Ep. 575 - Biden Is The One Who Needs To Condemn Violent Extremists
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The media is breathlessly reporting that Trump refused to condemn white supremacists in last night s debate, it s a lie. He s already condemned them many times. Meanwhile, Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats have never condemned the violent extremists in their midst like BLM and Antifa. That s the real outrage, considering that these groups are currently burning down our cities. Plus, 5 headlines including an unintentionally hilarious fact check on a Babylon Bee article. And in our daily cancellation, we ll cancel the Atlantic for trying to make a scandal out of the fact that Trump allegedly makes fun of televangelists in private.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media is breathlessly reporting that Trump refused to
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condemn white supremacists. In last night's debate, it's a lie. He did condemn them. He's
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already condemned them. He's condemned them many times. Meanwhile, Joe Biden and the rest of the
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Democrats have actually never condemned the violent extremists in their midst, like BLM
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and Antifa. That's the real outrage, considering that these groups are currently burning down our
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cities. We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including an unintentionally hilarious
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fact check on a Babylon Bee article. You have to hear this one to really believe it.
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And in our daily cancellation, we'll cancel the Atlantic for trying to make a scandal out of the
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fact that Trump allegedly makes fun of televangelists in private. Who doesn't? All of that on the way.
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up now. All right. Now there are many negative, um, but honest headlines you could write about
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Tuesday night's semi-coherent shouting match between Donald Trump and Joe Biden and Joe Biden's
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de facto spokesman, Chris Wallace. But the media has settled on a headline ripped straight from their
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own fever dreams. Um, uh, NPR says from the debate stage, Trump declines to denounce white supremacy.
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Trump refuses to denounce white supremacy in chaotic debate. According to the New York times,
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uh, Trump doesn't denounce white supremacists and militias during debate. ABC news insists
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Politico puts it this way. Trump's jarring white supremacist moment launches an online furor.
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Even Fox and friends has gotten in on the action. Uh, listen to this. If you're going to say that
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president Trump was rude, uh, there was only one person who, uh, called the other one, a clown,
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a racist, uh, the worst president ever and told to shut up. And that was Joe Biden on Donald Trump.
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But Donald Trump drew the biggest layup in the history of debates by saying, not condemning white
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supremacists. I don't know if he didn't hear it, but he's got to clarify that right away. That's like,
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are you against evil? Um, why the president didn't just, uh, knocked out of the park,
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I'm not sure. But none of this is actually true. One need only watch the relevant clip from the
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debate to see that president Trump did indeed denounce white supremacists. Here it is. Listen
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for yourself. You have repeatedly criticized the vice president for not specifically calling out
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Antifa and other left-wing extremist groups. But are you willing tonight to condemn white
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supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence
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in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we've seen in Portland? Are you prepared
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to specifically do it? I would say, I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing,
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not from the right wing. So what are you, what are you saying? I'm willing to do anything. I want
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to see peace. Then do it, sir. Say it. Do it. Say it. Do you want to call them? What do you want
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to call them? Give me a name. Give me a name. White supremacists and right supremacists and right
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proud boys. Stand back and stand by. Okay. Let's go through the transcript. Wallace,
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you have repeatedly criticized the vice president for not specifically calling out Antifa and other
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left-wing extremist groups. But are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia
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groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these
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cities as we've seen in Kenosha and we've seen in Portland? Trump, sure, I'm willing to do that.
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Biden, then do it. Wallace, go ahead, sir. Trump, I would say, I would say almost everything I see
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is from the left wing, not from the right. Wallace, so what are you saying? Trump, I'm willing to do
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anything. I want, I want to see peace. Wallace, then do it, sir. Biden, say it. Do it. Say it.
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Trump, do you want, do you want to call them? What do you want to call them? Give me a name.
