Ep. 1237 - America Reacts To Bud Light's Pure Pander Campaign
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Summary
Bud Light is back at it again with a cross-dressing transvestite on a beer can, and sales are plummeting. What's going on, and why is this happening? And what can they do about it?
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It is now one month since Anheuser-Busch decided to destroy its best-selling beer,
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the best-selling beer in America, by sponsoring a particularly offensive transvestite and putting
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his picture on the beer can. Within a week, sales dollars were down 6%. Volume was down 11%.
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But the company thought they could weather the storm by doubling down and refusing to apologize.
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That turned out to be a bad strategy since the numbers continued to fall. The following week,
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sales were down 17% in dollars and a shocking 21% in volume. That was for the week ending April 15th.
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That was when Bud Light decided to reverse course, kind of, by blaming a lower-level executive
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and claiming ignorance at the top and sort of, kind of, but ultimately not really apologizing.
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They released a commercial about horses or something. That didn't work either. And now,
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according to figures reported by Barron's and Bump Williams Consulting, sales volume is down
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more than 26% for the week ending April 22nd. It would have been bad for Anheuser-Busch
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if they had suffered a one-week drop in sales over Dylan Mulvaney. Would have been worse if they'd
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taken a hit and sales didn't get better. But this is the worst outcome of all for Bud Light.
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They took a massive hit, and sales have just kept on collapsing with no end in sight.
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So what are the geniuses over at Bud Light doing now?
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They've released another fence-straddling commercial that says nothing.
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We've got a girl in jean shorts. Got a, like, properly diverse crowd.
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All kind of ethnically ambiguous. But they're in a fun field. Chicken fried. Starting to rain.
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Just a bunch of people walking around in the rain. Easy to drink. Easy to enjoy. Bud Light.
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Used to be easy to drink. Now, not so much. Hey, conservatives, you guys like blue jeans and
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that chicken fried song, right? Yeah, yeah. Show them that. Do that. Maybe put one of the girls in
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a cowboy hat or boots or something. Yeah, those hicks will eat that up. They'll forget about how much
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we support transgenderism. Those rooves, they'll buy anything. Easy to drink. No, we won't. We won't.
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And we definitely won't be buying Bud Light. Anheuser-Busch is pursuing a strategy that many
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a squishy Republican has tried to follow in our increasingly liberal culture. Anheuser-Busch
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wants to stand in the middle of the road. They think the biggest risk to their reputation
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is to pick a side. After all, picking a side with Mulvaney hurt them. And maybe if they'd shut up
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for even three or four days, maybe they could have weathered the boycott better. But the fact is
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they did take a side on a major political issue for which everyone ultimately has to take a side.
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Do women really exist as a real natural category of people or do they not? Bud Light chose the
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opposite side from the one their customers are on. Now they're paying the price. They could fix it
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by apologizing. Just apologize. Just say that you oppose transgenderism and that you support reality.
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That would earn them lots of sales dollars from their customers, from beer drinkers. But it would cost
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them lots of social points with the liberal establishment that runs our political order. And that's a price
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they're not willing to pay. So Bud Light is straddling the fence, dressing and cross-dressing
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in blue jeans and skirts, lukewarm on a fundamental issue, neither hot nor cold, as conservatives spew Bud
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Light out of their mouths. Let it be a lesson to us all. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. There's a beautiful clip from 60 Minutes going around. I don't think 60 Minutes
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intended for the clip to have this effect, but it shows you the cynical reality of the climate change
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movement and all the fear about the end of the world. It totally exposes that movement. We'll get
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to that in one moment. First, though, it's not just Bud Light. It's Disney. This is a story from last week.
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I'm thrilled that I get to report it this week. I don't want to let this one slip through the cracks.
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Disney has cut 15% of entertainment staffers. 15%. Why is that? Well, it's from a report in Bloomberg.
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Disney CEO Bob Iger announced a couple of months ago that Disney was going to have to lay some people off
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as part of a strategic realignment to reduce costs. Why do they have to reduce costs? Because the
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company's stock price has declined 17% over the past year. And Disney viewers, they're not the same
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customers as the Bud Light customers. Apparently, there's some substantial overlap. But you think of
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Bud Light, you think frat boys, construction workers, normal people. Of course, going trans was going to
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affect their sales numbers. But Disney, the adults that I know who like Disney are pretty lib. And
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Disney is mostly made for kids. But kids have parents, and maybe the parents don't like the idea
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of Disney shoving transgenderism down their throat. In any case, 17% down, not good numbers for them.
