Former Marine Jordan Neely was shot and killed on a New York City subway train last week. Libs are calling the killing justified, Conservatives are calling it justified. The issue hinges on whether Neely posed a real threat to people on the train.
00:07:01.840What do you mean, historically, that's true?
00:07:03.420Oh, I don't know, for like the last million years, I think it's true that stars basically get to do whatever they want, and women throw themselves at stars?
00:07:25.720This is leadership in an age such as ours.
00:07:31.060In a more civilized age, maybe this would not be leadership.
00:07:34.120In a more civilized age, this might be considered crass and crude and unbecoming of a statesman.
00:07:41.160But in an age such as ours, where the political class is so corrupt, where they're going after this guy on a campaign donation to his own campaign six, seven years ago, which was totally legal, wasn't even a misdemeanor, and they're trying to pretend it was a felony.
00:07:57.340In that kind of age, where they spy on his campaign, and they pretend that he's colluding with the Russians, then that doesn't work.
00:08:02.740They pretend he's colluding with the Ukrainians, then that doesn't work.
00:08:05.320They're pretending he raped a woman in 1993 or something.
00:08:08.120In an age that is so transparently corrupt, the only response to the predations of this political class is to mock them.
00:12:19.900But there is a new poll out from Washington Post-ABC News, take it with whatever grain of salt you want, that Donald Trump is up seven points.
00:12:27.640Not up seven points over DeSantis, up seven points over Joe Biden.
00:12:32.940Poll shows 49% of respondents said they would definitely or probably vote for Trump against Biden, or that they lean toward voting for Trump, whereas Biden in such a scenario only gets 42%.
00:12:42.940Now, they polled the same question with DeSantis.
00:12:46.680Curiously, DeSantis doesn't do as well as Trump.
00:13:26.140So then what the DeSantis campaign will have to do is pivot.
00:13:29.460And the DeSantis campaign will have to be less about electability.
00:13:32.340And the DeSantis campaign will have to be less about ideological purity or precision or sophistication.
00:13:40.280What the DeSantis campaign then has to become about is effectiveness at wielding power in office.
00:13:45.700If it looks like any Republican nominee is going to beat Biden, which, again, I'm very skeptical of all of these polls.
00:13:53.160I'm skeptical of the way that elections are now conducted in this country.
00:13:57.260But let's say that the Republican can beat Biden.
00:14:00.760Then the argument for DeSantis has to be, I will wield power more effectively than Trump is able to wield power.
00:14:06.960And it's a hard argument to make because there is some empirical basis for it.
00:14:11.080You can look at what he's done in Florida, but a lot of it's going to be unknown because the federal government's different than Florida.
00:14:16.060And in that case, if that's what the election becomes about, then the election is going to hinge on things like DeSantis' fight with Disney.
00:14:23.500Looked like DeSantis beat Disney, then it looked like Disney beat DeSantis.
00:14:48.040Speaking of the transgender issue, which no one can ever shut up about,
00:14:54.240there's a video going viral of a guy explaining why there really is a genocide against transgender people, quote unquote.
00:15:03.880Now you remember, after I gave my CPAC speech a month or two ago, there was the claim that I was calling for genocide.
00:15:10.100And this was part of the broader genocide against the transgender people.
00:15:13.480And obviously the only way they could make that argument was by rewriting what I said and rewriting what lots of other people said and making up a bunch of nonsense.
00:15:20.620But here is the quantitative argument for why there is a transgenocide.
00:15:29.300Please stop misusing the word genocide. It's offensive to Jewish people.
00:15:34.580Yes, here's the thing, though. I'm not misusing the word.
00:15:37.320Transgender people are facing an act of genocide right now.
00:15:41.260The laws that are being passed against my community right now are absolutely directly responsible for the astronomical unaliving rate that we have.
00:15:49.42052% of trans people last year considered unaliving.
00:15:53.740Sidebar, I've noticed this weird euphemism popping up, unaliving.
00:16:02.060Instead of saying killing or suicide or something, they say unaliving.
00:16:06.440And at first I thought it was just this kind of dark, kind of cutesy euphemism.
00:16:13.520But I've noticed it popping up more and more now.
00:16:16.860And I wonder if it's just part of the broader project of political correctness or wokeness or whatever you want to call it, of using euphemisms for everything, including now suicide.
00:16:28.340Even when they're trying to make an argument.
00:16:29.820It's a little bit of a sidebar in the way that the libs use language to deny reality.
00:16:33.540And obviously this guy is especially using language to deny reality because he pretends to be a woman and he pretends that people can change their sex.
00:16:39.520But what he says is 52% of people, of trans people, considered suicide last year.
00:16:53.18041% of transgender identifying people attempt suicide.
00:16:58.500That's one of the arguments against transgenderism.
00:17:02.180Transgenderism which, even if you're a big supporter of transgenderism, you have to say it's a social contagion.
00:17:08.340It is a little strange how the numbers of trans identifying people have exploded in recent years, especially among younger kids who are being indoctrinated into this.
00:17:18.300Unless you believe there's something in the water turning the frogs gay, you have to believe this is a social contagion.
00:17:22.820And if it's a social contagion, we should try to contain it.
