HB2 Redux: Congress gets its own bathroom brawl (11-22-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] We might be on the brink of nuclear war, but I hope everybody has a great weekend planned. I mean, assuming we're all still here, but yeah, we'll get to it. But I want to start with a bit of the, was it history doesn't often repeat, but it rhymes, something like that. History is rhyming. Let's see, 2016.

[00:00:59] Do you remember where you were in 2016? Donald Trump had one election, yes. But prior to that election, the beginning of the year, there was a great hullabaloo here in the Tar Heel State over bathrooms. Who could go in them? Who should regulate them? And whether Charlotte should be allowed to do stuff in their bathrooms and then force other people to come in.

[00:01:30] Who should comply, even if they're located outside of the city limits and that sort of stuff. That's right. I'm talking about HB2. That now infamous bathroom bill that galvanized the donor class to pour millions of dollars into Roy Cooper's election campaign coffers.

[00:01:49] And that really was the point. Looking back on it now, that really was the point. Well, I'm just kidding. I could tell that at the beginning. Roy Cooper was running for governor against Pat McCrory, needed an issue, and this provided one for him.

[00:02:06] And he was able then to make phone calls all around the state, or sorry, all around the country. Well, yes, and also the state. But he was able to whip up a bunch of animus towards his state and get the donor money flowing.

[00:02:24] And those connections he was then able to milk for his re-election campaign and even through now. That's how the Democrat machine has been able to stay so well funded by outside donors.

[00:02:40] It all started with the bathroom bill. And now Congress is faced with its own bathroom controversy.

[00:02:52] And I am so here for it. All you folks who thought that, oh, those North Carolinians, oh, man, they're such a backwater.

[00:03:01] Oh, look at all the stupid people in North Carolina passing their law about the, why are they so afraid of trans?

[00:03:08] Oh, is Pat McCrory going to be the party police? Like all of that garbage. Here we are.

[00:03:15] People who were in the fight, like myself, eight years ago, 2016, we were saying this is coming everywhere and it has arrived in Congress.

[00:03:30] It has made inroads in businesses and in governments all around America in the interim eight years.

[00:03:40] But now the issue has been foisted upon the Congress because a transgender person has won election and is going to be seated in the next Congress.

[00:04:01] And the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, had to make a decision because the issue was being pushed by his conference, specifically Nancy Mace from South Carolina.

[00:04:16] Who is a survivor of rape, domestic violence and abuse.

[00:04:21] And this is a personal thing for her.

[00:04:24] Now, her critics would point out that she really does love attention as well.

[00:04:28] And she, yeah, she drew attention to herself and this issue.

[00:04:35] Forcing the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, to make a decision.

[00:04:40] And he did.

[00:04:42] He announced a change to the facility rules saying, quote, all single sex facilities in the Capitol and house office buildings, such as restrooms, changing rooms and locker rooms.

[00:05:00] Are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.

[00:05:06] Women deserve women's only spaces.

[00:05:09] This is all because.

[00:05:13] Thus, a person by the name of Sarah McBride, a biological male, is going to be sworn into the 119th Congress on January 3rd.

[00:05:24] McBride is the first openly transgender member of Congress.

[00:05:29] And to McBride's credit, I will say.

[00:05:33] McBride has agreed to follow the updated rules.

[00:05:38] Now, something to keep in mind here also is, according to Speaker Johnson, don't make the jokes.

[00:05:50] Okay.

[00:05:50] It is important to note that each member's office has its own private restroom.

[00:05:59] So, all of the members of Congress have their own offices and every office has its own bathroom.

[00:06:05] There are also unisex restrooms available throughout the Capitol.

[00:06:12] So, maybe that's why McBride agreed.

[00:06:15] But see, this is the issue.

[00:06:18] And it has always been the issue.

[00:06:20] And anytime anybody has tried to discuss this issue, they get shouted down with accusations of phobia.

[00:06:31] Transphobia.

[00:06:32] You're a bigot.

[00:06:33] You're a hater.

[00:06:35] You're prejudiced.

[00:06:36] Whatever.

[00:06:36] And they are accused of being radical, being reactionary.

[00:06:46] When, in fact, the true radical position is to upend the norm.

[00:06:53] Right?

[00:06:53] Like, by definition, that's what the radical approach would mean.

[00:07:00] It's that there has been this norm in place, this standard has been in place for, I think, ever since, ever since, like, public restrooms were a thing.

