Ep. 1220 - Our Country Is Run By Senile Half-Dead Zombies
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Summary
We ve grown so accustomed to being ruled by elderly politicians who are decaying in front of us that it s easy to forget how abnormal this actually is. But the truth is that there are countries in the world where the vast majority of elected officials are middle-aged and even capable of completing sentences. One of these countries is Sweden, where the prime minister, speaker, first deputy speaker, and second deputy speaker are all under the age of 60.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Joe Biden went overseas to project strength to our adversaries.
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Instead, he fell apart on camera once again because he is a senile old man at the head of
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the most decrepit and pathetic gerontocracy in the history of the world. Also, another big
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sexual harassment scandal rocks the college football world, but there's more to this story.
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We'll talk about it. And a rapper is arrested for murder after allegedly confessing to the crime
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We've grown so accustomed to being ruled by elderly politicians who are decaying in front of us that
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it's easy to forget how abnormal this actually is. But the truth is that there are countries in the
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world where the vast majority of elected officials are middle-aged and even capable of, if you can
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believe it, completing sentences. One of these countries is Sweden. Sweden's parliament is among the
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youngest in the world. The prime minister, speaker, first deputy speaker, second deputy speaker are all
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under the age of 60. This is a long-running trend in that country, which elected its youngest
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parliament in 2014. Going back for the last decade or so, Sweden hasn't had a prime minister over the
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age of 65. If you're looking for an explanation for why Sweden didn't lock down during COVID, and many
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people still are looking for an explanation, this seems like it might be a good place to start.
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Led by its relatively young government, Sweden didn't implement mask mandates. They didn't close
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the schools and restaurants and force everyone, regardless of their age, to stay in their little
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pods. Children didn't miss years of education and critical social development. Small businesses
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weren't destroyed. Pastors weren't hauled out of church services and thrown in prison.
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And after all that, after ignoring the infinite wisdom of Tony Fauci and the World Health Organization,
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Sweden recorded the lowest excess death rate of any European nation during COVID. In fact,
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Sweden's excess death rate was half of our countries. Suicide and overdoses didn't spike.
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The morgues weren't overrun with COVID fatalities. People over the age of 70, in many cases,
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voluntarily stayed home. For everyone else, life continued as normal. Now, in retrospect,
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these are maybe some of the benefits of having leaders on the right end of the actuarial table.
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As the last few years have demonstrated, when politicians aren't themselves five seconds from
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keeling over dead, they're less likely to bring down all of society in a desperate attempt to
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prolong their own lives. On the other hand, when you're governed by a gerontocracy, especially a
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secular gerontocracy, which has nothing to look forward to after death, then you can't count on that
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kind of stability. You can't be assured that your leaders won't declare an emergency and take away
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your rights any more than you can be assured that they won't start World War III in Ukraine because
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they want to play Churchill with the time they have left on Earth. It's no secret the United States
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has transformed into a gerontocracy in the last several years. Right now, roughly one-fourth of
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Congress is over the age of 70. And that number has never been higher in American history. In 1900,
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nearly 40% of the politicians in the Senate and the House were in their 40s. That number is now down
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to just 20%. And of course, as we know, the current president is now the oldest sitting president to ever
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hold the office. Joe Biden will turn 81 in just a couple of months. In fact, presidents now are so old
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that the two far and away frontrunners for their party's nominations, Biden and Trump,
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are both older than Bill Clinton. And Bill Clinton is now, who was elected to his first term
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three decades ago. So when a current president is older than a former president who's been out of
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office for over 20 years, you know something is wrong. But you already knew all this. I mean,
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by this point, it's not exactly a secret that Joe Biden is old. What has only become apparent in
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recent days, however, is the extent of Joe Biden's decline, as well as the willingness
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of his staff to put his mental decay on full display for everyone to see. You know, we're all
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used to seeing footage of Biden falling apart or falling down or falling apart and then falling down
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in front of the cameras. What we're not used to seeing is what happens Sunday night in Hanoi.
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Joe Biden was in Vietnam supposedly to project strength against China. The idea is that Vietnam
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and the United States will work together in a new strategic partnership that will
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somehow deter the Chinese government from, say, invading Taiwan. But in the end,
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in a shocking turn of events, Joe Biden did not project strength against China. Instead,
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Biden led a rambling 30-minute press conference during which he admitted that he was
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just following orders from his staffers by calling on preselected reporters. And then Biden appeared to
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lose his train of thought about a dozen times before saying out loud that he was going to bed.
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Light for and I see. I'm just following my orders here. I have a game plan. He may have a game plan.
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He just hasn't shared it with me. But I tell you what, I don't know about you, but I'm going to go to bed.
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That is maybe the one single quote that most encapsulates Biden's presidency.
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It's the quote he'll be remembered by. I don't know about you, but I'm going to bed.
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Now, I have to say, I have to admit that at first I was a little underwhelmed by Trump's
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Sleepy Joe nickname for Biden, mostly because I would have preferred an alliteration like
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Geriatric Joe or Bumble and Biden, something like that. But it turns out that Trump really nailed it.
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He really did. And this was not one isolated senior moment during the presser either. This went on for
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a while. Towards the end of his press availability, Joe Biden referred to the Southern Hemisphere as the
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third world before realizing that's not something you're supposed to say out loud. And then Joe
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Biden's press secretary, like the man behind the curtain, cuts him off mid-sentence. Jazz music starts
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playing. The only thing they were missing was the big cartoon hook to drag him off stage.
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We talked about at the conference overall. We talked about stability. We talked about making
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sure that the third world, the, excuse me, third world, the, the, the Southern Hemisphere had
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access to change it, had access. It wasn't confrontational at all. Thank you, everybody.
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This ends the press conference. Thanks, everyone. Thank you.
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Everybody. I don't think we've ever seen that before. I don't think we've ever seen
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staffers cut off a presidential press conference in mid-sentence because the president is babbling
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too much. And as embarrassing, embarrassing as this is, it would be a mistake to write it off as
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yet another Joe Biden gaffe and then just move on. And that's inevitably how these kinds of clips are
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typically spun in the media. The right uses them to say, ah, Biden is old and the left just ignores
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them. And then that's it. But there's something very significant about this. And perhaps the most
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significant takeaway from the whole incident is that, is that this press conference happened at
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all. At no point did anyone in the White House, apparently, or the Pentagon or the State Department
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veto the idea of Joe Biden taking a trip to Vietnam where he would inevitably beclown himself on
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camera. Why is that? They knew he'd humiliate himself and the country. He does it every time
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he's asked to speak off the cuff. They knew that. And they also knew that unless they intervened,
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he'd never shut up at the podium. This is also why he's given so few press conferences,
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especially when compared to recent presidents, especially Donald Trump.
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So why was he up there at all? I mean, why go through the trouble of scheduling this trip? And why,
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as Joe Biden began rambling, did White House staffers twist the knife in such an overt public
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fashion, embarrassing him intentionally like that? Joe Biden's own press secretary played him out with
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lounge music against his wishes while he was still talking. It's hard to think of a more obvious way
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to humiliate a president of the United States. So if we're trying to intimidate China, this is a strange
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strategy, to say the least. On the other hand, if the goal was to give Xi Jinping a laugh and convince
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him that Taiwan is his for the taking, then actually the Biden administration just succeeded beyond its
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wildest imagination. The U.S. government, by sending Joe Biden to Hanoi, erased any doubt in Beijing as to
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the capability of Joe Biden to stand up for Taiwan or any other country in the region.
