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I would never get a job in real broadcasting just for that reason.
I just wouldn't.
I probably wouldn't, right?
No, they'd go, he's fucking, he ruins the copy.
He doesn't do the copy well.
He doesn't do what he's supposed to do.
Comedy dates this weekend, July 8th.
I'm at the Ka Theater at the MGM with Ian motherfucking Edwards and Joey Diaz.
It should be a fucking gay old time in the Flintstone sense of the word.
That's the day before UFC 200, of course.
Holla.
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Holla.
Shit's going to be epic.
And we're going to record podcasts from there, by the way.
We're going to record a podcast for my friend Cameron Haynes.
It will be episode two of his podcast because my other good friend, John Dudley of the Knock On podcast, and boy, if you want to dork out on fucking archery, you know, people think that I get too much into shit.
John needs to go to a doctor.
He knows so much about archery.
I'm concerned about his brain.
He might have a tumor, an arrowhead-shaped tumor in his brain.
I bet he's got a tumor in his head like the cam on a compound bow.
I'm kidding, obviously.
He's a super knowledgeable, deeply technical, geeked-out archery guru who's taught me a lot about archery.
But I mean, you want to talk about like a podcast only for people who are into archery.
I mean, he gets so specific, but that's what I love about it.
Anyway, he is going to join Cameron Haynes and me, and we're going to do a keep hammering podcast either after the UFC, that night, that's possible, or we might do it the day of or something like that.
Probably at night would be the best because it'll be, you know, post-fights.
We'll be all worked up and it'll be crazy.
So that's what we're probably going to do.
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And his first podcast, Cameron Haynes Keep Hammering Podcast, hit number two in sports podcasts in America in the first week.
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He's super thankful.
Cam is a very inspirational guy and he's a real quiet, humble guy.
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My guest today is one of the most provocative and interesting people I know.
He is a fascinating guy.
And although I don't always agree with him, I really enjoy talking to him.
And I really enjoy his articles on Breitbart.
And I really enjoy listening to him speak and debate people because he's a motherfucker.
They always get caught out because they're sort of very clever, but not very clever.
So what they'll do is they will think that they've got all the badges right, and they'll kind of like, they'll have a friend who sort of lets them into the commissary so they can go and pick up these badges, like pretend they're part of the tank unit or whatever.
But they'll get something slightly wrong because they're not serving and they don't have a superior officer to be like, that's, you know, you know, they'll just get a little something wrong.
And of course, for all of their weird, autistic obsessions about getting all of the uniform stuff perfect, there are people out there on the internet who are vets who know the difference.
And so with these amazing wars, there's a name for them.
In Britain, we call them Waltz, like Walter Mitte's.
No, I've never, I mean, you know, Michelle Obama said something terrible.
She's like, I was proud of my country for the first time or something like that, you know, about something trivial and ridiculous, which I found distressing.
And I don't want to say that because it's not true.
But I did suddenly think there might be hope for Europe after all.
There might be hope, particularly for the best country in Europe, which is England, and the best sort of nation in Europe, the United Kingdom.
Finally, unshackled from this hellish continent on a suicide mission into Islamization and economic doom, finally, the UK's got a chance to prove that it's better than all that, and it can reopen better trade relationships with Asia, with India, with America.
It can reassess, renegotiate its relationship with all the countries around it.
The European project for me, I mean, I know a lot of Americans have sort of believed what they've read about the coverage from the media on this, but I'm definitely in the Brexit camp.
I think it's fantastic.
And not just economically, because I think things will bounce back and Britain will be better than ever, but culturally, and that's what's so essential.
Britain has a slightly different national character as the rest of Europe.
It's never really fit.
And I think Britain now has an opportunity to save itself from the suicidal open borders policies of Angela Merkel, from the inevitable decline and fall of Europe as a continent.
Generally, Britain's got a chance now, and it didn't have a chance as part of Europe.
And Merkel is the one who, when those attacks were going on in Germany during New Year's Eve, where the Islamic guys were grabbing all those girls, her advice was for them to dress differently and stay within arm's length.
But don't you think it has something to do with the fact that we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and people feel a little bit guilty about the fact that a million people have died?
In the 90s, we had Marilyn Manson, we had Trent Rezner, we had Novana, and people were cutting themselves.
You know, there was the emo thing.
When I was growing up, I mean, I didn't, obviously, but when people were growing up, they had an outlet for all of that sort of repressed rage and self-loathing.
Well, kids these days don't have that.
And the inevitable result was social justice.
What they do instead is they sort of hang on to this.
It's a protracted self-hatred.
It's protracted self-harm, social justice.
They go out into the world and hurt people who look like them.
So these awful, you know, middle-class white feminist women just want to hurt other middle-class white people because they feel like the world is terrible.
It's a very weird phenomenon, this social justice thing.
And I think it's mainly driven by self-loathing.
And once you understand that, their behavior becomes a lot more...
Well, I think a lot of hate is definitely based in self-loathing.
And there's an opportunity today that they have that they never had before to organize and find like-minded folks and get together and form other crazy people.
And when you start to understand that this is a sort of psychosis, when you start to understand this is a sort of like mental illness, this is something that they should have got out of their systems when they were teens, but they didn't because they had no culture to help them.
I grew up on Marlon Manson and Nirvana.
These kids grew up on Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber and that sort of like flat anodyne, eternally funless, grinning garbage.
They don't ever get it out of their systems.
And now you have 35-year-old bitter bastards working for BuzzFeed who still, it's got to go somewhere.
Don't you think that there's a percentage of them, some of them, that genuinely feel like this is a unique opportunity to right some of the wrongs that our culture has sort of encouraged.
Nobody says there's no sexism and no racism in this country, even in this country.
No serious person says that.
Nobody really believes that.
I'm squeaking on my chair.
That wasn't anything else.
Nobody really believes that.
And nobody says it.
Look, we live in, well, you live.
I hope to live here one day.
But you live in the greatest country in the world.
It is a country driven by democracy, freedom, property rights, capitalism, and all of those Western values, the values on which freedom of speech and the Second Amendment 2, all of those things that went into building America and making America wonderful are exactly the same things that are responsible for women having the vote, having access to the same opportunities, same access to institutions, to education, the workplace, having equal pay, which of course they do.
Giving gay people rights.
Look at the places in the world where gay people have rights.
They are modern Western liberal capitalist democracies.
Well, the left hates all of those things and hates the West for precisely the reasons that the West has been nice to them.
And frankly, they want to go after this cish-het white patriarchy.
Well, the patriarchy, the Western capitalist patriarchy, is the only people that like you.
The only people who like the gays.
The only people who like blacks and women, all the rest of it.
Go anywhere else in the world.
And it is not a particularly pretty situation, not a particularly happy place to be if you're not born into the right group.
If you're in America, you can pretty much do, say, and be whatever you want.
Now, there are threats to that.
And my college tour is hoping to sort of head off some of those threats brewing in American universities.
But what are these people really hating on?
They live in the best country, the most equal country, the greatest country, the country with the most liberal values anywhere on the planet.
And they're still not happy.
Well, fine, that's okay.
There are obviously things left to fix.
No one's saying there's no sexism and no racism.
But why are they so silent when they see these horrific things happen elsewhere in the world?
And when left-wing politicians decide they want to bring those horrific things into our countries?
Justin Trudeau wants to bring all of these Syrian, they're not refugees, of course, they're migrants.
Angela Merkel in Germany, she was talking about a moment ago, she opened the borders.
Are there 2 million Syrians in Germany?
Nobody really knows.
We know it's at least 1.2, 1.4 million.
Fundamentally altering the fabric of Germany and importing with it, bringing in with it.
Well, sure, but that takes care of itself pretty much.
I mean, look, when was the last time somebody said a genuinely sexist or a genuinely racist remark in a friend group you were out in the bar with and didn't get corrected by people?
Well, the third-wave feminism, though, is organized, whereas the misogynist men, most of the time they're isolated, living in cabins in the woods and shit.
No, actually my hair, since you bring it up, is not as nice as last time.
I had a lovely No, it's okay.
All right.
There is a masculine instinct, an impulse to create, to destroy, to do certain things, competitiveness driven by hormones, to the testosterone instinct.
