Ep. 1243 - My Response To Dylan Mulvaney's ＂Angry＂ Comment
Summary
A Manhattan jury has officially found President Trump guilty of sexual assault, and it s a little bit confusing because the jury s verdict contradicts itself and because the plaintiff s claims have changed quite a lot over the four years since she made the allegation about the incident which she says occurred 27 or 28 years ago.
Transcript
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A Manhattan jury has officially found President Trump guilty of sexual assault, sort of.
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It's a little bit confusing because the jury's verdict contradicts itself and because the
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plaintiff's claims have changed quite a lot over the four years since she made the allegation
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about the incident which she says occurred 27 or 28 years ago. I say 27 or 28 because she can't
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quite remember which year the alleged rape occurred. According to E. Jean Carroll, sometime
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in the mid-90s, Donald Trump raped her in a dressing room of the luxury department store
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Bergdorf Goodman, a scenario that coincidentally was the plot of an episode of Law & Order SVU
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seven years before Carroll first published her allegation. I will spare you the graphic wording,
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but suffice it to say, according to that allegation, Donald Trump did not merely grope
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or molest her in some way, but perpetrated a full-on rape. Shortly after making the accusation,
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though, during an appearance on Anderson Cooper, E. Jean Carroll seemed to walk back her claim,
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simultaneously claiming that Trump did not rape her and also that rape is sexy.
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You don't feel like a victim. I was not thrown on the ground and ravished, which the word rape
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carries so many sexual connotations. This was not, this was not sexual. It just, it hurt. It just,
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what, it just, you know. I think most people think of rape as a, I mean, it is a violent
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assault. It is not. I think most people think of rape as being sexy. Let's take a short break.
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Think of the fantasies. We're just going to take a quick break. If you can stick around,
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we'll talk more on the other side. You're fascinating to talk to.
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Fascinating. But now, in a civil suit that was allowed long after the expiration of the statute
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of limitations because of a 2022 law passed in New York, Carroll returned to alleging rape. Trump,
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for his part, since day one, has maintained that the incident never happened and he refused to appear
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or present any evidence during the trial. So yesterday, the jury seemed to agree with Trump.
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The jury did not find Trump liable on the charge of rape, which is what Carroll alleged,
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but did find him liable on a lesser charge of sexual assault and ordered him to pay millions of
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dollars in damages. In other words, the jury concluded that Trump's accuser lied about his
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raping her, but did not lie about his sexually assaulting her sometime around 1996 or maybe 1995.
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Who knows? And anyway, he owes her five million bucks for saying he didn't rape her as the jury
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concluded. Fascinating. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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no, it's his generation. Dylan Mulvaney goes on the attack about my comments about my alleged call to
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eradicate and exterminate and commit genocide on people, which the mainstream media talked about
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and the podcast host that Dylan Mulvaney was being interviewed by, we're talking about. So we will get
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into Dylan Mulvaney's attacks on me, for me attacking the ideology of transgenderism for,
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I don't know, we'll go three layers deeper on Inception. First, though, really big news in the
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media, and that would be Tucker Carlson is back. Hey, it's Tucker Carlson. You often hear people say
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the news is full of lies, but most of the time that's not exactly right. Much of what you see on
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television or read the New York Times is in fact true in the literal sense. It could pass one of the
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media's own fact checks. Lawyers would be willing to sign off on it. In fact, they may have.
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But that doesn't make it true. It's not true. At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie,
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a lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose,
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along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated. Amazingly, as of tonight,
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there aren't many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world,
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the only one is Twitter, where we are now. Starting soon, we'll be bringing a new version
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of the show we've been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter. We bring some other things
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too, which we'll tell you about. But for now, we're just grateful to be here. Free speech is the main
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right that you have. Without it, you have no others. See you soon.
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So the context here is not just that, okay, Tucker's going to start streaming on Twitter.
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The context is that Tucker is going to break his contract with Fox News. Fox took him off the air.
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Fox didn't exactly fire him. He's still being paid millions and millions and millions of dollars.
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Reports are that he is still owed out about $26 million on his Fox contract,
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which he's willing to break to go on and bring you the news and the reports that you're not seeing
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on other shows on the one platform that will allow you to do it. That would be Twitter.
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Talked yesterday about the plan of the liberal establishment to shut this guy up. It's not just
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Fox News. It's the advertisers. It's all of these colluding forces who really want to shut Tucker up
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because Tucker gave a different perspective, not just different from the left, but different from
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many people on the right. That's why the libs focused on him so much. So the question we asked
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yesterday was, does this mean Tucker is just going to be silenced through 2024? And I don't know,
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maybe he listened to the show because he gave the answer like five or six hours later. He said,
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we will not be silenced. We're coming back. We're going to be here on Twitter. This is big news,
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not just because Tucker's voice is extraordinarily important in public discourse, but it's important
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because this could end cable news. I don't think that's hyperbolic at all. Tucker was the biggest
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name in cable news, not just on Fox, but all of cable news, not just now, but ever. He's the most
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popular cable news host ever in the history of the media. So if Tucker switches his platform,
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he could bring a huge audience. Now, that in itself wouldn't necessarily doom the medium of Fox
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news, except for this. Tucker's audience is largely boomers. The cable news audience is largely boomers.
