The Matt Walsh Show - December 18, 2023


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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00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Wall Show, in the most disgusting sex scandal in recent memory, 0.99
00:00:03.380 a Senate staffer filmed a gay porn video inside the Capitol. The media doesn't want to talk about 0.97
00:00:08.380 it. I don't want to talk about it for different reasons, but we will today. Also, Hollywood's
00:00:12.120 next great idea is a film that portrays white people as, quote, dangerous animals who have 1.00
00:00:16.580 to be controlled and civilized by black people. And the Biden administration is getting ready to 1.00
00:00:20.360 tear down a civil war monument in Arlington National Cemetery. The story gets more outrageous
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00:01:51.120 Madison Cawthorn is not a name that you hear a lot anymore. He was elected to succeed Mark Meadows
00:01:58.200 in Congress when Meadows became Donald Trump's chief of staff in 2020, even though neither Meadows
00:02:02.920 nor Trump had endorsed Cawthorn in the primary. But that year, Cawthorn became the youngest person
00:02:08.240 elected to the House of Representatives in modern history. And for a while, it looked like he would
00:02:12.520 become maybe a major insurgent figure on the right, sort of like the conservative version of AOC with a few
00:02:18.900 dozen more IQ points added to it. But then everything changed, and it changed very quickly.
00:02:24.560 Starting around early 2022, Cawthorn began saying things that were extremely unpopular in Washington
00:02:30.980 among both Republicans and Democrats. For one thing, Cawthorn described Ukraine's government as corrupt.
00:02:37.820 He suggested that we probably shouldn't be writing them blank checks indefinitely. That was a big no-no,
00:02:42.840 you can't say that. Even more alarming to the power centers in the nation's capital,
00:02:47.980 Cawthorn publicly began talking about what he called, quote, the sexual perversion that goes
00:02:52.780 on in Washington. As CNN reported at the time, quote, Cawthorn claimed that he has been invited
00:02:57.340 to an orgy in Washington and had personally seen leaders in the efforts to curb drug addiction
00:03:02.000 doing cocaine. Now, those comments upset House Republicans who challenged Cawthorn,
00:03:07.340 implied that he was lying. And not long afterwards, a coordinated smear campaign began,
00:03:12.800 and it was not subtle. It was as obvious as it could have possibly been. Within a month,
00:03:18.300 senior political figures in both parties were publicly accusing Cawthorn of insider trading in
00:03:22.700 connection with his promotion of a cryptocurrency. Reports surfaced that he had been driving with a
00:03:27.280 revoked license. It was just this avalanche, all of a sudden, all this anti-Madison Cawthorn
00:03:33.760 propaganda. As NPR reported, quote, Representative Madison Cawthorn is under mounting pressure from
00:03:39.500 scandals ahead of midterms. And indeed, the smears worked. Roughly 95% of House members typically win
00:03:45.580 re-election, but in the summer of 2022, Cawthorn was not among them. He lost his primary. Now,
00:03:52.380 even by the standards of Washington, that's a pretty quick cleanup job. Madison Cawthorn stepped out 1.00
00:03:58.040 line and within weeks, within weeks, he was gone. Nobody really asked any questions about who ordered
00:04:05.860 the hit job or what they were trying to cover up. Could it be that this freshman congressman is right
00:04:12.480 and that weird, degenerate sex stuff is happening all the time in the U.S. Capitol, right out in the
00:04:18.460 open? No journalist or politician seemed to care about the answer to that question. They all took
00:04:23.700 Kevin McCarthy's word and just assumed that Cawthorn must be lying. But this weekend, it became
00:04:28.900 pretty clear to everyone that, yes, Madison Cawthorn was right. The depravity that goes on in Congress
00:04:33.760 is far beyond what most people would imagine or would want to imagine. There's really no way to
00:04:40.260 deny that anymore. That's because, as the Daily Caller reported, a staffer for Maryland Senator Ben
00:04:45.340 Cardin decided to make a gay sex tape inside the Senate hearing room. The Daily Caller posted an excerpt 0.97
00:04:52.660 from the sex tape on its website, which I do not recommend that you watch, but they posted it.
00:04:57.660 And there's no doubt that this staffer, Aidan Mazie Choropsky, knew that he was being filmed,
00:05:03.480 obviously. The man he was having sex with was the photographer, if we can call him that. And then
00:05:10.480 Aidan uploaded this footage to the internet, noting that it was the same room in which Supreme Court
00:05:15.400 Justice Sonia Sotomayor sat for her confirmation hearings. And then he was exposed in more ways than one.
00:05:23.260 Once that happened, Aidan put out a statement admitting that he was in the video, but saying that
00:05:27.140 only homophobes would be outraged by it. Yes, you have to be a homophobe to object to sodomy in the
00:05:32.960 Capitol building. That's the excuse that he went with. But regardless of the excuse, the reality is that 0.97
00:05:40.060 this event is unironically worse than January 6th, by a wide margin. If our democracy is this sacred
00:05:48.180 thing that we're supposed to treat with odd reverence, as Democrats have frequently claimed, 0.97
00:05:52.660 especially recently, then you would think that someone making a gay sex tape inside those hallowed 0.99
00:05:57.760 halls of Congress would be considered one of the worst acts of desecration imaginable. 0.99
00:06:04.780 Now, yes, granted, the American people get screwed all the time on Capitol Hill, so this may not seem
00:06:09.200 like much of a deviation. This is probably not the first time in that sense that the Senate hearing
00:06:14.200 room became a Senate rearing room, to steal a joke that 1,000 people already made on Twitter.
00:06:19.660 But even so, this is still a scandal, and an especially disgusting one. And yet, if you rely
00:06:24.880 on the corporate media for your news, you may have missed this story entirely. For the most part,
00:06:29.760 media outlets have refused to cover it, and the few outlets that have covered the story
00:06:33.100 have left out a lot of key details. So here, for example, is how one local Fox station reported on this.
00:06:41.340 Let's watch.
00:06:46.620 U.S. Capitol Police are investigating after a sex tape surfaced online.
00:06:51.180 It showed two men engaged in sex acts inside room 216 of the Harris Senate office building.
00:06:57.980 That's a famous hearing room where U.S. Senators have grilled high-profile presidential nominees,
00:07:04.540 including Supreme Court justices. It's unclear if the tape will be considered criminal conduct,
00:07:09.940 but it may have violated Senate ethics rules.
00:07:14.500 So you notice what's not mentioned in that report? You have no idea who filmed this sex tape
00:07:19.220 or who's in it. For all you know, it could be some random tourist. And when that report aired,
00:07:24.520 Fox was aware of the Daily Caller's reporting. They could have worked their sources and tried
00:07:29.020 to confirm it. Instead, they just kept it as vague as possible. This was a common theme over the past few
00:07:34.140 days. Some major outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post,
00:07:36.700 simply chose to ignore the story entirely over the weekend. And for its part, NBC News decided to
00:07:42.360 blame conservatives for the whole situation. And this was their headline. Quote,
00:07:47.340 Senate staff are alleged by conservative outlets to have had sex in a hearing room
00:07:51.500 is no longer employed. I mean, you could not phrase that in a more passive way if you tried.