And Kamil Pali was talking about this in the 90s.
got to go somewhere.
And if you look at the What I'm saying, though, is that if you bully men out of the public square and you sort of demonize and ridicule and almost make illegal healthy, normal male behaviors, which is happening in schools and colleges, for sure, and it's also happening in the public square.
If you make it okay to say almost anything about men, if you sort of bully men out of public life, bad things happen, you know, and people have to, that has to come out somewhere.
And to your point, fortunately, we do live in evolved enough times where most of the time it's just men letting off steam on the internet in comment sections, I think.
But that dark, well I say dark, that sort of dangerous energy that is in all men, which is what women like about men, it's certainly what men like about men, in my case.
You know, root of all the best sex, the reason we went to the stars, the built civilizations, you know, the stuff that makes men awesome does have a flip side to it.
It can't be managed if you pretend that you can talk your way out of it.
And it can't, in particular, and most importantly, women can't protect themselves from it if they are lied to about it.
And this sort of, you know, masculinity is so fragile.
Men are just socialized to be violent.
They're not just socialized to be violent.
You know, this is a hormone thing.
Men just are more aggressive, you know.
And if you, I mean, for instance, in colleges, right?
If you tell women that the worst thing that's ever going to happen to them is somebody putting a hand on their leg and you call that sexual assault and you put that in the sexual assault statistics and you tell women, oh, you can wear whatever you want and you can go out at 3 a.m. wearing a mini skirt and no man has a right to look at you and no victim blame and all the rest of it.
You're telling women effectively they can put themselves in danger and bad things are going to happen to those women.
We do live in more civilized times but we also have to recognize that there is something dark and dangerous about men and it is what creates, it is what has driven human civilization to the heights that it has risen to.
But it is also why men fill most of the prisons, right?
The sublime geniuses and the knuckle-dragging apes of our species are both male, right?
And you can see that in a variety of different things.
People don't take IQ very seriously, but you can see, for instance, in IQ distribution, one of the suggestions that might be the case, you know, sublime musical and artistic geniuses up in the very top end of the IQ scale where women tend not to exist.
Likewise, you know, down in the knuckle drag of 70 and 80 IQ, women tend not to exist down there either.
Men are more variable than women in general.
Men are more complex, I think, than women in some ways.
And this, you know, the idea that you can just sort of buzzfeed your way out of rape in civilization is just insane.
You know, if you publish enough listicles about how masculinity is so fragile and straight white men are the root of all evil that that's somehow going to stop rape.
No, in fact, I think that's probably counterproductive.
I think that's probably going to push some men to boil over because they're sick of being lied to and lied about.
But the good news is rape has been going down for 30 years.
American college campuses are probably the safest place you could possibly be as a young woman in America today, despite what the left tells you and the lies it tells you about all sorts of things.
We're in a good place, but the left won't say that or acknowledge victory because that'll put them all out of business.
Yeah, but my point being, one of the reasons that martial arts are such a good vehicle is because it calms down one of the main issues with men and aggressive behavior, which is insecurity.
Insecurity leads to a lot more aggressive behavior.
When men are more secure, they're less likely to engage in ridiculous behavior.
You should do it to a real, go to a really good some doctor that understands nutrient levels and the mechanisms for absorption and he can tell you like what you're doing wrong, what you're doing right, what you need to add.
You know, cultural appropriation isn't this sort of like weird racism that ends in like 1950 or whatever, the left thing.
It's how art works.
Famous cultural appropriators from history include Mozart, Picasso, Wagner.
Are you going to start saying, oh, Wagner shouldn't have been drawing from the Norse Edder and from the Nibelungen Leed and all of these sort of Norse myths that he used to craft their English Nibelungen because that's cultural appropriators.
These people are insane.
They've never read a book.
They've never read a book.
They don't understand how history and art work.
And it's so frustrating to see impressionable, young, smart people start to soak this stuff up because they just never hear the alternatives, which is what my college tour is for.
Because it just shocks me.
It's horrifying.
It's just based on such a such historical ignorance.
Because it's Yale and they're very hypersensitive.
Because the smart kids aren't violent like some of them have been.
The smart kids just lose their minds and just start spurging out.
So I think the Native American stuff annoys them the most because they know the cultural appropriation element of it is such rubbish and if they actually cared, they would quit the college that is on a burial ground or something, or whatever the hell Yale is built on.
I think it's because they know it's so absurd and insane.
Of course, they're even more upset about it because the stakes are so low.
And it's this amazing combination of ignorance and condescension.
Because they're stupid and they've never read a history book and they don't understand how bigotry or hatred works or any kind of historical function or any psychological process whatsoever.
And at the same time, they're trying to explain to you how you actually don't know what racism means.
You see, racism isn't just thinking another race isn't as good as yours.
Racism is actually a complex system of prejudice, oppression.
That's weird because at my college talk, it was black people forcing me off stage while the university administration told Chicago PD not to intervene.
I mean, what are you doing?
Well, this is at DePaul, a Catholic University, which has some of the most enthusiastic abortion advocates on campus anywhere in America.
I heard, and I don't know if this is true, that they asked to abortion.
No, they do.
It's one of the most left-wing places in the world.
Look, as a gay person, I have to be against abortion because as soon as they start working out what the gay gene, whatever is it, you know, it's us that are going to get chopped.
Because nobody wants a gay kid if you've got the choice.
Yeah, no, no, she is up against stiff competition.
She is the stupidest woman in America.
She's the one who said after Orlando.
No, I'm serious.
She is.
She's the one after Orlando who said, oh, well, you know what?
Actually, conservative Christians treat us way worse than any of my moderate Muslim friends.
She just used a Muslim who had been trained in the, you know, had been indoctrinated in this mosque in the north of Orlando, what is it, in Sanford, in Orlando, by this guy who had been there three weeks before and he was on the record as saying the compassionate thing to do was to murder all homosexuals.
This is what's happening in Orlando.
This guy, grown up in that environment, went out, murdered 49 gay people and maimed another 50, and she's upset about people who won't bake cakes.
No, she said she famously, well, not famously because she's not famous because she's just a sort of amusement on Twitter, but she, she is on CNN, weirdly.
She said she'd like a gay kid.
She specifically wants a gay child, which I thought was just sort of weird and so.
Well, why not just want a child or want, you know, a smart, athletic, beautiful, popular kid?
No, she wants a gay one.
Why?
Because she's a narcissist and she doesn't care about anything that's going to happen to that child in its lifetime, any of the unhappy things that might happen to that child.
And I'm not talking about bigotry or whatever.
Let's say we cure homophobia.
Great.
But I'm having sex with somebody and cannot create a child with the person I love in the act of intercourse.
Like, that's kind of rough, frankly.
You know, it's not great.
And a lot of people don't go through their lives thinking about that, but that has occurred to me in the past.
There are many reasons why you might not choose to be gay, all else being equal.
And she's just a sort of narcissistic sociopath and weirdo.
But most people, I think, if we believe the gay lobby, which lies and says people are gays are born this Way, which of course is rubbish.
If we believe them and we find, and if scientists come up, I mean maybe they're right.
If they are right and scientists come up with this gay gene, well, what's the first group of people to go?
Well, did you ever see the study that was done, I believe it was out of the University of Rome, where they found a direct correlation between very promiscuous mothers and gay children?
Well, there are some people who think that things like that might have dual effects.
There could be genetic or even epigenetic, if you buy into that stuff.
There could be epigenetic factors in the womb and hormonal stuff that comes about as a result of a woman having a high sex drive that might result in a gay kid.
But also, when the kid is born, if the mum's still a whore, then maybe...
So that one, I do remember that, although I didn't read it closely.
do remember that one and I think that what I came away from that with was if you have a hoe for a mom there's probably multiple reasons you might end up gay.
Well, they believe that somehow or another it was some sort of a variation in the X chromosome that made these women not just psychologically attracted to men, but that there was, obviously there's some sort of a physical attraction that heterosexual women have towards men.
And that should vary, and it will vary on a wide scale.
And at the extreme end of the scale, they believe this just, these women that are just almost like, you roll a dick in front of them, they're like a kitten on a ball of yarn.
They just can't help it.
They know how they feel.
And that these women will pass this trait on even to their male children.
