Citizens Going FULL PUNISHER As Crime In Democrat Cities Skyrockets, GOP WINNING On Crime Issue
Citizens Going FULL PUNISHER As Crime In Democrat Cities Skyrockets, GOP WINNING On Crime Issue. A viral video shows a store clerk brutally taking down robber without hesitation.
Crime is skyrocketing mostly in Democrat run cities as people begin to lose their patience. Several viral stories have shown people using force to stop crimes as police are defunded or demoralized. Many cities are suffering from police shortages and now vigilantism.
Woke District Attorney's are letting hardened criminals go while claiming they are improving things.
Trump celebrated an endorsement sweep and one strong element for the gop victories is likely crime.
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Today is August 5th, 2022, and our first story in a shocking video of a robbery caught on tape.
The store clerk draws a knife and ends the life of the robber.
People are going full Punisher as crime skyrockets, and many are blaming woke Democrat attorneys who aren't prosecuting crime and policies banning self-defense.
Something's gotta change.
And we're seeing it.
Trump's endorsements went 8 and 0.
I think people are saying enough to this stuff.
They don't want to live this way anymore.
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Cut off ties as the conflict begins to escalate.
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It's getting crazy.
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Now, let's get into that first story.
I just watched a particularly troubling video of a store clerk in Las Vegas.
It's a smoke shop.
Two guys come in wearing ski masks to rob him.
One guy just grabs something and runs out of the store.
The other guy jumps over the counter.
The store clerk, wielding a knife, doesn't hesitate, and begins just going full force into this robber who's screaming, and then says, I'm dead, I'm dead.
The videos, it's shocking, it's left me with this feeling, but I couldn't stop watching it.
The brutality of it.
But I'm not mad at the guy who, uh, was defending himself.
A lot of people watched this video and they said that, you know, he went too far with it.
I feel it.
I definitely do.
But I also have empathy when crime has been skyrocketing in so many cities.
When, you know, there was a woman, I think she was, like, pushed onto the tracks in New York City.
When we see these videos of people going around randomly punching Jewish people in the head.
You saw that in New York?
For a long time.
I don't like what happened at all, and we need it to stop.
But I see these videos and I'm just like, dude, people are starting to just say ENOUGH.
Not to mention, crime is getting crazy.
The first story I pulled up is from a couple days ago, and you may have seen it.
Quote, he shot my arm off.
Armed man flees when 80-year-old store owner fires shotgun, video shows.
Look, this dude came in with an AR pointing at an 80-year-old man, threatening to kill him to end his life.
We need this stuff to stop, but the police ain't doing it for a variety of reasons.
There's mass resignations, there's police shortages, there's defund the police.
You've got these woke attorneys who are not prosecuting crime and they keep releasing violent offenders.
And we see it now with the big news in Florida, where Ron DeSantis removes the woke state's attorney who said he wouldn't prosecute certain crimes.
And now I see regular people.
Maybe it's always been the case.
But it feels like it's ramped up, or at least that's what the news is saying.
And some of these people, I just describe it as going full Punisher watching this video.
I'm like... I don't know what to say, man.
You put on a ski mask.
You break into someone's store.
And the question is...
I can't play this video for you.
I won't do it.
You can search for it.
Ian Miles Chong on Twitter, he posted it.
That's where I saw it.
The question is, is it self-defense?
And I think the answer is undoubtedly yes.
I am sick of this idea from people that someone can put on a ski mask, jump over the counter, coming at you, and you're supposed to sit back and say, I'm going to go ahead and assume my life isn't in danger because I don't want to get in trouble.
No way, dude.
Well, I don't like how it went down.
I just don't like violence.
I don't want to see anybody get hurt.
What are we supposed to say when you put on a ski mask?
Jump the barrier.
Jump the counter.
For too long, we have seen crimes like in San Francisco, they're shutting down stores because they can't deal with it.
Cops can't deal with it.
People are coming in and just doing whatever they want.
Society is breaking apart.
What we need, we need law and order.
We need a just system.
We need prison reform, hands down.
And we need law enforcement, man, because I'll tell you, this is worse.
And this should be a wake-up call to people, because you see cops arresting someone, and you're like, hey man, you can't arrest that guy for that, and I'm like, I'll take that.
If it means we don't get a dude pulling out a knife, terrified, probably, of this guy in a ski mask, jumping the counter, and then stabbing him.
I don't know, man.
I want to talk about what's going on politically.
I want to talk about Carrie Lake's victory and why we're seeing Trump's endorsements 8-0 sweep.
I think it has a lot to do with what we're seeing politically.
It's the economy and it's crime.
Watching this video out of Vegas, man.
There's another story.
There's a bunch of stories.
I did a simple Google search.
There are stories about people that are seemingly saying, enough!
And they're not waiting around to see if they're going to be murdered, killed by these criminals as violent crime skyrockets in these cities.
Something's got to give.
Something's got to change.
And I think that's where it comes in politically.
So I want to talk about all of this stuff.
I want to talk to you about these stories.
And I'm not going to show the video.
I can't show the video, man.
It's too brutal.
It gave me this feeling I can't even describe.
But I'll show you a still from what went down before it went down.
And so maybe we can talk about the story and why people are saying, Donald Trump, Republicans, Ron DeSantis, whatever it is, restore the rule of law.
You get stories like this.
Man yelling he shot my arm off.
Why is a dude taking an AR semi-auto rifle and trying to rob this gas station or this liquor store or whatever it is?
We'll read the news, and I'll show you the story.
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One of the stories we have, State Attorney Responds to Suspension by DeSantis for Refusing to Enforce Florida Laws.
This is what is driving this stuff!
These DAs, these state's attorneys, man.
Alright.
Let me jump to the first story right here.
And then we'll talk about the 80-year-old guy with the shotgun.
KTNV Las Vegas.
Las Vegas police investigate robbery, stabbing at business near Sahara Arville.
Here's the story so far.
It's from August 3rd.
There's not a lot of information on this yet.
Police are investigating a robbery and stabbing in the central part of the valley on Wednesday afternoon, just before 3.30 p.m.
A robbery was reported at a business in the 4500 block of West Sahara Avenue, near Arville Street, police said.
It was discovered that at least one person had been stabbed, police said.
Yo, I think the guy's dead.
Or at least paralyzed.
The incident is under investigation and a public information officer could not immediately offer additional details.
I looked into this after seeing a video.
Here's the video.
I'm not going to play it.
It's too brutal, man.
I can't do it.
I watched this.
I feel bad for this clerk.
I really feel bad for the burglar.
I mean it, hands down.
For the robber, I think is the right word.
But you know what?
You choose to put on a ski mask and try and rob a store.
And I will never, never put the responsibility on the victim to assume they have to wait until someone tries to murder them before they can defend themselves.
This is dark stuff though, man.
Asian smoke shop owner defends his store in Las Vegas.
