Texas Bans Vaccine Mandates

And we've also got a story out of Virginia and had to to the Delhi Wire forward about a possible sexual assault against a young girl covered up because involved a trans individual who used the trans policy when it comes to bathrooms in a school. We'll give you the details the explanation of that coming up here in a minute. We also got Kamala Harris incredibly uncomfortable trying to deal with other humans, other people. She does not She does

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watching from time to time. But for me, the role that professional sports plays in my life would be a lot like the role that video games plays in other people's lives. It's an enjoyable thing in moderation that you don't want to spend too much time doing. That's just my opinion. But occasionally a story does pop up, a situation does come about where you have some real crossover and you have a broader issue that all of us can see is worth understanding and discussing. Here's a situation.

John Gruden, even I knew who this guy was, stepped down as the Raiders head coach just yesterday after The New York Times reported that the coach made racist, misogynistic and homophobic comments at a bunch of different people. So this is the emails have been obtained by the New

York Times. So here's what's going on. There was apparently some kind of a an investigation into uh, you know, NFL practices, commentary, behind the scenes, things like that, and a whole lot of private emails have now been scoured over and they've gone into people's hands who were looking at this kind of stuff. And there's a it's over a seven year period ending in twenty and eighteen. Gruden was criticizing Goodell, the commissioner, and other people. And here's look.

He said stuff that you know, you shouldn't say. It depends on what comment exactly we're talking about here, but he said things that were unwise, that were not in good taste. But I would say this as well, this notion that all private commentary that that if you had the if you had access to everything that a person had ever written or said that you could still think that they would get up, they would get a pass, they'd be able to get away from the woke mob

coming for them. I just think that's absurd. I think it's not reality. I think everybody needs to understand that this is something that if you were to yourself have your emails in the hands of somebody looking or your text messages looking to ruin you or destroy you, there would be real problems for you. I mean pretty much anybody I think says or text or emails something at some point in time that they don't think would be

good to have out loud. And look, there are varying degrees of bad here, I would say for the things that Gruden wrote. But this guy had one hundred million dollar contract over ten years to coach the Raiders and that's now all gone and he has resigned effectively in disgrace, and it's because of things that he said that he

thought were private that have now come out. Now there's a few lessons here, I mean one of them would be you, really, anytime you text or write anything, you should start to think of it as could this end up publish somewhere. Even if you're a private person. You just don't know. And I know that's it's a difficult way to live our lives. It's a difficult way for us to think about these things. But it's it's safe practice if you can, if you can do it, if

you can have that discipline. Clearly mister Gruden did not think of it that way. But also I have to wonder, so what happens to him now? I mean, these were comments that he made privately to individuals who were not offended by them. He made comments that were offensive. Is this policing what an individual privately believes at some level? I mean, he wasn't He was writing from a private email address, so his emails, as I understand it, got

caught up in this investigation. He was not using company servers or or using things that somebody would be generally in a you know, day to day sense, more careful about. And now he's done. Now he's finished. Because he said the wrong things. He offended groups that will demand and they already have that he be punished severely for this.

I wish we did not live in a country where this was the case, where you would lose your job, your livelihood because of things that you said that you believe were private, that did not actually harm anyone, that were not directed at anybody who felt harmed by it, but that you're just not allowed to use certain language or have certain beliefs, even in private, because if it

comes out publicly, you'll be ruined. It's a shame, But it does seem like that is where we are as a country, and that's the reality that we all face here. So I am not somebody who cares very much about professional sports to bring this full circle as you already no, but I am someone who feels like we now the wokeness has just gotten to be a true psychological plague in this country, and no one's allowed to No one's allowed to say, hey, that was an intemperate moment. That

was a I said something dumb. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have written that that was and everyone goes, Okay, you know you're not a bad person. You don't hate such and such individual or group of people or whatever. You just said something that you were not supposed to say and then move on from there. No, now it has to be your ruin. You're destroyed forever all right. Now

we have the Southwest Airlines situation. And this is really interesting because there have been people who have come out and said that there is oh and I should mention the Texas State Executive Order now from Governor Rabbitt that there can be no vaccine mandates of any kind in the state of Texas. It's kind of what I was trying to advocate for with a different governor a while ago when there was the conscience opt out that was

being discussed in the state of South Dakota. But corporate interests prevailed there, as they tend to do in that state. With that individual. Here we have Governor Abbott stepping up and trying to do a little bit more about the situation, and we'll address that. I'll address that in a second, because first we have all these cancelations. Here's a situation.

