Ep. 1382 - Outrage Erupts Over Black Republican Who Says Black Family Was In Better Shape During Jim Crow. He's Right.
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Florida Congressman Byron Donalds is being attacked by the media and the left for nostalgically pining for the days of Jim Crow. Also, Deborah Birx is back with a new virus to fearmonger about, and WNBA players cry out of harassment after being politely asked a question.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Republican Representative Byron Donalds is being attacked by the media
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and the left for nostalgically pining for the days of Jim Crow, except that's not what
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Donalds actually did, of course. In fact, he made an important point that people should
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be paying attention to. Also, Deborah Birx is back with a new virus to fearmonger about.
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WNBA players cry harassment after being politely asked a question,
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and what the hell is queer time theory? Is it as nonsensical as it sounds? Of course it is.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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slash Walsh to learn more. The big political news last night was that Donald Trump has supposedly
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started sending vetting materials and questionnaires to a variety of potential vice presidential nominees.
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The names include Doug Burgum, Marco Rubio, Byron Donalds, Elise Stefanik, J.D. Vance, and Tim Scott.
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Of course, the list is subject to change, so it probably doesn't mean a whole lot at this stage.
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We have no idea, you know, what to make of it exactly. I will say that most of the names on
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the list, but not all, are rather uninspired, and a few of them would be actively bad and harmful
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choices, so I hope that's not the direction he goes. At the same time, what we can be pretty sure
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of is that right now and for the last several months, the Democratic Party has been working
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on ways to attack every single one of those potential nominees, of course, and none of the
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names on the short list are a surprise, so they've presumably been digging up opposition
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research and monitoring everything these politicians say, hoping they can catch
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a slip up or take something out of context. That's to be expected at this point, of course,
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but even with that expectation in mind, the attack that's unfolding right now on one of
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those potential vice presidential candidates, Congressman Byron Donalds of Florida, is worth
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talking about. It's maybe the single most revealing smear campaign of the election cycle so far.
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On Tuesday, Donalds was speaking at an event in Philadelphia, along with Texas Congressman
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Wesley Hunt. The point of the event, apparently, was for the Trump campaign to reach more black
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voters by speaking honestly about the challenges that black communities are facing right now. Of
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course, the main challenge in black communities, as I've said many times and many other people have
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said, is the epidemic of fatherlessness. It's the collapse of the nuclear family. There can't be any
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problem bigger than that when your nuclear family has collapsed. Black Americans have the highest rate of
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out-of-wedlock births as compared to every other racial group by far. Roughly 77% of black children
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born in 2015 were out of wedlock. That's the most recent year I found data for this. Hispanics had a
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much lower rate at 56%, but still too high, followed by whites at 30% and Asians at 27%. All of those
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numbers are too high. But with the black family, the numbers are, of course, the highest. It's not a
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coincidence, by the way, that if you were to look at a list of average household incomes in the USA by
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race, it would be the exact inverse of the fatherless list. So Asians have the highest household
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income, followed by white, then Hispanic, then black. As far as I can tell, these numbers have
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held steady for decades. They've been consistent long enough that many people have come to believe
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that they're inevitable. But that's not true. There was, in fact, a time in American history where
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whites and blacks had roughly the same chances of growing up in a single family home.
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This was a period when most black women got married before they had kids. And it's not ancient
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history we're talking about. I'm talking about the first half of the 20th century, and in particular,
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the 1950s and 60s. At the event of Philadelphia, Byron Donalds addressed all of this directly. He began
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by talking about his own personal experiences with the fatherhood. And then he pointed out that two-parent
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black households weren't always an anomaly. It didn't used to be this way. Watch.
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During Jim Crow, during Jim Crow, the black family was together.
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During Jim Crow, more black people were not just conservative, because black people always have
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been conservative-minded, but more black people voted conservatively. And then HEW, Lyndon Johnson,
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and then you go down that road, and now we are where we are. What's happened in America the last
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10 years, and I'll say it because it's my contemporaries, it's Wesley's contemporaries.
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You're starting to see more black people be married in homes, raising kids. When you home with your
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wife raising your kids, and then you look at the world, you're saying, now wait a minute, time out.
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This does not look right. How can I get something to my kids? It goes back to the conversation of
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generational wealth. Not just having a job. Generational wealth. I'm looking at my kids.
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How can my kids be on my shoulders when they take off in life? That's what's happening.
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So everything that Byron Donalds just said there is true. It's not even remotely debatable. In fact,
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from 1890 to 1950, black women had an even higher marriage rate than white women. And in the 1950s,
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the rates were about equal. Quoting from the Hoover Institution, in 1950, the percentages of white and
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African-American women aged 15 and over who were currently married were roughly the same, 67% and 64%
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respectively. But by 1998, the percentage of currently married white women had dropped by 13%
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to 58%. But the drop among African-American women was 44% to 36%, more than three times larger.
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Additionally, between 1950 and 1997, the proportion of black births to teenage unwed mothers rose by 166%.
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Now, any political party that wanted to reduce black crime rates and ensure that more black children go
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out of school, get good jobs, want to reduce poverty in the black community, would be talking
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about these figures nonstop. They're clearly the key to understanding what's wrong in black
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communities and how to fix them. But Democrats very desperately don't want to have that conversation
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because, as Byron Donalds said, it implicates them, starting with Lyndon Johnson and the great
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society welfare programs that arose from the civil rights era and going on from there.
