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Another day, another existential threat to our democracy.
I heard about this new threat yesterday, and when I checked to see where the threat was coming from, I learned that just like in every great horror movie, this time, the threat was coming from inside the house.
If you go to Facebook on a daily basis, the posts with the most engagement are from Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, Candace Owens.
It is right-wing content.
It dwarfs progressive content.
It dwarfs mainstream media content, which actually should be the part that scares us the most.
Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire has more followers and engagement, many times more than The New York Times or CNN. That is a problem for democracy.
It's a problem, that Daily Wire.
That was Dan Pfeiffer.
Dan Pfeiffer is a former Obama staffer who now co-hosts his own podcast.
And at first, I couldn't quite understand what Mr.
Pfeiffer was saying.
So I had a translator friend of mine, who is fluent in both English and Lib, translate that for me.
And apparently, what Pfeiffer was trying to communicate is...
Wah!
The Daily Wire is popular, and more popular than me and all my lib friends, and I don't like that.
Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.
Now, the hardest word to make sense of in Pfeiffer's remarks is the word democracy, because democracy, as you know, is popular government.
And the only thing Pfeiffer is accusing us of is being popular.
He's complaining because we are popular, and he and the rest of the libs, despite controlling every major institution in the country, are not popular.
And he's insinuating that to preserve our democracy, our popular platform needs to be suppressed, and the libs' unpopular platform needs to be amplified, which is about as anti-democratic as it gets.
But when the Libs use the word democracy, when they talk about our sacred democracy, the temple of our democracy, they don't really mean democracy.
They just mean liberalism, leftism, progressivism.
That's what they fear is under threat.
And they're absolutely right.
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This is The Michael Knowles Show.
My favorite comment yesterday is from Horsehead, who says, I think that's totally true.
It's sort of how I feel about transgenderism broadly, or really any other cultural pathology that's spreading around like an epidemic.
I don't really blame the people who are in the thrall of these illnesses, these sort of social illnesses.
I don't blame the people who are under the sway of these terrible ideologies and disordered desires and bizarre identities that are harming individuals and harming society.
I place much more blame at the foot of the people who are promoting them, of the people who are enabling them.
You don't get angry at the lunatic because he says he hears voices in his head.
You get angry at the people who are encouraging him and saying, do whatever those voices say.
Oh, absolutely.
You've got ten people living in your head, Johnny.
That's right.
Go right around doing that.
Those are the people who are much more morally culpable because they're the ones who are supposed to know better.
They're supposed to be in their right minds.
Certainly you don't blame a little kid for going to a drag show, but you sure as hell blame the parents.
horrible, horrible parenting going on.
Maybe the parents are a little bit confused too.
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Big threats to democracy coming from the Daily Wire.
Really, I guess, coming from you.
Because you're the people who listen to this stuff.
You're the people who tune in and give us way better ratings than all of the Lib outlets.
Even though we're a really small outfit that was just born out of a pool house on Ventura Boulevard, now all of a sudden we're much more popular and On social media than the libs are.
And it's your fault because you're the ones doing that.
And that's a big threat to democracy when the people want something the libs don't like.
You see the same kind of argument when it comes to abortion.
Right now, The Louisiana legislature, the representatives of the people of Louisiana, just passed a really great bill.
It's a bill that makes it illegal to ship abortion drugs.
So the bill passed the legislature on Friday.
It's headed to the desk of the governor, John Bel Edwards, who's a Democrat.
Senate Bill 388 would make it illegal for any company to provide abortion-inducing drugs mifepristone and misoprostol by the mail.
It passed by a lot.
It was a 31 to 1 victory in the state Senate.
This would be considered a victory for democracy, right?
Because the people want it.
The people overwhelmingly want this bill to be passed.
And yet the way that the libs will talk about this is as a grave threat to democracy.
They did it when Donald Trump got elected president in 2016.
They said, oh no, more people voted for Trump than voted for our person.
This is a threat to democracy.
They do it in Europe when Viktor Orban, the conservative leader of Hungary, when he won, when he keeps winning, when he keeps remaining so popular, they say, gosh, his popularity, the fact that people keep voting for him, that's a grave threat to democracy.
This, of course, is a nonsensical statement.
It doesn't mean anything.
