Ep. 577 - Refuting the Lies of Michelle Obama
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Summary
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Michelle Obama comes out against Trump. Apparently she doesn t like the guy. Who would have thought? Calling him racist, a liar, immoral? But speaking of liars, she lies repeatedly in her attack. We ll get to the truth today. Also, Joe Biden makes empty calls for unity. But I ll explain why unity in America is impossible. And in our 5 headlines: Hollywood plans a film lionizing Katie Hill, the congresswoman who sexually abused her subordinates.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Michelle Obama comes out against Trump.
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Apparently, she doesn't like the guy. Who would have thought?
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Calling him racist, a liar, immoral. But speaking of liars, she lies repeatedly in her attack.
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We'll get to the truth today. Also, Joe Biden makes empty calls for unity.
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But I'll explain why unity in America is impossible.
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And in our five headlines, Hollywood plans a film lionizing Katie Hill,
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the congresswoman who sexually took advantage of her subordinates.
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Me Too was already dead, but it's especially dead now.
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All right, so Michelle Obama, who I'm repeatedly reminded is charismatic and deeply likable,
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though I've yet to find any evidence at all for this claim,
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released a video on behalf of the Biden campaign where she lays into Donald Trump,
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calls him a racist liar, but in the process of calling Trump a liar,
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especially when it comes to defending the violent Marxist radicals of BLM.
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They're stoking fears about black and brown Americans,
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lying about how minorities will destroy the suburbs,
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and they're pinning it all on what's been an overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity.
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Only a tiny fraction of demonstrations have had any violence at all.
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So what the president is doing is once again patently false.
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Because this is a difficult time, a confusing time.
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And when people hear these lies and crazy conspiracies repeated over and over and over again,
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they don't have time to fact check falsehoods being spread throughout the Internet.
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And the one thing this president is really, really good at
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is using fear and confusion and spreading lies to win.
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That's how Michelle Obama describes Donald Trump.
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But she may as well have been speaking into a mirror instead of the camera,
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She says that the protests, quote unquote, have been overwhelmingly peaceful,
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and that only a tiny fraction have had any violence at all.
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Not actual research, but just the word research.
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Like, what's your evidence for that claim you just made?
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Now, she doesn't, of course, go into specifics,
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so I can only assume that the research she's talking about
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is the much-ballyhooed study from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project,
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which did a study about this summer's protests.
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And its findings were trumpeted by the mainstream media,
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with headlines like this one from The Guardian saying,
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nearly all Black Lives Matter protests are peaceful despite Trump narrative, report finds.
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the vast majority of the thousands of Black Lives Matter protests this summer have been peaceful,
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with more than 93% involving no serious harm to people or damage to property.
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Now, already, there's a problem with the serious harm qualifier.
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And why shouldn't the supposed non-serious harm still be included as violent?
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I mean, if you punch me in the face and barely manage to give me a nosebleed,
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Or does it just mean that you have scrawny toothpick arms and you punch like a child?
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Now, in any case, let's just go with this research for a moment,
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It also says that between May and August, there were 7,750 BLM demonstrations.
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I'll let you do the math, mainly because I'm too stupid to do it.
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So, by these very favorable calculations trying to put things in the most positive possible light
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for BLM, still we are left with the conclusion that there were several hundred violent BLM
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demonstrations that involved serious harm to people, property, or both in the span of one summer.
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This, according to Michelle, is a tiny fraction.
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I wonder, would she still consider several hundred violent demonstrations in the span of just three
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months a tiny fraction if these were MAGA rallies descending so frequently?
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Would 7% be a tiny fraction of, say, pro-life rallies that involve torching abortion clinics?
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Would 7% be a tiny fraction of fecal-coated chocolate chips in a chocolate chip cookie?
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I'm just trying to figure out when 7% becomes tiny.
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I'm pretty sure that if I were to say only a tiny fraction of people who've contracted COVID
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have died from it, Michelle would take issue with that, even though the fraction is far,
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Yes, it would seem that 7% becomes tiny only in a very selective and politically useful
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So when Michelle Obama, or anyone else on the left, defends mob violence as somehow peaceful,
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what she and they really mean to say is that in their minds, the violence doesn't matter,
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And this is something to keep in mind when you listen to another message from the Biden
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This is from Joe Biden himself, who went to Gettysburg in a bit of a self-aggrandizing
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And here's what some of that sounded like, if for some reason you want to hear it.
