Ep. 1048 - They Said It Wouldn't Affect Her Body
Summary
A new study out of Washington University has found that a full 42% of women who have received COID vaccines have experienced changes to their menstrual cycle, which is of course impossible. We re going to turn now to our Dr. Jen Ashton, who has some answers to some of your more pressing medical questions.
Transcript
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A new study out of Washington University has found that a full 42% of women who have received
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COVID vaccines have experienced changes to their menstrual cycle, which is of course impossible
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because the public health authorities assured us that the vaccines could not in any way affect
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women's cycles. We're going to turn now to our Dr. Jen Ashton, who has some answers
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to some of your more pressing medical questions. We'll start with the first one, Dr. Jen,
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is there a relationship between the vaccines and menstrual cycles? We've definitely talked
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about this. Oh, we sure have, you guys. And this is really spreading like wildfire on social
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media with zero scientific or medical basis for this. Remember in medicine, every time
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we talk about a study, a finding, what is the first thing we say? Big difference between
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association and causation. So yes, women can get the vaccine and then experience changes
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in their menstrual cycle. That does not mean that one causes the other. And in fact,
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if you look at the biology of how these vaccines work, there is zero hormonal interaction. So
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Yes. This got a lot of attention because a school actually in Florida was telling teachers
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that they used sighted this as a reason for not being vaccinated.
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defies science. So defies science. So let's, let's put that to rest because it defies science.
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Not only did the vaccines not affect menstruation, according to the public health establishment,
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but it was scientifically impossible for them to affect menstruation. Social media companies
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censored and deplatformed people for suggesting that they did. And then something really weird
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happened. Women started noticing that the vaccines were in fact affecting their menstrual cycles.
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And eventually enough women noticed that phenomenon that it became undeniable. So the
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establishment completely changed its tune, loosened up the language a little bit. And starting in January
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of this year, they started to admit small changes. Here we go. This is, this is from ABC. It's funny.
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This is from the same network as Good Morning America that we were just watching. COVID-19 vaccine
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linked to small temporary changes in menstrual cycles, study finds. So the very same outlet,
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the very same network, the very same show went from scientifically impossible defies science to
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yeah. Okay. Some small changes, very small, very temporary, nothing to see here. Move along,
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move along. Now, of course, they're admitting to slightly larger changes. The researchers behind the
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Washington University study observed that many of the study participants experienced changes to their
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cycles lasting more than a week after vaccination, which is important because that is beyond the period
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in which adverse symptom reporting is closely monitored during vaccine trials. How much longer
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than a week? We just don't know. Now, the medical establishment insists, okay, fine. The menstrual
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changes do occur, but they won't have any long-term consequences. And of course, the public health
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gurus don't have any proof to back up this claim because the vaccines have only existed for a year
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and a half and there are no long-term data period. They just don't exist. So now you've got a choice to
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make. You can either believe the fancy credentialed genius, powerful public health officials in the white
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lab coats. You know, the people who told you that the vaccines would prevent infection and would prevent
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transmission and could not possibly affect women's menstrual cycles and on and on. In other words, the people
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who've gotten pretty much everything about COVID wrong from the start. Or you can believe the knuckle-dragging
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conspiracy theorist deplorables who urged caution from the beginning. And though they don't generally possess
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fancy medical degrees or positions of public authority, have pretty much gotten everything
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right. That's your choice. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Dr. Harvard Yale Princeton with his stethoscope and his white lab coat, and Dr. Alex Jones,
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who is standing naked eating vitamin supplements with a tinfoil hat on. And those are my two choices.
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It's not even a question. It's not even a question. I go to Dr. Jones 10 times out of 10.
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Again, because legitimately, if you're comparing someone like Alex Jones, I mean, I use him because
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he's the most clear example of this. Someone derided as a crazy and a kook and deplatformed
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and everything for raising questions about what the establishment is saying with regard to COVID and
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all the rest of it. You look at that guy and then you look at Dr. Fauci. Fauci has a way worse record.
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It's all of them. It's the whole public health establishment. Why? Why do you think people might
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be losing some faith in the public health establishment? One picture tells you the whole
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story. This is a picture from over the weekend. This is a picture of Dr. Richard Levine, who calls
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himself Rachel, and Sam Brinton. These are two dudes showing up to a party at the French ambassador's
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residence. Richard Levine is the assistant secretary of health. Sam Brinton is in charge of nuclear
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materials at the Department of Energy. And both of these men showed up wearing dresses and women's
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shoes. And then they took a photo together. Sam Brinton posts week four on the job, champagne
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and celebration with the French ambassador and his residence for Bastille Day.
