Ep. 969 - We Just Witnessed A COVID Miracle
Summary
The CDC lowers the death toll from COVID by 24% and blames it on a "logic error" and the algorithm, but the truth is much more sinister than that. The truth is that the CDC did not make up the COVID death toll.
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The CDC has just released some great news in the fight against COVID.
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Now, I am certain these people did not come back to life.
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And I'm pretty sure that these people never died in the first place.
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But the one thing that I now know for sure is that they did not die of COVID.
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Last week, without really much of any explanation, the CDC lowered the total COVID death count by a lot.
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Not just by a few people, stray numbers here or there.
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When asked how they got the count so incredibly wrong, the agency blamed the algorithm.
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They said, oopsie daisy, a coding logic error caused the artificially high number.
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Now, if you had suggested, if you had maybe just raised the possibility that possibly the official COVID death numbers were being exaggerated over the past two years,
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you would have been accused of spreading dangerous misinformation.
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You could have been kicked off of social media, kicked out of the public square.
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You would have been called a danger to society.
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You would have been blamed for other people's deaths.
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Because the definition of misinformation today, according to big tech and even our government,
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is so broad that it even includes true information if that information is inconvenient to the political goals of our ruling class.
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I did not believe that the official definition of misinformation, disinformation, all the words they use to say fake news,
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I did not believe that the official definition included true information.
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I thought that was just one of those right-wing crazy talking points.
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This is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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Often all these words, malinformation was a new one to me.
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But there are subtle distinctions between them.
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They say CISA's miss, dis, and malinformation MDM team is charged with building national resilience to MDM and foreign influence activities.
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And so they go out and they are basically a propaganda arm of the U.S. government that tries to counter other information that they deem dangerous or false or just politically inconvenient.
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So they'll say, malinformation, and this is the one they're really focused on.
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Starting today, CISA is launching a new MDM social media series, Optical Illusions, to raise public awareness of MDM and more specifically, malinformation.
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Malinformation is based on fact but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.
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And so CISA, this agency of the government, is going to inform you about malinformation.
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In other words, malinformation is true information that our political ruling class doesn't want people to believe.
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It's what you see in all of the quote unquote fact checking websites, which are really just left wing operative websites that are putting forward left wing opinions and then declaring them true or false.
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And then using their power with social media platforms, with big tech, with the entire liberal apparatus to suppress information they don't like.
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So they'll say, you know, we saw this just a few weeks ago with the bio labs.
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The claim was there are U.S.-funded biological research facilities in Ukraine, funded not just by the U.S., but by the U.S. military.
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And what you saw in all the fact checking websites was fake, fake news, false, 10,000 Pinocchios.
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And then if you read the articles, they would say, no, actually, it is true.
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So even though it's true, we're going to call it fake news.
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And then because these fact checkers have so much influence on the algorithms, if you report on that true information, you will have your website suppressed, your view suppressed.
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That word is going to play a much bigger role moving forward because we've just come out of two years of hearing about misinformation.
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There's more than two years, actually, really, really kicking into high gear at the beginning of the Trump presidency.
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You heard, this is everything that you're hearing that is contrary to the Democrats is disinformation, disinformation.
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That Hunter Biden laptop, 51 intelligence officers said, oh, this is classic Russian disinformation.
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And so you've got the intelligence community, the deep state, the big tech, the corporations.
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And they say, okay, gosh, we can't call it misinformation anymore because it's true.
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It's information that we just think happens to be bad for you.
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On COVID, if you say that the death count's being exaggerated, that's misinformation.
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We look on it with a great deal of malevolence.
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Speaking of COVID, Hillary Clinton just came out.
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She has some bad news, some scary news, but it's okay.
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Because we've been told COVID is the most dangerous thing ever in the history of the world.
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She says, quote, well, I've tested positive for COVID.
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I've got some mild cold symptoms, but I'm feeling fine.
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I'm more grateful than ever for the protection vaccines can provide against serious illness.
