Ep. 584 - Joe Biden, A Madman Driven Insane By Left Wing Ideology
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Joe Biden proposes that police officers should be able to neutralize dangerous suspects by shooting them in the leg. We ll talk about why this is an absurd and unworkable idea, including the left doxing a woman because she nodded during Trump s town hall, and in our daily cancellation we will cancel body shaming.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Joe Biden at his town hall last night proved once again that he
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is a man living in a fantasy world, driven mad by left-wing ideology. The latest evidence is
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his proposal that police officers neutralize dangerous suspects simply by shooting them in
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the leg. We'll talk about why this is an absurd and unworkable idea. Also, five headlines,
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including the left doxing a woman because she nodded during Trump's town hall. And in our
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daily cancellation, we will cancel body shaming. Not the thing itself. We're going to cancel the
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I saw a movie once, you know, where the sheriff of a dusty old Western town thwarted a bank robbery by
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shooting the gun out of the bad guy's hand and then threw a rope around him and it lassoed him
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around the waist. All the bystanders applauded while the sheriff tipped his cap, took the hogtied
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crook off to jail. These sorts of moments are enjoyable in films because they're fun and simple
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and offer neat resolutions. And it can feel preferable to the real world, which sadly tends
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more towards messiness and ambiguity. Many people in our culture today struggle to distinguish between
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the real and the fantastical, leading to, among other unfortunate consequences, unrealistic
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expectations, and among politicians, very stupid policy proposals. Police critics and would-be reformers
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have often demonstrated this failure of distinction by breezily suggesting that cops could avoid killing
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suspects. If only they behave more like Hollywood action heroes. What's the big deal? Just, you know,
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just be a Hollywood action hero. It's bad enough when this sort of childishness emanates from internet
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commenters and journalists, but it becomes a source of major concern when coming from a guy who might be
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our next president. So Joe Biden at his ABC town hall last night answered a question about police
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reform and gave us some of this complete nonsense. Listen.
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We can do this. You can ban chokeholds. You can, but beyond that, you have to teach people how to
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de-escalate circumstances, de-escalate. So instead of anybody coming at you and the first thing you do
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is shoot to kill, you shoot them in the leg. There's ways you have to do more background checks in terms of
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whether or not the person coming in passes certain psychological tests. And the last thing I'll say,
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and I'm sorry because it was really, I think really, really important is you have to be in a
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position where you are able to identify, identify the things that have to change. And one of the
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things that has to change is so many cops get called into circumstances where somebody is mentally
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off, like what happened not long ago, that guy with the knife. That's why we have to provide
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within police departments, psychologists and social workers to go out with the cops on those calls,
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some of those 911 calls, to de-escalate the circumstance, to deal with talking them down.
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Instead of anybody coming at you and first thing you do is shoot to kill, just shoot them in the leg.
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Biden said, with all the seriousness and credibility of a man wondering whether plane crash
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fatalities could be avoided by covering aircraft and bubble wrap. Biden, of course, is far from the
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first person to put forward this just shoot them in the leg thing. Anti-police activists often engage
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in similar silliness and attempts have actually been made in New York State, for example, to legally
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require cops to aim for a suspect's limbs. Now that law never went through, thank God, but it just shows
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you. It's embarrassing, this idea, for a number of obvious reasons. First of all, legs are a narrow,
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fast-moving part of the body. Unless we're requiring every police officer to be an expert-level
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marksman, which would be an even taller order when we replace them all with social workers, which has
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been suggested. It's absurd to expect this kind of accuracy during a high-pressure, quickly-evolving
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situation. Dr. Bill Lewinsky, he's the executive director of the Force Science Institute, he's explained
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some of the science behind this problem. And this is what he says, quote,
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So, this touches on two of the other major problems. Even if you successfully hit the suspect's
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legs, you may sever his femoral artery, the main source of blood to his lower extremities,
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causing him to bleed out rapidly anyway. If you don't hit the artery, well, you'll have wounded
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him, but you haven't stopped him. Depending on where you hit him, and also how much adrenaline or other
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foreign chemicals are coursing through him, the suspect will still be able to run, walk, certainly
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shoot at least. Now, let's apply this to actual real-world situations. And when we do that, the
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feebleness and incoherence of the just shoot him in the leg proposal becomes clear. Take, for example,
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the shooting of Ricardo Munoz in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which prompted rioting and protests.
