Ep. 1053 - The COVID Tyrants Want Forgiveness. They Should Get Punishment Instead.
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Summary
The left wants us to forgive and forget about the tyranny they inflicted on us during COVID, but I ll explain why we can t do that. Also, new documents reveal how the government has been using big tech to squash the First Amendment, the Supreme Court is preparing to ban systemic anti-white racism in college admissions, the government begins its UFO cover-up, and a woman on TikTok explains why white people are morally obligated to refrain from watching the new Black Panther film.
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Today on the Matt Wells Show, the left wants us to forgive and forget about the tyranny they
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inflicted on us during COVID, but I'll explain why we can't do that. Also, new documents reveal
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how the government has been using big tech to squash the First Amendment. The Supreme Court
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possibly prepares to ban systemic anti-white racism in college admissions. The government
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begins its UFO cover-up, and a woman on TikTok explains why white people are morally obligated
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to refrain from watching the new Black Panther film. I'm already one step ahead of her on that.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wells Show.
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delivered. You know, I have to say this article in The Atlantic is a little bit bewildering to read.
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I'm used to seeing the left silence, censored, defamed, threatened, blackmail their opponents.
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These are all tactics that we've grown familiar with. But asking for forgiveness, now that is a
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unique strategy. Though you don't have to read very far to discover that this is not a humble,
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self-aware apology. Rather, the case is made that we should forgive and forget while skipping over the
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apology and the accountability steps entirely, is a demand for amnesty. As it's called, the author
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of the viral article, Emily Oster, urges exactly that in the headline. The headline is in this
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article, which has gone viral, let's declare a pandemic amnesty. We need to forgive one another
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for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID. She begins, in April 2020, with nothing
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else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes. We all wore cloth masks that I made myself.
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We had a family hand signal, which the person in the front would use if someone was approaching
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on the trail and we needed to put our masks on. Once, when another child got too close to my then
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four-year-old son on a bridge, he yelled out, social distancing. These precautions were totally
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misguided. In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing somebody else hiking. Outdoor
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transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks, made out of old bandanas, wouldn't have done
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anything anyway. But the thing is, we didn't know. Yes, but we did know, Emily. There are a few
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things about COVID that we knew virtually from the very first moment. One is that there is not a high
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risk of transmission outside. The other is that the virus particles are much smaller than the pores
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on a cloth mask. And we knew both of those things because that's what the data showed, and also
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because they were a matter of basic common sense. But there's more to say here. We'll allow Emily to
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I've been reflecting on this lack of knowledge thanks to a class I'm co-teaching at Brown University
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on COVID. We spent several lectures reliving the first years of the pandemic, discussing the many
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important choices we had to make under conditions of tremendous uncertainty. Some of these choices
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turned out better than others. To take an example close to my own work, there is an emerging, if not
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universal consensus, that schools in the U.S. were closed for too long. The health risks of in-school
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spread were relatively low, whereas the costs to students' well-being and educational progress were high.
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The latest figures on learning loss are alarming. But in spring and summer 2020, we had only glimmers
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of information. Reasonable people, people who cared about children and teachers, advocated on both
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sides of the reopening debate. Another example, when the vaccines came out, we lacked definitive data on
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the relative efficacies of the Johnson & Johnson shot versus the mRNA options from Pfizer and Moderna.
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The mRNA vaccines have won out. But at the time, many people in public health were either neutral or
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expressed a J&J preference. This misstep wasn't nefarious. It was the result of uncertainty.
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Now, she continually retreats behind this uncertainty line, painting the two years of COVID tyranny as a
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simple misunderstanding driven by well-meaning, benevolent actors who were just doing their best.
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She says, quote, most errors were made by people who were working in earnest for the good of society.
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Given the amount of uncertainty, almost every position was taken on every topic. On every topic,
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someone was eventually proved right and someone else was proved wrong. In some instances, the right
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people were right for the wrong reasons. In other instances, they had a prescient understanding of
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the available information. The people who got it right for whatever reason may want to gloat. Those who
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got it wrong for whatever reason may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn't accord with the
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facts. All of this gloating and defensiveness continues to gobble up a lot of social energy and
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to drive the culture wars, especially on the internet. These discussions are heated, unpleasant,
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and ultimately unproductive. In the face of so much uncertainty, getting something right had a hefty
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element of luck. And similarly, getting something wrong wasn't a moral failing. Treating pandemic
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choices as a scorecard on which some people racked up more points than others is preventing us from
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moving forward. Yes, moving forward is the aim, she says. We must pick up the pieces and move on
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together, united and happy, into the sunset. That's how she wraps the piece up. She says,
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moving on is crucial now because the pandemic created many problems that we still need to solve.
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Student test scores have shown historical declines, more so in math and in reading, and more so for
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students who were disadvantaged at the start. We need to collect data, experiment, and invest.
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Is high dosage tutoring more or less cost effective than extended school years? Why have some states
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recovered faster than others? We should focus on questions like these because answering them is how
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we will help our children recover. The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to
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repeat it, but dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop as well. Let's
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acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty and then try to work
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together to build back and move forward. Build back better, some might even say.
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So Emily is echoing here an increasingly popular sentiment on the left. They know they can't defend
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their response to COVID on the merits. They know that even the people who were most compliant and
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obedient during the COVID years have now woken up from their stupors and are looking back on all of it
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the way that a guy with a hangover might look back on the previous night spent binge drinking.
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Except that they were binging on fear and panic, and now the well has dried up and they can see
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clearly what they couldn't see before. Now the left assumed, and on this I actually, I agreed with them
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and I assumed too, that even after the mandates went away, many people would continue wearing the masks
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and keeping up with the social distancing routine and living in a state of reflexive COVID panic
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perpetually forever, maybe. You know, I thought that would happen. I was afraid that would happen.
