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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 143 - Sexual Ethics of the Crumbling Empire
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This week Jeremy catches up on a sex scandal! And a viral moment from a pastor? But, both stories highlight different aspects of the control culture present both in this authoritarian regime and in high control religions. Jeremy discusses the sex scandal of Kristi Noem and her husband, along with the misogynistic ramblings of podcast pastors. It’s not great, but a microcosm of where we are as a country. Cheers to the crumble!
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Welcome to another edition of Your
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Therapist Needs Therapy,
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the podcast where your friendly
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neighborhood therapist, me,
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Jeremy Schumacher,
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licensed marriage and family therapist,
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talks about slowly deteriorating mental
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health as the American empire slowly
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crumbles.
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That's not really what the podcast is
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about.
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Generally,
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I talk about mental health with other
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mental health professionals.
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But sometimes,
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sometimes we got to check in and see
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what's going on in the wide world of
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America, crumbling empire,
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stupid MAGA leader people.
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It is a silly time to be alive,
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and also life is wonderful and beautiful.
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And we're going to check in and see
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what MAGA is losing their mind about while
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gas prices continue to climb.
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Over four dollars here in the Midwest,
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projected to be over six dollars not that
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long from now.
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Should be a good time if there ever
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was.
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a debate about whether or not people
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should have voted for Donald Trump.
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There wasn't, right?
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Like the answer was no,
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but maybe we're falling backwards into
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getting off of oil,
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except we also cut all funding for wind
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and nuclear and solar.
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So again, no real plan, blah, blah, blah,
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blah, blah.
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This administration is incredibly harmful
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out of petty spite.
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But that's not what we're going to talk
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about today.
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We're not even going to get into the
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sexual ethics of having a pedophile in
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charge of things.
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We're going to get into specifically what
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what some mega folks who have fallen out
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of favor is happening.
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And right.
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This sort of always happens with empire.
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And if you studied sort of any of
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the historical precedent of fascism.
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There's unending loyalty tests.
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And one of the reasons you don't give
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into fascism is because you can never
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please a fascist.
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If somebody requires loyalty and their
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only unifying sort of ethos is there must
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be a bad guy,
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eventually they're gonna turn on you.
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And so we have a recent news story
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of Kristi Noem
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who formerly was in charge of DHS,
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Department of Homeland Security,
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even though she's woefully unqualified for
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that.
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Governor of one of the Dakotas before
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that, South Dakota, North Dakota.
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I don't remember.
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They're interchangeable.
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Dakotans,
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drop down in the comments and argue with
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me.
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You won't convince me I'm wrong.
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I went to a school with a bunch
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of Dakotans and I couldn't tell you which
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one they were ever from.
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States are a silly thing.
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Land ownership is a silly thing.
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That's not what we're talking about today.
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We're talking about Kristi Noem.
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Garbage human being, right?
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We know she shot her dog because she's
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mad at it.
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She struggled to train it,
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and so she decided it should die.
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And again,
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if anyone's going to get put into a
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fascist position in a government where
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that department is going to oversee
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murdering innocent civilians,
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I guess you want someone like Kristi Noem.
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And so she sort of served her purpose.
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The Trump regime seems to sort of be
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moving people around before they can
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testify before Congress,
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although the Supreme Court maybe just
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today decided that Congress can't subpoena
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people.
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So again, it's all crumbling.
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Part of the reason I don't want to
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do a news podcast,
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even though there's news to make us crazy
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every week,
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and I could make things about mental
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health if I really pushed it,
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is because there's so many things going
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on,
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and I don't really think it's helpful for
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us to track everything all the time.
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I say that as a middle-aged ADHD-er who
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probably has the brain capacity to do that
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to some degree.
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I just think it is damaging to our
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mental health.
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But every once in a while,
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I check in and see what's going on.
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So Kristi Noem has been deposed.
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Not deposed.
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What's the word I'm looking for?
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Let go?
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She got fired.
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She got moved to be like...
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I don't know,
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protector of the shield of the core of
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America or some made up thing.
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Um,
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they're just like veering dangerously
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close to explicit like neo-Nazi hate
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groups, like, uh,
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terrorist groups like covenant sword in
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the arm of the Lord.
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Like we're, we're right there.
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That group already exists or existed in
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the past.
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Um,
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So Gnome's gone,
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and in sort of her disgrace and her
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fall from favor, it came out that...
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It didn't come out then.
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She's been having a very open,
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very public affair for a while.
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And her affair partner seems to also be
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a garbage person who didn't really deserve
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to be in a position of power other
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than he was having an affair with Christy
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Gnome, allegedly.
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And...
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And it came out that Kristi Noem's
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husband, who she's still married to,
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has a bimbofication fetish.
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For those of you who are unaware of
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the various kinks that are out in the
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world, this was fairly innocuous.
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I don't know.
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The bimbo fetish is sort of based on
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the idea of really overdone sex.