Southwest Airlines, courting The Daily Mail, top executive says operations are pretty well back to normal after the company was forced to cancel more than twenty three hundred flights over the holiday weekend, which it claims was the result of FAA delay programs in Florida. Southwest CEO Gary Kelly apologized to frustrated passengers. He was on Good Morning America. He was, He denied the chaost was caused by pilots upset over

the vaccine mandates. As of nine am Easter Time Tuesday, Southwest had canceled eighty seven flights, or two percent of its daily operations, and delayed more than two one hundred and forty. Federal Aviation Administration acknowledge delays in parts of Florida, but pushback against Southwest air Traffic Control explanation it just but the airline behind on Friday, Kelly said. The FAA said Sunday some airlines were experiencing problems because planes and

crews were out of position. So who do we believe here? I mean, I find it very hard to believe that all of a sudden, one airline has two thousand flights canceled in what is it, twenty three hundred flights canceled in a forty eight hour period, just because because of problems that still don't seem like they're able to be discussed. But if these were pilots who were deciding on their own, but in a collective action, right, so this wasn't a

part of the plan. Here wasn't to use the union because there it's technically illegal, right, you can't actually strike if you're a pilot in the union in this way. So they didn't actually go through that, They didn't go through that situation. Instead, they just did it on their own. Assuming that's true, it would continue. Well, we'll have to see what are the possibilities here play this one out.

You know that the apparatus of control absolutely does not want people to realize that if they push back enough and effectively enough, there could in fact be an end to some of these mandates. That companies won't be able to do the bidding of the Biden administration, not without paying a price that's too high for them. So they want to avoid people coming to that recognition. So what's one way to do that, Well, to pretend that that's not what's happened here and to say that that was

never the case, just to lie about it. That's one option, which I know a lot of people on the right believe. Certainly seems like that's a likely scenario. Another option is that there was a collective direct action here by pilots and perhaps and others at Southwest Airlines that now has been nipped in the bud. That now has been shut down by Southwest executives who went out and reached out to you know, the bosses, basically reached out to the

different pilots and said you're out. One more day, you're gone. And maybe that I'm just saying, these are the possibilities. That's certainly possible. And then the third possibility here is that somehow this just happened to occur and it is just a fluke and it has nothing to do with the mandate of actually mandate, and all these pilots just happened to be out at the same time on the

same day or whatever they're saying. It was some some issue with air traffic control, which that just doesn't sound realistic at all. Why didn't affect all the other flights? Then all the other airlines some were having some delays, but this amount of delay. So those are the options as I see them, and I find it very hard to believe that this just occurred. I'm finding it very hard to believe that this was just a thing that happened and there was nothing to do with a vaccine mandate.

But I do worry that they will crush this. And then once again the Fauciite incrementalism will feel like it's unstoppable. And what we're heading for, and I think you know this as well as I do. What we're heading for is this winter, there will be a mandate for you to fly, a vaccine mandate for you to fly on

domestic flights. And they'll do it right before probably Thanksgiving or maybe right before Christmas, because they know that that's the time of year when a lot of people who don't even fly very often will be flying to see their families. And they'll say, sorry, you gotta do it. That's what the science demands. That's what they'll say. That's what they'll do. And I think we can all understand why that's troublesome to say the least, and something we

should fight back against. But I'm just not really sure if we're going to be able to do it effectively enough. We'll come back to this in a moment. The Tunneled Towers Foundation helps us keep our commitment to never forget over. This year, the foundation honored GoldStar and fallen first responder families with young children and catastrophically injured veterans and first

