Ep. 1292 - The ‘Expert’ Class Is Crumbling Before Our Very Eyes
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The so-called expert class is crumbling before our very eyes, and that s great news for all of us. Also, an alleged Republican turns a hearing about Joe Biden into a discussion about white privilege, and police in Canada are warning residents not to post videos of thieves stealing their packages because it violates the privacy of the thieves. Plus, plastic surgery is more popular than ever, especially among Gen Z. What explains this obsession? We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the so-called expert class is crumbling before our very eyes,
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and that's great news for all of us. Also, an alleged Republican turns a hearing about
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Hunter Biden into a discussion about white privilege, and police in Canada are warning
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residents not to post videos of thieves stealing their packages because it violates the privacy of
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the thieves. Plus, plastic surgery is more popular than ever, especially among Gen Z.
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What explains this obsession? We'll talk about all of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Defense is out of commission and no one's even pretending anymore that the Commander-in-Chief has
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any idea what's going on in the world. So unless you're heavily invested in weapons manufacturing or
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you sit on the board of Raytheon or something like that, you probably have a lot of urgent questions
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about last night's U.S. military strikes in Yemen, if you even heard about them. Now, you might wonder,
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for example, who exactly the Houthis are and why they made the decision to shut down a critical
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international trade route by terrorizing ships in the Red Sea. It's almost like they're asking for
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U.S. military involvement in the region or something. You might also have questions about
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whether this is somehow a wag the dog scenario, given the Biden administration's disastrous poll
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numbers. But regardless of your position on yesterday's missile strikes, these are all fair
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concerns. You're not a conspiracy theorist for asking about them. After years of relentless lies,
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from cable news quote-unquote experts, the skepticism isn't really noteworthy at all. I mean, we're all
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skeptical. In fact, at this point, even the experts themselves have basically conceded, in so many
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words, that they can't be trusted. And that's become especially clear in just the past few days. From the
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airline industry to medicine, we are witnessing the collapse of the expert class in this country.
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They've lost their legitimacy, and they know it. Now, you may have heard about Tony Fauci's
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admission in a closed-door House committee hearing the other day. Fauci began by denying that he ever
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played a role in shutting down any schools in this country. And that's a lie, of course.
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Fauci's agency provided official guidance calling on schools to shut down, which exposed those schools
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to civil liability if they refused. And then Fauci was asked about his infamous guidance that everybody
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needed to socially distance or stand six feet apart. Now, as you probably remember, this six-foot rule
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became gospel in the country basically overnight. Every business and school and government building
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and airport put up little placards and stickers on the floor instructing everybody to obey. And at the
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time, we were told that the science, quote-unquote, mandated this rule. But the other day, Tony Fauci
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admitted what he always knew all along, which is that there was, in fact, no scientific data justifying
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this whatsoever. He says essentially that they just made it up on the spot. Here's a New York
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Post reporter describing Fauci's closed-door testimony. Listen.
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Fauci also had the opportunity to speak with members about other guidance he provided,
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such as six feet of distance to slow the spread of the virus. Fauci surprisingly said to the committee
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members that that guidance, quote, sort of just appeared, end quote, without scientific input.
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Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University Medical School and an eventual COVID response
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coordinator in President Biden's White House, said that the six-feet requirement never struck
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him as, quote, particularly sensical, end quote. So we're told that the guidance just appeared
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miraculously like manna from heaven. Nobody knows where it came from or why, but there it was.
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Six feet apart, they said, for no reason. Like, why not seven? Why not 10? Why not 100? Why not
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three? Many of us asked this at the time. Well, it turns out there's no reason. Literally no reason.
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Six feet is just what was decided by whoever decided it. This isn't the first time that Tony
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Fauci has admitted to lying to the public about COVID. At one point, you may remember that he told
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the New York Times that he had deliberately misled Americans about the concept of herd immunity
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by continually moving the goalposts. Now, you may remember herd immunity. That was the idea that
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once a certain number of people became immune to COVID, whether through infection or vaccination,
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then the virus becomes less of a threat and we can resume our normal lives. But somehow,
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Fauci's threshold for herd immunity kept changing throughout the pandemic. He kept saying that a
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bigger percentage of Americans needed to get the virus before herd immunity would apply. And then
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when the Times asked him why he kept changing the percentage, he admitted it was just social
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engineering. This week, though, Fauci dropped the pretense of science entirely. He just admitted that
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he was making stuff up. He was misleading us about pretty much every aspect of COVID, from social
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distancing to masks, to the COVID shot, to herd immunity. And now that he's out of powder, he can
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finally admit it because he knows he won't suffer any consequences. Not that he would have suffered them
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while he was in power. This is one of those stories that's getting buried for obvious reasons. I mean,
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for one thing, nobody wants to talk about Fauci anymore or COVID or the lockdowns. For a lot of
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different reasons, liberals and conservatives alike would prefer not to revisit the time in very recent
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history when Fauci was the most visible and powerful person in the country. And also, admittedly,
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there's a lot going on in the world. Fine. But if you take 10 steps back, you'll see that the new
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expert class, the people who demand to be taken as seriously as Fauci, are struggling to replace him.
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Like him, they simply have no credibility. Recall again the story that broke the other day on Axios.
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We talked about it. And here's what they wrote, quote, breaking the climate of 2023 was the hottest
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scene in at least 125,000 years. For the first time in instrument records, daily global average
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temperatures went well above a Paris guardrail of two degrees Celsius. Now, along with that scary
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headline, Axios includes a chart that only goes back until the 1970s, strangely enough.
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But all the same, they're insistent that 2023 was the hottest climate the world has ever seen
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in 125,000 years. Now, you know, I could reference a bunch of other experts who contradict this theory.
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I could tell you all about Steve Malloy, a senior fellow at the Energy and Environment
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Legal Institute, who debunked this garbage science in the Wall Street Journal recently.
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Malloy pointed out that, if you can believe it, we actually didn't have satellites or temperature
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stations to measure temperature 125,000 years ago. He also writes that even today, most of the world
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isn't covered by temperature stations. And the temperature stations we do have are still very
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inaccurate. In fact, he wrote, it's been estimated that 96% of U.S. temperature stations produce
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corrupted data. So what does that mean? It means we can't trust temperature data
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today, much less the information we're getting from before human civilization was formed.
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But I don't really have to cite any of this because it's all obvious to anyone with any
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common sense whatsoever. That's why the comments on that Axios article are pretty much uniformly
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negative because people just aren't buying the lies anymore. This is a trend that's been causing
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a lot of panic. You know, people not buying it anymore. Causing a lot of panic among experts and
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institutions that aren't used to being challenged, including pretty much every corporate backer
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of the anti-white scam known as diversity, equity, and inclusion. These are institutions that insist
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that DEI is a core part of their mission. They say that their companies and universities simply cannot
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survive without it. But the moment you expose them, they run away in horror. All you have to do is shine
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a light on what they're doing and they give up. That's what just happened to Spirit Aerosystems.
