Ep. 1299 - The Supreme Court Declares That Texas Has No Right To Defend Its Own Borders
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the liberals on the Supreme Court, with the help of some of our
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quote-unquote conservative justices, have just declared that the Biden administration has the
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right to tear down Texas's border fencing, allowing illegal criminals to invade their
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communities. Our basic right to self-defense and sovereignty is evaporating by the day. We'll
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discuss also a trans-identifying male golfer competes against women while acknowledging that
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men do have advantages over women. How does he square that circle? We'll find out. Plus,
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a CNN reporter is reduced to tears of admiration and awe as she gazes upon Kamala Harris.
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And in our daily cancellation, a flight was canceled last week after a passenger noticed
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Well, at this point, you don't need to be an avid court watcher to know that the right of self-defense,
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one of the most fundamental rights that exists, has effectively been suspended in major cities
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across this country. The cases of Kyle Rittenhouse, the McCloskeys, George Zimmerman,
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Daniel Penny, George Alan Kelly, Jose Alba, Daniel Perry, and so on, all make it clear that defending
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yourself generally means that the government will try to destroy your life and sometimes succeed.
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At the behest of wealthy foreigners, billionaires like George Soros, who don't live anywhere near
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the carnage they're inflicting on American cities, prosecutors now seek to make an example out of
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anybody who takes action to defend their life or property, and they have the full support of Joe
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Biden's DOJ as they do it. This is the reality of living in any jurisdiction controlled by leftists
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who can easily select sympathetic juries and secure a conviction. Defend yourself and you'll be accused
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of breaking the law. Most people are aware of that now. What most people probably don't know is that
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conservatives are now helping the left neutralize the right of self-defense. But yesterday's ruling by
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the U.S. Supreme Court is proof that's exactly what's happening. It's undeniable. By a 5-4 vote with
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two supposedly quote-unquote conservative justices in the majority, the Supreme Court gave the Biden
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administration the green light to terminate the right of self-defense along the southern border
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with Mexico. And this ruling is maybe the single most significant attack on your right to defend
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yourself and your property that we've seen in at least a decade. And it's happening because of the
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quote-unquote conservative majority on the Supreme Court that we're supposed to be so, so grateful for.
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So here's the upshot of the ruling. Supreme Court allowed the Biden administration to remove razor
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wire fencing placed by the state of Texas on private property with the consent of private property
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owners in order to keep hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants from flooding across the border
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every single month. So to restate, the Supreme Court is letting the Border Patrol destroy border
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fencing set up by Texas. This is the kind of ruling that's so incompatible with the fundamental
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principles of self-defense and self-determination and common sense and not to mention national
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sovereignty that it defies explanation really. And appropriately enough, the Supreme Court did not
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provide an explanation. There was no majority opinion explaining their reasoning here. But if you
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look at the docket from the lower courts, it's not hard to see what might have convinced the justices.
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In one filing, the Biden administration's solicitor general argued that the razor wire fencing
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endangered the lives of criminals who are swimming in the water and trying to sneak into this country.
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If you have the fencing there, it's going to endanger their lives. So here's what the
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solicitor general, Elizabeth Preleger, told the court. She said that the fencing prevents agents
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from, quote, accessing or getting near the border along the 2.5 mile stretch of the river and therefore
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effectively prevented agents from monitoring the border to determine whether a migrant requires
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emergency aid. Now, what was left unexplained in the solicitor general's filing is why anyone in the
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U.S. has any obligation to provide emergency aid to foreign criminals who are trying to invade this
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country illegally. You're not going to find that requirement in the constitution or in any federal
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or state law. It's just invented out of thin air. We are now responsible for making sure that Mexicans
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and Haitians and Guatemalans get top-notch medical care as they swim across the Rio Grande, apparently.
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Which is to say it is our responsibility to provide medical care to non-citizens who are injured while
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in the process of attempting to break our laws. But if it's anyone's responsibility, why isn't it
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Mexico's or Haiti's or Guatemala's? Why don't we simply tell them to take care of their own people?
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There's an idea. And what are they going to say? Well, we can't. That's not practical. We can't do it.
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Oh, but it's practical for us? Now, these are all good questions that the Supreme Court decided
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are irrelevant somehow. Now, it goes without saying that this is the inverse of the right of self-defense.
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The Biden administration and now the Supreme Court is saying that you don't have the right to protect
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yourself from foreign criminals. Instead, you have an obligation to protect these foreign criminals
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from themselves. It's obscene. But obviously, Joe Biden's solicitor general doesn't mean anything she's saying.
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It's been clear for months now that the Biden administration wants to tear down the razor wire
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fencing so that it can import as many foreigners into this country as possible. This is not about
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emergency medical aid. Back in October, the outlet BorderHawk captured live footage of federal border
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patrol agents using heavy machinery to lift the razor wire fencing installed by Texas authorities
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at Eagle Pass, Texas, so that hundreds of migrants could stream across. Now, watch this footage,
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and you will notice a distinct absence of illegal aliens in need of quote-unquote emergency aid. Watch.
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I'm Efrain Gonzalez, correspondent with BorderHawk News. These are exclusive imagines of how most
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crossings of hundreds of migrants are being carried out in recent days at Eagle Pass,
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raising the barbed wire with machinery. This huge caravan of around 300 migrants crossed into
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Eagle Pass thanks to Border Patrol agents lifting the barbed wire. The hundreds of migrants crossed in
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a few minutes, this being the four massive crossing that our cameras witnessed in the last days of October.
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Previously, these caravans are sent to uninhabited areas of the Rio Grande, where Border Patrol
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awaits them with four lift tractors. Given these facilities, migrants say they prefer to cross the river
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Somehow, these large groups of migrants are informed about the place and time when the forklifts raise the barbed wire to cross in drops.
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And what you didn't hear there, if you're listening to the audio podcast, he was asked to two of the illegal immigrants,
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you know, if they would rather just come in legally and go through the legal process or cross the river.
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And they both said, well, they want to cross the river because it takes too long to do it legally.
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And this is an argument that apparently we find compelling, but it takes them too long. They don't feel
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like waiting around. So we'll just, we'll just send in heavy machinery to lift the border fence for them.
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The only thing missing there was the, it was an actual red carpet being laid out for them.
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Now, as the reporter with Border Hawk notes, quote, somehow these large groups of migrants are informed
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about the place and time when the forklifts raise the barbed wire to cross in groups.
