Ep. 1298 - It's Time To Unite Against The Real Enemy
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Ron DeSantis is out of the Republican primary, which means the primary is effectively over. It s time for conservatives to unite to fight the real enemy, and we got a look at how evil that enemy is over the weekend, when Joy Reid on MSNBC passionately defended putting books with graphic, horrific sexual content in schools. Also, a reporter asks Dana White what kind of leash he puts on his fighters to stop them from saying transphobic things, and Nikki Haley claims that she was persecuted daily as a child for her brown skin.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Ron DeSantis is out of the Republican primary, which means the primary is effectively over.
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It's time for conservatives to unite to fight the real enemy, and we got a look at how evil that enemy is over the weekend
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when Joy Reid on MSNBC passionately defended putting books with graphic, horrific sexual content in schools.
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Also, a reporter asks Dana White what kind of leash he puts on his fighters to stop them from saying transphobic things, quote-unquote.
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The conversation does not go well for the reporter, and Nikki Haley claims that she was persecuted daily as a child for her brown skin,
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which raises a few questions such as, what brown skin?
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Let's join together and help mothers choose life.
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When Governor Ron DeSantis abruptly canceled his media appearances over the weekend,
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it led to a lot of speculation that he'd be ending his presidential campaign.
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And sure enough, on Sunday, that's exactly what happened.
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Facing the prospect of a distant third-place finish in the New Hampshire primary, DeSantis bowed out and endorsed Donald Trump.
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Now, on one hand, the disappointment from DeSantis' supporters, of which I was one and am one, is understandable.
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He's a fantastic governor who's more effective at advancing conservative policies than any other politician alive today.
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At the same time, there's also no question that it's a good thing that the primary effectively ended this weekend,
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as opposed to an even more protracted war of infighting among conservatives that leads always to the inevitable conclusion anyway,
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with millions more dollars wasted on pointless attack ads and everything else.
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And that's going to be the case, no matter how often Nikki Haley, who's still in the race,
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reminds us that she's a woman of color and that she's also a person of color and a woman,
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and she was bullied for being brown on the mean streets of Orangeburg, South Carolina.
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And that means that the right can unite against its real enemies.
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And the real enemies are the powerful forces in our society who hate this country,
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who despise its people, and who seek to destroy our families and corrupt our children.
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And one of the clearest examples of this effort is the sheer scale and dishonesty of the left's fraudulent war
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As City Journal has noted, politicians at every level of government,
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from Governor Chris Sununu in New Hampshire to former Representative Liz Cheney in Wyoming,
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they all have claimed that schools are censoring classic reading materials,
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particularly in school libraries, at the behest of the Republican Party.
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Joe Biden has even appointed a book ban coordinator to pursue civil rights cases
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against libraries that offend the LGBTQ cult with their censorship, their alleged censorship.
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Biden also launched his re-election bid eight months ago with a video falsely implying
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that Florida had banned the book To Kill a Mockingbird, which simply was not true.
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Of course it wasn't true, as even the Associated Press later had to admit.
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The truth is that this campaign against book bans is nothing more than a crusade
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We've all seen the footage of parents repeatedly getting thrown out of school board meetings
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just for reading passages from the pornographic books in their children's school libraries.
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So these are books that are in the school libraries that you can't even read out loud
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at a school board meeting because they're too graphic.
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Dozens of those videos are out there at this point.
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Anybody with a brain and who's honest can see that.
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What's changed is that now, with the election rapidly approaching,
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the forces pushing this degeneracy are emboldened.
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They're dropping the pretense that they're worried about discrimination
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They are, at this point, all but coming right out and saying
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that they want to expose children to pornographic materials.
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And they're doing it with the express support of the largest media conglomerates on the planet.
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Now, if you doubt that, I want you to watch this remarkable footage from MSNBC the other day.
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And speaking of remarkable, it remains one of the great marvels of the world that Joy Reid,
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despite being viscerally unpleasant to listen to or look at,
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and despite having nothing important to say and having never offered an even mildly interesting
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insight into any topic ever in her entire life,
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still has a show that, for yet another week, has not been canceled.
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I mean, they specialize in giving extraordinarily annoying and unappealing and stupid people TV shows.
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Al Sharpton still has a show on that network, after all, last I checked.
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Although I've never really checked, to be honest.
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So she was interviewing the co-founder of the group Moms for Liberty,
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which is, and the group is co-founded by a woman named Tiffany Justice.
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Now, before I show you the clip, here's the backstory.
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What's bothering MSNBC is that Moms for Liberty does not want a book called
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All Boys Aren't Blue, a memoir manifesto written by LGBTQ activist George Johnson
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to be available for children to check out from school libraries.
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This is a book that includes descriptions of anal rape and incest,
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which are too graphic for me to read on the air.
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And this is the disadvantage that we find ourselves in when it comes to this issue,
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which is that you really need to hear specifically what's in these books
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to fully appreciate just how deranged these people are for wanting to put these books in schools.
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But the material is so objectionable and disgusting and embarrassing
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So, you know, I mean, you can look it up for yourself and see.
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But suffice it to say that the book contains very, very detailed accounts of rape, sodomy,
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and other things that you really don't want your kids reading about.
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And there are, look, there are hundreds of thousands of books in circulation
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Okay, so there's just no reason why this book, especially, of all books, needs to be in a school library.
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As I've tried to explain in the past, almost every book that's ever been written
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will not be in any school library or in any school at all.
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So no matter what, you're choosing a very small, like, thimble-sized portion
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of all the books that have ever been written to be in your school.
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And so when you decide that this book in particular needs to be in the school,
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when you've got all these other books available, it really raises a lot of questions about your motives.
