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- August 02, 2024
Ep. 1414 - Wokeness Turns The Olympics Into A Farce
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, major controversy at the Olympics as a biological male boxer
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easily defeats a woman in the women's competition. Also, Kamala Harris speaks to reporters off
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script for the first time since stealing the nomination from Joe Biden, and it doesn't go
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well. A reporter who was suspended for wishing death on Trump after the assassination attempt
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has now been reinstated, and a number of schools across the country are just now beginning to ban
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smartphones in the classroom. Why did it take so long, and why are there still schools that
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haven't banned them? We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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One of the most common arguments you'll hear in defense of gender ideology is that
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some people are intersex, and therefore the gender binary is a myth. Now, that's what we're told. It's
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a non-sequitur, as I've explained many times, and it's usually accompanied by a series of additional
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lies. You'll often hear wildly inflated numbers from gender activists about how many intersex
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people there are in the world. You also hear various definitions for what it means to be
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intersex. Those definitions are often tailored to that so that they can inflate the number of people
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who qualify as intersex. But here's the only definition that has any meaning, as Leonard
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Sachs framed it. Being intersex means that your phenotypic sex, meaning your primary sex
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characteristics is inconsistent with your chromosomal sex. For example, someone with Y chromosomes is
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biologically male and normally has male genitalia. But if that person develops female genitalia or
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genitalia that appear female, then that person will be a biological male who suffers from intersexuality.
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On the other hand, if someone is born with Y chromosomes and then chooses to remove his male
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genitalia through surgery, that individual would not suddenly become intersex. There's no comparison
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whatsoever between being intersex and identifying as transgender. These are two different things.
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Being intersex is a condition. It's a medical condition. It's not a choice. And it's a condition
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that a vanishingly small percentage of the population suffers from, something like 0.018% of the population.
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And this is all just basic biology, or at least that's what it used to be considered. But because
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people still take gender activists seriously, at least some people do, there's a lot of confusion
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in this area. And at the Olympics the other day, that confusion led to a male, somebody with XY
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chromosomes, pummeling a woman in the face at a women's boxing event on live television. This male,
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an Algerian named Iman Khalif, was reportedly DNA tested at the Women's World Boxing Championships
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in New Delhi last year by an organization called IBA. And officials at the time disqualified Khalif
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from the competition because testing confirmed a Y chromosome, which means, again, that Khalif is a
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male. There are reports of some sort of a disorder affecting the primary sex characteristics. I can't
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verify those. Either way, the fact remains that whatever condition this person may or may not suffer
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from, whether it's an intersex condition or something else, Khalif is a male by definition.
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Intersex is just a word we've come up with to describe people who suffer from certain conditions
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and deformities. Intersex is not a third sex. It's not an exception to the rule of the sex binary.
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There are no exceptions. Okay? Everybody is either male or female. Everyone. A male that we call
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intersex may, because of his condition, appear female, potentially, but he's still a male.
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However, the International Olympic Committee, which is overseeing the boxing competition at the
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Paris Olympics, apparently doesn't care about chromosomes. According to the Washington Post,
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the IOC does not test for gender. Now, it's not really clear what that means. I mean, does that mean
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that they let LeBron James compete in the women's basketball tournament? What it appears to mean,
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based on reporting that I found, is that the IOC allows different events to implement some
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testosterone guidelines. Not rules, but just guidelines, which can vary event by event. And if
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that's the case, it obviously would be completely useless for a few reasons. One of them is that even
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if you have low levels of testosterone now, you might have had very high levels in the past,
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which would contribute to increased muscle strength, bone growth, etc. The other reason is that
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having high levels of testosterone doesn't make you a man in and of itself. Having a Y chromosome
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makes you a man. And a man with low testosterone, even a man with very low testosterone,
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is just a man with very low testosterone. That's still not a woman. But sporting competitions like
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the rest of society have, many of them have caved to gender activists on this point. And that's why
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the Algerian males fight with Italy's female boxer, Angela Carini, ended in just 46 seconds. Watch.
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Solid, straight right hand.
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Now, one of the things about all these gender tests and DNA tests is that, I mean, really,
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for the most part, they're not even necessary. Like, looking at that footage, anyone can instantly tell
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that Angela Carini was fighting a male. I mean, we said at the top that there are intersex conditions
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where someone is a male biologically, but because of things that have gone wrong may appear female
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from the outside. That can happen in very vanishingly rare cases. But this isn't even one of those cases.
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I mean, you can look and you can see the absurdity of the situation. Her opponent is obviously much
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stronger than she is. This is obviously an unfair fight. There's just, there aren't any females on the
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planet who look like this boxer from Algeria. And of course, it took just one hit to the face for
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Angela Carini to figure out that she was in danger after working her whole life, her whole life to get
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to the Olympics and competing in them. Something that obviously meant a lot to her based on her
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interviews after the fact, and based on the fact that it's the Olympics, she had to quit because
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the IOC put a male in the boxing ring with her. She didn't want to quit, but reality quite
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literally hit her in the face. So she had no choice. Now, trans activists have claimed that
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the fact that this male boxer apparently isn't trans, that's the claim anyway. Again, I don't know
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for sure. The fact that Khalif is allegedly intersex, that that somehow proves their point about the
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women's sports issue. But of course it does the opposite. Because those of us on the side of common
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sense have always said that segregating sports based on sex has nothing to do with transgenderism.
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We are not trying to keep males out of women's sports because we're engaged in some kind of
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discriminatory plot against trans people. We don't care if the male competing against women
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is trans or not. His self-identification is totally irrelevant. That is our point.
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It's what we've been saying the whole time. Trans, intersex, or something else, it doesn't matter.
