Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
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Trump continues his historic first week with another major achievement, pardoning Biden s pro-life political prisoners. Meanwhile, Democrats in the Senate unanimously block a law that would require doctors to provide medical treatment to newborn infants. Also, Trump declassifies all of the files on JFK, MLK, and every other famous assassinated person in the 20th century who used three initials. And a musical about a transgender drug kingpin earned 13 Oscar nominations in spite of the fact that this movie is without question one of the worst things ever put to film.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Trump continues his historic first week with another major
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achievement, pardoning Biden's pro-life political prisoners. Meanwhile, Democrats in the Senate
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unanimously blocked a law that would require doctors to provide medical treatment to newborn
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infants. The pro-life cause is winning, but we have a long way to go. Also, Trump declassifies
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all of the files on JFK, MLK, every other famous assassinated person in the 20th century who used
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three initials. The rumor mill swirls around Barack and Michelle Obama. Are they headed for
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divorce? That's the story anyway. And a musical about a transgender drug kingpin earned 13 Oscar
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nominations in spite of the fact that this movie is without question one of the worst things ever
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put to film. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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for sponsoring this episode. Today is the annual March for Life rally here in Washington, which I'll
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be attending today along with pro-life activists from all over the country. And it's easy to forget that,
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you know, our wonderful pro-life Republican presidents prior to Donald Trump wouldn't even show up in
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person to the March for Life. George Bush, for eight years in a row, hid in the White House and
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refused to come out and even say hello. Trump was the first president to break that mold when he became
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the first sitting president of either party to attend the event in person back in 2020. And then
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just two years later, thanks to judges Donald Trump appointed to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade was
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overturned. A generational goal of pro-life activists was finally accomplished, sparing the lives of
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millions of children. In the wake of this historic victory, of course, Democrats retaliated. The Biden DOJ
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commenced the wave of illegitimate prosecutions targeted at peaceful pro-life protesters all over the
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country, from Washington to Tennessee to Michigan. And here's how these prosecutions worked. First, the DOJ
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alleged that the protesters were violating the FACE Act, which protects, quote unquote, access to abortion
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facilities. And then the Biden DOJ invoked the KKK Act, otherwise known as the Conspiracy Against Rights Act,
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which is a law that has nothing to do with abortion facilities. It's a Reconstruction-era law
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that was intended to prevent the KKK from intimidating black people from voting or serving
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on juries. And by pairing these two laws together in a very novel way, the DOJ was able to pursue
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felony charges and extremely lengthy prison sentences for these peaceful pro-life demonstrators.
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Every single person attending one of these protests at an abortion facility could be accused of being
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a conspirator, even if they didn't step foot in the facility itself. This is a legal approach that
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was never even considered to be possible when the FACE Act was debated in Congress back in the early
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1990s. In fact, Senator Ted Kennedy explicitly stated at the time that, quote, if an individual does
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violate this law for the first time, it is not a felony. Well, that would be news to 75-year-old
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Paulette Harlow. She's the mother of six children, including four kids she adopted.
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Harlow was sentenced last summer to 24 months in federal prison for conspiracy against rights
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and FACE Act violations. This is an obviously outrageous sentence that was issued by D.C.
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Judge Colleen Collar Coddly. And in particular, the judge completely ignored the fact that Harlow
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was in very poor health. As Harlow's husband stated during sentencing, quote, I feel like
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Paulette is dying. In my heart, I think she's having a hard time staying alive. Instead of responding
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to this information in any way, the judge appeared to mock Harlow's faith, saying that
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she should, quote, make an effort to remain alive because that is a, quote, tenant of Harlow's
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religion. Paulette Harlow was sentenced to home confinement until federal officials could find
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a prison that could handle her medical needs. Now, outside the courthouse, Harlow emphasized that
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she wasn't violent in any way. And just looking at her, you could tell she doesn't deserve to spend
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two years in a federal prison. She's obviously not a threat to anyone. Watch.
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Paulette, we've all just come out of your sentencing hearing here in D.C.
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What would you like to tell our LifeSite News readers about what just happened there?
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There was a great injustice with the entire case. And the worst part of it was that they
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portrayed us as violent, something that people in the pro-life movement would never be. We would
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never be violent. We absolutely abhor that. We especially abhor the violence that's put upon
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the young babies that are being torn limb for limb. I mean, that is the ultimate violence. And we
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certainly wouldn't, we wouldn't partake in any violence.
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They went, the prosecutor and the judge went out of their way to keep using that term violent,
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right? And you look like a violent person. They really did. And it was just, it was based on the
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lies that the staff told. Now, if you can look at this elderly, infirm lady and think that she
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deserves two years in federal prison for sitting outside of an abortion clinic, then you're simply
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a bad person, if not a lunatic. As Harlow's lawyers at the Thomas More Society have pointed
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out, this prosecution gets even more unlawful when you look at the cases the D.O.J. chose not to
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prosecute over the last four years. Specifically, the D.O.J. failed to prosecute, quote, almost any of
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the more than 170 incidents of violence against pro-life pregnancy centers and churches nationwide
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in the wake of the leak of the Dobbs decision, there were at least 86 Catholic churches and 74
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pregnancy resource centers that were targeted after Dobbs. And one of those resource centers
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received a threat that said, if abortions aren't safe, neither are you. And yet when the Daily Signal
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reached out to the D.O.J. and the FBI to see if any of these cases were being investigated,
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they didn't get a response. In other words, the D.O.J. was clearly targeting pro-life protesters
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specifically because of their religious and political beliefs. They were applying the law
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to different groups of people in different ways. And by the way, the FACE Act is also supposed to
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allegedly protect pro-life pregnancy centers. It's under the same law. So the people that attack
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those pregnancy centers should get at least the same sentences. And they didn't. In fact, in most cases,
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they were not charged at all with anything. So this is unconstitution and it is unethical and immoral.
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And the point of it was to intimidate pro-lifers into silence. That's why they arrested these people
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like they were terrorists. They hit Paul Vaughn's home like he was bin Laden. Watch.
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I'd like to speak to you about the D.O.J.'s Project 2022. It happened October 5th. It was 7 a.m. in the
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morning when my house was assaulted, my wife and children were terrorized, and I was kidnapped at
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gunpoint by four armed men. I had just sent three of my children to the car so I could take them to
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school when the house began to shake from a loud banging near the front door. I heard men shouting
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on my porch, open up FBI. The banging continued. As I looked out a side window to check the location
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of my children, I saw two unmarked SUVs with lights flashing, but I did not see my children.