00:08:00.020 So they're making, first of all, conservative outlets, the boogeyman in this story, implying
00:08:05.060 that they might be lying about it, even though this staffer uploaded this footage to the internet
00:08:10.020 himself. They're also saying that the scandal is only alleged, even though, again, the guy's on video
00:08:16.020 and he admitted it. And he wasn't fired either, according to that. He's just no longer employed.
00:08:23.380 Politico, meanwhile, reported that, quote,
00:08:24.780 Carden staffer linked to sex tape leaves Senate. That's the actual headline they ran. The dude is
00:08:31.920 merely linked to the sex tape. The sex tape that he's in, that he made, he's linked to it.
00:08:38.080 That's the extent of his involvement. You know, if you hear that, you might think, like,
00:08:42.500 maybe he's a cinematographer. Maybe he's an editor on the project. He's just linked to it. You know,
00:08:48.780 he's in the credits is all. And again, he wasn't fired. Instead, he merely leaves the Senate.
00:08:55.740 Now, keep in mind how all these outlets responded when Lauren Boebert got a little handsy with some
00:09:00.620 guy in a dark theater. We don't need to go through the example. You remember what the headlines were
00:09:04.440 about that. And that was treated as a major, massive scandal. That was a massive violation
00:09:10.920 of congressional decorum and ethics. Meanwhile, we have this guy taking off his clothes and having
00:09:16.980 gay sex in the Capitol building on video. And it's treated only as a minor story at most. 0.99
00:09:23.520 If it's a story at all. Now, at this point, you're probably getting the sense that Madison
00:09:29.160 Cawthorn might've been onto something. You know, it's, it's, it's not just that a depraved sex act 0.98
00:09:33.920 took place in a Senate hearing room. It's also the fact that major media outlets and political
00:09:38.660 figures are blatantly covering it up. They're intentionally writing their story so that people
00:09:43.620 reading them won't have any idea what's going on. That's the kind of thing that makes you wonder what
00:09:48.800 else is going on in Washington that you're not seeing. Maybe as Cawthorn alleged, there's a whole
00:09:52.900 lot of degenerate sexual activity happening in Congress. It happened to the Roman empire in its 0.71
00:09:58.020 final days. And now it's happening to us. But in reality, that would probably undersell the problem
00:10:03.360 because to be fair to the late Roman empire, they at least arrested the pagans and we are idolizing
00:10:08.760 them. Remember that just to remind you that this was the scene in the Iowa state house just a few days
00:10:15.780 ago. A satanic temple has set up a display inside the Iowa state house. It's the holiday season and
00:10:24.120 even secular government buildings display decorations for holidays that are rooted in religion like
00:10:29.920 Christmas trees and menorahs. For 14 days, the satanic temple has erected a display alongside these
00:10:36.260 major religious symbols inside the rotunda of the Iowa state Capitol. Lucian Greaves, co-founder of the
00:10:42.740 satanic temple spoke to the satanic temple spoke to KCCI. We're going to really relish the opportunity to be
00:10:49.040 represented in a public forum. We don't have a church on every street corner. Though the temple went
00:10:54.280 through the correct administrative channels to present in the rotunda, the display is getting
00:10:59.020 pushed back. One, I hope people realize spiritual warfare is real, that there are evil satanic forces that are
00:11:07.700 trying to infiltrate our state. And not just the state, as we've seen. Now, as you heard on this
00:11:14.220 show, a Christian military veteran named Michael Cassidy tore this satanic display down. He was 0.69
00:11:19.580 arrested for it and charged with mischief. And on social media, you'll find, as we talked about last
00:11:24.800 week, you'll find a lot of conservatives defending Cassidy's arrest. They'll say that they don't like the
00:11:29.000 way this satanic idol was established in the middle of a government building, but they'll insist that
00:11:34.100 the only reasonable way to remove it is through the legal process. They say conservatives should
00:11:39.760 play by the rules of whatever bureaucratic system decided it was a good idea to allow this display
00:11:44.520 to exist in the first place. They'll suggest that the First Amendment guarantees the right of these
00:11:48.760 cultists to have their little display. Now, first of all, just as a factual matter, as we covered this,
00:11:55.680 that's not true. If you showed any of the founding fathers this satanic goat head, they'd destroy it 0.93
00:12:00.920 immediately. That's because Satanism was understood for most of the world history as an anti-religion. 0.92
00:12:05.840 Indeed, it was understood that way for most of this country's history as well. It was the polar
00:12:12.100 opposite of what the First Amendment respected. It wasn't until 2019, very recently, that the US
00:12:17.140 government decided to recognize the satanic temple as a bona fide religious group. So this is something 0.66
00:12:22.760 of a new idea, the idea that religion means whatever degenerates claim is a religion. Or in fact,
00:12:27.520 religion is something that mocks religion is also a religion. But more importantly, whatever the First
00:12:31.820 Amendment or the founders say, here's a more important law than even the First Amendment,
00:12:36.960 which is natural law. This goes back to Plato and Aristotle. It's rooted in Catholic, jurisprudential,
00:12:43.140 philosophical tradition. And it transcends whatever bureaucracy exists in Iowa that allowed this
00:12:49.220 satanic idol to be erected in the statehouse in the first place. It transcends lawfare and endless
00:12:54.780 litigation in federal courts. Natural law builds Western civilization, not bureaucrats in Iowa
00:13:00.820 or left-wing district court judges in San Francisco. Satanism is an affront to natural law.
00:13:08.120 It's maybe the most explicit affront to natural law imaginable, and Michael Cassidy understood that.
00:13:14.140 The only thing that's surprising about what Michael Cassidy did is that he didn't have a lot of
00:13:18.200 accomplices. Why was he the only one who decided to take this thing out?
00:13:22.240 And what we're left with, just to recap, from this past week alone, Democrats have put up a satanic
00:13:30.980 altar in one Capitol building and recorded themselves being sodomized in another. And that's
00:13:37.580 just in a week. But none of this is particularly surprising given what we've seen in Capitol buildings
00:13:43.460 all over the country all this year. A few months ago, they were marching through the Tennessee State
00:13:48.260 House with bullhorns barging into other state capitals as well, waving rainbow flags. The White 0.97
00:13:54.600 House raised a so-called pride flag as well. So did several other state governments. Let's watch.
00:14:00.260 The rainbow colors of the pride flag are waving over Beacon Hill. The Pride Month ceremony kicked
00:14:05.920 off at the State House this morning. Governor Maura Healy, the state's first openly gay governor,
00:14:10.220 was there with lawmakers and members of the LGBTQ community. The governor says she is ready for this
00:14:16.160 weekend's pride parade. Raising the pride flag today sends a message for all those who've only ever
00:14:23.600 wanted to belong, who've had to find their own family. City of Albany celebrating the first day of
00:14:29.840 LGBTQ pride. Albany officials in the Capitol Region Pride Center marking the day with a rainbow flag
00:14:35.500 raising at City Hall. We need to ensure that we are allies. So when all these pride flags and trans flags 0.56
00:14:43.540 went up, we were told it was just about love and respecting one another. You know, and we're
00:14:49.700 supposed to believe it's just a coincidence, I guess. They're putting up all the pride flags and now
00:14:54.200 they're having gay sex literally inside those same buildings. They're also putting satanic altars up. 1.00
00:15:02.940 But if you draw any connection here, you're obviously a bigot. You want to incite division.
