Ep. 1484 - How Kamala’s Focus On Gender Ideology Cost Her The Election
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According to exit polling data, the issue that may have ultimately swung the election was not the economy or immigration, but the transgender issue. Also, the FEMA official who was fired for telling her team to skip homes with Trump signs is now speaking out. And today, in our daily cancellation, I m tragically forced to cancel the Daily Wire s own Ben Shapiro. All that and more on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, according to exit polling data, the issue that may have ultimately
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swung the election was not the economy or immigration, but the trans issue. According
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to exit polls, swing voters were most concerned about putting a stop to Kamala's radical trans
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agenda. Also, the FEMA official who was fired for telling her team to skip homes with Trump signs
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is now speaking out. She says FEMA is lying. This was not an isolated incident. And today
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in our daily cancellation, I'm tragically forced to cancel the Daily Wire's own
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Ben Shapiro. He has left me no choice. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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to coin.com slash disclosures for full details. Imagine being a strategist for the Democrat Party
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right now. You're tasked with conducting a post-mortem analysis of an election in which
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virtually every single demographic group in the country and all 50 states turn very sharply against
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you. Tens of millions of Americans ignored the endorsements of modern-day oracles like Taylor
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Swift and Queen Latifah and voted for the candidate that you've been calling a Hitler-loving threat to
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democracy. How do you even begin to catalog all of the various failures that led your party to this
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point? Up until now, the prevailing excuse in the Democrat Party has been pretty clear. As I've outlined
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before, many Democrats are happy to dismiss the entire country as racist and sexist. In fact, Hispanics are
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apparently racist against themselves. This is the kind of theory you come up with when you don't
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want to actually talk to Hispanic people or be anywhere near them, for that matter. But you have
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to find some way to explain why they might want to build a wall and enforce the law so you conclude
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that they must hate themselves. That must be it. At the same time, there is at least one Democrat-aligned
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group that seems to be taking a different and more serious approach. And I'm talking about something
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called Blueprint, which I hadn't heard of until a day ago. But Blueprint describes itself as a vital
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tool that can help Democrats win elections in the future. This is a left-wing group that basically
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tries to craft messaging for the DNC. Now, over the past week, Blueprint has employed pollsters and
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strategists to figure out how Democrats lost so badly on Election Day. They've been tasked with
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sifting through the wreckage to identify what caused the implosion. And what they found is pretty
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remarkable. Even given all the endless polls and analysis that we've been subjected to this month,
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this one stands out. And I hadn't seen these results until Charlie Kirk pointed them out the
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other day in a post on X. And he posted this chart of Blueprint's findings. It shows all the issues that
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voters cared about in this election, ranked by their level of relative importance. And they calculated
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this by asking voters to compare a bunch of issues in a kind of round-robin analysis. And as you can see,
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there are a lot of issues on the list. Voters had many options to choose from.
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And according to Blueprint's findings, swing voters who ultimately voted for Trump, meaning the people
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who determined the outcome of the election, were very unhappy with Kamala Harris's focus on
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transgender issues. In fact, Kamala's views on topics like transgenderism at the expense of
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substantive issues was the number one most important issue on these swing voters' minds.
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So just so we're clear on the terms, Blueprint defines a swing voter as, quote,
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those who are undecided in the presidential race, have changed their voting preferences since 2020,
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voting Democrat in one election, Republican in the other, or are independents who either indicate they
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split their votes between Democrat and Republican, or who hold either favorable or unfavorable views of
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both Trump and Harris. Now, if you go to Blueprint's cross tabs, here's what they found specifically
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about this group of voters. Among swing voters who ultimately voted for Trump, the top reason for
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voting for Trump over Kamala was, quote, Kamala Harris has focused more on cultural issues like
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transgender issues rather than helping the middle class. So that was the single most important issue
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for these swing voters relative to all the others. The next most important issue was inflation followed
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closely by illegal immigration. Now, this is a finding that if you had floated it as a possibility
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prior to the election, probably would have gotten you laughed out of the room. But now that Democrats
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realize that most voters think they're crazy, they're finally talking about it. Democrat-aligned
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pollsters are openly recognizing that transgenderism, including the associated government policies that have
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been championed by trans activists and the Biden-Harris administration, is a massive problem for the
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Democrat Party. And yet, this is a problem that, certainly at least in a pre-what-is-a-woman world,
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if you go back to, you know, 2021 and earlier, it's something that very few Republicans wanted to touch.
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In fact, plenty of Republicans still don't really want to talk about this issue. It's an issue that,
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for years, I was personally ridiculed for pursuing and talking about and focusing on,
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including by many people on the right. Even among people who believe we're on the correct side of
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this whole debate, a lot of them still said that it was a waste of time to talk about it. It doesn't
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really matter. These people, you know, they insisted for so long that so-called culture war issues are
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a sideshow, irrelevant distractions, supposedly. But they obviously aren't. You know, as I've been
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arguing for years and years and years, they are not. The so-called culture war issues are the most
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important issues, including in elections. This is what people vote based on. Even more than the
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economy, more than anything, they vote based on this. Because culture is everything. It is the stuff
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that a nation is made of. And that obviously matters politically. People vote for culture.
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People don't just vote based on candidates' personalities or even on specific proposals
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and policies. They vote for the country they want to live in. And now a critical mass of those voters
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have decided that they don't want to live in a country that can't even define the word woman.
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Now, to be clear, this result isn't saying that transgenderism was at the top of voters' minds
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all by itself. Instead, what this result reveals is that the trans issue is about much more than
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transgenderism. It's symptomatic of something larger and deeper, which again is something that
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those of us who have been fighting this fight for so long have been trying to say. This has been our
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point. Voters see the transgender as an assault on truth and on basic common sense, which is exactly
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what it is. It's a destructive set of beliefs that serves only to derail human progress while harming
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a lot of people, including the country as a whole. Trans ideology requires that Americans affirm what is
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not true and reject objective reality on the theory that this is somehow the more humane and compassionate
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approach. But there's nothing humane or sustainable about lying, especially when the point of the lying is to
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obscure something as fundamental and unavoidable and immutable as human biology and human nature.
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If you tolerate lies about that, you will tolerate lies about anything.
