Ep. 1114 - Creepy Childless Spinster Promotes Childlessness
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1 hour and 3 minutes
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Summary
Chelsea Handler defends and promotes childlessness. We re told that not having children is great because it means that you can sit in hot tubs and go on vacations, among other things. Also, our sports show, here at The Daily Wire, is breaking some news today about Leah Thomas, the male swimmer who claims to be a woman. The details are repulsive but important. Plus, the White House now says that the UFOs invading our airspace are probably just used car balloons. We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Daily Show hosted by Chelsea Handler defends and promotes
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childlessness. We're told that not having children is great because it means that you can sit in hot
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tubs and go on vacations, among other things. I'll pick through all the problems with that
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argument today. Also, our sports show here at the Daily Wire, Crane & Company, is breaking some news
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today about Leah Thomas, the male swimmer who claims to be a woman. The details are repulsive
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but important. Plus, the White House now says that the UFOs invading our airspace are probably
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just used car balloons. Right. And our Daily Cancellation, a New York Times columnist
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dedicates an entire essay to responding to one of my tweets. We'll talk about all that
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If you want to understand modern American society, the first thing you need to realize is that lots
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of people are very unhappy. And those unhappy people tend to think that their unhappiness can
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be cured by majority vote, essentially. If they can convince other people to live the way that they live
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and do the things that they do and become as unhappy as they are, then magically it will have the effect
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of making them happy. And in a similar way, they believe that if they can convince everyone else that
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they are not unhappy, even though they are indeed deeply and tragically unhappy, then they will become
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happy. And if none of those strategies work, of course, which they don't, then there's always antidepressants,
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antidepressants, which also don't work. What I've just described could, of course, be summarized by the
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cliche misery loves company. And that, as it happens, would also be a great title for Chelsea Handler's
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autobiography if she ever writes one. Not that the title of a book that nobody will read really matters.
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Chelsea Handler, of course, is a comedian. At least I've gathered based on context clues that she's a comedian
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or trying to be one anyway. Never actually heard her tell anything that can be immediately recognized
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as a joke. That is, unless we step back and view her career through a wider lens and see that her entire
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career is the joke. Maybe this is some sort of, like, performance art that she's doing. And if that's what
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she's going for, then she is pulling it off, and masterfully so, I have to say. Now, recently, Handler took
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the job of guest host on The Daily Show after Trevor Noah's departure. And we can't be sure what the producers
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had in mind when they hired a shrill, unfunny spinster with all the wit and charm of a bitter
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middle-aged woman standing in line at Target while loudly complaining that they don't have enough
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registers open. I can only assume that there are maybe some Trevor Noah loyalists still on the staff
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who wanted to find someone who could manage to make him seem funny in retrospect. Maybe that's
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what's going on. Whatever the thought process, it didn't take Handler very long to steer the show in
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the only direction she knows how to go, which is desperately justifying her own life choices,
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especially her choice to not have children. And actually, I need to amend that slightly,
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because it's not that Handler has chosen not to have children. It's that she's chosen not to allow
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any of her children to live. Now, she is childless today, thanks to the three abortions that she often
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brags about. She doesn't have any living children, we should say. She is, however, the mother of three
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dead children, babies who are sacrificed on the altar of her quote-unquote freedom, a freedom
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that was purchased with the blood of her own children. Just to clarify, that's what we're
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talking about. Recently, as many people have seen in viral clips of the show, Handler dedicated an
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episode to defending and promoting her child-free lifestyle. Now, normally, nothing involving Chelsea
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Handler or The Daily Show, for that matter, is worth talking about. But in this case, she inadvertently
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raises, I think, a few points, a few important points, that are worth discussing. So I think
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it's worth spending a little bit of time on this. So, here's Chelsea.
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One thing that I have made abundantly clear is that I do not want children. I say it on stage,
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I say it in interviews, it's the first thing I say to myself in the mirror when I wake up each morning,
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right before I tell myself, God, you're a dynamic woman.
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Kids don't respect me. And quite frankly, the feeling is mutual. And the fact is, there are
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millions of women just like me. But for some reason, every single one of us, at some point in
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our lives, is shamed by society for not wanting a baby. And that's what I want to talk about in
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tonight's installment of Long Story Short. Well, actually, Chelsea, society wouldn't know or
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especially care that you don't have kids. Nobody's running up to you on the street screaming,
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hey, where are your babies? You better have babies. Rather, you know, you often talk about
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your decision to be childless. And you talk about it in the most obnoxious ways you possibly can,
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which gives everyone else in society the right to give their own opinion about your choices
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and the reasoning behind those choices. This is the way it works and something that everyone
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needs to understand because a lot of people struggle with this. You see, when you present
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your lifestyle choice to the public, when you go on TV and talk about it in front of millions of people,
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or at least hundreds of people in the case of The Daily Show, you have submitted that lifestyle choice
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for public discussion. You cannot go to the public and say, hey, guess what? Here's a fact about me
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in the way that I live my life. You can't do that and then get offended when people say, well, here's
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my opinion about that. You gave that information to us. People naturally form opinions about the
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information you tell them. Now, nobody has the right to go banging on your front door and demanding
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to know how many kids you have, but everyone has the right to form opinions about the unsolicited
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information you give them. Don't want their opinion? Well, then don't tell them about it.
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Now, let's listen to her continue to tell us about it.
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In America, and honestly everywhere, motherhood is treated as a woman's central purpose in life,
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as if our destiny is to let a tiny stranger rip a hole through our Pikachu from the inside out.
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And then as soon as we turn 18, we're just supposed to sit back and wait for Nick Cannon to impregnate us?
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Yeah, you see, it's funny because she made a reference to pop culture. We all know that
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a statement is automatically hilarious when it refers to something in pop culture that we all
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recognize. You don't need to have an actual punchline. No joke is needed. Simply say,
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hey, you guys remember this thing from pop culture? And then wait for the uproarious laughter
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to commence, especially if you're in front of a studio audience where they're instructed to laugh,
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and it really works. Next, we hear testimonials from other childless women who have been
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viciously discriminated against by society, they claim. And the ode to childlessness goes on for,
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for a while longer, and it leads eventually to this.
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But these Fox News trolls are right about one thing. I am miserable. In fact, I was just scrolling
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through my Instagram feed the other day realizing how miserable I am. I'm miserable on the beach.
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And then here I am miserable on the top of a mountain. And then here I am miserable scuba diving.
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And then I'm miserable again smoking a joint in a hot tub.
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Every day is truly a new circle of hell for me.