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If somebody is male, if they have a Y chromosome, they should not compete against women.
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When you ban males from women's sports, you are not banning trans-identified people from women's
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sports. This is not a trans ban, as it's so often called.
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No, you can write these laws and these policies and never make any mention of trans because it's
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beside the point. You are banning males, no matter how they identify or what genetic condition they
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may or may not have. All that matters is that they're male. That's it. For these purposes,
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all that matters is that they're male. But if you think that violent episodes like this are
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going to make the trans activists admit that they're wrong and so wrong that now actual women
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are being endangered, and this, of course, actual women have been endangered by this for a long time
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now, you should know that there's precisely zero chance of that. They're not going to admit anything.
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I mean, these people have assumed such a degree of power that even their victims don't want to
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criticize them for fear of losing their livelihoods, and that's true in this case as well. In a post-fight
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statement, Angela Carini stated, quote, I felt a severe pain in my nose, and with the maturity of
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a boxer, I said enough because I didn't want to. I didn't want to. I couldn't finish the match.
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I'm not here to judge or pass judgment. If an athlete is this way, and in that sense,
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it's not right or it is right, it's not up to me to decide. I just did my job as a boxer.
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I got into the ring and fought. I did it with my head held high and with a broken heart for not
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having finished the last kilometer. Now, what's interesting about that statement is, you know,
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how common this sort of thing is. She says, it's not up to me to decide whether a male can compete
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in a women's event, and that, you know, that's true technically, but it doesn't mean she can't have
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an opinion on it, and if enough female athletes started sharing their opinion and stopped
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participating in this charade, it would end very quickly. Now, of course, some brave female
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athletes have been quite vocal about this. Riley Gaines, for example, she's not the only one.
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But still, most, most, even now, remain silent for fear of the consequences of speaking out.
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And it's worth mentioning something else, too.
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Some of the women who are our vocal opponents of gender ideology still feel the need to frame
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this conversation in the terms of left-wing victimology. So yesterday, in response to this
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story, the children's author J.K. Rowling wrote, quote,
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Now, I agree with her on the points, right, about what the policies should be in place and the fact
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that men should be competing against women. So we agree on that fundamental point. But the problem
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with Rowling's attempt to blame this on the men's rights movement, whatever that is, is that, first
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of all, there is no men's right movement, at least not one with any degree of power right now.
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Okay, it's like anyone who identifies themselves as a men's rights activist, these are people who
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have no power whatsoever in society. And there certainly isn't a men's rights movement that's
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pushing trans ideology. Okay, in fact, if you find anyone who would identify themselves as a men's
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rights, you can pretty much guarantee that that is not someone who supports trans ideology.
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Instead, what we saw in Paris this week is a natural consequence, not of men's rights or the
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patriarchy. It's a natural consequence of the ideology that feminists have been pushing for decades.
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It was feminists who argued that sex differences are mostly social constructs that are exploited by
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patriarchal oppressors. Feminists are the ones who laid the groundwork for the idea that there's no job
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a man can do that a woman can't do better. Okay, they came up with that. Men and women are equal. They
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could do the same things. Gender is a social construct. That came from feminism. And once you believe that
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lie, then you get this. You get women in a boxing ring with men getting violently assaulted.
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And it's precisely because of feminists that this insanity will continue.
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By refusing to identify the problem and how we got here, they're making it impossible to solve it.
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J.K. Rowling has said a lot of things on this issue that I agree with. She's done a lot of good on this
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issue. But she can't help but pivot it every time back to patriarchy and, you know, this is all a plot
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by men. Even though, by the way, it's mostly women actually who support gender ideology. And the polls
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will show you that every time in this country especially. And so even the feminists who oppose
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it now, they are not willing to look at their own ideology, which is feminism, to see that that's
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where this stuff is grounded in. In fact, they share the same. If it didn't come from feminism,
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they're on the same tree. Okay, they share the same roots. Now, this Algerian male is scheduled to fight
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Hungary's first Olympic women's boxer, Anna Luka Hamori on Saturday. And what's her reaction? Well, she said,
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quote, I don't care about the press story and social media. If she or he is a man, it'll be a bigger victory
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for me if I win. Now, again, this is stock feminist rhetoric. Sounds great on posters. Sounds great, you know,
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in the classroom. But when you're getting punched in the face, suddenly none of that rhetoric matters.
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All that matters is reality. And right now, a lot of people are choosing to ignore reality. They're
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choosing to ignore what we all just saw. Even after what happened at the fight on Thursday,
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BBC's boxing commentator, Steve Bunce, suggested that Karini wasn't actually hit all that severely.
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Listen. BBC Radio 5 Live's boxing commentator, Steve Bunce, was there. And Steve,
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this seems extraordinary. Can you talk us through what happened?
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I'd like to. I have no idea what happened. I was watching a fight for 46 seconds,
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a fight that people had been talking about and writing about and pontificating about for about
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10 days. And 46 seconds after it started, it finished. There was a half a blow and there was
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a right hand. And Angela Karina turned around, said something to a cornerman. They got up on the apron.
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Khalif stood in the middle of the ring. There was confusion. And then the referee waved it off.
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She'd quit after being hit with one solid right hand punch.
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Right. And there was there were some reports that Angela Karina's nose might have been broken.
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Can we substantiate that?
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Well, I'm not a doctor, but I have been at ringside for nearly 40 years and I've seen damaged
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her injured boxers. I've seen boxers, mad and female, in tears on their knees, absolutely bamboozled.
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But I've seen them up close. And I saw I saw that this fighter Karina up close. I was five feet from
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her six minutes after the fight. Her nose wasn't broken. Her nose wasn't bleeding.