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Because Munoz came charging suddenly out of his house, wielding a large knife. The officer
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who was being attacked took him down when he was mere feet away. Had the officer aimed for his leg
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and missed or grazed him, he could have easily been stabbed to death before he had a chance to get off
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another shot. Take the shooting of Dion K. in Washington, D.C. also a couple months ago. He was
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shot while running towards the officers with his gun drawn. This was all caught on body cam. Again,
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had they aimed for his leg and missed, there'd be no time to fire again before K could get a shot off
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in the officer's direction. Had they shot and wounded him, he still would have been holding a gun
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and perfectly capable and perhaps now more likely to use it. So Joe Biden's suggested strategy would
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have very likely gotten police officers in both situations killed, as well as potentially dozens
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or hundreds more each year. Joe Biden is living in a fantasy world, which would become a very real
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and present danger for law enforcement officers if any attempt was made to bring his fantasies to
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fruition. And speaking of fantasy worlds, Biden at the town hall last night also seemingly endorsed
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the insane notion of transgender eight-year-olds. Here's that moment. Listen.
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I'm the proud mom of two girls, eight and ten. My youngest daughter is transgender. The Trump
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administration has attacked the rights of transgender people, banning them from military service,
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weakening non-discrimination protections, and even removing the word transgender from some
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government websites. How will you, as president, reverse this dangerous and discriminatory agenda
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and ensure that the lives and rights of LGBTQ people are protected under U.S. law?
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I will flat out just change the law. Eliminate those executive orders, number one. You may recall,
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I'm the guy who said I was raised by a man who I remember I was being dropped off. My dad was a high
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school educated, well-read man who was a really decent guy. And I was being dropped off to get an
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application in the center of our city, Wilmington, Delaware, the corporate capital of the world at the
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time. And these two men, I'm getting out to get an application to be a lifeguard in the African-American
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community because there was a big swimming pool complex. And these two men, well-dressed, leaned
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up and hugged one another and kissed one another. I'm getting out of the car at the light and I
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turned to my dad. My dad looked at me and said, Joey, it's simple. They love each other. The idea
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that an eight-year-old child or a 10-year-old child decides, you know, I decided I want to be
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transgender. That's what I think I'd like to be. It may make my life a lot easier. There should be
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zero discrimination. Now, leaving aside that the story about his dad and the gay men, which he's
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told before, sounds completely made up. The issue is that Biden is beholden to a left-wing ideology
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that stands athwart reality, hoping to alter or abolish hard truths by tearfully screaming at them.
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This is why he is dangerous and absolutely cannot be given the power that he seeks.
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Trump performed pretty well, despite the extremely aggressive moderating, if we can call it that,
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by Savannah Guthrie on NBC. Once again, of course, Trump gets the kind of hostile questioning
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that Joe Biden has never, ever received and will never, ever receive. But I thought Trump was
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disciplined, calm, focused. I thought it was good. I would love to see, we talked about this
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yesterday. I would love to see this version of Trump and only this, at least until election day.
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That's what I would love to see. I don't expect it, but that's what I would like because I thought it
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was, it was very effective. And what that meant is the left had to go elsewhere for controversy
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because they couldn't get it from Trump. And so they decided to focus instead on a woman
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sitting behind Trump who was nodding. Yes, this was their focus. A woman nodding.
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She was the target of leftist rage. Uh, and here she is. You can see her there nodding.
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Look at her with her nodding. How dare you? Who are you to nod? Who do you think you are nodding?
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This is, this is what you can go to Twitter and type in nodding. Okay. And search for it. And
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you'll see hundreds of tweets from people condemning the nodding woman and trying to dox her.
