Ep. 405 - It's Sexist Not To Believe Warren, According To Her Supporters
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During the first CNN primary debate, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg's campaign sent out a tweet comparing himself to a meatball. The tweet was sent out during the first primary debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, and the rest of the candidates on the debate stage were white.
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Well, while the debate was happening last night, a debate that excluded Mike Bloomberg,
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Bloomberg was spending his billions of dollars coming up with a brilliant marketing campaign
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that would outshine what any debate could put forward. I mean, this guy's worth $58 billion,
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$58 billion. Do you think he needs a stinking debate to get attention? No, no, not at all.
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So last night during the debate, Bloomberg unveiled his brilliant strategy,
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the strategy that only a man with $58 billion to spend could possibly devise or afford.
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And here it is. This is the tweet that he sent out that was sent out by his campaign during the debate.
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It says, test your knowledge, spot the meatball that looks like Mike.
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And then there's a bunch of meatballs and one has his face imprinted on it.
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Wait, so this, you're comparing yourself to a meatball. You are comparing yourself to a meatball.
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That's the plan. That's the marketing plan that $58 billion comes up with. Compare yourself to a
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meatball. I mean, I'm trying to imagine how this conversation went. There had to have been a
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conversation. And so it must've been something like, you know, Bloomberg comes in. Okay, folks,
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I'm very rich. If you didn't know, I want the best possible PR strategy. I need a killer plan,
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something revolutionary. Then someone raises their hand. Well, Mr. Bloomberg, you know, we could,
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yes, yes, Johnson. What is it? What's your plan? Well, we, we, we could, we could compare you to a
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meatball, meatball, meatball. Yes. Yeah. Meatball. Like with spaghetti, we could, you know, it's,
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we could point out that you look like a clumpy, lumpy clump of ground beef because that's the case
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we want to put forward to the voters. Genius. Somebody buy this man a Ferrari. I just, and you
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know, what's unfortunate about this. You see that picture and you're like, well, you know what? He
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actually does look like a meatball. I never noticed that before, but now I do. So now every time I see
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Mike Bloomberg, I'm going to think about meatballs. I don't know if that's really the,
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the association he wants us to make, but, um, oh, well, what are you going to do? I tell you one
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thing. If, if Trump, if Donald Trump, and I'm serious about this, if Donald Trump does not nickname
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Mike Bloomberg meatball after this, then he should be impeached on that basis alone.
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Mike, the meatball, meatball, Mike, or just meatball, any of those, the possibilities are endless.
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I've been saying for a couple of years now, it's concerned me. I think Trump's nickname game has
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slipped considerably since the 2016 election. Now's a chance to reclaim it. Meatball. You got
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to go with it, Trump. Okay. As for the debate itself, it was easily the least entertaining
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debate yet. And that's saying something, of course, because the bar for entertainment with these debates
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is very, very low. I think part of the problem is that CNN kicked out every candidate who might have
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something different, something interesting to say, anyone who might stir things up a little bit,
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um, they kicked out. And all we got were the boring talking point spewers, like the most boring people
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in the, in the field are the only ones left at this point. No Yang, no Gabbard. Um, interestingly
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enough, the only candidates invited on the stage were white. Sure. It's just a coincidence, right?
