Ep. 1264 - Blue State Decriminalizes All Drugs. Total Societal Breakdown Immediately Follows.
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The advocates for drug decriminalization have gotten what they wanted across the country, especially in the state of Oregon. But a new report reveals that what they really wanted was the total breakdown of society. Also, a pop star plans to give out banned books at her concerts in Florida, and the NSA goes fully woke. Finally, Marvel s new feminist superhero movie is their biggest flop of all time. We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the advocates for drug decriminalization have gotten what they wanted across the country, especially in the state of Oregon.
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But a new report reveals that what they wanted, apparently, was the total breakdown of society.
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Also, a pop star plans to give out banned books at her concerts in Florida, which is a problem considering that no books are banned in Florida.
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Finally, Marvel's new feminist superhero movie is their biggest flop of all time.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Shortly after an 18-year-old opened fire on children at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas last year, killing 19 students and two teachers,
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the New York Times published a lengthy front-page article on the killer's background.
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And one line in the Times report didn't last very long before an editor deleted it from the article without explanation.
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The sentence in question quoted one of the gunman's co-workers at Wendy's as saying that, quote,
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he would often talk about how much he despised his mother and grandmother, whom he told her did not let him smoke weed or do what he wanted.
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It was never clear why that particular line was deleted.
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Most likely they wanted to push gun confiscation instead, and it kind of confused the narrative.
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But in any event, the New York Times didn't want to talk about the shooter's marijuana use.
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If the blogger Alex Berenson hadn't spotted the change, it's likely no one would have ever noticed it.
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What we do know is that if the shooter in Uvalde was indeed a pothead, then there are a lot of other examples just like it.
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Many other mass shooters from Parkland to Aurora to Tucson to Sutherland Springs were reported marijuana users.
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That dovetails with research showing that young people who used marijuana were more than twice as likely to commit acts of violence.
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To just give one example, the American Journal of Psychiatry published a meta-analysis of several large-scale studies three years ago.
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These results demonstrate a moderate association between cannabis use and physical violence.
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Cannabis use in this population is a risk factor for violence.
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Now, you never hear about these studies, probably for the same reason that the New York Times censored itself for mentioning marijuana in the context of the Uvalde shooting.
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In elite circles, talking about the consequences of marijuana use is unpopular.
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Anything that discourages people from smoking more weed is also disfavored.
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It's almost like they want the masses to be drugged and passive, which might explain why the cigar tax in New York is 75% while the marijuana tax is less than 15%.
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Regardless of what exactly explains that discrepancy, the PR effort to push marijuana has obviously been successful over the past decade.
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Two dozen states have passed some form of legalization or decriminalization of marijuana.
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And because slippery slopes are real, and anybody who uses the term slippery slope fallacy is lying to you, the decriminalization movement did not end there.
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Instead, it progressed far beyond marijuana, as it was always destined to do.
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Three years ago, on the heels of the race riots following the overdose of George Floyd,
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Oregon became the first state in the country to decriminalize the possession of all illegal drugs.
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Nearly 60% of voters in the state approved this measure.
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It was Measure 110, along with a separate measure that legalized the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms for therapy.
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And the idea was that the laws against heroin and meth and other drugs were counterproductive and oppressive and, of course, racist.
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Given that decriminalization is so far untried in the U.S., it's difficult to say how it would play out.
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In that sense, Measure 110 would create a real-time experiment for Oregon and the rest of the country.
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Well, not long afterwards, though, we started to see the results of this experiment.
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In 2022, a local news station embedded with the head of a Portland drug interdiction task force.
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Back at the office, Ferguson is willing to show us drugs and guns seized recently in two separate cases.
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I have a couple of cases that are back-to-back cases we did this week.
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And in each case, it's fentanyl possession and stolen handguns.
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Ferguson said because Measure 110 reduced possession for small amounts of drugs, including oxycodone, the drug business has flourished.
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The fentanyl pills are counterfeit oxycodone pills.
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And by decriminalizing that, it's basically legitimized criminal organizations.
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And the drug possession use and sale is just rampant with very little consequences.
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And it's taken away our tools as police officers to sort of interdict that.
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Reported drug offenses in Portland dropped from 880 the year before Measure 110 went into effect to 364 the year after.
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And Ferguson was involved in a bust last June in which investigators found 500 fentanyl pills along with 44 firearms,
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two of which were machine guns and 1,000 grams of methamphetamine.
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Okay, so Measure 110, the officer says, is the reason that fentanyl and stolen handguns and machine guns are flooding Oregon.
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And Measure 110 has everything to do with it, he tells the reporter.
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Well, now three years after Measure 110 was passed, voters are tired of it.
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Polls now show that a majority of residents in Oregon want to recriminalize hard drugs.