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Also amazing opportunity to connect with one of the only other transgender government officials,
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Admiral Levine. Not going to lie, it felt great to commiserate with a fellow trans person facing the
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hate. I don't know that they get hate. I don't think that Levine and Brinton get hate. They do get
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criticism, legitimate criticism, which is, hey, you're men. You shouldn't dress up like women. Hey, you're men.
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You shouldn't pretend to be women. Hey, Admiral Levine, Dr. Levine, you shouldn't be promoting the use of
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puberty blockers and cross sex hormones and mutilation surgeries for tiny little kids. It's
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very abusive and wrong. That's criticism. It's not hate though. It's legitimate criticism because
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they're doing bad things and they're doing wrong things. And in the case of Sam Brinton, he has not
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just committed private sexual sins that got out. He has made a big show of his sexual degeneracy. He's
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apparently a puppy fetishist, which apparently is different than bestiality, but it's where he and his
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homosexual lover dress up like dogs and then do all sorts of strange things and leather and whatever,
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whatever it is. It's not like this is some private sin and scandal that was uncovered.
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He gives lectures about this. He goes around and parades these kinds of behaviors in public.
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And the consequence of that is that these guys are a national embarrassment. It is embarrassing.
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These guys are representing the United States. They are a public face of our country and they're doing
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things that are shameful and embarrassing. And I don't even mean to wag my finger and blame them
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and try to humiliate them or anything like that or expose some private sins. They're doing this
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publicly. They're the ones humiliating us. Okay. It's not that it's not the conservatives who are
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being graceless and cruel here and harsh and, and mean spirited. We would, we would be more than happy
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to live and let live and whatever, you know, if you're, if they want to do weird puppy stuff in
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the bedroom and don't tell anybody about it, I guess that's not our business. We're not going to
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find out about it. But when you parade all of this stuff in public, and then when you take it even
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further, like Richard Levine does and says that my own disorders and perversions, I'm now going to
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foist on little kids and advocate transing the kids. Well, that's a big problem. That's a national
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embarrassment. It's a national scandal and we don't want it. And I know that there,
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I think probably the vast majority of America feels this way. When they see this as the public
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face of America, they feel humiliated and ashamed. You know, the rest of the world is laughing at us,
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but a lot of people don't feel that they ought to express that, that legitimate sentiment because
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they feel that it's phobic or mean or something. It's not, it's not, there's nothing phobic about
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that. We're talking about politics. We're talking about public life. Okay. And these people
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in public life are an embarrassment and it's, there's nothing wrong with people
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not wanting to be embarrassed at the national level. Okay. There's, there's absolutely nothing
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wrong or phobic or irrational with saying, Hey fellas, you're clearly going through something
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right now. And so you need to go deal with your own problems. And then if you want to come back
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into public life, maybe you can, but you've got to make a choice. You can either engage in very
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degrading actions that are humiliating. And for whatever reason, they get your rocks off,
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or you can suppress those degrading and debasing behaviors and be a public face for the United
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States. But you can't do both. You've got to choose. We as Americans have a right to some
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national honor. We have a right to some national dignity. We have a right to some integrity from
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our public health officials. And if we're not going to get that, the criticism is totally
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legitimate. It's not hate. It's not mean. I don't think any, any one of us wishes these people
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ill or harbors some deep seated hatred for them. We just want our public officials to make us proud,
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to make us stand a little straighter, to look at them and say, yes, I'm glad those guys are
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representing us. And it's not just Sam Brinton. And it's not just Richard Levine. The problem of
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national embarrassments representing us goes all the way up to the top. And the guy at the top,
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Joe Biden. Joe Biden is making his beg for oil tour around the Middle East,
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and Biden really irked a lot of people, not just on the right, but especially on the left
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over the end of last week, because he shows up to Saudi Arabia and basically just begs the crown
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prince for oil. The reason for this is that Joe Biden shut down new oil and gas production in the
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United States and shut down new oil pipelines, even though he gave the green light to an oil pipeline
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for Vladimir Putin. He's giving the green light. He's actually begging the Middle Eastern oil states
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to produce more oil, but he's just not producing American oil. I guess Saudi Arabian oil doesn't
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pollute the environment in the way that American oil does. It doesn't make sense to me, but that
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must be the premise here. I don't know why it's okay for Saudi Arabia to produce oil and profit from
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that, but it's not okay for Americans to do the very same. So he's going around. He's begging people
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to get more oil, and the thing that really irked the left was he goes to Saudi Arabia, and he gives
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a fist bump to the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. Now, this is embarrassing. I want, again,
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it gets to this issue of national dignity. I want my leaders to not behave like teenagers. You know,
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it'd be nice. Handshake would be good. Sturdy handshake. But okay, he gives the fist bump. Fine.