00:15:07.940 Now, as for Madison Cawthorne this weekend, he tweeted three simple words. He wrote, quote,
00:15:13.100 I told you. And indeed, Madison Cawthorne did tell us that degeneracy was on the march.
00:15:19.620 And now it's all around us, especially thanks to the Biden administration. I mean, there's Sam
00:15:23.680 Brinton, the cross-dressing, luggage-stealing nuclear waste expert, the guy who had a confessed 0.87
00:15:28.620 dog fetish and liked dressing up in leather bondage gear on camera, and yet was given an important
00:15:34.520 position in the administration along with a high security clearance. Then there's the trans 0.99
00:15:38.820 activists who went topless at the White House at Joe Biden's invitation. Then there's Rachel
00:15:43.640 Levine, the fake admiral and child mutilation enthusiast who makes a mockery of women every 0.98
00:15:48.280 time he appears in public. All of these indignities are brought to us by the party that tells us they're 0.82
00:15:54.700 returning decency to the ballot. They tell us they care deeply about the inner sanctums of democracy
00:16:00.620 while they're filming pornos inside them. None of this is an accident. Consider the fact that,
00:16:07.280 as Andy Ngo recently reported, the Senate staffer in that porn video, Aiden, has posted a lot of
00:16:14.140 pornographic videos online going back several years. These are videos where his face is clearly visible.
00:16:20.740 The accounts are clearly his. So none of this was hidden at any point. But Ben Cardin hired him anyway,
00:16:29.040 kept promoting him. Nobody thought it was a problem for all that time.
00:16:35.420 We know that Washington, D.C. has been Sodom and Gomorrah for a long time.
00:16:40.260 But the point is they've never been so brazen about it.
00:16:43.680 And they've never been more empowered by both political parties in Washington.
00:16:48.700 And that means we're probably going to see a lot more of this kind of thing, 0.85
00:16:51.700 which is disgusting and nauseating and sickening on many different levels.
00:16:56.020 But at least there's no denying the truth now. We are a country run by depraved, pervert lunatics. 1.00
00:17:04.540 We might as well face the fact. It's hard not to face it when it's standing exposed right in front 0.99
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00:18:22.000 So we begin with this from the Daily Wire. A school board member in Virginia took his oath
00:18:26.840 of office with his hand not on a Bible, but on a stack of books containing graphic depictions of gay 0.99
00:18:31.780 sex. Noticing a theme here, unfortunately. Carl Frisch, who will become chairman of the Fairfax County 0.99
00:18:39.160 school board, swapped the Bible for books including Lawn Boy, Gender Queer, and Flamer.
00:18:44.900 His male partner held the books as he placed his left hand on them and his right hand in the air.
00:18:52.600 Frisch's campaign said on his website, he was sworn in on a stack of five LGBTQ-themed books,
00:18:59.260 most frequently banned by other school systems. In September 2021, nearly all Fairfax school board
00:19:04.540 members except Frisch fled the dais as mother read passages from the books. And then we get,
00:19:10.740 I'm not going to read the passages myself, but yeah, this report, just so you understand what
00:19:15.920 these books are, the ones that he decided to be sworn in on, there's some excerpts that again,
00:19:21.860 I'm not going to read. But they are quite graphic. The report continues, Frisch does not have any
00:19:30.040 children, so his interest in schools is unclear. That's generous. Doesn't have any children. So
00:19:38.580 you've got a guy who's a big fan of gay pornography, apparently, really wants to be involved in the 0.99
00:19:44.980 school system. You might start connecting some dots there about what his interests actually are. 0.95
00:19:51.180 Um, interest unclear, except as an avenue for LGBT activism and to advocate on behalf of staff,
00:19:58.140 as opposed to the people staff serve, his partner is a choral director for the school system.
00:20:04.040 Frisch is a Democrat campaign consultant from California and has few roots in Virginia.
00:20:09.800 So he's got no, you know, it's really, it's from California, no real roots in Virginia,
00:20:14.440 doesn't have kids, and yet he wants to be serving on the school board,
00:20:18.220 which is already a problem. Like that's, that's problem number one before we even get to the gay 1.00
00:20:25.540 porn. And I, and I do hate that we have to continue the gay pornography theme here. It's never a good 0.99
00:20:32.220 sign when the first two stories on the show are related to gay sex, but this is, um, uh, that's the 0.96
00:20:40.100 way it shakes out today. And, and, you know, this particular story, I would say is actually a
00:20:45.540 positive development in a certain sense, because this represents a level of honesty that we haven't
00:20:52.940 seen from these people yet. Um, and we're only just sort of start starting to see that when we have a
00:20:59.840 school board member saying that, that basically gay porn is his Bible, you know, it's his guiding 0.99
00:21:06.080 light, his, uh, his foundation, gay porn distributed to children is the most important thing to him. 0.99
00:21:13.720 That's what he is apparently announcing. And it's good that he's announcing it because he's saying, 0.99
00:21:19.840 yes, he is a degenerate freak, a pervert, a depraved clown, a disgusting reprobate. Um, 1.00
00:21:25.380 given his interest in these, uh, in, in, in, in, in this material and in having it in the school
00:21:31.260 system, he's saying yes to all of that proudly. Um, and it's good that he's saying yes proudly
00:21:38.180 because it makes the choice clear. And there has been more and more of this recently. We just talked
00:21:43.220 about some of it, this, this clarity, right? These moments where the distinction is obvious,
00:21:49.580 even to the most oblivious people among us. Now you really shouldn't need to see a school board
00:21:56.940 member getting sworn in on a stack of gay porn to know that these leftist school board members are 1.00
00:22:02.460 sick, reprehensible scumbags who shouldn't be allowed within a thousand feet of a school, 1.00
00:22:06.840 much less should they be allowed on the school board. But some people do need it explained to them 1.00
00:22:11.640 this way. Um, and, uh, and, and so now it's explained and you see that it's a simple choice.
00:22:21.680 Do you want your schools to be run by people who have a religious reverence for gay porn or not? 0.98
00:22:30.880 Um, is this what you want for your kid? I mean, would you even let your kid alone with somebody like 1.00
00:22:38.360 this? Would you let someone babysit your child? If you found out that that same person once took an
00:22:46.460 oath on a stack of gay porn, would you let that person babysit your kid? You wouldn't. 1.00
00:22:54.280 So the, the line between the good guys and the bad guys, it couldn't be more clear. I mean,
00:23:00.980 honestly, culturally speaking, it's, it's never been more clear. And I know there's a lot of people
00:23:07.440 that liked, even people on the right who like to say that, well, you know, both sides are the same
00:23:12.520 these days. It's a lot of gray area. You know, when, when you look at the, at the, on the political
00:23:17.740 level, Nash, especially national political level, you'll get the establishment of both parties.
