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Michael makes a major announcement, a man says testicles don’t make him less of a woman, and the Army recruits straight white guys again as the country careens toward World War III.
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We're going to war.
I'm now convinced of it.
The way I know we're going to war is the army has just released an ad that got rid of all the lesbians and the woke stuff.
And now the new army ad is just a bunch of straight white guys, which means, man, oh man, we're going to war.
We'll get to that in a second.
First, though, you know, I've often thought where there is smoke, there is fire.
And this would contradict what a lot of people believe these days.
A lot of people, including Castor Semenya, who is a man, but he's got some genital abnormalities, and he just explained on BBC Sport, as an athlete, that his testicles don't make him any less of a woman.
You know, the medical terms, what they tell me, you know, my testosterone, you know, being born, you know, without the uterus, you know, being born with internal testicles, those don't make me less a woman.
It's just the differences that I was born with, and I embrace them.
They don't make you less a woman, exactly.
They make you not a woman.
If you are born with testicles, you are not a woman.
I'm fairly confident.
As everyone used to be confident until very recently.
This example here from from Castor Semenya is a really good one because the pro-trans activists love to muddy the waters in this debate by pointing to so-called intersex people, hermaphrodites, people who have sexual ambiguity from birth.
And they try to say, look, because some people have genital ambiguity and deformities from birth, therefore I, who have the body that is perfectly categorized as a male body, without any confusion whatsoever, I, because I, I don't know, like, looked at too much porn or something, or I went to some public school where the libs indoctrinated me, I now think I'm a woman, therefore I really am a woman, and the evidence for this, I, the trans activist, will point you to, is that there are so-called intersex people.
Even in the case of the intersex people, it's usually not all that confusing.
In the case of Castor Semenya, what he has is, I think I'm pronouncing this correctly, 5-alpha reductase 2 deficiency.
I don't know.
SRD5A2 is the gene encoding enzyme, or it's caused by mutation rather, in the SRD5A2, and it's a rare condition.
It affects only men, only people who are genetically male.
It's got a broad spectrum, but what it means is that there can be some ambiguity at birth.
You could have a very small male appendage at birth, and you could have conditions like the male gonads are inside the body or whatever.
But there's no doubt.
There's no doubt listening to this person, and there would not even really be much doubt examining this person upon birth, that this is a man.
Hat tip to Riley Gaines here, the female athlete who has spoken out against the inclusion of so-called trans women in sports.
This, I think, should really be a focus of the debate.
A lot of conservatives try to shy away from the intersex Part of the gender ideology and they focus only on the obviously ridiculous claims of the transgender activists that even if my body is perfectly male, I can somehow secretly be a woman on some metaphysical level, which doesn't line up with biology.
It doesn't line up with philosophy or theology or metaphysics at all.
It doesn't line up with anything.
But in a way, I think we should lean into the intersex part and say, oh yeah, okay, which conditions are you talking about?
Well, people that have chromosomal abnormalities, like, say, Turner Syndrome.
Turner Syndrome, a woman only has one X chromosome.
Everyone knows that those women are women.
No one has ever seriously doubted that.
Well, what about this particular deficiency affecting castor semen?
Yeah, he's got a deep voice, and every cell in his body is male, and he has testicles, and he doesn't have a uterus.
He's obviously a man, even if he's got some difficulties and deformities.
Even on the intersex part, the hermaphrodite part, the ambiguity part, it's pretty clear the gender ideology is bunk.
Speaking of aggressive women, this is, I shouldn't laugh at this story, but it really, man, does this perfectly sum up our political culture and most people's grasp on international relations.
A woman tried to attack Jews because she's upset over this war in the Middle East, and so she found a building that had a Star of David on it, you know, the two triangles, and she assumed, with reason, that this was a Jewish building, so she drives her car at the building.
But it turns out the building was not owned by Jews, it was owned by black Hebrew Israelites.
They're that group that yelled at the young white conservative kid in the MAGA hat and called him all sorts of names.
This is a group that believes that the Jews aren't really the Jews and black people are really the Jews and the irony is that the black Hebrew Israelites Of course, most people don't know a thing about the Jews, or the Muslims, or even the Christians.
Most people don't know a thing about the history of conflict in the Middle East.
Most people don't know a thing about the Jews or the Muslims or even the Christians.