I don't think so.
I think he was defending his life.
In his hand.
He's holding a knife.
This guy reaches over and grabs something.
Both of these dudes look maybe white or Latino.
This dude in black.
I can show a little bit.
He jumps the counter.
This clerk, he's armed, and he runs right up, without hesitation, and goes right for this guy who's stealing.
Now, a lot of people have responded by saying, he went too far.
This guy clearly wasn't threatening him, he was just trying to steal stuff.
I would not play that.
You put me on a jury, and you tell me to convict a store clerk, I would say no.
I'm sick of it.
I don't blame the victims.
I think there's responsibility involved.
You know, like when someone's at an ATM at 2 in the morning, and they get robbed, they say, obviously the guy who committed the crime is the person who should be held criminally responsible.
Well, we can at least ask for some responsibility on the part of the person who's going to an ATM in a dark alley or whatever.
Someone walking through a dark alley at night.
You know, you're increasing your risk.
I'll tell you, do better.
Like, you've got some responsibility here, but clearly the criminal penalty is for the criminal.
This dude jumped over.
I think...
I think this guy's not going to get charged.
I mean, he might, because of what's been going on.
But I tell you, man, I think we're getting dangerously close to that, like, Viva Vendetta moment.
People are just saying, no way.
Nuh-uh.
We got another story in New York, same story.
A guy was harassing and screaming at people on the train.
Some dude got to try to get him to stop.
Went full vigilante.
We got another story, an MMA fighter, full vigilante.
I think it's going to get worse.
You put me on a jury and you ask me what this Asian, this smoke shop owner, he's thinking, and he's gonna say, how am I supposed to know if this guy's armed with a gun?
He's wearing a ski mask.
He jumps over the counter.
All I know is it's either I stop him or I'm done.
You take a look at this story.
He shot my arm off.
Armed man flees when 80-year-old store owner fires shotgun.
Video shows.
You see this one?
Dude, I've been seeing these videos pop up and go viral and I have to wonder about what's happening.
I'm not saying it's new, but I do kind of feel like with crime skyrocketing...
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Strap hanger stabs man harassing other passengers on NYC train.
Cops.
They say a guy was harassing and pestering and screaming at people on a southbound number two train approaching Sterling Street.
When some guy, a strap hanger, you know a guy's hanging on, he confronts him trying to get him to stop.
A fight breaks out and the strap hanger stabs the dude.
I watched a video of a guy sexually assaulting a woman on a train.
People standing around filming it.
Dude, this stuff can't go on.
I have warned about this.
Many people have warned about this.
That if the police aren't doing their job, or they can't do their job, but more importantly, if these attorneys, these state attorneys, these prosecutors, stop prosecuting crime, this is what you get.
There was that guy who was like, You know, cheering the rioters on in downtown LA.
And they started marching.
Then they started marching to his wealthy, affluent neighborhood.
And he was like, what are you doing?
Don't come here!
I live here!
He cheered for the poor people to have their neighborhoods destroyed.
And he got mad when they came for him.
I blame every single woke voter, she said.
Seniors getting beat up in Beverly Hills while walking.
Keep voting for this.
What a sad state this city is in.
On Wednesday night, the singer took to Instagram stories to express her frustration over the current sad state L.A.
is in.
As a result of her concerns about the city, McPhee38 said she would no longer be wearing any nice jewelry, specifically on her fingers and wrists, while going out in L.A.
And also noted her endorsement for Rick Caruso, who is running for mayor of L.A., in each of her posts.
In the first post, the American Idol alum re-shared a post of a story about an elderly man who was apparently jumped, mugged, and beaten up.
alongside the story McPhee wrote. This is literally my worry and thought every time I go out now,
we need Rick Carusola pointing out what has happened in BH proper. What's this world coming
to? Man, I feel it. I lived in New York and you know why I got out?
Because for those that watch all my videos, you heard.
When the bombs went off.
When people planted bombs.
I lived on Myrtle and Nostrand.
And I decided I probably should leave here after a black nationalist walked up to two cops and executed them.
I said, okay.
It's getting crazy.
With the protests that were going on, that was the last straw.
So what did I do?
I still want to work in New York City.
I jumped the river.
I went over to Union City, New Jersey.
One day, a bomb went off in Manhattan.
I think it was like on 25th Street.
A bomb was planted.
I don't know if it detonated.
Bombs.
Plural.
In Jersey City.
And I was just like, I gotta get out of here, man.
Went to South Jersey.
And I was just like, You know, look, I don't think the chances that I get affected by that stuff are high, but they're going up.
And then I saw in South Jersey when the BLM riots were escalating.
They crossed the bridge from the Philly side into Jersey, and I was just like, dude.
It's getting crazy, man.
If it's not gonna be some kind of civil war like I've seen with what happened in Portland, with Aaron Daniels taking two to the chest, with a black nationalist executing two cops in front of my home, it's gonna be just societal breakdown.
And that's what we're witnessing right now.
Cultural breakdown.
Something's got to change.
I think regular people are seeing it.
Catherine McPhee talking about this crime and blaming woke voters.
So what do you get?
You get this.
Into the politics.
Now I was originally going to do a full segment just talking about Carrie Lake and Donald Trump's perfect record until I saw this video.
And then it just smacked me like a ton of bricks just slapping me in the chest.
I could feel my heart being like compressed watching that video of that store owner just end that robber.
Ended him.
And then I thought about all this political stuff, like why is this happening?
Why did Ron DeSantis go after that state's attorney?
I remember being in Egypt and watching someone die.
I think that was the first time I watched someone die.
And it was a weird feeling.
I remember seeing a serious, massive, catastrophic injury to an individual on a highway.
I watched a car accident.
Car accidents, let me clarify, I was about 10 seconds away.
After the accident happened, you could hear it, and then we see the aftermath.
That catastrophic injury, man, people don't understand the feeling.
You ever watch a movie?
And I'm sorry if this is, you know, trigger warning for people.
You ever watch a movie?
Or Law and Order or something like that?
And the detective walks up and they see the victim and they throw up?
A lot of people don't understand the feeling you get and maybe it's just me but it is a unique feeling I had never experienced before with a word I can't there's no word for it that would describe it the feeling that I got when I saw somebody die seeing this stuff now with the shotgun blasts with the stabbings and I'm just like You don't want to live like a rabbit lives.
You know, I think about the stress.
Every day I go outside, there's rabbits all over the place.
They're cute, they're fuzzy, little Mr. Buns, that's what I call them.
And I see them just terrified and shaking every day.
We don't want to live that way.
But that's what's starting to happen in these cities.
Now, for the most part, we get by.
We have our stressors.
But I think there's some things that are going to make people just say MAGA all the way.
Donald Trump, Republican.
And I think the crime is often overlooked when it comes to what's really affecting the polls.