00:23:23.140 Yes. It's, it's hard to distinguish between the two because they want the same things.
00:23:28.180 And the names that they, the letter next to the name means very little in terms of, uh,
00:23:32.040 of, you know, of who they really are, but culturally speaking from a broader, broader cultural context,
00:23:40.920 left versus right. Um, there's, there's never been a more clear, more stark division.
00:23:48.840 And even if you don't have, now, as far as I know, this is the first leftist school board member to be 0.99
00:23:59.280 sworn in on a stack of gay porn. So most of them are not doing that yet. But the idea that this 0.98
00:24:07.500 material should be in the school system, you know, these particular books, what is it? Genderqueer,
00:24:14.600 flamer, lawn boy. And again, if you, if you, if you, if you don't, if you've never seen what's
00:24:23.000 actually in these books, I could, I can't really recommend that you go look it up because it's quite
00:24:27.600 disturbing, but you should understand just so that it's not, this is not ambiguous for you. Um, uh, that,
00:24:37.540 that, you know, when I, what I say that these people want to put actual gay porn in schools, this is not 0.95
00:24:43.300 an exact, it's not hyperbole. Okay. That's literally what they want and what they have 0.97
00:24:48.660 already done. They've put this stuff in the schools. So sure. Uh, most left-wing school
00:24:54.060 board members are not going to be sworn in on a stack of gay porn, but almost all of them 0.98
00:24:59.240 will absolutely insist that this stuff should be in the schools. 0.96
00:25:05.220 And it's not just left-wing school board members on the left jet. I mean,
00:25:08.260 ask Joe Biden, he'll tell you, this is a mainstream position on the left that not only should this 0.51
00:25:16.460 stuff be in the schools, but if it isn't, if you take it out, then you are no better than a Nazi 0.80
00:25:23.780 burning books. This is a, it's a Nazi book burning session. If you take actual gay pornography out of 0.88
00:25:32.240 the school system. So this is another area where the line could not be more clear. Like, 0.87
00:25:39.140 do you think it's okay to have gay porn in the schools or not? It's, there's, there's no middle 0.99
00:25:43.760 ground. There's no gray area. It's not a, well, it's yes or no. And if you can't automatically say,
00:25:53.740 no, it's not okay. Then, then like you're an evil person. You're just, you're one of the bad guys.
00:26:03.140 And, uh, so at least we have people like this who are, again, making that dividing line very clear
00:26:07.480 for all of us. And, uh, you can make your choice accordingly. All right. There's a new movie coming
00:26:13.440 out called, this is what it's called, the American society of magical Negroes. That's the name of the
00:26:19.780 book movie rather. Uh, I want to show you a clip of this trailer, which has gone viral for all the
00:26:26.660 wrong reasons. Let's watch it.
00:26:32.240 I know you can feel their discomfort, Aaron. Watching you walk through a room full of white 1.00
00:26:38.720 people was the most painful thing I've ever seen. Excuse me. Sorry. I don't want to take 0.98
00:26:43.360 you to a job interview. There's a recruiting class starting right now and we've got to get
00:26:48.200 your winner. Welcome to the American society of magical Negroes. 1.00
00:26:59.000 I don't really understand. It's easier to say. 0.89
00:27:01.100 What's the most dangerous animal on the planet?
00:27:05.780 A shark. 0.99
00:27:06.260 White people, when they feel uncomfortable. White people feeling uncomfortable precedes a 0.97
00:27:10.780 lot of bad stuff for us. That's why we fight white discomfort every day. Because the happier 1.00
00:27:16.640 they are, the safer we are.
00:27:18.900 Um, that's real, apparently. That is actually a real thing that they're making, uh, have already
00:27:26.620 made, I guess, and will be coming out. And that's the plot of the movie, basically. The premise is
00:27:31.180 that white people are so volatile and violent that black people are constantly having to appease them 1.00
00:27:37.400 in order to keep the peace. That's the whole point of the movie. That somehow white people are 0.99
00:27:44.400 dangerous and black people are always walking on eggshells in order to not offend, not offend or 1.00
00:27:51.180 upset them. This is, this is the premise of the film. Um, now, okay. First of all, obviously this 0.98
00:28:01.720 movie is absurdly racist. Obviously you're not going to see a movie where black people are called 0.95
00:28:06.740 dangerous animals. I mean, they put that right in the trailer. White people are the most dangerous 1.00
00:28:13.480 animals on the planet. This is not subtle. I mean, this is not subtle anti-white racism. It's just, 1.00
00:28:22.480 this is full on dehumanizing, calling them dangerous animals. Um, and you're not going to
00:28:30.420 see that in the reverse. Obviously a whole plot about how white people have to civilize black people,
00:28:35.640 uh, is just not ever going to exist. It's not going to happen. And this movie can only exist
00:28:41.340 going one way. Um, it's also just as obvious that the film will be a flop because who is the audience
00:28:48.020 for this? Like the audience is going to have to be racist black people and, and, uh, and I guess 0.97
00:28:59.040 woke white people who want to impress racist black people, racist black people, and the very woke white 0.99
00:29:04.620 people who want to impress the racist black people, but you probably can't even come to think of it. 0.99
00:29:10.900 You probably can't even get the second group, the woke white people. They're not going to come and 0.99
00:29:14.300 watch this because, because first of all, they're, they're not going to want to say the title,
00:29:18.560 right? So like, they're not going to feel comfortable going up to AMC and going up to the guy,
00:29:25.240 the cash register who could very well be a black guy and saying, yes, I'd like two tickets to the
00:29:30.720 magical society of the society of magical, uh, you know, the, that one, what was that? What did
00:29:38.800 you want to, the society of magical, uh, colored people of color. So it's a movie that only woke 1.00
00:29:48.840 white people would see, but they definitely won't see it. So you're left then with racist black people 0.99
00:29:54.980 as your sole demographic, except that you actually need racist black people with bad taste in movies. 0.99
00:29:59.720 Um, even more so, and I don't know what percentage of racist black people have bad taste in movies. 0.97
00:30:05.220 I'm not really sure, but you, so you've taken a, you've taken one relatively small demographic and 0.90
00:30:10.960 then a smaller demographic within that demographic and then even smaller demographic within the
00:30:14.880 demographic within the demographic. And it's just probably not going to translate into a blockbuster
00:30:21.080 film. I don't know what the financial projections were for this film, but there's no way they looked at
00:30:27.360 the script and said, oh yeah, this is a $300 million movie that we're making 300 million on
00:30:31.720 this thing. But of course they're not trying to make money with this film. Um, they also aren't
00:30:37.720 trying to tell a good story or make a quality movie. And that's the odd dynamic that you see in
00:30:42.620 Hollywood now. So, I mean, it used to be that Hollywood would put out some movies just for the
00:30:49.120 money, just for the profit, right? The big tentpole blockbuster films. And then they'd put out other
00:30:53.740 movies for the artistic credibility, uh, films that probably wouldn't make a lot of money,
00:30:58.480 but they'd be critically acclaimed and people would, would like them. And, and, you know,
00:31:03.440 and, uh, and they'd win some awards and you can build your reputation that way. Um, and that's the
00:31:09.460 way that, that movie studios used to work. Yet you had movies that were supposed to make money
00:31:14.880 and then movies that really weren't supposed to make money, or at least were not expected to.
