Ep. 1194 - Libs’ Disgusting Attempt To Blame Derailment On Trump Fails
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Summary
After a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, President Trump showed up to try to help the people affected by the derailment. But was he really there to fix the problem? Or was he there to blame the other guy?
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After the train full of toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio,
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poisoning the town and the surrounding communities, the Biden administration did
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pretty much nothing. Then a week later, the Biden administration continued to do
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pretty much nothing. Then a week after that, President Trump showed up with water and Big
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Macs and demanded that the federal government show up and help these poor people.
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And then the Biden administration still basically did nothing. But at that point,
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after Trump showed up, Biden supporters did something. They agreed upon a new talking point,
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which is that the whole thing was actually Trump's fault.
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What do you make of the fact that he went there, despite the fact that the regulations that he
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rolled back were partly responsible for this tragedy?
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I mean, it was definitely an ironic thing to do. You know, you take down regulations,
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you water down regulations, you weaken the power of the administration to deal with freight railroad
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companies. And then you show up wanting to be a great friend of the people who have been impacted
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by a rail disaster. This wasn't just background noise conspiracy theorizing. This wasn't just
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finger pointing from the fringes. These were leading liberal figures from the media and the Biden
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administration itself, claiming that Trump had cut regulations that then caused the train to derail.
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This is the talking point echoed by all the libs today. And it turns out that the talking point
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is completely false. Completely false. Even a handful of honest libs in mainstream outlets are
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admitting this. The Washington Post just did an analysis headline. So far, Trump's rollback of
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regulations can't be blamed for Ohio train wreck. Quote, we decided to examine every possible
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regulatory change made under Trump that could be related to the accident and assess whether it could
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have had an impact. From our analysis, none of the regulatory changes made during the Trump
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administration at this point can be cited as contributing to the incident. That's the Washington
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Post. New York Times, quote, he said later that he believed Mr. Trump's presence would help keep
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the pressure on federal officials to take action. Asked about criticism from the White House on the
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Republican opposition to rail safety measures, Mr. Vance, this is the Ohio Republican Senator J.D.
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Vance, said attempts to politicize the issue would not help residents. New York Times says, quote,
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according to the website PolitiFact, a rail safety rule repealed as part of a broad regulatory
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rollback under the Trump administration would have had no impact on the East Palestine derailment.
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WAPO, Super Lib, New York Times, Super Lib, New York Times cites PolitiFact, Super Lib. They all admit
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nothing that Trump did. None of the deregulation could have in any way caused this derailment.
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Even Joe Biden's own National Transportation Safety Board chairman, Jennifer Homody, made a point to
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explain that the regulation Trump allegedly cut had nothing to do with the derailment. She tweeted,
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quote, some are saying the ECP electronically controlled pneumatic brake rule, if implemented,
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would have prevented this derailment. False. Even if the rule had gone into effect, this train
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wouldn't have had ECP brakes. But falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it. The lie shows up
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in prime time on page A1 of the paper. Everybody sees it. The correction, where does that show up?
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It gets completely buried. The wrong guy gets the blame. Nothing gets fixed. And Biden prepares
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for the next catastrophe by doing what he does best. Nothing. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael
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There is no reason these people should blend in with the furniture. If you know who they are,
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pass the buck for everything. We talked yesterday about Lori Lightfoot, the dismal mayor of Chicago,
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losing her re-election bid as murder skyrocketed throughout the city. The city is essentially a
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war zone now. Some voters finally threw that bum out. What does Lori Lightfoot have to say about it?
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To what does she attribute her loss? Her lack of care for the people, her extraordinarily arrogant
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attitude when called out on her failures, the fact that people in Chicago can't walk down the street
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without taking their lives in their hands. No, no, no. She of course blamed it on her race and on her
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sex. Lori Lightfoot is a black lady and so that's why she was not re-elected. Now, of course, one would
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have to ask if Lori Lightfoot did not win re-election because Chicago residents hate black people and
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hate women, how did she win election in the first place? That part doesn't quite make a lot of sense.
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But then two, you got to look at Chicago's demographics. Lori Lightfoot says, I'm a black
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woman in America. Of course, race and sex, race and gender, she was answering, contributed to that loss.
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Chicago is 29% black. America is about 13% black. Chicago is more than twice as black as America
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broadly is. Chicago is 51% female. There are more women in Chicago than men.
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The blame it on your race, blame it on your sex stuff doesn't really play anywhere as far as I'm
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concerned. But it especially does not play in Chicago because Chicago is one of the blackest
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American cities and it's more female than male. What do we think is most likely to have contributed
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to Lori Lightfoot's loss? The identities that she represents, which are disproportionately represented
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among the electorate or her utter failure in the fact that residents of Chicago, black, white,
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yellow, and brown, male, female, and these days, I guess everything in between just don't want to be
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shot as they're walking down the street. I strongly suspect it would be the latter.
