Ep. 1050 - Fetterman Humiliates Himself. Dems Cry ‘Ableism.’
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John Fetterman delivers the worst debate performance in American history. But his self-destruction is not solely his own fault. The blame also lies with the Democratic Party and his wife. Plus, we ll hear from a Hungarian politician who explains why they don t have that problem in their own country. And Bono discovers to his horror that maybe free market capitalism isn t so bad after all.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, John Fetterman delivers the worst debate performance in American
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history, but his self-destruction is not solely his own fault. The blame also lies with the
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Democrat Party and also his wife. I'll explain why. Also, the governor of New York humiliates
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herself in her debate as well. Not quite as bad as Fetterman, but almost. And chest mutilation
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procedures on minors have risen by 400% in the last few years. Plus, we'll hear from a Hungarian
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politician who explains why they don't have that problem in their own country. And Bono discovers
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to his horror that maybe free market capitalism isn't so bad after all. All of that and more
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Well, over the centuries, many historians, anthropologists, social critics have pointed
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to certain signs that a civilization is about to collapse. Various lists of red flags are usually
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pretty similar. Population decline, war, economic instability, mass uncontrolled migration, moral
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decay, etc. Otherwise known to contemporary Americans as just your average Wednesday. But it seems that
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these observers have all missed one major alarm bell. Along with all the other symptoms just listed,
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a society is in decline and on the verge of catastrophe if it starts electing brain damaged
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people to lead it. The future is probably not very bright for a country that looks to those with
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severe mental defects for political leadership. It is a subtle sign of cultural dysfunction. And by
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subtle, I mean that it's a flashing, blaring siren with a bright neon sign that says danger in huge
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capital letters. It's already too late, of course, to steer entirely clear of this particular hazard.
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In our case, we have a senile dementia patient in the White House, not to mention a mummified speaker
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of the House. And now Democrats in Pennsylvania are looking to add to Washington, D.C.'s burgeoning
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neurology ward by electing a stroke victim who literally cannot understand human language or speak
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it. Last night, Senate candidates John Fetterman and Dr. Oz faced each other in the first and
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mercifully for Fetterman only Pennsylvania debate. It was, in Fetterman's case, a performance that in
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the year 2022 could be described, I guess, as presidential, to steal a joke from Ann Coulter that
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she tweeted this morning. Fetterman could barely string a coherent thought together, even before
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the stroke. He could barely do that. But then afterwards, it's a whole other deal. I mean,
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there's no hope at all. The debate was destined then to be a train wreck. And yet, against all odds,
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the disaster managed to exceed everyone's expectations. It was worse than we thought.
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It was as though there was a train wreck, and then an airplane crashed right into the
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site of the train wreck. And then a tornado came through, followed by an earthquake,
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followed by a wildfire. It was, in other words, the worst debate performance ever captured on film
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in the history of American politics. And that is still somehow, I think, an understatement.
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So the clips have already circulated widely on social media. There's probably no need to play them now,
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but we will anyway. Things started awkwardly enough with Fetterman saying hello to the audience
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and goodbye in the same breath. What qualifies you to be a U.S. senator? You have 60 seconds.
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Hi. Good night, everybody. I'm running to serve Pennsylvania. He's running to use Pennsylvania.
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Here's a man that spent more than $20 million of his own money to try to buy that seat.
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I'm also having to talk about something called the Oz rule, that if he's on TV, he's lying. He did that
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during his career on his TV show. He's done that during his campaign about lying about our record
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here. And he's also lying probably during this debate.
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Well, it was only downhill from there. Though I will say that his greeting reminds me of myself
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anytime my wife forces me to go to a party. Hi, everyone. Good night. Okay, let's go home,
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honey. Let's go. But I'm usually forced to stay there for much longer than I prefer. And Fetterman
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was in the same situation. The debate only lasted an hour, but Fetterman couldn't make it more than 90
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seconds before the full-on collapse began. So here he is trying to explain his plan to make higher
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education more affordable. How exactly, Mr. Fetterman, do you propose doing that to make
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it more affordable for families? No, I just believe. I'm just making it that much more.
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It costs too much. And I believe providing the resources to reduce the tuition to allow
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families to be able to afford it. Good point. And here he is on the minimum wage. Listen.
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And how can a man, you know, with 10 gigantic mansions, you know, has an unwilling to talk
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about a willing wage for anybody? Imagine a signal mom trying with two children, trying to raise with
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them, realizing making $31,000 a year, you know, $15 an hour. Yeah, those signal moms. You got to watch
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out for the signal moms. So you probably get the idea. There was one other moment, the moment that still
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managed to stand out as especially embarrassing, even amid all of that, when Fetterman was asked
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to explain his flip-flopping stance on fracking. Here's what he said. Mr. Oz, I do want to clarify
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something. You're saying tonight that you support fracking, that you've always supported fracking,
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but there is that 2018 interview that you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all. So how do you
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square the two? Oh, I, I, I do support fracking and I don't, I don't, I support fracking and I stand
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and I do support fracking. Well, that clears that up. Now, where do the Democrats go from here?
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Their guy, not fit to be in the U.S. Senate, not fit to be anywhere really, except in bed at home
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recovering. Um, and everyone can see that now. It was put on display for the whole country to see
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last night. Do they acknowledge this plain reality and let the chips fall where they may? No, of
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course not. Because acknowledging reality has never been a favorite pastime of the left. Rather,
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their favorite pastime, as we know, is playing the victim card. And they were quick on the draw
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after this debate. Liz Plank is a left-wing pundit who was one of the many blue checks on Twitter to
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repeat this agreed upon talking point. She tweeted, Dr. Oz just gave a masterclass on how to bully
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people with disabilities. Yes, debating your opponent in a Senate race is now bullying.
