Ep. 1220 - Biden Unveils Trans Hotline For Kids
Summary
After the Nashville shooting of Christian children by a transgender identifying killer, the White House is doubling down on its defense of transgenderism and is now insinuating that if you don t support transing the kids, you re actually guilty of killing them.
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In the wake of the Nashville shooting of Christian children by a transgender identifying killer,
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the White House is doubling down on its defense of transgenderism
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and is now insinuating that if you don't support transing the kids,
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I know that these political attacks can really take toll on people's mental health.
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So I want to say directly to LGBTQI plus kids, you are loved just as you are.
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And if you're feeling overwhelmed, you call 988, the National Crisis Hotline,
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and dial the number 3 to talk to a counselor who has been specifically trained to support LGBTQI plus kids.
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This is a new service that the Biden administration is proud to offer
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during these incredibly hard times for these trans kids.
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The White House is telling young people to call them and then the liberals will give these young people
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their views on LGBTism and tell the little boys that they're little girls and the little girls that they're little boys.
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The White House, at least, is right to be concerned about the spike in the teen suicide rate.
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Teen suicide has jumped 29% over the past decade.
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Coincidentally, though, that is precisely the same period during which our culture and law began to affirm transgenderism.
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Also, coincidentally, as the culture and law affirmed transgenderism, transgender identity among the youth skyrocketed.
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Young people, teenagers and young adults now identify as transgender at more than twice,
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almost three times the rate of all U.S. adults.
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And I know that correlation does not imply causation, but it does raise a question.
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Is it possible that all this transgender affirmation is having the opposite effect that we're told it does?
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Is it possible that transgender affirmation, far from alleviating depression and suicidality,
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The first rule of medicine is first to do no harm.
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If these two novel trends, transgenderism and teen suicide spikes,
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is it possible that those two things might have something to do with one another?
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Is it possible that the true cause of the spike in these particular deaths,
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the spike that liberals, histrionically, have been calling a genocide,
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is it possible that the driver of those deaths is not transphobia,
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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But a lot of conservatives are complaining about this.
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First, though, the Biden administration cannot win for losing.
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Everything that Joe Biden touches turns to ash.
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On the—this was Thursday night, Thursday late afternoon.
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And the news dump was that the Afghanistan withdrawal report is finally coming out.
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And even Ed O'Keefe at CBS News, not exactly a right-wing outlet, called out John Kirby over at the White House and said, wait a second.
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Why are you dumping this report right before Good Friday, right before everyone's taking time off for Easter?
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This is—you're obviously just trying to hide this.
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But I think I speak on behalf of my colleagues in this room, and we want the record to reflect.
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This was sent to us about 10 minutes before the briefing began, with little notice.
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And it's the very definition of a modern major holiday news dump.
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We're releasing this at the beginning of the high holidays and after months of requests from Republicans and the broader public.
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And is this a response to the studies that were done by the agencies?
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So, good on Ed O'Keefe for calling him out like this.
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It's because the Afghanistan withdrawal was a complete debacle.
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It was tragic and a huge embarrassment for the Biden administration.
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And so, the only option they've got is to sweep it under the rug.
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Yes, it's embarrassing that they're being called out for the holiday news dump.
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But it's less embarrassing than having to actually answer for this.
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The Biden foreign policy has been a complete disaster.
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Russia is now saying that the U.S. is in a hot war with Russia.
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I think we've already passed the period of cold war.
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Now we are in the phase of a hot conflict with the United States.
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We are witnessing the direct involvement of that country in a hybrid war with Russia on various fronts.
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The way our American opponents are recklessly, provocatively, and in many respects, absolutely carelessly moving up the escalation ladder.
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The way they are blinded by their absolute, absolutely absurd certainty about their ability to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia makes one doubt their mental faculties and their common sense.
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I've told you before, I'll say it again, the best kind of propaganda is the kind that's true.
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I am seriously doubting the mental faculties and common sense of my leaders here in the United States.
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Obviously, our president barely knows his own name.
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And you want to talk about their common sense, they don't know the difference between boys and girls and men and women.
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And as pertains to this issue, our sclerotic elite is sleepwalking us into World War III.
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Show me the lie that we're in an increasingly hot war with Russia.
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It's not a war that the American people seem very much to want, but it's a war that was forced upon us and it's been building for a very long time.
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And it would be one thing if we had an agile, intelligent, serious elite that was running the country that was waging this war, but we don't.
