Ep. 1685 - BREAKING: Trump Cuts Off Ukraine

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Three years after Vladimir Putin's invasion

of eastern Ukraine, 11 years after the initial outbreak of war, President Trump has officially

paused all military aid to Ukraine. I'm Michael Knowles.
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The U.S., after years of threatening this, mostly from the Republican side, the U.S. has finally paused military aid to Ukraine.
This war has been going on now for what, three years? Really, the war has been going on for 14 years. It goes all the way back to 2014.
U.S. has been involved from the very beginning.
This is a seismic shift in American geopolitical strategy. Now, what is the White House saying? According to reporting from CNN, a White House official said, quote, the president has been clear that he's focused on peace.
We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution.
There are going to be a lot of people who are cheering loud, echoing through the hilltops that Ukraine aid is being paused. There are going to be some people who think that Ukraine aid should not be paused.
Because even if they don't like Ukraine, they think it's politically important as a matter of U.S. grand strategy.
And they don't want to give some of that country to Putin. And they have their reasons.
And they can make very good arguments. However, the reasoning here that the White House is giving is sound reasoning.
The White House is saying is, we're pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution. It's the same moral reasoning that goes into whether or not you're going to give a homeless person five bucks.
When a homeless guy comes up to you, especially if you're a Christian, you're going to feel tempted to just give him whatever money, you know, ask, and whenever you're asked, you know, just give. However, you also need to take some moral reasoning in here.
If you know for a fact that that homeless person is going to take your five bucks, go buy a bunch of fentanyl, and overdose on the street, then you are not helping him by giving him that money. So the moral reasoning that the White House is engaging in here is, is this military aid actually contributing to a solution to the most significant war to break out in Europe since World War II? That's the moral reasoning.
You could say, and there are going to be people even on the right who say that the White House has defective reasoning on this, or that actually they're not considering all of the context, and actually they should give the military aid. Probably many more people are going to say they should not give the military aid, but I understand how you can arrive at that conclusion.
However, that is the moral reasoning that the White House is engaging in, and that moral principle is a sound moral principle. And it's why you shouldn't give the obvious heroin addict on the street 20 bucks, because that won't actually help him.
Now, Democrats are furious about this. Democrats reacting to the new Trump administration as the sort of thing that is transitioning our country from a democracy to a kleptocracy.
Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut, made this argument a little while ago. Everyone who signs up to work for Donald Trump is signing up for one single project, and that is the transition of American democracy to a kind of kleptocratic oligarchy in which the billionaires rule, in which they get to steal from regular Americans.
And if that's the domestic project, then the way that you normalize that kind of government is to associate yourself with similar governments abroad, like the Kremlin. So it's all part of one big domestic project.
The foreign policy, the affection for dictatorships abroad is in effect a means towards transitioning our democracy to something very, very different, something we've never, ever seen before in this country. So the Democrats are furious about the ending of the Ukraine aid.
And you see here, Chris Murphy saying that he regrets voting for Marco Rubio. That's the chyron on the screen, because he thought that he was going to get stable leadership on the world stage.
And that's not what he got. And Trump is transitioning our country from a democracy to a kleptocratic oligarchy, giving the power to the billionaires.
Let me ask you a question. Most billionaires in America, do they support the Republicans or the Democrats? Over the last, call it 20, 30 years, Have most, even today, do most billionaires support Trump or the Democrats? The Democrats, obviously.
Mark Zuckerberg helped to steal the election from Trump in 2020. Okay.
At the very least, he helped to rig the election against President Trump in 2020. And he was open about it.
He said he was going to do that. Do you really think the billionaire is behind Google? You think Sundar Pichai? You think Tim Cook? These are all huge fans of Trump.
These are MAGA right-wing Republicans. Give me a break.
George Soros, is he a big MAGA Republican? Please. What Chris Murphy is whining about here is the transitioning of America, but it's not the transitioning from a democracy to an oligarchic kleptocracy.
For goodness sake, Trump won the popular vote, and he campaigned on all these things. He campaigned on not having an endless war in Ukraine.
He campaigned on having Elon Musk come in and clean up the government. He campaigned on having RFK Jr.
go in and clean up health care. He did not hide the ball on anything.