See, my mother's quite frigid, so it just goes to show that the etiology of homosexuality is varied and complex.
Anyway, the only point I'm making is simply every credible scientist, every reasonable person knows that it is almost certainly a mixture of nature and nurture, and that that mix can change from person to person, right?
All of these things can get mixed up and end up with somebody choosing to fuck a guy or not fuck a guy, right?
But the gay lobby, because they were scared and because they wanted an easy answer, came up with this, whatever.
Now it's embedded in culture, Lady Gaga born this way, and it's a lie.
I mean, it's a lie.
Saying that, you know, if something is like not black and white, and it's like probably actually probably about 50-50, saying it's entirely black is a lie, and that's a lie.
If you want to murder it, then go ahead and murder it, but be honest about what you're doing and don't call it women's bodily choices because that is sociopathy.
Well, so there's basically it's this system of personality types.
And apparently, you can do sort of a 50-question test or whatever, and it'll come up with this thing called INTJ, E-NFP, and it's supposed to be able to predict what kind of job you would be good at and predict your sort of characteristics and behaviors and who else in the world you'll get on with and how you'll succeed in life.
So I've got like the lawyer's one, the devil's advocate one.
I think you have it too.
And it's a sort of voracious appetite for information, love to read and find out about everything, love to talk to smart people, love to be provocative and interesting, and sometimes adopt positions you don't necessarily hold because the debate is fascinating.
And love just the cut and thrust of intellectual argument.
Instead of just being a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, you think you're locked in.
Yeah, no, I understand.
That's another one of the things I like about you.
I should stop complimenting you.
It's another one of the things I like about you: you have a great, a well-developed sense of intellectual humility, and you're always sort of open and learning.
It's sort of radical uncertainty about everything around you.
But I think this is why people like to grasp the certainty, and it is why I'm going to hand you an argument here because I know you don't like religion very much.
This is why people like faith so much because it gives them an anchor in a very uncertain, disintermediated sort of, a very uncertain, you know, globalized, confusing world where everyone is sort of uprooted and thrown in this maelstrom where nothing seems constant or true.
And local communities have been broken down by big states that take the role of parents and blah, blah, blah.
I think people cleave to that stuff.
But they also, of course, cleave to less helpful systems of belief.
And I think that a lot of what faith does, even if it's not based on a real thing, it's a scaffolding for security.
It's a scaffolding for a reasonable view of the world you live in.
Having some moral guidelines that you can follow that allow you to live a life with more positive moments than negative moments because you're sort of gravitating towards those in a Christian sense.
And as you correctly say, and I think have pinned on your Twitter account, we have a mental health problem in this country, not a gun problem.
Which I think is disguised.
It's a good observation.
This particular guy clearly drew on things that he was being taught by his faith, and declared that he was doing it in the name of his faith and in the name of ISIS, right?
At some point, you got to take the guy at his word.
I mean, you know, if you actually don't listen to, if you don't read what Bloomberg and MSNBC are tweeting and you zoom out on the prino, on the on the pound and zoom out on the footseat, actually it doesn't look so bad at all.
So you had, I mean, there are some very smart people I speak to who think that globalization is basically over and that this push to, you know, to have, this push for open borders around the world hasn't worked and people don't like it.
And, you know, if you look, if you read the work of like Jonathan Haidt or whatever, you will discover that it's not a racism thing, it's an evolutionary thing.
People like being with their own tribe and that's not a racism thing.
That's just that is an evolutionary advantage because you don't have to like get over all of the cultural barriers and just get on with doing shit.
You're seeing all across the world, not just in Europe as a result of the globalist policies of Angela Merkel and all the rest of it, in Germany, Brexit in Europe, and the rise of Trump in America, people returning to nationalism, by which we don't mean racism, by which we mean simply pride in nation, culture, and all the rest of it.
And the West is the best.
Europe and America are the best bit of the world.
And people who can't get wrapped their heads around that don't understand why people might wish to preserve the cultures that created Mozart and Shakespeare and Wagner.
They don't understand why, they also don't understand the economic pressures on those people who had the global one world government conspiracy theories.
Well, they tended to be lower income people who were worried about centralization of power away from them.
These American liberals who were crowing about the Browning of America, all this kind of stuff.
Well, they're worried about their culture, their families, depressed wages, economics as well, all that kind of stuff.
The people who are worried, on the other hand, about this now are the elites.
So you're talking about two different groups.
And this is really the main fight now.
This election in America and most of the big elections and referendums over the next 10 years are going to be about two things.
One of them driven by economics and one of them driven by culture and politics.
The economics one is elites versus the proles.
It's the money international few versus the rest of us.
Right, you know, sort of the rest of us who are worried about wages, worried about immigration, worried about culture, worried about the fate of our country.
And the other one, of course, is men v.
Women, which is entirely manufactured by the left.
And I see the American election entirely through the prism of men versus women.
I think Trump versus Hillary is a clash of the Titans between the strong, blustery, outward-looking, strong male archetype versus the statist establishment feminism of Clinton and the Democrats.
This election really is men v.
Women.
And it's not nice to put it in that way, but the left did it not.
And, you know, look, the Bernie supporters fall into two camps.
They're like the crazy gender activists and race baiters, but I think that's probably only 20% of Bernie people.
And the rest of the Bernie fans aren't that dissimilar from Trump fans.
They're people who don't like the establishment, are sick of being lied to, are fed up of the consequences of globalization on native populations, if you like, worried about all sorts of things.
And they express themselves very differently from the Trump fans.
They don't use the same language.
But even the, I mean, the polls are saying, what is it, 20, 30% of Bernie supporters might come over to Trump in the election.
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And once you liberate them, you rob them of their ability to hurt people.
You rob them of their ability to wound.
And you stop giving them power.
And, more important than that, you don't just rob racist, sexists, and homophobes of a word in their arsenal, but you also rob social justice warriors of the ability to bully and police and publicly shame people for using words that are fine.
Our prison system is filled with people that have done terrible things, right?
So even in the best country in the world, there are people in this country that have done terrible things.
But there's a general attitude about women in the Middle East that has been supported by the people that are in charge of the countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the women could not drive.
If you expect This segment to get better, don't like I said, we're going to have people far more authoritative on the Brexit, just kind of like the UK with the American election.
It's entertainment.
Sorry, it's been an intense few weeks.
This is last week of Cultural Appropriation Month.
It used to be the case in America that the faculty ruled the roost.
And the faculty could pretty much do what they wanted in colleges.
But the balance of power has shifted in American universities now toward administrators.
Toward basically the people who run the money.
Because universities are now giant, partly taxpayer-funded, partly government-owned businesses that need to bring in donations and need to keep admissions numbers up and have these gigantic campuses with luxurious facilities and all the rest of it.
Education is taken very much a back seat to the business of providing a home or even, as some people want, a safe space, away from home for four years and charging vast fees to do it.
They become sort of holiday camps, very well-appointed holiday camps.
The people with the power now in universities are the administrators.
And to be a university administrator, you need to know even less than to be a professor.
In fact, it's almost compulsory to go through life with a cluster of conspiracy theories, victimhood and grievance politics, and total ignorance of history to run a university in America now because you have to pander to and believe a variety of things that simply aren't true.
For example, about campus rape culture.
You need to not only enable but fund feminist groups on campus and all sorts of, you know, the diversity office and the women's, you know, and the women's studies department and the blah, blah, blah.
All these things that are happening on campuses, you know, putting other kids' tuition fees, putting the tuition fees of people who are studying engineering and maths and physics into academic departments and student services and all sorts of other things that simply peddle lies to children.
They are spreading conspiracy theories based on shoddy advocacy research and balmy social science nonsense from the 1970s and filling vulnerable, impressionable young people's heads with it.
The patriarchy is an idea dreamt up by feminists, which basically, I mean, what it really boils down to is my life is bad.
So this is the thing I don't like about Bernie supporters.
They go to the world and they start on this basis.
It's my life's bad.
Who's to blame for it?
Which of you are at fault for my life not being as good as I want it to be?
Now, this is the victimhood and grievance sort of politics of the social justice left, particularly the sort of middle and upper middle class social justice left.
