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Ep. 2268 - BOMBSHELL: Taylor Swift ENGAGED! Plus Other Stuff Happens But Nobody Cares
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To save 40% on your Daily Wire plus annual membership, go to DailyWirePlus.com now and use code Summer before the deal is gone. Well, folks, it's rare that there is a day in which we have news that is so big, so incredibly important that it trumps not only all the other news of the day, but all the other news of the year. The decade, the century, nay, perhaps the millennium. Yes, it's finally happened. The most important event of our lifetime. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged. I know. I too am flabbergasted. Shocked. I am ecstatic. Today is a magical day in the history of the United States and perhaps all of Western civilization. And listen, I will admit when I am wrong. Two years ago, when these two lovebirds began their relationship, I thought this was just another of Taylor Swift relationships that would end with a breakup album in which she's saying like a 17 year old about how sad she was that she'd been rejected. But don't worry, she don't need no man. But as it turns out, she does need her a man. And that man is Travis Kelsey. And I have to say, like, unironically, I think it's great. I hope they have a wonderful marriage. I hope they have lots of kids. I hope she sings lots of songs about being married and having kids. And all those songs are better than her normal songs. That's what I hope for her because I think that would be a very good thing for the west, for America, for young women particularly, who have been taught for generations that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. And that romance is somehow a, a sort of giveaway to patriarchal institutions. And it turns out, nope. Actually, a core component of human happiness is finding a member of the opposite sex and marrying them. This has always been a core component of human happiness. Having babies with a member of the opposite sex in a long lasting relationship built on love and mutual commitment, that is a very good thing. And I'm not saying that cynically, I mean that it is excellent. I hope that they both live much happier lives. According to Variety, the couple shared the big news on Instagram with a carousel of photos. In the caption, your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married. Put aside the, the idea that Taylor Swift would be a great English teacher. Charming, charming, and the pictures are quite charming and quite normal. This does look like what it would look like if your English teacher and your gym teacher got married. It is perfectly normie and I'm here for it. The normie revolution is happening and this is like a normal couple getting married. Sure, she's a billionaire and he is a multi millionaire athlete. And that is a very, very large ring. And that, that is, that is some serious jewelry. But again, they can afford it. And you know what? Good for them. Good for them. It's charming and I like and it is good. And I hope that many other people take advantage of the situation to get married and follow in their footsteps and then have long lasting, decades long marriages filled with children and grandchildren. I hope that is where this goes. It is actually culturally significant. It's culturally significant because tacitly, just as naturally, there has been over the course of the last few decades a rebellion against normality, a rebellion against the very idea that men and women ought to get married to one another and that somehow all decisions that men and women make with regard to relationships are equally praiseworthy and equally useful and equally likely to lead to happiness. And that isn't true. Tacitly. What is happening here and the reason people are celebrating is that singledom is not ideal. It is not in fact a wonderful happy thing. That doesn't mean you have to be miserable if you're single. What it does mean is that aspiring to be married, to be part of a happy marriage, is a wonderful thing. That is a good aspiration. It's an aspiration that is natural to the human heart and that is why people are happy. For Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, the idea that romance, a traditional romance between, you know, the high school cheerleader and the high school quarterback, the reason that is sort of a platonic ideal in America is for a reason. Because that is the basis of the forwarding of civilization. Marriage is the fundamental bedrock institution of all successful civilizations. And that's good. And so what this is tacitly is a cultural rejection of the idea that the actual ideal is non marriage. The actual ideal is prancing around like Madonna in your 70s being a faded pop star and try and convince everybody that actually you are super duper happy. Waking up drunk in the mornings by yourself in a five star hotel. These images are great, are wonderful, they are good for the world. It also, by the way, happens to be a return to traditionalism in. Wait for it, gender roles. Now again, gender roles don't mean that you can't have a successful woman in a, in a marriage. As I've said 1 million times at this point. My wife is a doctor, she went to medical school. I supported her while she went to medical school. We had babies while she went to medical school. So I'm very much in favor of women being able to work the jobs that they want to work. And so there is nothing unfeminine, for example, about Taylor Swift being a billionaire singer. That's fine. But she's very clearly a woman. And he is a platonic football star. He is a good looking large human who runs into other people for a living and knocks them down. It is in fact the English teacher and the gym teacher in, in a sort of cookie cutter kind of way that is absolutely like if you looked at in a picture book for traditionalism and gender roles, what you would spot is Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. And then they would get married and then they would have babies and that is good. And I cannot wait for them to have children. First of all, it'll be good for them because children are wonderful for the world and they are wonderful for the people who have them. They mature you. They make you a better person. Marriage also matures you and makes you a better person. So good for them. That's wonderful. It's spiritually fulfilling and awesome. And I hope many, many people who are heretofore anti marriage or ambivalent about marriage, ambivalent about baby making. I, I hope all of them decide that Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are right and then they follow the pattern. I hope they do that. I really do. I think it's a good thing because there, listen, there are a lot of young people who are not going to listen to, you know, funny, duddy old conservatives like me who have been preaching this for legitimately my entire life. But we'll listen to Taylor Swift or at least follow her example. That's a very good thing. Again, nothing I'm saying here is being ironic. I, I mean this absolutely sincerely. So maybe we get a Taylor Swift baby boom and that'd be very, very good for the civilization. That'd be excellent. What's going to be fascinating is to see what comes next for Taylor Swift aesthetically and musically. So we made fun of her album cover a couple of weeks ago on the program, the very kind of over sexualized album cover. And we pointed out that she's been getting more and more sexual in her album covers. It's gonna be hard to do that when you're married and when you presumably then go on to have kids then have quite the same sort of resonance. So what's going to happen to Taylor Swift? Well, I think that Taylor Swift happens to be a marketing genius. I don't know if she's a musical genius. I've made that opinion clear. I think the Tortured Poets department is a terrible album. But when it comes to her marketing ability, Taylor Swift is legitimately the greatest who has ever played the game. She is amazing at the game for sure, which is why the entire media went nuts when she gets married, right? When she gets engaged, the entire media goes insane. Here, for example, with cbs, is Olivia Rinaldi flipping out over the engagement.