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After they just decriminalized it, now they want to recriminalize it.
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And a ballot measure doing so is expected next year.
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And that's because, predictably, decriminalizing cocaine and heroin and everything else has led to nothing less than a breakdown of society in Oregon,
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to the extent that there was a society there before this.
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This week, the Wall Street Journal published an extensive analysis into the effect of Measure 110 on the state.
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It's a report that everybody should read as it just, I mean, it entirely annihilates the case for drug legalization.
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I don't think there's ever been a side of an issue that has been this thoroughly and completely debunked using not just studies or speculation, but real world.
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Now we see in the real world what actually happens when all drugs are legalized, and it is a disaster.
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And yet still, almost all the pro-drug legalizers are simply ignoring it.
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They've gotten what they wanted in Oregon and to a lesser extent all across the country.
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But you notice that they're not out, like, touting the success of the policy they advocated for.
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The paper reports that as a result of the law, quote,
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Police in Eugene, Oregon report that this year there have been 858 calls for overdoses.
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In 2020, the number was 438, which was already high.
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The whole point of Measure 110 was to force these people to go to rehabilitation services instead of jail.
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So, in sum, Oregon's decision to decriminalize all drugs has been an abject and totally predictable disaster.
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It turns out that when you invite people to do drugs whenever and wherever they want,
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you end up with a lot more people doing drugs whenever and wherever they want.
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You know, advocates for decriminalization have always claimed that somehow decriminalizing drug use will not lead to more drug use,
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as though the law has no effect on people's behavior.
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But that flies in the face of everything we've observed about human behavior since the dawn of civilized society.
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When the law allows a certain behavior, you get more of that behavior.
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Like, it's not hard to figure out this equation.
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And that's why, unless we want a lot more overdose deaths and illegal guns in major cities,
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we should be taking a very close look at all forms of drug decriminalization,
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including the more limited efforts that we've seen across the country.
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As I mentioned earlier, weed is legal in most places now.
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Is there any evidence that it's making anything better?
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Can we look at, like, the promises that were made by the weed legalization side?
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I mean, by the naked eye, it certainly seems to, rather than helping anything,
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it seems to be contributing to our social decay.
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It has a demoralizing effect, at the very least, to walk through any city in America now
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and smell the stench of weed everywhere with people walking around stoned anywhere you go.
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And I say this, by the way, as someone who, for a time, believed that weed, not any other drug,
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should probably be, you know, just be legalized or at least decriminalized,
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There was a time when I bought into that same idea,
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but I can look around at our cities and smell the stench everywhere
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and I can ask myself, has this made society better or has it made it worse?
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I mean, that's the question everyone should be asking themselves.
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Now, aside from the naked eye test, what does the data say?
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For a lot of reasons, it's hard to measure the precise impact
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of marijuana decriminalization on people's quality of life.
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There are so many variables, including the decision by leftist DAs
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And because of that, you know, it's difficult to ascribe any particular blame
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Now, to be sure, a lot of jurisdictions that have legalized or decriminalized marijuana
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New York legalized cannabis in 2021, for example,
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and then immediately saw its overall crime index jump by more than 22%.
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Along the same lines, after Washington's Supreme Court struck down the state's drug laws,
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effectively legalizing all drugs until legislators could fix the problem, crime spiked.
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Washington's rate of violent crimes jumped from 337 per 100,000 people in 2021
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to more than 375 per 100,000 people in the following year.
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Now, there's no easy way to determine with absolute certainty at this stage
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what role drug legalization is playing in all of these numbers specifically.
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There have been some attempts at drilling this down.
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A couple of years ago, analysts at the Justice Research and Statistics Association
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looked at the impact of marijuana legalization or decriminalization in 11 states,
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including Washington, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, and others.
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And they did this by speaking to local officials and law enforcement personnel
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And the researchers found that after Washington state legalized recreational marijuana use in 2020,
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arrests for both the possession and distribution of heroin
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And remember, we were always told that the whole thing about the gateway drug is a myth.
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Meanwhile, in Colorado, which also decriminalized POT a decade ago,
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An Oregon respondent reported a 55% to 60% increase in marijuana-related DUIs
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Along the same lines, a separate research team from the University of Utah
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scrutinized crime data from Oregon, and they found that, quote,
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results provide some evidence demonstrating a crime-exacerbating effect
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of recreational marijuana legalization as reflected by substantial increases
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in the rates of multiple types of serious crime in Oregon
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relative to non-legalized states following legalization,
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as well as other crimes such as burglary, motor vehicle theft,
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Now, none of this is really particularly surprising
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What is perhaps surprising, though, is that given what we know and don't know,
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several states are still pushing the decriminalization agenda.
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Ohio, for example, is set to decriminalize the drug in just a few weeks,
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and I want you to watch how local news is covering this.
