Ep. 994 - When Parents Lose Custody For Refusing To Trans Their Kids
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The trans cult has a powerful ally in the courts, and more and more we re seeing courts take custody away from parents who will not affirm their children as trans. Also, Joe Biden continues his transition into a ventriloquist dummy, we re starting to see some early primary polling data, and it s a hilarious disaster for the Democrats.
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Today on the Matt Walsh show, the trans cult has a powerful ally in the courts, and more and more
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we're seeing courts take custody away from parents who will not affirm their children as trans. Today
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we'll talk about one especially harrowing and tragic example of this. Also, Joe Biden continues
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his transition into a ventriloquist dummy. We're starting to see some early primary polling data,
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and it's a hilarious disaster for the Democrats. Pete Buttigieg says his feelings are hurt,
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that not everyone agrees with his definition of marriage. CNN claims that Biden can save
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all life on earth with an executive order, and in our daily cancellation, Kamala Harris unveils the
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We know that the trans agenda is anti-truth, anti-reality, anti-science, but that alone is not
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what makes it so harmful. I mean, flat earthers are also anti-reality, and yet we don't spend a lot
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of time worrying that our kids will get sucked into that cult. What makes the trans agenda so
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dangerous and destructive is that the truths it militates against are the most basic truths of all.
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It seeks to warp a person's understanding of themselves, of their own identity. I mean,
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it's one thing to have wild misconceptions about the shape of the earth. It's another to have wild
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misconceptions about yourself, your body, your identity, your place in the world. But the trans
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cult does something else too, which many other cults before it have done, though none with anywhere near
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this level of success. It attacks and destabilizes the family. One of the many truths that it opposes is
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the truth of the nuclear family. It hates the family because that institution, the family,
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attests so powerfully to the true nature of the human person and of the two sexes.
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It also hates the family because children raised in stable families, protected and guided by parents
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in a loving and sturdy marriage, are much more difficult to reach and indoctrinate.
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They're not impervious. They're not impervious to brainwashing, but they are significantly shielded
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against it. A family provides a child with an anchor. He is secured, he's sheltered, protected.
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The groomers then have to take away this anchor, blow up the family, leaving kids unmoored and
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unprotected, vulnerable, like a baby deer wandering through the forest, easy prey for the wolves.
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This is why the groomer spent so much time and so much effort trying desperately to place this wedge
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in between the child and the parent. This is why we hear about so many schools that have policies of
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intentionally hiding a student's LGBT self-identification from parents. And even after
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all the backlash and outrage over these sorts of policies, still many teachers continue to engage
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in this kind of predatory behavior and brag about it openly. Here's just the latest example from this week.
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If you as a teacher have a student come to you and tell you that they are gay, part of the LGBTQ
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community, whether they are looking into transitioning, anything like that, but they don't want their
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parents to know yet. The question on the news was, as a teacher, is it your responsibility or as a school,
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is it your responsibility to inform the parents of what their child is going through?
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On the news, they all said, yes, it is the schools, the teachers, the counselors, due diligence to let
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these parents know what the kids are going through. As a teacher, I disagree. I did have a student come and
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tell me this last year that she was gay. She did not want her mom to know, and I respected her wishes.
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Now that teacher, like so many others, wants to have intimate knowledge of a child that the child's parents
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do not have. This is a classic cult tactic. It's right from the cult handbook. The recruiter of the cult
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seeks to form a bond with the recruit that supersedes any bond they have with anybody else, including and
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especially family members. Take that crowbar and pry the child away from the parent. That's the idea.
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And increasingly, the prying is taking more aggressive and invasive forms, often involving
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the courts acting as the crowbar. In my film, What is a Woman?, we heard the story, of course,
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of a father in Canada who was sent to jail and lost custody of his daughter because he wouldn't affirm
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her as a boy. For simply insisting that his daughter is his daughter, that she is his daughter and not
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his son, that the girl he helped conceive and raise still exists, he lost everything.
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This sort of thing happens frequently in Canada and will become even more frequent with the recent
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passage of an anti-conversion therapy law, so-called, which declares it an illegal form of conversion
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therapy for anyone, including parents, to refuse to use biologically incorrect pronouns for a child.
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If you do that, if you call a girl she, and she wants to be called he, then you are now engaging in
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conversion therapy. It's against the law. Your criminal will put you in jail and take your kids
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away. But it's also starting to happen in the U.S. Now, there have already been well-known cases like
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the Jeff Younger case that you've probably heard about. Even before that, there were cases like
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one in Ohio, for example, where two parents, in this case, there are two parents still married,
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lost custody of their daughter because they refused to allow her to medically transition into a boy.
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The judge legally kidnapped the girl and gave custody to the grandparents that she,
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Judge Sylvia Hendon, trusted would facilitate the child's drugging and mutilation. Now, that happened
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back in 2018. And it's only going to become more common now as time continues, which means we're
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going to see more and more stories like that of Jeanette Cooper. Now, Jeanette Cooper is a 44-year-old
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woman whose tragic tale was highlighted this week by journalist Kelsey Bollard of the Independent
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Women's Forum. On the IWF website, she tells the story of how Cooper, who's the mother to a 12-year-old
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girl, also, by the way, a lifelong progressive Democrat, by no means is this like a conservative
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with an ax to grind ideologically. It's a progressive Democrat woman and mother,
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lost custody of her daughter because, unlike her ex-husband, she wouldn't affirm her daughter's
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deluded idea that she was really a boy. Reading now from the article says,
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Jeanette Cooper never imagined she'd lose custody of her child. The 44-year-old lifelong educator
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always considered herself a loving and responsible mother to her daughter, Sophia.
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But when, at age 12, Sophia suddenly claimed to be transgender, Jeanette was skeptical.
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Sophia had never exhibited signs of gender dysphoria. In fact, Sophia exhibited many more
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traditionally feminine behaviors and preferences than Jeanette ever had. To Jeanette, it didn't
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make sense. But Sophia insisted not only that she was trans, but that she was unsafe around Jeanette.
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What followed was an almost Kafka-esque series of court proceedings and therapy sessions in which
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Jeanette's ex-husband, lawyers, therapists, and other individuals and institutions supposedly
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concerned with Sophia's best interests worked to erode Jeanette's most basic parenting rights.
