Ep. 930 -Â Â Kamala Harris Discards White Guys
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Summary
Kamala Harris and the rest of the liberal establishment believe that only one group should be considered the most vulnerable to human trafficking: straight white dudes. Does that make them the only non-vulnerable group? And why does that matter?
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During a joint address with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on human trafficking,
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Kamala Harris articulated her theory of which groups should be considered the most vulnerable.
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We are focused on the most vulnerable. And based on my experience, the most vulnerable
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are women and girls, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQI plus people,
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indigenous people, people with disabilities, migrants, and children in the foster care system.
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When we identify who is most vulnerable, we can tailor our tactics and improve our strategy.
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So according to Kamala Harris, every single person on the face of the earth is vulnerable to human
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trafficking except for me. I am the only one. It's not. Straight white dudes who know that they
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are dudes are, according to Kamala Harris and the rest of the liberal establishment, by the way,
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the only non-vulnerable group on earth. Which got me thinking. When every power structure in the
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country says that only one group is invulnerable and therefore unworthy of protection. Doesn't that
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make that group the most vulnerable group? I'm ostensibly male, definitely straight,
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Knowles. It is not just straight white men who know that they are men who are catching the brunt of
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woke politics these days, although we are being insulted and discriminated against and maligned
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by all the people in power. But it's not just those white dudes. It's also black guys who have
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the audacity to buck the prevailing political orthodoxies. There is an incredible video going
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around of a black guy in an elevator who is standing next to a couple of white women of a
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certain age, and he's not wearing his mask because he's not brainwashed. He's not hypnotized. He knows
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that there's more to life than masking yourself up like a bandito to avoid a cough. And so he's in
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there, and these women start screaming at him and hitting him, actually, all while yelling,
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black lives matter. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. What you guys doing? Get out. What
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you guys doing? Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Do the I'm not touching you.
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Get out. I'm not touching you. Hit me. Did you just hit me? You just hit me. You just hit me.
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You cannot be in here with us clean, clean white ladies.
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And the guy seems to be getting kind of a kick out of it.
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That they are claiming Black Lives Matter as they are literally attacking a black guy
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Under wokeness, under political correctness, under cultural liberalism, call it whatever
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you want, saying the right thing supplants doing the right thing.
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So the actions that these women are engaging in are quite ugly, cruel, uncharitable, discriminatory
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When you say BLM these days, you're just saying we are good people.
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And so they're saying we are good people even as they're doing a very bad thing.
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This is why corporations, while they're doing all sorts of bad things on labor, while they're
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doing all sorts of bad things politically, while they're doing all sorts of bad things,
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even on the environment in some cases, they will say the right thing.
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They'll post the black square on BLM day, and then they think that gets them off the
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These Hollywood celebrities flying around in private jets, spewing pollution into the
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They get off the hook for that because they say that they're supporting climate efforts.
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All of these rich white celebrities who live in extremely rich white neighborhoods and send
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their kids to really rich white schools, they say black lives matter.
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Poor white people who are friends with black people, who live in communities with black people,
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who send their kids to schools with black people, if they don't say BLM, if they don't support
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anarchists and rioters in the streets, well, they're dirty, rotten racists.
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Saying the right thing supplants doing the right thing.
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Now, these white women, I hate to discriminate, but these white women in particular can sometimes
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So one of the cackling hens on The View, who seems to be a member of this certain species
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of upper class white women, liberal upper class white women, she articulated her extraordinarily
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neurotic view that life can never go back to normal after COVID.
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I think there's a prudence we've learned with the mask, the hand sanitizing, that kind of
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like 9-11 with flying is always going to be here now.
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In the beginning, post 9-11, people didn't want to fly.
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And the security measures felt like, how do we do this?
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I think some of the things we've learned in this pandemic are going to stay the same.
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I may never ride a subway again without a mask.
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I may never go indoors to big crowds and ever feel comfortable without a mask.
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Obviously, this is insane behavior and an insane way of viewing the world that you will never
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You will never go into a large group of people without covering up your face.
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So you'll never see a group full of smiles again.
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You will never share air with a group of people again.
