Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin？
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Summary
Trump appears to be taking very seriously the idea of purchasing Greenland and taking control of the Panama Canal. Is that a good idea, and should we just go ahead and conquer Canada while we're at it? Also, a judge blocks a Tennessee law requiring age verification for porn sites, and the state of New Jersey will no longer require that its teachers know how to read.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Trump appears to be taking very seriously the idea of purchasing
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Greenland and taking control of the Panama Canal. Is that a good idea? And should we just go ahead
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and conquer Canada while we're at it? Also, a judge blocks a Tennessee law requiring age
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verification for porn sites. Her reasoning is flimsy, to say the least. And the state of New
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Jersey will no longer require that its teachers know how to read. What could possibly go wrong?
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Not long after Justin Trudeau became the Prime Minister of Canada in 2015, he made a big announcement.
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Without any prompting, Trudeau said something that no other Canadian Prime Minister has ever said.
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He declared that Canada as a nation doesn't really exist.
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He came out and casually admitted something that Americans have known for a long time,
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Speaking to a reporter with the New York Times, Trudeau explained that, quote,
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quote, there's no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.
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Those qualities are what make us the first post-national state, close quote.
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Yes, Canada is a post-national state with no core identity.
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No wonder this guy was forced to resign this week.
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Of course, no one paid any attention to Trudeau's comments at the time,
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because no one ever pays any attention to what's happening in Canada.
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Nobody stepped up to offer Canadians a nation that they could call home.
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Nobody suggested that Canadians could indeed have a core identity, just like the rest of the world.
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Instead, we allowed our neighbors to the north to wallow in their own self-pity and apparent non-existence.
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As a result, after a decade of self-loathing, Canada is now predictably falling apart.
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Their whole government has basically collapsed.
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Canada is sputtering along, barely staying alive in the cold, like a stray cat that everyone ignores.
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Finally, at long last, against all odds, they may soon have a nation to call their own.
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They may find that the core identity that they've apparently been seeking for so long.
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Admittedly, this development will come with some trade-offs, most likely.
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Canadians will probably lose the right to vote.
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They may have to start working jobs they don't like and that might not even pay them anything.
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But none of that's important right now because the key point is that Canadians could soon become Americans.
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Or at least, they could become vassals of Americans.
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Here's Donald Trump's olive branch to the oppressed people of Canada from yesterday's press conference.
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This is, of course, getting a lot of attention.
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If you were working under the assumption that you're serious about making Canada the 51st state of the United States,
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the leader of the Conservative Party in Canada said, under no circumstances, he'll never be the 51st state.
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To David's points, you had suggested that you were considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland.
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Are you also considering military force to annex and acquire Panama?
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Because Canada and the United States, that would really be something.
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You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like.
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And it would also be much better for national security.
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Now, Trump went on to explain all the obvious arguments in support of annexing Canada.
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We provide them military support worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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They reward us with an import tax on dairy products that goes as high as 270%.
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They're supposedly good at hockey, but they haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1993.
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They also don't believe in free speech to the point that they freeze the bank accounts of political dissidents.
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And if we were talking about a Middle Eastern country, we would have already invaded by now.
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Or at least launched some rockets and called it a day.
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But as you heard, Trump doesn't plan on doing any of that with Canada.
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The plan right now is a humanitarian economic takeover.
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And that's why after the press conference, Trump posted these upbeat images of a unified North America with Canada and the United States combined.
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And as you can see, once you get rid of the line between Canada and the United States, the whole continent does look a lot cleaner.
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You know, it's obviously the way it was supposed to be.
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But pretty much every Canadian politician disagrees, apparently.
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And in voicing their outrage, they've only made the whole situation even more entertaining and more pathetic for Canada.
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Here, for example, is someone using the name Jagmeet Singh.
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At one point, he was supposed to be the kind of the Canadian incarnation of Barack Obama.
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And last night, he uploaded this video threatening the United States.
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Donald Trump is acting more like an Internet troll than a president of the United States.
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I don't think that's the way you act as a president.
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And it's certainly not the way you interact with other countries.
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But as I mentioned, I've dealt with bullies throughout my life.
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Even if you're the smaller guy, even if you're outnumbered, you've got to make it not worth the bullies while.
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So you have to make sure you're standing up and showing that if you want to take that decision to fight with us, to pick a fight with us, it's going to hurt you, too.
