WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.200 This might not be the best time for the left 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:07.719 to keep thinking that they're living in twenty twenty when 3 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:10.039 it comes to the LGBT issue. A lot of water's 4 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:13.279 gone under the bridge. Between twenty twenty and now. Twenty 5 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:18.839 twenty was sort of peak liberal insanity. I actually was 6 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:21.719 reading this book, this book called When Harry Became Sally 7 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:26.719 written by Ryan Anderson who he wrote it. I think 8 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:30.679 it was published around twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, and he's 9 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:33.359 describing sort of the state of the transgender movement in 10 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:36.159 the late Obama era, and we all, I think we 11 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:42.200 forget right now just what a dominant place the LGBT 12 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:45.719 movement was in in twenty sixteen. It was right on 13 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:48.039 the twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, it was right on the 14 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:51.039 heels of the Obergia Fell Supreme Court decision, where the 15 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:53.880 Supreme Court decided, yes, there's a right to gay marriage, 16 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:59.640 and the Constitution somewhere, yes it's right there. Definitely it's 17 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:03.439 in there. So they found hidden somewhere in the contours 18 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:06.719 of the Constitution or right to gay marriage. And it 19 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:11.280 seemed like transgenderism was going to be the next cultural 20 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:15.719 victory of the left. This inexorable cultural victory in the 21 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:20.400 same way that gay marriage had been, and the transgender 22 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:25.519 position was so dominant, I mean, people were resigning for 23 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:28.920 jobs for saying like pro transgender things that weren't quite 24 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:34.799 pro transgender enough. It was nuts. And the idea was 25 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:38.480 basically anyone who held a contrary position on it was 26 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:44.000 expected to be shunned from society. And so that that, 27 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:49.040 I mean, that was basically the attitude. Well, a lot 28 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:52.200 of waters come under that bridge since then, to the 29 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:55.879 point where nowadays it's really people have started to recognize. 30 00:01:55.959 --> 00:02:00.040 Oh the lead, the guy who won the president and 31 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.280 see in twenty twenty four made one of his central 32 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:08.520 campaign ads a campaign ad about you know, I'm for us, 33 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:16.719 she's for they them. The idea that transgenderism actually transgenderism 34 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:26.280 specifically has very little public support. This leads me to 35 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:31.120 what I think is an opinion that fit better in 36 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:34.479 twenty twenty than it does now. This is from Tad 37 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:37.759 Weber in the Fresno be who is calling for the 38 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:46.680 mayor of Maderra to resign. Why because she did not 39 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:51.599 want to do a formal Maderra City Council recognition for 40 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:59.240 the Madera High School gay Straight Alliance Club. Here's what 41 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:03.639 Tad Weber rights. A basic rule of politics is that 42 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:07.240 an elected official should not shun the constituents he or 43 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.639 she represents. Yet Madera's new mayor is guilty of that 44 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:14.080 very thing. Is that really a basic rule? I mean, 45 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:18.439 you probably got to shun some of them. I mean, 46 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:21.919 what if Nazis. What if there's you know, five Nazis 47 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:25.280 who live in Madera and they come out to see 48 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:27.479 the mayor, should the mayor shun them? Probably that she 49 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:34.479 should do some shunning. Now, obviously that's an extreme example. 50 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:38.199 I'm not saying gay people are Nazis, et cetera. However, 51 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:43.479 you don't have to not shun people if you're an 52 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:47.759 elected official. Yes, you are supposed to work for the 53 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:49.800 good of everyone who lives in the city. Doesn't mean 54 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:52.120 you have to have sit down meetings with every single 55 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:58.280 person in the city or be seen as supportive of 56 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:05.439 every single group that exists within the city. This idea, 57 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.400 Oh she, how dare she so? Basically what happened is 58 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:13.360 the mayor of Madera Cci Gayegos, walked out on a 59 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:18.000 