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Now, as the Harvard professor Paul Peterson put it, quote,
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some programs actively discouraged marriage because welfare assistance went to mothers so
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long as no male was boarding in the household. Marriage to an employed male, even one earning
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the minimum wage, placed at risk a mother's economic well-being. Peterson crunched numbers and found
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that, quote, in 1975, a household head would have to earn $20,000 a year to have more resources than
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what could be obtained from great society programs. Now, just for inflation, that means households would
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need to bring in $100,000 to match what the government would give them for free. In other
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words, the government was providing a massive economic incentive for poor mothers to raise
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children alone in single-parent homes. And because black mothers are an extremely poor demographic
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group, the incentive affected black families the most. Now, it's not to say that this is the only
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explanation that can account for the decline in the black family unit. There's a lot else going on.
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You can also look at the decline of industry, the offshoring of manufacturing jobs, the rise of
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feminism, which cannot be, you know, underestimated as a factor, the influence of the entertainment
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industry, and so on. But no reasonable person can doubt that a $100,000 government incentive to break up
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family homes was indeed a major factor that contributed to broken homes. And a serious
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political party, one that cared about black communities, would learn from that disaster
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and immediately reform, if not actually abolish, these kinds of welfare programs.
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But the Democratic Party has no interest in acknowledging any responsibility for their role
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in creating the crisis in the black community. After all, a core plank of Democratic Party mythology
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is that the civil rights movement was an unbridled good and that no mistakes whatsoever were made in
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the process of creating the welfare programs that have persisted for generations. So instead,
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the Democrats' top representative in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, just decided to simply lie about
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Mr. Speaker, it's come to my attention that a so-called leader has made the factually inaccurate
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statement that black folks were better off during Jim Crow. That's an outlandish, outrageous, and out-of-pocket
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observation. We were not better off when a young boy named Emmett Till could be brutally murdered
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without consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not better off when black women could be sexually
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assaulted without consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not better off when people could be
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systematically lynched without consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not better off when children
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could be denied a high-quality education without consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not better
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off when people could be denied the right to vote without consequence because of Jim Crow. How dare you make
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such an ignorant observation? You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.
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It's kind of incredible how bad this guy's Obama impression is, or maybe it's supposed to be MLK.
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He kind of has the cadence down, I guess, or he's trying. Then he starts repeatedly attacking a
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statement that no one made. Byron Donalds did not say that black Americans were better off during Jim
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Crow. He said black families were together during that time, and they're not together now. Those are two
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distinct statements. But Hakeem Jeffries apparently can't grasp the distinction, or he can grasp it,
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but he's pretending that he can't. So he just makes a complete fool of himself attacking a straw man
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over and over again until he ends by somehow embarrassing himself even further. You better
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check yourself before you wreck yourself, really? We're quoting, what, Ice Cube songs now on the
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House floor? This is what passes for rhetorical genius in the Democratic Party post-Obama.
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This is the guy that'll make the Speaker of the House if they ever get back the majority.
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You know, but Hakeem Jeffries wasn't alone, of course. The brain trust at the Congressional
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Black Caucus put out a statement demanding that Byron Donalds apologize for telling the truth.
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They wrote, quote, this is a pattern of embracing racist ideologies that we see time and again within
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the MAGA Republican Party. Representative Donalds is playing his role as the mouthpiece who will say
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the quiet parts out loud that many will not say themselves. His comments were shameful and beneath
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the dignity of a member of the House of Representatives, he should apologize, offer,
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she should immediately offer an apology to Black Americans for misrepresenting one of the darkest
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chapters in our history for his own political gain. Well, they got one part right. Byron Donalds
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did indeed say the quiet parts out loud. He said the one thing the Democrats simply cannot allow anyone
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to say, which is that the policies of the Democratic Party drastically increased Black dependency
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on the government and in the process destabilized the family structure. That is, which again,
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is a fact. And you notice that none of these people that are complaining about Byron Donalds,
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none of them have even attempted to claim that he's wrong about what he actually said,
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because it's just a fact. It's an undeniable, indisputable, verifiable fact.
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And that's the third rail that Democrats don't want any politician to go anywhere near,
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even though with every passing year, it's getting harder and harder to deny it.
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The Democratic Party has controlled pretty much every major urban center in this country for
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decades. And after all that, they've only made things worse. You know, Selma, the site of the
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famous civil rights marches, the city that's been run by Democrats in perpetuity, well, they just went
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to virtual classes a few weeks ago, not because of COVID, but because too many children are getting
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Happening now, some Selma City schools moved to virtual learning today over concerns about gun
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violence. Selma's superintendent says there were multiple shootings over the weekend and at the
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direction of local law enforcement, Selma High School and Saints Virtual Academy Alternative Learning
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Center were asked to go virtual learning. WSFA 12 news anchor Judd Davis is live in the newsroom
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with more. Judd, how long will this change be in place?
