Ep. 1370 - Chaos Erupts In Congress Because Our Politicians Are The Dumbest Dimwits To Ever Exist
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, mayhem breaks out during a congressional hearing. It was a wild spectacle, but most of all, extremely stupid. We ll go through it today. Also, the insane backlash continues against an NFL kicker who committed the sin of promoting marriage and family life to young women. Plus, Greg Abbott issued a pardon for a man who shot a BLM protester in self-defense. And NBC has a new documentary coming out just in time for Pride Month all about queerness in the animal kingdom. All of that and more on today s Matt Walsh show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, mayhem breaks out during a congressional hearing.
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It was a wild spectacle, but most of all, extremely, extremely stupid.
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Also, the insane backlash continues against an NFL kicker who committed the sin of promoting
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Plus, Greg Abbott issued a pardon for a man who shot a BLM protester in self-defense.
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And NBC has a new documentary coming out just in time for Pride Month all about queerness,
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Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee gathered for a very important hearing.
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Quote, the committee met to discuss a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt
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of Congress for refusing to comply with the congressional subpoena.
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That subpoena demanded that he turn over the recorded deposition of President Joe Biden
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as questioned by former special counsel Robert Herr.
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Herr investigated Biden's retention of classified documents from his time as a senator and vice
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Ultimately, the special counsel declined to prosecute Biden, stating that a jury would
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likely view him as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.
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Now, as you probably recall, Joe Biden was judged by the special counsel to be mentally
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unfit to stand trial for his mishandling of classified documents.
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The poor old man was just confused, Robert Herr determined.
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And there may be some merit to that excuse, maybe, because he is senile, if not for the
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fact that Joe Biden is also, you may have noticed, the president of the United States.
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And if he is not mentally competent enough to stand trial, how is he mentally competent
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And another question is this, just how embarrassing and troubling was Joe Biden's performance in
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that deposition that it led to this conclusion?
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Well, as a way of getting to the bottom of that, Congress has attempted to obtain the
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But the Biden administration, as you just heard, is refusing to comply with the subpoena
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on the grounds that they don't want Biden to look bad.
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Now, that's not the reason they're giving, but it is the actual reason, as we all know.
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And this is why the House Oversight Committee was meeting last night.
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Very important subject, one that requires a seriousness of mind and purpose.
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Unfortunately, however, in the current year, Congress happens to include some of the dumbest
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human beings who have ever been born on planet Earth.
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Voters in this country have scoured the nation from sea to shining sea, looking for the most
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And then they have elected those people and put them into positions of power.
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Now, of course, we have been electing clowns to Congress for many years, but we have now
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As philosophers and scientists have long warned, when you reach critical clown mass, total
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And that's what we saw at this hearing on Thursday night.
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It all began with Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who made a little
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dig at Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett.
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That was the spark in the tinderbox of stupid that was about to erupt.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene makes fun of Crockett's fake eyelashes.
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Now, you know that I am not exactly a sensitive soul when it comes to this kind of thing, or
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I've been known to throw out insults myself on very rare occasion.
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It almost never happens, but on occasion, I'll insult someone.
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And it's true that Crockett does seem to have fake eyelashes.
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I mean, is a congressional hearing really a place for catty little insults like that?
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How does a comment about another representative's eyelashes help us obtain the recording of
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Joe Biden's deposition, which is supposed to be the purpose of the hearing?
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Now the chair recognizes Ms. Green for four minutes and 21 seconds.
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I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling.
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If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built,
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butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?
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Chairman, I make a motion to strike those words.
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I'm trying to find clarification on what quality.
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Because if I come and talk about her, y'all don't have a problem.
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Order, chair now recognizes Ms. Crockett for four minutes and 21 seconds.
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Okay, it might be hard to discern anything that's being said over noises that sound like
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So please allow me to provide a brief but fully accurate and verbatim transcript of Jasmine
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She said, and I quote, y'all want to play games with me.
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Because if I come and talk about her, y'all going to have a problem.
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That is an actual statement made by an elected member of the United States Congress during
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And I think we can safely say that it is the first time in American history that any member
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of Congress operating in an official capacity has ever used the phrase, y'all talk noise.
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It's also, I'm guessing, the first time that the phrase talk and y'all want to play games
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has ever been uttered during a congressional hearing.
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So we're making history here in all of the wrong ways.
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And that was not the only history making moment.
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Listen to this exchange in the same hearing between Marjorie Taylor Greene and AOC.
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How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person?
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We are going to move and we're going to take your words down.
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There is another statement that we can assume with some measure of certainty has never been
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stated on the record at any congressional hearing ever in history.
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Now, if you read just the transcript of these exchanges without any context, you would assume
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that this was perhaps an argument between groups of people at a Waffle House, or maybe
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it's a few that broke out in the parking lot of a Bojangles fast food restaurant at 2 a.m.
