Ep. 1016 - The Left's Solution For The Uvalde Tragedy
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In the wake of the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Memorial Day, pro-life and pro-choice arguments fly out the window in the aftermath of this horrific event, and we turn to pro-Second Amendment arguments.
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The more information that comes out about the Texas elementary school shooting,
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the worse the story gets. I had generally refrained on this show from commenting on
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the reports that Uvalde cops waited outside and even prevented other people from going in while
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the shooter was inside wreaking havoc. I wanted to wait until more information came out and was
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confirmed. Now that information seems to have been confirmed by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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Hey, from the benefit of hindsight, where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right
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decision. It was the wrong decision, period. There's no excuse for that. But again, I wasn't
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there, but I'm just telling you, from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry
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at that as soon as you can. Hey, when there's an active shooter, the rules change. It's no longer,
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okay, it's no longer a barricaded subject. You don't have time. You don't worry about matter
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primers. And by the way, Texas embraces active shooter training, active shooter certification,
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and that doctrine requires officers. We don't care what agency you're from. You don't have to have
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a leader on the scene. Every officer lines up, stacks up, goes and finds where those rounds are
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being fired at and keeps shooting until the subject is dead, period. There you have it. Of course it was
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the wrong decision. People are calling the response at Uvalde incompetent, cowardly,
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unconscionable. People want heads to roll. People want the department defunded in some cases. They want
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whoever gave the stand down order to get dragged before a judge and put on an orange jumpsuit.
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I get it, but that does not concern me. That is not my call or your call for that matter.
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That is for the people of Uvalde to decide what does concern us. What concerns all of us is the
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central lesson of this horrible ordeal. Namely, that we cannot rely on the cops to protect us.
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We cannot rely on the politicians to protect us. We have a right and an obligation to protect
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ourselves and our children. And as cynical political activists try to exploit this tragedy
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to push their longstanding political agenda. More than ever, we need to defend those rights.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day weekend. My favorite comment
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my son was born at 28 weeks. The current heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury,
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was also born at 28 weeks. That really does put things into perspective. This is how the advance
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of modern medical science has really helped the pro-life argument, is people used to say,
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oh, well, who knows? Who knows what's inside a woman's womb? It's the mystery of life. Well,
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we have sonograms. Now we know it's a baby. It looks like a baby, moves around like a baby,
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is a baby, genetically a baby, has all the characteristics of life. Well, but the baby
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cannot live until when? Until sooner and sooner and sooner and sooner. Now a baby can live in some
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cases at 20 weeks or 21 weeks, certainly by 28 weeks. And so the arguments for abortion just
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absolutely fly out the window. I do not understand how you can possibly hear about the police response
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to the Uvalde shooting and defend weakening the Second Amendment. I know that this has been the
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political response, certainly from the left and among some squishes too, is to say, well, because of
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this horrific shooting and the extremely botched response to it, we need to give up our guns. That
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seems like the opposite of what you would conclude. The reason to give up your guns, the reason to
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surrender the Second Amendment is, well, the cops will take care of it. You don't need to be armed
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because we pay our taxes and the state provides us people who are going to protect us if we're ever
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in jeopardy, if we're ever in any risk. But they won't. In some cases, they will. In some cases,
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they won't. You can't rely on that. That's the point. Ironically, this whole botched response is
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proving what many of us already knew, namely, you have a right and an obligation that is totally
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natural to self-defense. You see this from the shooting up in Buffalo. Do you remember the
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shooting in Buffalo not that long ago, just a few weeks ago? This lunatic who says he was radicalized
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on the internet during COVID and his political views were a little bit unclear. He said he was
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on the authoritarian left, but he said he had moved further right and he used to be a communist and
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then he was kind of right wing and then he was left wing again. And it was all part of this
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ideological transformation on the internet. Now there are news reports that this guy may have had
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contact with a retired federal agent on the internet. How long was that contact? What did that
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contact with the federal agent have to do with his radicalization? What did that federal agent know
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and when did he know it? There were reports coming out that this federal agent had advanced notice
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of the shooting. Authorities are investigating whether or not he had a warning and who knows how long that
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maybe it was half an hour. It might've been longer than that. This is raising a lot of questions.
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What was the role of that federal agent? People have raised questions before about the Fed's role
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in some of these attacks. You remember the plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan. We were told
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that this was a radical white supremacist far right group that was plotting to kidnap the Democrat
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governor of Michigan. Then we found out actually federal agents were involved in that. Actually,
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federal agents were entrapping people in that. Some of the guys got off the hook because of it.
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So the question is, I'm not saying that the retired federal agent here was enticing this guy to commit
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the shooting or was entrapping him or doing anything like that. I guess it's possible there
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will be an investigation here. But there are three options as to what this federal agent was doing.
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The federal agent was either encouraging him, entrapping him, inciting him, or the federal agent
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was trying to do something like that and was just completely incompetent. Or the federal agent
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was a neo-Nazi and actually agreed with the guy. Those are the only three options as far as I can tell.
