Ep. 562 - There Is A Full-Fledged Effort To Sexualize Children In Our Culture
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As the backlash against the child sexualizing cuties movie on Netflix grows, it s important for us to take a step back and understand that the movie fits into a larger and diabolical trend in our culture, which we ll talk about today. Also: Five headlines, including an interesting expose on the privileged lives of some of the rioters arrested in New York, and in our daily cancellation, I ll address the media outrage about fans in Kansas City who allegedly booed racial unity.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, as the backlash against the child sexualizing cuties movie on
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Netflix grows, it's important for us to take a step back and understand that the movie fits
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into a larger and diabolical trend in our culture, which we'll talk about today. Also,
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five headlines, including an interesting expose on the privileged lives of some of the rioters
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arrested in New York. And in our daily cancellation, I'll address the media outrage about fans
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in Kansas City last night who allegedly booed racial unity. That's not really what they were
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right. Okay. Well, you know, before the coronavirus lockdowns forced a temporary hiatus from these sorts
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of activities, libraries across the country on any given night might have featured cross-dressing men
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with sexually suggestive stage names, reading stories to large crowds of visibly confused children.
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A scene such as this could be found in both red and blue states, big cities and small towns,
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sometimes against the objections of a minority of residents, sometimes with near unanimous approval.
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If the drag queen story hour was held in a more radically liberal area, it may have come with a
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warm-up act like a strip tease by the drag queen, or there may have been an opportunity for the
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children to lay on top of the drag queen and wrestle with him. These are both documented occurrences
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at drag queen story hours. If the event was held in Houston, the drag queen may have also been a
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registered sex offender. Shock of all shocks. Now, these sorts of spectacles are so common these
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days that they become old news. Some people still protest, thankfully, but drag queen story hour is
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officially a thing in our culture, and it's here to stay. Of course, nobody's ever been able to
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sufficiently explain why it needs to be a thing. Why exactly do we need cross-dressing burlesque performers
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at the library? Why can't the librarian come and read like a Dr. Seuss book to the kids, as had been
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the custom for decades before we decided that the job would be better done by men dressed like satanic,
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sexualized nuns? If we are given any coherent answer at all to this question, it'll be some
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pablum about tolerance, acceptance, and so forth. But the real answer, the one they won't say out loud,
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is that the left has found public libraries to be yet another useful staging ground for the sexual
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indoctrination of children. There are many such staging grounds. Public schools have proven, of
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course, to be especially fertile soil for this. Comprehensive sex education in schools all over
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the country and in Europe goes far beyond teaching the scientific facts of human sexuality. Children are
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told not just what sex is, but given advice on how and when and in what way to engage in it.
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A sex ed curriculum recently unveiled in California, for example, gives students tips on how to perform
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oral sex, bondage. The World Health Organization has issued its own guidance on approaching sex ed,
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recommending that children as young as four be given information about, and I quote,
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enjoyment and pleasure when touching one's own body. A sex ed program called Teen Talk, which originated
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in Canada but has been since adopted in some places in the U.S., advises kids that, among other things,
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quoting now from their website, anal sex is safe and can be done with a penis, finger, or sex toy.
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It also goes into issues or, you know, of so-called gender identity claiming that some people are,
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quote, beyond male or female, or maybe a combination of both male and female. Speaking of which, the radical
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gender ideology being pushed in our kids through media, Hollywood, government, in schools, etc., represents
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perhaps the most insidious and damaging form of sexual childhood sexualization. We are now told
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that children, before they're old enough to enter kindergarten, are mentally and emotionally competent
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enough to choose their own gender. By nine or ten, if not earlier, we're told that they can meaningfully
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consent to taking hormone pills that will radically alter their body's normal processes. In some cases,
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minors are allowed to consent to permanent surgical mutilation, breast removal, and other abominations.
