch the flow completely or monitor all of it,
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though they will no doubt try. They're not going to be able to do it. Ultimately,
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the most effective tactic they can take and have already taken against inconvenient information,
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which, again, is what they mean by disinformation. There's the actual definition of disinformation,
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which is incorrect information meant to deceive. But that's the actual definition. But for them,
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that's not what it really is. This is inconvenient information.
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But the main tactic here is to convince people not to trust their own powers of perception,
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their own common sense. We saw this, we see this all the time with the left. We saw it all
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throughout COVID. Trust the experts, they said, even if the experts contradict themselves 10 times
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in the same sentence. Still, just accept whatever is the most recent thing the experts have said.
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Lots of people, sadly, are not only willing to do this, but they find, I think, some comfort in it.
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The fire hydrant of information gushing directly into your brain can get exhausting and overwhelming at
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times. And after a while, people look to outsource the task of processing and forming conclusions
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to some sort of outside authority. Government's more than happy to provide that service.
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Now it's created a whole department for that express purpose.
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Don't bother thinking, they say. We'll take care of that. We'll tell you what to think.
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And then they'll pat you on the head and give you a lollipop, send you on your way.
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catch me dressing well, is if it's just out of pure laziness. Okay, I want to start with this,
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because we were just talking about disinformation, and here's a great example of it. And this is
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disinformation, right? So that is incorrect information that's intentional. A judicial nominee
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named Nusrat Chowdhury was in front of the Senate committee yesterday, and I want you to listen to
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this exchange about one piece of alleged information that turned out not to be correct.
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But listen to this. This is a really simple question, Counselor. Do you believe that cops
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kill unarmed black men in America every single day? You said it at Princeton.
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Senator, I said it in my role as an advocate to make a rhetorical point.
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So when you say something that's incorrect, it's okay to excuse it by saying, oh, I was being an
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advocate? What do you believe? Do you personally believe that cops kill unarmed black men every
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single day in America? Senator, I believe law enforcement have an important and challenging
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job in this country. That's not what you said, though, Counselor.
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Senator, I say before you here today that I do believe law enforcement have a difficult
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and challenging job, and I also understand the difference between...
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I just think that's an extraordinary statement to make with no data to back up.
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None whatsoever. There's no basis for you saying that. And you knew it then and you know it now.
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How can one possibly believe that you're going to be unbiased on the federal bench?
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Senator, I believe my record shows that I have worked collaboratively with law enforcement in
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Boston, Chicago, Mississippi, and Milwaukee to solve complex problems to promote constitutional,
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Your record shows that you believe cops are guilty until proven innocent. Your record shows that if a cop,
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if a cop shoots a criminal, it's the cop's fault. And if a criminal shoots a cop,
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it's the gun's fault. I've read your record. I've read your record, Ms. Murrow. And I don't
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appreciate you not answering the question straight up. I would respect you a lot more if you'd just
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tell us what you believe and not try to hide it.
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Yeah, this is really perfect because it shows, again, that's disinformation. She claimed
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in the past that cops are shooting unarmed black men every single day in this country, which is not
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even within the ballpark of anything that resembles the truth. As we've gone over before, you look at the
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actual numbers of unarmed shootings of both black and white suspects. It very rarely happens. I think
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you could say that it almost never happens when compared to the number of interactions that law
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enforcement have and the number of arrests that they make. And then you take a percentage, how many
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result in the shooting of an unarmed person? It's like 0.00, a bunch of zeros, 1%.
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Extremely rare. And certainly not every day. And then even when you, if you were to just bear down
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and look at the unarmed shootings, you find that even a good portion of those are not actually unarmed
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because maybe somebody's in a car trying to run cops over. I think in no sense can we, if you've
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got a, you know, a, a, if you're driving your weapon, this big metal contraption, you're trying
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to like a battering ram drive right into someone. It's, it's hard to see how that would count as
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unarmed. So unarmed shootings are very, very rare. And then, um, a good portion of the actual unarmed
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shootings aren't actually unarmed as it turns out. And then even the ones where they're, where the,
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where the suspect actually has no weapon at all, even most of those shootings end up being justified
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because you'll find out that a lot of those cases, there's a, there's, you know, the suspects trying
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to take the weapon from the cop, that sort of thing, Michael Brown, that's what that was.
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And yet this judge said that this happens every single day. That's disinformation. And she admits
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that she admitted right there in that exchange that it was disinformation, though she didn't say the
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word, but she admitted it was disinformation because she admitted that she knew that was wrong.
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She didn't say, Oh, you know, I thought that, um, but I didn't look into it and I was just
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mistaken. That would be bad enough. But instead she says, I was just trying to make a rhetorical
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point. Um, translation. I knew it was wrong, but it was, it's a, it's a helpful talking point.
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And so I said it anyway, otherwise known as lying. Now the disinformation board for the department
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of Homeland security, is that the kind of disinformation that they're going to address?
