Why wouldn't you if you have a young boy who wants to be a girl,
maybe give him more testosterone so
he could maybe feel like more of a man wouldn't that possibly make more sense?
I'm not even saying it does,
I honestly don't understand the full science of all this.
>> He doesn't understand the full science of that much like his
failure to understand most things in life.
That was Dave Rubin suggesting that minors be forced,
forced to take hormones to essentially prevent them from being transgender.
That is what Dave Rubin suggested there in the video that you just watched,
notably he is a member of the LGBTQ community.
He is a gay man who's about to have two children through
surrogates with his husband and
he was attacked viciously by his right wing audience for wanting to do so.
And I think that chickens come home to roost and I felt pretty terrible that
he was being treated that way because I still have a heart.
But this is a guy who literally in that video you just watched,
thought maybe it's a good idea to force miners to take certain hormones.
That will possibly according to him,
help them identify with what their sex was at birth, Ida.
>> Well, there is always this thing that sticks in my head
from some of my friends who are part of the LGBTQ
family is that there is also a hierarchy within that.
Where gay white men are at the top of that and they oppress other people,
like trans people who are constantly being targeted.
A couple of things that I wanna say first and foremost,
he said he doesn't understand the science of it all, so
that he should shut the hell up about the science of it all.
Why are you talking about the science of it all if you just said you don't
understand the science of it all?
I watched Bill Burr recently at a show that he did for
netflix and his evolution has been amazing.
And he was talking about these people who are always saying,
talking as if they're doctors or scientists.
And he really went in on them, cuz he was like, you're not a doctor and
we should respect doctors.
But what pains me to hear sometimes when we talk about
trans children is when he said.
A girl that wants to be a boy or boy that wants to be a girl,
not understanding what these people are experiencing.
It is not just a desire, just something that you wanna do for
fun, to have to experience the social consequences for this.
Not to be able to use the proper terminology to give these people
the respect that they deserve in terms of what they go through and
what they're feeling, regardless of how you feel about it.
But, I just think, look, trans people have been around,
gay people have been around since the beginning of time.
Black people have been around, brown people have been around,
yoa are all just used to oppressing them.
And now that they're fighting back and
finally giving themselves a voice and advocating for themselves and
other people around are gathering around them to support them.
You're having your standoff,
because it's not like trans people just got here, you know what I mean?
It's just, this whole revolution of the trans experience, and them saying, hey,
I just wanna live, I just wanna get a job, please don't beat me up, don't kill me.
It has become this, they have a voice, they're controlling everybody there.
Why don't these people attack the people that are really at the top?
Why don't you go for them, becauset you know that.
>> Cuz they're getting paid, they're getting paid from the people at the top,
let's keep it real.
And the previous puppets for the powerful right wingers in
this country were making similar videos, by the way.
Except back then, they were advocating for
electroshock therapy for gay people, like Dave Rubin,
essentially torturing members of the gay community to turn them straight.
And this is a man who's out there doing the bidding of
similar people today, and it's amazing to me.
Cuz, again, this is a guy who I think he fully acknowledges, he has to know, he's
attacked by his own community on a regular basis because of who he is as a person.
So he knows, he knows what the right wing represents, you have the log
cabin republicans being refused a booth at the Texas Republican Convention.
Their platform specifically calls out the gay community as 2nd class citizens,
but hey, you know what?
The check clears so Dave Rubin is cool with it.
What is the point of life if you have nothing worth standing up for?
If you have no values, no principles, what's the point?
You're just like this empty vessel, right?
You're just this empty person and the money doesn't make you happy,
I've never been rich, so I don't really know for sure.
But I can tell you that if let's say something good happens financially for me,
the amount of happiness I feel in response to that versus the amount of happiness I
feel when I'm spending time with my friends.
When I'm with people who love me, when I feel like I'm doing something
because I have a purpose, that is incomparable to any financial success.
Obviously everyone needs to be able to survive and take care of themselves and
pay their bills, I totally get that and
I'm not diminishing that, but that's not what we're talking about here.
We're talking about individuals who would much rather be a puppet for
the worst elements of our country than to have values.
And actually defend and fight for people who don't have any power.
That's what Dave Rubin is, it's disgusting.
>> And listen, I'm not rich, but
if I could trade in everything that I have to get my uncle back who was a gay man,
that was murdered in a hate crime, beat to death, I would give it all up.
I would gladly go live under the freeway just to get my uncle back,
I understand now more than ever, cuz I'm learning just like everybody else.
What the trans community is talking about when they say that they
are also oppressed by gay people, by their fellow queer people, gay.