Now, these women's studies departments tell young girls, if there's anything wrong in your life where you're miserable, you're unhappy, and anything bad ever happens to you, it is the patriarchy.
It's this sort of Voldemort-esque conspiracy theory that can explain everything.
And of course, as anybody with any sense who actually reads books knows, that any explanation that's a bit too good to be true generally is.
And the patriarchy, in fact, does not explain any of the things that are wrong in women's lives.
And if you look at the real data, you discover that if there is a patriarchy, it ain't doing a very good job.
You know, of course, you know, 97% of workplace fatalities are male.
Men are falling behind in education.
There is no wage gap.
And in fact, women have a huge competitive advantage going for many jobs.
Blah, blah, blah.
Everyone who's listens to us regularly will know all this stuff by heart already.
But The Guardian in June, I saw this other story about this guy who was like, this trans guy trying to breastfeed a kid, and his quote is like, I think that was a joke.
I don't know if that's what it is, but there's something very bizarre about encouraging people to shoot exogenous hormones into their body and get their chin slashed off so that they look more like a man or woman.
I very firmly believe, I very firmly believe, that we will look back on this period in time like we do now on Victorian electroshock therapy and wonder how we could ever have been so monstrously callous as to allow these people who have mental illnesses to mutilate their bodies.
And of course how idiotic and authoritarian it was of us to expect the taxpayers to pick up the bill.
There's a serious answer to this, which is that it is by no means clear, and you wouldn't know this just by reading the media, but it is by no means clear that that is the most effective and humane treatment pathway for people with this particular agreed.
It is not clear at all.
Now, what we should be doing, unless you just want some sort of chaotic free fraud.
Look, I know the easy argument, the easy libertarian argument is let people do what they want themselves.
They're not hurting anybody else.
Just don't let the taxpayer pay for it, right?
Well, yeah, fine.
But my natural, I mean, I think my compassion kicks in at that point and says to me, do we want to allow people who are mentally ill to mutilate themselves?
If somebody was a schizophrenic, would we give them the razor blade they're asking for?
Yeah, that was one of the weird things about him is he went on the Diane Sawyer thing and said he still wants to be Bruce, still wants to be a him, still wants to be called a him.
And then immediately after, because of all the attention, gets his jaw shaved down, has massive facial reconstruction surgery.
I mean, it was like, it was instantaneously and changed his name to Caitlin.
And it was also right after the Diane Sawyer interview that he plowed into that lady and sent her into oncoming traffic and killed her.
And it was, it is so bizarre that that stuff can get discussed.
Look, all I'm saying for sure, outside of our, you know, joking around, is that it is by no means clear that transition surgery is the best route for these people.
It does not, according to all of the data we have, all of the studies that does not significantly or at all really affect suicide rates or depression.
My issue is, wasn't there a time where we said you should just love who you are?
Like, love who you are.
And if you can tell me, but there's the big difference between sort of accepting who you are, and there's some people that just have unfortunate genetics, right?
And there's some people that maybe wish that they're a woman or maybe wish there were something else.
And there's one thing between, there's a difference between dressing up or pretending, but once you start getting into full-on injecting female hormones into a male's body and changing things and then physical surgery, I am not against it.
I think I am, like you said, I'm a silly libertarian.
I feel like you should be able to do whatever the fuck you want to do with your body.
But it is a very dangerous road, and there's a host of different people out there that will tell you that they've done it and it was a huge mistake.
Yeah, no, I just can't get behind it because I see how...
Yes, it is.
But for them, look, they've forced us to take a moral position on a medical issue, right?
This is not a moral issue.
This is a medical issue.
If it is the case that people have a disorder or a condition, if they have dysphoria, whatever word they want to come up with for it, that means that they were born with the wrong brain in the wrong body.
Never mind the fact that we're always told that gender is socialized.
Apparently, suddenly, abruptly, now you can have a male brain, such a thing as a male brain.
In which case, you've got a male brain, a female body.
What a load of crap.
Do these people really expect us to believe this shit?
They think that we have the same level of cognitive dissonance that they have.
They think that we are as dumb as they are.
They think that we don't think things through like they don't think things through.
Well, we do.
We do think these things through.
And so do most people at home.
And they are told on the one hand, if they even bother to get this far into a Guardian editorial, that gender is a social construct and all of this kind of stuff.
And yet at the same time, that masculinity is toxic.
You know, I've had male cleaners and female cleaners.
Men, always better.
I've had male cooks and female cooks.
Male cooks, always better.
I'm just saying, I mean, this is the problem with the trans project.
It's profoundly sexist because, you know, the trans and homophobic, by the way, because I'm convinced of this.
The trans project is profoundly homophobic because what it's telling parents right now, and this is the 40% that want it reversed, and probably then some.
They're telling, if you're a young boy and you're feminine and you like playing with Barbies and you're attracted to other boys and you, and in your confused child mind, and your parents' dumb, liberal, infested, infected, intoxicated mind, somehow this becomes, oh, you must have really supposed to have been a girl.
No, they're just gay.
And if you leave these kids alone, all the evidence suggests that they grow up into perfectly well-adjusted young gay men.
But instead, we're telling them, and this also provides an escape hatch for parents who can't cope with the fact that their kids are gay.
Because what it says to them is, oh, it's okay.
You haven't given birth to a queer.
You've just, there's nothing wrong with you.
This kid's got a disorder.
You should have had a daughter.
So this gets parents out of having to go through all of the difficult Erigmarole in their heads.
Like, what did I do to turn my son gay?
Well, now you don't have to, because now they have a disorder, and now they're supposed to be girls, right?
And the trans thing is profoundly anti-women because all it seems to be demonstrating, I mean the effect of it, at least, all it seems to be demonstrating is that men are better at being women than women are.
No, I mean, look at, look, Caitlin Jenner, Woman of the Year.
It forces you to take moral positions on medical issues in this case, right?
But it also makes you lie.
This is how you know the left thinks it's one and how it's getting overconfident, which is why I'm winning on college campuses because they've forgotten how to argue.
But the left is getting overconfident and it's enforcing this stuff on people.
Now, if you don't want to be a bigot and lose your job and lose your newspaper column and not appear on TV anymore and become persona non grata, you have to tell lies that you know aren't true, that everybody knows aren't true.
The first one you gave is the most obvious explanation, but it isn't the reason.
What happens is that, When they see a tranny, they know it's a tranny, right?
You don't know who these guys are, like in your imagination, who you think don't know a man when they see one, but most people know a man when they see one, even if it's had hormones and it's got like, I've seen some ones.
Well, I follow a couple of porn stars because I'm friends with them.
But of course.
But of course, they use their Twitter accounts just to promote their work.
So I'm sort of like, I've got like, well, no, I've got like Felix Salmon from Fusion, somebody from The Wall Street Journal, a colleague tweeting about Elon Musk.
Yeah, Elon Musk, tranny porn.
It happens all the time.
Happens all the time.
What was I saying?
Yes.
Nobody believes.
No one.
Nobody.
Not a single soul believes that this person is a woman, right?
Might look like a woman, might be hot, might, you know, all the rest of it, but nobody believes it is a woman.
We have to say that.
We have to use pronouns that suggest it.
We have to warp reality, language, and, you know, and passports.
The infrastructure of the country has to be remodeled around people with mental disorders.
Imagine if we did this for any other kind of mental disorder.
Why?
Because the left has made this, as they put on the front cover of Time Magazine with Laverne Cox, the new civil rights frontier.
Laverne Cox is the one in orange is the new black, black tranny.
Oh.
Front cover of Time Magazine, the new civil rights.
Well, I'm sorry.
No, fuck you.
Civil rights is about black people.
Stop trying to take it.
It's not about women.
It's not about gays, and it's not about fucking trannies.
Civil rights is about black people.
Stop doing this.
What the left does is it tries to present these issues totally unrelated.
It's little pet projects.
It's little flexing of muscle.
It's like the left is at home being like, let's see what crazy thing we can make people say they believe in today just because we can.
And this is, I'm convinced, they all get together.
There must be some kind of like left-wing Bilderberg.
It happens like in Toronto.
No, it happens like in Toronto or something.
And they're all together and they're all like, what is the craziest, most insane, most counterintuitive, most like medically impossible, most ridiculous thing we can come up with and make everyone believe it and say they believe it because if they don't, they'll lose their jobs.
