Did the National Institutes of Health fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China before the COID19 pandemic? Is it even a thing? And if so, how much money was spent on it?
00:08:37.760This is just one exchange, a famous one between the conservative John Major and the Democrat, the liberal, new laborer, Tony Blair back in the 90s.
00:08:51.440Perhaps, Madam Speaker, he would like to tell me whether he has received the support of the 50 MPs who defied his front bench over Massachusetts.
00:09:02.280Madam Speaker, there's one very big difference.
00:15:56.780They've been trying to push this for years.
00:15:58.640I remember years, I think decades ago at this point, they found a couple of penguins, male penguins at the Central Park Zoo, who held flippers one time.
00:16:07.800And they said, see, they're gay penguins.
00:16:09.460Look at these gay penguins or whatever.
00:16:11.640And a lot of the studies about the gay animals are dubious, let's say.
00:16:21.300Well, all that means is that we're exalting behavior that is conducted by irrational beasts who do all sorts of terrible things like rape and eat and murder each other all the time.
00:16:32.460And we wouldn't defend those behaviors because we recognize that there are two meanings to the word normal.
00:16:38.540And I guess that's the slate of hand that the liberals are using here.
00:16:42.060They're saying all this kind of behavior is normal.
00:16:44.200I don't really know where they get the transgenderism in the animal kingdom other than animals that are by nature hermaphroditic.
00:16:53.220But I don't think there are too many zebras going in and getting things chopped off.
00:16:58.160But the slate of hand is this double meaning of the word normal.
00:17:03.540Because normal can refer to the common behavior of a group.
00:17:07.920And normal can also refer to an abstract standard to which we aspire, which we try to uphold.
00:17:17.660Norms, you know, like standards and norms.
00:17:19.800And those things are rather different.
00:17:21.440The reason those things are different is because this is a fallen world.
00:17:24.680The dual meaning of the word normal, in fact, is one evidence or one way that we all implicitly acknowledge original sin.
00:17:33.060Because we know that the world ought to be different than it is.
00:17:36.840Something is broken and fallen about the world.
00:17:40.080But when we as human beings who do have abstract reason, who can think about justice,
00:17:44.920and we all, even if you want to deny that there is such a thing as reason or objective truth,
00:17:51.600we all behave as though there is because we put human beings on trial for rape and murder and violations of justice.
00:18:51.880But no, there are, yeah, there is common behavior in a fallen world.
00:18:55.900But there's also the behavior that we know we ought to exhibit because we have reason and conscience.
00:19:00.680So we can deny that, but that makes us no higher than the beasts.
00:19:06.540And the beasts do all sorts of nasty things.
00:19:09.020Now, speaking of pop culture, I have just seen what I think is, without question, the lamest clip ever to be recorded over the past century.
00:19:22.180And that would be Joe Biden's Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, playing guitar and singing a Neil Young song in Kiev, in his official position as Secretary of State.
00:20:35.540But if you're going to do the Neil Young song, this sort of ugly, lame, boomer Neil Young song, you might as well do the, keep on rocking in a free world.
00:21:07.200It called to mind what I had previously thought was the lamest clip to go around, which was the, in 2015, the then Secretary of State, the lib John Kerry, deciding to console France in the wake of a terror attack by flying out James Taylor.
00:22:33.160Diddies sung by old hippies are not going to solve political problems in the world.
00:22:37.740Maybe that's the problem with Biden's grand strategy.
00:22:40.140Biden thinks that the way you solve geopolitical problems is by, you know, ripping a bong and just grooving to the vibes of some old hippies who think that their acoustic guitar is going to bring world peace.
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00:25:40.560She is supposedly the moderate on the view.
00:25:43.700And she was incensed by Harrison Butker's speech at Benedictine College.
00:25:49.440So she went on this diatribe against Catholicism.
00:25:54.520Colin Kaepernick was standing up for the rights of many and saying in a social justice moment, this is a reminder that we're not there yet.
00:26:02.360What this man is doing is not just a devout Catholic.
00:26:05.040This is someone who's practicing something called the traditional Latin mass, which is divergent from the majority of Catholics.
00:26:12.240It's compared to being cult-like and extremists like some religions in the Middle East and Asia.
00:26:19.660And what bothers me about that as a Christian is that when people abuse Christianity, they often not only cherry-pick from the Bible, they misinterpret and lie by omission, by taking out parts that would have explained something a little better.
00:26:35.880So what I can say to him as a Christian is if you're using this to oppress a people or hold them down, you're not walking with Jesus.
00:26:42.840If you are using the religion, if you are more obsessed with the religious rituals and practices than you are with the word of Jesus, you're not walking with Jesus.
00:26:49.720And if you're using it for the judgment of others and as a weapon to beat people down, you're also not walking with Jesus.
