Ep. 581 - Dems Horrified That Barrett Might Interfere With Their Right To Kill Babies
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we look at why Democrats are coming up with a million reasons to oppose Judge Amy Coney Barrett, including absurd claims of voter suppression, and a harrowing video of an encounter between a mountain lion and a hiker that you don t want to miss.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Democrats are coming up with a million reasons to oppose Amy Coney Barrett because they don't want to be honest about the real reason, which is that she might make it harder to kill babies.
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That's what they're really upset about. Also, five headlines, including absurd claims of voter suppression, which we will analyze, and a harrowing video of an encounter between a mountain lion and a hiker that you don't want to miss.
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Okay. Now, speaking of the hearings, one must feel a certain amount of sympathy for the Democrats who have been put in the unenviable position
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of having to invent some reason to oppose the confirmation of a universally respected, admired, well-qualified female Supreme Court justice.
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Presumably they've already skimmed through her high school yearbook, found no ammunition there, probably decided it'd be too difficult, you know,
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to make outlandish sexual assault allegations stick to a woman especially, and particularly when they didn't even stick to Brett Kavanaugh.
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And as the Senate confirmation hearings unfold this week, Democrats and their allies in the media have tried a number of different tacks.
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You know, they've looked at a few different ways they can go about this, and with no success at all.
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Having realized that their Ginsburg's dying wish gambit also wasn't landing because there is no dying wish clause in the Constitution, as it turns out,
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they've rallied around the almost as absurd notion that Republicans would be guilty of court packing should they exercise their constitutional power to confirm a Supreme Court nominee.
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Like we talked about yesterday, Senator Dick Durbin lamented that Republicans have, quote,
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taken every vacancy and filled it, pretending not to know that court packing is not when vacancies are filled,
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What else are Republicans supposed to do with a vacancy but fill it?
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Saving a few for the Democrats might be good sportsmanship, but that hardly qualifies as a constitutional obligation,
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During opening statements on Monday, Senator Cory Booker claimed that the hearing was illegitimate
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I will not be voting to confirm Judge Barrett's nomination.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar, for her part, tweeting during the hearing,
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when she really should have been paying attention, I think, posted,
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This shouldn't be Donald Trump's judge, it should be yours.
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But what these appeals to democracy ignore is that the electorate gave control of the Senate to Republicans
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their mandate from the voters, like their constitutional power, doesn't expire a month before the next election.
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Or to put it in terms, Cory Booker might be able to understand,
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Democrats in the hearing have repeatedly tried to make hay out of the fact that we're in the middle of a pandemic.
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On Monday, Senator Mazie Hirono spent her opening statement recounting the horrors of the coronavirus
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and its effects on the economy, or rather the effects of the lockdown on the economy.
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But she could never quite explain why the coronavirus should prevent a Supreme Court justice from being confirmed,
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especially when it didn't prevent hundreds of Black Lives Matter rallies all across the country for three months in a row.
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Booker sputtered something about how it's not normal.
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This isn't normal to have confirmation hearings during a pandemic.
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Now, the obvious response to that claim is, so what?
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Therefore, the things we do during them won't be normal.
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But that doesn't mean we should stop doing things.
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As much as that has actually been the strategy, of course, for the last six months.
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And speaking of normal, it wasn't normal to attempt to block a Supreme Court nominee
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Democrats seem to aspire to normalcy only under very limited circumstances.
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And of course, some of the criticisms of Barrett have taken a more personal tone.
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Much has been made of the fact that she served as a handmaid in a group called People of Praise.
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But the protesters dressed in ridiculous red costumes outside the hearings seem not to know that
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handmaid, in Barrett's case, was a reference to the Bible, not a book written by Margaret Atwood in the 1980s.
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And this sort of confusion is inevitable when your exposure to historical literature extends only to that novel
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Now, predictably, the fact that Barrett has seven children has also been the subject of attack.
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Author Lauren Hoff mocked the judge for her, quote, clown car vagina.
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Many of the Twitter followers laughed and applauded.
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One of them commented that delivering a child is like, quote, taking a dump.
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Now, I'm tempted to say that many of Barrett's critics are jealous that she's an attractive and successful woman
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with a husband and children while they have only their cats and Netflix accounts to keep them company
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as they slowly shrivel away into nothingness to be forgotten by everyone and mourned by no one.
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But I'm not going to say that because it would be uncharitable.
