Ep. 1563 - Libs Forcing RFK to Stay on Ballots in Swing States
An abortion battle heats up in Florida, swing states won't let RFK Jr. off the ballot, and a prominent "anti-racist" con artist gets caught plagiarizing "people of color.”
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An abortion battle in Florida is highlighting the particular challenge not just for pro-lifers, but for all conservatives and Republicans in November.
Florida currently bans virtually all abortions after six weeks.
If you think it's wrong to murder babies, then this law still isn't perfect, but it's pretty good relative to many other states which permit infanticide up until the moment of birth.
Florida Democrats, however, are trying to change all of that through a ballot measure in November called Amendment 4, which would permit abortion all the way up to 24 weeks.
It's a measure that is unfortunately both barbaric and, like so many other pro-abortion ballot measures in recent years, likely to pass.
Because Floridians, despite voting reliably Republican in recent years, strongly support abortion.
According to Pew Research, 56% of Floridians believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while only 39% say it should be illegal in all or most cases, and 5% say they don't know.
Democrats know those numbers.
And while they do sincerely want to kill more babies, they are also using the abortion issue instrumentally to get their presidential candidate elected.
The abortion issue motivates their base to show up, especially in a year when the nominee has nothing else to run on.
And what's so interesting about this issue in this election is that the Republicans are in the opposite situation.
Republicans need to defeat Amendment 4 because it's so horrific.
But the only way they're going to defeat Amendment 4 is to use the presidential election instrumentally to get the ballot measure defeated.
The presidential contest motivates their base to show up.
It's a political paradox we haven't seen before because this is the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade.
But this year, if pro-lifers want to secure their recent historic wins and prevent a radical expansion of abortion, They need to get voters to forget about the whole issue.
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Kamala is running on Trump's border wall.
It's a new ad.
That's something else.
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There are a lot of fights over forgetting things on the ballot this year.
Obviously this abortion issue is really big.
And you're hearing this from me.
I am as pro-life as it is possible to be.
And because I am pro-life, I want to win.
I want pro-life measures to succeed.
I want the pro-abortion measures to fail.
And sometimes that means you gotta be wise as a serpent and innocent as a dove.
And you need to take a hard look at political reality and realize that the number of voters who are pro-life Is relatively small.
Certainly the number of voters who are consistently pro-life is quite small.
And so if we want to defend the cause of life, we gotta be crafty here.
This irony for the Democrats that yes, they are pro-abortion.
Kamala's fanatically pro-abortion.
But they're also using the abortion issue instrumentally to get all their other stupid policies passed by getting their candidate elected.
And it's not a bad thing to be crafty.
It's not a bad thing to deal in political reality.
If you don't deal in political reality, you're going to lose everything, all of the substantive goods that you want to advance.
So, while we're trying to figure out how to work this ballot issue in Florida, the Democrats are trying to work ballot issues in the swing states.
Notably, the ballot issue of whether or not Bobby Kennedy Jr.
is going to appear on the ballot.
So you remember when Kennedy dropped out of the race some days ago and said that he was going to remain on the ballot in the states that were not up for grabs, California, New York, the really Democrat states or the really Republican states, he was going to stay on the ballot, no big deal.
It's not going to affect anything.
But in the swing states, where his presence on the ballot might hand the election to Kamala, he was going to remove his name.
Furthermore, our polling consistently showed that by staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats with whom I disagree on the most existential issues, censorship, war, and chronic disease.
Okay, so he's going to pull himself off the ballot, except the states don't want to allow him off of the ballot.
Wisconsin and Colorado have denied Kennedy's requests to be removed from the ballot.
It's unclear if North Carolina, which is a swinging state, unfortunately.
Kamala is showing some promise in North Carolina.
It's unclear if Carolina is going to take Kennedy off the ballot.
Now, Kennedy has managed to get himself removed from the ballot in Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.
That's good.
As well as Florida, which I guess is technically up for grabs, but it's looking pretty good for the Republicans, Ohio and Texas.
He's also off the ballot there.
But Michigan's a big one, and Michigan has just ruled officially they're not going to let him off the ballot.
Michigan has said minor party candidates cannot withdraw, so his name will remain on the ballot in the November election.
