Ep. 1531 - Another Insane Government Money Laundering Scheme REVEALED
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As Elon Musk continues to uncover the waste and fraud rampant in the federal government, it s now becoming clear that some of the media outlets panicking over this were themselves funded by the Federal Government. Also, Trump puts an end to men and women s sports, but is this actually the end of it? Will the left finally give up the fight? And the NFL has made the highly controversial decision to remove the words End Racism from the field during the Super Bowl. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, as Elon Musk continues to uncover the waste and fraud rampant
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in the federal government, it's now becoming clear that some of the media outlets panicking
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over this were themselves funded by the federal government. Also, Trump puts an end to men and
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women's sports, but is this actually the end of it? Will the left finally give up the fight?
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And the NFL has made the highly controversial decision to remove the words end racism from
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the field during the Super Bowl. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Daily Wire Plus. And by every so often, I mean three times a day. And I explain the reasons why
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from you. I just make the pitch over and over and over again. And then the free market takes over
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from there. But after reading reports yesterday on some of the government spending that's being
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scrutinized by Doge, it looks like I've been going about things wrong this whole time. I'm a sucker.
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We all are here at the Daily Wire. Because as it turns out, there's no need for media companies to
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actually convince anyone to buy their products, or at least there wasn't up until now. There's
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certainly no need to come up with a competitive price or anything like that. Instead, all you have
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to do is make some friends in the federal government, and they'll buy millions of dollars
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worth of subscriptions from you with tax money. And you can set whatever rate you want for the
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subscription. You can charge tens of thousands of dollars annually per person if you want, because
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after all, it's the federal government. They have limitless resources, courtesy of taxpayers.
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So who's going to notice? This week, as the Trump administration goes line by line through the
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federal budget, people did notice, finally, that this was going on. Reporting from Kyle Becker, Liz
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Wheeler, and others has just established that the left-wing outlet Politico, from fiscal year 2016 to
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2025, has raked in more than $8 million in total from federal government agencies. And specifically,
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Politico has been selling subscriptions to its so-called Politico Pro service for $10,000 a year
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per subscription, $10,000 a year. NASA spent something like half a million dollars on these
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subscriptions. So did the FDA. They spent nearly $520,000 for just 37 subscriptions. The State
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Department spent more than $1 million. The Defense Department spent more than $850,000. And for its
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part, USAID, the agency that funds secret coups all over the world, spent tens of thousands of dollars
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on Politico Pro. And it's not just Politico that's receiving massive amounts of money from the federal
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government in recent years. The Associated Press has been pulling in several million dollars a year
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from the government, going back several years. So has the New York Times. In fact, just last August,
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the New York Times reported that it had received a million dollars, or rather millions of dollars from
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the federal government. This is big money that before 2021, the New York Times was not making.
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But after the Biden administration came into power, the fire hose of federal subscriptions opened up.
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All of this is documented on official government websites, but until now, it's gone unreported.
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What this means really cannot be overstated. Many countries have state media. There's nothing new
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about that. You know, it's a hallmark of authoritarian regimes everywhere. But
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we have something even more sinister in this country, which is state media that claims to be
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independent. Say what you will about North Korean state television, but they at least admit that
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they're controlled by the government. Left-wing media outlets in this country don't have the decency
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to do that. They were happy to continue collecting money from the government, which of course means
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they're taking money from you, from your paycheck, without disclosing their conflict of interest in any of
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their reporting. The government also never asked you for permission to buy these subscriptions with
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your money. But fortunately, they're not going to be collecting that money anymore. Yesterday,
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the White House press secretary announced that this funding, and in particular, the millions of
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dollars for Politico, has now officially been cut.
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So upon coming out here to the briefing room, I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media
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outlets, including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room. And I can confirm that the more than
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eight million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico
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on the American taxpayers' dime will no longer be happening. The Doge team is working on canceling those
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payments now. Again, this is a whole of government effort to ensure that we are going line by line
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when it comes to the federal government's books. And this president and his team are making decisions
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across the board on, do these receipts serve the interests of the American people? Is this a good
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use of the American taxpayers' money? If it is not, that funding will no longer be sent abroad,
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and American taxpayers will see significant savings because of that effort.
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Now, if you look at the left-wing response to this situation, they'll tell you that everything's
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being blown out of proportion. CNN, for example, ran the headline, quote,
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White House says it will cancel $8 million in political subscriptions after a false right-wing
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conspiracy theory spreads. So the fact that Politico got $8 million from the federal government
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is true, just to be clear. But apparently the story is a false right-wing conspiracy theory.
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And they make that claim because they say that some people are reporting that Politico got $8
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million in one year when really it was spread out over several years. And that's supposed to make
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this all okay. So rather than Politico getting $8 million in a year, it got about $1 million per year
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for eight or nine years. To me, somehow that doesn't make this sound any better. If anything,
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it's worse. This was not like one single bad decision. This was something that was happening
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continually for eight or nine years. Meanwhile, an Associated Press investigative reporter named
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Byron Tao wrote this, quote, I looked at these contracts and I have my own fun fact. This is
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occurring because agencies, not just USAID, are buying subscriptions to Politico's pro-editorial
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product, not because Politico is getting grants or other federal funding. Then he adds, quote,
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this is true of every media outlet with a subscription model. Now that last line is
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especially amusing because it's very obviously not true. Really? Every media outlet with a
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subscription model is getting money from the federal government? Really? Now it's true for the AP,
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where Byron Tao works. They're selling tons of subscriptions to the federal government, but
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it's not true for us, for example, conservative publications. As far as I'm aware, we didn't rake in
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$8 million from the federal government over the last few years. We raked in nothing. So why might
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that be the case? Now, if you listen to Politico, they'll tell you that their product is superior.