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Ableism has become the leftist buzzword of the day. MSNBC got that ball rolling immediately after
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the debate. Listen to this. One of the things you posit in your article is that Fetterman's campaign
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is hoping to turn his sort of vulnerability into an asset here. Do you think he did so on the debate
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stage tonight? I think it's tough to say whether or not it will wind up being an asset with voters,
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but it was certainly an example of such remarkable transparency. The opposite of what, what the Oz
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campaign has sort of asserted, which is that he's somehow hiding something about his health.
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I mean, showing up for an hour debate and it was, as he said, starting out, he, he said he was going to
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talk about the elephant in the room. You played the clip. He said, I'm going to miss words. And,
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and you could tell, I wrote in my story about how in my interview with him, there was a moment where
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he became frustrated and stressed out and it made some of his communicative problems worse.
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And I think that this context and what you described as the insanely high stakes of this
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election, the single debate, clearly this was a candidate who was feeling stress and there was such
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intense scrutiny, often ableist scrutiny on how he was going to communicate. And he just did a debate
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in front of, you know, the nation, you know, an audience of anyone who could listen. And it was
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so transparent. He did fumble. He did make verbal mistakes. You know, and, and it was all on view.
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Transparent. That's, that's one way of putting it. I wish I'd been this clever back when I was in
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like high school and I had to bring my report cards home, uh, that were never very impressive.
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And I, I, if I had thought to couch it that way, when showing my parents, listen, mom and dad, I'm,
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I'm, I'm being very, I'm being remarkably transparent with this, what you can see here,
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let's address the elephant in the room here. Okay, guys, I don't study or do my homework,
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but I'm being transparent. I'm being vulnerable.
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Now, if you expect a United States Senator, that a United States Senator should be able to
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understand words and speak them, you are guilty of engaging in ableist scrutiny. We were just told
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indeed, as the left has explained, it is not Fetterman who should drop out of the race, but Dr.
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Oz, because anything less would be ableism. An Axios article quotes a senior Democrat official in
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Pennsylvania saying this, quote, I wished Fetterman was in a better place to clap back. Overall, I argue
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it, uh, it, it wasn't great, but for us, it was still a draw. Remember in these next few weeks that
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Oz's campaign is spending tens of millions of dollars against a man with a major medical condition.
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How dare Dr. Oz run campaign ads? He shouldn't be campaigning at all. Fetterman has a major medical
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condition, which doesn't mean that he should drop out and go home, but rather that he should be given
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the position out of sympathy. That's the argument they're going with. And it's entirely consistent
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with the argument they make on many other subjects. It is bigoted to acknowledge reality. In this case,
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the reality that a brain damaged man is not suited for the U.S. Senate. Our responsibility is to deny
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reality for the sake of the member of a victim group. In fact, from the last perspective, if anything,
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the stroke makes Fetterman more qualified than he was before, because before it, he was just a, quote,
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cisgender white male, not a lot of victim points. Now he's disabled, giving him at least a few victim
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points, whereas previously he had none, and that's what qualifies him. Of course, the whole concept of
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ableism is absurd. To be ableist, apparently, according to how the term is used, is simply to make
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judgments about what people are able to do. And if that's what it means to be an ableist,
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then we should all be ableist. An ableist person commits the sin of being rational and realistic,
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of being aware of human limitations and taking them into account, of making decisions that are
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grounded in reality, believing that a person should be given a job if he's best able and qualified
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to perform the duties and functions of that job. This is ableism, evidently. And if it is,
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our country needs a whole lot more ableism of this type. And there's another point to be made about all
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this. Under normal circumstances, you know, I would have sympathy for somebody dealing with the
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aftermath of a stroke. It is quite a sad thing to be unable to form words, unable to understand.
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But my sympathy in this case doesn't extend very far because Fetterman chose to stay in the race.
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He chose to continue pursuing power. He put himself in this position, knowing he's unsuited for it.
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In a similar way, I have sympathy for people with visual impairments.
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I have sympathy. If you're blind, I have sympathy for blind people. I wouldn't make fun of a blind person.
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Who would? But if the pilot of an airplane has undisclosed visual impairments and chose to sit
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in the captain's chair anyway, then my sympathy for him dries up rather quickly because instead now I
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have sympathy for the passengers in the plane, especially if I'm one of them. He has chosen to
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put them at the mercy of his disability in a way that is unfair to them. And he deserves criticism for
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that. Harsh criticism. Same goes for Fetterman. Same goes for Biden. They are responsible for their
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choices. But they're not the only ones responsible. In both cases, immense scorn should be directed at
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the Democrat Party puppet masters who chose to keep these guys in their positions, in fact,
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pressured them to stay there, we can assume, knowing what a disaster it would be for them personally and
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more importantly for the country. And yet their guilt pales in comparison to the wives of both
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men. This to me is maybe the most important point here to take away from this. Fetterman and Biden have
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lots in common, and not the least of which is the fact that they both are married to awful, spoiled,
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manipulative, power-hungry women who have utterly failed to fulfill their responsibilities as wives.