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I shouldn't really say they're not really questions.
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So this is a book that, according to local reports,
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is available in the young adult nonfiction section of two libraries in Huntsville, Alabama.
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These sections are for children between the ages of 12 and 18,
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which is roughly in line with the publisher's age recommendation for this book.
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And according to Moms for Liberty, there are records of a child as young as nine
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checking out All Boys Aren't Blue from the library.
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What's incredible is that in this interview, Joy Reid does not dispute anything about the content of the book
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She doesn't concede that maybe nine-year-old children shouldn't be reading this.
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Instead, she goes out of her way to defend the book.
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Joy Reid begins by complaining that parents are going online and sharing passages from the book
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that she says are somehow taken out of context.
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And then she makes a very familiar argument from there.
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The question I'm asking is, what is the expertise that you have and other Moms for Liberty advocates have
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to decide that a book, an award-winning book like All Boys Aren't Blue,
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What a tragic story of a young man who's anally raped by his adult family member.
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Joy, you said you'd let me answer, so I'm going to answer for you.
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In what context is a strap-on dildo acceptable for public school?
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Tell me what the context around the strap-on dildo or the rape of a minor child by a teacher.
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What's the name of the main character in All Boys Aren't Blue?
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You just gave me very specific information about this book, so you're presenting yourself
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Because you're giving me very specific information that is presenting yourself as an expert.
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You're asking me to remember the name of an author.
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Well, I'm interviewing you and you're not interviewing me, so let's just make sure it's
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So what I'm saying to you is that as you are not an expert in this book-
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I don't have to be an expert to know that dildos aren't appropriate for public school.
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Yeah, and she never really gets around to an answer, by the way.
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Because, of course, there is no way to answer that.
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Like, what's the context for anal rape or strap-on dildo, as was asked, that would make
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Like, that we even have to ask you that question?
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It's like, I applaud Tiffany Justice for being able to contain her disgust to the level that
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Because you, Joy Reid, are just an awful, awful person.
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Like, evil to your freaking core that you want to expose this to kids.
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But all she has is, well, she says, you're not an expert, unlike whoever gave this pornographic
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You don't have to, you don't get to have an opinion.
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Now, you may have noticed that it's become, of course, a common rhetorical tactic on the
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left, whether they're talking about climate change or transgenderism or book bans or pretty
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much anything, in the absence of any guiding moral principles, they're now fully reliant
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on the expert class to the point that they can't think for themselves anymore about anything.
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And they don't want you to think for yourself either.
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We're at the point where they don't want you to object to pornography in the children's
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section without first getting an expert's approval.
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Joy Reid is claiming that you cannot object to children being exposed to books about anal
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rape unless you are an expert, which raises the question, Joy, expert in what?
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Like, what the hell kind of expert do you need to be to understand the simple common sense
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fact that 12-year-olds don't need to be reading graphic sexual content?
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I mean, how long until they tell you you're not allowed to object to full-on child pornography
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Based on their logic at this rate, it probably won't be long.
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In fact, that's basically where we are right now.
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Of course, in that clip, Joy takes this approach to a new level of absurdity when she demands
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that Tiffany Justice name the author of the book, All Boys Aren't Blue.
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And I mean, it's the dumbest gotcha I've ever seen.
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And I guess because Justice couldn't provide the guy's full name quickly enough, we're supposed
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to conclude that she's not an expert in the book.
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And therefore, she's excluded from having an opinion on the topic.
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Because, you know, you can't object to children being exposed to sexual content unless you can
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give the full name of the person who created the sexual content.
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And speaking of brain damage, what follows from Joy Reid next, as you probably would have
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guessed, is the usual disingenuous parental rights argument.
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The idea is that parents should be able to expose their children to whatever they want,
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and reasonable people shouldn't be allowed to step in and prevent that.
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And these people don't give a damn about parental rights in any context, except when it's parents
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who want to expose their kids to sexual content or parents who want to mutilate and castrate
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So those are the only times that these demons care about parental rights.
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Why is it your right, or a Moms for Liberty activist's right, to say that a parent who
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wants their child to have access to this book, which gives a personal experience of this
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author, that why doesn't a liberal parent, for instance, or a parent of an LGBTQ kid,
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why don't they have a right for their child to just have access to this book?
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So, again, we're talking about incest, rape, and pedophilia.
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And each parent has to decide what is appropriate for their child to read.
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What is your right to tell a parent who wants their child, who might feel seen by this story,
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Why don't they have the right, as a parent, to say, my child can have access to this book?
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If a child feels seen by this story, that means that they have been the victim of a predator.
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That means that they have either been raped by a family member, they've experienced rape.
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You just said that if a child feels seen by this story.
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So to recap, the conversation began with Joy suggesting that the context of the book makes
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it acceptable somehow, but she never explained what context would justify showing a child
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So now she circles back to original point in a roundabout way.
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She implies that some children could benefit from reading the story because they'd feel
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And if parents want to encourage that, then we're supposed to go along with it.
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And again, just to be clear, this is not a book that encourages kids to take up sports
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or solve mysteries or learn about space flight or something.
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This book is exposing children as young as nine years old to graphic scenes of anal rape.
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And according to the corporate press, children should read books like this.
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As Tiffany Justice pointed out, the implications of that are pretty dark, to say the least.
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This gets to the heart of what this whole debate is about, which is the left's attempt to legitimize
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I mean, it's not hard to conclude that the reason they want to show children these books
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about graphic underage sex is that they see no problem with children engaging in this kind
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And that could be why, throughout this whole interview, Joy never once condemns the content
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She doesn't say that some children probably shouldn't read it.
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Instead, she falls back on this idea that parental rights are absolute and we should never be
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able to dictate what other parents can and can't do.