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What else could this guy have been doing interacting with this killer? Why else would this guy have
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gotten advance notice about the shooting if he was not involved in some way, if there were not some
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operation going on here to investigate and trap white supremacists? Or the agent just had no idea what
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he was doing. Or the agent was on the guy's team. In any of those cases, you need to protect yourself.
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None of those possible scenarios look very good for the federal agent or for law enforcement.
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If these reports are true, we don't know if they're true yet. There'll be an investigation.
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All that does is add more evidence to the argument that you need to be able to protect yourself.
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All around, you've got law and order crumbling in the country. And the justice system isn't doing
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anything about it. There was a video went viral over the weekend of thieves in Los Angeles. They
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break into Sephora, the makeup store. And these guys, just by the looks of them, it's hard to tell
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because they're wearing hoodies and they're trying to cover up their identities. But just by the looks
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of them, I don't think that they're all that interested in putting makeup on themselves.
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They have big black trash bags and they're just emptying out store shelves with no consequences.
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This is about three of these guys. And they're just being filmed too. I love these bystanders.
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They're not stopping them. There's no guard coming out and stopping them. They're just filming.
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I guess it's good that they're filming. We can at least see what's going on.
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And these dudes have no fear in the world. No one's going to come stop them.
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See you. There you go. All right. They got it. Just walking right out.
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They're not even running it. They're walking it. That's how little fear they have of law enforcement.
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And it's not even the cop's fault in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, it's because the George Soros-backed
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district attorney has said that he's not going to prosecute these guys. So there's no surprise
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there. If you've got a radical leftist DA encouraging this kind of crime, then that's
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the kind of crime you're going to get. And even if the cops wanted to do something, they wouldn't
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be able to because the political superiors won't let them. If you are in Los Angeles, like I was,
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I lived in Los Angeles a long time. I would not feel safe relying on the cops to protect me and my
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family and my rights and my property or anything else. And what's tough in Los Angeles is it's
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very hard to get a concealed carry permit. It's basically impossible to get a concealed carry
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permit. So what would you do? Well, you could either move out to one of the counties around it
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where it's easier to get a gun and protect yourself, or you move out of the state entirely,
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which is what we did. It's not just Los Angeles. Look at what's going on in New York. In New York,
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subway attacks have always occurred. They are becoming more commonplace and they are becoming more
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brazen. This crazy guy running around yelling. I think it's a guy. He's dressed up in women's
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clothing, but he looks like a guy. Sits down next to these women. They start to get up and, oh,
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there he goes. This woman sitting next to him tries to get up. He grabs her by the back of the hair,
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pulls her back down. She looks terrified, as of course she should be. She's saying, help me.
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She's kind of mouthing this to other people. She's remaining pretty calm, though.
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And no one's doing a damn thing. No one's lifting a finger.
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There's someone filming her. I bet the guy filming her puts the camera down and goes and helps her.
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Finally, the guy gets up. Yells at the woman, get up.
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And lets her go. I think he's wearing women's clothing. Yeah, it's definitely a dude, though.
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Wearing women's clothing and women's pants. What has happened in this country where everyone on that
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subway is just going to sit by and let bad people do whatever they want to helpless women who are
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saying, please help me, help me. Nobody does anything because we are in a state right now in
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this country where no one feels the urgency or the ability to protect ourselves. We're all going
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to let somebody else handle it for us. I got news for you, folks. The cavalry's not coming in, okay?
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the most important five minutes you will spend today. This video from the New York City subway
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really, really bothered me. Because if I'm a New Yorker, if you've lived in New York any period
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of time, you have had run-ins with crazy, wild homeless people. And sometimes if they're just
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ranting and raving and doing their own thing, you just leave them be. That's New York. Not surprising
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to see people on the subway just staring ahead, minding their own business, reading the ads on the
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side. But if the homeless guy is getting, I assume this guy's homeless, is getting up there,
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getting very aggressive, especially with women, you would hope people would intervene.
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Most people I know in New York who have had run-ins with homeless people like this have
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intervened in some way, either talking to him, either kind of holding him down a little bit,
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getting in between him and the people he's going after. This would not have been uncommon even
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in recent years. Something has broken in our society where you can see a guy abusing this woman,
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holding her hostage, basically. And you just say, oh, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to film
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this. Oh, I know. This is going to be really great on TikTok. She's saying, help me, help me.
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Because we're all waiting for someone else to do something. And so we are led like sheep to the
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freaking slaughter. If you're always waiting for someone else to protect you, if you're always
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waiting for someone else to do the right thing, guess what's going to happen? Nobody's going to do the
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right thing. If you live in a society that says courage is awful, men protecting women,
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that's toxic masculinity. If you, if you ever tell a homeless person, no, if you ever some
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street criminal, gosh, you might be called a racist. The guy who was attacking her is black.
