Ep. 253 - A Democratic Congresswoman Shows Where Her Loyalties Really Lie
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Summary
A United States Congresswoman sides with terrorists and refers to, and I quote, our Palestinian people. Now I think that that statement warrants an investigation. Also, a Democratic state representative harasses an elderly pro-life woman. And he's so proud of himself for this that he recorded it and posted it online. We'll play a clip of that and talk about it today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a United States Congresswoman sides with terrorists and refers to, and I quote,
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our Palestinian people, our. Now, I think that that statement warrants an investigation, and I'll explain why.
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Also, a Democratic state representative harasses an elderly pro-life woman, and he's so proud of himself for this
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that he recorded it and posted it online, so we'll play a clip of that and talk about it.
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And I'll answer your emails today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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So, did you guys hear about this? Well, you heard about the Kentucky Derby controversy, right?
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If you didn't hear about it, let me explain. And now, I should say, I know nothing about horse racing whatsoever.
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I'll watch the Belmont if there's a triple crown at stake, so I watch maybe three and a half minutes of horse racing per decade or so.
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But still, I can read headlines, and so if you read headlines, that makes you an expert these days if you didn't know.
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So, I'm an expert based on the headlines I've read. And so, let me explain this to you.
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Here's what happened. This one horse won the race, right? The first horse won.
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But then they were like, oh, no, the first horse didn't win. The second horse won.
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And so, the second horse was like, oh, sweet. But the first horse said, no, that's BS, man.
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And a lot of other people said, oh, no, I disagree with this. But then some other people also said, no, I agree. I think it's the right call.
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And then there were other people who said, I can see both sides of it. And that's the gist of it.
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So, sorry to get technical on you. You know, in the horse racing industry, we tend to forget that novices don't know all the minutiae.
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So, we'll kind of speak technically. So, I apologize. Hopefully, I didn't lose you there in explaining it.
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So, there you go. That was my horse racing commentary for the day. Check back tomorrow for some more.
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Terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired over 700 rockets at civilian targets in Israel over the weekend.
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Many of the rockets were, but many of them also hit.
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Israel responded, and as Israel responded to the attack, some Democrats in Congress, as you have come to expect,
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came out in support of the terrorists who fired the rockets initially.
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Now, you could probably guess who the people are who came out in support of the terrorists.
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The first one is Ilhan Omar, who tweeted and said,
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How many more protesters must be shot, rockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends?
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Well, if you want to know how many rockets, you know, how many more rockets have to be fired,
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well, then maybe ask the people who fired the rockets in the first place.
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The status quo of occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unsustainable.
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Only real justice can bring about security and lasting peace.
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But to me, that was not nearly as concerning as the tweet that was sent by Rashida Tlaib, congresswoman from Michigan.
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And she's an American congresswoman, allegedly.
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When will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free?
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And she's reacting to a headline in the New York Times.
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Headlines like this and framing it in this way just feeds into the continued lack of responsibility on Israel
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who unjustly oppress and target Palestinian children and families.
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All right, let me, I'll go back to that first sentence because that's really the only sentence that matters here.
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When will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free?
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Now, we're told that it's a racist smear to accuse Muslim politicians of dual loyalty.
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And I agree that if you were to, it would be a smear to accuse a Muslim politician of dual loyalty just because she's a Muslim.
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But if she advertises her dual loyalty, if she comes out and says it, which is what she just did here,
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our Palestinian people, well, then it's not a smear.
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And actually, you know, maybe I should back up for a minute because, no, I don't think that Tlaib has dual loyalty because there's no evidence at all that she's loyal to America in the first place.
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So I think I'm more accusing her of having soul loyalty to her Palestinian people.
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This is, I mean, that is really, really concerning.
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You know, it's, it's, I don't think it's like a matter of semantics here.
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Yeah, it's just one word, but that's a really important word because that is a word that expresses who your loyalties lie with and who you identify yourself with.
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And I don't think it's too much to ask that if you're a politician in America and you're a representative of American citizens, whenever you refer to our people, you should be talking about Americans or even more specifically the American citizens who elected you and who you represent.
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If she was a, if she was a civilian, I mean, it would be one thing.
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There are plenty of idiots on Twitter who are cheering on terrorists and they're allowed to do that.
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I think it's, I think it's vile and stupid, but they're allowed to do it.
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If you're a member of the U.S. Congress and you're referring to non-Americans as your people, that raises some very serious questions.
