Ep. 1031 - Degenerate Weirdo In See-Through Onesie Defiles Priceless Historical Artifact
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Summary
A half-naked pop star desecrates a historical artifact while the left looks on and cheers. Also, Biden is now at the point in his dementia decline where he is literally seeing ghosts. Plus, the Prime Minister of New Zealand says that misinformation is an act of war. In our daily cancellation, a major airline will now allow pilots to crossdress on the job. All in the name of inclusivity.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a half-naked pop star desecrates a historical artifact while the left looks on and cheers, we'll discuss.
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Also, Biden is now at the point in his dementia decline where he is literally seeing ghosts.
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Plus, the Prime Minister of New Zealand says that misinformation is an act of war.
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In our daily cancellation, a major airline will now allow pilots to cross-dress on the job.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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You don't need perfect credit to make it happen.
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They want to help as many families as possible.
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That's the goal here, which is one of the many reasons I like them so much.
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And you can't afford, really, to not explore every avenue to save money and help your finances.
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You're not getting help from D.C., that's for sure.
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You'll begin to see the world with greater clarity.
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Things start to make some kind of sense once you realize and accept two points about the
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elites who run this country, our betters, as they see themselves anyway.
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One is that they hate you and everything you stand for and everything you believe.
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It's not a very pleasant thing to think about, but it's the truth.
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It shouldn't be a breaking news bulletin either.
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I mean, after all, they're not exactly trying to hide it.
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They despise you, your family, your ancestors, on down the line.
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The second point is that they are both petty and creative.
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So they'll take advantage of every opportunity to humiliate and demoralize you.
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And they'll see such opportunities in situations that wouldn't have even occurred to you.
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Okay, the pettier, the better, as far as they're concerned.
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And with these two points in mind, you can begin to make sense of a headline that, if you
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didn't know any better, you'd think was some kind of drunken mad blib.
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Lizzo performs on stage with James Madison's 200-year-old crystal flute.
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Set up initially by a tweet from Carla Hayden of the Library of Congress.
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The Library of Congress has the largest flute collection in the world with more than 1,800.
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It includes President James Madison's 1813 crystal flute.
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Lizzo, we would love for you to come see it and even play a couple when you're in D.C. next week.
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Like, like your song, they are good as hell, winky face emoji.
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Now, it would be bad enough that the Librarian of Congress is using emojis and the phrase
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good as hell in communications from official government accounts.
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A few days later, official representatives from the Library of Congress, along with Secret Service,
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came up on stage during a Lizzo concert in D.C., handed her the priceless historical artifact,
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If she drops it, it just shatters and nothing to worry about there.
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They've done studies on this, and if you watch a Lizzo video, it's scientifically guaranteed
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that within 30 seconds of when the video starts, she will be twerking.
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So there is no footage of her that lasts longer than 30 seconds where she's not twerking.
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Now, to make sure that we have the quote correct for the historical record, Lizzo said,
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I just twerked and played James Madison's flute from the 1800s, and that she did.
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Needless to say, there were many members of the media attending this concert, and they
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couldn't stop gushing about the beauty and power and historical significance of what
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Now, in fairness, that is how they react to literally everything Lizzo does or says.
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If they saw her eating waffles for breakfast, which I'm sure she does quite frequently, they
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would declare it the most brave and inspirational waffle-related event they'd ever witnessed.
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If Lizzo were to then burp at the conclusion of her meal, they would tearfully exclaim that
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her belch sounded like the choirs of angels singing from on high.
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This is the rule the media realizes, because Lizzo is obese, she's female, she's black, which
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means that everything she does is by default heroic and wonderful, and any criticism by default
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is automatically racist and sexist and body-shaming on top of it.
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So, with that in mind, I mean, Lizzo twerking in a glittery thong while manhandling a historic
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artifact once owned by a founding father, well, I mean, they literally have no choice but to
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crown such a moment as the greatest achievement of all time, the culmination of human history,
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the most spectacular expression of humanity's potential.
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Of course, it's the nation's capital, so Secret Service and Capitol Police joined her on stage.
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Because she's the first ever to play President James Madison's 1813 crystal flute, courtesy
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Then media executive Indira Lakshamanan chimed in with this.
