Ep. 1599 - Joe Biden Has Terminal Cancer. The Cover Up Was Way Worse Than We Thought.
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Joe Biden has terminal cancer. They expect us to believe that he was just diagnosed right after leaving office, but it s clear that he s been sick for a while and they cover it up. This is one of the greatest scandals in the history of American politics.
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Today on the Matt Walsh show, Joe Biden has terminal cancer. They expect us to believe
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that he was just diagnosed right after leaving office, but it's clear that he's been sick for
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a while and they cover it up. This is one of the greatest scandals in the history of American
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politics. Also, the Supreme Court demands that Trump stop deporting illegal aliens.
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The media are shocked to learn that despite reports to the contrary, the Pope is in fact
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A hallmark of the late Soviet period was that no one actually knew who was running the country.
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Leonid Brezhnev, who supposedly ordered the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan,
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could barely speak in public. There was a concerted effort by the Politburo to hide his decline to the
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extent that they could. By the final few years, it was clear that Brezhnev wasn't actually making any
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decisions at all. Then, when Brezhnev finally died in 1982, he was replaced with a guy named Yuri
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Andropov, who, from the moment he took office, was suffering from severe kidney failure that often
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led to his complete incapacitation. And of course, that fact wasn't disclosed to anybody at the time
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either. But after Andropov died a little over a year into his term, the Soviets released medical
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files revealing that he had been on dialysis practically the whole time he was in office.
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And at that point, Andropov was replaced by someone named Konstantin Chernenko. And you can
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probably guess how that went. For his part, Chernenko was also suffering from debilitating
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health problems, including heart failure and emphysema, from the moment he took over. And once
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again, these problems were hidden, at least until he died while in office after 13 months on the job.
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And once again, in those 13 months, he spent a lot of his time in the hospital, unable to perform
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his duties. Yes, the Soviet Union cycled through three mostly unaccountable, incapacitated, sickly
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leaders in rapid succession, all while hiding their respective conditions from the public.
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And you don't need to be a student of history to know how that worked out or what happened to
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the Soviet Union a few years later, everything collapsed. Now, for many years, it's gone without
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saying that in this country, we don't want to emulate the Soviet model of governance. Instead of
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being governed by a shadowy Politburo or an unelected bureaucracy of some kind, we've always
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understood that it's critically important to have a competent, healthy president at the head of the
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federal government. And that's why members of the cabinet, as well as members of Congress,
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have a constitutional duty to remove the president if during his term, he becomes incapable of serving.
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It's also why White House doctors release regular reports about the health of the president.
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Any effort to subvert this model of transparency, to revert to a Soviet style of governance where nobody
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knows who's in charge, can only be interpreted in one way. It is an attempt to undermine and
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ultimately destroy the foundations of this country, just as the Soviet Union was destroyed.
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And the people responsible for any kind of effort like that should be imprisoned as traitors to this
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country because that's exactly what they are. During Joe Biden's presidency, we've known for some
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time that his handlers were hiding some of the most dramatic evidence of his mental decline.
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As egregious as this cover-up was, it wasn't entirely effective because people could still
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observe many signs of Joe Biden's decline in public. But what we didn't know until yesterday,
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as you've heard by now, is that Biden's handlers were also almost certainly hiding another very
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important piece of information, which is that Joe Biden was suffering from terminal stage four
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prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, an aggressive cancer that will almost definitely kill
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him in a matter of years, if not likely sooner than that. In other words, it's the kind of disease
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that if Joe Biden had been elected in November would lead to Kamala Harris being installed as the
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president of the United States. And there's very good reason to believe that they hid Joe Biden's
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diagnosis from the public in an attempt to secure exactly that outcome. It is just impossible to
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believe. I mean, impossible to believe that Joe Biden went from a perfectly clean bill of health,
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which his doctors provided in 2024, to having stage four prostate cancer in a matter of six months.
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That's just not how it works. I mean, pretty much every expert in the field is unanimous on this
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point. For example, News Nation just spoke to a urologist named David Schusterman. Schusterman pointed out
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that prostate cancer is typically a slow growing cancer that's easily detectable by using a PSA blood test
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long before it spreads. And as president, Biden would presumably be receiving these these tests on a
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regular basis. Watch. Very unlikely that someone could get annual checkups and not notice a PSA
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elevation over the past, you know. But this is what I typically would see in a VA hospital where a patient
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hasn't had medical attention in 10 years presents to an emergency room with bone pain. And then they
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find that it's metastatic prostate cancer. But in the modern age of medicine, especially the fact that
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he was a former president, he had intensive state of the art, you know, care where we can see prostate
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cancer, you know, 10 years in the past. So this is I mean, it's it's very unusual to hear that someone
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has prostate cancer where they're annually being followed up. And the fact that we just find it at
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a Gleason 9 is just pretty much unheard of in this day and age of medicine, even in the, you know, even in
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the inner city populations. Well, most likely he had prostate cancer for a long time. And the aggressive
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prostate cancers such as this at age 80 grows over a long period of time. I mean, usually it takes from the first
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diagnosis of prostate cancer to the to spread would take five to 10 years, even in the most aggressive form.