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The simple truth is that I'm not having a kid because I'm happier without them. And that's
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And no, I don't hate kids. I just don't want them. That's what's so great about nieces and
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nephews. I love being an aunt. I'm crushing that role. Guess who gave each one of them their first
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Now, you see, Chelsea, you're 47 years old. So giving drugs to kids doesn't make you a cool aunt.
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It makes you a creep and worse. Also, if your decision to not have any living children
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is not anyone's concern but your own, then why did you dedicate a 10-minute segment on national TV to
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it? Once again, that's the question. Well, you did it, as we established at the beginning,
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partly because you're trying to convince yourself of your own happiness. This partly explains
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virtually everything that any leftist says about almost any subject. It's almost always,
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at least in part, a game of them convincing themselves that they're happy with the way
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they've chosen to live their lives. And also, you did it because you wish to promote your empty,
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miserable lifestyle in the hopes that more people will join you in it. And it's for that latter reason
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that I feel compelled to make two points in response. First, I must again point out
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that you're 47 years old. Nothing wrong with being 47. The point is that you could have had kids
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and yet still be at this point climbing all the mountains and hanging out on all the beaches that
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you want. Because children don't stay toddlers forever. They grow up. Okay? If you had a child at
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the age when the average woman in America has children these days, even though, I mean, that
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average age is going up and it's getting older and older. But even now, after that process has
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happened, your child would be about 21 years old right now if you follow the sort of the average
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trajectory. And if your child followed the average trajectory, by the time you're in your early
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50s, your child would be married with a child of their own. The point is that at your age,
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you could have all of your precious freedoms, all of your vacations, all the time in the hot tub that
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you want, all the time to sleep in that you want, especially if you don't have a job, and also a
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family. See, you're too old now to use this argument that you want to make. To use the argument of like,
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you see how easy my life is? I don't have to get up in the morning with a screaming baby.
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That might work when you're, still not a compelling argument, but like at least it's relevant when
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you're 28 because if you were 28 and you had a kid, there's a very good chance a kid would be a
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baby. You can't do that when you're 47. There are very few 47-year-olds, even ones with lots of kids
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that are waking up in the middle of the night with a baby. You know, it's like going up to somebody who
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just finished a marathon and bragging that you get to sit down and relax and you don't have to run a
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marathon. Well, the person who just finished it also can sit down and relax, yet they get to do
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it with the knowledge that they finished a marathon. So you're both relaxing now, but only one of you
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ran a marathon. Who's in the better spot? Indeed, who can enjoy that relaxation more?
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See, that's a factor that isn't often taken into consideration, but it's an important life lesson.
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As a childless person, you don't get to experience the joys of having children, obviously, but you
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also don't really get to experience the benefits of not having children. You don't actually experience
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that. Or I should say you might experience them, but you don't appreciate them. You can't.
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You see, you've always been able to sleep in. You've never had to wake up in the middle of the night with
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a crying baby. You've always been able to sit in the hot tub whenever you want. You've always been
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able to take vacations wherever and whenever you want. You've never known what it's like to not have
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any of that, which means you can't experience all of the joy of having it. The only people who can
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truly enjoy not running a marathon are those who've run marathons. It only makes sense for someone who's
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run marathons to wake up in the morning and say, man, I'm glad I'm not running a marathon today.
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For all the rest of us, that's just that we've never experienced it before. So every day is not
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running a marathon. So we never really have that moment of, thank God I'm not running a marathon.
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This is the catch-22 of life. Only the people who've done something can enjoy not doing that
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same thing. So older people who've raised young children and have now moved past that phase of
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life certainly do feel relief that they no longer have to deal with some of the challenges that come
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with that phase. They also look back and miss a lot of that. You talk to any 47-year-old who's had
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kids and they've moved past it. You're going to hear them say a lot about how I miss those days,
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man, I really miss those days. But there are also parts of those days that they don't miss.
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They don't miss having to wake up in the middle of the night or wake up early in the morning with
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a kid. They don't miss that. They're relieved to be past that. But you don't have that relief
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because you never were in that phase. You didn't earn the relief. They did. So they feel it
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in a way that you never will. Then again, I should also note that even parents of young
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children can still sit in hot tubs and go to the beach and enjoy and even climb mountains if they
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want. It may take more planning. It may involve complications that you don't have to deal with
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if you don't have kids. But despite popular misconceptions, you don't have to put your life
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on hold when you have kids. You don't have to give up really any of the things you like to do
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or any of your passions. I mean, provided that they're fruitful and good things.
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Instead, you learn to be intentional with your time. You learn to make good use of the time that
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you have. And that's a skill that you, Chelsea, would have done well to acquire, but you clearly
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never did. Second and finally, having children, and this is maybe the most important point,
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having children will not automatically make anyone happy. That's true. Okay. Nobody is claiming that
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if you have a baby, you will immediately become unspeakably happy and you'll remain that happy
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forever, experiencing an unbroken chain of pure, uncomplicated joy until the day you die. That is
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not the case. And nobody has ever said that it's the case. In fact, if you're determined to be miserable
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as a parent, there will be many opportunities presented to you to be as miserable as you want
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to be. No, the point is that parenting opens up the possibility for joy, unique kinds of joy
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that are simply not available and are indeed in some ways inconceivable to non-parents.
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So the happiness that you're talking about, Chelsea, vacations and hot tubs and so on,
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these are self-centered things. You're happy because of the comfort and entertainment that's
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being provided to you. There's nothing wrong with that in moderation. Everyone is familiar with that
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kind of happiness and it's available to everyone, parents and non-parents alike. But the joy of parenting
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and a family life is a joy found in caring for someone else. And that is a joy that you, Chelsea,
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have never in your life experienced ever. You can't conceive of it. You don't know what it is.
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You have lived your whole life without it and will die without it and will be worse for it.
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This is the joy in giving, in loving. It's the joy found in the bond that holds families together.
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It's a simple joy and it's free and it's more pure and more beautiful than any joy that can be
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provided to you by a vacation resort. It's a joy that, if you open yourself to it, makes you a better
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person. It makes you less selfish, less superficial, less focused on your own needs and wants. In other
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words, a parent who opens themselves up to the joy of parenthood will become, well, a lot less like
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Chelsea Handler. And that is perhaps the best advertisement for parenting that I can offer.
