Ep. 1030 - The ＂Alex Jones Was Right＂ Jar 2： Lab Leak
Summary
A new report suggests that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated in a lab in China. The CDC says they ve seen no evidence of a lab leak, but WHO officials say they ve found no evidence that the virus came from a lab at all.
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According to a new report out of the UK, the leader of the World Health Organization,
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quote, privately believes the COVID pandemic started following a leak from a Chinese laboratory.
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And this is, of course, very strange because for years now,
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I have been reliably informed by the always trustworthy establishment media
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that the lab leak theory was a wild and irresponsible conspiracy theory.
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President Trump is pushing a conspiracy theory again that coronavirus began in a lab in China,
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that the five eyes, these are America's closest allies in the intelligence community,
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are now saying that's not the evidence we've seen.
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The evidence we've seen points us to animal to human transmission.
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The publications say it's actually something, the virus has happened naturally.
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The CDCs that are based in Hubei and Wuhan, and also they told me they spoke,
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they hope to go to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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That's a place that's had a lot of focus on it, particularly under the former Trump administration,
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when many senior officials there pointed towards it without evidence,
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without facts to suggest it might have been the source of a lab leak.
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WHO investigators say they've seen no evidence of a lab leak.
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World Health Organization, I should point out, Don, they say the lab leak theory, extremely unlikely.
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Extremely unlikely, just another conspiracy theory.
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Except now, according to this report that cites a top government official,
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quote, while publicly the World Health Organization maintains that all hypotheses remain on the table
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about the origins of COVID, the source said Tedros Adhanom Ghebrezes,
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the director general of the WHO, had recently confided to a senior European politician
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that the most likely explanation was a catastrophic accident in a laboratory in Wuhan,
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Of course, normal people have known that the lab leak theory was likely almost from the very beginning.
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That's not what's interesting about this story.
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It's not even all that interesting that the WHO has changed its mind.
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The most interesting part and the most important part of this new report is that
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while the head of the WHO apparently now believes that the lab caused the pandemic,
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The reason is that the WHO, which is the institutional face of science with a capital S
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over the last two and a half years, is primarily a political organization.
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Contrary to the fantasies of the libs and the squishes, there are no neutral institutions.
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And the organizations that deny that they have a political bent are usually the most politically dangerous.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment Friday is from Old Skooled.
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Oh man, Old Skooled has been on the board a number of times.
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The problem isn't that there are people who are getting things like icons and mascots canceled.
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It's that there aren't enough people willing to speak up against them and push back.
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That is such a good point. The iconoclast mobs are always going to be around. They're
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always going to be trying to tear things down. In healthy societies, you've got people who will say,
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no, here is why it's good to have a George Washington mascot. Here is why it's good to
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wave the American flag. Here's why we're going to stand up for our symbols and for our civilization.
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The problem with our society is you've got the barbarians at the gates. They're frankly
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past the gates at this point. And then all the people who are supposed to defend the society,
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we just shrug our shoulders. We say, well, you know, we all have to be neutral.
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Well, maybe you're right. Maybe we shouldn't. Maybe we shouldn't. That American flag,
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maybe it's not very inclusive. Maybe we shouldn't. They throw their hands up in the air and they
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nulls. That's Podium.com slash nulls. Podium, let's grow. The World Health Organization,
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that very important scientific institution, they have really got their finger on the pulse of what
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matters. Right now, we've just had more than two years of the coronavirus pandemic. And the World
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Health Organization is hiding what it really believes about the origin of the virus to play
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politics with China. Okay, great. And now we've got this monkeypox virus that's spreading around,
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not quite as quickly as COVID, but it's spreading around the world. And the World Health Organization,
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Tedros Ananum Gabrizes, I could try for 10 years, I will not ever pronounce that man's name correctly.
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I keep trying. I have a different pronunciation every single time. That man and the World Health
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Organization that he runs, they're focused on the really important things, namely changing the name
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of the virus. WHO is also working with partners and experts from around the world on changing the name
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of monkeypox virus, its clades, and the disease it causes. We will make announcements about the new
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names as soon as possible. Thank you so much, Tedros. I'm so glad that WHO is devoting all of its
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resources to changing the name of the virus. Not to stopping the virus, not to try to figure out why
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this virus is spreading right now, not to trying to investigate and then publicly explain how that
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first virus started. No, no, we've got to change the name. They did this with COVID. They did this
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with COVID. They discouraged the term Chinese coronavirus, the Wuhan virus. They discouraged all
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of that. They then changed all of the names. You couldn't talk about the South African variant or the
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Indian variant. No, no, no. It was Delta, Ami, Lamid. And that's great. They finally have
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controlled our language. And that's what's important, isn't it? They don't want to call it
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monkeypox because they say monkeypox is racist because the virus comes from Africa, which you sort
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of think, well, I didn't make that connection. When I heard monkeypox, I didn't view that as racist
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because I don't view black people as monkeys. The World Health Organization, it's the liberals who
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are doing, they're saying, wow, you know, this monkeypox virus, it's just people's first thought
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is going to be that black people are monkeys. No, that's your first, that's not my first thought.
