00:05:24.600Absolutely horrifying, scandalous, totally predictable story coming out of Canada.
00:05:32.380An 83-year-old grandmother has been euthanized against her will up in Canada.
00:05:40.280Euthanized against her will is not just a euphemism. It's a double euphemism. A euphemism
00:05:46.900is a nice word. It's a good-sounding word that covers up a harsh reality. This is indeed much
00:05:54.740the subject of my best-selling book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available
00:05:59.420at a bookstore near you. The euphemisms cover up harsh realities with nice words. Euthanasia
00:06:06.560is one of those euphemisms. Euthanasia uses the same prefix, E-U, meaning good. It's supposed to
00:06:13.340be the good death. Now, for most of our history, a good death is not just some instantaneous death
00:06:19.760that catches us unawares. It's certainly not a suicide. The good death was the death that you
00:06:23.920could plan for. Weirdly, now we say the good death is like a piano falls on your head from the sky.
00:06:28.940In most of the history of our civilization, a good death would have been the kind of death
00:06:32.720that you see coming. It would have been a long-term illness. And the reason that was
00:06:35.820considered the good death is so that you can get your affairs in order, your temporal affairs and
00:06:39.580your eternal affairs, that you can confess your sins, you can die in friendship with God, and you
00:06:44.480can look forward to being with God in heaven forever. Now, because our civilization doesn't
00:06:48.700believe in God anymore, now we've totally flipped that on its head. So we use this word euthanasia
00:06:53.040to mean suicide, which is the very worst death, because suicide is the ultimate act of despair.
00:06:57.680It's an extremely grave sin, so that has eternal consequences. But even for people who aren't that
00:07:02.360religious, even just at a very human, terrestrial kind of level, it's really sad, right? It's the
00:07:09.440final thing you do in your sojourn on earth is given to despair. You kill yourself. It's the0.99
00:07:15.360very worst possible death. Now, though, it's gone further, and it apparently means murder.
00:07:19.140So there's this woman. We know this because it's been exclusive in the Daily Mail,
00:07:22.760written by this woman's family. They say, our 83-year-old Christian grandmother was euthanized
00:07:27.840against her will under Canada's assisted dying system. She died covered in blood with her hands
00:07:33.760clasped in prayer. I won't go through the whole article. As you can see, it's pretty lengthy. I
00:07:38.940encourage you to read the whole thing on your own time. This is really, really horrifying. We know
00:07:43.300that a few years ago, Canada legalized doctor-assisted suicide. And all of us social
00:07:49.240conservatives were warning, this is not death with dignity. This is not just keeping very,
00:07:54.400very sick, very, very old people from the last few days of suffering. This is going to be expanded.1.00
00:07:59.820This is how a lot of people are going to die. Now, one in 20 Canadians who die each year
00:08:03.280die via government-sanctioned suicide. That number is only going to increase. And it's not0.98
00:08:08.980just going to be the people in their absolute perfect right mind or who are in excruciating
00:08:12.900pain who can expect to die within hours or days. No, no. This is going to be expanded to start
00:08:17.880preying on vulnerable people, people who are not fully in command of their mental faculties,
00:08:22.600people who are young, people who are depressed, people who the state just doesn't want to pay for
00:08:27.000because in Canada they have a socialist healthcare system and people are expensive. It's expensive to
00:08:32.480take care of people. So there's this very perverse incentive to just shuffle people off, especially
00:08:36.540because end-of-life care constitutes the bulk, the lion's share of healthcare spending. So if you can
00:08:42.480kill people a little bit earlier, the state is going to save a lot of money. Two days before0.98
00:08:47.920this Christian grandmother was killed by doctors in Canada. Her granddaughter sat her down and told
00:08:55.120her what was going to happen. She said, do you know that you're going to die on Friday?