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I mean, that stage was whiter than a, than a wine and cheese festival. It looked like, it looked like
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a Tupperware party up there with all the whiteness. Now, I mean, I guess we have to conclude that CNN
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is racist. That's, that's, those are the rules, right? Those are their rules. So I, you know,
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it's not my rules. I'm just saying we, we have no choice. According to CNN's rules, according to
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liberal rules, CNN is racist. The DNC is racist. Along with being racist, CNN is also unabashedly
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in the tank for certain candidates against others. And that came out last night, especially when the
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discussion turned to this dispute between Warren and Sanders about whether Sanders said in a private
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meeting between himself and Warren that a woman can't win the presidency. He was asked about this,
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a comment, by the way, that I don't believe he made, but even if he did, who cares? It's not
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sexist. Okay. So it doesn't even matter. This whole, this whole, this whole dispute is completely
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ridiculous. Who cares if he said it means nothing, but I don't think he did. Um, he was asked about
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this. He denied it. He pointed out that he's always said going back 30 years, he's always said
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publicly that he thinks a woman could win the presidency. Also pointed out that Hillary Clinton ran
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for president in 2016, got 3 million more popular votes than Donald Trump, which obviously proves
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that the American people are willing to vote for a woman, not only a woman, but they're willing to
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vote for the worst woman in America. So only imagine what they would be willing to do if it was a
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slightly better woman than that. So his denial is perfectly plausible, um, and believable. Well,
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he didn't say the thing about Hillary Clinton being the worst woman in America. That's me. I'm
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editorializing a little bit. And, um, you, you know, if you're watching the debate, you maybe were
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expecting, if you were watching the debate under the delusion that CNN is a legitimate news operation,
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then you probably were expecting that after, uh, Sanders said, no, I didn't say that CNN would turn
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to Warren and ask her directly if he did say that, and then ask her to justify or explain that claim,
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right? That's what you would expect. If, if, if, if CNN is a, is a real news out outfit,
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you, that's what you would expect. But, um, that's not what happened. Here's what happened instead.
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Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here. You're saying that you never told Senator Warren
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that a woman could not win the election. That is correct. Senator Warren, what did you think
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when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?
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I disagreed. Bernie is my friend and I am not here to try to fight with Bernie,
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but look, this question about whether or not a woman can be president has been raised and it's
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time for us to attack it head on. Um, and I think the best way to talk about who can win
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is by looking at people's winning record. So can a woman beat Donald Trump? Look at the men
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on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who
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have won every single election that they've been in are the women, Amy and me.
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Holy wow. That. So to review what happened here, the moderator asked Bernie about this thing he
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supposedly said. He denied it strenuously. Then the moderator blatantly dismissed everything he
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just said, directly contradicted him, openly took Warren's side and asked her about it on the
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assumption that it actually happened. Thus saving her from having to actually directly address the
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claim or justify it. So she, the moderator contradicted Bernie, dismissed it, and then
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bailed Warren out. Amazing. I mean, it's not amazing. It's, it's, it's not amazing that CNN would
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act with such partisanship and with such a lack of integrity. What is maybe a little bit surprising
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is that they'd be so unabashed about it. They'd be so open about it. After, after the debate, uh,
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hashtag CNN is trash was trending and it wasn't because of Trump fans. It was, it was these, even
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liberals are starting to catch on. Now, um, I have more to say about this Warren Sanders thing, but I
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don't want to skip over or forget the comic relief of the night. And this is the part that I think,
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uh, I said, it was not entertaining. This was the only entertaining part of the entire night.
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Uh, and, and maybe, maybe the most awkward moment I've ever seen at a debate. I can't think of a
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more awkward moment than this. Uh, and this even includes all of the GOP primary debates in 2016 and
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2015. Uh, all the debates, including Jeb Bush, who's just, he's just the personification of awkward,
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even more awkward than that, even more awkward than the, the famous fight between, uh, Trump and,
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uh, Marco Rubio about the size of Trump's situation. Even more awkward than that was this.
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Um, this is like something straight out of the office or something. It's, it's a comically,
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comically awkward. Watch this. Just to set the record straight. I defeated an incumbent Republican,
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That's how I won. Beat a Republican congressman. Number two. Of course, I don't think there's any
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debate up here. Wasn't it 30 years ago? I beat an incumbent Republican congressman. And I said,
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I was the only one who's beaten an incumbent Republican in 30 years. Well, 30 years ago is 1990.
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As a matter of fact, but I don't know that that's the major issue of the day.
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That is brutal. Just the awkward pause there. Everything. This really have, has vibes of being
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at a dinner table with a married couple when their marriage is kind of on the rocks and they're
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contradicting each other at every turn and having these, these awkwardly hostile interactions.