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Olivia Rinaldi
Taylor Swift is engaged. Taylor Swift is engaged. Taylor Swift is engaged. This come back to me. She just posted it. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
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Ben Shapiro
Oh, it's huge. The ring is ginormous.
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Olivia Rinaldi
This is so exciting.
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Ben Shapiro
Oh, my God.
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Olivia Rinaldi
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's on her Instagram. It's on her Instagram. It's on her Instagram. Oh, my God.
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Ben Shapiro
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, My God.
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Olivia Rinaldi
Oh, my God. I feel like Paul Revere right now. Like, this is a very exciting moment for me in my professional career because I get to announce that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged.
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Ben Shapiro
As you're talking to Joe Lang, our.
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Olivia Rinaldi
Lovely producer Gabby Ache texted me and said, Taylor Swift's engaged. And you can see it right there on her social media.
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Ben Shapiro
She put it up in that post.
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Olivia Rinaldi
That they got engaged with the caption, your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married with a little dynamite.
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Ben Shapiro
Olivia Rinaldi, by the way, is the White House reporter for cbs. These are serious people. Supposedly are super duper duper excited. In fact, the President of the United States was asked about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey getting engaged. Here's what President Trump had to say. Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged. And reaction, sir? Well, I wish him a lot of luck. I think it's, I think he's a great player. I think he's a great guy and I think that she's a terrific person. So I wish them a lot of.
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Olivia Rinaldi
Luck.
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Ben Shapiro
You know, good for him. And again, it's good we found the one thing Americans can unite upon. Coming up next, even more on Tay Tay. You thought there was no more wrong. You are. We have more on Tay Tay. First, can the Fed take the right action at the right time or are we going to be looking at a potential economic slowdown? What does that mean for your savings? I don't know about you. I diversify with gold through Birch Gold Group. I do it for peace of mind, knowing if the bottom falls out, I have something tangible I can depend on. And Birch Gold makes it incredibly easy for you to diversify into gold as well. If you have an IRA or old 401k, you can convert that into a tax sheltered IRA and physical gold or you just buy some gold to keep in your safe. I've worked with Birch Gold before. They've obviously been an advertiser on the show for years, but I've actually bought a fair bit of gold from Birch Gold. I call them up, I get my questions answered. I orders in my safe today. 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And, and women age out of that in the pop world pretty quickly, right? Katy Perry right now is the butt of enormous mockery online for her latest tour, she's considered to be too old for the game. Katy Perry is five years older than Taylor Swift. She is 40 years old and she's kind of going in the opposite direction. And she just recently broke up with Orlando Bloom and so she's kind of seen as desperate, trying to maintain attention. What's she going to do? And so can you be a 43, 45 year old woman and singing about your latest breakup and how heartbroken you are the same way that you could when you were 30? Probably not. And is, is pop as a musical medium capable of carrying actual interesting messages about, for example, marriage and having kids? When I think of sort of the musical genres in which people sing about marriage and having children, the only one that pops to mind is actually country. So watch, watch for it. I would not be totally shocked if Taylor Swift's next album, she moves back toward country. That would not be surprising to me at all because that actually is medium where people frequently sing about this kind of stuff. And of course country has now broadened out to include things like Beyonce's latest album. So it would not be shocking to watch Taylor kind of move back into that medium as opposed to the poppy kind of drug induced, hazy, Charlie XCX pop music that she's been doing for the last few years, five or 10 years. It'll be fascinating to watch. But again, my great hope here is that an entire generation of young people, particularly young women who were, who were told by the feminist movement and by pop stars like Taylor Swift that relationships were bound to fail and they were all about this sort of teenage angst, mature along with Taylor Swift, see this as unabashedly. By the way, again, you're not seeing a lot of blowback. That's what's fascinating. Despite all of the talk about how marriage is a patriarchal institution, marriage robs women of their identity. Marriage and romance is, is simply a hallmark of our horrible sexist past. I've yet to see anybody, literally anybody on the left talking about why it's so terrible for Taylor Swift to get engaged and married. The sort of Gloria Steinem take on marriage is dead. And Taylor Swift may have just put a stake through it, which is really quite fascinating because it turns out marriage is a natural institution. Romance between men and women is a wonderful and natural thing. It turns out that women want, by the way, masculine men. You'll notice that Taylor Swift didn't end up marrying any, any of these sort of androgynous dudes that, that she dated. She ended up marrying you know, the football player with his doofus brother does a podcast. That's who she ended up marrying or getting engaged to. And he ended up marrying the, again, platonically beautiful cheerleader type. Like that's. It's about as classic a story from 1955 as you could find. And that's got to be driving. Some people must. But they won't say it. Or maybe naturally they understand that again, deep in the human heart, there is in fact a desire by women for masculine men and by men for feminine women and for both of them to get married and then have babies. So good luck to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce again. I think this is a very, very good thing for Western civilization. And if Western civilization needs more babies, hopefully this leads off the generation Taylor baby boom. Okay. Meanwhile, in other very, very important cultural news, but let's be, let's be clear. Everything pales in comparison to this. It was like an asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs yesterday. The only thing anyone cared about was this engagement. And, and I do have to say it'll be fascinating to see what the wedding is like because they could do an unexpected thing, which I think is probably what they should do. I think everybody expects them to have a $20 million wedding. I think what would be fascinating is if she sort of counter programs and does a low key wedding in a church with Travis Kelce. Classic Americana, just family and friends. I think that would actually be a very good brand move for her. Not that she needs my brand advice. She's way better at this than literally anyone who's ever lived in the history of planet Earth. But I think that that would be counter programming, especially in an era where there are so many people who are worried about conspicuous consumption and all of the rest. But I think we're