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Well, I hope you had a good Valentine's Day. I think that ours was pretty good. I don't know what
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my wife would say, but she said she wanted to watch a romantic comedy last night. Very
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cliche, stereotypical Valentine's Day type of thing. It was an afterweight dinner and the kids
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went to bed. She said she wanted to watch a romantic comedy. And then she even said there
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was a new one with Jennifer Lopez. I was like, I didn't even know that she was still making
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movies. Apparently she is. But I convinced my wife instead to watch the 1997 Kurt Russell action
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flick Breakdown, which is a movie where Kurt Russell gets kidnapped by evil truckers and he has to go
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and kill them all and rescue her from the kidnappers. And it's a great film. It's seriously underrated,
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by the way. I think it's one of my favorite films, certainly one of my favorite action flicks of the
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90s. And I talked her into watching that instead and she was not impressed. Which, look, I understand
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it's not a romantic comedy, but it is a romance. He rescues his wife from evil, murderous truckers.
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What is more romantic than that? And there's, you know, it's not a lot of comedy. There is a scene
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at the end, spoiler alert, where Kurt Russell throws the main bad guy over a bridge and then he's like
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lying at the bottom, you know, in this ravine and his body's broken on all the rocks, but he's still
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alive. And then this semi-truck falls right on top of him. And it's pretty funny. Like it's,
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to me, it's funny. So you've got romance and you've got comedy together. Maybe not in a holistic way,
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but it's there. And so I thought it was a good Valentine's Day viewing, but apparently not.
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You live and learn. No Kurt Russell action movies on Valentine's Day. It's fine. But at least,
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last year we went to Cracker Barrel on Valentine's Day. So, you know, this was at least a step up from
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that. All right. So I want to start with this. Our friends over at Crane & Company, this great
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sports show here at The Daily Wire, are breaking some news this morning. And it starts with Riley
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Gaines, who is one of the female collegiate swimmers who competed against Leah Thomas, who is the male
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swimmer pretending to be a female and was allowed to compete against women. Riley Gaines is one of
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the few women who was directly impacted by this and has had the courage to speak out. Not the only one,
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but one of the few. And they had an interview with Riley Gaines. I think we have a brief clip of that
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interview. Let's go ahead and play that. If we let it, there will be men pretending to be women that
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ruin women's sports. But ranking first was a person I had never heard of before. And of course,
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this name was Leah Thomas. Leah Thomas did, in fact, formerly swim on the men's team for three
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years. I thought, surely the NCAA wouldn't let this person compete with us. The NCAA official
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looks at me and says, great job. Y'all tied. The trophy goes to Leah. And he said, well, for photo
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purposes, Leah has to have it. Wow. Leah Thomas, who used to be Will Thomas, is now dating someone that
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used to be a man that's now a woman and they consider themselves lesbians. Very interesting dynamic.
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The things they practice actively are interesting. They cut off parts of their male parts, but left
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other parts. These testicles are in a jar. Stop. We were being sidelined to validate the feelings and
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the identity of a man. Okay. So there's some of what was revealed. And Jake Crane is on his Twitter
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account has laid out a thread this morning with a lot of this information, um, at Jake Crane underscore,
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if you want to go see for yourself. So I'll read a little bit from this.
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And this is what it says. Uh, it says, this is a thread we never expected to write. We sat down
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with NCAA women's swimmer, Riley Gaines, and she shared some info about Leah Thomas. So we did some
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digging and now we have a lot of questions. Is this what the NCAA thinks a woman is warning? What we found
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is jarring? And I don't know if that's an intentional pun, given some of the information we find out
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later, the jarring part, but there's some literal jarring that has gone on. Apparently, Leah Thomas
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appears to have two Instagram accounts as public account, Leah K Thomas, featuring a small handful
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of generic photos, promoting messages like let trans kids play. Then a private account, which is Leah,
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basically Leah Timmis with an I rather than an O. In our research, we found the observance, um,
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uh, someone, uh, Nicole Walrose, a name who identified multiple IG posts about autogynephilia
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that Leah Thomas under the account Leah Timmis allegedly engaged with. AGP autogynephilia is a
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male's propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female. Uh, a similar image
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liked by Leah Timmis is still found on Instagram account, um, of, uh, of Gwen Weisskopf, which is a,
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Leah's alleged romantic partner. Gwen, who identifies Leah as his girlfriend is also a
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quote unquote transgender woman. According to a GoFundMe for Gwen's breast augmentation,
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he's also an unlicensed social worker living in Philadelphia. Um, and then the more information
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about this person, um, lots of, some of the stuff I don't even want to read, it's so disgusting.
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Are Gwen and Leah in, uh, an exclusive couple or in a polyamorous sex pod? One user called
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crybabyhellb** writes, nice polycule liked by Gwen on a photo of Leah, Gwen, and two other trans people.
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In the post, Gwen tags a third member via a stuffed animal in bed with Leah. Uh, so then apparently
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there's some sort of polyamorous thing going on. Um, and later on we hear about Gwen posted a
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mysterious round shaped organ looking item in a clear ball jar. So does this mean that testicles
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were removed and put in a jar? I guess we're left to speculate about that. There's some Satanism stuff.
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Um, a lot of very disturbing images as well that they dug up and all of this is, you know, it's
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posted to the internet, but it was on, a lot of the stuff was on private accounts. Some of it was
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on public accounts, just nobody took the time to go and find it. Now, so what's the point here?
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I think the point's rather obvious. Um, it's not surprising to me anyway, that Leah Thomas
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is a depraved pervert, according to the information that they've found here. That doesn't surprise me.
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Um, but what it reveals and, and rather what it, what it confirms, what any thinking person should
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have already known really is that this is all, this is a fetish. Okay. This is a, this is a, a, a,
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a fetish community, if we can even call it a community. And that's what it is. Autogynephilia.
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Autogynephilia. Okay. Is as it says there in the thread, autogynephilia is the men who are,
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who are, uh, thrilled by the thought of themselves as a woman. Okay. They, they, they, they get off on
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the idea of themselves being a woman, which by the way, that is not the same thing as actually
00:23:58.100
thinking that you are one. That's the important point. Now, even if Leah Thomas actually believed
00:24:05.800
that he is a woman, that wouldn't at all make him a woman. And so it wouldn't change much or it
00:24:11.080
shouldn't, but it becomes all the more grotesque and absurd when you consider the fact that even
00:24:20.220
these people who claim to identify as women, many of them really don't. They don't even believe what
00:24:26.180
they're saying about themselves. And yet we're supposed to believe that this is a fetish.
