The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin？

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Trump appears to be taking very seriously the idea of purchasing

00:00:03.760 Greenland and taking control of the Panama Canal. Is that a good idea? And should we just go ahead

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00:01:29.180 Not long after Justin Trudeau became the Prime Minister of Canada in 2015, he made a big announcement.

00:01:34.620 Without any prompting, Trudeau said something that no other Canadian Prime Minister has ever said.

00:01:39.520 He declared that Canada as a nation doesn't really exist.

00:01:43.500 He came out and casually admitted something that Americans have known for a long time,

00:01:47.740 which is that Canada is a fake country.

00:01:50.320 Speaking to a reporter with the New York Times, Trudeau explained that, quote,

00:01:52.980 quote, there's no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.

00:01:56.320 There are shared values.

00:01:58.020 Those qualities are what make us the first post-national state, close quote.

00:02:03.880 Yes, Canada is a post-national state with no core identity.

00:02:08.200 That's what he said.

00:02:08.820 No wonder this guy was forced to resign this week.

00:02:12.440 Of course, no one paid any attention to Trudeau's comments at the time,

00:02:15.700 because no one ever pays any attention to what's happening in Canada.

00:02:18.760 Nobody stepped up to offer Canadians a nation that they could call home.

00:02:23.780 Nobody suggested that Canadians could indeed have a core identity, just like the rest of the world.

00:02:28.780 Instead, we allowed our neighbors to the north to wallow in their own self-pity and apparent non-existence.

00:02:34.920 Their identity crisis festered.

00:02:37.260 As a result, after a decade of self-loathing, Canada is now predictably falling apart.

00:02:42.060 Justin Trudeau has resigned.

00:02:43.800 Parliament has been suspended.

00:02:45.780 Their whole government has basically collapsed.

00:02:47.760 Canada is sputtering along, barely staying alive in the cold, like a stray cat that everyone ignores.

00:02:56.120 But there's some good news now for Canadians.

00:02:59.280 Finally, at long last, against all odds, they may soon have a nation to call their own.

00:03:04.900 They may find that the core identity that they've apparently been seeking for so long.

00:03:10.140 Admittedly, this development will come with some trade-offs, most likely.

00:03:15.220 Canadians will probably lose the right to vote.

00:03:19.420 They may have to start working jobs they don't like and that might not even pay them anything.

00:03:25.840 And we still won't take them very seriously.

00:03:28.240 But none of that's important right now because the key point is that Canadians could soon become Americans.

00:03:33.220 Or at least, they could become vassals of Americans. 0.91

00:03:36.980 Here's Donald Trump's olive branch to the oppressed people of Canada from yesterday's press conference.

00:03:41.880 This is, of course, getting a lot of attention.

00:03:43.840 In case you missed it, here it is.

00:03:45.840 If you were working under the assumption that you're serious about making Canada the 51st state of the United States,

00:03:52.700 the leader of the Conservative Party in Canada said, under no circumstances, he'll never be the 51st state.

00:03:57.420 Maybe he won't win, but maybe he will.

00:03:59.940 To David's points, you had suggested that you were considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland.

00:04:08.620 Are you also considering military force to annex and acquire Panama?

00:04:12.440 No.

00:04:13.120 Economic force.

00:04:14.860 Because Canada and the United States, that would really be something.

00:04:19.780 You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like.

00:04:25.060 And it would also be much better for national security.

00:04:27.620 Don't forget, we basically protect Canada.

00:04:29.460 Now, Trump went on to explain all the obvious arguments in support of annexing Canada.

00:04:35.520 We provide them military support worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

00:04:38.860 They reward us with an import tax on dairy products that goes as high as 270%.

00:04:44.860 They're supposedly good at hockey, but they haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1993.

00:04:50.080 They also don't believe in free speech to the point that they freeze the bank accounts of political dissidents.

00:04:55.280 And if we were talking about a Middle Eastern country, we would have already invaded by now. 0.99

00:04:58.760 Or at least launched some rockets and called it a day.

00:05:01.960 But as you heard, Trump doesn't plan on doing any of that with Canada.

00:05:05.860 The plan right now is a humanitarian economic takeover.

00:05:10.220 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.

00:05:20.020 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.

00:05:27.320 You know, it's obviously the way it was supposed to be.

00:05:33.600 But pretty much every Canadian politician disagrees, apparently. 0.93

00:05:36.640 And in voicing their outrage, they've only made the whole situation even more entertaining and more pathetic for Canada.

00:05:44.200 Here, for example, is someone using the name Jagmeet Singh. 0.73

00:05:47.500 At one point, he was supposed to be the kind of the Canadian incarnation of Barack Obama.

00:05:52.880 And last night, he uploaded this video threatening the United States.

00:05:58.400 Watch. 0.88

00:05:59.320 Donald Trump is acting more like an Internet troll than a president of the United States. 0.73

00:06:04.820 I don't think that's the way you act as a president.

00:06:06.740 And it's certainly not the way you interact with other countries.

00:06:10.320 But as I mentioned, I've dealt with bullies throughout my life.

00:06:14.860 And I know what it's like.

00:06:15.940 Even if you're the smaller guy, even if you're outnumbered, you've got to make it not worth the bullies while.

00:06:21.420 Bullies only understand strength. 1.00

00:06:23.440 They only understand strength and pain.

00:06:25.220 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.

00:06:34.140 And so I want to issue a challenge, actually, on your show today.

00:06:37.440 For anyone that's running for prime minister, I've committed that Canada would respond with retaliatory tariffs.

00:06:43.960 If Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, we should respond with tariffs.

00:06:49.480 So that was the sentiment all over Canada.

00:06:52.920 Even the conservatives were talking like this, although they were a bit less aggressive.

00:06:57.280 It's all kind of difficult to understand, frankly.

00:06:59.980 They're just assuming that being conquered is automatically a bad thing.

00:07:04.800 I mean, they're complaining about our plans to conquer them.

00:07:08.980 And they haven't even seen the labor camps we've built for them.

00:07:11.780 I mean, they're really spacious, very comfortable by labor camp standards.

00:07:15.560 You'll even get one whole meal a day, except on weekdays, obviously.

00:07:19.200 And yet they still whine. 0.98

00:07:20.680 I mean, just ungrateful brats. 1.00

00:07:23.260 And just to underscore the power dynamic here, Canada's dollar is worth about 70 cents right now.

00:07:28.760 The government is issuing emergency payments to around a third of the population so people can afford groceries.

00:07:34.600 But Jagmeet Singh wants us to believe that Canada has leverage over the United States.

00:07:41.220 They're going to raise the import tax on milk another 100%, I guess.

00:07:44.900 They're going to shut off our supply of maple syrup.

00:07:50.140 They'll even play hockey even worse than they already do.

00:07:53.880 Now, not to be outdone, an even less popular politician in Canada, Elizabeth May of the Green Party, proposed a counteroffer to Donald Trump.

00:08:01.200 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.

00:08:15.600 But she's threatening to take our three worst states from us. 1.00

00:08:21.700 I mean, can we throw New Jersey in there, too?

00:08:23.520 It doesn't really work geographically.

00:08:24.940 But if you want to take all the worst ones, we'll give you that plus New Jersey.

00:08:29.000 Here she is.

00:08:31.400 Hey, Donald, have we got a deal for you?

00:08:34.940 You think we want to be the 51st state?

00:08:37.140 Nah, but maybe California would like to be the 11th province.

00:08:40.940 How about it?

00:08:42.300 California?

00:08:44.200 Oregon?

00:08:45.560 Washington?

00:08:47.040 You've got geography in common with us.

00:08:48.960 And not only that, we've already got a carbon trading system between California and Quebec.

00:08:53.820 We've got some strong alliances on our west coast from British Columbia.

00:08:59.040 There's been a lot of academic papers on the idea of Cascadia.

00:09:02.800 So California, Governor Newsom and Washington State, Jay Inslee, and newly elected governor of Oregon, Tina Kotak. 0.98

00:09:11.120 How about it?

00:09:12.000 Want to put a referendum to your citizens?

00:09:13.840 Because this is what you deal.

00:09:14.700 Have we got a deal for you?

00:09:15.900 This is what you get.

00:09:16.860 Free health care.

00:09:18.020 Universal free health care.

00:09:19.400 No more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off the Medicaid list and their parents are in the news.

00:09:23.820 Because they're trying to do a GoFundMe so they can get their daughter to a doctor. 0.66

00:09:28.500 Universal free health care.

00:09:29.980 And guess what?

00:09:30.660 Those gun laws that your Congress is too afraid to pass because of the national gun lobby, we already got our strict gun laws.

00:09:39.140 So the pitch to people in California, Washington, and Oregon is that if they join Canada, they can get some Canadian health care.

00:09:47.340 Now, you know, I've ragged on those states quite a bit over the years.

00:09:51.160 They're all terribly run.

00:09:52.080 They're overtaxed.

00:09:52.760 They're examples of the worst excesses of left-wing ideology.

00:09:56.460 But even with all that in mind, you know, I've never wished Canadian health care on anyone living in those states.

00:10:03.300 I never would.

00:10:04.460 I don't want to see them put to death when they get a headache or feel a little depressed.

