Ep. 1174 - Biden Encourages Transing Kids But Gives Facebook A PG-13
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Summary
13-year-olds are not too young to be on social media, but they are not young enough to be groomed into transgenderism, according to the Biden administration. I m not sure how these two things can be reconciled.
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It must be a cold day in hell because the Biden administration has just said something
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sensible. Joe Biden's Surgeon General Vivek Murthy went on CNN to explain that 13-year-olds
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What is the right age for a child to start using social media? I worry that right now,
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if you look at the guidelines from the platforms, that age 13 is when kids are technically allowed
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to use social media. But there are two concerns I have about that. One is, I personally, based
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on the data I've seen, believe that 13 is too early. And I think that it's a time, early
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adolescence, where kids are developing their identity, their sense of self. It's a time
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where it's really important for us to be thoughtful about what's going into how they think about
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their own self-worth and their relationships. And the skewed and often distorted environment
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of social media often does a disservice to many of those children. But the other concern
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I have is that these rules around age are inconsistently implemented.
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Completely correct. Couldn't possibly agree more. But Murthy's position on social media
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for children seems a little strange when you consider it alongside his position on transgenderism
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for children. Back in March, Surgeon General Murthy said,
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Yesterday afternoon in Austin, I met with transgender youth and their parents to hear how they are coping
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in light of the state's recent directive equating gender-affirming care to child abuse.
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LGBTQ plus youth were already at increased risk of suicide and other mental health struggles.
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We should be seeking to provide them with support and medical care. The Texas directive threatens
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to do the opposite. Forcing parents to choose between following medical advice for their child
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and risking an investigation from the state is simply not right. The government shouldn't be
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interfering with decisions between doctors and patients. In other words, children are too young
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to watch dance videos on TikTok, but they're not too young to castrate themselves. They're not mature
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enough to scroll through memes on Twitter, but they're perfectly able to pump themselves full
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of cross-sex hormones, irreversibly mutilate their bodies, and very possibly sterilize themselves.
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The Biden administration has no problem with little kids being groomed into transgenderism
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by watching Drag Queen Story Hour. Just make sure the kids don't watch it on Instagram.
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genitals off. As a point, I noticed that from the Daily Writer, Tim Meads, made that great observation.
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It's really hard, really, really hard to reconcile those two things. The libs don't care about
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reconciling them. I'm glad that the Biden administration is moving in the right direction
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on social media, but let's follow that to its logical conclusion, folks, and recognize that
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transgenderism, which is not appropriate for anybody of any age, certainly is not appropriate
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for children. Speaking of children, Minnesota has just decided to legalize abortion at any point
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in pregnancy. This, according to Minnesota, quote, every individual who becomes pregnant has a
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fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth or obtain an abortion and to make
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autonomous decisions about how to exercise this fundamental right. This is the Protect Reproductive
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Options Act. Every Democrat in the Minnesota State House voted for this, and every Republican
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opposed it, and the governor, who's a Democrat, says he'll sign it into law. This now means that
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Minnesota is in the same league as North Korea and communist China when it comes to abortion.
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Much, much more radical than pretty much every other country on earth other than North Korea,
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China, and Canada. Canada, actually, is also there as well. Now, what the libs will tell you,
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what the pro-abortion people will tell you is, you fear-mongering conservatives, you like to pretend
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that abortions happen late in pregnancies. You like to pretend that there could be abortions in the
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ninth month of pregnancy. But that just doesn't happen. You're worried about a problem that doesn't
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exist. And the way that you know that this argument is completely empty and dishonest is that
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they changed the law. If this doesn't happen, why would they change the law? If this doesn't happen,
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why did they change the law to do this in New York? Why did they change the law in Virginia?
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Why did they now change the law in Minnesota specifically to legalize abortion at any point
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in pregnancy right up until the moment of birth? You should put that argument right back in their face.
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And you say, oh, okay, it doesn't happen? Good, then vote against the law. Well, it's not going to do
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anything. The law is totally ineffective, isn't it? It's not going to have any effect in the real...
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Oh, it will. Why? Because it does happen. This reminds me of when Nancy Pelosi said that the wall
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that Trump wanted to build on our southern border is cruel and inhumane and a terrible thing to do
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and a violation of human rights and also walls don't work. Hold on. Which is it? If the walls don't
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work, then the wall is obviously not inhumane and cruel and terrible and a violation of human rights.
