I just watched that testimony from Brad Seiler at Senator Johnson’s roundtable. I have heard so many of these stories. This one still lands like a blow to the chest.
A conscious, coherent woman sitting in an ICU bed, telling her husband she wants to go home, and the hospital’s response is to call the police and turn a discharge into a six-hour standoff. She looks at the sergeant and asks the only question that matters: “Am I a patient, or am I a prisoner?” That is not a rhetorical flourish. That is the precise description of what American hospitals became in 2020 and 2021.
Let me speak as a physician who has actually stood in those rooms.
When a hospital tells a family “she will be dead in 24 hours” and then stops treating her, they have abandoned the practice of medicine. They have substituted a protocol for a patient. Isolation, denial of nutrition, secret DNR orders against the family’s wishes, refusal of the very therapies the patient requested in the ER — this is not “standard of care.” It is the systematic withdrawal of care dressed up as science. A nurse casually predicting death as they wheel her out is not dark humor. It is the culture that formed when doctors were no longer allowed to be doctors.
I have said this since the summer of 2020: COVID was treatable. Early, individualized treatment worked. Nobody needed to be starved, isolated, and declared terminal because they were unvaccinated or because they asked for something other than remdesivir and a ventilator. The moment the hospital learned her vaccination status, the entire tone changed. That is not medicine. That is ideology wearing a white coat.
Brad Seiler did what every husband and every physician is supposed to do: he refused to abandon her. He walked into the ICU, stood his ground for six hours, and took his wife home. She lived. That single fact indicts the entire system more thoroughly than any study. The hospital issued a death sentence. Her husband issued a rescue.
Hospitals exist to treat patients, not to process them according to a federal playbook while families are locked outside. When administrators call law enforcement on a man trying to take his conscious wife home, the institution has ceased to be a hospital. It has become a detention facility with better lighting.
This testimony is not an isolated tragedy. It is a pattern. We documented it in real time. We were called dangerous for saying it. History is now catching up.
Gail Seiler is alive because one man remembered that medicine is a covenant, not a protocol. Every physician who stayed silent while this happened should watch this video and then look in the mirror.
If you had told me when I was in high school in the 1990s that someday the lead singer of Jars of Clay would say “I’m no longer sure who God is” and the lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins would say “Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior” I would have spit out my Slim Fast and stained my flannel shirt
I'm not backing down from this one.
You can support people's rights AND believe biological men shouldn't compete in women's sports. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.
My issue isn't hate. It's protecting women, protecting girls, and asking why a WNBA coach chose to inject herself into a controversy that could hurt the very league she's supposed to represent.
Common sense still matters. That's where I stand.
My full remarks are on YouTube.
If you don’t think he’s a woman, you’re transphobic. When he claimed to be a woman, he became a woman. He now belongs in women’s changing rooms, bathrooms, hospital wards, prison cells and rape support centres.
If you try and differentiate between him and a trans woman who looks more convincing as a woman, you are promoting patriarchal beauty norms. If you admit to seeing an aggressive and possibly unbalanced man in this video, you’re saying all trans people are mentally ill predators. If you refuse to let him into female-only spaces, you’re removing his right to exist. If you suggest he could comfortably use male facilities, you secretly want him assaulted. If you refuse to call him ‘she’, you are guilty of unpardonable cruelty. If you’re a woman who wouldn’t want to share a locker room with him, or a man who wouldn’t want your daughter, sister or mother to get undressed in close proximity to him, you belong to the far-right. If you point out that there is no objective difference between his claim to be a woman and that of any other biological male claiming a trans identity, you are too stupid to understand the circular arguments explaining why he’s not really trans whereas other men who say they’re women are really trans.
If you’re righteous, you must argue that this man’s self-declared identity overrides any consideration of the safety and rights of females. To be godly, you must agree he’s as ‘valid’ as every other trans woman, because people are who they say they are. No matter what your eyes, ears and common sense are telling you, if you don’t want to end up on the wrong side of history, you must pretend to believe that this angry, intimidating man is actually a vulnerable, oppressed woman.
To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Today @USDA@SecRollins and I secured a major win for animal welfare.
Ridglan Farms will transfer its remaining 475 beagles out of a research breeding facility and into the care of a no-kill rescue, where they can begin the path to adoption.
Thank you, @LaraLeaTrump, for championing this issue.
We are also launching a new @NIH office, ORIVA, to speed the transition away from animal testing and toward modern, human-based science.
We will keep fighting for humane treatment of animals, better science, and accountability.
Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.
Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.
Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.
Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.
Watch the whole thing.
@RoKhanna Where you have it wrong Ro, is that it isn’t up to a political party to redeem America. If there is any redemption needed, that is up to the people.