Ep. 1055 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Dr. Fauci
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The man who locked us all down for two years has just disappeared. He s stopped appearing on TV, he s announced that he plans to retire by the time Biden leaves office, and now he s denying that he ever even did all the stuff that he did during COVID.
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Have you noticed that ever since it became clear that Republicans will very likely retake
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Congress in the fall, our old pal, Dr. Fauci, has toned down all of his political demands.
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The man who locked us all down for two years has just disappeared. He's stopped appearing on TV.
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He's announced that he plans to retire by the time Biden leaves office.
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And now he's denying that he ever even did all the stuff that he did during COVID.
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There were authorities that made different decisions than the CDC's recommendations,
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for example, on school closures, and they did not see higher levels of child mortality when
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it comes to COVID. And meanwhile, the schools that did close down were now seeing just disastrous
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levels of learning loss among poor children, children of color, mental health crisis.
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I wonder if you would recommend locking down schools if you had to do it all over again.
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Well, you know, again, it's first of all, I didn't recommend locking anything down.
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You're asking me questions. You're talking about the CDC is the public health agency
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that uses their epidemiologists and their science-based approach to make recommendations.
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Locking down? What are you? Hold on, me? You're talking good old Dr. Fauci?
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You think I would ever want to? Oh, come on. That's the craziest thing I ever heard.
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You think that I, the beloved Dr. Fauci, would ever have spent two full years trying to lock
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down the entire country? That's, you're crazy, lady. So he seems so sincere. He seems so earnest
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in his denial. I thought maybe, maybe I'm misremembering it. I just, I have this distinct
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memory of Dr. Anthony Fauci recommending repeatedly that we lock down the entire country.
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When it became clear that when we had community spread in the country with a few cases of community
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spread, this was way before there was a major explosion like we saw in the northeastern corridor
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driven by New York City metropolitan area. I recommended to the president that we shut the
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country down. And that was a very difficult decision because I knew it would have serious
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economic consequences, which it did. Oh, okay. All right. Cause that, that clip we just listened
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to, that was from a couple of years ago. The clip we listened to before that, that was just from a
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couple of days ago. And Fauci just completely changed his story, but we heard it. We said, we have the
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tapes. We have, we have our memories, but we actually have them on film. He says, I recommended to the
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president that we shut down the country, even though it would have very terrible economic
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consequences, which it did. He's even admitting that it did. So what happened? Did Dr. Fauci just
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forget that? I thought he was such a smart guy. He's got all those fancy degrees. He's such a genius.
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He's so responsible. Did Fauci just forget his advice? Did he forget the pandemic? And did he
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forget his decisive role in the last two years of American life? I don't think so. I think the answer
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is a lot simpler than that. I think Dr. Fauci's political machinations, all the things he says,
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start to make a lot more sense once you understand that the man is simply a liar.
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He just lies. He lies with ease. For 40 years, he has lied with impunity. And when Republicans retake
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the Congress, they need to make this little Napoleon in the lab coat answer for every one of those
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lies and every one of those misdirections that have led to so much misery for so many people
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for more than two years now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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a little nervous. I'm not saying I see beads of sweat, but he's acting a little more nervous
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than he usually does. Dr. Fauci is usually so extremely confident. Now he's pulling away from
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the cameras, which is a very difficult thing for Fauci to do. Most dangerous place in Washington
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is between Fauci and a TV camera. Now he's saying I will retire at the end of Biden's term.
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Now he's saying, look, I've got nothing to hide. If Rand Paul and all those Republicans in the Senate
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want to investigate me, fine. Your reaction to Rand Paul and others saying they're going to
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investigate you if they take power? Well, there's no reason to do that. But if they want to go ahead,
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my records are an open book. They are talking about things that are really bizarre, John,
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like crimes against democracy by shutting down the government. All I have ever done and go back
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and look at everything I've ever done was to recommend common sense, good CDC recommended
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public health policies that have saved millions of lives. If you want to investigate for me for that,
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go ahead. Okay, sounds good. I think we'll do that then. Listen here, I've never done anything
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wrong. Oh, good. Then the investigation should go just fine, right? Except I seem to recall,
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well, I seem to recall that five seconds ago you lied about your role in the lockdown. So that's not
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good. I seem to recall at the very beginning of the pandemic, you lied. You explicitly lied
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about your opinion of the efficacy of the face masks. You said face masks don't work. I'm only
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slightly paraphrasing. Face masks don't work. Don't wear a face mask, especially in the early days of
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a pandemic when it's spreading like wildfire. Doesn't do anything. It's not gonna stop you from
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getting it. Five seconds later, he says, okay, actually they work. I just didn't want to tell
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you that because I wanted to save the masks for my friends in public health. I thought people would
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buy up all the masks and then my friends wouldn't get them. But now my friends got them. And so I can tell
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you the truth about my opinion, which is that they do work. We're 10 of them. And on and on and on.