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Anyway, the interesting thing is that this narrative of Amy Coney Barrett, the barefoot
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baby factory handmade submissive, is being advanced alongside the claim that, as Slate argued this
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week, she is a ruthless, self-promoting careerist who's concerned only with her own professional
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Now, of course, God forbid anyone were to utter such slander about, say, Senator Kamala Harris,
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who began her political career in bed with a well-connected and still married, we might
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It'd be horrifically sexist to make that sort of charge against the Democratic vice presidential
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candidate, but Barrett, for obvious reasons, for obvious political reasons, is fair game.
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These are all the desperate cries of people who cannot utter their real objection, except
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Harris, joining the hearing remotely, declared that Barrett would undo Ginsburg's legacy.
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By the way, there is no clause in the Constitution requiring that a deceased justice's legacy be
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And she also said that Barrett would roll back Americans' rights.
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What she means here, what everyone cited above really means, is that Justice Amy Coney Barrett
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might make it harder for parents to legally kill their children.
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This is the real source of all of the impotent rage being directed at the nomination, the
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If she believed in a mother's right to kill her offspring, none of the people mentioned
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On the contrary, they would extol her brilliance and beauty and bravery, and their venom would
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be reserved for the people doing what they themselves are doing right now.
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Democrats have no problem with this flagrant hypocrisy because they believe themselves to
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The other side of the aisle, to them, represents abject evil, racism, bigotry, the enslavement
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Those in their camp who don't believe this at least want everyone to believe they believe
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But meanwhile, it doesn't require exaggeration or hysteria or recourse to dystopian fantasy
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novels to believe, rather to notice, to know, that they are the ones who actually do support,
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fund, and facilitate one of the most hideous forms of evil the world has ever seen.
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Sixty million human beings have been butchered since and because of the Supreme Court decision
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that these people hail as the high watermark of the civil rights movement.
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Many of these humans have been killed in the very early stages of pregnancy, a fact that
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But many millions have been executed at a stage late enough to require dismemberment before
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This mass grave, this mountain of corpses, this systematic extermination of our own children
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is what Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, all the rest of them are so jealously and vengefully
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They pretend to be fighting evil, and they've given themselves the moral license to lie and
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But they are, in fact, the genocidal fascists they pretend to oppose.
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I want to show you one other thing from the hearings.
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This I have to mention because it just exemplifies the fact that the whole mask thing is largely
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You'll see this Senator getting ready to speak and then, uh, and then watch what he does.
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Uh, Senator Lee's enthusiasm for the dormant commerce clause convinces me you've made a full
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Chairman, Judge Barrett, America's worried about one thing above all else right now.
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So you see, as soon as he, as he's about to start speaking, he rips the mask off with a
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He rips it off eagerly and like slams it down the table.
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And I understand that, you know, whenever, whenever I go grocery shopping at a store where
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I'm required to wear it, as soon as I get outside, as soon as I exit the door, I'm ripping
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that, that thing off and like falling to my knees and gasping for breath as if I've just
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come up for air after a free dive to the bottom of the ocean.
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But I'm perplexed to look around and see that it seems like everyone else, they leave the
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store and keep the mask on as they walk across the parking lot to their cars.
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And they keep the mask on when they get into their car too.
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And I also understand wanting to take the mask off so that you can speak and be understood.
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That's one of the many frustrating aspects of this mask thing is that you can't understand
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In fact, I was at a store last night and I was, I was trying to talk to the guy behind
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the camera, behind the counter rather, but he had a mask on and there was glass up.
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The glass, it wasn't like bulletproof glass for no glass put there for coronavirus, uh,
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So he had a glass, the glass up mask on, and he also had a pretty thick accent.
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And so it was just, uh, it was just one of those things where I had to say, okay, yeah.
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I hope I'm giving the, the, the correct general response here.
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I think there's a psychological effect there too.
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A lot of, I think psychologists in the future are going to have a lot of fun going back and
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looking at how we're all affected by this, but going months and months in public, it just
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depends on where you live because some areas, uh, mercifully are not as strict about it, but
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at least where I live, everybody has it on all the time.
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And so you go months at a time out in public and you never see anybody's face and you can't
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So, um, that part I understand, but, but, but here's, here's my, my point.
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If you're going to take it off to speak, why are you wearing it at all?
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The senators are sitting there wearing the mask and they're, they're not talking.
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And then they take it off at precisely the moment when they would be the most likely to
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It's still extremely unlikely, but, but still it's incoherent.
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If you're going to wear the mask, wear the damn mask.
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But if you're going to do what I would say is the reasonable thing and not wear it when
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you're trying to speak, then what's the medical reason to wear it at all?
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It's like when you go to a restaurant now and they say, you know, wear the mask when
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you come in and you're walking to your table, you got to wear the mask for that.
