WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.960 I'm starting to get a little hobby horse of my own. And this hobby 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:20.519 that I'm starting to really dig into are these LGBT nonprofits, These LGBT nonprofits, 3 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:27.079 the resource centers for LGBT people. And you'll notice that there's sort of 4 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:33.320 an interplay sometimes between these LGBT resource centers, and then it seeps even into 5 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:39.359 city politics, like Jerry Dyer appoints an LGBT liaison for the city of Fresno, 6 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:44.600 which has always I've always thought was a ridiculous thing that he did. 7 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:52.759 Why do LGBT persons need a city liaison well to help them with oxocial services? 8 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:58.840 What is it about being gay or any variety of lergy or b or 9 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:04.760 t that means you need a special city representative to help you access services. 10 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:11.480 It's not like gay people speak a different language or something. Okay, Look, 11 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:18.480 if you want among liaison service for recent immigrants from Southeast Asia who don't 12 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:23.359 know English and need help navigating social services or something like that, Okay, 13 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:29.200 like for something for recent immigrants, all right, that makes sense. Spanish 14 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:34.280 language representative for again new arrivals coming from Mexico or whatever, all right, 15 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:41.599 that makes some sense. Anyway, one of these entities I've been talking about 16 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:51.760 is the Source LGBT Q Plus Center. It's another one of these LGBT nonprofit 17 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:59.640 quote resource providers that's located in Visalia. And one of the things I've been 18 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.280 noticed and sort of connecting the dots here, is how so many of these 19 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:09.479 LGBT nonprofits LGBT events like the recent you know, gay Pride thing that happened 20 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:17.199 at the Chaffee Zoo, is the interplay between them and various medical entities. 21 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:24.680 So one of the big entities supporting this LGBT resource centers in Vicealia is a 22 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:37.560 local federally qualified health clinic that offers transgender hormone treatments. Transgender hormone treatments, 23 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:46.280 which is a big business. It's a very profitable, lucrative service to offer 24 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.879 to LGBT persons. Why, well, doesn't take up a lot of provider 25 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:53.520 time, doesn't take up a lot of exam room time, and you get 26 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.960 a big fat reimbursement if you're the doctor providing it, if you're the clinic 27 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:04.159 providing it, you get a big fat re imbursement for the drugs for the 28 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:08.599 hormones. So it's very lucrative. So what I've noticed is okay. Yeah, 29 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:13.919 Let's say you're a medical clinic that offers stuff like that, and especially 30 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:17.199 inn FQHC, you're making money hand over fist because not only even if you're 31 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:22.879 getting a patient who's covered by medical you're getting way more than medical money because 32 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:28.240 you're supplemented by federal subsidization. That's what a federally qualified health clinic is. 33 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:32.280 It's basically a clinic that's designed to take Medicaid patients, but it gets additional 34 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:42.680 federal money to supplement the usually fairly paltry reimbursement that you would get from someone's 35 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:51.520 Medicaid in California medical coverage. So what I notice is all of these LGBT 36 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:58.439 entities, they're being sponsored and supported by local medical entities who want to get 37 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:02.520 in on the trans gender hormone game. And it makes sense. You're one 38 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:10.400 of these clinics. You give a ten thousand dollars donation to some LGBT quote 39 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:15.080 resource center, you get named, You set up a relationship with them. 40 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.000 Hey, if you know of someone who needs medical services, you can refer 41 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.040 them to us. We'll take care of them. So you spend ten thousand 42 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:23.879 dollars on a charitable donation to them, set up, you know, this 43 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.759 nice partnership, and they send you ten patients in a year. Guess what 44 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:38.639 you're gonna make that ten thousand dollars back? And then some Now there's this 45 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:47.800 interplay, I think, between medical entities, the cultural left, and these 46 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:57.079 different LGBT But basically, here's the thesis. When you scratch the surface of 47 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:02.079 the LGBT movement, and especially the transgender movement, but the LGBT movement more 48 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:06.160 broadly, why is it getting so much cultural purchase? Why is it so 49 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:14.240 widespread? I think this happens with a lot of altruistic liberal so called altruistic 50 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:18.120 liberal causes. You scratch that exterior surface a little bit, and what do 51 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:25.360 you find. They may have a flag with all the colors of the rainbow, 52 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:29.120 but you scratch that surface a bit, and what do you find underneath? 