Ep. 1626 - It’s Time To Put Barack Obama In Handcuffs
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Summary
Tulsi Gabbard provides evidence of what she calls a treasonous conspiracy by Barack Obama and his top officials. We ll go over the evidence today, and then we ll get to the most important question: what is the Trump administration going to do about it?
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Tulsi Gabbard provides evidence of what she calls a treasonous
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conspiracy by Barack Obama and his top officials. We'll go over the evidence today and then we'll
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get to the most important question, which is what is the Trump administration going to do about it?
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Who's going to prison and win? Also, the media mourns as Stephen Colbert's nightly propaganda
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slash Walsh. Around noon on Donald Trump's first inauguration day in January of 2017, while every
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other Democrat in Washington was either destroying store windows or sobbing uncontrollably or a bit of
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both. Barack Obama's outgoing national security advisor was hard at work. She logged onto her
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computer and sent a lengthy email to her own government email account, even though very soon
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she wouldn't be able to access that account. So yes, the national security advisor, Susan Rice,
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wrote an email to herself. And to be clear, this email wasn't a reminder to pick up dog food at the
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store or a motivational quote for herself as she headed towards unemployment or anything like that.
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Instead, the email that Rice sent to herself amounted essentially to a lengthy statement claiming
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that nobody in the Obama administration had committed any kind of treason whatsoever,
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nor would they ever dream of doing such a thing. Why would you ask? In other words,
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it was exactly the kind of email you'd send if you had just committed treason. Short of an outright
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confession, it does not get any more incriminating or bizarre than this email. Just a few miles away,
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at exactly this time, Donald Trump was taking the oath of office. Barack Obama was getting ready to
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board a helicopter and leave Washington. The wailing Democrat lady from the meme was screaming in the
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street, entering into eternal internet infamy. And contemporaneously with all of that, this is what
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Susan Rice was sending to herself. The email describes a meeting that took place in the Oval Office
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back on January 5th, in which several senior Obama administration officials met to discuss
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Russian interference in the 2016 election. So for some reason, we're summarizing a meeting that took
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place more than two weeks earlier. But here's what Rice wrote, quote, President Obama began the
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conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is
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handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities by the book. The president stressed that
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he is not asking about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective.
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He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would, by the book.
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Now, shortly after the Trump administration declassified this email, it was obvious to everyone that
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Susan Rice had written the document because, in fact, Barack Obama had not ordered the investigation
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into Russiagate to be conducted by the book. Instead, he had done the opposite. He had invented
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Russiagate out of whole cloth with the intention of sabotaging the incoming Trump administration and
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discrediting the populist movement that Trump represented. And in an attempt to cover for her
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boss, Susan Rice was engaging in some last-minute CYA. That's what this email is all about. After all,
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if everybody was doing everything in accordance with the law, there'd be no reason to say that.
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There'd be no reason to say twice, in fact, that this was by the book. It was by the book.
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That's supposed to be the default assumption. It's a very bad sign when you have to note in
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the official logs that you're totally not committing any crimes at all. But despite this
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evidence and a lot of other evidence like it, no document directly linked Obama himself to the
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creation of the Russiagate fraud. The evidence of Obama's involvement up to this point has been
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overwhelming, but it's also been mostly circumstantial. That all changed on Friday when
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified hundreds of new documents
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that leave no doubt about this. Obama deliberately orchestrated Russiagate and his top lieutenants
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in the intelligence agencies, all of whom are now open partisan hacks, willingly carried out this fraud.
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So this is one of the greatest crimes that a president has ever committed in this country. That's not an
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exaggeration. As Gabbard put it, this is a, quote, treasonous conspiracy. And it is. The same people
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who claim to care deeply about American democracy had, in fact, met in secret to begin a sustained
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campaign to subvert and sabotage the will of the voters. Now, before we get into the new documents and
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how they prove this conspiracy, we'll start with this news report, which I found while I was looking
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through old footage from late 2016, this is how the Russiagate fraud began. Now, by now, we've all
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probably blocked this period of time from our memories. So it's worth a quick look back to frame
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what was happening. So this is footage from the Today Show on December 11th, 2016. Watch.
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The election has been over for weeks, but this new report is raising questions about how the Russian
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government may have interfered, not just in general, but specifically to help Trump win this
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election. Trump is fighting back overnight, but members of his own party are promising that
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they're going to keep digging into it. By the way, I don't need the hat either, right? Who wants a hat?
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This morning, President-elect Donald Trump is at war with the intelligence community.
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The Washington Post reported late Friday, the CIA thinks the Russian government interfered with
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the US election to help Trump win by hacking emails from the Democratic Party and Hillary
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Clinton's campaign chairman. The Trump campaign reacting to the report within minutes, dismissing
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the claim, saying, quote, these are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
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destruction. This kind of coverage, as I probably don't need to remind you, was nonstop for the next
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several years, and it had a very observable effect on tens of millions of people. There was a YouGov
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poll that found in 2018 that, quote, 67% of Democrats believed it was definitely true or
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probably true that Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected.
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This was the narrative that led to multiple criminal investigations that destroyed the lives of
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several Trump advisors solely on the basis that they had supposedly lied to investigators who were
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looking into a non-existent crime. And we can be sure that Russiagate, along with the
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magic of untraceable mail-in voting, was a big part of the reason that Joe Biden ultimately became
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president. All of that has been known for a while. What's new is the timeline that's created by
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Gabbard's document, which directly implicates Barack Obama himself. Again, that clip I just
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played is from December 11th, 2016. By that point, the leaks from the Obama administration about
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Russia collusion were all over the media. Here's a document which was just unsealed by Gabbard,
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dated December 8th of that same year. This is an email in which intelligence officials are
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preparing the president's daily brief that's about to be sent to Barack Obama. And according to these
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officials, as of December 8th of 2016, the conclusion is that, quote, Russian and criminal
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actors did not impact recent U.S. election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against
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election infrastructure. The officials say that the brief will be published the following day due to
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high administration interest. Documents that were just declassified by Gabbard show that this was
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not a new conclusion by the intelligence agencies. For months, in various internal emails and reports,
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they had concluded that Russia did not have the capacity to hack the election in any way.
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Here's just a small handful of those assessments from August. This is from August through early
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December. And as you can see, the intelligence agencies were not talking about Russian Facebook
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memes or Russian blackmail on Trump or WikiLeaks emails or anything like that. Instead, they were
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assessing whether Russia had hacked voting machines or other U.S. infrastructure or had the capacity to do
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so. And they concluded that it didn't. So really, this latest conclusion on December 8th of 2016
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was just affirming their assessments from before the election. But interestingly enough, this president's
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daily brief was never published. Within hours of the email about the draft daily brief, somebody at
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the FBI said the agency would dissent from the conclusions in the draft of the presidential daily
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brief. And then around the same time, the deputy director of the intelligence of the office of
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national intelligence wrote, quote, based on some new guidance, we are going to push back publication
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of the president's daily brief. At the time, it wasn't explained what this new guidance was or
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where it came from. A day later, though, it was obvious to everyone what was going on. Obama assembled
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all of his senior intelligence officials for a meeting, including James Clapper, John Brennan,
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Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, and Andrew McCabe. And all these people, of course,
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are rabid left-wing activists. Immediately after that meeting concluded, the assistant to James
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Clapper, the director of national intelligence at the time, sent this email to senior leaders of the
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office of the director of national intelligence. And let's put that up on the screen. You can see it
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here. The email is entitled, POTUS tasking on Russia election meddling. And right there in the email,
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all of those senior officials are told to prepare, quote, an assessment per the president's request.
