WEBVTT - Texas Bans Vaccine Mandates 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.720 Team. Welcome to the Freedom Hunt Tuesday edition of The 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.680 Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate you being here with me. We 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:14.440 have the Gruten resignation from the NFL, the continued Southwest 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:19.320 Airlines debacle. Is it about a protest or is it 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:23.200 just logistics issues? Oh well, we'll get into all of that. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.920 And we've also got a story out of Virginia and 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.040 had to to the Delhi Wire forward about a possible 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:34.839 sexual assault against a young girl covered up because involved 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:39.519 a trans individual who used the trans policy when it 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.519 comes to bathrooms in a school. 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If you listen to this podcast, 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:07.000 you could even say, in general, I don't care very 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.120 much about professional sports. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.679 watching from time to time. But for me, the role 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.080 that professional sports plays in my life would be a 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.160 lot like the role that video games plays in other 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.240 people's lives. It's an enjoyable thing in moderation that you 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.320 don't want to spend too much time doing. That's just 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:27.400 my opinion. But occasionally a story does pop up, a 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:31.480 situation does come about where you have some real crossover 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.600 and you have a broader issue that all of us 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.519 can see is worth understanding and discussing. Here's a situation. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.680 John Gruden, even I knew who this guy was, stepped 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:46.200 down as the Raiders head coach just yesterday after The 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:50.559 New York Times reported that the coach made racist, misogynistic 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:56.359 and homophobic comments at a bunch of different people. So 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.560 this is the emails have been obtained by the New 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.240 York Times. So here's what's going on. There was apparently 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.800 some kind of a an investigation into uh, you know, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:13.600 NFL practices, commentary, behind the scenes, things like that, and 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:18.760 a whole lot of private emails have now been scoured 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.080 over and they've gone into people's hands who were looking 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.720 at this kind of stuff. And there's a it's over 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.720 a seven year period ending in twenty and eighteen. Gruden 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:35.520 was criticizing Goodell, the commissioner, and other people. And here's look. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.040 He said stuff that you know, you shouldn't say. It 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.480 depends on what comment exactly we're talking about here, but 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:46.400 he said things that were unwise, that were not in 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:51.240 good taste. But I would say this as well, this 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.680 notion that all private commentary that that if you had 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:59.520 the if you had access to everything that a person 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.640 had ever written or said that you could still think 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.160 that they would get up, they would get a pass, 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.440 they'd be able to get away from the woke mob 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.440 coming for them. I just think that's absurd. I think 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:17.200 it's not reality. I think everybody needs to understand that 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.279 this is something that if you were to yourself have 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.520 your emails in the hands of somebody looking or your 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:27.160 text messages looking to ruin you or destroy you, there 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.080 would be real problems for you. I mean pretty much 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:34.480 anybody I think says or text or emails something at 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:38.839 some point in time that they don't think would be 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.279 good to have out loud. And look, there are varying 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.960 degrees of bad here, I would say for the things 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.400 that Gruden wrote. But this guy had one hundred million 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.440 dollar contract over ten years to coach the Raiders and 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:59.200 that's now all gone and he has resigned effectively in disgrace, 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:01.960 and it's because of things that he said that he 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:03.920 thought were private that have now come out. Now there's 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.840 a few lessons here, I mean one of them would 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:10.400 be you, really, anytime you text or write anything, you 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.960 should start to think of it as could this end 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.359 up publish somewhere. Even if you're a private person. You 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.040 just don't know. And I know that's it's a difficult 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.560 way to live our lives. It's a difficult way for 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:27.799 us to think about these things. But it's it's safe 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:29.640 practice if you can, if you can do it, if 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.359 you can have that discipline. Clearly mister Gruden did not 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.440 think of it that way. But also I have to wonder, 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.240 so what happens to him now? I mean, these were 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.680 comments that he made privately to individuals who were not 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.839 offended by them. He made comments that were offensive. Is 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:50.840 this policing what an individual privately believes at some level? 