Ep. 1228 - Trans-Activists Burn Images of Me At Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protest
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Summary
Pro-abortion fanatics have attacked another pro-life pregnancy center, and the FDA is rushing to approve a new abortion pill, Mifeprex, which they call a life-threatening illness. Meanwhile, a transgender man and a transgender woman join forces to fight for the rights of transgender people.
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I had a marvelous time at the University of Pittsburgh last night.
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Our debate on the topic of transgenderism hosted by ISI was able to take place
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despite protests from leftist students, administrators, state legislators, and many
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other people. My debate partner, Professor Donald McCloskey, dropped out at the last minute.
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But we found an able substitute in Brad Palumbo. The moderator, my friend Leah Labresco Sargent,
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raised excellent questions, and the room was filled to capacity. Given the countless obstacles
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put up to stop this debate, I thought it turned out great, and you can catch the whole thing
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on the ISI YouTube channel. But, but, then I saw some coverage of the event from a left-wing
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Pitt student. The student wrote, quote, Pitt protests of Michael Knowles remained peaceful.
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And as great as I think the whole thing came off, that, that's not exactly true. For those who
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weren't there, the leftist protesters set off explosives. They blocked the entrance and they
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burned me in effigy. The attendees were forced to sit in the room for hours after the event because
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the rioters outside were so violent and threatening. But this is what conservatives have come to expect
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on campus. Conservatives who speak common sense are called violent. And the leftists who try to attack
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us are described as mostly peaceful. A sign, I'm sorry to say, of a mostly collapsed civil society.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Speaking of the topic, the topic that we can never stop talking about,
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men and women and transgenderism. The two spokesmen of transgenderism in our pop culture,
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Dylan Mulvaney and Jeffrey Marsh, they've teamed up. I haven't even watched this whole
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meeting of the minds. We will get to it, though. We will get to it later on in the show. First,
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though, speaking of attacks, another pro-life pregnancy center has been attacked. You may
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have heard about these attacks happening around the country. You certainly haven't heard about them
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in CNN or the New York Times or any of the establishment media. We've tried to cover it,
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though. There have been a lot of attacks by pro-abortion fanatics on pro-life pregnancy centers,
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on crisis pregnancy centers. So one in Bowling Green, Ohio, was spray painted with
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messages saying, fund abortion and abort God. This was claimed by Jane's Revenge, which is one of
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these radical pro-abortion groups that keeps attacking the pro-life centers. So I mentioned
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this not even to call attention to another pro-life center being attacked. That's not exactly a man
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bites dog story, I'm sorry to say. That's been happening pretty regularly. But the language here
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tells you what you need to know. Ultimately, this is an attack on God. And no matter how much the
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secularists want to say, no, this has nothing to do with religion. This has nothing to do with
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metaphysical reality. It's just about women controlling their bodies. It's not. It's always
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coming back to God. It's always coming back to good or evil. It's always coming back to doing the right
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thing or doing the wrong thing. What we're talking about here, once you get past all of the euphemisms,
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is you're talking about human sacrifice. You're talking about the mass sacrifice of babies. And
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the people who are really, really into that, I know the moderate liberal secularists will be shocked
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to hear this. The people who are really into the mass slaughter and sacrifice of babies, they tend to have
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some pretty specific, pretty dark spiritual ideas. And no one should be surprised when you find
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slogans like, abort God, vandalized onto these pro-life pregnancy centers. No one should be
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surprised when there are self-described practicing witches and Satanists who are just always hanging
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around the Planned Parenthood clinics. So strange. All around the country, you always see these same
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kinds of people. How eccentric. What a coincidence. It's not a coincidence. It always comes back
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to these fundamental things. Now, speaking of pregnancy, this might be even crazier than the bizarre
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Satanist vandals. The FDA has just categorized pregnancy as an illness. So the FDA is rushing to give
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approval to an abortion drug. Mifeprex. And in order to get the approval for Mifeprex, the FDA had to argue
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that the drug treats a life-threatening illness so they could fast-track the approval in the same way
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that they fast-track the approval for drugs that treat cancer and HIV. What's the life-threatening
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illness here? According to the FDA, it's pregnancy. It's life. It's just not an illness. It's not.
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It's the center of society. It's the center of human life. It's a wonderful thing. It's not a sickness.
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There was a South Park joke on this. I remember it years ago. I can't remember the exact episode,
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but Mr. Garrison, the teacher, is teaching sex ed to the kids. And he's telling them all about
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various STDs. He says, and you know, the worst, most dangerous STD of all is called pregnancy.