53 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:36.560 Green money, money, money, money, money, money, Guess 54 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:46.120 what. Healthcare for LGBT persons is often pretty expensive, and when healthcare is 55 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:56.279 expensive, medical providers make money. Here's the news about it, just a 56 00:05:56.319 --> 00:06:00.839 gleaming story about it, with no sinister, sinister undertones at all, with 57 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:06.360 no questions asked from your Central Valley dot com. I think that's connected with 58 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:12.800 like KC twenty four and CBS forty seven. The source LGBT Plus Center in 59 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:19.879 Vicealia will receive a six hundred thousand dollars grant in over in over three years 60 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:25.199 and guessing that means over the course of three years, as part of an 61 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:30.199 innovative program to help stop the spread of HIV, Center officials announced on Friday. 62 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:34.879 Hmm, what is this plan to stop the spread of HIV? Center 63 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:40.000 officials say the grant was provided by the California Department of Public Health. Here 64 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:46.480 you go, your tax dollars at work as part of their PRP and PEP 65 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:54.800 Initiation and Retention Initiative, which will award over nineteen million dollars in grants to 66 00:06:54.920 --> 00:07:00.560 twenty four organizations across the state. According to center officials, the initiative is 67 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:08.800 focused on increasing access to and utilization of pre Exposure Profile Axis pr EP and 68 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:19.120 post Exposure Profile Axis PEP among populations with the highest risk of HIV. So 69 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:29.720 what does that mean, mister Girardi, what these regimens of drugs are? 70 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:38.839 Let me explain what this is instead of telling let's be blunt oft in gay 71 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:48.519 men, Hey, maybe restrain yourselves. Maybe heck, maybe even only stick 72 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:55.959 to one sexual partner. Heck, maybe reduce your risky behavior in order to 73 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:03.079 lessen the chance that you'll get HIV. Instead, what we've decided to do, 74 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:09.959 what medical providers are deciding to do, and again this sounds like a 75 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:18.000 very expensive and lucrative process, is give gay men a bunch of drugs to 76 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:31.720 have them basically be constantly using pre exposure prophylactic drugs before you're being exposed to 77 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:39.440 HIV. Use a drug that is that could have a prophylactic measure, So 78 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:48.440 just constantly be taking antibiotics, just knowing that you're going to engage in very 79 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:58.399 health risky sexual behaviors. It's basically a way of saying gay men cannot exercise 80 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.200 or will not or certain percentage of game and just will not exercise the kind 81 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:09.200 of self control needed to live a healthy sexual lifestyle. So therefore we're just 82 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:16.320 going to load them up on so many drugs antibiotics to sort of help give 83 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:22.240 them some prophylactic protection against HIV. On the front end, here's the story 84 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.399 about it from The American Conservative. I talked about this a couple months ago, 85 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:31.720 written by Theodore Dalrymple. There's an easy way to eliminate death on the 86 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:35.440 roads prohibit all traffic. Unfortunately, such a policy would have effects other than 87 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.080 the elimination of death on the roads, but road safety experts might have difficulty 88 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:43.600 in appreciating this, As we saw during COVID Enthusiasts, who may be perfectly 89 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:48.960 honest and sincere, are sometimes blinded to other considerations by their enthusiasm. The 90 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:52.240 elaboration of public policy requires more than attention to narrow scientific findings. Important as 91 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:58.159 the latter are, policy rarely hits only its target. Trials of the old 92 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:05.360 and cheap antibiot doxycycline taken post exposure have been shown in trials to be effective 93 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:11.240 in preventing sexually transmitted diseases, at least among cisgender men who have unprotected sex 94 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:15.840 with men, as the scientific literature now delicately puts it, and among quote 95 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:24.399 transgender women. The CDC therefore now proposes to recommend the prophylactic use of doxycycline 96 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:33.519 by such persons in such circumstances. To enter the literature of what is now 97 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:39.919 known as doxi PEP is to enter a world in which acronymic