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They just put out a statement claiming that they offer, quote, granular fact-based reporting.
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Now, they didn't cite any specific examples of this excellent reporting, though, which is pretty
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conspicuous. In fact, none of the people defending Politico on social media were able to point to
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this singular, this granular fact-based reporting from Politico, much less were they able to give
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examples of the kinds of things that Politico Pro offers that would justify spending taxpayer money
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on it. No one was able to point to a specific thing and say, oh, well, they do this thing here.
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And so obviously, tax money should go to that. And we all know why that is. And that is that
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Politico doesn't generally offer quality reporting. Unlike the Daily Wire, when they break news over
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at Politico, it's often completely fake. It's a lie that's intended to benefit the people who are
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paying their salaries in the federal government. Maybe the most obvious example of many of this
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propaganda came just before the 2020 election when Politico published the blatant falsehood
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that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. And here's that headline.
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What happened here is that dozens of partisan former intelligence officials got together and
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they decided that they needed to give Joe Biden some cover. They needed to hand him a talking point
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before the debate. And I'm not speculating about that, by the way. The former acting CIA director,
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Mike Morrell, literally sent out an email to the former intelligence officials telling them
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they need to provide a talking point to the Biden campaign. And then when the debate rolled
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around, Biden used that talking point, just like they drew it up. There are 50 former national
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intelligence folks who said that what this he's accusing me of is a Russian plant. They have said
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that this is has all the care for five former heads of the CIA. Both parties say what he's saying is a bunch
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of garbage. Nobody believes it except him. His and his good friend Rudy Gianni. You mean the laptop is
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now another Russia, Russia, Russia hoax? That's exactly what this way.
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Exactly. Now, whatever you call this political story about these intelligence officials,
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election interference, a fraud on the public, a threat to democracy, you know, or anything like
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that, you cannot call it journalism. And you also can't deny that the bureaucrats who sent millions
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of dollars to Politico in the end got their money's worth. They wanted to keep Trump out of office and in
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part because of this stunt four years ago, it worked. But that whole episode was nothing out of the
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ordinary. As anyone who reads Politico understands very well, attempting to keep Trump out of the
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White House is essentially the mission statement over there or was. Just ahead of the most recent
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election, for example, Politico wrote that Trump was delivering a, quote, racist anti-immigrant message,
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which was getting, quote, darker. This isn't exactly a unique take on the left, of course. Pretty
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much every liberal blog has been saying the same thing for a decade. But Politico said that they had
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watched 20 Trump rallies to really provide a comprehensive analysis of all the racism and
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anti-immigrant messages. So they went the extra mile. And that's why they deserve $8 million from
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taxpayers. Because they put a lot of legwork into explaining why Trump is bad. Now, if you show
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these headlines to Politico's defenders in the federal government, they'll tell you that Politico
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Pro, which is the product the feds are paying for, is actually different from the free Politico.
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They'll claim that Politico Pro offers a higher end product that's actually fact-based
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and highly useful to the federal government. But if you go looking at the headlines from Politico
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Pro, you'll quickly realize that's not true either. Take this headline, for example. The headline
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states, former Senator James Inhofe, who claimed climate change a hoax, dead at 89. So they're
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reporting on the death of a senator, which isn't exactly a big exclusive scoop. Okay. So you're paying
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$10,000 a year for that? Everybody else was reporting on this at the time also. But Politico
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Pro's special contribution to the story is to mock James Inhofe because he didn't want to dismantle the
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US economy in order to change global weather patterns. So they throw that little aside into
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the headline on his obituary. He's dead. And the most important thing we want you to know about him
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is that he didn't believe in our climate narratives. That's the keen fact-based reporting that you can
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only get at Politico Pro. And that is apparently worth $10,000 a year. Now, in their defense,
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in their statement addressing their payments from the federal government, Politico goes on to claim
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that, quote, Politico has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies, not one cent
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ever in 18 years. So their defense is to rely on semantics, essentially. They know that subscriptions
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have such a high price, five figures in most cases, precisely because the government will happily pay
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it. They know that their coverage has been extremely favorable to permanent Washington,
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but they think no one will recognize this as a payout or a subsidy because in the line item,
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it says subscription. This is the game they're playing, which again, just to emphasize,
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there's no way they could just... The reason why the subscription is so expensive is because
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tax money was being spent on it. If not that, who else would pay $10,000 for Politico Pro?
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Now, as egregious as this particular story is, the truth is that this problem is far more endemic
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than the journalism industry. As Mike Cernovich has pointed out on X, until this week, what we're getting
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from Doge and from a lot of these revelations is that basically the whole DC, Northern Virginia
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economy ran on tax money funneled to NGOs, nonprofits, and media outlets. The White House announced the
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other day that we've spent $20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq, $8 million to teach Sri Lankan
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journalists how to avoid binary gendered language, $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala,
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and $2 million to help the BBC value the diversity of Libyan society. As the writer Pichy Keenan pointed
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out, we also spent $40 million for AIDS drugs for transgender prostitutes in South Africa.
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Specifically, the money provides accessible clinical interventions for sex workers,
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otherwise known as prostitutes. There's also $8 million that we spent to study the effects of
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flavored cigarettes on bisexuals and lesbians, which you would assume is the
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same as the effect on anyone who is not a bisexual or lesbian. I don't know.