The Trump election was a vindication of democracy. There is no doubt that the MAGA movement is much

more lowercase d democratic than the left right now. But there is a transition that's going on.

And the real transition that Chris Murphy and the Democrats are complaining about

is the transition of America from a global liberal empire into something else.

And we don't know exactly what that something else is right now.

There are two options right now.

One option is the transition of America from a global liberal empire that controls the entire world, that gets involved in every conflict, that is just the sole hegemon, undisputed, but that uses its power to advance abortion, to advance weird gay stuff, to just push liberalism. That's what our empire has been.
Will we transition from that kind of empire to a normal nation state? That's what some people want, where we're really not involved all over the world, and we kind of keep to ourselves, and we rebuild our own country, and we focus on America first, and we just don't get involved overseas. We're a little bit more isolationist.
Or do we transition from a global liberal empire into a more traditional conservative American empire, which is also kind of America first. That's the America first of we're going to acquire Greenland.
We're going to go conquer Canada. We're going to build the Trump casino in Gaza.
That's the America first of we're going to flex our muscles and advance our interests all over the world, but we're going to advance our interests. Those are the two options.
And we don't really know what we're getting. Within the MAGA coalition, there are people who strongly advocate for both.
But the one thing we can all agree on is we don't like this liberal globalist empire. Some people derisively refer to it as the globalist American empire or gay, because it advances that rainbow flag everywhere around the world, and and abortion and all sorts of nasty things that people don't want.
That's the one thing that we can agree on. That's what's going away.
That's what people voted against. And that's what has Chris Murphy so angry.
But the irony of it, of course, is that most voters voted against that thing. Even if they can't agree on what they want next, they did vote against that.
Oh, we're becoming a kleptocracy. Give me a break.
Specifically on Ukraine, you're going to make that argument? When this war started, Ukraine was bribing the Biden family, was paying off Hunter Biden to the tune of many hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy American influence when Joe Biden, the vice president at the time, was the point man on Ukraine. Are you kidding me? The Democrats are going to argue about oligarchy and kleptocracy? No, no, no.
They're seeing their empire crumbling. The question is, what are we going to have to replace it? Are we going to give up the American empire and become a traditional nation state again? Or are we going to be a more conservative empire as we have been in the past? What kind of America first are we talking about? There's so much more to say first though.
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Trans surgeries are associated with a higher risk of suicidal ideation. This information, this new scientific study should surprise precisely no one who has listened to this show for more than five minutes.
But it will surprise most people who listen to the establishment media or the academic establishment or even the medical establishment. Because for years now, we have been told that gender-affirming care, so-called, these mutilations, hormonal and surgical, including of kids, are necessary to preserve the health of kids.
In fact, there's a young man who previously suffered from sexual confusion. And he just testified in front of

New Hampshire legislators that when he was a kid, his doctors recklessly, irresponsibly,

immorally encouraged the so-called gender transition and told his father

that if he didn't trans his kid, his kid would kill himself.