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This clearly has the effect of sexualizing children as it normalizes the idea that kids
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are emotionally and psychologically capable of giving consent. As I have argued many times,
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the whole entire basis for our laws against sexual contact between adults and children is that
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children cannot consent to such contact. And thus, if the contact is made, it is always equal to
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assault, no matter what the child says about it. As the left pushes for gender changes among children,
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they also undermine the fundamental basis for age of consent laws. And there is no reason to think
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that they don't know what they're doing when they do that. Now, we could go on for many more examples of
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the sexualization of children and the normalization of pedophilia in our culture. We could talk about
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11-year-old drag queens performing at gay clubs. We could talk about the fact that children,
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on average, are exposed to hardcore pornography at the age of 10 or 11, if not younger.
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And that sites like Pornhub explicitly market to minors and make millions of dollars doing so.
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We could talk simply about the music and movies and shows and everything else that are produced on
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a mainstream level and marketed to young audiences that are hypersexual. This is all part of the same
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effort. And this is all the context into which the Netflix movie Cuties fits. We discussed it
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yesterday. I'm not going to get into the graphic details again about the movie. I'm sure you've
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heard it all by now. You've heard more than you probably want to hear. But the point I want to
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emphasize today is that we shouldn't be shocked that the movie exists and that it's being defended so
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desperately. Speaking of desperate defenses, here's perhaps the most absurd one that I've yet seen.
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This is from Aja Romano, a Vox film critic. So you know it's going to be good. Aja says,
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Incidentally, I'm a critic who highly recommends Netflix's Cuties. It's a wonderful, poignant,
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challenging, and nuanced coming-of-age tale smartly crafted by a wonderful director.
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The controversy surrounding it seems to be propaganda fueled by QAnon types and anti-Semites.
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I also feel like you couldn't have picked a better film to frame such a controversy around.
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I'm frankly delighted by a bunch of bigots settling in with pitchforks to flame the pedophile movie and
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discovering this lovely, subtle story about girls battling fraught gender roles. Yes,
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objecting to a film that shows scantily clad 11-year-old Muslims simulating sex acts is
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Yes, it appears that Aja reached into the grab bag of isms and pulled one out randomly,
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which you can't blame her, I suppose. There's no coherent way to make an argument
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that people who don't approve of movies about twerking children are bigots.
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So that leaves you only with incoherent arguments like this one.
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Or you could simply admit that the movie is highly inappropriate and offensive,
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because that is self-evidently the case. But Aja can't do that. Many in the media can't do that.
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Netflix could do it. Netflix issued another statement yesterday, yet again defending the
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film. This is a statement from Netflix saying, quote,
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Cuties is a social commentary against the sexualization of young children. It's an award-winning
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film and powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society,
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more generally growing up. And we'd encourage anyone who cares about these important issues
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to watch the movie. You know, that would be great if it were true. A commentary on the sexualization
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of young children would be very worthwhile and important. But Netflix can't explain why that
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commentary would include crotch shots of 11-year-olds. They can't explain why the commentary about the
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bad thing must actually exhibit the bad thing. The director of the film has never been able to
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explain that either. In fact, she did an interview with The Wrap at Sundance back in the early part
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of the year, way before there was this controversy. And in that interview, while explaining her
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motivation for making the movie, she never really says that the movie is a critique of childhood
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sexualization. The interviewer leads her there. The interviewer herself says that she thought the
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movie was critical of the hyper-sexualization of Western culture. But here's what the director had to
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say in her own words about why she made the movie. The question is, should we have the right to choose
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which women we can be in this world? In our culture, you know, even today, me, I can say I'm not totally
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free. Because I love to wear short dresses. And at the same time, sometimes when I go to the
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religious ceremony, I wear the veil as well. So just choose as a woman who do you want to be.