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The banging continued and I heard more shouting. I opened the curtains on the front door to find
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three men with guns trained on the door. I asked who they were looking for, and they replied,
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we're here for you. They did not identify me or provide identification for themselves.
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As I believe there was an imminent threat to the safety of my wife and seven children who were home
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that day, I determined to surrender myself to them, hoping that they were legitimate law enforcement.
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I opened the door and stepped out onto the porch, staring down the barrels of both a pistol and an
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automatic weapon pointed at my head. This wasn't an especially incredible prosecution
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by the DOJ because it was clear to everyone that Paul Vaughn wasn't even blocking access to the
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abortion facility in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Video evidence proved that. He wasn't, he was not
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blocking the entrance at all. Instead, they accused Vaughn of stalling the police negotiators outside of
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the facility. So again, they're treating anyone remotely associated with these protests as a
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violent terrorist. But yesterday, Donald Trump put an end to these political prosecutions.
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He signed pardons for nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life protesters, including Paulette Harlow and
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Paul Vaughn. Watch. Next, we have a set of pardons for peaceful pro-life protesters who were prosecuted
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by the Biden administration for exercising their First Amendment rights. Do you know how many?
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I believe it's 23, sir. 23 people were prosecuted. They should not have been prosecuted.
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Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this.
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They'll be very happy. So they're all in prison now. Some are. Some are out of custody. It's ridiculous.
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Now, between these pardons and the repeal of Roe, there is now absolutely no question
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that Trump has done more for the pro-life cause than any other Republican president in history. It's
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not even close. During the campaign, there were some conservatives who doubted that. Some of them
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suggested that pro-lifers shouldn't vote for Donald Trump. But that was always a very bad idea,
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as I argued at the time. And now everyone can see it. I mean, for the first time in history,
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pro-lifers have a true advocate in the White House. Donald Trump is that. What the hell did
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George Bush ever do for the pro-life cause? What did Ronald Reagan do? Well, I'll tell you what they
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did. They treated pro-lifers like the redheaded stepchildren of the conservative movement. They did
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nothing. Now, Trump, even though he is personally more moderate on the abortion issue than I am,
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he is actually delivering major wins for the cause. He's actually accomplishing things,
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things that seemed impossible not too long ago. And he's not stopping. Donald Trump is now
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single-handedly reversing a wave of lawfare against pro-lifers who were punished in cruel and inhumane
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unconstitutional ways because of their religious beliefs and their political beliefs. In fact,
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we've had so much success on this issue in the last few years that some conservatives would even
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say, and you hear this said now, that the march for life is pointless. Why even still have it?
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Well, if you're wondering about that, events elsewhere in Washington, I think show why it's
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necessary. As you might have heard, every Democrat in the Senate just voted against a measure
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that would have required doctors to provide life-saving medical treatment to infants who
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are born alive after a botched abortion. So they've temporarily blocked the bill because in the
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Senate, as of now, you need 60 votes to clear a filibuster and force a vote. Now, even the
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reasonable Democrats, like noted slob John Fetterman, voted in favor of infanticide, voted against the
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bill and in favor of infanticide. Here's what Fetterman wrote, quote,
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I've always stood on the side of Roe and a woman's right to make her own health care choices.
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It's absurd to mandate criminalization because of those choices. Any bill that does so, including
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the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act, is a no from me. It's absurd. It's absurd, he says,
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to provide medical treatment to infant children who are already born, infant children who are lying on
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the table and dying. John Fetterman, that disgusting oaf, that slob, you know, John Fetterman,
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Shrek, says that it's absurd to provide them. He's not even just opposed to it. It's ridiculous.
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It's a ridiculous thing to try to provide medical care to infants.
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That's what this bridge troll says. In other words, he's saying that women have the right
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to murder their children even after they're born. And of course, this is the natural extension of
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Democrats' pro-abortion logic. And in this case, he's just coming right out and saying it.
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So, no, I really don't want to hear another word about so-called moderate Democrats.
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A lot of people have been saying that about John Fetterman lately.
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In fact, when I was criticizing him for dressing like a gross, disgusting,
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ridiculous slob at the inauguration wearing gym clothes, there were a lot of conservatives who said,
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well, he's one of the good ones. Don't criticize him. Oh, yeah, he's a good one who just voted in
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favor of infanticide. That's the good one? No, there's no such thing as a moderate Democrat. I
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don't know how many times we need to learn this lesson. Even the moderate mainstream Democrats believe
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that infant children outside the womb have no inherent right to life. Now, if you look at the
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text of the law, that becomes very clear. Here's what the law requires. Quote, any healthcare practitioner
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present at the time the child is born alive shall, A, exercise the same degree of professional
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skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably
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diligent and conscientious healthcare practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the
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same gestational age. And B, following the exercise of skill, care, and diligence required under
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subparagraph A, ensure the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.
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And then the law states, quote, a healthcare practitioner or any employee of a hospital,
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a physician's office, or an abortion clinic who has knowledge of a failure to comply with the
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requirements of paragraph one shall immediately report the failure to an appropriate state or
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federal law enforcement agency or to both. This is not some hypothetical scenario. I mean,
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it happens more often than you might think. In Florida, 14 babies were reported to have survived
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abortions in 2023, and 16 babies survived abortions in 2022. That's just in one state. In Michigan,
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122 babies were involved in so-called failed abortions, and we have no information as to what
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happened to them afterwards. In Tim Walz's Minnesota, as we've previously discussed, at least five abortions
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resulted in a live birth in 2021. And instead of receiving life-saving measures, at least two of those
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infants received comfort care, which is to say they let them die. And instead of outlawing this,
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the state of Minnesota decided to simply stop posting records from those failed abortions.
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So now they can kill infants and not tell anyone. On the Senate floor, Chuck Schumer made an attempt
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to defend infanticide. Here's how he framed the argument. Listen.
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The bill is a very definition of pernicious. It attacks women's health care using false narratives
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and outright fear-mongering. And it adds more legal risks for doctors on something that's already
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illegal. So much of the hard rights anti-choice agenda is pushed, frankly, by people who have little
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to no understanding of what women go through when they're pregnant. The scenario targeted by this bill
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is one of the most heartbreaking moments that a woman could ever encounter. The agonizing choice
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of having to end care when serious and rare complications arise in pregnancy.
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And at that moment of agony, this bill cruelly substitutes the judgment
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of qualified medical professionals and the wishes of millions of families
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and allows the ultra-right ideology to dictate what they do.