It's intrinsically incoherent to say that the greatest number of people voting for something is anti-democratic, except you realize that they just conflate their own ideology, liberalism, leftism, progressivism, with anti-democratic.
Democracy.
And this is why they can never lose in their own minds.
This is why they never concede, at least in their hearts, the elections that they lose.
This is why Hillary Clinton still hasn't conceded 2016.
This is why Democrats still haven't conceded the Bush v.
Gore election of 2000.
This is why Stacey Abrams hasn't conceded in Georgia.
Those are elections that had nowhere near the kind of shenanigans that we saw in the 2020 presidential election, nowhere near the kind of upending of the election rules that we saw in the last presidential.
And yet they won't concede it because it just doesn't make sense.
The people are supposed to vote for us.
If they knew their true interests, if they really knew, if they weren't being lied to with misinformation and if they weren't being enchanted by the sorcerers on the Republican side, they would vote for us.
And so there must be something that's gone wrong.
It must be illegitimate.
This is an old Marxist idea.
The idea that when they lose, when the libs lose, when the radicals lose, it's because the people have been thrown under the sway of a false consciousness.
They're voting against their own interests.
This is why the libs are so mean to black conservatives and women conservatives and gay conservatives.
And the reason they're so mean to them is they say, you belong to us.
If you knew your best interest, you would be voting for us.
And so it's not your fault, but it's those evil Republicans who have enchanted you with their sorcery.
And you're just too big of an idiot to realize it.
So we've got to upend this entire system because the way it's operating right now is certainly unfair.
It's not a true democracy because in true democracy only we ever win.
That is the logic behind all of these sorts of claims.
That's what they're talking about with abortion.
You look at abortion, the majority of pro-lifers are women.
They say, no, they're just under a false consciousness.
No, that's a threat to democracy.
Speaking of women's issues...
The Carolina Panthers, this is an NFL team that I don't follow, and I certainly don't intend to follow now.
They've got a cheerleading squad, just like all football teams do.
So they've got this cheerleading squad.
Frankly, it's my favorite part of football games.
Not anymore, because the Carolina Panthers cheerleading squad will now feature a man dressed as a woman doing all the cheers.
The man goes by Justine Simone Lindsay.
Something tells me that's not his real name, but that's what he goes by now.
And he announced on Instagram that he is now going to join the Panthers' top cats.
And this was confirmed by the cheerleading director, Chandelier Lanouette, to BuzzFeed.
Obviously wrong, obviously gross, obviously no normal person wants to see this.
So why is it happening?
The reason it's happening is not just because this guy has some sexual disorders.
The reason it's happening is not just because our society has lost its mind on this fad right now, this fashionable ideology that says that men can secretly be women, which is going to fall out of fashion at some point, but right now it's really, really hot.
There's a deeper reason that this is happening.
It's actually even beyond the weird sexual confusion and sexual ideologies.
The deeper reason this is happening is because of selfishness.
Because increasingly, the only people that we ever consider in our entire public life is ourselves.
Me, me, me, me, me.
The question you've got to ask yourself, in a sane society, in a sane football team, in a sane cheerleading squad, When someone applies to be a cheerleader, the first question you've got to ask yourself is, how will this help the cheerleading squad?
Not how will this help the individual who's applying.
It's not about them.
It's about the team.
At first, it's about the squad.
And then when you're talking about cheerleading, it's not even just about the cheerleading team.
It's about the football team.
The question you've got to ask yourself is, what is cheerleading for?
What's it for?
Is cheerleading for making sexually confused men feel temporarily better about themselves?
Maybe, if it even does that.
Or is cheerleading for cheering on the team?
Cheering on the football team in this case.
What is it for?
This actually really began even before the gender ideology took off.
Because in the way olden days, you had cheerleaders, and the cheerleaders would show up to the football games and throw the pom-poms in the air and say, wah, rah, go team!
Then, sometime within the last few decades, cheerleading became its own sport.
So you would have, friends of mine would do this, cheerleader friends of mine would do this.
They'd go to cheerleading competitions.
But a cheerleading competition doesn't make any sense because the purpose of cheerleading is to cheer on the team.
If you take the team out of it and you've just got the cheerleaders, cheerleading becomes something entirely different.
Now, some people say, well, cheerleading is very difficult.