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Whatever. The reason the Libs are upset by the fist bump is that for the past three, four years or
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longer, they have been painting Mohammed bin Salman as the worst, terrible, murderous, monster,
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barbarian in the entire world. And the reason they've done that, or the reason that they've
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been able to make this argument is because the head of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman,
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killed, assassinated that disinterested symbol of journalism, Jamal Khashoggi. Do you remember
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Jamal Khashoggi? Jamal Khashoggi. Maybe you don't remember it. I mean, the news cycles move so fast now.
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Jamal Khashoggi. Here's, here is the story that was presented about Jamal Khashoggi. He was a
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journalist, a reporter, a columnist for the Washington Post who was just minding his own
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business in Turkey. And the Saudi crown prince sent his thugs, his assassins to the, to the
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residence where Jamal Khashoggi was staying. And they chopped him up and they tortured him and they
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killed him because he was speaking truth to power. And he was a disinterested journalist. And this was an
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attack on the fourth estate and the free press everywhere. And that's not what happened. That's
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not what happened at all. The Jamal Khashoggi story was just complete propaganda. Jamal Khashoggi
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was a political operative and a spy. He was not in any reasonable use of the term, a journalist.
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Jamal Khashoggi had been a spy for Saudi Arabia. He had been a spy for Saudi Arabia's enemies. He had
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paled around and worked with Osama bin Laden back in the early days of Al Qaeda. He was on the payroll
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of Qatar. He would have these foreign interests draft, sometimes write whole portions of the
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columns that he would submit to the Washington Post and other publications. He was an influence
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peddler. He was a political operative. He had been on the good side of parts of the Saudi royal family.
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Then he fell on the bad, bad side of parts of the soil, Saudi royal family. And he was working for
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some of the Saudi enemies. So the Saudis did what the Saudis do, what a lot of states do. And they
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went out and assassinated their enemies. I'm not defending the assassination of the enemies of
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Saudi Arabia. But I am saying this is kind of par for the course. And it's very different than the
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story that had been presented, which is that Saudi Arabia was attacking the free press. That's not it
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at all. What you saw playing out there with the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and really the
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subsequent media spin around it is you saw two competing interests, especially in the United
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States. The libs went crazy over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi because the libs hate Saudi Arabia.
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They want us to back away from Saudi Arabia and our relationship there. And they want us to cozy
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up to Iran. The conservatives tend to think that we're better with the devil we know than the devil
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we don't. And they prefer that we remain allies with Saudi Arabia and that we don't cozy up to Iran.
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And we don't give Iran pallets of cash and we don't give Iran a nuclear weapon.
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And so, and there are a lot of other regional powers at play there as well. So the libs pounced
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on the Jamal Khashoggi killing to try to generate worldwide opposition to Saudi Arabia and to get
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people to cozy up more to Iran. It was just, it was just a propaganda operation to shift certain
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geopolitical alliances. And the reason I mentioned it is because a lot of people fell for it.
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The Washington Post is still going crazy over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi as some attack on the
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press. And a lot of people fell for it because they violate the first rule when you are reading
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any news story. I talked about this a couple of weeks ago, but it's really important to keep in
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mind. When you are reading a news report about any story, domestic, foreign, economic, crime,
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immigration, whatever, the first question you have to ask yourself before you even get to the
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facts, the who, what, where, when, why, you have to ask, you have to ask a why question about the
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story itself. You have to ask, what is the angle? When you're reading the New York Times, when you're
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reading the Daily Wire, when you're reading anything in between, you need to ask yourself,
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okay, what is the angle here? Why is this story being reported now by this news outlet? Why?