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That's not what happened. The mandates were dropped and almost every person dropped the masks with them.
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You know, most people aren't going in for booster shots. I've traveled all over the country over the
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past year, just as I was traveling all over the country at the height of the COVID panic. And I can tell you
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that even in the most liberal areas, the mask wearers are now weirdos. They're outliers.
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Every plane has maybe one or two of them. A busy restaurant in a left-leaning metro area might have
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one group come in wearing the mask, only to take it off at the table, of course, continuing to perform
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the pandemic hokey pokey dance that never made any sense to begin with. But even those brain damaged
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folks, you know, they're not requesting a plastic barrier be put up between themselves and the other
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tables. Some things are too absurd even for them at this point. So my point is that this is the only
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reason why we're hearing about amnesty and forgiveness. It's only because the left discovered
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that most people never really bought into it. They didn't believe it. They just did what they were told
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because they were afraid of the consequences, which is a problem in and of itself, but that's what was
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happening. The mental conditioning did not settle in nearly to the extent that the left had hoped and
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assumed. And now they're worried about the political consequences. So they're shrugging their shoulders
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and saying, ha, that was weird, guys, right? What do you say we forget about all that stuff and just move on?
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But we can't. We can't forgive. We can't forget. We can't have mercy on the COVID tyrants.
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And here's why. First of all, they didn't close down the schools and force masking on everyone and
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vaccines and take away people's livelihoods and jobs and shut down society and wage war on our civil
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liberties all because they lacked information. Even if they did, that would be no excuse
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because this is America. You cannot say to Americans, we don't really know what's going on
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or if this will help, but we're going to ruin your lives and take away your fundamental freedoms
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anyway, just in case. That is not an acceptable line of reasoning in this country, not even close.
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But that's also not the line of reasoning they used. Despite actually knowing most of what the
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writer says they didn't know, they violently and forcefully imposed the opposite reality or
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attempted to. I mean, it wasn't as though the COVID panic peddlers were simply offering one
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perspective, one opinion. They weren't saying, you know, this is how we feel about it, guys,
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but you do what you want to do. We don't really know. No, they said that you're not
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allowed to have any opinion or perspective but theirs. They had people who disagreed with them
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deplatformed and silenced. That's one of the reasons why this continued for so long is because people
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who had the opposite viewpoint were driven away. They sought to make it illegal to voice an alternative
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point of view. If they didn't know, if they didn't have the information, that makes this tyrannical
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approach less justifiable, not more. But again, they did know. They knew the opposite of what they
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claimed. They knew it because I knew it and you knew it. And many of us were saying this in April
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or May of 2020. Shouldn't shut down the schools. These masks aren't doing anything. You don't need
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to be worried about shutting down parks and beaches makes no sense because if anything, you want people
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to be outside in the sun when a virus is going around. Many of us were saying that practically
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from the beginning. We were saying that, you know, March, April, May, they started saying it last week.
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How did we know it if our public health authorities, so-called, did not? Did we have access to
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information that was unavailable to them? I mean, the claim is absurd. Now, the point here is not to
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gloat. Honestly, I'm not much in the mood for gloating after what they did and what they took from
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us. Children committed suicide. Elderly people died alone in nursing homes. Many businesses went on or
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people lost everything. Gloat? No, no, no. We want justice. We want accountability. We want to set
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an example so that they won't try this again. Move on? I'll move on after there have been military
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tribunals. I'll move on when Fauci and his comrades are tried and convicted for crimes against humanity
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and given the maximum penalty for it. That's when we can move on and not before it.
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Here's an idea. If you want to practice forgiveness, if you want to let people move on
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from past mistakes, why not tell that to the cancel culture vultures who spend their time
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digging through comments people have made or made in the distant past and then using those
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as a pretense for destroying their lives in the present? I mean, there is a lack of forgiveness in
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our society, but that's where it can be felt. Somebody expresses an opinion or makes a joke
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and suddenly their persona non grata, they're disgraced, ostracized. Call for forgiveness there.
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That's what we needed. But the tyrants who took advantage of a virus and used it as an opportunity
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to seize control and wield power? No, they don't deserve to be forgiven. They deserve to be punished.
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My kids enjoyed trick-or-treating last night. They enjoyed it even though nobody understood their
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costumes. You know, my kids are the weird ones who always choose these obscure costumes on
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Halloween. At least my older two do, so they never liked, they're never superheroes or Disney
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characters or whatever. This year, the twins went as characters from Jurassic World, which is the
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reboot Jurassic Park franchise. So they went as reboot Jurassic Park characters, and I tried to tell
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them that no one is going to know who you are. You're just wearing a vest. No one's going to know
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what that's from. The costume's way too specific. You know, at Halloween, so I've been telling them
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for nine years, Halloween, you play the hits, okay? You play the, stick with the classics. That's
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what you do on Halloween. But they don't, it doesn't sink in. So every year my kids are like, I want to go
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as a car salesman. Just, what? You could be a werewolf or Spider-Man or something. The other thing
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that's guaranteed to happen on Halloween, if you have a toddler, is that, and this is just every
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single year, there's going to be a last minute wardrobe change, or else she'll refuse out of
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nowhere to wear any costume at all, without, without any explanation. Just like super excited
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about a costume, and then the day comes, the night comes, I don't want to wear that. No explanation
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at all. Can't reason it out. Can't, can't tell you why. So our toddler was supposed to be the,
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the Little Mermaid for, for Halloween, and was very excited about it. And then at the last minute said
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she didn't want to be a Little Mermaid anymore, maybe because she knows that little, the Little
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Mermaid is black now, and she doesn't want to culturally appropriate. That could be it. So I
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tried to be sensitive to it, and she decided she wanted to be a dinosaur, I guess in keeping with
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the Jurassic World theme. And, and my wife had a dinosaur costume just on hand to give her, because
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my wife is prepared for all holiday-related emergencies. And she was prepared for that one.