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We have Joe Biden who doesn't know what day it is.
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We've got Mark Milley who wants to focus on white rage and critical race theory for his poor troops.
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We've got the Admiral Levine, Assistant Secretary of Health, who says we need to trans the kids.
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We've got John Kirby over there, a spokesman who is trying to cover up all the failures of the Afghanistan withdrawal from the political class.
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And by the way, we've got Vladimir Zelensky, the leader of Ukraine, who says that Joe Biden essentially caused the war.
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He has Joe Biden pulled the pressure off of Russia in the form of lifting those sanctions before he reinstituted the sanctions.
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And because Joe Biden literally invited Putin to invade part of Ukraine.
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He said if it's only a minor incursion into Ukraine, then it won't be that big of a deal.
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We're just escalating this war mindlessly and mindlessly.
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I love, too, that Russia points out, says the absurd certainty about America's ability to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.
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It increasingly seems like an absurd certainty because we were told that those sanctions, we're going to rally the whole world.
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We're going to impose those sanctions on Russia.
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It basically boomeranged back on the United States and Europe, especially Europe.
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And I don't consider that something to be admired about Russia.
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They're going to get us into World War III if we're not in it already.
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And then do you trust them to wage World War III?
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I don't trust Joe Biden to go buy the right ice cream down the street.
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Now, Biden is completely collapsing, and so there's someone in the wings waiting to take that Democrat nomination for president in 2024 away from him.
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And that person would be Governor Bateman himself, the American psycho of California, Governor Gavin Newsom.
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He just decides he wants to see the country, you know, pack up the RV.
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He's on a nationwide tour and just coincidentally happens to take him to Florida.
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And then he's speaking at New College of Florida.
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That is the college that DeSantis has gone after to impose a more serious curriculum onto.
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So he can't teach the crazy woke stuff anymore.
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So Gavin Newsom is taking his fight against what he calls authoritarian leaders to Ron DeSantis' backyard.
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And he's going to visit the new school because Ron DeSantis gutted the diversity office of the new school.
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And they're trying to have the new school teach kids things that are real.
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And DeSantis is there to stick it to, or rather, Newsom is there to stick it to Ron DeSantis.
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One, tells us the word authoritarian doesn't mean anything, as I've said for a very long time.
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Authoritarian is just when your political opponents do something that you don't like.
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And when you wield your political authority, you say that's just and wonderful and open-minded.
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And when your opponent wields his political authority, that's awful and authoritarian.
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The other thing that Newsom is showing us here is that he's running for president.
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Whether he's declared or not, he is at this moment running for president.
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But the third thing he's showing us is he's not running for president against Joe Biden,
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and he's not running for president against Donald Trump.
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The surface-level campaign for president is Biden versus Trump.
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But the shadow campaign is Newsom versus DeSantis.
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Newsom thinks that DeSantis is going to be the nominee.
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Biden and Donald Trump are relatively up there in age.
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But they're still both a little bit long in the tooth.
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And the libs are trying to lock up Trump in three different places.
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And we're still so far out that it could happen.
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And so Newsom, he's running against authoritarianism.
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Now, speaking of Newsom and authoritarianism, he's got a bill that he's pushing in California.
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The bill would upend the tradition of locally controlled schools.
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So what the bill would say is that local school districts do not have the right to kick the woke stuff out of their curricula.
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The local school districts can't do that because the state is going to usurp that power and the state, the state of California, is going to enforce woke lessons, critical race theory, the weird sex stuff, all of it in the curricula.
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This is as authoritarian, whatever that means, as it gets.
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But what the liberals would say is, no, no, no, we're defending freedom.
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And what the conservatives would say is, no, no, we're defending the political freedom of local communities and taxpayers and parents to set the curricula in their schools and the way that their kids are raised.
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Totalitarians think they're fighting for freedom.
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Libertarians, conservatives, traditional, everybody thinks they're fighting for freedom.
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Freedom is contingent on one's understanding of the good.
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And that's why I think a lot of the political debates over freedom, no, you're anti-freedom, no, I'm pro-freedom, you're an authoritarian, all that stuff.
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Because what freedom means is contingent on how one conceives of the good.
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That's why political debates ultimately have to come down to questions of virtue.
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They ultimately have to come down to questions of what is good, what is bad, who are we, why are we here, what are we after, what's the point of human life, what do we worship, what do we serve?