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That's the manufacturer of the door that blew out on the Alaska Airlines flight recently while the
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plan was taking off. Yesterday, I came across a TikTok video that was uploaded by Spirit Aerosystems
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employees or, you know, an intern possibly. Uploaded about a year ago. And this is footage from
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a conference for women in engineering. The video caught my eye because the hashtags were
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women in engineering and spirits dream team. This is the dream team that, you know, is at the company
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that makes these doors. So naturally, I clicked on the video. I wanted to see what an engineering dream
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team looks like at a company that is very clearly incompetent at engineering. And here's what I found.
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Well, you know, what they lack in engineering talent and skill, they make up for in sass.
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And so now you can shout girl power while you're being sucked out of a giant hole in the side of
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a plane at 30,000 feet. You know, take a little solace at least that these, these ladies, you know,
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these are, these are some sassy ladies who made that door that has now killed you. And this is the
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dream team of the company that, that made the door that fell off a passenger plane flying over Portland
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the other day. And within about an hour of me posting that video on Twitter, the Spirit Aerosystems
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employee or intern took it down. You know, it's been up for a year. And then coincidentally, you
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know, I, I, all I did was, it's not like I went to some private place. It's not like I took it off some
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private hard drive somewhere. It was on their TikTok. It's been there for a year. And all I said was,
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hey guys, look at this thing they posted. And they took it down because they know that this is absurd.
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They know it's completely incompatible with their mission. All you have to do is expose it and they
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fold. Same thing just happened at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Hopkins DEI office, which, which is
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something that exists for some reason. South had an email to employees alerting them to potential
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patients who have unearned privilege. The list includes males, Christians, white people, English
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speaking people, middle or owning class people, cisgender people, heterosexuals, and able-bodied
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people, among others. Now I'll say that again. Johns Hopkins Medicine believes that males, Christians,
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white people, English speaking people, middle class people, cisgender people, heterosexuals,
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and able-bodied people are inherently privileged. And of course the word privilege is a very thinly
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coded word. What Hopkins is really saying, of course, is that they don't like Christians or whites or
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heterosexuals, et cetera. They're not looking at any real markers of privilege. They're just
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indulging their bigotry. That's the unmistakable message here. Keep in mind, this is a hospital and
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a medical school we're talking about. They have the ability to administer treatments that can save
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people or kill them if they're done the wrong way. Their only job is treating people. They shouldn't
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be making lists about groups of people who, you know, they have resentment towards. That kind of thing is
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threatening, actually. And they know that. And that's why, as soon as this was published online
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by the X account, End Wokeness, Hopkins took their little hit list down. Their DEI office issued a
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completely insincere apology, and they just kind of scampered away. Now again, this is a pattern.
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Also yesterday, the same day that Hopkins took down its DEI list and Spirit took down its TikTok video,
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Southwest Airlines deleted a post on X about its, quote, all-female flight crew. The post read,
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all-female flight crew? Go off, Queens. But as it turns out, people don't care about the gender
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diversity of their flight crew. It's not what they're looking for. They care about competence.
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They care about not dying. And in no uncertain terms, thousands of people let Southwest know that.
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So once again, they deleted the post and pretended it never happened. Now, it's easy to take this kind
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of thing for granted, but just a few years ago, it would have been unheard of. I mean, Fauci never
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would have admitted fault. Neither would Johns Hopkins, as they told us to stay socially distant
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and wear masks. Neither would the airlines, as they bombarded us with propaganda about the
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importance of DEI. But now these frauds are actually being held to account. When they try to lie,
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like Axios did with their climate alarmists, no one buys it anymore. When they try to push their
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ham-fisted social engineering, people call them out on it. And what this basically means is that
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the rule of the expert class is effectively over. They can't tell us to swallow DEI anymore,
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any more than they can tell us to wear a mask or stand six feet apart. And for everyone who cares
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about competence and public safety, this is the best possible outcome. For bloated DEI bureaucracies,
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this. Hunter Biden showed up at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee this week for a hearing
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about whether he'll be held in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena. So Republicans are still
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going after Hunter. We're still doing the Hunter Biden thing, which is fine, which is good. He's a crook
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and should be held accountable. I will say that there was an intense focus on Hunter before the election
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in 2020. And I said at the time, much to the chagrin of many conservatives, that politically,
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politically, the Hunter Biden stuff is not a winner. Now, I'm not saying it's a loser. I'm not saying
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that it'll hurt you. I'm not saying that. It's just nothing is what it is. Like most people don't care.
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Almost nobody outside of conservative pundits and people on Twitter care about the Hunter Biden story
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at all. They're bored by it. They don't care. They don't know about it. It doesn't matter to them.
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So it's not a political winner. It's not going to help you win an election. Doesn't mean you shouldn't
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try to hold them accountable for being corrupt. I'm only saying that some Republicans clearly think
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that this is a good political platform for them. And it's just, it's not that.
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And now here we are in 2024, we're doing the Hunter Biden stuff again. And, you know, this is not a
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defense of him. Throw him in jail, toss the key away. As far as I'm concerned, that would be fantastic.
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Just as long as you realize that not one single person on election day is going to make their
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decision based on their feelings about Hunter Biden. That's just it. So continue along, hold them
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accountable. Just, you know, it doesn't, you don't need to try to turn it into a political,
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you know, slam dunk because it's just, it's not. It's in this case, it's just you doing the right
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thing. And I bring that up for a reason because you want to bring him in, hold him in contempt of
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Congress. Well, you should. He's guilty of that along with many other crimes. But of course you have
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some Republicans who want to use these, these kinds of hearings and things as a platform for
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themselves to, to get attention and to score political points. And that brings us to the
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performance. And I emphasize the word performance of representative Nancy Mace. She is allegedly a
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Republican. She's, she's one of the Republicans that likes to turn any hearing she's in, into a chance
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to get some play on Fox news. She, she loves talking about Hunter Biden because it's a, for her,
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it's a, it's very safe. It's a safe thing to go after. It's a safe topic. It's easy red meat
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and it's safe, you know. And all she cares about is trying to create viral moments. She's basically
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one of these congressional versions of a TikTok influencer. And we have a lot of those and she's
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one of them. And she's also a left-wing plant on top of it. So case in point, listen to this moment
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that was supposed to be a, a dunk, you know, it was supposed to be a mic drop moment from Nancy
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Mace and was sadly treated as such by some on the right. But let's listen to what she said in this
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hearing. Carrie recognizes Ms. Mace from South Carolina. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Chairman Comer.
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Um, first of all, my first question is who bribed Hunter Biden to be here today? That's my first
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question. Um, second question, you are the epitome of white privilege coming into the oversight
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committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. What
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are you afraid of? You have no balls to come up here. Mr. Chairman, point of inquiry, Mr. Chairman,
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um, if the gentle, if the gentle lady wants to hear from Hunter Biden, we can hear from him right
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now, Mr. Chairman, let's take a vote and hear from Hunter Biden. What are you afraid of?
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Hold on, hold on, hold on. Order, order, order. Are women allowed to speak in here or no? Are women
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allowed to speak in here or no? Could you keep interrupting me? I'll interrupt the chairman.