medical bureaucretse confront 98 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:43.759 sodom and gomorrah. The paper published in April last year in the New England 99 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:46.720 Journal of Medicine as a good example. It describes a trial in which five 100 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:52.000 hundred one people in California were signed either to take prophylactic doxycycline after quote unprotected 101 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:56.120 sex, or to receive quote normal care. The five hundred one people were 102 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:01.080 of defined types. They were men who have sex with men and transgender women, 103 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.759 so men who have attempted to become and live as women who were taking 104 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:13.200 prep pre exposure prophylaxis to HIV or plwh's persons living with HIV infection, all 105 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:18.480 of whom had had Gonneria, chlamydia or syphalis infections within the last year, 106 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:24.679 and still practiced unprotected sexual relations. One might hope that even in California, 107 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:28.600 the five hundred and one persons who entered the trial were not representative of the 108 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.559 population as a whole, but the results of the trial were clearer and more 109 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.559 decisive than the results of clinical trials. Often are those subjects who took the 110 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:43.559 doxycycline immediately after having had perhaps I should say, experienced unprotected sex contracted considerably 111 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:48.840 fewer sexually transmitted diseases than those who did not. Among the preps, the 112 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:52.840 percentage of those who took doxycycline who developed STIs during follow up was ten point 113 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.279 seven percent compared with thirty one point nine percent of those who did not. 114 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:05.519 So basically, you're going to gay men are what the politically correct medical culture 115 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:13.480 is now recommending to gay men, because statistically speaking, we're seeing a lot 116 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:20.720 of gay men who are just not regulating their sexual lives in a safe way 117 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:28.840 at all. Is. Let's load you up with antibiotics pretty much, just 118 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:35.000 constantly before you've been exposed to sexually transmitted disease and therefore will lessen your odds 119 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:41.399 of getting a sexually transmitted disease sexually transmitted infection from thirty one percent to ten 120 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:48.320 percent, not eliminate your chances, not bring your chances down to one percent. 121 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.679 We're just going to reduce it from thirty percent to ten percent, meaning 122 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:58.000 that if you keep living this kind of sexual lifestyle, you're certainly going to 123 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:07.000 get all kinds of STIs, but this is just going to somewhat reduce the 124 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:16.279 likelihood of that. But at the same time, pharmaceutical and medical entities can 125 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:24.600 make money off of giving you all these drugs. By the way, the 126 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.399 persons who participated in this study that was written up last year in the New 127 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:33.759 England Journal of Medicine, and again State of California is giving a six hundred 128 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:41.440 thousand dollars grant to this Vicealia LGBT Resource Center to help them promote this practice 129 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:46.679 of just loading gay men up with antibiotics beforehand to lessen their odds of getting 130 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:52.279 sdis from like thirty percent to ten percent. The study from the New England 131 00:13:52.320 --> 00:14:01.000 Journal Medicine that discussed this five hundred and one biological mail, the number of 132 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:07.399 sexual partners experienced over the past three months by this cohort varied between four and 133 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:15.440 seventeen, with lifetime figures being between one hundred and forty three and four hundred 134 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:20.679 and ninety one. Now this was self report, admittedly with its possible under 135 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:26.440 and overestimation. The median age for this group was thirty six for the preps 136 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:31.919 and forty three for the plwhs. So the first flush of youth cannot account 137 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:35.320 for the continued large number of sexual partners, or what, at any rate 138 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:41.440 to me seemed in my bourgeois conventionality a large number neither past infection nor the 139 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:46.000 prospect of future infection seems to have moderated behavior very much in this cohort of 140 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:58.159 people, not even to the extent of using condoms. So forgive me for 141 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:07.279 forgive me for maybe noticing this. There is evidence to indicate, I mean, 142 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:09.399 this study indicates, and I'm not this is a survey of five hundred 143 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:15.200 and one gay men. I don't think it was necessarily self selecting for gay 144 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:20.240 men with high numbers of sexual partners. But basically, I think the medical 145 