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Episode Two Hundred Fifty Seven: Black Swan · The Death Of Journalism

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Speaker 1: Welcome to episode two hundred and fifty seven of the
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Speaker 1: Death of Journalism podcast. My name is John Zigler. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host on today's show. There's another transgendered school shooter,
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Speaker 1: but this time the news media really embarrasses itself. Trump
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Speaker 1: seems to finally back off his COVID vaccine narrative as
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Speaker 1: chaos reigns at the CDC. I come partially clean finally
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Speaker 1: about the black swan career situation that has ruined my
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Speaker 1: life for most of the past three years. Plus a
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Speaker 1: unique look at the first week of college football, and
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Speaker 1: as the NFL season gets underway, why white starting quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: are for the first time no longer in the majority.
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Speaker 1: As you probably know, one of the ways that I
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Speaker 1: like to evaluate the news and what's happening in the
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Speaker 1: world is to often look at what is not transpied.
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Speaker 1: I think this is one of the many weaknesses of
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Speaker 1: the modern news media. Oftentimes, what does not occur is
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Speaker 1: even more significant than what does happen, And while I
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Speaker 1: don't want to belabor it, I do want to at
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Speaker 1: least point out that we are now almost three weeks.
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Speaker 1: Three weeks since the highly touted summit where President Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump hosted Vladimir Putin in Alaska to try to work
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Speaker 1: out a deal to end the Russia Ukraine war, and
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Speaker 1: nothing has happened. Nothing. There was a meeting with Zelensky
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Speaker 1: right after that, but there is no evidence whatsoever of
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Speaker 1: even a ceasefire, and Trump has stopped talking about it.
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Speaker 1: Russia has continued to attack Ukraine. And what is most
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Speaker 1: remarkable to me about this is I get Trump ignoring
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Speaker 1: it and pretending it never happened, which is his mo.
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Speaker 1: I get the right wing media pretending it never happened
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Speaker 1: because they only talk about things that they think are
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Speaker 1: good for Trump. But the left wing media and liberals,
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Speaker 1: you would think would be all over this reality. Hey,
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Speaker 1: we're now far enough away from this to be able
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Speaker 1: to evaluate whether or not anything good came out of it,
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Speaker 1: or whether or not this was a massive pr victory
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Speaker 1: for Vladimir Putin and Trump got rolled. Now I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying that we can one hundred percent conclude that yet,
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Speaker 1: but we're getting darned near close. It's hard to imagine
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Speaker 1: at this point a scenario where all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: anything good comes out of what transpired or didn't transpire
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Speaker 1: at that summit. And so while I'm still open minded
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Speaker 1: right now, I think we're at the point where we
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Speaker 1: can start to come to some conclusions. And instead, even
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Speaker 1: the left wing media has completely dropped the issue, which
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Speaker 1: is just baffling to me, maybe part because they don't
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Speaker 1: really know what they want. They certainly don't want a
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Speaker 1: piece deal that's on Russia's terms, But you would think
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Speaker 1: that this is a circumstance, especially where Trump bragged during
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Speaker 1: the campaign that he could end this war in one day,
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Speaker 1: where they kind of have Trump dead to rights, and
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Speaker 1: yet they're so easily distracted, the liberals are, and the
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Speaker 1: media is that we've just metory holed that entire situation,
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Speaker 1: which was a huge deal at the time and understandably so,
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Speaker 1: and now it's just forgotten and replaced by this bizarre
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Speaker 1: obsession by liberals, especially online, who were obsessed with the
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Speaker 1: idea over the last weekend, over the Labor Day weekend,
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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump may in fact be dead. In fact,
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Speaker 1: they claimed that he was dead with no evidence whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the guy goes away for fifteen minutes, because
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Speaker 1: he's in our face constantly twenty four and seven, and
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Speaker 1: he goes away for fifteen minutes, and not just a
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Speaker 1: few liberals online, but millions of liberals were speculating, some definitively,
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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was dead, which of course was never
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Speaker 1: close to the case.
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Speaker 2: Bizarrely, Politico is out with an article after Trump held
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Speaker 2: a press conference after the Labor Day weekend was over,
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Speaker 2: with the headline trump denies He's dead.
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Speaker 1: Trump denies He's dead. Now, I would like to give
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Speaker 1: Politico some semblance of credit here. I think that they
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Speaker 1: were trying for a different point than it was perceived
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Speaker 1: as creating, because that headline is rightfully being mocked on
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Speaker 1: the right. I think that they were trying to create
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Speaker 1: an article about how weird it is that we're in
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Speaker 1: this situation where the President of the States even feels
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Speaker 1: the need to deny that he's dead. But that headline
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Speaker 1: is ridiculous, by the way, that article took three writers
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Speaker 1: to create, so political, an article with three authors headlined
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Speaker 1: Trump denies He's dead, which could easily be interpreted or
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Speaker 1: misinterpreted by people on the right. And I don't kind
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Speaker 1: of blame them, given their relationship with the media and
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Speaker 1: Trump and how out to get Trump. Outlets like Political
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Speaker 1: constantly are that somehow this wasn't definitive enough that, in
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Speaker 1: other words, Trump denies he's dead, but we're not really
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Speaker 1: sure if he's dead. That seems to be the way
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Speaker 1: right wingers have interpreted that headline. But that really does
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Speaker 1: tell you an awful lot about where we are in this world,
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Speaker 1: especially given the fact that this is obviously a complete
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Speaker 1: and total non issue and there are a lot of other,
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Speaker 1: way more important things that they could be talking about
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Speaker 1: or should be talking about. And as far as actual
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Speaker 1: real news that transpired over the last week, almost sure
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Speaker 1: the biggest news story was another school shooting in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: This one was particularly horrific. It was at a Catholic school.
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Speaker 1: Horrible pictures of students being led out of the school
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Speaker 1: while their fellow students were being shot. Over a dozen
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Speaker 1: students were badly injured, at least two were killed. Horrible,
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Speaker 1: horrendous stories of young children being shot, and the perpetrator
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Speaker 1: of this horrific crime once again happens to be, or
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Speaker 1: maybe doesn't happen to be, a transgendered person, a man
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Speaker 1: biological male who was convinced or convinced themselves, or some
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Speaker 1: combination therein that they were somehow a female. And this
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Speaker 1: is not the first time this has happened now to
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Speaker 1: liberals and to the media, they don't know that this
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Speaker 1: is not the first time this has happened. This is
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Speaker 1: where media bias begets more. Media bias when you don't
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Speaker 1: provide all the information because you're trying to hide the
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Speaker 1: truth because it doesn't fit your agenda or it goes
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Speaker 1: against your belief system. Over time, the public doesn't have
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Speaker 1: all the data points they need to evaluate what is
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Speaker 1: going on. And this is a classic example of that,
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Speaker 1: where we have had at least seven school shootings that
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Speaker 1: were committed by people who appear to have been transgendered.
