Ep. 1016 - Innocent Victims Sacrificed On The Altar Of ‘Criminal Justice Reform’
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Summary
Recent tragedies both here and in Canada reveal the utter insanity of left-wing, so-called criminal justice reform policies. Also, the White House press secretary has publicly called out for her own past comments questioning the integrity of our elections. How dare she? A gender-affirming doctor, so called, admits that kids who are put on puberty blockers will never have proper sexual function as adults. Never. The media says that if you don t like the new Lord of the Rings series, it s because you are, of course, racist. And Jennifer Lawrence is worth $160 million, lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills. But as she explained in an interview, that doesn t mean she isn t oppressed.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, recent tragedies both here and in Canada reveal the utter insanity
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of left-wing so-called criminal justice reform policies. Also, the White House press secretary
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has publicly called out for her own past comments questioning the integrity of our elections. How
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dare she? A gender-affirming doctor so-called admits that kids who are put on puberty blockers
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will never have proper sexual function as adults. Never. The media says that if you don't like the
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new Lord of the Rings series, it's because you are, of course, racist. And Jennifer Lawrence is worth
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$160 million, lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills. But as she explained in an interview,
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that doesn't mean she isn't oppressed. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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At age 14, Miles Sanderson of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan started doing cocaine. And as the
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parole board would later put it, his criminal offending began at about that time and continued
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with, quote, no significant breaks for nearly two decades. As an adult, Sanderson would go on to rack
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up 59 criminal convictions. Many of these convictions were for violent crimes, like in 2017 when he burst
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into his ex-girlfriend's home, making threats and forcing the children and his ex-girlfriend to flee
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to an upstairs bathroom while he beat on the door and put holes in it. And then he went outside
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and threw a cement block through a windshield. About six months later, he got drunk and stabbed two guys
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and then beat another one unconscious and left him in a ditch. A couple of days later, he made threats
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against an employee at a store and said that he would murder the guy and burn down his parents' house.
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Two months after that, he got into a violent standoff with police, assaulting one of the cops by punching
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and kicking him in the head, even after he'd been detained and cuffed. These are just a few of the crimes
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over 50 other convictions for crimes ranging from assault, to assault with a weapon, to robbery,
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and everything in between. Eventually, he wound up in prison, where he spent time in the prison's,
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quote, healing lodge, and was quickly granted parole in the summer of 2021. Immediately, he violated
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the terms of his parole, and after only four months on the outside, found himself back behind bars.
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In February of this year, he appeared before the parole board again, and he asked them to reverse
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their decision to put him back in prison. Sanderson, along with already having violated
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his parole, was also officially classified as a high-risk offender. Specifically, it was determined
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that he was a high risk to commit domestic violence and violent crime in general. Sanderson's
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parole supervisor, for this reason, recommended that he remain behind bars, but the members of the
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parole board said that they were impressed with the fact that Sanderson had, quote,
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made progress on his healing journey. And they were happy that he had, quote, made arrangements
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for a therapist. And they were optimistic that he could, quote, make the journey towards a pro-social
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life. Moreover, they determined that his life of crime was not really his fault. It was due to trauma
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that he'd suffered from, quote, the intergenerational impacts of residential schools, neglect, exposure to
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familial and community substance abuse, your own substance abuse issues, exposure to slash
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experiencing domestic violence during your childhood, family fragmentation, lack of education, and loss
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of culture slash spirituality. They determined that he did not, therefore, present an undue risk to
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society. And they declared, quote, the board is satisfied that your risk is manageable in the community if
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you live with your redacted, so live with a certain family member, maintain sobriety and employment,
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and continue with developing supports, including getting therapy. So Sanderson was released. He
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immediately violated his parole, again, stopped reporting to his parole officer, and next thing you
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know, he's on the lam. He's off the radar completely for four months until this past weekend when he popped
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up again, along with his brother Damien Sanderson, and went on a stabbing spree, murdering 10 people
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and wounding 18 others. And he's still on the run as we speak. His brother Damien was found dead after
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the stabbing spree, possibly murdered by Miles himself. If Miles is caught, caught alive and arrested
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again, which they think he probably committed suicide, but if he is caught and alive and arrested again,
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under Canadian law, he will automatically be eligible for parole after 25 years. He's only 32.
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That puts him out in the street before he turns 60. In Canada, you can murder 10 people and still be
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released back into society. It is impossible to get a life sentence for any crime in Canada, no matter
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what you do. As Miles proved, it's nearly impossible to get even a moderate sentence. I mean, he committed 59
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crimes and still hadn't earned more than a comparative slap on the wrist. Now, 10 people are dead at the
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hands of a man who, we were told by the parole board, presented no undue risk to society.
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Now, this story is not getting very much attention in the American press, as you might expect, and that's
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not because it happened in Canada. It's rather because the whole saga, every bit of it from start
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to finish, exposes every left-wing narrative about crime, exposes and invalidates, reveals the absurdity
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of these narratives. Here we have a repeat violent offender from a supposedly oppressed minority group
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because he has indigenous heritage, which, by the way, in Canada, that is also according to the
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criminal code in Canada. They have to take that into account. So if an indigenous person commits a
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violent crime, then they have to take into account that he's indigenous, and oftentimes he'll get a
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lighter sentence because, well, he's indigenous, so it's okay.
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So, repeat offender, oppressed minority group, supposedly, given chance after chance after
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chance, and yet utterly determined to inflict as much damage on society as possible. And finally,
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he goes on a mass killing spree and does this in a country where guns are illegal.
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Because apparently you don't need a gun to kill mass amounts of people. Miles and Damien didn't need
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guns anyway. Their victims certainly could have used them, but the victims were disarmed. In fact,
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had just declared a couple of months earlier, you might remember this
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clip, a couple months earlier he said that self-defense is not a human right. If you're attacked by a
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violent scumbag in Canada, it is your responsibility to simply die. And 10 people fulfilled their duty in
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that respect, as Justin Trudeau demanded. Now, Canada's gun laws and criminal justice laws are
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totally insane. They're literally designed to get innocent people killed. And they have succeeded in
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that regard. But our situation down here in the States isn't much better as we get closer to Canadian
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level madness every single day. Innocent people die in our country every single day for the sake of
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giving brutal dirtbags their second and third and fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh chances.
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Speaking of which, a young woman named Eliza Fletcher is one of the most recent human sacrifices
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to be offered up on the altar of compassion for criminals. Fletcher was 34 years old, a mother of
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two small children, a kindergarten teacher. On Friday morning, she went jogging and never returned.