Most people don't know a thing about the history of conflict in the Middle East.
Most people don't know a thing about foreign policy more broadly.
I'm not putting myself above everyone here.
I probably don't know very much more than this ignorant woman does.
So then it leads to a question.
How are you supposed to figure out how to think about these complex issues that involve religion and culture and race and ethnicity and peoples and today foreign policy?
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My rule of thumb for dealing with complex problems, call it prejudice, call it intellectually lazy.
Listen, we don't have time to get to the bottom of every single issue and to write 10,000 word reports on every political matter under the sun.
My rule of thumb is, look at who is supporting which side.
In the case of the Israel-Palestine thing, I don't live in Israel.
I don't live in the Palestinian territories.
I'm not a Jew.
I'm not a Muslim.
I don't buy into any of the theological claims, really, that either side is making with regard to this land.
So how am I supposed to figure out which side I basically support, which side I basically oppose?
I can't help but notice that on the Palestine liberation, river to the sea, get rid of the Jews side, you have many of the worst people in the United States, including people like Rashida Tlaib, who House Republicans are now threatening to censure, and people like Ilhan Omar, who is losing it!
At the prospect of Tlaib being censured.
What is true here is that every single one of them has not acknowledged the fact that Palestinians are dying in the tens of thousands, but will continue to say it is us who are not acknowledging humanity.
Rashida will stand strong and the Palestinian movement will continue for liberation until every single Palestinian has the right to live in liberty.
The Palestinian movement within Rashida Tlaib is the greatest person.
This woman could not be more fired up.
Listen to the passion in her voice.
Listen to the righteous indignation, the anger.
Now compare that, the way that Ilhan Omar is talking about Palestinian liberation and her squad colleague Rashida Tlaib, compare that with the way that Ilhan Omar talks about Al-Qaeda.
The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said Al-Qaeda, his shoulders went up.
Yeah, he's in command here.
Al-Qaeda, you know, hospital.
He's an expert.
What's his name?
We are not saying his name.
You'll probably get to see him on CNN.
Yeah, of course.
I love those guys.
But it is that.
You don't say America with an intensity.
You don't say England with an intensity.
You don't say the army with an intensity.
But you say these names because you want that word to carry weight.
Al-Qaeda!
September 11th!
Isn't that so funny?
It's just crazy!
And by the way, lest one think that we're taking her point out of context or we're unfairly criticizing her point, she explains her point.
She says, why do people pretend that Al-Qaeda is such a terrible thing?
We don't talk about America that way.
We don't talk about the army that way.
She is, at the very least, drawing a direct comparison between Al-Qaeda and the people who killed 3,000 American civilians on September 11th, with the United States broadly, with the U.S.
Army, with England, at the very least.
Probably, she's going a little softer on Al-Qaeda.
She's laughing, oh, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, come on, why do you people think this?
But no, you cannot censure Rashida Tlaib!
She is the greatest person.
It's not just Ilhan Omar.
Their other colleague, Cori Bush, perhaps more eccentric even than the squad, Cori Bush went off on the potential censure.
A lack of care and a lack of understanding and a lack of seeing the humanity of folks who look like Rashida Tlaib.
It's outrageous that my colleagues are blatantly attempting to silence the only Palestinian American representative right here.
It's outrageous, but it's not surprising.
And let me tell you, it's not surprising because this place is where 1,700 members of Congress This elected body enslaved black people.
It's not surprising because they thought it was right.
It's not surprising because this is the place where members continue to claim that the insurrection on the Capitol just appeared to look like a normal tourist visit.
It's not surprising because this is the place Where our black and brown staff members repeatedly speak of experiencing racism and sexism, Islamophobia, get pushed off of elevators, xenophobia, and more right here in this workplace.
This is the place.
And let me say this, she mourns for the 1,400 Israelis that lost their lives.
She mourns for the 10,000.
And she will not stop.
No more.
No more.
I cease fire now.
And she takes the death threats that you all send.
The gentlelady is no longer recognized.
The gentleman from Maryland.
I don't know much about the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
I know some people obsess over it.
It's the most important conflict.
I don't know much about it.
It seems rather intractable to me.
And that's what I said.
I don't know much about the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
I know some people obsess over it.
It's the most important conflict.
I don't know much about it.