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But you got to spend millions of dollars to figure that out, as well as roughly $100 million to combat
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HIV in Ukraine. Now, again, that's the stated reason for all of these expenditures. But almost
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certainly, most of this money is simply being stolen. Even if it was being spent on what they say,
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it would still be a major problem. But we also know that when you hear about stuff like this and you
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think, even if I thought it was a good idea to fund a study into the effects of flavored cigarettes on
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lesbians, why would that cost millions of dollars? Well, when you hear that, it's because most likely
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it doesn't cost that. The money is going elsewhere. Where else is it going? Who knows?
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So this is one of the biggest political scandals in American history. I mean, and we've only seen the tip
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of the iceberg. And this is only a handful of agencies we're talking about here. Imagine what Elon could turn up if
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he audited the IRS or the ATF or the FBI, other massive federal agencies. In fact, that appears to be
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exactly what's happening. Doge officials have just been spotted at FBI headquarters, as well as the
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Department of Education. And last night, the Wall Street Journal reported that Doge is now looking
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into Medicare fraud, which is far more pervasive than most people could possibly comprehend.
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Specifically, Doge has been granted access to payment and contracting systems at the Centers for
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Medicare and Medicaid Services. And they're already on site right now doing this. So if Doge is successful
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in just this one area, the savings for taxpayers will be astronomical.
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As the journal reports, quote, insurers pocketed $50 billion from Medicare for diseases that no doctor
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treated. And here's how the journal explained the problem. Quote, insurers can add diagnoses to ones
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that patients' own doctors submit. Medicare gave insurers that option so they could catch conditions
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that doctors neglected to record. The journal's analysis, however, found many diagnoses were added for
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which patients received no treatment or that contradicted their doctor's views. Close quote.
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Now, this is the kind of systemic fraud that has defied government spending for generations. There's
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massive waste, bribery, corruption at every level. Outlets like Politico haven't reported on it for
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the simple reason that they benefited from that spending. But it's coming to an end now. A lot of
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these corporate outlets are going to have to survive on their own merits, which is to say that they're not
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going to survive at all. They will run out of money very quickly. And the rest of us, people who are
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tired of reading thinly veiled propaganda from the intelligence agencies and wasting billions of
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dollars on various forms of government-sponsored fraud, will get to keep more of our own money.
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This is what Doge promised to do. And right now, based on the panic that's overtaking left-wing
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Daily Wire reports, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday banning men from women's
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sports, a historic moment in the fight to protect the integrity of women's spaces from gender
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activists and ideologues. From now on, he said women's sports will be only for women.
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The president signed the order in the East Room of the White House, surrounded by young schoolgirls,
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female athletes, and advocates, including Independent Women's Forum Ambassadors, rightly
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gains Paula Scanlon and Peyton Edwards. And it is the reading from the executive order.
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It's the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive
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women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation,
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and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy. It shall also be the policy
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of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women's sports more broadly
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as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.
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So he signed the executive order. We have a quick clip from the event. Let's see it.
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This was one of the big reasons that we all won. And it's one of the big reasons that we had a record,
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a landslide like they haven't seen before, very often anyway. And who could forget last year's Paris
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Olympics where a male boxer stole the woman's gold medal after brutalizing his female opponent so viciously
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that she had to forfeit just after 46 seconds. And she was a championship fighter. And actually,
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they had two women or two people that transitioned and both of them won gold medals and they won them
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very convincingly. But all of that ends today because with this executive order, the war on women's
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So he says the war on women's sports is over and it could be. I mean, this could be essentially
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the end of the issue. It really depends on what the left decides to do next. This is a major victory
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one way or another, but it remains to be seen what the left, how the left's going to respond to this
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because they've lost the battle completely. They've lost politically. They've lost culturally.
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Everyone is against them. Public opinion is very much against them. The question is whether they
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want to keep falling on the sword in a desperate attempt to pull the culture back towards allowing
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men in women's sports again, which would be a fool's errand. But I think it remains to be seen
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whether the left decides to do that. And I think that I think right now they don't know what to do.
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And I also think they probably won't try to do that.
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You know, because let's say a Democrat wins, God forbid, in 2028.
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The Democrat president could sign an executive order just overturning what Trump just did.
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And it's hard to predict what we'll have in four years from now. But as it stands right now, I wouldn't
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see that happening because it would be an extremely politically unpopular thing to do.
