Ep. 1535 - Tyrannical, Power-Hungry Judges Attempt To Seize Total Control Of The Government
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Summary
Out of control, tyrannical, power-hungry judges are attempting to override Trump and claim total control over the executive branch. We ll talk about why Trump s only choice is to ignore the lawless judges that are issuing these orders and dare them to do something about it. Also, J.D. Vance attends a summit on AI. He says the Trump administration plans to take the lead on AI, which is good, but taking the lead also means putting up guardrails. And a left-wing protest goes wildly off the rails in truly horrifying ways that I will force you to witness.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, out of control, tyrannical, power-hungry judges are attempting
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to override Trump and claim total control over the executive branch. We'll talk about why Trump's
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only choice is to ignore the lawless judges that are issuing these orders and dare them to do
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something about it. Also, J.D. Vance attends a summit on AI. He says the Trump administration
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plans to take the lead on AI, which is good, but taking the lead also means putting up guardrails.
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We'll talk about that. And a left-wing protest goes wildly off the rails in truly horrifying
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ways that I will force you to witness. And the morbidly obese woman suing Lyft made
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almost immediately. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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White House, there are obviously a lot of major changes that take place. We talked about many
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of these changes already in the past few weeks with Trump's executive orders and so on. But there are
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also some minor changes that nobody really talks about or takes into account, even though they may
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have symbolic significance. In particular, one of the first moves that Trump made when he took office
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back in 2017 was the installment of a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the White House. Jackson was a war
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hero who served in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 when he led American troops to a
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historic victory in New Orleans. Jackson was also a populist who wanted the United States to expand
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and grow its borders because he believed it would benefit the average American. And so for four years,
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Jackson's portrait remained in the Oval Office. Then the minute he became president, Joe Biden quickly
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removed the portrait. No one in Biden's administration could stand to look at Andrew Jackson, but apparently
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they didn't destroy the portrait. They just put it in storage. So now, four years later,
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the game of Andrew Jackson tug of war is continuing. The portrait is officially back.
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And as you can see, when you look at the portrait in the Oval Office, Abe Lincoln is on the left and
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Jackson is on the right. And if you ask a typical Biden supporter about this, they'll tell you that this is
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an outrage because Andrew Jackson was a slave owner. On top of that, he wasn't exactly a big fan of the
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Indians. And therefore, you know, he's canceled. But that explanation actually misses one of the
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defining moments of Jackson's presidency. This is a moment that very soon could have a lot of relevance
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for the second Trump turn. I'm talking about a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1832,
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which held that the Cherokee Indians were a sovereign nation that had the right to govern themselves
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without interference from the states. This was a ruling that threatened to disrupt Jackson's plans
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for American expansion into the West. It was also a major blow to the concept of states' rights,
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and it would have significant ramifications for Georgia in particular. And of course, as Jackson
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saw it, it was also an unlawful ruling. So in response to this decision, according to various
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accounts, Jackson uttered some version of this quote, Chief Justice John Marshall has made his decision.
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Now let him enforce it. In other words, when a court, even the Supreme Court, exceeds the limits of
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its authority, then there's no requirement that anybody follow the court's rulings. There's
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certainly no way for the court to compel the executive branch to do anything. So if a court ever
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goes rogue and begins to issue rulings that flagrantly disregard the Constitution, as well as the outcome
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that a majority of Americans want, that's how you deal with it. Jackson set that precedent.
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A century later, FDR built on that idea when the courts began to striking down his New Deal
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legislation. He threatened to pack the courts. Very quickly, the Supreme Court backed down
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and started upholding some of those laws. And depending on who you ask, Andrew Jackson and FDR
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were either villains or heroes in those stories. But either way, their actions illustrate an important
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point, which is that in our system of checks and balances, everything depends on legitimacy.
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If courts are seen as illegitimate, then their orders are enforced. If courts are seen as
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illegitimate, then nothing they do really matters. Donald Trump, as a student of Andrew Jackson,
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certainly understands that. And judges, we can assume, understand this principle as well. And
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that's why the flood of federal injunctions that have already been issued in Trump's second term
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are best understood as a deliberate provocation by the judiciary. Because every other day, an unelected
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federal judge, usually a left-wing judge, is issuing a nationwide injunction barring some aspect
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of Trump's agenda. And this is happening so frequently that most people don't really understand
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or comprehend the scale of the problem. So let me run down a brief, non-exhaustive list of just some
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of these injunctions, okay? These have all been issued in the past couple of weeks. A Biden judge
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blocked Trump's halt on federal grant spending. A Clinton judge in Massachusetts blocked Trump's plan
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to issue buyouts to federal workers and also blocked the Trump administration from transferring
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a trans-identifying man to a man's prison facility where he belongs. An Obama judge in New York blocked
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both Doge and the treasury secretary himself from accessing internal treasury records. A Biden judge in
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Massachusetts blocked Trump from cutting billions of dollars in fraudulent spending that was earmarked
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for scientific research, including wasteful overhead, as we discussed yesterday. Another judge in
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Washington, D.C., appointed by Trump, halted the suspension of U.S. aid workers who were
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suspending or spending billions of dollars orchestrating foreign coups and sponsoring
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transgender theater and that sort of thing. An Obama judge in D.C. ordered Trump to reinstate the head
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of a special counsel office. A Reagan judge in D.C. blocked prison officials from transferring
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trans-identifying men to men's prisons. Three judges, including Biden, Bush, and Reagan judges in
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New Hampshire, Washington, Maryland, blocked Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship.
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And most recently, a D.C. judge named John Bates issued what may be the single most obviously
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unconstitutional ruling written by a federal judge in modern history. Now, before I get into that
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ruling, take stock of the sheer magnitude of orders that I just mentioned and where they're coming from.
