The Rudy Giuliani Show: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Rudy Giuliani ties Ash Wednesday’s Christian traditions of repentance to Lent, joking about personal sacrifices like avoiding Rachel Maddow while critiquing Jesse Jackson’s legacy. He slams Iran’s Geneva negotiations for vague "progress," accusing past U.S. administrations of enabling Tehran’s nuclear and terrorist ambitions, leaving military options on the table. The Rhode Island shooting—linked to a transgender suspect with mental illness—fuels his claims of a "corrupted" transgender science crisis, citing 58% mental health diagnoses in trans individuals versus 14% for cisgender people. He frames it as part of a larger ideological threat, ending with a prayer amid conspiracy theories about Marxist undermining. [Automatically generated summary]
This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is the Rudy Giuliani show, and we are on Lindell TV.
And today is the day before Ash Wednesday.
I have only found out now, and you will think I'm maybe very poorly educated, but that this is called Fat Tuesday because you're allowed to eat a lot today to get ready for the fasting starting tomorrow if you observe if you're a Christian and if you observe Ash Wednesday.
So what is Ash Wednesday?
Ash Wednesday is an ancient religious practice of Western Christianity.
Let's put it that way.
It dates back in some ways to biblical times where ashes were used for mourning.
They were used as a symbol of repentance.
And in the early church, hard to know, no one knows exactly how it developed, but they were used during public penance when people would,
I don't know if they would confess their sins publicly or they would pray together for the forgiveness of their sins, much like happens at the Latin Mass, modern version of the Latin Mass, the Episcopalian services, some of the Protestant denominations that follow more closely the old Roman liturgy.
They'll say an act of confession.
I confess to Almighty God of having offended thee.
You ask God's forgiveness.
They used to use ashes at times like that, way, way, way, way back.
Now, Ash Wednesday begins Lent.
That's a 40-day period of preparation for Good Friday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And it was only in 325 AD that the church established the feast of Easter.
Now, it was practiced before.
These are when they became written down And solemnized, you know, put into a regular order that was followed all over the world and then for many, many centuries.
The Council of Nicaea, which is one of the most important councils in Christianity, which developed the Nicene Creed, which is the one used in all of Western Christianity, I believe a good deal of it is used in Eastern Orthodox as well, because they were together then when they met at Nicaea in 325.
And that helped to formalize Easter.
Ash Wednesday didn't really get formalized until the 7th century.
It was Pope Gregory who did so.
And he was the first to formalize, write down, and make regular applying ashes to the foreheads of Christians and accompanied by the words then in Latin, remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Or repent and believe in the gospel.
Those were the two variations that were used.
So tomorrow, when you see people walking around with a big black mark on their face, it's not because they forgot to shower.
It's not because they live in a dirty city.
Things like that happen.
And it's not because they're trying to be a performative artist.
It's because they have went and had themselves reminded that they're going to die, that they're going to return to dust, and that what they do between now and then is going to have a lot to do with their eternal life.
And that the great period of Lent begins and that they should do things differently.
They should begin to maybe sacrifice something, stop eating something that you like, do something that reminds you every day that you're a child of God and you have to serve God and get yourself ready in the right way for reliving the passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
So that will remind you along the way about what that is and what's going on.
It's strongly recommended that the tradition of gathering at your local church in the way that the Romans did during this period of time should take place.
And that usually tomorrow, I know it best in Catholic churches, but I've seen it in Lutheran and Protestant churches as well at various times in the day.
In my church, for example, at 8.30, 7.30 and 8.30, they will have an ash Wednesday Mass.
And then during the course of the Mass, possibly at the end, I guess, that's usually when it's done, the priest will administer the ashes.
And then in my church, St. Edward's, which is here in Palm Beach, they have a 12 o'clock, not Mass, but service to do the same thing.
Other churches then have it again at five o'clock when people return from work.
I mean, you have to check your very, there's no, there's no, there's no fixed time.
It's not as if it has to be on at noon time or any time during the day.
And here's a little advice.
If you are going to fast, and I don't know, I'm going to find out.
And if it's appropriate, I will.
I'll tell you what I decide to give up for Lent.
I'm trying to think of something hard, but realistic.
I'm not going to give up breathing.