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First of all, he claims that the bill is redundant. He suggests that it's already illegal
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to commit infanticide. But, I mean, first of all, since when do the Democrats care about that,
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even if it was true? They pass redundant bills all the time. Remember, it was the Biden administration
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making lynching illegal, signing a bill banning lynching, even though lynching is already illegal
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in 50 different ways. So since when do they care about a law being redundant? But in this case,
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it's not redundant. As we just established, many states are currently allowing doctors to kill infants
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after they're born by providing them with a lesser standard of care. The doctors are allowed to do this
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and no one reports them for it. The law against murder is clearly not being enforced in these contexts.
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That's why we need this legislation, because it actually addresses the problem.
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It enhances the report inquirements surrounding this barbarism so that doctors can't keep hiding it.
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If you parse what Schumer is saying, he's trying to argue that some women decide to kill their children
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when it's clear that they're going to have serious life-altering medical problems.
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And then when those children manage to survive the abortion, he's saying that we should allow the
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women to finish the job, so to speak. But again, having a life-altering medical problem doesn't
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mean you deserve to die. You are entitled to the same degree of care as anyone else with that life-altering
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medical problem. And that's what the bill requires. I mean, what if a four-year-old child has an accident
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on the playground and ends up disabled for life? Would it be okay with Chuck if the child's parents decided
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to simply suffocate him with a pillow and throw him in a dumpster out back? Apparently so,
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because that's what his own logic would justify. Democrats' decision to block this bill, I think,
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proves two things. First of all, it shows that the Democrat Party is still radically, horrifically,
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satanically extreme, despite whatever concessions to moderates they claim to be making.
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And secondly, it demonstrates that despite all of our victories in recent days and years,
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we still have a lot of work to do. The pro-life movement has never had more power than it has
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right now. And at this moment, after the over-embrace of infanticide that we just saw in Congress,
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it's clear that we need to use it. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Okay, quite a lot going on right now. It's hard to keep track of it all. I mean, what's that saying?
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There are years when nothing happens and weeks when years happen or something like that.
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So a lot's going on. So let's try to get through as much of it as we can. Daily Mail reports,
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the last secret files about the assassination of John F. Kennedy can now be published after
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President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification of all remaining documents
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about the 1963 murder. And this also, the executive order obtained by the Daily Mail said,
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more than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Roderick F.
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Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the federal government has not released to the
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public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve
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transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related
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to these assassinations without delay. And his intelligence chiefs will have 45 days to put
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together a plan to release the RFK and King archives. And so all this stuff is coming out.
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I mean, this, I mean, it's, it's just kind of mind, mind boggling and mind blowing what's happening
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right now. I mean, think of it this way, declassifying all documents related to the most significant
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and high profile assassinations of the 20th century is the kind of thing that if it's going to happen at
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all, you would expect that it would be the capstone of a presidency, right? It's the kind of thing that
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if a president's going to do it, which none of them have up until now, you'd think they do it on the way
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out the door. Instead, Trump has jumped right in and done it right away. And he's doing it along with
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dozens of other extremely significant, far reaching, truly revolutionary moves. And this is all in the
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first week. And here's another way of looking at it. Take everything Trump has done in week one
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and spread it out over the course of four years. If that's all he did in his presidency,
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if he only did the stuff he's done this week and you spread it out, we would have to say at the end
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of his term that it was a highly successful presidency. If it was just this one week of
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stuff and it was spread out, you'd look back at it after four years and say, wow, that was a
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that was a whirlwind presidency. I mean, he achieved quite a lot. And yet this has all been done in one
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week. I mean, it's extraordinary, right? What else is there to say? To me, Trump's second term in
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office so far, and we're only a weekend. But so far, his second term is the fulfillment of Trump's
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promise. And I don't just mean that he's fulfilling actual promises that he made, although he is doing
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that. I mean that it's the fulfillment of the promise of having a guy like Trump in the White House.
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People who supported Trump from day one, going all the way back to 2015, the people who supported him
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all the way back then, they did precisely because they imagined that he would be the kind of guy who
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would do exactly what he's been doing this week. And that didn't happen his first term, right? At the
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end of Trump's first term, you had to look back on it and say, well, it was successful. He was a good
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president. But in terms of the actions he took as an executive, it was for the most part pretty well
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in line with what you would expect from a solid Republican president. There really wasn't anything
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that he did in the first term where you would look at that and say, okay, well, only Trump would do
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that. But this is different. Now he's doing things where you look at it and you say, yeah,
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only Trump would do that. We needed Trump to do that. He's doing things that no Republican president
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before him did. And he's doing things that very, very, very few Republicans today would do.
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So already in week one, we can say, okay, we needed Trump for this. We needed Trump to do
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this kind of thing. So it's been just remarkable, truly. And also, by the way, you can't understate,
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I mean, Charlie Kirk had a tweet about this yesterday. And I think it's certainly true that
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people are talking about Trump 2.0 and how Trump 2.0 is so much more focused and determined and just
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on a mission to get as much done as he possibly can. And that's true. But the other part of that
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is it's Trump 2.0. It's also Trump's team 2.0. So we also have to give a lot of credit to the team
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around him. It's just a much better team this time, so much better. And he's got people around him who
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are just like him are also on a mission, know exactly what they want to do, are determined to
00:25:50.260
do it. And they don't care what the media says about it, what the left says about it. We're just
00:25:56.900
going to get it done. People like Charlie Kirk himself. So, all right, now let's, let's go check
00:26:04.000
out the rumor mill. There's a lot of discussion on social media this week about the rumor that
00:26:12.100
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are headed for a divorce. And so far, American media outlets are
00:26:19.080
staying far, far away from this story, as you would expect. But it's all over social media. It was
00:26:25.220
trending on Twitter last night on X. I was, I was looking for an article about it. And as for American
00:26:32.500
outlets, I, I, I found nothing except for this in Yahoo. It says rumors are rife surrounding
00:26:40.920
Barack and Michelle Obama's marriage. And there's growing speculation that they're headed for a
00:26:44.400
divorce. A couple who have been married for over three decades have recently garnered significant
00:26:49.600
attention to their personal life. Speculation has intensified after Michelle skipped two high
00:26:54.580
profile events, fueling discussions about the couple's marriage. Um, so she was not at Jimmy
00:27:01.420
Carter's funeral and she also was not at the inauguration. Now, not being at the inauguration
00:27:06.740
is it's weird. It's strange. It looked weird. You know, especially when you had, if you're watching
00:27:12.620
the inauguration, the ceremony and you know, there's this long process of all of the, uh,
00:27:20.260
upper level mucky muck people coming out and, uh, and they all walk out slowly and most of them
00:27:26.960
are paired up, you know, married couples. And then you just see Barack Obama walk out by himself
00:27:31.980
without his wife. It looked really strange. Now that you could explain maybe just by the fact that
00:27:38.820
Michelle hates Donald Trump with a passion. And so she refused to go not going to Jimmy Carter's
00:27:45.200
funeral though is, is different. That to me is the much stranger absence. Uh, so there's that
00:27:52.340
that's fueling the rumors. And then there's also just rumors of people claiming that they have
00:27:57.500
talked to people that are close to the Obama's or in the inner circle. And you know, that's where
00:28:02.120
all this stuff is coming from. Uh, and the other part of this rumor, which isn't mentioned in the
00:28:06.240
article is that allegedly Barack and, uh, Jennifer Aniston are now an item allegedly according to the
00:28:13.300
rumor. That's the rumor that he's cheating on Michelle with Jennifer Aniston. That's the gossip.