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I mean, without exception, these are judges located in left-wing jurisdictions, most of them appointed
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by Democrats. And in every case, they are unilaterally issuing emergency temporary restraining
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orders, which are supposed to be an extraordinary and drastic remedy according to established legal
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precedent. And if you're trying to portray the courts as legitimate, nonpartisan institutions,
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then put simply, this does not look good. In fact, it's a travesty. And it gets much worse when you
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look at what these rulings are saying. So let's go back to the ruling by John Bates that I just
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mentioned. Okay, so this ruling prevents the Trump administration from removing, or is supposed to
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prevent them, from removing content from websites that the Trump administration controls. In fact, the
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ruling goes further than that. It requires the Trump administration to keep old content from Biden, the
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Biden administration, online. And this is not an exaggeration. The order, by its own terms, bans the Trump
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administration from, quote, removing or modifying health-related web pages and data sets, while also
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compelling the administration to, quote, restore web pages and data sets that they have already removed or
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modified. In other words, you have an unelected federal judge who's just named himself the official
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web editor of the entire federal government. He's saying, in effect, that the executive branch
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has no power whatsoever. I mean, they can't even control what they're putting on the internet. Trump,
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as the president of the United States and the most powerful man in the world, actually doesn't even
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have the power to make alterations to a website. Specifically, the ruling comes in response to the
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Trump administration's executive order ending gender ideology in the federal government. Pursuant to that
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order, the administration removed a lot of content from websites that are run by the CDC, HHS, FDA,
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and other agencies. And some of that content was related to sex changes and cross-sex hormones.
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Some of it included activist research on the risk of suicide among trans-identifying individuals,
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which, of course, has been used to justify child castration instead of treating their obvious mental
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health condition. Some of the materials had to do with nonsense concepts like environmental justice.
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Some of it was about drugs that gay people can take in order to prevent the spread of HIV while
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they're engaging in reckless and inherently dangerous sexual activity, and on and on. Now,
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whatever you think of these materials, and you should think that they're garbage because they are,
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it's clearly within the federal government's purview to delete them from their own websites.
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This is why we have elections. But Judge Bates disagreed. He ruled that, quote,
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by removing long relied upon medical resources without explanation, it is likely that each agency
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failed to examine the relevant data and articulate a satisfactory explanation for its action.
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And he goes on to say that the Trump administration has violated something called the Paperwork Reduction
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Act, which is a law that nobody knows anything about or cares about at all. But there's more to the
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ruling. But let's stop there and just address this part of it. Okay, he's saying that there's no
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explanation for why this content was removed. So apparently we can't reduce this particular
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paperwork. And this would be a compelling argument if the judge were, say, living in a cave with no
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internet access or access to newspapers or other human interaction for the past decade or so.
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But everyone else understands exactly why the Trump administration is gutting these websites.
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As we discussed yesterday, activists have taken over scientific and medical research in this
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country. They've promoted child butchery and other obviously immoral practices, which the
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overwhelming majority of Americans reject. And Trump ran against all of that. And he won a resounding
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victory. So that's all the explanation the federal judge should require. That's if, as though we need to
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explain anything to him anyway, like his personal opinion about their reasons for deleting something
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from a website is irrelevant or it should be. But then the judge goes on to offer another explanation
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for his ruling. Quoting again from the decision, he says, quote, if those doctors cannot provide these
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individuals the care they need and deserve within the scheduled and often limited timeframe, there's a
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chance that some individuals will not receive treatment, including for severe life-threatening
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conditions. So now what's happening is that the judge is claiming that doctors are reliant on
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government websites in order to treat their patients. And as proved this, he cites a doctor
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from Yale who says that it now takes her a little bit longer to prescribe contraception for her patients.
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And without these websites, she's totally clueless, apparently. Her medical school training wasn't
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enough. Her residency wasn't enough. Her years of practice weren't enough. Her access to thousands of
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research papers is not enough. She needs a small handful of government websites in order to do her
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job, apparently. Now, if we take this claim literally, of course, it means that this doctor
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is incompetent to practice medicine. But instead, the judge takes as proof that he needs to dictate
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what content goes on the internet. And if you go through any of the other 10 million injunctions
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that judges have filed against Trump so far, you'll find that this kind of reasoning, as egregious as it is,
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is pretty much the norm. The judges are taking anecdotal claims from activists, and they're
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using them to throw up roadblocks in the way of the new administration. And they're doing it so that
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CNN can report that Trump is causing a constitutional crisis, when in fact the judges are the ones doing
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that. Watch. We are three weeks into the second Trump presidency, three weeks, and tonight there are
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warnings that the U.S. is dangerously close to a constitutional crisis. Now, the first shoe on this
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dropped when a federal judge today said the White House is defying his order to unfreeze billions
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of dollars in federal aid, marking the first time that we've had a judge expressly accuse the Trump
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administration of ignoring a court ruling. And in a separate case today, federal employees here in
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Washington told a judge that the administration was defying another order by not reinstating workers
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who had been put on leave. Now, this all has prominent Democrats and many of the nation's top
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constitutional scholars declaring that the U.S. is on the brink of a reckoning. The Trump Justice
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Department says the president should have the authority to decide how to run the government
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and that these judges are overreaching. And some of the president's allies say the judges should not
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be judging any of the moves to shrink the federal government. Now, as you just heard, there are hints in
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that reporting that the Trump administration may not comply with some of these orders. Trump himself
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hasn't come out and said that. He's apparently weighing his options at this point. But as this continues,
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which it inevitably will, the Andrew Jackson solution is going to become more and more
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appealing. And ultimately, it will be necessary. It is necessary. You know, to be very clear about
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this, there is nothing in the Constitution that gives any random federal judge absolute power to
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override anything the president does or any decision he makes at any time just because they personally
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don't like it. You know, if a single judge in a place like New Hampshire or Washington can decide
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the president can't reduce foreign aid or fire his own employees or kick men out of women's prisons or
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even control the content that's posted on government websites, then essentially the president has no
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power. The judges are the presidents. They have all the power. Nothing else matters. And that's the
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result the left obviously wants. Now it is anyway. And now that the deep state and career bureaucrats are
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being terminated, they see the courts as their only hope. That's why Chuck Schumer just spoke on the
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floor of the Senate declaring that courts are essentially infallible and their rulings must
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Donald Trump is not free to bulldoze his way through the rule of law. Donald Trump is not free
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to bulldoze his way through the rule of law. He is an executive, not a monarch. He swore an oath
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faithfully to execute the duties of his office. And when the courts speak, Donald Trump must accept
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When the courts speak, you just have to honor their judge, no matter what they say,
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no matter what. If a federal judge tomorrow issues a ruling saying that, you know, everybody has to wear a
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red shirt on Tuesday, well, he just got to do it. You know, the fact that he has no power to issue
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that ruling and no power to enforce it, and he's way outside the bounds of the Constitution, doesn't
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matter. He's a judge in a robe. He said it, so we all got to do it. I mean, that's what Chuck Schumer
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was saying. But if you remember just a couple of years back, Democrats like Chuck Schumer were standing
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in front of the Supreme Court threatening individual judges over their rulings. AOC was telling Anderson
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Cooper that Biden should just ignore Supreme Court rulings, and he did. He admitted that the court
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had struck down his plan to cancel student loans, for example, so he just went ahead and did it
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anyway. Now these same Democrats are maintaining that judges should never be questioned under any
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circumstances. The same Democrats who are organizing protests outside the houses of Supreme Court
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justices. Now they're saying, well, no, if the judge says it, honor it, doesn't matter.