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Even though, again, she doesn't give a damn about parental rights in any other context.
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Because first, Joy says that no one can have an opinion about this book unless they're an
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And they've read it cover to cover and they can name the author's full name and give
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And a few minutes later, Joy says that every parent should have the right to show their kids
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this book and their decision must be respected no matter what.
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And people who understand basic principles of logic can spot it right away.
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But people like Joy and the rest of the corporate press are too concerned with ideology to bother
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And that's why, rather than present any kind of argument for why children need to read about
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anal sex, Joy concludes the interview by launching into bizarre personal attacks on
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Let me ask about the people who are making the decision for their parents, because you have
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not answered yet why a liberal parent or an African-American parent can't.
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We have parents who are Democrats who are members of our organization.
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But you're still trying to make decisions for all the kids.
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Here are some of the parents that are filing or some of the your advocates.
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Bridget Ziegler, the Moms for Liberty co-founder, the wife of the recently ousted Florida Republican
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Party chairman, Christian Ziegler, who allegedly was involved in threesomes, same-sex threesomes.
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Mrs. Ziegler was removed from the school board at which she was a leader.
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She was making book ban requests in Alachua County.
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But then records show that she and her husband didn't live there.
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Carrie Blair in Tennessee, who was arrested for property theft charges after allegedly stealing
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Why should those three people get to make decisions about what other children should be
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Other parents' children should be able to read.
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Now, I have no idea if any of those allegations are true.
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And by the way, if you really want to play this game, Joy, do you want to go down the
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list of all the pedophiles and sexual abusers in the public school system?
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OK, let's find all the teachers and administrators that support this kind of stuff.
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And you want to go, you want to find a list of all the sexual abuse inflicted by those
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From what Tiffany Justice says, they seem shaky.
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This is a painfully transparent attempt to distract from the issue that this whole interview
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I mean, even if all that's true, even if Moms for Liberty is full of the worst people
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OK, and that's not even like what she said that one of them, one of them didn't like stole
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Like, what the hell does that have to do with anything?
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But even if they're all serial killers and Nazis and supervillains, does that suddenly
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make it appropriate to supply children with reading material about anal rape?
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So when a woman says, you know, I don't think that kids should be reading books about anal
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rape, your response is, well, yeah, but you stole from Target.
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She doesn't want to talk about the books or why she wants children to read them.
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Instead, she just wants to attack the people who are pointing out what's in these books.
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I mean, it's hard to put into words the depths of the evil that is on display here.
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This isn't just one race hustler in MSNBC talking like this.
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It's pretty much all of the corporate press, along with the Biden administration, all the
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powerful institutions who are committed to pushing this smut in schools.
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It's going to take an equally forceful, concerted effort to stop them from succeeding.
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And this month, lawmakers in Florida introduced a bill that represents a really good start.
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Legislation would ban teachers and government employees from displaying the so-called pride
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rainbow flag or associated lapel pins in public buildings and schools for obvious reasons.
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The flag is a symbol of a radical religious cult that's specifically used to target children
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and indoctrinate them into an ideology that seeks at every turn to sexualize and corrupt
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And soon, if the bill passes, that symbol, which became omnipresent sometime in the past
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Now, it's simple and effective proposals like this that have made Florida under Ron DeSantis
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an attractive state for conservative families to live in.
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He's not campaigning for president anymore, but he's still going to be a leader in this fight,
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And what's needed now, especially as the primary effectively comes to a close, is for every
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conservative to unite and join in the fight against this evil.
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During the Sanctity of Life Month, we honor the 65 million babies whose lives have been tragically
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Since the overturning of Roe, babies' lives are at an even greater risk.
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It's been reported that abortion, the abortion bill accounts for over 50% of all abortions,
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I was just kind of like, Lord, if this is, you know, if this is the way, you know, let
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If this is not the way, give me a sign, you know, before I walk through these doors.
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And I was, as I was getting ready to walk up the steps and touch the doorknob, you know,
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And he just told me, he was like, baby, you don't have to go in there.
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And he was like, I know someone that can help him.
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Just to see the development of a baby that small.
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And I say baby because, I mean, he had little arms and legs.
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And I mean, you know, it was actually a human, you know.
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Well, as mentioned, Ron DeSantis has ended his campaign.
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Now, over the past many months, Casey and I have traveled across the country to deliver
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a message of hope that decline is a choice and that we can, in fact, succeed again as
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Nobody worked harder and we left it all out on the field.
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Now, following our second place finish in Iowa, we've prayed and deliberated on the way
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If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more
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But I can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we
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Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign.
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I'm proud to have delivered on 100% of my promises, and I will not stop now.
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It's clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another
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They watch his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using law
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Well, I've had disagreements with Donald Trump, such as on the coronavirus pandemic and his elevation
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Trump is superior to the current incumbent, Joe Biden.
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I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, and I will honor that pledge.
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He has my endorsement because we can't go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear,
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a repackage formed of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.
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The days of putting Americans last, of kowtowing to large corporations, of caving to woke ideology
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Okay, so the only thing surprising about this development is sort of the number of people
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I think this was entirely foreseeable and inevitable.
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DeSantis, if he had any shot to win, any long shot to win the presidency or win the nomination,
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it had to begin with a convincing win in Iowa, and that didn't happen.
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And so that was that, you know, time to get out.
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DeSantis is not the kind of guy who stays in and drags it on for months, refusing to
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One of the things I like about his leadership style is that he's decisive, and he was here,
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Nikki Haley is still in, sure, but she doesn't really count.
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And, you know, like I said, I'm happy to move on.
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But I think he would have run circles around Biden also in the general election.