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Um, it's just, to me, it seems very surprising that, uh, it would, the first diagnosis would be a
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metastatic diagnosis, especially Gleason 9 cancer. Okay. So according to this urologist and pretty much
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every other doctor we've heard speak about this in the last, uh, you know, 12 to 24 hours, it's pretty
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much unheard of to get a diagnosis of stage four prostate cancer out of the blue in a situation like
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this. I mean, even in poor areas without good healthcare, he says, it's the kind of thing that
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happens when patients don't get regular screenings for many, many years. And then he states that
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Biden may have had this cancer for a period of five to 10 years before he was in office. And that
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appears to be the consensus. Um, as Steven Quay, a prominent doctor and scientist put a quote,
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prostate cancer is the easiest cancer diagnosed when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone
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metastasis, uh, metastasis. The PSA blood test shows the rate of cancer cell growth for even the most
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aggressive form. It is a five to seven year journey before without treatment before it becomes
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metastatic, meaning it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed
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with the disease in May, 2025. It's highly likely that he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer
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throughout his white house tenure and the American people were uninformed. And this is so bad by the
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way that even doctors on MSNBC and CNN are saying the same thing. And in an interview with a Reuters,
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Dr. Chris George, who serves as the medical director of Northwestern Health Network's
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cancer program, offered this assessment, quote, I would assume that the former president gets a
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very thorough physical every year. I would be interested to know what his PSA was the last
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time it was checked. It's sort of hard for me to believe that he's had a PSA within the past year
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that was normal. It's possible. It's possible, but that would surprise me. Usually prostate cancer
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doesn't, you know, go full throttle like this too often. When it does, that's usually a bad,
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bad sign. That's an aggressive cancer for sure, but it does seem odd to me.
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Now, this is as close as you'll get to a doctor who is willing to entertain the official narrative,
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or at least say that it's plausible. But even he thinks that it's, you know, highly unlikely
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because they would have been checking Biden's PSA levels. And he's wondering what they were.
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Here's the problem. If you go back and pull up Biden's medical reports, you won't see anything
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about his PSA levels. And at the moment, we have no indication of whether they were checking his PSA
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levels at all. In 2019, Biden's doctors reported that he had an enlarged prostate, but he had no
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cancer. So you'd think that, you know, that would trigger some extra urgency for regular PSA screenings.
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But apparently not. We're supposed to believe that they didn't do any screenings at all.
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For a guy in his late seventies, eighties, who has an enlarged prostate, they're doing regular
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screenings. And they're doing the physicals for the presidents precisely because they want to find
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out if he has anything like a fatal disease. And so we're supposed to believe that a PSA blood test
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was not part of that at any point. Then in 2024, Biden's physician reported that he was, quote,
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a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties
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of the presidency. But again, nothing about his PSA levels. There's also nothing in the reports to
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indicate that he was being treated in any way for cancer. At the same time, CNN just interviewed a
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doctor who stated that when prostate cancer is being treated, symptoms can include cognitive
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impairment and fatigue, which are both symptoms that Joe Biden obviously displayed during the
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campaign. Watch. He's 82. How would that dictate how he and his medical team make a decision about the
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treatment options? I think, I think he's not my patient, but if I had a patient like him with all
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the medical stuff that he has, including whether it's the physical or the mental, you know, you
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really have to take that into account because all these treatments do have potential side effects.
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One of the biggest side effects that I see in my patients that get these hormone treatments
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could be cognitive changes. So you have to kind of balance that.
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People can also get issues with fatigue and weight loss.
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Now, the urologist we showed earlier, Dr. Schusterman, said the same thing in his interview with News
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Nation. These treatments can cause cognitive impairments. So that raises some more questions.
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Do we know that Joe Biden was receiving any of these cancer treatments that fried his brain and
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made him so tired that according to his own aides, he wasn't able to function after dark?
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At the moment, we don't. But we also don't have any reason to believe Biden's handlers when they say
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he wasn't taking these treatments, especially given all their other lies and given his behavior
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while in office. In fact, we cannot believe anything that anyone close to Biden says about
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anything at all, particularly anything related to his health. They just can't believe a word they
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say because we already know that they lied. And if they lied about this, which they almost certainly
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did, that really would be the scandal of the century. I mean, imagine if it turned out that Joe Biden
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was senile in part because they were treating him for terminal cancer that they didn't disclose.
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I mean, at this point, you can't put it past any of these people. Now, it's impossible to ignore the
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fact that they're floating this possibility on CNN just a couple of days before the release of
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Jake Tapper's new book, which goes in depth about Joe Biden's cognitive decline. And that presents yet
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another reason to doubt the official narrative, which is that Biden's cancer was suddenly discovered
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this week. I mean, it looks a lot like they're releasing this diagnosis in order to change the
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subject and garner sympathy for Biden. In fact, David Axelrod has just come out and basically said that
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watch his medical condition. Now he's announced medical condition. Now, do you believe that
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silences or delays a lot of conversations about his, you know, last year and a half of his presidency
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for now? Yeah, well, I mean, I think those conversations are going to happen, but they
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should be more muted and set aside for now as he's struggling through this.
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So that is the very thinly veiled command. He's essentially saying, now that we've told you that
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Joe Biden is dying, please stop talking about how we covered up his mental decline as well as his cancer.
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And of course, CNN and other networks will follow David Axelrod's command. So to be clear,
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you know, saving the news of Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis for two days before the book release
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in order to change the subject and garner sympathy is just diabolical. I mean, I've never seen anything
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so cynical in my life, but that is clearly what they're doing. They waited for right now so they
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could say, oh, well, you would say all this about a dying man. He's dying after all.
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In order to believe the official narrative, we have to believe not just one coincidence,
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but we have to believe in a whole succession of the wildest coincidences we've ever seen.
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You know, they'd rather you don't pay any attention to all the evidence that they lied
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and deceived the public for several years in one of the greatest scandals of American history.