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Okay, so according to her, she was exploring a woman's struggle to be free and to make choices for
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herself. Though the characters in the film are not women, they are children. Nonetheless,
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the theme as she explains it there, back when she was getting only accolades for the movie because
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only degenerate film critics had seen it, the theme as she explained it was kind of different than what
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we're being told now. And I think that gets much closer to the real motivation behind the making of
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the movie. And it gets to the heart of the motivation for the sexualization of children in
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general in our culture. For the left, for the left, the highest good is to enable people to make
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unfettered choices. Choices specifically in the realm of sexuality and gender. They aren't as much
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fans of choices in other areas of life, of course. But in the realm of sexuality and gender, people must
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be able to make choices without regard to any boundaries at all. Even biological and scientific
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boundaries must be discarded. Moral boundaries must be discarded. Certainly religious boundaries must be
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torn down. That's what the movie seems to really be about. That's what the sexualization of children
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in our culture is largely about. The goal is to destroy moral boundaries and to view people as
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primarily sexual beings, regardless of age or anything else. The point always and ultimately is
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about the denial of objective truth and objective morality and the establishment of a society where everything
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is relative. And what is good, what is most good, is for people to simply do what they want in the
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moment. And this Netflix movie is just one more salvo in that war. But it's a war that is ongoing and has
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been going on for a long time and will continue even after this controversy fades. Let's get to our five
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for our country. There's never a bad time, never a bad day or bad time, but today in particular is good
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for that. I don't have much commentary to offer on 9-11, 19 years out, except to wonder aloud
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to ask the same question, I guess, that so many people ask as these anniversaries roll around,
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and that is if there was another 9-11, I mean a real another 9-11, you know, things are always
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claimed to be the next 9-11 or the new 9-11 or another 9-11, but I'm talking about something
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that really matches that in terms of the magnitude and something that weighs on the national consciousness
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in the same way, to the same extent. If that happened again, when it happens again,
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would we be capable as a nation of unifying, even briefly, in the face of it? As everyone always,
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those of us who lived through it, I was, I don't know, 13 or 14, I think, when 9-11 happened,
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and those of us who lived through it, we talk all the time about how the nation seemed unified in the
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direct aftermath of the terrorist attack. I think we probably overstate just how unified, we probably,
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in our minds, emotionally overstate and exaggerate it, especially those of us who were kids when it
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happened, you know, but there's no question that there was a real sense of unity. It didn't last for
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very long, but it was there. And I, you wonder, could, could we, if there was a 9-11, like tomorrow,
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would there be even one day of everybody on the same side? Or would it be, boom, immediately,
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we're politicizing it, blaming each other, pointing fingers and everything? That's the question. I'm not
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going to get much into my answer, because my answer is very depressing. My answer is basically no, but
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let's not harp on that today. Let's move on. Number two, Biden spokesman T.J. Ducklow, who perhaps
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more than anyone else in politics, looks like his name, appeared on Fox yesterday and became
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very evasive and seemingly flummoxed over extremely basic questions about the candidate and his
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positions. Listen to this. Has Joe Biden ever used a teleprompter during local interviews
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or to answer Q&A with supporters? Brett, we are not going to engage, this is, this is straight from
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the Trump campaign. Yeah, they're using it. And what it does, and what it does, Brett, is it's trying
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to distract the American people? I'm just, they're using it. They talk about it every day. Can you say
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yes or no? That's because, they talk about it every day, Brett, because they don't have a coherent
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strategy. Well, you have an answer, yes or no. Brett, they talk about it every day, because they don't have a
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coherent argument for why Donald Trump deserves re-election, deserves four more years. We know that he
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lied to the American people. We know that he has not shown leadership during this crisis, and they are desperate
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to throw anything they can against the wall to try to distract from that fact. I understand, but you
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can't answer the question. Brett, I am not going to allow the Trump campaign to funnel their questions
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through Fox News and get me to respond to that. Well, TJ, we appreciate your time, and thank you for
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coming on. Thanks, Brett. I love the tone he takes when he's asked a very basic question. So it's like,
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TJ, is the sun hot? Now, Brett. Brett, now, Brett. Brett, now, Brett. Brett, that's a Republican talking
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point. No, I just want to know if the sun is hot. Brett, now, hey, Brett, come on, Brett. Brett,
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that's a, you got to stop at the gotcha questions. But really, this is a reflection, I think, of the
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fact that TJ Ducklow and Friends, and by the way, Ducklow and Friends should be the name of a children's
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show on Nick Jr. But Ducklow and Friends, they spend most of their time in the CNN, MSNBC, left-wing media
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orbit, and are simply never asked any challenging questions at all of any kind. On the rare occasion that
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they get a real question, they are permitted to dodge it with one little move, and then the
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interviewer is going to move on. He's not going to press the issue. And so they're simply unprepared
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for any kind of real questioning. And these were really, really basic good questions. A question
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like, okay, what would you have actually done differently? You can criticize Trump's response
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to the coronavirus. What would you have actually done that he didn't do? Doesn't want to answer
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that question. Number three, speaking of MSNBC and people on there, Nancy Pelosi was on MSNBC
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yesterday, and here's how that went. We have these fires in California, and in the West, 16 people
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have died in Washington, Oregon, and California, including a firefighter and a one-year-old baby.