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Now the reality, of course, is somewhere in the middle of these two extremes that the Democrats have
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bounced between. Judges are not infallible. They can deliberately and maliciously violate the
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Constitution just like anyone else can. And when that happens, when a judicial coup is underway,
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a response is necessary. We're not talking about one or two bad rulings here. We're not talking
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about rulings that block a handful of policy goals or anything like that. We're at the point where
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the president is not being allowed to do anything. He can't even edit a website. Left-wing judges are
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issuing emergency injunctions on everything without even deciding actual cases. You know, the only way
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to get us out from under this judicial tyranny is for Trump to disregard these orders and for Congress
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to impeach the judges responsible for them. Throughout our history, there have only been a handful of times
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when presidents have needed to consider drastic actions like that. The country was clearly better
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off because Andrew Jackson did it. And now two centuries later, it's equally clear that this
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country would be better off if the Trump administration followed in Jackson's footsteps
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and dared these judges to enforce these rulings. They can't do it, obviously. You know, they complain and
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issue more injunctions and more opinions. Fine. Meanwhile, the rest of us, people who want to see this
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country improve, will get exactly what we voted for. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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world leaders at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday, pointing to the U.S. as
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the global leader on one of the most promising technologies we've seen in generations. The
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conference included world leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Canada's outgoing
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, other leaders, tech executives as well. In his speech, the Vice
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President outlined four key points. He says the Trump administration will strive for in its AI policy,
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making America the gold standard of AI, fighting excessive regulation in the industry, preventing
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political bias in AI and advocating for American workers as the technology continues to develop.
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AI, we believe, is going to make us more productive, more prosperous, and more free.
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The United States of America is the leader in AI, and our administration plans to keep it that way.
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The U.S. possesses all components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design,
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frontier algorithms, and, of course, transformational applications.
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Now, the computing power this stack requires is integral to advancing AI technology. And to safeguard
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America's advantage, the Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful AI systems are built
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in the U.S. with American-designed and manufactured chips.
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Now, just because we're the leader doesn't mean we want to or need to go it alone, of course.
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And let me be emphatic about this point. America wants to partner with all of you.
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And we want to embark on the AI revolution before us with the spirit of openness and collaboration.
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But to create that kind of trust, we need international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of AI
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technology rather than strangles it. And we need our European friends in particular to look to this
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new frontier with optimism rather than trepidation.
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So, you know, I agree with him that we should lead the way with this technology. This is the correct
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position for a presidential administration to have. There's nothing he said that I disagree with.
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That said, I don't think that our approach to AI should be to simply embrace it wholesale
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unquestioningly, which isn't what Vance was saying. I'm just putting forward. I'm putting this
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forward as my own opinion. In fact, Vance talked about needing to advocate for and protect American
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workers. And I agree, that's important. And to me, that means that there have to be guardrails put
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in place. There have to be lines drawn where AI just will not cross. We have always wanted to make
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things faster and more efficient and cheaper. And that makes sense. You know, the faster, the more
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efficient, the cheaper, the better. That's the idea. But we're now at a point in history where fast,
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efficient, and cheap cannot be the be-all and end-all. Right? We can't just say, well, whatever's faster,
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more efficient, and cheaper is automatically the better way to go. We're at a point now where it's not that
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simple. I mean, you could argue it's never been that simple. But it certainly isn't now. Because
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if we do approach it that way, human beings will simply just be replaced. And they will be replaced
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in every facet of life. We're talking millions of jobs lost. Millions. And most of them will not be
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converted into some other kind of job. We're not talking about jobs evolving or changing. We're talking
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about jobs just lost. If AI is allowed to just simply take over with no guardrails, no regulations
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of any kind. You know, people like to draw all kinds of comparisons. Anytime you hear someone like me
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talking about the dangers of AI, what we always hear from the other side is, well, people have always
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said that about every new technology. You know, when the car replaced the horse and buggy, there are
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people saying, well, what about the carriage drivers? Well, yeah, but that's different. AI is
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just a different kind of technology. It is its own category of thing. It's not comparable to any of
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this other stuff. Because, you know, when the horse and buggy was replaced with the car, it meant that
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if you were a carriage driver for a living, well, now you can become a cab driver in a car. It just
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means that the tool that you're using is different, but you're still essentially doing the same thing,
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which is getting people from point A to point B. And now you're doing it in a different vehicle.
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And now you can do it a lot faster. You can carry a lot more people around. So it's better for you,
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you know, in the long term and in the short term. And then when cabs started getting replaced with
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Uber, it meant that cab drivers became Uber drivers. Whether that was actually an improvement
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for the cab driver is a different conversation. But, you know, that's pretty clear. It's just like
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the technology that you're using has changed, but it's still you doing the thing.
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But as AI takes over, many jobs will just go away. I mean, they're just not going to exist anymore.