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I can testify because I've been working very closely with this president for the past two years.
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I've been knowing him for 30 years. And I'm telling you, this guy's tough.
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The president is focused. He's detail oriented. He's always thinking about the big picture.
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He's engaging. He is capable. He has an incredible record as president.
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Start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth.
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This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.
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Not a close second. And I've known him for years.
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You did such a great job. You answered every question.
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Undisputed winner of the worst wife in America contest, by the way, is Jill Biden.
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We saw at the end of the clip there. Undisputed winner.
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I mean, Meghan Markle is a distant, distant second at this point.
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And Michelle Obama was, you know, left out of the competition for eligibility issues.
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Anyway, they don't want you to asking any questions about any of this.
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They genuinely believe that now that they've told us Joe Biden has cancer, that all this will go away.
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And we'll stop asking. We'll stop asking, you know, how Joe Scarborough could have claimed that the best version of Biden,
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the best version of Biden was when he had terminal cancer and dementia.
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That was his best version, according to Joe Scarborough.
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Instead, it's just become a much more serious crisis, in fact.
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I mean, at this point, there are several questions that need to be answered immediately.
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First, when was Joe Biden actually diagnosed with cancer?
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Was he treated in any way for prostate cancer at any time while he was in office?
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If so, who knew about these treatments and participated in the cover-up?
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And, you know, did they secretly treat him or did they not treat him because the only way to keep it hidden was to do nothing about it?
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Or did they want the disease to kill him quickly after his re-election so that Kamala could take over?
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I mean, all of these options are on the table now.
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And we are well past the point where we can take any Democrat's word for any of this.
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I mean, cable news hits on CNN are not sufficient.
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At this point, we need Congress to step up and actually do something for a change.
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We need full congressional investigations into this cover-up.
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Whatever the case, it's now clear that their plan to engineer the first female president was to push through a cancer-riddled dementia patient,
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get him re-elected by any means necessary, let him die, and then have her take over.
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It's the most ruthless, cold-blooded plot we've ever seen in American politics.
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And like their counterparts in the final days of the Soviet Union,
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they obscured vital information that every American is entitled to.
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administration staffers referred to Biden's close-knit team of top advisors as the Politburo.
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They knew they were acting like Soviet puppet masters.
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They're refusing to answer the ultimate question.
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The ultimate question that we simply must have an answer to after all the other ones, which is this.
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Who was actually running the country for the past four years?
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And whoever it was, those people are still out there.
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And if not, they're certainly planning to return to power soon.
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And before that happens, every single one of them must be identified and prosecuted and imprisoned like the traitors to this country that they are.
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Okay, this was going to be the lead story today, the monologue, but there's just too much going on, so it ends up here.
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Daily Wire reports, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled 7-2 against the Trump administration's attempt to swiftly deport Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act,
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requiring officials to provide more than 24 hours for detainees to challenge their removal.
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Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal,
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surely does not pass muster, the majority wrote.
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The unsigned decision clarified that the court was only ruling on the notice requirement and not whether the Trump administration can use the Alien Enemies Act itself.
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The court stated, to be clear, we decide today only that the detainees are entitled to more notice than was given on April 18th.
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So, this is supposed to put a stop to Trump's deportation efforts.
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The Supreme Court doesn't have the authority to tell the president that he can't deport illegal aliens.
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They don't have the authority to set up, to set policy on, you know, on how that is carried out.
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I mean, it's nice that they've given their opinion.
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So, the Supreme Court has given their personal opinion that they think, you know, if you're going to deport an illegal alien, they should get more than 24 hours notice.
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Anyway, let's get back to deporting the illegal aliens.
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Because they don't have the authority, so Trump should just ignore them.
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The judicial branch thinks that it can usurp the authority of the executive branch.
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And the only way to put a check on this madness, the only way to shut down this power grab by the judicial branch, is to disregard them and dare them to try and do anything about it.
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And also, just on this due process thing for a moment.
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You know, the Supreme Court is concerned about the due process rights of illegal aliens.
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And this is what we hear all the time now from the left about the due process.
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First of all, illegal aliens have no legal rights in this country at all.
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The Constitution of the United States of America is for the United States of America.
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The Constitution doesn't apply to every far-flung corner of the planet.
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And also, this concept of due process, you know, the way that we talk about it, you would think that rather than due process, that it's the process, right?
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Like, we talk about it as if there's the process.
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There's a process, and there's only one process.
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And that process is universally applied to everybody, regardless of whether they're citizens or not.
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Even for American citizens, that's not the case.
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Due process means, not to be, you know, redundant, but due process means the process that is due.
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So, the opposite of due process would be an undue process.
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If somebody's not getting due process, it means they're getting an undue process.
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Illegal aliens have, for decades in this country, been getting an undue process.
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And the process has been that, essentially, they get to sneak across the border and stay here.
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So, I do believe in due process for illegal aliens.
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Step two in the process is we confirm that you're here illegally.
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And then step three is we expel you from the country.
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There is no other process that is due to these people.
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So, giving them a chance to appeal and explain why they really want to stay in the country and how terrible things are back home and how whatever, that's not part of the process.
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We're going to confirm that that's the case, that you're here illegally.
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And, by the way, confirming that you're here illegally is not a complicated step.
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If you're here legally, if you're a legal citizen, there is tons of documentation to prove it.
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And even if you don't have that documentation somehow, then if you don't have it on you, if somehow you can't...
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I mean, almost any of us as legal citizens, if we were asked to provide some physical documentation to show that we're legal citizens, we have ample, plenty that we could provide.
