Ep. 1463 - The Party That Hates Men Is Wondering Why They’re Losing Male Voters
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Summary
Kamala Harris is losing men by a wide margin, and it may cost her the election. But why are male voters so repulsed by Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party in general? We ll talk about that. Also, J.D. Vance humiliates the propagandist media yet again. More states move away from Columbus Day in favor of the fake holiday known as Indigenous People s Day. And a large percentage of young people, especially women, say that mental illness is an important part of their identity.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Kamala campaign is losing men by a wide margin,
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and it may cost them the election, but why are male voters so repulsed by Kamala Harris
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and the Democrat Party in general? We'll talk about that. Also, J.D. Vance humiliates the
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propagandist media yet again. More states move away from Columbus Day in favor of the fake
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holiday known as Indigenous People's Day, and a large percentage of young people, especially
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young women, say that mental illness is an important part of their identity. We'll talk
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about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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the next economic crisis hits. NMLS 182334, NMLSConsumerAccess.org. It's been a little over
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two months since the Kamala Harris campaign unveiled their ace in the hole, their foolproof plan to win over
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male voters and dominate the upcoming presidential election. This plan didn't take the form of a
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campaign platform or a stump speech or anything like that. Instead, it took the form of an ingenious
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little totem, one that you could even purchase for a mere $40 plus shipping that was located in the
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online merch store of the Kamala Harris campaign. And I'm talking, of course, about the official
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Harris Walls embroidered camo hat. Axios called the hat a status symbol for Democrats. This hat,
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political, told us, is more important than you think. They wrote that it could even decide the
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outcome of the election as a kind of tipping point. According to CNN, that hat signified that
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the Harris campaign was serious about burnishing their credentials among young voters, especially
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white men. Watch. I want to show our viewers something that our colleague Josh Campbell just
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pointed out to me, and I believe we have it. It's new merch. All the campaigns get merch up
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really quickly. But this in particular, as Josh is pointing out, is in orange, blaze orange. It's a
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color used by hunters for safety purposes. And that's what Tim Walz is. He is a hunter. And the fact
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that that is one of the first things that they are selling, that tells you a lot about the way that
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they are trying to get the white men. I might get one. I mean, there's a way to style that hat
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that could fit in with the culture, you know. So there was so much optimism. Tim Walz is a hunter,
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CNN assured us. That's why he needs the blaze orange hat. And thanks to this hat, men are going
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to recognize how authentic and masculine Tim Walz is. Men will sit around at the pub saying to each
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other, gee whiz, that Tim Walz is a, he's a real man's man. Did you see his orange hat?
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Trump campaign won't even stand a chance. After all, their hats are red. And men don't respond to
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that. They only respond to blaze orange. Now, that was the consensus in the corporate press anyway. But
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two months later, it's starting to look like the unthinkable has happened. The Harris-Walls camo hat
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has not, in fact, exerted a kind of mind control over hundreds of thousands of men across the country.
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It has not guaranteed a Kamala Harris landslide as expected. Instead, Kamala Harris's campaign is
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in free fall among the men of every demographic group. A New York Times poll just found that
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nationally, Trump has a significant lead among likely male voters. He's up by more than 10 points.
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Meanwhile, USA Today poll found that in Arizona, a majority of Latino men between the ages of 18 to
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34 support Donald Trump. Among Latino men age 45 to 49, Trump support is even higher at 57 percent.
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And for their part, black men are also increasingly turned off by Kamala Harris's campaign.
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New York Times reports that Kamala Harris, quote, still significantly trails Joe Biden's 2020 share
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of likely black voters. And the numbers show that she's especially far behind among black men. And
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you know what that means? Well, it means that Barack Obama is once again, very disappointed. Now,
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it's no secret that a lot of things disappoint Barack Obama. He was disappointed when George
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Zimmerman exercised his right of self-defense to save his life. He was disappointed when Americans
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elected Donald Trump. He was disappointed when he had to cancel his 60th birthday party on Martha's
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Vineyard because the plebes noticed that he was disregarding the COVID rules that he pretended to care
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about. Pretty much everything that happens somehow ends up disappointing poor Barack Obama. But this time,
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this time is different. His brow is really furrowed this time. He's more disappointed than he's ever been
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before. And specifically, he's disappointed in black men for not supporting Kamala Harris enough. Watch.
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Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail and he's making the case against Donald Trump. But before his guest
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feature in Pennsylvania, Obama made a surprise visit to Kamala Harris's campaign headquarters in Pittsburgh.
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It was there that he got candid, maybe a little too candid if you are in the vice president's inner circle
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tonight. He warned that Harris is underperforming him with black voters. And he had a message
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specifically for a black man. Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren't feeling the idea
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of having a woman as president. And you're coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for it.
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So now you're thinking about sitting out or even supporting somebody who has a history of denigrating you
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because you think that's a sign of strength because that's what being a man is, putting women down.
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Not acceptable, he says. Just not acceptable. And you get the finger wag, too, the literal
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finger wag. That's not acceptable. This is how you know the internal polls are just as bad as the
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public polls, if not worse. The party of joy is now the party of scolding and finger wagging.
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And it's been that party all along. He's not even hiding his contempt. According to Barack Obama,
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black men can't possibly be upset with inflation or crime or anything like that. They must hate
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women. That's the only possible explanation for why Kamala Harris hasn't already locked up 100%
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of the black vote. Now, what's extraordinary about this is that Donald Trump isn't even polling
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especially well among black voters. He's just polling a lot better than any other Republican has in recent
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history. Trump has something like 20% support among black men, which is much higher than Democrats are used
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to still a small minority. But Democrats recognize that this relatively small shift could very well
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cost them the election. It could flip states like Pennsylvania, which is where Obama was when he
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delivered that little dressing down. So Obama is furious. He needs black support for Kamala Harris to
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exceed 90%. But men of all demographic groups aren't going along with the program. And that's why in
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recent days, we've seen Kamala's campaign and her supporters go to increasingly desperate lengths
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to appeal to men. That cringy ad that went viral last week is just the latest example. It was created
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by a former director for Jimmy Kimmel named Jacob Reed. And in case you were fortunate enough to miss
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this at the time when we played it last week, well, here it is again.