formal Madera City Council recognition of the Madera High School 60 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:23.560 Gay Straight Alliance Club. She has been avoiding all Pride 61 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:26.399 Month honors made by the council since twenty twenty one, 62 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:33.680 reports b staff writer Eric Galicia. The latest shunning was 63 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:37.959 particularly obvious, as Galicia reports, the Madera Council last week 64 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:41.120 conducted several formal recognition ceremonies during its meeting. One was 65 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:44.040 a group photo with members from the Madera County Museum, 66 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.639 which Gayegos took part in. However, when it came time 67 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.160 to recognize the high school group, Gayagos was not to 68 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:51.560 be found, but she came back to the council afterward 69 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:56.800 for a Juneteenth proclamation. Galicia said. Gayegos, formerly a Democrat 70 00:04:56.839 --> 00:05:00.040 and Madera's District one council member, became a Republican a 71 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.759 little over two years ago. She was elected mayor last November. 72 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:13.040 So Tad Weber is furious at this. He's furious that 73 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:17.360 Gayegos has basically avoided for the last the four years. 74 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:22.720 It looks like, and he quote Pride Month recognitions, including 75 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:26.680 for the A High school Gay Straight Alliance group. Now, 76 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:35.360 maybe Gagos takes this crazy position. I don't know. I 77 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:37.079 haven't talked to her. I'd love to talk to her. 78 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:41.879 Maybe Gegos takes this crazy position that I like to 79 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:46.879 call Christianity. Some of you may have heard of this, 80 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:55.920 this carpenter from Nazareth. He was actually God, and he 81 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:59.879 died for our sins, and he established a church and 82 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:02.639 blah blah blah blah blah, et cetera. One of the 83 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:07.360 tenets of this religion, Christianity you may have heard of, 84 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:10.480 following up on the ethical tenets of this other religion 85 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:15.279 you may have heard of, called Judaism. And by the way, 86 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:18.480 some of these ethical traditions were upheld by this other 87 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:23.319 religion you may have heard of, called Islam, all of 88 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:28.480 which religions constitute about half of the global population. Is 89 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:35.800 that sexual reproduction is reserved for marriage, That sexual reproduction, 90 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:39.319 the use of our sex organs, is oriented towards family, 91 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.279 that it is oriented towards the beginning of life, which 92 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:46.160 is in fact also their biological function. And that therefore 93 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.199 sex between sexual activity between persons of the same sex 94 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:53.839 is morally wrong. That is a belief of Christianity, and 95 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:57.480 a belief of Juism, of historic Judaism, and a belief 96 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:05.800 of Islam. Again, only several billion people believe these things. 97 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:16.800 So maybe c cigae Goos, holding this radical, strange foreign belief, 98 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:25.399 takes the position that she does not want herself to 99 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:32.680 be seen as endorsing sexual activity of that kind, sexual 100 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:34.959 activity of a kind that she believes to be unethical. 101 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:41.480 And by the way, the arguments against the same sex 102 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:48.199 marriage don't have to be restricted to religious arguments. That 103 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:53.000 one can make natural law based ethical arguments separate from 104 00:07:53.360 --> 00:08:02.040 the specific religious revelation of Christianity or Judaism or Islam. 105 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:07.439 And furthermore, maybe they're just individual things. Maybe individual different 106 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:13.480 people might have different objections. To quote Pride month. Maybe 107 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:15.920 there are people who think that the L and the 108 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.120 G and the B are totally fine, but they're like, 109 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:22.360 you know what, this t thing that's a bridge too far. 110 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.680 I don't support that. I don't think children are born 111 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:30.879 in the wrong body. I don't think it's ethical to 112 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:34.919 provide and this is specifically a high school group. By 113 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:38.080 the way, I don't support the idea of children being 114 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.639 so sexualized that they that they give to give themselves 115 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:47.679 a concrete sexual identity prior to their adulthood. I don't 116 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:54.960 want