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You have to wonder if that was the real point of the trip. Maybe an administration that's beholden
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to China wanted to send a signal to Beijing that they have nothing to worry about. If that's the
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case, then Joe Biden's presser is just one of many such signals that have been sent to our adversaries
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in recent weeks. 81-year-old Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell isn't going to push back on
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China's territorial ambitions anytime soon. That much is clear. He's no longer able to reliably answer
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questions from the media without freezing up completely. In between reaffirming his indefinite
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commitment to spending billions of taxpayer dollars on Ukraine, Mitch McConnell is doing his best
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impression of a stroke victim. Now, you've likely seen the clips of McConnell standing at the microphone,
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staring blankly off into space, unable to speak, somehow managing to make John Fetterman look downright
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communicative by comparison. Now, of course, McConnell's physician, after that happened,
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wrote a letter, kind of a nothing to see here letter, insisting that McConnell is in tip-top shape.
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But you would have to have dementia yourself to believe that.
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Last week, to give another example, 83-year-old Nancy Pelosi claimed that she's running again to
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represent San Francisco because she is in gratitude to her constituents who really
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need her to address the challenges the city is facing. Watch.
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I feel very exhilarated by the encouragement I had to continue representing my great city of San
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Francisco. You have the White House behind you. I have homes in San Francisco behind me,
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and that is my strength. And the needs that our city have right now really call for me
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to stay another term. I had the privilege of representing San Francisco for a long time,
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I've had. And they have given me the latitude to serve as speaker, as leader for over 20 years,
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and WIP as well. Visit 87 countries, serve 30 years on the Intelligence Committee, all of those things.
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But at the same time, being central to my service was representing my district. In gratitude to
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them for that, I have agreed to stay on another term in order to help meet the needs that we have now.
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How generous of her. In gratitude, she's going to remain in power. I'm so grateful that I will
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not relinquish power until I'm dead. That's the only way I'm going to relinquish it, because I'm so
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grateful. You know, in San Francisco, fecal matter is all over the place. Robberies are so frequent that
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news reporters can't cover crime anymore without getting robbed themselves. The city's office buildings
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are empty. Therefore, what San Francisco needs now, Nancy Pelosi says, is more of the same leadership
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that put them in that position to begin with. What it needs most of all is an ancient, decrepit old
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woman who's been in politics for 40 years and accomplished absolutely nothing the entire time.
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And somehow, that sales pitch will work. Nancy Pelosi will indeed win re-election, assuming that
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she can survive to that point. In fact, if we're being honest, it may not even be necessary that she
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survives. Last year, a Democrat Pennsylvania state representative named Tony DeLuca was re-elected
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even though he died a month before election day. And in that same election, coincidentally enough,
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John Fetterman became one of Pennsylvania's two senators, even though he hasn't been able to string
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together sentences for a long time. And you've seen all the painful videos of the last year or so.
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And in case you're wondering if Fetterman has maybe improved in recent weeks, the answer is that he
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has not. Here he was, just to show you, filming a campaign video for Bob Casey while wearing his
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signature hobo hoodie, during which Casey is basically holding back laughter because of how
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Hey, last year, you all helped elect John Fetterman to the United States Senate. I need your help in 2024.
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I'm telling you how serious it is that we make sure we keep Bob Casey in the Senate right now.
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Can you help chipping in a couple bucks to make sure we keep Bob Casey right here in this Senate
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Hey, last year, you guys elected a cucumber to the Senate. So if you don't elect me, then I'm going to be very
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insulted. So if you're going to elect this guy, then why wouldn't you also elect me?
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It's an interesting pitch. I mean, he makes a good point, actually.
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The 54-year-old adult male says, can you help chipping in a couple bucks? This is serious.
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Pennsylvania, you know, this is a guy who wants to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate.
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Can't even be bothered to take off the hoodie and put on a suit.
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John Fetterman, though, is not an elderly man, but he's the kind of politician who could only get
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elected in a gerontocracy. Only a country that has stopped caring about mental competence would
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even contemplate electing someone like Fetterman to represent a state of 13 million people.
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And we are long past that point. Dianne Feinstein doesn't understand much, but she understands that
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at least. She currently represents a state of 40 million people, even after surrendering power of
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attorney to her daughter. Feinstein has also apparently surrendered legislative powers to her
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staff, who told her to shut up and vote aye in the middle of a hearing just last month.
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Note the presence of a quorum. We will now vote to report the defense appropriations bill
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favorably subject to amendment. The clerk will call the roll.
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I would like to support a yes vote on this. It provides $823 billion. That's an increase
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of $26 billion for the Department of Defense. And it funds priorities submitted.
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Yeah, just say aye. Okay. Just. Aye. Thank you. Senator Durbin. Senator Reid.
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Now, when you watch that, beyond the obvious point, which is that Dianne Feinstein is a decaying
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husk who shouldn't even have a driver's license, much less a Senate seat. Notice again how the staff
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handle the situation. They just come right out and tell Feinstein what to do in full view of the
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public. They're not ashamed in any way of admitting that they are running Feinstein's
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office. And in that respect, they're just like Joe Biden's handlers who have no problem silencing
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the president of the United States with jazz music like he's a drunk winner at some award show that
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nobody watches. What this shows us is not simply that we're living in a gerontocracy. I mean, it's
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much worse than that. These episodes reveal that like the late Soviet empire, we've actually gotten
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used to living in a gerontocracy. We're not ashamed of it anymore. Political operatives whose entire job
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is to shield their bosses from bad press have no problem shoving this in our faces. This means that
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our gerontocracy is much more than an international embarrassment. It's now a full-blown national security
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crisis. They aren't just laughing at our leaders in East Asia right now. This isn't just social media
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fodder for them. At this moment, our enemies are proceeding with the understanding that our
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government is incapable of holding a press conference, much less mounting any kind of
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Okay, we'll start with this Yahoo reports on a story that's gotten a lot of attention, made a lot
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of headlines from the college football world. A prominent football coach has been suspended,
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soon to be fired, most likely after claims of sexual harassment. And the media has done their
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usual routine of just basically assuming the guy is guilty. The school's assuming the same.
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And there are some people on the other side that are defending the coach and saying, no,
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he's certainly innocent. And I sort of think that everyone is wrong. So it's one of those cases.
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But here's the story. Michigan State head football coach Mel Tucker has been suspended after reports
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he sexually harassed anti-rape activist Brenda Tracy. Multiple media reports reported late Saturday
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night that Tucker allegedly harassed Tracy as she was working with his team. Tracy, a rape survivor who
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works with college football teams and other organizations regarding sexual assault education,
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filed a complaint with Michigan State regarding Tucker's alleged actions. And he's been the
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subject of a Title IX investigation at the school. Tucker, 51, is 19 and 14 in his time at Michigan
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State's as Michigan State's head coach, though 11 of those wins came in one season. He was hired by
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the Spartans ahead of the 2020 season after one year as Colorado's head coach. After a two and five
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debut season, Michigan went 11 and two in 2021 and won the Peach Bowl. The rapid improvement earned
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Tucker a 10-year contract extension with $95 million guaranteed. That money, however, is guaranteed
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only if Tucker is fired without cause and is at risk if the school finds that Tucker, quote,
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engaged in any conduct which constitutes moral turpitude or which, in the university's reasonable
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judgment, would tend to bring public disrespect, contempt, or ridicule. Okay, so reading about the
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contract there because there's some important context potentially, Michigan State locked in
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with a $95 million contract, which, by the way, is already insane that universities have this kind of
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money to spend on football coaches. Nothing new, nothing, this is not news, I realize, but it's worth
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reflecting on just a moment. $95 million on a football coach. Okay, but there's a, if there's a student debt
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crisis, it's on the taxpayers to fix. We're the ones who have to fix it. So the schools themselves have
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hundreds of millions lying around for football coaches, but we have to pay off the loans of the
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college kids that those same schools scammed. Which is why, you know, I've always been very much
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opposed to student debt relief, you know, because that really means redistribution of wealth where
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we're taking from people who didn't take out the loans, you know, working class people who didn't
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pay off the loans and were paying off the loans of college graduates. It's kind of like an upper-class
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welfare system. So I've always been opposed to that. However, the one form of student debt relief,
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student debt forgiveness, that I personally could entertain is where you're taking the money from
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the schools. You're forcing the schools to pay off the loans. Now that's something we could talk about.
