Ep. 720 - Social Justice Warriors at the Pentagon
Summary
When even the military goes woke, conservatives have no institutional power left. Top military leaders are attacking a conservative journalist for suggesting that pregnant women don t make the best soldiers. Plus, a new branch of the military was announced under President Trump, and Tucker Carlson says pregnant women are not the most lethal.
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Top military leaders are attacking a conservative journalist for suggesting that pregnant women maybe don't make the best soldiers.
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Listening to PC diatribes from the Pentagon is pathetic. It is dispiriting.
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But it is teaching right-wingers an important lesson.
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When even the military goes woke, conservatives have no institutional power left.
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Military was sort of the last one where we thought, oh, that's kind of a conservative institution.
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The command senior enlisted leader of the U.S. Space Command.
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So this is obviously the new branch of the military was announced under President Trump.
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Scott Stalker, he got very upset because Tucker Carlson said that pregnant women are not the most lethal people on the planet.
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I understand some comments were made yesterday and I watched the clip that Mr. Carlson produced as he referred to pregnant women in the military.
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I'll remind everyone that his opinion, which he has a right to, is based off of actually zero days of service in the armed forces.
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My opinion is based off of 28 years of actual service in the military, 28 years in the Marine Corps, in combat operations out at sea and in garrison.
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And so he was talking specifically about pregnant women in the armed forces today and how it makes us less lethal and less fit and less ready.
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Those decisions were made by medical professionals, by commanders and our civilian leadership that allows for women to have more time with their children, to recuperate, to get fit and ready, to take that time that's necessary that our medical professionals know is needed, which actually makes us a more lethal and ready and fit force.
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Let's remember that those opinions were made by an individual who has never served a day in his life.
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He's got this blue check mark on Twitter, which is reflective of his position as a senior enlisted leader.
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And not one iota of common sense, not one little bit.
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The decision to have women in the military, the decision, more recent decision of women in combat roles.
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Political arguments were that if we're going to have true equality for women, if we're not going to have women underneath the patriarchy, then they need to be able to do all the wonderful privileges and get all the wonderful privileges that men have, including fighting in war and dodging bullets and all that sort of thing.
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And so, therefore, because of that, as a political matter, we need to let women fight.
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And now this is being taken even to the craziest extreme, which is we need to let pregnant women fight or something.
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We need to pretend that pregnant women are just as fit and lethal as men are.
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They do, I've learned, have a very lethal and acerbic tongue and wit sometimes.
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I've learned this through my own experience with pregnant women.
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But in terms of physicality, it's just not the case.
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As a tactical matter, men are bigger, faster, and physically stronger than women and certainly than pregnant women.
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The whole reason that we're even debating the trans women, right, the men playing in women's sports issue is because men beat women in women's sports.
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Because men and women are different and men are physically stronger than women.
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Now, you'll notice here this guy, Stalker, he's coming there.
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He says, look, Tucker Carlson, that guy never served a day in his life, not like me.
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You know, sure, he can have his opinion, but he's wrong.
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You're like, okay, well, yes, they are in the military.
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You think it's good that pregnant women are fighting.
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And then he sort of says, he's like, and they need to rest up so they can be physically fit again.
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You say, well, that's not what anybody's even talking about, Mr. Stalker.
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Stalker decides he's going to issue a non-apology apology.
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Last 24 hours have been pretty intense for me, ladies and gentlemen.
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And I just wanted to briefly say thank you to everyone that wrote me, that everyone that called,
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texted, sent me a message on Twitter or Facebook.
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And I even appreciate the fact that those of you had different opinions posted those as well.
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What I won't do is engage in a personal attack with Mr. Carlson or anybody.
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I was making a non-political statement about my service members and teammates in the United
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I don't make political comments and I certainly don't attack our media.
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I think they have a right and it's a necessity of this nation to have a fair and free press.
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And so Mr. Carlson and everyone that's reporting stories, please continue to do so.
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I think it's important that I just make a comment that I say my comments were based on 28 years
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And so I think everyone has a right to their opinion.
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I mean, my whole video was about how his points aren't valid.
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And look, I'm saying it's not a personal attack.
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I mean, my whole video was personally attacking Tucker Carlson.
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But look, it wasn't political, OK, even though my entire video was making political points.
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Notice how quick that guy took his uniform off.
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You know, that first one, he's got the uniform on.