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Nearly three years later, Jeanette can't even visit with the daughter she loves. She lives less than 10
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minutes away, but can only communicate with Sophia by U.S. mail. All because she insists that Sophia
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is a girl. Now, from here, we're told the whole story about how Jeanette and her husband divorced in
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2015. Now, at first, Jeanette was, as very often happens, was awarded almost full custody of her
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daughter. She had her daughter six days a week. But then one day, at the age of 12, her daughter goes for
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a visit to her father's, who, by the way, had recently remarried and was now married to a
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psychotherapist. And she goes for the visit and never returns. The girl announced out of nowhere
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that she was trans and couldn't live with her mother anymore because her mother's disagreement
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with trans ideology made her feel unsafe. Now, Jeanette suspects, and with good reason, I'm guessing,
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that the girl's psychotherapist stepmom has a lot to do with her daughter's discovery of her male
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identity. There's probably something to that theory, but also, I'm sure she picked it up from
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school. She picked it up from social media. We've heard this story over and over and over again.
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So many parents with this exact story. Most of the time, they're adolescent girls, but not always.
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Girls, perfectly fine. No signs of gender dysphoria at all. No indication ever at any point in her life
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that she was confused about her gender. And then one day out of nowhere, just like that,
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Now, in this case, the court ordered an investigation of Jeanette to find out if her daughter was actually
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unsafe around her because that's what the daughter said. So they ordered an investigation,
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took seven months investigating this mother, and found no abuse, no neglect. But they did decide
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that Jeanette needs to, quote, further her understanding of and support of the minor child
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as relates to the minor child's gender dysphoria. Translation, she's not on board with the trans
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agenda, and so she can't see her daughter anymore. And she hasn't. She hasn't had any physical contact
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with her child for the past three years. Now, eventually, and this is where it gets even more
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sinister, if that's possible. Eventually, she was forced to negotiate a deal, right? And here was
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the deal that she was given by the court. In exchange for giving up any legal right to see her daughter
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again, she was assured in writing that her daughter would not undergo a medical transition without her
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permission or a court order. Okay, so this is the deal with the devil that parents are now forced to
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make. Give up your rights to your daughter or we will mutilate her. We will cut her to pieces if you
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don't give up your rights to her. Imagine being a parent and having to face that decision. And so she
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says, well, I guess I have no choice. I'm never going to see my daughter again. But at least she won't
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be mutilated. But the thing is, you know, part of the deal here is that even if you agree with a court
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order, we can still mutilate her. And we know how easy it is to get the court order. Jeanette points
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out correctly that murderers in prison now have more communication and contact with their children than
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she does. That kind of makes sense in a certain way, because as far as the system is concerned, she's worse
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than a murderer. I mean, she's a transphobe. That's the cardinal sin. There's an interview on YouTube
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that Jeanette did with the Independent Women's Forum worth watching. She explains why she rejects
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the idea that she should simply have, you know, relented and allowed her daughter to take the lead
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and do whatever she wants. Here's what she says about that. And what I have been told is to follow
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her lead, to follow her in this journey. I am not willing to do that. I don't think that is good
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parenting. It's my responsibility not to hook my boat to hers. It is my responsibility to be a lighthouse,
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to be something stable that she can see, some guide that she has that will always be there, that is
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consistent. I still do that today, even though I have no custody of her. I have no medical decision
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making, no educational decision making, and no way to communicate with her other than by mail.
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You know, one thing you could see just watching that video is, I mentioned this is a progressive
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democrat feminist, the mother is, and you could tell just by looking at her. This is, you know,
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she partially shaved head in the whole nine yards. Uh, this is this, and she talks about in the
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article too, in the interview, how she doesn't even, she, she doesn't believe in traditional gender
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roles. So, so, so, but, but even then not, not good enough as far as the, uh, as far as the far left
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radicals on the court are concerned, you know, in, in family court, as far as they're concerned,
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still not good enough. You'd be progressive democrat, um, everything else, feminist, not good enough.
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Your kid's still not safe because there's this one item on the progressive agenda that you do not
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go along with. The imagery that she, you know, mentions there of a lighthouse is quite powerful
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and it's correct. If your child is lost in the fog of confusion, not sure which way is up, not able to
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discern east from west, not sure who they are. Your job as a parent is to be a light and a voice
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of, of calm and clarity. It's not to abandon your child to the mist and say, hey, just wander around
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in whatever direction you want. You'll figure it out. Yeah, whatever. Just go, yeah, go that way. It's fine.
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But that's the strategy the court demands. Turn the light off, leave your child to the dark or else
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we'll take her from you, they say. Now, um, sort of at the, at the, the end of this story here, at least
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up until this point, most recent development is Jeanette's daughter doesn't even identify as trans
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anymore. Okay. So when, so when she originally came out as quote trans and her mother said,
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nah, don't buy it. She was right. She doesn't identify as trans anymore. She identifies as
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non-binary and uses Z, Zer, Zers pronouns, which means that this is included too, by the way,
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we take your kids away. Affirm your daughter as a Zer, whatever the hell that is, or we'll take her from
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you. Of course, if you're in this position as a parent and you say it and you ask the court,
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what even is a Zer? Like, what does that mean? What do you add? What are you telling me I have to do?
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They can't explain it. It's total nonsense. But what does it mean for the girl? It means that she's
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grappling around helplessly. She's totally lost and confused. She has no idea who she is.
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But that's exactly what the groomers want. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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this, when you hear stories like this, that's why it's so important to preserve your marriage.
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You know, to fight tooth and nail to preserve your marriage. And now it takes two to tango. And so
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that doesn't mean, you know, if you're in a marriage and you're fighting tooth and nail and
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the other person isn't, and they just leave and they want to blow the whole thing up, there's only
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so much you can do. So I understand that. But going into a marriage to have the agreement between both
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of you, the understanding that we are going to fight for this, this is one of the reasons why it's so
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important. Because when the marriage falls apart, now you're at the mercy of the courts. You're at the
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mercy of so many institutions. And the courts can come in and just say that, you know, whichever of
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you will be on board with our ideological agenda, we'll give the kids to you. Now, as we've seen,
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I mentioned the case in Ohio in 2018, even if you stay together and you still are married, the courts
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can still come in and take your kid from you. But it's a lot easier for them if you're divorced
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and you're already at each other's throats and there's already an antagonistic relationship,
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then it's a lot easier. And that's also why, you know, going into a marriage,
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like 10, even 10 years ago, it's unthinkable that you'd have to, that you, that this is a question you
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have to ask someone, uh, when, when, when you meet them, you're in a relationship, you're thinking
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about the future. You know, when I met my wife, I didn't, we, we in the early going, didn't talk
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about this because it just didn't come up. But now, you know, if I was single today and looking to get
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married and I find someone, I think this is, this is a, this is someone who, you know, there could be a
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serious relationship. I'm going to ask them about this on the first date. If you're a single person
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today, you should ask on the first date about this trans stuff. I'm not saying it's the first thing
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you bring up when you sit down for dinner, but I would bring it up very, very early on.
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You need to know, does this other person believe that biology exists? Do they understand that men are
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men and women are women? Do they, do they think that children can choose their gender? Yes or no?
