Keith Self shuts down woke delusions with one word: 'Mr.'



More people recognize Patrick Henry’s declaration — “Give me liberty or give me death!” — than recall the details of Revolutionary War battles. Words often drive action. They inspire courage, shape conviction, and influence history.

But words can also be empty. The right has spent a generation embracing rhetoric for its own sake, using talking points to signal virtue at the water cooler or from anonymous X accounts. Instead of taking action, many defer responsibility, expecting Moms for Liberty and Riley Gaines to handle everything. That complacency won’t solve anything.

When the emperor wears no clothes, you never bow to him. You either laugh at him or you overthrow him.

Well, Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) demonstrated clarity last week when he ignored the delusions of a man in lipstick during a subcommittee meeting and addressed him as “Mr.,” as God intended.

That moment carried psychological weight for the nation, especially for men. Despite the constant connectivity of modern technology, people feel more isolated than ever. Many retreat into a world that demands no conflict, rejection, initiative, or risk, distancing themselves from their moral and civic responsibilities.

We have built a demonic treadmill for ourselves. On social media, people unleash outrage alongside thousands who share their views. But in real life, they hesitate. At work or in public, they watch as the Flat Earth Society takes victory laps. Words alone won’t reclaim the high ground — action will.

As this chaos unfolds, we lose our grip on reality. Because when the world keeps getting crazier and all you see are people bowing down to the weakest and most ridiculous gender-bending tyrants of all time, you start to question whether maybe your original programming is just a fairy tale and you should just get it over with and join the circus.

Or maybe not. Keith Self said enough of that. The “MASH” theme song was wrong — suicide isn’t painless. The decline of Western civilization is real, and ignoring it won’t make it go away. It’s time to expose the lies behind transgender activism and refuse to back down.

Hey, crazy person! You don’t have the support you claim. And I don’t think the media can bail you out much longer. Your pronouns and emotional manipulation don’t demand our time. Parents will no longer tolerate your control over their children’s sports teams or bathrooms. Science does not justify mutilating healthy bodies to accommodate feelings.

But maybe I’m mistaken. Maybe the trans mob still has the goods. Maybe they’re somehow sitting on pocket aces. They might have the nuts and I might be called a mean word or maybe even lose my job. But this time, I'm going to make them show me or see me in court instead of giving up before the fight even starts.

Since Mr. Tim McBride from the state of Delaware is utter ridiculousness, we will simply treat him as such and not entertain one more minute of his foolishness. We will dismiss it. We will mock it. But we will never honor it in any way, shape, or form.

Want to know why Christ spent his time at the temple debating his fellow Jews instead of going to the temple of Saturn to debate the pagans? Total foolishness! No point to that! And why was He silent when he went before King Herod? More foolishness.

Just gavel out like Keith Self. We were done when we started. We’re moving on to the sane people now. Because when the emperor wears no clothes, you never bow to him.

You either laugh at him or you overthrow him.

Why coexistence with the left is impossible



President Donald Trump’s MAGA Supreme speech to Congress on Tuesday made one thing clear. After a Democrat responded to the speech who promotes trans propaganda and MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace attacked a kid with brain cancer, it is clear: We can’t share a country with these people.

Another generation of my family was born last year, and I want to be able to tell them honestly that they can pursue their dreams in the greatest country on Earth. But that vision feels increasingly out of reach when much of our culture appears to sympathize more with a fired federal worker than with a girl who was raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant or with a young athlete harassed by a troubled boy in her sports team’s locker room or bathroom.

These people hate us. There’s no point in pandering to them, no point in negotiating, and no point in making concessions. Just defeat them.

Trump’s speech sharply underscored the real problem: If we can’t live peacefully with our neighbors and don’t trust our institutions, how can we maintain a country?

This issue goes far beyond theoretical debates in political science 101. Democrat women attended Trump’s speech dressed in all pink to promote so-called women’s rights, despite every Democrat in the U.S. Senate recently voting against protecting female athletes from transgender terrorism.

This absurd and unsustainable reality was a point we drove home to weak-kneed Iowa Republicans who were poised to block efforts to remove gender identity from Iowa’s civil rights protections. My show called out about 10 of them by name, exposing how their actions aligned more with the governor of Maine’s betrayal of girls than with the interests of Iowans. In less than 24 hours, a potentially close vote turned into a landslide victory.

If you agree with Democrats on their insanity, just be honest and switch sides. But never bow to people who will never vote for you, no matter how many woke boxes you check while keeping an “R” next to your name. The math is simple now, and it doesn’t matter if it makes you uncomfortable. This is Thunderdome: Two enter, one leaves. Which side are you on?

As bloody and terrible as it was, the European countries that fought each other in World War I had far more in common with each other than a Blaze News subscriber has with modern progressives. It’s not even close. Life in early 20th-century Berlin wasn’t much different from life in early 20th-century London. They shared similar values, the same ruling families intermarrying, and even the same DNA strands. Yet they still went to war. Meanwhile, a century later, modern blue-state Americans let politicians like Boston’s mayor offer empty thoughts and prayers for a lunatic who had to be shot by an off-duty police officer to stop him from stabbing innocent bystanders at a Chick-fil-A.

The cosmic gap between worldviews and the duties of citizenship in America has grown so vast that it’s hard to imagine so-called Americans — like the 45 U.S. senators who can’t figure out the difference between male and female — ever agreeing on enough to fight alongside us in a war. Our fundamentals aren’t just different; they’re in direct opposition. The debate over women’s sports is just the starting point for a much larger battle about the very nature of reality and whether we can continue to coexist.

Have we become existential enemies? Our opponents seem to think so. That’s why they constantly label us as racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and homophobic bigots at every opportunity. Those are the kinds of accusations you throw when the time for compromise has passed and the only thing left is to fight for the best possible outcome. These people hate us. There’s no point in pandering to them, no point in negotiating, and no point in making concessions.

Just defeat them. No apologies, no remorse. Have some dignity and do what needs to be done, for the love of God and the future of your children. Take back this country — and do it now, before it’s too late.

China builds roads, USAID funds gender theory — who’s winning?