00:28:18.600
That's the tea as the kids would say. I don't know if the tea is correct, but that's what it is.
00:28:23.860
I don't know if any of this is true. Uh, I will say that it will be pretty damned hilarious if
00:28:30.640
Barack leaves his wife for a white woman. Uh, I mean, we don't root for that to happen. I believe
00:28:38.800
in the sanctity of marriage. I don't want anyone to get divorced, even Michelle and Barack, but there
00:28:44.080
would just be so many levels of irony to that, that, uh, and, and for so many people on, on the
00:28:49.680
left and so many of the race hustlers who idolize and worship Barack, it would be such a, it would
00:28:56.260
cause such turmoil for them that, uh, I admit I would enjoy it, but those are the rumors I will say
00:29:06.100
personally, and maybe I'm, I have no information. I don't know. I don't know anybody, but I find these
00:29:12.080
rumors implausible for two reasons. And first it's hard to believe that Barack Obama is shacking up
00:29:25.940
with Jennifer Aniston because she, she doesn't seem like his type. You know, if you catch my drift,
00:29:35.240
you know, I mean, according to other rumors, Jennifer Aniston is not Barack Obama's type.
00:29:43.560
And I don't mean because she's white. That's not the physical feature that would seem to take her
00:29:49.020
out of the running in the Barack Obama sweepstakes. You know, I don't, I'm trying to be delicate about
00:29:56.220
it. Um, because he's gay. That's, that's the reason. I mean, that's, so that, I mean,
00:30:01.460
that that's allegedly, allegedly that's the allegation is that he's gay. I don't know.
00:30:06.720
Uh, it's an allegation based at least in part on the fact that he said himself in a letter to his
00:30:11.100
ex-girlfriend back in the eighties that he, uh, imagines himself making love to men every day.
00:30:18.080
He did say that, that I, so pretty substantial evidence that he's gay just based on that alone.
00:30:23.820
But the other problem with this rumor is that, uh, is that successful and ambitious public figures,
00:30:29.860
politicians in particular, just don't get divorced. Uh, divorce is too messy. It's too ugly.
00:30:35.900
And that's why there's a long, long history of political couples who hate each other and stay
00:30:41.060
together for decades. Anyway, um, purely for appearances, Bill and Hillary are obviously the
00:30:48.080
poster children. So why even get divorced? I mean, they can live in separate houses and lead their
00:30:53.400
own lives and just appear in public together a couple of times a year. You know, like I said,
00:30:58.380
there's a long tradition of that sort of thing. Why muck things up with a divorce? Uh, image is
00:31:03.020
everything for these people, image brand. That's all they care about. And that's enough to keep them
00:31:08.860
together. So, you know, you've heard, uh, stay together for the kids, which by the way is a good
00:31:14.620
reason to stay together. But for people like Barack and Michelle, it's, it's stay together for the brand.
00:31:20.180
And, uh, and so I, I don't see this happening, but that's also why if, if it, if they do divorce,
00:31:29.100
if the rumors, which could be totally unsubstantiated are true, I tell you right now,
00:31:35.020
uh, it's going to be accompanied by a major marketing push for divorce. Now, obviously divorce
00:31:43.100
is already hugely popular in America. I realized that, but in Obama divorce means that we're going
00:31:50.680
to see divorce celebrated and promoted in this country. Like we've never seen before and we've
00:31:55.920
already seen it happen, but it'll be at a level we've never seen because the media will tell us
00:32:02.580
like, they're not going to be able to say, Oh, well, Barack and Michelle failed in their marriage
00:32:08.720
and their failures. And that's why they're divorced because that's what it means when you get a
00:32:13.360
divorce. It means you failed. They won't be able to say that. So instead they're going to tell us
00:32:17.560
that no, the Obamas are role models for getting divorced. Getting divorced in your sixties is,
00:32:23.200
is strong and courageous. Everyone should be doing it. Uh, so if you think we're already a divorce
00:32:29.720
obsessed culture, well, we ain't seen nothing yet. Uh, if this turns out to be true, but we will see.
00:32:39.380
Speaking of crumbling marriages, uh, a theme emerges. The Daily Mail has this.
00:32:46.020
Kamala Harris was all smiles and affection for her beloved second gentleman, Doug Emhoff,
00:32:51.300
the immediate aftermath of her crushing presidential election defeat. But now that
00:32:55.180
president Donald Trump has been sworn into office for sore loser Harris, it is now all about the blame
00:33:00.340
game. And her target has flipped to her quote dead weight husband. And as she weighs her political
00:33:06.400
future, maybe a 2026 run for governor of California or another try for the nation's top job two years
00:33:11.400
later, please, please do that. Please do that. Kamala. Uh, yeah, take don't nevertheless. She
00:33:18.700
persisted. Remember don't, don't let, don't let these sexist men get you down, run, run for president
00:33:25.280
again. Keep running. I mean, you're what? 60. You got, you got three, four, five presidential term
00:33:35.140
cycles that you can still run for. So I say, keep doing it. Keep going for it. Um, anyway, she, uh,
00:33:43.660
according to Daily Mail, she has, she has to consider whether Emhoff is an asset or a liability.