00:31:18.920 Well, now you still have movies that are supposed to make money and that are only designed to make
00:31:24.620 money. Those are the superhero movies. And then you have also have movies that aren't supposed to
00:31:28.640 make money. But the difference is that the movies that aren't supposed to make money also are not
00:31:34.160 made for artistic credibility anymore. Now they're made for political credibility,
00:31:38.360 which means that even your low budget films and, and your films that don't make money
00:31:45.340 are also soulless and cynical, just like the big blockbusters are.
00:31:50.880 So it's all soulless and cynical all the way down. And, uh, and this movie clearly is.
00:31:56.960 But the main thing here is just the, is just the, the fantasy land scenario that the left plays in
00:32:04.540 when it comes to racial issues and, and when it comes to really any issue, but especially on racial
00:32:09.760 issues. Now, obviously the whole movie is a fantasy movie. It has magical in the title.
00:32:15.780 But, but it's also obviously supposed to be saying something about reality. 0.93
00:32:21.020 And the thing that it's saying about reality is just absolutely ridiculous. 0.99
00:32:28.080 Like the idea that black people are walking around all cautiously around white people, 0.99
00:32:33.300 because white people are like, are likely to lash out violently against it. It's just, 0.66
00:32:36.720 it's absurd as if a black person ends up in a, you know, is like driving and ends up in a 0.98
00:32:41.940 white suburb and he's lost or something. And he sees that he's in a suburb and he kind of locks 0.67
00:32:47.800 the door and rolls the window up. Oh no, we're in the suburbs now. Look at all these white middle-aged 1.00
00:32:54.820 women jogging. I'm nervous. I got to get out of here. It just doesn't happen. They've created this fantasy land, 1.00
00:33:03.180 this upside down opposite ville scenario, which is always the leftist strategy, which is not to tell little
00:33:11.040 lies. I mean, they tell little lies too, but, but it's not so much the little lies. They tell really
00:33:15.860 big ones and they completely deny the most obvious realities. They rewrite reality right in front of our
00:33:25.940 faces. And they, and they create this reality that, that, that does not comport with anyone's actual
00:33:33.700 experience. We hear so much about lived experience. Okay. That's that movie. That's not anyone's lived
00:33:39.800 experience. Um, but this is what they do and they insist on, they rewrite it and they insist on the
00:33:48.640 rewrite and they insist that we all accept the rewrite and, and pretend to believe it. And I guess the
00:33:56.140 idea is if you pretend to believe it for long enough, then you'll really start to believe it.
00:33:59.000 Those white, woke white people. I was, I mentioned, they're not going to go see this movie,
00:34:04.020 but, um, they will, you know, they'll see the trailer and they'll at least pretend
00:34:12.000 that the premise makes sense to them. They'll say, Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. The white people are
00:34:20.380 most dangerous. You know, black people are always having to calm us down and stop us from lashing out. 1.00
00:34:27.580 Like they'll pretend that they, that the premise resonates. And I don't know, you pretend enough
00:34:32.540 of eventually do you, do you fool yourself? Maybe that's the way it works. All right.
00:34:41.140 Most important story of the day, I think here is the New York post. Um, it's official. The elf
00:34:46.500 on the shelf trend has gone too far. Keeping kids entertained during the festive season can be tough.
00:34:52.060 And just like many other parents, mom of two, Cece has turned to elf on the shelf to bring in the
00:34:56.620 laughs. Every evening, the American woman was committed to outdoing herself with a new setup. 1.00
00:35:02.280 One day she left the elf in a pair of underwear stuck to the fridge. The next, uh, the elf cut up
00:35:08.200 her kids' t-shirts and a cheeky prank. So on the sixth day of the tradition, she had an idea to
00:35:13.320 outdo them all. In the now viral clip, she shared her creative vision and it left people stunned and
00:35:18.540 feeling disgusted. Standing in the bathroom, Cece ran the bath and held out a plastic bag.
00:35:23.780 Inside was a school of tiny goldfish swimming rapidly inside a bursting and bursting to get
00:35:29.520 free. With the help of her husband, they cut open the bag, emptied the fish into the bathtub.
00:35:34.340 Um, and then, uh, and then they set up the elf like the elf was fishing. And there was a sign
00:35:40.160 that said, don't mind me just fishing. And that was the setup. And anyway, people are upset and
00:35:45.620 outraged and they're saying it's animal abuse, abusing the goldfish or whatever. Uh, I think we
00:35:51.800 have that video. Look, here it is. We'll watch a little bit. I don't know why.
00:35:54.760 All right. Okay, that's it. That's what you can do. Did you really need three, did you need three
00:36:05.340 hands to open up to hold the bag of goldfish? Um, now look, I know that you all are probably
00:36:12.500 expecting that I will have a really cynical and negative take on the elf on the shelf thing.
00:36:18.820 And you're right because I do. Uh, I hate it so much. I don't care about the goldfish. I'm not
00:36:26.940 offended by that particular example of the elf of the shelf thing. Uh, in general, I hate it. I hate
00:36:32.820 it. I don't think I hate, I might hate it more than I hate anything on earth at this point. Now,
00:36:38.940 granted, I have a personal grudge because, you know, you have to understand six kids, right? And you
00:36:45.040 might think, oh, okay, well, you have six kids. You must have one elf for all the kids to share
00:36:51.480 one elf that moves around every night and all the kids share in the wonder and merriment. And all
00:36:58.120 the kids say, look, our one elf has moved. Amazing. Nope, not in my house. That's not how we do things in
00:37:06.280 my house. We have six elves, six elves. Each kid gets their own elf. That's what was decided. I didn't
00:37:13.940 decide it, but it was decided. And so every night, six elves have to move. Six. And the thing is,
00:37:22.880 you know, here's what I thought. I thought, well, at least some of our kids are getting older, uh,
00:37:28.600 and, and the kids will age out of this elf thing. And then, and so then we could start paring it down
00:37:33.980 a little bit. Nope, wrong again, because our oldest two, they don't even believe in the elf thing
00:37:39.440 anymore. And they, they know what's up. They still have an elf. So, because, you know, and our
00:37:46.360 youngest two are babies and they don't understand. They have elf also. So we have six elves and no,
00:37:52.160 actually we have more than six because we also have, um, the elf, some of the elves have pets.
00:37:57.560 Did you know that was a thing? A couple of the elves have like dogs. So you can move the,
00:38:03.960 the elf and the elf dog. And here's the problem with the elf on the shelf.