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And it's almost like the solicitor general was lying, but we all knew that. We all know the
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Biden administration wants to destroy the razor wire for the same reason it sued Arizona for
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building a makeshift wall out of shipping containers along the border. They want to transform the
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population. They want to lead all these people into the country with fake asylum claims, give them
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court dates 10 years in the future and forget all about them. That's obvious. What's less clear by
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contrast is why Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts, two justices who were once, we were once told were
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conservative, would go along with this fraud. Now, right at the outset, it's important to clarify
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that this case is still making its way through the court system. On February 7th, the Fifth Circuit
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Court of Appeals based in New Orleans is going to hear arguments on the issue of whether the Biden
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administration has the legal authority to cut razor wire along the southern border. So this is still a
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live issue. What happened is that before it heard those arguments, the Fifth Circuit entered a
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temporary injunction prohibiting the Biden administration from cutting any more wire while the case was
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proceeding. The Biden administration filed an emergency appeal of that injunction because they
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really want to cut the wire as quickly as possible and get all these immigrants, i.e. future voters,
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into the country. And the Supreme Court, in a five to four vote, lifted the injunction and allowed the
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fence cutting to continue. So basically, the Supreme Court is saying, yeah, just keep cutting the fences
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until we figure out whether it's legal for you to do that or not. Now, three of those five votes were
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always in the bag for the Biden administration. That's because unlike Republicans, Democrats know how to
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appoint justices to the Supreme Court who will faithfully carry out the objectives of their
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party. But Republicans are incapable of doing that. So John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, who we were
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told was a major win for conservatives when Trump appointed her. You know, we're still told that this
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is with a grand achievement of Trump's administration was these three justices, even though only one has
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proven to be somewhat dependable. But they voted with Kentonji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor,
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and Elena Kagan. Now, we all know why John Roberts would do that. He's openly admitted that he's
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preoccupied with making sure the court appears nonpartisan rather than applying the law. And
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but why would Amy Coney Barrett join the leftist judges? Now, whatever the explanation, and I'll get
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into that in a moment, I have one theory as to why that might be. But this is becoming something of a
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pattern. An analysis by the Washington Examiner found that in 2020 and 2021, Barrett voted similarly with
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liberal justices in just over half of the cases heard. And she's continued to side with them
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ever since. Last year, for example, Barrett and John Roberts sided with the court's leftists to
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ban the sale of so-called ghost guns, which is an invented term that's intended to criminalize the
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transportation of firearm parts. Just a few weeks ago, Barrett rejected a challenge to Illinois'
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ban on so-called assault weapons, which is a category of firearms that also doesn't actually exist.
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And she also blocked a challenge to Indiana University's requirement that all students
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and employees take the COVID shot. And as Daniel Horowitz pointed out, during COVID, Barrett had
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no problem with the state of Illinois locking down its own citizens. She indicated that under the
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constitutional police power, states can close businesses and schools to protect public health.
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What's odd about Amy Coney Barrett's reasoning is that it apparently doesn't apply to the state of
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Texas or any citizens living there. They don't have a right to invoke the police power to prevent
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foreigners from streaming across the border, according to Amy Coney Barrett. Even though many
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of those illegal immigrants do have communicable diseases, this isn't an invented concern. It's very
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real. You can go to pretty much any hospital near the border, and you will see that they are
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completely overwhelmed. Here, for example, is the Yuma Regional Medical Center. Look at this.
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I'm Dr. Robert Trenchel. I'm the president and CEO, and I've been here for seven and a half years.
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We have a 406-bed hospital. We've had a significant number across the border when it was announced
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that the borders were open. And we've had a multitude of patients come to our doors and needing medical
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care. We're the only hospital here, so it's not like we can distribute to other hospitals in the
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area. We're the closest hospital that does what we do is 180 miles away. So the hospital has been
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impacted greatly because none of the migrants have a payer source, and that's our biggest issue.
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They've come to our doors, and we give them the same level of care we'd give anybody else. If
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President Biden walked through the door or if a migrant walks through the door, they're getting the
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same level of care. We don't treat anybody any differently, and we take a lot of pride in that.
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Our concern is that we've delivered over $20 million in uncompensated care to these individuals
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just over a six-month period. That's an unsustainable model to have that unexpected
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This is a hospital that was set up for the benefit of American citizens, and because the
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Biden administration is deliberately flooding this nation with diseased foreigners, it may have
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to shut down, and it's losing millions of dollars. And if it does shut down, obviously that would
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impact the public health in Yuma. But the conservative swing votes on the Supreme Court don't
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care, apparently. It's only American citizens who have to endure quarantines and lockdowns in the
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name of public health. This isn't just happening in border towns, by the way. Hospitals in large
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cities like New York, which, of course, is nowhere near the border, are also overwhelmed by the surge
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of migrants. Watch. We're back now with a record number of migrants crossing into the U.S., pushing
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resources to the limit in many American cities. Now hospitals are sounding the alarm, saying they're
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also overwhelmed, including some far from the border. Julia Ainsley has our report.
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Tonight, the border crisis surging. Officials telling NBC News there were over 200,000 illegal
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crossings at the southern border last month, and a record 3 million migrants crossed the border in
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the last year. Now a new warning, 1,000 miles away in New York City, where officials tell us
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resources are overwhelmed. Across public hospitals in New York City over the last year, nearly 30,000
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visits by migrants and 300 new babies born to migrant moms. Staff here at Bellevue Hospital tell us
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they're eager to help, but the numbers are tough. This has been the hardest work that I've ever done,
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but it's been the most impactful work that I've ever done. And most of the visits to the taxpayer-funded
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legal clinic here are by migrants. Our clinics are full, and there are waiting lists, and people
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are turning people away or referring them to other places. So these are hospitals in the largest cities
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in the United States, which is thousands of miles from the southern border, and they can't handle
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all of these illegal migrants. How is this not considered a massive threat to public health
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exactly? Where are all the schools of public health that lecture us about the importance of
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wearing masks, worshiping George Floyd, and forcing our children to look at iPads all day?
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They're all silent, strangely enough. Again, so is Amy Coney Barrett, who supposedly cared a lot about
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public health just a few years ago. It's not clear what explains the way Amy Coney Barrett is voting.
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One possibility is that she believes that the Constitution gives total authority to the
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executive branch to handle immigration matters to the point where the federal government can
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totally ignore immigration and asylum laws passed by Congress and import millions of illegal aliens
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without any vetting whatsoever. That seems dubious, which is probably why four conservative justices
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didn't go along with that reasoning. Another possibility is that it's not a coincidence that all of the
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women on the court, plus Roberts, who is close enough, sided against Texas's border wall. The argument
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against border enforcement has always been a purely emotional one. So maybe it's not a surprise that
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all the women on the court find the emotional argument to be more compelling than most of the men do.
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But being guided by emotions is one thing, and it's bad enough for Supreme Court justices.
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The problem is that, one of the big problems, is that all of the sympathy, you know, all of the
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sympathetic emotions are being directed towards the illegal immigrants, and no sympathy is being
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directed towards the American families that this invasion is destroying. And that's odd, because at
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this point, the federal government isn't just failing to defend our border and uphold our sovereignty.
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They're taking active steps to ensure that we have no borders at all, and no sovereignty.
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And very soon, our critical infrastructure will fail because of it. It's often said that
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civilizational decline is a choice, and that's true. And we've never seen a clearer case of it than
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this. There's just no other way to spin the story when the Biden administration is literally going to
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court to get permission to destroy border fencing. Without a border, you don't have a country.
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One of the most basic responsibilities of the government is to ensure that we have a border
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and we enforce our laws. And our government's not doing that anymore. In fact, they are doing the
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opposite. They are actively doing the opposite. This is not, we've moved beyond just mere negligence,
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okay, which is the failure to enforce the border. Now they're actively preventing anyone from
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enforcing it. If this continues, the solution is obvious, which is that red state governors will
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need to ignore the Supreme Court and do what needs to be done to protect their citizens and the border.
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All of these rules that have sustained this country for so long can be broken. I mean, we've seen that.
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They all operate in the end on a sort of mutual agreement. I mean, you proceed through traffic lights
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when they're green on the assumption that everyone perpendicular to you is going to stop on red.
