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today I want to talk specifically. I want to continue kind of weaving back
and forth between something I mentioned in a previous hour of this program. I
mentioned there's a statement, there's a bedrock truth that I I say on this
program on a fairly regular basis, and that is that American weakness is provocative.
American weakness is provocative, and it has provoked Iran. It's not the
only factor by any means, any stretch of the imagination, but it is
certainly provoked Iran. It is something that Iran assessed to be the case that
America is run by week leaders, and it provoked them to take steps of
action, which included launching three hundred missiles and drones and everything else at Israel
over the weekend. So I want to talk about American weakness being provocative.
I want to talk specifically about how it has been provocative in a number of
problems that we face today. It's not just on the international stage, but
it is on the international stage, and I want to talk about that.
I want to talk about how it has really led us to the position that
we're in today as I've said before there are two main reasons that America is
well doesn't have good conservative leadership. One is that the people who claim to
be conservative really aren't conservative. They don't really believe in the conservative principles.
And the other is they might believe in the principles, but they're just not
tough enough. Dare I say it's a form of weakness that provokes the other
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previous hour, we were talking about previous episode. We were talking about how
American weakness led Iran to make the decisions that it made to launch this attack
against Israel. And I got a lot of questions about this to begin with.
I questioned whether or not well, I questioned their intent, meaning what
did they really hope to get out of this? Was it really to have
a successful strike, because it seems to me, it seems to me that
that's not how you would do this. You wouldn't announce it as it was
on its way. You wouldn't do it that way if you really wanted to
have the ability to have a successful strike. Maybe it's designed to splinter the
Israel from its allies. Maybe it's designed to ratchet up the intensity on Israel
in the Middle East. Maybe it's a myriad of things, but it just
didn't look like something that was designed to be successful. In a reference,
Pearl Harbor attacked by the Japanese on December seventh of nineteen forty one. They
did not let anyone know that they had just launched aircraft to go bomb Pro
Harbor. It was a truly it was a true surprise attack, and as
such they were able to inflict a lot more damage and carnage than they would
have if they would have announced it to the world. That's not what Iron
did. But that's be that as it may. So there's questions about that.
But again the core statement here, American weakness is provocative is true on
a variety of fronts. You can take the term American out and just say
weakness is provocative. I mean, I just watched some of the UFC fights
over the weekend. Great fights. By the way, if you want to
provoke your opponent to really get aggressive with an attack, to come in full
force, then show your opponent that you're stumbling or that you're disoriented. That's
usually when they pounce as well they should as well they should, So weakness
does provoke, does provoke the other side, and we the conservative movement Americans.
Under the leadership of this administration, we have been led by people who
are weak more well way more than they are strong. So this finds itself
in a lot of different places, a lot of different issues in our society
today. One of the places it finds itself is in the debate on gender.
You know, I'm amazed, I am amazed sometimes at what these radicals
are able to pull off. I mean, the stuff that they pull off,
the stuff that they're up there proclaiming and saying, could have been documented
to be determined insane by one hundred percent of the population six months prior.
But yet suddenly, if the narrative changes, and if it becomes something that
is its own little movement, as the trans gender movement is the transagenda,
then suddenly it becomes something that people take seriously. I mean, when I
was a kid, of course, that was a long time ago. I
mean, we all knew that there were girls and there were boys, And
if someone said that they were a girl and now they're a boy or vice
versa like that wouldn't even that would have made literally no sense to us,
because it doesn't make any sense. And that's not to say, my goodness
my friends. If people are struggling with these things individually, having questions and
not just they're confused, I am. I am completely willing to be graceful
and merciful and understanding about that. Even though I don't have that particular struggle.
Other people don't have the struggles I have, and I'm willing to understand
that and be under graceful and understanding. But that doesn't mean that I suddenly
that I suddenly become an individual who wants to completely neglect truth and reality.
And this is what's happened. Over time. We've had our defenses weakened.