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Speaker 1: Now there's some debate over the exact number, but it's
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Speaker 1: clearly a large enough number to be more than coincidental.
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Speaker 1: And I realize that you know, correlation is not causation,
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Speaker 1: but at a certain point you've got to at least
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Speaker 1: consider this is a major factor.
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Speaker 3: And it's been happening on a consistent.
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Speaker 1: Basis over the last couple of years. But huge portions
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Speaker 1: of the public don't know this because the media hasn't
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Speaker 1: been reporting. It is completely and totally in the bag
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Speaker 1: on this issue. And I have to say that this
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Speaker 1: particular episode, this horrific incident, this horrible crime that occurred
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Speaker 1: in Minnesota is maybe the worst example of all of them.
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Speaker 1: And I think the reason why it's the worst example
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Speaker 1: from the media perspective is that we've now reached the
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Speaker 1: point where the media can no longer contain the cover up,
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Speaker 1: and so now they just look completely and totally ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: And the media nout practice that was committed in the
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Speaker 1: aftermath of the Minnesota shootings was so off the charts
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Speaker 1: that I have to at least document it. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've noticed this, but I've almost
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Speaker 1: become bored with attacking classic media liberal bias because it's
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Speaker 1: just so pervasive. And I think most people, especially those
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Speaker 1: listening to this podcast, already understand that that's the reality.
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Speaker 1: But when it reaches a certain threshold, you've got to
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Speaker 1: at least acknowledge and document it. And I'm going to
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Speaker 1: do that here in a couple of different ways. The
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Speaker 1: first thing that happened in the aftermath of the shooting,
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Speaker 1: and this has happened on a consistent basis regardless of
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Speaker 1: whether or not the shooter was transgendered, is that there's
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Speaker 1: always a debate over the political leanings of the shooter
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Speaker 1: and of course, the left wing media always wants the
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Speaker 1: shooter to be right wing, and the right wing media
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Speaker 1: and those especially on X really want the shooter to
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Speaker 1: not be maga and to be a liberal upon at
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Speaker 1: all possible. And the media in this particular case, there
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Speaker 1: was one situation where an ABC reporter strongly implied that
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Speaker 1: the initial evidence indicated that the Minnesota shooter was a
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Speaker 1: Trump supporter because they had the word Trump on their gun,
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Speaker 1: when in fact it was exactly the opposite. It was
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Speaker 1: clearly exactly the opposite. It was actually a very negative
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Speaker 1: anti Trump message on the gun, and that there's absolutely
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Speaker 1: positively no evidence whatsoever that this person was conservative, right wing, maga,
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Speaker 1: what have you. And that ABC reporter was rightfully mocked online.
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Speaker 1: But the issue where many liberal media outlets got into
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Speaker 1: huge trouble, and I just find this to be so
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Speaker 1: bizarre as to almost be laughable. There's a funny element
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Speaker 1: to this. Not that there can be much funny about
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Speaker 1: a horrendous story involving children being murdered for no reason,
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Speaker 1: no good reason at all, is that there could be
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Speaker 1: a good reason for children to be murdered, But I digress.
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Speaker 1: The point is that when it came to the way
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Speaker 1: that this shooter identified their gender, numerous liberal news media
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Speaker 1: outlets simply could not resist, almost as if it's in
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Speaker 1: their DNA, deeply rooted there, they could not resist diving
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Speaker 1: in to this issue where they exposed themselves as being
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Speaker 1: not just unbelievably liberal and in the tank on the
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Speaker 1: issue of transgenderism, but totally and completely out of touch
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Speaker 1: with reality, both biological reality as well as political reality.
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Speaker 1: Because you would think, you would think that after everything
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Speaker 1: that's transpired, especially in the last year, Trump being elected
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Speaker 1: president again, and all of the many examples of where
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Speaker 1: wokeness has lost or is being destroyed or dismantled, and
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Speaker 1: that it's clearly politically toxic to be woke, you would
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Speaker 1: think that, simply out of self preservation, these liberal media outlets,
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Speaker 1: all of whom are in dire straits economically, would go
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Speaker 1: out of their way to not so overtly appear to
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Speaker 1: be totally and completely out of touch when it comes
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Speaker 1: to the issue of transgenderism and appearing to be supporting
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Speaker 1: the perpetrator of an attempted mass murder of children in
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Speaker 1: a Catholic school. But that's exactly what happened on multiple occasions,
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Speaker 1: so it wasn't a coincidence, it wasn't by accident. There's
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Speaker 1: so many examples, but I'm just going to quickly give
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Speaker 1: you three of them just to show that I'm not
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Speaker 1: making this up. This issue of how the shooter identified
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Speaker 1: their gender was continually brought up in major legacy media
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Speaker 1: outlets in a way that.
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Speaker 3: Was completely and totally.
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Speaker 1: Out of touch with reality. Again, both genetic as well
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Speaker 1: as politically. Here's example number one. Jake Tapper on CNN,
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Speaker 1: the guy, by the way, who's probably more rational than
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Speaker 1: most on CNN and most in the legacy news media.
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Speaker 1: He's a liberal, but he at least has some sensibilities
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Speaker 1: about him. Usually I used to think he was pretty good,
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Speaker 1: but then after COVID he and I parted ways. We
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Speaker 1: used to communicate a little bit online, but you know,
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Speaker 1: he was a complete covidiot, and I couldn't stand that.
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Speaker 1: So I lost any real respect for Jake Tapper during
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Speaker 1: the COVID panic. But by and large, he's still better
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Speaker 1: than a lot of the anchors on CNN and a
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Speaker 1: lot of those in the mainstream news media. And here
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Speaker 1: he is making sure that his audience is aware that
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Speaker 1: we're not quite sure whether or not it's appropriate to
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Speaker 1: refer to the Minnesota shooter as a he, because it
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Speaker 1: appears as if they identified as a she, and everyone
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Speaker 1: needs to know that.