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But once people start going through the reds in large numbers, you have no reason to pay any
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attention to your own traffic light. Everyone's on their own at that point. Once one side decides that
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law and border no longer matter, then everybody else is released from their obligations to obey the
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federal court system. I mean, you can't obey it anymore. To obey it is to usher in your own destruction.
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That's what happens. It's happened before in this country's history and it's, it can happen again.
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And you know, the thing is the Supreme Court can't enforce its own rulings.
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So once red states decide not to go along with them, if the red states say, okay, I don't care what
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you think. We're going to do it anyway. What happens then? What happens when federal agents try to
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destroy border fencing and state troopers stand in their way? Does Biden send in the military at that
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point? These might not be hypothetical questions for long. The last civil war was unimaginable
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until it wasn't. That was a lesson this country learned in the middle of the 19th century. And
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if the Biden administration is somehow still in office after this next election, then just as
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That's proviahair.com slash Walsh. We begin with a guy named Haley Davidson who identifies as
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transgender and says he's a woman and has been competing against women in golf. And Davidson sat
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down with Good Morning Britain a couple days ago to talk about his journey as a golfer in the female
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circuit. But during the course of this conversation, he made a rather interesting admission. Let's
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listen. Of all the shots that she has hit over the years, Haley Davidson never expected to find
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herself at the center of a political storm around transgender athletes competing against women in elite
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sport. For a lot of people, because you were born a man, you clearly have an advantage. Do you accept
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that? Honestly, I 100% agree. You know, the men do have advantages. You know, say you get a trans
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person on hormones for a year, no surgery, nothing. Of course, for the most part, yeah, they're going to
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have an advantage. I don't believe trans people should be banned from sports, but I do believe there
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need to be guidelines in effect. Why do you think people have such a big problem with you competing
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in women's golf in particular? I don't understand that. I don't get what the fear of me, one person
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is doing. The 31-year-old who was the first male-born golfer to win a professional women's event
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is speaking out exclusively after revealing she's received a number of death threats just days after
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winning this women's tournament. Are you worried about your safety? A little bit, yeah. I
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don't go out and do a ton much because of that. I'm not, you know, going out at night. You know, I
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watch myself when I sit in a restaurant. You know, I'll always have my back to a wall. Three years on
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from her gender reassignment surgery, and Haley's determined to keep going and hopes to one day
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qualify for the Scottish Open. Well, there's a woman, right? I mean, you look at that person, listen to
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them, and all you see and hear is a woman who's apparently 31 years old. That, I know this is, this is
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rich coming from me as I have looked like I'm 52, you know, my whole life. But that 31, like, you don't
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look like a woman, but you do look like a 47-year-old out-of-shape man. And nobody on earth
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thinks that Haley Davidson is a woman. You know, nobody does. He doesn't even think that. He's not
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even really making any attempt to appear that way. I mean, at least grow your hair out. Like,
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it makes the smallest bit of effort. Not that that makes you a woman even slightly, but like,
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you're just doing nothing. You're not doing anything at all to even pretend to appear as a
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woman. You put on some hoop earrings, and that's it. So nobody thinks it. Everyone knows it's a farce.
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Everybody knows that this is, without exception, right? Every single person. And if you're on the
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left and you see a clip of what I'm saying right now, well, you too, look, you also know when you
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look at that person that that is a man. You know that. You know that. I know that you know that.
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We all know it. So this is not a debate between people who believe in the farce and people who
00:24:05.260
don't believe in it. It's a debate between people who willingly go along with the farce and want the
00:24:09.420
rest of us to go along with it and those of us who are not willing to go along with it. And that's
00:24:13.240
the entire debate. Now, before we break down what Davidson said here, let me give you the rest of
00:24:20.900
the story. Because later in the interview, Davidson said this. My whole philosophy behind all this is
00:24:26.500
I don't believe trans people should be banned from sports, but I do believe there needs to be
00:24:29.420
guidelines in effect. Going back even four years ago or even before I had surgery, I definitely had
00:24:33.960
an advantage. I would 100% agree with that. But the difference is now that years have gone on,
00:24:38.760
three years after surgery, my physical capabilities now compared to back then are night and day.
00:24:43.680
So again, honestly, I 100% agree that men do have advantages. Say you get a trans person on
00:24:48.400
hormones for a year or no surgery, nothing. Of course, for the most part, yeah, they're going
00:24:53.100
to have an advantage. Okay. So he's a trans identifying male athlete who admits that males have
00:24:59.840
advantages. He also says in the same interview that we just heard, he says that he can't figure out
00:25:06.760
why people are mad at him for competing against women. Well, you just said it, dude. You explained
00:25:13.300
why. Yourself, you explained it. You explained why people are mad. They're mad because men have
00:25:19.180
advantages, as you just acknowledged. I mean, these people are so fundamentally dishonest that they
00:25:24.200
can't keep their own narrative straight. They contradict themselves 10 different times in a 30-second
00:25:29.300
span. It's amazing. Now, Davidson claims that he personally no longer has those advantages because
00:25:36.540
he got the surgeries and he takes the hormones and his capabilities now are severely diminished.
00:25:43.640
Which, think about that for a moment. Okay. Really think about that. This is a guy
00:25:48.940
who got the gender transition procedures and now says about those same procedures,
00:25:55.460
and he says this as if it's a positive. He says this as a selling point that he is significantly
00:26:01.160
weaker and less physically capable than he used to be. And he also, I don't even say it as a joke,
00:26:08.760
like he looks like he has aged. He started taking the hormones or whatever a few years ago,
00:26:12.540
and they really quickly showed that picture of what he looked like before. And before, yeah,
00:26:18.780
he looked like a 27-year-old dude. And now he's 31, and he looks like he's aged 20 years.
00:26:25.460
Um, so this is a medical, quote-unquote, procedure that even according to the people who get it,
00:26:33.920
destroys you. It destroys your body. That's what he's, that's what he's saying. He's saying,
00:26:39.520
don't worry, my body's totally destroyed. Yeah, I'm useless now. It's all good.
00:26:44.980
Um, it, it, it has the effect of vastly diminishing your physical capabilities,
00:26:48.660
which is, which is just another way of saying that the procedures are harming you. They are making
00:26:54.660
you weaker, more brittle, more frail. And that is, needless to say, the exact opposite of what
00:27:01.340
medicine, real medicine, is supposed to do. I mean, do no harm. That, that's right in the
00:27:07.640
Hippocratic Oath. It's, it, medicine is supposed to do the opposite of harm you. And so if you're
00:27:13.360
doing something that is harming you physically, then that's not medical.
00:27:16.020
And then the people who've been harmed use it as a selling point.
00:27:24.340
Now, it's okay, guys. I'm a real woman now. I'm so much weaker and feebler than I used to be.
00:27:29.220
Seriously, seriously, I'm totally debilitated. Look at me. Just like a woman.
00:27:33.220
Now, um, I mean, the, the irony is overwhelming, but ignoring all that for a moment, let's put all
00:27:43.160
that to the side. It is true that Davidson has made himself weaker, has enfeebled himself,
00:27:50.260
uh, with these procedures, but he's still a man and still has advantages. He's still bigger on average
00:27:57.320
than women. He still has the skeletal structure of a man. He still has the heart of a man. He has the
00:28:03.140
lungs of a man. Um, a man's physical advantages over women are not based solely on testosterone.