[00:07:12] They, they've been making them for men and for women.

[00:07:16] They've been segregating the sexes.

[00:07:18] And why is that?

[00:07:21] Why is that?

[00:07:24] For privacy purposes.

[00:07:26] It's pretty straightforward.

[00:07:27] It has been universally recognized throughout, really, all the world.

[00:07:33] When you are building a building and you're putting in some bathrooms, you put in men's rooms and women's rooms.

[00:07:42] And for, I guess, the entire, almost the entire history of sex-segregated bathrooms, if I were in the bathroom as a dude,

[00:07:55] I'm in the men's room, and somebody comes in and they look like a dude, I do what all dudes do, which is, you don't make eye contact, don't talk to them,

[00:08:06] and you just go far away into the, you know, the opposite end of the urinal.

[00:08:10] You do not walk right up to the, you don't talk to people.

[00:08:13] Unless, like, something is happening, like the guy dropped his phone.

[00:08:17] Oh, hey, you left your phone on the sink counter, which is pretty gross.

[00:08:21] But, like, you don't talk to each other.

[00:08:23] I don't think I've ever, I don't even know if I've ever said anything to any dude in a bathroom ever in my life.

[00:08:30] Dudes just don't do that.

[00:08:32] Women make excursions to the bathroom together, specifically to talk in the bathroom.

[00:08:40] I don't get it.

[00:08:41] I think that's where they maybe connect to the mothership or something, but I'm not sure.

[00:08:48] So changing the norm is the radical position here.

[00:08:51] It always has been.

[00:08:54] Reacting to that change in an effort to preserve the norm is not the radical position.

[00:09:02] Yet, this is the narrative completely inverted that we have been subjected to.

[00:09:07] This is a form of gaslighting.

[00:09:10] And throughout all of the history, when somebody would walk in, if they looked like a dude, most dudes don't pay them any attention.

[00:09:17] Doesn't matter.

[00:09:17] So if that was a trans person walking in, looking like a dude, nobody would care.

[00:09:22] In fact, if a woman walked in, most dudes wouldn't care either.

[00:09:28] Half of them wouldn't even probably recognize that a woman was in the restroom with them.

[00:09:33] They would just assume, oh, she's in here because the line to the women's room is so long.

[00:09:38] Right?

[00:09:39] That happens.

[00:09:41] Dudes don't care.

[00:09:44] But on the other side, women do.

[00:09:50] Women do care.

[00:09:51] And why is that?

[00:09:53] Because a woman's room is not just about privacy.

[00:10:00] It's also about security.

[00:10:02] Right?

[00:10:05] And this isn't to say that all trans people are attacking.

[00:10:08] I'm like, oh, Pete, you're accusing all trans people of attacking people and being sex predators and all this other stuff.

[00:10:15] Not saying that.

[00:10:16] That's another way that the argument is escaped.

[00:10:24] It's another way that the left uses language to try to shut you up.

[00:10:29] Because if you're going to have a discussion about the topic on the merits of the proposals, then they're in a weaker position.

[00:10:39] So if I can just stop that discussion from occurring by calling you names, putting you on your heels, and then you're trying to argue, no, no, no, I'm not this thing that you accuse me of.

[00:10:49] Well, now you're not talking about the issue.

[00:10:51] And that's the point.

[00:10:53] It's always been the point.

[00:10:56] There are conflicting privacy issues.

[00:11:01] There are.

[00:11:03] And for most of our history, I would submit that when people would walk in, when trans people would walk into a restroom, most folks would sort of like, oh, I must stink.

[00:11:18] That must be tough.

[00:11:20] They'll show pity or empathy or sympathy.

[00:11:24] And it's not anything other than that.

[00:11:27] It was like, okay, well, you know, fine.

[00:11:29] Go ahead.

[00:11:30] That's the way most people reacted in the past.

[00:11:34] But now it is something else.

[00:11:36] See, because once you tear down the infrastructure of privacy and security around the women's room, now, the restrooms, now you have the opportunity for bad actors to exploit that torn down.

[00:11:54] Infrastructure.

[00:11:56] Once again, a ramification of the blowing above the norms.

[00:12:00] This is the thing that gets me about the radical left and their constant march through the institutions.

[00:12:04] It's just a destructive, parasitic force.

[00:12:07] It tears everything apart.

[00:12:09] It says, oh, that's the norm, so it must be dismantled because whatever reason, some sort of supremacy or oppression, you rip it all apart.