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Speaker 4: Another piece of the puzzle as to who the shooter
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Speaker 4: was in Minneapolis, Starter Debuting says, according to court records,
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Speaker 4: because there's been some confusion about what the shooter's name was,
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Speaker 4: Robin Westman's mother applied to change your child's name in
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Speaker 4: twenty nineteen. It was at one point Robert Paul Westman,
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Speaker 4: but since she identifies as a female and wants her
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Speaker 4: name to reflect that identification was underage, it's now Robin west.
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Speaker 1: Well, that wasn't the only example on CNN here was
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Speaker 1: former FBI agent Andrew McCabe, who has become.
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Speaker 3: One of the arch enemies of the MAGA world.
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Speaker 1: Understandably so, and frankly, the part of why I'm playing
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Speaker 1: this clip is because I've never been a supporter of
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Speaker 1: Andrew McCabe, But to me, this really tells you a
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Speaker 1: lot about Andrew McCabe and how willing he is to
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Speaker 1: prostrate himself to what he thinks the legacy news media,
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Speaker 1: once therefore destroying whatever credibility he may have had. When
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Speaker 1: it came to his experience in the FBI and his
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Speaker 1: anti Trump stance. I mean, this is a guy who
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Speaker 1: clearly is virtue signaling when on CNN with Caitlin Collins,
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Speaker 1: he makes sure that he tells everybody in the audience
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Speaker 1: that he is signaling his virtue by making sure they
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Speaker 1: know that he is doing the right thing by referring
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Speaker 1: to the Minnesota shooter with the proper pronouns. And here's
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Speaker 1: what that satellite.
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Speaker 5: For the for the mother to not even return to
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Speaker 5: the state to answer law enforcement questions to try to
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Speaker 5: provide some assistance. I'm sure she's grieving for her daughter,
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Speaker 5: but this is Yeah, it's a really perverse and strange
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Speaker 5: element in this story. It's inexplicable to me at this point.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Andrew McKay will see if that changes. I think
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Speaker 1: example number three of this phenomenon, and maybe the most
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Speaker 1: ridicut came from NPR. And this is a situation where
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Speaker 1: on NPR Radio, Senator Amy Clobashar from Minnesota, who is
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Speaker 1: frankly one of the last remaining semi rational Democrats in
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Speaker 1: the United States Senate, ran for president in twenty twenty.
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Speaker 1: I thought she could have been a really good vice
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Speaker 1: presidential nominee for Joe Biden in twenty twenty. As it
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Speaker 1: turns out, that probably would have been a better pick
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Speaker 1: in the long run. But she was being interviewed. She's
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Speaker 1: obviously the senator from Minnesota where this horrific crime occurred.
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Speaker 1: She's being interviewed on NPR, and she refers correctly biologically
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Speaker 1: to the shooter as a he and almost out of
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Speaker 1: a Saturday Night Live parody. If Saturday Night Live had
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Speaker 1: the political wherewithal to go in this direction, which clearly
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Speaker 1: they don't because they're part of the liberal elites. But
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Speaker 1: if they did a legitimate parody show, they might have
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Speaker 1: done something that Saturday. The MPR host responding to Amy
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Speaker 1: Klobashar at the end of the interview to make sure
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Speaker 1: that her audience knew that they were not misgendering the
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Speaker 1: shooter in Minnesota.
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Speaker 6: Of course, the hate you're going to find that this perpetrator,
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Speaker 6: that this horrific offender that he there was it was
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Speaker 6: all purpose hate, right. He hated a lot of different groups.
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Speaker 6: It wasn't one ideology or another.
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Speaker 7: We're going to have to leave it there. That is
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Speaker 7: Senator Amy Klobishar of Minnesota thank you very much for taking.
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Speaker 6: The time, thank you for thinking of us. Thank you.
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Speaker 7: And just a point of clarification, Senator Klobishar referenced the
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Speaker 7: shooter as he although police have identified a suspect, it's
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Speaker 7: still unclear at this time what that person's gender is
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Speaker 7: or how they identify.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just the cadence of the classic NPR delivery
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Speaker 1: that made that so funny to me. But I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's just totally and completely ridiculous. And I know that
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Speaker 1: for the vast majority of people listening to this podcast,
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Speaker 1: I don't need to explain why it's absurd, But just
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Speaker 1: for the record, the reason why it's completely ridiculous is
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Speaker 1: that the person we're talking about murdered children and almost
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Speaker 1: murdered dozens of children, radically altered the lives of many
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Speaker 1: many children, destroyed a school forever. I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: almost as horrific a crime as you can imagine. If
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Speaker 1: that doesn't lose you the quote unquote right to get
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Speaker 1: the respect of the proper designation of your gender, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's really what we're talking about here, mister
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Speaker 1: and miss This is a term of respect, right well,
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Speaker 1: giving someone the gender they prefer when it's not aligned
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Speaker 1: with their biology, is at best a privilege. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's absurd on its face, but that's at best a privilege.
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Speaker 1: And obviously, in a semi rational world, when you commit
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Speaker 1: a crime like this and oh, by the way, you're dead,
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Speaker 1: the reality is you lose any semblance of rights to
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Speaker 1: determine what you're going to be called when it comes
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Speaker 1: to gender. I mean, this is just so obvious. I
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Speaker 1: feel stupid even explaining it. But let's just reverse this
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Speaker 1: as kind of a you know, a mental game. Let's
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Speaker 1: pretend that a transgendered person had in a hero in
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Speaker 1: this situation, right, a hero. Let's pretend that they had
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Speaker 1: gone in and save children or taking a shoot out
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Speaker 1: or whatever, and they were unambiguously a hero. And if
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Speaker 1: there was a debate over how they would be referred to,
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Speaker 1: let's say they were a biological male pretending to be
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Speaker 1: a female for whatever reason. Then you know what, I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't like it, but I'd be okay with it. I'd
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Speaker 1: be okay with it depending on how it was done.
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Speaker 1: You want to be called a female.
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Speaker 8: In that situation, you know, I don't have a big
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Speaker 8: issue with it, because you have earned some level of
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Speaker 8: respect and you, but you clearly beyond and forfeit that
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Speaker 8: when the reason why you're a news story is that
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Speaker 8: you tried.