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And you're just sitting there like, uh, and trying desperately to change the subject. That's,
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that's, that's what it reminded me of. Um, but before we change the subject from, uh, Bernie Sanders
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and Elizabeth Warren, one other thing about this, this, uh, this he said, she said between Warren
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and Sanders, Warren's supporters are perhaps not surprisingly utilizing me too rhetoric to defend her.
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Now remember me too is supposed to be allegedly about sexual assault. Well, they're, they're going
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in that direction with this. They have actually defended her on the basis of the believe women
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slogan. Now that's, that's what they're saying. Remember believe women was the thing that they
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said during the me too movement. We should believe women when they accuse someone of sexual assault
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or harassment. Well, Warren supporters are using that now in this case against Bernie Sanders, who is not
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being accused of anything approaching sexual assault. He's being accused of at most making a slightly rude
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comment to, um, Elizabeth Warren, which I actually don't think is rude at all. So just a few examples
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here. Uh, Julia Loft, a correspondent for GQ apparently wrote last night, still thinking
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about the Warren Bernie squabble. And I have a question to people who have accused Warren of lying.
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Isn't the lesson of me too. And the last few years that we believe women and don't call them liars
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other variations on this theme from near a Tanden, the president of a center for American progress.
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She says, believe women, unless it doesn't work for your ambition, apparently from the always insane
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Amanda Marcotte. She says, I think that Warren got the better of Sanders in that exchange,
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but who knows how it will play out. I also thought that eight women accusing Al Franken of groping was
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rock solid evidence that he's a groper, but apparently a lot of people prefer to believe that women love
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lying from Jessica Ellis, who's an actor or something like that. I think said, just FYI, I double checked and
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there is no except with Elizabeth Warren clause in that whole believe women deal from Natalie
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Montelong, Montelongo, a former Obama staffer. Elizabeth Warren is fire right now, quickly confirming
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what she, what was said in the private conversation, then pivoting the pointing out that only the women
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on the stage have won all their races. But all I got to say is believe women. Uh, Maura Donaghan,
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a self-proclaimed angry feminist writer for the guardian said, I just wrote a book laying out
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point by point how women are denied and demonized when they come forward with a sexual assault
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allegation. So watching Warren be disbelieved and blamed using the same tactics after saying men,
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a man said something sexist to her is pretty surreal. Okay. So you get the idea and you see what's
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happening with believe women. It went from believe women because they wouldn't lie about sexual assault
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specifically to believe women because they wouldn't lie about anything. It went from women are always
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credible on this one subject of sexual assault to women are morally flawless saints who are above
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reproach on all subjects. So now when you accuse a woman of lying about anything, you've got wackos
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like Amanda Marcotte saying, Oh, so you think women just love lying? Huh? Think about how dumb and crazy
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that would sound if you tried it with any other demographic. Imagine if, if, if, uh, I don't know,
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I was in a parking lot and I hit somebody's car with my car and I tried to drive away and then they come
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running out. They say, Hey, Hey, did you just hit my car? And then, and then I respond with, Oh, so you
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think, you think Catholics just love hitting cars, huh? Well, I didn't hit it, but I saw you hit it.
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Oh, Oh, so now you think that Catholics are all a bunch of liars, huh? By the way, I'm, I'm, I'm six,
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I'm six foot tall. What does that have to do with anything? Well, because now you think that all tall
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people are a bunch of liars. Of course it sounds, um, just as dumb and crazy when you apply it to
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women. When you, when, when, when you try to make a statement of skepticism about one woman's claim
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about one thing into a sexist attack on all women everywhere, it's, this is the dumbest kind of
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emotional blackmail, but it works. I mean, it works on a lot of people. A lot of people can be
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successfully shouted down this way where they timidly will suggest that, Oh, you know, I don't
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know if I believe her about this. Oh, so you think women are liars? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no, no. Yeah. She's probably right. She probably did say it, but here's the point. The progression from
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believe women about sexual assault to believe women about everything was totally inevitable
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because if we're going to accept that somehow for some unknown reason, women never lie about sexual
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assault. If we're going to accept that there is any subject where women are always honest,
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then why not every subject, right? Because on, on whatever basis, by whatever justification,
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we argue for the 100% credibility of all women on this particular subject, that same argument could
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apply to any other subject. So these, uh, Warren supporters are really just extending the argument
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in a logical way. The problem is that the argument itself is the height of illogic. It doesn't make
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any sense whatsoever. Do I think that women can lie? Uh, yes, of course I do because women are human
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beings and human beings are flawed. I think women are just as likely to lie as men. It's, it's, I, I,
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it's, it's really, it's, it could go either way. And in this, in this particular case, you know,
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when you know something about the people and you can look at their track record, well, then you can make
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hopefully even more accurate judgments. And in this case with Elizabeth Warren, we know that she's a liar.