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You don't want to be called a racist, do you? You don't, better just to sit down and mind your own
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business. And well, if you live in that society, then, then the, the cruel and the bad guys are going
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to run amok. And that's exactly what's happening. And it's being encouraged by the so-called
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justice system, which says, Hey, even if the cops do show up to the scene, we're going to let these
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guys off the hook. The, the way politics works, the way that the law works is that this seems so
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basic, but we've forgotten it in our, in our country. If you incentivize something, you get
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more of it. We've, we've, we've convinced ourselves with a lot of kooky theories that somehow if you,
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if you tolerate all sorts of terrible things, somehow, maybe you'll get less of it. Well,
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all we really need to do, we need to stop arresting the criminals and then we'll get less crime.
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You see the real, the root cause of crime is cops arresting criminals because they're, it's so unjust
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and prison is really, when you put the criminals in prison, you get more crime actually on, and how,
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I don't know how, when you, you know what we need to do to stop the drug problem?
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We need to legalize all the drugs. And then when you legalize all the drugs and have people doing
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all the drugs, then you get less drug use. That's, people seriously make this argument
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on the left, certainly, but also on the right, usually more on the libertarian right. They'll
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say that all the, the whole reason we have a drug problem is because we arrest people for doing drugs.
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No, I don't think so. It's because we have an over-incarceration. No, we have an under-incarceration
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problem. When you have crime going through the roof, when you have drug use and drug dealing going
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through the roof for that matter, you, you have an under-incarceration problem, an under-policing
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problem. There was an ad, talk about the New York subway. Ad shows up on the New York subway and it's
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of a woman, a POC woman, you know, the most politically correct kind of archetype you can
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imagine. And it says, don't be ashamed you are using, be empowered that you are using safely.
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Using what? What does she mean using? She's talking about using drugs.
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What is fentanyl? That's what it says right underneath the woman. Fentanyl is a powerful
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opioid that can be found in heroin, cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, ketamine, and pressed pills.
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Why is it dangerous? Fentanyl increases the risk of overdose, especially among people who do not
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regularly use opioids. Okay. I agree with the first two panels. What's that third panel say?
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Prevent overdose. Avoid using alone and take turns. Start with a small dose and go slowly.
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Have naloxone on hand. I think that's to mitigate the risk of overdose. Avoid mixing drugs. Test your
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drugs using fentanyl test strips. Don't be ashamed. You're using drugs. Don't avoid you.
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They could have stopped that third panel after the second word. Avoid using. Don't do drugs. Just say
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no. Remember that? No, we don't say that anymore. Now we say just when you do use fentanyl and when
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you do shoot up heroin, do it a little more slowly. Okay. And whatever you do, don't be ashamed that
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you're a heroin addict. That's the worst thing in the world. Don't feel any shame. Be proud, actually.
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Be proud that you're taking heroin a little bit more slowly and using all of the sometimes city
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subsidized tools to shoot up. Does this seem like the kind of public service announcement that is going
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to reduce drug use? I don't think so. Reagan used to have this line. He said,
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it's not that our liberal friends are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that are
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not so. Nowhere is this truer than in the war on drugs. We are told that this is the gospel truth
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that the war on drugs failed. The war on drugs failed. It didn't work. The policy of the United
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States from the 1970s through 1990s was a total failure. And so we got to get rid of that. And
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we got to try some new tack on drug use and stop criminalizing it and stop arresting people for it.
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And just actually give them the tools that they need to shoot up drugs in a different way.
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None of that is true. The war on drugs worked. I know nobody says it anymore. Even on the right,
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people don't say it, but it's true. If you look at illicit drug use from the 1970s to the 1990s,
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it dropped dramatically. Many fewer people were using illegal drugs starting from the 1970s down
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through the 1990s. And then we started to reverse some of those policies and drug use is back up
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now to an all-time high. Now, sure, you can tweak different programs. You can tweak different
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policies along the way. But the problem with the war on drugs was not that there were too many
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restrictions. The problem with the war on drugs is not that there was too much shame.
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Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed that you're a crackhead, especially in the era of Hunter Biden.
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I can see why the government is pushing this stuff. Don't be ashamed you're a crackhead.
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Just smoke crack out of this pipe that we're giving you, we in the government. No, that's an insane idea.
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You should be ashamed. Shame is a powerful tool. Shame is your friend.
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Welcome shame when you are doing shameful things. That is your conscience telling you to stop doing
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what you're doing. It's like when you're a little kid and you put your hand on the hot burner on the
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stove and you say, ow, my hand hurts. Those little nerves in your fingers that make you pull your hand
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away, those help you. The pain that you feel, that helps you because it tells you avoid doing this in
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the future. That's what shame does for your soul. That's what guilt does. Okay, you say, ah, ooh,
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my soul doesn't feel very good when I shot up that heroin. Good. Cultivate that. Use that and allow that to
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turn you away from what you are doing. But we live in an upside down society now that has no, that has
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completely lost that sense of what's right and wrong and good and bad. Total disorder. This is what, this is
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what our society has led to. It has led Joe Biden, perhaps to make a little Freudian slip over the weekend
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when he said that democracy has never been good. Ladies and gentlemen, today we remember and we
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reaffirm freedom is worth the sacrifice. Democracy is not perfect. It's never been good. Perfect.
