Ep. 1405 - Is Biden Headed Off To The Nursing Home This Weekend？
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According to many reports, Democrats are on the verge of finally ousting Joe Biden, but the whole premise of this campaign to oust Biden has been false from the beginning. Also, Donald Trump delivers a riveting description of his assassination attempt during a speech at the Republican National Convention last night, more companies are abandoning DEI initiatives, and a new poll shows just how widespread Trump assassination conspiracy theories are among the left. All that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, according to many reports, Democrats are on the verge of finally
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pushing Biden out, but the whole premise of this campaign to oust Biden has been false from the
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beginning. They're pretending that they just learned he's senile, but they've known all along
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have been covering it up. Also, Donald Trump delivers a riveting description of his assassination
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attempt during a speech at the convention last night. More companies are abandoning their DEI
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initiatives, and a new poll shows just how widespread Trump assassination conspiracy
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theories are on the left. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Last night, less than a week after an assassin nearly ended his life, Donald Trump delivered
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a marathon acceptance speech to close out the Republican convention. It began with a riveting
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description of his experience on Saturday. That section of the speech was, I think we can say
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with confidence, the most compelling thing to ever happen during a speech at a political convention.
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Trump seemed like himself, but also like a different man at the same time. He was clearly
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grateful to God that he's still with us, and he seemed to relish every moment that he had with
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the crowd. And that would explain why, at 92 minutes, Trump's speech was the longest nomination
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acceptance speech in the history of this country. And I believe that the speeches that rank number
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two and three on that list also belong to Donald Trump. He even pointed to the same immigration chart
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that helped save his life on Saturday. And he appeared to pick up right where he left off in
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Butler. The address was heartfelt. It was unifying, especially by the standards of a Trump speech.
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And it was yet more bad news for Democrats hoping to win any contested election in November,
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anywhere on the ballot, really. Donald Trump is a nominee who enjoys without question the support
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of a unified party and tens of millions of devoted supporters all over the country,
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which is certainly not something we could say for Joe Biden. We cannot say that at all about the man
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who is, at least for now, running against Donald Trump. At this point, the contrast between the
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two candidates is as clear and as unfavorable for Joe Biden as it could possibly be. Joe Biden is not
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compost mentis, let's say. He's not humble, nor has he ever been humble. He doesn't have the support
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of his own party or longtime friends and allies. He doesn't have the support of any of them. Everyone
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from George Clooney to Nancy Pelosi. Now Barack Obama have all knifed him in the back. And now,
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according to the New York Times and various other outlets across the political spectrum,
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Biden's finally considering dropping out of the race, supposedly. Newsmax's Mark Halperin has gone
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further with his reporting, claiming that Biden has already made the decision to step aside. Now it's just
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a matter of when. Watch. Carl, according to multiple Democratic sources, this is happening
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all of a sudden. Everyone said it would happen gradually and then all at once, and that's what's
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happening. According to my sources, President Biden has agreed to step down as a Democratic nominee.
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It will happen as early as this weekend. A speech has been drafted for him. He will continue on as
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president. It's his intention. He also will not, I'm told, endorse Vice President Harris as his
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successor. They're hoping that he will endorse an open process in which the convention will be open
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to Vice President Harris and a few other candidates. Now, this is obviously a fast moving situation,
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and it's quite possible that any moment now Joe Biden will announce he's stepping aside. Then again,
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it's possible that all of these reports are planted by Barack Obama's team to further pressure Biden to
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quit the race. And that could actually mean that Joe Biden entrenches himself even further and refuses
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to. But in either event, in any event, it is a humiliating situation for Joe Biden and his inner
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circle of advisors, which now consists of an openly corrupt crackhead and a narcissistic fake doctor with
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an education degree. That's pretty much it. All this to say, it's still technically conceivable that Joe
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Biden, without any support from his own voters or colleagues and without any money from donors,
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will somehow power through this and power through the dementia and everything else and cobble together
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something that resembles a presidential run. That campaign would be like watching the Hindenburg
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in slow motion, and it's not especially likely at this moment, I don't think, but the possibility is
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there, at least for now. And with all this drama, which is unprecedented in modern politics,
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it's important to understand one point about all this palace intrigue. None of it is about the fact
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that Joe Biden is old and senile. Like that's the claim you're hearing, but it's just not true.