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Journalism costs money. People are putting their resources in a certain place. So people are going
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to make decisions on how to deploy those resources. And there are always political considerations that
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come into that. So you've got to ask yourself, and it's just particular, it's true across the
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political spectrum, but it's particularly egregious when we're talking about the Washington Post
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or the New York Times, where there are huge, entrenched, corrupt interests that fund these
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papers. What is the angle? Why is this being reported now? Why am I being told that the,
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the assassination of an ex-Saudi spy is the worst attack on a free press in the history of the world?
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And you realize it actually has nothing to do with Jamal Khashoggi. It has nothing to do with the
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press. It has nothing to do with the Washington Post. It has everything to do
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with giant political forces trying to restructure the world order. Speaking of death, there's a,
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there's a new BLM idol that's out there. You might, you might've missed this one. If you were at having
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a barbecue with your family this weekend, you might've missed that a new BLM idol dropped.
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This person is Teklay Sundberg. Teklay Sundberg was a young man who, according to investigators,
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fired multiple gunshots inside a Seward neighborhood, uh, in Minneapolis, uh, and inside this apartment
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building on Wednesday night. And so the police were called, they were trying to talk this guy down.
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They were trying to get the guy to surrender. The guy just would not surrender. And eventually the
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cops killed him. And now there are BLM demonstrations, people showing up, justice for Teklay. He was killed
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by the racist Minneapolis cops. Cause he's a black man. And they were making their demonstrations,
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which were interrupted by a really inconvenient person for the BLM crowd. The inconvenient person
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would be the victim who was almost murdered with her two little kids by Teklay Sundberg.
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hit me on my idols cause you guys are celebrating his life.
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This is not a George Floyd situation. George Floyd was unarmed. He was unarmed.
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You're alive. The bullet missed you, so stop complaining.
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The kids have to deal with this and probably have a mental illness now because they almost
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There's bullet holes in my kitchen because he sat in the f***ing hallway watching my move.
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Stop complaining. You didn't die. You almost did, but...
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I wish I never happened either. I don't have no place to call home. I can't do that night.
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Going through a moment, yeah. She and her two kids were almost killed.
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Now you're complaining that the guy who shot him got shot.
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Because none of you guys knocked on that man's door to check his house.
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Now this woman is, this woman comes up, gets in the car.
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And you say, I mean, you, you really, you've totally feel for this when she's saying this
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But me in front of my kids or my children in front of me or all of us at once.
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And you are all crying because this guy was taken out by police before he could successfully
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And now you're really upset that he wasn't allowed to keep shooting.
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Do you, do you see how that's kind of offensive to me?
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You heard the, the, the, the protesters out there say, shut up.
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Our, and our, according to our narrative, this guy who was shooting you through your
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walls and almost killed your kids, he was a poor, innocent victim.
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What's most interesting about the Tekle Sundberg story, which is he's the new newest BLM idol
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What's most interesting is not the divergence between reality and, and the BLM narrative.
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BLM narrative, he was this poor man, this poor innocent man.
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The reality is he was shooting at his neighbors, almost killed a woman and her two kids.
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The cops came in and put him down like old yeller, and they even gave him a long time
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What's most interesting to me is not that BLM lies, BLM always lies.
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What's interesting to me is when that woman who was almost killed with her kids by Tekle
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Sundberg, when she was justifying her anger at the demonstrators, when she was trying to
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persuade them not to protest the cops for saving her life and her kids' lives, she, she had
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She kept saying, this is not a George Floyd situation.
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As though the cops were completely, had no right to interfere in, in George Floyd.
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She's, it seems to be implicitly buying into the BLM narrative on George Floyd.
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Or if the white kids were traumatized, who cares?
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And because they're black kids, surely then you have to have some sympathy with me.
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And it's really, it's really sad and ugly that that's the place we're at.
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But it does seem to buttress something that we've talked about on this show for a long time,
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which is that the civil rights racial narrative is the narrative in American politics.
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One of the primary arguments in the pro-life movement, in the anti-abortion movement, has
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been that abortion, one, was begun as a political program in America, largely to target blacks,
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and that it disproportionately kills blacks, and it's racist.
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So many of the economic arguments we make about taxes, about economic growth, we make on
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So many of the arguments we make about education come down to race.