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But it's worth fighting for. It's never been good. Perfect. A Freudian slip, of course, is where you say
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one thing, but you mean your mother. And that would appear to be what Joe Biden has engaged in over the
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weekend. And now, of course, Joe Biden has no respect for democracy. The Democrats generally are far less
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democratic than the Republicans. That's why the Democrats want to take a lot of decisions away
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from the people. Decisions over the definition of marriage. Decisions over abortion, whether or not
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you can kill your baby. Decisions over all sorts of issues. They want to take that away from the people
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and take it away from the people's representatives and put it into the bureaucrats' hands or put it into
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transnational institutions or put it into unaccountable woke corporations, actually. A lot of our speech
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policy now is no longer made in the properly political sphere. It's made by the corporations.
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It's made by big tech. So they're very anti-democratic in that way. But Biden actually makes something of a
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point here when he says democracy has never been good. Democracy is not concerned. It's not focused
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primarily on what's good. That's what aristocracy is about. Just a really basic overview. There are
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three main forms of government. Monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. That's the perfectly fine version of
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those governments. Then there's a bad version. The bad version of monarchy is tyranny. The bad version
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of aristocracy is oligarchy. The bad version of democracy is mob rule. Democracy is concerned with what
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the people want. And aristocracy is, in theory, concerned with what is best. That's what the word
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aristo means. So it's true. Democracy is not primarily concerned with what is good. And this is
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why the Founding Fathers severely limited democracy and put a lot of guardrails on democracy. Part of
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our government is democratic. Part of our government is not so democratic. There are lots of elements of
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aristocracy in our government. There are lots of guardrails. The judiciary is not particularly
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democratic. When the country was founded, the Senate was not particularly democratic. Today,
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the bureaucracy is not particularly democratic. There are all sorts of guardrails on democracy here
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because the Founding Fathers knew that there were certain rights and obligations that transcend any
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form of government and transcend the will of the people. One of which is, to take us right back to the
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top of the show today, the natural right and obligation to protect yourself, whether the people want you to
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have that right or not. You know, the world is changing very fast. Everything we thought that we already knew
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books. I like to make sense of things. A woman is not anything in particular. There is not one
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particular thing. It could be many things to many people. Some women have penises, right? Some men have
00:24:31.600
vaginas. And so they go on the internet and they're told that all their problems will be solved
00:24:37.340
if they become a man. There are masculine girls. There are feminine boys. What are we going to do
00:24:43.820
about that? Carve them up? I care about the truth. I care about children. I care about the women who
00:24:49.660
are having their opportunities stolen from them. Based on what I'm saying, would you ever want to move
00:24:53.480
to America? They say no. Never. He flew to Africa. The man flew to Africa to ask a tribe this question.
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00:25:24.060
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00:25:41.100
Joe Biden's claim over the weekend that democracy has never been good,
00:25:45.660
revealing his deepest thoughts. That was not the only gaffe he's made in recent days. Joe Biden was
00:25:52.560
just giving a commencement address at the University of Delaware, his alma mater, in which he claimed that
00:25:59.100
the right, the conservatives, the Trump supporters, the January 6thers killed two police officers at the
00:26:07.400
Capitol. A mob of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol. Very citadel of democracy. Imagine what
00:26:16.280
you'd be thinking today if you had heard this morning before you got here that a group of a thousand
00:26:22.140
people broke down the doors of the Parliament of Great Britain, killed two police officers, smashed
00:26:31.060
and ransacked the office of members of the British Parliament or any other. What would you think?
00:26:41.240
What would you think? What would you think? Joe Biden is too old to put on the disingenuous
00:26:47.780
emotional voice. He was much better at it when he was younger, but he's still trying.
00:26:52.140
And this was, this was not off the cuff. This was a very carefully written speech. And you can
00:26:59.380
know how carefully written the speech was because he doesn't exactly claim that the January 6th,
00:27:07.800
the worst day in American history, January 6th. He doesn't exactly claim that they killed two police
00:27:13.540
officers. He insinuates it. He heavily implies it, but he doesn't say it. What he says is,
00:27:20.900
a mob of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, the very citadel of democracy,
00:27:25.760
even though the doors were opened for them by the cops at various entryways. Okay, nevermind.
00:27:31.560
We'll let that go. A mob of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, the very citadel of democracy.
00:27:36.940
Imagine what you'd be thinking today if you had heard this morning that a group of a thousand
00:27:41.780
people stormed the doors of Parliament in Great Britain, killed two police officers,
00:27:45.580
smashed and ransacked the offices of the Parliament. He's putting it in a hypothetical.
