The Matt Walsh Show - September 17, 2020


Ep. 566 - The Truth Is Out. We Don't Need The Public School System


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36 minutes

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185.05193

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6,789

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462

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

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Summary

According to recent reports, huge droves of American families are flocking to homeschool. They re fed up with the way the public school system has responded to the coronavirus, they re now choosing to educate their children themselves. There s good reason to think that this shift may be permanent and part of a larger trend, and we ll talk about why.


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00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, according to recent reports, huge droves of American families are
00:00:04.600 flocking to homeschool. They're fed up with the way the school system has responded to the
00:00:08.160 coronavirus. They're now choosing to educate their children themselves. There's good reason
00:00:12.540 to think that this shift may be permanent and part of a larger trend, and we'll talk about why.
00:00:16.780 That's a very good thing, because we cannot reclaim our culture until we break the public
00:00:20.880 school system's stranglehold on our children. Also, five headlines, including the media,
00:00:24.960 flipping out because Bill Barr allegedly wants to arrest and try protesters with sedition
00:00:30.080 and arrest the mayor of Seattle, among other things. We're supposed to hate Bill Barr for this,
00:00:34.740 but instead, I kind of want to make him king, to be honest. And in our daily cancellation,
00:00:38.740 I will cancel the cardinal in New Jersey who says that a Christian can, in good conscience,
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00:02:43.200 leaving the public school system in droves and embracing homeschooling. And this shift,
00:02:47.560 we're told, may be permanent. This is from the article reading now. It says,
00:02:50.140 homeschooling families, which include roughly 3% of school-age children in the United States in 2016,
00:02:55.540 have lots of different reasons for wanting to educate their own kids, but they're united in a
00:02:59.140 common assessment. They want out of the traditional system. The question is whether COVID-19 will cause a
00:03:04.340 temporary bump in homeschooling as parents piece together their days during the pandemic or mark a
00:03:08.900 permanent inflection point in education that continues long after the virus has been controlled.
00:03:13.640 Some families may find they want to exit the system for good. Now, the data does seem to bear this out.
00:03:19.960 And it's an interesting article in The Atlantic, by the way, and actually friendly to homeschooling,
00:03:23.680 if you could believe it. A Gallup poll released last week finds that one in 10 families with school-age
00:03:28.320 children are now homeschooling. That means the number of homeschoolers in America has doubled in just
00:03:33.120 one year. Now, granted, a portion of these families may return to the public school ranks once the
00:03:38.040 lockdowns and mask policies end if they do any time this century. But there's reason to think that,
00:03:44.900 as The Atlantic says, the change may be lasting. After all, these are families who have unenrolled
00:03:49.360 and severed ties from the school system completely. And in some parts of the country, the number of
00:03:54.560 parents who've taken that step is even more staggering. Texas, for example, has seen a 400% increase in
00:04:00.640 parents withdrawing from the public school system, which mirrors pretty closely the reported 300%
00:04:06.100 increase in traffic to sites like homeschool.com. It's an online community for homeschoolers.
00:04:11.560 So there's an intense interest in homeschooling now. The trend towards homeschooling has been
00:04:15.500 given a significant shot of adrenaline recently, but it didn't begin with the pandemic. Over the last
00:04:21.200 two decades, the size of the homeschooling community had already doubled before the lockdowns
00:04:26.280 began. What was once considered sort of a fringe movement for Christian fundamentalists on one side
00:04:31.460 of the political divide and then hippie granola crunchers on the other has been increasingly
00:04:36.360 embraced as a possibility for people of all lifestyles and ideological persuasions. What makes this moment
00:04:43.960 so significant is that the lockdowns have broken the final barrier that prevented many parents from
00:04:50.660 exploring the homeschooling route. That barrier was psychological more than anything. It was the belief
00:04:55.680 that public schools do something special that the average parent cannot emulate or even improve
00:05:02.540 upon. It was thought, even by people who are otherwise skeptical of government control, that parents
00:05:08.000 teaching their own kids is somehow disordered or weird or backwards or not how it's supposed to be.