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And that was a joke. And now that joke has become policy at the FDA. Because all of the things that
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were jokes 20, 30 years ago on The Simpsons, on South Park, on Family Guy, all those jokes are now
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just the society we're living in. Our society has become the joke, which would be funny if it weren't
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so sad. If we didn't view life and procreation and the next generation of our families and countrymen
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as a disease to be avoided and treated with the life-saving drug that ends life with a life-saving
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drug, quote unquote, that kills people. Speaking of unaccountable agencies and sex,
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the United Nations has made a troubling statement. This is the International Commission of Jurists,
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with an assist from UNAIDS and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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It said, quote, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of
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consent to sex may be consensual, in fact, if not in law. Now, to translate,
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all of that gobbledygook, what they're saying is, maybe it's okay to have sex with kids.
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That's what that means. This is from a report titled, The Eight March Principles for a Human
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Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex, Reproduction, Drug Use,
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HIV, Homelessness, and Poverty. I think of Oren McIntyre, the commentator who's come on this show before,
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who has a meme that has gone viral. It's a meme, speaking of The Simpsons, of a bus driver on The
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Simpsons, saying, don't make me tap the sign. And the sign is just a tweet from Mr. McIntyre saying,
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it's not complicated. They just want to diddle kids. And I don't think that that's all of what
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the sexual revolution is about. But going way, way back, going back to the 1960s, going back to those
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weird essays by Bernie Sanders and the Vermont Freeman, in which he's writing about how awful it
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is that we don't sexualize children. And going back to the bizarre sexual revolutions of even a little
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before the 1960s, even back to the days of the leftist intellectual Wilhelm Reich, the idea of
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orgones as being the essence of life and the way to cure poverty and cancer and war is to just have
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a lot of orgasms. I'm not making that up. The way that the libs keep constantly trying to sexualize
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kids in the schools, in the libraries, expose them to drag queens. There's a highly ideological
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component about it. But also, Mr. McIntyre might happen to be right. So what does this
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kids? I didn't believe it when I saw this come across Twitter. I said, this is one of those fake news
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articles where the conservatives, they, sometimes the conservatives are too quick to call people
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pedos in the same way that the Democrats are too quick to call people racist. But sometimes they're
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not too quick. Sometimes they just, they're just calling it like they see it. And so I look it up
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and it's being reported in the news. The UN saying, well, maybe sometimes sex with kids is okay. In fact,
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if not in law. Okay. What's really going on here? What you're seeing play out is a battle that I've
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mentioned on the show before between two views of the law, two views of politics broadly. The
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traditional conservative view is that mankind is a unity of body and soul, of course, but our defining
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feature is intellect and will. We have an intellect such that we can reason about things. We can come
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to certain true conclusions. We can ascertain objective truth and our will that we can act
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upon our desires in the world. And when society is going well, when our personal lives are going well,
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our will and our intellect are in accord with one another. So we're not just being drawn on the
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gusts of our base passions and our appetites and our lower will. But we are using our reason
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to figure out how we're supposed to behave. So you say, okay, I've had three cookies. I'm not going
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to grab the fourth cookie from the cookie jar, even though my appetite wants it. I am going to
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have a tummy ache. So I'm not going to do that. Intellect and will working together. The left severs
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those two things. So the left says, yeah, maybe the baby's a baby, but I want to kill the baby
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because the baby's inconvenient for me. So I'm going to ignore my intellect. I'm going to pursue
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a politics of pure will. Yeah, obviously a dude in a dress is not actually a chick. We all know that
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people, we're not even going to try to make the argument that the man is really a woman.
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We're just going to go into the ladies room and we're going to follow our will. Intellect be damned.
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And you see this time and time again. This is why the conservatives engage in civil discourse and
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they have all sorts of debate and they're very, very polite. Even the liberal kinds of
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conservatives tend to be fairly polite. We saw this at the debate last night. Whereas the leftists
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pull out of the debate and they shriek and they set off smoke bombs outside and they burn me in
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effigy and they yell and they scream when Donald Trump gets elected. They don't, they don't explain
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why this is not the best outcome for the country. What do they do? They pull their hair out and they
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go, no, and they shriek like banshees. That is a politics of pure will. And that's what you're
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seeing with a lot of the weird kid stuff. Okay. There's no way to make a good argument that we
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should further sexualize little children. There's no way to make a good argument that drag queens
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should be permitted to twerk in the elementary schools or that we should pump little kids full
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of cross-sex hormones. So the libs are pushing for this for various reasons, some ideological and
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some I fear a little more libidinous, some a little bit more licentious. But it doesn't matter
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to them. Intellect be damned. They're going to do what they want to do. You actually see this in the
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the infamous pornographer philosopher, Marquis de Sade. Marquis de Sade from whom we get the
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word sadism and sadistic. The Marquis de Sade, who's a very intelligent guy, says, if there is no God,
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if there's, if there's no real virtue or vice, if there's no, it doesn't matter if I'm not going to
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acknowledge the moral reality, then why is your pain any more important than my pleasure? Why can't I
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just do whatever the hell I want? And this is why his pornography philosophy is so interesting
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because it's both of those things. The most famous one is 120 Days of Sodom, which starts out as a kind
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of titillating licentious book and quickly becomes full of torture and the infliction of pain, murder,
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and all sorts of evil things. Because why not? Why not? If we're denying the intellect, if we're denying
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reason, if we're only pursuing the will, why not follow the will wherever it wants to go?
