Ep. 1117 - The Woke Speech Police Are Now Rewriting Books By Dead Children's Authors
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Woke publishing companies are now rewriting the books of dead authors to make the language conform with left-wing sensibilities. One of the most revered children s authors in the nation, I m not talking about myself, is their latest target. Also, Joe Biden continues to demonstrate his America First approach by visiting Ukraine while his own country falls apart. Marjorie Taylor Greene provokes a heated reaction after suggesting a national divorce to fix our problems. And conservative media figures continue to criticize me for my mean language. All that and more on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, and perhaps the most egregious example of cancel culture yet,
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woke publishing companies are now rewriting the books of dead authors to make the language
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conform with left-wing sensibilities. One of the most revered children's authors in the nation,
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I'm not talking about myself, is their latest target. Also, Joe Biden continues to demonstrate
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his America last approach by visiting Ukraine while his own country falls apart. Marjorie
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Taylor Greene provokes a heated reaction after suggesting a national divorce to fix our problems,
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and conservative media figures continue to criticize me for my mean language. I have some
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choice words for them today. All of that and more on The Matt Walsh Show.
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You may recall a couple of years ago when the estate of Theodore Geisel, who's better known as Dr.
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Seuss, of course, made the decision to stop selling a number of Seuss's books because the
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books featured culturally insensitive words and themes. One of the books, for example,
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contained a shocking reference to Eskimos, and we're not allowed to call Eskimos Eskimos anymore
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for reasons that have never fully been explained. But it's too late to explain these things to Dr.
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Seuss himself as he died 30 years ago. All they can do is posthumously label his work bigoted and
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shove a chunk of his catalog into the memory hole, which is exactly what they did.
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Now, many people, the optimistic ones anyway, thought that maybe the whole Seuss saga represented
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cancel culture at its most absurd. And at the very least, they figured it's the most ludicrous
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example of censoring a dead children's author that we'll ever see. Can't get worse than that.
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But they forget, in spite of my many reminders, that progressivism is progressive like cancer.
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It grows and spreads and doesn't stop, can't stop until its host is dead. And so this past weekend,
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another beloved children's author who died a year before Dr. Seuss found himself in the
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woke cult's crosshairs. And this incident actually makes the Seuss cancellation look downright reasonable
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by comparison. So the Guardian reports on the efforts by Roald Dahl's publisher to actually rewrite
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his books in order to bring them into line with modern sensibilities. Reading from the report,
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it says, Roald Dahl's children's books are being rewritten to remove language deemed offensive by
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the publisher Puffin. Puffin has hired sensitivity readers to rewrite chunks of the author's text
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to make sure the books, quote, can continue to be enjoyed by all today, resulting in extensive
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changes across Dahl's works. Hundreds of changes were made to the original text, and some passages
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not written by Dahl have been added. But the Roald Dahl story company said, quote, it's not unusual to
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review the language during a new print run, and any changes were small and carefully considered.
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Now, if you thought that the, you know, DEI consultants were useless parasites, what can
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we say about professional sensitivity readers? I suppose we would say much the same about them,
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though perhaps maybe we might give them, we might be tempted to give them a little bit of credit for
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finding such a profitable yet low effort grift. And speaking of low effort, here are some of the
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changes that were made at their behest. Quote, edits have been made to descriptions of characters'
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physical appearances. The word fat has been cut from every new edition of relevant books,
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while the word ugly has also been culled, the Daily Telegraph reported. Augustus Gloop in Charlie
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and the Chocolate Factory is now described as enormous. In the twits, Mrs. Twit is no longer ugly and beastly,
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but just beastly. Well, that's good, because now the line has left open the possibility that Mrs.
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Twit might be beastly, yet not ugly. Perhaps she is a big, beastly, beautiful woman. That might be
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a somewhat incoherent image. I can't imagine what a beastly, yet attractive person would look like,
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but at least you get the alliteration there. Big, beastly, beautiful. Reading more, it says,
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in the witches, a paragraph explaining that witches are bald beneath their wigs, ends with this new
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line. Quote, there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs, and there is certainly
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nothing wrong with that. I'm surprised that they didn't add yet another line to note also that
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not all witches are supernatural creatures who create magical potions to turn children into mice,
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as they do in Doll's book. You know, there are other kinds of witches as well. In fact,
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we even have witches in Congress, quite a few of them. One of them used to be Speaker of the House.
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It seems that sensitivity readers missed an opportunity to fully combat the stigma against
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witches. I'm a little disappointed by that. Hopefully, they'll catch it on the next go-around.
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Back to the Guardian says, in previous editions of James and the Giant Peach, the centipede sings,
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Aunt Sponge was terrifically fat and tremendously flabby at that, and Aunt Spiker was thin as a wire
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and dry as a bone-only dryer. Both verses have been removed, and in their places are the rhymes,
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Aunt Sponge was a nasty old brute and deserved to be squashed by the fruit,
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and Aunt Spiker was much of the same and deserves half of the blame.
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This is another important edit. As we all know, it's deeply offensive to call a woman fat. We
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should instead be polite and merely call them brutes who deserve to be squished to death.
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But, you know, we shouldn't be surprised that these changes make no sense at all. After all,
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the woke police, they still haven't quite figured out what to do with fatness, because on the one hand,
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of course, they want to stop you from calling people fat because it's intolerant. But on the other hand,
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they preach about fat acceptance and declare that fat is beautiful. But if fat is acceptable and
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beautiful, then why can't we call people fat? Shouldn't we, wouldn't we be complimenting them
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in that case? I mean, one of the greatest things you could say to someone is, hey, you fat ass,
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you're calling them beautiful. So the sensitivity readers are a bit confused on that point.
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But one thing they know for sure is that any reference to biological sex is, of course,
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terribly offensive now. Reading again, it says,
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references to female characters have disappeared. Miss Trunchbull and Matilda,
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once a most formidable female, is now a most formidable woman.
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Gender neutral terms have been added in places where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's Oompa Loompas
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were small men. They are now small people. The Cloud Men and James the Giant Peach have become
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cloud people. Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company made the changes in conjunction with Inclusive Minds,
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which its spokesperson describes as, quote, a collective for people who are passionate about
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inclusion and accessibility in children's literature. Alexandra Strick, a co-founder of
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Inclusive Minds, says that they aim to ensure authentic representation by working closely with
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the book world and with those who have lived experience of any facet of diversity.