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Um, your sole loyalty as an, as a, as a representative, as a member of the U.S. government needs to be with America.
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I mean, do you think someone could get a job like at the NSA, uh, if they went around saying stuff like this?
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Do you think if, if in, if in the interview process at the NSA, you were to refer to, uh, my Palestinian people, you think you'd get the job?
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Um, if you're working at the NSA, they want to be very, very sure that your sole and only loyalty is to this country.
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I think it should be the same thing with politicians who are making the laws, you know, the ones who are in charge of things.
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And before anyone accuses me of racism, though, I don't really care if you do, because that law, that label has lost all meaning these days.
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But, um, I would, you know, I would say the same thing for anyone who referred to another people or another country as their people.
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I know there, there were, there were, when I was talking about this earlier this morning, there were people saying, well, what about, uh, all the politicians who, who are, you know, uh, who side with Israel?
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Well, okay, well, find me an example of a Jewish politician in America talking about our Israeli people, um, or my Israeli people.
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I would have a huge problem with that, but I don't think you're going to find that actually.
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Now, if you can find an example of it, then let me know, but I'm not aware of any example.
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Someone argued to me that in context, uh, well, Tlaib, she refers to the world and then she says our Palestinian people.
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So maybe she was speaking from a global perspective and she was saying like, we're all one people, we're all each other's people or whatever.
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I still have a problem with American politicians speaking that way, um, in these global terms, as if, as if the, the, the, the distinction of countries doesn't matter.
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That, that troubles me also, because again, you're an American, you're representative of the American government.
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And so I think you need to understand those distinctions and respect them, but that's not what's happening here.
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In fact, in her bio, she identifies herself as a Palestinian American.
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And, uh, so it's no wonder that she puts the Palestinian first and we see how that works now.
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But if that is what she meant, if she meant it in a global way, well, does that mean that Trump could talk about our Russian people?
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How do you think it would go over if Trump sent out a tweet saying, uh, talking about our Russian people?
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They would, I mean, they would all, they would literally explode.
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I think with, with rage, there would be actual explosions, um, happening across the country.
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And, um, we cannot be so cowed by the racism charges that we refuse to speak up about something like this.
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It is not okay for the, for a representative of the United States Congress to identify her people as people who do not live here.
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Speaking of concerning videos and, uh, or concerning things, and speaking of loyalties lying elsewhere, I should say, there's a watchdog, a watchdog group called the Middle East Media Research Institute.
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And they posted a video over the weekend, uh, not, not their own video, but they posted it to bring it to our attention.
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Um, it's, uh, from a recent event at the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in Philadelphia.
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And during this event, there's, uh, there's a bunch of children.
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Well, let me just show you, um, I'll just show you.
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American Society Islamic Center in Philadelphia uploaded a video of an Ummah Day celebration
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to its Facebook page in which young children wearing Palestinian scarves sang, this is
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what they were saying, glorious steeds call us and lead us to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Take us, O ships, until we reach our shores and crush the treacherous ones.
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A young girl read a poem praising martyrs who sacrificed their lives for Palestine, and
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she asked, will Jerusalem be a hotbed for cowards?
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Another young girl read, will we defend Palestine with our bodies?
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We will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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You know, when I was a kid, I went to Christian events.
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Like, I'd go to Sunday school, vacation Bible school I would go to, and, you know, what we
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We would sing songs like, Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.
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We never recited poems about chopping off the heads of martyrs, you know, and we never
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talked about crushing the treacherous ones, subjecting people to eternal torture.
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So that was, I guess it's just a difference of style.
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And by the way, a totally coincidental difference, right?
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It just so happens that this is an Islamic society where they've got kids singing about
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cutting off people's heads, and just, you never find that with Christian groups.
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Like, we can't draw any conclusions whatsoever about the different religions, because they're
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They're totally equal, and how dare you think otherwise?
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Here's another disturbing video to play for you on a slightly different note, but only slightly
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Brian Sims is a state representative in Pennsylvania, somehow.
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He describes himself in his Twitter bio as LGBTQ activist, state representative, civil rights
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attorney, college football captain, bearded, RuPaul's drag race fanatic, and Little Mermaid
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And notice how he puts LGBTQ activist before state representative.
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So just like Tlaib is a Palestinian before she's an American, well, he's an LGBTQ activist
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And so the Little Mermaid fan, he decided that he wanted to harass and intimidate an elderly
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And this goes on for, now what I'm going to show you here, I'm not going to show you the
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The actual video goes on for like eight minutes of this person harassing an elderly woman.