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Shut up, Nancy. No, no. Well, you're not allowed to speak anymore. Uh, my God, these morons. I mean,
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all of it is embarrassing. I'm, I'm embarrassed for them. And these are the people that are elected
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to represent us in Congress. What the, what in the world are we doing, uh, electing people like,
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like Nancy Mace? She's in South Carolina. I don't know what her district is. If you live in that
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district, what is wrong with you? Like, what about this woman was appealing to you? Explain that. I want
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someone to explain it. I want a Nancy Mace voter to step up to the plate and tell me what about her
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of all the options was appealing to you. And so Nancy Mace, Nancy Mace trots out the white privilege
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line. You know, you Dems are the real racist, that whole thing. Oh, you got them that time. Wow.
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Checkmate. And then she follows it up by screeching about how women aren't allowed to speak. Like,
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shut up. It's one leftist cliche after another. And yet I saw this clip being passed around on
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Twitter by conservatives who were impressed by it. Some, some conservatives that I respect or
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respected were sharing this clip. Like, Oh, Nancy, you got to see this. Look at this. She really took
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Hunter Biden to task. Did you watch the clip that you're posting yourself? Really? Her ranting about
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white privilege and how women aren't allowed to speak. You, that, uh, you find that impressive.
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There's zero difference between what Nancy Mace said and what AOC would say.
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It's exactly the same. She wouldn't be targeting Hunter Biden, but it's everything else is the same.
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Well, she really showed them. She said the word balls. That's what, yeah, that's what we need.
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You know, we need a woman who's willing to say the word balls. That's a, that's,
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that's the really impressive. She really tells it like it is. You idiots.
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I'm sorry, but if you listen to that clip of Nancy Mace as a conservative and you're impressed by it,
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then you just, you have the IQ of a doorknob and, and your opinion is irrelevant.
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I mean, have some self-respect. This is the epitome of lame, performative Fox News,
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BoomerCon posturing. And if it still impresses you, then you're hopeless.
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Now this started, it gets worse because Nancy Mace, this is supposed to be a hearing about Hunter
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Biden. Again, important, not, not a political, you know, it's not a political, it doesn't matter
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politically. No one cares, but still important. There are plenty of things that are important
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that don't matter politically. Um, and so let's talk about that. But instead Nancy Mace, the Republican
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has decided to turn this into a hearing on white privilege and that's what it became. And so
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this started a whole, a whole back and forth about white privilege. And, uh, she was soon rebuked by
00:24:30.980
a Democrat Congresswoman because you know, the moment Nancy Mace, Nancy Mace brings up white
00:24:35.120
privilege and she thinks that it's a checkmate. So we got him, we got you. See, we, we use the term
00:24:40.180
before you and now we win. But instead every Democrat in the room, when they hear white
00:24:45.200
privilege, their, their ears perk on, they say, Oh yeah. So let's talk about that instead. I would
00:24:49.180
love, Oh, you want to talk about white privilege instead of talking about Hunter Biden, the president's
00:24:53.400
son being corrupt. Yes. Awesome. Nancy. Thank you. Let's have that conversation instead. And so
00:24:58.740
that's exactly what happened. And Democrat Congresswoman, uh, Jasmine Crockett had this to say.
00:25:05.220
I can't get over the gentle lady from South Carolina talking about white privilege.
00:25:11.220
It was a spit in the face, at least of mine as a black woman for you to talk about what white
00:25:16.660
privilege looks like, especially from that side of the aisle. And let me quote your now ousted speaker
00:25:22.660
and what he had to say about the Republican party and y'all's lack of diversity. When you look at the
00:25:28.580
Democrats, they actually look like America. When I look at my party, we look like the most restrictive
00:25:34.580
country club in America. So let me tell you something. Y'all don't know what white privilege
00:25:39.700
looks like, but I'm a, I'm a show you a little bit of something. You see, you want to talk about
00:25:45.220
a two tier justice system. And this is the only time that y'all have ever referenced it when this
00:25:49.940
country has a history, when it comes to black and brown folk of having two separate sets of rules.
00:25:56.740
And right now, what you want to do is have two separate sets of rules because
00:26:00.580
Mr. Moskowitz offered y'all a fair situation. He said he would
00:26:05.380
Y'all's got the white privilege. Y'all don't know nothing about no white privilege. No cap,
00:26:11.700
y'all. No, you think we got the white privilege? Y'all got the white privilege.
00:26:18.340
Listen, that's y'all. Y'all got, y'all got white privilege. We ain't got no white privilege. You got
00:26:22.100
the white privilege. These are the dumbest people alive and they're, and they are in Congress.
00:26:28.820
Do you realize something? Do you realize that the halls of Congress
00:26:32.820
used to be a place where extremely intelligent people spoke eloquently and, and debated the
00:26:40.020
issues of the day in a mature and insightful manner? Did you, do you realize that, that
00:26:45.620
it wasn't all that long ago? I mean, like go back a hundred years. It doesn't even matter.
00:26:52.020
Just choose any random time on the calendar prior to the last, uh, I don't know, 30 years,
00:26:56.820
go back a hundred years and, and look at the, the transcript of, of like any congressional hearing
00:27:02.660
on any topic. It doesn't even matter. And it doesn't matter. The party doesn't matter what they're
00:27:08.820
talking. You read the way that they spoke. It's like, and then compare it to today.
00:27:21.220
I mean, a debate between Nancy Mace and Jasmine Crockett is a debate between a rock and a tree
00:27:27.620
stub in terms of the collective IQ involved. And, uh, and that's, and that's what the, that's what a
00:27:36.820
hearing on the president's side, like this is a serious issue. The president, the United States,
00:27:44.260
the, the, the, the, the president of the United States, his son is corrupt, involved in, in financial
00:27:52.100
and political corruption. Uh, he's, he's, he's, he's in contempt of Congress and this is what we're
00:28:01.460
doing. And so that sends it back to Nancy Mace who, uh, has, uh, has a response on the white privilege
00:28:09.140
point. Let's watch that. Hey, so I'll give her a little more time. Thank you. And then I'll yield
00:28:14.900
to my colleague from Florida. I'm going to try to be quick here because I was accused by my colleague
00:28:20.340
on the other side of the aisle about my white privilege. I want to say, number one, as the
00:28:25.060
former ranking member of the civil rights subcommittee under chairman Raskin last session,
00:28:30.420
I take great pride as a white female Republican to address the inadequacies in our country. I come from a
00:28:37.140
district where rich and poor is literally black and white, black versus white on most days. My
00:28:44.580
largest jail in my district, which is the largest jail in the state jail in the state of South Carolina
00:28:49.860
has had seven or eight deaths in the last two years. And I was there with our black and African
00:28:56.500
American council members. We get it, Nancy. We get it. I don't have white privilege. You have it.
00:29:02.580
No, I don't have it. You have it. No, you're the one with the white privilege.
00:29:10.260
My God, just hit us with the asteroid already. I'm just hit us. It doesn't. All right. What,
00:29:15.060
what's the apocalypse going to be? A super volcano. I'll take that. Whatever gets the job done the
00:29:20.580
fastest. Let's just do that and get it over with. Cause I give up. I mean,
00:29:26.820
And Republicans vote, they voted for this rambling, midwit, liberal, attention monger moron they voted
00:29:37.940
for. So just to be clear about this, by the way, it shouldn't need to be said, white privilege is a
00:29:45.140
myth. There is no circumstance where a conservative and alleged conservative should ever unironically be
00:29:52.260
accusing anyone of having white privilege, especially not Hunter Biden. Nancy, you dumbass.