You might give up if you like, if you smoke, you might give up smoking.
You probably should give it up anyway.
If you like to drink, maybe you give up drinking.
If you like candies, maybe you give up candies.
But if you don't like candies and you give it up, it really doesn't matter.
Mayor.
Or if you don't smoke and you give up smoking, you haven't really accomplished very much.
Like, I could give up cigarettes because I haven't had one in 45 years.
Mayor, in middle school, I must have been in eighth grade.
I gave up.
I love listening to the radio at night.
I didn't have a TV in my room.
I listened to radio, sports talk radio.
I gave up my favorite sports talk radio host.
His name was Papa Joe Chevalier.
I gave him up for Lent.
Lent's over.
I can't wait to listen to him.
I go back that first day after Lent.
He's off the air.
Oh, no.
In that 40 day, during Lent.
I thought you'd be able to do that.
He died or something.
I don't think he died.
I think he like sold, I don't know, whatever.
His program was sold to a different network or something, right?
It's a sports talk.
But that was an appropriate thing.
He really enjoyed that show, obviously.
Yeah.
So it was my real sacrifice.
You and I should give up Rachel Maddow.
I think God would be really angry at us if we did.
First of all, she even on anymore?
I'm not saying God likes Rachel Maddow.
Who knows who God likes and does?
He likes all of us.
He loves all of us.
But the point is, God knows that we don't.
You know what we should do for Lent?
Now, this would be a good sacrifice.
We should listen to her.
We should force ourselves to listen to her.
Instead of sit through the whole thing, unless it's an emergency.
Sit through the whole thing.
I have listened to her and I go, get her off the air.
Imagine having to listen to the view for an hour a day.
At least Rachel.
You can't do something that would be harmful.
I'm going to read you the last little advice that Jesus gave about fasting, which is I'm going to do some kind of a food thing, I think.
Something I have an idea.
When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites.
Remember, Jesus was very, very down on the Pharisees and the scribes and the Sadducees who used to pray like this.
I'm praying.
See?
I'm giving to the poor.
I'm giving to the poor.
That kind of stuff.
I'm starving.
This is tough.
I only had three meals today.
Not my usual five.
When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites.
They neglect their appearance so that they may appear to others to be fasting.
Amen.
I say to you, they have received their reward.
But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face so that you may not appear to be fasting, except to your father in heaven.
And your father, who sees what is hidden, will repay you.
Wow.
Pretty good, huh?
Yeah.
It's coming up.
No doubt, the greatest book ever written and the greatest man.
Five hours.
God slash whoever lived.
Five hours.
We have five hours to decide if you haven't yet on what you're giving up for Lent.
Oh.
Well, I have decided.
The question is whether I make a public or not.
Okay.
Okay.
Probably, I don't think there's anything wrong with making a public.
I don't think somebody taught growing up that you're not necessarily supposed to.
Sometimes you have to, though.
If you give something up and you're with people, you have to say to them, I don't have that anymore.
If, like, if you have, if you have cereal every morning, you're not going to have cereal, which I don't suggest.
But you got to tell somebody about it.
When you're not eating your cereal, your mommy's got to know, right?
Yeah.
So, um, uh, what the first thing we'll cover today is Iran, and then we're going to cover it in greater detail later at eight with the guests, uh, a guest that we have.
Um, uh, but the negotiations took place today in Geneva early.
They were over early, and they um that seems to be a little more a little more optimistic than I than I read it.
I read it.
Um, well, I'll show you how the first communique came out.
First of all, instead of good progress, it was vague progress originally.
Somebody changed it to good progress, and an agreement on the basic framework for future discussions.
Now, that's quite a bit different.
This was the earlier report: vague progress, not good progress, and an agreement on basic principles for future discussion, not principles for an actual draft agreement.
Now, did the president comment on this today?
I thought I heard him say something kind of rather ambiguous about did we let's check and see what the president's comment is.
Let's start with JD Vance earlier on Fox.
Oh, yeah, we watched that.
Yeah, let's look at that.
Let's play JD on good, and we'll look for obviously not going to make any announcements today.
I think the president has a lot of options.
We do have a very powerful military.
The president's shown a willingness to use it.