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I'm just using that one example. It's probably the most infamous one. There are countless examples
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of this, not just Fauci getting something wrong. He should be investigated for that too. But it's
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worse. What I find much more offensive than Fauci getting things wrong consistently throughout,
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not just the last two years, really throughout his 40 year career of corruption and incompetence.
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We did an entire docu-series here at the Daily Wire on this. I presented it. Fauci unmasked.
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You can get it if you're a member right now at Daily Wire Plus. What I find much more offensive
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about him getting things wrong is that he lies so much. And he lies effortlessly. And that is very
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offensive, especially to a self-governing people. People that are supposed to be free and able to
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govern themselves. When this bureaucrat who's been in power for 40 years here, presidents come and go,
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the elected officials come and go, Dr. Fauci remains. He outlasted Trump. He's going to
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outlast all of them. It's very offensive when this guy is unresponsive to the people. And it's
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very offensive when he repeatedly lies to the people. So, all right, good. Rand Paul wants to
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investigate Fauci. I want to investigate Fauci. A lot of Republicans want to investigate Fauci.
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And Fauci says, fine, investigate me. Good. Make it happen, guys. Okay, I don't want this to be an
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empty threat. He's trying to run away from the investigation. He actually said that. Those
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were his own words. He said, well, you know, if I, again, I'm only slightly paraphrasing.
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If I retire, they're probably not going to investigate me quite as much. So I should get
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out of the job. He actually said that in print. He knows that an investigation won't turn out very
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well for him. He needs to be held to account for his lies, for the way he inflicted so much misery
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on the American people for two years, for his role in funding the Wuhan laboratory, where the virus
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almost certainly came from. For so much, and frankly, even for mishaps outside of COVID, years
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before COVID, when he was mishandling AIDS, when he was mishandling various vaccines and epidemics that
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were cropping up in the 2000s and the 20-teens, okay? All of that stuff, this guy needs to be held
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to account. Don't go squishy, Republicans. Don't just make this. They do this. They do this sometimes.
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Don't just make this a campaign slogan, and you get the votes, and then, oh, well, never mind.
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Fauci's out of the picture. Don't do that. Hold the guy to account. He probably will be out of the
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picture pretty soon if he's going to leave when Joe Biden leaves, because Joe Biden does not look
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like he's long for this presidency. Joe Biden doesn't look like he's long for this world.
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Joe Biden just gave an update last night. He was giving an update on January 6th and trying to ramp up
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his attacks about the Republicans and Trump in January 6th. The guy gave a zombified press
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conference that made you think, the man is not well. You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-cop.
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You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-democracy. You can't be pro-insurrection and pro-American.
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Donald Trump lacked the courage to act. The brave women and men in blue all across this nation
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should never forget that. So forget for a second that his voice is just completely
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different than it normally is. He sounds like Joe Biden doing one of those anonymous interviews
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that gangsters do, where they gotta mess up the voice. The voice is all crazy. But then the weirdest
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part of the interview, or the press conference, rather, is that he doesn't blink. That whole talk,
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he doesn't blink once. His eyes are super wide, pupils dilated. They're obviously pumping this
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guy up with something. He's got more energy than he's ever had in a kind of weird, stilted,
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robotic way. He wouldn't be the first Democrat president to be injected with uppers in the White
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House. John F. Kennedy famously had that happen to him from Dr. Feelgood. And it stands to reason
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that Joe Biden would need this too. Joe Biden was already 21 years old when President Kennedy was
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having this happen to him. The man is obviously past his prime. He's obviously not in control of
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himself, much less the country. And it does raise the question, who is calling the shots here?
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okay? And there's been a big debate over this. And the White House, the Biden White House,
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where the assistant secretary of health is a man who thinks that he's a woman,
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who is very, very in favor of injecting little tiny kids with these sorts of drugs.
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And the left-wing establishment in its entirety has gotten behind this transing the kids campaign.
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And then the conservatives said, hey, hold up. I think maybe it's not a great idea to inject tiny
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little kids with a bunch of chemicals to make them look more like the opposite sex. Maybe we should
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hold off on this a little bit until we, there's no way, even if you buy into transgenderism, there's
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no way that this can really be good for the kids. And the Libs said, we're anti-science and we're crazy
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and we're bigots and we're phobic and we're this and we're that. So the FDA earlier this month just
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added a warning to puberty blockers, specifically to gonadodropin-releasing hormone agonists,
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G-N-R-H. But that's what we're talking about when we talk about puberty blockers.
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The warning indicates the risks for the little tiny kids who take these drugs. The FDA identified six
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cases in females between the ages of five and 12 who were taking these puberty blockers,
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which presented, quote, a plausible association between G-N-R-H agonist use and pseudotumor cerebri.