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And I'm once again out in front of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
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It's the most heavily protested Planned Parenthood, I believe, in the country.
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And today's protester, now, she is an old white lady who's going to try to avoid showing you
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But the same laws, luckily, that protect her from being out here also protect me from showing
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And so my hope is, is that you'll donate $100 for every extra hour that this woman is out
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here telling people what's right for their bodies.
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How about how many children have you put shoes on their feet today?
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Or have you just stood out in front of a Planned Parenthood shaming people for something that
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If you're here about the children, you can pray at home for children.
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It's probably the same place that you could feed a child.
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Instead, you're out here shaming people for something that they have a constitutional right
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Who would have thought that an old white lady would be out in front of a Planned Parenthood
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Shame on you for hiding your face at the same time that you're shaming other people.
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Again, the same laws that protect me protect you.
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That doesn't mean that you have a moral right to be out here.
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So the little mermaid there is doing a few interesting things.
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First, he's sticking a camera in a woman's face and literally shaming her on the internet
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I mean, he's actually, he actually, he actually says, right?
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I'm sure he's too stupid to appreciate the irony, but, uh, but you and I can appreciate
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Anyway, also he keeps going on about clothing and feeding children.
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Well, there's a very good chance that this woman who is both brave and dignified by the
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And so I, so I'm, uh, and, and that's how it is the entire video.
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She just, uh, she doesn't run away, but she, she doesn't engage with him.
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And so I think a very, very brave and strong woman, much stronger than this person.
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Um, this despicable, cowardly punk, uh, anyway, but there's a very good chance that she is
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I would be willing to bet that she gives a lot to charity and that she has done a lot
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I I'd be willing to bet that because that's the case with pro-lifers, despite what you
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hear from pro pro boards, pro-lifers, they only care about babies, uh, before they're born.
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I mean, pro-lifers are, are constantly doing things for, for, for children.
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It shouldn't surprise you to learn that pro-lifers love kids.
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Uh, that's, they, they, they love human beings.
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Um, so this whole thing about, oh, you only care about babies.
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It's something that pro-abortion people say because it makes them feel more comfortable.
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It would make them feel more comfortable about their own evil, sick, disgusting viewpoints.
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If they could convince themselves that, oh yeah, these people over here, they don't really
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Um, well, why, I mean, why do you, why, what do you think that woman is there doing?
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Why do you think that this elderly woman decided to get up on a Saturday morning and go to this
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You really think it's because she, what, she, it's, it's hate for, she, she hates women.
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Now, you know, if, if, if someone doesn't care, you know, if it's true that pro-lifers
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don't really care about life, they don't care about babies.
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They don't care about women, but you know what they would do?
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You don't get up on a Saturday morning and go to a clinic and subject yourself to that.
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If you don't actually care, that's why they're there.
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The people who are at clinics, what do you think they get out of it for them personally?
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They don't get, they're not, they're not making money off of it.
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They're only doing it because they believe that babies are being killed and they think
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Don't project you as a pro-a-boy as an empty, soulless, evil apologist for murder.
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Don't project that onto other people just because you don't care.
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Just because you don't give a crap about other people, which is obviously the case with this,
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with this coward, just because you don't care doesn't mean that's something that, that,
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Yes, you are self-absorbed and selfish and all you care about is yourself.
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That's clear, but that's not the case for everybody.
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There are people who actually care about other humans and that's why pro-lifers go to these
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Uh, because the idea that we can't oppose the murder of a group of people, unless we
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are also feeding and adopting those people is just ridiculous.
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Am I not allowed to oppose the killing of the homeless unless I've worked at a soup kitchen?
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So if someone proposed that we should go and just eradicate all of the homeless, put them
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down like dogs, uh, in order to get rid of the homeless problem.
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And I stood up and said, no, I'm opposed to that.
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Would you say, well, I don't see you working at soup kitchens pipe down.
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Can I, can I not oppose the murder of toddlers unless I've adopted a toddler?
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You know, Andrea Yates, uh, drowned her five kids in the bathtub, her born children.
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Are you going to say, oh, well, I didn't see you stepping up to adopt those kids.
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It's just, it's such an absolutely idiotic talking point.
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Uh, and if you use that talking point, you're either a moron or you're lying.