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He's using it to make his entire point is basically that Tucker Carlson is wrong and we
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shouldn't take him seriously anyway because he's never served in the military.
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Now, all that goes away because of the backlash.
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The whole video was claiming that Tucker's points aren't valid.
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Research showed that the Army Combat Fitness Test, it's the same one for male and female
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soldiers, was leading to lower results for women.
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An early Pentagon study, this is according to the Telegraph, said that women were failing
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the ACFT at a rate of 65 percent, while 90 percent of men were passing the ACFT.
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I'm sure these women are extremely strong, but men and women are different and men are
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That is why, historically speaking, warriors have been men.
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I mean, this guy should obviously lose his leadership position.
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He should have his Twitter account taken away from him by his bosses in the military, right?
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But also, he should lose his leadership position.
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And it is so dispiriting for supporters of the military to listen to this woke nonsense
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It would be good if this guy could apologize, but he can't apologize because our culture has
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There's a story I haven't really covered that much because I personally don't care about it.
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But at this point, it is now actually telling us something about the culture.
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Apparently, there's a host of The Bachelor named Chris Harrison.
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Hadn't heard of him until about a week or two ago.
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He's been hosting this thing forever, apparently.
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And there's a controversy because Chris Harrison made comments defending a Bachelor contestant
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who, or Bachelorette or something, I don't know, who had attended an antebellum South party
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What are your thoughts about Rachel Kirkennell and the allegations attached to her?
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And this is, again, where we all need to have a little grace, a little understanding, a little
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compassion, because I've seen some stuff online.
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Again, this judge, jury, executioner thing where people are just tearing this girl's life apart
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and diving into her parents and her parents' voting record.
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And until I actually hear this woman have a chance to speak, who am I to say any of this?
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You know, I saw a picture of her at a sorority party five years ago.
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Like, OK, well, this this girl is in this book now and she's now in this group.
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You you do not know what kind of a situation you are in politically right now.
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And unfortunately, he made in not only did he make the wrong choice there if he wanted
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to keep this mainstream gig to contradict the PC police, but he has subsequently made every
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Very important to note what he actually did, because people are saying it was he made a
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A girl who was on the show attended a party in college that was about the South, the antebellum
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And so they dressed up like the antebellum South.
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So you have to believe that that was vicious and vile and racist.
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You have to believe then that it matters that she went to this party years ago.
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And you have to believe that it is it is a political crime for this guy to defend this
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Chris Harrison of Bachelor fame defends the contestant for attending a party that was
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I actually sort of give him credit for saying we need a culture of grace.
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So we don't we shouldn't just be jumping on top of one another and trying to destroy each
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But then he made a fatal error, and I don't think anybody's going to be defending him anymore.
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He apologized for encouraging grace and for defending the girl.
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I believe that mistake doesn't reflect who I am or what I stand for.
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I am committed to the progress, not just for myself, also for the franchise.
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So this is pitiful to watch a grown man do this.
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But it's also despicable because he was making a principled stand to say, no, I'm going to
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defend this girl who was a contestant against the mob for doing something that should not
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Now she's just and now he's throwing that all under the bus, right?
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He's throwing the girl under the bus, and he's also saying, I'm throwing my past self
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under the bus for even considering defending her.
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To me, I see no reason to defend this guy anymore.
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I'm sure the reason he did it is because he's weak, and that's very sad, but what can you
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I was debating this issue with Megyn Kelly last week.
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I was on Megyn Kelly's podcast, which you can download.
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She was the one who called this guy to my attention because I never, I couldn't have
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I hadn't, you know, you'd be shocked to hear I don't, I don't watch The Bachelor all the
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All these guys, we were talking about the Mumford & Sons musician, now his name escapes
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All these people who were constantly being canceled, and then they caved to the woke mob.
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This is what, traditionally, this is what people do.
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And I pointed out to her, I said, yes, in the past, even if you think it's kind of silly,
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you contravene whatever the fashionable political ideas are of the day.
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You apologize, especially if you do something actually wrong, you apologize, and then people
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The choice is not between speak out against the mob, stand up for grace, stand up for the
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The only question is, are you going to degrade yourself further?
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It reminds me of one of the last scenes of Breaking Bad, way toward the end of the series.
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Spoiler alert, if you haven't seen it, but it was on, what, like 10 years ago?
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So, you know, you missed your window for spoilers.
