Ep. 1350 - New CEO of NPR Is Everything Wrong With The News Media
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The new CEO of NPR is a far-left, woke activist who rejects the very concept of truth. And in that way, she illustrates everything that s wrong with the news media today. Also, Joe Biden tells another tall tale, this one about an uncle who was eaten by cannibals. A judge in Indianapolis lets a woman off the hook completely after she confesses to murdering her infant child. And a bunch of grown adults were emotionally devastated by the latest episode of Bluey, which is a show for preschoolers.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the new CEO of NPR is a far-left woke activist who rejects
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the very concept of truth. And in that way, she illustrates everything that's wrong with
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the news media today. Also, Joe Biden tells another tall tale, this one about an uncle
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who was eaten by cannibals. A judge in Indianapolis lets a woman off the hook completely after
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she confesses to murdering her infant child. And a bunch of grown adults were emotionally
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devastated by the latest episode of Bluey, which is a show for preschoolers, by the way.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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If you don't remember Car Talk, it was a radio show that lasted more than three decades on NPR
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until it ended in 2012. And the idea was that people called in with practical questions and
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dilemmas relating to their cars. And then the host dispensed advice, whether it was about car
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maintenance or repair or whatever. And the show no longer exists because the NPR that broadcast that
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show for 35 years no longer exists. The idea of a show that actually addresses people's problems in
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real life based on knowledge of how markets and automobiles or anything else actually works
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has been unthinkable to the management of NPR for quite some time. Shows that cover the news from
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an objective, factual perspective, to the extent that that's possible, are also out of style. And
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instead, for the past decade, NPR has been controlled, like every other media outlet,
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by activists who have devoted themselves to two primary pursuits. The first pursuit
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is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at every conceivable opportunity.
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That's why they run segments on diverse gender representation and dinosaur emojis,
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for example. That's a real NPR thing. And the second pursuit has been shutting down stories that
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are inconvenient for the politicians who are voting to spend your money to finance NPR's operation.
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Infamously, NPR's executive editor, Terrence Samuel, claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal
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wasn't a, quote, real story. He said it was a distraction. And instead of firing Samuel, NPR promoted
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him. American University even invited Samuel to deliver a lecture entitled, How Journalism Can Save
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Itself and Democracy. Now, it's harder to think of a better way to summarize what NPR has become.
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They aren't simply bumbling propagandists. They're also incredibly self-satisfied and narcissistic.
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They believe that they alone can save American democracy. And they think that in order to do
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that, they need to control what kinds of information you can see. It's not that they
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thought that the Hunter Biden laptop story was unvetted or that it was Russian disinformation
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or whatever the excuse was. We always knew that it was factually accurate. But just because
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something is factually accurate, in NPR's eyes, doesn't make it true. According to NPR,
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truth is subjective. Whatever's most expedient politically for them is what is true. And it's
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true because it's politically expedient. For a long time now, this position, which really amounts
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to nihilism, was unstated at NPR, at least publicly. But now it's explicit, thanks to a new CEO and
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president by the name of Catherine Marr, who recently took over at NPR. Marr very clearly does not believe
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that the truth is objective. She also doesn't believe that it's worth trying to find out what the
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truth might actually be. And this is an extraordinary position for the chief executive
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of a publicly funded news organization to have. But that's her perspective. So here's a speech of
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hers that's been making the rounds this week. It's from back when she was running Wikimedia,
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which is mainly known for Wikipedia. Listen to what she says.
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That perhaps for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others
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of the truth might not be the right place to start. In fact, our reverence for the truth
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might be a distraction that's getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.
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Now, that is not to say that the truth doesn't exist, nor is it to say that the truth isn't
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important. Clearly, the search for the truth has led us to do great things, to learn great things.
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But I think if I were to really ask you to think about this, one of the things that we could all
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acknowledge is that part of the reason we have such glorious chronicles to the human experience
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in all forms of culture is because we acknowledge there are many different truths. And so in the
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spirit of that, I'm certain that the truth exists for you and probably for the person sitting next to
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you. But this may not be the same truth. This is because the truth of the matter is very often for many
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people what happens when we merge facts about the world with our beliefs about the world.
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Wow. So profound. And this is what passes for good public speaking these days, by the way. But she
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speaks in a robotic, sing-songy voice that makes it sound like she's a kindergarten teacher lecturing a
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bunch of five-year-olds. She has the tone of someone who believes firmly in the superiority of her
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own intellect, even though what she's saying is so abjectly stupid. She says that truth is subjective
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and that everybody in the room has his or her own truth. But here's the problem, of course. Truth
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exists. There is the truth, objective truth. And truth exists because reality exists. Either something
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is a part of reality or it isn't. When we say that something is true or not, we say it's true. If we're
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saying it's true, what we're saying is it's a part of reality. It's reality.
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reality. So to deny objective truth is to deny reality. And you can't even deny reality without
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asserting a reality, which is the reality that there is no reality. So the relativistic view is
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not only false, but so false as to be incomprehensible if you think about it for more than two seconds.
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Mars' remarks are the same idiot relativism that you can hear from any freshman philosophy student.
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But she goes to great pains to make her take seem, you know, nuanced and innovative.
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She talks in circles and ends up back at just saying there are many different truths.
