Ep. 1667 - The Pope Hosts Cringe ‘Climate Justice’ Event
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Pope Leo hosts a climate justice event at the Vatican. Should climate justice be a priority in the midst of Christian persecution all over the globe? Also, the Trump administration restores law and order in Memphis, Don Lemon lashes out against white men again, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth launches a horrific and bigoted attack against the bearded community.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Pope Leo hosts a climate justice event at the Vatican. Should
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climate justice be a priority in the midst of Christian persecution all over the globe? Should
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it be a priority under any circumstance? Also, the Trump administration restores law and order in
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Memphis. Don Lemon lashes out against white men again. And Secretary of War Pete Hegseth launches
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a horrific and bigoted attack against the bearded community. All of that and more today on the Matt
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As I said yesterday on the show, as a lifelong and devout Catholic, I don't enjoy criticizing
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the Pope. I would prefer not to do it. I also don't especially enjoy the backlash that I will
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inevitably get from certain other Catholics who believe that I am behaving inappropriately or even
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committing a sin by issuing these criticisms publicly. But if anyone in the audience feels that
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way, I won't be able to convince you otherwise. I have to do what I believe is the right thing.
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And in a time when we simply cannot rely on church leadership to actually lead with moral
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clarity, it falls on the rest of us to speak up. Because the only other option is to be silent
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or to pretend that we're okay with something that is very obviously not okay. And I can't convince
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myself and have no interest in trying to convince myself that the latter is the correct course of
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action. So here we are. After a 30-day stretch in which one of the most prominent Christians in the
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country was murdered in front of the entire world, prompting thousands of public celebrations, a murder
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that was bookended by mass shootings at two churches, one of which was targeted by a trans-identifying
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terrorist who explicitly despised Jesus Christ, you might hope that Christian leaders throughout the
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world and in all positions would be focused on that crisis. That's especially true since in Nigeria,
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Christians are currently being systematically slaughtered by Islamists in a genocide that's
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been ongoing for many years. This would be the ideal time for the most important Christian leader,
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the leader of the Catholic Church, the Pope, to say something that might reassure Christians and
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Catholics and rally them, motivate them, those who are increasingly being targeted with violence because
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of their faith. Christians need moral guidance, have always needed it, need it now more than any other
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time in recent memory, maybe in history. That's just not the approach that Pope Leo has decided to
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take. As we discussed the other day, he gave a profoundly bad answer when he was asked about
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Dick Durbin's Lifetime Achievement Award. First, the Pope stated that you're not pro-life if you support
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the death penalty, a position that contradicts scripture, Catholic tradition, and any semblance of moral
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logic. He made it an equivalence between abortion, which is the execution of innocent children, and capital
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punishment, which is the execution of convicted murderers. He suggested that although Durbin supported
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it and enabled the mass murder of children, overall, you know, he had a pretty decent career, if you forget
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about all the baby killing. And then in the next breath, the Pope suggested that you're not really pro-life if
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you don't open the borders to hordes of illegal aliens from the third world. With respect, and as charitably as I
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can, I would say that these are the kinds of ideas that are very compelling to posters on Reddit. And I'm not trying to
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be smug when I say that. It's just, that's what we're dealing with. There's no getting around the fact that
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the statement he issued on this subject could have come from any random NGO spokeswoman or Democrat
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politician. And that's what makes it so disturbing. Unfortunately for Catholics who would prefer to think
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of that moment as kind of a blip on the radar screen and not indicative of any deeper or more serious
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problem, we have now another Poblio moment that we need to discuss. He just appeared at the Vatican's
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latest international conference in Italy, which was entitled, Raising Hope for Climate Justice.
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Now already, just from the name of this event, you know this is going to be something extremely
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problematic. Because the only people who use terms like climate justice and environmental justice,
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without exception, are communists who also prattle on about equity and unhoused folks and racial
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justice. This is language that by design identifies the speaker as a committed true believer of the
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left-wing cause, someone whose sole purpose is advancing leftist ideology. No Catholic, let alone a Catholic
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in a position of leadership, let alone the Pope, should be using or endorsing the idea of climate
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justice. It is a communist term. It is a term with deep and very bad political implications.
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There's no way around that. And indeed, the footage of this event bears that out.