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And the reason that cable news still exists today is because boomers don't want to turn the channel
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and they don't want to have to pull up their Roku or their Apple TV or their computer or their phone
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or their iPad or anything like that. No knock on boomers. I know there are a lot of technologically
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advanced boomers. I'm a Luddite millennial, so I'm really not casting any stones, but it is just a
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fact. The reason that cable news still exists is because boomers almost uniquely at this point pay
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for their cable subscription. They leave the TV on during the day. So the nine o'clock hour picks up
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all the people from the eight o'clock hour who didn't want to click the button on the remote.
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And the 10 o'clock hour picks up the people from the nine o'clock hour. So if Tucker can convince his
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largely boomer audience to switch over to Twitter, Tucker's millennial and zoomer audience was already
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watching his clips on Twitter primarily. If he can get the boomers to switch over there,
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that could spell the end of cable news. The day after Tucker's firing was announced,
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or I guess the very same day because it was on a Monday, the ratings in that hour were chopped in half.
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And the ratings for the other primetime shows on Fox were chopped down in a quarter.
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If Tucker can actually just remove that audience permanently, that could spell the end of cable
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news. Certainly the end of the dominance of cable news. Media don't last forever. Media forms have
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eras, okay? And cable news has been a dominant form for about 30 years now. Doesn't mean it'll
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completely go away. Some people still watch it, but it might go the way of radio. Might go the way of
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network TV. It might go the way. It might just, we just might move on now. And Tucker could,
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if his new show works, we have every reason to think it would. That could be a huge shift,
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not just in the politics of the country, but even in the way that politics is undertaken and
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information is consumed and transmitted. Speaking of journalism, we have a looming indictment potentially
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of Hunter Biden. I haven't covered it very much because I assume that the liberal establishment
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is going to figure out some way to let this guy off the hook. It's the president's son.
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He's been engaging in very clear public corruption for a very long time. They haven't done anything
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about it. Sometimes I fear that they try to make Hunter Biden a distraction so they don't need to
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deal with serious issues like the invasion on our southern border right now or the looming prospect
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of World War III, which neither party seems to be doing very much about, certainly not the Democrats.
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So I haven't focused on it too much, but we might get an indictment of Hunter Biden.
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And so preemptively, the White House has banned the New York Post from attending President Biden's
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only daytime public event on Monday as the federal prosecutors near a decision on charging Hunter
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for tax fraud and other crimes. Why did they do this? Because the New York Post broke the Hunter
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Biden laptop story. The liberal establishment went into overdrive to shut down that story,
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including the government. The government pressured the big tech companies that control the flow of
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information around the public square, said, don't let this thing go out. Oh, it's Russian
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disinformation, blah, blah, blah. Joe Biden himself called the New York Post story Russian disinformation.
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And now the New York Post is totally vindicated. We know it wasn't disinformation. We know it was just
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true information. So Joe Biden, who can't answer a question even from a friendly reporter,
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doesn't want to get a hostile question from the New York Post, so they ban the Post from the press
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conference. What needs to happen now is if Hunter Biden actually is indicted, we need the New York
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Post reporters, maybe the editor of the Post, to show up to whatever news conference that is like
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Andrew Breitbart at the admission of guilt by Representative Anthony Weiner. A lot of people
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may have forgotten this incident. Anthony Weiner texted out a picture of his, well, you know,
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you get it from the name. So he tweeted that out publicly. He intended to DM it privately to someone
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on Twitter. Breitbart caught this. He said, hey, look, Weiner's caught in this huge scandal.
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And everyone said, oh, it's disinformation. It was a hacking. How dare Breitbart? It's terrible.
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It's awful. And then coincidentally, Breitbart happened to be in New York when Anthony Weiner was
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holding his press conference to say, yeah, okay, I did it. Sorry. Whoopsie daisy. And then Breitbart just
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took the stage. And he spiked that football. And he said, I was right. And you guys are all
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completely corrupt. And I'm the only journalist in this room. That's what the New York Post has to do
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on the Hunter Biden laptop story. The Hunter Biden laptop story suppression may have thrown
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the 2020 election to Joe Biden. Made it much, much easier for Joe Biden to claim victory.
