As someone formally diagnosed with severe chronic depression, it utterly fucking kills me every time I have to blame it on my time in the Marine Corps rather than its true cause, an abusive childhood. When I blame it on Iraq they accept it and are sympathetic, when I try to explain growing up in an environment of fear and hostility they tell me to just get over it.

"We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus." - William S. Burroughs

Even if they genuinely believe trans people are mentally ill, is this how we treat the "mentally ill?" Mocking them, denying them the only care that's been proven to work and vague talk about eradicating their "ideology," whatever that means? “the measure of society is how it treats the weakest members...” -Thomas Jefferson (Maybe, definitely not Gandhi.)

"Nobody is saying your existence is illegitimate." I am absolutely saying the existence of nazis is illegitimate.

Thank you for this. This video came out a while ago but it really helped me to hear right now. As a trans woman it's really hard right now to want to keep going, I know that's what they want but it's just completely intolerable. I don't know how much more of this I can take before I kill myself. But hearing normal, decent people rebuke them like this makes me want to hang on for a little longer

My father is right-wing, but he still has his limits. I remember when our family was together one time, and my dad, unfamiliar with Tucker Carlson, turned him on initially to get a rise out of us (my dad's a bit of a gadfly like that), but he barely let Carlson talk for even a minute before he eventually found him insufferable and turned him off.

"They would not intentionally put people in positions of authority who were incompetent" Read that back to me, Tucker, but this time slowly.

As a German, and as someone who had several run-ins with Neo-Nazis in my youth (they attacked me and got beat up - by me), I approve this PSA.

Thank you. It was really nice to listen to you say this today. As a trans femme with depression, I'm grateful that I can listen to this later if I feel like it.

This here is important stuff. A lot of ppl don't seem to understand that "getting shit for existing and being a minority" and "getting shit for attacking others' human rights and dignity" are not the same thing, and aren't on equal footing.

I love how Carlson says "people" pretending to be "women," as if women weren't also people.

Depression is common with major medical diagnosis. Not only stroke, but also cardiac problems, cancer, major surgeries, etc. I know this first hand after cancer surgery, massive heart attack and then radiation and chemo therapy for a second cancer. I was doing good for two years then one day it was literally like one of those shipping containers just dropped on my head. I took time but I recovered mostly. Still can have a few bad days here and there, but nothing like it was.

Quite frankly I honestly and wholly distrust anyone who isn't depressed or irate when seeing the social route this world has taken. If you're not somewhat depressed you are a sociopath. Empathy is no longer present at the top of the gov or corp ladder. Im far from in step with the left or right, and the either/or thinking of the party system is what keeps us from changing anything.

Hey Steve, I suffer from PTSD and severe depression. I grew up in a family that was based in hate, and as much as that hate flowed out to others it was also taken out on people within the family because once they drive away the people that they hate they have to find someone else to hate. In my family I was that person. I am now estranged from my family due to this. Yep, they have accused me of "cancelling" them which isn't true. However, there is only so much you can take before you have to walk away for your own sanity. Honestly in some weird way I love my family, I just no longer can allow them to abuse me. Part of me misses them, I miss the times where hate wasn't the focus, but those times became fewer and less and their hate grew. I don't wish them ill I just wish they would stop hurting people.

These people have literally said that transgenderism needs to be eradicated, and reply to those who are (legitimately) alarmed by those statements by saying that nobody is calling for the eradication of trans folk. Right after calling for the eradication of trans folk. Reality is an inconvenience to these people.

Even if Knowles were sincerely making a distinction between the person and the beliefs-which I don’t think he is-and being trans really were a “belief” (which it isn’t), let’s try this one on: “I don’t want to eradicate Jews, just Judaism” I don’t want to eradicate Christians, just Christianity”. We’ve seen the way that religious conservatives respond to the Freedom From Religion foundation or even just the idea that maybe your Christianity doesn’t have a place in deciding whether or not you do your job (by literally rubber-stamping a marriage certificate). They’ve made it very clear that they can’t conceive of a way that an ideology might be eradicated without eradicating its believers, so we’re supposed to believe that all of a sudden that’s what they mean when it comes to trans people‽

All of my respect and sympathies to John Fetterman. Depression is a cruel illness, one I've struggled with all my life and will struggle with for the rest of my days. I'm so glad that he reached out when he met his crisis point, because it's bloody hard. I'm glad that he's standing up and saying it hurts him and it's something he needs time to handle.