Yeah, it certainly can be.
Cheerleading is kind of like gymnastics.
Yeah, it is.
If you want to do that, join the gymnastics team.
But it doesn't make any sense to make cheerleading just about itself.
Cheerleading is intrinsically something about cheerleading.
We don't make sense of that anymore.
We don't understand anymore that something can be beyond ourselves.
That the point of something can be beyond our own desires and pleasure.
That actually, we have to think of other people and other people's views and society and the objective reality.
It goes...
All the way from the craziest example, which is these dudes who are pretending to be chicks, all the way down to the totally ordinary facets of life, which used to be about the common good, which used to be about serving your family and your community and your God.
And now, in virtually every aspect of life, have been turned on ourselves.
And a man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package indeed, especially when he's wearing a cheerleading uniform.
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Speaking of misidentifying things, we're really bad at identifying things these days.
We identify men as women.
We identify babies as meaningless clumps of cells.
We don't seem to be able to recognize anything anymore.
And now in California, we are identifying bees, like bumblebees, as fish.
Tell me this story doesn't tell you everything you need to know about California and the present state of our culture.
Bees are now legally fish in California.
What is a bee?
That's going to be my next movie.
What is a fish?
That's going to be a feature-length film from the Daily Wire.
Very, very controversial.
What is a fish?
This according to the Sacramento Bee, actually.
Bees are legally fish in California court rules.
Here's why and what led to it.
Here's what led to it.
There was an act in 1970 designed to protect endangered species, and the act explicitly protected fish.
And then the fish they defined as invertebrates.
Now the act, since 1970, has been applied to protect land-dwelling invertebrates, such as snails.
Therefore, The California Court of Appeals has decided that a terrestrial invertebrate like the bumblebee may be listed as an endangered or threatened species under the Act which protects fish.
Do you see the logic here?
It's not logic.
It's a logic.
But it describes or it shows you how the libs operate in politics.
They passed this law in 1970 and it says we're going to protect fish.
And they do protect fish.
They spend a lot of time.
They waste all of the limited water supply in California protecting the little delta smelt.
So they were very focused on protecting the fish.
And then later on they said, we want to protect the snails too.
But they didn't go back and pass a new law.
I don't know exactly why they didn't go pass a new law.
One of the reasons might be that Californians are generally sick of these laws protecting these tiny little species at the cost of humans living a flourishing life.
So you divert the fresh water from human beings to the delta smelt in the snail.
So maybe that's why.
I don't know.
I'm not sure why they couldn't pass a law between 1970 and today to say, okay, we're also going to protect the snails.
But they didn't.
They just had a court rule and said, actually, snails are fish.
And now you get up all the way to the year of our Lord, 2022, 52 years later, and they say, yeah, if snails are fish, then also bumblebees are fish, too.
Instead of just going and passing along and saying, we're going to protect the bumblebee down.
You probably can't get that through the political process.
And so they say, okay, we're just going to manipulate language to meanings that have absolutely nothing to do with what the word originally meant.
And we're going to do that to ram through our political agenda.
Coincidentally or providentially, my book on this very topic just came out today in paperback.
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We don't need those guys to put us on their editorial list.
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That's probably the best place to go buy it.
If bees can be fish, then anything can be anything else.
A real sign of the times.
I have nothing against the bees, but bees are not fish.
Men are not women.
Babies are not meaningless clumps of cells.
Bees are not fish.
Do you notice, too, with these environmental laws from the libs, they always seem to exempt themselves.
They always seem to push the burden of their pie-in-the-sky schemes onto everyone else, but not onto themselves.
And they say, we're the humanitarians.
The reason we're passing this sort of protection, the reason we're passing this punitive measure against a certain industry is not to enrich ourselves or protect ourselves.
No, no.
It's to protect Mother Earth.
It's to protect humanity.
And that's why all you peasants, you have to bear the costs of this, and we ourselves will not.
That's what you're seeing right now in the European Union.
The EU is instituting an aviation fuel pollution tax.
Corporate jets will be exempted.
So commercial jets, the jets that all of us fly around on when we need to go visit grandma for Christmas or when we want to go on vacation maybe or whenever we want to get anywhere, we're going to have to pay that tax.