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But if that was not going to happen, then I'm happy the primary is over, and it's not
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going to be this whole long, protracted thing, because, you know, I've just, partially it
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I've lost my taste for conservative infighting.
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I don't like it when we're at each other's throats.
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But I would much prefer to all be on the same page, united against our common enemy.
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Well, and I'm not sure how much value there is in going into a whole postmortem of the
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You've probably already heard it from a million other people.
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I would just offer a few thoughts in that vein.
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And first, the dominant view, one thing I do want to say is that you've got this dominant
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view, is that DeSantis never should have run in the first place.
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It's probably true that nobody was going to beat Trump, especially once he was indicted.
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At that point, it was basically over, if not before that.
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You know, it's easy for people to say, well, we'll just wait until 2028.
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But he's the most effective, popular, and talked about governor in the country now.
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He's going to be term limited out of the governor, out of that position, out of the governor's
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The only problem is that Trump is still on the stage.
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So DeSantis' time came when Trump's time had not yet ended.
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But, you know, it's easy enough to say, in hindsight, well, he never should have run.
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But I also don't think that, even though I don't like the inviting, I'm happy there's
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not going to be a protracted, you know, Mars slog to the inevitable end, which I think many
00:26:03.680
But at the same time, I also don't think that we should have just had a coronation where
00:26:08.500
there's not even, like, an attempt to do any kind of campaign at all, you know.
00:26:19.140
But all the people saying he never should have run, I'm not sure that I can jump on board
00:26:31.280
I've talked about some of those during the campaign.
00:26:34.240
But then again, I'm not sure there is a perfect campaign against Donald Trump.
00:26:38.500
But there's especially not when you're running against Trump.
00:26:51.180
And for all the people out there that are saying, oh, he did it the whole wrong way.
00:26:55.960
Did you have the secret this whole time that you could have done it?
00:27:00.800
Because the big central question for the situation DeSantis was in was always going to be, what
00:27:13.560
Do you try to saddle up next to him and kind of play nice and be an ally?
00:27:20.940
Well, we've seen examples in this very primary of candidates trying all three of those approaches
00:27:31.020
Of course, Christie went after Trump aggressively.
00:27:36.480
You had plenty of candidates who were basically ignoring Trump as most they could.
00:27:39.340
DeSantis at first did ignore him kind of and then went after him.
00:27:42.180
Um, I, you know, that's, that's, those are really the only three options for, I mean,
00:27:48.240
broadly speaking, there's only three ways you can go about it.
00:27:51.780
There are different ways of approaching each of those strategies, but those are the three
00:27:55.940
I don't know if there's a fourth one and we saw people try all three and it just didn't,
00:28:02.540
It's like, it's like debating over the best strategy for wrestling a gorilla, a gorilla.
00:28:06.320
You know, it's like, maybe there are strategies for wrestling a gorilla that are less bad than
00:28:10.560
other strategies, but there's no good strategy.
00:28:14.900
Um, and, uh, so that's the situation where they're in.
00:28:19.140
And, you know, one other thing I wanted to say is that I've seen some commentary online.
00:28:24.580
Uh, some people commenting on the fact that in the video we just played of him announcing
00:28:28.440
his, that he was dropping out, that DeSantis oddly seemed looser and kind of happier than
00:28:36.420
And I kind of noted that too, before I read anyone else saying that.
00:28:38.980
And I saw all the people that picked up on that and, you know, I can't read the guy's
00:28:42.580
It's possible that we're just, uh, imagining things, but I did think the same, the same
00:28:47.480
And, um, and I think it definitely is true that DeSantis seemed on the campaign trail,
00:28:54.040
like he didn't want to be there, like he didn't want to campaign, um, kind of awkward and
00:29:00.120
And, uh, now he does seem, at least in that video, he seemed a little bit more relieved.
00:29:06.140
I could be totally wrong, but if there's any truth to that, then I think it's because
00:29:10.000
DeSantis, from what I can pick up about him and read about him, I don't think he loves
00:29:19.300
Um, I don't think he desperately wanted to be president.
00:29:23.840
He ran for president, but I never sensed in him this kind of like single-minded, obsessive
00:29:28.920
ambition to be president, like the Hillary Clinton thing, where I have to be president
00:29:33.200
no matter what, um, as if it's the only thing he's ever wanted his whole life.
00:29:38.800
Uh, it always seemed to me like he ran because he thought, like, he was called to do it and
00:29:45.040
he had a responsibility to do it and this was, this was the time to do it and so he did
00:29:48.840
it, um, while not really relishing, uh, the, many of the things that come along with campaigning
00:29:56.980
and all that sounds like a criticism and maybe from some people it would be.
00:30:04.780
Maybe it's one of the reasons I like DeSantis because I can, I can relate to like, I, if I
00:30:09.360
was a, I would never be a politician, but campaigning, I would hate doing that.
00:30:12.400
I don't want to get, you know, if I, when I think about, uh, uh, being in a position
00:30:17.520
of political leadership, again, I have no interest, but the only appeal that I could
00:30:21.460
see is like actually being in the position and trying and getting things done, like being
00:30:25.660
in a position where you can, where you can put your agenda into practice and, and do
00:30:33.100
So I could see, um, finding some fulfillment in that, but the campaigning part of it, my
00:30:43.120
And I think DeSantis did, um, which, which is, it's a, it's a problem when you're a politician
00:30:49.420
because you have to campaign and you have to make it look like you want, like you like
00:30:53.320
But, um, I actually think that this is one of the things that makes him a good leader.
00:31:00.880
He just cares about doing, getting, getting the stuff done.
00:31:04.300
He doesn't care about all the rest of the frills and the showmanship and the pageantry.