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Well, marijuana will be legal to buy and sell in the Buckeye State in just 24 days,
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but that doesn't mean that marijuana shops will be open just quite yet.
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Our Michael Sandlin, he joins us live from the Eastside tonight.
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And, Michael, I understand you spoke to a professor who kind of broke down the timeline
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Yeah, Jeff, I spoke to Professor Brandon Cohen,
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who teaches multiple cannabis management classes at UToledo.
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He said looking at how things went in Michigan and Colorado,
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he expects it will be a little over a year before we start seeing marijuana shops
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He walked me through the process it's going to take to get there,
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saying that once issue two makes it through the legislature,
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the same group that regulates and works with legal medical marijuana and liquor.
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They sent all the rules and regulations for sale,
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Once that's finished, they'll ask the public to submit proposals for businesses.
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And once those are reviewed and the best candidates are selected for licenses,
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we just start seeing businesses for recreational use start to pop up around Q4 of next year.
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Now, if you voted for issue two, you know on the ballot it says
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these new businesses will bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue.
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And the report goes on like that for a few minutes longer,
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where you notice that they're not talking about how decriminalizing marijuana
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is going to make everybody more productive and happier members of society.
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They're not claiming that it's going to make the state a better place to live,
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which is really what every law ultimately should be designed to do.
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Every law ultimately should have the objective of making life better for people.
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Before you talk about rights and freedoms, that ultimately is supposed to be the goal.
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And if there's a law that's going to make life worse for people, then it's a bad law.
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That's the number one way that you know it's a bad law, if it's making life worse.
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It's really not. It's actually a pretty simple test.
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So they're not talking about how safe the schools in Ohio will be
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after young children with mental disorders are granted even easier access to psychoactive drugs.
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You know, they're telling you how much money the state will make.
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And that tells you something that even left-wing voters in Oregon are now realizing,
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which is that the more recreational drugs you legalize,
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the more crime and urban decay you have to deal with.
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People are, again, more likely to do something when there is no legal ramification for doing it.
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That doesn't mean everyone stops doing drugs when you make it illegal.
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It just means that the fewer obstacles in the way, the fewer consequences,
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And so before you legalize drugs, you should ask yourself,
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is it going to be good for society if more people are doing this?
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Is that something we want to facilitate that as voters?
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And if you answer no to that question, then you don't legalize it.
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And it's not just because of the practical obstacles put in place when something is illegal.
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It's also because the law is a teacher, as the saying goes.
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A thing begins to seem less objectionable to people when the law endorses it.
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And also, there's something else that's been revealed by the decriminalization across the country,
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So the other thing that we hear from the libertarian types is that,
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well, if you could decriminalize drugs, and it only, it just affects the people.
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When someone decides to do drugs, it just affects them.
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Let people do what they want to do with their own lives.
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If they want to poison themselves, it doesn't affect anybody else.
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Okay, well, it's very clear that that is not the case.
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See, it turns out when you've got a bunch of people who are all deciding to poison themselves,
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The breakdown of society actually affects everybody.
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So ultimately, there's no upside for anyone but the state treasury,
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and also the politicians who desperately need voters to be as stoned and submissive and out of it as possible.
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Otherwise, if voters aren't high out of their minds,
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they might realize what these politicians are doing to their communities.
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They might realize that destruction and decay are a choice.
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And then, like the voters in Oregon, they might decide they finally had enough of it.
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So there's a big exclusive report from Daily Wire today.
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It says the National Security Agency, responsible for monitoring threats, both foreign and domestic, from the U.S. military,
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assumed a new responsibility under the Biden administration, creating a massive glossary of woke terms for employees,
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ranging from anti-racist to the gender-neutral pronouns Zay and Zer.
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A copy of the NSA's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Glossary, obtained and verified by the Daily Wire,
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shows that the agency now provides definitions for terms such as queer theory and white fragility
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as part of its expansive guide for 327 social justice terms that blame white Europeans for engaging in settler colonialism
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White Europeans, settler colonialism, transmisogyny.
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The 34-page document, published internally on May 6, 2022, but never released publicly before the Daily Wire's investigation,
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pushes blatantly left-wing views on race and sex.
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It explicitly endorses the tenets of critical race theory and queer theory, both of which are included as terms on the glossary.
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The leaked, unclassified NSA document identifies itself as a glossary of terms and language commonly used in dialogue
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regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.
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It also cites Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi as sources.
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The DEI glossary goes on to list a plethora of different vocab words associated with queer theory,
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like transmisogyny, which is defined as the intersection of transphobia and misogyny.
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There's also demigender, demiboy, and demigirl.
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So what we're seeing is the, of course, the further ideologizing, which isn't a word, but I'll make it one,
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the further ideologizing of what are supposed to be non-political, non-partisan areas of government.