done with it. Wait, breaking, breaking this. Justin, Travis Kelsey apparently has an ad for American Eagle. By the way, gotta say, American Eagle crushing it with the, with the ads. I mean, between Sydney Sweeney and now Travis Kelsey and having an ad to drop like the day of a. A mind blowing universe exploding announcement about Travis and Tay Tay. Really good for American Eagle. Their, their branding department's doing an amazing job. Here is the ad. Okay, so he's dressed in a tennis outfit. He's walking around America. There's an American flag and everything, hugging random friends of many races and laughing with many friends while wearing clothes. Because this is what you do in American Eagle outfits. You, you, you laugh with your friends. Okay. I mean. All right, cool. Basically, I think they just had a Travis Kelce ad banked, and they were waiting for this particular moment. So, again, good on the American Eagle ad department. I will say that that is a very chunky sweater from American Eagle and not my type of sweater, but again, smart, smart advertising. Capitalism always wins, gang. Well, speaking of the power of advertising, I asked our friends and sponsors over at Comet, a project of perplexity, how much money is spent in the American advertising market and how much did American Eagle spend on marketing? Last year, apparently, total advertising spending in the United States for 2024 was $354 billion. A lot of money. Reflecting the ongoing strength and growth of the American advertising market. That is. That is a lot of money. Obviously, a lot of companies spend a lot of money on advertising. American Eagle last year spent $206 million on advertising. I assume they're going to spend even more this year. But the Travis Kelce ad, the Sydney Sweeney ad, it just shows that a good piece of advertising, much more valuable than just throwing dollars at the thing. So, you know, good on American Eagle for having signed up all of these talents, ready to drop an ad at a moment's notice if, you know the biggest marriage announcement in human history happens. But in other cultural news, the Cracker Barrel wars have been fought and they have been won. Cracker Barrel has backed down. And the old white dude on the Cracker Barrel billboards, he's back and he's better than ever with his creaky joints and his. And his rocking chair. I'm making fun of this a little bit because, listen, do I think that it was like the most important thing in the world that Cracker Barrel tried to change its logo and then changed it back? No. Do I think that it was all about the wokeness? Not really. Do I think it was indicative of corporate America's disconnect from its own brand and from an enormous amount of white America? Yes. So do I think that the, the reams of paper and gallons of ink that have been spilled over Cracker Barrels, relatively mild rethink that that was deeply important. I'm not sure, but. But I understand that for many people, this is an issue of passion. Obviously, I don't operate in the Cracker Barrel world. Cracker Barrel is not kosher. So I've never eaten at one. It seems charming. I've heard from people, they enjoy it, as the President would say. Many people say that Cracker Barrel is so great, so wonderful. President Trump offered his own advice to Cracker Barrel just yesterday. And you know, the President coming off the sidelines to Suplex. Cracker Barrel basically ended the Cracker Barrel resistance and he outflanked the Cracker Barrel woke forces and he broke them. Broke them like a champion. He put out a post on Truth Social. Cracker Barrel should go back to the old logo, admit a mistake based on customer response, the ultimate poll, and manage the company better than ever before. They got a billion dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right. Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity. Have a major news conference today. Make Cracker Barrel a winner again. Remember, in just a short period of time, I made the United States of America the hottest country anywhere in the world. One year ago it was dead. Good luck. Jonathan Capehart at MSNBC just last week was raging over MAGA voters, saying that he was sick of their outrage and all this stuff. But he loses. He loses and MAGA wins. Cracker Barrel has been defeated. They were forced to sign their surrender at Appomattox. The US Restaurant chain has now abandoned its plans to adopt a new generic, stupid looking logo. The company said in a social media post. We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen and we have. Our new logo is going away. Our old timer will remain Murica. President Trump then congratulated them on the reversal. Magnanimous in victory as ever. Say congratulations, Cracker Barrel, on changing your logo back to what it was. All your fans very much appreciate it. David Johnson, the CEO of branding strategy vision PR Group, told BBC's US partner CBS. The rebrand was a flop. The shares had nosedived by about 7% following the announcement of the brand reversal. And now presumably you will see the brand shoot up to the stars. To the stars, to the moon. Because the war has been won and the old man will still be leaning on that Cracker Barrel in, in their logo. And the pegboards never went away, right? I mean they still, they still had all the Americana in the store. So again, do I think this was overblown some? Yeah, yeah, I do. But indicative of the winning streak of MAGA already coming up, horrifying story out of Scotland that's becoming a meme and kind of iconic. All about the Muslim migration problem across Europe. First, I gotta tell you, steak, steak is my jam, okay? But I can't always have the steak that I want. And this is where Cook Unity comes in. Whether you eat to live or live to eat, Cook Unity delivers fresh, chef crafted meals straight to your door. Their ever expanding menu of over 300 small batch meals adapts to your dietary needs. 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I guess one of the, one of the prerequisites to being a part of Trump's Cabinet is that you can go a very, very long time without ever stepping out to use the restroom. President Trump himself mocked Joe Biden's pressers after this three and a half hour presser that was longer than Godfather 1. And here he was. You have not had this happen for four years. You sat and you'd ask one question to Biden and it was always the ice cream question. Right? What flavor ice cream do you like best? I like vanilla. And that was the end of the conference. Our own Michael Moles was there for this magnificent Cabinet meeting. He was the first podcaster in human history to cover a Cabinet meeting yesterday. An honor he richly did not deserve. But there he was. Marco Rubio, I think, had the line of the day, actually. So he was, he was celebrating upcoming Labor Day. And Marco Rubio said, I've never appreciated a Labor Day as much as this one. Well, Mr. President, first of all, everyone's made this comment already and needs to be echoed again. You, you were elected as the president of working Americans, and that's why this Labor Day is so meaningful for me personally. This is the most meaningful Labor Day of my life as someone with four jobs and so. Good line there from the Secretary of State as well as the head of, like the National Library, the official janitor of the United States, the head of the NSC, and, and about eight other jobs. So, you know, President Trump is having himself a good time. The Democrats are not having themselves a good time. The Democrats are in serious, serious trouble. Harry Ensign over at cnn, he says the Democrats right now are about as popular as Crackle Cracker Barrel's rebrand attempt. Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with the American voter, as the Cracker Barrel rebrand has with the American consumers. Bad, bad, bad. What are you doing? Oh, my goodness gracious. What, what are we talking about here in terms of big party registration changes in the key swing states? Let's look at the key four swing states that in fact do keep track of registration by party. Look, the Republican Party is in their best position at this point in the cycle since at least 2005 in all four of these key battleground states. Well, I mean, that is that is, I can't imagine why they're unpopular, except that you totally, totally can. Democrats have been wrong footed by President Trump at every single turn. That is particularly true on the issue of crime. Crime is just a terrible issue for Democrats. It has always been and will always be a terrible issue for Democrats until they get tough on crime, which apparently they've decided never to do again. In the wake of Black Lives Matter Summer 2020, Jimmy Raskin, representative from Maryland, he said, you know, we keep focusing too much on crime, but crime has always been a part of American history. Oh my God. He's trying to militarize our society, intimidate his political opponents. The whole idea of picking cities based on their partisan leadership is absurd. I mean, there are lots of Republican cities and towns struggling with crime. Everybody is across the country always. Crime has always been part of our history. And yet crime is down in BC, for example, it's at a 30 year low. Crime has always been a part of our history. Is a really, really bad argument to the person who just got carjacked. You know, you should, you should just acknowledge crime has been a part of American history. For in fact, murder goes all the way back to Cain and Abel. It's always been a part of human history. So the fact that your family member was murdered in front of you on a street in Washington D.C. just understand that's always been a part of human history. Good luck with this particular attempt. Meanwhile, the DNC summer meetings are going swimmingly for the Democrats. By swimmingly, I mean they are totally psychotic. I mean, I don't know what they are doing. Here is a DNC summer meeting speaker. Her name is Insha Rahman. She is the Vice President for Advocacy and Partnerships at the Vera Institute of Justice. Saying, you know what doesn't matter to people? Crime doesn't matter to people. I feel like crime matters to people. You want to talk about the crime issues voters care about? Where does Trump go? Migrant crime, carjackings, the really lurid, awful stuff. That is a crazy, crazy visual. Don't take the bait because most Americans are more worried about how are we going to address mental health issues, the visible homelessness that we see on streets and how do we deal with mental health and other issues that drive the sort of range, random incidents that scare all of us. That's what you should be talking about. That's where you should be focused. Don't take the bait in talking about migrant crime or carjackings or the things that actually don't matter to that many Americans. They don't matter. They don't matter. Which is why you guys are in the minority now. Things are going amazing for you. And that was the entire dnc. Apparently, the Democratic National Committee has decided that their chief pitch to other Democrats is the worst things happening in America are that criminals are going to prison and. Or being deported. Here, for example, is DNC member Millie Herrera crying about Alligator Alcatraz, which is just a holding facility in Florida for illegal immigrants, many of whom have committed significant crimes in the United States.
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Olivia Rinaldi
This is just unbelievable. Unbelievable to a lot of us that have experienced persecution in other countries, that have fled to.
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Ben Shapiro
To the United States, thinking that we were protected here by our Constitution.
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Olivia Rinaldi
So we are all together in this. And I, you know, really appreciate all the support.
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Ben Shapiro
And I'm getting emotional. I'm sorry.
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Olivia Rinaldi
All the support that immigrants are receiving.
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Ben Shapiro
From our party because the Democratic Party.
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Olivia Rinaldi
Is the party of immigrants, the party.
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Ben Shapiro
Of working class, the party of women, the party of lgbtq to disable everybody. It is amazing. They're just going to continue to try to cram down this bizarre ideology, this ideology filled with luxury beliefs on. On the rest of America. Meanwhile, Democrats were chanting in support of illegal aliens yesterday as well. So things are going just amazing for Democrats across the country. Here were a bunch of Democrats wearing pink vests. Pink vests. I don't even know where you purchased these, but apparently they're available maybe at Amazon or something, in favor of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged human trafficker. So cool job, guys. You're doing great. Kilmar is our neighbor. You can't have him. Trump. No, Kilmar is our neighbor. You can't have him. Try. Wow. So a bunch of old, white, sexually fluid people singing in the worst possible way old folk songs with bad rewritten lyrics. You guys. You guys are doing amazing. You're doing amazing. That is when you're not standing for Hamas and their friends in Gaza. So the Democratic Party has decided they're just on the side of Hamas, period. Whatever they can do at this point to preserve Hamas, they will do. If that means telling lies about genocide, they will do it. If that means telling lies about mass purposeful starvation in Gaza, they will do it. If it means telling lies about what Israel is doing or how the war started or anything else, they will just. They will just continue to humor this kind of crap. And so you end up with DNC chair Ken Martin yesterday saying that the crisis in Gaza is the thing that Democrats should be worried most about. By the way, that crisis is going to end. In the very near future, because Israel is going to finish off the war by either taking over Gaza City or Hamas is going to engage in some form of surrender and give up the hostages it currently holds. Again, this war could have been over, literally, October 6th by never starting, or it could have been over at any time by Hamas surrendering, disarming, going into exile and surrendering his hostages. They're not doing any of that. Israel has shipped in more food per capita than any conflict in the history of humanity. And here is the DNC lamenting, lamenting the evils of Israel. Of course the crisis in Gaza is urgent. This resolution is focused on the humanitarian crisis and makes clear that it must be addressed as the emergency that it is. As I've always said, we have to center humanity in this conversation. Thousands and thousands of innocent lives have been lost in this conflict. It has now become commonplace, unacceptably, to accept civilian lives as a casualty of conflict. One innocent life lost is one too many. My resolution calls for the secure and unrestricted flow of aid to Gaza, which is absolutely essential and is the position of 44 Senate Democrats who signed a letter recently calling for a large scale expansion in aid. Okay, the. The key word there would be secure. If you give the aid to Hamas, then Hamas uses the aid. Right now, there is no starvation in Gaza. You can see pictures from Gaza right now of the supermarkets there. There are in fact, markets in Gaza that are fully stocked. People who are going to the aid stations are leaving behind items, which is not something that starving people actually do. When he says secure, what? He means that he wants the UN back in charge so Hamas can continue to fight on. When he says one civilian dead is too many civilians. I mean, of course, in a. In an ideal world, no civilians would ever die. In an ideal world, Hamas would not be in charge of an entire swath of territory, murdering people who attempt to get aid, taking civilians hostages, attempting to build up military capacity again, and running the entirety of the Gaza Strip as a hellhole. Sharia law tyranny. That. That would be the ideal. Unfortunately, we live in the real world over here, where Hamas hides behind civilians in an attempt to preserve itself. This is never how war has worked. But if Democrats insist on living in the world of fancy, they will probably continue to lose. All right, folks, in just a moment, we'll finally get to the Scotland story. It's totally crazy. And the second part of our breaking news story about the American Medical association continues to be even more shocking. First, here's a not so fun fact. Disney Plus, Hulu, Netflix, Paramount plus, they're all raising their prices again. You may have noticed. And then there's Daily Wire plus, doing what we love to do the exact opposite. 