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:26.879 industry that there is certainly a cohort of gay men who this is the lifestyle 146 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:35.200 they lead, is sexual activity with an alarmingly high number of people in ways 147 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:41.720 that are not regulated by any sort of sense of safety. And I think 148 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:48.120 the medical and pharmaceutical industries view them as a cash cow and this stuff is 149 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:56.039 coming and you see, so you have medical and pharmaceutical entities making money, 150 00:15:56.159 --> 00:16:00.720 you have nonprofits getting grant money from the state to help fund more of this. 151 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:06.240 I'm sure that the FQHC that's funding the sore, that that's you know, 152 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:11.639 supporting the source is just you know, rubbing their hands into light over 153 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.639 the idea that let's get more and more of these gay patients that we're just 154 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:18.559 gonna load up on antibiotics pretty much constantly, and we're going to constantly have 155 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:23.759 this person as a patient. They'll have this. Oh well, oh that'll 156 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:27.279 lessen my chances of getting an STI. Yeah, it lessens it from thirty 157 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:32.240 percent to ten percent, which means, by the way, if you keep 158 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:37.639 having sexual encounters with you know, multiple, multiple, multiple people per year 159 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:41.559 with it. If you're if you're having sexual encounters with a dozen different people 160 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:45.600 every year, guess what, you're gonna get an STI, even if it's 161 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:52.639 a thirty percent to ten percent risk reduction. When we return the bizarre nature 162 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:57.360 of the local media coverage of these LGBT stories during June, that's next on 163 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:04.480 The John Girardi Show. If you look across the landscape of America and America's 164 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:12.680 views on quote issues relating to the LGBT question, okay, what you find 165 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:21.519 is not a united America. One of the interesting things is that over the 166 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:25.880 last ten years, support for gay marriage has actually decreased, and it's particularly 167 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:30.680 decreased among younger Americans. It's certainly a majority who still support gay marriage, 168 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:37.960 but it's a still very sizable minority of Americans who don't support gay marriage. 169 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:41.559 There's a large percentage of Americans, probably the majority, who don't think biological 170 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:45.960 males should compete in women's sports. There are large, significant numbers of Americans 171 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:52.599 who either not sure what they think or are negative about the whole concept of 172 00:17:52.960 --> 00:18:02.359 transgender interventions, and especially when we're talking about transgender interventions for children. Liberals 173 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:11.160 do this thing of basically proclaiming victory well in advance and proclaiming victory so often 174 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:14.880 and in such a sustained way, And they've been helped in this by, 175 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:19.359 frankly, the Supreme Court. They were helped by the Supreme Court. On 176 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:22.039 the abortion issue, the Supreme Court just sort of ruled in nineteen seventy three. 177 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:26.720 Yep. Well, the national debate's over abortions. The constitutional right embedded 178 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:30.079 firmly fundamentally in the Constitution has to absolutely be legal law forty weeks of pregnancy 179 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:34.240 effect effectively, all forty weeks of pregnancy effectively, any reason. That's it. 180 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:45.119 The Court did the same thing in Obergafell. Sorry, gay marriage is 181 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:52.200 legal throughout the country. The debate's over, it's in the constitution fundamental right 182 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:56.119 for anyone to get married. For any two people to get married, why 183 00:18:56.160 --> 00:19:00.119 it's any two people. I don't know what bigamy law is still out on 184 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.480 the books, you know. Well, no, no, there's definitely a 185 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:11.359 distinction we can make. Okay, sure, they sort of just proclaim victory. 186 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:15.039 And when you have the Supreme Court proclaiming victory or you have individual state 187 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:22.559 governments in different states, it just provides cover for corporate entities that are engaged 188 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:30.119 in litigation avoidance. And so all these entities government, corporate just proclaim June 189 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:33.440 is Pride month. June is Pride Month. And by the way, if 190 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:38.200 I were African American, I'd be royally ticked off about this that I've seen. 191 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:45.279 There is so much more Pride Month stuff. Then there is African American 192 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:49.039 History Month. I mean, February comes and goes, and I see, 193 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:52.160 you know one or two things about African America. You see some things, 194 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:56.920 Yeah, you go to Barnes and Noble or Borders. But for some reason, 195 00:19:56.359 --> 00:20:07.640 this all encompassing Pride Month push every June where in Alexandria, Virginia. 