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If you just arrived here in a time machine from 30 years ago or any time prior, you simply
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would not believe that this was an exchange between members of Congress.
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And if I did convince you of the fact, you would immediately get back in your time machine
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and go back to your own time to warn the world of the impending collapse of our collective
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And if for some reason you couldn't go back in your time machine because it ran out of gas
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or something, you would probably elect to throw yourself into the sea rather than stay
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Now, we should note that the Democrats were not the only ones humiliating themselves in
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is no better, or if she is better, only slightly so.
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And this dispute between Greene and AOC continued as AOC demanded an apology for the random insults
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Then after Mr. Perry's going to be recognized, then Ms. Greene...
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There's another motion to strike her words again.
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Ms. Green, do you agree to unanimous consent to strike your words?
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Yes, I'll strike my words, but I'm not apologizing.
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Well, I very much hope she doesn't, because I think we've already seen what a debate between
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AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene would consist of.
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And this catfight felt like it went on for that long during the hearing as the men sat there
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bewildered and stuttering, trying meekly and ineffectually to get the hearing back on track.
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So it's a very, you know, you had the women screaming at each other and the men just standing
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It was a microcosm of American culture in many ways and in all the worst ways.
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Now, by contrast, and really you could choose any time at random, but back in the year 1858,
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there were a series of presidential debates between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen
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And these were highly contentious, emotionally charged, often involved bitter personal attacks.
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After all, this was only three years before the country would erupt in a brutal civil war
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And yet, these men expressed their disdain for one another in eloquent and intelligent ways.
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So eloquent and intelligent that we can't even imagine politicians in the modern age speaking
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So here's just one very brief example pulled at random.
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And Lincoln, when it was his turn, felt that Douglas had lied about him and misrepresented his
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So here was his way of accusing Douglas of dishonesty.
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One sentence will be enough to make the contrast clear.
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My fellow citizens, when a man hears himself somewhat misrepresented, it provokes him.
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But when misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.
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So in other words, he's saying, you lied about me so much that I'm not even angry.
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It's actually, it's absurd how much you're lying.
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Now, compare that to how that same sentiment would be expressed by politicians today.
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You best stop talking that noise with your lying ass.
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Now, the intelligence of our leaders hasn't just declined.
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It has plummeted like a meteor out of the sky and formed a crater in the ground that goes five miles deep into the earth.
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We know that because it never was this way until now.
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Now, there was a time when our nation was led by men, and it used to be mostly men, let's face it,
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who were articulate and intelligent and dignified and composed and perhaps most importantly, boring.
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Now, I'm not saying that they were always good at their jobs or always made wise decisions.
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But I'm simply trying to emphasize the fact that it is highly unusual from the perspective of history
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Okay, when we can watch this and we know, like most of the people watching this,
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we are certainly smarter than the people that we hear in that exchange.
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But of course, you know, the average IQ of the country has collapsed too,
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so we would expect, I guess, the country's representatives to follow suit.
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If you go on Twitter right now, you're going to find people on both sides
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who are like, you know, cheering on whoever their side was in this thing and pretending,
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So there are still absolute morons, just bottom of the barrel morons,
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who are still somehow impressed with this kind of thing.
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But my hope is that most people aren't, because we don't need to be entertained by politicians.
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I want to turn on C-SPAN or whatever hearing and just be bored out of my skull.
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Everywhere you go, there are things out there that want to amuse.
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You can pick up your phone anytime, and it's just nothing but amusement.
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Can we have serious people doing anything anywhere?
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We should also want them to be competent and have integrity and always put America first,
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And of course, we have almost no one who checks any of those boxes individually, let alone all of them.
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But before any of that, they need to be serious people who take the job seriously.
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Because none of the rest matters if they're not.
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Even if they do claim they put America first, even if they appear to supposedly be competent and intelligent,
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if they're not serious people who are actually serious about doing the freaking job that they've been assigned to
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and that they have applied for and been accepted for,
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if they're not serious people, then none of it matters because it's not going to do anything.
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By now, you've likely heard all about the controversy, the incredibly stupid controversy,
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surrounding a speech given by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker
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at a commencement ceremony for Catholic students at a Catholic school.
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And he's been viciously condemned by the left, the media, Democrat politicians.
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Just an insane, rabid, vicious, psychotic response from so many people,
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all because he gave a speech as a Catholic man at a Catholic school to Catholic students
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And everything he said, again, was totally consistent with Catholic teaching.
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The idea that there would be any controversy about a Catholic message at a Catholic school
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is just preposterous, but also not terribly surprising, of course.
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And meanwhile, as many people have pointed out, there are NFL players who have been charged
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with domestic abuse and drug possession and assault and so on and so on.
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And none of them get the kind of treatment that Harrison Butker has gotten for saying a bunch
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of Catholic stuff at a Catholic commencement speech.
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Where, again, he was hired to go and give his perspective.