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I'll tell you another thing. I'm not afraid of women. I'm not afraid of women. They want to control their
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bodies. I say go for it. They want to use IVF to start a family. I'm not afraid of families. They
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want to be childless cat ladies. Have all the cats you want. Woman wants to be president. Well, I hope
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she has the guts to look me right in the eye and accept my full-throated endorsement. Because I'm
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man enough to support women. Man enough to know what kind of donuts I like. Man enough to admit I'm lost
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even when I refuse to ask for directions. Man enough to not ban young women from reading little women. Or one
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of those pants books that the sisters like. I'm man enough to raw dog a flight. It sucked. Not worth
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it. Now, it probably won't surprise you to learn that all of the men in this ad are actors and they're
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mostly lying about their lives. One of them says that he braids his daughter's hair, but he doesn't
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even have a daughter, apparently. He also claims that he deadlifts 500. We can only assume he meant 500
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ounces from the look of it. But something that might surprise you is that in the days since this video
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has been mocked extensively all over the internet, the creator of that ad, Jacob Reed,
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has not gone into hiding. He hasn't changed his name and fled the country in shame, never to be
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heard from again. Although that reaction would be reasonable and prudent at this point. Instead,
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he just appeared on national television to double down on the concept and explain why everyone else
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Rorschach test and everyone wondering what they're seeing here. But what was your intention
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in creating this parody and the substance of the message?
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Yeah, great question. So, I mean, I think about masculinity a lot because I'm a dad now raising
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kids. And I think in this country, it's something we don't talk about a lot. And so I had this idea
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watching the back to back conventions where at the Democratic convention, there's men who are looking at the
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women who they work with or who they're in relationships with, with admiration and respect
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at the Republican National Convention. You have, you know, everything's about size, crowd size,
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this size, that size. You're playing Macho Man. Literally Hulk Hogan is ripping his shirt off.
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I mean, it was such a cartoon of masculinity that it really, the juxtaposition was hilarious to me.
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Wow, you guys got that picture fast. Holy moly. So I, you know, I come from comedy and comedy comes
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from juxtaposition. And so to me, I was just riffing with my friends thinking, wouldn't it be
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funny if you took these ideas of like, so macho, you got to tell everyone how macho you are all
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the time, masculinity. And what I feel is a, is a more real version of what it means to be a man
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where, you know, yeah, you cry at a rom-com, you braid your daughter's hair, you go pick up tampons
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from the store if someone needs tampons, like who cares? And so to me, putting those together,
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but treating it like, as if it's a real, you know, rugged man political ad, uh, would be funny.
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And, uh, I still think it was funny. Well, he thinks it was funny anyway. So he's, uh,
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explaining the joke, which is always a great sign. Comedy is about juxtaposition, says Jacob Reed.
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You get it? He's, he's juxtaposing the idea of a stereotypically rugged man with things that
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aren't stereotypically masculine. And it's funny because those two things are being juxtaposed.
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That's comedy as explained by the former director of Jimmy Kimmel, a comedian who himself has not
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told a joke in 20 years. Um, in addition to not actually being funny, this guy's also not very
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smart because without realizing it, he proved the point that, that I made that many of us made when,
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when, um, uh, last week, you know, on the left to be a real man, according to them,
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it means simply playing second fiddle to women. Any, any man who submits and assumes a subservient
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role is automatically a role model for all men in their view. So go fetch the tampons and braid
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some hair and, uh, and, and then you're a real man. That's the idea. This is a debased and matriarchal
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view of men that fails to resonate with, with any man, aside from the most effeminate and
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testosterone depleted, it is a vision of masculinity that appeals almost entirely to liberal feminist
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women and no one else. But increasingly it's becoming apparent that nobody in the Kamala
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Harris campaign has ever spoken to a man who is normal and well adjusted. That's the only explanation
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for why the campaign voluntarily uploaded this footage of Tim Walls going pheasant hunting the
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other day. Uh, they must've thought this was a, this, uh, you know, would be a slam dunk.
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After all, Walls was bringing his own gun to go for the hunt. So presumably his handlers
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assumed that he would know how to load it for the cameras, but that assumption turned out to be
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That's my theory. And it never fits quite right. Never fits quite right. Just not quite right.
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This is a Beretta A400. I brought, I bought it when I was shooting a lot of, uh, trap because it has a
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kind of their patented thing at kickoff. So when you get old, it doesn't hurt your shoulder as much.