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The schools are the ones running this scam, and they're also the ones who have hundreds of millions
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of dollars, again, laying around. Anyway, so they locked in for this contract based on one good
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season. His other seasons have not been that good. So now they could potentially salvage most of that
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money if they fire him with cause for committing sexual harassment. The other point that we have to
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mention here is that this is a black head coach, which, you know, that does become relevant
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because there's very much an incentive for these schools to give big contracts to black head coaches
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so that they can show up. You know, he got this contract in 2020. Probably not a coincidence.
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But then also, if they want to fire somebody like that, then that's all the more reason why they
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need to have cause. They need to have a scandal. So we start to understand what their motivations,
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the school motivations might be to take this claim seriously. Reading on. Tracy says that
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Tucker made sexual comments about her and masturbated during a phone call between the two
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in April 2022. According to USA Today, Tucker acknowledged his conduct during the phone call
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to Michigan State investigators and said in a letter to investigators that the two were having
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consensual, quote, phone sex. According to the USA Today report, Tucker, who is married,
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pursued Tracy romantically after she started working with the team. She reportedly told investigators
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she rebuffed Tucker's advances before he called her for over a half hour on April 26th.
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Now, some more important context that's not mentioned here. It's been shown through
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phone records that Tracy and Tucker had, I think, 27 phone calls that all averaged about 30 minutes
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before this, before the alleged sexual harassment and all that. 27 phone calls for 30 minutes.
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I have not talked on the phone with anyone for 30 minutes since I was in high school, maybe.
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So now imagine, like 30 minutes on the phone is a long time. That is a long time, especially these days.
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That might as well be 30 days on the phone. I mean, that is a marathon phone call.
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And now imagine 27 calls with a person for 30 minutes. The significance of that is it would seem
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to very, very much suggest that they were in some kind of romantic relationship. Okay? And I certainly
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cannot imagine a situation where a woman, where it would be appropriate for a woman to have 27 30-minute
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phone calls, often late at night, with a married man, who she knew was married, of course.
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Also, by the way, Tucker says that two months after the phone sex call, she sent him a happy
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Father's Day text message. Okay. Continuing. Now we're going to read what she told investigators
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about what happened. In her interview, Tracy became extremely tearful to the point of sobbing,
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describing this portion of the party's encounter. A report from Michigan State obtained by USA Today
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said, Tracy could hear Tucker masturbating, including, quote, every stroke. She could hear
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the noise of some kind of lubrication being used. Tracy said it was so loud and gross. She could hear
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Tucker moaning and groaning. Tracy kind of froze in the moment at first. Tracy thought to herself,
00:25:34.760
oh my God, this is happening and I can't stop it. It's going to happen whether I like it or not.
00:25:38.660
Tracy was trying to figure out what to do. It didn't occur to Tracy that she could hang up.
00:25:44.960
Tracy kept thinking over and over that she has to say something and that she couldn't let this
00:25:48.220
happen again, referring to her prior experience of being a victim slash survivor of sexual assault.
00:25:53.660
All right. So I don't know what happened. I don't know if this guy is guilty or not of what he's being
00:26:02.020
accused of. Here's what I think I do know, uh, that there are no good guys in this case that there's
00:26:08.460
really no one to root for, right? Uh, you've got Michigan State giving this insane contract to this
00:26:15.540
guy, then using this claim to get out of it. You've got Tucker who at best, at best is a married man
00:26:23.620
with children having phone sex with some other woman. Um, and on top of that, on top of the fact
00:26:29.280
that he's betraying his family, which, you know, is obviously the most important point he's doing
00:26:34.420
this after getting a $95 million contract. He's got paid a $95 million. You're going to put all that
00:26:42.000
on the line to have phone sex with some random woman. So just utterly treacherous and reckless
00:26:50.000
and stupid behavior by Tucker again at best. And then you've got Tracy who at best, at best
00:26:58.140
chose to stay on the phone for apparently 36 minutes while a guy masturbates rather than just
00:27:06.880
hanging up the damned phone. We're told it didn't occur to her that she could hang up. What? What
00:27:13.680
do you mean? It didn't occur to you. You forgot that there's a hang up function on the phone. You
00:27:18.560
didn't remember that. Oh, I can hang these things up. I had no idea. Oh, you mean I can, oh, I can
00:27:24.580
take the phone down from my ear and hang it up. I didn't, I forgot that I could do that. So we're
00:27:31.080
supposed to imagine her on the phone, like listening to this and going, I don't know what to do. How do
00:27:35.520
I stop this? How do I stop hearing this thing that's coming out of this phone that's right against
00:27:40.140
my ear? Um, like, is this the first time you've ever used it, a phone in your life that you didn't,
00:27:46.820
you don't know how these things work? So if Tucker had, had, uh, had, uh, non-consensual
00:27:54.060
phone sex, which, you know, was a sexual harassment. If that happened, then he's a disgusting creep.
00:28:00.000
Um, at a minimum, if it was consensual, he's still a creep given that he's married,
00:28:07.360
but there has to also be like a modicum of personal responsibility that factors into this,
00:28:14.060
um, for the person on the other end of the phone where you like, it's, you know, it's not victim
00:28:20.380
again, again, assuming that, that the claim is true that he did this without permission or without,
00:28:24.800
you know, it was not reciprocal. It's not victim blaming to just say, okay, like just you have
00:28:32.200
agency as a person exercise a little bit of personal agency. It doesn't take much. It's not
00:28:39.820
like they're in the same room or something. And she can claim that she felt threatened by his
00:28:43.520
presence. He's thousands of miles away. You're on the phone. But of course, the bigger question is
00:28:49.780
whether, uh, the claim of the lack of consent is even true. And, um, you know, some of these
00:28:54.060
additional facts really call that into question. You know, the, the, the happy father's day text two
00:28:59.000
months later, if that's the case, like you're claiming you're traumatized by this and then you text
00:29:02.560
him happy father's day after it, that that's hard to believe. Um, but, but who knows? I have no idea.
00:29:08.520
I don't know Mel Tucker. I don't know the woman. Uh, one could be a liar. They both could be liars.
00:29:13.200
I have absolutely no idea. No idea. All I can do is evaluate the facts that are not in dispute.
00:29:19.300
And those facts are that Mel Tucker is a married man who had phone sex, whether reciprocal or not
00:29:25.760
with a woman who stayed on the phone with him for 36 minutes, a woman who was on the phone with him
00:29:30.180
often late at night for half an hour at a time, 27 times, despite knowing that he's a married man.
00:29:35.960
So it's just like one of those things where nobody is doing the right thing here. And, um,
00:29:41.500
there just isn't any good guy at all. Um, and it does. And by the way, if, if Mel Tucker is innocent
00:29:49.240
of the sexual harassment claim, um, it, this is just another good reason to be faithful to your wife.