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You know, if a white guy wants to identify as black, then you can't object. If a politician wants to
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claim that crime is down when it's really not, you can't complain about that either. If the government
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wants to claim that the economy is doing fine when, you know, no one can find a job or afford groceries,
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then you got to shut up and just take it. Because once reality is subjective, you can't communicate
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anymore in any kind of meaningful way, much less fix problems. All you can do is spiral further and
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further down into insanity. You know, trans ideology is built on the premise that we all have our own
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truth, that there is no objective reality or universal truth that we are all a part of and expected to
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acknowledge. And if we accept trans ideology, then we have accepted that premise. And if we accept that
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premise, we have tacitly accepted every other left-wing premise because now we have no basis to deny
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any of it. We cannot call anything untrue. You know, now there is nothing that can be called untrue,
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which also means that there's nothing that can be called true. This is the fundamental reason why
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the fight against trans ideology matters and has always mattered. It's the case that some of us
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have been making for many years, even against the objections of our own side, which is easy to forget
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about that now. But again, if you go back, to me, it was just yesterday, it seems like, that, you know,
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talking about this is going to get, is going to provoke a large number of people on your own side to tell
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you to shut up and stop talking about it because it doesn't matter. But now the voters see it and
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agree. And it's one of the main reasons why Democrats were just obliterated in the election.
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Now, the Trump campaign, to its credit, understood that this issue would resonate with the voters.
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That's why they released this ad, which we played during the campaign, but we'll play it again because
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it may have been the single most effective ad in the entire campaign. In fact, it may be one of the
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best ads ever produced by a political campaign. Seriously. Watch.
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Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners. Surgery.
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For prisoners. For prisoners. Every transgender
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inmate in the prison system would have access. It's hard to believe, but it's true. Even the
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liberal media was shocked Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and
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illegal aliens. Every transgender inmate would have access. Kamala's for they, them.
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President Trump is for you. I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message.
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Easily the most effective ad that Trump has ever run in his entire political career,
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and one of the most effective political ads of all time. And all the numbers tell us that.
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That's not just my opinion. All the data tells us that. Now, when she spoke to Fox News in the only
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hostile interview she participated in during the entire campaign, Kamala was asked directly about
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this ad. She had the opportunity to disavow all this nonsense. She could have admitted that it was
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a terrible idea to use taxpayer money to fund sex changes for illegals or for anyone else.
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She could have acknowledged that people can't change their gender or pick their pronouns. She also
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could have laid out a clear definition of the word woman, which is a pretty important word to define,
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especially when you're running to be the first woman president. She could have done any of that.
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And it would have upset some people on her own side, but it would have to a large extent mitigated
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the most effective attack against her if she had just been willing to admit that she understands
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human biology. In other words, Kamala had the opportunity to do what the African tribesmen did
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when I spoke to them in What is a Woman? She could have laughed in the face of this absurdity,
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as anybody with common sense would do. She could have demonstrated to Americans that she's not
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going to surrender the federal government to a small number of radical anti-truth activists.
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But Kamala couldn't do any of that. She didn't do it. Instead, just so we remember,
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here's how she addressed this ad when Brett Baer brought it up.
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Would you still advocate for using taxpayer dollars for gender reassignment searches?
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He didn't follow the law, just as I think Donald Trump would say he did.
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Like I said, I think he spent $20 million on those ads trying to create a sense of fear in
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the voters because he actually has no plan in this election that is about focusing on the needs
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of the American people. Whereas, at $20 million on that ad, on an issue that, as it relates to the
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biggest issues that affect the American people, it's really quite remote.
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How many people total in the entire country, total, are actually in favor of giving
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taxpayers-funded sex change operations for convicted criminals? How many total people
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in the country are actually in favor of that? Could you even, could you scrounge together 5,000
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people in the entire country who actually support that? I think that'd be difficult.
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And so it is the far, far fringiest fringe of her radical base that she allowed herself
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to be held hostage to. And she lost. You know, she mocks the Trump campaign in that clip for
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spending so much money on the ad. This is the candidate whose campaign raised a billion dollars
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and ended up in debt by tens of millions of dollars because they hired a bunch of celebrity
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influencers who, it turns out, have no influence. Yet she's lecturing the Trump campaign on how they
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should have spent their money. She's upset at that. She's claiming that arguably the most
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effective political ad of all time was a waste of money. Maybe the Trump campaign should have gone
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out and, you know, gone bankrupt in order to get Megan Thee Stallion to twerk on stage.
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That strategy obviously worked out so well for Kamala. And then Kamala goes on in the clip to
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dismiss the whole issue as unimportant. She claims that Americans don't really care about all this
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stuff, but they do. They care about it because they care about the truth. And they care about the
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truth because if you don't have that, literally nothing else matters. Already there are some signs that
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left wing media is coming around ever so begrudgingly to this reality. Maybe this was Joe Scarborough,
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for example. That's what I heard. And I didn't hear it from Republicans. I didn't hear it from
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Trumpers. I heard it from Democrats over the past three or four years. Their kids were afraid to talk
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in class and say something unpopular because they would be canceled. And it's an epidemic.
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Willie will tell you it happens in New York City schools. It happens in colleges. And all of this
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adds up to people going, come on, come on. This is crazy. And Mike, it's having an impact from,
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again, the trans ad to, uh, yeah, the athletics. And by the way, by the way, as we've said on the show
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a thousand times, Democrats should be smarter on the women's athletics thing. 85% of Americans oppose
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men transitioning after puberty and competing against women. And I'm not just saying this the
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day after the election. I've been saying this for years. This is not a hard call. You can show
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compassion and you can show grace. And as the Republican governor of Utah said, let's figure out
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a way to do this. But one way we don't do this is by allowing men who transition after puberty
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competing against young girls who have been working their entire lives to be as good as they can be.
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And then they get destroyed in the pool, on the track, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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Now, you can imagine how well this monologue went over among the various LGBTQ alphabet activist
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groups and publications. The Advocate, for example, wrote an entire article attacking Scarborough for
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this. They stated that, quote, if you voted for Donald Trump and against Kamala Harris because you
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had something against the trans community, you were beyond an outlier. You were not even a blip on the
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radar. So why are people like Joe and Mika callously targeting the trans community for Harris's loss?
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And why are they doing it so brazenly? Instead of discussing the real reasons why Harris lost to
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Trump, they trash innocent human beings, the most vulnerable in society. So again, they assume that
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this is a fringe issue when it obviously is not. And they don't think it is either, by the way.
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I mean, they say that now as a cope, but these are the same. The Advocate is an LGBT news public.
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This is all they talk about. Like literally, these issues are the only thing that their whole
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publication is dedicated to it. And here they are saying it's a fringe issue. So you're admitting
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that you're fringe? No, they don't think it's fringe. They don't want it to be fringe.