00:10:08.840 But apparently Elizabeth May sees things differently. 0.82

00:10:12.040 And she seems serious about the offer.

00:10:14.760 And admittedly, a lot of people in those states may be on board with the idea.

00:10:19.780 So let's compromise.

00:10:20.940 How about this?

00:10:21.940 Here's my counteroffer.

00:10:24.460 We'll send you the people in all those states, but we're going to keep the land.

00:10:28.720 Because actually, the land is quite nice and quite beautiful.

00:10:32.960 But so we'll give you the people and we're going to keep the land. 0.61

00:10:35.040 It seems that's a win-win. 0.93

00:10:37.560 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. 1.00

00:10:45.140 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.

00:10:59.960 We'll just play this because this is funny.

00:11:02.480 Here it is.

00:11:04.220 I have a completely deranged and not, there is no sequitur.

00:11:09.040 This is a non sequitur.

00:11:10.200 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?

00:11:20.960 Like every now and then I wake up thinking about, Lisa, you've got to wait.

00:11:24.920 Lisa, I wake up thinking about A Horse is a Horse, of course, of course.

00:11:28.880 This morning I wake up thinking this.

00:11:31.080 Why am I thinking this?

00:11:33.100 Do you guys wonder?

00:11:34.800 Please, hang on.

00:11:36.440 We wonder why you're thinking that too, but you know what?

00:11:40.200 Do you guys remember the theme song?

00:11:43.060 Welcome back.

00:11:43.780 Who knew Khadr was spelt K-H-A-D-R?

00:11:47.480 Welcome back, Omer Khadr.

00:11:50.720 It matters to say it.

00:11:52.500 Welcome back, Omer Khadr.

00:11:54.280 You're home.

00:11:56.780 Does it strike you?

00:11:57.720 I didn't.

00:12:00.300 No, you didn't.

00:12:01.760 There's a lot unusual about your speech, Liz, but we're going to take off.

00:12:04.480 Omer Khadr, you've got more class than the whole cabinet.

00:12:10.060 Thank you.

00:12:12.300 That's, you know, every time I think that our government is an embarrassment, that's one nice

00:12:17.900 thing about Canada is that there are times when I look at the people running our country

00:12:21.960 and I feel totally humiliated.

00:12:24.760 But you can always just look over to Canada and say, well, okay, well, it's, I mean, they're

00:12:29.880 at least worse than us.

00:12:32.120 Now, the person she mentioned at the end of her speech is a terrorist who pleaded guilty

00:12:35.240 to murdering a U.S. soldier.

00:12:37.280 And that woman went on to lead the Canadian Green Party.

00:12:40.160 So that's the caliber of Canadian politicians that we're dealing with here.

00:12:43.520 All we have to do is kind of get them drunk or more accurately, wait a few minutes until

00:12:47.060 they get drunk on their own.

00:12:48.240 And then we can do whatever we want in these negotiations.

00:12:51.680 For what it's worth, Elizabeth May wasn't the only Canadian politician to come up with

00:12:54.740 a counteroffer.

00:12:55.880 Ontario's governor, Doug Ford, is also in the bargaining stage of grief.

00:13:00.960 Watch.

00:13:02.300 Trump once again talked about the idea of now a merger between Canada and the United States.

00:13:07.340 You would dismiss that as a joke.

00:13:08.960 At what point do you say that that's no longer a laughing matter and something that should be

00:13:13.660 taken with quite a bit of seriousness?

00:13:16.500 Well, I know under my watch for Ontario, I'd never be for that at all.

00:13:21.160 We have the greatest country in the world.

00:13:23.100 We have the greatest province anywhere.

00:13:26.140 Any sub-sovereign nation is Ontario and the rest of the provinces as well.

00:13:30.640 Do you think he's joking about it?

00:13:31.260 You know something to the president?

00:13:33.600 I'll make him a counteroffer.

00:13:34.980 How about if we buy Alaska?

00:13:36.340 And we'll throw in Minnesota and Minneapolis at the same time.

00:13:39.440 So, you know, it's not realistic.

00:13:41.840 I know he likes making these comments and he likes joking around.

00:13:46.900 I take that seriously.

00:13:49.060 He may be joking, but under my watch, that will never, ever happen.

00:13:54.160 I mean, if you want to try to buy them and make an offer, I think we're always, I mean,

00:14:00.320 you should always be open to offers.

00:14:02.280 So I wouldn't want to part with Alaska because it's the most beautiful state in the country

00:14:06.780 and a lot of good people in Alaska.

00:14:09.340 If you wanted Minnesota, at least personally, I'm not in charge of anything, but I'm open.

00:14:15.700 Like, let's talk about it.

00:14:17.200 Put a number on the table.

00:14:19.300 Let's have the conversation.

00:14:20.840 But, you know, you can't afford it.

00:14:21.980 You can't afford Minnesota. 1.00

00:14:23.740 Canada is so pathetic, they can't even afford Minnesota. 0.99

00:14:27.360 And, you know, there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here. 1.00

00:14:29.980 No one is offering to buy Canada.

00:14:32.740 Trump is proposing that we just take it.

00:14:35.360 But Doug Ford seems to think that we're haggling over prices here.

00:14:38.260 And he also seems to think Canada can afford to buy a U.S. state, which is more than a

00:14:42.260 little suspect.

00:14:43.340 Now, at the same time, as amusing as the idea of taking over Canada is, the plan that Trump

00:14:49.260 is floating for other parts of the North American continent is, I think, a bit more serious with

00:14:54.940 some very real economic and strategic implications, the main benefit of conquering Canada is just

00:15:01.920 that it would be really funny.

00:15:03.620 It would be the first conquest in history launched primarily as a joke.

00:15:08.300 Because in all seriousness, I actually wouldn't want Canada mainly because of all the Canadians 1.00

00:15:14.640 that are there.

00:15:15.140 If we could get the land without the people that, but, you know, that could get, I wouldn't,

00:15:20.600 I mean, there's some things we, you know, it's, you only go so far.

00:15:24.880 We don't want the land that badly.

00:15:26.720 But the idea that we should buy Greenland and take over the Panama Canal is, while also being

00:15:33.600 kind of funny, still very serious.

00:15:36.240 At one point during the press conference, Trump was asked to rule out the use of military

00:15:40.120 force to take Greenland and the Panama Canal.

00:15:42.780 And he refused.

00:15:45.940 Watch.

00:15:48.240 Greenland and the Panama Canal, so what, can you assure the world that as you try to get

00:15:56.160 control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion?

00:16:01.680 No.

00:16:01.940 And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is?

00:16:05.720 Are you going to negotiate a new treaty?

00:16:07.400 Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold a vote?

00:16:11.500 What, what is the strategy?

00:16:12.580 Yeah, I can't assure you, you're talking about Panama and Greenland.

00:16:16.400 No, I can't assure you on either of those two.

00:16:18.900 But I can say this, we need them for economic security.

00:16:24.020 The Panama Canal was built for our military.

00:16:27.940 I'm not going to commit to that.

00:16:29.420 Now, this answer caused a lot of wailing on the internet, as you would expect, but it's

00:16:34.360 the right answer.

00:16:35.020 There's no reason for us to rule out anything at this point, especially when our national

00:16:39.020 security is implicated.

00:16:39.980 It also puts you in a much stronger bargaining position if you don't show your cards ahead

00:16:43.480 of time.

00:16:44.580 If we take over Greenland, we gain an ideal position for shooting down missiles from countries 0.99

00:16:49.640 like China, Russia, North Korea.

00:16:51.700 We'd also gain access to rare earth minerals that are useful for various military technologies

00:16:56.140 and batteries and so on.

00:16:59.020 Greenland is a massive piece of land on our continent that has basically nobody living

00:17:05.260 on it.

00:17:05.640 I mean, the actual population is about 56,000, which to put that into perspective, is significantly

00:17:11.160 less than the average capacity of a professional football stadium.

00:17:15.720 Those are all the people living in Greenland.

00:17:18.880 So why shouldn't we at least discuss the possibility of acquiring it?

00:17:23.100 And of course, the Panama Canal would give us control over one of the most important shipping

00:17:27.040 lanes in the world.

00:17:28.360 We'd have more opportunities to limit China's advancement in our hemisphere as well. 0.98

00:17:33.600 And whenever you think about these ideas, they make a lot more sense than fighting proxy

00:17:39.100 wars in Eastern Europe or the Middle East.

00:17:42.520 The Panama Canal and Greenland are on our continent.

00:17:45.540 They're in our backyard.

00:17:47.380 What happens there affects us a lot more than a border dispute 6,000 miles away.

00:17:52.260 And in case you needed another reason to support Trump's proposals on Greenland and the Panama

00:17:58.380 Canal, take a look at CNN's reaction to the press conference.

00:18:02.400 Their jaws were on the floor.

00:18:04.600 Watch.

00:18:05.660 Some new information about what he intends to do, or at the very least, is not ruling out

00:18:13.280 when he takes office, including not ruling out a military invasion to conquer Greenland,

00:18:21.400 the Panama Canal, and perhaps the annexation of the country of Canada.