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How did Disney find themselves in this mess? Well, because the people of Florida passed a simple
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bill that said, hey, teachers, bureaucrats, apparatchiks of the liberal state, we don't want
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you to trans our kids. So you don't get to trans our kids anymore. They passed that through their
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representatives. Disney said, hell yes, we're going to trans your kids. It's the Obedo or O'Rourke line.
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Hell yes. Hell yes, we're going to take your guns and trans your kids. And the parents don't like that.
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And so the parents are not giving Disney their dollars anymore. They're giving their dollars to other
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places. They're giving their dollars to people who are making kids content that is free from all this
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woke craziness. People like Jeremy and the Daily Wire over here. And it shows you a lesson that the
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people are largely on our side. Yes, people who buy the regular old conservative products,
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even the Disney people are on our side. The vast majority of Americans know that transgenderism is
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fake. It's not real. According to Pew Research, 60% of Americans think that your gender just comes
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from your biological sex, and that's all there is to it. I wish that number were higher.
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But the number is moving in the right direction, because two years ago, that number was only 56%.
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And six years ago, that number was only 54%. So a clear majority of Americans think this.
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The numbers are moving in the right direction. And if we just keep that pressure up, as we are doing
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successfully against some of the biggest companies in the country, against the best-selling beer in
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the country, the corporations are going to get that message. And either they'll shape up or what's
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more likely, because even though they want to sell their product, they don't want to irritate the
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Don't forget, Joe Biden doesn't just have the nomination for re-election in 2024. Joe Biden's
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Who's from a very established Democrat family, who's had a long career as an environmental lawyer,
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pursuing all sorts of liberal causes. But he's a little heterodox when it comes to the Democrats.
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He's heterodox on big pharma and vaccines. And he's heterodox on the transgender issue,
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at least to some degree. Bobby Kennedy Jr., running as a Democrat, was just asked what he thinks about
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men competing against women in women's sports. Here's his answer as a Democrat.
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I think that I'm against people participating in women's sports who are biologically male.
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I think women have worked too hard to develop women's sports over the past 30 years. I watched
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it happen, and I don't think that's fair. Of course, totally right. The vast majority of Americans
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agree with RFK Jr. on this. But this is not great for Bobby Kennedy Jr. because his campaign pitch
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is basically that he is a Democrat from the 1960s. He's not a Republican. He's not a conservative.
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He actually is a liberal, and he actually is a Democrat. But he's not a 2023 Democrat.
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He's a Democrat from the 60s who says, we're going to fight the power. We're going to fight the man.
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We want to defuse political power in the country. Democrats from 2023 say, give all your money to
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big pharma and allow big pharma to capture the FDA and to have it be a revolving door so that the
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people who are supposed to be regulating the corporations actually work for the corporations
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and vice versa. Bobby Kennedy has made it one of his big professional missions to stop that sort of
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thing. That doesn't work with the Democrats in 2023. Democrats in 1960s would say, we want women to
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have their own sports, and we want Title IX, and we want Title VII, and we want to protect women as a
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special class. We're feminists. Democrats in 2023 say, what is a woman? I don't know what a woman is.
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Forget about that. No, women don't have the right to their own sports. Women don't have the right to
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their own bathrooms. Women don't have the right to their own employment protections. Actually, when it
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says you have a protection for sex in the civil rights laws, that actually means a protection for
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gender identity, which totally undermines the protections for sex. That's what a 2023 Democrat says.
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But they're both different from what the conservatives say. They're both different from what
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a conservative Republican then or now says. And Bobby Kennedy is going to lose his fight.