00:05:15.180 We need the school system, it was thought. Education is the systems thing. It's specialty. Parents don't
00:05:22.020 have the ability or the resources to take its place. That was always a facade. In fact, parents are the
00:05:28.880 primary educators of a child. Whether they accept that role officially or not, they still are. There
00:05:35.580 is nothing the school system does that a parent cannot do and do better. There is no role the school
00:05:41.440 system is better suited to fill. The most natural and for the child healthiest choice is to be taught
00:05:47.060 full-time by parents who know them, love them, understand them, can meet their specific needs.
00:05:55.700 If large-scale government-controlled education has any role, it should be as a backup, a plan B or maybe
00:06:00.880 C or D, not as the automatic default option for everybody. Now, it's not as though the public school
00:06:07.060 system has been a rousing success up to this point either. Headlines this week tell us that
00:06:11.740 you may have seen this. Young people today have a, quote, shocking lack of knowledge about the
00:06:17.620 Holocaust. Over half of the respondents in a recent survey didn't know that six million Jews died in
00:06:22.880 the genocide. One in ten couldn't recall ever hearing the word Holocaust in their lives.
00:06:29.160 None of this is actually shocking, though. Polls and surveys for years have shown that Americans have
00:06:34.300 a very, shall we say, tenuous grasp of basic subjects like history, science, civics. A survey conducted a
00:06:41.560 few years ago discovered that only about 30 percent of Americans could pass a citizenship test. Less than
00:06:47.000 30 percent could identify the 13 original colonies or, you know, say one thing that Benjamin Franklin
00:06:52.260 was famous for. Almost 40 percent thought he was famous for inventing the light bulb. Another study
00:06:57.720 reveals that one in five Americans can't name a branch of government. A survey released by the American
00:07:04.360 Council of Trustees and Alumni in 2015 showed that half of Americans can't say when the Civil War was
00:07:08.780 fought. In science, a Pew study finds that just 39 percent of Americans have a high level of scientific
00:07:14.360 knowledge, with 29 percent having little knowledge. Everybody else falling somewhere in the mediocre
00:07:20.640 middle, which is probably where I fall, to be honest with you. But I went to public school, so I'm exhibit A.
00:07:24.920 The media likes to trumpet headlines like these. They like these kinds of headlines showing that Americans are
00:07:31.320 stupid and ignorant, but they don't like to connect and to connect the dots and draw the obvious
00:07:36.860 conclusions. Our education system is an abysmal failure. If you think that Americans are ignorant and
00:07:44.040 stupid, then what does that tell you about the system that's supposed to be educating these people?
00:07:49.300 Ours is an education system that produces citizens who cannot pass a citizenship test.
00:07:54.560 What more needs to be said? Of course, we must stipulate that the education system has failed to do
00:08:02.100 what it should be trying to do, which is to equip new generations with the strong base of knowledge and
00:08:08.860 critical thinking skills they'll need to be well-rounded, well-adjusted, contributing members of
00:08:13.540 society. It has not failed to do what it has actually tried to do, which is to indoctrinate new
00:08:20.180 generations into the religion of leftism. The rioters terrorizing our cities, screaming about
00:08:26.260 the imaginary boogeyman of systemic racism, illustrate at once both sides of this dichotomy.
00:08:32.780 The fact is that, you know, there was never any hope of reclaiming the culture, defeating leftism,
00:08:39.500 or anything else, so long as nearly everyone sends their kids to government indoctrination centers for
00:08:45.080 six hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for the majority of their first 18 years of life.
00:08:49.540 Worse, we send our kids to these places fully aware that they will be learning a lot more than
00:08:56.160 the ABCs and 123s. The education that they get will stretch far beyond basic academic subjects.