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A notice from the publisher sits at the bottom of the copyright page of the latest editions of
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The wonderful words of Roald Dahl can transport you to different worlds and introduce you to the
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most marvelous characters. This book was written many years ago, and so we regularly review the
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language to ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today. Now, as I said at the beginning,
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this is all significantly worse than simply banning books or taking them off the shelves.
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It represents a rather startling escalation by the woke brigade, because if they had, you know,
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removed the offensive, quote, unquote, Dahl books from circulation, that would be a ridiculous and
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shameful move, just like it was with Dr. Seuss. But it would at least be honest, I mean, more honest
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at any rate, and it would keep the author's work intact. But now they've taken the liberty to rewrite
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the books and change the author's words without his consent to make it more acceptable by their
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standards. And you don't need to strain very hard to see where this is going. I mean, it's one thing
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to imagine a world where Shakespeare has been entirely removed from the classroom because he
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was a white male who authored works that contain problematic themes. That prospect is disturbing enough
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if it isn't already happening, which it probably is. But now imagine a world where kids are taught
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Shakespeare, except they're reading things that Shakespeare never actually wrote. I mean, I would
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rather Shakespeare be cast aside as a toxic white male than retroactively edited to be turned into a
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woke transgendered polysexual or whatever they would do to him. Yet that's where we're headed.
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Now, the problem with this approach is not simply that it's politically correct. We have moved way past
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mere political correctness at this point. The problem is that, first of all, it's a lie. So you may wish
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that an author had written something a different way and used different language, gone this direction
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instead of that. But those wishes are born from the fact that the work is not your work. It came from
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someone else's mind. You wish he had written it a certain way, but he didn't write it that way.
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He wrote what he wrote, no matter how you feel about it. This is no different from rewriting the
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history books to tell the story of what you think should have happened in history, rather than telling
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what actually did happen. And of course, that's exactly what they're going to do with the history
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books, if they aren't already. The left believes that it has the moral authority to alter anything it
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wants to alter. Because it doesn't believe that anything that conflicts with their worldview
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has any right to exist in the first place. And that's really what this comes down to.
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From their perspective, Roald Dahl had no right to author those kinds of books in the first place,
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because it conflicts with them and it makes them feel bad. And so he had no right to do that. And so
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that gives them the moral license to do whatever they want. If that means burning the books,
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banning them, they can do that. If that means rewriting it, it means that. This is not only
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unethical and arrogant in the extreme, editing a dead writer's words so that they sound better to you,
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but it also deprives children of the full enrichment and edification that can come
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from reading the vivid and even maybe sometimes a little upsetting, if the child is an especially
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sensitive type, words of a great imaginative writer. See, we tend to worry that this kind of
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censorship will help to indoctrinate children into wokeness. And we're right to worry about that.
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We should be worried about it. But it's perhaps an even greater concern that it will help to make
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our children into bland, boring people, which of course is an inevitable consequence of making
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them woke. And if you want to make children bland and boring and bored, there is no better way to do it
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than to reimagine great children's literature so that it sounds like something written by a
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diversity consultant. That is just about the worst and most disrespectful thing you can do to a piece
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of literature. And it's also a very terrible thing to do to the child who is reading it.
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Yeah, one more note about this. I think it was the author, Matthew Crawford, who pointed out
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an important change in children's cartoon shows in recent years. Aside from all the explicit left-wing
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indoctrination that we know about and we talk about all the time, the other major change is that
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this is the kind of thing that if you watch kid shows today, it's like you notice it,
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but you might not be able to put your finger on it until somebody points it out. So the other major
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change is that a kid's cartoon show used to be vividly drawn and the plot and most of the humor
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would come from the characters experiencing frustration with the physical world, right? That's
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what most of the plots revolved around. The coyote failing to catch the roadrunner, et cetera,
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et cetera. It's like every single plot was that. It was a character trying to do something and then
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he encounters the physical world and maybe he can kind of defy the laws of physics briefly,
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like the cartoon character that runs over the cliff and was running on thin air and then notices that
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he's running on thin air and then he falls, right? But that's only brief. And then eventually the laws
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of physics reimpose themselves again and then that's where the plot and the tension and the humor comes
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from. And there was even violence in these shows, you know, it was cartoonish and it was played for
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laughs. But still characters were shot or blown up or they were, they fell off a cliff and all the rest
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of it. And in this funny and childlike way, kids were introduced to a world that will not fully bend to
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your whims and that has rules and laws that exist apart from your desires. A world that, that where you're
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going to encounter frustration and failure and all of that. But kids cartoons today are, again, aside
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from the blatant, explicit left-wing propaganda, along with that, they're bland, they're sanitized,
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they all kind of look the same and there's no frustration. Like no, the characters never are
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frustrated, especially for cartoon shows that are meant for very young kids. There's certainly no pain,
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there's definitely nothing like violence. Crawford gives the example of the modern Mickey Mouse
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clubhouse cartoons where, you know, again, it's just a sanitized animation. It just looks bland and
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boring. But on top of that, you know, the house is like magical and it solves all the problems for
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the characters. And so just when you get to the point where you think they're about to be frustrated
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by something, something magical happens and it's okay. And that's what we're feeding to kids. And I think
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what they're doing with Roald Dahl and rewriting these books is a similar kind of thing. Just
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changing the words so that there's nothing that might be a little bit upsetting or a little bit
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frustrating. Yeah. Describing a character as ugly might be if a kid is sensitive and might be,
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oh, that's a little rude. So we're going to take all of that out, add disclaimers. Oh, yes,
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this character is bald, but there are lots of other bald people, by the way. Just making everything
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kind of soft and bland and boring. And this is all the content that's being fed to kids all the time.
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All right. So Joe Biden went to Ukraine yesterday. This is supposed to be a very big deal for some
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reason. We're supposed to be very impressed by that. Fox has the story. It says, President Biden's
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surprise Monday trip to Ukraine was actually an operation that began under the cover of darkness
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early Sunday morning and included a plane ride on an Air Force C-32 jet, a motorcade on an empty
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Polish highway and a long overnight train ride into the war-torn country. The small two-person
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print press pool accompanying Biden on the trip found out it was happening just days before it
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had to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland in the wee hours of the morning before being forced
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to hand over their phones before boarding the jet. The plane was parked in the dark next to a hangar
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away from the tarmac with the shades drawn. The plane stopped to refuel. Okay. Why am I reading
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this? Who cares? I don't need the whole saga. This is not, he's not James Bond. He got on a
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plane basically and he went to Ukraine. What happened? And you know what? This would be a lot
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more impressive and harrowing if like Sean Penn hadn't already been there and other celebrities.