He also has a remarkable diplomatic team.
He's shown a willingness to use that too.
And so, what the president has been very clear with the Iranians, and actually, I just talked to Steve Woodkoff and Jared Kushner this morning about some of their negotiations: is the United States has certain red lines.
Our primary interest here is we don't want Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
We don't want nuclear proliferation.
If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, there are a lot of other regimes, some friendly, some not so friendly, who would get nuclear weapons after them.
That would be a disaster for the American people because then you have these crazy regimes all over the world with the most dangerous weapons in the world.
And that's one of the things the president has said he's going to prevent.
Now, we would very much like, as the president has said, to resolve this through a conversation and a diplomatic negotiation, but the president has all options on the table.
And, you know, one thing about the negotiation I will say this morning is, you know, in some ways it went well.
They agreed to meet afterwards, but in other ways, it was very clear that the president has set some red lines that the Iranians are not yet willing to actually acknowledge and work through.
So, we're going to keep on working it.
But, of course, the president reserves the ability to say when he thinks that diplomacy has reached its natural end.
We hope we don't get to that point, but if we do, that'll be the president's call.
So, I think you can see that probably the first description is closer to the mark than the second, which adds two words are so important: good talks rather than vague talks.
Right.
Vague talks means they didn't get very, very far.
They say good, the first, this is the first release.
Vague, I'll read it to you exactly.
Vague progress.
Now, listen to this key difference, and an agreement on basic principles for future discussions, not an agreement on principles on a framework for draft nuclear deal.
The latter would suggest that you're much closer than either the original statement or the vice president's remark.
And I guess we have to go with the vice president's remarks as probably the most accurate barometer of where they are.
Now, you know, you just get the feeling.
You get the feeling that he's going to do something.
You just do.
I mean, there are just too many resources there.
And then however the agreements go or the discussions in Geneva go, you've got the Ayatollah and some of his henchmen saying things like, well, we'll never agree to be completely, we'll never agree to be completely non-nuclear.
Agreements And Disagreements00:15:12
So what they're saying is, we'll agree, the caveat being they're going to lie, so it doesn't really matter, right?
But they're going to agree, like they're going to agree, not to have a nuclear weapon, but they're not going to agree not to have nuclear power.
Now, that's, of course, the great fear because they are such a dishonest, and that's probably the nicest thing you could say about the regime.
And the president has come to the very, very solid conclusion for our safety and the world's that these people should not have nuclear power.
They're too damn irresponsible.
And so that looks to me like there's been no progress on that at all.
He also wants a complete settlement of the problems with them.
He wants them to stop funding terrorist groups.
Well, you would think he would because they kill Americans, not just only Americans, but Americans.
I don't see them agreeing to that.
I don't understand.
And maybe later on on the 8 o'clock show, we're going to have a guest, and maybe he can explain.
I ask all of them, and honestly, they don't seem to have a better explanation than I do.
Other than these people are insane, irrational.
As long as they lie so much, why don't they just agree?
Wait them out and then hope that they get a pro-terrorism, pro-Islamic extremism president like Obama or Biden, who will not only allow them to do it, but will fund it for them.
I know, I know, people just don't accept that, but the biggest funders of Iran have been Obama and Biden.
And Obama made it real easy.
He did it in cash.
Yeah, I know.
Why isn't he in jail?
Because he's Prince Obama, and he has to help us defend us against UFOs, or I think they're called UPOs now.
He's defending us against them, and he's spending a lot of time doing that and getting billions for it.
Jesse Jackson died today at the age of 84.
He was very ill for quite some time, I think, right, Ted?
Yeah.
He was born, actual name at birth, Jesse Lewis Burns.
And he was born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina.
Very different South Carolina than the one he left behind.
He died surrounded by his large family, right?
Jesse had a large family.
I mean, not just the sons and daughters, but always would see him in a very large family group, in addition to his professional supporters or political supporters.
It is reported that he died peacefully with a lengthy neurological disorder, progressive supranuclear palsy.
Oh, okay.
So not Parkinson's.
Pardon me?
That's not Parkinson's.
I don't think it is.
Well, I'll ask Dr. Maria later is progressive supranuclear palsy or PC, PSP, the same as Parkinson's.