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You, you either know that it's a stupid talking point and you're using it, uh, because it's
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red meat for, for dumb pro-abortion people, or you're just really, really stupid that you
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can't see the problem with that and how that line of thinking means that we are not, you,
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you really can't oppose the murder of anyone because what you're saying is unless you personally
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are stepping up to take care of this person for their whole life, you cannot be opposed
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Which means that, you know, there are 7 billion people in the world.
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Like I don't have the resources to get, I, I, I only have the resources to care for a
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very, very, very, very, very small number of those people.
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Uh, and all those people happen to live in my house right now.
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So what you're saying is I can't be opposed to the murder of any of the rest of them,
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genocide, whatever I can, cause I, you know, what I'm, I'm not stepping up to care for them.
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You know, I can't take care, whoever you are watching this, if you're pro-abortion, I can't
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I don't have the money for it or the interest, frankly, you know?
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Um, so I guess, uh, I can't be opposed to people killing you.
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And I can't say anything about it cause you know, I'm, I'm not here.
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But mostly the big takeaway here is that, uh, is that once again, the pro-abortion side
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is as always vicious, hostile, shaming, bullying, despicable, uh, while the pro-life side is
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Every once in a while, you'll see the roles reversed, but not very often.
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There was, uh, so maybe you've heard the latest thing.
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The latest trend is, um, is, uh, I think they call it soligamy.
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It's when you marry yourself, when you fall in love with yourself and marry yourself.
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So there was an article in a British publication written by a woman who married herself after,
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after shockingly, she, two of, two of her marriages fell through.
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The kind of person who's so self-obsessed that they would marry themselves.
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Anyway, well, maybe we'll talk about that tomorrow.
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Uh, there's more to be said about it, but I want to get to emails, especially because
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And this is from, uh, and mattwalshowatgmail.com is the email address, mattwalshowatgmail.com.
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So just reading one says, Matt, I'd really enjoy your insight on how Christians should
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Obviously any death is heartbreaking and we should mourn with those who mourn, but I find
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some of the comments by Christian leaders to be intriguing in the sense that they seem
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So if you didn't hear the news, uh, over the weekend, Rachel Held Evans, a prominent,
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And she died very suddenly, uh, unexpectedly after, I think she was react, she had a reaction
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to some medicine that she was given for an infection, kind of a just routine.
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She went to the hospital for an infection and seemed like a routine thing.
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They gave her some medicine and led to swelling in the brain and she died.
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In fact, she, she sent a tweet, um, when she first checked into the hospital saying, oh,
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And she was joking around about how she was going to miss game of Thrones.
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And, and, uh, so to her, it was just a normal, you know, no big deal.
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Now I will say that she was, uh, I feel like I have to say, because it's kind of the elephant
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If you're familiar with both of us, then you probably know that she was a critic of mine.
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We were, we were harsh towards each other, uh, very harsh.
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And we were at polar opposite extreme ends of things.
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And so we were both very critical of each other.
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Um, and maybe that's why I got a lot of these emails this weekend asking what my reaction
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is, or how should we, how should we react to it?
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Um, but to me, the answer is obvious, um, how should we react to the sudden death of
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a 37 year old mother of two, uh, with sympathy and with mourning and with sadness?
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And we don't need to say anything other than that.
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There, there have been some Christians, not the majority by any means, but, but some who
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decided to take the opportunity of Rachel's death to express their opposition to her theological
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Um, there are Christians who, it seems to me, and not just because of this, but there are
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There are Christians who have forgotten how to just be human.
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No, no one is saying that you have to suddenly agree with all of her theological points of
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Uh, if you disagreed before you still disagree.
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And so everyone knows that that doesn't change.
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But when the woman just died and her children are still by her bedside saying goodbye and she
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hasn't even been buried yet, this is not the time for criticism.
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This is, this is not a forum or a stage upon which you need to stand and express your theological
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It's, it's, it's, and I know that the emailer wasn't saying that I'm not, I'm not, I'm not talking to her.
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So just be a human being, be a human being for God's sake.
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If you feel the need to say more than just, I mourn for her, I'm sorry for her family, I'll pray for them.
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If you feel like you want to say more than that, if you feel like more needs to be said,
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more pontificating needs to be done, and it really doesn't.
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But, uh, if you feel that need, then rather than giving a theological lecture,
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maybe think about and talk about mortality and, and death.
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Um, that's what I've been thinking about this weekend.
