Ep. 1222 - Democrats Took Weird Sex Stuff To The Next Level
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A man in an anthropomorphic bunny outfit appeared at the White House lectern to greet reporters yesterday. Many people were surprised by the bunny s appearance. I m not. I know that Joe Biden has a reputation as a moderate in the Democratic Party, but when it comes to weird sex stuff, Biden has always been ahead of the curve.
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Yesterday, a man in an anthropomorphic cartoon bunny outfit appeared at the White House lectern
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to greet reporters. Many people were surprised by the bunny's appearance. I was not. I know that
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Joe Biden has a reputation as a moderate in the Democrat Party. But when it comes to weird sex
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stuff, Biden has always been ahead of the curve. In May of 2012, Joe Biden endorsed same-sex
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marriage, even when his boss, Barack Obama, still opposed it. In October of that same year,
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Joe Biden went further and endorsed transgenderism, calling it the civil rights fight of our time.
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And now, in April of 2023, it would appear that Joe Biden has endorsed furries.
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Some of you are laughing. I don't know why. It is precisely as likely that a man would become
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a cartoon rabbit, as it is that he would become a woman. You think it's implausible that the
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President of the United States would embrace furrydom, huh? Did you ever think a President
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of the United States would endorse chopping off little kids' genitals? No. I am past thinking
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that things couldn't ever go that far, especially when it comes to rabbits. Because I know these
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days, elementary schools and libraries read kids' gay porn in the classroom. But back in my day,
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we read books like Alice in Wonderland. And in Alice in Wonderland, it's a rabbit that leads Alice
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down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. And that is precisely where our whole nation has been living
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for a long time now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. The Dalai Lama asked a little kid to suck his tongue.
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We'll get to that very important news story in just a little bit. First, though, I don't want it to
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seem like I'm being too harsh on the anthropomorphic bunny. I much prefer the bunny to Corrine Jean-Pierre.
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If the bunny held the press conference every single day, that would be a drastic improvement
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at the White House. Unfortunately, Corrine Jean-Pierre did eventually come out.
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And she came out to defend infanticide. But the silver lining to that storm cloud is
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Corrine Jean-Pierre had a little slip of the tongue that undermined some of the other
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Biden administration priorities on the sexual culture war.
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Reproductive rights is a fundamental freedom. It is a fundamental right.
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And it is a medical decision that should be made between a man, a woman, pardon me,
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and her doctor without government interference. Again, without government interference.
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Abortion, it's a serious decision. It should be made between a man and his doctor. Oh, no. I mean,
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so people are pointing to this. They're saying this is a gaffe from Corrine Jean-Pierre.
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There is a gaffe in here, but it wasn't that. In Corrine Jean-Pierre's defense,
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it's kind of confusing these days. Sometimes there's margin calls. It's hard to tell the difference
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between a man and a woman. The gaffe is not that Corrine Jean-Pierre said abortion is a decision
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between a man and oops, sorry. The gaffe was that Corrine Jean-Pierre corrected herself at all.
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Because I can't help but notice that Corrine Jean-Pierre and the White House and the liberals
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generally, they're pretty clear on what a woman is when it comes to the issue of abortion.
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They just get a little tripped up when it comes to other issues that are less politically convenient
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for them. White House is inconsistent here. I don't think I'm nitpicking. The White House insists that
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gender is totally different from sex and men can become pregnant and women can have phalluses and all
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the rest. I mean, they say that with a straight face and they're pushing the ideology from the White
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House all the way down to elementary schools. They say that they believe that. And then the moment
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that it comes to their other preferred issue, abortion, they say, oh, men have nothing to do
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with this. Men can't become pregnant. Men can't have abortions. It's only women. So the White House
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is being inconsistent here. And of course, the White House is being inconsistent. And of course,
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when they move on from the trans issue in particular and they get to abortion, of course,
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the White House goes back to normal. Because everybody knows that transgenderism is nonsense.
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That's why I'm excited at the prospect of this debate that I'm scheduled to engage in at the
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University of Pittsburgh, which has gotten a lot of fanfare. I think there was something like
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12,000 signatures on a petition to ban me from appearing on campus. I said it was kind of ironic
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because I'm scheduled to debate a transgender identifying scholar. So if you cancel me,
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you cancel the transgender identifying scholar. But I'm excited at the prospect of this debate
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because while I've received plenty of debate requests from two-bit clout chasing social media
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influencer types, I thought that that's not going to do very much. The only way it's worth having this
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debate is if it is with the person who can give the best, strongest, most credible argument for
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transgenderism that there is. And so this professor that I'm scheduled to debate, Professor Donald,
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now he goes by Deirdre McCloskey, has half a dozen honorary doctorates, three degrees from Harvard,
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back from the day when a Harvard degree sort of meant something, has dozens of academic publications.