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Self-driving cars means everyone who drives for a living doesn't have a job anymore. It's not like,
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well, no, now you go do something. Hopefully you do go do something else, but the tool of your trade
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has not changed, your trade is gone. That's the difference. The job does not evolve into something
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else. It's just gone. And this same thing will happen over and over and over again in almost
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every area of life. And there will be less and less for human beings to actually do. And that's the way
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it goes if we embrace AI wholesale. If we don't value the human component at all, if we view humans
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as just another type of machine, then we lose the competition because AI will be a superior machine
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for many applications from a purely utilitarian perspective.
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If the only thing we care about is, well, what's the cheapest, fastest, most efficient way to do
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this? Well, then humans are going to lose. And human beings losing ultimately is not what we want
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because the whole idea, like what's the point of life? What's the point of any of this? I mean,
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what's the point of having a country? What's the point of human civilization?
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We want to see that human life is thriving. And if you're going in a direction that's going to
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ultimately hurt human beings for the sake of machines, then clearly it's not the right direction.
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A future where millions of jobs are extinct, replaced with nothing, and that there's very little for human
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beings to actually do is a dystopian, hellish future. It's an unhuman future. It's the future
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that, I mean, it's the future that like every dystopian sci-fi writer ever has warned us about.
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And I'm not saying that AI necessarily creates that future or leads to that future or needs to lead to it.
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I'm not saying that we, you know, J.D. Vance said we don't want to strangle,
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we want to be leaders in AI. We don't want to strangle innovation. I agree. We don't want to
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strangle it. Total agreement there. I'm saying that the wholesale, uncritical, absolute embrace
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of AI with no guardrails, no lines drawn, that leads to dystopia. Like guaranteed. I mean, guaranteed
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dystopia. So what do guardrails mean? It means that there have to be lines, again, lines drawn where we
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say, okay, AI could replace this thing, this job, this aspect of human existence, but we will not let
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it. We have to be willing to say that, you know, and we're not going to say that for everything,
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but that's part of the debate is where are the lines drawn? But they have to be drawn somewhere.
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And I do think there's some people that are really bullish on AI that really don't want the lines
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drawn anywhere at all. They just like, let it do what it's going to do. Wherever it can replace a
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person, let's just do it. I do believe that's the opinion of some people. And I think that it's,
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I think that you're just strolling into dystopia. I mean, I'm kind of, it's mind boggling.
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So using the cab or the Uber example, truck drivers, another example, you know, in that case,
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it would mean passing a law that bans self-driving rideshare and self-driving commercial trucks.
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It would mean passing a law where we say, no, we're not going to allow these entire industries
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full of jobs that people rely on to feed their families to just be wiped out overnight.
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And look, we can debate whether we should pass that law with cabs and trucks, especially,
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or specifically, I'm using that as an example of what drawing the line would mean and what it would
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look like. Maybe you could make a good argument that we should just let it happen. We should let all
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the truck drivers and Uber and cab drivers and everyone else who drives for a living lose their
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jobs. It'd be very difficult to convince me of that argument because I tend to think we should
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not allow that to happen. But maybe you can make that argument. My point is that if we're not willing
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to pass those kinds of laws for anything, well, then AI will just replace all of us and we will live
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in a future in a world run and operated by computers. And not computers that people are
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commanding and running, but computers that are operating on their own. I mean, when people talk
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about the promise of AI and the excitement of AI, that's what they mean. It's what makes it so
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promising. It's that it's just, it can do this stuff without people being involved hardly at all,
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and eventually not at all. And we will just be walking willingly into an unhuman future,
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a future where humanity has been devalued into nothingness. And of course, you can look at jobs
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where this has already happened, where the human element has been basically removed.
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Take something obvious like grocery store cashiers, or really cashiers in any, cashiers in general,
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but let's just take grocery stores. This is not AI, you know, but it is automation. And
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so I think back to when I was a grocery store cashier many moons ago, maybe 24, 25 years ago,
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there was no self-checkout at that time. At least it wasn't, if it existed, it was not prevalent.
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We didn't have it where I worked. So we had whatever it was, 10 or 12 checkout lanes.
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And during the busy times, every lane was manned by a human cashier. And most of the cashiers had
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baggers, you know, had people that were still behind them and did the bagging. And then outside,
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we had parcel pickup, which really doesn't exist anymore. But that's where you had people that
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stood outside. And not only were they putting carts away, but they would actually help you bring,
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you know, you help the old lady bring the bags to her car, load the bag in the car.
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And this was a relatively small grocery store, but there were many jobs. There were many, many jobs,
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mostly done by young people. I was like 14 or 15 when I was working at cash register. I was terrible at it.
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I got booted out to parcel pickup because I was throwing, you know, watermelons in with eggs and
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that sort of thing. But anyway, there were a lot of jobs being done. And because we had actual human
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beings working all these jobs, it created a kind of a community atmosphere, a relationship with the
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customers. I remember we had these old men. One of them looked like, I remember, looked like the old
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guy from Home Alone, the old guy with the shovel and the beer in Home Alone. And these retired guys,
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and they would come to the grocery store. This is what they did every single day. Every day,
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they'd come to the grocery store. They'd get a donut and coffee. They'd sit outside on a bench
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outside the grocery store, and they would just sit there. They would talk to the employees. They
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would talk to the customers. Everyone kind of knew each other. None of that exists anymore.
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You know, most of those jobs just don't exist. They did not evolve. They didn't become,
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they just don't exist. They're gone. Everything's automated. And so you go to the grocery store now,
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and you talk to no one. You look at no one. You check out your own groceries. You have no
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interaction with anybody. And you leave. And the few employees who still work there have not much to
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do. They're much more removed from the customer. I mean, you have one employee just kind of standing,
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monitoring eight self-checkouts, right? And there's no relationship with the customers at all.
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There's no relationship between the customers, you know, at all. And you just can't convince me that
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this setup is better than it was back when I worked these jobs. Like, it was just better. That was a
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better, it was better then. That was a better, it was better in almost every way. The new setup is
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better for the CEOs of these companies because self-checkout is cheaper, and so it helps their
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bottom line. But it's not better for anyone else. It's not better for the employees because there are
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a lot less of them, and they're a lot less engaged. It's not better for the customers,
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ultimately. I mean, yeah, it's quicker for the customers, but it's not, quicker is not always
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better is what I'm saying. As human beings, it's not always better. And so I'm not saying
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that we should ban self-checkouts, okay? That's not my, that ship has long since sailed. I mean,
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that's just, that's already happened. There's no putting the toothpaste back in that tube.