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Two nights ago, so a couple of nights after she went missing, her body was found dead, brutal,
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paralyzed, lying in the yard of an abandoned home. Her clothes had been removed and discarded in a
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plastic garbage bag nearby. A man named Cleotha Abstin has been charged with abducting and killing
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Fletcher. And it will not surprise you to learn that Abstin, like Sanderson, is a career criminal
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with convictions for assault, robbery, rape, all of that on his record. In fact, in the year 2000,
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he was sent to prison for 24 years for kidnapping and aggravated robbery. So he had done exactly this
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thing before. Now, you might be doing the math in your head and saying, well, 24 years since 2000,
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why is he out of prison? Well, he was actually released in 2020. He was released four years early.
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Another criminal who, according to the parole board, I guess, didn't, you know, present an undue threat
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to society. Well, he made it two years after being let out of jail, before he committed the exact same
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crime again, only this time adding murder and possibly, given the fact that the victim's clothes
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were removed, other unspeakable acts as well, though that hasn't been confirmed yet. Cleotha Abstin
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was given another chance, actually given a lot of chances. And now two young children will grow up
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without a mother because of that. This is happening all across the country at an increasing
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rate. In all, over 75% of criminals released from prison end up back in prison after committing more
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crimes. 75%. Which means that anytime a criminal is released from jail, it is statistically almost certain
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there's at least a three quarters chance that this person's going to commit another crime, victimize
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another person, end up back in jail. Has this led to a decrease in the rate at which these parasites
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are unleashed back onto society? No. In fact, it's been the exact opposite. As more and more innocent
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people fall victim to these repeat offenders, the powers that be have doubled down, promising to fill
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our communities with even more of these crooks and delinquents. John Fetterman, for example, has called for
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the mass release of convicts who are serving life sentences in prison. And by the way,
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life sentence in prison, this is not one of those, we always hear about the mythological people that are
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in prison because they, you know, had a little bit of weed or something. And they were, next thing you
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know, they get, they get 10 years in prison, supposedly. You get a life sentence. It's not for
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weed. We could tell you that. But he wants to release a lot of them. Let's listen to that.
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We have a catastrophic bottleneck in our prisons of over 5,000 men and women condemned to die
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in prison. And many of them, I believe, personally, are deserving of a second chance.
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Catastrophic bottleneck, he says. In fact, John Fetterman has been more specific talking about this
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and has said that he wants to release up to one third of the prisoners who are serving life sentences
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because of the bottleneck. There are too many people who've done things so horrible that they
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earned life sentences because of it. And the solution, says Fetterman, and also says nearly
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every other elected Democrat in the country, is to release these people back into our communities
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and so that, you know, the catastrophe in our prison can become a catastrophe right outside our
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front doors. And that's exactly what's happened with violent crime rates rising rapidly all across
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the country. Now, what makes this crisis so especially infuriating is that, unlike other
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problems we face as a society, I mean, there are some problems that are complicated and difficult,
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and there is not an easy solution. This is not one of those problems. There's actually an easy,
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simple solution. And it's a solution that almost nobody is talking about among our elected officials,
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and that's on the right and the left. Okay, because keep in mind, this is not just the Democrats.
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Now, we talk about the Democrats. I just said Democrats, but it's also Republicans.
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There are lots of Republicans, including the last Republican administration, who were all
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on board for prison reform, which means taking more people out of prison and putting them on the streets.
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There are very few Republicans offering the real solution, which is this. Arrest violent criminals,
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put them in prison, and keep them there. Now, if there are concerns about the sustainability of such
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a system, if there's concerns about overcrowding and bottlenecks, well, there's a solution for that too.
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Here's what it is. You take the worst of the bunch, the most violent and despicable, guys like Cleotha
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Abston, and what you do is, again, it's very, very simple. You take them out of their prison cells,
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and you bring them up onto a platform, and you put a rope around their necks, and then you hang them
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from it until they're dead. And then you take their bodies, and you bury them in a grave marked only by
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their inmate number, and you let society forget that they ever existed. Because when you do things
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like this, you don't even get to be remembered by society. We bury you in the ground and try to
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forget about you. Now, this is called capital punishment. Of course, you may have heard of it.
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It's still used in some states, but should be used in every state, and it should be used much more
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often than it is. A society with a strong sense of justice, a clear understanding of right versus
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wrong, and a society which values innocent lives like Eliza Fletcher will necessarily treat violent
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crime with this kind of severity. It is not bloodlust or vengeance. It is justice. It's also realism,
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as it acknowledges that some people, through their own behavior, have become an undue burden on society,
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and they've given us no choice but to relieve ourselves of the burden through the only means
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available. I mean, if you're such a burden on society that we can't even put you in prison,
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The point we have to understand here, and the way that we should be framing this discussion and
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talking about it, is that releasing violent criminals or giving them lenient sentences
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is not a decision made in a vacuum. Everything in life is a trade-off, and that's especially the
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case here. So when somebody like Abstin or Sanderson is sent back into the free world again and again and
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again and again and again, the system that released those men is making a trade. They're not just doing
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it. There's a trade here. They are trading Eliza Fletcher's safety, your safety, my safety, my
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children's safety, your children's safety, for the sake of this person's freedom. That's what they're
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saying. I mean, think about the phrasing that they used for Sanderson, an undue. It's not an undue
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risk to society. Well, it's not the same thing as saying that it's not a risk. It's just not an undue
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risk. What does that mean? Well, it means that the parole board, the system, has declared that,
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yeah, he's a risk. I mean, he's a high risk, actually. So think about it. How could he be a
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high-risk offender and yet not an undue risk? How could he be classified as both at the same time?
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Well, because he's a high risk, but it's a due risk. Like, it's a risk worth taking, is what they're
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saying, in other words. Yeah, there's a high risk that he's going to kill a bunch of people, which he did,
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but it was a risk worth taking for his freedom.
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That's what they're saying. The system declares that it is worth the risk to your children's
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lives in order to give a heinous monster his ninth or tenth or eleventh chance.
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But the people who make this trade on our behalf, a trade that none of us agree to or want,
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are never made to defend the decision or explain how they've arrived at this moral calculation.
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They can't defend it. Because all of this is, in the worst way, indefensible.
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All right. This has really gotten out of hand, folks. The Sweet Baby Gang has now started a
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petition calling for a return to the flannels. And there's an actual change.org petition.
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Next thing you know, there's going to be a march on Washington. But this is really difficult for me,
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you have to understand, because I'm being torn in different directions. I'm helplessly caught in
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the middle. Okay? I am utterly helpless here. Like yesterday after the show, I had like a 30-minute
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conversation with my producer, Sean McKenna, who are both very pro-blazer and anti-flannel,
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I'll tell you. Sean had like a whole PowerPoint presentation about the blazer. But then I go home,
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and I find out that my wife is on team plaid. And she's like, she's actually very, everyone is very
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serious about this and taking it very seriously. She is like emotional about it. And she actually
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said, this is what she said. I'm not making this up. She said that, you know, you know, it's getting
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to be fall now. And so I go out and I see people wearing plaid and I see them wearing flannel. And it
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makes me sad remembering when you used to wear flannel. And I'm like, I'm not dead. I'm still,
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I'm sitting right across from you. I can still wear flannels. It's just about the show.