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I mean, you would think if they were actually concerned about disinformation, especially
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harmful disinformation, it's hard for me to think of a type of disinformation that has done
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more harm to this country over the last five years than exactly that, that cops are out prowling
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about hunting down, um, unarmed black men and murdering them in cold blood. Like of all the,
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the, the disinformation that we encounter, it's hard for me to think of something that's been
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more harmful than that as it has led to countless riots, billions of dollars in damages, dozens
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of people dead, entire police stations burned to the ground, all on the strength of this
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disinformation, all fueled by this disinformation. But something tells me the disinformation board,
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they're not going to be concerned about that. Even though this is law enforcement,
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department of Homeland security, you'd think that they'd be concerned about disinformation
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against law enforcement, but no, they're not, they're not. Um, staying in the Biden administration,
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let's go all the way to the top, supposedly the top Biden himself. So we see these, you know,
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you see these every single day clips like this of Biden losing his mind. And it, it does, it just,
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it gets worse every time. And this is as bad as we've seen. Uh, but here it is. Listen.
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Of, uh, that will enhance our underlying effort to accommodate the Russian oligarchs, uh, and make
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sure we take their, take their, their ill-begotten gains. We're going to accommodate them. We're going
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to seize their yachts, their luxury homes and other ill-begotten gains of Putin's kleptocracy.
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Kleptocracy and the guys who are the kleptocracies,
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Oh my gosh. The guys who are the kleptocracies, kleptomaniacs, I think is the word he's going
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for. And, um, most people are focusing on that part of it, but also what is he talking
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about? We're going to accommodate them. That's not, that's not the words you're looking for.
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You're looking for the opposite of that. We're, we're going to accommodate the Russian oligarchs.
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I think you mean you're not going to accommodate them. I think that's what you're trying to say.
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Okay. He's, uh, the press, it's not just the president is losing his mind or his mind is
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deteriorating or anything like it's like he has lost his mind. He does not have one right now.
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He's fully senile and everyone in the whole world knows it, including our enemies. And this is what
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we're supposed to just live with for the next two years. Um, I also want to play this where you're
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kind of moving on, um, staying within democratic politics though. Ilhan Omar, and we've heard about
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Biden's plan, his Hail Mary pass, the Biden administration's, well, we can't talk about,
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first of all, we can't talk about Biden doing anything anymore. His plans, anything. I mean,
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he's got no, he's an empty vessel completely. Um, but the Biden administration anyway, is planning
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this Hail Mary pass right before the midterms to try to buy some votes because they're drowning in the
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polls. And so they're talking about, uh, student loan forgiveness. Here's Ilhan Omar outside the
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Capitol with some activists calling for that kind of forgiveness. We are here to tell the president
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that with the stroke of a pen, he can and should and must cancel student debt period. We have 45
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million people in this country who are shackled with student debt. You have to realize that
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45 million people who are putting off the opportunity to start that business they wanted
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to start. It is 45 million people who are putting off the opportunity to start the family they want
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to start. That is 45 million people. 45 million people. Now, even if that was all true, it does not
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address the main objection to so-called student loan forgiveness. Otherwise not a student loan
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transferal from the person who took out the loan and forcing people who didn't take out the loan to
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pay for it, but she doesn't begin to address the actual argument against it. Now, all she's talking
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about is how difficult it is to have the debt and how, how painful it is and all that. Like no one is,
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no one's arguing that point. It's not fun to have debt. No one's saying otherwise.
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Um, but she doesn't address the argument against it, which is that, okay, someone's going to be
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paying these loans off. And so either it is going to be the person who agreed to take out the loan
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and purchase the product and has the product they purchased with that loan, or you're going to
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force people who didn't take out the loan to pay for it. You're going to saddle it. Someone saddled
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with the burden. It's either them. It's either the person took out the loan, the person or people who
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didn't. The argument against student loan forgiveness is that people who didn't take out
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loans shouldn't have to pay them. Simple as that. You know, you don't have to go beyond it.
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Now, as it happens, what she said, what she actually said is also not true, by the way. She said 45
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million people have student loan debts and they're, you know, these are 45 million people putting off
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starting businesses and starting families and all the rest of it. Um, a great number of these people,
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probably most of them, in fact, are not putting off living. There's no reason why you should put
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off living your life because you have debt. Uh, my wife had student loan debt and we still got married
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and, um, I have been pet. I, as the person didn't go to college, I've been paying off my wife's student
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loans. Do you think I have fun doing that? You think I, you think I enjoy that? No, but she's my wife.
00:23:25.900
This is my family. I'm not going to go to anybody else and say, I, I, I would be ashamed as a man.