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That kind of irresponsibility I find very, very funny. Why'd you lose re-election? Oh,
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it's because I'm black. That's very funny. That's a silly thing. Sometimes the Libs' irresponsibility
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is much less funny. As we saw yesterday, there's a woman who showed up to Congress
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to put a human face on the opioid epidemic that most of our politicians, certainly the liberal
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politicians, but many establishment politicians broadly, just don't seem to care very much about.
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Her name is Rebecca Kiesling. Her sons, Caleb and Kyler, were killed along with another friend
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of a fentanyl overdose. This was just a few years ago. Her sons were 20 and 18 years old.
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And Mrs. Kiesling is asking, why won't the Congress do anything about this epidemic?
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I lost my two sons. Caleb was age 20 and Kyler was age 18 on July 29th of 2020.
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It was absolutely a perfect storm. There was also a 17-year-old girl, Sophia Harris, who died along
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with them. And the drug dealer, Lorenzo Bravo, was spared by Narcan. And he ended up getting 8 to 15
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years for killing three people. He was another addict. And so because he survived, they had leads to who he
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got it from. And they actually could try to start tracing it back. And the law enforcement made it
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clear to me that this fentanyl came from Mexico. It came from our southern border.
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You talk about children being taken away from their parents.
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It's an amazing line. It's an amazing moment. One of the most impressive moments I've ever seen
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in congressional testimony. This mother who lost two of her sons so young, completely preventable
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deaths. Deaths caused not just by teenage irresponsibility, which is basically universal,
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but by the decisions of people in Congress to keep that border open and to go soft on drugs.
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This is not just something that's happening naturally and you can't prevent it. In the year
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2000, 20,000 Americans died of drug overdoses. Today, 100,000 Americans, more than 100,000 Americans
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die every year from drug overdoses. 5X today, what we saw just a little over 20 years ago.
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That's not just an accident. That's not just the natural changes of politics. That is because of
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specific policies. That's because Democrats and some establishment Republicans won't close the
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border. That's because Democrats and some squish Republicans want to go soft on drugs. Not just
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not enforce the law, but actually stop enforcing. Not just not enforce the law, but loosen up the law.
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Liberalize the drug laws. Make it easier for drug dealers to peddle poison. That's why this is
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happening. And what do we hear? We say, well, look, we know that fentanyl is pouring across the border.
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They say, well, what do you want to do? You want to stop those future dreamer Americans from coming
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across? Yes. Yeah. I want to stop the drug cartels from poisoning America across the border.
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Say, well, don't you know that when we enforce border policies, parents are separated from their
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children? That woman says, well, you know, my children were separated from me too.
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And I'm an American. What about me? What about me? It's not a complicated issue.
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Ronald Reagan made this point in the 80s. He said, illegal immigration is not complicated. It's
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illegal. End of story. This is not, we were talking about gangs and drugs and breaking the law
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in El Salvador this week. El Salvador was able to cut its murder rate by 58%. And it wasn't all that
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complicated. It was actually pretty simple. If you arrest the criminals, the murder rate goes
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down. How do you prevent these drug deaths? 100,000 plus per year. You enforce the immigration
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policies and you enforce the drug laws. Not rocket science. We can do it. The liberals and the squishes
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in the Republican Party don't want to do it. This is the consequence. Okay, that's fine. They have
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their reasons for it. They want cheap labor. They want foreigners to flood the country. They think
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that people have a right to do drugs that will kill them. Okay, that's what, then look the victims in
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the face. And look at the consequences of those actions. And don't say, well, it's just, this is
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The fentanyl problem is not just a little uptick in drugs in America. It is something we have never
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seen before. Fentanyl is just pure poison and fentanyl is pouring across our border as part of
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a concerted effort to weaken our country by foreign actors, by our enemies, by China to begin with,
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and then through Mexico because they know that effectively we don't have a border.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who were assigned to the Andrade Port of Entry in California,
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just hit a new port record by seizing nearly $1 million of fentanyl and meth.
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That was in one car. They were hiding it in the gas tank. $1 million worth of fentanyl and meth.
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How many people, not only could that amount of drugs have killed, how many people would that
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fentanyl have killed had that car made it through? We don't know. Chances are,
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if you don't know somebody who has died of a fentanyl overdose in the last five years,
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I promise you, you know somebody who knows somebody.