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And so I want to issue a challenge, actually, on your show today.
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For anyone that's running for prime minister, I've committed that Canada would respond with retaliatory tariffs.
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If Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, we should respond with tariffs.
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Even the conservatives were talking like this, although they were a bit less aggressive.
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It's all kind of difficult to understand, frankly.
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They're just assuming that being conquered is automatically a bad thing.
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I mean, they're complaining about our plans to conquer them.
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And they haven't even seen the labor camps we've built for them.
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I mean, they're really spacious, very comfortable by labor camp standards.
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You'll even get one whole meal a day, except on weekdays, obviously.
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And just to underscore the power dynamic here, Canada's dollar is worth about 70 cents right now.
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The government is issuing emergency payments to around a third of the population so people can afford groceries.
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But Jagmeet Singh wants us to believe that Canada has leverage over the United States.
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They're going to raise the import tax on milk another 100%, I guess.
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They're going to shut off our supply of maple syrup.
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They'll even play hockey even worse than they already do.
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Now, not to be outdone, an even less popular politician in Canada, Elizabeth May of the Green Party, proposed a counteroffer to Donald Trump.
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She suggested that Canada should, rather than us taking Canada, that they will take California, Washington, and Oregon from the United States, which apparently is supposed to be some kind of threat.
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But she's threatening to take our three worst states from us.
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But if you want to take all the worst ones, we'll give you that plus New Jersey.
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Nah, but maybe California would like to be the 11th province.
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And not only that, we've already got a carbon trading system between California and Quebec.
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We've got some strong alliances on our west coast from British Columbia.
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There's been a lot of academic papers on the idea of Cascadia.
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So California, Governor Newsom and Washington State, Jay Inslee, and newly elected governor of Oregon, Tina Kotak.
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No more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off the Medicaid list and their parents are in the news.
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Because they're trying to do a GoFundMe so they can get their daughter to a doctor.
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Those gun laws that your Congress is too afraid to pass because of the national gun lobby, we already got our strict gun laws.
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So the pitch to people in California, Washington, and Oregon is that if they join Canada, they can get some Canadian health care.
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Now, you know, I've ragged on those states quite a bit over the years.
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They're examples of the worst excesses of left-wing ideology.
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But even with all that in mind, you know, I've never wished Canadian health care on anyone living in those states.
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I don't want to see them put to death when they get a headache or feel a little depressed.
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But apparently Elizabeth May sees things differently.
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And admittedly, a lot of people in those states may be on board with the idea.
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We'll send you the people in all those states, but we're going to keep the land.
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Because actually, the land is quite nice and quite beautiful.
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But so we'll give you the people and we're going to keep the land.
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Now, if you know anything about Elizabeth May, it's an offer that she'll probably accept because she's a raging alcoholic, apparently, who's also completely incompetent.
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She's most famous in Canada for getting so intoxicated during a speech a few years ago that her own staff had to lead her off stage as she started playing music from her phone during the speech and praising war criminals.
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I have a completely deranged and not, there is no sequitur.
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Do you guys ever wake up with old theme songs from former black and white TV shows that you never thought your kids would ever see and they're running through your head?
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Like every now and then I wake up thinking about, Lisa, you've got to wait.
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Lisa, I wake up thinking about A Horse is a Horse, of course, of course.
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We wonder why you're thinking that too, but you know what?
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There's a lot unusual about your speech, Liz, but we're going to take off.
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Omer Khadr, you've got more class than the whole cabinet.
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That's, you know, every time I think that our government is an embarrassment, that's one nice
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thing about Canada is that there are times when I look at the people running our country
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But you can always just look over to Canada and say, well, okay, well, it's, I mean, they're
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Now, the person she mentioned at the end of her speech is a terrorist who pleaded guilty
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And that woman went on to lead the Canadian Green Party.
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So that's the caliber of Canadian politicians that we're dealing with here.
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All we have to do is kind of get them drunk or more accurately, wait a few minutes until
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And then we can do whatever we want in these negotiations.
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For what it's worth, Elizabeth May wasn't the only Canadian politician to come up with
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Ontario's governor, Doug Ford, is also in the bargaining stage of grief.
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Trump once again talked about the idea of now a merger between Canada and the United States.
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At what point do you say that that's no longer a laughing matter and something that should be
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Well, I know under my watch for Ontario, I'd never be for that at all.
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Any sub-sovereign nation is Ontario and the rest of the provinces as well.
