Ep. 1224 - Russell Brand Hit With Sex Assault Allegations. Is This His Punishment For Questioning The Left’s Narratives？
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Russell Brand has been hit with a series of sexual assault allegations by the mainstream media. This follows a very noticeable pattern where men are accused of sex abuse as soon as they become a threat to the left s narrative. Is that what we re seeing here? We ll discuss. Also, there s been a lot of discussion about Trump s answers in two different interviews about abortion and the trans issue. We ll talk about that as well. Plus, the UK bans pitbulls, and in our daily cancellation, women around the country have recently discovered that their husbands think about the Roman Empire. Why do men think about that? And why is it a surprise to women?
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Russell Brand has been hit with a series of sexual assault
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allegations by the mainstream media. This follows a very noticeable pattern where men are accused
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of sex abuse as soon as they become a threat to the left's narrative. Is that what we're seeing
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here? We'll discuss. Also, there's been a lot of discussion about Trump's answers in two different
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interviews about abortion and the trans issue, respectively. I have a lot to say about it. We'll
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talk about that as well. Plus, the UK bans pitbulls. And in our daily cancellation, women around the
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country have recently discovered that their husbands think about the Roman Empire. Why do
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men think about that? And why is it a surprise to women? We'll talk about all that and more today
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Danny Masterson is an actor who most people haven't thought about for a long time, if at all.
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By all accounts, his career peaked all the way back in 2006 with the conclusion of the sitcom
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That's 70s Show. But a few years ago, all of a sudden, Masterson's name was everywhere. That's
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because in March of 2017, the year that the hashtag Me Too movement began in earnest,
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Masterson was accused of sexual assault by three women. In response, without waiting for a trial,
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Netflix summarily fired Masterson from his role as a series regular on one of their shows. And three
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years later, in the summer of 2020, Masterson was formally charged with three rapes in Los Angeles,
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a jurisdiction that, of course, believes all women. Prosecutors said that one rape occurred in 2001,
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another in early 2003, and a third in late 2003. Now, right off the bat, the timeline raises some
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obvious questions. For one thing, how is it possible to prove a rape beyond a reasonable doubt
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20 years after the fact, in the absence of any physical evidence of violence or drugging?
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Now, you might think that the accusers must have had airtight stories. But that's not true in this
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case. In fact, one of the accusers previously told authorities that Masterson had not raped her.
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She says that she only realized years later that she was raped. She originally thought it was
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consensual, and then years after the fact, changed her mind. All this explains why late last year,
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the jury deadlocked. There was a mistrial. According to the foreman on that jury, they were leaning towards
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acquittal on every count. And he said that the reason for that is that they found the stories from
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the accusers to be inconsistent, contradictory, and implausible. But then just a couple of weeks later,
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a couple of weeks ago, I should say, as you might have heard, Masterson was put on trial again.
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And this time around, the judge changed the rules. The judge allowed testimony that Masterson
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had drugged his victims, even though there was no physical evidence of that. In the first trial,
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the prosecution was only allowed to describe the condition of the accusers after they consumed
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alcoholic beverages that Masterson gave them, describing them as woozy and disoriented.
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They were not allowed to directly claim that the women were drugged because there was no evidence
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of that. There was no evidence that their wooziness was the result of anything more than the alcohol
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they were drinking. But in the second trial, that kind of caution was thrown to the wind. And again,
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without any actual evidence, Masterson was accused of drugging his alleged victims. And that apparently
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did the trick. Masterson was convicted after the retrial, and he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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Now, you don't have to like Danny Masterson or know who he is or believe he's innocent to
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understand the implications of what happened to him. Danny Masterson's case is proof that even in
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2023, years after the hashtag MeToo hysteria has faded, physical evidence of wrongdoing is not
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required to convict someone of rape and destroy their life. Neither is timely reporting or even a
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consistent story from the alleged victims. All you need is a story. Danny Masterson's case demonstrates
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that. For one thing, that means that our judicial system isn't exactly functioning the way that it
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should, but you already knew that. What Masterson's case also means, if you think about it from the
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perspective of the government, is that accusations of rape are trivially easy to use as political
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weapons. Masterson's own case doesn't appear to be political, but it shows how easy it could be,
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and has been, to use a rape accusation to achieve a political end. You'd hate to think that false
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stories about rape could ever be deployed for these kinds of purposes to ruin the lives of
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influential voices who challenge the people in power, but increasingly, that's exactly what's
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happening. A couple of days ago, the influential comedian and commentator Russell Brand uploaded this
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video explaining that he's now being accused of sexual assault by multiple media outlets. Watch.