00:31:08.580
And I think that's a good attribute for a leader, but it's a bad attribute for a campaigning
00:31:20.040
Um, and those two things come in conflict, you know, we've seen that time and time again.
00:31:26.120
So campaign is over, endorsed Trump and, uh, primary is over and now it really is, it's
00:31:39.840
It's really, there's really nothing to think about.
00:31:41.820
Like Biden's presidency has been certainly the worst, most disastrous presidency of my
00:31:47.500
It's in the conversation for, I mean, among the worst, at least, uh, in American history
00:31:59.500
Last week we talked about Sean Strickland, the UFC guy who smacked down that woke reporter
00:32:05.180
in Canada who tried to throw some old tweets or whatever in his face.
00:32:08.340
And instead, Sean Strickland stood by his past statements, doubled down on them in no
00:32:15.140
Well, Dana White, who's the president of the UFC, of course, was next up to bat.
00:32:18.960
And he was asked at a press conference a couple of days ago, uh, by a different reporter about
00:32:25.000
And he was asked about the, what sort of leash, uh, he gives his fighters when it comes to
00:32:38.000
You obviously give a long leash to your fighters about, you know, what they can say when they
00:32:43.520
are up there with a UFC microphone and you are getting into territory of homophobia,
00:32:48.340
transphobia, like, is there, I don't give anybody a leash.
00:32:51.680
Well, I'm saying you, a leash, I'm like free speech, control what people say, kind of tell
00:32:59.900
people what to believe, kind of tell people, I don't tell any other human being what to
00:33:16.320
Uh, that's ridiculous to say I give somebody a leash.
00:33:21.520
People can say whatever they want and they can believe whatever they want.
00:33:28.440
But Dana White says, I don't give anyone a leash.
00:33:31.500
Um, I was asking that question, but I'll move on.
00:33:35.000
You can't see him on the video, but you could just, you could tell his head's bowed.
00:33:45.160
Uh, this is why it's so frustrating when people allow themselves to be bullied and backed
00:33:51.440
You know, these kinds of guys, like whoever that guy was asking the question, what do
00:33:55.440
you have to say about the fighters who were venturing into the realm of transphobia?
00:34:00.900
Um, you know, you, you, you see what happens when you actually push back against these people
00:34:09.200
They totally disintegrate in the face of the slightest resistance.
00:34:13.420
Um, all these guys have glass jaws, you know, they just, they, they breathe in their direction
00:34:25.900
Um, anyway, like play out the same scenario, but instead of the, the UFC, let's say that
00:34:37.260
Um, and some baseball player had dared to criticize the, uh, hallowed sacred LGBTQ community
00:34:45.180
And the reporter found the tweet and, you know, asked him about it.
00:34:49.360
Um, first we know that the player would break down in tears right there.
00:34:53.400
You know, he'd, he'd have a whole stuttering, stammering speech, apologizing and saying,
00:34:57.560
well, you know, I, I've grown as a person and I've realized that the LGBTQ community is
00:35:02.460
amazing and beautiful and right about everything.
00:35:04.900
And, and, and diversity is so important and, uh, equity is, you know, and we hear all that.
00:35:09.660
And then when the commissioner of the league is asked about it, we get the disavowal and the,
00:35:16.840
the denunciation, we get the whole, yes, well, the comments made in the past were
00:35:21.460
reprehensible major league baseball does not condone these comments.
00:35:25.020
This player will be imprisoned in sensitivity, hard labor camp until they no longer have the
00:35:30.740
ability to form any opinions of their own, uh, et cetera.
00:35:33.840
I mean, that's the way it usually goes, but with these guys, the UFC, it's just like,
00:35:48.440
In fact, this has been a great weekend for non-wokeness in sports.
00:35:52.400
And I think it's important to recognize that and celebrate it since we spend so much time.
00:35:56.480
And I know that I have complaining about the reverse.
00:36:01.200
So when we see that, when we, when we see, when we see it done, right, I think we should
00:36:10.000
So, so we had the UFC acquitting itself quite well.
00:36:16.340
So first of all, Jim Harbaugh is the Michigan coach, uh, who was once an NFL coach and will
00:36:22.240
almost certainly be an NFL coach next year, uh, either for the Falcons or the Chargers
00:36:28.020
But he spoke at the March for Life, which is, which is really significant.
00:36:32.040
I mean, and you could, if you want, you could say, oh, he's a football coach.
00:36:39.240
This is somebody with a lot of cultural sort of purchase.
00:36:43.020
And, um, and this is one of the biggest names in football at the March for Life, which is,
00:36:51.500
Um, this is a, keep some of my, the March for Life is a place that, especially at this
00:36:57.900
point, a great many Republican politicians will not go there because they don't want
00:37:03.060
to be tied to the pro-life movement because they're cowards.
00:37:05.360
But, uh, here was coach Harbaugh at the March for Life.
00:37:41.140
What an incredible honor to get to introduce Ben Watson, talented individual on the field,
00:37:48.300
talented, courageous, fearless leader off the field.
00:37:51.540
He's making a difference in the lives of so many.
00:37:53.800
Um, so, you know, he had a few things to say that he introduced Ben Watson.
00:37:59.620
I mean, we could complain about this reality all we want, but, but the, the reality is that
00:38:05.340
a guy like Jim Harbaugh showing up at the March for Life and speaking for 45 seconds, like that
00:38:13.740
will have more impact on the culture than 50 speeches that I could give at the March for Life.
00:38:19.460
Um, which is why this is a, it's a great thing to see.
