Ep. 1303 - Representative Ilhan Omar Must Be Expelled From Congress And Deported
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A United States congresswoman just delivered a speech entirely in a foreign language where she pledged her loyalty and fidelity to a foreign nation. She should be kicked out of office and deported at a minimum, obviously. Also, the Biden campaign is preparing to enlist Taylor Swift to help get out the vote. Climate activists try to desecrate another priceless work of art. This time it s the Mona Lisa. And in our daily cancellation, it s finally time to cancel moon landing deniers. All of that and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Ilhan Omar, a United States congresswoman, just delivered a speech entirely in a foreign language where she pledged her loyalty and fidelity to a foreign nation.
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She should be kicked out of office and deported at a minimum, obviously. We'll talk about that.
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Also, the Biden campaign is preparing to enlist Taylor Swift to help get out the vote.
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Climate activists try to desecrate another priceless work of art. This time it's the Mona Lisa.
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And in our daily cancellation, it's been a long time coming, but it's finally time to cancel moon landing deniers.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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You know, it used to be that when a member of Congress delivered a fiery political speech in an election year, there were a few things you could take for granted.
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For one thing, you could assume that the speech related in some way to the United States and its citizens.
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You could also bet that the people listening to the speech and clapping at all the applause lines were invested in some way in the future of America.
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You might disagree with them or even think their policies are really, really bad for the country.
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But there was never any doubt that American politicians understood that their job was to address America's problems.
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That was the bare minimum that you would expect.
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Now, somewhere along the line, though, our leaders managed to sell the theory that rescuing third world refugees and importing them into the United States would solve a lot of our problems.
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A generation or so later, that lie is the reason that nearly 100,000 residents of the state of Minnesota speak Somali.
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And it's also the reason that Ilhan Omar, instead of being stuck in the single poorest place on the planet, is now a sitting member of Congress.
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Now, whether she really married her brother or committed tax fraud isn't even relevant to the champions of diversity who welcomed her across our borders.
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Neither is the question of whether Ilhan Omar likes this country or anybody living in it.
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Instead, she and many of her constituents were allowed into the United States, supposedly on a theory that they'd assimilate and enrich our quality of life and contribute to our culture and our economy.
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That was never going to be the outcome, though.
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And this weekend, Ilhan Omar made that very clear in the form of a fiery election year speech in a hotel somewhere in Minneapolis.
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Now, this speech had nothing to do with America's interests.
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It was not about Ilhan Omar's plans to improve the life of a single American citizen in Minnesota or otherwise.
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In fact, this speech wasn't even delivered in English.
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Now, I'm going to I'm not going to play large clips of the speech to spare our audio listeners who, for the most part, probably don't speak Somali.
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But for those watching the video podcast, I want to give you just about 45 seconds of this so that you can see some of the subtitles.
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And it is in a foreign language, but the subtitles are the important thing here.
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And my other friends are getting canned something.
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They're all safe and destructive and they're all safe.
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And they're all safe and waterproofing and making those here.
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I must have skipped that class in grade school.
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So I can't vouch for the translation that's been accompanying that clip on social media,
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which you can see if you're watching the video.
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And if you aren't, the gist of the translation is that Ilhan Omar is telling this crowd of
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Somali-Americans that they're all Somalis first and Muslims second, and they need to come
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Now, she doesn't even mention the word American at all.
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Somalis first, Muslims second, and Americans not at all, apparently.
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She goes on to criticize people living in Somaliland, which borders Somalia, and she suggests that
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And then she briefly talks about the recent memorandum of understanding between Somaliland
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and Ethiopia, in which Ethiopia gained access to the sea in exchange for recognizing Somaliland
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Now, you probably never heard about any of this, because it's not relevant to your life
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And the geopolitical disputes between Somali and Ethiopia and this other place that you
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may not have known even existed has no bearing on the United States or its legitimate interests.
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Nonetheless, Ilhan Omar is very invested in this issue, because like a lot of progressives,
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she's a hardcore nationalist when it comes to countries she actually cares about.
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She's not worried if America is overrun with foreigners, but she desperately doesn't want
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Somaliland to have any kind of recognition, because that would undermine Somalia's national
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And therefore, Omar promises to do her best to prevent this agreement with Ethiopia from
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She says that Americans will do whatever Somalians want, presumably because we're so weak and
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And to that end, Omar declares in no uncertain terms that she's working to protect Somali
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interests in Congress as opposed to American interests.
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Quoting from the translation, the U.S. government will do what we Somalians in the U.S. tell them
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That is how we will safeguard the interests of Somalia.
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I'm here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system.
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I'm working day and night to protect your interests.
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Together, we will protect the interests of Somalia.
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Now, it should go without saying that if the translation is even remotely accurate, then
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obviously Ilhan Omar needs to be expelled from Congress and deported immediately, if not
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We are a complete joke of a country if we allow people like this to serve in public office.
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She's openly admitting to working as a foreign agent against America's interests.
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She's openly admitting to have the interests of another country as a priority, as her top
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Now, some of Omar's defenders apparently realized how bad this looks, and they sprang into action.
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So shortly after the translation began circulating on social media, somebody named Colin Robinson
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posted a response to it saying, quote, this interpretation is slanted.
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Omar says she is representing the interests of Somalis in the United States, which is a legitimate task
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So to be clear, this guy is not talking about the translation of Omar's remarks per se, but rather
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And then Ilhan Omar posted a reply to Colin Robinson.
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She said, quote, it's not only slanted, but completely off.
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But I wouldn't expect more from these propagandists.
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No nation state can survive if its states start to get involved in and lease negotiations with
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other countries without the consent of the federal government.
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Somalis in Somalia and in the diaspora are united in that effort, and I stand in solidarity
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No amount of harassment and lies will ever change that.
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You'll notice that nowhere in Omar's reply does she dispute the literal accuracy of any part
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She's instead stating that the interpretation of her remarks is both slanted and completely
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She was as vague as she possibly could have been.
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And that's why last night I asked Omar directly, quote, are you denying the literal accuracy of
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Saying that the interpretation is slanted is not the same as saying the translation is inaccurate.
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Now, you would think that if she was really being misquoted in a great degree, Omar would
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have replied to my question or thousands of other people asking the same question last
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A woman named Rhoda J. Almi, who identified herself as the deputy minister of foreign affairs
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for the Republic of Somaliland, confirmed the accuracy of the translation on social media.
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She wrote, quote, the language she employed was regrettably unbecoming of both the office
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Her use of ethno-racist rhetoric didn't escape attention and left many with a deep sense of
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We hope the House leadership and her caucus will take note of her public conduct unbecoming
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a United States Congresswoman nor representative of the august house she serves in.
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Now, to be fair, this ambassador is hostile to Ilhan Omar.