00:29:59.940
He has enormous privilege. Yes. But it's political privilege. It's class privilege. It's Democrat
00:30:06.980
privilege. If he was, if Hunter Biden was Barack Obama's son, if his name was Hunter Obama rather than
00:30:15.460
Hunter Biden, he would have the exact same privilege. Okay. He'd be in the same boat, probably even better
00:30:20.740
off. In fact, that's cause it's got nothing to do with his race, class privilege, uh, economic
00:30:30.420
privilege, political privilege. All of those exist. Sure. If you're in a higher financial bracket,
00:30:36.740
yeah, there's all kinds of privilege that comes with that.
00:30:41.300
You know, if you're, if you're connected to political elites, if you are a political elite,
00:30:45.300
there are tons of privilege that come with that. And then if on top of all that, you're also a Democrat,
00:30:50.580
a rich politically connected, uh, Democrat. Well, that's, you cannot get more privilege than that.
00:30:56.980
That's all the privilege that he's, well, I mean, then on top of it, if you add in, you know, you're,
00:31:01.380
you're a gay and you start adding in some of the victim points on as well, maybe come out as trans.
00:31:06.180
I mean, that's, you know, then you can start adding some privilege there as well, but
00:31:09.460
that's basically as privileged as it possibly gets. And so it has exactly nothing to do with race.
00:31:17.140
Nancy Mason knows that of course, but I feel that it needed to be stipulated. Okay.
00:31:22.180
I guess I'm in kind of a bad mood today. Turns out, um, ABC seven has this a warning about porch
00:31:30.900
pirates in Canada is getting a lot of attention, but not for why you'd think police in Quebec
00:31:35.460
issued a warning, not to the pirates themselves, but to victims. They were advised that Canadian law
00:31:40.580
means people should not be posting videos of alleged package thieves or risk violating their privacy.
00:31:46.100
Canadian police say instead, anyone who has video evidence of a crime should turn it over to
00:31:50.580
authorities and not post it publicly. So here is comms officer, Lieutenant Benoit Richard,
00:31:56.340
explaining this policy. You cannot post the images yourself because, uh, uh, you have to remember
00:32:03.780
that in Canada, we have a presumption of innocence and posting that picture could be a violation of
00:32:09.540
private life. Instead, he says, if anything is stolen, call 911. If you get some proof,
00:32:15.940
that somebody might've stolen something, then call the police, give the proof to the police,
00:32:20.900
and then we'll do the investigation. We'll bring that person to justice and we'll file some charges.
00:32:27.380
Uh, it's just amazing. Amazing. People, this epidemic of package thieves, people walking up onto
00:32:34.260
private property and stealing your private property. And the police in Canada are worried about,
00:32:38.820
uh, are worried about the thieves and the fact that they might be getting publicly shamed.
00:32:42.900
A presumption of innocence. So I'm just trying to figure this out. Like,
00:32:49.220
maybe you can help me. What, what is the scenario where somebody could walk up on your porch,
00:32:54.180
steal your package off of your porch and yet be innocent of stealing? What's the scenario where
00:33:01.460
you could watch someone steal something from you and yet they are innocent of stealing?
00:33:07.380
Now I understand that if you heard secondhand about someone stealing someone else's package,
00:33:13.300
then you can't be sure the person is guilty. Um, if you saw somebody taking a package off of
00:33:18.580
somebody else's door, it might look like they're still, but maybe they're not. Maybe that's a family
00:33:22.660
member who's going to collect packages because the resident is out of town. Like, you know, sure. But
00:33:28.020
if it's your package and it's your house and it's your porch and someone you don't know takes it,
00:33:36.500
how could they be innocent? Okay. Presumption of innocence is a legal, I think this is a general
00:33:45.540
point that needs to be made here because we hear this a lot about innocent until proven guilty.
00:33:49.300
Okay. Innocent until proven guilty is a, is a prince is a legal principle for courtrooms.
00:33:56.260
It doesn't apply to, to individual people. It doesn't apply to us. It doesn't apply to like your,
00:34:02.180
your brain. Okay. In your brain, you're allowed to see that someone is doing something and know that
00:34:07.140
they're guilty and you can even say it. It's only in the courtroom. The courtroom has to pretend
00:34:13.780
essentially, or, or, or, or come in with, with, with the premise, uh, with the starting premise
00:34:19.780
that we don't know if you're guilty or not. And we're going to find out in the course of the court,
00:34:23.940
uh, of the trial. Okay. That in the court outside of the courtroom, we don't have to presume innocence
00:34:29.140
of anybody. Like you can, if you see someone committing a crime, you obviously know they committed it.
00:34:35.380
You don't have to pretend you don't know because they haven't been, well, I just saw him do this
00:34:39.780
thing, but I need to, but now he needs to be a jury of people who didn't see him do it need to also
00:34:47.940
say that he did it in order for me to know that he did it. No, no, no. That's not how it works.
00:34:54.180
Especially when there's a, you have a scenario where they could only be guilty. There's no other
00:34:57.540
explanation. Okay. Maybe like, what would be a scenario where someone would take your package
00:35:02.220
and they're not guilty of that? Maybe if, maybe if they thought that the package was a bomb
00:35:08.260
and they were running up to take it to diffuse the bomb, you know, and if, and, and if this is
00:35:18.180
like a diehard scenario, uh, maybe then that wouldn't call it. They're still taking the package
00:35:25.540
though. It doesn't belong to them. So technically I don't know, but maybe in that case you wouldn't
00:35:29.700
call that theft. Is that the theory? I guess it's technically possible, but for all intents and
00:35:34.940
purposes, if somebody takes your package, you can be certain that the theft took place. Just like if
00:35:37.860
somebody walks up and punches you in the face, you could be certain that an assault has taken
00:35:41.980
place. It happened to you. It happened to your face. You were right there, right? Uh, then they
00:35:46.640
might, and you know, the thing is they might end up walking free. They, a jury might, or a judge
00:35:52.800
might say, well, yeah, well, we don't know if that really happened. Everybody else might not, but you
00:35:58.320
know, because you saw it. Um, the Hill has, uh, this report, Jason DeFord, the rapper turned country
00:36:06.860
singer known as jelly roll, appeared before Congress on Wednesday to urge lawmakers to pass
00:36:12.300
legislation combating the supply and distribution of fentanyl. Uh, DeFord testified at a Senate
00:36:18.560
banking, housing and urban affairs committee hearing on stopping the flow of fentanyl, where
00:36:22.240
he called on lawmakers to get the fend off fentanyl act across the finish line. The legislation
00:36:27.300
passed the Senate last July, but has yet to make it through the house. Uh, committee chair,
00:36:32.640
Sherrod Brown said, I'm guessing most of you didn't have jelly roll testifies at Senate banking
00:36:37.500
committee on your 24 bingo card, but few speak and sing as eloquently as openly as shall we say
00:36:43.780
this early about addiction as Mr. DeFord. Um, I'm not going to get hung up on it, but I,
00:36:50.520
I really don't need the Twitter cliches at a Senate banking committee hearing, but this wasn't on your
00:36:56.900
dingo card. We're talking about the fentanyl crisis at a banking committee hearing. We don't need the
00:37:02.880
little, but are you going to put up, you're going to put a gif up on the, uh, on the screen as well.
