Ep. 1345 - The ＂Fat Lesbian＂ Heard Round The World
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Swiss court sentences a writer to two months in jail for calling an LGBT activist a "fat lesbian." Lawrence Fox is arrested for his opposition to mass surveillance cameras in the UK. And a 15-year-old girl is murdered in her own home.
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The Swiss court has just sentenced a writer to two months in jail for calling an LGBT activist
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a fat lesbian. The writer was found guilty of defamation on Monday, and the verdict was
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immediately praised by the lesbian activist group LOS as, quote, an important moment for justice
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and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland, which means...
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Well, he was found guilty of defamation for calling her a lesbian, and the verdict was praised
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as a victory for lesbian rights. So I don't think that men should ever call women fat,
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and I don't think men even should ever call women lesbians. But if the verdict is a victory for
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lesbian rights, then that implies that the victim was a lesbian, which means that he did not defame
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her. He was just sort of impolite, which is not good. But does an impolite remark really merit 60
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days in jail? Well, if the impolite remark happens also to be politically incorrect,
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then apparently the answer is yes. Because as that same lesbian activist group pointed out,
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quote, the conviction of this writer is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated
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in our society. It wasn't even what he said. If the writer had purple hair and 10 piercings and said,
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this woman is an empowered, fat lesbian. If he had used the exact same phrase in a positive way,
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he would probably be given an award. He certainly wouldn't be in jail.
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But he used the phrase with opprobrium. He seemed to disapprove of lesbianism.
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That's the crime he's going to jail for. And soon enough, you might be too.
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goodranches.com. Use code Knowles today. The LA Unified School District is about to host a
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week-long celebration of coming out day. No longer a day, now a week. We'll get to that in just one
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moment. First, though, I'm still wrapping my mind around this. If you say the phrase in Switzerland,
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she, that wonderful person, is a fat lesbian. Let's hear it, everybody. Woo! And then you all applaud.
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That's great. But if you say, hey, she, that lady that I don't like, she's a fat lesbian. You go to
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jail. We're the same thing. You go to jail for having a politically incorrect opinion. And what's
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really bizarre about it is the opinion you go to jail for is the opinion that was until very recently
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held by everyone, which is that doing weird sex stuff is not ideal. It's not the thing we ought to
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strive for. But this is spreading throughout the old world. Speaking of people living in the old
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world, getting arrested for things, for saying things. Lawrence Fox, who ran for mayor of London,
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he's an actor who then got into politics. He ran for mayor of London. He founded the Reclaim Party.
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He's a conservative, totally mainstream conservative commentator and political activist. Until recently,
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he had a show on GB News in the UK. Cops just raided Lawrence's house and arrested him for speaking
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out against the London mayor's new climate surveillance cameras all over the city.
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Coming after Laza. What? Look how many coppers there are in my house. Look at them. Coming to
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steal everything, take everything out of my house. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the country that we
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live in. So you got all these cops here raiding Lawrence's Lawrence for the least dangerous person
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in the United Kingdom. All raiding his place because he said that the mass surveillance cameras,
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as part of Mayor Sadiq Khan's climate change initiative to spy on all the citizens. He spoke
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out against those cameras. And so they raid his apartment. He explains what the whole issue is
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about. Guys, in London's knife ridden capital city, where a 15 year old girl was stabbed to death
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with a sword. We've got one, two, another three upstairs, stealing, going through my house to
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intimidate me. Because this is what the police are. They don't police with consent anymore.
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They police with fear and intimidation. That is the starzy police force that we've got nowadays.
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Instead of being on the streets solving crimes like the murder of the poor 15 year old girl,
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they're on all over social media. But I take it. The ULES scam cameras outside of London
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are a complete, the outer ULES zone is a complete scam. There's no scientific evidence. Sadiq Khan
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rubbished the evidence and had it rewritten to serve his own needs. No one voted it. It's
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the beginning and bringing in of a surveillance state. And he's trying to make noises so that
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I can't say that. It's the beginning in of a surveillance state. And these boys are the
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Stasi. Stasi. Bless them. So have a lovely day. I'm going to spend my day in the clink, innit?
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I love the British generally, but especially guys like Lawrence, who even as they're being
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raided by the cops about to be hauled off to prison for a thought crime, they can stay
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relatively buoyant. I'm going to spend my day in the clink, innit? And it's funny because you
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got to either laugh or cry. The London mayor sending his goons to go arrest a political rival
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for speaking out against his climate change BS surveillance program. The same exact sort of thing
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we see when Joe Biden says his goons out to arrest his political opposition in Donald Trump on a bunch
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of trumped up, pun very much intended, ridiculous charges. It's not just happening in America.
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It's not just happening in Britain. It's not just happening in Switzerland. This sort of thing is
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happening all over the West, which is why I think sometimes in the US, we are a little myopic.
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We're viewing these things in too narrow a way. Even some conservatives sometimes do.