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Now you may have seen this viral moment from the conference in which the Pope blesses a block of ice
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to the delight of all the climate hippies in attendance. Let's watch that again. Here it is.
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I would now like to invite you to stand for the blessing of the waters.
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Lord of life, bless this water. May it awaken our hearts,
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cleanse our indifference, soothe our grief, and renew our hope. Through Christ our Lord.
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We will raise hope by demanding that leaders act with courage, not delay. Will you join with us?
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Now, in a vacuum, there is, of course, nothing wrong with the Pope blessing something,
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least of all water, or frozen water in this case. But the context makes this scene very troubling.
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Pope Leo, as you saw, blesses a block of ice and then stands there while a bunch of communist weirdos
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do some kind of, I don't know what that is, weird earth-worshipping hippie ritual. I mean,
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it's not a Catholic. There's nothing about that. It was not a Catholic. And this is one of the
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problems. I've had people, I've had questions from people saying, well, what is this? Is this some
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kind of Catholic? Is this a Catholic? That's not, that's not, nothing in there. It's not Catholic.
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That's not what that is. I've been going to Catholic church for 39 years. I've never seen
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anything. I don't know what that is. I've never seen anything like that.
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And yes, your eyes weren't deceiving you. Arnold Schwarzenegger was there flapping the playground
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parachute around as the incantations got going. And we'll have more on Schwarzenegger's role in a
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moment. And for now, it needs to be said that, you know, the leader of the Catholic church just
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shouldn't be anywhere near this nonsense. It's not just cringe and embarrassing. It's scandalous
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to any non-Catholic who sees this and thinks that this event represents Catholicism in any way.
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It doesn't. The conference began with a speaker who stated that the event was, quote,
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directly connected to COP30, which is the UN Climate Summit. He also talks about the cry of the
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earth and the cry of the poor, which was the theme of the event. You know, left-wing climate activism
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always, always has heavy undertones of, you know, Gaia worship, which is just one of the reasons why
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Catholics should stay far away from it. And this event was, you know, kind of proves the point. Watch.
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The way of peace. We're gonna rise up, rise up. We're a million different colors dancing to the beat.
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Rise up, rise up. We're a million voices singing as one. We choose peace. Oh-eh-oh, oh-eh-oh. Hey, we choose peace.
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Oh-eh-oh, oh-eh-oh, oh-eh-oh, hey, hey, oh. In the name of what people live and fight. We stand with every child that suffers poverty and work as we eat. We choose the way of peace.
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Now, on one level, you know, you see that and you almost want to laugh as the, you can't help it. It's just an absurd scene. It's just absurd. It's just absurd.
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Of all the other problems with it, like, the Pope should not be partaking in something that is absurd. And that's what this is. And that's the most charitable way to describe it.
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And you see, you know, the various members of the audience checking their watches and staring blankly ahead while these middle-aged hippies declare that they want peace.
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You might wonder, what does peace have to do with the climate? And who cares if these random women want peace? And what exactly is the point of any of this? Who is this supposed to appeal to?
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Why is any of this happening? Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this?
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But really, it's not particularly funny, nor is it worth joking about. When Christians are being slaughtered, the appropriate response is not to host a dollar store Woodstock with the Pope.
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And yet, at no point did anyone at this conference demonstrate any interest in defending Catholic teaching or Catholics from the actual threats they're facing.
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Instead, speakers lined up one by one to insist that, you know, the weather is going to kill us or whatever.
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One of these speakers was, as we mentioned, the actor and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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When he was done playing with the playground parachute, he took to the podium and delivered an address.
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And before we play his remarks, in case it's not obvious, Schwarzenegger should not have been invited to speak at this event.
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He should not be speaking on a stage with the Pope.
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I have no idea if he's a Catholic or not, but he did go on the record recently suggesting that heaven is a fantasy.
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So the odds aren't looking great that this is any kind of devout or observant Catholic.
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But more importantly, Schwarzenegger's intentions were very transparent.
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He sees Catholics as a very large demographic that he can co-opt en masse for his political environmentalist project.
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And he was very explicit about that. Actually, watch.
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The Catholic Church has 1.4 billion members, 1.4 billion Catholics out there, 400,000 priests, 600,000 nuns, 200,000 churches.
