Ep. 582 - Leftism Is Indistinguishable From Insanity
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Summary
Amy Coney Barrett's use of the term sexual preference during her confirmation hearing on Tuesday left the entire left with a new understanding of what it means to be gay and why it s offensive. Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we'll talk about the implications of living in a culture where words change meaning so quickly, and also why the left's theory of sexual orientation completely contradicts their theories of gender. Plus, a new Biden ad reaching out to Black voters that is, without exaggeration, the most patronizing and degrading political ad I ve ever seen, and we'll play it for you.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, desperate Democrats grasping for any reason to hate Amy Coney Barrett
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have now decided that her use of the term sexual preference is offensive and horrible.
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The entire left decided in the span of 24 hours that this term is offensive.
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We'll talk about the implications of living in a culture where words change meaning so quickly,
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and also why the left's theory of sexual orientation completely contradicts their
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theories of gender. So we'll discuss all of that. Also, five headlines, including a new
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Biden ad reaching out to black voters that is, without exaggeration, the most patronizing and
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degrading political ad I think I've ever seen, and we'll play it for you. And in our daily
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Well, you know, it's immensely tempting to say that Democrat senators questioning Amy Coney Barrett
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during her confirmation hearings this week are engaging in quite a lot of mansplaining.
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The condescension is there, the unnecessary, long-winded lectures, the interruptions.
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They're even using poster boards and other visual aids to get their points across.
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The only reason I won't call any of this mansplaining is that the term is vapid and stupid
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and used unironically only by people whose minds have been warped by politics and ideology.
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Still, by the left's rules applied equitably, as they like to say, it must be concluded that
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Barrett's inquisitors are sexist bullies, even the women who are apparently infected with
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internalized misogyny or some such nonsense. But if the meaning and application of mansplaining
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changes according to the political needs of the moment, at least the word is contrived and
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meaningless from the start. The left invented that term. I suppose they could do whatever they
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want with it. The far more disturbing thing is to witness how real words, words that existed before
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our era of woke politics, are now redefined with rapid speed on the fly and with coordinated
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efficiency. The hearings have provided us with perhaps the most glaring and most striking example
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of the left's language manipulation scheme that we've seen yet. And we talked about the game
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they're playing with the term court packing already. But this is this is way worse than that.
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So on Tuesday morning, as you ate your breakfast burrito, the term sexual preference was perfectly
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normal, perfectly acceptable, perfectly common. And if you used it anywhere, everyone would know what
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you meant and almost nobody would think to be offended by it. By bedtime, as you crawled beneath your
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covers, sexual preference had become an unspeakable slur. In the span of 18 hours, this new meaning
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had been adopted by the media, politicians, even the dictionary itself. Anyone who wasn't paying
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attention to the news on Wednesday will no doubt use this newly minted gay slur at some point in the
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future and be utterly baffled and horrified by the looks and breathless chastisements that follow.
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That, of course, is part of the plan. So how did this happen? During the course of the confirmation
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hearings early on Tuesday, Amy Coney Barrett responded to a question about gay rights. And she said that
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she would, quote, never discriminate on the basis of sexual preference. Here she is in her own words.
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I do want to be clear that I have never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference and would not
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ever discriminate on the basis of sexual preference. You know, like racism, I think discrimination is
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abhorrent. Gasp. Shocking. Well, not really. To most observers, this seems like a totally normal
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statement. Hardly noteworthy. But some on the left, sensing that Barrett would give them few
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opportunities to be offended, decided to make do with what they had. So leftist Twitter accounts
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began setting the stage, claiming that the judge's use of the term sexual preference is somehow
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abhorrent. All of a sudden. It wasn't before. It is now. Kyle Griffin, an MSNBC producer with almost
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a million followers, was early on the bandwagon tweeting, sexual preference, a term used by Justice
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Barrett, is offensive and outdated. The term implies sexuality is a choice. It is not. News organizations
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should not repeat Justice Barrett's words without providing that important context.