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facial features, particularly the lips,
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potentially cheekbones,
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giant fake breasts,
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giant fake butt implants,
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and just like anything that could be a
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sort of feminine feature gets way, way,
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way,
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way overrepresented and like blown out of
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proportions.
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Like if, well,
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I don't want to say that.
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I was going to say if Barbie was
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a real person,
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because we know Barbie's dimensions aren't
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realistic, but it's more than that.
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It really is just sort of like any
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of the secondary sexual traits that would
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be ascribed to being feminine,
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way overdone.
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Kristi Noem has this too, right?
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Like that's all that Mar-a-Lago face is,
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is like,
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a bimbofication fetish.
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Now, Kristi Noem's husband,
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I don't even know his name, Doug, maybe,
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something like that,
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a white guy from one of the Dakotas.
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These characters are fairly
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interchangeable at this part in history.
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the thing that people were upset about and
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the quote unquote scandal that this was is
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because Doug is a man.
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And so a bimbofication fetish for a dude
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is again, big fake tits, uh,
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hair and makeup wig over exaggerated lips.
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Um,
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And he paid escort sex workers.
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We're not sure who he was working with.
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It seems like some form of sex workers
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to dress him up like this and then
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make fun of and or degrade him.
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As a marriage and family therapist,
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I work with a lot of different sexual
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kinks all the time.
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I will say probably the one that my
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dudes that I've worked with over the years
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have struggled with the most,
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like the one that brought what I would
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consider an odd amount of shame,
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and I'm not judging them.
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With so much love in my heart,
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I'm not sure why this was such a
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struggle for so many people,
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is cross-dressing.
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Pretty common kink.
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Fairly innocuous.
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Again...
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playing dress up as an adult for sexual
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pleasure who cares um it's not harming
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anyone done consensually again most of the
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people i've worked with over the years
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dress up for themselves and there may or
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may not be a sexual component to it
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and they post in like cross-dressing
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forums
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Pretty innocuous.
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Bimbofication, again,
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part of the thing that I think is
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maybe unhelpful about the bimbo fetish is
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it is sort of the idea of all
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these overly hyper-sexualized traits.
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And I think there's the idea that a
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bimbo is dumb and only good for sex.
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And so there's some misogyny in there.
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The component, again,
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for Gnome's husband being like,
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into it and the humiliation factor again
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it would not shock me this is pure
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hypothesis from somebody who works with
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people who are having some of these sexual
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dynamics sometimes that christy noam
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getting all the plastic surgery she got
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and then cheating on her husband may have
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led to this fetish like again sometimes
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people sexualize and fetishize things that
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happen to them in real life as a
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way to cope as a way to process
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as a way to sort of rewire the
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brain around that thing
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And so, I don't know.
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It's not bad or wrong.
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Again,
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consenting adults can do what they want.
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Sex work should be legal.
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And for him to have consenting adults do
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this kink and act out this fetish with
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him is fine.
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Why the internet lost their mind over it,
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I have no idea.
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I am talking about this because, again,
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the hypocrisy of the MAGA movement as a
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quote unquote right wing,
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quote unquote Christian movement is
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staggering.
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Again,
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like if you're approaching Christianity in
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any sort of evangelical way,
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then the marriage is supposed to be not
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full of adultery.
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So I don't know.
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Kristi Noem's in the wrong there.
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Donald Trump's in the wrong there.
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Pretty much everybody except for Mike
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Johnson that I can think of in the
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government has had an affair.
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Even cabinet members.
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Linda McMahon's a cabinet member.
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Getting her husband,
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Vincent Kennedy McMahon's sexual
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trafficking lawsuit dismissed.
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It's just corruption.
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It's very hard to talk about current
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events because there's just so many things
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going on.
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Lots of corruption.
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But anyway,
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everyone was sort of freaking out about
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this stuff.
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And again, it's messy.
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It's a political scandal.
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Is it going to get headlines?
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Yeah.
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The affair seemed to be a fairly open
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secret.
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So just because it's like a fun out
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there.
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And it's not, right?
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Like for people who all of the sex
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educators that I've worked with in the
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past, people who I follow online,
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all talks about how this is not like,
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this is a pretty common thing.
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Right.
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It's it's fairly common to be into some
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form of cross-dressing,
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be into some sort of power dynamic around
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that where you're made to cross-dress or
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or you're struggling.
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You're you're into it,
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but you're uncomfortable with it.
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So there needs to be that power dynamic
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where you're made to do it like
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degradation and stuff like that is not
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that uncommon.
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Again,
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I would I would say between consenting
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adults.
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Cool.
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Have fun, y'all.
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The fair part seems not contenting and
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seems unethical, right?
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And so the hypocrisy of people who want
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to demonize trans rights,
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who want to take away protections for the
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LGBTQ plus community to be living sort of
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this life,
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it's more rules for the not for me.
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And it's sort of a standard Republican
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practice.
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But I do think it's still useful to
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call out the hypocrisy.
