As a loyal Mug Club member and longtime Steven Crowder fan, I eagerly tuned into his recent YouTube segment on the mainstream media’s meltdown over Donald Trump’s fiery political reemergence. With the help of hilarious conservative influencers the Hodge Twins, Crowder brings his signature smart-alecky style to discussing today’s most absurd political correctness and media bias outrages.
Beyond the humorous takedowns of hypocrisy and double standards among elite journalists and politicians, I always appreciate how Crowder takes a thoughtful stand for consistent principles. He calls out contradictions wherever he sees them across the political spectrum. He also remains willing to change his views when confronted with fresh evidence, a rare trait these days.
While better known for Instagenic pranking antics to #TriggerWarning woke mobs, episodes like this show the substantive side of Crowder’s fight to speak commonsense wisdom against the tide of politically correct uncontrolled madness overtaking public discourse.
AOC’s Carefree TikTok Grooving Belies Real Privacy Threats
The fun begins with the gang reviewing progressive sweetheart Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s latest cheeky TikTok dance video promoting her stances. While the socialist congresswoman has incredible social media prowess for an elected official, the question posed is whether allow trusted public servants to leverage Chinese-controlled apps with track records of data harvesting and censorship?
Several prominent Democrats joined Republicans raising alarms about TikTok’s lack of data encryption safeguards and overt censorship on issues casting China’s authoritarian regime negatively. Musically synchronized content aside, experts argue TikTok’s loose privacy protections and manipulation algorithms could let Beijing-based employees access US user data or push propaganda.
Faced with bipartisan agreement, AOC remained defiant – or perhaps blissfully unaware of app stores banning hundreds of Chinese apps. The US armed forces blotted out TikTok from government devices in 2020. Since then, over 10 US states have restricted TikTok use on official gadgets. Yet AOC quadrupled down on promoting TikTok to her 10 million and growing loyal Gen Z following – a powerful yet impressionable demographic.
This split showcases the tech policy rifts defining a Democratic party struggling to find equilibrium between controlling Big Tech and preserving consumer freedoms. Still, the consensus seeking a sensible middle ground knows the Chinese Communist Party has already heavily subsidized companies like Huawei and ZTE to dominate 5G network hardware controlling the digital future. Allowing Beijing-run social media to freely mine data and algorithmically manipulate US opinion unabated seems equally unwise.
Leaked Audits Confirm Systemic Suppression of Conservative Media
In a continuation of Silicon Valley’s years-long War on Free Speech against right-leaning influencers, a recently leaked 85-page security audit confirmed Twitter employees have systematically downranked conservative viewpoints since 2016 under the guise of fighting online toxicity. Engineers tweaked search algorithms to promote left-progressive news sites while actively limiting the visibility of center-right outlets. The scheme pushed CNN, New York Times, and Washington Post stories above Fox News, Newsmax, and Daily Caller in search results regardless of actual engagement.
This corroborates longstanding accusations of partisan bias and voter manipulation Twitter whistleblowers have risked their careers to expose. With midterms approaching, the audit sparked a flood of outrage from academics appalled by arrogant attempts at social engineering. Musk’s legal team has the smoking gun exposing systemic deception around the platform‘s claims of political neutrality. This comes weeks after the billionaire unceremoniously sacked top brass responsible for the years-long fraud.
The controversy underscores deep distrust that partisan gatekeepers in media, arts, and tech who’ve dominated public thought for decades might in fact despise half the taxpayers funding their cultural revolution. It takes a warped worldview to believe appointing oneself an authority on others’ best interests is righteous. So the meltdown against Musk democracy is unsurprising – control freaks loathe relinquishing power, even to consumers. But the wild pendulum swings in store as the tide turns from cronyist socialism back toward freedom promise an epic showdown.
Trump Draws Record Numbers as Media Credibility Craters
Shifting topics, Crowder has riotous fun mocking the mainstream media meltdown over Donald Trump mapping his political comeback at a fiery Ohio rally packed with thrilled supporters. Outraged CNN and MSNBC hacks fumed at Trump flippantly downplaying the January 6th protests despite their ceaseless attempts to brand the 98% peaceful event an armed insurrection.