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What's wrong with you people? So they say, that's really important. And we've got to reduce stigma.
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They say, quote, in the context of the current global outbreak, continued reference to a
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nomenclature of this virus being African is not only inaccurate, but is also discriminatory and
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stigmatizing. So it's not inaccurate. It's a primarily African virus. The virus was first
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discovered in Zaire in 1970. That's where most of the breakouts have been throughout the history
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of monkeypox. The only other place where you had big outbreaks was West Africa. So yes, it is African
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in origin. I don't think there's anything discriminatory about referring to the virus by the
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name that it's had for 50 years. And then there's this question of stigma.
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Our culture wants to get rid of stigma. Stigmas are really bad that we want to get rid of shame.
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We want to get rid of stigma. We want to get rid of anything that's particular. But stigma can be an
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important thing. The stigma that most people are talking about with monkeypox is that it's primarily
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infecting gay guys. It started at a gay fetish orgy in Belgium and then at another gay bathhouse in
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Spain. That's where the big outbreaks have been. That's what's driving the global spread of monkey
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pox. But the World Health Organization and the rest of the liberal establishment doesn't want to
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point out that the virus is primarily a gay thing because they say that's homophobic. And for goodness
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sakes, during Pride Month, we can't mention something like that. But if you want to save gay people,
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shouldn't you mention that? Don't you? Far from it being homophobic. Don't you think it's actually quite
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homophilic to, don't you think it's quite pro-gay people living to let them know that this is
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primarily a gay thing and they should cut out the bathhouses if they want to not catch the monkeypox
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virus? In the United Kingdom, 99% of monkeypox cases are among gay guys. 99% of the people who have
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monkeypox in the UK are gay guys. And 1%, maybe they're being honest, maybe they're not. I'm not sure.
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But the overwhelming, overwhelming, almost 100% of people who have it are gay guys. So if you want
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to stop the spread of the virus and you want to protect people from catching it and potentially
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dying, shouldn't you say, hey, gay guys, be on high alert. Stop doing that stuff that's going to
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have you catch monkeypox. Don't go to an orgy and do that thing you shouldn't be doing with 100 guys
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at night if you don't want to catch monkeypox. I've had gay friends of mine say that if you really
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wanted to protect the gay community, you would rename monkeypox gay orgypox. And then, because
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it would increase stigma and it would increase stigma specifically around orgies in Belgium and
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bathhouses in Spain. And that would be a good thing. It would be a good thing on lots and lots of levels.
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But the WHO can't do that because it's very politically incorrect to suggest that certain
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viruses will spread more rapidly, much more, almost infinitely more rapidly among the gay community.
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And so they put all their focus on political correctness and try to rename the virus and
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distract from certain facts that are crucial in trying to stop the spread. That is because
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it's political. So knowing that it is political, we shouldn't pretend that it's this totally neutral
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scientific institution. It's not. It's bankrolled in large part by China. It's politically
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allied to China. And so they cover up for China a lot of the time. And it's part of a broader
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apparatus of liberal transnational institutions that push all the weird pathologies of liberalism,
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like wokeism and political correctness and all the rest of it. Normal people are pushing back on this
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kind of thing. You want to talk about orgies. I don't really want to talk about orgies, but parents
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are pushing back on this in schools and libraries. That parents movement that you've seen at school
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boards that you've seen at libraries, pushing back on drag queen story hour, on critical race theory,
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on the weird gender ideology in elementary schools. That isn't just conservative Republicans.
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That isn't just right wingers. That is people in the middle. That is centrists. That is liberals.
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That is center left too. And they're showing up. There was an incredible meeting at the
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Dixon, Illinois library board. Dixon, I think that's where Ronald Reagan is from actually.
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And they show up to the library board. The library wants to have a bunch of porn for kids
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in the library. And the parents show up and they say, hey, here is what's going on. And we don't
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Illinois, Illinois are pushing back on the weird stuff at their libraries.
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Books. This one, oral sex. This one, oral sex. Doesn't belong in our library. Not accessible to
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children. Completely inappropriate. Not okay. Not okay. Completely inappropriate. Keep this stuff out
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of the library. One, I love that these parents are doing it. Two, I love that people are videotaping
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it so the rest of us can see it because I imagine that library board doesn't want this kind of video
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getting out. Three, please send me your tips. I think it's very important on this show that we not
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only, you know, we comment on the crazy TikTok videos, we comment on the national news story,
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but it's very important to be able to bring this kind of information out there. Courage is contagious
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when one community that feels bogged down by wokeism sees another small town, another local
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community pushing back against it. It can really spread. It can create a movement. And so send me
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your tips. Send me your videos. You can do it through my personal website, michaeljnoles.com.