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Various others joined the chorus. Eventually, they seem to have attracted the attention of Senator
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Mazie Hirono, who leapt into action. That evening, Hirono circled back to scold Barrett, calling her
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choice of language offensive and outdated, repeating Kyle Griffin's tweet verbatim. She then explained that
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only, quote, anti-LGBTQ activists use the term because they want to suggest that sexual orientation
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is a choice, when in fact, says Hirono, it is a key part of an individual's identity, and it is,
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This morning, Senator Feinstein asked you a question about the Supreme Court's 2015 decision
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in Obergefell v. Hodges, a case in which the court recognized the constitutional right to same-sex
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marriage. And I was disappointed that you wouldn't give a direct answer on whether you agreed with the
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majority in that case, or if you instead agree with your mentor, Justice Scalia, that no such right
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exists in the Constitution. So even though you didn't give a direct answer, I think your response did
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speak volumes. Not once, but twice. You used the term sexual preference to describe those in the LGBTQ
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community. And let me make clear, sexual preference is an offensive and outdated term.
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It is used by anti-LGBTQ activists to suggest that sexual orientation is a choice. It is not. Sexual orientation
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is a key part of a person's identity. That sexual orientation is both a normal expression of human sexuality
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and immutable, was a key part of the majority's opinion in Obergefell, which by the way, Scalia did
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not agree with. So if it is your view that sexual orientation is merely a preference, as you noted,
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then the LGBTQ community should be rightly concerned whether you would uphold their constitutional right
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to marry. And then, expectedly, Cory Booker, never missing an opportunity to grandstand,
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also jumped in to register his objection to the term.
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Judge Barrett, five years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protects the rights of
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same-sex couples to marry. This was a Obergefell case, which has been discussed today. The court declared
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the Constitution grants LGBTQ Americans equal dignity in the eyes of the law. Hundreds of thousands of
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couples have built their lives on this decision. I've married some of them myself. On that day, five years
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ago, the court fulfilled really that ideal of equal justice under law. And yet now, the same-sex marriage is
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legal. We've seen efforts to try to undermine that decision. Justice Ginsburg wrote about legal rules that would
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quote, create two kinds of marriage, full marriage and skim milk marriage. I firmly believe that our laws shouldn't allow
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discrimination against people on the basis of who they are. I have a number of questions on this topic. If I can
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get through them, but I wanted to offer you a further opportunity to address the issue that I don't
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think you got to fully address, that my colleague brought up. When you did use the term sexual
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preference earlier today, rather than sexual orientation, is there a difference and what is it?
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Senator, I really, in using that word, did not mean to imply that I think that, you know,
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that it's a matter, not a matter of, that it's not an immutable characteristic or that it's solely a
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matter of preference. I honestly did not mean any offense or to make any statement by that. But by
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what you just said, you understand about that immutable characteristic, in other words, that one's
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sexuality is not a preference, it is who they are. Is that what you're saying? Senator, I'm saying I was
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not trying to make any comment on it. I fully respect all the rights of the LGBT community.
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A booger file is an important precedent of the court. I reject any kind of discrimination on any sort of
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basis. And then it was off to the races. Slate, Jezebel, Vox, other outlets all joined the dogpile
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publishing articles condemning sexual preference as offensive, degrading, bigoted, a dog whistle.
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Well, we must say orientation, not preference. They all suddenly agreed. Our sexuality is not a
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preference. It is ingrained. It is fundamental. It is an unchangeable part of our essence as human
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beings. And to cap it all off, Webster's online dictionary changed its definition of the word
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preference at the end of the night to note that it is offensive when applied to sexuality. Now, of course,
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dictionary definitions change to reflect evolving meanings and common usages, and that's fine.
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But the usage and meaning of preference has not evolved. The left, to include now the dictionary,
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is not merely noting a change in common usage, but trying to affect a change by pretending that
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it has already occurred. Words evolve gradually and organically over many years. Changes in language
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in our society are, rather than gradual and organic, sudden, artificial, orchestrated, ideological.