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Well, she didn't have a mark on her, he says. Everyone's just pontificating. That's the BBC's
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boxing expert. Of course, you know, these are not people who care about the safety of women. They're
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mocking women even after they take the worst hit of their lives to the, you know, to the face from
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an opponent who's clearly a male in a women's competition. And this appears to be the prevailing
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attitude. Right now, there are no indications that the IOC is going to take any additional steps
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to protect the women in these competitions. There's another male boxer, Lin Yu of Taiwan,
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who's set to go up against a woman at another event. And I think that happened today.
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We seem to be at the point that it's going to take, what, a woman to die in one of these events
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for the powers that be to wake up to the fact that concepts like sex and chromosomes are real.
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And in fact, if something as horrible as that did happen, it's quite possible at this point that
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the expert class will pretend to be shocked by it. Who could have seen this coming? It's a tragedy,
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they'll say. But the thing about reality is that it's not political. It asserts itself whether we
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like it or not. And based on what's happening right now in Paris, we appear to be rapidly approaching
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Fox News reports, American reporter Evan Gershkovich and Marine veteran Paul Whalen were among four
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former prisoners released from Russia yesterday who finally stepped foot on American soil again
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on Thursday night. A plane carrying the Americans freed by Russia during the large prisoner swap
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landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, greeted by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris. And yes, Evan Gershkovich,
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Paul Whalen, also Karmashiva were the three freed Americans as well as American green card holder,
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Vladimir Karamirza. Those were the people freed. And it's great that Americans are coming home,
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something to celebrate. Will I give Biden credit for it? Not really, no. He could have brought Paul
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Whalen home a year and a half ago, but chose Brittany Griner instead. So hard to give him a
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lot of credit for that. And they're doing it now, timing it for the election. Obviously not a coincidence.
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So it's a good outcome, but I don't give you credit for leaving the guy in jail for an additional 18
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months and then timing it for the election. Hard to give you credit for that. But yesterday was a
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significant moment for another reason. Aside from these Americans finally being released,
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it's also a moment when Kamala Harris, for the first time since executing her coup and stealing
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the nomination from Joe Biden, for the first time she spoke off script to reporters and it wasn't very
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long. She didn't say much, but even in the little snippets that she gave us, she demonstrated why they
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don't let her speak off script right now. Watch. This is just an extraordinary testament to the
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importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength
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that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances. This is an
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incredible day. This is an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who
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understands the power of diplomacy and understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength
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that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy. She just can't speak like a normal
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person. And in fact, the way she speaks, you might say, is really an extraordinary testament to
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the importance of not babbling incoherently. And it demonstrates the strength that rests in the
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significance of not babbling incoherently. I think her problem is, first of all, she speaks in
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cliches, which, by the way, is one of the most reliable hallmarks of middling intelligence.
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This is really kind of the definition of a midwit is someone who speaks in cliches.
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You can listen to someone speak and you don't even need an IQ test. If it's just a, if it's a parade of
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cliches, then you already know that this is someone whose IQ is certainly not on the, the, the,
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is not in the upper range, let's say. And she also, and this is another midwit thing. She also feels
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this compulsive need to make her sentences longer than they need to be because she could have just
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said, this is an extraordinary testament to the power of diplomacy. That's all you needed to say.
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That's like 10 words, 10 words in and out. But she said that in 30 words. So she uses about three
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words for every one word that she needs to use. There's a three to one babbling ratio here that
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she's using. I've noticed something else about Kamala and, and pay attention. And the next time
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she speaks off script, which probably won't be until after the election at this point, most likely, but
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there's this very interesting thing where, and you can, you can see it where she will, she'll kind of
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give her thought about something. She'll say what she wants and she'll say it in a sentence,
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a wordy sentence, but still a, still a relatively clear like sentence. And then, and then she's done
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saying her thought. She's conveyed what she wants to convey, but she, she keeps going. So she always
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adds a second sentence, even though she said everything with the first one. And then she'll realize
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about halfway through the second sentence that it's actually just a, she's repeating what she
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said the first time. And you can see in her face as she realizes that she's repeating herself
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and she starts searching frantically in her mind while she's talking for other words to use. So it
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doesn't sound so redundant, but she can't, her vocabulary is pretty limited. So she can't think of
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any of the words. So she just ends up saying the same words again. It's, it's pretty funny. And this
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again is why they keep her on prompter as much as possible. And it does matter. You know, it might
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seem like it, like it doesn't matter that much. This is the kind of thing that doesn't really matter,
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but it does matter because it's so clumsy and cringy that it destroys the branding that they're
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trying to do with her. Kamala's whole campaign right now is just vibes. It is a vibes based campaign.
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But the problem is that if you live by the vibes, you die by the vibes, right? To paraphrase the
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gospels, live by the vibes and die by them. So when, when it's all vibes, but then when she speaks off
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script, the vibes are terrible. It's just terrible, awful vibes. The only way to maintain the vibes is
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to keep her away from cameras as much as possible, have her only on script and let the media
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generate the Kamala vibes that have almost nothing to do with Kamala herself.
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Now I will say, um, not every attempt to generate vibes on her behalf has been successful either
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in recent days. So for example, let me show you a, I just have to show you that this is a very real,
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a real tweet sent out by the Democrat Twitter account. It's the Twitter account for the, uh, or sorry,
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the X account for the Democrat party. And, um, let's, let's put that up on the screen. Can we?
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All right. It says Republican praise for Kamala Harris.
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We obviously disagreed, but she's personable. That's from Senator James Lankford.