00:18:29.840 Now, as a general rule, the more enraged CNN becomes, the more you know you're on the right

00:18:33.960 track.

00:18:34.280 And by that metric, we should take Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada immediately.

00:18:41.140 It's not just about the well-documented economic and strategic benefits when it comes to Greenland

00:18:47.140 and the Panama Canal.

00:18:48.480 There's another important reason, I think, to follow through with this, which is that it

00:18:55.060 signals our direction as a nation.

00:18:57.000 A country that grows and acquires new land and pursues new opportunities is a living,

00:19:03.080 thriving country.

00:19:03.980 It's a sign of a nation on the rise rather than a nation on the decline.

00:19:09.600 Americans once pursued their manifest destiny into the wilderness and all the way to the 0.98

00:19:14.480 Pacific Ocean.

00:19:15.760 That's how our country took its current shape.

00:19:17.880 But most of that happened in the 19th century, and in the 20th century, the drive to reach

00:19:25.260 out into the unknown took the form of the space program.

00:19:29.020 It brought us all the way to the moon.

00:19:30.800 Since then, however, we've kind of been in stasis, jogging in place.

00:19:36.200 Liberal imperialism took over as we tried to export liberal values to far-flung corners of

00:19:41.900 the world that are thousands of miles away, attempting to impose them on people and cultures that had 0.85

00:19:47.660 no interest in them and never will.

00:19:49.480 That was and still is a disaster.

00:19:52.280 That's not the kind of expansion we should pursue.

00:19:55.000 But claiming new land on our continent, in our own part of the world, for our own interest,

00:20:02.560 to help our own country and our own people, that is an idea worth considering.

00:20:07.220 That's also why Trump proposed changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America yesterday.

00:20:12.940 It's a proposal that would be unthinkable in a place like Canada,

00:20:16.200 where they're busy apologizing for their own existence.

00:20:18.560 But in a country that's proud of itself and proud of its history and sees itself as a great nation,

00:20:25.920 and that's one of the things, to be a great nation, you also have to see yourself as a great nation.

00:20:30.340 And in a country like that, it makes sense.

00:20:33.180 I mean, why not?

00:20:34.100 We could change the name.

00:20:35.320 Why shouldn't we?

00:20:37.000 In fact, as I suggested yesterday, we should think about renaming the moon to the moon of America.

00:20:41.440 It is ours, after all.

00:20:43.180 We put our flag on it.

00:20:45.100 So where do we go from here?

00:20:46.520 Will Greenland and the Panama Canal soon belong to us?

00:20:49.640 Will Canada do the right thing and submit to rule by the United States?

00:20:53.740 Will they affirm their own potential for greatness by being our serfs?

00:20:58.340 Probably not.

00:20:59.660 But you never know.

00:21:01.280 The feeling we have now is the feeling that a great country should have.

00:21:05.640 A feeling that says anything is possible.

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00:22:14.140 We'll start with this from the AP.

00:22:15.360 The Tennessee law requiring pornographic websites to verify their visitors' age was largely blocked in court before it was to take effect January 1st,

00:22:23.640 even as similar laws kicked in for Florida and South Carolina and remain in effect for more than a dozen other states.

00:22:30.200 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

00:22:38.520 without actually preventing children from accessing the harmful material in question.

00:22:42.800 The state attorney general's office is appealing the decision.

00:22:46.800 The Free Speech Coalition and Adult Entertainment Trade Group is suing over Tennessee's law and those in a half dozen other states.

00:22:54.720 The coalition lists some 19 states that have passed similar laws.

00:22:58.320 One prominent adult website has cut off access in several states due to their laws.

00:23:01.900 The law would require porn websites to verify visitors are at least 18 years old,

00:23:08.180 threatening felony penalties and civil liability possible for violators running the sites.

00:23:14.320 They could match a photo to someone's ID or use certain public or private transactional data to prove somebody's age.

00:23:21.220 Website leaders could not retain personally identifying information and would have to keep anonymized data.

00:23:27.940 In a ruling, Judge Lipman wrote that parental controls on minors' devices are more effective and less restrictive.

00:23:35.760 She wrote that under Tennessee's laws, minors still could access adult sites using VPNs,

00:23:40.440 or they could view pornographic material on social media sites,

00:23:43.900 which are unlikely to reach the law's threshold of one-third of its content considered harmful to minors.

00:23:49.420 The judge also said the impact could be overly broad.

00:23:51.980 She noted that Tennessee's definition of content harmful to minors extends to include text.

00:23:59.060 She specifically mentioned that the phrase the human nipple or crude combinations of keyboard characters

00:24:04.040 would be considered harmful as long as they lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.

00:24:11.180 She also said that this could affect online educational platforms focused on sexual wellness.

00:24:19.360 Okay, so first of all, the definition that Tennessee offers in their law for pornographic content makes a lot of sense.

00:24:28.260 The judge has a problem with it but can't explain what the problem is exactly.

00:24:32.160 Yes, it is pornographic if it is sexually explicit and lacks, as it says,

00:24:39.700 quote, serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.

00:24:43.240 So, obviously, a science website that has information about human biology and anatomy is not pornography.

00:24:54.200 Everybody understands that.

00:24:56.160 I mean, this always goes back to the famous line from the Supreme Court justice in the 60s or 70s

00:25:03.740 who, when asked for a definition of pornography, said, you know, I know it when I see it.

00:25:09.900 And that's true.

00:25:11.920 Like, that is kind of the answer because everybody understands what pornography is.

00:25:18.260 So, we get into the, anytime you have this conversation about restrictions, regulations,

00:25:22.820 it always becomes this academic, well, how do we know?

00:25:26.780 How do we know?

00:25:27.560 How do you really define pornography?

00:25:30.640 Everybody knows.

00:25:31.640 Like, in the real world, when it comes to practical application, there just is not any legitimate dispute.

00:25:40.960 And even though every time we talk about laws and regulations meant to protect children from smut, 1.00

00:25:45.920 you get this sophistry, this, how do we define it?

00:25:50.760 How do we define it?

00:25:52.160 What if, in some hypothetical scenario, something that isn't pornographic is interpreted as pornographic

00:25:58.680 and gets, also ends up being restricted?

00:26:01.920 Well, that's just not happening, okay?

00:26:03.520 That's not actually happening.

00:26:05.100 That's not real.

00:26:06.740 We all know what porn is.

00:26:10.380 Okay?

00:26:11.180 Nobody's confusing Pornhub and, like, National Geographic.

00:26:15.880 Everybody understands the distinction.

00:26:17.760 Nobody is truly confused about the distinction between a pornographic image on a porn site

00:26:25.200 and an image of the statue of David, right?

00:26:30.780 Even though there's nudity in both, but we all know the difference.

00:26:36.240 We all understand the difference.

00:26:38.960 And you know what?

00:26:40.100 If the consequence of protecting kids from porn is that, on rare occasion, a few random,

00:26:47.140 non-pornographic things get caught in the net, if that even does happen, that's a trade-off

00:26:55.660 that I'm willing to make.

00:26:58.120 There are downsides to any policy.

00:27:00.440 There are unintended consequences, no matter what you do.

00:27:03.420 The unintended consequence, well, supposedly unintended, the supposedly unintended consequence

00:27:12.440 of having no regulations and nothing in place to prevent kids from seeing hardcore porn

00:27:17.620 is that millions and millions of kids, very young kids at very, very young ages, end up

00:27:23.920 looking at porn.

00:27:24.860 So that's the consequence there.

00:27:26.280 When you don't have anything like this, that's the consequence.

00:27:28.060 The consequence of having these regulations is that maybe, hypothetically, a child every

00:27:34.580 once in a while is not able to access a site that is actually non-pornographic.

00:27:40.080 Okay, well, you tell me, which of these consequences is worse?

00:27:44.420 Which set of unintended consequences is the greater threat to the well-being of children?

00:27:51.300 Which will inflict greater harm on the child?

00:27:54.420 And so that's all nonsense. 0.72

00:27:58.980 And the whole argument from this judge is nonsense.

00:28:02.680 The free speech arguments are just absolutely unintelligible.

00:28:07.980 What is the free speech concern here exactly?

00:28:13.700 Whose speech is being infringed by simply requiring age verification before you access a porn site?

00:28:19.500 Like, what do you mean speech?

00:28:24.660 If you want to go to Pornhub and have to just prove that you're an adult, like you do when you buy alcohol

00:28:30.440 or when you go to a gambling site, in what way is anyone's speech being violated?

00:28:38.400 And as I've asked a million times, if it is, then how does that also...

00:28:41.420 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,

00:28:48.740 you're going to have to verify your age.

00:28:52.340 No one looks at that and says, my speech is being infringed.

00:28:56.300 This is a First Amendment violation.

00:28:59.520 Nobody says that.

00:29:00.400 So how is that suddenly the case when it's porn, but it's not for anything else?

00:29:09.320 And besides, how is going to a porn site a form of speech?

00:29:15.320 Watching porn is speech?

00:29:18.200 What definition of speech are we using here?

00:29:22.500 Consumption is speech?

00:29:24.440 Watching is speech?

00:29:25.800 Watching two people have sex, or however many, is speech how?

00:29:33.020 Or is it the porn site that is having its speech infringed?