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There were, after that election, 12% of Biden voters, according to one poll, said they would not
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have voted for Biden had they known about the story. So this was a concerted effort to rig the election
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Speaking of irresponsible fathers like Hunter Biden, Nick Cannon of, what does he have now?
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10 children, 12 children, something like that. Nick Cannon has not just all of these children,
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which would be a wonderful thing if it were with the same woman, but has all of these children with
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lots and lots of different women, and he's proud of that fact. He's pushing back and he's saying,
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I'm not a deadbeat dad. And I can see how Nick Cannon could convince himself of this argument, but
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it's important, I think, to go through each of these points that he makes because
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it shows you so many errors at the heart of our culture. Nick Cannon says,
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I hear all the time you can't be present for all those children, so therefore I get this
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deadbeat dad title. Right now the narrative is he has a bunch of kids, but I'm really at a place now
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where I don't care what people know. I'd rather just operate. It's more about really being a good
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person instead of telling people you're a good person. So he says, I don't care what other people
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are saying. Fine attitude to have sometimes. The mob is often wrong, and the prince of this world is
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the devil, and so the people can be wrong a lot of the time. But if everybody is calling you a
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deadbeat dad, that ought to be a cause through your humility to look at yourself and say, huh,
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am I doing something that I shouldn't really be doing here? Why are people calling me that?
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And he says, it's ridiculous that people are calling me that because I make a lot of money.
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He says, when you think about my lifestyle, I have to generate at least $100 million a year.
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Everybody thinks Ryan Seacrest has tons of money. I do everything that he does times 10.
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Well, not times 10, times three, because he does a lot. So he's got a little humility there.
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He says, okay, I do more than Seacrest, but he works a lot too. So he's saying, look,
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I need to make a lot of money, and I make $100 million a year, so I am not a deadbeat dad.
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That would be true if life were only about money. But when you think back to your childhood,
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do you think, man, I had such a great childhood because my father's salary was $105,000 a year,
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$105,722 a year and 35 cents. That's what he brought home, and that is why my childhood was
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good. If he had only made $62,000 a year, and then it would have been bad. But no, of course,
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your father could make $25,000, $30,000 a year. If he's a good dad, and he's home, and he's
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fulfilling his responsibilities, he could be a much better father than a father who makes $300,000 a
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year. Because you know that the things you remember about your father are when he was around,
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when he was just there for you. Those quiet moments, not the planned moments, not the big
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extravagant moments, but just those little quiet moments when dad is just there, and you can rely
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on him as a rock-solid guy. That's what matters. And Nick Cannon, he can make a billion dollars a year,
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but he can't divide himself. He can't bilocate. I don't think he's demonstrated that spiritual gift.
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And so he can't be in five, six, seven different houses at the same time. He then goes on. He says,
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it's not about what I do for you or what I say to you. It's about how you feel when I'm with you.
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If you feel loved when you see your dad, that's what's going to resonate. No, it's seeing your dad
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is going to resonate. Not just how you feel on the one day out of 12 that you get to see your dad.
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It's seeing your dad regularly, every day. That's what's going to resonate.
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We think in our modern age that we can just compartmentalize everything, and we can schedule
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everything. There's a joke on the most recent season of Succession where the daughter character,
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Siobhan, is grieving something, and she actually has her assistant schedule her 20 minutes a day
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so that she can go into a conference room and cry. And one of the responses to this is,
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you're scheduling your grief? What? What a psycho are you that you're scheduling your grief? But
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that's what we do in this modern world where we just treat ourselves like machines. But that's not
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what matters about growing up. I was just speaking to a friend of mine about this.
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He said, a child's education is completed by around age three.
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Yeah, sure. He'll start school at age five, and he'll go to school through 18 or 22 or 26. But
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his education, kind of getting a formation of what the world is about, what his place is in it,
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that's going to be over by the time he's about three. And he's going to get it from looking at
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the smile on mommy's face, the way daddy behaves, the way they talk to each other, the way that family
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life is constructed. Nick Cannon won't give that to his kids. And finally, he says, a lot of times,
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it's whichever of them has called me that day, whichever of the baby mamas have called them that
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day, that's where I'm going to go sleep. I'm such a creature of habit. I like who like me.
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I like who like me. But it's not about you, and it's not about being liked. That's not what being a
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man is. That's not what being a husband is. That's not what being a father is. Being a husband and a
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father and a man is about doing your duty, whether you are thanked for it or not. Whether everyone
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around you is a complete ingrate, it doesn't matter. You are still responsible to do your
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duty and to show up and to be there. And not just to create a competition among the baby mamas,
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or baby's mama, is it like attorneys general? And the children to say, oh, if only I had
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flattered my father a little bit more, maybe he would have loved me so. If only, if only.