But the wealthy corporate executives who have their own private jets, they don't need to pay that tax.
Can there be any explanation for this other than Can there be any explanation for this other than forcing you and I, and really people in Europe, to pay for their privileges?
I can't think of one.
And furthermore, it shows that they're probably not all that serious about climate change, global warming, global cooling, the sun monster.
They're probably not all that worried about that.
You know they're not all that worried about that because they're not selling their beachfront property.
You know they're not all worried about that because they fly around on their private jets already to go to their climate change conferences and pontificate about how you and I need to eat bugs and never leave our homes and go buy a Tesla.
Although they probably don't want us to buy a Tesla anymore because Elon Musk turned on them.
They already do that.
Now they don't even want to pay the extra fuel tax on their private jets that they're making all the rest of us pay on commercial flights.
Do we really believe they think the world is going to end in 10 years?
Or actually, some people predicted that the world would already end.
I believe Prince Charles in the UK predicted the world would already end.
Though he's not really the object of my ire.
It's not even really him.
It's these liberal, technocratic, corporate...
People who, I think someone like a Prince Charles, I think he actually likes the environment.
And I think he likes it because he walks around in his three-piece suits and he's walking around his beautiful gardens.
He says, we need to protect the environment so that I have somewhere to stroll in the afternoon.
So that I can go shoot animals on the weekends and look at my beautiful estates.
And I really respect that, actually.
I'm all for protecting the environment in order to give us beautiful places to live in.
My problem is, one, the crazy radicals, the ideologues who want to protect the environment from human beings, who say that basically humans are a plague on the planet and we need to get rid of the human beings so that the Delta smelt can live freely again.
Those guys.
And then the cynical people, who don't really believe any of this crap and who realize that it can just give them a leg up politically.
Which I think makes up a much larger portion of the environmental liberal establishment.
These guys who say, we're so worried about protecting the climate that we're not going to pay any of the taxes that we're going to force you people to pay.
But they use it to take power.
You're seeing this right now in the White House.
Joe Biden is invoking the Defense Production Act to produce green energy and solar panels.
Now, the Defense Production Act Requires an emergency.
The point of the Defense Production Act is, in the face of an emergency, the president can move very, very quickly to produce certain goods.
Well, what is the emergency causing us to produce these extremely inefficient kinds of technologies that usually just line the pockets of Democrat donors?
The White House can't quite say.
What emergency is the President using to invoke the Defense Production Act?
Because historically it's been in the 1950s for the Korean War and during COVID it was enacted.
What emergency is it, or what's the real emergency in the solar industry for the Defense Production Act?
So let me, I was going to say first, the President, you know, when he takes the Defense Protection Act, it's to make sure that he's delivering for the American people.
It is an important tool that he has used a couple of times and has been incredibly effective.
So, for this particular Clean Energy Defense Production Act, he is invoking the Defense Production Act to rapidly expand domestic production of solar panel parts, building insulation, heat pumps, and more.
He is putting the full force of the federal government's purchasing power behind supporting American clean energy manufacturers, and he is providing U.S. solar deployers the short-term stability they need to build clean energy And deliver more affordability, energy to American families and business.
Cool.
So, Corrine, can you answer the question at all?
She's pretty weak.
At least Jen Psaki could usually give a glib kind of answer to whatever the question is or get in a little zinger, even if it wasn't all that effective.
But Corrine, jump here, she just goes, uh, uh, I don't, I didn't even think about, I don't.
Remember Kayleigh McEnany used to have binders with answers pre-written to all of the questions she could possibly be asked.
Corrine has no idea how to answer even very basic questions.
They say, hey, and this is probably a liberal journalist.
I'm not sure exactly who that reporter is, but statistically he's probably a liberal.
He's there and he says, why is the president invoking the defense production?
What's the emergency?
She goes, the Defense Production Act is to deliver for the American people.
She just says, I don't need to give you an answer.
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Last year, a group of Washington State gender identity LGBT a group of Washington State gender identity LGBT sexual revolutionary nonprofit organizations, all of which
work with children and receive taxpayer money, hosted a presentation series called Decolonizing Gender.
We have these clips thanks to Chris Ruffo.
He has been absolutely incredible exposing what this kind of ideology means for people.
Critical race theory.
A little bit on the gender front.