00:38:24.480
Meanwhile, his brother, John Harbaugh, a coach of my Baltimore Ravens,
00:38:28.700
we're going to the conference championship, not that any of you care,
00:38:31.380
uh, went to, uh, went up to speak at the press conference after the Ravens dominating win over the Texans,
00:38:38.360
And he began with, uh, a Bible verse, which I thought was fantastic.
00:38:44.540
Um, this is something that was sent to me before the game and it just is meaningful to me.
00:38:47.420
So I'm going to share it with you, uh, because I think it's, uh, uh, the right thing to do.
00:38:52.360
And it's, it's a verse, um, greatness, power, glory, victory, and honor belong to you
00:38:59.880
because everything in heaven and on earth belongs to you.
00:39:05.200
You are the head and the ruler over everything.
00:39:10.740
And, uh, just want to kind of give honor and glory where it's due.
00:39:17.400
We, we should mention that the team they beat, the Texans, is led by their great rookie quarterback,
00:39:21.760
CJ Stroud, who, who is a very devout, very vocal Christian who gives glory to God every time he's, uh, he's on camera.
00:39:27.940
So listen, institutionally, the NFL still does some annoying, woke things sometimes.
00:39:31.860
And you'll still see somebody, you'll see, like, end racism written on a field or whatever, something stupid.
00:39:36.240
But it's also true that this side of the UFC, the NFL, and football generally has by far the most conservative
00:39:42.560
and religiously devout people in all of sports, which is, um, many of whom, again, are more conservative and religious,
00:39:50.460
conservative and, and, and, and devout than what you'll find among Republican, elected Republican leaders.
00:39:59.920
Um, which is one of the reasons I don't like this movement you see by some conservatives to kind of throw sports out entirely.
00:40:06.620
Uh, you know, you see some saying that all sports are woke and they're all a waste of time.
00:40:11.000
But the truth is that sports are an important part of culture.
00:40:14.120
There's never been a human culture that has not had some kind of organized, recreational, physical competition,
00:40:23.640
And, uh, so if you care about the culture, you should care about things like sports.
00:40:25.760
It's just like, you should care about things like entertainment.
00:40:32.120
And sports are, I think, naturally non-woke, especially physical combat type sports.
00:40:39.860
Um, now you might have institutionally, they might try to make it woke, but it's, it's, they're working against the grain.
00:40:46.320
It's no surprise that football and MMA are the least woke of all sports.
00:40:50.180
Because, uh, these kinds of sports are inherently masculine, aggressive, merit-based contests.
00:40:57.360
You can't really deny reality or exist in a leftist fantasy world when you're in the octagon or you're out on the football field.
00:41:03.400
It's just like, this is, you know, it's me against you.
00:41:07.040
And it's, you're, you're in reality and, um, strongest guy, best guy wins.
00:41:12.880
And, uh, you can see that even though the NFL has had some very public and very disastrous episodes of wokeness, the Kaepernick stuff, of course, prime example.
00:41:20.980
Football is still fundamentally non-woke and, and also culturally important.
00:41:24.920
Now, of course, my, my theory about physical violence sports being inherently non-woke is undermined by the NHL, which at this point is the most woke, most annoyingly, embarrassingly left-wing of all sports leagues.
00:41:37.300
But then also the NHL is, is, I mean, hockey is basically Canadian.
00:41:40.880
So you've got the Canadian-ness, which is counteracting all that.
00:41:48.080
All right, finally, I don't have a lot of time for this and we don't really need a lot of time for it, but I did want to touch on it.
00:41:54.920
Uh, Newsweek article says, Representative Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican, put United Airlines on blast, accusing an airport agent of grabbing his dog without consent and then accusing the agent supervisor of threatening him in a shocking conversation.
00:42:09.680
Crenshaw took to social media on Saturday night to share his and his wife's experiences with United.
00:42:14.080
In a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, Crenshaw explained that while his wife was on a trip to see him with their infant daughter, his mother-in-law, and their two small dogs,
00:42:24.220
Even after his wife opted to try to find another flight, the agent attempted to grab one of the dogs, Joey, out of the carrier, according to Crenshaw.
00:42:35.420
And then Dan Crenshaw went and talked to United's vice president of airport operations, Philip Griffith, and he recorded that.
00:42:41.520
Um, and he put this whole video on, uh, on, on Twitter.
00:42:49.860
So here's some of, uh, Crenshaw's videos as he's reviewing the initial incident.
00:42:55.940
So what you're watching here is you're seeing a nice young lady and her mother traveling with two small dogs and an infant.
00:43:04.380
And you're about to see a crazed, unhinged United ticketing agent reach in and grab the dog, start ripping things off of the dog's bag while my wife tries to stop them.
00:43:18.740
Now, you might be thinking, okay, Dan, there must have been a lot leading up to this.
00:43:23.500
Maybe they were yelling at, maybe they had a good reason.
00:43:33.680
She was trying to push away my two month old infant daughter away from the unhinged United agent.
00:43:39.640
And as they were pushing them out, getting out of the terminal, she reached in and grabbed her property, grabbed our dog.
00:43:54.080
And really, the only purpose in showing it is to show you that my wife and her mom acted very calmly.
00:44:01.800
If somebody told me my dog couldn't fly, I'd be pretty upset because he's flown about 500 times throughout his life.
00:44:09.560
I know a lot of you have this kind of problem, especially with United Airlines.
00:44:12.760
Okay, so the video is kind of boring, he says, and he's absolutely right about that.
00:44:17.840
There are a lot of things I don't agree with Dan Crenshaw about, but I certainly agree with him on that point.
00:44:23.220
So this video got like 4 million views on Twitter as of last night.
00:44:26.380
A lot of people seem to be outraged along with Dan Crenshaw at what his wife and his mother-in-law experienced.