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It's not Nick Cannon who's alone in this. All of these errors are errors that are endemic,
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I think, to modern life, but they are wrong. Speaking of kids, there's an Oscar winner. I
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don't know who this person is. Her name is Marsha Gay Harden. Oh, wow. All nature is but art unknown
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to thee. She's the star of Pollock, which I guess is some Oscar movie or something. I don't know. I
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don't really pay attention to the big Hollywood culture these days. But Marsha Gay Harden has come
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out to reveal that her three kids, all three of her kids, are queer. She says, oh, and she's got
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multiple fathers and all that. She says at an event, Drag Isn't Dangerous, a digital fundraiser.
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She says, what drives me is because it's right. And what's happening right now is wrong. What drives
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me is my children are all queer. My eldest is non-binary. My son is gay. My youngest is fluid.
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And they, and you know, they're my kids. They teach me every day.
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What are the odds? And that's so strange. What are the odds? Because we've been told that being gay
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or trans or whatever, all the other non-binary or whatever, that's innate. You're born that way.
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That's your orientation. That's who you really are. It's not that just that you become that or you
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develop into that. You're born that way. And that this is very, very rare. We're talking about a very
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small number of people. And why are you damn conservatives? Why are you so focused on this
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small, vulnerable, oppressed group? What are the odds that all three of her children would have this
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extraordinarily rare condition? What are the odds? Almost as if it is largely a social
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something in the water that's true. Maybe, maybe that's true. It was true for the frogs.
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But it would seem to me too much of a coincidence. So then if, if it is the case that, uh, parents
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and culture and community and ideology and religion and all this has some role in shaping kids,
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So are we going to take action against all of these pathologies that seem to be affecting kids?
00:24:14.220
In Texas, they are doing that. The Texas Attorney General is now investigating a pediatric trans
00:24:21.760
center after video shows these quacks and ghouls transing an eight-year-old. The video is from
00:24:29.040
Project Veritas. We do have patients who are starting as young as eight, nine. We have a list of gender
00:24:37.920
affirming therapists that we can provide, too. So pediatric trans care definitely exists.
00:24:44.400
They said it was transition or suicide. Like, I was given no choice. I was told you will kill
00:24:50.060
yourself if you don't go through with these treatments. It's very much pro-hormone, pro-changes.
00:24:56.640
If you don't do this, your child will kill themselves. That is the most common theme.
00:25:00.880
You don't think anybody can do that for a 10-year-old to do surgery?
00:25:04.180
They could. I've never done a 10-year-old. To be quite fair with you, I've done 15, 16.
00:25:09.280
So that's not an adolescent clinic. They started at age 10. She did say this about, like, surgery.
00:25:14.760
The way to go at this age, age 10, would be something like a puberty blocker. When you then
00:25:20.860
get to age 14, is what I'll consider some, you know, cross-gender hormones. 14 is a reasonable age.
00:25:28.760
Most kids are mature enough to make a relatively informed decision.
00:25:35.120
14. That's old enough to make a relatively informed decision. I mean, look, we can talk
00:25:39.300
about it at age 10. We can talk about it at age 8. That's probably fine, too. But at the very least,
00:25:44.880
yeah, 14. That's the age of consent, right, is 14? Don't think so. Don't think 8th graders and 9th
00:25:53.180
graders have reached the age where they can make relatively informed decisions about sterilizing
00:25:57.140
themselves and chopping up their bodies. So obviously, I'm glad the Texas Attorney General
00:26:02.820
is investigating this. Texas needs to go much, much further. Texas needs to investigate these
00:26:10.640
people, prosecute these people if it's possible under the law. If not, change the law such that
00:26:15.020
people who do this in the future will be prosecuted. And then Texas has to go further.
00:26:20.860
Texas has to, I've said it before, I'll say it again, eradicate transgenderism from public life
00:26:30.740
entirely, the whole preposterous ideology at every level for the good of society and especially for
00:26:35.740
the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion. As long as society tolerates this
00:26:42.500
quackery at any level, they will always do this. They will always get to the point where they're
00:26:49.900
going to start doing it to the 16-year-olds and maybe 15 and maybe 14 and maybe 10 and you know
00:26:53.720
what, maybe 8. That will always happen because that will be the logical conclusion of the idea
00:27:00.220
that you really can be born in the wrong body. Watching those videos, you see that doctor sitting
00:27:05.080
there. He's in front of a big bookshelf with all sorts of clinical books and he's there with
00:27:09.960
absolutely no affect, just total clinical demeanor. And he says, yeah, I'll start talking about
00:27:16.980
cross-sex hormones at about 10. We'll move on, start chopping people up, you know, 14, 15, 16. Yeah.