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Well, Bethany, the schools you mentioned will be virtual for today only, at least for now,
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and all other schools in Selma will not be impacted. The school superintendent says over
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the weekend, there were several shootings involving teenagers and one teen was seriously injured. No
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word on where those shootings happened or if any arrests have been made. Now, we have tried to get in
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contact with the Selma Police Department so far. No word back to get any new information. The school
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superintendent says, quote, the Selma City School District has decided to transition to virtual
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learning until the suspects are apprehended or until police presence is increased in our schools.
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This decision comes out of concerns of possible retaliation. So it is possible the virtual learning
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could be extended, but so far, we're told it is just for today. Bethany?
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Well, that's always a sign that you're, you know, that everything's going well in your community when
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you have to shut down schools because there's so much violence. And they're not even talking,
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apparently, about necessarily threats against the school itself, but just in the community. The
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community itself is so violent that you can't, it'd be too dangerous for kids to go to school.
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Hakeem Jeffries and the Democratic Party never talk about Selma, even though Democrats have been
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running it for decades. The city that became famous during the civil rights movement remains to this day
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one of the poorest places in the entire country. I mean, it's so dangerous now that they're keeping
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children home from school. That doesn't necessarily mean the people of Selma were better off under Jim
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Crow. However, Hakeem Jeffries wants to define better off. But it does mean that the government
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certainly hasn't helped matters in the wake of the civil rights movement. If there's ever going to be
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a return to normalcy in Selma and dozens of other cities like it, then it's necessary to first
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acknowledge that LBJ's great society and its offshoots haven't actually created great societies.
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They've done the opposite. Byron Donalds made that case this week. And by completely melting down
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in response, Democrats in the House have admitted basically that he was right. Now let's get to our
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slash Walsh. The Hill reports Deborah Birx, a physician who served as former President Trump's
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coronavirus response coordinator, warned that the United States is making the same mistakes with
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the bird flu as it did with COVID-19. Birx served as the coronavirus response coordinator in Trump's
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administration. Of course, you remember her. She's the one with all the scarves, the scarf lady.
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A third human case of bird flu was identified in the state of Michigan last week, according to the
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CDC. Like other previous cases identified since March, the person is a dairy farm worker who had
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exposure to infected cows. The CDC has maintained that the current public health risk in connection to
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the bird flu is low, but that it will continue to monitor the situation. But Deborah Birx is very
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concerned about it. Here's the here's the clip. Watch. We're not testing to really see how many people
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have been exposed and got asymptomatically infected. We should be testing every cow weekly. You can do
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pooled PCR. We have the technology. We're the great thing about America is we're incredibly innovative and
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we have the ability to have these breakthroughs. We could be pool testing every dairy worker. I do
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believe that there's undetected cases in humans because we're once again only tracking people with
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symptoms. When we did that with COVID, the virus spread throughout the Northeast undetected because it
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took a long time to get to the vulnerable individuals. But in the meantime, thousands, hundreds of thousands of
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people were infected with asymptomatic or mild disease and never came to medical attention.
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We have to switch from symptoms to actually definitive laboratory testing.
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Testing. So this is what she wants to do. Test every cow weekly. Every cow every week. Well, there are,
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I don't know if you know how many cows are in the United States. I didn't know off the top of my head,
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but I looked it up and at least a five second Google search tells me there's 30 million cows
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in the United States. So she wants to conduct 30 million cow tests every week. That's 120 million
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cows tested a month. Who's doing all these cow tests? What happens if the cow's infected?
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Do we kill the cow? Do we, can we eat them? Bird flu burgers, that could be a thing, maybe discounted.
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Um, that's a nice ring to it. But Burke says that we, uh, we have to be worried about bird flu,
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even though there've been a tiny handful of cases that we still should be worried because what about
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asymptomatic spread? Where have we heard that one before? And that sounds very familiar. In fact,
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this, this, this whole thing seems very familiar. Just the, the, I seem to remember a few months
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before presidential election, there's a new virus, familiar plot line, isn't it? Which is why it's a
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good thing. Thankfully, the, the, the thing we can be grateful for is that these people are not
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creative. They don't have any original ideas. They just repeat themselves over and over again.
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It's the same script ad nauseum, uh, just like in Hollywood, there's nothing but reboots and remakes
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with these people. And so they're just trying the exact same thing again with, uh, with this.
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When of course, in reality, there's, there's no reason why we should even be talking about,
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um, a virus that has supposedly infected three people in a country of 330 million plus people,
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not counting all the illegal, uh, immigrants. Um, there's no reason to even talk about it. Like
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we, it's, it's, what should we do in response to it? Like nothing really. Um, and if you're going to
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be at all worried about viruses and illnesses that three people have, there's like hundreds of scary
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diseases out there that are currently infecting at least a few people. So there's no reason to
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talk about it really. But the only reason that they do want to talk about, of course, is
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as we said, a few, few, few weeks, few months before the election, this is how the script goes.
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Okay. New York times has this report, multiple Chicago sky players, uh, which WNBA team shared
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their accounts of being harassed outside the team's hotel in Washington DC on Wednesday night with star
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rookie angel Reese saying a teammate had a camera put in her face as she got off the bus.