00:29:37.420 Again, how?

00:29:39.660 They supposedly intend to provide this product only to adults.

00:29:43.800 So how is their speech infringed by requiring that they verify that their customers are actually adults?

00:29:49.680 And again, if their speech is infringed by that requirement,

00:29:52.540 how are we also not infringing the free speech of every liquor store in America

00:29:57.140 by forcing them to ask for an ID before allowing a customer to, you know, make a purchase?

00:30:03.420 How is it any different?

00:30:06.020 And of course, this is to say nothing of the fact that pornography isn't speech anyway.

00:30:13.920 Okay?

00:30:14.320 This is another thing that we act like is, you know,

00:30:18.240 this is another question that we pretend is super complicated, and it's actually not.

00:30:22.880 What is speech?

00:30:24.000 How do you define speech?

00:30:26.180 What do you mean, what is speech?

00:30:27.380 We all understand what speech is.

00:30:30.060 Okay?

00:30:30.700 Speech is something that conveys a message.

00:30:33.500 It's a point of view.

00:30:34.780 It's being expressed.

00:30:36.360 That is speech.

00:30:37.300 If you're getting a message across, right, in some kind of coherent, intelligible way,

00:30:46.740 you are engaged in speech.

00:30:49.320 Having sex on camera is not speech.

00:30:53.620 There's no message. 1.00

00:30:55.760 I mean, you could say that the message of the porn performer is that they're a whore. 1.00

00:31:02.500 Okay? 1.00

00:31:02.660 You could say that that's the message, but that's like saying that a guy who eats seven 1.00

00:31:07.220 Big Macs is engaged in speech because he's communicating the fact that he's a fat, disgusting 1.00

00:31:12.560 glutton. 0.99

00:31:13.760 Well, that may be the image of yourself that you're projecting, but it's not speech.

00:31:19.820 Okay?

00:31:19.940 The act itself is not a form of communication.

00:31:24.680 Nobody who sits down to watch pornography is watching it going, they're communicating with

00:31:29.600 me.

00:31:30.800 Okay?

00:31:31.240 It's not, you're not like interpreting the message.

00:31:34.600 Okay?

00:31:34.980 Like you got a decoder ring and you've got to, oh, this is the message.

00:31:40.060 That's not how it is.

00:31:43.260 So it's not speech.

00:31:44.300 And we all know that.

00:31:45.460 We all know that.

00:31:47.420 It's not like, well, if you restrict pornography, then the next thing you know, you're stopping

00:31:52.260 people from expressing their opinions.

00:31:55.000 No, there's no reason why one should lead to the other because they're two totally different

00:31:58.240 things.

00:31:58.660 And we all understand the freaking difference.

00:32:01.760 But the thing that just frustrates me the most is this totally phony argument you hear from 0.70

00:32:08.280 the porn sites and their lawyers and now this judge.

00:32:12.380 The phony argument that, and it's all phony.

00:32:16.020 It's all phony.

00:32:17.040 Like, it's all, that, none of this is real.

00:32:21.760 All the free speech, this, that.

00:32:23.540 They don't care about any of that.

00:32:26.180 They just want as many people as possible to watch the porn because they make billions

00:32:30.580 of dollars on it.

00:32:31.480 And they don't care if kids watch.

00:32:33.000 In fact, they want kids to see it.

00:32:34.740 We all know that also.

00:32:37.040 They want kids to see it.

00:32:38.480 Of course they do.

00:32:39.700 They make money on that.

00:32:41.000 The more kids who are exposed to porn, that's, not only do they make money on those clicks,

00:32:47.340 but also those are now, now you're getting kids hooked on this filth.

00:32:52.600 And so now these are, unfortunately, in many cases, lifelong customers that you have earned

00:32:58.660 for yourself.

00:33:00.040 So they want kids to see it.

00:33:01.800 Does anyone really think, does anyone really think that the people who run Pornhub actually

00:33:07.380 don't want kids to see it?

00:33:09.680 Does anyone think that? 0.96

00:33:12.480 You have to be a soulless reptile in the first place to be, to be involved in the porn industry 0.96

00:33:18.840 at any level anyway. 1.00

00:33:20.040 These are soulless, amoral trolls, all of them. 0.99

00:33:29.020 And so they don't care. 0.98

00:33:30.320 So then you get this phony argument that they oppose age verification because it isn't effective.

00:33:39.700 Right?

00:33:40.080 Their real problem is that it doesn't stop enough kids from seeing it.

00:33:43.680 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:33:45.360 Again, does anyone believe that? 1.00

00:33:46.740 Is anyone stupid enough? 1.00

00:33:47.780 Does anyone want to admit to being so dumb that they believe that the porn sites are 1.00

00:33:52.720 actually concerned that the age verification isn't more effective? 0.90

00:33:56.540 Yes, it's true that age verification at the website level is not perfect.

00:34:02.580 It should not be the only barrier put in place between your child and this kind of content.

00:34:07.720 That's an argument for additional measures, for doing this and more.

00:34:14.260 But the judge is saying that we should not do this at all because it won't succeed in actually preventing

00:34:22.060 every child from accessing porn.

00:34:23.940 Okay, but it will prevent some of them, won't it?

00:34:30.080 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,

00:34:38.560 then we might as well prevent no child from seeing it.

00:34:41.240 That's the argument.

00:34:43.280 Which, once again, we would never apply to anything else ever.

00:34:49.800 I mean, age verification certainly doesn't stop kids from getting alcohol.

00:34:55.280 It didn't stop me before I was 21, I can tell you that.

00:34:59.000 It doesn't stop anyone who really wants it.

00:35:01.040 But yet, most people agree that it's like, you know, we could talk about the drinking age,

00:35:07.040 should it be lower to 18?

00:35:08.620 But most people would say, like, we could talk about drinking age, it definitely shouldn't be 10.

00:35:16.560 And yet, there are plenty of, unfortunately, 10-year-olds who could get their hands on alcohol if they really want to.

00:35:22.220 And yet, so it's not perfect, it's far from perfect, but it's better than nothing.

00:35:26.040 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?

00:35:36.900 Are you suggesting that every child of every age understands how to use a VPN to bypass age verification?

00:35:43.600 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?

00:35:51.280 Every child can do that?

00:35:53.420 Really?

00:35:53.700 Really? 0.99

00:35:53.760 It's just ridiculous.

00:35:56.840 You know, the fact is that a simple barrier of entry on the website, at the website level, requiring age verification,

00:36:04.540 will actually, every day, every day, prevent literally millions of kids.

00:36:13.060 Every day, would be prevented from seeing this stuff.

00:36:17.620 Millions.

00:36:18.340 Now, millions more will get around it.

00:36:20.500 That's true.

00:36:21.080 So let's do more, not less.

00:36:29.160 Yesterday, we heard about Zuckerberg's plan to recommit to free speech on Facebook and Instagram, supposedly.

00:36:35.460 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.

00:36:45.000 Not surprisingly, the left is unhappy with this development, very unhappy.

00:36:53.500 And here's just one example of many.

00:36:55.320 This is our good friend Joy Reid with her reaction.

00:36:59.020 Why would conservatives think fact-checking is biased against them?

00:37:04.940 I mean, what are you sharing if you keep getting fact-checked for false information?

00:37:12.520 Think about it.

00:37:16.360 What were conservatives sharing on Meta that was getting flagged so much?

00:37:21.680 Are they spreading false information?

00:37:27.580 And why were they so eager?

00:37:29.480 And why are Republicans in general so eager to end the idea of fact-checking?

00:37:34.100 What are they trying to share?

00:37:37.280 What is the motivation for not wanting it to be fact-checked?

00:37:41.380 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.

00:37:52.040 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,

00:38:02.320 using her logic, I could say, hey, what were you doing that made the cops pull you over?

00:38:08.160 Think about it.

00:38:09.020 Why are you getting pulled over and arrested all the time?

00:38:12.320 If you don't want to be pulled over and arrested, stop committing crimes.

00:38:15.760 Think about it.

00:38:16.420 They're law enforcement.

00:38:18.020 You're running afoul of law enforcement.

00:38:19.600 You must be breaking the law.

00:38:22.420 This is the exact same logic, but in that case, Joy would totally reject it.

00:38:25.600 Of course, the difference is that in that case, you know, the argument actually works.

00:38:31.860 It works because the data shows that, in fact, police officers, by and large, are not unfairly targeting black people.

00:38:39.340 That's just false.

00:38:40.240 It's a made-up false narrative.

00:38:41.420 For the most part, in the vast majority of cases, if you're getting arrested, it's because you're committing a crime.

00:38:45.920 And so a really, really, really good way that it's not 100% foolproof, but if you just don't commit any crimes,

00:38:55.860 there's a really high chance that you'll just never be arrested.

00:39:00.360 It could happen.

00:39:01.740 It could happen.

00:39:02.500 But probably it won't.

00:39:06.020 On the other hand, with fact-checkers, it's not as simple as, well, just make sure everything you're saying is factual,

00:39:12.220 and you'll never get fact-checked.

00:39:13.560 You'll never get, you know, doesn't work that way.

00:39:16.280 If you got flagged by a fact-checker, it did not necessarily mean, very often did not mean, that you posted something false.