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And she says this even after acknowledging that the truth exists. Again, those are two contradictory
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ideas, but that doesn't bother Catherine Maher for a second. Like most of our overeducated elite class,
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she's incapable of speaking without a parade of cliches while making tedious and absurd ideas sound
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far more complex than they really are. Also, according to Catherine Maher, we have glorious
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chronicles to the human experience in many different cultures because we have, she says,
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many different truths. But that's actually not what these glorious chronicles show us. Instead,
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they show us that the truth is objective and timeless and eternal. Different cultures and people
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across time have different ways of perceiving the truth, different ways of talking about it and
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accessing it and embracing it or rejecting it. Yes, that's true. But the truth itself remains the
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same. That's what makes the study of history and different cultures throughout history so fascinating.
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It is precisely because all of these different people across time and space lived in the same reality
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and yet had wildly different ways of existing in it and responding to it. So what? So that's the
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difference. There's one truth, but our perception of it can be different. But the truth is the same.
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Now, Catherine Maher, as simple as this is and as easy as it is to understand, you would think.
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She doesn't seem to understand it, or at least she pretends not to.
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She repeats her theory of truth at every possible opportunity. So here's some more footage from a
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conference two years ago. Maher begins by explaining that Galileo was prosecuted for saying that the
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earth and planets revolve around the sun, which is a basically accurate, if wildly oversimplified,
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retelling of that historical episode. Although it doesn't prove what Maher seems to think it does.
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And then she makes an incredible statement. Watch.
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People resisted the evidence not because it wasn't the truth, but because it challenged their models
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of how the world behaved, and in doing so, challenged what they believed about who they were.
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This medieval intellectual wrestling match reminds us of something, which is that truth, by definition,
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is malleable. It changes and is changing. It has as much to do with what we know, what we can know,
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and what we don't know, as what we believe and what we uphold in order to make sense of our own lives.
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No, it doesn't say that. It's perception is malleable. Perception changes, but what is being perceived does not.
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She says the truth, by definition, is malleable. Well, by whose definition exactly?
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You can make the case that postmodernist thinkers and their precursors like Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Rousseau,
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might agree with that statement, but you won't hear that from many traditional thinkers,
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saying that the truth is malleable. So why should we adopt the postmodern belief
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and not the traditional one? There has to be some reason to side with one school of thought and not another.
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And in any event, if truth is merely malleable, if there's no knowable essential structure to what is true,
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to what is real, then definitions themselves don't mean anything. They're just language games.
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There's no significance to any of it or anything else. Everything's just a power struggle.
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And when you get down to it, that's really what Marr is saying.
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She's asserting that the truth is malleable as an act of political will,
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because she doesn't believe in any objectively true definitions.
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She keeps saying over and over again the words, the truth,
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only to make it clear that she has no idea what that is and categorically rejects it anyway.
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And from that very shaky foundation, Marr starts to derive some very shaky corollaries.
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At one point, Marr implies that people don't trust the media anymore,
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not because the media has lied to them, but because people have different mistaken truths
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We are awash in mistruths, in half-truths, in campaigns of disinformation,
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in questions about whether the truth exists at all.
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With our Portuguese hosts here, perhaps as a notable exception, and big props up to Portugal,
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we've seen global distrust and resistance to health guidance
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against the backdrop of this deadly pandemic that we've all been living through.
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Across Western nations, we've seen confidence in the integrity and value of democracy collapse,
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and an accompanying strengthening of autocratic, xenophobic, and nationalist ideologies.
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But hold on. You just said there are different truths.
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Everyone has their own truth. You just said that.
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And now there are mistruths? How could there be a mistruth?
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How could there be something that's not true if we all have our own truth?
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Whatever you're saying is a mistruth. Isn't that just my truth?
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Well, it's another revealing statement that Marr makes without any justification.
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She's implying that democracies aren't or can't be xenophobic or nationalist.
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Greek democracies were very much xenophobic, if that's how you want to put it,
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Really, her only given justification for thinking our traditional conception of truth is inadequate
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and needs to be reworked, is that the truth we have now is the product of a history which is also political.
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History is written by the victors, is one of the many cliches she invokes throughout her speeches.
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And she says that that excludes various potential sources of knowledge,
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like indigenous perspectives and practices, or women with their emotional intelligence.
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But that's not incompatible with the reality that the truth is real and is universal,
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and many aspects of it have been uniquely uncovered by Western thought and science and technology.
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Even if you bought into Marr's talking points about a plurality of perspectives being better than one alone
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for getting at the truth, the fact remains that it took 2,000 years of Western, Eurocentric,
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supposedly white supremacist, heteronormative, misogynistic history
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for us to reach the point at which these minor tail-end improvements she's suggesting could be made.
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It took 2,000 years of history to create the civilization that Marr is now critiquing.
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And if she thinks that this new approach will cause some kind of scientific revolution, it won't.
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The more likely outcome is that it will destroy the civilization that was built over those thousands of years,
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This is the essence of what we call wokeness, by the way.
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The left likes to put conservatives on the spot by demanding a definition of woke.
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When boiled down to its most fundamental part, that's what it is.
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As for Marr, it's tempting to dismiss all this footage as the ramblings of a single woman
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who has no idea what she's talking about, but it's a bit more significant than that.
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Marr was selected to lead NPR after an allegedly careful vetting process.