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Speaking of the sexual revolution, big news out. According to an article making it around the
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internet, who knows if it's true? I assume most scientific articles are complete bunk.
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Dr. Fauci really diminished my respect for the science. But according to this news report,
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male contraception could be getting closer and closer thanks to a new genetic discovery. It's
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been a long road, but new findings could bring us one step closer to an elusive birth control pill
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for men. My question, in what world is this good?
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What is good about this? We've got a dying population. We've got plummeting rates of marriage.
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We have a hookup culture that is so perverse that it spurred a Me Too movement because we no longer
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know how to speak about sexual propriety. And so everything has to be either totally wonderful,
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hunky-dory or rape. That's how confused people are now about sex.
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Abortion is prevalent. Women are being left high and dry. In what world is this good?
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It would seem to me that if we want to save our civilization, we need significantly less birth
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control. We need more conception and much less contraception. But even if we live in a world that's
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going to tolerate contraception because the Supreme Court invented a right to contraception twice in
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1965 and in 1972, they found an invisible ink in the constitution that the right to condoms or
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whatever. As contraception exists today, women can take a pill, they can put a patch on, it pumps them
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full of hormones. Probably not great in the long run, but they can do that. They're in control here.
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Or people can use condoms. In what world is this good to not only introduce a new type of
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contraception, but have that contraception be totally within the domain of men? So men have the power now
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over contraception. Doesn't that seem, wouldn't that seem by every measure, by the conservative measure,
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by the liberal measure, by the feminist measure, wouldn't that seem counterproductive? It would to me.
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There's no coherence. There's no logic. But it gets to what we were talking about at that abortion
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activism group that went out and vandalized the pro-life center. These things don't have to make
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sense. It gets to what we're talking about with the intellect. These things don't have to make sense.
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The left has a goal in mind. And they will pursue that goal. And they'll change the arguments
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all the way. The left wants to destroy marriage. And so they're going to destroy marriage by making an
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argument for gay rights. And they're going to say, well, there's two sexes and people are born this
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way and your sexual orientation is totally immutable. And so we've got to redefine marriage
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to include same-sex unions, monogamous unions. Okay. But also everything about sex is fluid and men
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and women don't really exist and transgenderism is true. And that's the reason we've got to attack
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marriage. Hold on. Weren't you just making this other argument? Yeah, whatever. Don't. Who cares?
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We've got up in traditional norms of society because women are so important that we're going to have a
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feminist culture. But actually, no, now we're going to go into a gender thing and we're going to deny
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that women exist. We're going to rewrite all the civil rights laws and protections for women.
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But yeah, whatever. The result's going to be the same, which is we're going to upend our traditional
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culture. Doing the same thing here. Now, speaking of that revolution, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is
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being protested by lots of shrieking leftists. I think you're seeing a theme here. And some of
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the phrases they're yelling are, we say gay and DC don't like fascists.
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We say gay! We don't like it! Go away! We say gay! We say gay! We don't like it! Go away!
