Ep. 1287 - The Fentanyl Crisis Is Destroying Our Country And Our Leaders Couldn't Care Less
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Fentanyl deaths reached record levels again this past year. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is doing everything it can to open the border and let the poison keep streaming into our communities. Also, a school shooter in Iowa reportedly identified as gender fluid. Why are we seeing so many LGBT mass shooters? Plus, a man in California claims that his car was vandalized by a Nazi, and multiple very credible reports suggest that 10-foot-tall aliens have invaded a mall in Miami. Finally, speaking of aliens, Madonna is on tour and embarrassing herself repeatedly on stage. We ll talk about all that and more on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, fentanyl deaths reached record levels again this past year.
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Meanwhile, the Biden administration is doing everything it can to open the border and let
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the poison keep streaming into our communities. Also, a school shooter in Iowa reportedly
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identified as gender fluid. Why are we seeing so many LGBT mass shooters? Plus, a man in California
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claims that his car was vandalized by a Nazi. And multiple very credible reports suggest that
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10-foot-tall aliens have invaded a mall in Miami, so that's interesting.
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Finally, speaking of aliens, Madonna is on tour and embarrassing herself repeatedly on stage.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Towards the end of last year, the Biden administration launched what it claimed was a major
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crackdown on the fentanyl supply that appears, that enters in this country from China. As Associated Press
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reported, in one of the biggest actions the administration has taken against fentanyl trafficking,
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the U.S. on Tuesday announced a series of indictments and sanctions against 14 people
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and 14 firms across China and Canada related to the import of the drug to the United States.
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One of the targets of these sanctions was a company based in China that provides pill dyes for a
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counterfeit oxycodone. The spokesman for the Treasury Department called the sanctions,
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quote, the latest step in the rapid scaling up of our work targeting the financial flows that power
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the global illicit drug trade. So they made a big show of the whole process as a way of convincing
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people that they're doing something about fentanyl trafficking, particularly from China. Now what the
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Biden administration didn't announce publicly is that behind the scenes, they were making it much
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easier for illegal migrants from China to enter this country. They were doing the opposite of
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sanctioning Chinese criminals. They were making life easier for them. They were facilitating their
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entry into the country. According to a reporting this week from the Daily Caller, beginning in April
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of 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection dramatically changed the vetting process for Chinese citizens
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entering the United States illegally. Instead of asking these illegal aliens around 40 questions,
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Border Patrol headquarters instructed agents to ask just five questions. And specifically,
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agents are told to ask about the Chinese migrants' military service, universities, place of birth,
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employment, and political party. If they answer those questions without any red flags, they're now
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released into the United States with a court date several years in the future that we just hope they'll
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show up for, but of course they won't. These illegals are no longer asked questions about their firearm use,
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connections to human trafficking, drug trafficking, prior arrests, among many other issues that you
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think would be relevant. The upshot is that instead of spending hours deciding whether to allow a single
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illegal alien from China into this country, now Border Patrol can clear a Chinese migrant in like a few
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minutes. They're no longer presumptively turned back to China. Instead, they're presumptively allowed
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into the United States. And once they're in this country, these Chinese nationals, people we
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effectively haven't screened, are free to do whatever they want. If they're transporting fentanyl,
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they can distribute it. If not, they can do what thousands of Chinese nationals are currently doing
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in Mexico. They can coordinate the distribution and manufacturing of the drug. And we really have
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no idea what they're going to do. The Biden administration's policy as of early last year is to make sure that
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no one has any idea what these Chinese nationals are doing in this country. Now, all this is to say,
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contrary to White House press releases, there is in fact no serious effort to punish the countries that
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are responsible for the vast majority of fentanyl in this country. In fact, there's a deliberate effort
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to make it easier for illegal aliens to come to the United States along with whatever they happen to be
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carrying. That's true of Chinese migrants as well as migrants from pretty much every other country.
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And how is that working out exactly? Well, here's one way to measure the consequences. In 2023,
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all across the country, fentanyl deaths hit record levels. In Seattle, which doesn't enforce drug laws
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at all, there were a total of 1,060 fentanyl overdoses last year. That's an increase of more than 30%,
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which is dramatic from 2020 when 717 people died in fentanyl-related deaths in King County. That's just
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one small, relatively small region area of the country. And that's the number of deaths they're
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dealing with. And if you go back a few years earlier in 2015, a grand total of just three people
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in all of King County OD'd on fentanyl. So we went from three to over 1,000. Now, Seattle is
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a completely different city. Fentanyl is, because of this, they've been transformed and not for the
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better. Fentanyl is now so prevalent in Seattle that people walking downtown often see paramedics
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and police officers responding to overdoses. This is a normal thing to see now. A few days ago,
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for example, one local journalist recorded one of those moments. He caught up with a man who had
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just overdosed a few minutes before. And let's see how that played out.
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Unbelievable. Looks like Seattle PD along with fire just saved a dude, Odean. Oh. Was he
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overdosing right here? Yeah, no, no. He was right there by the cardboard.
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Come on, man. You okay? Come off, man. You okay?
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I'm perfectly excited. They just saved your life, man.
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I don't need no life-saving, dude. I've been smoking this s*** for 20 years, dude.
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Yeah, I'm 100% okay. Why don't you just go to the hospital for a checkup?
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You don't need to follow me. I'm going to go that way.
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So you notice how routine this is for everybody involved. The police and the firemen aren't fazed by it.
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They're just kind of walking away. Not remotely shocked that the guy who was just overdosing is
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walking away, practically promising to overdose again as quickly as possible.
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You also notice the other guy, when he's asked, well, was he overdosing on fentanyl?
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Yeah, definitely. It's just assumed. Well, of course he was overdosing on fentanyl, because everybody is.