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So there have also been plenty of morons on social media who have said,
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well, is Harrison Butker going to get drummed out of the league the way that Colin Kaepernick was?
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What about all the conservatives who told Colin Kaepernick to just shut up and play football?
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Why aren't they saying the same thing to Harrison Butker?
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Well, you idiot, it's because there's a few reasons.
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Number one, Harrison Butker is a star at his position, is one of the best in the league at
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his position, which is field goal kicker, which is a very important, is a very important position
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And Colin Kaepernick was way past his prime, was a mediocre bum, and he was, and he had
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Which is like the actual reason why he flunked out of the league, because he couldn't play
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Now, was he good enough back in, whenever it was that he left the league, back in 2015
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or 16 or whatever it was, what, was he good enough to at least be a backup somewhere, or
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even a third string, or at least be on a practice squad?
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And second, the baggage he brought with him was not enough, his talent was not enough to
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override all of the baggage he brought with him.
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If he was more talented, he'd still be in the league now, probably.
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But the bigger, the most important distinction between the two, which should be very obvious,
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is that Colin Kaepernick was using the football field itself during the games to make his political
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So as a football player on the football field, he was using that as a forum to make political
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Harrison Butker, in the off season, was invited to a Catholic school as a Catholic man to give
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his perspective in a speech, and that's what he did.
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And then there's the third distinction, which is probably the most important, which is that
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Harrison Butker is right, and Colin Kaepernick was wrong about everything he said.
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So I think there's enough there to draw the, to make the distinctions clear.
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But then there's one clip, of course, that's gotten by far the most attention, and it's the
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short portion of the speech where he addresses the women in the crowd.
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The speech is like 20 minutes long, and he spends like a minute, if that, talking to the
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And I was looking quickly for a clip of just that part, and this is the only one I found
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Somebody edited it to put clips of A Handmaid's Tale into the clip of the speech.
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And I'm going to play this version, actually, mainly because I want you to hear what he said,
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but also because, actually, the Handmaid's Tale imagery, along with what Butker is really
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saying, only serves to show how absurd the moral panic over his remarks actually is.
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For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment.
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You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives.
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I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had
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How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about
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all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career?
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Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess
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that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will
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I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabel, would be the first to say that her life truly
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started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.
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I'm on this stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into
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I am beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated
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that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school
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would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles
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This man deeply loves and appreciates his wife.
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He actually gets choked up talking about how much he loves his wife.
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What an awful thing that we should be upset about.
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I mean, honest to God, if you actually watched the clip, how can you manage to have those kinds
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And on top of that, he's daring to tell the women in the audience that family life is
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Now, in all seriousness, what is there to be upset about?
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He doesn't say that no women should ever work outside the home.
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He didn't say that Hallmaker is the most important title of all that anyone could ever have.
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Like, women that stay home and raise their kids, they do one of the most important jobs?
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So if you're upset, then I assume that what you're saying is that it's not even one of
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Being a mother and raising your kid is not even, it doesn't belong in that category.
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Like, to me, that is the radical position, not what he is saying.
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He doesn't say that women who work outside the home are evil or bad or should be arrested
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He simply says that most of them, most of the Catholic women at a Catholic school will
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find their greatest calling in family life, which they will.
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That doesn't even mean that most of them will solely be, you know, mothers and stay-at-home
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moms, but that most of them will find their greatest calling, will find their greatest
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He says that he wouldn't be who he is without his wife.
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Is what he just said about himself offensive to men?
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If he had said the opposite about women, the feminists would be having an even greater
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But he says about himself, I wouldn't be the man I am today without my wife.
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What if he had said, you know, women who get married, they wouldn't be the women they
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The explosion of, it would be a nuclear explosion of outrage.
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And if not dead with that, or, you know, have radiation poisoning from the nuclear explosion
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The men who get married, they wouldn't be the same men if they didn't have their wives.
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So my point is, like, if what he said about women is insulting for women, then isn't what
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And when it comes to men, you're allowed to talk about the importance of family life.
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But for some reason, to bring it up around women at all is offensive.
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Now, and of course, he's promoting family life to both men and women, because you need
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both to be involved in order to have a family in the first place.
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You will find more purpose and fulfillment and happiness in your family than in your
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Most jobs, most jobs don't have much deeper meaning beyond the fact that you're doing
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But if you're working middle management in some corporate office somewhere, there's not
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Most jobs in the country are, again, this is not true of all of them, but most jobs in
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the country, or at the very least, a large number of them, again, don't have much deeper
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meaning beyond just you're doing the job and you're making, and that's why you do it.
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Like most people who have jobs, the reason they have the job, it's not really because
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they're so passionate about what they're doing.
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It's because they need to make a living, which means that if you make that the center
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of your life, if you make it the focal point, if that is your life, your life will inevitably
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You will struggle to find meaning in your own life.
