Western Standard - ＂Leave the kids out of it...＂

00:00:00.000 I want to pivot a little to, you know, this is some of the areas where people get worked up.

00:00:03.720 Somebody threw it out because I got on Twitter, I put it out there when people are talking about

00:00:08.680 banning Fox News, for example. We got to ban them. We want CRTC to step in and ban them.

00:00:14.360 They said, no, get over it. Don't watch it. Just change the channel. Why is it always banning? Why

00:00:19.000 is it always shutting down? Why have people jumped straight to attacking the other viewpoint,

00:00:24.260 not allowing the other viewpoint? But somebody tweeted back at me saying, so fine. So you'd be

00:00:28.800 okay with LGBT people in schools and, you know, drag shows and libraries. And yes, actually,

00:00:37.360 yes, I don't care. Now, the thing is, what we have to have is choice. We have to have choice.

00:00:44.720 In a library, for example, as we mentioned before, join the library board if you're really that

00:00:48.860 concerned and don't have trans shows going on there. Likewise with the school, we need charter

00:00:53.440 schools. We need to let parents choose where their kids are going to go and where they aren't.

00:00:57.860 And we need to reframe the discussion and take it back from the trans activists, not trans people, 0.90

00:01:06.020 trans activists. And, you know, the trans activists are usually the same hysteric jerks that are the 1.00

00:01:13.120 activists that get involved in all the woke causes, usually some basement dwelling white middle-class 0.99

00:01:20.340 person who feels that they want to get a chip on their shoulder and make the world a better place

00:01:24.340 by speaking up as a white knight on behalf of some minority or another minority that they aren't even

00:01:29.060 actually a part of. Trans people have been around for a long, long time. And they've been achieving a

00:01:36.580 lot more rights. And they should, I think, you know, they want to live their lives. But the activists got

00:01:42.180 involved. The activists got into the mix. The activists moved the goalposts. They're there to outrage.

00:01:48.980 They're not there to make things better for anybody else. They just have to push it farther and farther

00:01:54.660 and farther. They found the line that's ticking off just about everybody. They finally found it.

00:01:59.860 And it's a straightforward line for most people. Kids. Why are they always so obsessed and getting

00:02:05.700 in front of kids? Why? And no, by the way, because some people imply that they're saying that,

00:02:11.700 well, it's because all those trans performers and drag story, our readers are pedophiles. No, 0.85

00:02:15.540 no, they aren't. Not all of them. Not most of them. Hopefully not any of them. But it is odd with

00:02:21.940 that hang up and getting in front of kids. You got the age of majority that hits at 18. That means the

00:02:26.740 majority, guys, guys, gals, whatever, you can perform and do your things in front of millions

00:02:31.780 and millions of people who were older than the age of 18. There's nothing stopping you. It's perfectly

00:02:37.540 legal. It's perfectly allowed. Go for it. But instead, they got to keep pushing it. I mean,

00:02:42.820 that's a story that just get kind of, I got to admit, and I'm not easily shocked, 0.99

00:02:46.100 but got me the other day when I saw that was trans woman's testicle falls out in front of 1.00

00:02:51.460 children during performance. Yes. Because again, this goes beyond. There's more than one thing here 1.00

00:02:59.300 with the trans performances. Now, there's drag time story hour. In that case, somebody's kind of 0.96

00:03:05.940 dragged up, dolled up and reading to some kids, usually pretty benign and harmless. But then that limit

00:03:11.060 keeps getting pushed. And we see the videos and it's not everywhere. We see enough. We see the

00:03:14.500 ones where there's kids going up and putting money into the G strings of trans performers.

00:03:20.100 You know, it would be illegal if these were straight people up there. Just leave the kids 1.00

00:03:24.420 alone. Leave the kids out of it. Why? Why do we have to keep pushing? And I think personally,

00:03:30.180 I can't speak for them, but I think it's probably making it harder on the genuinely trans people who

00:03:35.380 just want to live their lives. Just leave the kids out of it. Move on. But it's the rage. It's

00:03:41.460 the rage. They got to push. They got to push. You know, I listened to something the other day,

00:03:46.820 I listened to Adam Carolla's podcast a lot. And he said something interesting, or he had a guest who

00:03:52.020 said something interesting. He said, a lot of libertarian minded people tend to be on the autism

00:03:56.020 spectrum, because they have additional different way of emotions in the way they work with things.

00:04:00.180 I don't know if that's fair or not to say if that's the case or whatnot. But yes, I do think

00:04:05.300 though, and one of the ways he put it was good. Wasn't that because we get accused of that you get

00:04:09.300 accused of these sensitive issues, you're heartless, you want this, you want that. No, not not. But

00:04:14.660 a libertarian person won't look at an emotional argument as being valid when it comes to policy.

00:04:22.820 So yes, I emotions are important, but I honestly don't care what you feel. I don't. It's your

00:04:30.020 problem. I want to see results. It doesn't matter what makes you feel good. It matters what works.

00:04:37.700 It doesn't mean I don't have emotions. It just means I'm not going to let the emotions set the policy.

00:04:42.500 Some of these items they love using rent control. I always oppose rent control. I say, why? Why?

00:04:49.140 Do you want people on the streets? Stupid question. But that's the kind of question these emotional 1.00

00:04:53.060 jerks send at you, isn't it? Do you want people to be homeless? Do you not feel that people should be 0.98

00:04:57.620 able to live comfortably under a roof? Stupid questions. Turning the discussion all based on 1.00

00:05:03.860 emotion. Why do I oppose rent control? Not because I'm a heartless jerk. It's because it doesn't work.

00:05:09.780 It never works. Not usually doesn't work. Not only sometimes works. Rent control never works. So the

00:05:18.180 only way a person could potentially push rent control is on an emotional basis. And I reject that premise.

00:05:24.260 You're just wasting time. You are not helping people. Don't you want to deal with the housing

00:05:29.220 crisis? Sure. Not through rent control. It'll make it worse. But that'll be the people without

00:05:34.580 houses. No, won't you clowns? What else? Minimum wage hikes. You oppose minimum wage hike? You want 0.99

00:05:40.580 everybody working for slave wages? No, don't ask the stupid questions. But minimum wages don't make people 1.00

00:05:47.780 richer, guys. It doesn't work that way. What does a business do when it's forced to raise minimum wages?

00:05:53.540 They raise their prices. When prices raise on everything everywhere, what happens? Inflation.

00:05:59.220 Then the person you just went through that whole rigmarole with, not to mention jobs get shed because

00:06:03.860 other businesses will also lay people off or modernize or do some other things to get rid of the jobs to

00:06:08.340 save money when the minimum wage gets risen. It doesn't work. It doesn't make those low income people any richer.

00:06:16.580 If it did work, and some people say it's a shallow argument being thrown back, then let's just raise it

00:06:20.900 to $80 an hour for everybody and we'll eliminate poverty. Well, the reason we don't do that is

00:06:27.060 because it's economically unviable and it doesn't work. So no, I'm not saying I want to see people live

00:06:31.460 in poverty when I oppose constant minimum wage hikes. I'm saying it doesn't frigging work.

00:06:38.180 Socialized medicine, there's another beauty, isn't it? Canada's sacred healthcare system.

00:06:44.100 You want people to pay for their healthcare with a credit card.

00:06:47.380 You see, again, they throw a question at you. When did anybody say that? Either way,

00:06:53.540 yeah, you know what? I want people to have the option to pay with a credit card. In fact,

00:06:56.260 they do already. It's just that they crossed the border to do it.

Western Standard - June 12, 2023

＂Leave the kids out of it...＂

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