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Joyful and life-affirming superstar Lizzo played DC tonight.
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Library of Congress loaned her President James Madison's 1813 crystal flute to play on stage,
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She thanked Library of Congress for preserving history and making it cool.
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And many other tweets and headlines just like that.
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Now, we should note here that Lizzo is indeed a classically trained flautist, as her defenders
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She is capable of respectfully and skillfully playing flute.
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But that's not what the Library of Congress arranged in this case, or what happened on
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The fact that she's, in reality, a talented musician, at least when it comes to the flute,
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just makes her whole career, and especially the incident on stage, all the more outrageous
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I mean, there's another video floating around of her playing the flute seriously while fully
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That I guess happened before this or after, I don't know.
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Now, they could have simply left it at that, and few would complain.
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But instead, they chose to have Lizzo, in her see-through thong, make a grotesque mockery
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of a priceless crystal artifact with deep ties to American history.
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It's such a weird and petty thing to do, isn't it?
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The pettiness is pointed and intentional, as always.
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They do something absurd and bizarre and degrading, and then they wait for the reaction that they
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know is coming, and that's why they did it, and then they accuse the other side of being
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So they do the thing, the petty, trivial thing, and then if we notice it, we are the petty,
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What's more, they themselves will then hail this degrading display.
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They'll declare it to be historic and important and amazing, but then mock anyone who criticizes
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it on the grounds that they shouldn't care about it because it's unimportant.
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It doesn't make any sense, but this is the mind game, and it puts us in a bind, quite by
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Because if we register our protest, you know, if we say anything, we say, I don't like
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this, please don't do that, we will have given them the attention they want, and in a sense,
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But if we say nothing at all, if we simply accept, for instance, that invaluable pieces
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of American history can be used as stage props by morbidly obese, half-naked pop stars, then
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we will have also given them what they want, what they want most of all, which is our acquiescence,
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But either way, they claim victory, which of course is demoralizing, and in the end,
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What the elites want to express when it comes down to it, whether it's by tearing down statues
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or taking names off of schools or doing anything else they do, or having a weirdo in a onesie
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twerk with James Madison's flute, whatever it is, what they want to get across is that nothing
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you care about has value, your heritage and history are meaningless, your culture and traditions
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They will tell you what has value, what you should see as important, what should matter
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This is what a ruling force does to a conquered people.
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It tears down and desecrates everything they hold dear.
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And it will have achieved its final end when you submit to the gaslighting and you finally
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agree that, well, these things don't actually matter.
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When they've claimed your mental and spiritual compliance, I mean, then they've really won,
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I also wanted to mention, we'll get off the subject in a moment, but, you know, it's just
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what really annoys me is that there are plenty of conservatives online and you always have
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these, you know, useful idiots who are saying, well, you know, I think it's kind of cool,
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We just have to emphasize that, okay, if that's what you're going with, then you're just
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You're just saying, well, okay, you can do that.
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I mean, take the Declaration of Independence and use it as a napkin.
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Next time she is eating waffles, you can use it as a napkin.
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Meanwhile, they'll tell you to their face what they're actually doing.
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So here are a couple other tweets I didn't mention.
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She says, Lizzo, a black female superstar collaborating with Carla Hayden, the first African-American
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and first woman librarian of Congress, to use a flute from James Madison, the founding
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father who originated the Three-Fifths Compromise and also the Library of Congress itself.
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Then she continues, James Madison was America's fourth president.
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He helped shape the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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He also was a slave owner, and he created the Three-Fifths Compromise that each enslaved
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person would count as three-fifths of a person for state electoral vote totals, a complicated
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Now, she's mangling the history with James Madison and the Three-Fifths Compromise.
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The point is that what she is saying, and she's not the only one, Ellie Mistal, who's Mistal,
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however you pronounce his name, you see him on CNN a lot.
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He says this, if any of James Madison's descendants is offended by Lizzo, if they want to try out
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the 200-year-old iron collar white folks would have fixed to our ancestors who tried to escape
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James Madison's clutches, I'm sure somebody at the National Museum of African-American History
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I mean, they're clearly saying that the way they see it, part of the point of this flute
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stunt was not only demoralization, as we talked about, but also very specifically, it's an act
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It's sort of like getting back at James Madison for his position on slavery, and we're going
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to do that by taking a priceless artifact that belonged to him and just making a mockery of it.