00:23:30.900
I would be ashamed as a man to go and try to enlist or, or even worse, force someone else to
00:23:38.740
take on my financial responsibilities. I wouldn't want to force anyone to take my financial
00:23:44.200
responsibilities, even less would I want to force anyone to take on my wife's financial
00:23:47.620
responsibilities. That's my, that's, that's for me. I'm the breadwinner in the family, so I will take
00:23:54.120
care of that. It's, it's disgraceful as a man, especially it's disgraceful to be sitting there
00:24:00.820
whining. Someone, I don't want to pay this off. Someone take care of it. Be a man. What is wrong
00:24:07.700
with you? Don't tell me that I can't do anything. Yes, you can. I mean, it's, I guarantee you one
00:24:16.240
thing, all these people will say, oh, because my student loan debts, I can't do this. I can't do
00:24:20.680
that. Um, how many streaming services are they subscribed to? I want to know that. How often do
00:24:26.340
they get the updated iPhone? And now you can still do pretty much anything you want to do,
00:24:31.440
even with the financial debt. It's just a matter of what are your priorities.
00:24:37.180
Um, one other political story here that I thought was interesting. This is from the
00:24:40.600
Washington Free Beacon says Arizona's democratic Senator Kristen Sinema likes to brag that her
00:24:45.280
cleavage has an extraordinary persuasive effect on some of her Republican colleagues. According to a
00:24:50.380
new book from New York times reporters, Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns Sinema, um, who has emerged as
00:24:56.080
an obstacle to the most radical parts of president Joe Biden's legislative agenda, boasts to colleagues
00:25:00.120
and aides of using her looks to get her way with Republicans. Sinema, uh, they say joked with
00:25:06.220
Democrats about how easy it was for her to charm Republican men and boasted knowingly to colleagues
00:25:11.800
and aides that her cleavage had an extraordinary persuasive effect on the uptight men of the GOP.
00:25:16.200
Now I read this and, um, I'm not exactly sure how this is breaking news or news at all,
00:25:24.100
but I did take note of one thing that's kind of interesting. I note how her cleavage apparently has no
00:25:32.880
impact at all on Democrat men. What does that imply? I wonder. No, you've got Cory Booker there saying
00:25:40.980
you, you have no power here, woman. Um, I mean, it could imply that they just take their jobs a lot more
00:25:46.940
seriously or, you know, something else. Different tastes, I guess. Uh, let's play a game here. This
00:25:55.640
is a game called owned and not owned. So first here's a viral clip when, when real viral yesterday.
00:26:00.820
And, um, once again, the left is claiming that Ben Shapiro was owned and destroyed and exposed during a
00:26:10.740
Q and a by, uh, with a college student. And we heard about this a couple of weeks ago, Ben Shapiro was
00:26:18.100
trending again. And, and, uh, and the claim was that he had been owned and destroyed. And we played
00:26:22.680
that clip and it really kind of came up short. Media matters hall monitor, Jason Campbell posted this
00:26:28.020
clip and, um, said, this is absolutely amazing. You have to watch it in two minutes. All of Ben
00:26:34.920
Shapiro's anti-woke tirades are just destroyed. And like I said, this went really viral. And this is
00:26:41.680
the, the, the left seems to be the, um, pretty wide agreement that Ben Shapiro was totally destroyed
00:26:49.580
by this. Let's listen and, uh, see how that destruction sounded. So if the idea is that history
00:26:57.460
has consequences, of course, that's true. That's not, that is not wokeness. What wokeness suggests
00:27:01.900
is that fundamental institutions in American society. No, it doesn't. Yes. I ran, I ran
00:27:08.180
Elizabeth Warren's campaign. I helped organize her volunteers around here. I am, I am a representative
00:27:17.920
of wokeness. And that's just, this is all it is. Well, I mean, like, I mean, I, I, you know,
00:27:25.540
when I went to go get my first tattoo, the guy had lightning bolts and 88s tattooed on his neck.
00:27:33.400
And as a Jewish person, that's really messed up. It's basically a threat. There are, there are racist
00:27:39.260
people who exist. The argument that you're making, and I'm going to close with this because this is
00:27:42.720
going in weird directions and I don't really want to, I don't, I don't really want to, just hold up a
00:27:47.140
second. I let you, I let you get out your arguments. Now it's time for me to respond because I let you
00:27:50.600
say the full argument. Okay, I'll let you respond, but. No, no, no, not but. Now's my turn. You, you are
00:27:55.840
not characterizing what I'm saying accurately. Now, now it's, now it's my turn. Your, your, your definition
00:28:01.500
is inaccurate. The reason your definition is inaccurate is because any sentient human being
00:28:05.340
would acknowledge that history has consequences. Right. But if the idea is, but that's not what wokeism is.
00:28:09.740
Wokeism is a different thing. Wokeism suggests that all inequalities of today are attributable
00:28:14.640
to not only historic injustices, but also continuing injustices in the now. And that
00:28:19.520
all disparities are attributable to discrimination. Not just that, not just that. A conservative is the
00:28:23.920
only person. Not just that. I want to know why. Why is it that conservative? I know I, I would let that
00:28:30.960
keep playing, but there's, that's it. That's the whole, that's the whole clip. Now I know you might say,
00:28:35.260
say that I'm, I'm biased and, uh, I kind of have to defend Ben. I don't have to. Now it's true that
00:28:42.420
if he actually was totally destroyed by a college student, um, I probably wouldn't play it on the
00:28:48.620
show. That is true, but then I just wouldn't play it. I wouldn't, I just would not acknowledge it at
00:28:53.000
all probably. Um, but I'm, you know, when, when it would be impressive. So anytime I see one of these
00:29:00.520
things trend, uh, college student destroys Ben Shapiro, I, I always watch cause I'm, I'm like,
00:29:04.780
okay, well, let's see if he actually does it. Cause that would be impressive.