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What are pseudotumor cerebri? That's also known as idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
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This means that your brain swells up. That's what's happening when we inject these little kids
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with the puberty blockers. In enough cases that the FDA now has to add a warning label,
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kids' skull, the pressure inside kids' skulls spontaneously increases. This causes brain
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swelling, severe headaches, nausea, double vision, and permanent vision loss. This according to the
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Mayo Clinic. This according to the FDA. This is what we're doing. When Richard Levine gets up there in his
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little skirt with his long hair and he says, for my equality so that I can feel really good about my
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delusions, we need to pump little tiny confused kids full of drugs that are going to make their
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brain swell and make them go blind. To say nothing of the other problems that these drugs cause.
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Because when they get a little bit older and they go on the cross-sex hormones, those drugs are causing
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osteoporosis. They're causing young, otherwise would-be healthy people to become crippled.
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All to justify the delusions of these sick grown men who should be in counseling, if not outright
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institutionalized. And instead what we've done is put them in charge of health in our country.
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Can you imagine how sick that is? Can you imagine? Of course you can imagine it. We're living through
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it right now. These are the geniuses. These are the public health people. These are the people running
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our country doing this. And they say, trust the science. And they say, trust the Fauci. And they say,
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trust the Richard Levine. I don't have trust for any of these people. If an African witch doctor
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and shaman walked in here with a headdress and a big cauldron full of bones and bats and
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double, double toil and trouble or whatever they've got that dates back 5,000 years, I would trust that
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man's medical opinion much more than I would trust the medical opinion of Dr. Richard Levine or Dr.
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Fauci. And I think a lot of people are waking up to that fact right now. If a political regime
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would do this, one, they're not to be trusted when it comes to their faculties of reason. They don't
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know true from false. But two, it's just so freaking evil. It's so evil to do this to little
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kids. All to justify the delusions of mentally ill or sexually perverted grown men. It's just so,
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so wrong. You feel it in your bones. You feel it so deeply. And everyone knew this. Everyone knew,
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even for some of the people who maybe don't have medical degrees, which I guess is most of us,
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you don't need a medical degree to know that pumping kids full of these chemicals is not good
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for them. Okay. And now all of a sudden the white lab coats are catching up. Well, actually, maybe this
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isn't, maybe it isn't so good to pump little tiny kids full of all these drugs. Well, we're going to
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keep doing it anyway because they disregard the science and they disregard the philosophy and they
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disregard the natural law and they just pursue their own radical delusions. Speaking of grooming,
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we have a, we have a grooming update from the New York Times. Just when you think the grooming has
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reached the maximum amplitude, they turn the grooming up to 11. Headline in the New York Times,
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the books about sex that every family should read. That's going to be the title of my next blank book.
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The books about sex that every family should read, a comprehensive guide, and it's going to be 250
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blank pages. Maybe I won't be able to use that exact title because the New York Times wrote a
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serious, earnest article listing these books. The books are listed here and described by Elaine Blair.
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Elaine Blair, let's just, let's just cut right back to the biography, is a Los Angeles-based critic
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and an inaugural winner of some prize for literary criticism. A left-wing writer describes him or
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herself as trans, mask, all sorts of things. It's kind of like on Twitter. When you see somebody's
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pronouns in the bio, you know that that person is deluded and is going to say really crazy things.
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So what are the books that we have to read about sex to our kids? Just, I'll just open right from
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the top of the article. About eight years ago when my daughter was in preschool, I went to the
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children's alcove of our local library and found the book that I'd heard was the standard bearer of
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liberal sex education for younger school-aged children. It's so amazing. A book about eggs,
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sperm, birth babies, and families. This is when this person's daughter was in preschool.
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So I got to go get the book on sperm and eggs and sex for my preschooler.
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It's so amazing covered many subjects. Anatomy, gender, fertilization, gestation, birth, love,
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heterosexual intercourse, sexual orientation, child sex abuse, and HIV. You've got to tell your
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preschooler about HIV. What if your preschooler wants to go to a gay bathhouse? Certainly your
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preschooler needs to know the risks of HIV, right? You've got to tell. What three-year-old doesn't
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need to know about this? In a chapter called What's Sex? An unclothed man and woman,
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partly covered by a blue blanket, kissed in missionary position. When two people care for
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each other, sexual intercourse is very loving, I read in the accompanying text. So at this point,
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we should obviously take the book, burn it, chase the author out of town on a rail,
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ban this from the libraries. Three-year-olds should obviously not be reading this. But this author in
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the New York Times, her problem with the book is that the book was not radical enough. Because,
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says, then came the next chapter, What's Love? With pictures of smiling families and couples in
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many different configurations, watching TV, eating meals, cuddling, walking dogs, with nearby text
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explaining the meaning of words like straight, gay, and lesbian. Now something nagged at me. All of the
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different kinds of couples did fun things together with their clothes on. But only the man and the woman
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in the previous chapter got to take their clothes off. Hold on, this book, this book on sex for my
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three-year-old, it only shows a man and a woman having sex. It doesn't show two dudes or two chicks
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or three chicks and a goat. And it doesn't, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't, certainly doesn't
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go far enough for my toddler. This book's well-meaning attempt at inclusivity practically spelled out a
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hierarchy of value. Heterosex is sex, true. The other stuff is very loving, though very loving,
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is off-brand. So then, that was the, that was the bad book. That one wasn't radical enough, according
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to the New York Times. So now they're promoting this other book. This other book is by someone
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named Corey Silverberg. And they include a picture of Corey Silverberg. And if you, if I told you right
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now, close your eyes and picture the kind of grown man who writes books about sex for little tiny kids.