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They have made sure that it's not fringe. They are the ones, left-wing activists and these kinds
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of, they have taken these issues and put them in the center of the culture. Now they say that voters
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who are tired of the trans nonsense are a blip on the radar. But truth is, as this blueprint poll
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demonstrates, it's not a blip. Americans don't want to affirm lies anymore. They are tired of having
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their culture held hostage by these people. It doesn't matter how much you try to berate
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these voters for, quote, trashing innocent human beings or whatever. Something is either true or it's
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not. Affirming the truth is not trashing anyone. It's the bare minimum necessary to ensure that
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society can continue to function. But on CNN, they still haven't come around to this realization.
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Instead, they just hosted a live on-air struggle session after a guest pointed out that Americans
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don't like the idea of boys competing in women's sports. Watch.
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I think there are a lot of families out there who don't believe boys should play girls sports.
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They're not boys. I'm not going to listen to transphobia at this table. I am not going to
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Are you going to allow me to finish my explanation? When you use a word or a slur, I'm going to
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interrupt. That's not how it is. They're not boys. They're not boys. They're not playing
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girls softball. I'm not going to sit there and listen to that.
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Let's reset for a second because, look, this is a really heated issue, right? And,
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Cher Michael, I know you. I know that you understand that people have different views on this.
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I think out of respect for Jay, like, let's try to talk about this in a way that is respectful.
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Okay. So let me rephrase this since I'm being targeted here.
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I don't know. You're not. Just to be clear, you are not being targeted.
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I'm specifically saying that I know that you are not intending to be transphobic.
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But I'm not going to call you transphobic and say you're using a phrase that you know.
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So the way regular people interpret it, that's not regular people. There's no consensus that
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these are actually boys. This whole thing about trans girls is a canard. We're talking about a
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tiny, tiny sliver of the population. So those people, the pro-trans guy, the white guy,
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Jay Michelson is his name. The other one is Sher Michael. I forget the other guy's name.
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Sher Michael Singleton. They both sound like made-up names, don't they? They sound like
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the names you would put on a fake ID when you're 17 years old. But anyway, Jay Michelson,
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you know, that guy, okay, this is the guy. Like, this guy, if you're a Democrat and you're wondering
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who to blame, him. And not just him, but like him and his people and everything they represent.
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Okay. Your party allowed itself to be taken hostage by those people, like, you know, sometime
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10 to 15 years ago. You had a chance 10 to 15 years ago, right? When the LGBT extremists and the
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trans extremists came along and said, everything's about us now. You have to surrender reality to us.
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You have to pretend you don't understand basic reality that you've always actually understood
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and that all humans have understood since the beginning of time. You have to surrender all
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of that to us because it makes us feel bad. When those people came along and said that 10 to 15
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years ago, you had a chance to say, uh, no. Okay. No, we got other things we're doing over here and
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we're not going to surrender it all to you. Who the hell are you? Oh, sorry. I'm not going to
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tolerate having someone call a boy a boy. I don't give a shit what you tolerate. I don't care how you
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feel. What do I care? You can feel whatever you want. Go cry in a corner. Go cry in a corner. Go ahead.
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It doesn't matter. I'll laugh at you. I'll laugh at your tears. That's what I'll do.
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So you had the chance if you're a Democrat to say that 10 to 15 years ago, if you had done that,
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who knows what world you're living in now? Who knows? But you didn't, you let that guy take over
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and he's holding all of you hostage. And he is the reason him and everything he represents
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is the reason why your party is in shambles right now. Um, and you deserve it. You deserve all of it.
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This guy who now says it's a slur to refer to a boy as a boy, a slur. It's a slur to say of a boy,
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he's a boy. If a 12 year old boy says he feels like a girl, you don't, you know, this is a, you don't
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get to, uh, uh, you don't get to substitute your bigoted opinions for the well-informed judgment of
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a preteen is what he says. Who do you think you are? All you can do is just nod your head and ask
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a dumpster, a doctor to pump his body full of sterilizing hormones. This is the position of CNN,
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really. It's also the position of not just Jay Michelson, but also the woman hosting the show.
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But it's the position of a vanishingly small amount of the electorate. Now that clip goes on
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for a while, by the way, the first guy says something that's obviously true, that boys are
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competing in women's sports and they shouldn't be. And then he gets relentlessly heckled for it.
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He's eventually told that the American Medical Association says that children can change their
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gender. So therefore you don't get to have an opinion on the topic. You have to accept their
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judgment or else you'll be banned from CNN. Just like the last guest who tried to speak his mind
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on the same panel. Uh, this is the divide that Democrats are experiencing right now as a party.
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This is the choice they have. They can either choose to acknowledge reality or they can double down on
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this, on these absurdities and falsehoods. And if they go with the absurdities and falsehoods,
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then they're going to keep haranguing Americans calling for censorship and screaming at an audience that
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rapidly is becoming non-existent. Whatever they decide, it's now clear that voters have made up
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their minds. On Tuesday, swing voters decided that affirming reality is the single most important
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issue in this country. Nothing is more important than the truth. Nothing can be. This is the political
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victory that we've been seeking from the moment we began fighting the deranged excesses of gender
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ideology several years ago. And now it's here. But as long as the left keeps pushing it, the fight
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will continue. Now let's get to our five headlines. Let me tell you about a looming threat to our
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constitutional republic that the mainstream media won't cover. The radical left is plotting a Supreme
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and open threats from so-called representatives. It's Venezuela-style court packing. It would spell the
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00:25:29.580
I haven't even listened to the clip yet, but this is Marnie Washington, the FEMA official who was
00:25:35.600
fired for telling her team of aid workers to avoid homes with Trump signs. The big story that Daily
00:25:41.580
Wire broke, we talked about yesterday in the opening monologue. She just did an interview where she
00:25:45.900
claimed that actually this is not an isolated incident, as FEMA has alleged. She says that this
00:25:55.900
was apparently standard operating procedure and that FEMA did the same thing in North Carolina.
00:26:01.920
She's she did this, told her team to avoid Trump supporting homes in Florida. She's saying that,
00:26:08.080
no, this actually happened in North Carolina. Let's listen to the clip.