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Lindsey Graham said, I always found her pleasant to deal with. Mitt Romney, very personable and
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knowledgeable. Mike Rounds says, we work together. Well, we still say hello to each other.
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And Marco Rubio, I don't remember any problems with her on the committee.
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That's the, those are the quotes that they give us now. So think about this for a moment.
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They, they scoured through like years of commentary on Kamala Harris to find the absolute highest praise
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ever offered to her by the opposition. And I don't remember any problems with her made the cut.
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Okay. We say hello to each other made the top five list of nicest things she's ever of top five praise
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for Kamala Harris is we say hello to each other. Critics are raving about Kamala Harris. She's fine,
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I guess. Man, I don't hate her that much. Yeah. She's a, you know, she's, she's a person
00:25:52.700
who exists. One thing about that Kamala is she really, she, she, she, uh, she exists. She's a
00:26:00.000
person. There's no doubt about it. Of all the people who've existed, she's in the, she's in the
00:26:04.580
top. She's, she's as good at, at existing as anyone else who's ever existed. If not better.
00:26:11.880
Um, that's, uh, not, not a lot of great vibes on that one either. So they'll, I mean, Kamala Harris
00:26:21.720
has a lot going for her and none of it has anything to do with her personally, but just with the, with,
00:26:26.760
with the corporate media and, and, uh, Hollywood and entertainment industry, uh, invested in propping
00:26:34.360
her up and all of that, but they can still screw it up. They can screw this thing up. So don't,
00:26:40.640
so take, take heart in that at least. Here's one more thing on, uh, Harris that, that it actually
00:26:47.680
is quite a bit more important than all this other stuff. This is a report from the Daily Wire.
00:26:53.080
Never before seen footage showing a Planned Parenthood employee appearing to discuss the
00:26:56.640
sale of aborted babies' body parts was released Tuesday, years after now Vice President Kamala Harris
00:27:02.500
seized the footage as Attorney General of California. The five-minute video shows a conversation
00:27:06.100
between a person identified as Dr. Stacey Dillon, Planned Parenthood New York City Medical Director
00:27:11.820
for Abortion Services and an undercover reporter with the Center for Medical Progress. During their
00:27:16.640
conversation, Dillon seems to acknowledge that Planned Parenthood would sell the livers of aborted
00:27:20.480
babies. In one clip, Dillon is told by a CMP investigator that she could pay you a thousand up to
00:27:27.100
$1,500 for a liver. Yeah, that's great, Dillon responds. I think a financial incentive from you guys,
00:27:33.420
like, to the people we have to get this approved from, they'll be very happy about it.
00:27:39.120
Harris's office confiscated footage in a 2016 raid on CMP President David Daleiden's California home
00:27:44.620
two weeks after meeting with Planned Parenthood officials and after the organization had
00:27:48.480
specifically requested the computers used for the undercover videos to be seized.
00:27:54.040
And now we're just now seeing this. So the Democrats obviously considered the abortion issue to be a
00:27:59.020
major vulnerability for Republicans and for Trump specifically. But it's only a vulnerability if they
00:28:04.900
aren't smart enough to play it right and steer the conversation in the right direction. Because the truth
00:28:09.120
is that abortion should be the last thing that Kamala Harris, of all people, wants to talk about. She has a
00:28:15.460
history of absolutely radical extremism on this issue. She has abused her power in blatantly
00:28:21.720
corrupt ways in order to protect the abortion industry. You think she wants to talk about
00:28:31.120
this? You think she wants to talk about Planned Parenthood selling the livers and internal organs
00:28:38.380
of aborted babies? She doesn't want to talk about that, I can tell you that. Because the fact is that
00:28:44.980
she used her position as attorney general to cover up this crime. She prosecuted the journalists who
00:28:52.220
exposed the crimes and then not only refused to prosecute anyone at Planned Parenthood, but in fact at
00:29:00.200
their behest took the evidence of their crimes and concealed it. So this is major corruption. And it's all in the
00:29:10.240
name of protecting butchers who are selling the body parts of dead babies. That is a thing that happened.
00:29:17.880
It's a real thing. It's so horrifying and brutal that it sounds made up. And in fact, Planned Parenthood
00:29:25.320
for years, ever since this all came to light, and really even before that, in a weird way they have
00:29:34.280
almost, from a PR perspective, they've almost benefited from just how barbarically evil they are. Because it's so evil
00:29:45.300
that it sounds made up. Like they're so over the top villainous that it doesn't even sound real. And so when you
00:29:54.880
hear that, you think, oh, it's selling the body, they didn't do, come on. They didn't do that. But they did.
00:30:02.880
There are hours of footage proving it beyond any reasonable doubt. We have the Planned Parenthood officials
00:30:09.600
on camera working out monetary deals for body parts in explicit terms. So that's it. Like there's,
00:30:19.640
there's no denying it. And Kamala Harris was very involved in covering that up. And I think that,
00:30:26.400
so this brings up two sort of issues that she doesn't really want to talk about. And one of them
00:30:29.900
is the reality of what Planned Parenthood is and what they do. And the other is her attacks on
00:30:36.840
journalists. I mean, now she pretends to be some defender of free speech, a defender of journalism.
00:30:41.400
She, she, she legally pursued journalists and tried to put them in prison for doing journalism.
00:30:49.700
That's the fact. All right. The Post Millennial has this. A reporter for far left Seattle outlet,
00:30:56.680
The Stranger, has been reinstated after a suspension for lamenting that the Butler,
00:31:01.540
Pennsylvania, would-be assassin failed at killing former President Donald Trump.