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You will never take public transportation again without wearing a secular hijab or a
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But even beyond that, she says, look, and if you want to do that, that's up to you.
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Right now, the debate on the masks is over two positions.
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There's the leftist position, which is every single person needs to wear at least one or
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And then there's the kind of conservative position, which is that if you want to wear a mask, do
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I'd like to suggest a further position, a genuinely conservative position, which is you should
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not be permitted outside of very rare exceptions, very rare circumstances.
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You should not be permitted to wear a mask in public.
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We look like we're train robbers in the Wild West.
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It is not serving the medical function that we were told it would after we were told it
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You know, obviously, it's gone back and forth quite a lot because the public health establishment
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is extremely cynical and dishonest and deceptive.
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But I don't I do not want to live in a society where we're all covering up each other's faces.
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If you want to move to Afghanistan, if you want to, that's fine.
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I don't care if the women on The View want to move to Afghanistan.
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And I have some rights to decide how the society is going to function because I'm a citizen,
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And I think there are a whole lot of us who don't want to live in this sterile world where
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we no longer view our countrymen as our brothers, as our kinsfolk, where we just view them as
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walking bags of germs who are going to kill us all.
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And so in as much as I have any political power, I am going to stop.
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I'm going to stop these neurotic women on The View from driving themselves even crazier than
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By the way, by the way, YouTube, by the way, Facebook, by the way, big tech, I'm not making
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I'm not making any claim about the transmissibility and how it affects.
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So when it comes to reality, the left is trying to isolate us all from one another.
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Socially, physically, they're going to try to put us all in our pods.
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And then they want us all to reconnect in a dystopian future virtual reality.
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The ladies on The View think that we should all just lock ourselves in our rooms forever.
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Now, this sounds kind of depressing, except there's really good news.
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Because the rest of the liberal establishment, moving from the corporate press into big tech
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right now, they have a way that we're all going to really enjoy ourselves.
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This is the first step toward just plugging all of our brain stems into the matrix.
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This is the Facebook Horizon product that is going to revolutionize the way that we live.
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Think of me as your guide slash self-appointed spokes avatar here to show you around.
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You know, Horizon is filled with possibilities.
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Or people telling you not to fly an airplane while drinking your fresh ground, fair trade,
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French press morning coffee through a curly straw.
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It's about getting out there and trying new things.
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And you can even build a world of your own, like laser tag, moon landing.
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Facebook Horizon, it's about getting out there by locking yourself in your room and putting
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on goggles so you can't even see the small world around you.
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You know, you know, out there, meaning in there, meaning the opposite of out there.
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The creepiest thing about this video, for those of you who were just listening and didn't
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They're all just floating around in their blazers.
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And there's just air between their bottom of their stomach and the ground.
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They said, you don't even need to worry about pants.
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And then it occurred to me, oh, it's because of all the sex stuff.
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It's because if people had legs in this virtual reality world, they would all just be screwing
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It actually, that's not even just my speculation.
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In one of these beta tests on the virtual reality, some woman claimed that she was sexually
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She obviously was not sexually groped because she was sitting in her pod alone in her room.
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But they touched the representation of her body.
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And so I guarantee you, this was the thinking on this.
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They said, gosh, if we have legs and all the stuff between the legs and the belly, you know,
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then this is going to get, this is going to go downhill real fast.
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Because the whole premise of virtual reality is there are no rules.
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And one of the main appetites that human beings have is the sexual appetite.
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We're going to, we're going to take away the sexual aspect of man.
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One of the, if not the central part of our physical nature, we're just going to take that
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This is a regression back into childhood that you're seeing.
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First of all, by unsexing people, that's a regression back into childhood.
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You're going back into a prepubescent state through the decision to live in a cartoon world,
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where we're going to, we're going to take ourselves out of the real world.
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We're going to put ourselves back into a cartoon world with magical castles where we can dance
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on the moon, where we can go on roller coasters and fly airplanes while sipping through
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At a time when the world needs many more adults, we don't have, our adults are not acting like
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What virtual reality is offering us is an even more radical regression into childhood.
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And ultimately what this is, is an attack on the physical.