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And what you have to remember about this issue and the trans issue generally is that almost nobody
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on the left ever believed in any of it. Almost none of them actually thought it was right or fair
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or made any sense to have dudes compete against women. They took this position cynically because
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for a very brief moment in time, like kind of a blip on the screen, but for a brief moment in time,
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the trans rights, quote unquote, movement seemed to have the cultural upper hand. And so for a very
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brief moment, it seemed like the more popular position, the safer bet. And so that's that they
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decided to ride that horse. Now, if the left had the foresight to see this moment coming,
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Donald Trump flanked by smiling female athletes, signing an executive order banning men from women's
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sports with the wide approval of the public. I mean, if they could have seen that, they never would have
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embraced this position to begin with. And and please don't think I'm giving the left any credit
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here. I mean, precisely the opposite. My point is that most of them knew better. Most of them knew that the
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trans rights stuff was ridiculous the whole time. The trans agenda was always something that
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almost nobody truly believed in. How could they? It's objectively, plainly, egregiously wrong in every
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way, morally and scientifically. If this was a political play by the left and it backfired in
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historic fashion. You know, if you rewind the clock back to 2017, let's say, and everything
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plays out the same since 2017, except the left never leans into the trans stuff or tries to shove
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it down our throats. If it had played out that way, then I think a Democrat probably is in office right
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now. That's how badly this whole thing has backfired on them. So as always, you got to remain vigilant
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and you never know what what will happen next. And now you also you can't. Now there's a lot of
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there's a lot of the trans activists are fully bought in and they're getting more and more desperate
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and more and more angry and panicked. And so you have to worry about that. There's no telling what
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they're going to do. We also know that, you know, there's a there's a an established history of
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violence among trans activists. So that also becomes a concern that I think is a major concern
00:25:23.840
right now when they start lashing out violently even more. And then the other thing, too, as we talked
00:25:31.540
about a couple of days ago, is that you have to keep in mind that. I mean, one of one of the reasons
00:25:39.040
why the the trans ideology caught on so much, particularly in high levels of government,
00:25:46.900
in media, Hollywood, big tech. There was that it was a political ploy like we just discussed.
00:25:54.600
That's true. But then the other part of it is that for a lot of the people in positions of power,
00:26:02.200
it was it's personal for them, like their kids. You know, they transitioned their own kids.
00:26:13.340
And for those people, we talked about this a couple of days ago, they they can't just let it go.
00:26:19.940
They can never let it go because to let it go would be to admit to themselves and to the world what
00:26:26.080
they did to their own kids. And so they can never let that go. So that and that's another factor here,
00:26:30.240
which means that even as the culture moves past trans ideology, it there's going to be this core
00:26:39.000
of people, some of whom are powerful, who can never move on from it. And the more that everyone
00:26:45.820
else moves on from it, the angrier, more desperate they get. So how does that play out in the next few
00:26:51.820
years? Well, we're going to find out now. Staying on this topic for a moment, I thought this was funny.
00:26:56.640
Here's a tweet from ESPN about this. The tweet says, President Donald Trump will sign an executive
00:27:02.600
order Wednesday designed to prevent people who are biologically assigned male at birth
00:27:06.860
from participating in women's or girls sporting events.
00:27:12.540
Now, it may not look like it, but this tweet actually signifies, I think, a major capitulation by ESPN.
00:27:21.780
Because by their uber woke standards, like this might as well be them endorsing Donald Trump.
00:27:30.580
The phrase biologically assigned male at birth, biologically. The woke thing, the orthodox
00:27:38.900
thing on the left, obviously, is to say assigned male at birth, which makes no sense, you know,
00:27:44.900
for reasons we all know now, you're not assigned anything, least of all at birth. Your sex is not
00:27:51.000
assigned or decided at birth. It is noted or noticed or recorded at birth, although actually
00:27:57.380
usually is noticed and noted and recorded before birth. But that's the woke way of putting it,
00:28:05.040
is assigned male at birth. ESPN, though, has tried to split the baby here. Because,
00:28:10.980
you know, the two ways of phrasing, there's the correct way, which is to say that Trump
00:28:15.880
has banned biological males from women's sports. Now, yeah, biological male is redundant.
00:28:24.760
But it at least makes sense. You don't need to add male is a biological category. You don't need
00:28:30.280
to add biological male. But it's not a nonsensical phrase. So that's the correct way of putting it.
00:28:37.320
The other way to phrase it is the woke, nonsensical, assigned male at birth. ESPN
00:28:41.720
has tried to combine them. And so they've said biologically assigned male at birth.
00:28:47.560
And this is their attempt to compromise. But they've ended up with a phrase that makes
00:28:52.080
even less sense. This is the most nonsensical way of phrasing it you could possibly come up with.
00:28:57.820
You know, biologically assigned male at birth. Now, biologically assigned male maybe sort of makes
00:29:09.320
sense. Because I guess you could say biology assigns our sex. That's a weird way of putting it.
00:29:15.580
Not necessarily wrong, I guess. But then they added at birth. As if biology doesn't decide if we're
00:29:23.420
male or female until we emerge from the birth canal. So if you heard the phrase biologically
00:29:29.720
assigned male at birth and you didn't know any better, you would think that it means that like
00:29:33.600
the moment the baby emerges from the birth canal, their sex takes shape in that moment. Like this
00:29:40.560
mystical moment of transformation. And that's the way, you know, that's the way that they have
00:29:49.860
presented it in their attempt to compromise ever so slightly. And, but it makes even less sense
00:30:02.520
because there is no, you know, when you have something that makes sense and something that's
00:30:06.080
nonsensical, any attempt to compromise between sensible and nonsensical, you just end up with
00:30:12.660
something that's nonsensical. That's, that's the problem. All right. I've had this for a couple of
00:30:19.080
days. I want to mention, uh, New York post has a report. Smartphones are making teenagers more
00:30:23.420
aggressive, detached from reality and causing them to hallucinate. According to new research,
00:30:27.320
scientists concluded the younger person starts using a phone, the more likely they would be
00:30:31.880
crippled by a whole host of psychological ills after surveying 10,500 teens from between the ages
00:30:38.560
of 13 and 17 for both the U S and India. People don't fully appreciate the hyper real and hyper
00:30:45.040
immersive screen experiences, which can blur reality at key stages of development. According
00:30:49.620
to addiction psychologist, Dr. Nicholas Cardaris, um, the digital world can compromise their ability
00:30:55.980
to distinguish between what's real and what's not a hallucination by any other name.