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Hello there, you Awakening Wonders. Now, this isn't the usual type of video we make on this channel
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where we critique, attack, and undermine the news in all its corruption, because in this story,
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I am the news. I've received two extremely disturbing letters, or a letter and an email,
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one from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper listing a litany of extremely egregious
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and aggressive attacks, as well as some pretty stupid stuff, like my community festival should be
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stopped, that I shouldn't be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel.
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But amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks, are some very serious allegations
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that I absolutely refute. These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the
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mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I've written
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about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now, during that time of promiscuity,
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the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that
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then, almost too transparent. And I'm being transparent about it now, as well. And to see
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that transparency metastasized into something criminal, that I absolutely deny, makes me
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Now, we don't know exactly who these women are who are accusing Brand of sexual misconduct,
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but the Daily Wire reports that these incidents supposedly occur between 2006 and 2013. So like the
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accusations against Masterson, these sexual assaults allegedly occurred at the height of Russell
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Brand's mainstream fame. And yet, strangely enough, without any explanation, these accusations
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are only coming up now, many years later. The whole lengthy story with all the allegations is laid out
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in a Channel 4 documentary and in The Times. And you can read the details for yourself if you pay
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for a subscription to The Times. That's because they launched a series of allegations against Brand
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and then immediately put the accusations behind a paywall. It's too early to say right now exactly
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what's really happening or what really happened all those years ago. We can't prejudge this case,
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of course. But one thing we can say with certainty is that Russell Brand is a far bigger threat to this
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nation's power brokers now than he was at the height of his fame, back when he was married to Katy Perry
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and starring in Hollywood films and living, as he said, a very promiscuous lifestyle. Anybody who watches
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Russell Brand's videos knows all that? But really, Brand's turn into unorthodox thinking began sort of
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slowly roughly a decade ago. It was in 2013 that Brand was ejected from the GQ Awards show for noting in
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his acceptance speech that a sponsor of the show had previously made uniforms for the Nazis. From that point
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on, Brand became something of a pariah in the entertainment industry. And in recent years, his views have only
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become more intolerable to those in power. Now, in particular, Russell Brand has heterodox views on the
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integrity of US elections. He doesn't toe the line on January 6th. And perhaps most consequentially, he's
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extraordinarily critical of big pharma. He doesn't believe, as the rest of the corporate media does,
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that you should reflexively trust the pharmaceutical companies and just ingest every drug they give you.
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And he's made his views on this subject known. Here he was with Bill Maher recently, for example. Watch.
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Well, yes. Out of respect for you and your show, I've brought some facts. Would you?
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You just get the f*** out of here. This is not the place.
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I wouldn't have mentioned it. I'm English, and you know that politeness is our fundamental religion.
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But they do pertain to this issue. So may I say something, if they inconvenience you, I'll stop saying them.
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The pandemic created at least 40 new big pharma billionaires. Pharmaceutical corporations like Moderna and Pfizer
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made $1,000 of profit every second from the COVID-19 vaccine.
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More than two-thirds of Congress received campaign funding from pharmaceutical companies in the 2020 election.
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Pfizer chairman Albert Baller told Time magazine in July 2020 that his company was developing a COVID vaccine
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for the good of humanity, not for money. And of course, Pfizer made $100 billion in profit in 2022.
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And may I just mention, finally, and this is also a fact, that you, the American public, funded the development of that.
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The German public funded the BioNTech vaccine. When it came to the profits, they took the profits.
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When it came to the funding, you paid for the funding.
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All I'm querying is this. Yes. Is if you have an economic system in which pharmaceutical companies
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benefit hugely from medical emergencies, where a military industrial complex benefits from war,
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where energy companies benefit from energy crises, you are going to generate states of perpetual crisis
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where the interests of ordinary people separate from the interests of the elite.
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Now, that's not something you're supposed to say out loud. It's all true, of course. But you're
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questioning, you're calling into question some of the most powerful people and institutions in the
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country. It's hard not to notice that people who say things like this out loud tend to get in a lot
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of trouble. You might remember what happened to a James O'Keefe's Project Veritas. O'Keefe exposed a
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high-ranking Pfizer executive admitting, among other things, that his company is conducting secret
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gain-of-function research on coronaviruses right here in the United States. The Pfizer
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executive then freaked out when he realized he was on camera. What happened next? The Pfizer
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executive was not publicly fired. Instead, O'Keefe was publicly fired. Funny how that works out.
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Is Russell Brand being targeted for the same reasons? Already his agent and several organizations
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have cut ties with him, so he appears to be on the same trajectory. To be clear, we don't know
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whether Russell Brand is innocent or guilty, just like we don't know if Danny Masterson is innocent or
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guilty. But there are obvious reasons to doubt stories that surface several years after the
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fact, especially when witnesses contradict the narratives. As you just heard, that's what
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Russell Brand says is happening. One woman just posted a video claiming that British media reached
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out to her for a documentary on Russell Brand, presumably the Channel 4 documentary. But they
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didn't use her story because she said that her interactions with Brand were all consensual and
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I actually know who this is about. And I have the receipts. I was contacted in June by a journalist
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regarding a video I made about a certain celebrity and a weekend that we shared together. The video
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is kind of viral. It's on my page somewhere if you want to go see it. And that certain somebody was,
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as most of you will be aware, Mr. Brand. They weren't going to use my story because it didn't fit the
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narrative for their documentary because he wasn't an asshole to me. But here are some of the messages.