00:28:10.340
That's only one part of it. His whole body is designed to be stronger and faster. And a man who
00:28:17.360
has transitioned still has his body. And just pointing out that you have disabled yourself
00:28:23.220
in one, in one particular way, as if that makes you a woman, it's like, it's no different than if the
00:28:32.280
guy, uh, cut off one of his legs and then said, well, I'm a woman now. Cause I, I can't, I'm not as
00:28:39.560
fast as I was cause I only have one leg. So it's basically, you know, you know, one legged man is
00:28:44.600
basically a woman. None of this is insulting to women, by the way, not at all. Like that's not the
00:28:50.180
least bit of a man saying that he's a woman now because he's so much weaker than he used to be.
00:28:53.940
That's not insulting. Is it? Um, so he still has a man's body, which means he has many advantages,
00:29:02.480
but all of that is irrelevant also because, uh, and this is, this is why,
00:29:07.440
you know, I think people on the right have made a mistake, uh, on this particular issue by,
00:29:15.040
by focusing so much on the question of physical advantage. And I can see why it, this is a mistake
00:29:22.780
that's easy to make. I mean, I've just been talking about it for, for the last eight minutes, but
00:29:28.020
it's easy to make because the claim they're making about how men don't have an advantage,
00:29:32.420
it's so ridiculous that you can't help, but engage them and say, what are you talking about?
00:29:37.160
That's insane. But I do think it's a, it's a mistake to make that the, the focus of our argument
00:29:46.620
against men competing against women in sports. If we make it all about, well, you have advantages
00:29:51.420
because if that was the only thing, if that's all that mattered was just about the advantages,
00:29:56.420
then yeah, they'd have an argument that, okay, well just give the man enough drugs that he's like
00:30:02.760
a shell of himself physically, and then he won't have the same advantages.
00:30:10.300
But that doesn't work because the primary reason, really the only reason, the only reason that should
00:30:17.860
matter why men don't belong in women's sports is that men are not women. That's it. That's all
00:30:23.320
advantages, no advantages. It doesn't matter that you're just not a woman. You know, you could be
00:30:30.760
the weakest, most pitiful, most out of shape, most physically pathetic man in the world.
00:30:36.680
And you still would not be, should not be allowed to compete against women because you aren't one.
00:30:41.680
And that's all there is to it. Like, I don't care if my 10 year old daughter could beat you in arm
00:30:48.000
wrestling as a man. You, you, you're still a man. You might, you're a pathetic man. You're, you're
00:30:54.540
embarrassing to be around and to look at, but you're still a man. And that's it. That's,
00:31:00.420
that is, that's the end of the, our argument. That's our entire argument, actually. You can
00:31:06.300
summarize it in one sentence. Men shouldn't compete against women because they aren't women.
00:31:11.900
That's it. That, that, that's all there is. And, and maybe you could even make it more specific.
00:31:20.400
Men should not compete against women as women because they aren't women. Now, if you wanted
00:31:29.920
to have some co-ed league, if you wanted to create a co-ed tennis league where men and women are
00:31:36.220
competing against each other, you know, we could debate how valuable that really is or whatever,
00:31:40.000
but that's, that's, you know, there's, there's, there's, there's nothing fundamentally dishonest
00:31:44.300
about that. Uh, it might be kind of pointless and it might be silly, but that's not what's
00:31:52.260
happening here. Like they're not trying to make co-ed leagues. They are effectively doing that,
00:31:56.300
but they're not saying they're doing that. They're making them co-ed while claiming that it's not.
00:32:00.640
And so it's that, it's that the lie, it's the crazy, insane lie at the core of all of this,
00:32:07.840
that is the whole reason we oppose it. Everything else is downstream of that.
00:32:17.320
All right. Kamala Harris is, uh, out on the campaign trail. I want you to listen to this.
00:32:22.900
Uh, I can't even call it an interview, uh, whatever this is, this exchange between Harris
00:32:28.740
and a CNN reporter. Listen, let me ask you one more question. I'm struck just in your presence.
00:32:34.740
The, I was watching you on stage, watching the reactions from the crowd, looking you in the eye
00:32:41.160
with your passion that you were displaying and talking about so many issues. And yet you hear
00:32:48.520
candidates suggesting that a vote for president Biden because of his age is somehow a vote for you.
00:32:55.600
And that is hurled as an insult. It's intended to demonstrate some negative viewpoint towards you.
00:33:04.740
What is your reaction to this thought that with your background in particular, with your career,
00:33:11.940
that there is some thought that you are incapable?
00:33:16.400
Well, I think that, um, most women who have risen in their profession,
00:33:23.240
who are leaders in their profession have had similar experiences. Um, I was the first woman
00:33:29.600
to be elected district attorney. I was the first woman to be elected attorney general in the state
00:33:34.920
of California, and I'm the first woman to be vice president. And I love my job.
00:33:43.860
I'm struck in your presence. She says she is in awe. She practically has tears welling up in her eyes.
00:33:50.500
She's in awe in the presence of Kamala Harris. Um, I mean, you, you cannot
00:33:59.220
overstate just how laughably ridiculous that statement is when applied to Kamala Harris of all
00:34:06.660
people. One of the most unimpressive people in a government filled to the brim with midwits and
00:34:13.660
mediocrities. You're in awe. It's like saying you're, I don't know, you're struck by the beauty
00:34:20.060
and grandeur of a potato. It just doesn't, how can you have that emotion in the presence of that
00:34:26.900
thing? It's like, you're sitting, staring at a potato on the table and sobbing in tears,
00:34:33.380
tears of joy as you stare at the potato. I can't, how do you conjure up those emotions,
00:34:39.220
um, in the presence of something like that? But nevermind all that you, you are a reporter. Uh,
00:34:46.140
you are a journalist. And yet this exchange, it's indistinguishable from like what you might hear a
00:34:50.980
reporter in North Korea say to the Supreme leader of North Korea, the total lack of skepticism, um,
00:35:00.040
of criticism from the media to our political leaders continues to be shameful and disgusting
00:35:07.660
to behold. And I know that we talk about it all the time. Everyone complains about it.