I recently commented on a news video about the Gary Lineker controversy here in the UK, where a few far right politicians and activists were up in arms when he tweeted (quite rightly) that the language being used to describe immigrants sounded very close to language used in 1930s Germany. My comment endorsed Star Trek’s values (by name) and a rejection of hatred. Without _any_ sense of irony, one of these gammons replied and (besides complaining that our current Prime Minister is not white) told me that I was “of weak stock”. I don’t think I’ve ever received a greater unintentional complement than a literal fascist deeming me “inferior”! But it is kinda terrifying that these people are so boldly coming out of the woodwork.

"We don't hate this group of people. We simply have a list of grievances that goes to Andromeda and back. We may vent our psychotic rage at them every chance we get. We may see them as inferior to us in every way. We may even harm them. But we certainly don't hate them! Perish the thought! Where would you get an idea like that?" -- Every Hate Group Ever

As the ancestor of Ben Sisko ( I can hope ) I worry for all of us on the "outside".

“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and Zeig heil’s like a frickin nazi, it’s a frickin nazi.” -Linkara

Steve, I'm scared. Everywhere I go I see people who hate me for existing. Just last week a trans woman was brutally assaulted and left in critical condition in my own neighborhood. If I make any kind of comment about trans issues, no matter how measured, I get dogpiled with some truly vile stuff. I appreciate you for always having a level head about things, for ridiculing the ridiculous, and for standing up for people who need allies. In a saner world it would be a small thing, but in this world it really matters, at least to me

We used to do terrible things to left handed people to try and hide the fact that they were left handed, or to "cure" them of it. We got over it. I wonder how we could apply that here?

"They would not put people in positions of power who were incompetent," then how come donald trump, green and bobert made office?

White, Black, Cis, trans, depressed, bipolar. You should never be ashamed of who you are, only actions for which you actually had a choice.

Pro tip to anyone wanting to know the correct way to respond to accusations of Nazism: alarm and concern. If I'm saying things unintentionally or out of ignorance that someone else thinks is bordering on Nazism I want to know and be corrected. Unless I secretly know what I'm saying is Nazi shit, in which case I will get indignant and condemn myself with a hostile reaction.

Can't believe we're living in a day and age where people need to be reminded over and over again that Ñàzí = Bad.

Hmmm, not sure they are as small a minority as you think. As someone who has spent 30odd years dealing with the general public, I still get moments of complete shock hearing perfectly normal looking people openly expressing attitudes I thought died out with my grandmother.

It sucks when you know people want to hurt you for what you are on several axes.

I worked in the Court system for years in California, and I had a colleague who was the soul of the party: funny, witty, attentive, nice, professional. Nobody had anything bad to say about him. Except that I noticed, particularly during the administration of president Barack Obama, that my funny colleague would use racist Spanish terms to refer to Mr. Obama. It wasn't subtle, but on-your-face racism. My colleague is Cuban, very republican, and is convinced that the Democrats are Communists. I thought, "He's projecting his home country's traumas," and let it be. But then, more and more often, the racist jokes started. Now it wasn't just President Obama, it was the whole Black race, in Cuba and Latin America, in the US, everywhere. I put a stop to it. I told him I would no longer tolerate any racist jokes or comments in my presence, and if he kept it up, I would open a case for hostile environment in the workplace. That shut him up in front of me, but most of my colleagues took his side, claiming "He doesn't mean it," and "You (me) are too sensitive!" Finally, another colleague confronted me with "Why do you feel offended by his jokes? You are Hispanic, but white!" Corollary: this crap is pervasive, it's everywhere, and when people just accept it and remain in the group, or the dinner party, or the family reunion in spite of all the Nazi shit that is normalized the way we smile about the weather, we help it spread and drown us.