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And if cable news pundits hadn't already gone there dressed like GI Joe's to pretend to be fighting
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the Russians. Every famous left of center person has been to Ukraine at this point. It is like a,
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it's a, it's a tourist attraction for these people. And Biden was among the last to show up. So I find
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it for that reason, a little bit less impressive. Although it is, it is interesting that Biden showed
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up there and he's on the tarmac and you can see they have a place. They, they marked down a place
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where he's supposed to stand for the photo op in the middle of a war zone, right? This is a very
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dangerous, but they took the time to put some tape down so that Biden would know where to stand for
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the photos. And they do the photo op. And it's just at that moment when he arrives for the photo op
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that you hear the air raid sirens going off in the background. And other journalists that, uh, I don't
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know, maybe they didn't know exactly what they were saying, but other journalists on the scene reported
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that it's been a long time since they've heard the air raid sirens. And it just so happens to go off
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the moment Biden arrives and the cameras are rolling. Wow. Very convenient timing to make all
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this quite dramatic. And, uh, it worked for the media. They are very impressed. Here's a CNN talking
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about it. As our resident historian here, place this in the context and the pantheon of presidential
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visits to war zones. Presidents have visited Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years,
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but those were U S wars. This is a Ukrainian war. No U S military presence on the ground. How
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significant? It's extremely significant. The United States is wedded more to the Ukraine than ever
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before. Uh, I, I go back to history and think of Roosevelt and Churchill when FDR had to sneak off
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in the dead of night, even had a body double at one point to first meet Winston Churchill off the coast
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of Newfoundland. And then of course you had all those world war two meetings between Churchill. Uh,
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it's worth, I mean, mentioning Churchill Koselinski has been called the Churchill of our generation
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and Biden going there today. I think it's going to be a, uh, a moment for the history books. It's
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like when John F Kennedy went to Berlin on 1961 and gave a speech at the height of the cold war.
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Ukraine is the new Berlin. It's the rally point for NATO and the, the Western allies. And, and, uh,
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I think Biden did something really heroic. Hmm. Heroic. Well, you know, it's, it's nothing like
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either of those, uh, any of those, uh, other historical analogs that he mentioned, because
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this is a scuffle for, for, for a few reasons, but the first reason most important is that this is a
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scuffle between Russia and a frankly irrelevant country, which has no significance outside of that
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region, no matter how much they want to convince us. Otherwise it just doesn't. And, um, unless,
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unless we continue to try to make it, uh, relevant by intentionally trying to escalate it into a world
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war, but there is no reason, maybe I should rephrase. There's no reason why this should have any
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relevance outside of the region where it's happening. There is no actual reason why it should
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matter to Americans, which corrupt government controls Ukraine. Is it going to be Russia or
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is it going to be Ukraine's current government? Which of the government's controls the territory
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of Ukraine? There's no reason why that should matter to any of us or have any impact on any of us.
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But even so, uh, very courageous of Biden, at least that's MSNBC. Here they are talking about
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not only how courageous Biden is, but what a coward Trump was by comparison.
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The president has some wind at his back. I'm not sure that it was all pre-planned,
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but it has certainly all been well executed. His back and forth with the nuttiest of the nutty
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Republicans at the state of the union, pulling off this trip and these images of defenders of
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democracy from two very different generations, walking shoulder to shoulder in Kiev. Um, what do you
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make of this moment in the Biden presidency? Well, it's very important because in the back of
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everyone's mind, there's always a contrast. There's always a comparison. And this kind of dovetails of
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what you talked about earlier, that when the president runs for reelection, it is not a referendum on him.
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It is a choice. And if you compare and contrast Donald Trump, Donald Trump was afraid to go to
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Afghanistan. Um, and Afghanistan was afraid to stay upstairs during the black lives matter protests.
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Exactly. Exactly. I mean, very little courage and, you know, having flown into war zones a number of
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time, both Iraq and Afghanistan as a member of the Senate, um, was there moments that it was weird?
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Yes. But there was always a sense that you're surrounded by the United States military. You're
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enveloped by the United States military. When that air force won. Good. Well, she, and she also,
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she had to throw that in there. She's also quite courageous herself. Biden is way more courageous
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than Trump. They say this, this is very much has the whiff of like, uh, my dad could beat up your
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dad type of thing. That's basically what this is. Meanwhile, we're supposed to believe that there
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was like any chance at all that Biden would be a battle casualty. That's what we're supposed to
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believe that there was even the smallest chance that, uh, they were putting the president United States
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in the position where he could be killed by Putin as if they'd ever take that chance.
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Then again, as I say this, maybe they would, I mean, the Democrats are desperate to find someone
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else for 2024 after all, not to start any fresh new conspiracy theories. But the point is that this
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was, um, more pageantry, uh, meant to puff up this Ukraine war with Biden visiting and visiting by the
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way, while, uh, a town in Ohio is still dealing with being poisoned after a train derailment. I mean,
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we have massive problems. We can't even keep our trains on the rails. And so that's the kind of
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problems we have here, not to mention at our border and everywhere else. And Biden is going to Ukraine
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instead. Uh, here's what he tweeted about it. He said, one year later, Kyiv still stands. Ukraine
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stands. Democracy stands. America and the world stands with Ukraine. Well, no, America doesn't.
00:23:17.300
Um, DC does Washington, DC stands with Ukraine. America doesn't because America is comprised of
00:23:24.860
people and, uh, the majority of people don't care one way or another about Ukraine. And there's no
00:23:30.860
reason why they should. And still to this moment, the proponents of America's involvement in the
00:23:40.820
Ukraine war, the people that want us to continue sending billions of dollars over there and weapons
00:23:45.080
and the people that are pushing for even more involvement, potentially boots on the ground
00:23:48.380
and all the rest of it. Still, I mean, these people have had now a year to come up with some
00:23:54.540
kind of cogent argument for why we should care about this. And they still can't do it. This is
00:24:00.740
the best they can do. What you just read in that tweet, democracy stands. That's it. That's,
00:24:07.060
that is still the entire argument. Now, when this first started happening, you heard, uh,
00:24:12.660
warnings about how, well, uh, no matter how you feel about Ukraine, America might have to get
00:24:17.240
involved here because Putin, you know, he's, he's not going to stop Ukraine. He's going to try to
00:24:21.260
invade all of Europe and he's going to, you know, we heard all this kind of stuff and that hasn't
00:24:24.780
happened and it's, it's not going to happen. That's just not a plausible scenario we have to worry
00:24:30.520
about, about, about Putin trying to take over the world. So that hasn't happened. And instead that
00:24:38.300
means that they're stuck with this, they're stuck with a shilling for the Ukraine war, um, on the
00:24:43.060
basis of freedom and democracy. Nevermind the fact that yet again, the Ukrainian government
00:24:50.880
is not a beacon of freedom and democracy. It's one of the most corrupt governments in the world.