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And the liberal conception of freedom is not liberty.
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The liberal conception of freedom is licentiousness.
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It's the freedom to daydream and have delusions.
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And the right-wing conception of freedom is the freedom to do what we ought to do and the freedom to have a thriving political community and the freedom to make decisions about how your community is going to run through self-government, through school boards, through setting curricula.
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There are two totally different conceptions of freedom.
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One of them happens to be a correct sense of freedom.
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And so enough about the piffle of, well, you're illiberal.
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The basic charge of any society and of any individual.
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Now, speaking of changing conceptions of the good, Disney.
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Disney is changing the lyrics to The Little Mermaid, specifically the song Kiss the Girl.
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Now, I have not seen The Little Mermaid since I was about five years old.
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And I've never read the Hans Christian Andersen book.
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I don't even really remember how the tune goes.
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You're not allowed to just kiss a girl anymore.
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You're practically a rapist if you kiss a girl.
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If you like a girl and you're kind of flirting with each other and then you lean in,
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You need to get written and notarized letter of consent from her,
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witnessed by three different people, signed off on by a judge.
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Then maybe you can consider sending her a telegram to ask if she might be willing to kiss you.
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This is an even sillier version of the left-wing temper tantrums over Baby It's Cold Outside.
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It's romantic to go up and you're, go up and you're flirting with the girl and you both kind
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of like each other and you both kind of lean in a little bit.
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Maybe she doesn't like you to kiss her and so she turns her head away.
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And that smooch lands on the cheek and you got rejected.
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That's why they don't get, maybe it's cold outside.
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The whole point of Baby It's Cold Outside is like, oh, I really shouldn't stay, but maybe
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It's the woman, because she has an ideal of modesty, she wants to stay with the guy,
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And so there's a dance that's taking place there.
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And there's a much more innocent version of that even taking place in the Disney song.
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But the libs have lost that because they've lost the conception of the difference between
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For the libs, everybody's just, we're all just kind of blobs.
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And so you got to, this started with feminism, but that means you can't treat male-female reactions
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So you should treat your romantic partner in the same way you treat your accountant.
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And you see the height of this in yesterday's great international holiday.
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Asexuality, which literally means you're just not sexual.
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They're all these explainer memes from the sexual revolution.
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And the correction is, not all asexuals feel this way.
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It means you either like sex or you don't like sex.
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And you do want to be in a relationship or you don't want to be in a relationship.
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And if you are in a relationship, it's either with sex or without sex.
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But it's supposed to be really niche and special.
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And the problem that the libs are running into, and the reason that there are a gazillion
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genders, and the reason that we can't pin down the meaning of any particular concept
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anymore, is because if everything means everything, then nothing means anything.
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If everything means everything, then nothing means anything.
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If anybody can be a woman, then woman doesn't mean anything.
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If anybody can be an American, American doesn't mean anything.
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If anybody can be asexual, then asexual, asexual actually does not mean anything.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from ASMR Conservative, who says,
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the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
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You know, it's a little bit of an on-the-nose joke.
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It's like, boom, owned Democrats, owned you libs.
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Why is it that the libs are screwing up everything?
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Why is it that the libs are causing internal affairs to collapse, foreign affairs to collapse?
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Their policies and their ideologies are driving up rates of depression and anxiety and suicide.
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Why is it that the libs are failing on every front?
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It's because they view the world in a way that's wrong.
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What would be weirder is if they were right about some things but wrong about other things,
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if they were good at certain things and bad at other things.
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But the fact that they're just terrible at everything,
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and that everything the Biden administration touches turns to ash,
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His view of the world is just fundamentally wrong.
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And I don't even think he has a view of the world,
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but his political party and the political movement he's part of,
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They're wrong about the purpose of life on Earth.
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So, if they're wrong, then everything is going to fall apart,
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and they're going to keep doing the same thing and hope to get a different result,
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Now, we have got some really big breaking news.
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The really big breaking news, of course, is that Jack Daniels has gone drag.
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This, right after Bud Light was caught sponsoring a transvestite, Dylan Mulvaney.
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Well, Jack Daniels, a while ago, I guess, sponsored this drag campaign.
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People have dug that up, and now they're giving Jack the old Bud Light treatment.
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Listen, people, we have a party to plan, and we need to go get some decorations,
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and we need to get this going, and we're expecting April.