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I wish him luck. I hope he really weakens the Democratic Party. I hope he raises uncomfortable
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conversations for them. But it's not going to work for him. And the reason it's not going to work is
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not only that his party is very corrupt and is able to keep out outsiders in these nominating contests,
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but it's also because ideas have a power of their own and ideas will be followed to their logical
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conclusions. You can't just freeze them. That's why when people on either side of the aisle say,
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I want to go back to 1950 or I want to go back to 1970 or I want to go back to this age or that age,
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you can't go back. You can never go back in time. We live in the present. And this world that we're in
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has been formed by the ideas that have predated it. So if you rewind the clock somehow 30, 40 years,
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you're very likely to end up in the same place you are now because the ideas have momentum. They
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have a direction of their own. Bobby Kennedy says, I want to protect women's sports because
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I think what he's implying is because we had the feminist movement that won all these important
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rights and protections for women. Okay. But the feminist movement was predicated on the idea that
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men and women are basically the same. So men and women should not have distinct roles in society
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and private and public life because a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle because there are
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some cosmetic differences, but women and men are pretty much exactly the same. Okay. Well, if women
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and men are pretty much exactly the same, then you're going to get the sexual revolution and you're
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going to get the gay rights movement and you're going to get the redefinition of marriage and you're
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going to get transgenderism and you're going to get transing the kids because that is the logical
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progression of those ideas. And when the ideas come to their logical conclusions and we see how
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absurd those conclusions are, then we can more clearly look back at the origin of those ideas and
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say, huh, looks like they started from pretty mistaken premises, doesn't it? And that's much clearer when
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those ideas have played out. But what you're not going to do is say, okay, well, let's just rewind the
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clock 20, 30 years. That's not going to make any sense. That's not going to persuade anybody. Where is
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the Democrat party on this issue now? They're full steam ahead. They are so far past Bobby Kennedy, it is
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not even funny. It really is not funny because what did we say? What did all the conservatives say? We said
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years ago, well, if you get this sexual revolution stuff, pretty soon they're going to redefine
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marriage. Oh no, that's a slippery slope argument. That's crazy. That's not going to happen. But of
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course they redefine marriage. So, well, if you redefine marriage, then pretty soon you're going to
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have all of these even more eccentric disorder kind of family structures like polyamorous relationships
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and throuples and, oh, Michael, that's crazy. What are you talking about? And then of course,
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that's what we get. And then what happened? The final frontier was pretty soon these guys are going
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to try to establish legal protections for pedophilia. They're going to try to normalize
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pedophilia. Oh, how dare you suggest that? That's out bigoted. That's phobic. How dare you say that?
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Well, I don't know. I mean, we're kind of seeing it in academia. There are some prominent academics now
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who have called for getting rid of the term pedophile and changing it to MAP, minor attracted
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person. And they're arguing that pedophilia is innate. And therefore, because of the premises of
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this modern sexual movement, if something's innate, if a desire comes from birth or in your early years
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of formation, then you can never change it and you can never suppress it. It's wrong to repress your
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desires. And so, you know, we're going to have to normalize this stuff. That's what we're hearing in
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academia. And now it's what we're hearing in politics. Now it's what we're hearing in government.
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A Minnesota trans-identifying Democrat lawmaker. I don't even really have to say Democrat, but
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that's what this guy is. He just tried to alter a bill to protect pedophilia as a sexual orientation.
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Here it is. I've got the text of it right here. Minnesota Statutes 2022, Section 363A03, Subdivision 44
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is amended to read. Subdivision 44, sexual orientation. Sexual orientation means having or being perceived
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as having an emotional, physical, or sexual attachment to another person without regard to the sex of that
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person or having or being perceived as having an orientation for such attachment. Then it goes on,
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or it used to go on. It said, or having or being perceived as having a self-image or identity
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not traditionally associated with one's biological maleness or femaleness. Sexual orientation does not
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include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult. That's what it read. And then this
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Minnesota lawmaker tried to amend this to cross that out. To cross out, hey, no, we don't want that
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bigoted line in there about how sexual orientation does not include a physical or sexual attachment
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to children by an adult. That's so bigoted. That's so phobic. We've got to get rid of that line.
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I'm not making this up. Here it is. It's right here. I've got the text right here.
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This Minnesota state rep is Representative Lee Finke. I don't know what his real name is.
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Lee, L-E-I-G-H, sounds like one of these made-up transgender names. So I don't know. But anyway,
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he's a guy who identifies as a woman. He's a member of the Democratic Farmer Labor Party,
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first self-identified transgender person in the Minnesota legislature,
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and introduced this amendment in the Take Pride Act. So what would it have done? It would have
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protected pedophilia as a sexual orientation, protected from discrimination by the law.
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Now, once this made headlines a few days ago, all of a sudden, the Minnesota legislators,
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even the ones who are generally allied with this guy, said, okay, we got to correct this. So they took
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a vote in the House. They said, okay, we're still opposed to pedophilia, right? And it passed by
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unanimous vote. So even Representative Finke here realized, okay, I got to back off this pedo stuff
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for now. That's good. Glad, glad they all backed off for now. This is the direction it's going in.
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Glad they took decisive action. Bud Light could learn a lesson or two from them.
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You can't take this away. You can't hide the fact that this is the direction they wanted to go in.
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Now, speaking of pedophilia, Governor Ron DeSantis, it would appear to be soon to be presidential
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candidate Ron DeSantis, has come out and pushed for the death penalty for pedophiles in Florida.