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You can send it to my daily wire email. I don't care. You can send it via carrier pigeon,
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but send me your tips from your local community. I think, I think we need to get a little bit more
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activist, especially as the midterm elections are rolling around. The parents are coming up there.
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They're not exactly calling for book burnings. Worth pointing out, by the way, that some of the
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greatest people in history have supported book burnings. I know this is an unpopular view in
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some corners of the right, but it's true. Plato supported book burnings. The apostles supported
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book burnings. It's in the New Testament, for goodness sakes. Martin Luther, I'm not, you know,
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I'm Catholic. I'm not a huge Martin Luther fan, but Martin Luther supported book burnings.
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There have been a lot, but anyway, I'm not, they're not calling for book burnings. They're
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just saying, look, you can have whatever books you want in the library, even radical content,
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even content I don't agree with, but not pornography, not obscenity. There has never been a protection for
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that ever in our whole civilization, certainly not in this country. And so no, where kids are going to
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be accessing this, we don't want that stuff. This is why you don't go into a library and say,
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back in the 1970s or 80s, hey, I'd like to check out 10 Playboys today. And they say, well, sir,
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we don't have Playboys. They say, this is censorship. This is, this is a book burning. This is, no,
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it's not. You just can't, you're, you're not entitled to smut in the public library. And if
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the taxpayers don't want to pay for smut, they shouldn't have to. We have the right to community
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standards. We have the right to obscenity laws. We have to remember that schools, libraries,
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libraries. These are political organizations. Conservatives don't, they don't notice that
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all the time because we think, well, let's get the politics out of schools. Let's get the politics
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out of entertainment. Let's, but political just means public. That's all it means. The words are
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synonymous. Things that pertain to our public life together. And so a library, of course that's
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political. It's funded by the taxpayers. It's pushing certain messages. When the library is promoting
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drag queen story hour, that is the political community endorsing perversion and weirdness
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and confusion and a sexual ideology. When the schools are promoting this stuff, that is political.
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The point of public schooling is to create citizens. There is almost nothing more political
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in America than public education. So of course, this is going to be political. The left knows that,
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so they wield the politics to their own ends. And the right for a long time has just said,
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well, let's just be neutral. Okay, let's kick the Bible out of schools. Okay, let's allow the drag
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queen reading hour. Okay, no, of course not. Then you're just giving your whole politics to the left.
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Do not do that sort of thing. On the topic of sex and politics, FIFA, the soccer organization,
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has just made a major ruling, or I'm sorry, is proposing a major new rule on sex and politics.
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That would be dropping the testosterone requirements for men who want to compete against women.
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So there are men who identify as women, they play in the girls league. And as of now,
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there are certain requirements that they not have testosterone above a certain threshold.
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And FIFA is considering dropping this. The current eligibility standard for men who identify as women
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is less than five nanomoles per liter after at least 12 months. But now they'll say, no, look,
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look, that man is a woman, no matter how much testosterone she has pumping through her veins,
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and through her male anatomy, and through her just heaving, hulking muscles, and through her giant,
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manly, masculine frame. She truly is a woman, no matter how much she is a man.
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Of course, of course, this had to happen. Mark my words, I'm making an Olstradamus prediction right
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now. If the transgender ideology is going to advance, if it's not rejected, they're going to
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have to get rid of the testosterone limits. They have to. Because either these people,
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these men, really are women, or they're not. Either they're women or they're not.
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They can't. There is no way to maintain any even semblance of coherence for transgenderism
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if they say that the demarcator of whether a man is a woman is the amount of testosterone he has.
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They can't. Because the premise of transgenderism is my body has nothing to do with who I really am.
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The premise of transgenderism is I'm a woman trapped in a man's body. So you can't have a body requirement
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to advance the transgender agenda. You have to get the body out of it completely.
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Either they're men or they're women. And we have to decide. Even FIFA is a political organization.
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Sports leagues are political. Sports, athletics, has had a very close connection to patriotism,
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to the business of the state, going all the way back to ancient Greece, going all the way back to
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the Olympic Games, and in every civilization and society since then. That's always been the case.
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This is why it was such a big deal when Colin Kaepernick came out and protested the American
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flag at the NFL. Why do we wave the American flag at the NFL? Why do we have the Star Spangled
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banner? Why do we have the Pledge of Allegiance at some sports games? Because sports always has
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something to do with the political order. And so Colin Kaepernick, pretty wisely, he's not a very
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wise man, but he had a clever move here. He said, I'm going to subvert that. So the issue is not that
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we're injecting politics into sports, as some people held it to be. The issue is we are using sports to
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subvert the traditional political order that sports plays a role in. And here you've got this sports
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league making a political decision. Men can be women. That's what they're saying. And that's
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increasingly what sports leagues have said. We have to decide the issue one way or the other.