Thank you for being one of the few KZfaqrs who is addressing this. I love your Star Trek content and I am glad you are bringing this up. This Nazi shit is creeping out everywhere in the US due to people being compliant and complacent with it. Especially in media and even social influencers are ignoring it. Thank you for speaking up for the trans community ❤

Thank you Steve... as a trans person, I really can't express how scary this all is. When you got to the part where you were telling Tucker and the other Nazi's "No one is trying to erradicate you" i lost it, I broke down in tears at how evil these people are and how scary it is to be their target.

The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps has been a paramilitary government agency with an admiral as it's head since 1889. Where is Tuckers respect for our history and tradition?

If it quacks like a Nazi and waddles like a Nazi then it’s a Nazi duck.

The Knowles stuff is infuriating. He said the same thing a week before CPAC, and defended it as "It's not genocide, if it's not based on race or genetics." Nazi shit but w/ semantics.

Steve, I love you for speaking truth. I'm a cis guy who has basically had all ties cut from my family because I called out the nazi shit several years ago. I appreciate that I'm not alone in deciding enough was enough. The irony though, is that my friends (both trans and cis) have been so much more supportive than my family ever was. And my partner's family has basically adopted me and it's been wild to see what a healthy family environment looks like. It's amazing that when you stand up to abusive nazis in your life and decide to go it alone that amazing people seem to show up and rally around you.

Thank you for making this video. I have been suffering quite badly with my depression lately and, like a lot of people with depression, there is a tendency to start believing the sort of shit Carlson says on the subject. Hearing that sort of thing called out as 'Nazi Shit' was exactly what I needed to hear today. Thanks.

Now that is a freaking Damn Good Rant!

I really can’t thank you enough for calling out such inexcusable behavior from the far right like this. 3 out of 4 members of my immediate family are Trump supporters and at times it feels like I’m the only sane person in the asylum (because my more progressive older brother moved out years ago). These days it feels like my only source of refuge is my Sarah Lawrence alumni fiancé and my therapist whom I’ve been seeing in secret who also sympathizes with my plight. Between this and all the Best Superman Ever videos you do (Superman is my all time favorite) you help me feel validated and empowered to stand up for truth and justice despite my difficult position of still living under my parents’ roof. Thank you for being my outlet and keep speaking the truth! God bless you, man!

For my fellow trans folx who live in the US, I want you to know that Canada has a petition going around to grant asylum to trans folx. I know things are scary right now, but there is room for some hope.

Trans guy here commenting for the algorithm gods. (Obviously Baphoment and Santa.) Love your rants and your total personal overthrow of civility politics. Wish I'd known and I could have taken a shot every time you said, "Nazi sh!t!" Although maybe not. Would be in the hospital. Keep up the fiery allyship!

Respect to John Fetterman good to hear he's recovering well. I'm in the UK and here we have just had a week of high farce as a soccer commentator and popular TV presenter compared the language used about refugees by the government to that used during the thirties. Cue outrage as his comments were disingenuously presented as a direct comparison to the Nazis while much of the UK showed solidarity with the presenter and pointed out that if his comments had been in support of the policy nothing would have happened.

Many Americans are suffering from depression. Should every one be able to be hospitalized until fit to resume their work?

Honestly - how can anyone take what is said by Carlson or Fox in general as having any validity anymore? We know they lie. That's an established fact - even Fox itself doesn't try to argue that as a fact anymore.

Glad Senator Fetterman sought help and is doing well! I've been there, my dude.

Steve, give me a fucking trigger warning when you show Carlson on screen! People might be eating while watching!

I've known I'm trans since I was 4, but was groomed by society and the church to be something that I was not.

Thank you for making the content you do. The world is a scary place for a disabled transwoman like myself, but people like you make me feel welcome and safer.

"Sure we wanna eradicate demographics of people in our population, enforce social hierarchy, imprison anyone at will, teach nationalist doctrine, and punish whoever breaks the rigid social structure ... but we're not nazis!" - The right.

Well said, Shives. This sort of bullshit can't be allowed to become normalized.

Yeah, the thing about Knowles' defense is even granting that acceptance of transgender people is an ideology rather than people actually being transgender (something that I'm not generally in favor of doing, what with being a trans woman myself): it's still a genocide, and is one of the ideas that the person that originally coined the term had in mind for it to refer to. But, as I said, I'm also a trans woman, so I am fully aware that the only way to destroy transgender ideology is to destroy transgender people. Even granting the entire premise is what they say it is doesn't make it not a genocide, and the only way to do what they're calling for is to commit what most people think of when they think of genocide. So, no matter how you cut it, they're calling for genocide - and absolutely should be called out for it, every single time they try to pretend that what they're doing is anything but.