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I said, just picture it. And then you opened your eyes. You would see the image from your mind.
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He's a grown man. He's got kind of a weird haircut. He's got a kind of creepy smile. He's got, his eyes
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are looking up. His hand is resting. His head is resting playfully on his hand. Little teehee, teehee.
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He's wearing a bright green shirt, kind of groomy shirt. He's got some of his nails painted.
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And he spends his time writing books about sex for little kids. Why does he do this? Why does he do
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this? He says, it's Corey Silverberg. He's written, sex is a funny word. What makes a baby? You know sex.
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And they've upended the genre. Silverberg, who uses they pronouns, is skeptical of the term sex positive
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and would like to see a world with no normative pressures around sex. No normative pressures
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around sex. What is a normative pressure around sex? It means rules. It means do this, don't do that.
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A normative pressure around sex might be, it's better to get married and not have sex with lots
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of people and just get married and remain in a monogamous marriage and maybe even be open to
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the possibility of, that would be a normative pressure around sex. Here's another normative
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pressure. Don't have sex with little kids. That's a normative pressure around sex. That's saying this
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is good, this is bad. Don't do the bad thing, do the good thing. That's, but we don't, this guy,
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Silverberg, he's imagining a world where there are no normative. Here's a normative pressure around sex.
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Don't have sex with animals. That's, that's a normative pressure. No, but we, we, we want a world man.
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It's going to be so nice when there's no normative pressures and then we're all
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doing things that are completely degenerate. And I think I know exactly why these people,
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The New York times is pushing really creepy sex books on little kids, little, little kids like
00:24:38.380
preschool, little kids. And the New York times is complaining that these books aren't explicit
00:24:43.400
enough. The books where they show men and women having sex for three-year-olds, but they don't show
00:24:48.780
two dudes having sex. That's not explicit enough. Even this really creepy guy, Corey Silverberg,
00:24:53.660
who's writing these kids sex books and who says there should be no normative pressures around sex and
00:24:58.480
who thinks that he's multiple people and he uses the they pronoun. The New York times is saying,
00:25:02.320
no, even he, this guy's positively wholesome compared to the kind of books that we want.
00:25:06.540
We want graphic photos. We are not photos, at least illustrations. We want extremely vivid
00:25:12.580
descriptions of really, really creepy, perverted sex stuff for not even just 15 year olds. That would
00:25:20.460
be bad enough. Not even just eight year olds. That'd be really, really bad for three year olds,
00:25:26.400
for preschool. Why? Why are these people pushing this stuff on little kids? I think I have an answer.
00:25:35.040
I think, I think the reason, and this is, I imagine a sincere belief of theirs. They think
00:25:42.420
that everybody just needs to be degenerate. These people are so degenerate. They are so divorced from
00:25:51.340
any good standard of living. That they think that nobody could possibly even aspire to that good
00:26:00.760
standard of living. That everyone else has to be degenerate too. I'm really not speaking from the
00:26:08.140
position of being holier than thou or sanctimonious or saying, I never make mistakes. I've never sinned.
00:26:13.980
Far from it. I'm speaking from the position of having a standard that you think is good and that
00:26:22.280
you try to live up to. And that with some work and prayer and humility and the grace of God,
00:26:28.260
especially the grace of God, you actually can approach to some degree. You actually can live
00:26:35.240
a more virtuous life if you practice the virtues and if you pray and if you pursue a relationship
00:26:43.340
with God and you allow God's grace into your life. That actually can happen. And I think a lot of people
00:26:49.100
today just don't think that can happen because we are mired in a culture that incentivizes and
00:26:55.580
encourages perpetual vice in a way that wasn't true even 30 years ago. It's hard for us to imagine
00:27:03.360
because there's always vice in society. There are always drugs. There's always crime. There's
00:27:06.640
always prostitutes. There's always vice everywhere. But there is a difference in degree. Even just when
00:27:13.700
we're talking about the creepy sex stuff that the Times is pushing, the very fact that we are now
00:27:18.080
swimming in a culture of extremely hardcore pornography, and it's just because people have
00:27:24.060
cell phones and computers that wasn't true 30 years ago. Even just that is going to change the way
00:27:30.880
that people view the possibility of anything even resembling virtuous living. I remember a friend
00:27:36.740
of mine some years ago, a good pal of mine, he was going through a little bit of a wilder phase
00:27:43.540
in his life. And he was getting a little wild, okay? Let's just leave it at that. And we were talking
00:27:50.420
about it one time, and I was like, I don't know, pal. You really want to keep doing this? Do you think
00:27:53.820
you really, is this really fun? Is this really fulfilling? And he said, well, you know, look, it is fun.