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We, we, we have documented evidence of her lying.
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And yeah, I, you know what, I'm not even going to get into the fact that once again, as I always point out,
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you can't even do this anymore. This whole thing about women, you know, these, these blanket statements
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about women, you can't do this anymore because you don't know what a woman is. And a woman doesn't
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mean anything. The whole term means nothing anymore. Uh, men can be women, women can be men.
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So I got to throw that in as well. It's on, on just, just one more layer of nonsense to all of this.
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never go to the post office again. So, um, a man in Kansas is in the middle of a divorce with his
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wife and he's made an interesting suggestion. He he's requested from the judge that, uh, he be allowed
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to settle the divorce with swords trial by combat is what they used to call it back in the day. He's
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requesting that the court battle turn into a battle with Japanese swords. Um, though he will allow his
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wife to use a stand in. So it could be his, her attorney or someone, someone else. I mean, I can
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imagine if you're going through a divorce, the possibility of being able to get into a, you know,
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a duel with swords with your wife's attorney is probably, probably rather, rather a, uh, fun
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thing to think about. But anyway, very gentlemanly of him, I have to say that he's allowing his wife
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to use a stand in and we'll see how this shakes out. But dueling is technically legal in, in many
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U S States. It hasn't been officially abolished or prohibited. And I have always said, I mean,
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I've been saying for years that I unironically support dueling. I think it's a, I always have. I think
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that, I think we should bring it back. I think it would make for a much kinder, more polite society.
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In fact, we were just talking yesterday about how, especially SJWs leftists, um, feel,
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feel totally entitled to just walk up to people and hit them in the face. We saw that video of, uh,
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this Univ character assaulting a journalist who tried to ask him a question. Well, you bring dueling
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back, not so much of a problem anymore. So that's something I would like to see, you know,
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this is what we need our political candidates to be talking about. I'll vote for the first one of
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them that seriously suggests we should at least consider maybe, you know, form some sort of
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exploratory committee to consider the pros and cons. That's all I'm asking for. Okay. Well, um,
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moving on, there's a, there's a new art exhibit that you can go check out if you want, just opened
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in New York. It's called abortion is normal. That's the name of the art exhibit. And the point
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of the art exhibit is to send a message that, well, abortion is normal. And here's a little
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propaganda piece that, uh, speaking of Bloomberg, this is a propaganda piece that Bloomberg News
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put together for it. The reason the show is important aside from, I guess, the obvious,
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um, which is we're continuing to fight and ensure that our reproductive rights are maintained. It's
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important because we're trying to make a statement that reproductive rights are not just a women's
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or cis women's issue, but an issue that affects everyone. We're in a time where although a lot
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of progress has been made, until progress stops at a point where everyone actually has equal
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reproductive rights and the ability to choose whatever they would like to do with their own
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body, we need to continue to fight and make a splash. Some people think the title is provocative,
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but honestly, women have been getting abortions for over millennia. And it's only in the last
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hundred years or so it's been hijacked by the right wing.
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Right. All right. First of all, can we go back to the first second of this video? Just freeze frame
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it right there. Okay. So you're doing normal wrong. This is, that's not normal. If feminists,
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the problem with feminists, they have no idea what normal is, so they want to call things normal. They
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don't know what that means. They say abortion is normal. And the first image they show us is one of
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a large naked woman in a weird, in a weird mask, squatting on a stool and leering at the camera.