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But if you're a legal citizen and even if somehow, you know, your house was burned down and all of your documents, everything in your life was burned and you lost all of it, you could still easily prove that you're a legal citizen.
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I mean, you're going to be in, like, 20 different government databases proving that you're a legal citizen.
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So if you don't have documentation, if there's no documentation either physically on you or in any database proving that you're a legal citizen, then you're here illegally.
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Now, of course, I tweeted this over the weekend and all these idiot leftists, including Keith Olbermann, responded like they had this great dunk and they said, yeah, well, you know, confirming, confirming that they're here illegally is what this is all about, you moron.
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You know, under Trump's system, even you could be deported.
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How would you like that if they don't have to confirm?
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So next thing I know, you're going to be deported.
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That's what Keith Olbermann said, paraphrasing slightly.
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Because, right, Keith, if we deport illegal aliens, the next thing you know, they'll be deporting legal citizens who've been here for generations.
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I mean, so the idea is if we deport, if we deport an illegal alien who arrived here from Honduras last week, then there's nothing stopping them from also deporting me to my ancestral homeland where my distant relatives lived generations ago.
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I mean, that's like saying it's like saying that the laws against bank robbery would mean that, like, if we enforce the law against bank robbery, it would also mean that if you go to the bank with a withdrawal slip to legally withdraw money from your checking account, that you might also go to jail for bank robbery.
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It's like claiming that there's no way to distinguish easily between those two scenarios because they're both scenarios where someone's taking money from a bank.
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If we have a law against bank robbery, it means that we're just going to put everybody in jail.
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I mean, it's obviously clear that confirming someone's illegal status isn't difficult.
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There's not any legal citizen in this country that the government is unaware of.
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I mean, maybe if it's illegal, it's like a baby that was just born three days ago.
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That might be one the government hasn't quite, isn't quite aware.
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But if you're a legal citizen, especially an adult, like the government knows you.
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I mean, they know who you are, and they know where you are, and they know a lot about you.
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So this idea that it's complicated, it's so hard.
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How can you distinguish between a 65-year-old retiree in Cincinnati whose family has lived in Ohio for 95 years?
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How can you distinguish between that and a guy from Guatemala who just came here, just ran across the desert three days ago, and doesn't speak English?
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How do we know between those two who's the legal citizen and who isn't?
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You need years of court cases to figure out the difference between those two.
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And it's all about, as we know, you know, they're not, they don't care about due process or putting a process in place.
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What they want is, they're trying to throw roadblocks into the middle of the process.
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They want to sabotage a process, not, you know, in-state one.
00:30:24.880
Apparently, the Pope is, it turns out, Catholic.
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Pope Leo XIV affirms family is based on union between a man and a woman.
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The shocking thing about the headline is that this is an NBC News headline, and it uses the term unborn instead of fetus.
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And it's generally respectful to Catholic teaching.
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I don't know how this headline made it past the editors.
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Pope Leo XIV affirms family is based on union between a man and a woman.
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Like, the NBC News version of that headline is supposed to be something like, you know, Pope Leo XIV confirms bigotry against LGBT community while launching attack against reproductive rights.
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So, I don't know what's going on there, but, you know, baffling, but in a good way.
00:31:34.420
Pope Leo XIV affirmed Friday that the family is founded on the stable union between a man and a woman, and that the unborn and elderly enjoy dignity as God's creatures, articulating clear Catholic teaching on marriage and abortion at the start of his pontificate.
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Leo, the first American pope, has also called for reviving multilateral diplomacy and promoting dialogue between religions and the search for peace.
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In his first meeting with the Vatican diplomatic corps, it was up to governments to build peaceful societies, above all by investing in the family founded upon the stable union between a man and a woman.
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In addition, no one is exempted from striving to ensure respect for the dignity of every person, especially the most frail and vulnerable, from the unborn to the elderly, from the sick to the unemployed, citizens and immigrants alike.
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And this is why I said to be really wary of anybody claiming, as, you know, when the pope was elected by the cardinals a couple weeks ago, you had all these, a lot of people on the right claiming the pope is some kind of woke leftist.
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And that's why I said at the time to be very wary of that, because, yeah, he may be kind of liberal on immigration, but he's also going to be staunchly opposed to gay marriage and abortion at every stage.
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And it's just not possible for somebody to be, to hold those views and still be a leftist.
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There's no such thing as a leftist who is pro-life and anti-gay marriage.
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By definition, if you hold those views, you're not a leftist.
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Even if you're kind of liberal on other issues, even if you're liberal on other important issues, you cannot be a leftist and hold those views.
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I mean, it's unlikely, but you don't encounter this very often, but it is, it would be possible for a leftist to also be anti-illegal immigration.
00:33:25.520
Unlikely, it's rare, but it's, it, it would not be like incoherent necessarily for someone to say, yeah, I think we should shut down the border.
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But also I think that, you know, marriage is whatever I want it to be.
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And, uh, we should be able to kill babies up until, you know, up until the moment of birth.
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And if you hold that view, even though you have a conservative view on immigration and on the border, you are still fundamentally a leftist.
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If you want to dismantle the nuclear family, if you reject the inherent dignity of human life, that is wokeness.
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So it is incoherent to call somebody woke if they uphold the dignity of human life and they uphold the sanctity of marriage and the family.
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Which is why, as I said, when Pope Leo was first elected, many of the right-wingers attacking him and calling him woke are far woker than he is.
