There's an op ed in the Fresno b that's like, we're not even in
June yet, and I can already tell that the tidal wave of LGBT content
it's beginning to crest, as it's about to crash on all of us.
On June first, my wife and I over the Memorial Day weekend went to
a store, not a store when I mean not a store that you would
necessarily think of as ies. This is a gay clientele serving store necessarily.
And we're there on May twenty fifth. Actually, we were going out to
dinner for it was our anniversary, so we were going out to dinner.
After don't dinner, we went to a shop nearby the restaurant where we were
eating. They've already got all the pride stuff out on May twenty fifth.
We're a solid week out and we're already starting this stuff. And this is
people have noted the enormous number of days that have been quote unofficially designate,
officially slash unphysically designated whatever as being dedicated towards the LGBT Agenda recognizing LGBT groups
or something like that. So we've got all of June, and then during
June, every major company is going to start adopting some rainbow flag and then
we've got this day and this day and this month and blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. So it is not surprising that in the Fresno b we
have an immediate puff piece op ed written by a fundraiser for a local LGBT
organization, and it's talking about how horrible it was growing up in California in
the era of Prop eight quote, and how basically it was a sort of
non story. It's the person the person who wrote this is the head of
fundraising for the Source LGBT Plus Center located in Vicealia. Hmmm, says I,
I says, what is that. I've done this before where I do
a little bit of a deep dive on these LGBT nonprofits, who started them,
what they do. So I go to this the website of this organization.
Now this entity what it actually seems to do. Let's see if you
go to events for this website. So, first of all, it is
a building, a nonprofit that's located in Vice Salia that does very kind various
kinds of promoting LGBT people. That's how it kind of expresses itself. Its
mission statement is, our mission is to provide supportive spaces within our communities for
LGBTQ plus people to learn, grow, belong and thrive. All Right,
so we go to events. They have the Rainbow Run on June twenty second,
Pride Vice Salia, a grassroots, family friendly celebration of diversity, inclusion
and acceptance not only for LGBTQ people, but for our allies. Food trucks,
vendors, exhibits, entertainments, and a kid zone. On October twelfth,
Drag Queen Bingo, Drag Queen Bingo. On September fifteenth, Drag Queen
Bingo is here again for twenty twenty four. The queens are going to be
fiercer, the prizes are going to be fabulous er, and the bear bar
will be even more shirtless than before. So you know, we got some
really wonderful, really wonderful important things that are being promoted here by this nonprofit
organization. An annual gala, a trans Day of Remembrance in November, Trans
Day of Visibility seems like a whole nonprofit designed for very few events here Pride
Movie Night. That's about as far out as we get. So some of
them are labeled as family friendly. Others are obviously not family friendly, I
guess, including Drag Queen Bingo, which is sponsored by the way by Eagle
Mountain Casino, Token Farms, which is a marijuana I think it's some kind
of marijuana thing. Elite Sports, Born Tough, and Menagerie of Bunch whatever.
Those businesses all are just so you guys are aware. But so that's
some of the things they do. And then you go to their programs.
Oh well, we have all kinds of and listed right next to each other
in the drop down list of its programs. We've got youth programs and transgender
resources right next to each other. So they've also got so we've got all
this stuff that's pro transgender right alongside all this youth oriented stuff, Game Nights
for transgender youth, the Rainbow Support Network, the Binder program, which apparently
is a thing where biological females put straps across their chests to try to artificially
constrict their breasts. The King's County LGBTQ pop up event. Now it seems
like they're possibly being careful about children and transgenderism and children and transgenderism, because
it seems like there's a slight distinction between like queers and peers. Queers and
Peers is a group for transitional age youth eighteen to twenty six to make friends
and get involved in their community. So it seems as though there is some
there's some stuff where we're trying to keep a little bit of distance between transgend
transgender youth. They have a Leadership Academy for youth age seventeen to twenty six.