00:08:59.040And the 83-year-old granny who was suffering from dementia was in disbelief, and she started
00:09:03.680sobbing for 45 minutes. She said, I've made a mistake. She was bawling, inconsolable,
00:09:10.500according to the granddaughter. Now, it wasn't the granddaughter who pushed this on her. It
00:09:14.100wasn't the family that pushed this on her. It was the assisted living facility that she was at.
00:09:19.420The assisted living facility goes in, apparently just dupes the grandmother. According to this
00:09:24.560report, the assisted living facility just goes in and starts using all of these other euphemisms.
00:09:29.960They go up to where they say, hey, you're going to be at peace. We're going to do something. You're
00:09:34.940going to be at peace. You're not going to feel pain anymore. The assisted living facility wouldn't
00:09:38.080even talk about death in blunt terms. That's the whole point of a euphemism, is you don't talk
00:09:41.740about the harsh reality. And this grandmother who took a cognitive test, failed all of the questions,
00:09:46.900didn't know how many siblings she had, didn't know who the prime minister was, didn't know much of
00:09:50.660anything. She was led by these monsters at the assisted living facility into agreeing to kill0.96
00:09:56.780herself. 48 hours after she was weeping uncontrollably at the notion of doctor-assisted0.88
00:10:02.980suicide, she died with her hands clasped in prayer covered in her own blood. Why was there blood?
00:10:09.000Well, the reason there was blood is because these terrible nurses were just trying to1.00
00:10:13.100stick her full of IVs so they could administer the poison.1.00
00:10:15.540And they weren't hit in vain, so they were just kind of roughly stabbing her wherever
00:10:18.760they could to make sure the poison was going in.
00:10:21.420This was causing a lot of blood to come out, apparently, not to be too graphic about it,
00:10:24.580but apparently the bed was covered in blood, the pillowcase, the clothing.
00:10:29.120And the granddaughter observes, the nurse wasn't even wearing gloves.
00:10:33.800And you might say, well, this is just barbaric.
00:10:35.240this is clearly a problem of the implementation of this policy by the nurse. I mean, the nurse
00:10:40.660wasn't wearing gloves, to which I would say, why would the nurse wear gloves? The reason a nurse0.94
00:10:45.020would wear gloves in sticking a needle into someone's vein is to prevent the person whose0.99
00:10:50.640vein they're sticking it into from getting an infection. Because the purpose of medical care
00:10:55.800is to care for people, to treat people, to make them healthier. But this is the opposite of
00:11:00.420medical care. We call it medical care. It's another euphemism, but it's not. These are
00:11:04.620executioners. These are murderers. These are hitmen. So they don't really care if they infect1.00
00:11:09.360the granny. If the procedure goes well, the granny is going to be dead within minutes. So why? Okay,0.98
00:11:13.800she got a little infection at the end. There was a phenomenal amount of blood, says the family,
00:11:19.740all over grandma's arm, nightie, so on and so forth. Then, I'll leave it here. You can read
00:11:28.040the other lurid details on your own. After the needle was fitted in, the 83-year-old repeatedly
00:11:33.260ripped it off, screaming, I don't want the death shot. But she was killed anyway. This recalls a
00:11:40.780similar scene that happened in Belgium. You hear other reports about this out of the Netherlands
00:11:45.260as doctor-assisted suicide has spread throughout the West. A general rule of thumb,
00:11:52.600the more flowery the euphemism, the more brutal the reality. That's just across the board. We
00:11:58.400talk about butchering little babies in the womb, what do we call it? We call it a woman's choice.1.00
00:12:05.460That was the initial one, a woman's choice, a woman's right to choose. Right to choose what?0.99
00:12:10.680I had the right to choose eggs or pancakes for my breakfast this morning. Is that what we're
00:12:14.540talking about? No, we're talking about a woman killing a baby. Then right to choose, because of0.99
00:12:20.780the euphemism treadmill, because the underlying brutal reality of these procedures eventually
00:12:24.800comes to people's attention again. They just have to swap out the euphemism.