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We the people. You know how I want to decide it. I think transgenderism is insane. I don't think it's
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a real category of being. I think people who consider themselves to be transgender should be given
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psychiatric help and philosophical help and spiritual help and all sorts of help, but they should not be
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indulged. And I think that the people who promote this stuff should probably be imprisoned. That's
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how I want to decide it. Maybe you want to decide it differently. Maybe you think transgenderism is
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totally real and we need to be really tolerant and men should be able to go in the women's bathrooms
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and men should be able to play on the women's soccer team. I certainly don't care about women's
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soccer. I couldn't possibly care any less about anything than women's soccer. I do care about truth.
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I do care about reality. But I'm just observing, even outside of my own political preferences,
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I'm observing the fact that we have to decide the question publicly, politically, for everyone.
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There's only going to be one standard that we're all living under here. And you're going to see it in
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the sports teams and at work and at school and in our government and everywhere else in society.
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It's not enough to say, well, you do you and I'll do me. You can't do that on basic questions about
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how we're going to live. It'd be like saying that we can't have a national language.
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For right now, we still have a national language in America. The language is English. That's what our
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signs are printed in. That's what government forms are printed in. The libs kind of want to undo that
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and have lots of different languages. But still, the language of America is English.
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We don't each have the right to speak our own language. If we did that, if all of us spoke our
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own language, we wouldn't communicate. Society would break down. We'd just walk up and say,
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jibbly gobbly goo, shumala madame, ding dong watermelon. And you'd say, huh?
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And then some other person would come out and speak a different language and there'd be no
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communication. You have to have some shared experience. You have to have some things in common
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if you want to have a political community. And one of those things you've got to have in common is
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what is a man? What is a woman? This is why the marriage question had to be decided
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politically. You couldn't have everyone just decide, well, it's my own personal preference
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of what marriage is. No, you have to have that kind of common language. And the libs know it,
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which is why they're pushing for their radical wrong vision on these questions. And the conservatives
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have thrown their hands up in the air. I heard this during the marriage debate. They said,
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well, look, I'm a libertarian on this question. Well, look, I'm agnostic on this question. Well,
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look, I just want to get the government out of it. Oh, okay. So you just, you're just going to
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concede it to the libs. That's all that means. He said, look, I just don't want to get political
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here. Oh, okay. Well, the other guy wants to get political. And the other guy who is pushing a
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campaign that totally opposes what you believe in, then he's going to win. Because the guy who's willing
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to wield political power, who's going to actually engage in political questions, he is going to be
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the one to succeed. That's why it's so important to lean in here to the culture and to these political
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Either transgenderism is real or it is not real. That's why they've got to push it on kids.
00:24:47.460
They have to push it on kids. Some conservatives, some squishes, they want to say, well, look,
00:24:53.100
I'm fine with transgenderism, but just not for the kids. That doesn't make any sense.
00:24:59.400
If transgenderism is real and you can really be a man trapped in a woman's body,
00:25:04.020
then for sure we should let the kids who have that problem transition. If some kid is really born
00:25:11.540
and he's a woman trapped in a man's body and he's just this woman trying desperately to get out,
00:25:19.860
then of course we should. If it is the case that the medical interventions and the chopping and the
00:25:24.820
puberty blockers and the hormone replacement really does allow the true woman inside of the little boy
00:25:30.180
to come out and flourish, then of course we should do that. We should do it as soon as possible.
00:25:35.220
But that's not the case. It's not a real thing. It's a fake thing. It's a delusion. It's a fantasy
00:25:42.800
and a psychological problem that should be treated, not indulged. But if it's a fake thing,
00:25:48.900
then we just shouldn't indulge it. If the experience of feeling like a woman trapped in a man's body is
00:25:57.820
just pathological, if it's just a mental illness, then we should treat the mental illness, not chop off
00:26:05.060
functioning body parts. You have to decide it based on reality, based on truth. The left is making a
00:26:14.700
truth claim. They're saying transgenderism is real. The conservatives up until this point have made a
00:26:22.920
preference claim. They've said, well, look, I don't want to adhere to that ideology, but I don't want to
00:26:30.100
stop you from, and I have no right to force my views on you. And if you want to do that, that's just fine.
00:26:35.060
I throw my hands up in the air. I don't want to get political. I don't want, come on. I just want
00:26:40.000
to live and let live. Oh, okay. So you're just conceding the issue to the libs and they're going
00:26:44.320
to push it on kids. They have to push it on libs, on the kids rather. The libs have to push it on the
00:26:49.440
kids. It's confusing to say. They have to, because you are tacitly granting their premise. And the
00:26:56.240
logical conclusion of their premise that transgenderism is real is that you should allow the
00:27:01.080
kids to transition. And that's what they're doing. A major transgender health organization
00:27:05.980
has, this is the World, World Professional Association for Transgender Health says it's
00:27:11.600
going to change its advice on when teenagers should be able to get treatment, also known as poison and
00:27:16.720
mutilation, because it is unethical and harmful to withhold early treatment. So the updated advice
00:27:22.800
is saying that kids should be put on cross-sex hormones starting at 14. And that kids should
00:27:29.180
have mutilation surgery where they chop off their genitals starting at 15. This is sickening stuff.