All this radicalism that we're seeing in schools and in extracurricular activities aimed at students, in many cases with your taxpayer money.
One, you've got to first recognize the fact that these kinds of organizations are receiving taxpayer money means that they are an enforcement arm of the political left.
They're not as accountable as the government would be because they're not technically part of the government.
They're just outside the government, but they receive that government money.
So they have a lot more freedom in brainwashing your kids.
In a way, it's sort of like BLM.
BLM goes around and torches the country for eight months, and they're not really held accountable.
And they're certainly not held accountable in the way that a public official would because they're not public officials.
They're the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party, more broadly, of the liberal establishment.
So, at a really basic level, a lot of this ideology comes down to money, because money is power.
To folks watching, I think another way that you can support people who are doing community work, if you have access to generational wealth, if you're white and your parents have a savings account that is very much so connected to slavery and land theft, pay people!
Pay people directly!
Give them the money so they can have the financial security in order to rest and to heal and to connect With their communities in a way that they wouldn't have to because they've been working, because they've been doing this work.
We've always been doing this work.
So yeah, I think Randy brought this up before, but pay that money.
Reparations, pay that money to us now because we need that.
We don't have, especially for Black and Indigenous folks, we don't have a safety net in order to take that time to heal.
And it can be a privilege for some.
If you have those resources, share them.
Healing can also be a collective thing, too.
It takes a village.
As the African proverb would say, it takes a village.
We all have to do this together and support one another.
What a hustle!
You know, when Daily Wire says, hey, please join Daily Wire, we're giving you this movie, this movie, this show, this content, this thing, we're really trying to say, look, you're getting way more value for your money than every dollar you're putting in.
These guys, they say, hey, give me money.
What are you going to get?
You'll get, I won't be as angry with you.
Maybe I won't burn the country down this year.
Hey, it's a nice country you got here.
It sure would be a shame if I burned it down again.
Give me that money.
Hey, spare a little change?
It's like a derelict who comes up to you in a dark alley at night.
Hey, man, could you spare a little change?
Well, we're in this dark alley and you're standing there in a fairly threatening posture.
I guess I have to give you some money.
Yeah, give that to us because of all the oppression or whatever.
Man, institutional, generational, whatever.
Write a check.
Give me that money.
Give me that money.
So that's what a lot of it comes down to.
And in this woman's...
I don't know.
Is it a woman?
The person who was speaking seemed to have a lot of chest hair.
I think that's chest hair, but kind of...
Anyway, I don't know.
It's very confusing.
We're living in a very confusing time.
But this person actually has a point, which is that money is power.
Big politics attracts big money, and big money attracts big political power.
And so what this person is saying is, we need this money right now because that's the way that we're really going to affect change.
And to some degree there's a point to that.
We don't want the change that they are going to affect.
So...
At the basic level, yeah, this is a regular old political operation.
In many ways, it's no different than the mob.
The second thing that this conference exposed, though, is just, it's a point we were talking about earlier, the sheer selfishness, the sheer self-obsession of this entire ideology.
You know, I don't see myself as 100% woman, even though I use trans femme, trans woman interchangeably all the time.
You know, I take hormones so that I have breasts, you know, so I can appear, whatever, a way so you can, again, interpret what my soul is.
But if I were to tell you, like, oh, yeah, I want to be called non-binary, trans femme my whole life, no, I don't.
I just want to be called Randy, Aisha, you know, those, you know, whatever I want you to call me, you know, mommy, queen, daddy, if I want you to.
I want to see people, you know, my young people, they, when I would bring up pronouns, they would come up with Wakanda.
They would come up with Pokemon Trainer.
They would come up with whatever was on their heart.
And I was like, that is the world I want to see.
But we're calling ourselves cyborgs.
We're calling ourselves whatever we need in order to feel good about ourselves.
Like, why can't we just feel good about ourselves and affirm ourselves and then people respect that?
So, yeah, I definitely think gender needs to go.
Does this guy sound like he feels good about himself?
He doesn't sound to me like someone who feels good about himself.
People who feel good about themselves don't constantly need the affirmation of others.
He sounds to me like the opposite of someone who feels good about himself.
When you really feel comfortable, confident, good, right about what you're doing...
