WEBVTT - Thank You, Child. 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.520 I'm strong and Jack Katy and he. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.239 Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.880 This trial is seen as the most significant sign of 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.120 Beijing tightening its control of Hong Kong. 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:30.360 Dozens of pro. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.920 Democracy activists facing conspiracy charges under this national security law 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.080 that was imposed in twenty twenty. All the two of 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:42.120 the forty seven lawmakers and politicians who were arrested back 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.920 in twenty twenty one were convicted today, and the crime, 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.000 according to authorities, was holding or taking part in an 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:49.839 unofficial primary election. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:54.160 That's a report on NBC right from Hong Kong. She 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:54.720 goes on. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:00.080 The law was Beijing's response to those protests and Hong 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.320 Kong in twenty nineteen. The government here saying it was 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:07.399 necessary to stop challenges to China's sovereignty. It's now made 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:12.800 certain slogans a crime, and expressing ideas about politics is dangerous. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.679 Censorship and digital surveillance have also been stepped up. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:19.319 I saw some that's horrifying. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.920 Hong Kong was a basically a freestanding democracy for a 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.880 very very long time, and then China took it over 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.000 and has now turned it into it's just another part 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.920 of China and in the world couldn't do anything about it, 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.000 and that is their goal for Taiwan also, which they 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.440 got that big meeting of all the world leaders going 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.360 down in Rio, and Biden's there, and She's there, and 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:43.440 a whole bunch of other people. 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.959 Oh did you see what's that guy's name, Malay? Is 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.000 he the libertarian from Argentina? 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.760 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:52.920 With the funny hair and all the dogs that he 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.000 clones and everything like that. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.800 Yeah, that's not really relevant to the discussion, but yes, 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:58.280 that's him. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:01:59.640 Did you see him doing the Trump dance? 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.760 I did not funny. Oh that's great, it's funny. 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:09.240 But more importantly, but back to seriously. I saw a 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:10.520 report she and. 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.799 Biden had a conversation, and the US version of it 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:21.919 was they discussed issues. The official Chinese version of it 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.959 was very long and very disturbing about she laying out 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:32.080 to U Joe Biden the United States that Taiwan belongs 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.040 to us and you need to recognize that, and that's happening, 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.360 so back off, basically is what they said. It and 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.800 a whole bunch of other very very belligerent things that 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.160 didn't get reported. Really, I need to nail down whether 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.160 that's true or not, because you can't believe everything you 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:47.919 come across some social media, but. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.160 Not from the Chinese communists. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:55.040 But well even well, them saying that would be a 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.480 big deal, whether she said it to Biden or not. 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.520 Them putting out that the official message to the United States. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.960 I guess, but they've said that a number of times. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.480 I kind of accept that that's their doctrine. 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.960 Tell you what go ahead, not as strongly as they 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:11.840 stated it yesterday. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.720 I'll have to dig that up. I mean, I'm find 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.000 it quite disturbing interesting. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.680 So the sentencing of all of those activists and politicians 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.200 and journalists in Hong Kong, it just reminds me how 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:30.400 incredibly fragile a free system is unless it will defend 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.600 itself by arms. I mean, because Hong Kong was a 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:41.680 robust democracy, very wealthy, very educated, with every interest in 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.960 protecting itself, and it couldn't. It was just it was 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:48.080 bullied into submission and quickly. I'm reminded of one of 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.080 my favorite memes, partly because it's a little snarky, but 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.840 it's also funny. George Washington didn't use his freedom of 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:59.520 speech to beat the British. He shot them. That's the 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:03.560 only way to resist aggression. You can't talk a predator 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.000 out of predating. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.240 I have to look into this after the show as 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.680 trying to confirm that Chinese stuff that I read and 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:13.360 figure out if it was. 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:13.960 Real or not. 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:21.719 This does not get the attention it deserves the rising China. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.320 According to the report that I read, and again, whether 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.120 he said it to Biden or not, whether it's just 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:27.880 stuff being put out by the Chinese, it was a 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.200 It was a lot of language like you're not the 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.440 only nuclear power on Earth and just you know, very 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:39.880 very push pushbacky this means war. Oh, you laid out 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.440 actually laid out four red lines for China that the 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:43.880 US better not cross. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:44.880 That sort of thing. 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:50.880 Yeah, well we'll see braf from the the perspective of 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.840 if we were attacked by Martians, we would all come 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.600 together on Earth. We have been so obsessed with our 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.720 internal divisions. I think that's why most Americans are unaware 0:04:58.760 --> 0:04:59.919 of the threats from abroad. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.000 Yeah, probably so. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.080 Big study that came out today and this was in 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:09.960 the New York Times. China has now surpassed Europe as 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:15.479 the second all time leading polluter on planet Earth. I'm 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.320 not sure how much I care about the historical polluting 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.560 that's gone on, but the climate change people care about 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.839 it a lot because we've polluted more throughout the history 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.600 of the world than any of the country. So we 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.040 owe more money than anybody else to try to fix 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.520 the problem, is what they claim. That's only going to 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.200 be true for a few more years. According to this graph, though, 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.800 so China has now passed Europe on this pretty much 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.560 straight up graph because they just started polluting fairly recently, 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.520 because they were all living in huts and eating. 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.360 Their cats and stuff like that and not a lot 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:48.800 of pollution. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.760 But now they got all the coal fires and electricity 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:56.320 and everything going on, they're polluting like crazy. The country 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.920 has now passed Europe is the second largest all time admitter, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.000 shifting the debate about who pays for global warming. According 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.680 to the New York Times, projections show that China may 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.960 catch up with the United States in just a few years. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.839 China's soaring emissions are upending climate politics was the story, 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:14.919 let me just read a little bit of it. For 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.200 many years, wealthy places like the United States and Europe 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:21.120 have had the biggest historical responsibility for global warming. China's 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:25.359 astonishing rise is upending that dynamic. Over the past three decades, 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.960 China has built more than one thousand coal fired power 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:33.240 plants a thousand as its economy has grown more than 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:38.279 forty fold in thirty years, mostly because of our help, 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.960 thinking that if they got rich enough, they be our friends. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:45.080 One of the dumbest gambles in the history of the planet. Whoops, 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:50.040 The country has become by far the largest annual emitter 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.720 of greenhouse gases in the world. So they're emphasizing the historical, 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.200 how about emphasize the today. And on the today chart, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.960 it's not even close, Like China's way up there, and 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.360 the United States is way down here with other countries 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:04.159 underneath us. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.760 Right, So, if you're trying to build some sort of 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:11.560 framework for who owes the most your Paris climate accord, folks, 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.760 I suppose looking at the historical responsibility makes a little 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.480 bit of sense. But for those of us who live 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.720 in the real world, who's doing it now is a 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:21.920 much more relevant question, I would. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.840 Say so, And according to this chart, it looks like 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.040 China is polluting it about two and a half times 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.320 what we are on a year by year basis at this. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.040 Point two and a half times. Yeah, and I'm. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:40.840 Supposed to alter my lifestyle and suffer the overall GDP 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:42.800 consequences for what reason? 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.560 And India is working on it. They'll be on that 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:46.160 charge before. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.840 Yeah, the actual biggest country on Earth. You go to 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.400 them and say, hey, can you cut back on your 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.520 fossil fuels a little bit because of the planet. The 0:07:55.560 --> 0:08:01.000 answer is yeah, No, are you kidding? We've got four 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.720 hundred million people starving here and you want us to 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:10.840 go solar? No. Yeah, I've got to hope that a 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:15.000 lot of the climate change nonsense is going to be 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.440 swept away during Trump's presidency. And I'm not talking about 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:23.160 any legitimate claims about the atmosphere or the environment or whatever. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.040 I'm down with that, it's fine, But again, cut the crap. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:32.160 Cut the crap. God ormstrung you, getty dot com, pick 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.480 yourself up. But cut the craft T shirt they're selling 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:35.400 like hotcakes. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.880 Speaking of trouble spots around the world that we ignore, 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.040 this happened over the weekend. Haven't heard it anywhere. The 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:46.319 Pentagon leaked to Axios that the Huthies are now effectively 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.960 in control over the Red Sea, which is where Remember 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:52.800 they are telling us the numbers all the time, fifteen 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.880 percent or whatever of all world shipping goes through Houthi 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.840 rebels are brandishing increasingly sophisticated weapons, including missiles that can 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.800 do things that are just amazing, said the Pentagon's chief 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.880 Weapons somebody or other to Axios over the weekend. The 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.200 big picture being that the militant group has for years 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.160 used drones and missiles to strangle the waters off of Yemen, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:17.000 disrupting international shipping. And uh, well, I'll read this quote. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.360 I'm an engineer and a physicist, and I've been around 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:24.280 missiles my whole career, said a Pentagon employee to Axios. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.480 What I've seen of what the Houthis have done in 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.760 the last six months is something I'm just shocked. So 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.160 the rest of the world has just let this ragtag 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:37.160 group of camel riders take over a big, major lane 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.440 of shipping on planet Earth. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:44.640 I believe they have Toyota pickups there. But anyway, Yeah, 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.040 who's they're not building those missiles in Yemen, who's sending 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.319 them to them? And how soon can we get the 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:55.000 Mummy out of office. I mean he is useless plat 0:09:55.120 --> 0:10:01.200 vaticcer again, Michael, that's in his old the vital days. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:02.960 Yeah, he isn't that good anymore. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.920 He hasn't he hasn't unleashed. I had about a caf 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.000 care with that sort of forcefulness in a year. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.160 So we've uh, I've got something good from the world 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.880 of Ai. I have a feeling you're going to disagree 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:24.520 with this journalist's take on how wonderful it was to 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.400 watch Ai comfort their five year old. I find it horrifying. 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:33.079 Oh oh, I've got to get to with the aid 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.800 of the lovely Katie Green. The sixteen year Old Girls 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.400 editorial in the New York Times also. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.640 Good cool, Yes, got a bunch of good stuff this hour. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:47.280 I hope you can stay here. Question for Joe, which 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.000 are you more interested in the Share memoir or the 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.360 Madonna biopic that are both coming out at the same time. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:11:00.000 Ah wow, let me bring out my microscope and all up. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.559 I'll take a look. Oh, try to find my give it. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.800 Damn God, if you like don't read a lot, but 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:12.079 you read the Share memoir, please read something else, good lord. 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.960 If one Madonna Chaconi of Detroit Michigan were to write 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:22.280 a serious book about her career and business development and entrepreneurialism, 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.640 that sort of thing. I would think that'd be a 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:25.320 pretty good read. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:30.120 Oh yeah, and her understanding of pr and how to 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:31.040 get attention and stuff. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:32.040 Yeah, that would be interesting. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:37.080 Have Lady Gaga right the forward or something? Fine? Okay, great? 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:38.319 Wow? 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.240 The Share Memoir? 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:41.920 Yes, dah? 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.840 I mean, do you are you immortal? Do you have 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:52.199 unlimited time? That is the only circumstance I can picture 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.480 where somebody would would read the Share Memoir. If I'm 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.720 one if shares offspring, I wouldn't bother. 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.280 If I walked into someone's apartment, then they have that 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.080 on the coffee table. How quickly can I get out 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.120 of their house? That's yeah, there you go? 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:07.840 See. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.679 Uh wait, you just got here? Yeah bye ah. So 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:19.760 I came across this all right, ah yeah, pass. I 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.160 just keep seeing Share in the back of my mind. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.679 So here's an editorial that actually ran in the New 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:30.080 York Times. I'm sixteen on November sixth, that's the day 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:35.200 after the election. The girls cried and the boys played Minecraft. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.839 And this is by a sixteen year old high school junior. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.680 Who obviously is connected to somebody in the New York Times. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.000 Your parents are some big deal. I mean, otherwise, how 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.200 would you get a an op ed in the biggest 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:49.280 newspaper in the world. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.760 You know, it's I think it's labeled as a well, 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.559 it's a guest essay. I don't know. Maybe it's in 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.920 a letter to the editor. But in the morning after 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.240 the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. Well, 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.840 a preteen was crying into the shoulders of her brace's 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:10.120 clad peer. Her friend was rubbing circles on her back. Uh. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.199 First of all, point of order, mister editor, why am 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:15.880 I reading a child's editorial? 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:17.960 Did you say so? The sixteen year old wrote this? 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.880 But the sixteen year old said a preteen, Yes, So 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.640 a twelve year old's crying over a presidential election. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:24.880 You're a weird. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:30.920 Kid, right, go get a hobby kid. Anyway, Again, at 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:36.160 the point that she says in the headline, I'm sixteen, 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:40.160 We're done here, We're done. You're a child. No, if 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.400 you want to tell me how things are going at 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.440 your school or something like that, and she is in 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.520 a way, okay, that's fine, because I don't know. But 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.600 the idea that you're going to lay some insight on 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.760 me about the election and the candidates and all. No, 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:01.360 we've got to who said this? Was it Bill Maher? 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:01.920 Yeah? 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.320 I think it was Bill Marshall. Jesus it was one 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:12.240 of the three four that was a point? I can't Yeah, Oh, 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:13.959 who's a anyway? 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:16.320 Uh? 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:17.679 Where was I? 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:18.000 Oh? 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.680 Said, we've got to stop laying the burden on these 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.640 poor children, the idea that they need to solve this stuff, 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.240 or they need to tell us what happened in the election. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.320 Why would you lay that on a sixteen year old girl? Well, 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.440 how about the poor twelve year old crying in the hall. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.400 The only way she's crying in the hall is her 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:40.320 parents and or her teachers sold her a load of crap. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.160 But wait, there's more. I continued up the stairs to 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.480 the lounge where upperclassmen linger before classes. There I saw 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.720 two tables. One was filled with my girlfriends, many of 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.640 them with hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.280 of despair over the young women in the room. I 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.640 looked over to the other table of teenage boys and 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:03.160 saw Minecraft on their computers. Well, we were gasping for breath. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.120 It seemed they were breathing freely. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:09.560 Oh my god, I suppose you expect to overwrought from 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:14.680 a sixteen year old girl, but uh wow, we were 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.080 gasping for breath. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:17.760 They were breathing freely. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.880 Oh geez, Katie, any verbal slappings or shall I plunge on? 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.160 I have so many questions, but yeah, I go plunge on. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.760 Get a get a trash can ready, You're gonna be 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.000 all right. We girls woke up to a country that 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.160 would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:37.040 than a woman. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.960 Right, that's. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.160 Exactly you know. In fact, I was going to vote 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.720 for Common until I learned that Trump was held liable. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.040 Then I thought, wait, that's the man for me again. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.120 Thank you child for that incisive political analysis. 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:52.240 Thank you child. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.120 Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.840 cross the street to avoid will be addressed as mister 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.760 president your your mom tells you to across the street 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:05.760 to avoid fat eighty year olds for the body where 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.040 the body I haven't fully grown into may no longer 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.120 be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:14.320 just woke up on a Wednesday. What made my skin burn? 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:19.120 Most normal kids? That makes them normal? You're the crazy one. 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.280 Right, what made my skin burn most well, it's probably 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.840 uv rage you sunscreen. Wasn't that over seventy five million 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.040 people voted for Donald Trump. It was that this election 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.360 didn't seem to measurably change anything for the boys around me. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.160 Whether their parents supported mister Trump or not, many of 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.120 them didn't seem to share our rage, our fear, are despair. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.600 We don't even share the same future. I'm scared the 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.400 Trump administration will take away a restrict birth control and 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.160 Plan B the way they did abortion. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.440 Why are high schoolers crying about abortion and Plan B? 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.000 Why is that the focus? Oh yeah, or presidential politics? 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.840 As a child. That's really weird. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.560 I'm sweetheart. Trump didn't take away abortion. He sent a 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.000 terrible ruling back to the States for people to vote on. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:11.199 There are more abortions happening now more, my young friend, 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:16.480 there's more to this if you can stand it. Armstrong 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.399 and Geeddy. Donald Trump Junior tweeted a picture of the 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.359 weekend at President elect Trump, Elon Mosk, howspeaker, Mike Johnson, 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:24.600 and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.719 On a private plane eating McDonald's, or more accurately, not 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:28.640 eating McDonald's. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.680 Look at rfk Jr. He's holding that McDonald's the way 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.239 you hold a bag of weed you found in your 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.639 kid's room. I want to explain this. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.480 That's pretty funny, eh boy. 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.560 So getting back to the sixteen year Old Girls editorial 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.560 in the New York Times, and I envisioned this to 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.160 unfold in one piece, but we had to take a break. 