00:39:25.240 Because the whole fact-checking regime was, from the start, invented to suppress conservative thought.

00:39:31.980 Now, law enforcement, as a concept, was not invented to persecute black people, despite what Joy Reid may say.

00:39:39.820 Fact-checking on social media, you know, this current iteration of what we call,

00:39:45.080 now, if, you know, there were, if we're talking about someone using the term fact-check 40 years ago, different deal.

00:39:53.320 But now, what we call fact-checking, and these, the professional fact-checkers on social media and so on,

00:39:58.980 that is an industry intended, from the very beginning, to enforce ideological conformity.

00:40:07.380 And, you know, all the, I mean, there's a lot of evidence of that.

00:40:13.900 We all know this. I'm not saying anything you don't know.

00:40:16.000 But here's really all the evidence we need, right?

00:40:20.740 You can just take one example that kind of proves the point.

00:40:23.280 Did any fact-checker on Facebook, or on any other platform, ever once flag a post claiming that there are more than two genders?

00:40:36.720 Was that claim ever once flagged as non-factual?

00:40:42.460 Was the claim that, you know, trans women are women, was that ever debunked by the fact-checkers?

00:40:48.260 No, of course not. In fact, it went the other way.

00:40:50.720 Statements of incontrovertible, undeniable, biological, and scientific fact were flagged as false and harmful by the fact-checkers,

00:40:58.540 even though they are absolutely, 100% correct.

00:41:02.540 And so that's all, that's all the proof you need.

00:41:06.900 I mean, and it's a good starting point.

00:41:12.040 Anytime someone calls them, if you want to know whether a fact-checker, a self-appointed fact-checker, is qualified for the job,

00:41:22.300 you could just, you could really start with that.

00:41:23.640 You could say, well, are trans, quote-unquote, trans women women?

00:41:26.960 Just ask them that question.

00:41:29.280 99.9, probably 100% of all self-appointed fact-checkers would all say, well, yes.

00:41:34.400 It means you're not qualified for the job.

00:41:37.780 I mean, that's, that's one of the most basic fundamental facts of human existence you don't understand,

00:41:44.800 or at least you're pretending you don't.

00:41:47.020 And so you may be qualified for some jobs, but certainly not this one.

00:41:52.340 And probably not most jobs, actually, because like most jobs, to do it well requires at least some basic understanding

00:41:57.860 of the reality that you exist in, which these people, again, at least pretend not to have.

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00:43:24.240 All right, first comment says,

00:43:25.380 It's the booze, people.

00:43:26.800 You know, the thing we've been drinking for thousands of years

00:43:28.760 certainly isn't the artificial sweetener developed to fatten livestock

00:43:31.800 or the machine oil we've had added to our food.

00:43:34.640 Yeah, as a general rule, you know, I'm always very, very skeptical

00:43:40.540 when the public health folks come along and tell us

00:43:43.400 that something that humanity has been doing for millennia

00:43:45.900 is actually unspeakably dangerous and should be halted immediately.

00:43:51.720 You know, it could be true.

00:43:53.860 You know, it's possible that humanity got it wrong all that time.

00:43:56.680 It's happened.

00:43:57.440 But if you want to drastically alter what was common

00:44:01.800 and what was common human behavior for thousands of years,

00:44:05.700 I think you should need to produce more than a couple of studies

00:44:09.060 and a statement from the Surgeon General.

00:44:12.200 You know, that's the thing.

00:44:13.740 It's the burden of proof is quite a bit higher than that.

00:44:20.720 Since there's been an uptick in cancer since the bioweapon was rolled out

00:44:27.700 to fight the virus, is blaming alcohol for cancer in any amount

00:44:31.040 the way to cover up the higher number of cancers?

00:44:35.080 Yeah, well, you know, these people warning us about the dangers of booze

00:44:39.240 are the same ones who assured us that the vaccine was safe and effective.

00:44:41.880 And when you talk about the higher rates of cancer,

00:44:46.160 like, that is a real thing.

00:44:47.500 Colon cancer in young people is apparently surging.

00:44:51.340 And that's a trend that can be traced back, I believe, several years at least.

00:44:57.560 But that's all the more reason why blaming it on alcohol makes no sense.

00:45:02.700 You know, you don't even need to read any study to know that.

00:45:05.140 People have been drinking alcohol for thousands of years.

00:45:06.760 Because, you know, we don't have data.

00:45:11.960 The data on, like, how much alcohol was consumed by people on average,

00:45:15.340 probably, you know, I mean, there's data on that now.

00:45:18.080 I don't know how far back that data goes.

00:45:19.540 Probably not very far.

00:45:22.760 But, you know, I think it's pretty apparent

00:45:28.100 that alcohol consumption was a lot more common.

00:45:32.700 Even go back, you know, like, it's like any movie or TV show you see

00:45:36.120 set in the 50s.

00:45:38.040 It's like they're, you know, they've got the,

00:45:40.720 in the office, they've got the cart set up with the, you know,

00:45:44.360 the whiskey and the nice crystal containers.

00:45:46.520 And they're drinking whiskey at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

00:45:52.640 So people have been drinking alcohol for a long time.

00:45:54.580 So if there's a recent surge in certain types of cancer,

00:45:59.860 it seems if you want to find the culprits,

00:46:02.720 you should look at recent causes.

00:46:05.340 I mean, that just seems logical to me.

00:46:11.000 I'm willing to grant that booze marginally increases the risk of certain cancers.

00:46:14.000 What I'm not willing to grant, even for the sake of argument, 0.99

00:46:15.700 is that our government or public institutions give two shits 0.95

00:46:18.680 whether any of us gets cancer. 0.98

00:46:21.500 I agree.

00:46:22.100 Although that's really beside the point.

00:46:24.740 I don't need public health institutions to actually care about me.

00:46:29.040 I don't care about that.

00:46:30.440 I don't need them to care.

00:46:31.580 I just need them to tell the truth.

00:46:35.080 That's all that matters.

00:46:36.000 Just tell the truth.

00:46:37.540 Feel how you want.

00:46:39.400 Be as indifferent as you want.

00:46:41.040 Doesn't matter.

00:46:41.900 Tell the truth.

00:46:43.020 And they haven't.

00:46:44.200 And so we have no reason to,

00:46:45.660 no reason to trust them.

00:46:48.360 I never let my kids win either,

00:46:52.520 but I do give them handicaps. 0.99

00:46:53.940 Chess without a queen and rook,

00:46:55.520 but then I play as best I can.

00:46:57.540 My daughter won once,

00:46:58.780 so now she's graduated to me only starting without a queen. 0.92

00:47:02.360 I will also do that.

00:47:03.920 That's fine.

00:47:04.860 I don't think you should let your kids win games,

00:47:06.980 but you can give them an advantage or a head start,

00:47:10.800 but then compete and try to win from there.

00:47:13.400 Anyway, my son who's now 11,

00:47:17.280 I've raced him many times over the years.

00:47:20.360 I've always given him a head start.

00:47:21.900 The most recent time I raced him,

00:47:23.700 I gave him a head start and he crushed me,

00:47:25.620 just crushed me.

00:47:26.820 So no more head starts.

00:47:28.120 You know, now he's graduated beyond that.

00:47:30.740 Um, apply your arguments against Sonic

00:47:38.520 towards Peter Jackson's film adaptations

00:47:41.040 of the Lord of the Rings

00:47:42.040 and see how many of them hold up.

00:47:45.240 Uh, respecting and understanding the source material,

00:47:47.760 catering to the fans of an IP,

00:47:49.340 grown adults interested in fiction.

00:47:51.380 It's easy to dunk on man-child Sonic fans,

00:47:53.980 but are you ready to die on that same hill

00:47:55.760 against the Lord of the Rings fandom?

00:47:58.120 Claim it now and you will never know peace.

00:48:00.740 What?

00:48:02.420 Uh, it, okay.

00:48:05.620 First of all, I, I am not taking any issue

00:48:09.060 with grown adults who are interested in fiction.

00:48:12.220 There's nothing wrong with fiction.

00:48:14.220 You know, uh, I think reading,

00:48:16.480 I don't read a lot of novels like fiction,

00:48:18.660 but most of the books I read are nonfiction.

00:48:20.800 But that's, I, I think,

00:48:23.760 I think there'd be great value in reading novels

00:48:26.160 and reading fiction, works of fiction.

00:48:28.100 I certainly like to watch movies, you know,

00:48:30.600 and, and, uh, that are, that are, you know,

00:48:32.980 fictional narratives.

00:48:34.340 So that's not my point.

00:48:36.440 Uh, stories, like stories are for everyone.

00:48:40.660 The concept of telling a story,

00:48:42.780 I mean, you want to talk about things

00:48:43.800 that go back since the dawn of human civilization.

00:48:47.540 This is one of them.

00:48:48.580 Human beings have been storytellers

00:48:50.540 and have connected with stories

00:48:51.840 and have, um, found, you know,

00:48:56.300 the, the process of, of, of hearing,

00:48:58.300 experiencing a story to be deeply edifying

00:49:00.820 since the dawn of human civilization

00:49:03.560 and, and, and before.