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And we'll throw in Minnesota and Minneapolis at the same time.
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I know he likes making these comments and he likes joking around.
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He may be joking, but under my watch, that will never, ever happen.
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I mean, if you want to try to buy them and make an offer, I think we're always, I mean,
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So I wouldn't want to part with Alaska because it's the most beautiful state in the country
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If you wanted Minnesota, at least personally, I'm not in charge of anything, but I'm open.
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Canada is so pathetic, they can't even afford Minnesota.
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And, you know, there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here.
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But Doug Ford seems to think that we're haggling over prices here.
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And he also seems to think Canada can afford to buy a U.S. state, which is more than a
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Now, at the same time, as amusing as the idea of taking over Canada is, the plan that Trump
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is floating for other parts of the North American continent is, I think, a bit more serious with
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some very real economic and strategic implications, the main benefit of conquering Canada is just
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It would be the first conquest in history launched primarily as a joke.
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Because in all seriousness, I actually wouldn't want Canada mainly because of all the Canadians
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If we could get the land without the people that, but, you know, that could get, I wouldn't,
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I mean, there's some things we, you know, it's, you only go so far.
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But the idea that we should buy Greenland and take over the Panama Canal is, while also being
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At one point during the press conference, Trump was asked to rule out the use of military
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Greenland and the Panama Canal, so what, can you assure the world that as you try to get
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control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion?
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And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is?
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Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold a vote?
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Yeah, I can't assure you, you're talking about Panama and Greenland.
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But I can say this, we need them for economic security.
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Now, this answer caused a lot of wailing on the internet, as you would expect, but it's
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There's no reason for us to rule out anything at this point, especially when our national
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It also puts you in a much stronger bargaining position if you don't show your cards ahead
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If we take over Greenland, we gain an ideal position for shooting down missiles from countries
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We'd also gain access to rare earth minerals that are useful for various military technologies
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Greenland is a massive piece of land on our continent that has basically nobody living
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I mean, the actual population is about 56,000, which to put that into perspective, is significantly
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less than the average capacity of a professional football stadium.
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So why shouldn't we at least discuss the possibility of acquiring it?
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And of course, the Panama Canal would give us control over one of the most important shipping
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We'd have more opportunities to limit China's advancement in our hemisphere as well.
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And whenever you think about these ideas, they make a lot more sense than fighting proxy
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The Panama Canal and Greenland are on our continent.
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What happens there affects us a lot more than a border dispute 6,000 miles away.
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And in case you needed another reason to support Trump's proposals on Greenland and the Panama
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Canal, take a look at CNN's reaction to the press conference.
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Some new information about what he intends to do, or at the very least, is not ruling out
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when he takes office, including not ruling out a military invasion to conquer Greenland,
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the Panama Canal, and perhaps the annexation of the country of Canada.
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Now, as a general rule, the more enraged CNN becomes, the more you know you're on the right
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And by that metric, we should take Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada immediately.
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It's not just about the well-documented economic and strategic benefits when it comes to Greenland
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There's another important reason, I think, to follow through with this, which is that it
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A country that grows and acquires new land and pursues new opportunities is a living,
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It's a sign of a nation on the rise rather than a nation on the decline.
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Americans once pursued their manifest destiny into the wilderness and all the way to the
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But most of that happened in the 19th century, and in the 20th century, the drive to reach
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out into the unknown took the form of the space program.
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Since then, however, we've kind of been in stasis, jogging in place.
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Liberal imperialism took over as we tried to export liberal values to far-flung corners of
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the world that are thousands of miles away, attempting to impose them on people and cultures that had
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That's not the kind of expansion we should pursue.
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But claiming new land on our continent, in our own part of the world, for our own interest,
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to help our own country and our own people, that is an idea worth considering.
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That's also why Trump proposed changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America yesterday.
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It's a proposal that would be unthinkable in a place like Canada,
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where they're busy apologizing for their own existence.
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But in a country that's proud of itself and proud of its history and sees itself as a great nation,
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and that's one of the things, to be a great nation, you also have to see yourself as a great nation.
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In fact, as I suggested yesterday, we should think about renaming the moon to the moon of America.
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Will Greenland and the Panama Canal soon belong to us?
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Will Canada do the right thing and submit to rule by the United States?
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Will they affirm their own potential for greatness by being our serfs?
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The feeling we have now is the feeling that a great country should have.