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Obviously, I will take out the person's name and stuff. We had a phone call. She contacted me for
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more information and I didn't contact her back because I kind of felt like it would be mean.
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Anyway, there you go. Put your bets on. It's a documentary about the one and only Mr. Russell Brand.
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And just a fun fact. Astrology wise, the lunar nodes of destiny have shifted into Aries right on top of
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his Mars and Moon. Written in the stars, baby. Okay, bye. Okay, well, that's interesting. Not the
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astrology stuff, but the stuff before that. If you were making a film about sexual assault accusations
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against a famous person from several years ago, you'd think you'd want to gather all of the relevant
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evidence and present it. But if you want to create a hit piece, you'd ignore the witnesses that you
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don't like and present the ones with the most salacious stories possible. And it appears based
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on that video, that's exactly what's happening. Now, Brand's critics will argue that just because
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the woman in that video says she wasn't raped, that doesn't mean that other women weren't raped.
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A rapist isn't going to abuse every woman he comes across, presumably. But the point is that
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if you're dredging up accusations from years and years ago, and you have no evidence that anything
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happened, then all you can do is theorize and make assumptions. The best you'll end up with is an
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educated guess. But it's not possible to make an educated guess without being presented the full
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picture, the full story of what sort of person the accused was at the time when he allegedly did the
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things he was accused of doing. If you're a journalist only presenting part of the picture
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and leaving out the parts that don't lead to your preferred conclusion, then you're not a journalist
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at all. You are an assassin looking to kill someone's reputation. We've seen this time
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and time again. The moment somebody becomes a threat to the establishment, the accusations
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of sexual assault materialize from thin air. It is impossible not to notice this trend. We
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see it at the Supreme Court with Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh. We saw it with Trump. I mean,
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he was a billionaire celebrity playboy, but was never accused of sexual assault until he became
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a threat to the left. Even Tucker Carlson, it's easy to forget, was accused of sexual misconduct
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at the height of his show's success. Those accusations were absurd on their face and never
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went anywhere. But that's not how these things usually play out. Whatever you think of Dave Portnoy,
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the accusations against him follow a similar pattern. Portnoy isn't really political, and I
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certainly wouldn't call him a conservative, and I don't think he calls himself a conservative. But
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during COVID, he did something you're not supposed to do. He noticed that the government's
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lockdowns were destroying small businesses, and that the Fed's so-called pandemic relief fund
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wasn't covering these businesses' losses, not even close. So Portnoy, through his company,
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raised millions of dollars for businesses as long as they kept employing their workers
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throughout the lockdowns, and that got the attention of the government in not a good way.
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A year later, he was accused of, can you guess, sexual misconduct.
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The brash founder of website and media company Barstool Sports is firing back today at alarming
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allegations of sexual misconduct. A report by Business Insider details alleged sexual encounters
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between Dave Portnoy and two women. One of the alleged victims says she was literally screaming in
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pain. Portnoy calls the article a hit piece and denies the allegations. NBC News has not independently
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verified these allegations. NBC News didn't verify the accusations, but of course, they're happy to
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repeat them. It's a familiar story, and it's the inevitable result of Believe All Women. This is the
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legacy of hashtag Me Too. You can either do what you're told, or the most powerful forces in the
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country will try to destroy you. With respect to Russell Brand, I think we're left with two possibilities,
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and neither of them are good. One is that Brand is an innocent man being smeared by the mainstream
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media. I don't know for sure if this is what's happening here or not. Nobody can know. I wasn't
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there. I just don't know. But that's how the game is played. Just by printing the accusation, you have
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forever tarnished a man's reputation, whether it's true or not. After all, the most that even his most
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ardent defenders can say, his most ardent defenders, the most they can say, is that he's probably
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not a rapist. And this is what makes the media's willingness to print accusations, no matter how
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credible or incredible they are, so sinister. They know that the accusations will devastate a man's
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life and reputation, even if there's no evidence to support them, even if they're debunked and refuted,
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even if positive evidence can be presented proving that the thing didn't happen.
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Just the very fact the accusation was ever made is already enough to permanently damage someone.
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But there's another possibility here. The other possibility is that the media's claims are true.
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In that scenario, Brand is a known serial rapist who victimized multiple women for years during the
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height of his fame. That's what the media is saying. It's what they want us to believe.