00:35:11.900
So it's, it's nothing new, but it is, uh, it's only getting worse. And honestly,
00:35:16.600
it's a problem on both sides. It it's worse on the left, but you could find it all over the right
00:35:22.720
too. Um, you know, if you're a Republican politician, you know, where you can go and
00:35:27.500
you can't go on CNN, but, um, well, some Republican politicians could even go on CNN and get,
00:35:32.580
and get, and get lavish praise as well. Um, but you know, you, you know, where you can go in
00:35:39.180
media somewhere in Fox news and you can get, you can get, uh, uh, coverage that is almost as
00:35:45.000
fawning as that. How many people in media can you name that we can rely on to hold a politician's
00:35:52.880
feet to the fire, regardless of party or politics? How many, like how many people are in media right
00:35:57.560
now, reporters, journalists who actually not only are willing to, uh, be skeptical of politicians and
00:36:07.520
to hold their feet to the fire and hold them accountable, but like enjoy doing it because
00:36:10.740
that's the thing that, that, that should propel you to get into that line of work in the first
00:36:14.440
place. Should. Of course, it's clear. That's not what's happening. Is there anyone? That's an
00:36:21.860
honest question. Is there anyone you can think of in media who, who, uh, is in a position of
00:36:27.060
interviewing politicians and stuff all the time and covering the news and you could rely on them
00:36:31.860
no matter who the person is. They're going to ask tough questions. There might be a few,
00:36:38.560
but it's, it is a vanishingly small number. Um, and, uh, but this is, this is even worse than
00:36:47.180
usual. And actually what the framing of the questions is kind of funny that we just heard
00:36:51.660
because it sounds almost passive aggressive. It's not because this person really is, this reporter
00:36:59.660
actually is like the president of the Kamala Harris fan club. She's the president and also the only
00:37:05.180
card carrying member, but it does sound passive aggressive, aggressive. You know, she's, she's
00:37:11.400
saying, you know, everybody, everyone in the world apparently thinks that a big argument against Joe
00:37:17.160
Biden is the fact that you're second in line. Why does everyone think that? It's a, it sounds like
00:37:22.480
a passive aggressive kind of argument or question. And of course, Kamala immediately reaches for the
00:37:27.860
sexism card. She says it's because she's a woman when in reality, it's because she's an insufferable,
00:37:33.600
incompetent, phony, fraudulent woman who has never accomplished a single thing in her life on her own
00:37:39.860
merit. That that's the part that people don't like. It's not, it's not the woman part. It's all the
00:37:45.880
stuff that comes before that. It's all the, it's all the additional descriptions that we can apply to
00:37:50.400
you before we get to woman. But she says, because it's a woman, which is of course the expected
00:37:56.480
response. And it seems to me like this kind of self-victimization, the pulling the sexism card
00:38:02.160
stuff, it's becoming more and more common. We talked a few days ago about how Republican women
00:38:07.940
are doing this constantly now. Nikki Haley, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, just in the last like
00:38:12.440
week have had their own moments where they say, I'm only being interrupted because I'm a woman.
00:38:17.700
What? A woman can't speak? So here's another question. We just had that question about,
00:38:22.620
are there any truly honest journalists left? Is there a female politician
00:38:28.560
in existence who will not pull the sexism card when given the chance?
00:38:35.380
Maybe there is. So I'm sincerely asking for an example because there are plenty of black and
00:38:42.680
racial minority politicians on the right anyway, who will specifically repudiate the racism card.
00:38:48.540
Vivek Ramaswamy did it many times. Even somebody like Tim Scott. Now he'll play,
00:38:52.600
the race card sometimes, but on occasion he'll also refute it, I guess, depending on how he's
00:38:57.700
feeling that day. But the whole you're attacking me because I'm a woman thing, I'm genuinely asking,
00:39:04.280
is there a single female politician who doesn't make that move when given the opportunity?
00:39:09.820
Is there a single female politician who, if you ask her, do people doubt you because you're a woman,
00:39:15.060
will respond by saying, what? No, but women are not persecuted in this country. Women are doing fine.
00:39:19.920
Women, in fact, are doing better than men by every available metric. The whole women are being
00:39:26.660
oppressed thing is done. It's over. If you want to make that claim, you have nothing to hang it on.
00:39:33.540
Is there any female politician who will say that? I hope there is. But this stuff is, it's so pervasive
00:39:42.280
now. I don't know. Marsha Blackburn, she's one. I've never heard her play the sexism card. So
00:39:49.240
there's one. We got one. Does she stand alone? I don't know. Okay.
00:39:54.520
Staying on Kamala Harris just for a moment, to quote Willie Brown, she also appeared on The View, where she
00:40:03.440
enjoyed being the smartest person in the room for once, which is a joke that I have just stolen directly
00:40:10.100
from the Babylon Bee, full on plagiarism. But she was on the show and she tried to explain what she thinks
00:40:16.500
is the top concern of parents everywhere. And here's what she says.
00:40:20.980
What they are telling me in state after state is that they are concerned about the future of our country.
00:40:31.100
Many of us often think about the future of our country in the context of our children.
00:40:36.940
And so they talk about their concern that if their daughter is going to college, will she go to a state
00:40:43.600
where she will have access to the health care she might need, including reproductive health?
00:40:48.900
So this is the top concern of parents is that, is quote unquote reproductive health. We know what
00:40:54.320
that means. And that of course is a horrific thing to say, that the top concern of parents is that
00:41:01.680
their kids are able to kill their own kids. And listen, maybe that's true for some parents. Maybe
00:41:08.420
there are some mothers who will say to their college age daughters, hey, you know, you can't go to
00:41:15.540
college there because if you conceive my grandchild there, you will not be able to immediately kill
00:41:21.320
him. I'm sure there are some parents who do say that or words that mean the same thing to their
00:41:29.040
kids, but it is just horrifically, demonically evil. And this is why we can never surrender this
00:41:35.860
issue or de-emphasize it or stop talking about it or any of the things that the cowardly conservatives
00:41:42.380
in our midst wants to want us to do. This is something that some conservatives who are maybe
00:41:47.780
what we would call casual pro-lifers, um, but are not really invested in the movement. This is
00:41:54.560
something they don't understand. And if you're in that category, if you're one of these pro-life
00:42:00.560
casuals who, uh, now have the opinion that, especially as we get into the election season,
00:42:05.460
you know, let's, let's not go too far. Let's not talk about it very much. You know, having a heartbeat
00:42:12.080
bill, it's way too far. We can't do that. And what is with the rest of you conservatives? Why can't
00:42:18.700
you just stop talking about it? Well, what you don't understand is that those of us in this movement,
00:42:24.620
we are here because we have seen what abortion is and we can't unsee it. We can't. And when I say
00:42:32.700
we've, we've seen it, I don't necessarily mean that we have personal experience with it, although
00:42:36.820
there are plenty of post-abortive women who are in the pro-life movement. And I don't necessarily mean
00:42:41.580
that we've seen the victim images of, of what, of what the babies look like after having been killed
00:42:46.820
by abortion. Although most of us have seen those. What I mean is that we have intellectually allowed
00:42:54.480
ourselves to face abortion and see it for what it is, which is the actual killing of human life.
00:43:02.700
So that when we say abortion kills babies, and you say abortion kills babies, we really mean it.
00:43:12.360
Okay. And, and once you do that, once you see it for what it is, you, you can't unsee it. You can't
00:43:19.120
pretend you didn't see it. So once you really say, you really truly say and see and believe that this
00:43:28.760
is the violent destruction of human children, there's no coming back from it. You can't.
00:43:37.300
Because then you have realized that this is the greatest evil being perpetrated in the world today.
00:43:43.080
And you will never be able to convince yourself that the economy or taxes or whatever are more
00:43:50.060
important. You cannot do it. It's not possible. So that, so that is, that's, that's the difference,
00:43:57.220
right? As someone, someone who's really in the pro-life movement and someone who's just casually
00:44:02.700
Republican doesn't really care. The difference between us and you is that on abortion, we basically
00:44:08.500
say the same things, but we believe it. You only pretend to.
00:44:13.560
And, and, and, and so the disconnect between our two factions can be explained that way.
00:44:21.600
Because once you really believe that this is a Holocaust of the unborn that has claimed 60
00:44:28.900
million lives, like the idea that we should move on from it is absurd. It's like, if it wasn't so
00:44:35.200
morbid, you would laugh at it. Move on. What are you talking about? How, to what? What's, what's more
00:44:41.620
important? Um, and you can't, you can't answer that. So that's what we are. Okay. Uh, finally,
00:44:53.360
this weekend, I, uh, happened to see a, a post pop up on my Twitter feed from a guy named Joseph
00:45:01.180
Massey, who's apparently a poet. And I don't know anything about Joseph Massey's work, but I do know
00:45:06.600
that he's a poet who knows how to spot bad poetry, at least, and is willing to call it out when he
00:45:11.580
does. And that already puts him ahead of like 99% of people working in the arts, generally any art
00:45:18.960
today. So Massey posted a poetry sample from a guy named Jason Allen Paisant, who just won the T.S.