That's a spokesman for Michigan's Secretary of State.
Now, the irony of all this is RFK Jr.
had to fight tooth and nail to get on the ballot in the first place.
The Democrats were doing everything they could to keep him off of the ballot when it looked like Bobby Kennedy being on the ballot was going to spoil the election for the Democrats back when Joe Biden was still in the race.
Now that things have changed, he says, OK, I want to get off the ballot.
He's got to fight tooth and nail to get off the ballot.
They're not going to let him off the ballot, but they are going to let some minor party candidates off the ballot.
They're going to force some minor party candidates off the ballot if they can.
Minor party candidates cannot withdraw, OK, but I guarantee you they'll let Cornel West withdraw.
I guarantee you they're going to try everything they can to keep Cornel West off the ballot because he would be a spoiler for the Democrats and he would help the Republicans.
It's ironic and yet it's totally predictable.
As the meaning of Bobby Kennedy in the race has changed, so too the arguments for keeping him on or off the ballot are gonna change from the libs.
That's why it's very, very important for Bobby Kennedy to be out there encouraging his voters time and time again, vote for Trump.
In the swing states, I am urging you, I am demanding that you vote for Trump because The Michigan Democrats who are running the elections over there are going to do everything they can to convince those people to keep voting for Kennedy.
Why do these little things matter?
These little ballot type initiatives matter because Kamala Harris is a weak candidate.
Frontlines just went out there to interview some Kamala supporters.
Why do you support Kamala?
Here's the answer they got.
What do you think was Kamala Harris' most memorable moment as VP?
I was gonna say all of the memes and the internet.
Just her dancing all around.
I'm just like, yes.
I mean, when she was with... I think she was making curry.
Who was she with?
I know what you're talking about.
Mindy Kaling.
Yes?
Anyways, that was really funny.
I think her most memorable moment was...
I should go.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I mean, I'm not really too crazy about anything that she has, but I just know that what she does have is actually going to work.
Like, Donald Trump, his campaign has been predicated along the idea that he is going to reduce taxes, reduce inflation, and reduce regulation.
And all of those things go against my ideas as to what makes a successful economic policy.
In reality, she stands as just the party pallbearer.
Party standard bearer, as well as the thing that is the best chance of defeating Donald Trump.
So sorry to say the most coherent answer there came at the end from that fellow wearing a trans people belong shirt who has long hair and who knows what his self-described identity would be.
But that was the most coherent answer.
And the answer was, yeah, Trump wants to reduce inflation and that contradicts my preferred economic policy.
We found the one Democrat in America who is explicitly for inflation.
Yeah, when the cost of goods and services is affordable, that opposes my economic policy.
I want Zimbabwe-style $100 trillion bills to go out and buy a jug of milk.
Okay.
And that was the most coherent one.
You heard the first answer, said, oh, the most iconic moment of Kamala's vice presidency?
I think it's the memes.
And there are memes, they're kind of contrived memes, like when that singer girl said that Kamala is brat.
She posted that neon green color and she said Kamala is brat, whatever that really means.
Okay, regardless of the meme itself, Kamala has nothing to do with that.
That's just something that Kamala's supporters are contriving to try to make her look cool.
Or, you know, that time that she made curry with Mindy, whatever her name is.
That was so iconic.
And the second person says, my favorite moment of Kamala's presidency.
I got to go.
I don't know.
I got to go.
And then the third guy's honest.
And he says, yeah, it's not really about Kamala.
She's just the pallbearer of the Democrat party.
She is.
She's the pallbearer of American democracy.
That's a Freudian slip where you say one thing and mean your mother.
But he says she's just a Democrat.
You know, she's not Trump.
So that's why I support her.
Okay.
Well, if there is nothing that even Kamala Harris's supporters can point to to recommend her, then that means they're going to have to...
Well, you know, try to imprison Trump, establish the conditions and justification to murder Trump, try to kick Trump off the ballot.
That's why they're going to have to play shenanigans with the third party candidates.
That's why they're going to have to do anything they can to distract from From Kamala's person.
With the exception of hard partisans, every single Kamala vote is explained by DEI.
Well, she's just, you know, she's just her.