I know.
Tranny's perfect.
And then of course you've got the, you know, anyway, whatever.
This is what they've done.
Nobody believes this, but you have to say it.
It's so wrong.
It's so wrong.
And when you realize what their real motivations are, you understand why they don't care about the science and why they're not interested in exploring what we were talking about, the different treatment pathways.
They want to deconstruct the difference between men and women because they cannot cope with the fact that women aren't as good at some things as men.
Well, by the way, men aren't as good at some things as women, but you don't talk about that because that doesn't suit your narrative because you want to paint women as victims all the time.
You know, you want to pull apart the, you know, they want to pull apart and destroy everything.
Well, isn't it bizarre, too, that in this time and age of gender-neutral pronouns and these strange new pronouns that they want to stick to the traditional male-female pronouns when it comes to transgender people?
I mean, this is like this Justin Trudeau situation where they're trying to have gender-neutral options and your identification and the thing in New York that's going on where shopkeepers and employers can be sued for up to a quarter million dollars for not letting you use the right bathroom or use the wrong pronouns.
They want everyone else to be as ugly as they are.
These pronouns are the ugliest words I've ever seen, right?
They're beautiful words.
And there are ugly words.
And these are ugly words.
Just look at what feminists are doing.
I had a podcast about this with a great guy, Alex Kazemi, and he is really, really clever, brilliant writer from Canada.
I love this guy.
He's friends with a lot of people in Hollywood that you would know and like.
Very, very smart, interesting.
And he was talking on my show two weeks ago.
Last week?
Two weeks ago?
I don't remember.
Recently, and it's good.
Episode 14, I think.
About how beauty has become marginalized in mainstream culture.
Because feminism has told the body positivity stuff, encouraging women to get fat and get ill and die, which is just the worst kind of sociopathy and selfishness and just outright lies that we tell each other.
I'm convinced the left, because it's populated, and all the studies say this, by disproportionately ugly people.
Because if you do the politicians thing where you take out Democrat and Republican politicians and you ask people to rank them in hotness, it's almost exactly 50-50.
No, these people are fat, miserable, and unhappy with their own lives, trying to persuade the rest of us that it is not just neutral, but a positive and happy and joyous thing, almost something to be admired and almost something to be imitated, being so unhealthy that your chances of diabetes go up, all the rest of it, your chances of being disgusting go up 4,000%.
It's very, very strange to me.
very weird and it's part of this it's part of the left's campaign to make ugly you know like there was It's a way for ugly women to get purchase in the public sphere, right?
This is how ugly women get positions.
And he's right about that.
And this sort of social justice left, you know, the gender queer, fat, blue-haired, facial-piercing thing is so horrifying.
And this is a way for ugly, marginalized outcasts to make themselves feel like they're hot people.
And they want to drag everyone else down to them because, why?
It's a form of self-harm.
It is extended adolescence, writ large.
And what my guest said, Alex Kazemi, who's very smart and insightful, said, you know, this is...
How...
How did, you know, we lose fantasy and aspiration in culture?
We need those things.
We need people to look up to and to aspire to and to admire.
And it's so horrifying that now the hot people feel marginalized.
Look at the cover of men's health and how much uglier the men on the covers of men's health are getting, right?
The Axe commercial is this cheap deodorant, right?
And they've got a new ad out you can find on YouTube, which is about, you know, never mind the six-pack, you know, you've got the nose or whatever, and it's this ugly guy with a huge nose.
Never mind, you know, the biceps, you've got your bike or some shit like that.
Encouraging men too to be ugly and dorky and unattractive and nerdy and horrific, just in the same way that feminists have been doing this to women for decades already.
Isn't that just a manipulative ad campaign to try to find marginalized people and capitalize on dragging them into your group and selling them some shitty fucking deodorant?
Well, there's a lot of marginalized people out there and they find comfort in groups.
People always find comfort in numbers.
And when they find someone that they think is beautiful and privileged, they try to lash out at them because they've been jealous of that person for a long time.
I just think as a hot person, I'm feeling very personally victimized by the messages that society is sending me right now, and I think I might go home and cut myself.
You know, the feminists about video games will say, oh, we don't want to take your video games away.
And then suddenly Grand Theft Auto disappears off the shelves of Target in Australia.
They get things done.
These people are not harmless.
These people run culture.
These people have the power to affect the decision-making of massive multinational corporations.
Yes, because they're loud, because they're organized, and they have just enough.
They're not smart.
You know, they're kind of like dangerous smart.
They're just like a little bit clever and with a little bit of bare-bones sophomore at college education in gender theory and all the rest of it.
They sound smart enough that they can give this veneer of thoughtfulness about something that is just hateful and insane.
And it's so weird to me that we have allowed the worst people in society to run the rest of us.
We are allowing the people who hate men to tell girls how they should be women.
Race baiters and black supremacists to explain to us how we should treat, you know, how we should negotiate complex racial issues.
We are allowing hideous fat monsters to tell girls.
No, these people look like something from a sci-fi movie.
They look like they're from a sci-fi movie.
Put them next to Jabber the Hut.
I like close your eyes and open them and it takes you a second, you know?
Like these people would be unknown to the America of the 1950s.
If you look at the pictures of like women in the 1950s and how elegant and svelte and beautiful they looked and you look now and this stuff hurts women the most.
It hurts women horribly because it's women who are suffering from the obesity crisis.
It's 60% of American women who are now seriously overweight and more women are getting obese at greater rates than the men are, right?
The women are getting fatter faster than the men are.
What I explained in my follow-up piece is like, do some good, call someone fat today.
It works.
Don't believe these bullshit studies that come out.
The only serious study that says that fat shaming doesn't work is from University College London, and it is hopelessly flawed.
It deals with a tiny group of like 50-year-olds and upwards, and that's not what this is directed to.
That's not what the messaging is directed to because they're using young 25- to 35-year-old singers and writers in these commercials telling 20-year-old girls they can eat what the fuck they want.
This is not about 50-year-olds, right?
So don't believe this stuff because it's not true.
You've got to dig under the surface.
Of course, fat shaming works.
And anyway, so I got in trouble for this tweet, but I was doing that before.
No, I don't, because I tried to do a like a, you know, they do those like celebrities read mean tweets thing?
I wanted to do my own version of that, and I couldn't find any criticism.
Everyone loves me so much.
I like, please.
But no, seriously, I thought my fans were unshockable, and I have found something that they don't like, and it's fat shaming.
Well, if you're listening to this, like, you know, buckle up, buttercups, because there's plenty more coming.
This is, this is no, I'm not going to be, look, I didn't back down for feminism, I didn't back down for Islam, and I didn't back down for Black Lives Matter.
You think your quivering asses are going to make me do a U-turn?
Well, you're wrong.
No, this is, you know, this is something I don't want to see when I go out.
And that person in the gym, to your point about, you know, working out, that person in the gym doesn't need to be in the gym.
Take down the punch cards from whatever disgusting takeout you're going to.
Delete the numbers from your phone for the local pizzeria.
Order in some kale, some protein, some like vegetables and fruit, and start drinking water and have a good, healthy life.
But do it at home until you are an acceptable size.
And I don't look at you and want to vomit.
Because Frank, like, you know, fine, I'm easily distracted, as you can tell from my scatty conversation, right?
But I am very easily distracted.
I'm trying to focus on finishing my set, and my attention is drawn to this gigantic, just celestial body entering in, you know, to the sound of thunder and lightning because it's got its own fucking weather system.
You know, I'm sorry.
I don't know what it is that surprises people so much that a gay man would be bitchy about weight, but I just, I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of it.
You know, just stop it.
You're selfish, horrible people.
Like the disabled, like people in wheelchairs, incredibly selfish.
No, they have to Now, I was a property developer before I was a journalist, right?
I used to build houses.
This is why I can survive on a journalist's salary now.
And there's an ordinance in England where you have to put the light switches, not here, where everyone needs them, but here, where the wheelchair people need them.
Why?
I'm not selling my house to somebody with no legs.
Like, what the hell is going on?
This is a part of these tiny little minorities and people who say they speak for those minorities who don't.