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If the wall is all of those things, then clearly the wall works. It's got some effect. It's the same
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thing here. They are passing these laws because late-term abortions do happen and the libs don't
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want to defend late-term abortions on the merits. So they say, hey, look over here. It doesn't really
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happen. This is a made-up problem. Don't listen to the conservatives. And then with their other hand,
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they're signing these barbaric laws into effect. Speaking of child abuse, there is a BBC correspondent.
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His name is Mark Lowen, who just posted a picture of him and his gay partner and a little baby in an
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airport. And this guy says, quote, after six weeks in wonderful and tearful farewells to our incredible
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surrogate and friend, it's time to go home to Lisbon with our new family member. Our most beautiful,
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hand luggage. Canada, you are a shining light of democracy and equality. Thank you for letting us
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fulfill our dream. And he is fulfilling a dream. I have no doubt that Mark Lowen, this BBC correspondent,
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is fulfilling his dream of having a child with his gay lover. The cost of fulfilling that dream was
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ripping a baby away from his mother. That was the cost. And this guy, many other people in this country
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are choosing to pursue that dream, that fantasy, that delusion that two men can be the same thing
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as a man and a woman who are married and have a family and have children. Many, many men and some women
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are choosing to pursue that dream at the cost of tearing a newborn little child away from his natural
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mother. It's one of the worst things that you can possibly do to anybody on earth. If you've ever spent any time,
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if you have children yourself, you ever spent time as a little baby, if you were ever a kid once, you might
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remember some of this. Little babies need their mothers. And when these very, very selfish gay men decide
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that they are going to put their own disordered desires, their disordered sexual desires, and their
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perfectly normal, well-ordered, natural desire for a family, when they are going to just mash those two things
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up and the person who's going to have to pay the price for that is the little baby who gets robbed of his mother,
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that is a terrible, evil thing to do. And society obviously should not tolerate that at all.
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But you're not really allowed to say that anymore. We have to all pretend. We have to be just like,
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we talked about this yesterday on the show, all the people watching that transgender ice skater,
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who's an older man, an older, out-of-shape man, who's now pretending to be a woman and trying to skate
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around during an ice skating competition from Finland, and he can't really do it, and then he falls down and
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he can't get up. And that's kind of funny. It's sad, but it's funny. It's mostly funny. This is just
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mostly sad. And it is a reminder that people do not have a right to a child. When we're talking about
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family, when we're talking about procreation, the only people who can be said to have any rights
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whatsoever are the children. A child has a right to his natural mother and father, who are united
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together in marriage in perpetuity. And marriage is an institution that unites husbands and wives
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for the good of the spouses and for the sake of the generation and education of children.
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Gay men have no right to purchase, to rent the wombs of poor women and to purchase the eggs of poor women
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and to create children with the express intent of robbing those children of their natural mothers.
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That's a really evil, awful thing to do. And I don't think that most of the people who do this
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even really think about it. I don't think Mark Lowen has ever really considered that too much.
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But nevertheless, it's a really evil thing to do. Babies need their mothers, okay? And some people
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have responded to this. They said, well, Michael, do you think that, would you say the same thing
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about heterosexual surrogacy? You sound like a big phobe. You know, you sound like a big bigot. Well,
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look, it obviously is different. It is worse when gay men and lesbian women and single parents,
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for that matter, do this than when a married couple does this. But it's all bad. We should
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not be renting the wombs of poor women and purchasing the eggs of other women in some cases
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and creating children in test tubes to satisfy our own desires. It has lots of effects that people
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don't like to take account of. Namely, it usually involves the creation of lots of embryos, lots of
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little human beings who are then locked away in freezers forever and ever. But beyond that,
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it establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of human life
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and corporations over the origin and destiny of human life and the state sometimes over the origin
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and destiny of human life. And that's a terrible thing to do. This is, on the one hand,
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a kind of cultural Marxism, a radical dismantling of our culture along new atheistic absurd lines.
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That's definitely part of what's happening. This is also capitalism run amok. The fact that we're
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now treating women as commodities, as places to be rented, and that we're treating eggs and sperm as
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commodities, and that we're treating little kids as commodities, our perfect, most beautiful new hand
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luggage, little pets, little toys, little dawdles, to ornament our consumerist lives. Absolutely awful
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stuff. Don't do it. I'm sure there are people who have engaged in this who now regret it, and that's
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very sad, and you've got to make the best of a bad situation. For people, I know there are plenty
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of gay people who listen to this show and who are considering these things. Don't do it. You might not
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details. Speaking of raising children, Ron DeSantis down there in Florida, the hits just keep on coming.
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Ron DeSantis is looking to cut the diversity, equity, and inclusion staff at universities.