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Now, finding meaning in family life is different.
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You can find meaning in family for its own sake, and then it also gives meaning to everything
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else you do, so that when you go out and do your job, now hopefully you can find meaning
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in your job also to some extent for its own sake.
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Hopefully you enjoy what you do and you feel like you're contributing to the world in some
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way, but whether or not you feel that way about your job, the fact is that you're doing
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it to provide for your family, and so that gives it even greater meaning.
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And this is true of men and women, but what he's saying is especially true of women, even
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Well, because, and if you're in the outrage mob going after Butker, I want you to listen
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Just listen to this, come in a little bit closer, and listen to what I'm going to say,
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because I need you to really try to let this sink in.
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That's why they have, we have different words for them, or at least we used to.
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So when Butker told the women in the audience that many of them are excited about getting
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So you might be offended on behalf of the women in the audience, but apparently many
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I'm sure they're very glad that you're white knighting for them, but they weren't offended.
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You know, in fact, many of them have been excited about that their whole lives, essentially.
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You know, little boys don't generally play with baby dolls.
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Girls from a young age like to pretend to be the mommy, right?
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They, you know, my own daughters have been sort of playing mom, playing like they are
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When you start, when they start gravitating towards the baby dolls and the kitchen play
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And girls all over the world, since time immemorial, have had versions of this.
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Okay, you can go to other, you can go to ancient cultures and far, you know, far-flung parts
00:30:42.260
of the globe, and you'll find ancient versions of dolls and that sort of thing.
00:30:48.720
Because girls have been playing, partaking in a childlike way in these sort of domestic
00:30:56.420
My four-year-old daughter just the other day was telling me all about her baby doll and
00:31:00.100
its name and its favorite color and what it likes to eat and, you know, all that sort
00:31:13.880
And that's because boys and girls are different.
00:31:17.600
So yes, young women graduating college, unless they've been conditioned otherwise, will oftentimes
00:31:25.580
Now, why didn't Harrison Butker, even though he had plenty of messages for men that were
00:31:32.720
similar in theme, right, why didn't Butker say the same exact thing to the young men?
00:31:40.860
Why didn't he say to the young men, well, I know many of you are most excited about getting
00:31:48.480
Because it wouldn't be true is why he didn't say it.
00:31:53.500
It wouldn't make any sense for him to say, I know many of you men here are thinking X,
00:31:58.120
Y, and Z, when he knows that they're not thinking that.
00:32:02.240
Because boys don't grow up, most of them, dreaming about being husbands and fathers.
00:32:12.720
You know, boys dream about going out into the world and being explorers and adventurers
00:32:22.260
This is, this is not, this is not, uh, despite what people on the left say, this is not social
00:32:34.480
So it's not, when I observe that my daughters are playing with dolls and my sons are outside
00:32:41.240
with sticks pretending to sword fight, this is not some kind of like arrangement that I
00:32:47.520
have set up because I'm, I'm, uh, uh, so old fashioned.
00:32:52.200
And this is the same dynamic that billions of people across the world and through history have
00:33:04.200
We are the first society in history to try to deny this, these basic realities, these basic
00:33:13.800
And so those young men in the audience, that's what they're thinking about.
00:33:31.840
Men want to discover and eventually they'll discover the joys of family life, but it's hard
00:33:37.280
for men to understand that joy, even conceptually until they experience it.
00:33:41.100
It's easier for women to understand it and desire it before they've experienced it.
00:33:51.200
When I was college graduation age, even though I didn't go to college, but when I was that
00:33:54.980
age or I would have graduated, had I gone, um, I absolutely did not want to get married
00:34:04.680
You know, it just, it just, it just wasn't something I felt myself deeply desiring.
00:34:08.120
It wasn't, there are many things that I desire.
00:34:10.320
There are many ambitions and goals that I had that occupied my mind pretty much 24 seven.
00:34:16.180
But I didn't sit around much thinking about how great it would be to be a dad.
00:34:24.120
Then I met a woman who I loved and I wanted to be with her.
00:34:26.900
And through my devotion to her, I discovered the joys of being a husband and then a father.
00:34:30.800
And now that I am one, I can't imagine life without my kids.
00:34:37.440
I can't, I, it's, I cannot, you know, put myself back in that mentality.
00:34:44.600
It's, it's just, it's, it's sort of inconceivable, but, um, this is the way it's always worked.
00:34:51.860
Men get married and they have kids because they fall in love with a woman.
00:34:55.600
And that's what you're supposed to do when you fall in love with a woman.
00:34:59.340
Women get married and have kids because they want to get married and have kids.
00:35:02.440
And so, so now when you remove that sense of, of duty from men, that sense that like, okay, well, this is what I'm supposed to do.
00:35:13.960
Uh, what I'm supposed to do now is I'm supposed to be a man and I'm, and now I'm supposed to take on these new duties and responsibilities.