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These are really the worst of the worst. And what happens is the perpetrators of these crimes are
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oftentimes serial offenders. And if someone does, one, if they rape a child, like, and these are very
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young, very young children, sometimes like six, seven, eight years old, if they do that once, chances are
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they will do it again, unless they're stopped, unless they're incapacitated. And so we really believe that
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part of a just society is to have appropriate punishment. And so if you commit a crime that is really,
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really heinous, you should have the ultimate punishment. And so what this bill does is it challenges
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the U.S. Supreme Court for recently deciding, probably six or seven years ago, they decided by
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five to four, after over 200 years of our, of our constitution being in place, that somehow you
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could never have capital punishment for crimes like rape.
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And so Ron DeSantis says, we're challenging that now. If you rape a child, pretty much the most
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heinous crime you can imagine, you get the death penalty. Totally agree with that in principle. I
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see no problem with that in principle. I see no problem with the death penalty in principle. In fact,
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I think it's quite natural, biblical. You see it defended by some of the greatest minds in the history of
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the church and not only defended, but even enacted by some of the great popes in history. So there's
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nothing unchristian about it. There's nothing immoral about it. And there's nothing unconstitutional
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about it. In the early days of our country, the definition of a felony was that you would hang for
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it. The death penalty was widely applied, much more widely than it is today. I don't actually agree
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with this particular instantiation of the death penalty in practice. In principle, I do. But in
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practice, the only reason I don't is that as a matter of prudence, if you don't kill child rapists,
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if the punishment is not execution, then it creates some incentive for the rapist not to murder his
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victim. So if there's any way that through the law, we can incentivize a rapist not to murder his victim,
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I think that's probably wise and prudent. In principle, they deserve death, certainly.
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But putting all of that aside for a second, the difference between the law in principle and in
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practice, the main thing about the story that's interesting is what Governor DeSantis was standing
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in front of. He was not standing in front of the flag of the state of Florida. He was not holding a
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regular press conference with some signs behind him. He was standing in front of a big, gigantic American
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flag because he's obviously about to announce his run for president. He is pushing for this
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law that will obviously be almost universally popular. I guess not among the pedo defenders
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and against. And there are some people who are thinking about this issue, I think, in a little more
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of a wise as a serpent, innocent as a dove kind of way, who are talking about the actual practical
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effects. But broadly speaking, execute pedos is a very popular campaign slogan. And so putting the
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meat of the law aside for a second, what this is signaling is this guy is moving full steam ahead
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Yeah, of course it's horrific. It's horrific when five people are murdered and especially when one
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of them is a little child. Why won't you comment on it? The government comments on all sorts of tragic
00:25:44.100
cases. That was his excuse. He says, I'm not going to comment on it. It's a tragic case. The government
00:25:50.200
doesn't comment on terror attacks. The government doesn't comment on crime. The government doesn't
00:25:53.900
comment on, government sure commented a lot on the January 6th insurrection. We were told that
00:25:59.280
was absolutely tragic. They don't stop commenting on that. But a murder that would appear to be
00:26:04.300
preventable, easily preventable, you won't comment on the question of whether or not the murder was
00:26:11.100
preventable? Well, I don't know. I'm not going to comment if he was an illegal alien or not. Well,
00:26:15.520
I don't know. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency has confirmed that the killer
00:26:21.820
was deported four times between 2009 and 2016. So look, I'm no expert, no criminologist,
00:26:29.500
no immigration expert. It would seem to me if a guy's deported four times, probably he's an illegal
00:26:34.640
alien, wouldn't you say? Oh, we can't comment on that. Why can't they comment? Because if they say,
00:26:41.820
yes, he was an illegal alien, that means that this administration has blood on its hands because
00:26:45.920
this administration has welcomed illegal aliens. They've encouraged illegal aliens to cross the
00:26:52.780
border. The Democratic Party has done that. It's not just Biden's fault. They've done that for decades
00:26:56.680
now because they think it gives them an electoral advantage. And in fact, it does.
00:27:01.620
But one of the consequences of that is you get gangsters from Latin America who come in and murder
00:27:06.580
people. And when that happens, then the federal government don't know nothing. Democrats,
00:27:13.880
we can't comment on that. That's tragic. That's one reason. The other explanation,
00:27:18.960
I'm trying to be as charitable as I can towards Secretary Mayorkas. The other explanation is that
00:27:24.380
they just don't know. That's just as big an indictment of the government as if they did know
00:27:30.420
and encouraged the illegal behavior. You don't know. You got this guy. He's committed a terrible
00:27:37.320
crime. Now you've got his information and you can't tell. You can't even tell if the guy's a
00:27:43.900
foreign national or an American citizen or here legally. What an indictment of our immigration
00:27:49.440
system. In any case, it means that practically speaking, the U.S. doesn't have borders. And why
00:27:54.240
doesn't the U.S. have borders? Either because of the incompetence of Democrats or because of the
00:28:00.500
malicious intent. And it would appear to me to be the latter. The White House is even worse on this.