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So we went out, and it was good. It rained, you know, it started raining, and, and the kids at a
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certain point were just like, they wanted to stop. And my wife was the one pushing everyone to keep
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going. She said, no, we'll just do a couple more houses. And it's pouring rain, and all the kids are
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complaining, and I'm complaining now. It's my wife. And I told her, I said, I can, if you, I can buy you
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candy if you want. I get, what, what candy do you want? We can go to Walgreens on the way back, and
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I'll buy it for you. This is, no, we don't need to do this. So they did, they, they made out pretty
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well. And I, and I did explain to my kids before they went to bed, I, you know, because they, they
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had their, their, their haul and their bags. And I explained to them this really interesting scientific
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phenomenon where bags of candy will actually, they'll kind of settle and condense overnight so that in
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the morning, they'll be much lighter, and there will appear to be less candy than there was when
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they went to bed. It's a very interesting scientific event that occurs, but you got to trust the
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science and just don't worry about it. My, my daughter was skeptical, but the other kids just, just
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bought it. All right. We'll start with this from the Daily Wire. It says, hundreds of internal documents
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exposed top U.S. government agencies working closely with social media companies like Facebook
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and Twitter to censor American freedom of speech under the guise of fighting disinformation over
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several years as obtained and reported by The Intercept. The Intercept's investigative journalist
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Lee Fang broke the story on Monday, confirming what Americans have feared in the current age of
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censorship, that only authoritarian regimes could only, could dream of enacting in a nation founded on
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the unabridged right to freedom of speech. By Monday night, Fang appeared on Tucker Carlson
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tonight to discuss the bombshell report. Fang told Carlson, quote, we looked at hundreds of
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documents that paint a vivid picture of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, closely
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collaborating with the top social media platforms, Twitter and Facebook, to censor various forms of
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content under the banner of fighting disinformation. Fang said the story shows a very cozy relationship
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between the government, alphabet agencies like the FBI and DHS, and tech giants, where they held
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monthly meetings as recently as August and exchanged emails and texts to shape online discourse.
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One of those cozy relationships highlighted in the report shows a text from earlier this year
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between former DHS official and current Microsoft executive Matt Masterson and Jen Easterly, a DHS
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director, saying the government needs to get the private sector, needs to get more comfortable with
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the government. I don't know exactly what it means. Platforms have to get comfortable with the
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government. Okay. It's really, it's interesting how hesitant they remain. You need to get comfortable
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with the government, is what they were saying. So this was, and you can look at the report from
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The Intercept, and it goes into Li Fang's report. This is real, you know, there are some people out
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there doing real journalism. Here's one example. And what it shows is this end run that the government
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was performing to get around the First Amendment, and just going right to the big tech companies and
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saying, we need to be, you need to get comfortable with us, and we're going to be policing disinformation.
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This is why they're so paranoid about Elon Musk taking over, obviously. This is actually what
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they're worried about. They're worried that this, you know, not only will this come to an end,
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and they're not going to be able to control the public discourse anymore, but also the people
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working at these platforms, you know, they just never imagined, like at Twitter, they never imagined
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that someone who is not a comrade, someone who is not an ideological compatriot, would one day run
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the company. It just, it never, never occurred to them, which is why these emails and text messages
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are coming out now. They're very explicit. They're putting all this stuff in writing, just because
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they figured, like, this is Twitter. This is big tech. It's always going to be in our hands, and by
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our, I mean on the left. The idea that someone else would come in who is not, who has not sworn
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ideological allegiance to them was unthinkable, but that's what happened, which isn't even to say
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that Elon Musk is a conservative, because I don't think he is, and he doesn't claim to be.
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He's just not a dyed-in-the-wool leftist. He's not that. And so we're going to find out a lot more
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about this sort of thing. You know, this is another one of the reasons why you can, you really can't
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even call these big tech companies private companies. They're really not. They are private
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in name only, maybe, but they're not actually. These are quasi-government institutions.
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Now, it looks like that's going to change with Twitter. I hope it changes, but up until now,
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this is what it was. You know, these are quasi-government institutions. They work closely
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with the government. They've gotten comfortable with the government, and they work to advance,
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and they share, you know, they share an agenda. They share an objective, and so they're working
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together. And it's increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two.
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And of course, it should also go without saying that policing disinformation or misinformation,
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Now, I understand why the government would want it to be in their purview, because we live
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in the information age. Information is everything, and there's, and everywhere. Information is
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everywhere. We're all absorbing information at a, you know, historically unprecedented rate every
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single day. Like, we encounter more information in a single day than people prior to the modern age
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would have encountered in a lifetime. And so if you control the flow and spread of information,
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then you control everything. You control society. You control what people think. I mean, this is,
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for them, this is much better than, yeah, it's one thing to pass laws. Like we talked about in the
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opening. They passed laws, and they passed mandates, and they were able to force compliance much more
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than they should have been able to do. But they didn't change what people believed. Because as soon
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as the mandate went away, people took the mask away. The most revealing thing was on the planes,
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because the planes were some of the only, among the last of the holdouts, where you still had to
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wear a mask on a plane up until, you know, recently. And everybody was 100% compliant on the planes
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and in airports. Even though in the airports, you didn't have to be. Now, on the plane, I, you know,
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I always tested it. I would take the mask off for as long as I could get away with. But on a plane,
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you couldn't get away with it for very long. In an airport, though, this is all through COVID. I
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never wore a mask in the airport, because there was, you know, nobody would, there really wasn't,
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once you got through TSA, there wasn't any central sort of authority figure that could tell you to put
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it on. Maybe you passed by a gate agent who would say, put your mask on. I just ignore them and walk by.