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And now I realize that non-political area of government is like an oxymoron.
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But even so, the idea is that agencies like the NSA are supposed to be non-ideological.
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Yet as we see the Biden administration, because they're Democrats, because they are modern leftists,
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they do not believe in allowing anything to be non-ideological.
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They don't even agree that that should be a goal, even if it's ultimately an unachievable goal,
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because people individually are political and ideological.
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And so you put them together in any context, and that's going to be a part of it.
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For them, everything and everyone must not only conform to leftist doctrine,
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but must make the spread and promotion of leftist doctrine into their primary goal and their primary function.
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And this is one of the defining features of modern leftism,
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that everything and everyone exists primarily to spread the ideology of leftism.
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That that's what, you know, every institution, no matter what it is, whatever, no matter what its charter is,
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coming before that always is the spread and promotion of modern leftism.
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But there's also a deeper strategy at work here that we have to understand,
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which is that Democrats are continuing to ensure that they control the government whether or not they win the presidency,
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whether or not they control the House or the Senate, that they still control the government.
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Day by day, year by year, they work to make elections effectively irrelevant.
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Everyone talks about the need for election integrity, which is an extremely important issue.
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But I think what's missed is that the ultimate kind of like rigging that they're up to right now
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is making it so that the elections don't even really matter.
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Because it doesn't matter what, essentially the elected officials become like figureheads
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standing sort of at the top of this bureaucracy that is fundamentally to its core left wing.
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It is ideologically captured, no matter who is running it.
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Even if Trump wins the White House in 2024, he still will have a national security agency
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staffed by ZZERS and centered around DEI, just like the rest of the federal government.
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You know, if the bureaucracy is left wing, then it will advance left wing causes
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no matter what figurehead sits at the top of it.
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And that is also why draining the swamp, which I've noticed has not been a phrase used as often
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We don't hear it as much among Republicans, which is troubling because that should still
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be one of the primary goals of any Republican is to, quote unquote, drain the swamp.
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We talked a few days ago about Vivek Ramaswamy's plan to fire half of the federal government
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immediately at random, just based on their social security number.
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And that is the kind of thing, that's the kind of plan that's needed here.
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And when we talked about a couple of days ago, we were focused on the fact that the government's
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But what is more important is that the government is also a radically left-wing, behemoth, blob-like
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And firing half of them right out of the gate, that's still a good place to start.
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It certainly makes the whole thing more manageable.
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So the question to ask all the Republican candidates is, what exactly are you going to do?
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Explain in detailed terms what you plan to do to deal with this problem, to deal with
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an enormous bureaucracy of astronomical size, that is fundamentally left-wing to its core,
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ideologically captured by the left, that will work against you every step of the way,
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and is also working, more importantly, against the people every step of the way.
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We've heard Ron DeSantis speak in detail about this.
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Like, what are some practical things that can be done?
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Pink posted a list of what she said, the singer Pink, posted a list of what she said were banned
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books that she planned to give away during her four concert stops in Florida.
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But the problem is that they aren't really banned in the state.
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The 44-year-old pop star recently announced that she's teamed up with a nonprofit called
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Penn America to hand out 2,000 banned books while touring the Sunshine State.
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And she mentioned some of the books that she would be giving out
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that were banned in Florida, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Catcher in the Rye, The Kite Runner,
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So it's the banned book narrative, as always, is a lie.
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If Pink is giving out banned books at her concert,
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which is probably the best strategy because I don't know who's going to a pink concert
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but I don't think these are people that do a lot of reading anyway.
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And second, the list of banned books is zero books long.
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And which kind of makes sense because if they were banned in the state,
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then you wouldn't be able to announce ahead of time,
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hey, I'm going to this state to hand out this banned substance.
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And if it's true, as Pink and anyone on the left would say,
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but also Florida is run by a fascist dictator named Ron DeSantis,
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then that's all the more reason why you wouldn't be able to do that.
00:29:29.800
hey, fascist dictator, I'm going to come into your state and break your laws.
00:29:33.960
So the fact that the left feels perfectly comfortable saying that,
00:29:40.840
I think kind of proves that they don't believe their own nonsense.
00:29:45.320
Because you could, I mean, look at any country in the world
00:29:48.660
that we could accurately say is run by a dictator,
00:30:02.000
No state anywhere in the country has banned any books.
00:30:05.680
You know, banning a book would mean passing a law prohibiting the book from being sold.
00:30:17.820
The book banning narrative is a total fabrication.
00:30:24.860
I mean, it's about as real as the noose that was in Bubba Wallace's garage.
00:30:28.520
I mean, it is in the same vein as a hate crime hoax.
00:30:39.420
But there are some books that have been removed from schools.