00:29:07.900
And there's just nothing there is he was just, he destroyed Ben Shapiro by pointing out
00:29:14.160
that he met a tattoo artist with an offensive tattoo and he worked on Elizabeth Warren's campaign.
00:29:20.880
What? First of all, how are either, especially the, the, the second thing working at Elizabeth
00:29:26.280
Warren's campaign, how is that something to brag about in the first place? I think you actually
00:29:29.580
lose the argument from the get-go by pointing that out, but I don't even know what that's
00:29:34.600
supposed to prove exactly. There's no, there was no, there was no argument presented, nothing at all.
00:29:41.960
And there wasn't even an argument presented by Ben Shapiro because he didn't get a chance to speak
00:29:45.120
because he kept getting cut off. And this is, this is the point is that the guy, the kid
00:29:52.460
was able to successfully prevent Ben Shapiro from making a point by filibustering and talking over
00:30:00.020
him. And on the left now, that's what they consider owning and destroying. They're not even pretending
00:30:06.860
anymore that they're going to present arguments and defeat you, you know, on the battlefield of
00:30:12.600
ideas that way by presenting better ideas and defending them. They're not even pretending it.
00:30:16.860
What they're going to do instead is just stop you from talking. And if they can do that,
00:30:22.780
then you've been obliterated. So that was supposed to be owning. That was not. Here's what owning
00:30:30.220
sounds like. This is Democrat representative Jeffries at a different committee hearing. I want
00:30:36.880
you to just, we don't need a lot of setup here. I just want you to listen to this exchange. Listen.
00:30:41.180
Mr. Powell, you've echoed a similar sentiment. I think your quote is many on the left hate Justice
00:30:49.300
Thomas because he is a black conservative who has never bowed to those who demand that he must think
00:30:54.960
a certain way because of the color of his skin. What evidence do you have to support that incendiary
00:31:01.020
charge? When Chairman Benny Thompson calls him an Uncle Tom because of his views on voter ID and
00:31:10.400
affirmative action when in fact more black Americans support voter ID and with respect to affirmative
00:31:17.040
action in college education, they're 62% opposed to it. So, so that is the most vile, disgusting thing
00:31:23.120
you can say. And, and, and so, yes, that's, that's the evidence. Reclaiming my time. Yes. There are a lot
00:31:29.740
of vile, disgusting things that can be said. Well, you just asked me for an example. The notion that that is,
00:31:34.600
right, when some members on this side of the aisle and others have been called the N-word throughout
00:31:39.880
different points of our life belies the point that you have a particular bias. And it's an
00:31:46.380
overstatement, which is not surprising when you look at the balance of your testimony. And if
00:31:50.700
Chairman Benny Thompson has an observation to make, he's entitled to free speech. You apparently
00:31:56.240
believe that Jenny Thomas, regardless of how many conflicts she has, is entitled to her own political
00:32:02.140
opinions, uh, as well. Uh, can I give you another example? No, no, you can't, you can't. Okay. That's
00:32:13.020
what destroying somebody actually sounds like. Um, that's, that's what it is. Jeffrey says, can you
00:32:20.380
give one example? This, this terrible, terrible charge that people, Democrats have been racist against,
00:32:27.780
uh, justice Thomas, give us one example of this. Okay. Well, um, here's the guy who called him an
00:32:33.160
uncle Tom. Well, uh, yeah, but that's, uh, people have said worse things and free speech. And okay,
00:32:38.440
well, I'll give you another example. No, no, no. We'll just stop there. That's, uh, it's a total
00:32:44.800
humiliation, you know, and that's, and this is one thing I'm not a lawyer, but, um, one thing I have
00:32:50.140
learned just from watching the lawyer shows is that, uh, and I think it's something you could probably
00:32:54.720
take with you in, in life, especially in debates is never ask a question that you don't know the
00:33:00.480
answer to. Um, especially in a situation like this, that's it as a lawyer in court, also in a debate.
00:33:07.680
You don't want to pose a question to somebody that you don't already know the answer to it. In this
00:33:11.560
case, he didn't, he didn't know the answer and he was completely embarrassed. I mean, he's embarrassed
00:33:15.920
by any objective standard, but of course, as a Democrat, it's really just doesn't matter at all.
00:33:19.780
Um, one last thing is from pink news. Lesbian visibility week founder, Linda Riley has slammed
00:33:26.600
JK Rowling as the perfect example of how not to be an ally. Lesbian visibility week, which celebrates
00:33:32.720
lesbians and honors all queer women and non-binary folk within the LGBTQ community began on Monday.