00:09:02.800 They will be shaped, informed, and molded intellectually, spiritually, psychologically, morally
00:09:08.440 by the government school system. And worst of all, many parents, even conservative parents,
00:09:14.560 have wanted that. I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with parents
00:09:19.760 defending the public school system by saying things like, I need my kids to be socialized.
00:09:25.620 Really? You want the government to socialize your child? That's what you want? That's a job you trust
00:09:32.560 the government to do. You don't trust it with health care or your tax money or anything else, but you
00:09:37.960 trust it with your child's heart and mind? And you trust that it will socialize your child in a way
00:09:43.000 that's best for him? As long as we have this mentality, there's no hope for the culture.
00:09:48.120 There's no hope for conservatism. But I sense that maybe that mentality is finally starting to shift.
00:09:54.420 A glimmer of hope shines through. So it comes down to this. Public schools simply do not deserve the
00:10:00.280 faith we have had in them, nor have they earned the credit we have often given them.
00:10:04.100 They also do not deserve to be seen as inevitable or necessary. And the school system itself has now
00:10:11.680 admitted as much. By shutting down suddenly for months on end, even protesting to ensure that it
00:10:17.080 can remain shut for longer, insisting that it's not an essential service like Walmart or the local
00:10:22.040 liquor store, the school system has let the truth slip. We don't actually need it. Society can function
00:10:28.700 without it. There is nothing it is doing that can't be done at home. Parents are discovering
00:10:33.760 this too. They're trying their hand at educating their own children, which is something they were
00:10:38.040 already doing and all parents already do, whether in an official capacity or not. And many are
00:10:42.440 discovering that it's not so hard as they thought. We can just hope that more parents have this
00:10:47.600 revelation that the government school system is rendered finally obsolete and superfluous.
00:10:51.580 That would be one good thing, one extremely good thing to come out of this godforsaken year.
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00:12:49.660 fact, this one I don't even have here. So I think we'll talk about this tomorrow more, but I just,
00:12:53.900 right before we went on the air, saw the story out of Nashville about the Nashville mayor's office.
00:12:59.320 According to a report, emails were leaked showing that they were trying to hide the fact that
00:13:06.660 there were very few coronavirus cases coming out of restaurants and bars. They'd shut down the
00:13:13.240 restaurants and bars. And then in the emails exchanges, some people in the mayor's office
00:13:18.560 were worried that more people weren't getting sick because of the restaurants and bars, which means
00:13:22.720 that they can't justify shutting it down. And it makes you wonder, how many other cities was this
00:13:28.800 happening? Where the people in positions of power shutting down businesses and knew because they
00:13:34.080 had the data, they knew that there was no reason for it, that, that, that the data didn't support it,
00:13:39.560 but they suppressed that data and didn't tell the public about it. How many, I'm thinking probably
00:13:43.800 many cities where this happened. So think about Democrat mayors for a second. Um, Democrat mayors,
00:13:49.720 shut down their economies on bad or phony data. And then after months of that, in many of these
00:13:57.660 cities allowed rampaging mobs to run through the street, burning and looting at will.
00:14:02.600 You have to be a masochist at this point to vote for one of these lunatics to run your city.
00:14:07.700 This is beyond politics. If you're just a normal person, especially if you're a business owner,
00:14:13.200 you have a family, why would you want, I don't care how you feel about Republicans or Trump or anyone
00:14:17.820 else? Why would you want one of these people run? Look at what they're doing. Uh, but we'll talk
00:14:22.820 more about that tomorrow. This is just a huge scandal, this story. So I want to dive more into
00:14:27.000 it, but, uh, okay, we start here. Here are, uh, um, here are several headlines all about Attorney
00:14:31.900 General Bill Barr. And these are supposed to make us hate him, I guess, and think that he's scary and
00:14:37.860 mean. So from the Guardian, Bill Barr reportedly suggested bringing sedition charges against protesters
00:14:42.640 from CNN. Bill Barr says, uh, calls for coronavirus lockdowns are the greatest intrusion on civil
00:14:48.480 liberties other than slavery in U S history. And then from the, from the Hill, Barr asked
00:14:53.440 prosecutors to explore charging Seattle mayor over protest zone. These are all headlines in like the
00:14:58.820 last day about Bill Barr. So the media wants us to read that. It's out. What a, what a terrible guy.