00:12:28.460So women's right to choose became women's health. Is it health? It's the opposite of health. Health0.68
00:12:32.200is when you make someone better. Abortion or euthanasia, assisted suicide, is when you kill0.95
00:12:38.480somebody. Those are totally opposite things. When I call my grandma up, I say, hey, grandma,
00:12:43.360how you doing? She says, oh, you know, it's a little tough. I've got some aches and pains.
00:12:46.680My friends died. But hey, at least I have my right to abortion. Does she say that? No. She0.61
00:12:50.580says, at least I have my health. But those are different things. Another one we've heard in
00:12:55.420recent years is gender affirming care. What is gender affirming care? Gender affirming care for
00:13:00.120me is when I go out and smoke a cigar and shoot guns. I'm a man. I affirm my gender by doing
00:13:05.360manly things. I don't know. I watch a baseball game, have a drink. It's gender affirming care.
00:13:10.640That's not what they mean by it, though. Gender affirming care is when you chop off someone's0.98
00:13:13.340genitals and make them seem like the opposite gender. Well, that's the opposite of what gender1.00
00:13:17.320affirming care would be. The flowerier the euphemism, the more brutal the underlying reality0.98
00:13:22.600time and time again. That is a very reliable rule. So in this case, we have the euphemisms of
00:13:29.600death with dignity. Of course, suicide is the exact opposite. It is the least dignified way
00:13:36.920to die possible. If you're getting shipped off on the boxcars by some dictator, that's a very
00:13:43.480unpleasant way to die, but there's a kind of dignity to it. You are not participating in
00:13:47.900your own death. You are standing as a man. If you're an early Christian martyr being fed to
00:13:53.460the lions in the Colosseum, that's a very unpleasant way to die, but there's a dignity
00:13:57.180to it. You're standing on your feet, praising your God. You're one of those Coptic Christians
00:14:00.340getting your head chopped off by ISIS, but you're shouting out the name of your savior.0.99
00:14:05.180That's a dignified way to go, even if it's a little painful. This is the opposite.0.98
00:14:09.460This sometimes is not painful. Clearly, sometimes it is, if you look at this woman.
00:14:13.480but it's deeply undignified. The last thing you're doing on earth is giving up.
00:14:19.240You have to ask yourself. I mean, the pro-life movement asks this once we dig through all the
00:14:24.300euphemisms on abortion. We say, do we want to live in a country that murders a million babies a year?
00:14:30.160Because you know what abortion really is? It's like going into a woman. It's a doctor going0.97
00:14:34.420into a woman and crushing skulls and ripping off body parts and injecting poison that burns the
00:14:39.500I mean, again, I don't want to be too vivid, but I guess the whole point of discussing the story is to get past the haze of euphemism into the vivid reality so that we can determine whether or not we want that.
00:14:53.700I think if most people in this country confronted the reality of abortion, we would not have abortion, or abortion would be severely limited geographically and in scope.
00:15:05.820The way that they get away with promoting abortion is by pulling a Wizard of Oz trick
00:15:11.820and not allowing people to see what's really behind the curtain.0.93
00:17:55.540President Trump announces that effective immediately, he is banning fake news CNN,
00:18:01.420MS Now, which recently changed its name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility,
00:18:05.860and Politico, recipients of money under Joe Biden, details that whole scandal,
00:18:10.720from the White House as a result of their constant reporting of fake news. Media outlets
00:18:15.820should not be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when they're covering the
00:18:18.860president of the United States, the Trump administration, or the United States of America,
00:18:23.180other fake news media outlets to follow. So they're losing it. The libs are losing. I was
00:18:27.020on Chris Cuomo's show last night. We were debating this. And Chris said, this strikes at the very
00:18:31.820heart of the First Amendment. It was funny too, Chris and I got into a little quibble about Dante,
00:18:36.980which is very funny because as you may know, I love Dante. Chris apparently wrote his senior
00:18:41.660thesis in college on Dante. But he said in Dante, the lowest levels of hell are reserved for the
00:18:47.440hypocrites and the traitors. I said, well, hold on. He said, Michael, you're a hypocrite. That's0.98
00:18:53.920what he was implying, because I'm a journalist. Technically, I'm a journalist, and so I should
00:18:59.140stand with my fellow journalists and demand that MSNBC get a seat at the White House.