As the Department of Government Efficiency continues exposing waste and fraud in Washington, the revelations about the United States Agency for International Development have drawn the most attention. While USAID’s waste is staggering, many conservatives aren’t surprised. They long suspected that a massive portion of federal revenue was being spent unnecessarily on initiatives that serve no real purpose.

The real scandal isn’t just USAID’s graft — it’s the reaction to it, particularly from Democrats. While moderates and conservatives were outraged at the depth of corruption, establishment leftists didn’t dismiss the findings as a “nothingburger.” They didn’t even attempt to defend USAID by highlighting its legitimate contributions to national interests. Instead, they claimed that any attempt to reform or defund USAID was an “attack on democracy.”

With the right policies, a revitalized infrastructure strategy, and a radical rethinking of foreign aid, America can regain the upper hand.

In other words, the story isn’t just the waste itself — it’s that many on the left, and even some on the right, view waste and misappropriation as essential functions of American governance.

At first glance, this seems absurd. But a look at history helps explain how USAID came to exist and why its defenders refuse to let it go. U.S. foreign aid efforts expanded dramatically after World War II, initially falling under various government agencies. While some programs had altruistic goals, most were strategic — forms of “soft power” designed to advance American interests.

After the war, only two nations remained in the race for global dominance: the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War became a battle between free-market capitalism and Soviet communism, and foreign aid was one of many tools the U.S. used to secure influence. USAID, like many institutions born in that era, was designed to serve geopolitical objectives under the guise of humanitarian assistance. Today, however, it has become an unchecked slush fund — one that many in Washington see as untouchable.

A slush fund for ideological experiments

Most Americans agree that the Cold War was a battle the United States needed to win. Foreign aid programs played a key role in that fight, but they were not purely humanitarian. In many cases, they were designed to create economic dependency among developing nations, securing their loyalty and compliance with American geopolitical objectives. This approach wasn’t unique to the U.S. — power dynamics like these have always been central to global politics.

It’s no coincidence that USAID was created during a period of rapid expansion in the U.S. intelligence community. The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 consolidated various foreign aid initiatives into a single agency, making them a formal part of American foreign policy. USAID’s early operations worked in tandem with the CIA, leveraging aid not just to stabilize allies but also to undermine adversaries. The Cold War-era mission of USAID was clear: solidify America’s role as a global superpower.

After the Cold War ended and the U.S. emerged as the undisputed leader of the liberal world order, USAID’s mission shifted from gaining global hegemony to maintaining it. This shift makes the agency’s recent spending priorities even more scandalous. When USAID directs $2 million toward sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala, is it trying to improve Guatemalan society — or destabilize it? What about the $1.5 million it sent to Serbia for DEI initiatives? Or the millions allegedly allocated to Gaza for condoms?

Regardless of USAID’s intent, these expenditures expose why Americans should be outraged — and why the agency needs to be dismantled. If USAID genuinely believes that increasing the number of sex changes in Guatemala is a marker of societal progress, it reveals just how ideologically compromised U.S. foreign policy has become.

The left often speaks about respecting “cultural diversity,” yet USAID seems determined to impose progressive American social norms on other nations. If gender ideology remains one of the most divisive issues in the United States, why should our government assume it benefits foreign nations? If USAID believes these policies are necessary abroad, its leaders undoubtedly believe they’re necessary at home — raising the disturbing possibility that the federal government is actively undermining one side of a live and fractious political debate.

So much for defending democracy.

Cultural revolution abroad and at home

USAID may claim that funding sex changes in Guatemala is about helping vulnerable people, but it is just as likely to create deep divisions in a society that remains largely traditional. Why would the U.S. government actively fund policies that disrupt social cohesion in another country?

And if this is the goal abroad, we must also consider whether similar efforts at home serve the same purpose. The federal push to expand access to “gender reassignment surgery” in the United States raises a troubling question: Is this about individual rights, or is it part of a broader attempt to destabilize traditionalist regions within America itself? By amplifying cultural divisions, the federal government exerts control over states and communities that resist its progressive agenda.

The real issue isn’t just USAID’s sex change initiative in Guatemala. Whether this program is meant to “help” or “harm” the country, it reveals the federal government’s priorities — and they are deeply at odds with the American political tradition.

If USAID genuinely believes increasing the number of sex changes improves a society, then its approach to “nation-building” has been corrupted by far-left ideology. If, on the other hand, these initiatives are meant to disrupt and weaken Guatemala’s social fabric, then it becomes clear that the same tactics are being deployed domestically to erode traditional values and institutions.

These contradictions are not unique to Guatemala. USAID’s budget is filled with similarly questionable expenditures, all of which reflect a larger scandal: A government agency originally designed to advance U.S. interests abroad is now subverting culture and politics both overseas and at home.

USAID was created to establish and maintain an American-led global order, but that order is now falling apart. Instead of adapting to these geopolitical shifts, USAID seems more focused on promoting ideological agendas than securing strategic alliances. Worse still, many of the nations receiving American tax dollars no longer feel any obligation to align with U.S. interests.

Rather than reinforcing America’s influence, USAID has fostered a dangerous sense of entitlement among foreign governments. These nations have come to expect U.S. aid as a permanent fixture, while contributing little in return. The left, unwilling to acknowledge the geopolitical reality, continues to push the fiction that foreign aid is purely humanitarian. Any attempt to scrutinize USAID’s operations is met with hysteria, as though reforming an outdated and dysfunctional agency is an attack on moral decency itself.

That is the real scandal.

Why China is winning the soft power battle

The global landscape of 2025 differs dramatically from the world of 1980, and America needs a new strategic plan to compete in the 21st century. China has clearly replaced Russia as our primary geopolitical rival, and its Belt and Road Initiative mirrors the foreign aid strategies the United States once used. But China’s motives are at least as self-serving as ours ever were — if not more.

The rapid rise of China as a global power is proof that the post-World War II order America built is crumbling. China’s foreign aid programs present both a challenge and an opportunity for the United States.

The bad news? China isn’t funding sex changes in Guatemala. China is building roads, bridges, and railways. While these projects undoubtedly serve China’s economic and strategic interests, they also provide tangible benefits to the nations receiving assistance. Many of these countries will see infrastructure development as a net gain — while America offers little more than ideological activism. If the best we can export is gender studies and cultural upheaval, China will win the loyalty of nations that could have been in our corner as a new Cold War takes shape.