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Jill Biden knows better than anyone, especially if she's a doctor, that her husband is incoherent and
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senile. She knows that. And yet she's propped him up, dragged him along. She kept him going politically
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so that she could ride his coattails to the White House. What Jill is doing is nothing less than elder
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abuse. I mean, it should be criminal what she's doing. And then there's Fetterman's wife. Okay. She
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should have sat her husband down and told him that he cannot continue. She should have forced him to
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put his health first. That's what a good wife does. Like forced to the extent of saying, you cannot do
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this. If you do, I am not going to be by your side. I'm not going to show up at the campaign. I am not
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going to do that. I'm not going to go along with you to your self-destruction. That's what a good wife
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would do. And every man needs a wife who will do that. Even if we aren't running for Senate,
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we all need wives who will look out for our health and for our well-being, even when we are not,
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because sometimes we don't. A man will hatch all kinds of crazy schemes and plans, some of them
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perhaps brilliant, but others disastrous and self-destructive. I mean, we think they're all
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brilliant, and maybe on occasion some of them are, but then others are very much not. And we need our
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wives to look out for us, just as we look out for them, though often in different kinds of
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situations. So a man will often need to be the voice of reason when his wife is getting herself
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into some sort of overly emotional, personal feud or drama. That's when a man needs to be the one
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who's there, the voice of reason, talking some sense into her. A woman will often need to be the
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voice of reason when her husband has come up with some sort of insane idea that might lead to
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disaster. Women overreact to things. Men bite off more than they can chew. And they both see the
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other's blind spots. So together they make a formidable team if they're both fulfilling their
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obligations and loving each other in the ways that each need to be loved. But there are men who are too
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weak or too disinterested to speak up and give their wives the guidance they need. And there are women
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who are too greedy and personally ambitious to stop their husbands from extending themselves too far.
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This is what is happening in Fetterman's case and in Biden's and in many other marriages across the
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country. These women are not the only manipulative women who are taking advantage of their husband's
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hubris and stupidity. The difference is that the consequences in their case will be felt by the
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whole country. Now let's get to our five headlines. All right. The left on Twitter will have some fun
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with some elements of that opening monologue is my prediction. Matt Walsh said that men should offer
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guidance to their wives. Gasp. Yep. Okay. There were more debates last night. Democrats fared poorly
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in all of them, like in New York, where Kathy Hokule faced off against Lee Zeldin. Now in the
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lead, before we get to this, actually, the New York Times has an article about this and about the
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anxiety in the Hokule camp. It says, for months, Governor Kathy Hokule of New York has trusted that
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the state's strong Democratic majority would keep her in office, largely on the strength of a simple
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message. Her Republican opponent was too close to Donald J. Trump and would roll back abortion rights.
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But just two weeks before Election Day, a rapidly tightening contest has Ms. Hokule racing to expand
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her closing argument as Democrats warily concede they might have misjudged powerful fears driving the
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electorate, particularly around crime. In just the last few days, Ms. Hokule stood with Mayor Eric Adams
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to announce a new flood of police officers into the New York City subways. She visited five Harlem
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churches to assure stalwart Black voters that she was laser-focused on safety. And she highlighted new
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statistics showing that authorities were seizing more guns under her watch. Ms. Hokule said at one of
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her stops in Harlem, we believe in justice, the justice that Jesus teaches us, but it's also about safety.
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We are laser-focused on keeping you, your children, and your grandchildren safe.
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Her campaign has begun recalibrating its paid message to shifting the focus of millions of
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dollars in ad spending to highlight the governor's efforts to stoke the economy and improve public
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safety, notably including a package of modest changes to the state's bail laws that has divided
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her party. Changes that will do nothing at all. Okay, so they're worried about the possibility that
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for the first time in decades, a statewide race could be won by a Republican, and they're worried about it
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because the state of New York, and New York City in particular, is just descending into anarchy, and violent
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crime is rising. And as it turns out, and this is a revelation for the left and for Democrats, they can't
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believe this. They really can't. It's like they didn't see this coming, but it turns out that people
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want to be safe in their communities. People want their children to be safe. They want to feel like
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their children can walk outside without being shot and killed. They want to feel as though they can
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use public transportation without being assaulted or raped or killed by a crazed, drug-addled homeless
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man. What a shocker. This is what people want. And they are concerned about that far more than
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they're concerned about anything that Democrats spend their time talking about. Transphobia and
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LGBT, this and that. People aren't waking up in the morning worried about that. They're not.
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They're waking up in the morning worried about their families, their kids. Can they afford to feed
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their families? Can they afford to put gas in their car and go to work? Are they going to be safe?
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These are the things they're worried about. So that explains the pivot to public safety,
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which no matter how they pivot, it's not going to make a difference because the modern Democrat party
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just doesn't, none of these people have it in themselves to actually do what needs to be done
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to address violent crime. Because making modest changes here and there, policy changes,
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that's not going to do anything. If you really want to put, if you really want to tamp down violent
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crime, all you got to do is look at what New York was doing in the, you know, under Rudy Giuliani
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or even Bloomberg. Back when they actually had a handle on the violent crime epidemic.
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And what did you do there? It's, you come down hard on the criminals and you have to do some
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things that might make people feel a little bit uncomfortable. You know, all the things
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that we, that now are anathema. Oh, we can't do that. We can't stop and frisk. We can't do
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any of those things. Well, you also have to, you have to come down on the criminals if you can,
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like head them off at the pass. So you don't wait around for them to do something so horrific and so
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brutal that everyone would agree they need to be in prison forever. You want to put them away before
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that, which doesn't mean that you're putting people in prison before they commit any crime at
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all. Rather, when someone sends a message that they have no interest in being a law-abiding citizen,
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they have no interest in being productive members of a civilized society. When they send you that
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message, committing crime after crime after crime, violent or otherwise, you put them away.