During the lockdowns, I was not in a good place mentally. I live in PA & would always look forward to Dr. Levine's lunchtime updates that she did on weekdays as PA's secretary of health. She has such a reassuring & calm way of speaking that it would ease my anxiety a little. When I heard Biden wanted to appoint Dr. Levine to US Assistant Secretary of Health, I was a little bit selfishly sad because PA would be losing her. However, I was so pleased that she was appointed to this position! Dr. Levine is an inspiration & fuck anyone that says different.

Thank you Steve, that was quite something to listen to. A real riteous rant as it were, Im from acoss the pond and being part of the LGBT community watching whats going on over there truly scares me ..I hope you can kick these nazis down good and proper before their poison spreads further than it has done

I wish I could like this multiple times. Well said. I can’t stand Carlson, and can’t wait until karma catches up with him. Keep up the good work!

As a trans woman living in Europe I think that the US is a cautionary tale for us. Yes, in the EU fascism has been in check since WWII but the safeguards are starting to crack... and I feel all of you, folks over there... I wish you the best of lucks and a real change of wind in your country 💜 And us in the EU must defend what we've built in our countries.

I'm a stoke victim, I lost my ability to continue in my profession (master cabinet and furniture maker), lost my business and home due to lack of income. And became very depressed, It's taken 13 yrs. From one survivor to another, Hang in There, my friend, you are loved! "F" Tucker!

Someone once tried to argue with me that "people aren't *assigned* a gender at birth" and I'm like ... I just can't even talk to this person. What do they think is happening when someone writes a M or F on the birth certificate?

Fetterman looks like he lost a bit of weight. He's a strong person, though. I hope karma exists and knocks the shit out of tucker.

Thank you for this. I am terrified for the people I love that are transgender.

The true silent majority is pretty live and let live on these issues.As someone who has dealt with extreme depression good on him for seeking help. To be fair that job would be hard enough under any conditions

Sadly, when you read off Tucker's quote, I can still hear it in his voice.

Up & at em Steve, bravo

Not to take away from the seriousness of the video, but Tucker's clip about Fetterman is downright hilarious if you remember that the man demanding "the wisest, the smartest, the sanest, who have the greatest degree of foresight and emotional self-control" be put in charge has supported Donald Trump for years. Then again, because of the recent leaks of texts, I suppose we know that Tucker didn't believe that Trump should be in office either. He's just too crooked to say it on air.

Man I'm in tears. If this world were made up of more people like you it would be such a wonderful place. I am so in awe of you. And my heavens your vids and your take on life are so so so right. THANK YOU for your KZfaq videos but way more than that Thank You for YOU. An amazing Man. A wonderful Human.

That's not the flex Tucker thinks it is...

Straight fire My Friend, thanks!!

Who are the 2.4k people who downvoted this? This is a good take.

Excellent points all around; this is the paradox of tolerance in semi-rant form (and that's not a bad thing). Thank you for saying this out loud, Steve.

Steve Shives, man, I salute you for your courage. You are a legend.

Awesome stuff, direct and to the point, the world needs more of this

Thank you Steve, for saying what Tucker Carlson really is!

Brilliant. The _only_ thing you missed was comparing Carlson's excuse to "I don't want to eradicate Jews, I just want to eradicate Judaism!"

Thank you so much, Steve, for vocalising several ideas and grievances that have been floating around my head for a while that I was yet to put into words. That was actively cathartic for me :^)

Thanks, Steve. I have relatives who have mild depression. Depression isn't something to belittle.

The very first surgeon general was a woman who lived her entire life as a man. No one knew until AFTER her death. It wasn't widely known, or talked about. But it is a historical fact. She lived her life short tempered, with fits of rage never married, or had children. She was only the Surgeon general. How about that?