Today, I'd sit in front of you as a 20-year-, but for three years I thought I was a girl. I received my bachelor's degree in music last December with additional coursework at Harvard University in statistics.
I remember being 14. I was sitting in my pediatrician's office explaining to him that I was transgender and that my father wasn't affirming my new identity.
So my pediatrician asked my father, would you like a dead son or a living daughter? I was in the room when he asked this question. There is no other situation when a doctor is allowed to suggest suicide like this to a patient, and quite frankly, it's medical malpractice.
If you ask parents of trans-identified kids and other detransitioners, you'll discover that this is a common line used to manipulate parents into consenting to these procedures. Despite being referred to my local gender clinic three times by three separate doctors, the emotional blackmail, and my gender dysphoria diagnosis, my father refused to take me to be medicalized.
And I hated him for it at the time. But now, I am deeply grateful i am deeply grateful of course many such cases you know we've interviewed a lot of people who have detransitioned who had socially transitioned or even who had medically started the transition a ridiculous euphemism to it to mean poisoned oneself mutilated oneself did all sorts of terrible things that really damaged their lives so this kid says you, you know, my father would not engage in the medical, surgical stuff, and I'm so grateful to that now.
What is the study? Study was published in the Oxford Academic Journal of Sexual Medicine. Study of over 107,000 patients with gender dysphoria over the age of 18 concluded that those who undergo the transgender surgeries are at greater risk for mental health problems, including depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety, and others.
You know, I was just on the Jubilee podcast, Surrounders Me, surrounded by 20 or 25 LGBT activists. It came out a few weeks ago.
You can still catch it now on Jubilee. It's gone a bit viral.
And I made this point on the show.

And they denied it, denied it.

And I pointed to the largest data set that we have, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, which showed that not only do the transgender procedures not help anxiety, suicide, and depression, but actually on at least one count on anxiety, they seem to make it worse. Well, that observation from then the largest data set backed up by this major study of 107,000 patients, both bottom and top surgeries, so-called, you know, well, you can use your imagination, you understand what that means, are, quote, associated with increased risk of mental health issues.
It doesn't make the mental health issues better. It's associated with an increased risk of mental health issues.
The study says, quote, our analysis reveals a significantly elevated risk of mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorder post-surgery among individuals with a prior diagnosis of gender dysphoria. So males who had had the surgery showed a higher prevalence of depression at 25.4% versus 11.5% among people who had not had the surgery, and a higher prevalence of anxiety, 12.8% instead of 2.6% among the people who had not had the surgery.
And females had similar trends with elevated depression, 22.9% among the girls who had the

surgery, 14.6% among those who had not, and anxiety, 10.5% versus 7.1%. Final line I'll

quote from the study. The heightened risk of mental health issues post-surgery was particularly

pronounced among individuals undergoing feminizing transition compared to masculinizing transition.

So particularly among the men, this was pronounced, but you saw it in the women too. Of course, we don't need a study to prove this, though the studies do show this consistently for many, many years now.
And this is the controversial part, but it's true and one has to point it out. It's not just the T in the LGBT LMNOP.
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Living in these identities, choosing these identities, and pursuing these paths is associated with a much higher risk of anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and a whole host of other emotional and social problems. Why is that? It's not just the T.
The T is the most obvious, but it's the LGB and all the other letters too. Why is that? What the liberals will tell you is it's because of phobias, because society is just so cruel to LGBT people.
Maybe you could plausibly make that argument 20 or 30 years ago. Can you really make that argument now? Can you really make that argument 27 years after Will and Grace? Can you really make that argument after Obama and Biden light the White House up in rainbows? Can you really make that argument after the Supreme Court preposterously tries to redefine marriage in Obergefell? Can you really make that argument after the conservative justice on the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, enshrines transgender identity into civil rights law in the Bostock decision? Can you really make that argument when everything is super gay all the time? And we have a whole month.
We actually have two months now to celebrate LGBT.

And it's pushed in school

as a positive good.

And it's pushed in corporate America.

And everyone is officially

so pro-LGBT

that to question

that sexual ideology

could get you punished,

expelled, fired.

Who knows?