00:24:57.280
And even if it was, you know, there are many, there are billions of people all throughout the
00:25:07.260
world whose freedoms are being infringed upon to include people that live in this country, by the
00:25:13.460
way. Um, I mean, after what, what we just went through with the, with the COVID lockdowns and
00:25:20.040
everything, we know how, how, uh, precarious our own freedoms are, but, you know, versions of that
00:25:27.500
happening all over the world and, um, people that are in really difficult spots all over there, there
00:25:33.780
are, there are wars and, uh, and conflicts and larger powers trying to impose themselves onto weaker
00:25:42.040
powers and weaker people that's happening all over the globe.
00:25:45.420
And so why is this specifically the one area that we have to be interested? Why should this matter to
00:25:55.420
us more than what's happening anywhere else? They can't explain it. All they have, even now,
00:26:01.200
after all this time, all they have are bumper sticker slogans about standing for freedom and
00:26:05.640
democracy. And that's the kind of thing that, that might've been compelling to a lot of Americans,
00:26:11.160
I don't know, 20 years ago, but it hasn't been for the past two decades because we've seen quite
00:26:18.400
enough of American money being spent and more importantly, American lives being lost in pursuit
00:26:24.440
of defending quote unquote freedom of other people in other parts of the world who very often, as it
00:26:32.600
turns out, aren't even interested in our idea of freedom. Uh, closer to home, this is from the
00:26:40.660
Washington Examiner reports, uh, it's president's day and representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's got
00:26:48.140
a plan. Instead of celebrating the birthdays of America's founding fathers, George Washington,
00:26:51.300
Abraham Lincoln, the, uh, Georgia, America's founding fathers, George Washington and Abraham
00:26:58.080
Lincoln. That's the way the Washington, this is the way the Washington Examiner frames it. Anyway,
00:27:02.440
the Georgia GOP firebrand is calling for a national divorce, tweeting that red and blue states need to
00:27:08.060
separate and go their own ways. She's also advocating shrinking the federal government.
00:27:11.860
We need a national divorce, Greene tweeted from the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved
00:27:16.380
down our throats. The Democrats traitorous America last politics. We are done. And, uh, so that's,
00:27:22.020
that's, she tweeted about the national divorce and obviously there's the expected freak out over this.
00:27:28.760
And what's even more expected is that the freak out deprives us of any chance
00:27:34.480
to have an interesting conversation about it, at least on a national level.
00:27:39.120
Um, and what I'll say about it, and it is, it is, it's not, it's not every day that a member of
00:27:45.960
the United States Congress, uh, actually floats the idea of a national divorce. I mean, I'm not sure
00:27:51.560
when's the last time it happened, you know, after the civil war, I'm sure it's happened before, but
00:27:55.620
it's not, it's, it's an uncommon thing. So that is noticeable. Um, although she's not the only person
00:28:01.220
to talk about it. And this is something, this is a, it's a sentiment that I understand. I've expressed
00:28:05.740
similar sentiments myself many times going back years, you know, and it's, that's why I say it's
00:28:12.280
not, it's something worth discussing. Like if we were capable of being adults and just having a
00:28:18.220
conversation, it's not a crazy thing to talk about because it is true that as I talk about all the
00:28:25.740
time, our, the divide in this country and in our culture is deeper and wider and more unbridgeable
00:28:35.260
than it's ever been in American history. And that includes a civil war. I'm talking about the
00:28:40.760
ideological divide when you have two sides and it's not as simple as two sides because there are
00:28:46.240
factions on the different sides and everything, but just speaking generally, you have two sides
00:28:49.220
that, that, that do not share anything. Like we have nothing in common. We have no shared values
00:28:56.220
whatsoever. And I've gone through this exercise several times in the past of just asking people
00:29:02.640
like, what, what do you, what do you think? What, what are the, can you name one shared value
00:29:08.900
that binds Americans together? One thing we can agree on. And I'm talking about fundamental basic things.
00:29:19.220
And there really is nothing. Uh, you, you want to answer, well, we all believe in freedom,
00:29:25.340
but that clearly is not the case. Or at the very least we, we, you know, that will raise the question
00:29:32.800
of, okay, what is freedom? How do we understand that term? And then you find out that for a lot of
00:29:39.740
people, they say they value freedom, but for them freedom means, uh, for example, mothers killing
00:29:46.200
their children. That's the kind of freedom they talk about. And it means children being, uh, being
00:29:52.560
liberated and freed from the clutches of their parents by an overarching federal government and
00:29:57.800
a school system that, uh, that, that steps in between them and severs the bond between parent
00:30:02.180
and child. That's what they mean by freedom. So we don't have freedom in common. We don't have
00:30:06.380
anything in common. And that is a serious problem. And one we should be talking about.
00:30:11.160
What is it that binds America together? We are people, but in what sense are we a people?
00:30:21.920
Um, and it would seem like the only thing is just the borders that we all happen to live within the
00:30:27.300
same borders. But then of course those borders are being erased. So we don't even have that anymore.
00:30:30.760
So what's left? That's not crazy that I'm talking about national divorce, but
00:30:35.680
the problem is, uh, is one of geography. It's just, it's a simple logistical problem that I think
00:30:43.300
makes a plan like this totally, uh, unfeasible. It can't happen. It's an issue of geography.
00:30:50.160
Yeah, there is a, there is a deep and unavoidable, unbridgeable ideological divide,
00:30:56.160
but that divide is not reflected by the geography of the country. There are not clear geographical
00:31:03.200
dividing lines between the two sides. You know, it's not, we talk about red and blue states,
00:31:10.320
but that is a massive oversimplification because even in the reddest of states, you have, uh, most of
00:31:16.720
the time, the big cities are going to be deep blue. And even in, even in, uh, blue states, you have
00:31:23.080
pockets of, uh, of, of the state that are, that are red. So how exactly do you divide all this?
00:31:34.000
Like who, who gets Texas, for example? I mean, every state you could do this.