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I know people who died of these overdoses, people I grew up with. Everybody does. And it's not like I
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grew up in Breaking Bad, okay? I didn't grow up in some totally drug-ridden community. I grew up in a
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pretty nice suburb in New York. It's everywhere. And so we can celebrate, oh good, CBP was able to
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catch a million dollars worth of this stuff. That's what we caught. Imagine what's getting
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through. Sometimes the liberals who try to make excuses about this, they say, yeah, it's good.
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Border protection's working. We were able to catch these people. They'll say, well, we were able to
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catch the criminals that were trying to sneak over illegally, who usually are then just released
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back into the public. Or they'll say, oh, we were able to catch the drugs. Yeah. Imagine how much
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in the way of drugs is getting through. You don't have to imagine, because 100,000 plus Americans
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every year are dying from it, a 5x increase. It's just total irresponsibility. Why won't the
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Biden administration do something about this? Well, because the Biden administration is directing
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its federal resources toward much more pressing issues, like terrorizing parents who don't want their
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kids to get transed, and terrorizing pro-lifers, and infiltrating Catholic masses, and trying to
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harass Christians for going to church on Sunday. Josh Hawley grilled the Attorney General Merrick
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Garland just yesterday on that latter FBI initiative to infiltrate churches such as my own, churches where
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Catholics just want to go on Sundays and worship God in a traditional way that has existed for at least
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1,200 years. I notice a pattern, though. The FBI field office in Richmond, on the 23rd of January of
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this year, issued a memorandum in which they advocated for, and I quote, the exploration of new avenues for
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tripwire and source development against traditionalist Catholics, it's their language, including those who
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favor the Latin mass. Attorney General, are you cultivating sources and spies in Latin mass
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parishes and other Catholic parishes around the country? The Justice Department does not do that.
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It does not do investigations based on religion. I saw the document you said. It's appalling.
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It's appalling. I'm in complete agreement with you. I understand that the FBI has withdrawn it,
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and it's now looking into how this could ever have happened. How did it happen? That's what they're
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looking into. How many informants do you have in Catholic churches across America?
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I don't know, and I don't believe we have any informants aimed at Catholic churches.
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There it is. So Merrick Garland, he's a very talented politician. He's been in the upper
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echelons of Washington for a long time, and he gives the right answer to Hawley. And let's say he's being
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sincere. I was appalled, Senator Hawley. I can't believe this was happening.
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I've ordered them not to do it anymore. I was totally appalled. Okay, that's good.
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But then did you notice that second answer that Garland gave? Hawley says, before we go,
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how many informants do you have in the Catholic churches? And Garland makes a big mistake.
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He says, I don't know. Oops. I mean, I don't think we have any. Wait, hold on. You just said,
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I don't know. Implying that you've got some, you just don't know what the number is.
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Implying that your first answer was kind of disingenuous, right?
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I was appalled. I can't believe that the FBI is going in there and harassing these Catholics. I'm
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going to get to the bottom of this. How exactly? I'm not going to tell you, but I'm absolutely
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infuriated. Okay, well, just, all right, before we get to any of that, you know, do what you can.
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How many people do you have spying on the Catholics? Oh, I don't know.
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I mean, none. Yeah, okay. Okay, so Hawley is grilling Garland, and then we get Senator Cruz.
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I don't say it just because he's a friend of mine. I don't say it just because we hosted a podcast for
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three years together. This guy is just the best at grilling witnesses in the Senate. There is nobody
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better than Cruz. So Cruz goes in, he's going after Garland, and he brings up the case of Mark
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Houck, a pro-life activist who was threatened with jail time. The DOJ showed up at his house with his
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kids, terrorized him, arrested him, all for pushing back on a pro-abortion fanatic who was screaming at
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his son. Often just like, hey, get away from my son. You got the men in the windbreakers showing up,
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the federales show up to your door and arrest you and threaten you. Cruz says, what gives?
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Why do you send two dozen agents in body armor to arrest a sidewalk counselor who happens to be
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prone to life, but you don't devote resources to prosecute people who are violently firebombing
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crisis pregnancies? It is a priority of the department to prosecute and investigate and
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find the people who are doing those firebombings. They are doing it at night and in secret,
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and we have found one group, which we did prosecute. You found one. How many have there
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been? How many attacks? There have been a lot, and if you have any information specifically as to who
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those people are, we would be glad to have that. Did you personally authorize 20 agents going to
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Mr. Houck's house, and he offered to turn himself in through counsel, but you didn't want that.
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The Department of Justice wanted to make a show of it. Did you personally authorize it,
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and do you want to apologize to Mrs. Houck and her seven children for being terrorized?
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The decisions about how to do that are made at the level of the FBI agents on scene.
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So there we go. It's the same kind of answer from Garland that we saw when he was answering Hawley.