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You say to them, okay, we got your message loud and clear. We're going to put you in a cage now
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because you want to be an animal and not a human being. And so unfortunately we're going to have
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to give you what you have asked for. Democrats don't have it in them. And that was clear in the
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debate. So there's a couple of clips I want to play. Here's one on where we, where we talk about
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the issue of crime and one particular phrase from Hokule that was very interesting. Listen to this.
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This governor who still to this moment, we're halfway through the debate. She still hasn't
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talked about locking up anyone committing any crimes. Okay. Anyone who commits a crime
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under our laws, especially with the change they made to bail has consequences. I don't know why
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that's so important to you. I don't, I don't know why that's so important to you, but I just said that
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they really, they don't understand the Democrats. They actually don't understand why people care
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about this, why they want to feel safe. And they don't, she's right about that. I believe her.
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She doesn't know why that's okay. We'll put violent criminals in jail. If that's so important
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to you. All right, fine. We'll, we'll, we'll try to put someone in a criminal in prison so they don't
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murder another, you know, innocent person walking on the street. If that's so important to you.
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Well, we know what's important to, uh, to, to Democrats like Hokule things like making sure that
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we're killing as many babies as possible. So here's her answer when she's asked, is there any
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restriction? Are there any restrictions at all on abortion that you would support? Here's what she
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says. Is there any restrictions around abortion that you would approve of? What we have in New
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York state is simply a codification of Roe v. Wade. So what has been out there since the Supreme court
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before the Supreme court undid 50 years of progress for women. So women like myself and my daughter would
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have a right. My granddaughter does not have the same right that I had to make a determination in
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concert with myself or my doctor, if it's after the six months. So we have the same restrictions
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and anyone who says otherwise is just incorrect. She's deeply concerned that her daughter or rather
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her granddaughter, uh, won't be able to kill babies. This is the sort of thing that she's worried
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about. I said, most Americans wake up, they're worried about, can they afford food? Can they
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put gas in their car? Are they going to be safe? Kathy Occhio wakes up worried that her granddaughter
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won't be able to kill babies, that her own progeny won't be wiped off the face of the earth in the
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womb. That's what she, she wakes up in the middle of the night, cold sweats, worried that not enough
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babies are being killed. Now she doesn't answer the question. Will you, are there any restrictions you
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would support? And she doesn't answer because the answer is no. Of course there are no restrictions
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whatsoever. Uh, and that's the, that is the mainstream Democrat position on abortion. Now,
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no restrictions, abortion right up to the moment of birth and also afterwards.
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And this is something that Republicans need to continue to highlight because,
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you know, what do Democrats want to do when it comes to abortion? They want to, they want to
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make the entire conversation centered around the hardest kinds of cases. They want to center the
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entire conversation around the 1% of abortions that are linked to, you know, rape, incest,
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allegedly life of the mother. Um, although the heavy qualifications on, on those, by the way, but
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that's, that's, that's still 1%. Even according to pro-abortion groups like the Guttmacher
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Institute, even according to their own numbers, we're talking about 1% of abortion. And they want the
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entire abortion debate to center around the 1% of cases. And what Republicans should be doing as
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much as possible is saying, we're not, before we talk about the 1% of cases, let's deal with the 99%
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of cases. Let's deal with the 99% of cases when babies are being killed purely as a form of birth
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control. What about that? Now you answer all the questions on the 99% of cases, all the questions
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that the public might have about that, then we can talk about the 1%. But before, but we're not
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going to talk about the 1% at all. If you can't talk about the 99%. All right. Um, and Kathy Hochul is
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just to summarize here, but remember she did not, she was not a, she was not elected governor the first
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time. She ended up in that position because Cuomo got run out of town. And so she's made it all the
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way to the governor's mansion having, I don't know, she's one, maybe one political race during that
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time. She is just road coattails all the way to the governor's mansion. She is a picture of
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mediocrity. And this is really who runs the country. I don't mean Kathy Hochul specifically.
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I mean, mediocre, liberal white women are really run the country when it comes down to it.
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So much of our culture is, is run by people like this.
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All right. Moving to this from the daily wire says chest reconstruction surgeries performed on
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minors across the United States increased by approximately 400% during a three-year span,
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according to a new report. That's 400%. It does not mean I'm not, I'm not misspeaking 400%.
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The journal of the American medical association, international peer review journal or general
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medical journal published that researchers from Vanderbilt university in Nashville, Tennessee
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reported that 1,130 chest mutilating surgeries were performed on children younger than 18 years old
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from 2016 to 2019. Of those encounters, 1,114 were mastectomies, while 16 were augmentation
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mammoplasties, bringing the annual number of child mutilations during the reported year to a 389%
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increase. The study noted, to our knowledge, this study is the largest investigation to date of gender
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affirming chest reconstruction in a pediatric population. The results demonstrate substantial increases
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in gender affirming chest reconstruction for adolescents. The report noted, reconstructive
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genital surgery is typically not performed in adolescents, but masculinizing chest reconstruction,
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mastectomy, and feminizing chest reconstruction, augmentation mammoplasty, may be performed in
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outpatient and ambulatory surgery settings. So that is a 400% increase. And yet we are still told that
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there is no social contagion here at work. No social contagion, just a 400% increase.