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What are they going to do, call TSA? They never did. But most people didn't even test it.
00:23:51.040
They just put the mask on and they did as they were told. However, mask mandate goes away and
00:23:56.340
immediately everyone takes the mask off. It's like 99.9% of the people take the mask off with
00:24:04.220
just a few outliers, right? Well, that shows that they were able to control behavior,
00:24:10.400
but they were not able to control, in this case, they were not able to control the way people think
00:24:15.560
to the extent that they wanted. And I think the government's learning a lesson from that. The
00:24:21.720
regime is learning a lesson. Exactly the wrong lesson, but they're learning a lesson. What
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they're learning is that, yeah, we could pass laws, we could pass mandates, we can force people at
00:24:29.460
gunpoint to do things, but it's much more valuable if you can control how people think
00:24:35.500
and what they believe. Because then they'll do your bidding without you even telling them they have
00:24:40.560
to. And then you can claim that it's not tyranny, that it's not oppression, because there's no law
00:24:47.080
saying people have to do this. They're just doing it. Well, they're doing it because you've manipulated
00:24:51.740
them at the deepest level. And that's what this is all about, obviously.
00:24:56.440
All right. NBC has this report. It says, conservative Supreme Court justices indicated
00:25:03.260
on Monday that they are willing to end the explicit consideration of race in college admissions as
00:25:08.300
they weigh cases challenging affirmative action policies at the University of North Carolina and
00:25:12.620
Harvard University. Members of the court's conservative majority questioned the legal rationale for
00:25:18.200
allowing the practice and probed to what extent colleges and universities could enact new race-neutral
00:25:23.260
admissions policies aimed at improving racial diversity. Some justices, however, indicated that
00:25:28.760
they would be willing to allow applicants to discuss their racial identities in some form as part of
00:25:33.040
essays touching upon their experiences, such as examples of overcoming discrimination. Liberal
00:25:37.760
justices who were in the minority defended the use of race in admissions, citing the importance of
00:25:41.980
diversity on campus and the difficulty of achieving it without any consideration of race.
00:25:48.220
Affirmative action introduced to redress historic discrimination has been a contentious issue for years,
00:25:53.260
yada, yada, yada. But it's looking now, based on these oral arguments, which can be deceptive,
00:25:58.200
but based on those, it looks like this could be affirmative action in the college administration
00:26:06.140
admissions game could be going the way of Roe v. Wade. A few points about this. First, obviously,
00:26:13.940
you cannot prevent or heal racial discrimination by committing it. The most you can do is swap
00:26:22.800
one type for another. That's the most you could possibly do. So it's just like if you're worried
00:26:28.260
about, to use a fishing analogy, if you're worried about an invasive predatory species of fish in an
00:26:37.180
ecosystem, and so in order to address that problem, you release a different invasive predatory fish into
00:26:45.160
the ecosystem to eat that one. Well, now you've just swapped out one invasive species for another.
00:26:52.400
You haven't gotten rid of the problem. You've just created a different problem to take its place.
00:26:57.340
Now, you might say that, well, this other fish is, you know, if we have to have one, we'd rather have
00:27:00.880
this other predatory invasive species. But that is what the argument you're making. You're not getting
00:27:07.420
rid of it. You're just, you're just, you're, you're replacing it with a different version that you
00:27:12.720
find to be less threatening. But then in reality, of course, what's most likely going to happen is
00:27:21.680
that you don't just replace one species with another. Now you end up with both. Actually,
00:27:27.060
that's probably what's going to happen. And that's what they're trying to do here. Let's,
00:27:31.620
let's get rid of the systemic racism against racial minorities by replacing it with a mandatory
00:27:42.000
systemic racism against white people. And, and here's the other thing. If, if it worked,
00:27:51.880
okay, if it actually, if the plan actually worked to institute racial discrimination against whites in
00:28:00.860
order to prevent racial discrimination or to get rid of racial discrimination against blacks,
00:28:06.580
then it shouldn't be needed anymore. Affirmative action policies have been in place for decades.
00:28:14.980
So even by their own logic, let's, let's just say that, yeah, there was a, there's systemic racism in
00:28:21.840
the university system. And so they needed to put these affirmative action policies in place to get rid of
00:28:25.300
it. Okay. Well, it's been decades now. If you're telling me that it's still needed,
00:28:30.860
that would seem to indicate that it's not working to solve the problem that you're trying to solve.
00:28:37.540
But this is the built-in advantage of the systemic racism theory. It's unfalsifiable,
00:28:44.820
which means that it is false. That's the thing about an unfalsifiable theory and unfalsifiable theory.
00:28:51.580
They're always false. They're always illegitimate because if there's nothing that could happen,
00:28:57.120
if there's no evidence that could possibly be presented that would prove your theory false,
00:29:03.500
that means that your theory exists independent of the evidence, which means it is a bad theory.
00:29:10.000
If your theory is based on the evidence that you have available, then you should be able to tell us
00:29:14.740
what sort of evidence could be presented that would make you go, okay, well, I'm wrong about this,
00:29:19.200
or the facts have changed, and this is no longer the case anymore.
00:29:24.680
For systemic racism, the purveyors of this theory have made it clear that nothing can ever happen
00:29:32.780
that will prove to them that it doesn't exist. It's impossible to solve the problem.
00:29:39.860
So you can have affirmative action for 40 or 50 years. You can elect a black president.
00:29:43.660
You can have all these different policies putting minorities into positions of leadership.
00:29:50.980
You can have racial minorities running many of the major cities all across the country.
00:30:01.800
And it's done, according to them, absolutely nothing to solve the problem.
