The Matt Walsh Show - July 19, 2024


Ep. 1405 - Is Biden Headed Off To The Nursing Home This Weekend？


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00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, according to many reports, Democrats are on the verge of finally
00:00:03.960 pushing Biden out, but the whole premise of this campaign to oust Biden has been false from the
00:00:08.280 beginning. They're pretending that they just learned he's senile, but they've known all along
00:00:11.960 have been covering it up. Also, Donald Trump delivers a riveting description of his assassination
00:00:15.220 attempt during a speech at the convention last night. More companies are abandoning their DEI
00:00:19.840 initiatives, and a new poll shows just how widespread Trump assassination conspiracy
00:00:23.820 theories are on the left. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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00:01:55.980 Last night, less than a week after an assassin nearly ended his life, Donald Trump delivered
00:02:00.220 a marathon acceptance speech to close out the Republican convention. It began with a riveting
00:02:04.960 description of his experience on Saturday. That section of the speech was, I think we can say
00:02:10.200 with confidence, the most compelling thing to ever happen during a speech at a political convention.
00:02:15.860 Trump seemed like himself, but also like a different man at the same time. He was clearly
00:02:22.840 grateful to God that he's still with us, and he seemed to relish every moment that he had with
00:02:27.400 the crowd. And that would explain why, at 92 minutes, Trump's speech was the longest nomination
00:02:32.040 acceptance speech in the history of this country. And I believe that the speeches that rank number
00:02:38.320 two and three on that list also belong to Donald Trump. He even pointed to the same immigration chart
00:02:43.460 that helped save his life on Saturday. And he appeared to pick up right where he left off in
00:02:48.500 Butler. The address was heartfelt. It was unifying, especially by the standards of a Trump speech.
00:02:53.760 And it was yet more bad news for Democrats hoping to win any contested election in November,
00:02:59.480 anywhere on the ballot, really. Donald Trump is a nominee who enjoys without question the support
00:03:04.480 of a unified party and tens of millions of devoted supporters all over the country,
00:03:09.300 which is certainly not something we could say for Joe Biden. We cannot say that at all about the man
00:03:14.840 who is, at least for now, running against Donald Trump. At this point, the contrast between the
00:03:20.660 two candidates is as clear and as unfavorable for Joe Biden as it could possibly be. Joe Biden is not
00:03:28.920 compost mentis, let's say. He's not humble, nor has he ever been humble. He doesn't have the support
00:03:34.140 of his own party or longtime friends and allies. He doesn't have the support of any of them. Everyone
00:03:39.720 from George Clooney to Nancy Pelosi. Now Barack Obama have all knifed him in the back. And now,
00:03:46.900 according to the New York Times and various other outlets across the political spectrum,
00:03:50.620 Biden's finally considering dropping out of the race, supposedly. Newsmax's Mark Halperin has gone
00:03:57.040 further with his reporting, claiming that Biden has already made the decision to step aside. Now it's just
00:04:01.900 a matter of when. Watch. Carl, according to multiple Democratic sources, this is happening
00:04:08.000 all of a sudden. Everyone said it would happen gradually and then all at once, and that's what's
00:04:11.320 happening. According to my sources, President Biden has agreed to step down as a Democratic nominee.
00:04:16.820 It will happen as early as this weekend. A speech has been drafted for him. He will continue on as
00:04:22.400 president. It's his intention. He also will not, I'm told, endorse Vice President Harris as his
00:04:27.660 successor. They're hoping that he will endorse an open process in which the convention will be open
00:04:34.060 to Vice President Harris and a few other candidates. Now, this is obviously a fast moving situation,
00:04:41.100 and it's quite possible that any moment now Joe Biden will announce he's stepping aside. Then again,
00:04:46.640 it's possible that all of these reports are planted by Barack Obama's team to further pressure Biden to
00:04:51.620 quit the race. And that could actually mean that Joe Biden entrenches himself even further and refuses
00:04:56.820 to. But in either event, in any event, it is a humiliating situation for Joe Biden and his inner
00:05:03.720 circle of advisors, which now consists of an openly corrupt crackhead and a narcissistic fake doctor with
00:05:09.640 an education degree. That's pretty much it. All this to say, it's still technically conceivable that Joe
00:05:17.380 Biden, without any support from his own voters or colleagues and without any money from donors,
00:05:22.140 will somehow power through this and power through the dementia and everything else and cobble together
00:05:29.060 something that resembles a presidential run. That campaign would be like watching the Hindenburg
00:05:34.820 in slow motion, and it's not especially likely at this moment, I don't think, but the possibility is
00:05:40.260 there, at least for now. And with all this drama, which is unprecedented in modern politics,
00:05:45.400 it's important to understand one point about all this palace intrigue. None of it is about the fact
00:05:53.760 that Joe Biden is old and senile. Like that's the claim you're hearing, but it's just not true.
00:06:00.020 The premise is false. Democrats are not calling on Joe Biden to step aside because they just discovered
00:06:06.100 that he has dementia. They've known that all along. So has the media. And that's the same reason that
00:06:14.560 you and I knew it. We knew it just by watching him. And so, of course, the people closest to him
00:06:18.500 knew it even more. And the media also knew it. But they were perfectly ready and willing to install
00:06:24.480 Joe Biden for another four years, knowing very well that he cannot do the job. The only thing that's
00:06:30.820 changed is public awareness of the extent of Biden's mental decline, something that should have been
00:06:36.480 obvious to the public also all along. But it wasn't obvious to everyone, I guess, because Democrats went
00:06:42.580 to great lengths to obscure information about Biden's mental status from voters. The self-described
00:06:48.320 defenders of democracy took it upon themselves to lie and deceive the electorate so that they could keep
00:06:53.940 their puppet in power. But the debate, which happened a couple of weeks ago, of course, revealed
00:06:59.020 everything they've been trying to hide. And Donald Trump, by the grace of God, was not assassinated last
00:07:03.880 weekend. So here we are. Democrats have no choice but to turn on Biden. They're engaging in a historic
00:07:10.820 effort post-primary season but pre-convention to oust their party's democratically chosen candidate
00:07:16.360 from their ticket. And if this effort succeeds, it'll set quite a precedent for the Democrats. It'll mean
00:07:21.340 that winning the Democrats' presidential primary comes with an asterisk, which is that, you know,
00:07:26.720 the voter's decision doesn't really matter. It's not final. The party elites can remove you at any time
00:07:31.760 if they want to. This is what they're going for. And they're all in at this point. Pretty much every
00:07:38.620 significant politician in the party has made it clear at this point that they want Biden gone.
00:07:43.160 At the same time, Democrats also appear to be trying to cover up the extent to which they lied about
00:07:47.940 Biden's senility for the past several years, the extent to which they knew it but didn't tell us.
00:07:54.400 And they're doing all of that quietly but very aggressively. As Trump was speaking last night
00:07:58.700 in Milwaukee, Joe Biden's DOJ filed a motion in court to oppose the public release of audio tapes
00:08:04.740 of Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. That interview, you may remember,
00:08:10.000 involved Joe Biden repeatedly forgetting key biographical details about his own life,
00:08:13.920 including the year his son died. It was an interview that went so poorly that Hur decided
00:08:18.160 Joe Biden was effectively incapable of being prosecuted because the jury would sympathize with
00:08:22.500 his senility. He was not mentally competent to stand trial, which, of course, raises the question
00:08:28.780 about how is he mentally competent to sit in the Oval Office. But as Trump delivered his acceptance
00:08:34.660 speech at the RNC, the DOJ claimed that the audio of that interview can't be released due to,
00:08:40.540 quote, pending investigations and reasonably anticipated future investigations.