00:27:58.560
It is very fun. But one thing that I miss is innocence. He said, I miss, I do miss innocence.
00:28:06.840
Everything now is kind of jaded and cynical, and people know this. If you get into drugs, if you go
00:28:13.220
boozing too much, if you sleep around too much, if you're just slothful, if you engage in any of the
00:28:20.760
vices enough, you get really jaded, and the world just doesn't look as beautiful as it once did.
00:28:26.280
You kind of miss innocence. And the craziest part of that is, most people believe once you lose
00:28:33.300
innocence, you can't get it back. You actually can. And people don't really believe it until you
00:28:40.980
see it or experience it, but you actually can. That's what repentance does. Repentance, which is
00:28:47.520
just, it just means changing your mind, kind of going in another direction. When you seek absolution,
00:28:52.740
when you seek forgiveness for your sins, when you try to do better every day at a time, talk to any
00:28:58.420
alcoholic who is in that bottom pits of despair. And then let's say they've been in AA for 20 years.
00:29:05.020
They've been clean for a couple of decades now. They will be more innocent. They will be more
00:29:09.340
wholesome. They will find joys and pleasure in things that are more virtuous and good and innocent.
00:29:14.940
And they don't just need to go down to the bar and find their only pleasure at the bottom of a
00:29:19.760
bottle. You actually can regain that kind of stuff. But I think these perverts and these degenerates who
00:29:25.560
are at the New York Times and who are writing sex books for kids and who are trying to ply kids with
00:29:29.820
cross-sex hormones and mess up kids in all this way, I think they genuinely don't know that.
00:29:35.440
They don't know that there is another option. Or they don't believe it, even if they do know that.
00:29:39.680
Or they don't think that there's any way for them to improve themselves. There actually is,
00:29:44.320
though. And it's not even just up to them. It's not even just to pull yourself up by your
00:29:48.800
bootstraps. This needs to be encouraged by the state. I can't tell you. Getting back to the porn
00:29:53.860
thing, I get letters constantly from young men who say, I'm hooked on porn. And it's really hard.
00:30:03.860
Yeah, that's a you problem. But it's also a political problem. Our country, until very,
00:30:10.220
very recently, we still have the laws on the books, severely limited porn. Because they know
00:30:16.380
that when porn is widespread and available, people are going to be more likely to use it.
00:30:22.360
And when people are more likely to use it, it's going to make them a lot worse. And it's going to
00:30:26.320
be really bad for them. And it's going to make their lives a lot worse. And it's going to make
00:30:29.740
the country a lot worse, too. And it's going to make the country less and less able to govern
00:30:34.000
itself. It's not just true of porn. This is why we have laws against certain drugs. With certain drugs,
00:30:39.540
if they're ubiquitous, if they're all around everywhere, then it's going to be hard to resist using them.
00:30:43.780
It's going to make the country a lot worse. This gets back to an essay that was written by L. Brent
00:30:48.260
Bozell Jr. back in 1962, when the post-war conservative movement was really coming into shape.
00:30:55.580
Brent Bozell was William F. Buckley Jr.'s brother-in-law and friend from college. Bill Buckley
00:31:00.760
broadly credited with creating the post-war conservative movement. And it was a debate on
00:31:05.460
the central issue that was going on at the time, which was the fusion of the libertarians
00:31:10.620
and the traditional conservatives. And some people like Frank Meyer at National Review were
00:31:15.880
encouraging this fusion and said it made a lot of sense. Other people, the traditionalists like
00:31:20.700
Brent Bozell, like Russell Kirk, some other people were saying, I don't think this is really going to
00:31:24.940
work because we've got a fundamental disagreement here. The libertarians believe that the be all and
00:31:31.200
end all of society is freedom in their kind of narrow understanding of it. The maximizing your
00:31:38.200
choice at any given time. And the traditional conservatives think that the be all and end
00:31:43.780
all of society is virtue, the good life, a flourishing society. So the conservatives love
00:31:50.100
freedom, but they love freedom as an instrument, as a means to an end. Freedom in its proper place
00:31:56.200
can help a society pursue virtue. When we talk about the blessings of liberty that the founding
00:32:02.420
fathers wrote about, they're viewing liberty in that way. They're saying liberty is good,
00:32:06.760
but what we're really after is the blessings of liberty, the human flourishing, the virtue,
00:32:11.940
the liberty is just a means to an end. That's a fundamental disagreement. And sometimes you'll
00:32:17.660
hear the libertarians say, well, we care about virtue too. We care about the good life too.