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The brother-in-law, the cop brother-in-law, Hank, is lying there on the ground.
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Walter, the drug runner, is there, and he's pleading with Hank.
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He says, Hank, please, just tell this cartel kingpin type guy, just tell him you'll protect
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him, you won't turn him in, you won't go after him.
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Just, please, just beg for your life, and then he'll let you live.
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And the cop, Hank, has one of the most memorable lines in TV.
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You gotta tell him now that we can work this out.
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You're the smartest guy I ever met, and you're too stupid to see.
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For all these people, like Chris Harrison, the Mumford & Sons musician.
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And more to it, the people who have crafted political correctness already made up their mind.
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The only question is, are you going to degrade yourself?
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Roger Scruton, the conservative philosopher, had this great point.
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I just hosted an event also last week for the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation.
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It's between Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons, and Robbie George, professor at Princeton.
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Society is based on confession and forgiveness.
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The ability for me to say, hey, I did something wrong.
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And then for everybody else, for them to be able to say, okay, I forgive you.
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And both people are giving up something that they cherish, our pride and our resentments.
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We move on because we're interested in moving forward as a people.
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And this is all conditioned by and impelled by grace, by this Christian religion that undergirds our whole civilization.
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When you lose that, you lose that ability for confession and forgiveness.
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I wish we could live in a society where we could, we don't want to apologize for things we're not sorry for,
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but where we could all say, ah, yeah, I said that a little wrong.
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However, the only question is, are you going to humiliate yourself before the mob, before they, before they destroy your livelihood?
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Speaking of racial bias, actual racial bias, not, not this kind of Chris Harrison stuff.
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Tom Cotton just absolutely wrecked one of Joe Biden's nominees, nominee for Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta.
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Vanita Gupta believes in something called implicit racial bias, that we all have implicit racial biases.
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He asked her, if everyone's got these racial biases, what are yours?
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Last summer, nine months ago, you were in front of this committee and Senator Corden said,
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I think that we all have implicit biases and racial biases.
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So Ms. Gupta, I ask you, against which races do you harbor racial bias?
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The yes was to say that all of us have implicit bias.
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This was an exchange also that Judge Garland had with Senator Kennedy during his hearing.
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It doesn't mean that we are harboring any racism at all.
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These are unconscious assumptions and stereotypes that can get made.
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And I remember that summer in the exchange with Senator Cornyn that we were discussing systemic
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And my response was to say that all of us have implicit bias.
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I know that you said all of us have implicit bias.
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It was just that word salad meant absolutely nothing.
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She said, yes, we all have implicit racial biases, but it doesn't doesn't mean we're racist
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because they're they're implicit and we all have them.
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But you're saying everybody, including you, has the biases.
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Well, to be precise, you said we all have implicit biases and racial biases.
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Every single American, you're accused of implicit bias and racial bias.
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So I'm asking you again, against which races do you harbor racial bias?
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I am quite aware that I know that I hold stereotypes that I have to manage.
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And I believe that, you know, one of the reasons I believe that all of us are able to
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manage implicit bias, but only if we can acknowledge our own.
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I think implicit bias is something that is part of the shared human condition.
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You've already stated that we're asking which ones get specific.
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That's the only way you could be conscious enough of them to acknowledge that you have
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So in the Trump administration, you strongly oppose the nominations to the federal courts
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of the following persons, Patrick Boumette, Michael Park, and Ada Brown, a Filipino-American,
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Should members of those communities be worried that you harbor racial bias against them since
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I'm not sure I see how that connection is being made, Senator.
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The leadership conference for decades has reviewed the civil rights records of individual judicial
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nominees in Democratic and Republican administrations.
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And there were judges that we opposed based on their civil rights record.
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I opposed those racial minorities because of their record.
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Well, how can you know that for sure when you've just said that everyone has implicit
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You, you're, what you're saying is, because when, when, when Vanita Gupta says all of us,
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So she says, look, you all think that you're acting in good faith and you think you have all
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this, this good decision-making apparatus and this fact that it's a reason.
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But no, it's all your implicit racism that you're not even aware of.
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When you voted against those racial minorities, isn't that evident, according to your own theory,
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isn't that evidence that you, you were racially discriminatory?
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Well, no, no, because I, I, I'm aware of, of my implicit biases.
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So then the implicit biases don't exist for you.