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.600 I mean, he wasn't He was writing from a private 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.240 email address, so his emails, as I understand it, got 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:00.480 caught up in this investigation. He was not using company 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:06.880 servers or or using things that somebody would be generally 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.040 in a you know, day to day sense, more careful about. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:15.680 And now he's done. Now he's finished. Because he said 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:20.080 the wrong things. He offended groups that will demand and 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.920 they already have that he be punished severely for this. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.440 I wish we did not live in a country where 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.760 this was the case, where you would lose your job, 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.839 your livelihood because of things that you said that you 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.279 believe were private, that did not actually harm anyone, that 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.480 were not directed at anybody who felt harmed by it, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.840 but that you're just not allowed to use certain language 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.560 or have certain beliefs, even in private, because if it 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:49.000 comes out publicly, you'll be ruined. It's a shame, But 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.479 it does seem like that is where we are as 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.960 a country, and that's the reality that we all face here. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.880 So I am not somebody who cares very much about 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.160 professional sports to bring this full circle as you already no, 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:05.040 but I am someone who feels like we now the 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:10.840 wokeness has just gotten to be a true psychological plague 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.640 in this country, and no one's allowed to No one's 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.760 allowed to say, hey, that was an intemperate moment. That 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.160 was a I said something dumb. I'm sorry, I shouldn't 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.120 have written that that was and everyone goes, Okay, you 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.520 know you're not a bad person. You don't hate such 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.600 and such individual or group of people or whatever. You 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.400 just said something that you were not supposed to say 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.480 and then move on from there. No, now it has 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.560 to be your ruin. You're destroyed forever all right. Now 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:44.760 we have the Southwest Airlines situation. And this is really 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.720 interesting because there have been people who have come out 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.760 and said that there is oh and I should mention 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:55.040 the Texas State Executive Order now from Governor Rabbitt that 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.280 there can be no vaccine mandates of any kind in 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.960 the state of Texas. It's kind of what I was 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.240 trying to advocate for with a different governor a while 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:07.400 ago when there was the conscience opt out that was 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.480 being discussed in the state of South Dakota. But corporate 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.720 interests prevailed there, as they tend to do in that state. 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.080 With that individual. Here we have Governor Abbott stepping up 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.840 and trying to do a little bit more about the situation, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.800 and we'll address that. I'll address that in a second, 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.520 because first we have all these cancelations. Here's a situation. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:30.480 Southwest Airlines, courting The Daily Mail, top executive says operations 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.160 are pretty well back to normal after the company was 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.400 forced to cancel more than twenty three hundred flights over 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.240 the holiday weekend, which it claims was the result of 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:44.440 FAA delay programs in Florida. Southwest CEO Gary Kelly apologized 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.439 to frustrated passengers. He was on Good Morning America. He was, 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.280 He denied the chaost was caused by pilots upset over 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.760 the vaccine mandates. As of nine am Easter Time Tuesday, 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.480 Southwest had canceled eighty seven flights, or two percent of 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.400 its daily operations, and delayed more than two one hundred 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.200 and forty. Federal Aviation Administration acknowledge delays in parts of Florida, 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.720 but pushback against Southwest air Traffic Control explanation it just 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:12.640 but the airline behind on Friday, Kelly said. The FAA 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.200 said Sunday some airlines were experiencing problems because planes and 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:20.360 crews were out of position. So who do we believe here? 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.040 I mean, I find it very hard to believe that 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.000 all of a sudden, one airline has two thousand flights 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.400 canceled in what is it, twenty three hundred flights canceled 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.640 in a forty eight hour period, just because because of 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.920 problems that still don't seem like they're able to be discussed. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:40.480 But if these were pilots who were deciding on their own, 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.600 but in a collective action, right, so this wasn't a 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:47.360 part of the plan. Here wasn't to use the union 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:51.360 because there it's technically illegal, right, you can't actually strike 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.440 if you're a pilot in the union in this way. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.360 So they didn't actually go through that, They didn't go 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.920 through that situation. Instead, they just did it on their own. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.959 Assuming that's true, it would continue. Well, we'll have to 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.560 see what are the possibilities here play this one out. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:13.280 You know that the apparatus of control absolutely does not 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.680 want people to realize that if they push back enough 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:22.480 and effectively enough, there could in fact be an end 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.760 to some of these mandates. That companies won't be able 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.960 to do the bidding of the Biden administration, not without 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.240 paying a price that's too high for them. So they 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.560 want to avoid people coming to that recognition. So what's 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.200 one way to do that, Well, to pretend that that's 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.600 not what's happened here and to say that that was 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.160 never the case, just to lie about it. That's one option, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:43.920 which I know a lot of people on the right believe. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:49.480 Certainly seems like that's a likely scenario. Another option is 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:54.120 that there was a collective direct action here by pilots 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:58.680 and perhaps and others at Southwest Airlines that now has 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:03.160 been nipped in the bud. That now has been shut 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:08.440 down by Southwest executives who went out and reached out 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.760 to you know, the bosses, basically reached out to the 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.720 different pilots and said you're out. One more day, you're gone. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.160 And maybe that I'm just saying, these are the possibilities. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.079 That's certainly possible. And then the third possibility here is 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.680 that somehow this just happened to occur and it is 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.320 just a fluke and it has nothing to do with 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.440 the mandate of actually mandate, and all these pilots just 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.240 happened to be out at the same time on the 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.959 same day or whatever they're saying. It was some some 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.360 issue with air traffic control, which that just doesn't sound 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.880 realistic at all. Why didn't affect all the other flights? 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.320 Then all the other airlines some were having some delays, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:48.120 but this amount of delay. So those are the options 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.120 as I see them, and I find it very hard 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:56.959 to believe that this just occurred. I'm finding it very 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.960 hard to believe that this was just a thing that 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.320 happened and there was nothing to do with a vaccine mandate. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.200 But I do worry that they will crush this. And 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:10.000 then once again the Fauciite incrementalism will feel like it's unstoppable. 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.880 And what we're heading for, and I think you know 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.360 this as well as I do. What we're heading for 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.800 is this winter, there will be a mandate for you 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.080 to fly, a vaccine mandate for you to fly on 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:25.280 domestic flights. And they'll do it right before probably Thanksgiving 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.560 or maybe right before Christmas, because they know that that's 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:29.880 the time of year when a lot of people who 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.560 don't even fly very often will be flying to see 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.520 their families. And they'll say, sorry, you gotta do it. 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.640 That's what the science demands. That's what they'll say. That's 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:43.240 what they'll do. And I think we can all understand 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:48.679 why that's troublesome to say the least, and something we 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.600 should fight back against. But I'm just not really sure 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.480 if we're going to be able to do it effectively enough. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.959 We'll come back to this in a moment. 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Texas 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:17.320 Governor Greg Abbott bans any COVID vaccine mandate including for 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:23.520 private employers. This Texas Tribune banning any entity, including private business, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.920 from requiring vaccination for employees or customers. Abbott also called 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:28.880 on legislature to pass a law at the same effect, 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.840 promising to rescind the executive order once that happened. The 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.840 legislature is in this year's third special legislative session, which 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:39.680 which ends October nineteenth, so he's saying the order mark, 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.520 or rather this piece is saying the order marks a 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:46.760 significant reversal after Abbott previously gave private businesses the choice 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:51.120 to mandate vaccines for workers, so he stepped it up 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.680 in response to the federal government's overreach. He has stepped 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.640 it up and said that he believes this is the 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.960 right the right move, especially given the fact that Biden 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.400 administrations coming for everybody now, at least everybody with over 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:08.680 one hundred employees. If you remember that previous mandate that 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.120 they had and or rather roll out that they had, 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.920 they haven't really instituted it yet. So this will be 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.080 interesting because you do have some people on the right, 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.280 including Dan Crenshaw here, remember a congress former Navy seal, 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:26.280 who don't like the way Abbot is going about this. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.080 Look I hate that we have to play this game. Right, 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.160 this isn't the right way to govern. Go to go 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.680 from mandate to mandate against a mandate, it's not the 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.600 right way to govern. I still generally believe in this 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.720 whole freedom of association principle, where you can associate with 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.720 people you want to associate with as an employer, as 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.680 an employee. But here's the thing. The federal government already 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.920 took that first step, and they're still in the process 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.360 of writing the rule under OSHA that would require businesses 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.320 to vaccinate their employees or have them fired. Right, this 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.800 is an absurd rule. This is such an overreach, it's unconstitutional. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.760 And so these reactions are seeing from the states are well, 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.840 they're a reaction to that overstep in the first place. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:12.360 I think he is accurate, but I would disagree with 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.600 his sense that this is something we have to be 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.960 that we should be concerned when states stand up for 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.120 individual freedom. I actually think that that is a role 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.280 the states should play against the federal government, especially in 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.480 moments of overreach. And this idea, this takes me back 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:32.200 to the conservatism, if you will, the mainstream conservatism of 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:37.800 the nineties and the early two thousands where people would assume, oh, 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.760 we'll just keep the government out of it, and then 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.840 that's the best that's the best outcome. Well, that's not 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.840 how it works. Right now. Anywhere, the government, whether it's 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:49.880 at the state or local or federal level, has all 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.280 kinds of regulations about business, about commerce that are in effect. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.320 So there is no protection of the sacred neutral space 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.320 of commerce that is going on right now. That's a fantasy, right, 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.360 We can't do that because you know, we shouldn't be 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.760 mandating against a mandate. There are all kinds of mandates 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.359 in place. Just look at look at the regulations that 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:13.080 exist even in the state of Texas for businesses to 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.960 operate safely for the taxes that are taken from them 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:22.080 for the licensing there. I could sit here and just 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:27.200 read through thousands of pages probably of different regulations and 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.520 mandates and things that exist that affect businesses right now 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.800 in the state of Texas, in any state. So it's 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:37.240 a question of should a state use its power to 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:43.680 protect individual freedom and autonomy. That's not tyranny, that's protecting freedom. Conservatives, 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.160 I think, or people on the right in general, can 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.720 get this a little bit confused. They think we're protecting 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.960 the sacred neutral space. You see this in the realm 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:56.720 of education as well, where we had thought, oh, we'll 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.840 just teach history, not history that likes America or hates America, 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.119 just teach history. Well, history is not mathematics. There's always 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.160 going to be some narrative, and so you might want 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.879 to be actually involved in understanding what the narrative is 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.040 that children are being taught. You might want to be 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.200 involved in learning what it is that kids are being 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.119 brainwashed with and try to push it away from hating 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:25.600 America toward a fuller better understanding of this country that 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:31.920 understands the blessings and the incredible nation that has been 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:36.000 bequeathed to us by our forefathers. But see, we thought 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:37.720 we could have a neutral space. That's not really a 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.640 thing that exists, and we think we can have a 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.840 totally free market. Maybe if we just avoid government overreach 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:49.320 that is also a thing that does not exist. I tried, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.600 some of you, remember, I tried to get at least 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:58.879 one state to go and start taking affirmative steps, start 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.720 taking action in defense or freedom instead of being passive 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.080 and waiting for the faucy steamroller to crush everybody in 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.800 every state. And what do the federal government do. They 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.240 revvd up the faucy steamroller, just like I said they would. 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.000 And now Governor Abbott has realized this and goes, okay, well, 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.080 let's have a state mandate against the mandate. You might say, well, 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.119 buck the federal government, supremacy clause, all the stuff. Okay, 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.160 let's take it to the courts. But at least then 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:30.080 you're giving some cover for people in that state to 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.160 avoid getting the shots. He friends, time is everything here. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.359 Time is everything. If the shot gets into the arms 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.680 of people who don't want it, that's done. Now they've 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:44.040 bent the NAT they've gotten the shot. So delay is 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:48.000 your friend here. Using the process to protect freedom is 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.280 your friend. At some level, we have to start understanding 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:55.000 tactics because the other side abuses the system for tactical 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.840 advantage all the time. Notice I'm not saying break the system, 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:03.199 but let's use it for our States have tremendous power 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:09.159 over individuals, and when you look at their health, tremendous 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.439 power left to them. Right, the federal government really doesn't. 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.520 But states under quarantine authority and under all kinds of regulations, 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.880 I mean, the states can do a lot of things. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.920 If they choose to and if they choose to protect 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.560 individual freedom from a vaccine, that is a thing to 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.080 be celebrated. It's not a thing to sit around and say, oh, 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.880 but that's too much government. Oh it's it's too much 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.680 government when it comes to defending freedom. But those same people, 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.200 you'll notice, aren't saying, well, we should we should have 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:39.840 you know, no rules about how businesses conduct themselves other 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.240 than just the enforcement of basic contracts with each other. 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.760 No regulations whatsoever about you know, how long people can work, 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.200 or minimum wage or anything else. Right, why don't we 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.760 have minimum wage laws in these states? You might say, oh, buckle, 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.240 that's an infringement. Okay, but I like to live in 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.280 the real world, and the real world you can either 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.720 use power to protect the individuals and they're freedom, or 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:04.800 you can allow the authoritarian left to crush them under 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.200 the Fauci steamroller. That's really where the debate is right now. 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.400 So I think Governor Abbott is doing the right thing, 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:15.280 even if he does get overruled. Now, I want to 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:16.680 tell you about this piece in than Delhi Wire. This 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:20.640 was stunning. Luke Rosiak is the author here Dliwire dot 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:23.080 com and hat tip to Luke Rosiac for this one. 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.320 On June twenty second, Scott Smith was arrested at a 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.560 Loudon County, Virginia school board meeting, a meeting that was 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:34.200 ultimately deemed an unlawful assembly after many attendees vocally opposed 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.919 a policy on transgender students. What people did not know 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.520 is that weeks prior, on May twenty eighth, Smith says 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.320 a boy allegedly wearing a skirt entered a girl's bathroom 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:48.240 at nearby stone Bridge High School, where he sexually assaulted 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:52.840 Smith's ninth grade daughter. Juvenile records are sealed, but Smith's attorney, 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:56.119 Elizabeth Lancaster, told The Daily Wire that a boy was 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:59.320 charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:03.040 anal sonomy, one count of forcible fallatio related to an 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:06.159 incident that day at that school. If someone would have 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.520 sat and listened for thirty seconds to what Scott had said, 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:11.240 they would have been mortified and heartbroken, Scott's attorney said. 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:14.560 As a result of the viral video showing his arret, 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:17.600 Smith became the poster child for the National School Board 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:21.240 Association had since suggested could be a form of domestic terrorism, 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.480 a white blue collar mail who showed up to harangue 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:28.120 obscure public servants on his local school board. If someone 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:29.880 would have sat and listened for thirty seconds, they would 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:31.399 have I read that to a second ago would have 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:34.840 been mortified and heartbroken. Minutes before Smith's arrest, the Loudon 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:38.840 County Public Schools superintendent lectured the public that concerns about 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:42.240 the transgender policy were misplaced because the school system had 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:46.639 no record of any assault occurring in any school bathroom. 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:52.800 And quote, friends, this is what you get with the 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:59.000 woke left. They humiliated his father whose daughter was sexually assaulted. 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:02.159 They humiliated him for trying to speak out about the 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:07.719 sexual assault. And then you had school officials pretending that 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:11.000 there had never been a sexual assault by a trans individual, 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:17.919 a trans teenager, using the policies, using this, you know, 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:23.000 using this trans bathroom situation in order to have easy 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:27.080 access to an assault a young girl. This is what 0:23:27.160 --> 0:23:30.439 wokeness does to people. It corrupts and corrodes their soul. 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:34.040 It destroys their sense of basic morality and decency. The 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:38.600 cause becomes more important than the than the individuals that 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:42.520 are destroyed or harmed by it. You know, they don't 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:45.760 care what the end result is. They care that they 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:48.880 are for any individual, they care what they're getting as 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:52.840