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I have no particularly advanced degree. I am but a humble podcaster. I only have two books and only one
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of them contains any words. But despite this David and Goliath kind of matchup here,
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I have the truth on my side. We know what a woman is. We know what a man is. We know that men cannot
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really become women. And so I want to see the other side steal men their argument as best as possible.
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Professor McCloskey has said that there's no reason to back down from a debate. He's actually opposed the
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people who want to shut down the debate. He said the way to stop bad ideas is with good ideas. He's
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said that this debate, quote unquote, this will be very, very easy. You know, he's sort of disparaged
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the idea that I could defend my position that men and women are different. So anyway, I think if the
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debate is going to happen at all on transgenderism, you want it to be with the absolute top scholarly
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intellectual people who can possibly defend it. And I think you could have four and five Harvard
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degrees and you still wouldn't be able to defend it. In fact, I think the more Harvard degrees you've
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got, probably the more confused you get on that issue. Look at Karine Jean-Pierre. Not Karine Jean-Pierre,
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rather. Look at Judge Ketanji Jackson, the Supreme Court justice who was asked, what is a woman?
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And when she was asked, what is a woman? She said, well, I don't know. I'm not a biologist.
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Two Harvard degrees, but can't quite tell. So it's important to hash that out because even
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the liberals admit they know it's crazy. When Karine Jean-Pierre is at the White House
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And speaking of gender confusion, it's not just affecting kids and teenagers.
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Mr. Beast is probably the biggest YouTube channel. His videos get tens of millions,
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hundreds of millions of views. Mr. Beast's sidekick is a guy named Chris Tyson.
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Sorry, was a guy named Chris Tyson. I don't say that because he's dead. I say that because he
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says he's no longer a guy. Chris Tyson is 26 years old, and he has just decided that he is
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secretly a woman. Chris Tyson has made all sorts of jokes about transvestites and transgenderism,
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and he's mocked the idea of it before. Now, he says, I am transgender. I am a woman.
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All fun and games, right? We kind of giggle at it. I pity everyone who falls into this confusion.
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But this is even worse because Chris Tyson is married and has a two and a half year old child.
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And he just woke up one day, told his wife, didn't tell his kid, I assume, because the kid's
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probably just starting to talk, but told his wife, yeah, I'm not going to be your husband anymore
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because I'm going to be your wife or something. I'm a woman now. Sorry, sonny. I'm not daddy anymore.
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I'm mommy now, or I'm something else, but I'm not daddy, whatever that is.
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And he's catching a lot of flack for this online.
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Now, in response to that, Chris Tyson has said, informed content, hormone replacement therapy
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saved my and many others' lives. The hurdle gender nonconforming people have to jump through
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to get life-saving, gender-affirming healthcare in a first-world country is wild to me.
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Just let people make informed decisions about their own bodies in a first-world country as if
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they have these kinds of therapies in non-first-world countries. They don't have a lot of
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these in Zambia, okay? I don't think there's a lot of hormone replacement therapy going on in
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Namibia, okay? But he says, this is absolutely shocking. This is life-saving treatment.
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This is the line they always use. And this is the line that the teachers and the doctors use to guilt
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parents and initiate them into the transgender cult is they'll say, well, would you rather have
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a dead son or a living daughter? Yeah, you got to trans your kid. You got to trans your son and
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chop off his genitals and put him onto all these hormones that make him look a little bit more like
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a girl. Because if you don't, he's going to kill himself and it's going to be your fault. It's a
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life-saving treatment. There is no evidence of that. There is no evidence that the transgender
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transition alleviates anxiety, depression, suicidality. To the contrary, there is lots
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of evidence that the transgender transition exacerbates the sort of stresses and despair
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that people are feeling before they go into it. We covered those studies on the show last week.
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But furthermore, put that aside for a second with this guy, Chris Tyson.
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The problem here highlights a broader problem within liberalism, within all of modern political
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thought, which is we think about politics from the perspective of what we can do. It's like
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Jurassic Park. I know we can do this stuff, but did you ever think of you should do this kind of stuff?
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We think of it from the perspective of entitlements, and we call those rights. Even when they're
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things that are manifestly wrong, we still preposterously call those wrong things rights,
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which is crazy because wrongs cannot be rights. It's right there in the word rights.
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Regardless, it's not a good way to look at politics. A better way to look at politics,
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a better way to look at your own identity is not from the perspective of rights and entitlement,
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but from the perspective of obligation. Not what you are owed, but what you owe to other people.