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There's no way that NPR didn't scrutinize her beliefs, which Marr has expressed many times over the last few years
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in public social media posts, numerous speeches, and so on.
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Now, on Twitter, Chris Ruffeau has exposed some of the more deranged posts from this woman.
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There are really too many to mention, but suffice it to say,
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she's like a woke AI bot that churns out the least original woke liberal woman talking points
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She called Donald Trump a racist and cried with joy when Biden took office, of course.
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She wrote that she once dreamed of going on a road trip with Kamala Harris eating nuts and baklava.
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She expresses her happiness when she logged into a public Wi-Fi at a COVID clinic,
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and the password was he, she, they, because it recognized the lived experience of non-binary patients.
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At one point, she apologized for using the phrase people who identify as women
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She writes about the importance of transit justice and vegetarian thanksgiving.
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She rants about the male gaze and late-stage capitalism,
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Chris Ruffeau's feed has categorized many of them.
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And to burnish her intellectual credentials even further,
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Marr even sat on a panel with Lizzo at a TED conference where tickets cost more than $10,000,
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because that's that late-stage capitalism we always hear about.
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The Black History of Twerking and How It Taught Me Self-Love.
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In a video posted by the Atlantic Council and unearthed by Ruffeau,
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Marr explains that the First Amendment, which you'd think journalists would support
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since it's the one thing keeping journalists out of prison,
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but she says it's not a sacred constitutional principle.
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Instead, she says it's a challenge to be overcome.
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The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States
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And that is a protection of rights both for platforms,
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which I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights
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to be able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites.
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But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges
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and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.
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You know, the only people who view the First Amendment as a challenge
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are government censors who want to shut down any dissent by force.
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And now that she's running a state-funded media outlet, that's exactly what Marr is.
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And to that end, she no longer believes in transparency.
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The irony is that when she was running Wikimedia, Marr kept talking about the importance of
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showing people everything that's going on inside the company.
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Every edit on Wikipedia, she said, is public for a reason.
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Disclosure is sometimes painful, she said, but it's necessary.
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But apparently this is one of the malleable truths that she has decided to discard.
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Because as you probably heard, she just forced out an NPR whistleblower
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who wrote a damning column in the free press about the organization's corruption
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And she suspended this 25-year veteran of NPR without pay
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because he pointed out that the organization is now completely one-sided,
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Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter registration for our newsroom.
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In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live,
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I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans.
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Now, that's the kind of transparency that the new NPR CEO appreciates,
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She's happy to talk about how NPR employs too many white men,
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but she definitely doesn't want to talk about political bias,
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It used to be that NPR at least pretended to be embarrassed about this sort of thing.
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resigned after a Project Veritas thing exposed what she thought about the conservatives
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And to summarize, there's a whole video you can watch,
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but just to summarize, she didn't like them, as maybe you would expect.
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And Schiller had to resign once her views came to light.
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Because back then, NPR believed that the appearance of fairness
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But that was back at the tail end of the car talk era of NPR.
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Now they believe their CEO can categorically reject the idea
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that there's any truth to report on in the first place.
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This is a belief system that's now very much in vogue
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It's a big reason for the rise of transgenderism, COVID hysteria,
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all the media's lying we had to endure under the previous administration.
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This is the belief system that insists that men can become women
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because the meaning of the words men and women are subjective.
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And it's a belief system, the belief that rejects truth
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is a belief system that will spell the end of Western civilization
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That is, of course, the point of everything that Mar and her,
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In the absence of truth, there's only a struggle for power.
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And right now, though hopefully not for very much longer,
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it's people like Catherine Marr who have that power.
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He was in Pennsylvania yesterday where he addressed reporters
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well, that's what Biden's uncle gets for visiting Haiti.
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But this actually didn't happen in Haiti, surprisingly, and allegedly.
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So here's the full story as Joe Biden tells it.
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When we called him Uncle Bozy, he was shot down.
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He was in the Army Air Corps before there was an air force.
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He flew single-engine planes to reconnaissance flights over New Guinea.
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He had volunteered because someone couldn't make it.
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He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time.
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They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there
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and they checked and found some parts of the plane and the like.
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So he was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea, which, you know, that's a tough break.
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Who among us doesn't have a relative who, at least one relative,
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I personally lost two uncles and three cousins that way.
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Now, needless to say, of course, Biden is lying here.
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The military says that his uncle was shot down over the Pacific, like the ocean, and died that way in the ocean.
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There's no record of any Biden family member ever being consumed by cannibals at any point.
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And it's a shame because I have to say, you know, Biden is useless in almost every respect, worse than useless, in fact.
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He's pretty good at making up these kinds of stories.
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He has a lot of great stories, and like so many great stories told by elderly men, you know, they are all at least somewhat dubious.
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But, you know, that's what a man his age should be doing.
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It's just like telling stories, and you never know.
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There's maybe a grain of, like there's a kernel of truth to some of it.
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He should be sitting on a rocking chair on his front porch spinning yarns, you know, for his grandchildren.
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That's, you know, hey, kids, did you hear about the time that my great-grandfather was captured by pirates or whatever?
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Like, this is what he should be doing, telling stories while rocking on his rocking chair, waddling around the house, whatever.
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And instead, he's the leader of the most powerful country in the world.