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Give me a name. Go ahead. Who would you like me to condemn? Wallace, white supremacists and right-wing
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militias. Biden, Proud Boys, Trump. Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. Okay. Now, so you've heard
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it. I read the transcript to you. There it is. I may not be the smartest man, okay, but it seems to me
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that when somebody asks, are you willing to condemn white supremacists and you respond, sure, as in,
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yes, I condemn them, you have condemned them. Right there. The stand back and stand by comment
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was weirdly phrased, but this is Trump we're talking about, first of all. And also, it should
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be obvious to any honest person attempting to parse Trump's words that he meant stand down,
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which is the phrase that Wallace used. Unfortunately, there aren't very many honest people in the media,
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so instead, they're pretending to believe that Trump was rallying his white supremacist
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militia horde and telling them to stand by for the coming invasion. But this is all beside the
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point. The problem is the question itself, not the answer. Being asked to condemn white supremacists
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is like being asked to condemn that you're a pedophile. The point of the question is to create
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the association in the audience's mind. By condemning or denying in that context, you are implicitly
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legitimizing the premise that there is some sort of potential connection between you and the evil
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thing. Now, it's claimed that Trump must condemn white supremacy because, as Biden has charged in
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the past, Trump has never once done so. That's flat out untrue. Going back to the infamous Charlottesville
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rally in 2017, Trump said that he, quote, condemns in the strongest possible terms this egregious display
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of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. Two days later, he said in a statement,
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we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence.
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It has no place in America. And as I have said many times before, no matter the color of our skin,
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we all live under the same laws. We all salute the same great flag. We are all made by the same
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almighty God. We must love each other, show affection for each other, and unite together in
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condemnation of hatred, bigotry, and violence. We must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring
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us together as Americans. Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and
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thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to
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everything we hold dear as Americans. The next day, in a press conference, we're not done yet, Trump again
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emphasized that neo-Nazis and white nationalists, quote, should be condemned totally. Condemned totally.
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That's three condemnations in the span of four days. How many times does Trump need to explain
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that Nazis are bad? Does he have to deliver an address from the Rose Garden every morning to
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remind us that he still doesn't like racists and Nazis? Hey, by the way, guys, I'm still opposed
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to Nazis, just letting you know. Okay, have a great Thursday. Meanwhile, Nazis and white supremacists
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are not the ones who have been rampaging in our streets for months on end. They are not the ones
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who've looted and burned and killed and caused billions of dollars of property damage this summer
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alone. As Trump correctly pointed out, left-wing extremist groups are the real threat we face.
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And Democrats, including Joe Biden, have not only refused to condemn these dangerous forces,
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but have explicitly promoted them and supported them. Biden last night came valiantly to Antifa's
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defense, saying they are an idea, not an organization. Listen.
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I'll tell you what, somebody's got to do something about Antifa and the left,
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because this is not a right-wing problem. This is a left-wing.
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I'm a white supremacist. Antifa's an idea, not an organization.
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Not militia. That's what his FBI, his FBI director said.
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Well, then you know what? No, no, no. We're done, sir.
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And if Democrats are reluctant to condemn Antifa, as Biden clearly was there, we can be sure that
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they will never and have never whispered a single word of criticism, however mild, towards Black Lives
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Matter, a radical, racist, Marxist extremist group, which seeks to destroy the nuclear family,
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to get rid of the police, among other stated goals, and whose leaders openly encourage looting
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and violence. No group in recent history has damaged this country, physically and in every
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other sense, to the same degree as BLM. Three years after the fact, you know, the media still
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hasn't gotten over Trump's very fine people phrasing, which they are willfully misinterpreting.
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For months, though, Democrats have been telling us that there are very fine people among the
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rioters, looters, and murderers in the BLM Antifa mob. Indeed, listening to them tell it,
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they're all fine people fighting for truth and justice by burning down their local convenience
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store and beating random pedestrians half to death. They are the ones who should be issuing
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condemnations, but they will never be forced to condemn, nor asked why they are not condemning.
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That's the advantage of having nearly all of the mainstream media on your side, which we saw,
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again, starkly illustrated last night. Let's get to our five headlines.
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All right. Now, Kamala Harris this week went to pay her respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and
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afterwards decided to solemnly and very respectfully use Ginsburg's death for political gain,
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as is the tradition in Washington, very sacred tradition. Listen to this.
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We are about to undertake the task of finding her replacement on the United States Supreme Court.
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Of course, it's hard to say those words. In truth, Ruth Bader Ginsburg cannot be replaced.
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She was an original, a one-of-a-kind. She combined a steel spine with an ability to extend an open hand,
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never a closed fist. She demonstrated you could both hold firm to your principles
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and still hear those with whom you disagree. That is a lesson that should be ringing in our ears.