We've given in slowly but surely. We thought, Man, I just don't
want to have that fight. You know, everybody knows what I'm about to
say anyway, so I'm not going to say it. Well that's led us
to where we are today, But I want to play for you here in
just a moment. I want to play for you a SoundBite TV host who
had a guest on her television show. The TV talk show host is named
Julia Hartley Brewer, and she sparred here, as this town Hall article says,
with transgender Shavanni Dave, who is a transactivist and journal us who goes
by the pronouns they and them. So I just want to show you one
response of someone who's not demonstrating weakness here. Now you can say maybe it
was, you can say O the things. I leave that up to you
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show host who's invited, who has a guest who identifies as transgender, and
so I want you to listen to this exchange between these two individuals. It
gets a little intense. It's about a ninety second clip. So that being
said, I just want you to listen to this and we'll discuss it on
the other side of this clip. So here it is. This is Julie,
Julie Hartley Brewer. Julia, I should say and Shavanni, Dave,
here you go, and how are you doing? Yeah, thank you for
telling me your pronouns. I use correct grammar, so I think I'll need
you to refer you to is to your face, would be you. But
I'm not being rude. You can choose your products, you can choose what
you want to call your self, but you don't have You don't get to
require me to use incorrect grammar and factually incorrect things. You're not a plural,
you're you're, you're a one person, and you're you're a female person,
So I will use she and her. Thank you very much, do
what you like. I guess you want. They didn't need to tell me,
then, did you. Maybe I'm just making sure people know in case
they're watching and they want to refer to me respectfully. Is it disrespectful for
me to use correct factual grammar. It's not incorrect or on factual grammar to
use singular They then pronouns for an individual. But we're here to talk about
the cast review. Yeah, but but you but you chose, but you
chose to bring it up. You chose to use the incorrect pronouns for me.
I chose to use the correct pronouns for a single woman who is appearing
on my show. I'm not a single woman, though, I'm a very
special non binary trans person. As you just pointed out, I didn't.
I didn't just point that. I introduced you as a journalist and a virgin
radio presenter. No, just before I came on, you were talking about
how people with all these labels like to be special, and I'm just making
sure that everyone knows I'm special. Okay, I'm not special. I'm just
a boring, old, heterosexual married woman. But you know, sorry about
that. We're not allowed to do that anymore. That probably does make me
special. Now, I don't know. She may be onto something. It
might make you special to not go along with this stuff. Now, maybe
you don't like just maybe this is exactly what you think should be done.
Maybe something this is a little bit too just on the spot we're on live
television or whatever. But the reality is is that we find ourselves in a
lot of these positions. Whether it's the transagenda, whether it's creating a government
that actually operates within the means that it has not spending money like it's water
going through their fingers or whatever. A lot of these problems we face,
and certainly what we see with Iran and Israel, A lot of this stuff
comes from weakness. Now, a couple things about this in particular, About
this in particular this exchange, this and the clip, I don't think it
didn't pick up early enough. But the guests wants to be referred to as
they them. So the guests said, my pronouns are they them? And
the host here says, well, you're not a plural. Now that's something
that I've said for a long time. Where did we get off saying that
someone could use pronouns they in them? I mean, I guess you can,
but what is the logic behind that? When I was in school and
I made this mistake when I would write papers as a younger man, not
really not really knowing you know, much of much about the world back in
those days, I would sometimes say, you know, make some general comment
they or maybe even to this particularlar example, I would be talking about an
individual and say they went to the stores whatever. Right in my English professor
or teacher would correct me and say, they is plural. You're talking about
he or she? Todd Okay, that's right? What am I talking about?
Right? So that used to be taught. I don't even know if
that's taught anymore because of the ramifications it would have on this on this transagenda.