00:37:09.940
I am in a bad mood. I just am. Let's admit it. Anyway, that's not the point. Let's, uh,
00:37:16.780
hear what jelly roll had to say. I've attended more funerals than I care to share with y'all.
00:37:22.460
This committee, I could sit here and cry for days about the caskets I've carried of people I loved
00:37:27.320
dearly, deeply in my soul. Good people, not just drug addicts, uncles, friends, cousins,
00:37:37.000
normal people. Some people that just got in a car wreck and started taking a pain pill to manage it.
00:37:42.520
One thing led to the other and how fast it spirals out of control. I don't think people truly,
00:37:47.100
truly understand so many people equally. I think it's important for me to tell y'all that I'm not
00:37:55.940
here to defend the use of illegal drugs. And I also understand the paradox of my history as a drug
00:38:02.680
dealer standing in front of this committee. But equally, I think that's what makes me perfect to
00:38:07.360
talk about this. I was a part of the problem. I am here now standing as a man that wants to be a part
00:38:13.960
of the solution. I brought my community down. So he gave a powerful testimony. I'm glad that he was
00:38:20.380
there. And he's 100% right. This is a crisis. It's an epidemic. Talked about it on the show a few days
00:38:25.540
ago. And as for this law, this Fendahl Fentanyl Act, from what little I've read about it, seems good.
00:38:34.740
But the real way to solve the problem, of course, is to go much further and much harder.
00:38:38.800
And as you've heard me argue, the makers, suppliers, and sellers of fentanyl and similar
00:38:44.440
street drugs are mass murderers. They are intentionally killing thousands of people.
00:38:49.780
Now, yes, the people are taking the poison willingly, sort of. But so what? I mean,
00:38:57.280
I was thinking about this earlier. You think about
00:38:59.560
this argument from people that, yeah, they're selling a poison that's killing thousands of
00:39:07.020
people. Well, they're not really mass murderers because they're not. The people are choosing to
00:39:09.600
take the poison. But you don't apply that. Like Jim Jones and the Jamestown Massacre,
00:39:16.060
the People's Temple, Jamestown Massacre, you're familiar, the drinking the Kool-Aid, cyanide-laced
00:39:20.980
Kool-Aid. 500 people or however many it was, hundreds of people died. Now, why do we call it a massacre?
00:39:29.780
You know, the people all drank the Kool-Aid with cyanide. They drank it willingly, at least the adults did.
00:39:35.740
As far as I know, many of them, many of them at least, knew even that it was poisoned. It was an
00:39:42.520
act of suicide. And let's just say for the sake of argument that they did know. Most of them knew
00:39:48.920
they were taken. Well, does that change anything? Does that make it not a massacre? And if Jim Jones
00:39:55.980
had not killed himself, would anyone object to him being brought up on 500 or however many it was
00:40:04.320
charges of capital murder and being executed? I don't think anyone would object.
00:40:10.440
You orchestrated the mass, quote unquote, suicide of hundreds of people. You poisoned hundreds of
00:40:17.360
people. You're a mass murderer. Of course, you should be, you should get the death penalty for
00:40:22.220
that. So why does that not apply to drug dealers and drug suppliers? Now, if your answer is that,
00:40:31.300
well, the people's temple drinking the Kool-Aid, that was different because they were brainwashed.
00:40:36.080
They were brainwashed. True. Sure. They were brainwashed. And that adds to the guilt of the
00:40:43.360
cult leader in that case. The people that are taking the fentanyl, okay, they're not psychologically
00:40:48.740
manipulated. They are neurologically manipulated, which is even worse. These are all addicts. And
00:40:55.040
so the drug dealers get them addicted. And then the addicts, quote unquote, choose to continue taking
00:40:59.760
the poison. So one way or another, no matter how you slice it, like in my mind, these people have even
00:41:08.060
more culpability, if anything, uh, for poisoning thousands of people than do, you know, then does
00:41:15.660
a cult leader who poisoned hundreds of people. Uh, it, it is, it is a massacre. So what's happening
00:41:22.420
with fentanyl is, is a massacre. It is a mass killing that is going on every single day being,
00:41:28.120
being orchestrated and funded and profited on, um, by drug dealers and drug suppliers.
00:41:35.480
And so if you want to put a stop to this, then you have to arrest these people and you have to
00:41:43.660
make an example of them. And you do that by giving them the death penalty. And you know, that's not
00:41:49.800
going to stop all drugs from being sold forever, but, but that will, that, that will make a dent in
00:41:56.140
the problem in a way that nothing else ever will. Uh, and I, and I just don't see any moral argument
00:42:03.480
against it. In fact, I find the moral arguments against it to be like pretty absurd.
00:42:09.120
All right. I found myself, uh, before we get to the next segment, I found myself yesterday in
00:42:14.380
another controversy. Um, I was trending on Twitter because, uh, because of this yesterday on the show,
00:42:20.040
if you watched, you remember I was responding to a comment from somebody who speculated that all
00:42:26.500
those men who are lining up at target or wherever to buy pink Stanley cups are just buying them for
00:42:33.680
Valentine's day gifts. And I made the point that no man buys a Valentine times day gift for his wife
00:42:41.720
or girlfriend in January. Okay. No man is doing it. No man is even thinking about Valentine's day
00:42:47.140
in January. No man is even like aware that Valentine's day is the next month. I mean,
00:42:52.540
you're aware of it if you ask them and they'll think about it, but they're not, that's not anywhere
00:42:55.260
in their mind at the moment in January. Um, and in fact, as I explained, you know, no man buys a
00:43:04.360
Valentine's day gift before February 11th. And as I explained, buying a Valentine's day gift in
00:43:11.680
January would be gay. You know, it would literally make you a homosexual literally. And that's what I said,
00:43:19.340
obviously being entirely seriously serious. And as you might expect media matters, uh, heard this
00:43:26.300
and they swooped into action. They were on the case and they clipped part of that conversation
00:43:31.080
and they posted it and they posted it in a way to make it seem like I was being completely serious
00:43:35.720
because of course I was who would joke about a thing like that, you know, calling random things
00:43:41.480
gay. It's like no one ever makes those kinds of jokes. It's not like that's a, that's a comedy
00:43:46.260
classic. It's not like that's the kind of joke. That's always funny no matter what,
00:43:50.460
just pointing at a random thing and calling it gay. But you know, that was not the case. It was
00:43:54.420
totally serious. And so, uh, they clipped it. This is the part that they clipped just for context.