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Then she tells me that she actually sent a text to our wardrobe person about this issue. So she has
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entered into the discussion. And meanwhile, I'm sitting here, I don't have strong feelings about
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it. Like I have strong feelings about almost everything, including things that don't matter
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at all. But in terms of what I wear, I don't care that much, which is the whole reason I wore
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flannel to begin with. It's just because like, it's something you can throw on and you don't need to
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iron it as much. It doesn't get as wrinkly, at least as obviously wrinkly. So that's why I was
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wearing it to begin with. So I'm sort of stuck in the middle. It's like the one thing I don't care
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that much about. Everyone is sort of in my ear about it. So here's what I'll say. Start a GoFundMe,
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raise $50,000 for me personally to go in my pocket, and then I'll start wearing the flannel again.
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That's the solution. Just kidding. Don't do that. Forget I said that because they'll actually do it.
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Don't do it. That was a joke, but I still haven't decided what the answer is. Okay.
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Karen Jean Pear, she might have an answer to this. Maybe someone should ask her.
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That's what we need. We need a statement from the White House on this issue.
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She was called out at the White House press conference yesterday for her own past comments
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questioning the integrity of our elections. And this is something that you could do.
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This is, you could take any Democrat on the national stage and put them on the spot like
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this because all of them, of course, when Donald Trump was elected in 2016, all of them were out
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there saying that this is not legitimate. This is not right. This is, you know, we got to abolish the
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electoral college. This is Russia. It's everything. Election interference. All of them were saying that
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every single one. Uh, Karen Jean Pear was among them and, uh, here's how she responded to that
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question. The new attention on the mag of Republicans. You tweeted in 2016, Trump stole an election.
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I was waiting, Peter, when you were going to ask me that question. Well, here we go. You tweeted
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Trump stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election. If denying election results is
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extreme now. Yeah. So let's, let's be really clear that that comparison that you made is just
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ridiculous. I have been, I have been, well, you're asking me, you're asking me a question. Let me
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answer it. And you said ridiculous. I was, I was talking specifically at that time of what was
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happening with voting rights and the, what was in danger of voting rights. That's what I was speaking
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to at the time. Well, it's, this is, of course, that's always their answer. This is ridiculous.
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What are you saying that I should be held accountable for my own words that I, are you
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suggesting that I should hold myself to the same standard that I hold my political opponents? That's
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absurd. And the thing is that that's not, that's not a put on. That's not an act. She really thinks
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it's ridiculous. It, for people on the left, it is, it is actually absurd to them. The very idea
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that they should be held to the same standard that they hold the rest of us is it's just,
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it's ludicrous. It doesn't even compute. Well, of course it's different. It's me saying this.
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It's as opposed to you. And actually, you know, we say this goes back to 2016 with them questioning
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elections. Um, and it wasn't just the presidential election. I mean, they also, we, we know that
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Stacey Abrams is, is currently the governor of, uh, of, uh, of Georgia, according to them,
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but it goes back before 2016. I mean, they've been questioning the integrity of every election
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they lost since at least 2000. I mean, since at least the first Bush term,
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they've been questioning the integrity of every election they lose. And it's not even just elections.
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It's whenever they lose anything, they, they question the integrity of the system that produced
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that loss for them. Supreme court, you know, they could get 50 Supreme court decisions in a row that
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go their way. Then they get one that doesn't. And it's, well, the whole, it's whole, the whole thing
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is rigged. It's the whole system needs to be changed. Abolish the Supreme court, get rid of it.
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That's what they do. That of course is always the game, but to them, it's not, as I'm always
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reminding people, it's not a, it is not really a double standard. It is one standard, which is,
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uh, you know, they get to do what they want. And for us, it's something different. So it's,
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it's kind of, it is in a way, one consistent standard where they, they are the privileged
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and they can act a certain way, but that doesn't apply to us. All right. This is from the daily
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wire and interesting poll result here. Although it, to me, it's kind of up in the air, whether
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you interpret this in a positive or negative way, I don't know. It says nearly one in four
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democratic voters believe men can get pregnant. According to a new poll, the online survey conducted
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by WPA intelligence from August 20, uh, 22nd through the 25th found 22% of Democrats agreed
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with the statement. Some men can get pregnant. The percentage rose when only including women
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and a whopping 36% of white college educated female Democrats concurred. Overall, few Americans
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think that men can get pregnant. Uh, but this is quoting from the firm that did the poll,
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but with 36% of a core Democrat constituency and one out of five Democrat voters believing
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this one can see why democratic leaders coddle the radical gender theory movement. The poll
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underscores the left's growing embrace of a radical gender theory that biological sex does
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not dictate gender. Now I I've sort of seen this poll just came out this morning and daily
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wire reported. I've looked at some of the reaction and I've seen some people on the right
00:24:39.500
kind of kind of taking this in a positive way and say, well, it's still, so, so the majority of
00:24:44.940
even Democrats don't believe that men can get pregnant. Um, so that's a good sign, I guess.
00:24:52.760
I'm not sure I quite see it that way. Still 22% will agree with the statement that some men can get
00:24:58.820
pregnant. That is a given the statement that they're agreeing to. Okay. If this was a 22% of Democrats,
00:25:07.900
uh, you know, only 22% of Democrats think that abortion should be legal with no, with no exceptions
00:25:15.420
or something. Well, that I would say, well, that, that would, that'd be a very good sign.
00:25:20.100
22% agree with the statement that some men can get pregnant. And one of the things about polls
00:25:25.540
like this is that you can't, you can't, you can't go back 10 years, 20 years and check what the polls
00:25:31.780
were saying back then because nobody was polling this, this topic at all, which actually tells you
00:25:37.680
everything you need to know. It was, it didn't occur to anyone to even ask the question until,
00:25:44.540
you know, five seconds ago. But I think we would be pretty certain that if this question was asked,
00:25:51.620
I mean, 10 years ago, it gets a little dicey. 15 years ago, 20 years ago, you asked this question
00:25:56.160
and every single person is saying, uh, can men get pregnant? No, of course not.
00:26:00.280
And then what an even greater shame for, uh, the Democrats and female Democrats in particular,
00:26:10.860
that there are more women on the Democrat side that will agree with that statement than men.
00:26:16.260
It's like women on the left are more on board with being erased than the men are.