00:27:38.540
I actually feel nauseated reading this information. By the way, the puberty blockers start way earlier.
00:27:44.520
The puberty blockers can start at eight. And by the age of 17, you should be able to have full-on
00:27:53.520
genital mutilation. Not just the cosmetic stuff, or semi-cosmetic stuff. Not just the top surgery,
00:28:00.600
as it's called, where you lop off perfectly healthy breasts, but even the downstairs stuff too.
00:28:07.320
Of course they're going to get away with this, because the conservatives totally ceded the ground,
00:28:11.220
because we're not even engaging in the debate. We're saying, well, I'm agnostic on whether it's
00:28:16.440
true or false. Even if I think transgenderism is false, I don't want to push my political views on
00:28:21.400
you. And three, this isn't a place for politics. This should just be decided by individuals. And oh,
00:28:28.300
okay, well, then the other guys are going to make the truth claims. And the other guys are going to
00:28:34.140
force their views on everybody else, including poor little kids. And the other eyes are going to
00:28:40.120
order the culture and the politics. That's what's going to happen.
00:28:45.360
And by the way, the conservatives and the kind of squishy people who have been saying the whole
00:28:51.040
time, well, just let people make their own decisions. They're now leaving these poor kids
00:28:55.320
who by definition can't make their own decisions. They're below the age of consent.
00:28:58.920
They're leaving them to the predations of these psychos and these perverts. And to be charitable
00:29:03.120
about it, these confused people who have fallen under the thrall of transgender ideology, which is
00:29:10.600
completely absurd and incoherent. Is that good? Is there anything good or compassionate about allowing
00:29:19.020
that to happen? I don't think so. So what's the solution? It's a very simple solution. We just say
00:29:23.380
no. We say no. We've let this go way too far. Transgenderism is absurd. People who think that
00:29:29.760
they're transgender should be placed in asylums or at least in counseling. And the people who promote
00:29:34.780
this stuff, the doctors and the teachers and the media people and the politicians, we should pass
00:29:38.740
laws against that of grooming little kids for this nonsense. And we should put the people who break
00:29:43.660
them in jail. And that's that. And we're deciding that. It's not real anymore. We're going to be
00:29:47.920
charitable and compassionate about the issue. But it's not charitable and compassionate to mutilate
00:29:52.360
little kids' bodies and sterilize them when they're 14 years old. And frankly, starting even
00:29:56.460
earlier at eight years old, whatever train of thought has led you to the place where you're
00:30:03.740
sterilizing little kids, you've gone down the wrong path. Your premises are wrong. We need to try
00:30:10.760
something different. If transgenderism is real, which it's not, but if it's real, then this article
00:30:18.700
that I just read in Time Magazine is totally normal. If transgenderism is not real, and it isn't,
00:30:27.640
it is not real. I'm using lots of double negatives here. Then this article in Time Magazine is the
00:30:33.640
creepiest thing I've ever read. It's called The Pain and Pride of a Generation Changing How It Sees
00:30:39.040
Gender. The cover photo, I'm going to block out the poor kid's face. The cover photo is Freedom,
00:30:45.180
a two-spirit 13-year-old posing for a portrait for Time Magazine. Time Magazine just spent a year
00:30:55.060
going around the country taking photographs of sexually confused little kids. This is how they
00:31:01.560
describe it. They say that they're taking photos of gender expansive kids. Where is Chris Hansen when
00:31:10.260
you need them? I wish Time Magazine had called my house and said, hey, do you have any gender
00:31:16.700
expansive kids living with you? Yeah, no. What's the age limit? Oh, I don't know, 13, maybe even
00:31:22.420
younger. Yeah, we want to talk to them about their sexual desires and identities. Say, sure, come on
00:31:28.700
over at five o'clock. I'd have Chris Hansen waiting in my kitchen. Hi, Time Magazine. Yeah, why don't you
00:31:33.880
take a seat right over here? Oh, no, I wasn't going to do nothing. No, why don't you, listen, Time Magazine,
00:31:38.720
why don't you take a seat right over here? What were you planning on doing? You want to take
00:31:41.220
pictures of little kids with sexual confusion? It's super duper creepy. Our whole society would
00:31:49.820
have known this five years ago and exploitative and wrong and child abuse. Now we celebrate it.
00:31:56.300
Why? We celebrate it because we're letting the libs run the politics and the conservatives are just
00:32:02.000
backing off. I bet you, I guarantee you, the majority of Americans don't think that we should be taking
00:32:07.740
pictures of sexually confused little kids. I guarantee you, the majority of Americans don't
00:32:12.480
think that 13-year-old boys should be dressing up like girls and putting stilettos on and stuff.