00:26:12.920
Stating that I was fired. They all alleged that these actions were made on my own recognises and that
00:26:20.680
it was for my own political advances. However, if you look at the record, there is what we call a
00:26:28.820
community trend. And unfortunately, it just so happened that the political hostility that was
00:26:34.400
encountered by my team, and I was on two different teams during this deployment, they just so happened
00:26:40.740
to have the Trump campaign signage. FEMA always preaches avoidance first and then de-escalation.
00:26:48.740
So this is not isolated. This is a colossal event of avoidance, not just in the state of Florida,
00:26:55.380
but you will find avoidance in the Carolinas. Senior leadership will lie to you and tell you
00:27:01.280
that they do not know. But if you ask the DSA crew leads and specialists what they are experiencing
00:27:07.380
in the field, they will tell you. Demand for FEMA to give you those incident reports.
00:27:12.500
Wow. Wow. Not a surprise. Not a surprise. I mean, I said yesterday when we talked about this that
00:27:23.600
I obviously don't believe that this was an isolated event. I don't believe that this woman took it upon
00:27:31.220
herself to do this on her own, on her own recognisance, as she would put it. I don't think,
00:27:38.400
no, that doesn't mean that she should be, she should be fired and she should be prosecuted,
00:27:43.320
but not just her. You know, Trump needs to get in there and clean out the entire agency and fire
00:27:50.620
everybody in leadership and prosecute them. That's what needs to happen.
00:27:55.480
But I totally believe what she's saying here because it's the only thing that makes sense.
00:28:00.780
It's the only thing that makes sense. And she's saying she has evidence of it. I'm sure she does.
00:28:04.820
This would be an easy thing to prove. And I think it will be proven, but it never made any sense. I
00:28:10.820
mean, the fact that this was put, like I said yesterday, it's put so casually in writing in a
00:28:17.620
list of just standard, most of it's standard tips, like drink a lot of water, you know,
00:28:21.900
wear a jacket if it's cold or whatever. And then just thrown in there in the middle of it,
00:28:28.960
not even like at the top of the list or the bottom, but just in the middle.
00:28:31.520
Oh, and avoid Trump, Trump, homes with Trump signs. It very much reads like,
00:28:38.780
it reads as though it was not the first time that it had ever been written down or that instruction
00:28:42.600
had ever been given. Like it reads like this is just a standard thing that they say all the time.
00:28:47.540
Um, and that's what she's saying. And that, that, that, uh, that tracks, I would say it tracks that
00:28:56.100
this is what they were doing. And, um, so this is a massive, massive scandal. I mean, this is a
00:29:02.900
massive scandal, obviously. Uh, and FEMA has put itself in a position where now, you know,
00:29:12.220
they can't really offer any other excuse that they kind of missed their opportunity to come up
00:29:17.360
with some other excuse. Not that there could be an excuse clearly, like there could not possibly be
00:29:23.360
a valid excuse for denying disaster aid to homes with Trump signs. Clearly that is, that's a
00:29:31.400
constitutional violation. And, uh, there could, there could not possibly be any, um, it's like the most
00:29:38.540
basic constitutional violation. This is, this is, uh, you know, everyone is supposed to be equal
00:29:42.220
under the law and this is a denial of that basic human right. Um, so there couldn't be a good excuse,
00:29:48.800
but whatever this, they lost, they missed their only chance to come up with some kind of excuse
00:29:54.440
because they've just denied that it's happening. They said, this is the only time.
00:29:59.980
And then when it comes out that no, this has happened all over the place. It happened in North
00:30:03.140
Carolina. It's been happening in Trump's entire term. What are they going to say now? They can't
00:30:06.840
circle back around and say, Oh yeah, well, but here's the reason you already lied. And I expected
00:30:13.060
the excuse that she kind of offers there is what I expected the excuse to be. And it's bull, it's,
00:30:21.340
it's bull crap. It's bogus, but she talks about, she says that, uh, it's, uh, we avoid them.
00:30:29.480
And I think she gets into this more in the interview, uh, beyond just that clip, but she says that she
00:30:35.340
claims that, uh, sometimes the, the homes that have Trump flags or Trump signs would be hostile
00:30:43.640
to FEMA workers. And so they just avoid them altogether. That's the claim. And I figured that
00:30:50.940
that would be the excuse. It'd be something like that. Like I said, FEMA's already, if that was
00:30:55.180
going to be their excuse too late because you claimed it wasn't happening. In fact, you acknowledged
00:31:00.580
already that it's a, it's a major violation. It's a horrible thing. You acknowledge that in
00:31:05.460
your statement and said that this is the only time it's ever happened. Um, so this is the excuse
00:31:11.280
that she's giving. And as I said, it's completely bogus, obviously. Um, you, you, you can't just
00:31:19.600
assume, Oh, that based on someone's political affiliations that they're going to, uh, reject your
00:31:27.600
aid. And even if they do reject it, okay, well give them the option to reject it.
00:31:34.380
Was there an epidemic of Trump supporters physically assaulting FEMA workers? No, there wasn't
00:31:40.660
because if that was happening, we would have heard about it. Okay. We would, we would have heard about
00:31:44.960
it. We'd see the videos. It'd be all over the place. We didn't hear about one case of that
00:31:49.300
happening. Not one because of course that didn't happen. Now, Trump supporters may be skeptical of
00:31:56.800
FEMA workers. I am too. Doesn't mean you're going to assault them or accost them. And the other thing
00:32:03.320
also is that if that's what you're worried about, if you're worried that Trump supporters are very
00:32:07.040
skeptical of FEMA and have a certain hostility to FEMA. Okay. Well, this isn't going to help that
00:32:14.140
situation. So you think there's a certain segment of the population that's hostile to FEMA workers
00:32:18.540
and your way of solving that is to deny them disaster relief. Well, it turns out they had
00:32:26.440
every reason. Okay. If there was hostility to FEMA officials and FEMA workers, turns out there was
00:32:32.760
every reason for them to be hostile to them. I think it's fascinating that she talks about community
00:32:40.120
trends. That's an interesting one, isn't it? She says, well, sometimes there are community trends
00:32:46.120
that mean that, uh, that a certain community is unsafe. Oh, oh, so we can, we can start talking
00:32:55.720
about community trends now. Can we, we can start denying people a critical aid, or we can stop,
00:33:02.880
you know, sending people into communities to help them. If there's a trend of that community being
00:33:08.940
maybe, you know, uh, having hostility, being dangerous. I don't know. I don't know if that's
00:33:17.320
logic that, uh, Marnie Washington wants to pursue very far. I don't know about that one.
