Ep. 1121 - New Poll Shows How Widespread Anti-White Racism Has Become
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The creator of the Dilbert comic strip has been exiled and canceled from polite society for comments he made about a new poll which shows that a large percentage of Americans don t think it's okay to be white. Also, Zelensky scolds Americans who don't want to continue shuffling billions of dollars into his government s pockets. Ron DeSantis lays out exactly how he would drain the swamp, as President Woody Harrelson speaks the truth about Big Pharma on SNL, and John Fetterman s wife goes on a journey of self-discovery while her husband goes to the hospital. Is she the rightful winner of the Worst Wife in America title? We'll discuss all that and much more today on The Matt Welch Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip has been exiled and
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canceled from polite society for comments he made about a new poll which shows that a large
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percentage of Americans don't think it's okay to be white. But I think the poll itself is far more
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important and far more troubling than whatever comments anyone made about it. We'll talk about
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that today. Also, Zelensky scolds Americans who don't want to continue shuffling billions of
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dollars into his government's pockets. Ron DeSantis lays out exactly how he would drain the swamp as
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President Woody Harrelson speaks the truth about COVID and big pharma on SNL. But is it too little
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too late? And John Fetterman's wife goes on a journey of self-discovery while her husband suffers in the
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hospital. Is she the rightful winner of the worst wife in America title? We'll discuss all that and
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Scott Adams, the man behind the Dilbert cartoon, had a successful career as of this past Friday.
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Emphasis on had. His comic strip was published in hundreds of newspapers. Thousands, I think,
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actually. Emphasis on was. Today, his career is effectively over. In the span of two or three
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days, he was dropped by every major newspaper and most of the non-major ones, too. And then finally last
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night, dumped by Andrews McNeil Universal, which is Dilbert's longtime distributor. They also have
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severed ties with Scott Adams. It's one of the fastest and most thorough cancellations we've yet
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seen, rivaled perhaps only by the short span of time when Kanye West lost well over half his net
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worth, I think even more than that. For Scott Adams, the cancellation was prompted by comments that he
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made on his YouTube live stream. And this was a live stream that was published, I think, on Wednesday,
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and then for whatever reason, took a couple of days before people noticed it. And then they noticed it,
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and he was canceled. On this live stream, he advised that white people should, quote,
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get the hell away from black people. He warned that, quote, there's no fixing this and that,
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quote, white citizens can no longer help, quote, black citizens. Now, if you're curious about the
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this he's referring to, what exactly we can't fix, according to Adams, the Daily Wire covers that in
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its report. Quote, in a Real Coffee with Scott Adams video posted on Wednesday, Adams discussed a
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Rasmussen poll that nearly half of black Americans were unable to agree with the phrase, it's okay to
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be white. Adams' video, in which he suggested that poll results indicate that blacks are a, quote,
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hate group went viral. Adams in the video joked that he's been identifying as black for some time,
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but must have accidentally joined a hate group based on a recent Rasmussen poll. The poll,
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which surveyed 1,000 people, showed that 53% of black people agreed with the statement,
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it's okay to be white, leaving 47% unable to say they agree. Now, call me a contrarian. I've been
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told, I've been called worse than that. And, but it would seem to me that the headline of this story
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is not what the Dilbert guy said on some YouTube video, given that he's just one guy expressing a
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viewpoint that is clearly rejected by every powerful institution in our society, but rather,
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the story is the survey, which would seem to indicate widespread racial animosity in the
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American population. So when I heard this, that's the first thing that I noticed. I said, well,
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wait a second, what about this survey? The mainstream media would have us believe that the roundly
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rejected and condemned opinion of one man is a greater concern and a much more urgent national
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crisis than the racist viewpoints revealed in the poll that he was reacting to.
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But I would argue that we should probably take some time. I mean, once everyone has had their
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turn jumping on the Scott Adams dog pile, and I think by now everyone has had their turn because
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that's where the cancellation goes. Like one, one guy says something that lots of people don't like.
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And then, uh, and then everyone jumps on it. It's like, even after three or four days and 10 million
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people have already jumped on the dog pile and said, I too disagree with this statement. I think
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it's horrible. Still, you got someone else has to come along and say, I also disagree.
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Well, now that we've done that, um, can we talk about this survey and what it purports to reveal?
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In fact, I think the time to talk about it is probably right now. So let's do that.
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Looking at that Rasmussen poll again, it asks respondents whether they agree or disagree with
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the statement, it's okay to be white. Now among black respondents, a slim majority, which is 53%,
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strongly or somewhat agree that it's okay to be white, but 26% strongly or somewhat disagree,
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while 21% aren't sure. That leaves, as we said, 47% who cannot definitively say that it's okay to
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be white, which is to say they cannot agree that white people should exist because that would be
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the implication. If it's not okay to be a member of a certain race, then what you're saying is that
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it's not okay that that race exists. In fact, even among white people, only 67% would strongly agree
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that it's okay for them to be the race that they are. Another 14% somewhat agree. Is it okay to be
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what you are? Maybe sort of leaving 20% who cannot say that they agree at all, that it's okay for them
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to be the race that they are. Now, if these numbers are accurate, they reveal a truly dangerous level of
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hatred and animosity against whites and, and, and even shared by a large percentage of whites against
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themselves as well. Now, you could argue that this poll only surveyed a thousand people, doesn't
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represent a true and accurate cross-section of the American people. Therefore, you could also argue
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that Rasmussen is a conservative firm. I've heard this on the left. It's a right-wing firm. And so
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they conducted the survey in a way that would skew the results in their ideological favor. Now, on that
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second point, if you're right, that they were skewing the results to get, you know, to get the results
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that they favor, it only makes the results more concerning. After all, Rasmussen reported
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these results triumphantly as an indication that most Americans reject woke racial indoctrination.
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So if they were trying to prove anything with the survey, they were trying to prove
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that anti-white racism is not widespread, as that would show that normal Americans reject wokeism.
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Their own headline about the poll results, that's what it declares. Americans reject woke racial
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indoctrination. And yet, even in that effort, they inadvertently showed the opposite.
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The sample size is small, though. You know, that I would grant. But the whole science of polling is
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to ascertain general sentiments by quantifying the opinions of a small group. Now, your faith in that
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science or pseudoscience may be rather limited. I mean, I know that mine is.