They've got their Youth Board for LGBT plus and allied youth ages fifteen to
twenty two LGBT scholarships, so that they've got all this pro transgender stuff right
alongside all their youth stuff. And I'm wondering if they're like trying to like
because they realize there's so much more stigma now, there's so much more I
shouldn't say stigma, so much more reasonable concern about transgender stuff with children,
the chief reasonable concern being that most children who express transgender ideation, if left
completely un alone, will sort of revert to their actual biological sex, and
overwhelming, overwhelming, overwhelming majority of the time that there is more and more
evidence that transgender interventions are actually quite harmful new study that came out said ninety
to ninety five percent of biological females who received testosterone hormones we're having pelvic floor
issues. It's almost like they're not supposed to have all that testosterone like their
biological females. Giving them a bunch of testosterones screwing around with their reproductive hormones
is a really bad idea. But I think the thing about this entity,
and by the way, it's not just this entity in Vicelia. There are
entities like this popping up in towns all up and down the San Joaquin Valley.
I think the thing that is most important about entities like this is when
I click on their about and click on their partners. By partners, we
mean this is the people funding them. So this is just the partners for
the LGBT Center in Vice Salia T Mobile Boom, one of the biggest,
you know, cell phone carriers in the country, which just bought out another
big cell phone carrier. I was just reading a story about that. One
of the big source partners too. Family Healthcare Network. Hmmm, why would
a major healthcare network, Why would a major healthcare network, which I believe
this is an FQHC located in the San Joaquin Valley. I sort of looking
up here. Yeah, this is a basically an FQHC trying to is a
is a healthcare health center program grantee under forty two USB two five four deemed
a public health service employee NDER forty two. Yeah, so this is a
federal This is a federal an FQHC. A federally qualified health center receives funding
from the Department of Health and Human Services Federal pub and has Federal public health
service. Is Federal public health service deemed status within respect to certain health or
health related claims. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah, so
this is a yeah, federally qualified health clinic largely a these kinds of clinics.
Basically they're setup so that they can take Medicaid patients medical patients in California,
and they're able to do so because they get a bunch of federal subsidization,
so they're able to make money. So they're helping fund this LGBT thing.
And I wonder are they participate paiding in transgender stuff? Are they?
In fact, they have a whole page on their website for LGBTQ plus services
transgender hormone therapy. There we are the first thing, the big thing right
on the front. Why because transgender hormone therapy makes money. So of course
this big FQHC that's making money hand over fist is supporting this pro LGBT entity.
And then they have more and more sponsors as send Behavioral Health a behavioral
health entity wanting to get lots of LGBT youth. Maybe that could be another
source of patients slash money money. See you're a Meadows Behavioral Health. We've
got Eagle Mountain Casino, a tele Properties, the Tillarry County Suicide Prevention Task
Force. Because again, this is a big cudgel that the LGBT folks use.
If you don't support us, then you're leading kids to commit suicide,
even though one that's not really supported by the evidence. Two, it's basically
a gun to your head way of forcing someone to support you. Al Tura
Centers for Health, Grace Note Music Studio, the Sequoia Riverlands Trust. Some
of the founders include the Sierra Health Foundation, Arcis Foundation, and the California
Endowment. So here are these huge moneyed entities giving just a ton of money
for an entity that supports basically that seemingly is a pipeline to businesses to send
them patients with mental health problems who want hormone therapy so they can make money.
I forgive me if I don't think that all of these donors are completely
altruistic. But that's the thing. The LGBT, all of this Pride Month
stuff is going to be presented to you as if it is this is just
grassroots Americana, and it's not. It's all this corporate sponsored promotion of this
fundamentally liberal order. Will we return? I want to talk about that how
the word choice has sort of triggered this in my brain thinking about liberalism and
Pride Month. We'll get to all that after the break. This is the
juhnje already show on Power Talk. So I was reading this a couple of
tweets about the school choice debate. Now I'm coming from the abortion debate.
