The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - The Power of Satire - The Humorless Kamala Harris Hacks (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_733)

00:00:00.240 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad. It's Sunday, October 27th. I want to be watching a soccer

00:00:07.260 match, but here I am posting this because truth needs to always be defended against

00:00:15.940 the fascists, authoritarians, also known as Democrats, liberals, and progressives.

00:00:24.980 So a few days ago, I satirized the endless sexual assault cases that come up as some Republican

00:00:40.080 is going up for an important position or, in this case, President of the United States.

00:00:48.440 Remember, for example, when Brett Kavanaugh was to be confirmed a few nanoseconds before

00:00:57.280 his confirmation, Christine Blasey Ford comes along and says, well, you know, 40 years ago

00:01:05.060 it could have happened somewhere, somehow, I don't have any proof, but he assaulted me.

00:01:09.920 And every, all the progressives said, hey, we don't have to worry about presumption of

00:01:15.660 innocence because this is just a interview for a job. And so we don't, we should take

00:01:21.140 her allegations seriously and not risk it. And so therefore, forget about presumption of

00:01:26.400 innocence when it comes to levying accusations at someone and potentially ruining their careers.

00:01:32.260 It's, you know, the truth in this case, or the seeking of truth via the presumption of

00:01:38.840 innocence edict is not worth considering. And of course, Donald Trump has faced many of these

00:01:49.240 situations where just now, a couple of weeks before the election, all sorts of people come

00:01:56.360 out and say that they've been sexually assaulted by him. So as I have been doing for decades,

00:02:04.680 I decided to satirize that position, right? This is not making fun of rape victims and so on as the

00:02:12.800 humorless hacks are pretending. And the way you use satire is precisely by using an extreme example

00:02:21.540 to satirize that lunacy. That's what satire is. You use hyperbole, you use exaggerations,

00:02:30.640 you use all sorts of rhetorical tricks to satirize the stupidity. So what I did is I put out a clip, 1.00

00:02:39.220 as I've done on countless other occasions, where I said that in 1977, when I would have been

00:02:45.980 turning 13, Kamala Harris, who would have also been 13, she's I think a few days close to my age,

00:02:54.640 pretended to be my rabbi, when she was 13. She pretended to be my male rabbi. And during one of my

00:03:04.400 bar mitzvah lessons, had sexually assaulted me, it would be impossible to come up with a satirical

00:03:12.940 case that is more hyperbolic, right? I'm 13. Kamala Harris is 13. She pretends to be a full-grown

00:03:23.060 rabbi, you know, with beards and stuff, and then assaults me. And then someone else posts a meme

00:03:30.860 of me at that bar mitzvah, but I'm looking as I do now. And Kamala is looking as she does today.

00:03:40.120 But you know, you put a tallet on her, and I am made to be much smaller than her, meaning that we're,

00:03:46.440 the person who did the meme is using current images of Kamala and I, we're both 60, pretending

00:03:56.140 that we were both 13 at my bar mitzvah. So again, it would be difficult to come up with a clear

00:04:03.580 example of satire. Well, someone on used game the system on X to set up a community notes against me

00:04:14.520 because I was spreading misinformation. Me sharing a clip satirizing that Kamala molested me when I was

00:04:24.440 13 in 1977, where she pretended to be a male rabbi, did not seem clear enough as satire. Showing a photo

00:04:34.300 of me today as a 13-year-old boy at my bar mitzvah was not clear as satire. Now, that community notes

00:04:42.880 was overturned, but now YouTube has demonetized one of my two clips, satirical clips. So now what

00:04:50.560 I'd like to do is take you back to my 2020 book, The Parasitic Mind, which I truly hope that you

00:04:58.220 get a copy and gift it to as many people as possible. Because on page 51, I have, this is the

00:05:07.460 chapter titled Non-Negotiable Elements of a Free and Modern Society. I have a section titled Satire

00:05:15.140 as the Surgeon's Scalpel. You see how prophetic it is? So here we go. First, I begin with three quotes

00:05:24.960 by others. And please listen to the words. Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

00:05:34.220 Winham Lewis. And then here's the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. I think that's how you pronounce it.

00:05:43.440 Quote, how much truth is contained in something can best be determined by making it thoroughly laughable

00:05:50.380 and then watching to see how much joking around it it can take. For truth is a matter that can stand

00:05:57.180 mockery that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot stand satire is

00:06:05.580 false. Replaced by humorless Kamala Harris hacks are false. Then this is Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps

00:06:18.100 you've heard of him. Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

00:06:24.240 Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them. Okay, let me go on. So now I start

00:06:32.980 on page 52. Satire is a strategy I frequently employ to critique idea pathogens. This is a book that came

00:06:41.480 out in 2020. Look what happened now in 2024 when I'm satirizing these mysterious sexual assault claims

00:06:49.900 that come out of nowhere. To make it effective as Mary Wortley Montague said, quote, satire should like

00:06:59.320 a polished razor keen wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. And then I go on. This is

00:07:08.500 precisely why totalitarian rulers have always outlawed satire directed at them and their ideologies.

00:07:16.260 If an idea is veridical, it should be anti-fragile. It should be capable of withstanding ironic, satirical,

00:07:24.120 and sarcastic attacks. If it is too brittle to do so, it is undoubtedly a falsehood. Satirists have

00:07:31.840 recognized this for millennia as evidenced by the works of Horace, Aristophanes,

00:07:40.340 Juvenal, Lucien of Samosata, El-Ma'ri, Voltaire, François Rabelais, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain,

00:07:52.340 Ambrose Bierce, and George Orwell. By the way, I just recently received two weeks ago for my birthday

00:07:57.600 from my family, two first editions of 1984 and Animal Farm. I'm going to stop there and apologies

00:08:08.360 if I mispronounced some of those satirists. This is why satire is so important. This is why

00:08:16.080 rulers are so afraid of satirists. That's the whole point of satire. You mock something,

00:08:23.680 you test its anti-fragility. So for me to satirize having been molested by Kamala Harris when I would

00:08:32.060 have been 13 and she would have been 13 when she was pretending to be my rabbi at a bar mitzvah lesson

00:08:38.440 could not be a greater example of the power of satire. But then those who don't like the fact

00:08:47.420 that satire is so powerful, try to shut it down. Vote carefully on November 5th. Again, I'm Canadian.

00:08:57.060 I'm not defending Donald Trump because I have posters of him in my bedroom as a marital aid.

00:09:04.060 I'm defending Donald Trump because he certainly represents better and more assiduously the

00:09:11.900 foundational values of the United States. As much of that you might despise some of his personal flaws,

00:09:20.720 his defense of the American foundational values is certainly much better than that that would be

00:09:30.000 exemplified via Kamala Harris. And the manner by which Kamala Harris supporters have responded to my

00:09:39.680 outlandish satire as proof of that. Take care, everybody.

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - October 27, 2024

The Power of Satire - The Humorless Kamala Harris Hacks (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_733)

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