The good news? China's focus on infrastructure shows that America can still compete and win using soft power. We built a transcontinental railroad over 150 years ago. For 75 years, we have maintained the world’s most comprehensive highway system. We know how to build roads and rails — at least, we used to. If we have forgotten, now is the time to remember.

With the right policies, a revitalized infrastructure strategy, and a radical rethinking of foreign aid — who we fund, what we fund, and what strings we attach — America can regain the upper hand. We need a plan that prioritizes economic development, strengthens strategic alliances, and reinforces America’s leadership in an increasingly unstable world.

Ending USAID would be a powerful acknowledgment that the geopolitical realities of 2025 are vastly different from those of the postwar era. Recognizing this shift is a necessary first step toward crafting a foreign policy that secures American interests in a world undergoing massive technological, economic, and cultural upheaval.

President Trump SLAMS Maine governor for keeping MEN in women’s sports



President Donald Trump has clearly been listening to the American people, as within just a month of taking the presidency back, he’s reclaimed the definition of what it means to be a woman and is no longer allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports.

Yet in the state of Maine, Governor Janet Mills (D) has defied President Trump’s order — despite Trump specifically signing an order that said states will face repercussions if they do so.

“Maine is doing just that,” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” comments. “Maine is defying President Trump and says that they will continue to allow biological men to play in women’s sports.”


Trump was clearly not amused.

“I heard men are still playing in Maine,” Trump said to a crowd. “Well, I hate to tell you this, but we’re not going to give them any federal money. They are still saying, ‘We want men to play in women’s sports,’ and I cannot believe that they’re doing that.”

“So we’re not going to give them any federal funding, none whatsoever, until they clean that up,” he added.

In a meeting with the governors, Trump got into what Wheeler calls “a war of words” with Mills.

“He of course was talking about his executive order banning transgender-identifying athletes in sports, when she objected, and Trump responded to her by saying, ‘You better do it, because you’re not going to get federal funding,’” Wheeler explains.

According to Reuters, Mills responded with, “We’re going to follow the law, sir. We’ll see you in court.”

Trump shot back, “And enjoy your life after, Governor, 'cause I don't think you'll be in elected politics."

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Black pastors are at a crossroads as faith bends to politics



Donald Trump’s return to the White House must have been a bitter pill for black pastors who vocally supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. They likely would have preferred to spend Black History Month celebrating Harris rather than bracing for another four years of the "Orange Menace."

But many black clergy now face an even more sobering reality.

Black pastors and churches now stand at a crossroads. 'Authentic' blackness has been tied to a political ideology that opposes biblical truth.

The black church is on life support, and its decline stems from the same sins that plagued Israel in the Old Testament and every wayward church throughout history.

Millions of black Christians in the United States still attend majority-black churches that preach the gospel and believe the Bible. But the term “black church” serves more as a sociopolitical descriptor than a spiritual qualifier.

Many churches that have lost their spiritual power view poverty, racism, and inequality as the greatest sources of oppression. To them, the sins that “marginalized” people need salvation from are those committed by those in power.

The preachers leading these churches are learning a painful lesson — there is a heavy price for chasing false gods. No greater form of idolatry exists in America today than Christians who force the unchangeable truth of God's word to conform to the shifting positions of their preferred political party.

Politicians set tax rates, allocate funding for schools and roads, negotiate trade agreements, and craft immigration policy. Some may even promote healthy eating or discourage drug use. But politics should never take precedence over faith.

No one has the authority to declare that a man can become a woman or that two men can form a marriage. Political leaders who reject Genesis 1:27 and 2:24 should be challenged by pastors who boldly declare biblical truth and warn of the consequences of abusing political power. Any Christian, pastor, church, or denomination that justifies rebellion against the Bible by appealing to political consensus engages in spiritual adultery.

Kamala Harris visited New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, led by Rev. Jamal Bryant, just days before the election. Bryant, a charismatic speaker, leads one of the most influential black churches in America. In 2022, he condemned the overturning of Roe v. Wade shortly before performing a baby dedication and declaring, “Children are our future.” Nearly 70% of all babies aborted in Georgia are black, yet preachers like Bryant refuse to acknowledge the Democratic Party’s abortion extremism as a form of systemic racism.

Sen. Raphael Warnock represents Georgia in Washington and leads Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, following in the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The debates over King’s theology are well-documented. But while King used the Bible to challenge racial divisions, Warnock invokes his faith to reject the biblical view of sex and gender.

These men are not isolated cases of theological drift. The most politically engaged black pastors in America have become surrogates for the Democratic Party. They claim to be bold prophets denouncing injustice, but in reality, they serve as cupbearers — protecting, not challenging, those in power.

Warnock may seem like a direct spiritual heir to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but the truth is that today’s most influential black preachers follow a different tradition — one rooted in the teachings of Dr. James Cone, the father of black liberation theology. Cone’s open embrace of Marxism led to the ultimate devil’s bargain. His theology sacrifices biblical fidelity for the illusion of social justice:

First, in a revolutionary situation there can never be just theology. It is always theology identified with a particular community. It is either identified with those who inflict oppression or with those who are its victims. A theology of the latter is authentic Christian theology, and a theology of the former is a theology of the Antichrist.

The men and women who consider themselves heirs to Cone’s theology have continued down the same path. The clearest sign of the black church’s declining cultural influence was the rise of Black Lives Matter. A movement that openly touted its “queerness” and pledged to “disrupt” the nuclear family would never have gained national prominence in previous generations. But rather than rebuke BLM’s leaders, many black preachers followed their lead.

Black pastors and churches now stand at a crossroads. “Authentic” blackness has been tied to a political ideology that opposes biblical truth. Black pastors who frame “gender-affirming care” for their “trans brothers and sisters” as the next civil rights cause have allowed the twin idols of race and politics to pull their hearts — and pulpits — away from God.

Thankfully, the Lord is merciful and willing to forgive all who repent and follow Jesus. Christians should always remember that what happens in God’s households is of far greater eternal value than who occupies the White House.