00:34:17.540
I mean, he is far, far to the right of many of them because many of them support abortion up to a point and they support gay marriage.
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Those are now common positions for so-called conservatives.
00:34:31.340
And, um, you know, uh, so you're, you're, you are far to the left of Pope Leo and also Pope Francis, by the way, for all the talk of how he was a liberal Pope.
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And he was, he's actually much more conservative than the majority of conservatives that were complaining about the fact that he's liberal.
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Because, because a large number of those conservatives will support gay marriage, support abortion.
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And those are, those are the, those are the leftist sacraments.
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So if you're on board with the left on those issues, you're on the left.
00:35:09.100
And, uh, you know, I'm not saying that we can't find common ground with so-called conservatives who have these liberal social views.
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We can work together to advocate for stronger borders and all that kind of stuff.
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We're on the same page on issues like crime and all that is good.
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But, um, you, you are fundamentally on their side.
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You, you, and, and you're certainly in no position to run around questioning anyone else's conservative bona fides.
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Uh, because you've accepted the left's two central and most extreme and most damaging tenets.
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And if you've done that, then, um, then, you know, the wokeness is coming from inside the house.
00:35:46.660
Here's another, uh, let's, uh, play this a little bit, something a little bit lighter.
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Um, now, you know, this, this genre, we've talked about it many times before.
00:35:58.940
Somebody records a video of themselves being reprimanded by a so-called Karen and everybody laughs and mocks the Karen.
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And we all agree that Karens are horrible monsters.
00:36:10.460
Um, even though the quote unquote Karen is actually entirely in the right most of the time.
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I won't go into my whole speech about how Karen is a racial slur.
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It is, you know, my take on that, uh, it is a slur invented by non-white people to demean white women.
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Uh, you know, if we say N word, we should be saying K word because they're both slurs.
00:36:39.160
Um, but anyway, in this video, so there's a, just the setup, there's a guy on an e-bike
00:36:45.260
on like a motorized bike and he's being followed by a woman on a normal bike.
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Who scolds him for using his motorized bike on the bike trails, which is not allowed.
00:36:59.280
And of course, almost everybody is all agreeing that this woman, what a horrible Karen and blah, blah, blah.
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You know whether you're not allowed on the bike trails on full motorized vehicles, these
00:37:35.420
You have to bike on the street because they go like 35 miles an hour.
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Yeah, you're not allowed on the bike trails on a full electric bike.
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And you people piss me off because the guy came up this far from me, almost took me off.
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Yeah, you need to stay on the streets because you're not allowed on the path.
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I'll never understand these people who have some interaction in public where they cower
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like little pathetic wimps and then they post it for the whole world to see so everyone
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She had an issue with something you were doing.
00:38:40.720
She just came up to you, man to man or man to woman in this case, and told you what she
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And if you really thought she was being unreasonable, you could have told her that to her face.
00:38:52.760
Instead, you back down and then put your little snide comeback in the caption of the video
00:38:59.020
If you're listening to the audio podcast, you couldn't see it.
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And then up on the screen in a caption that he put on later when he was editing the video,
00:39:26.580
So even if I thought that she was wrong, which I don't, I'd still take her side because you're
00:39:32.960
You are a weak little punk running to the internet for backup because you're too much of a to speak
00:39:40.660
You know, if that happened to me, like if somebody started scolding me in public and I
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I would simply not ever post that video on the internet.
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I would never, I would never say, hey guys, look at me being a little over here.
00:39:59.020
Did you get a load of this, get a load of this, this, this woman talked to me.
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And I just, and I, and I, and I was terrified and I stammered and stuttered and, and ran away.
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Um, I would, we would never speak of that encounter ever.
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It would never be, I wouldn't tell a single person.
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And yet, and yet these guys, they put it on the internet and, and that, that's why the,
00:40:29.720
you know, the, the, the quote unquote Karens, uh, this is why I defend them because they
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They have the guts to actually just come up to you face to face and tell you what they think.
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They aren't, you know, running to Twitter to make fun of you after you're long gone.
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They're just coming to you up to you in person as a human being, like people used to do.
00:40:51.200
And just telling you like, look, here's what you did.
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I respect people who would just speak up and say what they need to say.
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I just don't, I don't understand how twisted your mind has to be when you see a video like
00:41:04.120
this and you side with the, with the weak, weak ass little punk who was number one, breaking
00:41:09.180
And number two is running to the internet to, to get back up rather than manning up and
00:41:20.580
Also in this case, as usual, the so-called Karen is right.
00:41:24.700
Motorized bikes aren't allowed on the bike trail.
00:41:30.900
And I'm not one to speak up for cyclists very often.
00:41:33.300
You know how I feel about cyclists, but in this case, she's right.
00:41:40.440
And this guy ignored the rule because he's an entitled jerk who thinks he should be able
00:41:45.340
And, uh, and yet somehow this detail is always over overlooked and ignored in these so-called
00:41:52.900
It's always somebody whining saying, oh, oh, this Karen yelled at me and said I was doing
00:42:05.620
And somehow nobody ever asks the obvious follow-up question, which is, okay.
00:42:10.860
She yelled at you and said, you're doing the wrong thing.
00:42:16.220
How is that not the most, the most relevant question to ask here?
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Instead, all these morons are like, she should just mind her own business.
00:42:31.760
But he was because if you were breaking the rule, then how are you not in the wrong here?
00:42:39.860
Are you saying that you were doing the wrong thing, but this woman somehow has what, a moral
00:42:47.560
obligation to just let you do it without comment?
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All these people that say, oh, people just need to mind their own business.