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So are the various publications in Somaliland that are publicizing her speech, including
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They are not the most impartial sources on this topic because Ilhan Omar doesn't even
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But when I checked a handful of other translations online from various sources, I didn't see anything
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Instead, I heard repeatedly that the initial social media translation was accurate in the
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broad sense, meaning that while the words may or may not be precisely right,
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So none of these details really matter for a simple reason.
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It's not the job of any American citizen to have to decode what a sitting U.S. Congresswoman
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is saying in a political speech in this country.
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So if there's any confusion about the translation or what exactly she said about Somaliland, then
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I mean, for one thing, she shouldn't have delivered a speech about a foreign country in a foreign
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language so that no native English speaker could understand a word she was saying.
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We're so worried these days about inclusion and accessibility.
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We have many laws on the books to enforce these concepts.
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Well, maybe this is another accessibility law that we need now.
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We shouldn't need the law at all, but I guess we do.
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If you are an elected representative of the United States of America, you should not be
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allowed to give speeches in any language but English, because everything you say publicly
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must be accessible and inclusive to American citizens.
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But it's worse than that, because once she made that mistake, she should have immediately
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Instead, she just said that it's off and then ran away.
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And she's repeatedly made dual loyalty accusations of her own in the past, so she should understand
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Instead, she's off giving speeches about her position on Somaliland, which not a single
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American citizen cares about or should care about.
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File this under things that should not need to be said.
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There should not be anyone serving this country in Congress who has any allegiance that comes
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before or even exists on the same level as their allegiance to this country.
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The fact that Omar has created that doubt through her own conduct repeatedly is grounds to kick
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At least one lawmaker is already on board with that.
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Last night, Georgia Congressman Mike Collins wrote, quote,
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It might be time to discuss expelling another member of Congress.
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Because it was just a few weeks ago that George Santos was kicked out of Congress for lying
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a lot and, I don't know, being too sassy or something.
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But there was never any suggestion that George Santos is loyal to some foreign nation or hates
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He never gave a speech in a foreign language about subverting the will of the American people.
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He also never downplayed 9-11 as some people doing something, quote, unquote.
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That question needs to be answered along with questions of why Ilhan Omar was ever in this
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I mean, Somalia is a failed state that exports nothing to the world but piracy and terrorism.
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Somalia as a country contributes nothing, accomplishes nothing, it has achieved nothing.
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You'd have to go back thousands of years to find a time when Somalia had any real significance
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And yet, Omar professes deep pride in it and pledges her undying loyalty to this failed state.
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And that's why, you know, there's an important lesson we could all learn from these Somalians.
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Even Somalians like Ilhan Omar, who don't live in Somalia because her family fled the country
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Still, they have a fierce loyalty to Somalia and they speak about it with love and admiration.
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In fact, a couple of years ago, Ilhan Omar said that she had it better in a refugee camp
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in East Africa than migrant kids do in the U.S.
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When I arrived at the age of eight at the border of Kenya, you know, I was processed and given
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And, you know, throughout those four years, I waited for a process to eventually have a
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And, you know, the conditions I lived in were not acceptable as well, but they certainly
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did not resemble anything like the conditions that kids are living at our border here in
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Now, this is something of a recurring theme for Omar.
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At every opportunity, she goes out of her way to talk up Somalia.
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That same year, for example, she said that Minneapolis is more violent than the refugee
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Of course, that didn't stop her from calling for the dismantling of the police department
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or for the importation of even more Somali gangs.
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That's because she didn't make the comment to improve Minneapolis in any way.
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She made it to degrade Minneapolis using her old homeland as a proxy.
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And what's amusing about Omar's approach is that she's apparently been taking things too
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far, even for the Somalians living in Minneapolis.
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And that's why she was booed at a Somali music festival in her own district back in 2022,
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because apparently they don't like being compared to Minneapolis in any way.
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So it turns out that Somalis living in Minneapolis don't want you to bash America so much that
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you end up indirectly bashing their African homeland in the process.
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No matter how corrupt and dangerous East Africa is, its refugees still have some fondness for
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This is how all people outside of the modern Western world think about and talk about their
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Even if their countries are objectively hell holes, even if they have left their countries
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and come here seeking refuge, they still often prefer the country they left to the one that
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By contrast to our great detriment, we've convinced ourselves that we shouldn't talk about our own
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country this way or have the same level of pride in our own nation.
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A nation that is, by every conceivable metric, vastly superior to Somalia, which is a low bar,
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And that's a point that even the Somalians themselves seem to agree with, which is why
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they can't wait to escape their homeland and adopt this one instead.
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A Somali news outlet called Garraway Online quoted this line from Omar in their article
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Now, this line alone, as translated by a Somali news agency, is enough reason to expel Ilhan
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Omar and send her back where she came from, to deport her from the country.
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So for Ilhan Omar, who's supposed to be representing the United States, our land is not the United
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Now, you'll never hear Omar speak with this kind of fire and passion about the country
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You certainly will never and have never heard her defend our sovereignty.
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Like, when was the last time you ever heard her say anything about American sovereignty?
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If she uses the phrase, our sovereignty, you know automatically she's talking about another
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And yet, the tragic truth is that almost nobody in Congress, even the ones who were born here,
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would talk about America the way that Ilhan Omar talks about Somalia, a country where
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the average yearly income is $600 and the average life expectancy is $55.
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So there's not a whole lot to be proud of when it comes to Somalia, yet Somalians are proud
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Meanwhile, almost none of our representatives have that passion and fire for our country.
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And if they did talk about America that way, declaring that we are one, we're brothers,
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our national sovereignty will not be infringed upon, they'd be condemned as xenophobic and
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Because only non-white people from non-white parts of the world are allowed to say these
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And those from America or Western Europe are supposed to cheer, not for the defense of our
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Now, whatever else Ilhan Omar said specifically in her speech this weekend, it's abundantly clear
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She represents a very prideful, increasingly powerful foreign population that has no regard
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Doesn't even really consider themselves to be Americans.
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And if there's anything encouraging about any of that, if we're looking for any kind of
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silver lining, it's the fact that, you know, Americans could just as easily become zealots
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And if we're able to do that, even for a moment, then we'll know it because people like Ilhan
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We're not going to import people who hate everything about us, as Ilhan Omar clearly does.
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And then when our elected representatives deliver fiery election year speeches, we might be able
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to actually understand them, which is a low bar, admittedly.
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But if they can clear it in Somalia, we should be able to clear it here as well.
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All right, I'm trying to emotionally recover today.
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My Baltimore Ravens choked again in the playoffs.
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They lost the conference championship game, which is actually what I predicted because I'm a
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I tweeted a prediction ahead of the game, and I said that the Chiefs would win 17-10, and
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Of course, technically, what my tweet actually said is that the Ravens would win 38-14, but
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as I explained later, that was actually a typo.