Trump, Milei, and Orbán lead a conservative resurgence worldwide



Over the past several years, global political ideologies have shifted dramatically from left to right. Across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, nations that once embraced progressive policies have experienced a surge in right-leaning populism and conservative movements.

Liberal politicians aligned with the Davos-driven global agenda are being replaced by nationalists putting their countries first. Leaders like Javier Milei in Argentina, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, and Donald Trump in the United States have transformed the political landscape, leaving traditional elites scrambling.

The current shift to the right has ushered in Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. A successful Trump presidency could sustain this momentum for decades to come.

This trend continues. Governments in Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom face mounting pressure from right-leaning factions. In the United States, even liberal figures like New York Mayor Eric Adams are echoing Donald Trump’s rhetoric, while progressive prosecutors, such as San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin, backed by George Soros, have been voted out of office.

This shift reflects more than political realignment. It signals a broader societal transformation driven by economic instability, cultural upheaval, unchecked immigration, and the political fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The failed Biden administration serves as a clear example of the transformation underway.

Economic instability

The fiscal and monetary policies of the Biden administration led to the highest inflation rate in decades, going from 1.4% when Joe Biden took office in January 2021 to a peak of 9.1% in June 2022. On average, prices were up approximately 20% during the Biden presidency. People could not afford to put gas in their cars, fill their grocery carts, or make their mortgage payments. Americans’ credit card debt reached record levels, topping $1.1 billion in February 2024.

The Biden administration’s answer was to tell the American people that inflation was transitory and that Americans had it better than the rest of the world. Not much help to a single mother trying to afford to feed her children and pay the rent.

Trump understood this and promised to return America to the economic success it realized during his first term as president. Vowing to Make America Great Again ... again.

Social and cultural upheaval

During the Biden administration, the United States experienced a cultural transformation as private companies and government agencies put diversity, equity, and inclusion over profits and efficiency.

Controversial decisions, such as using a transgender influencer as a spokesperson for Bud Light and Target’s introduction of “tuck-friendly” swimsuits for transgender teens, led to consumer backlash, boycotts, and significant revenue losses.

The White House hosted Pride Month celebrations, where some transgender attendees paraded topless. The administration also flew the transgender flag at the White House and U.S. embassies around the globe and supported policies allowing biological men to compete against biological women in sports.

Working Americans perceived these moves as a threat to traditional values and their children’s well-being. With a struggling economy, many found it difficult to support a president who, in their view, prioritized cultural debates, like access to bathrooms, over addressing pressing financial issues.

Trump capitalized on this discontent, opposing policies that allowed men to compete against women in sports, keeping boys out of girls’ bathrooms, and emphasizing unity by celebrating all Americans rather than dividing them into groups. As the newly elected president, Trump has gone further, declaring it U.S. policy to recognize only two sexes. He also mandated that only the American flag be flown at government buildings, embassies, military bases, and on government websites.

Illegal immigration

Trump made immigration and building the wall a central focus of his first presidential run. Then, Biden made a joke out of the nation’s borders by allowing unchecked illegal immigration and forbidding organizations such as ICE from deporting those illegal aliens who committed violent crimes.

An estimated 10 million people — at minimum — entered the country illegally since January 2021. Violent crimes committed by illegal aliens became a central part of the 2024 election, partly due to the brutal murder of nursing student Laken Riley at the hands of a Venezuelan national in the country unlawfully.

Trump promised the most massive deportation effort in American history of those in the country illegally. It resonated, especially with legal immigrants, with Trump winning a record number of Hispanic votes.

The COVID response

The response to COVID-19 underscored the stark divide between left-leaning and conservative leadership. Democratic governors in states like New York, Michigan, Illinois, and California imposed strict lockdowns, confining residents to their homes and forcing businesses to close. Meanwhile, Republican governors in states like Texas and Florida kept their economies open, allowing their states to thrive.

President Biden mandated that military personnel receive the experimental COVID-19 vaccine and attempted to use OSHA to enforce a nationwide vaccine requirement for workers. The Supreme Court ultimately struck down the mandate. In contrast, Donald Trump opposed such mandates, a stance that resonated with many Americans who rejected forced vaccinations. Trump leveraged his opposition to COVID mandates to bolster his support for smaller, less intrusive government, continuing his “drain the swamp” message from 2016.

Sometimes called the “people’s billionaire,” Trump demonstrated a keen understanding of Americans’ frustrations during his successful 2024 presidential campaign. By addressing hot-button cultural issues such as men in women’s sports and illegal immigration, Trump appealed to voters alarmed by perceived negative changes to America’s values and culture. His promises to restore the economy, dismantle DEI initiatives, and reduce government interference in daily life resonated with middle-class voters seeking to provide for their families, keep more of their paychecks, and simply be left alone.

Political influence tends to swing between left and right over time. The current shift to the right has ushered in Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. A successful Trump presidency could sustain this momentum for decades to come.

Trans ideology is the new hippie movement — and just as doomed



A few propositions for the present moment ...

Someday, we’ll look back on this period as we do 1950 or thereabouts, with some demagogue saying, “I have in my hand a list of 57 genders and pronouns” (with the due caveat that the first guy was more right than wrong).

The current structure of the administrative state is the partisan instrument of the Democratic Party, and the majority of career civil servants are Democrats. Ergo ...

What prompted this thought was an amazing self-own by Bruce Bartlett, a once-sound supply-side economist who succumbed somehow to the precursor of Trump derangement syndrome — in his case, Bush derangement syndrome back in the aughts:

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Answer: It isn’t different at all. They’re communists in both cases. (Though, in fact, a lot of the communists in the federal government by 1950 had been quietly purged by the Truman administration before Joe McCarthy got on to the issue. Truman had to cover up the extent of communist penetration of the federal government because it would have been damaging to the Democratic Party in the 1948 election.)

So what’s the problem?

I expect that we’ll also look back on the current transgender explosion, especially “transwomen,” in much the same way we look back on the hippies of the late 1960s, with their ridiculous hair, wardrobe, communal ethic that always crashed and burned, lack of hygiene, and, above all, cocksureness that they had all the answers to everything and demanded to stand up to the Man.

One part of their disposition was partly right: Today, many of them have become the Man and deserve toppling. The point is: No one wants to be a ’60s hippie today.