00:08:45.360 But that doesn't make sense. I mean, the transcript is already available.
00:08:48.920 Her has already testified about his interview with Biden.
00:08:53.840 And the audio is clearly newsworthy and relevant to the public interest because it would show the
00:08:57.920 extent of the mental decline of the president of the United States. The only conceivable reason to
00:09:02.220 hide the audio when, again, the transcript has already been made public, the only conceivable reason
00:09:07.320 to hide the audio from the public at this point is if it's different from the transcript that the DOJ
00:09:13.720 released. So that would make sense if they're trying to hide it in that case.
00:09:19.000 Did the DOJ sanitize the transcript in any way? Does the audio contain damning evidence of Joe Biden's
00:09:25.880 mental decline that hasn't been revealed publicly yet? Those are fair questions.
00:09:31.660 And at this hour, the DOJ is doing everything it can to avoid answering them.
00:09:35.500 At this point, it's fair to conclude that they're not simply covering up Joe Biden's senility.
00:09:41.140 They're covering up their role in covering up Joe Biden's senility.
00:09:45.540 So the cover up is worse than the crime, as they say.
00:09:48.800 So then what do we say about the cover up of the cover up?
00:09:52.020 You might remember that just a few months ago, Adam Schiff, who has now publicly called on Biden
00:09:56.060 to step aside, grilled Robert Herr about his comments in his report about Joe Biden's obvious
00:10:01.020 cognitive failures. Schiff suggested that Herr had completely made up his observations about Biden
00:10:06.540 because he wanted to hurt Biden politically. Watch.
00:10:10.820 What is in the rules, Mr. Herr, what is in the rules is you don't gratuitously do things to prejudice
00:10:17.680 the subject of an investigation when you're declining to prosecute. You don't gratuitously
00:10:23.800 add language that you'll know will be useful in a political campaign. You were not born yesterday.
00:10:29.320 You understood exactly what you were doing. It was a choice. You certainly didn't have to include
00:10:35.980 that language. You could have said vis-a-vis the documents that were found at the university.
00:10:40.180 The president did not recall. There is nothing more common. You know this. I know this.
00:10:45.200 There is nothing more common with a witness of any age when asked about events that are years old
00:10:50.320 to say, I do not recall. Indeed, they're instructed by their attorney to do that if they have any question
00:10:55.480 about it. You understood that. You made a choice. That was a political choice. It was the wrong choice.
00:11:02.140 Mr. Chairman, I yield back.
00:11:03.760 The gentleman yields back. The gentleman from Arizona. Did the special counsel wish to respond
00:11:07.740 to that final question?
00:11:08.620 Yes. Congressman, what you are suggesting is that I shape, sanitize, omit portions of my reasoning
00:11:16.520 and explanation to the attorney general for political reasons. No, I suggest that you do not
00:11:20.480 shape your report for political reasons, which is what you did. That did not happen, Congressman.
00:11:24.620 That did not happen. Well, that was a few months ago. And now, just a few months later,
00:11:30.440 Schiff admits that Joe Biden has major cognitive issues and needs to step aside. But of course,
00:11:36.240 nothing changed with Joe Biden in the past few months. Adam Schiff knew during that hearing that
00:11:41.380 everything her said in his report was accurate. Yet he was hoping to deceive the electorate for long
00:11:47.600 enough to keep the Democrats' puppet in office. But we're still not allowed to listen to the audio
00:11:52.600 of Biden's interview with her, probably because that would be even worse for Biden than the transcript
00:11:57.040 in whatever way. Again, maybe they changed the transcript. Maybe it's just they're worried about
00:12:03.420 the experience of actually listening to that and how it's even more disturbing than reading it.
00:12:09.220 Either way, the cover-up continues. Even as Democrats admit what we knew all along,
00:12:14.660 they're still hiding information from us. But there is some video that Democrats can't hide
00:12:21.000 because it's all over the internet. For months, Democrats told us that Joe Biden was fine and
00:12:25.440 that only right-wing propaganda outlets would claim otherwise. Here's one of my favorite before
00:12:29.960 and after videos showing MSNBC's Nicole Wallace pre-debate and post-debate. So she begins by saying
00:12:36.600 it's a cheap fake to say that Joe Biden was lost on stage at a fundraiser, even though the video
00:12:41.020 clearly shows that he was frozen until Barack Obama led him away. This was a fundraiser that
00:12:45.860 George Clooney attended and said that Biden was visibly, you know, just out of it for the whole night.
00:12:51.960 And then post-debate, she's talking ominously about how Joe Biden has lost the support of his party.
00:12:57.040 Watch.
00:12:57.140 There's a growing and insidious trend in right-wing media, broadcast, print, and social media.
00:13:04.600 It is to take highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden directly from
00:13:11.400 Republican National Committee social media accounts and then use those videos to spread
00:13:17.280 messages virally to cast doubt on President Biden's fitness for office. Here is this headline from the
00:13:22.920 New York Post. Quote, Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led off stage by Obama at Megabuck's LA
00:13:28.640 fundraiser. The full video posted by Biden finance chair on Twitter shows something entirely different.
00:13:36.000 Biden reacting to applause and then walking off stage with former President Obama.
00:13:40.720 And there is a conversation happening inside Biden's circle and certainly a much more frank
00:13:47.260 conversation happening inside the Democratic coalition. And I think there will be stories of a lot of
00:13:52.580 concern about the performance tonight. And I think what-
00:13:55.520 When you say conversations happening, what do you mean?
00:13:57.380 I think people are talking, I think the conversations range from whether he should
00:14:01.260 be in this race tomorrow morning to what was wrong with him.
00:14:04.680 So in the span of about a week, videos of Joe Biden's decline went from an insidious trend
00:14:09.680 to something Democrats couldn't deny anymore. This is the kind of whiplash you get if you watch MSNBC.
00:14:16.060 But the fact that Democrat Party propagandists even tried to deceive their viewers like this in the
00:14:20.140 first place tells you everything you need to know about their views on democracy.
00:14:24.240 They don't believe the voters have a right to know anything. They'll lie to their faces again
00:14:28.300 and again with no shame whatsoever. Not a single Democrat politician or media personality has
00:14:32.720 apologized for lying deliberately about Joe Biden's incompetence for the past few years.
00:14:38.740 Nancy Pelosi, who's now pressuring Biden to step aside, certainly has not apologized,
00:14:42.140 nor is she capable of doing so. Pelosi was telling us just a year ago that Joe Biden's age was
00:14:47.300 irrelevant and that he's youthful like a kid. Watch.
00:14:53.280 I couldn't be prouder of him. And again, we're very fortunate that he is in that position.
00:15:00.420 Again, age is relative. I was in L.A. for some Democratic stuff recently, and I met with Norman
00:15:07.800 Lear, who's 100 going on 101. He was telling me some new shows he was involved in. I was meeting with
00:15:13.300 Frank Gehry, a 90-something architect, showing me new buildings. He's building throughout the world.