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Because there are thousands of books in the world that have been,
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Only a relative few of those many, many countless thousands are available in schools.
00:31:12.220
Because a school cannot make every single book that's ever been written available.
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So decisions are made about which books to assign in schools or to make available in schools.
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The vast majority of books that have ever been written will not be in the schools.
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You could say that you take any school in any state.
00:31:37.260
And you could say that almost none of the books that have ever been written are in this school.
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Because there are so few books in the school compared to all the books that have been written.
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Only the smallest little sliver of a selection will be in the school.
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So does that mean that every school has banned almost every book ever written?
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It just means that only a small selection in a school of books are judged to be appropriate, one, and relevant to school-aged children.
00:32:12.940
And some states and districts have arrived at the obviously correct conclusion that, for example, gay pornography is neither relevant nor certainly appropriate for school-aged children.
00:32:24.160
So books like Genderqueer and other books like that have either been removed from schools or not put in schools to begin with.
00:32:31.600
And when the left talks about book banning, that's what they're referring to.
00:32:37.060
Which means that Pink, I guess, is apparently planning to give out gay porn at her concert.
00:32:46.240
Now, does that mean that book banning isn't happening at all?
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Well, I guess it kind of depends on how you look at it.
00:32:54.160
But I would say, yes, book banning is not happening anywhere.
00:32:58.500
But does that mean that all is well and good in the land of books, in literary land?
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Because something worse than book banning is actually happening.
00:33:10.780
There is a worse form of quote-unquote book banning.
00:33:18.440
And for the left, for the most part, they're not trying to ban books.
00:33:21.680
Because, you know, banning a book would be too honest.
00:33:29.740
If you just flat out say, this book is not allowed because we don't like it.
00:33:35.680
That, in fact, would be much better than what the left is really doing.
00:33:39.100
Instead, they are keeping the book on the shelves.
00:33:44.320
So all the books are allowed to stay on the shelves.
00:33:46.880
But they're changing the content inside the book.
00:33:52.000
And this is what we've talked about on the show before.
00:33:54.980
Which is a topic that should get a lot more attention than it does.
00:33:58.600
Especially in response to the left constantly screaming about book banning.
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The answer from the right should be, no, book banning isn't happening.
00:34:10.240
What they call quote-unquote sensitivity readers.
00:34:13.940
And as I said, we spent plenty of time on the show talking about this phenomenon.
00:34:20.400
And that is when you have publishers hiring radical leftists to come in and rewrite books according to leftist sensibilities.
00:34:34.160
And they are doing this oftentimes to dead authors who obviously have not consented to having their own writing.
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I would much prefer, I would much prefer if the left came along and said, you know, in this state, you can't, those books are not allowed.
00:35:01.800
But little do you know that they have changed the content of the book.
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And put words in a dead author's mouth and on his pen.
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And it's happening all over the publishing industry.
00:35:22.980
Another report from Daily Wire says, Target is once again under fire for offering over-the-top leftist merchandise in its stores.
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The company faced criticism and boycotts earlier this year for its pride merchandise, which included tuck-friendly female swimwear.
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And a children's merchandise emblazoned with pride messaging.
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Now they're back at it with their Christmas decor section.
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And the account NWokeness shared some images, apparently from a Target.
00:35:56.800
Trans nutcracker, which is, I'm just now processing that for a second.
00:36:03.780
It's so, so on the nose that it's, how is that even real?
00:36:11.180
And then next we have the disabled Black Santa as well.
00:36:15.640
So, you know, Target is fully still embracing the trans nutcracker.
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I almost intended to not object to that because, like, it kind of, it actually makes sense in a certain way.
00:36:30.880
But just be careful what kind of nuts you're cracking with that nutcracker.
00:36:34.880
This is obviously a crazy woke nonsense at Target.
00:36:39.620
They've decided to stay in this lane and take the sales hit, I guess.
00:36:51.940
But, you know, I'm more focused on the fact that Santa is disabled.
00:36:56.120
I know there needs to be more of a conversation about that.
00:37:03.580
Did he have some kind of collision in his sled?
00:37:10.000
So I'm not, when I see the disabled Santa, this doesn't make me mad.
00:37:21.680
And also, I think maybe even a greater concern is, like, how does this work logistically?
00:37:32.480
How does he go down chimneys in his wheelchair?
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Do we need to build wheelchair ramps to make our chimneys handicap accessible?
00:37:45.640
So, you know, I believe in, we should always ask questions.
00:37:51.380
All right, finally, you've probably already seen this, but I've had it on deck here for
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And it's, I'm not going to say it's worth mentioning, but we are, anyway, Megan Rapinoe
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tore her Achilles, apparently in the last game of her career.
00:38:06.680
And this happened a few days ago, and she was asked about that.