00:27:25.100
Yeah, 14-year-olds, they can totally make their own decisions. That's fine. We're going to look at
00:27:29.700
this someday with horror. Many of us are already looking at that with horror, but someday we will be
00:27:34.560
looking, more people will be looking at that with horror. As long as we tolerate this, they're always
00:27:41.720
going to do this. And so what we need to do also is, even for the people who have not been totally
00:27:46.100
convinced, who think, okay, yeah, a man can't really be a woman, but I have no problem. If a 30-year-old
00:27:53.160
wants to chop himself up and mutilate himself and really damage himself and put himself at either the
00:27:58.740
same or greater risk of anxiety, say, or suicidality, I have no problem. Laissez-faire.
00:28:05.700
Laissez les bon temps brûlés. You know, I have no problem with that at all. I think that's a terribly
00:28:09.680
uncharitable, uncompassionate, cruel view to have of your fellow man. But okay, you want to say,
00:28:17.040
who cares? Not my problem. Let the wackos chop themselves up. All right, if that's your view,
00:28:22.380
but you still say they shouldn't do it to children, the reason then I think that we would
00:28:28.580
say you have to ban it for everybody is, in a normal society, you've got to set the guardrails
00:28:34.660
such that you've got a little bit of ideological breathing room. Okay, it's like in any negotiation.
00:28:40.720
You don't want to set your position in a negotiation exactly at the place that is your bare minimum.
00:28:47.300
Um, you want to give yourself a little bit of breathing room. And so even if, and this is not
00:28:52.200
my position, I am of the position that it is just totally wrong and we should ban it for everybody
00:28:57.220
to help them and to help society. But even if it's your position that some people should be allowed
00:29:02.840
to chop themselves up and pretend to be a lady and go into the women's bathroom, at the very least,
00:29:07.580
I think you have to see the prudential argument that if we grant that, as we have in recent years,
00:29:14.440
as in 2015, we started to grant that premise in public life, very, very quickly, it's going to
00:29:19.660
make it all the way down to the kids. So if you want to protect the kids from this nonsense,
00:29:23.900
you actually do have to ban it for everybody. This is a winning issue. The vast majority of people
00:29:29.000
agree with us. Pure research shows it. 60% of Americans think your gender comes from your
00:29:34.260
biological sex. The number should be higher, of course, but that's still the clear majority of
00:29:39.180
Americans. The numbers are going in the right direction. That's up from 56% in 2021 to 54%
00:29:45.240
in 2017. So this is a winning issue. Glenn Youngkin won on this issue in Virginia.
00:29:50.340
Ron DeSantis won on this issue in Florida. It's a big winner, okay? Obviously, Ken Paxton,
00:29:56.340
AG in Texas, is running on this issue, and he thinks it's going to play well for the people of Texas and
00:30:01.300
for his future political career. So what are the national Republicans running on? The NRCC right
00:30:08.320
now is running ads in potential swing districts on spending.
00:30:16.860
Democrats maxed out our nation's credit card with reckless spending, jacking up inflation to
00:30:22.080
historic highs. Now they refuse to solve the spending crisis they created, voting against a
00:30:27.700
common sense plan to tackle the government spending problem, cut red tape, and curb our dependence on
00:30:32.960
China. Our economy hangs in the balance. Seven million people could lose their jobs. Extreme
00:30:38.740
Democrats are addicted to spending your money, and you are paying the price. National Republican
00:30:44.100
Congressional Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.
00:30:48.640
Does this work on anybody anymore? I'm not knocking the ad, or I'm not knocking talking about
00:30:55.520
spending. Okay, maybe in these swing districts right now during the debt limit fight, maybe it plays to
00:31:01.240
run these TV ads. I'm not saying don't run the ad. I'm not saying you should only run on the social
00:31:09.080
issues, but does this work? This doesn't work on me. It feels very 90s. Did you know in a world where
00:31:20.420
Nancy Pelosi, she's spending your money? That's why we need to cut taxes. To me, it just rings sort of
00:31:29.900
hollow, especially because the Democrats have been not quite as responsible for the spending problem
00:31:36.900
as Democrats, but they've been in large part responsible for it too. And by the way, our debt
00:31:42.740
to GDP at this point is what's over 100%, isn't it? Thereabouts. So I think we're kind of past the point
00:31:49.360
where some marginal reduction in spending is going to really affect the federal budget at all.
00:31:54.980
We're also at the point where neither party is going to talk about reforming entitlements. So
00:31:58.180
that's, I just think that's kind of out the window. So why are we talking? We've got 10,000 people
00:32:04.540
pouring across our southern border right now. We're in the brink of World War III and we're chopping
00:32:07.700
kids' genitals off. Do people really care about, crazy AOC is spending your money? I just don't think it,
00:32:16.240
right? No one cares. People don't even think that money has meaning anymore. We've got record high
00:32:22.880
inflation this year. It's just, I'm not saying that's a good thing. I wish we could have sound
00:32:28.000
money. I wish we could have a reliable, stable economy. I wish we could get spending under
00:32:32.020
control. But it just seems that is so far gone. And that has been advanced by both parties that if
00:32:39.920
you want to stir people's hearts, if you want to draw a distinction between the two parties, I think
00:32:44.260
you've got to speak a little more bluntly. You've got to appeal to the common good. Even if you're
00:32:51.320
talking strictly about economic matters, you've got to do so in a way that makes moral arguments.