00:43:59.380
Um, but of course, 97% of us are buying the Valentine's day gift on the way home from work
00:44:05.780
on February 14th. But buying a Valentine's day gift for your wife a month early
00:44:12.320
is the gayest thing you could do. Don't do that because if you get, if it's January 3rd and you
00:44:19.060
tell your wife, I got you Valentine's day gift already, she's going to say, so you're gay. Well,
00:44:25.640
that kind of ruins Valentine's day, doesn't it? Look, I don't make the rules. Okay. I just follow
00:44:31.220
the science and that's all I do. And here's the good news. Yes, you are gay. If you buy a Valentine's
00:44:38.000
day gift a month ahead of time or more than four days ahead of time, actually, but for an
00:44:42.800
anniversary gift, you're allowed to buy that six days ahead of time without being gay. You buy it
00:44:49.320
seven days ahead of time, then you're gay. You buy it a week or more ahead of time, you're gay, but
00:44:52.360
you know, you have six days. That's a pretty good window. And that's good news for Christmas. You get
00:44:57.080
a five day window before the gayness sets in. And now you're thinking, what about birthdays? Well,
00:45:02.180
that gets a little bit complicated. So if your, if your wife is celebrating a decade birthday,
00:45:08.320
say 30, 40, 50, 60, then I'd give you two weeks where I don't give you, but science gives you two
00:45:13.240
weeks before you're gay. Now, if it's, if it's a, it's a birthday, like in the interval intervals
00:45:19.200
between the decades, then it's a, then it's a, it's a, you have a four day window. Anyway,
00:45:25.780
this is just a science. This is, this is physics. Actually, this is, I think Albert Einstein was the
00:45:29.200
first person who, who talked about that. I didn't even make it up. This is, I'm, I'm literally
00:45:32.680
quoting Albert Einstein who talked about this, uh, a long time ago. So anyway, that clip went viral
00:45:38.180
and thousands of people responding to it. Uh, you know, I'm trending on Twitter over that
00:45:43.820
the bar for trending is pretty low these days. Uh, and there's a lot going on in the world. Like
00:45:50.720
there's actually a lot going on, you know, and I think I made it into the top 15 of all. I made it
00:45:55.840
to the top 15 of all the topics in the whole world that people were talking about on Twitter
00:45:59.340
yesterday was me saying that you're gay for buying a Valentine's day gift a month early. Like that,
00:46:05.040
that's just, and I'm the one, look, I don't, I don't, I'm not going to object to the attention,
00:46:10.520
but at the same time, come on, let's raise our standards a little bit. So, you know, you have,
00:46:15.480
you have lots of people on the left responding outraged, uh, again, taking it very seriously.
00:46:20.520
And then as usual, people on the right, or at least not on the left are also taking the media
00:46:27.540
matters clip at face value and, and believing they're framing completely. So there were a bunch
00:46:35.100
of apparent alleged conservatives responding to that clip you just saw with lengthy rebuttals.
00:46:42.680
Okay. So, uh, Mary Catherine Hamm said, Twitter conservative masculinity discussion seems to keep
00:46:48.940
saying and demonstrating that demonstrating competence is effeminate. Know how to help your
00:46:54.040
partner. The gay thought about a holiday ahead of time about a holiday lane. Can parent small
00:46:59.600
children alone because you're capable at life, not just a job simp, but competence is hot though.
00:47:06.860
Jennifer Greenberg said, um, no, being organized and planning ahead tells your wife, you care.
00:47:12.360
And actually it's smart to make dinner reservations or book a wine tasting now because they fill up fast.
00:47:18.400
I mean, look, if buying a Valentine's day gift, you know, a month ahead of time is gay than booking
00:47:27.400
a wine tasting a month ahead of time. I mean, now that's, that's far worse. Anyway, I guarantee I'll
00:47:35.800
go, uh, it'll go over better than CVS chocolates and the last flowers the grocery store had. CVS has
00:47:42.160
great chocolates. There's nothing wrong with CVS chocolates. Dean Abbott said, this level of
00:47:47.000
understanding is common among low awareness men. More than a few identify their poor time management,
00:47:52.600
their lack of forethought and planning, their insensitivity to the impact of their actions
00:47:55.980
with the core of masculinity. For them, masculinity is not defined by the things a man cherishes enough
00:48:01.100
to die for, but by the number of things he doesn't care about. Okay. A lot of that, a lot of like little,
00:48:07.440
little think pieces, um, analyzing my, uh, my comments about buying Valentine's day gifts.
00:48:14.540
Now, usually, look, usually in, in this sort of scenario, uh, I will keep up the joke until my
00:48:20.900
dying breath and I'll never break character. I'll never let the bit go usually, right? Like if I'm
00:48:28.000
joking about something and people take it seriously, then that just means I'm going to, I will never,
00:48:31.280
ever admit that I was joking ever. But I do have to violate my own rules here just for a moment
00:48:36.620
to marvel at this because, and we've seen it a million times, but still, you know, if you see
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that media matters clip, obviously totally out of context, obviously joking around, and then you
00:48:54.080
respond to it as thousands of people, including conservatives have done as though I meant it as a
00:49:00.600
serious analysis. There are only two possible reasons why you would do that. And one is that you
00:49:05.440
are indescribably dumb and that you so lack basic comprehension that you somehow don't understand
00:49:15.340
the most obvious joke in the world when you hear it. So that's possible. Uh, and then the second
00:49:22.700
option is that, you know, it's a joke and yet you're, you're going along with the dishonest,
00:49:26.140
ridiculous framing because you want to take a shot at me and score points, uh, which is,
00:49:31.300
you know, which is the thing, the activities, what people do is what Twitter exists for people
00:49:35.000
to take things that are meant a certain way clearly. And then everyone just sort of pretend
00:49:39.020
that they don't know how it was meant. And everyone all together, this is like, there's an agreement.
00:49:45.340
Let's all, yeah, we're all just going to, let's have fun today. We're going to pretend
00:49:49.280
Now for most people on the left, it's clearly, you know, option two is, is what they do. Now,
00:49:56.300
many of them are very stupid and they don't understand humor and they don't understand
00:49:58.800
jokes. And so option one, so it's a little bit of both, but you know, obviously with someone like
00:50:03.640
me, they're looking for any chance they can to, to, uh, to, uh, to score a point. And so I get that,
00:50:08.660
but, uh, for the alleged non-leftists, that's what I find interesting. You know, even like a Dana
00:50:16.440
Lash, uh, jumped in on this one with a snarky little comment about what I said, it's like you,
00:50:23.840
but you know, clearly that this is a joke. You know, what media matters is, you know, what they do,
00:50:28.520
right? They do it to you. And so what are you doing? Why are you doing this?
00:50:36.920
Um, and it, for conservative, it's conservatives. It's, it's, you know, it's like this instinct. It is,
00:50:44.560
it's, it's, it's like the suicidal instinct by conservatives that they can't help themselves.
00:50:49.820
They, they, they love, they love to, to jump on a dog pile against one of their own people.
00:50:55.360
Like they, they'll do it. And of course, every time, every time media matter starts a dishonest
00:51:00.620
dog pile on me or on anybody else, you know, if it's happening to Ben Shapiro, anybody else here
00:51:05.380
or Candace, like you, and you look at the, at all the people that are doing the little quote
00:51:10.500
tweets and adding their two cents and all, it's like, there are a lot of conservatives that are
00:51:14.420
doing it even though they know, like they know better. And, and why it's like, it's, you know,
00:51:23.040
some of it, there's, there's probably a lot behind it. I mean, there's personal jealousies and
00:51:28.460
resentment and whatever. And, you know, there's probably people who I thought I was friendly
00:51:32.520
with who don't like me for whatever reason, who cares? Uh, but it's also, there's also this,
00:51:38.500
this level of, of instinct by, by, by many on the right. It's hard to wrap your mind around,
00:51:44.620
but it's a self-destructive instinct that the leftist does not have. Their instinct is the
00:51:48.760
other way. Their instinct is circle the wagons. That person's with us. We're going to defend them.