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Do not wait to secure your signed copy. These won't be available forever. Go to dailywire.com men and pre order today. Alrighty, folks. So meanwhile over in Scotland, all hell has broken loose over a. A kind of amazing story, a pretty horrifying story actually. It's been underreported and so we are still trying to find out what the details are on this story. All we have to go off of really is the fact that a 14 year old girl was arrested for carrying a couple of knives. We know that much and we have video of the actual incident in which she showed knives. So she was walking around a place called Dundee, Scotland. The allegation here that seems to be made, she's being taped by a couple of people, one of whom is clearly a male. Apparently, according to people who are associated with the case, this person is a migrant male, Muslim migrant male. And she is yelling, this young girl, 14 years old, yelling at this guy about staying away from her 12 year old sister. The guy's filming her. She is carrying in one hand a knife and in the other it appears to be like a hand ax. Yes. You have a knife. Why are you. That's it, that's it. Show the knife.
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Olivia Rinaldi
Sorry, that's it.
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Ben Shapiro
Yeah, yeah. So the man is obviously speaking with a foreign accent. He's saying, show the knife, show the knife. The girls are shouting, don't touch her, don't touch my sister, don't touch her. BBC reports, quote, a 14 year old girl has been charged after allegedly brandishing a weapon on a street in Dundee. The incident happened in Saint. St. Anne Lane in the Lochi area of the city about 7:40pm on Saturday. It's understood no one else has been arrested or is wanted in connection with the incident. And that's all the BBC reports. We really don't know much more than that at this point. There's been no follow up report. We, we don't really know exactly what the story here is. The Economic Times reports that the video shows two teenage girls confronting a man who reportedly asked for their phone numbers and proceeded to grow up. One of them, as per Western Standard, but I don't know what that site is. The older girl is then shown brandishing a knife in a hatchet while telling the man filming to stay away from her and her sister. The man was shouting, show the knife, show the knife. And then the man appears to speak in Arabic. So that of course leads a bunch of people to believe that he is a Muslim migrant. Now, there's no question that there has been a massive uptick in sex crimes by foreign nationals across Europe. It is a very, very real thing. According to the UK Telegraph, foreigners accounted for one in seven sexual offense convictions last year, including rapes. And this has been true across Europe. The migrant crisis of Europe has extended across the continent. It's been particularly bad in England, really been bad in England. That, of course is connected with the decades long cover up of the sexual molestation of underage girls by rings of Muslim men. The so called grooming gang scandal in England, the attempt by the authorities and by the media to bury that and to pretend that it had nothing to do with Islamic immigration, it had nothing to do with Muslim men who were abusing white girls in England, led to nationwide scandal, as it should have. Politician after politician covered it up. In June 2025, Yvette Cooper, who's the Labor Home Secretary, explained that they had done an investigation, but then downplayed the impact of Pakistani men. South Asian is the, is the euphemism that's used in England for Pakistani or of Middle Eastern or Muslim descent. Mr. Speaker, I warned in January that the data collection we had inherited from the previous government on ethnicity was completely inadequate. It was only collected on 37% of suspects. Baroness Casey's audit confirms that ethnicity data is not recorded for 2/3 of grooming gang perpetrators. And she says it is not good enough to support any statements about the ethnicity of group based child sexual exploitation offenders at the national level. I agree with the that conclusion and frankly it is ridiculous and helps no one that this basic information is not collected. Especially when there have been warnings and recommendations stretching back 13 years about the woefully inadequate data on perpetrators which prevents patterns of crime being understood and tackled. Ignoring the issues, not examining and exposing them to the light alleged allows the criminality and depravity of a minority of men to be used to marginalize whole communities. The vast majority of people in our British Asian and Pakistani heritage communities continue to be appalled by these terrible crimes and agree that the criminal minority of sick predators and perpetrators in every community must be dealt with robustly violent by the criminal law. Now again, the reason that the grooming gang scandal was covered up in the first place had to do with the fact and, and journalists openly acknowledged this at the time. It had to do with the fact that there was a widespread feeling among members of the left and the intelligentsia in England that if they acknowledged that there were large grooming gangs of Muslim men preying on white girls, that would somehow benefit the British National Party. That would help people like Tommy Robinson, which is insane. You're going to cover up the grooming of girls because it helps your political opponents if you point it out. Totally crazy. Maggie Oliver, who is one of the police officers responsible for uncovering the grooming gang scandal and really pursuing it to its end, she slammed Yvette Cooper after Yvette Cooper gave this whole speech about how we can't marginalize people and, and ethnic data is not available and all the rest. I have heard it so many times before. I've heard this afternoon just more political point scoring, empty wor, an apology for something that up until today they didn't care about. And I'm not a party political person, as I say, this is successive governments who have turned a blind eye, who have ignored decades of abuse of very vulnerable children because it was a political hot potato. You know, child abuse comes in all in all forms in the home, in the church, in football. But these predators in the groom so called grooming gangs, we're now calling them rape gangs. They are predominantly Pakistani Muslim men. We need to record ethnicity. That of course is exactly right. That of course is exactly right. But you'll recall back in January 2025 when the mayor of London suggested there was nothing to acknowledge about the grooming gang scandal at all, I asked you this question last week and you found every which way, but not to answer it. Just how many grooming gangs have we got in London? The word misunderstanding. Can she define what she means by that? Yes, if you look at what's gone on in Rotherham, where there are people taking young girls, grooming them for sex.