00:31:04.580
She has a byline on the website that was on July 30th. Staff writer at The Stranger, Ashley
00:31:12.680
Nurbevig, who covers policing, incarceration and courts for the far left outlet, posted on X following
00:31:20.240
the news that, that the president had survived the shooting. She posted, make America aim again.
00:31:28.560
And that was back the afternoon when all this happened and she was suspended and now she's back. So
00:31:33.960
that's, that's basically a story. Wish death on the president, President Trump. Minutes after he was
00:31:41.120
shot, her very, her very first reaction, she gets suspended by the media outlet that she works for.
00:31:47.200
Then a couple of weeks later, she's back on the job. Now, yes, The Stranger is a far left outlet.
00:31:51.640
You know, it's, it's not an outlet that any thinking person takes seriously, but even so,
00:31:56.160
what does it tell us? What does it say that a person can keep their job in media after lamenting
00:32:01.820
publicly that a former president was not fatally wounded after being shot in the head?
00:32:07.860
Now, there was a brief moment in time. We can maybe vaguely recall when leftists who made these
00:32:14.220
comments about Trump after the assassination attempt were actually seeming to face consequences,
00:32:20.100
normal consequences that anyone else would face. And that's what seemed to be happening.
00:32:24.620
This woman was suspended from her job. Jack Black's friend, whatever the guy's name is,
00:32:29.620
I forget, made a similar joke on stage, as we recall, and both Jack Black and Kyle Gass is his
00:32:35.540
friend. They both apologized. The band basically broke up. So there was a brief moment when it seemed
00:32:42.420
like leftists were actually being held to some basic standard of decency and decorum,
00:32:46.380
but that didn't last. You know, it's, it lasted, it's over now. And it kind of goes to show, I think,
00:32:53.740
just how thoroughly the media has been able to memory hole the Trump assassination attempt. It's
00:32:58.860
only been three weeks, only three weeks. And it's like, it never happened. For, for maybe two or three
00:33:07.500
days, this was a major topic of conversation. As I said, leftists were actually seeming to get in
00:33:12.360
trouble for making light of it. Democrats were like a little shy about attacking Trump. And most of
00:33:22.100
them, not all, most of them backed away from like the really vicious anti-Trump rhetoric. But that
00:33:28.640
lasted for half a week, maybe a full week at most, probably not even a full week. It was really half a
00:33:35.780
week, three or four days. And now we're back to normal, back like it didn't happen.
00:33:42.360
This shocking historic moment, something the likes of which most of us have never witnessed before.
00:33:48.800
And in fact, I mean, the full thing, no one in history has ever, no one in American, nothing like,
00:33:53.780
exactly like that has ever happened in, in American history, even though of course there have been other
00:34:00.700
assassination attempts and successful assassinations. But either way, historic moment. And now it's like,
00:34:06.920
it may as well have not even happened. That's the power that the media still has to drive the
00:34:12.200
conversation. We like to pretend that they're irrelevant. We like to say that corporate media
00:34:17.680
is dying and all of that, but, but they may not be as powerful as they once were, but they're still
00:34:24.100
very powerful. Corporate media is still extremely powerful and has a profound ability to set the
00:34:31.440
narrative. And that's what they're doing here. Now, granted in this case, they're assisted by the
00:34:36.560
general sort of ADHD nature of American society. It's very difficult for Americans to pay attention
00:34:44.060
to anything for more than 45 seconds. And it's very easy to forget about stuff that happened a week ago
00:34:49.620
and that the media exploits that, but also helps to cause it. And it, but it cuts both ways. And
00:34:58.020
that's the other thing. So it means that yes, incredibly insanely Trump surviving an assassination
00:35:05.400
attempt will probably not help him at all on election day. I think a lot, myself included,
00:35:11.320
a lot of people, myself included when it first happened, because it was such a historic moment
00:35:17.460
and you have that iconic image of Trump acting with just real physical bravery.
00:35:27.140
And a lot of us saw that. And then we thought, well, I mean, the election's over. This is such,
00:35:31.760
you can't, for something like this to happen during a campaign, I mean, this is going to
00:35:37.440
sway people in a way that nothing else possibly could. I think a lot of us thought that
00:35:43.920
because that's the way that it should be. That's the way that it would have been at any point in
00:35:50.040
American history until very recently. But then, you know, of course, Biden drops out of the race. So
00:35:56.300
that, that helps to change the narrative a little bit. But even before that, this was already fading
00:36:02.340
into distant memory. And, um, it's again, because like we, we just live in a, in a society now where
00:36:07.720
nothing matters for more than a couple of days. It's really crazy. But as I was saying, it cuts
00:36:14.300
both ways. So it also means that all this hype around Kamala right now could by election day be
00:36:21.860
a distant faint memory of the ancient past. Also, you know, the public could get bored of the Kamala
00:36:28.240
hype just as quickly as it got bored of the fact that a former president was shot in the head.
00:36:32.640
Um, and what that means is that it makes political predictions very tenuous, if not meaningless,
00:36:44.300
because all that really matters by the time people are voting,
00:36:48.860
all that matters is whatever happened within 24 hours or maybe 48 hours or at most of them casting
00:36:58.800
the vote. That's all that matters. All right. Well, another thing I want to mention briefly,
00:37:04.280
this is a, um, a woman who's gone viral on TikTok with a message for her fellow white women. Watch.
00:37:12.420
This is a message for every single person who looks like me, specifically white women. It's time.