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.520 So the one point I want to make is that 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:03.120 this young girl, who is a very good writer, unusually 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.439 good for a sixteen year old, and is a sixteen 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:13.160 year old gets the indulgence of youth. She unleashes are 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.120 strongly held opinions, and the grown ups around her ought 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.040 to say, well, that's great, I'm glad you're really into 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.720 this sort of stuff and all, and perhaps a quick 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.200 word about and the longer you live and the more 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.040 you see and do, the more you'll understand some of 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.200 the nuances of this stuff. I get that I spent 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:34.080 tremendous amount of time around teenagers, teenage girls, in particular, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.919 coaching and mentoring and all sorts of stuff. But and 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:43.639 I don't mean to be little this young woman. The 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:48.600 point is the people around her have nurtured in her 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.560 two things. Number One, what Bill Maher is talking about 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.679 laying on her this mistaken belief that she needs to 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.560 figure this all out and tell the rest of the 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:04.560 world and then solve it, and two not giving her 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:10.160 any Oh, I'm sorry, and number two feeding her full 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:14.199 of the most hyperbolic of the wildly out of control 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:18.800 political rhetoric of the last ten years without any perspective. Now, 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.960 maybe you're her parents and teachers and mentors believe all 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.880 this stuff because they whipped themselves into the left wing, 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:29.199 you know, fury, But I don't know so Anyway, she 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:29.720 writes on. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.880 That's one of your logical fallacies too, that I guess 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.320 have existed through history is the belief that the young, 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.080 or innocent or something like that, when they say something, 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.680 it carries more weight, right. 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.719 Because they're pure of heart, and out of the mouths 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.520 of babes comes real wisdom. Yeah, that's once in a while, 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.720 that's true. Mostly they're just kids in aught to just 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.840 go do their homework. Anyway, So she says that she's 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.800 afraid Trump will take away birth control the way they 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:01.560 did abortion. Again, that's ridiculous. I've seen the ways in 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.600 which many of the boys in my generation can be 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:08.159 different from their fathers that. Wow, you have no idea 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:09.399 how their fathers. 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:10.359 Are now, of course you don't. 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.679 The hashtag me too movement went mainstream when they were 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:18.200 still wearing Superman pajamas. That's pretty good writing. On Tuesdays 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.159 in health class, they learn about the dangers of inebriated consent. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.760 They don't pretend to gag when a girl mentions her 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.680 period or a tampon falls out of her backpack. They 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.680 don't find sexist jokes all that funny and don't often 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.520 make them in public. No, they find them really funny, 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.159 but they find you to be a humorless prig, and 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:37.359 so they don't make them in your presence. You just 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:41.879 wouldn't know it. I've heard they know that's kind of 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:46.320 distracting and weird. I'm grateful to my school for taking 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:50.720 gender equality as seriously as it does trigonometry. But most 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.520 of the guys that I saw that Wednesday appeared nonchalant. 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.640 A smiling student shook his friend's hand and said, sarcastically, 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.359 good election. In the same hallway where I saw a 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:03.000 female teach clutching a damp tissue. Why did it seem 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.960 these boys were so unperturbed? I worried that my guy 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.600 friends might only care about women until it conflicts with other, 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:13.240 more pressing priorities. That morning, I spoke with the male classmate. 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:15.520 He asked if I was okay. Nearly melted with relief. 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:17.600 See I knew not all guys were ignorant. 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.760 O s up, lady, your sixteen year old. 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.359 Then, before I responded, he continued why, he wondered, are 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:29.440 so many girls crying? I stared, I swallowed that familiar lump, 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:31.439 and I had one thought. I prayed that my older 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:35.040 brother never asks that question. Oh my god, how could 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.399 my classmates not know why girls in his grade were 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.560 biting their nails and doing breathing exercises in the bathroom. 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:43.280 It seemed like our future was sliding down the side 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:45.440 of our faces. And he asked me why we were crying? 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:45.960 Crying? 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:48.639 I never felt that disconnected for men. I never felt 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:49.639 more like a girl. 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:53.600 God, if my kid were doing breathing exercises in the 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:59.040 bathroom because they were so emotionally upset from a presidential election, 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:01.040 I'd pull them out of school and get a team 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.440 of therapists going and we go on a camping trip 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.480 or something to try to turn this around. Something's gone 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:07.359