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Olivia Rinaldi
That is what I'm talking about.
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Ben Shapiro
Well, we know in London there are issues about exploitation of young people, but they're not as defined by the member in her definition of what those types of gangs are. So are you saying we haven't got the same sort of gangs that are in Rotherham, Bradford and lots of other places in the country? Just fully, what's a misunderstanding? What does she mean by that? You know full well what I mean by that. It's all over the television.
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Olivia Rinaldi
You know exactly what I mean by that.
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Ben Shapiro
And of course she was right. So this case of this Scottish girl who's holding the knives, this of course has gone viral because it has meme potential online. We're still waiting to hear all the details. And so before jumping to a conclusion that we know exactly what's happening here based on the tape, I'll wait to hear more of the details from what it appears to be. Obviously, if we are now living in a situation in which the authorities refuse to protect British citizens from the predations of Muslim men because of political correctness, this is why Europe is dying. A Europe that refuses to defend itself is a Europe that will bow. It is a Europe that will surrender to the forces of darkness. We've seen this all over the continent. It's not just a problem in England, it is a problem in Germany, it is a problem in France. Michelle Hollaback, famous novelist who wrote a book called Submission about what would happen in France if ever it gave over to Sharia law and why that would happen. It's a fascinating book. It's a fascinating look inside the kind of post religious modern mind in Europe. But the basic thesis of the book, which is that secular leftism leads to an emptying out of the spiritual strength necessary to combat the extremism of radical Islam, that part cannot be in dispute at this point in Europe. And that is why you're seeing so many people who are glomming onto the image of a young girl having to defend herself with knives, allegedly from older men touching her, who happen to be from parts of the earth where they simply do not recognize the primacy of women's sexual consent in the same way that people in the west do that. That is just the incompatibility of certain cultures with other cultures is a reality. Refusing to acknowledge that reality is one of the reasons why the left is now in a state of serious political crisis all around the West. And meanwhile, speaking of refusals to acknowledge reality, yesterday we reported the shocking story about the AMA exposed the President of the American Medical Association, Dr. Bobby McOmulla, for his incompetence and dereliction of evidence based medicine. In nearly every case, the AMA has abdicated its duty to do no harm. Over and over, Dr. Bobby made it clear that the AMA defers to the experts. That's after the AMA has spent nearly two decades lending its credibility to the entire fraudulent industry of trans medicine. As it turns out, it only took a brief call with the head of the AMA for their house of cards to come tumbling down. Here's what it sounded like in Yesterday's show when Dr. Bobby McOmolow was confronted by Dr. Eitan Haim and Representative Brad Paquette. Again, I don't read the science about somebody's broken femur, but when the orthopedic surgeons come to me and they say that what they are dealing with to get somebody's femur fixed is not adequate and they need X, Y and Z to help take care of patients with a broken femur, I defer to their expertise on a broken femur. When people that specialize in transgender care tell me that they're having a hard time taking care of their patients with this 50 to 70% suicide rate and they need X, Y and Z as policy, then I defer to them because they're the ones that do patient care and I help them to get their patient care done. I mean, it almost seems like you're intentionally staying away from these issues because. No, I stay away from the science because I didn't do a residency in anything related to the science. But thanks to representative paquette, the AMA kindly introduced the expert of their choice, Dr. Jesse Krikorian. Their conversation was, as you might expect by now, an unmitigated disaster for the AMA. Dr. Krikorian is a primary care physician at the University of Michigan. According to the Daily wire zone investigation, Dr. Krikorian is transgender herself. Her name was Anne. She began going by Jesse and taking male hormones as recently as her undergraduate career at Swarthmore College, only a few years before applying for Medical School. Dr. Kakorian is a family medicine PCP. That's the kind of doctor that you go to for an annual checkup or to get your kid a physical to enroll in a competitive sport. My wife is a doctor. She also happens to be a family physician. Neither she nor Dr. Krikorian possess expert knowledge about transgenderism or gender identity disorder or the use of puberty blockers in children, let alone adults. And yet this was the person the AMA used as their expert. It makes perfect sense that the AMA's handpicked expert on trans medicine is 1 trans herself, 2 has no specialized training psychology in psychology, endocrinology or plastic surgery, and three seems to have been in practice for like three to five years. The absurdity abounds. Here's Representative Paquette asking Dr. Krikorian about how cross sex hormones can cause infertility. Watch the tap dance from Dr. Krikorian.
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Representative Brad Paquette
How long does it take to become infertile for an adult to be on estrogen to become infertile?
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Ben Shapiro
From, from your vantage point, we don't know for sure.
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Olivia Rinaldi
It varies person to person. When I am counseling people on starting tests or starting estrogen. Sorry, it's a different story for testosterone. When it comes to starting estrogen, I counsel them that this will decrease their fertility. You don't want to count on it as birth control because it's not 100% guaranteed that it will make you infertile, but that you also, you want to plan that this is going to make you infertile. If your life plan involves genetic children, go ahead, bank sperm. Before you go into this, I, I have started a lot of adults on estrogen. I have had only one or two who banked sperm. And part of that is because, honestly, sperm is not that hard to come by. You can buy it, you can access it. If you've got a partner who can carry pregnancy, you guys can make it happen.
