Ep. 1563 - All The Reasons Why Big Pharma Commercials Should Be Banned
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Imagine that an executive of a major corporation sits down for dinner at a restaurant, and everything he says is being recorded. Very quickly, in order to impress somebody that he thinks is interested in him, the executive confesses that his company is lying to the American public. And in secret, they re conducting dangerous medical experiments within the borders of the U.S. And then the executive admits that government regulators are not scrutinizing these experiments as much as they should be for the simple reason that they don t want to jeopardize their potential future job opportunities at the very same corporation.
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Today on the Matt Walsh show, RFK Jr. has discussed the possibility of banning advertisements from
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big pharma. Almost every other country on the planet already bans direct consumer ads from
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pharmaceutical companies. We'll discuss why we should join that list. Also, we now have the
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body cam footage showing what exactly happened when a mother tried to retrieve her gender-confused
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minor daughter from the home of a former teacher who had illegally taken custody of her. The
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footage is just truly outrageous and unbelievable. We'll play it. And can college students answer
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Imagine that an executive of a major corporation sits down for dinner at a restaurant. Unbeknownst
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to him, it's a sting operation. Everything he says is being recorded. Very quickly, in order to
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impress somebody that he thinks is interested in him, the executive confesses that his company
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is lying to the American public. And in secret, the executive says they're thinking about conducting
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extremely dangerous medical experiments within the borders of the U.S. And these experiments are
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similar to the ones in Wuhan that led to the COVID pandemic. And then the executive admits that
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government regulators are not scrutinizing these experiments as much as they should be for the
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simple reason that they don't want to jeopardize their potential future job opportunities at the
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very same corporation. And then imagine that once the executive realizes that he's on camera and that
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he's just confessed to a fraud on the American public, he begins screaming and crawling on the floor.
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And in his hysteria, he pushes people away, tries to hide his face, and then ultimately runs away.
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He demonstrates a clear consciousness of guilt, in other words. What do you think the end result of
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this kind of episode would be? Now, in a rational world, you might expect at a minimum that this
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executive would be fired and that his company would be immediately investigated, both by the
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government and by every media organization in the country. After all, it's not every day that a
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corporate executive admits that his company is working on research that could cause another
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pandemic. And he also just divulged trade secrets on camera as well, which you would think would
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sort of upset his bosses. But in reality, none of those things happened. The situation I just
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described took place in early 2023, as you might remember, when Project Veritas secretly filmed a
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senior official in Pfizer's research and development division. And you might recall the whole episode,
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Pfizer came out, denied essentially that the executive had meant what he said. And as far as we know,
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the company took no action against him. In the end, Pfizer, needless to say, did not suffer any
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significant consequences whatsoever. They remained one of the largest and most profitable corporations
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on the planet. But incredibly, the people who exposed the Pfizer executive did not fare as well.
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It was like Pfizer kind of pulled a reverse Uno card. For one thing, Project Veritas didn't survive.
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It collapsed soon afterwards. And so did the one show on cable news that covered Project Veritas'
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reporting, which of course was Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight. They were taken off the air shortly
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after covering the Pfizer sting operation for reasons that remain officially undisclosed. So to restate this,
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the situation, less than five months after a Pfizer executive was exposed and humiliated on camera,
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everybody who talked about the scandal was deplatformed. And meanwhile, the executive went back to work.
