Ep. 1280 - Democrat Staffer Fired For Filming Gay Porn In Capitol Building
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In the most disgusting sex scandal in recent memory, a Senate staffer filmed a gay porn video inside the Capitol. Also, Hollywood s next great idea is a film that portrays white people as dangerous animals who have to be controlled and civilized by black people. And the Biden administration is getting ready to tear down a Civil War monument in Arlington National Cemetery. The story gets more outrageous from there. We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Welch Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, in the most disgusting sex scandal in recent memory,
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a Senate staffer filmed a gay porn video inside the Capitol. The media doesn't want to talk about
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it. I don't want to talk about it for different reasons, but we will today. Also, Hollywood's
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next great idea is a film that portrays white people as, quote, dangerous animals who have
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to be controlled and civilized by black people. And the Biden administration is getting ready to
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tear down a civil war monument in Arlington National Cemetery. The story gets more outrageous
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from there. You need to hear all the details. We'll talk about all that and more today on
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Madison Cawthorn is not a name that you hear a lot anymore. He was elected to succeed Mark Meadows
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in Congress when Meadows became Donald Trump's chief of staff in 2020, even though neither Meadows
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nor Trump had endorsed Cawthorn in the primary. But that year, Cawthorn became the youngest person
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elected to the House of Representatives in modern history. And for a while, it looked like he would
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become maybe a major insurgent figure on the right, sort of like the conservative version of AOC with a few
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dozen more IQ points added to it. But then everything changed, and it changed very quickly.
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Starting around early 2022, Cawthorn began saying things that were extremely unpopular in Washington
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among both Republicans and Democrats. For one thing, Cawthorn described Ukraine's government as corrupt.
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He suggested that we probably shouldn't be writing them blank checks indefinitely. That was a big no-no,
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you can't say that. Even more alarming to the power centers in the nation's capital,
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Cawthorn publicly began talking about what he called, quote, the sexual perversion that goes
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on in Washington. As CNN reported at the time, quote, Cawthorn claimed that he has been invited
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to an orgy in Washington and had personally seen leaders in the efforts to curb drug addiction
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doing cocaine. Now, those comments upset House Republicans who challenged Cawthorn,
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implied that he was lying. And not long afterwards, a coordinated smear campaign began,
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and it was not subtle. It was as obvious as it could have possibly been. Within a month,
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senior political figures in both parties were publicly accusing Cawthorn of insider trading in
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connection with his promotion of a cryptocurrency. Reports surfaced that he had been driving with a
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revoked license. It was just this avalanche, all of a sudden, all this anti-Madison Cawthorn
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propaganda. As NPR reported, quote, Representative Madison Cawthorn is under mounting pressure from
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scandals ahead of midterms. And indeed, the smears worked. Roughly 95% of House members typically win
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re-election, but in the summer of 2022, Cawthorn was not among them. He lost his primary. Now,
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even by the standards of Washington, that's a pretty quick cleanup job. Madison Cawthorn stepped out
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line and within weeks, within weeks, he was gone. Nobody really asked any questions about who ordered
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the hit job or what they were trying to cover up. Could it be that this freshman congressman is right
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and that weird, degenerate sex stuff is happening all the time in the U.S. Capitol, right out in the
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open? No journalist or politician seemed to care about the answer to that question. They all took
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Kevin McCarthy's word and just assumed that Cawthorn must be lying. But this weekend, it became
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pretty clear to everyone that, yes, Madison Cawthorn was right. The depravity that goes on in Congress
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is far beyond what most people would imagine or would want to imagine. There's really no way to
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deny that anymore. That's because, as the Daily Caller reported, a staffer for Maryland Senator Ben
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Cardin decided to make a gay sex tape inside the Senate hearing room. The Daily Caller posted an excerpt
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from the sex tape on its website, which I do not recommend that you watch, but they posted it.
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And there's no doubt that this staffer, Aidan Mazie Choropsky, knew that he was being filmed,
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obviously. The man he was having sex with was the photographer, if we can call him that. And then
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Aidan uploaded this footage to the internet, noting that it was the same room in which Supreme Court
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor sat for her confirmation hearings. And then he was exposed in more ways than one.
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Once that happened, Aidan put out a statement admitting that he was in the video, but saying that
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only homophobes would be outraged by it. Yes, you have to be a homophobe to object to sodomy in the
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Capitol building. That's the excuse that he went with. But regardless of the excuse, the reality is that
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this event is unironically worse than January 6th, by a wide margin. If our democracy is this sacred
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thing that we're supposed to treat with odd reverence, as Democrats have frequently claimed,
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especially recently, then you would think that someone making a gay sex tape inside those hallowed
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halls of Congress would be considered one of the worst acts of desecration imaginable.
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Now, yes, granted, the American people get screwed all the time on Capitol Hill, so this may not seem
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like much of a deviation. This is probably not the first time in that sense that the Senate hearing
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room became a Senate rearing room, to steal a joke that 1,000 people already made on Twitter.
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But even so, this is still a scandal, and an especially disgusting one. And yet, if you rely
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on the corporate media for your news, you may have missed this story entirely. For the most part,
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media outlets have refused to cover it, and the few outlets that have covered the story
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have left out a lot of key details. So here, for example, is how one local Fox station reported on this.
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U.S. Capitol Police are investigating after a sex tape surfaced online.
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It showed two men engaged in sex acts inside room 216 of the Harris Senate office building.