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Now, it definitely isn't unique to Seattle. It's happening in pretty much every big city.
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Sacramento County also saw record fentanyl deaths last year. And in LA, the Los Angeles Times just
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reported that, quote, for the first time in recent years, fentanyl surpassed methamphetamine as the
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most common drug listed as a cause of overdose deaths. Fentanyl was blamed at almost 60% of all
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accidental drug or alcohol overdoses in 2022. Since 2016, the LA Times reported overdoses in Los
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Angeles County, quote, have increased almost threefold. And there were about 200 more overdose deaths in
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2022 than in 2021. 2023 was also San Francisco's deadliest year for drug overdoses on record. And
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once again, fentanyl was involved in the vast majority of those deaths. This is a city, by the
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way, that banned vaping. You can't vape at San Francisco because that's unhealthy. But, I mean,
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you could die of fentanyl overdose. And instead of rounding up the drug dealers and removing them
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from the streets, the city is encouraging the creation of more open air drug markets. That's
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their solution. They want more treatment, quote, unquote, for drug addicts, which means
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no punishment, no consequences whatsoever. Watch.
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We have seen record number of deaths due to overdose in San Francisco.
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Through the end of November, 752 people have died this year as a result of accidental overdoses in San
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Francisco. That's already more than the deadliest year on record, 2020, when there were 726 deaths.
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The majority of these preventable deaths continue to be driven by fentanyl.
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At a news conference, Dr. Hillary Cunnings of San Francisco's Department of Public Health says
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officials are working to improve access to drug use treatment.
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Removing barriers to medications for addiction treatment, which are the most effective way to
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prevent death and overdose in people who have an opioid use disorder.
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Now, when they say drug treatment in San Francisco, what they're really saying is they're going to
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invest in more so-called safe injection sites, which, of course, is an oxymoron.
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There's no way to safely inject yourself with poison.
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A year ago, San Francisco enlisted an army of nonprofits to operate these open air drug markets,
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which are ways for druggies to get high in public without violating the law.
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And the results have been predictably catastrophic.
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In fact, they say this is the only way to stop.
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The only way to stop this is to do more of this.
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You know, the way that you stop it is you aggressively crack down on the drugs,
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and especially on the people who are bringing the drugs and selling them.
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You aggressively chase them down and you throw them in a cage for the rest of their lives
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That's one thing you can do with the drug dealers.
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And so we're seeing this all across the country as this collective slow-motion suicide at the
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New York City has similar safe injection sites.
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Well, it's hard to say exactly because New York is a little slower to report their data
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But their numbers from 2022 show a similar spike.
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Late last year, New York's health department revealed that there were 3,026 overdose deaths
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in New York City in 2022, which they said was, quote, the highest number of deaths since
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The authority said that fentanyl was found in more than 80% of those overdose deaths.
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The limited data we do have from 2023 indicates that the surge is just continuing and growing
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exponentially as it is everywhere in the country.
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According to New York's special narcotics prosecutor, quote, many people are dying of
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drug overdoses in New York City more than ever before.
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In 2022, drug poisonings claimed 3,026 lives in the city, a 12% increase over the prior year.
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Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests the crisis worsened
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Now, some of the stories coming up in New York City certainly suggest that's true.
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Late last year, for example, a one-year-old boy died of a fentanyl overdose in a daycare in the
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Three other young children were rushed to the hospital.
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And authority said the daycare was being used as a fentanyl mill.
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The husband of the daycare owner promptly fled to Mexico where he was arrested.
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I mean, this is the kind of crime that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
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But now it's happening, and it's not unthinkable anymore.
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It's not just adult men dying from fentanyl overdoses, as tragic as that already is.
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Although they certainly are a large portion of the deaths, women and children are dying too.
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This is a trend that you'll find in pretty much every major city in the country.
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And the administration has done nothing to stop these deaths.
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In the meantime, the federal government has opened up the southern border completely so
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that these dead Americans are being replaced with foreign nationals.
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Now, it's easy to become numb to these statistics, but they truly have become hard to believe in
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We hear the word epidemic used a lot for a lot of things.
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As of August, we're now at the point that more illegal aliens are being encountered at the
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southern border every month than are being born to American mothers.
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But curiously enough, by the way, the government didn't announce those statistics like they
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announced their pointless sanctions against China.
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There was no emergency press conference at the White House to explain
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how it's possible that we're replacing the American population with illegal aliens
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Instead, this government data had to be dug up by a small account on X called Data Hazard.
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And keep in mind, these numbers are just the illegal migrants that authorities are encountering
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So these are the people who are caught or turn themselves in.
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And if you look at the chart, it doesn't account for the hordes of illegal migrants who cross
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What this means is that at the precise moment that fentanyl deaths and drug ODs are hitting
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record levels, so is the level of illegal migration into this country.
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We're losing thousands of Americans every month to fentanyl, especially young people.
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Even as we import tens of thousands of criminals, many of them coming from the countries that
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And this migration is only going to increase from here.
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Honduras is reportedly sending thousands of migrants on buses towards this country every
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Central America doesn't have very many livable cities anymore, so they're doing the rational
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The problem for Americans, whether they're toddlers and daycare or people trying to live
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a normal life in Seattle or New York or Los Angeles or any number of other cities, is that
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Daily Mail has the report on the latest school shooting, which happened yesterday.
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The teenage Iowa school shooter who killed one child and injured five others, including
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his principal, turned the gun on himself after his rampage.
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Cops said Dylan Butler, 17, was a senior at Perry High School, opened fire on Thursday morning,
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shooting dead a sixth grader who attended Perry's Middle School.