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And in some ways, you know, it's, it's, it's easy to get to that 400% increase because what that also
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tells you is that prior to 2016, it just like, it wasn't happening at all. It effectively wasn't
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happening at all up until about six or seven years ago. And now it's happening with, I mean,
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to say increasing regularity is vast understatement. And if we don't do something about this, I mean,
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this is a, this is a trend, trends like this, they don't tail off on their own, especially when you
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have powerful institutions that are feeding the trend. This is not happening by accident, obviously.
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There's a lot of money behind it and a lot of money being made on it.
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And if you don't do something about it, then we, we, if we, if we keep with this rate of growth,
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What percentage of the female adolescent population 10 years from now will have been
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mutilated? I mean, the numbers are jaw-dropping unless we do something about it.
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And when we talk about doing something about it, that's not just fighting in the culture,
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but that also means laws. There need to be laws passed, which of course, as you know,
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is what we're trying to do here in, in Tennessee. Now in other countries across,
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the world, they don't have this problem. Andy Ngo has an interview with a man named
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Balaz Orban, who's a member of the administration of Hungarian prime minister,
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Viktor Orban. And here they talk about the Hungarian approach to gender issues. And there's quite a lot
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in this short clip that's interesting. So listen to this. In the United States, research is showing
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that from a five-year period of 2017 to 2022, the number of teens and young adults who are trans
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identifying had doubled. In the United Kingdom, there is a 4,415% increase in young people seeking
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gender treatment since 2009. These are huge. I mean, this is a phenomenal. Is this happening in your country?
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Well, we realized just a couple of years ago that something similar is happening in Western Europe
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and in the United States. But until this moment, it's quite an unknown issue in Hungary. We don't have,
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for example, a word, Hungarian word for gender. So what we decided is to act immediately, which for us means
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that we should ask the Hungarian people in all the strategic issues, what do they think? Whether
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they want to go to that direction, which is offered by the media, by the NGOs, by Brussels, or they want
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to find another pattern. So that's why we introduced a referendum where we asked four questions from the
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Hungarians. And with an overwhelming majority, they made the decision that they said no to gender
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propaganda for minors in schools, especially without the consent of parents. And they said no to
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gender treatments for minors. So what I can say is that...
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So in your country, your medical institutions do not, by law, cannot provide transitioning services or
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surgical treatment to minors. This is the case. And it's not my opinion as a politician. It's the
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opinion of more than 3.5 million Hungarian voters. And we have to respect that.
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They don't even have a word for gender in Hungarian. And that's the case in many countries in many
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languages across the world. Now, they have a word for sex. They have a word to indicate male or female.
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But this other undefinable, incoherent category that's separate from sex, but also not,
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that doesn't exist in the Hungarian language. It doesn't exist in most languages. I mean,
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arguably any other language except English, because we're the ones who invented it.
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But in Hungary, this is an issue. This is obvious. Like, of course, we're not going to allow this to
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happen to kids. And what this means is that other countries in the world, they are looking at us
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as a bunch of depraved lunatics. Forget about shining city on a hill. Those days, sadly,
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very sadly, are gone. Those are long gone. Other countries in the world, including other European
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countries, they look at us and they're flabbergasted, not in a good way. They see just,
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they see a culture that has descended fully into lunacy. And they're right. That's what's so sad
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about it. I can't even disagree. It's shameful. It's embarrassing. And as you know, as someone who
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has actually gone outside of the Western bubble and talked about these issues with people who exist
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outside of that bubble, I've experienced this myself. And in What is a Woman? It leads to some very
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interesting footage and some of it is quite funny. But at the same time, it's humiliating
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because I'm an American. And I want to be proud of my country. It's very difficult to be proud
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when you're one of the only countries in the world that sexually mutilates kids.
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All right. Daily Wire has this. Meghan Markle said she's afraid to speak her mind or be clear
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about what she needs for fear of sounding demanding and being perceived as an angry black woman.
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During Spotify's Archetypes podcast on Tuesday, the host Markle spoke with actress Issa Rae and
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comedian actress Ziwe Fumido about her reluctance to be more assertive. The episode is titled
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Upending the Angry Black Woman Myth. She says, I'm particular. I think a high tide raises all ships.
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We're all going to succeed. So let's make sure it's really great because it's a shared success
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for everybody. But I know that I will find myself cowering and tiptoeing into a room.
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And then, okay, then she goes on to talk about how she's afraid. And every time she, if she speaks up,
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then she'll be an angry black woman. It's all racist. And she's just every day that now,
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because she has this podcast. So every day there's another headline about her complaining
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about something. Last week, she was complaining that she was objectified because she had a job
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on Deal or No Deal, where she was one of the chicks holding the briefcases. Apparently,
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she was kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to be part of this game show. It's not a choice she made on her
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own. So every episode, she complains about something else. Meghan Markle is, she is the
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embodiment of the sort of person who never has a good day. You know, you ask her how her day was,
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and it's always stressful. It's always too busy. There was always too much traffic. The line was
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always too long at the grocery store. Not that Markle shops for her own groceries, of course,
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because she's rich and famous and doesn't do that. But she is the rich and famous version of that kind
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person. And it's not so much focusing on the negatives. And it is that. But even more than that,
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it is not ever wanting to concede that something went well, that things are okay, that you had a fine
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time, that you have it easy, that you have a nice life. There are people who just don't want to admit
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this no matter what, because many people in our culture today are addicted to pity.