It seems rather intractable to me.
However, I have to assume these people are wrong.
I have.
I cannot imagine that Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush and all of the people who are wrong about everything in American politics.
It's difficult for me to believe that they just happen to be right about this thing.
I don't think that you need to support all of the Israeli government policies.
I certainly don't.
In fact, I'm somewhat furious at the Israeli government for funding Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict against the Armenians, Armenia the oldest Christian nation in the world.
I don't like that.
I see why Israel is doing that.
Because the Israeli government is using Armenia as a way to attack Iran, which is why Iran, oddly enough, is backing Armenia.
That doesn't make sense.
And Russia is now backing Azerbaijan, the Muslim country, against Armenia, the Christian country, Armenian-Russian relations at all time lows.
I get it.
Look, it's very complicated.
I see why all these nations are doing things that are somewhat unexpected.
I don't, obviously, I don't believe in the theological claims with regard to the Holy Land being made by the State of Israel or by the Palestinian Muslims for that matter, but if I've got to come to a conclusion over which side basically I'm going to be on in the conflict, Am I gonna be on Ilhan Omar's side?
Am I gonna be on Cori Bush's side?
Those ladies sound like maniacs, okay?
Am I gonna be on Rashida Tlaib's side?
Rashida Tlaib who says we need to empty out all the prisons in America and abolish the prisons and criminal justice system?
No, I don't think so.
And call it prejudicial and call it, I don't know, intellectually lazy to just lump in another issue with all of the issues that these people who are wrong about everything happen to believe in.
But if you tell me that Cori Bush Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar just happened to be right about this one thing and this one thing only.
I would be rather surprised.
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The other way I know that this war is heating up, unfortunately, is that the Army has changed its pitches.
Here is the new U.S.
Army ad.
It's okay.
I've seen a lot of straight-looking white guys.
I've seen more straight-looking white guys than I've seen in any Army ad in recent memory.
And then they, wow.
And it's not social activism.
They're just jumping out of helicopters with parachutes.
The greatest victories are never achieved alone.
Be all you can be.
Even a return to the old U.S.
Army motto when I was a kid.
Be all that you can be.
Be all you can be.
Oh man, we're going to war.
We're going to war.
I felt better about our prospects for peace back when the U.S.
Army ads did not focus on men fighting and preparing to kill our enemies.
Back when the U.S.
Army ads focused on women bragging about their lesbian mothers, I suppose one of them is probably the mother, and going to pride parades and festivals and rallies growing up.
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Let me translate that ad for you.
That was not that long ago that that ad came out.
The translation of that ad is, Normal, patriotic, conservative dudes who have made up the bulk of the U.S.
military for all of our nation's history.
Yeah, go away!
We don't want you!
We don't want you guys!
And why?
Why would the libs who control the military at the top level The vast majority of people in the U.S.
military remain normal and furious at their leadership.
But I'm talking about the Mark Milley's of the world.
I'm talking about the chairman of the Joint Chiefs screaming about white rage and how we need to teach our recruits critical race theory.
And why?
Why is the army leadership doing that?
Why were they doing that?
Because at the level of leadership, those jobs become very, very political.
At the level of enlisted guys and most officers, even still most officers, they're serving their country with plain, not exactly partisan motives.
But when you get to those top levels, those politically appointed levels with a lot of influence from Washington, obviously those become very, very party political.
And I think the left saw that they had a problem, which is the left saw that they had conquered academia, the news media, Hollywood, corporate America.
That took them a little longer, but they managed to conquer corporate America.
They obviously had the bureaucracy.
They had a lot of the elected government.
They had basically everything, except for the military.
The military remained pretty much the one institution that the conservatives still had.
And so they set out very intentionally to conquer the military.
And one way to do that is to use the military to push a lot of woke propaganda.
Another way to do that is to brainwash the new recruits and teach them critical race theory and have them understand white rage.
And another way to do that is to convince the conservatives not to join up anyway.
So they put out this advertisement.
This advertisement, I think, was less about recruiting new people to the army as it was about discouraging The normal kind of, the older kind of people from joining the army saying, hey you straight white guys, hey you conservatives, hey you get out of here.
We don't want your kind anymore.
Now the issue is, no army has ever won a war when it was made up primarily of leftist woke lesbians.
That I was a history major in school, history buff as an adult.