But this this trans agenda, which has gotten to the point, you
know, the pronouns. Think I had a buddy, I think I shared
this on here many years ago. It's back before the transagenda got well as
big as it has gotten today. And I remember he told me he was
trained in a corporate position. When he would introduce himself to a potential customer
or a prospect, he would say, Hi, my name is so and
so, my ar. He didn't say my pronouns. He said I,
I'm he him, or something like that. I don't it's something some little
game like that, Hi, my name is you know, Philip, I'm
he him. Who are you? Hi, my name's Susie, I'm they
them. It's nice to meet you. And so that's where we find ourselves
now, folks. There are a whole there are a whole entire courses and
trainings on learning to remember people's names. In fact, I've had the pleasure
to go through some Dale Carnegie training, which is one of the advertisers on
this program. Dale Carnegie's book, How to Win Friends at Influence People.
Great book, but they're talking in the trainings, and in the book they
give tips and pointers on how to remember names and what it might mean if
you have trouble remembering names. And I remember going through all this, and
I remember the training at the Carnegie training being taught some techniques to remember names,
especially especially if you're meeting maybe multiple people at once, it can get
difficult. I understand that. Well, now, now we're supposed to remember
someone's pronouns, and you to have pronouns that may completely disagree with what we
see in reality. That is an unmanageable situation. It is hard enough to
remember someone's personal name. Forget about the fact that you're asking me to participate
in an illusion. Forget the fact that you're asking me to participating something that
goes along with or that that contradicts I should say, sound logic and just
common sense. Forget all that. Now you want me to remember it,
You want me to participate in it. You demand that I remember it.
If I don't remember it or don't participate, you say that I'm a hater
and that I hate people who are different than me. And here we are,
and the same among us. We've sat by too idly and too quietly.
Look and I understand. I mean, I don't want to have unnecessary
conflicts with people. Likewise Israel doesn't want to have conflict with Iran. But
what are you supposed to do? What are you supposed to do in the
case of Israel when someone strikes you or the case here where someone is demanding
that I participate in something that is outside of reality and logic and that's completely
made up. I mean, it takes strength to oppose that. It takes
strength to speak truth into the situation. It takes wisdom, it takes judgment,
it takes discernment, it takes a way to try to navigate that.
I mean, you don't want to burn down the bridges. But let's also
not forget that the other side is being incredibly demanding in this situation. You
will see things as I see them. You will participate in my particular perspective
perception of the world, even if it contradicts logic and what you can clearly
see to be the case. You're going to participate. And if you raise
a fuss about it, I'm going to call you a transphobe. I'm going
to call you some name. I'm going to brand you as someone who's a
hater. I'm going to try to get you canceled on social media or whatever
the case may be. I know it takes real strength stand up to it,
but we can see where this goes if no one stands up to it.
You can see the mess that we're in today in so many different so
many different ways. So I'm gonna take a break here in just a minute.
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weakness is in fact provocative. American weakness is provoked. It provokes all sorts
of people who are on the opposition, people who are looking for an opportunity.
A weakness in the defenses, whether it's a weakness in physical military defenses,
as is the case with Iran versus Israel, whether it's a weakness in
our willingness to defend common sense and logic and just reason by attacking us through
the transagenda, whether it's by forcing us to spend money in massive, massive
amounts contrary to again reason and common sense. We get to all these problems
because ultimately we have been complicit insofar as we haven't stood up and demanded that
these things. We let them know that we're not participating in this nonsense.
So I more to stay on this on the other side of the break,
my friends sit tight back in just a minute. Welcome back to my friend.
So talking about weakness actually being provocative, which is kind of kind of
contrary to what most people are inclined to believe. What they want to believe.
In fact, I saw you may have seen this video. Did you
see the video? I'd forgotten this until just now, right as the music
was coming back on, I was reminded of there was an individual. There
was an individual on a flight. I just saw this. I'm not sure
what the airline was, but this guy stood up and started yelling at the
passengers, said that he was going to take over the aircraft or some such
thing. And he was in you know, there were three seats in his
he was in a three seat row. He was in the middle seat,
and he stood up and he's yelling at passengers on the plane, telling people
he's I think he was threatening their lives. I'm not really sure. I
just you could hear some of it. But also people had well the person
who posted the video had said given more context, but I didn't see it.