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They say, oh, our political dysfunction, it's just because Donald Trump is kind of eccentric.
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Trick. It's not just about Trump. Yes, Donald Trump is a unique American original, no doubt about it.
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But the election of Donald Trump didn't happen in a vacuum. It happened within the context of the
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Brexit. It happened within the context of the rise to power of Viktor Orban in Hungary. It happened
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in the context of the rise to power of Georgia Maloney on a conservative populist wave in Italy.
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It happened with populist waves rising, not totally to fruition yet, in Spain, rising in Germany,
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rising elsewhere as well. People have had enough of the liberal crackdown surveillance state
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globalist nonsense. And you're seeing that expressed everywhere. And so as the people begin to push back
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against that, then the government is going to crack down even harder. Not just by trumping up your
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charges, not just by calling you an insurrectionist, not just by finding all sorts of little areas to
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nitpick and prosecute you selectively while they let their own friends off the hook. They're going
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to go after you for thought crimes. They're going to arrest you for having the wrong opinions. That
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is already happening. Speaking of crime, there's a story about a left-wing activist who is living in
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Brooklyn in a bad part of the city. He was out with his girlfriend very late at night in a very bad
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part of the city that white guys wearing fancy suits should certainly not be walking around in
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at 4 a.m. You're going to be a little bit conspicuous. And he was stabbed. He was stabbed to
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death. He bravely stood between the attacker and his girlfriend. He probably unwisely was in that place
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at night and seemed to walk toward this maniac who was causing a ruckus further down the block. So
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errors of judgment there, a demonstration of courage. But now we're back to seeing errors of
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judgment from this poor slain man's friends. According to the Daily Mail, friends of this 32-year-old
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murder victim say that his being murdered in Bed-Stuy at four in the morning would not change
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his outlook on social justice. They say, quote, I know he would have wanted people to use his death
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as a means to talk about structural wrongs in the city. I'm absolutely positive that he would
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immediately see that this was a person who was suffering from a lack of resources in our community
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who probably needs better mental health support, possibly housing, possibly drug support, drug
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treatment. What he would want to avenge his death is for us to fix how broken this system is, according
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to New York State Assembly member Emily Gallagher. This is a reminder of a line from Robert Frost,
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which is that a liberal is one who can't take his own side in a quarrel. That is the definition of a
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liberal. And this is not a good attitude. People think this is a good attitude because it seems so
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altruistic. It seems so selfless. But it's a perversion of a virtue, which is charity. And it's a perversion of
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that virtue because it totally disregards the proper love of oneself. One has to have a proper love of
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oneself and a proper inclination towards self-preservation. The reason for that is we are
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called to love our neighbor as ourselves. If we don't love ourselves, then we can't love our neighbor
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as we love ourselves, or we won't love our neighbor much at all. This is related to a modern liberal
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misconception that we can't have any enemies. We got to pretend that no one wants to do us harm,
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that no one is our enemy, that no one has different interests than we do, that no one could possibly
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act in an unjust way. No, we got to ignore it. We're all just friends. Kumbaya, hold hands. That is
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not true. And there's nothing Christian about that. That is a perversion of Christianity.
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We have enemies. We need to know who our enemies are. We need to have a very clear-eyed view of our
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enemies because we are called to love our enemies. And so we have to love our enemies. We have to pray
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for those who persecute us. But if you don't know who your enemies are, then you don't know who to
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love. If you are in denial about who is persecuting you, who is trying to harm you, who is acting in an
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unjust way against you, then you can't pray for them. You can't love them. Christianity is not a
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denial of reality. Christianity is not a burying your head in the sand about the facts of this life.
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Quite the opposite. Christianity is looking at this world in brutal honesty, looking at the
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fallenness of this world with brutal honesty, and then looking beyond this world and having hope as
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a theological virtue and a fact beyond this world. But it's not a denial. Liberalism is the denial of
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reality. Liberalism is the denial of human nature. Liberalism is the denial of original sin. Liberalism
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often amounts to the denial of redemption. And so everything gets screwy and everything goes out of
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place. But if we want to help other people, we have to have a proper love of ourselves and at least an
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inclination to preserve ourselves. And if we want to love our enemies, we have to know who our enemies are.
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who has just gone viral on TikTok for explaining how his fourth grade, how his seventh grade students
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So I'm not really understanding why they're not telling y'all. Like, we all know that the world
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is behind, like, you know, globally, like, you know, because of the pandemic and stuff. But I don't
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understand why they're not stressing to y'all how bad it is. Like, I'm not even trying to be funny,
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but these kids are... I'ma just say this. I teach seventh grade. They are still performing on the
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fourth grade level. I don't care how you flip it, turn it, swing it, swindle it. They still
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performing on a fourth grade level. Ain't nobody talking about how they just keep moving, passing
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them on. They just keep passing them on, passing them on, passing them on, passing them on, passing
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them on, passing them on. I can put as many D-Ros in this grade book as I want to. They're gonna
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move that child to that grade next year. Ain't nobody talking about that. Why they not talking
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about that? Why they not telling y'all that y'all... And why don't y'all know that y'all kids not
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performing on that grade level? Why y'all don't know this? Why y'all don't know?