Because most of the people that I know, I know veterans who are in wheelchairs who would probably laugh at the conversation we just had rather than getting offended.
And they would say, yeah, put the light switches wherever the fuck you want.
But no, these are stupid lobbies.
All of us have to count out of these tiny slices of society.
It's ridiculous.
You have to put these light switches down where they're inconvenient for 99.8% of the rest of the population.
And then these disabled people are demanding concrete ramps on the way up to the council building so they can go and collect their disability benefit and their welfare checks twice a year.
Just get someone to help you.
There was somebody in the UK who filed a lawsuit against the council who didn't have accessible ramps.
And there is a Thing there where you're making sense, where making people feel bad, instead of saying you're beautiful no matter what you are, you're not beautiful.
of course it's just bullshit what do you think by the way of the because I was I think it was Anne Coulter as well.
I was talking to somebody the other day about all this kind of like sexual harassment stuff, sexual harassment stuff that women do now when they've been touched on the leg or whatever.
And Anne has this theory, actually I don't know whether it was...
So let me just say this is my theory.
So this is not Anne Coulter's theory.
She is not guilty because I can't honestly remember whether she said this or not or where she said it.
But what do you think about this?
This sexual harassment craze right now.
It's really just a way for women to tell you they've been hit on, isn't it?
It's really just a way for women to tell you.
So where do you get the money?
But not just that, but somebody was expressing sexual interest in me.
Because all of these quote-unquote rape stories from campuses that don't actually involve any sex, of course, the ones that do involve sex, rape stories are all frauds and hoaxes.
The ones that involve sex, they sort of go, oh, hideous.
Someone touched my breast.
How awful.
What's a woman really telling you there?
She's telling you that someone was sexually interested in her.
What we should not do is be going in and legislating, which colleges are now trying to do, legislating the sex lives of people who are discovering each other and don't know what the rules are yet, right?
Your natural instinct toward chivalry and gallantry, which is to your great credit, is, I think, blinding you to the reality of what's happening on college campuses, which is young boys are effectively being criminalized for normal exploration of their sexuality.
I think there's a difference between the scenario you're describing now, which is like a nightclub scene, two people are close to each other, a guy moves in for a kiss, takes a chance.
My God, if these campus administrators walked into a gay club, their heads would explode with the amount of inappropriate cock touching and all the rest of it.
You just have no idea what they do because they've completely exited the conversation.
The right has not bothered to engage on university campuses.
It has not put up a fight in education or entertainment.
It has not put up a fight in the media.
It's not put up a fight anywhere.
It doesn't fought and lost the culture wars.
It merely handed them over to the left.
Because the right is full of dorks and geeks and losers and weirdos who are obsessed with money and power.
So all they care about is Wall Street and Washington.
What they forgot is that people don't vote for Wall Street and Washington.
People vote according to their values and they learn their values through culture, through art, through what they watch on TV, the music they listen to.
And the right just handed that over to the left.
And the left has run those things for 30 years.
And that's why things are so crazy, because the people running it have been unopposed for 30 years.
So their views have got ever more wildly hysterical and crazy.
If you look at the most exciting bits of the right, perhaps Breitbart, where I work, I think a large proportion of Trump's voters, and I think a lot of just conservatives in general reacting against political correctness and responding to the worst excesses of nannying poll-clutching culture, I think the right has become libertarian.
Pearl-clutching, you know, sort of like fainting couch feminism and that kind of stuff.
I think that for many on the right, the reaction against political correctness has pushed them in a libertarian direction.
And if you want to be a libertarian today, you pretty much have to be a conservative.
And I think also the other thing that's happened on the right is the death of really of the reduced influence of religion in politics, which you will probably find welcome, has meant, I think for people under 40, the social conservatism of their parents and grandparents' generation is effectively dead and gone.
And the most exciting young conservatives don't look like old conservatives.
They're not like rich old white men who hate gay marriage and sound faintly racist after a couple of glasses of wine.
They are young, interesting, quirky, funny, dissident punks who only find room to grow and be dangerous and difficult and expand on the right.
I think I fall into that bracket, but also a lot of Trump's young fans fall into that bracket.
People who just want the freedom to say, do and be anything.
Right, and so I'm persona non garbage to the left.
I only got one place left to go.
And this is how the left has created hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Trump voters.
You know, the nannying and the controlling, that school marmishness, you know, where they want to order your crayons and treat us all like children, has pushed so many of us over to the right.
And I'm far right now.
I'm as right as it gets, you know.
I'm so far right on economics, all the rest of it.
Social, obviously, a bit more complex, but on the borders, on trade, I'm a Trump guy now.
I might have ended up very differently if I hadn't been ejected by the left.
It was a construction company, and they would get a bid to work on one of his buildings, and they would spend all this money on it, and they would start working, and then he wouldn't pay them.
And in doing that, he crushed a lot of their business.
Has a history of not paying his bills that offers some insights into his personality.
USA Today has posted an explosive investigative story about what appears to be a deep aversion presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump has to paying his bills.
The short version USA Today claims is based on what looks like some rather impressive reporting.
Trump has for decades looked for just about any excuse he could find to stiff everyone from plumbers to, can't make this up, lawyers who represented him in non-payment lawsuits.
At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by USA Today Network, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay for their work.
No, I think Richard Branson is one of the worst examples of a sort of, you know, quiet power behind this globalist elite that wants to break down borders and destroy all our countries.
Richard Branson is about as close to the devil as it's possible to get.
I make my assistant do that now sometimes with people who interview me, like just to fuck with them at the beginning, to get them on a back foot.
Because they don't quite have the balls to, because I'm not a star.
I'm just like, you know, I made a little name for myself on the campus staff, and people know me quite well as a journalist and all the rest of it.
I'm becoming popular, but I'm not there yet.
We're not at Joe Rogan levels of notoriety yet.
Could I get him to do it?
Because even with my sort of lowly profile, such as it is, people still aren't quite confident calling me out on it, and they're not brave enough to laugh.
No, you're like a truffle hound, you know, just sort of like roosting around for the truth and talking about studies and, you know, way, way higher standard of debate and conversation than you normally hear, you know, on these kinds of, on these kinds of shows.
You know, this is why you're so popular.
And then sometimes you're just like, no, he's a really nice guy.
It's a compliment to the black people because he's identifying them as the master race they are.
And he's like, you know, I'm just some little white guy and you keep going out with these massive six foot four athletes and you're humiliating me, please stop it.
It's just cherry-picking to say that everyone's racist when everyone's not racist.
Because his primary motivation in this statement had nothing to do with race.
And you could say, why did he need to say black at all?
But who cares?
That wasn't what he was asking her about.
It wasn't the thrust of his remarks.
And the media, because it is populated by children, not by adults, did this to him, if it sounds like, I mean, I don't, I'm speculating from literally the tiny bit you just told me, but it doesn't sound to me to be, in your words, problematic.
No, he's like, if you don't give me on three separate occasions, unrelated separate occasions, the same compliment, I'll know it's just you being a flatterer, which I think is reasonable.
But no, if you had a girlfriend and she was cheating on you and she was exclusively cheating on you with black guys, when you had a conversation with her, you would not say, I don't mind you sleeping with all these men.
You would say, I don't mind you sleeping with all these black men.
You would do that.
That's how people talk because it's a group that is very identifiably not you.
And what you're implicitly saying is, what is it that they have that I don't have?
No, the way I want people to have conversations like that and far worse in public all the time everywhere because I want to rob words of their magical powers.
He's like saying, Allah la la la, you know, like, you know, doing the Shahada, God knows what else, saying, you know, in the name of Allah, most merciful, most great, I'm doing this terrible thing, you know, I'm doing this for ISIS, I'm a proud Muslim, I'm killing in the name of Allah, and all the rest of it.
And I think even when they put the transcript back, I think they changed Allah to God, you know, just to wind up Christians, just to piss us off, you know, just to wind people up, just to sort of muddy the waters, you know, just to sort of, oh, you say religiously muddy.
Almost worse than the motivations behind it and the fact they did it is the contempt and low esteem in which they must hold the public and the press to think that we would think that was okay and put up with it and not know what was in the gaps that they redacted.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch refused Wednesday to say who made the decision to remove references to the Islamic State and its leader from the publicly released version of the transcript of the 9-11 call involving the Orlando nightclub shooter.