00:29:58.580
Okay. Not that you deserve to have a false accusation. If it is false, you know, no one
00:30:04.660
deserves false accusations, but, um, it is more difficult for me to have sympathy for someone
00:30:10.920
when you're putting yourself in a situation like this, you're a married man going after this other
00:30:17.780
woman on the phone. Like you're putting yourself, if it's a false accusation, you're putting yourself
00:30:22.420
in that position. Despite your $95 million contract, you've got a family to lose. You got a hundred million
00:30:27.680
dollars to lose. And you still do that. You're, you're a freaking moron, which is why I've seen,
00:30:33.320
I have seen some people, like I said, uh, some, uh, uh, mostly the media has just been assuming the
00:30:40.320
guy's guilty. Cause that's what you do in the Me Too era. I have seen a few people going the other
00:30:44.300
way. Some, some, a few commentators said, Oh, this man's innocent. He's being railroaded.
00:30:49.060
Uh, he's, it's very hard to feel sorry for him either one way or another. I mean, honestly.
00:30:55.880
Um, okay. Just get married, stay married and be faithful to your spouses. Solves a lot of these
00:31:01.020
problems. It really, really does. Daily Wire has this report. Top lawmakers on the Senate's
00:31:06.080
permanent subcommittee on investigations are asking for the FBI and the department of justice to provide
00:31:10.700
unredacted documents on Saudi Arabia's role in nine 11 as numerous records on the subject have
00:31:16.240
remained classified in a letter to attorney general Merrick Garland and FBI director, Christopher
00:31:20.960
Ray, uh, Senator Richard Blumenthal and Senator Ron Johnson asked for unredacted documents so they
00:31:27.260
can better understand Saudi Arabia's connection to nine 11. Uh, the senators wrote on Sunday,
00:31:32.920
quote, no one was more affected by these attacks than the families of those who lost their lives.
00:31:37.440
Um, our inquiry into Saudi Arabia's attempts to influence us affairs has underscored yet again,
00:31:41.760
the need for transparency, particularly regard regarding Saudi Arabia's connections to the nine 11
00:31:45.960
attacks. Um, now I bring this up because, uh, this to me is where, you know, we, we just had
00:31:55.120
the anniversary of nine 11, of course, yesterday. And that always brings up the conversations about
00:32:01.860
nine 11 conspiracy theories, which are kind of having their moment in the sun yet again. Uh,
00:32:07.200
you know, it's, it was a while. It seemed like we weren't talking about nine 11 conspiracy theories.
00:32:11.100
Bush did nine 11, that sort of thing. Um, that was a very popular thing in the, you know,
00:32:15.620
early two thousands after nine 11. Now it's sort of, uh, become it's in vogue again,
00:32:20.780
but this to me, we talk about something like, what was Saudi Arabia's role in nine 11? What did we,
00:32:28.820
what did our government know about that? When did they know it? I mean, this is where the real nine
00:32:33.220
11 conspiracies, as far as I'm concerned, the legitimate ones come into play. There is no doubt
00:32:38.840
that we haven't been told the full story about nine 11. I mean, that is just true. And of course,
00:32:45.720
if you say, if you say even that these days, I think, uh, you know, Ramaswamy said something like
00:32:49.820
this recently that we haven't been told the full, the full story. And if you say that you're
00:32:53.740
immediately accused of being a conspire, it's a nine 11 conspiracy theory. Well, there's just no
00:32:59.220
question that there's been a coverup of crucial information related to nine 11. But the coverup,
00:33:07.760
it seems to me is about covering up the extent of the intelligence failures on nine 11 failures,
00:33:14.160
potentially both unintentional and intentional. Um, also covering up how our lax immigration
00:33:20.080
enforcement played a role in this questions about what did our government know about, uh,
00:33:24.840
about the nine 11 plan before it was carried out, who knew it, when did they know it? How much did
00:33:32.320
they know what was done? Why wasn't anything done? Was anything done? I mean, lots of questions like
00:33:38.740
that, that have not been sufficiently answered. And is there a conspiracy there somewhere? I mean,
00:33:45.200
quite possibly multiple conspiracies to me though, the, the absurd conspiracy theories are the ones
00:33:52.720
about how the building was rigged with explosives or whatever. Um, I mean, that theory to me has never
00:33:59.180
made any sense on any level whatsoever, not for a lot of reasons. I mean, one of them is just,
00:34:03.540
so they rigged three buildings with TNT and nobody noticed these buildings that are open 24 seven and
00:34:10.560
they rigged them and no one noticed that happening. Um, and then they, they rigged the, the buildings
00:34:17.420
with explosives and then flew planes into them. That's overkill. Like why would they do that? Why
00:34:23.880
wouldn't, if they wanted to have buildings blow up, blame it on Al Qaeda. Um, and Al Qaeda was going
00:34:29.580
to like go along with this for some reason by, by, by taking credit for it. Then why wouldn't you
00:34:34.800
just blow up the buildings with explosives and say that Al Qaeda planted the explosives? But like,
00:34:39.260
wouldn't that be the plan that you say you're going to let's rig them with explosives and then fly
00:34:43.780
planes into them and then detonate them after the planes fly in. Um, it just, it doesn't make any
00:34:49.040
sense. Like intuitively on a, on just a common sense level, that theory. And I've been, of course,
00:34:54.240
like anyone else who lived through nine 11, I've been hearing these conspiracy theories
00:34:57.460
for over 20 years now. Um, and they never made any sense to me, especially when you don't need it.
00:35:03.960
Like from the very beginning, there are people saying, well, how did the buildings fall?
00:35:08.620
How did they fall? There must've been, they must've been explosives. Commercial airliners flew into them.
00:35:14.580
It's probably how they fell. Like it's not, well, you mean to tell me a commercial jet
00:35:18.880
can take down a building? Yeah, I probably, I mean, none of us had ever seen anything like that
00:35:24.840
before, but I can very, like anybody else, I can remember watching that as it unfolded
00:35:29.500
and seeing the buildings fall. And there was nothing confusing to me about the buildings falling.
00:35:34.660
The fact that the planes flew into the buildings, that was very confusing and bewildering.
00:35:38.400
But, but the fact that the buildings fell after that, I didn't find that shocking. I was like,
00:35:42.000
well, yeah, that's probably what would happen. You got, you got, you have these commercial jets
00:35:46.860
packed with jet fuel flying 400 miles an hour into a building. It's probably going to make them fall.
00:35:54.320
And then, and then another part of the theory, apparently, because then there's a,
00:35:57.400
well, what happened to building seven? Building seven collapsed.
00:36:01.620
So, so, so, so the theory is that they rigged three buildings with explosives
00:36:09.660
and then flew planes only into two of them and then detonated the third building anyway.
00:36:17.620
Why would they even do that? If you're, if you are the government mastermind coming up with all this,
00:36:22.560
why, what, why, why? It seems to me on the theory of just chaos and things are happening
00:36:27.980
and then building seven falls, like that makes more sense to me than this is all planned. And for
00:36:32.680
some reason, like, why did they do that? Did they do that just so they could lead a trail of
00:36:35.920
breadcrumbs for people to, to crack the case? It doesn't make any sense to me.
00:36:42.600
How did building seven fall? Was all, that, again, to me has never seemed all that confusing.
00:36:46.920
You've got massive buildings on fire right next to them. You know, you've got debris,
00:36:53.500
flaming debris falling down, sets the building on fire, the building falling. It has never seemed all
00:36:58.920
that confusing. But the thing that is most to me has always been absurd about this particular 9-11
00:37:07.000
conspiracy. And again, there are conspiracy theories that, that are very valid. Again,
00:37:12.100
going back to what did the government know? What are the intelligence failures? How are they able to
00:37:16.200
plan all this and, and, and, and do like practice runs and stuff in the United States without us
00:37:22.740
knowing about it? You know, all those kinds of things. But this particular theory about, which has
00:37:27.460
always been a little bit like amorphous, you know, even by the conspiracy theories as well,
00:37:32.340
they would have rigged with explosives. Who, who rigged them? How do they do it? Why,
00:37:35.380
why are they doing this? Never been very clear. But the, the thing about that particular theory that
00:37:40.040
I've always found most absurd is just the idea that our government could pull that off and keep it a
00:37:50.420
secret for over two decades. Like, if you know anything about our government and the bureaucracies
00:37:58.560
that run our government, uh, they are not nearly competent enough to hatch a scheme like that,
00:38:05.460
pull it off and keep it a secret. It's, they just aren't. Um, we are, we are leaving us.