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So it kind of looks like it's his first time ever handling a firearm of any kind. It definitely does
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not look like a guy who's familiar in any way with the firearms that he supposedly owns. As Larry
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Taunton put it, it looks like Tim Walls stepped out of an LL Bean catalog. I eager to impress everybody
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with his hunting prowess and, uh, everybody can see through it in about 10 seconds. Now, a lot of people
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are comparing this to Michael Dukakis's decision to ride around in an Abrams tank decked out in a
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helmet and all that. That stunt was supposed to make Dukakis look, uh, strong on national defense,
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but it ended up making him look silly, you know, but really it's not a fair comparison because
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Dukakis for all his faults never claimed to be a tank commander. He never said that he was an expert
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on tanks or someone who drove tanks all the time. By contrast, as you heard from CNN at the top of
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this segment, uh, Tim Walls has portrayed himself as a hunter. That's why they sell the Harris Walls
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camo hats. And now we're learning that like every other biographical detail we've been told about Tim
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Walls, it's apparently a lie. In reality, he didn't serve in Afghanistan, even though he repeatedly
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suggested otherwise. He's not actually afraid of spicy food. As he told Kamala Harris, he wasn't in
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Hong Kong during the massacre at Tiananmen square. And now we learned that he has no idea how to hold a
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firearm. Now think about how desperate the campaign would have to be in order to send
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Walls out there with that shotgun. It's not just the fact that they decided to stage a corny photo
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op. It's the fact that they apparently didn't do any kind of preparation beforehand, even basic stuff
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like making sure he wouldn't make a fool out of himself. And then no one stopped this video from
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being released. In fact, the campaign began promoting it. It reminds you of all those staged photos
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of politicians standing over a grill on July 4th, wearing a spotless apron with creases still in
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it, holding a shiny spatula that an intern just bought from Lowe's 15 minutes ago. And you compare
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this to Donald Trump's viral video with a professional golfer a few days ago. And that racked up more than
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10 million views because it was authentic. Everybody watching the video could tell that Trump loves
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golfing. He didn't struggle to hold his clubs. It obviously wasn't his first time on the golf course.
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It was evident that he loved the sport and everything about it. And he was good too.
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In fact, he started hitting a few drives that were better than the professional golfers.
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And by the way, would Donald Trump do any better handling a firearm? Probably not.
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But he's not pretending. That's the point. He's not pretending to be someone he's not.
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And if you want to appeal to voters, especially male voters, then authenticity is very important.
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Now, the Harris-Walls ticket can't match this authenticity because nothing about the candidates
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is genuine. If you put a Glock in Kamala's hands, and she'll do exactly what Tim Walls did probably.
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When candidates are this fake and lame and desperate, their surrogates don't have much to go on.
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So they end up sounding inauthentic and desperate. Here, for example, are Jennifer Garner and Julia
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Roberts making what could be the single most inauthentic acting performance in their
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respective careers, which is saying something. Watch.
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I just hope that all the women here tonight talk to all the men that aren't here tonight.
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Talk to all the other men that aren't here tonight.
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And let's just get it going. Enough with the fighting.
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Let's get to the uniting. Let's get to the joy. Let's get to the repair.
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Listen, I know you've knocked and knocked. And I know you've called and called. I know you've given
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and given. And you're worn out. But the truth is, you are the front lines. This is it. I mean,
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I'm looking at these beautiful faces, these women and these strong men. God, is there anything sexier
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than a man who is like men for Kamala? You are the front line of this battle. For lack of a better word,
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it really is. There are two ways forward. And you guys are going to have a huge voice in how that way
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is chosen. So Julia Roberts wants women to go home and nag their husbands and boyfriends and
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supporting Kamala Harris. And if they do that, then prices will come down and we'll have joy again in
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the country or something. Never mind the fact that Kamala Harris is the sitting vice president and that
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by Kamala Harris's own admission, she bears responsibility for the Biden administration's
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policies. But don't think about that. Just berate as many men as you can can find until they relent and do
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what you want. And then there's Jennifer Garner saying that men who support Kamala are sexy.
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Perhaps that will convince men to rush out to the polls. If they aren't convinced by the camo hat or by a
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lecture from Barack Obama, maybe they'll do it to impress Jennifer Garner. But, you know, I highly doubt it.
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And if you're a left wing male and you're passionate about Kamala Harris, at this point, you need to be
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somebody like Harry Sisson, the DNC shill who posts a lot on TikTok. Like him, you can't have any shame
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or self-respect whatsoever. So here was his pitch to men that he just posted a couple of days ago.
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You know, there are a lot of cowardly men out there who are supporting Donald Trump and think
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it's manly to do so. I don't know about you folks, but when I was growing up, all the men around me
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told me to respect women, treat them with the dignity that they deserve. Don't bully women. Don't insult
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women. Donald Trump has done every single one of those things. He's bullied women, insulted them
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for their age, weight, appearance, things of that nature. He was found liable in court by a jury of
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his peers for assaulting a woman. And of course, to this day, he brags about taking reproductive
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rights away from women. So if you're a man and you're supporting this guy, what's wrong with you?
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Get it together. If you are willing to overlook Donald Trump thinking that your wife, your daughter,
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your sister, your mother are just pieces of meat and that he doesn't care about them,
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then I'm sorry. You're a coward. Now take your monster energy drinks, your lifted truck and get
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the hell out. When I was growing up, says a guy who looks like he's 12. And here we have the
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Democrats going back to the same well, a well that's completely dry because there was never any
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water in it to begin with. But this is all they have on the left. They don't know how to appeal to
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men. So after the gimmicks fail, the hats and all that stuff, they resort to insufferable,
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pretentious, irritating lectures delivered by the most annoying and inauthentic people on earth.
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Now, it's true that men will sometimes respond to a little bit of harshness, a little bit of
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tough talk, you know, the old coach's speech in the locker room at halftime type of thing. But
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only when that tough talk is delivered by somebody who is serious and strong and credible,
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a leader of men, not a mousy little dork who would cry and call his mom if he got a flat tire.