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Okay, that's their narrative. But for the sake of argument, let's go with that for a moment,
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with that narrative. Well, here's the thing about it. If that's true, it makes the media arguably even
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worse than if they were inventing these claims out of whole cloth. Because it means that they left
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Brand alone. They allowed him to continue abusing women for years and years until he said things they
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disagreed with. Remember, part of this whole story is that this was an open secret. Everyone knew this
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was happening. That's what the media is saying. Well, if everyone knew it, the media must have known it.
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And they didn't say anything. They didn't report on it. Until the moment that he became inconvenient to
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them. Both of those options are horrific in their own way. And in either case, it's clear who the real
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today. Okay, a couple of Trump interviews have gotten some attention, which is probably an
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understatement. First, there's a moment from his interview with Megyn Kelly that was last week,
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and we talked about the Fauci stuff last week, but there was also this moment. Let's watch.
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In my opinion, you have a man, you have a woman. I think part of it is birth. Can the man give
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birth? No, no, although they'll come up with some. Okay, now before we dissect that, I want to play
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both clips because I think they're related. So let's play the other one that has people talking as well.
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Here he is a couple days later on Meet the Press, and this time the subject is abortion, and here's what he says.
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Mr. President, I want to give voters who are going to be weighing in on this election a very clear sense of where to stand on this.
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I think they're all going to like me. I think both sides are going to like me.
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What's going to have to happen is you're going to have to, Kristen, you're asking me a question.
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What's going to happen is you're going to come up with a number of weeks or months, you're going to come up with a number
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that's going to make people happy. Because 92% of the Democrats don't want to see abortion after a certain period of time.
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If a federal ban landed on your desk, if you were reelected, would you sign it at 15 weeks?
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Well, people are starting to think of 15 weeks. That seems to be a number that people are talking about right now.
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I would sit down with both sides, and I'd negotiate something, and we'll end up with peace in that issue for the first time in 52 years.
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I'm not going to say I would or I wouldn't. I mean, DeSaint is willing to sign a five-week and six-week ban.
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Would you support that? You think that goes too far?
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I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.
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Okay, now, so let's talk about both of these together.
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Obviously, it goes without saying that there's no reason to hesitate on the can-a-man-become-a-woman question.
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And there shouldn't be any answer other than no.
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anything, the first words out of your mouth after you hear can-a-man-become-a-woman, no.
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Then you can elaborate on how crazy that idea is.
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Anything but an immediate no is a wrong answer and also an embarrassment.
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And if that doesn't, if you don't see why that is, then just imagine any other basic scientific question getting that kind of answer.
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So what if, you know, just to show you how ridiculous this is, imagine if Megyn Kelly had for some reason asked,
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And then Trump had said, um, well, listen, in my opinion, you know, there are some who say that human beings can fly.
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But first of all, people are focusing on the um part of it.
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You don't need to qualify something like this by saying, in my, it's not your opinion, okay?
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Just like it's, it's not, when I say gravity exists, that's not my opinion.
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In my opinion, the sun is bigger than the earth.
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So that was a weak and convoluted answer where clear and concise is needed and where there's simply no conceivable reason why you would give anything but a clear and concise reason, answer.
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Keep in mind what I'm always saying about this issue, that on the left, they can't answer these questions.
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This is the beautiful thing about being a conservative, is that basic common sense questions are not stumpers.
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Someone could throw it at us and say, oh, that's easy.
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It's only on the left where it becomes, oh my gosh, I've got to figure out how to navigate around this.
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That's the advantage we're supposed to have because we're supposed to stand for basic fundamental truth.
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We are supposed, when we talk about being conservative, we are conserving basic fundamental truths.
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Or maybe not conserving the truths themselves because the truths will persist whatever we say about them.
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We are pursuing our, rather we are conserving our understanding, society's understanding and acceptance of these fundamental truths.
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So that's, that's an advantage we're supposed to have.
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But because the left can't answer these kinds of questions, or at least they can't answer in a way that's, that is not humiliating for them.
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Because if they're asked the question, can a man become a woman, they also, they're probably not going to say yes.
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But if that was a Democrat politician sitting there, probably not going to say yes, because they know how crazy that sounds.
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So instead, they're going to start equivocating and they're going to be off in the weeds and they're going to talk about opinions and how everyone has different perspectives and so on and so on and so forth.
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But when you, as the Republican frontrunner, give an answer that makes it sound like a complicated question, you are, that is just you, that's you surrendering to the left on that issue.
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They want it to be the kind of question that you're nervous to answer.
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Now, I said that there's no conceivable reason why you would not give a clear and concise answer.
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But one potential reason, there is one reason why you might not give a clear and concise answer.
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And that is if you're a Republican frontrunner making the mistake of trying to moderate for the general election.