00:51:53.400
Like we'll defend them first and then ask questions, you know, we'll defend them. And
00:51:57.440
then we'll find out why we're defending them. Uh, and for people on the right, it's the other way
00:52:02.640
around. You know, they see one of their own people getting attacked for some dumb reason.
00:52:06.660
And their first instinct is like, yeah, that person sucks. That's terrible. And then,
00:52:10.840
and then they'll, maybe they'll go back. It's like, why are we going after that guy again? Oh,
00:52:14.460
cause it was joking. Okay. It's a, it's very bizarre. All right. Let's get to the comment section.
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If you're a man, it's required that you grow a beard. Hey, we're the sweet baby gang.
00:52:29.860
Great. Just a couple of comments here. Uh, quickly. We talked yesterday a little bit about
00:52:36.460
the California efforts to ban tackle football across the entire state for, uh, kids under the
00:52:42.360
age of 12, I believe it was a few comments on that. Uh, first one says every time the left doesn't
00:52:47.640
like something for their kids, they decide it's bad for everyone else's kids and they pass laws.
00:52:52.200
You don't like it. Let your kids, let your boys play badminton. Mine will play football. Um, and that
00:53:00.360
that's true. And that also brings up a point. I think that's one of the other comments brings up
00:53:06.460
that I somehow a point I, I, I didn't make when we were, we were talking about this yesterday,
00:53:12.680
which is that, you know, you've got to, you're talking about parental rights and let parents
00:53:19.440
decide. Well, so on this particular topic, their position is that parents shouldn't be allowed to
00:53:25.900
decide to put their kids in and their young kids in football. It's too dangerous. And yet, you know,
00:53:31.120
they will tell you that, uh, that parents absolutely should be able to decide whether to put their kids
00:53:37.060
on chemical castration drugs. So on that, let the parents decide, but on football for a 10 year
00:53:46.000
old, uh, that is something that's, it's so dangerous and harmful that you can't, uh, we have to take that
00:53:52.260
decision away from parents. It just could not be more backwards, right? Especially when the hormones
00:53:59.880
and puberty blockers, that is, it's not that that might cause damage or that might have a bad side
00:54:05.280
effect. It is damaging. It is intended to damage. The body is intended to, um, at a minimum interfere
00:54:12.460
with the normal development and growth of the body with football injuries are, they happen, but they
00:54:19.080
are definitely a side effect. It's not the point of the, of the game is not to get injured. Um,
00:54:25.280
Oh, and someone else does bring that up. Imagine thinking kids can choose to play football under 12
00:54:30.640
and also thinking they could choose to be another gender or can't choose to play football under 12,
00:54:34.400
but can choose to be another gender and get chemically or physically castrated. Right. Um,
00:54:41.180
Anna says, my son is turning nine in a few days. The past, this past fall, we did his first season
00:54:45.860
of tackle football and it was without a doubt, the absolute best youth sports experience we ever had.
00:54:51.300
He had fun. He overcame his fear and anxiety. He grew in strength physically and emotionally. He made
00:54:55.660
friends and he got to do something viscerally male and aggressive without being punished for it.
00:55:00.120
So youth tackle football is an awesome thing and indispensable for kids who don't have a male
00:55:04.720
role model around, uh, California is wrong. Um, I think indispensable is the right word for,
00:55:13.460
for it's not for every kid. Not every kid wants to play football. Most don't obviously,
00:55:17.040
but like, I guess here's the point. If you have the kind of boy, the kind of son,
00:55:24.160
um, who, who would love tackle football and who's like made for that kind of sport. If you have that
00:55:31.340
kind of, uh, son that you're raising, there really isn't any other sport that's going to be an
00:55:37.060
acceptable substitute for him. There are a lot of kids or a lot of, there are, you know, a lot of
00:55:41.440
eight year old boys out there that want to play baseball. Baseball is great for them, but it sounds
00:55:45.740
like for your son, it's just like football is exactly what he needs to be doing. And you take them out
00:55:50.500
of that and say, no, we're going to do a, we're gonna do tennis instead. It's just not, it's not
00:55:55.380
going to work. Um, and, uh, finally banning tackle football is a bad idea unless you want to prevent
00:56:04.260
a generation of boys from having brain injuries. And where's your evidence of that, by the way,
00:56:09.800
so there's a generation of boys that have grown up with brain, a generation have grown up with brain
00:56:14.800
injuries. Now I know, you know, the idea that like every person who played, who's played tackle
00:56:19.580
football has horrific permanent brain injuries. I understand that that's, that's just commonly,
00:56:24.160
that that's commonly believed and understood. And so when I question that, it sounds, uh, it sounds
00:56:30.040
almost ludicrous to question it, but, but I do question it, you know, um, the, the risk of brain
00:56:39.020
injuries in football, especially at that age, it's not non-existent. It is overstated. Okay. People talk
00:56:45.420
about it like every single person who finishes playing football is paralyzed or something.
00:56:50.880
Um, when those kinds of injuries are extremely rare. Um, but the other thing, as I mentioned
00:56:58.160
yesterday is that, yes, there's, there's the physical risks involved in football. If you take
00:57:05.420
that away, just like we take away the physical, you know, other, other sports and games that we've
00:57:10.360
deemed to be too violent or whatever, you take all that away. You are not taking away the kind of
00:57:18.160
male propensity for wanting to take risks and wanting to engage in, you know, violent and
00:57:26.320
aggressive behavior. You're not taking that away. That's still there. And so many of these boys are
00:57:31.600
going to look, you know, it's like every day on Twitter, if you go and scroll down your feed,
00:57:36.640
you'll see some video pop up of, uh, you know, what someone, someone like roller skating on,
00:57:43.740
on, on the, or skateboarding, not roller skating, skateboarding on the edge of a building or
00:57:47.640
something like that. Um, that, that sort of thing, like taking, and people are doing it for TikTok
00:57:51.600
clicks and all the rest of it, but taking like crazy suicidal type risks. Um, and things like
00:57:59.060
TikTok and social media make that even worse because they incentivize it. But the point is that,
00:58:03.300
and it's almost always young men and boys that are doing that sort of thing. Girls don't do it,
00:58:07.200
but that's because there is that propensity. There is that need for like adrenaline and taking risks
00:58:12.260
and everything. And so, uh, either we are going to give kids an outlet for that sort of behavior,
00:58:17.520
a controlled disciplined outlet, you know, or you just release them into the world and let them figure
00:58:23.320
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Well, cosmetic surgery is on the rise across the country, especially among Gen Z and not all the
00:59:24.700
procedures are the traditional type. If you can call any cosmetic surgery traditional, this new
00:59:29.800
generation is, uh, it's getting innovative, often in the most grotesque ways imaginable. So for
00:59:34.080
instance, one of the hottest procedures on the market is called, uh, keratopigmentation, which
00:59:40.220
along with being a great Scrabble word that I think I pronounced correctly, actually, is also a surgery
00:59:44.620
to change the color of your eyes. The New York Post reports, quote, don't want to be a brown-eyed girl
00:59:50.200
anymore. If you're not afraid of the risks, including going blind, iris color changing surgery,
00:59:55.460
the latest procedure to go viral online, might be for you. The process known as keratopigmentation
01:00:00.380
involves using a laser to create a tunnel in the superficial cornea in order to place pigment.