00:15:20.560 And they were like 80. He's a kid. But again, it is relative. He's younger than I am. So he's a kid
00:15:31.000 to me as well. So I'm very excited about the reelection of the president. His Bidenomics
00:15:39.300 are very kitchen table issues. How do we address the kitchen table concerns of America's working
00:15:46.900 families? Yeah, Biden is, well, he's younger than someone who's 100. And so therefore,
00:15:54.680 he's basically a kid. He's just a kid to Nancy Pelosi because, you know, he's 80 years old and
00:16:00.780 she's three years older than he is. Now, the problem is that people's brains don't all age the same way.
00:16:07.980 Some people develop dementia by the age of 80. Some people don't.
00:16:13.340 Everybody starts to decline physically and mentally as they get into their 80s, though. It happens to
00:16:18.200 everybody. Your chance of developing dementia increases, you know, exponentially with each year
00:16:26.320 into your 80s. And Nancy Pelosi knew when she gave that interview that Joe Biden had developed
00:16:32.700 dementia. But she laughed it off. So did Joe Scarborough. Now, both of them have the new
00:16:39.360 memo and they're saying the exact opposite. They're shocked by the extent of the decline.
00:16:45.240 And speaking of Scarborough, his about face is actually one of the more striking ones. I played
00:16:49.640 some of these videos before, but it's worth repeating because of how over the top it was.
00:16:53.500 So four months ago, Scarborough was saying that Biden is sharper than he's ever been,
00:16:57.560 than he's ever been at 81. Even after the debate, Scarborough was defending Biden.
00:17:04.120 Now he's saying he has to go. So here's the before and after watch.
00:17:08.820 But comparing that guy's mental state, I've said it for years now, he's cogent.
00:17:15.200 But I undersold him when I said he was cogent. He's far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he's better
00:17:23.540 than he's ever been intellectually, analytically. And when your top fundraiser over the past five,
00:17:33.200 six, seven, eight years is telling you the money's gone, the donors have all gone away.
00:17:38.300 You know, it's it's really incumbent on people that are around Joe Biden to step up at this point
00:17:46.380 and and and help the president and help the man they love and do the right thing.
00:17:56.500 This is not going to this is not going to end well if it continues to drag out.
00:18:02.800 Yeah, I know Joe Scarborough is obviously impervious to embarrassment. But if we you know, if we had a
00:18:07.960 media with any self-respect at all, then Scarborough would not have a job right now. I mean, for many
00:18:15.160 reasons, but just on that alone, like looking into the camera and claiming that Joe Biden is better
00:18:21.120 than he's ever been. We could all see him collapsing and that he had been succumbed to senility
00:18:28.220 completely. It's just you have no credibility after that. But I guess you're on MSNBC, so
00:18:34.200 credibility is besides the point. So whether it's Joe Scarborough or Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff or the
00:18:39.060 DOJ, all of these people know exactly what they're doing. They engaged in a concerted effort
00:18:42.880 to hide Joe Biden's dementia. And now they're pretending it's a major issue, but only because
00:18:47.100 they can't deny it anymore. This is a coverup that reveals exactly how much the self-appointed
00:18:52.360 defenders of democracy really care about democracy and this country. They were planning, planning to
00:19:00.000 launch us headlong into a constitutional crisis with a late stage dementia patient starting a fresh
00:19:05.440 four-year term. This is the same party that rigged a primary against Bernie Sanders and that prevented
00:19:11.580 anyone from debating Joe Biden ahead of the primaries this year. They have no interest in
00:19:14.780 democracy. They don't care what voters want. Whoever they find to replace Biden, remember that their
00:19:21.480 ideal candidate isn't any more competent or intelligent than Joe Biden is right now. Their ideal
00:19:28.880 candidate is one they can control just as easily as they've controlled him. Now let's get to our five
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00:20:38.980 acceptance speech at the convention last night. By far the most compelling part was the beginning where he
00:20:44.460 described his near-death experience. You've probably seen that by now, but here's a brief
00:20:49.720 clip of that. Watch. When I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard
00:21:00.100 on my right ear. I said to myself, wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet. And moved my right
00:21:13.700 hand to my ear, brought it down. My hand was covered with blood, just absolutely blood all over the place.
00:21:22.620 I immediately knew it was very serious that we were under attack. And in one movement proceeded to drop
00:21:31.500 to the ground. Bullets were continuing to fly. As very brave Secret Service agents rushed to the stage
00:21:42.960 stage. And they really did. They rushed to the stage.
00:21:49.200 Now, this is, as I said, the most incredible thing to ever happen during a speech at a political
00:21:54.560 convention. Just the subject alone automatically qualifies it for that title. I know there's a lot
00:22:00.540 of hyperbole we hear all the time in politics and in general. You might even hear hyperbole on this show
00:22:06.660 on occasion, sometimes, very rarely, very rarely, but it does happen that I might engage in a tad bit
00:22:12.980 of hyperbole. This is not one of those times. I mean, this really is like there's never been anything
00:22:19.420 like this at a political convention in this country. Anyway, a presidential candidate describing his own
00:22:27.000 attempted assassination, which happened less than a week earlier. Just again, never seen anything like
00:22:32.760 that before. Now, there have been other candidates and presidents who've survived assassination attempts
00:22:36.700 and they all went on to talk about their experiences in various forums, but never in a forum like this
00:22:42.200 so soon after the fact. Now, of course, there's always somebody like Teddy Roosevelt who was shot during
00:22:48.040 a speech and then got up and continued giving the speech. But aside from that, this moment really
00:22:53.900 with Trump really, really stands alone historically. Now, of course, the speech did not end with this
00:23:00.800 section. This was the first 20 minutes or so, and then it went on for another 75 minutes.
00:23:07.080 And the media and Democrats have latched on to that. And they're desperate. They're desperate. We
00:23:12.640 know they've never been more desperate politically. And so they've latched on to that. The fact that
00:23:17.080 the speech continued for a while after that initial 20-minute, very riveting section where he talked
00:23:24.220 about the assassination attempt. And so their narrative now is that the speech was a disaster for Trump
00:23:29.220 because he rambled for an hour and a half. And they say overshadowed his powerful moment
00:23:33.740 with what came after, which was essentially just a standard Trump stump speech.
00:23:40.920 And that's what they're saying. The cope, we've never seen, this is like nuclear grade cope going on
00:23:46.740 among Democrats. And they're looking for any glimmer of hope they can find. And so that's it.
00:23:52.840 They say, well, never mind. All the momentum is gone. Everything's finished. And now Democrats are
00:24:01.360 going to win now because of this speech. Now, it's true that most of the rest of the speech was a
00:24:06.880 standard stump speech. And it's true that, yeah, obviously 93 minutes is long. It's not humanly
00:24:14.100 possible to give an absorbing and interesting speech that lasts an hour and a half. It's just never
00:24:20.060 happened. I don't, maybe somebody can come up with an example, but I'm not aware of a single example
00:24:26.120 ever in the history of public speaking where someone has held the audience's interest for an hour and a
00:24:31.760 half. I mean, that's like a, that's a feature length movie and most feature length movies feel
00:24:36.480 too long. So what are you going to do when it's just you talking to the audience? But does that make
00:24:42.420 the speech a disaster? Does it breathe new life into Biden's campaign? No, on both counts,
00:24:46.580 especially on the second count. That's all just wish casting by the media. That's fantasy.