I cringe. I obviously am am very involved in the abortion debate. People
who are in favor of vouchers voucher programs. Universal voucher programs were basically,
instead of education dollars going directly to a public school, instead of education tax
dollars going directly to the public school, reshaping the way we think about elementary
and secondary education by instead taking whatever pot of money is designated to a public
school per kid and giving it to the parent and allowing the parent to kind
of drive it and to take the money and to use it for either a
public school or for a private school. And that's honestly the way that things
like cal grants work. Okay, cal grants is like California state funded scholarship
for lower income college aspirants who reach certain kinds of criteria as far as high
school achievement, certain kind of GPA, et cetera, and then they get
a cal grant and they can use the calgrant at pretty much any college or
university, certainly within California. Not sure if it travels out of state,
but at any rate, I no, certainly within California, and you can
use it at pretty much any public school or private school. Okay, if
you wanted to go to USC you could use your calgrant there. If you
want to go to UCLA or Fresno State or cal Berkeley or Stanford, you
can use a cal grant at pretty much any of those places, public school
or private school, and no one screams, you know, you could use
it to go to Loyola Marymount, and nobody screams that the cal grant is
violating the sacred Wall of separation between Church and State, which, by the
way, the wall of separation between church and state is not a thing that's
actually in the Constitution. The only thing in the Constitution is no establishment of
religion that's actually in the constitution. Wall of separation between church and state was
from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote, and liberals have repeated the phrase so often
that it has become part of American constitutional law, which is the greatest pr
coup of all time anyway. So that's kind of the argument behind people who
are pro vouchers for elementary and secondary education, and liberals hate it because liberals
have this total monopoly over the public school system, and liberals realize, well,
if you let people leave public schools with their tax dollars, they probably
will and the public school might be financially hurt by that. And that's what
they really care about, is the public schools. They care about the public
schools as a job creation program for adult liberals who for adults, you know,
adults who are in charge of the teachers' unions who don't want to see
like, if they have fewer kids, then you might have to get rid
of a couple of teachers. They don't want that. And so you have
liberals objecting to the idea that basically the supporters of vouchers have labeled their movement
school choice. And these liberals are all of a sudden so upset about the
use of the term choice, like, well, it's not much of a
choice for the public schools who lose out all money, or for people whose
kids go to a public school where the school might might start hurting or go
out of visits. But booooh, all of a sudden, the people adversely
impacted by choices matter, which is of course darkly ironic given the whole context
of the abortion debate. But that sort of made me think, like,
how do they get away? And this is relating to what I'm talking about
about Pride Month and we're already seeing this begin to crest. How is it
that the abortion movement was able to slap the label choice on it? We're
pro choice? What do you mean? Choice is such a huge Like I'm
sure, if you look up the dictionary definition of the word choice, it
probably takes up If you look at the Oxford English Dictionary or a big dictionary,
it probably takes up like a whole page. Practically, it's this very
big, broad concept, and for some reason, the only political issue it
that word by itself gets applied to is abortion. Why. It's kind of
the distillation of all liberalism and even classical liberalism that people on the right purport
to love. What is the foundational premise of Enlightenment politics, of classical liberal
poser politics? Foundational premise is really, you know, after the wars of
religion in Europe, basically this idea that well, let's stop fighting over religion.
No one can really be sure about what the truth is, the moral
truth, ethical truth, objective political truth, objective truths about human nature.
No one can be sure about that, and we shouldn't have a politics that's
ordered towards that ultimate good. Here we had, you know, Protestant kingdoms.
We had Protestant kingdoms and Catholic kingdoms fighting each other in Europe because they
disagreed about that. Well, let's just say, no one knows what it
is, So no one knows the objective truth. No one knows the objective
moral order, and so the only thing our politics can deal with is choice.