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Meghan Markle, again, she's the embodiment of this. She's the mascot. Someone who's addicted to pity.
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People that have, they've given up on being loved or being respected or being admired.
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They might want those things sort of in theory, but they can't reach for them because that means
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they'd have to give up the pity. Right? You can't reach for greatness wanting to be successful and
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to be respected and to be admired while also clinging on to your self-pitying. You have to
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let go of that. And they can't do it because pity is a drug to them. They're addicted to it.
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And that is certainly the case for Meghan Markle. All right. I got to move on to this quickly because
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I don't want to run out of time for it again. It is very important. As mentioned yesterday,
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I was alerted this week to a strange set of circumstances. Evidently, according to
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fans of the Hallmark channel, and there are still fans of that channel, there's a new Christmas
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Hallmark movie that features a character or has a cameo appearance of a character briefly who,
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these fans insist, must be based on me. This character is a parody of me, I was told,
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and not a very flattering one. So I've obtained the footage of this possible Matt Walsh-inspired
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character. I don't know what we would call this. This is Matt Face. This is a character in Matt
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Face. We'll go through it, and you tell me what you think. By the way, I have no idea what the plot
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of this movie is to the extent that Hallmark movies even have plots. I'm not sure. It doesn't matter.
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But we'll just, I can't really set this up, but we'll just dive right into it.
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Noelle. Hi. I'm so glad you got here before Bert. Okay. Yeah. Why is that? It's no big deal.
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There's just a couple of things you ought to know before you meet him. I'm so sorry. I'm just
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finding out about all this now. Okay. Like what? Minor things. I mean, nothing horrible.
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No. You guys, you're making it sound like I'm being set up with some sort of nutcase. No. No,
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I don't. I don't know. Mark? Would we call Bert a nutcase? Maybe more like an outsider.
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That's not very convincing. I should go check on the roast.
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Shannon, what have you gotten me into? He wasn't even on social media, so I couldn't look him up.
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I know. I know. I thought that was refreshing until I found out why. Okay. And why?
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He's been banned from all social media platforms. What? Banned? Just from spreading misinformation.
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Oh my gosh. It's fine. He has a lot of good qualities. Like? He's...
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All right. Give it a positive second. I just need to take a breather. I need to take a breather
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because the acting is so bad. This is hard to watch with the music in the background, the whole
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thing. So this is someone banned from social media for spreading misinformation. Now, we know that
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the Hallmark Channel has a long since gone woke, so this is not surprising at all. They're presenting
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this as just like if someone's banned from social media, it must be because they actually spread
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misinformation. As opposed to the reality, of course, which is that when you're banned because
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you have said something that the left has deemed misinformation, usually because they can't engage
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with it, and so they just label it misinformation and use that as a pretense for getting rid of you.
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No surprise that the Hallmark Channel has adopted the leftist viewpoint on this. And also, of course,
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if someone's banned from social media, it means that you should be afraid to go out with them or be
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around them. You know, this is someone. Only nutcases would run afoul of the Twitter police. If you run
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afoul of the Twitter police, you must be crazy. All right, so they're talking about what is allegedly
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the me character, and he's about to make an appearance, I think. Let's keep watching.
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I picked your favorite dessert. Shannon? Yeah. Chocolate. It's so good. You said he's cute,
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right? He's cute. Like, you think he's cute? I do. She's here. He's here.
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I can't believe you're making me do this. You're doing this. Let's go. Wow, your house is very
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clean. Thanks. Hi. Allow me to introduce you to my lovely sister. Well, that's why I'm here.
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You want this one? No, I don't do handshakes. There's germs. Boom. I would never do that. I
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would never do that. Can I get you something to drink, Bert? Sure. Something non-alcoholic
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and non-carbonated. Well, that's definitely not. Any artificial colors or flavorings or
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high fruitless corn syrup. Okay. Okay. So, tap water good? Is it filtered? I'm pretty sure. Yeah.
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All right. That's fine. Yeah. Mark, um, I can have some water as well. My mouth suddenly feels
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very dry. You got it. I am going to go help Mark with the prep, and that way you two can get to know
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each other. And then you're socially awkward, so that's one in a me column.
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My sister, she's a really great cook. Yeah. So, Noelle, are you one of those people who believe
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our planet is actually round? All right. Okay. I've seen enough. All right. So, you got the polka
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shirt, beard glasses, very dry personality. But it looks like the views that are being
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assigned to this person are not my views at all. Uh, especially after, after COVID. I mean,
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someone who doesn't want to shake hands because they're afraid of germs, that is very much a leftist
00:43:40.300
thing now. Worried about high fructose corn syrup. I've never, I've never even said the phrase high
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fructose corn syrup. This is the first time I've ever even said it. Only wants non-alcoholic drinks
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at a party. That is definitely not me. But at the same time, this is Hallmark, right? This is their,
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this is their caricature of something. Obviously, they're trying to, it's a character of somebody on
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the right. And so they're just ascribing every nutty opinion to that person. I don't know. I'm
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not, I, I, I don't have a verdict on this. I will leave it up to the jury to decide.
