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Quick message from the Last hour's topic about 10 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:37,679 the two hundred and fiftieth Birthday celebrations for America, Kevin says, 11 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:42,439 to counter these ideas of the ASLA, listen to the 12 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,520 Last Hour. If you listen on the podcast, if you 13 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,320 don't know what I'm talking about, the aa SLH, you 14 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:51,119 should do a whole show comparing us life of say 15 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,920 even the poorest American too counties that many in this 16 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,039 country originated from, showing actually how great things really are 17 00:00:58,119 --> 00:01:04,879 in comparison to other parts of the world. It could 18 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:12,079 a reverse comparison of the stories NPR spits out injustice, 19 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:18,159 this inequality, that blah blah blah. 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I 32 00:01:54,799 --> 00:01:59,280 post them up at the end of the show. All right, 33 00:01:59,359 --> 00:02:02,799 So this next piece comes to us from National Review. 34 00:02:02,879 --> 00:02:08,080 It's an editorial written by coincidentally enough, the editors, and 35 00:02:08,159 --> 00:02:15,319 it is about the Trump Administration's report on gender experimentation 36 00:02:15,599 --> 00:02:20,479 on kids. At the beginning of the year, President Trump 37 00:02:20,479 --> 00:02:23,599 announced an executive order that directed the Secretary of Health 38 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:28,039 and Human Services to publish a review of quote the 39 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:32,560 existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of 40 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:36,280 children who assert gender dysphoria, wrap it on set gender 41 00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:40,599 dysphoria or other identity based confusion. He gave them a 42 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:47,639 ninety day deadline, and they have done that. They reviewed 43 00:02:48,439 --> 00:02:54,319 the existing literature on best practices, and you may want 44 00:02:54,319 --> 00:02:56,520 to sit down for this, people, but it turns out 45 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,039 that the best practices for so called gender affirming care 46 00:03:01,879 --> 00:03:05,960 are simply to not do it at all. That's that's 47 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,080 the best practice. Just don't do what we've been doing. 48 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:17,080 The HHS review was published yesterday, and the results shouldn't 49 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,120 be surprising, but I guess probably to about you know, 50 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:23,960 twenty five percent of the population. They are. The researchers 51 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,560 found that the available studies on gender affirming care for 52 00:03:27,719 --> 00:03:33,400 minors was poorly conducted and there is indevidence to show 53 00:03:33,599 --> 00:03:38,680 that such interventions effectively treat gender dysphoria or improve mental health. 54 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,360 Have you been listening to this show for any period 55 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,400 of time, you would already know this because I've been 56 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:50,319 covering this ever since this stuff first started, you know, 57 00:03:51,039 --> 00:03:54,840 becoming the mainstream, and there are reasons for it becoming mainstream. 58 00:03:55,039 --> 00:03:57,520 I've gone over that too. I've talked about you know, 59 00:03:57,599 --> 00:04:03,639 the dare I call it intersectionality, but no, how the 60 00:04:03,759 --> 00:04:10,479 LGBTQ plus two, IA SL whatever, the movement needed another 61 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:17,839 focus after it achieved gay marriage legalization, because you had 62 00:04:17,879 --> 00:04:24,600 an entire infrastructure that made up a very influential and 63 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:30,199 well funded portion of the Democrat Party. And so you 64 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,480 had these nonprofits. You had people working for the nonprofits, 65 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:38,439 activist organizations and such. They were doing fundraising all the time. 66 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:42,319 Right there. There were people who had their paychecks dependent 67 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:48,839 on the gay marriage issue. And once they achieved what 68 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,319 they set out to do, you then end up. And 69 00:04:52,319 --> 00:04:56,399 this happens in any organization that you know is trying 70 00:04:56,399 --> 00:05:00,319 to achieve a goal of some kind. You you achieved theory, 71 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,959 and then the people who were motivated simply to do 72 