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Again, not that like,
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it seems to matter.
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Everyone wants to cry morality about
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everything in the Republican Party when,
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what's her name,
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Lauren Boebert's given handies in a
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theater and also has a kid who's underage
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who's getting pregnant.
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They're hypocrites, of course,
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because the church is useful as a shield
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against that hypocrisy.
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You get to claim moral high ground while
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not acting in any sort of moral or
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ethical way.
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So that's not a huge surprise.
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The other seemingly unrelated story that I
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wanted to talk about is two pastors from
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the New Apostolic Reform.
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That is Mike Johnson and Pete Hegseth sort
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of filtering out from the Doug Wilson
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Church up in Moscow, Idaho.
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I've talked about that before.
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There's a bunch of neo-Nazis up there too.
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I don't think those things are unrelated.
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And yeah,
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they went viral a little bit just because
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it is...
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the clip that got clips is women need
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to shut up said by a male pastor
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and talking about how God wants women to
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shut up.
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It's in the Bible that women should shut
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up and that they don't get to be
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in authority positions, particularly, uh,
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in government.
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They shouldn't be voting because that's a
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position of authority and certainly not in
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the home.
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It's just like patriarchy and misogyny.
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Again,
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the Bible was written by patriarchal
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rulers and misogynistic men.
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That's not a mystery here.
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And so, sure,
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you can find places in the Bible where
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it says that.
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Jesus also tells the disciples to sit
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down, shut up, and listen to the women.
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So, you know,
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the Bible pretty much says whatever you
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want it to say,
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because it is not a historical document.
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It is fanfic for a religion.
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I mean, all religious scripture is fanfic,
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right?
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Like, what are we doing?
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We shouldn't be having this conversation
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at high level.
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political conversations at the same time
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because these people shouldn't be put in
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charge of anything.
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Hegseth, by the way,
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excluded Catholics from like the Easter
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prayer breakfast thing.
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Because again,
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you can't have religious extremists in
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these positions of power without their
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religion getting them in the way.
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These people would not go to the same
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church
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and worship in the same way and follow
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the same rules and restrictions of their
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religion.
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And yet they all want to put their
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religion as number one,
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pretending that Christianity is only one
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religion is flawed.
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And that's never going to pan out.
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And again,
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the thing with fascism is there always has
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to be an enemy.
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So at some point,
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these people are going to be the enemy.
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Sort of surprised Hegseth has made it this
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far.
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He seems useful in
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doing the Fox News talking points where he
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just shouts unrelated things like an idiot
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and also committing war crimes.
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So, you know,
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that's sort of where we're at.
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But yes,
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these pastors said women needed to shut up
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and that was biblical and godly.
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And also then let's take away the right
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to vote.
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Now, I've seen these pastors.
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What are their names?
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I have it somewhere.
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I wrote it down.
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Look at me taking notes.
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Let's see.
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Joel Webben and Wesley Todd.
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They are part of some sort of...
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It's called NXR, New Christian Right.
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But it's the New Apostolic Reform.
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It's sort of the branch of denomination
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church they're from.
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But that's like their podcast platform.
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It's on Rumble,
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where all the neo-Nazis also go.
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And right-wingers who can't get platformed
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elsewhere, I guess.
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But again, so...
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How are these things connected, right?
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You sort of have this,
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I would say run of the mill if
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it weren't for the hypocrisy, sex scandal,
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not even your elected official having a
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weird kink,
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but also because of elected officials
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having very open affair,
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it sort of becomes news.
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I don't wanna say it's everyone's
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business, it's not, consenting adults,
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do what you want.
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But because of the position's power and
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because it's gonna grab some headlines,
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here we are.
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And then women need to shut up, right?
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not a stance i take women should be
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put in charge of everything and the world
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would be a better place the is my
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stance the idea uh that these things are
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both about control right and so why is
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this such a big deal in mega why
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is it such a big deal in christianity
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christianity has always weirdly been
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interested in sex
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Because sex is something that is important
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for control.
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And if you look at organized religion as
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the organizing principle of organized
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religion is in-group, out-group.
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There needs to be an in-group.
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There needs to be an out-group.
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And if you need to control your in-group,
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sex is a powerful way to do that.
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Why?
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Because sex is supernatural and awesome.
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I see you ace folks.
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So we won't say everybody likes sex,
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but most people like sex and most people
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enjoy it.
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Sex does a lot of interesting things to
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our brain and our body specifically
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releases a lot of feel good drugs all
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in one go.
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That's an orgasm.
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And it,
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It does a lot of fun things for
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our brain.
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Our brain really likes it.
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Now,
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if you're feeling that good in your body
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and you're feeling good with a partner,
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also releases a bunch of hormones and
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pheromones to feel connected to that
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person that we experienced that orgasm
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with.
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And so that connection between the people
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becomes very important and our connection
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and our pleasure based on our body become
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very important.
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And if we can just feel good in
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our own bodies and feel connected to other
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people because of sex,
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what role does the church have?