00:28:06.460
The White House was asked about this easily preventable tragedy that they have just chosen
00:28:13.020
not to prevent. And here is Karine Jean-Pierre's answer. On Friday evening, a nine-year-old child was
00:28:20.400
murdered along with four others in yet another shocking, horrific act of gun violence in America,
00:28:26.500
this time in Cleveland, Texas. Two of the women killed were discovered on top of surviving children
00:28:33.100
and appear to be shielding them from gunfire. From the guns. It's the guns. Of course, it's always the
00:28:39.900
guns. Does anybody buy this? I don't think anybody buys this. I don't even think most Democrats buy this.
00:28:48.400
That it was the guns. A lot of people have guns in America. A lot of people have guns.
00:28:58.320
The legal gun owners don't commit these crimes. This guy, Oropesa, he was not a legal gun owner.
00:29:09.160
He did not have any right to have a gun. He didn't have any right to be in the country.
00:29:12.860
He'd been deported a number of times. He'd obviously committed a number of crimes.
00:29:16.760
He clearly obtained his gun through illegal means. And so the White House solution to that,
00:29:23.760
we've got to take guns away from law-abiding Americans. Does anybody believe that?
00:29:29.620
This is like when the Democrats always try to blame the AR-15. They say, well, what we need to do,
00:29:35.260
we need to ban the AR-15. Forget about handguns for a second, which are used in the vast majority of
00:29:39.320
gun-related murders. No, no, we've got to, forget about even other rifles and shotguns. We've just
00:29:45.920
got to get rid of the AR-15. Why? Well, because guns today are so much more lethal than they used
00:29:51.900
to be. No, they're not. Guns haven't actually changed all that much in the last century.
00:29:57.860
And in many ways, the common guns that people are able to purchase in ordinary circumstances
00:30:02.920
are less lethal. Back in the early 20th century, gangsters and mafiosi were using Tommy guns,
00:30:11.720
using fully automatic guns to murder people. Now it's very, very difficult to obtain those guns.
00:30:18.780
The AR-15 is much less lethal than a Tommy gun, some kind of belt-fed, fully automatic machine gun.
00:30:24.700
So it's not the guns. It's the criminals that you are encouraging to enter our country. But it's
00:30:31.680
amazing when you encourage violent criminals whose first action in America is to commit a crime
00:30:37.780
just by definition, just by the way of entering. It's amazing that then when that happens,
00:30:42.740
crime goes up. Isn't that crazy? Who could have seen that one coming?
00:30:44.860
Now, speaking of bad prosecutors, there's a prosecutor in Florida, a state attorney,
00:30:53.960
one of these George Soros-funded attorneys, which is a really brilliant political strategy by Soros
00:31:01.880
in particular. Other Democrats are filling in as well. Other libs are filling in. But Soros has
00:31:06.520
really pioneered this, and he has such influence as probably the preeminent Democrat funder in America.
00:31:12.620
Soros decided, okay, I'm not going to focus on the big ticket races. I'm going to focus on these
00:31:17.080
low-level races where you don't need a lot of money to get a prosecutor installed. And then what the
00:31:21.280
prosecutor is going to do is not prosecute the criminals. And then you're going to get chaos on
00:31:25.000
the streets, and you're going to get an upending of society. So you got one of these people,
00:31:31.380
Monique Worrell, state attorney for Florida's 9th Judicial District.
00:31:35.680
She now is saying that Governor DeSantis is going to remove her from office as soon as this week.
00:31:43.920
Why? Well, because preventable deaths are occurring because of what she is doing and what she is not
00:31:51.660
doing. DeSantis earlier this year pointed out that Keith Moses, 19-year-old, was allowed onto the
00:31:59.360
streets by this prosecutor. Then Moses is accused of shooting five people, murdering three people,
00:32:07.280
including a nine-year-old, Tiana Major, and a 38-year-old, and a 24-year-old.
00:32:13.980
This guy, Moses, had been arrested multiple times for felonious crimes. Now, you might say,
00:32:19.720
well, okay, maybe he was arrested before this state attorney was placed into office.