Parkinson's is a deal unless we shake, right?
Yeah.
Oh, by the way, Dr. Maria will be on our 8 o'clock show to talk about several issues, in particular that Rhode Island, that Rhode Island killing by yet another transgender person.
And this is not in any way to create problems for transgender people.
In fact, it's to try to solve problems.
That we be honest about it.
There's nothing served in being dishonest about it and not reporting it.
It may be a disproportionate number.
It may not be a disproportionate number if you look at it in a certain way.
And there may be characteristics that can be predictable and they may not.
But why put this beyond a human discussion and medical discussion?
That's a terrible thing.
A terrible thing to do.
That's really a product of our horrible dictatorial age.
To say that he was one of the most influential civil rights leaders, I don't think is debatable.
People that liked him, people that didn't like him, people that were neutral about him.
I knew Reverend Jackson, didn't know him well, but I knew him over the years and have lots of questions about what he did and how he did it.
But he always had a respectful relationship.
So that I don't ever remember yelling at him or having him yell at me or him calling me a name or my calling him a name.
I sure as hell disagree with him a lot.
He sure as hell disagree with me.
He was a protege of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He was with him when he was with Dr. King in the 1960s, 68, when Dr. King was assassinated.
His real development, he had something called the Operation Breadbasket in the early days in Chicago, but he began Operation Push, People United to Serve Humanity.
And the National Rainbow Coalition was more really of a political organization.
Push was a charitable organization.
And some would say verged on, if not stepped over the line, into a kind of extortion operation.
You know, we'll do a national boycott unless you hire black people, fine, and contribute to push.
Not so fine.
I don't know.
I don't, I should know this.
I was in the Justice Department during many of these years.
I don't know if there was ever a serious investigation of Reverend Jackson on the theory that he was shaking people down.
If there was, suffice it to say, there were never any charges of that.
It was a suspicion of his enemies.
I have no reason to have nothing to suggest to you that it can be proved.
It's a supposition.
There are lots of suppositions about a lot of us, but no proof of that.
And other than that, he irritated a lot of people, but to me, he seemed to always conduct himself like a gentleman.
His presidential campaigns in 84 and 88 were really the first serious campaigns by a black candidate in which he was a, if not ending up with a decisive vote, certainly had a decisive voice in the positions and the debate involving the Democrat candidates.
And then as it feeds into the election, I mean, those elections would have involved Ronald Reagan's re-election, which was really not much of an election.
That was sort of a wipeout by Reagan.
But like every other election, no one really knew it was going to be quite that wipeout when it was going on.
So they paid a lot of attention to that.
And 88 was a turning point election in some ways.
It was Reagan going out and Bush being able to work out a victory in what was a close election, maybe at the end, not so close, but close right up until the end.
And at some points, people thought Dukakis would win that election.
I do not remember Jackson being an extraordinarily enthusiastic supporter of Dukakis.
I may be wrong, but I don't remember that.
Hmm.
If there were things that I was upset with him about, it would be his embrace of Castro, which I found extremely contradictory as I did all of them embracing Castro.
Here they are supposedly fighting for civil rights and human rights.
And here's a guy who slaughters people, threw all the Jewish people out of the country, threw so many other people out of the country, created a country where people were being persecuted.
How about him?
Originally with AIDS, he put him in jail.
Imagine they were upset with Ronald Reagan because he didn't give enough money to AIDS.
I don't even know what it was when it started.
He gave plenty of money to AIDS eventually.
Pretty sure his health didn't put anybody in prison.
Castro put people in prison for AIDS.
They used to put him in prison for homosexuality.
He originally started with COVID that way.
Or whoever succeeded him, they killed a couple of people because they didn't want to spread.
I mean, the Hollywood romance with Castro was a situation that would make me vomit.
And I don't know if I could say it sealed my complete disrespect for Hollywood.
There are probably about 10 other things that did that.
But why a guy like this was part of that.
And he always seemed to be embracing anti-American situations abroad, which I always thought was so damaging, so, so damaging, because it kept people away from him.
Even with Dr. King, I mean, Dr. King came out against the Vietnam War, and there was always the suspicion that one of Dr. King's major advisors, this is true, absolutely true, was a communist.