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,879 that that achievement, and once they achieve it, then they're done. 73 00:05:09,959 --> 00:05:11,800 Then it's like, okay, you know I was here, I 74 00:05:11,879 --> 00:05:14,720 was writing you checks every year for a million dollars 75 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,879 to get gay marriage approved. And now it's approved, and 76 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:19,959 so now I'm gonna I'm not going to write you 77 00:05:19,959 --> 00:05:22,959 any more checks because that's what I was in it for, 78 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,519 and we won. Or that's why I was showing up 79 00:05:26,519 --> 00:05:28,920 at the rallies. That's why I was, you know, sending 80 00:05:28,959 --> 00:05:31,439 emails and letters to elected officials. This is why I 81 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,839 was yelling at Grandma and Grandpa Thanksgiving I don't have 82 00:05:33,879 --> 00:05:37,839 to do that anymore, you know. So you end up 83 00:05:38,319 --> 00:05:40,879 with a lot of people that start falling away from 84 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:46,319 these organizations, from the movement, and that is an existential 85 00:05:46,319 --> 00:05:50,720 threat to these organizations. They are now losing power. Right. 86 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:55,319 The dog that chases the car has no idea what 87 00:05:55,319 --> 00:05:57,759 it's going to do when it finally catches it. And 88 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:02,639 these organizations and activists caught the car. So what now, 89 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:08,279 what do you do? How do you refocus the organization? Well, 90 00:06:09,639 --> 00:06:11,879 we got the l's and the g's and the b's, 91 00:06:11,959 --> 00:06:13,800 and there is that t at the end there, and 92 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:17,120 so the focus then shifts. But what happens again, this 93 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,439 is any organization or movement, This happens once you achieve 94 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,560 the stated gold, right, you achieve that victory, then the 95 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:30,959 more let's say moderate, the people who aren't as radical 96 00:06:31,199 --> 00:06:33,959 as others might be inside the movement, they fall away, 97 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,040 they go do other things because they weren't. They weren't 98 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,560 the most radical group to begin with. So once they 99 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,959 get their goal done, they start walking away. And what's 100 00:06:45,079 --> 00:06:48,839 left then are the most radicals, Right, that's who's left 101 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,360 in your group. And that's what happened with the rise 102 00:06:52,480 --> 00:07:00,399 of the transgender phenomenon that we have been witnessing. Okay, 103 00:07:00,439 --> 00:07:09,120 so back to the National Review piece. More importantly, the 104 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,360 researchers noted what hasn't been published in the scientific literature, 105 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:18,560 which is the studies largely fail to appropriately consider the 106 00:07:18,639 --> 00:07:22,560 possible harms of these medical interventions. And this is a 107 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,959 very important point. I talked about this during COVID. It's 108 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,480 the same thing. If you are going to do an 109 00:07:29,519 --> 00:07:34,639 accounting of all the lives you saved by locking people down, 110 00:07:34,879 --> 00:07:38,639 and all the lives you've saved by telling people to 111 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,720 wear a mask and stand six feet apart and take 112 00:07:41,759 --> 00:07:43,720 the shot and do all of that, you want to 113 00:07:43,759 --> 00:07:50,040 claim all this credit for all the lives saved. Okay, fine, 114 00:07:50,079 --> 00:07:53,800 what's the other side of the ledger? See? Because that's 115 00:07:53,839 --> 00:07:57,399 how an accounting is actually done. It's not all good. 116 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,600 There are things that you've traded off here in order 117 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:07,439 to save all the lives. There were costs. People did die, 118 00:08:08,199 --> 00:08:14,319 deaths of despair, drug addiction, alcoholism. People were forced to 119 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,759 die alone, people were given treatments that they shouldn't have 120 00:08:18,759 --> 00:08:21,639 been given. People were locked in nursing homes, for example, 121 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:30,319 with COVID infected peers. There's another side of the ledger. 