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Our firefighters have been so very, very courageous. Now we're again breaking records. Mother Earth
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is angry. She's telling us, whether she's telling us with hurricanes on the Gulf Coast,
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fires in the West, whatever it is, that the climate crisis is real and has an impact.
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And of course, we can assume no follow-up on that either. No question like,
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Speaker Pelosi, how long have you been a pagan? Can you tell us more about your paganism?
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That'd be a good question, because the idea that Mother Earth is angry, angry at us and is now
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creating hurricanes and fires to punish us is pure paganism. It's a perfect example of the kind of
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thing they can get away with saying on MSNBC without any follow-up. Mother Earth is angry at us and is
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creating fires. That's really what you believe? This is pure paganism. It really is. And it goes to show
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that the religiosity is a real need that we have. It's ingrained in us as human beings. And so if you
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reject Christianity, as Nancy Pelosi has rejected her supposed Catholic faith, she goes to paganism,
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as many Democrats have and are now essentially Mother Earth Gaia worshippers. But remember,
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always remember, this is the pro-science side. Yes, pro-science people who believe that men can
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get pregnant, women have penises, babies aren't people, and Mother Earth makes fires when she's
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angry at us for driving SUVs. Pure, unadulterated science. Number four, the New York Post has an
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interesting article looking, quote, inside the privileged lives of protesters busted for rioting
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in Manhattan. And here's a look at the subjects of the articles. You can see the mugshots here.
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A little rough, let's be honest. Not the best angle on these guys. It's a mugshot. You can't blame them.
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But, you know, if I was a privileged rioter, I would have a personal stylist with me at all times so
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that when I get arrested, maybe they can come in and just do a little touch-up, just run over,
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you know, fix me up a little bit. I mean, your mugshot, it's a big moment. It's going to be with
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you for the rest of your life. Anytime somebody Googles you, that's going to pop up. So it's going
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to be there forever. They should really give you a chance to comb your hair, I think. Put on some
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makeup. Whether you're a girl or guy, no judgment here, no discrimination. That one guy there, the one
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over from the top on the left, he appears to have some sort of dead or perhaps hibernating
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animal, some kind of woodland creature on top of his head. He should have been allowed to take
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that off, in my opinion. So, but anyway, let's go to the article. It says, the so-called
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revolutionaries who were busted for rioting at a new African Black Panther Party rally took a break
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from their yacht club lives and modeling careers to be a part of the mayhem. Yes, these are members of
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the Black Panther Party, apparently. They certainly don't make Black Panthers the way they used to,
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is all I could say. The seven comrades, including wealthy upper state eastsider Clara Crabber,
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had the mugshots tweeted out by the NYPD early Wednesday, days after their arrests. They were cuffed
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during a protest organized by the Panthers and the revolutionary abolitionist movement, groups condemning
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the death of Daniel Prude, who was killed while in custody of the Rochester Police Department in March.
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Aside from Crabber, the redhead daughter of an architect and child psychiatrist with a second home
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in Connecticut, five of the others arrested appear to also come from privileged backgrounds.
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Frank Furmeister. Oh, okay, wait. Clara Crabber and Frank Furmeister. Are, those are really their,
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are the police sure that these are their real names and not, not, not fake names? That sounds like the
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kind of name you would just make up on the spot if the cops are asking you. What's my name? Uh,
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it's, uh, Frank, uh, Furmeister Smith. Frank Furmeister? No, Frank, uh, Furmeister. Actually,
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is it, uh, Frederick Furmeister. I mean, Frank Furmeister. Uh, Furmeister. Yeah, that's my name.