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Here, on this sacred ground, Abraham Lincoln reimagined America itself.
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Here, a president of the United States spoke of the price of division and the meaning of
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He believed in the rescue, redemption, and rededication of the union.
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All this in a time not just of ferocious division, but of widespread death, structural inequity,
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We have too bright a future to have a shipwrecked on the shoals of anger and hate and division.
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We must have unity, not hate, not anger and division.
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But remember that for the Democrats, rampaging through the streets, looting, throwing a
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Molotov cocktail at a cop, none of that counts as anger and division.
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For them, unity and peace may include burning down the local CVS.
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And this is precisely why all of the happy talk about unity, the speechifying, the empty
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gestures towards it, all of that is meaningless and can never bring about true unity.
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Because as I've argued in the past, we are, as a nation, divided on such a fundamental and
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foundational level, all the way down at the roots of our being, that unity is simply not
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To unite, we have to unite around something, in something, for something, by something,
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Unity for unity's sake can only ever be shallow.
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But we live in different universes now, as Americans.
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And Biden and the Democrats, they want us to unite in their universe.
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A universe where BLM radicals torching a police station are peaceful, and where babies aren't
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people, and where men are women, and where college graduates have a God-given human right
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to have their debts paid off by appropriating funds from those more successful than them,
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All of their calls for unity should include that disclaimer.
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Yes, come unify with us in our universe, in our reality.
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Well, I don't know exactly, but the happy talk isn't going to help us.
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And certainly the lies from Michelle Obama and others won't either.
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Number one, the perceptive among us, you know, really from the beginning, knew that the MeToo
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It was anti-male while masquerading as an ethical movement, which it never was.
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Now, if you need more evidence of this, even after all these years, then I would point you
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to Katie Hill, disgraced former congresswoman who had a special announcement yesterday.
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She says, I can finally announce another exciting project.
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I'm so honored to be played by the iconic Elizabeth Moss and thrilled to work with this
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Guess I'm about to add movie producer to my resume.
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And there's a link to an article about this movie.
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It's a movie about Katie Hill, lionizing Katie Hill with feminist favorite Elizabeth Moss
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But that's probably why the feminists like her.
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Meanwhile, Katie Hill resigned from Congress, if you recall, following a scandal in which it
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was revealed that she was sexually taking advantage of her staff members.
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She had involved one of them in a threesome with her then husband, and there were other
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Remember, we have been told by Me Too that power dynamics make it so that even consensual
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relationships oftentimes are not really consensual.
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The power dynamics between a Congress member and a staffer make it so that consent is not
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And according to that argument, Katie Hill is a predator, according to them, if they were
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to apply their logic consistently, which of course they don't.
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Now, you don't have to take it from me, though.
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An apparent former staff member commandeered Hill's congressional Twitter account, which
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has just been sitting there after she left or resigned in disgrace.
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She had her Twitter account, which she doesn't have access to anymore.
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And this morning, there were some tweets coming out on that account blasting the movie, saying
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that Hill took advantage of her subordinates, caused them harm.
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Hill now claims that the account was hacked, but there's no reason to think it was hacked.
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Her staff would have had access to that account, and it looks like they're using it, or at
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least one of them is using it, to say, hey, you know, she was a pretty horrible boss, and
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Maybe don't make a movie about her where she's the hero.
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You know, she doesn't have to play by the same rules as everybody else.
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She's the protagonist in a film about her own sex scandal.
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You think any disgraced Republican politician would ever get that treatment?
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Now, it's long been my contention that Bill de Blasio of New York is not only the worst
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mayor in history, but also possibly the cringiest dork in history, too.
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Yes, that was de Blasio heroically in slow motion with the music playing, putting a mask
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Puts the mask on, then offers an awkward salute as well.
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I don't know who the salute is to, but he does.
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And then he walks back and say, look, wear the damn mask if you want, okay?