I mean, in certain countries,

not so much in America yet, but in other countries in the West, you could be arrested for questioning that ideology. And you're telling me it's because of phobia and social stigma? That doesn't hold up.
I don't think that's why. If the cause of increased anxiety, depression, suicidality, all the rest of it across the LGBT spectrum were caused by social pressure and ostracism or something, then you would expect those rates to have declined precipitously over the past two or three decades.
And that hasn't really happened. My humble suggestion is the reason that there are elevated rates of anxiety, depression, suicidality among people who identify as LGBT, LMNOP, and all the rest of it, is because of the identity itself.
Because the identity itself is contrary to nature. I think that's the problem.
I think people are just recognizing there's something a bit odd in it. I'm not knocking anybody for having disordered sexual desires or sexual confusion in identity or anything like that.
I don't know exactly what causes it. Environmental factors that some have suggested a genetic factor, though no one's identified that gene.
But whatever it is, I'm not knocking anybody, man. As I've said for many years, I grew up in New York.
I lived in LA. I went to the gayest university in the world.
So I have a disproportionate number of friends who have engaged in these things. I'm not attacking anybody.
But it is simply a fact. For instance, if you're a guy and you don't like girls and you do stuff with guys, and then even if the Supreme Court gives you the so-called right to gay marriage, you're still going to have a natural desire to have a child.
Which is not possible, obviously, between two men. So you can try to work up all these different ways where you go to the baby store and you buy a woman's egg and you rent another woman's womb and you do it.
But deep down, you know, because the natural law is inscribed on every human heart, that there's something that's just kind of wrong about that. It's not, that's not ideal.
That's not really what people want. That's the cause, okay? And grappling with that reality is crucial, not just for the sexual revolution or these kinds of cultural issues, but for all of politics.
Because when it comes down to it, if you live your life in accord with reality, you're going to have a better time. And if you live your life in discord with reality, in contradiction of reality, in various forms of fantasy, which we all do, and to some degree at certain points, you're going to have a worse time.
Okay? That's true at the level of the individual. That's also true at the level of the nation.
And so this is actually the connection between the stories we've been talking about today.

The personal story on the LGBT study and the big geopolitical story, America's alliance is how we're going to engage with the world. If you engage with the world in accordance with reality, eternal political principles, the kind of things that make human beings tick, you're going to have a better time.
If, on the other hand, you follow utopian fantasies, if, as President Kennedy quoted George Bernard Shaw as having written into the mouth of the serpent tempting even the Garden of Eden, if instead of seeing things that are and saying why, you imagine things that never were and say why not, you are going to have a worse time. That's just a fact.
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Now, speaking of getting back to normal, the Zoomers are offering hope. I said this yesterday in response to Timothy Chalamet's speech at the SAG Awards, where he said, I want to pursue greatness.
I'm not there yet, but I want to be really good. And I want to be the best that I can be.
And I want to be strong. And I want to be great.
And I'm not going to be apathetic. And I'm'm not going to speak in glottal fry and I'm not going to be indifferent.
No, sir, I want to be a great man. I want to make America great again.
He was giving the Hollywood version of that. I said, these Zoomers are offering me hope.
Technically, Timothee Chalamet is a millennial, but he's a border case. I think he was born in 95 or 96.
It's right there on the border. And he's a representative.
You always kind of look up a little bit in age to people, you know, in media and popular culture. So anyway, he's a spiritual Zoomer, even if maybe he's technically a millennial.
And this is a generational shift. And you're seeing this backed up by a new study of Zoomers' views on marriage.
Zoomers are much, much more pro-marriage than millennials were. And then Gen X was, actually.
Zoomers are more pro-marriage than their parents. According to the Times Generation Z study, only a fifth of 18 to 27-year-olds think that marriage is irrelevant.
A third said it was better for a couple to be married before having kids. That seems like damning with faint praise.
You say, hold on, wait. A third said it was better for a couple to be married before having kids.

That seems like damning with faint praise.

You say, hold on, wait, a third said it was better for a couple to be married.

But compared to recent years, this is actually coming back into accord with normal views of marriage.

So only 28% of millennials, my generation, said that they were single, according to a recent Coupon Bird survey.