00:15:04.080 Uh, but of course I have the exact opposite reaction. I think that's awesome. That's yes. Thank you.
00:15:09.380 See the media thinks all of that makes him look bad, but cause they don't understand normal people
00:15:16.160 to normal people. We read that and we think, well, yeah, coronavirus lockdowns are the greatest threat
00:15:21.180 to civil liberty. Well, that's not exactly true. And it's only, the only reason that it's not true
00:15:25.720 is because of abortion. Abortion is the greatest threat to civil liberty, um, since slavery, but this
00:15:31.960 is definitely in the top five. And then he wanted to bring sedition charges against insurrectionists who
00:15:36.500 are burning government buildings with the stated goal of overthrowing the government. Yeah, that's
00:15:40.920 what sedition is. Absolutely. And then Bill Barr wants to charge a mayor with crimes because she
00:15:47.240 refused to enforce the law and put her citizens in jeopardy because of it. Again, yes, this is what
00:15:52.580 normal people believe. The media is disgusted by, confused by, horrified by the sorts of things that
00:15:58.860 normal people think and believe. Uh, number two, CDC director, Robert Redfield, not be, not to be
00:16:07.020 confused with Robert Redford. When you see this guy, I'm sure you won't confuse them. Uh, he was
00:16:12.320 testifying before Congress yesterday and had this to say about when we can return to regular life.
00:16:18.440 Tell me when, when you think we'll have a vaccine as best you can ready to, to administer to the
00:16:29.620 public, Dr. Redfield. Well, I think, uh, Dr. Cadillac said, I think there will be vaccine that
00:16:37.660 initially be available sometime between November and December, but very limited supply and will have
00:16:45.580 to be prioritized. If you're asking me, when is it going to be generally available to the American
00:16:49.660 public so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life? I think
00:16:57.260 we're probably looking at third, late second quarter, third quarter, 2021. And so you think by the late
00:17:06.880 second and third or third quarter, we will have started to, to vaccinate people. I think the
00:17:13.800 vaccination will begin in November, December, and then we'll pick up, you know, and it'll be in a
00:17:19.300 prioritized way. Those first responders and those at greatest risk for death. And then eventually that
00:17:25.140 will expand. You know, there's about, it's hard to believe, but there's about 80 million people in
00:17:30.480 our country that have significant comorbidities that put themselves at risk. Right. They have to
00:17:36.060 get vaccinated and then the general public. Okay. Third quarter of 2021. Now, personally,
00:17:42.660 I've been living my regular life all throughout this. I never stopped living my regular life.
00:17:47.660 But if you actually are planning to remain hiding in your closet or under your bed for the next year
00:17:54.660 or more than I don't know what to say to you. Remember though, 15 days to slow the spread.
00:18:01.540 I guess 15 days, you know, that's, that's kind of like maybe days. It's kind of like the word
00:18:08.260 mostly now we hear mostly peaceful when the media says that. So these are, these are,
00:18:12.440 these are words that can be interpreted in very broad sense, or maybe, you know, there's the,
00:18:19.260 maybe we're talking about days in a biblical sense here where they said 15 days, maybe they meant it,
00:18:23.500 you know, there's the debate in Genesis. We talk about, was it seven days of creation
00:18:27.480 or most, it was, was each day representative of billions of years. And so maybe when we heard 15
00:18:32.920 days to slow the spread, they meant it in the biblical way that each day is a billion years. I don't know.