children to be subjected to surgeries. I don't want 117 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:59.039 children to be subjected to hormonal therapy treatment. Pride Month 118 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:05.799 has wrapped its elf completely in the transgender movement, and 119 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:12.200 so maybe mayor Gayegos says, I don't want to participate 120 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:18.720 in that. I don't want to do that. I think 121 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:23.320 that's also could be a perfectly legitimate reason. Furthermore, the 122 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:30.200 idea you know Weber in his column he seems to 123 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:34.120 think it's particularly egregious that she didn't recognize a high 124 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.399 school gay Straight Alliance club. If anything, I would think 125 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.320 it's more problematic that it's a high school club. There 126 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:44.000 are more reasons to object to this as a high 127 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:52.559 school organization rather than some group of adults. It's not 128 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.919 even about us adults. Angela Brooks, a Maderra resident who 129 00:09:55.960 --> 00:10:05.279 is LGBTQ plus, told Galicia, which one is it? That's 130 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:14.440 the thing? Elle means one thing. This is someone named Angela, 131 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:20.000 so presumably not G could be B though, which you know, 132 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:25.559 how sure are we about that T could be T? 133 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.960 I guess or just Q that This is Another thing 134 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:34.799 that started happening is celebrities calling themselves queer who have 135 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:41.600 no actual discernible sexual inclinations towards persons of the opposite sex. 136 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:46.200 And in fact, there's a couple of celebrities who had 137 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:50.440 proclaimed themselves to be lesbian or bisexual or queer who 138 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:55.480 are now marrying or dating men, like Demi Levado. Demi 139 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:58.080 Levado went through this big phase where she was like, 140 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:00.360 I think she wanted to go by different pronouns. Now 141 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:03.080 all of a sudden, she's just marrying a guy. There's 142 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:08.000 this other entertainer, her name is Jojo Siwa, who is 143 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:10.879 very oh, just totally draping herself in the pride, Like 144 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:12.919 now she's dating a dude and she's like, yeah, I'm 145 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:16.759 not a lesbian, which is making me think that a 146 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:20.320 lot of this stuff that's happening among celebrities is some 147 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:26.559 combination of I don't know, pure pressure, societal pressure, desire 148 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:29.159 to be popular, desire to have some kind of recognition 149 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:31.000 that you have some kind of ooh, some kind of 150 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:40.519 interesting identity as opposed to anything that's actually different about you. Anyway, 151 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.080 it's not even about us adults. Angela Brooks, a Madera 152 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.360 resident who is LGBTQ plus, told Galicia they gave that 153 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.720 award to kids. What are you telling these kids that 154 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:55.320 they don't matter? Well, I guess, if I may raising 155 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:59.879 my hand, I don't think kids should be recognized and 156 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:04.679 given an award based on the fact that they have 157 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:09.480 a sexual orientation, or are acclaimed sexual orientation or or 158 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:12.120 I mean, I don't know. I liked girls. I didn't 159 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:14.000 expect anyone to give me an award for it when 160 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:18.600 I was in high school. Furthermore, I think the idea 161 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:31.519 of defining children based on their sexual preferences seems weird. 162 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:39.120 Children who are not supposed to be having sex. According 163 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:44.159 to these little laws in California known as statutory rape laws, 164 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:51.559 kids aren't supposed to be having sex. So maybe miss Gegos, 165 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:54.440 the mayor of Madera, who refused to be present for 166 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:59.480 a Madei City Council honoring of a high school gay 167 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.679 Straight al Alliance club, maybe that was part of it. 168 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:08.080 That the whole enterprise of gay straight alliance clubs in 169 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:14.919 high schools is em It seems like an ify proposition. 