00:31:40.320
So there's just no way it's just that if you could divide things geographically that easily,
00:31:47.220
if we could say that, uh, well, you know, we've got this deep ideological divide and most of the
00:31:53.420
people who are on the right side of that divide live in these states. And most of the people that
00:31:56.780
are on the other side live in those states. If you could say that, then I think it becomes very
00:32:00.180
practical and we should really be considering, uh, the national divorce strategy, but, but that's not
00:32:04.640
the case. And so, um, I don't see how it, how it works. Where do we go from there? Like what's a
00:32:12.120
better strategy? I don't know, but that's why I said we should be talking about it and talking
00:32:16.560
about it in a frank and, you know, uncomfortable way. Nobody wants to think of their country this
00:32:21.940
way. We don't want to think of our country as a, as, as one that is like where the, we say the
00:32:26.920
word United States of America. We don't want to think that it's, that we are united in name only.
00:32:34.340
Might want, we might not want to think about it, but it is the case and we need to confront that.
00:32:41.400
I want to play this clip too. Larry Hogan is the former, uh, Maryland governor and is gearing
00:32:46.060
up for a presidential run. We think that's sure to earn him about as much support as probably,
00:32:50.420
uh, he'll get as much support from the Republican base as Michael Bloomberg got from the Democrat
00:32:55.860
base in 2020. It's gonna be about on par with that, which is to say no support at all. But here's
00:33:01.480
Larry Hogan, um, going after Ron DeSantis over the weekend. My question to you is not whether this is a
00:33:09.400
legitimate issue to be talking about. It's about whether this is the main issue or not. Do you view
00:33:14.360
this as the main issue for 2024? No, I think it's an important issue and I do hear it. And people
00:33:20.160
are concerned about this as I travel around the country because, you know, the, most people just
00:33:24.380
don't think we should be talking about, you know, things like sex to young kids and the parents want
00:33:29.600
to be more involved in decisions about what their kids are being taught. However, uh, you know, I think
00:33:35.100
some of this rhetoric is, uh, you know, it's something, you know, demanding that things be done a certain
00:33:39.960
way or that you can't say this, you can't say that. We've got to be really careful. Does it feel like
00:33:43.720
you're going the other way? Like it's sort of like you're on one hand, you've governor DeSantis
00:33:47.440
claiming, Hey, I don't want all of this, but I'm going to tell you exactly what you can say.
00:33:52.060
And I'm going to say what you can't say. Well, I'm a small government, you know,
00:33:54.880
common sense conservative. And to me, it sounds like big government and, uh, authoritarian, uh,
00:34:00.580
you have to agree with me and I'm going to tell you what you can and can't do. So,
00:34:03.680
but it's an issue. It's not the most important issue. I think more people are concerned about the
00:34:07.580
economy, inflation. They're concerned about, uh, crime, uh, but education is one of the
00:34:12.580
things that we've got to talk about. Yeah, this is, this is, uh, I mean, this is,
00:34:17.600
you put them in the same camp as, uh, Nikki Haley or any of these other Republicans that are looking
00:34:22.400
at jumping into the 2024 race. Um, it's, they're going to run campaigns that might have had a chance
00:34:30.560
in 2008. That's especially the case for Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley. I know we're not talking about
00:34:35.500
Nikki Haley. That was Larry Hogan, but they don't exactly look the same, but, uh, Nikki Haley would
00:34:40.300
have been a formidable Republican nominee for the presidency in 2008. Um, but it's not 2008 anymore.
00:34:49.220
And so she's not anymore. And Larry Hogan's in the same kind of just kind of your milk toast,
00:34:53.120
whatever moderate Republican thing. And, uh, he doesn't even have the courage to just say what
00:34:59.360
he really thinks. And what he really thinks is that he doesn't care at all about education.
00:35:02.840
He doesn't care at all about what kids are taught. He doesn't care at all about, uh, about anything
00:35:07.000
that has to do with the culture, uh, any of the, the, the so-called social, he just doesn't care
00:35:11.060
about that. Um, but he doesn't want to say that. So instead he says, well, it's an issue we should
00:35:16.280
talk. It's an important issue. It's not the most important issue. It's, you know, and there are both
00:35:19.580
sides to this and there are two sides. People care much more about the economy. People do care about
00:35:24.400
the economy, but they don't care more about the economy than they care about their kids
00:35:30.000
and their kids' education. Like people wake up in the morning and yeah, they're worried about how
00:35:35.240
they're going to pay their bills, but, uh, they're also in primarily worried about their children and
00:35:40.840
the future that their children are going to have. And, um, and so that is, that is one of, that's like
00:35:47.320
the most deep seated concern that an American has, especially a parent that a parent has.
00:35:53.280
And this idea that it's, well, I'm not, I'm not a big government conservative. I'm a small
00:36:00.800
government conservative. That's nonsense. First of all, that's the other thing about these
00:36:05.620
establishment Republicans. They all describe themselves as small government. All they ever
00:36:09.200
do is expand the government. That's all they ever do. I mean, we've had so many small government
00:36:15.120
conservatives that go into the white house or elected to Congress. They, they end up in
00:36:19.160
governor's mansions and they don't do a single damn thing to actually actively shrink the size
00:36:24.780
of government. They just don't. All they do is expand it. And, uh, Larry Hogan's the same deal.
00:36:30.780
The small government conservatism is, uh, it's just a, it's another bumper sticker slogan that he uses.
00:36:36.200
And it doesn't even make any sense in this context. We're talking about public schools. These are
00:36:41.440
government facilities. So let me see if I understand this correctly.
00:36:46.180
The person who runs the government in the state, you know, the executive of the, of the state is the
00:36:53.720
governor for him to exercise any control over what's being done in the schools, which are government
00:37:02.620
facilities. That's big government. They are government facilities. Now, if you want to argue
00:37:09.600
that the existence of the public school system to begin with is a symptom of, of, uh, of big government
00:37:17.040
and we should get away from the public school system entirely and dismantle it, burn it to the
00:37:23.120
ground and dance around its ashes. If that's what you want to argue, then, uh, then now you're singing
00:37:27.520
my tune, but that's not what he's saying. He's saying that the small government, so, so public school
00:37:32.520
system is great. Government facilities where kids are, are brought and indoctrinated.
00:37:36.240
But if anyone, whether it's Ron DeSantis or anybody else, including private citizens,
00:37:41.700
if anybody criticizes, um, or scrutinizes what's happening in those government facilities,
00:37:49.220
then we become proponents of big government. It's completely and totally incoherent,
00:37:55.700
but what else can you expect from these people? Let's get now to the comment section.