00:33:39.560
Um, but, uh, so happy lesbian visibility week. I don't know. I forgot. I totally forgot to mention it.
00:33:44.140
Um, and I think actually, in fact, the fact that, um, during lesbian visibility week,
00:33:51.100
the number one book in the country is an LGBT children's book, I think is just, um, phenomenal.
00:33:56.240
It's fantastic. But JK Rowling decided to mark the occasion by saluting the resilience and courage
00:34:01.300
of her inspirational friend, LGB Alliance co-founder, Alison Bailey, ballot, Bailey, a lawyer is
00:34:06.760
currently suing LGBT rights charity Stonewall and her former employer garden court chambers for
00:34:11.220
discrimination. And, um, anyway, then the bunch of leftists came after JK Rowling for speaking out
00:34:17.560
about lesbian visibility week. Now here's the kind of funny thing about this is that, um, of course,
00:34:22.480
in reality, all of these various, as we went over back when it was trying, it was trans visibility
00:34:29.100
week. That was just two weeks ago. And I went over, it's like really a partial list of all the days
00:34:34.880
and weeks set aside on the calendar to celebrate LGBT people. And there are just dozens and dozens.
00:34:40.000
And it's all completely silly and ridiculous. Um, they're really, you shouldn't require any day
00:34:46.840
on the calendar, not even one to celebrate your sexuality. And it's a very weird thing in general
00:34:53.160
to have days like that, celebrating that aspect of, uh, of somebody. But as it happens, you know, um,
00:35:01.320
actually as much as the left likes to claim that they're being erased, you're erasing me.
00:35:07.380
Lesbians actually are the category of lesbian is in fact, in reality being erased. And if you,
00:35:17.100
if you follow the demographic trends in another 30, 40 years, they're, that just won't exist anymore.
00:35:23.520
And you look at the younger generations, Gen Z and millennials, um, while LGBT identification has
00:35:31.900
skyrocketed and trans identification has skyrocketed, lesbian identification has fallen off of a cliff.
00:35:37.100
And why is that? Well, it's because, um, every girl, every woman who in the past would have
00:35:47.480
identified themselves as a lesbian. Now they're being told that, Oh no, no, no, you're actually a
00:35:51.800
man. You're not a lesbian. You're actually a, not only a man, you're a straight man. It turns out.
00:35:57.420
So this is, if you want to talk about conversion therapy,
00:36:00.480
this is the, really the only kind of conversion therapy that goes on.
00:36:03.360
You know, on top of the most insidious form, which is in general, the way that kids are
00:36:09.620
recruited into the, um, LGBT fold, but here's conversion therapy. Essentially what the left
00:36:15.200
is doing is they're taking lesbian women and they are converting them into straight men or trying to
00:36:20.580
anyway. So that's what's happened. Let's get now to the comment section.
00:36:25.840
Populist Puerto Rican says, I agree with everything you said about the college treadmill. We really
00:36:47.480
need to start bringing back vocational schools and help kids get apprenticeships. Let them figure out
00:36:52.480
what they like in high school. And if they want to go on to higher learning, great. If not,
00:36:56.300
they'll at least have a solid foundation with which to start their lives. Yes. This is one of
00:37:00.800
the solutions to the college debt crisis. There is no real solution that's going to erase the past
00:37:06.780
because this is one of the harshest lessons of life is that you cannot undo what has been done in
00:37:12.160
the past. You can't really undo it. All you, all you can try to do is shirk your responsibilities
00:37:16.020
and pass the buck onto somebody else, which you shouldn't do. Um, but going forward, this is a
00:37:20.860
solution to college debt crisis, which is to stop setting all these kids into, into college.
00:37:24.720
And this is one alternative vocational schools, apprenticeships, that sort of thing.
00:37:30.440
But really, uh, right out of high school, like it's just almost no kids right out of high school
00:37:40.420
should be going to college. Almost none, even out of all, out of all the kids, like almost all the
00:37:44.800
kids who are in college right now shouldn't should actually should not be there. Only a small minority
00:37:47.900
should actually be there. And of that minority, only a small minority of that minority should go
00:37:53.380
right out of high school because even most of them would benefit from just taking a couple of years.
00:37:58.840
There's just no reason to do it. Of course, we know why the universities want to encourage that
00:38:04.580
because they, there's a financial motive there and they don't want, I mean, just think about this.
00:38:08.600
Why don't the universities want your, your child to graduate high school and then go do something
00:38:15.560
else for a couple of years and then go to college? Why don't they want that? Because they're afraid
00:38:18.480
that if you go and you do that, you might discover that you don't need to go to college at all. They
00:38:21.880
don't want you to discover that. There's no advantage that I can see really at all to going
00:38:28.820
to college right out of high school. There's no reason to do it. Who, what is it? A race? Who are you
00:38:32.140
racing? You got your whole life in front of you. So take a couple of years. You're still, you're still
00:38:39.100
young. Like there's, there's really nothing bad that can happen out of going to college when you're
00:38:42.940
21, God forbid, or 22. You go at any time. I could still go to college if I wanted to,
00:38:49.400
which at this point, if I did, it would only be just because it's funny.