170 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:23.000 Are you telling these kids they don't matter? This is 171 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:25.639 all the more ironic given that Gayegos is a teacher 172 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.240 in the Maderia Unified School District. So every teacher in 173 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.679 the Maderia Unified School District has to be thrilled about 174 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:34.080 the Gay Straight Alliance club. That's what it has to be, 175 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:37.759 every teacher in Maderia unified. Sorry, you're not allowed to 176 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:43.360 have any opinion different from this orthodoxy that tad Weber 177 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:47.919 is enforcing here. How does she reconcile her actions, he writes, 178 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:50.799 with her position as mayor and the teacher of local youth, 179 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.399 I can answer how she would recognize how she could 180 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:59.200 reconcile her actions. She thinks that this kind of sexual 181 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:04.759 activity is wrong. She thinks that children self identifying with 182 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:12.360 a sexual preference is maybe not the healthiest thing. She 183 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:19.000 thinks that acknowledging honoring June as quote Pride Month is 184 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:21.679 wrong given all of the different kinds of things that 185 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:25.960 Pride Month stands for, policy proposals, et cetera. That she 186 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:35.440 probably doesn't believe in. That I don't believe in. We 187 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:38.720 don't know whoever, writes she did not respond to Galicia's 188 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:42.960 requests for an interview, which itself is a problem. Elected 189 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:49.000 officials have a duty to answer journalists inquiries. No, they don't. 190 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:53.360 They do not have a duty to answer journalists inquiries. 191 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:57.440 What Bologney is this? She doesn't have a duty to 192 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:01.000 answer the Fresno bee's inquiries. Maybe you can make some 193 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:04.360 broad based democratic idea that she has to let her 194 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:07.600 constituents know what she thinks about stuff. Maybe she has 195 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.200 a duty to explain it in a press conference. Maybe 196 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:12.759 she has a duty to it. She has no Maybe 197 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:15.159 she has a duty to explain it to a different 198 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:21.200 reporter at a different outlet. She has no duty to 199 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:26.200 explain herself to the Fresno b Maybe there's a Maderra 200 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.440 outlet she'd like to speak to, maybe CASEY twenty four 201 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.639 or CBS forty seven or MPH Fox or ABC thirty. 202 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:39.159 She has no obligation to answer. What is this? Who 203 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:45.320 died and made you? Guys? Pope Diegos would do well 204 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:48.039 to learn from the example of Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer 205 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.720 and his recognition of Pride Month in his city. Then 206 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:52.799 it goes to tell the story of how Jerry Dyer 207 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:58.039 completely buckled on this issue and folded to full on 208 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:06.799 support of the whole LGB Pride Month, et cetera. What 209 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:10.519 Cci Guyagos must do? We'll return with Tad Weber's thoughts 210 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:13.399 on what Ceci Giago's must do. That's next on The 211 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:18.320 John Jubardy Show. Tad Weber from the Fresno Bee columnist 212 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:21.279 that the Fresno b demands demands that the mayor of Madera, 213 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:26.879 Cci Guyegos, resign. Why because she doesn't want to be 214 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:30.240 present when the Madera City council does various kinds of 215 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:34.039 Pride Month honors and apparently the straw that broke the 216 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:39.679 camel's back. The example he thinks is most egregious is 217 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:43.720 the fact that Gayego's didn't stick around for the city 218 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:51.159 council to honor a high school gay Straight Alliance club, which, again, 219 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:55.840 I would take the position of that that seems particularly 220 00:16:55.960 --> 00:17:00.360 like a thing I would avoid. I think a high 221 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:08.000 school club centered around the alleged sexual preference of children 222 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:14.960 is a little weird, and maybe such a club, you know, 223 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:19.119 does the thing Tad Weber's like, And she's a teacher 224 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.759 in Materia Unified. How dares she not want to honor 225 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:26.519 a high school group when she's a teacher at Materia Unify. 