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Reese wrote on X, this is really out of control. It needs to stop. Sky arrived in Washington DC ahead
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of their game against the Washington mystics mystics on Thursday night. According to the Chicago Sun
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times, the team has, uh, was harassed by a man targeting Kennedy Carter who, who spells her name
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C H E N N E D Y Carter. So it should be Kennedy. Why would you do that to your kid? You want to name
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your kid Kennedy? Fine. Why would you spell it C H? Because now you've doomed your child for the rest
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of her life. She's going to have to correct people. Every person that sees her name is going to read
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Kennedy and she's going to say, Oh no, it's Kennedy. Or when she gives her name to someone, she's out,
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my name's Kennedy Carter. They're going to write it down. No, no, it's with a C H. Why would you do
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that? Just to be clever with your spelling. Don't be clever with the spelling of a child's name. Just
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give them a regular name with regular spelling. Anyway, um, uh, Kennedy Carter has received
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nationwide attention for hard foul on Caitlin Clark in the sky's game against the Indiana fever. We talked
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about that. Sky four, Brianna Turner said she wasn't at the scene of the incident at the scene of the
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incident. Uh, but the absurd headlines recently has certainly created an unstable environment for
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our safety. She says sky forward, Isabel Harrison posted, thank God for security. My teammate
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being harassed at our hotel is insane. Couldn't even step off the bus. Okay. Well, these players were
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harassed. They needed security, harassed, accosted, unstable environment. They're unsafe.
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Out of control. It has to stop. It sounds pretty bad. It sounds terrible. And if people are harassing
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WNBA players, uh, they really do need to stop. Harassment is bad. We can't have that.
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So is this what we've come to in America that now WNBA players can't even get off a team bus without
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being harassed? That's, that's, that's pretty rough stuff. That's bad. Well, fortunately there,
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there is a video evidence of this harassment. I mean, the guy who did the quote unquote harassing,
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uh, is the one who recorded it. And so we have video of it and I think we'll be able to play this
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whole video uncensored. It is pretty, uh, it's, it's pretty dire. It's pretty, pretty disturbing,
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Miss Carter, have you gotten a chance to reach out to Caitlin?
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Relax. Have you gotten a chance to reach out to Caitlin?
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Kennedy, have you gotten a chance? The basketball world wants to know if you've gotten a chance to
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That was it. That was, that was the whole thing. You're probably watching, waiting for the,
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you're waiting for the harassment to start and it, but that was it. That was, so that was the
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harassment. A guy standing at a distance, politely asking a question. That's harassment. A question
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that's not even really a gotcha question or a hard question, not even a hostile question.
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It wasn't even like, how dare you? Uh, how could you treat someone like that? But just,
00:24:03.940
have you had a chance to reach out to her? That was the question, the most innocuous question
00:24:07.480
you could ask. Um, and that's what makes them feel threatened. Their safety is jeopardized.
00:24:13.980
One guy with a camera asking a question for 20 seconds. That's what these women are whining about.
00:24:19.320
So it is not a big surprise, but many of these WNBA players have revealed themselves to be some of
00:24:26.580
the most insufferable human beings on the planet. Um, and, and by the way, maybe, maybe that solves
00:24:34.580
the mystery for you ladies in the WNBA, the ones that are, a lot of you are complaining that Caitlin
00:24:38.720
Clark gets more attention than you do. Well, partly it's because she's better, but also she's,
00:24:43.380
she seems, you know, and I don't watch her. I don't follow, uh, WNBA, NBA basketball at all, but
00:24:49.580
she seems like a nice, normal, likable person. You know, just seems like a nice, like a normal person.
00:24:57.600
And you, on the other hand, are incredibly unlikable, just very unpleasant, annoying,
00:25:02.360
whiny. So nobody likes you. I mean, the fans don't like you. Most likely the people in your
00:25:08.620
personal life don't even like you, not because of racism. It's because of your defective personalities.
00:25:16.020
Hope, hope, hope that makes you feel better. I hope that's, uh, I hope that's reassuring to you.
00:25:20.720
It actually shouldn't be like, I would rather be the target of racism than have people not like me
00:25:26.040
because of just who I am as a person. Um, so I don't know if it makes you feel better, but that's,
00:25:32.140
that's the problem. Whether it's, uh, Angel Reese or this other Kennedy Carter, whoever's people don't
00:25:37.660
like you, it's just, it's, it's not because of your race. It's just because of who you are. It's
00:25:40.780
like, it's because of everything else about you besides that is, uh, is why they don't like you.
00:25:46.740
Meanwhile, here you are getting attention. Like you asked you wind that you weren't getting attention.
00:25:56.540
Now you're getting the attention. You ordered, you ordered the attention. You pointed to it on the menu
00:26:00.660
and you asked the waiter for it. You said, yes, I'd like to order some attention, please.
00:26:04.720
I like the, can I get the, uh, all you can eat attention platter, please with a free refills.
00:26:10.800
And yeah, you got it. That's what you wanted. And now you're whining about that too. So when
00:26:15.820
people don't pay attention to you, you whine, when people do pay attention to you, you whine.