00:24:53.940 Now you could argue, in fact, you could argue as some on the right have argued that actually a 93
00:24:59.120 minute speech, mostly off the cuff helps Trump because it shows a kind of stamina that Biden could
00:25:05.540 never manage. So there's that argument that, that actually for him to speak for that long,
00:25:12.120 mostly off the cuff, even though he'd written a speech, but he seemed to ignore most of it.
00:25:18.580 And to do that less than a week after assassination attempt and everything else that's happened this
00:25:22.080 week, you know, that Biden could never do that, which is true. That's an argument. I'm not going
00:25:28.120 to argue that. I think that goes too far in the other direction. I will say instead that it probably
00:25:32.940 doesn't matter all that much one way or another. People only remember moments. We've talked about this
00:25:37.520 this week that it's moments are what people remember. We can't remember everything, right?
00:25:42.940 You can't even remember everything about what you did yesterday. If you're Joe Biden, you can't
00:25:46.940 remember anything about what you did two seconds ago, but nobody has a perfect memory. And we only
00:25:52.060 remember moments, especially when it has to do with like, you know, things happening in the public
00:25:57.080 that don't directly involve us. And the stuff at the beginning of that speech is what most people
00:26:04.100 are going to remember. The vast majority of the television audience, um, and we'll, we'll see
00:26:10.000 the ratings, I guess today at some point, they haven't already come out. And I think we can be
00:26:14.880 pretty certain that the ratings are going to drop off dramatically about 20 to 25 minutes in the vast
00:26:19.600 majority of the audience. That's all they saw. It's only the Trump diehards who are going to watch
00:26:24.000 the entire 90 minute extemporaneous speech. Uh, the people you need to reach only watch the first part
00:26:30.320 and they'll remember the first part and that's what matters. Um, but so that, that's, that's kind
00:26:39.120 of how I, if I were to predict kind of the political impact of it, I think that that's, that's how I
00:26:43.280 would, that's how I would break it down. But, but really we have to remember that a speech, whether
00:26:50.300 it's a great speech or a terrible speech or something in between, whether it's the greatest speech of all
00:26:56.560 time or the worst speech of all time, um, a speech is a speech and it only matters so much.
00:27:05.640 And by the time we get to election day, it probably won't matter that much either way. That's the way
00:27:12.580 things go these days. Things just move very fast and people will forget things very quickly. Um,
00:27:20.160 I mean, they go so fast that that Donald Trump was almost assassinated on Saturday. And yeah,
00:27:30.220 obviously we've talked about that a lot this week. I've talked about it on the show every day. Um,
00:27:35.640 it was a, it was a clear, uh, you know, for good reason, a, a subject of, uh, of, uh, a topic that was
00:27:43.960 revisited frequently during the convention, but it still feels like we should be talking about that
00:27:49.520 more than we are. Like, it feels like that should still be more of a focus than it is, even though
00:27:53.580 it's still really big store treating it like a big story. It's still just, this is a historic event
00:27:59.880 that just happened. I mean, this is crazy. We just all saw that on live television. We'll probably
00:28:04.200 never see anything like that again. Hopefully we never will. Um, and even something like that,
00:28:10.500 it's sort of feels like even, you know, if you, if social media is your guide, a couple of days later,
00:28:14.980 other things were trending as the top topic, which is nuts. And it just goes to show that's the,
00:28:22.560 that's the world we live in now. Um, things move very fast. And so this is just an argument for not
00:28:30.460 being complacent. There's a, there's a long way to go. Um, narratives can change on a dime, you know,
00:28:38.000 and now I continue to be very confident that Trump will beat Biden and probably pretty comfortably.
00:28:47.160 Doesn't mean that you should be complacent. Again, you still need to go out and vote,
00:28:49.820 but Trump has, does have an enormous amount of momentum and Biden can't speak.
00:28:55.580 You can't campaign. If you can't speak, you can't get your message across if you can't speak.
00:29:00.320 So that just has to be, even with all the shenanigans and everything else and any other trick Democrats
00:29:07.180 have up their sleeve, there are some challenges that are just insurmountable politically. And one of
00:29:12.680 them is if you can't speak, then you cannot get your message across. So I feel pretty comfortable about
00:29:20.940 that. Uh, but if they dump Biden, well then who knows what will happen? You know, I've seen a lot of
00:29:28.820 predictions on both sides of the aisle about what will happen, what it will mean for Trump and for
00:29:34.200 the Democrats. If they do get rid of Biden, I won't even try to predict that at this stage. Uh,
00:29:40.260 because it's just, there's just no way. I mean, it's a question of who they replace him with. First
00:29:43.780 of all, how the replacement process plays out. I could see a world where they replace him and end up
00:29:49.940 in a, in a worse spot than they are right now. They could replace him. The base revolts against them
00:29:56.160 even more than it already is. The party splinters completely total civil war. Uh, and, and meanwhile,
00:30:03.840 they're starting from scratch with a candidate that voters don't really know that well against,
00:30:08.280 against the most famous man in the world, right? So much of national politics, so much of presidential
00:30:15.120 politics is name recognition. You can't beat Trump's name recognition. He's the most recognizable
00:30:20.900 figure on the planet. He's the most famous man in the world. And, uh, I think we could say one of the
00:30:27.160 most famous men to ever live on, on the planet. He truly is. So you've already got that. And then
00:30:36.460 you're, you're coming in late with a candidate and kind of starting from, from scratch, unless you can
00:30:41.940 get somebody in there who doesn't have Trump's name recognition, because that's basically impossible,
00:30:45.340 but has a significant amount to start with. So there's, there's enough there that I could see
00:30:51.380 a world where, where it's just a catastrophe and Trump wins in a landslide. I mean, it's possible
00:30:56.580 they replace Biden and Trump wins by more than he would have otherwise. Now there is another world,
00:31:03.400 um, one where they select someone younger, energetic, focused, uh, you know, Biden steps down
00:31:12.080 and, uh, and give some kind of, you know, speech, gives a 10 minute speech, manages to communicate
00:31:18.280 it clearly and use English words the whole time. And, um, it plays himself up as the, the, the statesman
00:31:24.560 making this heroic sacrifice, which would be totally nonsense, of course, because if he does step down,
00:31:28.680 it's only because they forced him to, uh, so any claim that we want to make that Biden made a
00:31:35.260 sacrifice or did something humble, you know, uh, chose, chose to step away from power, George
00:31:41.460 Washington style. And you could make that argument if he had announced six months ago or eight months
00:31:46.100 ago that he wasn't going to run for reelection. At this point, you can't, no matter if he leaves,
00:31:50.400 he's leaving in disgrace, no matter what, which is actually an argument for why he might not leave
00:31:55.700 at this point. He has nothing to gain. It's just, it's disgrace for him either way, right? If he stays
00:32:01.200 in and he loses, especially if he loses badly, it's disgrace. If he leaves now, it's disgrace.
00:32:07.420 Um, so from his perspective, it's like, well, might as well just stay in and try to win.