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Okay, nothing particularly interesting about this demonstration. We've heard this a zillion times
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before. Last night, when we were trying to begin our debate at Pitt, a handful of students stood
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up, the ones who made it into the venue, stood up and just started screaming, trans lives matter,
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trans lives matter. These people only know like 14 words or something. So they just, it's maybe,
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let's see, 14 words would be like two or three phrases. That's not fair. Maybe they've got
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three or four phrases. Let's bump it up to 21, 22 words, but that's it. You're a fascist. Hate is
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not welcome here. Trans lives matter. That's not particularly interesting. What's interesting
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though for the DeSantis campaign is that he is getting these protests at all. This is really
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great news for him. The biggest weakness of the DeSantis campaign right now is that Trump's taken
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all the fire and DeSantis, by virtue of just not being Donald Trump, is getting more support from
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more establishment type figures. Not Ron DeSantis' fault. That's just the way it's shaken out because
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he's the not Trump guy in the race. So the more protests he gets, the more attacks that he gets,
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the better off he is going to be. This election, as I've said now for some time, is going to be
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an opposition election. We are going to judge the candidates by their enemies. When Donald Trump
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launches his reelection bid by saying, I am your retribution, that tells you what the tone of this
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campaign is going to be. And fair enough. These are the people who are vandalizing the pro-life
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centers, who are setting off explosives and burning conservatives in effigy simply for having a
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debate over the role of the law when it comes to transgenderism. These are the people who burned
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our country down for eight months during the BLM riots. These are the people who locked our country
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down and kept pushing to keep our country locked down. This is a politics that is increasingly
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unreasonable. And so we're not going to have a positive, edifying, productive campaign about
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how we can build upon some of them, meet in the middle and take the best points from the other
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side. No, this is an opposition campaign. The libs have completely lost it. They're burning the
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country down. Whoever the libs hate the most, that's going to be my guy. That's going to be a good sign
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Speaking of politicians and re-election, George Santos.
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One of the more eccentric Republicans out there, George Santos, who lied about his educational background
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and his professional background and may have been indicted in Brazil and he's got a lot of, maybe lied about
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his sexual identity and maybe his religion. I don't know, whatever. He, actually the religion point in
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George Santos' defense is, has been misinterpreted by the media because George Santos said that he is
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Jew-ish, which is a little bit of a joke saying he's ethnically Jewish, but not practicing Jew. And so
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whether or not he is actually ethnically Jewish, that is a real concept. That's the, there are plenty
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of things to attack George Santos for, but that line is not one of them. Well, George Santos, despite all
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of these setbacks, he is running for re-election. According to entrepreneur Josh Eisen, who is a top
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Santos donor, said many of us Americans are willing to accept all sorts of resurrection. Perhaps
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representative George Santos will be another. So even with all of this crazy stuff that came out
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about Santos, some people are still backing him. And then the Democrats are looking at us and they're
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saying, look at you awful conservatives. You have no principles at all. You have no standards
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whatsoever. How can you defend this guy? My question is, what's the alternative?
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Do you have an alternative guy who's going to win that district in New York and help preserve the
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Republicans' razor-thin majority in the House? Do you have somebody else? Do you have proof that George
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Santos is significantly more disreputable than many other members of Congress and the Senate,
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disproportionately Democrats? He lied about his background. Did he lie about being a Native
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American when he was the whitest person in the world to get a job on the Harvard faculty?
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Did he lie for his whole career about that? No, he didn't. Did he lie about his educational
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background? Did he lie about, well, pretty much everything when we're talking about Joe Biden?
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Did he do that? Did he, oh, he's sexually a bit odd? Really? Okay, compare that to any Democrat
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these days. Did he go twerk in elementary schools and libraries? Because that's the new standard I'm
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seeing set by the left. What's the alternative? We're supposed to say, no, you, listen, you,
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you're a dishonest politician. So we're going to kick you out and install another dishonest Democrat
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who's going to vote for killing babies and giving away America's political rights and opening up the
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border. And no, I don't think so. What's the alternative? Show me the alternative. I don't see it.
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Speaking of celebrities, Shaq has an important message for everybody, especially for people in
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the media, and that is don't call him a celebrity. I really love this story. I meant to get to it a
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couple of days ago. Glad we can get to it now. Shaq is a very, very famous figure in sports, in media,
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in commentary. And Shaq just told People Magazine that he doesn't want to be a celebrity because
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celebrities are rude to people and obnoxious. He said, I denounced myself for being a celebrity 30
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years ago because a lot of celebrities are a-holes. I don't want to be in that category. I'd rather
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demote myself to just being a regular person before you call me a celebrity and put me in the category
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of those jerk-offs. I don't, I think I can say that on the air, right? That seems relatively wholesome
00:24:39.700
by our modern cultural standards. I don't like to work with celebrities because celebrities are crazy.
00:24:44.640
So I just like to work with people. And he says, celebrities are crazy. They really are. Don't
00:24:50.400
call me that anymore. These people are out of their freaking mind with how they treat people,
00:24:54.060
what they do, what they say. That's never been me. I never want to be looked at like that. So some
00:24:59.400
people are going to look at this and say, oh, that's just false humility from Shaq. You're obviously
00:25:03.460
a celebrity. You're super rich. You're super famous. He's not saying that he's not rich and famous.