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He says, I don't know. I didn't make these decisions. This was not me. This was lower level
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FBI agents. I don't. We're looking into it. I'm very, very responsible, Senator Cruz.
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How dare you impugn my motives or my integrity? And okay, that's fine. But then Cruz, he also,
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he's just kind of gets in there. I remember once he was grilling Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook,
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and what Cruz really shines in is he's doing the grilling, and he's asking all these questions over
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here, over here, with this hand over here, and then he just hits you with the other hand right
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when you're not expecting it. So he's grilling Mark Zuckerberg on whatever. I don't remember.
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And then out of nowhere, he goes, why was Palmer Luckey fired? Because there was a rumor that a
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major Facebook executive had been fired for being a conservative. And he just off-footed him,
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and Zuckerberg didn't know what to say because he was so focused on this other topic.
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So we saw Cruz do this again. Cruz is grilling Garland on all sorts of issues. And then he says,
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hey, one quick question just before you go. Is it illegal to protest on the grounds of a judge's
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house while a case is pending? Here's the answer.
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General Garland, is it a federal crime to protest outside of a judge's home with the intent of
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The answer to that is yes, but I also want to at least respond to your characterization of the
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Huh? Oh, what? Yes, the thing you said is true. But let me get off this for a second,
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because what Cruz was doing there was quoting the US code verbatim, which says that the protests
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that we saw after the Dobbs decision was leaked, all the pro-abortion fanaticists who showed up to
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Alito's house, who showed up to Kavanaugh's house, who showed up to the homes of the conservative
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justices to protest, terrorize them, terrorize their kids in the middle of the night. One guy showed up
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to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh, and the local police and the federal police just allowed this to happen.
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It was completely illegal. And so now Garland's answer to Hawley and to Cruz of, oh, I didn't know.
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I wasn't aware. We're investigating. We're looking into it. Had I known we would have done things
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differently. It's exposed as complete BS. He's Garland says, yes, what they did was illegal.
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I know it was illegal. I know it was happening. It was all over the news, and I let it happen.
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I'm the attorney general of the United States, and I permitted this kind of lawlessness
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when it benefited my political party. I brought down the full force of the federal government
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to terrorize a pro-lifer and his wife and his kids for having the temerity to protest outside of,
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or not even to protest outside, to pray outside and to peacefully demonstrate outside of an abortion
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clinic. Oh, yeah, we're going to terrorize those people. But when left-wingers violate federal law
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outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, one of whom goes and tries to kill the guy,
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that I knowingly allowed to happen. Absolutely humiliating day for Merrick Garland on Capitol
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Hill. Great job to those Senate Republicans. So we need some new leadership.
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President Trump, obviously, would like to reclaim the mantle of leadership. And one area where Trump
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has really shined is on foreign policy. This is, in this race, clear because he's the only candidate
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really with a foreign policy. That's no knock on DeSantis or Haley or Vivek or anybody else. It's just
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that Trump is the only guy who's gotten to be president before. And so he's the only guy who's had
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an opportunity to articulate a foreign policy. And Trump went on our pal Seb Gorka show a couple of
00:26:02.800
days ago. And he articulated his foreign policy vis-a-vis Ukraine. And a deal has to be made.
00:26:10.600
It would have never happened. But that has to stop. And it has to stop right now. And a deal can be
00:26:16.100
negotiated by the right president. You have a president that knows what he's doing. You can
00:26:24.300
negotiate a deal even right now. Would have been a lot easier early. I always said, you know,
00:26:29.720
Putin put those soldiers on the border. And I said, oh, he's looking to negotiate. I was actually
00:26:35.580
a little surprised he did it because nothing happened during my, you know, during my term,
00:26:40.200
he didn't take over anything. It was the only one. Typical Trump take on foreign policy, which is,
00:26:46.020
if I were in charge, things would be totally fine. That's Trump's foreign policy. He's not
00:26:51.780
articulating some grand strategy. He's not articulating some foreign policy doctrine. He's
00:26:56.940
saying, you put me in charge, it'll be all right. And the funny thing is, it seems like that is true.
00:27:06.020
In fact, the fact that there is not some overarching strategy that you can put down in a five-point
00:27:11.860
manifesto, this is the Trump foreign policy doctrine, that seems to be the strongest part of it.
00:27:16.240
It is simply a fact the world was more peaceful during Trump's tenure than at any other time in
00:27:27.160
my life. Trump had a more successful foreign policy in terms of preserving the peace than
00:27:34.120
Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, even other Bush and Bush one was pretty good at preserving the peace.
00:27:41.520
Reagan, even. Trump did a great job. Why? Because Trump was unpredictable.