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I think we ought to be able to conclude from Vanita Gupta's meandering testimony that this,
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this ideology, the implicit bias, the stuff that's affecting boardrooms, universities,
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all of it is not a coherent theory of human nature, of politics, of race.
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It is a weapon to be wielded against one's political opponents.
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And the left is shocked that someone like Tom Cotton would have finally had the idea,
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and you believe it took us all this long, would have had the idea to use that same weapon
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This idea of implicit racial bias and all the kind of race hustling nonsense that we're hearing
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from Biden appointees and the left more broadly, it is a myth.
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It's the sort of myth that people begin their politics with.
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You know, we're going to just agree on these kind of stories that we're going to tell ourselves,
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and that is going to lead us to making further political decisions.
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So because we all have implicit racial biases, what's the evidence of that?
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How does it even make sense if we're consciously talking about something that is by definition
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We're just going to start there, and then the policy is going to flow from it, right?
00:29:45.280
And the policy all favors this kind of crazy left-wing view.
00:29:49.240
Rand Paul is calling this tactic out, and not in the race arena, but in the public health
00:29:56.060
Rand Paul is pointing out that Dr. Fauci is not presenting the science so much as he's presenting
00:30:04.160
A noble lie is a concept that has been a part of our politics for a long time.
00:30:11.940
Fauci is making himself a sort of philosopher king, imposing noble lies on us for our own
00:30:19.500
People are afraid of, you know, scientists, and he's put on a pedestal.
00:30:23.940
But you have to remember that his lies are noble lies, Laura.
00:30:27.540
He's not telling you this because he's a mean man.
00:30:30.020
He's telling you lies because he feels sorry for you because you don't understand, and Americans
00:30:35.460
aren't smart enough to make informed decisions.
00:30:37.800
So he fashions himself some sort of Greek philosopher.
00:30:42.820
So at first he told you that all the masks don't work, but he told you that because he
00:30:48.020
wanted to protect the N95 masks, which actually in a health setting do work.
00:30:52.460
But then later on he said all masks do work, but that's also a lie also because really only
00:30:59.600
But it's a compilation of lies, but they're all done to protect you because he doesn't
00:31:04.360
think you're smart enough to make any of these decisions on your own.
00:31:09.300
Dr. Fauci admitted this himself when he had to answer for his early admonition, telling
00:31:15.420
everybody that we should not wear masks, it's crazy to wear masks, don't wear masks.
00:31:19.020
When he had to answer for that after he changed his mind, he said, well, the fear at that time
00:31:23.280
was that we weren't going to have enough masks for the health care workers, and I felt it was
00:31:27.620
more important to save them for the health care workers, so I told everybody else not to
00:31:31.340
wear masks and that they shouldn't wear masks and it wouldn't help them.
00:31:36.560
So now you should disregard what I previously said and believe my new guidance, which contradicts
00:31:44.420
He was making a political statement there, right?
00:31:46.580
He was saying this group of people should get the masks, but not this group of people.
00:31:51.060
This is, the way that he convinced people to do this is through this sort of a noble lie,
00:31:58.600
The idea that there are some lies that you tell the people that are actually salutary.
00:32:02.960
They're actually for their benefit, and this concept has been debated for a long time.
00:32:09.060
The modern incarnation is Dr. Fauci, and the media are promoting these noble lies.
00:32:15.340
Fauci was just doing an interview on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, and Chuck Todd asked what
00:32:22.680
we would do in the next pandemic, which he further asserted would be caused by climate change.
00:32:29.020
You know, when you think about, sadly, having to prepare for this again, right?
00:32:34.680
And I know there's a lot of folks who think that, you know, due to climate change and due
00:32:39.540
to the globalization in general, it's inevitable we're going to deal with more and more viruses
00:32:47.620
The biggest lesson you're going to take away to prepare for the next one.
00:32:51.040
Climate change is going to give us more viruses, not the bat market in Wuhan, not the Wuhan Institute
00:33:03.020
of Virology, that those sorts of things, but there's no chance that anything like that is
00:33:09.880
It's because of climate change, which could either be global cooling, which we were warned
00:33:16.860
about by the experts in the 70s, or it could be global warming, or once the warming kind
00:33:22.060
of stopped for a while, it could be just the climate change.