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This is proof in writing that Obama personally directed all of the intelligence and national
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security agencies, including the CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS, to investigate Russian election interference
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after they had indicated that Russia did not hack the election machines. Keep in mind, by this point,
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Obama's director of national intelligence had already issued a statement about the DNC emails that were
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released by WikiLeaks. The Obama administration concluded, probably fraudulently, that Russia had
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orchestrated that hack. That was back in early October of 2016. And then after that statement,
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the intelligence agencies went on to conclude that Russia didn't hack any election machines or
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infrastructure whatsoever. So there was no need at this point for any additional investigation to
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occur. The big fear of the intelligence community that Russia would somehow hack voting machines just
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as easily as the DNC servers were supposedly hacked had turned out to be unfounded. But Obama wasn't
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satisfied with that conclusion from the intelligence agencies. So here are the specific areas Obama told
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them to go back and investigate. This is also from the Clapper email, quote, how did Moscow seek to
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influence the U.S. presidential election 2016? What tools did they use? Then the email runs down
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several domains of election interference, hacking, leaks, cyber activity, media spin, trolls, fake news,
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domestic Russian intelligence efforts. Then it ends with this question. Why did Moscow direct these
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activities? The prodding is pretty overt. Now the agencies are told to assume that Moscow directed all
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these activities, including hacking and trolling. They're told to make this assumption, not because
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of any evidence, but because the president told them to assume it, even though they knew at this point
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that it wasn't true. All of a sudden, online trolling is something that the intelligence agencies are
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supposed to take seriously and to present to the public as a vector of election interference.
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Now, this was never a serious idea, but it didn't have to be. The absurd suggestion that trolling has
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impacted the 2016 election would easily be laundered through the national news media. Within just a few
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hours, the leaks began as Gabbard's report reveals the CIA went straight to the Washington Post and leaked
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that the intelligence agencies had, quote, concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the
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election to help President Trump. Yes, Russia intervened. Don't worry about how exactly. They
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just intervened. We just know that they did. That reporting from the Washington Post led to the
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footage from the Today Show that I played at the beginning of this segment, along with thousands of
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reports like it. Russia had attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence,
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the outcome of an election is what the Washington Post claimed. Vladimir Putin became personally
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involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, reported NBC
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News, citing anonymous intelligence officials. So you see how all this works. The details of the
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interference are left vague and unsubstantiated. It's something about cyber warfare, though, and that's
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all they had to say. And from this point on, the floodgates were open. Within a few weeks, we saw
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additional hysteria over the Steele dossier, which was an obvious fabrication with funding from the
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Clinton campaign. And as all these leaks were underway and the hysteria was ramping up, Obama went out of
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his way to promote the lie. On December 16, 2016, several days after he ordered the intelligence
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agencies to commence the hoax, and after the frantic reports about Russian collusion had been
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published in the Washington Post, Obama was asked directly about Russian interference in the 2016
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election. Specifically, he was asked, did Clinton lose because of the hacking? Now, he had an opportunity
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to explain that actually the intelligence agencies looked into this and they did not think that Russia
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had interfered with the election. But instead, Obama strongly implied that there was hacking, even though
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he knew that there wasn't, but that he couldn't talk about it because it was all classified. Watch.
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I'm going to let all the political pundits in this town have a long discussion about what happened
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in the election. It was a fascinating election, so I'm sure there are going to be a lot of books
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written about it. We will provide evidence that we can safely provide, that does not compromise
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sources and methods. But I'll be honest with you, when you're talking about cybersecurity,
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a lot of it is classified and we're not going to provide it because
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the way we catch folks is by knowing certain things about them
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Now, a few weeks after this press conference, the intelligence agencies under Obama announced
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that, quote, we assessed with high confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered
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an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election.
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Put another way, Obama told the intelligence agencies to allege that Russia had impacted
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the election one way or another. They could even say that trolling had impacted the election
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if they wanted to. And indeed, the intelligence agencies, all of them run by lunatics who would
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go on to become MSNBC personalities, did exactly what Obama asked them to do.
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Now, this is about as overt and explicit as a conspiracy can be. Everybody involved in this
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fraud knew exactly what they were doing. When given the opportunity to pull back, they kept
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pushing the lie. They doubled down. Solely to undermine the incoming administration, Obama told
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his deputies to go back to the drawing board to find some other way that Russia could have
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influenced the election. Now, he knew that it was absurd to suggest that Trump had won because
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Russia spent, you know, $100,000 on Facebook memes or that Russia wanted Trump to win because
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they could blackmail him. He also knew there wasn't any real evidence that Russia had ever
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hacked the DNC. But Obama knew that he didn't need to prove any of this. Instead, he could simply
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order the intelligence agencies to start leaking about their phony investigation. The media would
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just take it from there. Now, it's clear that Tulsi Gabbard understands all this, and
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here's what she had to say the other day about it on Fox. Watch.
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The implications of this are, frankly, nothing short of historic. Over 100 documents that we
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released on Friday really detail and provide evidence of how this treasonous conspiracy was
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directed by President Obama just weeks before he was due to leave office, after President Trump had
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already gotten elected. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an issue that is so
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serious it should concern every single American because it has to do with the integrity of our
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Democratic Republic. What we saw occur here, as the documents we released detailed, was that we had a
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sitting President of the United States and his cabinet and leadership team, quite frankly, who were not
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happy with the fact that President Trump had won the election, that the American people had chosen
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Donald J. Trump to be the next President, Commander in Chief of the United States. And so they decided
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that they would do everything possible to try to undermine his ability to do what voters tasked
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President Trump to do. Everything Tulsi just said is obviously true. This was a treasonous conspiracy.
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It's in writing. It's all based on a fraud. That's why every single analysis that would follow, even the
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Mueller report and even the bipartisan Senate report on election interference that liberals cite all the
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time, failed to demonstrate that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia or corrupted the election in
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any way because it was all a fabrication. From the beginning, the objective of Russiagate was to spread
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fear and uncertainty when it was all completely unfounded. If a Trump official spoke to a Russian or shared
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publicly available polling data, it was supposedly proof that the election was was rigged. If a random person with a
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bank account living within 5000 miles of Moscow spent 10 rubles to promote a gay Bernie meme on Facebook, then it was
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more proof that the election was compromised. This was not insanity. This was not mass hysteria. This was
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premeditated political sabotage. It was, as Tulsi Gabbard said, a treasonous conspiracy.
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So, what then? What of it? What's next? That's the question.