00:27:50.900
Because he knows that if he says the January 6th, violent, terrible, insurrectionists terrorists,
00:27:57.620
they killed two police officers, that would be a flat out lie. We know that did not happen. At the
00:28:04.500
Capitol, the mob did not kill any police officers. Initially, we were told that they killed one police
00:28:11.560
officer Brian Sicknick, but they didn't. He died after January 6th, not even the same day, a day or two
00:28:19.480
later, and he died of natural causes. That's what the medical examiner ruled. Then later, two cops who
00:28:26.700
were present on January 6th at the Capitol killed themselves, which is really weird in and of itself.
00:28:34.240
Probably there should be some investigation into that if there hasn't been already.
00:28:40.520
But whatever the investigation would conclude, surely they could not say that the mob killed
00:28:45.820
these cops at the Capitol. That did not happen. So Biden can't say that. He can insinuate it though.
00:28:52.480
He can put it into this hypothetical. Imagine, imagine if instead of the mob just being a horn hat guy
00:28:59.420
dancing around the rotunda and a dad cracking a Coors Light in someone's office, imagine if
00:29:04.540
it had been the terrorists and that were in Britain or in this place or in that place. Imagine if,
00:29:11.060
well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. If I had some ham, I could have a ham sandwich. If I
00:29:15.720
had some bread, these hypotheticals don't really say very much about what occurred because they're so
00:29:20.580
outside the realm of reality of what actually happened. But the reason Biden is doing that,
00:29:25.840
the reason he's giving this carefully written speech is to call you a killer because he's saying
00:29:30.800
that the people at the Capitol are representative of half the country who, which supported Donald
00:29:36.720
Trump, which is conservative, which is Republican, and the people at the Capitol killed cops.
00:29:40.740
So therefore you are a cop killer. You are a murderer. You are a threat to our citadel of democracy,
00:29:47.000
our sacred democracy. And therefore Biden is justifying retaliation against you.
00:29:52.240
So that's all this is about. That's all the January 6th stuff is about.
00:29:57.120
You know this because January 6th not only was not the worst insurrection in the history of America,
00:30:02.580
it wasn't the worst insurrection of the year. The worst insurrection of the year was BLM,
00:30:06.880
which took place not for one afternoon in the Capitol rotunda where they didn't kill anybody.
00:30:11.780
BLM took place over the course of about eight months in 2020 and killed lots of people,
00:30:16.600
killed dozens of people, didn't just attack one federal building, attacked multiple federal
00:30:20.420
buildings, didn't just ransack the lobby, but actually threw Molotov cocktails at some of
00:30:24.460
those buildings and burned down private businesses and went to people's places of work and homes and
00:30:30.780
ransacked stores and wrought all kinds of havoc. And you never hear the Democrats saying peep about
00:30:36.480
that. Actually what the Democrats did was bail out the criminals, like Kamala Harris, who raised money
00:30:41.840
to bail out, not the peaceful protesters, but to bail out the criminals. So you know it's not about
00:30:46.420
our democracy or political violence or anything like that. It's about calling you a terrorist,
00:30:52.580
calling you the ordinary American conservative, a grave threat, and then justifying retaliation
00:30:57.440
against you. Whether that be changing some of the voting laws as they did in 2020, whether that be
00:31:03.680
limiting some of your political rights, whether that be trying to push, I don't know, gun control,
00:31:10.160
whether that be trying to push any other of their longstanding political action items. That is what
00:31:15.860
he is doing there. And you're seeing it happen around the world. Just up in America's hat,
00:31:20.640
Justin Kestro Trudeau has decided that he is now going to ban handguns and frankly, even more than
00:31:28.540
handguns in Canada. We're introducing legislation to implement a national freeze on handgun ownership.
00:31:38.220
What this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns
00:31:47.020
anywhere in Canada. In other words, we're capping the market for handguns.
00:31:54.300
As a further part of this new legislation, we're also fighting gun smuggling and trafficking
00:32:00.420
by increasing maximum criminal penalties and providing more tools for law enforcement to
00:32:06.740
investigate firearm crimes. And we'll require the permanent alteration of long gun magazines
00:32:17.420
What Trudeau is revealing here is something that we have long suspected. I call Canada America's hat
00:32:24.520
or George Washington's greatest mistake because Washington didn't go and take it. But Canada
00:32:29.740
really is an extension of America. More specifically, the Canadian government is just an extension of the
00:32:35.840
American Democratic Party. So this order in Canada is coming out because of a shooting in Texas.
00:32:42.100
That is the impetus for this law. So a shooting at the southernmost part of the separate country to
00:32:49.380
the south of Canada is what is causing Trudeau to react, just like a Democratic governor would say,
00:32:55.900
and pass this gun law. But notice the bait and switch here. You have this awful shooting in Texas,
00:33:02.200
which is committed using a rifle. And so Trudeau says, we're going to ban handguns.
00:33:07.220
Why would you ban handguns? That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. If you're
00:33:11.240
specifically targeting the guns that are being used in this crime, then why would you ban handguns?