00:33:24.600
Here's a, here's some good news. It's now official. The Hill reports, Republicans are projected to keep
00:33:28.680
control of the house of representatives, handing the party total control of Washington with president
00:33:32.680
elect Trump back in the white house in January. Decision desk HQ projected the GOP would hold the
00:33:38.640
house by winning its 218th seat on Monday. The number needed for majority in the lower chamber,
00:33:43.140
the results of major wind for speaker Mike Johnson has skyrocketed up from security to lead the house
00:33:47.440
GOP. Um, uh, and, uh, yeah, so they've, they've won the house. So that's it. Republicans will control
00:33:53.740
everything. The house, the Senate, the presidency, great news cause for celebration. Let us rejoice and be
00:34:00.000
glad. Uh, this also means that we need to hold these people accountable and that's very important.
00:34:06.200
We need to be absolutely ruthless and uncompromising as, um, conservatives. We need, we need to make it
00:34:15.060
clear to Republicans, Republicans in Congress and Trump himself, that failure is not an option. You have
00:34:21.520
two years to accomplish everything that you said you would accomplish. This is the window. And there,
00:34:27.240
and they're probably, you know, there probably won't be another two years.
00:34:32.320
And you talk about trends, like the trend for several, uh, presidential terms in a row now is
00:34:39.020
that, you know, um, uh, very often the, you know, the, the party that controls the white house ends up,
00:34:49.300
uh, you know, losing in the midterms, ends up losing seats in the midterm. So,
00:34:54.160
and there's every reason to think that will happen again. I mean, we don't know, but you,
00:34:58.660
you certainly can't, we can't assume that there will be another two years after this too. You
00:35:03.740
can't assume that you have to, so just operate as though operate under the assumption that these
00:35:08.200
are the only two years you're going to have to move forward to your agenda without really any
00:35:13.520
way for the Democrats to obstruct it. I mean, they'll try, they'll try to obstruct it, but,
00:35:18.700
um, now's the time to do it. And, uh, and you have to do it. You have to exploit this window.
00:35:24.560
Failure is not an option. Let's not forget that this exact thing happened in 2016.
00:35:32.180
And, um, Trump did not win by such a significant margin in 2016, but he did win and Republicans
00:35:37.720
took control of Congress. And, you know, what was achieved in that, that two-year window?
00:35:42.860
Not a whole lot. I mean, there were some tax cuts, but not much else. It was not a very productive
00:35:48.280
time. It would be hard for anyone to argue that they effectively or efficiently or sufficiently
00:35:53.960
use the power that they had been given. And the same thing cannot happen again. It just cannot.
00:36:02.900
So we can celebrate and be happy and we should, but, but then you got to hit the ground running and
00:36:08.760
there's not going to be any, you know, I don't want to hear from any conservatives that,
00:36:11.480
hey, just give them time. Be, you know, let's, let's be patient and give them time. Nope.
00:36:15.300
Not going to be patient. Not giving you time. Not going to be patient. You got to start stacking
00:36:19.240
the wins right away, right away. Cause there isn't, there isn't time. Okay. There's, there's not,
00:36:24.500
we have no time. We have only the smallest blip of time and you've got to use it.
00:36:31.400
Um, so that's, that, that has to be our attitude. And, uh, this is the burden that comes with winning.
00:36:38.800
You know, winning is great. I in fact am not tired of winning. Uh, I don't think I could ever
00:36:44.480
get tired of it. I much prefer winning to losing, but winning comes with obligation.
00:36:50.080
Losing doesn't. That's why Republicans were so comfortable losing for so long. And in the pre-Trump
00:36:55.480
world, Republicans were perfectly happy to lose and they lost all the time and they were happy to lose.
00:37:02.160
And, um, because it meant that they didn't have to do anything to be the minority party in DC to,
00:37:07.800
to be a Republican in a government controlled by Democrats, kind of a sweet gig really. Uh,
00:37:14.020
at least that's how many of them seem to view it for so long before Trump,
00:37:17.080
because they had all the prestige of being elected officials, but they weren't expected to really do
00:37:23.480
anything. They could play the role of the opposition, make fiery statements on cable news and all of
00:37:28.760
that, but not actually do anything because they weren't able to. So they had an excuse.
00:37:35.720
Uh, nobody could blame them for failing to advance their agenda because they couldn't advance it.
00:37:41.520
They had no power. Um, but, but now that's changed and having power means having expectations. Power
00:37:47.660
makes victory possible. It also makes failure possible because now you're out on that tightrope,
00:37:54.700
you know, you're over the precipice and, uh, if you fall, it's going to be ugly. That's why
00:38:01.120
responsibility is a scary thing because now we expect something from you and we do expect
00:38:09.300
something. We expect a lot. It's like when you're the backup quarterback, uh, sitting on the sidelines,
00:38:16.040
kind of nice because you're not, you know, you're not playing, but that means you can't screw up.
00:38:21.840
The fans can't be mad at you. You can't be embarrassed or blamed for a loss. Nothing is
00:38:25.740
your fault. You get to sit there kind of like telling yourself that if you were on the field,
00:38:31.760
the team would be doing was so much better, but you never have to prove it. You can just sit there.
00:38:35.820
Uh, but what happens when the starter goes down with an injury and the coach puts you in? Um,
00:38:41.700
I mean, now you have the opportunity to be the hero. You know, you could throw a game winning
00:38:45.140
touchdown and achieve football immortality, but you could also fail badly. And now it's real,
00:38:51.120
you know, now you've got the linebackers, uh, chasing you down and you got to make the throws
00:38:55.780
into the tight windows. And, uh, now, I mean, if to use Tim Walls, this phrase, if somebody runs a
00:39:02.480
pick six, uh, quote unquote, it'll be your fault. And that's the burden of being on the field,
00:39:08.140
uh, of being in the game. And now Republicans are, you know, they're in, they're in the game now,
00:39:17.040
you know, you're, you're on the field, you're the man now, and you gotta,
00:39:20.480
you gotta come through. You just have to. All right. Trump, uh, had a big announcement a couple
00:39:28.060
of days ago as he starts unveiling what he, uh, is saying his first few weeks in office will be.
00:39:33.760
And so far it all sounds great to me. So here's, uh, here's one plan that he's, uh, says he's going
00:39:41.540
to put in place. And one other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing
00:39:47.420
up the department of education in Washington, DC, and sending all education and education work and
00:39:54.960
needs back to the States. We want them to run the education of our children because they'll do a much
00:40:02.140
better job of it. You can't do worse. We spend more money per pupil by three times than any other
00:40:09.800
nation. And yet we're absolutely at the bottom. We're one of the worst. So you can't do worse.