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The Trump administration is making a claim on the record about a criminal conspiracy at the highest
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levels in Washington, D.C. to undermine Trump and subvert the will of the voters. And it's far from
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the first criminal conspiracy that people in the Trump administration or Trump himself have claimed.
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I believe them. I mean, I believe this conspiracy happened. The evidence is overwhelming.
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So, what then? What will the consequences be? Right now, President Trump is making a bunch of
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posts on Truth Social depicting Obama officials in orange jumpsuits. Tulsi Gabbard is doing
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hits on Fox News and posting these threads on Twitter. They're sounding notes of indignation and outrage.
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All that is fine. But none of that matters if they fail to actually go and make arrests. Barack Obama
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himself should be in handcuffs. You cannot allege a treasonous conspiracy and then do nothing about it.
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Now, if I seem a bit cynical here, the typical pattern by Republicans since forever is to make these
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kinds of claims, but to make them only on social media and Fox News and to never actually bring it
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to a court of law so the parties responsible can be held accountable for their crimes.
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And I'm tired of it. I'm sick to death of it. Go arrest these people and bring them to justice.
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Funny memes and outrage soundbites on Fox News are not going to cut it anymore. Go make an arrest.
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Put somebody in prison. And if you won't do that, then what does any of this matter?
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Why should we care about any of this if you won't follow it up by putting people in prison?
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In fact, I'll say this. The consequences of these allegations from Tulsi must be one of two things.
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Either top Obama officials are arrested or Tulsi Gabbard should be fired. Now, I like Tulsi.
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I hope she's not fired. But the only valid reason to not make any arrests is if the claims that she
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made are false. And if the DNI is falsely alleging treasonous conspiracies publicly, then clearly she
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should be run out of town. But if what she's saying is true, and I believe that it is, as I just outlined
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for 15 minutes, then failure to make arrests would make top Trump officials complicit in the conspiracy
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after the fact. There is no legitimate reason to make no arrests if the claims are true. So
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something must happen here. Someone has to be punished. Or else none of this means anything
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at all. It's just fodder for cable news and nothing else. Go make an arrest. Put somebody
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in handcuffs. Put Barack Obama in handcuffs. Not just in a meme, not in some AI-generated funny video.
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But in real life. Now, they did it to Trump with far less justification.
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So what are you going to do, Trump administration? What are you actually going to do about this?
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Maybe something will happen, and I hope it does. But the pattern has always been that Republicans
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allege high crimes and misdemeanors only to punish precisely no one for them and to hold no one
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accountable in any way whatsoever. And this has to change. It has to change. Right now,
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Democrats just spent years trying to imprison the President of the United States for fake crimes.
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They pursued fake charges shamelessly and relentlessly for years. For once, Republicans
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should apply that kind of intensity towards pursuing Democrats, including Barack Obama, who have
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all clearly committed actual crimes. Enough with the tough talk. Go kick down some doors. It's time.
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big entertainment news. It was announced on Friday, I believe, that the Late Show with Stephen Colbert
00:27:16.780
is coming to an end. CBS is canceling Colbert and the whole Late Show franchise in May of next year.
00:27:24.540
So here is Stephen Colbert on the Late Show on Friday making the tragic announcement.
00:27:29.340
Oh, hey, everybody. We got a great show for you tonight. Senator Adam Schiff was my guest.
00:27:36.440
We harmonized on Seven Bridges Road. What a voice. I cried. But before we start the show,
00:27:42.680
I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season.
00:27:48.520
The network will be ending the Late Show in May. And yeah, I share your feelings. It's not just the
00:28:03.820
end of our show, but it's the end of the Late Show on CBS. I'm not being replaced. This is all just
00:28:09.500
going away. It's all just going away, he says. It's all just going away. And I'm going to, I for one,
00:28:14.860
I'm going to miss. I'm going to miss the show. I missed every single episode that's ever aired,
00:28:21.220
and I'll keep missing it. And now everybody will. Although everybody was already missing it,
00:28:27.360
which is sort of the whole problem. Now, naturally, the cancellation of Stephen Colbert was treated like
00:28:31.980
a national tragedy by the media and Democrat politicians. Colbert was the most overtly political
00:28:38.020
and left wing of all the late night hosts, which is saying a lot. So the left has been very upset
00:28:44.940
about it. And the other thing people have to understand is that when you're looking at the
00:28:50.180
reaction from the media to this and from Democrat politicians, and we're used to them being hysterical
00:28:56.180
about dumb things, they're even more hysterical about this than maybe you would expect. The reason
00:29:00.540
is that, uh, is, is very simply that Stephen Colbert would have those people look at any,
00:29:09.120
any Democrat politician or journalist news anchor who has expressed outrage and, and, and indignation
00:29:17.060
at the fact that Stephen Colbert shows it canceled. Look at any of them. Every single one of them
00:29:21.740
has, has been on Stephen Colbert show. He would have them on his show. They, he treated them like
00:29:27.160
celebrities. And that's why they're really so upset about it is that this, this was their one
00:29:33.880
opportunity to sit, you know, to go on a late night show and be treated like a celebrity.
00:29:39.060
Somebody on X said that Elizabeth Warren, for example, who was of all the elected Democrats is
00:29:44.380
maybe the most upset about this. And Elizabeth Warren had been on the late show interviewed by
00:29:51.560
Colbert like 14 times or something crazy. I don't know if it was a bunch of times, Elizabeth Warren,
00:29:56.500
Elizabeth Warren has been on this late night comedy show, not just once, but multiple times.
00:30:05.480
Now Letterman and Leno back in the old days, what qualifies as the old days. Now they used to
00:30:11.060
interview big popular movie stars and musicians. And meanwhile, Stephen Colbert was interviewing
00:30:16.800
Elizabeth Warren once a week. And then on other days, he'd have some random CNN reporter that nobody's
00:30:22.780
ever heard of or cares about. And that explains both why the show is canceled and also why the media
00:30:28.700
and these politicians are so heartbroken about it. Um, because now they don't get to pretend to be
00:30:33.820
celebrities anymore, which is what they all want to be. That's what they all actually want to be.
00:30:38.220
There's a lot of speculation that Colbert got canned by CBS for criticizing Trump too much,
00:30:43.700
which is, I mean, total nonsense, obviously for a lot of reasons, starting with the fact that they're
00:30:50.480
letting him stay on for almost a year. Okay. So if you've got any kind of conspiracy theory about why
00:30:55.080
they're canceling the show, well, if, if you're, if you're firing somebody because you don't like what
00:31:00.800
they're saying, if you're, if you're firing them because you're trying to silence them,
00:31:04.220
you're not going to give them another year on the air. It's like when you're firing someone,
00:31:11.000
uh, especially if you want to silence them, you fire them and they're gone.