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The premise is false. Democrats are not calling on Joe Biden to step aside because they just discovered
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that he has dementia. They've known that all along. So has the media. And that's the same reason that
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you and I knew it. We knew it just by watching him. And so, of course, the people closest to him
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knew it even more. And the media also knew it. But they were perfectly ready and willing to install
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Joe Biden for another four years, knowing very well that he cannot do the job. The only thing that's
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changed is public awareness of the extent of Biden's mental decline, something that should have been
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obvious to the public also all along. But it wasn't obvious to everyone, I guess, because Democrats went
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to great lengths to obscure information about Biden's mental status from voters. The self-described
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defenders of democracy took it upon themselves to lie and deceive the electorate so that they could keep
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their puppet in power. But the debate, which happened a couple of weeks ago, of course, revealed
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everything they've been trying to hide. And Donald Trump, by the grace of God, was not assassinated last
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weekend. So here we are. Democrats have no choice but to turn on Biden. They're engaging in a historic
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effort post-primary season but pre-convention to oust their party's democratically chosen candidate
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from their ticket. And if this effort succeeds, it'll set quite a precedent for the Democrats. It'll mean
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that winning the Democrats' presidential primary comes with an asterisk, which is that, you know,
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the voter's decision doesn't really matter. It's not final. The party elites can remove you at any time
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if they want to. This is what they're going for. And they're all in at this point. Pretty much every
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significant politician in the party has made it clear at this point that they want Biden gone.
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At the same time, Democrats also appear to be trying to cover up the extent to which they lied about
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Biden's senility for the past several years, the extent to which they knew it but didn't tell us.
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And they're doing all of that quietly but very aggressively. As Trump was speaking last night
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in Milwaukee, Joe Biden's DOJ filed a motion in court to oppose the public release of audio tapes
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of Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. That interview, you may remember,
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involved Joe Biden repeatedly forgetting key biographical details about his own life,
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including the year his son died. It was an interview that went so poorly that Hur decided
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Joe Biden was effectively incapable of being prosecuted because the jury would sympathize with
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his senility. He was not mentally competent to stand trial, which, of course, raises the question
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about how is he mentally competent to sit in the Oval Office. But as Trump delivered his acceptance
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speech at the RNC, the DOJ claimed that the audio of that interview can't be released due to,
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quote, pending investigations and reasonably anticipated future investigations.
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But that doesn't make sense. I mean, the transcript is already available.
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Her has already testified about his interview with Biden.
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And the audio is clearly newsworthy and relevant to the public interest because it would show the
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extent of the mental decline of the president of the United States. The only conceivable reason to
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hide the audio when, again, the transcript has already been made public, the only conceivable reason
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to hide the audio from the public at this point is if it's different from the transcript that the DOJ
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released. So that would make sense if they're trying to hide it in that case.
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Did the DOJ sanitize the transcript in any way? Does the audio contain damning evidence of Joe Biden's
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mental decline that hasn't been revealed publicly yet? Those are fair questions.
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And at this hour, the DOJ is doing everything it can to avoid answering them.
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At this point, it's fair to conclude that they're not simply covering up Joe Biden's senility.
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They're covering up their role in covering up Joe Biden's senility.
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So the cover up is worse than the crime, as they say.
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So then what do we say about the cover up of the cover up?
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You might remember that just a few months ago, Adam Schiff, who has now publicly called on Biden
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to step aside, grilled Robert Herr about his comments in his report about Joe Biden's obvious
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cognitive failures. Schiff suggested that Herr had completely made up his observations about Biden
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because he wanted to hurt Biden politically. Watch.
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What is in the rules, Mr. Herr, what is in the rules is you don't gratuitously do things to prejudice
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the subject of an investigation when you're declining to prosecute. You don't gratuitously
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add language that you'll know will be useful in a political campaign. You were not born yesterday.
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You understood exactly what you were doing. It was a choice. You certainly didn't have to include
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that language. You could have said vis-a-vis the documents that were found at the university.
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The president did not recall. There is nothing more common. You know this. I know this.
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There is nothing more common with a witness of any age when asked about events that are years old
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to say, I do not recall. Indeed, they're instructed by their attorney to do that if they have any question
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about it. You understood that. You made a choice. That was a political choice. It was the wrong choice.
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The gentleman yields back. The gentleman from Arizona. Did the special counsel wish to respond
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Yes. Congressman, what you are suggesting is that I shape, sanitize, omit portions of my reasoning
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and explanation to the attorney general for political reasons. No, I suggest that you do not
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shape your report for political reasons, which is what you did. That did not happen, Congressman.
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That did not happen. Well, that was a few months ago. And now, just a few months later,
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Schiff admits that Joe Biden has major cognitive issues and needs to step aside. But of course,
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nothing changed with Joe Biden in the past few months. Adam Schiff knew during that hearing that
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everything her said in his report was accurate. Yet he was hoping to deceive the electorate for long
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enough to keep the Democrats' puppet in office. But we're still not allowed to listen to the audio
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of Biden's interview with her, probably because that would be even worse for Biden than the transcript
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in whatever way. Again, maybe they changed the transcript. Maybe it's just they're worried about
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the experience of actually listening to that and how it's even more disturbing than reading it.