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Find out who she is. Punish her for nodding. Liz Garbus, for example, Liz Garbus, a Hollywood person,
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I don't know, some kind of actress or something. Uh, she confessed to feeling quote, a lot of rage
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about the woman nodding. Can you imagine, can you just, you know, I,
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I continue to be so impressed by the ability of many of these leftists to get angry about stuff,
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especially when I get angry about things all the time. You know, that's my thing. I get it. But
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even I, I'm left in, in, in awe and admiration of their ability to get angry because they get angry
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about things that I wouldn't even dream. I couldn't even conceive of being angry about them. I don't know
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how to do it. They need to teach me. They've achieved a level of, of petty anger, anger. That
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is, that is, uh, you know, it makes me look like an absolute novice in comparison. So I can't imagine
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watching a town hall and just sitting there stewing, get her nodding. Stop nodding. I can't, I just,
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I wouldn't be able to do it. I can't understand it, but this is what rage. I feel rage that the woman
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was nodding. Tom Nichols, um, called for journalists to find this woman, uh, find out who
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she is and punish her. He didn't say punish her, but that was implied. In fact, Tom Nichols, as you
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can see, look at this. He tweeted angrily about the nodding woman dozens of times. He spent hours
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without a hint of irony. This was not performance art. This was, he was really, this, this is how he
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decided to spend his Thursday night, finding out who the woman is, who's, who nodded at Trump
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and destroy her. And then the media started doing news articles about it. Um, until finally she was
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identified. They, they, they succeeded in finding out who she was and they identified her. And, um,
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and, but you know, the, the thing that set them off obviously is it's not just that a person was
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nodding. Now, if that was like a white guy behind their nodding, then I think they probably would say
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nothing about it. It's that she's a black woman. How dare a black woman indicate any sort of agreement
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towards Trump? She's not allowed to. It's not permitted. This is the leftist mentality. Black people
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are ours. Women are ours. Latinos, racial minorities, they belong to us. You belong to us
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is the message that the left sends to people in those demographics. Uh, they, they think they own
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them. And if, if, if, if they stray, if they get out of line, if they misbehave, well, the left is going
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to punish them severely for it. This is the mentality. It's sick. It's twisted. It's deranged. It's,
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it's crazy. Um, the way they react, it's like, it's like they, they, they really do react like
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they have been personally betrayed. When a black person, black woman, especially, because now you
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have the intersectional, you got two, two intersectional points here. Black woman, um,
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indicates at all that, that she might not be a leftist. They react as though they have been
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personally stabbed in the back and betrayed by like that person owes them something and they are
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not getting what they are owed. Number two, how about some positive news for a change? Um, honestly,
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this news made me, made me very happy. Just wonderful stuff here from the daily wire. It says
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enrollment rates have declined for undergraduate students at colleges and universities across the
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United States. And much of it can be attributed to fewer freshmen choosing to attend. According to a new
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study released on Thursday, figures from the national student clearinghouse research center center show
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that, uh, first year students have enrolled in colleges at a 16% lower rate than first years in
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2019. This group of students account for 69% of the total decline in the national undergraduate
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enrollment rate, a figure that currently stands at a 4% decline. The data also shows that community
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colleges have been particularly affected by the decline, experiencing roughly a 23% drop in enrollment
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rates. Um, Doug Shapiro, executive director of the center, uh, of, uh, what center, some center I just
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talked about. Oh, the national student clearinghouse told the New York times in an interview that community
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college enrollment during the great recession actually increased and called the declining rate
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in 2020 enrollment data staggering. I fear that many of those students will never go back. Well, look,
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I got nothing against community college. So, uh, this is, uh, I think community college has a real role.
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So this is nothing against them, but as far as the four-year universities experiencing this drop,
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we can only pray it continues. And, uh, and that many of them are bankrupted and destroyed.
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That's my dream scenario. Dozens and dozens of these God forsaken institutions boarded up,
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abandoned, and we can all gather and hold hands in a circle around the abandoned buildings,
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dancing, dancing, dancing the night away. That's, that is my, that is my fantasy.
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Um, and why would I feel that way about them? Well, you know, no reason except that these
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institutions are financially bankrupting generations of Americans, um, forcing them, not forcing them,
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but duping them into paying for the privilege of being brainwashed. In exchange for being made poor
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and in debt, they'll also make you confused and deluded. That's the deal. And so, yeah, um, yeah,
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I, I, I would, uh, I'm, I'm a big fan of the idea of, of, of them suffering enormous financial
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consequences for that. Now, number three, let's move on to this from the daily wire. Here's a story
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to prove my point about the last thing we just talked about says the university of Minnesota school
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of social work and continuing education series recently hosted what they called a special webinar
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series that was titled quote deconstructing and decentralizing whiteness in practice, a three
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part series in which a lecture titled recovery from white conditioning taught white people how to use
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a 12 step program similar to alcoholics anonymous to recover and reclaim our full humanity.