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Please get vaccinated and boosted if you haven't already.
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Speaking of misinformation, I was told at the beginning of the COVID, the vaccine period of COVID,
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I was told that the vaccines will prevent you from contracting or transmitting COVID-19.
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Later on, they said, no, it won't stop you from getting COVID or transmitting it,
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but it will stop you from going to the hospital, or it'll make it less likely that you go to the
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They totally changed the definition of vaccines.
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But in the early part of the vaccines, Dr. Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, Joe Biden, they all told us
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these vaccines will stop you from contracting COVID or transmitting it.
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Well, now that turns out that's misinformation.
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They said it was misinformation if you were skeptical of that view.
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And I just, it's so funny here how they keep moving the goalpost.
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Because, and I've heard this from many liberal friends of mine, liberal family members.
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And they'll say, oh, Michael, you have to get the vaccine.
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And I don't really have all that much faith in the experimental Fauci ouchie.
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Two months later, they've got COVID and I don't.
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And I say, hey, how's that vaccine working out for you?
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And they say, no, well, you know, I got COVID because obviously vaccines aren't supposed
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Today, the media tells me that vaccines don't stop you from getting beep, beep, beep, beep,
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So they start repeating the new media narrative, which contradicts their old one.
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They say, but thank goodness I got the vaccine.
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In healthy people, it's generally extremely mild.
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It would have been so much worse if I didn't have the vaccine.
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I'm not saying definitively, no, it would be, it wouldn't be worse if, if you didn't have
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The vaccine doesn't do the thing that everyone said it would do.
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Furthermore, the vaccine doesn't even last that long.
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That's why they told you you only need to get one shot, two shots, three shots, four shots,
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So it doesn't, it's so effective that you need to get five of them.
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The only reason you believe that it's, that COVID would be much worse if you didn't have
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the vaccine is because the same idiots who have been lying to you and simply getting it
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Frankly, whatever these people, the Fauci's, the Walensky's, the Biden's, whatever they tell
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me is true on any given topic, but particularly COVID, I am inclined to believe, and I think
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it is a reasonable conclusion, to believe that the opposite is true.
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Speaking of information and COVID, disinformation and misinformation, we have this series out
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Just like those scientists in the Wuhan laboratory were working on certain things secretly, we were
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working on this Fauci three-part docu-series secretly.
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And I'm so pleased to say the Fauci docu-series is one of the most popular products we have
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So if you want to watch it, you've got to head on over and subscribe to the Daily Wire.
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It just shows you that people do not believe the narrative that they have been sold on COVID.
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What we were told about COVID is Dr. Fauci is the science.
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Everyone else is spreading dangerous misinformation, disinformation.
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He's the highest paid employee of the federal government.
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There is no circumstance in which I will fire him.
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He'll be all over TV constantly changing his mind and controlling your life.
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And then he'll just pop right back up and try to control your life again.
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He says, oh, as we're lightening up on the masks and the vaccine mandates,
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And it's the Alpha Omega Delta Lambda Phi Beta Kappa variant.
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And so anyway, I'm really appreciative to people who have gone and watched that series,
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We've got the untold story of Fauci, unprecedented information about him.
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Now is the chance to make sure that this little jerk doesn't come back again and further destroy
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our society and our way of life, because they're going to try to do it, especially
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Now, the way our government works is different than the way we were told it works in school.
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For those of us who are old enough to have had civics class, for those of us old enough
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to have watched Schoolhouse Rock, I am a bill up on Capitol Hill.
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Well, that's not the way our government really works.
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We think there are three branches of government, the executive and the judiciary and the legislature,
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and there's a balance of powers and a separation of powers and checks and balances, and there's
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checks and balances and separation between the federal and the state and the local governments,
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and the people express their views, and through their elected representatives, they come up with
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laws, and the president decides to sign the laws or not, and then the judges rule on the law
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No, that's not, that stuff happens sometimes, but the actual way that our government works
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is that Congress outsourced its lawmaking authority to the executive branch, but not
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It outsourced its lawmaking authority to the administrative agencies.