00:31:17.300
So I guess the theory here is that they're silencing him, but they're going to give them
00:31:20.060
another, they're going to get another year on the air to, you know, with nothing to lose now to,
00:31:24.820
to, uh, continue criticizing Trump. It doesn't make a lot of sense. No, he got, he didn't get fired
00:31:30.600
for that. Um, mostly because criticizing Trump is about the safest thing that somebody in Colbert's
00:31:37.120
position can do. Oh, he got fired because apparently the show costs more than a hundred
00:31:41.300
million dollars to make a year and was losing $40 million a year. Now, how in God's name can you
00:31:50.820
manage to spend a hundred million dollars a year on a show where people sit in chairs and talk? I have
00:31:57.140
no idea. Where's that money going? Like, what were they doing with it? Were they paying audience
00:32:04.680
members 50 grand a piece to show up every night? I mean, that would explain how they managed to fill
00:32:11.280
the room every night, I suppose, but I don't know. Did, did they have, do they have a furnace in the
00:32:15.940
basement where they're literally burning pallets of cash to keep the place warm? I don't know.
00:32:22.040
Uh, I'm not sure. Colbert's exorbitant salary is part of the expense. We know that. And the other
00:32:29.260
problem to go along with the production costs is that ratings for the late show and late night shows
00:32:32.620
in general are way, way down from what they used to be, uh, way down. Like these late night shows
00:32:39.200
have never cost more money to produce and they've never produced lower ratings. And that is a very
00:32:44.240
bad combination. If you want to keep your job, you know, but, but the cost of having you around is
00:32:50.920
going like this while your production's going like that. That's, that's not a good combination.
00:32:55.240
That doesn't give you a lot of leverage. So, uh, why are the ratings down? Well, there's,
00:33:01.580
you know, there's the obvious reason, especially for Colbert. He's a partisan hack and ideologue,
00:33:05.940
a guy that never even tried to appeal to about half of the country. He was essentially,
00:33:11.420
you know, he's essentially Rachel. He was a, he was a feminine version of Rachel Maddow.
00:33:16.460
Okay. He was like the womanly version of Rachel Maddow. And there are many examples of this that
00:33:21.880
have been sort of circulating online. People are going down memory lane, remembering what a,
00:33:26.660
what a hack Colbert was probably the most infamous example, which is also one of the most humiliating
00:33:32.420
moments in the history of broadcast television is of course, when he would dance around on stage,
00:33:38.040
which I think was a recurring bit, if you could even call it that, but he would dance around on stage
00:33:42.920
back in, you know, 21, 22 as a tribute to the COVID vaccine. Let's watch that again.
00:34:12.920
Now, if I were Stephen Colbert and there was video of me doing something as humiliating as that,
00:34:33.880
you would not need to fire me because I would have already, I would have performed,
00:34:40.300
you know, Harakiri to atone for my sins and to preserve my family's honor. That that's what,
00:34:47.160
and if Colbert did that, by the way, I'm not, I'm not advocating for, I'm not advocate, but if he did
00:34:50.920
that, all I'm saying is that it would easily be the highest rated late show episode, at least since
00:34:57.680
Letterman left. I mean, you could argue that that should be like, maybe that's, maybe that should just
00:35:04.900
be the tradition. Is that when your late night talk show comes to an end, you have to perform,
00:35:09.960
uh, you know, Japanese style ritualistic suicide on air. I, I, I'm not advocating. I'm just saying
00:35:15.980
that there's, there's some people who would say that that's, that that would be an interesting way
00:35:19.540
to wrap things up. Not me though. I would not support that anyway. So, but this still is not the
00:35:25.400
full story. It's not just that Colbert is a partisan tool. It's also that he's just not funny.
00:35:30.080
The show isn't funny. Late night shows in general aren't funny and politics aside,
00:35:36.660
because conservatives tend to focus on, Oh, they were, it was so partisan. It was,
00:35:40.920
that's not just it. I mean, you can, you can be partisan and still be funny. You could,
00:35:45.440
I mean, it's, it's possible to like be, be an ideologue. So you're, you're only making jokes
00:35:51.960
about one side, but you're also funny. It is possible to do that, but these shows have just
00:35:58.420
forgotten how to be funny entirely. Uh, so for example, I saw somebody posted this, I forget who
00:36:03.180
making the point that if you want to know why late night shows are tanking, this video I'm about to
00:36:10.560
play is a good example. And this is a very, this is like a recent skit. I think it's from
00:36:14.560
the last couple of days. It was from last week skit. I don't know, whatever you call it.
00:36:19.620
And it's from, uh, it's from the tonight show. It's not from the late show, but it just goes to
00:36:26.200
show how abysmal the comedy has gotten in the late night world. If you don't watch these shows at all,
00:36:31.320
as I don't, because I'm under the age of 70, which by the way was, that was the, the average age of a
00:36:37.560
Colbert show viewer was about 70. I think it was 68. So when he came on, the average age was 60,
00:36:46.820
which was already too old. And so CBS brought Colbert on. Cause they're thinking like, okay,
00:36:52.200
well the idea is that you're going to make the average age of our viewer go down. We'd like for
00:36:56.660
the average age to be like 45, maybe that's right in that key demo. That's what we want.
00:37:02.160
And it went the other way. Now the average age is 68. Okay. But, um, so if you're not in your
00:37:09.280
seventies and you probably don't watch these shows and you don't realize just how bad it's gotten.
00:37:13.900
And I think that this will, will show you, okay, this, this is, this will be revelatory.
00:37:20.300
So this is a, the, the latest comedy skit from Jimmy Fallon over on the tonight show. Watch this.
00:37:26.900
I'm in my jorts. I'm in my jorts. I'm in my jorts shorts. I'm in my jorts. Jeans shorts. That means
00:37:40.480
jorts. My name's Carl and I wear jorts. I like all sorts of racket sports. Jorts. I got my jorts shorts
00:37:48.560
on the court. I'm in my jorts. I'm in my jorts. Jeans shorts. That means jorts. My name's Tony
00:38:04.580
and I wear jorts while I'm giving book reports. Jorts. I got my jort shorts and I'm smart.
00:38:12.300
Yeah. You, you watch that and you have to ask, why does that exist? Why does that exist?
00:38:23.100
And I'm not even saying, oh man, that was weird. That was so bizarre.
00:38:28.480
That's the reaction we're supposed to have. We're supposed to think that it's quirky and random.
00:38:32.540
We're supposed to think that, uh, oh, look at this. This is eccentric. It's trying to be that,
00:38:39.260
but it's not because this is a product. This is this, what you just saw there. This is the product
00:38:45.820
of a bunch of hacky, bad millennial writers sitting around in a room trying to think of something quirky
00:38:56.080
that two, uh, Gen X past their prime comedians can do to appeal to zoomers on Tik TOK, even though
00:39:03.900
their actual audience is baby boomers. Okay. That's the, so that's, that's how all the generations
00:39:08.840
are implicated. This, that's the weird, that's the weird calculus that you've got millennial writers,
00:39:15.660
Gen X past their prime comedians trying to do stuff that appeals to zoomers, even though really the
00:39:21.080
audience are boomers. Okay. That's what this is. And, um, and it just fails across the board.