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It doesn't.
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right it doesn't if if what church offers
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us is community and i will say that's
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pretty much the only thing i ever give
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organized religion credit for is being
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able to offer community and you can get
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that without needing to go to church
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what's the point right if you can feel
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good not because of some promised eternal
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afterlife or because they turned the heat
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up too hot in the church so you
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felt some feelings while the live band
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played
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uh but instead in your own body you
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don't you don't need that from church you
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don't need community from church you can
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do that yourself with another consenting
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adult and so the church wants to limit
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that which means you know
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Limiting sex as only okay after marriage
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with your partner and also then like
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traumatizing your brain well before you
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start having sex.
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So even when you are married and doing
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it, quote unquote, the correct way,
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you still have a bunch of shame and
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guilt.
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That's what I see in my office on
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a weekly basis, right?
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that purity culture is harmful and also
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rules for thee, not for me.
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We have all these priests,
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all these pastors,
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every major religion has a sex scandal
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within the past year.
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And so there are all these things going
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on all the time where it's like,
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Regular people are being controlled to
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feel bad for this thing that's very
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natural to them.
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If you say you should feel guilty and
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shameful about your natural sexual
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desires, well,
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those things are always going on.
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They're natural.
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They're healthy.
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And if we demonize them,
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then you have guilt and shame.
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If you have guilt and shame,
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you feel bad.
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If you feel bad,
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you need to feel better.
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If you need to feel better,
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the church can sell you a savior.
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And so if your main business model is
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telling people they need to be,
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if your main business model is selling a
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savior,
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you need to convince people they need to
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be saved.
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And so you demonize something that's
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always going to happen.
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That's natural and healthy,
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just sexual desire.
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And you put a bunch of control mechanisms
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around that, right?
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It's like,
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terrible in its it's unethical immorality
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but it's super effective it's a neat tidy
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little way to control people just on this
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one thing and obviously the church tries
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to control more than just sex but that
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is a big one and so organized religion
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existing as social control
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then sex becomes a really good mechanism
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for getting out of the church potentially.
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And so we need to control it for
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that.
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And then we also can make it feel
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bad when it's supposed to feel good and
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control people that way.
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Right.
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Um, you could, you know, limit people's,
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you know, and like fascism, right.
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We have authoritarianism,
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like hundreds of thousands of people have
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died.
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This Trump administration,
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millions will die because of just like
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cutting us aid.
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Um,
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But yeah,
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like we've got an ongoing war and lots
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of people have died.
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There are certain things that you can't
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take away that would work for social
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manipulation like food and water and
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shelter.
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And we're doing that to black and brown
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people here in America and in other
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countries.
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which is a problem, but people are dying.
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And so you can't keep them in the
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church.
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You can't get tax-free money from them in
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the church if you're killing them all.
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Sex is one of those things that is
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natural, is healthy,
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is really good for people,
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but people won't die without it, right?
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And so they will find a way to
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pursue it.
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They will get it elsewhere,
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but also not going to die.
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It's not lethal.
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And so it serves as like a nice
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non-kinky leash, right?
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for the church to try and control people
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in.
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That was a joke for the kinksters out
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there.
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They'll appreciate it if you didn't
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understand it.
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That's all right.
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And so again,
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it's okay for most of the women and
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the Republican Party who are high enough
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officials to get plastic surgery and have
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this sort of bimbofication of
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which i can't say is a fetish or
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not i'm not sure it's a kink but
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again it's called mar-a-lago face it's
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it's a thing that they're all sort of
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going for because someone thinks it's
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attractive yuck um
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Who's the other really common one?
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There's one of the Trumps, Laura.
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Laura, I don't know what her name is.
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Laura Loomer is the other sort of classic
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example.
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Caroline Leavitt.
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I think, what's her name?
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The AG who just got let go.
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Pam Bondi, awful human being.
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Defender of pedophiles.
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I think also she has...
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she looks like she got at least a
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nose job,
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but like went the almost like old way.
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Like, I don't know.
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I'm going to say like Michael Jackson got
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a lot of work done now.
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Also I'm autistic and I have face
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blindness.
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So this stuff is not my, my forte.
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I don't really care what people look like.
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I think everyone is beautiful and lovely
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and probably doesn't need plastic surgery
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unless they want plastic surgery for some
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reason, not opposed to it, but like,
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again, to,
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to do some of these things and then
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cry foul about, um,
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trans people seeking gender-affirming care
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when y'all are getting hair plugs and
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breast implants and lip injections and all
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those things.
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All that stuff's gender-affirming care.
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Elon Musk has had a bunch of
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gender-affirming care.
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Donald Trump has had a bunch of
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gender-affirming care.
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Gender as a social concept can be
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supported in all of these things.
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If you're modifying your body to make
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yourself feel better,
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it's gender-affirming care.
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Right?
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And so...
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Yeah, like this all comes back to control.