00:27:48.100
And because Trump was unpredictable, sometimes you thought he was going to go send in the troops
00:27:52.140
and he was a total dove. Sometimes you thought that Trump was going to stay away and he goes in
00:27:57.140
and assassinates the top Iranian general or drops the mother of all bombs. And you just don't know.
00:28:02.420
And so if you're Xi Jinping, if you're Vladimir Putin, even if you think that Trump is only 5%
00:28:10.600
serious when he says, I'm going to blow you to smithereens if you do something I don't like,
00:28:15.800
even if you think 95% chance he's bluffing. In fact, Trump went on record. He said,
00:28:21.500
I told Vladimir Putin, if you invade Ukraine, I'll blow up Moscow. And so you're Vladimir Putin and you
00:28:26.080
think there's no way he's, he's bluffing, but because he's unpredictable, you've got to think
00:28:32.340
in your head, there's a 5%. There's a, there's a 2% chance that this crazy mother lover is going to do
00:28:39.980
it. And so you hold back. And in fact, this is not just Trump bragging about how things might have
00:28:47.320
been in a conditional and a hypothetical had he been president. Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky
00:28:54.460
says the same thing. Zelensky says that the, the proximate cause of the war was that Joe Biden
00:29:03.220
lifted the sanctions off of Russia and Joe Biden then invited Russia to invade. Joe Biden said,
00:29:08.880
if it's just a minor incursion into Ukraine, we won't really do anything about it. That's what
00:29:12.120
Zelensky pointed out. And Zelensky and Trump seem to agree on that point. Unfortunately though,
00:29:19.460
we have irresponsible leadership. And so we seem to be hurtling ever more toward war. There was a,
00:29:23.700
an insane press conference yesterday with the secretary general of NATO. That would be Jens
00:29:29.180
Stoltenberg and the Finnish prime minister, Sanna Marin, about how, even though we haven't all really
00:29:36.240
voted on it yet, or even though the people of these countries seem to be pretty opposed,
00:29:44.220
So what NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member of our alliance. But at the same
00:29:53.020
time, that, that is a long-term perspective. What is the, what is the issue now is to ensure that
00:29:59.120
Ukraine prevail as a sovereign independent nation and that therefore we need to support Ukraine.
00:30:04.700
I see that the future of Ukraine is to be part of European union and also member of NATO.
00:30:16.580
So this press conference was insane for a number of reasons. One, if Ukraine joined NATO today,
00:30:23.860
we would instantly be in world war three. We might already be in world war three, but we would
00:30:29.480
instantly formally be in world war three because Ukraine is currently occupied by Russia. So this
00:30:35.500
would trigger the NATO treaty and we would all be at war. It's insane for another reason because
00:30:41.320
buffer states serve a purpose. Historically speaking, when you've got big aggressive empires
00:30:49.620
bordering right up on each other, that creates a lot of tension that often is a cause for war.
00:30:55.420
So there are such things as buffer states, which are caught in the middle of great powers and the
00:31:01.600
way that they exist is they play the great powers off of one another. And it does a pretty good job,
00:31:06.820
historically speaking, of preserving peace for the people and of keeping the greater powers from
00:31:11.220
killing each other. But then the craziest part of this press conference is that that woman that the
00:31:17.320
NATO Secretary General was speaking with is the Prime Minister of Finland, who if you recognize her at
00:31:25.700
all, you will recognize her because she is famously the hottest world leader ever. People know her
00:31:33.660
because of her tabloid exploits, where she's this young, good-looking woman who goes out to the club,
00:31:38.240
who stays out dancing and partying all night. And so that alone doesn't give you a ton
00:31:43.760
of faith in her judgment that she famously will miss phone calls about matters of state because
00:31:50.860
she's out just dancing at the club and hanging out with all of her friends, getting kind of weird.
00:31:55.660
So absurd in itself. But then also because the Prime Minister of Finland is not the one who would
00:32:04.360
be making these foreign policy decisions. That would actually go to the President of Finland,
00:32:08.700
the President of Finland who doesn't have a lot of power generally, but it's a different position
00:32:11.920
and it does still have a lot of control over foreign affairs. But then most of all, because
00:32:16.000
Finland is not in NATO. Finland is not in NATO. Why is Finland making decisions for NATO? Forget it.
00:32:24.640
Why is the NATO Secretary General saying, oh yes, Ukraine will join? Does the United States have
00:32:29.240
any say over this? NATO is just the American imperial arm when it comes to the military, okay? And we
00:32:35.760
shouldn't pretend otherwise. It's preposterous to suggest, oh, the United States, we're just one party
00:32:40.680
among many in NATO. No, NATO's our thing. It's our military imperial arm. And now you're just going
00:32:47.580
to say, oh, and Ukraine's going to join NATO. Do the American people have any say over that?