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Speaker 1: To kill children in a school. How And I guess
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Speaker 1: the part of this that's most baffling to me is
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Speaker 1: how is it that these members of the news media
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Speaker 1: don't understand They don't seem to understand, or maybe they
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Speaker 1: just don't care how it's going to be perceived, especially
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Speaker 1: in this environment, it's going to be perceived that you
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Speaker 1: are taking the side of a dead mass murderer. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just it's baffling to me. And it's a classic
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Speaker 1: example of why the legacy news media is in such
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Speaker 1: a freefall, because if they can't get it on this,
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Speaker 1: they can't get it on anything. I mean, at least
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Speaker 1: just keep it to yourself. Why do you have to
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Speaker 1: signal your virtue to who? To what? Five percent of
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Speaker 1: your audience maybe, and that's within a liberal audience I've
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Speaker 1: never understood to whom are they even appealing? It doesn't
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Speaker 1: make any goddamn sense, and yet it keeps happening. It
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Speaker 1: is the media being behold into transgendered people is maybe
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Speaker 1: the most confusing, baffling inexplicable phenomenon that I have seen
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Speaker 1: in my thirty or forty years of evaluating the news media,
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Speaker 1: because it just doesn't make any sense. I don't know
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Speaker 1: who the target audience is, and they are making themselves
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Speaker 1: vulnerable to ridicule. Now. This particular situation, and I think
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Speaker 1: this is why it came to a head here was
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Speaker 1: as overt as any other that I can recall. And
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Speaker 1: because we're now at the maybe the seventh or eighth
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Speaker 1: transgender school shooter, we've kind of reached a threshold where
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Speaker 1: this story, even for the legacy media, is becoming more
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Speaker 1: and more difficult to deal with and to ignore and
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Speaker 1: to cover up.
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Speaker 3: And because the facts.
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Speaker 1: Of this particular case were pretty darn obvious one that
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Speaker 1: they were transgender, to that it appears as if part
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Speaker 1: of the motivation was their anger or their you know,
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Speaker 1: regret over transitioning from a male to a female. I
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Speaker 1: mean that who knows what the truth of that whole
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Speaker 1: matter is will never know because they're dead now, But
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Speaker 1: that was clearly part of the equation. So the fact
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Speaker 1: pattern here made it exceedingly difficult for the news media
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Speaker 1: to completely ignore and cover up, and so they they
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Speaker 1: basically further exposed themselves as being completely in the tank
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Speaker 1: and out of touch on the topic, and this was
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Speaker 1: further exposed on CNN in a very interesting interview between
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Speaker 1: Sebastian Gorka, who is a counter terrorism analyst for the
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Speaker 1: Trump administration, and Brianna Keeler, who's a female, seemingly very
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Speaker 1: liberal anchor woman on CNN, and they got into a
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Speaker 1: debate over whether or not transgenderism really is at the
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Speaker 1: heart of what is happening with some of these school shootings,
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Speaker 1: and Keeler tries to play fast and loose. She doesn't
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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom here by trying to distort the statistics, and Gorka,
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Speaker 1: who I'm not a fan of, I mean, to me,
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Speaker 1: he seems like a pseudo intellectual and he's a super maga,
24:25
Speaker 1: which always makes me very suspicious of somebody. But I'll
24:28
Speaker 1: give him credit. He does a pretty darn good job
24:30
Speaker 1: here of fighting back against Breonna Keeler when it comes
24:34
Speaker 1: to this issue of Okay, can we really come to
24:37
Speaker 1: any sort of conclusions over this issue of whether transgendered
24:43
Speaker 1: people are any more likely to commit a horrific crime
24:48
Speaker 1: like a school shooting as appears to have happened in Minnesota,
24:52
Speaker 1: and here's what transpired on CNN.
24:56
Speaker 9: Okay, so let me ask you about this. You know,
24:59
Speaker 9: ninety six percent of attackers and when you're looking at
25:03
Speaker 9: the US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center looking at
25:06
Speaker 9: one hundred and seventy two mass attacks in the US
25:09
Speaker 9: between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, ninety six percent were
25:15
Speaker 9: non trans men. So I know you're focusing on this
25:18
Speaker 9: shooter being trans The shooter was trans and that is
25:22
Speaker 9: certainly of note. But are you missing the bigger picture
25:26
Speaker 9: here when you zero in on that instead of more
25:30
Speaker 9: broadly these school shooters as an epidemic, and you perhaps
25:35
Speaker 9: miss the through line that connects them all.
25:41
Speaker 10: Well, no, because your facts obfuscate two things. You are
25:46
Speaker 10: using data based upon the predominant gun violence, which is
25:51
Speaker 10: gang on gang violence with zero ideological content. If you
25:55
Speaker 10: remove all of that, the gang violence on the streets
25:59
Speaker 10: of Chicago, La Detroit, then you come down to a
26:02
Speaker 10: much smaller data set. So it's like those who say,
26:06
Speaker 10: you know, gun violence in America causes so many deaths
26:09
Speaker 10: and then fail to note that the majority of the
26:13
Speaker 10: stats they are using referred to also suicides by gun,
26:17
Speaker 10: which of course, is not what we are talking about
26:20
Speaker 10: here today. So let's concentrate on mass shootings at schools,
26:26
Speaker 10: specifically Christian or Catholic schools. Then the data set is
26:31
Speaker 10: wholly different. So don't conflate different data sets just to
26:35
Speaker 10: make a political point. There was an ideological content to
26:39
Speaker 10: this attack. That's what terrorism is. It's not because somebody
26:44
Speaker 10: didn't get the drug deal they wanted. It is an
26:47
Speaker 10: ideological message. Whether it was anti Israel as in this case,
26:51
Speaker 10: whether it targeted President Trump in its rhetoric, as we
26:53
Speaker 10: saw on one of the magazines written by the perpetrator
26:58
Speaker 10: on that YouTube video, or whether we saw the fact
27:01
Speaker 10: that it was anti Christian and targeting children that has
27:05
Speaker 10: nothing to do with gang violence. Let's not mix the
27:08
Speaker 10: two things up.
27:10
Speaker 3: Now here's the bottom line on this.
27:13
Speaker 1: I get, as I've already said that correlation is not
27:17
Speaker 1: necessarily causation. However, when you get to this number with
27:24
Speaker 1: a portion of the population that is so minuscule, I mean,
27:28
Speaker 1: incredibly small, although not nearly as small as it used
27:31
Speaker 1: to be. I mean, if you've ever seen the chart
27:34
Speaker 1: of people that identify as transgender in the United States,
27:38
Speaker 1: it has exploded in just the last couple of years.