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Butler was armed with a pump-action shotgun and handgun, both of which are illegal for
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He also had a rudimentary explosive device, which was undetonated and was later rendered safe
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17-year-old died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound by the time first responders arrived at
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The ordeal triggered a mass evacuation of 1,785 students on their first day of classes after
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But this was, as I said, just the latest school shooting.
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And now, there are some interesting additional details about this shooter.
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And Libs of TikTok, one of the only real journalists left in the country, has reported on some of
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So reading from her posts, breaking, Perry High School shooter identified this is allegedly
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There's an image of it which was already scrubbed.
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He posted this photo before the shooting from the school bathroom.
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He appears to be part of the LGBTQ community with the LGBT flag in his bio.
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In another post, he put the hashtag genderfluid.
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She then provides examples of some of these videos and posts where the shooter posts hashtag
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He also has a post saying, love your trans kids.
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And according to Libs of TikTok, his Instagram page has his pronouns listed as he, they.
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And it is creepy, to say the least, how quickly this happens.
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I mean, like, within seconds, as soon as, and this only happens for certain of these
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shooters, but when you've got details like LGBT flags and that sort of thing, as soon
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as we hear about the shooting, you go to the person's social media page, it's already down.
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And, um, and that's the way it worked here, but this is reportedly what the, what these,
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And if that's all the case, then this is yet another LGBT mass shooting.
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And that, of course, uh, can be added to the Nashville shooting, the shooting in Colorado
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These are all reportedly trans or quote unquote gender fluid shooters.
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Now, do we know that, uh, this guy was consciously motivated by his reported gender fluid identity
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And if we, if he was, we'll never be told as we saw with the Nashville shooter, of course,
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you know, they're not going to tell us the full story.
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If in fact, this guy was driven by LGBT radicalization to go and shoot up the school, we're just not
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Um, it's not hard to see how that might happen though, because the left constantly claims
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that LGBT people are under attack, that they're victims, that they're being erased, that they're
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And when you take a troubled person and you fill their head with that sort of nonsense,
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You're giving them the onus, the perceived moral right and justification and, and, and
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And this is really the reason why, uh, these kinds of details matter.
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We know that any kid, um, who, who is identifying as trans or gender fluid is troubled.
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So we know that they have severe emotional and mental problems.
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And, and that's why we're seeing this emerging pattern of LGBT mass shooters.
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A kid with mental problems is more likely to identify as trans or non-binary or whatever.
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And by the way, even the LGBT activists will admit that.
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And they're certainly not going to tie it to mass shootings, but they'll be the first
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to tell you that, uh, the way that they'll put it though, is that there are mental health
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comorbidities, uh, that are very common with, with kids who identify as trans or gender
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fluid, which is just another way of saying that almost all of these kids are, are mentally
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Um, but the problem is, and you might say, well, yeah, if a kid is committing a mass shooting,
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And that's always been the case for as long as there have been school shooters.
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The issue though, is that for these quote unquote, trans kids, gender fluid, non-binary,
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because their issues are cloaked under the LGBT flag, they don't get the help they actually
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I mean, they're all put on psychiatric drugs, and we've talked about the connection between
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that and mass shootings, but the guidance, you know, and help that they really need that
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I mean, a 17 year old boy saying I'm gender fluid.
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Doesn't mean he's going to run out and shoot up a school necessarily, but it, it does mean
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He's probably got a lot of resentment, a lot of anger, a lot of very bad things are happening
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And that is what has compelled him to announce, you know, to identify this way and make this
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And, and so that should lead to a person like this getting help, but they don't because
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the schools and parents and doctors, they don't take the gender fluid identification as
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Instead, they take it as an expression of some deep inner truth.
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So when the kid says, oh, I'm gender non-conforming, I'm gender, you know, non-binary, they don't say,
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I mean, this kid's got, got some serious issues.
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We need, we need to, we need to take this seriously.
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And, um, whether it leads to a school shooting or not, it does, it cannot lead anywhere good.
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All right, we'll move, um, to California, where there's some news out of California that's, uh,
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Um, in fact, uh, an alleged hate crime occurred in California, if you can believe it.
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And here's a local news reporting on this alleged hate crime.
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In other news at 10, disturbing video from San Pedro, where a man wakes up to find his
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newly painted sports car vandalized with racist slurs and a swastika.
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And the victim says it is not the first time people of color have been targeted in his
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KTLA's Rick Chambers live in San Pedro with a story you'll see only on five.
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Yeah, Micah, while other vehicles in this man's neighborhood have also been vandalized
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in recent months, this one seemed more race-based and personal.
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And as you mentioned, it apparently has happened before.
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I couldn't believe that this happened to me in San Pedro.
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Reginald Scott is referring to the vandalism on his car.
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Sometime between Christmas and New Year's, somebody spray-painted his Mustang using swastikas
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He says it might be a racial threat for parking in front of someone else's home.
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Even if you're parked where you're not supposed to be, I don't think that gives you the right
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to spray-paint on somebody's car and call them a racial slur.
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It's just wrong because they flatten his tires, they damage it, and it's just something that
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you don't want to see every day because, you know, what if that could have been my vehicle?
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And Reginald Scott claims that this has happened twice before.
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Somebody set his truck on fire two years ago, and then...
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During Halloween, they kept my truck tires and sprayed some stuff all over it to where
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this is starting to up, and then we're starting to get scared being around here.
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So much so that he keeps his son close by and says that his wife now is scared.
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The Scots say that they filed a police report, but now, after 20-plus years in San Pedro,
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If you think you'd like to help the Scott family, you can go to our website at ktla.com.
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We will have a link to their GoFundMe page there.
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Are they just going to raise a couple hundred bucks to get a new paint job?
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They need more money than that, just because it'll make them feel better.