00:44:33.980
And I should say that he, so he was trying to talk to United about this, and eventually he gets a meeting with this Philip Griffith guy, and he records the meeting.
00:44:46.060
And in the meeting, and then Dan Crenshaw makes a big deal about the fact that in the meeting, Philip Griffith yells at him and tells him to shut up.
00:44:52.640
Of course, before Philip Griffith yells and says shut up, Dan Crenshaw cusses at him.
00:45:03.260
I mean, I'm no defender of the airlines, especially United.
00:45:06.160
In fact, I don't think anyone in media attacks airlines more than I do recently.
00:45:10.240
So I'm not predisposed to be on their side about anything.
00:45:14.380
And I'm not exactly on their side here, but my main take is like, who cares?
00:45:19.760
First of all, he calls the gate agent unhinged and crazed.
00:45:23.420
At another point, he says that she violently grabbed his dog.
00:45:27.180
I mean, that is at best a very overdramatic way of describing what's on the video.
00:45:38.080
I mean, if you heard that description without seeing the video, you'd expect something quite a bit more egregious than what you see in the video, right?
00:45:46.040
You hear someone say, unhinged and crazed woman, grab my dog.
00:45:49.540
You'd expect like the woman is screaming and screeching and her head's turning around 360 degrees like the exorcist.
00:45:55.480
And I don't know, she's climbing up walls or something.
00:45:58.480
At least you'd expect something more aggressive than what's in the video.
00:46:01.480
Because what's there is it's like maybe inappropriate, a little bit over the line.
00:46:06.060
But does it really warrant a United States congressman turning this into a national scandal?
00:46:12.080
Does it warrant a 10-minute video breakdown by a congressman because of that?
00:46:19.420
Is it really something that any of the rest of us should give a damn about?
00:46:23.840
And by the way, normal people have really unfortunate experiences in airports all the time that are quite a bit more egregious than anything in that video.
00:46:38.360
And the thing is that normal people, they're not going to be able to meet with the VP of operations in like a sit-down, in-person meeting.
00:46:49.200
And I don't think Dan Crenshaw has never done a 10-minute video about any of that.
00:46:54.620
So it's when his own family's inconvenience and suddenly he cares.
00:46:59.700
And it kind of surprises me that so many people, if you look at the comments, are on his side and not pointing this out.
00:47:08.180
Do you not see this as a guy who, he's just, he was personally annoyed by this and so he's turning it into, so you're a congressman.
00:47:16.040
There's a certain expectation we have for you that you're not going to get hung up on stuff like this.
00:47:24.460
And, you know, you have something like this, to turn it into a public affair as a congressman,
00:47:33.280
to take something that's personally inconvenienced or upset you, and to make it a public affair,
00:47:39.200
that has to meet a certain bar where this is actually relevant to the public.
00:47:44.500
So you have to say to yourself, okay, all of my constituents, all of the people, the Americans that are out there
00:47:50.580
and that are suffering and that have experienced horrible things, should they care about this?
00:47:58.300
As a congressman, that's what you have to ask yourself before you share anything publicly about that you experienced.
00:48:03.220
It's like all those people, should they care about this thing that happened to me?
00:48:05.920
And if I was in Dan Crenshaw's shoes, I would say absolutely not.
00:48:13.020
Okay, that's why, I've had plenty of unpleasant interactions at airports,
00:48:18.480
and I've never gone and even thought to go and get the video of it and play it and post it,
00:48:27.500
which is something that I wouldn't be able to do,
00:48:31.380
just like I wouldn't be able to go meet with the VP of operations.
00:48:33.740
And also, any other non-politician would not be able to do that.
00:48:41.580
So, it's hard for me to see this as anything but a politician caring about himself and his own affairs,
00:48:50.360
which is fine, but then, you know, trying to turn it into a public spectacle for his own benefit
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I actually had other plans for the daily cancellation today, better plans you might even say,
00:50:53.540
but then I saw this clip of Nikki Haley all over Twitter.
00:50:56.400
And yes, I will keep calling it Twitter until the day I die, just like the football team in Washington will always be the Redskins.
00:51:02.340
The clip is from an interview Haley recently did with NBC News where she was asked about some of her recent comments about race,
00:51:11.560
And this really shows you already how meaningless the racism charge is from the media.
00:51:16.040
Like if they can even make Nikki Haley into a far right Nazi racist, then they can do it to anyone.
00:51:22.140
And in this case, the NBC reporters were very concerned that Haley had in recent days
00:51:25.540
tried to earn an acquittal on the racism charges by pointing out that she has black friends.
00:51:30.900
And NBC informs her that using the I have black friends excuse is a trope, which is itself racist.
00:51:36.880
Now, I've said before that the only problem with using the I have black friends excuse as a defense against racism
00:51:44.700
is that you are defending yourself against a racism accusation in the first place.
00:51:49.460
To defend yourself in the first place is to already lose.
00:51:52.520
The minute you grovel to these people and try to prove your anti-racism credentials, they own you.
00:51:57.840
That's why the only appropriate response when someone on the left calls you racist is to look them in the eyes and say,
00:52:05.320
You aren't agreeing that you're racist because you aren't, but you also aren't collapsing on the ground
00:52:12.940
Instead, you're letting them know that their opinion of you and the labels they put on you mean nothing to you
00:52:20.880
Now, all that said, even if you shouldn't be allowing yourself to be put on the defense in the first place,
00:52:27.180
it's also the case that, objectively speaking, I have black friends is a great defense against a racism accusation.
00:52:33.440
Somebody who has black friends is almost certainly not racist against black people.