00:38:10.160 The first few nights, parents have fun with it, right? They're on night six and they're doing the
00:38:15.280 goldfish. Where do you go from there? What, what's your plan next? It's like you're one up
00:38:19.920 every night. It's more elaborate. And then what, when you get to night eight, it's good. You're
00:38:25.320 going to have a drop off. No, you got to keep getting more, but it's, it's, it's, it has to end
00:38:30.860 somewhere. And so the first few nights, parents have fun with it. Some of them do, but then
00:38:38.180 quickly it becomes a chore. It's like this chore you have to do every single night. And, uh, and you
00:38:43.560 know, my, my wife now at night, she's like, oh man, I have to move the elves again. And I'm like,
00:38:49.360 no, you don't, you don't have to. This is not, this is not a thing we had to add to our lives.
00:38:54.620 You could just not do it. We can be free of this, this totally useless and pointless chore
00:39:02.360 that we have complicated our lives with for no reason. But it gets better because the kids are
00:39:10.060 really excited about the elves every morning. So that means that they wake up at the crack of dawn
00:39:17.300 every morning in December to come down and see where their elves moved to. Now, when I was a kid,
00:39:24.360 my parents had to deal with that, with the kids waking up excited at the, you know, before dawn
00:39:30.560 one morning in December, on December 25th, we do it every morning for the entire month.
00:39:39.460 And now we're stuck because once you get into it, you can't get out. You're like, it's like,
00:39:43.320 it's like making a deal with a drug cartel or something. It's like, it's like borrowing money from
00:39:46.820 the mob because once you're in it, you can't get out because then, and when I've talked to my wife,
00:39:51.980 I said, well, let's, let's just not do the elves this year. And then I'm told, well, we can't,
00:39:56.480 we can't not do the elves because then we're gonna have to tell the kids. What are we gonna tell the
00:39:59.140 kids? That the elves ran away? They were abandoned by their elves? Like the elves are magical. They just
00:40:04.600 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
00:40:09.440 them? Did they do something wrong? What do we say to them? Well, I know what I would say. I would just say,
00:40:13.540 listen, kids, the elves aren't real. Come on. Like, obviously, these are toys. That's what I would
00:40:21.340 say. But we can't say that. So this is what our lives become for all of the, it's not even Christmas
00:40:28.300 anymore. It's, it is the elf month. The whole elf takes over the whole thing. I'm not bitter about it. 0.54
00:40:33.700 I'm a little bitter. Let's get to, uh, what's well strong.
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00:41:51.160 baby gang, but I really don't understand your idea of raising your kids without phones. To make it fair,
00:41:55.600 let's make it so that parents who don't let their kids have phones also can't have phones or internet
00:42:00.260 access at all. Um, well, no, that would not be fair because, uh, they're, because we're adults
00:42:08.500 and my kids are kids. So there are actually all kinds of things that, that I have access to at my
00:42:15.100 home that my kids don't have access to. Like, uh, I don't know, like the butcher knives and the
00:42:23.860 bourbon and lots of other things that, uh, that, that, that I can use and that my kids cannot. So
00:42:31.180 we, we, we just put the phone into that category and it's not that my, that I'm raising our kids
00:42:37.280 without phones. That's not true. I mean, they, they are fully familiar with phones. They have used
00:42:44.700 phones. They have talked on the phone many times. Uh, grandma calls and wants to talk to them. They
00:42:49.880 talk, you know, so, so they're, they're, they, they have, uh, are quite familiar with, with phones.
00:42:59.640 Um, so it's not really raising my kids without phones. It is raising my kids in a way so that the
00:43:06.240 phone does not become the central focal point of their lives, which for millions of kids in this
00:43:13.780 country is the case. So if you don't raise your kid without a phone, quote unquote, to use your
00:43:22.440 phrase, um, the other option is that your kid, that the phone will become the focal point of your
00:43:28.620 kid's life. There really is no third choice. I mean, the only third choice would be, um, a dumb phone,
00:43:35.460 like a flip phone that only makes phone calls, has no internet access, has no games or anything. 0.84
00:43:39.880 And, uh, yeah. Okay. And if you give your kid a phone like that, and I, you know, and I don't,
00:43:45.040 I don't really object to that. Um, and if you give your kid that kind of phone, then the phone's not
00:43:50.180 going to become the focal point of his life. But you know, when it, when it comes to smartphones,
00:43:54.260 if you give that to your kid, it will become the central focal point of his entire life.
00:44:00.960 Um, and there's like no exceptions. It's just, it, and when you give the phone to your kid, you are,
00:44:06.420 you are deciding that you might not be, you might not think of yourself as deciding that,
00:44:11.400 but that is to say, you are saying, here you go, junior, this will be your life now runoff.
00:44:19.800 And, um, I just refuse to allow that. Jim says, um, quoting me, the founding fathers wouldn't have
00:44:30.180 accepted this. He says, honestly, we don't need to ask people who've been dead for 200 years for
00:44:35.320 advice in every single part of life. Uh, I actually agree with you on that. Um, for me, it's, it's like
00:44:43.120 the fact that we shouldn't have satanic altars. I mean, this is, that's what I was referring to.
00:44:47.140 The fact that we shouldn't have satanic altars in Capitol buildings, the reason that we shouldn't,
00:44:53.160 it's like the fact that the founding fathers would have objected is not the top reason. It's like
00:44:58.420 reason number, you know, it's, it's, it's worth mentioning only when people start quoting the
00:45:03.140 first amendment, which the founding fathers came up with. So then, so then at that point,
00:45:08.200 I think it's relevant to, uh, rebut that by saying, well, okay, but they obviously were not
00:45:14.780 intending to protect the right to set up a, you know, a severed goat's head and a satanic altar in
00:45:21.180 a state house. But generally speaking, yeah, I think we can use, you know, things like our own
00:45:28.280 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
00:45:43.440 bad because everyone knows it. Didn't everyone know Christianity was bad when it was just starting 1.00
00:45:47.960 out. You can't just appeal to the obviousness of any particular case. There should be a standard.
00:45:53.320 I think it should be displays only at the local level.
00:45:59.360 Sure. You need standards. You need laws written down. You need all those things. I'm not advocating
00:46:05.500 against it, but we are, I am talking about natural law here basically. Um, and, and, and the basic kind
00:46:16.000 of moral intuition that's written on all of our souls in that we all recognize. And, and, and you
00:46:23.860 might say, well, you can't appeal to that one way or another, you're going to end up appealing to that.
00:46:31.240 If you want to argue in favor of any proposition, like any legal, any law, if you want to say that
00:46:38.520 anything should be allowed or not allowed, and then people start asking you why it doesn't take very
00:46:44.680 many whys until you end up back at our universal moral intuition that's written on our souls.
00:46:52.140 Eventually you end up back there. And like I said, it doesn't, it's not that many moves before you,
00:46:55.840 you end up there. So like you could play this game pretty easily. You might say a murderer should be
00:47:04.000 illegal. Nobody should be allowed to do that. Why? Well, because when you murder someone, you're,
00:47:10.920 you're killing them. Well, why is that wrong? Well, because you're hurting another person.