00:33:47.500
One source exclusively told dailymail.com there's plenty of blame to go around as far as Kamala
00:33:53.580
is concerned. And Doug has his share. Doug did Kamala no favors during the election. Frankly,
00:33:58.920
he looked like a hypocritical ass after the bombshells that he had got his child's nanny
00:34:03.420
pregnant while married to his first wife and assaulted his ex-girlfriend on the heels of his
00:34:07.020
I am woman crusade. So another political marriage on the rocks, according to, you know,
00:34:14.640
sources in this case, at least it is being reported by, uh, by some mainstream outlets.
00:34:20.920
That's the other thing. I'll tell you this, that if Barack and Michelle get divorced, if that does
00:34:26.700
happen, uh, you're going to see a wave of political divorces after that. If they get divorced, then like
00:34:33.680
every, every prominent political couple in the country is going to be divorced in the next two years
00:34:41.460
because they're going to finally, like once they make that okay, uh, then all the rest of them are
00:34:46.960
going to look at each other like, okay, we don't have to fake it anymore. Uh, so that's the other
00:34:50.500
thing that's going to happen. But the, the Doug Emhoff story I think is interesting that there's kind
00:34:59.620
of a lesson here. You know, this is not just a delighting in the, in the rumor mill. This is,
00:35:04.460
there's a lesson. If this is true, there's a, there's a lesson here, um, that this is what happens
00:35:10.840
when you take the backseat to your wife and, and you let her take the lead and you kind of play the,
00:35:19.260
you play the housewife role, which is what Doug Emhoff was doing. Now, if you do it as Emhoff did,
00:35:26.960
you'll be celebrated. You'll be praised. Uh, your wife, if she is, uh, you know, a feminist in good
00:35:35.060
standing, we'll say that she's so appreciative of how supportive you're being, but in truth,
00:35:40.860
she will begin to see you as dead weight because, uh, you know, if you're Doug Emhoff and in his case,
00:35:49.620
his wife's running for president and he doesn't even have a job anymore. And he's just, his whole
00:35:53.320
role is just to like, be her, you know, her caddy following her around and holding her purse. Um,
00:36:02.300
inevitably when you do that and you become that as a man, as a husband, your wife's going to look
00:36:07.740
at you and say, why do I need this guy? Like, what are you doing exactly? What, what, what, what,
00:36:15.040
what purpose are you serving? And as much as we might try to pretend that gender roles are arbitrary
00:36:21.780
and meaningless, you know, the fact is that you make yourself useless, uh, you make yourself dead
00:36:29.520
weight. If you don't fulfill your quote unquote gender role. And the same thing happens in the
00:36:38.380
reverse. You know, if a man, uh, works for a living and, and he's, so he's kind of fulfilling his role
00:36:47.920
as the provider, but he has a wife who, you know, doesn't really cook, doesn't really clean,
00:36:53.920
isn't terribly attentive to the kids, isn't a homemaker. Um, then, then he's gonna, you know,
00:37:01.600
he starts to look around and he thinks, well, why do I, why do I need this? Like, what is she doing
00:37:06.520
exactly? I wanted a wife and I don't have one. She's not doing any of the wifely things.
00:37:10.540
I'm doing everything like I, you know, I'm better with the kids than she, I, you know, I, I do all
00:37:17.020
this stuff more than she does. Um, and once that thought occurs to him, well, now the marriage is
00:37:23.920
hurtling towards disaster, you know? And so this really goes both ways. And the common thread is
00:37:30.920
that a spouse, um, isn't living up to the promise, which is implicit or in fact, explicit
00:37:38.800
in the marriage vows. No matter what modern society says, no matter what we try to tell
00:37:44.700
ourselves, no matter how we lie to ourselves, the fact remains that when a woman marries a man,
00:37:50.020
she wants a husband and a husband that means something, not a business partner, not just a
00:37:58.100
friend or a roommate, not a, uh, a generic like associate who comes along for the ride. She wants
00:38:05.600
a husband. Otherwise, what's the point? And if the husband isn't doing any of the things that
00:38:11.000
husbands were always meant to do, again, what's the point? And, um, so don't be Doug Emhoff.
00:38:21.980
Despite what you were told by the media as a man to model, model yourself after Doug Emhoff. Uh,
00:38:28.020
well, this is, this is, this is what happens. Failure and disgrace. And then you get discarded.
00:38:34.420
Uh, that's what you, that's what being Doug Emhoff gets you. Uh, let's see.
00:38:44.000
Here's a very important story. So we've done a few things that are kind of important, but, uh,
00:38:47.860
I did have to mention this. Um, daily mail again, reports on a, uh, a controversy surrounding a
00:38:53.880
healthcare worker's decision to apparently, uh, twerk on her patient's head. Um, now the question
00:39:05.920
is, why did she do this? You know, was it part of some kind of, some kind of, uh, unorthodox
00:39:12.880
medical treatment? Well, the report says healthcare worker has prompted outrage after sharing videos
00:39:19.980
of her twerking on top of a disabled patient's head. Lucretia Coyan from Loganville, Georgia
00:39:25.980
claims she's the woman seen in the now viral footage. In the clip, 19 year old Coyan is seen
00:39:32.060
19. How is she a healthcare worker at 19? Well, there's your first problem. Uh, seen dancing
00:39:41.900
on the handles of a patient's wheelchair. And this apparently provoked backlash. Oh, you think?
00:39:49.980
So here's Ms. Coyan addressing her, um, revolutionary healthcare techniques. Watch.
00:39:58.980
Right now it's a video that's going viral of me, the healthcare worker that's dancing on top
00:40:04.980
of her patient's head is not what it is. Trust and believe. All I gotta say for now is angles
00:40:10.200
play a big part, but we're going to answer that another time. Okay. A lot of people in the comments
00:40:14.980
talking about sex. Um, just all type of dumb. Nonverbal. Trust and believe. He's verbal. And
00:40:23.980
if he's not verbal to his kins, then I don't know what's going on over there. But around
00:40:29.980
here, he'd be verbal. And I got proof. What you say? You want to get a hug? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
00:40:36.980
He looks very aware and comfortable to me. So y'all need to stop jumping to cocoons. Even though,
00:40:44.980
yeah, I do see how you look, but trust me, it's not. Enough is enough. Stay tuned.
00:40:49.980
Yeah. You know, I mean, she, she does, she has a point. Uh, what, like, what are we always told?