00:24:32.040
He gets a thrill out of pretending to be a woman and walking around like a woman and going into the
00:24:37.880
women's locker room. It's a thrill. It's a fetish thing. And so what we're being told is we have to
00:24:41.940
participate in your fetish. Leah Thomas becomes sexually excited by the idea of other people seeing
00:24:49.640
him as a woman and by competing against women in, uh, you know, in women's sports, it's all part of a
00:24:54.580
fetish. And what the women in these sports are being told is that you, it's not even that you
00:24:59.080
have to affirm his self perception as twisted as that would be on its own. It's actually that you
00:25:06.180
must participate in this man's fetish. Okay. He gets turned on by the, by, by the idea of himself
00:25:13.840
as a woman. And, and even more so if you, uh, participate in that charade. And so you have to
00:25:19.820
participate because he has a right to act out his depraved fetish, um, in public and with your
00:25:28.640
participation. That's what the women are being told. And as I've been saying for so long, this
00:25:32.900
is the case. Like it's impossible to know for sure of, of all the people these days who claim to be
00:25:38.980
trans or whatever it's, it's, we can't see inside their minds. So we don't know exactly what's going
00:25:42.500
on. We can't say for sure. All we, all we can talk about is what is the physical reality. And so we
00:25:47.100
know that they are not, they claim to be a certain thing and they're not that thing. We know that
00:25:50.580
because we understand physical reality, but there's a lot of very good evidence. Some of it in this
00:25:56.920
thread here that even if we could see inside their minds, um, they are, they are not, they're
00:26:03.240
misrepresenting in public what their own perception is. And for a lot of these men in particular, they
00:26:10.640
don't even actually see themselves as women. They, they know that they aren't. That's the whole point
00:26:16.340
of the fetish is to pretend to be something that they're not. Autogynephilia explains, can't say
00:26:23.240
what the percentage is, but it's a large percentage of these trans quote unquote trans men, especially,
00:26:31.080
especially the, the men who, uh, quote unquote transition later in life, even if it's when
00:26:37.380
they're 19 or 20. Uh, but in particular, the cases, you know, think about someone like, uh,
00:26:42.640
Rachel Levine transitions as middle-aged man. This is not someone who the whole time D had
00:26:51.200
really thought of himself as a woman and perceived himself that way. This was a, a sexual fetish
00:26:58.640
that he finally decided that he was going to dedicate his entire life to, and, and, and also
00:27:02.540
require everyone else to, to participate in that. That's what so much of this is now for women,
00:27:12.100
it's often a very different thing, especially adolescent, uh, girls who get caught up in this
00:27:17.580
for them. It is, you know, social contagion. It's, um, it is self-loathing. It's fear about their own
00:27:26.920
bodies and the way that their bodies are changing. Uh, it's, you know, it's, it's a lot of that. It's
00:27:32.020
like, um, it's a, a fear and loathing of, of who they are that's being expressed in this way. So
00:27:40.300
there, there are many different kinds of motivations that lead per a person to this
00:27:45.540
conclusion of claiming to be trans. But the really important point again, is that, you know,
00:27:52.920
we often talk about these people and say, well, they're confused. In many cases, they're not even
00:27:59.040
really confused. You know, they, they understand what the reality is, but they have other motivations.
00:28:03.840
And that's the case for Leah Thomas, pretty clearly. Nikki Haley announced her candidacy
00:28:11.180
for president yesterday. And, uh, here's Whoopi Goldberg on the view, trying to explain,
00:28:19.780
You know, the Republican plan, I hate to ruin it for you, but the Republican playing field for the
00:28:25.720
2024 presidential race just got a little bigger. Former South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley,
00:28:31.520
released a campaign ad, making her pitch to the people. Take a look.
00:28:36.480
My parents reminded me and my siblings every day how blessed we were to live in America.
00:28:43.600
Some look at our past as evidence that America's founding principles are bad.
00:28:48.960
They say the promise of freedom is just made up. Some think our ideas are not just wrong,
00:28:55.680
but racist and evil. Nothing could be further from the truth.
00:29:01.600
Joe Biden's record is abysmal, but that shouldn't come as a surprise.
00:29:06.240
The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again.
00:29:14.880
You should know this about me. I don't put up with bullies. And when you kick back,
00:29:21.760
it hurts them more if you're wearing heels. I'm Nikki Haley and I'm running for president.
00:29:27.200
So Nikki, you know, since you have been asleep all this time and you just woke up,
00:29:37.840
you're just finding out that there are things about our country that are not perfect.
00:29:43.600
And for us to pretend that it is and that nothing happened is ridiculous. So you're not saying anything
00:29:49.760
new. And you of all people should know better because you used to actually have some sanity
00:30:01.920
And then you lost your mind and went in some new direction. So don't do that.
00:30:06.240
What? What are you basing any of that on? Why is that your response to the clip that you just played?
00:30:17.440
See, this is just and I don't I don't support Nikki Haley's candidacy, as I said yesterday,
00:30:21.520
and I'll talk in a minute about more specific reasons why I don't. But but this is just people
00:30:27.040
on the left, Democrats trying to find a reason to oppose Nikki Haley, who's a very, you know,
00:30:34.240
very kind of benign establishment conservative type figure. And they're trying to find a reason to
00:30:43.760
oppose or they don't really have a reason. It's just like it's it's it's a reflex. All they know
00:30:47.680
about her is that she's Republican. That's all they really need to know. And this is in spite of all
00:30:53.360
the efforts that Nikki Haley has made to appeal to people like that. Nikki Haley has made many efforts
00:31:00.240
to appeal to the Whoopi Goldbergs of the world and the women of the view. And even after all that
00:31:07.040
effort, this is what she gets in response, which is why it's a very bad idea to waste your time trying
00:31:16.160
to appeal. You sacrifice your integrity and your principles for the sake of appealing to people
00:31:20.640
who will never accept you ever. Unless you abandon entirely even the facade of being conservative
00:31:29.360
and say, I denounce all of that. I renounce all of that. Now I'm a I'm a left wing progressive. I'm
00:31:36.960
sorry for everything I ever said. If you do that. Then, yeah, maybe they'll accept you sort of, but
00:31:44.400
they're never gonna let you live down the fact that you they're never even even then they're not
00:31:47.760
going to really forgive you for for having ever dared disagree with them.
00:31:54.960
But that's the most amount of acceptance you can ever hope. If you don't do that anything short of
00:31:59.280
that, there will be no acceptance at all. So there's no point. A guy named Gavin Sample compiled a tweet
00:32:04.800
thread of all the reasons that he opposes Nikki Haley's candidacy. And I happen to agree with many of
00:32:09.200
these reasons. And it kind of illustrates the point that I was just making. So I run through
00:32:16.160
what some of what he is compiled for those of us who don't, you know, maybe have not been keeping
00:32:21.040
very close track of Nikki Haley and don't remember everything she's ever said. Here's just a few,
00:32:25.040
few highlights, or maybe we should say lowlights. Gavin Sample writes, Nikki Haley is running for
00:32:30.320
president. Here's a list of a few reasons no one should vote for. Number one, Nikki Haley fell for the
00:32:35.280
Bubba Wallace hate hoax. And then he reposted this tweet from 2020, extremely embarrassing in hindsight.