00:32:24.560
Yeah, he was. But then he also came up. He was arrested when she was in office. He was arrested
00:32:31.400
on a drug and gun charge, and she let him go. And then he went out, allegedly, and he murdered three
00:32:38.600
people, including a nine-year-old girl. And now DeSantis, it would appear, is going to remove her
00:32:44.520
from office. Liberals are crying about it. And some of the squishes, I think, are going to say, well,
00:32:50.520
no, listen, we have a process here. We have a process. We can't just be using our political
00:32:56.300
power to remove the people we don't like from office. That's not, that's not very conservative
00:33:02.140
of you, is it? Why not? Why not? Is this just a fun little game that we're going to play until
00:33:15.060
conservatives inevitably lose? Is politics just about writing laments, elegies on the
00:33:23.720
decline of Western civilization? Oh, how sad, how wonderful things used to be. Is it just about
00:33:30.240
book reviews? Is it just about angry tweets? Is it just about, oh, there we go again,
00:33:37.340
throwing our hands in the air and sighing? Or are we in politics to win and improve things?
00:33:46.540
Which is it? Many people in the conservative movement feel much better about the former.
00:33:55.280
They feel much more comfortable doing the former sort of thing. Oh, yes, I'm going to write an essay
00:34:00.320
about how this was all predictable. Yes, I'm going to write some cultural commentary on some new hip-hop
00:34:08.420
album or something like that. Ah, yes, there we go. But we're supposed to lose. It was ever thus.
00:34:15.780
Many people feel comfortable with that. I'm not. Wield the power. Wield it urgently. Good stuff. I hope
00:34:22.760
DeSantis follows through on this. It's the best move that he could do for his presidential campaign.
00:34:27.880
DeSantis' best bet right now is not to out-charm Trump. It won't happen. His best bet right now
00:34:34.820
is not to even differentiate himself on policy. That matters somewhat, but they're pretty much
00:34:40.220
running in the same lane. The best bet for DeSantis right now is to convince people that he is able
00:34:44.760
to wield power effectively and say that I can wield power effectively and Trump can't do it as
00:34:49.080
effectively, so vote for me. One great way to do that would be to fire prosecutors like this lady.
00:34:54.400
Okay, what about the Democrat side? What's going to happen? Is Bobby Kennedy going to win?
00:35:01.360
Is Marianne Williamson going to win? What happens in the general? Biden gets the nomination. Is Biden
00:35:06.360
going to win? Is Trump going to win? Is DeSantis going to get the nomination? He's going to win.
00:35:10.380
Here's what a former opponent of Joe Biden's, Bernie Sanders, has to say about Biden's chances.
00:35:16.800
When we live in a nation where you have a major political party, the Republican Party,
00:35:22.320
where many, not all, but many of their leadership doesn't even believe in democracy. They maintain
00:35:28.020
the myth that Trump won the last election. They're trying to keep people from voting. They're trying
00:35:32.440
to deny women the right to control their own bodies. So that's a whole issue out there.
00:35:37.980
If you believe in democracy, you want to see more people vote, not fewer people vote. I think the
00:35:42.960
choice is pretty clear, and that choice is Biden. And second of all, what I do believe is the
00:35:48.240
Democrats and the president have got to be stronger on working class issues. They've got to make it
00:35:53.440
clear that we believe in a government that represents all, not just the few. Take on the
00:35:58.360
greed of the insurance companies, the drug companies, Wall Street, all the big money interest,
00:36:02.960
and start delivering for working class people. You do that, I think Biden is going to win in a
00:36:07.200
landslide. That's kind of a big if, wouldn't you say? Now, listen here. I think it's very clear
00:36:14.060
that if Joe Biden completely goes against everything that he's ever fought for for his
00:36:19.480
entire career, if Joe Biden completely flips his party's platform on its head and takes a party that
00:36:25.360
is completely beholden to all of the big corporate interests and takes a party and a platform that is
00:36:30.560
completely doing the bidding of the plutocrats of society and just does totally the opposite of
00:36:35.140
that. Then he'll win in a landslide. If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a wagon. If my
00:36:40.960
aunt had gullions, she would be my uncle. That's all Biden has to do. He just has to be the opposite
00:36:48.600
of Joe Biden. Okay, well, we'll see if he can do it. We'll see if that even matters. My favorite comment
00:36:54.960
yesterday is from Noah, who says, when you don't know if you are at the DNC or SatanCon, you are in the
00:37:02.320
year 2023. The thought occurred to me, and I'm not just saying it to throw bombs or be hyperbolic
00:37:08.740
in my rhetoric. What's the difference between SatanCon, allegedly the largest gathering of
00:37:17.440
Satanists in American history that took place in Boston over the weekend, and the Democrat National
00:37:25.400
Convention, what's really the difference? What did SatanCon support? SatanCon had lectures on how
00:37:35.320
wonderful abortion is, raised money for abortion, considered abortion to be a sacred right, R-I-T-E.