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An Indianapolis mother is found not guilty after being accused of neglect, resulting in the death of her two-month-old daughter.
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Inside a home on Burton Avenue in August 2022, police found a two-month-old girl unresponsive.
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The newborn child, identified as Alona Lacey, died on the scene.
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Five months later, in January 2023, the girl's mother, Dasha Lacey, was charged with causing her child's death.
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Before announcing his verdict, Judge Mark Stoner told the suspect she was a bad parent and she was not innocent.
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The judge believed she was guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but because she wasn't charged with that crime, he instead found her not guilty of neglect, resulting in death.
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Court records show that the mother gave a lengthy confession in which she tearfully admitted she smothered her daughter in the couch cushions because she was high on meth and wanted the child to stop crying and be quiet so she could get some sleep.
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At the end of her trial, Judge Stoner chastised Lacey, saying her actions were reckless.
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Stoner, though, insisted prosecutors didn't prove that she intentionally harmed her daughter.
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Stoner told prosecutors that they charged the suspect with the wrong crime.
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Not just the crime itself, which is obviously heinous, but the fact that she was found not guilty, it sounds bad.
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The woman killed her infant child, admitted it, said what the reason was, not that there could possibly be a justifiable reason, obviously, but the reason is she was annoyed that the child was crying, and yet she's found not guilty by the judge.
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Well, wait until you hear what the judge said to the woman as he was releasing her back out into society.
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Because as bad as it sounds, it's even worse than you think.
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Court accordingly enters judgment of not guilty, reluctantly.
00:25:47.300
I do hope that you all take the opportunity to get the counseling that you need, to get the counseling for the children that you need.
00:25:57.800
I do hope that you learn from this behavior, and hopefully the rest of the community learns from this behavior, that you cannot go out and party on the weekend and be with children.
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The play may not have been a safe place to put...
00:26:14.580
Toxicology report did show meth in Dacia Lacey's system, but Judge Mark Stoner said if she had been charged with reckless homicide or involuntary manslaughter, he could have found her guilty.
00:26:26.740
But she's not guilty of neglect of a dependent resulting in death.
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I hope you learn from this behavior, young lady.
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Me and your mother are very disappointed in you.
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You do it again, you're going to go to your room without supper.
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I mean, this judge is scolding this woman like he's a disappointed father talking to a mischievous five-year-old.
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That's the behavior you want her to learn from?
00:27:07.880
Then even worse, he says, I hope the community learns from it.
00:27:17.760
I mean, as cynical as I am, as little faith as I have in the criminal justice system, if you played me just the judge's speech to the woman without context, and then you told me what crime she committed, I would not believe you.
00:27:40.360
I mean, surely, surely, this woman was arrested for, like, vandalizing someone's mailbox or something.
00:27:54.760
I wish the truth was malleable, as Catherine Marr of NPR says.
00:28:01.480
Certainly, my truth would be that this doesn't happen.
00:28:10.000
And, you know, there's only one point I want to make here.
00:28:13.000
Only point that I think it's necessary to make.
00:28:14.940
Because I don't need to explain, I think, why this is insane.
00:28:19.500
Why this woman deserves the death penalty for her crime.
00:28:22.540
And why this judge deserves, you know, things that I...
00:28:35.080
So here's the only point that I do want to make.
00:28:37.380
Which is, please do not go around saying that this judge is soft.
00:28:45.220
That he's a bleeding heart liberal or whatever.
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That judge is a hard-hearted, callous, cruel, absolutely monstrous, despotic tyrant is what he is.
00:29:02.840
It is not an overabundance of compassion for the woman that brings him to that conclusion.
00:29:10.480
And even if it was, it still would not be, of course, justified.
00:29:15.520
But what motivates it is his utter and complete disregard for the victim.
00:29:21.560
It is his total lack of compassion for the victim.
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His lack of compassion both for the current victim and for future victims.
00:29:42.720
She's almost certainly going to go out and have another child.
00:29:46.140
Um, so what happens when the new baby makes the mistake of crying as all babies do?
00:29:56.100
That child was not this ghoulish woman's last victim.
00:30:07.860
He, he is the most callous, most cruel monster that we have seen sitting at the bench, uh,
00:30:17.260
You know, a, a sensitive, loving person would throw this woman in prison for as long as they
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That's what you do if you have any love in your heart at all, any compassion for past
00:30:28.920
and future victims, uh, for the innocence, the innocent people, that's, that's what you
00:30:35.380
And, and those are the people that these judges and the court system and the judicial system
00:30:39.640
generally is supposed to be protecting, protecting society, protecting innocent people.
00:30:46.580
And the reason he doesn't do it is because he just doesn't care.
00:30:49.100
That's an absolute sociopath, um, who will release this murderous monster out into society.
00:31:03.180
And when that woman does go on to kill someone else, he won't have a, he won't have a moment
00:31:14.480
Here's a video posted by libs of TikTok with this caption.
00:31:17.160
The caption is, uh, this extremely bizarre video was shown to fourth graders at Bramlett
00:31:22.540
It depicts a dog who thinks he's a cat to promote LGBTQ inclusivity and acceptance.
00:31:27.000
This is what they're teaching to your kids in school.
00:31:30.780
The school did not respond to our request for comment.