Their marathon hearings and propagandized sequels to Michael Moore’s schlockumentary mashup faltered as ratings cratered. Polls show a majority stopped buying years-long hype casting mostly ordinary voters sharing election skepticism as domestic terrorists. Still, neurotic progressive pundits and politicians pounced at the chance to yet again deride Trump’s “racist rhetoric” for cheering these so-called traitors.
Meanwhile, their willful blindness to surging crossover appeal among the coalition Trump activated sees indicators in key demographics flip toward Republicans for the first time in modern polling history. Hispanic support for Democrats cratered from 71% in 2018 to just 26% last month. Republican identification among black male voters tripled over Democrats. Trump also commands staggering leads even in hypothetical matchups again the newly unpopular Biden and Kamala Harris.
Rather than evolve messaging to reflect shifting voter priorities, smug media enterprises and polling shops lose trust each news cycle as projections stay frozen in 2016. Closing their minds to inconvenient realities, they cling to worn tropes that stirred base emotions last decade. This cocktail of contempt and delusion blinds them to surging populist movements aiming to restore sanity by putting experts and investors back in their place – public servants, not masters.
Trans Advocates Deny Biology While Ruining Women’s Sports
In the most emotionally charged segment, Crowder shreds a perplexed National Public Radio reporter who Bunsen coversGovernor DeSantis championing Florida’s bill banning biological male athletes from women’s divisions. She hints at pseudo-conspiracies concocting hypotheticals about the alleged millions of trans athletes plotting to steal female championships and scholarships. Yet even liberal networks like CNN concede fewer than 1% of teenagers identify as transgender in the most permissive surveys.
Revealing palpable exasperation addressing bad faith arguments, Crowder swiftly reels off decisive examples of the bodies racing against girls after undergoing male puberty smashing decade-old women’s track records, cycling up rankings, and claiming titles in wrestling and swimming in a flash.
As more states follow conservative-led Florida, Louisiana, Montana, and Tennessee to safeguard women’s sports at the high school and collegiate level, LGBT lobbyists and activists pout and seethe – but data decisively confirms biological males enjoy speed, strength, bone density, muscle mass, and lung capacity advantages no amount of hormone therapy can undo over the course of a few prepubescent years.
After decades witnessing East Germans’ state-sponsored doping regimes yield Olympic medals before devastating lifelong health impacts emerged, why does commonsense caution desert trans advocates willing to gamble with teens futures? Though outliers always exist, decade-long multi-country athletic analyses reliably measure how racing post-pubescent boys and men turns the joy and dignity of fair matchups into a mockery for all but the most gifted girls.
Is enabling likely blowout losses worth humoring trendy theories downplaying differences many women spend lifetimes training to close fractions of – just to appease a movement gaining members among clusters of privileged Twitter addicts and TikTok confused kids at breakneck speed?
Detransitioners who regret permanently surrendered fertility and sexual function warn dysphoria often passes if nurtured through natural childhood phases without medical intrusion. So following Europe’s model limiting physical transition to consenting adults and ensuring kids sort through identities without pressure seems compassionate. However loud rage mobs get, no amount of screaming that men can be women erases biological reality – or the more than 30 years of peer-reviewed data confirming sex-based performance gaps.
Shocking Rates of Detransitioners Fuel Calls for Caution
In what promises escalating legal fights over interpreting Title IX equality statutes, President Biden’s administration continues directives asserting transgender status supersedes biological sex in contexts like bathrooms, sports, and healthcare. Yet critics note over 80% of youth reporting transgender feelings outgrow it by adulthood if not affirmed.
Some like crowd-funded research psychologist Dr. Erica Anderson posit today’s youth gender crazes correlate to social media bubble environments divorced from reality. Her clinical work reveals many adolescents self-diagnosing as trans actually suffer body dysmorphia, anxiety, autism spectrum, and trauma disorders merely manifesting as profound disgust toward natural puberty. Without proper diagnosis, hormone blockers prescribed hastily on demand hinder mental maturity. And irreversible surgical interventions enabled by lawless clinicians have life-destroying impacts.