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That's not, you know, when I think normal, that's not where my mind goes.
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I would call that image many things. Normal probably is not on the list. Besides which,
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why do they need abortion to be normal? What's the point of that? It's like the left can't decide
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if normal is good or bad. They, they, they kind of waver back and forth on this one minute.
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They're justifying something on the basis that it's normal. And the next minute they're tearing
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things down on the basis that they're too normal. So for example, could I argue, would,
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would, would any leftist find it persuasive if I argued for traditional gender roles on the basis
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that it's normal and many societies have had them going back thousands of years? Would that work for
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a leftist? Of course not. No, but killing your baby is okay because lots of people have done it for
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thousands of years. Here's a, I think here's a general rule that holds true most of the time.
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Um, and that is this, if you have to go around insisting that something is normal, you know,
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that's a pretty good indication that it isn't. That's sort of the whole, the whole point of a,
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of a normal thing is that you don't have to tell people it's normal. So I wouldn't need to start a
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campaign or have an art exhibit called blue jeans are normal, where I'm insisting that it's normal
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for people to wear blue jeans because everybody knows it's normal because everybody wears them.
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And so you don't need to tell people. But besides that, um, like I said, it's, it's irrelevant
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because normal doesn't mean good. Is abortion normal? It, I mean, in a sense, yeah, it is.
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In the, in the sense that you've got, you know, hundreds of thousands of babies are killed every
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year. 60 million have been killed in this, in this country since Roe v. Wade. So it is kind of a
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normal thing in the sense that it happens regularly across the world. You've got, uh, you know, 50
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million abortions every single year, 50 million. And yes, you go back thousands of years. There have
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been societies, barbaric societies that have murdered their children.
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So if by normal, we just mean lots of people do it, then yes, abortion is normal, quote unquote,
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but also by that definition, then lots of other bad things are normal. Lying is normal. Even for
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women, as we've covered, stealing is normal. Murder is normal. Gossip is normal. Gluttony is normal.
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Envy is normal. All of the seven deadly sins are normal. All of these things are normal, but that
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doesn't make them good or right or, or preferable, obviously. But this is the kind of sort of grasping
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at straws that you see the supporters of abortion do because they can't, it's, it's very difficult
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for them to, uh, present an argument that abortion is actually a good thing or actually morally acceptable.
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So they're, they're grasping for other things. And in this case, they're saying it's normal.
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Yeah. Yeah. Who cares that, um, that is not the point at all. In fact, I would say,
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yes, it's normal. That's the problem. It's, it's a problem that it's normal in this society for us to,
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to, to look at children as cancers or inconveniences,
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as obstacles in the way of our greater fulfillment. And it's a problem that a normal solution for that
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This is from Lynn says, hello, Matt. I was wondering if you happen to see this statement
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from somebody on your favorite site, Twitter. It is my favorite site. I hate to say, uh, and then
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she provides a link from somebody named Morgan Jerkins and apparently a bestselling author.
00:27:33.960
And she says, um, well, that's what she says about herself in the bio anyway. And the tweet says,
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um, writers do not date or invest any significant amount of energy into a person who does not read
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your work. So that's Morgan Jerkins. Uh, now back to Lynn says, I've often wondered if your wife
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listens to your show slash reads your work. If so, how does that affect what you say and write? If at
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all, if not, do you agree with the tweeter that this is a problem? Um, yeah, Lynn, first of all, I,
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I, uh, I, I, I have, I did see that, that, um, thing that somebody tweeted and I, I disagree with
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the tweeter as you call her. Um, I totally dead ass disagree. I mean, that sounds like excellent
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advice for anyone who wants to be alone and miserable forever, because if you're a litmus test
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for a potential mate is that they have to be a fan of yours. Well, that's just called narcissism.