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DeSantis has said that he plans to, quote, eliminate all DEI and CRT bureaucracies in the
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state of Florida such that the programs wither on the vine. That's wonderful, wonderful news.
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In recent years, the DEI programs at these universities have just multiplied. And now it
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seems like for every one student, for every one professor, there were three deans and deputy
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deans and deputy assistant deputy deans of diversity, inclusion, and stirring up a bunch
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of racial and sexual resentment to the tune of $400,000 a year per employee. And it's just,
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it's just a disaster. So DeSantis says he's going to fire all of them. Great stuff. He went on to say
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that DEI bureaucracies are, quote, hostile to academic freedom and constitute a drain on resources.
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That's true, but that's a good thing. Academic freedom is a bad thing. And this is someplace that
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some conservatives have gotten a little confused recently. But academic freedom, the notion that
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professors have the right to teach whatever the hell they want in the classroom, that is not true.
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And it's not conservative. In fact, you know, I'm right now I'm broadcasting from my library because
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the Daily Wire studios are shut down. I realized I have a book right back there. It's William F.
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Buckley Jr.'s God and Man at Yale. This is a book credited with launching the post-war conservative
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movement. But the subtitle of that book, you might be able to see, is The Superstitions of Academic
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Freedom. In that book, which launched the modern conservative movement, Buckley, who is as mainstream
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a conservative as ever there was, calls academic freedom a hoax. He says it's complete BS. Of course,
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teachers don't have the right to teach whatever they want. The students have the right to an
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education. Education involves being taught the truth. The trustees of the university have the
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right to have some say over what is taught in the classroom. If it's a public university,
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taxpayers have a right to some say over what is taught in the classroom. The weirdo professor with
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the crazy hair and the wacky ideas about sex and race and taxes, for that matter, they don't have
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rights. They have the right to academic freedom in the sense that they can pursue their own
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researches on their own time. They don't have the right to teach kids whatever they want.
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Now, maybe DeSantis knows that. He's a pretty sharp guy. Maybe he knows that and he's just using this
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phrase because he knows it's popular. But the fact that DEI bureaucracies are hostile to academic
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freedom, that's my favorite part of DEI bureaucracies. The problem is they're hostile to academic
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freedom in that they censor professors from teaching true things and make the professors
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teach false things. But we are very much for stopping professors from teaching false things
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and making them teach true things. Okay, DeSantis goes on. He says, the most significant deadweight
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cost at universities is typically unproductive tenured faculty. Why would we want to saddle you
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as taxpayers with that cost if we don't have to? That also is not quite true. The tenured faculty
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are not my problem. My problem is the administrators. Small private colleges right now are spending almost
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twice as much on administrators as they are on academics. All the professors, the tenured ones,
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the not tenured ones, they're spending twice as much on the administrators, the deans and the deputy
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deans and all these DEI weirdos. The number of administrators at colleges and universities has grown
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twice as fast over the 25 years ending at 2012 as the number of students did. The reason that we don't
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have new data on this right now is because it's just very difficult to track accounting at these
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various colleges. The colleges are very opaque about the whole matter. But we do have these data for 25
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years leading up to 2012. I promise you the situation's gotten way worse since then. And the admin
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has grown twice as fast as the kids. This is madness. And that's just according to one analysis by the
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New England Center for Investigative Reporting. So great stuff. Absolutely love that DeSantis is doing
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this. Axe all of these people. Cut their pensions. Get them out of there. Send them to another state.
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Put them on the next Venezuelan Airbus up to Martha's Vineyard. Get them as far away from the students as
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possible. Now, speaking of DeSantis, Ron DeSantis has finally responded to the many attacks coming
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his way from President Covfefe. Donald Trump has been attacking Ron DeSanctimonious. He's been hitting
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him specifically on what is perceived to be DeSantis' strengths. That would be the lockdowns and the
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COVID policies in Florida. DeSantis' team has said we had the model COVID policies. Many people have
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insinuated that Florida never locked down at all. Trump is now saying, no, he actually did lock down for
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a little bit, which is true, but not nearly as long as the federal government advised people to
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lock down. So anyway, they're in this kind of slapping match. And DeSantis has finally slapped
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back just a little bit. I roll out of bed. I have people attacking me from all angles. It's been
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happening for many, many years. And if you look at the good thing about it, though, is like if you take
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a crisis situation like COVID, you know, the good thing about it is when you're an elected executive,
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you have to make all kinds of decisions. You've got to steer that ship. And the good thing is,
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is that the people are able to render a judgment on that, whether they reelect you or not. And I'm
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happy to say, you know, in my case, not only did we win reelection, we won with the highest percentage
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of the vote that any Republican governor candidate has in the history of the state of Florida.