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What I'm saying is that a world where this process plays out everywhere with everything
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is not a world that any of us should want to live in. And none of us will actually be happy
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with it when it arrives. So that's something we need to think about. And as we're talking about
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embracing AI and all the promise of AI, there needs to be like a serious conversation
00:34:11.240
about, again, where these lines are drawn. And that is going to mean somewhere saying,
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yeah, AI could do this. It could replace this whole industry, but we will not let it.
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We're just not going to let that happen. And I think for, especially, you know, there's
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a certain kind of conservative where kind of the market is king always. And for that type
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of conservative, that's just a conversation they never want to have. They're very uncomfortable
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with any notion of ever putting any kind of roadblock in the way of making things just quicker
00:34:49.680
and cheaper. But if we are human, if being human means something, then it has to mean
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that, you know, there are things we value even above quickness and cheapness and efficiency.
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And the thing that we should value above that is like having a meaningful life, human connection.
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I mean, these things actually do matter. You can't measure them, but they do matter.
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All right. Here's Trump talking about why he is requiring federal workers to work from the office.
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We talk about reporting to work, right? I happen to be a believer that you have to go to work.
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I don't think you can work from a home. I don't know. It's like there's a whole big,
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oh, you can work from home. Nobody's going to work from home. They're going to be going out.
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They're going to play tennis. They're going to play golf. They're going to do a lot of things.
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They're not working. It's a rare person that's going to work. You might work 10 percent of the
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time, maybe 20 percent. I don't think you're going to work a lot more than that. And I think
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they have an obligation to work. And they have an obligation not to have a second job when they're
00:36:03.060
supposed to be working for the federal government. You're going to find that a lot of these people
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have second jobs instead of working. They'll be collecting a federal government check and they'll
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be working two jobs. And that's that's big trouble for them. So he's right about this, of course. I
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mean, we can have the debate about working from home generally. But one thing for sure, in my view,
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is that government workers should be at the office because they're working on the taxpayer dime.
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They need to be monitored. We need to be sure that they're actually doing their jobs. And if they have
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a job that doesn't require them to do much of anything at all in the first place, then the job should be
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liquidated. You know, I know I just talked about preserving jobs, but this is one area where I'm
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okay with wiping out as many jobs as we can. That's the federal government. You know, that's one area
00:36:44.820
where drastically shrinking the number of jobs available is a positive step. So for sure, government
00:36:52.180
workers should be at the office. You know, taxpayers shouldn't have to just take. And all these federal
00:36:56.980
employees are saying, no, I work even more when I'm at home. Yeah, okay, you say that, but we don't
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know that. And I don't trust you. Sorry, I shouldn't have to. We shouldn't just have to take your word
00:37:08.220
for it that you're not going off and playing tennis half the time. So you should be at the office. And of
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course, we know that even in an office, a lot of time can still be wasted. But if there's any hope
00:37:19.500
of holding people accountable, you got to require them to go to the office. And so that's for government
00:37:27.640
jobs. I do think this applies to many jobs in the private sector as well. Not so much the monitoring
00:37:32.180
piece. That's not what it's about. But I think, look, I just, I don't think you can totally replace
00:37:37.240
in-person collaboration with communication over the phone or through a screen. I think there is real
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value to being in-person physically together. And it's not value that can be precisely quantified
00:37:51.280
or measured. The inability to measure it, though, doesn't mean that there's no value. It means the
00:37:56.320
value is literally immeasurable. And this actually does kind of go back to the AI point.
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You know, we have to start valuing things of immeasurable value. Like we cannot demand that
00:38:09.020
everything, oh yeah, well, you say that has value. Show it to me on this chart. Show me the study.
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Show me the data that proves that this thing has value. Not everything can be reduced to that.
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Um, so, and now I don't feel as strongly about the work from home stuff as I do about AI.
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A future where everybody is working from home is not nearly as bleak to me as a future where
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nobody is working because algorithms are just doing everything. Um, but I do, I do think that
00:38:42.060
this is still important. Okay. Some, uh, some anti-Trump protests this week as a, as a change of pace,
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it seems that, uh, some leftists are out protesting Trump. Uh, so, so it's not something you see very
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often. Uh, it had been at least three or four hours since the last one. So I have two clips and
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honestly, I'm not sure if these are from the same protest. I think they probably are, but they all kind
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of bleed together. It doesn't really matter. So first here is representative Maxine Dexter of Oregon
00:39:08.720
with, uh, with, uh, her, well, just listen. I just, I, I've been told I have 30 seconds. So I am going
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to tell you that we do have to, I don't swear in public very well, but we have to Trump.
00:39:25.720
Trump, please don't tell my children that I just did that. Um, I mean, don't tell your husband
00:39:46.660
either. That's a, you know, well, not that you probably don't have a husband. I don't know. Um,
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I, uh, so I, you know, look, Trump has a, he gets a lot of threats, but out of all the threats
00:39:58.960
that Trump has ever gotten, this has to be the most terrifying for him. You know, that,
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and that woman looks like she means it. That woman, she's on a mission. She has to, she says she has to,
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she has to F Trump. I mean, that's what she said. She, she must, she's, she's overwhelmed by her
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carnal desire for president Trump. If I were Trump, I would be right now. And look, I like to
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think that I've, I've, um, that I can be brave in some situations, but if I were Trump, I'd be
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holed up in a white house bunker right now, surrounded by secret service, hiding under a
00:40:38.160
table, trembling in fear, knowing what this woman intends to do to me. Uh, so that's, that's, uh,
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that's, I mean, that's pretty bad, but it's not as bad as this. Now, um, so this is from the same
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protest or a different one. I don't know. It doesn't matter. All I can tell you is that
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the clip I'm about to play is a true test of your mental fortitude. Um, it's two minutes long. I don't
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know if we're going to play the whole thing. We probably can't, but I challenge you, I challenge you
00:41:10.500
to not hit mute. Don't turn off the show. You're going to want to. I'm warning you ahead of time.