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And she finds kind of a cosmic significance in that event.
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This is a long one, although I'm going to get the Aaron Rodgers treatment, whatever that
00:38:18.940
is, so I'm going to be calling him or whoever did his surgery, because we need to speed
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I mean, you know, I'm not a religious person or anything.
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And if there wasn't God, like, this is proof that there isn't.
00:38:36.700
So, yeah, it just, it's just f***ed up, you guys.
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It's like six minutes in, f***ing eat my Achilles.
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It's kind of amazing, this, to someone who is so, just so dedicated to being as viscerally
00:38:54.400
unlikable and unappealing as she can possibly be.
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Like, everything, always, anytime you see her on camera, before you hear what she's saying,
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when you take one look at her, you're already annoyed.
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And then you hear what she has to say, and she's just, there's a level of consistency
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Like, she's like the Cal Ripken Jr. of being unlikable.
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She just keeps putting in the hours every single day, and she doesn't take a break from
00:39:26.580
If there was a God, this is proof that there isn't.
00:39:30.000
And of course, as many people have pointed out, if anything, her injury is proof of the
00:39:43.380
And actually, if anything, you know, like, if anything in her career would call into question
00:39:49.340
divine justice, it is that she had a career in the first place.
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So if you're going to pull anything from Megan Rapinoe to say that it calls into question
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anything, it's like, how did a person like this, how were they allowed to be prominent
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But I think ultimately, Rapinoe's unearned prominence and financial success does not
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disprove God or his justice, because we live in a fallen world.
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A Waynesboro observer says, Matt, be careful wishing for more involuntary commitments to
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I think today's government would put Americans believing in traditional gender norms there
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I don't know if this is one where you win the game here, if it was Walsh wrong.
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No, ultimately, you don't, because I share your concern, but, and I think that you're, I mean,
00:42:06.040
I'm worried about the exact same thing, which is why, you know, it took me maybe a little
00:42:10.000
bit longer to jump on the bring back insane asylums bandwagon because of this exact concern.
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Because we know who the powers that be consider to be insane.
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And we also know that there is this considered process that's been happening for decades now
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to slowly but surely medicalize and kind of psychologize the entire human condition.
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And so that eventually everybody counts as being insane.
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And so you combine that with, if they did bring back insane asylums and you worry about it.
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So it is a real concern, but it's also, we have discovered the other option is untenable.
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The other option is to have actually insane people just walking everywhere in society.
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Terry says, you are complicit in the incivility in political and social discourse.
00:43:18.440
You and all your colleagues make a living on spreading hatred and divisiveness.
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So the fact that right-wing zealots are trying to start fistfights in the Senate
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I don't think I deserve, Terry, the credit for that.
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I don't think I deserve the credit for that wonderful, quite wonderful moment that we played
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on the show yesterday of a fistfight almost breaking out during a Senate hearing.
00:43:40.440
I don't think I deserve credit for that, but I'll take it.
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As far as spreading divisiveness, you know, I'm going to guess that that is a charge you
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have, you know, interestingly enough, fascinating to think that that's a charge that you probably
00:43:58.020
have never leveled at anyone you disagree with.
00:44:00.960
And so like most people, Terry, when you say divisive, when you complain, oh, you're being
00:44:05.420
divisive, all you mean is that, is that I am disagreeing with you that.
00:44:14.880
And finally, shaking my head says, Matt, the federal government can already trace any post
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The story of how they found him via a chat room stunk up my whole house.
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She wants to legalize, she being Nikki Haley, wants to legalize what they're already doing.
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Um, yeah, we, we don't need to follow the Nikki Haley path of forcibly unmasking, uh, every
00:44:40.860
anonymous account on the internet so that she can know what was her exact phrase.
00:44:46.980
I think she said that exactly talking about anonymous accounts.
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Uh, even if you don't do that, yes, the federal government can find out if you've ever, whatever
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you've ever done on the internet, uh, the federal government already knows about it.
00:45:00.400
And, um, and if they don't, they can find it out.
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And, uh, and so we know that's true, but it just goes to show that Nikki Haley, that, you
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The lack of privacy, the fact that, um, we have this politicized apparatus tracking people
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You know, the world can be a bleak place and getting bleaker by the day, which is why it's
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all the more important to celebrate the good news when it comes.
00:46:47.680
Rejoice in the victories, which brings us to this past weekend and the opening of the
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latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a phrase that I prefer not to use
00:46:57.220
because the universe itself is vast and varied and fascinating.
00:47:01.140
But the Marvel Universe, on the other hand, is repetitive and dull and tedious and pointless.
00:47:09.040
It's just a series of films where each film exists only to set up the next film, which
00:47:14.360
And the whole thing altogether primarily exists to sell merchandise.