00:26:55.300So I would really encourage him, really encourage him to find the best parts of faith and not diverge into extremists.
00:27:02.900So declares Pope Sarah Haynes, nihil obstat.
00:27:08.540So much of, I mean, virtually everything she said there was wrong.
00:27:12.700Her knowledge of Christianity seems to be a little weak here.
00:27:17.040She says, look, he's a devout Catholic, this Harrison Butker.
00:39:53.400I'm a 27-year-old Midwesterner now living in Bethlehem, Connecticut.
00:39:56.340I studied poli-sci and econ while in university, but ended up dropping out because I was more interested in partying than I was in studying for gen eds.
00:40:02.260I enlisted in the Navy and volunteered for the submarine service.
00:40:04.820This is where I learned the value of a hard day's work and the importance of truth and clarity.
00:40:08.320I finished my contract and now have a good-paying job in IT.
00:40:11.120While I'm not discontent with a 9-to-5 like some of our lazy leftist friends, I feel the same sort of calling that I felt when I left university.
00:40:16.540I feel compelled to do my part in retaking the traditional political order and restoring American greatness in any way that I can.
00:40:22.080Are there any traditional or conservative NGOs, research institutes, or other such entities in the legal world that you would recommend looking into for potential internships or eventual employment for someone in my circumstance?
00:40:31.460I can't be the only one trying to fight the good fight.
00:40:36.300I mean, the first one that comes to my head is America First Legal, which is founded by Stephen Miller.
00:40:41.760It's a relatively new organization that focuses on, I believe it's nonprofit, and it focuses on conservative, Republican, right-wing lawfare.
00:40:54.620So that would seem like a pretty good one.
00:40:57.200There's some really prominent conservative lawyers out there who do all sorts of great work in private practice, but also in politics.
00:41:04.640I think of like Harmeet Dhillon, for instance, who almost became the head of the RNC.
00:41:20.200I don't want to offend the other groups by just naming a few of them and not all of them, but the reason that America First Legal comes to mind is it's just been so in the news lately.
00:41:57.320So a couple of days ago, Vivek Ramaswamy did an interview with Ann Coulter in which she said that although she agrees with all of Vivek's policies, she wouldn't vote for him because he is Indian.
00:42:06.320Now, I'm sure the entire left and half the right are busy calling her a racist this morning.
00:42:11.280However, she actually elaborated on her position a fair bit, and she expressed a concern that immigrants and even the children of immigrants, people like Vivek or myself, might be indoctrinated into certain views that aren't uniquely American.
00:42:26.280You know, they may not understand our opinions on free speech or freedom of religion or the right to bear arms.
00:42:33.120And she even said that she would probably vote for Vivek's children.
00:42:38.420So whatever her position is, it isn't racist.
00:42:41.240Now, I am curious, do you think there is any legitimacy to Ann's views, specifically to her concern about people who either immigrated here or who are the children of immigrants being handed the reins of power?
00:43:36.540It's a place with habits and with geography and with history and with peoples who have come at different times for different reasons and developed in different ways.
00:43:48.160And you just kind of get some of that into your bones.
00:43:51.480Some of that knowledge is not totally conscious and is somewhat inherited and just ingrained through habit.
00:43:59.860So, if you're fresh off the boat, you're probably not going to have that.
00:44:05.360It's kind of like the argument for hereditary monarchy and why hereditary monarchies can often be more stable than tinpot dictatorships, say, in the Banana Republics.
00:44:15.860Because, like, the Windsors have been bred for generations to just do the stuff that the monarchs are supposed to do.
00:45:05.080I was wondering if you could give me your perspective on something.
00:45:07.340On X, formerly Twitter, there's a lot of pornographic material.
00:45:13.820I had sent a tweet over to Elon Musk asking if he will remove all the pornographic material from X.
00:45:25.040But what is your view on this in terms of a freedom of speech issue?
00:45:32.240I know that the graphic images are harmful and that children will have easy access to this.
00:45:43.480So I don't believe that this is something that should be covered in the freedom of speech.
00:45:49.100But I know the people will argue against it in the form of art, saying that it is similar to the Renaissance paintings and the appreciation of the human form, even if it is taken in a grotesque way.
00:46:15.360Porn is not protected by free speech because porn is obscene.
00:46:19.460And we can distinguish pornography from art rather easily, actually.
00:46:28.080You know, to quote, what was it, Justice Potter Stewart, it's hard to define, but you know it when you see it.
00:46:33.800So the way that we do that now through America's legal system, and it's somewhat unfortunate because I think we should have an even lower threshold for obscenity.
00:46:43.680I think we ought to be able to regulate obscenity more easily than we do today.
00:46:52.080The first one is, would an average person applying contemporary community standards find that this content appeals to the prurient interest?
00:47:03.620Would this content, is it just, you know, libidinous?