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But it looks like this president and his party are not interested in hearing any of the lessons
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from Justice Ginsburg. Already, the president and his party have chosen to ignore Justice Ginsburg's final wish
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to hold off the nomination to replace her until after the next president is chosen.
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A wish, by the way, shared by the American people.
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This talking point, I mean, my God, it is so stupid. It's beyond the bounds of normal stupid.
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And they're still going with it. They're going to run this thing. They're going to run with it,
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this final wish gambit all the way through. There is no final wish clause of the Constitution.
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I don't know how many times we have to explain this. The Supreme Court is not the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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relevant. So it could not be less relevant than it is. The Supreme Court seats are not bequeathed
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to an heir. You can't leave them in your will, right? So it's not going to be,
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yeah, grandma left you the jewelry box and, oh, look at that, a Supreme Court seat.
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Congratulations. No, that's not how this works. So just what a monumentally stupid thing. Good Lord.
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Okay. Speaking of monumentally stupid things, number two, this is real, amazingly. USA Today ran a fact
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check on a Babylon Bee article, the Babylon Bee article, which said that the Ninth Circuit Court
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of Appeals overturned the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now they overturned
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her death. USA Today did some research on this, ran down some leads, hit the pavement, you know,
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and they concluded it's probably not true. So this is the USA Today article. It says the claim,
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the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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The headline of an article published by satire website, the Babylon Bee, is a nod to the contentious
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history between the Trump administration and the U.S. Court of Appeals. The Babylon Bee is the
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world's best satire site, according to its website. Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg, who died of pancreatic
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cancer September 18th, is actually alive, the article suggests, because the Ninth Circuit overturned her
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death. In a close decision, the judges on the court have ruled RBG's death unconstitutional and
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will block Trump from nominating a replacement, the article says. Ninth Circuit Judge Kim McClain
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Wardlaw was credited with issuing the ruling on the basis that Ginsburg's death was an affront to
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the Constitution. And then it goes on from there, and it finally gets to the verdict. There is no
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record of any Wardlaw opinion on Ginsburg's death on the website of the Ninth Circuit, but they actually
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looked it up on the website. They looked this up on the website to see if this really happened.
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But she participated in a panel discussion Friday about Ginsburg's life produced by the UCLA Law
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School. There was no mention of reviving Ginsburg during the discussion. Okay, now, if I wanted to
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try really hard to defend USA Today here, I'm not sure why I would want to do that. But if I did,
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I might say that, well, you know what? Some people in this country are really, really stupid. And so
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there may be people who are dumb enough to read that Bee article and not understand that it's satire.
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So maybe this is a reflection of America's stupidity, not USA Today's. But I can't let
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them off the hook that easily. I think it's a combination of both factors. Because, first of
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all, anyone who's dumb enough to believe that a court overturned a woman's death isn't going to
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have the wherewithal to then go and research the claim, right? Like a person that dumb isn't going to
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go, hmm, let me cross-check this claim and see if it's reported in any reputable sources. No,
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that's just, they're just going to read it, go, uh, okay. And then stuff another Cheeto into their
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mouth and keeps scrolling. That's what's going to happen. So unfortunately, USA Today still must be
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blamed for this stupidity. Number three, the New York Post headline, nearly 70% of Americans say
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they're done with coffee shops after becoming at-home baristas. It says half of Americans have become
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quaristas during 2020. Quaristas, like quarantine baristas. Um, okay, first of all, just,
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we got to stop right there. If you have ever called yourself a quarista,
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that is an automatic eviction from the human race. I'm not saying you should be executed.
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I'm not not saying that. Mainly, I'm just saying you can't be a human anymore. We don't want you in
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the human race. You can pick another species. You know, maybe see if the llamas will take you. I
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don't know. Uh, anyway, a survey of 2000 coffee drinkers revealed 49% of respondents have become
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at-home baristas during quarantine, using their time and side to develop their coffee-making skills.
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Two-thirds of those have so much faith in their newfound talent, they plan to continue using their
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barista knowledge to make coffee in their own kitchen, even once the pandemic is over. Okay,
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listen, making coffee at home. We used to just call that making coffee at home. You're not an at-home
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barista now that you turn the coffee pot on. That's not, am I an at-home mechanical engineer
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because I changed the batteries in my remote? Um, no, come on. Number four, the Daily Wire, uh,
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let's see. Daily Wire says actor Jason Isaacs, the man who previously called Ivanka Trump a brainless
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Barbie, um, said that, uh, non-mask wearer should be hanging in the streets or in prison.