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The Tennessee law requiring pornographic websites to verify their visitors' age was largely blocked in court before it was to take effect January 1st,
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even as similar laws kicked in for Florida and South Carolina and remain in effect for more than a dozen other states.
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On December 30th, U.S. District Judge Cheryl Lipman in Memphis ruled that Tennessee's law would likely suppress the First Amendment-free speech rights of adults
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without actually preventing children from accessing the harmful material in question.
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The state attorney general's office is appealing the decision.
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The Free Speech Coalition and Adult Entertainment Trade Group is suing over Tennessee's law and those in a half dozen other states.
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The coalition lists some 19 states that have passed similar laws.
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One prominent adult website has cut off access in several states due to their laws.
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The law would require porn websites to verify visitors are at least 18 years old,
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threatening felony penalties and civil liability possible for violators running the sites.
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They could match a photo to someone's ID or use certain public or private transactional data to prove somebody's age.
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Website leaders could not retain personally identifying information and would have to keep anonymized data.
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In a ruling, Judge Lipman wrote that parental controls on minors' devices are more effective and less restrictive.
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She wrote that under Tennessee's laws, minors still could access adult sites using VPNs,
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or they could view pornographic material on social media sites,
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which are unlikely to reach the law's threshold of one-third of its content considered harmful to minors.
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The judge also said the impact could be overly broad.
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She noted that Tennessee's definition of content harmful to minors extends to include text.
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She specifically mentioned that the phrase the human nipple or crude combinations of keyboard characters
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would be considered harmful as long as they lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
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She also said that this could affect online educational platforms focused on sexual wellness.
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Okay, so first of all, the definition that Tennessee offers in their law for pornographic content makes a lot of sense.
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The judge has a problem with it but can't explain what the problem is exactly.
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Yes, it is pornographic if it is sexually explicit and lacks, as it says,
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quote, serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
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So, obviously, a science website that has information about human biology and anatomy is not pornography.
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I mean, this always goes back to the famous line from the Supreme Court justice in the 60s or 70s
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who, when asked for a definition of pornography, said, you know, I know it when I see it.
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Like, that is kind of the answer because everybody understands what pornography is.
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So, we get into the, anytime you have this conversation about restrictions, regulations,
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it always becomes this academic, well, how do we know?
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Like, in the real world, when it comes to practical application, there just is not any legitimate dispute.
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And even though every time we talk about laws and regulations meant to protect children from smut,
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you get this sophistry, this, how do we define it?
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What if, in some hypothetical scenario, something that isn't pornographic is interpreted as pornographic
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Nobody's confusing Pornhub and, like, National Geographic.
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Nobody is truly confused about the distinction between a pornographic image on a porn site
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Even though there's nudity in both, but we all know the difference.
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If the consequence of protecting kids from porn is that, on rare occasion, a few random,
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non-pornographic things get caught in the net, if that even does happen, that's a trade-off
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There are unintended consequences, no matter what you do.
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The unintended consequence, well, supposedly unintended, the supposedly unintended consequence
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of having no regulations and nothing in place to prevent kids from seeing hardcore porn
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is that millions and millions of kids, very young kids at very, very young ages, end up
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When you don't have anything like this, that's the consequence.
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The consequence of having these regulations is that maybe, hypothetically, a child every
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once in a while is not able to access a site that is actually non-pornographic.
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Okay, well, you tell me, which of these consequences is worse?
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Which set of unintended consequences is the greater threat to the well-being of children?
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And the whole argument from this judge is nonsense.
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The free speech arguments are just absolutely unintelligible.
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Whose speech is being infringed by simply requiring age verification before you access a porn site?
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If you want to go to Pornhub and have to just prove that you're an adult, like you do when you buy alcohol
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or when you go to a gambling site, in what way is anyone's speech being violated?
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And as I've asked a million times, if it is, then how does that also...
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If you want to go to a fan duel, you know, and place a bet on the wildcard weekend in the NFL this coming weekend,
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No one looks at that and says, my speech is being infringed.
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So how is that suddenly the case when it's porn, but it's not for anything else?
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And besides, how is going to a porn site a form of speech?
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Watching two people have sex, or however many, is speech how?
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Or is it the porn site that is having its speech infringed?
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They supposedly intend to provide this product only to adults.
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So how is their speech infringed by requiring that they verify that their customers are actually adults?