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And there it is. Now we have the DeSantis sales pitch straight from the man himself.
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And the sales pitch is, at least I can get elected. That's the pitch. Trump's sales pitch is,
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there's no such thing as Trumpism without Trump. I'm one of a kind. I'm the only one who can fix
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the problems. All these other guys are copycats of me. There would be no Ron DeSantis without me.
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I pulled him over the finish line. Forget about them. They're the wannabes. I'm the real deal.
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And now DeSantis' answer is, yeah, well, at least I can get elected. At least I beat Joe Biden.
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Now, this is a good line of argument, but it's not going to be persuasive to people who think that
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the 2020 election was stolen. It's not going to be persuasive in a way it might be a mark against
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DeSantis. The people who are really down the rabbit hole of election shenanigans in 2020 will say,
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maybe it's actually a mark against DeSantis that he got elected. The fact that they, the people who
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control the elections, they let him get elected is actually a mark against him. And that's why I
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got to, I got to go for Trump. Now, you know me, I've been very open that I think that the 2020
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election was rigged up to the hilt. And I said it at the time, I said it as it was happening.
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I said, this is completely dishonest. They're trying to steal this thing there. And I continue to hold
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that. Even when many people in the conservative movement, conservative public figures were insisting,
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there were no shenanigans. It was totally fine. It wasn't stolen. You know me, I think that what
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happened in Florida, what happened, or sorry, what happened in Georgia, what happened in Pennsylvania,
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what happened in Arizona, and in other states as well, was an absolute travesty. And I don't trust
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the results of the election. All of that said though, what's Trump's answer to that? Is the argument now
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just, well, yeah, that's true. They want, they're going to keep stealing it from Trump. And that's why we
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have to nominate him. So what, they're going to steal it again? What's the plan? So I'm with you.
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Yeah, they rigged the election up to the hilt. So what are we going to do about it? How are we
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going to make sure they don't rig it next time? Because until the Trump camp can come up with a
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good persuasive answer to that, then Ron DeSantis' sales pitch, which right now is just, I can get
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elected. I can get elected by a wide margin. It's a very persuasive sales pitch. Speaking of politicians
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with Santos in their name, Congressman George Santos has just announced that he will step down from his
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committee assignments. He won't resign from the Congress, but he will step down from his committee
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assignments. He says, quote, with the ongoing attention surrounding both my personal and campaign
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financial investigations, I've submitted a request to Speaker McCarthy that I be temporarily recused from
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my committee assignments until I'm cleared. This was a decision that I take very seriously. Okay,
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he probably had to do this. The press are hounding him constantly. There are new allegations that crop
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up seemingly every day that he lied about his education, lied about his employment history,
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lied about his sexual desires possibly, maybe was a criminal in Latin America. I don't know if
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anything about this guy is honest or trustworthy at all. Some Democrats have said, you saw this line
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floating around social media. They said, if George Santos was a Democrat, he would have been kicked out
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of Congress. The Democrats would have forced their fellow Democrat out of Congress. If George Santos
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were a Democrat, he wouldn't just be stepping down from the committees. He'd be all the way out of
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Congress. You know what I say? I say, if Congressman George Santos were a Democrat, he would be Senator
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Elizabeth Warren is who he would be. Because George Santos may or may not have lied about having a Jewish
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grandma. I actually don't know. He might have had a Jewish grandma. The whole joke was he said he was Jew-ish,
00:24:52.360
that he didn't practice the Jewish religion, but he had a little bit of Jewish heritage somewhere. Maybe he did.
00:24:57.300
I don't know. Don't know. Don't really care. What I do know is that he didn't lie about being a Native American and
00:25:04.420
then get a career in academia out of that. He's not a U.S. Senator. He's a Congressman. I think that
00:25:11.200
if George Santos were a Democrat, he would probably be President Joe Biden. Because George Santos,
00:25:19.400
he lied about what high school he went to and his college degrees and all that. Joe Biden had to drop
00:25:25.640
out of the 1988 presidential race because of this. Because he lied about, I think essentially every
00:25:33.300
statement he's ever made about his educational background was a lie. Graduated with three degrees,
00:25:38.360
graduated in the top half of his class, got a departmental distinction because of his academic
00:25:44.620
acumen, was there on an academic scholarship. All that was just made up. He also then had to drop out
00:25:50.100
of the race for plagiarism, which is the academic crime. That is the crime that shows that you don't
00:25:54.000
have academic integrity. So, no. You're not going to get me to call for George Santos's resignation,
00:26:00.280
okay? He's clearly a pretty weird guy. Politicians are weird guys. He might be a little on the more
00:26:07.640
extreme side of things, but par for the course in that profession. George Santos is dishonest.