00:40:17.280
We're going to end education coming out of Washington, DC. We're going to close it up.
00:40:22.960
All those buildings all over the place. And you have people that in many cases hate our children.
00:40:32.140
All right, here we go. I mean, this is how you start exploiting the opportunity and stacking
00:40:36.480
wins. And, uh, this, this would be a massive win. Absolutely earth shattering, really, truly. And,
00:40:42.760
um, and I'll tell you why shutting down the department of education would be so hugely
00:40:46.900
significant. I mean, you know how I feel about the department of education itself. I've made that
00:40:51.940
very clear. The department has been a disaster for the education system. It's been a disaster for
00:40:56.660
our children. It's just, it is a statistical fact that kids became less educated, less equipped to
00:41:04.460
succeed in the world, less intelligent, less competent after the department was established.
00:41:12.500
That's a fact. Uh, there is no evidence. There's no evidence at all that the department has succeeded
00:41:19.120
in enhancing education for anyone. There is no marker you can point to, to say, oh, well,
00:41:25.480
they've succeeded there. It's, you know, there, there's lots and lots of evidence going the other
00:41:30.040
way because this thing is a monstrosity that needs to be annihilated. And I really, really hope
00:41:37.080
that Trump actually does it. But there's another great advantage to doing this, um,
00:41:43.040
which is that I think it will help Americans to start thinking differently about the federal
00:41:49.320
government. This, this would be a kind of tip of the iceberg moment for the American people.
00:41:54.840
Uh, because look, there's no question that if Trump actually does this, there will be panic,
00:42:02.020
uh, at first in the public. I mean, that panic will obviously be intentionally drummed up by,
00:42:08.720
by Democrats and by the media, but it will, it will be drummed up successfully. And some people,
00:42:15.000
probably a lot of people will fall for it at first. And you've got to be ready for that.
00:42:21.100
You know, they're going to think about how the left reacted to Republicans saying
00:42:26.720
that they don't want gay porn books in schools. And they, they call that a book ban, right?
00:42:32.740
And they had some success with that narrative, some success. Well, take that times a million. Okay.
00:42:41.920
When you abolish the department of education, the way the left and the media is going to tell that
00:42:48.020
story and explain what's happening. Um, they, what they're going to, what obviously we know what
00:42:56.400
they are going to say is that abolishing the department of education means that you're
00:43:02.340
abolishing education, that education itself has been abolished by Donald Trump. That's what they're
00:43:09.780
going to say. And, um, and, and, you know, some people will fall for that. They just will. And so
00:43:17.560
there's going to be an outcry at first. And I, I would assume that I'm not saying anything that the,
00:43:23.020
the Trump, Trump himself and that the upcoming Trump administration doesn't already know.
00:43:27.240
Um, but you know, that, that's baked in. It's like, all right, you're going to do this thing
00:43:32.440
and it's going to be a huge, huge, I mean, you haven't seen anything like it in terms of the
00:43:39.380
back. And Trump's seen a lot of backlash, but this is just, you're going after one of the most
00:43:46.540
sacred of sacred cows for these people. And then department of education itself is full of like
00:43:51.800
hundreds of bureaucrats, uh, who you're going to take their job away. I'm glad you will.
00:43:57.460
Don't get me wrong. Absolutely. Make them unemployed. I think that's fantastic, but
00:44:01.800
they are not going to be happy. And, uh, and some of these people are powerful. Some of them
00:44:08.320
are well-connected. And, um, so yeah, it's going to be a whole thing. It's going to be a whole thing.
00:44:12.720
All right. Just to, to put it in very specific terms, it's going to be a whole thing,
00:44:16.700
but here's the good news. You know, there's going to be all this panic. Oh my gosh, he's
00:44:24.980
abolishing it. And then everything will be fine. Then all of the panicked people will see that
00:44:35.580
the department was abolished and here it is a year later and everything's fine.
00:44:41.140
So they didn't even notice. If not for the media screaming about it, they wouldn't have even noticed
00:44:45.960
nothing in their lives or in their kids' lives has changed at all. Nothing at the school has
00:44:51.300
changed. Okay. They're going to be told that, well, if you shut down the department of education,
00:44:55.960
it means that the schools are shutting down. A year later, it's like, oh no, the schools are
00:44:59.600
still open. Schools are fine. Everything's fine. Nothing's changed. Literally nothing has changed.
00:45:04.760
You, you will not even notice. It does not change anything, not change for the worse. Anyway,
00:45:11.280
it'll change some things for the better, but even those changes will take time to really
00:45:14.480
settle in. You know, those changes are not going to be immediately, uh, obvious.
00:45:20.940
So really at worst, it won't change anything. And if you can get rid of an entire department of the
00:45:29.080
federal government and it won't change anything on the ground at all, well then that department
00:45:34.860
should not exist. That's reason enough to get rid of it. Um, so that's, what's going to happen.
00:45:42.520
And, uh, and, and I, I think, you know, the left is going to keep screaming about it forever, but
00:45:48.760
I think most voters, you know, we've got to be realistic. I mean, people are not stupid, but
00:45:54.760
we have to be realistic. And we realize that there's a certain, you know, portion of people
00:46:01.380
who are susceptible to falling into these kinds of mass panics. We've seen it time and time again,
00:46:06.920
and this is going to be another one. Uh, but eventually you snap out of it and they're going
00:46:13.080
to snap out of it and they're going to see that, well, wait a minute. Everything's fine. Like it's
00:46:20.040
fine. My kid's still going to school and everything is all the same as it was before. Hasn't hurt,
00:46:26.560
hasn't hurt us at all. And then maybe you start thinking, wow, well, if we didn't need the department
00:46:33.440
of education in order to have a functioning education system, then what else don't we need?
00:46:40.920
My gosh, can we have a, can we have a clean environment without an environmental protection
00:46:45.540
agency? Could that be possible? Can we have secure transportation without a transportation
00:46:52.720
security administration? And what exactly does the department of Homeland Security do?
00:46:59.120
Didn't we have a pretty secure homeland prior to the, to its invention in the 21st century?
00:47:05.440
Yes, there was 9-11, but did 9-11 happen because there wasn't a DHS? Is that the reason it happened?
00:47:12.940
What does the ATF do that isn't already done by like a dozen other federal law enforcement agencies?