00:26:30.000
College educated female Democrats in particular, which kind of shows you, uh, what a, what a college
00:26:36.940
education does for you these days. I mean, you've got people that go through four years of college or
00:26:42.120
even, I mean, how many of these are grad students? I'd like to break it down that far. I want to see
00:26:46.780
this poll again, but now show me. So we got college educated Democrats and then, and then, and then,
00:26:52.800
uh, narrow it down to grad students. I want those with master's degrees and PhDs. How many of them say
00:26:59.360
that men can get pregnant? I bet you then it gets over 50%. So you can spend four, six, eight,
00:27:06.160
however many years in higher education, supposedly, and come out on the other end
00:27:13.460
with six figure debt, but a, a, uh, less of a grasp on basic biology than my kids have.
00:27:26.660
Here's a kind of the same subject. Here's a pediatrician with a familiar line about puberty
00:27:31.920
blockers. This is on, uh, another pediatrician on Tik TOK. Now, once again, obviously goes without
00:27:37.100
saying for me to take this video and show it to you is an act of terrorism and incitement. How dare
00:27:43.500
I? But here's what she said. Puberty blockers are used once puberty has started, but not when you're
00:27:51.240
too far along. And what they do is they just pause your puberty where it's at. And that gives you time
00:28:00.000
to further explore your gender identity without the extra pressure of developing in a gender
00:28:07.820
in which you might not feel comfortable. And then if you continue those puberty blockers long enough,
00:28:14.220
then you can start replacement therapy with the, uh, gender identity hormone of your choice when you
00:28:21.540
reach usually around 15 or so, or once you've been on that puberty blocker for at least a couple of years.
00:28:27.280
Hope that answers your question. Yeah, that's a, the, the account is called ask the doctor or ask a doctor.
00:28:34.260
So, you know, if you have any medical questions, you can go and ask this doctor and she will simply
00:28:39.080
lie to your face with delusional, insane, dangerous nonsense, like what you just heard there. Uh, but,
00:28:45.320
but it's familiar nonsense at this point, especially if you've seen my film, what is a woman, which you can
00:28:49.220
go to was woman.com. If you haven't seen it and watch it there, um, you are familiar with this
00:28:53.340
nonsense because it's the same thing that I heard from, uh, from several so-called experts that,
00:28:58.820
well, you could just pause, just pause it, just put it on pause. Uh, a total lie of course. And it,
00:29:04.540
and it reveals again on the left. And we see this with a lot of what they say about climate change
00:29:09.460
and environmentalism too. We see it, um, you know, slight, slightly less malignant form of it,
00:29:14.780
but still pretty malignant, which is this total lack of respect for nature. As much as they talk
00:29:22.820
about nature, uh, a total lack of respect for it, for the power of nature. And that includes human
00:29:30.620
nature. That includes biology. So you're treating the process of human development. It's like a game
00:29:40.420
but you're talking about the, the analogy that, uh, one of the people I talked to in what is a woman
00:29:46.580
used is it's like, it's like a, it's music. You could just pause it and then pick up the next note
00:29:51.160
of the song. But really it's, they're talking about it like it is a game, like it's a video game. You
00:29:56.840
just hit the pause button and you can freeze it right there and then come back to it anytime and pick
00:30:02.600
up right where you left off. That's not how nature works.
00:30:10.420
I mean, you're talking about a system in, in human beings anyway, that's been in place
00:30:18.380
for millions of years. And you think you can, you can circumvent it like that, that easily,
00:30:25.100
just pop a pill, circumvent this process without any downside whatsoever, no side effects.
00:30:33.700
You could take a pill and put someone kind of freeze someone at the exact moment of development
00:30:39.880
they're currently at and keep them there indefinitely. By the way, if this was true,
00:30:46.240
would this not be the, the key to like immortality basically? If that's true,
00:30:52.040
that you could just take a pill and freeze your physical development in place and then resume it
00:30:57.480
some other time, then, I mean, I guess you could take puberty blockers, you know, someone could take
00:31:01.680
puberty blockers for 60 years. And then when they're, when they're technically in their seventies,
00:31:07.540
they could pick up with a development again and end up living in, you know, until they're like in
00:31:11.980
their mid one hundreds. If that's how it worked, but that is not how it works at all. I mean, what you
00:31:21.980
can do is you can essentially by poisoning these kids. And when you're using the drugs this way off
00:31:29.520
label in a way that they're not meant to be used, you're, you're poisoning them and you can stunt
00:31:35.500
their growth and you can mess with the biological processes, but there are significant side effects
00:31:44.980
and we can't even really call them side effects because they are just, they're the effects.
00:31:48.400
They're really the intended effects. So here is a report in the post-millennial with another name
00:31:55.040
that might be familiar to you. If you've seen what is a woman says that a recent talk at Duke
00:31:58.900
university on trans and gender diverse policies, care practices, and wellbeing surgeon and trans
00:32:05.560
affirming doctor, quote unquote, Marcy Bowers, who transitioned at the age of 38, admitted that
00:32:10.460
children who undergo transition before puberty will never have adult sexual function or experience
00:32:15.380
orgasm. Never. Bowers said, an observation that I had, uh, every single child who was,
00:32:21.920
or adolescent who was truly blocked at Tanner stage two, which is the beginning of physical
00:32:25.740
development. When hormones begin their work of advancing a child to adulthood has never experienced
00:32:31.360
orgasm. I mean, it's really zero. Bowers says, um, this raises huge and glaring red flags with the
00:32:40.960
concept of informed consent reading now from post-millennial for children and teens who are
00:32:44.800
ushered in transition. Um, Bowers proudly advertises the fact that she actually it's a, it's a, he, this is
00:32:51.340
a male has both delivered 2000 babies and performed 2000 castrations on biological men who identifies
00:32:58.380
transgender performing, uh, vaginoplasties and is recognized as a pioneer in the field of gender
00:33:04.320
affirming surgery. So like I said, we talked to Marcy Bowers in, uh, in what is a woman. And this
00:33:12.640
is the person who, when we, there were, there were many disturbing parts of that conversation,
00:33:16.660
but it's also the person we taught when, when I, when I asked him about, um, the social contagion,
00:33:23.860
is there a social contagion element to this? The fact, the fact that we've got so many kids all of a
00:33:29.640
sudden who are identifying as trans when before it was almost non-existent, comparatively speaking,
00:33:34.840
uh, is that an indication of, of social contagion. And I think of the exact quote, quote was maybe a
00:33:43.460
teensy bit, just a little bit, but here's Bowers admitting that when you give these drugs to a child,
00:33:51.080
you are forfeiting for the child permanently adult sexual function.
00:33:56.760
And that does raise a question about consent. I mean, it doesn't simply raise a question about
00:34:04.380
consent. It reveals that there cannot be consent here because how can a child
00:34:08.840
consent to foregoing something like that? You're talking to a prepubescent child. How can they possibly
00:34:17.980
consent to foregoing adult sexual function? They're foregoing something they've never experienced.