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This is something that the conservatives have not understood about the way the left is operating
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The left, one of the chief instruments by which the left is reordering our culture is by attacking
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The BBC right now just came out, the BBC, British Broadcasting Company.
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They are censoring their own media, their own content, their own TV shows.
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The Daily Telegraph just reported that an anonymous Radio 4 Extra listener had, quote, discovered
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the BBC had been quietly editing repeats of shows over the past few years to keep more in
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So now, now we're finding out that the entrenched powers, they're not just censoring experience
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like you see in the metaverse, in the Facebook horizon.
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They're censoring art, culture, history, pretty radical claim, pretty serious accusation.
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The BBC said, quote, on occasion, we edit some episodes so they are suitable for broadcast
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today, including removing racially offensive language and stereotypes from decades ago as
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the vast majority of our audience would expect.
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You know, I hate to say, I told you so, I have seen this coming.
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For many months, if not years now, I have stopped buying digital books, digital movies.
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I'll still buy them on occasion, especially when I need them very quickly.
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But in terms of my collections of media, I really only buy physical now.
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When I can, I try to buy physical movies, even physical photographs.
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Because when, when all of your media are digital, then they are open to surreptitious editing.
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Even when you, when you download a movie and you think you own that movie, you don't.
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You've bought a license for that movie, but Netflix or Amazon or whoever is distributing
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that movie, they can take it away whenever they want, or they can edit that movie whenever
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Now, the, the big, the big misconception here is that we primarily think of the libs as trying
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to change our culture by disconnecting us from the spiritual, right?
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The, the libs are trying to take us out of church.
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The libs are trying to mock the idea that there is a God or a transcendent moral order.
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They're saying we're just flesh and blood when they're not pushing the opposite of materialism
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when they say that our bodies have nothing to do with who we are with transgenderism, right?
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If they can divorce us from the physical world and our natural physical connections,
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then, then it's much more, more easy for them to upend our spiritual understanding too.
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I know this is a little bit pie in the sky, so look at it in really tangible terms.
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We come into this world, what is our dearest physical connection?
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What, what is, what is the dearest physical thing about us?
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The physical differences between little boys and little girls.
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And you see this in the theory of transgenderism.
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The connection between a, a little baby and his mother is the nearest physical connection
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Now a baby can be made in a test tube and be given to a mommy and a daddy or just a mommy
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or just a daddy or two daddies or three daddies and a goat.
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They're, they're disconnecting reproduction from the natural sexual act.
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Beyond that, then the nearest physical connection we have is from a little child to our families.
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The left is trying to get rid of that as quickly as they possibly can.
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They want the child taken away from the family earlier and earlier, not just in first
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grade, but then in kindergarten, not just in kindergarten, but then in preschool, not just
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in preschool, but starting when you're two or three years old, the state will fund this.
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They will take, they'll pay you to take your kid away and, and instruct this child and
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And then they'll stay in college longer and longer and longer.
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And then you will be impelled to move away from your family.
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Don't stay in your hometown, move away, move away.
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Move to a city, move, have every, break that physical connection.
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And then we will be told, don't even when you go to work, don't go to work.
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Just zoom in, just sit in your pod and open up your computer and communicate digitally.
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This is what the, the World Economic Forum has talked about.
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This is what so many of our international elite institutions have talked about.
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You hear phrases like you, you will own nothing and you will be happy.
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You, or you won't even have that connection to your body.
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James Poulos at the Claremont Institute made this great point.
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He said, transgenderism, it's a little bit of a distraction.
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Grab on, have real physical connections, acknowledge physical reality, boys, girls, family, country,
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culture, borders, stop denying the physical world.
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This attack, this liberal attack on physical stuff, real, tangible, physical stuff, goes
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It's not even just about your home or your family.
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Traditionally, we think of a nation as being the place within the nation's borders.
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The nation is having something to do with the people of that nation.
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What the left tells us is, no, there's no such thing.
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The people of a country, that doesn't really matter.
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Some guy in Timbuktu is more American than Joe Blow in Mississippi.
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But it is, why are we now not permitted to use physical money?
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You'll notice increasingly, we are discouraged from using physical money.