I've never read about that army victory for any nation ever in the history of the world.
When you want to win wars, you need extremely tough, masculine brutes who want to go in and kill the enemy.
You know, George Patton's speech to the Third Army.
War is a bloody killing business.
When your best friend beside you is blown up and you got his guts all over your face, you'll know what to do.
Kill the enemy.
Go through that enemy like a hot knife through butter.
Like S-H-I-T through tin can or whatever they said.
That's what you want.
And so, now that we're on the brink of World War 3 again, you'll notice the ads shifting.
I guess, in a way, it's good that the Army is recognizing that, you know, pride parades are not going to win a war, but bad news in that they fear that they will have to win a war, that we will all have to win a war soon.
Turning to domestic politics, Ms.
Clausewitz said that war is the extension of politics by other means.
Five Republican Florida state legislators have just switched from endorsing Ron DeSantis to endorsing Donald Trump.
This was a few days ago.
Trump gained seven endorsements from state legislators.
This was the same day he gave a speech at the Florida Freedom Summit.
So two people who had not yet endorsed endorsed Trump, and then five flipped.
The ones who flipped were our state reps Jessica Baker, Webster Barnaby, Alina Garcia, Kevin Steele, and State Senator Debbie Mayfield.
On the other side of that news cycle, the governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, just endorsed Ron DeSantis.
So where does that leave the race?
I think, don't shoot the messenger, you know I love Ron DeSantis, I think this is just yet another sign.
The momentum is with Trump here.
Trump unveils these endorsements.
Why would someone who had previously endorsed one candidate switch?
The reason that they would do that is because they believe, maybe they had a genuine change of heart, or, more likely, they realized that the guy they backed is not going to win.
And so they can still get on the team that appears more likely to win, and maybe they'll be able to receive some political favor as a result of that, and maybe this will help with their re-election campaigns, they could get some kind of appointment.
That's what they're after.
Now shortly after that announcement, DeSantis formally announces that he's got the endorsement of the governor of Iowa.
The good for him, maybe that'll swing some votes.
Trump is still way up in Iowa, in the polls and among committed Iowa caucus goers.
So I don't know that it moves a whole lot.
Even if it does, Iowa hasn't predicted the Republican nominee for president since George W. Bush.
But in 08, 12, 16, it hasn't.
So I'm not sure that that's particularly persuasive now.
And furthermore, I think DeSantis had to pull the trigger on the Kim Reynolds endorsement, which has been rumored for weeks now, because Nikki Haley is tied with DeSantis in Iowa.
So even, you know, the DeSantis campaign moves its people to Iowa to say, this is going to be our big stand and this is where we're going to take the momentum away from Trump.
But even there, Nikki Haley has come up and she's rivaling DeSantis for the number two spot.
So I think DeSantis, in a way, had to make the Reynolds announcement less to hurt Trump's momentum and more to hurt Haley's momentum over there.
Why is all this happening though?
Why hasn't?
Especially if you're someone who loves Ron DeSantis and you're backing his campaign or you love Nikki Haley or any of the other candidates.
Why is it the case that Trump keeps doing so well?
I think there are a lot of reasons for that, but even in this present news cycle, I think the war in the Middle East helps Trump.
And the war in the Middle East helps Trump because Trump, unexpectedly to most, brought peace to the Middle East.
Trump had the best Middle East policy of any president in my entire lifetime.
Maybe the best Middle East policy of any president.
Probably better than Reagan's.
Maybe better.
I don't know.
I don't even know how far back we would go into the 20th century.
He had a great Middle East policy.
The Abraham Accords were a major victory.
The fact that he destroyed ISIS, first of all.
Then Basically seemed like a dove and didn't want to go and launch new wars in the Middle East, but then would occasionally drop the Moab or would occasionally assassinate an Iranian general.
And so that unpredictability had people playing real, real polite.
That's why people are looking and they're saying, man, Donald Trump, who we were told was crazy and wild and a cowboy, he had peace in the Middle East when he was president.
Joe Biden, who we told was a return to normal, brought us war in the Middle East, which sadly is normal, I guess.
It was the same arguments with Reagan.
Reagan's a cowboy.
He's going to start World War III.
And then what happens?
He was a major peace president, whose presidency helped bring about the end of the Cold War.