00:32:55.880
The left does this all the time. When the left talks about taxes or the environment or spending or
00:33:02.160
any of the rest of it, they're always couching it in moral arguments. And those moral arguments
00:33:05.840
resonate for people and they work. Whereas the Republicans tend to couch it as,
00:33:09.700
do you want to give your money to Nancy Pelosi? No, you should go buy a Corvette. You, you, you.
00:33:15.640
Money, money, money. And that's not going to resonate. I don't want to give a dollar to Nancy Pelosi.
00:33:21.000
But I want to feel as though the reason that I want to do that is about more than merely selfishness.
00:33:28.300
Speaking of national problems now, the invasion that was scheduled for tomorrow at the expiration of
00:33:37.420
Title 42, which helped to stem the tide a little bit of illegal immigration,
00:33:41.840
that, that invasion has already begun as we're seeing from people down there by the border.
00:33:48.520
I want to know in the last time that you can start a veteran.
00:33:51.780
Yeah, we got some incredible footage here, guys. Downtown El Paso. A week before,
00:34:00.280
Title 42 has lifted and the surge is already here. It's been here for the last two years.
00:34:05.360
And what you see behind me is a truck. It looks like, I don't know who the sponsor is,
00:34:12.660
Red Cross or somebody to feed these individuals who are out here. It's hot.
00:34:19.360
They're thirsty. They're hungry. But this is what, this is the, what the Biden administration has done
00:34:24.660
in Mallorca's. This is the inhumane conditions that they want to put people in.
00:34:34.260
This is not America. This is, this is my hometown. This is El Paso, Texas is where I was born and raised
00:34:38.700
and I don't recognize my own country and my own city. This is, this is insane.
00:34:42.680
This to me resonates a lot more than crazy Nancy Pelosi spending all your money. Seeing a guy who
00:34:50.160
says, I was born here. I was raised here. This is unrecognizable. This does not seem like my country.
00:34:56.960
It especially resonates because the guy is obviously of Hispanic descent.
00:35:01.320
So that the Democrats can't even say, well, this is just because you hate brown people or something
00:35:05.020
like that. He used to say, no, I'm a brown guy. I'm a brown guy. And I don't like it when people are
00:35:10.300
showing up across the border, piled up in the back of a truck, sneaking across into our country
00:35:16.260
pretty soon, according to US officials, to the tune of 10,000 plus people per day.
00:35:21.580
That's unrecognizable. That's not America. Those are issues that are really important.
00:35:26.400
Back in 2012, 2011, there was a push on the right for a social truce. And the argument was that we've
00:35:33.760
got a new red menace. And the red menace is not the red army this time. It's the red menace of our
00:35:38.200
debt and our deficit that is threatening our economy and our sovereignty. And so we've got
00:35:44.680
to push some of the social issues aside, the left-wing push to redefine marriage, the left-wing
00:35:48.680
push to advance abortion. All those things, we've got to have a truce, try to get the physical problem
00:35:53.720
under control. I understand the arguments for that at the time, but they didn't resonate. We moved on
00:36:00.160
past that. Barack Obama got reelected. And now I think you've almost got to flip it.
00:36:08.200
You've got to say, no, it's not the case that a stable economy is going to afford you the ability
00:36:15.220
to talk about social issues. It's kind of the opposite. If you do not have a stable society,
00:36:23.140
you know, the social issues, if you do not have a society that respects life, that respects borders,
00:36:27.560
that respects the rule of law, that respects letting kids be kids and not scandalizing them
00:36:33.400
and shoving porn in their faces and jiggling drag queens and chopping their genitals off.
00:36:37.580
If you have a country that engages in proper diplomacy around the world and doesn't put us
00:36:44.520
to the brink of World War III, then and only then can you talk about trimming spending a little bit,
00:36:51.740
perhaps even raising taxes in certain sectors. Not that I would encourage that, but you could have
00:36:57.240
a conversation about the nuts and bolts of market efficiency. But as long as you've got an open
00:37:04.360
border and you've got hordes of people pouring in and you've got a bureaucracy that's violating the
00:37:10.560
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Buddy Trevino, who says, America is a teenager going through its
00:38:37.400
screw you dad phase at the moment. Hopefully there is a strong enough foundation for it to come
00:38:42.860
back around. The problem is that libs are always in the screw you dad phase. A friend of mine said
00:38:50.780
this to me with slightly more colorful language 10 years ago, just about. He said, it was the best
00:38:56.600
description I've ever heard of liberalism, that liberalism comes down to screw you dad. And so
00:39:03.980
if those people are in charge, then America is perpetually going to be in the screw you dad phase.
