Will Thibeau
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87 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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You make clear that the border is secure, that you're going to get deported and that if you get deported by ICE, it won't be fun.
My understanding is that they've created a fictional series where it's a young white boy who at age 13 has somehow fallen into, in Seldom, a bizarre theory given that I don't think we'd ever call a 13-year-old involuntarily celibate. That's a bizarre claim to make about him. But also that he's responsible for killing a young black boy and that somehow this is now a model for what
british teach school should be teaching their children that they should be making uh young white males in particular feel guilt implicitly on you know the end that they you know are secretly monsters that could pinch to go out and murder uh their classmates of a different race or something uh it's a bizarre show um
And honestly, there's evidence that this is just a straight up inversion of some of the very serious crimes that have been committed in Britain. Notably, there's this kid, Axel Rudakubana, who murdered a slew of people in Southport. And there's other instances like this where you actually do have a serious spree of knife crime committed by sometimes young black males.
So the idea that you would suddenly turn this around And make it about white males is just it's I mean, I don't have a better phrase for it than blood libel.
Yeah, they've turned a fantasy into something they believe their young white males need to be lectured about. It's offensive, and I think it'll ultimately be counterproductive because I think that it will breed a lot of resentment towards the establishment from young white males and turn them to the right.
There were two conceits that our leadership class had when it came to globalization. The first is assuming that we can separate the making of things from the design of things. The idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain, while the poor countries made the simpler things. You would open an iPhone box, and it would say, designed in Cupertino, California.
Now, the implication, of course, is that it would be manufactured in Shenzhen or somewhere else. And yeah, some people might lose their jobs in manufacturing, but they could learn to design, or to use a very popular phrase, learn to code. But I think we got it wrong. It turns out that the geographies that do the manufacturing get awfully good at the designing of things.
Now, we assume that other nations would always trail us in the value chain. But it turns out that as they got better at the low end of the value chain, they also started catching up on the higher end. We were squeezed from both ends.
The second is that cheap labor is fundamentally a crutch, and it's a crutch that inhibits innovation. I might even say that it's a drug that too many American firms got addicted to. And so I'd ask my friends, both on the tech optimist side and on the populist side, not to see the failure of the logic of globalization as a failure of innovation.
Indeed, I'd say that globalization's hunger for cheap labor is a problem precisely because it's been bad for innovation. Both our working people, our populace, and our innovators gathered here today have the same enemy. And the solution, I believe, is American innovation.
That's exactly it, Charlie. It is finally common sense again at the Pentagon for men and women to be evaluated based on the same rubric. What is it that, frankly, the defense establishment and both parties have told us for over 10 years now, men and women deserve the same opportunities in combat that they do in the rest of life.
And so long as everyone passes the same standards, well, then they should have that opportunity to serve in these brutal roles. Well, we are finally taking a step towards that being a reality after about 15 years of meddling with this delusion. Now, when a man or a woman are evaluated based on their fitness, they're evaluated on the same scale.
Before this week, a woman had to do about 42 push-ups to get an A-plus on her fitness test, while a man had to do 84 push-ups. All the while, we were told that that man and that woman were able to do any combat job in the same capacity, even though they're being judged by the same It was this bait and switch that, frankly, both sides of the aisle would tell the American people.
And Pete Hegseth has finally fixed that by saying when it comes to these gruesome, excellent driven jobs, that it requires the same standards. So we're not playing identity politics with the infantry.
Precisely, Charlie. And that's what the deadlift was put in the Army combat fitness test to measure. The ability of a soldier, again, we were told of any gender, to lift a heavy weight off the ground, like, say, the body of your fallen comrade, and then carry it out of harm's way. It is brazen as far as I'm concerned.
to say that there was this equal standard for all, when just as you showed, it was a different standard. I'm pretty sure you were just kind of reading off some of the minimum standards, and that's not even in consideration for Army combat rules. You know, it's important to note, and you mentioned this, there was even a point where they changed the test.
It was the leg tuck close to a pull up that proved even with a gender segregated score to be too, quote, discriminatory for women. So you had senators from both sides of the aisle. and female Army generals who demanded that the Biden administration and the Army under the Biden administration take out that event from the Army Combat Fitness Test.
So when we say that, yes, it may be the same test that measures people, well, it's been a test that's been altered in order to meet the realities of gender disparity in physical performance.
Precisely. That's exactly what it is. And it's a curve for our most serious roles. You know, if you asked yourself, hey, who would I rather, you know, drag my son or daughter's body out of combat? If you had to choose out of a hat, it would be a man or a woman. Anyone would choose a man if they had to choose, right? It's the perfect case of where the exception proves the rule here.
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