00:26:13.640
Politicians are dishonest. He might be a little more extreme, maybe. Maybe in that direction.
00:26:18.780
I don't think so. Liz Warren steps down. Joe Biden steps down. Then you come to me and you say,
00:26:22.580
George Santos needs to step down. Until then, he's an important vote. We have a razor-thin majority.
00:26:27.620
I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it about George Santos, okay? Speaking of Hispanic men,
00:26:34.980
there are a bunch of illegal immigrants in Manhattan. There are a lot of illegal immigrants
00:26:40.200
in Manhattan, but there's a specific group of illegal immigrants in Manhattan right now,
00:26:44.760
came up from Texas, who are staying at a luxury hotel, and they don't want to leave.
00:26:53.180
The city wants them to leave the hotel. They've been at a very nice luxury hotel for quite a while now.
00:26:57.300
The city says, hey, would you guys mind leaving? And they say, no, no, gracias.
00:27:05.220
Asylum seekers say in Midtown, they found work. Over there, they'd be in the middle of nowhere,
00:27:10.140
they say, sleeping next to the ocean. He could have easily, along with Governor Hochul,
00:27:15.920
opened up all the vacant luxury apartments. We are on 57th Street right now. This is Billionaires'
00:27:23.660
road. Half of the supertowers on this street are empty. Very basic beds, head to foot,
00:27:32.980
no space in between them. There's four bathrooms in the entire facility for 1,000 beds. They've
00:27:38.560
described multiple security gates to get in. They've described that there's only food during
00:27:42.720
limited hours and that sometimes the water runs out. And importantly also, it's cold in there.
00:27:47.080
Despite the mayor's claim that it's heated, they said it was cold in there.
00:27:49.500
First thing I can't help but notice about that little video clip,
00:27:55.340
not seeing a whole lot of mothers and widows and poor little orphan children and dreamers.
00:28:02.880
We're told that the illegal aliens pouring across our border to the tune of two million a year,
00:28:09.820
that they're just, they're the dreamers, the sweet little dreamers, the sweet little babes.
00:28:15.420
You want to turn away the sweet little babes? Now could you, the poor women just fleeing political,
00:28:22.720
they don't, that doesn't look like that to me. Looks to me like a bunch of able-bodied young men
00:28:27.540
without any families at all who are just trying to make a buck and who are specifically complaining
00:28:33.800
about how if they go to Brooklyn, it's not going to be as easy for them to make money because right
00:28:37.780
now they're in Manhattan, they can make money in Manhattan. If they go to Brooklyn, they're going to
00:28:40.580
have to take the subway or something and so that's going to be inconvenient for them and they want
00:28:44.820
to stay at the luxury hotel on the taxpayer dime. That's the first thing I can't help but notice.
00:28:49.700
The second reaction I cannot help but entertain is sheer delight. I think this is just great.
00:28:57.340
I think this is great because the New York City government has said that it is a sanctuary city.
00:29:03.180
Great. Give them sanctuary. They've said, come over here. Please, you huddled fighting age men,
00:29:10.980
come over here without your families because you're yearning to be free. We'll welcome you.
00:29:17.080
Well, no, not here. No, when we said we'll welcome you, we meant in Texas. We meant in California.
00:29:24.420
We meant in Florida. We meant in Arizona. Wait, here? New York? All right. Maybe you can go out by the
00:29:30.960
water, out by where the mob works at. Wait, Manhattan? No, you can't be here in Manhattan.
00:29:36.080
That's where we live. You can't be here. Get out of our nice hotels. Please? Can you get out? No.
00:29:43.480
Please? Por favor? No, no. Gracias. No. No, no quiero livare. Is that how you say to leave? I don't
00:29:51.800
really know. I don't speak Spanish. Nor do the New Yorkers. They're going to have a hard time
00:29:55.540
communicating with their new neighbors. I think that's just great. If the New Yorkers don't want
00:30:01.800
him there, if Mayor Eric Adams is begging Joe Biden, he's going on TV, we got to do something
00:30:06.420
about this. We need this out. We got to fix this now. Okay. Well, if it's a problem for New York,
00:30:10.700
it's a problem for Texas. It's a problem for Arizona. Problem for Florida. Problem for America.