And that, and therefore, that had a lot to do with it, all the money that the communists gave him, which is the one mark on Dr. King's record, not the J. Edgoova bullshit.
He received the presidential medal of freedom from Bill Clinton.
Strangely, you will find this strange if you're younger and you don't follow this.
He is much closer to Bill Clinton than Barack Obama.
Bill Clinton used him a lot more as an advisor, had him to the White House more.
He and Barack had nothing public, but you could tell, and it was easily often reported on.
Look, I was not an intimate of either one of them at that point, but I knew they didn't like each other.
What do you think?
Yeah, it's interesting.
Well, they both came from Chicago.
Yeah, you would think.
But really, did Obama, Obama grew up in Hawaii?
He really isn't a Chicago guy.
No, he came on the scene.
He was a Chicago guy.
It also gave him a, there was a certain realistic politician about Jesse.
And I mean, the conversations I had with him, you could have a very realistic political conversation with him, not something off in the let's play.
I know we got out the remarks of the remarks of Half a Brain, our former president, which he got into a great deal of trouble for.
But he's referring directly, well, he's really referring to Jackson and Sharpton when he says this.
Do we have media that got him in trouble?
Personal comments he made about another White House hopefully Senator Barack Obama, recorded by a reporter for the New York Observer.
I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice looking guy.
I mean, that's a story, Brooklyn.
If Biden thinks that Obama is the first clean and articulate.
Well, he's referring, he's referring to there were only two really major black candidates at that point, Sharpton.
But I don't remember when Sharpton ran for president.
Sharpton is certainly not unclean-looking.
And I'll tell you another thing about Shifty Al, who I know since he was 16.
You cannot say he's not smart.
Shifty Al is smart as hell, and so was Jackson.
I mean, so I don't, I'm a hell of a lot smarter than Biden.
I mean, we're talking about IQ testing.
They don't leave him in the dust.
Please, yeah.
But the clean part, I don't know where that, what did it came from the fact that he was, come on, he was a racist.
I don't want my kids to go to school with the animals.
And then we can go on and on and on.
That's why it used to drive me nuts when they would call President Trump when he was a racist.
In fact, I knew him for years.
And when you say, you know, some of his best friends were black, yeah, and some of his best friends were Jewish, and some of his best friends were Italian, and some of his best friends were German, and some of his best friends were, who knows what the hell they were.
But as one person said, jokingly, but appropriately, Trump just didn't make any distinction based on color, except for the color green.
Bro, that's America, right?
Now, do we have Jesse's comments on the president?
We do.
Let's play Jesse.
You're going to be shocked when you hear this.
This is about Jesse Jackson talking about Donald J. Trump, the guy that Democrats call racist 45 times a day.
I now want to bring forth a friend who, when we opened this Wall Street project and we talked about it, he gave us space at 40 Wall Street, which was to make a statement about our having a presence there.
And beyond that, in terms of reaching out and being inclusive, he's done that too.
Last Year's Workshop00:02:16
And created for many people a comfort zone when I ran for the presidency in 80188.
And many others thought it was either laughable or something to avoid.
He came to our business meeting here in New York because he has this sense of the curious and the will to risk to make things better.
He was an effective builder of building with a build of people.
Last year he was a part of our workshop, of our panel workshop on what are the challenges and opportunities.
And so this, a year later, Donald Trump saw a few minutes challenges and opportunities to embrace the underserved communities.
Donald Trump.
Well, it isn't.
Well, that's amazing.
But that's what Donald Trump is like, was like.
And I have no, I mean, I haven't seen, I haven't seen, I hadn't seen the Reverend Jackson or Jesse in a long, long time.
Maybe eight years ago.
I saw him at some point during the representation of Trump in Washington.
I mean, I remember his not being terribly impressed with how the Democrats were acting or didn't think it was going to happen.
Sort of had a realistic view, which is that if you spend too much time on this and you don't have substantive accomplishments, it backfires on you.
Something like that.
And that was like 1819, 2018, 19.
But I haven't seen him in a long time.
And I don't, not only have I not seen him personally in a long time, but I haven't seen him on television or being interviewed.
So I imagine he was pretty darn ill.
So pray for him.
Pray for the repose of his soul.