00:38:54.060
Maybe that's my, maybe that's my next act of trolling is to go to college. Um, let's see.
00:39:02.540
Rachel says, what do you think of the Lily Peters story? Should, should the boy be charged as an
00:39:06.500
adult? Um, I have not read very much into this story mainly because it's so horrifying that it's,
00:39:12.820
uh, the kind of story that's just difficult to read. Uh, but from what I understand about this
00:39:17.900
story, Lily Peters is a 10 year old girl who was murdered. Um, and as it turns out, she was
00:39:23.220
strangled and sexually assaulted in the woods. Um, and then it, it turns out that a 14 year old boy
00:39:31.080
is guilty of this crime and is being charged as an adult. So I guess that's the debate is should
00:39:36.820
you charge 14 year old boys as adults? And what I would say to that is, um, in the vast majority of
00:39:44.520
cases, no, you shouldn't charge 14 year olds as adults because they're 14. But in a case like this,
00:39:50.280
yeah, absolutely. Uh, because this is just, if you're already at this point as a 14 year old,
00:39:59.640
society can never trust you again. You could never be trusted in society ever again.
00:40:06.860
There are things that a 14 year old can do, not many, but there are things a 14 year old can do
00:40:11.720
that I think just tragically on so many levels disqualify them from ever participating in human
00:40:18.620
society ever again. And this is one of those things. Um, E King says as an Amazon employee,
00:40:26.260
myself, seeing the book at work was the highlight of my day. Doesn't really say a lot, but for what
00:40:31.480
it's worth, uh, you know, I have heard some, some, uh, you know, there certainly are people within
00:40:37.800
Amazon and that's how we got a hold of these video clips in the first place who are still on
00:40:42.740
team sanity. And I, and I appreciate that. Uh, let's say another comment says talking about
00:40:50.240
Megan Fox. She says, she says that her son wears dresses like he chooses them, but I highly doubt
00:40:55.780
he picked them out himself from the store who bought him the dresses, Megan. No one buys their
00:41:01.180
son a dress unless they want him to wear a dress, which to me says she's a groomer. Uh, yes, absolutely.
00:41:07.180
That's, that's the thing. That's why, that's why I say it's one of the reasons why I say there's no,
00:41:13.600
there's really no such thing as a six year old trans kid or a six year old who chooses to be
00:41:19.160
non-binary or whatever, because that's not on so many levels. That's not a choice a child can make.
00:41:23.960
And especially they can't go out if they have female clothing is because you went out and bought
00:41:29.000
it for them, which apparently Megan Fox did at a very young age. But remember, remember she only did
00:41:35.040
this because she sensed when her child was in the womb that, uh, that he was going to be non-binary.
00:41:40.720
She sensed it. I mean, usually we're told from the left that children in the womb are not even human
00:41:47.780
unless they're non-binary or trans, in which case they are. I guess that's the one loophole.
00:41:53.680
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So today we're going to once again pick on a fellow YouTuber who is in dire need of a good
00:43:41.720
old-fashioned debunking. The channel is called Powered by Rainbows, so that should give you some
00:43:47.080
idea of what we're getting ourselves into. Powered by Rainbows provides, we're told in the channel
00:43:51.960
description, Weekly LGBTQ Education. The guy in the video we're going to watch wears a rainbow
00:43:57.640
tie-dye shirt with the words Professor Pride on it. Now I don't think that's his official academic
00:44:02.280
title though. I wouldn't be surprised if universities are actually giving out those kinds of professorships,
00:44:06.120
I don't know. The particular video we're interested in today is about the alleged
00:44:10.040
science of being transgender, as it says in the title. Now this has been viewed half a million times,
00:44:14.120
has 7,000 comments, most of them from people who say that the content was very encouraging and
00:44:18.520
validating for them. That's not a good thing because the content is also, as we'll see,
00:44:23.080
completely misleading, dishonest, absurd, and since it's validating and affirming people in
00:44:26.920
falsehood and delusion, extremely harmful. The whole video is 23 minutes long. I'm not going to force you
00:44:31.880
to sit through all that. Instead, we'll take about five minutes of this, the crux of the whole thing,
00:44:38.280
which purports to offer scientific proof beyond any shadow of a doubt that transgenderism is
00:44:43.480
scientifically valid. We'll take that. We'll watch and we'll react. Let's dive right in.
00:44:49.320
The thing you have to understand about transphobic people is their entire argument all boils down to
00:44:55.720
one thing, science. No matter what argument a transphobic person might call out in the middle
00:45:01.560
of their hatred, the keystone of that argument seems to be on a scientific basis. If you're not
00:45:07.960
familiar with the word keystone, it's a term used in architecture to describe the central stone at
00:45:13.960
the summit or the top of an archway, locking the whole arch together. Now, if only there was a way
00:45:20.360
for us to remove that keystone and scientifically prove their cornerstone invalid, then every single
00:45:27.560
one of their arguments fall apart as a result. And at this point, I think you know where I'm heading
00:45:32.840
with this episode, because luckily for us, science proves that being transgender is completely valid.