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I would ask that question on the first date, because if they say, if you get anything but
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a total affirmation of reality, and when you bring up, you know, transitioning kids, if they do anything
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but scoff at it in horror and say that it's barbaric and insane, anything outside of that, and, and
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you just get up from the table, get up from dinner and walk away. Say, this isn't going to work.
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I don't care what else is going on. I don't care, you know, how, if you're a nice person, doesn't
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matter. This is not going to work. Because I can't, so you're, you're in, I'm in, I'm living in the
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universe that we all occupy called reality. You're off of fantasy land. And so we, there's no way to have
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a relationship, certainly not a marriage, where only one person in this couple is in reality.
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All right. Speaking of someone who's off in, in some other reality, Joe Biden yesterday gave a
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speech where he was talking about January 6th. And, you know, the, the Democrat party, they were so
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proud of this moment from Joe Biden that they posted it. They took this clip we're about to play for you
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and they put it on the official Twitter account for the Democrat party.
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Because I guess this is supposed to be a moment of Joe Biden being strong and in command and
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coherent. But you tell me if that's what you see, watch this.
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You can't be pro insurrection and pro cop. You can't be pro insurrection and pro democracy.
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You can't be pro insurrection and pro American. Donald Trump lacked the courage to act.
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The brave women and men in blue all across this nation should never forget that.
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Now, even for that 20 second clip in which, by the way, he never blinks.
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You want to try to do that. Try, try to, if you ever had a staring contest with someone,
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it's hard to get to 20 seconds. Try, try to make it 20 seconds without blinking. He doesn't blink at all.
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And I don't know if they have his eyelids taped back or something. I don't know what it is,
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but he doesn't blink. And they, they, even in that 20 seconds, they got a cut. There's a lot
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of jump cuts. They're cutting around all over the place just to be able to string that together.
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And it is still really disturbing to see this guy. He doesn't even, he's not blinking this
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totally vacant look in his eyes. And I've been pointing this out about Joe Biden
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since the campaign and before that. You take everything else out of it. The fact that he's
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wandering around, tripping, falling off of bicycles, babbling incoherently, all the,
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you can take all that out of it. You can just tell by looking in his eyes that it's just not all there.
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He looks like an actual puppet at this point. I mean, he looks like, I'm half expecting to see
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Jeff Dunham standing next to him. He looks like a ventriloquist dummy. And they've obviously got
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him hopped up on all kinds of drugs. I don't know what they've got him on.
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And that's the best that that's, that's like him at his best, which is why they put that up on,
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uh, on, on Twitter. And by the way, what he's saying there also doesn't make any sense. Let's
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just remember that. Let's not get caught up in the fact that he's senile and forget that what is being
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said, like the words that he's reading don't make any sense at all. You can't be pro-insurrection and
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pro-America. Okay. So first of all, January 6th, once again, was not an insurrection. It was not an
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organized, serious attempt to overthrow the government. Uh, uh, the only people that were
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armed on January 6th were the Capitol police officers who shot and killed someone. So that's,
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that's the only, only, only person who died as a result of violence on January 6th was Ashley Babbitt,
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who was one of the rioters who was shot and killed. So that's the first thing. And the second
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thing is that, so, so, so putting that, putting January 6th to this side, which was not an insurrection,
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it was a riot. And, uh, it was a very stupid and foolish event, but it was not an insurrection.
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So tabling that, okay. Let, let's just for a second, dissect this idea that you can't be pro-insurrection
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and pro-America. America was founded by insurrectionists. It was literally born in an
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insurrection. The insurrection is a violent overthrow of a government. That's what happened. That's what
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we celebrate on July 4th. Okay. We have insurrectionists on our money. We build statues
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to them. We name cities after them. And I mean, increasingly we're taking the statues away and
00:24:39.620
taking their names off, but it's not because of the insurrection part. So it doesn't make any,
00:24:44.840
it's like saying, it's like saying that you can't be pro-flour and pro-bread. It's like,
00:24:50.880
this is an ingredient, this is a central ingredient in what made America just as a historical fact.
00:25:01.280
Um, and, and it is, it is, it is actually relevant because this is not, this is not semantics here.
00:25:06.520
It's not like an easy gotcha thing. America was born in insurrection. Now, does that mean that we
00:25:14.520
should be pro-insurrection? Well, no, because the statement doesn't make any sense. Pro-insurrection,
00:25:20.280
anti-insurrection, what are you talking about? Obviously your opinion about an insurrection
00:25:25.880
will be determined by the circumstances of the insurrection, right? Would anyone,
00:25:33.680
so we hear from Biden and from the left now that, well, I'm anti-insurrection, really? So
00:25:37.740
you think that there is never a circumstance where it, where it would be morally acceptable
00:25:45.160
to violently overthrow a government? Never? It's like never happened? There's never been a government
00:25:49.760
that, uh, that ought to have been or was justifiably overthrown? You don't believe that. Of course you
00:25:55.980
don't believe that. Once again, if you believe that, then you, then, then America shouldn't exist to
00:26:01.020
begin with. So that's, that's what, what's your, what's your opinion on insurrections? I don't know.
00:26:08.920
Can you tell me like, what's the, what are we talking about? Which insurrection, which government's
00:26:13.700
being overthrown? Why are they being overthrown? Did the insurrectionists have any other option but
00:26:19.360
to resort to violence? Like all these things need to be explained before I can tell you whether or not
00:26:22.860
I think they did the right thing. Just, uh, totally ridiculous. Okay. Let's go to this.
00:26:34.220
Related. Here's a 2024 New Hampshire Democratic primary poll, which has been released. It's pretty
00:26:39.760
early, but this is the polling data. And let's, this is, this is great. This is great comedy right
00:26:47.140
here. This, look at this. This is how bad it is for the Democrats. And if I'm a Democrat,
00:26:52.720
I'm looking at that, I am panicking right now and they are panicking. So let's just review,
00:26:58.520
keep this up. Cause I want to review the state of things. The guy who's currently president.
00:27:04.340
Okay. Our ventriloquist dummy in chief is at just 16% and he's not in first place. He's behind
00:27:11.600
his secretary of transportation who lost to him in 20, in the 2020 primaries and who is most widely known
00:27:17.800
for taking an extended maternity break in the middle of a supply chain crisis. He's
00:27:22.500
number one at 17%. Then right below these two is an elderly socialist woman, best known for
00:27:29.280
pretending to be a Comanche warlord. Um, and she's not even the only elderly socialist on the docket.