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The only thing that can heal the emotional trauma is cold, hard cash.
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He makes a good point that just because someone parks in your spot,
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that doesn't give you the right to spray paint racial slurs on his car.
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As tempting as it might be when someone parks in your spot, you know,
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to vandalize their car, you don't have the right to do that.
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And allegedly, this vandal spray-painted, you couldn't really see it in the report there,
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but it was Merry Christmas N-word, but they didn't say N-word.
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And then also, they spray-painted a swastika on the car.
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And I don't know if you noticed, but they actually blurred out the swastika,
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because, God forbid, you actually see the swastika.
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They blurred that out, but it was a swastika and Merry Christmas N-word.
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Pull up, just pull up the swastika, and that's the one we need to see.
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We'll keep that up on the page there, because...
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Now, first of all, this is exactly what you would expect in the Nazi hotspot of San Pedro, California.
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A place where this man, and this man alone, apparently, has repeatedly been targeted by Nazis.
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I don't know why they're only picking on him and nobody else.
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It's very interesting, though, because these are Nazis who, oddly enough...
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I mean, they're so dedicated to Nazism that they're committing a hate crime
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that would land them in federal prison for years.
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I mean, if you really did something like this, and you were caught,
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I mean, if you did this in the middle of some day,
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it was people have ring cameras and security cameras.
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I mean, they're going to come down hard on you.
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But they're so dedicated to their Nazi principles that they said, it's worth it.
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I'll go to federal prison for 10 years just to put the swastika on the car.
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But then at the same time, they're that dedicated to Nazism,
00:27:30.160
but they're also so clueless about Nazism that they don't know how to draw a swastika.
00:27:37.660
Now, I know this is one of those things where you really can't win,
00:27:44.780
I'm not trying to claim that I'm the swastika expert here,
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but that is not actually what a swastika looks like.
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That's actually closer to the ancient Hindu symbol that the Nazis took the swastika from.
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Maybe this is a Hindu person fresh off the boat who's legitimately trying to be friendly,
00:28:24.240
Now, you know, of course the media is reporting on this alleged hate crime as fact
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Even though, like, literally every case like this for the last 20 years has been a hoax.
00:28:46.140
but has there been a case of someone spray painting the N-word or a swastika
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and it didn't turn out to be done by the person who's claiming to be the victim?
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So every single case is a hoax, but the media reports this.
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This one, this, this one, all the other ones, maybe not, but this one really happened.
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And look, I'm not saying, and I can't for legal reasons at this point say
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You know, it's not, it's not impossible that this guy was really targeted by San Pedro Nazis.
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Like, it's logically, technically, from a philosophical perspective, possible.
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When they're trying to indicate that something didn't happen.
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It's like, when pigs fly, but, but, you know, it's logically possible for pigs to fly.
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It's not like a square circle or a married bachelor.
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And so they're therefore philosophically impossible.
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But, but there is a possible universe where pigs fly, you know, and, and, and, and where a San Pedro Nazi vandalizes a car.
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There's even a possible universe where a flying Nazi pig vandalizes a car.
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And I'll go so far as to say this, to this guy's credit.
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If we do, and, you know, the, the theoretical physicists and the atheists,
00:30:27.940
they all speculate that we live in a multiverse with trillions of realities playing out simultaneously in different dimensions.
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And, and, and, and if that's true, then I will even say that probably in one of those realities, this guy's story is true.
00:30:46.580
You know, of the trillions of universes, there's probably one where he really, his car really was vandalized by a Nazi.
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It's just that that's almost certainly not what happened in this reality.
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In this reality, like, we all know that this is almost certainly a hoax.
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And it's so bad at this point, and so obvious, that as soon as the story is reported, every single comment now,
00:31:14.260
I mean, you go on Twitter, go to the page, every comment is like, okay, Jesse, yeah, all right.
00:31:20.460
So these things happen, and everyone except the journalists reporting on it know exactly what it is the moment they hear about it.
00:31:29.040
They know exactly what it almost certainly is, the moment they hear about it.
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But we'll see, you know, this might be, look, 20 years without a real, without a real hate crime like this, maybe this will be the first one.
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And as I said, it'd be very easy, you know, it would not be hard to find, especially, again, in San Pedro, like, there's probably only one white guy on the entire block.
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And I don't want to cast aspersions on that one white guy.
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I'm just saying that, like, there's probably only, like, one guy who could even possibly be, which at least narrows down the search a little bit.
00:32:18.420
Well, you know what, I should correct myself, because there can be black Nazis.
00:32:25.720
You know, we talked about Dave Chappelle's recent, most recent stand-up special on Netflix, where he has another joke about trans people.
00:32:34.840
And the Daily Wire has some reporting on the backlash against this, which, as you expect, there's some backlash.
00:32:42.060
Comedian Dave Chappelle is once again facing backlash from leftist critics for making jokes about the trans community in his newest Netflix comedy special.
00:32:50.400
The outrage stems from comments Chappelle made in The Dreamer, which was released on December 31st.
00:32:55.920
A reviewer from Rolling Stone complained about Chappelle being obsessed with trans people.
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Marlo Stern wrote, quote, it's unfortunate that Chappelle's The Dreamer is, like some of his prior Netflix specials, obsessively fixated on the trans community.
00:33:10.320
Because it's not an area he particularly excels at, resorting to puerile premises and punchlines.
00:33:19.060
He added, quote, there are, of course, ways to artfully tell a trans joke.
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Take Michelle Wolf's recent Netflix special, It's Great to Be Here.
00:33:29.400
Look, I haven't seen Michelle Wolf's trans joke, her artful trans joke.
00:33:38.220
But he says, but Chappelle is apparently incapable of having most of his bits extend beyond mocking genitalia or pronouns.