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Much easier for a centralized power to freeze your electronic money if it's just numbers
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Even physical money, just fiat money, is less real than, say, money backed by a tangible
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It's not just something that was decided over the past couple of years by the World Economic
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And this is why, all of that is to say, I really liked a comment that Jen Psaki made the
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And she was pilloried for this comment by the left and by the right.
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And I need to stand up and defend Jen, because I found the comment charming and actually somewhat
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My advice to everyone out there who's frustrated, sad, angry, pissed off, feel those emotions,
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go to a kickboxing class, have a margarita, do whatever you need to do this weekend, and
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then wake up on Monday morning, we've got to keep fighting.
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And what that means, Lindsay, is we have to keep talking to members about federal legislation.
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That's something that can be permanent, that can make sure people's rights are protected.
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But we also need to make sure people are educated in states across the country about what their
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rights are, how they can vote, when they can vote, how to request an absentee ballot.
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There's a lot we need to do on that front, and that's going to rely on the energy and the
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Of course, the second half is just blah, blah, blah, be a Democrat, help the Democrat talking
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Listen, that first part, look, you're angry, you're pissed off.
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There's more to life than just these specific policy battles.
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There's the local bar down the street, and there's the gym on the other end of the street.
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Go do that, and then you can get back to work on Monday.
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First of all, there is more to life than these specific policy battles, of course.
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But second, going into our communities, actually just talking to friends, can be extraordinarily
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Jordan Peterson had a comment the other day that I thought was so good.
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I don't think he's the first person to come up with this idea, but he articulated it in
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a really clear way, which is that rationality is a communal endeavor.
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When you are alone for long periods of time, you go crazy, inevitably.
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This is also an important lesson for the radical individualists on the right.
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The radical individualism says, leave me alone.
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I'm going to go sit alone on my farm in Montana, my ranch in Montana.
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I'm going to have a minigun ready to just blast away anybody who comes near me.
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I know that some right-wingers feel pushed to take that position because the left is trying
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to bundle us all together in a commie collective, but you are not an individual.
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And the opposite of communism or socialism is not individualism.
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What the left has always done is broken down society into a group of atomized individuals,
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broken down all those institutions, all the mediating institutions, notably the
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Then once you're all a bunch of individuals, they bundle you all together.
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The fascists bundle you all together in a bag of sticks.
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And the socialists bundle you all together underneath the aegis of the state.
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And they just bundle you all together and they treat you as little dots, little inputs in
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a spreadsheet rather than as real people with real communities, with real institutions.
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And what Jen Psaki is saying is, no, come on, just go out there.
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Part of the reason people have lost their freaking minds over the past two years is because
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A lot of people have been sitting alone for two years, and that will inevitably drive you
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Now, that is the only sensible thing that Jen Psaki has said recently.
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Psaki was just asked yesterday about the decision of the FDA to prevent certain states, notably
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This is a treatment that seemed to show a great success in dealing with COVID.
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The FDA yesterday withdrew the EUA for some monoclonal antibody treatments because they don't
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But Florida continues to push for the treatment for people in the state.
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And what's your message to the people of Florida?
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Well, let's just take a step back here just to realize how crazy this is a little bit.
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We've approached COVID treatments like filling a medicine cabinet.
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We're not relying on one type, one brand, or treatment.
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We invested in and continue to buy a variety across monoclonal antibodies, pre-exposure prevention
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We have provided 71,000 doses of antivirals to Florida, including 34,000 additional treatments
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Just this last week, I'm sorry, of a range of those treatments, I should say, to be clear.
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What the FDA is making clear is that these treatments, the ones that they are fighting
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over, that the governor is fighting over, do not work against Omicron, and they have side
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We have sent them 71,000 doses of treatments that are effective against Omicron.
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The FDA, the spokesman for science, said something, and then the governor in Florida, he's disagreeing
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As if Ron DeSantis doesn't have health advisors in Florida, as if it's just Ron DeSantis on
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some message board online, you know, passing around conspiracy theories, contradicting the
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No, I'm pretty sure Ron DeSantis has pretty good health advisors in Florida.