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That's a famous hearing room where U.S. Senators have grilled high-profile presidential nominees,
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including Supreme Court justices. It's unclear if the tape will be considered criminal conduct,
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So you notice what's not mentioned in that report? You have no idea who filmed this sex tape
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or who's in it. For all you know, it could be some random tourist. And when that report aired,
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Fox was aware of the Daily Caller's reporting. They could have worked their sources and tried
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to confirm it. Instead, they just kept it as vague as possible. This was a common theme over the past few
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days. Some major outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post,
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simply chose to ignore the story entirely over the weekend. And for its part, NBC News decided to
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blame conservatives for the whole situation. And this was their headline. Quote,
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Senate staff are alleged by conservative outlets to have had sex in a hearing room
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is no longer employed. I mean, you could not phrase that in a more passive way if you tried.
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So they're making, first of all, conservative outlets, the boogeyman in this story, implying
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that they might be lying about it, even though this staffer uploaded this footage to the internet
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himself. They're also saying that the scandal is only alleged, even though, again, the guy's on video
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and he admitted it. And he wasn't fired either, according to that. He's just no longer employed.
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Carden staffer linked to sex tape leaves Senate. That's the actual headline they ran. The dude is
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merely linked to the sex tape. The sex tape that he's in, that he made, he's linked to it.
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That's the extent of his involvement. You know, if you hear that, you might think, like,
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maybe he's a cinematographer. Maybe he's an editor on the project. He's just linked to it. You know,
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he's in the credits is all. And again, he wasn't fired. Instead, he merely leaves the Senate.
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Now, keep in mind how all these outlets responded when Lauren Boebert got a little handsy with some
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guy in a dark theater. We don't need to go through the example. You remember what the headlines were
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about that. And that was treated as a major, massive scandal. That was a massive violation
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of congressional decorum and ethics. Meanwhile, we have this guy taking off his clothes and having
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gay sex in the Capitol building on video. And it's treated only as a minor story at most.
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If it's a story at all. Now, at this point, you're probably getting the sense that Madison
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Cawthorn might've been onto something. You know, it's, it's, it's not just that a depraved sex act
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took place in a Senate hearing room. It's also the fact that major media outlets and political
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figures are blatantly covering it up. They're intentionally writing their story so that people
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reading them won't have any idea what's going on. That's the kind of thing that makes you wonder what
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else is going on in Washington that you're not seeing. Maybe as Cawthorn alleged, there's a whole
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lot of degenerate sexual activity happening in Congress. It happened to the Roman empire in its
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final days. And now it's happening to us. But in reality, that would probably undersell the problem
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because to be fair to the late Roman empire, they at least arrested the pagans and we are idolizing
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them. Remember that just to remind you that this was the scene in the Iowa state house just a few days
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ago. A satanic temple has set up a display inside the Iowa state house. It's the holiday season and
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even secular government buildings display decorations for holidays that are rooted in religion like
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Christmas trees and menorahs. For 14 days, the satanic temple has erected a display alongside these
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major religious symbols inside the rotunda of the Iowa state Capitol. Lucian Greaves, co-founder of the
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satanic temple spoke to the satanic temple spoke to KCCI. We're going to really relish the opportunity to be
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represented in a public forum. We don't have a church on every street corner. Though the temple went
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through the correct administrative channels to present in the rotunda, the display is getting
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pushed back. One, I hope people realize spiritual warfare is real, that there are evil satanic forces that are
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trying to infiltrate our state. And not just the state, as we've seen. Now, as you heard on this
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show, a Christian military veteran named Michael Cassidy tore this satanic display down. He was
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arrested for it and charged with mischief. And on social media, you'll find, as we talked about last
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week, you'll find a lot of conservatives defending Cassidy's arrest. They'll say that they don't like the
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way this satanic idol was established in the middle of a government building, but they'll insist that
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the only reasonable way to remove it is through the legal process. They say conservatives should
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play by the rules of whatever bureaucratic system decided it was a good idea to allow this display
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to exist in the first place. They'll suggest that the First Amendment guarantees the right of these
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cultists to have their little display. Now, first of all, just as a factual matter, as we covered this,
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that's not true. If you showed any of the founding fathers this satanic goat head, they'd destroy it
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immediately. That's because Satanism was understood for most of the world history as an anti-religion.
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Indeed, it was understood that way for most of this country's history as well. It was the polar
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opposite of what the First Amendment respected. It wasn't until 2019, very recently, that the US
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government decided to recognize the satanic temple as a bona fide religious group. So this is something
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of a new idea, the idea that religion means whatever degenerates claim is a religion. Or in fact,
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religion is something that mocks religion is also a religion. But more importantly, whatever the First
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Amendment or the founders say, here's a more important law than even the First Amendment,
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which is natural law. This goes back to Plato and Aristotle. It's rooted in Catholic, jurisprudential,
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philosophical tradition. And it transcends whatever bureaucracy exists in Iowa that allowed this
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satanic idol to be erected in the statehouse in the first place. It transcends lawfare and endless
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litigation in federal courts. Natural law builds Western civilization, not bureaucrats in Iowa
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or left-wing district court judges in San Francisco. Satanism is an affront to natural law.
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It's maybe the most explicit affront to natural law imaginable, and Michael Cassidy understood that.
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The only thing that's surprising about what Michael Cassidy did is that he didn't have a lot of
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accomplices. Why was he the only one who decided to take this thing out?
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And what we're left with, just to recap, from this past week alone, Democrats have put up a satanic
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altar in one Capitol building and recorded themselves being sodomized in another. And that's
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just in a week. But none of this is particularly surprising given what we've seen in Capitol buildings
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all over the country all this year. A few months ago, they were marching through the Tennessee State
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House with bullhorns barging into other state capitals as well, waving rainbow flags. The White
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House raised a so-called pride flag as well. So did several other state governments. Let's watch.