00:45:26.160
Elliott award for poetry. And, um, I don't know anything about the T.S. Elliott award, but I do
00:45:31.020
know that it comes with a $25,000 prize and also the prestige of, of winning an honor named after one
00:45:36.800
of the greatest poets of the 20th century. So this is a, uh, this is an award winning poet, right?
00:45:42.880
And, and, uh, uh, 25,000 might not seem like a lot, you know, compared to like what other people
00:45:48.360
and other arts make, but for poet poetry, that's, you know, that's, uh, you might as well have won
00:45:53.060
25 million. So does Jason Allen Paisant deserve to be recognized this way? Well, well, here's the
00:46:00.000
sample of his work that, um, uh, uh, Joseph Massey posted. And this, this is a, this is a piece
00:46:08.860
called, And You. This was written by, again, an award winning poet. So this is like, this guy's at
00:46:15.000
the top of the game for poetry these days. And here's the poem. I will, I will recite it to you.
00:46:22.280
A little poodle runs to show you love. You like the feel of the animal's body on your leg. It's
00:46:29.040
something of an acceptance. So you smile and are not the least bit bothered. You even hope
00:46:34.240
it'll jump. Though the lady yells, no jumping, Sam, no jumping. And when she adds, you know, he
00:46:40.740
just loves everybody. Why should you suddenly feel tears coming? It's just that everybody,
00:46:47.060
how do you explain this? There's nobody to explain it to. Why she needed to take away from you this one
00:46:54.740
feeling of special. How could she know it was the most human moment of your day? The most human
00:47:01.440
moment in weeks. Now, the less discerning listener may be fooled into thinking that that poem is better
00:47:11.040
than it really is because of my beautiful, raw, uh, nuanced performance, which elevated the material.
00:47:17.540
Uh, but if you can look past my unmistakable talents as a slam poet, you'll see that this
00:47:24.420
is just absolute dreck. And, you know, we're, we're, we're looking entirely past the fact that
00:47:30.540
nobody should ever under any circumstance, write the phrase, you like the feel of the animal's body
00:47:35.680
on your leg. Uh, that's, that's weird enough, but even without that one particularly creepy note,
00:47:41.700
the rest is like vapid and empty. It would, it would be a compliment to call it a rudimentary
00:47:47.600
or juvenile poem. It doesn't even meet that standard. I would say because it's not poetry.
00:47:52.520
Okay. I'm not a, I'm not a poetry expert. I admit, but even I know that there are supposed to be
00:47:58.940
form to poetry. You can't just write a run on sentence and then break the lines up randomly
00:48:03.840
and throw in a few arbitrary semicolons and call it a poem. But that's what passes for poetry these days.
00:48:09.200
Like that's, it's the same strategy used by the award-winning, uh, highly touted, you know,
00:48:14.600
most praised poet of our time, Amanda Gorman, who's the, performed at Joe Biden's inauguration.
00:48:20.560
Same exact thing. That's what poetry is now. You just, you write a run on sentence,
00:48:26.640
no rhyme, no form, no rhythm, no substance, none of that matters. Just any sentence at all.
00:48:34.440
And, and, but you break it up rant, like not even in a way that gives it rhythm, but just,
00:48:38.680
just make sure you break up the lines before a sentence ends. And then, and then like,
00:48:44.420
so you have a whole sentence and then the last two words of the sentence are on the line underneath it
00:48:48.060
before you start the next sentence. And then, you know, and you repeat that. And if you do that,
00:48:52.240
that's, that's poetry. That is, it's, that's brilliant. You'll win awards. It's brilliant.
00:48:57.140
People will watch it. And, and it's, it's similar in some ways to what we just said about, about the,
00:49:05.440
uh, the, the trans agenda where like everyone knows no one would see poetry like that and actually
00:49:13.260
think that it's good. You know, that thing with about the poodle, no one is going to hear that and
00:49:18.340
say, well, that, that's amazing. That's the best part. I've never, that's, I mean, that's incredible.
00:49:21.480
That is art. No one thinks that, but the difference is that there are, that, that some
00:49:28.460
people have been convinced, and we find this in all the arts, you know, films, everything, um, music,
00:49:34.440
people have been convinced that they're supposed to pretend that they like it because it will make
00:49:40.920
them seem sophisticated. And so, uh, it all, it all rests on that as the celebration of mediocrity
00:49:50.220
and every facet of life, uh, continues like the bland, the ugly, the insipid, the uninspired,
00:49:56.700
all elevated everywhere you look. But the good news is that it means that any one of us now could be
00:50:02.040
a genius artist if we want to be. Let's get to was Walsh wrong.
00:50:11.180
First comment says, uh, both Matt Walsh and Moms for Liberty missed the most important point. The books
00:50:15.760
aren't being banned. They're just not going to be at school libraries. If parents want those books for
00:50:21.160
their children, they can easily buy them from Amazon and give it to them. Um, I don't think I
00:50:25.740
missed that point. I think I've made that exact point many, many times, but you are exactly right,
00:50:30.280
of course, that, uh, for all the talk of book bans, you know, if you didn't know any better and you
00:50:35.520
heard that there were book bans of you, if you, um, yeah, just climbed out of a cave and you didn't
00:50:40.340
know anything about modern American culture. And the first thing you did was read an article in NBC
00:50:44.040
News about, about the proliferation of book bans, then you would imagine that, that there have been
00:50:50.600
laws passed, uh, saying that all of these books are not allowed to be in publication. They're not
00:50:56.000
allowed to be sold or rented out or, or, or anywhere, because that that's what a book ban means. It means
00:51:00.880
that the thing is banned. It means it's prohibited. Okay. Like if any other area of life, if you hear that
00:51:13.260
thing is banned, that's what it means. But if the banned thing is being given away for free as it is
00:51:22.060
at a library, then it, it's not banned. It's the opposite of banned. Giving something away for free
00:51:28.060
is the opposite of banning it. It's like the exact opposite. So, um, none of these books have been
00:51:34.720
banned. There are no book bans, period. They don't exist. It's not a thing. It's not true. It's totally
00:51:39.320
false. It's a lie. All of these books that are allegedly banned are available anywhere. You can
00:51:44.240
get them on Amazon, you can get them at Barnes and Noble, you can get them at the library. They're
00:51:47.120
everywhere. The only question is which books are in schools. And as I have explained, and I know I
00:51:54.900
said again yesterday, there's only a small selection of books that will be in schools. Most of the books
00:52:02.140
that have ever been written will not be in any particular school. So schools are, are making
00:52:07.160
decisions about what of all the books to put in. Does that mean that they're banning every other
00:52:12.040
book that's not in their library? Of course not. It's just that a school is a particular kind of
00:52:18.560
place and it's, it specifically has kids. And so it's an educational place for kids. And so you're
00:52:24.140
looking for books that are educational for kids. And any book that is not educational for kids
00:52:30.060
is not going to be in your school library, or at least it should not be. It doesn't mean that it's
00:52:33.640
banned. And I think anyone with two brain cells understands that. In DeSantis, we had the best
00:52:41.360
candidate since Teddy Roosevelt on a silver platter, but the demoralized GOP prefers bread and circuses
00:52:45.980
over competent leadership. I will never unite with the MAGA cult and their own geriatric, orange geriatric.