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Speaking of the British daytime chats, speaking on the British daytime chat show, Lorraine, uh,
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Isaac said that he is actually less annoyed by non-mask wearers than he is by people who don't
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wear them properly, adding that non-mask wearers should be in prison or executed. Wow. You know,
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maybe I can't judge him for threatening to have people executed for superfluous reasons. Um,
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I do that like 14 times a show. I just did it a second ago actually, but it's different when I do
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it. You know, that, that's my thing, right? That's my being in, being an enraged lunatic is my whole
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deal. And everyone knows that if something is your whole deal, then it's okay. That's, that's the rule.
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Everyone knows that that's, that's the old excuse. And it's a good one. I think, you know,
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if you're, if you're just like a jerk to everybody all the time, then whenever anyone accuses you of
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being a jerk, someone else can go, Oh, that's, he's just being himself. As if the fact that you're
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horrible a lot makes it okay. If you're only horrible, sometimes it's not, but if you're,
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if you're that way all the time, you know, you're consistent about it, then it's okay.
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Um, anyway, this is obviously overblown. And if we're going to be doling out harsh mask related
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penalties, um, I'd rather dole them out on the other direction. Like I took my kids to the beach
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a couple of days over the weekend. I took my kids to the beach, uh, all four kids by myself to the
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beach, by the way, um, kids seven and younger. Uh, I took, I don't, I don't know why I decided to do
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this, but we had to get them out of the house. Cause my wife was getting the, getting the house
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ready to sell staging and everything. And, um, anyway, I took the kids to the beach, but I couldn't
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help but notice, even though I'm, I'm distracted by trying to keep track of all the, all the kids,
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I can still take the time to be annoyed and angry by things. Uh, that's my special skill and the people
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on the beach or near the beach, like walking on the boardwalk wearing masks. Okay. Um, that if,
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if there's going to be penalties, if I was in charge, the penalty would be for that because
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you look ridiculous and there's absolutely no reason to do that. You're at the beach. Okay.
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You really, rather than breathing in that nice, fresh ocean air, you're going to breathe in your
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own fumes. You really think that's healthier for you? Really? Number five, finally, here's an article
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that escaped my attention a year ago. Um, but I just saw it now cause making the rounds again online,
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telling us of a certain group that I'm guessing probably with COVID has been on hiatus. So if
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you're looking to join the group, you'll probably have to wait, but these people exist and they're
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out there. Um, it is, uh, here's, here's what it says from the inquirer.com. It says twice a month,
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half a dozen men gather in Plymouth meeting, uh, in a, in a Plymouth meeting to help each other
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work through past traumas. Their chosen method of healing cuddles. It may seem odd, but members of
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the men's therapeutic cuddle group say the practice has helped them cope with everything
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from childhood sexual abuse to the loss of family members. When they were young, the two-year-old
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group, uh, draws men from various backgrounds, a 37 year old Mormon, 57 year old married father of
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three, a 60, 62 year old retiree. There's a range of sexual orientations at a time when traditional
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ideas of manhood are facing scrutiny and such terms as toxic masculinity are becoming widely
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known. Uh, the group aims to provide new ways for men to express themselves. Unlike professional
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cuddling services, which is a thing, professional cuddling services, the group charges no fees.
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That's good. And members are not required to undergo training. Can you get a degree in cuddling?
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I bet you can. I bet you can. Although the meetups are not open to the public, uh, the group held a
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demonstration for the inquirer at the beginning of the session, everyone agreed not to engage in
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sexual touch and to ask for consent before each action. They gathered in a huddle and, and breathed
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meditatively. The cuddling started with men pairing up to do the motorcycle hold.
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This sounds horrifying already, uh, in what, in which one man sits with his back against another
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man's chest as if they were riding together on a motorcycle. Some massage their parent, their,
00:22:53.520
their partner's, uh, uh, shoulders or, or hands while others stroked the other person's beard.
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Many closed, stroke the other person's beard. Many closed their eyes as the room fell into silence.