00:39:25.980
It's unfunny, witless, not charming, not interesting, dumb, dumb in the worst kind of
00:39:31.320
way, dumb and contrived at the same time, worst of all worlds. If you're going to be dumb, at least
00:39:36.560
be unique, but dumb and contrived, dumb and tired, dumb and lame at the same time. And why are they
00:39:43.100
trying to do viral skits to appeal to zoomers in the first place? Because the only people watching
00:39:47.540
broadcast TV, especially late night shows are again, boomers. So even if you succeed and you come up
00:39:55.200
with some viral hit on Tik TOK, it doesn't actually translate into audience. And that's the quandary.
00:40:01.440
Right. That's the, if you're going to do anything, if you're going to create any kind of anything
00:40:05.900
creative, you have to be able to say who you have to be able to answer the question, who is this for?
00:40:12.980
You hope that like anybody will enjoy it, but who is it primarily for? Who's your audience?
00:40:17.540
And I think with these late night shows, they just have no idea anymore who their audience is or who
00:40:22.820
this is for. Now there were rumors all last week that some media outlet was working on some kind
00:40:31.880
of explosive report relating to Trump and his ties to Epstein. And then on, I guess it was Thursday
00:40:39.220
night, the explosion allegedly came, right? The wall street journal came out with this report and,
00:40:48.420
um, you know, to read from Colin Ruggs report on X right now, it says the wall street journal
00:40:52.400
releases an alleged letter from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein for Epstein's 50th birthday.
00:40:57.740
President Trump, um, says the letter is a fake thing. The letter allegedly involved a hand-drawn
00:41:04.780
woman with text that read, uh, happy birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret.
00:41:13.060
So this is, this is some kind of birthday note supposedly that Trump sent Epstein 20 plus years
00:41:17.820
ago. There's also a really weird dialogue or script or something that they're claiming Trump wrote,
00:41:23.980
depicting himself and Epstein having some sort of cryptic ominous conversation where they reference
00:41:30.560
secrets and enigmas. And then there's this doodle, this picture that Trump wrote, uh, drew of a woman.
00:41:39.160
Now, notably there's no screenshot of the actual letter. There's no image, no proof.
00:41:48.220
They saw the letter supposedly, but they didn't take a picture of it,
00:41:51.000
which means that there's no way because the letter was signed supposedly. So we should be able to look
00:41:56.800
at it and, and, you know, have, be able to analyze the handwriting at least, but we can't do that
00:42:03.000
because there's no image. There's no picture of the letter. So we just got to take their word for it.
00:42:08.660
And of course I do not take their word for it. Uh, not for a single second. I don't think anyone
00:42:13.940
really bought this, which is why this whole thing fizzled in a couple of days. This was supposed to be
00:42:20.140
the big bombshell, right? And by, by Saturday, I like nobody was talking about it anymore. So it's just
00:42:25.760
pathetic all around, completely fake. Clearly. Uh, it doesn't sound like Trump. It doesn't make
00:42:30.820
any sense. I mean, none of it makes any sense. It doesn't make sense that they didn't take a
00:42:36.080
picture of the letter. It doesn't make any sense that this thing has existed supposedly for 20 years
00:42:40.240
and hasn't come up before. Trump's been on the political scene for a decade. He's run for office
00:42:50.340
three times. He's won twice. And yet this, this letter of where Trump wrote to a famous sex trafficker
00:42:58.720
and said, you know, Hey, let's, let's make sure we keep all of our secrets. Somehow that letter
00:43:06.820
never, no one ever thought to mention that before. So it's all nonsense and, um, not much more to say
00:43:14.060
about it than that. I suppose this is not how people talk to each other. If they actually have
00:43:18.380
dark secrets, I would think like, if you're a powerful person with dark secrets, I would,
00:43:26.300
I would assume, I would assume that I've never been in the smoky dark rooms where they have these
00:43:31.960
conversations, but I would assume it's, this is not what you do. Like you're not going to write a
00:43:36.620
letter that says, Hey, how about all those evil secrets? Huh? Let's hope no one finds out about those.
00:43:42.800
Am I right? Hey, do you like this picture of a naked woman I drew? It's a, it's just makes no
00:43:51.480
sense. It goes back to my point that I made back when Elon accused Trump of being in the Epstein
00:43:55.620
files. And as critical as I had been towards Trump over the Epstein stuff, I have never bought that
00:44:01.640
Trump himself is criminally implicated. Uh, that's never made any sense to me because if that were the
00:44:08.700
case, there is just no way, I'm sorry, there is no way in hell, there is no possible way that they
00:44:14.340
wouldn't have used that against him by now. Like it's just not, but it's not possible that he could
00:44:20.900
run for president three times and they had this on him and it never came out. Um, if they had the
00:44:28.920
slightest evidence that Trump, you know, abused minors on Epstein Island, then that evidence would
00:44:35.140
have made it into the public domain years and years and years ago. So there's no way they sit on
00:44:39.700
it. Not remotely plausible. Um, a lot to criticize, I think with the way the Epstein files have been
00:44:46.680
handled. And there's a lot, you could speculate about why they've been handled this way, but this
00:44:50.600
is not it. I don't believe that for a second. All right. Finally, we'll, uh, mention this briefly.
00:45:03.400
The WNBA all-star game happened on Saturday. Of course you didn't know one, you didn't know that
00:45:08.740
nobody knew that, but you know, the WNBA all-star game is a bit like, it's like talking about
00:45:13.680
the best dressed person at Waffle House or something. It's like the best dressed
00:45:18.360
Waffle House customer is, is that's about on par with saying you're an all-star of the WNBA.
00:45:24.680
Very low bar. Um, in WNBA's case, they, they don't have any all-stars except one. They have
00:45:30.160
Caitlin Clark and who I, who I think wasn't even playing. I don't think, maybe I'm wrong about that,
00:45:36.300
but nobody cares about any of the rest of them or even knows who they are, but that didn't stop them
00:45:42.540
from taking the court in this attire. Uh, here it is. Check it out.
00:46:03.480
Which I actually thought was, was pretty admirable and selfless because these ladies are
00:46:12.360
volunteering to work for free. It would seem, um, that's cause that's what that means with one
00:46:18.040
exception. That is what they're owed. Nothing less than actually they're owed. They should be paying
00:46:24.240
to play. They should be, they should have to pay their way in like it's a little league,
00:46:27.800
right? That's, that's how it should go because the WNBA loses tens of millions of dollars a year
00:46:33.940
every year. It's propped up by the NBA, as most people know by now. And that's still the case,
00:46:38.540
even with record levels of interest in the sport due entirely and solely to Caitlin Clark, still
00:46:45.480
the league loses money by the truckload. It lost $50 million last year on a record year for ratings.
00:46:55.020
So what does that tell you? So how much are the rest of these ladies worth as basketball players?