00:35:20.420
When you take that away from men and you try to convince women not to desire family life and marriage and family life anymore, you end up with what we have now.
00:35:30.580
Which is people aren't having kids anymore and everyone is miserable and everyone's confused and nobody knows what the hell they're doing.
00:35:37.340
There's just no question at all that historically throughout the world, women have generally been wired to desire family life and to find purpose and meaning in that vocation.
00:35:48.760
Uh, the question that we are asking in this society is whether that wiring can be changed at scale society wide.
00:36:00.580
Uh, because Harrison Butker is not trying to convince the women of anything.
00:36:05.900
He's saying, well, I know many of you want this and that's a great thing to want it.
00:36:12.660
What they're saying to the women is no, you shouldn't even want that.
00:36:14.380
You shouldn't want, you shouldn't want to have babies and all that kind of stuff.
00:36:17.520
You should want this because there's a society wide effort to change the inherent instinctive, uh, both biological and spiritual wiring of men and women.
00:36:30.340
So that they want different things than what they have always wanted since the beginning of the human species.
00:36:39.660
The question is whether that can really be changed at scale.
00:36:45.080
And, and whether we should even try to, whether it's worth trying to change it.
00:36:51.000
And I say, no, it can't really be changed ultimately.
00:36:58.640
What was wrong with how it has always been since forever?
00:37:02.360
Uh, why do you need to convince women that they should want to be CEOs?
00:37:13.760
That's not to say that no woman should ever be allowed to be a CEO.
00:37:17.140
But why is there this decades long intentional effort to convince women that they should want that, even if naturally they don't?
00:37:25.580
If Harrison Butker was criticizing anything, he was criticizing that.
00:37:31.800
If you can't see that, I think it's because you don't want to see it.
00:37:37.380
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a full pardon and restoration of rights for Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant who was found guilty of murder for the fatal shooting of Garrett Foster during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest, while Perry was an Uber driver.
00:37:51.320
The Texas Board of, uh, Board of Pardons and Paroles conducted an exhaustive review of U.S. Army Sergeant Daniel Perry's personal history and the facts surrounding the July 2020 incident and recommended a full pardon and restoration of full civil rights of citizenship among the, uh, voluminous, voluminous, voluminous, anyway, uh, reviewed by the board.
00:38:14.100
They consider it information provided by the Travis County District Attorney, the full investigative report on Daniel Perry, plus a review of all the testimony provided at trial.
00:38:22.400
Texas has one of the strongest stand-your-ground laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive district attorney.
00:38:27.740
I thank the board for its thorough investigation.
00:38:31.140
Uh, Perry, who was driving an Uber, for Uber at the time, encountered an armed BLM group that had taken over the streets of Austin.
00:38:37.160
Perry originally faced one count of murder, one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
00:38:40.480
The jury did not find him guilty of the second charge.
00:38:42.920
The Austin police said that a car turned onto Congress Avenue near 4th Street at 9.51 p.m.
00:38:47.560
Protesters who were marching in the area surrounded the car, and Foster, who was part of the group, was armed with a rifle.
00:38:53.660
And, uh, Perry told a 911 operator, I made a wrong turn.
00:38:56.140
A guy pointed a freaking weapon at me, and I panicked.
00:39:02.840
They started shooting back at me, and I got out of the area.
00:39:08.280
And I got to say, Greg Abbott fluctuates between big W's and big L's more than maybe anyone else in public life.
00:39:19.820
Perry never should have been convicted, much less sentenced to 25 years in prison.
00:39:27.920
This guy was driving along, just trying to, uh, you know, doing Uber, trying to make a living.
00:39:33.880
And he finds himself surrounded by an armed mob.
00:39:38.040
Multiple people in the mob are armed, including Foster, who was open carrying an AK-47.
00:39:45.120
Now, um, the left defended Foster by saying, well, open carry is legal in Texas,
00:39:53.380
which is the only time they have ever favorably cited open carry laws.
00:39:59.820
But in this case, it's people on the left saying, well, open carry is legal.
00:40:03.340
He has a right, he has a right to, to, uh, uh, you know, exercise his Second Amendment rights.
00:40:09.980
Because just because you have the right to carry doesn't mean you have the right to surround a car
00:40:20.580
They surrounded the car and tried to stop it from moving.
00:40:27.920
I know left-wing protesters have trouble, uh, understanding this, but actually just because
00:40:33.600
you're mad about something doesn't mean you get to just shut down a street because you're mad.
00:40:40.280
And people that are trying to drive on the street, that shouldn't be their problem.
00:40:44.860
Well, but we're really mad because this happened.
00:40:49.680
But this guy's trying, he's, he's driving Uber.
00:40:55.280
Um, and when you surround somebody's car like that, they have every right to, uh, uh, take
00:41:05.220
And then Foster also pointed the rifle at Perry.