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Ben Shapiro
Oh, my goodness. Sperm is not that hard to come by. Well, Dr. Chris Corian has no solid answer. If anything, Krikorian seems to admit that infertility is an issue and recommends that patients bank their sperm or buy some sperm from Miranda later on. Meanwhile, yesterday we heard the ama outright dismiss Dr. Haim's concerns about reversibility and infertility. No other medical field works like this, by the way. You don't go from being a primary care physician to an expert in brain cancer just because you personally had a brain tumor. You don't become more qualified. And as, as an anesthesiologist because you might enjoy taking sedatives, but suddenly with gender affirming care, the most prominent expert the AMA could offer is a trans person who is a family physician. That is not expertise, that is projection Dr. Krikorian is not the only trans expert with this conflict of interest. Also, Dr. Krorian sent Representative Paquette a study written by Dr. Johanna Olsen Kennedy, a California pediatric and adolescent medicine specialist who is married to wait for it to be a trans spouse. Dr. Olsen Kennedy is well known for burying a study on puberty blockers after she realized it didn't produce the results that she actually wanted. Dr. Olsen Kennedy was also infamously caught on video explaining, it's not a huge deal if you cut a girl's breasts off because she can go and get breast implants later on if she wants. You know, it's kind of like a Mr. Potato Head. Just take the body parts out and take them off the whole deal. But so what we do know is that adolescents actually have the capacity to make a reason life logical decision. And here's the other thing about chest surgery. If you want breasts at a later.
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Representative Brad Paquette
Point in your life, you can go and get them.
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Ben Shapiro
Dr. Korian clearly shares Dr. Olsen Kennedy's belief that children can make these kinds of major decisions. In fact, Dr. Korian says that children have a stable sense of gender identity at the age of three.
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Olivia Rinaldi
Developmentally, kids generally have a pretty sense of pretty stable sense of gender identity starting around age three. They may not tell us unless we ask, but it's generally there around that age. Just developmentally, that's when that comes in. And like I said, with the folks who are really young, with the elementary school age kids, we're not doing any medical interventions. We're just talking with the family. We're making sure that mental health is okay. If it's relevant, then we'll have them talk to a therapist or do some family therapy so they've got a safe space to discuss what they're feeling. And then you allow them to make choices. Often when I'm talking to kids who are thinking about starting these hormones, often they do talk about like, well, I can always adopt if I decide I want a child. Which is true. Although it's a little more complicated than just saying, oh, yes, I want to do do this. But we make sure that they've considered it. We've made sure that they've had the conversation.
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Ben Shapiro
Well, folks, in other words, according to Dr. Krikorian, cross sex hormones don't sterilize kids. But even if they do, it's okay because these kids can plan to adopt or buy somebody else's sperm one day. That, of course, is insane and dystopian. My kids don't even know what they want. For lunch, let alone make a decision about adopting a child of their own in 20 years. Dr. Krikorian does not rely on any objective data or research. Instead, Krikorian explicitly rejects Representative Paquette's studies, including the CAST review in the uk, the Health and Human Services report here in the US Both of which show that gender affirming care is experimental and often dangerous. Here's what that looked like.
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Representative Brad Paquette
Why don't you want to get into the HHS report? Especially because that, that focuses on, you know, especially surgeries and other things too. But what, why not get into the HHS report?
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Olivia Rinaldi
Because I think that it's very politically motivated and I don't think it's sound science.
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Ben Shapiro
Okay.
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Representative Brad Paquette
So when we talk about the turbine, you know, table and I guess. Have you read through the HHS report?
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Olivia Rinaldi
I haven't read it in its entirety. I read sections of it and I read the executive overview because it relates.
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Representative Brad Paquette
Exactly to your field and what's going on and so.
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Ben Shapiro
Pretty wild to call the HHS report politically motivated and then admit you haven't actually read the report. This is the level of Rigor the AMA's handpick expert is capable of. So here's for the record, the HHS report's top line conclusions. 1. The gender affirming model of care includes irreversible endocrine and surgical interventions on minors with no physical pathology. Two, these interventions carry risk of significant harms including infertility, sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density, accrual adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications and regret. Meanwhile, systematic reviews of the evidence have revealed deep uncertainty about the purported benefits of these interventions. Meanwhile, again, Dr. Krikorian is the AMA's foremost expert on trans medicine and has no answer to any of this at all. Krorian parrots the same talking points as Dr. Bobby Mcing. A low regret rate, erroneously making false statements about the reversibility of puberty blockers.
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Representative Brad Paquette
The bone density aspects of puberty blocking drugs, how it's, you know, off label, FDA stuff like that. Like kids are taking these things and it's like there are ramifications for taking these drugs, right?
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Olivia Rinaldi
Every drug has side effects for sure. Puberty blockers are very reversible. So you stop them. You go through puberty. There is, when you're going through puberty, you have an increase in bone density. So when you're on a puberty blocker, you don't have that increase, but they do catch up as soon as they go through puberty. Whether that is, by stopping the puberty blocker and going through whatever puberty their body would have ordinarily gone through, or whether that's by starting cross sex hormones, they do catch back up on bone density.