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I meant to say Chiefs 17-10, and that's a bit of a miscommunication there.
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And worst of all, that means that Groundhog Day will keep repeating, and we have two more
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weeks of Taylor Swift, God help us all, which, and a lot more than two weeks, actually, just
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two weeks of the football season, the two weeks of this intersection of Taylor Swift and this
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unholy intersection of Taylor Swift and football.
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But then it will go beyond that, if the Democrats have anything to say about it.
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As Forbes reports this morning, President Joe Biden's campaign is gearing up for November's
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general election by putting former President Donald Trump, the all-but-assured-to-be GOP
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nominee, in its crosshairs and planning a re-election bid dominated by abortion rights with the help
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of influencers and, it hopes, potentially Taylor Swift.
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According to the New York Times, the Biden campaign aims to make attacking Trump a central
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Oh, wow, that's, does that even need to be included, that line?
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You know, the Biden campaign's, Biden campaign plans to attack their political opponent.
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That's, that's, it's a, it's an odd sort of innovative strategy they're going to try out
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Anyway, but they, they, they're going to bring in some people to help with this.
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And, um, one of them is going to be, uh, they hope Taylor Swift.
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The Times reports noting applicants to social media role for the campaign were advised not
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to describe their Taylor Swift strategy, given how many suggestions there've already been
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within the campaign about how to garner her support.
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One of those ideas, which the Times noted was a bit in jest as even to send Biden to a
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Um, and whether they do that or not, which I don't even think that's in jest.
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I mean, they probably will do that or something like it.
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Now you may be wondering how much impact would a Taylor Swift endorsement actually have?
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Well, according to the polls anyway, the answer is a lot, a lot of impact.
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Uh, the Daily Mail reports today, quote, Taylor Swift could heavily influence the way that
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Americans vote in the presidential election, with a fifth of voters saying they're likely
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The pop star's stratospheric influence on popular culture may sway the race to the White
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House, especially as new Gen Z voters join the electorate this year.
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In a poll conducted by Redfield and Wilton Strategies for Newsweek, 18% of voters say they're
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more likely or significantly more likely to vote for a candidate endorsed by Taylor Swift.
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Uh, her sway was more visible with voters under the age of 35, no big surprise there.
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Um, the election will see 8 million new voters in the U.S. electorate, uh, and a total of
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However, 17% said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate backed by Swift, which
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First of all, the 18% figure has to be inaccurate.
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I mean, there's, maybe this is just cope on my part.
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Maybe I'm, I'm saying this for my own sanity so that I can sleep easy at night, but there's
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no way 18% of Americans are going to tie their vote, uh, to a Taylor Swift endorsement.
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That's like 60 million people if you extrapolate out.
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Again, for my own sanity, I cannot believe that it's that high.
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But what we do know is that, uh, the number of, of Swift voters is not zero.
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And now sure, you've got the 17% who say that they'll vote against Taylor Swift, but I'm
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You know, um, a certain portion of the electorate doesn't like Taylor Swift.
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I, I don't think anyone's going to be motivated to go out to the polls to vote against Taylor
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Um, like on election day, you look at the polling data, the exit polls, I don't think
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anyone's going to say, yeah, I'm just here to vote against Taylor Swift.
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I think it is more likely that you'll have, especially young voters, especially young female
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voters who are motivated in large part to go out to the polls because Taylor Swift told
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them to and, and, uh, told them what to do when they get there.
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Well, I think obviously it's just more confirmation of the point that I've been making forever.
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A point that has been proven, uh, time and now it's proven very unpopular, but it's also
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And I think more people are coming around to it, which is that universal voting rights are
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a mistake. Now it's still an unpopular view. Um, not surprisingly, and I'm not saying it's
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a good political strategy to talk about this, but I'm not a politician. So I'm not worried
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about that. I'm just saying what is the only thing I'm interested in is just saying what
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happens to be true and, and, and let the chips fall where they may. So, um, universal
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voting rights, obviously a mistake. And, and like maybe right now we can, but eventually we
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do have to have this conversation because if we don't, it's just the end of the country.
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So we can avoid having an awkward discussion about voting rights and what they really should
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be. And that's fine. We can keep avoiding it, but then it'll just be the end of the
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country. The country's just going to be over. So, um, yeah, that's, those are the choices
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that we have. Um, there's a reason why the people who established this country never intended
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for it to work this way. Uh, not everybody should have an equal say in how the country
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is run. Not everyone is fit to have a say. The sorts of people who would be persuaded to
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vote because Taylor Swift said so don't deserve to have voting rights, obviously. And I don't
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say that ironically or as a joke or whatever, maybe as some people do, uh, it, it, I really
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mean it. I mean, the idea that we have some sort of sacred obligation, which has been written
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in the heaven somewhere to allow the dumbest morons on earth to, to vote our country into
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extinction. I mean, that idea is, it's just, it's ludicrous. It's suicidal. It's a suicidally
00:27:21.420
stupid idea. There's a reason why if you go back through history, you're really not going
00:27:27.580
to find any intelligent person. Go back thousands of years, right? To the, to the, to the dawn
00:27:33.000
of democracy. You're not going to find any intelligent person who thought that democracy
00:27:38.140
should work like this. Nobody thought this. And, um, I'm not saying that now because I'm
00:27:45.060
mad about Taylor Swift. You all know, I've been saying this for years and years and years.
00:27:49.260
And if Taylor Swift tips an election, which she very well may, it will just be the final
00:27:57.060
confirmation of my point. So the fact is very simple here. Not everybody is fit to have a say
00:28:01.700
in, um, how the country is run and who its leaders are. Um, obviously not everybody is
00:28:07.680
fit. And, and the way that you know that is that you wouldn't run anything else like this,
00:28:14.360
right? Would you, you, you wouldn't want anything else to be run like this. A restaurant, um, isn't
00:28:21.880
going to take a poll of the public every month and then decide on what its menu is going to
00:28:26.460
be based on what a majority of people say they want. And, uh, because when you go to a nice
00:28:31.300
restaurant, you don't want a meal that's, that's, that's decided much less prepared based
00:28:37.760
on a democratic vote. Nobody does. Like the democratic restaurant is not one that
00:28:44.240
anyone would go to. Right. And this is the case in all areas of life, all areas. I mean,
00:28:51.600
if I take my car to the mechanic, I don't want him to conduct a random poll of the people sitting
00:28:56.400
in the waiting room to see what fixes they should make to my engine, because it's like
00:29:01.000
it's, it's, they're not going to arrive at the right conclusion just because more people said it.
00:29:07.720
You know, I don't want the mechanic to come in and said, well, here's what we're doing with
00:29:11.360
the engine. Uh, you know, the 15 people, they all agreed. Well, who are the 15 people?