00:26:23.240
I'm starting to think that you just will whine about anything, no matter what it's, it's almost
00:26:27.360
like you're always the victim, regardless of the circumstances, because if you want to be famous
00:26:31.640
and you want people to pay attention and to care about the WNBA, this, this, this is part of being
00:26:36.740
a famous person is that when you walk down the street, somebody might come up with a camera
00:26:39.720
and ask you a question. It's part, part of the, that's part of the whole thing. It's part of the
00:26:42.840
deal. Um, but no matter what they, they are the victims, as we've seen, we talked a moment ago
00:26:51.100
about reboots and rehashes and sequels. Daily Wire has this, the numbers show that women and young
00:26:56.800
moviegoers just aren't showing up for the female led dystopian Furiosa, a Mad Max saga.
00:27:02.760
And it might mean the end of the franchise. The latest Mad Max film opened domestically over the
00:27:06.500
long Memorial Day weekend and brought in a dismal $32 million at the box office, just barely beating
00:27:12.120
the Chris Pratt led the Garfield movie, which earned $31 million the same weekend. Diving into the
00:27:17.960
numbers, the blaze news found that between the Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, 2015 Mad Max Fury Road,
00:27:23.080
and the newest one led by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, fewer women and young moviegoers turned out to
00:27:28.560
watch the George Miller-directed film. 2015, the film's opening weekend saw a 40% female audience
00:27:33.440
compared to the latest opening, which only had 29% female viewership. At the same time, the film
00:27:39.260
also failed to attract the coveted age demographic of ages 18 to 24, with only 21% turning up to watch
00:27:44.420
the latest Mad Max film compared to 31% who watched the one in 2015. Um, and, uh, so it's just doing
00:27:51.740
poorly. So Hollywood's very rough summer continues and they were hoping that Mad Max would bail them
00:27:58.800
out. Um, and, uh, it didn't, I haven't seen the film, but from what I've heard, it's, you know,
00:28:04.940
it's a decent, it's, it's pretty good. It does have a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, both by the
00:28:09.860
critics and the audience, 90% from both, which is, um, which is, uh, which is pretty impressive. It's,
00:28:15.820
it's kind of rare these days that critics and audience agree and to agree exactly 90%. So pretty
00:28:20.480
impressive. I I'm, I'm assuming it's a decent movie. Why isn't it performing? Well, for one
00:28:26.740
thing, it's a Mad Max movie without Mad Max. And this is, this is something Hollywood has been
00:28:31.460
trying a lot recently, of course, where they put out a movie that's like in, in the universe,
00:28:40.040
right? Of some iconic character, but without that character in the film. And it rarely works
00:28:46.840
and it's working less and less. There are diminishing returns in this sort of thing.
00:28:51.600
And they've tried this with, with a lot of franchises. They just put out, uh, what is
00:28:57.020
basically the worst movie of all time? What was it called? Madam web, madam web. And it was a movie
00:29:02.240
in the Spider-Man universe, but without Spider-Man and it flopped and it was terrible and everybody
00:29:08.880
hated it. Of course, because you, why would you want to watch a Spider-Man movie without Spider-Man?
00:29:13.740
Why would you want a Mad Max movie without Mad Max? And the studios do this because they're trying to
00:29:19.660
milk the IP, the brand. It's obviously why they do it, but they still somehow don't understand
00:29:26.460
just how exhausted the audience is with the same stuff over and over and over again.
00:29:34.520
Which is why if you want to tell a story about some woman in a post-apocalyptic world who goes
00:29:42.700
on an adventure or whatever, then fine, tell that story. It doesn't have to be in the Mad Max universe.
00:29:49.360
It could just be in the universe. Just, just tell the story. Not every story has to be connected to
00:29:55.220
some other story. Let it live and die on its own. Let it stand on its own two feet. I mean, Star Wars is
00:30:01.380
the most infamous example of this. You know, it's every, every five weeks they put out another
00:30:08.080
thing that's in, in the star, you know, and so it's just a, it's a, all it is now, it's like a
00:30:13.660
sci-fi film or, or show that has no connection to the main, whatever Star Wars storyline, but it's in
00:30:21.540
the Star Wars universe. Well, it just, how about just make a, if you want to do a sci-fi show, just
00:30:25.740
make a sci-fi show. It's its own thing. It doesn't have to be in that universe. There's a whole, there's
00:30:31.300
a whole actual universe where you could fit a lot of stories. And then also people are sick of the
00:30:37.460
female action hero thing. Um, so I think that's part of this as well. And audiences were never all
00:30:44.400
that interested in female action heroes to begin with, but now people are really tired of it.
00:30:50.480
And from what I understand, this one is not really woke feminist propaganda. Maybe it is. I'm sure
00:30:56.160
there's some of that in there, but even if it isn't, it's still a female led action film and there
00:31:00.780
simply isn't much interest in that. There just isn't. Uh, and there never has been with few
00:31:06.660
exceptions. Even after Hollywood has been pushing this for 15 years now, they've been relentlessly
00:31:13.980
pushing this. You got to have an action movie. It should be a female lead and they've been pushing
00:31:21.900
it, but most of the most successful and beloved and iconic action films of all time are male led
00:31:28.040
still. And that's because generally speaking, uh, men make better action heroes. They just do their
00:31:34.980
men. Generally speaking are better suited for those roles. And most of the time audiences are more
00:31:41.440
interested in that. Um, audiences relate to them more, even female audiences.