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If you wanted to illustrate the extraordinary power that the pharmaceutical industry has in this country,
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you'd be hard-pressed to find a better example. One way or another, people who criticize them
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tend to lose their platforms. And that is a level of protection that very few other corporations have
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regardless of their financial situation. Tesla, for example, is about 10 times the size of Pfizer
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by market cap. And as we all know, they're subjected to constant media attacks and also physical attacks
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out in public. So what is it about the pharmaceutical industry specifically that makes them so hard to
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criticize? The leading theory, which we've talked about before, is that companies like Pfizer
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have basically bought the media. I mean, you can't watch Fox or CNN or MSNBC without seeing an ad from
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the pharmaceutical industry. In total, the pharmaceutical industry spends something like
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$5 billion in advertising every year, which in some years is more than they spend on research and
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development. And a lot of this spending is concentrated on news stations. As the journalist
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Kyle Becker reported on his Substack, nearly 31% of ad minutes on major nightly news broadcasts in
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2024 came from pharmaceutical brands. Now, if you watch any amount of cable news, you know that that
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figure is certainly accurate. I mean, you could turn the television on and you'll probably see one of
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these ads within like five minutes, if not sooner. And these are among the most lucrative ad purchases,
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pushing drugs like Ozempic, Skyrizi, and so on. And naturally, that kind of spending leads to
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favorable coverage. Big Pharma doesn't even need to establish any kind of quid pro quo officially or
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request anything from the news networks. It's just generally understood that if you're working for
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these networks, you should go easy on the pharma giants because they are one of the reasons you're
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in business. Now, this dynamic is one of the reasons why a lot of people took notice recently on
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hearing the news that RFK Jr. and the HHS had supposedly implemented a total ban on direct-to-consumer
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pharmaceutical advertising. And those reports turned out to be inaccurate, at least for the time
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being. But RFK Jr. has pledged to implement a similar ban in the past, and he's been very clear
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about his reasoning. While he was campaigning for Trump last year and while he was before that leading
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his own presidential bid, RFK Jr. made the point that pharmaceutical advertising has compromised
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the news industry. And he's also said that in part because of these advertisements, Americans spend
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far more on prescription drugs than pretty much every other major country. By some estimates,
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we spend more than twice as much. And it's logical to conclude that advertising plays a major role in
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those numbers. When people see an advertisement for a new prescription drug, they're more likely to tell
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their doctors they want it, as opposed to a cheaper generic brand. And keep in mind, only two countries
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on the planet allow direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. And those countries are us, the United
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States, and New Zealand. The vast majority of the civilized world, I mean, the rest of the world, has
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rejected this kind of marketing. And one of the obvious consequences of this carve-out for big pharma is that
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they sell a lot more drugs to people who otherwise wouldn't pay for them. And they wouldn't spend $5
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billion a year on advertisements if that weren't true. And this isn't even getting into big pharma
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advertisements and solicitations that target physicians and other professionals. So that's a
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whole other category. We're talking just about direct-to-consumer marketing. Now, just to give one
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example, in 2022, the manufacturer of the drug Skyrizi, AbbVie is the name of the manufacturer,
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spent around $229 million advertising the drug just that year alone. The next year, AbbVie decided
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to increase its advertising budget for the drug by more than double, and the results were clear. Drug
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sales went up to $7.8 billion, and that's an increase of roughly 50% year over year. Now, there was no
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major FDA approval that occurred in this period. The drug's formula didn't change in some way.
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Instead, more people heard about it, so more people asked their doctors for it. And by the way,
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the vast majority of these $7.8 billion came from customers in the United States because they're
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pretty much the only people who are being subjected to these advertisements. This advertising exemption,
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of course, is just one of several carve-outs that big pharma enjoys in this country. It's also
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nearly impossible to sue them if, for example, one of their vaccines ends up hurting or killing you,
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thanks to a federal law passed three decades ago. But the advertising carve-out is one of the most
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important ones because it has a lot of downstream effects that aren't immediately obvious.
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One of those effects is that the ads increase the price of the drugs. When billions of dollars are
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spent on advertising, inevitably, that cost is going to be passed on to the consumers.
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This is just basic economics and common sense, and doctors see it every day.
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As far back as a decade ago, when direct-to-consumer advertising was much less common than it is
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today, the American Medical Association noticed the problem. They voted to ban all direct-to-consumer
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advertising. And the chair of the AMA, a woman named Patrice Harris, announced that,
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quote, today's vote in support of an advertising ban reflects concern among physicians about the
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negative impact of commercially-driven promotions and the role that marketing costs play in fueling
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escalating drug prices directed to consumer advertising also inflates demand for new and
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more expensive drugs, even when these drugs may not be appropriate, close quote.
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Now, it's true that, by law, these advertisements have to list all of the potential side effects.
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Invariably, you know, they rattle them all off at the end of the commercial, as we all know.
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And they do it so quickly that you can't really tell what's happening in some cases.