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And for that to be involved in our movement, in our environmental movement, to terminate pollution.
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And, of course, I'm very honored to be here because I'm next to an action hero.
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Now, you're laughing because he doesn't look maybe like one, like you see in the movies with the muscles and with the guns and all that stuff.
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But the reason why I call him an action hero is because as soon as he became the Pope, he ordered the Vatican to put solar panels on top of the buildings.
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Now, one thing you'll notice about the speech is that Arnold has a tendency to say, think about that.
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Right after he says something that you absolutely, unequivocally do not need to think about.
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You know, the idea that the Pope is a hero because he had solar panels installed at the Vatican is one of those lines that no one should ever think about ever again in any context.
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But the earlier part of Schwarzenegger's speech, the one where he says that, you know, he wants every Catholic in the world to join his environmental movement, is the bigger tell.
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Well, it's pretty clear that to him, the most exciting thing is the size of the Catholic Church, not its teachings, but its size.
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And he wants to take advantage of that asset for his own manipulative and cynical and political reasons.
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One of the things that made it galling anyway is just how rote and predictable it was in many respects.
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They're all channeling the same language that Greta Thunberg was using five years ago before she decided that Gaza was more important than climate change.
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And it's obvious why she made that decision, by the way.
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After all, it's pretty hard to talk about how the world's going to end in five years for your entire career.
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Sooner or later, people start to realize that, you know, the world is still around.
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If Greta accomplished anything, it's making clear that when leftists talk about climate justice, they're not really talking about the climate.
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They're talking about destroying the West and eradicating all of these supposedly oppressive institutions, including the family and the church.
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This is from an article that Greta Thunberg wrote just a few years ago.
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Quote, schoolchildren, young people and adults all over the world will stand together demanding that our leaders take action, not because we want them to, but because the science demands it.
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After all, the climate crisis is not just about the environment.
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It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will.
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Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it.
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Our political leaders can no longer shirk their responsibilities.
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Now, this is what the left means when they say climate justice.
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It never means, and can never mean, anything else.
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It's why they oppose nuclear power, even though it would eliminate all of their concerns about greenhouse gases while providing affordable energy to tens of millions of people who desperately need it.
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Leftists seek to dismantle Western civilization.
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Every single one of their pet projects, from racial justice to climate justice to immigration justice to homeless justice to employment justice,
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and anything that they attach the word justice to are merely different fronts in this battle, different vehicles towards the same objective.
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Climate justice is an inherently left-wing political concept.
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It comes bundled with every other leftist project.
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That's the point, which is why, for example, if you go to the, speaking of the UN, they're working in cooperation with the UN for this event.
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Well, if you go to the website for UN Women, you'll be told this.
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Feminist climate justice brings a gender lens to the fight against climate change,
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acknowledging how the drivers of the climate crisis are also the drivers of gender inequalities.
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While women and girls experience its disproportionate impacts from climate change at the global level, the effects are not uniform.
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Looking at climate change through the lens of intersectional feminism,
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meaning the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exasperate each other,
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it is clear that climate change risks are acute for indigenous Afro-descendant women and girls,
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older women, LGBTQ plus people, women and girls with disabilities, migrant women,
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and those living in rural, remote conflict and disaster-prone areas.
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If you're invisible in everyday life, your needs will not be thought of, let alone be addressed in a crisis situation,
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girls and young LGBTQI plus people in Thailand's Chiang Mai, Mai Hong Sun, and Thak provinces.
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Humanitarian programs tend to be heteronormative and can reinforce the patriarchal structure of society
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If you go to the website for Greenpeace, you'll be told this.
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why is an environmental organization talking about LGBTQIA2S plus issues?
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What does queer justice have to do with climate change?
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Because the fight for environmental justice cannot be achieved without the fight for LGBTQIA2S plus rights
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and the fight for social and racial justice and gender equality.
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As we tackle the crisis of climate change, pollution, and loss of biodiversity,
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we must also address social issues and inequality and discrimination.
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There is no justice if there is no liberation for all marginalized communities suffer the most in the climate crisis
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Further marginalized groups within the diverse LGBTQIA2S plus community,
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especially people of color and low-income communities,
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experience even greater impacts of climate and environmental injustice.
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Climate justice comes with LGBT, feminism, you know, bring down the patriarchy, all the rest of it.