00:31:01.820
Staggering 37% of 13 year olds reported experiencing aggression compared with 27% of 17 year olds.
00:31:08.780
Frighteningly, 20% of 13 year olds say they suffer from hallucinations,
00:31:12.060
which seems way too high. I mean, this, how could that possibly be true? 20%.
00:31:17.940
Um, whereas today's 17 year olds typically got a phone at age 11 or 12, today's 13 year olds got
00:31:24.540
their phones at age 10, the report noted. And the report goes on from there. I mean,
00:31:29.620
and whether it's true that 20% of 13 year olds are having hallucinations, I mean, I, you have to
00:31:37.100
wonder if those 13 year olds really understand what a hallucination is. So this is all, this is
00:31:40.560
obviously all self-reported data, but it does all come back to the same conclusion, which a million
00:31:46.400
studies have found something similar, which is that just to basically summarize it and generalize
00:31:53.140
it, um, phones are really bad for kids. It's just not, it's not good. It's not, it's not making
00:31:59.800
anything better. And of course, everyone's heard my rant about this many times. I really think that
00:32:04.980
we're whistling past the graveyard on this issue, having generations of children who are addicted
00:32:10.060
to screens and phones practically from birth is a major civilization level problem. And I don't think
00:32:20.140
that most of us are facing that or allowing it to really sink in. And in fact, even when someone calls
00:32:26.600
attention to this problem, I think that the focus is often on the wrong things, uh, or it's presented
00:32:34.420
in the wrong way. Like in this article, they treat the screen as a kind of medical problem, which means
00:32:40.920
that's, that's often how this is a, even the studies that are trying to demonstrate the harms that are
00:32:46.260
done by having kids addicted to screens from the youngest ages, even those studies, they, they,
00:32:53.560
they treat it like a medical issue, which means that someone's going to come up with a medical
00:32:58.440
solution. We already have those allegedly, right? There, there, there are drugs for kids who have
00:33:03.980
aggression or experienced depression and so on. And, uh, so that's, that's going to be the solution
00:33:08.860
that we already see this happen. And we've talked about ADHD, you know, this whole week was,
00:33:16.200
it's been a recurring theme and, um, the screens play a big part of that. One of the reasons
00:33:23.440
why kids are perpetually distracted is that they are surrounded by distraction. What do you know?
00:33:30.680
And when you got a kid walking around with this distraction machine in their pocket,
00:33:35.420
uh, 24 hours a day, they're going to be distracted.
00:33:42.040
And so what's our solution to that is to give them drugs, right? Not to take away the distraction
00:33:47.860
machine, but to just give them drugs to kind of dull the effects. Um, maybe eventually somebody
00:33:54.900
will come up with a vaccine to protect, protect against the, the effects of chronic screen usage
00:33:59.760
in children. I mean, you know, like I, and I don't even mean that as a joke. Eventually that's going to
00:34:04.840
happen. Um, but I think the, the real problem here cannot actually be quantified in a study
00:34:13.260
because it's bigger and deeper than that. I think the problem is that raising kids on a screen as
00:34:22.380
screen addicts along with all the other, the fact, does it make them more aggressive? Yes. I think
00:34:28.420
certainly, uh, does it detach them from reality? I think yes, certainly. Does it make them distracted?
00:34:33.960
Absolutely. Does it destroy their, their, their memory, their capacity to retain information? Yes,
00:34:41.240
yes, yes. But I also think that again, you go, you go a couple of doubles deeper than that.
00:34:50.020
It kind of robs them of fundamental aspects of their humanity. Um,
00:34:55.920
like for example, and again, I don't know how you account for this in a study. You probably can't,
00:35:04.000
but one of the defining things about being a person is that you can, or should be able to
00:35:12.400
entertain yourself, uh, in your own mind with your own thoughts. You should be able to get lost in a
00:35:19.940
thought, right? This is where every great creative idea comes from. It's where every profound, uh,
00:35:27.480
philosophical concept has that, you know, that's ever been conceived of has come from. It's, it's
00:35:33.900
where every great song or work of art or movie or painting originates. It originates with somebody
00:35:40.760
thinking just, just simply thinking. But now with the constant reliance on screens and phones,
00:35:46.200
a lot of kids never develop, I think that very basic ability, which is to sit and, uh, ruminate
00:35:55.760
and think and develop a thought because any moment that would have otherwise been an occasion for
00:36:03.420
thought and reflection and daydreaming is now used for mindlessly staring at a screen,
00:36:09.600
whether it's a phone or a TV or video game or whatever. Um, and we all know this. I mean,
00:36:16.200
how many people today, kids, kids or adults, how many people have the experience have had the
00:36:23.760
experience anytime recently of just sitting somewhere, sitting on a chair or on the couch
00:36:32.260
and, and that's it. It's just sitting and thinking.
00:36:36.240
And you might think about this in your own life. Like what, what's the, in fact, you should try
00:36:43.300
doing it just to get an idea of how it's kind of idea of how screwed up your mind is at this point.
00:36:51.120
Get a read on how bad the situation is for you. I think we should all do this. So just try it. Try,
00:36:56.180
try sitting, uh, somewhere just on a couch. I'm not saying this is not a meditation exercise,
00:37:02.060
just to be clear. Okay. I'm not sitting, saying sit on the ground on a yoga mat, cross legged,
00:37:07.020
just, you know, no, just sit on a couch, a chair. So, and just try sitting there.