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And again, if their speech is infringed by that requirement,
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how are we also not infringing the free speech of every liquor store in America
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by forcing them to ask for an ID before allowing a customer to, you know, make a purchase?
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And of course, this is to say nothing of the fact that pornography isn't speech anyway.
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This is another thing that we act like is, you know,
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this is another question that we pretend is super complicated, and it's actually not.
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If you're getting a message across, right, in some kind of coherent, intelligible way,
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I mean, you could say that the message of the porn performer is that they're a whore.
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You could say that that's the message, but that's like saying that a guy who eats seven
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Big Macs is engaged in speech because he's communicating the fact that he's a fat, disgusting
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Well, that may be the image of yourself that you're projecting, but it's not speech.
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Nobody who sits down to watch pornography is watching it going, they're communicating with
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It's not, you're not like interpreting the message.
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Like you got a decoder ring and you've got to, oh, this is the message.
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It's not like, well, if you restrict pornography, then the next thing you know, you're stopping
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No, there's no reason why one should lead to the other because they're two totally different
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But the thing that just frustrates me the most is this totally phony argument you hear from
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the porn sites and their lawyers and now this judge.
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They just want as many people as possible to watch the porn because they make billions
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The more kids who are exposed to porn, that's, not only do they make money on those clicks,
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but also those are now, now you're getting kids hooked on this filth.
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And so now these are, unfortunately, in many cases, lifelong customers that you have earned
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Does anyone really think, does anyone really think that the people who run Pornhub actually
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You have to be a soulless reptile in the first place to be, to be involved in the porn industry
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These are soulless, amoral trolls, all of them.
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So then you get this phony argument that they oppose age verification because it isn't effective.
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Their real problem is that it doesn't stop enough kids from seeing it.
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Does anyone want to admit to being so dumb that they believe that the porn sites are
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actually concerned that the age verification isn't more effective?
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Yes, it's true that age verification at the website level is not perfect.
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It should not be the only barrier put in place between your child and this kind of content.
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That's an argument for additional measures, for doing this and more.
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But the judge is saying that we should not do this at all because it won't succeed in actually preventing
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Okay, but it will prevent some of them, won't it?
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So what you're saying is that if we can't, if it's a measure that will not prevent every child from seeing it,
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then we might as well prevent no child from seeing it.
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Which, once again, we would never apply to anything else ever.
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I mean, age verification certainly doesn't stop kids from getting alcohol.
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It didn't stop me before I was 21, I can tell you that.
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But yet, most people agree that it's like, you know, we could talk about the drinking age,
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But most people would say, like, we could talk about drinking age, it definitely shouldn't be 10.
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And yet, there are plenty of, unfortunately, 10-year-olds who could get their hands on alcohol if they really want to.
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And yet, so it's not perfect, it's far from perfect, but it's better than nothing.
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I mean, are you suggesting, or are we saying that age verification at the website level is just, it won't stop any kids, really?
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Are you suggesting that every child of every age understands how to use a VPN to bypass age verification?
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They not only understand it, but they're able to download a VPN and put it on their computer or phone without their parents knowing?
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You know, the fact is that a simple barrier of entry on the website, at the website level, requiring age verification,
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will actually, every day, every day, prevent literally millions of kids.
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Every day, would be prevented from seeing this stuff.
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Yesterday, we heard about Zuckerberg's plan to recommit to free speech on Facebook and Instagram, supposedly.
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Part of that plan involves getting rid of the hyper-partisan fact-checkers and instituting, you know, a community note system like what Elon put in place on X.
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Not surprisingly, the left is unhappy with this development, very unhappy.
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This is our good friend Joy Reid with her reaction.
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Why would conservatives think fact-checking is biased against them?
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I mean, what are you sharing if you keep getting fact-checked for false information?
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What were conservatives sharing on Meta that was getting flagged so much?
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And why are Republicans in general so eager to end the idea of fact-checking?
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What is the motivation for not wanting it to be fact-checked?
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Now, what I love about this logic is that, of course, Joy Reid would totally reject it if we applied it to any other situation.
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So, for example, when we hear from people like Joy Reid that, say, black people get pulled over and arrested more often than white people,
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using her logic, I could say, hey, what were you doing that made the cops pull you over?
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Why are you getting pulled over and arrested all the time?
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If you don't want to be pulled over and arrested, stop committing crimes.
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This is the exact same logic, but in that case, Joy would totally reject it.