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And this is a very different sort of thing. Now, it's probably no use to point this out, but
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many of the people and media outlets lambasting Barrett for her use of sexual preference have
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themselves uttered or written it many times over the years. The Advocate, for example, blasted the
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anti-LGBTQ plus language only two weeks after publishing an article that makes uncritical use of
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that same term. Slate professed to be so alarmed by Barrett's language after years of using the exact same
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language in its articles. Indeed, just this year, Slate's advice column featured a question from a 65-year-old
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straight man wondering if his, quote, sexual preference may have changed over time as he finds
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himself fantasizing about men. And he decided to write Slate about this. The response from Slate
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writer Rich Juzwiak certainly does not sound consistent with sexual orientation as an immutable
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characteristic. This is what he says, quote, from Slate, some people keep evolving sexually,
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finding different things they're into at different times. In an episode of Netflix's Sex Explained,
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fantasies are compared to language. Research suggests we don't unlearn old ones, but we can
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learn new ones. Dr. Justin Lay Miller, who has studied fantasies extensively, suggests that one
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way of picking up new sexual interests would be exposure, via porn, for example, to something novel
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when on the brink of orgasm. For many, that's when the disgust response is reduced. The ensuing orgasm
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could prompt the stimulus to be sought again, and a new fantasy slash kink is born. Okay, that's
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Slate. Evolving sexually, new sexual interests, a new fantasy is born. This makes sexual orientation
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sound an awful lot like a preference that can be changed, and in many cases does change. There are
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many real-world examples of this happening. Slate itself provided one of them. Sexual orientation is
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immutable is dogma, impotently asserting itself against a reality that clearly contradicts and
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disproves it. Besides, there is an inescapable logical problem for adherents to left-wing gender
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theory who also claim sexual orientation as ingrained and unchangeable. The problem is that
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their gender theories cannot coexist with their theory of sexual orientation. These are mutually
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exclusive propositions for reasons that should be obvious. Take the example of a gay man who
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transitions into a woman. If he is really a woman now, he is no longer gay. Thus, sexual orientation
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can change. If he must always be gay because orientation is immutable, he must always be a man.
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There is no way around this without undermining or denying his self-identity somewhere along the
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timeline. In order to make both propositions work, you must point to this individual and say that
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he was wrong about being gay or wrong about being a man or he's wrong about being a woman now.
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But that is to claim that it's possible for a person to be wrong about their own self-identity,
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which would cause the whole artifice of left-wing gender theory to collapse.
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The scheme doesn't work if outsiders are able to judge a person's identity as incorrect
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based on our own logical or physical observations. This is a problem that cannot be overcome,
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though it can be blithely ignored. The advantage, after all, to being a relativist
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is that you get to invent your own truth to suit the moment. Different moments call for different
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Let's see. Okay, good. Big report here in the Daily Wire says, newly published emails allegedly show
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comes from a laptop computer that was dropped off at a computer repair store last April in Biden's
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home state of Delaware. The person who brought the laptop into the store never paid for service,
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never retrieved the device. Federal law enforcement officials reportedly seized the laptop in December
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after the store owner alerted them to it, but not before the store owner made a copy of the hard
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drive. The New York Post, which was given a copy of the hard drive on Sunday, reported,
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quote, Hunter Biden discussed leveraging his connection to his father in a bid to boost his
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pay from a Ukrainian national gas, natural gas company. In a lengthy memo to his then business
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partner, Devon Archer, who already sat on Burisma board, Biden repeatedly mentioned my guy while
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apparently referring to then Vice President Joe Biden. Under President Barack Obama, the elder Biden was
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the point person for U.S. policy towards Ukraine and held a press conference there with the Prime
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Minister on April 22nd. And then it goes into the specific, you could read the New York Post report,
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but it goes into some of the examples, quoting from these alleged emails. Sounds to me like,
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I don't know, a massive scandal, but the deflating thing is that political scandals are, of course,
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meaningless if they aren't reported. For this to do any damage against Biden, it would need to
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be reported by more than just Fox News and the New York Post and us. It would need to be reported
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in the mass media, which it won't be, of course. So you want to talk about influencing elections,
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while the mainstream media refusing to cover massive scandals when they pertain to one particular
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candidate, that is certainly one way to influence an election. And that is also,
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most of the time, the essence of fake news. I say this all the time. Fake news is usually not
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inventing stories. That's not generally how fake news works. Fake news is in the stories they choose
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not to cover. It's in pretending that something isn't news. That's the fake news part, most of the
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time. All right, Joe Biden is continuing his outreach to black voters. And as is often the case,
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when white Democrats reach out to black voters, the results are pretty patronizing.
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Um, and he, you have to just hear this to believe it. This is the Biden ad on his YouTube page
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featuring two guys having a rap battle where they discuss Joe Biden's policies
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Yo, why you ain't been answering your phone? You know why I'm calling you. You have to vote.
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You know why I don't vote. Why? Because as a black man, I just feel like there's no hope.