00:38:12.520
Are there people in our government who are evil enough to do something like that if they thought
00:38:16.540
they would benefit them? Sure. Competent enough? Uh, no, that is always going to ultimately be my,
00:38:24.480
my number one pushback against some of the more, uh, shall we say cinematic conspiracy theories
00:38:31.060
involving our government. Yeah, there's, there's conspiracies that happen, but if you, if you,
00:38:36.460
if your conspiracy relies on our government being really a bunch of evil geniuses, then, then, uh,
00:38:46.280
I mean, the evil part I can buy, the genius part, I just can't.
00:38:52.120
And, and as always with this kind of conspiracy theory, the worst part about it is that it
00:38:56.080
distracts from some of the conversations that we should be having. Um, and we're stuck in this kind
00:39:04.020
of, uh, Hollywood la-la land sort of thing. All right. Uh, what else do we got here? Maybe time
00:39:10.940
for one more, and I got to skip ahead to this cause it's really important. Um, a sad story,
00:39:17.260
unfortunately, uh, which is another black man who has been falsely accused, uh, another victim of
00:39:23.760
systemic racism. And CNN has the report about this. Nevada rapper, uh, Nevada rapper was arrested on a
00:39:30.180
murder charge after Las Vegas police said that he confessed to the murder in his song lyrics.
00:39:34.540
Kenwan McDaniel was arrested August 29th on the charge of open murder with a deadly weapon.
00:39:41.080
His bail was set Thursday at $1 million with electronic monitoring. According to court records,
00:39:46.460
uh, McDaniel has been considered a person of interest in the death of Randall Wallace on
00:39:50.480
September 18th, 2021, in part due to his connection to a vehicle that matched the description of one used
00:39:55.320
during the crime. Detectives noted the music, uh, music video that was, uh, posted in July
00:40:01.520
from McDaniel bore a sufficient level of similarity to the details of the murder.
00:40:07.240
This includes the fact that Kenwan confessed to the murder in his lyrics. Details provided by Kenwan
00:40:12.980
in his music video were not released to the public and would not be common knowledge. Uh, the Warren
00:40:17.340
said one lyric included in the warrant is quote, is a lyric in the video, park the car, double back on
00:40:23.300
feet, the smartest way to slide, drove in, double lock, yo man, make sure you got yo bod.
00:40:30.100
I don't know what that means. Double lock, yo man, make sure you got yo bod.
00:40:37.960
Anyway, the warrant states that that is a, those are details of the killing. So apparently in the
00:40:44.040
actual kid, we don't know exactly what happened to killing, but apparently in the killing, uh,
00:40:48.560
yo man was double locked and they made sure they got yo bod. So that did happen in the crime.
00:40:55.940
Um, and then it, it's shows up in the lyrics. Anyway, I just want to make sure I have this
00:41:02.140
straight. Uh, someone is shot and killed and you just assume that it's Kenwan McDaniel just
00:41:12.600
because his car was at the scene of the crime. And he also described the crime in graphic detail
00:41:19.500
in a song and actually confessed to committing it. So just because of that, he's a suspect.
00:41:29.440
Come on, just come on. If I was his public defender, that would be the case I would make
00:41:35.680
to the judge. Your honor, come on, relax. All right. Just let's be cool about this.
00:41:42.260
But we know what's really going on here. Kenwan was arrested because he's black because he's black
00:41:48.140
and because his car was at the scene of the crime and because he confessed to the murder in a song,
00:41:52.720
but mostly because he's black. And I want to tell you something else about Kenwan McDaniel. And I
00:41:57.920
know, I know a lot about this guy. I've been following his career for a long time. This man was
00:42:01.400
turning his life around. Okay. He was, he was, uh, he, uh, and he was, he's, he was a good kid. Uh,
00:42:08.020
he won the spelling bee in second grade. I mean, that didn't happen. He probably wouldn't,
00:42:12.760
he wouldn't win a second grade spelling bee today, but he did. He was about to get accepted
00:42:17.460
into medical school. He was turning his life around. And now this. So actually let's listen
00:42:21.980
to a little bit. I think we have the song, don't we? Yeah, we do have it. Okay. So we have the song,
00:42:26.040
a little bit of the song where he allegedly confessed to the murder. And I think there, you know,
00:42:30.460
the cops say that this song implicates him. I think it vindicates them. I think that you,
00:42:35.920
that we can clearly show that he's, he's not guilty by this song when you listen to it.
00:42:40.740
And I'll tell you why in a second, but let's listen.
00:42:42.360
I'm the reason why you did your punish message to that midget. How you let them turn your mama's
00:42:48.020
spot into a place. That ain't what he banged, but where they hanged. So he in it. My day with
00:42:53.160
that fire, you hear his eye. See your body twitching. No ski. So, you know, it's me. I'll take
00:42:57.640
dropping falls like he won't beef, man. You a hold of me. Hop up on FaceTime and cop and please,
00:43:02.120
man. I'm exposing him. Hop another for somebody. I was supposed to be. Ain't touch none of mine.
00:43:07.500
We all here. Yo, Pondelae deceased. Always speaking on KP. That's crazy. Went up on the drill.
00:43:12.880
Y'all left him dead. Dried up like a razor. Blaming bro. And secretly, y'all know y'all the reason
00:43:17.380
he did. Hyped him up. Pumped up his head. Backdoughed him in front. I want rappers. I want pimps and
00:43:22.580
trappers. Everybody around. Let these hoes keep dropping falls. We find funnels down.
00:43:27.100
A song, by the way, is called Fady Free. And it's a great song. I've been bumping it on my
00:43:34.000
Spotify playlist for months. I play it all the time in the car with my kids. I mean,
00:43:39.460
every time I play it, they're like, oh, is this Fady Free again, Dad? Jeez. So I'm a big fan.
00:43:44.660
But this, when you listen to the song, you know that he's innocent because there's no way he confessed
00:43:50.420
to the murder in that song because he couldn't have confessed to anything because he's not speaking
00:43:55.920
words. He's not speaking an actual human language of any kind. And so, I mean, how could he have?
00:44:02.020
He's mumbling incoherently. So, you know, I mean, who knows what he's saying is the point. And that
00:44:09.620
really should be the defense by what I assume is going to be a public defender. That should be the
00:44:15.160
defense. Like, Your Honor, no one knows what the hell this guy's saying in that song. You know, we don't
00:44:19.740
know. He could be giving us a cure for cancer for all we know. He could be giving us a new recipe
00:44:25.980
for a great new ham and cheese quiche for all we know. Like, he could be. We don't know. Nobody
00:44:32.100
knows what he's saying. He doesn't even know what he's saying. So if you were to ask Kenwan McDaniel,
00:44:38.380
what were you trying to say in that song? He would not be able to tell you. And so, therefore,
00:44:43.620
he is innocent, free Kenwan. Put that on the t-shirt. Another innocent man, like Poo Shiesty,
00:44:55.100
being taken down by the system. It's a travesty. All right, let's get to Was Walsh Wrong?