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The rainbow colors of the pride flag are waving over Beacon Hill. The Pride Month ceremony kicked
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off at the State House this morning. Governor Maura Healy, the state's first openly gay governor,
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was there with lawmakers and members of the LGBTQ community. The governor says she is ready for this
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weekend's pride parade. Raising the pride flag today sends a message for all those who've only ever
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wanted to belong, who've had to find their own family. City of Albany celebrating the first day of
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LGBTQ pride. Albany officials in the Capitol Region Pride Center marking the day with a rainbow flag
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raising at City Hall. We need to ensure that we are allies. So when all these pride flags and trans flags
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went up, we were told it was just about love and respecting one another. You know, and we're
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supposed to believe it's just a coincidence, I guess. They're putting up all the pride flags and now
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they're having gay sex literally inside those same buildings. They're also putting satanic altars up.
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But if you draw any connection here, you're obviously a bigot. You want to incite division.
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Now, as for Madison Cawthorne this weekend, he tweeted three simple words. He wrote, quote,
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I told you. And indeed, Madison Cawthorne did tell us that degeneracy was on the march.
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And now it's all around us, especially thanks to the Biden administration. I mean, there's Sam
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Brinton, the cross-dressing, luggage-stealing nuclear waste expert, the guy who had a confessed
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dog fetish and liked dressing up in leather bondage gear on camera, and yet was given an important
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position in the administration along with a high security clearance. Then there's the trans
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activists who went topless at the White House at Joe Biden's invitation. Then there's Rachel
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Levine, the fake admiral and child mutilation enthusiast who makes a mockery of women every
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time he appears in public. All of these indignities are brought to us by the party that tells us they're
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returning decency to the ballot. They tell us they care deeply about the inner sanctums of democracy
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while they're filming pornos inside them. None of this is an accident. Consider the fact that,
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as Andy Ngo recently reported, the Senate staffer in that porn video, Aiden, has posted a lot of
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pornographic videos online going back several years. These are videos where his face is clearly visible.
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The accounts are clearly his. So none of this was hidden at any point. But Ben Cardin hired him anyway,
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kept promoting him. Nobody thought it was a problem for all that time.
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We know that Washington, D.C. has been Sodom and Gomorrah for a long time.
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But the point is they've never been so brazen about it.
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And they've never been more empowered by both political parties in Washington.
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And that means we're probably going to see a lot more of this kind of thing,
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which is disgusting and nauseating and sickening on many different levels.
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But at least there's no denying the truth now. We are a country run by depraved, pervert lunatics.
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We might as well face the fact. It's hard not to face it when it's standing exposed right in front
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So we begin with this from the Daily Wire. A school board member in Virginia took his oath
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of office with his hand not on a Bible, but on a stack of books containing graphic depictions of gay
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sex. Noticing a theme here, unfortunately. Carl Frisch, who will become chairman of the Fairfax County
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school board, swapped the Bible for books including Lawn Boy, Gender Queer, and Flamer.
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His male partner held the books as he placed his left hand on them and his right hand in the air.
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Frisch's campaign said on his website, he was sworn in on a stack of five LGBTQ-themed books,
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most frequently banned by other school systems. In September 2021, nearly all Fairfax school board
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members except Frisch fled the dais as mother read passages from the books. And then we get,
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I'm not going to read the passages myself, but yeah, this report, just so you understand what
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these books are, the ones that he decided to be sworn in on, there's some excerpts that again,
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I'm not going to read. But they are quite graphic. The report continues, Frisch does not have any
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children, so his interest in schools is unclear. That's generous. Doesn't have any children. So
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you've got a guy who's a big fan of gay pornography, apparently, really wants to be involved in the
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school system. You might start connecting some dots there about what his interests actually are.
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Um, interest unclear, except as an avenue for LGBT activism and to advocate on behalf of staff,
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as opposed to the people staff serve, his partner is a choral director for the school system.
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Frisch is a Democrat campaign consultant from California and has few roots in Virginia.
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So he's got no, you know, it's really, it's from California, no real roots in Virginia,
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doesn't have kids, and yet he wants to be serving on the school board,
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which is already a problem. Like that's, that's problem number one before we even get to the gay
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porn. And I, and I do hate that we have to continue the gay pornography theme here. It's never a good
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sign when the first two stories on the show are related to gay sex, but this is, um, uh, that's the
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way it shakes out today. And, and, you know, this particular story, I would say is actually a
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positive development in a certain sense, because this represents a level of honesty that we haven't
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seen from these people yet. Um, and we're only just sort of start starting to see that when we have a
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school board member saying that, that basically gay porn is his Bible, you know, it's his guiding
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light, his, uh, his foundation, gay porn distributed to children is the most important thing to him.
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That's what he is apparently announcing. And it's good that he's announcing it because he's saying,
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yes, he is a degenerate freak, a pervert, a depraved clown, a disgusting reprobate. Um,
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given his interest in these, uh, in, in, in, in, in this material and in having it in the school
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system, he's saying yes to all of that proudly. Um, and it's good that he's saying yes proudly
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because it makes the choice clear. And there has been more and more of this recently. We just talked
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about some of it, this, this clarity, right? These moments where the distinction is obvious,
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even to the most oblivious people among us. Now you really shouldn't need to see a school board
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member getting sworn in on a stack of gay porn to know that these leftist school board members are
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sick, reprehensible scumbags who shouldn't be allowed within a thousand feet of a school,
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much less should they be allowed on the school board. But some people do need it explained to them
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this way. Um, and, uh, and, and so now it's explained and you see that it's a simple choice.