00:34:24.480
They don't understand. And they're consenting to never having it ever in their lives.
00:34:34.540
Same question with a, with a 14 year old girl who supposedly consents to having
00:34:38.960
her breasts removed and thereby consents supposedly to, um, never being able to breastfeed a child.
00:34:48.300
Yeah. Maybe when you're talking to a 14 year old girl, it doesn't sound like a big deal
00:34:51.680
because being a mother is nowhere on her radar, especially when she's in the midst of all this
00:34:57.220
gender confusion that's been imposed on her in many ways. So how can she consent?
00:35:07.220
How could she know what she's giving up? She can't. This is a decision that is being made for these
00:35:13.080
children that the, the, the adult versions of those children will have to live with.
00:35:17.640
And by the way, the people that are actually making decisions, they don't have to live with
00:35:23.060
the consequences. They're putting that on the child to deal with. All right. This is from, uh,
00:35:31.480
the daily wire. It says Elon Musk is weighing in on the new Amazon series, the Lord of the Rings,
00:35:36.520
the rings of power. And it sounds like the billionaire Tesla CEO is not a fan.
00:35:40.500
Tolkien is turning in his grave. Musk tweeted Monday in response to the series, which just
00:35:44.740
released episodes, uh, on, uh, uh, two episodes last Thursday, almost every male character so far
00:35:51.420
as a coward, a jerk, or both only Galadriel is, I guess that's a Lord of the Rings character is brave,
00:35:57.540
smart, and nice. Now this is part of a overall kind of backlash against, I guess, against the Lord of
00:36:04.140
the Rings series. Daily wire has also has this report. There's been a lot of hype leading up to
00:36:07.480
Amazon's Lord of the Rings adaptation, the rings of power. But now some fans are saying it's a huge
00:36:11.640
flop. The series premiered the first two episodes Thursday currently has an 84% critic rating and a
00:36:16.860
36% audience rating on on Rotten Tomatoes. This certainly isn't the first time critics and viewers
00:36:22.080
disagreed on whether a show was a triumph or a fail, but some reviewers are accusing fans of being
00:36:27.940
racist for their one star reviews. Of course we knew that was going to happen. A writer for the
00:36:33.660
Hollywood Reporter likened these reviewers to miserable little trolls who were review bombing
00:36:38.220
the series simply because casting directors chose to add black actors into it. So this is,
00:36:44.700
this is the narrative now that we're getting from the media. I haven't watched this show. I have no
00:36:48.440
interest in watching it. And I'm a fan of Lord of the Rings actually, but it's because I'm a fan of
00:36:52.840
Lord of the Rings that I'm not going to watch Amazon's version of it. And I, and I, I said this
00:36:58.840
from the very beginning, the first time they announced the series, I was warning everyone,
00:37:02.000
it's going to be a disappointment. It is going to disappoint you because Hollywood in the year
00:37:06.380
2022 does not have the ability. I mean, it would, it would be in any era, it would be very difficult
00:37:13.380
to make a Lord of the Rings series, which yes, maybe it's based on some of Tolkien's work,
00:37:19.540
but you're basically telling your own story. And now we're going to stack it up against one of the
00:37:25.840
classic fantasy novels of all time, fantasy series of all time. So in any era of Hollywood,
00:37:31.500
that's a lot to ask. I mean, you're, you're almost doomed to fail already,
00:37:37.400
but especially in this era, it's just, it's impossible that the series can be good.
00:37:46.800
They don't have the capacity to tell these kinds of stories anymore. And when I say capacity,
00:37:52.780
I don't mean from a financial perspective, they got all the money in the world. It's been a billion
00:37:56.620
dollars on this series, which by the way, you don't hear a lot of complaints from, from the left
00:38:06.120
about that. You know, they say about like Elon Musk, when he made an offer for Twitter, they said,
00:38:12.080
well, why don't you, you could have taken that money and solve the world hunger. Well,
00:38:16.520
Amazon spent a billion dollars on a, on a TV show. How much world, how much of world hunger could they
00:38:22.920
have solved with that? But they've got the money, but they don't have, there's not the,
00:38:29.420
there's not the, the spiritual capacity to tell stories like this anymore in Hollywood.
00:38:37.540
But the narrative is that the people don't like the show because there are some black actors in it.
00:38:42.700
And of course, because, you know, the people that are watching Lord of the Rings, it's the first time
00:38:46.360
they've seen a black actor in a show and they're all racist. And so that's why they have a problem with
00:38:50.440
it. Then you, you go and you read the audience reviews and what you see, not surprisingly, is
00:38:57.000
that almost all of them don't like the show because they think it's boring. They don't like
00:39:01.640
how it's written and all of those things. I looked at some of the reviews. I didn't see one person
00:39:06.540
complain about the fact that there's a black actor. Now, with that said, audiences at this point
00:39:13.980
have a very low tolerance for anything that even smells woke. Like the minute there's a hint of woke
00:39:20.420
wokeness. And of course, just having a black actor doesn't mean that you're trying to do something
00:39:24.980
woke. But the minute there's a hint of it, like if there's a hint that they put a character in the
00:39:31.280
show just for, for no reason, not because it advances a story, but just for diversity concerns,
00:39:37.260
the minute there's even a hint of that, audiences are repelled and for good reason, because we're sick
00:39:42.660
of it. Though I don't think that's the primary complaint here. All right, here's, before we get to the
00:39:47.620
comment section, here's the latest from TikTok. This is an anti-white racist who went viral
00:39:54.120
with this temper tantrum about white people. Let's listen.
00:39:58.580
I call y'all white people for what I see, y'all. Y'all are devils. Y'all are parasites. Y'all are
00:40:04.580
mosquitoes. And when you look at a mosquito, you see that mosquitoes latch onto other life forms,
00:40:11.160
drain the blood from that life form to get nutrients so it can power itself. That's exactly
00:40:18.660
what y'all are. Because every single thing that y'all do is to drain the life out of everything.
00:40:27.200
And when we look at the advent of y'all devils, since the moment y'all were created, y'all have caused
00:40:34.220
destruction, chaos, and deception on our earth. When we welcome y'all in to our kingdoms, our lands,
00:40:44.880
as eternal people, what did y'all do? Y'all came in, y'all caused destruction, y'all caused
00:40:52.100
altercations amongst us as a people and amongst our civilization. Therefore, we banish y'all,
00:40:59.340
we exiled y'all from the kingdom. This is the true story of the Garden of Eden.
00:41:06.680
Oh, it's a true story, huh? Yeah, white people caused altercations, but there were no altercations
00:41:13.920
in Africa prior to white people showing up. There were no altercations in the Americas before the
00:41:21.040
Europeans showed up. There were no altercations at all. Because when those cultures were
00:41:29.220
killing and enslaving each other, which they all were, they did it, I guess, in a peaceful way.