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Pretty much everyone ignores these disclaimers at this point because they all end up sounding like
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a bizarre list of horrible afflictions, always ending in death or paralysis or something catastrophic.
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You know, you can watch an ad for Claritin, and they'll tell you that the side effects could
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include getting hit by a train or something. It's almost as if the drug makers have trained us to
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become numb to all of these potential side effects and to think that they're all extremely
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rare and unlikely to occur. So you just kind of block them out of your mind.
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And that's because even with the often comically long disclaimer at the end of these drug commercials,
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the ads still don't do enough to emphasize the potential side effects and dangers of these drugs.
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They don't discuss the relative risk of every side effect or how common they are.
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And that makes sense because ads, regardless of who's making them, are meant to manipulate
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and to create an emotional response in a very short period of time. And that's fine
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when you're selling cars or clothing or fast food or whatever, but it just shouldn't be the way that
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medical treatments are presented to the public. People should consult with professionals when they
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are seeking these treatments instead of watching paid actors sing a song about it or whatever.
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But pharmaceutical ads, by design, short-circuit this process. They allow
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big pharma companies to sell the disease, not just the cure. They convince people that they have such and
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such a disorder. That's why all these ads always start with, are you feeling this way? Do you have
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these symptoms? Well, then you might have this disease. Go talk to your doctor about this drug.
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Right? They sell the disease and then they sell the drug. Enlisting the would-be patient to go to
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their doctor and request a drug, which is totally backwards. You're supposed to go to your doctor
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with your symptoms, not with a wish list of drugs that you want to receive. But this is the way it
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works now. So pharma ads have helped to turn doctors into glorified drug dealers. And there's
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about, you know, a dozen studies you could point to that bear this out. Patients who go to the doctor
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and say, I saw an ad for Paxlovid or I saw an ad for Prozac are a lot more likely to get that drug
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than a patient who simply presents their depression-related symptoms to the doctor.
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And on top of that, these advertisements have also contributed to the perception that
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whatever problem you might have, whether it's depression or feeling like you're in the wrong
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body or whatever, that a drug from big pharma can be the solution. As we've discussed,
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this is a sentiment that has ruined the lives of thousands of people, including children in this
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country. And part of the reason this perception has been allowed to fester, as Liz Wheeler pointed
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out the other day on X, is that there's no critical reporting on big pharma in the mainstream press.
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There's basically none. The pharmaceutical industry is allowed to buy billions of dollars worth of
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advertising, which presents them as the solution to everybody's problems. And then the press,
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along with many scientific institutions that also receive money from big pharma,
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don't have any incentive to contradict the narrative. If and when HHS does ban these
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advertisements, then suddenly that incentive will reappear. Very quickly, corporate media will
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fail. I mean, it will just disintegrate because they'll be deprived of most of their advertising
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revenue, or at least they'll be deprived of a very significant chunk of it. And in their place will
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be a slew of investigations by actual journalists into the various grotesque abuses of power by the
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medical establishment in recent years on everything from gender ideology to the COVID shot to antidepressants
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to everything else. Now, as of right now, again, it appears that the reports were wrong about an
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imminent ban on these direct-to-consumer advertisements. But there are reasons to think
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that RFK Jr. and HHS are still planning to implement one. And if that comes to pass,
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and there are indicators that it will, then it would inevitably set up a major legal battle between
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big pharma and the federal government on First Amendment grounds. They'll claim that they have
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the constitutional right to flood the airwaves with sales pitches for extremely potent medications that
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could ruin your life. But, you know, they don't have that right. I mean, big pharma doesn't have a
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constitutional right to just access consumers whenever they feel like it in any forum that they feel like
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it any more than the local drug dealer does. So if RFK Jr. can win that fight,
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then in one fell swoop, he will destroy the corporate press, save billions of dollars for Americans,
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rescue lots of people from dangerous drugs that they shouldn't be taking,
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and usher in a new era of skepticism for an industry that badly needs it.
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He would be, I mean, easily the single most consequential HHS secretary in the history of the
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country, one of the most consequential cabinet secretaries, period, in the history of the country.