00:52:52.520
My principles and love for God won't allow it. Listen, I agree that in DeSantis, we had,
00:53:00.300
whether he would be the best candidate since Teddy Roosevelt, you know, that, that I'm not sure if I
00:53:07.440
would go that far. Um, but, and especially as a candidate, like in many ways, just as a candidate,
00:53:16.020
you know, he's sort of the opposite of Teddy Roosevelt in certain ways, but, um, but I agree
00:53:21.880
that he would have been, you know, this, this is the, the, the great frustration for a lot of DeSantis
00:53:27.660
supporters. And I appreciate, you know, I've seen some Trump supporters who are not supporting
00:53:33.320
DeSantis in the primaries who've been, uh, who've been gracious, you know, and then I've seen others
00:53:39.420
who have certainly not been gracious and want to rub it in the faces of the DeSantis supporters. But,
00:53:45.340
you know, and if that's the approach you want to take, then you want to be childish and stupid.
00:53:49.100
Then, you know, you're perfectly, uh, you know, it's, you're, you're allowed to be that way if
00:53:54.580
you want to be. Um, it's certainly not constructive at all, but maybe if you want to actually understand
00:54:03.340
why there are DeSantis supporters that feel this way, it's because like they see in Ron DeSantis,
00:54:09.060
same thing I saw, which is that he clearly would be a great president. There's just no,
00:54:13.900
even the people who decided during the campaign that they hate Ron DeSantis, even they, most of
00:54:20.200
them won't deny that. Like obviously would be a great president. He's been a great governor.
00:54:24.800
No one denies that. Even his most fervent haters on the right will still admit that he's been
00:54:31.460
maybe the best governor we've seen in a generation, at least. And so, uh, if you're good in the executive
00:54:39.180
branch in Florida, like all points now it's to be a great president is a, is a tougher task. It's a
00:54:44.380
bigger ask, but all available evidence points to him being a really good president. Um, and so that
00:54:53.940
is the, the, the frustration that people have. And, um, I think it's obviously understandable now
00:55:01.660
with that said on the other end of it, you know, you're saying I'll never unite and, and this and that.
00:55:09.180
Um, okay, well then, then you are going to help Joe Biden get four more years. Like that, that's,
00:55:17.420
that's it. That's what you're going to do. Uh, and if he gets four more years, I'm not gonna say
00:55:22.140
it's going to be entirely because of, of you and your one vote that you have withheld. Um,
00:55:33.360
part of a movement that is helping Biden get elected. Like it, because that's the reality,
00:55:38.660
you know, and I, and I believe at the end of the day in facing reality for what it is. I'm a big
00:55:45.640
believer in that. Uh, we have to, we have to operate within reality and we can be disappointed
00:55:51.880
that the reality is not what we want it to be, but then, but after you have been disappointed
00:55:58.080
and you have, uh, vented your frustrations, okay, but now it's time to face reality for what it is.
00:56:04.440
And the reality is Ron DeSantis is not gonna be president 2024. He's out of the race. It's not
00:56:09.480
going to happen. That's not an option. It's not in the realm of possibility. It's just not
00:56:12.860
the only possibility is that it's going to be Trump or Biden. That's it. That is the reality.
00:56:20.360
And what I hear from this comment is that, uh, you want to live in a fantasy world
00:56:26.940
and, you know, take your ball and go home. And I can never support that
00:56:31.960
because you must realize that like of the two options, obviously Trump is superior to Biden.
00:56:42.860
the four years before Biden clearly much better than the years we've had under Biden.
00:56:52.020
Um, and it's a, so it's a, it's a, it's a simple choice or it should be.
00:56:57.900
Uh, and you say your principles, but I don't see this as principles. I see this as a, as a temper
00:57:02.820
tantrum, you know, and maybe in this exact moment, he just dropped out a couple of days ago.
00:57:07.900
I can be sympathetic with that. You know, I can sympathize with, with feeling emotional about it,
00:57:14.800
but, uh, I hope you come to your senses quickly and start operating actually on principles and not,
00:57:23.860
uh, resentment and emotion, which is what's coming through in your comment.
00:57:28.200
If you're a man listening right now, and the biggest concern on your mind is what to buy
00:57:32.100
for your wife on Valentine's day, your priorities are out of order. In fact, as I've said before,
00:57:37.440
men don't buy Valentine's day gifts in January. I've made this very clear. If you want the truth,
00:57:42.300
uh, men don't buy Valentine's day gifts more than 72 hours before Valentine's day. I've been very clear
00:57:47.520
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00:57:53.360
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00:58:04.540
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00:58:10.160
what happens if you buy it in January. I've already explained this, but still I'm being forced to read
00:58:15.700
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00:58:19.420
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ready to face the consequences. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. A few weeks ago, as you may
00:58:36.700
remember, we were talking about DEI destroying the airline industry and how these forced diversity
00:58:41.200
policies have left us with incompetent pilots, flying planes that had been shoddily assembled.
00:58:45.260
And at the time I said that things are getting so bad so quickly that soon enough, we're going to
00:58:50.540
find ourselves at a point where the passengers will have to inspect the planes themselves before
00:58:54.840
takeoff. Kind of like how you quickly rifle through your bag of fast food as you pull out of the
00:58:58.960
McDonald's drive-thru just to make sure they got the order right. Inevitably, of course, they will
00:59:03.200
have gotten the order wrong in about five different ways, and you'll have to decide if it's worth getting
00:59:06.560
back in line to complain about, and then you'll decide that it's probably not. So you'll just take
00:59:09.640
whatever wrong order they gave you. These are the kinds of decisions you'll one day have to make
00:59:14.400
as an air traveler, I predicted. And by one day, I meant apparently in about 12 days, because the
00:59:21.480
day has finally arrived. Like two weeks after I said it, here we are. From the New York Post,
00:59:27.460
quote, a New York-bound Virgin Atlantic flight was canceled just moments before takeoff last week
00:59:31.880
when an alarmed passenger said he spotted several screws missing from the plane's wing. British
00:59:37.940
traveler Phil Hardy, 41, was on board flight VS-127 at Manchester Airport in the UK on January 15th
00:59:45.320
when he noticed the four missing fasteners during a safety briefing for passengers and decided to alert
00:59:49.840
the cabin crew. Quote, I'm a good flyer, but my partner was not loving the information I was telling
00:59:54.680
her and started to panic, and I was trying to put her mind at rest as much as I could. Hardy told the
00:59:59.940
Kennedy News Agency of the moment he spotted the missing fixings, quote, I thought it was best to
01:00:04.800
mention it to a flight attendant to be on the safe side. Engineers were promptly called out to carry
01:00:09.220
out maintenance checks on the Airbus A330 aircraft before its scheduled takeoff to John F. Kennedy
01:00:15.020
International in New York City, according to a Virgin Atlantic rep. Okay, now the concerned traveler,
01:00:21.300
Hardy, took video of the engineers working on the wing of the plane, which, by the way, is just
01:00:27.780
something you never want to see at all. Like, you don't want to see while you're sitting in the plane
01:00:32.540
anyone fixing the wing, but you especially don't want to see it when it looks like this. Watch.