And mostly pray for his family because he was a religious man.
And whatever good he did or whatever bad he did, he's going to have to deal with it with the God that he worshipped.
And I'm sure God will be merciful, a lot more merciful than a lot of people would be.
And pray for his family.
They really was a loving family.
And I'm sure they're going to miss him.
He's a good father and a good guy.
Pray For Him00:04:45
I know.
Hard to believe.
Used to be that way in America.
Well, let's take a short break so I get my microphone back, which has decided to act up on its own.
It's probably an AI microphone, I think.
Yeah, yeah, it corrects me.
It's not a non-Grok AI.
No, it corrects what I say.
And we had to have an exorcism so we could get the woke devil out of there.
There was a woke thing in here that would change my words.
Yeah.
So now we got it out, but it's a little wounded as a result of that.
We'll be right back.
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So in case you're wondering, Ted and I, and particularly Ted, is very creative in figuring out what we put in back of us.
Unlike so many other shows, and unlike our earlier practice, both in my podcast, which goes back now Six or seven years, and this show, which goes back about five years, we would have a fixed background.
Now, we now, and for the longest time, we used a fixed background here in New York.
Of course, we had a study.
And here we use a background.
And now we decided some time ago, I think we maybe decided during the summer when we were in New Hampshire because we had something new there.
We decided we would try to put things up that are representative of what we're going to cover or not only, but the main story.
So, that's that's Turan that you see in back of you, right?
Right.
Am I right?
That's Turan.
Which, by the way, and maybe you're going to say I'm crazy, reminds you a little of Seattle, Washington, because of the tower.
There's a little something about it that gives you now Seattle has a lot more buildings than that.
It's not as lonely as that tower.
But that's our actual back, our actual background.
Where's our other flag, Ted?
No, behind me.
We have on these.
Yeah, yeah, they're flanking the red.
But there's the background.
So it's a terrible, terrible, and tragic shooting in Rhode Island where you just don't think of things like this happening.
But, you know, it's happened anywhere.
And this is whatever else this shooting was, it's another example of the serious mental illness that we have in this country that we ignore.
It isn't just that we have mental illness.
I mean, humanity has probably been played with mental illness forever, but we don't deal with it.
We just let them out on the street.
So what are we watching there, Ted?
You'll have to help me a bit.
That's one of the shooting, one of the videos taken at the time of the shooting.
Well, it's a weird video.
It looked like they were hitting each other.
That's the crowd.
Watch the man in the yellow jersey.
He's the one that stopped.
Oh, I see.
He's the hero.
Yeah.
So he.
We'll play that a few times and then we'll play another video.
Now, he did have another gun.
He did have another gun, and he got off a couple more shots after that guy got the first gun away from him.
Okay.
Oh, really?
He got more shots off.
So that's when he takes him down.
But it really limited.
I mean, I don't know if he killed anybody after that.
He had a second gun and he got shots off after the guy, thinking he had him pinned, goes ahead and he gets off a few more shots.
And then, and then you see the I must say, I am very impressed.
I have some shots.
There's another hero.
There's a few people that said that's him with the hat.
So the guy in the hat must, or guy, woman, that's the shooter with the white hat, I think.
See it?
So we'll play it a few more times.
And a couple people.
Well, now watch the hockey.
Look at these poor kids.
Here's the other eagle.
Here's the part that I thought was very, very dangerous, right?
We can play that with some sound, Jason, if that's possible.
Yeah, if it's possible.
We could go.
You're not expecting a shooting when you're all in on a, you're focused on hockey and all this stuff.
I don't think those kids ever skated faster in their life.
Did you see how fast that one kid was?
We should get him for the Rangers.
Yeah.
Look at him go.
So they know.
Look, this kid came back and told them to all get the hell out of there.
Yeah.
Did you see that?
Yeah.
There's a kid on the ranks trying to figure it out.
So there was no agreement on which way to go.
Did you see the people coming back toward us?
Right.
The ice ranks, I grew up on had ice ranks.
Well, I think that makes sense.
The people that didn't have skates on had to come back that way.
And that's where the shooting.
And the people with skates on went this way.
And where was he in back of them, Jet?
He was in back of them, right?
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So all of them now are within range of him.