00:33:27.360
Climate change, like this public health tyranny that we're living under now, is this kind of
00:33:36.960
Regardless of the scientific reasoning, the scientific reasoning always seems to change, but the effect
00:33:45.860
With global cooling, they said, the earth is going to head into a new ice age, and therefore
00:33:51.440
we need to stop having as many babies, use contraception, expand abortion, give the government much
00:33:59.580
more control over our lives, cede political rights, not just to our national governments,
00:34:05.160
Then the scientific argument completely reversed itself within the following two decades, and what
00:34:12.100
happened? The political consequences, exactly the same. Then when the warming kind of stopped
00:34:16.720
for a little bit, what happened? The scientific reasoning changed, but the political consequences
00:34:21.580
exactly the same. I've often referred to the lockdowns over COVID-19 as the Green New Deal
00:34:28.080
through the back door, because it gave the technocratic left everything they wanted, all the
00:34:34.240
kind of stuff that they wanted in their environmental proposals, policies reminiscent of those called
00:34:40.400
for the Green New Deal, massive redistribution of wealth, a massive surrendering of constitutional
00:34:45.380
rights, an expansion of international government. It just got that through the back door, right?
00:34:53.020
It was a different, okay, it's, yeah, forget it, it's global warming, or it's the Wuhan virus,
00:34:57.160
or yeah, whatever, just do what we say that you should do. The problem here is, if you have
00:35:05.400
a public health apparatus, a political apparatus more broadly, that is operating on these sorts of
00:35:12.180
noble lies, that believes that it can, with impunity, lie to you, tell you things that it
00:35:17.860
knows are not true, because it feels that it's in your best interest, then, one, we've totally
00:35:24.460
undermined constitutional government, but two, we have no more basis for our trust in these institutions,
00:35:33.700
because they've already told us that they're misleading us, so we can't, even if we wanted
00:35:37.220
to believe them, we can't really do that anymore. Speaking of which, by the way, Dr. Fauci,
00:35:41.860
Christmas came early, he's giving us a little present, we can now reduce social distancing from
00:35:46.480
six feet to three feet, because of, you know, the science or whatever. In terms of CDC guidance,
00:35:54.160
as you know, the guidance for social distancing, for how far people should be, is a, there's a
00:36:00.240
discrepancy, some places, some health organizations say three feet, or a meter, is enough, but here in
00:36:06.400
the United States, we say six feet. There's this new study from researchers in Massachusetts,
00:36:10.640
just out this week, it found no significant difference in coronavirus spreading in schools,
00:36:16.560
where there was six feet of distancing, versus three feet of distancing, but that six-foot requirement,
00:36:22.340
that's one of the main hurdles to reopening schools. Right. Does this study suggest to you that
00:36:28.140
three feet is good enough? It does indeed, and that's exactly the point I'm making, Chuck. What
00:36:35.640
the CDC wants to do is they want to accumulate data, and when the data shows that there is an ability
00:36:42.880
to be three feet, they will act accordingly. Absolutely, Dr. Jake. That is a very profound
00:36:50.120
scientific observation. Now you only require three feet to slow the spread, until next week when I just
00:37:01.400
pick another number out of a hat, and I talk about all the data that show that. How does anybody fall
00:37:08.100
for this? You get these two politicians, Jake Tapper, who's a politician working in journalism,
00:37:15.140
but he's, you know, he's been a political animal his whole life, he's worked for politicians,
00:37:18.300
and you get Dr. Fauci, who just is a politician, right? He's, he's, his check is signed by the
00:37:23.760
government. He's served under multiple presidents. He's got longer political staying power than just
00:37:28.320
about anybody in public life, and these two guys are espousing their political points of view and
00:37:33.760
grabbing a lot of political power, but because they put glasses on and they try to sound like they're
00:37:38.900
nerds or something, now we're supposed to pretend this is not political at all. This is all just the
00:37:43.720
science. What was the argument for the social distancing, an Orwellian term that I never use
00:37:48.100
earnestly? The argument for the social distancing, this, this contradiction in terms, is that you
00:37:55.860
might have a droplet that leaves your mouth and, you know, it lands on somebody, and he's got the
00:37:59.740
mask, so hopefully that'll protect it, but still, you know, it could land on him, and so therefore we
00:38:04.560
need to stand a little further apart. Now you can stand a little closer. Are people spitting less
00:38:13.120
forcefully now? Is that the idea that our plosive sort of sounds that we make out of our mouth are
00:38:18.460
a little less plosive or something? What on earth could the argument be that now into this, a year
00:38:26.820
into the pandemic, once people in most demographic groups are not really getting that sick from it,
00:38:34.260
and once people are now getting the vaccine, now it's three feet for, for what? There's no,
00:38:40.020
this is obviously partaking of the same political strategy that Fauci has been employing since the
00:38:45.420
very beginning, in which he's even admitted. People beginning, I think, to wake up a little
00:38:51.760
bit to this. Obviously, some people on the right have been woke to this from the top, but even some
00:38:55.440
people on the left are waking up to the oligarchic tendencies, technocratic oligarchic tendencies,
00:39:04.380
this tendency to take power for a handful of elites on the left. Sarah Silverman, a left-wing
00:39:11.140
comedian, certainly not a conservative, this lady. She was just complaining about the Democratic Party
00:39:18.740
and how elitist it's all become. It's the absolutist-ness of the party I am in that is such
00:39:30.800
a turnoff to me. It's so f***ing elitist. For something called progressive, it allows for zero
00:39:41.060
progress. It's all or nothing. No steps toward all or f***ing nothing.