00:41:08.120
So according, according to Perry, and, and so it's a slam dunk, slam dunk cell defense case
00:41:14.100
But even if he hadn't pointed it, it wouldn't matter.
00:41:20.300
Perry, again, had every right and reason to think that, that his life was in danger.
00:41:26.660
And I also have to say, this is also why open carry is stupid, by the way.
00:41:31.380
And, uh, maybe an unpopular opinion with our audience.
00:41:35.340
I'm actually not sure if it is or not, but, um, I don't know either way.
00:41:40.780
And I'm, I'm as big a supporter of the second amendment as you'll find.
00:41:44.600
And, and I will still say that open carry is ridiculous.
00:41:50.860
Now there are circumstances, you're out on the ranch or something, or obviously if you're
00:41:55.980
Um, so I'm not saying there are no circumstances where open carry might make sense, but in most
00:42:02.200
In a populated urban environment, to walk around intentionally showing off your weapon to everybody,
00:42:09.540
I don't know any serious gun owner who does that or thinks it's a good idea.
00:42:14.600
The very few occasions that where I've met someone who opened carries in this kind of
00:42:19.360
environment, um, they're always, always irresponsible idiots who are super impressed with the fact
00:42:27.740
that they're carrying a gun and they want you to be impressed with it.
00:42:30.520
And so they're walking around with it like a fashion statement.
00:42:34.140
Every case I've encountered of someone who opened carries like this, it's just, it's, it's
00:42:41.980
They think it's really cool that they have a gun and they want people to know it.
00:42:55.700
Um, responsible gun owners and people who carry responsibly, they don't want you to
00:43:00.940
know that you, that, that you have it on you or, or where you have it.
00:43:07.080
Why would they want the, there's no real advantage to the public knowing that.
00:43:11.220
And any argument that, uh, cause the one argument you hear in favor of it is, well, if, if, if
00:43:18.040
a bad guy, if a potential bad guy knows that someone else is carrying, uh, cause he's open
00:43:23.580
carrying, then he's less likely to do a bad thing.
00:43:27.720
Like, I don't think there's any evidence that it works that way.
00:43:30.040
And in fact, there's evidence that it goes the other way.
00:43:31.660
And this case is, is, is, is, is that sort of evidence because by, by presenting your
00:43:38.140
weapon, if you, if you're open carrying and you're letting everyone, Hey, everyone, look,
00:43:43.200
Like when you do that, if you find yourself in a confrontation, you have automatically
00:43:48.180
escalated that confrontation because everybody involved in it knows that you're armed.
00:43:54.140
And so you, you have brought a, an element into this confrontation that will not deescalate
00:44:05.200
You are increasing the chances that something bad happens.
00:44:08.400
If you're carrying, you should want to have control over when and if your gun is presented.
00:44:18.880
Like, I don't, I'm not this, the fact that I have a weapon on me is, is not going to,
00:44:24.460
if that becomes public knowledge is because something's happening and, and it has now, now
00:44:31.600
Um, but otherwise just walking around, as I said, as a fashion statement is ridiculous.
00:44:42.500
Like, why was he carrying a rifle around at what, what do you, you're, you're at a protest.
00:44:46.720
You claim that you have no violent intent and you're open carrying a rifle.
00:44:52.240
Uh, and you're stopping cars, carrying a rifle.
00:45:00.160
What can that do other than create a horrible situation, which is exactly what it did for
00:45:09.680
And, um, I'm glad that, uh, that Greg Abbott made the right decision there.
00:45:18.600
Well, we've had this, this, I don't know, this is not even worth playing, but we will anyway.
00:45:21.480
Vice President Kamala Harris, uh, was in a conversation with the comedian Jimmy O. Yang
00:45:38.220
We have to know that sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open.
00:45:59.640
We're going to make t-shirts with that saying, kick the door down.
00:46:03.860
She is so impressed with the fact that she used an F word.
00:46:12.820
And, uh, obviously, as you know, the F-bomb moment was planned ahead of time.
00:46:15.940
Like, obviously it was the least convincing slip of the tongue that I've ever heard.
00:46:21.080
And the funny thing is that Kamala Harris is putting the F-bomb aside, um, which by the
00:46:28.260
way, look, uh, there's no point even complaining about it at this point, given what we started
00:46:32.900
the show with and the way that these elected officials are behaving.
00:46:35.780
Something like this is, is, uh, small potatoes, but, but really it is like, it's, it's, it's
00:46:45.940
It's just, I, I really would like public officials to just comport yourself with some dignity and
00:46:57.940
Um, but in any case, Kamala Harris is the worst example of the mentality that she's promoting.
00:47:06.240
Sometimes you got to kick the door down, but she didn't kick any door down.
00:47:10.420
The door was open for her, not because of her own merits or hard work, but purely because
00:47:20.220
And the shame is that there is, there's an essence of a message in there that is actually
00:47:25.920
The problem is that she's cloaking it in this left-wing identity politics and victimhood culture.