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The reason what this guy is doing publicly is wrong is because he has an obligation to his wife to be
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her husband. Let's just say for a second that he could change his sex and gender. Well, he can't,
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but let's just say he could. There were some perfect surgery out there that changed all of his DNA.
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It changed all of his features. I mean, that still wouldn't change his central identity. But again,
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let's just go for it. He still would have no right to do it. He took a vow to be her husband. He has a
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role. He has a job to do. He has a duty. And by neglecting that duty, he is committing a grave
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injustice against his wife. Then think about his kid. He owes it to his kid to be that kid's father.
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That's his role. That's his job. That's his duty. He doesn't have the right to shirk that duty.
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In pursuing his sexual fetish, he is denying his son what his son is owed, namely a father.
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That's wrong. And we all do this. We don't all go trans, but we all in modern life, we tend to shirk
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our duties. We say, oh, who cares about my community? Who cares about the common good? Oh,
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who cares about my family? Oh, who cares? And we, we make everything so cold and clean and
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clinical and individualistic. It's not just the left that does that. It's the right that does that
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too. And you see this reflected in no-fault divorce. You see this reflected in the weakening
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of the American family, even between generations. You see this in the below replacement birth rate.
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You see this in the lack, the total loss of civic life and responsibility.
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We just forget our obligations. But we all have obligations to our duty. Now, I mentioned
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that this guy, just at age 26, one day decided, okay, I'm going to become a woman. Where does this
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come from? We talk about how, well, maybe it's just this mental health condition called gender
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dysphoria. Or we say, well, maybe it's, it's a true identity that they've been just suppressing
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their whole lives. Or we say, well, maybe now because it's out there in the culture, people
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are more open-minded to it and they consider what they previously hadn't even considered,
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which is a little more plausible than the biological explanation. But there's one explanation
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that people aren't really talking about. That I actually have to go to feminist websites,
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like the feminist current, to see anybody talking about, which is porn. Porn, according to many
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writers, according to many people who have looked into this, who have looked into this a lot more
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closely than I have, porn is playing a huge role in the surge of transgenderism. We know that porn is
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ubiquitous in the culture. Unless you are actively pursuing a discipline not to look at
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pornography and you are a man, chances are you are looking at pornography in this culture. Porn
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rates are among men are like over 90% or something. And the age at which young men are exposed to this
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is, on average, I think 11. And that's an older statistic. I think it's actually declined since
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then. So feminist current writes, why isn't anyone talking about the influence of porn on the trans
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trend? In recent years, trans pornography has soared in popularity. According to Pornhub's metadata,
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both trans and transgender porn searches have more than quadrupled in the three years between 2014
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to 2017. And by 2018, trans was ranked the fifth highest search term of the year. Now, I was
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informed of this a few years ago by a reporter colleague of mine here at the Daily Wire who said,
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Michael, have you heard about this kind of transgender porn called hypnosis porn? And I said,
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nope, haven't heard about that one. Tell me about it. And she had gone on some deep dive,
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hadn't watched it, but had read about it. And she said, it's this kind of pornography where when
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people fall into it, it just totally scrambles their brain, more so than even other kinds of
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pornography. And it can lead to a rapid onset feeling of gender dysphoria. I said, okay, well,
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I'm curious. I don't want to look up the porn for a couple of reasons. One, because that would be
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wrong to do. And I don't want to expose myself to that. And I don't want to then have to, you know,
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I have to miss lunch the next day so I can go to confession. You know, it's just, and it's a busy
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week. So I didn't want to do that. But I did look through forums of people talking about this and
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articles in places like Feminist Current. And the way people write about this genre of porn is
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terrifying. I remember, I don't remember the exact book, but there was a guy who said,
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I fell into this porn in my forties. I was a totally normal guy. I fell into this genre of porn
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within something like two years. I couldn't get the idea of becoming a woman out of my head. It's
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ruined my life. Another person said that it seemed like a military grade psychological weapon. So I
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thought, oh my goodness. Even when I'm reading about this kind of porn, I try to, I don't want too many
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details because it seems like it's really, really potent. And it would probably help to explain
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the shocking surge in transgender identity. Unless there's just something in the water that's
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turning all the frickin' Zoomers trans, not the frogs gay, but the Zoomers trans, then probably there's
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something to do with this. If your view of sexuality is being totally transformed and that
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phenomenon is coinciding with everybody looking at increasingly crazy pornography, there might be a
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connection there. This is what one person said, according to the Feminist Current article.