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I forget the health secretary's name in Florida.
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Extraordinarily impressive guy, but he had a different take on COVID and on the mandates
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and on the lockdowns and on the vaccines and on the treatments than the feds did, than
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the Democrat health advisors at the national level.
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This is not a battle between the scientists on one hand and Ron DeSantis and the politicians
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This is two battles that overlap, a battle between the feds and the states and a battle between
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The Democrats control the federal government usually, and especially right now, Ron DeSantis
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If you had to say right now, okay, I'm getting two different contradictory pieces of medical
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advice, one from the federal government and the Democrats and Joe Biden, and one from Ron
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All I know about the FDA and the FBI here as a representative of the broader public health
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establishment of Dr. Fauci and Dr. Scarf and Rochelle Walensky and the rest of them.
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They've gotten most things wrong, and in some cases, they've lied.
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I think I'm going to go with his health advisors.
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I think I'm going to go with the states and the Republicans.
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If you want to follow the science, that would be the logical conclusion.
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Meanwhile, the idea that the liberal health establishment is really engaging in open discourse
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and following the science, that silly notion is collapsing all around us.
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There was Senate testimony just the other day from Dr. Aaron Cariarty explaining how,
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at least in the state of California, there is no opportunity to dissent from the politically
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That actually, even when you think there's an opportunity to dissent, really, the entrenched
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powers that be are going to go in and cut that off at the knees.
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Went out to all physicians from the medical board saying, any physician in California who
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writes an inappropriate exemption for masks or other COVID-related measures will have his
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medical license subjected to investigation and disciplinary action.
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So for a physician, just to help you to understand, this kind of threat hanging over
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your head is worse than the threat of getting fired.
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If I get fired from a particular healthcare organization, I can go to another healthcare
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If I lose my medical license, I cannot practice medicine.
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The letter never defined what might constitute an appropriate or inappropriate mask mandate.
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So I have no idea if I write a mandate for a kid with a severe anxiety disorder that's
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worsened by the wearing of a mask, is that going to subject my medical license to disciplinary
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It has become de facto impossible to get a medical exemption for a COVID vaccine in the state of
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So not, maybe not according to the letter of the law, but in practice, in fact, it has
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Because the doctors are told if you give the exemption, then you're, you're very likely going
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There are plenty of good reasons not to get the vaccine.
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I'm not saying that there are no good reasons to get the vaccine necessarily.
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I'm saying that there are plenty of good reasons not to get the vaccine.
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There are the moral considerations, namely all of the vaccines are produced, at least produced
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and some are developed with, or rather they're all developed with, some are produced with
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fetal stem cells, cells derived from these, these fetal stem cell lines.
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And there are, there are medical reasons not to get the vaccines.
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There have been a number of studies that have shown risks of side effects, including inflammation
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of the heart, including nerve damage, including blood clotting and including death.
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Not saying it's common, it's more pronounced risk in certain groups than other groups.
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And so you could make a prudential judgment, huh?
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There are plenty of reasons not to do, particularly if you have some heart condition, right?
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Particularly if you have moral qualms about it.
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And it's almost impossible to get those exemptions.
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So the liberal establishment gets to pretend that, yeah, listen, we're just, we're just following
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the science, we're, we're being very open-minded, we're granting exemptions.
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But by the way, if you don't go along with exactly what we're saying right this very second,
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even if it contradicts what we said two seconds ago, if you don't do that right now,
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we're going to destroy your life, we're going to destroy your career.
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And this is having real world effects, by the way.
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These sorts of ideas are having real world effects.
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There is a 31-year-old father right now who is waiting for a heart transplant over at
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a Boston hospital, and he's right up toward the top of the list, and he is reportedly being
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Why is he being bumped off of that list or being bumped way, way down the list?
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You know, you can intuit what I'm going to say.
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It's because he refuses to take the COVID vaccine.
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So a man is very, very likely, very possibly, probably very likely going to die because he
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refuses to take the vaccine, without which the public health establishment says he is
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And he's got a good reason to avoid the vaccine, too.
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So 31-year-old father, currently at a Boston hospital, refusing to get the vaccine.