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00:46:15.060
is gone, but that's actually good news. Don't worry. Nothing's happened to the painting. It is
00:46:20.140
gone now because it is in my home where it belongs. I finally brought it home, and this is the painting
00:46:25.240
that I had commissioned from Paint Your Life depicting me meeting a group of aliens and giving them some
00:46:30.140
merchandise from my merch shop, obviously a depiction of an actual historical event, as we all know,
00:46:35.400
and it's a huge painting. It's perfect for, you know, a fireplace mantle and as a focal point in
00:46:41.140
a room, and that is now where it sits in my home. And first of all, I want you to see what it looks
00:46:48.040
like in the room. I want you to see what it looks like in the room because I got home from work last
00:46:52.280
night. My wife was still out, so I was able to take the paint. I timed getting home for when she
00:46:58.400
wouldn't be there because I, and not because I'm trying to sneak, because I wanted to surprise her,
00:47:03.380
and I knew it'd be a great surprise for her. So I was able to take the painting in and set it up
00:47:07.220
right on the mantle. I moved aside whatever crap was already there and put my painting on the mantle,
00:47:13.120
which is right in the sitting room off of our master bedroom, so that my, and the reason I put
00:47:17.880
it there is so that my wife could see it every night and every morning, every time she goes into our
00:47:22.440
room, every time she wakes up, she'll see it right there. And I wanted to give her that gift
00:47:27.780
because I, because, you know, I'm her husband. I love her. So, and anyway, I want you to see what
00:47:33.240
it looks like in the space. So there's the, there's the, there it is in the space. Now,
00:47:37.600
I mean, you have to admit, okay, the colors match. Like this looks good in that space. You have to admit
00:47:43.660
that. It actually looks good in the space. It matches. It does match, doesn't it? All the,
00:47:50.500
you got the, whatever those colors are and they all match together. I'm colorblind,
00:47:53.880
but I do know that it matches. And, uh, and so this is the best troll. So you thought that,
00:48:00.360
well, you put it somewhere where it clashes and looks gaudy and it doesn't work in the room.
00:48:03.800
And that's the best way to troll my wife. Actually, the best way to troll her is to put it in a room
00:48:08.360
where it kind of works because then she can't deny it. And she came home and she saw the painting
00:48:13.520
there. And, uh, and she, even she, you know, she had some, she had some thoughts about the
00:48:19.820
painting and about the fact that it's in the room. So some thought we don't need to talk
00:48:22.640
about what the thoughts were, but even she had to admit that it works in the room. She had to admit
00:48:28.340
that. And then, and then she said, well, it's only, it's a, it's an accident. You're colorblind.
00:48:34.160
You didn't know that it would work. It just, it, well, was it an accident or was it fate? Okay.
00:48:40.680
Ask yourself that. Is it an accident or is it providence? Is it divine providence?
00:48:46.940
Think about it. Anyway, it's an extraordinary painting. And then, uh, I also got an image
00:48:53.160
of, uh, we'll put it in the next picture because I showed it to my kids and that what, this is not
00:48:58.040
staged. This is their actual reaction to it. You can see my, my son, he's like, he's almost
00:49:02.120
like he's, he's blown away by it. He's like this, this picture of them looking at the painting
00:49:07.540
itself looks like a Renaissance painting. So it's a Renaissance painting of people looking
00:49:11.840
at a Renaissance quality painting. And my other son pointing at it, they're absolutely stunned
00:49:16.480
by it, uh, staggered by its beauty. They may have been more into the painting than they
00:49:23.640
otherwise would have been because I may have told them that this was a real event that actually
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occurred. And my three-year-old daughter, she certainly believed that as she should. I don't
00:49:33.920
know if the other two did, but they humored me anyway. And so that's where it is. And, um,
00:49:38.380
that is where it will stay. Uh, just great. Just, just amazing. And our, our house is now
00:49:45.920
a home officially. Okay. Uh, so I'll get some of these comments here. These are all, so I'll
00:49:51.580
read, just read through a few of them and then I'll respond to them as a whole. Cause these
00:49:54.080
are all about toxic workplaces. We talked, uh, I guess it was last week now about, um, the
00:49:58.960
Jimmy Fallon show and how it's another one of these, um, places that's been exposed in a
00:50:03.600
Rolling Stone article as being a toxic workplace. So this is the new, as I said, it's a kind of the
00:50:08.440
me too movement now of toxic workplaces where every other month we're told about another place
00:50:13.940
where the workers have revealed it's a toxic work environment. And then you read about,
00:50:18.680
you're expecting maybe, uh, some, some, some, uh, dark and dirty secrets about what's going on
00:50:24.160
behind the scenes in these places. And then you read about it and it's just like,
00:50:27.140
oh, the boss yelled at me once. We have to work. We have to answer emails. I had to answer an
00:50:33.200
email at 7 30 PM once. It's so toxic. So I'm skeptical of the very concept of toxic workplaces.
00:50:40.880
I think usually when someone talks about a toxic workplace, they're just describing a workplace
00:50:44.740
and some of the challenges that inevitably come with that. But some of the comments disagreed.
00:50:49.300
Uh, first one says, somebody please explain to me why my employer has the right to disrespect and
00:50:53.660
belittle me as Walsh apparently thinks they do. A leader does not have to disrespect or belittle their
00:50:58.320
team to get results out of them. In fact, that's exactly how you get the worst results out of your team.
00:51:02.180
If you don't want to give respect and dignity in the workplace, see ya. I'll find an employer who
00:51:06.800
will. Cyberscape says, this is still a bad take. Ever since COVID and tons of people were either
00:51:11.500
fired or quit, everyone that remained was forced to do the work of two plus full-time employees for
00:51:16.160
the same pay, myself included. And we get yelled at 40 hours a week because work isn't getting done
00:51:21.120
as quickly. The workforce is more toxic now just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean
00:51:25.680
it's not happening. Uh, Richard says, Matt, when you've worked in an environment where your boss
00:51:30.200
makes bad decisions, refuses to listen to employee concerns, then blames them for the inevitably poor
00:51:34.780
outcome or for a manager who doesn't understand that being uptight and volatile doesn't get the
00:51:38.900
best out of people. Then you'll understand what a toxic work environment is. The real thing
00:51:42.760
isn't just people getting hypersensitive about criticism or demanding special treatment. It's a
00:51:47.380
very real, very stressful situation to find yourself in that can cause a great deal of damage.
00:51:52.580
And Angela says, Matt, Matt trying to claim this is a normal working environment sounds like an
00:51:56.820
admission that this is exactly what it's like to work at the daily wire. And I'd be willing to bet
00:52:01.220
that diva Matt is doing the yelling. Okay. First of all, I've never yelled at anybody here. Um,
00:52:09.160
rarely, rarely have I yelled and that's true. Rarely, uh, as for the rest of this, look, I never said
00:52:18.460
that your employer should overwork you or should yell at you or should make bad decisions. My point is
00:52:26.560
that it's an element, uh, that there's an element of this kind of thing in every job, in every
00:52:31.720
workplace. I've had a lot of jobs in my life. Um, not that many over the past 10 years or so I've,
00:52:37.620
I've been more consistent since I, you know, uh, got married and became a, you know, I had kids and
00:52:42.440
became a real adult, but, um, so things have been more consistent, but for the 10 years before that,
00:52:47.420
I had like, I don't know, 15 jobs or something. And one thing I've learned is that there are certain
00:52:53.780
frustrations and complaints that you'll hear in literally every workplace without exception.
00:52:59.860
I mean, one of the comments, what was one of the comments said, Hey Matt, I guess you've never
00:53:02.640
worked in a place where your boss makes bad decisions. What do you actually think that there
00:53:08.680
are any workplaces in existence where bosses don't make bad decisions? Bosses make bad decisions here.