00:42:54.860
So what you're saying, what you're saying is that you, that, that everybody else has a moral
00:42:59.580
obligation to just let you do whatever the hell you want.
00:43:03.860
Sure, motorized bikes aren't allowed on the trail and here you are with a motorized bike
00:43:09.020
on the trail and we're all supposed to just accept that because why, why are we supposed
00:43:16.060
Why are you allowed to magically break this rule that everyone else is following?
00:43:22.640
Um, you know, you're such a precious little angel that, that everybody is just, yeah, yeah,
00:43:29.240
I'm going to ride right past those signs doing the opposite of what the sign says because
00:43:39.460
And, um, and if there are a million signs saying no, no motorized bikes on the trail and this
00:43:46.500
guy says, well, I'm just going to do it anyway.
00:43:54.840
This, this is why we need the so-called Karens who, who, who, who, you know what they
00:44:05.920
Like this is, they're actually, this is what, this is how moms are supposed to be.
00:44:14.660
It's one of the roles that moms fill in society.
00:44:19.460
It's, it's always, of course it's going to be, it's like, it's not, it's probably not
00:44:33.960
There's a safety reason for it in that these bikes go too fast for, you know, for, for a
00:44:39.300
trail that was not made for those kinds of bikes.
00:44:46.460
The, the dad thing is you're probably not gonna, you're just like, ah, whatever, you
00:44:52.240
It's a, this is the, the, the eternal argument between moms and dads.
00:44:56.720
It's like, the mom is like, look, he's on the trail.
00:45:01.700
You know, that's the dad approach, but the mom says, no, this isn't right.
00:45:08.800
And, um, and there's always a little bit of tension there, but you need that.
00:45:18.920
Um, and you need these women, these moms who are just gonna, you know, they're, they're
00:45:32.140
And you need people in society who care about the rules simply because it is a rule.
00:45:39.240
We, we, we, we, you shout down all these people, you shame them and, and you, you, you make
00:45:44.900
Um, then what do you, what would you rather have?
00:45:47.980
Would you rather have a society that's run by the weak little on the bike, breaking the
00:45:54.080
rules, doesn't even have the guts to speak up for himself.
00:45:59.600
Who do you want to have a greater influence on society?
00:46:01.800
That guy or, you know, the, the, the woman, the mom who cares about the rules.
00:46:09.020
Well, if you want a civilized, well-ordered society, then it should be the latter is what
00:46:14.900
All right, let's get to the, uh, comment section.
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So on Friday, we talked about the horrifying story of the cockroaches found on a Spirit Airlines
00:47:29.020
So of course, our comment section today will focus only on that because that's the only
00:47:39.320
They have big seats in the front row, but they don't even call it first class themselves
00:47:43.920
because this story was that there was cockroaches in first class on Spirit Airlines, which as
00:47:48.700
I remarked, I'm fascinated less by the cockroaches and more by the fact that Spirit has first
00:47:57.080
But a few people corrected me on this and said that it's...
00:48:00.740
So you're telling me that first class on Spirit Airlines is literally just called the big seats.
00:48:08.700
That's the most Spirit Airlines thing I've ever heard of.
00:48:13.380
I thought it was funny thinking about Spirit Airlines having first class, but now that I know
00:48:19.720
Like if you go to the website and you could pay the upcharge for the big seats?
00:48:26.560
Their version of first class is just to give you a human-sized seat.
00:48:31.300
Their version of first class is to give you a seat that you can fit in if you're an adult
00:48:47.980
Flying first class on Spirit Airlines is like being the valedictorian of summer school.
00:48:56.540
I was searching for a joke like that when we talked about this, and I couldn't quite...
00:49:04.680
I knew Spirit was bad when I flew with them while my friends flew on another airline.
00:49:09.060
Our flights going the same route, just being five minutes apart.
00:49:12.960
My flight had such bad turbulence and shook the whole time.
00:49:15.700
And when I landed and saw my friends, I was like, wow, that was terrifying.
00:49:18.220
And they were like, what are you talking about?
00:49:21.200
But yeah, that's because the turbulence on Spirit is not from the weather conditions.
00:49:25.900
It's because of the mechanics of the plane, I assume.
00:49:30.460
It's because the engines are operated by like an army of hamsters on a wheel, you know, running
00:49:43.220
I've flown Spirit about 30 times to visit family back home.
00:49:45.660
Spirit has never had cancellations, and the one day I had was only 20 minutes.
00:49:49.640
They're reliable, and I'm able to get to my destination safely and for a good price.
00:49:53.180
Delta, on the other hand, they have stranded me in multiple airports with cancellations.
00:49:56.540
Delta has also been on the news a lot recently for their safety.
00:50:00.760
This has to be an alt account for the Spirit CEO.
00:50:06.680
There's no way that anyone is passionately defending Spirit Airlines.
00:50:16.300
But you do know exactly what you're going to get.
00:50:19.940
Um, Dollar Tree, Aldi's, and Walmart are lower than TJ Maxx on the rankings, IMO.
00:50:32.580
I'm not going to, I won't tolerate that kind of Walmart slander.
00:50:40.300
Walmart is at least, I think Walmart gets a bad rap, you know?
00:50:44.760
And I think I've, I've, I've, I've sung the praises of Walmart in the past.
00:50:48.700
Uh, as you know, I'm a, I am a, a, a, a loyal Walmart shopper myself, even, even now, even
00:51:00.220
TJ Maxx is a, is a, uh, like a giant flea market.