Not only do you not need the affirmation of others, but you can stand tall even as everyone else is attacking you.
Some people know this.
When you're standing up for something that's right, very often people attack you.
Look what they did to Jesus.
Look what they did to Socrates.
Look what they did to people who have spoken the truth.
Certainly to the man who is the truth, but even to other people throughout history who have had the gall to speak the truth.
What happens to them?
They get attacked.
That's the way it goes.
This is a fallen world.
And the people who feel good about themselves stand tall.
I was just reading the Apology of Socrates by Plato.
I was just going through my Western Civilization series.
Happened a few nights ago to be reading the Apology of Socrates.
And Socrates is there.
He's standing before the Athenians.
He knows that they're going to kill him.
And he says, I don't really care if you kill me or not, because I'm just going to do the right thing.
But it's going to be really bad for you if you kill me, because you will be doing the wrong thing.
And if you're doing the wrong thing, that's really bad.
Because it's much better to be just than to be unjust.
And it's much worse to harm someone else than to be harmed yourself.
Totally rational argument.
And you see it throughout the speeches of Plato's Socrates.
You see this in the Credo.
You see that you...
This guy does not feel good about himself.
And he says, the world that I want to see is a world where I can be whatever I... Forget about he or she.
Forget about male or female.
I want to be Randy.
Or Aisha.
Wait, hold on.
I thought you just said...
You told me what to call you.
You said call me Randy.
No, until I want to be Aisha.
Until I want to be a Pokemon.
Until I want to be this.
The world I want to live in, what he is saying and what the gender movement broadly is saying is, I want to live in a world without logic, without reason, without intellect.
Without any objective standard by which anyone can tell if anything is true or false.
What they are saying is, I want to live in a world of pure will.
Of pure tyranny of will, where the words that we say don't make any sense.
Pokemon, Jiggly Bear, Up and Down, Chocolate, Vanilla, Hot Dog.
That's the world they want to live in, a world where we're just making sounds like grunting animals, and all we are doing is feeding our own appetites, our own lower will.
He's, in many ways, that guy, Randy slash Aisha slash the Pokemon, Is acknowledging what the conservatives have been saying about transgenderism.
There was another guy, this last guy, I thought was the most important part of this conference.
And it's really important to watch these clips when conservatives like Chris Ruffell are able to bring them to us.
They get a scoop, they get a leak, and they bring them to us.
It's important to watch libs of TikTok because...
One, it tells you what really lies at the heart of these bizarre social movements that often leave people scratching their heads.
What do you mean a man is a woman?
It tells you what they really believe about it.
And very often, the way that the radicals view these things are not all that different from the way that conservatives do.
There was a guy who spoke at the end of this conference thread, and he said that he knew that he was transgender, pangender, gender, whatever...
When he was a little kid, being called into the woods by spirits.
For me, when I was growing up, colonialism looked a lot like, my first introduction to colonialism looked a lot like me waking up At, you know, four in the morning, five in the morning, every morning to, you know, sounds of,
you know, my ancestors screaming from outside my window, coming from the ground, coming from the earth and nature outside, you know, like, waking me up to tell me that, like, hey, there's work to be done.
But that's what really radicalized me at a very young age, amongst many other things.
Hearing those screams every morning is what really radicalized me because there are things that most other folks around me, including my mother, could not hear.
And there are things that did not affect those individuals in the same way.
And I carried that.
I followed those screams, you know, into the woods as a child.
My parents, you know, didn't really, like, watch me very much.
Sorry, should I say, didn't really watch me very much growing up.
up.
So I often wandered into the woods and was taught by my ancestors in those woods, you know, in the forms of nature spirits, in the forms of elementals, in the forms of, you know, natural deities and old gods, you know, while I was out there, you know, I was taught many things and, while I was out there, you know, I was taught many things and, you know, my mind was decolonized
So what this guy is saying is that the way he became radical, transgender, extreme, far left, the way he got to where he is today, Is that he came from a broken home, right?
He says, my parents, oh sorry, I mean my parent, a broken home where he was neglected.
I wasn't watched very much by my parent as a kid.
A broken home where he was neglected and then spent a long time in isolation and then he got screwed up by demons.
That's what he's saying.
That's his description of what happened.
Oh yeah, why am I all messed up?