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Okay. Um, I can't even read any more of this. So it's a 12 step program to overcome being white.
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I know we're so used to this by now that we're numb to it, but let's really focus on the fact
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that they are treating whiteness like a literal disease, like a sickness. And they're doing this
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while claiming that there's no racism against white people. No, there's no racism against white
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people. You diseased demons. That's the message. Number four, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, um,
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enjoying a bit of a career resurgence because of that video of the guy skateboarding and drinking
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juice. That's all it takes these days has now come out and credited her, her career success with her
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decision to murder her unborn child. Uh, in a recent interview, she says, quote, abortion rights.
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That was really my generation's fight. If president Trump wins this election and puts the judge in he
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wants, she will absolutely outlaw it and push women back into back alley abortions. Side note,
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by the way, uh, the Supreme court is not going to be outlawing abortion. If they overturn Roe v. Wade,
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then it goes to the States and it will still remain legal in many States, you know, California,
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New York, many of the most populous States that will remain legal in. Uh, anyway, if I had,
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uh, if I had not had that abortion, I'm pretty sure that there would have been no Fleetwood Mac
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perished the thought. There's just no way that I could have had a child then working as hard as I
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worked constantly. And there were a lot of drugs. I was doing a lot of drugs. I would have had to
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walk away. And I knew that the music we were going to bring to the world was going to heal so many
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people's hearts and make people happy. And I thought, you know what? That's really important.
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There's not another band in the world that has two lead women singers, two lead women writers.
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That was my world's mission. You know, I have to say there are no good reasons to kill a child
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ever period, but this reason that you had to kill a child in order to ensure that the world is not
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deprived of Fleetwood Mac. This has to be perhaps at the top of the list of the really bad reasons.
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She's saying she killed her child so she could do drugs and make money. I'm sorry, work hard. I like
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how she lumps in, you know, I was working so hard back then, uh, and doing a lot of drugs,
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working hard and doing drugs. Somehow to me, those seem like mutually exclusive
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pursuits, don't they? Either you're, you're at a point in your life where you're doing a lot of drugs
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or you're at a point where you're working hard. It doesn't seem likely that you're doing both.
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But regardless, um, that's why she killed her child. How do you think she's feeling about that
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decision now? I know how she pretends to feel, but how does she actually feel? She's 72 years old,
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childless, alone, not married, has no children, plenty of money. Sure. And, uh, some hit records,
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all of which are decades old. Does the money keep her company on those long, cold nights?
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Well, the song she's, she's already sung a million times give her comfort as she lives out her final
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years on this earth. It's just impossible to believe that a woman at this stage of life
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would still feel great about killing the only child she ever had for, for, for success. That's
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now gone and fame that has faded and fun times that are all mostly in the past. Now it's just,
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there's no way you are alone with your past success being your only legacy.
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I mean, who cares about Fleetwood Mac? Who cares about Fleetwood Mac now? Who's going to care about
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Fleetwood Mac 50 years from now? I don't know about you, but, but I, I know how she feels about
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it. I would trade Fleetwood Mac's music in a heartbeat for her child if I could.
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Number five, Dr. Fauci now says that we may have to bite the bullet this year and, um,
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sacrifice Thanksgiving. This is him talking about that. Listen.
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Of course, that's such a sacred part of American tradition, the family gathering around Thanksgiving,
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but that is a risk. You may have to bite the bullet and sacrifice that social gathering
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unless you're pretty certain that the people that you're dealing with are not infected.
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Okay. In fairness, he did have that qualifier there. He says, can't cancel Thanksgiving unless
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you're sure nobody is sick, but there's always that vagueness to it. Right. Uh, and then it comes
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and then, and then, and then eventually it's no, no, no, it's banned. Nevermind. So that's the way
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it's always worked. Like 15 minutes or, uh, 15 minutes might as well. They might as well have said
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15, 15 days to slow the spread. They said, Hey, it's only 15 days, you know, give or take 15 days.