00:32:42.960
And in fact, it was embarrassing in the moment because any thinking person knew in the moment
00:32:49.600
that the whole Bubba Wallace story was ridiculous. The claim that someone planted a noose in a NASCAR
00:32:57.840
garage was always absurd. This is what Nikki Haley wrote at the time. We should all stand with Bubba
00:33:02.960
Wallace today against the cowards who secretly put the noose in his garage stall. Watch your back,
00:33:08.400
cowards. Bubba has a bigger army than you do. Hashtag hate won't win. Hashtag we stand with Bubba.
00:33:16.400
Then he writes some other examples. Nikki Haley opposes combat, combating big tech censorship.
00:33:23.120
She wrote 2020 also censorship by big tech companies, especially censorship of conservative opinions
00:33:27.440
violates the spirit of the law and the first amendment, but more regulations would go too far in the other
00:33:31.660
direction, putting bureaucrats and lawyers in control of what gets said online. Either way, free speech loses.
00:33:38.300
Nikki Haley has been a squish when it comes to immigration. He brings that up. Nikki Haley removed
00:33:42.940
the Confederate flag from South Carolina state Capitol after the 2015 Charleston church shooting.
00:33:49.740
And Gavin writes, her decision can easily be seen as the first monument removal that sparked the entire
00:33:54.820
movement. This has led to many more statues and monuments of Confederate generals. Also, Teddy Roosevelt,
00:33:59.840
Thomas Jefferson and even George Washington being removed. Um, that's an important point that this was
00:34:08.560
not, uh, it wasn't like she got caught up in the hysteria of taking down all the Confederate flags and
00:34:18.800
monuments and everything. It wasn't even that she actually kicked it off. Arguably.
00:34:22.960
She also wrote this, uh, again in 2020 after George Floyd, we spent the last couple of days
00:34:31.400
celebrating our son's graduation tonight. I turned on the news and I'm heartbroken. It's important to
00:34:35.740
understand that the death of George Floyd was personal and painful for many in order to heal. It needs to
00:34:41.520
be personal and painful for everyone. That is precisely what the left people like AOC and Ilhan Omar and
00:34:51.320
others, Rashid Tlaib and all the rest of them, the squad. That's precisely what they were saying to justify
00:34:56.980
looting and rioting. Well, these people feel pain. And so everyone needs to feel their pain. Even though they
00:35:04.080
actually aren't inflicting that, they're inflicting that pain on other people in their community, not even on the
00:35:09.100
rest of us. Now there are other things that he brings up, but I think these three alone really tell you
00:35:15.840
everything you need to know about Nikki Haley and any other Republican who did the same thing.
00:35:21.500
You know, it's just, I can never trust you. I could never, I can never trust you as a leader
00:35:26.060
when you failed in these moments. Bubba Wallace, the Confederate, uh, taking down the Confederate flag
00:35:33.840
and then, and then George Floyd, those three things, you got those three things wrong.
00:35:39.240
And, uh, and that's just it. I mean, it doesn't mean I'm going to hate you forever as a person, but it means that
00:35:48.000
I can never trust you as a leader because those are the moments when your leadership is needed the most. And if
00:35:55.180
you're not there when it's needed the most, then how can I trust you in any other situation for all this stuff?
00:36:03.120
You know, going along with the Bubba Wallace thing shows number one, a willingness to go along with
00:36:09.860
the crowd. It also shows that you are easily duped in a way that is very concerning. Either you're
00:36:15.360
easily duped or you're willing to pretend that you've been duped to go along with the crowd.
00:36:19.620
Um, George Floyd, again, you know, going along with the crowd, saying things that, that, that
00:36:24.400
can only be construed as, as promoting and justifying rioting and looting. And then when it comes to
00:36:29.500
Confederate flag, this is an important one too, because there are even some conservatives,
00:36:33.100
that would defend that one. And so, Oh, it shouldn't be a Confederate flag flying. What
00:36:37.600
I've always said about this is that when it comes to any monument, anything like that, you
00:36:43.400
know, no one is saying that every single flag that's ever been raised, every monument that's
00:36:49.640
ever been erected has to stay forever and that we can never take it down under any circumstance.
00:36:54.940
No one is saying that. So if there's something you want to take down,
00:37:01.740
you make your argument, you explain why you should take it down, but you do that on your
00:37:08.800
own terms. What you never ever do is, is do it in response to the mob. So if you've got
00:37:17.440
a good argument for taking down a monument, um, you make that argument at a time when the
00:37:24.900
mob isn't demanding it, the fact that the mob demands it is, is reason enough to not do it.
00:37:34.300
Even if otherwise you, you could make an argument for it. If the mob demands it, you don't do it.
00:37:42.680
That again is leadership. You never cave to the demands of the mob.
00:37:47.000
So, Dickie Haley, not the one we need in this moment or any other moment.
00:37:55.440
This is the New York Post. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of unknown objects soaring in the
00:38:00.300
skies, but they're likely just used car balloons or other benign crafts and not aliens visiting
00:38:06.440
Earth, according to White House officials on Monday. White House Homeland Security Advisor
00:38:11.760
Liz Sherwood Randall said in a virtual briefing, quote, there are no UFOs. This is not an invasion
00:38:16.960
of aliens. I mean, it's funny, but it's not funny because people are communicating this on platforms
00:38:21.780
that are widely viewed. Uh, but despite Sherwood Randall's assurance to the elected officials,
00:38:27.400
the government is still unable to identify the trio of recently downed objects. The first was shot
00:38:32.220
down off of Alaska's Arctic coastline on Friday. The second over Canada's Yukon territory Saturday
00:38:37.340
and the third over Lake Huron on, on Sunday. Um, on the call to governors on Monday, Sherwood
00:38:43.880
Randall said there are hundreds, if not thousands of objects in the sky. Most are believed to be
00:38:47.980
mundane and could be things like used car balloons or aircraft launched by commercial businesses.