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But this is the strategy the Kamala Harris campaign is now using in order to win over
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male voters. It's a mixture of insults and condescension. But all this stuff fails because
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the Democrats' message to men is fundamentally emasculating and debasing. They can't even pretend
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to respect the voters they're trying ostensibly to appeal to here. They can't even pretend to respect
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men even as they're trying to berate men into voting for them. But that's the point of it. It's
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why they're promoting Doug Emhoff as a prototypical male, even after he had an affair with his nanny,
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even after he was accused of hitting his ex-girlfriend. The position of the Harris-Walls
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campaign is that none of that matters. In their eyes, you're masculine as long as you do one thing
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and one thing only, which is to submit to whatever liberal women want you to do. Just do whatever they
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tell you. Now, the problem for the Kamala Harris campaign, the reason they're flailing so publicly
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is that despite Democrats' efforts to destroy it, actual masculinity still exists in this country.
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Men still exist. And in just a couple of weeks, to the great horror of Julia Roberts and Barack Obama,
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those men will vote. And they very well may be the ones who decide this election.
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with a big announcement. Over the past several weeks, you know, you've heard me talking about my film,
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Am I Racist? You've heard lots of other people talking about it as well. It is one of the most
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And one of the piece of feedback we often get. Well, if you weren't able to get to a theater to
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essentially. And when you see it, the reason for that will become very obvious to you.
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And you can see it on The Daily Wire on October 28th. Don't miss it. All right. J.D. Vance did the
00:26:30.480
interview circuit again this weekend. And this guy, this guy's really good. He's just really good at
00:26:37.480
this. So I want you to listen to this exchange. It's a little bit, it's a little long. It's about two and a half
00:26:43.640
minutes. But you got to hear the whole thing, because there's this exchange between Vance and
00:26:48.920
a New York Times reporter, Lulu Garcia Navarro is her name. And they start talking about immigration,
00:27:02.600
The reason that there is a housing crisis is that not enough houses have been built.
00:27:07.820
And that we have 25 million people who shouldn't be here.
00:27:09.740
Well, I mean, this is the thing. I mean, I think it's both.
00:27:12.520
I know you do. I don't think that many people who look into this agree with you. But about a third of the
00:27:19.100
construction workforce in this country is Hispanic. Of those, a large portion are undocumented.
00:27:24.500
So how do you propose to build all the housing necessary that we need in this country by removing all the
00:27:32.240
Well, I think it's a fair question, because we know that back in the 1960s, when we had very low levels of
00:27:37.600
illegal immigration, Americans didn't buy houses, didn't build houses. But of course, they did.
00:27:43.480
And I'm being sarcastic, of course, in service of a point, Lulu, the assumption that because
00:27:48.320
a large number of home builders now are using undocumented labor, that that's the only way to
00:27:54.620
build homes. I think, again, the country is much bigger.
00:27:57.620
The need is much bigger. I mean, I'm not arguing in favor of illegal immigration. I'm asking how you
00:28:02.720
would deal with the knock-on effect of your proposal to remove millions of people who work
00:28:09.160
Well, I think that what you would do is you would take, let's say, for example, the 7 million prime
00:28:14.100
age men who have dropped out of the labor force. And you have a smaller number of women, but still
00:28:18.400
millions of women prime age who have dropped out of the labor force. You absolutely could re-engage
00:28:25.700
folks into the American labor market. This is, I think-
00:28:30.360
Of course you could. I mean, the unemployment rate is 4.1%.
00:28:34.280
But the unemployment rate, Lulu, this is important.
00:28:36.620
But most people who don't work can't work in the regular economy. They're in the military.
00:28:40.440
They're parents. They're sick. They're old. They might not want to work in construction.
00:28:44.300
The unemployment rate does not count labor force participation dropouts. And again, this is one
00:28:50.660
of the really deranged things that I think illegal immigration does to our society is it gets us in
00:28:56.280
a mindset of saying, we can only build houses with illegal immigrants when we have 7 million,
00:29:00.900
just men, not even women, just men who have completely dropped out of the labor force.
00:29:05.800
People say, well, Americans won't do those jobs. Americans won't do those jobs for below the table
00:29:11.880
wages. They won't do those jobs for non-living wages. But people will do those jobs. They will just
00:29:18.100
do those jobs at certain wages. Think about the perspective of an American company, okay?
00:29:23.680
I want them to go searching in their own country for their own citizens. Sometimes people who may
00:29:29.720
be struggling with addiction or trauma, get them reengaged in American society. We cannot have an
00:29:35.700
entire American business community that is giving up on American workers and then importing millions
00:29:41.440
of illegal laborers. Well, he's brilliantly stated, as always from J.D. Vance. You see,
00:29:47.020
again, this kind of goes back to the point we made it to be in the opening monologue about the
00:29:50.940
campaign, the Kamala campaign, and its struggles with men, with male voters. And on the other side,
00:29:59.500
you see why men are supporting the Trump campaign, okay? Because what did you just hear there from
00:30:05.600
J.D. Vance? This was not pandering. This wasn't a gimmick. This wasn't scolding.
00:30:10.360
He was saying, listen, there's a lot of men who've dropped out of the labor force. We want to
00:30:15.180
bring them back in. We want to make sure they have jobs. So he's saying, we care about making
00:30:22.300
sure that men have jobs. So he's showing that here's a group of voters that he acknowledges that
00:30:29.200
they exist, and he wants good things for them. He wants to make sure their lives are better,
00:30:34.860
just like with any other group of voters. Politicians don't hesitate to, of either party,
00:30:42.700
politicians don't hesitate to send that message. We care about this group. We want to make sure
00:30:46.360
their lives are better. But you never hear Democrats, and up until recently, you rarely
00:30:53.700
heard Republicans, but you never hear Democrats talking that way about men. If they're talking
00:30:59.180
about men specifically, it is always, always, always in the context of lecturing them and
00:31:05.680
scolding them. It is always with the finger wag. It is never to say, well, men are really struggling
00:31:11.680
with, in this area, we want to help them. And they never say that. What you get from the other side is
00:31:19.620
what you just heard in that exchange. J.D. Vance says, yeah, there's men have dropped out of the labor
00:31:24.260
force. We want to get them jobs. And she says, in construction? Are you saying that men, that there
00:31:30.000
are men out there who want to work construction? Yes. How do you think, what do you, how do you think
00:31:40.860
the building that you're sitting in right now was built? How do you think anything's been built in
00:31:44.120
this country ever? How do you think anything has ever been built anywhere on earth in the whole
00:31:50.460
history of mankind? It's because men built it. So yeah, men are pretty good at building things.