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Quote, I started watching trans porn initially five or so years ago, and I remember I had post-orgasm
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regret. So he finished looking at the porn, doing whatever he was going to do, and then he felt
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shame at that, which is a good feeling to feel when you do something like that. But he says,
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back then I imagined myself as the guy. About a year and a half ago, I started to imagine the
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possibility of being the girl in these scenarios. I wanted to be, I'll clean up a little bit of the
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language here. I was turned on by the submissiveness of it, he says. Then he goes on, this has led me to
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have some gender dysphoria, as I would love to be the woman and see where that would take me in my life
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as a fully transitioned trans woman. Too long didn't read my sexual and gender identity has been
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completely flipped on its head because of this hypnotism type porn.
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All of which is to say, the White House has just declared that the COVID pandemic is over.
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Oh, good. That's glad. I'm glad. I'm sure you can all breathe a sigh of relief. I know that you were
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on the edge of your seats, worried, staying up at night because you were so worried about the COVID
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pandemic. We were told for years that COVID was the greatest public health crisis in the country.
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Porn is by far the biggest public health crisis in the country. It's the one that no one's allowed
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to talk about. No one who objects to it is allowed to bring it up. The ruling regime pushes it on
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everybody. The ruling regime defends porn broadly on free speech grounds, which porn has never been
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defended on free speech grounds for the whole history of our country until very recently and the whole
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history of our civilization until very, very recently. It's obscene material. Obscenity is not protected by
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free speech laws. But they're going further. They're pushing the porn in libraries and they're
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pushing the porn in elementary schools. It's a very powerful tool to control people. It's a powerful
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tool to degrade people. When one looks at porn, one has the reaction that this guy has looking at a
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very extreme and particularly degrading form of porn. But it's the same reaction. It's a kind of a shame.
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Elsewhere in the Feminist Current article, someone said that the very act of looking at pornography is
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degrading. And so this humiliating and hypnotic type of porn is a kind of meta-pornography. That it's a
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pornography about what it is to view pornography. And it can take you to really, really weird places.
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Now, I've tried to speak in vaguer terms about this. One, because mercifully I haven't seen it,
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so I can't really speak to the details. But two, because I don't want to pique anybody's curiosity.
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This is powerful, powerful stuff according to pretty much everyone who's come into contact with
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it and everyone who's doing research on it. And it would seem clear to me is leading to lots of
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terrible effects on public health. And little, little kids are being exposed to it. And we're
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just dilly-dallying. We're doing nothing about that. We're worried about COVID. Oh no, the kid
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So there's a story that I want to get to before we get to the Dalai Lama sucking on a,
00:24:42.760
or trying to suck on a boy's tongue, which, you know, let's have a palate cleanser between all the
00:24:47.900
sex stuff. There is a big threat to journalists right now. A big threat even to my job. But because
00:24:57.360
I consider myself working as a journalist, but not of the journalist class, because I think that
00:25:03.720
the establishment media, the mainstream media are effectively the enemy of the people. I'm
00:25:08.920
celebrating this, even though it threatens my own employment. Kuwait has just rolled out
00:25:21.300
I'm Fedha, the first presenter in Kuwait who works with artificial intelligence at Kuwait News.
00:25:28.820
What kind of news do you prefer? Let's hear your opinions. She's very nice looking, blonde woman,
00:25:36.480
very pretty, but not too pretty. So you're still, you're still hearing the news from her.
00:25:41.540
Fedha is an old Kuwaiti name. It refers to silver. And I think the reason they named her that is
00:25:46.880
because we imagine robots to be metallic, kind of like, you know, on the Jetsons or something like
00:25:51.180
that. And she is not though. She looks like a person. If you just watched her read the news,
00:25:56.280
you would think this is a real person, but this is not a real person. And so a lot of people,
00:26:00.820
especially conservatives, are going to hear this story, which is not being reported in a lot of
00:26:05.080
places. It's even hard to track down the video because it's in Arabic. They're going to see this
00:26:09.040
story and they're going to say, oh, I will, I'll never watch that. I'm not going to get my news from a
00:26:13.540
robot. You're not going to trick me. You will. You will get your news from a robot at some point.
00:26:23.040
And you will engage with this technology sooner than you think. It'll just be everywhere.
00:26:32.020
You already probably get a fair bit of your news from robots. These robots have just invaded Twitter.
00:26:36.920
And a lot of the trends that you see are because bots are pushing those trends up.
00:26:44.280
There is a benefit here. It's not all just dystopian.