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Oh, but Dr. Fauci, what happens after 15 days? Well, yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I, it, uh,
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it's, you know, it's, it's, it could be done at 15 days. Who knows? I know this tactic because I use
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it with my kids and they're finally starting to catch on that if they ask me for something and I
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give them the, maybe we'll see. Sure. I mean, maybe, yeah, maybe. And then I, especially if I
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add the qualifier, uh, maybe, yeah, uh, you know, it's, if there's time at the end of the day, uh, to
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get ice cream, well, we want, we might do that. Sure. Maybe that they've realized that that's just a no.
00:25:25.260
No. That is a no ingestation. That is no in its embryonic phase. Um, and that's, uh, that's what
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we're getting from Fauci. But in this case, the good thing is, you know, that I don't personally
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give a damn about Fauci's opinion of my Thanksgiving plans. It makes no difference to me. I'm not
00:25:44.440
canceling Thanksgiving. I'm going to have Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday because
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they're, and I'll tell you why it's my favorite. Very simple. Lots of food, no presents.
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I don't have to give presents. I don't have to receive them, which is also a great burden for me
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because I have to pretend that I like it. All the presents I get, um, it just get rid of all that
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and just get right to the food. That's all I care about these days. When you're a child,
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holidays are about presents. When you're an adult, it's really just about the food. That's
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who cares about the present. Um, so it's my favorite holiday. I'm not going to be canceling it.
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Um, and, uh, we're going to be having Thanksgiving. We will not be wearing masks
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and we will not be practicing social distancing. Uh, and we're just going to be, you know, we're
00:26:27.400
going to be normal people having a Thanksgiving celebration. And, but you know, in fact, I'm not
00:26:31.920
going to be forcing anyone to attend. That's the other good thing. So I, I was, I'm not going to go
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and abduct anybody off the street and, and make them sit at my table, uh, you know, under threat of,
00:26:42.040
under threat of murder with a gun pointed to their head and stuff cranberry sauce down their
00:26:47.200
throat. I'm not going to do that. We will hold off on that aspect of our normal tradition this year,
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which means that anyone who's at Thanksgiving with me, they chose to be there. They chose to
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take on the risk, which I think is, is, is not a very enormous risk, but, um, they chose to take on
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that risk for the sake of Turkey and gravy. And I think it is a gamble worth taking personally.
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Um, all right, let's go right to our daily cancellation today for our daily cancellation.
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We're going to cancel body shaming, not the thing itself, uh, not the shaming, but rather the focus
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on it, the hysteria over it, the claims made about it. That's what we're canceling. And just for
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example, we'll start, we'll start with this. Um, you know, and this year, you know, it's been a
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chaotic parade of, of major news stories, one after the other, perhaps none have been quite as
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significant though, as the news that made headlines across the media landscape this week,
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you no doubt have probably already heard pop singer, Billie Eilish was body shamed.
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This is a big deal. You're supposed to care about this sort of thing, though. Nobody is sure exactly
00:27:53.240
why trumpet blast resounded, alerting the whole internet to the incident, which quickly became
00:27:57.880
a national crisis. Fox news says Billie Eilish claps back at body shamers. Yahoo reports, Billie Eilish
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responds to body shamers. MSN tells us Billie Eilish body shaming video goes viral as singer
00:28:10.280
responds to trolls. The Independent, L, E.T., Cosmopolitan, other publications had their own
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reports. BuzzFeed, as always, published the definitive essay on the topic in a post titled
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Grown Ass Adults, Please Stop Body Shaming Billie Eilish. That article written by Pulitzer candidate
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Ryan Schockett informs us that a recent photo of the singer walking down the street wearing a tank top
00:28:30.840
and shorts and sandals with socks set off a wave of critiques, commentary, and discussion.