122 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,519 And if you want to do an accounting and you 123 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,240 want the credit, then you got to look at the 124 00:08:35,279 --> 00:08:38,200 costs as well. And that's what these studies that are 125 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,879 always out there promoting, like the you know, we should 126 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,399 be we should be transing the twelve year olds. Is 127 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,240 there a downside to doing that, which of course there is. 128 00:08:47,639 --> 00:08:50,799 And by the way, people in the medical community know this. 129 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:57,840 They've known this. Psychologists, psychiatrists, they know this. For the 130 00:08:57,879 --> 00:09:00,320 love of me. It was a list. It was a 131 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:06,360 category in the DSM. That's the was it the Disorder's list, right, 132 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,919 It was officially listed as a mental disorder and they 133 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,360 then changed it like about a minute ago. Seriously, they 134 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,240 changed it like I don't know, three, four years ago 135 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:21,799 or something because everybody fell in line. Just like with COVID, 136 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,440 you know, the herd starts moving some way, and then 137 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,200 you get the constant beatdowns on social media. Maybe they're 138 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,679 throttling your accounts, maybe they're firing you from your job. Right, 139 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:38,320 does that happen during COVID too? This tyrannical approach to disagreement, 140 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,759 and that's what we're seeing in this topic as well. 141 00:09:42,759 --> 00:09:46,639 The HHS report is an umbrella review of seventeen pre 142 00:09:46,759 --> 00:09:51,879 existing systematic reviews on pediatric gender related medicine. Okay, so 143 00:09:51,919 --> 00:10:01,279 it's just looking at kids pediatric trans medicine. Right. The studies, 144 00:10:01,399 --> 00:10:05,279 these systematic reviews were already done, So this took all 145 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,559 of those and reviewed all of those, and the finding 146 00:10:09,919 --> 00:10:15,120 in our the American report here mirrors what the CAST 147 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:20,480 Review found. The CAST Review was an independent review commissioned 148 00:10:20,519 --> 00:10:25,960 by the United Kingdom's National Health Service on these similar 149 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,639 medical treatments, and what the Cast Review determined was quote 150 00:10:29,799 --> 00:10:37,440 this is an area of remarkably weak evidence. The HHS 151 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,600 report notes that the common defenses of gender related medicine 152 00:10:41,639 --> 00:10:44,960 for miners, such as the claim that it is life saving, 153 00:10:46,039 --> 00:10:52,360 that claim is unsupported by the data. It is unsupported. 154 00:10:53,279 --> 00:10:56,720 And this is what they've been telling parents in order 155 00:10:56,799 --> 00:11:01,559 to bully the parents and shame them into letting their 156 00:11:01,639 --> 00:11:08,600 kids get these these surgeries, procedures, therapies, whatever procedure is 157 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,919 probably the best word. Although I guess if you're doing 158 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:14,720 the if you're taking like a puberty blockers and it's 159 00:11:14,799 --> 00:11:17,480 like a you know, pills or something, I don't know, 160 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:25,000 they're not therapies because they're not making you better. They're 161 00:11:25,039 --> 00:11:31,919 just changing you. Parents were told would you rather have 162 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,480 a dead son or a living daughter in order to 163 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:40,200 scare them and bully them into agreeing to mutilate the kid. 164 00:11:41,159 --> 00:11:43,240 And this is what one of the activists who won 165 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,799 the big court case in the UK the other day, 166 00:11:45,799 --> 00:11:48,600 Helen Joyce, And she's been phenomenal on this for years. 167 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,600 I've played many of her sound bites rhetor works, and 168 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:58,960 she has pointed out that for parents that have transd 169 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:05,320 their kids, they can never acknowledge this stuff because to 170 00:12:05,399 --> 00:12:09,639 acknowledge that they were wrong about this like that really 171 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:15,000 would be an awful thing. I can't even imagine. 