00:32:18.000
I promise you, they don't think that. So why are we letting it happen? It's not because the liberals
00:32:23.720
have been, and the progressives and the leftists and whatever term you want to use, have been so
00:32:27.380
incredibly genius and they're just unstoppable. It's mostly because the conservatives surrendered and
00:32:34.080
gave up. Even the drag queens get this. There is a great viral video going around of a drag queen,
00:32:40.400
an actual performing drag queen, saying, guys, why the hell are you all being so supportive of the
00:32:46.460
drag queens? What in the hell has a drag queen ever done to make you have so much respect for them and
00:32:53.600
admire them so much, other than put on makeup and jump on the floor and writhe around and do sexual
00:33:00.740
things on stage? I have absolutely no idea why you would want that to influence your child.
00:33:09.080
Would you want a stripper or a porn star to influence your child? It makes no sense at all.
00:33:16.020
A drag queen performs in a nightclub for adults. There is a lot of filth that goes on, a lot of sexual
00:33:24.560
stuff that goes on. And backstage, there's a lot of nudity, sex, and drugs. Okay? And honestly,
00:33:33.900
you're not doing the gay community any favors. In fact, you're hurting us. Okay? We have already
00:33:39.620
had a reputation of being pedophiles and being perverts and deviants. We don't need you to bring
00:33:45.200
your children around. So you keep your kids at home, or take them to Disneyland, or take them to
00:33:50.300
Chuck E. Cheese. Preach. Preach, drag queen. You're telling it like it is. I love that line.
00:33:56.320
Take them to Chuck E. Cheese. What's wrong with you people? What has a drag queen ever done
00:34:02.100
to make you have so much respect for us? You think, oh, right. It was amazing how quickly the
00:34:10.460
libs did this. They blurred all the lines. They said, gay guys, and we need to tolerate gay guys.
00:34:16.740
And by tolerating gay guys, we need to embrace transgenderism for some reason. I don't really
00:34:22.340
quite know how that necessarily follows. And then if we're going to embrace transgenderism,
00:34:27.420
we need to support drag shows. There's even a difference between transgenderism and a drag show.
00:34:33.200
Transgenderism is when a confused man thinks that he's a woman. A drag show is when a deviant man knows
00:34:38.200
that he's not a woman, but thinks it'll be kind of funny to dress up like one and put on a bawdy
00:34:42.540
sexual performance. Those are totally different things. And then this drag queen, he says,
00:34:46.460
we're basically strippers. Why are you taking your kids to the stripper shows? What have we done?
00:34:54.000
We haven't done it all. The defining feature of a drag queen is putting on sex shows, sexual shows
00:35:02.260
in nightclubs for adults. The difference between a drag queen and a stripper, well, other than the
00:35:08.780
anatomical differences, is that a stripper puts on a sexual show and a drag queen puts on a funny
00:35:16.500
sexual show. A drag show is just basically a stripper burlesque show with more jokes and humor,
00:35:24.640
right? And you have the drag queen, and the drag queens are really outrageous. And that's why when
00:35:28.120
they do the parades up and down New York, they're telling jokes and doing all sorts of comedy. But
00:35:33.380
it's, that's it. It's just kind of a funny, funnier sex show. You wouldn't take your kid to a strip
00:35:40.100
club. Why would you take your kid to a, and you wouldn't take your kid even to a late night raunchy
00:35:46.700
comedy show. Why would you take your kid to both of them at the same time with a lot of sexual
00:35:52.320
confusion added on in addition? Because we've, we, it's because we have lost our minds on indulgence.
00:36:01.440
I'm not surprised that the libs are pushing this stuff. The libs have always had an interest in
00:36:06.000
sexualizing, well, everybody, and especially kids. They've been writing about this for a hundred
00:36:09.800
years. Wilhelm Reich, going back to the, the early 20th century, this leftist intellectual said that
00:36:16.280
the problem, all of the problems in the world, war, disease, everything in between, they're caused by a
00:36:21.900
lack of orgasms, not joking. And he said that he had invented an orgone accumulator to, to collect the,
00:36:29.080
the essence of, of life and the essence of the world, the organs floating around.
00:36:33.700
This was mocked in the pop culture as an orgasmatron. And lots of intellectuals on the left
00:36:38.460
had it. Norman Mailer had it. J.D. Salinger had it. Bernie Sanders wrote about this kind of stuff
00:36:43.060
and how we need to sexualize kids. He wrote about it in the 1960s in essays in the Vermont Freeman.