She's just her.
She's a black woman and I think that's really, really important.
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Speaking of DEI, great, great story from the Washington Free Beacon, Robin D'Angelo.
The standard bearer for the anti-racist white liberals, the woman who wrote White Fragility.
She and Ibram Kendi have divvied up the pie of the oodles of money available if you're willing to shill anti-white race hustling.
Robin DiAngelo has just been accused of plagiarizing The work of two scholars, and she's actually been accused of plagiarizing the work of two scholars of color.
This in her 2004 doctoral thesis.
A complaint has been filed with the University of Washington outlining 20 examples of alleged plagiarism in the White Fragility author's dissertation, Whiteness in Racial Dialogue, a Discourse Analysis.
Now, the scholars that she allegedly ripped off are both Asian, so they don't quite have as many special POC points as, say, a Black author would or an Hispanic author would, but they are still, by the logic of Robin DiAngelo, authors of color.
And DiAngelo says, On her website, she says, one must always cite and give credit to the work of BIPOC, that's not a sex thing, that's black, indigenous, and people of color, who have informed your thinking.
When you use a phrase or idea you get from a BIPOC person, credit them.
And now the irony, the height of hypocrisy.
This woman, Robyn D'Angelo, steals from the BIPOC and she doesn't credit them.
What hypocrisy?
Who could have seen this coming except for everyone?
Of course, the whole Robyn D'Angelo phenomenon is plagiarism.
Forget about the particular words in her dissertation or anywhere else.
The whole phenomenon Of bougie white ladies making a career out of selling white guilt to other bougie white ladies.
That is plagiarism.
They are plagiarizing the black power and other racial grievance activists of the 1970s.
They took a look and they saw that mow mowing the flatcatchers was a pretty booming business and they wanted to get a piece of the pie.
That's what happened.
The whole racial grievance industry is a scam in itself, but specifically the thing that Robin DiAngelo is selling is a kind of plagiarism.
She goes over, she sees that the Black Panthers did a pretty good job shaking down people, individuals, corporations, and governments, and she walked up there and she said, yeah, that's right!
Down with the man!
Jive Turkey, let's go!
I'm with you guys!
Black Power, yeah!
Can I get some of that sweet money, please?
And she's done pretty well.
She's made millions of dollars doing it.
It's a scam.
Ideologically and philosophically, it's a scam.
And it's a big financial scam.
And so, no wonder the scammer apparently scams people.
No wonder.
Turns out this thief is a thief.
Now, speaking of plagiarism, there is an even more egregious example of plagiarism involving white people and people of color.
In this case, though, this would be a woman of color stealing from a white man or some would argue an orange man.
This would be Kamala Harris stealing Trump's signature policy in her new campaign ad.
Kamala Harris has spent decades fighting violent crime at As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs across the border.
As vice president, she backed the toughest border control bill in decades.
And as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking.
Fixing the border is tough.
So is Kamala Harris.
I'm Kamala Harris and I approve this message.
So you heard all of those promises.
If you were just listening, what you didn't see is a picture of Trump's border wall, the border wall that Biden and Harris on day one set out to tear down.
Kamala Harris is now campaigning on Trump's border wall.
And she's campaigning on getting tough on the border.
And she's campaigning on cracking down on the drugs pouring over the border.
And she's campaigning on all the things she could be doing right now.
She could be doing all these things right now.
I know she's not the president.
She's only the vice president.
She's only the number two in the government.
But on this issue, Joe Biden, who is ostensibly the president, I don't know if he's practically the president.
He's sitting on a beach in Delaware right now and has been for two weeks.
But on this issue specifically, Biden in 2021 gave Kamala Harris presidential power.
He said, when she speaks with me, when she speaks on the border crisis, she speaks for me.
So, of course, the first question that any Republican, any interviewer should ask, though the interviewers won't ask this because they're on Harris's side, maybe the first question that Donald Trump should ask in that one debate Kamala's agreed to is, if you want to do all these things, why aren't you doing them right now?
Why haven't you done them yet?
What have you been doing for three years?
It's even more than pointing out a flip-flop, it's pointing out an obvious lie because she could do all these things right now and she's choosing not to because she doesn't really believe them.