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Of course, the difference is that in that case, you know, the argument actually works.
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It works because the data shows that, in fact, police officers, by and large, are not unfairly targeting black people.
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For the most part, in the vast majority of cases, if you're getting arrested, it's because you're committing a crime.
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And so a really, really, really good way that it's not 100% foolproof, but if you just don't commit any crimes,
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there's a really high chance that you'll just never be arrested.
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On the other hand, with fact-checkers, it's not as simple as, well, just make sure everything you're saying is factual,
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You'll never get, you know, doesn't work that way.
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If you got flagged by a fact-checker, it did not necessarily mean, very often did not mean, that you posted something false.
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Because the whole fact-checking regime was, from the start, invented to suppress conservative thought.
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Now, law enforcement, as a concept, was not invented to persecute black people, despite what Joy Reid may say.
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Fact-checking on social media, you know, this current iteration of what we call,
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now, if, you know, there were, if we're talking about someone using the term fact-check 40 years ago, different deal.
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But now, what we call fact-checking, and these, the professional fact-checkers on social media and so on,
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that is an industry intended, from the very beginning, to enforce ideological conformity.
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And, you know, all the, I mean, there's a lot of evidence of that.
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We all know this. I'm not saying anything you don't know.
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But here's really all the evidence we need, right?
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You can just take one example that kind of proves the point.
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Did any fact-checker on Facebook, or on any other platform, ever once flag a post claiming that there are more than two genders?
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Was that claim ever once flagged as non-factual?
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Was the claim that, you know, trans women are women, was that ever debunked by the fact-checkers?
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No, of course not. In fact, it went the other way.
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Statements of incontrovertible, undeniable, biological, and scientific fact were flagged as false and harmful by the fact-checkers,
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And so that's all, that's all the proof you need.
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Anytime someone calls them, if you want to know whether a fact-checker, a self-appointed fact-checker, is qualified for the job,
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you could just, you could really start with that.
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You could say, well, are trans, quote-unquote, trans women women?
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99.9, probably 100% of all self-appointed fact-checkers would all say, well, yes.
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I mean, that's, that's one of the most basic fundamental facts of human existence you don't understand,
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And so you may be qualified for some jobs, but certainly not this one.
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And probably not most jobs, actually, because like most jobs, to do it well requires at least some basic understanding
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You know, the thing we've been drinking for thousands of years
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certainly isn't the artificial sweetener developed to fatten livestock
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or the machine oil we've had added to our food.
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Yeah, as a general rule, you know, I'm always very, very skeptical
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when the public health folks come along and tell us
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that something that humanity has been doing for millennia
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is actually unspeakably dangerous and should be halted immediately.
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You know, it's possible that humanity got it wrong all that time.
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But if you want to drastically alter what was common
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and what was common human behavior for thousands of years,
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I think you should need to produce more than a couple of studies
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It's the burden of proof is quite a bit higher than that.
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Since there's been an uptick in cancer since the bioweapon was rolled out
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to fight the virus, is blaming alcohol for cancer in any amount
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the way to cover up the higher number of cancers?
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Yeah, well, you know, these people warning us about the dangers of booze
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are the same ones who assured us that the vaccine was safe and effective.
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And when you talk about the higher rates of cancer,
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Colon cancer in young people is apparently surging.
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And that's a trend that can be traced back, I believe, several years at least.
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But that's all the more reason why blaming it on alcohol makes no sense.
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You know, you don't even need to read any study to know that.
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People have been drinking alcohol for thousands of years.
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The data on, like, how much alcohol was consumed by people on average,
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probably, you know, I mean, there's data on that now.
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that alcohol consumption was a lot more common.
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Even go back, you know, like, it's like any movie or TV show you see
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in the office, they've got the cart set up with the, you know,
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And they're drinking whiskey at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
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So people have been drinking alcohol for a long time.
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So if there's a recent surge in certain types of cancer,
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I'm willing to grant that booze marginally increases the risk of certain cancers.
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What I'm not willing to grant, even for the sake of argument,
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is that our government or public institutions give two shits
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I don't need public health institutions to actually care about me.
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so now she's graduated to me only starting without a queen.
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I don't think you should let your kids win games,
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but you can give them an advantage or a head start,
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Uh, respecting and understanding the source material,
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with grown adults who are interested in fiction.
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I think there'd be great value in reading novels
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that go back since the dawn of human civilization.