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What the HHS found was 196 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:55,559 that the seventeen reviews arrived at positive evaluations of gender 197 00:13:55,559 --> 00:14:01,840 related interventions even when the studies in question and contradicted 198 00:14:02,039 --> 00:14:05,360 or did not support such an outcome. What does that mean? 199 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:11,080 So at the base level, you have a study, a 200 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:15,799 study of a particular intervention. Right, And let's say say 201 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:21,639 like what is the effect of puberty blockers on ten 202 00:14:21,759 --> 00:14:25,960 year olds? Right? And so you do a study, and 203 00:14:26,039 --> 00:14:29,559 that study can have flaws of all kinds. So you 204 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:34,679 start with that study, and then there's a another study 205 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,039 that also looks to replicate what you did or builds 206 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,799 upon the work that you did, or whatever. There's another 207 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:44,159 study looking at kind of the same thing, maybe another study, 208 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,159 maybe five studies, ten whatever. Then a review comes in 209 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,159 and takes all of those studies and they review the studies, 210 00:14:50,279 --> 00:14:53,879 or maybe they just review one study. Either way, that review, 211 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,759 that systematic review of the study. That systematic review is 212 00:14:58,799 --> 00:15:02,960 then what the a HS examined. And what they said 213 00:15:03,159 --> 00:15:08,480 was that the systematic review came to conclusions that the 214 00:15:08,559 --> 00:15:13,080 studies did not. There is a word for this. It's 215 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:20,840 called lying. This is corruption of the science. The most 216 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,440 valuable insight of the AHHS report is that the available 217 00:15:25,519 --> 00:15:31,240 studies neglect important outcomes. Right, So the baseline studies that 218 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,919 were done, they ignore certain outcomes. The researchers note that 219 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:41,279 design flaws throughout the literature, ranging from small sample sizes 220 00:15:41,759 --> 00:15:47,039 to really short periods of monitoring. What that means is 221 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,679 that important questions are left unanswered, like what is the 222 00:15:50,799 --> 00:15:55,519 long term impact of these treatments? All right, so you 223 00:15:55,559 --> 00:15:59,440 want to start juicing kids with hormones at age ten, 224 00:16:00,039 --> 00:16:02,559 you want to block puberty from happening at age ten 225 00:16:02,639 --> 00:16:05,679 or whatever. And they're like, I feel so much better. 226 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:07,480 I got what I wanted. And they're like, Okay, you 227 00:16:07,519 --> 00:16:11,320 feel so much better. This is obviously a positive outcome. Okay, 228 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,919 but how about ten years from now, how about twenty, 229 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:19,399 how about thirty? I really want to have, you know, 230 00:16:19,559 --> 00:16:24,919 the male genitalia, So yes, please scrape off all of 231 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:30,159 the muscle and tissue from my forearm and construct one 232 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:42,440 for me. Or the alternate, remove my junk and create 233 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:46,679 a hole inside my pelvis which will continuously for the 234 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:50,519 rest of my life. Attempt to close up very painful 235 00:16:50,639 --> 00:16:55,080 from what I understand. Right, there's another side of the ledger. 236 00:16:57,799 --> 00:17:01,120 The fact is there's very limited day about the long 237 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:04,960 term effects of these gender related interventions on sexual function, 238 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:11,640 cognitive abilities, bone density, cardiovascular diseases, and other areas of 239 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:17,480 physical health. The absence of evidence of harms in these 240 00:17:17,519 --> 00:17:22,440 published studies is not equivalent to the evidence of absence 241 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:27,200 of harms. Right. The absence of evidence is not evidence 242 00:17:27,799 --> 00:17:34,200 of absence. Does that make sense? It's an age old axiom. 243 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:39,119 Just because the studies didn't see evidence of harm doesn't 244 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:43,200 mean that there isn't any They just didn't look for it. 245 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,759 It's easy to miss what you're not looking for, all right. 246 00:17:46,759 --> 00:17:48,599 If you're listening to this show, you know I try 247 00:17:48,599 --> 00:17:50,400 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 248 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,480 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 249 00:17:52,519 --> 00:17:56,759 say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because 250 00:17:56,759 --> 00:17:59,440 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 251 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:03,240 been so with ground News. 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The blind spot feature shows 260 00:18:28,599 --> 00:18:31,440 you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. 