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All he needs to do is what pretty much every country in the world is already doing,
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Yesterday, we talked about the very troubling case out of Colorado of the radical far-left
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former teacher and her trans husband, her husband who pretends to be a woman, who took a gender-confused
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17-year-old child into their home. Essentially, this is a child that was brainwashed at school by one of
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their counselors at school, told by the counselor. This is according to the mother, told to cut off
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all contact with parents. The gender-confused 17-year-old then goes to the home of this
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former teacher and the trans guy. And they essentially claim custody of her and will not return her to her
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mother. And they still have refused to return the child to her mother. So this is, I mean,
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by any definition of the term, this would seem to be kidnapping, which is being done out in the open.
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And I mentioned yesterday how the mother went to the house of the kidnappers and tried to get her
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child back. They refused. She then called the police. The police showed up and refused to help.
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Well, now we have the body cam footage of this interaction with the police. And in the footage,
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we'll see the police officer first talking to the child, to the 17-year-old inside the home.
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And then we'll see the police officers talking to the mother outside of the home.
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And I just want you to see how the police handled this. Now, we talked about it yesterday, but now
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you can see it and hear it for yourself. I mean, it really is truly shocking. So let's watch a little
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bit of this. I'm Deputy Thurber. How are you? Good. That's all I need to basically hear. I'm just
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coming by to make sure you're good. You know what I mean? I'm not going to try to insert myself into
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something that's already sort of in process or whatever you're doing. You know, yes, by legal
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standard, you're technically a minor as a 17-year-old, but I just wanted to make sure you're good.
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Yeah. You're good? Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much. Very good. That's all I need for now. And I appreciate
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you guys and I appreciate your willingness to, I don't know, I guess, help me check boxes.
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I hear you. Probably going to have to speak with them. Yeah, they're going to have a meltdown. Exactly.
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Hey there. Hi. So I'm Deputy Thurber. Hi there. And you folks are? I'm Mom. Okay. I'm Renee. All right.
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I'm McKenzie. Okay. Um, so I basically went and did a welfare check and, um, I don't see signs of
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distress. There doesn't need to be distress. She needs to come home. She is, um, harbored by these
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folks and does not have my permission to be here. She is a minor. I don't care if she's a day away from
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18. A minor is a minor and she does not have my permission to be here. Right. But again, it doesn't
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rise to the level of law enforcement involvement. She's not in distress right now. I'm sorry. You're
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telling me that you're not going to physically rip her out of that home. Yeah. Even if there was an
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agreement between CPS and her and the mother that that those are civil agreements and you get it. So
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that's the police officer responding, just infuriating. And yeah, you guys know that I'm a big
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defender of the police. I, uh, I defend the police on the show. I defend corrections officers on the show.
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You know, if you're in law enforcement and you listen to the show, you know that I have your back.
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I'm on your side, but there are definitely exceptions to that. And, uh, this is one of them.
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This officer is a total disgrace. I mean, where do we even begin? Let's begin with the scare quotes,
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right? He says, well, you're talking to the child, the 17 year old. He says, well, you're technically
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quote unquote, legally a minor. No, she's not quote unquote, a minor. She is a minor.
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What do you mean? Technically she's a minor, but according to the law, she's a minor. She is under
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the custody of her mother. And those two adults, one of whom is a crossdresser have taken possession
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of this minor, this child against the will of the mother. That is not legal. You can't just do that.
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Right. I don't, I don't think there's any state in the country where that is allowed legally,
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where you could just take a kid and say, oh yeah, it's my kid. No, no, you can't, can't have your
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kid back. Sorry. That's what happened. I mean, if my kid goes over to somebody's house, right? Goes
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to a friend's house. And then I come a couple hours later to pick her up. And the friend's parents
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informed me that my daughter will not be coming home, that they're going to keep my daughter
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because she wants to stay with them. That will not be acceptable. That is a lot worse than
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unacceptable. That would be cause for me to forcibly enter the home by any means necessary
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and extract my child by any means necessary. And to use whatever amount of force I need to use
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to deal with anyone who happens to be standing in the way of that in order to get my child back.