00:28:33.980
That is called pathological narcissism, narcissism and also insecurity. And it is not a recipe for
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relational success to put it mildly. Um, my wife, since, since you asked does listen to my podcast
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sometimes. She does read some of my stuff. Uh, she's not the most loyal listener or reader that I
00:28:54.800
have. And, and that's perfectly fine. It's more than fine. Actually, I think it'd be, it'd be,
00:28:59.060
I'd be kind of uncomfortable if my wife was a huge fan. I mean, if I was like her favorite writer and
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her favorite podcaster, uh, actually favorite, I'd be uncomfortable with that. You know, I like for
00:29:15.080
her to have interests outside of me personally. Now, when I say that your, your spouse shouldn't be
00:29:22.140
your fan, uh, I mean that in a certain sense. In another sense, if by fan, we just mean supporter,
00:29:27.920
encourager, somebody rooting for you, uh, then yeah, obviously you're, you should be a fan of
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your spouse and your spouse should be your fan in that sense, but not the, not, not fan in the
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sense of like somebody who asks for your autograph. Okay. So I'm talking about that sense of fan.
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And in that sense, no, I wouldn't want my spouse to be that. That's weird. Uh, and by the way,
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writers aren't special there. That's just one way to make a living. So if the spouse of a writer
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has to read everything that they write, then it stands to reason that the spouse of a plumber
00:30:01.340
has to take a real interest in plumbing and the spouse of a mechanic has to love cars,
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et cetera. But obviously it's perfectly fine if you're a mechanic and your wife knows nothing
00:30:11.600
about cars and doesn't care. It's fine. It's like, it's a perfectly fine if you're a writer
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and your spouse isn't a big reader and maybe isn't really interested in the stuff that you write.
00:30:20.400
Who cares? I think, um, I think what's important is, uh, is respect. Okay. And if I want to be
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gracious and generous to the person who wrote this, uh, this tweet, I would say maybe that's
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what she was going for. And she just communicated it, um, awkwardly, which has a bestselling writer.
00:30:46.180
According to her, she should be able to communicate better than that through the written word,
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but maybe that's what she was going for. I, we talk about respect. Okay. So it's crucial that
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your spouse respect what you do. If, um, if my wife had no respect for my work, well, that would be
00:31:03.420
hard to handle. I don't need her to love all of it. I don't need her to read all of it, but in general,
00:31:11.220
I do need her to have respect for what I do, just like she needs me to have respect for what she does.
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And, uh, if you don't have that in a marriage and there are, you know, that's, there are marriages
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where that's the case, where there's no respect between spouses. And that's obviously deadly for
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a minute. You just, you can't, you can't survive very long in a circumstance like that. Okay. This
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is from Dolph says, Oh, great bearded one. Dead ass is New York city slang for serious or real or not
00:31:39.420
joking. Examples. I'm dead ass equals I'm serious. Wait, I'm, I could just say I'm dead ass.
00:31:49.420
Okay. Um, also another example, uh, he dead ass ate that whole cake equals he really ate that whole
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cake. It can also be applied as a question, but the context as a question implies if it's a threat
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or if you're dead ass asking if they're dead ass, I'm confused. Okay. So he says, if you and I are
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having a conversation and you tell me your kid broke a window, I'll use dead ass to ask if you're
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a hundred percent serious about them. However, if you step on somebody and the response is them asking
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if you're dead ass or just a simple dead ass, this has now escalated to the threat of a fight.
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I hope this helps you understand. Well, Jeremy or, uh, Dolph, I, I don't need help understanding. I
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get it. Okay. Look, fam, it's lit bro. Okay. I dead ass. I get it. All right. I'm, I'm, I'm,
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you know, I'm the coolest dad on this block for a reason. Main reason being I'm the only dad on the
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block because we live in the middle of nowhere, but still when my kids are teenagers,
00:32:54.700
they're going to look, they're going to be raising the roof as the kids say at how cool their dad is.