00:32:52.260
Apparently not. And I'm sure our liberal leaders, irresponsible as they are, would love that.
00:32:58.760
Completely insane. Speaking of foreign affairs, this is a big foreign affairs day.
00:33:04.540
Very sad story out of Iran. Headline, dozens of schoolgirls in Iran taken to hospital after
00:33:12.820
poisoning. Suspected attack on students in city east of Tehran is latest in spate of incidents over
00:33:20.180
the past three months. So Iran, traditionally not so in favor of women going to school and higher
00:33:28.200
education. So there have been these incidents where girls going to school in Iran have been poisoned.
00:33:34.540
Terrible. And we sit here in America and we say, gosh, could you imagine? That's awful. You send
00:33:39.900
your daughter to school in Iran and you got to worry that she gets poisoned. We would never do
00:33:45.720
that here in the United States, would we? No. Here in the United States, when we send our girls to
00:33:52.480
school, they don't get poisoned with arsenic or cyanide. They get poisoned with puberty blockers and
00:33:58.140
cross-sex hormones. And then they're put on the path to have their bodies mutilated. Very often without
00:34:03.940
the knowledge of parents. Yeah, it's very different. We're not like those awful Iranians
00:34:08.980
where a small number of girls have been attacked with poison at school. We're Americans, where a
00:34:16.820
large number of girls are being attacked with poisons at schools with the ascent of the teachers
00:34:21.480
and the scientific establishment and the federal government, which is now fully in support of
00:34:28.880
transing little kids at school. Wait a second. Hold on. I thought we were, aren't we supposed to
00:34:37.340
be the good guys? Why are we doing the stuff that the bad guys do? Why are we doing the stuff that the
00:34:41.500
bad guys do in some ways in a more egregious way than the bad guys are? That's not great.
00:34:47.840
We look around at foreign affairs. We like to believe that we're much better than the rest of the world.
00:34:52.880
Traditionally, we have been. We're the place that everybody wants to come to. So we look over at
00:34:58.200
China. We say, China, they're surveilling their citizens. They're spying on all their citizens.
00:35:02.240
There's no privacy. There's a social credit score there. If you violate that social credit score,
00:35:06.900
you can't engage in commerce. You really can't participate in society. And we have cameras everywhere.
00:35:15.460
And our government intercepts all of our data and analyzes all of those data.
00:35:19.540
And if you fall afoul of the government, you behave in a way that's politically incorrect.
00:35:24.560
Well, you can be kicked out of, not just de-platformed from social media sites.
00:35:30.680
You can be fired from your job. You can be expelled from your school. You can be banned from apps to get
00:35:37.380
around like Uber. You can be banned from places to stay like Airbnb. You can actually be debanked.
00:35:42.720
You can be kicked out of your bank in the United States if you contradict politically correct
00:35:47.420
orthodoxy, huh? Aren't we supposed to be the good guys? How come, if we're the good guys,
00:35:53.060
how come we keep doing stuff that the bad guys are doing? What? That's not to say that we should
00:35:59.540
behave like the other countries, but it's not to say we should behave like the bad guys. Quite the
00:36:03.220
opposite. We should stop behaving like the bad guys. We should behave like we used to. We should
00:36:09.760
maybe look back to that traditional American way of life. Those other countries, those other
00:36:15.060
countries target political dissidents. Not like us here in the United States. No, no. Here in the
00:36:20.540
United States, if you're a political dissident, the FBI will knock down your door and will arrest you and
00:36:25.940
throw you in solitary confinement for drinking a beer in the Capitol Rotunda. Hmm, wait a second.
00:36:30.260
I thought we were the good guys. We can be the good guys, but we can't be the good guys with
00:36:36.040
irresponsible, disingenuous, rotten leadership, which is what we currently have. You know, the European
00:36:45.000
Union officially enacted a statute allowing food producers to incorporate cricket powder into its
00:36:49.960
flour-based products. Not because the bugs taste better, but because the political elites have deemed
00:36:57.420
that eating the bugs is better for the environment. So right down to the food you eat, the world wants
00:37:02.860
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00:38:10.500
Speaking of transing the kids in schools, there's a lawsuit out of New York alleging that a trans teacher
00:38:21.140
forced fifth graders, a fifth grade student, one in particular, to change her name and her pronouns.
00:38:29.580
A New York male to female transgender teacher manipulated a fifth grade girl to adopt a male
00:38:35.180
name and pronouns, which then caused the child to have suicidal thoughts according to a new lawsuit.
