Tulsi Gabbard

You have big tech and social media companies, some of them, not X, but some of them blocking certain narratives and using their algorithms to advance others.

So yes, we are up against very, very powerful forces on these issues.

But it is also why we must do our part to have the courage to speak the truth.

Have the courage to speak the truth.

It's understandable why you might be afraid because you may have some person who is your coworker or your friend or whatever, maybe even a family member who disagrees with you and who will criticize you for it.

And maybe they might call you names.

They might call you a transphobe.

They might call you this or that, a racist, a sexist, all of these things.

I've been called almost every name in the freaking book, but the only way we break through

These insane, woke policies that are destroying our people and our society, the fabric of our country, is by every one of us having the courage to just speak the truth in the same way that, you know, the old story goes with the child saying that the emperor has no clothes on because that is the situation we are in.

It is happening in broad daylight.

Objective truth is so obvious just in the examples we're talking about now.

Pedophilia is pedophilia, period, full freaking stop.

I don't care how you may want to couch it so that, so, you know, this is their sexual proclivity or whatever it is, nice little language that they may try to couch it in.

As you said, if we're not willing to stand up for the most vulnerable among us in our children, what are we doing?

I was like a tomboy of tomboys growing up.

I had short hair, wore like boys shorts and t-shirts everywhere I went.

I did martial arts and I went surfing and I was a tomboy of all tomboys.

And if I were growing up in our society today, I have zero doubt about the fact that I was homeschooled, so I wasn't, like, having to deal with public schools and all of that.

But if I were growing up today, whether through public schools or social media, I guarantee you that push and that external push –