00:47:20.420
And so on and so on. You know, uh, there, these are the questions that maybe people start
00:47:24.900
seriously asking themselves when they see how utterly and totally expendable the department
00:47:31.160
of education actually is. This is the dirty little secret that is not much of a secret to some of us
00:47:35.900
about the federal government is that so many of them, so many of them, the job only exists for its
00:47:43.700
own sake. It just, it exists to just to be a job that someone is doing and getting paid to do.
00:47:48.640
It exists to justify its, it's, it's, it's, its own existence. And, um, truly you could go in and wipe
00:47:59.140
out 50% of the federal government, cut them tomorrow, and it would not affect anything on the
00:48:04.740
ground for the vast majority of people. That is the, that is the truth. And, uh, and they know it.
00:48:11.420
All these people know it. People that work in the federal government know it better than anybody,
00:48:16.700
which is why if you ever talk to someone who's, who works in the federal government or has worked
00:48:20.340
in it and, you know, is, is, is honest about it, they're going to tell you like, yeah, I,
00:48:24.380
I did a job and there was like 10 other people in my, just in my office who did the same job.
00:48:30.580
And like we, there was, it was like one job for 10 people. Um, that's the whole government is like
00:48:35.700
that. So, which is why they are so desperate to stop anyone from actually making any serious cuts
00:48:44.600
because they know that once that starts happening, people are going to start to realize how useless
00:48:49.660
these people really are. And, uh, and so, you know, you got to start somewhere. And I think
00:48:56.540
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cancellation. Over the weekend, I was callously attacked in a YouTube video by a notorious far
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right extremist by the name of Ben Shapiro. Ben waged this brutal cyber assault against me because
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of a recent video of mine where I listed the top five most overrated movies of all time.
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And Ben decided to issue a rebuttal to my list, even though I explicitly say at the beginning of
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my original video that my list is incontrovertibly correct and is not up for discussion. Did Ben not
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hear that disclaimer? What part of not up for discussion did you not understand, Ben? Now there's
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not enough time for me to explain my list in detail again. You can go to that video and hear for
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yourself. Just to briefly summarize, the top five most overrated films of all time as declared by
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me and by science are Shawshank Redemption, Toy Story, The Dark Knight, the entire Marvel Cinematic
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Universe, and all of the Star Wars films, including and especially the originals. Now some people have
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speculated that the whole reason I made this list and singled out those particular movies was solely to
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troll Ben Shapiro. That is the wild conspiracy theory floating out there on the internet.
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But I ask you this, do I seem like the kind of guy who would take the time to record a video just to
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troll someone? Am I so petty and contrarian and immature that I would make a video designed solely to annoy
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and antagonize one of the owners of the company I work for? I think we all know the answer to that
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question. Now today I want to respond to this unprovoked assault and onslaught from someone
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who I thought was a friend. I'm not going to even acknowledge his rebuttal to my points about Toy
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Story, Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars, or Marvel. Frankly, I'm so obviously correct about all those
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films that it would be almost insulting to the viewer for me to bother defending the point.
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My arguments were expressed so eloquently and presented with such striking lucidity and depth
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of analysis that it would be pointless to elaborate. It would be like asking Michelangelo
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to recreate the statue of David. He could do it certainly, but why should he waste his time
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repeating himself? Instead, I'm going to focus only on Ben's response to my arguments against the Dark
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Knight. Ben is very fond of the Dark Knight. He talks about it all the time. He told me he watches the
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movie once a week and weeps each time. He didn't say that specifically, but I read between the lines.
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The point is that he loves the movie, and that probably explains why his response on this movie
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in particular was so vicious and so hurtful. Watch. Number three, The Dark Knight.
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Oh, shut the f*** up. Once again, good film. It just isn't the masterpiece that people make it out
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to be. Without Heath Ledger's great performance, this movie wouldn't be remembered for anything in
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particular. Oh, you mean one of the key roles in the film is actually crucial to the film? Truly one of
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the stupidest arguments I have ever heard, Matt. Without the Academy Award-winning Best Villain
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in film history in the film, it's a different movie.
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Ta-da! I could do that with literally anything. You know, the New Testament without Jesus,
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not nearly as good. Like, take Keith Ledger out of it. What does anyone remember about this movie?
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Who cares about this movie except for that? It's great by Batman movie standards, but it's not great
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as a piece of cinema. I thought my jokes were bad. Okay, first of all, Ben, please watch the language.
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Second, please watch the sarcasm. I would never stoop to being sarcastic. I expected more from you.
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Third, yeah, you really understood my argument, didn't you? I'm not saying that if you take the
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Joker character out of the film, it's not a great film anymore. That's not my point. You would be
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correct to point out that any film is bad if you take out its most compelling characters.
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That's not my argument. I'm saying that the Joker character is actually not that great.
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Heath Ledger's performance of the character elevates it beyond what it would otherwise be.
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The Joker in the script is kind of hokey and corny. The Joker that Heath Ledger creates in spite of the
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film and the script is compelling. I'll give you an example. One of the Joker's first lines in the
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film, I think his first line is, whatever doesn't kill you only makes you stranger. Okay, that is a bad
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line. That's just a bad line to have. That is not the kind of line you find in a cinematic masterpiece.
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In fact, if that line is in your movie, it's not a masterpiece. I don't care what else happens.
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Automatically, it's not a masterpiece. But Ledger managed to deliver that line in a way that
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disguised its corniness. Great actors can do that sort of thing. I mean, you could cast Daniel Day
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Lewis in an elementary school Christmas pageant, and it would instantly be compelling and fascinating.