00:31:33.020
So this is, uh, apparently according to libs of TikTok, this was a video that is, uh,
00:31:37.500
shown at least to one group of, uh, of, of public school students.
00:32:14.200
Yeah, or, uh, I like to clean my paws, like this.
00:32:22.380
Or, or, or we could practice purring, like this.
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He's over there, talking about yarn, purring, woof, and licking.
00:33:37.000
Gulliver, accepting people for who they are is a very important skill.
00:34:06.500
And the thing that makes it remarkable is that the video wants to be pro-trans propaganda.
00:34:12.700
That's very, that's quite, quite explicitly the intention.
00:34:17.560
But accidentally, it proves the, it disproves the point it's trying to make.
00:34:22.960
Okay, it's, it's, it proves the point it's trying to disprove and disproves the point that
00:34:31.180
I could take this exact video and make no changes to it.
00:34:33.960
I might swap out the actress there because the acting was a little bit subpar.
00:34:36.860
So I might, that's the only change I make is I'd put in a different, I'd recast the role
00:34:42.260
And, but everything else would be exactly the same.
00:34:44.520
And I could use it as a teaching tool to show why trans ideology is false.
00:34:48.800
And it works much better as an argument against trans ideology than it does as an argument
00:34:57.540
Well, because in that little skit with the puppets, the dog identifies as a cat, but is
00:35:05.080
That's, it's, it's not like he's a, he is a cat, but the other dog is too bigoted and so
00:35:10.320
can't see his true cat nature or something like that.
00:35:14.140
No, this is a, this, or, or it's not like a cat walks up and the dog wants the cat to
00:35:19.460
And so tries to put him in this box of like, that's not what's happening.
00:35:23.460
This is a dog in, in the story that they have chosen to tell.
00:35:28.080
This is a dog who thinks he's a cat, but isn't.
00:35:31.820
In fact, they've even, they've added in details again that like, I, it's almost a little subtle
00:35:38.200
details that, that would make it a pretty smart, you know, metaphor to disprove trans ideology.
00:35:47.620
So they, they have him imitating a cat in ways that are not very convincing.
00:35:52.780
So like he tries to do the meow, but it's supposed to be funny because the meow comes
00:36:00.020
So, which, which is a good metaphor for when, when, when men try to imitate women is that
00:36:07.480
they, they, they do it in this kind of, you know, they, they know some of the behaviors
00:36:11.460
and some of the mannerisms they're supposed to be aping and they try to do it.
00:36:14.320
But even in their way of trying, they try to be women in ways that only a man would.
00:36:21.220
So they, they, they're, they're, they're fact that they're actually men comes out in
00:36:27.780
And so even that seems to be like, I don't even know from the perspective of a pro trans
00:36:35.960
Why would you have the little detail where he meows, but he still sounds like a dog?
00:36:39.120
Unless you're trying to make our point, I don't even know what, how does that in your
00:36:44.540
own mind, how do you think that proves your point?
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Kids learn from this, that trans people are confused, that a trans person, a man who says
00:36:58.980
he's a woman is just like a dog who says he's a cat.
00:37:06.180
Well, because he likes yarn and, uh, and, and he likes to purr or whatever, like things
00:37:11.720
like that, that of course, okay, well maybe you'll have some dogs that are a little eccentric
00:37:15.640
and do enjoy things that, uh, that usually cats enjoy, but it's still a dog.
00:37:28.100
This is the plot of Johnny, the walrus is just, we've, it's with puppets and we've made
00:37:31.700
it dogs instead of humans, but it's essentially that this is, this is the, the, the point I
00:37:37.240
was making in Johnny, the walrus with my children's book, my of course, renowned, critically
00:37:41.060
acclaimed children's book, uh, bestselling children's book is, is what they've done with
00:37:46.300
So that's how, that's how absurd, uh, trans ideology is and how, how incoherent it is that
00:37:54.420
you can't even propagandize for it effectively without accidentally making the opposite point.
00:38:01.440
It's, it's not pot, like whatever you do, whatever, and you especially, you, you especially
00:38:08.400
This is, by the way, this is a good, it's a good indication that your point is wrong.
00:38:11.800
If you can't come up with any analogy that actually works, because any analogy that they
00:38:17.240
try to reach for to express, uh, their, you know, transgenderism or trans ideology, whatever
00:38:25.700
analogy they choose, it always ends up just communicating the message that, oh yeah, well,
00:38:31.260
a trans person is just someone who's claiming to be something that they aren't someone who's
00:38:35.680
Now on the other end of it, those of us who are on team sanity and are opposed to trans
00:38:40.800
ideology, uh, we have a never ending supply of analogies and this one works too, but you
00:38:46.160
know, it's, it's, it's ample, anything, anything in the world you could, you could pull from
00:38:51.420
for an analogy to, uh, to illustrate your point.
00:38:56.560
But with, with transgenderism, if you're pro trans, there's really nothing, whatever analogy
00:39:01.740
you go for, whatever you reach for is going to end up, uh, again, proving the point that you are
00:39:16.460
Uh, New York post finally has this report that nobody's going to care about, but I'm going
00:39:26.460
Another special cosmic event is to occur this year and it would be a once in a lifetime viewing
00:39:30.900
According to NASA, it's a Nova explosion located in a star system, 3000 light years away from
00:39:36.280
And astronomers predict that it will be visible to the unaided eye sometime in 2024.