Now, speaking of Ron DeSantis, DeSantis just had a very good answer to one of the sillier but still more significant criticisms of his campaign, namely that he wears high heels.
This has been a meme going around for a while.
It seems Ridiculous and frivolous.
I haven't even really wanted to address this claim because I think it's so crazy, but it has persisted and it's grown even louder.
So finally, Eric Bolling was just asking Governor DeSantis about the high heels.
Here's the governor's answer.
I've been watching over the last, I don't know, maybe 10 days or so, and there are these gotcha people, these people who just want to sit there and they want to talk about how tall you are, whether you're wearing boots with, what do they call it, heel extenders inside.
I mean, Governor, the southern border is a disaster.
Terrorists are coming across the border.
We got two wars that we're kind of funding, and they want to talk about how tall you are.
Respond, please.
Look, Eric, this is no time for foot fetishes.
We've got serious problems as a country.
I know Donald Trump and a lot of his people have been focusing on things like footwear.
I'll tell you this, if Donald Trump can summon the balls to show up to the debate, I'll wear a boot on my head.
I'll wear a boot on my head.
This is no time for foot fetishes.
That's a funny line.
That's a good line.
The issue is, he should have had that line in place a week ago.
He should have had that line in place when he was on the podcast with Patrick Bet-David.
The DeSantis campaign, I don't blame DeSantis necessarily, but his campaign needs to anticipate these things.
Whether or not he's wearing boot extenders or heels and whatever.
Certainly, if you're going to wear those things, and even if you're not, you need to anticipate those questions being asked and have good zingers, especially when you're going up against the guy who has the best zingers in politics, certainly since Reagan, probably even better than Reagan's.
It's just this feeling for a lot of people, I think, that, man, DeSantis, he's good, he's a great governor, he's had great policies, but he's just, he doesn't quite have it on the campaign trail.
I'm not even saying that's my view.
I'm not endorsing in the primary.
You know, I like Donald Trump a lot.
I really like Ron DeSantis.
And I like some other people in the race also.
I'm not prescribing, but merely describing what's going on in the race and why this campaign has not caught on.
It's just a little bit off.
It's just a little bit too slow.
It doesn't quite make the sale.
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Speaking of cleverness, a woman has gone viral because she has a PhD and she took an IQ test next to some guy that she thought was just a dumb Rube Hillbilly.
And the dumb Rube Hillbilly did better on the IQ test than she did.
I'm 21.
I'm a high school graduate and I work in the Marine Corps.
I'm 30 years old.
I have my PhD in cancer biology and I work in a biotech industry.
Grad school I went to University of South Carolina and undergrad I went to University of Florida.
One, two, three.
Four, five, six.
Two, me, I don't know.
PhD, cancer biology, scientist.
I work in a biotech company.
We make COVID-19 testing kits, stuff like that.
Then six.
It has nothing to do with your background.
I don't think you really have the highest EQ out of all of us.
Tyler, he ranked last for me personally because the way he carries himself.
He was ranking intelligence based on his point of view and not taking in other people's point of views.
So number one is Raymond.
Number two would be Kaylee.
Number three will be Tyler, and number four would be Sheda.
Number five is Sean, and number six is Maria.
So the guy, the big, dumb, rubid, idiot guy who only has a high school education, he has a much higher IQ than the gal who has all these degrees and she's a cancer researcher or whatever.
I am not surprised by this.
One of the biggest downsides to university expansion and to credentialism is that it convinces people that they're much smarter than they are.
One of the big problems that has happened at the universities is that social engineers and political activists took over in the 1960s and 70s and insisted in the name of what we would now call inclusion, equity, and diversity, that we had to lower the standards at all of the universities.
And people of all backgrounds, all racial backgrounds, geographical backgrounds, many argued that this was a bad idea, because you were going to destroy education for everyone.
And for some kids, they weren't even going to be able to meet the new lower standards, and they were going to flunk out, and there was going to be a mismatch there.
But there's another downside to this, which is that as college and university admissions skyrocketed, and all of a sudden, I think it was right around the time that I graduated high school, something like 70% of high school graduates went to college, an all-time high.
It's actually gone down since then.
One of the downsides to that is you are going to persuade people without any basis that they are much smarter than they are.
Whereas that kid with the high school degree and nothing else, he doesn't labor under any of those delusions.