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Our president telling people to go back to China, taking the coronavirus as a joke. And that's the
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part that frightened me. When you choose a president, it's supposed to be a knockout. Then why this
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situation doesn't entice in me? If you got the answers to get me out this dark path, my brother,
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enlighten me. We always telling each other to stay woke. That's why this time we got to use our voice
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and you have to vote. The facts should show Biden has a plan for African-Americans. We're not dealing
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with your average Joe. I see the way you looking right now. You know exactly where I'm going to go
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with this. For four years, we had Trump in office and we made the most of it. But we finally got
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somebody that could be in office that could give us a chance to have home ownership. I'm talking to
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all of you, $640 billion over the course of 10 years so we could finally get house and that's
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affordable. Okay. A couple of things here. First of all, you have here in this ad, two black men
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on a basketball court having a conversation through rapping. If this isn't the most stereotypical
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and insulting political ad we've seen in decades, I don't know what is. What would you
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what earns that title if not what you just heard right there? Second, um, you know, maybe beside
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the point, but the freestyle, most of what you just heard there didn't even rhyme. So he says,
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uh, but we finally got somebody that could be in office that can finally give us the chance to have
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home ownership. I'm talking to all of you, $640 billion over the course of 10 years. So we finally
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get housing that's affordable. That's not, it doesn't rhyme. That's isn't a rap supposed to run.
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If you don't have music and, uh, if there's no background music and it doesn't rhyme,
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then that's just nor that's just speaking. All you're, you're, you're speaking is what you're
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doing. You're just speaking with hand gestures. So, I mean, by, I guess I'm, I, I freestyle all the
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time. I guess I freestyle at my house to my wife. I already took the trash out. Please stop asking me.
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Um, that was my freestyle. I just, uh, I dropped a bar right there. As the kids say,
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is that what you do? You drop the bars, spit the bar. How's it go? I don't know. Uh, so that,
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that's man, that's, that's great. That's we've done the cringe challenge before.
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Try to get through that whole video. That's like four minutes. I think the whole thing I played 30
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seconds of it. So see if, see if you can get through the whole four minutes. It's difficult.
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All right. Um, boycott NBC is currently trending. Uh, it's the, we've got another boycott going.
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And the reason is even dumber than, than you think. The reasons are always dumb for boycotts most of the
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time. Uh, but this, the reason is they're boycotting NBC. The left is because they're having, uh, NBC is
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having a town hall with Trump, which will run opposite of a different town hall on ABC with
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Biden. And so that's the reason for the boycott. This is bad because, well, the reason, the real
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reason it's bad is because it, it involves Trump. And so that's why it's bad. But the reason they're
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giving is that, um, if, if you do both town halls at the same time, people won't be able to watch
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both. And so this is really a form of voter suppression because the voters are not able
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to inform themselves because you got both town halls going on at the same time. And that's a reason to,
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uh, to boycott. Yeah. Well, the problem is for one thing, who the hell actually wants to watch
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either of these town halls, let alone both of them, who would willingly sit and watch a politician's
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town hall for fun. And second point, do you not have DVR? Is there anybody left in America who
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doesn't have the capability to digitally record programming? And even if you don't, don't you
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have the internet? You can, if you're boycotting, if you're, if you're hashtag boycott NBC, you
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probably have the internet. You can go on and find the clip of it later and watch if you really want
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to. So obviously a very stupid reason for a boycott. Number four, uh, more big news here. Oreo is, uh,
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defeating discrimination by releasing a rainbow colored cookie. I feel like they've done this
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before. Maybe I'm wrong, but either way, remarkable. Just, uh, all you can do is marvel at the courage
00:24:10.680
and boldness to have this rainbow colored cookie. And the good thing is whatever distracts them from
00:24:17.380
making more double stuffed Oreos. Yeah. Like that's good to me. If they focus their energy on making
00:24:22.660
the rainbow Oreos instead of the double stuffed, um, I, I consider that a win because double stuffed
00:24:29.060
Oreos are disgusting. And I say that as a loyal Oreo eater going back decades. The problem with the
00:24:35.500
double stuffed Oreo is that, you know, when, when you have that much of the cream, you start to realize
00:24:41.140
that the cream is not really cream. It's some sort of hideous synthetic goop. It's really the same
00:24:46.960
problem with the quarter pounder at McDonald's. I think like the big Mac is great because it's
00:24:51.520
mostly just bread and, and, uh, and the, the sauce with two little slivers of, of would be meat.
00:24:57.920
But then you get the bigger cut of the meat and it becomes obvious that this is not meat,
00:25:01.720
but rather salty, greasy styrofoam. So it really becomes too much of a good thing.