00:39:41.020
So we already had the, uh, we had the, the eclipse and now we're going to have this.
00:39:44.700
Bill Cook says, unfortunately we don't know the timing of this as well as we know the eclipse,
00:39:48.680
but when it happens, it'll be something you'll remember.
00:39:50.820
The, uh, T. Corinea Borealis, oh, Corinea Borealis, nicknamed the blaze star is one of
00:39:58.520
A typical nova consists of a star, like a red giant, a star bigger than the sun and a white dwarf,
00:40:06.080
And that red giant is dumping material on the surface of the white dwarf, and they're
00:40:13.880
When enough material is dumped on the surface of the white dwarf, the temperature gets so
00:40:17.200
hot that it starts a thermonuclear runway on the surface of that white dwarf.
00:40:21.440
And then there's an explosion, which apparently happens every 79 years or so.
00:40:27.520
And what makes it so mind blowing, you know, as we always have to remember is that this,
00:40:31.260
this star explosion actually occurred because it's 3,000 light years away and it's going
00:40:41.820
And so when you view this event in the night sky, you'll be gazing back in time 3,000 years.
00:40:48.240
So this is something that this happened a thousand years before the birth of Christ.
00:40:51.400
This happened, uh, uh, uh, you know, 1100 years before the first Mayan pyramid was built
00:40:58.220
and 500 years after the last Egyptian pyramid was built.
00:41:04.020
You're traveling back in time to witness an event from history.
00:41:08.340
And this is something you can actually do without getting in time machine.
00:41:10.580
You can just go outside and look and you can see it.
00:41:14.180
And you think about the scale of an event like this, when we, when we, if we can see it
00:41:18.240
from 3,000 light years away, uh, so there's 6 trillion miles in a light year.
00:41:23.300
So 3,000 times 6 trillion, do the math on that.
00:41:26.460
So that's, that's, uh, you know, 18, uh, quadrillion miles or whatever it is.
00:41:32.640
And the fact that we can see something that far away is staggering.
00:41:39.280
And of course we can see stars every night in the sky that are farther away than that.
00:41:48.640
And it's also why there's no excuse to ever be bored.
00:41:54.820
Like you have to be a child or, or stupid, uh, to be bored.
00:42:00.820
How can you be bored when there are mind boggling realities like this to contemplate?
00:42:07.320
Like how can you not fascinate yourself just with, with your own reflections about the,
00:42:12.640
uh, the, the, the immensity of the universe and the mystery of it.
00:42:18.280
I give the same speech to my kids all the time.
00:42:22.960
You can go outside at night and look up at the sky and see things that are trillions
00:42:26.100
of miles away and you're bored that you're bored.
00:42:31.100
Especially again, if you're an adult, one thing for children, but adults should never
00:42:35.040
be bored because reality is far too fascinating and exciting to, uh, justify boredom.
00:42:43.800
In fact, a lot of people are bored right now at this very moment, listening to me drone
00:42:48.080
But if that's the case, uh, then, uh, then shame on you.
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So there's been some conversation about the show Bluey this week.
00:44:59.860
It began with reports that Bluey had gone woke, one of the last holdouts, one of the
00:45:06.000
One of the very few to stave off the woke virus had finally succumbed to the contagion.
00:45:11.420
It was helped along by various leftists on Twitter and TikTok who were anxious to believe
00:45:16.880
It all stems from one brief scene in the most recent episode, which is apparently the season
00:45:20.880
finale, where a character is supposedly revealed to have two moms.
00:45:28.920
Bluey has officially confirmed their first LGBTQ plus character or characters, should I say,
00:45:36.460
Now I must admit, this is kind of like a blink and you'll miss it sort of moment because I
00:45:40.440
know when I first watched the episode, I missed it.
00:45:42.800
It wasn't until I went back and watched it with subtitles and then actually listened that I noticed
00:45:48.520
They're two lesbian moms and they are the moms of Pretzel.
00:45:52.020
So if you go all the way back into the Calypso scene, when Pretzel is talking about his guinea
00:45:58.960
And the subtitles also have it as moms as well, confirming that, yeah, he has two moms and
00:46:04.280
that's our first real actual like gay couple or lesbian couple, LGBTQ plus couple that we've
00:46:12.480
I think it was a really nice and organic way to do it.
00:46:15.160
It is one of those like really subtle ones that I feel like a lot of people will miss.
00:46:18.080
But in general, I thought they handled it really well and it was just a natural way to be like,
00:46:22.040
yeah, some people have two moms and that's just part of real life.
00:46:26.880
Let me know in that comment section down below.
00:46:28.340
Did you notice that he said moms the first time you watched it or did you need to rewatch
00:46:32.340
it to see it or did you not know until you saw this video?
00:46:34.720
And also what other kind of families do you want to see in the future in Bluey?
00:46:37.940
Because yes, there will be a future and we do have one more episode to come in this season.
00:46:44.680
Now, there's some disagreement about whether the show really intended to convey that the
00:46:52.760
Some have insisted that this was meant in the way that people say pops, like just kind
00:46:59.380
I don't know if people say mums to refer to one mom in Australia.
00:47:04.420
They have all kinds of weird words they use down there.
00:47:07.040
Or maybe the character didn't really say moms at all.