00:26:48.680
The benefit of artificial intelligence is one that it's kind of cool and you can see interesting artwork
00:26:54.340
on some of the programs. And it is a technologically impressive thing that you've got this fake woman
00:26:59.760
who can read you the news. You can have her say anything. And it'll seem indistinguishable from a real
00:27:05.900
person. But what I like about AI, what I think the silver lining is here is that it highlights what
00:27:13.160
it means to be human. You're going to get your news from AI because the AI is going to know the
00:27:18.980
news better than the people do. You're going to get your news from AI because that is going to be the
00:27:24.180
way that news organizations start to push the news out. Maybe not in the form of this artificially
00:27:31.380
generated fake woman. But AI is going to do that. And it's going to do it better and faster and more
00:27:37.120
accurately than human beings. And so you will engage with it. It shows us what it means to be
00:27:43.720
human because it shows us that limitations are at the very heart of being human. And if you lose the
00:27:50.900
limitations, you lose your humanity. And this is what not just, you see, especially in the transgender
00:27:56.600
movement. But this is what the whole project of political liberalism has shown us. The whole
00:28:00.960
project of political liberalism is to break past the traditional limits and boundaries of what it
00:28:08.940
means to be human. Liberate ourselves from the political order and from the nation and from our
00:28:15.180
families and from even our biological selves. And we're going to break those limits. But when you break
00:28:20.600
all the limits, then you're gone. Because you are human. You're finite. You exist within limits.
00:28:25.720
If you break all the limits, all you've done effectively is kill yourself. You've annihilated
00:28:30.200
yourself. So what does it mean? You might think, well, look, I get my identity because I'm the best
00:28:39.360
artist. Well, pretty soon AI, if not already, AI is going to make better art than you. Well, make the
00:28:47.640
same art that you can. So you still have a role in making art. But it'll make very, very impressive art.
00:28:52.280
You will not be the best artist. Well, I get my identity because I'm the best news presenter. No,
00:28:58.080
you're not. The robots will be better news presenters than you are. Well, I get my identity
00:29:03.720
because I'm the best accountant. No, you're not the best accountant. The robots are going to be way
00:29:07.400
better accountants than you, for sure. Well, I'm the best this, I'm the best that. No.
00:29:13.060
Now, your identity has to come from something more real. And we try to ground our identity in all of
00:29:20.500
these glittering idols in our professions. Or we try to ground our identity in our hobbies. Or
00:29:27.520
increasingly in consumer culture, we ground our identity in our products that we consume.
00:29:34.180
Or you ground your identity in some sexual fetish or desire that you have. You see that a lot these
00:29:38.440
days. Your identity has got to be grounded in something more real. The true place that your
00:29:44.680
identity must be grounded is in God. Because God is the source and summit of being and all identity.
00:29:52.080
And then you can have your profession. And then you can have your family. And then you can have
00:29:54.960
your community. And then you can have your affinity for certain products. We all do. That's part of a
00:29:58.860
normal life. But it's in its proper place. And you fulfill your roles. As we were talking about
00:30:05.540
earlier with the Mr. Beast guy. You fulfill your roles. You do your jobs. You fulfill your obligations.
00:30:12.240
But you do all of that because of where your identity is ultimately grounded. You will not be
00:30:17.360
the best at all of these secondary things for much longer as AI advances at lightning speed.
00:30:26.900
We went from AI could do blurry kind of weird demon looking images where the hands were all messed up
00:30:31.520
to AI can create a human being who speaks and looks perfect reading the news in like six months.
00:30:41.120
It's going to move very, very fast. Speaking of spiritual matters, I've got to get to the Dalai Lama.
00:30:49.660
This is video. I'm sure you've seen the video. The Dalai Lama is at some event and he talks to a young
00:30:55.100
boy. And the young boy comes up and gives the Dalai Lama a hug. And then the Dalai Lama asks,
00:30:59.340
well, I'll let you hear it in his own words. First, yeah. Then I think finally, here also.
00:31:11.440
Okay, so then he gives the boy a little kiss. Kiss on the lips. And the audience is sort of laughing and clapping.
00:31:20.940
Put their heads together. And then, and then he's looking at the boy.
00:31:32.800
He's sucked my tongue. And he keeps his tongue out.
00:31:41.060
And he puts his hand on his face. I don't know. It's kind of weird. It's pretty weird, man. I'm not.
00:31:47.440
I don't know. People are reading this and saying that Dalai Lama is a secret pedo child molester.
00:31:52.880
I don't know. If he were that, wouldn't you expect him to do this kind of thing in private?
00:31:57.600
I don't. The fact that he's doing it out in public makes me think this is probably more likely just a
00:32:02.880
kind of a weird joke from a guy who's 87 years old now. I don't know. I mean, it's,
00:32:08.780
it's really, really odd. But one thing it's doing, regardless of what it is, I'm not really here to
00:32:15.780
knock the Dalai Lama. And it's all out on tape. You can form your own conclusion. Is it dispels some
00:32:23.740
of the myth around the Dalai Lama. A lot of people in the West are fascinated by the Dalai Lama. Because
00:32:30.840
a lot of people in the West are fascinated by Eastern religion. Because a lot of people in the West
00:32:33.980
have abandoned their own religion. And so they've been disenchanted with their own religion.