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Do you want your schools to be run by people who have a religious reverence for gay porn or not?
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Um, is this what you want for your kid? I mean, would you even let your kid alone with somebody like
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this? Would you let someone babysit your child? If you found out that that same person once took an
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oath on a stack of gay porn, would you let that person babysit your kid? You wouldn't.
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So the, the line between the good guys and the bad guys, it couldn't be more clear. I mean,
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honestly, culturally speaking, it's, it's never been more clear. And I know there's a lot of people
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that liked, even people on the right who like to say that, well, you know, both sides are the same
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these days. It's a lot of gray area. You know, when, when you look at the, at the, on the political
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level, Nash, especially national political level, you'll get the establishment of both parties.
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Yes. It's, it's hard to distinguish between the two because they want the same things.
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And the names that they, the letter next to the name means very little in terms of, uh,
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of, you know, of who they really are, but culturally speaking from a broader, broader cultural context,
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left versus right. Um, there's, there's never been a more clear, more stark division.
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And even if you don't have, now, as far as I know, this is the first leftist school board member to be
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sworn in on a stack of gay porn. So most of them are not doing that yet. But the idea that this
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material should be in the school system, you know, these particular books, what is it? Genderqueer,
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flamer, lawn boy. And again, if you, if you, if you, if you don't, if you've never seen what's
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actually in these books, I could, I can't really recommend that you go look it up because it's quite
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disturbing, but you should understand just so that it's not, this is not ambiguous for you. Um, uh, that,
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that, you know, when I, what I say that these people want to put actual gay porn in schools, this is not
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an exact, it's not hyperbole. Okay. That's literally what they want and what they have
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already done. They've put this stuff in the schools. So sure. Uh, most left-wing school
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board members are not going to be sworn in on a stack of gay porn, but almost all of them
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will absolutely insist that this stuff should be in the schools.
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And it's not just left-wing school board members on the left jet. I mean,
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ask Joe Biden, he'll tell you, this is a mainstream position on the left that not only should this
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stuff be in the schools, but if it isn't, if you take it out, then you are no better than a Nazi
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burning books. This is a, it's a Nazi book burning session. If you take actual gay pornography out of
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the school system. So this is another area where the line could not be more clear. Like,
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do you think it's okay to have gay porn in the schools or not? It's, there's, there's no middle
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ground. There's no gray area. It's not a, well, it's yes or no. And if you can't automatically say,
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no, it's not okay. Then, then like you're an evil person. You're just, you're one of the bad guys.
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And, uh, so at least we have people like this who are, again, making that dividing line very clear
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for all of us. And, uh, you can make your choice accordingly. All right. There's a new movie coming
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out called, this is what it's called, the American society of magical Negroes. That's the name of the
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book movie rather. Uh, I want to show you a clip of this trailer, which has gone viral for all the
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I know you can feel their discomfort, Aaron. Watching you walk through a room full of white
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people was the most painful thing I've ever seen. Excuse me. Sorry. I don't want to take
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you to a job interview. There's a recruiting class starting right now and we've got to get
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your winner. Welcome to the American society of magical Negroes.
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What's the most dangerous animal on the planet?
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White people, when they feel uncomfortable. White people feeling uncomfortable precedes a
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lot of bad stuff for us. That's why we fight white discomfort every day. Because the happier
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Um, that's real, apparently. That is actually a real thing that they're making, uh, have already
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made, I guess, and will be coming out. And that's the plot of the movie, basically. The premise is
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that white people are so volatile and violent that black people are constantly having to appease them
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in order to keep the peace. That's the whole point of the movie. That somehow white people are
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dangerous and black people are always walking on eggshells in order to not offend, not offend or
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upset them. This is, this is the premise of the film. Um, now, okay. First of all, obviously this
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movie is absurdly racist. Obviously you're not going to see a movie where black people are called
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dangerous animals. I mean, they put that right in the trailer. White people are the most dangerous
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animals on the planet. This is not subtle. I mean, this is not subtle anti-white racism. It's just,
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this is full on dehumanizing, calling them dangerous animals. Um, and you're not going to
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see that in the reverse. Obviously a whole plot about how white people have to civilize black people,
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uh, is just not ever going to exist. It's not going to happen. And this movie can only exist
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going one way. Um, it's also just as obvious that the film will be a flop because who is the audience
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for this? Like the audience is going to have to be racist black people and, and, uh, and I guess
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woke white people who want to impress racist black people, racist black people, and the very woke white
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people who want to impress the racist black people, but you probably can't even come to think of it.
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You probably can't even get the second group, the woke white people. They're not going to come and
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watch this because, because first of all, they're, they're not going to want to say the title,
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right? So like, they're not going to feel comfortable going up to AMC and going up to the guy,
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the cash register who could very well be a black guy and saying, yes, I'd like two tickets to the
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magical society of the society of magical, uh, you know, the, that one, what was that? What did
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you want to, the society of magical, uh, colored people of color. So it's a movie that only woke
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white people would see, but they definitely won't see it. So you're left then with racist black people
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as your sole demographic, except that you actually need racist black people with bad taste in movies.
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Um, even more so, and I don't know what percentage of racist black people have bad taste in movies.