00:45:40.440
So let's explain how we know this. Hmm. Now, one of the reasons that I'm responding to this video is
00:45:45.960
that in these five minutes we're going to sort through, nearly every incoherent and fallacious
00:45:50.360
and fraudulent aspect of gender ideology is put on display. We see it already in how Professor Pride
00:45:55.000
has set all this up. In the world he presents, there are only two categories of people, even though he
00:46:00.040
would say that he believes in a non-binary system. He actually believes in a binary system.
00:46:04.520
But the two categories of people are those who agree with him on the topic of sex and transphobic
00:46:09.480
people. That's it. Now, he's right at least that the opposing point of view does all come down to
00:46:15.000
science. There are other elements to it also. Gender ideology is not just factually and scientifically
00:46:19.240
wrong, but also morally abominable as well. But the moral problems all stem from the falsehood of the
00:46:25.080
ideology. And so, it does begin with the science. If you can disprove our scientific argument that
00:46:30.120
men have penises and women have vaginas, then yes, you will have destroyed our whole position. You will
00:46:34.760
have leveled our fortress with a barrage of facts and logic. We'll be exposed and utterly defenseless.
00:46:43.080
So, let's see if Professor Pride can do just that.
00:46:47.640
The most common argument that transphobic people will make is that you were assigned the gender at birth
00:46:57.640
Okay. It's a little bit of a stop and start here. We have to stop it already because
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Professor Pride packed more falsehoods into those five seconds than I thought was physically possible.
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He's sticking with calling us all transphobes, which is false, but I'm not going to point it out
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every time he does it because that's all I would be doing since it's all he does.
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And then he says that our most common argument is, quoting him, who allegedly is quoting us,
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you were assigned the gender at birth, which you were always meant to be.
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No part of that is true. That's not even remotely the argument we make. None of us are saying that.
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We do not believe that male and female are assigned at birth.
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No mere mortal assigns sex at all. And the assigning process, if you want to call it that,
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happens at conception, not birth. Also, notice how I'm using the word sex here, not gender. That's
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because I reject the category of gender altogether. Humans have a sex, male or female.
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Gender is a nonsensical, arbitrary category invented by pedophile sexologists in the 1960s.
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So if you want to engage with what you call the transphobic argument, you would need to begin by
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defending the invention of the gender category for human beings in the first place. Instead,
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Professor Pride just assumes that the pedophile sexologists were correct, takes that all for
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granted and charges forward. This makes everything that comes after this point totally irrelevant,
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because you cannot assume that we have a shared fundamental premise here. We don't.
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It's the fundamental premise that we're fighting about. If you aren't going to defend that,
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and you're going to base your whole argument on a premise that you haven't attempted to defend,
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then you've already lost. But let's keep listening anyway.
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As accredited psychiatrist Moret Altenay reports, we know that after a father's sperm cell fertilizes an
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egg in the mother's womb, that embryo starts to develop specialized genitalia resembling male or
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female. Which genitalia it develops is determined by the father's sperm cell. But, quote, the brain and
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the body can go in different directions. Gender is not only in our genitalia, there is something in
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the brain that determines gender. So, technically speaking, this argument saying you were born with
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the gender you were meant to be is correct, because your brain was born the way it is, and your brain
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doesn't switch out with someone else's. But gender is not determined by having a penis or a vagina
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downstairs. It's determined in your brain. Now, notice what he's done here. It's the same
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thing that gender ideologues always do. Though these people claim that sex and gender are two
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different things, he conflates them whenever it suits his argument. Here he says that gender is
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determined by both your genitals and your brain. You'll note how he never says the word sex at all
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at any point in the argument he's presenting. But if gender, and by that he means sex even if he doesn't
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say it, is determined by both your genitals and your brain, then why would a man who is male in his
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genitals, but female in his brain allegedly, be a female? I mean, if you've proven anything there,
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and you haven't proven a damn thing, of course, at all, but even if you did, this is an argument,
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I suppose, for non-binary, for people who are in between or both or whatever. It's not an argument
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for women with penises. Of course, he's actually right that gender, read sex, is determined in your
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brain as well. I mean, your brain is part of the picture. That's because your brain is part of your
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body. And if you are a man, then your whole body is male, every part of it, every cell.
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A man with a male body automatically has a male brain because the brain is part of the body,
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and it makes no logical sense whatsoever to say that part of a man's body is actually a woman.
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To speak of a woman's brain in a man's body is exactly the same as speaking of a woman's arm on a
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man's body. Now, some men, especially liberal men, may have what appear to be women's arms,
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but in fact, if they're men, then their arms are men's arms, automatically, despite appearances.
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The same is true of brains. Indeed, the very definition of the term man's brain would have
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to be the brain which exists inside a man's head. That's the only thing a man's brain is.