00:32:40.140
But because we have a natural spiritual longing, we're looking for something. So we've been told
00:32:44.200
since kindergarten, Christianity is fake. The Bible's bunk. It's a science is what you should
00:32:48.320
follow. And science totally disproves God or whatever nonsense they tell you. But so we've
00:32:53.160
been disenchanted there, but we're looking for something else. So people look to Hinduism. We think
00:32:56.800
about George Harrison was fascinated by Hinduism. Or a lot of, a lot of suburban white women just love
00:33:02.680
Buddhism. They just, they're so, they don't really know that much about it. But they're drawn to it.
00:33:06.860
And they go do yoga. And it's essentially the substitute for their church on Sunday. And for
00:33:12.140
their own religious life in Christianity. And then you look at the Dalai Lama doing this. And you're
00:33:16.460
saying, wait, huh? This guy, that doesn't seem so mystical and pure and wonderful. And it's a reminder
00:33:22.300
too that the Dalai Lama is primarily a political figure. Obviously, he has a huge religious aspect to it
00:33:27.040
as well. Because all states at all times have had something to do with religion. Because all human
00:33:31.640
conflict ultimately is theological. But he's a political leader. The institution of the Dalai
00:33:36.600
Lama is less than 500 years old. It's a relatively modern position. And the Dalai Lama is the leader
00:33:43.520
of Tibet. That's, and all of the spiritual trappings of that are, from a practical standpoint, in service
00:33:52.900
of his standing as the leader of Tibet. And his role as a politician is emphasized by his take on
00:33:59.760
religion. Which is, Dalai Lama doesn't encourage people to convert to Buddhism. In fact, what he
00:34:04.500
said is, he encourages people to remain in the religion of their own communities. Christianity
00:34:10.100
uniquely is universalist. Go make disciples of all nations. Most other religions are more local.
00:34:18.820
The Jews don't evangelize. The Buddhists don't really evangelize. The Hindus don't evangelize.
00:34:25.560
There are social structures from within their own tribe and from within their own nation.
00:34:32.940
And the fascination with the Dalai Lama and the Dalai Lama's insight on politics should remind us of
00:34:39.220
that. There's no escaping religion in your life. And there's especially no escaping religion in
00:34:44.720
politics. Politics, religion rather, forms the basis of politics. So which religion is it going to be?
00:34:51.520
It's going to be Buddhism. We're going to live in a Buddhist nation.
00:34:53.340
Is America going to become a Hindu nation? I don't think so. I think it's probably going to be a
00:34:59.900
Christian nation. So what does that tell us about the way that we ought to live and structure our
00:35:04.920
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JB Amazing 100, who says the release date of the Mario movie, April 5th, should officially be known
00:36:25.400
as the Italian Day of Visibility. I agree. Maybe the Italian Day of Vengeance. All right? I want these
00:36:34.280
people who are discriminating against the Italians, I want their political power dead. I want their
00:36:41.700
ideology dead. I want their house burned to the ground. I want to go by the ground. I want to put
00:36:47.240
some of the ashes. Sorry. I don't know what happened. I was possessed by the Italians of my
00:36:55.100
ancestry in ages before. It is a day of visibility. It's great. And John Leguizamo was very upset about
00:37:00.420
that. Speaking of nations and how nations get along with each other, are we in World War III? Are we there
00:37:09.160
now? Mike Pompeo looks as though he's going to run for president, former secretary of state for Donald
00:37:15.140
Trump, former CIA director also for Trump. Mike Pompeo has just come out, unlike a lot of the
00:37:23.720
rest of the GOP field, he has come out in defense of a robust interventionist American foreign policy.
00:37:30.880
So a lot of people aren't going to like it, but it will give people a choice. And Pompeo is sticking by
00:37:36.800
his convictions here. Pompeo says that with China aggressing over Taiwan in the South China Sea
00:37:43.520
and the United States Navy now meeting some of that progression and standing firm in the South
00:37:49.900
China Sea and with the debacle in Ukraine and with the debacle in Afghanistan now emboldening China to
00:37:56.120
say, okay, we don't know if Joe Biden's going to get reelected, but he's weak. So if we're going to
00:37:59.460
move, we got to move now, especially because Biden has been particularly weak on China for 20 years,
00:38:04.120
20 plus years, tensions seem to be ratcheting up and a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could be the last
00:38:12.560
straw to prompt World War III. We've already got the war in Europe based around Ukraine. If you get
00:38:18.320
a war in the Pacific, you have a world war and it's between all the same powers. That's called a world
00:38:22.720
war. And so Pompeo says the way to stop this is to spare no resource in defending Taiwan, including
00:38:31.100
the use of American troops. I know the Taiwanese foreign minister who you played the clip from
00:38:35.840
earlier. He's precisely right. There could be an accident there that could escalate pretty quickly.