261 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:36,279 See for yourself check dot ground, dot news slash pete. 262 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,039 Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off 263 00:18:39,079 --> 00:18:42,359 any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited 264 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,720 access to every feature your subscription. Then not only helps 265 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,519 my podcast, but it also supports ground news as they 266 00:18:48,559 --> 00:18:55,960 make the media landscape more transparent. National review reporting on 267 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,880 the Department of Health and Human Services systematic review of 268 00:19:00,319 --> 00:19:08,640 seventeen other systematic reviews on gender affirming care. It's not affirming, 269 00:19:09,599 --> 00:19:14,160 it's not care. These are procedures that are conducted on kids. 270 00:19:15,079 --> 00:19:19,200 And what they found was some of these systematic reviews 271 00:19:19,839 --> 00:19:25,200 arrived at positive evaluations of gender related interventions even when 272 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:29,160 the studies in question contradicted or did not support a 273 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,440 positive outcome. So a study finds that, yeah, we can't 274 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,640 really make any determination about whether this is a good 275 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,960 thing or not or not enough evidence to support this 276 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,359 as a positive treatment or procedure. And then the review 277 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:45,480 comes along and says, well, that study said it was 278 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:56,680 positive and it didn't. No new policy can undo the 279 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:02,880 harm that has already been inflicted on young, vulnerable children. 280 00:20:03,759 --> 00:20:09,839 These kids arrived at the doctor's office for treatment, only 281 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:14,160 to be further damaged when they most needed help. The 282 00:20:14,319 --> 00:20:20,440 report notes that kids with gender dysphoria often present at 283 00:20:20,519 --> 00:20:26,960 gender medicine clinics with what's called co occurring. In other words, yeah, 284 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,480 you have gender dysphoria, but there are all these other 285 00:20:30,519 --> 00:20:36,680 things going on too. And I have said this for years, 286 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:44,079 and sometimes I get yelled at by leftists who think 287 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,480 I'm like denigrating children. You're picking on kids because I 288 00:20:47,519 --> 00:20:51,440 say the gender dysphoria that the kids with the gender 289 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:56,720 dysphoria they usually have some mental disorder going on, and 290 00:20:56,759 --> 00:21:00,400 they're like, oh, you're calling them crazy or something like. No, 291 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:07,960 I'm saying that the gender dysphoria is virtually never alone. 292 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:14,319 There are other things going on, neurodevelopment disorders, mental health 293 00:21:14,319 --> 00:21:25,279 conditions like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, suicidality, among others, and 294 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,680 there is this belief that the gender dysphoria is disconnected 295 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,799 from these other things. Or you will hear the argument that, oh, well, 296 00:21:32,039 --> 00:21:35,039 they're suffering from these other things because of the way 297 00:21:35,039 --> 00:21:38,079 they're treated and they're not accepted, they're not being affirmed, 298 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:43,799 and if you just go along with their desires delusions, 299 00:21:43,839 --> 00:21:46,200 you go along with that, and then all of these 300 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,119 other things will be corrected. But that's not what the 301 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:53,319 evidence shows. That's why the countries that were at the 302 00:21:53,319 --> 00:21:59,759 forefront of this gender affirming model. That's why they've where 303 00:21:59,799 --> 00:22:03,920 they're not just pumping the brakes, they're actually reversing. They're 304 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:09,480 stopping this stuff over in Europe because this stuff corrects 305 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,440 like don't so people say, well, what should we do? 306 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:20,839 Don't do anything, Just let the kid develop, and as 307 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:25,400 studies show, most of the time, virtually all of the time, 308 00:22:25,599 --> 00:22:30,000 they grow out of it. Right. Being confused as a 309 00:22:30,039 --> 00:22:33,640 teenager is the whole point of being a teenager. Have 310 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,119 you met a teenager like they're confused about like everything 311 00:22:37,599 --> 00:22:42,680 all the time? I know I was a teenager. It's 312 