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Either way, the cover-up continues. Even as Democrats admit what we knew all along,
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they're still hiding information from us. But there is some video that Democrats can't hide
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because it's all over the internet. For months, Democrats told us that Joe Biden was fine and
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that only right-wing propaganda outlets would claim otherwise. Here's one of my favorite before
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and after videos showing MSNBC's Nicole Wallace pre-debate and post-debate. So she begins by saying
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it's a cheap fake to say that Joe Biden was lost on stage at a fundraiser, even though the video
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clearly shows that he was frozen until Barack Obama led him away. This was a fundraiser that
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George Clooney attended and said that Biden was visibly, you know, just out of it for the whole night.
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And then post-debate, she's talking ominously about how Joe Biden has lost the support of his party.
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There's a growing and insidious trend in right-wing media, broadcast, print, and social media.
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It is to take highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden directly from
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Republican National Committee social media accounts and then use those videos to spread
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messages virally to cast doubt on President Biden's fitness for office. Here is this headline from the
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New York Post. Quote, Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led off stage by Obama at Megabuck's LA
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fundraiser. The full video posted by Biden finance chair on Twitter shows something entirely different.
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Biden reacting to applause and then walking off stage with former President Obama.
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And there is a conversation happening inside Biden's circle and certainly a much more frank
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conversation happening inside the Democratic coalition. And I think there will be stories of a lot of
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concern about the performance tonight. And I think what-
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When you say conversations happening, what do you mean?
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I think people are talking, I think the conversations range from whether he should
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be in this race tomorrow morning to what was wrong with him.
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So in the span of about a week, videos of Joe Biden's decline went from an insidious trend
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to something Democrats couldn't deny anymore. This is the kind of whiplash you get if you watch MSNBC.
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But the fact that Democrat Party propagandists even tried to deceive their viewers like this in the
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first place tells you everything you need to know about their views on democracy.
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They don't believe the voters have a right to know anything. They'll lie to their faces again
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and again with no shame whatsoever. Not a single Democrat politician or media personality has
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apologized for lying deliberately about Joe Biden's incompetence for the past few years.
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Nancy Pelosi, who's now pressuring Biden to step aside, certainly has not apologized,
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nor is she capable of doing so. Pelosi was telling us just a year ago that Joe Biden's age was
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irrelevant and that he's youthful like a kid. Watch.
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I couldn't be prouder of him. And again, we're very fortunate that he is in that position.
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Again, age is relative. I was in L.A. for some Democratic stuff recently, and I met with Norman
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Lear, who's 100 going on 101. He was telling me some new shows he was involved in. I was meeting with
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Frank Gehry, a 90-something architect, showing me new buildings. He's building throughout the world.
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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
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to me as well. So I'm very excited about the reelection of the president. His Bidenomics
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are very kitchen table issues. How do we address the kitchen table concerns of America's working
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families? Yeah, Biden is, well, he's younger than someone who's 100. And so therefore,
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he's basically a kid. He's just a kid to Nancy Pelosi because, you know, he's 80 years old and
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she's three years older than he is. Now, the problem is that people's brains don't all age the same way.
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Some people develop dementia by the age of 80. Some people don't.
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Everybody starts to decline physically and mentally as they get into their 80s, though. It happens to
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everybody. Your chance of developing dementia increases, you know, exponentially with each year
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into your 80s. And Nancy Pelosi knew when she gave that interview that Joe Biden had developed
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dementia. But she laughed it off. So did Joe Scarborough. Now, both of them have the new
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memo and they're saying the exact opposite. They're shocked by the extent of the decline.
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And speaking of Scarborough, his about face is actually one of the more striking ones. I played
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some of these videos before, but it's worth repeating because of how over the top it was.
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So four months ago, Scarborough was saying that Biden is sharper than he's ever been,
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than he's ever been at 81. Even after the debate, Scarborough was defending Biden.
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Now he's saying he has to go. So here's the before and after watch.
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But comparing that guy's mental state, I've said it for years now, he's cogent.
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But I undersold him when I said he was cogent. He's far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he's better
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than he's ever been intellectually, analytically. And when your top fundraiser over the past five,
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six, seven, eight years is telling you the money's gone, the donors have all gone away.
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You know, it's it's really incumbent on people that are around Joe Biden to step up at this point
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and and and help the president and help the man they love and do the right thing.
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This is not going to this is not going to end well if it continues to drag out.