00:18:36.720 Um, uh, Redfield also had this to say about masks. Listen, I'm not going to comment directly about
00:18:43.860 the president, but I am going to comment as the CDC director that, uh, uh, face masks,
00:18:50.200 these face masks are the most important, powerful public health tool we have. And I will continue to
00:18:56.000 appeal for all Americans, all individuals in our country to embrace these face coverings. I've said
00:19:02.140 if we did it for six, eight, 10, 12 weeks, we'd bring this pandemic, uh, under control. These
00:19:08.400 actually, we have clear scientific evidence. They work and they are our best defense. I might even
00:19:15.620 go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when
00:19:23.760 I take a COVID vaccine because the immunogenicity may be 70%. And if I don't get an immune response,
00:19:31.720 the vaccine is not going to protect me. This face mask will. So I do want to keep asking the American
00:19:36.800 public to take the responsibility, particularly the 18 to 25 year olds, where we're seeing the
00:19:42.760 outbreak in America continue to go like this because we haven't got the acceptance, the personal
00:19:49.000 responsibility that we need for all Americans to embrace this face mask. Okay. Masks are more
00:19:54.140 protective than vaccines. That's what he's saying now. Now let's rewind the clock back six months
00:19:59.500 and take a listen to what he said about masks back then. Should you wear a mask if you're healthy?
00:20:06.880 No. Okay. So there he says, he's asked if you're healthy, should you wear a mask? Six months ago,
00:20:13.040 he said, no, period. So we went from, and think about what the surgeon general said six months ago,
00:20:18.700 five or six months ago, screaming at us, don't wear a mask, stop wearing a mask. So we went from
00:20:24.760 stop wearing masks, you dumb hicks to masks are more protective than vaccines, uh, in six months.
00:20:32.840 And the excuse is, well, we're still, we're still discovering, you know, we're still figuring out
00:20:37.340 the science of it. Well, but people have been using masks in a medical context for centuries.
00:20:44.300 You still are figuring out the science and our understanding of the science of mass has evolved
00:20:51.920 that much in a few months. Really? No, whatever, however effective masks are or aren't they've known
00:21:00.400 it all along, but they've given us two different answers. And so you wonder why people are a little
00:21:04.640 bit skeptical of the mask thing. Number three, here's Nancy Pelosi on MSNBC yesterday with a very stark
00:21:09.520 and sudden emotional pivot. Watch this climate crisis, which is causing these, uh, has, has an
00:21:16.880 impact. It has, uh, uh, uh, has influenced what is happening in California and the whole West,
00:21:23.420 as well as the storms that are, uh, battering the Gulf coast. This is a reality. So, and when it comes to
00:21:30.980 the coronavirus, they have contempt for science. That's why we are almost 200,000 people who will lose
00:21:38.580 their lives by the end of this week, 200,000 people. And that's why that they're contempt for
00:21:46.100 science as to what the, uh, uh, the climate crisis is. Yeah. I think old Nance's acting is going to
00:21:53.060 getting a little rusty there. She needs to run through those lines about 10 or 15 more times
00:21:57.200 before going live with it. Uh, this is what happens when you miss dress rehearsals. You know,
00:22:00.920 you gotta be, you gotta practice makes perfect. This just shows that politicians, you know,
00:22:05.480 when they've been in office for a while, they really forget how to be human. And I, and I,
00:22:10.200 that's not even a joke. I really believe that. I think that that's why we need term limits.
00:22:14.020 They can't relate to human emotions anymore because they've, they lose a little piece of
00:22:18.040 their humanity with each year they spend in that environment. So by the, by the time they get to
00:22:22.740 Pelosi's age, uh, they're like, you know, Spock or something, but not as smart. Dumb Spocks is that's,
00:22:30.940 that's who's running the country. No brain, no soul. When they attempt to imitate human emotion,
00:22:37.040 it comes off as, as, you know, like awkward and sort of grotesque, often more towards grotesque.
00:22:42.680 I think watching Pelosi imitate human emotions. It's, it's kind of like, uh, you know what it's
00:22:48.000 like? It's like, I don't, if you've ever seen men in black, um, there's that in men in black,
00:22:53.340 the first one, there's that alien bug creature that steals a guy's skin and wears it around.