00:37:43.400
The Democrats do exactly the same thing. The DNC will exalt abortion as the same sort of sacred right,
00:37:49.960
R-I-G-H-T. Both of them view it as both kinds of right. The SatanCon talked about the importance
00:37:59.240
of transgenderism and the transgender identity, elevated that to a sacred matter for the Satanists.
00:38:07.480
The Democrat National Convention, exactly the same thing. You might say, well, they look a little
00:38:12.940
different. Do they look different? Yeah, at SatanCon, they had all sorts of pentagrams and
00:38:18.700
Baphomet imagery and claws and creepy occult symbolism. The same can be said of Biden's
00:38:25.800
White House. You remember the guy, the deputy monkeypox czar? I forget his name. He had the
00:38:30.380
Greek name. The guy who took pictures of himself wearing leather harnesses in the shape of a pentagram
00:38:36.280
on top of the pentagram tattoo on his chest. The guy was dressed up exactly the same way as the
00:38:44.080
people at SatanCon. Remember Sam Brinton, who got booted because he stole too many dresses and
00:38:49.160
pieces of jewelry out of women's luggage at the airport? Do you remember the kind of imagery that
00:38:54.680
that guy would photograph himself in? He would take part in public profiles. He was so proud of this.
00:39:01.480
Images of him leading men around by the collar as the men were wearing all sorts of weird leather,
00:39:07.820
occult looking, 50 shades of gray kind of satanic vibe clothing. Exactly the same kind of clothing
00:39:14.880
you would see at SatanCon. What's the difference? Well, the difference is
00:39:20.820
at one of them, you can write it off as a group of freaks. At the other one, it's the liberal
00:39:29.580
establishment that controls the political order of the country. Principalities and powers,
00:39:32.960
spiritual wickedness in high places. Speaking of false religion,
00:39:40.180
I've long suspected, as you have long suspected, that the global warming climate change movement is
00:39:47.500
not really about protecting the natural environment. That actually the movement is just about totally
00:39:53.480
restructuring our political economy and the way that we view ourselves and our relationship to the
00:39:57.760
world and our relationship to the state. 60 Minutes, I think probably accidentally,
00:40:06.260
seemed to prove that. And they seem to prove that on the issue of carbon capture. So there's technology
00:40:11.320
that can go up into the atmosphere and just take the carbon out of the atmosphere. The fear is that
00:40:16.540
there's too much carbon into the atmosphere. That's why when you buy an airplane ticket,
00:40:19.700
they offer you the opportunity to pay more money and offset your carbon somehow. What do they do?
00:40:24.840
They say they plant a tree or something. But what does it really mean? Well, we're going to figure
00:40:29.560
out a way to reduce the amount of carbon relative to the atmosphere. Okay. Well, now we have technology
00:40:34.960
to do that. So if we've got the technology to just go up and take that carbon down, then why do we need
00:40:41.340
to drive less and get rid of our gas stoves and get rid of our cars and stop moving and stop building?
00:40:47.500
And we don't have to do any of that because the technology will fix it for us. The climate change
00:40:51.220
movement says, not so fast. You fear that people will think, oh, well, we can now clean the air.
00:41:01.640
We can just take the CO2 out of the air so we can carry on with business as usual.
00:41:08.300
All the time. Yeah. But that's not how it works. We must stop the emissions and wean ourselves off of
00:41:15.320
fossil fuels. That's what we need to do right now. On top of that, we also must take down
00:41:21.480
the carbon that we've already put up in the atmosphere. Only then will we reach our climate
00:41:26.880
goals. So carbon capture can never be an excuse for continuing business as usual.
00:41:35.820
But it's that business as usual that critics are warning against as direct air capture expands to
00:41:42.820
the U.S. That's because here, oil companies are one of the technology's biggest boosters.
00:41:49.260
They have been capturing CO2 to inject into oil wells for decades, not to bury it, but to flush out more oil.
00:41:57.160
So why can't we continue business as usual? Why do we have to stop all the emissions?
00:42:09.020
Why does carbon capture technology, which solves the problem that this guy is supposedly so worried
00:42:16.060
about, why does that solution terrify this man and keep him up at night? Because it is not the case
00:42:25.860
that we can't continue business as usual because of the dire threat of the sun monster and climate
00:42:32.500
change. We have to fear the sun monster and climate change so that we don't continue business as usual.