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Anyway, it says that Frank Furmeister, charged with, uh, rioting and possession of a graffiti
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instrument, is a freelance art director who's designed ads for Joe Coffey and has also worked
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for Pepsi, Samsung, and the Glenn Levitt. He studied fine arts with a concentration in photography
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at Florida State College. Uh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, so you get the idea.
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These are all a bunch of privileged brats. No big surprise there. This really, this goes back to the
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point I made, uh, before about these protests that they are expressions of extreme decadence more than
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anything else. These are privileged, privileged, comfortable people, uh, searching for a struggle,
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searching for a form of suffering, um, an oppression to make their lives meaningful.
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We just, as people, we, we, it's very difficult for us to simply be comfortable and live in luxury
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and admit that that's our lives. You'd think it'd be easy, but it's not. We, we, we need to have some
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sort of struggle, something to overcome. And I think there are so many people in our country
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who live lives of such unending comfort. And all of us, in fact, every single one of us,
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no matter what our socioeconomic situation is, we all are, or almost all of us are absurdly comfortable
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in comparison to almost everyone else who has ever lived on planet earth. Uh, that's just a reflection
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of, of modern society. And because of that, you've got a lot of people who are desperate to,
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you know, find meaning in some sort of struggle to invent some kind of, uh, you know, boogeyman for
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them to fight against. And I think that's a lot of what we're seeing with these writings,
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the riots and the looting and Antifa and everything else. Number five, finally, in our most important
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story of the day, as you know, I've always been a critic of dogs. I think dogs generally take,
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take more than they give. They are needy, emotional, high maintenance. It's like having a teenager in
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the home, I guess, except one that craps on the carpet and eats your couch. Um, but there are a few
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good dogs out there. Even I must admit, and here's one right here. Watch.
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I mean, look on the bright side. At least he wasn't facing the other direction. That would have
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been. Things can always be worse, I guess is what we learned from that. But that dog right there is
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a dog who makes himself useful. Um, so many dogs are called good dogs, though they have not earned
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the title. That dog though. That's a good dog. Good dog. Well done. Well done. Thank you for your
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service. Let's get to our daily cancellation. Today for our daily cancellation, I'll be canceling all
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the people freaking out over the Chiefs fans last night, uh, booing the players as they had their
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moment of unity. So backing up here for a moment, the NFL was, was back in action on Thursday night.
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Not a very interesting game. Chiefs won 34 to 20. Of course, the question was what would happen
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before the game? You know, how far would the NFL go in the first game back to alienate the fan base
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even further? I thought at the very least they might randomly select a white fan from the stands
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and drag them onto the field to be ritualistically flogged as atonement for the myriad sins of
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whiteness. But shockingly, that didn't happen. Uh, there was none of that. There, there wasn't
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much of anything. The Texans didn't come out for the Anthem at all, which fine. I prefer that. I prefer
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that over the theatrics during the Anthem. Just get it out of sight as far as I'm concerned. Uh, the
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Chiefs all, all stood, uh, but one player. So that wasn't too bad. But then right before the game
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started, they went out onto the field, locked arms, and had a moment of unity. And the fans
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Now the left and the people in sports media, but I repeat myself, I suppose, have been fainting
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quite performatively over this. They booed a moment of unity. Why, I never. Um, that's how I imagine
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them when they're tweeting, doing this with their hands. How dare these, uh, you know, how dare these
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fans boo racial unity? They must be a bunch of racists. How could they? A headline on the leftist
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news site, Raw Story, called the fans classless trash. John Fugelsang said, America's racist,
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always booing at demonstrations against the racism, never booing at actual racism. Sports writer Michael
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Lee was, uh, was, was very upset. He said, my hometown's got no love for unity. They're booing
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unity now. Charlotte Clymer of the extremist group, the human rights campaign said, who's surprised by
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these fans who are booing? It was never about the national Anthem. It was never about respect for the
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flag. It was always about sheer discomfort over any personal accountability a fan might be
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motivated to consider regarding their role in systemic racism. Another media person, Cameron
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Justice said, booing equality is pretty telling and on and on and on. Now, all of this, of course,
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misses the point on purpose. Despite the pretensions of the left, nobody is against unity or justice or
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equality. The left likes to pretend that it's waging a war against cartoon villains who are in
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principle actually opposed to, you know, things like justice as if we're saying, yeah, you know,
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we're not big fans of justice. Just, uh, it doesn't do much for us. We're, we're, we're, we're sort of
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anti-justice. We're, we're big fans of injustice, actually. We're injustice. That's more our speed.