196 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:14.000 Like we're permanently painting the street the crosswalks with rainbow flags and we're filing like 197 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:19.640 felony mischief charges against teenagers for doing donuts on the Rainbow flag with their motorized 198 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:33.960 scooters. It's this whole, all encompassing attitude of no that we just uncritically 199 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:40.319 support the L and the G and the B and the T and whatever else 200 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:48.119 that encompasses. And meanwhile, you know, I'm talking about this story about 201 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:53.400 this charity, this LGBT quote Resource Center in Visalia that's getting a six hundred 202 00:20:53.400 --> 00:21:03.079 thousand dollars grand from the State of California for basically these regimens of STD mitigation. 203 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.240 It's not not STD prevention at all. It's it's purely it's purely mitigation 204 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:15.480 for gay men to basically be on a regime of constant, constantly being on 205 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:21.759 antibiotics, being on antiotics before you're exposed to sexually transmitted infections. So just 206 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:29.880 just be permanently on antibiotics to lessen your chances of getting an SDI from thirty 207 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:33.079 percent to ten percent, not eliminate it. And by the way, if 208 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:38.480 you continue having sexual partners at the numbers that some gay men do, you're 209 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:41.880 it doesn't matter if you reduce your risk from thirty percent to ten percent, 210 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.920 you're still gonna get an SDI like and it could be a very serious STI 211 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:56.920 undoubtedly, And yet this grant, so this is a grant to a Vicealia 212 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:06.240 area nonprofit for a very bizarre, very open to criticism regimen of treatment for 213 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:11.960 STIs that people with a brain would be like, hmm, not sure about 214 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.440 this. What's all the media coveras, Oh, you're's casey twenty four. 215 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:21.680 Oh, this wonderful grant. Every local media outlet I've seen talking about Pride 216 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:26.720 Month talks about it as if there's no controversy, as if there's no debate, 217 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:30.720 as if this is an obvious good citizenship thing that we as media entities 218 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:37.839 wholeheartedly must proclaim support. Oh, come to the Chauffee Zoo for their Pride 219 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:42.480 Day thing, ignoring the huge controversy that surrounded it. I think just last 220 00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:48.240 year it was either just last year or the year before where they had a 221 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:56.160 drag story hour right after the Measure Z vote and you had all these local 222 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:00.799 politicians, including Gary Brettefeld, who were spitting mad that they had just you 223 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:06.279 know, stumped for Measure Z. And then the Chaffey Zoo turns around and 224 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:11.640 has a drag queen story hour there and by the way, what's it sponsored 225 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:19.960 by Local FQHC. Local FQHC wants to make money off of gay patients, 226 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:25.200 off of transgender patients, That's what And I'm more and more convinced with this 227 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:29.519 grant from the state of California. You scratch the LGBT movement, you scratch 228 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:33.720 the rainbow, and what do you find. Green? That's the only color 229 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:38.799 under that facade. Green. People making money, often at the expense of 230 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:47.000 the suffering of people who identify as LGBT. When we return, how curious 231 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:49.119 is it that no other states have joined Gavin Newsom and is called to amend 232 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:53.319 the Constitution, to amend the Second Amendment. Maybe it's not that curious at 233 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:59.960 all. That's next on the John Gerardi Show. So last year Gavin Newso 234 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:10.480 made some momentary headlines by calling for amending the United States Constitution for amending specifically 235 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:19.319 the Second Amendment in order to facilitate more regulations on guns. And part of 236 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:23.000 this, I think was in response to Supreme Court decisions. We've had a 237 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:26.160 couple of recent Supreme Court decisions about the Second Amendment and whether it is an 238 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:33.160 individual right and concealed carry laws being sort of a frankly very much at the 239 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:37.799 heart of the Second Amendment. If you have a right to keep end bare 240 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:44.039 arms, if you have a right to bear arms, that would mean presumably 241 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:49.240 that you can carry them outside of your house. And that's what concealed carry 242 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:55.880 is. You