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Earlier, at the top of the show, I was talking about misdisc, malinformation.
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That's from CISA, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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The FDA, the CDC, the ABCD, LGBT, LMNOP, those institutions make policies, and usually they
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do so without any input from lawmakers, frankly, not very much input from the president.
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And when there are questions about their lawmaking authority, it goes before the judiciary.
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Usually, the judges just defer to the agencies.
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That's through a series of court decisions, notably Chevron deference.
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The courts will actually say, okay, well, you decide.
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So that's, whether you say that's good or whether you say that's bad, that's just the way
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And if you want to change the political structure of our country, that's where you got to go.
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They're the ones with the power in the government.
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Now, speaking of the judiciary, we have a Supreme Court nominee who has just come up for her
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Ketanji Jackson, on paper, looks really good as far as a left-wing nominee can.
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But there are two really disturbing aspects of her background that Republicans have honed in
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Not that she had a beer at Georgetown Prep with PJ and Swee and Brett Kavanaugh back in the
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eighties, not that she groped someone at a party or whatever other nonsense that the
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It's about her actual judicial and policy record.
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The two problems with Ketanji Jackson are she's soft on child pornography and she supports
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Senator Cruz, in particular, Ted Cruz focused in on this yesterday, as did Senator Josh Hawley,
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who really zeroed in on some of Ketanji Jackson's defenses of why she went so light on people
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You said to this defendant, for whom you sentenced to only three months in prison, that your collection,
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I'm quoting you, your collection at the time that you were caught was not actually as large
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The government felt the need to respond to you on the record.
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They said the government doesn't believe that it's appropriate to just disregard the number
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of images, that the number of images can be appropriate.
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And indeed, in this case, the defendant has amassed an extremely large collection of child
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You also told the defendant, you said this, this seems to be a case where you were fascinated
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by sexual images involving what were essentially your peers.
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And then you went on to say the defendant was merely trying to satisfy his curiosity.
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You said you were viewing, this is you to the defendant, you were, you were viewing sex
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acts between children who were not much younger than you.
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And this whole discussion is about why you're only giving him three months.
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Really good line of questioning from Hawley and Ted Cruz also pursued a similar line of
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Ketanji Jackson was arguing here that the guy who has a ton of kiddie porn should basically
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get off the hook rather than be in prison for 70 months, 90 months, even two years, he
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would only be in prison for about three months because he's 18 and 18 year olds are basically
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If, if an, a freshman in college were hanging around with your third grade child, would you
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say, oh, well, little Johnny, he's just hanging around with his peers.
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Oh no, where, where is my eight year old boy tonight?
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Oh, he's just hanging out with his peers over at the local university.
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There are some cases where there has been debate on the left and the right involving pornography
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Cases like a 15 year old sends a picture of him or herself or receives a picture of one
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of his classmates and someone says, well, technically it's child pornography, but as Ketanji Jackson
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was arguing, it's involving people's peers or themselves.
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So are you really going to charge some 13 year old kid with producing child pornography
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because he or she takes a nude selfie the same as you would charge some 50 year old gangster
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creep who's filming kids in horrific situations?
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No, there are, those are obviously different cases that there's obviously some, there's some
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ambiguity if it's a, you know, a kid on some social media network making a mistake when
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he's a teenager or something with one of his actual peers.
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An 18 year old guy with an eight year old, with all of this material, that is a completely
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There is, what Ketanji Jackson has tried to do is blur these lines on an issue that is
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And so Hawley and Cruz were drawing stark attention to that.
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Is it because she's just got a real soft spot for pedophiles?
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But I suspect what it gets to is something even deeper than that, which is that Democrats
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always take the side of the criminal to the complete disregard and neglect of the victim.
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You see, you see this with BLM, you see this with Antifa, you see this with violent criminals
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You see this with all these George Soros installed district attorneys.