00:38:43.000
This elementary school teacher, who goes by Deborah Rosenquist, I don't know what his real name is,
00:38:47.420
allegedly forced this young girl to use a male name and pronouns. And then the girl later drew a
00:38:52.660
picture that said, I want to kill myself. The family's lawyer says that this man, quote,
00:38:57.880
manipulated a preteen female into changing her gender identity when the child did not feel any
00:39:01.520
inclusion to do so. The student reportedly met with a school psychologist, said she was confused about
00:39:08.400
her gender identity. The transgender fellow, quote, the lawsuit uses female pronouns to refer to this
00:39:18.520
fellow, so I will substitute them for male pronouns, pursued his own agenda outside the curriculum, which
00:39:23.040
included persuading his fifth grade students to try being gay or being another gender, even when they
00:39:29.180
were not. To further his agenda, Rosenquist read and provided his students graphic books about gender
00:39:33.900
and sexuality, which were not in the curriculum. Of course, does anybody find this surprising in the
00:39:41.800
least? I do not. My first reaction when I read this story was, can you imagine sending your kid
00:39:48.720
to a school where the teacher is going to be so disturbed and confused that he's not going to know
00:39:56.460
what sex he is or what sex she is? Could you imagine that? You send a student to school so that that
00:40:03.980
student can learn about the world, make sense of reality, cultivate virtues, suppress vices,
00:40:10.980
cultivate the rational will, and go on and become a functioning member of society.
00:40:18.140
If you are sending your student to do all of those things with someone who is so
00:40:24.180
ill adapted to the world that he doesn't know what his sex is, you are not setting that student up
00:40:30.300
for success. Now, in fairness to the parents, what are the parents going to do? What are the parents
00:40:34.880
going to do? In many cases, people can't afford private school. People don't have the time for
00:40:41.440
homeschool. There's no school choice available in a lot of places in the country. And the school says,
00:40:46.460
no, this is your teacher. Sorry, you got to be taught by this extraordinarily confused and
00:40:52.660
disturbed individual. Sorry. What are the parents going to do? Now, in this case, it's a little bit
00:40:57.020
weird because the parents seem to be okay with the idea of transgenderism. If that's what the child
00:41:02.540
really wants, it just so happens that the child doesn't really want it. So now I want to be as
00:41:06.420
fair and charitable as I possibly can to this teacher and to this school. The teacher seems like
00:41:13.480
a total perv and should for sure be fired and probably institutionalized. But let's be as charitable
00:41:19.000
and fair and generous as we possibly can. Let's say that this teacher was just making a judgment
00:41:26.260
call. The 10-year-old says, I'm confused about my sex. I don't know what was the exact line,
00:41:33.560
confused about my gender identity. And so the teacher has to say, okay, am I going to encourage
00:41:40.180
this girl to acknowledge that she's a girl? Or am I going to encourage this girl to explore the
00:41:48.520
possibility, fantastical though it may be, that she's really a boy? She's got to make a judgment
00:41:53.780
call. Let's say that the teacher in question were not sexually confused himself. Let's say that he were
00:41:58.840
just a regular, normal person. Let's say that it was a female, a caring woman like most elementary
00:42:06.520
school teachers. And she just doesn't know what to do here. How is she supposed to make the judgment
00:42:11.120
call? The whole culture says, when in doubt, trans the kid. When in doubt, you have to trans the kid
00:42:17.600
because if you don't, if you tell the potentially gender confused little girl that she really is a
00:42:23.420
girl, you are engaging in conversion therapy. That's right. Conversion therapy. You remember that?
00:42:31.040
That's a term that was first applied to homosexuals. Now it's being applied to transvestites.
00:42:36.920
And they're saying conversion therapy is when you tell someone that they shouldn't engage in same
00:42:44.580
sex relations. When you tell someone that men really can't become women, that's conversion therapy.
00:42:50.060
That's, that's got to be banned. That's so harmful. But what about in the other direction? Let's say the
00:42:56.260
girl is just confused. If you encourage the confused girl to act like a boy, aren't you just engaging in
00:43:04.860
conversion therapy in the other direction? What do you mean conversion therapy? It's just, it's a
00:43:12.540
euphemism. It's a, it's a political slogan used by activists who want to promote sexual absurdity
00:43:21.460
and eccentricity, that sexually absurd ideologies that are deeply harmful to people and lead them
00:43:29.480
in many cases to have suicidal thoughts like this little girl did. That's, that's what they're
00:43:35.520
leading toward. So what do you do? What's the rule? I've made this point on the show. I got in all sorts
00:43:39.740
of trouble from my, the usual suspects from all the sort of publicists over at Media Matters. So
00:43:45.300
it's good trouble to be in. But I made the point, I said, if you, if you actually want to preserve
00:43:51.740
women's spaces, if you want to preserve women's bathrooms, if you want to preserve the women's
00:43:55.260
locker room, if you, if you want to prevent girls from being abused like this at school, you have to
00:44:03.900
ban transgenderism entirely. Meaning you cannot tolerate the expression of this absurd ideology in
00:44:14.600
public. No man has the right to present himself as a woman in public. No man has the right to use the
00:44:20.540
women's bathroom. No man has the right to dress up in stilettos and call himself Sally. No, that,
00:44:25.780
that doesn't exist. And you have to do it for everybody. Because if you just say, wait until
00:44:30.840
eight, wait until eight. And then at nine, you can trans the kids. Then women lose their bathrooms.