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Ben Shapiro
Now in the HHS report, a systematic review found that when puberty blockers are followed by cross sex hormones, which happens over 90% of the time in studies, a critical developmental window for bone density accrual during adolescence could be missed or shortened. The HHS report notes no studies have followed patients into middle age or late adulthood. Precorian's emission or ignorance of that information is either fraud, a pathetic degree of malice, or gross negligence. At this point, there's no higher authority to whom to speak about this. The AMA's facade has crumbled between their arrogant President, Dr. Bobby McOma, and their top trans expert, who is literally transgender herself. If any of these people actually cared about the well being of kids, they would read every single study that suggested these procedures might cause harm, cover to cover. They'd come prepared in meetings like this one with detailed arguments or why studies like the Cast Review, the HHS report and the bombshell of the WPATH files were all wrong. But the ama, their handpicked expert, didn't do any of that. Instead they mocked the side effects, dismissed the data shut down conversation by writing off all concern as a political intrusion. At this point, the AMA is indistinguishable from other activist left wing organizations like the Human Rights Campaign or the aclu. They don't engage in science, they're not interested in protecting patients. They're a lobbying arm for quacks and a mouthpiece for leftists who prey on children. Well, joining us online to discuss this unbelievable story is Representative Brad Piquette. He of course is a state representative elected to the Michigan State House in 2018. He was the one who facilitated the conversation between The AMA and Dr. Haim, Representative Paquette, thanks so much for taking the time.
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Representative Brad Paquette
Hey, thank you for having me and putting a spotlight on this.
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Ben Shapiro
So first of all, what drove you to facilitate this conversation in the first place?
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Representative Brad Paquette
Well, I'm a teacher and I gotta say that it's an exceptional experience to be able to watch, you know, a young person grow up. You feel old. But when you're young, people in ninth grade and middle school become adults. It's, it's quite the thing to see. And so I've been really deliberating on this since about 10 years ago, had a student in 9th grade wanted to change her name in class. And so now in elected Office, I become very convicted because the more you learn about gender theory in particular, and how embedded it's become in our sex ed curriculums and in our culture, it becomes very unnerving that young people are being taught that they can be born wrong. And that's contrary to me as a teacher. You know, what I believe is that young people are marvelously made and wonderfully made, and that they need to be able to accept what they've been given and. And utilize their talents accordingly. And so that's really what has driven me. And then the more that I've pushed on this and the more that I've inquired, the more people said, well, we trust these experts, trust the science. I was elected in 2019, and 2020 came along, and I raised an eyebrow around the trust the experts phrase. And so I started really digging into this and came to find that a lot of people oppose my bills for no good reason. And a lot of folks said, well, you're not a doctor, Brad, even though I talked to a lot of them. And, well, the AMA supports this. And so I went to the AMA and started to talk to their experts and came to find that they have no idea what they're talking about.
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Ben Shapiro
So what was the most shocking point in the conversation? Played a bunch of parts of the conversation that took place between Dr. Haim and Bobby McOmala, who is the head of the AMA. What was the thing that shocked you the most about that conversation?
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Representative Brad Paquette
Yeah, so with the president of the ama, you think that they would be really knowledgeable on, you know, evidence based medicine, especially these things that they tout. And Bobby was just completely far removed from any type of real understanding of evidence based medicine in this regard. And so the way that he demeaned Dr. Heim and the way that he pushed back on him and, you know, put his hand up and did this really, really kind of inflamed my sense there when he just had those talking points that I've heard so many times. I go to all my LGBTQ plus forums, I go and talk to any person I can about this. And he was one of the least informed individuals on this matter, which was just astounding. It was just unreal to see.
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Ben Shapiro
So what do you plan on doing in the state of Michigan? Obviously, you're in the state legislature over there. What do you think the federal government ought to do? What's a corrective to what the AMA has been doing with regard to its propagandizing on behalf of the fraud that is trans, quote, unquote, medicine?
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Representative Brad Paquette
Yeah. So I think that as public opinion begins to delve into this, this is what is most important. This is why I chose to be on oversight committees this term. Because I've got a Democrat controlled Senate and Governor Whitmer and my bills stopping these things aren't going to move there. The Democrats, my neighbors across the aisle, don't want to touch this with a ten foot pole. They won't even let me go into their forums to advocate for my bills. They say, you know, these, these sayings that I make people uncomfortable, love over hate, love tells people the truth. And I'm not even able to make my case to my colleagues. Some are sympathetic behind the scenes. So, you know, the federal mandates, the EOs, what Trump is doing is phenomenal. But after Scrametti, this comes down to the states and we have to make our case. And how can we make our case if people won't entertain and talk about these situations in real time? I asked my hospitals, well, how many kids are on puberty blockers? What is the ballpark estimate? They won't even tell me anything. So we've got subpoenas geared up just to gather that information. They'll tell me how many knee replacements that they're doing, but they won't tell me how many kids or even an increase as to how many kids are wanting puberty blockers being prescribed here in the state of Michigan. So we're in a predicament and it comes down to exposing that these people have no understanding, no grounding in evidence based medicine. So that's what we're trying to do this term.
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Ben Shapiro
Well, that is Representative Brad Puette. He is in the Michigan State House doing an amazing job on this particular issue, among others. Representative Pet, thank you so much for the time. And folks, the full video and petition, you can see it all@ama exposed.com that's ama exposed.com. thanks. Thank you. Unless the AMA is held to account before licensing boards, ethics committees, maybe even Congress, they need to testify. The trust of millions of Americans has been lost. Not only has unthinkable harm already been inflicted on a ton of kids, but physicians in this country deserve much better representation than what the AMA is providing. Every shred of institutional trust we have left in this country needs to be cherished and preserved at this point. But when some institutions are shown to be corrupt through and through, as we've seen with the AMA this week, they cannot continue on as they are without some serious reform. Sign the petition over@amaexposed.com so we can stop the left from transing the kids for good and restore America's trust in our health care providers. Alrighty folks, the show is continuing for our members right now. We'll get into everything economic. Nvidia after closing market today is supposed to announce its earnings. What is that going to be? Remember in order to watch you have to be a member. If you're not a member, become a member. Use code Shapiro Checkout for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us. Folks, the release of my brand new book Lions and Scavengers is right around the corner. You can pre order a signed copy right now but only@dailywire.com Ben this isn't just a book, it's a rallying cry against the lies that poison our culture. Trust me, scavengers will not like it. Do not wait to secure your signed copy. These won't be available forever. Go to dailywire.com ben and preorder today.