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My gosh, she looks so stunning, and every single one of my addresses to the noise.
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This is going to be the fiercest party Lynchburg has ever seen.
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You have one and a half ounces of Jack Fire, and four ounces of cranberry juice.
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We invited all of Lynchburg, so I wonder who's going to show up.
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Now, everyone's criticizing Jack Daniels, especially on the right.
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I, however, don't have a huge problem with this.
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I have less of a huge problem with this, because it's not that Jack is advertising their regular
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It's not that Jack is advertising their Gentleman Jack, their higher-end whiskey.
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You saw the specific product that they are advertising here is Jack Fire.
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It's their rip-off of Fireball cinnamon-flavored whiskey.
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And 100% of the people who drink Jack Fire are at least homosexuals, at least.
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I think if women are going to drink, take a shot of one of these kind of frou-frou cinnamon
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It's more of a man's drink, albeit a man who's a little bit light in his Lynchburg loafers.
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So in this case, you have Jack Daniels marketing a foppish drink to a foppish crowd of people.
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What offends me is when Bud Light markets a drink that is only consumed by frat stars and
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construction workers and dudes at baseball games and markets that to transvestites who
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actually claim to be women and who dance around and make awful caricatures of women all the time.
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That's a real finger in the eye of the customer base of Bud Light.
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So as long as they don't do it to old number seven, I don't really.
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I don't mind when weird cultural movements are at least coherent or semi-coherent.
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What bothers me is when the LGBT gay shtapo just tries to colonize everything else and
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they try to go in and take normal products, you know, sports bras from Nike and then put
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them on this dude and say, you know, just do it.
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Or when drag queens go in and they start jiggling for elementary school students.
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Drag queens, if you're going to have a drag queen show that belongs in a weird part of
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town and some weird kind of seedy cabaret late at night with a guy checking IDs at the
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It certainly doesn't belong in elementary schools.
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Speaking of foppish fellows and turning to 2016 as well, the libs are having a meltdown.
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They can't quit him, but they're so angry at him.
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He's giving his analysis of what Republicans should be doing vis-a-vis Trump after having
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There are lots of people who watch politics closely, who've got a lot of anxiety stemming
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from that 2016 election and probably will for as long as they live.
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Everywhere you look, the signs point to the fact that Donald Trump is incredibly unpopular
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with persuadable voters outside the Republican base.
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But everyone is so freaked out, so permanently scarred by 2016, that obvious truth is often
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And the truth is that Donald Trump, listen to me now, does not possess a magic power that
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He is an unlikable figure who lots of persuadable voters find repulsive.
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At some point, Republicans are going to have to face this reality.
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As long as you keep supporting him, you're going to lose a lot of winnable elections.
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Donald Trump is so terrible and everyone hates him and you better not run him for president.
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And it says Chris Hayes, the big lib on the big lib network.
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Trump is terrible and he's awful and you're going to lose if you don't do what I say.
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He's kind of convincing me that Trump's the guy.
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If MSNBC, out of such concern for the Republican Party's electoral viability, MSNBC says, look,
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we really have your best interests at heart, Republicans.
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I really, look, I want Republicans to win elections.
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I know I'm a lifelong Democrat and my whole network exists just to get Republicans out of
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I'm just telling you, you'd be crazy to nominate that guy, Trump.
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That guy is so easy to beat for president that we're trying to arrest him in three different
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locales in America to keep him from campaigning.
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You know, you get him out there and the more people see of Trump, the more they're going
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That's why we're doing everything we can to shut him up and keep him off the campaign
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And the permanent scarring, that's the key to the key is that the political class, which
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is mostly liberal, but it includes some squishes in establishment Republican types.
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It was unthinkable to them that Trump could be elected.
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It was traumatizing to them because the options for America, we've got the far left over here,
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we've got the center left over here, and the options were supposed to be between those
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And sometimes, sometimes you get a Bush and sometimes you get a Clinton, but, you know,
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it's, well, we'll complain about it, but, you know, those are the options.
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And then when you had someone come in and say, actually, no, you guys are wrong on trade.
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That was, that, that short circuited the liberal class.
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They might just say, nope, we're not going to let you win.
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Even if, even if 80% of the people vote for you, we're not going to let you win again.
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But it does show you the real threat that guy posed.
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Seven years later, they still can't get this man out of their head.