00:40:55.360
We're always told don't get in the middle of a patient and their healthcare provider. It's not
00:41:00.180
our business. It's not for us to interfere size. This is America. And, and if we don't have the
00:41:07.660
right to twerk on the heads of medical patients, then what is this country? What did our forefathers
00:41:14.720
fight and die for? If we can't even twerk, you can't even twerk on the head of one disabled person
00:41:21.780
in a wheelchair. What's the point? The constitution is dead. I tell you, uh, anyway, this woman's
00:41:30.640
obviously a monster, uh, should be fired. Clearly also arrested for assault. And, um, and every day
00:41:37.240
with, with each new viral dancing video, my faith in the healthcare industry dies a little more at this
00:41:43.180
point. I have no faith at all. I mean, it's, it died a long time ago, but, but the stuff keeps
00:41:47.720
piling on. And now I have to worry that if I go in for surgery, that there's going to be a twerking
00:41:53.320
contest happening, you know, while I'm laying there unconscious. I mean, these, this is yet another
00:41:58.580
thing I have to worry about. And the thing that concerns me the most, of course, is that
00:42:02.000
the fact that a person like this was able to get a job in healthcare to begin with. Now, sure. I mean,
00:42:12.120
the medical institution, and I don't know, and the report doesn't say what hospital or clinic this
00:42:17.840
happened at, but whatever the medical institution was, they can always say, well, Hey, we didn't know
00:42:25.080
that she was going to start twerking on our patients and, you know, okay, maybe they didn't,
00:42:33.780
maybe she didn't list that skill on her resume. I could, I could buy that, but there's just no way
00:42:38.640
that after this video goes viral, there's no way that her immediate managers are going to look at
00:42:45.320
that and go, wow, that's shocking. She, she didn't seem like the type. No, they're going to, I mean,
00:42:52.160
they'll be shocked because it's shocking behavior, but it's not going to be, it's like they're going
00:42:58.020
to think to themselves, well, yeah, if anyone here was going to do that, it would have been her.
00:43:01.780
So my point is that if you're the sort of person who would do this, then you have various serious
00:43:08.080
mental and moral defects that should be glaringly obvious from the outset. And, and yet she still
00:43:16.460
managed to get a job at some level in healthcare, which is quite disturbing. Let's get to the comment
00:43:24.000
section. Not only did that lady cop have two fingers in the trigger guard, but she also had
00:43:38.280
the muzzle pointed at the dude rules one and two of firearm safety. And she broke both of them.
00:43:44.820
That's the one good thing to come of the incident is that the video can now be used in gun safety
00:43:50.040
classes for the rest of time, which I assume it will be. It's a perfect teaching tool given that
00:43:55.980
she broke all of the most basic gun safety rules. She did everything precisely wrong. So
00:44:02.700
it is a, uh, uh, yeah, it is a tool that can be used to educate people in the future. I suppose.
00:44:11.380
Uh, I wonder if Matt was aware of the, uh, Masonic symbol in his logo, the, the one,
00:44:18.560
the one triangle up and one down, all the DW hosts have a Masonic symbol, slide the two triangles
00:44:25.180
together toward each other and remove the middle piece. And you get the hexagram. Also Israel's
00:44:31.000
national symbol to boot. Well, actually the symbol is my initials. So that's what that, that's the,
00:44:40.660
that's the D that's the deep, dark secret behind the Matt Walsh logo is MW. So, so what you're saying
00:44:47.480
is that my parents were engaged in some kind of conspiracy when they gave me those initials,
00:44:52.440
but really it goes, it goes back to them. Although I do have to say that I, I really kind of envy
00:44:58.520
people like you, uh, left this comment, people who see conspiracies and secret symbols everywhere
00:45:04.640
all the time. I mean, I'm not even being facetious. I actually do envy that because it has to be a
00:45:10.760
pretty entertaining life. I mean, you're living every day in basically an Indiana Jones film and
00:45:18.280
it's gotta be really interesting. I mean, I don't know if it's a recipe for a successful life or being
00:45:23.060
a successful, well-rounded, grounded, intelligent person, but it's gotta be entertaining. I mean,
00:45:29.100
you must be having a blast. And, uh, so something to be said for that.
00:45:34.200
I'm gonna have to put my two cents for why I'm pro women in the police force. It's true that men are
00:45:40.820
stronger physically than women in most cases, but women are better at talking slash relating slash
00:45:45.800
being empathetic towards people. A woman cop might be better at keeping the altercation from being
00:45:50.820
violent. In my opinion, we should want to avoid violent altercations. Those other people will sue
00:45:55.840
the police department if injured or someone dies. We should want to reduce liability. Women are better
00:46:00.500
at keeping altercations neutral. So it doesn't get to the point of having to take down the other
00:46:04.660
person. Also, I would personally not want to arrest a typically nonviolent person because they have
00:46:09.340
anxiety with police, like for a traffic stop, they'll potentially get caught in the system. Plus it hurts
00:46:14.120
their potential future employment. The goal should be not letting an altercation get to the point where
00:46:19.300
a police officer has to get physical. Well, you know, but I don't think it actually works that way.
00:46:25.360
I mean, we saw in the video yesterday, a nonviolent encounter was turned violent because of the female
00:46:31.980
cop's incompetence. And, uh, you know, generally speaking, avoiding violent altercations, which I
00:46:38.500
certainly agree should be the goal, but avoiding them often requires, uh, a, it didn't require it in
00:46:47.240
this case. In this case, you just needed to have to be, you know, even just basically competent,
00:46:53.540
but often with, uh, with police work, I think avoiding a violent encounter requires among other
00:47:02.560
things, a more physically imposing presence because the suspect is less likely to become
00:47:09.160
violent. If he knows ahead of time that he won't get away with it. Now that's not going to stop.
00:47:14.580
That's not always going to stop someone from getting violent. I mean, we know that clearly, but
00:47:19.000
if he is going to be stopped ahead of time, I would think that a larger, stronger male cop is more
00:47:25.480
likely to get that kind of peaceful compliance than a smaller, weaker female cop. Uh, or even if the
00:47:33.760
altercation does become, uh, tense or even physical, a male cop is, is going to have a better chance of
00:47:42.520
just, you know, uh, containing the person and, um, and getting them under control without having to
00:47:49.400
resort to tasers and, and guns and all the rest of it. Um, but a female cop that's going to be,
00:47:56.720
is going to have a harder time doing that. And I think the female cop also presents a kind of
00:48:00.060
temptation to the suspect because he knows that he could overpower her and run away and escape.
00:48:05.180
And it's probably more likely to try it, but, but also just on an emotional level, um, you know,
00:48:13.280
which is what you're talking about, you have a better chance of keeping things peaceful.
00:48:18.940
If you can keep yourself together and, and not lose your cool and not take things personally
00:48:26.280
and not get overly emotional. So is a female cop less likely to lose her cool in that situation?
