'Donald Trump Scares Me. The Left Scares Me Far More'
Comedian Bridget Phetasy says she is voting against what she calls "anti-civilization behavior" from the Left.
By Bridget Phetasy
If you had told the Bridget of 2016 that the Bridget of 2024 was going to vote for Donald J. Trump, I would have said, "Wow, that's unfortunate. I lose my mind in the future."
Here I am, I'm voting for Donald Trump, but not really for Donald Trump. I'm voting against the Left and many of the things that they stand for.
I've been very open about a lot of my hesitations in voting for Donald Trump. I've been accused of being a "MAGA Karen" and a woman with "Trump derangement syndrome" enough that most of you know I am very much a person who feels torn when it comes to a lot of these decisions. But as I evaluate my body of work over the past eight years, and as I think about decisions I've made in my own personal life over the past five years, and as I've seen what's happened to many of our big cities and this country and many people I know over the past decade, a lot of what I've been critiquing is what can really only be described as anti-civilizational behavior on the Left.
There are cities that have been burned. I've interviewed detransitioners on my other podcast, Walk-Ins Welcome. These interviews haunt me forever. That alone should be enough for me to vote against the Left—the fact that there are children being sterilized, women who are cutting their breasts off and will never be able to breastfeed a child when they're young, when they're teens, or in their twenties. Even people who are making decisions that are irreversible will never have children. This alone should really be it. That should be it for me. You are brainwashing people into thinking that this is a rational solution to what is oftentimes a temporary problem.
Then you also have people who have been canceled and whose lives have been destroyed. I think about how when I'm tiptoeing around on social media over the years and tiptoeing around on YouTube, who am I actually running from in terms of being censored? It's not the right; it's the Left. These are the people who are censoring us. I think about the fact that a large population of the people has been brainwashed into believing that you need a PhD to tell the difference between boys and girls or that an old man is senile. And if you point those things out, you would be called either transphobic, or you would be told that you are some kind of right-wing cult leader for pointing out that Biden was in decline. These are problems that are pervasive all across the board.People have been canceled, their lives destroyed. I think about how when I'm tiptoeing around on social media over the years and tiptoeing around on YouTube, who am I actually running from in terms of being censored? It's not the right; it's the Left.
Now, I am not saying the right is perfect by any means. Just because I'm voting against the Left does not mean I'm on board with everything that's going on on the right. But I do think there are establishment problems on the Left, and they need to be stopped.
I look at all of the things that I've covered on "Dumpster Fire." Most of it has been making fun of what originally seemed like just wackiness from academia that has been pervasive and is destroying the very foundations of this country.
For instance, more kids than ever before, young adults, don't believe in free speech. That is foundational to our democracy, and that is being eroded in our schools. That is an ideology that is toxic to the very foundations of this country. You also have people who just hate America -- a whole generation of people who hate this country and Western civilization and will tear down any and all statues that celebrate things that are beautiful and have given men and women amazing gifts, art, books, music, and freedom like we've never had in the history of mankind.
There's so much to be grateful for still in this country. I am not ready to throw it all away, and I do believe that voting against the Left right now in this moment in time is my duty as a citizen of America and someone who believes in this experiment.
Now, I could turn out to be very wrong. I could turn out to eat all of these words. I am aware of how January 6th is something that is very, very concerning for people, as it should be. I've probably minimized it more than I should, and it might turn out to be a much larger issue than I was aware of or think it is. I am aware of people's hesitation for voting for Trump for a myriad of reasons, and I am aware that they're worried that he's an autocrat who wants nothing but power and won't be stopped.There's so much to be grateful for still in this country. I am not ready to throw it all away, and I do believe that voting against the Left right now in this moment in time is my duty as a citizen of America and someone who believes in this experiment.
I will call him out on all of his crap in the same way that I did when he was president, in the same way that I did when Biden was president, and I will hold him accountable to the best of my ability. I have long said I don't think either one of these candidates are qualified or have done things that are probably considered disqualifying. And yet, here we are. I'm going to vote for America, and I do believe I know that I will hear it. I accept all of it, and I actually understand all of the arguments against it. I hear all of you. This is just my decision because the social stuff that is happening—men in women's prisons, men in women's locker rooms, men able to have access to little girls.
Here's the other thing -- I have been radicalized by becoming a mother. I don't want to be called a "birthing person." That language that has infested our scientific institutions is disgusting. You need to be able to differentiate what a woman is from a man. Sex differences do matter immensely. And also, I am going and looking for preschool. I'm not worried about whether or not my daughter can have an abortion; I'm worried about whether someone's gonna talk to my three-year-old about their genitals.
That is pressing to me. It should be pressing to you even if you don't have a child yet because this is psychotic stuff that shouldn't be in our preschools, our schools, and our education system. We also have no education system. Literacy rates are collapsing. People don't know how to do math and read anymore because you're teaching them all this other nonsense. You're teaching them to divide people up by race. You're teaching people to evaluate one another by the color of their skin. You've taught a whole generation to feel like they're oppressors for being born white, which is a sickness.
This is the stuff that leads to race wars and division, and it's horrific. We need to stop these ideologies as they are destructive to our entire civilization. And there you have it. It's really a vote against literally all the nonsense we've been covering on "Dumpster Fire" for eight years. I don't know why I couldn't see it, truly. Many people have. They're like, "Oh, she'll be voting for Trump in no time." It took me longer than it probably should have. In 2020, I probably should have seen the writing on the wall, but I do think we are in a civilization fight.Sex differences do matter immensely. And also, I am going and looking for preschool. I'm not worried about whether or not my daughter can have an abortion; I'm worried about whether someone's gonna talk to my three-year-old about their genitals.
Not necessarily like, "Oh, good versus evil." No one has a monopoly on evil. No one has a monopoly on violence. Both parties have evil people who are violent in them—all parties. We are humans. But I do think that one party is much more interested in censorship and eroding free speech and even all the stuff around just seeing how people were silenced. We couldn't even have these conversations and debates around very important subjects. The fact that I have to talk in circles right now and can't just say basic things—that's not coming from the right; that's coming from the left. And that, my friends, is terrifying.
And there you have it. I could eat all these words. I've eaten many words on this show before, as those of you who have been watching me for years now know, and I won't be afraid to do it then either. I feel like I should say it and be honest. I could have hidden it. People are like, "Isn't this going to damage your politically homeless brand?" No, I still feel homeless. I'm just making a choice. This is still a binary choice. I'm making a choice. I think the numbers are going to be important, and I'm not really afraid if it damages my brand. Whatever. I can only be honest, and I do think it's important to be honest with you guys because I could have hidden it. I could have waited to see who won. There's a lot of ways I could have played it, but I'm just going to be honest about where I sit and stand. And I mean... go Trump.
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