00:31:56.520
They like building things. Even American men, as you, if you can imagine, especially American men,
00:32:08.680
And, you know, this is, this is also so obvious, it probably doesn't need to be said, but I'll say it
00:32:14.720
anyway, that this issue alone proves that the Democrat party is not pro worker. You know,
00:32:20.060
as it claims, you cannot be the pro worker, the pro working class party. If you support illegal
00:32:25.780
immigration, the attitude that she, that she has on display here is quintessentially elitist. She's
00:32:32.960
saying that, um, we need to bring in non-citizens to do blue collar jobs at slave wages because American
00:32:40.920
citizens won't do those kinds of jobs, she says. And every part of that idea is elitist and false.
00:32:50.700
It shows that she undervalues working class Americans. She undervalues blue collar jobs like
00:32:57.520
construction. She even undervalues the immigrants that she's ostensibly defending. She's saying that
00:33:03.780
we need to have, uh, illegal immigrants to function basically as slaves. And, but if you value those
00:33:09.900
people, you would tell them as Vance does in that exchange, you would tell them to stay in their own
00:33:15.380
countries and use their construction skills to build their own countries. But much more importantly,
00:33:23.120
uh, if you're an American citizen and you want to lead America, uh, you have to value your own people
00:33:32.340
and your own countrymen first and foremost. And if you value them, you would not force them to
00:33:38.720
compete in the marketplace with non-citizen slave labor. Um, and if you're opposed to, uh, if you're
00:33:49.120
so worried about big business and you know, the, the, the, uh, evil rich people and all that kind of
00:33:54.500
stuff, well, then it would seem that this would be an area you'd very much be focused on that these
00:34:01.120
businesses that want to use slave labor and you'd want to put an end to that. Um, all right,
00:34:08.240
let's move on to this. Uh, and every time I play one of these Kamala Harris word salad clips, I always
00:34:13.640
tell myself it's the last time I'll play a clip like this on the show because at this point we get
00:34:17.300
it. I mean, she's dumb. She can't speak. Uh, we don't need to go back to that point over and over
00:34:23.820
again. At a certain point, there isn't anything left to say about it, but each new clip is, is worse
00:34:30.420
than the last. And sometimes they're so jaw dropping and confusing that, you know, I mean, we have to
00:34:36.180
spend at least a few seconds on them. So here's the latest. I think she's speaking here to, uh,
00:34:41.740
some kind of church or something. And well, just see if you can decipher this.
00:34:49.880
Because what we see is so hard to see that we lose faith or a vision of those things we cannot see,
00:34:57.400
but must know. Okay. What we see is so hard to see that we lose faith or a vision of those things
00:35:15.200
we cannot see, but must know. I, I, I don't understand what she's even getting at here.
00:35:22.080
Uh, I mean, sometimes when she gets into the word salad, it's really dumb, but you can kind of tell
00:35:27.480
what she's getting at. In this case, I really, I, okay. So the first part, uh, what we see is so
00:35:35.260
hard to see that we lose faith. That part just by itself arguably makes sense. She's saying that,
00:35:41.400
or she could be saying that what we're seeing is hard to see, like in the sense that it's painful.
00:35:46.060
It's hard to look at. And, uh, I mean, I feel that way every time Kamala Harris is on,
00:35:52.380
is on the, on the screen. Uh, you know, it's, it's, I see it, but it's hard to see. It's hard to,
00:35:56.820
it's hard to look at it. Um, and then, and therefore we lose faith. She's saying so, so that
00:36:02.720
part could make sense, but then she, and she just ended there, like throw a period at the end of that
00:36:08.000
sentence and ended there called a day in and out, leave it at that. Um, but she can never leave it at
00:36:13.520
that. This is the tragedy of Kamala Harris. The first part of her sentence sometimes makes sense,
00:36:19.240
but then she keeps talking and everything falls apart. So then she continues, or a vision of those
00:36:24.320
things we cannot see, but must know. We lose faith or a vision of those things we cannot see,
00:36:31.640
but must know. I don't, I mean, that's just gibberish. I don't, if I really wanted to do her a favor,
00:36:41.080
I would say that maybe she's trying to somehow paraphrase Hebrews 11, one, now faith is a
00:36:47.320
substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Uh, but I, I don't, I don't think,
00:36:53.440
I think that'd be giving her too much of the benefit of the doubt. Uh, that's just, um, that's
00:36:58.240
her brain malfunctioning. And now she's just spitting words out and she has no idea what she's saying.