00:37:14.060
How long can you do it before you pull out your phone? And cause that's the other part. I'm not
00:37:22.320
saying to turn your phone off and leave it in another room. Like have it with you just like you
00:37:25.500
would. Well, we all do have it with you, have it on and, uh, try sitting on a couch or on a chair and
00:37:33.380
just how long can you do it before you pull out the phone? I think for a lot of people now, the answer
00:37:38.680
is 20 seconds. I even think that's an exaggeration. I think there's plenty of people walking around
00:37:44.820
today who could not do that for more than 20 seconds. Just can't do it. Literally do not know
00:37:50.860
how to occupy themselves with their own minds, which is to say they don't know how to think
00:37:55.560
basically. And probably the older you are, the more successful you will be in this exercise
00:38:02.160
because you, you lived longer without these things. So you at least developed that ability
00:38:08.340
at some point. Uh, maybe it's atrophied, but you still have it. I think for a lot of kids whose
00:38:14.400
parents just give them the phones as soon as they're, you know, the kids are just three year,
00:38:19.640
three-year-olds running around now with tablets and those kids like what the hell chance do they
00:38:25.540
have? When that three-year-old with a tablet who becomes a six-year-old with a phone and full
00:38:31.720
internet access, when he's 25, how long is he going to be able to just sit here? Just out of chair,
00:38:38.300
just kind of sit, just thinking. He won't be able to do it, which again is to say you, you don't know
00:38:47.060
how to think. You actually don't know how to think, which is, that's maybe the biggest problem
00:38:54.660
a human can have. And then what happens when you have a whole society of people who don't know how
00:38:59.680
to think? Um, what happens there? Extrapolate that for 50 years. What do you end up with?
00:39:12.580
You know, and there's, there's no indication that it's good. And then you, you add to that,
00:39:16.900
you got a whole bunch of people who don't know how to think
00:39:19.180
utterly incapable of entertaining themselves with their own thoughts.
00:39:23.760
And then you add in the rise of AI and everything, which is getting smarter and smarter,
00:39:30.080
uh, so that you can get away with not thinking more and more.
00:39:37.720
What does it look like in 50 years from now? Uh, that's why I've said many times that
00:39:44.180
idiocracy, which is a very funny movie, but I think that it, I truly do think that it was a
00:39:50.860
far too optimistic because it painted a picture of the dystopian future that it imagined was one
00:39:59.060
500 years from now where people are just drooling morons who do not know how to think and rely on
00:40:06.520
technology for everything. But they also don't know how to operate the technology because they're
00:40:10.360
too dumb. An idiocracy that took 500 years. It is, it is not going to take that long. We are well
00:40:19.340
on our way, uh, give it another couple of decades and we'll be there. So that's my
00:40:22.440
encouraging thought for the day. Let's get to the, uh, comment section.
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I say this at least once a week in my regular life. Who's demanding more Snoop Dogg? I've yet
00:41:49.820
to meet one single person who's an actual Snoop Dogg fan. Seriously point to me one single person
00:41:53.120
who's so in love with Snoop Dogg enough to justify him being on television every single
00:41:56.540
ad break for the past few years. Yeah, it's a great mystery. Uh, zero demand for Snoop Dogg.
00:42:01.720
The supply has exceeded the demand by a hundred percent. There's 100% more supply of Snoop Dogg than
00:42:07.880
there is demand for him. And to be clear, I'm not saying that people hate Snoop Dogg. That's not
00:42:11.640
my point. Uh, nobody cares enough about Snoop Dogg to actually hate him. What I'm saying is that
00:42:17.520
nobody has ever turned on a show or a movie or a commercial or anything and said to themselves,
00:42:23.500
man, I hope Snoop Dogg shows up in this. Nobody has ever said that. And yet he does show up in
00:42:30.480
everything. Always Matt's take on ADHD is very embarrassing to say the least. It's definitely
00:42:36.600
overdiagnosed, but there's tremendous scientific evidence to show that it's real. And yes, you can
00:42:41.780
see that the ADHD brain is real and different than the norm by a significant amount. Yes, it should be
00:42:46.120
diagnosed with brain scans, but just because it's generally not and it's overdiagnosed doesn't make
00:42:50.360
it unreal. I like how we quickly jumped over the part about how you can actually see that ADHD brain
00:42:55.520
is tangibly different by blurting out, well, then why don't they all diagnose them the same way?
00:43:01.220
Okay. This is the last thing I'll say about this for now. And I'll try to explain this one more time.
00:43:06.760
I am not disputing that an ADHD brain quote unquote may be visible in brain scans. My point is that it's
00:43:15.180
irrelevant because they don't consult brain scans at all during the diagnostic process or at any other
00:43:21.280
point. So whether someone's ADHD brain can be found in the brain, whether someone's ADHD can be found
00:43:28.220
in the brain or not, the diagnosis would be the same. So it's not relevant, right? This is, at best,
00:43:35.420
it's an after the fact rationalization, but it doesn't factor in to the diagnosis. But that's not even
00:43:43.580
the point because let's just say for the sake of argument that ADHD is very visible and obvious in the
00:43:50.840
brain. And let's even imagine a scenario where they do diagnose it with a brain scan. They don't,
00:43:59.240
but let's just, let's just say that they did. Well, the question still remains, an ADHD brain looks a
00:44:06.100
certain way. Okay. Who's to say that it isn't supposed to look that way? If a, if an ADHD brain is
00:44:15.140
ordered a certain way, how do you know that it's disordered? You see, that's the question.