00:30:05.520
The problem still exists. In fact, if anything, it's worse now than it's ever been if you listen to them.
00:30:10.040
So that means either that the entire theory is bunk, unfalsifiable, exists apart from the evidence,
00:30:18.100
or that what they're doing just isn't working, or a combination of the two.
00:30:27.000
And there's also this basic idea that diversity is desirable for its own sake,
00:30:33.680
because that's what the liberal justices are really saying.
00:30:36.960
So they're not even so much saying that we still have this embedded anti-black systemic racism in the university system.
00:30:45.480
Now, they might think that, but that's not really the argument.
00:30:48.960
The argument is just that we need to have racial diversity.
00:30:53.940
And the only way to get it is to give racial minorities an embedded advantage
00:31:00.100
and to disadvantage white applicants and also Asian applicants.
00:31:06.900
Justice Thomas, he tried to strike at this idea in his line of questioning.
00:31:10.460
I thought that this was pretty good. Listen to this.
00:31:13.100
I've heard the word diversity quite a few times, and I don't have a clue what it means.
00:31:22.520
But I'd like you to give us a specific definition of diversity in the context of the University of North Carolina.
00:31:39.280
And I'd also like you to give us a clear idea of exactly what the educational benefits of diversity
00:31:58.980
So first, we define diversity the way this court has in its court's precedents,
00:32:02.580
which means a broadly diverse set of criteria that extends to all different backgrounds and perspectives
00:32:10.940
And there's a factual finding in this record, PEDAP 113,
00:32:13.620
that there are many different diversity factors that are considered as a greater factor in our admissions process than race.
00:32:25.040
Well, we also take into account diversity of perspectives.
00:32:27.660
You take it into account so that you can exclude it,
00:32:32.640
because that's the last thing that you want on the college campus.
00:32:36.120
On the modern college campus, that's the last thing they want,
00:32:47.180
I don't think diversity for its own sake should ever be just the objective.
00:32:58.860
the objective is to admit as many qualified applicants as you can,
00:33:23.140
the most advantageous or the most desirable diversity byproducts,
00:33:29.020
it's not a diversity of skin tones and skin pigmentation.
00:33:35.340
Then it does go to a diversity of perspectives,
00:33:40.640
Like, that's where you get the richness of the educational environment,
00:33:44.520
and that's where people are going to, you know,
00:33:46.260
that's where people can hone their ideas by, you know,
00:33:51.880
Like, that is the kind of diversity that you do want.
00:33:58.300
So they're taking the less important forms of diversity,
00:34:06.040
the more meaningless sort of forms of diversity,
00:34:08.500
having a room full of people that all have different shades and skin tones.
00:34:14.020
And they're not only making that the most important form of diversity,
00:34:17.680
but they're making that the objective rather than the byproduct,
00:34:24.500
Al Sharpton apparently still exists and has a show on MSNBC.
00:34:31.760
He's supposed to be interviewing Kathy Halkiel of the governor of New York,
00:34:36.820
who herself is essentially a diversity hire as well.
00:34:39.500
She has never been elected to anything, by the way.
00:34:42.980
She's just been riding coattails all the way up to the top,
00:34:47.460
But this is supposed to be an interview questioning her.
00:34:49.180
But really, this is him coaching her and giving her some talking points.
00:34:55.960
I don't think anyone has been stronger in many states
00:34:59.300
on dealing with gun control and working with communities.
00:35:05.940
you used to show up everywhere with the anti-crime folks.
00:35:10.540
So, I mean, is this just a distorted way of campaigning?
00:35:20.220
They have this conspiracy going all across America
00:35:23.180
to try and convince people that in democratic states they're not as safe.
00:35:28.400
They're also not only election deniers, they're data deniers.
00:35:32.060
The data shows that shootings and murders are down in our state by 15 percent,
00:35:37.700
even in New York City, down 20 percent on Long Island, where Lee Zeldin comes from.
00:35:41.860
And it's the Republican states where they have almost no restrictions on guns.
00:35:48.140
Because of the abundance of guns, people are killing each other with more frequency.
00:36:11.260
And so saying, even if you're wrong, saying that Democrat-run cities are not safe,
00:36:27.540
Now, you could go further and theorize about some conspiracies that are happening there,
00:36:39.240
For example, George Soros pouring money into these races to elect DAs who will not enforce the law,
00:36:48.320
sowing chaos and anarchy into our system and into our communities.
00:36:53.540
And yeah, I suppose you could call that a conspiracy in effect.
00:37:04.600
And also, the way that they switch between state and city,
00:37:11.640
Well, if a red state is dangerous, it's because of the blue cities within the red states.
00:37:19.060
Those are always going to be the most dangerous areas.
00:37:31.520
Okay, if you want data, you want to be data-driven here.
00:37:36.700
Look at crime and violence in New York City under Rudy Giuliani in the early 2000s,
00:37:43.900
and then compare that to crime and violence now.
00:37:49.600
Ever since far-left Democrats took over, starting with de Blasio and on forward.
00:37:57.460
If you really want the data, that's what you should be looking at.
00:38:06.340
It says, Pentagon attributes UFO sightings to spies and airborne trash.
00:38:16.920
Intelligence officials are set to deliver Congress a new report today.
00:38:20.260
This was yesterday, so they already delivered it, I guess.
00:38:22.340
On unexplained aerial phenomenon, better known as UFOs.
00:38:25.500
The document from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will provide an update to a report
00:38:30.260
the intelligence agency made public in June of 2021,
00:38:34.120
which explored more than 140 incidents of UAP encounters between 2004 and 2021.
00:38:40.880
Despite calls for greater transparency from lawmakers and military leaders,
00:38:44.920
it's not yet clear which contents of the coming report will be made public,
00:38:47.980
while it could offer more detailed explanations into the surge of recent sightings.