00:38:40.780
The task for the United States is to protect the things that matter to Americans and make no mistake
00:38:45.480
about it. The business and industry that sit on the island of Taiwan, which should be recognized as a
00:38:50.620
sovereign nation, is essential to American commerce. We need to make sure that we're doing
00:38:54.740
everything we can to provide Taiwan with the tools its needs. Contrast that with what the
00:39:00.400
Biden administration has done in Ukraine, where they've allowed this war to linger on.
00:39:04.360
Are you on board with that as well? U.S. troops on the ground to defend Taiwan?
00:39:10.000
Senator, we often talk about Taiwan in isolation. Think about this.
00:39:13.260
Japan will almost certainly get drawn into this if there's an invasion of Taiwan. We have a security
00:39:17.700
guarantee to support Taiwan, much like Article 5 and the NATO agreement. What we need to do is focus
00:39:23.060
today on giving the Taiwanese the tools they need to make sure that this day never happens. That's
00:39:26.860
what we did for four years, and we reduced risk to America. But when push comes to shove, the United
00:39:31.720
States is going to have to be all in to protect American interests throughout the Pacific.
00:39:37.300
So there he is. And this is a pretty standard Republican position. It's gotten a little complicated
00:39:43.260
in recent years, but the position is we don't want to go to war. We Republicans are less inclined to
00:39:49.760
go to war than Democrats are. And therefore, in order to prevent war, we are going to threaten
00:39:54.500
war more than the Democrats will. The argument is, Reagan said it, peace through strength.
00:40:01.160
And what the Democrats do is they seem very weak, and that weakness invites aggression. And you see
00:40:06.420
that happen in Ukraine. Joe Biden said, we're going to take the sanctions off of Russia. And by the way,
00:40:12.120
Russia, if you invade Ukraine, if it's only a minor incursion, we're going to let that slide.
00:40:15.440
And so what happens? Russia invades. Then America feels the obligation to go in. They won't just
00:40:20.480
give Ukraine up to Russia. And so there's a schizophrenic foreign policy, and the conflict
00:40:26.380
escalates. Wars have started. I'm not making any point over what Pompeo is saying. I'm just pointing
00:40:35.300
out wars have started over a lot less. Major wars, world wars have started over a lot less than what's
00:40:43.560
going on in Ukraine and what's going on in Taiwan right now. Could happen very, very quickly. And
00:40:51.020
how will we even know about it? What can we even believe when the media are so dishonest?
00:40:56.620
We know that the Chinese media are dishonest. That's propaganda. That's state media.
00:41:01.420
We know the Russian media is dishonest. It's state media. It's propaganda.
00:41:07.280
And we know that the same is true of our media and our news outlets, even though we don't want to
00:41:11.180
admit that. This is why I love what Elon just did on Twitter. Elon just branded NPR state-sponsored
00:41:17.640
media, like he does to Iran and Russia and North Korea. He says, this is state-sponsored media.
00:41:26.100
Now, he backed down a little bit because now it says it is government-funded media, so not totally
00:41:36.160
state-sponsored. But the point remains the same. People were shocked by this. Why are you shocked?
00:41:42.780
It's called national public radio. Shocked when we would do this to PBS. It's called public
00:41:48.820
broadcasting. Why can't we call it state-sponsored media? Oh, because it's only state-sponsored media
00:41:55.260
when the bad guys do it. When we do it, it's great. The BBC is not state-sponsored media. No,
00:41:59.900
no, no. Elon actually responded when the BBC objected to being called state-sponsored media.
00:42:06.740
Elon said, remind me, what does BBC stand for again? Is it the British broadcast? Yeah,
00:42:13.700
that's sort of what I thought it was. Political concepts are much more universal than we want to
00:42:22.520
admit. And this is where I think a little bit of the disconnect comes in with Americans looking around
00:42:28.660
at the rest of the world. We pride ourselves on being the best country on earth. And when we've
00:42:36.060
got good leadership, we are the best country on earth. When we've got bad leadership, things can
00:42:40.640
go very, very wrong. But yeah, when we've got good leadership, people are doing the right thing.
00:42:45.840
We are the best country on earth. But we're not totally different from other countries.