I was rereading Lord Charnwood’s 1916 biography of Lincoln the other day (still the finest biography of Lincoln ever written, in my opinion) for something I am working on, and I was arrested by this passage: Lincoln “was the most surprising nomination ever made in America. ... At this critical moment the fit man was chosen on the very ground of his supposed unfitness.”

Hmmm.

Have any of the progressive critics of the Constitution stopped to reflect that all those features they want to junk because they frustrate their progressive desires for "Action now!" are the very features that will prevent an actual Trump “dictatorship”? I’ll wait.

We’ll see how far Trump gets with being able to fire federal employees with civil service status. But let’s remember: The current civil service system was set up to avoid partisan patronage and have a professional class of neutral civil servants. The current structure of the administrative state is the partisan instrument of the Democratic Party, and the majority of career civil servants are Democrats. Ergo ...

This is genius (and likely true):

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Blaze News original: How about a huge, slow clap for brave citizens who stood up to leftist threats, violence, and nonsense



It might seem as though leftists have had their way without any problem at all since Joe Biden got elected president in 2020. Seems as though the federal government, the legacy media, lawmakers, and Democrats have simply looked the other way while the lawless left took over on the streets and made many people's lives a living hell.

But there have been some brights spots, some glimmers of light and hope while trouble pressed in like a starless night.

'You're being condescending, and if you want to continue, I'll have Port Authority escort you out of the building if you want to play that game with me. Would you like to continue three days before Christmas? I really don't mind.'

The fact is that a number of individuals have courageously taken it upon themselves to stand up to leftist threats, violence, and nonsense in general — and when it seemed that the cards were stacked against them.

How about a lone, white-haired elderly man who got so fed up with unpredictable Black Lives Matter protesters that he emerged from a restaurant in Louisville and pointed a gun at them? Kinda changed the tone of the entire incident. Or how about Trump supporters who ended up singing the national anthem after leftists attacked them following the 2020 election? Or a gutsy woman who dared an armed punk to shoot her during a broad-daylight robbery in Washington, D.C.? Or a lone Guardian Angel refusing to back down as BLM protesters tried to intimidate him?

America is full of stories like this: regular people who have had enough of the left's violence, chaos, and lawlessness. Everyday folks who decided to stand up and say "enough!" It's high time we take back normalcy — and these folks gave us part of the road map.

Let's give them a rousing slow clap:

Gun-toting elderly man puts scare into Black Lives Matter protesters freaking out in front of restaurant


Video shows a Louisville restaurant patron putting a bit of a scare into Black Lives Matter marchers on the evening of May 1, 2021, as he pointed a handgun at the protesters who were freaking out around sidewalk tables in front of La Chasse. The Courier-Journal reported that the protesters' demonstration coincided with the 147th Kentucky Derby and was in memory of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police the previous year.

Just after 8:30 p.m., the protesters stopped outside the restaurant, and a man watching from the restaurant's patio pulled a gun and pointed it at the marchers amid a confrontation, the paper said.

It's not clear what led to the scary scene, but there are numerous examples of leftist protesters caught on video harassing and terrorizing restaurant patrons at their tables in the name of their causes — such as one infamous clip of a cowardly mob surrounding and chanting at a lone individual in Washington, D.C., in August 2020.

But the armed restaurant patron in Louisville wasn't about to let anything like that happen to him. The white-haired gentleman simply pointed his small handgun at the protesters, who hollered and made gestures — but dared not get anywhere near him.

One of the protesters was heard hollering at the man, "You're not the only one with a gun!" Indeed, a pair of men armed with rifles and handguns who appeared to be acting as security for the protesters were seen facing down the white-haired patron and arguing with him.

The paper said other protesters told the group to keep moving, and a few minutes later several Louisville police cruisers pulled up in front of the restaurant. The Courier-Journal didn't indicate if any arrests were made. The video ends with the white-haired man and another man being led inside the restaurant as the more heavily armed men watch them leave the scene.

Antifa militants gang up on Trump fans, pummel women to ground — but pro-Trump group responds by singing national anthem


On the Saturday after numerous media outlets declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election, a large group of Donald Trump supporters faced off against Antifa militants in Olympia, Washington.

Trump backers lined streets and even gathered on the steps of the state Capitol to wave American and pro-Trump flags and chant "back the blue!" — a pro-police rallying cry. And while chants of "USA! USA! USA!" rang out, black-clad Antifa militants managed several cries of "f*** the USA!" and "f*** America" and stomped on Old Glory. The pro-Trump crowd also told them off with chants of "get a job!" and "f*** Antifa!"

Soon the verbal war of words turned violent, as a brawl ensued between the groups and police responded with a flash-bang and what appeared to be rounds of non-lethal munitions. One witness mentioned that Antifa militants were "attacking two women," and then a man bleeding from his eyebrow — presumably a Trump supporter — confirmed that Antifa attacked him as well. In another clip, two pro-Trump women described the Antifa attack. One said she was punched from behind as a leftist militant tried to steal her pro-Trump flag, and the second woman said a gang of Antifa thugs jumped her.

But soon a distinct sound was heard in the background. It was singing. A bit off-key, a tad ragged — but singing nonetheless. It was the national anthem. That's right. The pro-Trump crowd answered the cowardice and destruction that have become Antifa's trademark with a statement of hard-won freedom and liberty — even for the likes of those who would rather stomp all over it.

'Shoot me!' Woman gets in face of armed punk who demands her keys, tells him 'No!' and actually dares him to pull the trigger


A Washington, D.C., woman was caught on surveillance video standing up to an armed would-be robber who demanded her keys Aug. 23, 2022, flatly telling him "No!" and daring him to pull the trigger.

"Shoot me!" she commanded the masked gunman.

He eventually left the scene without firing a shot, and Iris Bond Gill told WTTG-TV all about her harrowing ordeal.

She parked her vehicle just after 3:20 p.m. and was standing on 10th Street NE looking through her purse when the hooded suspect approached her. Clearly startled, Bond Gill screamed at the sight of the armed male, throwing her dark bag and dropping her red purse on the street before putting her hands up. But an instant later, Bond Gill got downright confrontational, hollering "What the f***!" and walking toward the gunman.