00:32:21.280
But virtue, if it is not totally freely chosen, is not virtuous at all. So you can't have any
00:32:29.000
incentives to live a virtuous life. If we ban most porn, then it's not virtuous if you don't look at
00:32:36.540
porn. It's only virtuous if you have the temptation and you resist it. Okay, but if we follow that idea
00:32:43.440
to its logical end, then the most virtuous society should be the one that just floods everything with
00:32:50.140
porn, right? If we follow that idea to its end, then the most virtuous society will be the one
00:32:55.640
where we've got heroin everywhere on the street. And it's being offered to you. Maybe it's even being
00:33:00.120
subsidized. Oh my goodness, how virtuous would you be if you were offered free heroin and you said no to
00:33:05.120
it? The most virtuous society would be the one where every marriage has, outside of every marital
00:33:10.680
home, has a line of hookers being sent by the state. Because if you resist the hookers, then oh my gosh,
00:33:15.200
you're the most virtuous guy in the world, right? It's absurd. It's an argument that when taken to
00:33:20.120
its logical conclusion, you can see the absurdity of it, which is what Brent Bozell does in that famous
00:33:25.320
essay, freedom or virtue. I think we let the maximizing individual choice people run the show
00:33:34.680
for a long time on the left and even leading the conservative movement. And it's led us to a very
00:33:41.260
bad place where we're transing the kids, where we're doing all sorts of terrible things, and where
00:33:45.660
we're now promoting porn for preschoolers. Maybe it's time to try a different course. Everything that
00:33:53.820
the conservatives, the traditional conservatives predicted at the beginning of this little
00:33:57.860
experiment in Brent Bozell's essay, everything they predicted has come true. Everything the
00:34:03.080
right-wingers predict has come true. You know, you hear about the slippery slope? Well, if we change
00:34:09.040
the definition of marriage, pretty soon we're going to be changing the definition of sex. And then all
00:34:13.400
the liberals say, no, that's not true. That's great. You're a crazy conservative. That's not,
00:34:16.360
what are you talking about? Well, it all happened. It's all been happening. The normalization of
00:34:20.640
pedophilia. It's happening. It's all happening. We've got to try a different course. Freedom is
00:34:26.400
a great thing. We love freedom. But we need to view freedom, as the founding fathers did,
00:34:31.540
as the great Americans have, as having a point. What's the point of freedom? It's not just so that
00:34:37.140
I can shoot up heroin. Gosh, wasn't that great? I made the free choice to shoot up heroin. I made
00:34:40.740
the free choice to cheat on my wife. I made the free choice to rob my neighbor. No, that's not good.
00:34:45.680
The thing that freedom is for is so you can make the right choice, so you can do
00:34:50.200
the right thing. And by the way, even when there are limitations on your freedom,
00:34:54.460
let's say the state bans certain drugs or porn or whatever, certain even behaviors,
00:34:59.860
that you still have freedom. You still have moral freedom. Moral freedom cannot be taken. If moral
00:35:05.300
freedom is real, it cannot be taken away from you by the state or by anybody else.
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is still in your name. Now, speaking of absolute quack public health nonsense,
00:35:47.420
have you heard about abortion doulas? Have you heard about doulas? Doulas are this kind of new
00:35:53.520
hippy-dippy way to help women who are giving birth. So it's a kind of a woman who just, she isn't a
00:36:03.800
medical doctor necessarily, but she knows a lot about giving birth and she helps women through the
00:36:07.700
process of giving birth. And I'm actually pretty pro-doula. I think it's a good service, especially
00:36:11.860
because I'm so skeptical of the medical establishment. Now there's something called an
00:36:17.400
abortion doula. Anna Dace just discovered this. She took a little course on how to become an abortion
00:36:23.380
doula. And it's the opposite of a doula, right? You're helping a woman to, not to deliver her baby
00:36:28.600
and bring new life into the world, but to actually kill her baby. And in this training, Anna Dace came
00:36:33.660
across a great confession from the libs and from these pro-abortion people. Take a listen.
00:36:40.420
A fetus, the medical definition is like the tissue of a pregnancy that grows past eight weeks
00:36:46.520
gestational age. Before that, it is considered an embryo. A baby or child using that sort of language
00:36:54.200
contains connotations of personhood. So when I talk about abortion, I talk about pregnancy tissue.
00:37:04.440
It's not wrong for somebody to use the words baby or child when they're talking about a pregnancy.
00:37:10.580
But you don't necessarily want to be using language that your client might be uncomfortable with.
00:37:16.500
Always important to mirror your client's language and check in. Of course, we'll talk more about that
00:37:19.940
later. It's not wrong to use the words baby or child. I just don't use them. I call it pregnancy
00:37:29.440
tissue right before I go and kill the baby or child. Sorry, I mean pregnancy tissue.