00:41:34.180
It wasn't, you know, kind of like a mostly peaceful BLM riot. It wasn't, there was no
00:41:38.440
altercation involved. I'm not sure exactly how that works. By the way, not to get too technical here,
00:41:44.620
but I'm pretty sure that only female mosquitoes bite and suck blood. So this also strikes me as a
00:41:51.520
sexist complaint from this guy. And white people, though, he says, are parasitic life form,
00:41:58.020
basically, that have brought only misery to the world. Which I guess you could see why he would
00:42:04.160
say that. You know, white people are parasites who brought misery to the world by inventing
00:42:10.640
antibiotics, inventing electricity, inventing space travel, the printing press, modern plumbing,
00:42:22.360
computers, almost all of modern medicine. All of the technology that this guy uses to complain
00:42:29.200
about white people, invented by white people. So here's my challenge. And this is serious. This is a
00:42:35.600
real challenge here. For any anti-white racist like this guy, and there are a lot of them out there,
00:42:42.240
here's my challenge. If you're an anti-white racist, I challenge you to go one single day.
00:42:49.380
I mean, even an hour of a day, I would be impressed if you could do that. But let's be ambitious.
00:42:53.920
Go one day without using anything that was given to you by the race of people you despise.
00:43:01.540
One day, can you do it? I don't think you can, but prove me wrong. Now let's get to our comment section.
00:43:11.400
Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.
00:43:19.560
Okay, I have to do something here before we get to the comments, and hopefully you'll bear with me.
00:43:23.680
I'm in a bind, all right? A bind even worse than the flannel predicament. So a couple of weeks ago,
00:43:28.700
I happened to show you a picture that my five-year-old son drew of me. Maybe you remember
00:43:35.200
that, and I showed it to you because he made me look like a character from Nightmare Before Christmas,
00:43:39.840
which he hasn't even seen the movie. And I thought that was cool. So I showed you the picture. Well,
00:43:46.220
last night, I happened to mention to my son that I showed that picture that he drew of me on my show.
00:43:53.420
My kids obviously don't watch my show. They have very little idea of what I do for a living. They've got
00:43:58.100
very little concept of it. All they know is that daddy is on TV, and also that random strangers
00:44:03.140
sometimes stop daddy to take pictures with him. That's the only thing they know. So he was surprised
00:44:09.120
by that when I told him that I showed the picture. He was shocked, and he was thrilled, and he was very
00:44:14.680
proud of himself, rightfully so. And then, and I didn't know he was doing this at the time, but he ran off,
00:44:20.220
and he began furiously drawing more pictures, three more pictures in total. And he came, and he put
00:44:26.440
them in my bag, my briefcase. And he asked me to bring those to work and to show everyone those
00:44:33.260
pictures too. And he said that those pictures are even better, and he wants everyone to see them,
00:44:38.060
to know what a good artist he is. So he says this to me, and it's like, what am I going to say to that?
00:44:44.580
He's so excited and so proud. And so I said, yeah, sure, buddy. I'll, I could, I could do that at some
00:44:48.880
point. And he said, well, no, can you do it tomorrow? And, and, and I said, well, no, we'll see. And he
00:44:55.440
said, dad, can, when you get home, can you show me the video of you showing the drawing so I know you
00:44:59.920
did it? And I said, yeah, sure, I could do that. Great. So he backed me into a corner, folks, which is
00:45:08.060
why, and here's the clip that I'm going to, this is where the, this is the, this is the part of the clip
00:45:11.400
I'm going to show him. Um, this is why I have to show you these amazing drawings that my son made
00:45:16.660
for me. We'll put them up on the screen so you can see them. Uh, you can see there's a picture of me
00:45:20.680
fishing. There's another one of me, uh, and him, and then there's another one of me. I think we can
00:45:27.980
all agree, sweet baby gang, that, uh, this kid is truly a phenomenal artist. And what's even better,
00:45:33.440
I think, is that he has a knack for choosing great subjects for his drawings, uh, mainly because the
00:45:39.840
subject is almost always me. So there you are. There are the drawings, each one better than the
00:45:47.920
last. Can't we all agree? Now let's get to the comments. Cody says, I am saddened, Matt, to hear
00:45:55.660
that you have not had anyone to talk about dinosaurs for so long. Happy that your boys have grown enough
00:46:00.080
to discuss the fascinating creatures with you. If you ever need someone else to talk to about them,
00:46:03.940
I love dinosaurs and am here for you. Well, I appreciate that, Cody. Bentley says, Matt bans multiple
00:46:09.020
people from the show for telling him how to dress and groom himself. And he says he's a man of
00:46:14.380
principle and then immediately proceeds to tell us what razor we should be using, the hypocrisy. Well,
00:46:20.640
in fairness to me, I'm just doing as I'm told there. I mean, it's not, they are great razors,
00:46:26.800
but as you know, it's not like I can really offer my, my personal endorsement of them, but I do hear
00:46:31.380
they're great. Let's see. Tie my shoes says, Matt needs to add that red lighting during his daily
00:46:39.400
cancellation segment. A couple of walruses in the background. Oh, the red lighting from Biden's
00:46:43.300
speech. That's actually a really good idea. I hadn't thought about that, but that is, that lighting
00:46:48.420
is terrible for presidential speech as has been established. Would be really good for daily
00:46:53.200
cancellation. I do agree with you. Question everything says, I'm 65 and I did not know what
00:46:58.140
non-binary is. I thought it was computer talk, not to mention I'm a great grandmother and my children,
00:47:04.120
my grandchildren, and my great grandchildren have never talked this way until their school
00:47:08.760
attempted to indoctrinate them into this insanity. Well, you know, I'm, I'm happy to hear this response
00:47:13.980
from someone in their sixties because of course, like you, you lived, you know, a, your whole life
00:47:23.180
without anyone ever talking about non-binary because that concept didn't exist until it was invented
00:47:27.600
15 seconds ago. And I have to tell you, going back to my film, what is a woman? When we were
00:47:33.900
out doing our man on the street interviews at first, I really expected, like, I thought that
00:47:38.080
we would, we'd stop a bunch of younger people and people, my age, I don't know if they count as
00:47:42.020
younger. Um, and we would get a lot of people who are just confused and talking about non-binary
00:47:46.740
and pansexual and the rest of it. I thought though, that if we get anyone over the age of like 50,
00:47:53.200
certainly people are in their sixties and seventies and we stopped them and talk to them about this
00:47:56.240
stuff, they're going to be, they're going to have your reaction and say, what is this? This is crazy.