00:25:08.300
Why are we talking about this? I forget. Oh yeah. Rainbow colored Oreos. So there you go.
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Five, finally, um, more big news and innovation, almost as impressive as the rainbow colored Oreo.
00:25:18.660
The iPhone 12, uh, was unveiled yesterday. Moment we've been waiting for. Here it is. You can look
00:25:25.340
at it right here, uh, spinning around and dancing for you. So there it is. So it's, it's, you know,
00:25:31.980
you look at that and you think, well, it's a lot like the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 10 and the iPhone
00:25:38.360
nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Very similar to that, except this time
00:25:44.080
with more cameras. This is all they're doing now with the iPhones. I guess they're just,
00:25:49.700
they've run out of ideas. They just add new cameras each time. Every, every successive iPhone
00:25:55.060
from now on, there's just another camera. They had on the thing is pockmarked with cameras at this
00:25:58.520
point. And, uh, all of this camera technology only so that narcissists can take clearer pictures of
00:26:06.220
their own ugly faces. That's all anybody uses it for anyway. Pretty soon. It's going to be,
00:26:12.340
you know, like pretty soon. It's just going to, it's going to be just a camera. I think that that's
00:26:17.600
where we're headed, that the phones, we're going to, we're sort of transitioning back. We're going
00:26:21.140
full circle. And by the iPhone 20, it'll be just an, a Polaroid camera dancing around there on the
00:26:27.480
screen for you. Personally, I would like a phone. Here's my crazy idea. Um, I would like a phone.
00:26:34.820
That's a phone and also has the internet. I like the internet part of it. So just a phone with the
00:26:41.160
internet. That's all I need. I don't need anything else. And, and also, and this would be the advantage.
00:26:46.320
You don't have any of the other technology. Uh, then it also maybe we'll have a battery that lasts
00:26:51.520
more than 14 seconds. That's my dream. That's what I'm waiting for. Because the problem is that with
00:26:57.280
all this new technology added, you need more power so that, so that now you have to like plug your iPhone
00:27:02.060
directly into the core of the earth in order to get a charge that lasts even, you know, a few hours.
00:27:07.800
So that's what I would like to see. Battery life, internet, phone, text message. That's all I need.
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cancellation. So today I'm canceling the NBA. Um, well, I'm not really canceling them or, or it isn't
00:27:52.260
just me. This is a democratic cancellation. We have canceled the NBA together. I think, uh, for me,
00:27:59.020
I'm, I'm just sort of a typical case. Probably I never qualified as a diehard NBA fan to begin with,
00:28:04.500
but I did enjoy the sport and typically became more invested during the playoffs. I loved watching the
00:28:10.120
NBA finals, especially, and had missed probably very few NBA finals in the past decade or so.
00:28:15.940
I never had a home team, but I rooted for my favorite players. I had followed, uh, LeBron James's
00:28:21.940
career in particular, since his first stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers. But I didn't watch a single
00:28:26.380
minute of this past NBA season, which just concluded. LeBron and the Lakers won the trophy
00:28:31.460
on Sunday. I didn't realize the game was even happening or that the Lakers were up in the series.