00:25:07.300
He's just rightly observing that celebrities often have all sorts of problems and look ridiculous.
00:25:16.480
So when he says, oh, don't call me a celebrity. I just want to be a regular person. He's not even
00:25:20.760
saying that for you or for me or for anybody else. He's calling for that as a matter of self-preservation.
00:25:31.120
And you see this throughout the ages. People get really dazzled by celebrity. People can become
00:25:37.300
starstruck. But think about celebrities of ages past. Celebrity fades in a second. People who were
00:25:44.140
super famous, admired, all we could talk about even five, 10 years ago, they're forgotten. And then they
00:25:50.080
what? They become washed up. They become a punchline. And very often they're self-obsessed. Very often they
00:25:56.660
are rude to people. Very often they are crazy. It's not even totally their fault. Celebrity is a weird
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thing. If you've ever known a famous person and having lived in LA and being around politics,
00:26:06.400
I've met a disproportionate number of famous people. They can go crazy. It's a very strange thing
00:26:12.260
to have everybody admire you at once and come up to you and recognize you and treat you well and pick
00:26:17.960
up the tab. If you don't protect yourself, that can really, that can really warp your mind and your
00:26:23.320
perception. And some of the famous people I've known have protected themselves better than others
00:26:27.280
against it. So what Shaq is saying is, no, ultimately, celebrity doesn't mean anything.
00:26:33.880
It's an illusion. And it's a deception. Don't fall for it. And it's so true. And it's a lesson for all
00:26:41.160
of us in this age because we're in an age where everybody can have their 15 minutes of fame because
00:26:45.780
anybody can go viral on TikTok. And so it's a, it's a lesson for us. We've democratized celebrity now
00:26:52.880
and the success of this world can be very damaging to people's souls. It's a great bit of self-help
00:27:02.120
from Shaq. That is not false modesty. I think that is looking at the world with a steely eye because if
00:27:07.860
you or I have met a few famous people, think about all the famous ones Shaq knows. The man knows of what
00:27:12.160
he speaks. Speaking of idol worship, did you know paganism is coming back? Good piece here in
00:27:19.180
Commentary Magazine on the return of paganism. A spiritual crisis afflicting contemporary America
00:27:24.540
has ancient and enduring roots and so does the cure. I actually haven't had time even to go through
00:27:30.540
the entire piece, but it makes it a really important point, which is paganism is coming back.
00:27:36.920
The paganism that you don't really notice where you just start to worship money and you start to
00:27:43.760
worship sex and you start to worship all the created things of this world's celebrity and you
00:27:49.200
don't really notice it. Also overt paganism is coming back. Also steeped in tradition kind of
00:27:56.160
paganism, nature worship, polytheism, that is coming back in a pretty conscious way as well. And the reason
00:28:03.120
for this is that we've kicked Christianity out of the public square. And this has happened not only
00:28:09.180
because of the faithlessness of the members in the church, but also because leftist activists have
00:28:16.800
booted it out using the law, using political activism from the public square. So when you don't
00:28:21.440
let kids learn the Bible in schools, when you don't let people pray in schools, when you instead,
00:28:26.000
when you replace the Bible with pornography in schools, as we're seeing today, that's going to change
00:28:30.060
people's formation. So everybody's got to serve somebody. But there's a priest who said that when
00:28:40.780
he was in seminary, he was told by one of his teachers that if he should ever leave Christianity,
00:28:47.220
he should become a pagan. And this wasn't just a cheeky line. The reason for this is paganism is at the
00:28:53.600
very least tied to nature. And so I'm not advocating that anyone become a pagan. But it's got some
00:29:02.040
connection to reality. And I think a part of the rise of paganism, conscious and unconscious,
00:29:08.680
is that we are living in a virtual world that is now imbued with, that has been pervaded with this
00:29:16.320
silly ideology that tells us the things that we know to be true are not true. That a man is not really
00:29:23.320
a man, he's a woman. That a baby is not really a baby. It's a clump of cells or whatever. We're living
00:29:27.580
in a world where these ideologies can succeed because we're so divorced from the real world. We live in
00:29:33.160
these little cubes and we insulate ourselves from nature and we even insulate ourselves from our own
00:29:40.380
bodies. We can alienate ourselves from our own bodies through virtual reality, through social media,
00:29:45.900
through the internet. And so there is an appeal, I think, to get back to something tangible,
00:29:52.480
something old, something sturdy. Now ultimately that won't be enduring because even the physical
00:29:57.980
world, even nature will pass away. It seems a lot sturdier than the fantasy virtual world that many