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This is what the climate justice movement is, has always been, since its inception, since day one.
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At its core, there is no Catholic version of it.
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And that's why Christians, especially Christian leaders, shouldn't be anywhere near it.
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Now, that's not to say that Christians shouldn't love God's creation and seek to preserve and protect it.
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Which is, by the way, one of the reasons why we don't need to spend a lot of time on it.
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If we're just talking about loving, you know, God's creation, protecting the earth and those sorts of things, protecting nature,
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Yeah, like we don't need to, especially amid everything happening in the world right now,
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But the climate justice movement is a left-wing political movement, again.
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And its goals, very explicitly, are the destruction of Western civilization, starting with the church itself.
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Go up to any leftist who's going on about climate justice.
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Now, if the Pope is going to gather a bunch of climate justice activists together in a room,
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arrived in Memphis on Wednesday amid a federal push to fight crime in the city.
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Zero tolerance for crime in the city of Memphis, Miller said.
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They addressed law enforcement officers from multiple agencies at an operations center in the city,
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saying they were there to provide safety to the great city of Memphis.
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Bondi said to the law enforcement officers, this is long term.
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We're going to work hand in hand to make sure the most violent city in the country has no crime.
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Here's a little more from, we'll play this clip.
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To the Memphis Police Department, to the officers that I see sitting in front of me,
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we are about to provide you with a level of support you cannot even imagine.
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These are people who have taken down drug criminals, kingpins, the worst criminal offenders in the United States,
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All we ask from you is to show up at roll call every single night with your brothers and sisters in the federal government
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And if you do that, I pledge to you, we will liberate this city from the criminal element that has plagued it for generations.
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We are not going to live in an environment anywhere where there is a street that belongs to a criminal,
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The idea that there is a square inch of block in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable.
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Now, first of all, I have to say that I'm very grateful that Stephen Miller is part of this administration.
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Totally authentic from everything that I've heard about him.
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But from everything I've heard off the record from people, he's absolutely authentic and genuine.
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So the guy you saw in that speech is the guy you meet in person.
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But he said something there that's really important.
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And it's something I've ranted about a million times.
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In fact, we just talked about it this week, I think.
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He said that there should not be any square inch of any block in any city in America where citizens feel unsafe.
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And, you know, that's not some kind of utopian, childish nonsense.
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That's not, it's not the equivalent of saying there shouldn't be anyone in the world who ever goes hungry.
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You know, I mean, of course, it's true on one level.
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We would like it if nobody ever went hungry and we should help the poor.
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But we're just not ever going to have a world where no one ever goes.
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It's like to act as though we could actually achieve that is utopian.
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You know, there doesn't have to be any part of your city or your neighborhood that's taken over by crime and violence.
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It's very, very possible to have a city where every part of it, every block is safe and livable.
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It's possible to have a city where you feel safe walking down the street alone at night.
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Now, there's always going to be the possibility of a crime.
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There's always going to be the possibility of a bad person doing a bad thing.
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You can't eradicate crime completely, obviously.
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But you can contain and minimize it enough that your whole community is safe and civilized.
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Well, because there are plenty of communities in America that have achieved that.
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And there are communities and cities across the world that have achieved that.
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And all you have to do is look at, well, what did they do to achieve that?
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And what it takes is relentlessly and ruthlessly punishing criminals.
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Rounding up the criminals and punishing them severely.
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And the other thing about this, I also want to say, as this campaign continues by the Trump administration to clean up these cities, it's really good politics by the Trump administration.
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I mean, more importantly, it's the right thing to do.
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He's protecting American citizens, restoring American cities.
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But also on a purely political level, it's a brilliant move.
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It's also it is also brilliant politics because you're putting Democrats in the position of being against safer cities.
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They are opposed to making your neighborhood, your community safer.
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Now, obviously, we already knew that Democrats were opposed to all these things, but now you're forcing them to kind of stake out that position explicitly and defend it.
00:31:20.260
And as you go into these cities and make them measurably safer, you're forcing Democrats to try to explain why that's a bad thing.
00:31:28.840
Everyone feels safer in Washington, D.C. now, and Democrats now have to explain why.
00:31:40.620
You know, it's bad that you're not getting carjacked.