00:36:47.580
You can still read them. They've been, I get why the libs are pushing this stuff. It's part of their,
00:36:52.780
their campaign to upend society. In the words of Marx, ruthlessly criticize everything that
00:36:58.080
exists. My only issue here is why I'm being so harsh on the conservatives here is what have you
00:37:02.880
been doing? They've been telling you what they want to do for 50 to a hundred years now. They've
00:37:07.820
been doing it successfully. And then what do you do? You say, well, you know, it's not my place.
00:37:12.180
If someone wants to put on a drag show for children, that's a blessing of liberty. And that's,
00:37:15.860
it's not my place to ever have a point of view about that. What? The libs don't think that.
00:37:20.680
The conservatives didn't think that until five minutes ago. I don't, I'm not even sure you really
00:37:24.680
think that. I just think you've just been deluded or you're so beaten down by the leftist advances in
00:37:31.920
the culture that you don't, you don't have the chutzpah to go out and fight. Come on, push back
00:37:36.460
and fight guys. You know, the other aspect of the drag queens that's important here is the
00:37:43.180
transgender person wants to pretend that he's really the woman. It's a, it's a realistic performance of a
00:37:49.700
woman. The essence of a drag show is that it's a very unrealistic performance. This difference
00:37:55.920
between realism and unrealism is at the heart of it. There was a, a TikTok that went viral the other
00:38:02.040
day of some confused woman describing not just her transgenderism, but her neo pronouns and
00:38:08.480
specifically why she uses them. So neo pronouns are any set of pronouns that aren't officially recognized
00:38:16.160
pronouns might give them dysphoria or using neos could give someone gender euphoria. I use them
00:38:30.900
because they give me euphoria because I really enjoy confusing people with my gender identity,
00:38:38.040
which sounds kind of weird, but it gives me euphoria. So whatever.
00:38:42.500
I really like using they them and fey fair in conversation, like when I'm talking. And I really like using
00:38:50.800
bun bun self, uh, like if I'm texting someone or I guess just on the internet. Um, that's, that's the way
00:38:59.560
I like using them. So an example of fey fair pronouns could be, I really like fair jacket today. It's
00:39:06.880
fair favorite color. Faye like the color purple. And an example of bun bun self pronouns could be
00:39:13.740
bunched up on my for you page today. Bun really likes using neo pronouns.
00:39:19.180
Bun really gets a kick out of this and bun would prefer if you would refer to bun by bun self's
00:39:25.160
preferred bun buns and pronouns. That's true. It does not give me euphoria. It gives me bemusement,
00:39:30.240
but it doesn't give me euphoria. Euphoria is the key word there. I'm so glad this gal gets it. This
00:39:37.020
gal, I don't think she intended to point this out, but she says the opposite of dysphoria is euphoria
00:39:42.420
in the transgender ideology. Dysphoria means this unrealistic view of your own body that is a
00:39:49.240
negative view of your own body. But euphoria as it is used in modern life is an unrealistic
00:39:56.220
feeling of happiness. Euphoria is what you get when you shoot up heroin. It's the feeling that
00:40:02.260
you get. You're not really happy. You're not really thriving or flourishing, but it's the feeling that
00:40:07.060
you get. And this gal seems to suggest that those are the only two ways to live. In this dysphoria
00:40:13.280
or this euphoria, how about you live in real life? How about real life with real happiness grounded on
00:40:19.220
real things? That is entirely missing from the conversation. The extreme unrealism of what the
00:40:32.240
left is pushing, especially when we're talking about the sex stuff, is a big problem. And I feel
00:40:37.480
for this girl. This girl who says, you know, refer to me as bun bun self and fairy pronouns and whatever,
00:40:44.820
all these pronouns that are even beyond the 57 usual ones that we get these days.
00:40:49.480
This girl has been raised at a time of such surreality where life is not lived primarily
00:40:57.380
in the real world, but is lived in the virtual world. It's increasingly going to be lived in the
00:41:01.260
metaverse. It's lived on social media. It's lived with a focus only on oneself. It's lived with a focus
00:41:06.120
on how I feel. Not with a care to other people's pain or objective reality, but only a care for one's own
00:41:13.960
pleasure. A culture of narcissism. And so it's no surprise that she says, this gives me euphoria.