46% of Gen Z says that they're single. So this is interesting.
Gen Z, more likely than millennials to support marriage. Gen Z, less likely than millennials to actually be in a romantic relationship.
Millennials, I say this as a, I'm a millennial, okay? Though I don't, maybe I'm a spiritual zoomer. I don't know.
I don't know. But the millennials have carried a lot of responsibility for the decline in marriage rates because my generation has not gotten married.
If they have gotten married, it's been generally later and they're just, they're blowing it. Now, maybe it's because they were raised in a liberal society that told them not to value marriage, right? It's not all the millennials' fault.
But at a certain point, we have to take responsibility for our actions. Over the last half century, marriage rates have dropped by about 60%.
Complete collapse in the institution of marriage. That's according to the National Center for Marriage and Family Research.
Zoomers finally saying, actually, we kind of like marriage. Actually, we think marriage might be a good thing.
Actually, we don't think it's irrelevant. Little bit of hope that they're bucking that trend.
And this is true more broadly on cultural issues. Only 23%, this is a shocking statistic, only 23% of 18 to 27-year-olds, of Zoomers, said that their friends commonly had one-night stands.

Some will say that's still too high, but you're talking about less than a quarter of Zoomers say that their friends commonly had one-night stands. Do you know what percentage of millennials 20 years ago said that their friends regularly had one-night stands?

78%.

78%.

Thank you. years ago said that their friends regularly had one-night stands? 78%.
78%. And look, man, I'm a millennial.
I was there. I was part of it.
I remember. I don't need to look at surveys to tell me that.
I remember that. 78% to 23%.
That is an amazingly encouraging sign. And we conservatives are always saying that the West has declined and billions must die and it's all over and the earth is about to explode.
But that's very encouraging. And I've been pro-Zoomer for a long time.
I saw lots of signs of hope in those Zoomers going back 10 years, and it's starting to pay off. And I love to say that I told you so.
Speaking of love and marriage, Kieran Culkin. Kieran Culkin, brother of Macaulay Culkin of Home Alone fame, and Kieran Culkin, who was in Succession, he just won an Oscar for some role.
I don't even know what the movie was. And he gave one of the great Oscar speeches, maybe of all time.
It was kind of, well, he's a millennial, so it was still kind of like weak and a little bit, you know, it's not, he ain't Gary Cooper, but the content of his speech was extremely right-wing and based. A year ago I was on a stage like this and I very stupidly publicly said that I won a third kid from her because she said if I won the award, she would give me the kid.
It turns out she said that because she didn't think I was going to win. And people came up to her and were really annoying her.
I think it got to her. But anyway, after the show, we're walking through a parking lot.
She's holding the Emmy. We're trying to find our car.
Emily, you were there, so you're a witness. And she goes, oh God, I did say that.
I guess I owe you a third kid. And I turned to her and I said, really, I want four.
And she turned to me. I swear to God, this happened.
It was just over a year ago. She said, I will give you four when you win an Oscar.
I held my hand out, she shook it, and I have not brought it up once until just now. You remember that, honey? You do? Okay.
Then I just have this to say to you, Jazz. Love of my life, ye of little faith.
No pressure. I love you.
I'm really sorry I did this again. And let's get cracking on those kids.
What do you say? Yeah, let's go, baby. Oh, I love it so much.
That is great, man. That is, whew, especially on the heels of that Timothee Chalamet speech, this was much better.
I mean, this was one of the great Oscar speeches of all time. Comes up there, successful successful he's doing his thing he's you know at the top of his field he's got this beautiful wife he's got he's in tinsel town with all these decadent libs and what does he say the chief thing that he wants is another kid with his wife even he really he wants two more kids I don't know if they