00:37:34.120
That's an amazing confession. What she is saying is, yeah, we use these euphemisms,
00:37:40.980
reproductive health, embryo, fetus, tissue, because we don't want to admit the reality that I will
00:37:48.020
privately admit to you right now. Of course, it's a baby. Of course, it's a baby, but we don't want to
00:37:54.300
admit that. So we just change the words. Same way that the Biden administration right now doesn't
00:37:57.460
want to admit that they're in a recession. So they just change the words. We're not in a recession.
00:38:02.200
The libs are so hyper-focused on this. Kamala Harris, who thinks she's running for president,
00:38:06.700
Kamala Harris, vice president of the United States, just came in. She said,
00:38:08.960
we've got a really big problem in this country. Really, really big problem. No,
00:38:12.320
it's not the economy. No, it's not immigration. No, it's not the war in Ukraine. No, no. The really
00:38:18.580
To put it in law, there may be litigation, but we will be in a much better position than to not do
00:38:27.100
that. And, you know, listen, women are getting pregnant every day in America, and this is a real
00:38:32.880
issue, and we need to act with a sense of haste about what is at play, what is at stake, and codifying
00:38:40.260
role will be an important moment in terms of putting back in place protections for the folks
00:38:49.620
who are at risk right now because of what the court did in Dobbs just weeks ago.
00:38:54.020
This is a real issue, getting pregnant, and these women are really at risk.
00:38:58.640
They're at risk of having a family. They're at risk of being happy. They are at risk of having a good,
00:39:05.100
flourishing, traditional marriage and family and community and society. They're at risk.
00:39:10.040
And we Democrats, we're going to do everything we can to stop that from happening.
00:39:17.040
Just got some great news in my ear. This is the most important political news of the day.
00:39:22.220
We just hit 1 million subscribers on YouTube. Thank you to everybody who did that. I assume
00:39:28.440
the Google battalion is about to fly over my building, bomb my studio. That's it. They're not
00:39:35.920
going to let me get even 1 million and one. Thank you, though, sincerely to all of you who have
00:39:40.080
subscribed, made the channel so big. It's amazing to think that just that 1 million subscribers,
00:39:45.300
that's just on YouTube. That's not counting Facebook or the podcast or Apple podcast or Spotify or the
00:39:50.980
daily of our website, obviously. So we're really, really so pleased. When this company started in
00:39:55.780
Jeremy's pool house five or six years ago, we did not anticipate it becoming this big. So thank you.
00:40:01.740
It's really, really thanks to all of you. I guess you know who I am because you subscribe and you
00:40:10.040
listen to this show. That's so great. In case you don't know who Kamala Harris is, here she is to
00:40:14.460
introduce herself. Good afternoon. I want to welcome these leaders for coming in to have this very
00:40:21.100
important discussion about some of the most pressing issues of our time. I am Kamala Harris.
00:40:30.400
My pronouns are she and her. I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.
00:40:41.620
I think I know why Kamala Harris is doing this, but it just reads as so sad. It just reads that the
00:40:48.340
vice president of the United States is like a four-year-old, a five-year-old showing up to
00:40:52.320
her first day of kindergarten. Hi, I'm Kamala. I like the color blue and I'm wearing a jacket.
00:41:00.140
People call me Cammy. Okay, what's next? Yeah, we know you're the vice president. You don't need
00:41:05.440
to tell us what shirt you're wearing. We know that your pronouns are she and her because you're a
00:41:10.640
woman. We know that. We can move on. How about we talk about like China aggressing in the South
00:41:16.420
China Sea and on Taiwan? How about we talk about the Russian pipeline to Europe that caused the
00:41:22.020
invasion of Ukraine? How about we talk about inflation? How about we talk about the Federal
00:41:26.420
Reserve System? How about we talk about anything more complicated than, oh, look at my colors and
00:41:31.340
look at my genitals. I'm not doing a Kamala impression, by the way. That's a young child
00:41:38.500
impression. I'll work on my Kamala impression. She has to do this. She has to do this. A lot of
00:41:44.900
people are making fun of her. They're saying, what are you doing? Kamala has to do this because
00:41:48.860
Kamala has to be the woke candidate if she's going to run in 2024. And I know it's not a natural fit.
00:41:55.040
I don't think Kamala Harris is the most left-wing person in the Democratic Party. I don't think Kamala
00:42:00.180
Harris really believes much of anything. She didn't get her political career because she was so
00:42:04.740
ideologically radical or ideologically precise and such an activist. She got her political career
00:42:10.800
for lots of reasons that it would be untoward to discuss on this show. But she is a, let's just
00:42:16.100
say a smoke-filled room kind of politician, okay? She's not a woman of the people who goes out there
00:42:23.320
and she's really popular and she's got a popular agenda. No, she doesn't. She was the first person
00:42:27.260
out of the Democratic primary in 2020. But she's got to be the woke candidate because she's only the
00:42:33.220
vice president because she's a woman who is vaguely brown. That's why. That's what Biden said.