00:23:00.860 That's who Nancy Pelosi reminds me of. No offense to her intended, of course. I mean,
00:23:04.720 it has a compliment. Number four from the daily wire. Um, the pizza chain where a kid can be a
00:23:10.260 kid is now looking to destroy 7 billion of its famous prize tickets after filing for bankruptcy
00:23:15.680 this past summer due to the steep drop in business during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the New York
00:23:20.020 Post, Chuck E. Cheese parent company, CEC entertainment said in a court filing on Monday
00:23:24.180 that the heavy supply of prize tickets are no longer needed. The tickets are valued at $9 billion or
00:23:30.620 sorry, $9 million, not 9 billion. It's 7 billion tickets valued at $9 million. That's what they're
00:23:36.520 destroying. Okay. So 7 billion prize tickets. If I remember correctly at the prize counter with that
00:23:42.140 many tickets, you could have redeemed all of that for a Chinese finger trap, a yo-yo and three
00:23:48.260 Jolly Ranchers. It took a lot is what I'm trying to say in the, at those prize counters. Uh, you
00:23:53.540 know, you'd go up to the prize counter, you've got just like a whole bucket of tickets and you're so
00:23:56.740 excited. He's like, Oh daddy, what can I get? And he says, Oh, well you can get this little finger
00:24:02.120 puppet. Um, five. Finally, you may have heard the big news that daily wire is leaving Los Angeles and
00:24:08.240 moving to Nashville. Uh, why are we leaving Los Angeles? Well, because LA is a crumbling cesspit
00:24:12.340 and it's currently on fire at the moment. So I say we, but I never lived here. Um, I will however,
00:24:17.860 be, be moving to Nashville with the crew, finally leaving the shack and the wilderness that I've,
00:24:23.080 I've been living in. We're going to find a new shack in a wilderness in Nashville or in Tennessee
00:24:28.280 somewhere. Um, I will of course be bringing my banjo. It is Nashville after all my banjo,
00:24:33.680 which you can see in this studio here, this studio, you know, sort of a preview of things to come.
00:24:37.780 Maybe I'll have a real studio. Um, this is, this is all very new for me because I've, I've always done
00:24:42.620 the show just by myself in my little hole somewhere. Even right now, I mean, there are people in the room
00:24:48.420 right now in the dark staring at me and it's a very strange, it's very strange experience, but it's
00:24:54.720 going to be very exciting for, for, for us. Apparently not everyone is happy that we're coming
00:25:00.960 though. Um, here's an article on a website called the Nashville scene headline is hole moving
00:25:07.640 to town. Ben Shapiro announced he and the daily wire are coming to Nashville. Thanks. We hate it.
00:25:13.160 Then the article says, there's nothing clever to say here. Clearly, uh, Ben Shapiro is a proudly
00:25:18.140 obtuse bigot who rose rapidly through the ranks of conservative media because he was a young person
00:25:23.140 who appeared to have read a book or two and hated popular culture. Now he and his right wing Facebook
00:25:27.260 content generator, the daily wire are moving here. And then it goes on and on about how Ben is an
00:25:31.780 a-hole and a horrible guy and he's moving to Nashville, et cetera. Um, and I read this article
00:25:39.100 and I have to say, I'm really upset and offended by it. I think it's totally out of line, completely
00:25:44.380 uncalled for because I also am an a-hole and I also am moving to town and I don't even get any mention
00:25:53.420 here at all. I have been erased, otherized. My existence has been delegitimized by this.
00:25:59.780 I haven't worked so hard to cultivate my a-hole brand to be ignored in this way.