00:39:49.220
So I sympathize with her, her exasperation. I guess I empathize with it too, but I don't think
00:39:56.760
she's right. I don't think what she's saying is exactly, I don't think it's all or nothing. I
00:40:00.640
think the way the left has won in this country on, at least on the cultural matters, is through
00:40:05.940
incremental change. This is actually the topic of my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words,
00:40:10.360
Controlling Minds, which you can pre-order now until it's canceled and then you can't pre-order it,
00:40:14.080
which is that for at least 60, 80 years, the left was gaining ground, engaging in what a brilliant
00:40:23.200
leftist theorist called a war of position, where you infiltrate the institutions, you gain power,
00:40:30.140
and then slowly, slowly, gradually, gradually, you begin to exercise that power. And then when you've
00:40:36.200
got enough leverage, you can suddenly spring a lot of social changes on people.
00:40:40.880
This to attain what he called the cultural hegemony, which was the big impediment to leftist
00:40:46.600
radicals upending society. I want to focus though on this elitism thing because creating a new elitism
00:40:55.400
is the point of progressivism. She's saying it like it's a contradiction. It's so weird. We're
00:40:59.000
supposed to be progressives, but we're elitist. The whole point of progressivism, you can read this
00:41:02.560
in Woodrow Wilson's essay, What is Progress? He was our first left-wing progressive president.
00:41:07.820
He said, the constitutional order was under the laws of Isaac Newton, fixed laws, permanent laws
00:41:14.160
to the universe, permanent human nature. But now we're living under the world of Darwin,
00:41:18.640
where everything is mutable and changeable and evolving. And in that world, the constitution
00:41:22.800
is outdated. So what we need to do is instead of being governed by the people, according to the
00:41:27.240
constitution, we need a group of intellectual progressive elites to make all of our decisions
00:41:32.440
for us. And we're going to outsource this to something called the administrative state.
00:41:35.780
And then we're going to, you know, still have politics, kind of, we're going to debate
00:41:39.000
pointless stuff, but really the decisions are going to be made by experts such as Dr. Fauci.
00:41:47.180
Again, righteousness porn. And I've been thinking about this a lot, just in general.
00:41:53.700
I just, I don't know that I want to be associated with any party. I really, I think I don't want
00:42:05.000
to be associated with any party anymore. It just, it comes with too much baggage.
00:42:12.320
Every party, it comes with so much baggage that no ideas can be taken at face value. And without
00:42:26.100
ideas, what are we? Without a common truth, how can we talk about it?
00:42:32.840
You know, Dante actually makes this point in the Divine Comedy when he's talking to his ancestor,
00:42:37.100
Caccia Guida, talks about becoming a party of one because the parties are always going to
00:42:41.700
disappoint you because they're these institutions. So there's something profound in what she's saying,
00:42:45.480
and I'm glad she wants to break away from her own party. But the thing is,
00:42:49.300
she's accusing progressives of falling into this trap of dithering because everything's got to be
00:42:54.780
perfect and it's all or nothing. And so they don't get anything done. She's falling into the same
00:42:58.440
dithering trap because in politics, if you want to do anything, you need to operate in tandem with
00:43:04.900
other people. And the way that we do that is we form associations that we call political parties.