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So many of the arguments we make about immigration come down to race.
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This is, mass migration reduces wages for people at the lower end of the income spectrum, which
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So almost all of the arguments come down to that.
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This has been building for a long time in American politics.
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But even here, you just see it at its most absurd extreme.
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A woman who is justifying anger that her kids were almost killed by guns, by this maniac just
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popping off bullets through the wall, and then the cops take them out.
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And she's trying to justify why she thinks the killing of the shooter was okay.
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And she has to justify even that on racial lines.
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You'd have a point if they were white, but they're black.
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And you see it not even just in America, this racial political narrative as the dominant
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It's true in Britain, too, on a completely different sort of story, but the same theme
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A British dance school has just dropped ballet from its audition process.
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And it's dropped ballet from the audition process because it's, quote, built around white European
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Britain, historically one of the whitest countries ever, is not allowed to have ballet at its
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One, non-white people can dance ballet, last I checked.
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Britain's Northern School of Contemporary Dance dropped ballet from that process because
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not only is it too white and European, but it's too gendered as well.
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Here is what the head of undergraduate studies at the dance school says.
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Young people need to pay to take ballet classes as a general rule.
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And for a vast number of potential students, they've not had access to ballet.
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And so we've got to get rid of ballet when we're considering who should come into the
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They're saying, oh, this thing that requires a lot of skill and time and effort, and it's
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really beautiful and intricate and sophisticated.
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All the non-white people, they can just kind of stomp around without any skill whatsoever.
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But we, you know, listen here, we're so progressive.
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We're so woke that we're going to get rid of all of the sophisticated, beautiful dances
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because those are clearly just for white people.
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So there is a kind of irony here that they are embodying the very thing that they're pretending
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I don't think that only white people can do things that require skill and training and
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Why is it that in the name of racial equity, we have to bring everything down?
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I have faith that we can bring people up regardless of their race.
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I have faith that we can train people and teach people to look for the good, the true,
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and the beautiful and do all the sorts of stuff.
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I think there's quite a lot of evidence that that has happened in the past.
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What here, though, is they say, nope, sorry, because of racism, because of racial politics,
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I think this really doesn't play for the libs who are pushing it.
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In the long run, it's been an effective strategy for them.
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But when people see it too clearly, when in the short run, when they go a little too far,
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a little too fast, there's a huge amount of backlash.
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I mean, you're getting this right now, you can see it.
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And you're not just in public opinion polls, but public opinion polls from the libs.
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One of the national teachers unions just did a battleground state survey asking what people
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thought about Ron DeSantis' education policy positions, and specifically on critical race
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By a 32 percentage point margin, the poll said, voters rather, in the poll said that
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they were more likely to vote for candidates who believe public schools should focus less
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By 27 points, voters said schools should be banned from teaching sexual orientation and
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gender identity to kids in kindergarten through third grade, which like, duh, of course, it's
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pathetic that we even need to frame the question that way.
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Fourth graders, let's, you know, teach them about ball gags and puppy play with Sam Brinton
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and the rest of the weirdos in our national sexual revolution.
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And then by 28 percentage points, they say that transgender athletes should be banned from
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And it's why DeSantis is being talked about as a major Republican presidential candidate
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for 2024, if not very nearly the presumptive nominee.
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Trump really throws a wrench into all of those plans.
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But DeSantis is being talked about at the presidential level in a way that I have rarely seen candidates
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talked about, and it's because he's just doubling down on this message.
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You can't put a price tag on opportunity for kids and making sure parents have the ability.
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And, of course, separate from the budget, you know, we believe that when parents send their kids to school,
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Now, this line literally is not the most meaningful line in the world.
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When people say this, it's for education, not for indoctrination.
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They're really saying, we support my kind of education, not their kind of education.
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Education and indoctrination mean essentially the same thing.
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It's just that one has a positive connotation and one has a negative connotation.
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It's a little more complex than that because education involves freeing people up,
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making them more human, teaching them to make sense of their freedom and their rational will,
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whereas indoctrination is considered less thoughtful and, you know, more akin to brainwashing.
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But broadly speaking, what we're really talking about is the substance here.
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You know, we think kids should be taught good and true things and they shouldn't be taught
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critical race theory and weird sex stuff and puppy play and transgenderism.