00:30:17.600
Speaking of shady congressmen, Adam Schiff is going to run for Senate. Adam Schiff, you know,
00:30:26.120
was leading the charge of the first impeachment against Donald Trump. Adam Schiff is a shill and
00:30:34.120
a hack who led so much of the Russiagate hoax. And he got the whole story wrong. And he either lied
00:30:44.600
or was so incompetent that he just unwittingly got the story wrong. But he got the story
00:30:49.400
so wrong. He was so the boy who cried wolf during the Trump years that even CNN is calling him out
00:30:56.980
for it. You said that there was direct evidence of the fact that Donald Trump colluded with Russia
00:31:03.480
back in 2016. Special counsel Robert Mueller said in his report, quote, the investigation did not
00:31:09.380
establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian
00:31:14.200
government. Republicans argue that's proof that you used your position on the Intelligence Committee
00:31:19.940
to intentionally mislead Americans, which is why you should not be on that committee.
00:31:25.320
If you read the Mueller report, he makes clear, even in the first few pages of the report, that he
00:31:30.060
states no conclusion on whether Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians.
00:31:34.480
Let me give you another. He says that this is part of the of a pattern ahead of the first Trump
00:31:41.100
impeachment. You said the committee had not spoken to a whistleblower. In fact, that turned out not to
00:31:45.800
be true. You know, the Washington Post said so in their in their fact check. The Washington Post
00:31:51.000
identified that, yes, before the person became a whistleblower, they sought advice from the committee.
00:31:57.280
When I was asked the question, I thought they were referring to whether we had brought the
00:32:00.180
whistleblower in. And I should have been more clear in my answer.
00:32:04.480
I should have been more clear. You see, it was all a big understanding. Not only did Schiff try to
00:32:10.480
weasel his way out of lies and manifest falsehoods that he is told, whether wittingly or unwittingly.
00:32:19.020
Oh, I just misunderstood the question. But he goes further. He basically defends the Russia hoax.
00:32:25.680
That's his story. And he is sticking to it. But no, we're supposed to disavow George Santos.
00:32:32.260
I don't care about George Santos. OK, not saying I would leave him here to manage my finances or
00:32:39.240
babysit my kids or trust him really with anything whatsoever. But I don't I don't want to hear about
00:32:43.900
that when you've got forget about Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren. When you've got the Adam Schiff's
00:32:48.680
of the world leading in the Democrat Party about to get a promotion from congressman to senator.
00:32:53.760
Don't talk to me about don't talk to me about George Santos. Mike Pompeo, former secretary of state and
00:33:00.800
former CIA director, points out Adam Schiff leaked classified information.
00:33:10.460
So I had the incredible privilege to serve on that committee.
00:33:13.900
It covers the most classified, most difficult stuff. Not every member of Congress gets to see
00:33:18.160
the information that the Intelligence Committee sees. And Adam Schiff lied to the American people.
00:33:23.440
And during my time as CIA director and secretary of state, I know that he leaked classified information
00:33:28.020
that had been provided to him. Now, the fact that Adam Schiff was the chairman of the House
00:33:32.560
Intelligence Committee almost ruined that committee. It serves an incredibly important
00:33:36.740
function for the American people. Speaker McCarthy got this one exactly right. Adam Schiff should be
00:33:41.780
nowhere near serving on the Intelligence Committee. I don't think he should be seeing classified
00:33:45.700
information. Absolutely right. There it is. But we've got to worry about Donald Trump,
00:33:51.660
a president who had full authority to declassify whatever he wanted. He had some some papers at
00:33:57.400
Mar-a-Lago. We have to worry about that. Send in the Marines, send in the FBI to kick the door in.
00:34:02.560
Meanwhile, you've got Adam Schiff actively leaking classified information. He had absolutely no
00:34:07.080
right to leak. I just don't want to hear it, guys. Don't want to hear that manufactured outrage.
00:34:11.240
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Speaking of embarrassing Democrat congressmen, here's a new one. Have you heard of Representative
00:35:09.620
Sarah Jacobs? Sarah Jacobs, I had not heard of her before this. She is a backbencher Democrat
00:35:16.680
congressman, I guess. She has some interesting theories on state power and biology.
00:35:22.220
24 states have banned abortion or are likely to do so. Without Roe, Americans are now facing a
00:35:29.100
confusing patchwork of state laws, dictating who can make decisions about their health care and when.