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And by the way, I would do that like without hesitation. It wouldn't be anything that's
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nothing to think about here. I want my child back. You have 0.02 seconds to produce my child. And if you
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don't, I'm coming into your house and I'm going to take my kid back and I will do whatever's
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necessary to make sure that happens. But this cop here thinks that the whole thing's a big joke.
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He's having a great time with it. He thinks it's a big joke. And his way of seeing if the child was
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in distress was to spend about 20 seconds just asking her if she's in distress. Oh, just trying
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to see if you're in distress. Nope. Okay. Well, see you later. Really great police work there, officer.
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That's your way of. And the other adults, the kidnappers are sitting right next to her. You
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didn't even pull her aside to talk to her without the other adults there. So the girl just kind of
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nods and the cop says, well, that's all I needed. Thanks for helping me check boxes.
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He actually said that. Admitted that he was just checking boxes. And then he comes out and laughs
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about the fact that the mother will have a meltdown. Oh yeah, she's going to have a meltdown over this.
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Uh, yeah. Yes, you scum. Yeah. That's, that's the mother of this child. Any mother would have a
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meltdown if she's being told that her daughter has been legally kidnapped somehow. Her daughter's
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been kidnapped and there's nothing the law is going to, the police are going to do about it. Yeah.
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Meltdown. Yeah, I would think so. Um, so it's just, and this, but this is the, uh, this is the pro
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trans side of cartoonishly evil, indefensible on every level. And they, they have been empowered by
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people like this in government. I don't know what this, I can't get inside. I don't know who this
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officer is. I can't get inside his head. I can't understand his motivations. I mean, the situation
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here is so clear. And then he says, well, what am I going to do? Rip her out of there? Uh, yes.
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Yes. That's what you do. Uh, obviously that's my kid. I have legal custody over my own child.
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There has been no legal process that, that has been, has happened here to take away my custody of
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my child. I have legal custody over my child. I want my child back. There are adults refusing to
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return my child. So yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. You physically remove her. You're a police officer.
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Why are you acting like it's not possible for you to physically make someone go where they don't want
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to go? Don't you do that every day? Isn't that when you arrest anyone, isn't that? And usually it's
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not 17 year old girls. Like, are you able to handle a 17 year old girl? So, uh, so I, you know,
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you can't get inside the officer's head. I don't know what his motivation is. Does he have a
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trans kid of his own? Is it, I mean, usually that's what, usually that's the, the answer to
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the riddle in these kinds of cases. Uh, but I, I have no clue. I have no, absolutely no idea.
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Um, but this is the kind of thing that no, I mean, no rational person can look at this case
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and come away thinking, well, yeah, that was handled correctly. Um, so pure, just pure evil.
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And, uh, it's why, listen, um, if you live in a place like Colorado, this is, this is the danger.
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And certainly this is not me a victim blaming here, but, uh, we talked yesterday about the danger
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of sending your kid to public school, especially if your child starts to experience gender confusion
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starts to, you know, if you notice that they're kind of flirting with these ideas at all, um,
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sending them to public school is a, the public school system becomes a clear and present danger
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to your child. And you have to do whatever you can to extract your kid from that situation.
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Um, and it's even bigger than that, because if you live in one of these states,
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one of these far left lunatic states, and your child starts to, um, fall into this cult,
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well, you know, the law is going to stand against you every step of the way.
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So to the extent you can get your kids out of public school system and also get out of these,
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out of these states, move to a, move to an actual free state.
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Um, daily wire has this report, director of national intelligence,
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Tulsi Gabbard said on Tuesday that climate change was not included in the intelligence
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community's national threat assessment this year because she directed America's intelligence
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apparatus to focus on the most serious and immediate threats that the country faces.
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She made these remarks during a Senate intelligence committee hearing when Senator Angus King
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asked why global climate change was no longer deemed a national security threat.
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One note that surprised me, I've been on this committee now for, this is my 13th year,
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every single one of these reports that we have had has mentioned global climate change as
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a significant national security threat, except this one.
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Uh, has something happened as global climate change been solved?