00:33:17.840
Well, we're also banning magazines for rifles so that you can't have many rounds at all in your
00:33:24.000
rifles. But we're also going to ban handguns. Why? Because while the Canadian left, while Trudeau is
00:33:31.180
using the shooting in Texas as the excuse to pass this law, they've wanted to do this for a very long
00:33:36.700
time. And there's a lot of evidence that this will not be successful in reducing any kinds of
00:33:41.000
murder. And there's actually a lot of evidence that it will be unsuccessful. Because in the 1990s,
00:33:45.880
there was an elementary school shooting, actually, in the United Kingdom. And the UK decided to ban
00:33:51.280
handguns after that shooting. So this is 1996, 1997. In the six years that followed, not only did
00:33:59.620
murders not decrease in the United Kingdom, they actually increased. They actually almost doubled.
00:34:04.780
So the banning handguns policy did not have the effect that the politicians who sold it to the
00:34:09.580
public told them that it would. Actually, it was the opposite effect. And what you see, maybe you
00:34:15.120
see a reduction in gun crime, maybe. But you see an increase in other kinds of crime, and you see an
00:34:20.080
increase in murders as well. So now instead of being killed with a gun, you'll be killed with a
00:34:23.580
knife. Does that make you feel better? Does that make you sleep easy at night? I don't think so.
00:34:27.120
All it means is now you can no longer protect yourself, which isn't a natural obligation that
00:34:33.440
you have. And I'm not saying, by the way, that the natural obligation to protect yourself and the
00:34:38.740
right that you have to protect yourself means that the current American gun laws that we have right
00:34:43.100
now are the be all and end all for all time in all places. That's not the argument I'm making.
00:34:47.000
If, for instance, I were on a desert island and there were 10 people on this desert island and
00:34:54.240
there were no guns, I do not think that my natural right and duty to protect myself and my family
00:35:00.180
means that I need a gun. I'd probably do just fine with a conch shell and a coconut and maybe a big
00:35:06.560
plank of wood because, presumably, that's all the other guys on the island have, so I could protect
00:35:11.960
myself with that. But we do not live on an island with just conch shells and coconuts and wood. We
00:35:18.620
live in a country where there are more guns than people. We live in a country with a long history
00:35:24.980
of gun ownership and with guns that you are not going to get rid of. Even if you go door to door
00:35:29.860
to confiscate, I don't think you're going to get rid of them. And we have a second amendment which
00:35:34.020
protects people's rights to own guns. And that second amendment, by the way, didn't even establish the
00:35:38.960
right to have a gun. It just acknowledged the pre-existing right to have a gun, which we inherited
00:35:43.480
from the British. So in this country, self-defense, your right to protect yourself and your family,
00:35:50.000
means gun ownership. That's just what it means in reality, okay? The circumstances of our politics
00:35:56.880
means that the natural right to self-defense looks like something. And in America, it looks like
00:36:02.340
having a gun, even though the left is going to try to take that from you and seriously damage
00:36:08.880
your ability to protect yourself. But don't worry, we'll just wait on the cops, right?
00:36:12.940
The cop, the left telling you, the cops are racist and evil and terrible. And that's why they need to
00:36:18.900
have all the guns. Does that make sense to you? I don't think the cops are incompetent and stupid
00:36:24.200
and wicked and, and cowardly and inefficient. And that's why they should be the only people who can
00:36:30.780
protect you. Does that make sense? No, none of the arguments that they, that they are making,
00:36:35.500
make any sense. There's a really basic one that makes sense. Protect yourself.
00:36:40.240
You should protect yourself. That, that's a pretty simple argument, isn't it?
00:36:45.200
There is no bottom to the slippery slope that we are on in this country.
00:36:49.700
When it comes to crime, when it comes to the justice system, when it comes to especially
00:36:54.920
weird sex stuff. We've, we've been thinking that we're at the bottom of the slippery slope since
00:37:00.600
the 90s and it just keeps, we just keep on slipping. There's a story now out of a North
00:37:07.180
Carolina public preschool. There's a public school that has preschool as part of it.
00:37:13.500
The preschool teacher was just taught indoctrinated, or was just caught rather indoctrinating kids into
00:37:19.860
LGBT, LMNOP ideology. How, how is this even possible to indoctrinate a third, a three-year-old
00:37:26.740
or a four-year-old into LGBT? Well, the teacher was teaching his students colors, colors, and then
00:37:35.480
was caught. I'm sorry, it was a woman. That makes it slightly less creepy. She was then caught
00:37:43.740
using the LGBT flag to teach the students colors. The cards that were used in this lesson are created
00:37:50.800
by this company, Buy Us Box, which made sets of flashcards showcasing non-binary and transgender
00:37:57.200
animals, gender-neutral nursery rhymes, and a blackness collection. The company, I'm just reading
00:38:03.320
it. This is right from the Daily Mail. The company was created by two women who said they were inspired
00:38:07.700
by the murder of George Floyd. What? That checks every wokeness box. The company, because of,
00:38:16.120
because of George Floyd, dying while he had a toxic, a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system,
00:38:24.840
resisting arrest, he died. And then that was called a racist murder. Because of that, they were inspired
00:38:32.340
to make gay flashcards to teach three-year-olds about transgenderism in public schools. Does that,
00:38:39.400
does that, do you follow that logic? In a way, I kind of do. The logic is all of the traditional
00:38:46.100
standards of our society are bad. We need to get rid of all of them. That's, that's the logic.