00:44:36.120
Then women lose their locker rooms. You're not afraid of a two-year-old walking into the women's
00:44:39.880
locker room. You're afraid of a 22-year-old walking into the women's locker room. That's who's doing it.
00:44:44.160
So it's got to be a rule for everybody. You have to have a shared anthropology.
00:44:50.100
If you were going to live together in society, it's, it's inescapable.
00:44:56.080
There's, there is no conciliatory middle ground. And I know how the squish Republicans are going to
00:45:00.060
try to work it. They're going to say that the libs are going to say, we need to trans the two-year-olds.
00:45:04.360
Then the conservatives are going to say, we need to trans the 18-year-olds. And then, but no one
00:45:08.720
younger than 18. And then they're going to meet in the middle and they're going to say, okay,
00:45:11.400
we'll trans the 12-year-olds. And then what's going to happen? The Overton window is going to have
00:45:15.000
shifted to the left. And the libs are going to say, we need to trans the newborns. And then the
00:45:19.340
conservatives are going to say, no, no, no, we need to just stay and only trans the 12-year-olds.
00:45:22.480
Then they're going to meet in the middle and they're going to trans the six-year-olds. That's
00:45:24.880
already happening. That's happening here in schools right now. The only thing you can do, the only
00:45:31.800
solution that is compassionate and defensible and coherent is to say, no, we're just going to ban it
00:45:42.760
entirely. No, we're going to believe that men can't become women and women can't become men.
00:45:50.300
And that's an anthropological fact. And so therefore it applies to everybody. And the confused men like
00:45:58.280
this teacher who abused this little girl in school, according to the lawsuit, these confused men who
00:46:02.940
think that they're really women, they just need help. We need to get them to some psychologists and
00:46:08.460
you're going to call it conversion therapy. But you are the groomers who are pushing conversion
00:46:12.400
therapy on our kids to convince confused little girls that they're boys. Our version of conversion
00:46:17.600
therapy is taking confused people and persuading them of reality and attempting to dispel them of
00:46:24.640
their delusions. Your version of conversion therapy is attempting to take confused people
00:46:29.300
and indulge their delusions and encourage them to go further down the path to delusion.
00:46:33.880
It's all conversion therapy. We're all trying to persuade people of something. We have to have
00:46:38.440
some understanding of what human nature is. The question is, whose are we going to go with?
00:46:44.780
The liberals have a clear answer to that. Trans everybody. That's why they have to trans the kids
00:46:50.360
because they understand if you're going to trans anybody, you got to trans everybody or everybody
00:46:54.380
at least has to accept the premises of transgenderism. They get that. They're actually have a much clearer
00:46:59.740
view about that than the conservatives do. And the conservatives want to have some
00:47:04.060
middle of the road solution. Trans this group, but don't trans this group and let's not talk about it
00:47:08.980
in any way. Come on, move along, move along, move along. If you stand in the middle of the road,
00:47:13.140
especially on basic questions of nature, you are going to get hit by a truck as conservatives had,
00:47:19.880
as our culture has, and as have so many unfortunate victims of this terribly pernicious ideology.
00:47:26.380
Speaking of women and men, we have a very important expert panel coming up.
00:47:33.840
Some people have asked me. Well, people always ask me about dating, relationships, marriage.
00:47:38.840
And the topic has come up about a certain celebrity who only dates women until they turn 25 and then
00:47:44.520
he dumps them. I don't want to name names. He happens to be a movie star. He was in Titanic.
00:47:50.220
It's Leonardo DiCaprio. He famously will dump his girlfriends right when they turn 25 and then
00:47:55.740
he'll start dating younger girls again. And some people are very divided about this. Some people
00:48:01.820
say it's actually very traditional for older men to date younger women. Some people are saying this
00:48:05.360
is degenerate kind of sexual behavior. Well, I've decided I'm going to talk to the women about this.
00:48:12.000
I want to get a lady's perspective, okay? So head on over. Your official love guru,
00:48:18.120
Dr. Romance, the Lothario of the Daily Wire, will be discussing this important topic
00:48:22.700
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