00:38:55.260
She added, well, like I said yesterday, if you needed any more confirmation that these are
00:39:02.340
definitely aliens, then, then this has to be it. Used car balloons. Yeah. There's a, a balloon from a
00:39:11.660
used car lot has become dislodged and is now 40,000 feet in the sky and is moving around in a way that
00:39:20.840
utterly perplexes Navy pilots. Yeah. That's what, that's one of the, say what you want about the UFO
00:39:25.420
theories, but you know, keep in mind that in many of these cases, including what happened, uh, over the
00:39:30.660
weekend, you've got trained pilots who this is, this is what they do. And they have laid eyes on these
00:39:37.700
objects and they come back and report. I can't, I don't know what that is. And I don't know how it's
00:39:42.360
moving away around the way that it is. I'm, I'm pretty sure that a, like a Navy pilot knows what
00:39:49.020
a balloon looks like and could easily at a use, are you talking about what used car balloons are we
00:39:54.440
talking about first? Are we talking about those ones, the, uh, the, the crazy, the ones with the,
00:39:58.040
the wacky arm ones? I assume that's what they're talking about. Cause that's like,
00:40:02.220
when you think of a used car balloon, that's the first thing that comes to mind, right?
00:40:06.680
Wouldn't that be really distinct? If you saw that somehow floating in the sky, 40,000 feet in the
00:40:14.400
air, I don't know how it gets up that high. Like I know that a wind gust can take a balloon pretty far,
00:40:18.700
but like, give me a break. But wouldn't that be the most distinct and obvious thing in the world?
00:40:24.500
I mean, it would be pretty clear. That's what it is. Now you might have a lot of questions about
00:40:29.120
how it got up there. Maybe, maybe it was aliens that brought it up there, but I think you'll know
00:40:36.000
that's what it is. And when you've got the Navy pilots coming back and saying, you know, this was
00:40:39.480
a cylindrical object. I don't know how it wasn't. I mean, there were generals, you know, a general in
00:40:44.860
the air force just a couple of days ago was saying, I don't know what these things are. I don't know
00:40:51.120
what their propulsion method is. Uh, I don't know how they're staying in the sky and I'm not ruling
00:40:56.300
out alien activity. It was from a general in the air force only a few days ago. And now they're
00:41:02.300
saying, Oh no, it was a used car balloon. That's all it was. Look, I'm not saying it was aliens.
00:41:09.420
Well, I am saying it. I've been saying that the whole time, but even if you still are not convinced
00:41:14.360
by my many compelling arguments in that direction, it is, it's like, clearly there's,
00:41:18.320
there's something going on and they are hiding it. I mean, I think we could all agree on that.
00:41:22.220
Whatever it is, they're not being honest about it. And it seemed like they were caught off,
00:41:26.920
whatever it is, they were caught off guard by it. Um, and they didn't have the story straight
00:41:31.100
initially because if they were expecting it and they were competent people, um, then they,
00:41:39.300
and they, they didn't want us to know it was really going on. Then they would have come out
00:41:41.960
from the beginning and said, Oh, it's just a bunch of balloons. Don't worry. Yeah. As a child,
00:41:46.500
in fact, there's a kid at Chuck E. Cheese was having a birthday party and, uh, and a bunch of
00:41:50.580
balloons, the balloons went in the sky. That's all it was. That's all in, it's on our radar. You
00:41:53.680
know, it happens all the time, happens all the time that kids have birthday parties and balloons
00:41:57.640
go in the sky. And then we dispatch, uh, jets to go investigate, you know, all the time it happens.
00:42:03.240
That's all it is. They would have said that from the beginning. They would have said that if that
00:42:07.300
was the case, um, or even if they were determined to cover it up and they, and they had their wits
00:42:13.020
about them and they were not caught off guard, then they would have said that from the beginning.
00:42:15.520
The fact that we're seeing this drastic change, again, just a few days ago, it was, they, they,
00:42:21.740
they would not rule out. They wouldn't publicly even on the record, rule out the possibility of
00:42:26.460
UFOs, alien spacecraft. And now they're saying use car balloons, whatever it is. They know more than
00:42:34.040
they're telling us. And they don't want us to know what they know. All right. Um, I had one other
00:42:40.920
thing, but I think we're going to save it for tomorrow because we have to get to the comment section.
00:42:45.520
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CJ says the decline of understanding love everyone to mean let people do whatever they want and don't
00:43:53.600
interfere is a direct consequence of people not having children. As a parent, you learn that
00:43:57.340
what that statement truly means. You love your children beyond description, yet you don't let
00:44:01.560
them do whatever they want. You're often the bad guy in their lives as you stop them from destroying
00:44:05.700
themselves on a regular basis because of the love that you have for them. Yeah, well, that's what
00:44:10.540
that's how good parents operate anyway. And you're right that I think that there is an interesting
00:44:16.500
connection that you've drawn there. Just it becomes very clear. It's not that you can't understand this
00:44:22.760
without having kids, but it does become very clear once you have kids that oftentimes the most loving
00:44:31.640
thing to do is to offer correction, even punishment. So you can understand maybe intellectually that
00:44:40.040
correction and punishment can often be fueled by the love for the person that you're correcting and
00:44:47.620
punishing. But it's an intellectual exercise and then you have kids and you really understand it.
00:44:53.980
You really understand what that means. That you love your children. You love your child more than life
00:45:00.240
itself. And because of that, you're forced to correct them. You're forced sometimes to punish.
00:45:07.800
I know that I'm not alone in this, but as a parent, I, you know, I, there are times when I've had to come
00:45:14.400
down pretty hard on my kids because they've done something that warrants, you know, a more,
00:45:20.320
a more severe response. And I don't, I hate it. I don't, I don't like it. I don't like punishing
00:45:26.140
my kids, which is good. I think if you, if you enjoyed it, there'd be something wrong,
00:45:29.560
but I really don't like it. I could say, I find it actually quite painful because it's not
00:45:35.760
the kind of, it's not what I wanted. It's not what I want to do. And especially if I,
00:45:40.900
you know, there's days where I come home from work and, uh, so one of the kids was acting up and I,
00:45:45.000
and of course I'm, you know, dad comes home from work. I got to have to deal with that sometimes,
00:45:48.860
but, um, it's not what I want to do. Like I come, I don't, I don't, I don't want to have to
00:45:55.100
have that kind of interaction, but I do it because I'm the father and this is what we are supposed
00:46:00.900
to do. I also understand as, as I become a parent, I understand parents that spoil their kids and let
00:46:07.820
the kids run, run wild and do whatever they want. I don't, it's not how I parent. Don't get me wrong.
00:46:13.340
And it's the wrong way to parent, but I can understand the emotional like inclination that leads
00:46:17.740
you in that direction because you just, you know, you, you, it's, it's hard to correct your kids
00:46:23.520
all the time. And it's even emotionally painful at times. Um, but that is, that's what it means to
00:46:29.980
love someone. That's, that's what, if you, if you want what's best for them, it also means you want
00:46:33.760
them to be a better person. You want someone to be a good person. You really want that. If you love
00:46:40.160
someone, that's what you want for them. You want them to be good, fulfilled people, which means you
00:46:46.600
don't just leave them to wander the earth on their own and figure out things as they go along.