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Now, by the way, as an avid sock and sandal wearer myself, unapologetically so, I would hope that the
00:28:41.280
photo would, if anything, help to normalize the sock and sandal community. But instead of discussing
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the advantages of footwear that allows you to proudly show off your favorite socks instead of
00:28:52.060
hiding them inside dreary and boring shoes, it seems that the discussion, in this case, took a negative
00:28:56.700
turn. The body shamers were out in force. A whole wave of them. Part of the body shaming epidemic,
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as it has been called. All of them set on ruthlessly mocking and belittling Billie Eilish.
00:29:10.060
One of the body shaming tweets from an anonymous user said,
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In 10 months, Billie Eilish has developed a mid-30s wine mom body. Another body shamer said,
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Wait, there wasn't another one. That was pretty much it.
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There was precisely one negative comment from some guy in England who goes by the handle
00:29:28.640
GameSnosh. And many thousands of comments from people mercilessly scolding him for his rude behavior
00:29:34.380
while heaping compliments and accolades on Eilish. Now, I have not counted all of them,
00:29:38.700
but I would guess that there's probably a 100,000 to one ratio of positive to negative comments.
00:29:45.120
And that's probably a significant understatement. Also, the people saying nice things include
00:29:50.680
powerful media platforms, fellow celebrities. The people saying mean things include
00:29:56.940
GameSnosh. Though, in fairness, if I scoured Twitter, I'm sure I could probably find up to a
00:30:02.100
dozen accounts with anime avatars also insulting Eilish in hopes of leeching some of the attention
00:30:08.400
from the dastardly GameSnosh. But all told, I don't think there's a real problem here.
00:30:13.860
Lots and lots of people are saying very nice things about a woman who walked down the street
00:30:17.600
wearing shorts. One dude said not nice things. This is not exactly Pearl Harbor in terms of
00:30:24.400
national significance. True, Eilish has been targeted by shamers before, or so I'm told.
00:30:30.260
She's spoken out about the body shaming and issued many eloquent clapbacks over the years. But again,
00:30:36.080
a look at her Instagram account or music videos on YouTube reveal a very near unanimous agreement that
00:30:42.420
Eilish is beautiful, amazing, brilliant. She also won six Grammy Awards this year, which should serve,
00:30:48.220
I would think, as a nice self-esteem boost. But even with millions of adoring fans and legions of
00:30:53.820
internet warriors ready to leap into action to rip anyone to shreds should they utter the mildest
00:30:58.600
insult about her looks, music, or anything else, we're still told that there's a real problem,
00:31:03.940
even a newsworthy problem, of Billie Eilish being body shamed.
00:31:07.900
It's not just Billie Eilish. To hear the media tell it, you would think that we live in a culture
00:31:13.480
utterly beset by body shaming. Great effort is made to denounce body shaming, counteract body shaming,
00:31:20.200
raise awareness about body shaming, eradicate body shaming. And the body shaming problem has
00:31:24.460
attracted such intense focus that it's even been broken down into subcategories. We've gotten very
00:31:30.780
specific with it. There's the infamous fat shaming, the slightly less infamous skinny shaming. Plus,
00:31:36.260
there's tall shaming, short shaming, hair shaming, bald shaming, skin shaming, teeth shaming,
00:31:40.640
foot shaming, hand shaming, breath shaming, butt shaming. And we could continue down the list of
00:31:45.600
body parts, all of which have their own dedicated shamers and also their own dedicated anti-shamers.
00:31:51.420
But at least we could say the shaming is relegated to external features so far. I'm not aware of any
00:31:55.780
spleen shamers or kidney shamers. Yet, despite the exorbitant attention paid to the problem,
00:32:02.420
I doubt that people are more likely to make mean comments about your body today than at any other
00:32:08.680
point in history. In fact, it seems quite certain that body shaming today is much less common than
00:32:13.800
it once was. After all, there was a time when you could walk outside, you know, you put on your
00:32:19.960
Sunday's best and head into town to laugh at obese people and hairy women at an event that was literally
00:32:25.860
called a freak show. We may have our own ways of gawking at strange physical specimens these days,
00:32:31.080
but we usually do it through through reality TV. And usually it assumes an ostensibly inspirational
00:32:36.360
or medical tone. My 600 pound life on TLC, for example, is a show about extremely obese people,
00:32:42.800
but it sells itself as an opportunity to follow participants as we document their life saving
00:32:48.820
journey. This is a kinder and gentler approach to the spectacle for at least in this sense, a kinder
00:32:54.700
and gentler age. And it's probably the best we can hope for, from a fallen species such as ourselves.
