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ut take it now, I'd probably do it. And then I'd say I'd save the country a bunch of money on Social Security, and then they could use that for other people because my situation isn't like other people. And maybe I say to myself, you know what, I don't know if Social Security will go away someday. I'll just take half now, and you know because it's not going to be the deciding point of whether I h…

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I'm no lawyer but let me just trot this out, see if any of the real lawyers agree with this. It would be one thing if your doctor gave you a treatment and he honestly or she honestly believed it was good for you. That's fine. And then if things go wrong, well that's just the real world. I wish I hadn't but things went wrong.

But what happens when probably every doctor who's in this space in America is now aware that England looked at it and found it too dangerous. Now give it to a kid. You don't think you have a little extra legal liability now? I thought the standard was that once it becomes common knowledge that something's too dangerous, that would be the point where you're being irresponsible. Am I wrong? Or can a doctor in this country say yeah I'm completely aware that in England they did the analysis and found it too dangerous but it's still legal here so here's your pills.

I feel like there's a tipping point situation in which it wouldn't take many entities to say this is dangerous, we're making it illegal, before everybody would have to make it illegal. Because remember the law and medicine in general are very risk averse. They don't want to do something where you can obviously get sued. You know if it's just begging to get sued they don't want to do it.

So if everybody was just guessing about what was the right thing to do then I don't know that you could sue a doctor for giving somebody puberty blockers when they're young if they legitimately didn't know that that was a risky situation. But now that they know, I don't know. I've got a feeling that insurance and the courts will take care of this pretty quickly.

Now that's my prediction that the transitioning of the kids probably is going to collapse as a thing that society ever did. I think someday it will seem like it will seem as bad as German experimentation on prisoners. I think it'll seem that bad someday in the future. By today's perspective I do think most of the people involved were just trying to help, which I hate. I hate that most of the people had good intentions. I mean it's better than bad intentions but I hate that.

Well there are a lot of people who are going to learn that they've basically been butchers and murderers and they thought they were doing something good. So and every day I see another story about the number of people taking their own lives in the trans community especially after transition seems just insanely high. But you have to be careful about that data. I would be really careful about any kind of a self-harm data about the trans community because I think it's hard to untangle cause and effect in that case.

All right. RFK Jr. has teased that two choices for his vice presidential running mate might be NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers or ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. Now does that sound like he's serious about being president? Because remember RFK Jr. did say that running for president was the way he could have free speech. So there's part of me that thinks that RFK Jr. is not expecting to win or playing to win but rather he's playing to finally after decades of trying to be heard about the food supply and the pharmaceutical companies that he's just doing it to make his point.

And I believe t

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hat the reason he would identify these two individuals who you don't think would be at the top of the list at the moment, you know although obviously Jesse Ventura's had a serious government job at one point but I think they're both anti, I don't want to say anti-vax, I'll say they're not pro-vax. Would that be true? Which is different from being anti. So I think that he's just being consistent wi…

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