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Because, you know, the other thing is just because someone has a beard and glasses and yeah,
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the hairstyle is very similar. I'll give you that. But not everyone with a beard and glasses looks like
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me. There are some similar, I don't know. I'm, I'm in the middle, but I leave it up to you to
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determine. Let's get to the comment section. Shell says, I was to start a new job today and they
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wanted me to fill out some paperwork. Here come the preferred pronoun and gender questions. And
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then actually asked what my sexual orientation is. I promptly refused to answer such questions and
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quit the job. I'm with you, Matt. I refuse to play their game. The truth does matter.
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Now, I know that, uh, who cares about silly things like laws, but is it not illegal to ask
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employees what their sexual orientation is? Am I missing something?
00:45:28.340
Justin says, the left, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. Also the left pulls fire alarm in
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a crowded theater. Well, it's a good point. Dusk Deepin says, Matt is very close to acknowledging
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that widespread violence is on the horizon. A society has never been this unstable and managed
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to avoid a bloody ending on the horizon. It's not on the horizon, but we, we have reached the horizon,
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my friend. We are, we are already there where we are, we are experiencing now widespread violence.
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Now, if, if what you're referring to is violence in the form of like a civil war situation, then,
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you know, as I've said before, I, I, I think that's not outside the realm of possibility that we could
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have a civil war. Uh, I think that our divisions are deep enough between the sides that it, that it,
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you know, historically, if, if, if, if history is a, is a precedent here, then it could lead in that
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direction. But for a bunch of other reasons, including the fact that our, you know, we have
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these ideological differences, but they're not as cleanly divided on geographic lines. There obviously
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are blue areas and red areas, but, um, these things intermingle enough that I, that what I would
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predict is just what you said, widespread violence, pockets of violence, increasing kind of chaos in a
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much more disorganized fashion. And I think that is what we're experiencing right now. Ken says, sorry,
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Matt, the person closest to the window owns the right over the window shade. Don't like it by a window
00:47:02.520
seat. Stop crying snowflake. Don't tell me what to do. First of all, I will cry over this. If I want
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to, I will cry over your faulty logic to begin with just because you're closest to something means
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that you own it. So if I come to your house and I, and I sit on your couch, I own it. If I'm closest to
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your dog, I own your dog. If I'm closest to the big fish tank, when I'm taking my kids to the
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rainforest cafe, do I own the fish tank? Can I take a fish out of the fish tank for a snack?
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Because the appetizers always take two and a half hours at rainforest cafe. Can I do that?
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Think of the consequences of what you're saying here, Ken. Speaking of anarchy, think of the
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anarchy that would ensue if we adopted this principle. This is like a child's understanding
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of ownership. I'm closest to it. So I own it. What kind of ethical framework is that?
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No, the window is on. I am, as you know, a proponent of equity. And the window is on.
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The ownership of the window is equitable. It is one third ownership for everybody in the row.
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Unless I'm closest to it, which case I'll just do whatever I want. John says, Matt, when are you
00:48:21.240
going to denounce Ben for shaving his beard? Was the whole beard growing thing just a stunt to promote
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Jeremy's razors? I don't know what it was. Well, I know what it was. It was a betrayal.
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I thought that Ben had finally been reformed. They had seen the error of his beardless ways. I thought
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that we, the two of us, could finally be co-beardsmen bonded in that sacred follicle brotherhood.
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I was proud of him, to tell you the truth, to be a little vulnerable myself. I was proud of him.
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And then one day, without warning, he shaves it off, bearing his naked face to the world. It's
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indecent, for one thing. Men should not be showing off their naked chins. It is grotesque.
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We need to start shaming naked chin like we shame or used to shame people who show off other parts of
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their body. I thought Ben finally understood this. So I don't know. I have nothing to offer here but
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my heartbreak. I haven't fully processed my feelings or come to grips with my trauma. But thank you for
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asking. It's been a busy month here at The Daily Wire. We released The Greatest Lie Ever Sold,
00:49:28.060
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You know, I've never been a fan of U2. I don't know if I've ever even met a fan of their music.
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I don't think anyone has ever liked U2, and yet they are one of the most successful musical acts
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in the history of the world. It's not clear exactly how they managed to pull this off.
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They became, you might say, the world's elevator music, or maybe society's hold music. Something
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you hear all the time, whether you like it or not, and you don't really like it, but you also don't
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viscerally hate it. The music just is, it exists, and it exists everywhere, and nobody knows why,
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and nobody ever asks. And nobody can distinguish one U2 song from another. No one can. We all,
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we know every U2 song, and yet we don't know any of them. It's one of the most confounding riddles
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of life. The man behind this mystery, Bono, was profiled yesterday in the New York Times in a piece
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titled, Bono is Still Trying to Figure Out U2 and Himself. It only deepens the mystery to discover
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the lead singer of the band, also doesn't know why it exists or why anybody likes it.
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As for figuring out himself, Bono is in his mid-60s now. It's probably time to start arriving
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at a few conclusions before it's too late. He's apparently written a memoir, which explains why
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he was doing the New York Times interview. Most of the interview doesn't interest me, but there is
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one admission that did interest me. He says this, quote, I ended up as an activist in a very
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different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we
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could solve every problem. I now know that's not true. There's a funny moment when you realize as an
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activist, the off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce. It's entrepreneurial capitalism.
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Imagine that. Who could have ever guessed? It's capitalism. Now, I will say that, you know,
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I don't treat capitalism like a religion, as some establishment conservative types have done
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historically. I believe in the free market. I don't think that our free market principles,
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though, should preclude us from doing things like regulating big tech, holding it accountable for
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the ways that it censors and suppresses speech. I also don't think that defending the free market
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must necessarily mean that we have to be ardent defenders of behemoth transnational corporations.