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I really like this guy. I like... I know he's speaking in a way that's a bit unusual,
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you know, but he's observing a true problem. And he's saying, why aren't they letting you know this?
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These kids are completely failing and they're not going to be left behind because the liberal
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governing structure would rather deny reality and fail these kids and put us all in a worse situation
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than acknowledge that there is a problem and that they themselves have failed to teach students
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and try to fix that problem so that the kids are actually brought up to the level
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at which they should be reading. You're not helping anybody. You're not doing anybody any favors
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by denying reality. You're not doing anybody any favors by pretending that they are succeeding when
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they are failing. You are compounding the problem. You're gonna make the problem worse for everybody.
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You're gonna make the problem worse for all of society because, believe it or not,
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even in our highly ideological age, societies still require some degree of competence in order
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to function. We live in an age where we think that as long as you have the right opinion, this is on
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the left and even on the right, as long as you just have the right opinion, everything's going to be
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fine. But that's not true. The grain mills are not going to keep on churning just because you have
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the right opinion about some LGBT issue. The trains are not going to keep moving. The traffic lights
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are not going to go from green to red. The airplanes are not going to keep flying in the sky. The basic
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functions of society, the sanitation workers are not going to keep things flowing just because you have
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the right opinion about some obscure ideological fashion. People need to know basic things. The
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society needs to know how to read, at least the people running society need to know how to read.
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They know how to do math. They need to know how to do math. They need to know how to, I don't know,
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change a tire, really basic stuff. If a society can't do that, it doesn't matter how many highfalutin
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opinions it has. It's not going to flourish. It's not going to function. Some of this is
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existential. We're seeing a lot of things break down right now. We're seeing the economy begin
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to break down. We're seeing supply chains break down. We're seeing food break down. This was
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exacerbated by COVID, but it's been a longstanding trend. We're not functioning at the level that we
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need to be functioning. And that problem does not begin when you elect Joe Biden. It's exacerbated
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when you elect Joe Biden, but that problem begins when you, when you just keep graduating these people
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from the seventh grade to the eighth grade, when they don't know how to do the fourth grade
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material. That's going to exacerbate crime problems. It's going to exacerbate poverty problems.
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It's going to exacerbate problems of government because people aren't going to know how the
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government operates. It's going to, they're not going to know how to vote. They're not going to know
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when they're being taken advantage of by demagogues. If the citizenry doesn't understand
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basic things, how is the government going to function when we are supposedly a self-government?
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Speaking of kids turning now to Los Angeles, LA Unified School District is about to host
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a week-long celebration of coming out day. You might think from the name that they would have a
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day-long celebration at most. No, it's a week now. Soon it will be a month. It already is a month because
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they have the month of June, which is pride month. And then they have October, which we're in right
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now. That's LGBT history month. So they've already got one sixth of the calendar year. Probably they're
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going to add another month and then they'll have a quarter of the year and eventually they'll have
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the whole year long. LAUSD has said that they'll have this week-long coming out celebration.
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According to City Journal, a teacher within the district shared a document called the Week of
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Action Toolkit Elementary, which outlines how LAUSD would treat the month of October as another LGBTQ
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month. Not Week of Action Toolkit High School. Not Week of Action Toolkit Middle School. Week of Action
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Toolkit Elementary School. These teachers should be arrested. Any elementary school teacher
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that foists this LGBT propaganda on little kids should be arrested for exposing minors to obscene
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content, for public indecency, for appeals to the prurient interest, for any obscenity law you can
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throw at them. They should be arrested for this. It's not going to happen in California because
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everybody from the lowest level city councilman all the way up to Governor Patrick Bateman over there
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are on board with this. They want to expose kids to disordered sexual content. But if by some fluke
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you can get any Republican into any position of power there, and certainly if this kind of thing
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happens elsewhere in the country, which it will, Republicans need to wield the law to arrest these
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people. This is sick, sick stuff. I don't think that national coming out week should be in middle
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school. I don't think it should be in high school for that matter. I don't think it should be anywhere.
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I don't think it's conducive to anybody's flourishing. Certainly not to five-year-olds.
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But it's another reminder, and it's a reminder that conservatives don't want to bear in mind.
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Kids are going to learn something or another thing. There's no neutrality here. Kids are either going to
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learn that it's good to do all sorts of weird sex stuff, or they're going to learn that marriage is the
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union of a man and a woman together, whom it take a vow before God, ordered toward the procreation of
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children. They're going to learn one of those. Or they're going to learn that marriage is just a
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little contract that can be dissolved whenever. Or they're going to learn that marriage is between
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five people and a billy goat. But they're going to learn something. Anytime you read a kid a little
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storybook, anytime you teach a kid about history, anytime you teach a kid literature, they're going to
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get some conception of marriage. And education necessarily takes a stance on what is good and
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what is bad. And right now, what the education system is doing in LA is saying it's good to do
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all sorts of weird sex stuff, up to and including mutilating your body. The answer to that is not,
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let's get sex out of the classroom. They're going to read some story about a family. They're going to
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read some story about changes in the nature of the family throughout history. They're going to get
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some morals and some ethics. What's it going to be? Right now, for a full week, probably a full month,
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probably two months out of the year, it's going to be LGBT propaganda. As long as conservatives say,
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well, I just want to remain neutral, they're going to take another three months. And you will not rest
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You've already seen many instances where making a murderer skillfully curates information to align
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with their narrative. Get ready to dive into their most egregious manipulation yet. That's right.
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We're talking about the infamous blood vial. The one that was supposedly used to plant Stephen Avery's
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blood in the victim's car. But here's the catch. Making a murderer conveniently omitted a
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crucial detail that completely unravels that insane theory. Huh? You're not going to want to
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miss this in-depth look at how so many viewers were tricked. Episode 7 is now available on Daily
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Wire Plus. Take a look. Coming up on convicting a murderer. They have Brendan down on the police
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station. What? Something to do with you. The police did not have Brendan Dassey on their radar at all.
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Kayla brings up that they should talk to her cousin Brendan. They initially went down to that high
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school because they were worried about him because his cousin made some comments about him losing
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weight. She mentioned things like staring off into space and weight loss. She estimated to be about
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40 pounds. They thought that maybe he had seen something and he was having trouble dealing with
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what he had witnessed. You should have said to them, I want my mom in there. Yeah. You definitely can see
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how someone like him was easily manipulated. I really feel sorry for Brendan getting roped into some
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scheme that Stephen decided he was going to come up with. We did not expect what he was telling us.
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harmful stuff being foisted on kids and adults, I got a message yesterday after I covered a report
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that antidepressants are having all sorts of weird sexual consequences on people. This is the message
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I got. I found your video on antidepressants very interesting. You had mentioned that teenagers will
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never develop sexual function and you're correct. I'm currently dealing with permanent side effects
00:25:01.160
from an SSRI. I would encourage you to check out this website as what you said in your video
00:25:06.280
correlates to the problem. I clicked on the link and it took me to a website about a condition called
00:25:12.800
PSSD, a condition of these consequences that affect sex and emotions and really the whole personality,
00:25:22.080
not just while people are on these SSRI drugs, but after they get off them, sometimes permanently,
00:25:27.920
long after they get off the SSRI drugs. And no one seems to be talking about this. One in eight
00:25:35.180
American adults is hooked on SSRI drugs. And I don't even need to qualify it necessarily with
00:25:41.660
among adults because increasingly these drugs are being prescribed to teenagers and kids, even 12 year
00:25:48.600
olds. A huge number of Americans are on these drugs. There was a study that came out some months ago
00:25:54.200
that suggests that the drugs don't work in the way that we've been told that the drugs work.
00:25:58.880
No one really knows how the drugs work, but we are seeing increasing evidence that these powerful
00:26:03.740
psychiatric drugs that a huge number of Americans are on can have permanent consequences and totally
00:26:10.040
rewire people's personalities. Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction or PSSD is the current term used to
00:26:19.000
describe this phenomenon. PSSD can manifest as a wide range of neurological, physical, and sexual
00:26:25.420
symptoms. Among the most common symptoms reported by sufferers are genital numbness, erectile dysfunction,
00:26:32.780
vaginal dryness, a complete loss of libido, an orgasmia, emotional blunting, anhedonia, and cognitive
00:26:39.720
impairment. These and many more debilitating symptoms can persist for years, decades, or even become
00:26:46.620
permanent after discontinuing the medication. Despite the acknowledgement by various health care
00:26:51.800
organizations that sexual side effects can persist, many sufferers still have their symptoms minimized and
00:26:58.120
dismissed as a valid health care concern. Currently, there is no effective treatment for PSSD, and tragically,
00:27:05.660
some severely affected patients have taken their lives.
00:27:09.260
So there are two keys to me here about this explanation. One, this is not just some kook fringe theory of
00:27:15.600
people who are ascribing consequences to this drug that aren't really there. This is something that's
00:27:23.140
acknowledged by the European Medicine Agency, by the NHS, by all sorts of public health bodies.
00:27:27.640
They're saying, yes, yeah, these drugs can cause all these issues. And they cause all these sexual issues,
00:27:32.280
which is bad enough. Sex is very important to human nature. And so if you totally blunt sex, especially
00:27:40.480
in super young people, especially in teenagers, can you imagine how awful that would be? But then beyond
00:27:45.940
that, what about the emotional blunting? What about the anhedonia, the inability to feel pleasure?
00:27:51.540
What about the cognitive impairment that comes from these powerful psych drugs? Because people don't
00:27:56.480
want to engage in ordinary therapy. Someone says, oh, you know, I'm feeling a little bit sad today.
00:28:02.220
Rather than engage in cognitive behavioral therapy, rather than talking to a counselor or to a priest,
00:28:10.100
rather than addressing the spiritual concerns or just the practical everyday issues that might be causing
00:28:17.180
someone to feel a little sad, what does our culture do? Our culture says, oh, good, take a magic pill.
00:28:21.920
Yeah, take this drug, get hooked on drugs, and it might melt your brain, and it might screw up your entire
00:28:25.940
sexuality, and it might deprive you of the ability to feel pleasure or to think for the rest of your
00:28:31.140
life. But hey, at least then we don't need to confront the problem. Just take a pill. And no
00:28:36.500
one's talking about this? That's insane. The public health bodies are acknowledging that this is a
00:28:42.180
problem. No one talks about it. The rates of prescription just keep going up. We start prescribing
00:28:46.540
it to 12-year-olds? Absolute madness. A simple question might be, we're living in an age of
00:28:57.620
marked sexual dysfunction. There's always weird sex stuff throughout all of history, but we're living
00:29:03.860
at a time where people no longer know the meaning of the word woman, where younger and younger kids
00:29:08.000
are coming out with some pretty bizarre sexual claims. Might our present sexual dysfunction have
00:29:16.140
something to do with the strange fact that one in eight people is now taking these powerful
00:29:20.880
psychiatric drugs, which work in ways that we don't understand at all and which have consequences
00:29:26.940
that very few people want to acknowledge? Might it be wise for our culture to stop being just
00:29:32.740
completely addicted to drugs that screw up our heads, the consequences of which we are only now
00:29:39.480
beginning to consider? Maybe. Seems like a good idea. Meanwhile, though, the evil actors in our society
00:29:47.300
are capitalizing on this confusion, capitalizing on this market opportunity, and prescribing not just
00:29:52.900
these kinds of drugs to people, but all sorts of powerful hormones and chemicals and drugs to
00:29:58.040
confuse young people. Planned Parenthood has now been caught helping teens to transition after not
00:30:07.340
months of counseling, after not receiving multiple psychiatric evaluations, after a 30-minute
00:30:14.800
consultation. 18-year-old kid. He was 17 years old yesterday, turns 18 today. He walks into a Planned
00:30:21.920
Parenthood, chats with someone for around 30 minutes. He'll walk out of there with a transgender
00:30:29.260
prescription. He can go pick it up at the pharmacy down the street, and he can permanently screw up his
00:30:34.300
body. This happened, in fact, according to a report from the Free Beacon. Someone named Fred,
00:30:40.220
I'm assuming that's a pseudonym. I don't know if it refers to a man or a woman. It's all very confusing.
00:30:44.720
He arrives at a local Planned Parenthood clinic in Montclair, New Jersey, on North Fullerton Avenue,
00:30:49.920
at 11 a.m. They can find these data because of phone tracking that his parents used to monitor
00:30:59.480
his whereabouts. 11 a.m. he gets there. By 11.39, he had received a text message from CVS that Fred's
00:31:08.460
estrogen prescription was on the way. So I guess Fred actually is a boy, and he's taking estrogen to
00:31:13.220
seem more like a woman. He shows up, walks in the door at 11 a.m., gets a text from CVS,
00:31:20.480
your prescription's ready to pick up at 11.39, which means there's no way the consultation was
00:31:24.160
30 minutes. It was probably 20 minutes, if that. He goes in, he checks in, he sits, he waits in the
00:31:29.380
waiting room. He goes in, makes small talk with the doctor. The doctor says, okay, so you think you're a
00:31:33.480
chick? He says, yeah, okay, well, here we go. Here's your prescription. They file the prescription.
00:31:37.780
The whole process is 39 minutes. Ordinarily, I can't even believe I'm using the word ordinary
00:31:45.940
to describe this. Ordinarily, when a man wants to completely destroy his body chemistry and pretend
00:31:50.680
to be a woman, ordinarily, in normal circumstances, the guy would go for months and months of psychiatric
00:31:56.000
evaluation, and then eventually some quack would say that he's really a chick and prescribe him all
00:32:00.600
of these drugs. That should not be permitted even under those circumstances. No person should be
00:32:06.260
permitted to inject himself with a bunch of poisons and go under the hacksaw to turn himself into a
00:32:12.880
grotesque caricature of the opposite sex. That shouldn't happen, not for little kids, not for
00:32:16.560
adults, not for anybody. It's a false claim about anthropology, and for the good of society, and
00:32:22.120
especially for the good of these poor, confused people, transgenderism must be eradicated from public
00:32:26.060
life entirely, the whole ideology at every level, of course. But if you're going to do it,
00:32:32.040
at least this should be a very long, drawn-out process where you're making sure that you're
00:32:37.640
not misdiagnosing, that there's not, okay, maybe he's got this psychiatric problem, maybe we could
00:32:43.320
treat his dysphoria in this way, maybe we could do this, maybe we could do that, maybe we could talk
00:32:46.860
him off the ledge. At the very least, here though, 30 minutes, nurse practitioner talks to this person,
00:32:55.940
he's out the door, he's got his script, he shoots himself up with hormones. Why is this happening?