00:38:51.840
In Marx's words, it's the ruthless criticism of all that exists. And it's on race, and it's on
00:38:56.300
justice, and it's on drugs, and it's on crime, and it's on sex, and it's on education, and it's on
00:39:01.000
everything. And the left is going to tell you, there is no, there's no LGBT indoctrination in
00:39:08.840
preschool. Take off your tinfoil hat, you crazy conspiracy theorist. In public preschool? No,
00:39:15.880
no, wacko. Okay, Alex Jones. No, your taxpayer dollars are not going to indoctrinate three-year-olds
00:39:24.680
into LGBT and transgenderism, and it's good that they are. What was that last part? No,
00:39:31.800
I said that your taxpayer dollars are not, no, I said after that part. I said, oh, it's good that they
00:39:35.540
are. It's good, it's good that we are doing exactly what you're accusing us of doing. I
00:39:41.760
mention it just to remind you, this stuff actually is happening. Don't let them gaslight you. And
00:39:46.220
it's not going to stop at three. It's not going to stop at three. We used to say, it's not going
00:39:50.600
to stop in college. It's not going to stop in high school. It's not going to stop in middle school.
00:39:53.860
It's not going to stop in elementary school. It's not going to stop in preschool. It's going to go,
00:39:56.660
you're going to get this stuff in vitro pretty soon. Okay, you're going to get this stuff for
00:40:01.040
one-year-olds. Baby's first monkeypox party or something. That'll be like a little mobile that
00:40:10.680
they'll have over their crib, and it'll be all sorts of sexual icons and rainbows and all sorts
00:40:16.260
of creepy stuff. That's what you're going to get. Okay, because the left's total revolution on all
00:40:23.320
aspects of society demand it. They're going to deny it the whole time, and as they're denying it,
00:40:27.660
they're going to tell you that it's good that it's happening. A father has taken to TikTok
00:40:33.540
to ask for your help. It's hard raising a kid today. The economy's not great. Inflation's
00:40:41.280
through the roof. And this dad, he's suddenly realized it's really hard to pay for his child's
00:40:48.160
transgender surgery. I'm raising money to help fund my son's transition-related costs.
00:40:54.600
I'm sharing this with his permission. Basically, we already have a diagnosis of
00:41:01.240
gender dysphoria for him. We have gotten his blood work done, and we need to start him on
00:41:06.740
puberty blockers as soon as possible. Now, I personally, I transitioned later, so I wasn't
00:41:13.180
familiar with how puberty blockers worked. Basically, my insurance doesn't cover this,
00:41:18.920
which is wonderful, right? So, this guy, I assume it's a guy. I don't know these days.
00:41:26.760
If he's promoting transgenderism, he might really be a chick who took a bunch of drugs. I don't know.
00:41:31.340
It's really hard to tell. He's kind of just amorphous, and he's got weird colored hair,
00:41:36.280
and he's got a nose ring, and his voice is a little odd. And whatever he is or she is,
00:41:41.860
he is promoting transgenderism for his kid. See how confusing it is? For his kid, and he wants you
00:41:50.320
to pay for that. How come all the transgender kids seem to come from these weirdo, psycho,
00:42:01.040
pervert parents? Isn't that kind of weird? What are the odds? This is not data. I'm just using
00:42:08.040
anecdotes here, but I know lots of people. Look, I come from New York. I lived in California. I come
00:42:14.300
from very liberal backgrounds. I have multiple friends who have struggled with sexual confusion,
00:42:21.480
transgenderism. And I notice they never seem to come from normal families. They always seem to come
00:42:28.580
from extremely dysfunctional families and from parents with lots of disorders. Isn't that weird?
00:42:36.080
Because we're told that transgenderism is just a totally natural thing. It can happen to anyone.
00:42:40.660
It's biological. It comes from your innermost truest self. And yet, the normal families never
00:42:47.680
seem to produce. I'm not saying never. I'm not saying never, never. But I'm saying it's so
00:42:51.840
exceedingly rare, and it's so increasingly common with dysfunctional, weirdo, pervert dads like this guy
00:42:59.820
who's trying to mutilate his child's body. How did he get the child? I don't know. I don't know.