00:17:26.400But you're not allowed to say that because we're supposed to tell people now that transgenderism is wonderful.
00:17:31.200If you come out and you're a man and you pretend to be a woman, you're going to be so happy, you're going to be euphoric.
00:17:35.760But this guy's admitting, no, the numbers don't bear that out.
00:17:38.46052% of trans identifying people considered killing themselves.
00:19:08.940Whatever you want to blame that on, the one thing you can't blame that on is, quote-unquote, transphobia.
00:19:15.380Because transphobia, quote-unquote, has plummeted.
00:19:19.340And the suicidality has remained the same or gone up a little bit, which tells you that the suicidality and the anxiety and the depression, as borne out by other social scientific surveys, and more importantly, is borne out by philosophy and your common sense in your head.
00:19:34.660And the suicidality and all of that comes from transgender identity itself.
00:19:43.580And it's intrinsic to it because it's out of accord with reality.
00:19:47.740And when you live according to lies, and when you go to great lengths to live according to lies, and when you mutilate yourself based on lies, and when you sterilize yourself based on lies, and when you chop off parts of your body that are very dear to you based on lies,
00:20:00.600you're going to be depressed because even if you have a slight euphoria in the moment, just as you might from any disordered activity that tickles you in a certain way,
00:20:13.300once that feeling passes, you are going to be left with the undeniable reality that you have radically changed your life for the worse because of a lie.
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00:23:29.200But they didn't quite go far enough to earn back the support of the conservatives who actually bought their beer.
00:23:35.000They've just gone far enough to irritate the leftists and the pro-LGBT people who have been buying Bud Light in protest of the conservatives, not buying Bud Light in protest of transgenderism.
00:23:47.920So Bud Light, yet again, has made the worst decision available to it.
00:24:25.380Say all two Bears Tavern Group bars are discontinuing Anheuser-Busch InBev products as a result of the Brewers' anti-transgender actions and statements.
00:24:34.340Their response, quote, shows how little Anheuser-Busch cares about the LGBTQIA plus community.
00:24:40.440And in particular, transgender people who have been under unrelenting attack in this country.
00:25:00.020So, okay, your second course of action, the only one that can help you right now, is you need to come out firmly and strongly against transgenderism, against the whole preposterous ideology.
00:25:11.300You will never win over the LGBT LMNOP people.
00:25:15.640There aren't enough of them to sustain your beer company, first of all.
00:25:19.340Second of all, the ideology is completely out of step with reality.
00:25:24.460And so you're going to alienate the broader public that does not have this particular pathology.
00:25:31.620But three, if you stand in the middle of the road, you are going to get hit by a truck.
00:25:37.060There is no way to avoid this particular issue.
00:25:40.360Certain political issues, you can avoid them.
00:25:42.220As I made clear in my CPAC speech, which set the whole liberal establishment spinning, this is one of those issues where you can't.
00:25:49.120Either women have bathrooms or they don't.
00:25:51.080This is one of those fundamental issues.
00:25:53.920And the loving, compassionate, truthful, smart business decision kind of response that you can give here is,
00:28:56.540Then even the coronation of a pretty liberal guy who pals around with Klaus Schwab, who has kooky religious views, who has all his problems.
00:29:07.640In that world, it seems to me a conservative has to celebrate the maintenance of some kind of tradition on a chair that's, what, 700 years old or something like that in Westminster Abbey,
00:29:18.440which has hosted every crowning of a king going back to the Norman Conquest, it gives you something to hold on to.
00:29:28.940And that's, I think, what we're grappling with in our political order.
00:33:35.340That's why he had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race.
00:33:39.600It's not even that he's intentionally, I think, trying to undermine the truth.
00:33:44.080I think he just doesn't care about the truth.
00:33:45.440So he just makes up everything about hairy legs and corn pop and his dad applauding at gay guys kissing on the streets of Scranton and Delaware.
00:33:51.620And all over the place in 1942 or whatever.
00:34:16.700If he understood the ways of this world, don't you think he'd be able to maintain?
00:34:21.460The decent economy, not have record high inflation and an energy crisis and the economy just collapsing all around him?
00:34:28.100Don't you think he would be able to work out some kind of deal in the Ukraine war and in the Middle East and in China and prevent the outbreak of World War III, which we seem to be on the brink of?
00:34:40.180Don't you think he'd be able to work out some deal at the border such that we don't have 10,000 plus people a day pouring over?
00:34:47.400He's not even wise in the way of the world.
00:35:05.640The more you know about the profound things, the more you're going to understand even the shallowness and corruption of this world.
00:35:13.900And if you don't understand the profound things and you don't even show an interest in it, then you're going to be suckered in by the deceptions of this world.
00:35:22.920People are noticing this kind of stuff.
00:43:29.760So if somebody called me he or she or her or something, it wouldn't bother me.
00:43:35.620My epistemology suggests that I can know things for sure and that reality is not contingent on what people say.
00:43:45.480The libs, and especially the pro-trans libs, they believe that reality is simply constituted by what everybody says.
00:43:54.140And that's why you've got to force everybody to comply.
00:43:56.500That's why, especially for the good of these people, we've got to stop that.
00:44:04.740And even more important than grounding society on biological sex, we need to ground it on a sound epistemology that says we really can know things about reality.