What the hockey players did is very, very smart, except for the last two there.
Something like that.
I mean, here's a it's a heck of a calculation.
Yeah, your mind is they went across there probably in about two to three seconds, right?
Maybe four.
Maybe four.
But as a group, he's not going to be able to shoot all of them.
Yeah.
So you're really calculating, we may lose one or two.
We won't lose everybody.
I once made that calculation in my life.
It's a very hard one to make.
Sometimes I still think about it.
What a coward.
What a pathetic coward.
Oh, the anger.
I'm not even going to express the anger.
This is the guy who did it.
And I don't know.
It looks like a guy.
I think this is him now, theoretically, his saying he's a girl.
He doesn't look like a girl to me.
He does have breasts.
Could have done an enhancement.
Couldn't have done it.
Many of them do.
But I mean, this just doesn't look like a girl.
Look at that.
Looks like a guy on Halloween going around as a girl.
Absolutely.
I sure as hell wouldn't let him in the girls' room.
I don't care what he said.
And here we have his social media.
This many say this is him.
This is from just two days ago.
Well, that sure as hell looks different.
Well, no, that's not him.
Sorry.
So that's the transgender Congress person, Tim Sarah McBride.
Where does she come from?
Sarah McBride, I believe, is actually from Rhode Island, but let me check.
No.
Really?
She is a United States representative.
I just don't think a Rhode Island is from Delaware.
Delaware.
Well, yeah, two small states.
And so put that comment up.
So that's Kevin Speaker.
That was a stupid remark.
Two small states, like small states produce disproportionate.
You got to be really careful about this.
He's starting to make like universal statements.
So this is Kevin Sorbo pointing out that Sarah McBride is in fact Tim McBride, and he calls this congressperson a man.
Alex Jones responds under so creepy.
And below Alex Jones.
Oh, creepy.
I mean, please.
Oh, my God.
Below that, it's believed to be the shooter from yesterday.
This is from a couple.
You mean he commented on it.
Yeah.
He commented on it.
He was very active online, right?
They have, they're going over lots of posts of his.
He responds with, shut the F up, Alex, referring to Alex Jones.
Don't be so butthurt over somebody different, then wonder why trans people go F in berserk.
Well, I don't, I mean, I don't, I, I don't know Alex Jones that well, but I'm, I'm going to sort of use a generic defense.
I got real problems with this for a lot of reasons, not because I dislike them.
You want to have you?
In fact, you.
I have real problems with this because I think they're being taken great advantage of.
And then I don't know with the combination of the removal from reality that this creates.
And then the way it's become so contentious and the way in which there's this attempt to reinforce their unreality, if that hasn't added an element making it more dangerous.
Or is it possible that the hormones and the playing around with things maybe you're not supposed to play around with?
You know, maybe that's what creates the violence.
Here's, this is his daughter, his natural birth daughter from the woman he killed.
That is what we believe.
Because he was divorced from her a year or two ago.
The one person that he killed.
This is coming out of the police station yesterday.
He's dead now.
She described that shooting suspect as her father.
She came out of the police department behind me here in tears after presumably being interviewed by police.
My father was a shooter.
What happened?
See McCanley.
And who he's dead now?
What was the reasoning of their family argument?
He has mental health issues.
So yes, she goes on to describe those mental health.
Well, there's no way you can interpret the affect or the reaction of anyone, male, female, when something like that has just happened to them.
I think she said the obvious, and maybe she couldn't say much more.
He had mental health issues.
Seems like he had them for quite some time.
It seems like he displayed them over and over again.
Rhode Island, as far as I can remember, is filled with those trigger, you know, red, what do they call them, red light triggers, which I know in New York meant nothing when the mass killing took place in Buffalo because nobody ever turned the guy in.
If you go back over this, and we'll go over it, as I said, in a little more detail at eight, you're going to say to yourself, why didn't they turn him in?
Why didn't they?
Why didn't they?
I don't know why we even have those things.
But in any event, to say that this was predictable, I don't know about that, but that he was going to do something terrible and awful was, and that he should have been in a mental institution.
And 30 years ago, would have been.
I mean, there are an awful lot of people walking our streets who can commit ultimate harm, meaning taking a human life, who shouldn't be there.