Because that video out of Vegas, man, I think if you watch that stuff, you're gonna see a lot of people just like, please, get rid of these woke DAs, get rid of these woke politicians.
You've got this act, this American Idol lady in Beverly Hills saying it's the woke voters.
I think people are recognizing this.
Donald Trump celebrating an 8-0 endorsement record.
Now, several of these people were expected to win anyway.
And Trump endorsed Eric, which was three people.
And then one of those three people won, so fine, I guess.
But the big news, politically, is that Carrie Lake is finally in.
She won.
She's up 2.8%.
20,000 votes.
Her lead is just growing.
She sweeps Arizona.
Now, Carrie Lake is talking about the border.
What do you think people are experiencing on the border?
You know, I know you probably don't live in Arizona.
Most people who watch this, they're not living in Arizona.
But you watch the escalation of crime.
The drug dealers, the cartels, all of that stuff.
I just gotta say, man, I think people live in a bubble.
And they have their political issues, and they understand crime.
But I remember back this story about Anonymous, and the cartel executed these people and hung their corpses from a highway street sign.
I watch these videos of vigilantism, I start researching this stuff, and I'm like, dude, something's gotta give.
We cannot let these weak-on-crime people let these things hit our cities.
I often joke about, I tell you this, I joke about Some, not really.
There's that video from Minnesota Pride, Minneapolis, where there's an old man in tighty-whities twerking in front of a little girl.
And then a woman walks up and she waves to the guy.
And she tells the little girl, she like motions for her to wave to, and I'm like, show that to people, that'll wake them up.
You know, that video pissed me off.
Like, this is what they're doing in the streets, I mean, come on.
You had a video that came out now at a Pride event.
There's a guy teaching a little boy to pole dance.
The boy's wearing a skirt.
And Matt Walsh says, I want to see Republicans come out full force against us, otherwise I won't support them.
Yeah, I wonder if what would really get people to wake up is the video out of Vegas that I just watched.
Because people don't want to live this way anymore.
They don't want to live worrying about crime, violence, and I think it was 2020.
It was during the Summer of Love.
I went to a gun store because I heard the sirens and the people crossing the bridge.
I went to a gun store and I said, how do I get a gun?
Did all the paperwork, got my ID card, got everything taken care of, and then I was legally cleared in New Jersey because it's very difficult to go buy a gun.
And I went in and the guy who runs the gun store told me that they had gotten word from, I think it was the ATF, that there was a heist planned on a gun store somewhere in the area and they didn't know exactly where, so they called all the local gun stores and said, be warned.
This is crazy.
He told me that.
He told me that.
I think it was a day or two later in Philly, one of the gun store owners was sleeping in his store, armed, locked and loaded, when I think it was four guys broke the door open and he unloaded on them.
I think he killed two of them, I'm not sure.
And I was just, I'm like, man, this is what's happening, you know?
And this is under Trump, mind you, but this was BLM leftist stuff.
It's all in a similar vein, yet they come out.
They come out, we see Ted Cruz grilling the FBI because they're like the Betsy Ross flag as extremists.
Bro, I have no fears of like a right-wing insurrectionist coming to my home, for the most part.
Like, it's just, I'm not worried about that.
What I'm worried about is general crime and far-left terror.
But it's really just cultural collapse and societal breakdown.
This is part of the reason why Carrie Lake wins.
She wants to declare an invasion.
Send the National Guard down to the border and do something about this.
I know it's not one-for-one, local crime, border stuff.
They're not identical, but they're similar.
You've got Republicans outright saying, we've got to get rid of these woke DAs.
You've got Ron DeSantis doing it.
That's what's happening.
I think we're seeing that shift.
Let me show you.
Fake meat.
Failing.
These leftist causes failing.
I know, maybe fake meat shouldn't have been the first thing I brought up.
In Wisconsin, they've banned pride flags from classrooms.
A U.S.
library was defunded after refusing to censor adult content.
And look what the Guardian says.
LGBTQ authors.
The book Genderqueer.
It shows explicit graphic material.
People are just saying, we're done.
We're done.
Now, for all that being said, when we watch this stuff, I think it's important that people realize the polling.
In the generic congressional vote, Republicans have lost their lead.
It's neck and neck now.
And the people that come out and they're like, oh, it's, you know, it's, um, you know, they say it's fraud, or the polls are lying, and I'm like, I don't care.
You better tell 50 of your friends and family, every single person you know, Knock on doors.
People you don't know.
Go vote.
Because I just see what's happening in this country with crime, with violence, with the escalation, and it is insane stuff, man.
It is dark.
It is brutal.
And, you know, we want to laugh.
We want to have a good time.
We want to make the world a better place for our families, for our friends, for our kids.
You gotta go out and vote.
Carrie Lake swept in a state where people are questioning how the elections are run.
And there are problems there, but she swept.
Now, will she actually win against Hobbes?
FiveThirtyEight's got the polls.
Beacon Research shows Hobbs is way up.
Up nine.
Up, you know, up five.
Taylor Robson was seemingly doing comparable to Kerry Lake.
So I don't know if that matters.
They're saying Hobbs, the Democrat, might actually win Arizona.
And it could be because California Democrats are moving in.
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Carrie Lake sweeps, but only because people went out and voted. That's what's important.
Reuters reports, fringe candidates putting Republicans, US Senate hopes at risk. Yeah,
yeah, yeah.
They got some bad candidates, so we'll see.
We'll see, man.
But I kind of feel like these leftist causes are failing.
I feel like if we don't get out there and deal with this violence and stuff, we don't deal with these DAs, this is where things truly break down.
I don't know, man.
I think these people that run these cities, they believe the ends justify the means.
And I wonder sometimes.
Cities suck.
Right?
They're dense, they require tons of energy, and they produce copious amounts of waste that can't dissipate.
I have to wonder.
If the real goal of these leaders is to just get as many people as possible to leave these cities.
Maybe.
Maybe it's to get Democratic voters to go to Republican areas and start voting.
Like in Arizona, for instance.
Hobbs might win.
All these Californians are fleeing.
Why?
Well, take a look.
Catherine McPhee blames woke voters.
I can't say I'm surprised.
She says, this is literally my worry and thought.
Every time I go out, we need Rick Carusolo.
Well, Gascon may actually get recalled.
I believe he's the district attorney in California.
They already pulled out Joseph Boudin, or however you pronounce it, because the crime was nuts.
And now we got, in San Francisco, the new DA is saying they're going to go after all these drug dealers.
I hope so.
I hope so, man.
I moved out of South Jersey after the rioters crossed over.
After hearing the story about the gun store owner shooting and killing some people.
So we decided to move to Western Maryland, Harper's Ferry area, West Virginia.
I'm a resident of West Virginia.
And it's been way better.
I mean, we've had our issues, because some people are insane and think they can come out here when we're dealing with these.