00:37:04.180
All right. I'd be remiss, uh, also before we end the headlines, I'd be remiss if I did not, um,
00:37:11.940
wish you a happy Columbus day, uh, as I do every year. And, uh, it is Columbus day. Uh, it will always
00:37:19.620
be Columbus day on Columbus day. It will, it will never be indigenous people's day. Um, no matter how
00:37:27.260
much they insist on it. And they are insisting more and more each year. So here's a report from Axios
00:37:32.820
today. It says more cities will recognize indigenous people's day instead of Columbus
00:37:36.900
day on Monday, but some native advocates see it as a symbolic gesture that still falls short of the
00:37:42.700
progress needed. The holiday has a layered and complicated history. Some see indigenous people's
00:37:48.280
day as overdue recognition for native communities. Others view replacing Columbus day as disrespectful
00:37:53.520
to Italian American heritage and a loss of cultural celebration. More than half of us states
00:37:58.740
still refuse to recognize either day as an official state holiday. The divide is more
00:38:02.720
than symbolic. It excavates deeply rooted tensions over the nation's identity and history. Uh, for
00:38:07.740
years, native scholars and lawyers contested the idealized story of us, westward expansion,
00:38:11.840
saying that it masked displacement and violence. Gabriel Galanda, a member of the round Valley
00:38:17.420
Indian tribes and indigenous rights attorney in Seattle says indigenous people's day is a symbolic
00:38:22.320
gesture. She says, quote, it gives Americans a brief opportunity to reflect on our existence,
00:38:27.200
but it doesn't address the legal and civil rights issues plaguing our communities.
00:38:30.800
Because, you know, it's, it's for her, it's not you. Uh, yes, Americans can erase their cultural
00:38:37.280
celebrations, their own heritage and traditions, um, and celebrate indigenous peoples. But it's even
00:38:43.900
that is not enough. It's never enough. And on this point, a clip of Kamala from, I think this is,
00:38:49.440
uh, back from 2021 or 22. Uh, this is, is making the rounds now. And, um, here she is talking about
00:38:58.480
the horrors, the alleged horrors of European colonization. Let's watch that.
00:39:03.360
It is an honor, of course, to be with you this week as we celebrate indigenous people's day,
00:39:10.240
as we speak truth about our nation's history. Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized
00:39:21.760
the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas. But that is not the
00:39:30.560
whole story. That has never been the whole story. Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation
00:39:40.560
for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land and spreading disease. We must not shy away
00:39:50.880
from this shameful past and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of
00:40:00.080
the past on native communities today. Uh, you know, there are so many reasons why Kamala Harris should not
00:40:09.360
be president. Uh, so many things that disqualify her and literally nothing at all that qualifies her.
00:40:17.440
But, uh, even if everything else about her was great, that clip alone should be disqualifying in
00:40:27.520
and of itself. So if somebody is running for president and I, you know, I just emerged from a cave and I
00:40:34.480
don't know anything about them. That clip, that clip's all I need to see. I don't need to see
00:40:39.920
anything else. You should be disqualified from, uh, holding any political office in America,
00:40:45.040
much less being the president. If that's how much you loathe, uh, America and its traditions and its
00:40:53.600
heritage and its history, if you detest this country and, and like what it is, uh, and its history,
00:41:01.840
then no, you cannot, you can't lead. You're not fit. So I know you listen to me rant about this every
00:41:09.240
year and well, this year will be no different because it's important. So just weighing in on
00:41:19.160
this phony debate once again, um, to clarify a few, a few things, do you know why Columbus should
00:41:28.680
have a holiday and indigenous people should not? Well, because Columbus was a great man of history
00:41:35.320
whose achievements helped to shape the world that you live in today. And in fact, it's very likely
00:41:42.440
that if Columbus never lived, you would not be alive. That doesn't mean that no European would have
00:41:50.980
ever discovered the Americas if not for Columbus. Likely it would have happened eventually. But
00:41:56.640
the point is that Columbus was one of those rare men of history who would so significant that if
00:42:03.340
you remove him from the equation, it fundamentally reshapes everything that came after him. So much
00:42:09.760
so that, that you in your current form likely would not exist because the course of history would be
00:42:15.700
so different that the specific circumstances that led to your conception would not have occurred.
00:42:20.660
And people like that, the great people, the world shapers, uh, those are the ones that you remember
00:42:28.160
and celebrate and build statues to and dedicate holidays to. He helped to build the Western world.
00:42:36.440
You live in the Western world. You're glad you live here. You would not want to live anywhere else.
00:42:43.380
I know that because you're here and you're not living anywhere else, are you?
00:42:49.100
And you sure as hell would not want to live on this continent if, uh, if, if it was still dominated by the
00:43:03.120
Those Stone Age tribes that were 5,000 years behind most of the rest of the world,
00:43:08.020
which means that if the Europeans never came here, you know, this whole part of the world would,
00:43:20.860
And so you can pretend that you're mourning. Oh, it's, it's, it's, it's a tragedy. It's a tragedy.
00:43:35.300
The Europeans came here and took over this, uh, this, uh, hemisphere.
00:43:55.240
It would be, it would be a life that does not include any of the things that give you joy and meaning.
00:44:00.540
Any of the things that, that bring you comfort.
00:44:05.320
Indigenous culture was primitive and brutal and absolutely caked in violence and warfare all the time as a way of life.
00:44:15.600
So you just, you living in indigenous tribe, those wonderful, peaceful Pocahontas indigenous.
00:44:20.360
It means that every night when you go to sleep for your whole life, which is probably going to be brutally short,
00:44:27.360
you're always worried all the time about the raiding party coming in the middle of the night and slaughtering you in your sleep.
00:44:32.940
Because by the way, that's usually how they did it.
00:44:36.740
Uh, the idea of, of, you know, of having sort of dignity in the way that you fight, uh, a sense of kind of justice and fairness.
00:44:45.160
I mean, that, that was an approach to warfare that was distinctly European, uh, the, the so-called indigenous people, they didn't see it that way.
00:44:54.240
Going to war with someone just means killing as many of them as you can by any means necessary.
00:44:58.320
That usually meant sneaking in the middle of the night and killing them and their women and children or taking their women and children as sex slaves.