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Yeah, I know Joe Scarborough is obviously impervious to embarrassment. But if we you know, if we had a
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media with any self-respect at all, then Scarborough would not have a job right now. I mean, for many
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reasons, but just on that alone, like looking into the camera and claiming that Joe Biden is better
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than he's ever been. We could all see him collapsing and that he had been succumbed to senility
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completely. It's just you have no credibility after that. But I guess you're on MSNBC, so
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credibility is besides the point. So whether it's Joe Scarborough or Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff or the
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DOJ, all of these people know exactly what they're doing. They engaged in a concerted effort
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to hide Joe Biden's dementia. And now they're pretending it's a major issue, but only because
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they can't deny it anymore. This is a coverup that reveals exactly how much the self-appointed
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defenders of democracy really care about democracy and this country. They were planning, planning to
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launch us headlong into a constitutional crisis with a late stage dementia patient starting a fresh
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four-year term. This is the same party that rigged a primary against Bernie Sanders and that prevented
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anyone from debating Joe Biden ahead of the primaries this year. They have no interest in
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democracy. They don't care what voters want. Whoever they find to replace Biden, remember that their
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ideal candidate isn't any more competent or intelligent than Joe Biden is right now. Their ideal
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acceptance speech at the convention last night. By far the most compelling part was the beginning where he
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described his near-death experience. You've probably seen that by now, but here's a brief
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clip of that. Watch. When I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard
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on my right ear. I said to myself, wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet. And moved my right
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hand to my ear, brought it down. My hand was covered with blood, just absolutely blood all over the place.
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I immediately knew it was very serious that we were under attack. And in one movement proceeded to drop
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to the ground. Bullets were continuing to fly. As very brave Secret Service agents rushed to the stage
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stage. And they really did. They rushed to the stage.
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Now, this is, as I said, the most incredible thing to ever happen during a speech at a political
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convention. Just the subject alone automatically qualifies it for that title. I know there's a lot
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of hyperbole we hear all the time in politics and in general. You might even hear hyperbole on this show
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on occasion, sometimes, very rarely, very rarely, but it does happen that I might engage in a tad bit
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of hyperbole. This is not one of those times. I mean, this really is like there's never been anything
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like this at a political convention in this country. Anyway, a presidential candidate describing his own
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attempted assassination, which happened less than a week earlier. Just again, never seen anything like
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that before. Now, there have been other candidates and presidents who've survived assassination attempts
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and they all went on to talk about their experiences in various forums, but never in a forum like this
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so soon after the fact. Now, of course, there's always somebody like Teddy Roosevelt who was shot during
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a speech and then got up and continued giving the speech. But aside from that, this moment really
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with Trump really, really stands alone historically. Now, of course, the speech did not end with this
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section. This was the first 20 minutes or so, and then it went on for another 75 minutes.
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And the media and Democrats have latched on to that. And they're desperate. They're desperate. We
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know they've never been more desperate politically. And so they've latched on to that. The fact that
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the speech continued for a while after that initial 20-minute, very riveting section where he talked
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about the assassination attempt. And so their narrative now is that the speech was a disaster for Trump
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because he rambled for an hour and a half. And they say overshadowed his powerful moment
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with what came after, which was essentially just a standard Trump stump speech.
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And that's what they're saying. The cope, we've never seen, this is like nuclear grade cope going on
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among Democrats. And they're looking for any glimmer of hope they can find. And so that's it.
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They say, well, never mind. All the momentum is gone. Everything's finished. And now Democrats are
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going to win now because of this speech. Now, it's true that most of the rest of the speech was a
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standard stump speech. And it's true that, yeah, obviously 93 minutes is long. It's not humanly
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possible to give an absorbing and interesting speech that lasts an hour and a half. It's just never
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happened. I don't, maybe somebody can come up with an example, but I'm not aware of a single example
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ever in the history of public speaking where someone has held the audience's interest for an hour and a
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half. I mean, that's like a, that's a feature length movie and most feature length movies feel
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too long. So what are you going to do when it's just you talking to the audience? But does that make
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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
00:52:17.100
to help around the house, help out on the farm, go hunting, whatever, you know, um,
00:52:24.080
that's what it used to be. It's just that now when we talk about multi-generational households,
00:52:28.240
in many cases, that's not what's happening. You know, that, that 23, 24 year old is not out hunting
00:52:33.900
for the family. He's not, you know, he's not, he's not out on the farm. He's not getting up at 5am to
00:52:37.860
milk the cows. Like he's getting up at 10am and he's, uh, on his computer, on his phone all day.
00:52:43.880
That's, that's what it often means. And, uh, anyone who would try to position that as some sort of
00:52:49.520
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I've already spent enough time this week talking about the left-wing conspiracy theories surrounding
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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