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The only similarity between the actual universe and the Marvel Universe is that the actual
00:47:23.300
universe has lots of black holes, and the Marvel Universe is a black hole.
00:47:27.720
It is a giant, gaping vacuum that has expanded by consuming the rest of the movie industry
00:47:32.860
so that at this point in 2023, nobody in the movie industry knows how to make a movie unless
00:47:38.460
it involves people in rubber suits kicking each other.
00:47:40.980
All that to say, the latest Marvel movie, creatively titled The Marvels, was a massive,
00:47:50.080
We should also note, as this is likely not a coincidental factor, that the film is a
00:47:54.100
female-led girl power fest starring a team of women superheroes headlined by feminist actor
00:48:01.240
The abysmal numbers show just how thoroughly uninterested audiences seem to be in this kind
00:48:05.940
One, the Marvels opened with a $47 million weekend, which is a number that might seem high
00:48:13.360
given that $47 million would be enough to feed 9,000 African villages for 100 years or
00:48:19.680
But in terms of Marvel movies, it is a catastrophic failure.
00:48:22.940
Easily the worst opening weekend in the history of the Marvel franchise generally.
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And made all the worse when you compare the box office receipts to the production budget.
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Reportedly, the Marvels cost something like $275 million to make.
00:48:36.620
And that is just the production budget of the film.
00:48:38.560
It doesn't count the many millions spent on marketing.
00:48:41.660
Yet, just to recover the production budget, the Marvels would have to earn somewhere just
00:48:49.380
And based on the opening performance, it is extremely unlikely that that will happen.
00:48:53.800
The film is doomed to go down as yet another recent big-budget Hollywood flop.
00:48:57.880
In fact, the performance has been so bad that according to The Hollywood Reporter, it has
00:49:02.320
Marvel Studios rethinking their whole strategy for making and releasing films.
00:49:09.880
This isn't the first warning sign that something's been amiss within Marvel in terms of quality
00:49:13.940
control, as Kevin Feige's team has been in overdrive producing shows for streaming.
00:49:18.660
Features Eternals and Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania also received B-Cinema scores, while
00:49:23.820
audiences began complaining about keeping up with an increasing number of shows on Disney
00:49:31.060
Behind the scenes, Marvel Studios and Disney were well aware the Marvels was in trouble
00:49:36.320
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter there was also a recognition that Feige and his team
00:49:40.140
needed time to take stock of their theatrical tentpoles.
00:49:43.040
On November 8th, Bob Iger said on an earnings call that Disney's movie empire is, quote,
00:49:47.060
lost focus because of an emphasis on quantity over quality in the rush to feed Disney Plus
00:49:52.000
under the Bob Chapek regime, though it was Iger himself who initiated this push before
00:49:57.460
Sources say Feige and his team felt this mandate keenly to the detriment of Marvel's movies.
00:50:01.900
The next day, Marvel and Disney revealed they were scaling back the number of superhero
00:50:05.260
films they will release in 2024 from three to just one.
00:50:08.840
Well, if I could offer some solace to audiences, you don't need to keep track of the overarching
00:50:17.040
You're watching a series of extended toy commercials, and the narrative is very much a secondary concern
00:50:22.880
if it ranks even that high, which I don't think it does.
00:50:26.200
But this leads to the question of why a redundant, lifeless, big-budget, but weirdly cheap-looking
00:50:31.420
feminist superhero girl power movie would perform so poorly.
00:50:34.840
Now, that's not a question that any sane person has to think very hard to answer.
00:50:40.080
You know, I just kind of answered it in the question itself.
00:50:46.500
They've, of course, decided that it must be sexism.
00:50:49.760
So here's an article in The Stylist laying the groundwork for this excuse before the box
00:50:55.500
That's how you know, right, that a movie is good, is that before it comes out, they're
00:51:00.300
already telling you that if you don't watch it, you're a bigot.
00:51:02.880
Um, quote, fresh off the back of first reviews, fake takes about the film have sadly started
00:51:09.120
to circulate on X, formerly Twitter, from people who have not yet seen the movie.
00:51:14.580
The first trailer stirred the sexist trolls from their slumber, and after they review-bombed
00:51:19.120
Captain Marvel, it was almost inevitable that they would return to do the same for the
00:51:22.800
Within two days of its release, the teaser became the most disliked video on YouTube,
00:51:26.400
with one user labeling it Captain Feminist and the Patriarchy Stone, which is great.
00:51:33.640
It seems that the toxic underbelly of the comic book franchise is back on display as
00:51:38.220
some misogynistic fans attempt to slander a brilliant film simply because it's led by
00:51:57.080
Why else wouldn't people flock to see a movie where a bunch of annoying women run around
00:52:04.060
That's the conclusion shared by the director of the film, too, Nia DaCosta.