226 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:30.559 She's telling these kids they don't matter. Maybe she knows 227 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.480 more about the club than you do, Tad. Maybe she 228 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:42.839 really doesn't like it. So he writes, there is power 229 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:46.160 in recognition when politicians do it. It shows a marginalized 230 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:50.400 group that its members are worthy and important. Yeah, like 231 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:56.640 when Joe Biden recognized traditionalist Catholics by telling the FBI 232 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:58.640 to go spy on them. Yeah, that was really that 233 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:03.400 was really great. Marginalized groups you mean the marginalized group 234 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.720 the LGBT movement, the marginalized group of the LGBT movement. Exactly, 235 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:11.680 how in California are they marginalized? They have the full 236 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:16.079 support of three quarters of the state legislature, the governor, 237 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:20.559 every elected official. They have the support of most of 238 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:23.079 the Fortune five hundred, the enormous amount of the Fortune 239 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:27.000 five hundred, which was falling over back tripping over itself 240 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:33.880 to institute pro LGBT DEI policies. In what sense is 241 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:38.759 this group marginalized? They are not legally marginalized, They are 242 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:49.200 not culturally marginalized. This idea, the marginalized LGBT community, Get 243 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:54.440 over yourselves, geez luis like there's no group on whom 244 00:18:54.599 --> 00:19:00.839 more corporate government legal concern has been lavish than the 245 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:07.920 LGBT world. It shows a marginalized group that its members 246 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:13.720 are worthy and important. Okay, that's fine, Maybe she just 247 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:17.880 doesn't agree with it. What do you want from her. 248 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:21.640 When Gayegos refuses to even acknowledge gay members of her city, 249 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:27.440 she does the opposite and communicates that they are not valued. No, 250 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:31.640 it's more than acknowledging that they exist. It's giving them 251 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:37.160 a city commendation, a positive affirmation of what they're doing. No, 252 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:41.200 that is a different thing. It used to be that Republican. 253 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:44.680 This is a thing I love about liberal commentators who 254 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:47.960 say I thought Republicans were about, and it's usually either 255 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:54.400 strict libertarianism or strict libertarianism weber rights. It used to 256 00:19:54.400 --> 00:20:00.119 be that Republicans stood for strong individual rights, that what 257 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:02.160 a person did in their private life was up to 258 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:03.880 them as long as it did not break laws or 259 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:09.559 hurt anyone else. No, that isn't what Republicans have always 260 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.759 been about. It's what libertarians have been about, but Republicans 261 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:16.640 have not been. Have you heard of the war on drugs? 262 00:20:16.880 --> 00:20:24.599 Republicans frequently, and I think in many cases rightly try 263 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:31.440 to restrict private conduct at the state level and at 264 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:34.559 sometimes even the federal level when such conduct is wrong. 265 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:41.680 I mean, No, that is not what Republicans have always 266 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:45.920 stood Oh, I thought Republicans always stood for. No, Republicans 267 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:50.319 have opposed gay marriage for I don't know, for decades. 268 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:54.440 Prior to a Bergefel. It used to be the Republican No, 269 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:58.279 Republicans never stood for this stuff. Republicans have never supported 270 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:01.720 pride month. Republicans have never supported the t in LGBT. 271 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:04.279 It used to be Republicans didn't support the LMG and 272 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:08.720 the b either. How far the GOP has fallen from 273 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:11.720 that ideal? How far the GOP has fallen? You really 274 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:15.119 want Bob Dole back As far as what people's LGBT 275 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:19.039 views are, George W. Bush was getting every state in 276 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:21.720 the Union to pass laws declaring marriage to be between 277 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:25.640 a man and a woman. What is this phony presentation 278 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:31.079 of all Republicans? Or she she's failing her Republican ideals. No, 279 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:35.640 she's not. If Coya Goos is truly going to be 280 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:38.559 the mayor of Madera, she must represent all its people. 281 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:41.000 That is part of the mayor's job description. She cannot 282 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.799 pick and choose. No, representing all the people doesn't mean 283 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:49.200 agreeing with all of them. She's a Republican, she doesn't 284 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:53.920 have to agree with all the Democrats in the city. Sorry, 285 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:57.200 I mean she was elected to be a Republican mayor. 286 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:03.079 She's not going And by the way, what she's elected 287 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:09.640 to represent all its people. Representing means a lot of 288 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:13.240 things work for the good of all the people of Madera. 