She told WTTG the would-be crook called her an expletive, ordered her to turn over her keys, and insisted, "I’ll shoot you." But Bond Gill is heard on the clip defiantly telling the crook, "No!" and adding a challenge while staring him down in the street: "Shoot me!"

Soon the suspect backs up and begins to move away as Bond Gill claps her hands and appears to holler at the gunman. He then moves toward Bond Gill again, points at her, and even raises his gun at her, apparently pretending to shoot as she flinches. But Bond Gill won the standoff, and the crook took off for good.

You can view a video report here about the incident.

"I’ve seen the video, and to be honest, I saw a young man in front of me [like] a lot of young people I’ve worked with over the years," Bond Gill explained to the station, noting she's worked in the education field for a long time. "And in some way, I think I went into almost a chastising mode with him as well."

She added to WTTG that she's not encouraging others to react the way she did, only emphasizing that it was her gut reaction, and she believes in trusting your gut: "You know, it’s really complicated to think about now. I don’t exactly remember, but I know — I knew I was in danger. And so I just threw off my bag and just prepared to be confrontational."

When WTTG asked Bond Gill what she hopes people will take away from her scary encounter, she replied, "We need stronger communities. You see the suspect back away when a car comes, but no one stopped to help or was really able to intervene."

"I think there’s power in community in many ways, and I think one, you know, we can advocate for more lights and more cameras and certainly community policing is a part of that and boots on the ground. But it was actually a camera in someone’s house. And it was a car that drove by, that was not driven by anyone official — but just an individual that sort of scared him off," she explained to the station. "Gone are the days of having older neighbors that sat on the porch all day and watched and waved to you when you got home from work. I think in some ways, trying to think about how to preserve this intergenerational neighborhood is so valuable. We’ve lost so much of that in the city with massive displacement. So I think just having more people around that know each other and that support each other would be really helpful."

Bond Gill also told WTTG she hopes others remember the importance of situational awareness, adding that she was distracted while rummaging through her purse when the suspect approached. D.C. police told the station no arrests have been made.

Delta Airlines employee stands up to transgender bully causing scene at airport gate over pronouns: 'I'll have Port Authority escort you out of the building if you want to play that game with me'


A Delta Airlines employee went viral over the 2023 Christmas holiday for standing up to a transgender activist who was causing a scene for allegedly having been "misgendered."

The video shows transgender actor Tommy Dorfman — a biological man who identifies as a woman — confronting Delta Air Lines gate agents at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Dec. 23. The video doesn't show what happened prior to the confrontation, but the Delta employees are clearly upset that they can't help other customers because Dorfman is causing a scene. Dorfman's grievance was that employees "intentionally" misgendered him by not using female pronouns to refer to him, a charge one of the employees denied.

When Dorfman reiterated his accusation, the primary gate agent stood his ground: "You're being condescending, and if you want to continue, I'll have Port Authority escort you out of the building if you want to play that game with me. Would you like to continue three days before Christmas? I really don't mind."

"I'm good," Dorfman conceded.

The video originally was uploaded to Dorfman's TikTok account but has since been taken down. In his description of the incident, Dorfman accused the Delta employee of a "human rights violation." He said, according to the Washington Examiner:

When you try to advocate for yourself at @delta and are met with even more transphobia and threats of being arrested at LaGuardia. Tristan, the employee, said he was fine with me posting this. Didn't realize it was condescending to flag a human rights violation after another employee misgendered me incessantly.

The Examiner said Dorfman confirmed on TikTok that Port Authority was dispatched over the incident: "The man actually called Port Authority. Two police officers actually showed up ~10 min later and spoke to me and my partner about the incident."

Lone Guardian Angel refuses to back down as Black Lives Matter protesters try to scare him


A lone Guardian Angel was seen on video standing up to multiple Black Lives Matter demonstrators who tried to bully him during BLM's September 2021 protest of Carmine's restaurant in New York City. At least one protester also yelled multiple anti-gay slurs, but the Guardian Angel wasn't about to let that slide, either.

Video caught the moment when a BLM demonstrator wearing a black ski mask accosted the lone Guardian Angel, yelling "suck d**k!" in his ear.

"You don't like gay people?" the Guardian Angel replied to the BLM protester. Fox News said the Guardian Angel was identified as Joshua Penner.

The BLM protester replied, "I love gay people," and said that his brother is gay — but the protester's homophobic language continued: "Suck d**k, bitch!"

Soon others in the crowd begin to move toward Penner and holler at him, but the Guardian Angel kept his cool — and didn't move an inch. In fact, at one point the BLM protesters — one of them on a bullhorn — ordered him to leave, but Penner refused and told the crowd, "I live here."

Amazingly, the BLM protesters backed down and decided to be the ones to clear the area instead. You can view video here of the incident.

"He withstood a lot of verbal abuse and physical threatening," Guardian Angels leader Curtis Sliwa said, according to Fox News, which cited WABC-AM. "He stood there and didn't get sucked into the cursing, finger-pointing, and harassment. All they do is sell wolf tickets in order to fall into their trap." Sliwa added that "they were there to cause trouble — that's all they ever do is cause trouble."

Portland man hospitalized after militant leftists who took over streets ganged up on and severely injured him: 'I stood my ground, and I would do it all over again'


Blaze News readers may recall a terrifying 2021 incident in Portland during which heavily armed leftists surrounded and threatened a lone motorist who soon got fed up and pointed his own gun at them. The following is the rest of the story.

Joseph Hall — a 53-year-old handyman — said he was simply trying to get home after his May 6 workday. However, he was soon involved in an armed standoff with militant leftists who had closed off roads as part of their protests against police brutality. Hall ended up in the hospital with several broken bones and other serious injuries after the black-clad militants beat him up.

A moped allegedly cut off Hall's red pickup truck, and a male with a handheld radio ordered Hall to stop. Hall said another vehicle blocked his path, "and all of a sudden I have three or four people around me." Some members of the group pointed their rifles at Hall.

Hall told the Oregonian how the situation escalated:

Hall said he grabbed hold of a non-lethal handgun that can shoot hard pellets to try to get the people to clear the way and hadn't realized there was a march until people circled his truck. He said he heard a woman outside on a megaphone yelling at the crowd to let him go, but the people continued to block his truck and call him a "Nazi."