00:27:35.440
The other is pulling at 8% behind Klobuchar who isn't known for anything except, uh, pummeling her
00:27:42.380
staff. And speaking of pummeling staff, Kamala Harris comes in at 6% as the vice president,
00:27:51.560
barely above the big booty Latina, Kezia Cortez,
00:27:54.860
who most recently pretended to be handcuffed. And speaking of being handcuffed, she barely edges out
00:28:01.940
notorious crime Lord, uh, Hillary Clinton, who's above Stacey Abrams, a woman who's been wandering
00:28:09.280
across the countryside for three years, claiming to be the governor of Georgia and a dead last as
00:28:15.640
always is Cory Booker. Of course, this is, this is what they're facing. This is their whole roster.
00:28:21.780
It is not a good situation. And, uh, you know, it's not good when, you know, high profile Democrat
00:28:31.420
politicians are asked whether they think the current Democrat president should run again and
00:28:37.960
they don't want to talk about it. So Cori Bush, member of the squad was, uh, was asked for her
00:28:43.600
opinion. Does she think not, not like, will he run again? Not, not asking for her prediction of the
00:28:48.900
future, but should he run again? And, um, she wouldn't, she wouldn't answer the question,
00:28:54.420
which is certainly a way of answering it, but let's listen to that.
00:28:57.980
You want to see Joe Biden run for a second term?
00:29:01.040
Yeah. I, you know, that's an easy question. It's not going to take long. Do you want to see
00:29:04.640
Joe Biden? I don't want to answer that question because we have not, that's not, yeah, I don't
00:29:08.060
want to answer that question. Okay. Um, I mean, he's the president and he has the right to,
00:29:11.920
to run for a second term. Absolutely. That's, but I don't want to, I don't, I don't want,
00:29:15.780
I'd rather you not do that. You got like two minutes to be in the car. Yeah, I know. I got
00:29:19.340
to get to the, well, thanks very much. I appreciate it. Uh, I got to get to the, uh,
00:29:24.820
I got to get to the other thing that I got. I don't have time. I don't have time to answer that
00:29:29.280
question. It's a yes or no question. I just don't have time. I gotta, I gotta run. That's bad news.
00:29:35.220
Okay. I mean, that's like, it's like if you're married and you ask your wife, if she loves you
00:29:39.720
and she says, Oh, do I love it? Well, I don't really, we don't have time to talk about that. I got,
00:29:42.900
I gotta get to the other thing. I got this, I gotta, I gotta go do some laundry.
00:29:46.520
Not a good sign. Um, speaking by the way of the, uh, I guess the front runner, the Democrat
00:29:51.940
front runner, Pete Buttigieg, he had some thoughts, uh, recently he was on state of the union on a CNN
00:29:58.960
and he had some thoughts about the Republicans who do not favor federally codifying the redefinition
00:30:05.900
of marriage. Now there are plenty of Republicans as we saw in the house that were on board with it,
00:30:09.880
but, uh, but that, but the majority still were not. And Pete Buttigieg is very offended and
00:30:15.520
personally hurt by that. And here he is explaining why. This is really, really important to a lot of
00:30:22.900
people. It's certainly important to me. I started my day as I try to do on weekends. Uh, I try to give
00:30:28.920
a little bit of a break and do breakfast with, with both of our, our twins. Uh, and, uh, that alone,
00:30:35.080
that's no small thing, uh, as every parent of small kids knows. Uh, it was one of those days where the
00:30:40.440
tray table wasn't quite, uh, fitting into the high chair. And, uh, I'm trying to make sure that
00:30:44.660
they're busy enough with their little cereal puffs to give me enough time to chop up the banana and get
00:30:49.800
the formula ready. And it just, I don't know, that half hour of my morning had me thinking about how much
00:30:54.980
I depend on and count on my spouse every day. And our marriage deserves to be treated equally.
00:31:03.040
And I don't know why this would be hard for a Senator or a Congressman. I don't understand
00:31:10.980
how such a majority of, of house Republicans voted no on our marriage on as recently as Tuesday,
00:31:18.060
hours after I was in a room with a lot of them talking about transportation policy, having what I
00:31:22.940
thought were perfectly normal conversations with, with many of them on that subject, only for them
00:31:27.240
to go around the corner and say that, uh, that my marriage doesn't deserve to continue. If they
00:31:32.480
don't want to spend a lot of time on this, they can vote yes and move on. And that would be really
00:31:38.300
reassuring for a lot of families around America, including mine. A couple of things here. First of
00:31:44.960
all, this guy is such an egomaniac. I mean, they all are, but it's, but especially this guy,
00:31:48.500
and it's even more grating with him because he has, there's just no basis for it, for his ego.
00:31:54.480
Like it has nothing to rest on, no accomplishments to rest on at all. It's like a small town mayor
00:31:59.920
who runs for president, fails spectacularly. And then it's, and then he's given a, an appointment,
00:32:04.720
you know, a cabinet appointment for, for, for no reason, other than the fact that he checks a
00:32:09.220
couple of identity boxes. And, uh, and so that's it. He's a transportation secretary,
00:32:13.240
but he says, oh, they voted on my marriage. No, they weren't voting on your marriage. You
00:32:18.320
egomaniac. That's not what the vote was. There wasn't, there wasn't a bill on the docket. What,
00:32:24.320
what do you think of Pete Buttigieg's marriage? No, specifically it's about the, should the federal
00:32:31.400
government redefine marriage? Should we codify the redefinition of marriage on a federal level?
00:32:39.520
That was the question that they were answering. And some of them said no, as they should have
00:32:44.220
said. And by the way, the people who answer no to that, well, there's, there's a, there's a number
00:32:50.080
of reasons why you might answer no specifically to the question of, should the federal government
00:32:53.700
codify? But for the people who are critics of the whole, uh, you know, of the, of the redefinition
00:33:03.660
of marriage on any level, they're not saying that your marriage doesn't deserve to continue.
00:33:12.320
What they're saying is that your marriage can't exist because marriage is a particular thing
00:33:21.280
and your relationship does not fall into that category. That's the argument. Now I realize that's
00:33:30.100
still going to offend you and make you upset, but that is the argument. And it's actually a
00:33:35.240
really important distinction. As I tried to explain last week, and as many people have attempted to
00:33:43.220
explain, this is all a question of definition. And the idea for thousands of years is that marriage
00:33:52.120
by definition is an in principle procreative union between a man and a woman. And it serves as the
00:33:58.300
foundation of the family, which serves as the foundation of human society. That, that was the
00:34:01.520
answer. That was the definition. That's what it was. That's it. And then people like Pete Buttigieg
00:34:10.240
came along and said, well, it's not that anymore. And then the question in response has always been,
00:34:14.300
well, then what is it if it's not that? Pete Buttigieg hasn't answered that question.