00:29:15.960
But why would they know anything about this? Why should I trust what they're saying?
00:29:20.900
Why would they have a say in this? Um, you wouldn't go to a mechanic that worked that way.
00:29:26.000
You wouldn't go to a doctor that worked that way. Nothing in life works this way or should work
00:29:30.320
this way. My own home doesn't work like this. And hopefully yours doesn't either. When I make a
00:29:34.980
decision, I don't pull my kids and give them all equal weight in the decision. That's a recipe for
00:29:40.280
dysfunction and worse. So in no area of life, do any of us want important decisions to be made
00:29:49.420
based on the majority consensus of a bunch of people who are not remotely qualified to be
00:29:53.400
involved in the first place. And we are in every other area. We all agree on that.
00:29:58.520
And yet our entire country itself is run like that. Um, which is again, something that every great
00:30:06.620
thinker since the dawn of democracy has seen that like, you can't, it just can't work that you can't
00:30:11.640
do it like that. There are different ways of doing it. There are different ways of deciding who it's
00:30:15.320
to vote and who doesn't. But no one thought everybody was like, obviously not everyone can
00:30:21.040
vote. That's crazy. Why? Well, because you've got a bunch of morons who will actually go vote based
00:30:26.920
on what Taylor Swift tells them to do. You just, you can't allow that. If you value your country
00:30:31.820
and the future of your nation that you are living in and that your family and your children live in,
00:30:37.000
you can't just allow that. And the only argument for it is yeah, but it's what they want. Who gives
00:30:41.700
a damn what they want? Are you, is that what we're doing? Just going to watch the collapse and
00:30:47.440
suicide of our country because well, that's what a lot of people wanted. Okay. Well, it's like if
00:30:54.420
you're on a train and there's a majority vote on the train that they want to just, they wanted to go
00:30:58.720
over a cliff. Are you going to sit there like, well, okay, well, you know, that's what everybody
00:31:01.740
wants. I guess, uh, well, all right then. I, I wouldn't want to, I wouldn't want to fringe on
00:31:05.640
the democratic rights of everybody else. Yeah. I got my kids here, but we'll just go over the cliff.
00:31:09.560
Sure. Yeah. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's for democracy after all. It's crazy. It's crazy.
00:31:17.040
Eventually we just, we need to be able to talk about this. We just do. All right. Speaking of crazy,
00:31:22.340
NBC news has this climate activists battled, uh, weekend crowds at the Louvre museum in Paris on Sunday
00:31:28.460
to splash the iconic Mona Lisa with canned soup video shows two women throwing a red liquid at
00:31:34.980
the painting before crossing the wooden barrier, protecting it from crowds. One of the women
00:31:39.080
removes her jacket, um, and to reveal, she's a food sustainability activist. Uh, and so this is
00:31:50.620
their climate activists, but their thing is food sustainability. So they were not able to make,
00:31:56.900
uh, the temperature of the earth, the, the average global temperature go down by throwing paint and
00:32:01.820
soup on paintings. And so now they're going to try, well, we can't do that, but maybe we can make food
00:32:07.020
sustainable by defacing famous paintings. Um, anyway, of course, as always, this is all on video and
00:32:32.840
so this ties directly into the opening monologue um the lack of pride the lack of passion for our
00:33:00.600
heritage and history is uh just disgrace i mean it's so it's the most depressing thing
00:33:09.120
that you can see like the watching a video like that it it should infuriate you it's also
00:33:15.960
deeply deeply depressing um the mona lisa is a 500 year old painting by one of the great masters
00:33:22.580
one of the great uh artistic geniuses in human history and um and we have a lot of of great
00:33:29.960
geniuses in the history of the west and anybody who tries to destroy it or desecrate it should provoke
00:33:38.140
fury and rage now yeah they failed to damage the painting that doesn't matter they tried to damage
00:33:45.920
it and they're using it for a political stunt and so there should be a mob of people with the museum
00:33:51.760
security at the front swarming to tackle these scumbags and drag them out of the museum by their
00:33:57.460
hair and at that point they should be arrested and thrown in prison and instead nothing happens
00:34:03.540
in fact it's worse than nothing that's why i wanted you to see that video because the museum staff
00:34:06.600
it shows up and they put up barriers to block the protesters that's their response is to put up
00:34:13.780
these uh black like curtains and the fact that they have these curtains ready to go
00:34:19.600
means that like that's their policy this is their official strategy rather than dragging these dirt
00:34:27.020
bags out they just stand in front of them it's the most pathetic thing i've ever seen in fact i would
00:34:31.840
rather i wish that the video cut off and i never saw that the curtain thing that's more depressing
00:34:38.820
than if just nobody showed up to stop them at least that i can imagine that maybe if nobody shows up
00:34:43.700
i could just imagine in my head that there's one fat security guard that fell asleep on the job or
00:34:48.440
something uh i don't know i'd prefer that over this which is that they they are ready to respond
00:34:55.780
the museum is and that's their response um and again it ties into the opening monologue like
00:35:03.740
one thing i can tell you for sure that we know you ain't doing this in a muslim country
00:35:07.840
right this this is not happening in a muslim country what do you think happens if you show up
00:35:12.500
at an art museum in saudi arabia with a can of soup to throw in a centuries centuries old piece
00:35:19.700
of art what do you think happens well first of all you're not going to get past security with the
00:35:24.680
can of soup because they're going to see you have a can of soup and they're going to say what do you
00:35:28.260
guess why are you bringing soup into the museum what is that i just want some campbells i thought i'd
00:35:33.860
grab some campbells on the way to go look at some paintings no you're not coming in here with that
00:35:39.580
so that should be very like i don't know how you sneak soup into anywhere um that has any form of
00:35:46.880
security whatsoever but they do um if they're even sneaking it in i i like you know i've never seen
00:35:54.760
the first part and we only we only see the videos you know right before or right after they've
00:36:01.180
desecrated the painting i would i would i would love to see what it looks like when they're like i want
00:36:06.640
to i want to see the whole process starting from when they get out of their cars uh or they're
00:36:11.700
probably not driving cars because they're climate activists or no they probably are because they're
00:36:15.060
climate activists and they're hypocrites but anyway so from when they're like walking up the steps
00:36:18.700
into the museum holding their soups they've got a camera guy ready to go what does that whole
00:36:24.660
scene look like because it's pretty apparent that the security sees this and knows exactly what's
00:36:30.520
going to happen and they make no attempt to stop it whatsoever but if you again if you saudi arabia
00:36:37.400
let's say you did and if you managed managed to sneak the soup in um and then you did exactly that
00:36:43.660
with some iconic piece of art in a you know museum in saudi arabia uh you it would be the last time
00:36:49.980
anybody ever saw you like you would just be done living at that point and that would just be it you're
00:36:54.520
not life is over now you the congratulations that's the end of your life now and we're you will
00:36:59.940
not be living anymore after doing that um and i don't say that in a disapproving way i mean i i like
00:37:05.920
i don't mean in in a um oh those saudi arabians are so barbaric no they have the right idea in this
00:37:10.800
regard uh they take their heritage and history and culture seriously as they should they're not
00:37:15.180
going to prioritize the ego of one individual who wants to have a temper tantrum over their people's
00:37:20.040
culture and heritage nor should they and and that's what this is about like are we going to
00:37:25.480
take our culture seriously or not questions already been answered i mean if we're going to let people
00:37:32.920
uh if we're going to let people mess with the freaking mona lisa okay the most famous piece of
00:37:39.500
artwork ever produced in the history of western civilization or certainly top five in that regard
00:37:47.280
then then it's just it's game over we've chosen suicide we've lost the will to live culturally at
00:37:53.680
that point and the fact this even needs to be explained is uh it tells you everything you need
00:38:00.600
to know need to know i mean i've always said that i would be in favor of using lethal force
00:38:05.260
to protect great pieces of art and and it boggles my mind every time this comes up and i hear from
00:38:12.660
otherwise intelligent people who disagree they disagree with that they say we should not use
00:38:17.640
they say well is is the artwork really worth somebody's life uh yes obviously it is definitely
00:38:26.940
it's worth somebody's life like if the mona lisa didn't have bulletproof glass in front of it
00:38:33.040
and uh which it didn't up until i think to the early 2000s and and um and it didn't have
00:38:40.460
bulletproof glass and if you ran up and tried to throw tomato soup on it and i was standing there
00:38:46.300
with a gun i would not hesitate to kill you i i wouldn't even i wouldn't hesitate in fact i would
00:38:52.320
sleep i would kill you to stop you from doing that and i would sleep like a baby at night i
00:38:55.740
wouldn't even have any remorse over it just no hesitation and i would sleep great it's like i'd
00:39:00.620
sleep better i'd sleep great at night knowing that i protected the mona lisa because the moment
00:39:05.900
you try to damage and desecrate the mona lisa your life becomes less important than the mona lisa