00:31:52.520
Well, we don't have to talk about Don Lemon, but we're going to.
00:31:54.760
Don Lemon, of course, was fired by from CNN a couple of years ago, as you remember.
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He's since tried to reinvent himself as a podcaster.
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And it's always interesting to see these traditional cable news people and network news people when they try to pull off this transition.
00:32:21.100
And then she went for that stint on, what was it, NBC and didn't didn't go very well because of NBC and how they treated her.
00:32:31.340
And but then she starts her own thing, becomes a podcaster.
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One of the rare cases of that happening, someone coming from that world, going over to this world and and succeeding.
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He's been at this podcasting thing for over a year now, maybe two years.
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And just to show you, here's what his channel looks like.
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So these are the most recent seven or eight videos from this week.
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He's averaging, I don't know, generously, let's call that 15 to 20,000 views per episode or per video.
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He also has an audio only version, just like we do.
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I went to the Spotify charts to check it out, see where he's ranked.
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And if you look at the news category for podcasts on Spotify, they list the top 50 in just that category.
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Oh, and also drawing your attention back to the screenshot of the of his channel.
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Because that's what you do when you have a hot take.
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He either calls it that or he calls it a lemon drop.
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Maybe someone suggested it to you and you just couldn't resist.
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When you do like a short video, you could call it a lemon drop.
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And maybe you just couldn't resist because it's.
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OK, like my name is Matt, but you don't see me labeling my episodes.
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You got to have some self-respect is all I'm trying to say.
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So all that's really beside the point, though, that just establishes that Don Lemon is a pathetic failure.
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I wanted to establish that total failure of a man.
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But maybe that explains why he's now lashing out.
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So here he is in one of his recent barely viewed episodes lashing out at white men.
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Because you're lazy and sitting in front of a computer or a phone and you're just eating it up.
00:35:24.480
All of a sudden, my heritage is going to be over that I won't.
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I want to live in a country where there are white kids go to white schools and and white people marry each other.
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I want to grow up in the country that my great grandfather grew up in.
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Men who look like you, men who vote like you and men who sound like you.
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Something is cracked deep inside when so many of you believe the answer to fear, to loss, to change is violence.
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I hope I'm saying it loud enough for the people in the back.
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To answer your question, he said, are you listening?
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You can hear his voice echoing through the empty halls.
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And your other problem, these are two, these problems are very much related, is that you are a rambling bigot.
00:36:36.540
Your hatred for white people has driven you insane.
00:36:39.440
You say that so many white men resort to violence.
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And, of course, in reality, black men are an order of magnitude more violent than white men.
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So we've been through all the stats many times.
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Well, if we're doing, if this is like the Olympics of violence, black men win gold, silver, and bronze, okay, in every event, they just do.
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And, you know, this is such an obvious rebuttal that you wonder why he's even saying this.
00:37:16.500
That you, as a black man, are telling white men that there's something spiritually wrong with them and that they're too violent.
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And, meanwhile, black men are like 6% of the population and account for more than half of the murders in the country.
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So, I mean, why are you doing this to yourself?
00:37:34.420
Well, you could see the answer if you go, like, if you go, if you read the responses to my post on X where I gave exactly this obvious rebuttal,
00:37:43.500
I responded to that clip and I was one of like a million people to make this point about how black men are much more violent statistically than white men are.
00:37:53.280
And you look at the responses and it's one after another, and there's thousands of them from liberals, many of them black liberals,
00:38:02.860
who truly don't believe that black men are more violent.
00:38:09.520
They, they treat the assertion like it's insane, like as if I just claimed that, you know, the, the sun is made of Skittles or something.
00:38:31.520
For these people, they truly don't understand this basic statistical reality.
00:38:37.360
They live in a world, in the world they live in, they honestly believe, they really honestly believe that the majority of violence in the country,
00:38:49.100
And it's, it's, it could not be further from the truth, but, um, but they're living in this fantasy world.
00:38:55.200
And so Don Lemon is talking to people who are in this fantasy world.
00:38:58.420
He's not talking to you or me, he's, he, people who live in reality, he's talking to people who are in this fantasy world.
00:39:04.960
And that becomes really obvious when you look at the responses.
00:39:08.240
Finally, Michelle Obama, um, speaking of podcasts that nobody listens to, she's, she's back on her podcast, uh, once again, complaining about her husband.