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But stop trying to make it into a heroic, manly act on your part.
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Here's a video from the Biden campaign yesterday.
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It's supposed to be contrasting him with Trump.
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Trump, and you see him putting on the mask like a champ while Trump takes his off.
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Every time I walk into a grocery store, I have to put the mask on because I'm forced to.
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Meanwhile, speaking of dumb theatrics, with the VP debate coming up, there's been this
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back and forth between the camps, Biden-Trump camp, over putting a plexiglass divider between
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Now, Pence initially balked at this idea, but has now agreed, has relented.
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And you can see them putting up the divider there.
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I mean, if one of them could manage to infect the other, despite being negative and asymptomatic
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and being 12 feet apart, if they could somehow pull off that trick, then the glass barrier
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So there doesn't seem to be a lot of much of a point here, at least medically or scientifically.
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But of course, we know that the real reason it's there is for two reasons.
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Number one, the Biden campaign wants it there because it gives the impression that Pence
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It's just to remind the public as they're watching the debate.
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Oh, yeah, that's the sick guy over there, even though he's not.
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But also, number two, it's part of the COVID theater that we've seen all across the country
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for months where measures are taken, things are done, often with no apparent scientific
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justification or reason, with no rationale behind them, really.
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But the idea is that at least if we're doing something, it's better than nothing.
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Even if the something is totally arbitrary and ineffectual.
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And we've been in that kind of culture for a long time.
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We've been in this culture where there's a bad thing that happens, or there's something
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And the cry comes out from the public saying, do something, just somebody do something.
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And you have many Americans who say to the government, the federal government, just do
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That's the story of Claudia Conway, the daughter of Kellyanne Conway and George Conway.
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She's been on social media, mostly on TikTok, it seems, embarrassing her mother, spilling
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This is a 15-year-old girl we're talking about here.
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And, you know, sometimes we're courting her mother without permission and posting it online.
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And the leftist media, they love it, as you'd expect, because they have the ethical sensibility
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In fact, you can see in the headlines, a few headlines here were told that the 15-year-old
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Claudia Conway is the whistleblower of our time.
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Now, the way they're taking advantage of this girl is obviously sick.
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And the sexual undertones of some of this stuff from the left is even sicker.
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I mean, look at this from Neil Brennan, who's a comedian, apparently, on Netflix.
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And he says that Claudia should make an OnlyFans account for White House Intel.
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But I keep going back, when I see these stories, you know, I keep going back personally
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to the question of why this girl has a phone with the internet in the first place.
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If this were my daughter, and I understand the family dynamics here, and far be it for
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But, and the family dynamics are very strange, at least from the outside.
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I mean, there are complicated family dynamics in any family, right?
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But still, I mean, if this were my daughter, I would take her phone, which I am paying for.
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And I would take my property, and I would bring it out into the garage, and I would grab
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a hammer, and I would smash it with a hammer, and then I would throw the pieces in a garbage
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So I'm not sure why she's allowed to continue having a phone.
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But then again, look, this is coming from me, and I'm someone who, I can't really see
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any reason why any 15-year-old person should have a phone with the internet on it.
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There's really nothing good that can come of it, period.
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There is no net positive to your child, even at the age of 15, having a phone with the internet.
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So all you can hope is that the damage it does, which you know it will do, won't be
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You give them the phone, which you have paid for, and you've purchased it with your own
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money, and you hand it to them, this thing that you know is going to do damage, and now
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If your kid gets to an age where they actually have a job and they can go out and buy the
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phone themselves, maybe that's a good cutoff age for when they can have a phone.
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If they're living under your house, it's your rules.
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And if you tell them they can't have, even if it's their money, it's still your house.
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If it's their money and they're earning, and that's what they want to spend it on, then
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But when it's not even their money, and you're paying for it and buying it, going out of
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your way, spending all this money on these expensive gadgets that you know will hurt them,
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They have proven that Donald Trump is actually, as suspected, literally Hitler.
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Matt Danzico, a self-described journalist and filmmaker, he has, on Twitter, taken the video
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that Trump released of him returning from the hospital.