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You know, here was a young and healthy woman living her life, making plans for the future,
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um, going about things day to day, like all of us and thinking about, you know, the TV show she's going to watch.
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Like, like we all do just, you know, you're, you're looking forward to these little things and just living your life.
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And suddenly just by some freak occurrence, she's gone and that's it.
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Um, and that's going to happen to all of us one day.
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I mean, one day you're going to eat your last meal.
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One day you will say, I love you to your children for the last time.
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One day you'll fill up your gas tank for the last time.
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And you, you probably won't know that it's the last time that you're doing those things when you're doing them to you.
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And that fact should mean something to us, shouldn't it?
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It should cause us to live differently, to cherish life more, to do more with life, to care less about stupid things and more about important things.
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Because we all know that if we are fortunate enough to have some warning before our death.
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Um, and we're conscious and, and, uh, on our deathbed.
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We all know that in that moment, we're going to look back on so much of what we did with our life and regret it and feel like so much of that was a waste.
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And we're going to look back on so many of the things that we cared about and worried about and all that.
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We're going to say, how stupid was I for worrying about that?
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So we all know that this epiphany will occur to us, yet, um, for some reason we can't live that way now.
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And that's the thing, except for more momentarily.
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So maybe there's a death, you're thinking about it, and in that moment, when you reflect on this stuff, it does affect that change.
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But then, uh, we revert back to our old ways of living and thinking.
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And we go about our day as if we're immortal, as if death can't come for us at any time.
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So, I don't know, maybe think about that, um, or just be sorry and mourn and express your sympathy and, uh, and leave it at that.
00:34:44.980
All right, um, this is from Jennifer says, uh, I'm a relatively new listener, but your show is now my favorite on the Daily Wire.
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I wanted to get your perspective on something that has been bothering me my whole life as a churchgoer.
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What are your thoughts on people who bring loud, obnoxious, and distracting children to Mass?
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For example, this past Good Friday during the evening service, there was a mother sitting across from me whose toddler son would shout,
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Ba, every 10 seconds during the entire first reading.
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Then, um, then during the Liturgy of the Eucharist, she proceeded to let her child crawl back and forth across the pew in front of her,
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and then would flip the kid up and around in the air, playing with it, playing with it.
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She barely paid any attention to the service and made my experience at Mass much less spiritual than I had hoped.
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I would like to think that when I become a parent one day, I will immediately get up and step out if my child becomes disruptive in church.
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As a father of three children, uh, what do you do in these situations?
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Yeah, um, see, this is a tough one with kids at church.
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And now I will say, and I'm not trying to put myself on a pedestal here.
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This is just for me as a parent, I am hyper aware of my kids behavior and their impact on people around them.
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And if they're being a distraction, I'm hyper aware of that.
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And so in church, the moment they start making noise, I'm taking them out.
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I'm taking them to the back and, um, and I'll bring them back in if I can calm them down, but I'm not going to ignore them.
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And it's the same if I'm in a restaurant and, um, you know, my five, the five-year-olds now are fine in restaurants,
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but two or three years old is, is a tough age for a restaurant.
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And so when we're all there as a family, if our two-year-old is having a hard time and he's crying or screaming or making a lot of noise,
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I will pick them up and I'll bring them outside and try to calm them down.
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So when I, because the way I look at it is, yeah, this is my kid.
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And so there are certain things that, and annoyances that I have to deal with as the parent of this child,
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but that doesn't mean that everyone should have to deal with it.
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So that's, that's how I've always tried to operate.
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And so I, I kind of feel the same way you do, you do Jennifer.
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When, when I see these parents who, um, their kids are just being a total distraction and a disruption.
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And these parents, like they don't even notice.
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I can't, I, in some ways I almost admire, I'm almost, well,
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And I wish that I could care so little about how annoying he is being to those around him.
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Um, so I don't understand it, but, but some parents are that way.
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And so I, I don't think that's the right thing.
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Um, you need to, as a parent, you need to keep other people around you in mind and realize that,
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yeah, you might be saying, well, I don't want to have to get up and leave church because then I'm,
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you know, I'm going to miss out or I'm at a restaurant.
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I don't want to have to get up and leave the restaurant.
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You can't say, well, look, I don't want to be, uh, inconvenient.
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So everyone else is going to have to deal with it.
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If your kid is really being a disruption and a distraction, then you need to deal with them.
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Stop forcing everyone else to have to endure it because that's not fair.