00:48:01.620
But it was quite depressing to find that, uh, the confusion spans all age groups largely
00:48:08.800
with some exceptions, like in your case. SS says, I'm probably going to get roasted here,
00:48:15.440
but I'm going to say this anyway, because I think it's true. And I hope Matt can be challenged by it.
00:48:20.060
I agree with a lot of what Matt Walsh says. A lot of it, most of it, here comes the,
00:48:25.220
but, but the way in which he says it is very often self-defeating. If his goal is to do anything
00:48:31.160
other than preach to the choir, a case in point from this episode, Matt says, I hate these people.
00:48:37.620
And only a few minutes later runs an ad for a Christian app that is listed among other,
00:48:41.360
among other aims, reducing the sinful temptation to hatred. I know the typical rejoinder here is
00:48:46.580
something along the lines of these people don't deserve kindness because they're threatening our very
00:48:50.680
way of life and so on. I've heard all that and I don't buy it. The reason is that Jesus did not
00:48:54.340
respond this way to people. And yes, I'm aware that he had harsh things to say, but go back and read
00:48:58.140
them. And you'll find that they are not spoken to those blinded by the world's sinfulness and
00:49:03.200
enslaved to it, but to the religious leaders of his day whose failure to abide by God's revealed path
00:49:09.000
denigrated God's name. What Jesus said explicitly is to love your enemies and forgive those who persecute
00:49:15.060
you. I accept most of that. The forgiveness part, not so much because is it up to me? Now,
00:49:24.860
what was I referring to yesterday when I said that? I was referring to adults who sexually
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indoctrinate kids, who mutilate and drug kids. That's what I said when I said, I hate these people.
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It's not up to me to forgive them. Okay. Now you could say, I forgive them as a Christian.
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That's worthless. That is worthless forgiveness because you are not the person harmed.
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This sin was not committed against you, so you could forgive them all day long. What does that
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even mean? I mean, what does it mean to forgive someone of a sin they didn't commit against you,
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but against someone else, namely a child? So forgiveness is a Christian virtue. It is very
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important, but you can only forgive someone for things they've done to you, things that you are
00:50:09.640
affected by. If you're not affected, then forgiveness is, you know, forgiveness is something
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that happens, again, to people who are, if you are affected by it. Now that said, does that let me
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off the hook entirely? No, it doesn't. You are correct. We are called to love our enemies. We
00:50:32.340
shouldn't go around saying we hate people. I'm with you on that. But I'm also being honest with you
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about how I feel about it. Because I do have hatred for them. I really do. And I'm just being
00:50:45.080
totally honest. Not defending it, being honest with you. That hatred is born from my love for the
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children who are being harmed. That's where it comes from. If you are able to regulate that,
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do a better job of regulating within yourself, then that's very good. And you should be commended for
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that. However, my fear is that, and I'm not saying this is the case for you, because I don't know if
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it is or not. I can't see inside your heart. But I have noticed there are a lot of Christians who
00:51:22.200
preach, well, we should love our enemies, and we should love the people who do horrible things to
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children. And yet for many of them, it's not really love. You know, it's, or at the very least,
00:51:31.780
it's kind of a cheap love that they have. Because it's more indifference. Like, they don't really
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care that much about it. And so they don't feel that rage within their souls about the horrible
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things that are being done to kids and to others. They don't feel that rage and anger. They don't feel
00:51:50.820
it. And so it's very easy for them to say, oh, no, we shouldn't lash out in anger. We should just be
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loving. It's only worth something if you feel the anger. I mean, if you understand just how
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hideously, horribly evil this is. And if you feel that and understand it, and yet are still able to
00:52:10.520
regulate yourself spiritually and emotionally, then again, I commend you. I can learn something from
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you. But there's a lot of so-called Christian love in our culture that, to me, seems a lot like
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indifference. Which is why you get this from a lot of churches. And you hear priests and pastors get up
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there, and they talk about Christian love all day long. They never even mention any of these things.
00:52:34.720
They don't even acknowledge it because they don't care, and they're indifferent to it. And so it's really
00:52:41.080
easy for them to say, oh, I love our enemies. Well, you don't even care about what our enemies are
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doing to these kids. So you had a caution for me. I accept that. I have a caution for you as well.
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Something to think about. Well, football season is upon us, and my colleagues bordering on friends over
00:53:02.660
at Crane & Company are hosting their first ever fantasy football draft party tonight. If you're an
00:53:09.360
anti-woke sports fan and you haven't watched Crane & Company on The Daily Wire yet, then I suggest
00:53:13.580
you do so. Not just because it's a great sports show that refuses to virtually signal leftist
00:53:17.600
politics, but because I will be competing all season long to add Daily Wire fantasy football
00:53:23.660
champion to my Twitter bio as well. I've got many accolades. This one is going to be the next that I
00:53:29.180
add. Every week I'll be going head-to-head with the Crane guys, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, Morning Wires,
00:53:33.960
John Bickley, and even Michael Knowles, whose sum of sports knowledge is the New York Yankees in the
00:53:38.140
90s. So I think we're good there. Make sure to follow our Daily Wire fantasy league throughout
00:53:42.520
the season by watching Crane & Company Mondays through Fridays. And I better not blow the draft
00:53:47.760
because the loser of this league, this is real. We're actually doing this. If you lose, the punishment
00:53:53.820
is you have to sit courtside at a WNBA game and actually watch the entire thing. This is, and by the
00:53:59.980
way, I have to tell you also that I, for some reason, because this punishment is so funny, I fought
00:54:05.660
for it behind the scenes. I'm like, this has to be it. We have to do this. And it only occurred to me
00:54:12.340
after the fact that I'll probably be the one who loses because I'm terrible at fantasy football. So
00:54:16.680
that's what's on the line here. That's why you need to tune in to watch the draft party. You can
00:54:21.020
catch all the draft action tonight over on Crane & Company's YouTube channel at 7 p.m. Eastern,
00:54:25.260
6 p.m. Central. Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.
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Today, we canceled Jennifer Lawrence, who's a Hollywood actress, been mostly out of the
00:54:37.220
spotlight since starring in a series of flops over the last several years. Now she's attempting
00:54:41.260
to get back into the spotlight again in the run-up to the release of her latest film. And having
00:54:47.780
scrupulously studied other Hollywood actresses, Lawrence knows that the best way to get the attention
00:54:51.960
back on yourself is, of course, to play the victim card. The fact that she has a net worth of like
00:54:57.360
$160 million does not at all hinder her in her access to the victim card. It's quite the opposite,
00:55:02.900
in fact, as we will see. In an interview with Vogue magazine, Lawrence runs through her list of woes.
00:55:10.060
Now, she begins with something that truly is tragic and terrible, and yet she manages to find the least
00:55:17.000
sympathetic possible way to talk about it. So she says that she's suffered miscarriages.