00:39:11.620
itself like if i need to make a choice if you put people in a position where they got to make a choice
00:39:18.440
they can either preserve the most iconic piece of artwork in history and make sure that it's here
00:39:23.940
for humanity for years to come or they can preserve you and make sure that you are here for years to
00:39:30.900
come well like we're taking the painting and and you you've made the choice uh or you've made us
00:39:38.600
make the choice and and you lose that contest every time or you should at least now i know that people
00:39:45.160
will say that uh you know a human life has more value than a painting but that's not necessarily true
00:39:52.360
you know so we're doing a lot of uh hard truth today on the show apparently so uh universal voting
00:39:57.980
rights mistake that's one hard truth uh not every human life is worth more than than than a painting
00:40:03.960
necessarily in every context like it's just not um it it's and when you when the context is that you
00:40:10.420
are a person trying to destroy the piece of art well then you your life is less of a priority
00:40:16.560
than the preservation of the art you're trying to destroy um which this is one of those things
00:40:23.740
why you know i always go back to this but i think it's important point that for almost all of human
00:40:28.520
history this would not even have would not have even been controversial it just would have been
00:40:32.120
intuitively understood of course of course you run in and try to desecrate this great beautiful piece
00:40:37.920
of art that's been here for centuries like of course you should be killed to stop that from happening
00:40:41.560
what again what is there even to think about and you know the thing we have to remember is that is
00:40:47.660
that the painting derives its value from human life right so this is not an inanimate object
00:40:55.680
versus a human life it's not the material itself that we are valuing it's the meaning
00:41:02.960
right of of the art it's it's cultural and historic significance it's the pride and joy that beautiful art
00:41:11.060
brings to people art is one of the things that makes life worth living in the first place
00:41:17.600
and and so the mona lisa and i'm just using that as an example again and again because this is that
00:41:22.300
happens to be the painting they were trying to desecrate uh but the mona lisa has the value
00:41:26.560
that humanity has collectively given it now when i say humanity i really mean specifically western
00:41:32.380
culture it has the value of western culture and and so that's what it is like when you try to
00:41:38.180
destroy the painting it's not you versus the painting it's you versus western culture and is your life
00:41:43.620
worth more than western culture no it's not it's just not and um and we have a right to cultural
00:41:52.300
self-defense we have a right to defend our culture with lethal force which is something that
00:41:58.120
once again every other culture intuitively just down to their bones they viscerally understand this
00:42:07.520
we are the only ones who are confused about some of the most basic common sense
00:42:13.100
uh things that that all come down to self-preservation it's like it's only here in in the modern west
00:42:21.200
we have to spend time debating about do we have a right to preserve ourselves and our sovereignty and
00:42:26.060
our culture should we value these things should we do we have a right to is this right is this okay
00:42:30.900
is this too mean we're the only ones the whole rest of the world is looking at us like what the
00:42:36.660
what what are you debating here exactly i'm not debating anything i don't think there's anything
00:42:42.620
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better sleep starts now so we talked on friday about child labor um and there are some laws in uh
00:44:08.700
we're just going down the list today uh no universal voting rights it's okay to kill people to protect
00:44:15.280
paintings child labor you know we're gonna hit them all um we're gonna throw all the my least popular
00:44:21.300
views into one and then and the daily cancellation is going to keep that trend going in a big way okay
00:44:26.100
so we talked on friday about child labor there um you know there are some laws in florida looking to
00:44:30.780
moderately relax some of the child labor laws uh so that high school kids can uh work longer hours if
00:44:37.000
they want to and despite the way that these laws are reported it's not a law that is like conscripting
00:44:44.940
uh kids into into the workforce or forcing them like forced labor and mcdonald's like that's not
00:44:51.840
it it's just especially high school kids if they want to work longer hours makes more money they can
00:44:56.420
that that's the idea of the law and there was also a viral video of a kid working the cash register
00:45:01.340
burger king and it went viral because people were upset that he was a victim of child labor and i pointed
00:45:07.640
out that the kid was doing a great job that it's not abusive or a violation of human rights to let a
00:45:12.540
14 year old kid 14 or 15 or whatever he is work a cash register like that's perfectly acceptable
00:45:18.360
that's a perfectly acceptable activity for a 14 or 15 year old kid is to stand behind a cash register
00:45:23.620
push buttons and and hand a bag of food to somebody there's nothing about that where any reasonable
00:45:29.180
person should look at that and say well we can't have kids kids kids can't do that no way um
00:45:34.180
although i wasn't sure who took the video of him or why they took it so uh that was my only
00:45:40.020
question about that so let's go to a few comments first one i still don't think kids should work most
00:45:44.280
fast food jobs cashier fine just make sure they know how to handle food without what know not to
00:45:49.380
handle food without washing their hands but there's equipment that could cause serious injuries if not
00:45:53.560
handled correctly not to mention concerns for cross-contamination another comment says school
00:45:58.500
kids should not be working past 10 on a school night nor should they be working full-time lest they
00:46:03.000
fall behind in school the santus just wants to use american kids like employees who use immigrant labor
00:46:08.060
no finally i'm the mom i took the video to mess with him he loves his job it's amazingly polite
00:46:14.620
young man and hard worker thank you for your kind words we know he's going places for sure okay
00:46:19.160
so that explains who took the video um and you should be proud of your son looks like he has a
00:46:24.920
great attitude um is uh doing a fine job and in jobs like that customer service at that you know
00:46:30.800
very entry-level sort of customer service minimum wage type jobs um attitude is really it's the most
00:46:37.040
important thing and you could say that in life but but you know that's that's not necessarily there
00:46:41.140
are many jobs where there are things more important than the attitude you have while you do them
00:46:44.280
but customer service is really like 90 it's just do you have a good attitude and um if you do then
00:46:50.520
you're great at your job and um your son does have a great great attitude now as for the other comments
00:46:56.800
if a 15 or 16 year old kid doesn't know to wash his hands and can't be taught how to use a stove
00:47:06.780
or a deep fryer then that 15 or 16 year old kid has serious issues and probably severe mental delays
00:47:13.980
and i don't say that to be mean i mean i'm saying it 100 seriously but most teenagers should be perfectly
00:47:21.720
capable of doing these kinds of jobs and have been doing them since forever um and if we never expect
00:47:30.460
that of them if we never put them in a position of some responsibility if we never give them any real
00:47:35.780
tasks to complete uh if they're never depended on to do anything then they will likely grow up to be
00:47:42.780
incompetent and irresponsible adults and and you know you increase the likelihood of that happening or at
00:47:50.100
least you increase the likelihood of there being a really difficult learning curve if uh your kid
00:47:55.340
never even has any professional responsibilities any any any work responsibilities until he's already
00:48:01.480
an adult okay like we talked about last week it's just it's crazy that we've got probably millions of
00:48:09.260
young adults who the first job they ever get is when they're already an adult not just already adult
00:48:15.920
like a few years into adulthood and it's their first experience ever doing any kind of work
00:48:22.340
uh that's it's nuts it's just crazy it's a recipe for and it's not good uh for the kids and it's not good
00:48:30.760
for them when they become young adults you know my my oldest daughter is 10 years old and she can
00:48:36.900
function basically independently in the kitchen she uses the oven she uses the stove she chops things with
00:48:42.540
sharp knives like the other day she was in the kitchen walk to the kitchen she was making herself
00:48:46.960
an omelet you know she did a pretty good job she makes a better omelet than i do actually she makes
00:48:50.660
cookies and desserts for the family uh probably too often you know because i'm it's i've probably gained
00:48:55.820
about 13 pounds since she started doing that uh she and her brother made dinner for the for the
00:49:03.240
family on saturday they wanted to make dinner and and she's 10 and she can do all this um and so when i hear
00:49:08.820
people talk about their 15 and 16 year olds and say well i don't think i don't think they can really
00:49:13.280
what my 10 year olds can do this and you're you're high school aged kids can't do these basic things
00:49:21.140
that that is not a reflection of them being kids and it might not be a reflection of them being
00:49:28.820
mentally delayed you know that could be what but it's more than likely actually so it's a reflection
00:49:33.820
of poor parenting on your part like if you can't trust your 15 or 16 year old to make a meal
00:49:38.780
if you can't trust them to you know if you wouldn't want them working in the the kitchen
00:49:43.640