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I'm not really sure, but you, so you've taken a, you've taken one relatively small demographic and
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then a smaller demographic within that demographic and then even smaller demographic within the
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demographic within the demographic. And it's just probably not going to translate into a blockbuster
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film. I don't know what the financial projections were for this film, but there's no way they looked at
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the script and said, oh yeah, this is a $300 million movie that we're making 300 million on
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this thing. But of course they're not trying to make money with this film. Um, they also aren't
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trying to tell a good story or make a quality movie. And that's the odd dynamic that you see in
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Hollywood now. So, I mean, it used to be that Hollywood would put out some movies just for the
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money, just for the profit, right? The big tentpole blockbuster films. And then they'd put out other
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movies for the artistic credibility, uh, films that probably wouldn't make a lot of money,
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but they'd be critically acclaimed and people would, would like them. And, and, you know,
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and, uh, and they'd win some awards and you can build your reputation that way. Um, and that's the
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way that, that movie studios used to work. Yet you had movies that were supposed to make money
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and then movies that really weren't supposed to make money, or at least were not expected to.
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Well, now you still have movies that are supposed to make money and that are only designed to make
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money. Those are the superhero movies. And then you have also have movies that aren't supposed to
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make money. But the difference is that the movies that aren't supposed to make money also are not
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made for artistic credibility anymore. Now they're made for political credibility,
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which means that even your low budget films and, and your films that don't make money
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are also soulless and cynical, just like the big blockbusters are.
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So it's all soulless and cynical all the way down. And, uh, and this movie clearly is.
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But the main thing here is just the, is just the, the fantasy land scenario that the left plays in
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when it comes to racial issues and, and when it comes to really any issue, but especially on racial
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issues. Now, obviously the whole movie is a fantasy movie. It has magical in the title.
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But, but it's also obviously supposed to be saying something about reality.
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And the thing that it's saying about reality is just absolutely ridiculous.
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Like the idea that black people are walking around all cautiously around white people,
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because white people are like, are likely to lash out violently against it. It's just,
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it's absurd as if a black person ends up in a, you know, is like driving and ends up in a
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white suburb and he's lost or something. And he sees that he's in a suburb and he kind of locks
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the door and rolls the window up. Oh no, we're in the suburbs now. Look at all these white middle-aged
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women jogging. I'm nervous. I got to get out of here. It just doesn't happen. They've created this fantasy land,
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this upside down opposite ville scenario, which is always the leftist strategy, which is not to tell little
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lies. I mean, they tell little lies too, but, but it's not so much the little lies. They tell really
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big ones and they completely deny the most obvious realities. They rewrite reality right in front of our
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faces. And they, and they create this reality that, that, that does not comport with anyone's actual
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experience. We hear so much about lived experience. Okay. That's that movie. That's not anyone's lived
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experience. Um, but this is what they do and they insist on, they rewrite it and they insist on the
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rewrite and they insist that we all accept the rewrite and, and pretend to believe it. And I guess the
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idea is if you pretend to believe it for long enough, then you'll really start to believe it.
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Those white, woke white people. I was, I mentioned, they're not going to go see this movie,
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but, um, they will, you know, they'll see the trailer and they'll at least pretend
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that the premise makes sense to them. They'll say, Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. The white people are
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most dangerous. You know, black people are always having to calm us down and stop us from lashing out.
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Like they'll pretend that they, that the premise resonates. And I don't know, you pretend enough
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of eventually do you, do you fool yourself? Maybe that's the way it works. All right.
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Most important story of the day, I think here is the New York post. Um, it's official. The elf
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on the shelf trend has gone too far. Keeping kids entertained during the festive season can be tough.
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And just like many other parents, mom of two, Cece has turned to elf on the shelf to bring in the
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laughs. Every evening, the American woman was committed to outdoing herself with a new setup.
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One day she left the elf in a pair of underwear stuck to the fridge. The next, uh, the elf cut up
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her kids' t-shirts and a cheeky prank. So on the sixth day of the tradition, she had an idea to
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outdo them all. In the now viral clip, she shared her creative vision and it left people stunned and
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feeling disgusted. Standing in the bathroom, Cece ran the bath and held out a plastic bag.
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Inside was a school of tiny goldfish swimming rapidly inside a bursting and bursting to get
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free. With the help of her husband, they cut open the bag, emptied the fish into the bathtub.
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Um, and then, uh, and then they set up the elf like the elf was fishing. And there was a sign
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that said, don't mind me just fishing. And that was the setup. And anyway, people are upset and
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outraged and they're saying it's animal abuse, abusing the goldfish or whatever. Uh, I think we
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have that video. Look, here it is. We'll watch a little bit. I don't know why.
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All right. Okay, that's it. That's what you can do. Did you really need three, did you need three
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hands to open up to hold the bag of goldfish? Um, now look, I know that you all are probably
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expecting that I will have a really cynical and negative take on the elf on the shelf thing.
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And you're right because I do. Uh, I hate it so much. I don't care about the goldfish. I'm not
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offended by that particular example of the elf of the shelf thing. Uh, in general, I hate it. I hate
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it. I don't think I hate, I might hate it more than I hate anything on earth at this point. Now,
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granted, I have a personal grudge because, you know, you have to understand six kids, right? And you
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might think, oh, okay, well, you have six kids. You must have one elf for all the kids to share
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one elf that moves around every night and all the kids share in the wonder and merriment. And all
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the kids say, look, our one elf has moved. Amazing. Nope, not in my house. That's not how we do things in
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my house. We have six elves, six elves. Each kid gets their own elf. That's what was decided. I didn't
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decide it, but it was decided. And so every night, six elves have to move. Six. And the thing is,
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you know, here's what I thought. I thought, well, at least some of our kids are getting older, uh,
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and, and the kids will age out of this elf thing. And then, and so then we could start paring it down
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a little bit. Nope, wrong again, because our oldest two, they don't even believe in the elf thing
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anymore. And they, they know what's up. They still have an elf. So, because, you know, and our
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youngest two are babies and they don't understand. They have elf also. So we have six elves and no,
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actually we have more than six because we also have, um, the elf, some of the elves have pets.