00:32:11.920 I don't know if that'll play out, but let's just say he does step down. He gives a little 10 minute
00:32:16.200 speech. He's, you know, positions himself as the new George Washington, totally nonsense. The media
00:32:21.160 will eat it up though. They'll love it. They'll be ready to run with that. That's the narrative they
00:32:24.520 want. The second he steps down, they're going to, it's going to be a propaganda campaign like we've
00:32:29.200 never seen before. They're going to, they're going to switch so quickly from attacking Biden,
00:32:36.000 which they've been doing over the last several weeks to just a sudden U-turn. And now Biden is,
00:32:41.320 one of the great statesmen of all time. He's a hero and all this kind of stuff, uh, that happens,
00:32:46.320 you know, it, it robs the momentum and the spotlight from Trump. And then, and then let's
00:32:51.220 just say in this scenario, uh, they, they managed to select some candidate who is not Kamala Harris
00:32:57.260 and some, someone young and articulate who can actually speak. The base actually rallies around
00:33:03.260 that person. If there's not a civil war, not a splintering, you know, that person immediately
00:33:08.520 challenges Trump to three debates and Trump of course would have to accept them. Um, and, uh, and
00:33:14.580 you know, the momentum starts moving in that direction and we, we find ourselves in a very
00:33:19.500 different political world. All of a sudden that could happen too. Um, oh, who knows? And I guess the,
00:33:27.720 the only takeaway here is that we have to stay focused. Uh, this is the most unpredictable
00:33:35.100 presidential campaign in our lifetimes. Anything could happen. I mean, this, this is why I'm saying
00:33:41.000 it's, it's, it's, it's very, it's very hard for us these days with just information being
00:33:48.560 beamed into our faces at light speed, every second of the day, a million things, taking our attention
00:33:56.620 away, a million things happening in the world. And we're always finding out about them. It's hard
00:34:00.680 for us to stop and appreciate when something actually significant has happened. It's very hard
00:34:07.160 for us to do, but we should try to do that here because this is a, we've never seen anything like
00:34:14.140 this, that the way this presidential campaign has worked out and, um, uh, the possibility for like
00:34:20.880 multiple unprecedented historic things to happen within the same presidential campaign. It's,
00:34:27.380 it's quite, it's just, it's historic. Keep going back to that word, but it really is.
00:34:35.080 Um, any, anytime you, you find yourself living on a page of a history book,
00:34:40.300 you should at least stop and appreciate that fact.
00:34:45.140 All right. A couple of stories here that are related. Daily Mail says the beloved tractor
00:34:52.180 firm, John Deere has backtracked on its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in the face of
00:34:56.860 opposition and a damaging boycott from farmers and conservatives. The company said in a statement,
00:35:01.840 it would drop socially motivated messaging and diversity quotas and pronoun identification and
00:35:06.500 distance itself from cultural awareness parades. The $61 billion a year firm had come under fire over
00:35:12.200 sponsoring a pride event for children as young as three and other DEI efforts, even as not, even as
00:35:17.760 it shuttered plants and sacked American workers. Our customers trust and confidence in us are of the
00:35:23.080 utmost importance to everyone at John Deere. The company said in a statement, we fully intend to
00:35:29.100 earn it every day in every way we can. Backlash against John Deere echoed a similar boycott against
00:35:34.100 tractor supply, a retail chain, and last year's high profile campaign against Bud Light.
00:35:37.760 Critics had slammed John Deere for supporting the Little Rainbow run at the Capital City Pride event
00:35:44.060 last month in Des Moines, Iowa, which involved toddlers in the LGBTQ plus festivities.
00:35:49.560 Robbie Starbuck launched a pressure campaign against the firm last week saying managers had forgotten who
00:35:55.140 their customers are. And now they're reversing that. So that's John Deere. They're reversing their
00:36:01.540 DEI initiatives. And we compare that nicely, I think, with this story from Daily Wire.
00:36:07.280 Microsoft laid off a diversity, equity, and inclusion team this year with a team leader
00:36:11.080 sending an email saying the initiatives were no longer needed. The email is from an individual
00:36:15.600 whose name has not been released. It's unclear how many team employees were laid off. Quote,
00:36:20.020 true systems change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical
00:36:26.040 or smart as they were in 2020, said the email. The email reportedly said the DEI team was eliminated
00:36:32.060 due to changing business needs. Now, this was all totally inevitable that this was going to happen.
00:36:42.600 DEI was a bubble. You know, it was the bubble to end all bubbles, really, in that the value of DEI
00:36:49.260 initiatives, the business value, was not just inflated. This was not just an inflated value.
00:36:56.040 It was totally imaginary from the very beginning. There was never any chance at all that DEI would do
00:37:01.860 anything but lose money for these companies. There was never even any coherent, cogent theory as to how
00:37:10.360 they would profit from this. So it was all just fantasy, right? It was all fairy dust from the beginning.
00:37:18.140 This idea that we'll have DEI and it's not just ideological notes. It's going to make our business
00:37:23.040 stronger. It's good for the business. They could never convey, no company could ever convey how that
00:37:29.340 is exactly. How are you going to, how does this help your business to focus on this kind of stuff?
00:37:33.960 They could never communicate that because it's completely fantastical. And so it was destined to
00:37:40.880 fall apart pretty quickly. Because one thing we know about businesses and we learn again and again
00:37:47.760 is that, yeah, you can have businesses that are run by far leftists. You can have businesses that
00:37:54.740 maybe even more likely are run by people who don't care that much ideologically, but see leftism as a
00:38:00.580 profitable virtue signal. All of that can be the case. And that's how we end up with these, we call
00:38:08.520 them woke companies and everything else. But when it comes down to it, the only thing the business
00:38:14.920 really cares about is making money. That's the only thing they really care about. And if they do
00:38:19.360 anything else, if they, you know, with rare exception, the thing they care about is making
00:38:25.320 money. And if they do anything else, if they present themselves as woke or whatever, it's because
00:38:31.860 ultimately they think that in some way that's going to profit them. If it was not going to, if it was not
00:38:38.040 going to be profitable, they wouldn't do it. And there was just never any chance that any of this
00:38:43.460 stuff would be profitable. And so that's why it's falling apart. I want to mention this briefly before
00:38:48.740 we get to the last headline. NBC News reports, instead of simply treating sexually transmitted
00:38:56.540 infections with antibiotics, a new public health movement seeks to use one such medication to prevent
00:39:03.380 STIs in the first place. Promising research into variations on this method has raised hopes,
00:39:09.460 but also concerns about whether this method might also contribute to another public health crisis,
00:39:13.580 drug-resistant infections. One thing is clear, the nation is in dire need of game changers to battle
00:39:19.380 the STI epidemic as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis have largely soared during the past decade.
00:39:25.940 And then it goes on to how all these STDs have become an epidemic.