somewhere because you can't trust them well that that's that is a reflect that's you have done a bad
00:49:48.060
job of being a parent um you have not introduced these responsibilities which you already should have
00:49:54.580
like years before that um and uh and finally to the idea that desantis wants to use american kids
00:50:04.800
instead of immigrant labor uh i don't like the word use there okay i would say use i wouldn't that's
00:50:14.240
not the right word but american kids instead of immigrant labor yes like yeah of course of course
00:50:23.380
course we should be giving american kids uh these entry-level minimum wage type jobs instead
00:50:28.660
of a set of people from foreign countries yet another thing that should not be controversial
00:50:33.220
a thousand percent like working behind a cash register at a fast food restaurant first of all
00:50:38.740
it's not supposed to be a career it's not it's not something that that that 28 year olds should
00:50:44.640
be doing in the first place unless they're in management um these are jobs that are that are for
00:50:50.600
teenagers and and yes i would prefer american kids over uh foreigners getting these jobs in america
00:51:00.340
call me crazy america is currently experiencing an unprecedented invasion with millions of illegal
00:51:06.540
immigrants flooding our border uh under the biden administration's watch as texas shoulders the
00:51:11.500
fight against the surge arizona's governor remains eerily silent as biden pursues his perverse agenda ben
00:51:16.920
shapiro traveled to america's southern border to uncover the shocking truth in the real depths of
00:51:21.500
the crisis what he discovered is absolutely shocking and criminal and it's our duty at the daily wire to
00:51:26.360
share the truth that others are unwilling to reveal take a look at invasion on the southern border
00:51:31.200
america is currently experiencing an invasion a lot of people coming in from uzbekistan afghanistan
00:51:37.000
iraq syria is there a fair bit of gang affiliation among all the always these people are just crossing the
00:51:42.280
border illegally waving their hands in the air at our cameras saying hey here i am come get me we're
00:51:46.520
no longer the border patrol we're the welcome patrol the number one site in america for fentanyl
00:51:51.160
trafficking across the border and if joe biden remains in office it's only going to get worse
00:51:55.320
i'm ben shapiro and this is the divided states of biden invasion on the southern border watch now on
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00:52:04.700
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00:52:08.240
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00:52:13.700
let's get to our daily cancellation all right today is a long time coming we're going to cancel
00:52:24.660
moon landing deniers those who subscribe to the theory that the moon landing was fake i am finally
00:52:30.900
addressing the subject on the show because i was provoked and it's very easy to do baited into this
00:52:36.520
conversation over the weekend i happen to mention on twitter that i watched and very much enjoyed
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uh for the second time the movie first man which is um actually what we watched with the older kids
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who really liked it as well uh the excellent biopic about neil armstrong starring ryan gosling
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and uh you know i wasn't trying to start a fight actually i just i like the movie and i and i just
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wanted to say that but this brought out the moon landing deniers perhaps predictably and i responded to
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one of them saying simply that i hate the moon landing conspiracy theory because it's not only
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baseless but it also seeks to undermine the greatest achievement in american history and that post got
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hundreds of responses and much to my chagrin though uh should not have been to my surprise
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the vast majority of the comments were from people who deny that the moon landing exists in fact
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i basically got ratioed on twitter for saying that the moon landing happened that's how bad things
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have gotten now i'd like to think that my twitter comments are not representative of the general
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public but polling says otherwise the most recent survey i've seen conducted in 2019 found that
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only about 60 percent of the public strongly disagrees with the theory that the moon landing
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was fake and that leaves about 40 percent who do not strongly disagree with the theory that the moon
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landing is fake five percent strongly agree with the theory another six or seven percent agree with it
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less strongly and the rest are at least to some degree apparently open to the idea that the moon landing
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never happened and was all set up on a sound stage somewhere in hollywood i guess now the very first
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thing that you should ask yourself when evaluating any conspiracy theory because there are plenty of
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conspiracy theories that have turned out to be true right that doesn't mean that they're all true
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though so reflexively dismissing every conspiracy theory is is very low iq but reflexively believing all of
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them is also low iq and and so we want to be critical thinkers and we want to um take them on a case-by-case
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basis which i think most people do so looking at a conspiracy theory very first thing you should ask
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yourself is how many people would need to be involved for it to work and if the answer is that a relatively
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small number of high-level powerful people would have to be involved then your theory at least has a
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chance of passing the initial smell test but if the answer is that the conspiracy would necessitate
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the close cooperation and secrecy of thousands of people across multiple agencies and institutions
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then you're going to have to meet a very very high evidentiary bar to make your theory even slightly
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credible the one thing we know about human beings in general and human beings in government
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especially is that they are very bad at keeping secrets and the chance of the secret being kept
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drops exponentially as you add more people to it we all understand this i mean you tell one person
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a secret it's very hard to get them to keep it tell 10 people and it's extremely difficult to get
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them to keep it a thousand is basically impossible so what about the fake moon landing well this would
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require the coordination and absolute secrecy of the astronauts who are on these fake missions and also
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everybody at mission control it would also have to either involve everybody at nasa or a portion of
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people at nasa and the latter is even more incredible because that would mean that the secret was being
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kept from a bunch of people at nasa by other people at nasa no matter what that's a very dubious
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proposition but it goes beyond that of course knowledge of this conspiracy would have to go up the ranks in
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government not everybody in the pentagon and white house had to know but some of them would have had to
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know and already we have multiple governmental entities working together on this and keeping the
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secret for decades without a single leak but it's not contained just to government if this was filmed
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on a sound stage then the film crew sound engineers the guys who built the props the studio or company
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that owned whatever sound stage they used and so on all these people would either have to be in on it
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or would have to be involved without knowing that they're in on it which is even less likely so
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now we have multiple government agencies and dozens if not hundreds of bureaucrats all working
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together seamlessly alongside multiple civilians some of whom work in the film industry these are the
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two gossipy least tight-lipped worlds in existence hollywood and government and yet after six decades
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nobody in either world has ever breathed a single word about this ever but it's even more fantastical
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than that you may be aware that the moon landing occurred or was fake supposedly in the middle of the
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cold war and that's largely why it was faked according to the theory but the soviets were