00:55:22.920
Miscarriages are an awful thing. We've been through that in my family as well. But then she
00:55:28.040
quickly adds that she was planning to abort the first miscarriage anyway. In fact, she frames the
00:55:33.420
whole conversation around the Dobbs decision, explaining that the recent birth of her first child
00:55:39.060
somehow has made her even more steadfast in her support for abortion. She says, quote,
00:55:45.660
I remember a million times thinking about it while I was pregnant, thinking about the things that were
00:55:49.920
happening to my body. And I had a great pregnancy. I had a very fortunate pregnancy. But every single
00:55:54.520
second of my life was difficult, or rather different. And it would occur to me sometimes,
00:55:59.220
what if I was forced to do this? Now, it's really hard to even fathom the derangement in a statement
00:56:05.120
like this. Lawrence was pregnant with a child that she says she wanted, and yet took solace in the fact
00:56:11.500
that she had the option to kill him. It's just the sort of thing that a person should not feel
00:56:16.840
comfortable saying out loud. But many such things are said out loud in a culture devoid of shame.
00:56:22.160
Lawrence then goes on to attack her own family, speaking of being shameless. Reading from the
00:56:26.340
report in Variety, it says, according to Vogue, much of Lawrence's disappointment over Roe v. Wade began
00:56:30.500
being overturned as, quote, directed at certain relatives back in Louisville, Kentucky, where she'd grown up,
00:56:37.420
including her father. The actor had been trying to repair the family rift after giving birth.
00:56:43.360
Then the Supreme Court ruling was made official in complicated matters. Lawrence processed her
00:56:47.820
family drama in therapy. Quote, I just worked so hard in the last five years to forgive my dad and
00:56:53.180
my family and try to understand it's different. The information they're getting is different.
00:56:57.960
Their life is different, Lawrence said. I've tried to get over it, and I really can't. I just can't.
00:57:03.620
I'm sorry. I'm just unleashing. But I can't F with people who aren't political anymore. You live in
00:57:08.320
the United States of America. You have to be political. It's too dire. Politics are killing
00:57:12.420
people. She says, I don't want to disparage my family, but I know that a lot of people are in a
00:57:17.060
similar position with their families. How could you raise a daughter from birth and believe that she
00:57:20.780
doesn't deserve equality? How? She doesn't want to disparage her family, but she will. This already
00:57:27.660
tells you all you need to know about this person. I mean, we don't value loyalty very highly in this
00:57:31.820
culture, mainly because we don't value anything of value in this culture. But that doesn't let
00:57:36.240
Lawrence off the hook. I mean, if you will attack your own family in public over political
00:57:41.820
disagreements of all things, that tells us that you are a self-absorbed backstabbing brat. But she
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isn't done. She also reveals that she has sought therapy over a recurring nightmare that she has
00:57:54.660
involving Tucker Carlson. Then in the same interview, she for some reason confesses that she had her first
00:58:00.400
political awakening moment by watching 30 Rock. And finally, following the script of every self-victimizing
00:58:08.400
woman in Hollywood, the filthy rich Jennifer Lawrence complains about her salary, obviously.
00:58:14.940
She says, inequality is something, rather this is reading from Vogue again, a variety. Inequality is
00:58:20.780
something Lawrence has had to contend with in Hollywood too, where she has often been paid lower than her
00:58:25.000
male co-stars. The Sony hack revealed that she made far less than the likes of her male co-stars on
00:58:31.080
American Hustle, while reports reveal in 2021 that she earned $5 million less than Leonardo DiCaprio on
00:58:37.340
Don't Look Up, despite sharing top billing with him. Lawrence told Vogue that all actors are often
00:58:42.600
overpaid, but that doesn't make the pay gap any less frustrating. She added, quote, it doesn't matter how
00:58:48.560
much I do. I'm still not going to get paid as much as that guy because of my vagina. Well, no,
00:58:55.280
Jennifer, it's not because of your vagina. It's because people are more likely to see a movie for
00:59:01.580
Leonardo DiCaprio than for you. People will actually pay for a ticket because they want to see DiCaprio
00:59:08.220
in a film. People will do that. I'm not sure anyone has ever purchased a ticket just because they want
00:59:13.080
to see Jennifer Lawrence in a film. And I think she's a talented actress. I just don't think people are
00:59:16.360
going to the movies to see her. Now, technically, her films have grossed billions of dollars at the
00:59:21.160
box office, but that's almost entirely due to Hunger Games and X-Men. And those are both franchises
00:59:26.360
that would have had the same success with literally anyone else in her roles. That's the beauty of
00:59:32.420
franchise films as far as movie studios are concerned. Just like plug anybody in and they'll
00:59:36.860
make a billion dollars. Now, we should also note that Vogue conducted this interview with her,
00:59:42.660
first at an exclusive spa in Santa Monica, and they had a follow-up at Lawrence's mansion in
00:59:48.940
Beverly Hills. So this is the perfect picture of modern victimhood. You have a rich and famous actress
00:59:55.400
lounging in her mansion wearing a bathrobe, which was what she was wearing for the interview,
01:00:00.060
apparently, while complaining that she's oppressed by the patriarchy because one of the top actors in
01:00:05.200
the business made a few million dollars more than her on a film that wasn't any good anyway.
01:00:09.480
I think there is actually, for the rest of us, though, an important lesson in this. Now, we know
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that spoiled and pampered people like to claim victimhood for themselves, and we know they do
01:00:22.320
this partially to virtue signal, partially for political points, partially because it's simply
01:00:27.660
an internal reflex that they barely understand themselves. But at a deeper level, I think
01:00:34.220
the constant self-victimization of extremely comfortable people who live luxurious lives
01:00:40.800
only goes to show that hardship and struggle are really necessary components of a full and healthy
01:00:47.900
life. They're so necessary that when a person is insulated from hardship, they begin to, like, desire
01:00:54.960
it. They want it. They make almost a fetish out of it. A life of unending comfort seems meaningless to
01:01:02.560
them, and so they find ways of convincing themselves that they're persecuted. And they do
01:01:09.340
this, of course, without actually sacrificing any of the comfort because they could give up all the
01:01:13.100
comfort and then really experience the hardship, but they don't want to do that. Their commitment
01:01:17.200
to suffering only goes so far. But it does go to show that perhaps real hardship is not always
01:01:23.660
something to be avoided because the people who succeed in avoiding it entirely only end up wishing
01:01:30.240
that they still had it. And then they end up embarrassing themselves, as Jennifer Lawrence
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has done here. And it's why she is today finally canceled. And that'll do it for us for this portion
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of the show as we move to the members block. I'll get used to ending the show somehow eventually this
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way. We move over to the members block and we'll see you there. If not, see you tomorrow. Godspeed.