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And then, and then, and then you sit down and you take it off and you carry on a loud
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conversation spewing your fumes this way and that.
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Again, I'm not saying that you should wear your mask when you sit down to actually eat
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I see some people doing that and it's completely insane.
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But what I'm saying is what the hell is the actual point of wearing it on your way to
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the table when you're not saying anything and then you sit down and then you take it
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It's of course, it's an offshoot of the airline thing where you have to remain socially
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Remain socially distanced, uh, in line to get on the plane and then be packed in like
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sardines, uh, breathing recycled air for the next six hours.
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Okay, number two, we're always hearing about this mythical beast called voter suppression.
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We hear about it, um, we're warned about it, but we never actually see it.
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We never see this voter suppression in action until now.
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Claire McCaskill uploaded a video from, uh, Georgia and that I think she took herself.
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I'm not, I'm not sure about that, but she uploaded this video, got a lot of attention,
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uh, went viral, polls opened, you know, for, for, for in-person voting in Georgia, at least
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And, um, she took a video and she says that this proves voter suppression is a video of
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We're going to see voters being blocked from the entrance.
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Are we going to see voters being thrown out of polling stations by, by bouncers?
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As you can see, whole bunch of people lined up to vote three weeks before the election.
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They say hundreds of people being able to vote three weeks early is suppression.
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Actually, no, no, that's not what suppression is.
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The fact that this line exists is not evidence that people aren't able to vote.
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In fact, it's evidence of the opposite in the same way that a long line for a star Wars
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film is not evidence that people aren't able to watch star Wars.
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A long line for a roller coaster is not evidence that, uh, the amusement park doesn't want you
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And so, and you can only, you know, get bored so many people at a time.
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You'd only get so many people into the building at a time, especially now with all these COVID
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So we're going to pretend that that's got no factor at all either.
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It's just, it's, it's, it's what they're putting forth as evidence of voter suppression
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is evidence of the opposite of it is it's evidence against voter suppression.
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We are three weeks before the election and there's a line around the freaking block of
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Someone, I was talking about this and someone said to me, well, it's, uh, this is about the
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So what doesn't mean you can't do it just because you're inconvenienced doesn't mean
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If it's that important to you, then you'll just wait in line.
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If it's not that important to you, then don't do it.
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I, I, I, I don't think we need to go out of our way to make sure that every last person
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Number three news in the Harvard Gazette says, uh, people who survive serious COVID-19 infections
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have long lasting immune responses against the virus.
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According to a new study led by researchers at Harvard affiliated Massachusetts general
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hospital, the researchers found that levels of an antibody called immunoglobulin G remained
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elevated in effective patients for four months and were associated with the presence of protective
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neutralizing antibodies, which also demonstrated little decrease in activity over time.
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Um, so yeah, that's, that's, that's kind of what I thought.
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And I, if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times.
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Um, it's all about the immunoglobulin G you guys have heard me go on about immunoglobulin
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And, um, so this is good news anyway, but of course when Trump made this claim about himself
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that maybe he's immune now, it was called fake news.
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In fact, I believe Twitter flagged it as fake news, censored the, uh, the tweet.
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We have to think about all these things together as a people to contemplate our future, to live
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We as a people will revive our nation's commitment to faith, to what our constitution calls the
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free exercise of religion, including of course, prayer through prayer.
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We as a people are called to a greater purpose than ourselves.
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We are not only a beacon to the world, but we should be servants to each other, to encourage
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each other, to help each other, to lift up each other.
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Our fellow Americans, that we may all prosper together.
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We have to act on faith with the sure knowledge that we are pursuing the right goals and doing
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We will build a stronger country by building stronger families.
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Families are the building blocks of society, of a nation.
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By turning to faith, we will be the kind of nation, the kind of people God intends us
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Okay, so I have to say the production quality and presentation here is not the best, and
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I'd expect maybe a little bit more from an artistic visionary.
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But the message is on point, and I think the message is great.
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His campaign website has this ad, and then right under the ad is a bunch of merchandise
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you could buy, and then right under that is the presidential platform.
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A lot of it is kind of the typical political talking points that you would get from a sort
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It says, restore faith and revive our constitutional commitment to freedom of religion and the free
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exercise of one's faith, demonstrated by restoring prayer in the classroom, including spiritual
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I think this should be the message of the Republican Party as well, which it is sometimes when they
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But then again, if you're trying to avoid eccentricities in this election, probably you're best just
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A jogger in Provo, Utah was out on a trail recently when apparently he unknowingly got close
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to some mountain lion clubs, cubs, that is, rather.