00:47:30.340
And that's where a lot of the rest of the conversation went.
00:47:32.060
Uh, she's presenting it as though these alleged victim groups are the ones who especially have
00:47:37.200
to go out and kick doors down and, you know, um, and, and all of that.
00:47:41.920
When in fact, they are the ones who actually have doors open for them.
00:47:45.820
But if we can get past all of that, then there could be a message in there for young people,
00:47:51.640
especially, um, about, you know, when you have goals, you have to go out and, and pursue
00:47:57.380
it, be single-minded, be with, you know, be passionate, have, have, have seriousness of
00:48:03.040
purpose, intensity, and going out and pursuing your goals.
00:48:07.860
It's not the, it's not the most breathtaking wisdom that anyone's ever heard, but there,
00:48:15.620
Um, it's just that Kamala Harris is the worst possible person to deliver it.
00:48:20.440
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There was an episode of the NBC mockumentary Parks and Recreation that involved Amy Poehler
00:50:55.320
officiating the wedding of a couple of gay penguins at the zoo.
00:51:00.000
She thinks she's marrying a male and female penguin, only to be told by a zookeeper after
00:51:04.700
the two penguins start mating that they were both, in fact, males.
00:51:07.880
And then the camera cuts to a close-up of Amy Poehler looking confused because, honestly,
00:51:14.760
The concept is crazy and, therefore, mildly amusing.
00:51:16.800
And it was a laugh line in 2009 when that episode aired.
00:51:19.920
But we're a much more cultured people now, so the idea of homosexual penguins simply isn't
00:51:25.060
We're told that, just like gay people, gay penguins deserve our acceptance, not our mockery.
00:51:31.080
In fact, more than that, we're supposed to model our behavior around the life choices
00:51:37.540
And that's why gay penguins are front and center in a new documentary that's coming out soon
00:51:44.120
This time around, the gay penguins aren't a gag, and the documentary isn't a comedy.
00:51:51.900
The show is called Queer Planets, and, of course, it's coming out in time for Pride
00:52:24.860
It's only in humans that we have such a stigma about it.
00:52:27.360
The idea of just having two fixed sexes is clearly out of style.
00:52:40.040
It's clear that no matter where you look on our planet, nature is full of queer surprises.
00:52:45.900
To be honest, we should all probably get laid a little more than we do.
00:52:50.020
Well, it's exactly what Alex Jones warned us about so many years ago.
00:53:03.780
They're making the frogs gay, along with every other animal.
00:53:06.740
Supposedly, the existence of gay penguins and sex-changing clownfish is a sign that the
00:53:11.020
animal kingdom is queer, quote-unquote, and that everything you were told as a child is
00:53:16.660
It's only in humans that we have such a stigma about it.
00:53:21.640
Apparently, David Attenborough was not available to narrate.
00:53:24.320
Neither was the Honey Badger guy, even though his voice was enough of a queer surprise that
00:53:28.320
it racked up about 100 million views back in the day.
00:53:33.240
The upcoming film is narrated by Girls5eva actor Andrew Reynolds and is billed as a first-of-its-kind
00:53:46.000
nature documentary that focuses solely on the queer creatures in the animal kingdom.
00:53:51.300
Before I go into detail about the trailer, the big picture is pretty clear.
00:53:54.760
The left is truly anti-human in the most literal sense of the term.
00:53:58.180
You know, you must think that humans are on the level of these animals in order to justify
00:54:03.600
human behavior by pointing to supposedly analogous animal behavior.
00:54:07.840
And when the documentary equates queerness in humans to queerness in animals, that's what
00:54:13.100
They're saying that if animals do it, then we can learn from them because we're no better
00:54:16.840
Now, if we're playing that game, the ramifications seem pretty clear.
00:54:21.260
It would mean that, like, rape and cannibalism and killing and devouring your own young would
00:54:25.720
also be justified, because these are all, quote-unquote, natural behaviors also.
00:54:30.960
To give just one recent example, earlier this year, scientists documented what they called
00:54:37.720
For the first time in recorded history, photographers captured images of two male humpback whales having
00:54:43.420
And this was presented by LGBT activists as a big win, because supposedly it proves that
00:54:48.980
So here's just one example of a common reaction to the news from something called Extra Magazine.
00:54:55.920
So a pair of humpback whales were photographed getting it on for the very first time.
00:55:03.860
Shout out to these copulating kings who were spotted making sweet whale love off the coast
00:55:10.080
A new study published this week confirmed that the sighting marks the first time humpback
00:55:13.400
whale intercourse has been observed at all, let alone homosexual relations.
00:55:18.000
According to the paper, our two horndogs right here approached and circled a private boat off
00:55:21.340
the coast of Maui before engaging in sexual activity about three to five meters below the
00:55:28.040
Now, researchers have studied humpback whale social behavior for decades, but observance
00:55:31.640
of their sexual behavior has been, like, super rare.