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But sure, I mean, if you want to be above it all and say, who cares, whatever, that doesn't
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But you are ultimately giving the left exactly what it wants.
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All right, much is being made of this, and for good reason, really.
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Joe Biden, at an event yesterday, tried to summon the dead, calling for a congresswoman who had
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tragically died in a car accident back in the summer.
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And, well, let's play it first, and then we'll talk about it.
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I didn't think she was going to be here, to help make this a reality.
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And what makes this worse is that apparently, from what I've read anyway, they actually, prior
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to Biden coming out on stage, they played a tribute to this congresswoman who had died.
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And yet, still, somehow, he was calling for her, even though she's dead.
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Now, as always, though, the cover-up is worse than the crime.
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And that was the case here, because Karen Jean Pair was asked about this.
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And, you know, now, look, in fairness to her, and I rarely would say this, but in fairness
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to anyone who's tasked with being the White House press secretary for the Biden administration,
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anyone who has to represent it or explain the sorts of things that Biden does, you're in
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And I know that on the right, we give Karen Jean Pair a hard time, and deservedly so often.
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But it is impossible, because, like, what's the real answer?
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Well, it happened because Joe Biden has dementia and is losing his mind, is actually losing,
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he has very little grasp on reality at this point.
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But as the White House press secretary, she can't really exactly say that.
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So she has to come up with some sort of excuse.
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I'm not sure that there's a good excuse, but let's go through this exchange.
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The president appeared to look around the room for an audience member, a member of Congress
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He seemed to indicate she might be in the room.
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So the president was, as you all know, you guys were watching today's event, a very important
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The president was naming the congressional champions on this issue and was acknowledging her incredible
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He had already planned to welcome the Congresswoman's family to the White House on Friday.
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There will be a bill signing in her honor this coming Friday.
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He very much looks forward to discussing her remarkable legacy of public service with them
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So she was top of mind, which now that part you could believe.
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But then you say, I've, I mean, there are many people who have died who I think about
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and I've never imagined that they were in the room.
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And so the media is actually shockingly not satisfied with that answer.
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And they, and so now we go into this, this actually goes on for, I don't know, 15 minutes
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where she's going back and forth, not just with, well, this isn't like one of those things
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where it's just Peter Doocy going back and forth with Karen Jean-Pierre.
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Where it's, it's everyone else in the room is not happy with the answer.
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And so we'll go through, I got to watch the entire exchange, but here's, here's, it continued here.
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You know, this wasn't what we were able to witness today and what the president was able
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to lift up in this, at this conference, at this event, was how her, her focus on wanting
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to deal with, combat food insecurity in America.
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And this is something that he was lifting up and honoring.
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And again, he knows that he's going to see her family this coming Friday.
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There is a bill signing that's going to happen in renaming a VA clinic in Indiana after the
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I didn't think that this was going to happen, but I am defending Karen Jean-Pierre on this.
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What do you, there's nothing, there's no good excuse for this.
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So this is, she, she, before she went out there, you know, she's thinking like, what
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And I don't know, I'm not sure I could have done any better.
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What's really significant about this, besides the fact that our, that the president of the
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United States has lost his mind, I mean, that's, that is unfortunately old news.
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What's significant about it, if anything, aside from that, is just that, again, the media actually
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asking follow-ups, not accepting the first answer they get, which you don't see very often.
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So it seems to me, now, is that because the media has decided to do their jobs, decided that
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they're going to have integrity and, you know, operate with some journalistic ethics or anything
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It's just because, you know, if, if I'm to guess, it's that they realize, and maybe for a lot of
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them, the final wake-up moment was that, when they saw him calling for someone who had died,
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they realized that they, you know, this is not going to work in 2024.
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And so they're going to try to take him down, while there's still time to find someone else to put
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So that, that, I think, is what's actually happening.
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Now, while we're on the subject of people in the White House babbling, I've also had this I wanted
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We heard from Keisha Lance Bottoms a few days ago.