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They always take the side of the criminal and they never take the side of the victims.
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This is why there are rapes and assaults and murders going through the roof right now in
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New York City is because you'll get these absolute animal degenerates out on the street.
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And then the DA say, well, because of bail reform, because, because the only reason you're
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committing these crimes is society and how society has failed you.
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And, and frankly, it's even more disturbing than if Ketanji Jackson just had some weird sexual
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And that, that is far from the craziest thing that Ketanji Jackson said during these confirmation
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Ketanji Jackson, judge who's up for the Supreme Court, goes before the Senate.
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And the confirmation hearings are revealing a lot of radicalism in this woman.
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So on the one hand, she goes weak on child pornography cases.
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Then the next one, this is frankly even crazier, she defends critical race theory.
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Senator Cruz really nailed her down on this issue.
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You know, the Democrats always try to get out of the critical race theory stuff.
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So they'll say on the one hand, I don't know what critical race theory is.
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Critical race theory is not being taught anywhere.
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And also, I love it, and it's wonderful, and it's good that it's being taught.
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Out of one side of their mouth, they deny it completely.
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Out of the other side of their mouth, they exalt it and praise it.
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Now, Senator Cruz asks Ketanji Jackson about critical race theory, about her views.
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There's a school that she's on the board of in Washington.
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The school assigns these critical race theory books.
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One of the claims in the books is that babies are racist, brought to you by Ibram Kendi,
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one of the great proponents of critical race theory ideology in the country.
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She says, I don't know what you're talking about.
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They include a book called Anti-Racist Baby by Ibram Kendi.
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And there are portions of this book that I find really quite remarkable.
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One portion of the book says babies are taught to be racist or anti-racist.
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Another portion of the book, they recommend to babies confess when being racist.
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Now, this is a book that is taught at Georgetown Day School to students in pre-K through second grade,
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Do you agree with this book that is being taught with kids that babies are racist?
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I do not believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist or though they are not valued
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or though they are less than, that they are victims, that they are oppressors.
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She said, I don't really know what critical race theory is.
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And it's interesting that Cruz is the one doing the grilling here
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because Cruz and Ketanji Jackson went to law school together.
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Harvard Law School is the place that critical race theory started.
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So the idea that Ketanji Jackson, who's on the board of these schools that's pushing critical
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race theory, who's been in left-wing legal circles for her entire career, the idea that
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she would have no idea what critical race theory is, is simply beyond belief.
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And we know that she supports critical race theory because she's given speeches to law
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schools, University of Michigan Law School, among other places, where she has praised the
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founders of critical race theory, people like Derrick Bell.
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If you know who Derrick Bell is, you know about critical race theory, okay?
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You might know about critical race theory even if you've never heard of Derrick Bell or
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Kimberly Crenshaw or the other intellectuals who developed this.
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But if you know their names, you for sure know what this is.
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If you were educated at the school that started critical race theory and you are on the left
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and you were there at the time that this was really catching around, certainly you know
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And so what we've got here from Ketanji Jackson is a lie.
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She's lying about her views on critical race theory.
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She's lying about her knowledge of critical race theory.
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This is really bad news if you're looking at the future of the Supreme Court because this
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is a woman who's extremely radical and who's extremely dishonest.
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So the left is going into overdrive to try to defend her.
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They suggest that anytime you bring up critical race theory, that's racist, it's awful, it's
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They're even saying that they're even trying to defend her on the child pornography front.
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And the most hilarious way to do that was on CNN, Jeffrey Toobin, a man known for making
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A man known for his self-regard, let's say, and his lack of judgment, Jeffrey Toobin defended
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Can I just add one point about these kiddie porn cases?
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And this came up, I remember, when I was an assistant U.S. attorney back in the 90s, is
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that when those sentencing guidelines were written for those cases, this was a time when the people
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who committed these crimes would order individual photos and then get them, usually through email,
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and then they would be sentenced based on the number of photos they possessed.