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lot of interesting issues. Legal challenges are coming for the of course. Here's the situation. This from the Washington Post. Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Oh, whoops, well, we don't have to use the Post. We'll use somebody else here. Texas Governor Greg Abbott bans any COVID vaccine mandate including for private employers. This Texas Tribune banning any entity, including private business,

from requiring vaccination for employees or customers. Abbott also called on legislature to pass a law at the same effect,

promising to rescind the executive order once that happened. The legislature is in this year's third special legislative session, which which ends October nineteenth, so he's saying the order mark, or rather this piece is saying the order marks a significant reversal after Abbott previously gave private businesses the choice to mandate vaccines for workers, so he stepped it up

in response to the federal government's overreach. He has stepped it up and said that he believes this is the right the right move, especially given the fact that Biden administrations coming for everybody now, at least everybody with over one hundred employees. If you remember that previous mandate that they had and or rather roll out that they had,

they haven't really instituted it yet. So this will be interesting because you do have some people on the right, including Dan Crenshaw here, remember a congress former Navy seal, who don't like the way Abbot is going about this. Look I hate that we have to play this game. Right, this isn't the right way to govern. Go to go from mandate to mandate against a mandate, it's not the

right way to govern. I still generally believe in this whole freedom of association principle, where you can associate with people you want to associate with as an employer, as an employee. But here's the thing. The federal government already took that first step, and they're still in the process of writing the rule under OSHA that would require businesses to vaccinate their employees or have them fired. Right, this is an absurd rule. This is such an overreach, it's unconstitutional.

And so these reactions are seeing from the states are well, they're a reaction to that overstep in the first place. I think he is accurate, but I would disagree with his sense that this is something we have to be that we should be concerned when states stand up for individual freedom. I actually think that that is a role the states should play against the federal government, especially in

moments of overreach. And this idea, this takes me back to the conservatism, if you will, the mainstream conservatism of the nineties and the early two thousands where people would assume, oh, we'll just keep the government out of it, and then that's the best that's the best outcome. Well, that's not how it works. Right now. Anywhere, the government, whether it's at the state or local or federal level, has all kinds of regulations about business, about commerce that are in effect.

So there is no protection of the sacred neutral space of commerce that is going on right now. That's a fantasy, right, We can't do that because you know, we shouldn't be mandating against a mandate. There are all kinds of mandates in place. Just look at look at the regulations that exist even in the state of Texas for businesses to operate safely for the taxes that are taken from them

for the licensing there. I could sit here and just read through thousands of pages probably of different regulations and mandates and things that exist that affect businesses right now in the state of Texas, in any state. So it's a question of should a state use its power to protect individual freedom and autonomy. That's not tyranny, that's protecting freedom. Conservatives, I think, or people on the right in general, can get this a little bit confused. They think we're protecting

the sacred neutral space. You see this in the realm of education as well, where we had thought, oh, we'll just teach history, not history that likes America or hates America, just teach history. Well, history is not mathematics. There's always going to be some narrative, and so you might want to be actually involved in understanding what the narrative is

that children are being taught. You might want to be involved in learning what it is that kids are being brainwashed with and try to push it away from hating America toward a fuller better understanding of this country that understands the blessings and the incredible nation that has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. But see, we thought we could have a neutral space. That's not really a thing that exists, and we think we can have a

totally free market. Maybe if we just avoid government overreach that is also a thing that does not exist. I tried, some of you, remember, I tried to get at least one state to go and start taking affirmative steps, start taking action in defense or freedom instead of being passive and waiting for the faucy steamroller to crush everybody in every state. And what do the federal government do. They revvd up the faucy steamroller, just like I said they would.

And now Governor Abbott has realized this and goes, okay, well, let's have a state mandate against the mandate. You might say, well, buck the federal government, supremacy clause, all the stuff. Okay, let's take it to the courts. But at least then you're giving some cover for people in that state to avoid getting the shots. He friends, time is everything here. Time is everything. If the shot gets into the arms of people who don't want it, that's done. Now they've

bent the NAT they've gotten the shot. So delay is your friend here. Using the process to protect freedom is your friend. At some level, we have to start understanding tactics because the other side abuses the system for tactical advantage all the time. Notice I'm not saying break the system, but let's use it for our States have tremendous power over individuals, and when you look at their health, tremendous power left to them. Right, the federal government really doesn't.