00:26:04.540 It only goes to show, you know, my people, my community of a-holes have so much further to go
00:26:09.500 before we are really appreciated and respected for our contributions to society. So we'll be in,
00:26:16.160 uh, Nashville soon and we're looking forward to that. All right, we're going to get to our daily
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00:28:18.120 cancellation. Uh, today I will be canceling Cardinal Tobin of Newark, New Jersey. This is the second day
00:28:25.380 in a row that I'm canceling a priest, this time a Cardinal tomorrow. It will be the Pope as I work
00:28:30.680 my way up the ranks and find many cancelable candidates along the way. Unfortunately, uh,
00:28:35.440 it's not my fault. You must understand. I don't decide who I'm going to cancel. The universe makes
00:28:39.200 this decision for me. Cardinal Tobin today, uh, is getting canceled for some remarks he made during
00:28:44.740 an online panel discussion a few days ago. This is what he said. Listen, I think that a person in
00:28:50.160 good conscience could vote for Mr. Biden. I frankly, in my, in my own way of thinking have a more
00:28:58.720 difficult time with, with the other option. Now he later clarified that he's not endorsing any
00:29:04.820 candidate, but he is saying that a person, a Catholic or Christian can in good conscience vote
00:29:09.720 for the candidate who supports murdering babies in the womb. Now let's back up here for a moment.
00:29:15.520 Okay. A little bit of a, of background on the most esteemed Cardinal Tobin. A couple of years ago,
00:29:21.160 it was reported by the American spectator that Cardinal Tobin was having an Italian actor and model
00:29:27.160 staying in his rectory. Now here's that actor. You can see his Instagram pictures here. I've been told
00:29:32.660 I look a lot like this guy. I pose like him too. When I do photo photo shoots, I actually, that's not
00:29:37.540 true. I did a photo shoot here yesterday and it was, it was absolutely awful. Uh, I'm the most awkward
00:29:41.860 person as you have probably noticed. Anyway, that guy was staying, uh, with the Cardinal in his
00:29:47.960 rectory. Tobin, when confronted about this, said that the guy, uh, Francesco Castiglione is his name
00:29:56.080 was, was staying there because he was, he was taking language classes at Seton Hall. Now why would an
00:30:03.280 Italian actor and model who likes to take shirtless photos stay at a Cardinal's rectory so he could
00:30:08.720 take language classes at another place? Well, your guess is as good as mine, but use your imagination
00:30:15.520 or don't use it. If you're about to eat lunch, here's another interesting tidbit around the same
00:30:21.320 time that this Francesco chap was staying at his rectory. Tobin tweeted this one night. This is a
00:30:27.520 tweet that he sent out a couple of years ago. It said, supposed to be airborne in 10 minutes,
00:30:31.240 nighty night, baby. I love you. Now, obviously this was not meant to be tweeted. It seems he meant
00:30:37.980 to send that as a text message to someone, but to who is the question? He's a Cardinal. He's supposed
00:30:42.880 to be chased and celibate. Who is he texting nighty night baby to? Now when asked about this, he said that
00:30:49.420 it was meant to go to his sister. Yes, his sister. Uh, now I have four sisters myself. I can tell you,
00:30:57.540 I would never say nighty night baby. I love you to any of them in any context, because that would
00:31:04.060 be enormously creepy and weird. Does Tobin just have a very, very close relationship with his
00:31:10.400 sisters or was that meant to go to someone else entirely? Who knows? But it does raise some
00:31:14.880 interesting questions about the Cardinal. Um, and then this happens. So can a person in good
00:31:22.440 conscience vote for Joe Biden. They certainly cannot text nighty night baby to their sister
00:31:27.480 in good conscience or to anyone else, by the way, if you're a man, uh, there's really no context where
00:31:31.820 that's appropriate as for Biden, who seems like the kind of guy who, who has texted that to many
00:31:36.660 people in his life. Um, the answer is no, you cannot support him. Joe Biden supports abortion on
00:31:43.360 demand. He supports abortion at every stage of pregnancy. He supports federal funds paying for
00:31:49.260 abortion. The other person on the ticket, Kamala Harris is even more radically pro-infanticide.