The video wasn't the entire context. So this guy starts to leave his
seat and he turns to go to the like he's going to the front of
the aircraft, and he's got something. I think he's got I believe they
said he had a fork, maybe a spoon, something like that. And
when he starts to leave a seat. Some guy stands up behind him a
couple rows back, and he's facing this guy and he told him, you
know you're not going to do this, not today, pal whatever, and
he gets in the other guy. The lunatic gets in a defensive stance and
kind of puts his hand up and takes a jab at the guy. Doesn't
do anything. But there's a guy, And I don't want to make a
big deal about this poor guy. I mean, he didn't know what to
do. But the crazy man, the alleged hijacker here or whatever he was
trying to pull off, had had to step past a man in the aisle
seat. And this man in the aisle seat was just, you know,
kind of sitting there looking down, didn't know what to do, and in
fact, when the guy started to leave, even moved his legs to let
him out. And I just it just I understand, I wasn't in the
moment. I get all that right, and I don't want to be too
hard on the guy, But what did he think was going to happen?
You know, like he's going to let a guy out that's trying to take
the plane over. Why would he not try to intervene and to stop it.
Well, of course, the guy runs or hustles to the front of
the plane, several passengers chasing him. He takes a shot. I think
he hits the flight attendant. I don't know. They take him to the
ground, they secure him. You know, there was no incident beyond that.
Although that's pretty intense and dramatic, but weakness is provocative. I mean,
if every passenger on that plane would have stood between this guy in the
front of that aircraft, he never would have got out and gotten out of
his seat row. He was backed by the wing. I mean, I
think he was near that emergency exit. From what I can remember. It
wasn't like he was in the first row of first class or something. And
so we think sometimes if I just I don't want to make a bigger deal
about this, and sometimes we're frozen, We're caught off guard. It's an
intense moment, you know. I anyway, so that that's what happened,
and actually, you know, it's a story. I don't know if Oz
is gonna want me to tell him this, but it reminds me of another
story that happened to me person my family. I don't think i've told this
on here before. I've thought about it a time or two. But there
was an incident with one of the places that we were camping at last in
the last year or so, and we heard a noise outside our camper.
It was two am. It was exactly two o'clock in the morning, and
we heard a noise. We heard screaming or crying. We couldn't really make
it out, and we thought it was our girls. Our girls have a
bunk. I guess you know you're sleeping. You wake up, you think,
man, did someone fall out of the bunk? God forbid? Did
they get down and step on something? Or they sleep walking? We didn't
know. And so I get up and kind of run to the middle of
the camper and I meet the girls who were there as well. They're both
awake. They're upset, but they're not upset because they're hurt. They're upset
because they hear the same thing that we hear. So it's clearly at this
point coming from outside the camper. I open up the camper door. It's
again it's two am in this campground, I mean, totally peaceful, easy
going campground, just to no one ever bothered anyone in this campground except for
this night. And I opened the door and I went outside, and we
were kind of under this security light so that the our campsite was lit up
a lot. And I kind of yelled, I said, what you know,
who's out here? And I can see this, this young lady coming
around the front of our camper. She's distraught, she's upset. But I've
read the stories, and I said, you know, I've seen the stories
of some girl luring somebody in, wanting to help, and then someone gets
jumped from behind or whatever. So I said, I said, just freeze
right there, just hold on, like I've been up at this point for
ninety seconds or whatever. Just hold on. Let me. I don't know
what's going on here. So as I'm saying this, I can see a
man across the way, a man. He's in his fifties, and I
can tell it's between them. I can tell something's going on, and he's
yelling stuff at me. I don't even know what he's saying. I told
him to shut out. I was not very happy about this. I told
him to, you know, to to shut up and you know, to
knock it off or whatever. He goes inside. He goes inside. By
this time, the young lady comes to our site, My wife comes out.
My wife has worked at a domestic violence shelter before, so she's you
know, talking with this girl, trying to, you know, figure out
what's going on. At this point, I hear the guy going ballistic across
the way. He's punching walls and breaking stuff. I can hear it.
So by now we know we've got a domestic situation. And I look to
the young lady and I start asking, does he have a gun? Does
he have weapons? Is he drunk? Is he on drugs? Like?