00:33:48.600
Variety editor William Earle agreed that Chappelle has an obsession with mocking trans people and suggested he should try some new material.
00:33:56.540
Sean McCarthy said, Dave Chappelle's new Netflix special proves he's learned nothing.
00:34:00.320
It feels so frustrating to sit and watch comedians with the stature of Chappelle and Gervais devote so much of their time and energy to bullying the LGBTQ plus community when they could be doing something else on stage.
00:34:12.700
And then they have the temerity to question us, the audience, for not laughing with them.
00:34:21.700
You notice the strategy that they're taking now because they know, you know, I think that they have at least the minimal self-awareness to realize how lame they look when they complain about jokes.
00:34:38.820
I do think, and I know to accuse the left of having any self-awareness is going out on a bit of a limb there, but I do think that they realize kind of what that looks like.
00:34:54.720
And, you know, you don't want to be on the side that's always complaining about jokes.
00:34:59.720
You know, it is true that if you went back 30 years and if you go back 30 years ago and you had no other context and you heard that there was a stand-up special that had caused controversy and people were complaining about it and were offended.
00:35:22.360
30 years ago, without knowing anything else, you could probably assume that it was like conservatives that were offended by whatever was said.
00:35:32.900
But that has completely flipped on its head now, and I think the left realizes that.
00:35:37.840
And the more that they are in that position, the lamer and less cool they seem.
00:35:42.360
So now they've tried to, yeah, they're offended, but they've tried to, they're taking this approach of, no, I'm not offended.
00:36:04.960
Now, of course, they're saying he should get new material and talk about something else.
00:36:09.300
I mean, first of all, he does talk about many other things.
00:36:14.140
Like a Dave Chappelle stand-up special is going to be an hour long.
00:36:18.260
And maybe in an hour, he'll tell one joke about trans or two, which will take up like three minutes of a 60-minute special.
00:36:28.480
It's the left and the media, like, it's their choice to focus only on that part of it.
00:36:35.960
Because, of course, they are the ones who are obsessed with that issue.
00:36:40.040
But, but also, like, there are plenty of black comedians who 98% of their material is making fun of and complaining about white people.
00:36:50.820
You know, it's not every black comedian, but there's plenty of black comedians where that's almost the entire thing.
00:36:56.780
It's like 30, they have a career that spans 30 years.
00:37:00.160
And almost every moment of it is spent on white versus black jokes, and that's it.
00:37:08.720
And something tells me you're never going to hear Rolling Stone say about a black comedian who's joking about white people.
00:37:19.000
No, it's, but when they, when the gaze is turned to trans people, even just for a brief moment, that's when it's too much.
00:37:32.240
I mean, and, and, and they act as though Dave Chappelle is doing entire specials on nothing but the trans stuff.
00:37:43.600
I mean, there's enough material you could do easily.
00:37:47.080
And you could have an hour-long set where you do nothing but make fun of these people.
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And that, that, that would be quite easy to do.
00:37:55.240
Um, because you, you know why, you know, if you're a trans activist or in the media, you're upset about this.
00:38:02.220
Do you want to know why someone like Chappelle continually mocks the trans stuff?
00:38:09.180
Well, it's because it happens to be the craziest thing happening in our culture right now.
00:38:17.080
That's why it gets, it actually should be, it, it, it should be talked about and made fun of quite a bit more than it is.
00:38:26.960
Because if you are to look around at our culture to try to find the most mockable parts of it, well, right there, right, that, that takes the cake.
00:38:38.880
It's not just the most absurd, here's the thing, the trans agenda, it's not just the most absurd thing happening in our culture right now.
00:38:45.380
Now, it's the most absurd thing that's ever happened in the history of the planet, okay?
00:38:51.200
The whole history of the human race, this is the most absurd and ridiculous thing that's ever occurred.
00:38:56.620
And so, yes, there are at least a few, a few stand-up comedians who have noticed that and can point to it and say, that's pretty funny.
00:39:08.280
And the other reason that I think Chappelle comes back to it also is that you believe that you should be exempt from mockery.
00:39:14.020
And there are at least a few stand-up comedians left who realize that the people who think they should be exempt from mockery are the ones who should be mocked the most.
00:39:25.240
All right, you know, I woke up to huge news this morning and the first thing I saw when I went on Twitter, well, there were two things trending.
00:39:36.700
When I went on, the first thing in the morning I saw Miami Mall and aliens.
00:39:48.000
I saw it and I was like, okay, well, aliens landed and they went to a mall in Miami.
00:39:54.080
And sure enough, that is exactly what happened.
00:39:56.940
And we have evidence, we have proof, and we'll get to it.
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An incident at a Miami shopping mall which resulted in the arrest of four teenagers earlier this week has sparked the spread of a bizarre, this is their word, bizarre, theory on social media which suggests that the alleged presence of aliens at the Florida establishment.
00:40:16.180
More than 60 police cars swarmed the Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami on Monday night to shut down a fight involving a group of teenagers who were also throwing fireworks at each other in the open-air shopping mall.
00:40:28.460
Four teenagers were arrested in connection to the incident.
00:40:31.080
According to the suspect's arrest reports mentioned by the television station, the juveniles were causing a riot inside the mall and causing panic.
00:40:38.660
Okay, so that's the official story that there was a fight at a mall.
00:40:45.980
When's the last time you heard of a fight at a mall?
00:40:51.300
So immediately you hear that you think something else is going on here.
00:40:55.960
And that's when you go and you go, well, where am I going to find the truth?
00:40:59.960
I'm not going to find it from these corporate media outlets.
00:41:05.660
Various independent journalists on TikTok have been reporting that, in fact, there were giant aliens at the mall.