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Though I can't help but notice that many people who regularly tout poll results are, when it comes
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to this particular poll, eager to declare that the results must be wrong. I'm willing to listen to an
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argument that the results are wrong, because I'm naturally skeptical of all polls. But that would
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require contrary evidence, right? Evidence that anti-white beliefs are not widespread. But I haven't seen
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any skeptics provide such evidence. So you could say that, well, no, there's no way that that many
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black people feel that way about white people, or even that that many white people feel that way
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about themselves. There's no way that's true. Okay, well, why do you think it's not true?
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Based on what? You're assuming that it's not true. Based on what do you assume that?
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Indeed, the evidence seems to go the other way. What makes the results especially disturbing is that
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they are not a shock, that they don't seem to be an aberration. Instead, they comport with much of what we see
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see in society, including from other polls. Just recently, the Washington Post conducted their own
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survey, finding that 70% of black Americans believe that half of all whites are white supremacists.
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Over 49% of, or rather over 40% of black respondents claim that all or most whites are
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white supremacists. In fact, across two different polls, the number of black Americans who believe
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that it's not okay to be white, and that most white people are white supremacists, is almost
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identical. They're off by a few percentage points. That's either an incredible coincidence
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or an indication of something very troubling. We don't need polls. You can see the anti-white
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sentiment everywhere in plain sight. Take this infamous video, which happened to go viral
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this week as well, along with the Scott Adams stuff, where anti-white racism is casually paraded
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What exactly are white people superior at? They're real good at violence. Violence.
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Genocide. It's like stealing people's lives just because they feel like it. If you are white,
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and you know this is happening, and you say nothing, then you're a killer too.
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What exactly are white people superior at? Insecurity. Pretending. Fear. Being fearful of nothing.
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Being ignorant. Blame. Letting their egos control their every move. Superior at being
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. What exactly are white people superior at? Oppression. Gaslighting. Lack of empathy.
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Intellectualizing oppression. Did I say oppression? What exactly are white people superior at?
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Taking what's not there. Taking. Taking our ideas. Copycatting. Gentrification.
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Appropriating things that do not belong to them. Taking over other people's cultures. And making
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you believe that they invented it. Maybe they're thinking of it as repurposing. It's like recycle
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and repurpose. As my grandma was saying, them white folk, they'll take it if you don't copyright it.
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They are very good at destruction of land, destruction of people, destruction of humanness.
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Republican, whether you're Democrat, whether you're conservative, like white people are
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really good at upholding white supremacy. How about claiming that, you know, they are
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actually a whole separate race, when actually white DNA comes from the black female?
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So what exactly are white people superior at? Honey, lying, stealing and cheating.
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Manipulation. Withholding information. Lying. Telling lies.
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Now the point is not just what the bigots in the video said. It's that the video exists in the first
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place. You would never see a mainstream outlet, or even a non-mainstream outlet, produce and publish
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a video with the racist swapped. And that is so obvious that it's become a truism. The racial double
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standard is so apparent that even people who oppose the double standard get sick of hearing others
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point it out. Because, you know, like we know it. But the double standard is so clear to everyone
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is yet more evidence to support the results of the poll. The reaction to Scott Adams proves it too.
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Now we all know that if Scott had darker skin and had instead been advising blacks to get the hell
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away from whites, he would not have lost a single newspaper. If anything, he would have gained a few
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more. We know for a fact, this is not, this is not me assuming this. We know for a fact that it's true
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because race hustlers on the other side regularly declare that black people are not safe around white
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people. And this is something that's said all the time, despite the fact that there is zero evidence
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to support that. But this is something that's always said. And none of the people who say that
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ever suffer the slightest consequence for saying so. Why? Well, because the most powerful forces in our
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society have been working for years to get exactly the results that we see in that Rasmussen poll.
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That's perhaps the best evidence that the poll is tragically accurate because it simply reveals the
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racial animosity and anti-white hostility that our culture has been dead set on instilling in black
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and white people alike. This doesn't emerge from a vacuum. Kids today are raised in schools and they
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consume media and they watch films and shows that all carry the explicit message that white people are
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history's great villains, that white people are inherently racist, that whiteness is a scourge,
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a disease. In fact, a psychoanalyst named Donald Moss published a paper a couple of years ago
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that argued explicitly that. Here's the first line of the abstract in this paper.
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Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has, a malignant parasitic-like condition
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to which white people have a particular susceptibility. The last line laments that despite their best
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efforts, they've yet to come up with, quote, a permanent cure for whiteness. Those are the exact
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words. Permanent cure. If that sounds genocidal, it's because it is. Just like the statement,
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it's not okay to be white, reveals genocidal hatred as there is only one cure for a race that
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it's not okay to be. Right? If it's not okay to be a member of a certain race, well, how do you cure
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that? What do you do about that? This is what's brewing. One racial group has been tagged as the
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enemy, the cancer, the cause of all our social ills. Far from the first time in history that a racial
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group has been scapegoated in this way. And so we know from history where it leads. And I think perhaps
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this is what we should really be talking about. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Can't, we can't, you can't try to take that away from me. And so we're, we're back, ladies and
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gentlemen. Um, well, that's the good news, but we go over to some sad news today. Uh, there's also,
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it's a, it's a, it's a great day. It's a great day of celebration because it's a flannel, you know,
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the flannel has been restored. Also a sad day with some very pitiful news that, uh, the feds,
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they had planned a special, uh, occasion over the weekend, special, a special day over the
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weekend and nobody came. You know, it's kind of the equivalent of having a birthday party at a
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Chuck E. Cheese for a child and none of his classmates that you invited show up. That's
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basically what happened to the feds, uh, to the FBI. And I, I feel very bad for them.