00:37:59.700
All right. Um, sorry. Well, first of all, I have to tell you that I did learn a valuable
00:38:13.600
lesson over the weekend. Uh, and the lesson that I learned is to not let my kids throw
00:38:19.120
axes at my faces. Um, and my, my wife came home with this, uh, it's actually a great toy.
00:38:25.040
It's a toy Velcro. Uh, it's like a, it's an axe throwing toy, but it's like the toys,
00:38:29.360
the axes have Velcro on them. And of course, the first thing I thought is that we need to,
00:38:33.080
uh, have someone stand in front of the target so that the axes can be thrown like around their head.
00:38:38.240
Looks like a, it's like a danger act, you know, that you see on, uh, America's Got Talent
00:38:41.240
or something like that. And I thought that's what we should do. Of course, my kids volunteered me
00:38:44.700
as the first, uh, victim in this game. And here's the, uh, here's the brief replay on that one.
00:38:49.440
Let's watch that. You know, I've watched that replay a few times and this is starting to feel
00:39:07.340
flagrant and intentional. I have to be honest with you. She put that axe right between my eyes
00:39:11.780
and some people have asked me, why did I think that that was a good idea to do? And the answer
00:39:17.580
is I never said it was a good idea. It was just an idea. You know, this is the fundamental confusion
00:39:21.100
that people have about, about me, maybe about men in general. Not that all men would make themselves
00:39:25.620
the target for an axe throwing game. I'm not accusing all men of that. I just mean that, uh,
00:39:29.680
we don't need to think that something is a good idea in order to do it. You know, we could know that
00:39:35.340
it's a bad idea and do it anyway. Sometimes the fact that it's a bad idea is what makes it appealing.
00:39:42.040
And it's not that I'm totally undiscerning when it comes to these things. In fact, I have matured a
00:39:45.440
little bit. I feel like I have to, I have to, uh, reclaim my, my pride a bit and tell you that for
00:39:51.820
instance, two weekends ago, I took, uh, my machete out to help my son clear a path in, uh, in the
00:39:59.760
woods behind our house. He's building a fort and he wanted me to help clear a path to his fort. And
00:40:03.640
so I, you know, and I look for any excuse to use the machete cause it's a lot of fun. And so I did.
00:40:07.940
And I briefly, I briefly, briefly felt the urge to try to impress my son by flipping the machete in the
00:40:14.780
air and catching it on the handle. And of course I would make sure he was nowhere near. And I,
00:40:19.200
I briefly had that urge. I was up in that, but I didn't, I didn't do it. I didn't. And I didn't
00:40:23.620
bring it up either because I know if I brought it up, then he would try it. So the thought crossed
00:40:27.620
my mind. And if this was 20 years ago and I had a machete, someone was dumb enough to give me a
00:40:32.040
machete 20 years ago. And I had that thought, I would have just done it and I wouldn't have a hand
00:40:35.220
today. But I didn't, I said, that's not a safe thing to do. And now I just stick with, uh, I
00:40:43.000
satisfy my urges for dangerous stunts by using styrofoam axes. So I have, I think I haven't grown,
00:40:49.340
I think is what I'm trying to say. All right. Stacy says, uh, Matt, we've all seen way too many
00:40:55.100
sci-fi movies. Also Matt desperate for an alien invasion. Well, yeah, it's exhibit a, I don't,
00:41:02.280
I don't deny that. So when I, when I criticize people for watching too many sci-fi movies and
00:41:05.880
then, uh, you know, imagining that Siri or whatever, some, some AI chatbots going to take
00:41:10.600
over the world, that they've seen too many sci-fi movies, it leads them to that conclusion.
00:41:15.020
I fully admit that I have watched way too many alien invasion movies. I mean, I've watched any
00:41:21.420
movie that involves an alien invasion or people encountering aliens. I've watched them all.
00:41:25.420
And, uh, I am very much influenced by that and I don't deny it at all. Um, doesn't mean I'm wrong
00:41:31.800
though. Doesn't mean I'm wrong. Let's see. Evan says, I'm not worried that AI is turning into a
00:41:37.960
mediocre woman with a liberal arts degree. I'm worried that society is actually run by a bunch
00:41:41.960
of mediocre women with liberal arts degrees. Well, I think you're right. And actually picking
00:41:46.660
up on that theme, um, this, this, it kind of brings me to my, my thought about this AI stuff
00:41:53.780
and the concern that, uh, well, AI and robots are going to become human. They're going to become
00:41:59.220
sentient and conscious and self-aware and they're going to take over the world. Uh, I'm less
00:42:03.080
concerned about that than I am about it going the other way. Yeah. I think that's what we have to
00:42:09.320
worry about. It's not, it's not humans. It's not robots turning into humans. It's rather humans
00:42:15.000
turning into robots effectively. I think that's what's happening. And we're already sort of seeing
00:42:20.400
that with people who, you know, they carry the phones around. They can't be without them. They're
00:42:24.460
staring at the phones. All the words are totally dependent on the screens and everything. It's like
00:42:28.200
basically becoming these pre these programmed robots. You can't even drive, uh, you know,
00:42:34.460
five minutes down the street to Walgreens without using your GPS. Like we are, we are turning into,
00:42:41.100
we are, we're sacrificing, um, much of what makes us human and becoming robots ourselves. So I think
00:42:46.840
that's, it's not as, uh, you know, it does, it's not as cinematic of a prospect, but I think that's
00:42:54.960
what's actually happening. Um, Thomas says there are moments when Matt disses someone. It's so true
00:43:02.440
and so cold that you feel it in your soul. Chelsea took a hit on that one. Yeah, she did, but she
00:43:08.680
started it. Remember that she started it. And I do think this idea that like she, the other person
00:43:15.020
saying, well, they started it. The idea that that's not a good excuse. I mean, sometimes it's not,
00:43:21.900
but, but sometimes it is like if someone starts an altercation, then, uh, they started it. I think
00:43:28.200
it's perfectly valid to point that out. And finally, Kitty Foods says someone got an F on their science
00:43:37.760
fair project because the federal government shot it down. Yeah, that's, uh, in order for Joe Biden to
00:43:45.600
salvage his own pride and his own ego, he's out there shooting down science fair projects that people
00:43:51.180
have worked very hard on. I find that really offensive. You know, it's no secret that the
00:43:55.680
left hates our country, wants to rewrite history. And even our children's books, as we've already
00:44:00.140
reviewed, they villainize our heroes and omit key details from the historical record. Like the fact
00:44:05.100
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cancellation. Okay. So it's been a week since my brief, but now infamous segment on this show about
00:44:53.520
trans activist, Dylan Mulvaney. The tweet with that clip has been viewed nearly 20 million times
00:44:57.800
on Twitter alone. That doesn't count all the other platforms where it's been shared and reposted.