00:49:05.700 Um, so it's not, that's not the problem.

00:49:09.980 My problem with, with adults who watch Sonic

00:49:12.980 or go, you know,

00:49:14.540 is, is, is not that it's childish

00:49:17.300 to be interested in a fiction story.

00:49:21.040 It's that as you grow older,

00:49:23.320 the types of stories that you're interested in

00:49:26.780 should change, should, should develop,

00:49:32.380 should mature.

00:49:33.240 That's, that's it, you know?

00:49:35.320 Um,

00:49:35.760 it, and that's, that's even with stories

00:49:40.140 that are like Sonic, 0.97

00:49:42.480 the Sonic films are just garbage. 0.99

00:49:44.480 I mean, they're just corporate slop. 1.00

00:49:45.920 They really are.

00:49:46.840 I, I, and, and as I've said,

00:49:48.040 they, they, they, they don't even exist

00:49:49.640 to tell a story.

00:49:50.320 They exist, um, just to cap,

00:49:53.260 just to capitalize on an IP.

00:49:56.060 But even if they were quality stories,

00:49:58.100 it's, I would still say that

00:49:59.400 as you grow older,

00:50:01.700 um, I mean, take a,

00:50:04.040 take a children's movie

00:50:08.720 that I think is, is high quality.

00:50:10.560 You know, I mean, any of the,

00:50:12.260 let's just take any of the,

00:50:13.240 any of the early Pixar films.

00:50:15.000 And, you know, I know I upset some people

00:50:16.280 when I said that Toy Story

00:50:17.280 is a bit overrated,

00:50:18.060 which I think it is a bit overrated,

00:50:18.900 but still it's like a,

00:50:19.820 we'll take Toy Story.

00:50:21.460 Uh, still really high quality,

00:50:23.760 no question about it.

00:50:24.520 Very high quality children's movie.

00:50:27.220 Definitely.

00:50:28.540 And, um, and I've watched that one

00:50:30.200 with my kids many times

00:50:31.860 and they enjoy it.

00:50:32.580 And I enjoy watching it with them.

00:50:36.200 However, on my own, you know,

00:50:38.380 if I, if I have the night to myself

00:50:40.240 and I want to sit down

00:50:41.200 and watch a movie,

00:50:42.660 or I'm going to watch a movie

00:50:43.340 with my wife,

00:50:44.200 I'm not putting on Toy Story.

00:50:46.620 You know, that's a great one

00:50:47.620 to watch with the kids.

00:50:48.420 I'm not going to watch it by myself.

00:50:51.920 The same way that if,

00:50:52.920 if I'm going to, you know,

00:50:55.340 talk about books that I,

00:50:56.460 I like to read my kids,

00:50:58.060 Dr. Seuss books,

00:50:59.240 um, Fox and Socks.

00:51:00.500 One of my, one of my favorites

00:51:02.020 to read the kids.

00:51:03.680 I've read that book 600 times

00:51:06.660 because I read it to the kids.

00:51:08.000 And as far as,

00:51:08.560 as far as children's books go,

00:51:10.720 I think Dr. Seuss,

00:51:12.120 it's hard to do better than that.

00:51:14.780 But if it's, you know,

00:51:16.400 nine o'clock at night

00:51:17.240 and I'm going to sit on the back patio

00:51:18.740 with a cigar and read a book

00:51:20.000 as I often do,

00:51:21.180 I'm not pulling out Cat in the Hat

00:51:23.540 to read it.

00:51:24.600 I'm not going to be sitting

00:51:25.400 on the back porch

00:51:26.180 just flipping through Cat in the Hat,

00:51:28.420 reading it to myself.

00:51:29.480 That would be,

00:51:31.800 it would be odd, wouldn't it?

00:51:33.200 Wouldn't you at least,

00:51:34.080 like, that would be strange.

00:51:35.380 It would be a strange thing

00:51:36.660 to be an adult

00:51:37.420 who's still on your own

00:51:38.620 recreationally.

00:51:40.680 Your interest in books

00:51:42.060 has not developed past that.

00:51:44.960 And I think we all see that

00:51:46.280 with things like books,

00:51:47.280 but, uh, I'm saying

00:51:48.840 that should also should apply to,

00:51:50.280 you know, these IP

00:51:52.100 that everyone likes so much.

00:51:53.500 So anyway, uh,

00:51:55.860 this is more of a response 0.98

00:51:57.160 than this ridiculous comment deserves. 0.95

00:51:58.460 The Lord of the Rings 0.90

00:51:59.200 is, uh,

00:52:00.940 now I think you could be,

00:52:01.860 there are people that,

00:52:02.620 you could be overly obsessed

00:52:03.820 with Lord of the Rings

00:52:05.200 or with any,

00:52:06.320 you know,

00:52:06.680 you could be overly obsessed

00:52:07.400 with anything potentially,

00:52:08.620 but Lord of the Rings is a,

00:52:10.860 it's,

00:52:11.380 it's one of the great

00:52:13.740 stories ever told.

00:52:16.240 I mean,

00:52:16.920 the Lord of the Rings novels

00:52:17.980 are great,

00:52:19.360 great novels

00:52:20.400 for adults.

00:52:22.080 Now, I, my,

00:52:23.080 my son has read,

00:52:24.240 read all of them

00:52:24.900 and likes them,

00:52:25.460 but kids can also,

00:52:27.200 but it's, it's,

00:52:27.820 these are not children's books.

00:52:30.540 Um,

00:52:31.100 and so, no,

00:52:32.880 there's nothing,

00:52:33.600 there's nothing wrong

00:52:34.500 with an adult

00:52:35.840 who's a big fan

00:52:36.560 of the Lord of the Rings.

00:52:37.820 Uh, but yes,

00:52:38.740 as an adult

00:52:39.340 on your own

00:52:40.160 loving Sonic

00:52:41.980 at, at,

00:52:42.820 at the age of 40,

00:52:43.900 it's like,

00:52:44.460 it's a bit,

00:52:45.600 you know,

00:52:46.920 it's a bit strange.

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00:53:26.340 A few months ago,

00:53:27.280 I went into some detail

00:53:28.160 about a test

00:53:28.800 for firefighter applicants

00:53:29.920 that the Biden administration

00:53:31.800 deemed racist.

00:53:32.840 And as you might remember,

00:53:33.740 the DOJ took a fire department

00:53:35.020 to court

00:53:35.600 for asking questions

00:53:37.020 that apparently

00:53:37.640 a lot of non-white applicants

00:53:39.380 struggled with.

00:53:40.900 And those questions

00:53:41.700 included multiple choice selections

00:53:43.020 on basic arithmetic

00:53:44.060 as well as

00:53:44.760 profound ethical dilemmas

00:53:46.560 like

00:53:46.880 should you steal

00:53:48.120 money from somebody

00:53:49.020 on their way

00:53:49.500 to the emergency room?

00:53:50.920 Obviously,

00:53:51.360 the Biden administration

00:53:51.980 is on its way

00:53:53.580 out the door.

00:53:54.040 So going forward,

00:53:54.980 we can expect

00:53:55.980 fewer federal lawsuits

00:53:57.660 over tests like this,

00:53:58.680 one would hope.

00:53:59.880 And that's good news

00:54:00.500 for anyone who wants

00:54:01.260 competent firefighters

00:54:02.200 to understand the difference

00:54:03.080 between right and wrong.

00:54:04.560 But the fact remains

00:54:05.220 that at the state level,

00:54:06.480 Democrats are continuing

00:54:07.420 their war on tests

00:54:08.760 that measure

00:54:09.680 basic competence.

00:54:11.160 In fact,

00:54:11.560 they're escalating it

00:54:12.480 to a whole new level

00:54:13.360 in some cases.

00:54:14.680 The most recent example

00:54:15.560 comes from the state

00:54:16.380 of New Jersey,

00:54:16.980 which has

00:54:17.540 just eliminated

00:54:19.060 a requirement

00:54:19.740 that aspiring

00:54:20.860 public school teachers

00:54:21.780 pass a literacy test

00:54:23.180 before they can be hired.

00:54:25.740 Yes,

00:54:26.120 teachers no longer

00:54:27.000 have to demonstrate

00:54:27.660 that they can read

00:54:29.500 before becoming a teacher.

00:54:31.600 And in this case,

00:54:32.480 the change actually

00:54:33.240 took effect

00:54:33.700 with a lot of

00:54:34.280 Republican support too.

00:54:35.880 Quoting from Fox News,

00:54:36.620 teachers in New Jersey

00:54:37.280 will no longer be required

00:54:38.100 to pass a basic reading,

00:54:39.380 writing,

00:54:39.660 and mathematics test

00:54:40.600 to be eligible

00:54:41.420 for public schools,

00:54:42.160 according to a new law.

00:54:43.020 Act 1669,

00:54:45.880 which was signed

00:54:46.420 into law

00:54:46.780 by Governor Phil Murphy

00:54:47.720 in June,

00:54:48.380 Murphy in June,

00:54:49.540 went into effect

00:54:50.020 on Wednesday

00:54:50.520 at the start

00:54:50.940 of the new year.

00:54:51.780 The law aims

00:54:52.260 to tackle teacher shortages.