00:43:09.360
And that's how you build a consensus and get things accomplished. You need political parties to do
00:43:15.560
stuff in governments such as ours. Even further though, even further, this whole, both parties are
00:43:22.020
terrible thing. I'm so, I'm too good for all these parties. To me, this whole shtick is so arrogant and
00:43:28.320
presumptuous. Statistically, 100% of voters fall into one of the two major political parties.
00:43:35.020
You're talking now about 150 million people in this last election, depending on the numbers
00:43:40.720
you're looking at, it could be 160 million people fall into these two parties. Those are just the
00:43:44.000
voters. Even more than that, identify with the parties. If all those people are in one of the
00:43:49.920
two parties and you're not, is it possible that you're the one with the problem? It can't possibly
00:43:56.400
be you, right? It's got to be 150 million people totally wrong, me totally right. Generally speaking,
00:44:01.520
the reason people fall into these parties, the reason the parties form is because there's some
00:44:04.920
coherence to the ideas. The idea that I would protect life and protect my property, the idea
00:44:11.040
that I would, you know, protect life through social policy and protect my property through economic
00:44:14.380
policy, those things go together. They come from a coherent base that forms a political vision that
00:44:21.880
then expresses itself in various policies. Same thing on the left. The idea that you would upend
00:44:27.160
various social policies and upend the economic institutions of government and upend our foreign
00:44:31.660
policy. Sure. It comes from the same broad political vision and maybe you have a problem
00:44:37.660
with that, but I think it's so arrogant to say, and now whatever heterodox views I hold, that's my
00:44:42.600
real opinion. No, maybe you're just beginning to question your old political vision, but you haven't
00:44:47.300
taken the time and the effort to follow your new curiosities to their logical conclusion, which might not
00:44:55.260
leave you alone outside of the political system. It just might flip you over to the other side.
00:45:03.260
Some guys are able to evade political categorization. Guys like Bill Maher. Now, Bill Maher, he's a left
00:45:10.880
winger. He's a Democrat, but more than most left wingers and Democrats, he sort of contradicts his own
00:45:18.000
group every now and again. And it's won some respect from right wingers. Usually I disagree with Bill
00:45:24.060
Omar, but occasionally I agree with him. And he's made this point getting back all the way to what
00:45:28.700
we were talking about at the top with that military guy prattling on about how women are, pregnant women
00:45:35.600
are just as lethal as men. He says Americans are becoming a silly people. And finally, new rule.
00:45:44.580
You're not going to win the battle for the 21st century. If you are a silly people and Americans are a
00:45:50.600
silly people. That's the classic phrase from Lawrence of Arabia when Lawrence tells his Bedouin allies that as
00:45:56.240
long as they stay a bunch of squabbling tribes, they will remain a silly people. Well, we're the silly people
00:46:02.820
now. Do you know who doesn't care that there's a stereotype of a Chinese man in a Dr. Seuss book? China. All 1.4
00:46:11.540
billion of them could give a crouching tiger flying f***. Because they're not a silly people. If
00:46:25.480
anything, they are as serious as a prison fight. Look, we all know China does bad stuff. They break
00:46:31.180
promises about Hong Kong autonomy. They put Uyghurs in camps and punish dissent. And we don't want to be
00:46:36.180
that. But it's got to be something between authoritarian government that tells everyone
00:46:40.820
what to do and a representative government that can't do anything at all. Thank you, Bill. He's
00:46:47.600
90% right here. 10% is confused, but 90% right. Thank you. First of all, this dichotomy he's making
00:46:56.360
between authoritarian government and free representative government, I think it's kind of a
00:47:01.400
false dichotomy. Because America has always been a representative government. I think we're less
00:47:05.900
representative now than we used to be during the founding era. Now we have government largely by
00:47:11.640
administrative fiat, not by the will of the people as we, as we vote. But do you think that America
00:47:19.280
in 2021 is more or less authoritarian than we were in 1790? I think a lot of people would say
00:47:30.080
that we are less authoritarian, right? We can say more things. We have less strict social mores.
00:47:40.140
Just, just on the example of free speech, we can now burn the American flag while downloading high
00:47:50.880
speed porn, probably in public in some places while smoking a fat blunt and nobody will say boo about it.
00:47:59.460
All of those various activities are in, in various ways protected by the law.