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We're coming up on almost one year since the release of my buddy Matt Walsh's groundbreaking
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documentary, What is a Woman?, which exposed radical gender ideology for what it is.
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You'd think this would be ample time for people to come up with an answer to the question.
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As Matt discovered at the YAF Q&A in New Mexico just a few nights ago, their answers to the
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question are still just as confusing and nonsensical.
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I said to Elise, I said, didn't, shouldn't they have thought of an answer?
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There's this great clip going around from Matt's speech where a self-identified trans woman,
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meaning a dude, attempted to answer that simple question.
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I'm a UMass Lowell student wondering how I should go about dating in college on a woke
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By the way, you should totally come to this campus.
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And the closest I had was a girl who quoted The Serpent and then stalked me for like three
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And I am still trying with little to no success.
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I mean, college, there's a time and a place for everything in that place is college, as
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But when I was in college, I was still an atheist and a derelict and, you know, I wasn't
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And so there were ample opportunities to, you know, meet lots of lovely gals.
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But the culture when I was in college, which was now 10 years ago, it was a hookup culture.
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And it's, I don't think anyone even really liked that fact.
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I talk to kids on campuses all around the country and they say, oh yeah, we're in talking
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phases and you can't, you're not even really allowed to ask, are we dating and are we serious?
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Can we go up to Lover's Point and my old Chevrolet and neck?
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I don't, I'm just using lines from happy days at this point.
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I think a little bit of confidence is helpful because on the one hand, if you participate
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in the hookup culture, there will be an aspect of social proof that will convince other
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And that's how our animal, animalistic kind of psychology works.
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But if you're the strong silent type who says, no, I don't want to get into that kind
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That will attract a different kind of woman to you and a better woman, actually.
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I would just, and if you look around and say, wow, I'm in a degenerate hookup culture where
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the pickings are a little bit slim around here, that might just be the fact, okay?
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And you might have to wait until after college to meet somebody or outside of college to meet
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somebody, or you can do what I did and marry your high school sweetheart.
00:36:17.960
And unfortunately, my friend was the guy who was yelling at you that aliens are demons.
00:36:25.580
My question is, what do you think of natural family planning?
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I know that the Catholic Church supports this, and it's obviously much better than contraception
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But a lot of my friends who practice natural family planning don't seem as open to life as
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So I was wondering your thoughts on natural family planning.
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For the non-Catholics out there, natural family planning is a method of observing one's
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menstrual cycle to observe naturally and scientifically when one is most likely to be fertile.
00:37:10.180
And so it can be used to encourage conception, and it can be used to figure out when you're
00:37:16.880
not likely to conceive, and that's often how it's used.
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I've got my 1962 missile that says that it's wrong.
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It's a sin to intentionally abstain from the marital act on a day so that you don't have
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But there is the principle of double effect here.
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One, you might have a health condition that suggests that you would have serious danger
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if you were to become pregnant at a certain time, so that would seem to be a good use of
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It doesn't use any artificial methods or establish the domination of technology over
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the origin and destiny of human life, which would be a bad thing.
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So the Catholic Church says that some form of NFP is fine, and they don't ask my opinion
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But I think your trepidation with it is important to keep in mind, which is that if you are using
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this as a way to be closed off to life, then you are probably abusing this natural and scientific
00:38:29.800
I wanted to ask for your opinion about a family disagreement.
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My brother is 23 and still living at home, going to school part-time but barely and doesn't
00:38:40.580
He lived on his own for about six months and didn't hold a job or go to school for that
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He recently begged to move back home, likely after not enjoying paying rent.
00:38:48.500
Anyway, we had a falling out recently after years of a not great relationship, but my brother
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refuses to acknowledge or apologize for any of his past mistakes, including threatening
00:38:56.560
to sue me and threatening to call the FBI on me for totally preposterous reasons.
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Our parents are unhappy about our tiff and told me if I don't apologize and smooth it
00:39:06.560
They likely see how this will impact their ability to have our son or future children
00:39:10.360
to their home, and my son's first birthday is coming up.
00:39:13.640
It seems they think I'm being the unforgiving older sister.
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From a biblical perspective, I believe I can forgive him, but that restoration and reconciliation
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What would be your perspective on how to approach this family drama?
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Brilliantly stated, and you don't need me to help you understand this.
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You've got a very clear view yourself and a good view.
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You want to be forgiving, and you want to apologize for anything that you've done wrong.