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It was supposed to be called the day of hate, right? So last week, late last week, we started
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hearing about, and I say we started hearing, I mean, it's this, this started popping up on social
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media and the media started talking about this thing called the national day of hate,
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where an alleged quote unquote far right groups were going to march or do something. It was never
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quite clear what they were going to do, but there was going to be some widespread national day where
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lots of far right groups are going to be out in the streets, um, showing their hatred for minorities,
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especially Jewish people, but, but not just them. This is going to be a, it's a day of hate for just
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like expressing your hatred. Um, and it was supposedly being organized by far right groups
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and, uh, neo-Nazis organizing and that's what they said. Except that of course, any thinking
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person could smell the psyop from a thousand miles away. Like it's, it's, it's not even subtle at this
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point. Yet the media was running with this. Um, even though, you know, I am, I'm told a member of the
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far right and, uh, I'm, I've even been told many times that I'm a Nazi. So I don't, that's not how
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I see myself. I didn't, I never met, but that's what people tell me. And yet I never heard about
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this day of hate. I had, I had to hear, I had to hear about it from the media because nobody on the
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right was talking about it or knew about it because it was invented by the media and probably by the
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feds. This story from, uh, from the Boston ABC affiliate is representative. This is what they were
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pushing. White supremacist groups are trying to organize a national day of hate to coincide with
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the Jewish Sabbath this weekend, according to the Anti-Defamation League. This particular effort
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originated with a small neo-Nazi group based in Eastern Iowa, the ADL said. While ADL is not aware
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of any specific threats, we know that these groups are hoping for increased anti-Semitic flyer
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distributions, protests, and graffiti. In Massachusetts, several police departments said they were aware of
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the reports, but had no information about anything planned for the area. Right now, there's no specific
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threats that are known. We don't have intelligence that leads us to believe there's any particular
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targets, uh, but they said they're being vigilant and they're aware. And so there's a lot of reports
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like this, that the far right, they're going to have a day of hate. Nobody knows who's doing it or
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what it's going to be, but it's, it's happening. Then the big day of hate came and, uh, it was,
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you know, and it was trending on Twitter and all that. Um, but then the day comes and nobody shows up.
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Nothing happens because it never existed in the first place.
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But how's the media going to spin that? Well, they're going to say, well, this only proves
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that, uh, that we scared the anti-hate brigade away. They were going to show up,
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but we put a stop to it. So here's the times of Israel. This is what they said.
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No major anti-Semitic incidents were immediately reported in the United States on Saturday,
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despite widespread alert over a national day of hate that had been planned by white supremacist and
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neo-Nazi groups. Instead, officials issued statements of solidarity and demonstrations
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of unity, which were held in Washington, DC and elsewhere, while Jewish communities defied the
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threats by sticking to their normal, uh, Shabbat activities. Law enforcement and Jewish groups
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had urged vigilance ahead of Saturday after the white supremacists called for followers to
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distribute anti-Semitic messaging with banners, stickers, flyers, and graffiti. Um, a statement
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that's attributed to the hate groups, although we're still not told who the hate groups are,
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Take a stand and expose the international click of parasitic vermin that infest our nation.
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Make your voices heard loud and clear that the one true enemy of the American people is the Jew.
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This is what we're told a statement attributed to the hate groups, although they don't tell us who
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the hate groups are. Then the day comes and nothing happens. You know, there's a lot of reasons why,
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you know, we could know going into this, this is basically an invention of the media. Now,
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when the media invents something, sometimes there's a, there's a shred of truth to it. Sometimes there
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isn't. So is it possible that someone somewhere posted something on some obscure chat room or,
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or message board, and then that's what they're basing this on? That's possible. Would that justify,
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uh, you know, the, the, the extrapolation that there's some sort of national, uh, incident that's
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about to occur? Of course not. Better luck next time, feds. Okay. At a press conference, uh,
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a couple of days ago, President Zelensky of Ukraine was asked about Americans who don't want to keep
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shipping money to, uh, to his country. There are some Americans, if you can believe it, that after a
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year of this, some Americans, because they're all stooges of Putin, um, of which apparently I am a
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stooge of Putin, because I agree with them that, no, we don't want to continue shipping money and
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weapons or anything else to Ukraine. I don't think we ever should have started. Zelensky has
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some thoughts about those Americans like myself and probably like you. This is what he says.
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What would your message be on the anniversary to those Americans? Thank you.
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I would like to thank the American people. I would like to thank all of the American people
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that are supporting Ukraine, the Congress, the president, the TV, uh, channels, the journalists,
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and everyone that has been supporting us. And that, uh, percentage of, uh, Americans, as, uh,
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you've mentioned, is increasing. Uh, I can tell them only one thing. If they do not change their opinion,
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if they do not understand us, if they do not support Ukraine, they will lose NATO, they will lose,
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um, the clout of the United States, they will lose the leadership position that they are joining the
00:22:53.920
world, uh, that they are joined for a very fair reason. And they will lose the support of the country
00:23:00.660
with 40 millions of population, with millions of children. Are American children any different
00:23:07.440
than ours? Don't Americans enjoy the same things as we do? I don't think we're that different.
00:23:18.220
Do we enjoy the same things as you do? I mean, maybe. We might have similar hobbies to lots of
00:23:26.480
people all over the globe. Are we supposed to be shipping them all money because of that? I mean,
00:23:30.000
we do ship almost all of the money, but is that a good enough reason? This is really, this, this is
00:23:36.320
everything you need to know from, uh, inadvertently. He has told, told you everything you need to know.
00:23:41.680
Uh, Zelensky has because remember what he was asked is just ask, well, what about Americans?
00:23:47.140
Don't want to, they don't want to support Ukraine anymore. They don't want to keep sending money and
00:23:49.900
all the rest of it. If there was an argument to be made, even a, even a, uh, unlikely argument,
00:23:58.420
but if there were implausible though, it may be, if there was an argument to be made that doing
00:24:03.060
this, sending the money to Ukraine is in the best national security interests of America, that doing
00:24:10.500
it would actually benefit the American people in a direct way that you need to do it because if you
00:24:15.220
don't do it, then America will be, uh, at risk. Maybe because Putin will, you know, he'll take over
00:24:20.500
Ukraine, then he'll keep marching. He'll take over all of Europe and then launch it. You know,
00:24:23.700
if there was any argument to be made for that, I wouldn't buy it, but if there was,
00:24:29.520
then he, then that would have been the time to make it. He doesn't even pretend. You notice that
00:24:32.760
he's not even pretending that it's in the direct personal interest of the American people to
00:24:39.740
support Ukraine. He's not even pretending that it will make us safer to support Ukraine.
00:24:47.880
Instead he says, well, we like a lot of the same things. We all, we all love to, you know,
00:24:51.840
walks on the beach. We'd like to go for, we all love to walk through a meadows on a,
00:24:56.320
on a lazy Saturday afternoon. You know, uh, you know, he gives us that. And then he also says,
00:25:01.840
um, that we'll lose the clout. We'll use our, we'll lose our national clout.
00:25:09.540
So, so that, that's what we have to spend billions of dollars on is for, for clout.