00:52:38.200
In fact, friendship with another human being entails by definition that you do not think that they are inferior to you
00:52:45.240
based on race or any other factor outside of their control, because if you do think that, then they're not your friend.
00:52:50.660
So if someone has black friends, they aren't racist against black people.
00:52:59.180
The idea that this is somehow an illegitimate defense or somehow irrelevant to the racism question entirely is totally absurd.
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Which is something that Nikki Haley could have pointed out in this exchange, but instead, she went this route.
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We were the only Indian family in our small southern town.
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So anyone that wants to question it can go back and look at what I've said on how hard it was to grow up in the deep south as a brown girl.
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Anybody can look at my record and see when Walter Scott was shot down by a dirty cop, how I made sure that the Walter Scott family didn't suffer because we put the first body camera bill in the country in place.
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Anybody can look at the fact that when we had nine amazing souls die in Mother Emanuel Church, I did something that no Republican or Democrat ever wanted to touch,
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which was call for the Confederate flag to come down because it would take two-thirds of the House and Senate and was an impossible feat.
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I don't know what you're implying with that, but what I will tell you is saying that I had black friends is a source of pride.
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Saying that I had white friends is a source of pride.
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If you want to know what it was like growing up, I was disqualified from a beauty pageant because I wasn't white or black because they didn't know where to put me.
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Okay, let's just slow down here and take this one at a time.
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First of all, just to address the elephant in the room here, Nikki Haley is not really brown, or at least if she is brown, she's a very light shade of it.
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Technically, we're all shades of brown from a color spectrum perspective.
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There are no people with skin pigment the same shade as a sheet of computer paper.
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So if Nikki Haley is brown, she's only brown in the sense that any white person is brown.
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I'm not doubting that Haley's family is really from India.
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But the point is that if she doesn't tell you she's brown, you would never know.
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In fact, like most people, I didn't find out until this election cycle that Haley is Indian.
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And when I found out, like most people, I said, what?
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And sure enough, like, oh, her family's from India.
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All that to say her stories of anti-brown persecution strain credulity from the start.
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Well, she says that she was disqualified from a beauty pageant for being brown.
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We're supposed to believe that way, way back in the ancient times of the 1980s, South Carolina's beauty pageant circuit had never encountered anyone who hailed from Asia or anywhere in the Middle East or anywhere in South or Central America.
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So they saw Nikki's slightly brownish skin and their minds were blown.
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Like, they looked at her and they said, wait a minute.
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Like, you know, hit a button, set off an alarm.
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This is what the beauty pageant official apparently said to Nikki sometime in the early 1980s.
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I must confess that I find that somewhat difficult to believe.
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In fact, it sounds very similar to the single woman who informs you that men aren't interested in her because they are intimidated by her staggering beauty.
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It sounds like the most desperate cope of all time.
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I mean, there are, after all, other more obvious reasons why men may not be interested in you.
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Just as there are other more obvious reasons why you might have been disqualified from a beauty pageant.
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I mean, it is possible that beauty pageants in South Carolina 40 years ago had a policy that only people from Africa, Europe, or North America were allowed to participate.
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It's possible that black and white people were teaming up together to discriminate against Asians.
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Like, those are, that's a, you know, an assortment, a team we don't see very often.
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What I can say for sure, though, is that there is simply no way Nikki Haley was teased every day for being brown, as she claims.
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I've never heard anyone being teased for being brown ever in my entire life.
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I'm sure it's happened at various points in American history, but the claim that she, as someone who barely even qualifies as brown, was teased on a daily basis her entire childhood because of her brownness is just impossible to believe.
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If it was true, I would say it's not the worst thing in the world.
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Like, every kid is going to be teased for something, and if they choose your maybe very slightly darker skin tone as the subject of ridicule, that's not too terrible, all things considered.
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I mean, it's better than being called ugly or fat or a loser or whatever.
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Every kid gets picked on by someone for something.
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It's an unfortunate reality of growing up, especially in the school system.
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No one should be getting teased because they have brown skin, if that's even happening.
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But of all the things you can be teased for, I'm not sure why that would be any worse than any of the other horrible things that kids have said and say to each other.
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But that's assuming that this really happened, which it probably didn't, at least not at the rate and frequency Nikki is claiming here.
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But whether it happened or not, or however often it did happen, if it happened at all, none of that matters.
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First of all, if you are a grown adult trying to gain sympathy based on what your elementary school peers said to you, no matter what they said to you, no matter how rude they were, then you are pathetic.
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It is just not acceptable to be a 50-year-old adult trying to earn pity points from what some alleged schoolyard bully teased you about 40 years ago.
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And the only time it's okay for an adult to bring up the grade school bullying they suffered is if they're talking to a child and trying to encourage a child by saying, you know, I went through it, I turned out fine, you'll be okay.
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Like in that context, you'll be excused for drudging up those memories.
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But to bring it up to other adults, in an on-camera interview, no less, in a desperate attempt to make yourself seem sympathetic, is just embarrassing on every possible level.
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And it's all for nothing in the end anyway, because you cannot play the victim game against the left and win.
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It's like trying to beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoffs.
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I'm the biggest victim, so I'm right, is a move the left invented.
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Because they could just say, oh, that doesn't count when you do it.
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What do you mean it doesn't count when I do it?
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It's like, have you ever tried to play a game with, like, a child that a child has invented?
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And I quickly discovered that whatever we're doing in this game,
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all the rules are designed just to make sure that somehow they win and I don't win.
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If they try to lead you into a conversation like this, just look at them and say,
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Now ask me about something that actually matters or this conversation is over.
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I would do 15 minutes praising her just for that alone.
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But Republicans like Nikki Haley are just not capable of it,
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which is why she is today, once again, and forever, canceled.