00:47:05.320
Literally nothing. I mean, not a dime that Caitlin Clark should be, I mean, she really should be,
00:47:11.920
should be getting paid many millions of dollars, not because I'm interested in watching, but just
00:47:16.420
because the fact that she's been able to generate any interest in the WNBA is a, I mean, you could argue
00:47:23.600
it's one of the most impressive feats in human history. I don't, I didn't think it was, I honestly
00:47:27.540
didn't think it was possible. I didn't think it was possible that anyone could generate even the
00:47:33.220
slightest interest in the WNBA and she's generated a little bit. And so I think that that is, I mean,
00:47:37.900
that is really moving a mountain. Um, so she should, they should pay her, you know, exorbitant sums,
00:47:44.800
but for all the rest of them, it should be like Caitlin Clark has paid whatever, I don't know,
00:47:48.740
20 million a year. And the rest of them, actually the rest of them should be really what it should
00:47:53.920
be is that all the other WNBA players are paying Caitlin Clark. They should all be, there should be
00:47:59.220
a pool, right? There should, they should all be putting money in a pool. Uh, and then it all goes
00:48:03.780
to Caitlin Clark as tribute. That's what it should be. But you know, they demand raises anyway, which is
00:48:11.460
a, which is a common problem. Of course, people who bring nothing to the table and contribute nothing at
00:48:16.040
all still want to get paid like they do. Uh, they still want raises. You know, I hear this from
00:48:22.260
employers all the time, this complaint that, I mean, people have always done this since time
00:48:29.280
immemorial for as long as there have been anything like jobs people. But I think these days it's worse
00:48:33.780
than it's ever been that people just have absolutely no clue what they're worth in the context of their
00:48:40.460
profession. Okay. As a human being, you have infinite value. You're a, you're a child of God.
00:48:46.820
Sure. Uh, you can't put a price tag on a person as a person, but in your job, there is a price tag
00:48:53.160
and you got a lot of people in the working world these days. Um, in, in all professions really just
00:48:59.780
have no, I, no concept of what they're actually worth. And here's what you have to be able to do.
00:49:06.400
You got to be able to do kind of the theoretical math and you have to say, okay, if I wasn't here,
00:49:16.320
right in this organization, what would happen? What would happen to this organization if they
00:49:24.280
didn't have me? Right. And in Caitlin Clark's case, her departure would be devastating to the
00:49:30.760
organization. It would be a, it would be a catastrophe. It would be the apocalypse. Um,
00:49:34.760
if Caitlin Clark were to leave. And if that's the case for you and your job, then you have leverage.
00:49:39.800
I mean, you've got a ton of leverage and then you can kick down the door and march in there and say,
00:49:45.080
Hey, pay me what I'm owed. You can do that because you have immense value in the context of, of the
00:49:51.880
organization where you work. Uh, but unfortunately for literally every other player in the WNBA,
00:49:58.020
if they left, nothing would happen. I mean, not a single thing would happen. It would have no effect
00:50:04.120
at all. They'd be replaced by somebody else and that would be it. Um, so they have no leverage.
00:50:09.580
And it just astounds me to see the number of people. It's not just the WNBA again, who have,
00:50:15.300
who have no concept of this, no idea how to reasonably and honestly assess their own professional
00:50:19.900
value. I saw a tweet with like 60,000 likes that said, and I'm not, this is not a, this is what it
00:50:26.480
said that, um, basically the WNBA player salaries shouldn't have anything to do with the profits they
00:50:38.300
generate. I don't have the tweet in front of me. It was like 60,000 likes saying that, you know,
00:50:43.780
the profit that for the business you work for is not your problem. It shouldn't have anything to do.
00:50:49.180
It shouldn't have anything to do with your salary. It's just, it's, it's delusional. It's a totally
00:50:55.820
delusional attitude that people have. And, uh, they're living in a fantasy land. People like they're
00:51:00.180
walking around on a permanent 24 seven acid trip. And you see this anywhere you work. You see these
00:51:06.480
useless people who expect to get paid and promoted, no matter how little they contribute.
00:51:12.460
On the other hand, you work with some people, right? The Caitlin Clarks. And you're like, man,
00:51:18.340
this, we can't lose this person. Don't leave us. Please don't leave us. But then there are other
00:51:24.660
people who, for them, it's like they could leave. And I don't, we wouldn't know why you like they could
00:51:30.620
not be here. They could evaporate and I'm not, it would change nothing. We wouldn't even,
00:51:35.100
it's like office space, right? You could be working that we wouldn't even know that you were
00:51:38.460
gone. Um, and yet it's often the people in the latter category who go around talking about what
00:51:44.120
they're owed. That's the, so that, that's the thing. It's the people that that's why, and there
00:51:49.720
was a, there was a clip from some other WNBA player, some salty player who, uh, said that
00:51:54.940
talking about the shirts and they're really proud of the fact that they wore the shirts that say,
00:51:58.820
pay us what you owe us. And there was some WNBA player again, I don't have the clip. It doesn't
00:52:03.560
matter who said, uh, said, well, you know, I'm not tattletaling, but, uh, team Clark,
00:52:09.820
Caitlin Clark's team, they weren't really on board with the shirts. Like they didn't really
00:52:13.520
want to do, they weren't excited about wearing the shirts. Now I think Caitlin Clark did put
00:52:18.640
on the shirt ultimately. Um, and she's, you know, cause she, she's, she's no courageous
00:52:23.780
hero herself, by the way, she's, she's paid the tribute many times, the woke tribute. She's
00:52:27.560
bowed to the mob and all of that. Um, and it looks like she did that in this case.
00:52:33.560
But do you know why Caitlin Clark wasn't excited about wearing the shirt according
00:52:39.060
to you? Cause she doesn't need to. Okay. Only the people who are, who are owed nothing
00:52:44.920
and worth nothing need to put on the shirt saying, pay us what you owe us, right? It's
00:52:51.660
the most useless people who go around constantly talking about what they're owed. That's the
00:52:57.600
number one way to know if somebody is useless is if you constantly hear them talking about
00:53:03.320
what they are owed. Okay. There's this inverse correlation between how often you talk about
00:53:10.600
what you're owed and what you're actually owed. Now, if you have great value in your profession,
00:53:18.620
then you need to advocate for yourself. So sometimes those are conversations you need to have,
00:53:23.280
but you, you shouldn't, you shouldn't need to be constantly saying it. If you're a real
00:53:28.600
contributor, you, you, you, you don't have to constantly do it because your work speaks
00:53:33.100
for itself. Caitlin Clark, what she should have done. And she just doesn't have the guts
00:53:36.260
to do this, but she should have been the only one not wearing that shirt. Cause her thing
00:53:40.780
is like, Hey, I'll, I'll, I'll let my play on the courts be. I don't need to put this
00:53:44.280
dumb shirt on. Okay. I'm not going to join all you people with this, with your dumb,
00:53:48.540
stupid shirt. I'll go out and contribute. Okay. I'll, I'll make myself undeniable. I will
00:53:53.720
be undeniable in the way that I, uh, in, in the way that I conduct myself in the way that
00:53:58.480
I perform and produce. It's only the people who do nothing, you know, and then you hear
00:54:05.100
these people say everywhere I work, everywhere I go, I'm never paid what I deserve. Nobody
00:54:10.460
appreciates me. I'm always taken advantage of. Well, it's cause you're useless. Okay. That that's
00:54:15.880
why. Okay. Every, everywhere you go, every relationship I'm in, it never works out.