00:35:34.800
Without Roe, state governments are forcing pregnancy on people. Maternal and infant health
00:35:40.600
care outcomes are worsening. William put a pause right there.
00:35:46.000
The state governments are forcing pregnancy. How are they doing that, would you say?
00:35:52.140
Well, because they ban abortion. How do you, how does Sarah Jacobs think that pregnancy begins?
00:35:59.100
When a man and a woman, at least I don't know, this is how it used to be. When a man and a woman love
00:36:06.420
each other very much, they go out, they get married, then they do this thing, and then that's how you get
00:36:13.100
a baby. Now, of course, it involves catalogs of people and hundreds of thousands of dollars and
00:36:17.880
test tubes and all sorts of weird Canadian laws. But previously that was how, but under no circumstances
00:36:23.920
does the state force somebody to become pregnant? What the state does in this country is, in certain
00:36:33.220
parts of the country, not permit women to kill their own children. So it is true, the state forces people
00:36:44.120
are able to accept the consequences of their actions and to respect the humanity of their own
00:36:53.660
children. In some cases, in some parts of the country. In other parts of the country, you can
00:36:59.540
kill the kids, you can trans the kids, you can purchase kids like commodities. But in some parts
00:37:04.560
of the country, it's true, you don't get to kill your kid. But in no part, in no part will, will the
00:37:12.220
state impregnate you. Yet, yet, we don't know. I mean, I guess our national day is still, still quite
00:37:18.220
young. Speaking of Democratic women trying to explain things, Kamala Harris gave a rousing oratory
00:37:26.400
just the other day in which she explained how rocket ships work. Which brings me to May 30th, 2020.
00:37:35.800
Bob and Doug returned to the Kennedy Space Center. They suited up, they waved to their families,
00:37:45.640
and they rode an elevator up nearly 20 stories. They strapped in to their seats and waited as the
00:37:55.760
tanks beneath them, filled with tens of thousands of gallons of fuel. And then, they launched.
00:38:11.060
They did. They did that. That's what a rocket ship is. Kamala Harris sounds to me like the student in
00:38:22.440
your class who thought that essays and term papers and even question and answer sessions
00:38:29.720
were just about filling the space with words. That's all that it was about. This woman has less
00:38:39.560
to say than any person I have ever seen in public life. She talks just as much as anybody in public
00:38:46.020
life. But she has nothing to say. What is one thing that Kamala Harris has ever said that has
00:38:52.020
carried with it any meaning? There's one answer to this, as far as I'm concerned. And it's during
00:38:58.620
the Democrat primaries in 2020, she called Joe Biden a racist. That's the one thing she ever said
00:39:04.700
that seemed concrete, seemed like it had a purpose, seemed specific. And then, by the way, she walked it
00:39:11.980
back. And she said, no, I don't think he's racist. But he supported segregation. He was going to keep
00:39:16.700
me off a school bus or something. And otherwise, it's just, wow, microscopes allow you to see small
00:39:23.860
things. And rocket ships go, boom, wow. And it goes up. And then, wow. It would be very sad.
00:39:35.540
I was going to say that she's the least impressive politician I've ever seen. It's not true. She's
00:39:40.020
very impressive. I am impressed by her vacuity. I am impressed by her vapidity. And I can't imagine
00:39:46.360
that life. Could you imagine you go into politics, you suffer the slings and arrows, all of the attacks
00:39:52.600
people make on you. You forego, in many cases, making better money elsewhere. I don't know about
00:39:58.320
Kamala Harris, but there are plenty of politicians who could make way more money in the private sector
00:40:03.680
than they do in government. I'm not saying she doesn't make a good salary as a VP or a senator,
00:40:07.540
but she could probably make more money in the private sector. You get to spend more time with
00:40:12.520
your family when you're not in government. You go through all of the indignities that go along with
00:40:18.140
holding office. For what? For no purpose whatsoever. Just to be there. Just to be the vice president.
00:40:24.880
Kamala Harris doesn't want to do anything in office. She has no agenda whatsoever. She's a
00:40:30.180
completely empty suit. Not a whole lot going on, I think, between the ears. Certainly not a whole lot
00:40:35.840
going on between the shoulders in terms of her heart, in terms of what stirs her. Nothing at all.