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On the other hand, um, we also have to be as a society welcoming to children and, uh, and,
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and tolerant up to a point with the fact that they are kids.
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And there are some non-parents who, I mean, the minute you walk into a restaurant with your family
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and your young kids, they're giving you dirty looks.
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And sometimes I'll be at church and, um, we'll have all the kids sitting there.
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And one of the kids will make like one little noise or they'll talk for two seconds.
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And already there's someone behind me shooting, whipping their head back and giving a dirty look.
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On the other end of the spectrum, that's not right.
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You, you, you, you should, we do need to have some tolerance and patience with kids.
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And it's only up to a point, um, because if a kid is being so distracting and disruptive
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that it's making it impossible for you to do what you came there to do, uh, to, to appreciate
00:39:46.540
Well, then yeah, the parent needs to do something, but you can't be completely, um, intolerant
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and, uh, of kids because they're part of society too.
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And so we need to be understanding of that as well.
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And, uh, the last thing I'll say is if you're in a situation, if a parent's in a situation
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with a, with a kid who's, who's being loud and crying and be disruptive, but it's a situation
00:40:27.680
So let's say an airplane, for instance, well, then it really does fall on everyone else to
00:40:33.740
just kind of deal with it and be patient, um, and be nice about it because there's nothing
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And I've, I've been in situations with, you know, we've, we've taken our kids on, on planes
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Like we've got snacks, we've got toys, we've got, I mean, we've got everything we can to
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try to just bribe them to keep them silent, at least for that plane ride.
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We, we, we try not to operate that way as parents generally, but in a plane, it's whatever
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But there's been a few times when, uh, one of the kids just is having a bad time and
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And, uh, trust me as, as the parent, I feel way more stressed out by it than you do.
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Uh, as even though I know it's annoying for everybody else, but there's nothing I can
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Sometimes kids, they just need to get out of their system.
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You, you, sometimes there's nothing you could do to stop it.
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And so that's when I really need everyone else to just bear with me.
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Um, and, and sort of be on my team, even though you don't know me or the kid.
00:41:46.680
Um, finally, uh, let's see from toxic white male, Matt Walsh.
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It's inappropriate to call naysayers of the Sandy Hook shooting morons and brain dead
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idiots when you haven't had all the facts and evidence presented to you.
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And it's evident through your arrogance on the entire subject that you haven't.
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However, I challenge you to watch the documentary.
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We need to talk about Sandy Hook on YouTube, which is a very detailed and thorough investigation
00:42:10.620
about the entire Sandy Hook massacre comprised of multiple YouTubers and private investigators.
00:42:15.440
If it doesn't change your mind, even just a little bit, I will personally donate
00:42:21.340
And if it doesn't, I'll, I'll still donate, but if it doesn't ask yourself this after you
00:42:26.100
watch it, is the ruling class and the deep state capable of orchestrating a false flag
00:42:30.220
like a Sandy Hook, even if you believe it really happened?
00:42:36.720
And when Alex Jones changed his tune and said that Sandy Hook really did happen, it confirmed
00:42:44.660
I don't remember what, even remember what the context was, but I remember, I mentioned this
00:42:49.540
And as I've said many times, it is a conspiracy believed by, um, brain dead idiots and morons
00:42:55.740
and a conspiracy that was, that was spread, that was invented and spread by people who are
00:43:03.220
People who were, who knew what they were doing, um, and were exploiting a tragedy for, for publicity.
00:43:18.100
I mean, this was a tragedy where dozens of five and six year old children were murdered.
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And I, I can't, I still, to this day, I probably of, of all the tragedies that have happened
00:43:32.880
in American history, or at least all the tragedies that have happened while I've been alive, all
00:43:38.300
the kind of national tragedies, including nine 11, um, none of them affected me the way
00:43:44.680
that Sandy Hook did and still does, even though many more people died on nine 11.
00:43:49.220
So the death toll was much greater, uh, just the specific targeting of five and six year
00:43:56.060
old kids was just, and I, for, for the, for the parents, I, I, I cannot wrap my head
00:44:07.320
around that being a parent and having that happen to your five-year-old kid.
00:44:21.660
So to have people taking this very real tragedy and turning it into some sort of cinematic
00:44:31.460
story, turning it into some kind of game where there's other secret agents and things happening.
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Just the best thing I could say about someone who does that is that you're stupid.
00:44:49.940
There are, there are parents who, who's five and six year old kids were shot in the head
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And all you can think is, Oh, it's a conspiracy.