27:40
Speaker 1: So this is not a biological phenomenon. This is a
27:45
Speaker 1: social contagion. It is a classic social contagion that I
27:51
Speaker 1: believe is related to mental illness. And that might be
27:56
Speaker 1: the most important part of this entire story is if
28:01
Speaker 1: there is any sort of a silver lining to a
28:04
Speaker 1: horrific situation like what occurred in Minnesota, if we can
28:10
Speaker 1: finally get some traction in the public dialogue for the
28:15
Speaker 1: issue of whether or not transgenderism is in fact, by
28:21
Speaker 1: and large a mental illness, there may be some positive
28:26
Speaker 1: to this. Now, the media, as you saw there with
28:28
Speaker 1: Breonna Kieler, is going to fight that tooth and nail,
28:31
Speaker 1: because it's going to once again make them look like
28:33
Speaker 1: the idiots that they often are and expose them as
28:37
Speaker 1: being completely in the tank for the liberal agenda and
28:41
Speaker 1: once again being totally wrong about something. I mean, because
28:44
Speaker 1: let's be clear, the legacy news media has facilitated and
28:49
Speaker 1: enabled this social contagion when it comes to transgenderism. I mean,
28:55
Speaker 1: remember how Bruce Jenner was hailed as a hero literally
29:01
Speaker 1: woman of the Year when he transitioned, and then of
29:04
Speaker 1: course he became Maga and you know, or she became
29:07
Speaker 1: Maga whatever it is at this point, and all that changed,
29:12
Speaker 1: But the news media has played a huge role in
29:15
Speaker 1: all of this. And if it turns out that the
29:18
Speaker 1: public concludes, wait a minute, hold on, why does this
29:23
Speaker 1: keep happening? Maybe the right wingers are correct on this.
29:27
Speaker 1: Maybe this really is, at least in large part, as
29:30
Speaker 1: a result of a mental illness that might cause you
29:33
Speaker 1: to do really horrendous things like shoot up a Catholic
29:37
Speaker 1: school in Minnesota. Now we're nowhere near there, and the
29:43
Speaker 1: news media doesn't have nearly the control over the narrative
29:45
Speaker 1: that they used to. But we're now living, as we
29:49
Speaker 1: are in so many different areas of life. We're now
29:52
Speaker 1: living in such a divided country that I don't know
29:57
Speaker 1: what the percentages are, but about half I believe that
30:01
Speaker 1: transgenderism is a mental illness, and the other have either
30:04
Speaker 1: doesn't think about it, doesn't know, or thinks that they
30:08
Speaker 1: transgender people are the ones who are being persecuted. That
30:12
Speaker 1: we're living in a world where transgendered people are so
30:15
Speaker 1: persecuted that maybe they're driven to these acts of violence,
30:21
Speaker 1: which of course is ludicrous on its face, But that's
30:25
Speaker 1: where we are on this, and the news media absolutely
30:27
Speaker 1: positively needs to take some responsibility for this social contagion
30:33
Speaker 1: getting completely out of control and maybe lives being lost
30:37
Speaker 1: because of it. And it's not just lives, it's also
30:43
Speaker 1: rights and free speech, and we saw that in Great
30:48
Speaker 1: Britain in an absolutely horrific situation. Now the United Kingdom,
30:54
Speaker 1: Great Britain is basically lost. I mean, it's unbelievable some
30:59
Speaker 1: of the things that are happening there, whether it's about
31:02
Speaker 1: immigration or the Union Jack flag being deemed to be racist,
31:06
Speaker 1: and now them arresting a comedian by the name of
31:10
Speaker 1: grand Wnahan. I think it's how you say his name.
31:13
Speaker 3: I've never heard of him before, but Grand linehanm, a comedian.
31:16
Speaker 1: Was arrested. Apparently five police officers arrested him at an airport.
31:23
Speaker 1: Why because of a few questionable, supposedly anti trans tweets,
31:32
Speaker 1: that's right, tweets. And well, there's been some outrage, especially
31:39
Speaker 1: on X thanks to Elon Musk and others, you know,
31:44
Speaker 1: the writer of Harry Potter and Peters Borgan have been
31:48
Speaker 1: leading the charge on this because it's just so completely
31:53
Speaker 1: insane and dangerous. I mean that this is happening in
31:57
Speaker 1: what used to be the center of the West. True world.
32:01
Speaker 1: In Great Britain where we're now arresting comedians because of
32:05
Speaker 1: tweets that were deemed inappropriate and I don't even know
32:09
Speaker 1: how bad they were, probably weren't that bad about the
32:12
Speaker 1: trans community. I mean, this is really dangerous stuff here. Now,
32:17
Speaker 1: you know, the linehand is apparently suing the police, and
32:21
Speaker 1: there is backlash to this, so there's at least some hope.
32:25
Speaker 1: But this should never be happening, especially in a place
32:28
Speaker 1: like Great Britain, and yet the fact that it is,
32:31
Speaker 1: and not only is it happening, but I saw an
32:34
Speaker 1: interview this morning on UK television where one of the
32:38
Speaker 1: leaders of the Green Party was supporting his arrests. Its
32:44
Speaker 1: completely left the gravitational pull of the rational earth here, folks.
32:48
Speaker 1: This is really dangerous stuff. And if it's happening in
32:52
Speaker 1: Great Britain, and we're seeing signs of it in the
32:55
Speaker 1: United States even This is why I'm constantly talked about
32:59
Speaker 1: how dangerous it is that younger generations especially do not
33:03
Speaker 1: have full and total respect for free speech. And this
33:06
Speaker 1: is why when the President of the United States, Donald Trump,
33:10
Speaker 1: signs an executive order banning flag burning punishable by a
33:15
Speaker 1: year mandatory year in prison, when the US Supreme Court
33:20
Speaker 1: has deemed that to be protected free speech. I have
33:22
Speaker 1: a problem with it because free speech, free expression is
33:27
Speaker 1: under attack, and their needs to not be any diminishment
33:33
Speaker 1: of what is left of the firewall between our free
33:37
Speaker 1: speech rights and total tyranny and loss of the First Amendment.
33:42
Speaker 1: And you know, the fact that this is all happening
33:45
Speaker 1: over transgenderism is unbelievable to me because from a political perspective,
33:51
Speaker 1: it's very very obvious. One from the standpoint of very
33:55
Speaker 1: very few people in the population being directly impacted by it.
33:59
Speaker 1: But two, when you look at the issue of whether
34:04
Speaker 1: or not biological males should be able to play sports
34:07
Speaker 1: against biological females, the polling is overwhelming, especially in the
34:11
Speaker 1: United States, against that. It's not as overwhelming as it
34:15
Speaker 1: should be. It should be ninety nine to one, but
34:19
Speaker 1: it's usually somewhere in the sixties, seventies or eighties against it.