What am I dealing with here? Because I know he's coming back out.
I know he's coming back out. So she's telling me, you know he
got rid of his gun. He doesn't, he doesn't drink anymore. They
just got into a fight. I mean, it's just a lot of information
really quickly. My wife calls nine to one one, so she's talking to
whoever she's talking there to a dispatch, and you know, we're just kind
of waiting on what's going to happen next. Well, he comes back out
and I can tell he has something in his hand. Now the girl is
clearly absolutely terrified of him, and so he starts proceeding towards our camp site,
and I see something in his hand, and of course your first thought
is is that a knife? I don't know. I didn't think it was,
but you know, it's two in the morning, probably two ten in
the morning by this time. No, it wasn't. Probably two o five,
two o six, something like that. And so he starts coming my
direction and I tell Danielle uh to go inside inside the camper. She takes
this young lady in. They go inside locker. Remember we've got we've got
our three kids, this young lady, and my wife and the camper,
and we've got two dogs. Actually, probably should have sent the dogs out
in hindsight, but again, this stuff happens so quickly you just don't know
what to do. So I can tell by this point that what he's carrying
is an iPad. Now he's not filming anything, he's just carrying it.
But I don't know this. He's clearly not in his right mind, and
I'm telling him, hey, dude, you know, don't just chill out
and just stop. And he keeps moving. He's not saying a word,
he's just moving pretty intently. He's not running, he's not directly threatening me.
Although the behavior to advance on someone in the middle of the night on
their campground and clearly being told not to is I would say the behavior was
threatening me. So he starts to move onto our campsite, and so I'm
thinking very seriously that I'm going to be in a fight. I'm going to
be in a fight now, I will tell you it. It's been a
while for me. I played football in college and the guys. I had
one guy that told me I was the dirtiest player on the team, which
he really has meant the most intense. It actually bothered me that he said
that because I'm like, I don't I'm not dirty. I just play between
the whistles. If you don't want to block me, Kyle that was his
name, don't come and block me. But if you're gonna come block me,
there's gonna be a bit of a street fight out here. So,
but it had been a while, that's a long time ago. So I'm
thinking the one thing that you want to do in a street fight is not
get into a street fight. Right, There's any number of things can happen,
right, someone can have a weapon. I mean, you could fall
and hurt yourselfist on the way down. I mean, you're just you're not
in a I used to train a little bit. I've trained jiu jitsu,
and I used to practice with the guy that fought cage fighting. But you
know, you're not in that environment. You're you're out there's there's you know,
sharp edges and hard surfaces and everything else. So he's advancing and I'm
realizing it as I tell this. I'm not have to take a break here.
So but that's I'm gonna leave you hang in there. We'll leave you
hanging there because it does have a good ending. But I've got to take
a break, so we'll pick that story up on the other side of the
break. But again, weakness is what's provocative, right, and so I
had to stand this dude down or things bad, bad things would have happened
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other side of the break. I'll conclude this story back here in just a
minute. Welcome back to my friends. I don't like to leave you hanging
on that sort of stuff, but this story is true story. By the
way, again, it happened the last time we were. We were out
within the past year, within the past year or so so when I left
you, when I when we took the break, this gentleman was advancing onto
our campsite at two a m. And we've got his girlfriend, whatever she
was to him at the time. We didn't know really much of what was
going on at this point. She's inside our camper with my wife, with
our three kids, with our two dogs. I'm outside. This guy's clearly
not in his right frame of mind. I don't know if he's under any
influence. I don't know anything. I just know he's advancing at this point
on in my campsite, and I'm by this point I'm screaming at this dude,
do not come any further. How every person in this campground is not
outside watching. This is beyond me at this point, because you had to
hear this. And he keeps coming onto the camp coming on onto the campsite.