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And he's juxtaposed it next to the Triumph of the Will, which is a Nazi propaganda film from
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And if you're listening to the audio podcast, what we're seeing here is it matches up exactly.
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Apparently, the Trump campaign decided to do a shot for shot remake of a Nazi propaganda film.
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Well, I could think of many reasons why not, actually.
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Even if you are secret Nazis, why would you do that?
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The whole point of being a secret Nazi is that you don't let people know.
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Although it starts to make sense and becomes less confusing when you realize that, oh, no,
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It has over 20,000 retweets on Twitter, of course.
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What Dan Zico actually did is he took a two-hour Nazi film and he searched for shots that resembled
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And all the Trump video, the Trump video is just simply helicopter lands, Trump walks out, and then he's on a balcony.
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Now, if the video lined up that perfectly, like, if the triumph of the will was also just a two-minute video and the shots lined up that perfectly,
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then even I would admit, well, it's probably, you know, that's probably still a coincidence, but it's a hell of a coincidence.
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Except in this case, no, they took a two-hour movie, or this guy took a two-hour movie,
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and searched through cherry-picking the same sorts of shots and then just lined them up, edited it, stitched it together.
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He basically, he made his own Nazi propaganda film.
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This isn't, what you just saw there, that's not Triumph of the Will.
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That's Matt Dan Zico's Nazi propaganda film that he created after the fact.
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He created it based on the Trump video and then said, wow, these things really line up.
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Now, the problem, of course, is that you could do that with any political ad.
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Okay, you could take any political ad, probably, and you could find in it probably a few shots, at least,
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You could search through Mein Kampf, I bet, to find the same words.
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You could find, I bet you there are words in Mein Kampf that are also in other books.
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In fact, I have my copy of Mein Kampf right here, and, you know, I could even, just looking through it, like, for example,
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Anyway, by the way, this is not really Mein Kampf.
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Just so you know, Media Matters, this is not really Mein Kampf.
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This is Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything.
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I don't mean to impugn Bill Bryson in this way.
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This is actually a great book, and it's got nothing to do, just to clarify, it's got nothing to do with Nazis or Hitler or anything like that.
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Today for our daily cancellation, I will be canceling drivers.
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I'm the only driver who is not canceled because I'm the only good one.
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So I expect smooth sailing for myself on the highways from here on out as the only person in the country who knows how to drive.
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I've known it from before I even had a license.
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By the end of the first drive, I was giving him the lessons.
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I think after my first lesson, he was yelling at me that if I don't learn to stop at stop signs, I'm going to hit someone and kill them, and he's not going to bail me out of jail.
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But anyway, the point is, very quickly over time, I became the only good driver.
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Now, it's well known that every man believes that he is the only good driver.
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My dad believed it about himself and his dad about himself.
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Well, and you, if you're a man listening, probably thinking about yourself, but it's not you.
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I assure you, it is me, which is an honor and a point of pride, but also a burden, because I have to constantly deal with the awful driving of everybody else.
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This has especially been the case over the last two weeks, when I've done a significant amount of long-distance driving, hither and yon, here, you know, there and back and everything else.
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I'll be, I'm driving up to Grove City for my speech after the show today.
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Grove City College on Thursday, I'll be speaking for YAF there.
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So make sure to, make sure you come and tune into that.
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But my recent driving has only affirmed and confirmed that everyone is bad at driving except for me.
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Now, let's go through a list of the types of drivers who are especially canceled.
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You'll certainly find yourself on this list somewhere.
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There are the obvious villains, you know, the drivers who drive too slow in the passing lane or pass in the right lane.
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The drivers who turn their turn signals on far too early or far too late.
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Drivers who drive under the speed limit on one-lane roads and let the cars pile up behind them, going on like that for miles.
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While the people in the cars trailing behind stew with rage and begin engaging in violent and unspeakable fantasies.
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Drivers who take too long to start driving again when the light turns green.
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And also drivers who start honking immediately when the light turns green and don't even give you a damn second to move your foot from the brake to the gas pedal.
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Drivers who speed like psychopaths in residential neighborhoods.
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Drivers who use their high beams when there are other cars directly in front of them.