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Did you know that was a thing? A couple of the elves have like dogs. So you can move the,
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the elf and the elf dog. And here's the problem with the elf on the shelf.
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The first few nights, parents have fun with it, right? They're on night six and they're doing the
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goldfish. Where do you go from there? What, what's your plan next? It's like you're one up
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every night. It's more elaborate. And then what, when you get to night eight, it's good. You're
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going to have a drop off. No, you got to keep getting more, but it's, it's, it's, it has to end
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somewhere. And so the first few nights, parents have fun with it. Some of them do, but then
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quickly it becomes a chore. It's like this chore you have to do every single night. And, uh, and you
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know, my, my wife now at night, she's like, oh man, I have to move the elves again. And I'm like,
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no, you don't, you don't have to. This is not, this is not a thing we had to add to our lives.
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You could just not do it. We can be free of this, this totally useless and pointless chore
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that we have complicated our lives with for no reason. But it gets better because the kids are
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really excited about the elves every morning. So that means that they wake up at the crack of dawn
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every morning in December to come down and see where their elves moved to. Now, when I was a kid,
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my parents had to deal with that, with the kids waking up excited at the, you know, before dawn
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one morning in December, on December 25th, we do it every morning for the entire month.
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And now we're stuck because once you get into it, you can't get out. You're like, it's like,
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it's like making a deal with a drug cartel or something. It's like, it's like borrowing money from
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the mob because once you're in it, you can't get out because then, and when I've talked to my wife,
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I said, well, let's, let's just not do the elves this year. And then I'm told, well, we can't,
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we can't not do the elves because then we're gonna have to tell the kids. What are we gonna tell the
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kids? That the elves ran away? They were abandoned by their elves? Like the elves are magical. They just
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show up. That's the whole deal. So how do we explain to them if the elves don't show up? Do the elves hate
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them? Did they do something wrong? What do we say to them? Well, I know what I would say. I would just say,
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listen, kids, the elves aren't real. Come on. Like, obviously, these are toys. That's what I would
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say. But we can't say that. So this is what our lives become for all of the, it's not even Christmas
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anymore. It's, it is the elf month. The whole elf takes over the whole thing. I'm not bitter about it.
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I'm a little bitter. Let's get to, uh, what's well strong.
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proviahair.com slash Walsh. It's proviahair.com slash Walsh. Apache says, Matt, I love you and I'm part of the sweet
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baby gang, but I really don't understand your idea of raising your kids without phones. To make it fair,
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let's make it so that parents who don't let their kids have phones also can't have phones or internet
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access at all. Um, well, no, that would not be fair because, uh, they're, because we're adults
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and my kids are kids. So there are actually all kinds of things that, that I have access to at my
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home that my kids don't have access to. Like, uh, I don't know, like the butcher knives and the
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bourbon and lots of other things that, uh, that, that, that I can use and that my kids cannot. So
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we, we, we just put the phone into that category and it's not that my, that I'm raising our kids
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without phones. That's not true. I mean, they, they are fully familiar with phones. They have used
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phones. They have talked on the phone many times. Uh, grandma calls and wants to talk to them. They
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talk, you know, so, so they're, they're, they, they have, uh, are quite familiar with, with phones.
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Um, so it's not really raising my kids without phones. It is raising my kids in a way so that the
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phone does not become the central focal point of their lives, which for millions of kids in this
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country is the case. So if you don't raise your kid without a phone, quote unquote, to use your
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phrase, um, the other option is that your kid, that the phone will become the focal point of your
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kid's life. There really is no third choice. I mean, the only third choice would be, um, a dumb phone,
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like a flip phone that only makes phone calls, has no internet access, has no games or anything.
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And, uh, yeah. Okay. And if you give your kid a phone like that, and I, you know, and I don't,
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I don't really object to that. Um, and if you give your kid that kind of phone, then the phone's not
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going to become the focal point of his life. But you know, when it, when it comes to smartphones,
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if you give that to your kid, it will become the central focal point of his entire life.
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Um, and there's like no exceptions. It's just, it, and when you give the phone to your kid, you are,
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you are deciding that you might not be, you might not think of yourself as deciding that,
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but that is to say, you are saying, here you go, junior, this will be your life now runoff.
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And, um, I just refuse to allow that. Jim says, um, quoting me, the founding fathers wouldn't have
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accepted this. He says, honestly, we don't need to ask people who've been dead for 200 years for
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advice in every single part of life. Uh, I actually agree with you on that. Um, for me, it's, it's like
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the fact that we shouldn't have satanic altars. I mean, this is, that's what I was referring to.
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The fact that we shouldn't have satanic altars in Capitol buildings, the reason that we shouldn't,
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it's like the fact that the founding fathers would have objected is not the top reason. It's like
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reason number, you know, it's, it's, it's worth mentioning only when people start quoting the
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first amendment, which the founding fathers came up with. So then, so then at that point,
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I think it's relevant to, uh, rebut that by saying, well, okay, but they obviously were not
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intending to protect the right to set up a, you know, a severed goat's head and a satanic altar in
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a state house. But generally speaking, yeah, I think we can use, you know, things like our own
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common sense, our own moral intuition. Um, you know, I, I, I refer to those much more often
00:45:36.220
than I refer to like what Thomas Jefferson said. And finally, Devin says, we know what is good and
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bad because everyone knows it. Didn't everyone know Christianity was bad when it was just starting
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out. You can't just appeal to the obviousness of any particular case. There should be a standard.