He has a good dose of humility.
And he's probably right, actually.
It's not just that he underestimated his intelligence.
It's that he's probably right.
Most of us are not that intelligent.
We don't, you know, I read books for a living in large part, and I still know basically nothing.
My education is still relatively pretty derelict by many historical standards.
But the problem is if you have the PhD and you've got all these fancy accolades and however you were able to acquire them, you just think you're so much smarter than you are.
And that kind of hubris, that pride, will blind you and it will make you look dumber than the dumbest person you ever met on the street.
Speaking of Ordinary people being smarter and more competent than liberal elites.
There's a story I teased a few days ago that I want to come back to.
This is a trucker and a motor company founder absolutely destroying the liberal narrative on why we all need to get rid of our cars and switch over to electric vehicles in about two seconds.
Do you ever see yourself going 100% EV?
No.
And why not?
I mean maybe.
If battery technology gets better, grid infrastructure gets better.
But like this truck, like a Logan truck uses about two and a half megawatts of power per day.
With extra capacity in the battery means you need a three megawatt battery pack.
The biggest one is like a Tesla Semi.
Which is like a one megawatt.
Like, so you need three megawatts to run an electric truck.
That would mean you would need to pack 50,000 pounds, 40, 50,000 pounds of batteries just to do a full day.
And then let's say we can even get those batteries down to the same weight where it's reasonable.
The grid infrastructure, we haven't invested in our electrical grid since the 1950s, 1960s, 70s.
Like, Did you give me an example?
Logging trucks in BC.
That's a niche industry.
There's a 5,000 logging trucks that haul logs at 2.5 megawatts of consumption per day.
That's 12.5 gigawatts of power.
Site C dam has been under construction for the last I don't know 15 years at a cost of 20 billion dollars and that has a 1.1 gigawatt so a 20 billion dollar dam that takes 15 years to build has a 1.1 gigawatt capacity and logging trucks just logging trucks alone are using 12 and a half gigawatts you would have to flood an area of land the size of Wales to produce that hydropower I love it.
It goes on, by the way, but it is so refreshing to see knowledge and competence.
And it's especially delightful when the knowledge and competence are exhibited by someone who is looked down on and dismissed by society.
This is a white dude up in Canada, America's Evil Top Hat, and he's not wearing fancy clothes.
He's just wearing flannels and he's out there.
He's not in a fancy office at the penthouse, top floor of a skyscraper.
He's just there in a field with some big trucks.
And he's interviewed, and he's asked, hey, why don't you want to switch all the way over to electric vehicles?
He goes, well, yeah, I don't think I'm going to end up doing that.
And you know what the liberal audience says.
They're going to say, oh, here we go.
Here's this big, dumb, rube idiot.
He's probably a climate change denier.
He, this guy, what does he know?
He's just prejudiced.
He's just tied to his old ways because he likes big, scary-sounding trucks.
Yeah, here we go.
Oh, yeah.
Tell me why you don't want to switch to electric.
He's like, well, you know, here's a boot.
The reason why I don't think so is because the batteries need to be three megawatts.
But the largest battery at the moment is produced by Tesla.
It's one megawatt.
So it actually be worse for the environment to be given the weight of it.
It would be completely inefficient.
It would be impossible.
And then if a train leaves St.
Louis going 400 miles an hour at eleven thirty in the morning and then and he just goes on and you realize, wow, this guy.
Knows.
So much more than any of the climate alarmist people.
Well, there's a story I wanted to get to, I guess we'll have to get to it later, of these radical environmentalists.
You know the ones who paint themselves all sorts of colors and throw soup on famous paintings and smash them up and glue themselves to the street?
Those guys, according to our ridiculous Ignorant culture.
Those guys are the smart ones.
They're the science followers.
And that guy who can recite to you every statistic, every fact about the operation of these engines, about the dams, about the way energy is produced, about the various manufacturers of electric vehicles, that guy's a big dumb stupid idiot because he doesn't believe that the Sun Monster is going to kill us all in 10 years if we don't throw soup on Van Gogh and glue ourselves to the sidewalk.
That is how flipped we are.
Because, you know, those guys who glue themselves, they probably have a PhD, you know?
And that entrepreneur and trucker, who knows?
He might not even have studied sociology in graduate school.
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