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So once the internet came in and people got access to hundreds and then thousands of photos,
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the sentencing guidelines would reflect hundreds and then thousands of photos.
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Federal judges have been struggling with the issue of how do you create a fair system that
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was designed pre-internet that was, yet you have to sentence people post-internet.
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Jeffrey Toobin, this is just my advice to you as a fellow person who goes on TV, as a fellow
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That is where the similarities end, by the way, between me and Jeffrey Toobin.
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This is not a good issue for a man who famously had to take a little break from his career
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because of his sexual indiscretions, particularly involving internet pornography.
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The point he's making is somewhat interesting, actually.
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A lot of conservatives are jumping on it because he's basically saying, because this material
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is now more accessible, we need to change the sentencing guidelines.
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And that seems kind of silly on its face, but I actually think there's something, too.
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If a man goes out and accumulates hundreds of photos of child sexual abuse material, and
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he does it by writing to various murky mailboxes and collecting this physical stuff and creating
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a place for it in his home or wherever he's storing it, that actually does reflect a different
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degree of psychopathy and sickness than does a guy who goes on a website and downloads a million
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I actually do think he's making something of a fair point here.
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But then why is the, I think the conclusion that Jeffrey Toobin reaches is crazy because
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his conclusion seems to be, yeah, and that's why we need to be more lenient to the people
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No, if anything, it means you should probably be stricter.
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It means you should probably get them into firmer rehabilitation because the temptation
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now is so much stronger and the accessibility is so much easier.
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You need, you need to be damn sure that they're not going to be accessing this in the future.
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It was, it's so much harder to find an address to write to this whole thing he's describing
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It's so much harder to do that than to go to www.6stuff.com and, you know, download a bunch
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You got to change the sentencing guidelines, make them harsher, make them tougher, at least
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But all that, even all of that is not the craziest thing that Judge Ketanji Jackson said during
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The CRT stuff, the racist babies, the, the kiddie porn.
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No, the craziest thing she said was in response to Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn, who
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asked Ketanji Jackson a really simple question.
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This was not about some really contestable aspect of the law, some esoteric constitutional
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Can you provide a definition for the word woman?
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So you believe the meaning of the word woman is so unclear and controversial that you can't
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She should, Biden should pull the nomination or she should withdraw herself in disgrace.
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She should not have any role in public life because I guess she's just a big, stupid idiot.
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She has had a long career as a lawyer, as a judge.
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So I thought she was reasonably intelligent, probably above average in her intelligence in
00:37:08.000
But it turns out she's just a big, dumb, stupid idiot because she can't define the most basic
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She's so, she's gleeful and confident in her ignorance.
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She goes, uh, like, like a student in class, first of all, who doesn't know the answer and
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Uh, uh, you, you want me to define what a woman is?
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If you've made it through, if you've made it through kindergarten, I was going to say
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if you've made it through Harvard law school, Harvard undergraduate, if you've made it, if
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you've functioned as an adult in society, you should know.
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But no, if you've made it through kindergarten, you should be able to say what a woman is,
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If I find a biologist who says that a woman is, uh, a person who does not have, uh, testicles,
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uh, would you, would you then go along with that?
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She'd say that biologist is a right-wing fake news.
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You support lower sentencing for even pretty bad criminals.
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That's kind of par for the course with Democrats these days, with liberals.
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You support critical race theory and you praise it by name and you support the 1619 project
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It's a lie that America was founded to, to defend slavery.
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Either Ketanji Jackson is the stupidest person in America, or she is among the most radical
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Which means Ketanji Jackson is, at this point, after her answer to Marsha Blackburn, she is
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by far the most radical Supreme Court nominee ever to come before the United States Senate
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And she's, she's giving into this because, of course, she is embracing the transgender
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insanity that our entire liberal elite are embracing.
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You know, William Thomas is this hulking dude who just beat all the chicks at the NCAA swimming
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And he's got broad shoulders and a big Adam's apple and a relatively deep voice.