Is freedom is liberty, your liberty to make choices. So what our
government will be about is maximizing your capacity for free choices. You decide the
good for yourself, and as long as you're not stepping on somebody else's toes,
then you can continue to carry on making choices. Abortion is kind of
the most extreme expression of that. Who's to say whether killing a baby is
good or not? It's choice. I'm choosing what's good for me. But
what about this other person you're hurting? Well, that person can't make choices
the way that I can, so why should I bother? Choice becomes the
definitive thing, And that's why the LGBT movement has been so successful. I
think as we head into all this Pride Month stuff, why everyone sort of
why it's been able to gain so much momentum because it's able to be presented
as well. This is just about individual choice. Who are you to say
that an individual choice is bad? Well, I'm just maximalized. There is
no objective moral There is no objective moral truth, moral order towards which the
state can or should orient itself towards which businesses can or should orient themselves if
it makes other people feel excluded. It's the ultimate distillation of liberalism. And
it makes me sort of amazed at how these big words get attached to these
political movements that are at the heart of liberalism. Choice for abortion, pride
for sexual activity between persons other than a man and a woman. It kind
of it's pretty striking, though, Like, how did that just sort of
work out about to get into conspiracy land here? So I think I'll just
pump the brakes on that, but understand that that's what it's about. And
American conservatism has always been in this tug of war, honestly between the Enlightenment
thinking that was in various ways animating the Founding Fathers, and the Bible.
You know, to be frank, if I'm thinking about what's the common ground
of Christianity that united basically all the Christian denominations in America, it was pretty
much the Bible. So you've got the Bible over here, which very much
does present a knowable, an objectively knowable sense of human nature, an objectively
knowable sense of human ethics, an objectively noble sense of right and wrong,
and very much sense a political vision that is not just well, let everyone
do what they want, ever, let everyone maximize their own choices. No,
some choices are deemed as being quite wrong and nation judgeworthy. So I
think this is the kind of thinking that underlies so many of these political movements
of the left. Is it's the logical end conclusion of these fundamental liberal and
I mean classical liberal, not just American modern day American left, but classical
liberal ideas. When we return the Trump trial, closing statements are happening,
and how to think about the whole thing that's next on the John Girardi Show,
Trump trial is winding down, closing statements are being made, and the
Biden administration wants you to know that President Biden is being totally fair about all
this. He's not commenting, he's staying out of it. He's not at
all commenting, other than all the times he has in fact commented, and
other than the fact that he's having a campaign. His campaign is doing an
event right outside the courtroom where President Trump he's being tried for these crimes,
and that President Biden might give a nationwide address if Trump is convicted from the
White House because he's totally not that. This is totally not about politics.
The prosecution of Donald Trump just had nothing to do with politics at all.
That's of course why he had all these claims against him that could have been
made in twenty twenty one or twenty twenty two, or even twenty twenty three,
but which for some reason or other, were not made until after March
or April of twenty twenty four, i e. After he had secured the
Republican primary and was sort of locked in as the Republican presidential nominee more or
less, when there was no other choice to switch him out for Rhonda Santis
whatever. It's almost like it was like a whole Democrat plan to prosecute him
at the most inconvenient time possible because everyone thought he would be a really weak
candidate and then if he was convicted that that would absolutely sink his campaign and
ensure another Biden victory. It's almost like this exact playbook is kind of what
the Biden what the Democrats did in twenty twenty two, where they kept actually
giving money in the Republican primaries to the most extreme trumpy stop the steal folks
possible the guy who ran for governor of Pennsylvania, Carrie Lake. In Arizona.
There were multiple candidates like this running for Senate seats or governor's seats who
were super Trump aligned and super Trump supportive and super stopped the Steel types.
The Democrats funded them in the primaries. Those Republicans won in their primaries in
twenty twenty two, and then they all got smoked in November of twenty twenty
two, resulting in a hugely disappointing election for Republicans. It's almost like the
Trump trials were designed that way, by which I mean, of course they
are. Whether Biden sat down with anyone to discuss it that way, that's
clearly what has happened, okay, And Biden is going to pretend like he
has nothing to do Oh well, the prosecution of Donald Try, I had
nothing to do with it. I'm my hands are cleaning all this bs.