00:39:09.140
Because most teenagers come out of that. And by their early 20s, they kind of shape up and they're
00:39:14.100
normal again. Some people never come out of that. And they're the ones who get involved in drugs and
00:39:20.960
weird sex stuff and don't have decent careers and don't settle down with a family and end up in prison
00:39:28.920
or worse. And probably we all know people personally to whom that has happened. And now we know a country
00:39:36.160
to whom that could happen if, if these people continue to run it. Okay. Now onto an important
00:39:43.660
story. Forget about the prosecutions of top political figures and forget about 2024 and the
00:39:52.040
invasion and all the rest. Dylan Mulvaney. Dylan Mulvaney was just on a podcast with someone named
00:39:58.560
Skylar Baylor. Skylar Baylor is a woman who has pumped herself with all sorts of hormones and chopped
00:40:05.520
off all sorts of body parts. And so she now looks pretty convincingly like a man. She's smaller.
00:40:12.340
If she's standing up, you can tell more easily that she's not a man. But she has grown out some
00:40:17.720
facial hair and she hosts the show and she was hosting Dylan Mulvaney. And would you know it,
00:40:23.140
these two people, it's unbelievable to think about. They attacked and criticized
00:40:30.900
your favorite podcast host. What are the odds? Transphobia that we're seeing in this country
00:40:36.380
has shifted, in my opinion, my experience from being cloaked in protect women, protect children,
00:40:43.280
whatever, to now just being outright transphobia, right? There's like, there's no questioning the
00:40:47.460
transphobia. It is. And, you know, we had Michael Knowles explicitly say transgenderism,
00:40:53.040
quote unquote, transgenderism needs to be eradicated from all public life. And, and, you know,
00:40:57.900
went on this whole tirade about that, supposedly claiming he didn't mean trans people, but we,
00:41:01.840
how do you eradicate transness without eradicating us? So we're having actual calls for our eradication.
00:41:07.840
Put a pause there. I love how this lady at least had the decency and the common sense to not libel me
00:41:18.200
or slander me or rewrite what I said. But she says, quote unquote, transgenderism, supposedly not to
00:41:25.760
eradicate us. But how on earth could you eradicate an ideology without eradicating the people?
00:41:31.640
I've said it before, but I'll say it again. When we call to eradicate communism, we're not saying we
00:41:36.940
want to slaughter all the communists. When the libs call to eradicate capitalism, they probably are
00:41:41.480
calling to eradicate all the capitalists, but they wouldn't necessarily be doing so. When we call to
00:41:46.860
eradicate poverty or cancer, we're not calling to eradicate poor people and cancer patients.
00:41:53.160
ideas can be separable from individuals. The problem with transgenderism is the transgenderists
00:42:03.800
say, this mistaken view of anthropology is my identity. And our position is not that there isn't
00:42:11.160
such a thing as the idea of transgenderism. Our position is that is not your identity because that's
00:42:17.340
false anthropology. So even the argument that this lady is making, that Dylan Mulvaney is agreeing with,
00:42:25.720
that I am calling to eradicate people, even that lies at the heart of this disagreement over
00:42:31.380
transgenderism. Saying, I am transgender. And what the normal people are saying is, no, you're not.
00:42:39.920
You're just mistaken. Okay, go on. I think, you know, I, this is going to sound weird, but bear
00:42:46.700
with me. Okay, I'm with you. I have, I have found pain in receiving this. And I've also found
00:42:54.060
empowerment. And the reason that the second one is happening, I think pain's obvious, right? But the
00:42:59.180
empowerment comes where they're saying we shouldn't exist. They're saying that we need to be eradicated.
00:43:03.540
They're saying that we can't do. Nobody is saying you shouldn't exist. This is a total lie from the
00:43:10.340
transgenderists. Everybody is, what we are saying is, you do not exist as you think you exist. You do
00:43:19.040
exist. You should continue to exist. But you do not exist in the way that you think you are a lady. And you
00:43:28.360
can chop yourself up, and you can pump yourself full of poison, and you can sterilize yourself, and you can do
00:43:32.920
whatever. But you will remain you. We're saying the transgender transition isn't real. That when you
00:43:39.560
engage in the transition, which is a form of ritual suicide, which results in you ritually killing off
00:43:47.640
your old self and referring to your old self as a dead name, as a different person, we're saying that
00:43:54.820
is not really efficacious. That doesn't really happen. You're still the same person post-op that you
00:44:02.100
were pre-op. Forget about the operations. You're the same person post-new identity that you were
00:44:08.740
pre-new identity. And to say, well, they don't want us to exist. It is a lie to shut down the debate over
00:44:16.040
this because they know that there's no argument, which is why one of the most distinguished scholars
00:44:21.540
in the country who would identify as transgender and who's got all sorts of fancy degrees and
00:44:26.260
publications on this, at the last minute, backed out of a debate with me at the University of
00:44:30.260
Pittsburgh, Professor Donald McCloskey. And he did that because there is no argument for it.