The goal, of course.
What?
Listen to this.
The goal is, of course, the greatest transparency.
The initial thought was that we did not want to provide a further platform for the propaganda of the killer.
But just assume that it's the biggest news story in America for three weeks.
The eyes of the world media are watching.
And this guy dialed 911 and made a phone call immediately before or whenever it is.
To think that you can gerrymander that is so dumb, just so mind-bogglingly stupid.
Given the suspicion with which normal people already hold the authorities, you know, and the politicization swirling around this is so stupid.
But think also, if what she was saying was true, right, what we did this to stop, you know, the spread of his hateful messages and to avoid, you know, more attention being on ISIS, what's more attention on now?
Now that it finally has come?
All anyone wants to talk about in that transcript is the words that she kept out.
All anybody will ever want to talk about in relation to that transcript for the rest of time is how the government cut out the names of ISIS and even his own name, you know?
Like cut out anything remotely Islamic looking.
Any Arabic words, anything remotely Islamic looking, cleansed it.
So that if you had only read that transcript and you knew nothing about the case, you might think the guy was just some straight white male homophobic shooter from Charleston, you know?
So that if you read that document, you could have been persuaded to believe that this was some redneck homophobic Christian killer.
Which, of course, the left was saying, you know, oh, this is no better than blah, blah, blah.
All of the kind of like excuse making and molly-coddling and pandering and weaseling and, oh, let's use a Muslim killing gaze as an excuse to attack the Christians again.
All of this stuff that the left was doing, the government legitimized and assisted when it redacted that transcript.
There's a massive fear in this country, and that was the same fear that led them to suppress the images from Charlie Ebdo that got those cartoonists killed.
Nobody, I mean, that was a massive failure of the press, where no one Breitbart did, and kudos to you because that was a huge issue.
Time magazine and New York Times, all those people denied.
We're always told the left is so stunning and brave, responsible for all these great social triumphs and civil rights victories and all the rest of it.
And it seems to me that it's conservatives taking all the risks now.
It looks that way to me.
I mean, I'm going at the end of the month to Sweden.
I don't think I told you this.
You won't know this yet.
I'm going at the end of the month to Sweden to lead a gay pride march through a Muslim ghetto.
Glad I got to come on before the end of the month.
Because to me, it seems like the point of gay pride, if there is one anymore, is, and that's very much in debate in the West.
Surely the point of gay pride was always to sort of march defiantly through areas of social conservatism and reactionary religious bigotry and all the rest of it.
Well, that's only coming really from one direction now.
I don't think there's very much...
where British Muslims, 100% of British Muslims think that homosexuality is an unacceptable lifestyle choice, and 52% of them want gay sex made illegal.
This is coming from one religion, just one.
Stop lying to people that there is some equivalence between the discomfort occasionally felt by Christians about gay marriage and Muslims murdering homosexuals.
Just fucking stop it because nobody believes you anymore.
We were talking about this earlier that Michael Shermer had an excellent article about that, about Islam being the one religion that didn't go through the Enlightenment.
Well, part of the reason I think for that, and he may have touched on this in the article, there are structural differences between Islam and every other major world religion, right?
So if you take the Quran, the Sunnah and the Hadiths, and you keep them together, Muslims will say this is the final, perfect, and unalterable word of God, the Quran, right?
And it's supported by the Hadiths and the Sunnah, so the sayings and doings of Muhammad and all the rest of it.
No other religion makes a claim for itself that God will never come back.
In fact, other religions make a specifically opposite claim.
And no other religion, I think, apart from Islam, has proven itself so resistant to modernity and so incapable of adapting to modern circumstances.
Christianity, for instance, has done a wonderful job of aligning itself with capitalist societies and adapting and changing with the times.
In my view, maybe not entirely in yours, but in my view, certainly in the last hundred years, has been nothing but a net positive for public life.
Now, Islam, of course, is sort of locked down into the social attitudes that people had when Islam was founded.
Christianity isn't.
You've even got the Anglican church now women bishops, gay marriages, probably whatever.
Christianity is adapting to this stuff and is changing.
But Islam has some problems.
I mean, another structural problem, of course, with it is that even Islam's own scholars say that where the Quran contradicts itself, as of course it does in many places because parts of it's just sort of plagiarized Old Testament and the rest of it's just mad, where it contradicts itself, there's a principle of abrogation, which means that verses that were revealed to Muhammad later, chronologically in time, supersede the earlier ones.
Well, the problem is that the earlier ones are the peace, love, and understanding ones, and the later ones, when he was a warlord, are the ones that kill the infidel verses.
So according to Islam's own scholars, and I don't think there's any real disagreement on this, the belly coast verses in the Quran take precedence over the peace, love, and understanding verses.
And of course, the other structural problems of religion that prevent it from engaging with modernity and intellectual inquiry and equality for women engaged and all the rest of it have led to things like, and people have heard me say this before, but I think it's an interesting, just one little data point.
There isn't a single world-class university anywhere in the Islamic world.
Not one.
Why?
I think you can fill in the gaps yourself.
But to claim that that is somehow equivalent, as we say, to this, to Memories Pizza, is insane.
It's completely absurd.
And for the government to deny gay people the right to educate themselves and deny gay people the knowledge they need to protect themselves about threats at home, and it is now dangerous to be a gay person in America.
Why?
It's not fucking memories pizza, it's Muslims.
To deny people the ability to educate themselves on that is unacceptable and unconscionable and unforgivable.
And so I'm doing two things.
One of them is we're going to do the shootback party at the Republican National Convention, which I'm going to show up to, which is just arm the gays.
There's a little party at the Republican National Convention just reminding gay people that the best way they can protect themselves is not pander to, is not suck up.
I don't see any reason why the NRA is not already.
No, no, I'm not allowed a pistol in my own country to protect myself, despite the fact that the government is letting in hundreds of thousands of people who want me dead.
And this is not just me being a crazy right-wing lunatic, although I am all of those things.
This is Gallup poll a couple of years ago polled 1,001 British Muslims.
100% of them said homosexuality was unacceptable.
And then a later poll.
That's higher than Palestine, where 96% of people in the Pew Global data say that homosexuality is unacceptable.
100%.
And 52% of those people want gay sex made illegal.
This is not crazy Muslims in Raqqa.
This is people two streets away from where I live, or even one street away, or even in the same building.
I've talked to some people that have learned, Canadians that have come over here and gotten their green cards, and they know a lot more about this country than I do.
But, you know, if the left is not going to be honest about the risks to gays, we've got to educate ourselves.
Stop listening to dumb as pig shit celebrities.
Stop listening to politicized reporters.
Stop listening to the government.
Stop listening to Obama and Hillary.
Trump, by the way, his speech after Orlando, magnificent.
What did he say?
The most pro.
Well, he's just saying, look, this is a problem for the gay community.
We cannot allow this stuff to come in.
I'm going to protect you.
You need to arm yourselves.
You need to read his speech because it's a lot more complex and nuanced than that suggests.
Genuinely great speech, which suggests to me that Obama might be a kind of like, almost like a Cameroonian politician.
Sorry, not the country, but I mean like David Cameron.
In the sense that he can sort of falter now and again, but when the moment calls for it, he rises to the occasion.
Bush was like that.
W's speech after 9-11 was pretty spectacular.
So Trump is very, very strong.
I mean, I think Trump is the most pro-gay candidate in American electoral history on either side of the divide, frankly.
I really do.
But anyway, gay people need to take this into their own hands, frankly.
And so I'm going to Sweden, where a year ago, the Swedish authorities told a gay pride march that it was needlessly provocative for walking through a Muslim area of Stockholm.
I'm sure there'll be plenty of volunteers in this march anyway.
It's going to be me on horseback marching into the Muslim ghetto and then giving a speech about Islam and gays in the very heart of European cookery, this country, Sweden, which has given itself over completely to Islamic immigration, which is now the rape capital of Europe because Malmo in Sweden is now the rape capital of Europe because of uncontrolled Muslim immigration.
And the police there have been instructed not to record the ethnicity or religion of assailants.
So they don't even have statistics on who does it anymore, similar to the Loretta Lynch redacted transcript.