But, men like this who belong to that group, that unit but
will sell them up the road for a check and for
position and power, it's just disgusting.
And it's so sad to see because, like everything else,
it's always the people of color, The poor people that are always that always pay
the grand price for all of this type of behavior.
>> Absolutely, well, related to that, we are now seeing
this battle play out in Congress in regard to this school
lunch program that was expanded during the covid pandemic.
It has expired, it's about to expire actually and so congress is trying to,
some members of Congress expanded until the end of September but
they're getting some backlash from Republicans.
So first, let's talk about the context here, okay?
So this is a government funding program for school lunches,
it's set to expire next week to be specific.
Some senators are working to extend the program.
But other senators like Roger Marshall,
who's a Republican from Kansas says that it should expire because
the funding won't go to what he refers to as anti LGBTQ schools.
So the way that the legislation is written,
is to ensure that schools who discriminate against LGBT
students in denying them school lunches.
Should not qualify for
the federal funds that they would otherwise get through this program.
And so Republican senators of course have a problem with that, the waivers were
left out of the budget, by the way, that President Biden signed in March.
The bipartisan group of senators have revealed their legislation,
these are the good guys who want to keep this program in place through September.
Those senators include Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat, John Boozman,
who's a Republican from Arkansas.
Representative Bobby Scott, a Democrat from Virginia, and
then you have Virginia Foxx who's a Republican from North Carolina.
So it is bipartisan in that regard, but keeping the waivers would only
cost $3 million, but at the end of the day the program ends up being budget neutral.
We spend so much money on the Defense Department that I don't even wanna
get into the details about it being budget neutral like F off, okay?
If we can spend literally hundreds of billions of dollars every year and
increase the budget for the military every year, we can spend three, what is it?
$3 billion on school lunches for kids.
Now, Roger Marshall who's a Republican from Kansas,
said in an interview that he is contemplating objecting to the measure
because of new guidance from the Agriculture Department.
Banning LGBTQ discrimination in any program that receives federal nutrition
money which includes most school lunch programs.
He says, quote, I'm just afraid that schools in Kansas won't have school
lunches because of this administration's radical view on transgender issues.
In other words, I'm concerned that the schools in my state
discriminate against LGBTQ students.
And since I'm concerned about that,
I might vote against this legislation, maybe consider the fact that it's
not radical to wanna protect kids regardless of what their identity is.
But he continues and
I'm afraid that they're going to raid the school lunch program over that issue.
But I wanna be clear, a USDA official emphasized that the administration
wouldn't pull funding from a school lunch program.
Just because the state has restrictive laws around sports or bathroom access for
transgender kids, nor because a school lacks an LGBTQ policy.
Rather individuals could only file complaints if they've been discriminated
against by the specific school lunch program based on gender identity.
For example, if they were denied food because they identify as transgender.
>> What kind of monster would deny a child a meal because of their identity,
regardless of where you are politically, where you stand,
what kind of human being must you be to deny a child a meal?
And of course again, the people who are below the poverty line,
the people who are struggling, the people in the marginalized
communities are always paying the price for all of these idiots.
And their foolishness because they could care less about any of these issues,
they just wanna win.
And you will be the pawn in the game and you will be the casualty for
them wanting to win.
Because, if you think these people don't have queer children at home,
if you think these people are not raising people who are are having this
identity difference, real life issues.
Deciding that they are, who they are and who they wannna be and how they wanna
express themselves in this world, which they should have the right to.
If you think that every single person in Congress has straight children,
who are non transgender, non binary, you are sadly mistaken.
This is all about oppressing the people who don't have, because every single
issue when it comes to abortion, it comes to medical care, all of this stuff.
They just don't think you should have it, because they have the best education,
the best health care.
And their children, whether they're LGBTQ, non-binary trans, wherever they are,
are living their best lives, even though they deal with these monsters at home.
>> What you just said extends to so many issues,
including health care by the way, all these lawmakers are like, no,
we can't have medicare for all, we like people having choices.
The private health insurance industry, it's great, you've got so
many choices while they're of course fully covered by government health care that's
offered to members of Congress, it's the way it works.
Lots of resources, lots of great programs that benefit them,
they get to take advantage of a two tier justice system where they can engage in
insider trading all they want with no consequences.
Whereas we would go to prison immediately for that,
it's incredible to see it, it plays out day in and day out and
when you have a country that has lost faith in its institutions.
These are the issues we need to turn to.
When you have people who take an oath of office to represent your best interests,
and then they spend their entire political careers working against your best
interests.
That leads to the erosion in our political discourse in politics in general that
we're experiencing today, so I think that was a really good point.