00:41:18.360
You're going to want to, you're going to want to take your phone or your computer and throw it into
00:41:22.240
a bathtub full of acid. If you happen to have one in the house, but I challenge you to stick with it.
00:41:27.980
We'll get through this together and we will be better for it. Okay. Here it is.
00:41:33.980
Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
00:41:47.760
We'll fight against Doge. We'll fight Elon Musk. No we let scab within our walls. We'll fight from
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dong to dusk. Oh, which side are you on? Which side are you on? Which side are you on?
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Trump's coming for our unions. He wants us all to fail. He wants us to bow to him, but we want him in jail.
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Oh, which side are you on? Which side are you on? Tell me.
00:42:35.100
I mean, I'm on the side of the, of the deaf community. That's the side I want to be on. That's,
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that's, that's who I want to be with. You know, I saw a video recently of, I think it was a Siberian
00:42:47.840
Husky, a dog trying to sing. And well, he was just howling, but the, you know, someone was playing
00:42:56.280
the piano and they said it was singing. It's not really singing, but he was a significantly better
00:43:00.220
singer than any of the people in that video. And cause that sounded like 50 Huskies with mental
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illnesses. Drowning in a river while being eaten by piranhas. Or maybe that's just the fate that I
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wish I would have suffered instead of having to hear that. I'm depressed now. I actually feel sick
00:43:25.400
in my soul after I, I do. I feel, I feel this deep well of despair in, in the, in the depths of my
00:43:34.760
soul after listening to that. And I know we said we get, that we'd get through it and we'd be better
00:43:40.760
for it, but we're not, we're not better. I was wrong. We are not better for it. I actually think
00:43:45.060
that all of our lives are ruined now. I think I just ruined your life and my own because your dreams
00:43:51.320
will be haunted by the sound of boomer feminists singing so off pitch that it actually causes brain
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damage when you hear it. And I, I already had brain damage. So I don't, I, you know, I can't afford
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this. I cannot afford to have suffered this, but I just did. And, um, wow. Anyway, I can't even think
00:44:15.340
anymore. I've totally lost my train of thought. This is, this is really the left problem in a nutshell
00:44:20.100
illustrated in both of those videos. And, um, you know, the problem is they can't sing and they
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want to have, they secretly want to have sex with Donald Trump. I mean, that's, uh, that's the
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surface level problem, but what's underneath it is that they're just lost at sea and they have no
00:44:35.340
message. And, um, and, and then, so you end up with this. I think we just need to quit while we're
00:44:45.340
ahead. Let's get to the, uh, comment section. Tax season, that magical time when we all remember
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how much fun it is being a responsible adult still don't follow those returns. Well, operate if
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you're operating on a, maybe I, if I ignored, it'll go away type strategy. Let me save you some
00:45:09.460
suspense. Uh, that is not going to work. The IRS has a whole menu of ways to make your life.
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Let's say interesting wage garnishments, frozen accounts. And if you're really lucky,
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uh, maybe you get some property seizures thrown in. It's like a game show where all the prizes
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No amount of Sesame Street will influence a culture. I was raised in Puerto Rico, U.S. territory. We have
00:46:20.640
Sesame Street in absolutely every American movie, music, and shows. Assimilation has never been
00:46:25.980
accomplished. They have their own culture and identity, very different from Americans. We are lovely
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people, by the way, but Sesame Street has nothing to do with it. Right. And by the way, that's precisely
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why Puerto Rico should never be the 51st state, because it's not American. As you point out, it's
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not an American, it's just, it's not American. It has some aspects of American culture, mainly
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American media and entertainment, but it's not American and it will never be.
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So if parents are making the decision to lobotomize their kids with their child's doctor, that would
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make it okay? The why do you even care doesn't affect you argument is so stupid. Yeah, I've
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made the lobotomy comparison many times. I mean, people listen to the show know that this is something
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that through the years of combating gender ideology and the gender transition racket, I've
00:47:16.840
brought up this comparison. And if you aren't familiar with it, if anyone isn't familiar,
00:47:22.400
you should really go back and look into it. Because this was a widely accepted medical practice
00:47:28.800
for many, many years. And lobotomy was as barbaric as it sounds. And when you go back and research this
00:47:38.180
stuff, you'll be shocked to see how often the most barbaric and disturbing forms of quote-unquote
00:47:44.320
medical treatment became widely accepted and practiced by medical experts. And the thing is,
00:47:50.080
you don't have to go back to the Middle Ages, right? You don't have to go back to a time of
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bloodletting and using leeches for whatever. No, you don't have to go back far at all. I mean,
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this has been happening in modern medicine for a long time. And in fact, the most barbaric practices
00:48:08.920
that are practiced by and accepted by mainstream medicine are happening today. We have gender
00:48:17.720
transitions, which hopefully are on their way out, but then abortion also. And even that, you'll hear
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the argument all the time that abortion has existed forever and people have always, and it's always
00:48:33.360
been a practice. And in a sense, yes, in the sense that murder itself has always existed. Like people
00:48:40.180
have always murdered each other since Cain and Abel. I mean, so it's always been a part of human
00:48:47.000
existence and abortion is murder. And so in that sense, yes, we've always had it ever since the fall
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of man. But the difference is that abortion now being not just the fact that it's legal and there's
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a whole industry, a billion dollar industry behind it, but that it's presented as a medical procedure.
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You know, if you go back centuries to find societies where unborn children were killed and that did
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happen, they didn't pretend that it was medicine. And so this is an innovation. So abortion itself
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is not an innovation of modern medicine, but pretending that it is medicine is an innovation of modern
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medicine. And so when you look at these things, when you look at, you know, it wasn't all that long
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ago that doctor, that mainstream medicine would have told me that lobotomies are okay. It is, it is in the
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current day where the mainstream medicine tells me that, you know, we should chemically castrate
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children and that dismembering an infant in the womb is a form of medical care. And you look at that
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stuff. It's just your faith in the medical industry. There's no way that it is not almost entirely
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destroyed. And, uh, anytime you say that, you'll always hear from the other side that, well, well,
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like you're telling people not to trust their doctors. You know how dangerous it is to tell people
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that it is dangerous. I agree. Like it is not good that we can't trust the medical industry.