00:19:03.360He said, Dante would have put you in the lowest circles of hell. I said, no, no, no, no, no.
00:19:06.900The lowest circles of hell are not just reserved for the hypocrites.0.98
00:19:10.400The malebolge, the eighth circle, is reserved broadly for fraud, for fraudsters, people who0.97
00:19:16.760perpetuate fraud, counselors of fraud. So that might include the hypocrites, but even more0.95
00:19:22.460serious than that, it's the people who perpetuate fraud, which is an argument to kick these people0.99
00:19:26.340out of the White House because they are fraudsters. All of these liberal outlets that Trump is
00:19:32.260pushing out, he's pushing them out because he says they're not reporting the truth.
00:19:37.080And so there are two arguments to defend this. One is they're big libs and we don't like what
00:19:42.320they're saying about the White House. And so on an ideological basis, we're going to kick them
00:19:45.640I have no problem with that in principle, but it's going to fall into legal hurdles because there was a circuit court decision in 1977 that said that once the White House opens its doors to the press, it can't discriminate based on viewpoint.
00:19:58.820Barack Obama discriminated based on viewpoint when he excluded Fox News from an interview back in 2009.
00:20:04.020Joe Biden discriminated on viewpoint when he spiked a press pass for the New York Post in 2023.
00:21:18.280What he's doing is saying, we're not going to give you special access to the White House if you engage in what is effectively propaganda.
00:21:24.380We have to remember, those three outlets account, about 92% of the stories that they have on the president of the United States, on the administration, are negative.
00:21:32.360That's not representative of the American people.
00:21:34.200It's not representative of public opinion.
00:21:36.580So if you're going to engage in what is effectively far-left propaganda,
00:21:40.120why would a Republican White House give you special access?
00:21:42.960Sir, you've talked a lot about free speech over the years.
00:21:45.280How is this not an attack on free speech?
00:21:47.120Well, they can still report on the Trump White House.
00:21:49.040They can still get the public reports.
00:21:51.020They can still, of course, talk to people in the administration and outside the administration.
00:21:54.960What the president has said is we're not going to give you special access inside the White House.
00:21:58.860Okay, so great point, and J.D. Vance is totally right on the historical precedent here.
00:22:04.000the press has no right to proximity, to access to the White House. Some of the administration's
00:22:08.980defenders are being totally open on the ideological line. They're saying, yeah,
00:22:12.740Trump doesn't like that CNN and MSNBC and Politico are pushing a liberal anti-Trump agenda,
00:22:20.500so he's going to kick them out. Again, I don't care. To me, kicking a few reporters out of the
00:22:25.420White House is a good start. Not only is it not a grave violation of the First Amendment,
00:22:29.120I think it's a good start. I think we need to kick more people out. By the way, I was around0.78
00:22:33.360in 2021 when The Daily Wire repeatedly asked the Biden administration for a press pass and was
00:22:39.360repeatedly denied. I was around in 2021 when The Daily Wire was the biggest news publisher
00:22:45.780on the biggest news platform, Facebook, on all of social media, and somehow we kept getting
00:22:55.040denied a press pass. Do you think that was because we were irrelevant, or do you think that was
00:22:59.520because the Biden administration was discriminating against us along ideological lines. It was
00:23:03.440obviously the latter. But you could go further. You could make a more solid case from the Trump
00:23:07.720administration and say, the reason that Trump is kicking out these reporters is one, they're
00:23:12.700very limited seats. There are thousands of news outlets and reporters who want access to the
00:23:16.540White House. There are only 50 seats in the briefing room, many fewer seats on Air Force
00:23:20.240One and in the Oval Office. So you have to ration them somehow. And CNN, MSNBC, Politico,
00:23:25.920beyond the ideological basis, they just get the stories wrong. They are incompetent very often
00:23:31.820in their reporting. Think about going all the way back to the first Trump administration to 2017.