00:54:20.420
Everyone's always backstabbing me. Everyone, I know no one's night. It's cause you're a
00:54:24.820
terrible person. You're awful to be around. You do nothing. And you're a loser. That's
00:54:29.340
why nothing works for you in your life. No one wants to be around you. No one wants to
00:54:32.920
pay you. No one wants to be in a relationship with you. Like it's because of that. It's cause
00:54:36.100
you're a loser. You're awful person. And you are the common denominator in this life of
00:54:40.700
you've made for yourself. And so get it together and, uh, and stop complaining.
00:54:45.880
That's, that's the message. That's my general message. It's also a message to
00:54:49.980
the WNBA players who are not named Caitlin Clark. All right, let's get to the daily cancellation.
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It was the kiss cam scene around the world. As everyone in America and every other country on
00:56:08.060
earth knows by now, the CEO of a tech company called Astronomer, Andy Byron, was caught on the
00:56:13.780
Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert in a romantic embrace with the head of his HR department,
00:56:17.500
Kristen Cabot. Both of them are married, just not to each other. Although we can expect that their
00:56:22.640
marital statuses may be rapidly changing after this video went mega viral, massively, massively viral.
00:56:28.280
We haven't seen anything this viral since Hawk Tua. Okay. This is, this is Hawk Tua territory.
00:56:33.260
And, uh, that's how viral went over the weekend. And here it is. If somehow you've managed to not
00:56:38.400
see it, I'm going to ruin that streak for you now. Watch. Yeah. Oh, look at these two. All right.
00:56:44.480
Come on. You're okay. Oh, what? Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy.
00:56:51.060
Absolutely shameful display. Uh, it is just shocking and incomprehensible that two people
00:57:01.360
would go to a Coldplay concert. Uh, and now I know that a million people have already made that joke,
00:57:07.780
but as a dad, I have no aversion to repeating worn out jokes. As anyway, as you saw, they were
00:57:13.560
caught cuddling up to each other and then panicked when the camera panned to them. Andy hit the deck like
00:57:19.080
somebody just threw a grenade. Kristen turned away and covered her face, but it was too late.
00:57:23.080
I mean, the train had left the station along with half of their net worth in the divorce settlements.
00:57:27.880
Granted, there is no good way to react when you end up on the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert,
00:57:32.140
hugging the coworker you're having an affair with. But of all the bad options, these two chose the
00:57:37.840
absolute worst one. Now, if only they'd practiced improv or something, then they might've thought to
00:57:43.700
pretend like Kristen was choking and Andy was doing the Heimlich. Maybe she could have pretended that
00:57:49.300
she passed out from sheer boredom. It is a Coldplay concert after all. Andy was dragging her out to
00:57:54.100
receive medical attention. Any of those tactics or any other tactic at all would have been better.
00:58:00.560
Now I'm making jokes and so is the rest of the planet. And rightfully so. These two did something
00:58:06.420
evil and shameful and they did it brazenly in public in an arena surrounded by thousands of people.
00:58:11.720
And now they're experiencing the consequences. And there is something incredibly absurd about
00:58:17.680
the whole thing, which makes the jokes justified and inevitable, if not perhaps very nice. But
00:58:23.780
amid all the mockery, we should not lose sight of the fact that we're talking about adultery and
00:58:29.560
adultery is incredibly harmful and deeply wicked. That's why when this first went viral, I responded
00:58:36.520
on X with a take that will surprise nobody in my audience. I said that adultery ought to be
00:58:41.700
against the law. There should be not just personal and professional, but legal repercussions as
00:58:47.040
well. This is the kind of statement that shocks and appalls the modern mind, but would not have
00:58:52.260
shocked or appalled anyone in the world until very recently. Laws against adultery were commonplace for
00:58:57.780
centuries everywhere. And I'm not saying that we should criminalize adultery solely for that reason. But
00:59:03.320
when the voices of our ancestors speak up unanimously on a subject, it's wise to at least listen to them.
00:59:12.820
Maybe everybody in the world was wrong for thousands of years until you came along. I mean,
00:59:16.600
it is possible they had, they were wrong about certain things, but there's a very good chance
00:59:21.300
that they had a very good reason for approaching things the way they did. In the case of criminalizing
00:59:25.440
adultery, the reason is exceedingly clear. It's quite simple. Adultery is a deeply evil act that
00:59:33.900
causes grave harm to other people, namely your spouse, your children, your family, and to a lesser,
00:59:40.900
though still very real extent, especially in this case, your friends, your colleagues, and your
00:59:45.440
community. Now, I would argue that if an act is A, deeply evil, which adultery is, and B, it causes
00:59:53.500
grave harmed innocent third parties, which adultery clearly does, then by definition, it should be
00:59:58.600
illegal. Laws quite literally exist to prohibit such behavior, which is why I could provide a
01:00:04.740
laundry list of things that are an order of magnitude less harmful than adultery that are
01:00:09.760
nonetheless illegal and should be. Things like shoplifting, littering, obvious examples, but even
01:00:15.660
something like assault, you know, walking up to a stranger and punching him in the face is clearly,
01:00:20.840
in my mind, less evil and usually less harmful than adultery. With adultery, you're destroying the
01:00:27.580
lives of the people closest to you in the world. With the punch in the face, in this example, you're
01:00:32.460
causing probably temporary physical damage to a stranger. So if the latter is obviously illegal,
01:00:38.440
then how much more obvious is it, or should it be, for the former? In any case, this is what I wanted
01:00:46.080
to talk about for our daily cancellation, and I guess I already have talked about it for a while
01:00:50.420
at this point, but the conversation took an interesting turn because of some of the feedback
01:00:56.220
to my post. A number of men, including some prominent ones, responded that my idea is bad,
01:01:03.180
not because adultery is okay universally, but because it's okay specifically for men. This is the point that
01:01:10.820
Andrew Tate made in a reply to me on X. It's worth responding in some depth because his perspective
01:01:16.460
on marriage and family life has proven, we must admit, quite appealing to a large number of young
01:01:22.100
men, and I think that that is a very troubling thing because his perspective on this topic is wrong,
01:01:27.700
and I'll explain why. So here's Andrew Tate, reading, quote,
01:01:32.940
Great way to put the nail in marriage's coffin. Nobody gets married anymore because of women like
01:01:38.660
her. Men are men, always have been and will be. He's allowed, she isn't. Telling men if they touch
01:01:44.580
another girl at any point in their lives equals financial decimation is why nobody gets married
01:01:49.200
anymore. Now I responded and said, I disagree. Loyalty and integrity are essential virtues for a man.
01:01:56.160
If you make a vow before God, you keep it. Sneaking around with another woman while your wife is at home
01:02:00.200
with your children is a violation of the promise you made to her and to God and therefore unmanly
01:02:04.620
and weak. I have four sons and raise them to always keep the promises. Never make a promise you don't
01:02:09.040
intend to keep. This is fundamental. Now Tate had another rebuttal. He wrote, agreed on this point
01:02:15.520
about teaching our sons to keep the promises, which is why any man with a brain doesn't hand over keys to
01:02:20.500
his castle to a misandric legal system and over-emotional unchecked females. The world's changed, Matt.