Now he was right at the front of it. Now he's advancing like
just methodically, slowly, step by step, And I got my hands up
in front of me, not a not in a boxing stance or anything,
but just out in front of me, extended palms open. Just stop,
do not come any further sort of thing. Step step step, I'm kind
of taking steps backwards. There's a little concrete pad where you would, you
know, put your your patio or whatever on this campsite. And so I'm
to the point now where I'm almost to the front of our door. He's
still i don't know, maybe fifteen feet away from me something like that.
But he's on our site and everybody's inside. I'm screaming at him. He's
just taking step by step coming towards me, and I realize I take one,
I take one more step back, and I'm like, I can't go
back any further because he's going to make a move on the door, and
he may try to rip. I'm sure the girls would lock the door,
but you know, I mean he's gonna bust windows. He'd already busted a
window out across across the way at their place. So I mean, this
has gotten intense, right intense, real fast, and I decide in my
head, I'm like, I'm not stepping back any further. I can't.
He's gonna make a move on them. I'm not giving him the door.
There's gonna be one heck of a brawl out here. And I'm literally thinking,
what do I do? Do I tackle him right? Do I do
it? Takedown? Do I throw a way tie leg kick? Do I
just punching? But what do I do? I'm literally having like that's in
my head. My next move is not a step back. My next move
is a strike of some sort. And I mean we were at that point.
Now, I will tell you, in the midst of all of this,
remember my life had been on the fall of the phone with nine one
one. I remember hearing in the background, although it wasn't registering in my
brain. I remember hearing police sirens, but they were I had no idea
how far away they were. You could just hear it. They were still
a ways off, and you could hear the sirens presumably coming. But I
wasn't even thinking about it. I wasn't counting on it. I didn't even
know if they were the ones coming to us. I had no I have
no idea. So but in the process I did hear that there was a
car coming into the campground, and I don't know if it had hit you
know, a little like a pothole or something in the in the dry or
you know, in the in the street or whatever. But I could hear
that noise and I could see headlights coming up kind of underneath my camper.
And the guy had stopped in the process, because these these lights had come
right up beside the camper and stopped, and he didn't take that that last
step fortunately. Instead, what he did was he went back towards the front
of our camper away from me, away from the front door, turned around
with his back to what turned out to be a police officer, and he
backed up to me with his hands behind his back. I walk around to
the front of the camper, poke my head around. There's one officer there.
He says, can you hang tight till my backup gets here, and
then we can, you know, talk about what's going on. I said,
sure, it's at this point adrenaline hide. I look up. Remembred
said earlier that I don't know how everybody in the whole campground wasn't out there.
I look up and there are two guys, two or three guys.
I think there were two, probably two or three camp sites over There were
a couple of empty spots next to us, and I could see him in
the shadows. We were in that bright spotlight. They were in the shadows,
and I look up and see them and I just, honestly, friends,
I kind of lost it because I went storming over there and I said,
what the heck is wrong with you? You're standing here watching this and
you're back here hiding in the shadows. And they had the audacity, one
of them had the audacity to say to me we had your back, and
I said, yeah, from sixty feet away, hidden over here in the
shadows, you didn't have anybody's back anyway. The point is is that if
we were weak in that situation, if we didn't confront that, God only
knows what would have happened to her. She ended up by the way going
to church with us. My wife communicates with her sometimes. I don't know
the last time she's done that, But you know, there's a whole dramatic
situation and seeing that that played out from that. But if we didn't do
something, I don't know, I don't know what would have happened. It
wouldn't it couldn't have been good. I don't want to say the worst case
scenario, but we all know what the worst case scenario could be. But
it could have been anything beyond, you know, short of that too.
I don't think it was just going to stop. But that's really I guess
the reason I wanted to tell that today was because that's really when you get
down to it, get down to brass tacks. We need to approach the
problems in this country like that, When we hear the noise, when we
hear the indication that there's a problem. We've got to jump out and put
our nose in. I can't tell you the number of people who said to
me, why did you go out there? I just I don't know why
you wouldn't have gone out there. But that's me. What do I know?
Anyway, my friends, that's also all the time that we have today.
Thank you so much for listening. I hope you have a great day.
Talk with you soon, SDG