00:33:04.020
Abortion fell 3% within the year after the Dobbs decision. So immediately after the Dobbs decision
00:33:11.260
overruled Roe v. Wade, abortions nationwide dropped 3%. We would hope that it would have dropped more than
00:33:16.200
that. It's taken a little while to implement the changes. In the states that have reimposed strict
00:33:21.860
limits on abortion, abortions dropped by a lot more than that, dropped by 96%. And then some companies
00:33:29.520
started funding people, including the U.S. government, including the U.S. military, started
00:33:32.640
funding people to go to the pro-infanticide states, so the abortions rose in those states.
00:33:38.200
Overall, though, the demand for abortion is decreasing, obviously, as it becomes illegal in certain places.
00:33:45.660
So what's Planned Parenthood going to do? Planned Parenthood's a business. Planned Parenthood needs to sell
00:33:50.140
baby murder. That's their product. That's where they make their money. Planned Parenthood lies and
00:33:55.500
pretends that they make money by handing out condoms to young men in the inner cities. They don't make
00:34:00.680
any money doing that. Very, very little. They pretend they make money by giving women mammograms.
00:34:06.160
They don't even give mammograms. That's just a lie. They make their money by killing babies. And as fewer
00:34:11.580
mothers want to murder their children, Planned Parenthood is going to make less money. So what are they going to
00:34:15.780
do? They're going to make money elsewhere. They're going to have to shift their business
00:34:20.440
model. And the way they're shifting their business model now is by transing teenagers.
00:34:26.480
They're in the business of evil. Planned Parenthood sells evil. That's what they do. They're not going
00:34:31.020
to all of a sudden shift their business model to baking pies for widows, okay? They're not all of a
00:34:35.940
sudden going to shift their business model to running orphanages, okay? They sell evil. So they're going
00:34:40.500
to make their money by murdering babies. They're going to make their money by transing confused
00:34:43.340
teenagers. They're going to make, who knows what, they're probably going to make their money by
00:34:46.060
holding big worship sessions to Moloch if they ban the other two. But they're going to make money
00:34:52.940
somehow. They're going to figure out a way to make money. This is exactly what happened with the so-called
00:34:57.280
Human Rights Campaign, one of the most preposterously named organizations ever in American history.
00:35:01.860
That's the one with the equal sign, the very powerful LGBT group that lobbied to abolish marriage,
00:35:07.880
to redefine marriage at the Supreme Court. And what happened? Once they got it, once Justice
00:35:15.000
Anthony Kennedy rapped poetic at the Supreme Court and said that there's a right to intimacy in the
00:35:20.800
Constitution that means that men and women are no longer distinct and two men can constitute a
00:35:26.740
marriage, what happened? Did the human rights campaign close up shop? Say, okay, we don't want our
00:35:31.640
millions and millions of dollars anymore. We're done. Mission accomplished. We're out of here.
00:35:34.720
No, of course not. There was no longer any demand to change the definition of marriage. They'd
00:35:39.780
already accomplished that. So they instantly, on a dime, they switched and they said, okay,
00:35:45.140
our new mission is to trans everybody. So the organization immediately became a pro-trans
00:35:50.960
organization. It had never been that. It was a redefined marriage organization, but they got to
00:35:55.820
make money somehow. They're going to follow the dollar. They're going to follow their interest.
00:35:59.800
Planned Parenthood doing the same thing. Speaking of shifts, we're now shifting the
00:36:06.000
Speaker of the House of Representatives. And someone who I thought was not going to enter the
00:36:11.360
race did enter the race. That is Steve Scalise. I knew Steve Scalise was interested in the job.
00:36:18.580
He's been on the track for House leadership for many years now. But Steve Scalise has had some health
00:36:22.680
problems in recent years. Some crazy Bernie bro leftist tried to murder him at the congressional
00:36:27.100
baseball game and shot him and he had a long recovery, nearly killed him. And Steve Scalise
00:36:30.980
also has been diagnosed with cancer. So I thought he just was going to not have the bandwidth to be
00:36:37.920
the Speaker of the House. But he's a tough guy and he says he's going to do it anyway. So Steve Scalise
00:36:42.000
is running for Speaker. Jim Jordan is also running for Speaker. You know, I love Jim Jordan. He was on
00:36:48.580
the show somewhat recently. He and I played Face Off together. You can catch that on YouTube.