01:02:26.880
Women are a fraction of what they were, telling men to just get married and
01:02:30.000
just be loyal gets men wrecked. The only way they hold the relationship together is to give up any
01:02:35.100
amount ounce of masculinity. Living hell. The smartest move on the chessboard for a man now
01:02:39.860
is to get rich and have as many children as he wants or as many women as he wants and take care
01:02:44.000
of them all. Second world, avoid first world courts. Own your empire and women will respect you in return
01:02:49.440
for their provision. Four sons isn't bad. I have more and I always will. And no woman can steal my
01:02:56.640
hundreds of millions. Marriage is suicide. Feminists built a world where females have no duty as wives
01:03:02.060
and every possibility to destroy you. If you can't change the game, win the game. Now,
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I've already made the argument that laws against adultery, which I support, have a lot of historical
01:03:16.880
precedent. I must acknowledge then the same thing here. The setup which Andrew Tate describes and
01:03:24.960
promotes where men have children by many different women has lots of historical precedent. It does.
01:03:31.740
This is the way that primitive societies have operated for thousands of years. And today,
01:03:36.080
this strategy, if we can call it that, is very popular in certain communities in this country.
01:03:41.340
And you could always spot those communities because they're the ones that are the most dysfunctional,
01:03:46.600
the filthiest, most destitute, and crime-ridden places in the country. Show me the murder rate
01:03:51.700
and the average yearly income in any neighborhood, and I will tell you whether most of the children
01:03:56.320
in that neighborhood have a father in the home or not. And I will never be wrong. Andrew Tate talks
01:04:02.600
about this kind of lifestyle as though it's natural. In a post on Sunday, he made that claim
01:04:06.820
explicitly. He said, quote, monogamy isn't natural for men. Men are men. This is how they'll always be.
01:04:15.440
And he's right in a certain way. It is natural. It's natural in the sense that it appeals to our most
01:04:20.920
base and uncivilized impulses. Another word might be primitive. An even better word would be animalistic,
01:04:28.100
which is why it's so commonly found in the animal kingdom. Reptiles and fish behave this way.
01:04:33.060
You're not going to find a monogamous lizard or shark. Monkeys are almost always non-monogamous.
01:04:40.380
Go down the list of animal species and they almost all approach family formation the way that Andrew
01:04:45.240
Tate prescribes. But the problem is that we are not monkeys or lizards or sharks. We are human beings.
01:04:53.740
And my controversial contention is that we should act like it. Is monogamy natural? Even better,
01:05:02.900
it's supernatural. Man and wife become one at the altar. They are bound together by the vow they made
01:05:09.020
before God. This is above our base instincts. And so is composing a symphony or sculpting the
01:05:17.460
statue of David out of a massive hunk of marble. These things are achieved just like any great thing is
01:05:23.320
achieved by rejecting temptation, subordinating our base desires, embracing some measure of hardship for
01:05:30.120
the sake of something far greater than whatever momentary pleasure we can experience by giving
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into them. And there is nothing in this world more manly, more masculine than that. In fact, I would say
01:05:41.300
this is the very definition of masculinity. Can you do the harder thing for the sake of the greater good?
01:05:49.260
If you're going to impart one thing to your sons and your daughters as a father, it should be this.
01:05:58.120
Teaching them how to do the harder thing for the greater good. And if you can't, or if you won't,
01:06:06.580
then you aren't manly. And no matter how much money you have or how much you can bench press,
01:06:11.180
doesn't matter. Now Tate says that men will be men, and yes, that's true, but will they be good men?
01:06:19.760
Will they be men of virtue and fidelity and discipline? They can be if they pursue the higher
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thing. In a similar way, I might say that many men will father children. That's easy to do.
01:06:33.540
But will they be fathers? They have children. Will they raise them? That's the hard part.
01:06:42.120
I keep talking about hardship and difficulty, rightly so, but I don't want to make it sound like being a
01:06:47.700
faithful husband and father is nothing but misery and drudgery, and all you can do is just grit your
01:06:51.780
teeth and bear it. That's not the case. I love being married. I love being a dad. It's a lot of
01:06:58.360
fun much of the time. It's a source of great joy. That's what happens when you simply let go of your
01:07:04.660
childish need to put your own immediate gratification before anything and everything all the time.
01:07:08.700
You discover an ability to do the harder thing and actually enjoy it. The way that guys like Tate
01:07:16.320
describe marriage makes it seem like, you know, we're living in entirely different universes, and
01:07:20.940
perhaps we are, because he describes marriage like it's a labor camp. A man is imprisoned by his
01:07:26.520
controlling, ungrateful, promiscuous wife who runs out to cheat on him as soon as he leaves for work in
01:07:31.540
the morning. He makes it seem, or outright claims, that it's essentially impossible for a man to find
01:07:36.180
a good, faithful woman who will bear his children, stay true to her vows, and respect and love him
01:07:42.380
until he dies. But how could it be impossible? I am currently in such an arrangement. I know many men
01:07:51.380
in the same boat. If you don't know any truly happy and faithful marriages, then I would suggest that the
01:07:57.800
problem isn't with marriage. It's that you are surrounding yourself with awful people.
01:08:05.040
Now, finally, back to the subject of raising boys. I will say that if you want boys to become men,
01:08:13.840
you cannot leave them to be raised almost entirely by women. Boys need the daily guidance and example
01:08:21.920
that can only be provided by a man who lives in the home and has committed himself to that family
01:08:28.340
and that family alone. Now, Tate says that he has more sons than I do. I believe him.
01:08:34.960
But my sons and my daughters have more of me than Tate's children will ever have of him.
01:08:42.900
I come home to them every night. Their home is my home. I sit at the head of our table when we eat
01:08:47.620
dinner. We say our prayers before bed. I give them a kiss goodnight. And every night,
01:08:51.920
every night for years, as I'm turning off the lights in their room, they say to me,
01:08:58.100
Dad, will you stay up for a while? Because they want to know that I'll be there awake,
01:09:02.940
watching over the house so they can rest easy. And my answer is always yes, no matter how tired I am.
01:09:10.760
You need to be at home with your children. You need to be the captain of the ship,
01:09:15.760
which means you have to be on the ship. You need to eat and sleep there and walk the deck
01:09:22.040
with your crew and share in the hardship and the struggle and the joy and the triumph.
01:09:27.520
And most of all, you need to be there when the storms come, and they will come.
01:09:33.300
And that's why I have one wife and one family, and they will be mine until I die.
01:09:39.420
And I'd rather die than leave them or betray them or, frankly, go to a Coldplay concert
01:09:48.740
just to bring this all full circle. And that's why all adulterers and fornicators and polygamists
01:09:54.800
and Coldplay fans are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching.
01:10:00.820
Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.