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Trump's answer there is wrong on multiple levels.
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It's not a terrible thing to protect human children from being slaughtered.
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And, you know, the spin from some of Trump's defenders is that, well, Trump was saying that it's a terrible mistake.
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He was saying that it's a terrible political mistake to sign a five or six week ban on abortion.
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Now, if that is what he was saying, that would also be wrong.
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And he said, it's a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.
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He said that the ban, the heartbeat ban, is a terrible thing in and of itself.
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And worst of all, he said this to a mainstream media news anchor.
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I mean, it wouldn't be good to say that anywhere, but rather than going after her, rather than backing her into a corner, rather than embarrassing her, rather than throwing it back in her face, what, do you think we should kill human beings with heartbeats?
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Okay, well, of course I support the ban, you know, at six weeks.
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So that's a direction he could have gone and embarrassed her.
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You know, if he threw the question back at her, she would have said something like, well, I don't know.
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She wouldn't be able to say one way or another.
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And then you can go back to, oh, so you're not sure if the child is a human being at six weeks, and yet you're sure that we should be able to kill the child, even though you don't even know if it's a human or not.
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Instead, he goes the other way, and he comes out against heartbeat laws.
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So, again, from a moral perspective, what he's saying is totally wrong.
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You know, between the Megyn Kelly stuff, and that's, I mean, the whole interview, not just the stuff about men becoming women.
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Between that and Meet the Press, Trump is very clearly and very unsubtly making a move to the middle.
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This has been the defense of his statements in those interviews.
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The defense is, very openly, well, he's in a general election now for all intents and purposes.
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He's looking past the primaries, and he's running against Biden, and so that's why he gets.
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He's not running against his Republican challengers because they're so far behind.
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Now, it's true that he should be running, essentially, a general election campaign.
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You know, he's probably going to be the nominee.
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He needs to be running against Biden, and I've been saying that forever, which is why it makes no sense that he spends most of his time attacking DeSantis.
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I mean, he's attacked DeSantis far more than he's attacked Biden, and there's no question about that.
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And even in that answer, when he's asked about abortion, he could pivot to Biden's extremism on abortion and say, well, Biden believes in abortion up until birth.
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Instead, he pivots to DeSantis' what Trump considers extremism on abortion.
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Right, even in that move, that can't be defended on moral or political grounds.
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If you're trying to beat Biden, why wouldn't you bring every, rather than bringing every answer back to attacking DeSantis, bring it back to attacking Biden.
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I agree that he should be basically, strategically looking past the primaries and running a general election campaign and going after Biden all the time.
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I'm not saying he needs to go out and sing DeSantis' praises.
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But from a political perspective, the smartest thing would be just to ignore him, to ignore everybody in the primaries and just focus on Biden.
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So that leaves the question, you know, even if I don't like it, like the moderating of tone, moving to the left, moving to the middle, even if it makes my blood boil to hear a politician go squishy on abortion and go squishy on basic biology, is it a clever strategy politically?
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Can we make a kind of Machiavellian and justify the mean sort of argument here?
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And to illustrate my point, okay, I need only ask you one question.
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Have you, in your life, ever met a voter who says that they would vote for Trump if only he was slightly more liberal on abortion?
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Have you ever had that conversation from someone who says, I love everything about Trump, or at least I like everything about Trump, except the abortion stuff.
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I've talked to countless people about politics all across the country.
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I have never heard that opinion from anyone, ever.
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I have never met the person who was a leftist on abortion, but who was willing to vote for Donald Trump if only he moderates on that issue.
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We're told that this is what you need to do for suburban women, especially, because they care so much about abortion and have so-called abortion rights.
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And so I'm just trying to imagine the suburban woman who supports everything about Trump except the abortion stuff.
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If you think that there is somewhere out there a significant number of voters who are still gettable for Donald Trump, still willing to vote for him, if only he becomes more openly socially liberal, then I don't know what to tell you.
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And by the way, this is not some kind of new and innovative approach for Trump.
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The Republican establishment has been preaching this gospel for decades.
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For years and years, they've said that Republicans need to moderate on abortion, need to moderate on the so-called social issues to win national elections.
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So Trump is simply following conventional Republican wisdom with this approach.
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And Trump is best when he rejects the conventional Republican establishment wisdom.
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Well, there's a trail of humiliations and defeats stretching back decades to show for it.
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Well, whatever he personally believed or believes now, he was not perceived in 2016 at all as a moderate on this issue or really any issue in 2016.
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And he did indeed take hardline stances on a number of controversial issues.
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But he talked publicly about prison sentences for women who get abortions.
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Now, after the fact, he kind of moderated that stance later that day after the backlash.
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It tells us that, and by the way, you know, it doesn't have anything to do with abortion, but build the wall, lock her up, all this kind of stuff.