00:23:39.160Think about just the retractions. Think about just the stories that these outlets ran that
00:23:43.080were so egregious they had to pull them. 2017, CNN said that the Senate was investigating Trump
00:23:48.740for taking money from the Russians. You remember that one? Probably you don't. There have been so
00:23:52.440many fake news stories you don't even remember it. CNN had to retract that one. CNN also said
00:23:56.500Trump colluded with WikiLeaks to get those DNC emails that were allegedly hacked. They had to
00:24:01.600retract that one. That was false. Politico ran a story, said Trump owed the Bank of China
00:24:07.040tens of millions of dollars. That was totally false. MSNBC said a similar story that Russian
00:24:15.740oligarchs co-signed a loan for Donald Trump. That one they had to pull. MSNBC reported that Tulsi
00:24:21.620gabbard once said that trump and putin were very good friends they had to pull that one
00:24:26.440all of these outlets were misreporting information on the steel dossier on hunter biden's laptop on
00:24:34.120and on and on hunter biden's laptop that story totally covered up by the press a post 2020
00:24:38.740election report showed that had the public known about the hunter biden laptop had the press not
00:24:42.840covered it up trump would have won the election it was a 12 point swing according to the after
00:24:49.720election report. So in any case, I think you'd make a pretty narrow argument here that the press
00:24:54.840are just bad at their jobs. Even beyond ideology, again, full cards on the table. I don't care about
00:25:01.720kicking people out on based on ideology. I think the 1977 court decision is ridiculous. I think0.94
00:25:06.700viewpoint neutrality generally is ridiculous. I don't think that you can have a government based
00:25:12.180on pure neutral procedures rather than substantive goods. So I think that's crazy. But even given all
00:25:19.200of that. This is the way to get them. That's the way to hit them. Where's your solidarity with
00:25:25.740MSNBC? I have no solidarity with MSNBC. Now, speaking of very, very confused liberal journalists,
00:25:32.700Nicole Hannah-Jones, the liberal journalist of our era, the woman who writes for the New York
00:25:39.180Times, wrote the 1619 Project that sought to reframe American history and transform it from
00:25:45.160a story of settling and freedom and liberty and justice for all. So to reframe that and say that
00:25:53.320America is essentially all about slavery, the country did not begin in 1607 with Jamestown.
00:25:59.220It didn't begin in 1620 with the Mayflower, which is a great cigar, by the way. It began in 1619
00:26:03.340when the first slave ship arrived. And the American Revolution was not fought to defend0.65
00:26:07.900our freedoms, to assert our rights as Englishmen, to defend our American way of life. No, no. It
00:26:14.240was fought to preserve slavery. A claim that was so insane that even left-wing academic historians
00:26:18.980wrote into the New York Times said, this is totally baseless. Months and months later,
00:26:23.280after millions of dollars of promotion, after this stupid report had entered into curricula0.97
00:26:27.660around the country, months and months later, the New York Times had to retract their story or0.97
00:26:31.200correct it and say, yeah, actually, okay, we got that wrong. The American Revolution was not fought
00:26:35.560to defend slavery. In any case, Nicole Hannah-Jones has been doing a little introspection.
00:26:40.540and nicole hannah jones realizes she's done something very very wrong
00:26:44.560in order to promote her own leftist policies specifically around education
00:26:52.360she admits she betrayed her own daughter she sacrificed her own daughter's education see0.95
00:26:58.940she sent her to a public school that she knew was bad rather than the better schools that she could
00:27:04.720have gotten into the private schools that she could have afforded she sent her to a school she0.75
00:27:08.420knew was bad, sacrificed her education, betrayed her kid. Sacrificed her kid to the left-wing0.99
00:27:14.680political revolution, and it was all for nothing. We'll get to that delightful introspection.
00:27:19.420Very sad story for the kid, but it's good that at least Nicole Hannah-Jones is thinking.
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