00:47:17.020 Why is that wrong? Already you've made it to like, well, because, because it is, because it's,
00:47:22.260 it's objectively evil and we all know it. Eventually you end up back there. And I know the
00:47:29.760 kind of libertarian position is to all, you know, you want to stop the cop. Once you get to the point,
00:47:34.700 you know, you want to say that the only things that should be illegal or that are really wrong
00:47:38.120 legally are the things that hurt other people. And then you want to stop it there. So if you can
00:47:44.100 prove that something hurt someone else, then you want to end the conversation. But you're ignoring
00:47:50.240 the next question, which is why does it matter if you hurt someone else? You can't ignore that.
00:47:55.240 And if you try to brush it off and say, well, come on. Well, that, that is you appealing to
00:48:01.420 exactly what I'm talking about. You're basically saying, well, of course that's wrong. We all know that
00:48:04.940 that's wrong. So one way or another, you end up back there. And, um, my only point is that that's
00:48:13.820 not a bad thing. And, and there are things that we all just know are wrong. That doesn't mean that
00:48:20.820 people don't do them. You know, that doesn't even mean that, that governments won't try to come up
00:48:27.380 with ways to, to, to come up with legal versions of them. Like murder, for example, many societies
00:48:33.660 have had their legal versions of murder. We have one, it's called abortion, but still that's just
00:48:38.500 people trying to get around what they recognize to be true. And even when we legalize forms of murder,
00:48:44.140 we don't, we don't call it that. We try to say, well, yeah, of course murder is wrong, but this is
00:48:49.020 not murder. And we come up with some arbitrary reason why it's not, but there is that sort of
00:48:55.700 objective reality of the evil of this act that we do all recognize. And, and, um, uh, and that is a,
00:49:04.200 that is a fact of existence that we should be able to cite and use in arguments.
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00:50:38.620 Over a century ago, in the year 1906, about 40 years after the end of the Civil War,
00:50:43.520 Secretary of War William Taft authorized the construction of a Civil War monument that would
00:50:47.900 ultimately be completed and unveiled in the Arlington National Cemetery in 1914. And there
00:50:54.340 it would stand for 110 years without causing any trouble. Far from it. In fact, the monument was
00:51:00.380 revered and beloved. So much so that for decades, every U.S. President, Republican and Democrat,
00:51:06.200 would send a wreath to be laid at the site. Even Barack Obama participated in that tradition.
00:51:10.180 Now, before I tell you more about this memorial, including what it's called,
00:51:16.620 let's fast forward to the current day. For 110 years, the memorial was honored by many Americans.
00:51:23.260 To most, it was probably unknown. It sat there, harming no one, creating no problems of any kind,
00:51:29.620 until right now. Over a century after the monument's construction, over a century and a half after the
00:51:35.280 Civil War was fought, it has been decided all of a sudden that the memorial must come down. In fact,
00:51:40.580 it's so urgently must come down that we're told it's worth desecrating the hundreds of graves
00:51:45.800 surrounding it in order to get rid of the thing. Fox News reports, quote, despite efforts from a group
00:51:52.140 of Republican lawmakers, a Confederate statue in the Arlington National Cemetery will be removed in the
00:51:56.700 coming days. The Confederate statue was part of the push to remove military installations named after
00:52:00.900 the Confederacy in the wake of the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. According to a press
00:52:05.520 release from the National Cemetery, the statue will be removed from the cemetery by December 22nd.
00:52:11.120 The move to remove the statue is in compliance with the congressional mandate to remove all
00:52:14.780 Confederate memorials by January 1st, 2024. The congressional mandate passed in 2020 declared
00:52:20.180 that the Department of Defense must remove all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia
00:52:24.500 that honor or commemorate the Confederate States of America by January 1st, 2024.
00:52:28.300 An Arlington National Cemetery spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital that safety fencing has been
00:52:33.940 installed around the Confederate memorial as preparations begin to deconstruct the memorial,
00:52:38.480 which was erected in 1914. So as part of the moral panic over the death of a criminal drug addict
00:52:44.500 in 2020, this monument will be torn down. It's being done at the behest of the so-called Naming Commission,
00:52:51.320 which was formed according to the wishes of Elizabeth Warren, with the purpose of renaming or
00:52:56.180 destroying all monuments or statues with ties to the Confederacy. And now is probably the best time 1.00
00:53:02.860 to tell you the name of the statue. And it is not the Confederate statue because it's not a statue
00:53:08.940 meant to honor the Confederacy. In fact, it is called the Reconciliation Monument. It is literally a
00:53:14.820 monument to reconciliation. It was designed to symbolize national unity in the wake of the Civil War.
00:53:21.340 And that's not my interpretation of it, okay? This is the express, explicit purpose of the monument.
00:53:27.020 It was commissioned specifically for this reason, as a sign that the country had moved on from the
00:53:32.460 conflict, a sign that we were all countrymen again, a sign of reconciliation, hence the name.
00:53:38.660 So we must ask, if the monument symbolized reconciliation, then what does its destruction symbolize?
00:53:46.060 Now, don't worry. You may feel disgusted and infuriated by this systematic campaign of
00:53:52.020 desecration, this crusade to destroy our history by destroying some of our most beautiful and cherished
00:53:57.380 works of art. You may find it repulsive and insane. You may wish that everyone involved would be
00:54:04.000 arrested and thrown in prison, which is what they deserve. And I may share all those feelings with
00:54:09.700 you. But fear not. As the vice chair of the Naming Commission explained in a local news interview,
00:54:15.980 they simply know better than you. And you should trust their judgment instead of your own. Watch.
00:54:22.300 And if there's one thing that commemorates a Confederacy more than just about anything we've
00:54:26.100 seen, it's this monument. Retired Brigadier General Ty Sigily, the vice chair of the Naming Commission,
00:54:31.520 says the message the monument conveys is clear. Among the symbols, two figures of enslaved people
00:54:38.160 and a Latin quote that translates to, the victorious cause was pleasing to the gods,
00:54:43.920 but the lost cause to Cato. And in a way, it's saying that they were right,
00:54:48.240 that the Confederates were right, and the United States is wrong. In 2020, Congress authorized the 0.84
00:54:53.200 commission to review Confederate assets on military bases. Sigily says people should trust the bipartisan
00:54:59.240 nature of the commission. So we have Republicans, Democrats, former military, defense intellectuals.
00:55:05.100 We're a very diverse group in every way you would think that Americans are diverse. And yet we came
00:55:10.340 together to do this mission. There are plenty who oppose the recommendation, including Diane
00:55:16.460 Brills, who was visiting from Florida. All history should be recognized and it should not be removed.