00:31:48.220
But Hollywood's going to keep trying and, uh, until I guess they beat us into submission with this
00:31:53.200
stuff. All right, here's a, here's quite a, a, a grim story. Unfortunately, uh, this is from the
00:32:00.320
independent. When Michael Bomber found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot
00:32:07.720
of time with his wife, Annette, talking about what would happen after his death. She told
00:32:11.380
him one of the things she'd miss most is being able to ask him questions whenever she wants,
00:32:16.060
whenever she wants, because he's so well-read and always shares his wisdom.
00:32:20.280
That conversation sparked an idea for Bomber. Recreate his voice using artificial intelligence
00:32:25.660
to survive him after he passes away. The 61 year old startup entrepreneur teamed up with his friend
00:32:31.660
in the U.S., Robert, uh, Loqueschio, CEO of the AI-powered legacy platform, Eternos. Within two
00:32:38.360
months, they built a comprehensive, interactive AI version of Bomber, the company's first client.
00:32:45.400
Eternos, which got its name from the Italian and Latin word for eternal,
00:32:49.900
says its technology will allow Bomber's family to engage with his life experiences and insights
00:32:53.940
even after he's dead. It's among several companies that have emerged in the last few years,
00:32:58.660
once becoming a growing space for grief-related AI technology. One of the most well-known startups
00:33:04.800
in this area, California-based StoryFile allows people to interact with pre-recorded videos and
00:33:09.600
uses its algorithms to detect the most relevant answers to questions posed by users. Another company
00:33:15.780
called Hereafter AI offers similar interactions through a life story avatar that users can create by
00:33:21.580
answering prompts or sharing their own personal stories. There's also Project December, a chatbot
00:33:26.840
that directs users to fill out a questionnaire, answering key facts about a person and their traits,
00:33:32.300
and then pay $10 to simulate a text-based conversation with the character. The character being your dead
00:33:38.860
loved one. Yeah, another company, uh, Seance AI offers fictionalized seances for free.
00:33:45.660
I mean, this is, like I said, it's grim. I mean, this is, this is grim stuff. Uh, quite literally a
00:33:54.900
Black Mirror episode. I think this exact plot line was a Black Mirror episode. And so we continue to use
00:34:00.960
dystopian sci-fi as an instruction manual rather than a cautionary tale. And this kind of thing,
00:34:08.000
I find it's so deeply depressing on a level that's almost inexpressible.
00:34:12.200
The idea of being turned into a chatbot after you die, that it's truly a fate worse than,
00:34:19.980
it's worse than death. It's worse than hell. I mean, it's better to
00:34:22.560
burn in the fires of eternal torment than to be made into Siri. Or at least it's like,
00:34:26.960
they're one and the same. It's like, that is hell. That's, that's, that's, you know,
00:34:31.340
I tell you this right now, if anyone does this to me after I die, I'm going to come back and haunt you.
00:34:35.320
I'm going to haunt the hell out of you. If you do this to me, it's full on poltergeist. If I,
00:34:40.620
if I find out, if I find out that I've been turned into a, to a chatbot, um,
00:34:46.940
and this is probably the best example, the starkest example, the bleakest example
00:34:52.840
of our death phobic culture. And we are culture terrified of death. And I know you might say that
00:34:59.480
every culture has been afraid of death. Every person is afraid of death to some extent. Uh,
00:35:04.600
and that's true. So maybe death phobic is, um, is not exactly the right term. Uh, we aren't afraid
00:35:13.180
of death as much as we are in, in denial about it. The denial of death is a, is a book I mentioned
00:35:20.080
on the show before is written in the seventies by a guy named Ernest Becker, who ironically died
00:35:24.820
shortly after, uh, after it was published. He won a Pulitzer, I think for the book,
00:35:28.960
but was not alive to receive it because he had died. But, um, this was his, his theory that
00:35:36.140
modern society is in denial about the reality of death. It refuses to even really acknowledge
00:35:41.800
the reality of death because death is finality. Death is the, the end of something. Death is a
00:35:49.680
conclusion. Um, death is something that we can't really control. It has a, it has a power over us that
00:35:57.880
we can't change, that we can't mitigate. Uh, and we, we like to believe that we're in control of
00:36:04.520
everything, that we have, we have total control over every aspect of our lives. Um, and that
00:36:09.480
nothing can happen or should be allowed to happen if we don't want it. And if we don't like it,
00:36:15.440
if we don't identify with it. So we want to be able to say to death, oh, I don't identify.
00:36:20.760
No, I don't identify as dead. I don't, I don't, that, that, that doesn't work. You know, dying
00:36:25.200
doesn't really work with what I want to do in my life. I don't really, I don't, I don't know.
00:36:29.060
I just don't connect with that. Sorry, death. That's what we want to say, but of course we can't.
00:36:35.020
And, um, and in modern society, we have just a lot of trouble with all that. So we find ways of
00:36:40.340
trying to fool ourselves about our own mortality. It's just kind of this game that we play
00:36:44.840
to avoid, um, its reality. That's what a lot of the cosmetic surgery industry is, is about.