00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:46,960 part of the deal. And telling people that they are not, 313 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:50,200 that they are not in the right body, is an 314 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:57,279 incredibly destructive thing to do to them. In a similar 315 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:02,640 vein out in California talking about the tip of the 316 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:07,759 spear and crazy, California lawmakers gutted a bill this week. 317 00:23:08,519 --> 00:23:15,160 The bill would have made paying for sex with sixteen 318 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:21,440 and seventeen year olds a felony. You did not hear 319 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,799 that incorrectly. You heard that right. There was a bill 320 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,480 to make it a felony to pay for sex with 321 00:23:28,519 --> 00:23:33,960 a sixteen or seventeen year old and California Democrats killed it. 322 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:39,680 Under current state law, trying to buy sex from miners 323 00:23:39,759 --> 00:23:45,480 under sixteen you get extra fines, jail time, misdemeanor or 324 00:23:45,519 --> 00:23:50,799 felony charge. Right, but that's just under the age of sixteen. See, 325 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,319 you can't pay for sex with miners if they're under 326 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,000 the age of sixteen. And what a Democrat lawmaker who 327 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,559 wrote the bill, Maggie Krell, she has spent two decades 328 00:24:01,079 --> 00:24:04,680 overseeing human trafficking cases for the state, so she was like, 329 00:24:05,279 --> 00:24:10,359 we need to include seventeen and eighteen year olds paying 330 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,920 for sex all the way up to eighteen years old 331 00:24:14,079 --> 00:24:19,599 should be felony charges. And Democrats were like, no, I mean, well, like, 332 00:24:20,039 --> 00:24:22,400 I mean, there's a lot of examples where we shouldn't 333 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:28,000 ruin somebody's life. Yeah, I think what's the guy's name? Wiener? 334 00:24:29,079 --> 00:24:32,640 Is his name? He's like this radical sex crazed guy 335 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:37,519 out in California. Not Anthony Wiener. That's the the sex 336 00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:42,440 crazed guys up in New York, Scott Wiener, I think 337 00:24:42,519 --> 00:24:45,960 is his name out in California. I don't know why 338 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,039 there are always Wieners, but he threw out an example 339 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:56,440 of a seventeen year old offering a sixteen year old 340 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,119 twenty dollars to have sex, and that's now a felony, 341 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,880 and that shouldn't be a felony. We should allow a 342 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,680 seventeen year old to be able to offer a classmate 343 00:25:09,759 --> 00:25:12,480 twenty bucks for sex. That should be that should not 344 00:25:12,519 --> 00:25:17,000 be a crime, let alone a felony like Okay, that 345 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:22,799 definitely is an argument to make. I guess. There was 346 00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:26,440 a new bill that was meant to protect sex trafficking victims, 347 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,480 and it would have increased the age to eighteen, but 348 00:25:29,559 --> 00:25:33,839 Democratic committee members demanded that the clause be cut before 349 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,200 they let the bill move forward to the full California 350 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,160 State Assembly. The author of the bill, Democrat Maggie Krell, 351 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,400 called it a disgrace. Nick Schultz, the chairman of the 352 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:50,000 Public Safety Committee, said quote, we are not saying no, 353 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,759 but what we're saying is, if we're going to be 354 00:25:53,839 --> 00:25:57,880 thoughtful policy makers, we really need to dive deep into 355 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:04,279 this issue. Check that guy's laptop. 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Laurel 382 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:40,839 Libby not a leftist, not even a lib now. In February, 383 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:47,240 she publicly criticized the state's policy that allows biological males 384 00:27:47,319 --> 00:27:53,119 identifying as transgender to compete in girls' sports. Right. She 385 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:59,400 criticized the policy she posted on Facebook quote, this is 386 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,359 outrageous and unfair to the many female athletes who work 387 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,640 every day to succeed in their respective sports. I will 388 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:12,000 continue to vigorously oppose all efforts to allow male