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After 15 minutes, they switched to a new partner. For the second half of the session, the men cuddled
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as one large group in what they call a puppy pile. Men lay with their heads in each other's laps,
00:23:20.520
chatted and joked. Oh my God in heaven. God help us. God help us all. And you know, you know,
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you know, all these dudes use emojis. Okay. So I, you know, I'm right about this.
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I don't know. Do I need to spell out the issues here? Do I need to, what you find here actually
00:23:42.260
illustrated in, in very disturbing and graphic detail, um, is, is this fundamental misunderstanding
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on the left about masculinity and femininity? And they think, oh, well, you know, we just have to
00:23:52.520
tear down the artifice of masculinity. We have to, the artificial construct of masculinity. We have to
00:23:56.900
tear down, um, because that's the only reason that dudes don't cuddle. They really want to deep down,
00:24:03.700
but they don't because they're worried that society will frown on, you know, frown upon it. No, no. See,
00:24:09.020
that's not it. Yes. Society will frown upon it and should, but that's not the point. Society could give
00:24:16.800
the puppy pile filled with dudes a big thumbs up and I still would decline because the whole reason
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we don't associate men with cuddling isn't that men don't cuddle because we don't associate them
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with it. It's that we, it's, it's that we, we don't associate them with it because they don't do it.
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Okay. For the most part, there is something deeply ingrained, naturally ingrained in our,
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in our masculine nature that makes us far less touchy feely than women. There are exceptions.
00:24:44.540
Sometimes those exceptions take horrific form like this, but you're never going to build a society
00:24:50.020
of cuddling men because most men don't have that in them. Thank God. So we will continue to confine
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ourselves to handshakes, fist bumps, um, the off awkward sort of half handshake, half hug thing,
00:25:06.540
or my specialty is the series of aborted greetings that you, that you get when, you know, there's two
00:25:13.680
guys that don't know how the other likes to greet. And so you get the kind of going in for the
00:25:18.420
handshake, the kind of handshake. And then it looks like they're going for a hug and then you
00:25:22.120
back up and then it's just kind of, and you're, you know, it's like you're a video game sort of like
00:25:26.300
freezing. Um, that's my move. My move, in other words, is to make everyone feel a lot less
00:25:33.340
comfortable than they did before I entered the room, but they're still a lot more comfortable than
00:25:39.720
they would be if I walked into the room and asked who's up for a good cuddle. Uh, I think that would
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cancellation. Today for our daily cancellation, we're canceling the Atlantic for the latest and
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perhaps most pitiful media generated Trump scandal. One that will likely have the same impact on the
00:28:02.500
president's president, you know, political fortunes as the stunning revelation that he doesn't pay
00:28:07.140
more income tax than he owes this time. It's the Atlantic's McKay coppins claiming that Trump mocks
00:28:13.760
his Christian supporters behind their backs and speaks with quote, cynicism and contempt about
00:28:18.340
religion. And this would be mostly irrelevant, even if it was true, as I'll explain in a minute,
00:28:23.420
but the specific examples provided in the article don't live up to the headlines hype. As usual,
00:28:29.160
we are first regaled with a tale of Trump mocking millionaire prosperity preacher Creflo Dollar
00:28:35.040
after the pastor tried to raise $60 million for a private jet. Trump allegedly called it a scam,
00:28:41.260
said that Dollar is full of crap, and then added, they're all hustlers. Now we aren't told who the
00:28:48.720
all is in that context, but it seems safe to conclude that he was referring to the sorts of
00:28:52.340
preachers who fly around on private jets. Assuming that, you know, disgraced and currently imprisoned
00:28:57.940
Michael Cohen, the source of this anecdote, can be trusted here, which is a dubious assumption to
00:29:02.360
say the least, there's nothing objectionable about any of this. Creflo Dollar is indeed a hustler who
00:29:09.420
is indeed full of crap. I think I can speak for a great many Christians in America, except those
00:29:15.060
credulous saps who actually donated to the private jet fundraiser, and say that we agree with Trump's
00:29:21.080
assessment. Though some of us would maybe phrase it in not exactly the same way. I mean, I would put
00:29:27.560
it the same way, but a lot of Christians wouldn't. Another bombshell follows, quoting from The Atlantic
00:29:32.180
here, the former campaign advisor recalled showing his boss a YouTube video of the Israeli televangelist
00:29:38.340
Benny Hinn performing faith healings while Trump laughed at the spectacle and muttered,
00:29:42.680
man, that's some racket. On another occasion, the advisor told me, Trump expressed awe at Joel Osteen's
00:29:48.840
media empire, particularly the viewership of his televised sermons. Now, our source in this case
00:29:53.660
is an ex-White House official who is speaking on the condition of anonymity. The track record of this
00:29:59.640
ex-White House official group has, of course, been less than admirable. But even again, taking the
00:30:05.740
supposed recollections at face value, there is little here that the average conservative Christian
00:30:11.060
would disagree with. Televised faith healing is a racket, and also a ridiculous spectacle to behold.