know, it's very squarely within the historical, you know, 243 00:24:56.039 --> 00:25:02.279 definition of what keeping bare arms means. So anyway, Newsom has been very 244 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:07.200 upset about this, and he so he has proposed a constitutional amendment, an 245 00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:12.359 amendment to the United States Constitution to give more leeway to gun control advocates to 246 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:18.079 pass restrictions on guns. And there's a part of me, as much as 247 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:23.240 I don't know that I don't think at all that I agree with the gun 248 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:27.279 control lobby. It's sort of a thing of it's kind of an all or 249 00:25:27.319 --> 00:25:37.440 nothing. Either completely ban private gun ownership in the United States or don't keep 250 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.359 our regime that we have. I think those are the only two intellectually honest 251 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:48.200 positions, because all of the gun control restrictions that knew that the left is 252 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:56.200 proposing are things that would not really do much to actually reduce the supply of 253 00:25:56.319 --> 00:26:02.720 guns in the country, and thereby doing anything to reduce the actual lart the 254 00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:08.920 actual number of gun violence deaths. You know, let's have an assault weapons 255 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:14.759 ban, all right, Well, most gun violence in America is happening with 256 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:19.160 handguns. It's not happening with quote assault weapons, which again is kind of 257 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:27.200 a made up term that doesn't necessarily have any real world significance. Often something 258 00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:33.920 can be deemed a quote assault weapon on the basis of sort of features and 259 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:40.720 add ons and stuff like that that are somewhat cosmetic in nature, rather than 260 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:52.640 actually things that impact the lethality of a gun. So there, I just 261 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.759 see the attempts at regulation on the part of the left as not really going 262 00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:00.440 to be things that are going to impact gun violence. We need more mandated 263 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:04.359 background checks, Okay, well we already have a bunch of background checks. 264 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:11.359 Criminals necessarily are going to like, how is that going to stop a criminal 265 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:15.759 though, wants to kill people. Criminals are going to get guns illegally off 266 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.920 the black market. They don't need to go through a background check because they're 267 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.599 getting them illegally. Right. Usually, when you arrest a gang banger for 268 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:25.880 a gun violence crime, you can also tack on, you know, a 269 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:30.519 couple more years of sending another charge for unlawful possession of a firearm because ninety 270 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:33.599 nine times out of one hundred, or I don't know what the exact percentage 271 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:34.799 is, maybe it's nine times out of ten, whatever it is, they've 272 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:40.720 got that handgun illegally. They've got a handgun with the serial number sand it 273 00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:48.039 off or whatever it is. And even like the attempts that all these states 274 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:55.200 make to restrict concealed carry, being able to get a concealed carry permit, 275 00:27:55.359 --> 00:27:57.680 and that New York was doing the California does, and in California it's kind 276 00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:00.319 of a it had been in New York, it had been kind of a 277 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:03.960 county by county basis, and the Supreme Court said, hey, you can't 278 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:08.799 have a county by county, you know, different regime. What a silly 279 00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:14.920 way of reducing gun violence. Concealed carry permit holders are some of the least 280 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:19.400 likely people to actually engage in gun violence. Like, it's such a silly 281 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:26.440 thing. Here's the people who demonstrated the greatest willingness to jump through all the 282 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:33.400 legal hoops necessary to carry a gun safely, and we're going to restrict them. 283 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:44.000 They're not the ones doing the crimes. Now, the only thing I 284 00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:48.960 could see, actually making a dent in the total number of gun violence incidents 285 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:55.920 that happen in this country would be a massive something where you need to pitch 286 00:28:55.960 --> 00:29:00.640 out the Second Amendment almost entirely and say individual gun ownership is no kind of 287 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:04.160 a right whatsoever, and that the government can just basically confiscate all the guns, 288 00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:11.680 put all the gun manufacturing companies out of business in America, and massively 289 00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:22.079 drastically lessen the supply of guns throughout the United States. Now, that has 290 00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:26.720 a lot of bad side effects to it also, which is why I'm not 291 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:30.519 advocating it. But I am saying, if you're being intellectually honest, I 292 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:36.039 think you