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No, that's not a position that anybody holds. Even people who actually do favor injustice, like the
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people who defend rioters and looters as they burn down city blocks. Those are people who favor
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injustice, but they don't see themselves that way and they would never be that explicit about it. In
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fact, they feel the need to claim that rioting and looting is justice and to defend it on that basis.
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That's how humans work. It's called rationalizing. So why were people booing? Well, the reason people
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booed the moment of unity is that we have come to understand what is really meant in our culture
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by unity. It's just like when someone starts talking about being anti-racist, I'd boo that too.
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Is that because I'm pro-racist? No, it's because when I hear someone talk about being anti-racist,
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I know that they don't really mean anti-racist. I know that anti-racism is a euphemism and a lot of,
00:29:39.140
a lot of actual racism is promoted and justified under the guise of being anti-racist. So yes,
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I boo you when you say it because I know what you really mean and you know what you really mean.
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So let's stop pretending we don't understand each other. This is the way the game is always played
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though with the left. They do the same thing with Black Lives Matter. If somebody opposes Black Lives
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Matter, they say, oh, you don't think Black Lives Matter, huh? No, I do think Black Lives Matter.
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Everybody thinks that. Nearly everyone in the country agrees on that point. Near unanimous agreement.
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But you keep saying it anyway. Why is that? Because behind that slogan is a whole bunch of other stuff
00:30:13.960
that has nothing to do with Black people at all. And all I need to do is check out the Black Lives
00:30:18.740
Matter website, look at their professional beliefs, their agenda as they lay it out themselves to
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confirm that this has nothing to do with Black people at all. And there are dozens of examples
00:30:29.180
of this. Pro-choice. Oh, you don't believe in choice, do you? No, I do. I think freedom of choice is good.
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But I also think that killing innocent people is bad. And when you talk about choice, I know
00:30:39.380
that's what you actually mean. And so that's why I boo your pro-choice slogans, because I know that
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they are really pro-murder. So going back to the racial unity bit, I believe in racial unity. I would
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love to have racial unity. I would love to have all kinds of unity in this country. But is that really
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what you want on the left? Is that what you mean when you talk about it? Do you mean that we will all
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be unified on an equal playing field, and that we will live our lives and treat each other as human
00:31:06.120
beings without segregation, without any need for anyone to apologize for their race, or to profess
00:31:11.160
feelings of guilt, or to take a submissive or groveling stance? That the law will treat everyone
00:31:16.600
the same, and everybody's held to the same standard, and so on. Is that what you mean? It isn't, is it?
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Well, then, you don't really want racial unity. You want something else. And it's that something
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else that was booed, and deserves to be booed. Now, personally, the players locking arms and
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standing there doesn't bother me any, doesn't offend me. If I was in the stands, I probably
00:31:41.300
wouldn't have booed it. And I can, as far as the NFL players themselves go, I could very well believe
00:31:47.060
that many of them, if not most of them, really had great intentions. And as far as they're concerned,
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they really were standing for unity. It was kind of an empty gesture, but whatever.
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Basically harmless. Yet, the fans in the stands, and so many other people, they are jaded and cynical
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when it comes to these kinds of gestures and statements. And for highly justified reasons.
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Because they see how, in our culture, the left takes these concepts and ideas that, by definition,
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in reality are good, the left takes them, empties them out, turns them into euphemisms that stand
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for things that have nothing really to do with those words at all. And that's what the booing was
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about. So, and that's why if you're complaining about the booing, you're canceled. Okay. We'll leave
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it there. That's it for today. Hope you have a great weekend. Pray for our country. God bless America.
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