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Kristi Noem's husband is a bad guy because
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he's doing a kink that isn't masculine.
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His fetish,
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his play goes against gender norms and
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that goes against the Republican narrative
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that like, first of all,
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there's only two genders, which is false,
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easily provably false.
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There's only two sexes,
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also easily provably false.
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They conflate gender and sex all the time.
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I just don't think they're clever enough
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to understand any sort of nuance and or
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they're arguing in bad faith.
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bit of both i would say um so
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there's but like so we have this pastor
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who's saying women need to shut up that's
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very obvious sense of control and then you
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have this messiness with christy noam
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where again like it's a dude who's who's
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breaking the quote-unquote social contract
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around gender norms but also his partner
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is breaking the quote-unquote social
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contract around what
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marriage is supposed to be from a
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christian perspective again like
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consenting adults do what you want but
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like that that christian sort of idea of
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purity culture monogamy as the only like
00:24:11.333 --> 00:24:15.336
ethical sort of way to be married but
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all the headlines weren't about the affair
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they were all about the fetish so again
00:24:19.540 --> 00:24:19.701
it's
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It's messy.
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It's not surprising.
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This is not like a new thing.
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But again,
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I think it's really easy to look at
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like Hegseth talking about doing war
00:24:28.801 --> 00:24:31.002
crimes and Trump, you know,
00:24:31.042 --> 00:24:33.845
manipulating the oil prices for insider
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trading purposes and just like corruption.
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Trump's in the Epstein files, yada, yada,
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yada.
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We're not even talking about that anymore.
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Right.
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But these smaller examples I think are
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really important to highlight from time to
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time because this is what is still going
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on.
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The people who listen to Rumble are the
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people who used to listen to
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Rush Limbaugh,
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the people who put Charlie Kirk bumper
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stickers on their car and think they're
00:25:03.159 --> 00:25:06.040
cool instead of being so embarrassing,
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are listening to these rumble things.
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And again,
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they're being told misogyny is not only
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cool and okay,
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but actually God wants you to do that.
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And what happens then?
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You have spousal abuse.
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You have people who are harming women,
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who are treating women as objects,
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who are doing these things
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non-consensually because the Bible never
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talks about consent.
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A lot of differentiation on when it is
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okay to beat your slave and when it
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isn't okay,
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but we skipped the topic of consent.
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And so these rules are all about control,
00:25:46.609 --> 00:25:48.671
the rules around purity culture,
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the rules around all these things about
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control.
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And when you're setting the rules about
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control, what is implied,
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but isn't outright stated,
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but what these examples are really good
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examples of is that control only flows
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down.
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So for the people in power,
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they're not beholden to those same rules.
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rules for the not for me is that
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really good summary of sort of the
00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:13.603
republican idea but the the rules don't
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apply to them so christy noem has the
00:26:15.285 --> 00:26:17.046
power her husband's the bad guy even
00:26:17.066 --> 00:26:19.208
though she's doing the same things as far
00:26:19.228 --> 00:26:23.152
as the bimbofication goes and like i i
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She's not, I guess.
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I can see the argument that getting
00:26:26.884 --> 00:26:28.144
plastic surgery isn't the same thing as
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bimbofication.
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I understand that.
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There is nuance there.
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One of those things is for sexual
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gratification as part of a fetish or part
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of kink play.
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But it's related.
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There's almost no way.
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They're not my clients.
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I can't say for sure.
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And if they were my clients,
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they'd be protected by HIPAA.
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There's no way those things aren't
00:26:47.128 --> 00:26:47.769
related.
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Yeah.
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So anyway, doing the same thing,
00:26:52.332 --> 00:26:53.853
but also doing something that goes against
00:26:53.952 --> 00:26:56.753
the, the quote unquote public image of,
00:26:56.953 --> 00:26:58.174
I keep doing quote unquote,
00:26:58.214 --> 00:26:59.875
that's my version of allegedly right.
00:27:00.955 --> 00:27:02.257
Going against the,
00:27:02.277 --> 00:27:05.458
the morals of public performance of
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Christianity.
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And so, yeah, it,
00:27:12.461 --> 00:27:13.541
It's floundering.
00:27:13.682 --> 00:27:15.282
Again, they're getting wild.
00:27:15.383 --> 00:27:16.743
These are messy things.
00:27:16.784 --> 00:27:17.984
They're silly things.
00:27:18.045 --> 00:27:19.685
We have corruption out in the open.
00:27:19.705 --> 00:27:21.188
We have war crimes out in the open.
00:27:21.208 --> 00:27:22.469
We have market manipulation.
00:27:22.509 --> 00:27:23.890
We have affairs out in the open.
00:27:24.349 --> 00:27:26.652
We have pedophiles out in the open.
00:27:26.672 --> 00:27:28.792
We have all these things because the
00:27:28.853 --> 00:27:30.615
empire is crumbling.