00:51:04.320
It's like TJ Maxx is a, it's a flea market tier operation.
00:51:08.380
So the ranking is actually garage sale, uh, flea market, then like a, a street market in
00:51:19.880
And the thing is that the flea market and the garage sales and third world street markets
00:51:24.080
are better organized and have better customer service.
00:51:29.300
Like, have you walked into a, a TJ Maxx and had to ask an employee a question?
00:51:36.880
They look at you like they're, they're offended that you would ask.
00:51:40.500
Like, I've had this, like, it's like when you ask, it's, it's, if you go to a store and
00:51:44.740
you accidentally stop a customer because you think that they're an employee and you ask
00:51:48.160
them where something is, and a lot of times they get offended.
00:51:51.780
Uh, but really it's their fault because it's like, why did you wear a blue polo to Best Buy?
00:51:56.420
I mean, what, what, what am I supposed to assume?
00:51:59.800
But the employees at TJ Maxx, they get offended the same way, even though they're actually
00:52:06.660
So the last time I went to TJ Maxx was, uh, it was, it was like over a year ago and I
00:52:12.080
was out running errands and my wife did what all wives do all the time and what my wife
00:52:16.940
loves to do, which is that after I'd already completed the errands, I was, I was getting
00:52:23.700
in the car with a feeling of satisfaction, like, well, all the errands are done heading
00:52:30.080
And then she texts me as you always get that text in that moment say, Oh, actually, can
00:52:36.100
And the one other thing is always something oddly specific.
00:52:41.400
It was like, uh, it was like, it was like, it was, uh, shower curtain, uh, rings or something,
00:52:50.320
not the shower curtain and not the shower curtain rod, but the rings, you know, the rings he
00:52:54.700
put on so that the shower curtain slides, something really specific like that.
00:52:58.920
And, uh, and of course I text her back and I say, well, do we really not have those?
00:53:04.600
What, what happened that we lost that part, but we don't, we still have the curtain.
00:53:11.440
They have a great, they have a, they have nice ones that are on sale.
00:53:14.120
And I'm like, what constitutes a nice shower curtain ring?
00:53:18.820
And how do you know that off the top of your head?
00:53:20.840
But I just went to, I, it's the kind of thing you walk in there.
00:53:25.680
There's no way I can, I'm going to be able to find it.
00:53:30.540
It's, it's, it, they have, they are more clueless about how the store is set up than
00:53:43.220
Finally, I think Matt's memory failed him a little here.
00:53:54.800
Our, I was also surprised in the comments that so many people knew what Ames was.
00:53:58.700
You know, it was a bargain retailer from like that went out of business 25 years ago.
00:54:03.820
Apparently a lot of, a lot of former Ames customers out there.
00:54:10.400
And like I said, we did our back to school shopping there.
00:54:12.720
Um, and the, the clothes were, they were such, they were such obvious knockoffs that even
00:54:21.320
the, even the kids wearing Payless shoes and Walmart brand t-shirts would make fun of me.
00:54:28.000
You'd have a kid wearing shoes with like a slightly different looking swoosh.
00:54:33.020
And the brand was, you know, Fikey or something.
00:54:36.420
And they would be laughing at me in my Ames gear.
00:54:40.420
I'm glad I didn't wear designer clothes when I was a kid.
00:54:44.220
Because when you don't have expensive clothes, it forces you to develop a charming personality.
00:54:50.980
Which, in theory, I mean, obviously that didn't work out in my case, but it's a good theory anyway.
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There's a story circulating on social media that sounds like a modern urban legend.
00:55:36.420
The Daily Dot reports on a Tinder user who allegedly managed to score exactly one date in the course of five years,
00:55:42.400
despite, as the story goes, swiping right on more than two million women.
00:55:48.900
Now this claim was posted initially on Reddit, complete with the guy's Tinder stats and some images of his profile.
00:55:54.340
It then made its way to X in a post that's now been viewed over 20 million times.
00:55:58.200
And I'll show you some of the images that have been posted, but I'm going to blur out the guy's face and his name,
00:56:01.700
just in case these images have somehow been posted without his permission.
00:56:03.940
I have no reason to think that they have been, and they've already been viewed like tens of millions of times anyway,
00:56:08.860
so it's probably a moot point, but we'll blur it regardless.
00:56:11.720
So there you can see his alleged Tinder stats, and then you can see some of the pictures on his profile.
00:56:17.200
And even with his face obscured, you kind of get the gist.
00:56:20.700
You see him out on the lake in pretty much every picture, multiple photos of him showing off the fish that he caught.
00:56:26.520
We can also see that he works as an equipment operator at Don't Worry About It.
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And he notes that if you don't like fishing, he's not interested in you.
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And we also see him in a hoodie with a vulgar sexual reference.
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His interests, along with fishing and camping, include memes.
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So it is, in other words, and I don't say this to be mean,
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it is a dating profile specifically constructed to be as unappealing to women as possible.
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I mean, it is those scientists who worked in a lab to concoct the most perfect kind of woman repellent.
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And again, I don't say that to be rude to this guy.
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I have empathy for him, but I'm just being honest about it.
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Now, let's assume that this story is real for the sake of discussion.
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And it's worth talking about because regardless of the specifics of this alleged case,
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it does in many ways represent the problem that a huge number of young men are facing.
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Now, most men may not strike out 2 million times, but they are striking out a lot.
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And so much that it has convinced millions of young men to essentially give up on the dating scene entirely.
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By now, you're familiar with the very bleak statistics,
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which all prove that our friend here is not alone in his reported plight.
