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Derrick Van Orden: “The Chinese Communist Party does not care what your pronouns…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Published | Video Starts at 02:39

But at the end of the day, to win a war, you need someone to go in a room and beat someone to death with their hands. That's a fact. And all this other stuff is meaningless. The Chinese Communist Party does not care what your pronouns are. They care if they know, we will be able to destroy them, crush them and grind them into dust if they mess with the United States of America. (02:39–02:44)

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Asserts that the Chinese Communist Party is indifferent to pronoun usage.

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