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So mountain lion was getting next to a mountain lion club where they're all gathered together.
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But especially a mountain lion cub is what he apparently came in the vicinity of.
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But then mama mountain lion appeared on the scene and was not too happy about it.
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Six minutes, he was backing up as the mountain lion escorted him away from the premises.
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Now, the cat was not, some of the headlines I've seen about this have said that the cat was
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But no, she wasn't stalking, wasn't trying to eat him.
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I think if a mountain lion is stalking you when you're jogging, then you're screwed.
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You're not going to see it coming until the thing's jaws are around your neck.
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If he had made any wrong move here, taken a wrong step, literally, he would have been
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Like, what I was worried about the whole time watching this video is if this guy trips while
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walking backwards on this path with a bunch of rocks and roots and stuff, if he trips,
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Crouching down to pick up the rock is a very risky proposition when you're face-to-face with
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But for the most part, I think a pretty good strategy there.
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That said, far be it for me to Monday morning quarterback something like this.
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But I will say, if you're ever in this situation, one quick note I would make.
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This isn't like you're in a confrontation with the police and you want to film it so that
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There's not any suing the mountain lion if she rips your face off.
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So there's no conceivably good reason to film in a situation like this.
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And it does hamper you because you're looking down at the camera.
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Plus, you're not able to, you know, you want to be waving your arms and making yourself as
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But he's, you know, that second arm could make a big difference.
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Um, so I, I, you know, there's, I, I, I would just say if, if you're, if you're facing the
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possibility of being eaten, um, probably your priority in that situation shouldn't be,
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let me get this because it's going to make a great viral video.
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I have to say, but that, you know, that probably shouldn't be your priority.
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Number six from religion news, religion news reporter, Alejandra Molina says,
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Amy Coney Barrett nomination fight leaves progressive Catholics feeling unseen.
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I spoke with black and Latinx Catholics who believe in abortion rights and marriage equality
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to learn how the focus on white conservative Catholicism overshadows their faith.
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Um, Catholics who believe in abortion rights and gay marriage.
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I can think of many similar reports you could file.
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Like, um, I spoke with carnivorous vegans to learn how the focus on vegetarian vegans overshadows
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Or I spoke with God fearing atheists to learn how the focus on godless atheists overshadows
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There is of course, no such thing, uh, is the point I'm trying to make here.
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There is no such thing as a Catholic who believes in abortion rights, because that would be
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If you're a Catholic claiming that you support abortion rights, then you are Catholic who
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me, this means that you reject the moral authority of the church.
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And if you reject the moral authority of the church, then you're not a Catholic.
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You're not, you're not required to be, but being a Catholic is a certain thing.
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You can't say I'm a Mormon, but I reject most of the teachings of the Mormon church.
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You can be something else if you want to be, but you can't be that because that's what
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Honestly, I didn't do much research into it before I started shooting the show today, mostly
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because I'm lazy and also because I really need this video for show content.
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You see, I like literally everyone else in media.
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I think of everything in terms of whether I can use it for content.
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Actually, I can, I can relate to the jogger filming his own potential mauling because I
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Like if I were to accidentally drive off of a 500 foot cliff, the last thing I would think
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as I plunge to my death is that at least if I somehow survive this, it will make
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But anyway, my sociopathy isn't really the point today.
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The point is that this video, which appears to show a woman fed up with her boyfriend,
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you know, and fed up with him not sealing the deal, deciding to put on a wedding dress
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and a fanny pack for some reason, grab her enabling bridesmaid and somehow a minister and
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go to her boyfriend's job, which is at Target, to force him to marry her.
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This is really a form of kidnapping, it seems to me.
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We put this ring on my finger two years ago, and it's time to do it or get out.
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We're getting married right now, or I'm leaving, I'm out.
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Like if you don't marry me in this second, I brought the pastor, I brought Emily, he's
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I'm just finally making him commit, you know, like we're getting married now or like it's
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Now, perhaps unsurprisingly, I am canceling all parties concerned here.
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I cancel the would-be bride on the general grounds of her apparently being a lunatic, though
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I suppose she gets points for getting married in a Target parking lot rather than doing the
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whole elaborate traditional wedding routine, because if she did the traditional wedding
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routine, one shudders to imagine what sort of bridezilla she would be.
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She strikes me as the type of bride who would break down in tears in the middle of reception
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because the napkins are the wrong shade of white or something.
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In fact, now that I think of it, we may be asking the wrong question about this incident.
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We're asking whether it's staged, but do we even know if that guy was actually her boyfriend?