00:31:54.400 She actually prosecuted pro-life undercover journalists in California for investigating
00:31:58.820 Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood, by the way, at the time was also a big Kamala Harris donor.
00:32:05.320 Nothing wrong with that, right? Uh, investigating the people or, or, or, or trying to criminally
00:32:12.100 prosecute the people who are investigating one of your big donors. No corruption there at all.
00:32:17.660 Remember that the Democrat party at this point fully endorses abortions, all abortions at all
00:32:23.320 stages of development. It supports and wants to actively facilitate and fund late-term abortion.
00:32:29.140 That would be abortion of babies who are past the point of viability, babies, infants who can survive
00:32:34.420 outside the womb, babies that look just like any newborn infant you've ever seen. These procedures,
00:32:40.860 let me, and this gets a little graphic here. I apologize for it, but this, but we all need to know this.
00:32:44.820 This is what Joe Biden supports. Uh, late-term abortions. They are performed by injecting
00:32:51.900 the fully developed infant child with poison, usually into his skull while he's still in the
00:32:57.060 womb. If he dies from the poison, the mother will carry her dead child around inside her for two or
00:33:01.880 three days before eventually delivering the dead child either at the clinic or into a toilet in her
00:33:08.220 hotel or, or her house as very often happens. But sometimes the baby doesn't die from the first
00:33:13.200 injection and instead lives in pain and agony for those three days. Remember this is a fully developed
00:33:17.780 baby, fully developed nervous system. It feels everything. So three, two or three days of being
00:33:23.860 poisoned. Um, eventually the child will then be injected again and then removed from the womb piece
00:33:29.680 by piece, ripped apart by forceps as he is extracted from his mother's body. This is what we do in this
00:33:38.020 country. This is how we treat our children. And this is what the Democrat party and Joe Biden support.
00:33:44.320 This is what Cardinal Tobin says you can support by supporting candidates who will facilitate and fund
00:33:50.120 this kind of barbarity. By the way, you'll be told that the late-term abortion procedure I just described
00:33:55.380 represents only 1% of all abortions. Well, let's just say that's true. Um, there are a million
00:34:03.760 abortions a year in this country. That means 10,000 fully developed infant children are poisoned and
00:34:09.660 then ripped apart limb from limb every year. 10,000. How many children do you think die in school
00:34:16.600 shootings every year? It's not 10,000. I can tell you that it's barely a fraction of 10,000. Now,
00:34:21.840 how do you think the left would react if you said that school shootings aren't a big deal because only
00:34:27.860 a handful of kids fall victim to them each, each year? I mean, what's the percent of all the,
00:34:31.940 of all the children who go to school, what's the percentage that die in school shootings?
00:34:37.340 It ain't 1%. I can tell you that it's 0.00, whatever 1%. Um, and this is, and, but 1%,
00:34:47.480 we're told in this context, doesn't matter. But here, we're just talking about late-term abortion,
00:34:52.360 which the Biden-Harris ticket endorses. All abortions, of course, are barbaric, murderous,
00:34:57.420 evil. A Christian cannot support this. No decent person of any religion or non-religion can support
00:35:04.080 this. Now, Donald Trump may have a difficult personality. He may say things that offend you,
00:35:10.180 but presidential elections are not personality contests. Rather, they are not supposed to be
00:35:16.040 personality contests. They are, but they shouldn't be. If you vote for the man whose personality you
00:35:22.060 most relate to, you're a fool. And you shouldn't even have the right to vote if you're that stupid.
00:35:27.520 What matters is what these people will actually do. And we know that Joe Biden, among many other
00:35:32.520 troubling things, will take active steps to ensure that more babies are murdered. A Christian who votes
00:35:38.900 for that is committing a grave sin. And Cardinal Tobin committed a grave sin by encouraging it. So
00:35:45.340 Cardinal Tobin is canceled. And that'll do it for today. Everyone, thanks for watching. Thanks for
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