end every another kid with his wife. Oh, even he really wants two more kids.
I don't know if they ever ended up having the third, but that's what he wants. And that's what he should want.
And that is what it is natural to want. That is what it is good to want.
And when you're really rich and you're really famous and you're really successful, sometimes you get distracted by all of these other ephemeral goods. And I told my wife, you know, when I get an Oscar, I want to buy a Patek Philippe watch, or I want to buy a Ferrari, or I want to go to the Caribbean.
No. Because those goods, I mean, they're good in a certain way, but they fade.
They're not really serving your end in anywhere close to the same way as having a kid. That's really, really good.
With his wife. Oh, man.
You know what it is? I'll just leave the story on this. It's a vibe shift is what it is.
It's vibe shift it's it's good and i hope it encourages more good stuff but it's a sign of the times man and i i'm seeing so many data points here that are telling me that something is really shifting okay just just off the top of my head trump wins the popular vote obviously that that's a big one. The decline of Christianity levels off in America.
It's been stable for six years. You've got Hollywood stars not whining about politics so much, but actually talking about just being great at their craft again and doing their job.
You've got Zoomers absolutely cratering in their support of promiscuous sex and encouraging marriage again.

You've got a major Hollywood star in his Oscar acceptance speech telling his wife she will give him another child because she agreed to it, and that's her duty. So let's get cooking in the boudoir, lady.
Oh, man, how many more data points do I need? You've got a shift in voter identification, a major shift to the right among virtually every demographic, black guys, Hispanics, women, young people. It's a vibe shift.
That's what it is. We are living through the most notable vibe shift of my lifetime.
And I know vibe is like new agey, weird hippie language, but that's all right.

It's all right. We're reappropriating it.
We're taking it. It's ours now.
Now we're going to get rid of that word and we're just going to be, I don't know, man. I think we might be able to be great again.
There is a chance. I'm not saying it's like that.
I'm just saying there's a chance that we might be able to be great again.

Now, speaking of babies,

should you... I'm not saying it's like that.
I'm just saying there's a chance that we might be able to be great again.

Now, speaking of babies, should you vaccinate your children?

A major question, especially with the measles outbreak right now, that many parents are discussing.

And there's a big headline.