00:38:51.340
Defense Department officials are downplaying theories of alien invasions
00:38:54.860
and emphasizing ordinary objects that they say are more likely to blame.
00:39:00.700
Military officials told the New York Times that most resolved UFO cases
00:39:06.260
can be attributed to foreign spies or airborne trash.
00:39:12.740
So there's trash in the sky speeding along at the speed of sound,
00:39:22.780
Is it trash that the aliens have thrown out of their UFOs?
00:39:30.440
In May, during Congress's first public UFO hearing in more than 50 years,
00:39:34.020
Pentagon officials testified that a video with mysterious glowing green triangles
00:39:38.040
actually displayed drones that were shot through night vision lenses.
00:39:47.140
an unknown object appeared to move at incredible speed.
00:39:50.620
Military officials later debunked the video as an illusion created by the angle of observation against water.
00:39:59.700
Are they going to even explain in this article how trash could...
00:40:04.420
What is the trash doing 40,000 feet in the air?
00:40:16.440
Has the plastic straw problem gotten that bad that now they're whizzing through the sky too?
00:40:27.180
They just say, oh, it's probably airborne trash.
00:40:32.880
Sometimes you bring your garbage cans out to the curb and then you come in the morning,
00:40:39.080
you come out in the morning and they're gone and you think that like the trash man took them away.
00:40:42.660
But sometimes they'll just, they'll fly up into the sky and, you know, and freak out Navy pilots.
00:40:57.020
And this makes me more convinced than ever that aliens not only are real, which is just a fact,
00:41:05.940
Because now there was a moment, I was actually, I was less convinced back when it seemed that the
00:41:16.440
And then I thought, well, okay, this is not, they wouldn't, something's not right here.
00:41:20.180
But now they're retrenching again and they're, you know, they say, oh yeah, we've debunked it.
00:41:27.740
That, yeah, they've explained the ones that they can explain with normal, you know, just in,
00:41:35.840
by pointing to normal expected physical phenomena.
00:41:39.460
So they've, they've explained the ones that can be explained.
00:41:45.580
But there's still the lion's share of these sightings that have never been explained.
00:41:48.900
And those are the ones that we're interested in.
00:41:53.280
And again, I really want to understand how, how you can blame this on trash.
00:41:59.060
It's, you know, someone threw a Coke can into the air.
00:42:05.500
And then the light refracting from Jupiter and bouncing off of the ocean created a hallucination type effect.
00:42:20.920
One other thing to play for you before we get to the comment section.
00:42:27.840
This is, you know, the first Black Panther was terrible.
00:42:30.480
I didn't see it, but I know that it's terrible because it's a Marvel comic book movie.
00:42:37.840
As Martin Scorsese said, they're, they're basically just a theme park rides,
00:42:41.180
except that they're boring and repetitive theme park rides.
00:42:43.940
So they're more like, these are more, they're not theme park.
00:42:48.480
These are like the teacup ride that goes around in circles.
00:42:52.900
Anyway, so the new Black Panther is coming out next week.
00:42:56.200
But according to TikTok, if you're white, you better not be there on opening day.
00:43:04.160
This message is to all our would-be accomplices and white allies.
00:43:14.160
This message is to all the white people who have BLM in their bio.
00:43:18.440
If you really want to prove to Black people that you love us and you care about us
00:43:23.560
and you are down for the cause, do not go see that movie opening weekend.
00:43:28.740
You buy your ticket, you give it to a Black person or a Black family who can't afford to go.
00:43:33.300
And then you go sit at that theater in front of the doors.
00:43:37.840
You make sure that every Black person in that theater can enjoy that movie in peace.
00:43:43.060
You make sure that you use your body to block us from anybody who would be coming in that theater to do us harm.
00:44:04.180
First of all, let me say, if not seeing Black Panther on opening night makes you progressive and anti-racist,
00:44:12.980
Because I am so progressive that I will never watch it at all.
00:44:18.920
I would not want to take that experience away from or impede in any way on the experiences of Black Americans.
00:44:30.800
And I mean, as far as sitting in front of the theater, I don't think I'm going to go to that extent.
00:44:36.540
Because what if I'm sitting in front of the theater protecting the theater from white presence?
00:44:41.900
And what about a biracial person who's trying to come watch it?
00:44:49.060
Do I say, well, you can watch it with one eye open?
00:44:53.600
I will be interested to see if any white woke people actually follow through on this to prove their woke credentials.
00:45:04.980
Yet for me, as ludicrous as this all is, the bigger issue is just how this film is treated like some sort of sacred thing.
00:45:15.760
You know, something of deep significance for the Black community.
00:45:26.380
And I don't mean a total lack of culture among Black people.
00:45:37.900
Because these are, for all communities, the most important stories, our most cherished stories that we take so seriously, whether on racial grounds or not.
00:45:55.000
This is our most sacred and art, what we revere the most.
00:46:24.140
If I was on a permanent vacation and a billionaire, I would be downright miserable and life wouldn't be worth living.
00:46:29.020
The best days of my life are the ones full of adversity and I collapse into bed dead tired, but with something accomplished.
00:46:35.480
If I had to slop pigs for a living, it would still be worth it.
00:46:38.700
Providing for my family and a sense of purpose can't get better than that.
00:46:45.340
I think it's hard to say when you're not actually in the position.
00:46:51.840
But, you know, I'm not – I think the lottery right now is up to a billion dollars, the Powerball jackpot.
00:46:58.200
I'm not going to go play it because, for one thing, I'm not going to win.
00:47:04.260
It does seem rather depressing to just have – be given all of that money, especially as a young person.
00:47:10.900
What are you working for for the rest of your life?