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Okay, this all, when you've got people chanting, lock her up in the, you know, in the stands at your rallies, nobody's watching that and thinking, well, this is a moderate figure.
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It tells us that the only way to beat the Democrats is to present a clear alternative, which means not adjusting your own positions to bring them closer to the Democrat position.
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And when it comes to abortion, that means clearly and concisely and powerfully and persuasively making the case for life, the defense of life.
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Like, no matter what you do on abortion, there are going to be people, lots of people who are upset, no matter what position you take.
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Okay, Trump says that I come up with a compromise that makes everyone happy.
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I'll just come up with an idea that everyone will like.
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It doesn't matter if you, you could be the most brilliant dealmaker in history.
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The fact is that among, on the left, what they want is abortion up until birth, period.
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And if you come up with any plan other than that, you are going to be a, this is a handmaid's tale, you're a patriarchal, oppressive dictator, you know, you're killing women, back alley abortions, anything but that, that's how they're going to paint you.
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And so, you might as well take the correct true position.
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Yes, of course, I, I, I, I think that we should ban, I think we should have banned abortions entirely.
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And the media is going to go, oh, why would you say that?
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Well, the reason is that, is that these are human beings and I don't think we should, it's ever okay to directly and intentionally kill innocent human life.
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That's a really logical, powerful, simple position that you can take.
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We had a bunch of other headlines and we just spent a lot of time on that.
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Let me, okay, we got to make some room for this as well.
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So, ABC News, American XL bully dogs could be banned in the UK by the end of the year.
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The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, said on Friday, there have been a string of attacks involving the canine breed.
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In a statement, West Midlands Ambulance Service said a male victim had sustained multiple life-threatening injuries and was in critical condition after an attack by a suspected XL bully dog.
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We have the Prime Minister talking about this ban.
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The American XL bully dog is a danger to our communities, particularly our children.
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I share the nation's horror at the recent videos we've all seen.
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Yesterday, we saw another suspected XL bully dog attack, which has tragically led to a fatality.
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It's clear this is not about a handful of badly trained dogs.
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It's a pattern of behaviour and it cannot go on.
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While owners already have a responsibility to keep their dogs under control,
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I want to reassure people that we are urgently working on ways to stop these attacks and protect the public.
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Today, I have tasked ministers to bring together police and experts to firstly define the breed of dog behind these attacks with a view to then outlawing it.
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It is not currently a breed defined in law, so this vital first step must happen fast.
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We will then ban the breed under the Dangerous Dogs Act, and new laws will be in place by the end of the year.
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I want to reassure the public that we will take all necessary steps to keep people safe.
00:38:36.300
Okay, so it's not every day that the UK gets something right, but they got something right here.
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And, of course, pit bull terriers are already banned in the UK, and now they're adding this type of dog, this type of pit bull to that ban list.
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Pit bulls of all types are wildly, disproportionately dangerous.
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Now, you can point out, well, pit bulls don't bite.
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Poodles bite more often than pit bulls do, or whatever obfuscation, whatever red herring you want to throw out.
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Now, but it may be true, and I don't even know if it is true, it may be true that other types of dogs are more likely to bite you, but a poodle is not going to maul you to death.
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Okay, I don't know how many fatal poodle maulings there have been in history, but there couldn't possibly have been that many.
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The point with a pit bull is that not only is it bred to be aggressive, not only are they volatile animals, but also they are genetically predisposed not only towards aggression, but when they become aggressive, they are lethal.
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They are, like, designed to be lethal when they decide to attack.
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Okay, a golden retriever, golden retrievers don't bite very often, but if you tick off a golden, any dog, if you tick it off, it might bite you.
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But it's not going to try to eat you alive, okay?
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It's not going to try to eat your face the way that a pit bull does.
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And that's why, when you look at a list of fatal dog maulings, you're going to find that pit bulls are responsible for the vast, vast majority of them every single year.
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And, you know, I know every time we talk about this, and it's going to happen again, I'm going to get all these messages from people in comments saying, whoa, so if you support banning pit bulls, that also means that you're anti-Second Amendment.
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These are the kinds of arguments that pit bull defenders will make, because they'll say that, well, if you support banning pit bulls, then you must also support banning guns.
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Now, the first thing is, just because you support banning one thing doesn't mean you support banning all things.
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Like, there are things that we all agree should be banned, right?
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There are things we all agree should be banned.
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There are behaviors that we all agree should be banned.
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But then there are behaviors and there are things that we think shouldn't be banned.
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And so how do you determine what should be banned?
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Well, you have to look at the individual cases.
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In the case of a firearm, first of all, in the United States, you have a constitutional right to a firearm.
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A gun is not going to get up on its own and shoot someone.
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There's never been a mass shooting where it was a gun on its own going into a building and shooting people.