00:41:21.820
What a weird thing to say. She doesn't say this makes me happy or this is a good thing to do. She
00:41:26.260
says it gives me euphoria. It's like when people, it's when people describe themselves as a bag of
00:41:31.760
chemicals. They say, gosh, I got such an adrenaline rush. They don't say, boy, I was excited. Wow,
00:41:38.400
that thrilled me. No, they say, I got an adrenaline rush because you're just thinking of yourself as a
00:41:43.080
big bag of chemicals that just reacts to different stimuli. And when the stimuli poke you and make
00:41:49.180
you feel good on the inside, then you want more of that. That gives you euphoria. And when they make
00:41:53.880
you feel bad, you want less of that with no care to objective reality or to discipline or to some
00:41:59.820
temporary pain that might strengthen someone over time. Something tells me that these people who are
00:42:06.640
just focused entirely on themselves and their own low base pleasures. Something tells me they don't
00:42:12.320
have a great relationship with their parents. I'm not saying it's 100% of the time, but usually when
00:42:18.020
you see people dancing around talking about bun bun self and all sorts of mutilations on them and
00:42:24.120
they're screaming and they're yelling and they're protesting outside of the Supreme Court
00:42:27.220
justice's houses. You look at that and you say, huh, something tells me you don't have a great
00:42:33.140
relationship with dad. It's a little harsh to say, but 999 times out of a thousand, that is going to be
00:42:41.880
the case. This is a problem that you've got to solve first. Before we figure out the debt and the
00:42:51.120
deficit, before we figure out immigration, before we figure out the tax rates and the way that we can
00:42:58.740
kind of fix some of the institutions and the energy policy and before you can figure out
00:43:03.140
higher level political issues. If you've got a country where your family has completely broken
00:43:09.840
down, you're not going to solve any of those political problems because the family is the
00:43:14.920
basic political institution. Daily Wire just did an analysis of new census data. According to this
00:43:21.260
analysis, there are lots of parts of this country where most people do not grow up with two parents.
00:43:27.720
Puerto Rico, just kind of America, kind of sort of part of America, only 38% of Puerto Rican
00:43:36.420
children live with two parents. Washington DC, only 48% of DC residents, children live with two
00:43:47.840
parents. Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, it's a little higher. It's above the 50% threshold,
00:43:53.440
but not much. 55%, 57% according to census data. You can't have a flourishing country that way. That
00:44:01.500
is going to create, just think about it. Just think about something that happened in your childhood,
00:44:06.300
whether you grew up with two parents or one parent or no parents or however you grew up.
00:44:10.480
Think about one thing that happened, even if you grew up in the greatest household ever,
00:44:15.460
leave it to Beaver, father knows best, Donna Reed household.
00:44:18.940
Did something happen in your childhood that kind of messed you up a little bit?
00:44:24.420
Did, I don't know, daddy and mommy fought a little bit too much or, I don't know, daddy traveled too
00:44:30.380
much or there was some big fight that broke out or even in your extended family, aunt so-and-so
00:44:37.500
didn't talk to uncle, what's his face? Did something happen when you were a kid? Daddy yelled at you one
00:44:43.580
time. Okay. Think about that, that relatively minor experience of childhood trauma. And now,
00:44:51.020
have it be that your parents just don't care about you and they don't care about you enough to try to
00:44:55.720
focus on your upbringing and daddy disappears for huge stretches of time if he's there at all.
00:45:02.280
Or maybe mommy doesn't really care about, maybe mommy just leaves daddy and she puts the kids kind
00:45:08.600
of second or third if she's thinking about them at all. And look, they're just going to focus on them.
00:45:12.700
They're going to live their best life. Okay. And frankly, it'll be better for the kids if mommy
00:45:16.300
and daddy are happy, quote unquote, pursuing their own selfish desires. You can't, if one incident at
00:45:24.760
the dinner table is going to kind of mess you up as a kid, no matter how nice your upbringing was,
00:45:29.860
imagine you're living in a society where most kids don't live with both of their parents.
00:45:36.320
Maybe they get to see both their parents sometime. I don't, maybe. Think about how much that's going
00:45:42.400
to mess up all of those kids. Think about how much that's going to mess up society.
00:45:46.940
You know, it's not, not every political issue comes down to some textbook explanation when,
00:45:52.300
and some formal academic debate. And frankly, more of, of what shapes our politics is that
00:45:58.720
Ronald Reagan said politics begins around the dinner table. What happens when there's no dinner
00:46:02.120
table? What happens when mommy and daddy just aren't home and you're sitting at home on a snack
00:46:06.700
tray alone watching TV? Well, then that dinner table, that's going to be your politics. And
00:46:10.920
especially when the TV that's, that's being pumped into you or the streaming now is promoting radical
00:46:18.320
woke propaganda, especially when you're the only solid relationship that the kids have is going to
00:46:23.780
be with their teacher in a public school. There are great public school teachers, but there's a lot
00:46:27.540
of crap that goes on in the public schools too. Or their only relationship is with some movie star
00:46:32.660
on TV or their only relationship is some parasocial relationship on social media, pushing crazy woke
00:46:38.180
stuff. That's a major, major political problem. It's not enough to say you do, you figure it out.
00:46:43.720
Well, I'm just going to focus on, no, we, we need to structure our society in such a way that it's
00:46:49.540
better for those kids, for society as a whole. If we don't do that, we're just conceding the culture
00:46:56.020
to the radicals. We've done that for 50 years. It's led us to this madness. Maybe it's time to try
00:47:00.240
a new strategy. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
00:47:09.800
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00:47:57.720
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00:48:02.680
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00:48:17.400
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00:48:23.020
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