Like, it's crazy to me that we have, you know, the bomb squad coming out, multiple swattings, and then people are still psychotic enough to try and show up to my house at a time when we are armed, we have armed guards, we have police monitoring everything.
Don't show up here.
But I don't want to get on that.
My point is, it was a smart move.
It was the better move.
So I think people should get out of cities.
But I think you gotta recognize, if you do, you can't vote for those same people.
You can't vote for these Democrats.
You can't vote for these policies.
That video put a chill down my spine.
Because it looks like when the guy jumps the counter, the store clerk He just decides it's over.
I am ending this man's life.
And I'm like, why does it gotta be like that?
I feel terrible for the guy who's getting stabbed.
But he's the criminal.
He's the guy who thought he could victimize someone.
And he paid the price.
I believe he paid the ultimate price.
I don't know if he screams out, I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead.
I wonder.
You know, I did a preliminary search and I didn't find a whole lot.
I found a whole bunch of stories about people just saying no.
I truly believe an armed society is a polite society.
And I think this is what we need a return to.
We need to make sure we elect people who are pro-2A.
I'll tell you why.
We just had a story of a guy who went to a mall seeking to commit a mass shooting.
And a local hero.
They said 40 yards with a handgun.
Took him out.
No bystanders hit.
Stopped this deadly mass shooting.
People need to understand.
They need to fear that if they try to cause harm to people, they will be stopped.
For the time being, in many of these cities, you can't do anything.
You will be charged.
You will be charged.
We've got videos of people committing outright crimes.
And then, you had one story recently.
Black Lives Matter defending a man who opened fire into the apartment of some random woman and her kids.
And then when the cops came, and after a six-hour standoff, the dude ultimately gets shot and he loses his life.
I wish it didn't happen, but I'm not going to blame the cops for someone committing a crime.
And that's what happens.
Black Lives Matter shows up and defends the criminal.
This is what people need to understand about what's going on.
The left is outright saying bail reform and release these criminals.
They were locking up people for COVID infractions while releasing violent criminals and then crimes running rampant.
And you wonder why.
You wonder why, man.
You wonder why these recalls are happening.
George Soros wrote an op-ed recently where he was saying he's just not going to stop.
He's going to keep funding these woke attorneys because we need reform.
Hey, look.
We do.
But your plan ain't working.
It's making everything worse.
The last thing I or anyone should want to see is somebody lose their lives.
I oppose the death penalty.
And many people say, you know, they talk about self-defense in the context of the death penalty.
It's not the same thing.
If you're minding your own business in your store and a guy in a ski mask jumps over, I do not believe that it is incumbent upon you to wait until they have the opportunity to murder you.
It's just crazy.
They took the act of aggression by jumping the counter.
Right then and there, you should fear for your life.
And you should be allowed to defend yourself.
Not the way the left sees it.
They want you to stand back and say, hold on, hold on.
Are you gonna pull the gun?
You're not?
Okay, you can keep stealing.
No, no way, no way, no way.
But anyway, my point is...
If someone is actively being victimized and they seek to defend themselves because they don't want to die, then I believe lethal force in the circumstances is justified.
That is to say, if you believe someone's going to kill you and the only way to live is by stopping them, I don't blame you.
I just think that when the state apprehends someone and disables them from being able to do these things, like locks them in a box, we should probably not trust the state to be the arbiters of life and death.
You know, if the person is in the act of committing a crime, and you stop them, that's life.
That's life.
You want to commit a crime?
You want to hurt people?
People will stop you.
Be it the police or otherwise.
But it's also why I think we can't defund the police.
We need active Functioning law enforcement, but we also need self-defense.
I'll tell you what we need.
We need people to vote out these woke DAs.
We need people to vote for more funding for police.
Hold on.
Training.
I'm not a fan of big city police departments and their appointees.
I think we should have duly elected law enforcement and it should be everywhere.
No more appointed police chiefs, none of that stuff.
But police need better training.
I've always said, you know, what we should have for police is, considering the system's in place, we should have better community policing, meaning a division of officers who are unarmed, a division of officers who are patrol guys who are armed like normal.
And then you can have the unarmed guys deal with mental health episodes.
And if there's a threat of violence, then you bring in the armed guys.
We need to figure out how to do this better.
But I think it's only going to start if we bring in logical politicians.
Oh, man.
That video was crazy.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up tonight at 8 p.m.
over at youtube.com slash timcast IRL.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
So China is sanctioning Nancy Pelosi.
They've been going off with these military drills, firing more and more missiles.
And as I mentioned the other day, it's been reported that some of these have landed in Japanese territorial waters.
And people are getting really concerned that we're getting dangerously close to war.
Which brings me to the main story.
That the Pentagon, under the Biden administration, is once again deferring to China.
You know, look, Pentagon is delaying another intercontinental ballistic missile test to avoid angering China during military drills.
This might be the right thing.
Biden is basically bowing to Beijing, but considering the provocation of Nancy Pelosi and what we're seeing, it might be the right thing.
I don't know.
I don't have access to the information they do.
I don't have classified information, but I will just tell you the simple pros and cons.
I look at this on the outset.
We've got a bunch of news.
We've got China.
They're severing communications with the U.S., sanctioning Nancy Pelosi.
They're firing missiles like crazy.
I think the U.S.
is expecting them to take Taiwan and take it soon.
So when I see the story about the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Test being shut down, it's not the first time this has happened.
I'm worried.
I'm worried that the Biden administration is deferential and weak and is just bowing to China.
That's what I'm worried about.
Nancy Pelosi going to Taiwan was probably a bad idea.
I don't know why she was going there.
Most people, nobody does, I mean, except for the officials.
But a lot of people asked what was the point, other than just inflaming tensions and making everybody lose their minds.
But now there's a question of this.
When Nancy Pelosi went, many people said, well, look, I don't know why she's going, but China does not dictate where U.S.
officials travel.
Here, here.
So here's the tough question.
The Pentagon delaying an ICBM test for China.
Is that good or bad?
If it avoids war, I mean, it's good, right?
But at the same time, it might not.
What you need to understand is that strength, projecting strength, is actually a deterrent for war as well.
And maybe more so than being deferential.
I mean, if anything, this is making things worse.
See, I don't want to be so naive to be like, you should just, you know, saber rattle and fire the missiles, because that could make things worse, right?
But I fear this is making things worse.
There's no easy answer.
When Nancy Pelosi goes to Taiwan, and all this insanity happens, and they sanction her, and then we go, we're sorry, we're sorry!
What does China say?
They say, we can do more!
Now when the U.S.
sends a strike group and a carrier to the Strait of Taiwan, into the South China Sea, and they say, try it!
That's when China says, okay, okay, we don't want to go to war.
But I think what we're seeing here is clear.
The U.S.
is, I mean, it's dejected with what's going on in the culture war, with what's going on with Nancy Pelosi, the Biden administration.