00:41:17.520
So here's one video from a woman on TikTok who's kind of breaking it all down and giving us the basic facts of the case.
00:41:25.220
The Miami police was not dispatched there for a juvenile fight.
00:41:30.360
And the obvious need for such an enormous police presence was far more sinister than what we've been told.
00:41:36.520
As multiple witnesses claimed to have seen, I can't believe I'm going to say this,
00:41:41.400
creatures that stood 8 to 10 feet tall, walking outside and even inside of the mall.
00:41:47.020
And the pew-pews that were reported, and even the pew-pews you might hear in some of the videos,
00:41:54.660
According to these witnesses, it was actually the mall-goers shooting to protect themselves
00:41:59.400
from these 8 to 10 foot tall creatures in self-defense.
00:42:07.640
10 foot tall aliens at the mall, people shooting at them.
00:42:14.480
But why would this woman, whoever she is, lie about this?
00:42:23.140
And so it's essentially impossible that she lied.
00:42:26.600
But if you are skeptical and you're saying, oh, well, she wasn't there.
00:42:32.500
Okay, well, let's listen to someone who was there and gives an eyewitness report of what he encountered.
00:42:39.100
And this is pretty disturbing, I warn you, but let's listen to what he has to say.
00:42:44.500
Since nobody's going to talk about it, I figured, you know, like, you know what I'm saying?
00:42:50.420
I was, uh, I was down in Miami for, uh, the New Year's, you know what I'm saying?
00:42:56.620
We was down there on a, um, like a mini vacay, you know, just to start the New Year's off right.
00:43:07.140
Next thing you know, you start hearing all this commotion outside.
00:43:09.340
Sound like fire, like firecrackers or something.
00:43:15.020
Because, you know, I originally thought that they were shooting.
00:43:18.520
I thought, you know, some type of, um, gunfight had broke out, whatever the case is.
00:43:22.560
Because, you know, we're not familiar with Miami.
00:43:46.180
So, you know, my girl, she's like, what's going on?
00:43:51.800
Next thing you know, you know, real, like, gunshots start going off.
00:43:56.040
Like, we're trying to, we're trying to follow the crowd.
00:44:12.660
And it almost looked like they was coming our direction.
00:44:30.320
And 10-foot-tall alien shadows, shadow aliens, have landed.
00:44:39.900
The thing that really sticks out to me about his testimony is he said that fat chicks were running.
00:44:43.780
And now, you tell me, why else would a fat chick run?
00:44:50.320
If they were in the habit of running, they wouldn't be fat.
00:44:53.180
So, you think, well, why would they be running?
00:45:08.200
Now, I will say, I've been told that the guy who made that video has since come out and said that it's a hoax and he didn't really see anything.
00:45:15.800
But that just proves even more because they got to him.
00:45:20.420
You know, he said what he saw and then later comes out and says, oh, I was just kidding.
00:45:26.540
Of course, he would say that after he gets the knock on the door, you know, and the SUVs pull up.
00:45:34.260
And they tell him, you better take that back, mister.
00:45:39.440
But here's the part where you're saying, oh, well, if there were really aliens at the mall, why didn't anyone get them on video?
00:45:45.580
And I hate this talking point because I've talked about this before.
00:45:48.540
You know, this idea that, well, why is there a video?
00:45:50.740
Do you really think that if you were being chased by 10-foot-tall shadow aliens from Neptune or whatever that you would take a second to pull your phone out?
00:46:04.920
You're going to think while you're going to backpedal while you're running?
00:46:10.960
But as it happens, someone did get the aliens on film.
00:46:14.440
So this particular video has gone viral and where you can actually see.
00:46:45.940
Did you, someone who apparently had a camera phone.
00:46:49.760
It's like this person happened to have the first camera phone ever made in history.
00:47:03.700
So these are, the aliens themselves are blurry.
00:47:07.720
Every time we see an alien on camera, they're blurry.
00:47:09.620
It's because the aliens are literally blurry themselves.
00:47:16.440
Last question you ask is, well, why do the aliens go to the mall?
00:47:23.500
You've been in a spaceship for thousands of years, probably.
00:47:42.460
There's probably an alien who forgot his jacket.
00:47:45.280
You know, I know with my kids, we go on a trip.
00:47:47.520
And as soon as we get there, there's always at least one kid is like,
00:47:57.100
You have to go to the mall because you don't know where else to go.
00:47:59.260
And you go to the mall and you have to buy this thing.
00:48:00.860
So I could see something like that might have happened to these aliens.
00:48:04.400
The next thing you know, they're being shot at.
00:48:07.740
And so what was a peaceful jaunt to the mall by these aliens
00:48:14.660
has now become the beginning of the destruction of our planet.
00:48:27.260
If you're a man, it's required that you grow up in hay with a sweet baby gang.
00:48:35.400
First comment says, Jordan Peterson gives the best response to these anti-human overpopulation
00:48:43.120
If you think there are too many people, there's a very easy solution to that.
00:48:47.240
Not surprisingly, they tend to change their tune once that obvious fix is presented to
00:48:56.180
It's kind of an obvious point that if you really believe there are too many people on
00:49:00.480
the planet, then you can take matters into your own hands and you can kill yourself.
00:49:09.920
I think suicide's a terrible tragedy and it should never happen.
00:49:12.540
But if you actually believe that, and if there are mass amounts of people who really believe
00:49:27.060
Like you never hear, when people commit suicide tragically, you never hear anyone doing it
00:49:29.820
because they're trying to solve overpopulation though.
00:49:33.100
No, instead they say, no, no, no, I don't want to die.
00:49:38.860
You know, let's kill the babies and we'll kill them.