00:53:17.060
They do. I, for, for example, they have let me bring up aliens during every backstage for the past
00:53:23.480
14 months. The audience hates it. They don't want to hear about anymore. And I keep bringing it up
00:53:28.740
and ruining every show and, and I'll bring it up again tonight and no one will stop me. They won't
00:53:36.060
stop me and I'll just keep doing it. So there are bad decisions everywhere, including here. And look,
00:53:42.480
bad decisions, tempers flaring, frustrations, feeling underappreciated, overworked. Again,
00:53:50.200
these are the experiences of all workers everywhere for all of time. And that doesn't make it okay.
00:53:57.760
That doesn't mean that there aren't degrees to any of this and that, you know, that you can't get to a
00:54:01.980
level where it really is beyond what's ordinary. But, um, and it doesn't mean that you should always
00:54:07.100
accept your situation. I'm not saying that either. Okay. If you feel underpaid, maybe you are. Go try
00:54:14.040
to negotiate for a higher salary. I've done that plenty of times. Go into the boss's office and say,
00:54:18.880
look, this is what I'm getting paid. This is what I think I deserve to get paid. And here's why.
00:54:23.920
And, and you talk about it. Sometimes it'll go your way. Sometimes it doesn't. But again,
00:54:27.380
these are universal experiences. They just are. They just are. And let me ask you this. Do you think
00:54:34.580
that there's any workplace in the world where employees don't gather together in the break room
00:54:41.740
and gossip and complain about where they work? Do you think there's any workplace where in the
00:54:48.980
break room, the employees go, man, everything's just perfect here. Everything's great. And I have
00:54:54.000
no complaints. What about you? Do you have any complaints? No, I have no complaints. Everything's
00:54:57.040
great. Everything is absolutely great. Everything has gone a hundred percent how I want all the time.
00:55:00.880
Maybe that's what employees who work in like Kim Jong-un's palace might say in the break room,
00:55:07.900
if they have a break room, which they probably don't. That's only because they know that if
00:55:11.200
they're overheard, they'll be fed to the wild hyenas in the basement. But in most cases,
00:55:16.420
there are complaints and many of them are valid. Some of them aren't, but many of them are valid.
00:55:21.280
So the question is whether you want to dwell on that and pity yourself and cry about your toxic
00:55:29.520
workplace. You know, say my workplace is toxic. I'm a victim. This is terrible. It's the worst thing.
00:55:35.680
It's everything. I don't like it. I don't like any of it. Or whether you want to succeed in spite of
00:55:40.980
all that and, you know, even use your coworker's self-pity and doomerism and pessimism as an
00:55:47.600
opportunity to climb higher on the ladder while they're all down there, you know, feeling sorry
00:55:52.560
for themselves and all of that. Like, so those are the two options. And, um, and that's, that's,
00:55:58.460
that's it for me. Like that's, that's, that's the point. Um, yeah, there are complaints. Some of them
00:56:03.720
are valid, but you, you, you know, and you can dwell on it. That's the thing with the toxic workplace
00:56:08.000
stuff is just dwelling on the complaints, self-pity and all the rest of it. And it's not going to get you
00:56:13.100
far in life, unfortunately. Hi, it's me, Matt Walsh, bestselling author and flannel shirt
00:56:20.120
enthusiast. Halloween is almost upon us and there's nothing scarier than handing out candy
00:56:24.640
from woke corporations that hate your values. Back in March, in response to a chocolate ad
00:56:29.360
featuring a man who thinks he's a woman on women's day, we decided to launch Jeremy's chocolate and
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people responded by the hundreds of thousands. It was a runaway success. So here's your friendly
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Head over to jeremyschocolate.com and order your chocolate today. That was a message from me,
00:56:49.260
Matt Walsh. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:56:57.900
One of the hottest new trends, which is really a new version of last decade's hot new trend and the
00:57:02.680
decade before that and before that and so on is called manifesting. This is the practice of
00:57:07.300
trying to get good results by doing absolutely nothing at all. And to engage in manifesting,
00:57:12.820
is to think happy thoughts and then expect happy things to materialize for you out of thin air as
00:57:19.100
a reward. It's essentially optimism on steroids or maybe more like optimism on hallucinogens.
00:57:25.600
And not to skip to the end of the conversation, but the first thing you should know about manifesting
00:57:29.200
is that the only thing it actually manifests is disappointment and failure. Here's the New York
00:57:33.720
post on that. Quote, manifesting the suddenly trendy practice of thinking that aspirational thoughts or
00:57:39.240
ideas will cosmically attract success might not be as harmlessly woo-woo as it's hyped up to be.
00:57:46.240
Those who believe in the practice of manifesting are at higher risk of going bankrupt, according to a
00:57:50.500
new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Researchers from the University of
00:57:55.440
Queensland in Australia also found that daydream believers were more likely to be lured into risky
00:57:59.820
investments and more apt to dangerously presume that they can achieve an unrealistic level of
00:58:04.500
success in a short amount of time. Imagine that. Quote, in our studies we define manifestation as the
00:58:09.300
belief that if you send out your desires to the universe through positive thoughts, visualization or
00:58:15.000
acting as if goals have already come true, like writing a pretend check to yourself, the universe will
00:58:20.000
deliver what you desire. Lead study author Lucas Dixon told the Times UK. This appears to be the
00:58:27.380
fundamental belief that lies behind manifesting. Faith that the universe is not only a conscious
00:58:32.280
entity, but one that is generous and kind and wants us all to be happy and successful. This belief is,
00:58:39.780
to put it mildly, misguided. We'll get back to that in a moment, but a little bit more from the post
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report. Quote, manifestation could lead to people fixating more on symbolic actions like visualizing
00:58:49.020
success rather than instrumental actions such as managing personal finances. Those who believe in
00:58:54.260
manifesting are more likely to feel that they have control over fairly uncontrollable aspects of their
00:58:58.480
life, whether they get rich quick or become famous, Dixon said. In business, this could lead to an
00:59:03.160
opportunity cost where time is spent focusing on more uncontrollable long-term goals rather than
00:59:08.600
controllable short-term goals. Now, that's what manifesting is. And this all makes you wonder where this
00:59:16.660
manifesting stuff is coming from. What's driving its popularity? Where are people getting these ideas?
00:59:23.080
Well, like all bad ideas in modern society, the answer is mostly TikTok. On that platform,
00:59:29.140
countless influencers have manifested millions of followers for themselves by promising to give
00:59:34.680
special manifestation tips, tricks, and techniques. And here's just one of these videos that has,
00:59:40.680
by the way, over 100,000 likes, very popular. And here are the techniques that she suggests. Watch.
00:59:46.620
This manifestation method is going to get you anything you want. Every time I do this method,
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I quantum leap my life. Literally, things start manifesting within 24 hours. I've used this method
01:00:02.440
to manifest money. I've used this method to manifest my relationship. And I've used this method to
01:00:07.660
manifest anything on my vision board whenever I feel aligned with it. Make sure you bookmark this
01:00:13.380
because this is a method that you're never going to forget. See, most people start manifesting by
01:00:18.440
saying, this is what I want. Instead of telling the universe, this is what I want, I tell the universe
01:00:24.820
to show me how effortlessly this comes to me. You can do this to manifest money. You can do this to
01:00:31.460
manifest your special person. You can do this to manifest a new version of yourself. Never again say,
01:00:37.540
I want this. Because that whole phrase implies lack. I teach you how to manifest in 30 days here.