00:45:00.780
There was never any basis whatsoever to claim that that was a conspiracy.
00:45:05.540
And I've seen, I, every time I talk about this, you have the Sandy hook nutters who come and
00:45:17.140
You just came up with it in your head and your, your whole thing is, well, could they pull
00:45:25.880
It doesn't mean that there's any evidence that it actually happened.
00:45:29.900
Just, Oh, they could have, Oh, they could have.
00:45:38.720
Just because you can come up with a scenario wherein it's possible that a certain thing
00:45:45.820
That doesn't mean that it actually did happen to claim that something like that happened.
00:45:59.240
And the, the, the little bits of evidence that you do have don't, don't, it doesn't even
00:46:03.460
Not only is it, did you, is it invented and false, but it doesn't even make any sense.
00:46:07.680
Like one of the pieces of evidence, um, that, uh, these Sandy hook nutters would use is
00:46:12.620
they'll say that they'll take a picture of one of the children who died and then they'll,
00:46:18.560
they'll find a similar looking girl who was, I think in this case, it was one of the girls
00:46:23.680
And then they, they found a similar, a similar looking girl, um, who appeared at some event
00:46:29.900
Uh, and I said, Oh, it's a, it's a crisis actor.
00:46:40.280
Second of all, are you telling me that this, this brilliant, devious, um, government that
00:46:49.660
could orchestrate this fake shooting for no apparent reason that they could do that, but
00:46:57.320
they, they wouldn't think to get a different crisis actor.
00:47:00.900
Like they would actually reuse the same person.
00:47:05.120
So they're so brilliant that they can pull off this whole staged hoax and fool almost everyone.
00:47:12.820
Yet they're also so stupid that they leave these obvious breadcrumbs that any person on,
00:47:19.580
on YouTube can find and point to it and say, yo, you see, clearly it's a hoax.
00:47:29.620
Um, and all the pieces of evidence are just like that where number one, that's not true,
00:47:36.340
but second, even if it were true, if it's not true, but if it were, then that would mean
00:47:43.000
that this government, that these people are so incompetent and foolish that there's no way
00:47:47.860
they could have pulled this off in the first place.
00:47:51.360
You're saying on one hand, they're brilliant, devious, evil, uh, you know, geniuses.
00:47:56.300
On the other hand, they're complete incompetent.
00:47:58.760
Oh, the other one was, um, they said, oh, uh, you see, there's this, uh, if you look on Google,
00:48:04.180
there was a story published about the shooting before the shooting happened.
00:48:12.000
Well, number one, timestamps on Google are very often wrong, happens all the time where
00:48:19.440
an article is published, but then the timestamp says that it was published like a day before.
00:48:27.140
If they're staging this hoax, why would they publish the article before it even happened?
00:48:34.200
So the New York times is in on it too, by the way.
00:48:35.980
So this is a far reach, this is a conspiracy involving that they were able to recruit thousands
00:48:41.940
of people across federal, local, state governments, media, everyone's involved, yet they're so
00:48:48.100
stupid that they would publish the article before it even happened.
00:48:58.020
So when you see something like that and you say, oh, the, the, the timestamp is, is, is a
00:49:03.380
day before or whatever, there are two possible explanations.
00:49:07.000
One is that this is a conspiracy involving thousands of people, uh, branching across local,
00:49:14.120
state, federal government, and, uh, many different media outlets.
00:49:17.860
And it's a conspiracy involving all these people, yet they're so dumb that for some reason they
00:49:22.460
would decide to publish the article beforehand.
00:49:26.620
Or the other explanation is that timestamps are wrong all the time.
00:49:29.840
And so this is just an example of that, which, which, which, which explanation do you think
00:49:36.300
What's the, what's the explanation that just makes the most sense?
00:49:42.480
So anyway, I'm not going to continue on that, but, um, yeah, I have nothing but contempt
00:49:51.160
Uh, I mean, when you're taking pictures of dead children and you're accusing them of being
00:49:57.060
actors, I mean, I, as look, if I alienate all of the Sandy hook nutters and they'd want
00:50:07.900
If, if, if you're that kind of person, I'm perfectly fine with you not watching the show
00:50:13.160
Uh, I really do not want to appeal to those kinds of people.
00:50:39.160
It's Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show.
00:50:41.520
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00:50:44.460
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00:50:49.800
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00:50:54.440
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