00:27:31.853 --> 00:27:33.694
and I've talked about the crumble being a
00:27:33.734 --> 00:27:35.936
lot slower and more tedious process than a
00:27:36.017 --> 00:27:36.497
collapse,
00:27:36.517 --> 00:27:37.317
which is what I think a lot of
00:27:37.337 --> 00:27:38.117
people thought would happen.
00:27:38.137 --> 00:27:40.339
Like it's broken, it's falling apart.
00:27:40.980 --> 00:27:42.541
And, uh, you know,
00:27:42.561 --> 00:27:43.843
we're not to the cool part yet where
00:27:43.883 --> 00:27:44.324
we can like,
00:27:44.503 --> 00:27:46.045
I'll be on solar energy and everyone can
00:27:46.085 --> 00:27:47.786
have food and clothing and housing,
00:27:48.967 --> 00:27:51.730
which is again, very doable.
00:27:51.869 --> 00:27:53.891
We're just not doing it because I don't
00:27:53.911 --> 00:27:55.333
know if we keep putting the wrong people
00:27:55.353 --> 00:27:55.712
in charge.
00:27:56.713 --> 00:27:56.834
Um,
00:27:57.792 --> 00:28:00.655
But so the messiness from the church,
00:28:00.715 --> 00:28:03.818
from the administration eating itself,
00:28:03.838 --> 00:28:04.759
that's not a surprise.
00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:07.741
That was always going to happen.
00:28:07.843 --> 00:28:09.243
And so like Pam Bondi is a good
00:28:09.284 --> 00:28:09.604
example.
00:28:09.644 --> 00:28:13.688
Again, women who support patriarchy,
00:28:14.828 --> 00:28:17.332
women who take on roles within the
00:28:17.372 --> 00:28:19.393
patriarchy are always going to get thrown
00:28:19.433 --> 00:28:20.755
under the bus, right?
00:28:20.775 --> 00:28:20.875
Yeah.
00:28:21.723 --> 00:28:22.825
Stephen Miller is still employed.
00:28:22.884 --> 00:28:24.486
Pete Hegseth hasn't lost his job yet.
00:28:24.567 --> 00:28:27.489
Tom Homan, who we know took a bribe,
00:28:27.888 --> 00:28:29.611
got put in charge of DHS after Kristi
00:28:29.631 --> 00:28:30.332
Noem got let go.
00:28:30.692 --> 00:28:31.192
So again,
00:28:31.291 --> 00:28:33.054
these women who want to be on sort
00:28:33.094 --> 00:28:35.276
of the like, see, they're not misogynist,
00:28:35.316 --> 00:28:36.757
see, they're not bad guys,
00:28:37.817 --> 00:28:39.118
are always going to be the ones to
00:28:39.138 --> 00:28:40.339
first fall because they are bad guys.
00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:41.280
They are misogynistic.
00:28:41.300 --> 00:28:42.481
They're going to get rid of the women
00:28:42.642 --> 00:28:44.824
first because that is convenient for them
00:28:44.923 --> 00:28:46.005
and sticks to their narrative.
00:28:47.426 --> 00:28:49.048
In the same way that these pastors are
00:28:49.068 --> 00:28:50.750
getting more and more extreme because the
00:28:50.810 --> 00:28:52.452
church's monopoly on the flow of
00:28:52.512 --> 00:28:54.655
information is gone.
00:28:54.695 --> 00:28:54.895
I mean,
00:28:54.915 --> 00:28:57.138
the internet exists and most people have
00:28:57.199 --> 00:28:57.940
access to it.
00:28:58.059 --> 00:29:00.823
And so you can't enforce these things
00:29:00.863 --> 00:29:04.186
because you can find about your pastor's
00:29:04.307 --> 00:29:05.288
past discretions.
00:29:05.308 --> 00:29:06.170
You can find about
00:29:06.990 --> 00:29:10.234
all the different sexual scandals in every
00:29:10.255 --> 00:29:12.117
single major organized religion.
00:29:12.818 --> 00:29:15.784
It's not hard to pop that bubble of
00:29:15.864 --> 00:29:16.424
like, oh,
00:29:16.464 --> 00:29:18.386
this power makes sense because it is
00:29:18.587 --> 00:29:20.651
godly, God willed it.
00:29:20.671 --> 00:29:21.873
Nah, that doesn't happen.
00:29:22.633 --> 00:29:26.693
and so the the amount of control shrinks
00:29:27.315 --> 00:29:29.194
and then the focus of where that those
00:29:29.255 --> 00:29:30.855
rules have to flow where that power is
00:29:30.895 --> 00:29:32.195
trying to flow gets to smaller and smaller
00:29:32.236 --> 00:29:34.376
groups so you know we had the satanic
00:29:34.416 --> 00:29:35.936
panic and then we had the gay panic
00:29:35.957 --> 00:29:38.117
and then we had um you know now
00:29:38.137 --> 00:29:41.058
we have panic around trans people and ivf
00:29:41.078 --> 00:29:42.799
which is like incredibly small percentages
00:29:42.819 --> 00:29:46.340
of the population uh because they have to
00:29:46.401 --> 00:29:49.342
have that bad guy the big scary thing
00:29:49.402 --> 00:29:49.922
but it doesn't
00:29:51.384 --> 00:29:53.007
holds up under any sort of scrutiny.