00:30:18.820
Now, personally, I find myself more recoiling in revulsion than laughing when I see frauds like
00:30:23.620
Benny Hinn in action. But, you know, laughter is probably a better, well, certainly emotionally
00:30:28.360
healthier reaction. Now, things do get a little bit edgier with the next alleged revelation. Again,
00:30:34.860
this is from The Atlantic. It says, in Cohen's recent memoir, Disloyal, he recounts Trump returning
00:30:40.420
from his 2011 meeting with pastors who laid hands on him and sneering, can you believe that bullcrap?
00:30:48.860
But if Trump found their rituals ridiculous, he followed their money-making ventures closely.
00:30:53.220
He was completely familiar with the business dealings of the leadership in many prosperity
00:30:58.580
gospel churches, the advisor told me. Now, okay, that is probably not how most Christians would
00:31:04.040
respond in a similar situation. And it may not be how Trump responded, given that we're getting this
00:31:08.900
again from an incarcerated felon, but not all Christians are comfortable with having hands
00:31:14.200
ritualistically laid on them in prayer. Count me among that group, in fact. I generally prefer not to
00:31:20.440
have strangers touch me at all for any reason. Your prayers are just as powerful without physical
00:31:25.900
contact, thank you. You don't need to put your hands on me. Now, later on in the article, it's claimed that
00:31:30.380
Trump also made some relatively tame jokes about Mormons, Jewish people, other faith groups.
00:31:36.340
You know, we're never given any examples of him specifically mocking his Christian supporters,
00:31:40.880
as the headline declared. But none of this stuff matters anyway. The media has never been able to
00:31:46.520
understand Trump's support among faithful Christians, and their lack of understanding has
00:31:51.000
rendered useless their attempts at chipping away at it. Now, there may be a small minority of Christians
00:31:56.960
who, you know, for some reason actually believe that Trump is a deeply spiritual man. But most would
00:32:04.100
not be surprised to hear A.J. Delgado in The Atlantic describing him as, quote, not a religious guy.
00:32:11.220
That's not a problem, because Christians are not turning to Trump for spiritual leadership
00:32:15.700
or exegetical enlightenment. They probably would not want him to lead their Bible studies or take over
00:32:22.140
the pastoral duties at their church. The point has always been policy. Trump has not advanced any
00:32:29.220
policies that assault religious liberty or undermine the sanctity of life. On the contrary, his administration
00:32:34.680
has fought for policies that protect both religious liberty and the sanctity of life. It's that simple.
00:32:41.240
His personal religious views are irrelevant. Now, contrast that with a man like Joe Biden, who describes himself as
00:32:47.240
devout and yet supports the butchery of unborn children, and believes that nuns should be legally
00:32:53.060
forced to purchase contraception. Why don't conservative Christians line up behind Biden? Well, he's an old
00:32:58.480
white guy too, so writing us off as racist or bigoted won't be sufficient in this case. We don't like Biden
00:33:05.160
because we find his policies to be morally appalling and in direct contradiction to Christian teaching.
00:33:11.600
Whatever he personally believes, however often he prays, however much he goes to church, none of that
00:33:19.280
mitigates the many terrible things he wishes to do with the power of the presidency, should it be granted
00:33:26.180
to him. That's what all this comes down to. It's not so hard to understand. And for that, the Atlantic is
00:33:34.820
canceled. And everyone in media who doesn't understand this basic concept is canceled.
00:33:40.380
And I am canceled too, just for the rest of the week, actually, until Tuesday, because I'm taking
00:33:44.700
off a few days. So that's going to do it for me, for the week. I'll see you guys back here on Tuesday.
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