And under a saner America, would not have been there.
This is one of them.
And also the perverted, malicious attempt to distort and corrupt science has a lot to do with this.
And the people who do it, some of them, and not just a few, for money, because he make a lot of money making these changes.
And we know the medical profession complains like crazy about all the bookkeeping and they don't make enough and doctors don't get paid enough.
And I sympathize with all of that.
But it's like sympathizing with a guy who's not making enough money when he goes and robs a bank and shoots somebody.
Sorry, pal.
We all have to live with things that limit us.
It seems to me, not being a doctor or a scientist, but a person with extraordinary sharp reasoning abilities and common sense, that if you have the biological attributes of a male and think you're a female, you have a mental illness.
Now, that is not attacking anybody.
That's no more attacking someone than if I said, if you think you're George Washington, you have a mental illness.
I'm not angry at you for it.
I'm not, I'm as sympathetic to you about that as I am if you told me you had cancer.
Maybe more because, you know, cancer, the treatment is not in dispute in terms of you can be treated by a doctor and you're going to have, you're either going to have chemotherapy or an operation or wait, wait, wait, wait and see.
And we're not going to maybe it's more likely to take your life, maybe not.
I don't know.
One study that I saw today quickly, I think it was on with Dr. Safir on Fox.
And they said that she was saying that there's just no doubt that there's a very, very strong connection between this illness and now lately violence and a lot of it violence of the person to themselves.
58% of transgender people are defined and just diagnosed with a mental illness.
And only 14% of, in this study, it looks like it was done by a sympathetic group, referred to as cisgender, which would mean heterosexuals.
That's a big difference, 58% and 14%.
Both seem rather high, but I'm more interested in the proportion than I am the percentage.
It's because you do worry that, you know, you hear this story and you hear that story and you hear this story and you hear that story.
So what's the comparison?
Is it just disease getting more attention?
It doesn't appear that way.
And there is a tremendous effort to hide this.
I don't know who they think they're helping by hiding it.
They sure as hell are not helping these poor people that suffer from this illness.
And that's where our sympathies should go.
And of course, to the innocent victims of this corrupted science, which are mounting, mounting in very, very large numbers.
And I just don't think you can continue to close your eyes to this.
This is a national scandal that's going on, much like the way we assisted in getting people killed by perverting and corrupting science, in part for money during COVID.
And we should get in charge of it and we should do something about it.
So we will discuss that very shortly when we go over to X with Dr. Dr. Maria, who has quite a bit of experience and knowledge about this.
And I think some very helpful observations and also some other news on it that would be valuable to us.
I think we need a more disciplined scientific analysis that Dr. Ted and Dr. Ruby can deliver.
Also, just before we go, I'll remind you again that tomorrow is Ash Wednesday.
If you are a Catholic, a Christian who observes Ash Wednesday, of which there are many beyond just Roman Catholics.
And for non-Catholics, it reminds you why you may see.
Yeah, yeah, you know, if you want to laugh at us, it's okay.
I never mind it.
But you know why?
No, I mean, I never, I never, I did.
I mean, I remember when I was a kid, they used to try to make fun of you about this.
But since I lived in a neighborhood that was Irish and Italian, you know, they obviously all and Jewish, and the Jewish kids, you know, the Jewish kids were curious, but I don't know, you can't make general statements like this, but Jewish kids were just good kids.
It wasn't exist.
It wasn't, I mean, the Irish kids and the Italian kids were a bigger problem than the Jewish kids.
Let's face it.
Wow.
Also, Bezos and Musk are in a war, peace war to get to the moon.
Who's going to get there first?
Isn't that great?
That's the kind of competition we want.
I don't know if those two guys like each other, but I like them because they're helping America.
Thank them.
God bless them.
And again, we're going to go over to X. We're going to continue on this conversation about Rhode Island.
And we're going to go into more detail on Iran because below the surface, there, there's a lot brewing.
God bless America.
Thank you, God, for all that you give us.
And look, let's make a special prayer on this eve of Ash Wednesday for the transgender people who go through torture and their unfortunate and tragic victims.
I'm not sure this has to happen in an America that hadn't been attacked by this Marxist-communist attempt to bring us down.