34:24
Speaker 1: And so you would think that this was an issue
34:27
Speaker 1: that free speech advocates could win on, and that's not
34:31
Speaker 1: always the case, as we saw with this comedian in
34:35
Speaker 1: the UK. I liken what's happening here to what is
34:41
Speaker 1: transpired with the entire climate change global warming narrative. I've
34:46
Speaker 1: mentioned this previously on the podcast, but I think it
34:50
Speaker 1: bears repeating.
34:51
Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is that the news.
34:56
Speaker 1: Media, through omission, has prevail the public from numerous data
35:04
Speaker 1: points that, if they had them at their disposal, might
35:09
Speaker 1: allow the public to come to a very different conclusion
35:13
Speaker 1: than what the news media clearly wants them to believe.
35:17
Speaker 1: And that's what's happened with these school shootings, right If
35:21
Speaker 1: there have been seven or maybe eight school shootings where
35:24
Speaker 1: the perpetrator was transgendered, if the news media hides that
35:29
Speaker 1: fact and only someone who is consuming right wing media
35:36
Speaker 1: even thinks about it in that way, then when this
35:40
Speaker 1: Minnesota thing happens and it becomes more obvious that transgenderism
35:45
Speaker 1: was a significant factor in the whole situation, the public
35:50
Speaker 1: doesn't put two and two together because they don't have
35:53
Speaker 1: the data points. Well, that's exactly what the media has
35:57
Speaker 1: done on climate change, global warming, if they only emphasize
36:02
Speaker 1: the heat waves or the horrific hurricanes or whatever other
36:08
Speaker 1: weather anomaly, which there's always gonna be weather anomalies. When
36:12
Speaker 1: you have a planet this large, with so many different
36:16
Speaker 1: climates at a given time, something bad is almost always
36:19
Speaker 1: gonna happen. If you're only emphasizing the data points that
36:25
Speaker 1: fit your agenda and you ignore the ones that don't fit, Well,
36:29
Speaker 1: guess what's gonna happen with the majority of people who
36:33
Speaker 1: don't think for themselves, probably don't pay much attention to
36:37
Speaker 1: the news, don't do any of their own research, and
36:40
Speaker 1: still believe what they're told. Of course they're going to
36:43
Speaker 1: believe it. And we had another classic example of that
36:47
Speaker 1: this week. There was a reputable, peer reviewed study about
36:52
Speaker 1: Arctic ice and how guess what, folks, There's been almost
36:57
Speaker 1: no change when it comes to our ice over the
37:01
Speaker 1: last twenty years, almost none, and no signs of dramatic
37:06
Speaker 1: Arctic ice change into the near future. This has always
37:10
Speaker 1: been one of the talking points of the doomsdayers, the
37:16
Speaker 1: climate change global warming people, that Arctic ice is going
37:19
Speaker 1: to go away during the summertime and the sea levels
37:22
Speaker 1: will rise and we're all going to be doomed. Well,
37:25
Speaker 1: there's no evidence of that. Well did anybody in the
37:28
Speaker 1: legacy news media report that this week? I didn't see it.
37:32
Speaker 1: They just ignore it. By the way, we just had
37:35
Speaker 1: an amazingly temperate, by and large summer. No emphasis on
37:41
Speaker 1: that had it been super hot and now was always
37:43
Speaker 1: as it always going to be. It was super hot
37:45
Speaker 1: in Arizona for a while, and we've actually been a
37:48
Speaker 1: little hotter here on the West Coast recently. But by
37:50
Speaker 1: and large, this was a spectacular summer weather wise, especially
37:54
Speaker 1: considering the fact that we're supposedly in the hottest era
37:58
Speaker 1: in the history of man right being told every year
38:01
Speaker 1: breaks the record for the hottest year a temperature on record,
38:06
Speaker 1: which I don't believe because I think that the way
38:08
Speaker 1: we've determined temperature has dramatically changed with satellite technology. Plus
38:12
Speaker 1: I think they're goosing the numbers to promote a political agenda.
38:16
Speaker 1: But that's what we keep being told. Well, you would
38:19
Speaker 1: think that a temperate, mild, even cool in some places
38:23
Speaker 1: summer would be newsworthy. No, no, no, that's just weather.
38:27
Speaker 1: That's just weather. Well, of course, it's just weather, just
38:30
Speaker 1: like everything else is just weather. But when the weather
38:33
Speaker 1: fits your agenda, the news media emphasizes it, and you know,
38:39
Speaker 1: that's what people connect to this entire climate change, global
38:44
Speaker 1: warming narrative. By the way, I mean, I don't want
38:48
Speaker 1: to speak too soon, but as anyone else noticed, we
38:52
Speaker 1: haven't had a hurricane hit landfall or even come close
38:56
Speaker 1: to landfall in the United States this year, Yet we
38:58
Speaker 1: had one minor tropic storm. We're into September now. Now,
39:03
Speaker 1: these things can change very quickly. It only takes one
39:06
Speaker 1: or two big tropical storms that turn into a hurricane
39:09
Speaker 1: and the media will be right back at it. But
39:11
Speaker 1: so far, this has been one of the quietest hurricanes
39:15
Speaker 1: seasons in recent years, even though the so called experts
39:20
Speaker 1: told us this was going to be another above average
39:22
Speaker 1: year of hurricanes because somehow they've connected hurricanes to climate
39:26
Speaker 1: change global warming, which I've never understood from a scientific perspective.
39:30
Speaker 1: But anyway, the point of this is that we have
39:33
Speaker 1: the news media, through omission, not allowing people to come
39:38
Speaker 1: to a rational conclusion because they don't have all the
39:41
Speaker 1: data points, and a lot of people have caught onto this. Obviously,
39:46
Speaker 1: COVID and the COVID panic played a huge role when
39:50
Speaker 1: it came to people's lack of trust in science. Had
39:54
Speaker 1: a huge impact on me. Prior to the COVID panic,
39:58
Speaker 1: I was certainly in the with people who had a
40:01
Speaker 1: high degree of trust in quote unquote science. I didn't
40:04
Speaker 1: blindly trust everything I was told, partially because I was
40:08
Speaker 1: already hip to the climate change global warming scam, but
40:11
Speaker 1: by and large, I was very predisposed to believing the
40:15
Speaker 1: so called experts, but that completely changed during COVID, and
40:20
Speaker 1: for a large portion of the population, trust in science
40:24
Speaker 1: is understandably at an all time low, which is partially
40:27
Speaker 1: why Trump came in with RFK Junior as the.