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And I'm just talking about above the belt, okay?
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You can use your imagination or your Google searches if you want to see the other evidence
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So William Thomas wins the trophy and takes it away from the chicks.
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He is not being helped as an obviously very disturbed man.
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He, no, he is being lauded by the liberal establishment, by NBC News as, as Jackie Robinson, as the Jackie
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The headline headline, Leah Thomas's NCAA championship performance gives women sports a crucial opportunity.
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Yeah, crucial opportunity not to exist anymore.
00:41:10.100
Change in sports doesn't happen overnight, nor is it linear.
00:41:13.080
Major professional sports leagues like the MLB and the NFL resisted racially integrating their player rosters.
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It was not until 1962 that the last NFL team, the Washington Commanders, would racially integrate.
00:41:25.860
Today, athletes like Jackie Robinson are celebrated as breaking the color barrier in sports.
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Although that narrative often requires sanitizing, simplifying, or rewriting a more complex, nuanced, and contradictory history.
00:41:38.140
And so, just like when black people could play in the white leagues, now we've got men competing in the women's leagues.
00:41:47.840
I actually think Will Thomas is like Jackie Robinson.
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They're both extremely muscular dudes who are good at sports.
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Jackie Robinson, obviously, much better in his sport than Will Thomas is in his sport.
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And that is why Will Thomas isn't breaking records in the men's league.
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For he competed in the men's league not that long ago.
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But he's breaking records in the women's league because men and women are very, very different.
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The difference between white people and black people and Asian people and Hispanic people.
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But the differences are minuscule compared to the difference between men and women.
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The difference between men and women is fundamental to our humanity.
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The difference between the races is not fundamental to our humanity.
00:42:48.240
This is why you have in all of the West, certainly in modernity, since travel has been much easier, since people have moved around.
00:42:59.080
You see all sorts of different people of different races go in and assimilate to other cultures.
00:43:04.540
But men and women, that divide remains pretty distinct.
00:43:11.180
Certainly much more distinct than between the races.
00:43:14.040
Ron DeSantis is standing up against this craziness, this craziness of transgenderism in sports.
00:43:24.460
So officially, Will Thomas, who goes by the name Leah, is the NCAA swimming champion.
00:43:33.160
In the state of Florida, the girl, the girl, Emma Wyant, is the women's champion because Ron DeSantis declared it so.
00:43:44.040
If you look at what the NCAA has done by allowing, basically, men to compete in women's athletics, in this case, the swimming,
00:43:54.080
you had the number one woman who finished was from Sarasota, Emin Wyant.
00:44:02.480
She's been an absolute superstar her whole career.
00:44:05.340
She trains, I mean, to compete at that level is very, very difficult.
00:44:16.900
And she had the fastest time of any woman in college athletics.
00:44:22.040
Now, the NCAA is basically taking efforts to destroy women's athletics.
00:44:27.740
They're trying to undermine the integrity of the competition.
00:44:30.880
And they're crowning somebody else the woman's champion.
00:44:36.720
And so in Florida, we're going to be doing a proclamation saying that Emma is the best female swimmer in the 500 meter freestyle because she earned that.
00:44:50.200
This is an excellent use of government because what the libs will say is.
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Ron DeSantis doesn't have the right to do that.
00:45:07.380
The NCAA has some authority, which it is squandering right now.
00:45:11.180
It's squandering all of its credibility by pretending that men are women.
00:45:19.820
I think he's actually got a great deal more authority given to him by the people of Florida than the NCAA has.
00:45:26.700
And so, sure, the NCAA is using their authority to declare this dude the greatest female swimmer in America.
00:45:33.540
And Ron DeSantis is using his far more credible authority to declare the young girl the greatest female swimmer in America.
00:45:41.920
Better than the man who is pretending to be that title.
00:45:46.740
Yeah, I think this is a great use of government power.