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I think it should be displays only at the local level.
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Sure. You need standards. You need laws written down. You need all those things. I'm not advocating
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against it, but we are, I am talking about natural law here basically. Um, and, and, and the basic kind
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of moral intuition that's written on all of our souls in that we all recognize. And, and, and you
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might say, well, you can't appeal to that one way or another, you're going to end up appealing to that.
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If you want to argue in favor of any proposition, like any legal, any law, if you want to say that
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anything should be allowed or not allowed, and then people start asking you why it doesn't take very
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many whys until you end up back at our universal moral intuition that's written on our souls.
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Eventually you end up back there. And like I said, it doesn't, it's not that many moves before you,
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you end up there. So like you could play this game pretty easily. You might say a murderer should be
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illegal. Nobody should be allowed to do that. Why? Well, because when you murder someone, you're,
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you're killing them. Well, why is that wrong? Well, because you're hurting another person.
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Why is that wrong? Already you've made it to like, well, because, because it is, because it's,
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it's objectively evil and we all know it. Eventually you end up back there. And I know the
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kind of libertarian position is to all, you know, you want to stop the cop. Once you get to the point,
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you know, you want to say that the only things that should be illegal or that are really wrong
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legally are the things that hurt other people. And then you want to stop it there. So if you can
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prove that something hurt someone else, then you want to end the conversation. But you're ignoring
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the next question, which is why does it matter if you hurt someone else? You can't ignore that.
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And if you try to brush it off and say, well, come on. Well, that, that is you appealing to
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exactly what I'm talking about. You're basically saying, well, of course that's wrong. We all know that
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that's wrong. So one way or another, you end up back there. And, um, my only point is that that's
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not a bad thing. And, and there are things that we all just know are wrong. That doesn't mean that
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people don't do them. You know, that doesn't even mean that, that governments won't try to come up
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with ways to, to, to come up with legal versions of them. Like murder, for example, many societies
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Over a century ago, in the year 1906, about 40 years after the end of the Civil War,
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Secretary of War William Taft authorized the construction of a Civil War monument that would
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ultimately be completed and unveiled in the Arlington National Cemetery in 1914. And there
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it would stand for 110 years without causing any trouble. Far from it. In fact, the monument was
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revered and beloved. So much so that for decades, every U.S. President, Republican and Democrat,
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would send a wreath to be laid at the site. Even Barack Obama participated in that tradition.
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Now, before I tell you more about this memorial, including what it's called,
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let's fast forward to the current day. For 110 years, the memorial was honored by many Americans.
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To most, it was probably unknown. It sat there, harming no one, creating no problems of any kind,
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until right now. Over a century after the monument's construction, over a century and a half after the
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Civil War was fought, it has been decided all of a sudden that the memorial must come down. In fact,
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it's so urgently must come down that we're told it's worth desecrating the hundreds of graves
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surrounding it in order to get rid of the thing. Fox News reports, quote, despite efforts from a group
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of Republican lawmakers, a Confederate statue in the Arlington National Cemetery will be removed in the
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coming days. The Confederate statue was part of the push to remove military installations named after
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the Confederacy in the wake of the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. According to a press
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release from the National Cemetery, the statue will be removed from the cemetery by December 22nd.
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The move to remove the statue is in compliance with the congressional mandate to remove all
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Confederate memorials by January 1st, 2024. The congressional mandate passed in 2020 declared
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that the Department of Defense must remove all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia
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that honor or commemorate the Confederate States of America by January 1st, 2024.
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An Arlington National Cemetery spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital that safety fencing has been
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installed around the Confederate memorial as preparations begin to deconstruct the memorial,
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which was erected in 1914. So as part of the moral panic over the death of a criminal drug addict
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in 2020, this monument will be torn down. It's being done at the behest of the so-called Naming Commission,
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which was formed according to the wishes of Elizabeth Warren, with the purpose of renaming or
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destroying all monuments or statues with ties to the Confederacy. And now is probably the best time
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to tell you the name of the statue. And it is not the Confederate statue because it's not a statue
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meant to honor the Confederacy. In fact, it is called the Reconciliation Monument. It is literally a
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monument to reconciliation. It was designed to symbolize national unity in the wake of the Civil War.
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And that's not my interpretation of it, okay? This is the express, explicit purpose of the monument.
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It was commissioned specifically for this reason, as a sign that the country had moved on from the
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conflict, a sign that we were all countrymen again, a sign of reconciliation, hence the name.
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So we must ask, if the monument symbolized reconciliation, then what does its destruction symbolize?
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Now, don't worry. You may feel disgusted and infuriated by this systematic campaign of
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desecration, this crusade to destroy our history by destroying some of our most beautiful and cherished
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works of art. You may find it repulsive and insane. You may wish that everyone involved would be
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arrested and thrown in prison, which is what they deserve. And I may share all those feelings with
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you. But fear not. As the vice chair of the Naming Commission explained in a local news interview,
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they simply know better than you. And you should trust their judgment instead of your own. Watch.
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And if there's one thing that commemorates a Confederacy more than just about anything we've
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seen, it's this monument. Retired Brigadier General Ty Sigily, the vice chair of the Naming Commission,
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says the message the monument conveys is clear. Among the symbols, two figures of enslaved people
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and a Latin quote that translates to, the victorious cause was pleasing to the gods,
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but the lost cause to Cato. And in a way, it's saying that they were right,
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that the Confederates were right, and the United States is wrong. In 2020, Congress authorized the
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commission to review Confederate assets on military bases. Sigily says people should trust the bipartisan
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nature of the commission. So we have Republicans, Democrats, former military, defense intellectuals.