[00:12:16] And then what do you replace it with?

[00:12:19] Is that superior?

[00:12:20] See, that's really the question.

[00:12:22] Is what you are proposing a superior, a better infrastructure?

[00:12:28] A better institution?

[00:12:30] A better framework?

[00:12:31] Is it?

[00:12:32] No.

[00:12:32] It's absolutely not.

[00:12:36] So, yes, I am here for this fight.

[00:12:39] Absolutely.

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[00:13:44] Talking about this rule change up in Congress that you will use, members of the legislature will use the bathrooms of their biological sex.

[00:13:57] There are also unisex bathrooms, and there are bathrooms in all of the congressional members' offices.

[00:14:06] So Nancy Mace, congresswoman from South Carolina, described herself as a feminist fighting for women's rights.

[00:14:15] Those on both sides of the political aisle may scoff at this, but she's not wrong, says Kimberly Ross, a contributing writer at the Washington Examiner.

[00:14:23] She says,

[00:14:53] Hey, Pete.

[00:14:54] Hey.

[00:14:55] For the show, I was just trying to add to that.

[00:14:57] It's like the whole liberal left, and it's not even privacy that the issue is, like booking all the norms, even modesty.

[00:15:03] I had just in the last week, and I don't know these people's political affiliation, but you could probably, you know, you could gamble on it and say they're probably liberal.

[00:15:11] But they, I was at Walmart, and it was a lesbian couple.

[00:15:15] One had taken a masculine role, looked more male, masculine in the way they dressed than the female.

[00:15:21] But she was breastfeeding an infant.

[00:15:23] And I'm not against breastfeeding.

[00:15:25] I'm all for breastfeeding.

[00:15:26] My child was breastfed as well.

[00:15:28] It's healthy.

[00:15:29] I'm all for it.

[00:15:30] But she was standing up the checkout line with her breast completely exposed and feeding her child, not covered up with a blanket or anything like that.

[00:15:38] And I understand that when a toddler gets to a certain age, they don't want their head covered.

[00:15:41] This was an infant.

[00:15:42] They were not at an age where they could remove a blanket.

[00:15:44] You know, you're five minutes from your vehicle, yet you're okay exposing your breast.

[00:15:49] I don't know any man that would, well, any red-blooded man that would allow their wife to expose their breast in a Walmart just to anybody.

[00:15:57] But, like I said, it's just going against all the trends of modesty, privacy, all that.

[00:16:03] It's just like, what can we do to bust the trend?

[00:16:06] And I don't think we can get away with it.

[00:16:07] I mean, like I said, they were raising an infant.

[00:16:10] You just got another generation to come up that's going to believe the same way they believe and think it's okay to do whatever.

[00:16:15] Well, not necessarily.

[00:16:17] You know, kids oftentimes rebel against their parents and all.

[00:16:19] So, you know, I don't know if that's hard and fast there.

[00:16:23] But, Jonathan, I appreciate the call.

[00:16:25] And that's, I mean, the breastfeeding in public issue is like, I mean, that's a whole, I've been down that rabbit hole.

[00:16:30] Like, oh, my gosh.

[00:16:31] Like, you get in, there are activists and there are, I mean, people break all sorts of ways on that one.

[00:16:37] I would agree in that there is inherent in leftism is transgression.

[00:16:48] I'm not talking about transgender people.

[00:16:50] I'm saying transgression.

[00:16:51] It is combativeness.

[00:16:54] It is aggression towards the norms, towards institutions, towards status quo.

[00:17:00] It is inherently transgressive.

[00:17:03] The whole point of leftism is the revolution.

[00:17:09] And the revolution never ends.

[00:17:11] The fight never ends.

[00:17:13] They just find new targets.

[00:17:16] It is a parasitic religion or ideology rooted in jealousy and envy.

[00:17:24] And when it sees things that have been working and people don't question because, I mean, think about these, a lot of these norms were developed for reasons.

[00:17:35] Some of them may not be great.

[00:17:37] Some of them might be great.

[00:17:39] You should, I don't know, examine those reasons before trying to tear everything down.

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[00:18:15] So a couple of things from the Daily Mail report on Congress person elect Sarah McBride, who blasted Republicans over this proposal that McBride not be allowed to use whatever bathroom he wants and.

[00:18:35] Said that they're using all of this as a distraction tactic.

[00:18:40] Right.

[00:18:41] Don't be distracted by this latest front in the culture war that you care about.

[00:18:47] And I opened up.