00:48:06.300
You couldn't have done that in 1790. So then you'd say, okay, well that's, it was more authoritarian
00:48:10.600
way back then. But in some ways it's much more authoritarian now because we can vote and we can
00:48:15.940
vote and we can vote. And if our votes, if our expressed will, either that of the people or of our
00:48:22.520
representatives contradicts the politically correct, bureaucratically entrenched orthodoxy,
00:48:27.860
it's not going to go anywhere. That's why these things often die in the courts. That's why,
00:48:33.260
that's why President Trump, you elect President Trump, but he can't even control the executive
00:48:37.300
branch in many ways because the bureaucracy functions on its own, according to progressivism,
00:48:42.080
as it was established a hundred years ago. That is some useless, I think, sort of a dichotomy.
00:48:51.520
Question is, do we have purpose? Do we not have purpose? In the 1790s, I think we had purpose as a
00:48:56.440
country. I think we had a shared sense of national identity and I think we understood
00:49:01.880
our purpose as a country, our ideals, how we were going to put them into practice.
00:49:06.320
Now I don't think we do. This is a sign of decadent cultures. And we, I think, have certainly
00:49:12.060
fallen into decadence. Decadent and decay describe the same sort of things. So what we do is we turn
00:49:19.100
inward. This is expressed in declining birth rates. We're not really as focused on the next generation.
00:49:24.380
This is expressed in exploding debt. We're not focused on the next generation, right? We're
00:49:28.840
just focused on spending, spending, spending, and ourselves having a luxurious sort of lifestyle.
00:49:34.440
We're focused on our own appetites. So much of our national debate revolves around which of our
00:49:40.360
sexual desires we're allowed to pursue today and, and which new desires we'll be able to pursue
00:49:46.340
tomorrow. We're not talking about broader things. We're not talking about virtue all that much.
00:49:50.820
We're not talking about our international, our geopolitical ends. Uh, we're not talking about
00:49:56.580
higher ideals. Silly, silly stuff. Coca-Cola just announced, great example of this in corporate
00:50:02.360
America. They announced they're only going to hire law firms with a, uh, a certain quota of black
00:50:08.400
lawyers. They want only law firms that, that commit to providing 15% of billed time from black
00:50:15.020
attorneys. This is, this is a higher percentage than the percentage of black people in America.
00:50:20.120
Talk about institutional racism. Uh, they're, they're saying we need a higher percentage of
00:50:26.140
black lawyers, black lawyers time than we have black people in America. A serious corporation
00:50:32.860
in a serious country would say that our criteria for our, our law firms involve having the best
00:50:43.020
lawyers. That's the only criterion that matters. We want the absolute best lawyers to get us the best
00:50:48.320
deals and to get us the best cases made in courts. And so that's what we're going to do.
00:50:55.120
But now that's not what it's about for the military in a serious country. The only criterion is
00:51:00.080
lethality force. The per, what is the purpose of the military? If you had asked people 10 years ago,
00:51:07.820
they would have said the purpose of the military is to kill our enemies.
00:51:10.820
That's it to kill our enemies and thereby to make a credible show of force. That means that hopefully
00:51:18.400
the military won't need to be used all that much. But now the purpose of the military is to
00:51:24.840
what? To make certain people feel good about themselves. If we're really at this point where it is
00:51:31.840
a political crime, where we'll be attacked actually in public by the military. If we say that,
00:51:36.980
maybe pregnant women shouldn't be shooting, you know, AR-15s down the range. Maybe that's like
00:51:42.260
not the smartest thing to do. Maybe that doesn't help military preparedness or the women.
00:51:47.800
If we're now at that point, then we've had some mission drift somewhere, haven't we?
00:51:52.960
Now the purpose of the military is to make everyone feel really good about themselves based on their
00:51:57.120
sexual impulses, their desires, their identity, their sex itself, natural sex. The purpose of the,
00:52:04.880
of the law firm is to make people feel like feel good about themselves or some sort of social
00:52:09.500
experiment. That is unserious stuff. And a brief study of history shows that decadent cultures
00:52:18.480
don't get to last that long in their present form because decadent cultures are not strong.
00:52:27.320
I don't think this is a problem that pervades all the people, all the enlisted guys, all the
00:52:32.160
officers in the military. I don't think that the corruption at the FBI pervades, involves all of
00:52:37.140
the officers or the corruption. But there are people in power who have attained power in all
00:52:43.320
of these institutions, including the military, who are utterly subverting the purpose and mission,
00:52:50.040
not only of those institutions, but then collectively of society. Might be time for us to
00:52:55.480
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