Biden could have prevented all this, okay. Biden could have said to the
Department of Justice. He certainly could have interfered to say listen this these you
know. Biden at any time could have withdrawn the special counsel who was appointed
to oversee Trump's federal trials Jack Smith. Jack Smith, who's overseeing the federal
trials for all the stuff associated with January sixth that Trump has tried with and
for the document's scandal at mar A Laco. Trump Biden could have at any
time intervened, and especially after the charges were after the Special Council declined to
move forward with any charges against Biden for his obvious inappropriate storage of documents at
his house in Delaware and at his office in DC. Biden could have just
come out and said, you know what, I'm partning President Trump for anything
having to do with documents as long as we get everything back, pardoning President
Trump, and I'm the director or just I'm directing the Special Council not to
move forward with this. That he would have looked like the bigger man,
honestly. Or he could have said, look, the January sixth thing,
We're going to move past this as a country, and you know, I'm
in all these charges that Trump is facing that are either weak or in the
case of mar A Lago, it's totally hypocritical that Trump's being charged with it
but not Biden. Biden could have made them go away, and even the
state level prosecutions of President Trump, where Biden doesn't have direct control. Biden
doesn't necessarily have Biden does not have the authority as President of the United States
to tell Alvin Bragg, who is the District Attorney of Manhattan. Alvin Bragg,
who's running Trump's prosecution in Manhattan right now, is a New York state
official. Biden is a federal official. So Biden technically does not have any
direct oversight to stop Bragg from continuing this prosecution. He's not the governor of
New York, he's not the Attorney General of New York. And even I
don't know how exactly New York law would work with regards to even if the
Governor of New York or the Attorney General of New York necessarily has the ability
to stop Alvin Bragg. But you know what, you know what could happen
though, If you're the District Attorney of Manhattan and the President of the United
States gives you a phone call, you probably take it. I'm pretty sure
you don't have anyone more important to call you. And if the President of
the United States says, hey, listen, you know and I know that
this is not the strongest case in the world. Your predecessor declined to bring
this the Southern District of New York. The federal prosecutors declined to bring this
case. The Federal Elections Commission didn't bring any charges with regards to any of
this stuff with Trump paying Stormy Daniels and whether that was a campaign finance violation.
Blah blah blah blah blah. You know this is a weak case.
You know you're stretching the law. You know that this could very easily get
overturned on appeal. Drop these charges or don't bring them in the first place.
The president could have done that. He didn't, and it probably would
have worked. He could have done the same thing with the old Fanny Willis
down in Fulton County, Georgia. Hey, this is a stretch. Calling
the Trump effort to have like backup elector calling this a rico case is kind
of ridiculous. There was no ongoing criminal enterprise here, Okay, after the
election was kind of resolved and over, the enterprise ceased to exist like that.
That's not what a rico is for. Rico's are for like a crime
was committed, and the Corleone family continues to exist because it's an ongoing enterprise,
right, That's what RICO is for. It's not for stop the steal
efforts that happened in Atlanta in Georgia from twenty twenty, from November one,
twenty twenty until you know, January twentieth of twenty twenty one. That's not
what RICO is for. So Biden could have stopped all that, he didn't.
He knew the politics of the timing. He understood the timing. Merrick
Garland understood the timing. Everyone understood the timing. Trump what Biden wanted and
his political people wanted, and they couldn't overtly coordinate it. I'm sure,
but I'm sure there were some ways in which this was either understood or there
was a wink wink nod or whatever it was, or other operatives discussed this,
and I'm sure they put enough buffers. This reminds me of the Senate
Tote testimony of Willie Cheach from Godfather Too during the Senate hearings where he said,
did Michael Corleoni ever specifically instruct you to murder someone? No? There
were always buffers. Yeah, Yeah, the family had a lot of buffers.