00:46:51.200
You have to, you have to cut a path for them. And when they go off that path, you have to correct
00:46:56.040
them. And sometimes like drag them kicking and screaming back to the right path. Samuel says,
00:47:02.660
Matt, I agree with almost everything you espouse, but I'm confused. The ad simply said,
00:47:06.480
love your enemy. It didn't say love their sin or love their actions. Just love them. As Christians,
00:47:11.000
we need to bring people into Christianity. Gradually. We cannot cold turkey people into Christ.
00:47:15.480
Also, the ad serves its purpose. Whether there was hate on both sides or not, there was hate.
00:47:19.680
And that is what the ad was targeting. And thank, and finally, I think you missed a chance to accept
00:47:24.140
some of God's word into your life. You immediately went to defending your side from imaginary attack
00:47:28.360
instead of using the ad to realize that you could do with a bit of loving your enemies. All love.
00:47:35.000
I don't, I don't think that you quite understood my criticism. I'm not saying that we shouldn't love
00:47:39.460
our enemies. What I am saying is that I'm saying a few things. First of all, that is,
00:47:43.820
when it comes to the Christian message, that is the easiest thing to say.
00:47:47.780
It's the thing that's going to be the most crowd-pleasing and popular, even though in this
00:47:50.700
case, you know, because AOC is a, is a ditz, she, she still found a reason to complain about it.
00:47:55.860
But generally it's the most kind of crowd-pleasing message. Doesn't make it wrong. It's just,
00:48:00.860
that's what it is. And so I think that if you're going to, if you're going to go with that,
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then it behooves you to say a little bit more about it, to say something useful about,
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to simply say, and leave it at this, you know, to simply say, well, love your enemy. It's like,
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here's a bunch of people yelling at each other. That's bad. Love your enemy. I, I'm sorry. I just
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don't see that as a useful message because you're left people wondering, well, what does that mean?
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Like, how do we love them exactly? Is it, does it just mean think nice things about each other
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and hold hands and say kumbaya? Because that's what people think. And that's the kind of message
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they often get from the Christian churches. And keep in mind that in the Bible, Jesus says,
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love your enemy, but he doesn't just leave it at that. If you read the entire context of
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scripture, you get a pretty good idea of what loving your enemy really means.
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And so I, I simply think that a message like this, where you got the music in the background,
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it's very inspirational. Don't yell at each other, love each other. All right. I mean, fine. It's fine.
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It's, it's, you know, it's, it's inoffensive, but I also just don't, I do not think it's useful.
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What people need is to understand what loving your enemy actually means. And they need to understand
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that sometimes loving your enemy does involve anger. It could even involve raising your voice
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and, and, and yelling a little bit. Sometimes that, that can happen out of love. Yes. That
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can be fueled by love. Absolutely. And I think that that's a message that needs to be understood.
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I just think that this, that ad again, basically benign, inoffensive, nothing about it. That's
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explicitly wrong necessarily, but it all adds up to this sort of general picture, which is quite wrong.
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Um, that Christian love means basically getting along with everyone and never getting angry.
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Um, and I think we've had quite enough of that. I don't think we need more of it. If you are going
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to spend $20 million on an ad for the Superbowl, like how about say something that, how about say
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something that people aren't already going to hear everywhere? Like everyone has heard that
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kumbaya get along. Everyone hears that. How about say something, a message that they won't hear
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anywhere else? Yeah. Beggars can't be choosers and all that when it comes to Superbowl ads. So
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it's like, at least it wasn't, uh, depraved and say overly overtly sexual and all the rest of it. But,
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um, I do think we've reached a point in this culture where we got to do more. We got to do
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Well, it should perhaps tell you something about the cultural relevance of the New York Times that
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a New York Times columnist wrote an entire editorial responding to one of my tweets.
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And I just found out about it today, a week after it was published. I didn't even know that it happened.
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And that writer is David French, a man who still pretends to be a conservative and yet is notorious
00:51:35.320
for articles like the one he wrote in October for the dispatch, where he complained that laws being
00:51:40.160
passed to protect children from the trans agenda are taking the culture war too far and quote
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threatening foundational American rights. So he's a conservative who is deeply repelled by anything
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or any idea that can be remotely described as conservative. That's exactly what earned him a
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spot at the New York Times because the times like CNN is only interested in conservatives whose
00:52:01.200
conservatism consists of complaining about attacking and straw manning conservatives. That's exactly what
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David French did in his latest New York Times op-ed, which was written in response to my now infamous
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tweet a couple of weeks ago, where I made the apparently radical claim that men want loving
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wives and they appreciate hot meals. Really offensive stuff. And French could not let such extremism
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stand unchallenged. And that's why he wrote this. It begins this month, the popular conservative
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podcaster, Matt Walsh tweeted a thought that rapidly went viral with approximately 18 million views.
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All a man wants, he wrote, is to come home from a long day at work to a grateful wife and children
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who are glad to see him and dinner cooking on the stove. This is literally all it takes to make a
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man happy. We are simple. Give us this and you will have given us nearly everything we need.
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The message, French says, was obviously trollish and intended to generate outrage. Bringing back
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leave it to beaver is not a serious strategy for renewing American masculinity, but it touched on
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an important question. How much should a man's self-worth depend on the respect or gratitude of
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others? Right. Trollish and meant to generate outrage. Why else would I suggest that men enjoy
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coming home to a happy and loving family? I mean, why? Why should such an outrageous claim be made
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except to troll people? That's the only reason, right? It's a deliberate provocation intended to
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sow chaos. Now, there are really only two possible reasons why French would frame my statements this
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way. One is that he's an intellectual coward who isn't confident in his ability to actually
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articulate a rebuttal to my ideas. And so he must frame them as unserious and beneath him from the outset,
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even though he's dedicating his entire column to responding to them. The other possibility is that
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the conservative, quote unquote, David French is such an extreme leftist, so radically far left in
00:53:57.800
his thinking that he really does consider my incredibly normal description of a normal family
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to be somehow shocking and outrageous. I can't say for sure which of these options is closer to the
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mark, but I'd guess that the truth is maybe a combination of the two. French continues, I raise this
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because an overwhelming amount of evidence from suicide to drug overdose to education achievement gaps
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indicates that millions of men are in crisis. Simply put, while many men demand respect, what they
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need is purpose, and the quest for respect can sometimes undermine the sense of purpose that will
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help make them whole. To put it more simply still, what men need is not for others to do things for
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them. They need to do things for others, for spouses, for children, for family, and friends and
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colleagues. Okay, now, he's not wrong, obviously, that men need purpose. I say that all the time.