China knows they can do whatever they want.
Nancy Pelosi showed up.
So China went, OK, fine.
We're going to surround the island.
We're going to fire missiles.
We're going to launch them over the island.
We're going to send—what do they have, like 60-some-odd warplanes have now entered the Taiwanese air defense zone.
Yeah, war is close, my friends.
And now the U.S.
is like, we're not going to—we're going to back away.
All that says is that China is allowed to do what they want, and as they engage in these hostilities, they're now learning the U.S.
will cower and back away.
I don't have the answers, man.
I don't.
Because China could react to the ICBM test by just saying, you know what, fine, war it is.
And we don't want that.
But I don't think projecting weakness and backing away and saying we don't want to make anybody angry, I don't think that solves the problem.
I really don't.
You know, Donald Trump had that quote where he said he would nuke Beijing if they went for Taiwan or nuke Moscow if they went for Ukraine.
And I think it's true.
You know, he said, did they really think he'd do it?
I don't know, but maybe 5%?
And that stops them from doing it, because they're scared.
You know, it's like there's an armed society is a polite society.
When you go to Chicago or whatever, there's crime everywhere.
You will get mugged because they know you're not armed.
So when you have hostile actors, and you say, we're not gonna show off our weapons, we're gonna back away here, they're like, good, now's my chance.
But when you're walking around and you're strapped and everybody knows you've got a gun, they say, I'm not going to go there.
It's too risky.
It's too dangerous.
Now the U.S.
is just like, we're sorry!
We're sorry!
This is crazy.
There's a bunch of news here.
I mean, China has announced further measures in the tumultuous wake of Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, including sanctions against her and halting talks with the U.S.
on the few issues the two sides were still on cooperative terms.
Defense communications also canceled.
War is coming, my friends.
China sanctions Pelosi.
Not like anyone really cares about this story, to be completely honest.
The big news is this.
Pentagon delays another intercontinental ballistic missile test to avoid angering China.
To avoid angering China?
Deferential.
The Biden administration is basically just saying, please, China, we're so sorry.
The Biden administration postponed a routine test of an Air Force Minuteman III intercontinental missile on Thursday to avoid further inflaming tensions with China, according to officials.
The U.S.
has repeatedly delayed tests this year as Beijing ramps up its rhetoric over Taiwan, which it views as Chinese territory, and as Russia waged war in Ukraine.
This time, the test was postponed after China deployed dozens of planes and fired missiles near Taiwan in a show of strength in response to the visit of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The test was due to be conducted from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
White House Security Spokesman John Kirby said the decision to delay was taken by President Joe Biden.
Oh man, here we go.
Is it possible that Joe Biden flew his son on Air Force Two to China for a private equity deal and he is suckling at the teat of China?
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It's funny because they were like, Trump is working for Russia.
Look, when Trump was president, Russia was not invading Ukraine.
And then Joe Biden gets in, and now it's bad on both fronts.
You want to come here and argue to me, yeah, well Trump was colluding with Russia.
What was he doing?
What was he doing?
Russia wasn't invading.
It wasn't until Joe Biden got in that that tension started to escalate.
They say, yeah, well, because Trump was doing Putin's will.
What?
What was his will?
Crushing ISIS?
Yeah, get your priorities straight or be honest about what you're doing in the Middle East.
Now, Joe Biden gets in office.
War in Ukraine.
Escalations with China and Joe Biden.
Deferential.
China, please.
We won't.
We won't have these missile tests.
As China engages in destabilizing military exercises around Taiwan, the United States is demonstrating instead the behavior of a responsible nuclear power by reducing the risks of miscalculation and misperception.
Rep.
Mike Rogers, the lead Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, condemned the decision, which he said was designed to placate Xi's tantrums.
That's right.
The news comes after China conducted live-fire exercises following the Speaker of the House's visit to Taiwan.
These weak-kneed, pearl-clutching attempts at appeasement hurt our readiness and will only invite further aggression by our adversaries.
Oh, the Minuteman III.
Alright.
The Minuteman III nuclear missile.
The $7 million warhead that can travel 6,000 miles at 15,000 miles per hour.
Makes up the United States land ICBM of the nation's nuclear triad, along with the Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile and nuclear weapons carried by long-range strategic bombers.
It is a strategic weapons system using a ballistic missile of intercontinental range.
Missiles are dispersed in hardened silos to protect against attack and connected to an underground launch control center through a system of hardened cables.
It weighs 79,432 pounds and can travel 6,000 miles.
The development of the missile began in the 1950s.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
From 2027 onwards, Minuteman will be progressively replaced by the new ground-based strategic deterrent, ICBM, from 2027 onwards to be built by Northrop Grumman.
Get a copy editor, guys.
I know exactly how that goes.
Sometimes we need one over at Temcast.com.
Pearl clutching.
Kirby to the test would be rescheduled but did not offer a new date.
Earlier, a defense official said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the delay to prevent tensions being raised further.
Okay, look, I get it, man.
I do.
And I can say yes, yes, yes.
I understand.
Quote, this is a long-planned test, but it is being postponed to remove any misunderstandings given the PRC's actions around Taiwan, the official told the Wall Street Journal.
The nuclear-capable missile, we read quite a bit about it, a March test, was also delayed after Russia said it was putting its nuclear forces on high alert.
It was postponed until April before being delayed again.
I gotta wonder, you know, what kind of weapons does the US have?
The Minuteman III apparently ain't nothing compared to the Satan II.
Washington said at the time that it was important both nations bear in mind the risk of miscalculation and take steps to reduce those risks.
However, officials said the intent was only to delay the test A little bit.
Not cancel it.
China has fired 11 ballistic missiles into the waters off its south, western, and northeastern coasts.
It's in Taiwanese territorial waters.
They don't care.
American forces, including the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, which is forward deployed into the Pacific Fleet, and are thought to be lurking nearby, while missile-tracking spy planes have been sent to watch over the drills.
It feels dangerously close.
The latest news this morning is that China is sanctioning Pelosi and halts U.S.
talks over the trip.
They say China's foreign ministry also announced it was ending talks with the U.S.
on climate change, military issues, anti-drug measures, and other matters in retaliation for Pelosi's visit.
China's foreign ministry announced the sanctions at the end of the talks as the country was holding live-fire military drills around Taiwan, calling her visit an egregious provocation.
The drills on Friday included warships and aircraft maneuvers near Taiwan.
China views Taiwan as a new territory, this we understand.
Pelosi was the highest-ranking U.S.
official to visit the island in over 25 years.
Pelosi, who traveled to Japan after her flight to Taiwan, denounced China's military drills, demanding it immediately stop.
The Chinese made their strikes, probably using our visit as an excuse.
They may try to keep Taiwan from visiting or participating in other places.
They will not isolate Taiwan.
They are not doing our traveling schedule.