00:37:20.900
This is no longer about politics and you get to right your wrongs of 2016 when you didn't put a
00:37:27.260
woman in the white house who was overly qualified. Now's your chance. You did not stand behind black
00:37:35.280
women, people of color, immigrant families, differently abled people, none of them. You said
00:37:42.140
I matter more than you in 2016. Not anymore. You have the chance to again, put an overly qualified
00:37:52.440
person in a seat that they absolutely deserve because they are willing to go to bat for you
00:37:59.420
and everyone around you. This is no longer about red versus blue. This is our lives that we are playing
00:38:09.340
with. And the piece that you have control over is who you vote for in November. You need to find a
00:38:17.920
spine. Shut up. That's good. You know, she says that this is a message for anyone who looks like
00:38:23.240
her. And, uh, so, you know, I watched that and at first I thought that's kind of weird because if
00:38:28.980
you have a message for Chris Farley, it's a little late. Um, but then I realized she was talking about
00:38:35.600
her skin color and it's not a joke or insult by the way against her. Uh, I, I, by no means I just,
00:38:41.440
I was truly confused at first. I didn't, I didn't understand what she meant. I was a little confused.
00:38:45.560
Uh, no offense to her or Chris Farley. Uh, may he rest in peace. Anyway, here's, here's all I want
00:38:52.520
to say. Uh, I know that white women, uh, specifically single white women are overwhelmingly
00:39:01.920
Democrat, um, overwhelmingly liberal, but I just have to ask as a woman, don't you ever get tired
00:39:09.700
of this crap? Like, don't you get sick of it? This never ending guilt trip. It's relentless.
00:39:19.820
And I know I, we we've established that white men lowest on the totem pole, right? We are the
00:39:27.180
most villainized group in, in the country, in the Western world by far. We know that. Um,
00:39:34.900
but it's not much better for, for white women. And, uh, you could even make an argument that like
00:39:45.220
in some ways it's worse that what white women, even though white men, it's almost like as white
00:39:49.500
men, we are, we're hated so much that we're just kind of written off. We're a lost cause.
00:39:54.840
So we don't get lectured nearly as much. That's, that's at least the advantage is that there's not,
00:39:59.300
there aren't as many lectures to white men because it's just assumed that we're all a bunch of, uh,
00:40:05.080
you know, cavemen bigots. And so they just leave us alone in our caves, which I'm, I'm, I'm fine with
00:40:11.100
like, fine. Just give up on me. Perfect. Please do. I am a, I am a lost cause for you people.
00:40:16.720
There's nothing you can do. White women though, I think are, are, are not spared the lectures and,
00:40:25.560
uh, and, uh, and often, oftentimes, so it's, they're getting lectured constantly by, uh, by
00:40:31.160
non-white liberals. But then there's also a lot of this where you have one of your own,
00:40:37.340
like talking down to you and it's just, it never stops. It's a little bit, the, the, the dynamic,
00:40:45.340
it's like, I'm trying to think of a comparison. It's almost like, um, think of a full metal jacket,
00:40:51.940
you know, the, the, uh, the bootcamp scenes and the way that the new recruits were treated,
00:40:59.060
you know, old school Marine Corps bootcamp, Paris Island, uh, you know, just being cut down
00:41:05.720
constantly, you maggots, everything just being cut down, abused. And, uh, and so it's, that's like
00:41:13.000
what white women are in the left wing world. Whereas white men were the enemy. So in a way we're,
00:41:20.080
we're, we are ranked lower cause we're the enemy. We're the ones that you're, you know,
00:41:23.880
training to go out and kill. Um, but a lot of the negative energy on a day-to-day basis is focused
00:41:32.000
on those white women, the new recruits who are just sitting there standing at attention in bootcamp,
00:41:37.040
the drill instructors walking down the barracks, just cutting you down one by one. Hey, you over
00:41:43.060
there, just, just insulting you. But the thing is, at least if you're a full metal jacket recruit,
00:41:50.160
like you, you can, you can get through bootcamp and you can move up the ranks. But as a white woman,
00:41:55.500
you never get through it. This is what you are forever. You're the new recruit maggot, you know,
00:41:59.980
and it's, it just will never stop. You're always at that level. And I also had another, I don't think
00:42:07.260
we have the clip, but, uh, you know, you kind of compare this to the way that women are talked
00:42:14.300
about of other races, like black women. So there's a clip of, uh, Brandon Johnson, the mayor of,
00:42:21.440
of Chicago now, no better than Lori Lightfoot. Even in fact, he's, he is more woke than Lori Lightfoot
00:42:29.300
was. And anyway, he's talking, he's, he's, he's talking about the, the, the Trump thing with the
00:42:34.680
National Association of Black Journalists. And he starts talking about like the, the majesty. He
00:42:40.880
starts to say, well, you know, Trump, he ran into those, the black women, the majesty, I forget what
00:42:46.940
the exact term was that he used, but he was talking about like the majesty, the mystical majesty and
00:42:52.920
beauty of black women talking about black women as though they are deities. And that's the way black
00:43:00.080
women are talked about. Um, but white, and then you compare that to how white women, even white
00:43:08.160
women who are on their side, who are on the left, how are they talked about? Yeah, these are not
00:43:16.180
deities. You're just like scum. Everything is your fault. Everything. So black women are beautiful
00:43:24.280
goddesses, queens, right? What, what are white women? Karens.
00:43:32.060
It's actually the one group that has a slur like that. That's common parlance. And you can say
00:43:38.940
whenever you want. Even white men don't, don't quite have that. Yeah. I mean, there are slurs you
00:43:45.300
can use about white people and men that, you know, no, that you can say that and you're not going to get
00:43:50.100
in trouble, but there's nothing. Karen is the one. It's like the one kind of race and gender-based
00:43:56.380
slur that's, uh, you know, household usage. It's like everyone says it and, and it's not an issue.