00:43:06.220
These days, you can get a child all sorts of ways, apparently. The only way that's discouraged is
00:43:11.620
the old-fashioned way. But who knows? Who knows what this kind of family situation is? And he's saying,
00:43:18.120
yeah, I really want to put my kid on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mutilate my poor
00:43:21.920
little kid's body. Because he, he totally has this condition. It's not just me projecting it onto my
00:43:29.840
kid. Even though kids just totally absorb whatever their parents say and do. And this is why you got
00:43:38.020
to watch your language around kids. Because you know that kids are like sponges, and they're
00:43:41.620
absorbing everything. This is why you've got to watch your behavior, because kids are modeling their
00:43:44.760
behavior after your behavior. So the more dysfunction you get in the family, the more dysfunction you're
00:43:50.960
going to get through society. I saw someone responding to one of these incidents. They said,
00:43:55.880
you know, listen, you can't legislate family, okay? Listen, get your politics out of my family.
00:44:03.400
How dare you? What do you, what does that mean? You sometimes hear people say, you can't legislate
00:44:08.820
morality. I don't know what that means. You can't legislate culture. I don't know what that means.
00:44:13.500
You can't legislate family. What does that, what do you think laws permitting no-fault divorce are?
00:44:18.640
That's legislating family. That's going in the political system and saying, this is what family
00:44:23.360
is going to look like now. What do you think Obergefell was? The Obergefell decision that
00:44:28.200
redefined marriage. Not even that long ago. What was it, about seven years ago? Redefined marriage
00:44:33.400
to include monogamous same-sex unions. What do you think that was? That was legislating family.
00:44:38.020
That was culture being downstream of politics. And not even a majority of the people. It wasn't,
00:44:44.220
it wasn't democracy. Whenever gay marriage, quote unquote, was put up for a vote, it was
00:44:48.840
shot down. In California, it was shot down. Prop 8, it was shot down. And then the judges
00:44:54.160
go in and they say, no, we're going to, we're going to change that. We, the, the self-styled
00:45:00.680
aristocracy, not much of an aristocracy, if you ask me, we're going to redefine all these
00:45:04.960
basic things. You're, you're seeing this now play out, this religion of leftism, which is
00:45:13.600
especially concerned on the sexual front with LGBT, but you're seeing this religion play out
00:45:17.820
throughout the schools. It's not just the pre-K teacher who got caught using gay flashcards with
00:45:22.900
their three-year-olds. You are now seeing whole schools that are dedicated to LGBT-ism. And, and by
00:45:31.260
the way, you're seeing straight kids move into these schools because sometimes those schools have
00:45:34.820
better academics. Magic City Acceptance Academy is a grade six through 12 public school designed to
00:45:43.380
cater to LGBT students in Alabama. I know, I did a double take when I heard that too. A lot of things
00:45:49.900
that I didn't expect, but this apparently exists in Alabama. And then the craziest part is you've got
00:45:55.740
straight kids moving into that school because the public schools are no good. So they're moving
00:45:59.900
into a school which offers, quote, a brave learning environment and LGBTQ affirming culture for all.
00:46:07.180
Just more evidence that this is a religion. In the same way that when you had failing public schools
00:46:15.260
in the past, and even today in other parts of the country, sometimes you would get students enrolling
00:46:20.920
in Catholic schools because the Catholic schools were relatively pretty good. So you get all sorts of
00:46:24.580
students who weren't Catholic necessarily, who'd say, yeah, well, my kid's not Catholic, but I'm going to
00:46:29.080
send them to the Catholic school because it's got better academic standards. Well, now as the
00:46:33.460
Catholic schools are under attack, you now have LGBT schools, a school designed for the promotion of
00:46:42.180
LGBT ideology. And you've got the straight kids going because they say, well, look, my kid might not be
00:46:46.480
LGBT yet, but I'm going to send my kid there to that school because it's better than the public schools.
00:46:52.220
Of course, it's a religion. I mean, if you say your true self is really this, your soul and your soul
00:46:59.680
is at odds with your body. And so your soul is the soul of a woman, whatever that means, but your body
00:47:04.280
is the body of a man. And so you're really a woman and you're going to get to use the kid's bathroom.
00:47:09.060
That is a religious movement. And it's being backed by the state with taxpayer dollars.
00:47:14.100
The Biden administration, we'll get to this tomorrow. The Biden administration has just said
00:47:17.040
that K through 12 schools now have to let dudes into the girls' bathroom and changing area if they
00:47:23.300
want to get federal funds for food, for lunches and breakfasts and meals. If they want those federal
00:47:28.060
funds, sorry, you got to let Husky Hank go and change next to your daughter in the locker room or
00:47:32.620
go use the bathroom. That is a religious view that is being backed by the state. It's very nearly a state
00:47:40.460
establishment at the federal level. It's being done with your taxpayer dollars to force that on your
00:47:46.240
kids. And it's creating a very dangerous situation for our culture. And in the case of dudes going to
00:47:50.880
the girls' bathroom, just a physically very dangerous situation reminds us of our primary,
00:47:56.180
not our primary, but one of our primary obligations that we have in a society. And it's a duty and it's
00:48:01.940
an obligation and it's a right, regardless of what Joe Biden or any of these other idiots want you to
00:48:07.120
believe. That is the duty and the right to protect yourself and your family and your community.
00:48:12.360
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