And I think also for many parents who have transitioned their children, they need everybody to go along with it because they want their child to have the best possible life. So I feel for these kids obviously, you know, they're being misled and it's not their fault. Especially with social media, that's another part of it.
But I mean, just I think bugs me the most about it. And you're talking to someone who's never had kids and doesn't even like them. So why I'm deputized to be the one to defend them just shows how far off this has gotten the trail. But you were one of the first liberals to like have the guts to call it out.
Absolutely. Because I love the truth and I don't believe me. I welcome their hatred, the people who are just out there. I mean, first of all, they all left a long time ago. But to use children as cannon fodder in this culture war, that to me is a little low. Even the mafia doesn't bring in the family.
Yeah, there are boundaries there.
There should be some boundaries and that's absolutely what they did. They brought in the kids and said, 'If you don't agree with this, this very sudden, very sudden reversal of what we've always believed, now maybe some things we've always believed are wrong.' But to be suddenly just planting your flag down here in a place to the left of where every other country is, including the liberal ones that we look up to as liberal, including to the left of them, far left as far as transitioning kids by their own diagnosis at any age.
Yeah. Without telling the parents.
Yeah. Without telling the parents. This is far out stuff. And to sort of plant your flag and say like, 'Yes, this is extremely new and extremely radical and also if you don't go along, you're crazy.' Yeah. And wrong. And it's like, 'Wait a second. This is new stuff. I'm not crazy or wrong to say, "Slow down."' And that's what every other country did. They just said, 'Whoa, you know what? This might not look good in the future. Maybe we should slow it down a little bit.'
Yeah. Well, also I mean the fact that parents don't get to say they're transitioning the kids. Even if the parents do find out, they can, they will take the kids away and put them in sanctuary states if they want to leave, right? That to me is the most terrifying thing. If you have a child and you don't even get to have the final say in terms of the medical interventions they're undergoing. So, I'm hoping all of that stuff is finally going to be done with.
Well, I'm glad I didn't throw you under the bus.
I wasn't expecting you to.
You will find none of my friends under that bus. A couple of my enemies maybe, but no.
But I like, you know, I know you'll call me out too if you think I'm wrong about something because I've seen you do this with other people. I respect that.
I do. I will. I mean, you cannot bribe me and you cannot incentivize me. You know, Trump, I mean, you know, I was his most virulent critic. Had dinner with him, told everybody that, you know, he's very different in person and he's not as crazy as he seems, but kept right on criticizing where I thought. And then he got mad at me again and now he's pulled other stuff, but I still supported the idea of going into Iran. Not that we want to get into that, but just to the point of like you cannot bribe me or incentivize me. While he was attacking me, I was saying, 'No, I'm one of the few liberals who thinks, yeah, we needed to do this with Iran.' And this is with every subject. And it's very, very liberating.
It's so liberating not to have to check what your opinion is supposed to be.
And I'm, you know, are you still getting [__] from left for some of your views? Does this book get [__]?
Yeah. So it's... let's tell the people, like I'm a good proper host. Stoners who work here, I don't know who they are, but sex, great title, Sexstinction. Yeah, extinction of sex, the decline of sex and the future of intimacy. Debra Soh. Okay, so I did my job very well, I feel.