"They're screaming and yelling at me, claiming I was out there trying to run people over. That's when I discovered a march was going on," he said. "I was trapped. A vehicle in front of me trapped me in. I couldn't go forward or around."

Hall is seen on video standing outside the driver's seat of his red pickup, his door open, holding the firearm, while a man standing in the street points a rifle at him at North Alberta Street and Michigan Avenue. Hall can be heard yelling: "You have about five seconds to lower that weapon," as others respond that his truck is a weapon.

Hall said he stepped out of his pickup and someone snatched the keys from the truck. When he went around to the back of the truck, he said several people in the crowd remained hostile and pointed handguns and rifles at him. He said he then pulled his .38-caliber pistol from his pants and headed into the fray.

"I'm trained in the military to walk towards the threat and fight your way through the threat," said Hall. He said he served in the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army and has a concealed weapons permit out of Columbia County.

Video shows one of the protesters shoving Hall and another tackling him from behind. Other militants punched, kicked, and held Hall on the ground. Hall's .38-caliber gun popped out of his hand and was stolen, and he added that other firearms and tools were stolen from his truck during the attack.

Hall was taken to a hospital for a partially collapsed left lung, two fractured vertebrae, a broken collarbone, five broken ribs, and head trauma. Despite his injuries, Hall told KPTV-TV, "I stood my ground, and I would do it all over again."

Hall filed a police report for assault and said he would be pursuing bias crime charges based on what the mob was shouting at him.

'Don't you dare start this s**t!' Furious man puts himself in front of left-wing militant mob gathered in front of police during violent protest


A furious lone man was caught on video confronting a large group of left-wing militants gathered in front of police on the night of April 14, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where protests and riots had ensued following the police-involved fatal shooting of Daunte Wright.

Independent journalist Brendan Gutenschwager posted video showing the confrontation, noting that the man "briefly tried taming the line of umbrellas" and stood "between them and police" and was "discouraging agitation" of officers.

It isn't clear who the man is, but it's most definitely clear that leftist protesters toting their umbrellas to hide their identities have inflicted violence upon others in the streets and damaged and destroyed property.

"Don't you dare start this s**t!" he yelled at the group, grabbing one of the umbrellas and pointing his finger through the opening. "Not here tonight! Not here tonight!"

At one point the man's body shook as he clenched his fists and jumped in place while screaming at the mob. One of the militants hollered back at the man that "they're the ones that are starting that s**t!" presumably in reference to police. Another militant who sounded like a female yelled at the man, "Yo! Get the f*** outta here!"

Another militant questioned why the group should be "peaceful" and then screamed at police, "There's no such thing as f***ing peaceful! You f***ing killed from the beginning, bro! F*** you!" The man began trying to engage the latter militant when the clip ended.

Small Texas police department is not about to cave to woke mob complaining about deputy's selfie with Kyle Rittenhouse


A small-town police department in Texas stood its ground amid a social media firestorm that resulted from a selfie one of its deputies took with Kyle Rittenhouse.

On Aug. 11, 2022, the Facebook account of the Thrall Police Department in Williamson County posted a photo of an unidentified deputy with Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of all charges in the shooting deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and the shooting of Gaige Grosskreutz during the 2020 Kenosha riots.

The initial post using a photo of Rittenhouse with the officer read: "Make those stops, you never know who you might meet. Today it was Kyle Rittenhouse, welcome to Texas."

As you might guess, a swarm of critical comments ensued. But instead of backing down, the department doubled down and added the following message to the original post: "I must have missed something, I believed that this young man was arrested, charged, indicted, and then found not guilty by a jury of his peers. Is this not how our country works anymore? The hate in these comments is terrible; if you have information that is contrary to that I would honestly love to hear it." It's unclear how the unnamed deputy and Rittenhouse met.

New York restauranteur stands up to Democrat politicians over vaccine mandate — then dares Gov. Kathy Hochul to arrest him


Stratis Morfogen, owner of several popular New York City restaurants, refused to comply with the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandates in January 2022 — and even challenged Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to arrest him over his resistance.

Speaking with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Morfogen said he wouldn't fire any employees over politician-enacted vaccine mandates: "I'm not doing the mandate, and I told Gov. Hochul to come and arrest me."

He added, "I'm not doing it because, first of all, the employees we have, these were our heroes. In the early part of COVID, we fed 8,400 health care workers. I'm not firing these people for a jab, for a job."

Morfogen also said "none of this makes sense" and that a fully vaccinated person who possesses a legitimate COVID-19 vaccination card is a "superspreader ... because I can have a vax card, I can be asymptomatic-positive, and I can walk into my crowded restaurant ... and I can spread it to everyone!"

You can view a video here of the interview.

BONUS: Nevada women's volleyball captain doubles down on team's refusal to play transgender opponent: 'The vast majority of us decided that this isn't right ... we need to protect women's sports'


The captain of the University of Nevada women's volleyball team told Blaze News in an October exclusive interview that she's disappointed her school decided not to support the team's decision to forfeit a game against a squad with a transgender player.

"Unfortunately our university decided not to back us, and they decided they're going to have the match as scheduled," Nevada Wolf Pack captain Sia Liilii said.

As Blaze News previously reported, the women's volleyball team at San Jose State University features 6'1" male athlete Blaire Fleming, born Brayden. Fleming's presence on the SJSU squad has been the unofficial reason behind a number of opponent forfeitures, including by teams at Boise State, Southern Utah, Utah State, and Wyoming. Even Fleming's own teammate has spoken out about the unfair advantage the male athlete has over female players.

Nevada was next in line to withdraw from a match against SJSU after the Wolf Pack players released a statement announcing their refusal to participate in a match that would jeopardize their safety. However, school officials decided to override the will of the players and declare that the match against SJSU would proceed as scheduled. The University of Nevada claimed the players made their decision and statement "independently" and "without consultation with the University or the athletic department."

However, Liilii said she and her teammates tried to go through the proper channels and inform school administrators how they felt, but the university still decided to push forward with the scheduled match: "The vast majority of us decided that this isn't right, [that] we need to protect women's sports, and we're going to forfeit."