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Now, watching that video, I'm reminded of being in third grade or maybe it was fourth grade at the
01:00:52.580
beginning of the school year when the teacher told us to write down our hopes and dreams for the year
01:00:57.520
on a piece of paper. And then she gave us envelopes and told us to decorate the envelopes with pretty
01:01:02.600
colors. And then we put the paper with our hopes and dreams into the envelope. And we put our
01:01:07.340
envelopes in a special box, which I think she called our dream box or hope bin or something like
01:01:12.060
that. Anyway, even at eight years old, I can remember thinking how pointless and fruitless the
01:01:16.440
whole exercise was. But based on the popularity of this manifesting trend, it's very troubling to think
01:01:21.800
that so many adults lack the skepticism that I had when I was eight. And just so you know, I was not
01:01:29.640
a very smart eight-year-old at all, just to be clear. Now, if you spend any time on manifestation
01:01:35.260
TikTok, you'll notice that each manifesting guru has their own magical combination of words that's
01:01:40.560
supposed to lead to health and prosperity. None of them can seem to agree on what the special phrase
01:01:45.700
is supposed to be. Watch. Use this one affirmation to manifest money within 24 hours. I want you to
01:01:51.460
comment down below if you manifest any sort of money within 24 hours. I'm assured to you that it will
01:01:55.380
work. I am magnetic to money. Money can't get enough of me. I am magnetic to money. Money cannot
01:02:02.320
get enough of me. Visualize yourself as a magnet, drawing in abundance and wealth because you are
01:02:08.260
a beautiful being and you deserve to live an enriching, fulfilling life. Follow for more
01:02:15.460
There it is. I guess I'll have to go check my bank account to see if that worked, though I don't have
01:02:20.080
very high hopes. How is this even supposed to work, by the way? Do you say the phrase and the money
01:02:24.140
falls out of the sky? Does it materialize out of thin air? Or are other people with money suddenly
01:02:30.740
put under some kind of spell where they feel compelled by mysterious forces to give that
01:02:35.120
money to you? And if that's it, then isn't this kind of a cosmic form of attempted robbery? I guess
01:02:41.060
that's the sort of ethical question we talk about if we could get past the fact that all this is
01:02:44.080
abject nonsense and we really can't get past that fact. Just as one last example, here's another
01:02:48.540
manifestation expert with more conflicting manifestation advice and this one has nearly
01:02:53.920
200,000 likes. Here's what she advises. Watch. If you need to manifest something overnight, get nearly
01:03:01.220
instant results to manifest a text, a call, college acceptance, to hear good news. This is one of the
01:03:07.480
methods that the people who are doing manifest magic at the top of my page are using to see results
01:03:12.260
like this. You and I are going to be manifesting whatever it is you desire during this video right
01:03:17.480
here, right now. So get ready. This is the I am sure method. Right now, close your eyes and get very
01:03:23.060
clear on what your intention is. What is it exactly that you are trying to manifest? Take another second
01:03:28.400
to really think about it. What is it? We know our thoughts create a reality, but our words create our
01:03:33.640
reality even faster. You're going to be penetrating into our subconscious mind, reprogramming it. These
01:03:39.260
three words will instantly align you and put you into a frequency that has the desire. You are now
01:03:45.180
going to affirm out loud, I am sure, followed by your desired manifestation in the present tense. For
01:03:51.400
example, I am sure I got the promotion. I am sure Jake texted me. Repeat it out loud 10 times. Now this is
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even more effective if you are able to write this out 10 times on a piece of paper. Till you fall asleep
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tonight. Every single time the desire pops into your head, repeat to yourself, I am sure X. This is one of the
01:04:10.980
methods that the people who are doing my Manifest Magic workshop at the top of my page are using to see
01:04:15.280
results like this. Try it out, fall for more and make sure you grab that workshop.
01:04:21.020
I am sure every TikTok influencer will float off into space. I am sure every TikTok influencer will float off into space.
01:04:30.320
Maybe I just solved the TikTok problem. Or maybe I accomplished nothing at all. I wouldn't put much
01:04:40.040
money on the former. Now, you know, we aren't going to spend any more time establishing that all this is
01:04:44.840
totally bogus. The only thing your manifestations manifest is more bull****. We don't need to harp on
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that. Instead, I think there are two more specific points that are worth making. First, manifestation is
01:04:53.960
itself yet another manifestation of a secular society's need for religion. What we discover time and time
01:04:59.620
again is that you cannot really have an entirely irreligious culture. Humanity needs religion. If
01:05:04.900
you chase religion out, you'll be left with a religion-sized hole that must be filled and in its
01:05:09.180
place will inevitably be just a secularized version of what it was replacing. In other words, manifesting
01:05:15.540
is nothing more than a godless prayer. That is, it's a prayer that rejects the being who can actually
01:05:22.060
answer the prayer. It's a prayer that calls upon the universe for aid rather than calling upon
01:05:26.860
the creator of the universe. And the thing about prayer, though, traditional prayer, religious prayer,
01:05:32.140
is that you can't treat it like a magical spell. It's not a mystical incantation that will bring
01:05:36.940
you fortune and fame if you utter the correct combination of syllables. In Christianity, to pray
01:05:41.480
is to lift your heart and mind to God, to lift, you know, to look towards heaven, to humble yourself,
01:05:46.600
and yes, sometimes to ask for something that you need or want, though that's not the only reason a
01:05:50.900
person should pray. And at any rate, the answer, you know, from the Christian conception of prayer,
01:05:55.960
the answer to the prayer may be no. In fact, oftentimes it is. And the faithful Christian
01:06:01.580
understands this and accepts it. He also understands that God expects us to participate
01:06:05.800
in our own lives. He expects us to work and strive. If we sit around chanting about all the stuff we want,
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we can be pretty sure that we won't get anything. But the modern secularist removes all this from his
01:06:16.960
version of prayer. He removes God, first and foremost. He removes humility. He removes his
01:06:21.080
own obligation to act and to work and to seek and to put in the effort. And what we're left with is an
01:06:26.380
entirely self-centered exercise in futility, calling out to nothing and nobody, demanding that, you know,
01:06:33.280
what you don't deserve and refuse to work for. And that's because, and here's the second important
01:06:39.020
point, if you are telling the universe what you want, you are talking to empty space. The universe
01:06:46.080
doesn't care about you. The universe doesn't know you exist. The universe doesn't know anything
01:06:51.160
because it has no mind. It is big, dumb, violent, terrifying. The universe would destroy you and the
01:06:57.600
planet you live on without thinking twice because it doesn't think at all. The universe is indifferent.
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This is the reality we have to just accept. We live in an indifferent universe. The universe itself
01:07:09.680
is indifferent. It is not going to make fortune and fame fall out of the sky for you. It'll give you
01:07:15.280
nothing from the sky, but maybe rain. And it will usually be more rain than you want or not as much
01:07:20.220
as you need because the universe doesn't care what you want or need. That's the cold reality. It is a
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reality as cold as the universe itself, which by the way, is about negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit
01:07:30.180
on average. What does this mean? It means that if you want someone to love and care about you,
01:07:35.280
you need to pray to God, not a big empty space. It also means that even if you pray to God,
01:07:39.640
you still need to work towards your goals. Nothing wrong with having big aspirations,
01:07:44.820
but you need to be willing to slave away day after day, dealing with all the frustrations and minutiae
01:07:50.260
in order to actually make those aspirations manifest into something tangible. The manifestation
01:07:55.980
is something that you do yourself. You make them manifest. If you aren't willing to do that,
01:08:01.800
then you'll just be a loser, whispering sweet nothings to yourself, accomplishing nothing,
01:08:06.320
and becoming nobody. That's what manifesting will get you. And it's why manifesting is today
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manifestly canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.