00:30:04.760
people are living in now. But even this created world will pass away. So when you are looking for
00:30:09.340
something, when you're trying to fill the God-shaped hole in your heart, when you recognize that
00:30:14.080
everybody's got to serve somebody, you've got to go past that. Follow that desire that has led you to
00:30:19.940
the kind of new paganism that's cropping up everywhere. But take it to the place that is
00:30:23.780
enduring. Take it to the source that is outside of this finite world. Take it to him who will not
00:30:32.200
pass away. If you're looking for something interesting to watch, check out our series,
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What We Saw, hosted by storyteller Bill Whittle. Season one is focused on Apollo 11. Now season two of
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What We Saw is in full swing. This time Bill has set his sights on the Cold War and the tension between
00:30:47.200
two superpowers that lasted for 45 years. Episode six picks up with Dwight David Eisenhower's rise
00:30:53.360
to popularity after World War II, his reluctance to become president, and his unexpected anti-military
00:30:59.320
and anti-war stance once he took office, which surprised a lot of people. Bill makes you feel
00:31:04.220
like you were there witnessing history. New episodes of the Cold War have come out every week, but you've
00:31:09.740
got to be a member to see it. Go to dailywire.com slash coldwar to start watching. My favorite comment
00:31:15.860
yesterday is from Nat Palazzo, who says they need to do a game show where you get paid a million
00:31:23.520
dollars to walk through Chicago for 24 hours. A bit like The Running Man. That's a good idea and
00:31:29.160
great for the producers because they'll never have to pay it out because you don't, unless they'll have
00:31:33.400
to pay it to the estate of whoever takes up that challenge. Okay, can we now get to the story that
00:31:38.700
really matters? Enough about what's going on in the elections and in our philosophy and in our schools
00:31:46.560
and no, we've got to get to what really matters. You know, Dylan Mulvaney. Dylan Mulvaney, the face of
00:31:53.860
transgenderism. We didn't do this. Conservatives, we talk about him, but the libs picked this guy. The
00:31:58.400
libs made this guy their spokesman. Conservatives didn't put him on the Bud Light can. Well,
00:32:03.640
Dylan Mulvaney has teamed up with another transgender, transgender identifying activist,
00:32:10.180
Jeffrey Marsh. So he's now teamed up with Dylan Mulvaney. I have not watched this whole thing.
00:32:16.560
Gents, take it away. Do you have any relationship to the concept of girlhood?
00:32:21.800
I absolutely do. I find girlhood to be inspiring. There are a lot of human beings who are girls
00:32:28.760
who transcend what their gender is supposed to be. Yes. And that to me is something I draw strength
00:32:35.080
from and excitement from. Absolutely. And I hope this is the start of a lifelong friendship.
00:32:42.240
What do you think, people? I love you all. Okay. Oh, we got to do my signature. Okay.
00:32:57.320
Two men describing their intimate experiences of girlhood. A thing about which they know nothing.
00:33:09.280
It's so on the nose that you know this is just to troll us. And we've taken the bait. So there it is.
00:33:16.600
We always take the bait. But what's most interesting about this video is not the part that everyone's
00:33:22.940
talking about. Can you believe these two men are talking about girlhood? That's so ridiculous. How
00:33:26.300
crazy. And then we get the more views. Most interesting part about this video is this is
00:33:31.080
Dylan Mulvaney tipping his hand. Dylan Mulvaney has a meticulously crafted image as being just really
00:33:38.400
nice and fun. He's just a really nice, fun guy. And all these, why are all these conservatives
00:33:43.020
being so mean to me? Then he puts on a Broadway show, Rockefeller Center show, where he's just
00:33:48.460
sitting there and he performs this crying routine where he says, well, everyone's so mean to me,
00:33:53.020
but I just want to be my true self. And he assiduously has crafted this character of someone who's just
00:34:00.720
so innocent and vulnerable. And he's not hurting anybody. And he just wants to just be his true
00:34:06.140
self. And it just doesn't. And he takes away all of the references to the really darker sides of
00:34:13.480
transgenderism. But then he does this video with Jeffrey Marsh, whose character is an enactment
00:34:20.780
exclusively of the dark sides of transgenderism, of the wrath that is associated with this kind of
00:34:27.900
movement. We saw some of that wrath last night at my speech, or at my debate, rather, at the University
00:34:32.980
of Pittsburgh. We see the embodiment of licentiousness because the transgender identity
00:34:39.700
is driven largely historically by a sexual fetish. And there's excellent work that's been done on this
00:34:47.020
by Dr. Ray Blanchard and on the subject of what is called autogynephilia. Maybe we'll talk more about
00:34:52.220
that in the future. But Jeffrey Marsh embodies that when he says, hey kids, let's talk to me about sex.