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His family says he was the first on the list to receive a transplant at Brigham and Women's
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Hospital, but he's no longer eligible because of his vaccine status.
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Now, his father says, I think my boy is fighting pretty damn courageously, and he has integrity
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and principles he believes in, and that makes me respect him all the more.
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You would think, look, you're a 31-year-old guy.
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You're up on the list for the heart transplant.
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So I see why people would say, just go, just get it.
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Now, maybe he's got some moral convictions about it.
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He says, I'm not going to use, I'm not going to even engage in the remote
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cooperation with evil that is entailed in taking these vaccines because of the fetal
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I'm not sure that that's his motivation here either.
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His argument is that he's got a very serious heart condition and that the vaccines have caused
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inflammation of the heart in young men, and so he could end up taking the vaccine and then
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And according to this report, the doctors have said as much.
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It might not be a huge chance, but there's a chance that you get this vaccine and then
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And it enlarges so much and there's no more room for it to enlarge that you could die from
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The issue is more complex than some conservatives make it out to be, but obviously there are
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The only issue here that I push back against is the my body, my choice argument.
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This guy should get, this guy should totally be allowed to stay on the list for the heart
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This guy has plenty of good reasons not to get the vaccine, but that's not a general
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The my, my body, my choice is a leftist slogan to defend abortion.
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And I'm all for conservatives throwing that slogan back in their face to own the libs because
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now the libs are trying to force us all to inject ourselves with the Fauci ouchie and
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We don't, my body, my choice is not our slogan.
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So I don't think conservatives should be adopting that.
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There are plenty of laws in our society that we conservatives support that impede some bodily
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Unless you're willing to make, at least, unless you're willing during the most deadly drug
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opioid epidemic ever in our nation's history, unless you're willing to make heroin and fentanyl
00:42:34.280
Unless you oppose public indecency laws and you think that people ought to be able to strut
00:42:39.400
down the sidewalk in their birthday suit, then you support some incursions into bodily
00:42:50.280
The leftist view and the radical individualist view is that you should be able to do whatever
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We believe, if we believe anything at all, we believe that there is a transcendent moral
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We believe that reverence and humility and respect matter.
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And so, no, you can't just do whatever you want with your body.
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This is causing a big problem right now for Trump because Trump is launching, ostensibly
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launching this new social network called Truth Social.
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And Truth Social has just announced that they will have content moderation.
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And so, now it's being attacked as not being a total free speech platform.
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Truth Social announced this according to Devin Nunes, the former congressman who's now running
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We want this to be a very safe place and we are focused on making sure any illegal content
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We're going to limit sexually explicit content and posts that include violence, bullying, hate
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Some more individualist types are really pushing back against this.
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It's one of the four cardinal virtues, temperance.
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We don't want there to be all sorts of disgusting, illegal, filthy, terrible things.
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You're seeing conservatives begin to recognize this in the curriculum debate because the curriculum
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debate over CRT in schools and creepy LGBT LMNOP pornography in schools, the conservative
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position now is not, well, hey, we should have some straight material in there, too.
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Hey, let's put some straight porn in the libraries, too.
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I would never say we should moderate or ban anything from our curricula or our libraries,
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but I'm just saying if we're going to have anti-white racism, we should have some pro-white
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It is not good in our education, in our society.
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This is the defense of free speech because free speech always requires limits.
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Otherwise, free speech can be abused into cacophony.
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Otherwise, liberty can be abused into licentiousness, which our founding fathers told us is a really
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Brian Stelter at CNN 2018, he tweeted out emphatically, calling a journalist an SOB.
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These threats expose journalists to threats and intimidation.
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And then Joe Biden does the exact same thing, and Brian Stelter apparently gets a kick out of it,
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But the context is different because it's no longer Trump.
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I actually think Brian Stelter makes a good point here.
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It is different when Democrats go after the press because Democrats and the press are on the
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It is, to quote the law professor Adrian Vermeule, hierarchy.
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It's two different, and we need to recognize that those are different contexts.
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We need to recognize that the alliances are different and the way that we can behave in
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society is different if we ever want to help to transform it and restore a good culture.
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