00:40:42.080
She, kind of like Joe Biden, she just wants to be the vice president. Probably ultimately to be
00:40:46.480
the president. Could you possibly imagine? Speaking of artificial and contrived things,
00:40:51.480
the FDA has just given the go-ahead to lab-grown meat. Now, lab-grown meat is different from
00:40:59.820
veggie burgers. Lab-grown meat is different from the Impossible Burger or the, I think Burger King
00:41:06.700
was serving these for a while. They're vegetarian, but they look kind of like meat and they even are
00:41:10.800
kind of juicy. And that's not what this is. This is, this is actual meat, just not, mostly not from
00:41:19.280
animals. The agency says that it considers chicken that is cultivated from cells that come from stem
00:41:28.320
cells and all sorts of weird Frankenstein kind of stuff. The FDA considers this safe for humans to
00:41:33.560
eat after a review of a chicken product from Upside Foods, which is a company out of Berkeley.
00:41:39.200
Now, this won't be hitting the stores just yet because they still need a sign-off from the U.S.
00:41:43.620
Department of Agriculture, the USDA, and the FDA team up to decide which foods you're allowed to eat.
00:41:48.680
But the way it works is that the meat, the fake meat, is cultivated from real animal cells.
00:41:53.920
And so the CEO of Upside Foods, a woman named Uma Valeti, says that they are, quote, like a starter
00:42:00.820
dough. It means it's not vegetarian. It means that sometimes animals are killed and eggs are used in
00:42:06.080
the process of this. But many, many fewer animals are killed to obtain the same amount of meat. And to
00:42:14.040
all of this, I say, no thanks. I'm good. No, but it tastes the same. It probably doesn't. But even
00:42:23.660
if it does, nah, no thank you. But this is a way where you can have your meat and not kill the animal
00:42:30.360
too. This is a way where you can have the best of all worlds. Yeah, no, I'm good. Thanks though.
00:42:35.140
Thanks for the offer. But why, why? Look, rationally on paper, it's all Upside and there's no downside.
00:42:41.820
Yeah, I guess. I just don't really believe you. I don't trust the FDA. I don't trust these regulators.
00:42:48.160
I don't trust the scientists. I don't trust these fads in modern, hyper-scientific
00:42:55.860
meats and other food products. I just don't trust that. It seems to me that every new, brand new food
00:43:05.640
fad based on some highly engineered type of food in the last many decades has been very bad for us.
00:43:14.380
And it's always been the same story. The story is this new scientifically engineered food is really,
00:43:20.600
really good for you. And it's way better than all the traditional foods. And you should just replace
00:43:24.440
all those traditional foods with this new cheap chemical stuff that we're giving you. And then what
00:43:29.360
happens? Some years go by, decades go by, and you find out all that new, weird, scientifically
00:43:33.440
engineered stuff is terrible. My prediction, this isn't even just my prediction, but sweet little
00:43:39.120
Elisa made this prediction too, so that's how you know it's a good one, is that this stuff is going
00:43:44.980
to be the seed oils of 20 years from now. So my part of the prediction is that this lab-grown weird
00:43:51.300
meat, that's going to be the seed oils of 20 years from now. What I know for sure, and I'm totally with
00:43:56.360
sweet little Elisa on this, cricket powder, which the libs are all now trying to put in our foods
00:44:02.680
and succeeding in some cases, it's going to foods in Europe, and it's already here in America in some
00:44:07.740
places. That is going to be the seed oils of 20 and 30 years from now. Mark my words, and we are
00:44:15.760
going to go right, but just as we're seeing right now with oils and fats and the way that we cook
00:44:21.320
foods, we're now ditching the soybean oil and the canola oil, and it's called rapeseed oil. It's
00:44:27.060
right there in the name, rapeseed. We're ditching all that stuff and saying, oh, actually, you know,
00:44:30.140
butter is not so bad for you. Actually, olive oil and kind of traditional stuff is not so bad for you.
00:44:35.540
It's going to be the same thing here with the libs who are trying to make us eat the bugs and the
00:44:39.200
weird Frankenstein meat grown in the lab. But don't worry, because the genius scientists at the FDA
00:44:43.960
and all the other regulatory agencies, they're telling us it's all fine. And when have they ever
00:44:48.580
gotten something wrong? When have they ever been proven wrong on public health or any other matter?
00:44:53.380
I'm now at the point where if the FDA tells me to do something, I am inclined to do exactly the
00:44:59.600
opposite. Now, we had a marvelous, marvelous member block for you today. But unfortunately,
00:45:10.420
we were booted out of our studios. Severe weather in Nashville has us all hunkering down. And because I
00:45:18.360
do not have the technological apparatus of our main frame at the headquarters, we're going to have
00:45:26.280
to hold that for tomorrow. All right, how's that for a cliffhanger, folks? In the meantime, make sure
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