00:34:57.940
The bizarre fascination with children that we've seen from the transgender movement, insisting
00:35:02.500
on pushing these ideas into lower and lower grades, into elementary schools, into the libraries,
00:35:07.600
and bringing kids to the drag shows. Jeffrey Marsh has almost perfectly crafted a character
00:35:15.020
that only focuses on the really, really darkest aspects of transgenderism. And then Dylan Mulvaney
00:35:22.540
does a video with him, which to me is a tipping of the hand. It's a little wink to say, yeah, look,
00:35:27.920
I'm the face of transgenderism, of all of transgenderism. And I know I play this character,
00:35:35.540
this character that I've created. I have a long take on what I think is motivating a lot of Dylan
00:35:41.460
Mulvaney's performances. You can find that on my YouTube channel. But it's that little wink to say,
00:35:46.220
but I know about the dark stuff too. Don't think that just because I do my Audrey Hepburn routine,
00:35:51.400
I know about the dark stuff too. I support that too. Love you, Jeffrey Marsh. See you later.
00:35:59.180
Now, we need a palate cleanser. I need a palate cleanser for Jeffrey Marsh and Dylan Mulvaney. So
00:36:06.380
let's turn away from two men who are wreaking a lot of havoc and damage in our culture. Let's turn
00:36:13.140
to two men who are doing a lot of great stuff in our culture. That would be Tucker and Elon Musk,
00:36:18.080
both of whom have gotten in trouble for this exchange they just had in an interview about
00:36:25.720
layoffs at Twitter. What percentage of your staff did you fire at Twitter? One of the great business
00:36:31.560
stories of the year. I think we're about 20% of the original size. So 80% left? Yes. So...
00:36:40.400
A lot of people voluntarily... Sure, sure. But it's... 80% are gone from the day you took over. That's
00:36:46.600
correct, yes. So how do you run the company with only 20% of the staff? It turns out you don't
00:36:52.340
need all that many people to run Twitter. But 80%? That's a lot. Yes. I mean, if you're not
00:37:00.940
trying to run some sort of glorified activist organization and you don't care that much about
00:37:08.560
censorship, then you can really let go of a lot of people, turns out.
00:37:15.300
And Tucker laughs and Elon is grinning. They say, yeah, we fired or allowed to quit and retire
00:37:24.800
80% of the company. It's just a feed. It's basically like a group text. Twitter is not that complicated.
00:37:32.520
Elon Musk is a guy who builds rockets, who builds very advanced and expensive cars.
00:37:38.680
Twitter doesn't need that kind of manpower unless you're building an activist organization.
00:37:44.240
You see this kind of bloat in the universities. Universities are not teaching any better than
00:37:49.200
they have in the past. They're teaching much worse, actually, than they have in the past.
00:37:52.760
The tuitions are going up in large part not because the universities are hiring more professors
00:37:57.220
or even updating their facilities. It's because they're hiring all of these political activists
00:38:03.100
to serve as deans and deputy deans and deputy vice assistant vice deputy deans of diversity,
00:38:08.800
equity, and inclusion, which is an activist position to insist upon leftist ideology in the
00:38:15.560
classroom and in all of campus life. That's what's bloating the payrolls of the universities.
00:38:20.140
And that's what was happening at Twitter. Elon Musk was not firing the guys who fixed the code.
00:38:27.220
The kinds of people who left when Elon Musk took over and the kinds of people that Elon Musk fired
00:38:31.740
were the political apparatchiks who were figuring out how to boot Donald Trump off of the platform,
00:38:37.700
who were figuring out how to censor conservatives, shadow ban conservatives,
00:38:41.460
ban them entirely. Those were the people. And so Tucker and Elon are in trouble here because
00:38:47.480
they're laughing at people losing their jobs. And the libs are saying, how dare you? Do you not have
00:38:51.120
any compassion? These people, they have families. First of all, I think many of them probably don't
00:38:55.120
have families. I think a lot of them are probably just single millennials and Zoomers whose only
00:39:01.380
raison d'etre in their own minds is to attack conservatives. But they'll say, how dare you
00:39:07.700
laugh when someone loses their job? I'm sympathetic to that take. But the stakes are very high here.