00:34:21.760
He says, well, my marriage deserves to be treated equal to, to other marriages. Well, but, but,
00:34:26.020
but equal means the same. Pete, and is it the same? Is your relationship
00:34:34.300
with Chasen, is it the same as, is it in principle, in its substance, in its function,
00:34:45.240
is it the same as my relationship with my wife? And the answer is no, because my relationship with my
00:34:50.880
wife has the potential to create new human beings and yours doesn't. So that is a difference,
00:34:59.720
right? That's a difference. We can all agree. No question about it. That's a difference.
00:35:05.100
Is it, is it an important difference? Is it a definitional difference? I would say absolutely it
00:35:12.220
is. Of course it is. But even putting all that to the side, you know, he says that, well, how could,
00:35:20.220
how could we talk about, they would sit and talk about transportation policy with me and then,
00:35:26.260
and then go and vote the way they did. Why should, so, so they can't talk about, you cannot have
00:35:33.360
a productive conversation about transportation policy with someone unless they agree with your
00:35:39.740
definition of marriage. Unless they affirm your relationship as a marriage, you can't talk to
00:35:48.200
them about transportation policy. See, that's your problem. That's your hangup. It's not theirs.
00:35:53.480
I guess for those Republicans, they figured, yeah, okay, well, I might not agree with this,
00:35:57.220
but we can still talk about transportation. Why can't we? You're the one who sets down kind of the
00:36:04.320
ground rules here and says, well, you have to agree with everything about my lifestyle or we can't
00:36:08.620
talk about anything. That's your problem. That's, that's, that's, uh, that's you deciding to do
00:36:19.980
that. All right. On the, on the subject of marriage here, there's one other thing I wanted
00:36:24.180
to mention. This is from Mediaite. It says, um, Politico flagged a stunning poll result showing
00:36:29.540
that a quarter of Republican voters opposed Congress passing a federal law to protect interracial
00:36:35.000
marriage. Supreme court justice, Clarence Thomas raised alarm bells over rights like marriage
00:36:40.480
equality, access to contraception and private sexual activity with the Supreme court effectively
00:36:44.640
overturned Roe v. Wade, uh, et cetera, and so forth, yada, yada. In the latest edition of the
00:36:49.520
political playbook PM newsletter, the authors noted that they pulled the, um, act in political
00:36:53.840
morning consult poll and singled out several results, results, including this response to the
00:36:57.960
question, do you support or oppose Congress passing a federal law to protect the right to
00:37:02.000
interracial marriage? And, uh, 71% of voters support it with just 15% opposing. And this is,
00:37:09.820
uh, this is like the shocking, I can't believe that many Americans would oppose the bill. You know why
00:37:17.140
they, they probably oppose it? Not probably. I'll tell you why they oppose it. They oppose not interracial
00:37:23.640
marriage, but the totally pointless virtue signaling law that you're proposing to protect
00:37:30.920
this, this institution that is not under any threat whatsoever. So what they're opposing is the
00:37:38.840
virtue signaling pointless law that you want to pass. Not, not unlike the efforts to, uh, make
00:37:48.460
lynching illegal, right? Just recently passed. It's a hate crime to lynch someone.
00:37:54.600
Well, I oppose that bill and every Republican should have opposed it. Not because we support
00:38:02.580
lynching people, but because it's already illegal and there is nobody who wants to legalize it. So this
00:38:09.160
law serves no purpose whatsoever. It's already illegal. It's already a hate crime. So no reason
00:38:14.620
to do this. You're just doing it for virtue signaling reasons. And I'm not going to go. I'm not going along
00:38:17.720
with that. You're, you're treating passing laws as a, it's like a pageant. It's a stunt. I don't support
00:38:23.100
that. So just to clarify, uh, speaking of stunts and pageants, the, here's a Vogue, Vogue did a cover
00:38:32.600
story to photo shoot of the Zelensky's in Ukraine. And, uh, before we get to the, to the photos,
00:38:37.960
before we get to the photos is a little bit from the article. It says there is no script for first
00:38:42.960
ladies in wartime. And so Elena Zelensky is writing her own. The wife of Ukrainian president, uh,
00:38:50.520
Vladimir, uh, Volodymyr, uh, Zelensky, a longtime comedy writer, always preferred to stay behind the
00:38:55.980
scenes while her husband, a comedian turned politician was whose presidency may yet determine
00:39:00.380
the fate of the free world glowed in the limelight. But ever since Russia invaded Ukraine on February
00:39:05.960
21st, Zelenska. Okay. Well, that's the last name. Zelenska has suddenly found herself center stage in a
00:39:11.780
tragedy. And then, uh, it goes on for a while from there and okay, we could see. So, uh, Annie
00:39:17.120
Leibovitz was on hand to, and you know, she was the one, the famous photographer, photographs, all the
00:39:22.860
celebrities and everything. And so she did, let's go through some of these photos. They see that you
00:39:27.000
see them there. Uh, the two Zelenskys posing for all these different photographs, looking very serious.
00:39:35.460
He's got his trademark green t-shirt on the whole time, but there she is, I guess, out on the
00:39:39.600
battlefield in a pretty blue jacket. Cause this is what you do, right? This is what you do when you're
00:39:46.720
in a war and you're fighting for the fate of the free world. As we're told in the, in the profile
00:39:53.360
there, you, you, you, you stop to do a magazine photo shoot. That's just standard procedure. I mean,
00:40:01.520
there are so many examples from history of that, right? I mean, I can't think of any, but I'm sure
00:40:05.000
there are. We're still told that the war in Ukraine is a fight for the fate of the free world. It is a
00:40:12.980
war for the fate of the free world. And yet you've got celebrities going over there. You've got all
00:40:19.560
kinds of media outlets showing up, uh, photo shoots. Vogue is there doing a cover story
00:40:26.920
fighting for the fate of the free world, but you have time to pose for, um, for a photo spread.
00:40:34.980
Nothing, nothing weird or off about that at all. Right. Makes perfect sense.
00:40:39.700
Speaking of fighting for the fate of the free world, well, not just for the fate of the free
00:40:43.180
world, but actually for all life on earth. That's, that's, that's something else that's
00:40:46.540
happening right now. There is a fate. There is a struggle for life itself, for all life on earth.
00:40:52.400
And here's, uh, Bill Ware of CNN on CNN fretting about the fate of life on earth and, uh, talking
00:41:00.580
about how the Biden administration needs to save all life on earth. Let's listen.