You had me at calling Carlson a POS. Subscribed.

yyeeeeeah, nazis lost last time, but not without doing genocides and a world war first. We'd be foolish to think, minority opinion that it may be, that it's going to go away at no or minimal cost. It didn't need to be waited out, it needed to be defeated. It's a bad idea to be complacent because they're 'in the minority'. They were before, and people were complacent because of it.

Tucker Carlson speaking even if it’s not him saying the words give me hives

TV Dinners was out on his ass not too long after this, which is hilarious.

How can anyone live on this planet and not be mentally ill? Our biggest problems are caused by each other.

That was fucking massive! THANK YOU! Without any qualifiers about how I grew up or anything, I just want to be honest. The trans and LGBTQ issues do confuse me. First of all, peoples’ private bedroom lives are their own business, and none of mine. That’s my baseline. The reality here is, regardless of how anyone feels or, what tradition you were brought up under, these issues are out in the open, they’re out of the ‘box’ (the Pandora variety), it’s actually been that way for a long time and none of it is going away. More powerful, brutal, hyper-conservative people and societies have tried eradication many times before. It NEVER works. We are all better off making the effort to understand these issues. Black, African American. Black African. Black men. Black women. Whites. Feminism. LGBTQ. Immigration. Economics. Taxes. Religion. Non-religion… all of it! The Tucker Carlsons of the world need to get out of the way. We’re at a gigantic, frightening yet amazingly exiting state of change and flux in the world. The opportunities to do really big things are right there for the taking… and we’re fucking it up royally. I’ll leave it at that.

Wonder if Carlson's ever weighed in on Lincoln's mental fitness, given Lincoln's lifelong struggles with crippling depression?

"I need a reporter who doesn't know the difference between an ism and a kangaroo!"--a line from Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent," and one of the hiring policies at the Daily Wire.

Revisiting this after hearing Trump quote Hitler. Can we call the Republican party Nazis yet?

Pal-uh-steen is how I have heard that the locals pronounce the name of their town. Sorry for being the “um, actually” guy, just trying to be helpful.

Americans, what do we do to Nazi's? Do that.

it's funny that between those two, the one that looks like he's brain damaged is not the one who suffers the real symptoms.

@SteveShives :: Thanks for this vid. John Fetterman is my Senator. We supported him, had his lawn sign in our front yard in a relatively Trumptotic area. We're getting a little old for door-to-door work, but we did some phone banking and sent Bux to the campaign. We voted for him after the stroke, were proud when he got elected, and wished him the best in his recovery. He's a fine guy who make Pretzelvania proud. Or course we were lucky. He could have been pretty awful and we still would have had to vote for him because his opponent was Mehmet Fucking Oz! But we lucked out with John. Keep on fighting the Nazi shit.

Preach brother.

You didn’t do a Tucky Carlman impression reading his quote, I know you got a good one in there Steve

Hi guys, I'm deeply troubled about the safety of our trans siblings. Steve Shives always hit's the 'right note' in his observations. Please be safe everyone and let's vote these shitters into oblivion. Jim Oaxaca Mexico, gay cis male

So glad I found this channel. The millions of dollars that these people are spending to blanket the internet in nazi shit is tiresome.

Umm, Mr. Carlson...Abraham Lincoln?

As a transfem person its depressing how many people want my rights taken away

Never understood why so many people feel the need to control what other people do in the bedroom

Steve, you remain awesome. Thank you for calling out the bigots on their nazi shit, and making me smile at how you do it

This is the rant I want to give regularly to my fundamentalist childhood friend I am trying to drag out of it

Steve, you're truly amazing. I've been watching your Trek videos for a while, but as part of the LGBT community and a student of history, you're dead-on with your political views as well as your media analysis. Thank you for standing up for us LGBT folks 💜

If Carlson says he doesn't think we should trust people who suffer from bouts of depression, I would ask if he thought Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill should not be considered qualified to lead their countries during time of war? I'm sure Carlson despises Lincoln anyway, but what about Churchill? Churchill had bouts of depression that he called the "black dog". Anyway, considering what he said in secret about Trump and then turned around and praised Trump on the air, I would not trust anything coming out of Carlson's mouth.

That is the question you should always ask, to their face, when you hear complaints about 'woke.' "Okay, but what do you want to do about X (minority here) themselves....?"