00:54:54.720 The text of the law reads,

00:54:55.980 the State Board of Education

00:54:56.780 shall not require

00:54:57.540 a candidate

00:54:57.920 seeking a certificate

00:54:58.740 of eligibility

00:54:59.440 or a standard

00:55:00.080 instructional certificate

00:55:00.880 to complete

00:55:01.820 a commissioner

00:55:02.480 of education-approved

00:55:03.600 test of basic

00:55:04.520 reading,

00:55:04.980 writing,

00:55:05.240 and mathematics skills,

00:55:06.260 including,

00:55:06.900 but not limited to,

00:55:07.860 the Praxis

00:55:08.520 Core Academic Skills

00:55:09.740 for Educators test.

00:55:10.980 So,

00:55:12.580 what exactly

00:55:14.200 is on this test?

00:55:16.040 One former teacher

00:55:17.060 who now works

00:55:17.760 with the group

00:55:18.380 called Parents

00:55:19.640 Defending Education

00:55:20.440 says that it's

00:55:21.400 not especially

00:55:23.140 rigorous.

00:55:23.980 Watch.

00:55:25.140 And I would also

00:55:26.040 just say,

00:55:27.060 having taken one

00:55:27.980 of these tests,

00:55:28.600 I think back in 1998,

00:55:30.140 these are basic

00:55:30.940 skills tests.

00:55:31.620 I was going to ask you,

00:55:32.180 what is on these tests?

00:55:33.000 Because it says basic,

00:55:34.160 and I'm just thinking

00:55:34.760 of basic.

00:55:35.300 What are we talking

00:55:36.060 about here?

00:55:37.000 So,

00:55:37.580 back when I took it

00:55:38.840 in 1998

00:55:39.500 in Massachusetts,

00:55:40.180 it was called

00:55:40.920 a communication

00:55:41.900 and literacy test.

00:55:44.060 The test that New Jersey

00:55:45.300 had is called

00:55:46.040 the Praxis.

00:55:46.980 So,

00:55:47.180 it included basic literacy,

00:55:48.720 which meant reading,

00:55:49.820 writing,

00:55:50.220 and math.

00:55:51.200 But again,

00:55:51.560 these are low-rigor tests.

00:55:53.320 We're not talking

00:55:54.300 about the LSAT here.

00:55:56.560 And so,

00:55:57.260 the fact that

00:55:58.040 the failure rates

00:55:58.860 on these tests

00:55:59.700 have been so high

00:56:00.740 for so long,

00:56:01.960 that is a problem.

00:56:03.700 But that's really

00:56:04.260 an indictment

00:56:05.000 of not only

00:56:05.880 the education system

00:56:06.920 that these aspiring

00:56:07.600 teachers are coming out of,

00:56:08.680 but the colleges

00:56:09.260 of education

00:56:09.940 that give them

00:56:11.100 a degree,

00:56:12.140 even though they're

00:56:12.740 not remotely qualified,

00:56:14.520 they can't even pass,

00:56:15.480 you know,

00:56:15.660 these basic minimum

00:56:17.240 requirement tests.

00:56:18.740 Now,

00:56:19.040 she goes on to say

00:56:19.680 that the teachers union

00:56:20.360 have always wanted

00:56:21.320 to get rid of tests

00:56:22.020 like this because

00:56:22.640 they don't really care

00:56:23.440 about educating students.

00:56:25.060 They just want to get

00:56:25.680 more dues-paying members.

00:56:27.820 But she did admit

00:56:28.780 that she took the test

00:56:29.620 a long time ago.

00:56:30.340 So let's pull up

00:56:32.380 some current sample

00:56:33.560 questions from this

00:56:34.620 Praxis test for educators,

00:56:36.220 just like we did

00:56:36.760 with the firefighters exam

00:56:37.800 a few months ago.

00:56:39.000 People were saying online

00:56:39.920 that it's basically

00:56:40.520 a sixth grade level test,

00:56:42.020 but I wanted to verify that.

00:56:43.720 So here's one

00:56:45.200 practice question

00:56:46.220 from the mathematics

00:56:47.160 section of the test.

00:56:48.880 Let's all take a look

00:56:49.640 at this together

00:56:50.080 and see if we could

00:56:51.680 qualify to teach

00:56:52.440 at a New Jersey

00:56:53.320 public high school.

00:56:55.500 Actually,

00:56:56.400 to see if we're

00:56:56.960 overqualified

00:56:57.600 because, like,

00:56:58.180 teachers there

00:56:58.620 don't even need

00:56:59.100 to pass this test anymore.

00:57:00.080 So here's the question.

00:57:01.920 And I promise

00:57:02.720 I'm not making this up.

00:57:05.360 It's directly

00:57:06.040 from a practice test

00:57:07.020 for the educator's exam

00:57:07.880 hosted on study.com,

00:57:09.720 which is apparently

00:57:10.140 the gold standard

00:57:10.940 for preparing for this test.

00:57:12.560 And I'll put it up

00:57:13.040 on the screen

00:57:13.380 so you can see it as well

00:57:14.300 in all its glory.

00:57:15.780 Quote,

00:57:16.280 if it takes you an hour

00:57:17.760 to bike 20 miles,

00:57:19.720 what is your unit rate?

00:57:22.340 A, 20 miles per hour.

00:57:25.620 B, one mile per hour.

00:57:29.060 C, 40 miles per hour.

00:57:31.360 D, an hour per mile.

00:57:36.080 So I'll say that again.

00:57:37.180 If it takes you,

00:57:37.940 because you might,

00:57:38.680 you might be the law

00:57:40.140 because this is so complicated.

00:57:41.860 If it takes you an hour

00:57:42.900 to bike 20 miles,

00:57:44.080 how fast are you going?

00:57:45.160 Are you going

00:57:45.440 one mile an hour?

00:57:47.420 Are you going

00:57:48.200 40 miles an hour?

00:57:50.680 Or are you going

00:57:51.340 20 miles an hour?

00:57:52.220 Now, just to be clear,

00:57:54.380 this is not a trick question.

00:57:56.700 The answer is indeed A

00:57:58.400 for 20 miles an hour.

00:58:00.620 And it's the kind of question

00:58:02.520 that if it were to,

00:58:04.860 it may trip you up

00:58:06.560 only if you're an overthinker.

00:58:08.740 And if you read that

00:58:09.640 and you go,

00:58:11.400 well, that's,

00:58:13.060 it can't,

00:58:13.520 they must be looking

00:58:14.100 for something else.

00:58:14.680 They can't actually

00:58:15.440 just be asking me

00:58:16.400 if 20 miles an hour

00:58:17.420 is 20 miles an hour.

00:58:18.260 And so that's the only way

00:58:20.940 I could see you

00:58:21.320 getting tripped up on that.

00:58:22.180 It's so easy

00:58:23.120 that you assume

00:58:24.020 that they must be up

00:58:24.840 to something

00:58:25.360 and you start like overthinking.

00:58:27.880 But no,

00:58:28.460 it's 20 miles an hour.

00:58:29.780 This is the kind of doozy

00:58:30.800 that apparently

00:58:31.520 is causing a lot of confusion

00:58:32.840 among people

00:58:33.460 who want to teach children

00:58:34.580 in New Jersey public schools.

00:58:35.720 And by the way,

00:58:36.780 it's not just New Jersey

00:58:37.580 that's got rid of this test.

00:58:38.520 Other states like New York

00:58:39.360 have abandoned it as well

00:58:40.720 for the same reason.

00:58:42.120 Let's keep going

00:58:42.720 because after all,

00:58:43.540 maybe the other sections

00:58:44.380 are a lot harder.

00:58:45.280 So here's another

00:58:45.840 practice question

00:58:46.860 from the writing section

00:58:47.900 of the test for educators.

00:58:49.520 And this is what

00:58:50.020 you need to master

00:58:50.700 if you want to teach,

00:58:51.600 say, English.

00:58:53.260 So here's this one.

00:58:54.220 Question.

00:58:55.620 Words and phrases

00:58:56.460 that help carry a thought

00:58:57.960 from one idea to the next

00:58:59.640 are referred to as blank.

00:59:03.160 And you have four options

00:59:04.400 to fill in the blank.

00:59:05.960 Thesis,

00:59:07.520 carriers,

00:59:09.360 transitions,

00:59:10.600 or main arguments.

00:59:14.340 So let's see.

00:59:15.180 You have a word or phrase

00:59:17.140 that carries a thought

00:59:18.320 from one idea to another.

00:59:21.300 What might that be called?

00:59:23.160 And they give you four options.

00:59:26.400 And you just have to think,

00:59:27.440 is it a thesis?

00:59:30.260 I'm pretty sure I've heard

00:59:31.060 the term thesis before.

00:59:33.180 I don't think that's it.

00:59:34.520 Is it a carrier?

00:59:35.680 I don't know.

00:59:36.840 No, it's a transition.

00:59:38.640 Obviously, C is transition.

00:59:40.300 So this is not something

00:59:41.900 that needs to be explained

00:59:43.280 to anyone, I would hope.

00:59:44.040 But the idea that it's challenging

00:59:45.940 for people who want

00:59:46.600 to teach students

00:59:47.380 is obviously a complete

00:59:50.940 and total farce.