Sweden's answer to the rape crisis is to issue women with wristbands that say don't rape and to forbid the police from mentioning the ethnicity and religion of assailants.
That's Sweden's answer to the rape crisis.
So I can't fix that, but I'm- That's Milo's answer to the rape crisis.
So I can't fix the woman problem single-handed, but I can perhaps embarrass the government about the gay problem.
And I certainly hope to do that.
So end of the month, if you have enjoyed any of my programming or writing or anything, enjoy the next three weeks because after the 27th of July, that could be it.
Anyway, so one of these taxes, if you have a nicer view, they literally have so little to do in Sweden that the government is just sitting around dreaming up new taxes for things and working out how they can charge people more money for things.
They're not crazy left-wing lunatics who refuse to accept reality.
They think that language shapes reality.
They think if they call, you know, if they think if they say lies often enough, that it becomes the truth, you know, which, of course, in some cases is true.
But if you say Muslims are peaceful often enough, it does not seem to come true.
There are limits to the power of positive thinking.
Well, I care about those things as well, but I also think that as a civilization, we should look towards optimizing the rest of the civilization as much as possible.
So I'm glad that America is, you know, one of the things I want people to remember in this election and remember just generally in life is America's fucking great.
America's wonderful.
You know, it's not perfect.
There are all sorts of things that everybody would like to change about it.
And the business of improving on America is what politics is for.
But America's pretty fucking great.
And speaking as somebody who is not an American, I am so happy, I'm so glad that America does have, you know, like a finger everywhere in the world.
It makes us safer.
It makes us more secure.
America's the only really powerful good guy in the world.
And thank God for you.
Thank God for you.
The state of the world, if it weren't for America, and, you know, it's a sort of brinkmanship like con, really.
You know, if all the bad guys wanted to act, America couldn't fight them all off at once.
So if they were smart, they would all just do what they want.
You know, like Russia would be like, yeah, okay, Muslims, you have Europe and we'll have America, you know?
Like that, and China, God knows, you know?
That could happen.
America couldn't take them all on at once.
But the risk of going to war with America is so great that the world doesn't, you know, is essentially peaceful, you know?
They don't believe there are global because they're children with no understanding of geography, history, or anything else.
They don't appreciate how America keeps the world safe.
And you can disagree with individual military actions.
And many reasonable people, and I might even be persuaded into this, this position, many reasonable people think Afghanistan, Iraq, and all of the recent wars are a disaster.
Why go to Vietnam?
Perfectly reasonable, respectable points of view that I do respect.
And I enjoy discussing with people because I like finding out about these things that I don't know everything about, right?
Love to have the discussions.
Very important that America reflects on what it's done before so it acts better in the future.
But to say that, to suggest that the world isn't a better place for America's presence and preeminence is absurd.
Well, in this stage of the game, when you're looking at the alternative, being Putin, being China, you know, I mean, we do have some legitimate dictators that are out there in the world that kill their adversaries.
To be strictly accurate, all you can say is that transgender people are disproportionately poor and socioeconomically underprivileged.
They come from lower orders and tend not to have much in their bank account.
So, yeah, I think it's a mixture of insurance companies and the public health stuff you have here, which always is so confusing to me, these weird, complex things you have, just get rid of them.
You don't want this creeping national health service you seem to have here because it's crazy.
But yeah, certainly in the UK, it's completely taxpayer-funded.
And of course, if somebody is really insistent, and this happens more than you would think, and it's not reported on very often, it's very difficult to find someone to go on the record about this stuff, but you'll find that very often when somebody wants to go in for the surgery and the doctor says no, they will start kicking up a fuss.
They might accuse the doctor of transphobia, ask for another doctor.
People basically, people who want this stuff are mad, so they act like mad people.
So they will go doctor shopping.
They will go around every doctor until somebody says yes.
They will beg, borrow, and steal for money to do crazy stuff to themselves.
They will insist and cry foul and bully and yell at doctors until they get what they want.
I mean, doctors are only humans.
Some of them must just want an easy life, you know?
Somebody comes in and says, I want to be a woman and they're clearly unhinged.
At some point of doctor number 17, somebody's going to be like, you know what, fuck it.
The etiology of homosexuality is complex and nuanced and may be different for different people.
The correct treatment pathway for transgenderism is complex and nuanced and may be different for different people.
The left simply doesn't make space for how complex life really is.
They demand this sort of conformity from everybody else.
You know, if you're gay, you can't be a Catholic.
You must hate yourself and one of you is in conflict with the other.
Yet they demand that we accept their crazy self-descriptions.
You know, I'm a genderqueer, non-binary, whatever.
The height of hypocrisy.
And at the same time, you know, they expect us to, if not believe, at least publicly go along with lies.
Lies that oversimplify the complex realities of life.
People are messy and imperfect.
We are all on a, not to get too, you know, whatever bugged reader.
I don't know.
I don't even have a vocabulary for mysticism.
You know, not to get too happy club.
Woo-woo.
Yeah, not to get too woo-woo about it.
But we are all on a journey through life, but growing, as you said at the beginning of the show, evolving, becoming different people every, you know, every six months or even sooner.
And, you know, life is complicated.
And one of the things that depresses me as somebody who enjoys reading and learning is the oversimplification of life by the left into okay people and bigots.
Yes.
And if you don't agree with specific and very often insane points of view, points of view that contradict medical science, points of view that contradict common sense, points of view that at a bare minimum are highly debatable, if you do not go along with this stuff, this increasingly mad stuff, you know, this stuff that is wandering off into crazy territory, you are in bigot land.
And the left has excluded so many of us for so long, gays, blacks, you know, plenty of blacks feel totally alienated by Black Lives Matter, I would imagine, most of them, in fact.
And these people are called, you know, Uncle Toms and all the rest of it.
And that happened on stage in one of my talks.
If you don't go along with all of this, there's something wrong with you.
You're pathologised, all the rest of it.
Well, the left has created, by doing this, the alt-right, me, Donald Trump, and a whole army of disaffected liberals, its own former supporters, who are tired of being told what they can think, say, do, how they can dress, how they can speak, who they can hang out with, you know, what belief systems they can have.
And it has alienated an entire young generation from left-wing politics.
They are autistic as fuck, which is why I love them, because I am too.
They are smart, they are determined, and they like to win.
Because they're used to, I mean, they problem solve for a living, right?
They're looking at this problem like it was a, you know, like it was a, what are the victory conditions, you know?
And you don't need to kill everyone on that side.
You just need to get the flag from one point to another.
Or you just need to do this kind of stuff.
So gamers realize, I don't need the press to like us.
You know, and you can call us misogynistic harassers on the internet if you want to.
All we want is these feminist lunatics to get out of gaming and for people to leave the creators alone to do what they want and for, you know, for journalists to start reporting honestly about games and stop hating on their own on their own audiences or just fuck off.
Well, what's interesting too is how much bullshit they've exposed in that industry and in the people that are criticizing them who make video games that actually are guilty of doing the exact same thing that these people are criticizing.
It lit a match underneath so many different people in so many different worlds.
When people looked out and they realized that you can beat them.
You can beat them.
If you don't give a shit what the press says about you, and why would you, and Donald Trump has proven also that if you don't give a shit what the press says about you, you get stronger, not weaker.
If you don't care what polite society says about you, you can win.
You can beat them.
And this has never been done before, at least not done for 25 years.
And it's not about the right winning over the left, but it's about freedom and libertarianism and the right to do, say, think what you want, play what you want.
It won.
It beat the cultural scolds.
It beat the feminists.
It beat the offense brigade.
Gamergate won.
And it has ignited so many fires in so many places with so many unexpected consequences and wonderful snowball effects elsewhere in culture and politics and society.
It's remarkable.
And we all, I think, who have been emboldened to speak more plainly, encouraged to contradict people more often, reminded that it is not bigoted to have a different point of view and that you are entitled to your opinion no matter what it is and entitled to say it without fear of being called a monster or, you know, suffocated by safe space culture.
All of those people have video gamers to think, as you correctly suggest.
It sounds ridiculous, but it is true.
And it's been a remarkable thing.
I was just very happy that I was there at the beginning to watch it all unfold.