The Chinese government is not doing that.
Wrong, Nancy Pelosi!
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Because after your visit, Joe Biden was like, we better not do the missile tests!
And so there are questions that every nation must ask itself when it's faced with a perceivable existential threat.
And it really comes down to the individual too.
I ask people this.
People need to understand so much of moral ethics, philosophy, economics, to understand war.
And then you need to understand confidential information that you will never hear, nor will I. I tell people this.
Imagine you are lost in the woods.
There's nothing.
For miles.
You have a small little pouch with some food in it.
Maybe some jerky or something.
You got a little canteen full of water.
And you are armed.
You have a gun.
A rifle.
Let's say you got an AR-15.
It's a 5.56 with a 30 mag round.
Fully loaded.
Fully, you know.
And then, uh, you're walking through the forest.
And then you see a man.
Off in the distance.
Carrying the exact same things as you.
And what do you do?
I ask this hypothetical to people often.
What do you do?
You don't know where you are.
You don't know where water is.
You don't know where your next meal is coming from.
Maybe hunting?
And you see a man off in the distance.
You are facing depleting resources and you are concerned about your ability to survive in this climate.
Many people, I hear a bunch of different answers.
They say things like, I would yell to them.
You yell to them, okay.
What do you think that person is going to do when you yell to them?
You don't know.
What if they raise their rifle and take you out instantly?
What do you do?
What if, upon hearing you yell, they take their weapon at low, ready, and then they yell back?
What do you do?
Well now, they're getting ready to do something.
They're grabbing their weapon.
Do you grab yours?
But then they see you grab your weapon, and they say, hey, hey, stop, stop!
They put their hand up, they lift their weapon up, you say, no, no, no, no, what are you doing?
And then you point your weapon, and they point their weapon at you, and they say, stop, don't, don't!
Bang, bang.
Okay.
A lot of people, when I tell them about this scenario, they make the assumption that the person speaks English.
And they say, I would yell, hey, here's my name.
You know, I'm Tim.
I'm just trying to get by.
What if the other person just yells, blah-go-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah?
You don't understand what they're saying.
What do you do?
You know, look, it's hypothetical.
There's no answer.
I'm not telling you any one thing will happen.
I'm not saying it's a guarantee the person shoots you in the face.
I'm saying, have you considered the possibility?
Have you considered the possibility this man is starving as well, and doesn't know or care who you are?
Is it possible that this other person had been attacked recently, and then you might look like someone who's attacked them?
Is it possible that they're desperate for help and excited to see you?
All of these things are possible.
You don't know.
And so the issue is, you've got this circumstance with the United States, demand for resources, China demand for resources, and both sides are like, I don't know if I can trust you.
And that's really it.
Now, when it comes to the U.S.
and China, when it comes to the U.S.
and Russia, there's history.
So it's a bit different from walking through the woods and seeing a stranger.
But maybe you're walking through the woods, and you've got an American flag on your shirt, and this guy's got a Chinese flag on your shirt, and you're like, oh no.
Is this guy, first of all, we're not going to be able to communicate.
Is he going to trust that I'm here to help him?
What if I'm near his property?
What, I don't know.
No idea.
So we like to believe that we would come to these situations with a smile and a handshake.
But we can make this scenario more relatable to this.
You have children who are starving.
And you've left camp desperate to find food.
And you're carrying a little bag of supplies and you see another individual.
And you see them carrying some kind of food as well.
Do you say, hey, please help, my kids are starving?
Or do you think this person is gonna be like, drop your stuff and give it to me, I'm not gonna let my kids die.
You see, this is what people don't understand.
You may see this man, he may see you, and you both are gonna be in circumstances where you both have starving children, you've been lost in the woods.
Now, It's possible in many circumstances.
They just say, you know, in this scenario, being lost in the woods, it's like, Hey, look, look, look, look.
We need to figure out how we can work together.
We're going to survive this, right?
Maybe.
Maybe this guy says, I can't trust him.
And I can't trust him to come around to my family.
My family's in trouble.
He's got stuff I need.
If I bring him over, what if he hurts my kids?
I don't know.
And there you go.
A lot of people think that humans are altruistic and it's always going to be that way, but that's not reality.
Look, I'm not an expert on, you know, I don't have access to this confidential information.
Plans are in place that we won't know about.
I can only talk about surface layer issues.
But these surface layer issues that we do know about inform the general public and how they vote on things.
And so long as this is what's happening, I think we're heading in a dark and dangerous direction.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 1 p.m.
on this channel.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
Twitter has permanently banned Dr. James Lindsay, known for popularizing the term groomer, as well as being a staunch critic of critical race theory and intersectionality.
James Lindsay had tweeted at someone that they were a child sexualization specialist, and for this, he has permanently banned.
Now, Twitter is entering very murky legal territory, and my friends, things are about to snap.
In the tweet that James Lindsay posted in the post about his suspension, they say that you've been suspended for violating their rules against hateful conduct, saying you may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.
The reason why this is so interesting is that recently there was a court case between Twitter and Alex Berenson, the journalist.
Alex Berenson was able to settle and get his Twitter account reinstated because there are contractual obligations that Twitter has.
Now, the precedent, according to the lawyer for Berenson, is that if Twitter claims to have removed you for violating a rule, they have to actually have done that.
Now, although Twitter says they can remove you for any reason, the issue is when Twitter says, hey, we removed you for X, you can then say, okay, did I perform X?
And if I did not, you are in breach of contract.
This could open the door to wiping out censorship entirely.
So here's the issue.
Twitter will now have to justify, should James Lindsay sue, what about what he said violated their hateful conduct policy.
Twitter will have to publicly state, on the record, in a courtroom, that criticizing pedophiles warrants a ban on their platform.
Now, they'll try to get around it.
They'll say things like, no, no, James Lindsay is just targeting anyone he doesn't like and accusing them of that.
And James Lindsay's lawyer can then show all of his tweets, or at least the records of them, the archives, saying, no, it was only in the circumstance where children were being exposed to overt sexual content, which is grooming.
And I'll explain to you what grooming is.
First, not all LGBTQ people are groomers.
I don't believe James Lindsay is asserting that, and I certainly reject that premise.
Because, well, there's an organization called Gays Against Groomers.
But we do know there are many groomers.
And unfortunately right now, Twitter and many organizations are actively defending the worst of the worst when we're trying to call out these bad people.
And you know what?
Maybe their intention is to set gay rights backwards 50 years, because when regular people, you know, middle-of-the-road, not politically active people see what's going on, and they see Twitter defending this, they're going to say, nope, I'm out, I'm voting for the other guy.
And I'm simply like, hey, like I'm cool with gay marriage and all that stuff.
And expansion of civil rights for the LGBTQ community and all of that stuff.
But there has to be a limit on bad actors who will then exploit it.