00:59:51.960 Or if it's true

00:59:52.940 that it's challenging

00:59:53.520 for people who want

00:59:54.420 to teach students,

00:59:55.420 then that's even more troubling.

00:59:58.040 Now, in defense of this change,

00:59:59.420 New Jersey politicians insist

01:00:00.680 that standards aren't actually

01:00:02.700 being lowered across the board.

01:00:04.700 Here's a post from Dawn Fantasia,

01:00:06.660 a New Jersey assemblywoman

01:00:07.600 who supports the new law.

01:00:09.100 Quote,

01:00:09.820 Eliminating the basic skills test

01:00:11.140 requirement does not eliminate

01:00:12.860 all praxis tests.

01:00:14.040 This is just a small fraction

01:00:15.220 of praxis.

01:00:16.080 Before any credentials issued

01:00:17.200 to a prospective teacher,

01:00:18.980 the candidate must pass

01:00:19.820 the praxis test required

01:00:21.060 for the subject area

01:00:22.540 they seek to teach.

01:00:24.220 She goes on to add,

01:00:25.140 quote,

01:00:25.680 Someone is making money here.

01:00:27.040 All the prior tests

01:00:27.780 are still in place.

01:00:28.640 I agree with eliminating

01:00:29.480 the additional basic skills test

01:00:31.080 and not for any woke

01:00:32.240 or DEI reasoning.

01:00:33.680 This is simply

01:00:34.240 a bureaucratic cash cow.

01:00:36.220 So she's saying that

01:00:36.800 the basic skills test

01:00:37.740 is redundant

01:00:38.300 because teachers

01:00:38.920 still have to pass

01:00:39.560 a specialized test

01:00:40.480 in their alleged field

01:00:41.560 of expertise.

01:00:42.600 One of the obvious problems here

01:00:43.740 is that there's no situation

01:00:46.020 in which a school

01:00:46.560 should be hiring a teacher

01:00:47.420 who can't read or write.

01:00:48.880 Even if a math teacher

01:00:50.020 manages to get a passing score

01:00:51.380 on the math section

01:00:52.460 by successfully demonstrating

01:00:54.140 a sixth grader's understanding

01:00:55.340 of the concept

01:00:55.980 of miles per hour,

01:00:57.420 that doesn't necessarily mean

01:00:58.800 a school should hire

01:00:59.520 that applicant.

01:01:00.720 Because if he's illiterate,

01:01:01.740 there's still a problem.

01:01:02.760 So you still want the teachers

01:01:04.160 to have a basic grasp

01:01:06.420 of every subject.

01:01:08.760 Yeah, I don't want someone

01:01:09.920 teaching math,

01:01:10.920 even if they know math

01:01:13.920 well enough,

01:01:15.000 if they don't know,

01:01:16.640 you know,

01:01:17.320 what century

01:01:20.360 the American Civil War

01:01:21.780 happened in,

01:01:23.120 I don't want them teaching,

01:01:23.960 I don't even want them

01:01:24.460 teaching math.

01:01:25.880 Because this is just someone

01:01:26.880 who's not smart enough

01:01:29.660 and does not have

01:01:31.520 even close to enough

01:01:32.640 of a basic grasp

01:01:33.800 of, you know,

01:01:35.180 of academic subjects

01:01:36.720 generally to be

01:01:38.000 teaching students.

01:01:38.920 So the standards

01:01:39.780 are clearly being lowered here

01:01:41.120 and it's not hard to see why.

01:01:43.400 For years,

01:01:44.300 New Jersey politicians

01:01:45.100 have admitted that

01:01:45.920 they have a severe

01:01:46.980 teacher shortage

01:01:47.700 and that bills like this

01:01:49.120 are an attempt to fix that.

01:01:50.140 They've made it very clear

01:01:50.940 that their goal

01:01:51.980 isn't to save teachers

01:01:52.940 some cash

01:01:53.600 on unnecessary tests.

01:01:54.860 Their goal is to help

01:01:55.760 applicants who are failing

01:01:56.780 the teacher's test,

01:01:57.640 even though it's

01:01:58.500 extremely easy.

01:02:00.320 As the New Jersey Monitor

01:02:01.440 reported late last year,

01:02:02.640 quote,

01:02:02.820 when New Jersey students

01:02:03.960 head back to classrooms

01:02:04.900 this week,

01:02:05.380 many will return to schools

01:02:06.400 with too few teachers.

01:02:07.820 The state has for years

01:02:09.200 faced a shortage of educators

01:02:10.440 with particularly troubling

01:02:11.380 vacancies in subjects

01:02:12.320 like math, science,

01:02:13.300 special education,

01:02:14.440 and instruction

01:02:15.000 for English language learners.

01:02:17.120 In order to hire more

01:02:18.200 teachers in New Jersey,

01:02:19.160 they're dropping the standards.

01:02:21.140 They're not going to

01:02:22.060 raise pay

01:02:23.180 or take any steps

01:02:23.900 to recruit more

01:02:24.680 qualified applicants.

01:02:25.500 Instead,

01:02:26.640 they're going to

01:02:27.700 deliberately hire teachers

01:02:28.900 who in many cases

01:02:29.800 are potentially 1.00

01:02:31.900 dumber 1.00

01:02:32.360 than their students. 1.00

01:02:34.260 And then presumably

01:02:34.820 the cycle

01:02:35.360 will continue indefinitely

01:02:36.300 until eventually

01:02:37.260 all of these tests

01:02:38.740 are dropped entirely.

01:02:40.460 Classes in New Jersey

01:02:41.260 will consist of

01:02:42.200 teachers and students

01:02:43.360 grunting at one another

01:02:45.140 if that's what it takes

01:02:46.600 to fill these

01:02:47.240 vacancies

01:02:48.540 and achieve equity.

01:02:49.920 And that is why

01:02:50.780 the state of New Jersey,

01:02:52.440 along with every other state

01:02:53.580 that now

01:02:54.040 hires illiterate teachers,

01:02:56.140 is today

01:02:56.740 canceled.

01:02:57.820 That'll do it for the show today.

01:02:59.400 Thanks for watching.

01:02:59.860 Thanks for listening.

01:03:00.320 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:03:01.360 Have a great day.

01:03:02.300 Godspeed.

01:03:02.620 I've often said

01:03:17.200 that gender-affirming care

01:03:18.480 is health care.

01:03:19.540 It is mental health care

01:03:20.640 and it can actually

01:03:21.480 be suicide prevention care.

01:03:24.160 I think I'm going to

01:03:26.180 take some medicine

01:03:27.460 so I can kind of like

01:03:28.720 transform into a boy

01:03:30.420 and get surgery.

01:03:32.020 After the surgery

01:03:33.120 I didn't really feel

01:03:34.240 any better.

01:03:35.600 When it stopped

01:03:36.340 being a thing

01:03:37.220 for adults

01:03:38.060 and it started to be

01:03:39.060 a let's teach this to kids. 0.66

01:03:40.600 Total lie.

01:03:41.720 Manipulation.

01:03:42.360 It's gaslighting.

01:03:43.260 Please stop.

01:03:44.120 He's a boy,

01:03:44.920 not a girl.

01:03:45.720 How could she do this

01:03:46.620 to my son?

01:03:47.660 What they're talking about

01:03:48.900 is hormonal therapy

01:03:50.280 or sex reassignment surgery

01:03:52.020 on children.

01:03:53.420 I thought fixing me

01:03:54.600 externally

01:03:55.520 would fix me internally

01:03:56.980 but of course

01:03:58.520 I was wrong.

01:03:59.180 The fact that the state

01:04:00.180 thinks that they're

01:04:00.840 more important

01:04:01.620 and have a better say

01:04:02.640 in what happens

01:04:03.320 to your child

01:04:03.920 over the actual

01:04:04.840 parent's opinion

01:04:05.580 is egregious.

01:04:06.700 Puberty blockers,

01:04:07.600 surgeries,

01:04:08.200 big money makers

01:04:08.960 for hospitals,

01:04:10.220 for physicians.

01:04:11.260 All I want to do

01:04:11.960 is hold my son.

01:04:14.760 Are you asking me

01:04:16.040 to lie to parents?

01:04:17.460 And he said yes.

01:04:18.740 This is a weaponized

01:04:20.920 use of a parent's

01:04:23.260 sympathy and caring

01:04:24.200 and concern

01:04:24.880 by the left

01:04:25.680 to destroy your child. 0.88

01:04:27.440 Let's tell kids 0.78

01:04:28.460 that maybe they

01:04:29.380 can be the opposite sex.

01:04:31.000 Maybe they actually

01:04:31.840 are the opposite sex. 0.92

01:04:33.540 It is an evil thing

01:04:35.120 to tell children

01:04:36.340 that happiness lies

01:04:37.800 on the other side

01:04:38.540 of puberty blockers

01:04:39.860 or double mastectomies. 0.99

01:04:41.220 The left so badly

01:04:42.140 wants to blur these lines.

01:04:43.840 That's a five-alarm fire.

01:04:46.280 It's criminal.

01:04:47.140 It's criminal.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 08, 2025

Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin？

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