00:44:22.020
So you being able to establish, well, yes, this is how an ADHD brain is ordered. This is how it's
00:44:26.060
structured. This is how it looks like. Okay. That's fine. But that's not the case you're making.
00:44:31.380
You're saying it is disordered, that it looks this way and it should not look that way.
00:44:36.360
That's the part you got to explain. I don't need to be told that it looks a certain way.
00:44:43.640
Okay, fine. But you're saying that it shouldn't look that way. So you have an idea in your head of
00:44:50.900
what a brain is supposed to look like. And which to a certain extent, we all agree. I mean, there are,
00:44:57.600
there are a lot of things we could say about the human brain and there are certain components of it
00:45:00.900
that if those components are missing, then we know that there's a major problem. But,
00:45:06.440
but with, with the ADHD brain, like there's nothing, it's not going to, there's, you know,
00:45:15.500
it's, it's not a degenerative illness. It's not eating away at your brain. It's not going to kill
00:45:20.140
you. It's a person could have an ADHD brain and live just as long a life as anybody else.
00:45:27.120
So how is it an illness? But maybe this is the best way to look at it. If our technology
00:45:36.160
and our understanding of the brain was sophisticated enough, we would be able to,
00:45:42.060
and I think can already in many cases, locate any personality type in a brain scan.
00:45:48.460
So let's, let's just say, and I don't know, I'm not sure to what full extent we can do this now,
00:45:54.280
but certainly there, if we can't now, there'll be a time in the future when we can
00:45:58.880
look at a brain scan and with, if we had the technology, right. And someone,
00:46:03.840
and someone has the right training, they'd be able to look at it and pinpoint
00:46:07.620
many different aspects of that person's personality.
00:46:11.920
Okay. A person prone to optimism probably has in some way, a different brain from someone who is
00:46:19.980
not prone to optimism. And there's, there is probably an optimistic brain.
00:46:26.340
Well, if we can look at a scan and see an optimistic brain,
00:46:30.100
would that mean that optimism is now a disease that we have to medicate?
00:46:33.700
If somebody is more prone to optimism than average, and we can locate that phenomenon in
00:46:41.320
the brain, should we then give them drugs to drag them back down to the average?
00:46:46.600
Should we just figure out what the kind of average personality is and just give everybody drugs to
00:46:52.320
either bring them down or bring them up to the, to the mean, you know, the, the average personality?
00:47:00.000
Or do we accept that everybody has different personalities and therefore everyone has different
00:47:05.860
brains and some personalities work better in some situations than, than others. And that's just how,
00:47:11.880
that's just being a person. That's what it means to be a person.
00:47:17.180
Um, that's my point. And if, if that still doesn't get across and I don't know what else to tell you.
00:47:23.740
Stephen Colbert is the biggest bell end on American TV. And that's saying something
00:47:27.180
cause you have loads of them over there. P.S. Sorry, Matt, but the best whiskey is made in
00:47:31.500
Scotland. Uh, yeah, scotch is good. No, so quiet. I mean, I like scotch, but I have to say,
00:47:39.080
I kind of prefer Japanese whiskey, uh, recently, which is, I've been on a bit of a Japanese whiskey
00:47:43.720
kick, which is basically scotch, but made in Japan. And, uh, I kind of prefer it, you know?
00:47:50.200
So that's it. That's nothing else to say about that. Uh, sometimes I get the feeling that Matt
00:47:58.440
is not really as happy to lick Trump's boots as he'd have us believe. I mean, he's a team player,
00:48:03.360
but he knows who Trump really is and it bothers him. Yeah, this is funny. I'm a, so I'm a Trump
00:48:07.920
bootlicker now. That's the latest. If you've been following, if you've been following, you know,
00:48:13.980
my career, that's the latest, uh, development. And it's funny because over the past eight years,
00:48:19.320
nine years, I have been accused alternatively of being a never Trumper and a Trump bootlicker.
00:48:27.340
Like it's all, it's one or the other for the last eight years, I'm always one or the other. And it
00:48:31.600
just got, it seems to fluctuate back and forth. I'm just kind of trading places as we go along.
00:48:36.960
Um, so maybe what's happening here, here's a thought. Maybe what's occurring is that when Trump
00:48:46.740
is doing stuff that I think is good and that I agree with, I praise him. And when he does stuff
00:48:54.600
I don't like, I criticize him. And since taking office this time around, I've liked almost everything
00:49:02.760
he's done. I've been very impressed. I just, I don't know what to tell you. I've just been very
00:49:06.100
impressed. I think it's been great. I think he's done a great job. I mean, sorry, I don't know. I
00:49:10.220
don't know what to tell you. That's just my take on it. And so I'm telling you my take.
00:49:16.380
So could that be it? Could it be that I'm just, I'm, the opinions that I give about Trump are based
00:49:24.340
on what he's doing. And when he does different things, I say different things about them.
00:49:30.120
It's possible. Like something to consider anyway. Uh, let's get to the daily cancellation.