01:00:05.580
But experts are warning it could lead to many terrifying conditions, including blindness,
01:00:09.520
not to mention it's not approved for cosmetic use. Just last week, the French company New Color,
01:00:13.960
experts in keratopigmentation, shared footage of one patient who changed her brown eyes to a stark,
01:00:19.340
vibrant blue, an eclipse scoring 16 million views on TikTok. But for one model, it cost her her
01:00:24.760
precious vision. Nadine Bruna traveled to Colombia to change her hazel orbs to a bright gray, undergoing
01:00:31.200
a different procedure that uses a silicone implant, only to lose 80% of her vision in her right eye and
01:00:36.920
50% in her left. Well, that is surprising. Apparently, if you let someone burrow a tunnel into
01:00:41.720
your cornea and inject it with ink or, I guess, an implant or whatever it was in that case,
01:00:46.140
it might do some damage to your eyes. It turns out that intentionally damaging your eyes will
01:00:51.960
result in damaged eyes. Who could have known? And by the way, if you're wondering what the end
01:00:56.460
result of this eye surgery looks like, well, here it is.
01:01:01.280
So you can see there, if you're trying to look like one of the X-Men, then this is the procedure
01:01:20.640
for you, I guess, which maybe, it probably makes it sound cooler than it really is. In truth,
01:01:24.940
she just looks bizarre, you know, like some kind of AI recreation of herself. But this is the effect
01:01:31.040
that most cosmetic procedures have on people. And that's a problem because cosmetic surgery,
01:01:35.600
as mentioned a moment ago, has never been more popular. Long gone are the days when only aging,
01:01:41.520
upper-class, 52-year-old women got work done. Now everyone is doing it, especially young people.
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Plastic surgery procedures increased by 20% from 2019 until now, according to plasticsurgery.org.
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The same source tells us that the Gen Z crowd accounted for nearly 40% of all nose jobs in
01:01:58.240
the previous year and 25% of all cheek implants. Because cheek implants are apparently a thing.
01:02:05.980
Meanwhile, my generation of millennials seem to be particular fans of buttock augmentations and have
01:02:10.600
accounted for more than 40% of those. Perhaps not surprisingly, liposuction is the most popular
01:02:15.580
cosmetic procedure of them all, right ahead of breast implants. And all of these surgeries are being
01:02:20.340
performed more often, and they're starting at younger ages. The New York Post again reports,
01:02:26.000
as celebrities scramble for doses of weight loss aid, Ozempic, Gen Z is booking cosmetic procedures
01:02:30.980
more now than ever. In fact, 75% of plastic surgeons saw a spike in clients under 30, according to
01:02:36.960
data released last week by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,
01:02:42.220
which is a consistently higher plateau over the five previous years. Board of Certified Plastic
01:02:47.120
Surgeon Dr. Ashley Amalfi said that she's seen an uptick in young clientele at the
01:02:52.780
Quatala Center for Plastic Surgery in Rochester, New York, and now about one-third of her patients
01:02:57.420
are Gen Z. Quote, I really see that as sort of this extension of the beauty market. She called the
01:03:03.080
trend great. They are a population in general who's just taking really good care of themselves.
01:03:09.280
Now, I'm not sure that taking good care of themselves is the first attribute that I would
01:03:12.080
associate with Gen Z or any other current American generation. You know, over half of Gen Z are obese,
01:03:16.840
first of all, so it's hard to say that they are particularly adept at self-care. And they may
01:03:20.500
use the phrase self-care and talk about it a lot, and they make TikTok videos about it, but
01:03:24.080
the results tell us a different story. And of course, plastic surgery is rarely an example of
01:03:29.500
taking care of yourself. Now, sure, here and there, you might find a person who had a procedure done,
01:03:35.600
and they actually do look better because of it. I mean, that does happen. I'm not denying that.
01:03:38.980
There are people who have deformities or other sorts of visible physical afflictions, burns,
01:03:44.020
that sort of thing, where plastic surgery could truly change their lives for the better.
01:03:47.720
But those cases are likely in the minority, probably a rather small minority. And most
01:03:51.540
of these people, especially the 26-year-old women going to the surgeon for cheek implants
01:03:55.520
and Botox and lip fillers and so on, they wind up looking significantly worse by the end
01:04:01.300
of it because they look less human. It's like that woman's eyes. I don't know what that looks
01:04:08.280
like. Those are not human eyes. It doesn't look like a human's eye. I don't know what that
01:04:11.260
is. It looks artificial. And that's the general effect of so many of these procedures. They make
01:04:17.440
you look less real, less authentic. And looking less real and less authentic automatically means
01:04:23.120
that you look worse because to look less human is to look worse as a human. Because as it turns out,
01:04:29.960
you as a human being are a whole, complete creature. You are not a potato head doll. You cannot mix and match
01:04:36.120
your parts and reassemble yourself however you choose. Well, you can do that thanks to the wonders
01:04:40.860
of modern medicine, but everyone will be able to tell that you've done it. You know, we'll look at
01:04:46.280
your reassembled face and think, hmm, something's a little bit off about that. It's not quite right.
01:04:52.560
So you may not like your eyes or your lips or your nose or whatever, but those are your eyes and your
01:04:57.780
lips and your nose. And if you go and get different eyes, lips, or nose, they're not going to be yours
01:05:01.840
anymore. Your cheek implants may look like cheeks, but they probably won't look like your cheeks.
01:05:09.220
It will appear as it is, like parts have been artificially attached to you or artificially
01:05:13.660
inflated to resemble a size and shape they were never meant to be. It's certainly the case for every
01:05:18.580
lip augmentation that's ever been done. And that's what makes plastic surgery so uncanny. You know, the
01:05:23.740
weird thing about it is that, like, if I see you for the first time and I never knew you before,
01:05:28.740
never saw you before, most of the time, I, like anybody else, will still be able to tell if you
01:05:34.500
had work done on your face. It'll be obvious that those artificial or artificially accentuated features
01:05:39.860
are not your features, which is kind of interesting when you think about it because I don't know you.
01:05:44.180
I've never seen you before, but I know that how you look right now is not how you really look.
01:05:50.760
That's because the picture doesn't quite make sense. The features don't fit together. It doesn't
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match. It's not real. There's something asymmetrical and inauthentic and out of balance.
01:05:58.740
You don't look how you were made to look. And even people who don't know how you were made to
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look can tell. But of course, people don't believe that they were made these days at all. That's part
01:06:10.180
of the problem. The reason cosmetic surgery is as popular as it is is exactly that. Many people think
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that they basically materialized out of the ether for no reason and for no purpose. And now they are
01:06:21.400
gods over themselves. They are in charge of their own self-creation. They set to work then rebuilding
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their own bodies. And at the end of the whole process, if it ever does end, which often it
01:06:30.880
doesn't, they have become some pale imitation of what they were before. Some weird Picasso-like
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rendition of themselves. Which, like any remake, is only very rarely an improvement over the original.
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And that is why the plastic surgery craze is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today and
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this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.