00:39:16.720
So here is, uh, Jesse Waters so that we don't have to wade through it.
00:39:21.740
Uh, Jesse Waters played some of the highlights or lowlights on his show last night.
00:39:31.980
Her big bro made the cut, but Barack, he's MIA.
00:39:38.440
A lot of young people could look at that and go, I want a marriage like Michelle and Barack.
00:39:43.260
And it's like, well, let me, you know, let me talk about what marriage is, you know, cause it's, even when it looks good, even when it's great, it's hard.
00:39:53.260
Um, and so I, I think it's important because, you know,
00:40:01.320
Besides canceling Barack's pickup games, she hates what he does with his mouth.
00:40:08.860
The way you're chewing makes me want to smack you upside the head.
00:40:13.180
The girls and I are very irritated with the way Barack chews.
00:40:19.760
Like you hear the otherness of a person, right?
00:40:26.800
They're, they're like you, ah, it's like another person.
00:40:33.260
Even when Barry keeps his mouth shut, Michelle's still complaining.
00:40:37.660
Now that we're empty nesters, it's like, well, what are we going to talk about?
00:40:43.580
And we, we do this thing where it's like, I'll see him.
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Because we're, we got to have something to talk about at dinner.
00:40:54.160
So if all throughout the course of the day, I'm getting caught up on his stuff, then it's
00:41:03.000
You should always have something to talk about.
00:41:05.740
You know, I got to say, I never thought I could ever feel sorry for Barack Obama.
00:41:10.340
I never thought I was capable of experiencing that emotion towards Barack Obama.
00:41:17.460
But I do kind of feel sorry for him whenever I see these clips, when I see these clips of
00:41:26.320
I mean, can you imagine, can you imagine you were the president of the United States of
00:41:31.380
America, you achieved something that only 44 other Americans, I think it's 44 other,
00:41:37.520
Because if you, when you, the non, uh, consecutive terms and so it's whatever, 45 total.
00:41:43.840
So, so you achieve something that 44 other Americans have ever achieved.
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You, you had the same job that George Washington had.
00:41:52.680
You're one of the most famous people in the entire world.
00:41:56.200
You're one of the most influential Americans of all time.
00:42:00.520
Now in Barack's case, of course, your influence is terrible and toxic and poisonous.
00:42:08.680
Um, I think Barack Obama's presidency will go down as, as the most disastrous presidency
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Cause that's not, that's not how Michelle Obama would see it.
00:42:22.260
The point is simply that you were the president and now in retirement, here's your wife.
00:42:28.960
Here's the person who identifies as your wife, whining about you and nagging you in a podcast
00:42:39.100
every day, telling the world that you chew too loud.
00:42:46.600
You were the president and you've, and, and here's your wife.
00:42:53.060
One of the most important men in American, important in a bad way.
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Again, I don't have to clarify important in a bad way, but, but put that aside.
00:42:58.960
Let's decide one of the most important men in American history.
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And here's your wife sitting at, sitting around a table, gossiping about you.
00:43:06.400
I don't like it when he chews loud, you know, being married to him, isn't so great.
00:43:19.680
She says, and cause that was the main reason I wanted to address it.
00:43:26.740
And in fairness, a lot of people say that she's not the only one.
00:43:31.080
That's the great wisdom, the great insight that you hear all the time from people these
00:43:36.820
And I got to tell you, and it's very discouraging, I think to a lot of, to, to a lot of young
00:43:42.020
And they hear this and I hear married people, people like Michelle Obama talk about marriage,
00:43:54.560
Oh, what, what, what, what toil and drudgery is marriage?
00:43:58.220
Oh yeah, it's worth it, but it's so hard every day.
00:44:00.920
Every day is just a, it's like pulling teeth every day.
00:44:05.240
Well, I got to tell you almost 15 years in six kids.
00:44:21.720
And again, I'm not, and I'm, it's not, it's not like I'm, I'm a year into it.
00:44:24.800
It's not like I got married six months ago and you could say, Oh, wait, you're in the
00:44:30.760
Not only is it not hard now, 15 years in it's actually easy.