have to either advocate for that or for the status quo. I 293 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:41.880 think most of the liberal gun control policies that are in the air right now 294 00:29:42.119 --> 00:29:51.240 they're just sort of flim flamming around the edges of what would actually lessen gun 295 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:59.680 violence. Now, Newsome proposes this constitutional amendment, and when I heard it, 296 00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:03.839 I it was like, Okay, this is refreshing. He realizes that 297 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.319 most liberal gun control policies are just flim flam around the edges of what can 298 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:11.240 we get away with. As far as interpreting the Second Amendment and allowing us 299 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.920 still to restrict guns, which is not much, which I think is half 300 00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:18.640 you know what, you know, half budded. I'm not sure if I'm 301 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.319 allowed to say the actual word on the radio. Half you know what, 302 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:26.480 died restrictions on gun violence that are not actually gonna have a big impact. 303 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.079 So Newsom's like, all right, let's just have a whole new paradigm here 304 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:33.160 where we're not restricted by the Second Amendment at all. Let's let's just rewrite 305 00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:40.559 the Second Amendment and let's really restrict the supply of guns in the Okay, 306 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:42.759 Like, again, I don't agree with it, but at least I found 307 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:48.759 I would find it intellectually refreshing. But then I actually hear the specific proposals 308 00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:52.759 Newsom's offering, and it's more of the same. He wants to amend the 309 00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:57.279 Second Amendment just to keep doing the same. Flimflam, Oh, just more 310 00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:03.839 background checks, more of this, more more restrictions on on assault weapons and 311 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:11.079 dead do none of that's really impacting the gun violence rate. Why are you 312 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:15.599 going through the rigamarole of trying to interpret the Second Amendment, of trying to 313 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:21.039 amend the Second Amendment to refashion the Second Amendment, just to do that, 314 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:30.559 what's the point. And then I realized what it was. I realized what 315 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:36.799 it was because I saw a tweet from Gavin Newsom's personal Twitter account, not 316 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:40.559 his official State of Governor of California Twitter account, which is owned by the 317 00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:48.960 state, which he can't use for campaign purposes. A tweet from his personal 318 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:55.240 account with an image leading to a link to his super pack. Super Pack 319 00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:59.839 that he helped get started with all of his extra campaign money from his three 320 00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:06.720 you know, gubernatorial elections, says, if you support amending the constitution to 321 00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:13.480 allow for federal background checks and you know, restricting assault weapons and all this 322 00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:19.519 sort of buzzword language that the pro gun control left always uses, click here 323 00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:23.119 to sign the petition. And that's when I knew, all right, sign 324 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:28.400 the petition. Ding ding dinging ing ing ding. There goes John Girardi's BS 325 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:38.920 alarm. Any politician asking you to sign a petition unless it's an actual qualify 326 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.799 a ballot initiative for a ballot petition, that's that's that's the only thing I'm 327 00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:47.799 excluding here that's an actual thing to get a ballot initiative on the ballot. 328 00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.920 Other than that, if a politician is asking you to sign a petition. 329 00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:59.720 This is a scam. This is a scam to get your email address and 330 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:04.519 get your your phone number so that that politician can email and or text you 331 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:14.799 donation, solicit solicitations come election time. That's all it is. So we 332 00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:23.799 get this story from the La Times that it's been a year since Newsom introduced 333 00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:28.960 this idea of amending the state constitution, and no other Blue state has taken 334 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:32.519 him up on it, No other Blue state, no other Blue state governor 335 00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:42.960 has sort of joined him in calling for amending the constitution. The governor's pitch, 336 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:45.400 the story goes, inspired a round of media coverage last year that elevated 337 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:50.599 his national profile as a Democrat trying to do something about mass shootings and other 338 00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:55.119 gun violence. Mass shootings are a very small minority of all the gun violence 339 00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:59.119 in America. To call it mass shootings and other gun violence, it should 340 00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:01.960 be the other way around, other gun violence and mass shootings whatever. Newsom 341 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:07.240 pointed to findings of a Fox newspol that found overwhelming voter support for the restrictions. 