00:52:07.340
As Breitbart reports, she was making these kinds of excuses well ahead of time.
00:52:11.340
As Disney's The Marvel goes down as the biggest flop in Marvel Cinematic Universe history,
00:52:17.540
the movie's director, Nia DaCosta, has played her final three cards, race, gender, and sexuality.
00:52:22.540
The Marvel's director lashed out at haters, calling them bigots in a recent interview with
00:52:27.360
But the irony is that her movie's largest group of ticket buyers has turned out to be
00:52:32.080
Nia DaCosta sounded off on the negative fan buildup to the Marvels during the interview.
00:52:37.620
There are pockets where you go because you're like, I'm a superfan.
00:52:40.880
I want to exist in the space of just adoration, which includes civilized critique.
00:52:45.340
Then there are pockets that are really virulent and violent and racist and sexist and homophobic
00:53:00.160
It is not only racist and somehow homophobic to dislike the Marvels.
00:53:05.540
Not paying 30 bucks for two tickets to the Marvels this weekend is an act of violence.
00:53:11.820
Choose the side of light, the director implores you.
00:53:18.020
Now, the problem with blaming the movie's horrible performance on sexism and racism, one of the
00:53:23.680
dozens of problems anyway, is that, as it said in the article, by far the largest demo who went to
00:53:35.280
So perhaps Nita Costa needs to take this up with all the women and racial minorities who arrogantly
00:53:42.180
and violently declined to go see the movie in theaters.
00:53:48.580
Or maybe, alternatively, she is the one who failed by failing to make a movie that anyone wants to see.
00:54:01.860
I think there are two reasons, both of which we've already alluded to.
00:54:05.280
The first is that, for the most part, the truth is, nobody really wants to see female-led action movies.
00:54:15.040
People are not that interested in female action stars.
00:54:19.240
Hollywood insists that we should be interested, but we just aren't.
00:54:23.700
Female audiences are, it turns out, especially not interested in female action stars.
00:54:31.020
There are a few iconic female action heroes, like Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in the Alien films, and a couple of others.
00:54:37.540
But as a general principle, action movies are a man's domain.
00:54:51.500
And that's why, if you look at a list of the top 50 highest-grossing action films of all time, maybe two of the top 50 were led by women.
00:55:00.140
And one of them was Captain Marvel, coming in at 19 on the list, which grossed about a billion dollars.
00:55:06.420
But that film was sandwiched in between Avengers Endgame and Avengers Infinity War, both in the top five.
00:55:12.680
And it rode their coattails to box office glory.
00:55:15.340
So Captain Marvel is kind of like the WNBA of superheroes.
00:55:19.120
Her existence depends on the success of her male counterparts.
00:55:23.080
Although, in fairness, people did actually go to see Captain Marvel, but literally nobody in history has ever seen a WNBA game.
00:55:29.620
In any case, the point is that audiences aren't generally interested in female action films.
00:55:35.940
It's not because of sexism, given that female audiences are also uninterested.
00:55:40.360
It's more that men, by and large, just they make more compelling, more convincing, more entertaining action heroes.
00:55:50.460
I mean, it is my opinion, but it's not just my opinion.
00:55:52.580
All of the objective evidence suggests that it is the opinion of almost all moviegoers, men and women alike, whether they put it so bluntly or not.
00:56:01.400
Also, the audience for action movies is primarily male, especially superheroes.
00:56:06.120
So, like, when an eight-year-old boy goes to see Spider-Man, he likes to imagine himself as the hero.
00:56:11.620
No eight-year-old boy is running around the house with a bath towel made into a cape, shouting,
00:56:19.580
Hollywood has tried to turn the action genre into a woman's domain.
00:56:28.040
But the social engineering just hasn't taken hold and probably never will.
00:56:31.560
And second, as I've already covered, female-led or not, the superhero genre is, it has long since grown stale.
00:56:40.060
Now it is moldy and decomposing on the counter.
00:56:43.300
There is just a limit, right, to how long you can convince the audience to come back and watch the same story over and over again.
00:57:12.480
I don't need to spend two decades of my life watching this same thing over and over and over again.
00:57:17.280
But a lot of audiences, apparently, they needed to do that.
00:57:20.360
But even those audiences are the ones that have a much greater tolerance for repetition,
00:57:29.600
I would say that their tolerance for repetition is too great.
00:57:33.680
But at least now, most of them seem to agree that if Marvel wants us to watch their movies,
00:57:38.140
they need to start making actual movies rather than, as Martin Scorsese would say,
00:57:43.160
amusement park rides that go around in circles forever, never ending, never saying anything,
00:57:50.540
Or they can keep on their current track and continue losing money, which is perfectly fine with me.
00:57:59.240
Either way, it's not just me saying, but all of America apparently saying,