And his name is, or he goes by Ganesha Gold Buffalo.
He is a male prostitute who says that he's a woman and identifies as transgender.
He says, how did I get to where I am?
How did I become the man, or not man, that I am today?
Why, I came from a broken home.
And spent a ton of time in isolation, alone, being neglected.
And then demons convinced me that the world is different than it actually is.
The way that this radical transgender guy is describing transgenderism and his radical views more broadly is virtually indistinguishable from the way that a conservative Christian would describe it.
Yes, I think that in the case of transgenderism, there's definitely the question of mental illness.
I mean, it's just by definition, one would have to be mentally ill to be a man to believe that he's a woman.
But there are a lot of social conditions, and it seems to come from some broken homes, and it seems to come from some child abuse.
It seems to come from long periods of time in isolation.
And it seems to come from demonic influence.
Let's just call a spade a spade.
He says it.
The transgender guy says it.
I say it.
A Christian guy says it.
The only people who don't say it are the liberals in the middle.
The materialist liberals who say, oh no, it's not a big, none of that's true.
Listen to the radicals.
Listen to the radicals themselves.
The radicals themselves seem to agree with the conservative Christians.
And those are all bad things.
All of the influences that led this guy to become a male prostitute calling himself a woman, a decolonizer or whatever, are all bad things.
Broken homes, neglect, child abuse, and especially demons.
They're bad.
They're bad.
They're real and they're bad.
Speaking of libs missing really, really basic things, everyone is turning on Joe Biden except for the establishment liberals.
But everyone else's.
Not just the conservatives.
Not just the people who have been radicalized.
Even Cardi B. The well-known economist, Sterling Professor of Economics, Dr.
Cardi B. Professor B. said, quote, When y'all think they're going to announce that we're going into a recession?
When y'all think they're going to do that?
Cardi B knows that the economy is in bad shape.
Have you bought food recently?
I bought food last night, and I was shocked at how expensive it is.
The only reason I wasn't more shocked is because I bought food somewhat recently.
I bought food last week, too.
And I was shocked then at how expensive it is.
You buy gas recently?
You pay for anything recently?
You look at the fundamentals of our economy recently?
You look at your stock portfolio, your retirement account recently?
Things are not looking good in the economy.
Cardi B knows it.
The conservatives know it.
The only people who don't seem to know it, or don't want to admit it, or don't even care, are the establishment liberals, who still insist to us, this is the greatest economic recovery ever, in our imaginations.
In the same place where men are women and babies aren't really babies.
That's where the economy is flourishing.
Speaking of our economy, there was a video that went viral yesterday on the internet.
People talking about what terrible things this means for the American economy.
And it was this, I thought, generally charming video of two young women sitting in a pool with their laptops describing how they're doing their job from the pool deck because they don't need to go into an office right now.
My coworkers keep saying I need to make, like, a tech TikTok, because if you look at my TikTok, you'd never guess I have a job.
So, anyways, this is our current workstation.
Callie and I are what you call product managers.
Callie, what is your team over?
My team is over recording and internal tools.
And I am over what we call card experience.
So we work on like anything from activating your credit card to freezing, reissue, shipping, all the good stuff.
What's a PM? We help prioritize and help the engineers stay on track and help them know what to build so that you have a product to use.
Yeah, exactly.
So you might have a team, like the engineers actually do the developing, the coding, which is the impressive part.
Designers also do the impressive part, which is everything you see when you're in a software.
Product managers essentially decide what the team's going to work on, do competitive research, Prioritize bugs, keep everyone focused, motivated, and driving towards business outcomes.
So, that's what we do.
I found this video very charming.
Everyone was dunking on these girls.
Why are they dunking on these girls?
So these girls have an easy job.
Okay, that's fine.
People have had easy jobs before.
The girls are saying, yeah, in our job, it doesn't even look like we have a job, because we're just on TikTok all day, and we sit out here by the pool all day, and we're making a TikTok about sitting out at the pool, about how our job is really easy.
Okay, I don't begrudge them that.
They're also young girls.
They look like they're in their 20s.
They're probably...
I'm just taking out my Nolstradamus hat here on my crystal ball.
They're probably...
Just going to meet a guy in their 20s and get married.
What I'm saying is they're probably not 100% totally driven by their career, nor should they be.