00:44:36.000
It's I looking back at it now, I would say that the hardest part, as much as we hear about
00:44:41.440
this honeymoon phase thing, actually the hardest part is like the first year, the part that's
00:44:47.040
supposed to be, I guess, the way people talk about it is like bliss, nothing but bliss.
00:44:52.660
I would say the hardest part is the first year, which makes sense because you're, you're getting
00:44:56.120
adjusted to it and you've never, you know, especially if you did it the right way and you
00:45:00.340
waited to live with the person until you were married to them, then you've never, you know,
00:45:04.820
you've never lived with someone before, uh, you know, maybe you had a roommate or something,
00:45:09.760
but you've never, so this is, this is new and you're, and you're getting adjusted to that.
00:45:15.180
Uh, and, um, so it makes sense that that it gets easier, like it's, it, and, and now it's,
00:45:31.460
It's like, it's now you could say life is hard.
00:45:35.640
Living is hard and there's challenges that come with it.
00:45:38.360
And so if you mean that marriage is hard in that kind of like broad sense, in the sense
00:45:42.080
that just like life, life is hard, uh, or can be then fine.
00:45:45.620
But marriage itself is for the most part, easy and, and fun.
00:45:51.100
And, uh, and it should be, I mean, you've got someone that you love and,
00:45:55.980
and hopefully like, and you're around them all the time and you can hang out and you can go out
00:46:01.760
and do like, you know, it's, you've got, that's, that's a good thing.
00:46:12.280
There are really only two things that can make marriage hard.
00:46:18.840
And one is if you're married to a narcissist or two, if your spouse is married to a narcissist,
00:46:29.620
meaning that you're the narcissist or, or three, you know, is the combination of the two,
00:46:34.580
which is the hardest of all, if you're both narcissists.
00:46:36.680
And by the way, most of the time it's option three, most of the time when you meet someone
00:46:42.540
who's married to a narcissist, they're also a narcissist because narcissists tend to, you
00:46:46.740
know, they, they, they tend to find each other in that way.
00:46:50.740
Now, if, if it is option three and you're both narcissists, any, any marriage where it's option
00:46:56.420
three, both of them will think that it's option one.
00:47:00.520
They, they both think that, oh my gosh, I'm married to a narcissist because they don't realize
00:47:06.660
And that only makes it harder because of the, they don't even understand what situation they're in.
00:47:10.360
So all that to say, marriage fundamentally is not hard.
00:47:18.420
It's not to say you don't encounter challenges.
00:47:20.340
It's not to say you don't have things you have to work through.
00:47:22.320
Of course, all that's the case, but generally speaking, like it's not, you should not be,
00:47:26.420
and you don't have to wake up every day where this is some great challenge.
00:47:33.740
You should go by, you should go by, go through most of your days.
00:47:36.420
And like the fact that you're married really doesn't present any challenges.
00:47:46.140
So, but with that said, I don't doubt what Michelle Obama is saying because in the case
00:47:57.600
So yes, in their case, marriage is hard, but only because they're narcissists and marriage
00:48:03.580
requires you to consider the needs of someone other than yourself.
00:48:07.500
And if you aren't a narcissist, it's usually not any great challenge to consider someone
00:48:18.460
But for normal people, considering someone else's needs, it's not, it's, it's not impossible.
00:48:24.600
And, um, and in a marriage, often it's enjoyable.
00:48:39.460
So, so when you, when you hear someone saying this, oh, so hard, it's so hard.
00:48:44.240
Um, maybe they are, maybe they made the unfortunate mistake of marrying narcissists, but, but most
00:48:51.480
likely this is what you're listening to as a narcissist speaking.
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For our Daily Cancellation today, I'm afraid that I must cancel Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
00:49:58.440
I defended him while he was being smeared during the confirmation process.
00:50:01.340
I've praised him for the work he's done in his role leading the Defense Department.
00:50:05.480
I'm not going to rescind any of that praise today, but I am going to call him out for being
00:50:10.760
egregiously wrong about one, I think, very important issue.
00:50:15.480
There was a moment during the meeting with top military brass at Quantico that we talked
00:50:19.480
about this week that this moment I haven't talked about.
00:50:22.880
And I haven't talked about it because I needed time to collect my thoughts.
00:50:28.700
It was the moment where Hegseth launched into a sudden, unprovoked, broadside attack against
00:50:37.180
members of my community, the bearded community.