00:49:44.300
Because as, and I think it was Chester Tanner, C.S. Lewis, one of them said that, you know,
00:49:49.820
when you're talking about overpopulation, it's like these, and I'm paraphrasing, but
00:49:56.780
the people that talk about, they never include themselves in the, in the over category, right?
00:50:03.460
You know, they're, they are population and the over is, uh, is everyone else, especially kids.
00:50:11.460
Um, next one says, just finished watching the latest episode.
00:50:17.040
I don't care how much money I spend on my child.
00:50:19.320
It will never take away the joy I see in my daughter's face when I get her something.
00:50:30.540
You know, I, we talked about how, when it comes to the, the dinks and people advocating
00:50:35.160
childlessness and all they ever do is talk about the money and all they ever do is the
00:50:41.440
only thing that their whole case centers around, oh yeah, money, more money.
00:50:46.560
And as I pointed out, that's, that's the, first of all, they exaggerate that aspect of it.
00:50:52.960
That's not the most important aspect at all of that we should be talking about, but you bring
00:50:57.580
up an interesting point, which is that, you know, when you become a parent, you actually discover
00:51:02.960
something that I think when you're not a parent is like, you can't even imagine, which is that
00:51:08.440
you, there's actually joy to be found in spending money on someone else.
00:51:17.280
Like there are plenty of times when it's frustrating as a parent, when you just see you make money
00:51:24.040
And, uh, you know, when we, or when my wife goes to the grocery store and buys like seven
00:51:31.000
boxes of cereal and cereal these days, you know, it's like $90 a box or whatever.
00:51:37.460
And she buys seven boxes of cereal and puts them in the pantry.
00:51:43.040
Like somehow these kids, I don't know how it's pot.
00:51:48.820
So there's that kind of thing where it becomes frustrating.
00:51:52.320
But generally, uh, there is joy to be found in providing for your family.
00:51:58.640
And, um, and I think if you're not a parent, you can't even, I could say when I was a parent,
00:52:05.500
I, I couldn't, I really, I couldn't even conceive of what that would be like to actually enjoy,
00:52:11.380
you know, giving something to someone else and that real kind of deep sense.
00:52:17.080
Um, but of course these dinks, they, they don't understand that.
00:52:22.320
Uh, Matt in Canada, at least in BC, dink means penis.
00:52:30.640
Every time you say someone is a dink, you're just calling it like it is.
00:52:45.140
Like I always knew it had to mean something like that.
00:52:47.240
It just doesn't, it's gotta be, it, it, that's what it sounds like.
00:52:53.240
And, and they are, they apparently enjoy being called giant penises.
00:53:13.820
The dink said he fell, he, he, he fell in love with dink.
00:53:19.560
I didn't, I'm not saying he said, that's what he said.
00:53:21.420
We got married fairly young and we both just decided for many reasons we didn't want kids.
00:53:28.920
And then at some point we heard the acronym dink and I think just really fell in love with it.
00:53:36.000
You know, you see the nose ring on a man and you just know that's the kind of man who falls in love with dink.
00:53:51.420
It's no question that we are living in a clown world.
00:53:54.160
The characters in power are straight out of a carnival.
00:53:56.400
Basic notions of right and wrong, justice, truth, and even reality itself have been thrown out the window.
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00:55:04.400
Well, Madonna recently embarked on her new global tour called Celebration.
00:55:09.240
And indeed, the tour is an opportunity to celebrate her musical career,
00:55:13.980
which effectively died 25 years ago and yet has lingered on in zombified form.
00:55:19.180
Horrifying and confusing spectators all the while.
00:55:21.880
As far as I can tell, she has not had a number one single since the tail end of the Clinton administration.
00:55:26.740
She hasn't been even vaguely relevant on the music scene at any point this century.
00:55:31.740
The last time she made headlines was when she kissed Britney Spears at the VMAs in 2003.
00:55:37.280
Way back then, she had already entered into her desperate attention whore phase,
00:55:41.060
grasping for relevance in whatever way she could.
00:55:43.700
And 20 years later, Britney Spears is now dancing half naked on Instagram with butcher knives
00:55:47.680
and Madonna looks like a geriatric Marilyn Manson still trying to be a sex symbol,
00:55:52.100
even though she's been AARP eligible for a half, you know, a decade and a half.
00:55:59.840
Now there's nothing wrong with a 65-year-old singer going on tour.
00:56:05.240
Aretha Franklin was still performing at the age of 75 before she died.
00:56:09.040
But a 65-year-old woman should perform like a 65-year-old woman.
00:56:15.640
Classy, refined, mature, dignified, dazzling with a beautiful vocal performance rather than relying on sex appeal.
00:56:25.200
The problem, though, is that Madonna can't sing and she can't write good music
00:56:29.800
and she wouldn't know classiness and refinement if it fell out of the sky and landed on her head,
00:56:35.020
which means that the people who buy tickets for the Celebration tour and for the life of me,
00:56:39.280
I can't understand why anyone would, are in for an incredibly cringey display.
00:56:44.820
And however cringey you think it might be, I assure you that it's even worse than that.
00:56:49.940
So case in point, here's a 12-second viral clip from Madonna's latest stop on her tour.
00:57:05.020
Now, if you're wondering what a wreck time at the nursing home will look like in the year 2070, there it is.
00:57:21.120
And for those who are blessed to only be listening to the audio podcast and were therefore spared the visuals,
00:57:27.500
I will just tell you that Madonna appears to be wrapped in aluminum foil
00:57:31.460
while she clings onto a support rail and gyrates clumsily to techno music.
00:57:38.080
And, you know, it's kind of like if you brought your elderly aunt to a rave
00:57:42.980
and she got way more into it than you expected.