00:45:49.920
Sometimes we feel on the right like we don't have any power whatsoever anymore because the libs control the corporations and the media and big technology and the administrative state, which has so much control over our government.
00:46:01.700
And they control every power center, the universities, they control every power center in the country.
00:46:08.680
The one power center that we occasionally still can control is elective office.
00:46:13.940
And conservatives have put themselves at a huge disadvantage, a potentially fatal disadvantage, by taking this radical, libertarian, almost anarchist line that it's always bad to use the government.
00:46:28.240
Well, government power is the only power that we can ever even sometimes occasionally get.
00:46:37.920
The CIA now is putting out documentaries or commercials about its members where they say,
00:46:44.920
I'm an intersectional, Latinx, feminist, radical.
00:46:49.360
Join me, young, pansexual, transsexual, whatever.
00:46:53.620
And then the army, the U.S. army is putting out recruitment videos saying, I learned how to be a fighter.
00:46:59.280
And she says, I learned how to be a fighter when my lesbian guardians took me to a pride parade when I was 10.
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The one we have occasionally is elected government.
00:47:11.400
We should use that power, not in an unjust way, not in a tyrannical way, not in an autocratic way,
00:47:16.620
but we should use that power justly for the good, for the true and the beautiful.
00:47:24.100
Lie down and give away your whole culture and let the culture be completely destroyed.
00:47:29.720
Now, speaking of elected leaders, you got a really good one down in Florida.
00:47:34.140
You got a really good one, a really terrible one up in Boston.
00:47:39.420
This mayor of Boston is sort of the anti-DeSantis.
00:47:42.840
He's probably the best executive leader in America right now.
00:47:47.840
And she just came out, and this was on her St. Patrick's Day breakfast, and she was complaining
00:47:55.780
She's used to dealing with problems that are disruptive and white.
00:48:00.000
In just over 100 days, we have connected unhoused residents at Mass and Cass to housing, treatment
00:48:20.080
I'm getting used to dealing with problems that are expensive, disruptive, and white.
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Not, she's not quite a Rodney Dangerfield, is she?
00:48:41.040
Her material, the actual content of her material.
00:48:56.220
We are told in this very stupid and deluded culture, we are told that white people are
00:49:05.920
The only group that it is legal to discriminate against is white people.
00:49:09.260
In some cases, you can also discriminate against Asians who get lumped in with white people
00:49:13.560
for some reason, ironic given this woman's joke.
00:49:16.880
But it's really primarily white people that are permitted to be discriminated against.
00:49:21.980
On the social scene, the only race that you can criticize, that you're actually encouraged
00:49:26.320
to criticize and mock and deride on the basis of race is white people.
00:49:30.000
So, the narrative that we are told is the opposite of what is actually going on in reality.
00:49:39.160
I mentioned just a few moments ago that the difference between the races is really relatively
00:49:44.480
minor compared to the difference between the sexes.
00:49:48.220
You know, Christianity is quite clear about this, right?
00:49:50.760
There is neither Jew nor Greek nor slave nor free, but all are one in Christ Jesus.
00:49:55.200
The racial difference is really not all that significant.
00:49:59.620
Sexual difference still is quite significant, right?
00:50:01.880
In the beginning, there was man, male and female.
00:50:07.760
And yet, what we're told today is exactly the opposite.
00:50:11.280
It's a total inversion of Christianity, of our religious tradition.
00:50:15.480
We are told that the difference between men and women basically doesn't exist and the difference
00:50:21.780
You see this everywhere that this liberal ideology, leftist, radical, call it whatever you want.
00:50:30.040
It seems always not just to distort, but to totally invert our traditional understanding
00:50:45.700
This is a great example of misinformation, okay?
00:50:53.740
And yet, we are told that the very true statements that we make, whether it's about sex or crime
00:50:57.980
or justice or society or whatever, basic biology, we're told that that is fake news, terrible.
00:51:04.660
Even if it's true, it's malinformation and they need to shut us up.
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