I'm sure there were a lot of buffers in between Biden and Alvin Bragg,
between Biden and Jack Smith, between Biden and Fanny Willis. So no,
Biden didn't overtly tell them, but he's obvious. This is the obvious
Democrat strategy. And of course by oh, I'm not being involved. And
then he has a campaign rally right outside the courthouse where the closing arguments are
happening today for the Trump trial. They march out Robert de Niro for it,
which I love Robert de Niro. If Robert de Niro's in a movie
probably makes it a better movie. Every movie I've seen with Robert de Niro
has been pretty good. Robert de Niro. Robert de Niro has been ranting
about Donald Trump since twenty fifteen about how terrible he is. Not one vote
in America has shifted because of the Robert de Niro constituency, Like not one.
Nobody's like, Oh, Robert de Niro thinks Donald Trump is bad.
Hmmm, I should vote against him. And that's the thing. Like,
I think this strategy by Biden might backfire. First of all, I think
there's a very good chance that there's gonna be a hung jury in the Trump
trial in Manhattan, which if there is, guess what, that's a big
win for Trump. He can continue to he can very fairly say, look,
even a Manhattan jury wouldn't convict me of this. These are baseless,
phony, baloney charges design to derail my candidacy. But even if he is
convicted, I don't know how much it moves the needle. How are there
people out there who are like waiting to hear if Trump gets convicted or not
to decide if they're going to vote for him? After all this time Trump
came on the national scene in twenty fifteen, it's twenty twenty four. Do
you really not know what you think about the guy? By this point?
I mean, come on, all right, when we return, just to
resummarize what the Trump trial is actually about and is not actually about. Next
on the John Girardi Show, just to remind people, as the closing our
arguments are happening today in the Trump trial, what the Trump trial is actually
about. I saw, like a conservative outlet and avowedly conservative outlet casually tweet
this out about today's Trump trial for alleged hush money payments. It's not a
trial about alleged hush money payments. Hush money payments are not illegal. Is
it sleazy? Sure, it's not illegal, And it's not even what he
was charged with for allegedly making hush It's not alleged he made hush money payments.
We all know that that's known, and it's not illegal. It's quite
possibly not a campaign finance violation. I mean, it is certainly not a
campaign finance violation, though there are a few people still trying to argue that
within the context of this trial, and the jurors have not really been appropriately
instructed. I think about what federal election law is. What the trial is
about is allegedly fraudgilant falsification of business records. That's what it's about. Whether
Trump in paying Michael Cohen, who he had paid Stormy Daniels. Trump repays
Michael Cohen in a series of monthly installment payments. He labeled it in his
books as legal expenses. Were they legal expenses or were they repayment of a
loan? That is the core of the case. That's the actual crime,
calling it legal fees rather than repayment of a loan? And did Trump knowingly
and intentionally do it? What was Trump actually understanding that he was fraudulently doing
something and intending to do so. Was he actually frauding anybody? Defrauding anybody?
Fraud doesn't just mean anything dishonest. Fraud means lying from money, lying
in order to get yourself either money or property or some sort of financial advantage.
I lie to the bank about my income and I get a bigger,
more favorable loan. That's fraud, all right. Trump may have misstated the
nature of it, although I'm not even sure that he did. I think
it's not unreasonable to in certain contexts, in certain ways, and all the
other stuff that Coen was doing for him to label some of this as attorneys
as attorney's fees. Even if that was wrong, whom was Trump defrauding?
How was he getting money out of it? He wasn't. He actually lost
money on it. If he had called it loan repayment, he would have
had to spend less because Cohen, if it's legal fees to Coen, Coen
had to pay taxes on it. So Coin said, hey, you gotta
give me like twice as money so I can pay the taxes on this.
Otherwise I'm getting bilked. And by the way, Cohen stole sixty thousand dollars
of Trump's money. So that's what the case is. Allegedly about falsification of
business records. It's not a quote, hush money case. That'll do it
for John Girardi Show. See you next time on Power Talk