00:42:52.500
We have this idea that other countries do all of these terrible things, and we would never do those
00:42:57.420
things because we're fundamentally different countries in the way that we conduct politics.
00:43:01.620
That isn't true. China, do you know China has a social credit score? In China, if you contradict the
00:43:09.500
ruling regime, you can be silenced. You can be prosecuted and investigated. You can be told that
00:43:17.380
you can't board airplanes. You can be debanked and kicked out of financial institutions. You can be
00:43:22.160
removed from the economy. All of those things happen here. Maybe not as at the scale that you
00:43:30.280
see them in China, but all those things happen here. And do you know in China, if you oppose the
00:43:35.480
regime, they'll throw you in prison and they'll do it on trumped up charges? Oh, you don't say?
00:43:40.260
Oh, yeah? Talk to the grannies from January 6th, do you think? Well, the gangsters from BLM who looted
00:43:48.140
and rioted and pillaged and burned, well, they just go free. The DAs let them off the hook. The
00:43:52.220
grannies who went in and took a picture in the Capitol, they're rotting in solitary. But you want
00:43:56.700
to tell me about prosecuting political dissidents? Well, China surveils the population. That's right.
00:44:04.800
They've got cameras and data collection and surveillance everywhere. Interesting. Tell me
00:44:08.460
about a little branch of the government formerly known as the No Such Agency. You ever hear about
00:44:14.640
that? The NSA? You really want to lecture China about data collection? No. We engage in these
00:44:22.980
things. And I'm not even knocking the United States for doing it. The concepts that form political
00:44:31.320
life and the practices that form political life are going to be basically universal because nations
00:44:36.020
are relatively similar. The implementation and how they're particularly implemented, that's what's
00:44:42.560
going to be different. The spirit that animates the people, that's going to be a little bit
00:44:48.980
different. That's why ultimately it's the religion that animates the people and our moral understandings
00:44:53.900
and the way that we're going to limit what we do. That's going to be different. But that's where the
00:44:59.200
difference lies. It doesn't lie in these fundamental political practices. Those are common to pretty much
00:45:03.820
everybody. Now, speaking of the state, Joe Biden has actually subverted expectations. He's one of
00:45:12.780
the most predictable, shallow, empty-suited politicians out there. But he is defying one
00:45:19.720
big expectation, which is all the smart people said for years now, Joe Biden's not going to run for a
00:45:24.820
second term. Joe Biden can't run for a second. That's ridiculous. He's not going to run.
00:45:28.160
Here's Joe Biden on Easter Sunday. Will you be taking part in the Easter egg rolls after planning
00:45:35.880
on after 2024? Well, I plan on at least three or four more Easter egg rolls. At least three or four
00:45:41.680
more? Maybe five. Maybe five. Maybe six. What the hell? Are you saying that you would be taking part in
00:45:49.580
our upcoming election in 2024? Well, I'll either be rolling an egg or being the guy who's pushing
00:45:56.560
him out. Come on. Help a brother out. Make some news for me. I plan on running out, but we're not
00:46:01.960
prepared to announce it yet. I think he means it. Joe Biden is rarely sincere about anything in his
00:46:09.600
whole life, but I think he means it. Why would he quit? Because it's good for the Democratic Party?
00:46:19.840
What does Joe Biden care? Joe Biden's 1,000 years old. He doesn't stand to benefit from serving the
00:46:24.760
parties. He's served his party for 50 years at the federal level. He wants to be president. This
00:46:30.920
guy has wanted to be president since he was in the womb. It's the object that he has doggedly pursued
00:46:36.660
his whole life. Why would he give it up? If he can still stand and speak, which he sort of can do right
00:46:41.840
now, I don't see why he wouldn't. And by the way, I'm not sure that it's good for the Democratic Party
00:46:46.660
for him not to run. It shows that the ship is unstable if the leader steps off. It shows that
00:46:56.040
things aren't totally ready to go. It's an admission that things aren't going great.
00:47:00.120
And who's going to come fill it in? Liz Warren, everyone hates her. Pete Buttigieg, give me a
00:47:03.740
break. Kamala Harris, yeah, okay. Gavin Newsom, maybe, but he's totally untested. And the Democrat has
00:47:10.760
never won the White House from California. Last person to win the White House from California was
00:47:14.540
Ronald Reagan. Politics looked a lot different back then. I think he means it.
00:47:21.360
So you might very likely have another match-off between Trump and Biden. Though there is some
00:47:29.440
interesting polling on the Republican primary race coming out of Florida now. I'll leave you on
00:47:35.380
that cliffhanger. We'll have to get to that tomorrow because we're about to enter the membrum
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