40:32
Speaker 3: Head of Health and Human Services.
40:34
Speaker 1: Well, in the last week there's been chaos at the
40:38
Speaker 1: CDC where the head of the CDC, and this is
40:42
Speaker 1: very complicated as to how this person even temporarily got
40:45
Speaker 1: the job, but they got fired and that resulted in
40:49
Speaker 1: an exodus from the CDC, all sorts of resignations and protests,
40:53
Speaker 1: and all these people who obviously politicized science during COVID
40:58
Speaker 1: are now very upset the idea that science is being politicized,
41:03
Speaker 1: I mean, holy hypocrisy, batman. R MK Junior himself is
41:08
Speaker 1: under fire. Some Republicans are suggesting that he needs to
41:12
Speaker 1: be put under you know, basically probation or some sort
41:15
Speaker 1: of control. This story, to me has no one to
41:18
Speaker 1: root for because I hate the CDC, especially post COVID,
41:23
Speaker 1: but I also have no trust in r K Junior.
41:26
Speaker 1: I think the guy's a whack job. I think he's
41:29
Speaker 1: wrong about an awful lot of things. I mean, it's
41:31
Speaker 1: just amazing to me. And we've seen this on a
41:34
Speaker 1: consistent basis, whether it's Tucker Carlson or Glenn Beck or
41:39
Speaker 1: anybody else who goes down these conspiracy rabbit holes and
41:44
Speaker 1: they turn out to be totally wrong and it doesn't
41:47
Speaker 1: seem to impact their overall credibility. Well, rm K Junior
41:52
Speaker 1: was all in on government conspiracies to kill both his
41:56
Speaker 1: father and his uncle Robert Kennedy and and John F.
42:00
Speaker 1: Kennedy and assassinations. And since Trump took office, all that
42:06
Speaker 1: information has been released, and there's not a shred of evidence,
42:10
Speaker 1: not a shred of evidence that what RFK Junior has
42:13
Speaker 1: constantly said is clearly obvious, is even remotely plausible.
42:19
Speaker 3: And yet somehow people do not his fans, at least Magaworld,
42:24
Speaker 3: do not perceive RFK Jr. As the conspiracy nut job
42:28
Speaker 3: that he is. Now, that doesn't mean he's wrong about everything.
42:33
Speaker 3: Occasionally he'll say some things that, okay, that makes some sense,
42:37
Speaker 3: but it's very very hard for me to give it
42:39
Speaker 3: any sort of real credibility, not just because of him
42:43
Speaker 3: being wrong on the assassinations, but also because I think
42:47
Speaker 3: his opinion on vaccines is way out there, and I
42:50
Speaker 3: have to always remember this is a guy who under
42:53
Speaker 3: oath claimed that worms had eaten portions of his brains,
42:58
Speaker 3: not to mention he was a heroin addict for an
43:00
Speaker 3: extended period of time, and his first white committed suicide.
43:03
Speaker 3: So I have really no reason to have any trust
43:06
Speaker 3: or belief in RFK Junior. But a lot of this
43:09
Speaker 3: is over the issue of the COVID vaccine and the
43:14
Speaker 3: fact that the mandates have been greatly reduced and the
43:18
Speaker 3: emphasis on the vaccine has been reduced under RFK Junior.
43:24
Speaker 3: And what's interesting politically about this is that, of course
43:28
Speaker 3: Donald Trump has always until the last few days, been
43:33
Speaker 3: almost delusionally praiseworthy of what he considers to be one
43:38
Speaker 3: of his greatest accomplishments during his first term, which was
43:42
Speaker 3: Operation Warp Speed, which was the creation of the COVID
43:47
Speaker 3: vaccines in record time to save the world from COVID.
43:54
Speaker 3: And you know, I've always been baffled as to how
43:57
Speaker 3: Trump got away with this with his base, because his
44:00
Speaker 3: base is extremely anti COVID vaccine, especially his base on
44:07
Speaker 3: Line on X And yet here he goes constantly praising
44:11
Speaker 3: Operation Warp Speed. He did it just recently, just recently,
44:16
Speaker 3: which is amazing. He talked about how this was unprecedented
44:20
Speaker 3: in record setting, and I think he may even referred
44:22
Speaker 3: to it as one of the greatest accomplishments, not just
44:24
Speaker 3: of his administration, of any administration. And then, in the
44:29
Speaker 3: midst of this chaos at the CDC, Trump puts out
44:33
Speaker 3: a social.
44:34
Speaker 1: Media post where he basically I'm paraphrasing, starts to question
44:41
Speaker 1: whether or not what he had been told about Operation
44:45
Speaker 1: Warp Speed and the COVID vaccines was actually true. He
44:49
Speaker 1: demands that Pfizer turnover the real data regarding vaccine efficacy,
44:57
Speaker 1: and seems the question doesn't come down it come any conclusions,
45:00
Speaker 1: but seems to question whether or not Operation Warp Speed
45:06
Speaker 1: and the COVID vaccines were actually nearly as effective as
45:10
Speaker 1: he had been told, and even opens up the possibility
45:13
Speaker 1: that they may have been a net negative from a
45:17
Speaker 1: health perspective. Now, with Trump, you never know what's causing
45:22
Speaker 1: him to go in any particular direction, and there's a
45:25
Speaker 1: there's I think an adage that I believe that is
45:29
Speaker 1: pretty accurate where if Trump doesn't say something at least
45:33
Speaker 1: two or three times, you don't really take it seriously.
45:36
Speaker 1: By the way, whatever happened to the Washington Redskins name
45:40
Speaker 1: change situation, that's gone by the wayside, just as I
45:43
Speaker 1: thought that it might, because we only heard him talk
45:45
Speaker 1: about that once or twice, and so was this just
45:48
Speaker 1: a whim that he decided to post on social media
45:52
Speaker 1: or has he really changed his position, which would really
45:55
Speaker 1: be a very dramatic thing. I mean, going from being
45:59
Speaker 1: the Thugs promoter of Operation Warp Speed even years later,
46:04
Speaker 1: to now, all of a sudden, I've engraved questions about
46:07
Speaker 1: whether or not the COVID vaccine was actually a net
46:11
Speaker 1: negative or a net positive is pretty extraordinary as far
46:14
Speaker 1: as my opinion on the COVID vaccine. Just to review,
46:20
Speaker 1: my wife and I got vaccinated, but we got the
46:23
Speaker 1: Johnson and Johnson, which is a bit different than the pvisor.