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Over 60% of men between the ages of 18 and 29 are single,
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which doubles the rate for women in the same age bracket,
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because obviously that means that a lot of these women are dating older guys.
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And by the age of 35, about 40% of men will not be married.
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The average age of marriage for men is now over 30 for the first time in American history.
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In fact, 20% of single men have never even been on a date in their entire lives.
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and they are all also much higher for men than for women.
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Now, before we talk about what guys like Tinder Dude could do differently in light of these facts,
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we should acknowledge that, first of all, this really sucks.
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I have immense compassion for any young man struggling in this way.
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One of the first things we learn about men in the Bible is that men are not meant to be alone.
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A man is meant to find a wife and become one flesh with her,
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and from their flesh to create their own family, which will carry on his name and lineage.
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So it's incredibly devastating for a man to feel like he may never be able to fulfill that great vocation.
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We should also acknowledge that, although women may also struggle in their own way to find a good match,
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women swipe right on an average of about 4% to 14% of profiles.
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And yet, women get far more matches, up to 10 times more matches, if not more than that.
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And this pattern repeats on pretty much every dating app, every dating site.
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a woman, in order to find interested men, only needs to be not morbidly obese.
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If a woman can simply keep herself in decent shape,
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she is virtually guaranteed to garner interest on the dating market.
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And the reason to point this disparity out isn't just to complain that it's unfair.
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The point is that the disparity feeds the problem.
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The easier it is for women on the dating market, the harder it gets for men.
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This is because men not only have lots of competition,
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but also a woman's standards are raised higher and higher,
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A moderately attractive woman on a dating app might rule out all moderately attractive men.
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And then she might start adding other unreasonable demands.
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She gets pickier as the men get more desperate.
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Now, a moderately attractive woman, or even a moderately unattractive one,
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might narrow her field to only men above six feet in height,
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who earn an income three or four times above the national average, or whatever it is.
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The effect is that decent-looking guys with decent jobs
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A man has to be exceptional to attract interest.
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And this is the dynamic that millions of young men are dealing with,
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is facilitated primarily or solely through dating apps.
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Well, let's go back to Tinder dude and use him as a case study.
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Well, the first thing he could do about all this is accept
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The dynamics that I've just outlined cannot be changed or fixed by any one guy.
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It's extremely unfortunate that the dating scene works this way,
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As a young single guy, you have only two choices.
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Flipping a magic switch and making it better is not one of them.
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You can give up and resign yourself to being alone and lonely and sad forever,
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or you can try your best to succeed in spite of these enormous challenges.
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I mean, those are the options everywhere in life.
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And the thing that separates successful people from failures
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is that successful people, when given that choice, always try.
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I know it sounds like a cliche, and it is, but it's also true.
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But you can only try to change the things that you can actually change.
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And on the dating scene, that means working on yourself.
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I mean, you are the only person that you have complete control over.
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However, all you can do is make yourself as desirable as possible
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and put yourself in situations where your chances are as high as possible.
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For Tinder dude, he can start with some basic fixes.
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And, you know, he's in the same situation a lot of guys are in,
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which is that he's not, you know, he's not some, like, hideous guy.
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And so there are, like, little things that can be fixed
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First of all, get rid of all the fish pictures.
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And a woman's attitude towards fishing will almost always range
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somewhere between indifference and outright disgust.
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My wife is about as pro-fishing as a wife can possibly be.
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And yet, if she were to rate her top 50 favorite photos of me,
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none of them would be the ones where I'm holding a fish.
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Even though those are basically the only times I take pictures anymore.
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Also, he could project a classier, more sophisticated appearance.
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Now, I don't mean that he needs, like, a photo of himself smoking a pipe
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I just mean, get rid of the picture with the vulgar hoodie.
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Grown, mature, sophisticated guys don't shop at Spencer's,
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He should generally get rid of anything that makes it seem like
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he's the kind of guy who spends hours a day on Reddit.
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Listing memes as an interest, along with the vulgar hoodie,
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And, you know, it makes it seem like when you're not fishing,
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There's no woman in existence who is looking for a man
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Even the women who also spend all of their time online
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And yes, that's unfair, but that's just how it is.
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These are all easy fixes that would take about three minutes to implement.
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You know, this guy needs to get in really good shape.
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If he shaves off even a third of his Tinder time
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he could get into relatively, you know, respectable shape pretty quickly.
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You have all the incentive in the world to do so.
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When you're older and you have a wife and kids,
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that's when you might lose a little bit of the incentive and the time.
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Although even then, there's no excuse to be a fat slob.
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I still try to work out four or five times a week.
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I cannot tell you how often I talk to young men
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who say that they've done everything they can to find a woman,
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and tell that everything apparently didn't include
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and gotten into shape, you have not done everything.
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You haven't done most of the things that you could be doing.
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that's not something you can necessarily fix quickly or ever.
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Even if you tell me that you can't afford a gym membership,
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which is a claim that I would find pretty dubious
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I mean, I could list like 20 muscle-building exercises
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you could do in your living room without weights right now.
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And if you could save up and spring for some used dumbbells
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Women these days may be too picky in certain ways,
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but you can't blame them for not wanting a doughy, flabby guy.
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Those are the two things that can get over the hurdle
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So if you're also adding out of shape to the list,
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Also, even if you are, like, stand-up comedian-level funny,
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that's not going to come across in a dating profile.
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And that really leaves either physical fitness or money.
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as kind of a modern, cutting-edge approach to dating.
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you're competing against thousands of other birds