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It is true that slogans are always wrong and shallow and they can never get to the entirety of a political view.
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But, you know, when you're in politics, you've got to use slogans.
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That's politics is made of slogans and Ron DeSantis has hit on a good one.
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And when you look at what that means in practice for Ron DeSantis, he's done an excellent job on the issue and the libs are losing on that issue.
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Speaking of the sexual revolution, my friend, my favorite taco, Senator Ted Cruz, got in big trouble over the weekend.
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And it was actually on my show with Senator Cruz, Verdict, but it was on a little bonus content.
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You know, we have our friend Liz Wheeler come in and do some bonus content for the super duper inner circle subscribe to the verdict plus community type crowd.
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And so they did they did a bonus video and Liz asked Senator Cruz about the Obergefell decision, which redefined marriage.
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And Senator Cruz made what I thought was a perfectly ordinary, unsurprising observation about that.
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In Obergefell, the court said, no, we know better than you guys do.
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And now every state must must sanction and permit gay marriage.
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I think that decision was clearly wrong when it was decided.
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He's saying that the court's decision in Obergefell was wrong.
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Of course, of course, that is the conservative position.
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Conservative believes that the thing that everyone believed until seven years ago is still true and doesn't believe the wild, radical redefinition and innovation that took place seven years ago because Anthony Kennedy wanted to write romantic poetry on the Supreme Court.
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Of course, there is no constitutional right to gay marriage.
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And you're even happy about the court decision.
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Do you really believe that gay marriage was hiding out in the Constitution through the end of the 19th century?
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I'm sorry, through the end of the 18th century, through the entirety of the 19th century, through the entirety of the 20th century, and then only 15 years into the 21st century did we realize that it was there all along?
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You really believe that there was a definition of marriage in the Constitution that no one had seriously considered until like five minutes ago, that that just happened to be there all the time?
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Nobody believes that James Madison put gay marriage into the Constitution and it just laid dormant for 200 years, 250 years.
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If you guys are shocked, if you libs are shocked by what conservatives believe about Obergefell, just wait until you hear about what we think about other Supreme Court cases.
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Other Supreme Court cases like Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 finds a constitutional right to homosexual sodomy.
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You might think it's a perfectly fine thing to do.
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You might think that we ought to have a legal right to it.
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Do you really believe that that right is in the Constitution?
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Show me the right to homosexual sodomy in the Constitution.
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And conservatives and honest liberals were united in that opinion until at the very least 2003, really much later than that.
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The Griswold and Eisenstadt cases, those were the cases that found a constitutional right to condoms in the Constitution.
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Griswold was 1965, found a constitutional right to condoms, but only for married couples in the Constitution.
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And then seven years later, 1972, you have the Eisenstadt case, which found a constitutional right to condoms for everybody, including unmarried couples.
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You just like to use them to blow up and make balloon animals.
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Do you seriously believe that condoms are in the Constitution somewhere?
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Especially when you're talking about Griswold, where it was only condoms for married couples.
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Can you please point to me to the clause of the Constitution, which is the condoms, but only for married couples clause of the Constitution?
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Just show me that text wherever you can find that.
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And then explain to me how the Supreme Court took them seven years, but then they discovered, no, it's actually not just, there's condoms for everybody, not just for married couples.
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Not everything that people want is in the Constitution.
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Not everything that even some people think is right is in the Constitution.
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And some people, I'm so pleased to see that Senator Cruz said this, because it's just so obviously true.
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Of course conservatives should oppose the Obergefell decision.
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I have liberal friends who oppose the Obergefell decision.
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I have gay friends who oppose the Obergefell decision.
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I have gay friends who get gay married, who nevertheless, because they're honest, believe that the Obergefell decision was ridiculous.
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And some people, the one that drives me the craziest is some people try to get out of the question entirely.
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They say, listen, when it comes to marriage, I just think government should get out of the marriage business entirely.
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And they say this as though this is some noble or clever third way on the issue.
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Government, quote unquote, government, has always and everywhere regulated marriage in every single society ever.
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And the reason for that is that marriage is the fundamental political institution.
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Which is why all governments, all political communities have had something to say about marriage inevitably.
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When you hear people say, well, listen, I don't, please stop asking my opinion on gay marriage.
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I just want to get government out of the marriage business entirely.