00:28:36.200
I didn't know anything about it. I found out the next day due to the viral footage of Lakers fans
00:28:41.460
rioting and celebration, because again, apparently revelers celebrating a basketball team's victory are
00:28:46.600
immune to COVID just like BLM activists and attendees of memorial services for Democrats. All of them
00:28:51.780
are immune. Very, very fascinating science. So this was the first NBA season that I've ever
00:28:57.160
ignored. And I have to tell you, I didn't miss it. Being a sports fan is like being under some sort
00:29:02.140
of trance. You care immensely about this thing for reasons you can't quite explain, but if the spell
00:29:08.760
breaks and you stop caring, you'll wonder why you ever did or why you should start again. So for me,
00:29:16.940
the spell broke because of the NBA's ceaseless political propagandizing. Too aggressive,
00:29:23.000
too wearying, too irritating, just too much. This sort of thing may be tolerable up to a certain
00:29:28.560
line. I'm not sure where that line is exactly, but it has surely been crossed when a league
00:29:33.280
canonizes an accused rapist and serial abuser like Jacob Blake and its top star tries to foment more
00:29:39.800
division and chaos by telling wild tales about racist cops hunting black men. And nearly all the
00:29:45.540
players and coaches decide to turn the national anthem into a forum for self-aggrandizing political
00:29:49.380
stunts. That's, you cross the line. I can deal with a little bit of politics from professional
00:29:54.280
athletes, but if getting smacked in the face with an ideological two-by-four is the price of admission,
00:30:00.300
I'd rather just go do something else with my time. And I'm not alone. According to Nielsen,
00:30:05.260
this was the lowest rated NBA finals in 40 years. A mere 5.6 million viewers tuned in to watch the game
00:30:12.000
that I didn't know was even being played. To put that into perspective, double that number watched
00:30:19.240
a regular season Sunday night football matchup on the same night. Game six of the finals last year
00:30:23.900
had three times the viewership. Back in the Michael Jordan era in the 90s, the championship round would
00:30:29.200
routinely draw four, five, six times as many viewers. There's no mystery about why people are
00:30:35.120
tuning out. Now, some in the sports world have tried to rescue the NBA from the consequences of its
00:30:40.340
own politicizing, claiming that viewership is down because of other things like COVID, you know,
00:30:45.160
for example. Yahoo Sports published an article yesterday arguing that the ratings decline suffered
00:30:51.240
by other professional sports leagues like the NFL and MLB prove that politics can't be the driving
00:30:56.920
factor. But other professional sports leagues like the NFL and MLB have also engaged in political
00:31:01.980
sermonizing to one degree or another. If the NBA is being hit especially hard, it's because they've
00:31:06.320
been especially loud while screeching from their soapbox. Besides, just ask the fans why they're
00:31:13.860
turning away. They'll tell you. There was one poll done recently has nearly 40% watching fewer games
00:31:20.760
because of politicization. And that poll separately counts the fans who've switched off because of the
00:31:26.880
NBA's dealings with China. So China hypocrisy and political posturing, which are two very interconnected
00:31:32.260
issues, together account for almost 60% of fans. These are not small numbers. And this is not a
00:31:38.920
small problem for the NBA. Now, it's probably true that COVID isn't helping matters. The absence of fans
00:31:46.100
does tend to make the games less exciting, even without all the social justice stuff. But COVID, the
00:31:51.420
election, the riots, all of the other unpleasant and worrisome subjects dominating the news are major
00:31:58.060
reasons why so many Americans would like to turn to sports for an escape and major reasons why we have
00:32:06.160
little interest in our sports escapism being served to us with a side of left-wing moralizing. It's like
00:32:11.740
it's like, you know, going to Chuck E. Cheese as a child, only to be told that you can't jump in the
00:32:16.780
ball pit or go on the jungle gym until you complete your multiplication tables and finish a plate of
00:32:21.800
Brussels sprouts. You know, Chuck E. Cheese exists precisely to be a place where multiplication tables
00:32:27.900
and Brussels sprouts don't exist. You have defeated the purpose by combining these two universes.
00:32:35.240
Now, granted, that may not be the best analogy because vegetables and mathematics are good for
00:32:40.120
you, even if you don't like them. BLM talking points, on the other hand, promoted so relentlessly
00:32:45.200
by the NBA, are not good or true or healthy or helpful in any way. It's just that when we turn on the
00:32:51.120
news or we enter into a political debate with someone, we're prepared to encounter and engage
00:32:56.960
with that kind of rhetoric. They're part of the bargain. They should not be, need not be, part of
00:33:04.220
the sports bargain, which makes our tolerance in that setting much lower. We would rather sit and
00:33:10.140
watch the game, enjoy the sport for its own sake, focus on a fun and frivolous and pointless thing for a
00:33:17.360
while. And that's it. And if that's too much to ask, so be it. We'll turn the TV off and turn our
00:33:22.840
energies elsewhere. And, you know, it's probably for the best on second thought. So the NBA is really
00:33:32.040
just canceled. As I said, I'm not the one doing it. They've just been canceled. And it honestly is like
00:33:39.020
a trance because once, once, once you just say, okay, I don't, I don't want to watch this anymore.
00:33:45.400
And then you look back and you think, what, why was I even watching to begin with? In what way is
00:33:50.600
my life, you know, my life now without watching the NBA playoffs, especially in what way has it been
00:33:57.120
harmed? Is my life, am I, am I worse off now without this in my life? No, I'm not. In fact,
00:34:03.160
I just have more time to do other things. Of course, I ended up wasting that time too, but still
00:34:07.920
I can waste it in other potentially more fruitful ways. So that's why the NBA is canceled. And that's
00:34:13.820
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