00:39:45.200
It sounds like your brother's a complete lunatic, and some people have lunatics in their family.
00:39:50.460
So you could apologize for something you did wrong if you did anything wrong here, but
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you shouldn't apologize if you didn't do anything wrong.
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Now, what would I do if I wanted to keep the peace?
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And it seems like your family, your parents don't think he's moving out anytime soon.
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I would probably say, hey, bro, if I did anything wrong, sorry I ate your cookie that one time.
00:40:20.060
Sorry I borrowed your Walkman, or I don't know.
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I'm really dating myself with my references today.
00:40:26.380
And I would say, you know, we're going to come over for my kid's first birthday party,
00:40:33.960
Well, and he can whine and cry and complain about it or do whatever.
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And so, and if your parents say, well, we're not going to let you come over because your
00:40:49.820
brother is a nut, well, you can't control that either.
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All you can do is act in a way that is charitable, which I think you're doing, and forgiving, which
00:40:58.360
you said you will do, but also prudent, you know, and not dishonest.
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You don't want to apologize for something you didn't do, and you don't want to open yourself
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up to an involvement in his degeneracy and his bizarre and harmful behaviors.
00:41:17.540
And, you know, if your parents won't let you over to the house because their new border
00:41:23.820
is a little crazy, then I guess they've got to come to your apartment or house for your
00:41:37.040
I'm going to try and keep this quick and keep it concise.
00:41:42.040
So when I cast my eyes upon the world, I notice that my heart just seethes with anger.
00:41:51.420
The innocent are punished and prosecuted, while the guilty gain even more power and control.
00:41:57.520
Sin is publicly celebrated, encouraged, and deemed as righteous, while what is truly righteous
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is shunned, banished, and exiled from public life.
00:42:07.320
This torrent of anger is wholly natural to me, and it comes, you know, regardless of my
00:42:17.420
My question is, as a fellow Christian, what is your advice on how I can mitigate such
00:42:35.080
Because you're seeing the world correctly, but you're not seeing yourself correctly.
00:42:45.120
But if you're anything like me, you're not perfect.
00:42:47.620
And so it's very easy to see the sins of others and all the problems of the world and pull
00:42:57.080
I think what you're struggling with is a little bit of wrath, certainly, but it's pride.
00:43:02.420
And you think, this is outrageous, and I don't deserve this, and I deserve better than this
00:43:06.400
crappy world, and if only everyone were like me.
00:43:09.760
But no, you look around, you say, gosh, look at how, look at what a jerk I am.
00:43:17.200
Hmm, and the way we get the world is just a bunch of me's running around, and then it's
00:43:25.060
So you kind of look around, you say, there but for the grace of God go I if someone's
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And then you put your hope in the life of the world to come.
00:43:34.960
And you, through acts of charity and works of mercy, try to improve the world around you.
00:43:40.680
But I would look around this very fallen world and say, how can I help?
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And how can I stop contributing to all the bad stuff going on?
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Usually, when people are dealing with pride, I say, stop looking at the mirror, look out
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But with you, with this manifestation of pride, which is the deadliest sin and which we all
00:44:02.860
need to guard against, I would say, stop looking out the window, start looking at the mirror.
00:44:10.120
Ricardo says, hey, Mike, short but so sweet, not so sweet question.
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How do you answer someone that claims gender and sex are separate concepts?
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Obviously, the easy answer is to say they've always been the same, but that doesn't seem
00:44:22.380
to work anymore because they'll claim times are changing.
00:44:29.660
It's true that the way the gender ideology works is that really over the last 50, 60 years,
00:44:36.280
they've diverged and the libs have used this to deny biological reality.
00:44:42.460
I believe gender was used to refer to sex as a synonym for sex as early as the 16th century.
00:44:47.800
But gender expression certainly is distinct from sex, just by definition.
00:44:53.540
Your sex is your biology, derives from your biology.
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And then your gender expression is your performance of that.
00:45:03.060
And that's why there are effeminate men and there are butch chicks.
00:45:10.800
And what the libs conclude from this is that if you wish for your gender expression to be
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very different from your sex, then you should ignore your sex and pursue your gender expression.
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So if you have some fancy about your gender expression that is outside of normal limits
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Because you have not a right to deny the reality of your sex.
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You actually have an obligation to bring your gender expression into line with your sex.
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Your gender expression is quite changeable, obviously.
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And so when those run into conflict, change the thing that can actually be changed.
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