RFK Jr., chief opponent of vaccines of the past quarter century. RFK Jr.
flip-flops on the measles vaccine. But does he? We'll get to what he really said in a second.
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Has RFK Jr. flip-flopped on vaccines? Here's the headline.
This is from Fox News, foxnews.com. Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., measles outbreak is a call to action for all of us. MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease.
Whoa! This is Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy who campaigned for years saying that vaccines cause autism and because they have this thimerosal and because they have unsafe levels of toxins.
And this is Bobby Kennedy is saying measles outbreak is a call to action for all of us. I guess that's kind of vague.
So an MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease. Did he really say that? No, he didn't.
The thing you got to remember, a lot of people don't know this who haven't worked in journalism. The author of the columns writes the body copy.
The editors write the headlines and the subheader. Bobby Kennedy, I read the op-ed.
Bobby Kennedy does not say that the MMR vaccine is crucial to your avoiding this potentially deadly disease. He doesn't say, what does he really say? He says, parents play a pivotal role in safeguarding their children's health.
All parents should consult with their healthcare providers to understand their options to get the MMR vaccine. The decision to vaccinate is a personal one.
Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons. So he says, yeah, no, vaccines protect, in principle, individuals and communities.
That is how they operate in principle. And then Kennedy says, tens of thousands died with or of measles annually in the 19th century.
By 1960, before the vaccine's introduction, improvements in sanitation and nutrition had eliminated 98% of measles deaths. Good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses.
It's amazing. Even the language here remains a best defense.
I imagine that grammatically doesn't make any sense. I imagine what happened is, they wrote, remains the best defense, and then someone wanted to soften it and said, no, you can't say it's the best defense.
Say it's a good defense, but then they left the word in there. So it's a best defense.
You can't have a best. You have the best or a good.
A best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses, vitamins A, C, and D, and foods rich in vitamins B12, C, and E should be part of a balanced diet. This guy hates vaccines.
Bobby Kennedy hates vaccines. He nowhere in this column really encourages people to get any vaccines, including the measles vaccine.
But the headline makes it seem like he did. Very interesting.
There's obviously a political battle here going on between either the editors at foxnews.com and their author, Bobby Kennedy, or there's a little protection going on here. Because everyone knows that Kennedy is against vaccines.
There is a measles outbreak. If people start getting really sick or even dying from measles, it's going to look really bad for Kennedy.
It's going to look really bad for the White House. So is this a little hedging their bets? They can always say, look, no, we sort of encouraged people to get the measles vaccine.
Oh, see, there's the headline right there. I'm not even really blaming foxnews.com or the editors here.
Frankly, even the discrepancy might have been encouraged by HHS and the White House. Because you got the headline.
No, we can point to the headline. See, we encourage people to get the measles vaccine.
But if people are vaccine injured, they can point to the body copy of the column and say, no, but actually, we didn't really encourage people to get the vaccine. So what are you going to do? I don't know.
What are you supposed to do? It used to be, when I was a kid, it used to be that the anti-vax people were all on the political left and the pro-vax people were on the right. And now that's flipped and the anti-vaxxers are almost entirely on the right and the ordinary pro-vaxxers are on the left.
And so I don't know. When I was a kid, Bobby Kennedy was on the left.
So I don't know. I don't know.
I'm not making any comment on vaccines. I don't feel particularly strongly about vaccines.
I don't possess sufficient knowledge about vaccine safety and efficacy to encourage or discourage people from getting them. It does seem weird that little kids get all these vaccines now.
Many, many more than we ever got when we were a kid, all at the same time when they're so little. I don't know.
That seems a little crazy to me. But that's really as far as I'm willing to go.
I don't know anything about vaccines. But it is curious.
This is the first test. This is the first test of the shift in public policy from everyone get as many vaccines as possible, as young as possible, to maybe vaccines have some problems.
This is the first big test, this measles outbreak. Will a lot of little kids get really, really sick? Will, God forbid, kids die? Remains to be seen.
But you're seeing some bet hedging going on now from the White House. Okay.
Some good news. Some more good news.
There's been a lot of good news coming out of the Trump White House. Illegal crossings have dropped to their lowest level since about 25 years ago.
This is also from CBS News. This is not even from some right-wing website.
Amid Trump crackdown, illegal border crossings plunge to levels not seen in decades. Very good news and a reminder.
There are secondary effects of policies. So there are a lot of conservatives who are frustrated because there have not been enough deportations.
And the White House has not continued to report the daily deportation numbers because they're not as high as some people would like. And right now, the White House is probably on track to deport, or the admin is probably on track to deport, 450,000 to maybe 500,000 people this year.
Now, they might ramp it up significantly. It's only been about a month.
You've got to give them a little slack. They're doing a lot right now.
However, some people are saying, we need to deport more people. It's not enough.
You might end up deporting at best 2 million people in four years, but we have 11 to 16 million people living in this country, maybe more illegal aliens living in this country. It's just not enough.
Well, a little bit of good news here is there are secondary effects to these policies. The fact that Trump is beginning the deportations has dropped new crossings to the lowest level in a quarter century.
Remember, we were told at the end of the Biden administration that Joe Biden needed a new law passed by Congress in order to stop the illegal crossings. Well, now we know for a fact that was not true.
I'm willing to call it a lie because I don't think Biden or the White House were that stupid back just six months ago. But they didn't need that.
In fact, if you just start deporting even a moderate number of people, you will discourage the criminal cartels that control the southern border from sending more people over. Secondary effects.
Okay. So I sympathize, I empathize.
I wish the deportation numbers were significantly higher too. However, I hope that they will increase substantially, but this is a win.
There are secondary effects to these kinds of policies. Okay.
Now, speaking of people who a lot of people would like to deport, this story really came out of left field for me. Do you remember Casey Anthony? Casey Anthony is this woman who was accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter, and then disposing of the body and the trunk of her car in the woods, and then going out and partying for a month and not reporting her daughter being missing and then finally when the daughter was reported missing she acted really weird and the parents acted weird and Casey Anthony's parents acted weird and the whole thing was just really horrifying and she got off because the the state did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt in the minds of most jurors that she had in fact murdered her daughter and how she had murdered her daughter.