00:36:52.380
Jim, I've long thought would make an excellent Speaker of the House. And the only reason I hadn't
00:36:57.740
encouraged him to run for it is because I like him too much and I don't wish so terrible a job
00:37:03.000
on him. But these are both good guys. These are both good options. I'm personally, you know,
00:37:12.180
favorably inclined toward Jim Jordan. I just know him better. And, you know, I think he'd be very good.
00:37:17.580
But Steve Scalise could be a good Speaker too. Unfortunately, Donald Trump, the man who many
00:37:22.500
of us were pulling to be Speaker, he's not interested. Who should be Speaker?
00:37:28.160
Who should be Speaker? Who should be Speaker, Mr. President?
00:37:30.760
A lot of people have been pulling me about Speaker. All I can say is we'll do whatever's best for
00:37:35.720
the country and for the Republican Party. Would you take a job?
00:37:40.080
We have some great, great people. Would you take a job?
00:37:44.720
Well, a lot of people have asked me about it. I'm focused. You know, we're leading. I don't know you.
00:37:49.400
I'm sure you don't read too much in the papers. But we're leading by like 50 points for President.
00:37:57.100
You know, my focus is totally on that. If I can help them during the process, then we do it.
00:38:01.940
But we have some great people in the Republican Party that could do a great job as Speaker.
00:38:06.660
Marjorie Taylor Greene called for you to be Speaker yesterday. Did you accept?
00:38:12.160
A lot of other people have called for that too.
00:38:14.000
I'll do whatever it is to help. But my focus, my total focus is being president and quite honestly
00:38:21.620
making America great again because we are living in a country in decline. This is a country that's
00:38:28.420
failing badly. We're not respected in the world. Interest rates are through the roof. Taxes are
00:38:33.920
through the roof. Inflation is horrible. What it's done to us is eating us alive.
00:38:38.900
Okay, so Trump's not going to be Speaker. No one really thought that he was going to be Speaker.
00:38:42.420
My takeaway from that answer though is not just that he doesn't want the job. Of course he doesn't.
00:38:47.940
It's the worst job in Washington. My takeaway is not just that he wants to be president. He does
00:38:51.860
want to be president. My takeaway is counter to what a lot of consultant class Republicans will say
00:38:59.140
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Mmm. Mmm. That's good. My favorite comment yesterday is from dark avenger 4214 who says,
00:40:08.120
Alex Jones for speaker. I guess I hadn't even considered it. That might be the greatest option
00:40:15.400
because then you could have the speaker, the leader of Congress and the insurrectionists
00:40:24.980
from January 6th, they could become the same people. You could have Alex Jones introducing
00:40:31.100
the horn hat guy to give a speech on the floor of the house. Ladies and gentlemen, before we get to
00:40:36.460
the president, ladies and gentlemen, before we get to the state of the union, I would like to introduce
00:40:41.360
to you, the shaman. And then the shaman could go out and he'd make a hell of a lot more sense than
00:40:44.940
Joe Biden does. Damning with faint praise, but still, no question about it. That would be, that
00:40:48.800
would be great. Donald Trump, surprisingly, contrary to what so many people will have you believe,
00:40:57.960
has excellent message discipline. When he was asked, will you be the speaker of that? So thank you.
00:41:02.200
I'm happy to help, but no, I'm not. I'm running for president. I'm up 50 points. So he always hits,
00:41:07.020
I'm up, I'm leading. I'm the number one guy. I've got the nomination. But it's not just that.
00:41:12.260
He then goes further and he says, he just launches into a stump speech. He says, the economy's
00:41:18.160
terrible and everything under Joe Biden's awful and families are hurting and the borders open and
00:41:23.560
whatever the parts of his stump speech are, he launches right into it. He never misses an opportunity
00:41:28.200
to hammer home the four or five points on which his campaign is built, which contradicts
00:41:35.060
something we've been told about Trump, which is that he's a demagogue. Donald Trump is not a
00:41:39.820
demagogue. Donald Trump, for all of his sins, for all of his flaws, for all of his eccentricities,
00:41:45.080
is kind of the opposite of a demagogue. A demagogue is one who totally changes his message
00:41:51.520
based on what group he's speaking to. A demagogue is like Perón, Juan Perón down in Argentina,
00:41:59.920
or for a more modern American example. Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton could go into any room
00:42:04.860
and he could charm the pants off everybody and he could have everybody believing that he agrees with
00:42:09.260
them. Barack Obama does the same thing. Barack Obama once bragged, he said that in politics he
00:42:15.080
could go into a room and make everyone in that room, even if they have different views, think that
00:42:19.900
he was on their side. That's not Trump. Trump can offend people even who are on his side, but he's
00:42:26.500
going to stick to his message. Every one of his speeches is the same thing. We've got to stop the
00:42:30.560
immigration. We've got to build the wall. We've got to have trade tariffs. We've got to make America
00:42:36.720
great again. This is a country in decline. He just hits the same points no matter who he's talking to.
00:42:41.340
He could be talking to a crowd at the MAGA auditorium or he could be talking to his grandmother.