00:25:14.440
How do you measure the clout of the globe exactly? And why should I care? Why should I care if America
00:25:22.600
has clout, especially if this is how you get it? So the way that we get clout nation internationally
00:25:29.660
is by paying for it, by buying it. That's all he's got. Like, I, I can't conceive. How could any,
00:25:38.440
how could any, anybody with a brain at this point still support sending money to Ukraine? You just
00:25:43.560
heard President Zelensky, he gave his best sales pitch and he's not even pretending that it's going
00:25:49.660
to make us safer, that it's best for our own wellbeing. It's all about him. His real argument
00:25:54.880
is, well, you should give us money because we really want it. And I love the threat also that
00:26:00.320
he says that if we don't, we'll lose the support of the Ukraine people, Ukrainian people. So when did
00:26:05.440
we ever have your support? What do you mean? We'll lose your support. When, what have you ever done for
00:26:08.940
us, Zelensky? What has Ukraine ever done for United States? One thing? Is it, have they done one thing?
00:26:13.560
Okay. Okay. Because I can name billions of things we've done for Ukraine. What have they ever done
00:26:18.120
for us? All of these countries that we're constantly shipping money to it. What are they doing for us?
00:26:23.280
What are they doing to show their support for us? Nothing. You'll lose the support of Ukraine.
00:26:29.580
Number one, don't care. Number two, we never had it. This is a one-way relationship. It always is.
00:26:37.000
All right. Ron DeSantis was interviewed by Mark Levin, um, over the weekend. And I want you to listen to
00:26:43.360
very often interviews with politicians are not very interesting, but there was one part that I want
00:26:50.180
you to hear because this is, uh, this is important. I think they wanted to exercise power over other
00:26:55.420
people. So if you look at like all these entrenched bureaucrats, CDC, NIH, FDA, they need to be cleaned
00:27:03.020
out because they totally failed. Uh, and they're not, uh, advocating for the best interests of the people
00:27:08.860
of this country. Uh, it's been a total disaster. Yeah. It's hard to remove them, you know,
00:27:14.780
with the civil service rules and then the union rules and all the rest. And, uh, well, there was
00:27:20.240
one, uh, you know, there was a proposal, uh, that I think a lot of us wanted to see under the prior
00:27:25.140
administration to do a schedule F. So anybody that has any policy role is classified as a schedule F
00:27:33.040
and they can be removed, uh, by the president that the left would litigate that. But I honestly
00:27:38.780
think we would win on that in the Supreme court. And I also think it's one thing to have some type
00:27:43.520
of job rules for the bowels of the bureaucracy, like your supervisor, what they can do. President
00:27:49.600
of the United States has article two power who controls the executive branch. Is it the elected
00:27:55.240
president or is it some bureaucrat in the bowels of the bureaucracy that can't be fired? And so I think
00:28:02.360
push needs to come to shove on this, but whoever gets a majority of the electoral college is, has
00:28:08.240
the right to impose their agenda through the executive branch. And what they did with president
00:28:14.560
Trump was basically try to nullify the election through not only bureaucratic intransigence, but
00:28:21.080
malfeasance with the collusion hoax and some of those things. And so reconstitutionalizing
00:28:26.300
government starts with reconstitutionalizing the executive branch under article two.
00:28:31.160
Okay. So, uh, a lot of that might sound kind of wonky, but it is, uh, it is important. And
00:28:37.260
listen, if you want to know why I would take DeSantis over Trump in a primary,
00:28:42.900
of course I would support either one in general, if you want to know why I would take DeSantis or
00:28:48.640
Trump over Trump in the primary, it, it really, there are other reasons that we've talked about,
00:28:52.280
but really this is the only reason you need. Um, it is the desire to actually clean out all of
00:28:58.620
these bureaucrats, all of these entrenched bureaucrats to clean them out of the system,
00:29:04.120
right? You need like, uh, it's, it's like cleaning out your, you need some, it's like,
00:29:07.460
it's a, how do you get some Drano to clear all this gunk out of the, out of the pipe stream.
00:29:12.440
And that's what he wants to do. It not only the desire to do it, but the knowledge of how to do it.
00:29:17.940
And he's, this is what he's done in the Florida state government. He's done exactly this. Now it's
00:29:23.020
harder to do on a national level, but we know that he knows how to do it because he's done it.
00:29:27.320
And, um, and also from giving explanations like that, the desire and willingness and follow through
00:29:32.780
to actually use the powers of the executive branch, knowing how to use those powers and being
00:29:38.860
interested in using them to get rid of many of these corrupt, uh, swamp things. Trump, listen,
00:29:44.800
Trump never did that. He, he, he just never did. He was elected to drain the swamp. He never did
00:29:50.160
anything to actually drain it or very little, I should say, very little was done. And whatever
00:29:55.220
he did do was, was, was, was, was ungun within about 12 hours of him leaving office. So that's
00:30:02.920
what you get from DeSantis. I mean, can you imagine, to be honest, can you imagine Trump calmly explaining
00:30:09.560
as DeSantis just did, how we would actually get rid of these people? Have you ever heard him?
00:30:16.940
Um, that we know we get the, you know, we know we get the platitudes and we get the,
00:30:20.880
the, the bumper sticker slogans and we get the rally speeches and all that and the talking points.
00:30:25.700
And of course you get that from any politician and that stuff is important too. But what about
00:30:29.980
sitting down and saying, listen, this is how I'm going to go about doing this and being able to
00:30:34.300
explain it. Um, you don't get that from Trump very often. You do get it from DeSantis.
00:30:40.220
All right. I guess we'll move to this. Uh, Woody Harrelson and SNL are getting some props this
00:30:52.680
week, uh, for really this moment from Harrelson's monologue, um, while he was hosting the show on
00:30:58.960
Saturday. Here it is. Okay. So the movie goes like this. The biggest drug cartels in the world
00:31:06.400
get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the
00:31:12.720
world to stay locked in their homes. And people can only come out if they take the cartels drugs
00:31:19.100
and keep taking them over and over. I threw the script away. I mean, who is going to believe that
00:31:26.280
crazy idea? Okay. It's a good, a good moment on the, and if you watch the rest of the clip,
00:31:32.400
there's a few more seconds there, but, uh, you really need the rest of it because then you,
00:31:36.580
you'll hear the reaction from the crowd, which is mostly, it's a little bit of awkward laughter
00:31:41.380
and then silence because they are thinking like, we're not supposed to hear this kind of,
00:31:45.780
this is not what we're supposed to hear on SNL. Okay. And this is from a Hollywood celebrity.