athletes 389 00:28:12,039 --> 00:28:17,119 to compete in female athletic competitions and to demand that 390 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,720 President Trump's executive order be enforced in Maine to ensure 391 00:28:20,759 --> 00:28:26,440 fairness for all female athletes. And look, maybe now the 392 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:31,480 people up in Maine will be able to figure out 393 00:28:31,519 --> 00:28:34,839 that men and women are different and that men should 394 00:28:34,839 --> 00:28:39,200 not be permitted into women only spaces now that there 395 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:44,039 is that big landmark ruling from the uk that men 396 00:28:44,079 --> 00:28:48,400 and women are different, and a woman is a biological female. Like, 397 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,720 that's what a woman is. Now we have an actual definition. 398 00:28:50,839 --> 00:28:55,920 Thank god, the court's weighed in right. So, but maybe not, 399 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,599 maybe not because in retaliation for that soul social media 400 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:07,599 posts she posted on Facebook, and in retaliation, the Democrat 401 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:14,880 controlled House passed a party line resolution censuring her. The 402 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:20,559 resolution required her to quote accept full responsibility for the 403 00:29:20,599 --> 00:29:26,920 incident and publicly apologized to the House and to the 404 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:31,519 people of the state of Maine. This is a struggle session. 405 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,880 This is a Maoist struggle session. That's what this is. 406 00:29:37,039 --> 00:29:40,440 We are going to censure and try to shame you. 407 00:29:40,799 --> 00:29:44,039 And the only way for you to make the pain 408 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:51,160 stop is to give us a confession. Right, confess your sins. 409 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:56,440 This is why, like Marxism is a religion. Okay, these 410 00:29:56,519 --> 00:30:00,799 tactics are the same sorts of tactics that you would 411 00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:04,279 get in any kind of a tyrannical, hierarchical religious order. 412 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,319 The only way to be saved is by the people 413 00:30:08,359 --> 00:30:11,720 who hold the power to then, you know, grant you absolution. 414 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,519 And now you are saved because this person said you 415 00:30:14,599 --> 00:30:20,359 were and she's not folding and kudos to her, she 416 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:25,319 refused to apologize, and because she refused to apologize, the 417 00:30:25,359 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker of the House, Ryan Fecteur, I think is how 418 00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:34,960 he pronounces that barred her from even speaking from the floor. 419 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:41,119 She's a state representative elected, she is banned from speaking 420 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,920 from the House floor, and they banned her from voting. 421 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:52,119 So who are you actually punishing here? Now? A censure 422 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:59,880 doesn't require the recision of voting rights. In fact, I 423 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,519 thought you Democrats were like all the time, interested in 424 00:31:03,559 --> 00:31:06,599 protecting everybody's voting rights. But what did you just do here? 425 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,480 You robbed not just this one woman of her voting rights, 426 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:16,559 You've robbed everyone in her district of representation right like 427 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,400 they do not have now an elected representative because you 428 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:27,440 want her to apologize for offending you. How absurd. The 429 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:37,039 leftist in Maine are completely out of control. While it's 430 00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:39,279 certainly not this, by the way, is from David Strawm 431 00:31:39,319 --> 00:31:42,720 at hot air dot com. While it's certainly not unusual 432 00:31:43,039 --> 00:31:47,680 for legislatures to censure their members, it is quite unprecedented 433 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,279 to deny a legislator her right to vote. There were 434 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:57,480 in Maine's entire history, there were three lawmakers who have 435 00:31:57,559 --> 00:32:01,799 been censured in the States two hundred history, none of 436 00:32:01,839 --> 00:32:05,480 them have ever been stripped of their vote, and the 437 00:32:05,519 --> 00:32:10,160 same is true across the entire country. Nobody, no lawmaker, 438 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,759 has ever been stripped of their right to vote, even 439 00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:19,680 when they've been censured. So now Libby is making her 440 