00:29:54.167 --> 00:29:56.390
It's just flailing while, again,
00:29:56.910 --> 00:29:58.751
their power and their control crumble.
00:29:58.852 --> 00:30:00.574
But it does real harm.
00:30:00.794 --> 00:30:01.074
Again,
00:30:01.154 --> 00:30:03.016
it's fun every once in a while to
00:30:03.836 --> 00:30:05.699
point at the hypocrisy and laugh about how
00:30:05.739 --> 00:30:06.539
silly it all is.
00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:07.540
And
00:30:09.638 --> 00:30:10.479
People are harmed.
00:30:10.838 --> 00:30:12.720
They're taking away trans people's
00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:13.720
driver's licenses.
00:30:13.740 --> 00:30:15.500
They're limiting their ability to move
00:30:15.540 --> 00:30:16.540
from state to state.
00:30:16.580 --> 00:30:18.382
They're trying to eliminate people's right
00:30:18.422 --> 00:30:19.721
to vote because of that.
00:30:20.422 --> 00:30:24.503
So again, it's about control.
00:30:24.564 --> 00:30:26.483
And specifically in patriarchy,
00:30:26.503 --> 00:30:27.704
it's about controlling women.
00:30:27.805 --> 00:30:28.085
Again,
00:30:29.025 --> 00:30:31.125
the SAVE Act is an attack on women.
00:30:31.905 --> 00:30:33.987
women's right to vote it also is a
00:30:35.167 --> 00:30:37.048
rebrand because Trump has to go out of
00:30:37.088 --> 00:30:38.710
his way to use all the acronyms that
00:30:38.769 --> 00:30:40.750
Biden and Obama used like he's a very
00:30:41.191 --> 00:30:43.031
childish petty person who also has
00:30:43.112 --> 00:30:44.952
dementia and goes to Walter Reed once a
00:30:44.992 --> 00:30:46.653
month to get treatment which is why he
00:30:46.693 --> 00:30:49.076
wasn't in Mar-a-Lago over Easter like
00:30:49.215 --> 00:30:53.357
again just it's exhausting to use your
00:30:53.377 --> 00:30:55.699
brain and pay attention in these times and
00:30:55.719 --> 00:30:55.878
like
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I didn't even read about the Supreme Court
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stuff today.
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I saw one headline.
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I was like, nope,
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because for my mental health,
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I have to stay away from that stuff
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because there is nothing that's more
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infuriating to me as a mental health
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professional who has evidence-based
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practice and has all this research
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background and has all this thing that
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knows how science is supposed to work.
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I went to a research institution.
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I've been published in research journals
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and scientific journals.
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I know how to do all that stuff.
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And so like the Supreme Court being like,
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meh,
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facts don't matter and we're just making
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stuff up because it works.
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And also we're going to claim that we're
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originalists,
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but only if it makes our argument for
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us is very, very frustrating.
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And so again,
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there's everyone's sort of flailing in all
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directions and people are being harmed
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because of it.
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We could just say, Hey,
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these people don't deserve to be in power.
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And like the system's broken,
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let's do something different.
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There's again,
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a lot more of us than them,
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but again,
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civilizations shifting and societies
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collapsing is is never really an easy
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process so you know we we have these
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attacks on women we have these attacks
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certainly on sex like that's not new right
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the
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The Pope has been outspoken about like
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genocide is bad and so is war and
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Pete Hegseth's prayers aren't getting
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heard because it's got blood on his hands.
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But also the Pope has protected a ton
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of priests who are pedophiles.
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So like the church isn't on some sort
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of high ground there.
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They are part of the problem systemically,
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institutionally, structurally.
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They defend predators because it protects
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their own power.
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And so, yeah, I don't know.
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Sex is good.
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Consenting adults can enjoy each other.
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Pleasure is a good thing for us.
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And these ghouls,
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these people in charge who are miserable,
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awful people themselves have to attack
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that stuff because it's how they feel like
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they're in control.
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you know, I said, like,
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you put a leash on something that's
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pleasurable, like, yeah,
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that's the problem.
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The problem isn't that something that's
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pleasurable exists.
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The problem isn't that somebody has a
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fetish.
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The problem isn't playful kink with sex
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workers.
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The problem is awful people in power
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harming people.
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Abuses of power becoming so normalized
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that we don't even, like,
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that's not even a headline anymore.
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The Christinome...
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ad money, the jet she gave herself,
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Kash Patel going to the Olympics.
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Again,
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the corruption and those types of things
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aren't even in the news anymore.
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The Epstein files are hardly hanging on in
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the news anymore.
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It's falling apart.