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Maybe she met him for the first time the previous Tuesday when she went to Target and he was
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working and she stopped him to ask if they sell sweaters for poodles and his friendliness
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gave her the impression that they were madly in love.
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So she showed up a few days later with a priest and demanded that they marry on the spot.
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I also cancel the man, though, because a couple of reasons.
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First of all, you have done something wrong in your relationship if you have given your
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girlfriend the impression that it would be acceptable for her to come to your work in
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a wedding dress and ask to get married real quick on your lunch break.
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Let's just assume that it's true that he's been engaged to her for two years and is stringing
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Her approach here is ill-advised on a number of levels, but she's right, at least, that
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Perhaps it can serve as the foundation for their new life together as a married couple,
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Now, I understand that people today, people in my generation, are afraid of marriage,
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That's why marriage rates have been dropping while unmarried cohabitation skyrockets.
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And I understand, to some extent, why this fear of marriage is there.
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Older generations, the boomer generation, they complain about millennials being afraid of commitment.
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But where do you think we contracted this particular disease from?
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Baby boomers got divorced like it was their hobby, like it was their favorite thing in
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My parents are still married, but growing up, half of my friends had divorced parents by
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So a lot of people in my generation grew up in broken homes and didn't get the greatest
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If you're wondering why your kids don't want to get married, consider the possibility that
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they were turned off from the whole enterprise because you suck so bad at it.
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That said, you can only use mommy and daddy as an excuse for so long.
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And swearing off marriage doesn't really make sense unless you're going to swear off romantic
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relationships completely and live a celibate life, in which case, more power to you.
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There's something to be said for that, perhaps.
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But if you still want to have that sort of companionship, then you really have two ways of
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Number one, strive to find and form a lasting, committed, stable relationship with someone
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who you can come to know and love and with whom you can build a family and a life together
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Or two, you can wander from one meaningless, self-centered, temporary relationship to another.
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The thrill of something new quickly giving way to dissolution and heartbreak again and
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again and again until finally you're too old for that sort of thing.
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Your physical beauty wears away and ultimately you're left alone with no one by your side
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Of course, option one can turn into option two if the marriage doesn't work out.
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But still, at the end of the day, these are broadly speaking what you have to choose
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from if you don't want to be celibate and become a hermit.
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Which again, more power to you if that's what you want to do.
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But I would highly recommend option one and if you're going to go with option one, that
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requires some decisiveness and yes, a little bit of risk.
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You're never going to know everything there is to know about someone before you get married.
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There's always going to be some mystery in the other, which is a good thing if you look
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And that means there's always going to be a little bit of a leap you have to take when
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Yet putting off the leap won't accomplish much.
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There's only so much you can feasibly learn about somebody before you've married them.
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And as far as that goes, you'll have learned almost all that you can learn very quickly.
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One thing I hear from people a lot is that, well, you know, we have to live together for
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five years before marriage to find out if the other person has annoying habits.
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But you learn to have fun with the annoying habits.
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Well, when we're watching a movie, I intentionally chomp on a bowl of tortilla chips just to piss
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Intentionally annoying her is my love language because I'm essentially still in sixth grade,
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Um, I tend to think you can know if somebody is marriage material and whether you want
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I know I did with my wife, but let's be cautious and say six months.
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By six months, you will know almost everything you can know about that person before marriage.
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It's possible they're hiding some deep, dark secret.
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It's possible your beloved is a chainsaw murderer.
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But frankly, if you haven't figured that out in six months of dating, you probably won't
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And besides, chainsaw murdering isn't a deal breaker in a marriage.
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And so I decided that, of course, everyone else should do it too.
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And when I am theocratic fascist dictator of America, this will be obviously required by
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Under my regime, upon reaching adulthood, you will be given six months to find someone
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If you don't find anyone, somebody will be assigned to you.
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The wedding will be carried out shortly after that.
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There will be no reception as music and dancing will be, of course, banned.
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And then you'll have 24 hours for a honeymoon at Six Flags or something before being sent
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to work in the factories for the rest of your life.
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There may be a few flaws in that sort of system, I admit.
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In fact, really anything is better than what we're doing now.
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Actually, what you just saw there is probably better than the way that most people my generation
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You know, and look, they have a great story to tell their kids one day, if everything
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And I, you know, I think that should it go that way, when the kids finally hear that story,
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they won't be surprised because they'll know their mom and they'll hear that story and think,
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I guess that's that in the end is who it's canceled.
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I guess the guy, the guy is canceled, not the woman.
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We went on a circuitous path here, but this is where we ended up.
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