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She used to be, she used to be the mayor of Atlanta, where she did a horrible job and she
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oversaw, like every other Democrat mayor in the country, oversaw the destruction of her,
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the continued destruction and collapse of her city.
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And then when she left, she was awarded with this job in the White House.
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And it seemed to me like she spent too much time around Kamala Harris.
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So can you give me specifics on what you're doing in terms of that coordination with other
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Well, as you've mentioned, we are already having discussions with other world leaders and
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making sure that as we are dealing with the challenges that we are facing right now, that
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we are also looking at long term strategies on how we can globally work together to address
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this issue, whether it be migrants coming into the United States or going into other
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This is something that we all have to be thoughtful about and all work together to address the challenges.
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And also, again, remembering that many of these people may not necessarily receive asylum in the
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United States, but also being very thoughtful that these are families, these are women, these
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I don't think anybody wants to pack up and leave their homeland and walk days at a time.
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So it's something that we know is a crisis and a challenge that the president is taking head on.
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So she's asked about what specific things, like how are you going to deal with the illegal immigrant
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crisis on the border, although they don't say illegal immigrant days, now it's just migrant.
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So, which, by the way, that does appear to be the news.
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They've kind of gotten away from undocumented immigrants.
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You just change the language periodically, even if there's no particular reason to do it.
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So she's asked, what specific plans does the White House have?
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You're very critical of what Ron DeSantis has done.
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And her answer is that we are already having discussions with other world leaders and making sure that as we are
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dealing with the challenges that we are facing right now, that we are also
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looking at long-term strategies on how we can globally work together.
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That's, that is, almost puts Kamala Harris to shame in terms of using the most amount of words to say the least.
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So when you look at the kind of inverse relationship between the amount of words used and what,
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and how much is actually being said, quite impressive.
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Hurricane Ian slammed into Southwest Florida as a powerful Category 4 hurricane Wednesday afternoon
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after more than 2 million Floridians were given evacuation orders with 150 mile-per-hour winds.
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Hurricane Ian tied for the fourth-strongest hurricane to ever hit the state.
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The National Hurricane Center said that the hurricane was moving north-northeast at approximately 9 miles per hour
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and then was expected to slow down and turn northeast on Thursday.
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This has been, by the way, another, obviously, a challenge for Ron DeSantis as, as governor, you know,
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like when it comes to the, the actual act of governing.
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And I think, yet again, he's hit it out of the ballpark.
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Organizing the evacuation, dealing with all of the emergency response and everything else.
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You're not going to hear that from the media, of course.
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Instead, they're going to talk about, they don't want to talk about that.
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They don't want to talk even about the hurricane itself.
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What they want to talk about is climate change.
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We just felt a marked increase in wind speeds within the last 10 minutes or so.
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It was hard to fathom that speed tripling in the next few hours.
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But we're now getting maybe 70 mile an hour gusts here.
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We're right at the point where U.S. 43 heads across the Peace River here.
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I'm just in front of the memorial for Hurricane Charlie, which in 2004 devastated this town and sent a wake-up call to this community about the threats of living on the coast in a rapidly warming planet.
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As a result of that storm, they were the first community in Florida to put in a climate adaptation plan, a sea level, coastal resiliency plan that they've been working on for years now.
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It's hard to build power lines or building codes for 17-foot storm surge, though.
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But this is exactly what climate scientists have been warning about for a long time.
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Now we get to see a hurricane for the first time.
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Yeah, I kind of like the visual there of, did you just see how useless these people are?
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The hurricane is, it's bearing down on you right now.
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You're basically in the middle of the hurricane, and you're talking about climate change.
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This is one of the reasons why leftists make terrible leaders.
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They can't run anything because they can't deal with specific practical problems.
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And as someone on CNN had to remind Don Lemon, whatever you feel about climate change, whatever you think about it, that's not a useful conversation right now.
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Because right now, the hurricane is here, and that's what we've got to deal with.
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Even if it's true that, in theory, you could have passed legislation that would stop it, it's not true.
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But if it is, even if it was, that's not going to help us right now because the hurricane's here.