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And I don't, I don't have an exact answer for that. I don't, I don't know how to make that better
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right now. I don't have some, like, there's nothing I can say that will, I agree. It's a terrible
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situation to be in. Uh, but it is the situation we are in and that's not our fault, right? That's the
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fault of the medical industry. Um, rather than funding shows like Sesame Street, why not encourage
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missionaries to go to these countries and share the gospel? Churches already fund overseas missions,
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so the government doesn't need to spend anything. The government can focus on ensuring missionary
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safety and access. The gospel can change lives in ways that Big Bird never will.
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Yeah, that's, that's, uh, precisely it. I talked about the problem of spreading our values, you know,
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the, um, the, the, this, this idea that we need to go and spread our values overseas. We heard this
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from Senator Chris Coons yesterday when he was arguing for taxpayer funding for Sesame Street
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in Iraq and Afghanistan, wherever else. Um, but one of the biggest problems with quote unquote
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spreading our values is that the people that are doing the spreading, you know, the establishment,
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I don't agree with what they consider our values to be in the first place. And most of us don't agree.
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So, uh, because these, these are the same people. You bring up missionaries. Well,
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I guarantee you, I feel rather confident that Chris Coons, who says that we need to spread our
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values through Sesame Street and taxpayer funded, you know, uh, theater plays for the LGBT community
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or whatever the hell, that's what he thinks. But if you were to ask him about missionaries
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going into these third world countries, I bet you, he would tell you that it, well,
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that's a little problematic, you know, imposing your, imposing your belief system is it's, it's,
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it's problematic. So the same people that say we should spread our values will tell you that
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missionaries are problematic because, because, um, they don't actually think that we should,
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well, we should just be spreading values. They have a very specific set of values and those are
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left-wing secular values that they want to spread. And that, that really is the fundamental problem.
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You know, it's no secret that it's very hard, if not impossible, to sympathize with the vast majority
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of lawyers. We have lawyer jokes for a reason after all, and it's especially true when lawyers
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are bringing frivolous lawsuits and doing the whole ambulance chaser routine. You'll find more
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popular support for acne and herpes than you'll find for these people. But even with that in mind,
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there are a couple of lawyers that, if you have any heart at all, you have to feel kind of bad for
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at this particular moment. These are lawyers who are clearly being punished for some sins they
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committed in a past life, and those sins must have been truly horrific because right now they're
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having a very bad time. I'm talking, of course, about the legal team of a Detroit rapper who uses
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the name Dank DeMoss. These are not ambulance chasers so much as they are, I guess you would say,
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chubby chasers in the most literal sense. You might remember that a couple of weeks ago we discussed
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the sordid story of Ms. Dank DeMoss. She's the woman who was far too obese to fit into a lift. She
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weighed something like 500 pounds. So the driver told her that she couldn't enter his vehicle.
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And in case you somehow missed the story, despite its plus-sized importance to our country,
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and indeed to the whole solar system, here's a very quick recap.
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Blanding tells us she was just trying to get to a Detroit Lions watch party this month when her
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lift rolled up. As I'm walking, I see him like making faces or whatever. I'm like, oh, man.
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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. You know, I feel like that
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was a slap in the face. That was like my tires. You know, like.
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The driver said his tires could not handle her weight.
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Every big person you turned on because they can't fit in your car?
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Now, as we talked about at the time, Madam Dank does not come across as a sympathetic figure in
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this footage, but her lawyer saw an opportunity there. They claim that in Michigan, it's a crime
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to discriminate against anybody on the basis of weight. They said that being obese is basically
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a protected class. So in this case, they're arguing that the lift driver might as well have
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said no black people are allowed in his car. They're equating this woman's decision to be heavier
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than a polar bear with being born with a certain skin color. And now they want lift to pay up
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millions of dollars. If Dank could not fit in his car or exceeded its weight limit, then I guess by
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these lawyers logic, it was his responsibility to come back with a dump truck or whatever vehicle
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could handle the load, you know. But I have to admit, as something of an amateur observer in the
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area, it didn't seem like the most compelling legal argument at the time. Kind of seemed like a
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shakedown where they're basically just demanding a payout from lift so that the story goes away.
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Naturally, that led me to the conclusion that Ms. Dank's lawyers deserve no sympathy whatsoever.
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But then I saw this footage of Dank DeMoss appearing on The Breakfast Club. And in just the first 30
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seconds of her appearance, Dank DeMoss completely obliterates her lawyer's case. She wastes absolutely
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no time in wrecking every hour of work that these attorneys have put into this lawsuit. It's like
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watching someone spend a month laying the foundation for a house only to see a morbidly obese woman
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walk on top of it and collapse the whole thing. Metaphorically, I mean. And one might even say that
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Dank DeMoss, you know, chewed up her lawyer's case and then in an uncharacteristic display of
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restraint, spat it out. There is nothing left to work with at this point after these 30 seconds.
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And here's the moment that I'm talking about.
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This is what I'm talking about. Good. This is accommodation.
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Now, in case you couldn't make it out, Dank walks into the studio and then tries to sit
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in the chair and immediately asks, is this the only seats y'all got? She's not satisfied
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with the chair that they're offering, even though it looks pretty large. And the other people
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are confused because they're like, well, what do you mean? It's a human chair. The only
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chair. It's a chair. What other kind of chair do you want? And then, I mean, it's like if
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she walked in and like broke through the floor and then said, is that the only floor y'all
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got? You got any other kinds of floors? No, it's a floor. It's a floor. It's like, the
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floor, it's a floor. It's worked perfectly fine for every other person that's ever walked
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across it. But then she said she needs a bigger chair, so they roll out a couch for her.
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Okay. Now, which by the way, you know, in case you're not familiar, a couch is a seat
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made for like multiple people, like three, four people. And she took up the whole thing.
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Now, I'm not a lawyer, but if you're trying to make the claim that you could fit in a
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Lyft driver's tiny sedan and that he violated the law by turning you away, then it stands
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to reason this particular moment poses a few problems for your case. Dank, by her own
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emission, cannot fit into an oversized office chair in a large studio with no other obstructions.