00:39:31.120 Enter doxycycline, a common well-tolerated antibiotic long used for multiple purposes,
00:39:37.060 including treating acne. Last month, the CDC issued guidelines for using the doxycycline after sex as
00:39:43.700 post-exposure prophylaxis to lower the risk of bacterial STIs among gay and bisexual men and
00:39:49.700 transgender women. The recommendation was limited to this population because a recent clinical trial of
00:39:55.320 doxypep among cisgender, cisgender quote-unquote women failed to demonstrate any benefit. Men who
00:40:02.860 have sex with men also have a disproportionately high STI rate. So, and you see these stories pop up
00:40:07.840 every once in a while that they're developing some new, well, either it's a new drug or it's a drug that's
00:40:12.760 already been on the market that can be used ahead of time to prevent STDs. And, you know,
00:40:19.580 I'll call it right now. Well, it's not me calling it because this article mentioned in the first
00:40:24.100 paragraph. So I'll just underscore what is said in the first paragraph. We're going to have drug
00:40:28.820 resistant super STDs in the near future. That's, that's what they're, that's what the big pharma is,
00:40:35.920 is guiding us towards, what they're setting us up for, which, you know, from a purely selfish
00:40:43.340 perspective, will be really no skin off of my nose, frankly. As a faithfully married man, I'm impervious
00:40:49.360 to these kinds of threats. It's one of the many reasons why it's, it's just great to be, uh, to be
00:40:55.920 monogamous and married and committed and faithful. So many benefits from it. And this is just, this is
00:41:03.740 just one of them, you know, not even, not certainly not the top one, but it's, it's on the list. So a lot of
00:41:09.220 things, if you reject that, um, there are all kinds of things you have to worry about now that I can look
00:41:17.220 at and say, I'm not, not, I'm not worried about it personally. It's like things that if you're living
00:41:25.380 this lifestyle, if you're living a lifestyle of, of, uh, of hedonism, there's like fear and anxiety in
00:41:33.820 your life all the time that for those of us outside of it, we just don't, we don't experience it at all.
00:41:39.220 Which is why as scientists look for ways to curb the STD epidemic, um, I think they should take a
00:41:47.000 look at my method for curbing it and the method used by many of you in the audience, right? Our
00:41:53.280 method, we have our own method, uh, our own, uh, if you want to say vaccine against STDs. And you know,
00:42:00.880 it's what we found is the best way to not get an STD is to simply not have sex with people with STDs
00:42:07.220 that. And the best way to accomplish that is to be married and stay married and remain faithful to
00:42:13.240 your spouse. That's the best way to accomplish it. But what we found is that when you look for
00:42:21.020 ways around that, when you look for ways to, rather than curbing reckless behavior, the STD epidemic is
00:42:28.680 happening because of reckless, selfish behavior. That's, that's what's driving it, right? Um,
00:42:36.960 what's driving it are people who want to go out and have sex with strangers all the time. They're
00:42:42.100 the main drivers of this stuff. And so we could curb that by curbing the reckless behavior that's
00:42:51.180 driving it. Or we can say, no, don't make any lifestyle changes at all. Don't change your behavior
00:42:56.400 at all. Continue the reckless behavior. We're going to try to find some end run, some way to,
00:43:00.300 some way to insulate you from the natural outcome of your own reckless behavior. And,
00:43:04.980 um, of course, this is the great project of science and of medicine right now, it seems, but
00:43:09.860 there's just, you, you, you can find ways to do it seemingly for a time, but there's always a cost.
00:43:18.680 There's always a price to pay. Like there are really, there are no true shortcuts in life,
00:43:24.400 at least not ones that don't, that, uh, that come without a cost. I'll say. All right. I want to
00:43:30.220 talk about this finally. Here's a little short viral video that some people are talking about
00:43:35.220 online. There, there are no audible words in the video, but I'll play it for you and then, um,
00:43:39.540 describe it for those listening to the audio podcast. Just about 10 seconds long. Here it is.
00:43:43.640 Okay. So it's a video of a young lady crying on camera with the caption, my mom just came in my
00:44:02.200 room and casually kicked me out. I graduated two months ago. Suggestions. And so this is the,
00:44:09.120 the very common thing now that we find of, uh, of young people who, uh, are upset about something.
00:44:15.880 And the very first thing they think to do is make a video about it and post it online.
00:44:22.440 Now this was shared initially on Twitter by Ian Miles Chong as a conservative account. And he says
00:44:26.980 that parents who do this to their kids, parents who kick out their 18 year old, uh, their kids,
00:44:31.480 as soon as they turn 18 are deplorable, he says. And this echoes what has become an increasingly
00:44:36.300 common view on the right. Um, for a while, the kind of stereotypically conservative thing was to
00:44:42.880 say that when a child turns 18, they need to move out of the house and take care of themselves and,
00:44:47.120 you know, uh, learn how to support themselves. But there's been an interesting backlash against
00:44:51.880 that recently with many conservatives saying that no, actually kicking your adult child out of the
00:44:56.120 house is wrong and also not conservative because as they argue, the traditional arrangement is a
00:45:01.380 multi-generational household where child, parent, grandparent all live together. Um, Lauren Chen made
00:45:08.980 this point and I've seen her make this point several times in the past, but she made this
00:45:12.060 point in response to the video. She tweeted the hill I will die on is that kicking your kids out
00:45:15.980 at 18 is toxic. And that if you do that, your kids have no responsibility to look after you or help
00:45:20.500 you in any way as you age. And a lot of people seem to be agreeing with that. Now I personally look at
00:45:26.700 this a little bit differently and I kind of think that both sides of the argument, you know, like
00:45:31.840 should you kick your adult child out of the house or not, but both sides of the argument are missing
00:45:35.220 the point because, because there's not enough information in the question. Should you kick your
00:45:41.640 adult child out of the house? Well, it depends, right? It's like asking, uh, should you put your
00:45:47.080 three-year-old in timeout? Well, I mean, it depends. You shouldn't just do it randomly. You shouldn't go
00:45:54.260 and walk into the room right now where your three-year-old is and say, hey, you're in timeout
00:45:57.460 for no reason, unprovoked. But does that mean you never should? Of course not. Like it depends. So
00:46:05.640 with an adult child, if they're a contributing member of the household, that is, if they are hard
00:46:10.260 workers, if they're respectful of you and your rules, then the fact that it is your house and not
00:46:15.420 theirs, if they again contribute in some real and substantive and helpful way to the household, if
00:46:22.340 they're putting in nearly as much work or more, uh, than, than, you know, than you are to keeping
00:46:28.160 everything running, whether that's by having a full-time job and paying, you know, some of their
00:46:33.160 bills or even contributing to some of the bills, the household bills, uh, or, or by helping in the
00:46:38.340 home in some significant way that isn't just cleaning their room once a week, but actually, you know,
00:46:44.220 depending on your situation in your home, maybe there's, maybe you have an adult child, someone's 18 or 19,
00:46:49.660 who, who, uh, uh, could be helping in the home in some way, again, in some significant way.
00:46:55.560 And if that's all happening, then in that case, making them leave automatically at 18 is crazy.
00:47:00.920 You know, in that case, if you kick your child out anyway, um, it's because you just don't want
00:47:06.280 to be around them. Like that just means you don't like your kid and don't want to spend any time with
00:47:09.980 them. And it's your legal right to kick them out for that reason, but it's not the right thing to do.
00:47:15.200 And I agree with Lauren in that case, they have absolutely no obligation to help you later in
00:47:20.060 life, you know, because you, that means that you just wanted to do the bare minimum. You did
00:47:24.240 everything you legally had to do, which was keep them around until they're 18 and feed them and
00:47:29.000 clothe them and all that. Cause you have to, if you didn't, you'd go to prison. Um, but the second
00:47:33.360 you didn't have to anymore, you stopped. And if that's the case, they really don't owe you anything.