00:45:03.900
Um, so that's, that's what it would have meant.
00:45:06.900
It means that if you were a man that, uh, every time you lay your head on the pillow, well, you didn't have a pillow, but anytime you laid down, uh, in your teepee to go to sleep, you know, you, you, you may wake up to find a knife at your throat and your scalp being ripped off of your head.
00:45:21.660
And if you're a woman or a child, um, at any moment you could find yourself being carried away to a life of, uh, enslavement and sexual torture.
00:45:29.380
Um, that's what life was for these indigenous tribes.
00:45:36.420
Uh, now the, uh, native cultures, I find it fascinating to study.
00:45:44.600
I think, uh, I'm very interested in studying Indian tribes.
00:45:50.320
I think that there was, um, although there was all this brutality and, uh, and, and, and all of this, um, there was also.
00:46:00.200
Bravery and strength, but it was an inferior society.
00:46:10.460
You might say, well, how could you say inferior?
00:46:12.660
Um, I don't know, because it was inferior in every measurable way, technology, art, philosophy, science, uh, you know, development and morality.
00:46:23.280
Superior in all of those ways, which is to say, again, in every measurable way was the European, uh, society.
00:46:32.180
So why, why not celebrate indigenous people's day?
00:46:37.920
Well, you know, I, I flipped the question around.
00:46:45.260
Oh yeah, we got to celebrate indigenous people.
00:46:56.380
I so often hear that, you know, we shouldn't have Confederate monuments because they were the losers.
00:47:06.020
They lost the war, so they don't get the monuments.
00:47:08.620
Okay, well, the Indian tribes were the losers too.
00:47:25.260
I thought you said we don't celebrate the losers.
00:47:29.040
Oh, it's different because the Confederates, they were slave owners.
00:47:36.660
Like, literally any moral qualm you could possibly have with the Confederacy, you're going to find that with Indian tribes times a million.
00:47:45.760
So, if you want to say we celebrate the winners, then, then, then, I'm on board.
00:47:55.580
And I get so tired of, and by the way, this is something, like, I wish it wasn't even necessary to point all this out.
00:48:10.800
The Indian tribes were totally conquered and vanquished.
00:48:16.160
And after spending hundreds and hundreds of years among themselves, slaughtering each other and fighting over land and every piece of land that any of those Indian tribes occupied, they occupied it because they killed the people who occupied it before them.
00:48:29.560
And then the Europeans came in and beat them at their own game, basically.
00:48:38.320
But, but, but, you know, I, I, I'd prefer to, we didn't have to sit here and talk about all these, all the reasons why the Indian cultures were, were in fact inferior.
00:48:50.780
But it's necessary when you've got these people saying, well, we got to, well, no, get rid of American holidays and celebrate Indigenous People Day.
00:49:00.500
And you've got these, you know, Native American activists going around trying to tell me that I should be ashamed, trying to lecture me, sitting on this high and mighty moral perch.
00:49:17.360
Well, when you do that, it's necessary for me to point out that, hey, buddy, do you know what your ancestors were doing?
00:49:26.220
Do you realize you're descended from child rapists and slavers?
00:49:29.560
People that slaughtered each other en masse, savagely?
00:49:39.780
Then get off your, your, your, your, your perch up there, your moral, moral high ground that you don't possess.
00:49:44.720
So I get so tired of a bunch of these, these mediocre nobodies, a bunch of, you know, these leftist, anti-American leftists, these, these feckless zeros sitting there all snide and, and, and just declaring that the men who created the world they live in and gave them everything they have were bad.
00:50:12.040
Actually, not that impressive, not that impressive, not that great, right?
00:50:22.640
You've accomplished nothing at all in your life.
00:50:26.060
That's what gets me the most, you know, the, the, um, when these people, they sit there, the, it's Columbus.
00:50:40.640
He set out across an unknown ocean looking for land and he found it, but he didn't even know what kind of, what land it was.
00:51:09.260
You didn't know what was happening in other parts of the world.
00:51:11.740
If you wanted to find out, you had to go there.
00:51:20.140
And then he went home and he returned three more times.
00:51:25.060
If you think it's so easy, you try it sometime.
00:51:26.780
Try sailing across 3,000 nautical miles without any modern navigation equipment at all.
00:51:36.720
Just try leaving from Spain and making it to the Caribbean with no modern navigation.
00:51:53.560
You know, something tells me you're not going to do very well.
00:51:57.080
Something tells me that you, as someone who can't even make it to McDonald's down the street without a GPS,
00:52:00.880
something tells me that you are not going to be able to do that.
00:52:12.640
Not impressed by people who built civilization.
00:52:17.300
While I can't even build like a couch from Ikea with instructions.
00:52:21.440
So these people, yeah, they really pissed me off.
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About 50 years ago, a psychologist named Julian Jaynes wrote what is, for my money, one of the most interesting books of all time.
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Even if the central thesis is almost certainly completely wrong, the book was called The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
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And the central thesis, as Jaynes explains it over the course of 500 pages or so, is that human consciousness, as we understand it, our self-awareness, our ability to perceive ourselves as selves, is not inherent.
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Consciousness, Jaynes proposes, is a developed trait and a relatively new one in the grand scheme of things.
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He argues that human beings only became self-aware about 2,000 to 3,000 years ago.
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And prior to that, we were essentially schizophrenic automatons.
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The mind was split between the two hemispheres, like it is now, but the two together did not create a cohesive, conscious whole, as they do now.
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Jaynes' theory was that the right side of the brain would speak to the left side of the brain in a literal, audible sense, so that ancient people were hearing voices in their head all the time.
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And the left side of the brain considered the voice coming from the right side to be the voice of God or of the gods.