00:31:49.040
He's not supposed to be saying stuff like this and they don't know how to react to it. Um,
00:31:52.620
but Woody Harrelson is getting a lot of credit for that, for saying this. And, and again,
00:31:57.760
I'm, I'm glad that he said it. I'm glad that he said it in the forum where he said it. It's
00:32:03.220
important, but I also have to say that I, I just, I can't give anyone credit for being this late to
00:32:14.440
the party. Now, maybe I'm wrong. I haven't, I haven't tracked Woody Harrelson and his viewpoints
00:32:20.420
very closely or at all. So maybe he came out back in, you know, April of 2020 or May of 2020,
00:32:28.960
or even sometime in 2021 and said this and talked about the, you know, refer to the pharmaceutical
00:32:36.400
companies as a drug cartel. They were forced to be, you know, maybe he, maybe he was saying this
00:32:40.120
all along. Um, I don't remember ever hearing him say that. So if he did, then, then I'll give him
00:32:49.900
credit for that. But if he didn't, and this is yet another example of somebody years later saying
00:32:58.260
what many of us have been saying for years up until now, and even SNL, you know, I don't know
00:33:05.420
if he got clearance for that line before he went up there. Maybe he was going off script a little bit.
00:33:10.220
I don't know, but it wouldn't, it wouldn't surprise me if they, if they knew the writers knew that he was
00:33:14.360
going to say that, if that was written on a teleprompter and he, and it was already known because SNL
00:33:19.100
has also in the last few months, you know, they've done a few bits, a few skits where they're kind of
00:33:24.420
making similar sorts of points, but it is so late. And it's just, yeah, if you're right, if you're,
00:33:34.240
if you say something that is correct now, when it's easy and popular to say it, then you're still
00:33:40.440
correct. I'm not going to act like it's not correct. I'll say, well, good. That's true. I'll agree with
00:33:44.020
it. But that's exactly the point. It's once it's easy and popular to say, and there's no real risk
00:33:51.900
in saying it that I, then the credit for saying it is out the window. And there are so many examples
00:33:58.460
of this, not just with COVID, but you've got a lot of these kind of, I don't know, I guess we'd call
00:34:05.320
them old school. I even hesitate to call them old school liberals because they're only old school
00:34:09.060
liberals in comparison to the leftists of, you know, of the blue hair, Tik TOK leftists. So old
00:34:15.620
school in that sense, there are plenty of examples of these old school quote unquote liberals,
00:34:20.120
you know, making points like this. I mean, Bill Maher's another one, whether it's on this,
00:34:25.580
on some of the gender stuff, the same thing, you get a little bit of sanity and conservatives are
00:34:30.080
very excited by that and they want to embrace these people. But it's like, yeah, I mean, you're
00:34:34.620
saying these, you can say this now. Okay. And I'm not going to hold it against it. I'm not,
00:34:40.620
this is not even like if, if somebody was wrong about COVID two and a half, three years ago,
00:34:46.360
but has long since corrected themselves, you know, that's one thing, but to wait this long
00:34:54.640
to make these kinds of points and observations, yeah, there's, there's, you risk nothing at this
00:35:03.560
point. Speaking of late to the party, the New York Times also had this report, new intelligence has
00:35:09.700
prompted the energy department to conclude that an accidental, accidental laboratory leak in China
00:35:14.760
most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic. Though U.S. spy agencies remain divided over the origins of
00:35:20.060
the virus, American officials said on Sunday. The conclusion was a change from the department's
00:35:24.340
earlier position that it was undecided on how the virus emerged. Some officials briefed on the
00:35:29.900
intelligence so that it was relatively weak and that the energy department's conclusions was made
00:35:33.960
with low confidence, suggesting that it's a level of certainty was not high. While the department
00:35:39.040
shared the information with other agencies, none of them changed their conclusions. Officials said
00:35:43.480
officials would not disclose what the intelligence was, but many of the energy department's insights
00:35:47.560
come from its network of national laboratories, some of which conduct biological research rather than
00:35:52.580
more traditional forms of intelligence like spy networks or communications intercepts. Intelligence
00:35:57.340
officials believe the scrutiny of the pandemic's beginnings could be important to improving global
00:36:02.220
response to future health crises. Though they cautioned that finding an answer about the source of the
00:36:06.720
virus may be difficult or even impossible given Chinese opposition to further research.
00:36:12.140
Another one very late to the party. Now, yeah, they, they've, they have, uh,
00:36:15.140
couched this clarify. They've made very sure in all the media reports about this, they've made very
00:36:21.920
sure to include that. Well, it's a low level of confidence. Yeah. The energy department is saying
00:36:25.460
this, but, uh, we don't, we still don't know exactly. No, we know. And this is another one that we knew
00:36:32.100
essentially from the beginning. It's very clear from the beginning. Um, there was at least enough
00:36:40.580
evidence at the very beginning, like just starting with the fact that, oh, this virus originated in
00:36:47.080
Wuhan and there happens to be this Wuhan lab where they're in the business of making these crazy
00:36:53.820
viruses. And so it's of all the places where a virus could emerge, the fact that it emerges right
00:37:00.820
there is not proof in and of itself. Coincidences do happen, but very strong indication that there is a
00:37:09.280
relationship there. And as more and more information came out, it was, uh, there was enough reason from
00:37:15.720
the very beginning to strongly suspect that this came from a lab. And then shortly thereafter, there
00:37:23.860
was enough reason to be quite sure of it as, as more and more evidence came out. But here we are
00:37:30.320
three years later and they're saying, well, yeah, it looks like that could be the game.
00:37:34.060
Even if we, even if we buy the low level of confidence thing, again, it's not low level
00:37:41.800
of confidence, high level of confidence. But if you buy that, well, the point is that now you've got
00:37:49.680
the Biden administration saying that this is a, a very plausible explanation at the very least.