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That is a surrender of the institution to the people and the radicals who want to redefine that institution.
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The government is going to say something about it.
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The only question that matters is not, will the government say something about it?
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Well, the only question that matters is, what is marriage?
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I believe that everyone has always had the right to get married.
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Because marriage necessarily involves someone from the opposite sex.
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So the question that you have to ask is now, do you have the right to get married?
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The question you have to ask is, what is marriage?
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That's going to be the next Daily Wire hit film.
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I got to go walk into Jeremy's office today and pitch that because it's an important movie.
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That's the debate that should be had right now.
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I think it was so great that Senator Cruz made this totally common sense.
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Listen, I don't want to make a habit out of this.
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The people who run away from this point, to me, they are not worth their salt as conservatives or Republicans.
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Someone asked, by the way, on this issue, okay, so even if people like condoms and even if people like gay stuff
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and even if people like some legal recognition of gay unions or whatever,
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even if we can grant that none of that stuff is in the Constitution, all those cases were wrongly decided,
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Loving v. Virginia is the case that recognizes a constitutional right to interracial marriage.
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And in the Dobbs decision, Clarence Thomas, who is himself in an interracial marriage,
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said we need to revisit Griswold, we need to revisit Eisenstadt, we need to revisit Obergefell.
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So someone wrote in to me and said, I'm in an interracial marriage.
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Why is this line of thinking not going to threaten my marriage?
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It's because Loving v. Virginia is based on different constitutional principles than those other cases.
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All of those other cases rely on what's called substantive due process, which is a contradiction in terms.
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You know, you go, you commit a crime and you're brought up and you have your right to due process in the justice system.
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Substantive due process is this idea that you have certain rights to process that don't involve a process.
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And it's just a bunch of legal gobbledygook, made up legal gobbledygook that was mentioned a little bit in the early 20th century
00:43:10.080
and really, really exploded in the middle to late 20th century when our legal system went kind of kooky with all of these cases.
00:43:17.520
And they said, well, certain rights that you can't see anywhere and you can't find them in the Constitution, you've got them.
00:43:23.980
They're in between the emanations and the penumbras.
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And those rights are going to include condoms and weird sex stuff and abortion and all the rest of it.
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And Clarence Thomas made fun of it in his Dobbs concurrence.
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Loving v. Virginia is, one, is based on the equal protection clause.
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It hinges largely on the equal protection clause.
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And also it observes, just as in historical matter, that prohibitions against interracial marriage, against miscegenation, come out of the institution of slavery.
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You can see this in the earliest arguments and statutes prohibiting interracial marriage.
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That makes a very good historical case to abolish those kinds of arguments for anti-miscegenation laws as well.
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You're going to see the libs try, as conservatives become more aggressive, keep pushing the envelope a little bit further now.
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You're going to see the libs try to make this about race.
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Because, as we mentioned earlier, race is the dominant theme in Western politics.
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Not even just American politics, but Western politics entirely.
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And the libs are making really, really bad arguments.
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Jennifer Gray, who is this actress from the 80s, she wrote in the LA Times.
00:44:51.220
And she was lamenting the Dobbs decision, the overruling of Roe v. Wade.
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I wouldn't have had anything if she, and she acknowledges, she had an abortion.
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Had she not had the abortion, she says, I wouldn't have anything.
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A lot of people listening to this show probably have no idea who Jennifer Gray is.
00:45:26.100
One of which was Dirty Dancing, which people don't even really watch anymore.
00:45:29.540
And the main line from Dirty Dancing is nobody puts baby in a corner.
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How ironic that she says, in order to have the Dirty Dancing movie, I had to kill my baby.
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And Jennifer Gray would say, I've had a great, amazing Hollywood career.
00:45:50.340
Then she got a nose job and no one ever heard from her again.
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But she says, I got everything for this abortion.
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I say, was it worth it to be in three notable movies 35 years ago and then to be completely
00:46:06.080
That seems like some pretty medical misinformation to me.
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At the top of the show, we were talking about all the lies that you've heard from the
00:46:19.700
Don't forget, public health is necessarily political.
00:46:26.460
A public health establishment that tells you boys are actually girls and that got everything
00:46:31.180
about this pandemic wrong and that tells you even more basically that a human being,
00:46:37.820
That is not a public health establishment that is ever going to inspire trust.
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