00:49:40.220
I have something, um, difficult that need to talk about today. This is
00:49:47.380
going to be upsetting to hear, uh, just like it's upsetting for me to discuss,
00:49:51.180
but here it goes. According to reports this week, the NFL is going to remove the words end racism
00:49:57.300
from the end zone during the Superbowl this Sunday. And I know that sounds so shocking that
00:50:05.860
you think it can't be real, but it is. Here's the daily wire, uh, quote, the NFL has reported
00:50:10.160
sent the word to remove the messaging end racism from the end zone for the Superbowl in New Orleans
00:50:16.120
on Sunday. It'll be the first time since February, 2021, that the message end racism has not appeared
00:50:22.360
in a Superbowl end zone. According to multiple sources, when the Kansas city chiefs of Philadelphia
00:50:26.100
Eagles take the field at a Caesar Superdome, the messaging in the end zones will read,
00:50:31.120
it takes all of us and choose love. Quote, we felt it was an appropriate statement for what the
00:50:36.760
country has collectively endured given recent tragedies and can serve as an inspiration.
00:50:40.900
According to NFL spokesperson, Brian McCarthy. Now, um, I don't even know where to begin. Uh,
00:50:47.640
all I can say is that obviously I'm very opposed to this move, not just opposed, but I'm anxious.
00:50:53.500
I'm worried, terrified because how are we supposed to know what to do about racism now? You know,
00:51:01.660
there's some people that are celebrating this announcement because they're saying, well,
00:51:04.280
this means that racism is over. Racism is done. The NFL ended racism by putting end racism in the
00:51:10.800
end zone. And so now we can all move on and look, sure. Um, there's no doubt that the end racism
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message did end racism. I'm not disputing that. I know just from my own life prior to that message
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being spray painted in the end zone, I myself was racist, but then I saw end racism on the field
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during a football game. And I said, Oh wait, we're supposed to be not racist.
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My God, I had no idea. And from that day forward, I was transformed. I was born anew.
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I stopped going to clan meetings and I started volunteering at afterschool programs for disabled
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minorities. And I'm sure that this is the same thing that happened for so many millions of people
00:51:51.900
out there. But here's the problem. We ended racism. We created a post-racism utopian society,
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or I should say the NFL did. Uh, that message and racism was the glue holding our new paradise
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together. And now they're taking that slogan off the field. What then? What if everybody starts
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doing racism again? How are we supposed to know if we should keep racism ended or if we should start
00:52:17.540
it up once more? Is that what the NFL saying? We should start racism again? Like people are going
00:52:23.080
to watch the Superbowl and they're going to say, wait a minute. It doesn't say end racism. I guess we
00:52:26.820
need to start doing the racisms again. And who's to tell them that they shouldn't now. Sure. There
00:52:32.220
will be a new message. The NFL says it's going to put the words. It takes all of us on, you know,
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and they're going to put that on the field. That's not good enough. I mean, what takes all of us?
00:52:41.380
Racism. Superbowl viewers are going to think that it's a rallying cry to join together and be racist
00:52:47.780
again. You know, the other message choose love doesn't help much. Who are we supposed to love?
00:52:54.460
Who shouldn't we love? What if somebody loves Hitler? What then? Like, think about it. We need
00:53:02.440
to be more specific. It should at least say, choose love. But just to be clear, that doesn't mean
00:53:09.040
Hitler. And there's more than enough. It's a football field. You could write that whole message
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on there. No problem. So they can give us a lot more information. They can give us a lot more guidance,
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but they aren't. And that's inexcusable. And now I'm lost. And think about the message that this
00:53:24.200
sends to kids or doesn't send more specifically. Just last night, this is true. You know, my son
00:53:30.040
heard about this news and he came up to me and he said, Father, does this mean that we should do
00:53:36.560
racism again? And I didn't know how to respond. The truth is that I'm just as confused as he is.
00:53:42.700
And I said to him, I don't know, my son. I just don't know. And he paused for a moment and his
00:53:49.660
eyes got misty and he looked at me and said, I'm scared. And I said, I am too. And then my son started
00:53:55.860
crying. And so did I. And we wept. We wept for hours. This is what the NFL has done. Now, the point
00:54:05.580
is that we are lost without moral instruction delivered to us via slogans painted on football
00:54:10.920
fields. Now, in general, of course, I have always looked to professional sports leagues, athletes,
00:54:15.680
sports commentators for guidance and direction like any American. I never form any opinion on
00:54:20.580
anything without first consulting NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, all the Sports Center anchors and
00:54:25.060
LeBron James's Twitter feed. Professional sports leagues have over the past 10 years, especially
00:54:30.080
position themselves as our teachers, our surrogate father figures, really. And I've always been very
00:54:37.620
happy with this arrangement. It makes a ton of sense to me, because after all, if a guy knows how
00:54:41.280
to throw a ball into a hoop or run down, run with a ball down a field really fast, it stands to reason
00:54:48.320
that he also has deep insight into the most important questions of life. You know, I think I think
00:54:53.380
one two follows from one. They're pretty logically. Every time I see a basketball player hit a three
00:54:58.800
pointer, I think to myself, wow, he must be a great philosopher. And every time I see a football
00:55:04.000
player make an open field tackle, I think, geez, that guy must have great moral intuition.
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I realize I'm not saying anything that you don't already know. This is what we all think when we
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watch sports. But the NFL is now abandoning its post. It's hanging us all out to dry.
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Racism is about to make a major comeback in this country. Millions of people are going to tune into
00:55:22.980
the Super Bowl, see that the words end racism have been removed, and then immediately run out and commit
00:55:29.440
hate crimes. And I will too. I'm going to go commit hate crimes. I don't know what else to do.
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We're all now like lost sheep, wandering alone through the pastures without our great shepherd,
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the NFL, there to show us the way. I feel so alone now, and so scared, and also so, so racist.
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All because of the NFL. And that is why the NFL is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.
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Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.