Of course, the second option Republicans have, and I think we should pursue that line of attack, but the second option is then, hit her from the left.
Hit her from the left.
Her base hates the border.
They want open borders.
They hate ICE.
They want to abolish ICE and immigration enforcement.
They believe that no human being is illegal, including criminals.
They believe that America is stolen land, and the poor indigenous Guatemalans and Mexicans and Hondurans and Nicaraguans and Ecuadorans and anyone really from Latin America, other than Cuba, because those guys vote Republican.
And the Colombians are a little sus, because they sometimes vote Republican too.
But all the other ones are really good.
And they all have a right to come into America, because this is stolen land that we took from the Iroquois and the Patuxet or whatever.
And so the left believes all of this stuff, and they've been campaigning on this stuff for years.
And that has been the official policy of the Biden administration.
So hit her from the left.
What?
Wow, wow, can you believe this?
You elect Kamala, she's going to start deporting all of the sweet dreamers, all of the poor undocumented Americans.
Hit her on the left.
Start suppressing that vote on the left in the same way that the Democrats get Republicans to do that.
Doesn't matter that the attack is incoherent.
We are just pursuing an Alinsky-ite tactic, which is forcing the other side to live up to their own standards.
And they're not going to be able to do that.
This is, in fact, my point on abortion.
You know, look at what Kamala is able to do.
With a straight face, she's able to say Kamala Harris is promising to get really tough on the border.
That thing that she's sworn for years she won't do.
Her vice president right now has said if the Republicans want to build a 25-foot wall, he's going to go find a 30-foot ladder.
He said this on CNN.
And I think seeing a plan that's out there, talking about it with folks, knowing that he's not going to do anything.
You know, he talks about this wall.
I always say, let me know how high it is.
If it's 25 feet, then I'll invest in the 30-foot ladder factory.
That's not how you stop this.
30-foot ladder factory.
Walls don't work.
That's Kamala Harris's vice president.
So on an issue like abortion, I don't think Republicans should lie.
I think it's dangerous and it's immoral to come out and say, oh, we support abortion.
Just vote for us, but we support abortion.
I think it's dangerous because one, it might lead Republicans then to supporting more pro-abortion policies.
But it's a lie, and lies are intrinsically wrong, and I don't think we should do anything unjust or immoral.
But at the very least, we can speak in a vague way.
If the Democrats can go out there and they're so serious about winning elections that they're going to outright lie and adopt Trump's popular policies on the border.
At the very least, what Republicans can do, if we really want to advance pro-life policies and get our guys elected and advance all the other policies we want to, is play it cool on controversial issues.
That's what the Democrats are doing to great avail.
Maybe we can learn a lesson from them.
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All of these questions would be good for an interviewer to ask and yet...
We know who the interviewer is who's going to do the one interview with Kamala Harris thus far.
And Kamala's not even going to give a solo interview.
She's got a tag team with Governor Tim Walz.
Her running mate.
Some Democrats are pointing out that all presidential candidates do a sit-down interview with their running mate.
This is nothing.
This Republican attack on Kamala for tag-teaming the interview with Tim Walz is disingenuous.
Trump did the same thing.
Biden did the same thing.
Romney did the same thing.
Yeah, it's true.
It's true that presidential tickets will often do a joint interview together.
The difference between Kamala and all those other people, including Joe Biden, is that Those other presidential nominees had also done solo interviews.
Those other presidential nominees had proven that they could sit down alone and answer tough questions, an important aspect of the job of the president.
And then they sat down to showcase their ticket.
Kamala, she can't survive an interview on her own.
Even getting soft questions from a friendly network, from an interviewer who hates her opponent, even then she doesn't feel capable of answering simple questions.
That's why she's got to call in Big Daddy Tim to bail her out.
And these will be softball questions.
Just a little trip down memory lane, Dana Bash, who is the CNN reporter who's going to be interviewing Kamala and Tim Walz.
Here's a little compilation of her views on Donald Trump put together by the Daily Wire.
President Trump has said repeatedly that he could have gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange.
What do you say to that?
What do you say to President Trump now, former president?
Why didn't he do this president?
Sir, what did you say?
Thank you, guys.