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This is also the origin of all religions, on Jaynes' view.
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And simply followed the commands given to it without reflection or consideration.
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Now, like I said, I think he's fundamentally wrong, but he's wrong in a pretty fascinating way.
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And there can be value in ideas that are wrong but interesting.
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Now, these days we get a lot of ideas that are wrong and also boring.
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But wrong but interesting can be value because it can call your attention to things that you may not have noticed before.
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So, James points out that very ancient writing is often different in kind from anything that anybody would write today.
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It's not just that these writings recount events from a long time ago and reflect values, attitudes, and customs that seem archaic to the modern reader.
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However, the writing itself, what it focuses on, the way that it talks about its characters, is profoundly different.
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That's the way we would look at it anyway today.
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This is the sort of thing that you may not notice until somebody points it out.
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But the earliest writing, the earliest stories, including some of the oldest books in the Bible that Jaynes cites in his book,
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they don't tell you much of anything about what the characters are thinking and how they're feeling.
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They go here, they go there, they fight battles, they war with each other and with their gods.
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But we're told almost nothing about their inner lives.
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The story, an ancient story, has a protagonist on a journey, but the journey is external.
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There's no internal journey at all, or at least not much of one.
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Now, this is very different from modern stories.
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For a modern storyteller, whether it's a novelist or a filmmaker or anybody else,
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the inner life of the characters, especially the protagonist, is not only an important detail,
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but it's the most important detail, very often.
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We would say today that a novel or a screenplay where the hero does a bunch of stuff,
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but doesn't change as a person, doesn't experience any inner transformation,
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is not just bad by our standards, but has fundamentally failed to do the thing
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Now, when Jaynes notices this dichotomy between modern storytelling and ancient storytelling,
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he sees it as proof that ancient people weren't conscious.
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The reason they don't tell us about the character's inner life is that there was nothing to tell.
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They didn't think that it was all that important.
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They tell us what the characters did, not how they felt,
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because to the ancient person, the feelings were essentially irrelevant.
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This was a difference in priority, not in the way that their minds worked.
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Consciousness has not fundamentally changed, but the contents of consciousness,
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the things that we prioritize, the things that we think about,
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And in the modern world, we've arrived at a point that is, I would say,
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His inner thoughts and feelings didn't matter that much to him.
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Modern man now defines himself by his inner thoughts and feelings alone.
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So Jaynes reads ancient writing and assumes that ancient people
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A future Julian Jaynes, 3,000 years from now, may read what we write today
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like we were just a bunch of brains in jars sitting around on a shelf somewhere,
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you know, feeling and thinking things, but not actually doing anything.
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That brings me, finally, after a torturously long preamble,
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to the actual point of today's Daily Cancellation.
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A group called the Skeptic Research Center has just published a new study
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which shows just how far we've come, you might say fallen in some ways,
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agreed that mental health challenges are an important part of my identity.
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Across generations, women are more likely than men to believe mental health challenges
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but rates are higher in younger generations regardless of sex.
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Now, if you look at the graph, you can see that a majority of millennials
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also view their mental health challenges as a crucial aspect of their self-identity.
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67% of women in my generation respond in the affirmative, 56% of men.
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But among boomers, only 34% of women define themselves by their mental illnesses
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So for all the grief we give boomers, deservedly so much of the time,
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they are the last bastions of sanity in the West, it would seem.
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I mean, after them, we'll be left only with generations
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predominantly composed of people who romanticize and celebrate mental illness.
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We went from ancient man who put no importance on his mental states at all
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to modern man who put central importance on his mental state
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to the most recent and most modern of modern men
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who puts specific importance on negative mental states.
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He finds his identity specifically in his mental hardships,
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most of which are self-imposed, grossly exaggerated, and often totally imaginary.
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Now, of course, I'm using he and man here in the universal sense.
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In reality, women are the bigger culprits, as the survey data says.
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But either way, what we're seeing now goes far beyond a mere victim mentality.
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A victim mentality that we talk about all the time,
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I think that that phrase doesn't quite capture what is happening.
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Because a victim mentality means that you tend to lapse into narcissism and self-pity,
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I mean, these days, there are millions of people whose very sense of identity,
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their sense of selfhood, is wrapped inextricably around their perceived suffering.
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Because after all, a mental health challenge, quote-unquote,
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does not have to mean, and usually does not mean,
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that they are the victims of psychosis or some other legitimate mental illness.
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A mental health challenge is simply any negative mental state
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It's only in recent times that we have not only medicalized all uncomfortable mental states,
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which means that you're really identifying as, most of all, a medical patient.
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And that's worked out very well for the pharmaceutical industry,
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but it has been a nightmare for the human race.
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Now, I'm not saying that we should adopt a 2000 BC approach to mental health,
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one where mental health doesn't exist as a concept,
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and literally nobody cares how you feel, and you care how you feel, least of all.
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The change doesn't have to be quite that drastic,
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though that approach would be preferable to the current one, I think.
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Instead, I think what you should do with most of your mental health challenges
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is acknowledge them, acknowledge that you're having an uncomfortable mental experience,
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And you should also realize, and this is a very important point,
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about the fact that you're feeling anxious or depressed or whatever else.
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yeah, but my feelings of anxiousness and sadness are different from most people,
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You have no idea what's going on in other people's heads,
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it is your narcissism telling you that your own mental hardships
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And it is unhealthy to find your identity in these experiences.
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It's like saying that the fact that you experience hunger
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or that having one head instead of two is an important part of your identity.
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That stuff may define you biologically as a human person,
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Your mental health challenges are not that interesting,
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and they probably aren't nearly as challenging as you tell yourself.
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But most of all, they should not be the source of your identity,
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