00:37:57.240
When two or three years ago, they were not only saying the explanation was implausible,
00:38:03.540
they were actually saying that it's bigoted to even talk about it, to simply discuss the
00:38:08.920
possibility that it might have come from a lab in China is bigoted and racist. They said,
00:38:15.000
this is a yet another example of where we're not going to give any credit to anyone, whether it's the
00:38:20.380
New York times, certainly not the Biden administration saying three years later, maybe, maybe you're right
00:38:24.640
about that. Because they won't even, they won't even dignify it, dignify us by, by phrasing it that
00:38:31.060
way. They won't even say, well, maybe you were right. Instead, they're going to pretend that all
00:38:36.560
the people that were making this point for years and that they shouted down, they're going to pretend
00:38:39.820
that we never existed. We never said any of that. Here's how the Hill, by the way, the website,
00:38:45.340
the Hill is translating all this. This is how they're reporting on it. Republicans are seizing on a new
00:38:50.620
energy department conclusion, pointing to a lab leak as causing the COVID-19 outbreak to call for
00:38:55.100
swift action against the Chinese government. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times reported Sunday
00:38:59.140
that the energy department had determined with low confidence that the virus was leaked from a lab,
00:39:03.480
though it's unclear what new intelligence that was based on. So as always, the story for, you know,
00:39:11.060
you start with the story, which is the actual story that the virus came from a lab. We always knew that.
00:39:15.820
But then very quickly, the story for the media becomes not the story itself, but the way people
00:39:23.740
on the right are reacting to the story. Republicans seize on the information. Well, no, we're not
00:39:31.040
seizing on it. We've been seizing on it from the very beginning. If by seizing, you mean like pointing
00:39:37.460
to it and saying, hey, look at this fact, everyone. All right, one other thing before we go to the
00:39:42.180
comment section, this is some more big news. New York Times has this. I'm just going to read from
00:39:48.400
it. Warm, moist air and colder dry air collided on Wednesday to create the conditions necessary for
00:39:54.960
hail, damaging winds and tornadoes across the southern plains and into the southeast. And it
00:39:58.920
was the job of an elite meteorology group called the Storm Prediction Center to give people advance
00:40:03.100
notice. Elizabeth Lightman, who has worked at the Norman, Oklahoma Center since 2010, it would be the day
00:40:09.820
she would issue her first thunderstorm watch. She would also become the first woman ever to do so
00:40:15.140
in the 70-year history of the center and its previous iterations, according to the center officials.
00:40:20.260
Ms. Lightman is one of only two women among the 22 full-time forecasters at the Storm Prediction
00:40:24.460
Center. As far as I know, there's been five of us, Ms. Lightman said, referring to female
00:40:28.160
forecasters who've worked there before. None of her predecessors, though, reached the role of lead
00:40:33.160
forecaster. On Wednesday, her first day training to become a lead forecaster, she did all the
00:40:37.620
intricate work while someone supervised her every move. And then she issued the storm watch.
00:40:45.100
So in summary, if you're a little confused, a woman, maybe you're confused because you're
00:40:50.760
wondering where the story actually is, but that's the story. A woman issued a thunderstorm watch for
00:40:55.840
the first time in history. Pretty big stuff. And this is what we're down to now. These are the
00:41:02.300
glass ceilings that we're left with. They're not even glass coffee tables or something. They're not
00:41:08.720
even ceilings. This is how desperate they are to continue pretending that women are overcoming a
00:41:14.540
sexist, patriarchal society. This is how specific things have to get. First woman at the center in
00:41:24.060
Oklahoma to issue a thunderstorm watch. Next week, they're going to be writing an article about the
00:41:29.540
first woman to declare that the store is closing over the intercom on a Tuesday night at the Walmart
00:41:36.560
in Fort Lauderdale. First woman to do that. That's how specific they need to get. How about the first
00:41:42.300
woman to walk down the street in green pants while yodeling in Latin? First woman to do that. Another
00:41:52.020
glass ceiling broken. Very inspiring story for all of us. Let's get to the comment section.
00:42:07.260
Ariana Sullivan says, I judge harshly people who defend criminals actions based on mental illness
00:42:13.620
and or past trauma. For every murderer that has fetal alcohol syndrome, there are at least tens of
00:42:18.560
thousands, if not millions of others who have fetal alcohol syndrome and don't kill. It's not that
00:42:23.220
mentally ill people commit crimes. It's that criminals often have mental illness and there's
00:42:27.200
a huge difference. Mentally ill does not equal morally corrupt. Well, you're right. And this is
00:42:32.600
even more so the case when you consider the fact that according to psychologists and psychiatrists these
00:42:38.220
days, everybody has a mental illness. There's a mental illness for everybody. You either have been
00:42:44.260
diagnosed with a mental illness or you haven't been diagnosed yet because you haven't gone to seek a
00:42:48.860
diagnosis. But anyone who wants one can get one. That's the, you know, it's like the Oprah giving
00:42:54.300
out cards. Like you get a mental illness, you get a mental illness. So everyone gets one. So if we start
00:42:58.520
excusing bad behavior and especially violent crime on the basis of mental illness, then you very rapidly
00:43:06.920
end up in a society where everybody is excused. You know, you can't condemn anything because we all have
00:43:13.440
mental illnesses to fall back on. That's why I'm always, I'm just, I'm very skeptical of using
00:43:21.660
mental illness as an excuse at all. The insanity defense. Very skeptical. I've always been very
00:43:27.820
skeptical of that because the only thing I need to know, right? You did something terrible. You hurt
00:43:33.720
somebody and killed someone. Only thing I need to know, I need to know two things. Did you know that
00:43:39.520
what you were doing was wrong? And, um, did you do it on purpose? Now, if the answer is no to both
00:43:48.560
of those things, you didn't know it was wrong and, or you didn't, you didn't do it on purpose.
00:43:53.300
If you killed someone, you still have to face consequences for that. There's still going to be
00:43:56.600
a very harsh punishment, even if you didn't do it on purpose, even if you didn't know what you were
00:43:59.400
doing. But for the vast majority of murderers, the answer is going to be yes to both of those things.
00:44:05.200
Okay. No matter what they went through as a child, as a child, no matter what their childhood trauma
00:44:09.880
was, uh, they were abused, whatever fetal alcohol syndrome. They've been diagnosed with 50 different
00:44:14.880
mental illnesses. Uh, all that stuff could be the case, drug addicts, everything else. But
00:44:20.060
in almost every case, you know, where a crime was committed on purpose, they, they knew that what
00:44:27.320
they were doing was wrong. And you know, that too, because there's almost always an attempt to
00:44:33.160
hide the crime or to, you know, um, to get away with it. And somehow, somehow, even if the attempt is,
00:44:40.040
is clumsy and incompetent, there's still the attempt. Let's see. Addy says, thank you, Matt,
00:44:47.820
for speaking about the real issues of someone who is lactose intolerant, literally break out in hives
00:44:52.340
and get sick. Every time I have, I have dairy, I definitely agree that almond, soy, coconut,
00:44:56.840
et cetera, milk is in fact, not milk. Almond juice, as I like to call it, is the biggest liar of them
00:45:01.600
all. It's just nasty, tan flavored water that separates into half liquid, half solid. If it's
00:45:07.120
not violently shaken every two seconds, speak your truth. It needs to be said, SPG4L.