Come back to me.
Come back.
Thank you.
I think that was what they call a mic drop moment Why didn't he do it when he was president?
What a historic moment.
As you well know, the Trump administration negotiated the withdrawal agreement from Afghanistan with the Taliban and the State Department.
A conditional agreement.
A thing that is playing out all over conservative media.
I just want to do a little bit of record Correcting, there's no, there's not record crime right now.
Number one, Harris was put in charge, as you said earlier, of combating the roots of immigration.
She was not and is not the Borders are.
Okay, so Dana Bash, just any opportunity to hit Trump, even to say when Joe Biden made some incoherent babbling remark and then he sort of dotted off the screen, so that's a mic drop moment.
That's, that's what you're going to get.
From this CNN debate.
And there's no indication that Kamala is going to be doing any solo interviews.
They're going to do everything they can to protect this woman from her own words.
At the same time, they're going to be turning up the anti-Trump propaganda.
We got another one just this week.
The new headline from the fake news is that J.D.
Vance has said that teachers, school teachers without biological kids really disturb him.
And when I saw this headline, that's the headline everywhere.
Here it is.
The People Magazine.
J.D.
Vance said he's really disturbed by teachers who are not parents in Resurface 2021 audio.
Zillion other headlines just like that.
And I noticed that the quote here, it was one quotation mark.
It wasn't two, meaning it was a kind of paraphrasing.
It wasn't a direct quote.
And I said, okay, well, if they're paraphrasing and it's not a direct quote, I bet this is a total lie.
Let me find the audio.
What did JD Vance really say?
And I think our conservative idea is that parents and families should determine what children wear and what values they are brought up with.
You know, so many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they're people without kids trying to brainwash the minds of our children.
And that really disorients me and it really disturbs me.
Brandi Weingarten, who's the head of the most powerful teacher union in the country, she doesn't have a single child.
If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours to hell alone.
There we go.
Did J.D.
Vance ever once, in that clip, this resurfaced shocking clip, did he ever once say, teachers without kids really disturb me?
Not once.
He never said anything like that.
He spoke about one particular person, who's not even a teacher by the way, who's just the head of a teacher's union, Randy Weingarten.
And he said, it disturbs me that this woman who did a specific thing, she forced American children out of school, she personally destroyed the education of American students for years, refused to let the kids come back after the COVID pandemic, after the big scares were over, refused to follow the science and the evidence, refused to put kids' education first, screwed up the education of countless children in America,
That this woman, who is effectively running education policy in America, more than anyone else in the country, including the Secretary of Education, that this woman doesn't have any skin in the game.
She doesn't have any experience.
And so he says, look, if she wants to traumatize kids and scandalize kids, she can have some of her own and do that.
That'd be very sad for those kids, but at least it wouldn't then affect millions of American schoolchildren.
That's what he's saying.
And that becomes- J.D.
Vance criticizes the way that the Teachers Union president injured, seriously harmed millions of American children becomes J.D.
Vance mocks childless school teachers.
He didn't do anything of the kind.
Lie, but it doesn't matter.
They won't even be called out for libel here because in the headlines, they acknowledge, they're just kind of paraphrasing him.
This is just a kind of interpretation of what he said.
It turns out to be totally wrong.
But the most absurd propaganda of late, forget about Dana Bash on CNN, forget about this nonsense you're saying about JD Vance.
This one, I hope you didn't just finish your breakfast.
Your stomach is going to be upset when you hear this one.
Opinion piece, Wall Street Journal.
Doug Emhoff, this is Kamala Harris's husband, the second gentleman.
Doug Emhoff, modern day sex symbol.
Excuse me, sorry.
I'll just try.
Doug Emhoff, modern day... Can you even get that phrase out?
Emhoff, this is the subheader, Emhoff is secure enough with his own masculinity to sometimes prioritize his wife's ambitions over his own.
What a hunk!
So says Catherine Rample.
I'll just read you one little paragraph here.
This is no joke.
This is the second sentence, third sentence of the piece.
Move over, Ryan Gosling.
The modern female fantasy is embodied by the man who might soon become our first gentleman.
Emhoff appears to be a genuine mensch with an impressive career.