That's fine.
I don't think we all need to be automatons slaving away in some box all day long doing spreadsheets for Mr.
Jenkins to get some more dollars to go consume more stuff in the economy.
That's good for them.
They get to sit out by the pool.
The legitimate fear, I think, the legitimate criticism that comes from this video is...
Look, it's fine if some people have those jobs, especially if they have other interests in their life and they don't want to do this forever and they want to move on and have a family and do other things.
The fear is when everyone's doing that.
We can't have a country where everyone is sitting out by the pool making TikToks about how they're not doing their actual job.
Or how they are, but their actual job doesn't require them to do very much.
When the entire economy is doing that, then we're really in trouble.
And that's the place we are right now after two years.
From the very beginning of the lockdowns, I thought, this is a bad thing because what I know is you don't get something for nothing.
You can't just sit around all day and not do everything and still have a flourishing country that's growing and vibrant.
It doesn't work.
When people point out that communist societies have terrible stagnant economies, very often we don't explain why that is or we don't think about why that is.
The reason communist economies are so terrible is because people don't work there.
It's because the incentives don't exist for people to go out and do work.
So the people in communist countries...
Often are pretty lazy.
They often are not very driven.
They're disincentivized from going out and doing work.
There is a structural problem there.
But that's why.
And if we're living in a country where we're all just doing that now, where we're all just sitting by the pool taking TikToks, sipping our pina coladas, occasionally typing some buttons on our laptop, we're not going to have a flourishing country.
We need to go out and do things.
We need to do things that are bigger than ourselves.
Unfortunately, we've gotten into this mindset of, well, listen, if there's even a slight chance that I could get a slight cough from a virus that doesn't really pose a particularly great threat to me, then I'm just going to sit home for two years.
Well, if I have to go out there and do anything extra...
That's going to detract from my going to brunch and sitting at home and buying lots of nice, fun, cool gizmos and gadgets.
Then I just don't want to do that.
That mindset is death for a country.
We have to think beyond ourselves, beyond our own pleasure, beyond how we want to be called, beyond what we think, usually mistakenly, will make us feel really good.
You think, what's this about?
What's this for?
What is my role here?
You know, in Matt's documentary...
My favorite scene actually didn't have very much to do with the question of Western transgenderism.
My favorite scene was when that professor got really angry with Matt for questioning his entire science, you know, the gender studies.
That was my favorite scene.
My second favorite scene, and I felt the most meaningful one, is when Matt flies to Africa, and he's talking to the tribals in Kenya, and he says, what is a woman?
And they have a good answer, but it's a different answer than the Westerners would have.
Westerners would often say a woman is an adult female human being.
What's a female?
Well, a female is distinguished by female reproductive organs and capacity, by the production of eggs.
You go down this.
And when Matt asked the tribals in Kenya, they said a woman is someone who does the duties of the woman.
A woman is someone who bears children, who's distinguished by that biological feature, but then by a social role as well.
And he interviews the women, too, and they're laughing at this idea of transgender.
They're like, no, we do the things that women do, and we behave in the way that women behave, and we are women.
And the men do the things that men do.
And some of the things that men do seem pretty unpleasant.
I don't want to do that.
And some of the things that we do are kind of unpleasant.
The men don't want to do that.
But we have a role.
We have a place here.
We've reversed that.
We've convinced ourselves mistakenly that having a role and having a purpose and having natural limits is going to make us all miserable.
But there's really no escaping limits, and there's no escaping ultimately doing stuff.
So you see it especially with the way that feminism cracked down the families.
In the 70s, the feminists said a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, and women need to leave the home.
They shouldn't even be allowed to stay home and raise their families.
That's so oppressive.
Instead of helping their families and working for their families, They need to go out and work for some other guy who doesn't care about them at the widget factory and go do spreadsheets all the time until the guy throws the woman out.
But there's no escaping.
Does anyone really believe that's more liberating?
Does anyone really believe that's better for the woman or will lead to a more flourishing life?
Of course not.
This is a key conservative insight, and Edmund Burke wrote about this at great length.
We want roles.
We want to feel like we're doing good, not just for ourselves, but for other people.
Because a man or woman or bumblebee or fish wrapped up in himself makes a small package indeed.
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