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monitoring our space program just as closely as we were monitoring theirs it's inconceivable that we
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could have planned set up and executed a fake moon landing and pulled this ruse over on the public
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without the soviets being fully aware of what we've done and yet they never accused us of faking the
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landing the soviet union never denied the legitimacy of the landing one time in fact at this point there are
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over 70 space agencies around the globe many of them have their own satellites their own probes and
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telescopes and so on if the most famous space related achievement in history was completely fake
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then it would seem nearly certain that at least some of the people and at least some of those other
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global space agencies would know it or at least suspect it yet no accusations have ever been made by
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anybody who would be in a position to actually know anything about this which means either that many
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dozens or hundreds of conspirators in nasa the white house the pentagon and hollywood were so brilliant
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and devious that they tricked even the soviet spies who were monitoring them along with every other
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global space agency or these other agencies are in on it which brings the conspiracy to thousands of
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people across dozens of countries and six decades now this is all complicated by the fact that
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according to the conspiracy theorists the plot actually wasn't well executed at all according to them
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nasa did a shoddy job of pulling it off made a number of extremely obvious mistakes mistakes that
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that were so boneheaded that a bunch of people on twitter can easily spot them just by a cursory
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glance at the photos so this was a this was a a brilliant scheme but pulled off by the most powerful
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entities in human history that anyone on twitter could look at the photo for five seconds and go but
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that was fake yep totally fake now we'll get to those alleged mistakes in a moment but you see the
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problem here i hope in order for this theory to work the conspiracy would need to be the most
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brilliant and well coordinated and devious hoax of all time and also the dumbest and clumsiest and
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most obvious it would need to be both of those things simultaneously which it can't be and all of this
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means that before we even look at the supposed evidence we already have a fake moon landing that is
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far more complicated and difficult and implausible than actually just landing on the moon we have an
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alternative theory that is by far and away more convoluted and far-fetched than the official
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narrative that it seeks to debunk so occum with his razor is is spinning in his grave right now so
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what is the evidence that can overcome this enormous logical deficit what proof is there that the moon
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landing was fake well let's take a look at the three big pieces of evidence that the deniers offer and
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that has have been all over my mentions on twitter all weekend long so first moon landing deniers point
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to what they consider to be anomalies in the photographs taken on the moon and they point out
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how you can't see any stars in the sky right and you should be able to because they were in space
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they say that the shadows are coming in at weird angles rather than straight and parallel as they should
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be if all the shadows are cast by a single light source which would be the sun they point to the picture
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of the american flag appearing to wave as it stands planted in the lunar surface they say that this
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makes no sense because there wouldn't have been any wind on the moon to cause the flag to wave and
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and finally they say that footage of the lunar module taking off from the moon's surface is clearly fake
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because there wouldn't have been any cameraman left behind to take the footage now of course all of
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these points are very easily explained the flag was not waving there was a horizontal bar at the top of
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the flag so there's a flag pole and then a horizontal bar with the flag unfurling underneath it and you can
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see this in the picture if you look at it uh the stars aren't visible in the sky because they landed during
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the lunar daytime and the moon does have day and night time you might not have known that it does and that's when
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the sun's light reflects brightly off the surface making it so that you can't see the stars in the in in the
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photo and as for the shadows there is absolutely absolutely nothing strange about the fact that
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they come in at different angles go outside on a sunny day and take a picture and you will see exactly
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the same phenomena the uneven surface the angle of the lens the perspective from where you take the
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picture all will cause the shadows to appear that way again anyone could go outside right at this
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very moment and confirm this point yourself and uh how did they get the footage of the lunar module
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taking off well that footage is from apollo 17 not apollo 11 uh they left behind a camera that was
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controlled remotely from earth and the reason why we didn't get that footage until apollo 17 is because
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they tried it on two or three other moon missions and it didn't work because it's sort of difficult
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to pull off a remote controlled selfie on the moon these are the easy common sense accurate
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explanations for what you see in the photographs these explanations make significantly more
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sense than the alternative theory okay if they were going to go through all this trouble to fake the
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pictures why would they neglect to add stars to the sky like wouldn't that be the first thing you do if
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you were faking a picture of outer space why would they pretend the moon has wind like the moon landing
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deniers are the ones who bring up these supposed anomalies in the photos except that their theory
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makes less sense of the anomalies than the story they're trying to refute because the anomalies are not
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anomalies they are very easily explained and there is nothing mysterious or strange about them the
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second bit of evidence presented by moon landing deniers is the existence of something called the
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van allen belt which is a zone surrounding the planet inside the earth's magnetic field that contains
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high levels of radiation and the deniers say that astronauts would be killed if they tried to pass
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through it now this certainly would be a devastating point if it was true but it isn't the van allen belt
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does exist there is radiation but the spacecraft passes through it very quickly it's going very fast
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and that minimizes the radiation exposure and ultimately the amount of radiation they're exposed
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to isn't much more than a couple of chest x-rays uh so it's you know you you can be exposed to
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radiation without being killed uh on the spot it's just if the radiation is is uh mitigated and
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minimized third and perhaps most commonly cited piece of evidence to support moon landing denialism is
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that we haven't gone back um as many people have argued to me over the weekend if we really landed