Now, I suppose many people on the left would say, Tim, you are not in favor of protecting rights.
Because I oppose sex change operations for minors.
But the reason is, It's on the verge of being made completely illegal.
And this is where things actually start to get crazy in this country.
I mean, let me just be honest.
Things are already crazy.
But take a look at this.
From the Human Rights Campaign.
Human Rights Campaign condemns Florida Board of Medicine for considering Governor DeSantis' politically motivated proposal to ban affirming care for transgender youth.
Did Ron DeSantis come out and say, I do not want affirming care for transgender youth?
Ron DeSantis said that sex change surgeries like double mastectomies and castration should not be allowed on minors.
Now, I'm not entirely sure to what extent we are seeing castration.
I do know there are some individuals, very prominent ones, who have TV shows who were castrated at a very young age.
That is to say, their genitals were removed.
They were put on drugs which prevented the development of their sexual organs, and then ultimately they had them removed.
These individuals will never reproduce.
I mean, I'm not trying to be mean.
I mean, it's just a reality.
There are also Twelve to thirteen-year-old girls who have been granted double mastectomies permanently removing their breasts before development.
Ron DeSantis says no to that.
Now, if the Florida board, and this will be a correction, too, because last night when we were reading legal insurrection, they said that Andrew Warren, the state attorney, was removed for not enforcing a prohibition on child sex changes, and that's a miscommunication.
I believe it's a miscommunication.
Ron DeSantis asserted that as a reason why he wanted to remove the guy, but that was because he was taking the position he wouldn't enforce the law should it become law.
My understanding is they've not yet ruled.
As of August 4th, we are waiting actually as of today to see what the Florida Board of Medicine will rule upon.
Will child sex change operations be permitted?
Okay.
Let's start here.
If you have someone who is actively showing materials to children like, you know, there's that book Genderqueer.
Yeah, that's not allowed in Florida.
There is the Parental Rights and Education Bill.
Now, we're not to the point of overtly banning these books.
It's parental discretion, right?
But if you say someone is abusing a kid, and your basis is that Florida has issued a ban on these things, and they suspend you for it?
Okay, now things are getting weird.
Not direct, right?
The person who got James Lindsay banned is not a teacher in Florida.
I mean, maybe they are, but I don't believe they are.
But the point is, the issue at question that James Lindsay tweeted about was nothing to do with Florida.
Here's where it gets interesting.
On YouTube, for instance, they have rules about what you can and can't say.
What if Florida outright bans gender-affirming care for transgender youth?
Would you then be permitted to advocate for committing crimes on Twitter?
See, look.
There's no rule on Twitter about abortion.
You can be pro-choice or you can be pro-life.
Some states have banned abortion, some states haven't.
Some states are enshrining the expansion of the right to abortion up to nine months.
But if I go on Twitter and I say, you know, I'm pro-choice or I'm pro-life or whatever, Twitter's not going to ban me over it.
What if you go on and cite the decision from the Florida Board of Medicine, and their statement is a violation?
For instance, gender dysphoria is listed in the DSM-5.
I can't say, you know, what that means on YouTube, apparently.
But here's the real problem.
What happens when Twitter, in its rules, says you can advocate for a crime Well, that's where we are right now, because of the fracturing of this country.
So, for instance, you've already got people advocating for what they're calling the underground abortion trafficking system, or whatever they're calling it.
In Texas, it's illegal, right?
So, when AOC goes online and says, hey, do these things, if you're in Texas, here's what you do.
She's actually advocating for people to break the law.
State law has always been state law, and state law has always been different from other states and from the federal government.
Now, there are many laws that are similar, but what's Twitter's policy on if you go and tell someone to go into a state that has banned X and say, you should take X and do whatever you want with it?
If they ban this, and then you come out and say, for the reasons listed, according to Florida, I agree with their prohibition on this, they're going to ban you?
Doesn't make sense, does it?
The HRC writes.
Tomorrow, which is today, the Florida Board of Medicine will meet to discuss thoroughly debunked rule changes proposed by the Florida Department of Health that would, contrary to all medical best practices, deny gender-affirming care to Florida's transgender youth.
The FDOH, an agency under the control of Governor Ron DeSantis, is pressuring board members to reject their best medical judgment and impose political barriers to accessing life-saving care for transgender youth and adults.
I'm gonna pause right there.
Throw it to these Scandinavian countries that have started abandoning these practices, much to the chagrin of these individuals.
In these Scandinavian countries, they're saying, we won't do this anymore.
I don't believe.
Now, I'm not a doctor.
And this is a real question.
If Florida says that it's the parents' right to choose what's best for their kids, you recognize there's still a line.
Obviously, you won't let a parent beat their kid to teach them, right?
Right.
So you recognize the parents have a right up to a certain limit.
That's reality.
We just gotta figure out what that moral limit is.
Now the question is, when it comes to the issue of dysphoria, it is one of the few, if the only, issue where the treatment is considered to be affirming what is causing distress as opposed to intervention.
Many people cite anorexia.
Anorexia is a form of body dysmorphia, which is in the similar area as gender dysphoria.
People feel like they're in the wrong body.
People look in the mirror and they don't see what the right thing is.
They feel distressed.
There's a disconnect.
When it comes to body dysmorphic disorder, I believe it's called, people want to say remove their hands, remove their legs, cut a finger off and things like that.
We do not remove their body parts and affirm dysmorphia.
When somebody is anorexic or bulimic, we do not affirm their dysmorphia.
With dysphoria, we do affirm their body dysmorphia.
So, There are questions about whether or not that actually is the best treatment.
And I mean among scholars and doctors, and I'm not saying just in the United States.
In the United States, it may be overwhelming that doctors agree that it is the right thing, and so maybe that's U.S.
law.
But this is where things will get interesting.
When doctors come in, HRC can call it debunked all they want, but if the doctors rule this is not the right way to do it, well then there you go.
That's it.
It's done.
And then what?
Are you gonna get banned if you go on Twitter and say, I demand the government uphold our laws?
Is Twi- I don't know what they do, man.
So they go on to mention an assault on transgender Floridians and stuff.
They say, lie number one, quote, only a minority of children who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria remain gender dysphoric as adults.
Reality, they say.
Numerous published studies have noted that detransition is rare, with those who begin transitioning in adolescence the least likely to detransition.
In fact, there's a variety of studies I've brought up and it's called What is it?
Desisting.
Desistence is between like 65 and like 87 percent.
Yeah, you're citing studies.
That's fine.
I mean, it's contentious.
I'm not gonna say I know.
I'm just gonna say We gotta figure it out.
How about that?
But I view this as just manipulation.
Cherry-picking studies and data.
I'll outright say, yeah, that's true.
Kids who are transitioned probably are going to be the least likely among anyone.
But look at what they're saying.
Those who begin transitioning in adolescence, the least likely to detransition.