00:42:47.340
He's going to stay the same thing. And he's focused and he's clearly running as though he's already
00:42:52.420
clinched the nomination. He's running for the general now. Could he, could he, we see an upset
00:42:57.500
in Iowa? Maybe. I wouldn't count on it if Trump is still leading in Iowa among committed delegates.
00:43:03.700
I think it's something like two to one over his next rival DeSantis, but maybe, maybe the DeSantis
00:43:07.500
campaign puts everything into Iowa and they pull an upset in Iowa. They would have to do the same
00:43:11.220
in New Hampshire, which doesn't look possible because I think DeSantis is four or five in New
00:43:14.560
Hampshire now. So maybe, I don't know, let's say Nikki Haley pulls an upset in New Hampshire. Okay.
00:43:18.300
And then you get down to South Carolina. Who knows? Maybe Tim Scott, maybe Nikki Haley pulling
00:43:22.460
upset in South Carolina. And then what's going to happen in Florida? Probably Trump is going to win
00:43:26.640
Florida. I don't know. Maybe DeSantis wins Florida. I don't know. Then you go to Nevada, almost certainly
00:43:31.320
Trump is going to win Nevada. I just, for all of these campaigns, I just don't see how this ends up any
00:43:40.320
different than it did in 2016. There were all these moments when Cruz could have won it or Rubio could
00:43:45.280
have won it or Kasich, probably not Kasich, but somebody could have won it. And it just,
00:43:49.360
it just never materialized. And I don't see that any difference now, other than that Trump is up by
00:43:54.620
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Limited time only, exclusions do apply. Speaking of politicians, the new California senator,
00:44:32.820
Lafonza Butler, she was the one immediately named by Governor Patrick Bateman to fill the seat
00:44:39.920
vacated when Dianne Feinstein died. She is the president of Emily's List. Emily's List is a
00:44:45.100
group that works to elect pro-abortion women to public office. So she's a real, she's a treat,
00:44:50.740
you know, this one. Her raison d'etre, the thing that gets her out of bed in the morning is just
00:44:56.740
getting women elected who are going to be more inclined to murder babies. This woman now is a
00:45:01.960
U.S. senator, but there's a problem, which is that she's the senator from California,
00:45:06.100
but she doesn't live in California. She lives in Maryland. And if you go to the website of Emily's
00:45:11.880
List, her Maryland residence was listed there until they scrubbed it in mid-September.
00:45:19.340
Rob Pyers, who's a research director of the California Target Book, looks at all these finance
00:45:24.260
filings. This woman was listed as being a Maryland resident as recently as August 31st. So is that
00:45:31.480
going to take her out? Is LaFonza Butler no longer going to be the senator, the senatrix from California?
00:45:38.640
No, no one's going to care. Nobody's going to care at all. It used to be a really good attack
00:45:44.860
in politics to say that so-and-so is a carpetbagger. You know, he just moved from D.C. to this district
00:45:49.180
so he could win Congress. That would sometimes work. Doesn't really work anymore because national
00:45:55.680
identity and ideological identity, perhaps even more so, has overtaken state identity.
00:46:02.640
And the first part of that was actually predicted and encouraged by the founding fathers and the
00:46:07.920
framers in The Federalist. The Publius, you know, who's an amalgam of Alexander Hamilton and James
00:46:15.000
Madison and John Jay, they wrote in The Federalist about how initially in the early days of the country,
00:46:20.800
state allegiances and state identity are going to be tippity-top. But then over time, people are going
00:46:28.060
to lose a little bit of their flavor of their state identity and take on more of a national American
00:46:32.640
identity. Well, that's happened. No one really cares now. You know, even for me, if there were a really
00:46:38.920
good conservative, but he happened not to be from my state, but he could be the senator from my state, I'd
00:46:44.260
strongly consider voting for that person. What's a little dangerous, though, not exactly encouraged by
00:46:51.480
the founding fathers and the framers, is that ideological identity has taken over probably even
00:46:56.500
American identities and national identity, such that probably the Californians would be perfectly fine
00:47:03.120
having a senator from any country, as long as that senator were as fanatically dedicated to killing
00:47:09.320
babies and all the other nonsense on their agenda, as Lafonso Butler and as they are. And that does not
00:47:18.300
strengthen American national identity. That threatens its very essence. Today's Theology Thursday. We have
00:47:24.760
a very special guest. My friend Tim Gordon is going to be on the show to talk about this story that many
00:47:29.580
of you have written about. The Catholic Church is heading into the synod and synodality. No one really
00:47:35.740
knows what this thing is, but we're seeing all these news reports that is the church going to
00:47:39.300
change teaching on marriage? Is the church going to change teaching on whether women can be priests?
00:47:45.420
They can't be priests. They can be priestesses, I guess. And what is going on? Well, I've brought on
00:47:50.480
someone who knows a lot more about it than I do. Tim Gordon. The show continues now. You don't want to
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