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But again,
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as the power structure crumbles,
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the harm that gets done gets more and
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more narrowly focused on the smaller
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groups.
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They're trying to take away the rights of
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women to vote.
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They have in some states like Kansas
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successfully taken away the right for
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trans people to vote because you need ID
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to vote.
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And they just nullified everyone,
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all trans people's IDs overnight.
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So again, like,
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and I don't know that that'll hold up
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in court.
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I don't know that that will lead to
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trans people not being able to vote in
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Kansas in November.
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um in the midterms but like again they're
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they're trying these things whether or not
00:34:10.972 --> 00:34:12.893
they work will be the question but like
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they've gotten a bunch of stuff through
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again they're deporting people illegally
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they're doing a war illegally um the
00:34:19.876 --> 00:34:22.976
corruption is off the charts illegal so
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they're they're doing a bunch of stuff
00:34:24.918 --> 00:34:27.079
that we know is the illegal and they're
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still doing it so whether or not this
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:33.041
stuff works um will be the long-term
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question and how long it takes to
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I don't want to pick up the pieces,
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just do something different will be the
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other question.
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And if all this stuff is stressful, yeah,
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correct.
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It's your brain working correctly.
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We're not designed to regulate our way
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through this.
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We're not designed to breathe and then be
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okay.
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This is supposed to be dysregulating
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because it's bad.
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A lot of people are being harmed.
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We don't have the power to stop it,
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even though we don't agree with it
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morally.
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and we don't have the power to stop
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paying for it.
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My taxes went up this year for no
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good reason,
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because somebody has to make billions of
00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:15.460
dollars while they're in office.
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I don't know.
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To fund a genocide,
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because the political party that claims to
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care about families and children got rid
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of a bunch of those tax credits.
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It's a very,
00:35:28.507 --> 00:35:29.947
very stupid time to be alive.
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So yeah,
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you got to take care of yourself.
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Hopefully, if this stuff's stressful,
00:35:35.739 --> 00:35:38.123
you didn't listen to it all.
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These stories...
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are so over the top as to be
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somewhat comical again,
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like the real harm is happening.
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I'm not dismissing that.
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I don't want to like poke fun about
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it all, but like,
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these are not serious people.
00:35:53.974 --> 00:35:56.215
They're doing serious harm, but like they,
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it is not some sort of coherent master
00:35:58.916 --> 00:35:59.257
plan.
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The heritage foundation is a little bit of
00:36:01.998 --> 00:36:04.239
the, the dog that caught the car.
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They are getting some of their stuff done,
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but there's no long-term plan because
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again, like,
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The churches have never been able to hold
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on to power because churches can't agree
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with themselves because they get so bogged
00:36:14.422 --> 00:36:15.704
down in churchy stuff,
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which is all made up.
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People arguing about their favorite
00:36:19.385 --> 00:36:21.786
version of their, their preferred fanfic.
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So I don't know.
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I don't have like a nice landing place.
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This stuff is frustrating and stressful
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because your brain is reading the
00:36:29.990 --> 00:36:31.090
situation correctly.
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The idea that we could just clothe
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everyone, house everyone,
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feed everyone because we have enough room
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for everyone on the planet.
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We have enough food for everyone on the
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planet.
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we could all have our basic needs met
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but like i don't know we gotta feed
00:36:44.844 --> 00:36:47.105
the robots that steal copyrighted material
00:36:48.365 --> 00:36:52.668
question mark and i truly don't understand
00:36:52.688 --> 00:36:54.369
somebody who's not motivated by money
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because money's made up none of it makes
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sense to me so yeah none of this
00:37:02.914 --> 00:37:03.914
is new again if
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Three hundred years ago,
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I could also have done this podcast about
00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:10.641
how the church is abusing their power and
00:37:11.083 --> 00:37:12.643
using sex as a mechanism of control
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because it's always been there.
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Could have done it a thousand years ago.
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Could have done it two thousand years ago.
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It's not a new idea.
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We're just seeing it play out very
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foolishly and nonsensically.
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But that's part of fascism, too,
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is it's paradoxical on purpose.
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Take care of yourself, you know,
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be like me and don't read the latest
00:37:34.322 --> 00:37:35.463
analysis of the Supreme Court.
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It's just going to make you batty because
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they're not doing something logical.
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And if you have a brain that works
00:37:41.306 --> 00:37:46.289
logically, it's going to hurt your brain.
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Vote for whoever is wanting to hold the
00:37:50.353 --> 00:37:53.175
current regime to account and also expand
00:37:53.215 --> 00:37:54.695
the Supreme Court or just get rid of
00:37:54.755 --> 00:37:56.456
the corrupt justices would probably work
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too.
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We're too far away from the midterms for
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some of that, though.
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So, you know, America.
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Falling apart.
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But hopefully you're not falling apart.
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Take care of yourself.
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Take care of somebody else.
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It's a marathon, not a sprint, y'all.
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All right, peace.