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So, on the left, all they ever want to do, they want to have, like, these abstract conversations.
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They want to sit around having abstract conversations about what's the root of all this?
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And there are times and places for those conversations.
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And when it comes to those conversations, they're wrong about everything they say, which is another problem.
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But when you're in charge of dealing with it, you need to actually be able to grapple with the problem itself on a practical level.
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So, yeah, we could sit around pontificating about the criminal justice system and what leads people to a life of crime.
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Why do you have crime and so much crime in some of these communities and less in others?
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Well, the problem is that the people that run the cities, that's all they're doing is just talking about it.
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And when you try to get them to focus on the practical problem itself, like, what are we going to do?
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But now we have, the situation right now is that we've got a lot of dangerous people running around these cities, killing people.
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They're totally ill-equipped to talk about that at all.
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The New Zealand prime minister has a solution to climate change herself.
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And as she laid out to the UN, her idea is that, well, if we ban people from questioning it, that's how we can save lives here and stop hurricanes.
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This week, we launched an initiative alongside companies and non-profits to help improve research and understanding of how a person's online experiences are curated by automated processes.
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This will also be important in understanding more about myths and disinformation online, a challenge that we must, as leaders, address.
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Sadly, I think it's easy to dismiss this problem as one in the margins.
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I can certainly understand the desire to leave it to someone else.
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As leaders, we're rightly concerned that even the most light-touch approaches to disinformation could be misinterpreted as being hostile to values of free speech that we value so highly.
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But while I cannot tell you today what the answer is to this challenge, I can say with complete certainty that we cannot ignore it.
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To do so poses an equal threat to the norms we all value.
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After all, how do you successfully end a war if people are led to believe the reason for its existence is not only legal but noble?
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How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?
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How do you ensure the human rights of others are upheld when they are subjected to hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology?
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The weapons may be different, but the goals of those who perpetuate them is often the same.
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To cause chaos and reduce the ability of others to defend themselves.
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To collapse the collective strength of countries who work together.
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But we have an opportunity here to ensure that these particular weapons of war do not become an established part of warfare.
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In these times, I'm acutely aware of how easy it is to feel disheartened.
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So she's talking about misinformation as a weapon of war.
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So what she's urging on a global and international scale is that misinformation be treated as an act of war.
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What privileges does that grant them if they can treat it as an act of war?
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Now, I think we miss the point sometimes when we engage with this and we argue that, well, climate change skepticism, that's not misinformation.
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So what she's saying there is that if you're skeptical about climate change or about man-made climate change or if you're skeptical at any level at all, even if you're willing to say that, of course, climate change exists.
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Do human beings contribute to it to some extent?
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I mean, everything contributes to it to some extent, you might say.
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But I don't agree necessarily with all of the dramatic claims that you're making about this.
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Like a kind of qualified skepticism is misinformation.
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And often we will respond to that by, by trying to prove that, oh, it's not misinformation.
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So the real point here is that the government cannot be in the business of controlling information.
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Of, of declaring what is legitimate information and what is not.
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They want to get inside your head and tell you what you should believe about the world.
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And they want to go one step further and say, well, they want to criminalize.
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And if they can control the information, if we allow them to seize control of information and criminalize certain forms of information, then they control everything.
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You control the information, you control the world.
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Yesterday, we talked about the problems with that fake study, which supposedly proves, speaking of misinformation, actual misinformation.
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So there was that fake study supposedly proving that, quote, gender-affirming double mastectomies are good for minors.
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The study comes along just in the nick of time as we've been, as so-called top surgery for minors has come under intense scrutiny.
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And in Tennessee, we're working towards banning double mastectomies for minors.
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And just in the nick of time, CBS reports and other media outlets picked up this peer-reviewed study, which supposedly proves that actually this is good for minors.
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I mean, it's—and the problems are almost too numerous to count.
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I mean, for one thing, just to review, the study was funded by a hospital.
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It was funded and conducted by a hospital that itself conducts double mastectomies on minors.
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They're trying to prove that what they're already doing is legitimate and good.
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They did the follow-up three months after the fact, which is when three months later, three months after a significant life choice has been made,
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Because right at three months, you know, especially for something like this, right at three months, that's when, you know, the victim, as I say, we're not even calling them patients, victims.