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But that wouldn't make it a great play. You know, the third grade teacher who wrote and directed
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the pageant is not suddenly a great playwright. Daniel Day Lewis can elevate anything. So could
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Heath Ledger. Compare this to, say, Vito Corleone in The Godfather. Obviously, Marlon Brando's
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performance in the role is legendary, but the character was so brilliantly written and the
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film around him so incredible that it would have still been a great film with another capable actor
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in the role. The same cannot be said of The Dark Knight. Without that one performance, not the character,
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the performance, the film would not be remembered for anything, actually. Also, The Joker is not the
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greatest villain in cinema history. That title belongs unquestionably to Anton Chigurh in No
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Country for Old Men. He is both more menacing and more interesting than The Joker. There's not one
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scene in The Dark Knight that even comes close to matching, even just the gas station scene in No
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Country for Old Men. And Joker in The Dark Knight never had one line that matches Anton Chigurh's
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immortal question posed to Woody Harrelson's character. If the rule you followed brought
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you to this, of what use was the rule? So he conveyed The Joker's philosophy far more effectively
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and in a much more clever way than The Joker ever did. Let's continue. How does The Joker wire an
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entire hospital with enough explosives to demolish it in 15 seconds without anyone noticing? This is a
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working hospital. People are in it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How did you, you wired the
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whole thing. It's not even just like one part of it explodes. The whole thing is taken down. Wait,
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wait, that's it. That's his critique. His critique is like the practicality of wiring a building to
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explode. I mean, yes, that's correct. Gotham City's a s*** show. They have a, they have a, they have a,
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a literal insane asylum where they keep people and every five minutes people break out of the insane
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asylum. Also, has he been to a hospital recently? They're not really all that well run. I remember when my
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wife was in residency. Uh, yeah, man. I mean, not that I would have committed a criminal act like
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The Joker, but I don't feel like it would have been that hard. You don't think it'd be hard
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to wire the entire hospital to explode? Do you know how many explosives will be needed to blow
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up an entire hospital? A lot. I don't know exactly how much. I started to Google it, but then I realized
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that I might be putting myself on an FBI watch list with a Google search like that. Of course,
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I'm probably already on a, on an FBI watch list. In any case, this is a massive demolition project
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that would take many hours to complete. Even with lax security, it just isn't close to realistic.
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Now, I know you might say, well, it's a Batman movie. It's not supposed to be realistic. You
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can't have it both ways, Ben. You can't tell me that it's this gritty, mature, Oscar worthy Batman
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film, but then also insist that it's just a silly superhero flick. So it doesn't matter if it's not
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believable, which is it? You can't just hide behind Gotham City's a s*** show. No, this movie is a s*** show.
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The script is a s*** show. You, sir, are a s*** show. Now, the movie hopes that you won't notice
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that problem because you'll be distracted by like the moment in the hospital when Joker shows up in
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Two-Face's room wearing a surgical mask and isn't noticed by Two-Face until he takes the mask off.
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But even with the mask on, you can still tell that he has white face paint and black paint around his
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eyes. So how did Two-Face, the criminal genius, not notice that? Well, maybe it's because Two-Face
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isn't a criminal genius in this. He's a villain for about a half a scene and then he's dead. It's like
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Christopher Nolan forgot to include Two-Face. They're about to put the movie out. It's like a week
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and the movie's gonna come out and someone says, well, we forgot we're gonna put Two-Face in this
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thing. Oh, yeah. Then they gotta go back. What are you talking about? That's the entire character
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arc of Two-Face. Doesn't change anything in the movie at all. No, what? Are you kidding me? Are you
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kidding me? Stop it for a second. Just stop it. That's so, oh my God. Oh my God. The entire plot point
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in the film is that Two-Face is supposed to be a representation of the fallen state of humanity,
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right? He goes from the hero to the villain and the whole point is that all hopes for sort of
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cleanliness in Gotham City can be obliterated and if you have too much of an idealistic view about
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what humanity is, which is what Harvey Dent has for most of the movie, then you end up falling because
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once you fall, you really fall hard. Oh, was that the message? Wow, how profound. Sometimes good
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people become bad people. Amazing. Christopher Nolan, again, demonstrating his profound understanding
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of the human condition with this insight that my five-year-old daughter could offer. Yes, I
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understand that Harvey Dent had an idealistic view of humanity and then ends up becoming everything he
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was fighting against. I get that. How could I not get it? Nolan beats you over the head with that
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message over and over again. The whole movie is just Christopher Nolan bashing you in the skull
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with a two by four, screaming his philosophical ideas at you. Each character takes turn giving
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speeches for the entire movie. The whole movie is just that one speech after another. We freaking get
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it, okay? I get it. I get it. This is a problem in Nolan films. The same thing happened in Interstellar.
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I went to that film excited to watch a movie about space exploration. I didn't realize I'd have to
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listen to Anne Hathaway drone on about the transcendent power of love for the entire trip
01:00:41.240
to Jupiter or wherever they were going. The Dark Knight isn't quite as bad as that, but it's still
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pretty heavy-handed. Now, the problem is that the characters spend so much time giving speeches that
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they forget to be actual characters. Harvey Dent flips like a switch from super good guy to super bad
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guy with almost no runway in between. Not to mention those burns on his face would be fatal,
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okay? He would not still be alive like that. There's just no way somebody survives having half
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of their head melted away, okay? Nolan was so obsessed with having everything look realistic
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that he actually ended up with a Two-Face that was less realistic than the one from the cartoons.
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In fact, I would go so far as to say that the Batman animated series from the 90s not only had a far
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superior Two-Face character, but was all around in every way a superior product to Nolan's version.
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Indeed, I would also say the 90s cartoon Batman is the best thing Mark Hamill ever did. I can't
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think of a single other thing Mark Hamill starred in that would match the Batman cartoon. These are
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not just opinions that I'm coming up with right now on the spot to annoy you even more, or if they are,
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I also think that they might be kind of true, potentially. Anyway, I think I've made my point.
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I don't want to make the same mistake Christopher Nolan made in The Dark Knight by repeating myself over
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and over again. I don't want this segment to run long like The Dark Knight did at a punishing
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runtime of two and a half hours. You know, I realize two and a half hours is downright efficient
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by Nolan's standards. I tried to watch Oppenheimer. It took me seven weeks watching it for an hour a
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day to get through half of it, and I'm not even exaggerating, and I gave up. But the runtime is even
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more unforgivable for a Batman movie, okay? There is no excuse for a movie about a superhero in a rubber
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costume running around doing karate against the bad guys to go longer than 85 minutes, 90 minutes at the
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absolute most. No one only had 90 minutes of a story. The additional hour consisted of each character
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delivering the State of the Union address. It's 90 minutes of story and an hour of speeches.
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That's why I could even argue that Batman Forever starring Val Kilmer was better than The Dark Knight.
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At least it got to the point much quicker, and it had a better Two-Face.
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But the worst Two-Face of all is you, Ben. I am still in shock that after all this time working
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together, you would attack me so savagely. I'm both horrified and offended by this unprovoked assault.
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But more than that, I'm disappointed. Your video was the most disappointing thing I've seen
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since The Dark Knight. And that is why both The Dark Knight and you, Ben Shapiro, are today canceled.
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That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.