He's smitten with his wife and supports her ambitions, as is obvious from his convention speech and their sweet interactions on the campaign trail.
But most important for this sexy sobriquet, Emhoff is secure enough with his own masculinity to sometimes prize his wife's ambitions over his own.
What a hunk.
Whatever his previous marital dramas, they had to acknowledge, even the Washington Post in this ridiculous puff piece, had to acknowledge that Doug Emhoff was already married.
Kamala is the second wife and he, you know, I'm not revealing private sins, this has all been widely reported, his marriage fell apart in part because he impregnated his babysitter while he was married and, you know, was just apparently a lousy husband.
But they write this off.
It says, whatever his previous marital drama, Emhoff is the working woman's ideal partner.
And that line I think is the key to the whole piece, because I don't want to just make fun of this ridiculous idea that, and I'm not making fun of Emhoff's looks or anything else, but nobody seriously considers this man a sex symbol, okay?
Politicians in general are not considered, are generally not sex symbols, and maybe Ronald Reagan was probably the last one.
I don't, no.
I don't, I don't think.
Bill Clinton, I guess, maybe.
Trump, okay, some, but many not quite.
Certainly not Doug Emhoff.
Whatever his previous marital drama, Emhoff is the working woman's ideal partner.
This, I think, is probably true.
He's obviously not a great husband, given what he did in his marriage.
Not the ideal husband.
I don't think anyone would seriously say that with a straight face.
But, it might well be the case that he is the ideal partner for women who prioritize their professional careers above all else.
Yeah, you're not going to get Father Knows Best if you are Kamala Harris.
That's probably true.
If you have ordered your life like Kamala Harris and you've just put your political ambitions and your professional career above everything else.
I'm not saying, you know, you have a job or you care about your professional work.
I mean, you know, that's it.
You have presidential-style professional ambitions.
Yeah, you're not going to get Father Knows Best.
Probably not.
You're probably more likely to get A guy like this, who would not be most women's first choice for a husband, but hey, he'll at least keep quiet and sit at home while you go out and do your job.
That is probably relatively attractive to women who want to put career above everything else.
But it's not attractive.
And I think even those women would admit that.
They'd still rather have Brad Pitt or Father Knows Best or Gary Cooper or something like that.
But they'll have to settle for Doug Emhoff because Doug Emhoff is the kind of guy, the Doug Emhoff type, the modern-day sex symbol.
You're right, maybe he's a modern-day sex symbol.
He's the kind of type that is probably the best thing you could settle for if you take modern sex politics seriously.
But that's not attractive.
I don't think most people want that.
I don't think most women want that.
I don't think most women want to put their career above everything else.
I think actually you're seeing now day after day more and more women expressing regret feeling that they've been duped by modern culture that told them Don't get married.
Don't have kids.
Just go work in the widget factory.
All that matters is the widget factory.
Men and women are exactly the same.
Women should engage in casual sex in the same way that men do.
Oh, you'll feel great about it.
If, you know, you accidentally get pregnant, if you contract that awful sexually transmitted disease known as a beautiful human life, just go kill it through abortion.
That'll make you happy.
That'll make you fulfilled.
And it's not.
We had a woman call into the show last week who said, you know, Ended up having an abortion, and, you know, I take responsibility for that choice, and this is how I was also led to make that choice, and it tortures me.
It tortures me to this day.
Yeah.
Right.
Doug Emhoff might be the modern-day sex symbol.
That is not a praise of Doug Emhoff.
That is a condemnation.
That is an indictment of the modern day.
Maybe we need to change the way that we think about these things.
There's so much more to say.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from slapmybass3825 who says, "To think Taylor Swift thought Trump was trouble when she walked in, but then she realized I'm the problem, it's me.
All the haters are going to hate, hate, hate, hate, so shake it off.
Yeah, I think that's fair enough.
I think that's a pretty good take.
Speaking of attraction, a woman has gone viral.
Think a woman.
I had to tip to our friend over at Libs of TikTok.
For describing the problem, not just of transgenderism, which is so overexposed, not just of the LGBT movement broadly, but the real challenges of gender fluidity.
Here are some examples of my gender fluidity being a little... Number one, feeling like a guy and visiting my relatives.