00:42:39.640
Biden said, I'm only going to pick a black woman. And Kamala sort of checked those boxes.
00:42:44.660
And the only other options were Susan Rice, who was the fall man for Benghazi for Obama,
00:42:49.320
and Karen Bass, who is an actual communist in Congress. Those were the only three choices
00:42:56.120
that were even being considered. And so by process of elimination, you get Kamala Harris.
00:43:00.220
But because Kamala is the black woman identity politics candidate, she's got to play the race game.
00:43:05.380
She's got to play the sex game. She's got to play the woke game. That's the only argument for her
00:43:11.500
candidacy. And it is as awkward as it seemed in that meeting. And the other candidate who's playing
00:43:20.000
this game, who is clearly trying to shiv Kamala Harris every single day on television, that would
00:43:24.680
be Pete Buttigieg, who is doing better than she is. Pete Buttigieg, transportation secretary when he's
00:43:30.660
not on maternity leave. Pete Buttigieg is doing so well relative to Joe Biden, he actually just beat
00:43:39.220
Biden in a New Hampshire poll. There was a poll done by University of New Hampshire for the 2024
00:43:44.920
presidential race. And Buttigieg beat Biden by one point. Again, this is sort of damning with faint
00:43:51.680
praise because Biden is so deeply unpopular right now. And Buttigieg actually did relatively quite well
00:43:57.640
compared to Joe Biden in New Hampshire in the last presidential election. But it just shows you how
00:44:02.380
weak Biden is, shows you how weak really the entire field is. The Democrat prospects, no matter who the
00:44:08.060
nominee is, are not great. Especially right now, we're waiting on these inflation numbers. Especially
00:44:14.660
right now, or I'm sorry, we're waiting on the GDP numbers. Because the White House is preemptively
00:44:21.420
redefining recession so that every newspaper in America doesn't read the headline, America's in a
00:44:27.300
recession. So this happened on television a couple of days ago. Now the National Economic Council
00:44:32.180
director, Brian Deese, goes right up there at the White House. And he explains how a recession is not
00:44:37.540
really a recession. On the definition of recession, which has been an issue that I know many of you have
00:44:42.940
reported on. As Secretary Yellen said on Sunday, two negative quarters of GDP growth is not the
00:44:53.040
technical definition of recession. It's not the definition that economists have traditionally relied
00:44:59.280
on. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Usually when politicians make some declarative statement like that, you say,
00:45:08.880
well, there's a little bit of a half truth here. And I guess there's a kind of, you could kind of
00:45:13.780
argue what you're saying. But here, no. The answer is no. You're just lying. You're just wrong. That is
00:45:19.500
the textbook definition of a recession. Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth is a recession.
00:45:30.420
Open up your dictionary right now. You can even go on Google. I don't think they've changed the Google
00:45:34.600
definition yet. That is the definition of a recession. This is the same thing they did with
00:45:39.320
vaccines. You remember this? I haven't seen anyone else make this connection, but it just shows you
00:45:44.580
it's their modus operandi. With the vaccines, they said, but what's a vaccine? A vaccine stops you from
00:45:50.620
contracting or spreading a virus. And they said specifically with COVID, these vaccines, you take
00:45:55.660
the vaccine, you won't catch COVID, you won't spread COVID. And then the vaccines didn't do that,
00:46:00.280
and the vaccines didn't function like normal vaccines. And so what did they say? Three months
00:46:04.520
later, they said, no, no. No, the vaccines, they just stop you from going to the hospital. No, no,
00:46:08.360
the vaccines, they'll just mitigate your risk of death. Vaccines were never supposed to stop you
00:46:13.280
from catching the virus. Vaccines were never supposed to stop you from spreading the virus.
00:46:16.720
No, you all said that they would do that. Fauci, Walensky, Biden, you all said they would do that,
00:46:21.120
and then they didn't do that. And so rather than admit that you are wrong, rather than try to fix the
00:46:25.420
problem with the vaccines, you just changed the definition. You're just changing the definition
00:46:29.700
of everything. You're just lying. And you're hoping that through the transformative power of
00:46:37.340
your words, you can change reality. And that's not going to happen. I don't think that's going
00:46:43.120
to sell with voters. I don't think that's what the polls show. And when the people put the better
00:46:48.900
representatives in charge in November, I want to see endless investigations. And then at the end of
00:46:55.820
those investigations, at the end of those endless investigations, once they're really exhausted,
00:47:00.240
I want to see consequences for the people who have lied to our faces and disrespected the American
00:47:06.400
people and made our lives significantly more miserable for two years. I want justice.
00:47:12.100
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00:47:25.820
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