00:45:01.820
As you know, all I did in the segment was speak honestly to Dylan and about Dylan, a man who degrades
00:45:06.600
and appropriates womanhood while shilling for child mutilation and sterilization. It does all of it for
00:45:10.980
profit. Um, real women have tried to tell Dylan how demeaning his woman face routine is, but he
00:45:16.100
only doubles down on the mockery in response. And most recently he, he released a video bragging
00:45:20.980
about what an attractive woman he is and warning women that he could steal their husbands, quote
00:45:25.520
unquote. And this was a video that provoked my response in which I simply told him the plain and
00:45:29.820
unvarnished truth about himself, that he is not a woman, that he doesn't look like one, that the
00:45:33.720
whole degrading display is not beautiful or remotely attractive, that he is imitating something he will
00:45:39.440
never truly be. In other words, I said out loud what most people already think, but some of those
00:45:45.680
people, the ones who agree with what I said and were already thinking it were nonetheless very upset
00:45:50.720
by my remarks and perhaps upset is an understatement. They've called me mean and cruel and sadistic. And
00:45:56.380
this has been going on for a week now with no sign of letting up. Uh, they've called me a bully and a
00:46:02.540
grifter. They've said that I'm, I'm only, I'm only, um, hurting the cause by being so repulsively
00:46:09.780
honest. And remember, these are people on the right, or at least not openly on the left saying
00:46:16.500
this. Now I've already addressed the critics on the show, but the criticism has only gotten louder
00:46:21.740
and more intense since then. And many conservatives in media, or at least again, people in media who do
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not identify as leftists have joined in the dog pile. And what began as a three or four minute
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commentary on Dylan Mulvaney in the middle of an hour long podcast on Tuesday has now turned into
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something of a, of a demarcation, kind of a dividing line. It's been a very revealing moment,
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enlightening. Um, and, uh, and I think for that reason, it's worth revisiting one more time so that
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I can make, or perhaps reiterate or emphasize a few crucial points. In order to frame those points,
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I'm going to play a quick montage of some right of center media figures and podcasters sharing their
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criticisms of my Mulvaney comments. And what you'll hear in these clips doesn't come close to
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representing the harshest rebukes that have been directed at me, but they do capture the basic
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point that all of my critics have been trying to make in one form or another with varying levels of
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outrage. Listen, it wasn't that good. Well, he was just being mean. Well, I was going to say like,
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what, what he is saying is actually genuinely like really mean parts of the whole thing is true.
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Like it's not, it's not like it's untrue. It's not like Del Mulvaney is a male and he will always
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be a male. And no matter how much makeup or face feminization or whatever, you'll always be a
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male. This is like a reality. I have a lot of contempt for these people. Like a lot of content.
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You're talking about like woman face people. You're not talking about Matt. Yeah. Right.
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Well, I sometimes have contempt for Matt, but, but less often than I have contempt for a Dylan
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Mulvaney. I have, I get where he's coming from because like, I have so much contempt for these
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people. And the more that this drags on and the more that they denigrate females, the more that
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anybody denigrates females, the more angry I get. And the more contempt I have for people who
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participate in that in whatever form that comes in. Um, I don't know how, I don't know if there's a
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necessity or a point and just being like mean. Here's my take on it is, uh, and I, you know,
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obviously I'm much so after generally, but like, there's nothing he said that isn't true,
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but it accomplishes nothing. All it does. It's just so mean that like it won't resonate and it
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won't change minds. And I will absolutely say, yeah, it's mean. Yeah. Matt Walsh is being mean.
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I mean, come on, Matt Walsh insults Dylan Mulvaney as eerie, weird, and, and bizarre.
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You can get the point across without saying that. The major divide on this video is whether or not
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the language was a little too harsh towards Dylan. You guys know me, you watch my show,
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you know how I talk about these issues. I am on the side of this being, uh, too harsh. And I know
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there are many who will, who will disagree with me, but, uh, to me, there is no need for vitriol.
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It sort of does look like the sort of thing somebody would say that when they're slightly
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obsessed with somebody. Yeah, exactly. And look, factually, he's not wrong. Yeah. Is he?
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No. Factually? Yeah. I, I don't, look, if your job is to win hearts and minds,
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I don't think this is the best way of doing it. What if it's your job to get clicks online?
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Again, but do clicks lead to changing of opinion? No. I, I don't think he's trying to change anyone's
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opinion. What do you think he's trying to do then? Uh, he's trying to make people on his side feel
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like he's done something cool and said something that they think, I think. Do you think that? Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, you're trying to change Dylan Mulvaney's mind, isn't he? Yeah. I completely agree. I
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completely agree. I just, I just look at that and just go, even people on his own side were like,
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hold on a bit, mate. Okay. So that was a Tim Pool, Jeremy from the YouTube channel,
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The Quartering, Sydney Watson, Amala Ekpanobi from PragerU and the guys from the podcast
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TriggerNometry. Now, one thing I want to be clear about here is that I'm not mad at any of these
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people. There are no hard feelings. We can disagree and all that. It's fine. I could have done without
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the snideness and the lame cheap shot from the TriggerNometry guys at the end, especially in the
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video where they're supposed to be lecturing me about the value of taking the high road. Okay. When you're
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going to do that, you can't start the video by insulting me, but we'll leave that to the side
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for now. Instead, all I'd like to do is address the overarching criticism one last time. First,
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you'll notice the connecting thread. Okay. They all agree that I'm right, that what I said is
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factually correct, but they think that it goes too far by saying it out loud. Mulvaney's the one
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running around like some cartoon of a woman passing out camp pods in the women's room and meeting with
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the president to defend the mutilation of children, but I went too far. Well, see, this is where we
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differ because in the culture war, I don't think it's possible to go too far by speaking truth.
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The truth is the truth. It is what it is. It's the reality. Are we going to defend it or are we
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going to conceal it? Are we going to embrace it? Are we going to hide from it? You can't have it both
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ways. When it comes to gender ideology, the truth is ugly. It is brutal and harsh and disgusting.
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I wish it wasn't that way, but it is. I didn't make it that way. I didn't create the ugliness.
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I'm merely pointing to it and saying, look at this, look at it for what it is.