01:00:55.440
First of all, as a casual viewer who is not at all an expert in aircraft engineering or any other kind
01:01:00.740
of engineering, it did appear to me that he removed the screw from one hole and then screwed it into a
01:01:06.680
different hole. And maybe I'm misinterpreting what we just watched there. Hopefully I am.
01:01:12.040
I must also say that it's rather disturbing to see the guy using a regular Phillips screwdriver.
01:01:16.800
I guess I always assume that they use very powerful, like, industrial-grade electric
01:01:20.720
screwdrivers that you can't even find at Lowe's, you know, to fasten all the screws and bolts on the
01:01:26.720
plane. But watching the guy apparently spreading the screws around because he doesn't have enough
01:01:32.240
and using a regular manual screwdriver that he found in his junk drawer,
01:01:38.480
like, it looks like, he looks like me clumsily trying to assemble a side table from Ikea.
01:01:45.500
And I'm terrible at assembling anything that is not made out of Lego blocks. So it's deeply
01:01:49.980
concerning that I can relate so much to a video of a guy working on the wing of a passenger aircraft.
01:01:54.660
And it gets worse. Here's more from the New York Post, quote,
01:01:58.420
Hardy said airline staff repeatedly reassured him there was no safety issue with the wing,
01:02:02.180
but his fear was heightened given the recent ordeal in which an Alaska Airlines plane
01:02:05.580
lost its door plug and a chunk of its fuselage flew off mid-flight.
01:02:10.200
Both Virgin and Airbus stressed there was no impact to the safety of last week's aircraft,
01:02:13.860
despite the missing fixings. The Virgin representative said the flight ended up being
01:02:18.520
axed to provide time for precautionary additional engineer maintenance checks,
01:02:22.560
which allowed our team the maximum time to complete their inspections. The safety of our
01:02:26.800
customers and crew is always our top priority and it was not compromised at any point. We always work
01:02:31.500
well above industry safety standards and the aircraft is now back in service. This is according to Neil
01:02:36.940
Berth, the Airbus local chief wing engineer for A330 added that the affected panel was a secondary
01:02:44.520
structure used to improve the aerodynamics of the plane.
01:02:51.020
Okay, got it. They canceled the flight and brought a team out to fix it, but there was no problem and
01:02:57.620
nobody's safety was in jeopardy. Makes total sense. Besides, I mean, we didn't even need that panel,
01:03:02.460
you know, the one that was only partially screwed on. We didn't even need it. That panel was lame anyway.
01:03:06.460
That panel? Who needs it? Matter of fact, we don't want that panel. We want it to fly off.
01:03:10.860
It was supposed to become dislodged mid-flight. You see, that was supposed to happen. It was going to be
01:03:15.340
an exciting surprise for the passengers. And now you've ruined it, you party pooper. You dork all worried
01:03:20.960
about the screws. This appears to be the excuse they're going with. Now, prefacing this again with
01:03:28.800
an admission that I am not an airline safety expert, but then again, apparently nobody is anymore.
01:03:32.900
I have to ask, even if the panel was not structurally necessary to keep the plane in the sky,
01:03:38.400
wouldn't it still potentially jeopardize passengers on the plane, not to mention people on the ground,
01:03:44.160
to have a large metal chunk fly off the aircraft when it's 35,000 feet in the sky and traveling 400
01:03:49.660
miles an hour? Like, I don't know. Perhaps I'm just naive. And even something like helping the plane be
01:03:59.460
aerodynamic, isn't that like important? Isn't it? Oh no, that's fine. It's just to make the plane
01:04:06.480
aerodynamic. What happens if the plane is not aerodynamic? Oh, well, you know, it crashes. Oh.
01:04:14.880
So this is where we are. We have officially moved into the phase where you need to check yourself to
01:04:19.100
make sure all the pieces of the plane are screwed on properly. You know, maybe you should actually
01:04:24.440
bring your own screwdriver too, in case the airline can't find theirs. Because I assume they all have
01:04:29.020
one. They only have one screwdriver. Maybe bring a couple rolls of duct tape as well, just in case.
01:04:34.900
Now, look, it's easy to blame the situation on DEI, and we should. There's simply no question
01:04:41.620
we've seen a rapid decline in standards and quality as DEI has taken over every industry.
01:04:46.360
And if you're prioritizing anything but skill and merit in your hiring process, if you're doing
01:04:50.120
anything but trying to get the most competent people, regardless of demographic, then you will
01:04:54.740
end up lowering the standards. It doesn't matter what the DEI apologists say. It doesn't matter
01:04:58.360
what these industries claim. You know, of course, none of them are going to come out and actually
01:05:03.380
admit that they're lowering the bar in order to get more people who are not white males involved.
01:05:07.620
But that's what has to happen to achieve the goal. And it is what is happening. There's no way around
01:05:13.320
it. But it's also true that this problem is bigger than DEI. And you can trace its roots to long before
01:05:20.340
DEI existed as a concept. The diversity police are exacerbating the problem. They're spreading the
01:05:26.420
disease around and making it worse. But the fundamental sickness runs deeper than DEI.
01:05:34.460
Now, as I've been talking about for a long time, a large number of the workers in basically every field
01:05:40.140
that exists do not take pride in their work anymore. I mean, that's what it comes out. Like,
01:05:46.880
the basic effort to do things correctly, just for the sake of doing them correctly,
01:05:56.040
that is becoming a rare mentality. You know, we complain about this in the customer service
01:06:01.600
industry all the time. As a customer, no matter what store or business you're dealing with,
01:06:05.380
it's very hard to find someone who cares about providing you with good service or solving whatever
01:06:11.180
problem you're having. And most of the frustration you experience as a customer is due to the fact
01:06:15.780
that you're dealing with people who just, they just don't care about your problem. It doesn't
01:06:20.640
matter to them. And maybe they'll help you solve it. Maybe they won't, but they don't care. And that's
01:06:27.100
it. You rarely get the sense that any of the customer service representatives you're interacting
01:06:31.060
with are emotionally or mentally invested in the interaction you're having with them or in ensuring
01:06:36.280
a favorable experience for you. And this is why customers everywhere are frustrated all the time,
01:06:41.080
which makes them rude, which makes customer service representatives ruder in turn.
01:06:44.820
And the cycle goes on. But, you know, this is not a dynamic found only in the customer service
01:06:50.340
realm. I would argue that you can find it everywhere, in every field, in the field that I'm in,
01:06:56.560
definitely, in every industry. Like, just ask yourself how often in a given week or month
01:07:02.580
you encounter someone and you think to yourself, wow, this person really takes pride in their craft.
01:07:09.480
This person really cares about their craft. Now, you do run into people like that,
01:07:15.160
but they always stand out like shining diamonds in the rough because most people don't take pride
01:07:21.140
in their craft or really don't have a craft at all. This is the thing underlying the problem that DEI
01:07:27.560
has made significantly worse at every turn. And why does this underlying problem exist? Where is it
01:07:32.160
coming from? Well, that's a whole other conversation entirely. For now, the point is simply that people
01:07:38.500
are demoralized and checked out, which is really annoying when you're trying to order fast food or
01:07:46.020
you're in the checkout line at Walmart. But it's terrifying when you're sitting on an airplane
01:07:50.840
and getting ready for takeoff, which is why the, well, I guess the airline industry is once again
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today canceled. I'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great