00:47:38.040 Like they don't owe you any gratitude. They don't owe you anything. You just did the bit,
00:47:40.900 you did only what you had to, to not go to prison and nothing beyond that. And if that's all you
00:47:46.660 give to your kid, then they just, you know, there's just, there's no bond there. There's
00:47:50.380 nothing, there's really no debt that they have to you. I'm sorry. Um, and they can just ship you off
00:47:57.240 to the nursing home and put you out of sight and out of mind like you did to them. Um, maybe they'll
00:48:02.380 choose to forgive. That's always good. But if they don't, well, that's on you. But, but this
00:48:08.620 scenario that I just described is one that probably doesn't apply to most or even a large
00:48:14.920 preponderance of the cases where an adult child is kicked out of the house. Uh, I don't, I don't
00:48:20.740 think that's happening very often. It's certainly not common, right? Here's what's more common.
00:48:25.860 And this, and this is what's justified in my view, not just justified, but necessary. I think
00:48:30.680 you can and should make your adult child leave your house. If they are lazy, non-contributing,
00:48:37.700 not working, whether out of the home or in it, um, not doing anything productive, not
00:48:42.660 respectful to you and your rules and your house, if they're entitled brats sitting around all
00:48:48.360 day on their phones and whatever, then yeah, you should kick them out. Does that apply to
00:48:55.140 the girl in the video there? I have no clue. I have absolutely no idea, but I'm speaking in
00:48:59.360 general. If that's the case, then yeah, you should kick your, now it also means that you
00:49:04.520 have gone wrong as a parent that you've raised a kid that acts like this, but, uh, either
00:49:11.680 way, like your child desperately needs to grow up and, uh, for their own sake, the only way
00:49:17.180 to force that issue is probably the sink or swim method. You know, there, there does reach
00:49:22.380 a point that we've all known of cases like this where you have a child of, you know, a child
00:49:29.040 in the sense of a parent, but not a child anymore, an adult who just refuses to grow up and, and you
00:49:36.160 just have to throw them into the deep end. And it's like, okay, start doggy paddling and you got
00:49:40.060 to start figuring this thing out. Um, and I think that's a lot more common. I think that's more common
00:49:47.780 when you have adult kids who are kicked out of the house. It's more, it's more of that.
00:49:53.180 And I, what I will say is that I'm not personally, I'm not saying it's never happened.
00:49:58.960 I've never personally encountered a situation where you had a hardworking, contributing, mature
00:50:06.420 adult child in the house who was kicked out anyway. I'm sure it's happened. I've never known that. I've
00:50:13.640 never seen that in person. What I have seen many times is when you have a lazy, good for nothing,
00:50:19.500 you know, uh, adult still living at home who should be kicked out, but isn't that to me,
00:50:25.480 that's a lot more common. Now, I also think that young men, you know, should move out of the house
00:50:31.580 at some point, regardless, it's good for them to learn to live on their own, but I, you know,
00:50:36.920 I don't think you should evict them, uh, out of nowhere if they are, as I said, hard work, hard
00:50:42.460 workers, respectful, et cetera. But at some point, if you're a young man, uh, it's, I think it's good
00:50:47.180 experience to live on your own for a while before you get married and have a family of
00:50:52.460 your own. Young women, I think don't necessarily ever have to live on their own. Uh, it's perfectly
00:50:57.580 fine for a young woman to go right from living with her parents to living with her husband.
00:51:02.500 But even in that case, she needs to be contributing to the household when she's living with her
00:51:06.600 parents. She cannot be infantilized. She cannot be allowed to be allowed to be like a lazy bump
00:51:11.420 on a log. You just, you can't male or female, you cannot allow that. And because yes, multi-generational
00:51:18.400 households are traditional. That's what you find. You find it in many cultures still today. And, uh,
00:51:24.520 historically it's, that's all there was, but what do you think was happening in a multi-generational
00:51:32.540 household out on the frontier in the 1880s or whenever everybody was working, everybody was
00:51:39.440 pitching in. Everybody was up at dawn doing something. You didn't have a 23 year old
00:51:45.600 physically capable adult child sitting around all day while the parents did everything. That just
00:51:51.300 didn't happen. It couldn't happen. It would not have happened. It wouldn't be, it wouldn't be allowed.
00:51:55.920 I mean, if you were a 12 year old back then, that wouldn't have been allowed. You had to contribute
00:52:00.560 even as a child, but as an adult, especially so. So that when we talk about multi-generational
00:52:07.320 households, traditionally, that's, that's what we mean. It means that keeping the family together
00:52:12.900 because you want to keep the family together, but also because you need, you need more hands on deck
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00:55:05.400 I've already spent enough time this week talking about the left-wing conspiracy theories surrounding
00:55:09.580 Trump's assassination attempt. I'm going to revisit the subject one last time today in order to make
00:55:14.360 a couple of points that I think are important. And the first point is that these theories are not
00:55:18.280 confined to fever swamps of social media anymore. On the left, they are incredibly pervasive. So here's
00:55:23.980 the latest from the Washington Free Beacon on that. Quote,
00:55:26.680 The conspiracy theory has run unabated in Democratic circles following the assassination
00:55:30.440 attempt against former President Donald Trump on Saturday. It posits that Trump staged the shooting
00:55:34.600 for a photo op that the wound on his ear was caused by something other than an assassin's bullet
00:55:38.660 and that he was never in mortal danger. It's a baseless conspiracy theory disproven by reams of
00:55:43.360 documentary evidence and eyewitness accounts, and it's a belief held by one-third of the Democratic
00:55:47.600 electorate. One in three registered voters believe it is credible that the shooting Saturday in
00:55:52.200 Butler, Pennsylvania was staged and not intended to kill Trump, according to a morning consult poll
00:55:56.940 released Monday. The findings show that large swaths of Democratic base have fallen prey to the
00:56:02.040 phenomenon known as Blueanon, a play on the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory that once
00:56:06.180 ripped portions of the Republican base and served as an obsession of the mainstream media throughout the
00:56:10.340 first Trump administration. So by the way, it's actually worse than it sounds because that was
00:56:14.680 by Monday morning, a third of Democrats had already subscribed to this conspiracy theory,
00:56:20.860 and that is before you had prominent Democrats promoting it. And so I think it stands to reason
00:56:25.200 that it's a lot more than a third at this point. Now, this article written by Andrew Kerr at the
00:56:30.080 Free Beacon is correct. The QAnon stuff was an obsession of the mainstream media, but it can't be
00:56:35.020 overstated just how overstated QAnon always was. The vast majority of Republicans had never even heard of
00:56:40.440 it. And the numbers bear that out, reading on, quote, but the morning consult poll shows that
00:56:45.500 Blueanon adherents among the Democratic base far outnumber their QAnon counterparts on the right.