Crowder highlights how Biden’s assistant Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine broke from HHS’ official stance to endorse experimental use of off-label puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children despite manufacturer warnings of permanent infertility, sexual dysfunction, and weak bones. The FDA refuses to evaluate long-term data and the Department of Justice files lawsuits against states like Alabama limiting drugs and surgery to consenting adults.
Yet the loudest voices sounding alarms are detransitioner advocates like Chloe Cole. After testosterone drugs permanently altered her voice, face shape and body hair growth, she testified this August before California lawmakers about pursuing inadequate counseling and unproven treatments that left her sterilized at 13 years old:
“I really didn‘t understand all of the ramifications of any of the medical decisions I was making. I was unknowingly physically cutting off my true self from my body permanently, and I would not take that back.”
Harrowing outcomes and betrayal stories have fueled bipartisan support for safeguarding parental consent laws as once rare detransitioner community membership booms above 100,000 members.
Concerned Parents Increasingly Silenced and Intimidated
Expanding his case for empowering families to guide children’s healthy development absent heavy-handed government coercion, Crowder contends progressive gender programming in tax-funded schools often operates secretly using manipulation tactics to conceal lessons from parents.
Teachers across Florida and Texas were caught instructing young pupils to hide new sexually-charged curriculum content from “less understanding” conservative families. School boards label parents domestic terrorists for questioning explicit content exposing kids as young as 5 years old to radical gender and queer theory.
National School Board Association Lobbyists even improperly colluded with the FBI and DOJ to target vocal parents with federal harassment charges for speaking out – until public backlash forced directors to apologize. Yet 11 heavily Democratic states still oblige schools to withhold gender identity support services and medical information from parents.
This means girls told they were born boys and referred for puberty blockers or double mastectomy consultations need not inform their families about renouncing womanhood or biologic functioning. Elected leaders side with teachers that transition-curious kids spending 7 hours a day undergoing transgender grooming regimens understand life-changing treatments better than parents tasked with caring for them at home the other 17 hours.
The astronomical rise of youth transgender identification begetting catastrophic lifelong impairments has reached emergency levels. But rather than trace the craze to social media echo chambers normalizing dysphoria as trendy, lawmakers attack caring parental safeguards. What began with handing condoms to teens without permission has progressed over 30 years to schools transitioning daughters into sterile sons – yet progressive activists still seethe at conservatives wary of further ethical trespass. Is nothing sacred?
Social Contagions Demand a Return to Common Sense
Like rising conservative stars in medicine, journalism, and tech responding to the totalitarian diversity craze sweeping institutions, Crowder commonly draws protests trying to expand the range of acceptable views. YouTube suspended him for hate speech offenses like defining heterosexual marriage. Yet unlike most right-leaning provocateurs, his show strives for consistency holding abuses of power accountable across party lines. I welcome his imperfect but bold project giving voice to millions of Americans without TV contracts or Ivy League columns brought together by love of family, truth, fairness, faith and freedom.
In closing, while trans people deserve the same respect and dignity as anyone, that doesn’t require redefining womanhood, ignoring biology or allowing confused kids to veto parents. Outcomes like infertility and suicide ideation growing rampant after medical affirmation contradict claims that natural growth somehow damages self-perception. It turns out cultural forces bombarding malleable minds 24/7 with dysphoria-celebrating messages on Snapchat Discover and TikTok For You pages might better explain today’s record youth gender clinic referrals.
Women fought long battles earning equal rights and access playing sports also represent hard-won progress now erased, ignoring cries that years training can’t close physical gaps. Does compassion now demand we increase girls’ suffering to decrease hypothetical discomforts awaiting no proven interventions? Before revolutionizing laws and customs, should not watchful prudence rule in safeguarding children’s welfare and the social contract?
I pray and urge we again embrace caution, reverence for family, fair play and free thought as cornerstones for shared prosperity. Now more than ever open debate free of censorship or intimidation offers hope for balanced, ethical policies benefiting all.