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That's when the victim is starting to, you know, is really starting to recover physically, so they're feeling a little bit better.
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And it's not—but it's not nearly enough time for them to have reflected on what they did and realize how they've impacted the rest of their life.
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So they cut off the study right at three months.
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And then also they—mysteriously, there were people who dropped out of the study and so therefore didn't count towards the final results.
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They don't explain, well, what does it mean that they dropped out?
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I think it's reasonable to assume that the people who dropped out of the study, that would be girls who got the surgery and then stopped responding and didn't fill out any surveys or anything like that after the fact.
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So there was another really fundamental issue with this study that I didn't even notice.
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The study which just came out showing that top surgery works, quote-unquote, after a three-month follow-up, was based in part on this 17-item chest dysphoria scale.
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After getting surgery, the kids' CDS scores went down.
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But the scale largely measures whether you have breasts that cause you discomfort.
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So this is apparently, according to Jesse Singal, the actual survey that these girls were told to fill out.
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And what they found, or, you know, what they found is that a girl is less likely to have dysphoria about her breasts if she doesn't have them.
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And then that's what they're declaring in the study.
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But listen to the actual items on this chest dysphoria scale.
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And then they're asked to sort of rate each of these statements on a certain scale.
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Two, taking a shower slash bath is difficult because I have to see my chest.
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Three, I avoid going to the beach and or swimming in public because of my chest.
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Dating slash forming intimate partnerships is more difficult because of my chest.
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Physical intimacy, sexual activity is difficult because of my chest.
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I have struggled to make future plans because of my chest.
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I avoid shopping slash buying clothing because of my chest.
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I avoid seeking medical care because of my chest.
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I feel like my life has not started because of my chest.
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I avoid swimming in private places because of my chest.
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I have to buy slash wear certain clothes because of my chest.
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I avoid using locker rooms because of my chest.
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I participate in life less than others because of my chest.
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I mean, many of these questions, several of them anyway.
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It's like any girl or any woman could answer yes to.
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So if you buy a bra, if you're a woman and you buy a bra,
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then already you're on the chest dysphoria scale.
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Just by simply buying a bra, then you count at least a little bit towards,
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you are on the chest dysphoria spectrum, according to this,
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If you get gendered as female because of your chest, according to this,
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then you're on the spectrum for chest dysphoria.
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And then most of the rest of it is just, you know,
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these are things that many girls deal with as they're growing through puberty
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and they're getting older and their bodies are changing.
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Male and female, as you go through puberty, your body changes.
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It changes in ways you didn't expect or didn't anticipate.
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And so you feel to a certain extent sort of not at home in your body.
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I think it's probably, those feelings are more intense among girls
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than they are among boys because the changes are more significant and severe
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And so what they're doing here is they're taking these normal feelings
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and they're categorizing that as a symptom of chest dysphoria.
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Which not only for them proves that after the fact
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that the top surgery was the right thing to do,
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So part of the idea here is if you give this survey to a girl
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hey, by the way, you might want to look into this.
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yes, yeah, well, that applies to me, that applies to me,
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Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin told a group over the weekend
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because they wouldn't take pictures with him during the first season.
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the 20-year-old actor said at the Heroes Comic Con Belgium
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it definitely took a toll on me as a younger kid.
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some people didn't stand in my line because I was black.
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oh, I didn't want to be in line because you were mean to 11.
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there weren't as many people in his line as in other lines
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but he also talks about how he has fewer Instagram followers
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He says, why do I have the least amount of followers?
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I'm on the same show as everybody from season one.
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but it's because you're the black child on the show.
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This is what they love to do more than anything.
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and he can look and he can read all their minds
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and tell that the reason they're not in his line
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When I look back on my teen years and early 20s,
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in my ability to make decisions and predict outcomes.
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It's actually kind of frightening to get over that hump
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to do this to kids who are under the age of 18,
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you must allow for a substantial amount of time
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that one year is probably the very lowest cutoff
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the feeling of normalcy on the recovery standpoint
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They do trick shots, pranks, and sports content.
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They're Christian and a great influence on kids.