I don't know if you know this, but I'm not out to my family.
Therefore, when I'm feeling like a guy but I have to present super feminine in front of my relatives, it makes me feel icky inside.
Also gender dysphoria is a- Number two.
When suddenly, my gender decides to change right before bed.
I'll just be vibing, and then it'll be like, binder time- No, Michael.
It's not binder time.
It's bedtime.
Number three in the freaking middle of the day I'll be walking all happily along and then suddenly boom gender change no no no now is not the time Michael I have a day to run I don't need this dysphoria right now most of the time I won't have the resources or capabilities to reduce the gender dysphoria because I didn't bring along with me a hat or a binder or makeup if it's the other way around so it's a it's a real
Okay, so she's referring to herself, her other personality as Michael, and when she says binder, she's referring to tools to flatten her breasts.
So, the most basic way to look at this is that this girl is suffering from severe mental illness, and probably severe confusion over human nature, and probably some spiritual distress.
But there's one little key here that she said that gives you an insight into, I think, really all of the weird sex stuff, the gender fluidity and the transgenderism and the LGBT element of being all of that.
She says she's trying to go to bed.
And then this person, this other personality of hers, Michael, in an old cartoon, you might see this as a devil on your shoulder, says, binder time.
No, no, no, it's not time for you to go to bed.
It's time for you to stay up and engage in a kind of sexual fantasy.
And she said, no, I just want to go to bed.
But then that little devil on her shoulder, sorry, that split personality of hers, Michael, says, Binder time, no no no, engage in this kind of sexual behavior, and it reveals that all this stuff, at a very basic level, is a sexual compulsion.
This is something that she is drawn to do, that she is tempted to do, against her rational will.
She's saying, oh it's a real B-I-T-C-H, I really, all this stuff, gender dysphoria, it's a real B-I-T-C-H, doing the binders and the this and it's a real B-I-T-C-H, you know?
It is, right, because your rational will says, I just want to go about my life normally, but then these sexual compulsions and temptations are taking you over.
In the same way, my friend Andrew Klaven says that every man is two drinks and a wink away from ruining his life, because if you're sitting in a bar, you've had a few, and a woman looks over and winks at you, you might be tempted to go and sleep with her, or cheat on your wife maybe.
That's against your rational will, but it's something that people are tempted to do as a sexual compulsion.
Same could be said of any of this stuff.
Porn, cross-dressing, binding, all of these things are just compulsions.
And so she's probably inadvertently admitting how to view this thing.
There's a very good book by Dom Lorenzo Scupoli which is called The Spiritual Combat.
He says, you know, with certain temptations you really can face them head-on and you look them right in the eye and you fight them.
With sexual temptations you just got to run away, just get out of there, you know.
And people used to know this, there was colloquial advice, you know, if you're hanging around, let's say you're hanging around the bar and there's a cute gal walks by and you're really not trying to go pick her up, go Think about baseball.
Go take a cold shower.
But get out of there and then do something.
Go to bed in this case.
This girl wants to go to bed and she's drawn by a sexual compulsion.
Just go to bed.
Just get away from it.
It's not It's not a real part of your identity.
It's not a real anthropological fact about human nature.
It's not a meaningful ideology that will lead to your flourishing.
It's just a temptation.
And not everyone has that temptation.
Relatively very few people, though a growing number of people I guess, especially in Gen Z, have this temptation to gender fluidity or to any kind of weird sex stuff.
But it's just that.
It's just a temptation.
You can just fight it as you would any other temptation.
Well, there was some advice last week that comes from the first epistle of John, which is, he identifies three temptations.
The lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.
And traditionally, there's just real nuts and bolts kind of ways to deal with that.
Lust of the eyes, you know, covetousness and avarice, well, give charity, give alms.
Lust of the flesh, fast.
Just eat less food.
It just kind of works.
We're body and soul, and it just kind of works.
And pride of life, pray.
You know, take yourself into eternity.
That's it, just basic stuff.
You don't, this poor girl, who's obviously tortured by this, the modern culture, all the way up to the president of the United States and the Democrat nominee for president say, yeah.
They're there like the little devil on the shoulder.
Yeah, put on the binder.