That means among those who have transitioned.
So, if you're 18 and you do, you probably have a higher rate of desistance than someone who started at 12, particularly because you went through puberty and you developed secondary and primary sexual characteristics and had hormonal response.
However, there was a study saying that trans kids' desistance is very high.
There's a lack of quality evidence and certainty, certainly no conclusive research to support the medical transition of children to the opposite gender as a treatment for dysphoria.
They say there is, in fact, overwhelming evidence that supports the provision of gender-affirming care to trans youth.
Previous research has found that trans youth who receive gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers and or gender-affirming hormones, report lower levels of suicidal ideation and depression, Yeah, perhaps.
I don't doubt these studies.
I'm not a doctor and I'm not going to tell you what makes sense.
In fact, I think there are real questions about... I think what we have to be concerned about is this.
Personally, I believe there are children who are transgender.
I believe that there are many children who are gender dysphoric and there is an issue occurring.
I also believe at the same time there is a certain amount of people who are socially transitioning.
What I mean to say is to say socially dysphoric.
That is, There are parents with Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
We've heard horrifying stories about it.
How do you differentiate between a child who is just going with the motions and a child who is actually experiencing harsh dysphoria?
I want to make sure that suicidal ideation is done, is gone, that depression is reduced, and these kids don't harm themselves.
The risk is, if there are young people, and we have seen desistance.
We had Helena Kirshner on Timcast IRL.
She is Someone who was a transgender youth, turned 18, went to Planned Parenthood and started getting hormones, and then desisted.
They exist.
How do we protect these people?
Because we're not helping them if we give them permanent surgeries and we made a mistake.
This is the challenge.
Look, We wouldn't give a 12-year-old child, be it male or female, breast implants to affirm their identity.
When we have young girls and they come out as trans, there are instances where they do permanent surgeries, removing their breasts forever.
You can't get it back.
Now think about that.
If a twelve-year-old boy said they were a woman and they wanted breast implants, we would not give it to him.
But the question is, why not?
Why wouldn't you?
In fact, breast implants are not permanent.
They can be removed.
But we wouldn't do it because it doesn't make sense, does it?
It is gender affirming, right?
What's the difference?
See, the issue there is, It's not a permanent surgery.
The kid could ultimately change their mind and have him removed, I guess, but I still think it's wrong.
I think it is wrong to perform surgeries on children because we know whatever the percentage is, desistance does occur.
Now, there are many doctors.
I've heard stories about doctors who have refused to perform hysterectomies on healthy young women.
They won't do it.
And we see these posts on Twitter where they're like, I went to get my tubes tied and the doctor refused, yet men can get vasectomies.
And it's like, yes, depending on what's being performed, there's two things.
Men can freeze their sperm and then get a vasectomy.
Vasectomies can be reversed.
There's risks.
And for women, it is slightly more risky.
But more importantly, for these doctors, many of them are probably saying, if I do this in five years, you're going to come back to me complaining.
So I'm not going near that.
It's a risk a doctor doesn't want to take.
They go on to mention issues about puberty blockers.
They say, line number three, the agency found that puberty blockers are not approved by the FDA for the treatment of gender dysphoria, are not medically efficacious for the treatment of gender dysphoria, and have permanent side effects.
They're going to say that they're gold standard in the FDA labeling information for puberty blockers, Lupron, etc.
They know that adverse reactions are minimal, but this is off-label use.
I'm not going to sit here and read through everything.
In fact, this kind of took up a lot of time because what I was really going to pull up for this video is that in relation to what's going on in Florida and in relation to what's happening with James Lindsay, We have this story.
Fury, as Pennsylvania gay pride sees shirtless male hairdresser teach kids how to pole dance, as he defends the avenue for fitness and artistry that operate at the highest level of ethical behavior.
I'm sorry, this is grooming.
I know it's a risky thing to say these days because they're banning people for it, but I will stress again, not all gay people are groomers.
Being a groomer and being LGBTQ+, not the same thing.
There are many people like Dave Rubin clearly is opposed to this.
I mentioned this before.
Ariel Scarcella, the Gays Against Groomers organization.
However, in this instance, you clearly have the introduction of sexual activities to children.
What is pole dancing?
Pole dancing is overtly perceived as a sexual exploit.
Women dance They spin on the poles and they perform at strip clubs, typically, for money.
Now, of course, pole dancing has become more widespread than that, but this is what grooming really is.
Grooming is when you take something like stripping, you take an element of it that is seemingly more acceptable, that's not explicit or overt, and you introduce it to children.
You then get children to start practicing pole dancing Well, everyone cheers and claps, and here you have a boy in a skirt.
What they're doing is they're introducing Level 1.
A strip club.
Let's talk about what a strip club is.
It's a bar, right?
Okay.
So it's a bar.
If you set up a bar in your basement for kids, is that grooming?
No, of course not.
Bars exist, and not all bars are sexual.
Okay, so a strip club is a bar.
They have booze.
And then you have a stage.
If you set up a stage in your basement, is that gonna make- No, of course not.
There's plenty of places with stages.
But then you put someone on stage to take off articles of clothing.
Ah, now you're there.
Because you're stripping.
And what we've seen with these kids at these drag shows is they remove clothing for money.
They then claim it's a costume change.
Grooming.
Introducing the exploit to the child.
What do we have here with pole dancing?
If you set up a pole dancing stage for your little girls, are you grooming?
Yeah, because pole dancing is something much more beyond just having a stage or a bar.
This is what it was built around.
Now, there's perhaps an argument that not all pole dancing, because it is expanding.
Yeah, okay, fine, whatever.
The point is, when you have go-go dancing, I mean, these are people just up on stage, they're dancing, right?
When you introduce it to children, you are in the realm of grooming.
Pole dancing is sexualized.
You are introducing the kid to this behavior.
You are more likely to find pole dancing in a strip club than literally anywhere else.
And that's where we're headed.
And that's what's happening.
And if you point that out, you'll get banned.
Why?
It's funny how the special interest groups have literally taken the word which represents pedophilia and they've protected it under the guise of LGBTQ.
When I called this out before, Media Matters tried to get me banned.
It was remarkable.
They said that my video was calling LGBTQ people groomers when the video was literally me saying they're not!
That's the point.
I believe that pedophiles are using the LGBTQ community as a shield.
We've seen it with the LGBTQ movement, with maps.
This is what they're trying to do, and they're getting a foothold because organizations are walking in lockstep.
They want to win politically, and they don't care what's going on.
So I tell you this.
Knowing lots of gay people, some of the most prominent conservative or right voices, people like Dave Rubin, whatever you want to call him, he's a gay dude.
Blair White is trans.
Yeah, I think we all know that groomer does not refer to all LGBTQ people.
And to use it just as a slur for any LGBTQ person would be incorrect.
But what do you do when you have adults exposing children to sexualized activities?