00:45:12.820
Well, it's good to know that there are some in the, uh, lactose intolerant community
00:45:17.020
that understand this, this lie and this veil that's being pulled over their eyes. Look,
00:45:22.700
I can't imagine actually being lactose intolerant to me that, that, that is, uh, that is a, that
00:45:28.680
would be a, an unthinkable curse. Um, because 98% of the stuff that I eat is, you know, is dairy or
00:45:38.060
has dairy in it. Just starting with the fact that everything should have cheese on it. I don't care
00:45:42.220
what it is. I don't care if it's a bowl of Froot Loops, like everything tastes better with cheese.
00:45:45.260
So maybe not Froot Loops, but most things. Um, so that would be an incredible curse. But if it,
00:45:51.960
if you are cursed that way, then I think that's your cross that you're bearing. Don't lie to yourself
00:45:56.820
by pretending that you can still partake in the miracle of dairy when you can't. So I commend you
00:46:03.840
for your, uh, courage in that regard. Um, and finally, Count Snacula says, despite the fact I'm
00:46:13.180
conservative, I'm not in favor of the death penalty. Our Lord has made his will clear.
00:46:17.600
We are not to kill. Uh, furthermore, vengeance is his. On a secular level, I'm not going to say,
00:46:22.900
I'm not going to ask anyone to carry out an execution that he may one day come to regret.
00:46:27.500
Um, not going to ask anyone to do that. We'll build more prisons. Sorry.
00:46:32.540
Best wishes for Ron DeSantis and his administrative reign. Well,
00:46:36.300
actually what you brought up about, um, the, the, the death penalty and the fact that someone has
00:46:42.780
to actually carry it out and the incredible psychological burden of having to actually
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carry out the executions of all the arguments against the death penalty. I've always found
00:46:51.100
that to be the most compelling. And that that's the one that's, that is raised the least often.
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You rarely hear anyone bring that up as an argument against the death penalty. The fact that,
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look, an actual human being has to do this. And maybe that's just something that we shouldn't ask
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anyone to do. Um, I do find that argument compelling, ultimately not persuasive though,
00:47:09.280
because it's, it's, it is, um, more than balanced out by the interests of justice and, uh, and every,
00:47:15.960
and all the other reasons to have the death penalty. So, but still, you know, it's an interesting
00:47:21.200
thing to talk about. What you said though, about, uh, the Lord has made his will clear. Well, you're
00:47:26.000
right, but, um, but it goes the other way that we know in, in the Bible, if you're making the
00:47:35.980
religious argument, well, we know that in scripture, particularly in the old Testament,
00:47:39.440
God prescribes the death penalty, you know, um, which means now God prescribes the death penalty.
00:47:47.060
And so that that's in scripture. Um, does that mean that we should have the death penalty? Every
00:47:54.160
single crime should lead to death penalty? No. Does that mean that we can't have law laws that,
00:47:58.020
that, you know, um, determine when the death penalty is used and when it isn't? Obviously not.
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But what it does mean is that as Christians, we are now precluded from declaring that the death
00:48:09.560
penalty is some sort of inherent intrinsic evil. Now you didn't use that phrase exactly, but that's
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basically the argument that's made by many death penalty, uh, opponents, especially the ones that
00:48:22.660
try to make a religious argument against it. But you can't make that argument because then you are
00:48:27.480
accusing God of, of prescribing something that was intrinsically immoral, which is, which is heresy.
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So yeah, if you want to go, uh, referring to scripture is a great idea in general. And on this issue,
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if you do that and you look at what scripture actually says about the death penalty, it's very
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hard. It's very difficult to read the Bible, old and new Testament, and come away with the conclusion
00:48:53.540
that the Bible is a, um, is a, you know, a death penalty abolitionist text. Very clearly not.
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Last week, I posted a very important poll to Twitter. The question, who is the worst wife in
00:50:05.320
America? There were four options, Jill Biden, Meghan Markle, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Giselle
00:50:10.160
Fetterman, the wife of Senator John Fetterman. Now it proved to be a close contest. The one clear
00:50:15.620
winner emerged at the end, Jada Pinkett Smith, GI Jane, as Chris Rock would call her, who has escorted
00:50:21.640
her husband, Will Smith, through one public humiliation ritual after another, won the race
00:50:26.420
with 32% of the vote. Close behind her was Meghan Markle, assuming her preferred position by riding
00:50:30.900
someone else's coattails with 30%. And then first lady and notorious elder abuser Jill Biden with
00:50:36.100
22%, followed finally by Giselle Fetterman with only 14% of the vote. But after the events of this
00:50:42.240
past week, I must now call for Mike Pence to do the right thing and throw out these results.
00:50:47.760
We need a new election. And I think Giselle Fetterman deserves to win this time. Now, Giselle earned the
00:50:54.520
title before this past week. She earned it ever since her husband nearly died from a stroke during a
00:50:58.900
political campaign. And she, rather than insisting that he leave the race and save his health in the
00:51:03.520
process, instead helped to shuffle him along from one campaign stop to the next, where he humiliated
00:51:09.960
himself with increasing regularity, only to eventually win the Senate seat because the Republicans
00:51:14.700
managed to run someone who was less appealing to voters than an actual vegetable somehow.