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Now, Professor Pride's argument is logically invalid in about 75 different ways so far as we've seen,
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but let's go for 76. Because here he's going to tell us about a scientific study which proved,
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he says, that transgenderism is valid. Now, he never bothers to explain what he means by valid,
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but, you know, we can only focus on so many fallacies at a time here, so let's listen.
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In this study, the 2,600 participants were put in MRI machines to scan their brains and record
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brain activity. The researchers also had cisgender men and cisgender women go through the same test,
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and finally, researchers compared the scans. On the left side of your screen, you can see the
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brain activity of a cisgender male adult. On the right side of your screen, you can see the brain
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activity of a transgender male adult. But you'll notice, they look nearly identical. And that's
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something researchers found in every single case out of the 2,600 participants. Their study concluded
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that transgender males have brain activity almost identical with cisgender males, and wildly different
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from the brain activity from cisgender females, even though they were assigned female at birth
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of their genitalia. They also determined that transgender females have brain activity almost identical
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with cisgender females, and massively different from the brain activity from cisgender males,
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even though they were born male at birth with their genitals. In other words, the brain is 100%
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backing the hypothesis that your gender is identified in your brain, not your genitalia. And it proves,
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beyond a shadow of a doubt, that being transgender is completely valid according to science.
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Okay, where to begin? Let's try to break this down. He does go on to mention one other similar study
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that did the same sort of thing and had similar results, he claims. And that's it. Two studies
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comparing brain scans. These studies prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that transgenderism is valid,
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whatever that's supposed to mean, according to science. He also says that the brain scans were nearly
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identical between trans people and the sex they identify as, and that this, again, proves absolutely,
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without question, that he's right about everything. Though he does, at the end, say this. Listen.
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The limitations of these studies are endless. As Dr. Altenay says, some of the brain scans show
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people are somewhere between, sharing characteristics of both male and female brain scans. And this
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scientifically proves that gender exists on a spectrum.
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Wait, what? I thought you just said the studies proved your point beyond a shadow of a doubt. Now
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you're admitting the studies had endless limitations? And I thought you said the brain
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scans were identical. Now you say that some of the brain scans weren't identical, but were somewhere
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in between? Which is it? I don't answer that. I know the answer. The study said whatever you need
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them to have said in order to prove whatever point you're currently trying to make. This is how the
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gender ideologues approach literally everything, including life itself. The truth is whatever they
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needed to be in any given moment is as simple as that. And what about these studies? He says they
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looked at brain activity. What sort of brain activity? Which activities? The human brain can do like 10,000
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trillion calculations a second. The brain's doing a whole lot of activities all the time. Saying that
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the brain activity between two people is the same means almost nothing. Or else it means that the two
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people are, what, identical clones of each other created in a laboratory somewhere? No, what Professor
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Pride means is that if you take a scan which examines a small limited subset of some brain activity and
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you compare a, quote, trans woman to a, quote, cis woman, the scan will look similar sometimes but not
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always. Okay, and? Notice how he put up on the screen an alleged example of a scan of a, quote, trans woman
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and a, quote, cis woman, and then gives his audience, few of whom are neurologists, presumably, about 12
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seconds to analyze them and come to the conclusion that, Eureka, they look kind of the same. Of course,
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nobody knows what they're looking at or what it means and he also didn't let us see the control
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group. The scan from this trans woman, quote, unquote, and this, quote, cis woman are similar but
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what about a scan of a man who doesn't identify as a woman? How similar would that look? I'm betting it
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would be pretty close as well. Indeed, I'm betting that the MRI scans of nearly every human brain on
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earth would look pretty similar to most people, especially if you don't know what you're looking
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at or how to read the scans. What does any of this prove? Well, nothing at all. The most it could
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possibly prove, and I'm skeptical it even proves this, is that some elements of the brain's activity
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in a man who desires to be a woman will mirror to a limited extent the activity of a woman who
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actually is a woman. Now, this, if true, is not surprising and in no way even begins to invalidate
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the claim that men are not women, at most, I mean at the absolute most, it would be a somewhat
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interesting insight into the powerful psychological placebo effect that occurs when a man who wants to
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be a woman is validated as a woman. It can't get within spitting distance of proving what Professor
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Pride wants it to prove. And I've said all this so far and somehow I haven't even made the most
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important point, which is this. He says that a man's female identity is valid
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if the man's brain scan looks similar to a female's. But what if it doesn't?
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If a transgender went in for a brain scan and you found that his scan looks more like his biological
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sex, would you then tell him that he's not really a woman and his trans identity is invalid?
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No, you wouldn't. You certainly wouldn't. Because all of this is irrelevant to my argument and also
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to your own. So, in summary, your argument is false, self-contradictory, built on a false premise,
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misleading, cherry-picked, and totally irrelevant to the claim that you're actually trying to defend.
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Otherwise, great stuff. Also, Professor Pride, you're canceled. And we'll leave it there for today.
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Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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