00:44:06.040
So black women are queens, goddesses on high. How dare you disrespect them? Yeah. When you,
00:44:12.740
when you're in the presence of a black woman, you better show your respect, damn it. And then white
00:44:19.340
women, oh, these Karens, there's another Karen again. God forbid a white woman like is upset
00:44:25.100
about anything ever, or, you know, is in a, is in a position where someone's actually being rude to
00:44:31.580
her. So she stands up for herself automatically. Oh, you Karen, shut up, Karen. And you know,
00:44:38.040
all of that is coming from the left. It's all coming from them. So if you're, they, they hate you.
00:44:46.160
They absolutely hate you. And if you're on the left and you're a woman, you hate yourself too.
00:44:54.980
They hate you. They want you to hate yourself. It's just gross. Like free yourself of that stuff.
00:45:01.220
Uh, so that's my little pep talk for a white women.
00:45:09.240
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daily cancellation. Our daily cancellation today begins with a positive story for a change. Here's
00:46:00.960
the news out of Michigan, reading from an outlet called The Midwesterner. At East Jackson High
00:46:05.500
School, engagement is up and drama is down exponentially after school officials last year
00:46:09.920
banned cell phones in class, according to Principal Joel Cook. Quote, when you take away the compulsion
00:46:15.480
to address Snapchat and TikTok, kids find themselves having to concentrate, participate in some of these
00:46:20.300
debates in the classroom, he told MLive. Students, staff, and parents have appreciated it. The district's
00:46:25.840
power school data center shows that since school officials required students to stash their phones in
00:46:30.580
their locker during class, beginning last school year, behavioral referrals have declined by 40%.
00:46:35.520
I don't think people fully understand the amount of behavioral issues that began with a Snapchat,
00:46:40.140
Cook said. If you take that out of the classroom, a lot of the drama goes away. Cook told WSYM
00:46:45.360
he initially expected the phone ban to result in a battle, but found that that wasn't the case.
00:46:51.940
Honestly, kids were relieved, he said. Most parents were relieved. Well, this is very good.
00:46:56.940
They banned cell phones in school and immediately started reaping the benefits because of course
00:47:02.160
they did. There is only upside to banning cell phones in school. It can only have a positive
00:47:08.460
impact on the learning environment and the well-being of the kids. So this is not a case of
00:47:13.300
weighing the pros and cons, making a trade-off. It's not like, oh yeah, you can ban school, ban
00:47:19.100
phones in school, but then this is going to happen. There's no trade-off. Having phones in school is
00:47:24.180
only bad. Therefore, getting rid of them can only be good. Which is why when I read a story like this,
00:47:32.100
even though I'm quite happy that this improvement was made, I can't help but wonder, why are you just
00:47:38.000
doing this now? The iPhone was first released 17 years ago. Smartphones have been ubiquitous for well
00:47:46.560
over a decade. Many of the kids entering their senior year of high school right now have had phones
00:47:52.840
since elementary school. Phones have already ruined the educational experience of an entire
00:47:58.440
generation of kids and we're just getting around to banning them now? Well, better late than never,
00:48:05.900
you might say. But as you read on, you discover that this school with its cell phone ban 17 years
00:48:12.760
late is still ahead of the curve somehow. Reading on, quote, the move to ban phones at the high school
00:48:20.260
followed a two-year trial at East Jackson Middle School that served as a litmus test.
00:48:24.760
Jackson officials are now encouraging other schools and districts to consider the same.
00:48:28.860
Michigan's Tomlinson Middle School, Melvindale High School, McDonald Middle School, and others
00:48:33.260
have had similar successes with improving student behavior and academics by banning phones,
00:48:38.300
echoing research from Central Michigan University, the New York Institute of Technology, and California
00:48:42.180
State University that correlated increased learning, better comprehension, lower anxiety,
00:48:45.920
and more mindfulness with a decline in smartphone use. Those studies, along with trial runs in schools
00:48:51.980
across the country, have convinced lawmakers in some states to consider or implement statewide cell
00:48:56.340
phone bans as a means to improve student learning and reduce behavioral problems that have increased in
00:49:02.100
many places since the pandemic. Through mid-June, only Indiana, Florida, and Ohio have banned cell phones
00:49:07.780
statewide in schools, while lawmakers in New York, Oklahoma, and Missouri are considering the same.
00:49:13.160
And, but in Michigan, legislators remain hostile to the idea.
00:49:20.220
So there are 50 states in this country. Smartphones have existed for 17 years.
00:49:25.620
In 17 years, across 50 states, only three of them have gotten around to banning these devices from
00:49:31.740
the classroom. And these bans are new. In fact, if you Google it right now, you'll find a whole slate of
00:49:36.940
articles, just like this one from Midwestern, reporting on schools in various states who will be trying
00:49:42.180
trying something new this coming school year by actually forbidding students from using their
00:49:48.100
phones during school hours. Meanwhile, CNN reported back in late June, quote, adding to a growing list
00:49:53.860
of school districts banning cell phones. The nation's largest district could be moving to do the same as
00:49:59.260
early as January. Phone usage during the school day has not only become a distraction, but an addiction.