She added, "To know that the university didn't acknowledge the fact that we're the team that is going to play against [Fleming] was really frustrating, and the way they went about it was not OK."

Liilii said administrators later scheduled a meeting with the team to apologize and let players know the school would not be punishing them if they choose to sit out against SJSU — and she believed the school was finding a way to distance itself from the players' stance while still following state and NCAA rules surrounding gender diversity.

Soon after Liilii spoke to Blaze News, the San Jose State-Nevada women's volleyball game scheduled for Oct. 26 was moved to California "in the best interest of both programs and the well-being of the student-athletes, coaches, athletic staff and spectators," the University of Nevada said.

Then just one day before the game, Nevada officials finally announced a forfeit "due to not having enough players to compete," the school reportedly said.

"This is what bravery looks like, this is what leadership looks like," women's sports advocate Riley Gaines stated in a news conference coinciding with the game's scheduled start. "Certainly more bravery and leadership than the people who are supposed to be protecting them have shown."

Gaines then introduced Liilii, who received a standing ovation upon taking the podium and was brought to tears as she prepared to deliver her remarks: "I never expected to be blindsided ... having to compete against a male athlete. When the news broke, I was stunned, as many of my teammates were. This is not what we signed up for."

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This doctor warned against child transition — now the DOJ is ruining his life



Former Texas Children’s Hospital surgeon and whistleblower Eithan Haim is facing massive legal challenges after exposing the hospital for secretly providing “gender-affirming care” to minors.

Now, his wife, Andrea Haim, is speaking out on his behalf since Eithan is under a “defacto gag order,” or a “non-gag gag order.”

“The largest children’s hospital in the world was lying to the public about the existence of its transgender program for children. As a result of his whistleblowing, the Texas legislature passed FB14, which was the law banning transgender care for minors in the state of Texas,” Haim tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.”

Eithan has been indicted on four felony counts for what Andrea calls “completely made-up and baseless violations of HIPAA,” which they’ve been fighting since June 2023.


“Some of his colleagues had told him that they were implanting puberty-blocking devices into children as young as 11 years old,” Andrea explains, adding, “The fact that they were doing it on kids who claimed to have gender dysphoria was really surprising.”

“We started to look into it further, and the first thing I did was Google Texas Children’s transgender program. It didn’t exist on the internet,” she continues. “The only thing that you could see was a statement from March of 2022, in which Texas Children’s Hospital stated unequivocally that they were stopping their program due to a Texas attorney general opinion that these procedures may be considered child abuse under Texas law.”

“But they never admitted that they restarted it. So it was surprising to hear that these procedures were still going on,” she says.

That’s when Andrea took it upon herself to join a Zoom conference in January 2023, which was hosted by the Baylor College of Medical Ethics.

“What we learned is that Texas Children’s had an extensive transgender medicine program. They were implanting puberty blockers, and prescribing puberty blockers on children as young as 11 years old. And they started doing this only three days after they said that they paused or stopped the program,” Andrea explains.

“They had the doctors who were part of this program on there, and those doctors said that they were prescribing puberty blockers to children, they were telling parents that they needed to agree or consent to getting children on puberty blockers,” she continues, noting that the doctors used the line, “Would you rather have a living son or a dead daughter?”

“I think this is one of the most malicious lies that has to do with transgender medicine for children,” she adds.

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Biden's case to BLOCK Tennessee's child sex-change ban EXPLAINED



The Supreme Court spent last week hearing arguments over a Tennessee law that bans doctors from providing transgender puberty blockers or hormone treatments to minors. It’s a logical law that protects against the mutilation of children, but of course, the left is upset that kids won’t be given what it euphemistically calls “gender affirming care.”

Despite being a state-level case, the Biden administration has intervened, apparently deciding that this will be the battle that concludes its disastrous term.

Josh Hammer, senior editor at large for Newsweek, joins Jill Savage and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News Tonight” to discuss the situation.

“Does the Biden administration actually have grounds right now to intervene in a state policy like this?” Jill asks.

Hammer explains that the Department of Justice filed what is called a writ of certiorari — a legal document that requires the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision, granted four SCOTUS judges agree to hear the case.

“This case is styled U.S. vs. Skrmetti, which means that the United States is the lead plaintiff here,” Hammer says. “That actually has a very concrete, practical application when it comes to Donald Trump and JD Vance and Pam Bondi, assuming that she's going to be the AG pick come January 20.”

“They can move to withdraw this case, and specifically, they should make a motion to ... dismiss it as ‘improvidently granted,’” meaning that SCOTUS should never have accepted the case for review in the first place, he adds. “There's no reason why the United States should be in the procedural posture of suing Tennessee for a common sensical, civilizationally sound law.”

However, even if the Trump administration moves to “dig this case” and motion is denied, Hammer predicts the outcome will still be favorable.

“I was pretty happy with the way this argument went,” he says.

Peterson, who also watched the hearing, says that “the discrepancy between the two sides” was “astounding.”

“On the one side, you have the ACLU lawyer claiming that less than 1% of minors who undergo this surgery have regrets, and then you have Tennessee and the attorney general saying, ‘No, no, actually 85% desists from transition,”’ he recounts. “You really do have two sides talking in completely different universes.”

Hammer agrees: “What you saw at SCOTUS on Wednesday, I think, are two diametrically opposed conceptions of the human person. You saw two diametrically opposed conceptions of anthropology — of what it means to be human in the first place.”

“On the one hand, you have the ACLU left-wing argument, which is that human life is basically a pick-your-own adventure. ... On the other hand, you have the old-fashioned view — the view of Genesis 1:27: ‘Male and female, God created them,”’ he adds.

Because of the radically opposed viewpoints, “Neutrality here is just not an option.”

“You actually have to put a thumb on the scale from both a political perspective and indeed from a judicial and a jurisprudential perspective here. At some point, you actually have to say that the moral heart of the issue in this particular case dictates that there is male and female and that we are not going to arbitrarily concoct some sort of pseudo classification based on alleged ‘transgender status,’” says Hammer. “I am hopeful that in the majority opinion, or at least in one of the concurrences there, that we will get some morally forthright language.”

To hear more on the case, including Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson likening transgender surgeries on minors to interracial marriage, watch the clip above.

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