342 00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:10.480 The gun initiative has given him another opportunity to reach out to voters outside 343 00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:15.079 of California, ding Ding, Ding ding Ding. Gavin news I wants to 344 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:19.679 run for president. This is just about increasing his profiles. We can run 345 00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:23.960 for president. It's just about tickling the fancy of the you know, two 346 00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:30.000 hundred or so super wealthy people that he's hoping will bankroll his eventual run for 347 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:35.559 president, if not this year, than in twenty twenty eight. Yet Newsom 348 00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:37.639 must still contend with the stubborn politics of the Second Amend. Oh, that's 349 00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:44.000 stubborn Second Amendment. Many lawmakers at the national and state level are reluctant to 350 00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:47.239 buck a powerful gun lobby. For god's sake, that there are so many 351 00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:54.519 liberal lobbies that have more money than the NRA. It's this is idiotic and 352 00:34:54.639 --> 00:35:01.079 risk being accused of trying to dilute the constitutional right to bear arms. I 353 00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:05.199 mean, it wouldn't be being accused of it would be diluting it. If 354 00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:08.400 you amend the Second Amendment to allow for more gun regulation, you would be 355 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:15.440 diluting the right to bare arms. The governor said he expected the slow pop 356 00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:17.920 progress, adding that support for a constitutional amendment on gun control could take twenty 357 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.679 years to catch on. Come on, no one was naive about this. 358 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.199 K Newsom said in a recent interview with The Times, Actually, I think 359 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:28.519 he was banking on lots and lots of people being naive about this, because 360 00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:31.079 again, this is not about actually amending the Constitution, which he knows is 361 00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:37.079 wellnigh impossible to do, especially over a contentious issue like this. The point 362 00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:43.920 of this, the point of Gavin Newsom proposing to amend the Constitution about gun 363 00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:49.280 control, was to increase his profile, to tickle the fancy of the ultra 364 00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:53.280 wealthy donors who watch MSNBC and love it when Newsom, you know, gets 365 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:59.159 in fights with Ron DeSantis and does this kind of performative stuff that's clearly to 366 00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:01.920 entertain those people so that they will give him money for twenty twenty eight. 367 00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:07.639 That's what this is all about. When we return, how do people propose 368 00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:13.880 we talk about LGBT stuff with our kids next? On the John Girardi Show, 369 00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:19.199 my wife and I were genuinely going through this, as you know, 370 00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:27.000 it's June and there are lots of stores where the Pride Month merch is all 371 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:30.920 over the place, and we now have our kids are sort of getting older. 372 00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:34.920 We've got nine year old, seven year old, five year old who 373 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:42.360 can all read four year old can't, baby can't, And it was down 374 00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:45.159 to this thing of My wife and I are kind of at the point that 375 00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:50.800 we basically refuse to go to Target during June. Target is maybe the of 376 00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:57.760 all, like big store retailers, probably the most aggressively pro LGBT. They 377 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:01.000 have been for years. They were allowing biological men and women's restrooms long before, 378 00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:12.440 long before anyone else was doing it. So my wife and I are 379 00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.239 like we were. It's and it's not just that we don't want to support 380 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:22.239 it. It's also like our kids can read and they'll probably see this stuff 381 00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:25.519 and ask us like, well, what's this about? And I guess I'm 382 00:37:25.559 --> 00:37:34.920 just not sure. I how how is a Christian parent who believes that sexuality 383 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:40.400 is ordered in a certain way. I just feel as though, like I 384 00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.599 find it difficult, and my wife finds it difficult just to take our kids 385 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:54.559 to places where they're so loudly proclaiming an ethic that is so contrary to what 386 00:37:54.599 --> 00:38:00.159 we believe, and that's so loudly proclaiming an ethic that's contray to what not 387 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:07.480 just I believe, but a large percentage of the country. I just find 388 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:10.800 it difficult, and it saddens me that probably a lot of parents may struggle 389 00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:15.960 with this, but it's just part of the air we breathe and it just 390 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.119 shouldn't be. That'll do it for John Girardi Show, See you next time 391 00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:19.760 on Power Talk.