[00:18:50] This is by the way, whenever you are in a discussion about this topic with somebody.

[00:18:56] Try to see how long they can go without ascribing a motive to you.

[00:19:05] It is it is it is you.

[00:19:07] It is the convenient and usual escape hatch.

[00:19:12] That people pull.

[00:19:14] They ascribe a motive to their opponent.

[00:19:19] Don't do that in a debate with somebody.

[00:19:22] You don't have to do that.

[00:19:23] Just talk about the merits of the proposal.

[00:19:25] The merits of the policy.

[00:19:28] And what all of this stuff on the bathroom access comes down to is conflicting privacy interests.

[00:19:35] Okay.

[00:19:36] Okay.

[00:19:37] Or do you want to call it, you know, feeling comfortable.

[00:19:41] Security.

[00:19:42] Right.

[00:19:42] These are the conflicting interests.

[00:19:47] And do you have a right.

[00:19:48] And I know it's not like a constitutional right.

[00:19:51] But do you have a right to be comfortable in a restroom.

[00:19:57] And again, this applies more so to females than to males.

[00:20:01] And this is based on at the root and understanding that men and women are different.

[00:20:08] Men and women are different.

[00:20:11] And they're different in many, many ways.

[00:20:13] But as, you know, members of the opposite sex, they are different from each other in profound ways.

[00:20:23] While I understand, like, a person who is born a female looks like a male would be uncomfortable going into a female restroom because they would make other women feel uncomfortable.

[00:20:36] Right.

[00:20:37] Much like a male going into a female restroom would also make them feel uncomfortable.

[00:20:45] So I understand, like, this level of comfort is what is intention here.

[00:20:51] And who do you accommodate and how do you do it?

[00:20:55] These are the merits of the proposals.

[00:20:59] Way back in 2016 when North, you see, I keep all of this stuff.

[00:21:03] I, like, I literally have a stack of, like, I have the original right here in my, in my hands here.

[00:21:12] My formerly nicotine stained fingers.

[00:21:15] House Bill 2.

[00:21:16] I kept it.

[00:21:17] I have the actual legislation.

[00:21:19] I've got the Charlotte city ordinance.

[00:21:22] I have a mountain of the news stories and the press releases.

[00:21:28] And this is, by the way, I had, like, four file folders packed with this stuff.

[00:21:32] And over the years, I have, you know, weaned it down or not weaned it down.

[00:21:39] I guess.

[00:21:39] Well, yeah.

[00:21:40] No, not really.

[00:21:42] I culled it.

[00:21:43] So it's down to a single folder now.

[00:21:47] But so much of journalism is actually keeping track of the historical record, right?

[00:21:51] Understanding the context and how you got to a certain place.

[00:21:55] Not that I am a journalist.

[00:21:57] I'm not claiming to be a journalist.

[00:21:58] I am a radio talk show host.

[00:22:00] But I used to be a reporter.

[00:22:01] So I adopted.

[00:22:02] I just kept a lot of those same strategies, if you will.

[00:22:06] But eight years ago, there was a piece written by, I believe his name is Gregory.

[00:22:13] Yeah.

[00:22:13] Gregory Wallace teaches constitutional law at Campbell University in Raleigh.

[00:22:21] And he wrote at the time, why does North Carolina necessarily show animus towards transgender persons if the state legislature decides that it can't give them everything they want?

[00:22:36] Unfortunately, privacy rights in multi-occupancy bathrooms, showers and locker rooms are a zero sum game.

[00:22:47] Whatever one side gains, the other loses.

[00:22:51] Will transgender persons have legitimate privacy concerns?

[00:22:56] Oh, sorry.

[00:22:56] While transgender persons have legitimate privacy concerns, so do non-transgender persons who will be required to disrobe,

[00:23:05] shower and perform personal bodily functions in the presence of those with intimate body parts different from their own.

[00:23:15] The reason we have separate sex specific bathrooms and locker rooms is because men and women have different bodies.

[00:23:24] And we want to protect privacy related to our bodies, not to our gender identities.

[00:23:31] Please.

[00:23:31] Transgender advocates have not explained why North Carolina is constitutionally required to balance its citizens' privacy interests in favor of permitting transgender people access to the bathroom or locker room of their choice.

[00:23:47] Right?

[00:23:48] Why are they getting the default decision?

[00:23:53] Right?

[00:23:54] I talk about this in terms of the old playground rules in baseball.