00:48:38.000
Is a female cop is a, is a female in general, less likely to take things personally, get a bit
00:48:46.060
emotional, you know, get, get a little bit flustered in these kinds of situations. Like you're saying a
00:48:51.520
woman is less likely to have that happen. I just don't, I don't, I don't think that's the case.
00:48:59.760
I don't know what you're basing that on. Um, I think that, you know, because it's when we talk about
00:49:06.860
combat roles or police work or fire, you know, being a firefighter and we say that men are better
00:49:15.140
suited for these jobs, which, which they are, we often are talking about, we, we, we often focus
00:49:21.500
on the physical side of it, which is kind of the easier thing and the less controversial thing,
00:49:26.720
I suppose, talk about to just point out that, Hey, men are stronger and it requires physical
00:49:31.740
strength to do these jobs. And so men should do them. Um, I think we talk a little bit less about
00:49:37.060
the emotional and psychological aspects of these jobs and how men on that level are also better
00:49:46.740
suited for them. Um, you know, it doesn't, women are not inferior. It's nothing like that. Men and
00:49:54.240
women are just different. Men and women are different and men have an easier time, uh, being
00:50:03.680
sort of emotionally detached, not taking things personally, um, not, not, not kind of bringing
00:50:11.460
emotions into it. I think men just have an easier time with that in general. Women tend to be more
00:50:16.460
emotional. You know, that's that, it shouldn't be a controversial thing to say. And, uh, by the way,
00:50:22.640
it, you know, in most contexts in life, that's a good thing. I gotta, I, I wouldn't want women to,
00:50:29.820
to, to, to be emotionally identical to men. I don't want my wife to be emotionally identical
00:50:37.960
to me. I don't want that. Men and women are different. It's a good thing. But, um, in some
00:50:46.640
of these jobs, there's a certain kind of emotional and psychological, uh, burden that you have to bear
00:50:54.060
that I think often men are simply better suited for. Um, and, uh, as I said, that's the, that's
00:51:03.800
the more, that's the less popular thing to talk about when we discuss this issue. But I also think
00:51:11.200
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A month ago, we got the tragic news that my film, am I racist? Was not going to be an Oscars contender.
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The Academy of motion pictures, arts and sciences decided that the top documentary of the decade did
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not deserve a nomination of any kind or even a spot on the shortlist for nominees. And this was a
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legitimate and by all rights, objectively speaking, outrageous snub, but it was also about as surprising
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as the fact that I wasn't awarded a Nobel prize last year or any year before that, believe it or not.
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It's not hard to understand what's going on here. The Academy has clearly decided to exclude
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conservatives from having their work recognized. The left believes that it owns the art of filmmaking
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and any outsider, especially an outsider who is successful, is immediately cast out.
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We are intruders. We are interlopers. You might even say that we are undocumented migrants in the
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land of filmmaking. Build the wall, Hollywood shouts, in our case. Still, that left the question of what
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kind of films the Academy would decide to shower with awards this year. And now at long last, we have
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an answer to that question. And specifically, we know that a Netflix musical called Emilia Perez
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has just received 13 nominations at the Oscars, which is by far the most of any film this year.
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Those nominations include Best Picture, Best Director, among a slew of other major categories.
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And now before we talk about it, I will admit that I'm biased. I hate musicals in general.
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And the problem is that my suspension of disbelief totally breaks down the moment the character
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starts singing. And I start to wonder, you know, well, I just think of it too literally, I guess.
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And I start to wonder, how do the characters all know the words to this song?
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Why are the other characters on screen not reacting with shock or confusion when one of them
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bursts into song randomly? And even on the rare occasion when the songs in a musical are actually not
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awful, I still find myself enduring them. I'm just waiting for the characters to stop singing
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so we can get back to the story. And, you know, if you think I'm being hard on musicals,
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just ask yourself one question. When was the last time you watched a non-musical movie
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and thought to yourself, you know what this movie could use? Random musical numbers.
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You've never thought that about any movie because singing does not improve a movie.
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In the case of the musical, you just kind of tolerate it. That's my take on that.
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Those are my cards on the table. I'm not a musical guy. But even with that bias,
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I still think I can say with some credibility that this musical is extra bad. It is,
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whether you like musicals or not, an extremely terrible film. It has to be said that this film
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is so atrocious, so obviously bad in every way that it actually manages to do the impossible. It makes
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Joker 2 slightly less atrocious to the point that it's no longer the worst musical of the last
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century. Watching Joker 2, as horrible as that film was, cannot possibly prepare you for the pile of
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donkey dung that is Amelia Perez. Now, to give you a sense of the plot, such as it is, the film is about
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a murderous cartel leader who decides that he wants to live a more authentic life. So he hires a lawyer
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to help him transition into a woman and then go into hiding, leaving his family behind.
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And the lawyer ends up checking out a hospital in Bangkok that's apparently willing to perform
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the surgery. And that leads us to this scene, which is so much worse than I ever imagined it
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could possibly be. Even after everything I heard about this film, nothing could have prepared me for
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this. And I promise you, this is real. This is actually in the movie. You might think that this
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is AI or something. This is some kind of weird AI parody. No, this is in the movie. Okay. This is
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one of the major musical numbers in this film, which just received 13 Oscar nominations, including
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Hello, very nice to meet you. I'd like to know about
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sex change operations. I see, I see, I see. Man to woman, or woman to men? Man to woman. From penis to vagina. Is it for you? For me? No. What would you like to know about it, madam? I want to know it all. What is the protocol? The techniques and the risks? How many operations? How much time do you want to know about it?
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What is that? Adam's apple reduction. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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What is that? Adam's apple reduction. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Yes, from penis to vagina. That was a line in the song. It was almost certainly the first song in world history to have that line, for better or worse. In this case, worse. By the way, The Godfather, the greatest cinematic masterpiece of all time.
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Received 11 Oscar nominations. This movie got 13. I say that again. The movie you just saw got 13 Oscar nominations. In fact, we could go on all day with these kinds of comparisons because very few films in Hollywood history have had as many nominations as this train wreck.
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The record. The record shared by a few films, I think two or three is 14. So Amelia Perez missed the record by one.
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Which is no doubt a sign that transphobia is alive and well in Hollywood. Oscars so transphobic. They only gave the trans musical 13 nominations.
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Now, in any case, what they're trying to convey in that scene that I just showed you, I think, is that this particular gender clinic is a little indiscreet and business oriented.
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So the lawyer needs to find another place to secretly transition the murderous cartel boss.
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But really, this scene conveys a lot more than that. First of all, it conveys that this movie has the worst writing that we've ever seen in a professional film.
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It appears that the writers were all drunk or high or severely brain damaged or some combination of the three.
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They're also conveying that the actors can't hold a tune, can't carry a tune, which is a rather significant problem for a musical.
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Badly written songs, badly performed. And of course, with the whole Night of the Living Dead routine, they're just highlighting how barbaric these procedures really are.
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Which is why a lot of trans activists and trans organizations are already condemning this film.
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It's too much even for them. Like when you produce a piece of trans propaganda that makes even trans activists stop and go, hey, well, take it easy.
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This is a bit much. It's a little on the nose, guys. Well, then you have a you have a serious problem.
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So you can start to see why this film isn't exactly going over well with audiences, particularly audiences in Mexico, by the way, where this film is set.
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This is a portrayal of Mexico that was filmed in Europe and written by a French filmmaker.
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And which I mean, that in and of itself, no problem.
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But the but the problem is that it kind of shows they're presenting this as some kind of authentic look into Mexican culture.
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When it's really an authentic portrayal of what a ham fisted director can achieve when handed a script that could have been written by a team of semi-literate crackheads.
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As the plot continues, the cartel leader eventually reunites with his family and kind of misses doubtfire situation where he pretends to be somebody else.
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It's all very creepy. It doesn't really make a lot of sense.
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Eventually leads to this scene where an actress just comes out and states the moral of the film, which is that undergoing trans surgery somehow makes you a better person.
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This horrible cartel boss gets a sex change and undergoes a kind of spiritual rebirth.
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In this particular scene, the doctor tries to say that trans surgeries are just about cutting up body parts.
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I said it doesn't actually make you a better person, but that's when we get this musical number about how actually the doctor is wrong.
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Changing the soul, changing society, changing society, changes it all.
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If you had seen what he has shown to me, you'd be a better man.
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Now, you could argue that the guy in that scene just gave the greatest acting performance of all time.
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You could argue because we cannot understate the incredible acting skill it must require to sit there and not break out into hysterical fits of laughter when the other actor in the scene is singing a song like that.
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You know, you know, I mean, in fact, I thought the same thing about Sonic 3 and not to bring Sonic 3 back into this.
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That you could argue that all of the human actors, all the live human actors in Sonic all deserve Oscar nominations only because acting in a film like that and delivering the lines without laughing.
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Being able to do that alone, I think, is a towering artistic achievement.
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You know, the whole thing is not exactly subtle propaganda, but it apparently resonated with the Academy.
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And in particular, the Academy was impressed with the performance of the trans-identifying man named Carla Sophia Gascon, who plays the drug dealer in the film.
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So this is a trans-identified actor playing a trans character.
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So the Academy gave Gascon the nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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So for the first time in history, a man has been nominated for Best Actress.
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And he's almost certainly going to win, of course.
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So the Academy is, you know, they're obviously looking for a way to send a message to Donald Trump in one way or another.
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Cannes gave him the Best Actress Award already.
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Golden Globes did the same thing a few weeks ago when they gave the film the Best Picture for a Musical Comedy Award.
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And then Gascon went up to the podium and gave an incoherent speech about how trans-identifying people are being thrown in jail and beaten up, allegedly.
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And I have a lot of things to say to you because you can maybe put us in jail.
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You can beat us up, but you never can take away our soul, our existence, our identity.
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And I want to say to you, raise your voice, freedom, and say, I want, I am who I am, know who you want.
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Now, putting aside the whole sob story, I mean, this is an actor who decided in his late 40s that he's really a woman.
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It's one of the least convincing imitations of a woman that you'll ever see.
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Nobody watching this person will conclude, even for a second, that he's a woman.
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But in this film, we're supposed to believe that this cartel boss has everybody fooled.
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No one, not even his own family, can detect the ruse.
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All he had to do was put a wig on and a dress, and nobody has any idea.
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It's also ridiculous and grotesque that in a rare case of political unity, the outrage has actually been bipartisan.
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Listen, a lot of people on the left are especially upset, as the L.A. Times reports, quote,
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Mexican intellectuals have accused the movie of reducing the country's horrific drug wars,
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which have killed nearly half a million people, with more than 100,000 missing in this century alone,
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GLAAD described it as a profoundly retrograde portrayal of a trans woman.
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On a podcast, superstar Mexican comic Eugenia Derbez ridiculed the accent of Mexican-American Selena Gomez,
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Apparently, the performance is so bad that it's causing an international incident over Mexico.
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Even Terminator's Hasta La Vista babies sounded more natural.
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There are a lot of comparisons to Brendan Fraser in Bedazzled, RoboCop, and so on.
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And, you know, Taco Bell is apparently more authentically Mexican than this film is.
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And on top of that, it's not just the left and all of Mexico that's upset by this trash heap of a movie.
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There's also backlash coming from the right, especially now that a man has been nominated for Best Actress.
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But in this case, I think the outrage from the right is misplaced.
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And that's because when this man wins the award for Best Actress, which he most likely will,
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it'll be the first time in history, the first time in the history of the Academy Awards,
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that women are shut out of both lead acting awards.
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No woman will win a lead acting award in the 2025 Academy Awards, most likely.
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And, of course, the other nominees will have to pretend to be thrilled about that.
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You know, Mikey, Madison, whoever that is, Demi Moore, Fernanda Torres.
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Everybody else will clap and pretend that it's the greatest thing ever.
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And so will his co-stars, including Selena Gomez.
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Let the dude take home the Best Actress trophy.
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The actual female actresses who get robbed by this deserve it.
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None of them have the courage to speak out about the trans madness.
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Certainly none of them will have the guts to say anything about this.
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And so now the monster they helped to create is turning against them.
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And the timing couldn't be worse for these people.
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Most Americans have moved on from gender ideology.
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We're moving past this farce, as the second Trump administration is demonstrating.
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But the weakest and most cowardly among us, namely every actress in Hollywood,
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And now it's probably going to cost them in a very tangible way.
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Now, Emilia Perez isn't actually about the transformative power of gender ideology.
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It's about how gender ideology degrades women and insults everyone's intelligence on a grand scale.
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And that's not the message the filmmakers wanted to send with this film,
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but it's the message that everybody has received.
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And that is why the man who's been nominated for Best Actress in the Academy Awards
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and the actresses who are too cowardly to object to it are today canceled.