00:47:11.300
Or maybe, and this unfortunately is probably the most likely scenario, is maybe it's precisely
00:47:15.600
what it sounds like, that they are introducing a character with two moms, in which case my
00:47:24.440
But they'll say, well, but some people have two moms.
00:47:29.320
The problem with that argument is that, no, it's not part of life.
00:47:33.400
Nobody on the planet has two moms, or has ever had two moms, or will ever have two moms
00:47:41.460
A child's mom might be shacking up with some other woman, but that other woman is not the
00:47:46.580
A kid show that goes along with the fiction that children can have two moms is a kid show
00:47:52.460
that is trying to confuse kids and indoctrinate them into an ideology that doesn't represent
00:48:00.220
And if Bluey has gone down this road, I'm sure that will be obvious in the coming episodes.
00:48:05.560
Because once a kid show crosses the woke threshold, as we've seen, it's not long before they have
00:48:10.760
episodes featuring drag queens and gay pride parades, which is what happened with that other
00:48:16.880
But let's put the wokeness question to the side for a moment, because there was more
00:48:23.160
Bluey also trended this week as legions of adults gushed over the season finale, and not
00:48:29.600
because of the possible lesbian mom reference, but because the episode itself touched them
00:48:34.780
They said that it was affecting and moving and emotional and devastating and profound.
00:48:39.400
These are grown adults, I remind you, discussing a cartoon show for small children.
00:48:43.560
Here's the USA Today headline, quote, parents are sobbing over Bluey episode, The Sign.
00:48:49.520
Here's what to know about the poignant season three finale and what may be ahead for Bluey.
00:48:54.300
According to USA Today, the plot of the episode revolves around the father dog, Bandit, getting
00:48:58.900
a new job that requires the family to move to a new town.
00:49:01.560
And Bluey doesn't want to move, and neither does her mom.
00:49:04.620
And therein lies the emotional pull of the episode.
00:49:07.800
But by the end of the episode, spoiler alert, Bandit decides at the last minute that he isn't
00:49:12.480
going to move, and Bluey and the mom dog are very happy.
00:49:15.340
And this is the poignant plot that USA Today refers to.
00:49:20.120
So let's go to the article now to find out how grown adult human beings reacted to this.
00:49:25.480
Quote, needless to say, some parents were in their feelings after such a heart-stirring
00:49:30.100
Quote, now that's what we call a stellar season finale.
00:49:32.560
Also, how dare this show for preschoolers make adults get all emotional?
00:49:36.560
Jazz Tenke, an editor of Variety, posted on social media site X.
00:49:40.120
Pro wrestler and father Johnny Gargano posted on X that the new episode is straight-up Avengers
00:49:47.540
Quote, what a fantastic emotional rollercoaster.
00:49:50.080
It's like watching SpongeBob as an adult, except it rips your heart out.
00:49:53.780
That, according to fan Jack Caparucho, wrote on X.
00:50:00.980
Sensational television fan Sam Gavin wrote on X.
00:50:07.500
I love these characters so much, fan Brittany Bailey wrote on X.
00:50:11.120
But her husband wrote, she wrote on X that her husband woke her family up to watch the
00:50:16.520
episode, and then her husband cried his eyes out.
00:50:20.560
Quote, the last time he cried was at the birth of our baby.
00:50:26.860
On Instagram, influencer Bethany Kratt joked that Oppenheimer was cool and everything, but
00:50:32.760
You can't tell me these Bluey episodes aren't cinematic masterpieces, Kratt wrote, adding
00:50:38.460
that her family dog is named after the character Bandit.
00:50:41.300
They generate more feelings and emotions than any movie ever has, and I feel like I need
00:50:45.000
to give my therapist a call to unpack things after each one.
00:50:49.940
By the way, here's the picture that the Bluey fan Brittany Bailey provided, showing her husband
00:50:57.640
So this is a, this is a, there you go, this is a grown adult man sobbing uncontrollably
00:51:03.840
over an episode of a cartoon show aimed at preschoolers.
00:51:09.740
Look, the kid's looking at it, he's bored by it.
00:51:11.840
And the grown adult man is watching, he's absolutely absorbed by it, and he's breaking
00:51:21.300
This is perhaps, you look at this image here, and I don't mean to pick on this guy.
00:51:25.240
He might be a nice guy, but this is perhaps the least manly image that has ever been captured
00:51:32.740
Now, before we analyze this any further, let's just watch the climactic scene where Bandit
00:51:43.280
This is the scene that absolutely wrecked so many adult Bluey fans.
00:51:48.200
And I have this clip because it was posted to Twitter by a guy named John Cartwright, another
00:51:52.140
grown adult male, who posted it with this caption.
00:51:55.380
It's absolutely crazy to have this air with all the other toddler shows.
00:52:00.780
The clip we should note has been viewed 20 million times, with thousands of comments from
00:52:05.880
other adults calling the scene incredible and beautiful, a masterpiece, heart-wrenching,
00:52:11.840
Many adults are treating this scene like it's one of the most profound pieces of art they
00:52:18.360
And that's not an exaggeration, and they're not being ironic.