00:50:04.580
David Banks, the chancellor of New York City public schools, said during an on-camera interview with
00:50:09.280
WNYW, quote, we recognize the problem and that it's a major issue, Banks said. The chancellor said
00:50:14.660
he expects a formal announcement to be made as soon as he fine-tunes how to implement a plan that would
00:50:19.120
impact more than a million students across nearly 2,000 public schools in the city. Wednesday's the
00:50:23.820
last day of the school year before the summer break. New York's decision comes on the heels of Los
00:50:28.680
Angeles Unified School District moving to ban cell phones in schools just last week. Okay, so New York
00:50:34.480
City public schools might ban smartphones from the classroom starting in January. Los Angeles just
00:50:41.640
started to implement a ban this past June. Other school districts across the country have just gotten
00:50:47.840
around to it. Three states just passed bans. But smartphones are still permitted in schools during school
00:50:56.420
hours in 47 states and countless schools across the country. Now, I know you might say that any progress
00:51:04.360
is good and I should be happy with these steps forward, even if they're very small steps and very slow
00:51:10.660
and a decade and a half late. But we should really expect more from the people in charge of educating
00:51:17.140
50 million American children. Like, it's crazy that this is, it's, the fact that cell phones are not
00:51:25.380
banned in every school in the country with no exception is insane. Do you understand how insane that is?
00:51:34.460
These, these, again, these little distraction boxes hit the market 17 years ago. The sole function
00:51:42.040
of the distraction box, especially when used by children, is to distract them. Kids are given the
00:51:50.660
distraction boxes and they proceed to spend most of their day staring into them distracted. For kids,
00:51:57.280
the distraction boxes have literally no other point. They have no utility except to distract.
00:52:04.260
Any legitimate use outside of that, say, making a phone call, can be achieved by regular phones. All of
00:52:10.240
the additional stuff, all of the stuff that, you know, makes a smartphone a smartphone, serves for
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children, the single sole solitary purpose of distracting them. And yet, the people who run our
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schools have spent 17 years pondering over these distraction boxes. They've argued amongst themselves,
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should we allow kids to use the distraction boxes in school? Say, have you noticed that kids are
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extremely distracted all the time? Do you think it could be because of the distraction boxes that
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they all carry around in their pockets and stare at for 18 hours a day? Could I, could I, maybe that
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has something to do with the fact that, you know, they're very distracted all the time. Could I have
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something to do with that? And they ponder over this and they still can't figure it out somehow.
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The geniuses in charge of our schools have spent all this time deliberating on the question for
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nearly two decades. And only now have some of them concluded that, yes, perhaps the distraction boxes
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are causing distractions. And still somehow many districts in 47 states have yet to arrive at that
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conclusion. They need to think about it more. But, you know, this is not all the fault of the schools,
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of course. The primary culprits, as always, are the parents who have paid exorbitant sums to purchase
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distraction boxes for their children. The parents who pay a monthly fee to Verizon or T-Mobile to make sure
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that their kids can be continue to be distracted. I mean, think about that for a second. You're paying
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a monthly bill. It's not even just like a one-time dumb purchase. Every month you're paying another
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bill. Hey, honey, did you pay the distraction bill for our kids to make sure they're always
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distracted all the time? Did you pay that? Make sure, make sure to pay it. We got to make sure
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they're always distracted. Don't let that, don't let that, yeah, make sure it's paid. We don't want to get
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the service shut off. We don't want to, our kid might go a day without being distracted. We don't want
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that. We can't have that. These parents who go out of their way to furnish their children with
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distractions, and then when their kids end up being distracted, what do they do? They immediately put
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their kids on medication rather than simply taking away the distraction box. And this is all very
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unfortunate because the key to giving your child not just a better education, but a better and healthier
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and more joyful childhood, a better life in general, is so simple. Okay? This is not the only
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thing that will make it happen, but it starts with take away the distraction box. Take away the
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phone. Let me just close with this thought. We just spent the last month at a lake house up in
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the mountains. And now, as you know, our kids don't have phones at all. We don't do phones with our
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kids. But for the last month, they also haven't had TV because the house that we were staying in,
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the house actually had TVs. It had like a lot of TVs, but none of them worked reliably. So our
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kids spent the better part of a month with no phones, because they never have phones, no tablets,
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and no TVs. No screen-based entertainment of any kind. They complained about the lack of a working TV
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for the first few days. They did. But then they stopped complaining, and they found other ways to
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entertain themselves. They played out in the woods. They swam in the lake. They played card games.
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They built forts. They, you know, played dodgeball, and so on and so on. They were lively and active
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and engaged. They didn't miss the screens. The screens would not have improved their experience
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at all. There was never a moment, not one moment, when either we as the parents or they as the children
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thought, you know what would make this even better for them? A screen that they can stare at silently.
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Now, I'm not suggesting that we should get rid of all of our screens. I'm not saying that a kid
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should never watch TV. At our house, we do have TV. Our kids do watch it. And I realize that it's
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easier to keep kids entertained when you're on vacation. It's the summertime. You're at a lake.
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Like, I get all that. I'm a realist. My point is simply that the screens really do not enhance a
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child's life. And the benefits of limiting the screen time, the benefits of removing the screens
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to whatever extent possible, are immense. Because no parent is going to look back on a child's life
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once they reach adulthood and lament that he didn't spend more time staring at a screen.
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No parent will think that. But many, many, many parents will deeply mourn and are already deeply
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mourning childhoods squandered and sometimes destroyed by the obsessive, oppressive reliance
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on and presence of screens. And this is doubly true in schools. Some schools are finally starting to
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realize that, however, belatedly. But the ones that still somehow haven't gotten with the program
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are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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Talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend. Godspeed.
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Growing up, I never thought much about race. It never really seemed to matter that much. At least
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not to me. Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you left. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this
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Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certification. And what you're doing
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is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you than less for you. Is
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America inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the
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George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bones.
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So inherently. Yeah. This country is a piece of shit.
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White folks. White trash. White supremacy. White woman. White boy. Is there a black person
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around here? There's a black person right here. Does he not exist?
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