00:47:13.480
Once the thrill of having all that money wears off and it's like, well, I didn't earn this.
00:47:20.160
But at the same time, when someone actually offers you the check, would you in reality turn it down?
00:47:28.800
But my point is, no matter how you feel about work, whether you want to work or you don't want to work, it almost doesn't really matter.
00:47:38.360
Because the point is that this is just – that this is life.
00:47:50.160
You know, it doesn't mean that your life is a job.
00:47:52.520
It doesn't mean, you know, you could not have a job and still be working.
00:48:00.360
They didn't have jobs the way that we think of it in the industrial age.
00:48:06.460
And as I'm always pointing out, you know, if you try to sever yourself from work, if you try to live a life apart from work,
00:48:13.680
you're not choosing some holier-than-thou, more kind of enlightened approach, because your life still depends on work.
00:48:22.060
It's just that other people are doing it for you now.
00:48:24.340
You're depending on other people to work for you.
00:48:26.640
Whether it's your parents because you're living in the basement, or it's the government.
00:48:29.960
It's the taxpayers, rather, not the government.
00:48:32.580
Whatever it is, you are now depending on the work of others while pretending that you're above it all.
00:48:38.620
You know, that you're living this enlightened life.
00:48:44.000
You know, the people that are feeding you and clothing you and putting a roof over your head, it's not too good for them, apparently.
00:48:53.300
Eduardo says, I wish I worked with Matt and I could come into work as a watermelon and sit right across from him for the whole day.
00:49:02.180
Well, that would be an issue because I'm in my office.
00:49:04.600
And if you just came there and sat in silence, dressed as a watermelon, that you would be fired on the spot.
00:49:10.520
I don't have the power to do it, but I would anyway.
00:49:15.880
Chris says, I'm convinced that Matt Walsh's ad writers are trolling him.
00:49:25.740
Lucy says, I for sure made my own sexy Matt Walsh costume, posted my pic on the Facebook sweet baby gang.
00:49:32.680
Well, you're actually banned from the show for that because to say a sexy Matt Walsh costume makes it sound like it's a variation of what a Matt Walsh would normally be.
00:49:43.500
So, you know, it's like you're whatever, you're a sexy Frankenstein or something.
00:49:55.580
Anna says, thank you for your contrarian takes on children's stories.
00:50:01.220
I've always felt that Snow White was the bad guy in her story, but I assume I don't have to tell you why.
00:50:07.940
I mean, this creepy drifter is wandering around in the woods and comes upon this house and then just, like, walks in.
00:50:16.560
If I'm remembering the Snow White story, I haven't seen it in a long time.
00:50:18.900
But she just walks in to a house and then starts snooping around.
00:50:23.460
And then she goes into the bedroom, rearranges the beds, and falls asleep.
00:50:31.380
What kind of psychopath breaks into someone's house and takes a nap?
00:50:35.540
You hear about cases like that, like in San Francisco and in cities where homeless heroin addicts will do that.
00:50:43.740
It's very disturbing to see trespassing and burglary taken so lightly in a children's story, especially in light of what happened in Nancy Pelosi's house.
00:50:53.920
And then the dwarves come back, and they're just these hardworking blue-collar guys.
00:50:59.660
And I think they're a little bit mentally disabled.
00:51:02.240
And they come in, and they see this woman sleeping in their bed.
00:51:04.420
And she's a giant compared to them, so they feel they have no choice but to allow her to stay.
00:51:08.960
Now she's a squatter, and really it's basically kidnapping.
00:51:12.800
And she's also a moron because the evil witch comes along.
00:51:16.040
And the evil witch has shapeshifting abilities.
00:51:22.280
And she chooses to shapeshift into an even more evil-looking witch, which doesn't make any sense to me.
00:51:27.500
And she goes to, well, not Snow White's house, the house that she's taken over, knocks on the window and is like, has an evil laugh and just hands her an apple.
00:51:39.640
Some weird-looking, deformed old woman, who literally has an evil laugh, knocks on your window and hands you a fruit basket.
00:51:50.980
And without asking any questions, you just start eating from it?
00:51:56.580
And the dwarves, for some reason, had a glass coffin the size of Snow White ready to go.
00:52:04.120
So I don't think there are any innocent parties in this story at all.
00:52:09.320
They don't even check her to see if she's breathing.
00:52:18.140
Because he's just wandering in the woods and comes in.
00:52:19.740
Everyone's just wandering in the woods, coming across this.
00:52:22.060
He walks up to this woman who he thinks is dead and kisses her on the lips.
00:52:25.960
Can you imagine going to a wake of someone you don't know and walking up to the corpse and kissing it?
00:52:33.840
And everyone's looking at you like, who is that guy?
00:52:37.120
And then she wakes up and is supposed to be happily ever after.
00:52:44.520
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00:53:30.400
You know, Jeffrey Marsh is a name that has probably come up in the daily cancellation before.
00:53:34.380
He's a 45-year-old creep who's gained prominence in the groomer community through TikTok videos promoting transgenderism to kids.
00:53:41.180
Now, according to the bio on his website, his videos have received over 1 billion views in total.
00:53:47.480
He goes on to pad his stats in his bio by claiming to be, quote,
00:53:50.440
the first non-binary public figure to appear on national television.
00:53:54.760
Of course, non-binary simply means that he's a dude who wears eyeshadow and women's clothing.
00:53:59.700
And if you believe that Jeffrey Marsh is the first guy to do that on TV, I would like to introduce you to something called the 1980s, where it was quite common.
00:54:07.160
There's nothing bold or pioneering about cross-dressing.
00:54:09.180
In fact, at this point, it's much more unique for a man to appear on television wearing men's clothing.
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If you really want to be a trendsetter, simply dare to be normal in this society.