00:44:36.900
X, Y, and Z. And yet here we are. And here we are also connecting with each other. Here we are
00:44:42.320
finding love with each other. There's nothing more powerful to me than that.
00:44:46.660
Well, and what you see on the other side of things is they're all very united. And they stick by each
00:44:52.260
other. They know each other. And we have to be equally as on the same page. Because if we go
00:44:58.340
quiet when certain things go amiss, or, you know, I think that becomes a problem because they see
00:45:05.600
that is our weakness, that we are not together in something.
00:45:09.900
Now, it's interesting that Dylan would say this because
00:45:12.140
the point of my CPAC speech was to unite conservatives on this issue. I feel conservatives
00:45:17.940
had been quite divided on it. Where some said, oh, we should just accept transgenderism. And we
00:45:23.340
should call Caitlyn Jenner, she and Caitlyn and everything. And other conservatives said, no,
00:45:26.920
this is totally bogus. And some people said, well, it's fine for adults, but not for kids. And so
00:45:29.640
I feel like conservatives were quite divided. The point of my speech was to say, no, no,
00:45:32.880
we all need to agree. There's no middle ground on this particular issue. We have to be united here.
00:45:38.560
Whereas the left very quickly has united on this issue. That's why you see all the big corporations
00:45:44.180
embracing it, all the big tech platforms, all the political institutions. They've all come
00:45:47.860
together in the span of like five years and have said, okay, our understanding of human nature
00:45:52.020
that we always had for all of history, that's gone. We are now all on board with dudes can become
00:45:57.040
chicks. But then Dylan goes on and makes a point about anger. The emotion of anger was something
00:46:03.960
that I've always been really scared to tap into and something that I thought was, I saw it as a very
00:46:09.660
bad thing. But we have every right to be angry right now. We have to, I think I go between either
00:46:18.320
wanting to disassociate and like hide under the covers or to like really feel things. And as much
00:46:24.560
as it's a lot of effort and scary and a lot of energy, I've started to feel anger in ways that I
00:46:32.140
hadn't before in ways that make me want to, to make progress. When you feel growing anger and more
00:46:43.780
importantly, when you feel that that anger, that wrath is a good thing, you're almost certainly on
00:46:52.420
the wrong side of an issue. It's not that anger is intrinsically evil. Sometimes anger, just like
00:47:00.500
the feeling of pain when you put your hand on a stove, sometimes anger can be a good indication
00:47:05.120
that something has gone wrong. But when you act, you should not be acting out of anger.
00:47:10.980
When your child does something naughty, you might be angry, but you shouldn't punish that child while
00:47:17.100
you're feeling angry. You should not punish that child out of your raw emotion and exercise of will.
00:47:22.560
You should punish that child out of the use of reason. And the expression of anger
00:47:29.040
can very often cloud your reasoning. This is why the transgenderists have embraced anger,
00:47:36.140
because transgenderism is a denial of reason. The thing that we all know is true, which is that
00:47:42.120
men can't really be women. This is why you're seeing the trans day of vengeance. This is why you're
00:47:46.720
increasingly seeing transgender involved and transgender motivated violence against lots of
00:47:53.680
people. This is why the pro-trans activists set off explosives and set people on fire in effigy at
00:48:01.260
perfectly dry academic debates over an idea. That's a bad sign. You look at Dylan Mulvaney in this
00:48:10.060
light, where he's not totally, perfectly made up with his control over the cameras and his TikTok,
00:48:18.580
where he's on someone else's show, and it's quite clear he's a man. It's less clear in some of the
00:48:23.880
really highly produced videos, but in this podcast, it's quite clear the guy is a man, and he knows he's
00:48:28.280
a man, and everyone knows that he's a man. The statement of that should not be a cause to anger.
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If he finds himself, if any of you find yourselves getting angry and angry and angry,
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that's a good indication you're on the wrong track. Okay. This is a big day of people attacking
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me. I walk into the studio today, and Ben Davies says he's got some new guy attacking me, and I have
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to respond to it, which I try not to, okay? I try to be perfectly gentlemanly. I let this roll off my
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shoulders, but Ben Davies does not. So the rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it.
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looking at an attack on yours truly from Mr. Hunter Avalone, who is an American YouTuber. So head on over