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on the moon then why haven't we ever gone back well the first answer is that we did we went back five
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additional times so if you deny that we've landed on the moon you are actually claiming six moon hoaxes
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you are saying that this whole vast conspiracy was spun up and planned and executed six times in a row
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so so why didn't we keep going to the moon in reality well how many times do you think we should
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have gone i mean would you find the story more credible if we went 10 times 20 times if you deny
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the first six times will you suddenly believe it if we go another six times like it's completely
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arbitrary well we only went six times how many times should we have gone i don't know 17
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the real reason we stopped going to the moon is that it's expensive and it's complicated and it's
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dangerous now it's not as complicated as pulling off a moon landing hoax six times but it's still
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it's it's complicated uh people died to get the apollo program off the ground space travel is fraught
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with risk and as a country we have lost the will to endure the cost and take the risk it's true that
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you know if you were alive in 1970 you probably would have assumed that by the year 2024 we'd be
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landing humans on the moons of jupiter right by now but just watch any scientific or any science
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fiction film from the 60s and 70s to get an idea of where people thought we'd be by the 2000s
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we didn't get there why well because we lost interest and we slipped into decadence and boredom
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and now to top it all off iq scores are declining and people are generally becoming less competent and
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less skilled in 1970 we were sending rockets to the moon that's true do you know what else we were doing
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we were flying commercial supersonic passenger jets that could make it from new york to london in three
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hours and if you were on one of those jets 50 years ago you would have assumed that by 2024 we'd have
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the technology to go from new york to london in three minutes right instead we went the other way
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the fastest passenger jet today that's operational will get you there in about seven hours okay our
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technology seems to have regressed is that proof that the concord never existed does that mean that
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supersonic air travel was a hoax no it just means that the supersonic air travel was again expensive
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and difficult and cumbersome and it came with extra risks risks one crash of a concord jet which
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eventually happened was all it took and the whole supersonic air travel industry was thrown on the
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scrap pile and that is where it has stayed up until now we did not build off of it we didn't
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continue in that direction we just went backwards it's a sad story it's a story of societal paralysis
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and decay but it is not evidence that one of the most well-documented events in human history never
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happened in fact there is no evidence that the moon landing never happened there is again
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zero evidence of this elaborate cinematic hoax i said that i was responding to their evidence but
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what you may have noticed about their evidence is that it is not evidence what the denialists have is a
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few easily debunked qualms with the generally accepted narrative they have absolutely no positive evidence
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for their own narrative not one single piece of evidence not one witness not one whistleblower with
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direct knowledge of the conspiracy not one photo or video of this hoax being staged nothing they found
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some holes in the moon landing story holes that are totally imaginary it turns out and inside those
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holes they have stuffed this whole story that they invented out of thin air which is a problem because
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the moon landing hoax theory is not just a denial of something that didn't of something that happened
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right i'm not asking that you prove a negative i'm not asking you to prove we never went to the moon
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no no the moon landing hoax is an assertion of an entirely different event that they claim did happen
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and so what i'm saying is where is your evidence that any of that happened you have no evidence
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to indicate that this event occurred none at all zero now the moon landing on the other hand has
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reams and reams and reams of evidence there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of photos and
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videos from the surface interviews with the astronauts who went there footage from other
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lunar probes that have gone to the moon or orbited it there's even a laser reflector that was left on
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the surface you can bounce a laser off of it today this is a real experiment that can be conducted
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right now today to confirm that the reflector was left there now it'll take much more sophisticated
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equipment than the average person has laying around but many people with the equipment have done the
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experiment because it measures measures the distance between the earth and the moon at any
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given time and have confirmed this are they all in on it too is has the conspiracy grown even larger
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now now if all of this is not enough to believe that we landed on the moon then fine but that means
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you also have to deny pretty much every historical event that has ever occurred there is more direct
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evidence of the moon landing than there is of almost any event that happened prior to the mid-20th
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century we have more direct evidence of the moon landing than we do that george washington existed and
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yet if i claim that george washington's existence was a hoax you would expect me to present extremely
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compelling direct positive evidence of the hoax and if i had none at all you would laugh in my face
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and deservedly so skepticism is healthy but flatly denying a historical event in favor of a pet theory
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that has infinitely less evidence to support it than the event you're denying is not skepticism it is
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dogmatism which is the opposite of skepticism and that's why there is no evidence of the moon landing
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that will ever convince the deniers no matter what you show them they can explain it away with some
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totally ad hoc arbitrary wave of the hand photos won't convince them video won't convince them
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firsthand testimony won't convince them eyewitnesses won't convince them lasers bouncing off of freaking
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reflectors planted on the moon's surface won't convince them nothing will they have chosen to
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deny everything ahead of time and in this case what's being denied is one of the greatest achievements
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in human history an achievement claimed by americans for america the history of the west is constantly
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being rewritten by bored spoiled people so as to diminish the accomplishments of our ancestors
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and deny their many incredible contributions to mankind and in the end this is all part of that
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agenda if there's any conspiracy going on here there it is and that is why the moon landing deniers are
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with a great vengeance canceled and i'll do it for the show today thanks for watching thanks for