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First of all, you don't have a constitutional right to a dog.
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I mean, you could be the best owner in the world.
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And the dog is still a dog and has a mind of its own.
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And it can just get up on its own and do something.
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And oftentimes there are things that you don't like, you don't want them to do.
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And most of the time, the things that they do that you don't want them to do are relatively minor things.
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But with a pit bull, there's always that possibility that one of the things they do that you don't want them to do is go and maul the neighbor's two-year-old child.
00:42:52.920
So the comparison, the analogy, we're talking about banning pit bulls.
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The analogy is not to inanimate objects, because a pit bull is not an inanimate object.
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There are many other animals that are banned in most communities and in most countries.
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There are many other animals that you are, in most areas, not allowed to own.
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I mean, there are many more animals you're not allowed to own domestically than there are that you are allowed to own.
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You're not allowed to own, in most jurisdictions, to my knowledge, you're not allowed to own a panther.
00:43:50.220
Well, because they are disproportionately likely to become dangerous, not just to you, but to your community, to your neighborhood.
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And they are animals that, if they do become aggressive, it'll be very easy for them to kill someone.
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And so you can't bring those animals into a neighborhood.
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So with thousands of other animals, we have no issue with that.
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Like, yeah, of course you can't bring that animal into a neighborhood.
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If they were to, I think someone said to me on Twitter today, a couple of days ago,
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well, there were only 30 fatal pit bull maulings last year.
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And I don't even know if that number is correct, but let's just say that it is.
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Well, what if they lifted the ban on panther ownership?
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And then we looked at it and we said, and then after a year, we said,
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okay, well, panthers have been legal to own for a year and only 30 people have been horrifically
00:44:48.620
mauled to death, which is to say eaten while they're still alive by the panthers.
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Or would we say 30 people have been mauled to death by this animal?
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You always have to weigh cost and benefit with anything, especially when it comes to laws.
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And so before you, you know, many more people die in car accidents than die from pit bulls.
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The cost of banning cars is that you've shut down society completely.
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And so most reasonable people realize, well, you can't ban cars.
00:45:29.980
What's the cost to society if you ban pit bulls?
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There's no serious cost to society if you ban pit bulls anymore than there's a serious cost
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The risk of owning them is dozens of people being horrible, dying the most horrific death
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And so I think that the answer there is pretty clear.
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Usually we read comments in this segment and messages, comments and messages from people
00:47:05.280
But this time we have comments and messages from people attacking me for things I didn't
00:47:08.640
Not that they're accusing me of saying things I didn't say, but rather they are mad at me
00:47:13.920
And we talked earlier in the show about the recent Trump interviews where he said stuff
00:47:18.200
that I didn't like and I explained why I didn't like it.
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I explained that today, just a few minutes ago, because I'm back at work, because it's
00:47:26.320
And I did not, however, say anything about these subjects on Twitter over the weekend until
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Sunday night, you know, when I started doing a show prep, I do a little work on Sunday
00:47:36.340
But for most of the weekend, I didn't say anything at all about any subject.
00:47:40.960
I was silent because I'm a married man with six kids and I don't spend my weekends on Twitter.
00:47:47.900
Actually, just to give you just to give you the full timeline here, you know, I talked
00:47:51.960
about Trump's I talked about Trump's Megyn Kelly interview.
00:47:55.600
And we talked about the Fauci stuff and I was very critical of how he handled the Fauci
00:48:00.720
The question about why did you give him a commendation and all that.
00:48:03.460
I didn't mention the trans stuff because I didn't I didn't I hadn't seen that clip.
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I finally saw the trans clip on Friday afternoon, probably.
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But at that point, I was heading to dinner with my wife.
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It's it's you know, this is the end of the work week for me going out for a date night.
00:48:27.540
Then over the weekend, as we did on just a few minutes ago, then over the weekend, the
00:48:38.020
And I didn't see that at all because at first, because it's Sunday morning, I was at church.
00:48:43.960
Well, I come back online late Sunday afternoon and I find many, many posts and messages from
00:48:49.500
conservatives, from DeSantis supporters, from people claiming to be longtime fans of mine,
00:48:54.200
denouncing me for not having posted about either subject over the weekend.
00:48:59.640
So I was with my family, with my wife and kids over the weekend.
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But that apparently was not a good enough excuse.
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According to these, I'm telling you, my mentions were just, it was a little bewildering at first
00:49:11.400
I saw all these people really angry at me, including people that I know are supposed to be on my side.
00:49:24.200
First one says, Matt has shown himself to be a gutless fraud.
00:49:27.180
If his next tweet is not about this, I'm unfollowing him forever.
00:49:33.240
Theodore says, Matt is right there with Glenn Beck, no balls.