289 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:20.319 Sure initiate all of their policy preferences. No, and impossible. 290 00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:26.279 It's impossible for a mayor to represent and enact the 291 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:30.720 viewpoints of people who disagree with each other. Gayego's probably 292 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:33.160 was elected by a lot of Christians, a lot of 293 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:39.079 Catholics who don't support Pride Month in that sense, in 294 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:45.880 the sense of affirming same sexual activities, affirming transgenderism. So 295 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:49.079 she is representing those people, and she would be not 296 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:53.119 representing those people if she flip flopped her position. And 297 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:59.759 by the way, those people were seemingly in the majority. 298 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:07.799 As mayor, Giegos does not have to understand or even 299 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:11.359 agree with personal choices made by her city's residents. Well, yeah, 300 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:15.799 if she's gonna give commendations to groups, it's an affirmation 301 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:23.759 of them. And again, this is children. I don't want 302 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:27.680 to affirm the personal choice of children with regards to 303 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:34.000 sex issues. If Giagos is unwilling, so he ends with 304 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:37.039 She doesn't have to understand or even agree with personal 305 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:39.160 choices made by her city's residence. But she does have 306 00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:42.400 to champion the corporate cause of making Madera a stronger, 307 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:46.079 better community for all. Maybe she thinks that's what she's doing. 308 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:48.799 If Giagos is unwilling to do that, then she is 309 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:51.839 unfit to be mayor. The only There's only one thing 310 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:56.920 left for her to do. Resign. That is ridiculous. This 311 00:23:57.039 --> 00:24:03.680 is a ridiculous column. She doesn't want to affirm Pride Month, 312 00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:06.720 or affirm to a grow up of high school kids 313 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:12.880 anything about sexual preferences. She should resign. A twenty twenty 314 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:17.319 idea stuck in twenty twenty five when we return the 315 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:20.880 ridiculousness of the California State Assembly Democrats. Next on the 316 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:25.640 John Jrardy Show, an incident happened at the California State 317 00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:33.839 Capital yesterday, but I think really demonstrates the total power 318 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:40.000 and control that Democrats have in the state legislature. So 319 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:44.680 California State Assembly Member Carl Demeyo was up to speak. 320 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:52.039 De Mayo is a Republican. He is also a openly 321 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:58.599 gay man. Carl the Mayo's openly gay man. The Democrats 322 00:24:58.640 --> 00:25:05.039 introduced a resid allusion to honor a Pride Month and 323 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:10.440 Demeyo is up and he's speaking in opposition to it, specifically, 324 00:25:10.440 --> 00:25:12.880 I think he's speaking in opposition to the transgender part. 325 00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:14.880 And there are a bunch of very aggressive left wing 326 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:17.559 policy proposals that de Mayo does not support. Demo does 327 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:20.279 not support boys participating girl sports, he does not support 328 00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:22.640 a lot of stuff relating to transgenderism, et cetera, even 329 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:26.079 though he is a gay man. So DeMeo is up speaking, 330 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:32.720 and then this happens. 331 00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:35.519 Is it goes much further than that to endorse very 332 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:40.519 controversial and extremist policy positions, which is very unique. 333 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:46.039 Mister Demio, it's very mister Demio. Yes, please, mister raiding clerk, 334 00:25:46.039 --> 00:25:50.240 can you hold mister Demayo's time? Sorry, I have a 335 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:53.960 very important announcement today, mister Juan Carrio. I understand it's 336 00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:57.680 your birthday today. Members, will you join me in pushing 337 00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:01.920 mister Carrillo a very happy birthday today? 338 00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:09.119 Okay? So he gets interrupted. The Democrat who was leading 339 00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:12.240 the assembly floor that day interrupts him to say that 340 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:17.240 so and so is having a birthday that day. So 341 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:22.240 he interrupts to Mayo, he holds his time. He has 342 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:23.960 a certain amount of time on the floor to speak 343 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:29.880 about the resolution. De Mayo waits, They applaud for someone's birthday. 344 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:35.119 De Mayo goes on, and then this exchange happens. 345 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:38.599 Hey, but you chose not to, I offered the author. 