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One other possible note of interest from Marsh's bio, it says, quote,
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Jeffrey has studied and taught Zen for over 20 years.
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Their rigorous training while living as a monk at a Buddhist monastery in California, as chronicled in his book, How to Be You,
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resulted in Jeffrey receiving the status of precepted facilitator in the Soto Zen tradition of Buddhism.
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The rank of precepted facilitator is an elite category and marks a Zen practitioner trained to assist anyone towards spiritual growth.
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So in keeping with his distinctive and individualistic approach to life,
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Jeffrey Marsh calls himself a Buddhist, just like literally every other liberal white guy in California.
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And by the way, at the risk of butchering Buddhist teachings,
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I don't pretend to be an expert on the subject because I don't pretend to be Buddhist, unlike Jeffrey Marsh.
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But I'm pretty sure that one of the fundamental ideas in Buddhism is that you're supposed to detach yourself from desire.
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But the LGBT cult totally defines itself by its desires.
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It teaches that life is best lived in pursuit of what you desire, no matter what your desires might be.
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This represents, if anything, a kind of anti-Buddhist philosophy, it seems to me.
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It's like that's the opposite of what Buddhism is.
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But I'll leave it to the Buddhists to make that case.
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Today, my concern is one of the most recent videos posted by this non-binary Buddhist Zen cross-dressing groomer monk.
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In this video, as he has in so many other videos,
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Marsh attempts to definitively debunk the anti-trans propaganda disseminated by vile transphobes like yours truly, for example.
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So gather around the family, the parents, everybody.
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Everything you can think of that makes a boy or makes a girl is usually, but not always.
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I mean, the great thing about this argument is that I can use it to erase literally anything
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For example, most penguins are black and white, but some penguins are albino and have all white
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The average length of a novel is 90,000 words, but some novels are well over 200,000 or even 500,000
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The average IQ of a human being is between 85 and 115.
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Therefore, human beings don't exist or fruit bats don't exist or Jeffrey Marsh is a fruit
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Indeed, we might as well say that fruit bats don't exist and also Jeffrey Marsh is a fruit
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Considering that Jeffrey Marsh is claiming that boys and girls don't exist while also claiming
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that a boy who identifies as a girl should be accepted and affirmed as one.
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He demands that we affirm someone's self-identity as something that, according to him, doesn't
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This remains one of the many, many self-contradictions in gender ideology.
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It holds as sacrosanct an individual's identification with or in a particular sex category, while at
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the same time insisting that the sex categories are mythological.
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There are no girls, and also that person over there with a penis is one.
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You must accept him as something that is nothing or else you have erased him, even though we're
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the ones who just erased the entire category that he is claiming membership in.
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There is no way to make sense of this hopeless tangle of contradictions.
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You can't understand it because it is not meant to be understood.
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Marsh justifies his erasure of boys and girls by pointing out that some girls are taller than
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This is the level of intellectual rigor that we get from the left on this topic.
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You probably don't need me to explain why this reasoning is flawed, but I will anyway.
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We speak about height and color preference in terms of averages, okay?
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The existence of outliers within a category does not throw the existence of the entire category
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On the contrary, you need the outliers in order to come up with the average.
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You cannot have an average without the outliers.
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But the fact that we can come up with averages within these categories and then compare the
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categories against each other is a pretty good indication that the categories exist.
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If we can say anything at all about a category, okay?
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If we can make any statements, if we can offer any descriptions of any kind, then that means the
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The very statement, not all boys are tall, automatically validates and confirms the existence
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of boys as a category because you're talking about them.
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If they didn't exist, the statement would be meaningless.
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It doesn't make any sense to speak descriptively about a group of people who, according to you,
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It would be like if you wanted to prove that leprechauns don't exist.
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And so you said, you know, not all leprechauns have red hair.
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So what we've learned here is that even if you can only speak about a category in terms
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of rough averages, that doesn't mean the category is illegitimate or non-existent.
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But in the case of boys and girls, men and women, we can actually speak much more definitively.
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Marsh claims that there's nothing we can say about men or women that would apply to every
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And that's what's known as begging the question, okay?
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Not to be confused with raising a question, even though the phrases are often used interchangeably.
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He is begging the question about sex differences by embedding his conclusion into the premise
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He proves, quote unquote, that men and women don't exist by pointing out that there are no
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But that argument could only even begin to work if we assume from the outset that it's
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true that there are no definitive facts about them.
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I can say about men, for example, that all of them are male.
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And all males are of the nature to produce sperm and impregnate females.
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And all females are of the nature to produce ova and bear offspring.
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Even the females who do not bear offspring are still of the nature to do so.
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Disease or old age or genetic defect may prevent them from doing so, but that doesn't change
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I can say that all human beings are of the nature to walk on two legs.
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A man who loses a car, a leg in a car accident, or who was born deformed, still shares this
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All humans are of the nature to be self-aware and sentient, conscious.
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This is one of the defining features of human beings.
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And that doesn't change just because some human beings are in a coma.
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Injury or sickness has deprived some humans of this natural function.
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But that doesn't mean that it's not a natural function.
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In fact, the man in a coma only confirms that human beings are conscious because we wouldn't
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be able to identify and label unconsciousness if we weren't conscious ourselves.
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This is true of unconsciousness in human beings, just as it's true of infertility in women.
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In a similar way, if it wasn't natural for human beings to possess basic intelligence and
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reasoning skills, I would not be able to identify Jeffrey Marsh as being especially stupid.
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But human beings are supposed to have basic reasoning and intelligence, which is how I know that
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Jeffrey Marsh's bottomless stupidity is unusual, and possibly an indication of some sort of
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brain disease or trauma, which is something that he should really probably look into, talk
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But in the meantime, what I can say is that he is canceled.
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And that'll do it for us for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block.