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Drivers who slam on their brakes when they see a cop in a speed trap, nearly causing a 15-car pileup and also calling attention to the fact that they were just speeding.
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Okay, the cops aren't dumb, they're going to see that.
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But here are the three main terrorists of the roadways that deserve specific and special condemnation.
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Number one, drivers who don't know how to merge properly.
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I've always said that merging should be on the driver's exam.
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Instead, you practice making three-point turns and doing a couple other things.
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And then the final test, the final boss of the driver's exam when I was doing it, was a parallel parking.
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Parallel parking, a skill that, as expected, I excel at.
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But that most people can go their whole lives avoiding if they really want to.
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If you do it wrong, as many people do, you'll get someone killed.
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As you are merging onto the highway, there is most of the time a sign that says yield.
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And very often there is a thing called a merge lane.
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This is an area for you to drive on as you merge.
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But most people experience some kind of selective blindness and act as though the yield and merge lane don't exist.
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What they'll do is, in rarer cases, just dart right into traffic, charging in, as if the other cars on the highway are made of pixie dust, so there's no need to worry about collisions.
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More commonly, though, drivers will treat the yield like a stop sign.
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And the merge lane, like it will collapse into a sinkhole if they drive on it too far.
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So they'll come to a screeching halt in the merge lane and wait for an opening in traffic and then enter the highway going about 14 miles an hour,
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oftentimes causing whole busloads of orphans and puppies to veer around them and go careening off the highway and over a cliff.
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Now, it's like they take that entrance ramp, and as soon as they see the highway, they panic.
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And they just stop still, and they start shouting,
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What do I do? What do I do? Help! Help! What do I do?
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What you're supposed to do is continue driving along the merge lane, speeding up to match the speed of traffic,
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yielding to oncoming traffic, and entering the highway as soon as space opens up and allows it.
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It's very simple. You go with the speed of traffic.
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Many drivers will cause unneeded congestion and chaos in our nation's parking lots
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by insisting on driving around until they find a spot that's as close as possible to the entrance of whatever Walmart they're trying to access.
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These are the kinds of people who, when you're in a spot and you're getting back to your spot with your groceries,
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they'll be sitting there with their blinker on, impatiently, waiting for you to pull away,
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putting undue pressure on you to unload your groceries and buckle your kids up and leave.
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Meanwhile, there's a spot literally 14 feet away that's open and available.
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They would rather wait for 14 minutes in order to save themselves the 14 feet.
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The correct thing to do is, when you're in a parking lot, pull into the first open spot you see,
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When we go to football games in the city, for example, as a family, back when that was still legal,
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I'll just take the first spot I find as soon as we get into the city, even if it's 27 blocks from the stadium.
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By the time we walk there, it's halfway through the third quarter.
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I am not contributing to parking lot congestion, unlike the rest of you heathens.
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Most people know, I hope, that at a four-way stop, whatever car arrives first has the right of way.
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If two cars arrive at the same time, then the car to the right has the right of way.
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The problem happens when there's confusion or uncertainty about who arrived first.
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And at this point, in most four-way stop situations, everyone is frozen in panic and fear.
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Someone in one of the cars must lead, must take charge of the situation.
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Now, me being the only good driver, I, of course, always assume this leadership role.
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I say to the other drivers, do not fear, do not be afraid, for I am with you.
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And at this point, I will magnanimously wave the other driver on.
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Just like this, with generosity and kindness in my eyes, I will say, go.
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But then right at the moment that the other, right at that moment when I'm going, the other car says,
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And right as I start to drive, they say, actually, I think I'd kind of like to go.
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And this game of stop and start goes on sometimes for hours, days.
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This could all be avoided if you would just go from the first moment I wave you on.
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The very order and stability of our society depends on the power of the wave when you're driving.
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And don't forget to give the thank you wave in return, you ungrateful bastard.
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Most people struggle with most of these points.
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Everyone but me struggles with at least some of them.
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You might argue that I clearly do struggle with immense amounts of road rage and am not
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psychologically fit to be driving the streets or indeed to be in human society at all.
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So if you're driving right now while you're listening to this, just pull over, get out
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