00:55:34.500
Whales are mammals, so reproduction happens much the same way as with humans, and they've
00:55:40.340
During the intimate moment in Hawaii, researchers say one of the whales was seen to be holding
00:55:43.940
the other one in place with its pectoral fins while penetrating it.
00:55:47.220
Now, we've got tons of explanations and reasoning for homosexual behavior in other
00:55:52.520
But little is actually known about humpback whales in this area.
00:55:55.380
Researchers weren't able to conclude a motive for why the whales were doing like they do
00:55:59.840
It could be practice for reproduction, a show of dominance, or a form of social bonding.
00:56:04.640
Still, I'm more than happy to add gay whales to the long list of proven gay animals.
00:56:09.100
Now, that person is more than happy to add humpback whales to the list of gay animals because
00:56:15.960
it supposedly validates everything gay activists have been saying.
00:56:20.460
One of the humpback whales in this scenario was clearly raping the other.
00:56:24.280
Here's the breakdown for NBC News' gay division called Out News.
00:56:27.280
They're summarizing a report from researchers who made this discovery.
00:56:30.220
The encounter occurred between one male whale who apparently appeared unhealthy or injured
00:56:37.180
The whale that received penetration was visibly emaciated and covered in whale lice that can
00:56:41.700
proliferate on humpback whales that have lost mobility.
00:56:44.540
The emaciated whale may have approached the photographer's friend's boat to seek cover from
00:56:49.360
The emaciated whale circled the boat and attempted to swim away from the healthier whale.
00:56:53.160
The healthier whale then held the other in place.
00:56:56.780
Okay, so somehow those details didn't make the cut for Extra Magazine's report.
00:57:02.500
There's no word yet on if they're still happy to say that the humpback whale rapist represents
00:57:09.240
But using the logic of NBC's queer planet, I guess we're supposed to conclude that indeed,
00:57:14.120
this discovery is a major win for all the humans out there who aspire to be rapists.
00:57:18.460
Because you're supposed to feel seen and validated because rape is as natural as queerness.
00:57:26.840
And they're saying the same thing about cannibalism because, of course, we see animals eat one
00:57:34.480
Chimpanzees, hamsters, leopards, spiders, toads.
00:57:37.320
There's also evidence of many adult animals routinely mating with prepubescent animals.
00:57:42.660
Bonobos, for example, are straight up pedophiles.
00:57:45.380
Here's a paragraph in the book Bonobo, the Forgotten Ape, published by University of California
00:57:49.160
It's a real page-turner, quote, Bonobos engage in sex in virtually every partner combination,
00:57:53.840
male-male, female-male, female-female, male-juvenile, female-juvenile, and so on.
00:57:58.480
Now, that's not even getting into infanticide and harems and et cetera.
00:58:03.100
So if NBC is justifying transgenderism and homosexuality because they happen in nature,
00:58:07.440
then they're justifying everything else that happens in nature too.
00:58:10.080
And there's some pretty unsavory stuff happening in nature, to put it mildly.
00:58:16.820
It's the obvious, logical conclusion of what they're peddling.
00:58:22.820
I mean, we've seen over and over again how the left's sexual agenda necessarily results
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We also know that the same people pushing this ideology also support unrestricted access
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And with that context, it's pretty safe to conclude that the point of this documentary
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It's just another front of a much larger war that they're waging.
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And as you saw, the documentary tries to justify gender ideology, transgenderism, gender fluidity,
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because these things supposedly exist in the animal kingdom.
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In the animal kingdom, there are only males and females.
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Now, in some species, a male can become a female or be both a male and a female.
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But that doesn't make that true of the human species.
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So, for example, the documentary brings up clownfish as an example of a transgender fish
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The implication is that clownfish change their pronouns and take hormone therapy,
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But clownfish change genders by transforming into females biologically.
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Then they have the capability of naturally transforming to females, at which point they can't go back.
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They can't pick and choose which gender they prefer to be at any given day.
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They don't require any artificial surgery or any external hormones at any point of this process.
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They are completely unlike humans in many, many ways.
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And they are completely unlike humans identifying as transgender in every relevant respect.
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Put another way, some species of animals can fly.
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That is not evidence supporting the assertion of any human being who claims to have those capabilities.
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And this is so basic and so obvious that it shouldn't need to be said, but apparently it does.
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Now, fortunately, in this case at least, it seems that most people have caught on to how absurd this is.
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The near universal mockery that's greeting this documentary
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shows why most companies, I predict, will be much more reserved and quiet about their Pride Month celebrations this year.
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This whole movement has become a parody of itself.
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A literal recitation of a sitcom joke from a decade ago.
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And that is why queer planets and everyone else who wants to pretend that animal sexuality justifies human behavior at all
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That'll do it for the show today and this week.