00:51:19.460
Fetterman would end up in the hospital almost immediately after being sworn in, and then again
00:51:24.500
immediately after that. He was admitted over a week ago for his second stint and is still there,
00:51:29.120
reportedly to receive treatment for depression. Now, I must say reportedly, because there's no
00:51:34.600
reason to believe any of the details were given about Fetterman's health at this point. All we can
00:51:38.620
say for sure is that the man is not well. That didn't stop Giselle, his loving wife, from going on
00:51:44.520
vacation anyway. From the Daily Wire, here's the report. Senator John Fetterman's wife was slammed on
00:51:49.220
social media Friday after she revealed that the first thing she did after her husband was
00:51:52.960
hospitalized with severe depression was flee the country to go on vacation. Fetterman checked
00:51:57.760
himself into a hospital last week for a multi-week inpatient treatment regimen after the attending
00:52:02.160
physician in the United States Congress recommended that he do so. Giselle Fetterman, who lived illegally
00:52:07.460
in the U.S. for more than a decade, said that she took the family to Canada for a vacation after
00:52:11.580
leaving her husband in the hospital. NBC News reporter Dasha Byrne said last week that senior aides to
00:52:16.860
Fetterman have indicated that it's been difficult to distinguish the stroke from the depression,
00:52:20.880
saying it's hard to tell at times if Fetterman is not hearing you or he is sort of crippled by his
00:52:26.720
depression and social anxiety. Quote, a senior aide tells me both the staff and Fetterman himself were
00:52:32.680
taken by surprise by the severe onset of depression. The aide also says that this hasn't compromised his
00:52:38.620
ability to do the job going forward and he'll be back to work once he's taken care of his mental
00:52:43.580
health. Um, so wait, just side note, you can't tell if he hears you when you speak to him, but that
00:52:52.860
hasn't compromised his ability to do the job of a Senator, which actually might be true. But what does
00:52:59.160
that tell you about the job of a Senator? As for the details of Giselle's impromptu excursion out of
00:53:03.980
the country while her husband languished in the hospital, she tweeted this quote, I'm not really sure how to
00:53:09.680
navigate this journey, but I'm figuring it out slowly. One week ago today, when the news dropped,
00:53:15.440
the kids were off from school and the media trucks circled our home. I did the first thing I could
00:53:19.660
think of, pack them up and in the car and drive. We drove straight into Canada. We talked lots about
00:53:24.760
hard things and how we will all have to face hard things about the need to be gentle with ourselves
00:53:30.400
and with all. We did some scary things, but we did them together. We ziplined over Niagara Falls
00:53:35.680
and August got stuck. We talked about flexibility and the need to always have an open heart and an
00:53:40.280
open mind. We also talked about how joy and fun can and must still exist, even when someone we love
00:53:46.020
is in pain. And tomorrow, who knows? We'll try to do it all over again. Now, she also provides some
00:53:53.520
pictures and videos from their jaunt to Niagara Falls. It should go without saying that a good and
00:53:59.700
attentive wife does not leave the country on vacation while her husband is experiencing a
00:54:03.960
catastrophic medical emergency. Now, we don't know whether John Fetterman is even fully conscious
00:54:08.500
right now, but if he is, I can only imagine what it must have felt like when he called his wife from
00:54:13.900
his hospital bed, expecting that she would sound distraught, only to hear laughter and commotion in
00:54:18.260
the background. Like, what's that, honey? Oh, we're going ziplining in Canada. It's so fun. Wish you
00:54:23.360
could be here anyway. Gotta go. Of course, it's not that a man in the hospital wants his wife to be
00:54:28.360
miserable, but he does want her empathy. He wants her concern, her support, all of which seems to be
00:54:34.800
lacking in Giselle's behavior. Of course, some people have tried to defend Giselle by insisting
00:54:39.580
that while she was only trying to get away from the media spotlight, it was something that she did to
00:54:43.400
protect her kids, they claim. That doesn't make any sense, given that Giselle has ruthlessly pursued
00:54:49.100
the media spotlight and she was willing to sacrifice her husband's health to get it. You can't push your
00:54:55.360
barely cognizant husband over the finish line and into the Senate, and then five seconds later
00:54:59.960
claim that you wish to shield your family from public scrutiny. That would have been easily
00:55:05.040
achieved if Fetterman dropped out of the race after he had his first stroke during the primaries.
00:55:09.200
Remember, that first stroke was during the primaries. He could have easily just dropped out
00:55:14.260
and another Democrat would have been the nominee and probably would have won the Senate.
00:55:19.100
But now that he's a senator, you know, now that you've made that decision to push him over the
00:55:25.540
finish line, his health is a matter of national interest and importance. That's what she wanted,
00:55:31.020
and now she has it. But even if we could justify the Niagara Falls tour on the basis that she was
00:55:36.420
trying to avoid the news cameras, take her kids' minds off of everything in the process,
00:55:40.500
that wouldn't explain why she needed to publish a string of tweets about the experience,
00:55:43.880
complete with pictures and video. Giselle seems to have gone to the Meghan Markle school of
00:55:49.680
protecting one's privacy. And even more to the point, it would not explain or justify what she
00:55:54.300
says in the tweets and what she doesn't say. You'll notice that her husband's name isn't mentioned.
00:55:59.060
She never expresses any concern about him. Instead, she talks about herself, her journey,
00:56:04.160
her need for joy and fun. She has turned her husband's medical crisis into a personal journey of
00:56:10.860
self-discovery. And in that way, and in several other ways, she is, you know, the quintessential
00:56:16.580
modern liberal woman. And I don't mean that as a compliment. It's actually appropriate that on the
00:56:21.680
same day that Giselle published her tweet thread about her fun vacation, another tweet written by a
00:56:26.600
different but equally vapid liberal woman went viral. This time it was Dr. Nicole LaPera.
00:56:32.940
There's a psychologist and an expert in quote-unquote self-healing. LaPera has amassed an enormous
00:56:37.920
online following with gems like the one she posted on Friday, which says this, quote,
00:56:42.100
putting everyone else's needs before your own isn't selfless. It's self-abandonment. Society
00:56:47.400
glorifies this, and it's a massive reason why so many of us are unwell. Yes, that's the problem
00:56:54.220
with society, that it encourages people to be selfless. The solution to our cultural problem,
00:56:59.140
therefore, says the psychologist, is to put greater emphasis on selfishness. Because that's the
00:57:04.980
ingredient we're missing, obviously. Surely we've all noticed this. I mean, when you look around at
00:57:08.960
society, the first thing you think is, wow, there really isn't enough selfishness out there.
00:57:15.320
Now, this is totally backwards, of course. It may be theoretically possible to go too far
00:57:20.180
in putting other people's needs in front of your own. Theoretically, that's possible, maybe.
00:57:25.600
But that is not the direction that our culture pushes people. And if you're having trouble in your
00:57:31.580
relationships, it is almost certainly not because you are too outwardly focused, too worried about
00:57:36.900
helping others, too selfless. That may be the story that you tell yourself, but the story is almost
00:57:44.980
always fiction. And it is a fiction grounded in your selfishness. Giselle Fetterman is a prime example
00:57:52.940
of this phenomenon, and a very public example, because that's what she wanted to be. And that is why she is
00:58:00.800
today. Finally. Canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show. Let's move over to the
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