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And did, who made the decision that it should not be in the report when it's been every,
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Uh, I can't speak to the decisions made previously, but this annual threat assessment has been focused
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very directly on the threats that we deem most critical to the United States and our national
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Obviously we're aware of, uh, uh, occurrences within the environment and how they may impact
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operations, but we're focused on, uh, the direct threats to Americans' safety, well-being, and
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How about how they will impact mass migration, famine, dislocation, political violence, which
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is the finding, by the way, of the 2019 annual threat assessment under the first Trump
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Do you don't consider that a significant national security threat?
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For the intelligence community, being aware of-
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It's not a, it's not a national security threat.
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But Tulsi Gabbard handles this very reasonably, very politely, thoughtfully, did a great job.
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Uh, I would have been a lot less polite and thoughtful about it.
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That's, which is why I will never hold political office or be appointed to any kind of political
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position at all ever, uh, which is probably for the best because what I would have said in
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this situation is, well, no, Angus, climate change is not a national security threat.
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Uh, the climate changes because it's the climate.
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Do you want it to remain exactly 70 degrees and sunny forever?
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But the fact that the weather changes and does stuff you don't like doesn't mean it's a national
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You imbecile or any other kind of threat that we need to do anything about or that we can
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I mean, sometimes the weather is a threat to our, to our, uh, uh, to our safety.
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Angus, do you, do you understand what controls the weather?
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Do you know what, you know what determines the climate and its changes?
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Well, maybe it's hard to see right now because you're sitting inside, but if you go outside
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and you look up and you notice that giant spherical bright hot thing in the sky, that's called
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99% of the mass in the entire solar system is contained in the sun.
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Uh, it has a gravitational force that extends 200 billion miles into space.
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Uh, if a rocket ship left earth like today with current technology, 300 years from now,
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it would still be inside the sun's neighborhood.
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A hundred years after that, it still would be, it's just a really big, powerful thing.
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And so that is what decides what kind of climate and weather we're going to have on earth,
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So if you want a, if you want a threat assessment, there it is.
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And what do you want the, the director of national intelligence, like, what do you want
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the intelligence community to do about the weather?
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Do we need to send spies to go spy on the weather?
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Notoriously unreliable, by the way, but we have those.
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We have spies all the time conducting clandestine operations to figure out what the weather is.
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We'll appoint you to be our, to head up the intelligence operation to spy on the weather.
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As a matter of fact, why don't we, we'll send you straight to the source.
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We know, we know who to blame for all this weather nonsense going on.
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Every time it gets hot, there's like one thing to blame.
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It's that big burning, that big burning thing up in the sky.
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It's, it's, so what we'll do is we'll put you on a spaceship and we'll have you go consult with,
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Just right straight into the sun to figure out this problem.
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So you go to the sun and then come back and tell us and report back.
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So I understand you can't, hearing of this type, that wouldn't be appropriate.
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Speaking of morons, you know, spring break is happening right now.
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And so we always get these kinds of videos around spring break.
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Caitlin Bennett went down to spring break to talk to a bunch of college students
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and to quiz them about basic facts, about history and civics and that sort of thing.
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Of course, we've seen a million of these kinds of videos.
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And yet, and yet, the videos still managed to shock and disgust us every single time.
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Like, you know exactly how this is going to go.
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Okay, it's going to be a bunch of these college kids who are total morons and know absolutely nothing about anything.
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And yet, still, knowing that going in, you find yourself somehow surprised.
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Who did the colonists fight in the Revolutionary War?
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So it's the civilians versus whoever was in power.
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So, like, when you say that, you mean, like, the FBI?
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We heard one of them is in elementary education, so that's very encouraging.
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Most likely, she probably talked to a few people who answered the questions correctly,
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But that doesn't matter, because it simply should not be possible to go anywhere and talk
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to college students who don't know who fought in the Civil War.
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Even though, arguably, I mean, there was the one moron who said East versus West.
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The girl who said, well, the civilians versus the people in power, that she, it's sort of,
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I mean, you could make an argument that she has sort of stumbled on something close to the truth.
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In that you could argue that it essentially was Southerners versus the federal government in a,
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I mean, if you tried to, if you tried to rescue that one, you might be able to do it.