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Now, I'm not saying that nobody is ever shamed for the way they look. I know I, I know they are,
00:33:07.160
I am. I read my YouTube comments on occasion, you bastards. But if a person is subjected to a greater
00:33:15.220
quantity of mean comments today, it's only because we interact with so many more people and we put
00:33:21.320
ourselves in front of large audiences all the time as part of living our half-human, half-cyborg lives
00:33:28.500
in cyberspace. There's always going to be small, petty jerks who love snickering anonymously from
00:33:33.860
the sidelines if given the opportunity, but all the attention they're given only makes a troll mole
00:33:38.520
hill into a mountain. Most people, whether on the internet or in three-dimensional space,
00:33:44.080
are not inclined to make any comments about your physical looks. And most who are inclined will say
00:33:49.260
nice things. And if you are ever subjected to a genuinely vicious attack, you can always post
00:33:53.840
about it on Facebook and get thousands of people lining up to assuage your damaged ego and donate
00:33:59.100
generously to your GoFundMe campaign. What we should consider is that maybe the real epidemic when it
00:34:06.080
comes to body shaming and bullying generally is that we are so unable to deal with it. The interesting
00:34:15.200
question is not, why are all these people saying mean things? But rather, why are all these people
00:34:21.080
incapable of handling the mean things that are said to them? We could run around till our faces turn
00:34:27.140
blue, demanding that everybody see themselves as beautiful just the way they are. But at a certain
00:34:31.240
point, a person has to learn to function in the world without a constant IV drip of positive emotional
00:34:37.080
reinforcement. If a bit of taunting from the internet peanut gallery causes you to plunge into despair,
00:34:42.060
you probably have issues which the peanut gallery didn't cause and which would still exist even if
00:34:48.280
they all agreed that you're the most gorgeous specimen in the whole world. There isn't much
00:34:54.280
evidence that people are any meaner now than they've ever been at any other point in history.
00:34:58.400
But there is a fair amount of evidence that we're far more vulnerable and dependent upon
00:35:03.540
affirmation than at any other point in history. You know, some of the reason for this shift isn't hard
00:35:09.000
to decipher. Social media intentionally breeds this kind of fragility and mass codependence.
00:35:15.260
Many billions of dollars have been spent on technology designed precisely to give you this
00:35:20.800
fragile emotional complex, and many more billions have been made because of it.
00:35:25.440
Now, it also should be stated that some of the things we call body shaming can come from a place
00:35:29.480
of genuine, sincere concern on the part of the alleged shamer. You know, calling somebody fat and ugly
00:35:35.140
or stupid is clearly an insult. But these days, we're so determined to eradicate body shaming that
00:35:40.200
even a medically accurate and sound statement like, obesity is unhealthy, or, you know, you
00:35:47.080
shouldn't be proud of being morbidly overweight, even that is denounced as shaming. Billie Eilish is
00:35:53.420
obviously not obese, so this doesn't apply in her case, but we have run so far to the other end of
00:35:57.380
the shaming extreme that now we tell people to embrace and celebrate aspects of their physical
00:36:01.760
appearance that they can change and will kill them if they don't.
00:36:07.880
So, in the end, body shaming is not all it's cracked up to be. If you really feel shame about
00:36:14.340
your body because some anonymous troll teased you, the problem is less the troll and more the fact that
00:36:22.300
you care what the troll thinks in the first place, that you are, in fact, desperately in need of
00:36:27.320
affirmation from that troll. And his withholding of it causes you to spiral into emotional crisis.
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That is the problem. In a sense, you are the problem. Focus on that. Until then, you're canceled.
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That was my inspirational talk for the day. I hope you feel better at the end of it.
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Hey, everyone. It's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show. As the confirmation hearings
00:37:41.560
of smoking hot judge Amy Coney Barrett come to an end, it becomes easy to understand why the left is
00:37:49.120
trying so hard to censor us and shout us down. It's because when the public hears what we really stand for,
00:37:55.360
they're on our side. We'll talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.