00:41:06.880
So where does that leave things, right? I mean, we have more than 35 million Americans. They're
00:41:10.600
under heat alerts this morning. I don't want you to do a deep dive on, on how climate change has,
00:41:15.660
has created the conditions for a lot of these things that we're seeing in a number of fronts, but
00:41:20.200
what can the administration do next? I mean, cause they may very well lose the house or the Senate
00:41:26.320
in several months time. Uh, yeah. What should folks look for? I mean, that's, that is the big
00:41:33.740
question that the president says his lawyers are working on right now, to what extent they can
00:41:38.140
stretch his executive powers without any legislative help. Uh, it's interesting that the letter from
00:41:42.960
staffers part of their plea is please get Joe Manchin to change his mind. You know, this is,
00:41:48.280
this is hung up on an old fashioned filibuster sort of recent made up American rules where
00:41:54.020
the fate of life on earth is at stake and, and doesn't, doesn't seem to match. Now, if this
00:41:59.660
were FDR, if this were the forties, if this was after Pearl Harbor, you heard it there. That's
00:42:04.280
the line, the fate of life on earth. Um, just think about the claim that this claim that's being
00:42:13.280
made, you know, like not only is climate change happening, well, as established, everyone agrees
00:42:20.000
that climate change is happening. Everyone agreed. No one denies that the climate exists. No one denies
00:42:23.600
that the climate is changing. That's what climates do. That's what climates do. That's why we call them
00:42:26.640
a climate. Right. Um, so, so, you know, no one's denying that. And the claim though, is that human
00:42:36.580
activity is affecting the climate, uh, to such a degree that it's an apocalyptic situation
00:42:44.000
and we're all going to die because of it. So that's one level of the claim. But then the next
00:42:48.400
level is that by just passing a law, like that there is actually a piece of legislation that
00:42:55.780
could be written and passed that would fix the weather and save all life on earth.
00:43:02.420
And if not legislation, then executive action. This is what they're saying that there is
00:43:08.940
potential, there, there is a, there is something that Joe Biden could write down and sign, which
00:43:16.080
would through the force of that act, change the weather and save all life on earth.
00:43:24.520
I mean, even if you, even if you were to buy everything the climate alarmists say up to that
00:43:31.800
point, even if you're with them on everything else, maybe you even agree that we're all going
00:43:37.960
to die soon because of climate change. It still should seem absurd to you that there's a law that
00:43:43.900
could be passed that would fix any of this. All right. One of the thing I wanted to, uh,
00:43:50.860
mention a little bit of entertainment news. Marvel has released a trailer for the Black
00:43:55.640
Panther sequel, uh, which is being called Wakanda forever. And I'm not going to play the trailer for
00:44:00.100
you or anything. This begins now, as I understand it, I think this is phase five of the Marvel
00:44:05.720
franchise multiverse, whatever rollout. And it just continues on forever. I bring this up only to
00:44:14.300
segue into something else. As I mentioned before, I'm a, I'm a big fan of books about survival and
00:44:20.000
exploration. So I just read another one. I just finished a book called, um, the, in the kingdom
00:44:24.160
of ice, and which was written by, I believe the author Hampton sides written a few years ago.
00:44:30.980
And it's a tremendous book and it tells an incredible story about the USS Jeanette expedition
00:44:37.580
back in like the, you know, eight to late 1870s, early 1880s. And this was a, an expedition that was
00:44:44.220
meant to go to the North pole, you know, to, and, and to sail across it, across the open polar sea,
00:44:51.800
which doesn't really exist, but they didn't know that at the time. And so they were trying to find
00:44:55.040
this polar sea and, um, this expedition, well, they never make it to the polar sea, the polar sea,
00:45:00.620
which doesn't exist. They get locked in the ice and they're trapped in the ice for two years
00:45:05.900
up in the Arctic, just like floating on the ice for two years on this ship. Right. And, uh,
00:45:13.020
which means they pass through two Arctic winters where it's 180 days of darkness and they're just
00:45:18.120
on this ship. And then finally the ice melts a little bit and they, they think that they're
00:45:22.180
going to escape and they're, they're home free, but then they hit more ice and the boat, the ship
00:45:26.300
sinks. Okay. Now they all have to evacuate the ship and now they're stranded on ice in the middle of
00:45:31.860
the Arctic and they have to make it a thousand miles to solid land, which is Siberia. So they have
00:45:36.880
to, they have to traverse the ice for a thousand miles to make it to Siberia, which of course is a
00:45:42.520
wilderness. And they got to, they're, they're, uh, carrying these boats the whole way. They're
00:45:47.620
kind of like pulling these boats because there are patches of, of water they have to sail across.
00:45:52.200
And it's just this tremendous, so they finally make it to, um, Siberia, a bunch of them die along
00:45:58.560
the way and then they're in the wilderness and then a bunch of them die in the wilderness. And like,
00:46:02.320
finally a few survival survivors are able to find, you know, some villages of, uh, of natives there.
00:46:08.620
And, uh, and then they make it home and they tell the story. Anyway, the point is when I read books
00:46:13.580
like this, it just reminds me how much superhero franchises and wokeism together have totally
00:46:19.920
ruined Hollywood because you've got these real life stories that would make incredible films,
00:46:25.140
but there's, there's no one to make them in Hollywood. There should be, I mean, the story that
00:46:31.140
I just butchered as I, as I paraphrased it in three sentences, how is there not five movies about just
00:46:39.280
that story? There should be 20 great films about Arctic exploration alone. And it's so many fantastic,
00:46:48.660
tragic, almost unbelievable stories, but they're not told. And the reason they're not told is that
00:46:55.380
number one, the heroes are all men and mostly white. So that's one reason. And the other reason
00:47:02.840
is that Spider-Man never shows up. And so instead we just get the same damn movies over and over and
00:47:10.080
over again. While there are all of these spectacular stories to be told of things that really happened
00:47:18.320
and that, and that most people today don't know about and kids don't know about because they're not
00:47:22.700
hearing about it in school. And so they don't hear about it at all. It is a, it's a damned tragedy
00:47:31.800
is what I'm saying. All the more reason to stop watching the stupid superhero movies. You have to
00:47:37.380
let them, like the people that are making, you have to let them know we're, we're sick of this.
00:47:40.740
We've seen it. Give us something better. You keep watching it. They're not going to ever stop.
00:47:45.980
Really? Do you really think Black Panther 2, is that a more worthy story to tell than the story of
00:47:53.520
USS Jeanette? Men trapped on the ice, traversing a thousand miles, go to Siberia, survival tragedy,
00:48:02.120
all of that. Black Panther 2 is a better story? Really? All right, let's get to the comment section.