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The relationship between government corporations, big tech, media, the kind of systemic human
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centipede, as I have previously described it, is such that the phrase free market barely even applies
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to these institutions. They've all become like quasi-governmental institutions in their own way.
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Further, I don't think that being a capitalist means that we must surrender our culture to smut and
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filth, insisting that any effort to enforce basic standards of human decency is somehow an assault on
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the free market or on free speech. So these are all important caveats, and perhaps caveat isn't
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the right word. They are more so specifications or descriptions of what I mean when I talk about
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capitalism. And the descriptions are important because not everyone means the same thing. In fact,
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Bono himself transitions immediately from admitting that capitalism is the best way out of poverty
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to making a sales pitch for globalization. He conflates the two, globalization and capitalism.
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But they're not the same thing. That is a specific sort of capitalism, the type that a left-wing
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multi-millionaire celebrity is destined to support. But it's not the only option. And in the case of
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impoverished third world countries, what they need most is not globalization, but a legitimate local
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economy with thriving small businesses and so on. So with all that said, Bono is correct in the
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fundamental revelation at which he has arrived about 60 years late, that the way out of poverty
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is through entrepreneurial capitalism. He's wrong, though, that this is separate. This is somehow a
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separate concept from redistributing resources. And that's kind of a false choice. Because one way or
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another, resources are going to be, if you want to put it this way, redistributed. That's because there
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are finite resources available. There's a certain amount of food, a certain amount of houses,
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cars, a certain amount of capital in the world. There are a lot of these things. And more can be
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produced and are produced every day. But the amount is still finite as opposed to infinite.
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It's just another way of saying that you can't make all of your necessities and your desired luxuries
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materialize out of thin air. If you want something or you need something, you have to obtain it.
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It must be transferred or distributed, if you like, into your possession. The only other option is to
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build, harvest, or hunt it yourself. But very few people in the modern world can live an entirely
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self-sustaining life. And it's not generally a path to prosperity. And besides, even if you go that
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route, you still need to obtain some of the tools necessary to do it successfully. So the question
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becomes not whether resources are distributed from one party to another. Everyone agrees on that.
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If you want to have any kind of economy, and every civilized society, and even uncivilized ones,
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must have economies, then that's just the nature of the beast. And broadly speaking here, simplifying to
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a significant extent, there are two ways of getting the resources from one party to another.
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You can do it by plunder and seizure, which is a stronger force taking the resources it wants
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and giving it to whoever they determine, starting, of course, with themselves. Or you can do it through
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a marketplace, where one party obtains the desired good or service from another party, and in exchange,
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pays an agreed-upon price. Neither of these systems are perfect. Both can be abused. There will be
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poverty in both. Unscrupulous people will find ways to exploit the vulnerable in either case.
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But the question is, which system opens up the best path to human flourishing while offering fewer
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opportunities for exploitation and oppression? And the answer, as history has always shown,
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is the latter, the free market approach, which offers the most freedom, the most flourishing,
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and will be the most likely to lift people out of poverty. The problem with the seize and plunder
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system, whether it's a governmental entity doing it, or pirates, or Vikings, or a rival tribe,
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or whoever, is that you're relying on their benevolence to identify the parties who need
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the resources more and then deliver it. You're also relying on their perfect wisdom to know who
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deserves what. You are depending on them to have God's goodness and generosity and wisdom to go along
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with the godlike powers that they are wielding. And that faith is always, 100% of the time,
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misplaced. And this is why communism and socialism and all forms of governmental redistribution systems
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end in misery and catastrophe. One of the problems with progressives like Bono is that they don't
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respect or understand nature. And that applies to external nature, the planet's nature, the nature
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comprised of trees and oceans and clouds. It also applies to internal nature, human nature.
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They respect and understand that least of all. They don't understand that human beings are fallen
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creatures. And so all of our institutions will be at some level broken and unreliable. And so we can't
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give absolute power to any institution. The institutions, they can't carry the weight of that
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sort of trust and faith. They also don't understand tendencies and trends and the ways in which historical
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trends can and should guide our expectations of the future. The left just doesn't understand this.
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It's why they keep trying to, you know, get socialism going again and again, because no matter how much
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misery it accounted for in the past, it's also why on the individual level, they think that we ought to
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continue releasing violent criminals back into our communities. Maybe they've changed. Maybe they've
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been reformed, they cry. Yeah, maybe, but almost certainly not. Anything is possible, but we have
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to make policies and decisions based on what is probable, not what is possible. It's possible that
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you could jump off of a 100-story building and survive. I mean, it's possible technically. It's not
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impossible. It is possible, but it's certainly not probable. The probability is low enough that it's worth
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taking the elevator, even if that's a little bit slower. As for economic systems, a common citizen
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advocating for governmental control is like jumping out of that window and hoping that you're the one
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guy who has a positive experience with it. On the other hand, for the powerful, for the elite,
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socialism is not a plunge at all. It's an elevation to even greater heights, enjoyed at the expense
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of all those peons still lingering at ground level, and who will soon end up lower even than that.
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Now, these are all points quite obvious to me and to most of you. They were not obvious to Bono
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until now. I'm glad that he finally got it right, sort of got it right anyway. But unfortunately,
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for being late to the party, I must still say that he and his music are canceled. Mostly,
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it's just his music, though, to be honest. That's canceled. All right, that'll do it for this portion
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of the show as we move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow.