Ep. 1525 - Trump Just Dealt A Massive Death Blow To Gender Ideology
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Summary
Trump has issued an executive order that will crush the gender transition industry once and for all. It s one of the most important executive orders ever written. Also, the Trump White House provides an explanation for those drones that were terrorizing the East Coast for weeks on end. Trump puts a pause on all foreign aid. Now he s being accused of not caring enough about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. A serious question, why is that America s problem to solve? And a woman sues Lyft after a driver tells her she s too fat to fit into his car. We ll talk about that important case and much more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Trump has issued an executive order that will crush the
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gender transition industry once and for all. It's one of the most important executive orders ever
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written. We'll talk about it. Also, the Trump White House provides an explanation for those
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drones that were terrorizing the East Coast for weeks on end. Trump puts a pause on all foreign
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aid. Now he's being accused of not caring enough about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. A serious
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question, why is that America's problem to solve? And a woman sues Lyft after a driver tells her
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that she's too fat to fit into his car. We'll talk about that important case and much more today
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Here's a little history on barbaric medical experiments that you probably weren't taught
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in school. In the early 1950s, lobotomies were having something of a heyday in the United States.
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Approximately 50,000 lobotomies were performed in just a couple of years. Doctors were eager to drill
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holes into people's skulls and carve out brain matter. But the United States was an outlier
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in this regard. Elsewhere in the world, around the same time, lobotomies were being outlawed.
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The Soviet Union banned lobotomies in 1950, with officials saying the practice was contrary to
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the principles of humanity, because it turned people into, quote, idiots. Soon afterwards,
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countries like Germany and Japan followed suit with their own bans of lobotomies. But the United
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States never implemented a similar ban of its own. To this day, there is no federal decree banning
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lobotomies, believe it or not, even though it's universally recognized as a grotesque procedure
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that has a permanent catastrophic effect on some of those vulnerable people in society.
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Now, in 2025, of course, this is something of a moot point. Lobotomies are not performed in the
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United States anymore, thankfully. People become hollowed out 50 IQ shells of their former selves
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through a steady diet of TikTok and Netflix instead of lobotomies. But at the same time,
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we do have a kind of modern analog to lobotomies in this country. For the past decade or so,
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the idea of transgender medicine has taken hold in pretty much every major hospital. Like lobotomies,
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so-called trans medicine promises to fix a serious mental problem by artificially modifying,
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and in some cases, carving up, the human body. And like lobotomies, oftentimes,
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these transgender procedures are performed on children. And we've documented many times,
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hospitals all over the country have provided cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to
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minors in order to affirm their subjective sense of gender and to make a lot of money as well,
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of course. And in some cases, hospitals have gone beyond that. They've offered full-on surgeries
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as well, including double mastectomies and vaginoplasties to children under the age of 18.
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This is not a conspiracy theory. This is not a right-wing talking point.
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I mean, I think we've all established now, pull up research papers from, say,
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Boston Children's Hospital, and you'll find that they've admitted to performing dozens of
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double mastectomies on minors. Jazz Jennings was 17 years old when surgeons mutilated his genitals
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and created a fake vagina in its place. So there's no denying it. As was the case with lobotomies,
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children are being permanently disfigured in the name of junk science. But as of yesterday,
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the analogy to lobotomies ends there. That's because this time around, the Trump administration
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has made it very clear that we're not going to wait for the whole rest of the world to ban this
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barbarism. We're going to do it ourselves. Now, thanks to four years of Democrat rule,
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we are still, once again, behind much of the Western world here, where, in many cases,
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this stuff has already been outlawed. But better late than never. And it has now been declared at the
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highest levels of government that there is no justifiable reason whatsoever to castrate,
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sterilize, or mutilate a young child in order to affirm that child's alleged gender identity,
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which is a meaningless, invented, and completely unscientific concept in the first place.
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We're going to lay the groundwork for massive lawsuits against the butchers who have taken part
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in this affront to common sense and human decency. We're going to stop forcing taxpayers to subsidize
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the quacks behind this fraud. We're going to empower the DOJ to pursue criminal action
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against anyone who mutilates the genitals of a child. And that's just the beginning.
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Now, all of these tenets were outlined in the executive order that Donald Trump signed yesterday,
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which is entitled Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.
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Now, to be clear, this is distinct from Trump's other orders on gender ideology,
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which we've already discussed. Previously, Trump has banned trans-identifying people in the military.
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He's established that there are only two genders. He's eliminated all forms of DEI in the federal
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government. But as important as those orders are, this one is even more expansive and far-reaching.
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And it's not an exaggeration to say that Trump, I think, has just signed one of the top five
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most important executive orders in the history of the United States, at a minimum.
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So let's go through this in detail. And as we do, I'll make it clear what this order does and what
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it doesn't do. So to begin with, the order defines gender-affirming care as the equivalent of chemical
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and surgical mutilation, which encompasses everything from surgeries to puberty blockers
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and cross-sex hormones. So right away, the federal government has just eliminated the Biden
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administration's endorsement of gender-affirming care. And now we've replaced it with much more
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accurate terminology. And if that was the only thing this executive order did, it would already
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be a significant, huge win. But of course, it does a lot more than that. So the order then makes,
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by far, its most important contribution to ending gender ideology in this country.
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And I'll read a bit from the order here, and I'll explain why this matters so much. Quote,
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the blatant harm done to children by chemical and surgical mutilation cloaks itself in medical necessity,
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spurred by guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, WPATH,
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which lacks scientific integrity. And the order then states that all federal agencies, including
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HHS, must rescind any and all reliance on WPATH guidelines. And then it states that the new HHS
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secretary, quote, shall publish a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting
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the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based
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confusion. Now, on the surface, you might think that this particular part of the order
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isn't necessarily that important, but it's actually critical for two reasons. First of all,
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as I've outlined at some length before, WPATH is and has always been an organization full of
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dishonest and demented charlatans. The internal WPATH filed, as reported by Michael Schellenberger,
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demonstrated very clearly that WPATH understands that children can't consent
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to chemical or physical castration, but they pushed it anyway, in part because the Biden
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administration encouraged them to do so. And yet, major hospitals have adopted WPATH guideline for
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so-called trans medicine wholesale over the last few years. This is happening for a very specific
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reason. Doctors, including gender doctors, are terrified of one thing, which is malpractice lawsuits.
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Because malpractice lawsuits can bankrupt doctors. They can destroy entire hospitals if they're big
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enough. So, you know, there's a lot of risk involved in sterilizing or castrating a child.
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A lot of financial risk. At the same time, these doctors desperately want to perform these procedures
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because they make a lot of money for the hospital. As you might remember, I found a video of a Vanderbilt
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doctor saying exactly that, that these things are a cash cow. So the solution that these gender doctors
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have decided on is to defer to the self-appointed experts at WPATH. And they know that if they can
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point to an established, quote, standard of care from some governing body, then they're basically
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immune from malpractice lawsuits. Because that's how malpractice law works. If doctors can show that
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they were just following guidelines, then you can't sue them. You know, even if they've done
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something horrible to you, like castrate you as a child. And that's why this Trump executive order
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is so important. You know, because from this point forward, the WPATH guidelines are no longer
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the standard of care by any definition. The federal government and its health care agency, the HHS,
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has just publicly rejected everything that WPATH stands for. The White House and HHS have just labeled
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WPATH junk science, which is exactly what it is. So doctors can no longer hide behind WPATH's
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guidelines to avoid malpractice lawsuits. And right away, that's going to cause their malpractice
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insurance to go through the roof. It'll dramatically enhance their liability. And eventually,
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it will make them stop these procedures entirely because it's just not financially sustainable.
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But just in case it doesn't, the executive order contains this provision, quote,
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the head of each executive department or agency that provides research or education grants to
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medical institution, including medical schools and hospitals, shall immediately take appropriate
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steps to ensure that institutions receiving federal research or education grants end the
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chemical and surgical mutilation of children. So in other words, if a hospital receives any kind
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of federal funding, which every major hospital does, then they need to stop castrating and sterilizing
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children. Otherwise, they stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. And in fact, they might lose
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even more than that because the order continues by mandating that, quote,
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the attorney general shall review Department of Justice enforcement of Section 116 of Title 18,
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United States Code, and prioritize enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation.
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And additionally, the attorney general must, quote, in consultation with the Congress,
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work to draft, propose, and promote legislation to enact a private right of action for children and
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the parents of children whose healthy body parts have been damaged by medical professionals
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practicing chemical and surgical mutilation, which should include a lengthy statute of limitations.
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So taken together, these two provisions don't just make it easier for victims to sue doctors who
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perform these barbaric procedures. They also open the door for the federal government to investigate
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and even imprison doctors who mutilate the bodies of children. As you may remember, around 20 years
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ago, the left claimed that it cared about female genital mutilation in Africa. So they passed a law
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outlawing the practice in the United States. But now under the guise of trans medicine,
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female genital mutilation is supposedly progressive somehow. So now the Trump administration is
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threatening to use that criminal law to go after these gender doctors. And at the same time,
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the Trump administration is also cutting any kind of government-sponsored insurance that would
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cover these practices. Now, having said all that, I need to make it clear that this executive order,
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as momentous as it is, does not by itself ban child sterilization and mutilation in this country.
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It makes it far more risky for doctors to perform these procedures. It suggests that the DOJ might
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be launching criminal investigations soon, and it makes it a lot harder for some of these hospitals
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and insurance companies to collect taxpayer money. But it's not a direct ban by itself. Outside of the
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many states that have banned this insanity already, it remains legal in places like California,
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Minnesota, and so on. And on top of that, if Democrats retake the White House in four years,
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they can reverse all of this. So Trump has done the absolute maximum of what a president can do
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on this issue. He can say with absolute sincerity that he has done everything he can to put an end to
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this insanity. But to finish the job, he's going to need help. He can't do that all on his own.
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So therefore, what's needed, as I've said many times before, is a law, a federal law,
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banning these procedures nationwide outright. This is clearly an ideal moment to advance a national
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ban like that, because gender ideology is now less popular than it's ever been.
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Trans activists have been utterly humiliated and rejected on the national stage. They haven't even
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really mustered any kind of sustained outrage about Trump's previous executive orders dismantling
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their ideology. So it stands to reason that they would be powerless as Congress passes the kill
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shot, which is a complete and total ban on chemical and physical mutilation in the name of gender
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ideology. Now, as the executive order itself states, quote, across the country today, medical professionals
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are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false
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claim that adults can change a child's sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.
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This dangerous trend will be a stain on our nation's history, and it must end.
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Now, just a year ago, as a man pretending to be a woman led our nation's federal health agency,
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it was easy to doubt that this moment would ever come. Now, I've said for years that child gender
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transitions will eventually be a thing of the past, and nobody will want to admit that they ever
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supported it or tolerated it. Now, that time is almost here. The barbarism of child gender butchery
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is on its very last legs, and very soon, you're not going to be able to find a single person in the
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country who admits to having ever supported it. For the sake of millions of confused and vulnerable
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people all over the country, and in particular for the sake of children, we have no choice now but
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to finish the job. Now, I want to say one other thing about this. The child butchery business
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is collapsing, and soon it will be gone. It will be ash, and history will look back on it with horror
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and shame and confusion. But I want to be clear about something, that if you're a doctor or a medical
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professional or a therapist or a psychiatrist who pushed this insanity on children, if you participated
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in and profited from the psychological and physical abuse of children, this is not over for you.
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You don't get to just move on. Those of us who have been fighting you for years will not let you
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just walk away scot-free. We are not going to rest until you are punished for what you've done.
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Now, what you deserve is a military tribunal and the sentence that is given to those who commit
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human rights atrocities, but that probably won't happen. So instead, we will settle with seeing that
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you are bankrupted and humiliated and shamed and ostracized and forever alienated from civilized
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society. We will not forget you. We will remember your names. For as long as there are people in
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this country who must live forever with the damage you inflicted on them as children, then you also
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should have to live with the consequences. Those children cannot pretend that this never happened.
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And so neither should you. Hopefully you've noticed that the conservatives you've had to deal with
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in this fight are a bit of a different breed. We tore down your whole industry piece by piece.
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We did exactly what we said we would do. We beat you. And so now when we say that we're going to make
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sure that you are held accountable for your crimes against humanity, you should know that we mean it
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and we will do it. So this isn't over. I promise you that. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Yesterday was the first White House press briefing of the new Trump administration. The new White House
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press secretary, Carolyn Levitt, had her debut and she did a nice job. The makeup of the room for the
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press briefing look different than what we usually have seen. And because Trump is allowing outlets
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other than the typical legacy media outlets into the room, they're still in the room, but he's also
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allowing others. The Daily Wire is there now with our excellent reporter, Mary Margaret Olihan.
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And they also announced that there will be a new media seat, which I think is the idea is they're going
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to give one day passes to various figures in new media to attend press briefings, which of course
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means that I have to apply, right? I mean, I have to do it, don't I? I have to get into the press
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briefing room and try to ask a question. Now granted, it won't be as fun for me as it would have been
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had I got press credentials during the Biden administration, because then I could troll Biden's
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press secretary, which would have been a lot of fun. The trolling takes on a different tone when
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I actually like the people. So it's a friendlier troll, which is just frankly not as fun. But
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either way, I feel like I do have an obligation, so we'll have to look into that. But for now,
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I want to play one moment from the briefing. Levitt, as promised by Trump, revealed the truth behind
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those drones that had everybody freaking out for like a month. And Trump had promised that he would
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look into it and whatever he finds out, he'd let us know. And so she opened the press briefing by
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giving us the update. And here it is. After research and study, the drones that were flying
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over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other
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reasons. Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational and private individuals that enjoy
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flying Jones. In meantime, in time, it got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy.
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So that's the answer, we're told, to the drone mystery, which should be major headline news,
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shouldn't it? I mean, people were obsessed with the drones for a month, weeks on end about the
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drones. And now Trump is coming out with a statement to explain what it was all about.
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And people are like, yeah, whatever. And this is how it goes. So we go from caring obsessively
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about something to not at all. We don't even stop. There's no stopover in between. There's no
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pit stop along the way from caring obsessively to not at all. It's either care obsessively or not at
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all. There's no mild interest. That's not a gear that we have in the internet age.
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It's just how the news cycle works, I guess. Now, granted, the explanation Trump gives is quite
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boring. These are drones authorized by the FAA combined with hobbyists and recreational drones.
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And if that's the case, it, of course, raises a question, which is, why didn't the Biden
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administration just say that? If the drones were authorized by the FAA, the FAA would have
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obviously known that. And so the Biden administration would know that. And which
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would mean that there was never any mystery about the drones. From the moment people started asking
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questions about it, the Biden administration knew exactly what it was. And it, but they didn't just
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say that. They didn't tell us. Now, there is another explanation here, of course. And a lot of
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people in social media are just kind of refusing to believe that this explanation is correct.
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They're saying that there must be something that we're not being told. There must still be more
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to the story. And that might be the case. I don't know. But I actually find it extremely plausible
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that this, that there was a benign explanation for this, that Biden just refused to give us.
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That is also very plausible. I mean, that tracks, right? That's the kind of totally gratuitous
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disrespect for the American people that you would expect from the Biden regime.
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You know, it, something is happening. People are asking about it. The Biden administration could
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just tell us, but chooses not to, chooses to let people panic needlessly. Why? Well, in part,
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it's because it's, it was a nice distraction. And I think for the Biden administration, anything
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that distracted people from the fact, from the, the failures of the Biden administration was a
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positive. So there was that, but also I think they just had a contempt for the American people.
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And then they resented the idea that they should have to explain anything to us.
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So if people were living in New Jersey and feeling a bit vulnerable, not sure if there was some sort of,
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these were Chinese drones, if there was some kind of attack, alien, alien attack.
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I think the Biden administration looked at that and they said, I don't care.
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Okay. Yeah. I don't care if they feel that way. Yes. We could easily say something that would calm
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these fears, but we're just not going to. So that, that tracks that to me, that is perfectly believable.
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Um, but who knows? All right. Now we have some tragic news. CNN anchor and longtime Trump hater,
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Jim Acosta made the announcement on a show yesterday that he is quitting. It was his last show. And, uh,
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the background here is that CNN wanted to move Jim Acosta from his daytime slot to midnight. I think he
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was on at 10 AM and they wanted to move him to midnight, which is, I mean, that's how much faith
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and pride the CNN brass had in Jim Acosta. That that's how, you know, right. That you're,
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you're doing a great job on TV when your bosses come to you and say, uh, we, you know, we want to,
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we want to move your time slot. Oh, how far do you want to move it? Oh, about 14 hours.
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We want to, we want to just push it back a bit, about 14 hours, you know? And, uh, because there
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are probably about 10 people watching CNN at midnight, which is only half of their primetime
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audience. So it's a pretty steep drop. And, uh, so Acosta wouldn't do it. Acosta would not allow
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his show to be moved to midnight, which is a little surprising considering that Jim Acosta,
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no offense, is a blood sucking vampire goblin. So you'd think that midnight would be perfect for him
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as a brainless zombie. You'd think that the graveyard shift would be right up his alley,
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but he said no. And, uh, so he gave his dramatic sign off yesterday. Here it is.
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There's never a good time to bow down to a tyrant. I've always believed it's the job of the press to
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hold power to account. I've always tried to do that here at CNN. And I plan on going, doing, uh, all
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of that in the future. One final message. Don't give into the lies. Don't give into the fear. Hold
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onto the truth and to hope. Even if you have to get out your phone, record that message. I will not give
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into the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you
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too. I'll have more to say about my plans in the coming days, but until then, I want to thank all
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of you for tuning in. It has been an honor to be welcomed into your home for all these years.
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That's the news reporting from Washington. I'm Jim Acosta. Good Lord. What a dork. I mean,
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I know this is not the most profound insight, but what a dork this guy is just a dork. Like this is,
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I don't condone bullying, but, but this is why you need, this is why bullies fill a role in society.
00:24:50.220
This is someone who just needs to be shoved into a locker. Like this is, this is someone who just
00:24:54.640
needs to have his head dunked in a toilet and be shoved into a locker. I'm not condoning it.
00:24:59.600
I'm not saying that should happen. I guess I did just say it should happen, but that's not,
00:25:05.360
I was figuratively like metaphorically in a metaphor, totally metaphorical, non-physical sense.
00:25:10.960
He needs to be, uh, have his head dunked in the toilet and shoved into a metaphorical locker.
00:25:14.660
Just a dork, you know, take out your phone, post this message on your social medias.
00:25:20.980
I will not give into the lies. You know, he's trying to start. So, and nobody posted that by
00:25:25.520
the way, not a single person. He's trying to start a movement posted on your social media.
00:25:30.040
No one, no one did. Not a single person did. You can tell he wanted this so badly to be his
00:25:35.860
network moment, right? You know, his, uh, I'm mad as hell. I'm not going to take it anymore.
00:25:40.960
Moment. He wanted this to be iconic. This is his iconic, defiant, uh, uh, bold, brave.
00:25:52.080
He doesn't remind me to turn this off. That's on you.
00:25:57.260
He wanted this to be his defiant moment and it just didn't, uh, it didn't work. Uh, and, uh,
00:26:03.940
and instead it was just lame and boring. And on top of that, you know, he fumbled over his words
00:26:08.780
multiple times. So huge dork. And that, that's it for Jim Acosta. I can only imagine that seeing
00:26:16.680
him leave so abruptly was very upsetting for his viewer. Uh, so my condolences to that person.
00:26:24.600
Um, and, uh, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll wait to see what Jim Acosta does next. I mean, no one is
00:26:31.280
waiting to see what he does next. No, nobody, nobody cares, but, um, I'm sure we'll hear anyway.
00:26:38.340
Here's something a bit, a bit, uh, some, some heavier news here. The New York Post reports
00:26:42.880
the homeless man who allegedly shoved a woman into the path of a moving Manhattan train
00:26:48.520
made a chilling confession, telling cops, I did it because I wanted to. A court heard yesterday.
00:26:54.160
Marquis Brazillis, 26, brazenly admitted to tossing the 23 year old victim into an on, uh, an, on an
00:27:01.380
incoming A train at the 168th street station shortly after he was arrested for the savage Monday morning
00:27:07.060
attack. Um, he told cops, I pushed her into the train because I was high and I was mad. I did it
00:27:15.000
because I wanted to. Now, I, you know, when people tell you why they do things, you should
00:27:23.800
believe them. And we heard it from this guy directly. Why did he randomly throw a woman
00:27:30.080
in front of a train? Well, because he wanted to, that's it. That's the reason. And I, I've been
00:27:37.820
saying this exact thing for a long time, violent and dangerous vagrants roaming the streets who do
00:27:43.740
terrible and violent things. Why do they do it? Well, it's not because they're victims of systemic
00:27:49.700
racism. It's not because of their socioeconomic situation. It's not even because they're crazy.
00:27:56.560
Guess what? You know, I know we like to think that all these people committing random acts of
00:28:00.720
violence are crazy, but they aren't. A crazy person cannot speak so clearly and rationally about their
00:28:08.240
motives. A crazy person doesn't know why they do things. This guy does. He, he did it because he
00:28:15.900
wanted to, but why did he want to? I have no idea. I can't relate to that desire. I've never had the
00:28:23.520
desire to throw anyone in front of a train. So I, I don't know why he wanted to, but he, he wanted to
00:28:27.980
for whatever reason, he had the free will, the ability to not do it. He could have not acted on that
00:28:36.320
perverse, dark desire, but he did. And why did he act on it? Because he's evil. That's why he's a bad
00:28:45.040
person. This is an evil person. He causes pain and suffering just for fun, just because he wants
00:28:50.380
to. And that's what we call an evil person. We used to understand that human evil exists.
00:28:57.980
That's a thing. People are evil. Evil people are out there. There are evil people in the world.
00:29:02.260
Not everything is a matter of mental health. You know, of course, these days we like to,
00:29:08.100
we like to take any terrible thing that someone does. And you hear from both sides of the political
00:29:13.020
aisle about there's a mental health crisis in America. Well, it's the mental health. This is
00:29:17.760
about mental health. It's no, it's, you know what it is very often. It's just, these are bad people.
00:29:26.480
They're just bad people who do bad things. This is actually not a problem that can be simply solved
00:29:33.800
with drugs. And, um, and that, and that brings us to some other hard truths about this guy. And mainly
00:29:43.620
it's this, that he almost certainly cannot be reformed. Him and everyone like him, you know,
00:29:52.280
all the violent vagrants and people walking around committing random acts of violence,
00:29:57.180
they cannot be reformed. He will be a danger to society forever. He will be a liability forever.
00:30:05.940
Now, no human being is outside the mercy of God. Anyone can be forgiven and transformed and redeemed.
00:30:11.380
I certainly believe that, but that's between him and God. We as a society can never trust that he's
00:30:18.660
reformed. We can't know that God can know that, but we can't. And, uh, so there will never be a time
00:30:27.860
when we can safely and reasonably assume or trust that he can be assimilated back into society. There
00:30:34.520
will never be a time when I would feel comfortable standing near train tracks with this guy around,
00:30:40.480
which means that the only solution is to permanently remove people like this from society. Uh, and I
00:30:49.820
mean that through the legal process, through the courts, lawfully, in accordance with the constitution,
00:30:56.180
these people need to be permanently removed from society. It's the only answer. Uh, there's,
00:31:02.600
there's no, there is no other answer. Like we talked about yesterday, Trump had, uh, one,
00:31:08.160
one idea for, for solving that problem. One idea as to how we, uh, permanently remove something like
00:31:13.840
this from society. And that is ship them overseas, set up a, essentially a penal colony somewhere,
00:31:20.020
set up a, a, a, a prison camp somewhere in some country, preferably a really a rough country,
00:31:27.500
the kind of country you don't want to be in and send them there. And just that's, and that's where
00:31:31.940
he's going to live until he dies. And we're just going to forget that you exist. Uh, society will
00:31:37.960
just forget about you. And you know, you'll be given three meals at the, well, maybe not three
00:31:47.020
meals, but you'll be given food. You'll be given food on a daily basis. You're not going to starve
00:31:51.540
to death, but it's going to be a miserable life. It's going to be a horrible life. And then you're
00:31:55.860
going to die and you'll be buried in an unmarked grave and we'll never think about you again. Um,
00:32:00.520
that is the fate of someone who, like, if you're the kind of person where we have to worry that,
00:32:07.960
that if you're the kind of person where I can't stand next to you on the train, by the train tracks,
00:32:12.520
then you are the kind of person who deserves to be sent to a prison camp and to die and to be
00:32:17.720
forgotten and to just die. Uh, you know, that's what you deserve. And, uh, and so maybe,
00:32:27.340
I don't know, it's, uh, it, it kind of seems far-fetched that we'll actually see this happen,
00:32:34.400
that we're going to start shipping, you know, uh, criminals to some prison camp in Uganda somewhere
00:32:41.040
or something. It seems far-fetched, but Hey, I mean, if you had told me that Trump would be as
00:32:47.220
productive as he has been in the last two weeks, I would have thought, well, that's, I mean,
00:32:50.640
that's not even possible. So maybe this will happen. We'll see.
00:32:56.560
Trump's freeze on foreign aid has brought out all the expected sob stories. And we're now hearing
00:33:01.340
from the media and the Democrats that Trump in particular is failing in his duty to fight
00:33:06.360
AIDS in Africa. So this has become a talking point now. It's been a lot of reporting about
00:33:10.680
how the AIDS epidemic will be made worse, uh, without foreign aid. Democrat Congressman Dan
00:33:16.620
Goldman tweeted as much. He said, Trump's freeze on all foreign aid is an abdication of our duty as a
00:33:21.740
global leader. That money fights AIDS, malaria, and famine, including in Sudan. Now this indiscriminate
00:33:28.380
freeze will cause more people to die like his blanket pardons. It's a small minded, dangerous and
00:33:34.040
harmful. Now I asked Dan this question on X and still haven't gotten an answer shockingly, but
00:33:39.500
let me pose it here again. It's a simple question for Dan or, you know, for anyone. Um,
00:33:46.380
here's the question. Why should working class American taxpayers have to pay to fight AIDS
00:34:01.480
Why? Why is that our problem to solve? Because I'll be honest with you. When I think about all the
00:34:07.560
pressing concerns and problems that need to be solved, I know we, we always hear about AIDS in
00:34:12.960
Africa as one of the great epidemics that we should all really be concerned about. But
00:34:16.240
when I think about all the problems that are most pressing to me as an American citizen, AIDS in Africa
00:34:24.120
doesn't even make the list. It's just not on the list. Now I have no ill will towards people
00:34:32.440
suffering from AIDS in Africa. I wish them the best. Uh, but I care first and foremost about the
00:34:40.120
people who are suffering in my own country. And I have an obligation to my family, my friends, my
00:34:45.440
community, and my nation. I have no obligation to Sudan, Sudan, uh, none at all. Like what is, that's maybe
00:34:56.620
another way of phrasing the question. Just taking myself as a, as an American citizen. What is my
00:35:04.520
personal obligation to Sudan? What is it? And where does it come from? In what way am I obliged to help
00:35:16.140
Sudan? Uh, the answer is that there is no obligation. And this is to say nothing of the fact, the perhaps
00:35:25.000
most relevant fact, that the aid money going to allegedly fight AIDS in Africa and these other
00:35:31.000
things is obviously not working. You know, when we talk about foreign aid, of course, the reality is
00:35:36.700
that most foreign aid is a scam anyway. It doesn't even go towards the thing it's supposed to, allegedly.
00:35:43.200
What, I mean, why does, why does Africa still have an AIDS epidemic? The Western world has long
00:35:50.300
since gotten AIDS largely under control. So why can't Africa figure it out? It's a serious question.
00:35:57.540
Why can't they figure it out? And at what point are these countries expected to stand on their own
00:36:05.360
two feet and take care of themselves? At what point? Never, never. Is that the answer?
00:36:12.740
So is it our job forever, forever to sustain these countries and solve their problems for them?
00:36:21.080
Forever? Really? Well, if you ask Dan Goldman, that's what he would say. I mean, he wouldn't say
00:36:28.380
that out loud because he knows how it sounds, but that is his answer. His answer is that you as
00:36:35.280
an American citizen have a permanent obligation to Sudan that will last forever. And again, he won't
00:36:43.480
say it because he knows that sounds insane and it cannot possibly be justified. But, but that's what
00:36:52.000
they think. Because here's the thing. It's not like we're being told that we need to give these
00:36:57.960
countries a little help to get, to get them over the hump and, and get them back on their feet and then
00:37:03.860
they'll, they'll be good to go. Right? That we're not being told that that's not the pitch. No,
00:37:10.180
what we're being told implicitly is to keep, keep giving them our money forever, permanently
00:37:16.960
forever, because they will just never be able to take care of themselves, which means that not only
00:37:24.420
are we as taxpayers getting totally built and scammed, but also the money isn't accomplishing anything in
00:37:30.640
the longterm. Clearly. I mean, for how long have we been, have we been giving taxpayer money to AIDS
00:37:37.940
in Africa? How long has this been going on? Decades. And it's still an epidemic. How is that
00:37:45.520
possible? How is this problem not under control by now? And what makes you think that continuing to
00:37:52.260
give money will, will help anything if it hasn't done anything yet? You know, give a man a fish and
00:37:58.200
feed him for a day, teach him to fish and feed him for life. And that was the old, uh, the old saying
00:38:01.740
and, and, um, okay, well, well, why can't these people fish? Right? You know, when I was in Kenya, I
00:38:10.040
remember driving through the towns and seeing just these massive piles of trash, massive mountains
00:38:16.040
of trash in the middle of every town. Right? And, and, um, this is one of the reasons why they struggle
00:38:23.560
with diseases that the rest of the world has mostly eradicated because the hygiene and the basic
00:38:28.540
cleanliness is non-existent, but it's like, why can't you figure out basic trash removal?
00:38:37.100
Okay. Can we, it's a, to use the left's phrase, can we have an uncomfortable conversation about some
00:38:41.480
of this stuff? Let's have an uncomfortable conversation. Why can't you figure out trash
00:38:45.320
removal? This is one of the most basic fundamental skills required to build a functional civilization.
00:38:50.860
civilization civilizations that existed 3000 years ago, figured that out with technology that was
00:38:57.420
3000 years old. So, so why can't Kenya, like, why, why can't you solve that problem?
00:39:12.540
Um, we're talking about like a training wheel level skill and, and Kenya gets like a billion dollars a
00:39:18.900
year in USAID or something, a billion dollars a year, every year for decades. And they don't know
00:39:25.620
what to do with their trash. So my point is that the aid is not, it's obviously not, obviously not
00:39:33.180
building a sustainable, healthy, thriving Africa. And that's what I would like to see. I'd like to see
00:39:41.640
that happen. I'd like for every country in the world to be healthy and thriving and sustainable.
00:39:48.040
I wish for nothing but the best for every country in the world. That that's what I would love to see.
00:39:54.380
But the point is that we can't do that for you. It's not our job. It's not our obligation.
00:40:03.040
And we can't do it anyway. So at a certain point, these countries need to figure out how to stand
00:40:15.080
on their own two feet. And which is why Trump has, has temporarily put a freeze on foreign aid,
00:40:23.820
which is great. Um, I think that there's, that the, the freeze should be permanent.
00:40:29.880
I think we should withdraw all foreign aid from everybody because it, and I've said this before
00:40:40.880
and I know how it comes across to some people. And I, of course, I don't care what it comes across.
00:40:46.080
If you, if you need USAID in order to exist as a country, if you cannot function as a country without
00:40:55.580
USAID, then you don't deserve to exist as a country. Okay. Then you're a country that effectively
00:41:06.380
doesn't exist already. You, you are a, uh, a puppet. You're a, you're a failed state that is,
00:41:14.080
is weekend at Bernie's on the international stage. But you're already a dead country. You are a dead
00:41:21.080
country. If you need welfare payments permanently from American taxpayers in order to exist.
00:41:29.520
And so I think that the only solution is to just let the chips fall where they may take out,
00:41:34.140
revoke all USAID from everybody and, uh, and, and let these things shake out.
00:41:41.820
And maybe if you're a country that can't, can't be sustained on your own,
00:41:45.620
then probably what ends up happening is that a stronger country comes in and takes over,
00:41:51.600
you know, which is how the world worked for thousands of years. If you can't take care of
00:41:56.180
yourself, if you can't, if you can't stand on your own two feet as a nation, then some other
00:41:59.440
country is going to come in and they're going to conquer you and they're going to, they're going
00:42:02.540
to take, that's just the way it works. Um, which is, would be hard to lament as any great tragedy,
00:42:09.180
considering you, you, you, you, you had all this time to figure out how to exist as a country
00:42:14.160
and you couldn't figure it out. Um, so, uh, you know, maybe the, uh,
00:42:27.040
it's a dog eat dog world out there. And, uh, so maybe that's a process that we should just allow
00:42:33.680
to play out a little bit. Um, because if the other option is that we have to take food out of
00:42:40.920
our children's mouths forever to prop up all of these countries who, by the way, do nothing for us,
00:42:47.500
give us nothing in return and don't even display even the faintest hint of gratitude ever. Um,
00:42:54.740
you know, if that's, if that's the alternative, well then
00:42:57.180
that's just not an acceptable alternative. I hate to say it. I mean, I don't hate to say it
00:43:05.700
actually. Let's get to the comment section. It's weird that none of these proud Mexican
00:43:20.060
patriots want to live in Mexico. Yeah, that is a strange thing, isn't it? Yeah. There are a lot
00:43:24.660
people in this country who are deeply proud of the countries that they came from, uh, that they
00:43:30.060
desperately fled from and are terrified of the prospect of going back to it. And yet they're proud
00:43:36.720
of it. I'm so proud of my home country. Okay. Well then you can go back to it. No, not that anything
00:43:43.400
but that. And you're proud of them. It's like, it's like saying you're proud of your family, but
00:43:52.140
under no circumstances will you ever invite any of them over for Thanksgiving. It's like, I don't
00:43:57.300
know. How proud are you? Um, replace Jefferson with Trump on Mount Rushmore. No, that, that look,
00:44:08.620
I think Trump, I I've said, if Trump repeals the income tax, if he figures out a way to,
00:44:14.180
which he can't do on his own, of course, but, but if, if, if he can lead the fight to get rid of the
00:44:17.800
income tax, he deserves to be on Mount Rushmore, which I, I stand by. Um, you can make an argument
00:44:24.020
if that, if Trump, even if that doesn't happen, if Trump just keeps up somehow this pace that he's
00:44:28.500
on right now for four years, uh, you can not only make an argument, but I think it would be
00:44:33.080
very much obviously the case that he would deserve to be on Mount Rushmore, uh, for that.
00:44:39.580
Uh, but it, hopefully you could just add them. I mean, there's, there's, I think there's enough
00:44:43.620
room on the mountainside to, to Adam. If, if for some reason it is an interesting kind of a fun
00:44:48.400
little thought experiment. If let's just say for some reason you, you were not, you couldn't,
00:44:55.460
you can't add someone, you'd have to carve his face over one of the faces that's already on Mount
00:45:01.500
Rushmore. Then who, who has to go in favor of Trump? That's a fun, that's a little bit of a,
00:45:09.180
that's a, that's a fun game. Um, I would say you can't get rid of Jefferson. I mean,
00:45:13.360
Jeff Jefferson stays, George Washington stays, uh, for, for, for me, Teddy Roosevelt,
00:45:22.200
a personal favorite president, he has to stay. So really, I mean, Lincoln is the odd man out.
00:45:30.000
I think in that case, uh, Lincoln's got to go. Sorry. Sorry, Abe. You know, yeah, you got a lot of,
00:45:36.300
he's got plenty of other monuments. I think he's, he's done pretty well for himself posthumously.
00:45:40.560
So that would be my vote. If you got, if you got to vote one of the Mount Rushmore presidents off
00:45:47.020
the island or off the mountainside, uh, and then, then it would probably be him, you know?
00:45:55.280
Let's see, Matt, I don't know if I missed it, but did you ever come back to give the rest of the
00:45:59.300
review for American medieval, American prime evils in the name of the show? We'll be quite interested
00:46:04.700
what you thought of it as a whole. Yeah. Well, thanks for reminding me. I'm, I'm, uh, I, yeah,
00:46:09.720
I did finish it. And, uh, I'm happy to report that American primeval, the new Western series on
00:46:14.560
Netflix did in fact stick the landing, uh, having seen the whole series now. Uh, and it takes us a
00:46:20.640
while. We don't, you know, my, my wife and I, we, uh, this thing people do where they binge a whole
00:46:27.660
series in a day and a half. I, we, that's just, I don't know how you do that. I mean,
00:46:31.420
your, your brain starts to turn to mush and leak out of your ears at a certain point watching that
00:46:36.480
much TV. So we, it takes us a little bit of time to get through a series. Um, so we, we did finally
00:46:42.420
finish it. And I can say that it's a very solid show. It's easily one of the few quality Westerns
00:46:47.180
of the last 20 years. And one of the best things that Netflix has put out, which low bars in both
00:46:53.160
cases, but still very, very, very solid show. It, it never lapsed into most of the woke cliches that
00:47:00.920
you expect the lead female character, which this is the thing that I found to be most surprising
00:47:07.400
about the show is that the lead female character never really became the kick-ass action hero,
00:47:14.040
Mary Sue type of character that that character always becomes in like every show and movie these
00:47:20.200
days. You know, you, you have a, in any show where it's kind of an action thing and there's a,
00:47:26.320
the, the lead character is a female and she's encountering bad guys and stuff. Um, in almost
00:47:32.620
every case, either she starts off right, right out of the gate as some ass kicking ninja, or at the
00:47:40.520
very least becomes that through the course of the show. But in this case, they resisted that temptation.
00:47:46.860
Now there's one scene, I'm not gonna spoil anything. There's one scene that kind of borders
00:47:53.240
on that trope, uh, a little bit. And, but if, if you watch the show and you see that scene,
00:48:00.220
it, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's forgivable. It's a forgivable, it's, it's, it's, I think justified
00:48:06.160
in the context of the story. But other than that, you've got this classic kind of mysterious drifter
00:48:11.380
guy who you have in all the great Westerns, you know, all the great, most of the great Westerns
00:48:15.840
anyway, the, the lead male character is this mysterious guy that doesn't talk a lot and,
00:48:21.640
you know, uh, gruff and masculine and, and you don't really know anything about his past, you know.
00:48:27.700
Um, and, uh, he, he, he comes off as, as maybe a bit cruel at first, but through the course of the
00:48:34.500
story, you see that underneath all that, he really is a good man. Uh, but anyway, he's the ass kicker.
00:48:41.000
And so in this, in this show, you know, you have that character and, uh, he is constantly saving and
00:48:48.340
bailing out this woman and her child through the whole series, right down to the, like the last
00:48:52.060
moment, which again, I'm trying to give you spoilers, but right down to the last moment, he is, um,
00:48:57.660
he's there protecting her and her son. So I thought that that was good. Um, it mostly avoids the woke
00:49:03.500
stuff with the Indians in the show, uh, by modern Hollywood standards, you know,
00:49:08.900
the evil white man themes by modern Hollywood standards are kept to a minimum. Uh, the,
00:49:15.860
the Indians are portrayed as warlike and brutal, which is what they were. And which to a certain
00:49:21.300
extent, everybody was back then, especially on the frontier. There is a female Indian chief who is
00:49:27.460
like the wise sage and is a pacifist and somehow speaks perfect English too, which is never explained.
00:49:34.220
And that's pretty silly. I mean, that's, it's the wokest that the show gets is with that character,
00:49:39.740
but it's, uh, you know, I, I think it's, again, I would call it forgivable. It's kept to a minimum.
00:49:45.600
And, you know, you can kind of look past it. Uh, the only thing I'll warn you about is that
00:49:51.720
the show is very brutally violent. And, um, I, I, I think in a way that for the most part is justified
00:49:58.840
by the storytelling, it does at times go overboard with the brutality and the bleakness. Uh, there's
00:50:06.680
one thing in particular, the very, the very end of the show, the last episode, there's this
00:50:12.400
subplot of, uh, uh, a, a husband who in the first couple episodes, uh, his wife is abducted.
00:50:21.320
And so he's trying to find his wife through the entire, uh, show. And at, in the final episode,
00:50:30.120
they encounter each other and that, that goes in a direction that is so bleak that it's, it's almost,
00:50:40.500
you almost have to laugh at it because it's so, it's so over the top depressing that you're almost
00:50:45.140
like, really that, uh, so there is a little bit of that in the show. And, um, but if, so if you find
00:50:52.880
that sort of thing overly upsetting, then I wouldn't watch the show. Uh, for me, I have a
00:50:56.980
fairly high tolerance for bleak and brutal stuff in, in stories. Uh, I personally, for a story like
00:51:04.420
this, I'd prefer it go overboard in that direction than in the other direction. I'd rather err on the
00:51:09.120
side of being a bit too brutal and too bleak than in sanitizing it too much. Um, and that's just me.
00:51:15.140
Uh, finally, talking about the Nancy Mace situation, people change. I personally used
00:51:24.120
to be a leftist until 2020 when I started to see the error of my ways, thanks to the George Floyd
00:51:28.840
movement. Well, yeah, look, people change and you saw the error in your ways because of the Floyd
00:51:35.120
stuff. Actually, now that you mentioned it, Nancy Mace did not see the error in her ways from that.
00:51:40.480
Even a year after Floyd's overdose, she was tweeting about how George Floyd had been murdered
00:51:44.680
okay. A year later, but in any case, yeah, people change. You know, the problem with Nancy Mace is
00:51:50.220
that she flipped on the trans issue and then immediately positioned herself as a leader on
00:51:54.440
that issue. And then as we talked about, started to try, trying to recast the whole argument in
00:51:59.200
feminist terms, but even leaving that part aside, which to me was, is the main problem. You know,
00:52:04.100
it's, it's, it's, that's the main thing is that you are using feminist ideology and feminist
00:52:10.440
ideology base is, feminist ideology is gender ideology. And so now you're trying to use that
00:52:16.900
and recast the fight against gender ideology in gender ideology terms. And that I can't allow you
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to do that. You can't come in at the last moment and screw everything up by, by, by basically accepting
00:52:32.060
the premise of the gender ideologues. I can't let you do that. But even leaving all that aside,
00:52:40.060
I also just can't put up with someone coming that late to the party and then pretending
00:52:46.200
that you were on the front lines the whole time. So it's one thing, it's one thing to come in and
00:52:50.340
say, Hey, look, I got this thing wrong. I was wrong about this. I see that I'm wrong now. And Hey,
00:52:54.860
I'm ready to join this fight. If somebody says that I welcome them with, with open arms. I would
00:52:59.240
never, anyone who says that about anything, I say, great. You know, we don't need to dwell on
00:53:04.020
anything you said in the past. We're not going to dig up tweets. We're not gonna do any of that.
00:53:07.240
You've changed your mind. You've seen the air in your ways. Here you are. Let, you know,
00:53:10.320
brothers in arms. Fantastic. I'll be the first to say that I'm very consistent about that. But
00:53:15.480
when you come in, especially as a politician and there is no accountability, there is no admitting
00:53:22.220
that you were wrong. And you just barge to the front of the line and say, I'm the leader.
00:53:27.300
I was doing this the whole time. That, come on, that it's purely self-serving and dishonest. And,
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and it's particularly from a politician. I'm just not going to put up with that. Why should we?
00:53:43.000
You know? And that's my problem there. Let's be real. Mainstream media isn't just broken. It's
00:53:49.100
corrupt. They don't report the news. They curate it to fit their agenda. And Americans, well,
00:53:53.820
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00:53:57.660
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00:54:02.260
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Don't sit on the sidelines. Be a part of the revolution. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
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Now, if you spend very much time on social media, you have probably seen the story of the 500 pound
00:54:37.460
aspiring female rapper who is suing Lyft after a driver refused to let her in the car because she was
00:54:44.800
too fat. And if you're a fan of this show, you probably assumed that it would be the subject of
00:54:50.760
a daily cancellation. And look, if you made that assumption, frankly, I have to say, I'm offended
00:54:56.420
that you think I'm so predictable. You just assume that I would do the easy and cheap thing and waste
00:55:03.580
your time and mine doing a whole monologue about a fat woman who didn't fit in a car. In fact, you
00:55:09.520
probably assume that I'll not only talk about this case, but I'll even play a clip of one of her music
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videos, even though it has nothing to do with the story and adds nothing of value to the conversation.
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Well, if you assumed all of that, you are, of course, totally correct. I mean, that is the point
00:55:25.460
of the daily cancellation. What is the point of it if I'm not going to use it as an occasion
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to talk about a woman who ate so much Little Caesar stuffed crust pizza that she no longer fits
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inside a midsize sedan? So let's start at the beginning. Dejao Blanding is the woman's real name.
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Dank DeMoss is her rap name, or it might be the other way around. There's no way to know. In any case,
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a few days ago, Ms. Dank went viral when she posted this video of her interaction with a Lyft driver
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who regretted to inform her that his car will not fit a woman who is the approximate size of a female
00:55:57.520
polar bear. And I don't say that as an insult, by the way. This woman reportedly weighs about 500
00:56:02.200
pounds, which is in fact the upper range for a female polar bear. And I think that fact is
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important. I'm just trying to put it in perspective because it puts the tremendous size of this woman
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into perspective. And this story, a story that she made public, is all about her size. I mean,
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that's what this all hinges on. So here's what she looks like for reference. There's the picture.
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As you can see, she is, shall we say, a substantial woman. And here is the initial
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video of her encounter with the unfortunate Lyft driver. Here it is.
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So you're telling me I can't get a Lyft because I can't fit in your car.
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What makes you think I can't fit in the car? What makes you think I can't fit in the car?
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Because the car is small in the bedroom. My best friend has a biz that's newer than this
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that I can fit in. That's the same size. Yeah, I'm sorry about that.
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So you're really telling me I'm too busy getting your car. So I got to order another Lyft.
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And to be more and more specific with you, I got very tired of tires.
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What? I got to do with your tires. Yeah, and you have no space.
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How do you know I don't have no space? Yeah, I got no space in the bathroom.
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So she asks what makes him think that she can't fit in his car. And the driver, because he's polite,
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did not respond, well, ma'am, there are two things that make me think you can't fit in my car.
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My eyes. And it's good that he didn't say that. That would have been unkind.
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And so now, after that video made the rounds, Ms. Dank put out a statement addressing all the haters.
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And I found her to be remarkably eloquent, to be honest with you. So check it out.
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Let's talk about it. Since everybody and they bald-headed-ass mama got something to say about Dank.
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First of all, let's touch bases on the big b****s in the back that got something to say about me.
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Like, you only, like, one burger away from being my size. Like, y'all h***s got me f***ed up.
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Then y'all talking about, oh, she posted a video for Cloud.
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I posted this video because y'all got us f***ed up.
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Y'all always trying to put big people in a f***ing category.
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Oh, big people this or big da-da-da-da-da or big this and da-da-da.
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Y'all want us to be in a f***ing house, miserable, bored.
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I don't give a f*** if you gave me my f***ing money back.
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Stop playing with me on this f*** ass internet.
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You know, I have to say when I first heard about this woman's plight, I was not, I confess,
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But then I watched that video and I started to understand her perspective.
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Because I, too, am sick and tired of the f*** ass internet.
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And secondly, she says that we all need to stop putting large women like herself into categories.
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Which only proves her point, is what I'm saying.
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So I think now is as good a time as any to take a quick detour and check out one of Miss Stank's music videos.
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Will it clarify any aspect of this controversy for us?
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But we don't need an excuse, I think, to enjoy some quality music, do we?
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I ain't jumping for these s***s and I stand on this s***.
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You know, she, I'm sure you were tracking the lyrics there.
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She said that at one point she says, these s***s under me.
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We need to check on the s***s that were under you.
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I'm concerned for their health and safety at this point.
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But I have to say, the collective IQ in that room was quite impressive.
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I think with their brain power all combined, I have no doubt that it would create an intellect powerful enough to graduate middle school.
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And I mean that as a compliment, just to be clear.
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Everything I'm saying is meant as a compliment.
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So now we get to the inevitable part of this story where the requisite lawsuit is filed.
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Here's the local Fox affiliate with the earth-shattering news.
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Georgia Blanding tells us she was just trying to get to a Detroit Lions watch party this month when her lift rolled up.
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As I'm walking, I see him, like, making faces or whatever.
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He told her there's not enough room in his car.
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The kicker part was when he started to talk about his tires.
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You know, I feel like that was a slap in the face.
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The driver said his tires could not handle her weight.
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Every big person, you turn down because they can't fit in your car?
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Yeah, because they need to order the Uber XL retail.
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He apologized, canceled the ride, and left her there.
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Dank DeMoss, as she's known at the mic, is crushed by the whole situation.
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It looks like a lift might be hurting pretty soon, too.
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I knew it was illegal, and I knew that it was wrong.
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Her attorneys, John Marco and Zach Runyon, say weight is a protected characteristic in Michigan by law.
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It would be no different than a driver pulling up and saying, you know, I don't want to have black people in my car,
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or I don't want to have Christians in my car or Muslims in my car.
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Since she posted the encounter on social media, other full-figured folks have reached out saying the same thing happened to them.
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That is now the euphemism for 500-pound human beings.
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One might object that if you weigh more than the ATV parked in my garage right now, that your figure is several steps beyond full.
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Because the human body, just like a vehicle, does have a capacity.
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Your bone structure and internal organs are not designed to carry around and sustain that kind of weight.
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Which is why literally every single person the size of Ms. Dank will die and die soon.
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She will either go on a diet and lose weight, or she will be dead within like 10 years, probably much sooner.
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Especially now that she has scummy lawyers encouraging her to see her weight as a quote-unquote protected characteristic.
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Her lawyer says that rejecting a person because they're extremely morbidly obese is no different than rejecting them because they're black.
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In fact, using a rough calculation, we know that in order to maintain 500 pounds of weight, you would need to consume something like 8,000 calories a day.
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Though she almost certainly eats much more than that because she's doing more than simply maintaining.
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But even 8,000 calories a day is a mind-boggling amount.
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I mean, that's at least four times the recommended calorie intake for an adult woman.
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She's eating enough for at least four people every day.
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And in order to do that, you have to essentially eat all day.
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I mean, think about how much eating you would have to do to take in those kinds of calories every single day.
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You have to adopt the lifestyle of a panda, eating for 10 to 16 hours a day.
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Of course, pandas eat that much because they're morons and they only eat bamboo, which has no nutritional value.
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Ms. Dank is probably not surviving on bamboo, we can assume.
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She's almost certainly eating nothing but processed foods all day, every day.
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So it takes sustained, almost Herculean effort to be and remain that obese.
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To say that someone's status as morbidly obese is protected, it's like saying that a man who chooses to walk around upside down on his hands all day is protected.
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It's incredible effort is required to be in that position.
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I mean, obviously, it would be absurd if she wins a single dime in a lawsuit, which means that just as obviously a court in Michigan will probably award her $50 million, which is the same thing as giving her a death sentence.
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Because she's going to spend the money on food and she's going to complete the slow motion suicide that she's been committing for years now.
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It's also obvious that the Lyft driver is the real victim here.
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I mean, it's pretty clear that he was embarrassed, as any normal person would be, having to tell her that she's too stupendously fat to fit into his vehicle.
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I mean, he would have preferred to just give her a ride, take her money, and be done with it.
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He couldn't figure out how to make the geometry work.
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And he was worried, rightly so, about the effect on his tires and the structural integrity of his car having that much weight bunched up on one side of it.
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Even if he could wedge her in there like an overpacked suitcase, he was not at all sure that the sort of damage that would be done to his vehicle, which is the source of his livelihood.
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So she owes him an apology for putting him in that position, not the other way around.
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And all of that is self-evident, I think, to any thinking person.
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We don't need to dwell on any of that any more than we already have.
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To me, the bigger issue, no pun intended, is just the total lack of shame on the part of this woman.
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The fact that you've eaten so much that anyone even has to question whether you will fit in a car, a car that was built to transport four entire people, the fact that they have to question whether you'll fit in it should embarrass you.
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This is the equivalent of an alcoholic waking up naked in a back alley dumpster in a city he doesn't recognize.
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Like, it's a moment when life is screaming at you through a bullhorn and carrying a giant neon blinking sign that says, you have a problem.
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And if you aren't picking up on that hint, then your situation is hopeless.
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And in Miss Dink's case, she not only is ignoring the hint, but interpreting it in exactly the opposite way.
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That's what a chronic lack of shame and a pathological self-centeredness gets you.
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It gets you to this moment of extreme humiliation, even if you're too narcissistic to feel it.
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And that is why our friend, Miss Dink, who doesn't fit into any categories or into most anything else, is today canceled.