346 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:42.079 Mister Demio's just one moment, please, just a moment we're 347 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:45.039 gonna happen, mister excuse me, mister Demayo, just a moment, 348 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:49.680 mister reading clerk, can you hold mister Demayo's time? Members, 349 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:52.000 You'll have to forgive me. But on Thursday last week, 350 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:54.960 I forgot it was Damon Connolly's birthday. Can you please 351 00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:59.359 join me in welcoming very happy birthday for mister Damon Connolly. 352 00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:08.119 Okay, so he gets interrupted again for a different assembly 353 00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:18.480 member's birthday. This continues, and then guess what in this resolution. 354 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:19.960 Mister Demaia, I'm going to have to interrupt you one 355 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:22.240 more time if you don't mind, sir, if you wantn't 356 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:25.400 mind waiting, mister reading clerk, can you hold his time? Remember, 357 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:28.799 I'm unsure if you're aware, But tomorrow is mister Gibson's birthday. 358 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:33.279 Can you all join me in wishing mister Gibson a 359 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:36.599 very very happy birthday. 360 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:40.240 You get the idea. So, here is a Republican on 361 00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:43.440 the floor of the California Assembly. They are debating a 362 00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:47.119 Assembly resolution. He gets a certain amount of time to speak. 363 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:52.319 It's not forever. I think he probably gets somewhere around 364 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:59.079 five minutes to speak. They interrupt him completely unnecessarily, to 365 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:03.200 give birthday wishes to four different people in the Assembly. 366 00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:09.960 They interrupt him four times. The Democrats do the Democrat leadership, 367 00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:14.599 who's controlling the campaign, who's controlling the proceedings on the floor, 368 00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:26.960 Because they have this level of control, It's insane. This 369 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:30.079 is something that would never fly in DC. The amount 370 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.599 of respect and decorum that the two parties demonstrate to 371 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:39.599 each other in Washington, d C. Between the Senate and 372 00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:43.279 the House, when Republicans are in the majority, they give 373 00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:46.440 great deference to the Democrats. When Democrats are in the majority, 374 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:49.599 relative to this, certainly they give great deference to the Republicans. 375 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:54.440 Why well, because in both DC, well, excuse me, in 376 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:56.640 both the House and the Senate in Washington, d C. 377 00:28:56.839 --> 00:29:04.960 At the federal governmental level, it's pretty close Democrats and Republicans. 378 00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:09.039 When they get majorities, they usually get pretty narrow majorities, 379 00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:16.039 and those majorities are not enduring. Okay, Democrats prior to 380 00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:18.440 nineteen ninety four had held the House for you know, 381 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:21.839 a really, really, really long time, but it's bopped back 382 00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:25.680 and forth since nineteen ninety four. Control of the House 383 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:28.359 and Senate has bopped back and forth between Republicans and 384 00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:36.920 Democrats multiple times. And both parties know if we establish 385 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:41.599 bad precedents with our conduct while we're in the majority, 386 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:45.920 those same bad precedents will be inflicted on us when 387 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:49.160 we get into the minority. So it's this sort of 388 00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:52.359 self enforcing golden rule within the House and the Senate, 389 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:55.440 and when that golden rule gets broken, it often leads 390 00:29:55.480 --> 00:30:02.960 to disaster. So Democrats started filibustering George W. Bush's judicial nominations. 391 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:07.440 Then Republicans started philibustering Barack Obama's judicial nominations, and Harry 392 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:10.119 Reid changed the Senate rules to say no, Republicans are 393 00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:17.039 not allowed to filibuster Democrat presidential president's judicial nominations, and 394 00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:19.720 Mitch McConnell on the floor of the Senate told Harry Reid, 395 00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:22.400 you're going to live to regret this, and what happened. 396 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:25.640 Donald Trump gets elected in twenty sixteen, and Republicans shove 397 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:31.079 more Republican judges down the Democrats' throats, including three Supreme 398 00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:36.759 Court justices in four years, shove more judges down Democrats' 399 00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:42.599 throats than anyone thought was possible. So the lesson is 400 00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:47.599 learned and severely learned. Don't screw around with the rules 401 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:50.680