Yeah, that's right.
Call yourself Michael.
Yeah, let's go.
Tim Walz is saying, yeah, come to Minnesota.
Leave your family.
Come to the windowless white van of the Midwest.
We affirm transgenderism here.
But this girl's saying, I really don't want to.
It's a real hassle.
It's a real B-I-T-C-H.
You don't need to live that way.
You're not the first person to deal with temptation.
You're not the first person to deal with disordered desires.
You can avail yourself of the wisdom of the ages.
No wonder that the left wants to deny the wisdom of the ages, wants people to forget about it, wants us to imagine what can be unburdened by what has been, also known as perennial wisdom.
Now, speaking of relations between men and women, I mentioned that this debate between Trump and Kamala is going to happen.
I predicted that it would happen.
I said Trump's not serious about pulling out of the debate.
This is already the deal negotiation stuff.
And you know, I hate to tell you that I told you so, but I was right.
Trump posted on True Social, I have reached an agreement with the radical left Democrats for a debate with comrade Kamala Harris.
It will be broadcast live on ABC Fake News, by far the nastiest and most unfair newscaster in the business, on Tuesday, September 10th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The rules will be the same as the last CNN debate, which seemed to work out well for everyone except perhaps crooked Joe Biden.
The debate will be stand-up, meaning I guess they won't have chairs to sit down, and candidates cannot bring notes or cheat sheets.
We have also been given assurance by ABC that this will be a fair and equitable debate and that neither side will be given the questions in advance.
No Donna Brazile, remember that was the Democrat Former head of the Democrat National Committee, who was then working for one of the left-wing news channels, who rigged the election, the primary debate for Hillary against Bernie Sanders.
Harris would not agree to the Fox News debate on September 4th, but that date will be held open in case she changes her mind or flip-flops, as she's done on every single one of her long-held and cherished policy beliefs.
A possible third debate, which would go to NBC Fake News, has not been agreed to by the radical left.
God bless America.
So it's all just a reframing.
And notice Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, made this great point when he was psychoanalyzing Trump in 2016.
He said, one thing Trump does really well is he talks beyond the sale.
Talks beyond the sale.
So it's not, you know, if he were selling, if he were selling you a cell phone.
He wouldn't say, hey, do you want to buy this cell phone?
He'd say, cool, so how many cell phones do you want to buy?
Six or seven?
And you want an iPad on top of that and a computer?
Okay, I'll get you the package with the computer and the iPad and the phone.
And so you say, no, no, no, I don't want all that.
I'll just take the phone.
So he's talking to you beyond the cell.
That's what he's doing here to Kamala.
He's saying, you know, OK, we agreed to this debate, even though it's going to be totally rigged for her.
And, you know, she's going to she hasn't agreed to the Fox News debate, but maybe she'll flip flop like she always does.
And anyway, by the way, there's going to be a third debate on NBC.
NBC is terrible, too.
But we're already we're talking about the third debate.
We need to talk about she just barely agreed to the first debate and she explicitly has not agreed to the second debate.
He's already talking about the third debate.
The whole thing is about a reframing.
Kamala was trying to frame this as Trump running away from a debate.
Now that framing has been totally.
Switched.
If Kamala could have gotten out of that one debate, I think she probably would have.
Now there's no way for her to get out of that one debate, and even as rigged as ABC News likely will be.
I'm not saying that Trump is the greatest orator since Pericles.
You know, that would be overstating the case.
But he's a much better debater than she is.
And she has much more to lose from this debate than he does.
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Republicans are Nazis.
You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
Growing up, I never thought much about race.
It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.
Am I racist?
I would really appreciate it if you left.
I'm trying to learn.
I'm on this journey.
I'm gonna sort this out.
I need to go deeper undercover.
Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.
Here's my certifications.
What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
Listen more for you in this field.
Is America inherently racist?
The word inherent is challenging there.
I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
America is racist to its bones.
So inherently?
Yeah.
This country is a piece of...
White.
Folks.
White.
Trash.
White supremacy.
White woman.
White boy.
Is there a black person around here?
There's a black person right here.
Does he not exist?
Hi, Robin.
Hi.
What's your name?
I'm Matt.
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