00:39:16.500
These are not, this is not just a private company. This is not even just a kind of involved in
00:39:21.860
politics kind of company. We're talking about a company that is one of three companies that
00:39:26.320
determines speech in the public square. And because we live in a republic, that means this is one of
00:39:32.600
three companies that decides on what the political order is going to look like. 80% of Twitter employees
00:39:41.580
losing their jobs, that's a lot more like a bad president losing re-election than it is like your
00:39:49.480
neighbor losing his job. When your neighbor loses his job, even if you don't really like your
00:39:54.580
neighbor, that's a sad thing. When the bad guy loses the presidential election, that's a very good
00:40:00.660
thing. That's something that you work for because that's going to affect your life. That's political.
00:40:04.620
That's going to affect your whole society. Working at Twitter is a political job. And conservatives need
00:40:14.400
to get a lot tougher about making sure the people who want to suppress us are not allowed to wield power
00:40:22.860
in politics. Great stuff from Elon and Tucker. Before we go, I do want to get to a woman who is
00:40:31.060
identifying as a cat. Take it away. My name is Lindsey Graham and I am a cat. Meow, meow. I'm not a woman
00:40:38.620
dressed as a cat. I am a cat. By show of hands, I'm curious, how many of you believe and confess
00:40:43.720
that I'm a cat? No one. You are right. Why? Because you are not stupid and these children
00:40:50.180
are not stupid. One look at me and you know this to be true. I am a woman posing as a cat.
00:40:56.100
You may also think correctly that if I truly believe I'm a cat, I have a mental disorder.
00:41:00.900
If I suffer from a mental disorder and if I'm unable to discern reality, am I safe to be around
00:41:05.980
children? Would you put me in charge of making critical decisions about the safety and well-being
00:41:10.920
of children and about the direction of their education? But I cannot even discern truth from
00:41:16.040
fiction. No tail, whiskers or outfit makes me a cat. Just like no lipstick, high heels or long hair
00:41:22.960
makes him a woman. If you were to address me as a cat right now, it's as ridiculous as when you say
00:41:29.880
Miss Bixler and a grown man's voice comes thundering. It is. It is. She's exactly right.
00:41:38.520
And this is not some completely crazy example, by the way. This happened in real life. Her
00:41:44.800
identification as a cat was a pretty well-documented phenomenon of a character who called himself
00:41:54.080
Stalking Cat. This was about 20 years ago and he was a deeply troubled man who felt that he was in some
00:41:59.560
deep sense, really a cat. I think he was involved in the furry community and he had lived with some
00:42:05.640
furries. But Stalking Cat had all of these body modifications to look more and more like a cat.
00:42:11.880
He ultimately sadly killed himself because he had all of these mental problems and he was living out
00:42:16.480
of accord with reality. Why is this a bad example? If we point to something like body integrity disorder,
00:42:24.220
which is a disorder that very much like transgenderism can begin at early ages, can set in
00:42:30.380
around age 8 to age 12. It's a defect of perception that says that someone with healthy limbs actually
00:42:38.360
shouldn't have those limbs. So someone wants to cut off a perfectly healthy leg and become an amputee
00:42:43.740
because that will make them feel more like their true self. Like transgenderism, this is often but not
00:42:49.480
always associated with sexual arousal. And like transgenderism, this is an expression of someone's
00:42:56.200
subjective identity that is not tied to reality. Like transgenderism, there are some studies that say
00:43:01.900
that actually the brains of people with this disorder are a little bit different than people
00:43:05.760
who don't have this. It's almost a one-to-one analogy. Do we think that a doctor should cut off the
00:43:15.120
healthy leg of someone who has this failure of perception? No, of course not. Do we think that
00:43:22.580
that woman is a cat? No, of course not. Do we think that stalking cat was a cat? No, of course not. Do we
00:43:28.280
think that it's good for any of these people to pretend that they are amputees or to pretend that
00:43:34.820
they are cats and to change their body to go in accord with that? No, nobody really believes that.
00:43:40.600
It's a very good analogy that the libs don't want us to look at. They say, that's ridiculous. It's not
00:43:46.880
ridiculous. It's happened. And there is a much broader application of this principle in society
00:43:53.840
today. That's called transgenderism. Why is that woman not a cat, but Dylan Mulvaney is a woman?
00:43:59.740
Doesn't make sense. Okay, it's Woke Wednesday. Is it or is it Woke Thursday? What day is it,
00:44:04.860
Mr. Davies? Wednesday. It is Wednesday? What a week, man. It's Woke Wednesday. We've got a Woke TikTok.
00:44:10.600
This week just keeps on coming. This will be an explanation of why we should pump little kids
00:44:17.180
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