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Unlike a sedan, there's no roof over your head. There's, or at least not one directly
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over your head. There are no doors right next to you, right? There's no seat belt you have
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to put on. Total flexibility, but it still was not enough. She needed an entire couch.
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So by her logic, if the Lyft driver was bigoted, then Dank is also bigoted against herself,
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I guess. If the law still means anything in this country, which it probably doesn't,
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if we're being honest, then Dank DeMoss' case has just imploded. So pour one out for her lawyers,
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but the interview didn't end there. Somehow everybody maintained their composure after
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this little snafu. And as the conversation continued, Dank actually drew something of an
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interesting parallel that's worth taking note of. Here it is. Oh! I'm not saying that word.
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Yeah, we don't use the word in my house either. I thought you were talking about the gay slur.
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I'm like, wait, I'm confused. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But I just feel like it should
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be accommodated. Bigger people should be accommodated. Now you won't find a more succinct explanation
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for why we should never pander to any group of deranged activists for any reason. She's saying
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that because society tolerated the insanity of gender ideology, we should also tolerate her insanity.
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And in a certain way, she has a point. I mean, that's why the solution is to never accommodate
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any of this nonsense at any point. Once you start entertaining complete and total lunacy,
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then you get a lot more of it. And as the interview continued, that's exactly what happened.
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Things really went off the rails, particularly when DeMoss' healthcare provider, who uses the name
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Stormy, showed up to the set. Watch as Stormy, who of course is wearing her white doctor coat for the
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interview, explains that Ms. Dank isn't really responsible for weighing 500 pounds.
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Instead, we're informed that the real culprit is Dank DeMoss' thyroid problem. Watch.
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I do. I work on myself, you know, and when I feel like I'm getting, it's getting too much,
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I try to fix it, you know, like, at my pace, you know, but, you know, you want to see her?
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Yeah, and we have a weight specialist right here. Fix her a weight specialist. Fix her a mic.
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One time, you know, when you have these conversations with plus-size people, it always comes up that,
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oh, everybody that's, you know, big isn't unhealthy, and, you know, some people just can't lose the weight.
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They're dealing with issues. Like, you know, she has a thyroid. What do you, talk to us about that.
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So, I've been Dank provider for a little over three months, right, and she's lost 80 pounds.
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Your 80 pounds gonna look different from her 80 pounds, right, because she started at 580.
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So, even with her being at 500, people be like, she's still not losing, but that's not the case.
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Well, her thyroid makes it very difficult for her to lose weight because her hormones is unbalanced.
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So, when your hormones is unbalanced and they're all over the place, it controls a lot of things,
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and it makes it very difficult for you to lose weight, but keep it off as well.
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So, I think for her, she's consistent because she done lost 80 pounds.
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She done lost 80 pounds. She done lost it.
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But she's wearing the white coat, so it's okay. That's what's important.
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Let's just assume here that Dr. Stormy actually collected the blood work and analyzed it.
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Let's assume that Dr. Stormy is correct, that indeed, Dank DeMoss has a thyroid problem.
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But there is no thyroid condition on the planet that causes anyone to weigh a quarter of a ton.
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There is no thyroid condition that makes you gain so much fat that you now weigh more than two full-grown male ostriches.
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You cannot blame a medical condition for the fact that you weigh as much as a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
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At most, thyroid conditions make it a bit harder for some people to lose weight and easier to gain it.
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The only way that it's possible to exceed 500 pounds is to commit to a lifestyle of extreme sloth and gluttony.
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I mean, it requires an obsessive commitment to at least two of the seven deadly sins.
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And if you disagree with that assessment, then your problem isn't with me.
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Therefore, calories do not appear out of thin air and just invade Dank's body.
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And in fact, based on her size, she's probably consuming them at every available point in the day.
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But Stormy won't acknowledge any of this because she wouldn't make as much money if she did.
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And then certainly, or at least there'd just be one consultation where she would say,
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And then she would say, okay, eat like a tenth of that.
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And she also would not get to appear on shows like Breakfast Club if she did.
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So we've talked a lot recently about how doctors and scientists have discredited themselves.
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They've refused to be honest about what actually causes obesity.
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Extremely lazy people who eat extreme amounts of food become extremely fat.
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But the medical industry has not been honest about it.
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And it's not the first time that this has happened.
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I mean, the medical industry took a similar approach with something like HIV.
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They were not, and still are not, honest about the fact that pretty much the only way you get it,
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the only way people who get HIV, people who get HIV, the only people who do get it,
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are homosexuals and intravenous drug users.
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So if you don't use intravenous drugs or engage in sodomy, you almost certainly won't get it.
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You might get other diseases, but you almost definitely will not get that one.
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But doctors didn't want to seem insensitive to homosexuals,
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so they pretended that HIV is an equal opportunity disease.
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More recently, we saw the same approach with monkeypox.
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We were supposed to believe that this was some grave public health emergency
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that would affect, say, a straight 80-year-old man
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just as much as it would affect a gay 25-year-old in Manhattan.
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The common threat here is that there is a refusal to be honest
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in the name of sensitivity, which has led to a lot of needless death and suffering.
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It's also led to a ton of footage that is frankly embarrassing to this country
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I began this segment with some of that footage,
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so it's only fitting to end things in the same way.
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Here, reportedly, is one failed stunt performed by Dank DeMoss in Detroit
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If you're listening to the audio podcast, she fell over.
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the stunt she was trying to perform was standing.
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She tried to pull off the incredible stunt of standing,
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but if I had to find some other reason to justify playing it,
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I'd say the footage of Dank DeMoss falling over backwards in front of a crowd
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is, in fact, a solid metaphor for this whole story.
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her lawyers thought they had a multi-million dollar case against Lyft.
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Her doctor thought she had a totally plausible explanation
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for why her patient weighs more than a young hippopotamus.
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when people thought about it for about five seconds.
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It collapsed, like so many other stationary objects in Dank's life.
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And that is why Dank DeMoss and her doctor, Stormy,
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who claims that people can balloon to 500 pounds