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:27,000 appeal to the US Supreme Court the anti democratic nature 441 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:32,920 of her punishment for not complying with a demand that 442 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:38,319 she recant. That she that she say, Okay, fine, I 443 00:32:38,359 --> 00:32:40,519 didn't mean it when I said it. I apologize, I 444 00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:44,359 take it back. No, she refuses to do that by 445 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,559 stripping her of a right to speak and to vote 446 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,720 to represent her constituents. The Democrats in Maine are doing 447 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:55,000 what they what they do best, sense or speech, and 448 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,400 then oppress anybody who disagrees with him. This is why 449 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,960 I have said for years on challenged ideas are easy 450 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,559 to hold if you listen to this program. Nay, if 451 00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:10,519 you listen to every show on WBT going back decades. 452 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:16,240 Ever since I came to work here in nineteen ninety nine, 453 00:33:16,359 --> 00:33:23,200 I have never heard any opposing view be censured from 454 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,480 the air. Here. People call in and challenge the hosts 455 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,839 all the time. They bring different news stories all the time, 456 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:36,079 call us all sorts of names all the time. And 457 00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:39,079 by the way, you don't get that over on NPR. 458 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,119 You do not. I've listened to that station. Heck, before 459 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,440 I came here, I used to work at that station. 460 00:33:46,759 --> 00:33:49,079 I don't know if they even do a live call 461 00:33:49,119 --> 00:33:54,240 in show at all anymore. Seriously, all their national shows 462 00:33:54,279 --> 00:33:59,039 are basically podcasts. The closest thing I have heard over 463 00:33:59,079 --> 00:34:03,079 there is like, they'll give you a phone number, you 464 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,039 call it, and then you leave a voicemail, and then 465 00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:08,880 they'll they'll listen to your voicemail and if they think 466 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,440 it comports with the ideology that they are representing, then 467 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,639 they will put that on the air. You never get challenges. 468 00:34:17,519 --> 00:34:21,320 Even c SPAN takes live calls and takes people with 469 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,239 different opinions, but to the left, they cannot countenance this. 470 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,599 So yeah, I have no problem, no problem defunding NPR, 471 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,599 which now the federal government is looking to do. Trump 472 00:34:32,599 --> 00:34:35,880 just did an executive order on it. It's well past 473 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,239 time to do that. You can survive on your existing model, 474 00:34:39,559 --> 00:34:43,840 selling your advertising and getting people to donate voluntarily. You 475 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,639 do not need to confiscate tax dollars from the half 476 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:51,800 of the country that thinks you have lost the plot. 477 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,519 But we also saw this during COVID Right, you had 478 00:34:56,519 --> 00:35:01,400 a vast government effort that was undertaken to show dissenters up. 479 00:35:02,679 --> 00:35:06,280 The District Court chose not to force the main legislature 480 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,440 to reinstate the voting rights of Libby. So now she 481 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,519 has appealed to the US Supreme Court, unfortunately her emergency appeal, 482 00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:15,639 and it's an emergency because Maine is still in session. 483 00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:18,599 Their legislature is in session and hundreds of votes have 484 00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:23,079 already been taken without her participation. The problem is she's 485 00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:27,920 got to go before Justice Kaitanji Brown Jackson KBJ and 486 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,920 Jackson will decide whether or not to grant the emergency status. 487 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,519 So remember, as Strong points out, when Democrats talk about 488 00:35:35,519 --> 00:35:38,920 preserving the democracy, this is what they really mean. They mean, 489 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,000 sit down, shut up, and comply. All right. That'll do 490 00:35:43,039 --> 00:35:45,599 it for this episode. 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