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I never suggested that they don't need purpose. In fact, in the tweet that he's responding to,
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I suggest exactly the opposite. The reason why a man finds joy in returning home from a hard day's
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work to a warm and loving home is that it strengthens and vindicates and validates his purpose in life.
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In that moment, he feels fully grounded in his purpose. He knows what his purpose is. A man who
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returns home to a loving family returns home to his purpose. Now, French either doesn't understand
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that or, again, is pretending to not understand it. We'll read one more passage just to get the full
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context of his argument. Quote, the demand for respect is a hallmark of much right-wing discourse
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about masculinity. In this narrative, too many women don't respect their husbands and the culture
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more broadly devalues men. Part of this argument has merit. Yet, there's a danger in the quest for
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respect. Finding happiness in another person's regard is elusive and contingent. After all, we have
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little true control over how others perceive or treat us. Yet, when we're denied what we demand,
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we're often filled with helpless rage. More important, a demand for respect or honor should
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be conditioned on being respectable or honorable. When a man demands respect without being respectable,
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that often looks like domination and subordination. To elevate himself, he must belittle others.
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Virtuous purpose is worth more than any other person's conditional and unreliable respect.
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It is rooted in service and sacrifice, not entitlement. And those qualities bring a degree
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of meaning and joy far more important than the gift that others, the grateful spouse who cooks dinner,
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the implausibly reverential children, can ever offer. What we do for others is infinitely more
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rewarding than what we ask them to do for us. Okay. All of that is a response to the tweet that
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I wrote. Now again, not everything he's saying here is wrong. I'm not going to play the Frenchian
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game of pretending that some relatively normal idea is outrageous and offensive. But you have to read
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between the lines a little bit and also keep in mind the statement, my statement, that his argument is
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supposed to rebut. And when you take into account that context, you see that French's point is one that,
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in fact, every left-wing feminist would agree with. Though even they wouldn't put it as explicit as he
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has here. Men should not want anything. Men have no right to desire anything. Least of all, should they
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have any emotional needs? Men are meant to operate in a vacuum where they pursue purpose entirely
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unaffected by their surroundings. Now on the surface, it may sound like French is, if anything,
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making the mistake of being too tough, you know, having standards that are too high,
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expecting men to be too duty-bound and stoic. But that's not the case at all. In fact, he's calling
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men to submissiveness. He considers it outrageous that a man should hold his wife to any standard
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at all. Okay. Remember, all he said in the tweet is a grateful wife. So that's a stance. That is a
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standard that I am putting on the woman. That is something that I am saying a woman should do.
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God forbid we mention one single thing that a woman might, should do herself in a marriage.
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French doesn't like that. The idea that a man should have any expectations, that a man should
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want anything, is offensive. Even wanting your children to be happy to see you is, French says,
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implausible. Remember again what I said, what French has responded to. The only thing I said about
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children, I didn't say that when you walk in the door, children should bow, should do a profound bow
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and say, father, we are grateful to be in your presence once more. No, I said that fathers want
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their children to be glad to see them and grateful for them. French dismisses the very idea that your
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children should want to see you, calling it implausibly reverential. Maybe we're learning
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something about how his own kids treat him. I don't know. I can't understand otherwise why you would
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consider it implausible that your children would be happy you walked in the door. Because a man who
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simply wants his family to be glad that he walked in the door is, according to French, engaging in
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some kind of leave it to beaver fever dream. Men should instead just shut up and do as they're
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told. Men should focus on doing for others without being remotely affected by how they are treated in
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return. Talk about implausible. I mean, if my vision for men is leave it to beaver, then his is like
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Spock. He envisions men as unfeeling, inhuman creatures, no desires or emotions to speak of.
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And you'll notice that French, this is what's most important to see. He has never and would never say
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anything like this about women. He would never, not in a million years, lecture women for wanting
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respect. He would never say that a woman who wants gratitude from her husband is being an outrageous
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troll. He would never say that a woman who expresses her emotional needs is engaging in some kind of
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ludicrous fantasy and shouldn't even be taken seriously. That's because this is not French being
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like a hard-ass drill sergeant barking at everyone to stop whining and just get on with it. If it was,
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I'd be sympathetic to his approach, even if I disagreed with his argument. But instead, French is
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cowering to the feminist double standard, which says that men can never talk about what they want.
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Only women can do that. Because that is the thing that upset everyone. That's why they're still
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talking about that tweet two weeks later. Because I dared to say one single thing about what men want.
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You're not allowed to do that, ever. And David French is here to enforce that rule.
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Now, in reality, of course, in this contest between purpose and respect, a contest that French has
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created, largely because he feels compelled to find some reason to disagree with me, the answer is
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both. Men need purpose and respect. You cannot remove one from the equation without severely
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diminishing the other. A man who has respect will be more likely to understand his purpose,
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and a man with purpose is more likely to have respect. What this means for a wife is that if you
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are a wife and you want to help your husband live with purpose, then you should respect him and show
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that respect and make sure that he sees it and feels it. That doesn't mean respect is entirely
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unconditional. It doesn't mean that a man should be respected no matter what he does at all.
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It simply means that if you love your husband and you want him to be happy, and especially if you
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realize that he's trying his best, even if it's not perfect, he's not a perfect person. He's trying.
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And you want him to be the best version of himself that he can be, then you will help fuel him in
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that direction, which means showing him respect. You know, my wife will often say to me, not every
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day, not following some kind of script or timeline, but she will often say that she appreciates how hard
01:01:33.160
I work for the family. She's grateful for the sacrifices I make. She'll sometimes say that to me
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in person. Sometimes she'll send me a text just randomly during the day when I'm at work with a
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message like that. She lets me know that she notices and she cares and that it matters to her
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and that, yes, she's grateful. These kinds of acknowledgements, they fuel me and motivate me
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in a way that nothing else can. You know, I'm very happy to have a loving and grateful wife and
01:02:02.640
children. Guess what? Yeah, my kids are also happy when I walk in the door. I never knew that was
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implausible, but this implausible fantasy has come into fruition in my own life, if you can believe
01:02:15.860
it. And there are many other men who have the same happiness. And I want those who don't have
01:02:21.900
that happiness to experience it. That was my whole point. And yes, it was a point that focused on the
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needs of men. Much could be said about the needs of men or rather what men should do. There are plenty
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of things that could be said about the responsibilities of men. Much could be said about
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what men should do for their wives. And much is said about that all the time. It's okay to flip the
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coin over and look at the other side from time to time. It's not only okay, but necessary. Even if
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it offends guys like David French with the New York Times, who is today canceled. And that'll do it for
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this portion of the show. So move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you