00:56:49.740 The poll showed that 34 percent of Democratic voters found it either definitely or probably
00:56:54.660 credible that Trump staged Saturday's shooting, with less than half, 45 percent, saying the conspiracy
00:56:59.760 theory is not credible. By comparison, a widely cited 2021 poll found that only 23 percent of
00:57:05.120 Republicans were QAnon believers. The article goes on to talk about the slightly less crazy,
00:57:10.340 though still very crazy, version of the conspiracy theory where Trump was hit not by a bullet,
00:57:13.860 but by shards of broken glass. Several prominent members of the media have implied or outright claimed
00:57:18.380 that Trump is being weirdly coy and secretive about his injury because he doesn't want anyone
00:57:22.600 to know that the bullet never came near him. Twitter is full of posts from leftists who see
00:57:27.320 something sinister in the fact that Trump's ear is bandaged. What's going on under that bandage,
00:57:33.380 they ask. Pretty convenient, pretty convenient to be wearing a bandage. Almost like he's hiding
00:57:39.420 something. He's not fooling me. And the problem with all that is that, first of all, wearing a
00:57:45.600 bandage after you've suffered a bullet wound is just basic hygiene. Do you want him to not have
00:57:51.360 a bandage on? That's disgusting. Want him to walk around with an open wound in public?
00:57:57.200 Trump's critics apparently expect him to do that, to parade himself around with his open wound fully
00:58:01.400 exposed and on full display. Of course, if he did that, they would accuse him of being showy.
00:58:06.140 But wearing a bandage is also showy, I guess. So apparently there's just no way, there's no way
00:58:10.900 for a man to appear in public after a gunshot wound that isn't problematic, according to the left.
00:58:17.240 Second, as I said yesterday, there is no secret about Trump's injury. He suffered it on live
00:58:21.060 television. Literally billions of people have seen his bleeding, wounded ear. It's perhaps arguably the
00:58:28.120 most widely witnessed injury in the history of the world. And on top of that, multiple official
00:58:34.280 sources, including the Secret Service, that is Biden's Secret Service, have confirmed on the
00:58:39.100 record that Trump was shot in the ear. So we have official confirmation and visual confirmation,
00:58:45.140 but even that's not enough. Much like Doubting Thomas in the Gospels, these Democrats need to
00:58:50.700 physically touch Trump's wound in order to be convinced, I guess. Except that even then,
00:58:54.820 they wouldn't be. And if they are convinced, they can then retreat right back into the more
00:58:58.440 outlandish but very popular conspiracy theory that Trump was shot, but it was all staged by Trump
00:59:03.100 himself. And here's the point I want to make about that. We should not be at all surprised to see
00:59:07.920 that this kind of deranged belief, you know, is popular on the left. The media has for years tried
00:59:13.720 to convince us that the right is far more prone to outlandish conspiracy theories, but that has
00:59:18.200 never been true. In fact, outlandish beliefs are extremely common on the left. The theory of Trump
00:59:22.960 staging his own shooting doesn't even make it into the top 10 of craziest nonsense they believe.
00:59:28.480 I mean, this is, after all, the side of the aisle that believes that biological sex doesn't exist,
00:59:34.040 that humans in the womb really aren't human, that racist cops are out hunting black people,
00:59:39.480 the world's going to end any moment from climate change, and so on and so on.
00:59:44.140 So there's a key difference, therefore, between the crazy ideas on the left
00:59:47.560 and the crazy ideas on the right. And I'm not at all denying that there are some crazy ideas on the
00:59:52.420 right. QAnon was, I think, is overstated, as I said, but it was something that some people on
00:59:59.940 the right subscribe to. It was totally crazy the whole time, but, you know, that's an example.
01:00:06.100 Every once in a while, some truly ridiculous theory finds a foothold among some conservatives.
01:00:11.000 And not to open this can of worms again, I already have enough people mad at me on the internet this
01:00:14.660 week, but a certain apparently sizable portion of the right believes, for instance, that the moon
01:00:20.160 landing was staged. And that is definitely false, okay? And, you know, that's, it just is. There was
01:00:27.440 a time when a certain segment of the right seemed to think that every major mass shooting was fake
01:00:32.540 or staged. The term crisis actors was popular for a while. And I don't know how widespread any of
01:00:38.640 that was or is, but these are beliefs that are or were held by, you know, more than a few people
01:00:43.860 on my side. But here's the difference. When conservatives veer off into these eccentric and
01:00:51.060 rather ridiculous theories, it's driven most of the time by extreme skepticism in the official
01:00:57.180 narrative and in the authority figures who set that narrative. Now, and the skepticism in general is
01:01:03.800 totally rational and wise. I mean, we've been lied to a lot by these people. And so to be skeptical of
01:01:10.960 them, that's not an irrational thing. The problem is when people assume that the official narrative
01:01:16.400 must necessarily be wrong and then glom on to some other unofficial narrative that has even less
01:01:24.140 evidence to support it than the official one. So that's when you run into a problem. It's not looking
01:01:30.500 at the official narrative and saying, I don't know about that. It's when you, for no reason other
01:01:36.660 than the fact that it is what most people believe, you reject it. And then you go find some other
01:01:40.960 theory that has no evidence for it. And you, you know, passionately defend that instead. I mean,
01:01:48.280 that is when it becomes irrational. And that seems to be what's happened with, for instance,
01:01:53.400 the moon landing stuff. But the point is that they're starting from a rational place, skepticism,
01:01:59.480 and they're ending every once in a while in an irrational place. And ironically, if they ended
01:02:05.120 in an irrational place, it's not because of an overabundant skepticism. Rather, it's because they
01:02:08.900 aren't applying the same skepticism to their alternative theory that they do to the official one.
01:02:15.240 But it is skepticism that first propels somebody in this direction when they're on the right most of
01:02:20.940 the time. On the other hand, the left's craziest ideas, which we must say are much, much crazier than
01:02:27.160 the right's craziest ideas, are not fueled by skepticism in the official narrative. Indeed,
01:02:31.760 their craziest ideas, especially when it comes to something like gender ideology,
01:02:35.300 often is the official narrative. So for them, the flight into deranged fantasy land
01:02:41.480 happens, well, for two reasons. One is that they, rather than having, you know, sometimes an
01:02:48.060 overabundance of skepticism, they have an unhealthy faith in whatever they're told by the, you know,
01:02:54.140 so-called experts. And then secondly, at a deeper level, they reject truth as a category.
01:03:03.460 They are relativists. They don't believe that objective truth even exists. People on the right may
01:03:09.100 sometimes deny that something that is true is true, but they won't deny truth itself. You know,
01:03:16.920 that's a fundamental madness of the left. It's the thing that defines the left. It's what leftism
01:03:21.280 is. It's the categorical rejection of objective truth. And when you reject objective truth, as we've
01:03:28.180 seen, there's no limit to the demented nonsense that you'll come to believe. Even though you have
01:03:34.460 no basis for believing anything at all, since by your worldview, nothing can actually be true. So you
01:03:38.960 can't really believe anything. That's just another layer to the incoherent madness that defines
01:03:44.080 their ideology. And in the middle of all that, you know, a conspiracy theory about Trump's
01:03:49.200 assassination attempt is a relatively minor flight of fancy by comparison. I mean, as crazy as it is,
01:03:56.120 it's downright rational compared to so many of the other beliefs. And that is why these left-wing
01:04:01.660 conspiracy theories are today, for the final time, this week anyway, canceled. I'll do it for the show
01:04:07.140 today. Thanks for watching and this week. So thanks for watching. Talk to you on Monday. Have a great
01:04:11.640 weekend. Godspeed.