00:33:01.440
They're going to know their dad is the, is the bomb for a fam. Um, and this is from Jeremy, uh,
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says I'm the classic longtime listener, first time emailer, and wanted to ask you for some personal
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advice. I wanted to know whether I should delete Twitter, keep my cartoon avatar account or change
00:33:20.520
the account to my real name. I must preface that I live in Canada and that's the biggest
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reason I ended up creating a cartoon avatar account. I do fear the potential social and
00:33:29.360
government reaction to my thoughts. As I know, uh, recently I was banned temporarily for stating
00:33:34.640
that there are two genders or even putting out tweets, questioning the bias of the RCMP when they
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put up rainbow flags and emblems in place of the normal Canadian flag, which also got me banned
00:33:45.200
temporarily. Personally, I'm leaning towards deleting my account. However, I have a sort of love hate
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relationship where I do like being able to vent sometimes about the insanity from the left rather
00:33:54.620
than going to my friends or family. I greatly admire your thoughts and feel free to reach out
00:33:58.820
to me anytime. Thank you for very much for your time. Um, well, Jeremy, I I'm, you know, and I'm dead
00:34:05.360
ass serious about this. I guess I don't need to add, okay, that's redundant. So I'm, I'm serious,
00:34:10.220
serious about this. Uh, I would say delete your account. I mean, if, if those are the options that
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you're weighing, then I would say just delete it. And honestly, it's got nothing to do with your
00:34:21.580
being afraid of, of backlash or reprisals or anything. I think if you're, if you're posting
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anonymously, you're probably pretty safe from that. But I think just in general, um, social media is an
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enormous waste of time. And I think it's, it's eating our souls and our lives. And if you can escape
00:34:43.580
it, then I would definitely say escape. And I say that as someone who makes a living on the internet
00:34:48.960
and on social media. And, uh, you know, I, I give this advice to people all the time. If everybody
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took my advice and stopped going on the internet and stopped using social media, or at least cut
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way, way, way back, that would destroy my livelihood. And I'd have to go and get a real job. I don't want
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to have to do that, but I'm still, I still just have to be honest with you. So selfishly, I want you to
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stay on Twitter and I want you to stay, you know, use the internet as much as possible.
00:35:14.960
That's my selfish feeling. But in reality, if I'm being honest, I think it'd probably be better for
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you and for everybody. If you didn't, I'll tell you the honest truth of it. Okay. Um, and I know
00:35:25.760
you can say it's easy for me to say this and it is, but it really is true that if I, if I didn't have
00:35:31.260
to be online for my job, uh, I wouldn't be, I would, I wouldn't be on Twitter if I didn't have to be
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there. I wouldn't be on Facebook. Um, I'm not going to say I would never use the internet,
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but I would use it sparing. And part of the way that I know that is that when I, uh, go on vacation
00:35:49.440
or something, or I have off for a few days where I don't have to pay attention at all. Um, I don't,
00:35:55.880
I generally don't use the internet at all. I don't use social media and I don't miss it. I have no
00:35:59.940
compulsion to use it. You know, if I could take off for two weeks, which I rarely am able to, but
00:36:05.840
if I do, I, I really have no desire to pick it up and go on social media. Um, when I'm in the thick
00:36:13.500
of it, you know, on a, on a regular day, it, I do feel the compulsion, but if I can put it down for a
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minute and just separate myself from it, then that compulsion goes away very quickly. So it's a,
00:36:24.840
it is, there is an addiction there, but it's a very weird kind of addiction
00:36:28.080
in that it's, it's really intense when you're in the midst of it, but it's also really easy to break.
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I think it's probably true for anyone. If you were to just, if you were to, here's what, here's my,
00:36:39.420
here's my suggestion for you, Jeremy. Um, what I would suggest is try this just trial basis.
00:36:49.840
Don't go on social media for a week, just a week and see how you feel. I'm betting I'd put a lot of
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money on this, that after a week you have no desire to get on it because you'll, you'll discover
00:37:02.960
that you're happier without it. It wasn't making your life any better. You'll find other things to
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do with your time and you'll probably have very little desire to pick it up and go on it again.
00:37:14.840
So just, just give it a shot. And that's what I would say. Um,
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