00:48:09.580
Sophia says, I really needed to hear that stuff about marriage. I love my boyfriend so much and
00:48:24.500
we're compatible, but I tend to overthink things way too much. Well, if you love them, you're
00:48:28.220
compatible. If you have, if you have values alignment, okay, so hopefully you've had that
00:48:33.280
conversation by now and, and definitely ask them about the trans stuff, all of that lines up, then
00:48:40.800
yeah, just get married. Just, just get married. What are you waiting for, Sophia? Pretty in Pink
00:48:46.900
says, I was only, I was an only child and I was a handful. When you have no siblings to play with,
00:48:50.940
you have to entertain yourself. I think I would have matured quicker if I had a sibling. I hope to
00:48:54.660
have at least two one day, as soon as I find a man who is a Matt Walsh fan. Well, that's, yeah,
00:48:59.660
that's the other thing you should be asking. So that's another litmus test. I would ask on the
00:49:03.020
first date. Are you a Matt Walsh fan? Are you a member of the Sweet Baby Gang? Yeah, we're actually
00:49:08.820
discovering this right now. You know, having just, as I mentioned yesterday, we have just the two-year-old
00:49:12.860
at home right now. The other kids are with their grandparents. So we have, we're, you know, we're a
00:49:17.560
family with a, with an only child just for the week. And we are realizing what an advantage it is to
00:49:23.340
have other kids who can play with her and entertain her. Because if you don't have any of that, then it's
00:49:27.840
like, then, then it's on us all the time. Of course, the trade-off is that when you have other
00:49:32.760
kids, they also antagonize each other and fight all the time, but it balances out, I guess. And the
00:49:37.080
other thing I got to get used to is that even though our two-year-old is pretty loud and she
00:49:40.320
talks a lot, still there is, there's, there's this comparative silence in the house. That's, that's
00:49:45.740
when you're a parent with a bunch of kids, it becomes, silence becomes very unsettling. You crave
00:49:51.500
silence, but you're also, this is the curse, I guess, is like you, you crave silence because you get so
00:49:56.820
little of it. But then when you get it, it's disturbing because you know what silence usually
00:50:02.160
means when there's a, like, if there's a moment of silence, when you've all the kids at home,
00:50:05.620
you know that something terrible is happening. And so I've had to get used to that also.
00:50:11.540
Blue says, Matt, I want you to know that what you talked about towards the end of the video,
00:50:15.580
right before the comment section part, you need to continue hammering that point home. As a 29-year-old
00:50:19.660
single guy myself and with no family and never had a father, it kind of sparked something. Having a man
00:50:23.880
I respect, tell me to go have an adventure and live in my car. Honestly, just hearing that it's
00:50:28.500
okay and I shouldn't worry and I can go anywhere I want, never really would have thought about it
00:50:32.360
like that. But I guess I could go anywhere in the world and do anything I want if I really wanted to.
00:50:37.660
Yeah. And it's, by the way, it's, I'm not saying that you should go out and live in your car on
00:50:42.980
purpose, like that you should seek that. What I'm saying is that if you are a young, a young able-bodied
00:50:49.700
man and you have no dependents and you have no one who's relying on you, then the stakes are pretty
00:50:55.680
low for you. And you have a much better, you have a much greater ability to survive and adapt
00:51:02.560
than you realize. It's just that living in modern society, we oftentimes never test it. We never test
00:51:09.960
our ability to survive because we're not going to be going on expeditions to the Arctic where it really
00:51:14.020
is tested. And so you just spend all your time at home and you're watching a lot of TV and you're
00:51:19.720
living in luxury and comfort. And maybe you crave adventure at some level, as all men do. Like at
00:51:26.900
some level you still crave it, but you think that there's no way you wouldn't be able to survive out
00:51:31.340
there in the wild world. But you can, you just have to test yourself. And that is the beautiful thing.
00:51:37.980
And if I can convince even one guy to make, one young man to make this decision, then I'll think
00:51:44.040
it's a success. You can really go anywhere. Take advantage of that. Go anywhere, do anything,
00:51:52.560
just have an adventure. It'll be okay. I mean, you might, you know, you're going to be making some
00:51:59.420
sacrifices. You're not going to be as comfortable, even if you're not living in your car, right? You're
00:52:04.100
going to be depending on yourself and you're going to be taking care of yourself. So probably you're
00:52:09.700
going to end up in just some dumpy little apartment and you're not going to be as comfortable. You're
00:52:13.080
not going to have all the luxuries you're used to, but it's exciting to go and build a life for
00:52:19.600
yourself. Be your own man. There's my motivational speech for the day. Another one. So you get two in
00:52:28.760
two days. We're on a roll here. As you're all aware, no one can define the word woman as of
00:52:33.740
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00:52:41.220
Merriam-Webster redefined female in the hopes that they could stuff it down the memory hole
00:52:45.020
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You know, there might be some hope for Kamala Harris politically if she could manage to stake
00:53:56.620
out something close to the middle ground, right? Positioning herself as a rational centrist. Now,
00:54:01.600
she'd still have to contend with the obstacle of her abysmal personality and the visceral revulsion
00:54:05.520
people experience when they hear her speak, but at least then she'd have some shot at forming a real
00:54:10.420
constituency. But the problem is that there is no center. There's no middle between the right on
00:54:15.280
one side and abject insanity on the other. And if there was, Harris isn't looking for it anyway.
00:54:20.520
She's scrambling ever to the left, hoping to achieve relevancy by appealing to the smallest
00:54:24.900
possible subset of degenerate whack jobs. She's not alone, of course. This is the political strategy
00:54:30.940
of the entire Democrat Party. Yesterday, Harris set a new standard in that department during a roundtable
00:54:36.640
discussion with disability rights leaders meant to commemorate the signing of the Americans with
00:54:42.620
Disabilities Act. And here's how she began her remarks. Listen.
00:54:48.860
I want to welcome these leaders for coming in to have this very important discussion
00:54:54.180
about some of the most pressing issues of our time. I am Kamala Harris. My pronouns are she and her.
00:55:03.760
I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit. Well, that's outrageous. How does she know
00:55:10.280
that she's a woman? She's not a biologist. And how does she know that she's wearing a suit?
00:55:15.360
Is she a fashion designer? And how does she know that she's sitting at a table? Is she a carpenter?
00:55:19.900
Maybe so. Perhaps this woman has many more skills and qualifications than I thought,
00:55:23.520
which is a low bar to get over as I thought she had none at all. Harris would go on to babble
00:55:28.180
incoherently, as is her custom. Nobody knows exactly what she was trying to say,
00:55:32.820
but we do know that whatever she was saying, it was impactful.
00:55:37.540
The Dobbs decision and the act of the United States Supreme Court to take away a constitutional
00:55:44.940
right that had been recognized from the people of America will impact a lot of people and
00:55:53.340
differently in some situations. And we need to be responsive to these issues and also lift up the
00:56:00.820
voices of all people who will be impacted in the way that they will be impacted. So that's why we
00:56:06.260
are convened today. And I will add a couple of points in terms of the direct impact that we
00:56:14.440
anticipate there will be from the Dobbs decision on people with disabilities.