00:52:24.320
I feel it in the morning I feel how low it lies And then I hear you call it
00:52:35.760
And then I start to rise I feel it in the morning I feel how low it lies
00:52:47.720
And then I hear you call my name And then I start to rise
00:52:55.720
And when I hear you calling Like you were always there
00:53:03.160
I rise until I'm hanging in the middle of the air
00:53:11.420
But when I hear you calling I split like I'm a snake With golden light-like fingers
00:53:28.480
I've never seen anything as beautiful as this in my entire life.
00:53:32.780
The scene that ripped the hearts out of so many adults, it's the most beautiful thing
00:53:52.300
And I don't know what led up to this and everything.
00:53:59.740
You cannot back out of selling your house at the last minute like that.
00:54:06.380
So I don't know if that's going to be the first episode of the next season
00:54:20.940
It's like that's what happens in the next season.
00:54:22.820
The next season is Bluey's family becomes squatters.
00:54:26.580
And second, this is actually a terrible message for children.
00:54:33.720
Well, I'm not going to say it's the worst message I've ever seen in a children's show.
00:54:41.120
You know, I've had to move my family several times.
00:54:45.060
But that's why it would be more useful for parents if the show ended with the family actually moving
00:54:51.720
and Bluey learning to love the new house and the new neighborhood.
00:54:55.960
Because in real life, your dad is not going to change his mind
00:54:59.120
and dramatically rip the for sale sign out of the yard
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on the day that you're supposed to pack up and move.
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And if he did, by the way, your mom in the front seat would not be ecstatic with glee.
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She would be incredibly pissed off that her husband just made this decision
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You know, in real life, you know, if you're supposed to be moving, kids, you're moving.
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And these kinds of shows are supposed to be made for children
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But the lesson taught here is not helpful at all.
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In fact, the lesson seems to be if your daddy really loves you, he won't make you move.
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The point is that, again, fully grown adults are treating this episode of a preschool children's
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show like it's the most beautifully devastating work of art they have ever laid their eyes on.
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And I can maybe excuse some of this to some extent for women.
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Like my wife would probably cry if she watched that scene, but she cries when anything vaguely sad or heartwarming happens on screen.
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I've seen her tear up watching a 30-second life insurance commercial.
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Now, my wife would certainly not cry over that scene and then declare that it was an artistic masterpiece.
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Instead, she would maybe tear up a little bit and she would say something like, oh, that was kind of sweet.
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And then she'd move on with her day and that would be it, right?
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I can excuse women crying over a sappy scene in a children's show about a cartoon dog,
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but not then acting like the children's show about a cartoon dog is a work of cinematic brilliance that puts Citizen Kane to shame.
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We have grown men not only weeping over a cartoon, but then announcing it publicly to the world without shame.
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And then saying they're going to talk to their therapist about it.
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That's how affected they were, is that they're going to talk to their therapist about Bluey.
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Now, look, you may think that I have gone too far at times in my demand for stoicism from men.
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Even if you think that, you must admit there should be limits.
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Now, I personally believe that as a man, your wife and your children should almost never see you cry.
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Only in the most extreme circumstances, in response to the most devastating tragedies, should they witness such a display.
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A man should have, and I don't say that ironically or to be funny, that's what I really believe.
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A man should have control over his emotions and should not show weakness,
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especially in front of people who depend on him to be the strong and confident one.
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And if you cry as a man, especially in front of your kids and your wife, you make them feel vulnerable.
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You make them feel like you don't have control over the situation.
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And again, only in the extreme circumstances should you put your family members in a spot like that.
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You do it too often or you do it for frivolous reasons, and they will start to feel unsafe and unsecure,
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It's like for a woman, and some will say this out loud, most won't, but this is what they all think.
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And for a woman to witness a man crying for a dumb reason is the most repulsive thing that they could possibly witness.
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So it's just something that you should realize.
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Now, perhaps you think that I'm too stringent in this regard.
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What we should be able to agree is that whatever the appropriate circumstances for men to cry,
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that umbrella, however wide or narrow it might be, does not cover a children's show about cartoon dogs.
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And by the way, it's not like anything really tragic or profound happened in the episode.
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Is that the characters were going to move and then didn't?
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Now, I can see why a child might find that plot to be, like, really emotional.
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We live in a culture where adults are profoundly moved by children's entertainment.
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That is not because all of these adults are deeply emotional people.
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They have grown physically, but not mentally or emotionally.
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Like, if you as an adult are really deeply stirred by something like that,
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by this corny, like, over-the-top, very emotionally manipulative,
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And if you can be manipulated that easily as an adult,
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And that's why adults still respond to children's entertainment the same as they did as children.
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It's like being an adult who still prefers microwaved chicken nuggets and a juice box
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It's like if you go to someone's house and they're serving up a delicious home-cooked meal,
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but maybe there's some kids there and they're just making microwave chicken nuggets for the kids
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And you said to your host, oh, can I have those instead?
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Yeah, the Tyson chicken nuggets that came out of the microwave.
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It's like, it goes beyond just, well, people have different tastes.
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It shows a simplicity, but not the good kind of simplicity.
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This is the simplicity of someone whose palate hasn't developed,
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They've become adults, but they have not put away childish things.
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And now they're weeping over preschool entertainment
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and declaring it the greatest piece of art since the Sistine Chapel.
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It is embarrassing, even if they don't realize that they should be embarrassed.
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And that's why these adults are today canceled.