But states under quarantine authority and under all kinds of regulations, I mean, the states can do a lot of things. If they choose to and if they choose to protect individual freedom from a vaccine, that is a thing to be celebrated. It's not a thing to sit around and say, oh, but that's too much government. Oh it's it's too much

government when it comes to defending freedom. But those same people, you'll notice, aren't saying, well, we should we should have you know, no rules about how businesses conduct themselves other than just the enforcement of basic contracts with each other. No regulations whatsoever about you know, how long people can work, or minimum wage or anything else. Right, why don't we have minimum wage laws in these states? You might say, oh, buckle,

that's an infringement. Okay, but I like to live in the real world, and the real world you can either use power to protect the individuals and they're freedom, or you can allow the authoritarian left to crush them under the Fauci steamroller. That's really where the debate is right now. So I think Governor Abbott is doing the right thing, even if he does get overruled. Now, I want to tell you about this piece in than Delhi Wire. This

was stunning. Luke Rosiak is the author here Dliwire dot com and hat tip to Luke Rosiac for this one. On June twenty second, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudon County, Virginia school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an unlawful assembly after many attendees vocally opposed

a policy on transgender students. What people did not know is that weeks prior, on May twenty eighth, Smith says a boy allegedly wearing a skirt entered a girl's bathroom at nearby stone Bridge High School, where he sexually assaulted Smith's ninth grade daughter. Juvenile records are sealed, but Smith's attorney, Elizabeth Lancaster, told The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sonomy, one count of forcible fallatio related to an

incident that day at that school. If someone would have sat and listened for thirty seconds to what Scott had said, they would have been mortified and heartbroken, Scott's attorney said. As a result of the viral video showing his arret, Smith became the poster child for the National School Board Association had since suggested could be a form of domestic terrorism, a white blue collar mail who showed up to harangue

obscure public servants on his local school board. If someone would have sat and listened for thirty seconds, they would have I read that to a second ago would have been mortified and heartbroken. Minutes before Smith's arrest, the Loudon County Public Schools superintendent lectured the public that concerns about the transgender policy were misplaced because the school system had no record of any assault occurring in any school bathroom. And quote, friends, this is what you get with the

woke left. They humiliated his father whose daughter was sexually assaulted. They humiliated him for trying to speak out about the sexual assault. And then you had school officials pretending that there had never been a sexual assault by a trans individual, a trans teenager, using the policies, using this, you know, using this trans bathroom situation in order to have easy access to an assault a young girl. This is what wokeness does to people. It corrupts and corrodes their soul.

It destroys their sense of basic morality and decency. The cause becomes more important than the than the individuals that are destroyed or harmed by it. You know, they don't care what the end result is. They care that they are for any individual, they care what they're getting as

a collective. And so because this went against the narrative, they covered it up, because this was a story that did not go along with the we all have a there's a trans agenda here for bathroom use policy that is just totally fine and there's no concerns and anyone who has any issues with this is a bigot. That's the narrative. Turns out that's not true. We've known that's

not true. Now we have proof, and they're willing to cover up the sexual assault of a young girl in order to get their way when it comes to policy. This is the Left that you're dealing with. Do not forget it. They are They're insidious. They're insidious. They will do evil things and think themselves brave in the process,

think that they're making the better decision. It's a noble a noble evil that they believe they do by covering up a story like this, or by making sure that people don't jump to the wrong conclusions about the entire trans agenda because of one incident. Yes, the Left likes to make those kinds of calculations for you. I say, we should all be exposed to the truth and be able to speak the truth. And that's the society that we should live in. Anyway. Hatch up the Deli Wire

for their reporting on this one. Really incredible, harrowing, well harrowing story. Good journalism by Luca Rosiak here. Oh and I'd mentioned this just to close us out today. Kamala Harris, if you haven't seen the video where she's pretending to be a normal, nice person with kids. They hired child actors so it could all look so so nice and normal when Kamas talking about, oh my gosh, when you see the craters on the moon, it's just amazing to see the craters on the moon, and the kids are

all yay. But the kids are actors, and Kamala is just not likable. And the Democrats are gonna try and try because the Democrat elites, the Democrats who write big checks to NGOs and live in mansions and live in you know, brownstones in Brooklyn or haciendas in Malibu or whatever, they think that this is their candidate. They just have to find the way to sell her to the American people for the next election and it's not gonna work. It's not gonna work that much, I can tell you.

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