00:56:19.540
Many people will be impacted impactfully in ways that cause an impact on those impacted
00:56:28.820
by the impact. She truly has a way with words, you have to admit. And her way is to string them
00:56:35.540
together totally at random. But Kamala wasn't the only person embarrassing herself at this event.
00:56:40.920
All of the speakers introduced themselves by listing not only their pronouns, but also their race and
00:56:46.900
their articles of clothing. It was, we can safely guess, the first time ever that a White House
00:56:52.740
meeting began this way. The Biden administration continues to make history in all of the worst
00:56:57.700
and most humiliating ways possible. Let's watch. Thank you, Madam Vice President. My pronouns are
00:57:05.460
she, her. I'm a white woman with long brown hair. I'm wearing a red dress and I'm wearing a
00:57:11.960
C3 mask so you can see my red lips. I am a black woman with curly hair and I am wearing a vintage
00:57:21.400
black and floral dress. I'm a Latina with blonde highlighted hair and I'm wearing a gray blazer over
00:57:30.220
a black sheath dress. China looks on and laughs. The entire world laughs, except for that part of the
00:57:38.840
world, which suffers from the same psychological maladies as us. Now, the ostensible reason for
00:57:43.900
this whole routine is to be more inclusive of the visually impaired. This is one of the latest,
00:57:50.100
most cutting edge innovations in the field of woke virtue signaling. It's even more advanced than
00:57:55.680
trans pride flags and land acknowledgements. The idea is that blind people will feel more included,
00:58:01.660
more involved if you provide a brief physical description of yourself before speaking.
00:58:05.880
But this is obviously very stupid for reasons too numerous to count, but we'll just go through a
00:58:13.180
partial list. First of all, if a person was blind at birth, you're not helping them by mentioning your
00:58:19.280
blue suit. They're not going to know what blue is. In fact, if anything, you've only further alienated
00:58:24.860
them by bringing up a concept that has no meaning to them. This method of introduction then appeals to a
00:58:32.060
portion of the visually impaired, a subset of the subset. But while appealing to them, it further
00:58:39.960
marginalizes everyone else in that community. Second, does it actually appeal even to that subset
00:58:46.060
of the subset? Are visually impaired people asking for this? Or would they prefer it if you just got on
00:58:53.760
with saying whatever it is you want to say and got it over with? And if they do want the physical
00:58:59.120
description, is the color of your jacket really what they're looking for? I mean, like if you're
00:59:05.280
visually impaired and someone's speaking and you don't know what they look like and you're wondering
00:59:08.480
what they look like, are you wondering, I wonder what color shirt they're wearing. Is that the
00:59:14.500
information that you need to form your mental picture? No, why not mention your height? Why not
00:59:21.700
mention your weight? Like if it were me, that's one of the questions I would have. If I couldn't see
00:59:26.160
and someone's talking, like one of my things is I'm wondering how tall are they? How fat are they?
00:59:31.040
Just to build that mental picture. Why not provide a one to 10 rating of your physical attractiveness?
00:59:38.980
These are the kinds of details that people are actually interested in anyway.
00:59:42.900
Third, does Kamala Harris give her pronouns and her selective physical description every time she
00:59:48.300
addresses an audience? Well, no, of course not. She did it in this case because it's a roundtable
00:59:53.600
about disabilities. But is that the only kind of conversation that the visually impaired ought to
00:59:58.680
be included in? I mean, isn't it all the more marginalizing of the disabled community to
01:00:05.380
specifically include them in conversations about being disabled, but not in every other kind of
01:00:10.420
conversation? So by doing this, what you're saying to the visually impaired is, oh yeah, we really need
01:00:15.260
you to be included in this conversation. But then this meeting's over and you go off and you talk about
01:00:19.900
something else. You say, oh no, we don't need you guys for this. I mean, this isn't about, we'll bring
01:00:24.000
you back in when we're talking about disabled stuff. How many visually impaired people were even watching
01:00:29.920
the vice presidential roundtable discussion about the Americans with Disabilities Act? Were any?
01:00:36.720
And yet Kamala Harris only makes the effort to be inclusive of the differently abled during that
01:00:41.920
event. That seems even more offensive to me. This is the problem with this kind of virtue
01:00:46.720
thing. Once you start doing it, you can never stop. Because if you're saying that the whole routine of
01:00:52.800
identifying the color of your jacket, like you're a character in a book for preschoolers, if you're
01:00:57.480
saying that's necessary or important for the sake of inclusivity, then you have no excuse to ever stop
01:01:03.060
doing it. So you wanted to be inclusive of the blind yesterday, but not today. What gives? This is the
01:01:10.420
conundrum you make for yourself. Fourth, speaking of being inclusive, the great irony is that all of
01:01:18.080
these women were making a show of their visual impairment inclusiveness, while at the same time
01:01:24.440
needlessly alienating and excluding the hearing impaired. Because as you notice, if you watch the
01:01:30.580
clip, they were signaling virtue, not only with pronouns and physical descriptions, but also by wearing
01:01:35.560
masks. But face masks marginalize those with hearing difficulties. And I say marginalize in this case
01:01:42.500
for once, not ironically or sarcastically. I mean, the masks really do marginalize people who have
01:01:49.220
trouble hearing. The muffled voices, the inability to read lips. This has been a nightmare for the
01:01:54.480
hearing impaired. I mean, really, it has actually excluded. We hear so much about people being excluded.
01:01:59.560
It has actually excluded people. They can't tell what anyone is saying. And people with hearing
01:02:05.280
difficulties, they've complained about this for years about the masks, trying to explain that all
01:02:09.660
of the unnecessary masking is legitimately making it difficult for them to function in society
01:02:15.140
and communicate with people. But the COVID cultists just ignored them. And now, even at a roundtable
01:02:23.660
discussion about disabilities, people who suffer from that rather common disability are again ignored.
01:02:30.820
But this is what virtue signaling is all about. It's done in the name of inclusion,
01:02:35.420
and yet it always excludes far more people than it includes. The signals, the virtue signals,
01:02:43.500
target people at the intersections of various identity groups and at the intersection of the
01:02:48.720
already intersected groups, becoming more and more acute and specific until you've excluded almost
01:02:53.320
everyone in the name of including a handful of people who were already included and really didn't
01:02:58.300
need the special accommodation. But that's okay to the virtue signaler because nothing that she's
01:03:04.520
doing is actually for that small group. See, all the stuff about, you know, including visual impaired
01:03:10.740
people, that's not who it's for. She's not worried about them. She's worried about herself.
01:03:17.640
The point is to brand herself as one of the enlightened, one of the progressive, one of the chosen.
01:03:24.380
And thus, as far as I'm concerned, I'm told for the fourth time, she is also now one of the
01:03:32.340
canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
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