46:27
Speaker 1: My wife has always given me a hard time for
46:30
Speaker 1: having her do that. I did it because she's a
46:33
Speaker 1: school teacher and I thought it would be mandated in
46:36
Speaker 1: California schools. It didn't cause us any problems, but you know,
46:42
Speaker 1: when the data first came out, part of why I
46:46
Speaker 1: got the J ANDJ and I urged my wife to
46:49
Speaker 1: do so. Is that it looked early on as if,
46:52
Speaker 1: based on the data that the vaccine was incredibly effective
46:57
Speaker 1: at preventing people from getting COVID. That changed rather quickly.
47:03
Speaker 1: And while at first I was on board because the
47:06
Speaker 1: data indicated that I should be, within a couple of months,
47:11
Speaker 1: I dramatically shifted course, much like Ron DeSantis. When I
47:16
Speaker 1: get new data, I changed my mind. And the data
47:21
Speaker 1: could not have been more clear early, and then it
47:25
Speaker 1: could not have gone more in the opposite direction a
47:28
Speaker 1: few months later. And you know, we never hear anybody
47:32
Speaker 1: in the media talk about this, but some of the
47:34
Speaker 1: worst months for both cases and deaths here in the
47:39
Speaker 1: United States during the entire cod panic happened well after
47:44
Speaker 1: everybody who wanted the vaccine could get the vaccine. So
47:49
Speaker 1: it's always been very, very difficult for me to understand
47:53
Speaker 1: how you could claim that the vaccines were awesome and
47:58
Speaker 1: some sort of a miracle when you could actually argue
48:02
Speaker 1: that they did nothing. And that's my basic assessment. Looking
48:07
Speaker 1: at the data as closely as I did, my basic
48:10
Speaker 1: assessment is that whether it was by coincidence, happenstance, timing,
48:16
Speaker 1: or maybe early on it had efficacy that it did
48:21
Speaker 1: help early on for a couple of months, and then
48:25
Speaker 1: if anything, it probably hurt when it came to getting
48:29
Speaker 1: COVID Now as far as people being negatively impacted by it,
48:35
Speaker 1: not just because it didn't work against getting COVID like
48:38
Speaker 1: we were promised that it would. I'm somewhat agnostic on that.
48:42
Speaker 1: I have been outspoken on the DeMar Hamlin situation where
48:46
Speaker 1: to me, the only thing that makes any sense is
48:48
Speaker 1: that he had a cardiac arrest on a football field
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Speaker 1: during a nationally televised game with the Buffalo Bills because
48:55
Speaker 1: of the COVID vaccine. And the reason I come to
48:58
Speaker 1: that conclusion is not because really in my view of
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Speaker 1: the vaccine, it's because of reading the tea leaves of
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Speaker 1: how that whole situation went down, his statements, especially to
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Speaker 1: Michael Strahan around the Super Bowl, and then changing his
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Speaker 1: story to Komochio Cordis, which it absolutely was not Komochio Cortis.
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Speaker 1: No chance in the world it was Commochio Cordis that
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Speaker 1: caused his cardiac arrest on the football field. That's why
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Speaker 1: I conclude the only thing that makes any sense is
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Speaker 1: it's got to be the vaccines, because that's the only
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Speaker 1: thing that would cause this very strange reaction from DeMar
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Speaker 1: Hamlin and a change in story, because that's the only
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Speaker 1: scenario that would be politically toxic, especially for the National
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Speaker 1: Football League and for the news media, because they were
49:42
Speaker 1: all in on the vaccines. So I don't know whether
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Speaker 1: or not the vaccines caused a great deal of harm.
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Speaker 1: I just don't think they were very effective. And I think, really,
49:54
Speaker 1: when it came down to it, here's the part of
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Speaker 1: the vaccines that nobody ever wants to talk about the
50:01
Speaker 1: real impact of the vaccines was this Liberals completely overreacted
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Speaker 1: to COVID and when Biden took over, they so desperately
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Speaker 1: wanted to prove that this was Trump's fault and that
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Speaker 1: as soon as they took over, everything was going to
50:22
Speaker 1: be all right, and they saw the vaccines as the
50:26
Speaker 1: path to that reality. And for a couple of months
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Speaker 1: it looked like that might be the case. Biden takes over,
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Speaker 1: everyone gets vaccinated, cases go way down, does go way
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Speaker 1: down temporarily. Uhuh, We the Party of Science, we know
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Speaker 1: what we're doing. Trump was to blame and you know,
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Speaker 1: we told you so. But then when it started to
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Speaker 1: look like that wasn't actually the case from a data perspective.
50:58
Speaker 1: There was another element of this whole situation where the vaccines,
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Speaker 1: and you could argue that this was maybe the greatest
51:05
Speaker 1: benefit of the vaccines is that liberals needed some significant
51:11
Speaker 1: excuse for getting back to normal. They could not just
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Speaker 1: admit that they shit the bed, they overreacted. They wanted
51:21
Speaker 1: Trump out, so they went along with this massive shutdown,
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Speaker 1: destroyed kids' lives, wrecked our economy, crushed the foundation of
51:31
Speaker 1: our society. They could not just acknowledge, well, you know what,
51:35
Speaker 1: maybe it's time we get back to normalcy. They needed
51:39
Speaker 1: an excuse for why it was then okay to do so,
51:45
Speaker 1: and the vaccines provided that magical excuse. Oh, we've got
51:49
Speaker 1: the vaccines now, so now it's okay for us to
51:52
Speaker 1: be rational again, even though the vaccines turned out to
51:55
Speaker 1: be basically garbage. And so that's really the greatest benefit
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Speaker 1: of the vaccines was giving liberals and blues states like
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Speaker 1: here in California, and an excuse and an explanation for
52:08
Speaker 1: why now we're going to go back to normal because
52:12
Speaker 1: we got the vaccines, even though they were basically magic beans.
52:17
Speaker 1: They didn't do anything in the long run. And so
52:21
Speaker 1: you know, that's my view on the vaccines, which is
52:24
Speaker 1: typically nuanced, but I think also probably more correct than
52:28
Speaker 1: anybody else has been on this particular issue. But it's
52:31
Speaker 1: fascinating to see what's going to happen with Trump and
52:35
Speaker 1: the issue of Operation Warp Speed, because for him to
52:39
Speaker 1: reverse himself, at least temporarily on that is pretty extraordinary,
52:43
Speaker 1: but it is in keeping with where his base is
52:48
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