00:55:23.300 But Sigily has a message for them. They're still going to teach the Battle of Chancellorsville
00:55:27.560 at West Point. And Lee is still going to win every year. But this is about commemoration,
00:55:33.460 about our values. Yes, you see a very diverse group. Establishment Republicans, establishment
00:55:38.260 Democrats, former military, defense intellectuals. It is a varied mix of totally indistinguishable
00:55:44.520 left-wing elitist bureaucrats. It's a diverse group that consists of swamp creatures, other types
00:55:49.880 of swamp creatures, plus some other swamp creatures, and then to mix it up, additional swamp
00:55:54.980 creatures. And this collection of soulless hobgoblins have simply decided that this beautiful, historically
00:56:01.040 significant memorial is no longer consistent with our values. And by our, he means his.
00:56:08.900 He has the moral values of a reptile and commemorating all of those who died 150 years ago in the bloodiest
00:56:14.840 war in our nation's history does not comport with his reptilian values. And so the memorial must come 0.89
00:56:20.900 down. Now, it's worth noting one minor detail here, which is this is against the law. They do
00:56:28.140 not have the legal authority to tear a monument out of the cemetery just because they don't personally
00:56:32.440 like it. This violates both federal law and the legislative mandate that Congress gave itself when
00:56:38.420 it formed the Naming Commission in 2020 in the first place. Despite how it may seem, these people
00:56:43.100 don't actually have the legal authority to just do whatever the hell they want as long as they can cloak
00:56:47.560 it in the guise of racial equity. There are laws in this country, allegedly, and they are once again
00:56:52.800 being thrown to the side with little fanfare and almost no protest. But somehow the blatant lawlessness
00:56:59.000 is not the most outrageous thing here. It's hard to say what the most outrageous thing is, as the whole
00:57:04.040 thing is utterly repugnant and infuriating. This is indeed a war on our history. It's also a war on other
00:57:11.220 things. It's a war on beauty, for one. Aside from the historical significance of all the monuments that
00:57:17.280 they're tearing down, these are also artistic masterpieces. I don't know who coined this term,
00:57:22.800 but I've heard these statue topplers described as aesthetic terrorists, and there couldn't be a
00:57:28.800 better description. They are indeed terrorists waging a jihad against beauty. But it is also a
00:57:35.800 war on history. The people conducting this war, they're not honest about it because they aren't
00:57:41.440 honest about anything. But their agenda could not be more clear. They say that they aren't erasing
00:57:46.740 history because you can still read about the history in books. But what they don't tell you
00:57:51.120 is that, first of all, they're also in the process of rewriting the books. As you've heard on this show,
00:57:56.420 publishing companies have hired sensitivity readers to actually change the content and language of
00:58:01.200 books in order to make them more sensitive. So yes, you can read about the Battle of Chancellorsville
00:58:06.620 in books until you can't anymore. But second, even if they left the books alone,
00:58:13.080 history is not supposed to be contained only in books. The whole point of having historic monuments
00:58:20.080 and statues and artwork, the whole reason why every civilization in history has produced these things
00:58:25.460 and revered them, is that it helps people stay connected to their history in a way that simply
00:58:30.260 reading about it can't. These are physical reminders of where we came from and who got us to this point.
00:58:38.680 Why do you think ancient societies without any modern technology spent decades painstakingly building
00:58:45.440 giant monuments to their own historical heroes? Because they realized that you need to stay connected
00:58:51.280 to your past and be reminded of it and have a spirit of humility and gratitude in the face of it.
00:58:58.500 It is that spirit that our elites want to extinguish.
00:59:02.760 They want to create a society full of people who live in a historical vacuum, 1.00
00:59:08.740 severed from their past, detached from their future, lingering in a kind of nihilistic limbo
00:59:14.200 where neither history nor legacy matter. That's the goal.
00:59:18.300 Now, this is where it gets a little confusing, though, because at the same time,
00:59:21.620 somewhat paradoxically, the people who seek to sever us from our history also want us to remain stuck in it.
00:59:27.680 Now, they don't want us to honor our history or commemorate it or memorialize it or learn from it
00:59:33.580 or, least of all, understand it. But they do want us to retain historical resentment and guilt.
00:59:41.520 Okay? That is the one part of our history that they wish to keep intact.
00:59:45.960 That's how we've ended up in this bizarre situation where people today, in the waning days of the year 2023,
00:59:52.280 somehow act as though the wounds of the Civil War are fresher for them than they were for people
00:59:58.460 who lived 100 years ago. Back then, people were ready to be reconciled.
01:00:04.420 They had put the resentment to the side. They were capable of seeing the dignity and heroism
01:00:08.280 of men who fought on both sides. They nearly universally respected both Robert E. Lee
01:00:13.980 and Ulysses S. Grant. I mean, these were people who had living relatives who fought in the war.
01:00:22.280 These were people who lost family members at Antietam and Gettysburg.
01:00:27.520 These were people who had actual, literal, physical wounds from the Civil War.
01:00:33.640 And yet, they were somehow able to recognize the dignity and courage of the men who died on either side.
01:00:40.560 And they wanted to be unified as a country again.
01:00:44.500 So, like, they were much more connected to the Civil War,
01:00:48.260 and yet a lot less upset about it in a certain way.
01:00:53.220 So, how is it that we, a century later, have apparently more resentment and more anger
01:01:00.560 stemming from the event that the people who lived through the event didn't even have?
01:01:06.440 Our parents didn't fight in this war.
01:01:08.540 Our grandparents didn't fight in it.
01:01:09.960 Our grandparents' parents didn't fight in it.
01:01:11.660 And yet, it's our generation that is apparently still so upset
01:01:15.880 that we can't stand to see Robert E. Lee's name on a building.
01:01:19.560 And we can't stand to know that there are Confederate graves at Arlington.
01:01:25.620 Our grandparents didn't feel that way, but we do.
01:01:28.900 How does that make any sense?
01:01:30.560 Well, it doesn't make sense. 0.86
01:01:33.660 It's total nonsense.
01:01:35.280 But it's all part of the agenda.
01:01:37.240 It's not an accident.
01:01:39.020 It's a situation that our elites have intentionally set up.
01:01:41.860 But they have successfully created a society filled with people who know nothing of their history,
01:01:47.600 do not honor it, do not remember it, don't know anything about it,
01:01:51.800 and yet still hang on to its anger and its hatreds and its resentments.
01:01:55.860 People, you know, who couldn't even tell you who was president in 1961,
01:02:03.160 and yet who at the same time act like they are deeply hurt by things that happened in 1861.
01:02:08.440 People who could not tell you what happened 40 years ago,
01:02:12.040 and yet who act wounded by things that happened 400 years ago.
01:02:16.720 People detached from all aspects of the past, except for its grudges,
01:02:22.140 which they cling to desperately.
01:02:25.860 That's the kind of country the elites wanted to create, and they have.
01:02:30.660 And of course, in such a country,
01:02:32.880 we cannot have anything called the Reconciliation Monument,
01:02:36.860 because reconciliation is the very last thing that they want.
01:02:42.040 And that's why it was taken down.
01:02:44.300 And it's why those statue topplers are, once again, with a vengeance, canceled.
01:02:51.960 That'll do it for the show today.
01:02:53.220 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
01:02:54.320 Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow.
01:02:55.860 Godspeed.
01:02:56.580 Godspeed.
01:02:56.660 We'll be right back.