[00:23:58] Tie goes to the runner.

[00:23:59] Because you don't have umpires.

[00:24:00] You don't have refs on the, you know, on the sandlot.

[00:24:03] And so you just come up with this rule we did as kids where if it was a tie, then the runner gets it because it's too close to call.

[00:24:10] Tie goes to the runner.

[00:24:11] And in this case, the left is always the runner.

[00:24:15] Why do you automatically get it your way when there are so few versus the many?

[00:24:23] Designating public bathrooms and similar facilities based on biological sex but accommodating transgender persons by creating, say, single occupancy or controlled use facilities seems like a sensible compromise.

[00:24:39] Right?

[00:24:40] A compromise that would balance everybody's privacy concerns.

[00:24:44] But no.

[00:24:45] Transgender persons, at least the two plaintiffs that filed suit against North Carolina, do not want to use single occupancy bathrooms because they say it stigmatizes them.

[00:24:58] Even though other people use single occupancy bathrooms because it better suits their privacy preferences and they don't feel stigmatized.

[00:25:06] This brings us back to the question.

[00:25:08] If the North Carolina legislature, because of privacy and safety concerns, wants to preempt local ordinances granting transgender persons access to the bathrooms of their choice, why is that necessarily targeting?

[00:25:23] Why would that be motivated by animus rather than a permissible balancing of conflicting privacy interests?

[00:25:32] Right?

[00:25:33] It is a zero-sum game.

[00:25:35] One will lose and one will win.

[00:25:38] And one is demanding that they always win.

[00:25:42] And by the way, a win is a shattering of the norms.

[00:25:47] But also, right, it ignores the very real security risks that are increased when you open up these, quote, safe spaces to predators who are more likely to be hidden.

[00:26:04] Right?

[00:26:05] Right?

[00:26:05] They're less likely to stand out.

[00:26:07] Because now you can't say, hey, what are you doing in this restroom?

[00:26:11] Right?

[00:26:12] When you normalize that kind of a thing, then people's guard drops.

[00:26:17] People aren't as suspicious.

[00:26:18] You see me as I currently present.

[00:26:22] Right?

[00:26:22] I present as a dude.

[00:26:24] Right?

[00:26:25] I got facial hair.

[00:26:26] And if I were to just follow your spouse or daughter into their bathroom, there should be warning bells going off.

[00:26:33] Why is that guy following my daughter, 12-year-old daughter, into the bathroom?

[00:26:39] Right?

[00:26:40] That should send a signal that something is amiss.

[00:26:44] That is how a high-trust society self-polices.

[00:26:50] We are all the potty police.

[00:26:54] We are all the potty police, people.

[00:26:58] The PPP, as I call it.

[00:27:00] Let's go to the phones and talk with Craig.

[00:27:02] Hello, Craig.

[00:27:03] How are you?

[00:27:04] Hey, Pete.

[00:27:05] How are you doing today?

[00:27:05] I'm all right, sir.

[00:27:06] What's up?

[00:27:08] I think these women don't understand what they're in for when they start letting men use their bathrooms.

[00:27:13] I mean, you know as a man that men's bathrooms are filthy.

[00:27:17] If you try to go drop trowel in one, you usually got to clean up all the urine in front of the toilet and on the seat before you can even put your pants down or your pants get soaked in urine.

[00:27:26] So I think once they start trying to avoid that.

[00:27:29] I try to avoid that.

[00:27:30] Yeah, I mean, so do we all do.

[00:27:32] But, you know, sometimes you got to go.

[00:27:36] And they're horribly smelly.

[00:27:38] They don't get cleaned as often as women's bathrooms.

[00:27:40] They're not taken care of as well just by the people who use them.

[00:27:43] It's just a man's nature.

[00:27:44] And we don't have candles in ours.

[00:27:46] No, we don't have candles.

[00:27:47] We don't have flowers.

[00:27:48] Yeah, so true story here in the building down the hall because we share a building with WBTV, the television station.

[00:27:55] And over on their side of the building is two different restrooms.

[00:27:58] I haven't checked the signs yet to see.

[00:28:00] Are we allowed to go?

[00:28:01] Anyway, the women's room has like a little foyer.

[00:28:04] It's got like a little lobby area to it.

[00:28:06] And it has a little couch in there.

[00:28:09] And I heard the guys over on our sister station, WFNZ, talking about this one day.

[00:28:14] And they were like, yeah, how come we don't have a couch in our bathroom?