00:42:42.000
It's totally backwards. This is the same reason that the libs oppose nuclear energy. Nuclear energy,
00:42:48.980
which is relatively safe, extremely efficient, and relatively very, very clean.
00:42:57.300
Why would they oppose that? Well, because then we get to just keep up business as usual.
00:43:04.220
And what the libs fear is not carbon. What the libs fear is not the melting of the ice caps and the
00:43:11.640
rising of the sea levels that's going to happen any day now, folks, and the catastrophic end of the
00:43:17.740
world in 12 years. That's not what they fear. What they fear is allowing society to continue
00:43:22.240
in a relatively normal way. That's what keeps them up at night. No, we can't have carbon. No,
00:43:28.420
the carbon capture, that's not an excuse to stop, to continue emitting carbon. Why not? Because I said
00:43:36.160
so, damn it. Okay, well, that's not a good, that's not a good explanation at all. Not a good
00:43:43.740
explanation in the least. Now, speaking of that party establishment, got to get to a guy. He is
00:43:52.480
an NBC senior reporter. He's very, very upset. This is a guy who went after me pretty aggressively
00:43:59.240
after my CPAC speech when the liberal press were lying about what I said and twisting my words because
00:44:07.040
they knew that what I said was obviously true. They knew that it was resonating with a lot of people.
00:44:11.540
And so in order to attack me and to call the violent mob out against me, they had to lie about
00:44:16.460
what I said and libel me. And then a little late, they got calls from their lawyers, I think, and
00:44:21.840
realized they had to change the words because even under the very high standard for libel in the United
00:44:26.700
States, today, I think they realized, oh, yikes, we could be in some legal trouble here. So they
00:44:30.560
changed it, but the story was already out there. So one of these guys was Ben Collins over at NBC.
00:44:35.200
He's a senior reporter at NBC. And Ben Collins is very upset because in Florida now, parents,
00:44:45.500
through their elected representatives, have decided that they don't want their kids being exposed to
00:44:50.740
gay porn in an elementary school. And that's very upsetting to Ben Collins. So Ben Collins tweets
00:44:59.160
out, he says, they are literally stripping shelves bare of books at public schools in Florida.
00:45:06.180
And we're still getting absolutely brain dead takes like this one by editorial pages of newspapers in
00:45:12.480
2023. Grow up and talk to your actual reporters about what's really going on. He was saying this
00:45:18.020
in response to a Washington Post piece about how universities are pushing back on censorious students.
00:45:24.780
First of all, the word censorious is often misused in our culture. Censorious means to be sharply
00:45:29.740
critical of something. It doesn't mean just to censor something or stifle speech. That's a minor
00:45:35.420
point. I digress. Ben Collins is very upset. They're literally stripping shelves bare. Well,
00:45:41.480
what books are they taking off the shelves? What was the point of this law? They're taking books off
00:45:47.020
the shelves that teach false things about history, sex, race, reality, all that. So that teach false
00:45:58.220
things that would harm students' education. And mostly what this is about is taking books off the
00:46:05.300
shelves that are pornographic and obscene and specifically and especially gay porn like Gender
00:46:12.840
Queer by Maya Kababi, which you can find throughout public schools in the United States and which
00:46:19.580
constitutes very obscene, very gay porn. And Barrett said, we don't want our eight-year-olds being
00:46:25.880
exposed to this. And Ben Collins says, this is so, this is so terrible. Why? Why do these people who are
00:46:34.800
not just fringe lunatics, but, well, even if they are kind of fringy lunatics, they have positions of
00:46:40.340
prominence within the liberal establishment. They're senior reporters at NBC. Why are they so
00:46:45.680
hell-bent on exposing your kids, your little tiny kids, to gay porn in the public schools?
00:46:52.660
What's that about? That's kind of weird, wouldn't you say? And what they respond to this with is
00:47:01.140
they'll say, it's not just about this book, Gender Queer. Most of them feign ignorance about the
00:47:06.600
genderqueer book. Say it's not, look at the shelves are bare in some places. To which I say, man, what
00:47:12.760
the hell was on those shelves? If you have to go in, if there's a law in Florida that says no more gay
00:47:19.380
porn in the elementary schools, and then all of a sudden there are bare shelves in your elementary
00:47:22.920
school library, then you got to ask yourself, man, what on earth was in this library before the law was
00:47:30.520
passed? Thank goodness the governor and the state legislators and the parents who impelled them to
00:47:36.380
do so had the wisdom to help the kids here. What kind of an education are they getting? Now, speaking
00:47:46.820
of what kids are being exposed to, Mr. Davies has a new children's trailer for me to watch. Can't wait.
00:47:53.620
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