00:49:35.880
But I'm sure he's got plenty to say about how everyone else should live and espouse his religious
00:49:40.580
Peter says, Matt Walsh has built a massive following commenting on conservative politics,
00:49:46.040
He regularly blasts inconsequential GOP politicians for going to the left on this.
00:49:50.180
But when Trump refuses to say men can't become women, silence.
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Spence Rogers, responding to that tweet, agreed, saying, great point.
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Because Ben Shapiro is the authorized DeSantis cheerleader over there.
00:50:05.400
M to the G says, Matt won't speak truth to power because it affects his bottom line.
00:50:13.840
Trump endorses abortion today and it's crickets from you.
00:50:16.360
He cucked himself on the trans issue and you said nothing.
00:50:18.800
I've been a fan for years, but now I see that you're a turncoat traitor.
00:50:22.860
Sean says, Matt, why aren't you speaking about these issues, about these Trump issues?
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It's clear that you aren't willing to take a risk for the sake of truth.
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Now, I've already given my take on these issues and I've already told you why I was absent
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I realized that spending time with your family is not an excused absence.
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According to the hall monitors, it is what it is.
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Moving on from those points, I just want to say a couple other things.
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Look, if you don't need 24-hour armed security for your family,
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if you've never received a letter in the mail making threats against you
00:51:06.040
and providing details about your home and your movements
00:51:10.640
that they could only know if they were watching your house physically,
00:51:15.960
if you've never had people show up outside of your house and take pictures of your house
00:51:25.320
if you've never experienced being doxxed by so many people all at once
00:51:31.680
if you've never been hacked and blackmailed and smeared and defamed,
00:51:35.080
if you don't have a file of death threats the size of a novel at this point,
00:51:40.060
then I just don't want to hear your lectures about taking risks.
00:51:59.380
Many of these from anonymous accounts talking about political courage
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Now, I have always said what I feel needs to be said regardless of the consequences.
00:52:15.500
And to hear lectures on political courage from people who've put absolutely nothing on the line,
00:52:25.040
Second, this attack on me was driven mostly by DeSantis influencers.
00:52:32.760
Whether they were paid influencers or not, I don't know.
00:52:36.200
But either way, they apparently decided that it was a good political strategy
00:52:39.060
to take one of the more prominent conservatives in media, which is me,
00:52:56.460
I mean, I've dedicated hours of this show over the years.
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To defending DeSantis against all manner of attacks, including recently.
00:53:19.380
You know, there's another DeSantis supporter account with a decent following that's been chastising me for weeks,
00:53:24.740
as far as I can tell, for not being pro-DeSantis enough.
00:53:29.980
Yes, you've supported him, but you need to support him more.
00:53:35.380
So spending hours of my show defending him, talking about him, how I like him, why I support him,
00:53:44.100
Listen, if I'm not pro-DeSantis enough, if I am your enemy now, too,
00:53:55.240
Look, this is not about, I don't care, you can say it, it doesn't bother me.
00:54:10.720
My show will never, ever be a political ad for a candidate.
00:54:19.680
I will never spend the majority of my time promoting a political candidate.
00:54:23.520
In fact, I will spend no time simply promoting a political candidate.
00:54:27.600
I'll talk about them when they come up in the news.
00:54:32.480
I'll criticize them when they deserve criticizing.
00:54:40.580
I've had, there have been plenty of times when campaigns have made, you know,
00:54:50.220
that they would like to bring me into the fold to be more a part of the team.
00:54:56.840
And I don't go to the dinners when I get invited.
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Oh, come to a dinner with this candidate, and we'd just like to talk to you.
00:55:03.360
And I don't begrudge candidates reaching out with that kind of thing.
00:55:20.980
I focus on culture, which is why we can go through major political stories
00:55:26.100
that I will almost completely ignore in some cases,
00:55:35.620
The political stories, no one's ever threatened to kill my whole family
00:55:38.760
because of something I said about a political story.
00:55:41.360
But I don't, oftentimes I'll ignore them completely
00:55:46.060
just because that's not what I focus on in this show.
00:55:51.200
It's what I think I have insight to provide on.
00:55:53.160
You know, many times also with these political stories,
00:55:56.320
not these particular ones we talked about today,
00:56:00.640
and I'll look at the commentary that's been made on it,
00:56:03.260
and I'll think, yeah, well, most people have covered it.
00:56:05.140
Like, I don't think I have anything to add on this.
00:56:07.440
And so those are the ones that I'll skip entirely.
00:56:28.000
If you think that my focus should be elsewhere,
00:56:30.360
if you think that I should be a surrogate for a campaign,
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if you think that I should be a bigger team player or whatever,
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towards the end of the show that you're watching
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and there's nothing scarier than handing out candy
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Well, maybe second to walking the streets at night
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and it's time to stock up on good, unwoke chocolate.
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it came to the attention of many women, rather,