00:50:46.500
We're going to cut our hair, shave our beards, and adhere to standards.
00:50:50.820
Because it's like the broken windows theory of policing.
00:50:53.780
It's like when you let the small stuff go, the big stuff eventually goes.
00:50:59.760
This is on duty, in the field, and in the rear.
00:51:02.380
If you want a beard, you can join special forces.
00:51:06.800
We don't have a military full of Nordic pagans, but unfortunately, we have had leaders who
00:51:13.960
either refuse to call BS and enforce standards, or leaders who felt like they were not allowed
00:51:24.700
And that's why today at My Direction, the era of unprofessional appearance is over.
00:51:31.940
The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done.
00:51:35.340
So Hegseth doesn't just declare beards verboten in the military.
00:51:43.560
He even uses the B-slur, calling bearded men beardos.
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A term that has been used to oppress and persecute the bearded community for centuries.
00:52:00.940
That's true, of course, that the Vikings had beards.
00:52:15.900
Also, while we're on the subject, why exactly wouldn't we want our military to be a little
00:52:27.300
Which is more likely to instill fear in the hearts of our enemies?
00:52:33.120
Or an army of hairless, baby-faced Office Depot managers?
00:52:37.760
Now, I agree with you that there should be strict grooming standards.
00:52:41.640
But if anything, the grooming standards should require a beard, not forbid it.
00:52:47.500
I would say that not having a beard is ridiculous.
00:52:51.160
Every man in the military should be mandated to grow a beard.
00:52:55.380
There's something spiritually wrong, deeply, with a man who can't grow a beard.
00:53:02.240
Now, I understand that historically the prohibition on beards was put in place for practical reasons,
00:53:05.780
so that soldiers could get a good seal under their gas masks in World War I and World War II.
00:53:10.760
But that concern is not as relevant today as it was back then.
00:53:16.520
I mean, the vast majority of military members will never have an occasion to put on a gas mask in the field.
00:53:22.400
So what other reason is there to have a ban like this in place?
00:53:25.900
The reason, as Hexeth says, because he doesn't say anything about gas masks,
00:53:34.400
I think it's especially important in the military, obviously, of discipline and standards.
00:53:40.700
Consider for a moment that most of the greatest military leaders and warriors in history wore beards.
00:53:45.660
Okay, we've already talked about the Vikings, which Hexeth brought up himself as if it helped his case.
00:54:08.160
But what does it tell you that whenever a great warrior is imagined in fiction, he always has a beard?
00:54:12.580
Tolkien, one of the most imaginative men to ever live, could not even conceive of a clean-shaven warrior.
00:54:20.300
On the other hand, there was Gollum, a shriveled, scrawny, envious, insane, little, hairless cave dweller.
00:54:28.380
The perfect representation of the non-bearded man.
00:54:32.020
Now, unlike Pete Exeth, I do not discriminate against men who make different facial hair choices.
00:54:44.580
I mean, I do literally look down on them because they're short.
00:54:47.440
You know, their growth has been stunted by the lack of testosterone.
00:54:54.540
The way that I pray for all the other, you know, not to be insulting, but all the other deformed freaks out there.
00:55:02.220
I wouldn't go around saying that beardless men look like 11-year-old boys trapped in an adult man's body,
00:55:06.380
like some kind of low-T version of Benjamin Button.
00:55:09.940
I wouldn't say that they look like big, weird babies.
00:55:12.820
I wouldn't say that beardless men look like they're suffering from leprosy.
00:55:16.720
I certainly wouldn't claim that a man without a beard is also a man without a soul.
00:55:24.640
I'm not going to speculate because that would be irresponsible.
00:55:28.240
You know, and also that conversation would go over the heads of beardless men because they, you know,
00:55:33.380
they typically have lower IQs, according to science.
00:55:38.580
I'm not going to get into a fight with a beardless male community.
00:55:44.340
And, you know, anyway, I would never hit a woman.
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But if only Pete Hegseth could have been as kind and accepting as I'm being right now.
00:55:53.860
Instead, he chose to expose himself as an anti-beard bigot.
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And for that reason, despite all the other great things he's doing, he is today canceled.
00:56:04.580
That'll do it for the show today and this week.
00:56:08.880
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