But most people left that trial even after she was technically acquitted.

Most people left that trial still thinking she probably murdered her daughter or was

involved in it.

So anyway, this is not a popular person in America.

And now she's decided to become an influencer.

For those of you who don't know, my name is Casey Anthony.

My daughter is Kaylee Anthony.

My parents are George and Cindy Anthony.

This is not about them.

This is not in response to anything that they have said or done.

That's not to say that I'm not going to respond at some point to some of the things that they have said and done. The whole point of this is for me to begin to reintroduce myself.
I'm doing this both personally for me, but in a professional capacity. As a proponent for the LGBTQ community, for our legal community, women's rights, I feel that it's important that I use this platform that was thrust upon me and now look at it as a blessing as opposed to the curse that it has been since 2008.
With that, these aren't going to be perfect. They're not going to be edited.
Most of the time, they're not going to be short, but I am proverbially standing in the light, embracing this piece, still going to keep my privacy intact. So you will get very comfortable with my car.
And I will explain in great detail why it's so important for people to protect their privacy. She's going to protect her privacy by becoming famous,

more infamous, more infamous than she already is.

We've reached peak influencer.

How many people say, I just want privacy?

You know, I just, I really just want to be left alone

and have privacy.

It's the Meghan Markle effect.

Please, I'm going on every TV show in the world

so that I can plead for privacy.

I don't think they want privacy. A lot of people do that.
We have a lot of influencers these days. I don't know.
I don't know exactly what an influencer is. In a way, I guess I'm technically an influencer.
I don't, am I an influencer? Do I count as an influencer? I don't do dances on TikTok or anything and I do occasionally write, but I, I don't know.

I might,

but this is too far.

When Casey Anthony becomes an influencer,

there's a lot of

people who I don't do dances on TikTok or anything, and I do occasionally write. But I don't know.
But this is too far. When Casey Anthony becomes an influencer, that is too far.
But she's saying it's her professional capacity. I don't know.
Maybe she needs the money. And she thinks it's an easy way to make a buck by taking her infamy and trying to monetize it.
But what is she going to be influencing on behalf of? Well, she says, I want to be speaking out for LGBT and this and that. And women's rights.
And what is meant by women's rights? When people on the political left, people who are on the side of whatever, LGBT activism and this and that, when they talk about women's rights, what are they talking about? They're talking about one thing. They're talking about abortion.
They're talking about killing their own kids is whatever you want to say about casey anthony i think most people who follow this case still suspect that she murdered her daughter she was acquitted so it's just an allegation an accusation a hunch it's not she was she was acquitted she was she was not acquitted she was convicted of of uh lying lying to authorities. But people still suspect, okay, they say this woman, she might be one of the worst people in America.
And yet, what Casey Anthony was accused of doing is pretty much exactly the same as what abortionists and their customers do. There is no real difference.
There is no real difference between what Casey Anthony did, allegedly, and what abortionists in this country do every day and what the customers of abortionists do every day. What's the difference? Well, Casey Anthony's daughter was like 26 months older.
that's the difference. Well, allegedly what Casey Anthony did was illegal.
I don't know. I mean, sure.
Abortion is illegal in some places. I don't, you know, but we're not, we're just talking about the actual act, the act itself.
Forget about the positive law for saying it's just the act. I don't know.
Yeah. I mean, I think Casey Anthony deserves all the scoring she gets.
Of course. I mean, you know, those of us who suspect she, that the jury came to the wrong conclusion, we're not, and no one's pulling their punches on Casey Anthony.
But yeah, it's fitting that she's an abortion activist now. Because abortion is the same thing that Casey Anthony did.
Allegedly. Today's Teehee Tuesday on that happy note.
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