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But you would rather that I soften the blow a little bit, that I dress the truth up to make
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it prettier, more palatable. You want me to lie to protect the feelings of our enemies.
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And make no mistake, Dylan Mulvaney is our enemy. He is an open, visible, active, and passionate
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advocate for the abuse of children, the war on fundamental truth, and the destruction of human
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society as we know it. You wish to defeat this man in a manner that will not make him feel bad
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about himself, but I'm here to tell you that you are delusional. I'm not going to protect your
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feelings any more than I'll protect his. You are deluding yourself. We got into this position
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in our culture precisely by valuing politeness over truth. We got here by doing exactly as you
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would have me continue doing and what you blame me for not doing. We got here by refusing to speak
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the plain truth and by allowing the anti-truth brigade to emotionally blackmail us into silence.
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They use their own mental fragility as a cudgel to beat us into submission. That's the threat,
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right? And we let them get away with it. Or you do anyway. I won't. Second, you say that I'm not
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going to convince the other side with this kind of rhetoric. But here's what you have to understand.
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This is very important. Convincing the other side is not my primary objective. This is the core
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difference between you and me. I'm not looking to reach an understanding with these people.
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I'm not interested in compromise and dialogue. For those who castrate children and attack the
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very concept of truth and erode the foundations of human civilization, my goal is to defeat and
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humiliate and demoralize them. Okay, I want to destroy everything they stand for.
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The other side is not interested in compromise. They want nothing less than your unconditional
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surrender. We have to meet them with that same energy or we will lose or continue losing.
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And by the way, this is also a good strategy because it rallies people to our side. It emboldens
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the troops. It lets people know that it's okay to speak up and to speak truthfully. You know,
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it's often said that you shouldn't preach to the choir. That's basically what they were saying at
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the end of that clip there. Just pandering. He's pandering to his own audience. This is a message
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that's meant for his own audience. Well, God forbid. God forbid I speak to my own audience on my podcast.
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No. Preaching to the choir is a good thing. We need to do more of it. Because if the choir is
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demoralized and scared and cowering in silence, then you damn well better preach to them.
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What kind of congregation can you hope to have when even the choir is too afraid to sing?
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In our choir, those who agree with us, the many millions of them have been cowed into submission.
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They are nervous. They are timid like you. And then you come along and say that we should ignore
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them and instead tailor our message for a group that hates us and will hate us no matter what we say or do.
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This is not just morally wrong. It's also terrible strategy. It is a dumb strategy.
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In fact, it's exactly what the churches have done for decades. And it's why most of them are dying.
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They water down their preaching to appeal to the crowd, a crowd that isn't interested in the message
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no matter how softly it's peddled. And while at best, because they did that, they bore to death
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and at worst actively alienate the very people who are actually sitting in the pews.
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So that's what the churches do. The people sitting in the pews who come to hear it and then they give
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their preaching, which is designed to appeal to people who are outside the building and not even
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sitting there. But the people that are outside the building, they don't come in to hear any more
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of it. Instead, the people that were actually sitting there get up and leave.
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And at what point do we learn the lessons that our own recent history seeks to teach us?
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Now, you say that we can't win hearts and minds by being nice.
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Because by the way, I'm not saying that we're only preaching to the choir.
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That's not it. We also do want to convince people. But guess what? You don't convince people
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by being nice. You don't. At least not on a cultural level. I mean, where did you get this idea?
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Where did you arrive at this conclusion that the way to win the culture is by being nice?
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Is that how the left won the culture? Have you been paying attention at all?
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They have seized hold of our society, indoctrinating entire generations, and they didn't do it with
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niceness. They didn't win these flies with honey. They did it by being bold and aggressive and by
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making their opposition's arguments seem not only wrong, but utterly horrific and insane.
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That's how they did it. See, it turns out that the tone of your argument is often more important
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than the substance of it. And the tone that actually wins the day on a cultural level
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is the one that is unwavering and which paints the opposition as so repulsive that you shouldn't
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even take their position into consideration. Now, the only difference is that they do that to us
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dishonestly, right? They make the truth seem insane. But what they're peddling actually is
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insane. We have allowed them to make the truth seem crazier than actual craziness.
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Okay? We take their ideas more seriously than they take ours, but their ideas are insane lunacy.
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And we lend them more legitimacy than they will lend to us when we are speaking the truth and they
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are babbling nonsense. You think this is a good strategy? What is the evidence that this strategy
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works? We moderate our tone. We seek to kill them with kindness while they recruit legions by doing
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exactly the opposite. Again, I ask you, when will you learn? Now, finally,
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if you sense anger in the words that I use when discussing this topic, you're right. That is one
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crime I will confess to. I am angry. When I look at what these people have done to our country, the
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devastation they have wrought on a generation of children and adults alike, the bleakness and ugliness
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of their worldview, the moral and intellectual chaos they leave in their wake, yes, I get very angry.
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And when I consider that my own children must inherit this culture, that Dylan Mulvaney and his ilk will
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prey upon my children and try to turn my own sons and daughters into mutilated, mutant, self-loathing,
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hollow, twisted shells just like themselves, well, my anger then turns into more of a boiling rage.
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And I know that I will do whatever is necessary. And I will speak whatever truths are necessary
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to protect my kids from this hellish, God-forsaken madness.
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Now, I have personally heard from many parents, more than I can count, who tell me versions of the
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same horror story. A beautiful and innocent kid one day, seemingly out of nowhere, gets sucked into the
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gender cult and is devoured by it. The child they held as a baby and raised and gave their lives to and
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loved and still love, becomes suddenly unrecognizable. All of their innocence and light and beauty just
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drained out of them, replaced by this self-cannibalizing madness. For a parent to see this happen to a child,
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it is a fate worse than death. I would rather be dead than have that happen to my kids.
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See, the thing that I most despise about Dylan Mulvaney is that he is part of a movement which
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actively seeks to turn my children into Dylan Mulvaney. That's why I'm entitled to my anger
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and to whatever language I use to convey it. I will say whatever I want to say, and I will be
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justified in saying it, because these people are after my kids, and yours, and everyone else's.
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And you're worried that I'm being a little rude?
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Well, you see, when it comes to my children, the children that I cherish more than my own life,
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if you think mean words go too far, then you would be very shocked to hear how far I would
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really go to protect them. Trust me, words are the least of it.
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So yes, my words reflect anger, because I am angry.
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But the problem is not that I'm angry. The problem is that you aren't nearly angry enough.
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And that is why the Be Nice Conservatives are finally, today, canceled.
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