[00:28:18] And the other guy said, well, if we did, would you actually sit on that couch?

[00:28:24] No, I would not.

[00:28:25] I would definitely not sit on that couch in a men's bathroom either.

[00:28:28] So, yeah, to your point, yeah, they are kind of nasty.

[00:28:30] Although I do remember seeing a story a long time ago that said, like, if you're looking at just bacteria and stuff, like at the microscopic level, women come in contact with way more than men.

[00:28:45] That's weird.

[00:28:45] I would have never guessed it.

[00:28:46] Right, but think about it.

[00:28:47] I can get in and out of a bathroom without touching anything.

[00:28:52] Right?

[00:28:53] True.

[00:28:53] I don't have to touch a single item in that room if it's really nasty.

[00:29:00] Good point.

[00:29:01] So I don't know.

[00:29:03] Maybe that's part of it.

[00:29:04] I don't know.

[00:29:05] Yeah.

[00:29:05] Well, they're going to have an awakening the hard way when they go to drop their britches and there's a nice puddle on the floor in front of them.

[00:29:12] Mm-hmm.

[00:29:13] Yeah.

[00:29:13] Well, that's fair.

[00:29:14] Craig, I appreciate the call, sir.

[00:29:15] Have a good weekend.

[00:29:19] The House Speaker, Mike Johnson, no pun intended, pointed out that all of the members of Congress have their own restrooms.

[00:29:30] In their own offices.

[00:29:31] Also, Ed Morrissey points out at HotAir.com that the Capitol has already made a rather generous concession on unisex bathrooms.

[00:29:40] Anybody who wants to voluntarily participate in the Identity Circus can join McBride in one of those unisex restrooms.

[00:29:50] While women who wish to use facilities designated for their biological sex can do so without intrusion.

[00:29:56] McBride can use those facilities or the restroom in his designated office otherwise.

[00:30:02] Why would McBride and Democrats insist on intruding in spaces that are set aside for the opposite sex in the first place?

[00:30:09] Well, I think the answer is...

[00:30:12] Affirm me, bigot!

[00:30:13] I think that's the answer.

[00:30:16] It is a demand.

[00:30:19] It is a demand upon you to bend the knee.

[00:30:23] Right?

[00:30:24] To say a thing or to agree to a thing with which you disagree.

[00:30:29] It is, at its core, a demand that you reject truth.

[00:30:36] Right?

[00:30:37] A demand that you reject truth.

[00:30:40] That you're supposed to treat this person in the way that they demand to be treated for whatever reason.

[00:30:47] And by the way, here's the problem.

[00:30:49] Nobody knows whether somebody actually is or is not identifying as a male or a female.

[00:30:55] Nobody knows.

[00:30:56] The only person that knows is that person.

[00:31:00] So you just gotta trust them.

[00:31:02] Democrats have accused Nancy Mace and Republicans for picking this fight.

[00:31:07] But Morrissey says that inverts the issue.

[00:31:10] We have had public restrooms restricted to biological sex for good and obvious reasons for the entirety of public restroom history.

[00:31:18] Until the transgender movement demanded access on the basis of individual feelings a few years ago.

[00:31:23] Why did they demand that access?

[00:31:26] Well, they wanted it to undermine the very basis of biological science and to provoke these very kinds of arguments.

[00:31:33] That's why I said earlier.

[00:31:34] It's transgressive.

[00:31:36] Leftism is transgressive.

[00:31:38] It transgresses against you.

[00:31:42] McBride could simply use the men's restroom.

[00:31:44] But instead, Democrats demand access to women's spaces for sheer political intimidation and nothing more.

[00:31:52] Well, America, he says, has had enough of these absurd and radical impositions on their lives.

[00:31:59] Voters have made that plain enough, even if Democrats still haven't gotten the message.

[00:32:04] The idea that Congress should throw out millennia of common sense without preserving the dignity of biological or about preserving the dignity of biological men and women because one member has the feels is so obviously absurd that it could only be missed by progressives.

[00:32:19] Now, I did hear on the way over here, the NPR affiliate in town, their national public radio program that they were running.

[00:32:29] You know what they warned about?

[00:32:32] Republicans better be careful not to overreach on this issue.

[00:32:36] Always.

[00:32:37] That's always what they we're just giving you some heads up, some friendly advice because we want you to succeed.

[00:32:41] You probably don't want to overreach on this.

[00:32:45] So, in other words, shut up.

[00:32:47] All right.

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