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But you should not be able to find anyone, you should not be able to find anyone who thinks
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Think about how utterly clueless about the world you would need to be to think that.
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Like, I want to get inside that guy's head and find, what do you think the world looks like?
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Because apparently you think Asia is close by and that between you and Canada is Asia.
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So then if you went across the Pacific, which you probably don't know where that is,
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And think, it's, it shouldn't be possible to think that.
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And you certainly should not be able to find anyone who graduated from 13 years of K through 12 public education
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and yet are this shockingly ignorant about the most basic facts of the world.
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I doubt that Caitlin Bennett had even spent all that much time filming.
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She probably was filming for like an hour and she was able to find all this.
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You can go down to any beach during spring break, spend an hour filming.
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You don't find enough ignoramuses of this type to fill out a funny montage.
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And that's why I'm really not interested in hearing from anyone defending the Department of Education.
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It has, it has clearly failed in the most fundamental way.
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And of course, there's no way to confirm this, but 100 years ago,
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Okay, in the year 1825, do you think you would have been able to find a single 19-year-old
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Do you think that in 1825, you could have found a 19-year-old who thought that Asia was somehow a state or territory of the US?
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Even if you were talking to, I mean, 200 years ago, 200 years ago,
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there were many fewer people who had any kind of formal education.
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And even then, I don't think it would have been possible to find anyone over the age of like seven
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We don't even need to look at test scores, any of that stuff.
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The fact that anyone can make this video, anyone can do this.
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Now, I could just go out in public anywhere with these kinds of questions.
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And if I was willing to film for three or four hours, I could find 50 people who could not answer these questions.
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So the education system has, it has actually produced,
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it's produced a level of ignorance that, as I said, should not even be possible.
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It's almost impressive how the amount of ignorance it's produced is almost impressive in its own right.
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And also, these people should not be able to vote.
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It is outrageous that probably everyone we saw in the video, that all of those people can vote.
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That the guy who thinks that Asia is a state bordering Canada,
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And his vote counts the same as everybody else.
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He doesn't know anything about anything at all.
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So this is the next, that's the next conversation we need to broach.
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You know, there's, we've made a lot of progress on the right, even in recent months.
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Even progress that many of us didn't think was even possible.
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I mean, the fact that we're talking about dismantling the Department of Education, that alone.
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And so here's another conversation that seems impossible.
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It seems like it'd be impossible that we would have an actual, like a real,
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I mean, really, like a real movement in this country
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to start limiting the number of people who can vote.
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because we've all been raised in this fantasy world,
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where we think that voting is a God-given right.
00:42:13.960
The idea that there'd be any limits put in place at all is just,
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because we've had this idea drilled in our heads from the youngest ages
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that voting is this sacred thing that everyone should be able to do.
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That was never the plan for this country to begin with.
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That's, that's, you can't have a functioning country this way.
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You can't have a functioning country where you've got people who are that stupid,
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And so you start, and there's an exponential growth rate
00:43:10.100
So 50 years from now, like, the country doesn't, can't exist anymore
00:43:14.240
when you've got these kinds of people who are steering the ship.
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or we can figure out a way to stop these kinds of people from voting.
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a grown black woman was walking around in a fleece Grinch onesie.
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Yeah, the pajamas in public are out of control for sure.
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With that said, and there's no excuse to be a onesie.
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you shouldn't be wearing that at your house, clearly, as an adult.
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So I'm very clear about what I think should happen to grown adults
00:45:17.940
Walmart is exempt from many of the basic rules of decorum.
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I was just walking around Walmart at like 9.30 p.m. a few weeks ago
00:45:35.480
and we needed a thermometer because we couldn't find,
00:45:41.800
these are just the random things that go missing all the time.
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And Walmart's the only thing up is I'm running out.
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So I'm saying that the rule applies to everywhere
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it's kind of a dress code that you're violating.
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I bet it was painful having to act like an a**hole
00:47:13.020
Well, you could argue that I act like an a**hole
00:47:19.020
and What is Woman were the scenes with normal people.
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In fact, probably the hardest thing I did in either movie
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Couldn't even do two names that make sense together.
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I'm not going to have anything to do with this animal.