00:36:53.900
That's what our obsession with youth is about. That's why we, you know, that's why we act like
00:37:00.880
our age is some kind of embarrassing personal detail, which is, which is endlessly absurd.
00:37:09.480
That, you know, asking someone how older they are is embarrassing.
00:37:13.520
That if somebody is 52 years old or whatever it is, that they should be embarrassed by that.
00:37:19.560
One of the many things that we take for granted, we probably think, think that,
00:37:22.820
oh, you know, it's, it's just, it's normal people. It's, you don't ask people that question.
00:37:26.600
It's well, it's not, it's not normal. I mean, in most societies, it was the opposite. Actually,
00:37:31.940
if anything, it was embarrassing to be too young because being old was a, was a sign of the people
00:37:37.480
are proud of that. You know, the village elder, the village elder is 75 years old. He's quite
00:37:42.320
proud to be 70. Tell everybody that because that, what does that mean? It means you've been around
00:37:45.480
for a long time. You have wisdom. There's wisdom that comes with it. Um, and that was, uh, that was
00:37:51.420
revered. And now we have the exact opposite. I mean, it really is. It's, it's, it's, it, it's the world
00:37:58.000
we've all lived in the world we all grew up in. So it's, it's impossible to not take it to,
00:38:02.560
take, take it for granted to some extent, but we should try to understand at least on an
00:38:09.140
intellectual level, how ridiculous it is to live in a society where older people pretend
00:38:17.060
to be younger. They try to make themselves look younger. They don't want to talk about
00:38:21.960
their age. They want to be seen as younger. Like if you have a, if you say to a 55 year old
00:38:26.600
woman, Oh, I thought you were 35. You should take that as a compliment. Oh, thank you. That's
00:38:32.900
an, that's an insult to be thought of as significantly younger than you are. You should
00:38:38.440
be insulted by that. That's another way of saying you are not mature. You know, I expect
00:38:45.160
older people to have a certain gravitas and wisdom about them and you don't have that. And
00:38:49.340
so that's what I'm telling you. And you take it as a compliment. So, but that's all, it's
00:38:56.560
all part of the same. It's all part of the same thing that we are. What is all of that
00:39:00.600
about? Like, why is it, why is it embarrassing to be older? It doesn't make any sense. The
00:39:05.960
only reason why it could be considered embarrassing is because we understand that being older is,
00:39:14.640
is, you know, with, with age comes more greater proximity to death. And, uh, that is the fact
00:39:22.440
that we are embarrassed by and afraid of, and, and don't want to acknowledge. Um, and this
00:39:30.300
is so far the bleakest, uh, manifestation of this that, that we can try to say, well, I'm not,
00:39:39.980
I'm not really dying at all because I'm going to be, I'm going to live forever in my loved one's
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Today for our daily cancellation, we turn to something called Rainbow History Class. Apparently
00:41:08.000
Rainbow History Class is a website dedicated to teaching people about LGBT history and other
00:41:12.880
subjects related to LGBT. They have what they call teachers who post social media videos about
00:41:17.640
various LGBT topics. Just to give you an idea of what and who we're dealing with, here are just a few
00:41:23.640
of the teachers they have listed on their website. There's Rudy, they, them, a rainbow history teacher
00:41:28.900
and creative. Also, Blossom, they, them, listed as a linguist and Spanish teacher. Pomara Fifth,
00:41:36.440
he, her, they, a drag performer. Giancarlo De Vera, they, he, CEO of Gay and Lesbian Multicultural
00:41:43.300
Council. This is my favorite. Ellie, she, her, whose official title as listed on the site is
00:41:48.700
Lesbian Fashion Historian. So if you've ever sat around wondering, you know, what lesbians were
00:41:57.240
wearing in the 1700s or in the Middle Ages or in ancient Rome, then Ellie can tell you all about
00:42:02.400
it. Personally, I have often said, and people, and anyone will tell you this because I talk about
00:42:06.680
it all the time. I've often said that, that if I had access to a time machine, I would go to Egypt
00:42:10.900
in the time of the pharaohs and inquire about lesbian fashion trends. I would show up and say,
00:42:17.440
hey, what do lesbians wear around here? And then once they tell me, I'll say, oh, great,
00:42:22.360
thanks. And I'll get back in my time machine and return to the current day. But now no time machine
00:42:26.140
is necessary because we have rainbow history class for that. Over on their TikTok page, which has
00:42:30.320
depressingly over half a million followers, they just posted a video, not, not entirely unrelated to
00:42:36.460
time travel. One of their teachers is instructing the class on the subject of queer temporality
00:42:41.760
and the LGBT, quote, experience of time. Take a listen.
00:42:47.880
Did you know that queer and trans people actually experience time completely differently to cishet
00:42:53.120
people? It's a concept called queer temporality. And it basically has to do with the fact that
00:42:58.320
historically, as queer and trans people, our lives have started much later and for a whole bunch of
00:43:04.620
reasons ended earlier than our cishet counterparts. So as a result, our experience of time is compressed.
00:43:13.080
It also has to do with the fact that those milestones that we've been socialized to use to mark the
00:43:18.900
passage of time, so things like marriage or having children or, you know, working, retiring, inheritance,
00:43:26.300
things like that, haven't been accessible to us. And that linear timeline has a name.
00:43:35.340
Heterochronology. And as queer and trans people, our experience of time often sits outside that.
00:43:42.180
Basically, it's super interesting. And I'm going to be unpacking it more this week on the podcast.
00:43:50.040
And she's Australian, of course. Of course, she's Australian, I think,
00:43:54.280
or something like that. From New Zealand, maybe. One of those.
00:43:58.880
Anyway, let's unpack it. Yes. There is so much nonsense here to unpack that we cannot focus on
00:44:04.760
each individual morsel of nonsense. For instance, we'll have to just skip over the claim that LGBT
00:44:08.440
people haven't been able to access things like jobs, retirement, and inheritance.
00:44:13.380
What? This woman lives not just in a different timeline, but on a different planet entirely,
00:44:20.660
one where LGBT people are banned from having jobs or inheriting wealth. Of course, with a major like
00:44:26.960
lesbian fashion history, it is likely that most jobs are inaccessible, but that's a rather
00:44:31.780
self-inflicted challenge. Anyway, she tells us that linear time is not a common experience for all
00:44:38.160
mortal creatures in the known universe. In fact, linear time is something that only heterosexuals
00:44:42.120
experience. That is heterochronology, she tells us. And as a heterosexual man myself,
00:44:48.660
I experience one moment, and then the next, and then the next, and so on and so on until I die.
00:44:56.240
And I may assume that every other person also travels through life one second at a time on a
00:45:00.600
linear path from present to future, but that's just my cishet privilege talking. LGBT people, she says,
00:45:06.320
experience queer temporality. Their experience of time is compressed largely because their lives
00:45:13.140
start later. How is it possible for a life to start later? What does that even mean? Like later
00:45:19.200
than what? When someone's life starts and you say, well, this life should have started earlier.
00:45:24.220
What? What do you mean it should have started earlier? It doesn't mean anything, of course. It's
00:45:29.580
totally incoherent nonsense. But it's not nonsense that this woman invented. Rather,
00:45:33.920
it was invented by academia, like so much other nonsense, sometime in the last several years.
00:45:39.500
The Oxford Student Newspaper has an article from 2021 titled, The Comfort of Queer Time Theory.
00:45:45.400
The author explains, quote, the basic idea is that queer lives do not progress in the same way as
00:45:50.680
non-queer lives. Experience of queer people, like coming out or transitioning for trans people,
00:45:56.600
warp time, which prevents life developing in a linear way. For me as a bisexual, I feel like I
00:46:03.040
experienced two strands of time. My progression with dating people that don't identify as men
00:46:08.300
has been far behind than my progression with dating men, which has evolved in a fairly normal way.
00:46:15.680
Queer time has reassured me of my identity. Sexuality is about attraction, not action, and
00:46:19.620
it is perfectly okay to have different levels of experience with different genders. My life and
00:46:24.180
the lives of other queer people may not develop the way that they do for non-queer people. We might
00:46:28.440
reach significant life events later or never at all. We might be inexperienced for our age,
00:46:32.860
but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with them. Yes, you see that when a queer person comes
00:46:38.520
out of the closet, that earth-shattering announcement is so cosmically significant
00:46:43.500
that it literally warps time. They then find themselves experiencing multiple strands of time
00:46:51.020
all at once. Queer people are superhuman. They're like gods living outside of time itself. They are
00:46:57.220
timeless, ageless, omnipresent, omniscient beings. And the only thing more impressive than their
00:47:03.560
mystical ability to transcend the linear progression of time is, of course, their humility. Now, I don't
00:47:09.660
need to explain why this is all a bunch of gibberish. There's hopefully no need to debunk the claim that
00:47:14.540
LGBT people experience non-linear time. I assume that everyone listening to the segment already
00:47:20.900
understands that we are all subject to the progression of time no matter what our sexual
00:47:25.200
preferences are. All of our lives, you know, take different courses. We follow different trajectories.
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We have different milestones, different landmarks along the way, but time moves at the same speed for
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all of us. Now, that doesn't mean that time is the same everywhere in the universe. There are places you
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can go, theoretically, where time really is warped, the edge of a black hole, for instance.
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And I will say that if anybody in the rainbow history class wanted to make the trek to the
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nearest black hole about 1,500 light years away to really experience time dilation, I think that's a
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great idea. I'd be very supportive of that project. I would even donate to a GoFundMe to get it off the
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ground. But as long as they're on Earth, time is the same for them as it is for any of us.
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So, if we can just all agree on that point, where does queer time theory really come from? How could
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anyone become convinced that they literally exist outside of linear time? Well, the answer is the
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same as always. This is just narcissism. This is extreme, overwhelming, delusional narcissism.
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That is how we end up with people who believe that they can transcend the laws of biology and then
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even time itself. They may try to dress it up in scholarly lingo or what is supposed to sound like
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scholarly lingo. But if you peel back the layers, all you find is a giant, insecure, self-obsessed ego
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trying to convince itself of its own superiority. Now, if it were possible for an ego to become so
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vast and so inwardly focused that it really did turn into a black hole that warped space and time,
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well, then maybe queer time theory might actually have some validity. But that's not actually how it
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works. And that is why the Rainbow School and its queer time theory are today canceled.
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That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.