00:57:47.160
It's an embarrassing sight to behold, but also oddly fascinating in the same grotesque way
00:57:52.080
that, you know, you might gawk at roadkill while you drive by trying to figure out, like,
00:57:58.920
And by the way, this is a good time to tell you that, and I did check for myself.
00:58:03.760
Madonna's next stop is in Boston in three days.
00:58:10.040
All the seats are going to be, all the tickets are sold out.
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You can buy a ticket for $60 to Madonna's tour in three days.
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You know, people were, like, literally killing each other over Taylor Swift's tickets or buying
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Shockingly, people are not tripping over themselves to go watch Grandma in Zumba class for two hours.
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But needless to say, if you find this spectacle ridiculous, then the problem isn't with the
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aging pop star throwing her hip out while she tries to twerk on stage.
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So, Madonna is being defended from ageist trolls after a video showing the singer performing
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while holding a beam for support, surfaced online.
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Earlier this week, a clip from the Like a Prayer Singer Celebration Tour was shared on TikTok,
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showing the star, 65, dancing energetically while holding a pole positioned behind her.
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And I can tell you it's never a good sign when the best thing someone can say about your dance moves
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Like, if you perform a dance routine, and you go up to someone and you say,
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Many trolls then proceeded to incorrectly conflate Madonna's decision to hold the rail for support with her age
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However, it has since been revealed that during this particular segment of the show,
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Madonna is dancing while standing on a moving platform, meaning she is holding the pole for her safety.
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The 65-year-old woman needed to hold the pole while she danced for her safety.
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People Magazine reports that other aging musicians are coming to Madonna's defense.
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On Thursday, the public enemy frontman, 63, posted to X to defend the Frozen singer, 65.
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By the way, Frozen singer is like, I guess that's a song.
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They don't mean that she's like literally frozen, like cryogenically frozen,
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although she does sort of look like she has been.
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Anyway, defend against trolls making ageist comments about her performance during her career-spanning celebration tour.
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At 63, I know I can bike better than I ever did, and Pilates ain't easy, but I give it to Madonna for pushing the bars, D said of the legendary pop star.
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Flav is taking Pilates, too, and he's 64, so ageism sometimes gets like racism both ways if you let it.
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Ageism sometimes gets like racism both ways if you let it.
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I think Chuck D had a stroke when he wrote that last sentence.
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But you see, the point is, it is ageism to notice how ridiculous an older woman looks when she tries to pretend that she's still 22.
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And Madonna herself has made this point many times.
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A few months ago, she appeared at the Grammys, and her face, if you remember, was so weird and puffy from plastic surgery
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that she looked like she'd been attacked by a swarm of bees shortly before appearing on stage.
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And again, people noticed how weird she looked, and she responded by calling them ageist.
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The 64-year-old singer denounced the entertainment industry for its biases against women who have continued to work long into their careers.
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Once again, I am caught in the glare of ageism and misogyny that permeates the world we live in.
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A world that refuses to celebrate women past the age of 45 and feels the need to punish her
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if she continues to be strong-willed, hard-working, and adventurous.
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Never apologized for any of the creative choices I have made, nor the way that I look or dress, and I'm not going to start.
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I've been degraded by the media since the beginning of my career, but I understand that this is all a test,
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and I am happy to do the trailblazing so that all the women behind me can have an easier time in the years to come.
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You have blazed a trail that other women can follow so that they, too, can become addicted to Botox
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and end up looking like the creepy puppet from Saw.
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Now, as for the ageism claims, let me just say one thing.
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And that's how you end up with 65-year-old pop stars and 80-year-old presidents
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and a Congress filled with people who took office sometime around the War of 1812.
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You know, it's also why plastic surgery is a booming industry, especially among Gen Z.
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You know, in Gen Z, I mean, they are actually young,
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but in their desperation to stay young, they get lip filler and Botox and lifts and implants,
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and ironically, they end up looking a lot older.
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They end up looking like middle-aged Stepford wives.
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Our problem is our refusal to age and to accept the reality of aging.
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Madonna is just, she is too old to be gyrating on stage in a skin-tight aluminum leotard.
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And we can argue about whether anyone of any age should be behaving that way,
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but there's no question that for her, at her age, she looks pathetic and clumsy and ridiculous.
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And it's not that a 65-year-old woman can't be beautiful.
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No, a 65-year-old woman can be beautiful, but a beautiful 65-year-old woman
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is a 65-year-old woman who knows that she is 65 and embraces the fact.
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But when you are not honest with yourself and the world about who you are,
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you end up looking not beautiful, but weird and grotesque.
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Just like there are plenty of 25-year-old women who would be beautiful and were beautiful,
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but then they defiled themselves with unnecessary plastic surgery,
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You know, aging is a reality of human existence.
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And we find this reality scary, almost unspeakable, really,
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Like, it's embarrassing to ask someone their age, right?
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Someone's age is an embarrassing fact, and we take that for granted.
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Well, you know, in traditional societies, you go back to their history,
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although they wouldn't be, oh, that's, I don't, you know, I'm 25.
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I've been celebrating my 25th birthday for 30 years now.
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They'd be proud of it, because it means they've been alive for 75 years.
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But here we treat it as actually embarrassing to have lived a long life.
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And the reason is that we are in a constant state of denial about death.
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You know, we say things like, age is just a number.
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But that's only true in the same sense that height is just a number,
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No, we come up with numbers to symbolize these realities, but they are still realities.
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And that wouldn't change the fact that we all get older one second at a time,
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and eventually our bodies start to break down, and our minds start to break down,
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Happiness and harmony and beauty can be found in accepting it and acting accordingly.
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So, the most beautiful thing that Madonna could do right now is retire and go home
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and put on some slippers and sit on her porch and read books to her grandchildren.