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We're a very diverse group in every way you would think that Americans are diverse. And yet we came
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together to do this mission. There are plenty who oppose the recommendation, including Diane
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Brills, who was visiting from Florida. All history should be recognized and it should not be removed.
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But Sigily has a message for them. They're still going to teach the Battle of Chancellorsville
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at West Point. And Lee is still going to win every year. But this is about commemoration,
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about our values. Yes, you see a very diverse group. Establishment Republicans, establishment
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Democrats, former military, defense intellectuals. It is a varied mix of totally indistinguishable
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left-wing elitist bureaucrats. It's a diverse group that consists of swamp creatures, other types
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of swamp creatures, plus some other swamp creatures, and then to mix it up, additional swamp
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creatures. And this collection of soulless hobgoblins have simply decided that this beautiful, historically
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significant memorial is no longer consistent with our values. And by our, he means his.
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He has the moral values of a reptile and commemorating all of those who died 150 years ago in the bloodiest
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war in our nation's history does not comport with his reptilian values. And so the memorial must come
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down. Now, it's worth noting one minor detail here, which is this is against the law. They do
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not have the legal authority to tear a monument out of the cemetery just because they don't personally
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like it. This violates both federal law and the legislative mandate that Congress gave itself when
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it formed the Naming Commission in 2020 in the first place. Despite how it may seem, these people
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don't actually have the legal authority to just do whatever the hell they want as long as they can cloak
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it in the guise of racial equity. There are laws in this country, allegedly, and they are once again
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being thrown to the side with little fanfare and almost no protest. But somehow the blatant lawlessness
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is not the most outrageous thing here. It's hard to say what the most outrageous thing is, as the whole
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thing is utterly repugnant and infuriating. This is indeed a war on our history. It's also a war on other
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things. It's a war on beauty, for one. Aside from the historical significance of all the monuments that
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they're tearing down, these are also artistic masterpieces. I don't know who coined this term,
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but I've heard these statue topplers described as aesthetic terrorists, and there couldn't be a
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better description. They are indeed terrorists waging a jihad against beauty. But it is also a
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war on history. The people conducting this war, they're not honest about it because they aren't
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honest about anything. But their agenda could not be more clear. They say that they aren't erasing
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history because you can still read about the history in books. But what they don't tell you
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is that, first of all, they're also in the process of rewriting the books. As you've heard on this show,
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publishing companies have hired sensitivity readers to actually change the content and language of
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books in order to make them more sensitive. So yes, you can read about the Battle of Chancellorsville
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in books until you can't anymore. But second, even if they left the books alone,
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history is not supposed to be contained only in books. The whole point of having historic monuments
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and statues and artwork, the whole reason why every civilization in history has produced these things
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and revered them, is that it helps people stay connected to their history in a way that simply
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reading about it can't. These are physical reminders of where we came from and who got us to this point.
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Why do you think ancient societies without any modern technology spent decades painstakingly building
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giant monuments to their own historical heroes? Because they realized that you need to stay connected
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to your past and be reminded of it and have a spirit of humility and gratitude in the face of it.
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It is that spirit that our elites want to extinguish.
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They want to create a society full of people who live in a historical vacuum,
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severed from their past, detached from their future, lingering in a kind of nihilistic limbo
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where neither history nor legacy matter. That's the goal.
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Now, this is where it gets a little confusing, though, because at the same time,
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somewhat paradoxically, the people who seek to sever us from our history also want us to remain stuck in it.
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Now, they don't want us to honor our history or commemorate it or memorialize it or learn from it
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or, least of all, understand it. But they do want us to retain historical resentment and guilt.
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Okay? That is the one part of our history that they wish to keep intact.
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That's how we've ended up in this bizarre situation where people today, in the waning days of the year 2023,
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somehow act as though the wounds of the Civil War are fresher for them than they were for people
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who lived 100 years ago. Back then, people were ready to be reconciled.
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They had put the resentment to the side. They were capable of seeing the dignity and heroism
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of men who fought on both sides. They nearly universally respected both Robert E. Lee
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and Ulysses S. Grant. I mean, these were people who had living relatives who fought in the war.
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These were people who lost family members at Antietam and Gettysburg.
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These were people who had actual, literal, physical wounds from the Civil War.
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And yet, they were somehow able to recognize the dignity and courage of the men who died on either side.
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And they wanted to be unified as a country again.
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So, like, they were much more connected to the Civil War,
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and yet a lot less upset about it in a certain way.
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So, how is it that we, a century later, have apparently more resentment and more anger
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stemming from the event that the people who lived through the event didn't even have?
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And yet, it's our generation that is apparently still so upset
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that we can't stand to see Robert E. Lee's name on a building.
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And we can't stand to know that there are Confederate graves at Arlington.
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Our grandparents didn't feel that way, but we do.
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It's a situation that our elites have intentionally set up.
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But they have successfully created a society filled with people who know nothing of their history,
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do not honor it, do not remember it, don't know anything about it,
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and yet still hang on to its anger and its hatreds and its resentments.
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People, you know, who couldn't even tell you who was president in 1961,
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and yet who at the same time act like they are deeply hurt by things that happened in 1861.
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People who could not tell you what happened 40 years ago,
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and yet who act wounded by things that happened 400 years ago.
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People detached from all aspects of the past, except for its grudges,
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That's the kind of country the elites wanted to create, and they have.
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we cannot have anything called the Reconciliation Monument,
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because reconciliation is the very last thing that they want.
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And it's why those statue topplers are, once again, with a vengeance, canceled.